At the end of the watch, Sun Xiaozhen rode a horse and galloped to the territory of Zhengzhou, and saw a huge military camp on the side of the official road from a distance. Shoot the arrows before you run! ”

Sun Xiaozhen hurriedly grabbed the reins and shouted loudly: "I came from Kaifeng County, and I urgently asked to see General Li on the order of Yangzhou Assassin Shi!" ”

The main general Li Lingyao is about forty years old, burly, dignified, he was originally a general under the account of Gu Huai'en, seven years ago to participate in the suppression of the rebellion in Shaanzhou Zhou Zhiguang meritorious service, was named Zuo Xiaowei general, led 30,000 troops to sit in the Tiger Prison Pass, Gong Guard, Chang'an line.

This time, he sealed the decree of the Son of Heaven to station troops at the junction of Zheng and Bian, and the purpose was also to put pressure on Tian Shenyu to force him to release the seized imperial tax ships.

Li Lingyao heard that Liu Yan sent someone to see him, and hurriedly summoned him into the big tent, and after a while, his own soldiers brought Sun Xiaozhen in, Sun Xiaozhen bowed and saluted, took out Liu Yan's letter and holy decree and handed it to Li Lingyao, "Please take a look at it!" ”

Li Lingyao read the letter, and was silent for a while, Liu Yan actually told himself in the letter that someone would assassinate Tian Shenyu, and the Biansong army would inevitably be chaotic, and it was a good opportunity for the imperial court to take back the four states of Biansong and Xu, so that he could quickly march into Kaifeng County, and take the fire at the head of the city as the number.

Li Lingyao also knew Liu Yan, a very stable old minister, how could he become so risky, he actually had to rely on assassination to solve the problem, where was Tian Shenyu so easy to assassinate?

Sun Xiaozhen was a little anxious and said, "General Li doesn't believe what the letter says?" ”

"I'm a little puzzled, who did Liu Tingshi send to assassinate Tian Shenyu?"

"It's not Liu Tingshi's faction, it's ..... It is the top master of the Hidden Sword Pavilion, and it is the person who assassinated Li Fuguo. ”

Li Lingyao suddenly realized, it turned out that it was not the assassin sent by Liu Yan, the master of the Hidden Sword Pavilion, wasn't that the assassin sent by the Son of Heaven?

At this time, Sun Xiaozhen took out his waist card and said: "General Li, I am also a warrior of the Hidden Sword Pavilion, and I have no lies!" ”

Li Lingyao finally made up his mind, he nodded, "I'll gather the army and set off!" ”

Li Lingyao immediately ordered the army to assemble, and a quarter of an hour later, the 30,000-strong army left the barracks and marched eastward to Kaifeng County.

..........

In an official mansion covering an area of ten acres in the west of Kaifeng County, the general Yang Huiyuan just fell asleep, Yang Huiyuan was in a very bad mood during this time, he followed Tian Shengong to the east and west for more than ten years, and his military achievements were impressive, and he could be regarded as the first veteran of the Biansong Army.

After Tian Shengong died, his brother Tian Shenyu took over the Biansong Army, and the younger brother inherited his brother's foundation, but Tian Shenyu could not tolerate the elders in the army, deprived the military power, and used marriage to provoke relations, which made Yang Huiyuan disheartened.

Half a month ago, Hebei Tian Chengsi secretly sent someone to visit him, willing to support him as the envoy of the Biansong Festival, which made Yang Huiyuan really a little moved, he also has thousands of troops under his command, with his qualifications, there is no problem at all in separating a state, in the past two days he repeatedly asked Tian Shenyu to be stationed in Songzhou, but Tian Shenyu refused, and today he scolded him, and warned him to stay away from Tian Chenghe, otherwise he will be killed to sacrifice the flag.

Tian Shenyu's threat made Yang Huiyuan's heart burst with murderous intrigue, tomorrow he will ask Tian Shenyu again, if Tian Shenyu still refuses, then don't blame him Yang Huiyuan for not being merciful.

At that moment, the tent 'bang!' A loud bang suddenly woke up Yang Huiyuan's wife, and she asked tremblingly, "Husband, what is the voice?" ”

"Don't make a sound, I'll take a look!"

Yang Huiyuan heard it clearly, it was the sound of breaking the window, he pulled out his long sword from the wall, jumped over and got out of the tent, and asked in a low voice, "Who is it?" ”

No one answered, and there was no movement in the room, Yang Huiyuan faintly smelled a trace of blood, he hurriedly lit the light, and at a glance saw a bloody human head on the ground, and his wife also saw it, and screamed in fright.

"Shut up!"

Yang Huiyuan scolded his wife angrily, stepped forward to provoke the head with his sword, and looked at it through the light, his eyes widened, this head turned out to be Tian Shenyu.

He stood there for a moment, and immediately looked at the left ear of the head, there was a big black mole under the left ear, and there were black hairs on it, but this was an imitable feature, it was really Tian Shenyu, Yang Huiyun sat on the chair all of a sudden, and his heart was in a mess, what was going on?

"Husband, yes... Whose head is it? His wife asked timidly.

"It's Tian Shenyu's head."

"Ahh

His wife also exclaimed, and said worriedly: "Could this be someone who framed you, you haven't killed Tian Shenyu!" ”

His wife's words suddenly woke up the dreamer, Xing Yanen and Fan Zhixin would definitely put Tian Shenyu's death on their heads and take the opportunity to kill themselves.

An ambition arose from Yang Huiyuan's heart, since Tian Shenyu was dead, why didn't he strike first? Killed Xing Yanen and Fan Zhixin, and replaced Tian Shenyu.

After pondering for a while, Yang Huiyuan finally made up his mind, he turned back to his wife and said: "You can take the two children to hide in the nurse's house in the countryside of Chenliu County, if something happens to me, you will immediately flee back to your hometown in Xiao County, and there is a batch of jewelry, gold and silver hidden in the belly of the Buddha statue in the old house, which is enough for you to live." ”

"Husband, you won't have an accident!" His wife was so frightened that she burst into tears.

"I don't know, I don't want to die, you go and wake up the two children now, go!"

The wife was flustered, hurriedly put on her clothes, and ran to find the two children.

Yang Huiyuan's ex-wife and son died twenty years ago, and his current wife has followed him for many years, giving birth to a son and a daughter, the eldest daughter is sixteen years old, and the son is only nine years old.

Yang Huiyuan gathered two hundred personal soldiers, escorted a carriage to the west gate, the main guard of the west gate is his general, he can control the west gate, there are eight thousand troops loyal to him in the west camp outside the city, he will rely on this army to replace Tian Shenyu.

The west gate opened, the carriage of Yang Huiyuan's wife and children drove out of the city and disappeared into the night, Yang Huiyuan had no worries, he wanted to do a big job, he took out his tiger talisman, handed it to the pro-soldier and said: "Go to the West Camp quickly, and let General Mao immediately lead the army over, and say that the situation is extremely urgent!" ”

"Obey!" The soldiers took the tiger talisman and galloped away.

Yang Huiyuan faintly heard the noise in the city, he was extremely nervous, if he couldn't capture Kaifeng County, he would lead the army south to Songzhou.

At this time, the Jiedu Mansion was already in chaos, Tian Shenyu's sons were all mediocre, and their father's death made them at a loss, and they didn't know what to do.

However, Jiang Ping, the captain of the army, was calmer, and he said to Tian Rui, the eldest son of Tian Shenyu: "Now is not the time to be sad, the prince must immediately grasp the military power, otherwise those with ill intentions will definitely take the opportunity to rebel, and the consequences will be unimaginable." ”

Tian Rui said after a while: "But I don't know where my father's tiger talisman is?" ”

"I know where the Tiger Talisman is?"

A group of people suddenly appeared next to him, the leader of the general was Xing Yanen, just now, a letter shot into his bedroom, the letter said that Tian Shenyu had been killed by Yang Huiyuan, and immediately scared him out of a cold sweat, if Yang Huiyuan killed Tian Shenyu, he would kill himself next, he immediately led more than a thousand troops to the Jiedu Embassy, he didn't see Yang Huiyuan, but learned that Tian Shenyu was really assassinated.

Tian Rui was overjoyed, and hurriedly greeted him, "I implore Second Uncle Xing to call the shots for the little nephew!" ”

Xing Yanen nodded happily, "Let's go to the study to look for it, it must be in the study!" ”

Jiang Ping next to him was in a hurry, and rushed forward to stop Tian Rui, "Childe, don't believe his words!" ”

Xing Yanen was furious, he secretly pulled out his sword, and while the other party was unprepared, a sword pierced Jiang Ping's heart, Jiang Ping screamed and died tragically on the spot.

Hundreds of Xing Yanen's men rushed up and hacked the remaining twenty or so soldiers to death, and Tian Rui was stunned.

Xing Yanen grabbed his arm and sneered: "Don't believe in other people's provocations, find the handsome tiger talisman, I support you as the lord of Biansong." ”

Xing Yanen needs to coerce the Son of Heaven to order the princes to control Tian Rui as a puppet, and he Xing Yanen is the lord of Biansong.

..........

In the Fan Mansion in the south of the city, Fan Zhixin's son Fan Yue held an arrow letter in his hand, standing in front of the mansion gate and looking uneasily to the north, this is a letter he just got, someone shot an arrow into his bedroom, and there was only one sentence on the arrow, 'Tian Shenyu was assassinated!' ’

This news really shocked him, he was not sure if it was true, so he asked the two generals to inquire about the situation, at this time, the two generals galloped on horseback, shouting in front: "Childe, it's true, Tian Shenyu is dead, Xing Yanen went to transfer troops outside the northern city." ”

Fan Yue was shocked, hurriedly turned over his horse, and ran towards the south city gate, at this time, a black shadow followed Fan Yue, and when Fan Yue ran to the south city gate, the black shadow also climbed the head of the south city.

"I'm the son of General Fan, and General Wu is here?"

The master of guarding the south gate of the city is Fan Zhixin, surnamed Wu, a school captain, he knows Fan Yue, and hurriedly asked, "Fan Gongzi, what happened?" ”

"Something happened in the city, Tian Shenyu died, I want to report to my father immediately, open the city gate quickly!"

Hearing that Tian Shenyu was dead, Captain Wu was startled, and hurriedly ordered the soldiers to open the city gate and put down the drawbridge, Fan Yue took two of his men out of the city gate, urging the horse to gallop in the direction of the dock, and his father Fan Zhixin led 10,000 troops to guard the tax ships on the bank of the Bianhe River.

The black shadow at the head of the city is Guo Song, he crouched at the city gate, looking at Fan Yue running away, the Fan family is the last link of his whole plan, and as Fan Yue goes out of the city, this last link should be closed.

Guo Song had already changed into a suit of armor, the armor was stripped from a soldier, and it looked a little small, and he also knew that the password on duty tonight was Bai He.

At this time, Captain Wu had already run down the city, ready to welcome Fan Zhixin back to the city, there were only five or six soldiers on the city, and the rest of the soldiers were still sleeping.

Guo Song walked quickly to the city tower, he climbed the city tower, the city tower has two floors, the downstairs is where the soldiers sleep at night, the second floor is the drum tower, there is no one in the drum tower, there is a big drum for an unknown number of years standing in the middle, the corners on both sides are full of worn-out bedding, dirty and broken, and it is full of fleas, even the soldiers dislike it, and do not want to use it.

Guo Song took off the gourd on his body, the gourd was filled with lamp oil, he splashed the lamp oil on the futon, lit a fire and threw it on.

In a moment, a pile of bedding began to burn, the city tower is at least one or two hundred years old, the wood has long been decayed, burning extremely fast, only a moment, the entire drum tower is filled with fire.

More than 30 soldiers sleeping under the city were awakened by the smoke, and they ran out in terror, shouting, "The tower is on fire!" ”

The raging flames soared into the sky, and they were particularly dazzling and eye-catching in the dark night, and could be seen dozens of miles away.