The outside of Chenliu County has been surrounded by a large army, there are only two city gates in the east and west of the county, outside the west city is the 40,000 imperial army led by Li Mian, and the 30,000 Ziqing army led by Li Na is in the northeast corner, and Li Zhongchen leads the 30,000 Huaixi army in the southeast corner.

Of course, Li Lingyao's 25,000 troops were also mainly deployed in the east and west of the city, and there were also some troops in the north of the city, while the south of the city was mainly woods and depressions, and it was inconvenient to attack the city, so there were very few troops deployed in the south of the city, only two patrols of more than 1,000 people, to prevent the enemy from sneaking up the city from the south of the city.

Guo Song and two of his men bypassed Li Mian's military camp and came to the south of the city, they waited until it was dark, Guo Song left the two outside the city, the task of these two men was to deliver a letter to the prince, they were not familiar with the skills of the assassins, they could not keep up with their own rhythm, but would drag themselves down.

Guo Song changed into a night suit, carried a black sword and a bow on his back, and walked through the woods to the foot of Nancheng.

During the day, he had carefully observed that there was a defensive hole in the southwest corner of the wall, and a corner tower had been built above the southwest corner, and the corner tower had soldiers on it.

But the duty of the lookout soldier was to look into the distance, regardless of the situation under his feet, and the patrolling soldiers, because there was a corner tower on that side, took it for granted that there was a sentry in the southwest corner, and they did not need to go there, and they turned around when they patrolled about fifty paces from the corner tower.

These fifty steps of the city wall became a loophole for the soldiers to look out and ignore the patrolling soldiers.

Guo Song took out two chisels from his arms, there were many gaps in the city wall, he quickly climbed up with the help of chisels, and in just a moment, he grabbed the head of the city and hid it outside the battlements.

There was a chatter in the turret overhead, and a patrol of 100 men was approaching from the east, and when it was still fifty paces from the turret, it turned and walked east.

Guo Song seized this opportunity, jumped onto the city, and then rolled forward, and then flipped out from the other side of the city wall, he appeared at the city head for less than two seconds, and the black shadow disappeared in a flash.

The chisel drew a fire on the city wall, and also slowed down Guo Song's falling speed, and when he was still five feet from the ground, he slammed the chisel into a gap, and his body stopped on the city wall, and then pulled out the chisel, like a black cat, and gently fell to the ground.

Inside the city was a long stone alley, and Guo Song fell behind a house, and when he saw that there was no one left and right, he burrowed into another narrow alley and quickly disappeared into the darkness.......

Li Lingyao's military office is easy to find, located in the middle of the city, is a large family's house, was forcibly requisitioned by Li Lingyao as a military office, the military office has heavy soldiers in the front and rear doors to protect, and there are patrols around the courtyard to patrol back and forth.

In addition, 200 of his own soldiers also lived in the palace, and his defense was built like an iron bucket.

But Li Lingyao is not a feudal town after all, and he does not have such a strong strength to raise warriors, and his protection is to deal with the rebellion of the people in the city, or ordinary warriors to come to the door, which has no meaning to a top assassin like Guo Song.

Although there were pro-soldiers patrolling the house, Guo Song did not go to the ground at all, he ran on the roof, jumping from one big house to another, and his body was as light as a swallow.

Soon, Guo Song found Li Lingyao's residence, which was a three-story single-story building, with more than 20 personal soldiers standing outside, soldiers living on the first and second floors, and Li Lingyao living on the third floor.

Guo Song was on a roof to observe this single building, his eyes fell on a big tree in the north of the single building, the big branches are luxuriant, at least a hundred years old, the height far exceeds the single building, a thick branch is about five feet away from the top of the single building, like an open giant hand stretched out to the single building.

Guo Song was not in a hurry to attack, he continued to observe various details, he had experience when he assassinated Li Fuguo, it is possible that the soldiers were not protecting Li Lingyao himself, he could find some clues from the attitude of the escort soldiers.

For example, whether the soldiers are serious about defense, for example, it is almost two watch now, if Li Lingyao is still sitting there drinking, and the lights are bright, it will give people a feeling of wanting to cover up.

After observing for a long time, Guo Song could basically determine that Li Lingyao was in the building, and he found that Li Lingyao was just an instinctive defense, not like Li Fuguo, who knew that someone was going to assassinate him, and Li Lingyao was still relatively safe in people, and there was no need to cheat.

Guo Song flashed away from the roof, and in a moment, Guo Song appeared on the big tree, he walked a few steps along the thick branches, jumped out, and landed lightly on the roof of the building.

He crouched on the roof for a moment, making sure that it was quiet below, and no one noticed him, so he slowly lifted a dozen tiles, revealing the wooden stalls under the tiles, and there was a layer of wooden roof underneath, but the roof looked a little rotten, Guo Song hesitated, and then gave up the idea of going down from the roof.

He quickly came to the eaves, an upside-down golden hook, hooked the beam under the eaves with his foot, and swung his body towards a window.

Just now on the opposite side, Guo Song found that the window was not closed tightly, he picked open the window with his sword, bit the long sword with his mouth, grabbed the top of the window with both hands, slowly released his feet, and curled up, like an excellent gymnast changing positions, he suddenly flicked his body and shot into the window like an arrow........

Guo Song rolled on the ground, leaned against the wall, held the sword in his hand, and carefully looked at the surrounding situation, this should be a maid's room, and there was an eleven or twelve-year-old girl lying on the bed, sleeping soundly.

Guo Song stepped forward and woke up the little maid, the little maid slowly opened her eyes, and found that there was a man in black in front of her, who was so frightened that she was about to scream, but her mouth was covered.

Guo Song whispered in her ear: "Be obedient, I won't kill you, if you dare to scream, I will kill you with a knife, do you hear?" ”

The little maid nodded fearfully, Guo Song let go of his hand and asked, "You tell me, where does Li Lingyao sleep?" ”

The little maid pointed to the next door, and Guo Song asked again: "Is he alone in the room, or is there someone else?" ”

The little maid trembled and said, "He's the only one." ”

"Are there any soldiers on this floor?"

The little maid shook her head, and Guo Song smiled: "Then you can continue to sleep!" ”

Guo Song knocked her unconscious with a light punch, Guo Song controlled the force slightly, and it would take her at least an hour to wake up from this punch.

The third floor was very quiet, only the rhythmic snoring sound was heard, Guo Song found that he didn't need the little maid to guide him, he could find Li Lingyao's room through the snoring, which was indeed next door to the little maid's room.

The room was filled with a strong smell of wine, Li Lingyao was drunk, and was lying on the couch sleeping soundly, and above his head hung the Central Plains sword given to Tian Shengong by the Son of Heaven, after Tian Shengong's death, this sword was obtained by him.

Guo Song slowly drew out the black sword and slashed it without hesitation, and Li Lingyao lost his life in his sleep.

..........

Half an hour later, Guo Song returned to the woods outside the city, and two of his subordinates greeted him, Guo Song handed over the package containing Li Lingyao's head to the two along with the Zhongyuan sword, and said to them: "You go to the Tiger Prison Pass quickly, hand over the head and the sword to His Royal Highness the Prince, and tell His Highness that the ferry boat of Tian Chenghe's army has been burned, and it will be difficult for them to return to Hebei in a short time. ”

The two bowed down to obey the order, turned over their horses, turned their horses' heads and ran to the northwest, Guo Song also galloped on horseback, and when they passed through the camp gate of Li Mian's army, they opened their bows and arrows, and shot an arrow at the camp gate.

The soldiers guarding the camp gate shouted loudly, and more than a dozen patrol sentries struggled to catch up, at this time Guo Song had disappeared into the dark night, and the patrol cavalry did not dare to chase and restrained their horses.

After a while, the sleeping coach Li Mian was woken up by his own soldiers, and he got up and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

The soldier presented a letter and said: "Commander, someone shot an arrow letter with an arrow, with the word 'urgent' written on it, please take a look at it." ”

Li Mian took the letter and opened it under the lamp, and there was only one sentence on it, "Li Lingyao has been assassinated, and something will happen in the city tonight." ’

The following signature is four words: 'The traitor has fallen'.

Li Mian suddenly perked up, these four words were also the password that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince secretly agreed with him, which was enough to confirm the authenticity and reliability of this information.

He immediately ordered: "Order the whole army to assemble at once!" ”

The Tang army quickly assembled, half an hour later, the army approached the city, at this time, the news of Li Lingyao's assassination spread throughout the army, the army was suddenly in chaos, countless soldiers took off their uniforms and fled into the people, and some soldiers began to gang up to rob shops and loot money, and several important generals under Li Lingyao began to find their own way out.

Just when Li Mian led the army to arrive at the city gate, the city gate was wide open, Li Lingyao's general Wu Qianlun went out of the city and surrendered, and the imperial army took the lead in entering the city, controlling the warehouse containing countless money and grain, and the whole city was under martial law, and at the same time closed the east city gate that had just been opened.

At this time, both the Ziqing Army and the Huaixi Army were still asleep, and they had not yet discovered that earth-shaking changes had taken place in Chen Liucheng.