Chapter 573: Assassination

What Chang Yu saw and heard at the end of the day was already on fire in his heart, and it was actually unbearable not to vent, if the army was on his side, he would have ordered the slaughter of the city, but now there are more than ten people, so he plans to take risks and fight hard.

Enter the state capital yamen to assassinate the thief leader!

The government seems to be heavily guarded, but in fact it is tight on the outside and loose on the inside, and the thief is too careless, obviously he can't imagine that someone will take the risk of doing that thing of pulling out the teeth of the tiger.

After some discussion, the soldiers were divided into two ways, Chen Wangting led a few personal soldiers to take Nangong Yu out of the city to order Huang Degong to transfer troops, two scouts stayed in the abandoned courtyard to answer, and Chang Yu led Wu Zhong and a group of masters into the palace to see the opportunity to act, if they can kill, they will kill, and if they can't, they will retreat.

Chen Wangting and his entourage left the abandoned courtyard, and they wanted to leave the city before the city gate was closed, which was not very difficult, because at this time, Zhaozhou City was forbidden to enter and exit.

Parting glanced at the two brothers of the Chen family, "Listen to the orders of the overseer, don't move without permission" The two brothers hurriedly responded, but Chang Yu smiled slightly: "Don't worry, as long as the governor does not die, these two brothers will be safe."

Chen Wangting took Nangong Yu and left.

Chang Yu also asked the two scouts who stayed behind to find some long ropes to spare, in case the assassination failed and the thieves sealed the city and searched for them, they could find a chance to escape from the city.

After some explanation, the little eunuch led the crowd to climb over the wall into the state capital, lurked in the bushes in the corner of the wall for a while, and saw that there was no abnormality in the four places, so they separated in groups of two and went to the front mansion.

This time they didn't come empty-handed, and they didn't come to steal chickens and dogs, but to kill people with knives, the knife was met by those thieves when they saved Nangong Yu before, and when they left, they were taken by a few of their own soldiers for later use, which came in handy at this time.

Jiang Fa was in charge of exploring the way, Chang Yu and his party had just touched the side door of the former mansion, he had returned from there, and told him that there was nothing unusual, and several people speculated that the three thieves killed in the firewood room were not found, after all, those cooks who had more than one thing to do is better than less, and the two thieves who were knocked out in the room would not be okay to wander around the firewood room when they woke up.

That being the case, why bother sneaking, Chang Yu made a bold decision, and then told a few people, everyone thought it was feasible, so they washed their faces in the pool next to them, and they wanted to pretend to be thieves and swagger to kill people.

The smiling tiger Yang Tianba is a leader under the big thief Koma Shiyao, his people are insidious and cunning, but always a harmless smiling face, I heard that his original name was Yang Gao, and he changed his name from the thief to a powerful spirit, and his face has a terrifying scar He said that it was a meritorious medal left when he fought with several officers and soldiers, but some people said that it was knocked when he escaped.

This person is not talented if he is not a martial artist, but he has a mouth that can speak well, and he is especially good at demagoguery, and because of this, he was sent by Ma Shiyao to specialize in managing the homeless, and used his mouth to instigate the homeless to be used as cannon fodder by the thief army, and it can also be said that he is a chess piece for Ma Shiyao and Liu Fangliang to compete for merit.

Liu Fangliang was a partial division, and his role was originally to distract the attention and strength of the officers and soldiers for Li Zicheng, and at the same time plunder resources to provide logistical grain and grass subsidies for the main force.

Even though there have been many changes in history at this time, he is still thriving, especially after Li Zicheng's main force was defeated in Taiyuan, which set off his outstanding military exploits, and the limelight was not there for a while, which naturally aroused the jealousy of other thieves.

Ma Shiyao and Ren Jirong are brothers, the relationship is very good, in history, after the thieves broke through Taiyuan, they let the two of them go east in and out of Guyuan, and laid down Zhending Mansion and Liu Fangliang to meet and then go all the way north, but at this time a slight change, he fled with Li Zicheng after the defeat in Taiyuan, but still took advantage of Liu Fangliang to fight Guangping Mansion, fast horses rushed ahead to surpass Liu Fangliang to take the lead in occupying Zhending Mansion, and at the same time his men under the state capitals!

After the Zhending Mansion was close to the Baoding Mansion and the thief army went north, the territory was full of displaced people, although the upper felt that it was a burden and could not afford it, but the mountains under Li Zicheng still coveted these homeless people, and everyone wanted to trick some to come over as cannon fodder.

So Yang Tianba was sent to take charge of this matter, and later because Zhou Yuji suddenly appeared in the territory, Ma Shiyao and Ren Jirong led the army to pursue, leaving Yang Tianba with full authority over the affairs of the real mansion.

Yang Tianba was originally in Fucheng Zhending (now Zhengding) to sit in town, there were 3,000 miscellaneous soldiers under his command, and then because there were officers and soldiers on the eastern border, Li Zicheng sent him to Zhaozhou, I thought that the officers and soldiers did not dare to go too deep, but they suddenly crossed the border to advance, and even received Jizhou overnight for help, saying that the officers and soldiers occupied Zaoqiang, and were about to attack Jizhou.

After receiving the news, Yang Tianba sent a team of thousands of men and horses to gallop to the aid of Baili, of course, eight or nine times out of ten this force were cannon fodder for the troops, but when they first arrived at the ground, the officers and soldiers had already captured the city, and sent two teams of men and horses to meet them.

There were almost no accidents, the cannon fodder rescue team was defeated and returned, Yang Tianba was slightly shocked, while sending a message to Baoding Mansion, while deploying to meet the battle, a thief army fled to Zhaozhou, saying that Ning Jin had fallen!

Jizhou and Ningjin are nearly 100 miles apart, and the officers and soldiers swept over in one day, and their momentum is so domineering, which makes Yang Tianba a little frightened, isn't it said that the officers and soldiers dare not fight over, and in the past, the officers and soldiers were all cowardly and soft, and the thieves would fall, how could this force be so horizontal, not according to the convention!

Ningjin is only more than 40 miles away from Zhaozhou, it is found that there are more than 10,000 officers and soldiers stationed, and I heard that the displaced people in its territory are scattered, and it is rumored that there are more than 100,000 officers and soldiers from the east, and they will soon march west to suppress the thieves, and order the displaced people to return to their hometowns, otherwise there will be no forgiveness!

This news made Yang Tianba both shocked and puzzled, where did the officers and soldiers come from, and the three teams in Texas added up to only 50,000 people, obviously these 100,000 were blown out to scare people, but the high-level officials concluded that the officers and soldiers did not dare to go west, but they came over, and the speed and strength were so great that it was really rare, at this time, he was dozens of miles away from him, how could he not panic!

"Boss Yang and rest assured, the officers and soldiers dare not fight, so this is nothing more than to create momentum, in order to understand the predicament of Baoding, this trick is called to encircle Wei to save Zhao, and it is not difficult for the Jizhou soldiers to fight them down, but they definitely do not dare to cross the border into Zhaozhou one step, at most pretend."

In the lobby of the former mansion of the state government, Yang Tianba held a banquet to entertain several thieves, especially Zhang Chenben, the thief who escaped from Ningjin yesterday.

This Zhang Chen was a master in a county in Henan in his early years, and later became a small leader from a thief because of his literacy and hyphenation, and led more than 100 thieves in Ningjin a month ago, and was frightened by Huang Degong yesterday and fled to Zhaozhou overnight.

Yang Tianba and others who listened to these words were relieved, but they didn't dare to be too careless, and while sending people to Baoding Mansion to deliver letters, they stepped up their defense to collect cannon fodder to block arrows.

The thieves' dinner party can be described as a miasma, at the beginning they can talk about the current situation and discuss countermeasures, and then a few glasses of wine are down, and they feel that they are free to deal with the situation at the moment, so they begin to spend all their days drinking and not doing right, talking about what they have seen and heard about their heroic feats in various places, how many things they have robbed, which squire's wife was slept, and the wife and daughter of the county lord were double-flyed.

The banquet was obscene, and the thieves were drinking and having fun at the same time, but there were already scraps on the table, and the delay in the wine and food made Yang Tianba very annoyed, and he repeatedly called people to urge him.

I didn't know that the fire had been extinguished twice, but the wine and food still didn't come, and I was about to order someone to cut down the cook under the fire, but at this time, someone came to report that something big had happened in the city.