The city was in a state of depression, the whole city entered a state of war, the army could requisition everything, including labor, grain, carts, livestock, etc., almost all the shops were closed, and the business in the city seemed to be put on pause, becoming deserted and lifeless.

The Gaosheng Inn, located next to the south gate of Xindu, has also closed its shop, and the last customer of the inn left before the lockdown, and now there is no one in the store, and a sign saying that it is closed.

Although there were no guests, the shopkeeper Yue Ling was not idle, but even busier.

He was previously commended by the Jin Wei Mansion for reporting Li Wujun's plan to seize the iron fire thunder in a timely manner, and the official was promoted to one level, and he was promoted to the lower rank of the eighth rank, the intelligence system of the Jin Wei Mansion belonged to the civilian officials, and the deputy director in charge of intelligence Song Tian was the fifth grade, and most of the intelligence leaders stationed in various places were nine or eight products, and after the unification of the world in the future, their functions would be changed to the collection of relics, responsible for investigating the people's situation in the world.

Yue Ling received an order from Chang'an from Zhaozhou ten days ago, asking them to investigate the spies that Zhu Tao had planted in Xindu City, especially the scout soldiers who had been ambushed in advance, which was the best means for Jin scouts.

Yue Ling had seven subordinates, of course, all of them were guys in the store, they were all locals, and they were very familiar with the situation in Xindu City, and they were all sent out by Yue Ling to investigate these days.

But it's not easy to accomplish this task, and there's no way to get started.

"Shopkeeper, I'm back!"

Guy Zhang Niu'er ran in, and Shopkeeper Yue hurriedly greeted him, "How is it, is there any news?" ”

Zhang Niu'er shook her head, "There is no news, shopkeeper, I don't think there are such people at all!" ”

"Nonsense, it's you who didn't look for it yourself!"

Zhang Niu'er shouted aggrievedly, "Shopkeeper, you are really wronged, when the business of Xindu City was at its most prosperous, there were at least twenty or thirty thousand young people who sold their labor, and finding two or three hundred people from among them was simply looking for a needle in a haystack." ”

"But now there are not 20,000 or 30,000 people!"

Shopkeeper Yue said viciously: "In the past few days, most of the laborers have left Xindu City and gone home, you see how deserted the street is, none of those people who are waiting for work in twos and threes can be seen, and it is not easy to find two or three hundred people?" ”

Zhang Niu'er looked helpless, "Ask everywhere, ask everywhere, but no, or you can ask a few of them." ”

"Strange!"

Yue Ling also felt a little strange, he deduced that there were two possibilities, one was that this group of people had been hidden, maybe hiding in a mansion, and secondly, this group of people might have mixed into the army, if that was the case, then it would be even more impossible to find out.

At this moment, someone outside the door asked, "Excuse me, is the shopkeeper there?" ”

The voice outside was very low, and the shopkeeper Yue hurriedly greeted him out, and saw that it was a man about thirty years old, very strong, but dressed ordinarily, coarse cloth and short clothes, and it could be seen that he was also a low-level person.

"What's the matter with you?" Shopkeeper Yue asked.

"Are there any guests in your inn?"

"Now where there will be customers, they are all empty, and the small shop is temporarily closed."

"In this way, I want to charter your entire inn, wrap it for three days, and give you a hundred yuan, how about it?"

The price is okay, and the shopkeeper Yue asked again: "How many people live in the hotel?" ”

The man hesitated and said, "Two or three hundred!" It turned out that they all worked on the docks, and the requirements were not high, so there was a bowl of rice to eat and a place to sleep. ”

"There are too many people, I'm afraid the small store can't accept so many people."

"You have five acres of land here! Why can't you accept it, so be it! Two hundred, I pay gold. ”

The man took out a yellow and clear gold ingot from his arms, spread it in his hand, and handed it forward with a smile, "Shopkeeper, it's only three days, it's convenient!" ”

Shopkeeper Yue chuckled in his heart, not because of gold, but because of the man's palm, the tiger's mouth was calloused, and the muscles and bones were strong and powerful, which was clearly the hand holding the knife.

Shopkeeper Yue suddenly realized that there was nowhere to find him when he stepped on the iron shoes, and it took no effort to get them, and I was afraid that the two or three hundred people that this man said were the people he was looking for.

Suddenly remembered that their inn was very close to the south city gate, only fifty steps down, and of course they stayed in their own hotel to facilitate the capture of the city gate.

Thinking of this, Shopkeeper Yue pretended to be fascinated by gold, sighed twice, and said happily: "Then count..... Yes! ”

The man was overjoyed and hurriedly asked, "How many guys are there in the inn?" ”

"There were seven, all locals, and now most of them are home, and I asked the guys to get them back."

"No need to look for it, that's all!"

"I have to clean up your room and cook for you, I can't hire someone temporarily, and I can't hire someone now!"

The man was right to think about it, so he said, "That's okay, but it can only be a guy in the store, and you can't find outsiders." ”

"What am I going to do with outsiders?"

Shopkeeper Yue turned around and instructed Zhang Niu'er: "Ah Niu, you go and find a few of them back, just say that a large number of guests have come to the door, let them come back and clean up the room quickly." ”

After speaking, he winked at Zhang Niu'er and gave a special look, and Zhang Niu'er immediately understood that these were actually sent to the door.

He said repeatedly, "I'll go find them!"

He spoke with a local accent and did not arouse suspicion.

"Guest officer, do you want to take a look at the guest room first?"

The man nodded happily and followed Yue Ling into the inn.

..........

At the end of the watch, after a tiring day, Li Wujun just lay down with a few concubines in his arms, and a personal soldier said outside the door: "Lord Wang, there is urgent information!" ”

"What's the matter?" Li Wujun got up from the concubine and asked.

"There's an innkeeper who came to report that there are a lot of enemy spies hiding in their inn,"

Li Wujun was taken aback, his interest suddenly disappeared, he hurriedly put on his clothes, and asked, "Which inn is it?" ”

"It's the Gaosheng Inn next to the South City Gate."

Li Wujun put on his shoes and walked out and asked, "Where are the people?" ”

"Wait in the outer hall."

Li Wujun walked quickly to the outer hall, and the shopkeeper Yue, who was waiting here, knelt down and said, "Lord Wang, the villain has discovered the enemy's situation. ”

"Tell me, what kind of hostility?"

"The villain's inn was already closed, a man came in the afternoon, said to charter my inn, the villain agreed, as soon as the sky was dark, there were three hundred young men, each with a large package, the villain's men found that the baggage was full of armor and knives, and what they said was also frightening."

"What did they say?"

"They said that the lord did not carry siege weapons, and it was up to them whether they could succeed tonight."

Li Wujun was stunned, and suddenly slapped his head hard, yes! Zhu Tao did not carry siege weapons, and he actually ignored this key issue.

"Do they mean tonight?"

Shopkeeper Yue nodded, "The villain can hear it clearly. ”

Li Wujun took two steps and asked, "Are you sure it's three hundred?" ”

"The villain prepared three hundred meals."

Li Wujun approvingly: "It's rare for the shopkeeper to be so sensible, taking into account the overall situation, after the matter is completed, I will definitely give you a heavy reward!" ”

"Thank you for the favor!"

Li Wujun no longer hesitated, and shouted: "Someone, send an order to assemble the direct guards!" ”

Li Wujun's direct guard army is equivalent to Guo Song's internal guard army, with 3,000 people, specially responsible for dealing with spies and rebel soldiers in the city, and is Li Wujun's direct confidant, extremely loyal to Li Wujun.

The three thousand direct guards quickly assembled, and under the personal leadership of Li Wujun, they rushed straight to the Gaosheng Inn, and instantly surrounded the Gaosheng Inn, and Li Wujun shouted: "Try to catch it alive!" ”

At this time, the spies inside also noticed it, and someone shouted: "The enemy army is coming, break through!" ”

Three hundred men rushed out of the courtyard with swords in hand, and just as the Straight Guards also entered the courtyard with spears in hand, the two sides fought fiercely in the courtyard........

At the third watch, Zhu Tao's general Miao Xinwu led 3,000 soldiers to quietly approach the south city gate, the reason why the south city gate was chosen was because Zhu Tao came from the north, Li Wujun would definitely strengthen the defense of the north city, and the defense of the south city would be much looser.

Just two miles away, Zhu Tao led a large army to follow closely, and once Miao Xinwu's army captured the southern city gate, he would wave his army into the city.

As soon as the time arrived at the third watch, there was a slight shouting and killing sound in the city, and there were soldiers fighting fiercely in the city, and it fell silent after a while, and then the drawbridge was slowly lowered, the city gate was opened, and the torch was waved on the city.

This is the success of the three hundred soldiers who were ambushed in the city in advance, Miao Xinwu was overjoyed, and shouted: "Kill into the city!" ”

He led 3,000 soldiers to rush directly into the southern city, and when there were still hundreds of people who had not yet entered, there was a sudden fire on the street, tens of thousands of ambush soldiers emerged, and the ambush soldiers fired arrows together, and the dense crossbow arrows like a storm shot at Miao Xinwu and his soldiers, Miao Xinwu could not hide, and was shot into a hedgehog by random arrows, screaming, and killed immediately.

The soldiers behind also fell in large pieces, they were all spear soldiers, did not carry shields, and were shot nearly half in an instant, and the soldiers behind turned around and fled, at this time the city was also shot with arrows, hundreds of people who had not yet entered the city fell into the water, the soldiers turned around and ran wildly, and the drawbridge creaked and rattled.

At this time, the second round of 10,000 arrows was fired, and the soldiers in the city suffered heavy casualties.

Li Wujun waved his long sword, "Kill!" ”

"Whew-"

The low horn sounded, and thousands of soldiers rushed up to kill them, pitiful 3,000 soldiers, except for less than 200 who escaped, the rest of the soldiers together with the main general Miao Xinwu, the whole army was wiped out.

Zhu Tao, who was halfway through the run, suddenly heard the sound of a horn from inside the city gate, and he was stunned for a moment, "It's not good, it's a trick!" Zhu Tao suddenly reacted.