Section 656 Half-open door
After Gao Feng received the secret letter, he hurriedly sent his cronies out of the city to investigate, and after knowing that the pirates had lurked near Yizhou City and had enough strength to break the city and kill him, he didn't care about further reconnaissance of the specific situation on the Mizhou side, so he cooperated according to the letter, and took the initiative to abandon the city again and sneak out of the city with his soldiers like the robber army in Shandong last time. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
Of course, there has to be a valid reason for this.
You have to be able to deceive people, you have to not alarm the robbers, and you have to prevent the people who have taken them from escaping with the army.
He knew the seriousness of the matter, and he didn't dare to leak to anyone the fact that his cousin was very likely to bury hundreds of thousands of troops and had fallen into the hands of pirates, but only said that he wanted to take advantage of the great opportunity for heavy troops to gather in Mizhou and have strong reinforcements, and to personally lead troops for the country and the people to exterminate several powerful bandits who had been scattered in the mountains and wilderness of Yizhou to cause trouble to the people.
As the highest governor of the state, Gao Feng finally "fought bravely", but Li Feibao, the governor of the state, was moved and excited.
This metropolitan eunuch is one of the few loyal and brave generals in the mainland of the Great Song Dynasty, who is good at using big axes and strong in martial arts, but he is a local military chief similar to Qin Ming of Thunderbolt Fire, and he has no brains. It is precisely because of his real ability and this kind of characteristic, useful and easy to control and use, that Gao Yu deliberately promoted him from many middle and low-level generals in the Beijing army and deployed him to Gao Feng to help sit in Yizhou.
Such a military attache is naturally not a master who absconds in fear of the enemy.
Not only will they not run away, but they will also shout excitedly, wanting to have a good fight with the robbers who dare to come to the door. It is necessary to show one's ability on the battlefield and make meritorious contributions to the country.
His name is Flying Leopard, but he doesn't want to be a flying general who can escape quickly.
The last time Gao Feng was afraid of being blocked in the city and killed by the robber army that made trouble in Shandong and abandoned the city, it had already made Li Feibao very dissatisfied, but he was favored by the Gao family to repay the favor, and he had to obey the military attache dispatched by the civil officials in charge of the state, and if he did not obey the order honestly, Gao Feng had the right to execute him, and he would die unjustly and no one could overturn the case for him, so he had to obey.
This time, if Gao Feng revealed and wanted to repeat the scene of abandoning the city and fleeing, Li Feibao would not agree to death.
Gao Feng wants to escape, he can't control it, and he can't stop it. He would rush out of the city with soldiers who were willing to follow him, and take the initiative to find robbers to fight.
Dying on the battlefield is the dignity and glory of a soldier.
Even if no one follows him to die, he has to challenge and fight alone, and die without regrets.
Besides, he is conceited, killing a few bandit leaders, and thwarting the arrogance of the robbers may not necessarily lead to death. He was confident that he would be able to escape from the siege.
Gao Feng knows this reckless man very well, and he needs this fierce general to accompany him for protection, so naturally he will never reveal a little news to Li Feibao.
Li Feibao, a stunned "fool", how can he play the treacherous and deceitful Gao Feng, who was bluffed into boiling blood, with four powerful subordinates: Zhao Long, Qian Feihu, Sun Lin, Li Fengming and hard-trained archers, ready to cooperate with Kochi Prefecture to kill the thieves in the jurisdiction, and strive to wipe out the bandit forces in the jurisdiction in one fell swoop.
In order to cover up the truth, in order to protect himself and the backer brother who is very likely to fall into the hands of pirates, Gao Feng did not even take his family with him, and gambled on the pirate's promise not to kill his relatives.
According to the bandits' instructions, he left only a few hundred troops to symbolically defend the city, and led the rest of the army to pretend to go north.
As a result, Yizhou City naturally followed and fell easily.
The corrupt officials in the city, as well as the well-known bullies and wealthy businessmen who had survived the robbery and butcher's knife from Gao Feng, were all killed; The property and military quarters of Fucheng were plundered along with the robbery results that Gao Feng was so heartbroken that he had to harden his heart that he had to harden his heart. Naturally, those who were willing to follow the pirates followed the pirates.
After the pirates quickly finished robbing and retreating, some honest officials who were not killed hurriedly went to inform the "unaware" Gao Taishou to lead the troops back.
Gao Bao was shocked, but in fact, he was really nervous, afraid that his family would be killed by pirates without trust, so he quickly turned around and rushed back.
His henchmen and military attachés left and right to defend the city, which made Wan Fuxiong and Ruan Qixiang even more shocked, both glad that he was not killed in the state city, but also heartbroken, and finally embezzled and looted the accumulated family property.
Li Feibao was both shocked and angry, not knowing that his enthusiasm was played by Gao Taishou, worried about the safety of his family, anxious to go home to check and think about chasing the enemy for revenge.
As for Zhao Long, Qian Feihu, Sun Lin, and Li Fengming, the four generals are still young, and they have not started a family, and their hometown is not in Yizhou.
Gao Feng knew that many of the officers and soldiers in Benzhou were afraid that they also wanted to join the pirates, and he had the intention to take the opportunity to clean up these people and get rid of the troubles, so as not to be used by the pirates to break the city and kill him in the future.
As soon as they left the locks of the city and lacked supervision, those soldiers whose families had already taken refuge with pirates or who wanted to take refuge with their families took the opportunity to flee.
By the time they returned to the city, more than 5,000 troops had fled to barely half of them.
This result, not to mention the bad generals of these dog officials in Gao Feng, even Li Feibao is not frightened.
It turned out that there were so many soldiers in the Benshu army who were disloyal to the Great Song Dynasty. This is also the result of pirates not wanting to be bad and dirty, and some people who want to join pirates have no chance.
If this time we didn't go to exterminate the bandits in Honshu, then, when the pirates came, the soldiers in the city should be ......
The generals of Yizhou imagined that when they were defending the city, they were stabbed by the soldiers around them with black knives and died in a miserable end, and they were all shocked to sweat with white hair.
They didn't know the inside story, and at this moment they were only grateful to Gao Feng for his sudden rise of loyalty and courage to serve the country, and sighed that Gao Taishou was really a blessed person, and he was so lucky to follow such a chief official.
Gao Feng couldn't say that he was suffering, so he hurriedly returned to the mansion's house, and the house was empty, but when he saw that his wife and children were there, the pirate really believed in his word, so he put his mind at ease.
In turn, he was resentful.
The concubines, maids and honest and capable slaves were plundered, and the sinful slaves were killed, and Gao Feng didn't care.
His butler and several other powerful and important slaves, as well as those loyal and capable guards, followed the army and waited for their master to "exterminate the bandits" and survived. Those who are lacking can get it again. Gao Feng hated the loss of property, and even more hated the pirates for taking Gao Yu and endangering his glory and wealth.
If Gao Yu is dead, he will have no backer. A bureaucrat like him, who has no talent and is not qualified to mix with officialdom, will be knocked out of his original form by the excluded in the blink of an eye, and all glory will become a thing of the past.
However, he had no choice but to hide his hatred in his heart, silently spitting out his bitterness alone and anxiously waiting for Gao Yu's news.
He didn't care at all about the fact that the magistrates and other bureaucrats who had helped to rule and loot Honshu were all dead, and he didn't feel any guilt about the responsibility.
It's better to die.
Without these clever scholars and doctors being able to detect or guess the hidden situation and take advantage of him, no one can report the situation privately, which is more conducive to making up statements to fool the court according to the follow-up situation.
Li Feibao was so angry that he yelled and jumped straight at home.
He doesn't eat empty quotas, he doesn't deduct military salaries, he has a short time as a capital prisoner with real power, and he doesn't have much wealth with the filial piety under the collection. Property damage, he doesn't care.
He was bitter and resentful that the innocent wives and children who had suffered a lot with him had all been taken away, and it was difficult to know the good fortune and misfortune of his family.
Wan Fuxiong and Ruan Qixiang, the two high-ranking military gangsters, were ransacked, the fierce and vicious wives and sons were killed, and the innocent children of the concubines disappeared without a trace.
After decades of hard work, once back to the pre-liberation period.
The two of them looked at the miserable situation all over the ground, both frightened and resentful.
And Gao Yu, who was anxiously waiting in the gloomy and sultry dungeon, had nothing to think about, and at this time he also figured out more about the benefits of the pirate killing General Huaihua to him.
Although General Huaihua has an important position in the family, he is not the head of the family, and the family is a noble family that depends on the emperor's favor to survive, there are many members to support, and there are many officials in the family, and it is not only General Huaihua who supports the power and wealth, if a huge ransom is paid, it will touch the interests of too many people in the family, affecting the operation and prosperity of the entire family, so even if General Huaihua is the head of the family, there will definitely be many people who find reasons to strongly oppose the extortion of pirates.
The wife and children who really care about the life and death of General Huaihua can't be the master. The result of the turmoil must be that the family refuses to pay the ransom regardless of General Huaihua's life or death, and will try to turn misfortune into a favorable condition for the family's rich future, and report to the emperor the tragic defeat of the forbidden army, the capture of important ministers including his Gao Taiwei, and the blackmail at home, so as to show that at the expense of important family members such as General Huaihua, they will never give in to the pirates.
The emperor is more trusted, and he will inevitably repay his loyalty, and then promote a son of General Huaihua's family to be a high-ranking official.
Not only did the family not lose money, but it will profit from this disaster.
There is no doubt that this family will treat General Huaihua so ruthlessly.
In order to keep the royal trust and maintain the wealth and glory of the family, the founding fathers and nobles who have never produced talents since their ancestors have always done this. For the sake of the family, anyone can sacrifice if necessary.
The rise and fall of General Huaihua's family is not about Gao Yu's business, whether he dies or not, Gao Yu doesn't care at all, but not dying will endanger his fate, so it's better to die.
From the pirate killing General Huaihua to take the initiative to prevent leakage, Gao Yu keenly saw the letter of letting him go, so he felt a lot more relieved, afraid that the pirate would change his mind and not want money.
Gao Feng covered the lid and did not rush to report the loss of the imperial court, and finally looked forward to the news of Gao Yu in the torment, but he was overjoyed when he read the letter, and he was very worried about the pirate's change, so he hurriedly sent his cronies to secretly send the letter from Gao Yu and the three of them to his family to Tokyo, and notified and urged the three families to hurry up and redeem the people.
Don't dare to delay. Gao Yu may die at any time.
These three families, who were detained by the pirates, were the pillars of the family, the head of the family, and the only supporter of the family's rich life. If the man is gone, then everything is over.
When the housewife received the letter, she was frightened but did not dare to slack off, and hurried to prepare with all her might as the pirates demanded.
Then the power of the Taiwei Mansion secretly transferred some cronies and sergeants to escort them, and was personally escorted out of the city by the huge Gao Mansion housekeeper, because the ransom was too much, and I don't know how many cars were loaded, and they went out of the city together It was too conspicuous, I was afraid that the exposure would reveal the evidence of the crime of surrendering to the pirates, so that the court had the heart to hold the handle, and could only pretend to be the materials operated by the Gao Mansion and carefully go through the city gates to disperse and send them to the outside of the city, and naturally no one at the city gate dared to stop and inspect the things of Gao Yu's family, and in fact, they didn't care about these things.
The journey is unimpeded, and then it is transported to the canal designated by the pirates for loading.
How could Cai Jing and the others have thought that Gao Yu and others would lead hundreds of thousands of troops to the battle, and such a strong strength could actually be captured alive.
They still have the latest battle situation reported by the pirates using the tone of Gao Yu and the auxiliary generals.
On the fold, the official seal and the private seal are correct, and there is nothing suspicious. Therefore, the Manchu Dynasty thought that Gao Yu and they were leading a large army to fight bravely and bloodily with pirates and halal rogues and had further gains, but they only paid attention to whether Gao Yu secretly transported the looted wealth back to the capital and swallowed it privately, and only entered Beijing, and did not care about paying attention to those who left Beijing.
No one paid attention to the transfer of things from Gaofu. Because it's so normal. Gao Yu's family also has many big deals.
The cronies and thugs in charge of the escort did not know what they were escorting, and they were not qualified to know, let alone inquire.
Gao Yuquan is too big and too terrible.
What do your subordinates do as they are told, and do irrelevant things?
Do you want to do a lot of things, and accidentally know things that you shouldn't know, and it's too long?
The chief housekeeper of the Gao Mansion was afraid that the riverboat sent by the pirates to receive the ransom would be blocked by the officers and soldiers on the canal, and the trouble would be delayed, so he brought a few cronies to personally accompany the south, and was specially responsible for opening the way with the authority of the Taiwei Mansion.
After successfully reaching the south, he settled the ransom at the sea and transferred to the sea air, and the pirate told the steward: "You just have to go back." In a few days, your master will return to Beijing. ”
The housekeeper of the Gao Mansion could only listen honestly, got off the river boat, found a carriage and a horse and hurried back to Beijing to report that the money of the housekeeper had been delivered, and the rest could only wait for news.
Gao Yu and the three of them could only drink gruel every day in the dungeon, and gnawed on the rotten sauerkraut that they wanted to vomit when they saw it, but they had to force themselves to eat it in order to survive.
I wanted to die, and on this day, the three of Gao Yu finally got out of the dungeon.
It's good to see the light of day again.
Although it had just rained heavily, the sky was still gloomy, and the slanting wind and drizzle were unpleasant, but Gao Yu felt that the air was so fresh and everything was so beautiful.
The three thieves thought that the ransom had been paid off, and they were going to be released, and they would soon be free, and they would be able to return to the rich world of Tokyo to continue to enjoy, but who knew that the jailer who took them up suddenly changed his face like a fierce god and couldn't help but say that he hung the three of them in the air. The three thieves were so frightened that they thought that the pirates were going to kill them, and their weak bodies were full of feces and urine.
As a result, he was beaten in the drizzle.
The whip stained with water was particularly painful. The three thieves screamed and were drawn to death.
When I woke up, I was made by rain and severe pain.
The three thieves opened their eyes in horror and found themselves lying on the muddy floor in the courtyard outside the cell, covered in mud and filth, embarrassed, but glad they were still alive.
The alert and cunning Gao Yu did not forget to observe the surroundings in great pain.
He found that the door of the prison was ajar by the wind, the prison was unguarded, the streets outside were empty, and no one could be heard in Mizhou City in the wind and rain, and it felt as if it had become a dead and empty city.
Gao Yu's dim and weak eyes suddenly burst into a strong light, and the corners of his mouth showed a trace of irrepressible joy......