Chapter 923: Searching for the Enemy Chieftain
20,000 troops surrounded the palace of the Wei king, and 500 dead soldiers gathered inside the gate and on the walls on both sides, using crossbow arrows to confront the Jin army outside.
At this time, Guo Song also arrived at the palace, he saw that the front of the palace gate was full of corpses, many of them were the corpses of Jin soldiers, and the other enemy soldiers who died in the battle were wearing white robes, he frowned and asked, "Who are they?" ”
Scout Lang Zhou Fei stepped forward and bowed and said: "Your Highness Qiqi, they are the five hundred dead soldiers left by Tian Chenghe, all of them are strong in martial arts, and they will not surrender in a fight to the death, and they can kill each other all, but we will also suffer huge casualties." ”
Guo Song said coldly: "Throw in thirty small iron fire thunders, see how long they can be arrogant?" ”
Immediately, a soldier raised a large shield to cover the 30 mine-throwers of the firearms battalion, and the mine-throwers were specially selected, all of them were burly and powerful, and they could run more than 20 steps away from an iron ball of thirty or forty pounds.
The thunderbolt approached the gate of the palace, and threw the iron thunderbolt into the dense crowd inside the gate one after another.
Only a series of violent explosions were heard, mixed with a miserable scream, the gate was blown open, the guard towers and walls on both sides also collapsed, and when the smoke cleared, Zhou Fei led three hundred scouts to take the lead in the palace.
The open space inside the gate was a mess, littered with severed limbs and bloody corpses, and hundreds of dead soldiers, though seriously wounded, were not dead, struggling to get up to fight the Jin soldiers.
Zhou Fei suddenly remembered his subordinates who were poisoned by Tian Xu, his chest was full of anger, he swung his knife to cut off a human head, and shouted: "Kill them all!" ”
The soldiers of the scout army rushed forward and killed all the wounded and dead soldiers in white, and the passage to attack the palace of the king of Wei was completely opened, and thousands of soldiers were killed........
When it was getting dark, the battle finally ended, and all the 2,000 soldiers who defended the palace of Wei were killed, and the rest were palace maids, eunuchs and some wives and concubines who were not favored by Tian Xu.
But Tian Xu was nowhere to be seen, Zhou Fei led his men to search everywhere, at this time, a group of palace maids were escorted out by the Jin soldiers, Zhou Fei suddenly recognized one of the palace maids, he was a fellow villager, he stepped forward and said: "Yuzu, do you still know me?" ”
"Are you ....."
The palace maid suddenly recognized Zhou Fei and said in surprise: "You are General Zhou?" You.... Aren't you dead? ”
"It's hard to say, I want to know where the dog thief is Tianxu? You tell me. ”
The palace maid was a little scared in front of everyone, but she finally mustered up the courage to say to Zhou Fei: "I saw more than a dozen people escorting King Wei to the kitchen, there is a dry well over there, I heard that there is a famous hall in it." ”
Zhou Fei was overjoyed and instructed the soldiers: "Don't embarrass these palace maids, they were all arrested and put into the palace,"
Zhou Fei ran towards the kitchen with dozens of subordinates, there was no one on the kitchen side, the soldiers had searched all of them, but nothing was found.
A well in the yard attracted Zhou Fei's attention, he stepped forward to take a closer look, there was no water below, it should be a dry well, at this time, he accidentally found that the reels on the well were cast of pig iron, and the ropes on it were also extraordinarily thick, Zhou Fei sneered, how could there be such a well, it was simply to cover it.
He ordered the soldiers to put a torch down, the tail of which was tied with a rope, and the burning head went down slowly, and halfway down, the flames suddenly drifted to the east, and there was a hole in the wall of the well below.
At this time, a large group of soldiers came over surrounded by Guo Song, the king of Jin, and Guo Song asked, "What did you find?" ”
Zhou Fei hurriedly clenched his fists and said: "Your Highness, there is a hole in the wall of the well, which leads to the east, and it is suspected that it is a secret passage that leads to the outside." ”
The outside is full of troops, even if it is a passage, Tian Xu will not dare to come out for a while.
Guo Song pondered for a moment and said, "Light the pine branch smoke, General Zhou will go outside to find an exit." ”
"Obey!"
Zhou Fei led his men to run outside.......
The well was filled with pine branches, and the soldiers poured oil on it, and one soldier dropped a torch, and the well burst into flames and smoke.
Zhou Fei led three hundred of his men to look for the exit of the secret passage outside the palace wall, outside the wall is a small river, the river is very shallow, you can clearly see the pebbles at the bottom of the river, and the opposite bank is a dwelling, Zhou Fei stood on the side of the river with a spear in his hand to look around, and did not let go of every bush.
Of course, the secret passage only makes sense to lead to the outside of the wall, and it should go in a straight line, Zhou Fei felt that his direction was not wrong, but where was the exit of the secret passage?
"General, there's smoke!" A soldier suddenly pointed to a house on the opposite bank and shouted.
Zhou Fei also saw it, and saw faint green smoke coming out of the roof of a room.
He immediately shouted, "Leave fifty brothers here to keep watch, and the others will come with me!" ”
He led more than 200 soldiers across the river to the houses on the opposite bank, and in a moment they surrounded the smoking houses.
Zhou Fei gave a strong subordinate a look, and the subordinate took a few steps back, rushed forward, and kicked the door open.
At this time, a man in white in the room raised a knife and slashed at the soldier who kicked the door, extremely fast, but Zhou Fei's speed was even faster, and the spear pierced the opponent's chest like lightning.
'Dangchang! The horizontal knife fell to the ground, and the man in white was killed on the spot.
Immediately afterwards, there was a shout in the room, and more than a dozen white-clothed dead soldiers swung their knives to kill, and there was a yellow figure among them, Zhou Fei recognized it at a glance, and the yellow-robed person in the middle was Tian Xu, Tian Xu's wine-colored goldfish eyes were too eye-catching, and they were simply his signature.
Although more than a dozen white-clothed dead soldiers were strong in martial arts, and ordinary soldiers were not their opponents, it was a pity that they encountered the most elite scouts of the Jin army, and there were as many as two hundred and fifty people, and the scouts surrounded each other, and in just a moment, more than a dozen white-clothed dead soldiers were all killed, leaving only the panicked and helpless Tian Xu.
Although Tian Xu has been a martial artist since childhood, his body has long been hollowed out by wine and has become vulnerable, Zhou Fei snatched the sword from his hand, grabbed his shirt with his hand, and sneered: "Tian Xu, do you still know me?" ”
"It's you!"
Tian Xu recognized Zhou Fei at this time, and he hurriedly begged: "Captain Zhou, for the sake of treating you well in the past, you can let me go!" I would like to tell you a hidden treasure. ”
"Treat me well?"
Zhou Fei's eyes were red, "My fifty brothers worked hard for you, but you poisoned them, they were all iron men, but they cried and rolled before they died, and they were extremely miserable, this is called treating me well?" ”
Speaking of this, Zhou Fei slowly raised his sword, and Tian Xu screamed: "Spare your life!" ”
Zhou Fei slowly put down his sword again, "You deserve to die, but it shouldn't be me who killed you." ”
He threw Tian Xu to the ground and shouted, "Tie up!" ”
The soldiers tied Tian Xu up like rice dumplings.
The battle in the palace of Wei has all ended, Wang Yu led dozens of civilian officers to start busily counting the property and checking the warehouse, Tian Chengsi is An Lushan's henchman, and the wealth he left behind is also incalculable, second only to Zhu Tao.
In addition, Tian Chengji felt guilty that he could not leave the feudal town to his sons, and rewarded a large amount of wealth to his dozen sons, so that each son was rich enough to rival the country, and there were hundreds of thousands of hectares of fertile land alone.
The fighting in the city was over, and all the mansions of the Wei magnates were seized, and the men were held in a centralized manner pending disposal.
Guo Song, accompanied by Wang Yu, inspected the warehouse of the Wei Palace, which was basically filled with strategic materials such as pig iron and copper ingots, which were huge in quantity, but there were very few gold, silver, treasures and copper coins, which made Guo Song a little puzzled.
Wang Yu knew the reason very well, and explained to Guo Song with a smile: "Your Highness, this is the state treasury, not a private treasury, Tian Yue rewarded his brothers with gold and silver treasures, and the copper coins were rewarded to the soldiers, he himself barely kept it, it was very simple, the private money of more than a dozen wives and concubines was still brought from his mother's family, Tian Yue almost didn't reward them with anything?" ”
"What about the private treasury?" Guo Song asked again.
"Tian Yue doesn't have a private treasury, but Tian Xu does, but his private treasury is in his old mansion, not here, and he has already sent someone to investigate, and he will give His Highness an inventory tomorrow at the latest."
Guo Song nodded, "Don't worry, clean up all the wealth of the Tian family, and then give me an inventory." ”
"I understand the lowly position, and I will deal with it as soon as possible."
At this time, someone reported, "Tian Xu was caught by General Zhou and was waiting outside." ”
Guo Song walked out of the warehouse quickly, only to see a person kneeling in the courtyard, his hands tied behind his back, and his face was full of frustration.
"Is that him?" Guo Song asked.
Wang Yu nodded, "He is Tian Xu." ”
"Doesn't it look amazing!"
Wang Yu sneered, "The appearance is ordinary, but the ruthlessness is far beyond ordinary people." ”
Tian Xu understood who the other party was, kowtowed and begged: "Your Highness spares my life, Tian Xu is willing to be a slave of His Highness for the rest of his life!" ”
Guo Song smiled and said: "A slave like you will only consume food, there is no effect, your biggest role is to let me buy people's hearts, I will let Fu Xuan's son behead you in front of hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians in Yuancheng, so that the people of the city and the 80,000 troops will be grateful to me, and the people's hearts are attached, my suggestion is good!" ”
"You! Kill me! Tian Xu shouted hoarsely.
Guo Song waved his hand, and the soldier blocked Tian Xu's mouth and escorted him down.
He immediately ordered Pei Xin: "Tian Chenghe's brothers and nephews, both old and young, will be killed, their property will be confiscated, and the women can be spared and allowed to bring their belongings home." ”
Pei Xin bowed down and said, "Obey the order!" ”