With Shan Tinggui and Wei Dingguo being sent to the capital, the officers and soldiers of Lingzhou City underwent a major reshuffle, among which the most influential were the original most popular fire camp and water camp. They were dismantled into pieces by Zhang Taishou, and suddenly changed from the special forces that everyone envied to the cold-eyed road goods.

Peng Qichang was originally the head of the fire camp and was deeply trusted by Wei Dingguo, but because of this, he was greatly suppressed in the process of this reshuffle. These days, he is holding back the evil fire in his belly, but he has nowhere to vent, so he can only go to the tavern in front of the barracks every day to borrow wine to kill his sorrows.

In the evening of this day, Peng Qichang came to this tavern again as usual after leaving duty. He ordered two dishes, beat two dimes of wine, and sat in the corner of the lobby and drank to himself.

"Peng Du is the first person to drink stuffy wine here, how can it be fun, why don't you invite the poor road to drink two cups together."

At this moment, an abrupt voice sounded, and Peng Qichang looked up, and there was already a Taoist priest sitting on the opposite side. He was stunned for a moment, and then said coldly:

"I don't have this spare time, leave quickly!"

"It's all in a hurry!"

The Taoist priest smiled, but he didn't care, only to see him take out an envelope from his arms, put it in front of Peng Qichang, and said:

"Poor Dao Gongsun Sheng was entrusted by General Wei to come and send a letter to Dutou."

"General Wei! That General Wei! ”

Peng Qichang was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then asked with wide eyes and surprise.

"It's all up to you to believe in yourself." The Taoist priest said calmly.

When Peng Qichang saw this, he no longer hesitated, and immediately took out the letter and looked at it carefully, and after a while, he put down the letter and asked in disbelief:

"Is what the letter says true?"

"Dutou can't recognize General Wei's handwriting?"

"I naturally admit it, but it was too sudden, and I can't believe it."

"General Wei probably doesn't believe it, but he has another explanation."

The Taoist priest took out another letter, Peng Qichang took it and read it, it turned out to be the list of firearms and combat methods of the fire camp, these two things are the secrets of the fire camp, and not many people know about it, at that time he had no doubts, and immediately stood up and saluted and said:

"The five hundred brothers of the fire camp of the Chang Dynasty, thank you for the grace of the Taoist chief to the regimental training envoy, I will obey General Wei's orders, and all the people below will listen to the orders of the Taoist chief."

"The rescue of the two generals Wei and Shan was planned by the ancient petty officials, and the poor road was just a messenger who ran errands. Dare to ask Peng Dutou, how many brothers can be trusted in the fire camp and water camp, and how many people can be contacted in the capital head? ”

"The brothers in the camp are all humiliated now, as long as the regimental training can come back, and no one listens to him, I will contact him tonight, and reply to the Taoist chief tomorrow, the encounter on the other side of the water camp is similar, I have the best head with their Jiang Dutou, go to probe the breath first."

"That's best, so it's convenient to meet here tomorrow afternoon."

Gongsun Sheng saw that Peng Qichang had answered, made an appointment with him to meet, and went by himself.

At noon the next day, Peng Qichang took the head of Shuiying called Jiang Desheng to the tavern to meet Gongsun Sheng, and they all said that the brothers had been contacted, and they were all happy, just waiting for an order. Gongsun Sheng saw that things were going well, so he explained in detail the plan that had been agreed upon.

Subsequently, Shi Qian infiltrated the Wei and Shan families successively, delivered two letters to their respective families, and made corresponding explanations, and the two families were naturally very excited.

At the end of the afternoon, when the spring sleepiness was at its thickest, at the west gate of Lingzhou City, a group of soldiers on duty were drowsy and yawning. At this time, Peng Qichang passed by the city gate with seven or eight soldiers.

"General Peng, where are you going?" At this time, one of the foot soldiers guarding the city gate happened to see it, and immediately opened his mouth and shouted.

"We're ordered to patrol the market." Peng Qichang hurriedly stopped, ran over and nodded back.

Seeing this, the head of the capital was very proud, and he couldn't imagine that the head of the upper camp, who was high on weekdays, now saw that his guard of the city gate was also low, so he arrogantly ordered:

"The head of Pontus is tired today, so you will be on duty at the city gate for a while."

"I'm afraid it's not appropriate for us to be ordered to patrol."

"Now that the city is too peaceful, patrol a bird, stay here first, and then let you go when the master relaxes his senses."

Seeing that Peng Qichang and the others did not dare to contradict, the head became more and more arrogant, forced a few people to go over to guard the city gate, and took his subordinates back to the barracks to sleep.

Peng Qichang and others had no choice but to go to work obediently. However, while these people were on duty, several large caravans came outside the west gate, and hundreds of people and dozens of carriages entered the city one after another.

It wasn't until Shen Shiwei that the head of the city guard brought people over to change the guard slowly, but he didn't know that their moment of comfort had already brought fatal damage to Lingzhou City.

After Peng Qichang finished his errand, he hurried to a private house, but saw that the courtyard was densely packed with people, but these hundreds of people sat neatly on the ground, and there was no sound at all. He walked through the crowd to a room, only to see several people sitting inside, in addition to the familiar Taoist priest Gongsun Sheng, he didn't expect the old boss Wei Dingguo and Shan Tinggui to be inside, and the other four people, according to reports, are the leaders of Liangshan, namely Xiao Jiasui, Li Kui, Yang Zaixing, and Bao Xu.

"Qichang, how are the Fire Camp brothers in contact?"

Wei Dingguo already knew about the dismantling of the fire camp, and he was very concerned about this special camp that he had been running for many years, and asked as soon as he met.

"Don't worry, general, the brothers are all worried about your good, and when I heard that you are coming back, everyone is excited!"

"What about Jiang Desheng and the manpower of the water camp?"

Shan Tinggui didn't see the people from Shuiying coming, so he listened to it and immediately asked anxiously.

"General Shan doesn't need to worry, the brothers of the water camp have also been contacted, and the two battalions have agreed to meet in the camp at the end of the unitary time, and the victorious brothers are sitting over there."

"That's it!"

Shan Tinggui let out a sigh of relief when he heard this.

After listening to the conversation between the three of them, he basically knew the situation of the water and fire battalions, but he was worried that if things changed, the two of them couldn't hold it down, so he took Wei Dingguo and Shan Tinggui to disguise themselves as soldiers and returned to the camp with Peng Qichang.

Soon the sky was getting dark, and the streets and alleys of Lingzhou City were gradually becoming fewer and fewer pedestrians. At the gate of the west city, the head of the guard had just ordered his subordinates to close the city gate, but he was still reminiscing about the advantage he had taken in the afternoon, and he thought that there were many such people in the camp now, and he had to find a way to keep up with the head and ask for some to come over and call.

Just when Xiao Jiujiu was playing here, he saw a team of sergeants coming over in the distance, and the leader was the tenth general in the afternoon.

Hey! This guy must know the master's thoughts, and come over to help watch the night.

Seeing this, they were overjoyed, and they were about to call him over, but they immediately found out that something was wrong, and behind the ten generals, there was a steady stream of people coming over to count a large number of people.

What are they going to do! When he was bewildered, he saw a burly man come to him and said majestically:

"Take your men back to the barracks, and we'll take over the gates."

"You ......"

"What! I don't recognize this official anymore! ”

At this time, the head of the capital suddenly discovered that this person was actually General Wei who had been out of the city a few days ago, and suddenly thought of something, and suddenly broke out in a cold sweat. He nodded his head in response, gathered his men and ran back to the barracks like rabbits.

"Qichang, lead people to open the city gate, and the others will control the key points in various places, if there are unknown people approaching, those who do not listen to the advice will be killed!"

Wei Dingguo gave an order, and the men of each team immediately went to various places, and after a while, the surrounding area of Xicheng became a forbidden area for idlers, and then the gate of Xicheng slowly opened in the twilight.

Outside the west gate, Gu Haotian led three battalions of cavalry and one battalion of infantry, standing quietly in the wilderness.

"Into town!"

Gu Haotian gave an order, and he was the first to rush out.

In Lingzhou City, it was nightfall, except for the tavern party, most of the ordinary people were ready to rest. However, at this moment, there was a rush of horses' hooves from the direction of the West City Gate, and the people along the street opened the windows and door cracks curiously, only to see a long group of black-armored cavalry with a snow-white long knife galloping through the street. This is the army that came from there! Everyone speculated in their hearts, but they closed their doors one after another and did not dare to show up.

Ma Xun led nearly half of the three battalions of infantry to arrive at last, and then he immediately took over from Wei Dingguo at the west gate, and Wei Dingguo and the five hundred men of the fire battalion immediately rushed to the state government, and they were all anxious to find Zhang Dashou, who had humiliated him.

In the barracks, Xiao Jiasui took Li Kui, Yang Zaixing, Bao Xu, and five hundred men composed of the Hengdao Battalion, the Qinwei Battalion, and the Dry Tree Mountain, as well as the five hundred soldiers of the Water Battalion of Shan Tinggui, who were nervously confronting thousands of Lingzhou officers and soldiers.

The two Zhang Taishou's newly appointed regimental training envoys got a report from their cronies in the evening that the soldiers of the water and fire battalions scattered in each battalion suddenly went out together, and the two people felt strange and immediately gathered people to come to investigate, but found that Shan Tinggui, who was supposed to go to the capital to serve his sentence, was guarding the camp gate with the water camp and a group of strangers.

Not good! It's the other way around!

The two new regimental training envoys immediately felt that something was wrong, and immediately sent their cronies to gather thousands of officers and men in the battalion and go straight to the camp gate.

"The Horizontal Knife Battalion is out of line!"

How could Xiao Jiasui let these people out at this critical moment, he shouted loudly, Li Kui quickly took more than 300 horizontal sword soldiers forward three steps, and instantly formed two rows of horizontal formations, and the long knives were held obliquely and pointed directly at the officers and soldiers, only to see that the shining blade was bubbling with a terrifying cold air in the twilight.

Thousands of Lingzhou officers and soldiers were shocked in an instant, and none of them dared to take a step forward in front of the blade of the horizontal knife battalion.

"Straight sissy thief! It's all bad! Rush up for me, who dares to retreat and wait for military law! ”

Under the hoarse shouts of the two regimental training envoys, thousands of officers and men finally formed a formation, but as soon as the long knives of the horizontal knife battalion saw blood, the sound of dense horses' hooves sounded outside, and thousands of cavalry entered from the camp gate in black. The little confidence that the officers and men in the battalion had just gathered was suddenly dispersed.

At this time, Shan Tinggui came out and mobilized, I will only take the villains who are in cahoots with Zhang Taishou this time, and the rest will not be held accountable if they do not fight. When the officers and men heard this, most of them dispersed for a while, and the two regimental training envoys saw that they could not escape, so they had to lead hundreds of cronies to rush over in a desperate struggle, but they were wiped out in front of the Hengdao battalion in just a tea time, and the rest of the people who were watching immediately dispersed in a hurry.

In the state office, Zhang Taishou had just received the news of the riot outside, and the five hundred people of the fire camp attacked him, and he didn't even have a chance to escape, so he was cut in two by the oncoming Wei Dingguo.

That night, the city of Lingzhou was in chaos, the state office, the treasury, and the barracks were full of shouts and killings, ordinary people did not know the truth, and they all hid at home tremblingly, and those who knew a little about the inside story were even more afraid of being implicated and could not hide.

Before dawn the next day, Lingzhou City, which had been in turmoil all night, gradually calmed down, but then the news came out that was surprising. It turned out that the two generals Wei Dingguo and Shan Tinggui were dissatisfied with Zhang Taishou's disposition, and returned to the city to lead troops to rebel, and it is said that Zhang Taishou was killed on the spot, and the treasury was also looted.