Chapter 1114: A two-pronged approach
Hu Yanjie took Zhou Fei to a room near the North City Gate and gave him a craftsman's clothes, "This is the mason's clothes, and the waist card, tomorrow the state will comprehensively inspect the city wall, find the damaged place, and prepare to repair it after a while, today a total of twenty masons will go to the city to inspect the city, I want a place, you are now my cousin, called Huyan Miaotou." ”
Zhou Fei thought for a while and said, "If I let another person come, I'm afraid that there will be a problem with the accent." ”
"Okay! You arrange it yourself, bring him here to find me in half an hour, and then I'll take you to the barracks outside the city. ”
"Can you go into the barracks?" Zhou Fei asked in surprise.
Hu Yanjie smiled, "Why can't you go in, the soldiers also have to eat and drink Lazar, aren't they all supplied from outside?" ”
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An hour later, more than a dozen convoys full of vegetables, pigs and sheep arrived at the side gate of the barracks, without inspection, the soldiers directly opened the door and let them go, which is the supply channel for logistics materials, which is different from the main gate of the barracks.
Zhou Fei pretended to be a vegetable worker, sat on the vegetable cart, and carefully looked around.
The barracks cover an area of hundreds of acres, surrounded by high walls, the barracks are rammed earth houses, the convoy passed through the north of the martial arts field, only to see that the air above the martial arts arena was empty, and there was not a single training soldier in sight, but there were many soldiers hanging around the barracks, carrying knives with them, which made Zhou Fei have a kind of enlightenment, Zhu Junjun is currently in a wartime state, and carrying weapons with him is the best proof.
Although it is a wartime state, but there is no management of the wartime state, the general wartime state is that outsiders are not allowed to enter the barracks, even if they come to deliver food, outsiders stay outside the camp and wait, not like they can drive straight into the camp without inspection.
It can only show that this army is relatively lax and the quality of the main generals is not high.
Coming out of the barracks, Zhou Fei saw Hu Yanjie, Hu Yanjie smiled and asked, "Brother, how is the harvest?" ”
Zhou Fei said with a smile: "The harvest is good, in addition, there is one more thing I want to ask Hu Ye to help." ”
"So what do you do politely? Just say. ”
Zhou Fei sighed and said, "I want to go to the city at night to have a look, can there be a way?" ”
"This ....."
Hu Yanjie thought for a while, "It may not work tonight, it will take two days." ”
"It's okay, what can Hu Ye do?"
"I have a little brother guarding the inner city, I asked him to find an excuse to fall ill, and you arrange for someone to go up."
"Is that okay?"
"Why not, big families spend money to hire people to replace the army, as long as they stuff some money into the team below, nothing happens."
This is a good idea, Zhou Fei immediately agreed........
A few days later, Zhou Fei returned to Licheng County, Qizhou, and met the main general, Li Bing.
In the big tent, Li Bing, Wang Yu and Zhou Fei were discussing a plan to attack Mizhou.
Zhou Fei pointed to the map and said: "The 10,000 troops in Mizhou are mainly deployed in two places, one is in Huangpitan, which is the concentration of salt pans, and 5,000 soldiers are stationed in the nearby Longtou Town, they are responsible for taking care of the salt workers, followed by Zhucheng County, the military camp is outside the city, and 5,000 soldiers are also stationed, but the management is relatively lax and the training is poor. ”
"Are there no soldiers in the city?" Li Bing asked.
"There were a thousand soldiers, who were responsible for policing and guarding the city gates."
"What about the city walls?"
Li Bing continued to ask, "How strong is the city wall?" ”
Zhou Fei sighed, "The city walls are indeed very strong, they are all made of big bluestone, and they are very high, they are all about three zhang, and it is difficult to capture without siege weapons." ”
Wang Yu pondered for a moment and said, "The best way is to close the city gate first and close the enemy army outside the city. ”
Zhou Fei agreed: "This is also the meaning of lowly duties, it just so happens that the state government is recruiting salt workers, and a group of brothers from nearby states and counties are looking for them to sneak into the city under the pretext of recruiting salt workers. ”
"Can weapons be brought in?" Li Bing asked.
Zhou Fei was silent, this problem is really not easy to handle, he asked Hu Yanjie, a small number of weapons are okay, but he has no way to do a large number of weapons, the key is that there are a thousand enemy soldiers in the city, and there are not enough troops, it is really difficult to control the city gate.
At this time, Wang Yu said: "We can consider using the method of seizing Youzhou City. ”
"You mean, with the help of the Maison?"
Wang Yu nodded, "The history of the assassin was appointed by Li Na, the king of Qi, and I don't know if he is loyal to Zhu Zhu now, but Wang Caixiu and Xu Li, the county commander, are both local families, and I believe they will judge the situation and help us." ”
Li Bing walked back and forth a few steps and said, "I don't think it's that complicated!" The other party's military camp is outside the city, we just need to surround their military camp at night and break it in one fell swoop, after all, they only have 5,000 soldiers, and 20,000 people are enough to surround the military camp. ”
Wang Yu smiled: "I mainly consider that after the war, I want to encircle the family and the like, and it will be better to let them contribute a little bit." ”
Li Bing still shook his head and said: "These families are all wall grass, they really have a heart, they should have taken the initiative to contact us a long time ago, there is no need to deliberately entrap them." ”
Wang Yu saw that Li Bing didn't agree with his idea, so he didn't say more, and at this time, Zhou Fei said: "Take fifty people into the city and try to buy time for the general." ”
Li Bing agreed with this plan, and he asked again: "Can you get the weapons of fifty people?" ”
"It should work!"
"Well, I'll pick the best fifty brethren for you."
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Three days later, Zhou Fei appeared in Zhucheng County again, and his fifty subordinates also came to Zhucheng County in various capacities, and the inventory in Zhucheng County was not strict, as long as they did not carry weapons, they basically did not ask more, and they were directly released.
Zhou Fei found Hu Yanjie again, and directly asked to buy fifty sets of armor, Hu Yanjie sighed for a while and said: "Master Zhou, in fact, I know what you do, and I am also very willing to serve you, if you only need weapons, let alone fifty pairs, I can also get one hundred pairs, but the armor is really difficult, a few years ago, Mizhou formed a state army, and wanted to collect five hundred sets of armor from the county, but I couldn't find all of them." ”
"Buying privately from the soldiers, won't they sell it?"
Hu Yanjie shook his head, "The weapon can be said to be damaged, but each person has only one set of armor, and it will not be replaced, who among the soldiers dares to sell the armor?" ”
Zhou Fei was a little remorseful, he knew that they were wearing a close-fitting thin armor, so he had to ask again: "How much can you get in that armor?" ”
"I estimate a dozen sets at most."
Zhou Fei took three hundred taels of gold and gave it to him, "Fifty knives, fifty spears, fifty pairs of bows and arrows, and armor, if you can get as much as you want, if the money is not enough, ask me again." ”
This time, Hu Yanjie didn't refuse, and accepted it directly, the weapons were very expensive, and fifty army straight knives would cost five hundred yuan, and he couldn't afford it.
Zhou Fei did not stay in the guest house, but asked Hu Yanzhuo to find them an empty house, and fifty people hid in the house, did not contact with the outside, and relied on dry food to spend three days.
The next morning, Hu Yanqing personally drove an ox cart to slowly stop at the back door of the mansion, Hu Yanqing knocked on the back door, beckoned Zhou Fei and said, "Hurry up and move things!" ”
Zhou Fei greeted, and immediately came out with a few subordinates to help move the goods, bundles of spears, boxes of war knives and bows and arrows, at this time Zhou Fei found that there were more than a dozen sacks of things, so he pointed and asked, "What is this?" ”
Hu Yanjie lowered his voice and said, "Leather armor, fifty pairs!" ”
Zhou Fei was overjoyed, "Didn't you say you couldn't get it?" ”
"Hey! It's hard to put into words, go inside. ”
Everyone moved their things into the yard, Zhou Fei asked one of his subordinates to guard the ox cart, and everyone went inside.
The bundled packages were opened one by one, and they were all new weapons, standard spears, cold and shining straight knives, and fifty crossbows and crossbow arrows, all of which were forbidden!
opened the sack again, it was full of brand-new leather armor, Zhou Fei suddenly became vigilant, these are by no means things that can be obtained in the people.
He kicked the leather armor, "Where did you get that?" ”
"I'll tell you the truth, these are all things in the government warehouse, and they didn't cost a penny."
As he spoke, he put the box containing three hundred taels of gold beside Zhou Fei.
Zhou Fei grabbed his shirt and asked sharply, "Who in the official mansion knows that we are here?" ”
"Yes.... It's Wang Changshi. ”
Hu Yanjie stammered: "I yesterday... Buying weapons, I don't know what's going on, Wang Changshi found out, and he found me at night. ”
"You confessed to us?"
"I swear by the ancestral tomb, absolutely not, in fact, Wang Changshi didn't ask you at all, just asked me how many weapons I wanted, he gave me the weapons early in the morning, he didn't ask anything!"
A fierce glint flashed in Zhou Fei's eyes, and he immediately shouted: "Everyone take their weapons and prepare to fight!" ”
The soldiers didn't know what was going on, so they stepped forward to get their weapons and quickly assembled, Hu Yanjie was stunned and stood aside dumbfounded.
At this moment, a soldier rushed to him and said, "General, there is a person outside, saying that it is the governor of the state." ”