Zhang Peng, the head of the archery master of the Linyi Praetorian Guard, entered the barracks, and the guards at the gate saw him saluting from afar. Zhang Peng nodded with a smile and returned the salute and stepped into the barracks.

In the camp of the forbidden army, the soldiers are obviously not as good as before.

There are 5,000 kings in the capital of Linyi, but now the situation in the north is critical, and one after another soldiers and horses are mobilized to the north, but they still can't maintain the situation, Fan Fanzhi can only send his elite guards to the north again and again, and now, there are only 2,000 guards left in the capital.

After Zhang Peng entered the camp, he looked around here and there, greeting acquaintances from time to time as if joking.

But when they talked and laughed, the eyes had another meaning.

Secret news was quietly transmitted, and almost all the Han officers in the forbidden army got the news.

"Tonight?"

"Well, take advantage of the night to launch a surprise attack, and then the Qin Shang gang in the city will make the first move to create chaos in the city, and then the king will definitely summon the Praetorian Guards to martial law, and then we will gather the righteous people who have been contacted, and we will kill him directly to the palace, and be sure to kill him by surprise and control the king."

"Where's the city gate?"

Zhang Peng said, "The city gate is handed over to the merchant gang, they have many connections and have a wide range of connections, and it is actually easier for us to approach and control the city gate. As soon as the city gate is opened, Li Shimin outside the city will bring the pirates in. ”

The land of Linyi is not small, but the territory is narrow.

Since the rebellion of the district company to the present, Linyi has gone through four dynasties, during which many small countries have also been destroyed, and it has continued to the south, forming a very narrow territory.

Lion City as a foreign trade port and the capital, very prosperous, the population is also large, but because there are a large number of merchants, so that the city management of Linyi City is much worse, there are not only the Qin merchants gathered in the Chinese community, there are also Arab settlements, there are Funan Zhenla people, there are Persian settlements, etc.

For this day, the Qin people have been planning for a long time.

Many weapons have been distributed to many Qin people through various channels, and even among the Praetorian Guards, many reliable righteous soldiers have also been developed, not only those Sui troops left behind back then, but also many Zhancheng forbidden troops.

At midnight.

Dark clouds blocked the sky, and there was not a single glimmer of moonlight and starlight.

In the silent Lion City of Linyipu, there was a sudden fire that ignited, at first it was just one fire, and soon several fires broke out.

The light of the fire alarmed people in the vicinity, and many people were awakened from their sleep as the fire grew bigger and bigger, and the fire started more and more.

In the forbidden barracks.

Zhang Peng arrived and reported to the chief general on duty in the camp, "There are fires in many places outside the city, and it is reported that the Persian merchants and the Arab merchants have started to fight, and the Tianzhu merchants are setting fires, and the Roman merchants have also joined them." ”

The general looked confused.

"The Arab merchants were at odds with the Persian merchants, this is what I already knew, but how did the Tianzhu merchants take advantage of the fire to rob, and the Roman merchants also joined in the fun?"

Due to the chaos in Egypt and the years of war between Byzantium and Persia, the traditional trade route of the Red Sea Nile in the Persian Gulf was impassable, and many merchants switched to the safer trade route, which was the land route through the Arabian Peninsula.

From the Persian Gulf in the east to the Red Sea in the west, to Syria in the north, and to Yemen in the south, the original nomadic Arab tribes on the Arabian Peninsula began to become strong, and the commercial city of Mecca also prospered.

By this time, the Persian Sassanids had begun to weaken in the Hundred Years' War with Rome, and there were constant conflicts between Persia and Arabia, and even merchants were often hostile to each other.

The general thought it was just a very ordinary trifle.

But when I heard that even Tianzhu and the Romans were involved, I felt that something was wrong.

"What about the Chinese merchants, those Qin merchants, have they been involved?" The foreign merchants in the city of Linyi are the most powerful among the Chinese merchants, and the Chinese merchants are usually divided into several major merchant gangs to fight each other, but even if there is a random merchant gang among the Chinese merchants, it is far more powerful than the merchants in Arabia, Persia, Tianzhu and other places.

If they get involved, it's a mess.

"Hurry up and put an end to the chaos!"

The general gave the order and personally led the troops to quell the chaos.

Zhang Peng retreated and returned to his camp, but instead of taking his soldiers with the general to quell the merchant rebellion, on the contrary, he had already tied strips of white cloth on his forehead and arms at some point.

One by one, the forbidden soldiers with white cloth strips left with him, and some of the forbidden soldiers watched them leave with white cloth strips inexplicably.

'We have other tasks!' These were the words that Zhang Peng told them, and he quickly left the camp with his reliable men, joined the white cloth strips brought by the other brothers outside the camp, and then went straight to the palace.

City.

The warehouses and shops of Arab and Persian merchants were on fire one after another, and then the warehouses and shops of Tianzhu merchants and Byzantine merchants were also on fire.

Angry merchants ran into the streets, shouting for fire and cursing.

When they met other neighboring Hu merchants, the two sides, who had already had a holiday, immediately couldn't help but fight together.

Fire broke out in the city.

This fire is like an agreed signal.

One by one, the Qin merchants all wore red foreheads on their foreheads, white towels on their arms, and rushed out of their homes and shops with various weapons, and rushed directly towards the city gate.

Outside the city.

On the inland river, Li Shimin's fleet had quietly gone up the river and reached the outside of the city.

He smiled as he looked at the firelight.

He personally led thirteen ships of the Sunset Pirates, with 800 pirates on board, and around his fleet, there were more than 1,500 bandits and bandits, large and small, who had been recruited from all over the world.

More than 2,000 pirates look like a rabble.

But Li Shimin believed that even with these rabble, he would still take the capital of Linyi tonight.

Drawing his sword out of the sheath, Li Shimin's face was full of smiles.

"Lion City is just ahead, there are hundreds of thousands of catties of gold there, countless silver, everyone rush!"

Several outer gates of Linyi City were caught in a melee at this time.

The soldiers guarding the gate never expected that they would suddenly encounter a surprise attack by a large group of Qin merchants tonight.

In the scuffle, the east gate was the first to open.

Most of the guards at the city gate here have long been secretly bought by Qin Shang.

Torches swaying.

Zhang Baozai followed behind Cui Liulang, wearing a pair of Persian chain mail, a rattan card in one hand, an Arab scimitar in the other, and dozens of Qin merchants from the Central Plains Merchant Gang around the two.

When he turned around, he saw only in the direction of the palace, and there was also a fire.

"That's my grandfather, they've already entered the palace!"

Cui Liulang cut down a Linyi defender with a knife, and wiped the blood splashed on his face, "Look, the firelight in these four places, it's jubilant fireworks, and we are done!" ”

Under the city, Li Shimin finally led a large group of pirates to kill.

With the support of the brigade of pirates, Li Shimin finally stepped into Linyi City with a knife.

"Lin Yi, I'm coming! I'll see you! I conquer! Li Shimin shouted!