Chapter 116: The Ghost Rises from the Hidden Mansion
"I am hereby decreed, Sili Mansion will kill the Gu family! Whoever dares to block, die! ”
Xiao Ling suddenly rose into the air, his body stretched out in the air like a goshawk, clenched his fists into claws, and rushed straight to Gu Changyong's door. At the same time, he falsely spread his will in his mouth, and wanted to confuse everyone in the lobby with words, as long as he blocked them and successfully caught Gu Changyong, today's layout would win half of it.
In the lobby, there are Gu Lu Zhu Zhang, Ren Hu Li He, Wang Chen Du Xie and other important figures of the Jiangdong family with surnames, but in order to show respect for the master, most of the subordinates brought are outside to rest and eat and drink, these people have no power to restrain the chicken, watching Xiao Ling do it, and hearing him claim that he is an edict, they are all shocked, where can they react?
At the critical moment, Gu Changyong'an sat like a pine, holding the wine glass in his hand, his face was flat, and he slowly brought it to his mouth. Behind the screens on both sides, there was a screeching sound of ejection, and one hundred and twenty Lei Gong crossbows passed through the silk cloth curtain, up and down, left and right, blocking the water three feet in front of Gu Changyong's body.
Xiao Ling couldn't have imagined that he had already attacked in advance, but he still fell into someone else's urn, at such a close distance, no one in the world except for the big and small grandmasters would want to take another step.
His hands turned into countless phantoms, and he could have taken thirty arrows; The feet connected the dots, and with the power of the arrows and crossbows, he dodged another thirty arrows. But his body was in the air, his breath was exhausted, and Xiao Ling could almost see the trembling of the corners of Gu Changyong's lips sucking the drinking glass, but this short arm's length had become an insurmountable gap.
The clothes flew up, making a sharp cry like a falcon, and everyone saw that the figure was circling and flying in the rain of arrows, and all of them dodged in a thrilling way, as fast as a galloping horse, and reached the door of the lobby in the blink of an eye.
There is still life.
At this moment, the Zhu Door squeaked shut.
Another slight vibration of the machine!
The three arrows flew together, compared to the dozens of arrows just now, the momentum and the scene were simply insignificant, but Xiao Ling's eyes showed a look of despair, the qi was firmly locked, and there was no time to dodge.
The blood flowed like an infusion, dyed the Zhumen, and it was more beautiful than the peach blossoms in spring!
"Don't panic!"
Gu Changyong raised his wine glass and said with a smile: "This is the aftermath of six days, pretending to be the name of the Xiao family, trying to damage the root vein of my Yangzhou gate valve!" Now that the head has been awarded, but there are still fellow parties outside, for the sake of safety, you are waiting here, and the troops you brought are temporarily lent to Xu You to command. ”
The screens on both sides were in tatters, and in the sound of neat footsteps, dozens of elite troops wearing armor, holding crossbows, and hanging knives from their waists rushed out, deploying defenses along the lobby to defend the place as if it were impregnable. Xu You appeared last, in a Confucian robe, standing beside Gu Changyong, like a person in a painting.
Behind him, there was Fang Sinian, who was golden and jade, with his slender hands hanging low, and Lei Gong's crossbow hanging between his fingers, as calm as a mountain.
It was she who made a move, timing, angle, skill and mentality, all of which had the upper hand, and killed Xiao Ling with one move!
Fortunately, after the rebellion of the white thieves, the Gu family knew that his force was insufficient, and he spent an unknown amount of money, so he got forty Lei Gong crossbows from the Jinling Chinese Army in case of emergency, and it really came in handy today.
"Ghosts rise from the secluded mansion, thousands of them are a group!"
"Heaven and earth are clear, and the four seas return to the heart!"
"Pass the general's order!"
"Extinguish!"
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"Ghosts rise from the secluded mansion, thousands of them are a group!"
"Heaven and earth are clear, and the four seas return to the heart!"
"Pass the general's order!"
"Extinguish!"
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"Pass the general's order!"
"Extinguish!"
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Extinguish!
Six days has its own secret means of communication, before Xiao Ling started in the lobby, he had already passed the order through the waiters who served food and poured wine, and almost instantly, the six days of sin all over Beigu Li got the order to start an incident. Qingming also found the traces of mountain ghosts at the same time, and found that these spies identified each other, all of them drew a pale golden diamond-shaped dot shape at the three fingers of the waist with a cyan leather belt close to the waist eye, if you didn't look at it deliberately, you thought it was stained with vegetables and vegetables, and it was not noticeable at all.
Bottles of extremely precious mountain ghosts poured into bowls of food and wine as if they didn't want money, and then delivered the guests' food tables, and Qingming cautiously followed them, trying to find the leader behind the group of spies responsible for poisoning. went back and forth three times, and was surprised to find that they actually did not have a subordinate, and each went its own way, even if one or two people were caught, it would not affect the overall plan.
"Collect the net!"
Gu Shang is the military candidate of Gu Mansion, was assigned to assist Qingming, heard the order, waved his big hand, and a team of five people began to arrest, who expected that Gu Mansion's troops were less experienced in battle, negligent in swords, less than one percent of the courage of the ghost soldiers in the six days, at first it could be quiet, only seven or eight people were caught and encountered desperate resistance, and the movement immediately became big.
Gu Shang's face was not good-looking, he looked at Qingming, who was indifferent and standing with his hands tied, drew his knife out of its sheath, and said sharply: "Close the courtyard door, anyone who resists will be killed!" ”
The arrest in the kitchen is urgent, and there is an accident in the courtyard outside, "The water is gone, the water is gone!" "A raging fire broke out in the four corners of the north, east, south, and northwest of Beiguli, and the green smoke rushed up to the air several feet by the wind, and then swept through many houses with lightning speed. The guests who were eating, drinking, and enjoying themselves fled for their lives, and the dignity and grace of the past were worthless in the face of the fire, and they were all embarrassed, holding their heads and running away, or even those who preferred to leave their relatives behind, pull their elders, and only care about themselves running out first.
In just a few breaths, some people lost their lives in the sea of fire, some people were ruined, some people were on fire and rolling, and some people were secretly rejoicing, but they all looked at the ghost fire that seemed to come from hell and didn't know what was going on, and they didn't know what to do next.
Xu You expected that he would attack with fire in six days, and he also arranged for the Gu family's people to take strict precautions, but the North Gu Li was really too big, and in a hurry, it was really difficult to ensure that nothing went wrong. However, fortunately, there were precautions in advance, and the places where the fires broke out were all outhouses and miscellaneous courtyards far away from the core mansion group, and most of them were separated by rocks and waterholes in the middle, so that the fire would not spread to the entire Gu family's mansion. But the panic caused by the fire forced the guests who were kept in the dark into ants in a hot pot, and they all poured into the center of the fire before they were burned.
At the gate of the east gate of the main courtyard, the subordinates who had received the order before looked at each other, neither stopping nor stopping them, so they let people in from the middle gate.
The Gu family has enjoyed peace for too long, and for a long time they have forgotten the truth that forgetting to fight must be dangerous, from vigilance to execution to combat effectiveness, there is no place! Xu You strictly ordered that once the chaos broke out, if there were guests from the outer courtyard flocking to it, the east gate would be closed immediately, and no one should be allowed to enter.
"Serve the edict, Si Lifu will kill the Gu family, no one will do it, kneel and bow down, you can avoid death!"
Bursts of shouts suddenly rang out from the shouting crowd, and dozens of sharp blades and poisonous snakes pierced into the chests and abdomen of those Gu clans who were still being pushed, blood splattered everywhere, and knocked down the corpses all over the ground.
Now it was like adding a few spoonfuls of boiling oil to a hot pot, and the guests, men and women, immediately cried and wailed, and the timid and fearful people obediently knelt down and bowed their heads, and their trembling bodies showed their inner panic and horror. Indiscriminately killing innocents, where is there such an edict? ”
Before the words fell, the sharp blade did not enter the heart, and he was kicked out of the distance, spitting blood, seeing that he couldn't live, the person who did it wiped the blade on his sleeve, and said viciously: "Dare to resist the will, and be guilty of the same crime as Gu Shun!" ”
But it was this killing that made those who were still skeptical completely disbelieving, and they all commanded their respective subordinates to gather into a group, with knives in their hands, looking at each other vigilantly.
Seeing that he couldn't stabilize the situation by pretending to be Si Lifu, the man smiled evilly, formed a strange handprint in his right hand, raised it high, and said, "Ghost Mansion!" ”
Whoa, whoa, whoa!
The long knife is like a forest, and the cold is pressing!
A full three hundred ghost pawns rushed out, shaking their swords and shouting in unison: "Ten thousand in groups!" ”
"Heaven and Earth Mingwu!"
"Return to the world!"
The figure of the man was flickering, the person followed the knife, broke into the enemy formation, slashed off a head with a knife, and the blood column splashed all over the face, like a ghost, licking his lips with the tip of his tongue, and said coldly: "Kill!" ”
After six days of ghost soldiers after the rebellion of the white thieves, those who could survive were definitely called tiger and wolf soldiers, and with only one face, they defeated the warrior tribes who had gathered in a hurry, leaving almost no one alive, and slaughtered them all. Then, like a pack of wolves hunting cattle and sheep, they drove the hundreds of nobles and slaves and maids to one side, and their swords fell to the ground, regardless of whether they were men or women, whether they were high or low.
The same scene was staged everywhere in Beiguli within a radius of several kilometers, and from a distance, the beacon smoke was everywhere, and the sound of killing shook the sky, as if thousands of troops and horses were galloping by, wantonly trampling on the dignity and decency of the Gu family as a gate valve.
And at this time, Xiao Ling had just been killed by Fang Sinian's three arrows!
To appease the nobles in the lobby, Xu You sat in the middle and listened to the battle reports everywhere:
"Report! The six days of sin attacking the West Gate were very urgent, and Fan Chonglou Fan Junhou was leading his troops to block it, and he urgently needed to wait for help! ”
"Gu Lin!"
"In!"
"Take fifty men to support the West Gate, and if the enemy is fierce, you can retreat and fight, introduce it into the bamboo forest of the West Courtyard, and set it on fire."
Gu Lin was stunned and said, "We also set fires?" ”
Xu You's eyes were cold, and he said, "What, you won't let it go?" No, I'll change people! ”
Gu Lin's face turned red, and he said in a muffled voice: "No! He hurriedly turned around and took the people away.
"Report! The fire in Beiyuan is too big, burning to the fire alley, the smoke is blind, and the enemy situation is unknown for the time being! ”
"Have the guests of Beiyuan withdrawn?"
"Eighty percent of them have been withdrawn, and two percent have not been found, mostly women and children!"
Xu You thought that eighty percent was good, and said, "Beiyuan left fifty people to defend, and by the way, continued to search for those lost women and children. The other tribes withdrew, leaving a hundred people to guard the main gates of each courtyard, and the rest of the people contracted and concentrated on the side of the main courtyard. ”
"No!"
"Newspaper, newspaper! Lang Jun, East Gate ...... The east gate was breached, and there were countless dead and wounded! ”
Xu You frowned slightly, the east gate is the connection between many annexes and the main courtyard, and the outside of the east gate is also the place where the guests are most concentrated. Therefore, his first order was to defend the East Gate, and for this reason, he was even willing to sacrifice the soldiers who fled for their lives, but he didn't expect that the East Gate was the first to be breached.
"Gu Ming!"
"In!"
"If you bring three hundred people over, even if you die, you must take back the east gate before you die!"
"Lang Jun rest assured, if I don't die, the east gate will be safe!"
Gu Ming is a rare talent in the Gu clan who is good at fighting, proficient in martial arts, although it is not comparable to a grade like Qingming, but the current situation can only be supported by him!
"How is the fire in the main courtyard extinguished?"
All the big clans, when building a house, must consider the problem of fire prevention, to say that the wisdom of the ancients, through the fire can be seen, first the wall, smeared with soil and various fireproof materials, and then to make water tanks, buckets, water trays and fire hooks and other water storage and fireproof appliances, and then there are to build alleys, separate the house and kitchen, etc., and dig through the living water to build landscape lakes and isolation waterways, even if it is burned, it can only be burned, and it will not be completely destroyed.
The main courtyard is composed of about three courtyards with five entrances in front and back, and because of the precautions in advance, although a few fires were still set in the six days that were still mixed in, it was much lighter than the outside.
"It has been extinguished, and the thieves are all ambushed!"
"What about the thieves in the kitchen?"
Qingming just stepped into the main hall, and the winter solstice and the ugly slave followed behind him, and replied: "It's also gone!" ”
Xu You nodded, he knew in his heart that Xiao Ling's plan was to use the mountain ghosts to charm everyone in the main courtyard first, and then catch Gu Changyong and many gate lords, and use the mouse trap to form a confrontation with the Gu clan, and then let the six-day elite deployed outside attack in, and the two will meet, and the overall situation can be determined.
It's just because Xu You saw through the plan and had no choice but to launch it in advance, but he never thought of dying before he could get out of the school. Without Xiao Ling, no matter how tightly organized the organization is in the six days, in a hurry, there will be loopholes and flaws in the cooperation between each other. For example, the Beiyuan fire, the fire is so big that even a bird can't fly in, and the six-day ghost pawn is claimed to have come back from the dead, but it is also flesh and blood, and it is impossible to penetrate the sea of fire to attack the north gate. And there is a time lag between the cooperation between the west gate and the east gate, the west gate has not yet been breached, and the east gate has been driven straight in, although it seems to be brave, in fact, it has become a lonely army.
Alone in depth, it is not conducive to a long-term battle.
The most important thing is that these people don't know that Xiao Ling is dead, and they don't know that the mountain ghosts don't play much of a role, although they also fascinate many people, but those are all useless soldiers of the warrior clan, and all the troops who can really fight are safe and sound.
Gu Changyong is not in good health, if there is nothing to do, he will have rested a long time ago, but at this moment, he is the Dinghai God Needle, sitting on the high platform, everyone can rest assured. Seeing that Xu You was no longer speechless, he asked with a smile, "Qilang, is there anything wrong?" ”
Xu You bowed and said: "Yes, although North Guli is the main residence of the Gu family, it actually has the effect of a dock fort, imitating the city and building four gates in the southeast, northwest and northwest, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack, if it is not from the inside, it is unexpected, and if you want to attack from the outside, it is impossible to do it without an army of 2,000 people in six days." Now that the north gate is on fire, the west gate is in a fierce battle, and the east gate is lost, what about the south gate? ”
The south gate is close to Wuling Creek, only Wuling Bridge can pass through the stream, close the gate, and go up to the roof to defend, just like defending the city. Gu Changyong stroked his beard and said: "Maybe it will be clear in six days that the price paid for attacking from the south gate is unbearable. ”
Xu You shook his head and said, "I haven't thought about attacking for six days, otherwise I wouldn't have sent that Xiao Ling to sneak in......"
"It is not unusual for Sun Tzu to break the enemy's perseverance in the Art of War." It was Gu Wei who spoke, he was not very proficient in poetry and books, he loved miscellaneous studies, especially liked to read the art of war, and often compared himself with Zhuge Wuhou.
Xu You chuckled and said, "What Lang Jun said is extremely true! However, the purpose of the six days today is not to conquer the city, but to destroy the roots of the Yangzhou clan. Where are the roots? The roots are in people! If the people are gone, where will the gate valve come from, and where will the scholars come from? Therefore, the south gate is not a dead end, but a dead end, and it must be ambushed with heavy soldiers...... Where did Lu and Zhang's reinforcements go? ”
Someone replied in an instant: "The smoke is rising in Beiguli, and about 2,000 parts of the Lu family and the Zhang family have rushed to the rescue, and if there is half a pillar of incense, it should be able to reach the bank of Wuling Creek." ”
"Wuling Creek...... This is not a siege of three ques, but a siege of reinforcements! ”
Xu You raised his head suddenly and said, "Quickly send someone out to kill them, and inform Lu and Zhang to be careful of the ambush outside the south gate!" ”
(Happy New Year!) )