Luo Cong took the map and looked at it.

Shi Xing continued: "If you want to kill him, I can think of several ways, but if you want to rob him alive, it is basically impossible, if there are more people who enter, it will be exposed, and if there are fewer people who enter, it will be stopped by the guards, once it is exposed, let alone robbing people, we can't save it ourselves." ”

Luo Cong didn't respond, looking at the map intently.

"Commander Luo, can you consider changing the mission, taking out the robbery, and changing it to extermination?" Shi Xing suggested that if it was changed to killing Prince Li Yue, he would be able to think of at least three ways, and he could do it cleanly and not find them.

"No, the order given to us by the imperial court is to capture, not kill. The imperial court gave us such an order, naturally they had their intentions, and if they made their own claims, we could not afford to make any mistakes. Luo Cong looked at the map inch by inch, hoping to find flaws that could be exploited.

The suggestion was resolutely rejected, Shi Xing stopped talking, it was too difficult to capture Prince Li Yue alive, unless he came out and created some opportunities to lure away his guards, but in Thang Long City, there were many people, and even if the guards were transferred, it was impossible to take people away without knowing it. Now that the situation is different, Li Yueren tore his face and began to invade, and the imperial court arranged this task, I am afraid that it is a casual remark, whimsical.

"This is where he lives?" Luo Cong asked, pointing to a mark on the edge of the map.

"Yes, his residence is in the innermost part of the mansion, and his back is against a wall nearly three feet high, and he can't get in or out from the wall, so it's safe for him." Shi Xing explained.

"What's behind the wall?" Luo Cong pointed to the back of Prince Li Yue's residence again.

"Behind is the river beach, and not far away there is a river more than a mile wide."

"How far is the river outside the wall?"

"I haven't looked at this specifically, and it is estimated that it will not exceed a hundred zhang distance."

"I think of a note, you see if you can do it. Since the wall is too high for us to get in and out, if we go around the wall from below, can we go in and bring people out? Luo Cong swiped his finger outside the wall.

Shi Xing was taken aback and asked, "Commander Luo means digging a tunnel to go in?" ”

"Yes, digging tunnels. The soil of the river beach is soft, and it will not be too difficult to excavate, but I don't know what is going on inside the fence and whether it can be dug up. ”

"This is a solution, digging a tunnel one foot deep from the base of the wall, enough to lead to the inner courtyard of the mansion. Once you've captured your target, you'll be able to leave the mansion in a matter of moments. Feasible, totally doable! I'll do everything, dig the tunnel, and ask Zhang Daochang to come out and bring the target out. Shi Xing was excited and took over all the errands.

Luo Cong said: "The people I brought are also used, as you can arrange." In addition, after catching the target, how to leave Li Yue, Yang Jianjun had arranged earlier, he would wait for us on the sea east of Li Yue, so after we succeeded, we had better evacuate from the waterway quickly, and before that, the problem of the ship sailors should also be properly arranged. ”

"Rest assured, there is no problem at all with leaving Li Yue safely. In the past two years, I have formed a cargo fleet in Li Yue, which is to prepare for the evacuation of Li Yue, and now it is just in use. You have a good rest for two days, and I'll arrange it. After speaking, Shi Xing got up, waited for two years, and finally waited for the opportunity to make meritorious contributions, glorify the ancestors, and once again!

"We have limited time, we must complete the task within three days, and all the people I brought will be allocated to you."

"Okay, I'll have everything ready in three days."

After taking Luo Cong, Zhang Liu and others to rest, Shi Xing immediately gathered people and personally led the team to the river beach outside Prince Li Yue's mansion to survey the terrain and find the location.

The beach between the wall and the river is about 100 zhang wide, with dense weeds more than one person high, and some small trees dotted among them.

The three-zhang high wall, which is said to be a wall, is actually part of the city wall, and the entire mansion is built against the tall city wall.

The thickness of the city wall is about one zhang, not only can resist the enemy, but also can resist the flood in the year of the flood, it is not very easy to dig through, but fortunately, the weeds on the river beach can cover the traces, they can rest assured that they can dig boldly.

After some reconnaissance, they determined the location of the tunnel, from where they passed through the city wall and reached a small garden in the courtyard where Prince Li Yue was located.

Shi Xing personally determined the location, and on the same day, he gathered dozens of henchmen, went out of the city with dry food and tools, and immediately started to dig, digging day and night.

Tunnel excavation does not need to be strong and good-looking, three feet wide, and most of the people are tall.

They first dug a tunnel one zhang deep in the direction of the city wall two zhang away from the city wall, and when the depth reached almost one zhang deep, they began to dig forward with all their might.

Because it is on the river beach, the groundwater level is very shallow, and as soon as it is dug under the city wall, the tunnel is seriously waterlogged, and it is difficult to continue digging.

Seeing this, he had to dig another one, and the excavation location and method were also readjusted, digging directly from the city wall to the bottom, digging three feet to the bottom, digging five feet down, and then digging straight into the city wall.

Although there is still stagnant water in the tunnel this time, it is much better than before, only less than half a foot deep, which has little impact on the excavation of the tunnel.

Due to the problem in the middle of the first excavation, a lot of time was wasted by re-excavation, which had a great impact on the progress of the entire tunnel excavation, so Shi Xing had to bring the people brought by Luo Cong out of the city to dig together.

It wasn't until this time that those eight people knew that we were going to do an earth-shattering event when we came to Li Yue, and they all worked extremely hard, competing to dig in the tunnels, and the whole progress improved a lot for a while.

By the afternoon of the third day, the whole tunnel had been dug one foot and five feet deep, and it was thought that it had completely passed through the city wall, so he began to dig upward, and after digging another three feet, he stopped, and all withdrew from the tunnel, and after dark, the last section was dug through.

On the afternoon when the tunnel was about to be dug up, Shi Xing transferred a cargo ship to stop two miles upstream of the river beach and wait, just waiting for the signal to go down the river and come to pick people up.

Before dark, Luo Cong, Zhang Liu and others went out of the city and came to the vicinity of the tunnel to stand by.

Shi Xing told Zhang Liu a few times about the situation in the mansion, but he didn't go in person, I don't know what the specific situation is, and Zhang Liu has to find out on his own after he goes in at night.

Fortunately, the tunnel leads directly to the courtyard where Prince Li Yue stays, and the search range is not large, so Zhang Liu is not too worried.

After it was completely dark, the excavation of the tunnels continued.

Half an hour later, the good news came, the tunnel was dug through!

Everyone withdrew from the tunnel, Zhang Liu took his portable long sword, jumped in, and tread water to smear all the way forward.

After a while, he reached the end of the dark tunnel, and when he looked up, there was a faint light at the entrance of the cave, and it was quiet outside, and no sound could be heard.

Zhang Liu used both hands and feet, quietly climbed out of the hole, looked around, and found that the hole was just among the trees, very hidden.

After observing secretly for a moment, and making sure that there were no sentry guards here, the cat walked out of the bushes.

As soon as you get out of the bushes, the view is much wider, and not far away there is a field of lights, one of which is exceptionally bright, and there is a noise, which should be the target.

Zhang Liu lurked in the garden, and did not act immediately, now is not the best time, at least have to wait until the third watch, most people fall asleep before starting, the certainty of success will be greater.

But he didn't lurk in one place all the time, and every quarter of an hour he would change places and approach the lighted places, so that he could get an idea of the structure of the entire courtyard, and if he succeeded, he could evacuate quickly and safely.

After about an hour, except for the brightest house, which was not approached, all the other places were quietly visited, and there was no shadow of the target.

At the beginning of Ha Jing, when Li Yue's envoy handed over the target to the Great Song Dynasty envoys, Zhang Liu was beside Yang Congyi, so he could naturally see the target's appearance clearly, and the time had not passed long, if he saw him again, of course there would be no problem in recognizing the target.

As long as the information given by Shi Xing is accurate, and the target is in this courtyard, he will definitely find it.

When it was close to the third watch, Zhang Liu saw that the bright house suddenly opened the door, and dozens of men walked out of it, staggering, with women around him, and walked towards the outside of the courtyard.

After a while, a man walked out of the room with the help of two women, and instead of going outside, they walked towards the courtyard next to it.

Zhang Liu couldn't be sure if the man who walked to the other courtyard was the target, and he didn't know if there were still people in the room with the door wide open, but after thinking about it, he decided to take another look, anyway, he couldn't run away when he entered the other courtyard, and he would go to check it out later.

After staring at the same place for about two quarters of an hour, he saw two women coming from a distance, and entered the room, and then the lights in the room went out, and the two women closed the door and left after the lights went out.

Where the goal is, it is already obvious.

But Zhang Liu still didn't rush to act, such a major event needs to be unaware, once the clues are left, in a foreign country, there will be endless troubles.

After another half an hour, the whole courtyard was completely silent, and most of the lights were extinguished.

Zhang Liu moved, and under the cover of dark shadows, he quietly sneaked towards the courtyard where the man entered.

There was no sentry in the courtyard, and he was cautious, walking for a while and stopping for fear of alarming anyone.

After about a quarter of an hour, I finally turned over the courtyard and entered the courtyard, which was unlit, but by the darkness of the night, I could still see a few houses.

There are no shortcuts, only to explore one by one, push open the window, turn inside, light and silent.

Three rooms were searched in a row, but there was no one, and another room was searched, and there was only one woman on the bed.

When he found the fifth room, he suddenly saw three pairs of shoes under the bed, Zhang Liu was relieved, and finally found it.

He stretched out his sword and lifted the curtain open, and saw three men sleeping on the bed, two women and one man.

He didn't think about it, whether they were asleep or not, and quickly struck the three of them by the neck, causing them all to fall into a coma.