Chapter Eighty-Nine: The Assassination

"According to the latest news, 30,000 soldiers and horses of the Guangdong Metropolitan Division are pressed at the junction with our lake and Guangzhou, and they may come over at any time. " Cheng Jingye lupine scarf, looking like a military advisor, stood in front of the topographic map.

Zhu Yiluan smiled, he already knew the news of Yu Gao's escape from Wuchang, so it was not surprising that the people of the Guangdong Capital Division were gathered at the junction. "With only 30,000 soldiers and horses, if they dare to enter Huguang, they will be made to have no return."

"Yes, this is called meat buns and dogs." Jinda replied from the side, his face was also full of pride, and he didn't feel that there was anything wrong with this.

But the faces of the crowd were extremely ugly. "The third child, I have talked in my head." Cheng Jingye glared at him and scolded.

Jinda's face was full of wonder, and he looked at everyone one by one, but he didn't know what he was wrong.

Jinda is a rough person, and Zhu Yiluan also understands it, but he is too lazy to bother with him about it. "Okay, the so-called preparedness, according to Lonely's opinion, we must arrange a countermeasure now, so as not to make 30,000 Guangdong soldiers and horses suddenly move out to disrupt our position."

"Little prince, my subordinates think that this soldier and horse is not to be afraid, you must know that although Guangdong is on the border, it has not gone through the battle since the founding of Taizu, and the combat power can be imagined. Now we have to worry about the soldiers and horses in the direction of Nanjing, this is elite, once they make a move, they can't resist it at all with the guards of the northern provinces. Cheng Jingye pointed to Shuntianfu and said, this is a question he has been thinking about.

Zhu Yiluan's brows slowly twisted, and he nodded: "What Brother Cheng said is very true, according to Gu's opinion, the 50,000 soldiers and horses who are about to leave the mountain will be used to meet them, as for the local guards, they can be used as reserves or go south, and we will talk about it when we gather all our strength to take Guangdong." ”

Zhu Yiluan's intention is obvious, that is, the persimmon picks up the soft pinch first. Although there were 80,000 people, Zhu Yiluan was confident that with the assistance of Cheng Jingye, he could defeat them with only 50,000 men and horses, and it would be easy to take Guangdong.

Although Guangdong is a remote place, it is not of much strategic value. But it is of great significance to Zhu Yiluan. The first thing is to boost morale, once you can easily take Guangdong, then your influence will be greatly enhanced, to put it mildly, it is possible for nearby states and counties to fall into the wind. Secondly, there is one more place to source soldiers, you must know that to conquer the world, it is far from enough to rely on hundreds of thousands of horses, and without a million troops, how can you make the Quartet surrender?

With these two points in mind, Zhu Yiluan could do his best to suppress the main forces in Guangdong, even if there was a fire in the backyard. In Zhu Yiluan's view, the so-called steady and steady fight is simply not feasible for such a business as rebellion.

"Little prince Gao Zhi." Cheng Jingye gave a thumbs up, which is also a question he has considered the most in the past few days, and it can be said that it is the best policy to win Guangdong first.

Seeing that Cheng Jingye agreed with his point of view, the smile on Zhu Yiluan's face became stronger. "That's good, then the matter of entering Guangzhou will be handled by you with full authority, and when the soldiers are gathered, Lone personally leads the troops to the battle, and you must take Guangdong in one go!"

Zhu Yiluan is full of confidence, and everyone under his command is also infected by his emotions, and they are all waiting to do a big job, and then they will fight for the title of the founding hero, and the wife and son will be blessed and passed on to future generations.

Zhu Yiluan's troops were determined to enter Guangdong, and the soldiers and horses of the entire former Huguang Capital Division were now rebels in the eyes of the imperial court immediately moved, going south to the south, and going north to the north.

As they made a move, the Jinyi captains who had recently infiltrated Huguang also gathered the military information they had probed one by one into the hands of Liu Shouyou, who personally sat in Huguang regardless of the danger.

According to the beheading plan discussed with Shen Chongming in advance, Liu Shouyou began to formulate an assassination plan based on this information, and the targets were the rebel generals. According to Shen Chongming, that is, the snake is not headless, as long as Zhu Yiluan has no useful generals in his hands, even if he has a million male soldiers, it is just a paper tiger, and it can be broken with a slight hand.

Although it is ungraceful to do such a thing, Liu Shouyou will not stick to these ethereal things, he agrees with this very much, and also has his own ideas. That is to eradicate these rebellious ministers, so as to deter other officials who are willing to speculate and waver, and tell them clearly that this is the end of being enemies of the court.

With this in mind, Liu Shouyou's first assassination target was locked on the body of Zhang Dapao, the political envoy of Huguangbu. Just count the officials at all levels in Huguang, this guy has the highest position and the most power, as long as he dies, the other rebellious ministers will definitely become panicked, and it is inevitable that they will be in chaos.

At this time, Zhang Dapao was also worried about his own safety, since the failure of the arrest of Yu Prison by the Dusi Yamen that day, he did not go out of the second door, just waiting for Zhu Yiluan to lead the army north to follow him to conquer the world.

"It's a bit tricky." Listening to his subordinate lieutenant recount the information from the spying, Liu Shouyou couldn't help but make a difficulty. This robe is shrunk in the shell of a turtle like a turtle, and it really makes me feel at a loss.

"My lord, the guards in that robe mansion are just ordinary martial artists, and the brothers can directly kill that guy." One of his subordinates, Qianhu, said menacingly.

Liu Shouyou glanced at him, "Rice bucket, don't you care about the lives of your brothers?" Unconsciously, Liu Shouyou learned Shen Chongming's style, in the past, he rarely scolded people, and once he got angry, he always started to fight directly.

Qianhu's face was stunned, and he quickly admitted his mistake and said: "The subordinates are reckless, and I ask the adults to tell me about this." ”

Liu Shouyou smiled, and said with a grim face: "Collect some firewood everywhere, let's burn Zhang Dapao's family to death with a big fire, anyway, such a big crime as rebellion is also to exterminate the nine clans, but it will save trouble." ”

The captain present smacked his tongue for a while, ruthless enough, poisonous enough, and sure enough, it was Master Tongzhi. "Go, prepare everything you need, let's do it tonight, even if we can't burn Zhang Dapao, we can bake him out of this turtle shell, but take advantage of the chaos to kill him!"

Jin Yiwei has always acted quickly, and although the current Wuchang City is occupied by the rebels, it still can't stop them from doing things. As the sun entered and the morning dawned, just when the guards of Zhang Dapao's mansion, who had been staring at the two big eyes all night, were a little slack, a fire broke out around the entire mansion.

The fire started suddenly, and the speed of spread was also extremely amazing, and when Zhang Dapao's guards took action, the fire had spread to the inner courtyard, and the women ran out of the door one by one with their bare buttocks, and under the light of the fire, a piece of white flowers was very coveted.

"Quick, put out the fire for this official!" Zhang Dapao, who had a red belly pocket on his head and a bed curtain around his waist, shouted with a distorted face. When he got up at night, he finally got interested, but just after taking off his pajamas, there was such a thing, how could he not be angry.

The guards and servants all fought bravely to be the first, but in fact, they didn't need to be urged by him at all. Unfortunately, the fire was too big, and the well water from the barrel basin alone was of no use to the fire in front of him.

"My lord, the fire is too big, you better get out of here first." The leader of the guards ran over with a sad face, this fire couldn't be stopped at all.

"Rice bucket, the family wealth that this official has accumulated for many years is in this house, how can he leave?!" Zhang Dapao's eyes glared angrily, the mansion didn't care about it, but the more than 200,000 taels of silver and countless treasures were all placed here, wouldn't it be in vain to not extinguish the fire and work hard for so many years?

The leader of the guards is Zhang Dapao's absolute confidant, so naturally there are not so many taboos when it comes to talking. "My lord, it's important to save your life, and besides, real gold is not afraid of fire to refine, just find out afterwards, you better go out and hide for a while."

Zhang Dapao pondered for a while, and this was indeed reasonable, "Okay, you hold on tightly, don't put out the fire, first mobilize all the people to snatch out the gold and silver treasures of the master, and there will be a lot of rewards afterwards." ”

The leader of the guards hurriedly responded, and immediately arranged for a few people to help Zhang Dapao escape, while he dutifully commanded his subordinates to start struggling to rescue Zhang Dacang's treasure.

"My lord, someone has come out." The lieutenant who was lurking nearby looked at more than a dozen people coming out of the gate, and immediately lay down beside Liu Shouyou and said.

Liu Shouyou has good eyes, and although he didn't see the faces of these people clearly when he squinted, he could guess that this was a big man when he squinted at a few people around one of them, and it was very likely that he was the target of his trip, Zhang Dapao.

"Do it!" Under an order, Liu Shouyou took the lead in trotting over with the dagger in his arms, and there was a commotion outside the door of Zhang's mansion, and he didn't notice that he appeared with more than a dozen people.

Getting closer, you can see Zhang Dapao's appearance clearly, looking at this messy appearance, Liu Shouyou couldn't help but pick up the corners of his mouth, and sure enough, he burned this guy out of the turtle shell. Looking at the door again, there are many female dependents, and there are not many short-dressed guards at all, the smile on Liu Shouyou's face is getting stronger, and there is a godsend.

Without thinking about it, the pace under his feet suddenly accelerated, and Liu Shouyou went straight to Zhang Dapao, and the handle of the dagger in his arms was also exposed.

"Traitor Zhang Dapao, take your dog's life!" With a loud shout, Liu Shouyou took two quick steps, and the dagger in his hand went straight to Zhang Dapao's heart.

The guards around Zhang Dapao were anxiously looking at the situation inside through the doorway, and they never thought that someone would come to assassinate Zhang Dapao at this time.

The dagger stabbed into Zhang Dapao's heart so smoothly, it was also a little unexpected for Liu Shouyou, he didn't have time to be happy, and then made up for it twice, with Liu Shou's experience in killing people, the assassin couldn't save his life even if Da Luo Jinxian went down to earth.

"Catch the assassin!" It's not just someone who shouted at this time, but unfortunately it was too late, and before the guards could make a move, Liu Shouyou pulled back, and then turned around and slipped away, and the captains who followed him didn't even have time to take out their blades.

However, when they saw that Master Liu had all gone, everyone fled with them, leaving only Zhang Dapao, whose eyes were unwilling to fall in a pool of blood.

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