Chapter 0388: Forcing the Palace (4)
The general Han Ding did not like to ride horses, and the general strode down the street, and the sound of armor rubbing and colliding kept coming, which increased the tension in the city.
At this time, there were 3,000 soldiers in the Guangdao Fang, mainly distributed in the north and south gates of the Fang City, and there were also people standing on the walls of the Fang, and there were towering lookouts at the four corners.
However, after all, 3,000 people are still a little small, and they cannot be fully armed. At this time, Han Ding was not ready to fight to the death, because Zhang Yunlong assured him that this battle could not be fought.
Under the supervision of various bright and dark sentinels, Li Wantang still found an opportunity to break through, and took Ji Yifa and other five good players to jump over the wall and jump into the Light Daofang.
Lao Mink Temple is over the age of six, and his skills are still agile, which is really admirable, his judgment is much higher than that of ordinary people, he said that he can jump over without being discovered, and he can really avoid all the eyeliner.
Being able to grasp this opportunity has left many mediocre people behind, and some people will never be able to rise to high positions, not because they don't work hard, but because they lack talent in some aspects, and talent is given by God, not acquired by hard work.
The old mink temple had a thin face, deep-set eye sockets, and dark skin, as if he was covered with a layer of black skin on the skeleton, and the deep sunken eye sockets shot out a terrifying gaze, like a colorful tiger, ambushing in the shadows, ready to rush at his prey at any time.
After waiting for a long time, Han Ding finally appeared, and there were only eleven guards by his side.
"Kill!"
Li Wantang and Ji Yifa almost killed at the same time, the four good hands behind him followed closely and were only half a step away, the six people shot like lightning, their swords were wiped through the gaps in the enemy's armor, the movements were light and fast, and without making much movement, Han Ding and his guards all fell on the road.
"There are assassins!"
Their actions were still discovered by the sentinels standing on the lookout, but by this time they had already completed one task, and the second mission to assassinate Zhang Yunlong seemed impossible, so Li Wantang took the lead and ran towards the fang wall.
Skip the fang wall, opposite the high wall of the imperial city, run a few steps, you can come to Hanjiamen, and when you get there, you will be safe.
But at this time, I suddenly heard the sound of arrows and feathers behind me, and heard two screams in a row, and the person who was shot instinctively wanted to be rescued, but remembered that Li Wantang had said in advance that if it didn't succeed, it would become benevolent, and for the sake of the family, they took out their daggers and cut themselves off.
Li Wantang, Ji Yifa and two other masters jumped over the wall of the fang, fled, and after this sneak attack, killed Han Ding, the captain of Xuanjia.
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"Han Ding actually died in the workshop?"
Zhang Yunlong was shocked after receiving the news, then Han Ding is also a seventh-rank general, who can kill him so neatly and run away?
Listening to the sentry, the direction of escape was the palace, and Zhang Yunlong's face sank like water.
Zhang Yunlong immediately took over the troops, and the eight-thousand-year-old Tang Su hurried over and asked Zhang Yunlong what else he needed?
Zhang Yunlong said: "It seems that the Queen Mother still doesn't know about the mutiny of the Xuanjia Army, Cao Sheng has always been like this, and he won't show his chips until the last moment." Now the Queen Mother is still in the dark, thinking that she can surround and destroy us by waiting for the Xuanjia Army to assemble. That's why he sent assassins to assassinate Han Ding. ”
"Will Cao Sheng suddenly change his hexagram, if that is really the case, we three thousand people will not be able to escape at all."
"No," Zhang Yunlong said with certainty: "I still know Cao Sheng, he was only eighteen years old when he joined the army, I was already twenty-three years old at that time, a battalion officer who had just made a mistake and was demoted to the lowest rank of captain, and it was precisely because of this that I met him as a recruit." With the background of the Cao family, he became a battalion-level lieutenant as soon as he joined the army, and served as a supervisor in my battalion. The supervisor of the Xuanjia Army has always been the second officer of the army, and he still has some power. At first we were not friendly, I thought he was a weak scholar, but then I found out that I could not afford to lose my temper with him, because he never fought with me, in other words, he mastered my temper. And our friendship was established at that time. Our friendship deepened over the course of many battles, and I got to know him better and better. He is a gentle and frugal person on the surface, but he is actually hard-hearted. Either you don't make a decision, and once you decide, you will go all the way to the dark. This kind of person is terrible and reliable, and since he promised to help us overthrow the Queen Mother this time, he will definitely do it to the end. After all, he has benefits, if he can take over the Ximen family's industry and establish the Cao family's gate valve, it is the ultimate goal of his life. When he was young, he envied those men and daughters, and as soon as they came to the army, they were easily a captain. And he, the captain, spent a lot of money to steal the hole. ”
Tang Su listened to Zhang Yunlong tell the past, silent, in front of Emperor Zhao Ce, he was the one who persuaded the emperor to be relieved, but when he left the emperor and came to Zhang Yunlong, he became a person who needed to be comforted. Only Zhang Yunlong has no one to relieve him, and the old general has a heavy burden in his heart, perhaps only he knows.
At this time, the troops inside and outside Luoyang City were rapidly assembling troops, and the people felt that something big was going to happen, and they couldn't help but panic, and they hid in their homes one after another, and thousands of people were empty.
At this critical juncture, all the generals are calculating the gains and losses and making plans for their future.
Zhang Zhikui, Wan Lin, and Huang Ying, three generals from the Flying Tiger Army, sat in three of the eight passes in Luoyang, and also received orders from the Queen Mother, but they did not set off immediately. Cao Jiong, the supervisor of the Ninth Division of Xuanjia where Zhang Zhikui was located, came to Zhang Zhikui with the prison corps and asked him why he didn't move?
Zhang Zhikui smiled bitterly, waved his hand, and took Cao Jiong down instead.
Cao Jiong was tied up with five flowers and pressed to the ground, Zhang Zhikui's tall body came to Cao Jiong, and said condescendingly:
"Cao Jianjun, from today onwards, the days when you dictated to me and yelled at me are gone. Although your attitude towards me has always been bad, I think you can still act impartially, and you don't say much bad things about me in the Queen Mother, I still like you more. But now, I have to make a choice. I feel like the Queen Mother is going to fall. ”
Cao Jiong not only didn't get angry, but smiled and said, "If that's the case, then you better let me go quickly, and let's complete the big thing together." ”
"Accomplish the big thing?"
"I have received a secret letter from my uncle (Cao Sheng), I am here to deliberately test you, if you are willing to work with our Cao family, my uncle will never treat you badly."
"Empty words." Zhang Zhikui said.
"There is faith to prove it." Cao Jiong said.
"Show me!"
See the letter, and it's not just one.
Since there are so many letters to and fro, it seems that Cao Jiong is really Cao Sheng's cronies, since this is the case, of course, Cao Jiong must be released, and they will not move together.
But soon after, Zhang Zhikui received a secret order from Zhang Yunlong, asking Zhang Zhikui to lead troops into Beijing.
Zhang Zhikui's eyebrows furrowed, and he fell into hesitation.