Chapter 271: The Zeng Family Falls
It is said that Gu Haotian made a bet, but Wei Dingguo was stumped, and he didn't know how to answer.
"Wei Tuanlian doesn't have to be embarrassed, I only ask one question below, if a foreign spy sneaks into Lingzhou and grows strong, is there any responsibility as an army to protect local security?"
Gu Haotian knew that Wei Dingguo was not a reckless and ignorant rough man, and he would not use his future to bet, so he simply brought the problem to light.
"Fine! The exotic spy from Lingzhou! ”
Wei Dingguo was a little confused, but he immediately thought that Gu Haotian had something to say, and immediately asked in surprise:
"Could it be that the ancient little official is referring to the Zeng family in Zengtou City?"
"It's the Zeng family, this big family, is the den that the Jin State left in the territory of the Zhou Dynasty. There are now more than 5,000 Zhuang Ding in Zengtou City, with excellent armor and excellent armor, and the five tigers of the Zeng family are all brave, all of which are under the noses of the Lingzhou government, are you not aware of it? ”
"Nowadays, the world is uneasy, and it is common for local heroes to raise Zhuang Ding, even if the Zeng family exceeds the system and raises more, it cannot be said that he is a fine man of the Jin State, and the ancient petty officials have to come up with more evidence."
"There must be evidence, I, Gu Haotian, am not a reckless person. If there is still suspicion, the group training envoy can bring someone to follow me into Zengtou City, the Zeng family has no evidence, I will not move one person and one thing to return to Liangshan, if the identity of the Zeng family spy is confirmed, then please understand that the group training envoy will forgive me. ”
Gu Haotian talked to this extent, Wei Dingguo had nothing to say, so the two turned their horses' heads together and returned to the hill, but saw that the 2,000 officers and soldiers of Lingzhou were surrounded by more than 1,000 cavalry.
"You can't wait to be rude, get out of here."
At this time, Gu Haotian, who only listened, shouted, and those cavalry retreated to the road in a moment, and more than a thousand horsemen stood up in a long phalanx, only to see that the armor was bright, the blade was shining, and a fierce murderous aura instantly diffused.
Liangshan's army is so powerful! Wei Dingguo was stunned. He suddenly felt that he was too blind to anyone, and that two thousand soldiers and horses were going to sweep them away, and it turned out that they had just treated the officers and soldiers as child's play - just to play. For a while, he thought of Shan Tinggui, presumably he had the same opinion as himself, but he was not wronged in losing!
At this time, Bian Xiang patted the horse over, and Gu Haotian immediately went after two sentences, and saw him retrieve a bag after only a cup of tea.
Gu Haotian and Wei Dingguo immediately got off the horse and stood on the side of the road to look carefully, and in the meantime, Wei Dingguo's face kept changing, and the last face was confused, but he saw him talking to himself:
"Why is the Zeng family here! How can that! ”
"Can the regimental training envoy still stop my Liangshan Manor from attacking Zengtou City?"
At this time, Gu Haotian asked at the right time.
"The ancient petty officials have evidence in hand, and it is inconvenient for me to stop it, but I must lead my troops to enter the village with me, and if there is no real evidence in it, please abide by the promise."
"A gentleman's words, the horse is difficult to chase. Please train the regiment to camp outside the village, and enter the village with you tomorrow. ”
At that moment, the two of them made a decision, and at the same time led their troops to Zengtou City.
At night, the order to attack, which had been prepared for several days, was finally issued, and the battalions and related personnel of Liangshan quickly took action.
Let's say that in Zengtou City, Shi Wengong suddenly came to drink after nightfall, so he instructed his cronies to invite the deputy teacher Su Ding to drink. A moment later, when Su Ding arrived in a hurry, a table of side dishes and two pots of wine had been arranged, Shi Wengong sat on top of it, and said with a smile:
"Suddenly, no one drank with the wine, so I thought about you, brother, please sit down."
Su Ding was full of doubts, but he couldn't say anything, so he just sat sideways. The two drank a few glasses together, and suddenly saw Shi Wengong stop his cup and said solemnly:
"You and I have worked together in Zengtou City for many years, and the friendship is better than blood brothers, these days my brother has always had something stuck in his heart and not vomiting unhappy, but he is afraid that you will be troubled, it is really embarrassing!"
"Brother can't talk to me about anything, just ask."
At this time, Su Ding finally understood the reason why Shi Wengong invited him to drink overnight, and immediately spoke.
"The Zeng family deceived you and me, and wanted to trap our brother in disloyalty and injustice, which really deserves death!"
Shi Wengong said coldly, Su Ding was stunned for a moment, and suddenly felt something, and he immediately asked:
"What my brother said is ......"
"The Zeng family is a spy of the Jin Kingdom, and we were both tricked by this old thief!"
Shi Wen sighed and said all kinds of evidence of the Zeng family's dealings with the Jin State.
Su Ding listened stupidly, although he had a hunch but did not think about it, at this time, he couldn't help but recall some of the things he had seen and heard in Zeng's house over the years, and he slowly realized in his heart. "So, what does my brother think he should do?"
Su Ding understood that since Shi Wengong had an idea to find him overnight, he immediately asked.
"Brother will believe me!"
Shi Wengong did not respond directly, but looked at Su Ding and asked seriously.
"No matter the sword mountain and the sea of fire, the younger brother is the only one who looks forward to the elder brother!"
At this time, he saw Su Ding standing up, clasping his fists into a salute and saying solemnly.
"Brother sit down, the Gu Haotian petty official of Liangshan outside, but he is my little junior brother, tomorrow morning, they will attack the city and come in, brother is willing to join me and help him?" "Just listen to my brother's orders, there is no other word!"
Su Ding seemed to have no accident at all, and responded without hesitation.
When the night was ugly, at the Dongzhai Gate of Zengtou City, Yu Baosi's men and another team of Zhuang Ding were on duty together. At this time, I saw Su Ding, the deputy teacher of Zhuangli, come over and call another team of Zhuang Ding, saying that he had another task.
And in the cell in the barracks, Duan Jingzhu and a group of people were also quietly picked up by Shi Wengong's cronies.
At the beginning of the Yin period, the east gate of Zengtou City quietly opened, and with the signal lights flashing a few times, a team suddenly stood up in the night outside the city, and arrived at the city gate in a few breaths. The first to come in was the Hengdao battalion led by Ma Xun and Li Kui, and they went straight to the Zeng family compound under the leadership of Shi Qian. Then the first infantry battalion of Jisheng and Ma Scale, the eighth infantry battalion of Wu Song and Lu Cheng, and the first cavalry battalion of Zhou Yunqing entered the village one after another, and with the cooperation of the personnel of the intelligence department, they went everywhere.
Gu Haotian, Xiao Jiasui, and Bian Xiang took the personal guard camp into the village at the end, accompanied by more than ten people from Wei Dingguo. Shi Wengong and Su Ding were in the east gate, and Gu Haotian saw it and hurriedly dismounted and said:
"Senior brother, thank you for your hard work!"
"That's hard work! It's important to catch that old thief quickly, don't be slipped away by that guy. ”
"Senior brother, don't worry, the Jurchen messenger inside is also dressed up by my people, and I guarantee that Zeng Lang has nowhere to escape."
Shi Wengong listened for a moment and remembered that Xue Yong had told him about it, but Su Ding gasped, this little official is too terrible, he has calculated to such a point. didn't have time to think about it for a while, and the group went to Zeng's house.
In Zeng's house, the sudden outbreak of turmoil woke Zeng Lane awake, and as soon as he got up and came down, he saw his eldest son Zeng Tu hurrying over.
"Daddy! Not good! Liangshan soldiers and horses came in. ”
"How so!"
Zeng Lang screamed, and panicked at that time.
"I don't know why, my father hurried out of the secret passage with the messenger, and I took someone back to stop for a while."
Zeng Tu said anxiously, and immediately turned around and went out. Zeng Lang was helpless, and hurried to the back hall, only to see dozens of Jurchen messengers already standing there with their weapons.
"Outside of the former staff, something happened outside, but I want to protect you and kill you." That Han Guanzhong grabbed up and asked.
"It's a big deal, the people from Liangshan Manor have come in, I'll hurry out of the secret passage."
"Then you have to destroy the confidential requirements before leaving, otherwise it's not good to leak it!"
"It's okay, it's all in the secret passage, just take it with you."
Zeng Lang replied as he walked briskly with a group of messengers to a nearby house.
When Gu Haotian and the others came to the Zeng family under the leadership of Shi Wengong and Su Ding, the battle in the Zeng family compound was nearing the end, but judging from the scene, the process was still relatively bloody.
When the door entered, there were constantly corpses dying on the side of the road, and there were several Zhuang Ding lying on the side of the main entrance of the lobby, which looked like Li Kui's masterpiece.
Wei Dingguo looked at the corpses all the way, his brows never let go, he thought about the agreement between the two of them before - "If there is no evidence, no one will be killed", but if there is no killing, go there to get the evidence! He didn't know what to do when it really happened "if there was no evidence."
In this way, Wei Dingguo followed everyone into the inner courtyard, and saw a young man waiting there.
"Little officials, I can't imagine that the Zeng family is so insidious, and it is really innocent."
This person is Xu Guanzhong, who is pretending to be a Jurchen messenger, and he is the one called Han Guanzhong.
"What's so scary about it that makes Director Xu so excited?" Gu Haotian quipped.
"You'll see it."
Xu Guanzhong led everyone to a nearby room. Wei Dingguo waited for this moment, and desperately walked two steps to keep up, even Shi Wengong and Su Ding were also anxious, the Zeng family was the old master after all, and they would not be at ease if there was no evidence.
Then everyone saw a large tunnel entrance in that room, a man dressed as a Liao man stood casually on the side, and the corpse at his feet was Zeng Tu, the son of the Zeng family.
"Brother Aric has a good method, and he actually killed the head tiger of the Zeng family!"
"What a tiger, just a stupid pig!"
Seeing Gu Haotian praising him, this Aliqi was very proud, but he pretended not to care.
However, Shi Wengong and Su Ding were secretly frightened, they couldn't imagine that the two of them had been in the Zeng family for many years, and as teachers, they didn't know that there was a secret passage in this Zhuangzi, it seemed that the Zeng family was also not at ease with the two of them, and the guilt that had just arisen in their hearts couldn't help but weaken a lot.
When they went down to the tunnel, everyone was surprised to find that this was not only a secret tunnel, but also a large warehouse. Xu Guanzhong led everyone into a door on the side, only to see that it was full of various materials, but the most eye-catching thing was hundreds of Jurchen armor piled up like a hill.
Wei Dingguo only saw this, and he already knew in his heart that the ancient petty official was not lying, but Shi Wengong and Su Ding completely let go of their burden.
"A few, look at these again, you can understand the ruthlessness of the Zeng family's intentions." At this time, Xu Guanzhong pointed to a box and said to everyone.
"Isn't this a map of our Lingzhou?" Wei Dingguo lifted the top one and looked at it and said.
"The team trainer is right, but you might as well take a look at the things below."
Xu Guanzhong looked at Wei Dingguo, who was surprised, but he didn't look surprised. Wei Dingguo was skeptical, but as he looked more and more, his face became more and more ugly, and he didn't expect that this box was full of maps from all over Hebei Province.
"Wolf ambition! Wolf ambition! ”
Wei Dingguo muttered in his mouth, and he no longer had any sympathy for the Zeng family.
"Zeng Yuanwai - no, it should be called Zeng Wanhu, your master is very important to you!"
At this time, Gu Haotian's joking voice suddenly sounded. Wei Dingguo saw that Zeng Yuanwai, who was invincible on weekdays, was detained in the corner, and his body shrunk into a ball that was not as good as a wild dog, he immediately walked over and said indignantly:
"This thief deserves death, and the petty officials will be escorted to Lingzhou and handed over to Zhang Taishou to be severely punished by the imperial court."
"Zhang Taishou! Court! ”
Gu Haotian listened, smiled contemptuously, and then handed a notebook in his hand to Wei Dingguo, and said teasingly:
"This former member is Zhang Taishou's gold master, a close friend of many dignitaries in the imperial court, don't say severe punishment when you get there, I'm afraid that I will become a guest of honor."
After Wei Dingguo took it, he was stunned at first glance.