Chapter 481: Night Detective

After dark, Fang Xie and the others gathered again.

"General, there are no people in the city!"

Nie Xiaoju said: "At least hundreds of courtyards have been inspected, and I have not seen the people living there, and there are only rebels in Sui County." ”

"I've found out where the rebel general lives."

Mu Xiaoxiao said: "A few people in the city who are good cultivators gathered in the same place, poured their fans in and took a look, and it was determined that it was the residence of the main general of the rebels. This person's cultivation is not high, at most only six grades of cultivation, if it is not for the fear of affecting your plan, the fan can capture people at that time without being noticed. ”

Fang Xie hummed and said, "Eat something first, and then go to meet him in the evening." ”

He untied the bag of dry food and handed it to Mu Xiaoyi, and drank it himself: "I went around the city with the big dog, but I didn't find a place to put the grain and grass, so I could only be in the big camp." It is a little difficult to seize grain and grass, even if we can open the city gate and let the cavalry enter, there are tens of thousands of rebel elites in the city, and if they are twisted together, the losses will be great. ”

He sat down on the clay kang and calculated in his mind how to get the grain and grass.

"Now we must first figure out what is the purpose of Li Yuanshan's deployment of heavy troops in the rear of Xiangcheng. Sui County is 500 miles away from Xiangcheng, and there are still tens of thousands of elites stationed here, and it is difficult to guarantee that there are no soldiers in other places. ”

"Let's rest, I'll go to the rebel guard's house late at night."

Although it is the end of February, the cold night in the northwest is still cold, and people are at a loss. Fortunately, these few of them are all good cultivators, if they were ordinary people in such a dilapidated house, they would only be afraid that they would have been shivering from the cold. In the middle of the night, the north wind finally stopped, and the night sky seemed to be washed through water. The moon was still hiding behind a cloud, but the sky was brilliant.

Fang Xie calculated the time, and estimated that it was already past the unitary hour, he asked Nie Xiaoju to wait outside, and he and Shen Tianfan jumped in from outside the courtyard wall of the guard's house. Shen Tian Fan came once after dark, and Fang Xie followed her and found the location of the guard's study without much effort.

There are secret sentinels in the courtyard, but with the cultivation of the two of them, unless they deliberately expose their whereabouts, it will be difficult to find them with the skills of those secret sentinels.

Fang Xie stepped a little under his feet, and fluttered behind a clump of evergreen cypress trees, and cut his palm like a knife into the neck of a guard guarding outside the study, and the man fell down limply without even snorting. Fang Xie took this person's neck and threw it behind the cypress tree, and then changed the man's armor as quickly as he could, put on a leather helmet and lowered the brim, and he walked out and stood outside the study so blatantly.

Fifteen meters away from him was another guard, but the man kept his face outside, not noticing that his companion had been overturned.

Fang Xie stood at the door of the study and listened, and found that there were at least three people in the room.

Judging from the shadow reflected by the light on the window, the one sitting was obviously the general of the Sui County rebels.

"The Inspector should be here tomorrow."

Someone in the room sighed and said, "King Dingxi has placed us here, and I don't know what the picture is." I can't figure out how to transfer those rabble to the front line, and we stay instead. But there is no explanation for the order, so people can't guess the reason even if they have their heads broken. ”

Another person said: "Why should the general be upset, our soldiers and horses are stationed in Sui County, Shang Huoxi's soldiers and horses are in Lezhen, and the soldiers and horses of ** are in Guan County, and the king of Dingxi has arranged at least 30,000 elites within one hundred and fifty miles of what we know, which is obviously a big plan." King Dingxi didn't say anything, presumably because he was afraid that he would leak some news in advance. We are still far away from Xiangcheng, and the people of the imperial court will not be able to hit here for a while. Now the first trouble is the inspector. ”

The person who spoke before snorted and said, "King Dingxi must have left a large number of men and horses west of Xiangcheng, and they are all elite divisions. Inspectors were sent to inspect all counties and cities without stopping, and the last one had only been gone for less than two months, and the second one was about to arrive. Last time, the man surnamed Zhang took two thousand taels of silver and left, and this time it must be this amount. ”

One said: "Those bastards, taking the military order of the king of Dingxi as a means to collect money." I heard that Shang Huoxi didn't give the silver at the beginning, and the inspector actually wrote a letter directly and sent someone back to Xiangcheng, insisting that Shang Huoxi was derelict in his duties and couldn't bear the responsibility, if it wasn't Shang Huoxi's own uncle, he was Shang Jin, the squire of the military department, but I was afraid that Shang Huoxi would not get a good end. ”

The sitting man sighed: "We laughed at Yin Poshan and the others at the beginning, but we have followed the king of Dingxi for many years but we have not been taken seriously at all, and we have led hundreds of thousands of rabble, but we have actually been excluded. But now that I think about it, those of us who stayed by the side of King Dingxi were not as comfortable as Yin Poshan. At the very least, they don't have a patrol to squeeze them. ”

"The power of the patrol envoy is also too great, so it can be seen that the king of Dingxi has no trust in us. The patrol envoy has the right to transfer troops and horses to change the guard, and has the right to remove the generals of the first army from their military posts, which one dares to offend! ”

"Break the fortune and avoid disaster, just be bitten by a mad dog."

One of them said, "I wish the patrol would meet a horse thief on the way and die a clean death!" ”

Fang Jie, who wanted to go in, hesitated after hearing this, and quietly retreated. He gestured to the Shen Tilt Fan, and the two of them jumped up a tree to watch. After a while, the door of the study opened, and two people came out of the study and walked out while talking in a low voice.

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In the house where he was hiding, the rebel generals who had been captured by Fang Xie looked at the people in front of him with a pale face. He was knocked unconscious from behind on the way home from the general's house, and when he woke up, he was already here. The people in front of him all covered their heads and faces with black scarves, which made him feel a little relieved. He had been a horse thief and knew some of the habits of the Tao. For example, when he used to do business, he would cover his face with a black scarf if he didn't want to kill the captives. If you want to kill, you don't have to hide anything.

"How many of you...... What are the commands. ”

He swallowed hard and lowered his voice as he asked, the tower-like man standing next to him giving him tremendous pressure. He had no doubt that this man could slap himself in the face with just one slap.

"What's your name?"

The thinnest man sat on the clay kang and asked him with a cold look in his eyes.

"Zheng Duobao"

The rebel general hurriedly replied: "Don't worry, if you have anything you want to ask, just ask, I won't shout loudly, just ask a few heroes not to kill me." ”

The thin man nodded: "As long as you answer honestly, we will naturally not embarrass you." We seek money, and we will not kill easily. ”

"Yes, yes, yes"

Zheng Duobao nodded hurriedly.

"How many centaurs are there in this city?"

The thin man asked.

Zheng Duobao hurriedly replied: "A soldier and horses, 12,000 soldiers, 2,000 auxiliary soldiers, plus miscellaneous servants and others, the total is less than 15,000. ”

"Who's the commander?"

"Li Liao, this person is of Li Yuanshan's same clan, but the relationship is not very close."

The thin man hummed and asked, "Our brother has pulled a team, and now there is still a shortage of food and grass." Is there any way you can get some to get out of town? ”

"Huh?"

Zheng Duobao was frightened: "It can't be done, the grain and grass are all in the camp, and no one has the right to call the grain and grass without Li Liao's order." But there are more than 10,000 horses in the city, you daring...... It's too big, too. If you only want money, it is easy to say, I am willing to give away my family property, and I can also tell you that there is a lot of silver in the general's yamen, and there is really no way to get out of the grain and grass. ”

The thin man asked: "I am very curious about something, Li Yuanshan mobilized a large number of people to Xiangcheng, why didn't he transfer you?" ”

"This ...... I really don't know, and even Li Liao doesn't know. ”

"Okay"

The thin man sighed and said, "It seems that you are not cooperative at all, so don't blame us for being ruthless." ”

He stretched out his hand to tear off the black scarf on his face, Zheng Duobao hurriedly lowered his head and didn't dare to look: "Don't don't, I'm telling the truth." There must be many people in Xiangcheng who know why King Dingxi arranged this way, but no one here knows, oh...... The Inspector should know. ”

"Who's the Inspector?"

"It's not a fixed person, every once in a while, Xiangcheng will send people to inspect the garrisons of each county, and the right is very great, and the patrol envoy even has the right to take down the commander of the army first and then report to the king of Dingxi. It is said that there were seven or eight people in total, and each of them went back and forth between a dozen or so prefectures, and then these people would be exchanged, so no one knew who would come next. ”

"You're saying that there are garrisons in every county west of Xiangcheng?"

The thin man snorted and scolded: "Fuck, Lao Tzu thought that Li Yuanshan had emptied all his troops, so he pulled the team out and walked around, his mother's original was hidden in the counties, it seems that Lao Tzu has to go back as soon as possible." Don't end up stealing the chicken and getting bitten by a weasel. ”

"Right"

Zheng Duobao hurriedly said: "As far as I know, there are garrisons in each county and they are still elite people, so it's better for you not to move around." A few heroes, I can say whatever I know, when will you let me go back. ”

"It's not hard for you."

The thin man said, "Last question, when did that patrol envoy come to you?" ”

"It's coming, it is estimated that it will definitely arrive before nightfall tomorrow, and it will not be more than noon the day after tomorrow at the latest. I heard that the patrol envoy had arrived in Guan County, and it was only more than a hundred miles away from here, and the patrol envoy was carrying three hundred elite horses, which was very fast. ”

The thin man snorted and said, "Goodbye." ”

"Goodbye, goodbye"

Zheng Duobao stood up and wanted to turn around and run. He didn't dare to look at those people, for fear of causing the other party to kill.

"Seeing that you speak so happily, I will give you some benefits."

The thin man suddenly stopped him and asked, "Are there any generals in the army who have had a holiday with you?" Say the name, and we'll go to his house again tonight for a sale. ”

Zheng Duobao was stunned for a moment, and then said cautiously: "Yes...... Jiang Yunlai, that guy has been targeting me! ”

"Lead the way"

The thin man smiled: "If you find more money from his house tonight, you will not die." ”

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That night, the rebel general Zheng Duobao somehow sneaked into Jiang Yunlai's house and assassinated Jiang Yunlai, and died of blood loss due to serious injuries on the way to escape. Of course, Li Liao, the commander of the rebel army, would not think that there was no hidden meaning in this matter, and immediately ordered to find out what was going on!

Just when it was almost dawn, Li Liao was also killed.

And it wasn't until dawn that people were horrified to find that six or seven generals had been assassinated overnight. Of the generals above the fifth grade, only one is still alive.