Chapter 2: Chasing the Deer (Part 3)
At this moment, a low response suddenly came from the door: "Don't hesitate any longer, the surname Dou will definitely not become a big deal if he becomes this virtue!" ”
Cheng Mingzhen and Jiang Bailing were taken aback, and Qi Qi pulled the horizontal knife out of its scabbard. After looking closely, I saw Wang Ermao holding a teacup and walking in step by step.
"You're eavesdropping outside?!"
"People are scary, they are scared to death, you know?"
Jiang Bailing and Cheng Mingzhen questioned successively. Wang Ermao shook his head and laughed and mocked: "I said Lao Jiang, you are not qualified to be a housekeeper." Lao Tzu said that you don't need a woman to serve you when you take a bath, and you won't even prepare a little girl who fetches water. The more you take the bath, the colder it gets, of course I have to get up and see what went wrong! ”
Hearing this, Jiang Bailing hurriedly walked to the bathtub and stretched out his hand to copy it. Sure enough, he and Cheng Mingzhen felt that the bath water in the wooden barrel was completely cold, just a few words.
Taken aback by his own negligence, Jiang Bailing immediately reached out to push the window. Before his fingers could touch the window lattice, he was slapped back by Wang Ermao, "Don't look at it." Everything is waiting for you to cool down early. Just now, two maidservants came to deliver snacks and were beaten away by Lao Tzu. The others couldn't hear anything in the room at least a hundred paces away! ”
"What kind of two handmaidens?" Jiang Bailing was so nervous that her hairs stood on end, and her eyes red asked.
"They were among the men who had come to clean up the house. One has a melon seed face and the other has freckles on the face. Wang Ermao smiled and responded nonchalantly. You can rest assured, the two of them will definitely not be spies sent by Lao Dou to keep an eye on. ”
"How do you know it's not? What if it is? Jiang Bailing's heart hanging in his throat finally fell back into his stomach, glared at Wang Ermao, and raised the bar angrily.
Wang Ermao pouted with a smile: "Lao Dou is not a fool, since he deceived us to prepare to do it at the banquet, naturally he will not shout, and everyone on the street knows it." I guess I'm afraid that only a very small number of people around this house, including you, Lao Jiang, know what everyone is going to do, right? Besides, as long as we enter the city, we are the turtles in the urn, and we can take them out at any time, and the things that are chopped off still need to be monitored so much? ”
The last sentence was obviously a misnomer, but it lightened the atmosphere in the room. The three of them smiled wryly at each other. After laughing, Cheng Mingzhen sighed and said in a low voice: "Since stretching out the head is a knife, shrinking the head is also a knife to fight." It's just a pity that I have too few people in my hands. Even if ten people are all one of them, they may not be able to save Brother Wang. There are 200 guards in the school yard in the city, but they may not be able to get to the post house as they wish! ”
"I also contacted more than 50 brothers. All of them are first-class good men. You can teach the number one tonight. They did not hesitate to die, just begging the head of the sect to save Brother Wang! ”
"More than fifty? Are they all of your heart? Cheng Mingzhen was slightly stunned, not because there were few suspects, but because he was worried about leaking the news. The voice fell, and before Jiang Bailing could answer, he had already guessed the trick: "Even if you don't hold Cheng hostage, you will take action, right?" In this case, why bother to take a certain burden! ”
Jiang Bailing nodded and admitted: "You guessed right. We have indeed started the tandem a long time ago, and we are planning to rob the prison in the next few days. But after rescuing Brother Wang, there was nowhere to stay. Looking at the green forests of Hebei, the only one who can compete with Dou Jiande now is you, Cheng Dajiao. So no matter how much Jiang hates you in his heart, for the sake of Brother Wang, he can't let you die now! ”
"Thanks to the brethren, I am worthy of me!" Cheng Mingzhen sighed and smiled bitterly. What does Dou Jiande do to compete with Dou Jiande? If you count the young men and women who can pull Xiangguo County to the battlefield, you can barely make up 30,000 soldiers. And after the failure of the Northern Expedition, the first batch of soldiers who followed Dou Jiande to withdraw to Qinghe were 50,000 hanging zero! Moreover, in the past two years, the Zhaozhou camp has been dominated by Dou Jiande, and the two sides rashly turned their faces, which is equivalent to betraying the mastermind and opposing the brothers, and the morale of the brothers will definitely not be high. In addition, when Dou Jiande inspected Xiangguo County last year, he wantonly bought people's hearts everywhere. At this time, the three conditions of the war with Dou Jiande were almost nothing!
Jiang Bailing obviously misunderstood Cheng Mingzhen's meaning, and when he saw the other party smiling bitterly, he gritted his teeth and continued to add: "Don't worry about the head of the sect. As long as you can save the lives of Brother Wang, the brothers will be yours. In the future, you can set yourself up as a king, or take your subordinates to Gaozhi, everyone will only look forward to you! ”
"How many kings have been produced in this place of Hebei in the past five years? Who has ever had a good end? Cheng Mingzhen grinned and continued to smile bitterly. I don't have that much creation, and I can't enjoy that much blessing. Today, since I have been forced to do this, I have to take one step at a time, and as for the future, I will leave it to later! ”
After speaking, there was a long sigh of helplessness. sighed, pulled a stool, sat down, and tapped his fingers lightly on the table: "I don't ask you to wait for the future." But if you want to rescue Brother Wang today, you must listen to my orders! If you can do it, let's plan a comprehensive plan together. If you can't do it, then it's better to shoot two or two, since Cheng Mou is dead or right, it's better to be a loyal minister. ”
"As long as the head of the sect is willing to save Brother Wang, Jiang can take the place of the brothers, and swear that all actions today will be under the command of the head of the sect, and he will never dare to disobey. If you don't have the right mouth, you will all be thundered by the sky! Jiang Bailing fell to his knees and raised his hand to swear.
Cheng Mingzhen stretched out his hands to help him up, nodded and said in a low voice: "I don't have to." If we don't have a thorough plan, several of us, including Brother Wang, will definitely have to die in the city. I'll start by telling you what's wrong with your thoughts, and you can point it out right now. When a plan is discussed, everyone will implement it in full accordance with the plan. Today, we must cooperate closely with each other to fight big with small ones. All actions are in place to achieve the desired effect! ”
Jiang Bailing nodded and agreed in a low voice. Cheng Mingzhen thought for a while and continued: "Two hundred people in the school field can't be transferred. Although they have your help, they make a move before sunset, which will definitely arouse the alarm of Lao Dou. If you put the time after sunset, the camp gate of the school field will be locked at night, not to mention that there will be a large number of soldiers and horses around the school field! ”
"I'm going to find someone to smash open the school gate!" Jiang Bailing immediately reddened his eyes and roared in a low voice.
"Don't worry!" Cheng Mingzhen pressed his shoulder and motioned for him to be calm. "That's what I thought. Ermao said it well just now, Lao Dou tried to kill me, and he definitely won't make a fuss. And the more he keeps it secret, the more opportunities it will be for us. I am not the only one who came to watch the founding celebration, Gao Kaidao, Yang Gongqing, Shi Zan and Shi Derui, these people must be the same in their hearts now. So tonight, at the third watch, you find some people to set fire to the city. Don't want to hurt people, just want to make the movement big and mess up the order in the city. Let the city be as chaotic as possible, the more chaotic we are, the more chances we have to take the next step! ”
"Okay, I'll order someone to prepare in a while!" Jiang Bailing nodded and agreed without hesitation. When he was in Ping'en County, he used to run under Cheng Mingzhen, and knew that the other party had real skills, so he was willing to obey the other party's command.
"Before evening, you helped send Brother Wang back to the school yard to contact my guards. When the fire broke out in the city, the guards immediately created chaos in the school yard, saying that Lao Dou was ready to wipe out all the people who came to congratulate him, and swallowed up the territory and subordinates of these people! Cheng Mingzhen thought for a while and continued to add.
"Brother Wang's goal is too eye-catching. You have to change someone to contact you on campus! Jiang Bailing hesitated for a moment and reminded in a low voice. When there was a fire in the city, I could spread false news at the same time that Dou Jiande had sent me to kill Gao Kaidao and Yang Gongqing. Anyway, everything in this area of the post station is under my control, Gao Kaidao and Yang Gongqing both know that I am Cao Dan's person! ”
"That's all. I'll follow you and let Wu Tianxi go to the school yard to contact the guards. Anyway, he usually leads the guards, and everyone can obey his orders! Before Cheng Mingzhen could speak, Wang Ermao stepped forward to ask for help.
Cheng Mingzhen thought about it and nodded slightly. Jiang Bailing and Wang Ermao's suggestions are good. Now that he is ready to fight for a fish and die and the net is broken, there is no need to save any face for Dou Jiande. He originally planned to just let Gao Kaidao and Yang Gongqing and other old men of the Dou family and the army put themselves in danger, so that they could fish in troubled waters. If Jiang Bailing's trick succeeds, I'm afraid it won't be as simple as fishing in troubled waters. Gao and Yang have deep roots in the Dou family's army, especially Gao Kaidao, as the first heir of Gao Shida, the former head of Hebei Lvlin, who is under Dou Jiande, and is already aggrieved. If he can deceive him into anger and anger with Dou Jiande, and take advantage of the chaos to rescue Wang Fubao, the chances of winning will undoubtedly increase by three points.
"Then it was settled. We'll split up later! Seeing that Cheng Mingzhen did not object, Wang Ermao summarized in a low voice. Later, Lao Jiang will first find a way to let Wu Tianxi go back to the school field. Then he went to contact his brothers. ”
"Well, that's how the first step is set!" Cheng Mingzhen nodded again. "The key to this step is to keep it secret and not attract Dou Jiande's attention. The second step is to create chaos. Lao Jiang had fifty men under his command send half of them out to set fires. Looking at the places near the Yamen of the Guancang Municipal Bureau, Dou Jiande had to be saved! This step should be accurate and punctual, and it is best to sound the drums of the three watches, and when the mouth of several fires rises, it is up at the same time! ”
"Good!" Jiang Bailing nodded in agreement.
"The third step is to see the fire start. The guards created chaos in the school yard, inciting other people's guards to rebel in the name that Dou Jiande was preparing to kill. Life likes to conform to the crowd the most, as long as two or three hundred people make the first move, the other guards will definitely follow without a head! ”
The fourth step was to dispatch the other brothers in the city. Brother Wang and I have ten guards under us, plus all of you, Lao Jiang. After making a mess of the post house into a pot of porridge, he immediately carried a bucket to put out the fire. On the way, he turned to the place where he was holding Brother Wang. Lao Jiang is responsible for opening the door, and the others will do it immediately after the door opens......"
"Step 5......"
"Step 6......"
The more Cheng Mingzhen's thinking becomes, the clearer it becomes. Since joining the Dou family's army, Dou Jiande's shadow is like a dark cloud, pressing on his heart all the time. In a panic, he was always looking for his shortcomings and shortcomings, and never tried to resist this pressure. Now that he was cornered with no way out, he suddenly stretched out his hand, but the dark cloud had become so thin and thin that he could barely cover his eyes.
One step out may be a catastrophe, or it may be the sea and the sky.