Chapter VII: Countering the Scheme

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Suddenly, a man wearing a black veil and a civilian official uniform appeared in the city and shouted to the outside of the city: "Presumptuous, how dare you make such a noise here? Could it be that if you are a person under the account of the superintendent, the official will not dare to punish you? ”

This person pretending to be a pacification official looked up and saw that it was a civil official, and immediately guessed that this person must be the person in charge of Fengxiang City, and he was not sure that he was in charge, although he scolded the dog official in his heart, but on the surface, he still pretended not to make a mistake, and hurriedly hugged his fists and said: "Dare to ask who the adult is?" ”

"This official is Li Bingcheng, the magistrate of Fengxiang County!" The civil servant, who was standing on the tower, replied loudly.

"It turned out to be Lord Li, offended! The little one doesn't know that Lord Li is here, and he was offended by what he said just now, but the little one is really helpless, after all, there is a life in the next place, and the Inspector ordered me to escort these people back to their hometowns, passing through here, and need to get food here, and I hope that Lord Li will not delay, so as not to let these chaotic people try to cause trouble, once something happens, I am afraid that even the adults will be to blame! I also hope that the adults will quickly send food for these people to eat, and then they will leave early! This pretending pacification officer is also a clever person, pretending to be respectful, and said to Li Bingcheng in the city with his fists.

Li Bingcheng pretended to be embarrassed and said to the city: "I'm afraid it won't work!" Recently, there have been a lot of local bandits, and the ground is not quiet, although what you said is good, but the official does not dare to be careless, after all, these people outside the city are just subdued people, if the official opens the city gate without permission, once it is taken advantage of, then the county will immediately be ruined, and the official will be guilty!

Therefore, the official did not dare to open the city gate easily! However, the official also knows the difficulty of what you are waiting for, and he also knows that this matter is very important, so let's bring some people, and the official will let you put down the hanging basket and let you wait to sit in the hanging basket to enter the city, and after ordering all the food, you can carry the food out of the city, so that it is not wrong, if you can, you will bring people up, if not, then the official can only focus on defending the city! Even if the overseer blames him another day, this official is not afraid that he will not be able to explain! ”

Li Bingcheng's words were heard clearly by many people standing in the city, and many people involuntarily turned their eyes to Li Zicheng's location, and Li Zicheng secretly scolded, "The dog official is really cunning!" But he didn't have a choice, it seemed that it was impossible to easily deceive Feng Xiang's city gate this time.

Li Zicheng had all kinds of thoughts in his mind, and immediately made up his mind, secretly called a subordinate named Tian Hu over, and whispered to him, Tian Hu nodded, and immediately found more than thirty people in the crowd, asked them to hide the short knife under the clothes behind their backs, strode out of the crowd, and whispered a few words to the pretending pacification officer.

"Since Lord Li said so, it is understandable that the small ones are so small, after all, there are so many displaced people outside the city, it is understandable that Lord Li is not at ease, and the small ones are not embarrassed by Lord Li, since this is the case, the small ones will bring some people to the city to receive food! The small one picked out thirty-five people to go to the city with him, I don't know what the adults wanted? The pretending pacification officer raised his head and shouted to Li Bingcheng on the city tower.

Li Bingcheng looked at the thirty or so people who stood up, and a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth, but he still replied: "Of course you can, it's best to do this, everyone is not embarrassed!" Come on, take down the hanging basket, and pull these people up! ”

After a while, more than a dozen hanging baskets were lowered from the city wall, and the "Liu Zongqi" sat in a hanging basket with his head, and then these people led by Tian Hu also sat in the hanging basket, and the officers and soldiers guarding the city shouted one after another, dragged them up, and then put down the hanging basket, and pulled the rest of the people on the city wall one by one.

Li Zicheng watched the movement on the city wall nervously, he estimated, the number of officers and soldiers guarding the city here is not much, Tian Hu is a fierce general, this time the selection of more than 30 people to the city are all good hands, as long as the officers and soldiers in the city are not well prepared, after they enter the city, suddenly attack, more than 30 people can completely control the city gate, as long as these people take a moment to open the city gate, then he can lead the crowd to rush up and rush into the city gate, and then Feng Xiang will naturally become his bag.

Although Li Zicheng's abacus clanged, he didn't expect that everything he did had already been seen through by Li Bingcheng in the city.

After Tian Hu led people to climb the city wall, he looked around, and suddenly felt that something was not right, the dog officer who should have come to greet them, when he saw that they had all landed in the city, he suddenly retreated behind the officers and soldiers, and the officers and soldiers on the city wall all looked at them with bad eyes, and the officers and soldiers on both sides of the city wall were also surrounding them with swords, guns, bows and crossbows.

Tian Hu glared and shouted, "What does this mean?" Why don't you send food! But so ......"

"Shut up! What do you want to do when you are going to the city with hidden weapons? You're a bunch of bandits, and you deserve to be killed! I actually want to deceive the official! Come on, take down these damn bandits to the official, and those who dare to resist will be killed! Li Bingcheng, who was hiding behind the officers and soldiers, suddenly burst into a loud shout, interrupted Tian Hu's words, and ordered Tian Hu and his party to be taken down.

Tian Hu realized at this time that the other party should have seen through their identities, and secretly screamed in his heart, so he didn't dare to hesitate, reached out and took out the hidden short knife from under the clothes behind his back and shouted: "Brothers, do it!" ”

As soon as his words fell, the rest of his subordinates who followed him to the city were also taken aback, and hurriedly drew their knives from behind, trying to pounce on them and fight with the officers and soldiers.

The officers and soldiers on He Naicheng had already made preparations, and as soon as they launched here, a group of crossbowmen who surrounded them immediately aimed their bows and crossbows at them, and they opened their bows and arrows, and for a while, the arrows flew sideways and shot into the crowd of Tian Hu and his party.

Tian Hu and their men were all very fierce, but at such a close distance were shot by the officers and soldiers, and they had no chance to fight back, so they were hit by arrows on the spot, scolding and screaming and falling to the ground.

Poor Tian Hu, he has been following Li Zicheng to fight in the south and north for several years, and his kung fu is quite good, but in such a situation, the archers of the officers and soldiers have already stared at him, the leader, and concentrated on throwing arrows at him, even if he gave birth to three heads and six arms, he couldn't stop such a dense rain of arrows, and he only resisted a little, knocked out two arrows that shot at him, and his whole body was instantly shot into several arrows, and he staggered and knelt on one knee on the city wall.

"Dog officer! I won't let you go! I'm going to kill you! Tian Hu cursed, struggled to stand up, and pounced on Li Bingcheng, who was hiding behind the crowd, but as soon as he stood up, a group of officers and soldiers armed with knives and guns swarmed up, surrounded the few remaining of them, raised their knives and guns, and killed them.

Tian Hu had no chance to resist at all, so he was stabbed into his body by several spears at the same time, pierced him a few times, squirted a mouthful of blood, and his body slowly softened, and the short knife in his hand fell to the ground with a bang, and then looked at the people who followed him, and they were all stabbed to the ground at this time, including the person who pretended to be a pacification officer, who was also hit by several arrows, and was slashed on the shoulder by the officers and soldiers, and fell in a pool of blood.

Li Zicheng led the crowd to wait outside the city, expecting Tian Hu to lead people to control the city gate, but when they saw Tian Hu and his party ascend the city, the city was suddenly in chaos, and then the shouting shook the sky, and the angry scolding and screams spread to the city.

Li Zicheng's face changed and he shouted, "It's not good! Let's be a dog official! ”

As soon as Li Zicheng's words fell, several artillery pieces in the city suddenly erupted into clusters of flames, rising a cloud of gunsmoke, and the sound of rolling cannons suddenly spread all over the four directions, and several shells immediately fell into the crowd of Li Zicheng's subordinates outside the city, and immediately opened several blood paths in the crowd, and the broken flesh and blood of the person who was shot rose into the air, and pieces of flesh and blood splashed out everywhere.

Immediately after that, rows of officers and soldiers who had already been prepared and crossbowmen of the village bravely stood at the battlement, and they all opened the strings of arrows and shot fiercely at the city, and fire guns and bird guns also began to sound at the same time, and the arrows and cannons fell into the crowd of Li Zicheng's troops outside the city, raising clouds of blood mist.

Li Zicheng and his men were caught off guard, and immediately suffered a big loss, dozens of people fell in an instant, and the rest of them hurriedly retreated, and were driven away from the city wall in a chaotic manner, and retreated hundreds of steps outside the city, while dozens of corpses were left behind under the city, and a few wounded people were lying in pools of blood screaming loudly.

Looking at the city in a short time, dozens of spears were erected, and the tip of each spear was stuck with a bloody human head, not a bystander, it was the head of Tian Hu and other thirty-six people who were sent by Li Zicheng to seize the door, and their headless corpses were lifted up by the officers and soldiers, thrown directly from the city wall, and fell heavily on the solid ground under the city wall.

"Damn the dog officer, he actually deceived us! Pass the order down, forcibly attack the city for me, and take this city to avenge Brother Tian! Li Zicheng was embarrassed and retreated from the city wall under the protection of Li Guo and others, and stood outside the city shouting loudly to order the whole team to storm Fengxiang County.

For a while, the shouting and killing outside the north gate of Fengxiang County shook the sky, and the sound of cannons kept ringing, and the two sides started a fight, and the rebels also took out the hidden bows and ballistas, and set up fire on the city wall.

He Nai Li Zicheng came to Fengxiang County this time, and his original plan was to deceive the city gate and then take the county seat, but he didn't prepare any siege equipment at all, so even if he attacked the city, he could only temporarily piece together some simple equipment, which could not take advantage of half of the price at all.

Even if Li Zicheng led the troops to be numerous, but at this time the officers and soldiers were condescending, completely occupying the advantage of geographical advantages, Li Zicheng could not attack the city wall at all, but it was not long before he paid a heavy price for casualties, the morale of the righteous army also fell a lot, especially some new soldiers who had just joined the gang, did not dare to step forward at all, Li Zicheng launched three strong attacks in a row, but it had no effect, each time was beaten back by the officers and soldiers who were waiting in the city, and they failed to stick to the side of the city wall, and had to temporarily retreat.

No matter how angry Li Zicheng is, but this time their plans to come to Fengxiang County have been bankrupt, looking at Li Zicheng who was angry and thunderous, Gu Junen, who came with the army, slowly walked to Li Zicheng's side, and said to Li Zicheng: "The general must not lose his calm because of anger, Gu thinks that it is impossible to continue the assault now, I did not bring siege equipment when I came, and the army has just experienced a defeat in the carriage gorge, and the army is unstable, if it continues to attack here, it is bound to suffer heavy losses, and I hope the general will think twice. Don't be angry! Let the brethren die again in vain! ”

Li Zicheng gradually calmed down at this time, he was angry that this time not only did not deceive the opponent, but fell into the opponent's big dang, but he gave the heads of Tian Hu and more than 30 good hands to the officers and soldiers in vain, so he lost his calm just now and ordered a strong attack on Fengxiang County.

After figuring this out, Li Zicheng sighed heavily, nodded and said, "What Mr. said is very true, it is true that if you go on like this, you will indeed not be able to capture Fengxiang County!" So from the gentleman's point of view, what should we do now? ”

After Gu Junen thought for a while, he said to Li Zicheng: "Gu came here with the general this time, and along the way, I heard from the newly recruited soldiers that there was a pole in the Huangyang County of Fengxiang Mansion recently, known as the Xingtian Army, which is very powerful.

Since our army is short of food now, you might as well go to Huangyang County and get in touch with the Heavenly Army, maybe you can get some help from them! If it goes well, in the name of the general and the king of Chuang, maybe they will still submit to the general, even if they refuse to put themselves under the general's account, it is expected that in the name of the general and the king of Chuang, they will not sit idly by!

Even if the matter is so bad that they are unwilling to give us some grain, then with our troops, we can sweep away the big households in the area of Huangyang, and we can still get a lot of grain for our army! ”