Chapter 15: For Whom the Bell Rings (I)
"This is the situation in Wu Yingxiong's dog thief's house." Hu Gongshan, who was as short and thin as a mouse, stretched out two fingers like firewood branches, and introduced them on the floor plan of Wu Yingxiong's house: "The Jianmei people are locked up in the dungeon in the back garden, and the only entrance to the dungeon is under the rockery in the middle of the back garden. β
"That's stupid." Wei Dongting sneered: "According to the information I know, the soldiers that the old thief gave to Wu Yingxiong are all light cavalry brought by Aobai's brother Mulima from Hunan. "That being said, Wei Dongting is really strange in his heart, Wei Dongting understands the situation of the Aobai soldiers because Kangxi has eyeliner in ambush in Mulima's team, and Hu Gongshan is Xiaozhuang's cronies and not directly under Kangxi, but he can understand the accurate troop layout in Wu Yingxiong's family - could it be that Xiaozhuang also has eyeliner in Wu Yingxiong's house?
"It's better to be careful." Hu Gongshan blinked his triangular eyes, shook his mouse whiskers and said: "Wu Yingxiong's kid is not stupid, he asked Ao Bai to equip all those soldiers with strong crossbows that are effective in street fighting, and centered on the entrance of the dungeon, he made three circles with thatch in the garden, and sprinkled them all with sulfur and fire oil and other fire-igniting things. β
Wei Dongting, Shi Longbiao and the others all frowned, as soon as the fire ignited in the dark night, they had nowhere to hide, and the three hundred crossbow arrows launched by the hard crossbow beckoned together, no matter how high the martial arts were, it was difficult to parry. And simple-minded people such as donkeys shouted, "What's so hard about this? Our soldiers were divided into two ways, one way to find Wu Yingxiong to settle accounts, to lure the soldiers in the garden away, and the other way to take the opportunity to save Brother Wei's fiancΓ©e. β
"It's not that simple." Hu Gongshan twisted his beard with one hand, and pointed to the location of Wu Yingxiong's study on the sketch with the other and said: "Wu Yingxiong's kid has long expected this, he transferred one hundred and fifty Aobai soldiers to the study around the east chamber, specifically to protect him alone, how powerful the Aobai old thief's personal soldiers are, I think you all know, just a few of you, I'm afraid that you won't be able to enter the study where Wu Yingxiong lives, and you will be divided by the Aobai soldiers." β
"What then?" The donkey was deflated for a while, and said anxiously: "It is not possible to attack directly, nor can it be done to encircle Wei to save Zhao, what should we do?" After tonight, the old thief is about to poison Brother Wei's fiancΓ©e! Mu Zixu and Hao Laosi also said that they were extremely anxious, which made their sworn brother Wei Dongting extremely moved.
"Shi Daxia, we are going to save your righteous daughter, you also have an idea, right?" Of course, Hu Gongshan did not pin his hopes on the irascible and unwise donkey, but turned the target of his inquiry to Shi Longbiao. Shi Longbiao pondered for a moment, shook his head and said, "I can't think of any good way, if...... It would be nice if we could lure the people who worship the dog thieves out of the Wu Mansion. β
"Smack!" Hu Gongshan suddenly slapped his palms and laughed: "This sentence is to the point, as long as we use the strategy of diverting the tiger from the mountain to lure the people of Ao Bai out of the Wu Mansion, can't we rescue Miss Jianmei?" Let me tell you, in fact, the old ancestor of the Empress Dowager has already thought of this, and her old man has prepared a clever plan for us, as long as we act according to the plan, we will definitely be able to rescue Miss Jianmei. β
"Will the plan be released?" Who doesn't know Xiaozhuang's old plan, Wei Dongting and others were naturally overjoyed when they heard this, and they asked for the details of the plan. Hu Gongshan smiled sharply and said in a low voice: "After Princess Heshuo Jianning entered the palace today to complain to the old ancestor, she had already been persuaded to leave the palace, but the old ancestor sent someone to chase her back, and prepared to send another twenty imperial guards to send the princess back to Wu Yingxiong's house at the third watch tonight." And by that time, the forward battalion will have exactly a patrol army of two hundred people passing through Shihu Hutong, understand? β
"I don't understand!" Shi Longbiao, Wei Dongting, and the donkey shook their heads one after another, and the second monk was puzzled. Hu Gongshan smiled and said: "You guys, it's okay to fight and kill, but when it comes to giving advice, it's far behind." You say, 'Who is the commander of the royal guard?' And who is the commander of the Striker Battalion? And what about the relationship between them? β
"I see." Wei Dongting also had a very good mind, and immediately applauded and smiled: "The commander of the imperial guard is the righteous son of the old thief, Namo, and the commander of the forward battalion is Wu He, and the relationship between the two is extremely bad, which causes the people of the imperial guard and the forward battalion to often fight in groups for a trivial matter, and there are many deaths and injuries between each other. And Wu Yingxiong's little thief's army is all Aobai's soldiers, if the people on both sides clash in Shihu Hutong, there are few guards in front of the palace, and Aobai's personal soldiers will definitely come out to help! At that time, it will be our chance to rescue Jianmei. β
Speaking of this, Wei Dongting couldn't cry, kowtowed in the direction of the palace and said: "Ancestor, you are deeply kind to the slave, and the slave is broken bones, and it is difficult to repay it." The donkey and the others did the same, and kowtowed and thanked: "Ancestor, thank you for giving the minions a chance to compensate Brother Wei, and the minions will definitely die to be loyal to the emperor." β
"Get up and get ready, it's getting dark." Hu Gongshan said in his heart that if it weren't for the need for you to die for the emperor, the empress dowager would not bother to care about the life or death of a country woman. Hu Gongshan ordered again: "When you act tonight, all of them must be dressed in black and masked, even if they are caught by mistake, they can only be said to act independently, and they must not reveal the instigators behind the scenes." After all, the current Long Live Lord has not yet reached the time to completely tear his face with Ao Bai and Wu Sangui. β
While Wei Dongting was nervously preparing here, Wu Yuanming was also nervously busy, because both sides knew that there was only one night left to rescue Shi Jianmei or Shi Jianmei was rescued, and success or failure was already here. Before I knew it, the time was approaching the third watch (Note 1......
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"Bang! Boom! When the cold wave comes, turn off the lights and close the door! Bang - Bang! Boom! Close the doors and windows and watch out for the candles! As the sound of a fast and two slow bangs and the rhythmic shouts of the husband gradually sounded, the sullen Princess Jianning was also sent back to Shihu Hutong by the head of the imperial guard, Ne Mo, a group of imperial guards. Along the way, Princess Jianning's mood was obviously not good, and she lost her temper from time to time, "The queen mother doesn't feel sorry for her daughter too much, and she doesn't let her daughter spend the night in the palace when it's almost the third watch, so she forces her daughter to go home, and she is sleepy to death." β
Dissatisfied is dissatisfied, but the will of the Empress Dowager of Xiaozhuang Princess Jianning still has to be listened to, so Princess Jianning can only complain on the road, take the three pretty maids Xiangzhu, Linghe and Yunsleeve, and the crying Bian Mama because her son has been sent to Shuntianfu to punish the crime, she was scolded a lot along the way, and the three pretty maids such as Xiangzhu did not dare to stay by Princess Jianning's side, and they all retreated to the back of the carriage, chatting with each other, unless Princess Jianning asked them to do things, they would never dare to approach the carriage. And among the three pretty girls, Yun Sleeve, who is currently the most beautiful, even chatted with the head of the imperial guard, Ne Mo.
"Brother Nemo, your arms are so thick! At least three times as much as mine! Yun Sleeve complimented Ne Mo in a worshipful tone: "When you get to the battlefield, I'm afraid that five or six thieves won't be able to beat you, right?" β
"What's five or six little thieves?" Ne Mo was a womanizer, and when he saw that the pretty girl Yun Sleeve took the initiative to talk to him, he naturally couldn't ask for it, and proudly raised his arm and clenched his fist, and his upper arm immediately bulged a big muscle, and Ne Mo raised his head and said: "The last time I fought with others in Bada Hutong, I knocked over twelve of them empty-handed, and three of them were seriously injured!" One was killed on the spot! β
"Brother Nemo is so powerful." Yun Sleeve exaggerated his palms, but he was afraid that Princess Jianning would hear it, so he didn't dare to speak up, and Yun Sleeve blinked his big eyes and said, "Brother Nemo, the flesh of your hand must be very hard, can I touch it?" β
"Absolutely." Ne Mo saw that Shihu Hutong had arrived, so he simply jumped off the horse and walked to the side of Yun Sleeve and stretched out his arm, Yun Sleeve's face was indeed not covered, touching the iron-like lump on Ne Mo's arm and was amazed, Ne Mo took the opportunity to hold her other small hand and knead it gently, but Yun Sleeve just glanced at Heng Ne Mo who was ashamed, and did not complain, let alone withdraw his hand, which provoked Ne Mo's lustful heart, and also attracted the royal guards next to him to laugh in a low voice.
"This little is so seductive." Ne Mo kneaded the little hand of the cloud sleeve, while thinking about how to ask Wu Yingxiong for someone another day, Ne Mo said that Wu Yingxiong had taken refuge in his father-in-law, and he should be regarded as his brother in terms of seniority, and asked him for a little girl, he shouldn't refuse, right? Ne Mo was in a fantasy, and a team of soldiers with torches came to him, and Ne Mo knew that this should be the army patrol of the Admiral of the Nine Gates or the sworn enemy Wu He, and he didn't think about it, who knew that Yun Sleeve, who was still tender and sweet just now, suddenly called out crisply, "Brother Wu He." Then he broke free of Nemo's palm and ran quickly towards the patrol soldiers.
"Damn, is it that bastard of Wahe again?" The beautiful woman who was holding it in her hand suddenly pounced on her rival, and she couldn't help but be so angry that she was smoking, and when she looked closely, sure enough, in the light of the torch, Yun Sleeve had already pulled the hand of the commander of the forward battalion, Wu He, and whispered and laughed, and from time to time she pointed to her side, and vaguely, Ne Mo also heard Wu He say that the toad wants to eat swan meat, and he couldn't help but be angry and rushed to his head.
"My lord, the turtle king said that you toad wants to eat swan meat." One of the imperial guards heard the words of the Emperor clearly, and immediately reported to Ne Mota. Seeing that there were many people in the forward battalion, Ne Mo gritted his teeth and said: "The escort princess is tight, and I will settle accounts with that Wang Ba another day." Ne Mo thought that the hero would not suffer the loss in front of him, but who knew that the man over there heard his scolding, and he immediately raised his head and shouted: "Is that bastard over there who has not washed his mouth clean?" There is a kind of Lao Tzu to stand up! β
"Brother Uhe, forget it." Yun Sleeve persuaded Na He and said: "The one who scolded you just now was Lord Nemone, the head of the imperial guard, he can fight twelve by himself, you can't beat him, don't quarrel." Yun Sleeve's words undoubtedly added fuel to the fire, and the Wu He immediately jumped off the horse and shouted: "Nemo, you fucking blow blindly, one hit a dozen?" The last time we fought in Yihong Mansion, how could you more than a dozen imperial guards be beaten by six people from our forward battalion? β
"Fuck you!" The imperial guards and the forward battalion have always been at odds, and Ne Mo, as the imperial guard, refused to bow to the forward battalion, and scolded back: "Yihongyuan was that Lao Tzu's brothers were all drunk, otherwise you are a donkey?" At that time, didn't a dozen of Lao Tzu's brothers cut down more than 30 people in your forward battalion? β
"That's you bastards all with knives, Lao Tzu's people don't bring guys!" It seemed that he wanted to bully the few people tonight, and provoked: "There is a kind, Lao Tzu and you will have a fight now!" β
"Lao Tzu was ordered to send Princess Heshuo Jianning home, and I don't have time to take care of you." After all, Ne Mo is not a stupid person, he said that he would not take twenty people to pick the other party's hundreds of people, and replied: "If you want to fight, tomorrow night Lao Tzu will bring a hundred people, and you will bring a hundred people, and go out of the city to Zuojiazhuang to fight in the human field, and even save the effort of collecting your corpses." β
"Damn, I know you're scared." When he heard that Princess Jianning was still in the car, he didn't dare to be too presumptuous, so he wanted to wait for Nemo to send Princess Jianning home before finding an excuse to fight. Who knew that at this moment, the gate of the Wu Mansion in the alley was suddenly opened, and then a group of soldiers with knives and guns came out, led by one of them, and asked, "It was Lord Nemo who spoke just now?" The villain is Kunyou on the Ao Xiangye's house. It turned out that the soldiers brought by Ao Bai heard the scolding between U He and Nemo, and knew that their family was going to fight with the forward battalion in the alley, so they immediately informed Kunyou and Jun'er, and Kun You took people out to help in the fight.
"Haha!" Seeing that there were a lot of people with Kunyou, Nemo, who was still bent on calming things just now, immediately became arrogant, and Nemo didn't think about why Kunyou appeared here, and shouted and asked: "Brother Kunyou, I'm Nemo, how many people have you brought?" β
"Three hundred!" Kun You replied with a loud shout: "There are also one hundred and fifty personal soldiers of Xiangye, a total of four hundred and fifty people!" Grandpa, if you have something to order, my brother will go to the soup and go to the fire! β
"your grandma's U-hyuk!" As soon as Ne Mo heard that there were many more people than the other party, he immediately jumped three feet high and scolded: "Don't you want to fight with Lao Tzu? The princess has arrived home, and Lao Tzu's errand is over, so let's decide it here! Between the shouts, with a wave of his hand, ten imperial guards immediately sent Princess Jianning, Bian Mama and others, who were so frightened, into the Wu Mansion, and Yun Sleeve, who lit the fire, also slipped in.
"Fuck you, you want to bully less?" Wu He was indeed unstoppable, shook his hand and smashed the horsewhip at Nemo, shouting: "Lao Tzu is not afraid of you!" Brothers, go up! β
"Wo He, your time of death has arrived today!" Nemo dodged the horsewhip, pulled out his sword with a choked sound, and shouted, "Brothers, teach these turtle sons a lesson! "The imperial guards brought by Na Mo heard that they had a good chance of winning, so there was no reason not to fight? One by one, he pulled out his waist knife, shouted "Kill" in his mouth, and pounced on him like a wolf, and Kunyin naturally waved his hand in order to please Na Mo, and the soldiers he brought rushed out of the gate of Wu Mansion one after another, and he also viciously pounced on the soldiers of the forward battalion. In the blink of an eye, the sound of killing and swords erupted in Shihu Hutong......
"Let's go!" Hu Gongshan, who was lurking on the high wall opposite the Wu Mansion, ordered, and at this moment, most of the soldiers and personal soldiers of Ao Bai had been attracted by the forward battalion, and they didn't pay attention at all to the fact that more than a dozen black shadows had already jumped over the wall and jumped into Wu Yingxiong's house......
"Donkey, Hao Laosi, you take ten people to settle accounts with Wu Yingxiong." After Hu Gongshan observed the situation a little, he ordered the donkey to take more than ten people to find trouble with Wu Yingxiong, although these people may not be able to hurt Wu Yingxiong, but they can effectively divert the attention of the guards. Hu Gongshan, together with Shi Longbiao, Wei Dongting and Mu Zixu, sneaked to the back garden with ten other warriors of the Shanpu Battalion.
Shouldering the secret purpose of filial piety, he did play a great role in diversion, because the forward battalion led by him fought to the death outside, so he attracted a steady stream of Aobai's soldiers and soldiers to rush to the outside of the house to help, that is, the Aobai soldiers who stayed in the mansion focused their attention on the shouting and killing in the alley, so that Hu Gongshan and others touched the back garden of Wu Yingxiong's house very smoothly. And the heavens seemed to want to help them, a cold wind blew, the dark clouds in the sky covered the bright moon, and the five fingers in the garden were suddenly missing.
"Shi Daxia, it's up to you." Hu Gongshan pointed to the two soldiers standing on the roof, Shi Longbiao nodded, took out two darts, threw them one by one, and the two soldiers fell in response. Hu Gongshan rushed up, his body was as fast as a ghost, and in the blink of an eye, he knocked down the four Aobai soldiers standing guard in front of him. Hu Gongshan waved his hand again, and Shi Longbiao, Wei Dongting and the others immediately flew up, half-squatting and rushing towards the entrance of the dungeon.
"Plop!" Seeing that Shi Longbiao and Wei Dongting and the others were about to touch the door of the dungeon, the corpse of a soldier shot by Shi Longbiao on the roof fell down, which immediately alarmed Jun'er and others led by the general of the courtyard, Jun'er knew that the enemy was coming, and immediately ordered: "Throw the torch!" β
"Whew, whew, whew!" More than ten torches were thrown at the thatch in the garden, Hu Gongshan knew that once the torch touched the thatch, it would ignite the sulfur oil and would have nowhere to hide, Hu Gongshan immediately pounced, kicked and slashed, or knocked the torch away or kicked it into the air, and none of the more than ten torches could land. At the same time, Hu Gongshan shouted: "Hurry, save people!" Shi Longbiao and the others, who had already sneaked to the door of the dungeon, knew that the opportunity was rare, and they didn't care about helping Hu Gongshan, so they gritted their teeth and rushed to the dungeon.
"Whew!" When Shi Longbiao rushed into the dungeon first, there was a steel knife in front of him, a good Shi Longbiao, his body jumped up vertically, his upper body dodged the steel knife, and his legs kicked the knife holder, the Aobai guards who were ambushed at the door of the dungeon did not expect Shi Longbiao's movements to be so flexible, and he was kicked on his back and fell away, and when he wanted to get up, a dart had already ** his throat.
"Kill!" Only more than a dozen Aobai guards rushed out of the tunnel that could only pass three people at the same time, slashing Shi Longbiao with knives, but Shi Longbiao had also killed Wei Dongting and others behind him, and the two sides fought in this narrow tunnel. As Wu Yuanming and Hu Gongshan judged, the soldiers brought by Ao Bai were definitely not the opponents of the masters of the rivers and lakes in hand-to-hand combat, and more than a dozen soldiers were defeated by Wei Dongting and others who had a master like Iron Arhat Shi Longbiao in less than a moment.
"Quick, the inside line said, Jianmei is locked in the innermost room of the dungeon passage." Shi Longbiao snorted and rushed to the deepest part of the tunnel, although the deepest wooden cell door was locked, it was difficult for Shi Longbiao and others, Shi Longbiao and Wei Dongting smashed the cell door with just one collision, and in the room, Shi Jianmei, who was wearing iron shackles and iron cuffs, was lying horizontally facing the wall......
"Jianmei, my father-in-law has come to save you." Shi Longbiao was the fastest and was the first to pounce on Shi Jianmei......
Want to know if Shi Longbiao and others rescued Shi Jianmei? Can the donkey avenge Wei Dongting? Was Wu Yuanming's trick seen through by Li Yuliang? See the next chapter.
Note 1: The ancients woke up very early, and the third watch is only equivalent to 11 o'clock in the evening in modern time, and the fifth watch is equivalent to 3 o'clock in the morning.