Chapter 48: Assassination
At this moment, it can be said that there is chaos in Dingzhou City. After Liu Heimin captured the city, he killed the governor, plundered the property in the city, and indulged the soldiers. The city was almost destroyed.
However, this is just the beginning.
Liu Heimin originally wanted to leave Dingzhou and attack the next city after plundering. However, what he didn't expect was that not long after he captured Dingzhou, Cao Zhan and Dong Kangmai, the former old ministers, gathered more than 10,000 people to respond in Cangzhou.
As a result, Liu Heimin had no choice but to stay in Dingzhou again, so that Cangzhou, where Cao Zhan and Dong Kangmai were located, could be connected. If you leave, Dingzhou is occupied by **, then Cangzhou will become an isolated city.
Liu Heimin, who stayed in Dingzhou, used force to recruit the strong men of the whole city into the army, and gathered 40,000 people. Leaving 10,000 men under the command of his younger brother Liu Shishan, he sat outside Dingzhou, and went southwest with 30,000 horses, trying to capture Yangquan.
At this time, **30,000 horses are slowly coming to the northwest, and the target is Dingzhou.
After Zhang Yunwen and others infiltrated Dingzhou, they found an abandoned house, replaced their black clothes and armor with ordinary linen clothes, and hid their blades tightly in their clothes. Then he shrank slightly out of the door, and suddenly he looked like an aboriginal resident.
As a matter of common sense, Scouts who infiltrate a city can only be of great use if they are attacking a city. Therefore, the early infiltration of this group of people is almost useless except for setting fires and killing people.
However, Zhang Yunwen's idea was to assassinate Liu Shishan first, bring back Liu Heimin, and then directly deal with him when he entered the city.
Of course, this is still a bit difficult. Let's not talk about the assassination of Liu Shishan, will Liu Heimin worry about this younger brother and come back, even if Liu Heimin comes back, he will kill him in broad daylight, but how to get out?
Thinking of this, Zhang Yunwen suddenly felt that he had made a mistake, and he knew that he should have left one person as a communication soldier and contacted Li Daoxuan immediately.
But after thinking about it, will there be a stronghold of the Investigation Institute in Dingzhou?
So I walked in Dingzhou City, my eyes were like eagles, looking at every part of the city, trying to find a special sign.
Finally, at the root of an old willow tree, I found a pattern that seemed to be carved out casually.
With a slight smile, he turned and walked north.
After a few ruins, you will come to an open field. I saw a pot set up here, and water was boiling in it. Melancholy old people, women, and children gathered here.
Zhang Yunwen slowly walked to a pot and sat down. The people around him looked at him indifferently, and then turned their gaze elsewhere.
"It's so hot!" Zhang Yunwen glanced at everyone and found a middle-aged man staring at him with twinkle eyes. So he got up and sat down next to the middle-aged man.
"yes, it's hot!" The middle-aged man answered.
"Have you ever heard of a poem called 'Yanshan Snowflakes are as big as a seat'! It's cool to listen to! ”
"Hehe, 'piece by piece blowing off Xuanyuan Terrace'! That's true, it's cool enough! ”
"It seems that my brother is really my confidant! Come, talk over there! ”
"Good!"
The two got up and went to a secluded place.
"My subordinates have seen the dean!" The middle-aged man bowed.
"No need to be polite! You can tell me about the current situation in Dingzhou City! Zhang Yunwen signaled that there was no need to be polite.
"The current Dingzhou city is dominated by Liu Shishan. Liu Shishan lived in a wealthy merchant's mansion in the south of the city, surrounded by nearly 300 guards. And the 10,000 troops defending the city were 3,000 in the barracks in the city, 500 on the city walls, and 6,500 troops outside the city. Garrisoned in a large military camp west of the city. The middle-aged man hurriedly said what he knew, "And now that the people's livelihood in the city is withering, Li Min Si'an, I hope that my army will recover this place!" ”
Zhang Yunwen was silent for a moment and asked the middle-aged man: "Can you deliver the message in the direction of Texas?" ”
The middle-aged man nodded: "Since the adults have promoted carrier pigeons, this thing can be delivered quickly and without being discovered!" ”
"Good! You immediately send a message to the Texas side, and ask the Texas Investigation Institute to contact Li Daoxuan and Manager Li as soon as possible, telling him that within ten days, Dingzhou will definitely be in chaos, and ask him to move in the direction of Dingzhou quickly! ”
The middle-aged man said "snort" excitedly, and then looked at Zhang Yunwen with enthusiasm.
Zhang Yunwen nodded, but asked him to go back first, while he walked and thought about it.
Three hundred guards, quite a lot. It seems that it is still a little difficult to assassinate Liu Shishan.
When they arrived at the appointed meeting place, the soldiers of the reconnaissance battalion were already there.
"Is the map ready?"
I saw that each of the more than 40 people took out a piece of paper, on which were painted with crooked patterns with blackened wooden sticks.
"This is the barracks in the city!"
"This is the house where Liu Shishan lives!"
"Well, here is the deployment map of the patrol soldiers at the head of the city!"
"Here is the distribution of dead ends in Dingzhou City!"
……
Zhang Yunwen didn't look at these drawings either: "Have you memorized these in your mind?" ”
"Yes!"
"Okay, now each lurks and looks for a way out of the city! Come back in the evening! ”
"Yes!"
Suddenly, more than forty people disappeared into the rubble.
Zhang Yunwen followed the guidance of the investigation institute and the map of the soldiers to find the house where Liu Shishan lived.
This is a very large mansion, with four entrances and four exits, and the red door is high-walled. The whole house was blocked by a one-foot high wall. Through the hollow, the occasional guard can be seen inside.
It's very tight. This is what Zhang Yunwen thinks in his heart.
Squatting in a hidden ruin outside the house, quietly observing.
This squatting point is three days.
In three days, the soldiers of the reconnaissance battalion found out several ways to leave the city secretly, and Zhang Yunwen also preliminarily figured out the rules of Liu Shishan's activities.
Every morning, he would go to the barracks inside and outside the city to inspect it, and then return to the house and spend all day drinking until the next day. Of course, if something big happened in the city, he would definitely come forward.
Zhang Yunwen made up his mind and decided to do it when he went out of the city to inspect the military camp in the west of the city.
Telling those soldiers about this decision, the soldiers who had already begun to relax suddenly became enthusiastic.
Ma Wangshan stroked the four-stone big bow in his hand with a deep face; "One arrow, I only need one arrow!"
This pretended to be deep was suddenly spurned by another sharpshooter, Wu Peng.
In the end, Zhang Yunwen touched the grenade on his waist, forget it, let's let them go!
As a result, the plan to assassinate Liu Shishan when he left the city slowly took shape under the muttering of the two archers.
And that night, with the help of Liu Cheng at the head of the city, the two changed into the clothes and armor of Liu Heimin's army and became the sergeants guarding the city.
On the second day, when the sun was three poles, Liu Shishan slowly got up from the comfortable nest. These two little goblins are so fucking pestering, they almost made Lao Tzu unable to get up! Liu Shishan was dressed under the service of the maid, and at the same time reminisced about last night's ecstasy.
With a bowl of bird's nest white fungus porridge, he beckoned the soldiers around him, except for the mansion.
However, what he didn't know was that on his way, there were more than 40 people, including Zhang Yunwen, and every other way, there was a bamboo pole, which could be seen from a distance. When Liu Shishan and his soldiers walked past the bamboo pole, one of them would carefully put the bamboo pole down.
This kind of signal tree, which is said to have been used in the War of Resistance Against Japan, was used here by Zhang Yunwen, and the effect is also very good.
Liu Shishan and his personal soldiers had not yet noticed the abnormality around them, and they were still slowly patrolling according to the previous route.
First, he summoned the captain in the barracks in the city, ordered a mao, and then took a cursory look at the barracks. These soldiers were not Liu Heimin's personal soldiers, but were recruited when Dingzhou drove the people into soldiers. The real elite soldiers are in the camp west of the city.
The sun was gradually approaching noon, and Liu Shishan also went to the camp in the west of the city.
Seeing that he was about to reach the city gate, Liu Shishan suddenly felt that something was wrong. When I turned around, I just saw an upright bamboo pole falling.
Liu Shishan immediately stopped the horse and looked around vigilantly. Years of experience in the war have given him a keen instinct for danger.
Just as his gaze swept to the city gate, his pupils dilated.
I saw two soldiers draw their big bows, and the two slender feathered arrows seemed to have become the horn of death.
It was as if I heard the sound of a bowstring vibrating.
The two feathered arrows shot away like meteors.
The guards beside Liu Shishan didn't have time to react at all, and saw two feather arrows running through Liu Shishan's forehead and throat.