Chapter 3 East Gate (Nine Tops)

Next, Zhang Jin said that when the thief was waiting for something to be verbose, Cheng Mingzhen was too lazy to pay attention to it. He just smiled and sent his good friend Wang Ermao away, and then said goodbye to the bandits with a smile, and turned back to the tent where he was imprisoned. It was impossible for Lin County Ling to make a decision on whether to agree to all the conditions of Zhang Jincheng in one day, and he knew this very well. He also knew that even if the county magistrate could delay for a few more days, Guantao City would not be able to avoid the fate of being attacked by thieves in the end! The only solution at the moment is for someone to kill Zhang Jincheng before the thieves launch their next attack, and Cheng Mingzhen is the only one who has a chance to get close to Zhang Jincheng and cut off his murderous head.

The moment he walked down the city, the young man was ready accordingly. All the efforts and struggles in the past two days are just unwilling to die in a daze. Now that he had lost all other options, he was desperate, but his mood had become calm.

The female bandit cuckoo followed behind Cheng Mingzhen apologetically. The failure to do what she promised others made her feel very uncomfortable. But in front of many outsiders, she can't challenge the authority of the big boss. That not only will not save Cheng Mingzhen, but will allow the snoopers to find a chance. Yang Gongqing is never willing to be instructed by Zhang Da's family, as for Wang Dangren, his status in the rivers and lakes has always been above Zhang Da's family.

She couldn't explain the hardships inside these green forests to Cheng Mingzhen. She had always felt that the other party looked down on her, and when this person knew about the dirty things that the heroes of the green forest did when they were fighting for power and profit, she felt that she might be looked down upon by this person. As for what he would lose after being looked down upon by Cheng Mingzhen, Du Juan had never thought about it carefully. She is just blindly careful, carefully maintaining her meager dignity and maintaining her possible image in the eyes of the other party.

"Escorted by Laudhu himself!" Blocking the tent door with his body, Cheng Mingzhen thanked him coldly.

"This tent is mine!" Cuckoo's aggrieved emphasis. She didn't have to tell the other party the secret. There are only a limited number of tents in the barracks that can arrange guests, so in order to maintain the face of the heroes of the green forest, she had to donate her tent yesterday. The dogskin mattresses and the teapots and wooden cups in the tent were bought not long ago from the city, and they had not been used by anyone but himself. And the guest in front of him didn't have the slightest sense of being a guest, and he used the host's things, and he actually wanted to turn the host away.

"Then bother Du Dangjia to change cells and imprison me!" Cheng Mingzhen paused slightly, and added with a hard heart. In his heart, he didn't really resent the cuckoo. With such a large den of bandits, it is impossible for a woman to make her own decisions about everything. But at this moment, the two sides are about to become a life-and-death feud, and it is better to have less to do with it, or to have less to do with it.

"Why don't you know what's wrong!" The cuckoo didn't have the word forbearance in his character, and pulled Cheng Mingzhen's shoulders to the side with his hand, and squeezed into the tent. "I have placed you here so that no one else will hurt you. Out of my barracks, there are people who want to cut off your head in the middle of the night! Don't think that you can walk sideways with two three-legged cat kung fu, there are many ways to kill you, I guarantee that you can't find it before you die, and Zhang Erbo can't hold anyone accountable after that! ”

Cheng Mingzhen smiled and didn't bother to talk back. Just those little minions who don't hold the knife in the right posture? You can clean up at least five of them by yourself! It's just that I don't have a weapon in my hand now, and broad daylight is not the best time to do it.

"Stay honest! I'll find a way to let you go. Regardless of whether Zhang Erbo and Lin County Ling can reach an agreement in the end. Du Juan was annoyed by Cheng Mingzhen's indifferent smile on his face, and he turned over the boxes and cabinets in a ping pong, turned out a bunch of angular things, and made a big package and carried it on his shoulder. Don't try to escape on your own, or you'll be chased back and cut out your heart. What I promised you, I will definitely do. If you can't, I'll give you my life! ”

"I'm not targeting you!" Cheng Ming responded sneeringly, regretting it in his heart. As the cuckoo was packing up, he saw at least two scissors, a short knife for cutting meat, and an awl for the sole of his shoe. If any of these tools are left behind, they may be transformed into a murderous weapon. If he and Wang Ermao had rummaged through the tent yesterday instead of patronizing to catch up on sleep, maybe they would have been able to hide one or two things before Du Juan took these things away today. If you don't provoke the cuckoo to get angry, maybe ......

"At night the camp was slaughtering pigs. I'll send someone to bring you a plate of meat!" The cuckoo stepped out of the tent with one foot and turned back to speak. After being annoyed, her eyes became very round and bright, which made Cheng Mingzhen easily think of the stars in the night sky.

However, the twinkle patterns of these two stars are so difficult to fathom. Until the time of the lantern, it did not reappear in the tent. The roasted pork was served a whole plate by the minions, dipped in the bandits' own black sauce made from wild beans and bran skin, and served with a freshly cooked broth.

Putting down the meat plate, the four minions who were on duty to monitor him refused to leave, just staring at the door, the corners of their mouths moistened, and their throats constantly rolling around.

"Have you eaten yet? If not, why not sit down and try it together? Guessing the thoughts of a few minions, the young man smiled and said politely.

"No, Childe, you can use it slowly. We, we'll have to wait a while to get it over! The minions waved their hands again and again, but their feet moved to the side of the meat table. Zhang Dang's family only got ten live pigs. Eight of them will be slaughtered tonight, and the brothers in the Shanzi Camp and the Fire Word Camp will have to be taken care of first. We, we estimate that we can share a bowl of broth, and it tastes the same when eaten with naan! ”

"Sit down and eat, I can't eat so much by myself. There's a bowl on the cabinet over there, just enough to bring it to serve the soup! Cheng Mingzhen smiled and pushed the barbecue forward, and then reached out to copy the wooden spoon in the soup basin. One person will have a bowl first, if it is not enough, you will go to Du Dang's house in my name to ask for it. She can't let me go hungry anyway, or I'll lose my big face! ”

The minions burst into laughter and snatched the spoon from Cheng Mingzhen's hand. "We have cooked it ourselves, but we don't dare to eat you and be tired of you! Childe is a good man at first glance, different from other officials! ”

"I'm a foolish official. In fact, it's just a substitute for the dead! Cheng Mingzhen shook his head with a smile, and repeated how he became a soldier more than 20 days ago, and how he was forced to go out of the city to be a messenger. The story sounded ridiculous, and it quickly won him sympathy.

"Grandma's, whatever. Isn't this fooling a stupid dog to go up the wall! While tearing the tendons on the bones, the leader of the little minions who led the team expressed his position with righteous indignation.

"There are few good-hearted officials!" Another minion nicknamed Pegzi replied loudly. There is a saying that eating others has a short mouth, and taking other people's hands is short. If it weren't for Cheng Mingzhen's light, just by virtue of their identities, they might not even be able to see a meat star tonight, let alone sitting in the tent of Du Qi's house, holding meat and bones in one hand and naan in the other.

"I blamed myself for being stupid at the time, I always felt that being a soldier and eating food was a way to survive anyway, so I jumped in in a daze!" Cheng Mingzhen continued to smile bitterly, picked up the largest meat bone from the plate, and tore it hard, "As a result, I have only been an official for a few days, and my ass has not yet been hot, so I was sent out to deliver the letter......"

"Use this, use this!" Seeing that Cheng Mingzhen was tearing hard, the peg did not hesitate to untie the short knife from his waist and handed it over. An older minion sitting next to him touched him lightly, but he rolled his eyes back. "Cut with a knife, this is the guy I beat myself. It's much easier than buying it! ”

Cheng Mingzhen took the short knife with a smile, divided the barbecue into several pieces against the bone slit, and then returned the short knife back with the handle upside down. "It's indeed a good thing, Brother Zhu struck iron before going up the mountain?"

"I can count my skills in the village. I just can't afford iron, otherwise I could open my own workshop! Listening to others praise his short knife for being easy to use, the peg smiled with a greasy face.

"Blow again, and you'll be able to hit a hoe and a kitchen knife!" The little boss swallowed a big mouthful of soup and laughed and mocked.

"That's better than you can only gouge holes in the planks!" Regardless of the other party's position higher than his own, the peg sneered, "Childe, you don't know, Brother Mu Chisel apprenticed with his master back then, and he studied for three and a half years......"

The little leader raised the remaining bones and was about to lose them, "If you say that, I'll smash you." It's not your unconscionable uncle. If it weren't for your uncle not to teach me back then, I would have been independent a long time ago. As a result, Bai gave your uncle's family three and a half years of long work, and he didn't even teach me how to play at the table! ”

"My uncle can't wait to post his daughter upside down to you, and you are embarrassed to scold him for having no conscience!" The peg poked at the other party's bottom with a smile. "Not to mention that my fingers are thick, and I can't hold an axe well......"

The four little minions were giggling and laughing, and they were soon found out by Cheng Mingzhen. These people are all from the same village, because the government refused to provide relief because of the flash floods in the spring, so they had to vote for Zhang Jin. Under Zhang Jincheng's command, they belonged to the Jinzi Battalion of the Seven Masters of the Cuckoo, and they rarely went into battle to fight, so the food supply was far inferior to Zhang Jin's descendants.

"The fire battalion you just talked about is Zhang Da's personal soldiers, right? The Tianshu Brigade I brought with me in the city was also the county's own personal soldiers. However, no one opened a small stove for us, and we ate the same as the other brothers! While grabbing the knife to remove the tendons, Cheng Mingzhen asked casually.

"Our side is not dedicated to opening a small stove for the Shanzi Camp and the Huozi Camp. It's only before the battle that I will be rewarded......" The little leader named Mu Chisel was unguarded and replied in Cheng Mingzhen's tone. Halfway through his words, he suddenly felt that he shouldn't leak his secret, so he quickly gagged his mouth with a bone, and stared at the other party's reaction with wide eyes.

Cheng Mingzhen was obviously more enthusiastic about the tendons on the bones than about the military situation, so he didn't even stop, he just removed the tendons that were sticking to the edge of the bones, dipped them in some black sauce, and threw them into his mouth with a big grin. "Since I was a child, I liked to eat the tendons on my bones and bite my head! If the eldest brother goes to get a plate of meat, he will say that I haven't eaten much in the past two days and that I am too hungry......"

Looking at the bones on the table that had been gnawed white, the minions laughed. For the five old men who haven't seen fishy meat for a long time, a plate of barbecue is indeed less. But when he went to the front camp to ask for meat, he might be whipped back by Wang Dang, who was in charge of the food. After all, that plate of meat is for Cheng Mingzhen alone, and it doesn't have the share of the four of them at all.

Seeing that no one of them would move, Cheng Mingzhen had no choice but to add with a smile, "It's okay, if I say it's me to eat, they will definitely give it." The government beheaded the prisoners, and they gave them a good meal the day before, not to mention that you bosses had to threaten the people in the city with me when they attacked the city! ”

As soon as the words fell, the joyful atmosphere in the tent vanished. The four minions glared at Cheng Mingzhen, regardless of the oil on their hands, and their five fingers tightly grasped the handle of the knife on their waists.

Tonight's entry into the city was agreed upon by the leaders before the evening, and it is strictly forbidden to leak the slightest bit of information to outsiders. But the little slippery head in front of him is too shrewd, and he actually got the truth out of everyone's mouth with a few pieces of meat and bones.

"I guessed it in the afternoon. Your big boss is to paralyze the Lin County Order, so that Wang Ermao can send a letter and enter the city! Suppressing the surprise in his heart, Cheng Mingzhen added casually. At this moment, the meat cleaver turned back into his hand, but he was not sure that after killing the four people in front of him, he would not alarm the other minions outside. So it's better to continue to pretend to be stupid, throw the knife on the table, and numb the minds of a few minions. "It's just that I didn't expect Zhang Da to be in such a hurry, and he will enter the city tonight! You, you give me some wine, I'm going to die anyway, you might as well let me have a drink! ”

This trick really worked, and several minions immediately relaxed their vigilance when they saw Cheng Mingzhen throw the short knife back. Four adults, there is really no need to be scared by a half-grown child. What's more, the other party has been politely inviting himself to eat and drink, and has never shown the slightest hostility.

Thinking of this, the leader of the minions was the first to feel that his face was hot, grinned, and ordered his subordinates: "Peg, dog leftovers, you two go." Let's just say that the order of the seventh master can't be slow down with Cheng Gongzi! Let's get Cheng Gongzi drunk, and it will save him from feeling uncomfortable! ”

"Hmm!" The two minions, known as the peg and the dog, said yes and stood up and walked out of the account. Mu Chisel and another minion named Jiucheng still felt embarrassed, and took the opportunity to clean up the bones on the table, and comforted in a low voice: "Cheng Gongzi, don't be too uncomfortable. Our boss is indeed going to enter the city tonight, but he doesn't want to take your head to sacrifice the flag. He has always regarded the Seven Masters as his own daughter, and he rushed to the fact that you could live in the camp of the Seven Masters, and the big masters definitely didn't have any ill intentions towards you! ”

Cheng Mingzhen leaned back and smiled bitterly, "Your big boss, trick me like a monkey." Three-watch siege or five-watch siege? Where will I be placed then? ”

"The Seven Masters have commanded, but they won't tell you. Let you sleep well. When she entered the city at the third watch, she personally took Wang Ermao and your family out! The little leader was honest and muttered.

The seven-headed cuckoo never let any of the men of the Zhang family army enter her military tent, but the handsome young man in front of him entered, and he had to stay for two nights in a row. If you have become a pro-soldier and you haven't even guessed the thoughts of the little daughters of the seven-in-command, this pro-soldier doesn't have to continue to be a pro-soldier. Therefore, pleasing Cheng Gongzi today is equivalent to pleasing the seven masters in the future. Don't seek to soar, at least you don't have to be sent to the forefront in the next siege.

"Alas!" Cheng Mingzhen fell on his back with his hands behind his head, staring at the roof of the tent stupidly. Tears flowed uncontrollably down the corners of his eyes, rolling large and large onto the mattress.

"You, don't feel bad. In fact, in fact, Zhang Da is not as fierce as the legend. We seldom, seldom kill, but, just as a last resort......" the kind wooden chisel leaned forward again, muttering comfort. Put himself in the shoes of the young man in front of him, he knew that he would definitely feel very uncomfortable in his heart. After all, family and friends are in the city, and after this night passes, I don't know how many people will be able to be saved.

Cheng Mingzhen continued to sigh and cry, his body rolling on the dogskin mattress like a loach, "As a last resort, what is the last resort when Zhang Da is in charge?" ”

"Big, big boss, he ......" Mu Chisel and Jiucheng don't know how to defend their own people. Killing, arson, slaughtering the city, it seems that this kind of thing has happened once or twice a year since the occupancy. This time, food has been sent out of the city, but I don't know why......

The thoughts of the owners of the village are not something that they can guess. Soon, they won't have to be embarrassed about it anymore. The dog skin mattress under Cheng Mingzhen suddenly flipped up on its own and buckled tightly on top of their heads. Immediately after, the two of them only felt a pain in the back of their heads, and then they lost all consciousness.

Cheng Mingzhen, who was still sighing and crying on the ground just now, had already jumped up and used the bone stick in his hand to make up for the back of the heads of the two minions a few more times, until it was confirmed that they must have passed out. Only then did he neatly pick off the wood-chiseled clothes and waist knife, and quickly put them on himself. When he had done all this, he covered the two minions with the quilt, grabbed the boning knife from the table and stuck it at his waist, then lifted the curtain and swaggered out of the tent.

There were a lot of minions coming and going outside, and the torches were lit up, and it was not the best time to stab at all. But Cheng Mingzhen can't wait any longer, once the enemy army begins to attack the city, with or without Zhang Jincheng commanding, the outcome of Guantao County is basically the same. Lin Xianling would not have thought that Zhang Jin had just accepted the gift during the day, and he would immediately attack that night. With the full force of the enemy, it is impossible for the villagers of Guantao County to create the miracle of the last time.

Fortunately, Zhang Jin's minions under his command lacked vigilance against him, or rather, they didn't think that a half-sized man could make any waves in an army of more than 100,000 people. So no one approached at all, and carefully distinguished whether it was the young man Li Muchisel who came out of the tent, or the imprisoned distinguished guest, and let Cheng Mingzhen swagger past under their noses.

The closer Zhang Jin's Chinese army is, the more minions are walking around in the camp. Many men with big shoulders and round waists were elated, as if they were in a hurry to celebrate the festival. In the procession passing by in twos and threes, some people carried long ladders. The edge of the ladder is still tinged with the characteristic turquoise of the bark, and when you look at it, you can understand that the ladder was made improvised in the past two days.

From the very beginning, Zhang Jin said that he was not fooled! The moment Cheng Mingzhen saw the ladder, he guessed all the thoughts of the thief. The reason why they agreed to the request of the Lin County Order was because they also needed time to make siege equipment. And the grain and live pigs that the city had worked so hard to get together just happened to be the supplies that Zhang Jin said rewarded the three armies before the war.

"Don't expect the other person to be a fool!" In the noisy voice, Cheng Mingzhen heard Zhang Jincheng's sneer again. He gripped the hilt of the knife at his waist and quickened his pace. The fact that he escaped will soon be discovered by the pegs and dogs who drove him back, and before that, he must sneak to Zhang Jincheng and stab the boning knife into the stomach of the monster that once held countless living people's hearts.

"Woo-woo-woo-woo" Someone blew the alarm, and someone quickly ran towards the cowhide tent. Cheng Mingzhen stiffened his head and followed behind the runner, rushing forward. A rogue is a rogue who, in order to find someone who escaped, the whole camp actually warned the whole battalion! This is simply creating opportunities for himself, in the chaotic crowd, how can Zhang Jin say that it is possible to distinguish which messenger is true and which messenger is fake?

More and more minions ran past him, and a few rode around the barracks. These people gave Cheng Xiaojiu too much face, and they were so panicked for his escape! There was a sound of footsteps quickly approaching him from behind, and Cheng Mingzhen quickly pulled out a horizontal knife, and his whole body was on guard. The people who came overtook without looking back, shouting as they ran, "Enemy attack, enemy attack ......"

"Nonsense, where is the enemy!" A familiar voice questioned Cheng Mingzhen, and immediately after, Du Scar ran out of a military tent shirtless, carrying a bright Mo knife in his hand. Seeing the chaos in front of him, he raised his weapon angrily, but countless meteors shot from due east with long tails, lighting up flames in the camp.

That's not a meteor, it's a well-made rocket! Cheng Mingzhen stopped happily. He didn't have to risk assassinating Zhang Jincheng anymore, the official army had arrived. Thousands of elite soldiers of the Great Sui rushed into the almost undefended thief camp with short knives. A few of the minions fled a little slower, and were swept up in two rolls by the ranks of the officers and soldiers, and all of them fell to the ground in an instant.

"Enemy attack, enemy attack!" Du Scar screamed hoarsely. Instead of standing up to fight, he threw away the Mo knife and turned his head to join the team of escapees.

The officers and soldiers were killed from the east, so the minions instinctively fled to the west. But the west is facing Guantao City, and Cheng Mingzhen knows that even if he is lucky enough to bypass Guantao City, there will be a Qianli Canal in front of them. The river has just risen to the bottom, and the three fierce men may not be able to penetrate to the end.

Alcoholic's note: Ten years of inventory, please vote for the homeland.