Chapter 309: Is There an Inner Ghost?
Zhao Junsheng felt bitter in his heart, according to what the messenger said, the Rouran army that attacked Nantian Fort had tens of thousands of horses, how many of his thousands of horses could survive in the past? But if he doesn't go, he can't really rebel, right?
"There are many arrows on the city wall, Mulan, you must pay attention to safety when you arrive at Nantian Fort, I will bring someone back to meet you early tomorrow morning at the latest!"
"Hmm!"
Half an hour later, Zhao Junsheng took Lu Xuanbo to send Hua Mulan and her three hundred cavalry away.
Answering the camp, Zhao Junsheng summoned Pei Jin, Gao Xiu, Gao Xu, Xue Andu and others to discuss the matter.
"Although this incident has been resolved, we have also received an order to go to Nantian Fort for reinforcements, and the two thousand people who have been replenished to us are going to Nantian Fort with us!"
Zhao Junsheng's words, Gao Xiu and the others all looked solemn.
Xue Andu clenched his fists and asked: "Dutong, since this matter has been settled and the authorities will no longer pursue it, why did they send us to reinforce Nantian Fort?" Why don't you let the fifth princess take someone there? They still can't tolerate us like this, and they will consume us all! ”
Zhao Junsheng sighed: "Is it possible to do what you want?" Really rebellion? If the thousands of men and horses of the fifth princess are sent to Nantian Fort, there will only be a few thousand people left in the Jinling camp, and they are not at ease! Now that they have backed down, we have to take a step back, otherwise this thing will not be finished at all, and this is already the best result! ”
Xue Andu stopped talking.
Zhao Junsheng looked at everyone and said to Gao Xu: "Dongsheng, you take the third battalion and the two thousand men and horses transferred from the fifth princess to bring enough coachmen, horsemen and carriages to the camps of various armies to carry ordnance, grain and grass and other baggage, and you can move as much as you can!" And the war horses, I have borrowed 5,000 horses from the prison army, even if they are war horses and mules and horses, bring them all with me, and go now! ”
"Order!" Gao Xu got up and hugged his fists in agreement, turned around and left.
Zhao Junsheng instructed Pei Jin: "You go and arrange a room, kill pigs and sheep, and let the soldiers eat and drink enough for dinner today!" In addition, some more livestock were slaughtered, the meat was pickled and transported to Nantianbao, and the men were asked to make five more days of dry food, which was distributed to everyone after the soldiers had finished dinner! ”
"Yes, Totong!" Pei Jin got up and walked away quickly.
Zhao Junsheng instructed Gao Xiu and Xue Andu: "The two of you will each lead the team to take away all the grain, grass, military boots and other baggage trucks that can be taken away from the camp!" Gao Xiu, you and the second battalion don't want us to go together today, you as the second batch of wounded soldiers and livestock will be taken away early tomorrow morning, leaving only an empty camp! Aren't they not at ease, let's just leave clean and leave nothing, now they should be relieved, right? ”
The two also stood up and hugged their fists and agreed: "Yes, Dutong!" I'll wait until I'm ready! ”
After the arrangement, Zhao Junsheng felt hungry, remembering that he hadn't eaten breakfast in the morning, so he asked his entourage Guo Yi to get something to eat, and just half of what he had eaten, he saw Li Bao, the captain of the pro-soldiers, walk in and report: "Dutong, Cao Jiao asked to see him, saying that he had something important to report!" ”
"Let him in!"
"Yes!"
Cao Jiao walked in from outside the tent and bowed down and hugged his fists in salute: "I've seen Dutong!" ”
Zhao Junsheng got up and said, "Cao Jiao, what are you doing here?" Is it a vigilante thing? ”
Cao Jiao said: "Dutong, there are two things to report to the subordinates: first, someone just reported that a suspicious person was found, and he was suspected of being soft, and his subordinates have sent someone to target him; Second, when his subordinates heard that Du Tong was going to lead the baggage battalion to reinforce Nantianbao, after Du Tong and the baggage battalion left, where should the subordinates and the security team go? Do you want to follow the capital and go to Nantianbao, or do you stay? If you stay, if you need to report something, whose orders should you follow? ”
Zhao Junsheng touched his chin, thought for a while, and said: "After I lead the baggage camp away, the matter of the security team is up to you to decide, if you can't decide, you can send a fast horse to Nantianbao to report to me, and it will only take half a day to go back and forth, and you can't delay the matter!" If someone else orders you, ignore it! ”
Cao Jiao promised: "Yes, my subordinates understand!" ”
"Lead the way, let's go and see if that suspicious person is a gentle worker!"
Zhao Junsheng and Cao Jiao came to the market outside the camp, at this time the market has just regained its vitality, and there are more people in the market, only an hour ago, there are still no cats or two here, everyone is worried about civil strife in Jinling Daying, they all hid, waiting for the crisis to be lifted, and shops and vendors have opened.
Cao Jiao took Zhao Junsheng to a wonton stall and sat down, and shouted to the stall owner, "Come on two bowls of wontons!" ”
"Okay, you two wait!" As soon as the stall owner agreed, he began to get busy.
Cao Jiao took out two pairs of chopsticks from the chopstick holder, gave Zhao Junsheng a pair, and said to him, "Do you see the jewelry store diagonally opposite?" This store sells some treasures from the Western Regions, and the goods in the store are not very valuable, but they are strange, which are rare in Great Wei. The person we suspect is the owner of this shop! ”
"There is a shopkeeper in the store, there are two guys, one of them came yesterday, the shopkeeper is also the owner, they opened a store here half a year ago, according to the news we got from the surrounding neighbors, the shopkeeper and another guy came together, it is said that they are all from the clouds, we suspect that the three of them are Rouran meticulous, this store is their stronghold here!"
Zhao Junsheng picked up the teapot, poured a cup of tea, took a sip, and asked, "Why do you suspect him?" ”
"The guy in this store went to the inn we monitored yesterday, and also set the room opposite the room where the accident occurred, we did the room in advance to do the tricks, if someone enters, it will destroy us and leave a secret mark, this morning we found that the secret mark was destroyed, so the guy in this store entered our sight. Later, after investigation, we found that the shopkeeper of this store was also very suspicious, and they claimed to be father and son, but they did not look like it at all. Also, the people around him felt that the shopkeeper and his companion were very unsociable, and they were extremely cautious in their words and actions, and rarely talked to other people. ”
Zhao Junsheng nodded after listening and thought for a while.
At this time, the stall owner brought two bowls of wontons, Zhao Junsheng and Cao Jiao each had a bowl, Li Bao and others had eaten it, but they just sat aside.
While eating, Zhao Junsheng observed the curiosity shop diagonally opposite, and asked, "You said that the other guy in his store arrived yesterday?" ”
"That's right, the shopkeeper claims to be his nephew!"
Zhao Junsheng ate a few wontons in a row, "What's the shopkeeper's name?" ”
"The shopkeeper's name is Hou Luo, he is a high-speed car man, his son is called Hou Ling, and his nephew is called Hou Yu!"
Zhao Junsheng finished the wontons in one go, drank the soup well, put down the dishes and chopsticks and said to Cao Jiao: "Mobilize people to come over and prepare to arrest people!" ”
Cao Jiao finished pulling the remaining wontons three times and dividing them by two, put down the dishes and chopsticks and got up to leave.
After a while, Cao Jiao came over with seven or eight people, four of whom were archers, and the other four were all armed with knives.
"All of them are unified, manpower is limited, and only these eight people are empty at the moment!"
Zhao Junsheng shook his head at Li Bao: "Li Bao, you take people to act with Cao Jiao and cooperate with him to arrest people!" Remember, this time Pontus is all going to live! ”
"My subordinates know that they will never make the same mistake as last time!" Cao Jiao's camp sounded, he asked Li Bao and the two of them to go to the back door to guard, leaving two people to block the front door, and he walked into the treasure shop with the remaining six swordsmen and two archers.
When the shopkeeper saw that Cao Jiao was bringing someone to the door, his face changed slightly, and then he stepped forward to greet him with a smile: "Captain Cao, please come quickly, what kind of wind invited you today?" ”
Cao Jiao said: "Call all the guys in your store out, and the official will do population registration!" The things explained above, we who run errands can't do it, otherwise we won't be able to keep our jobs, and if you are offended, please Haihan! ”
Hou Luo saw that Cao Jiao said politely, and he was half relieved, and immediately shouted to the backyard: "Hou Ling, Hou Yu, you come out!" ”
Someone in the backyard agreed, and soon two sturdy young men came out one after the other.
Seeing this, Cao Jiao immediately waved his hand: "Do it!" ”
There was a burst of fighting and roaring in the store, but calm soon returned.
Zhao Junsheng crossed Erlang's leg and killed another bowl of wontons, only then did he see Li Bao standing at the door of the treasure store and waving to him, he put down the dishes and chopsticks, dropped a few copper plates, got up and walked to the treasure shop.
When Zhao Junsheng walked into the store, the shopkeeper and two guys were lying on the ground, all of them were tied up strongly, and they were all beaten to the point that their noses were blue and their faces were swollen.
Zhao Junsheng pointed at them, "Get people to the backyard to be interrogated separately, and have a good grasp of proportion!" Send two people to pretend to be guys to operate here, if you find a suspicious person coming to the door, don't be alarmed first, wait for someone to follow and follow, find a foothold and come back to report! ”
The shopkeeper and the two guys listened to Zhao Junsheng's words, and their faces were shocked.
Half an hour later, Zhao Junsheng heard Cao Jiao's report in the baggage camp.
"All of them, they have all explained, the shopkeeper and the two guys use their real names, and they are indeed the fine works sent by the Rouran people. The fine work that was discovered by us and committed suicide after being discovered before was named Shi Ying, and he, Hou Luo, and Hou Ling were all fine works sent by Princess Rouran Tuzhen half a year ago, but they didn't know each other, and there was no horizontal connection. It wasn't until the arrival of this guy Hou Yu who came yesterday that they learned that the person who died outside the inn a few days ago was their man! ”
"Hou Yu was also sent by Princess Tuzhen, and his mission was to contact Hou Luo and bring Princess Tuzhen's order. Princess Tuzhen asked them to collect the latest movements of the Jinling camp and report it in time, and he brought an eagle for the communication and a message! ”
"What's the news?"
Cao Jiao replied: "There is an inner ghost arranged by Princess Tuzhen in the Jinling camp, and this person's status is not low!" ”
"Oh?"
Zhao Junsheng's brows furrowed, his brain was running rapidly, and the events of the last few days flashed in his mind one by one like a movie.