Chapter 103: Diving to rescue Li Yan

When he got up in the morning, Zhang Zhimu led Xiaoqing and Xiaohu to the river to practice playing the military horn. After a few days of practice, Zhang Zhimu felt that the two little guys still had a little understanding. They're ready to practice the numbers. However, Zhang Zhimu himself can only remember the number of wake-up, emergency assembly, and charge. Zhang Zhimu thought that in the future, other numbers would be compiled by the military users themselves.

The two children were practicing, and Yan Boju sent someone to ask Zhang Zhimu to return to the command center. Xiaoqing and Xiaohu are interested in learning, and some are not very happy. But they also knew that no one would come here to find their uncle if there was no big deal.

Zhang Zhimu told Xiaoqing and Xiaohu to practice by themselves for a while and then go back. followed the person to the command center, and it turned out that Chen Yufeng sent a telegram from Fenglingdu saying that there was information that Li Zicheng was going back to Xi'an, and he was likely to execute Li Yan and the Red Lady before leaving. Chen Yufeng and Ouyang He wanted to attack Tongguan in advance, so they asked Zhang Zhimu's opinion.

Chen Yufeng's telegram made Zhang Zhimu very difficult. Zhang Zhimu also admires Li Yan, in his previous life, Zhang Zhimu had a good impression of Li Yan, he is a representative of a rare intellectual in this peasant army. He has a great sense of justice and can be regarded as having both ability and political integrity. Yaogang also made great efforts to win him over. However, Zhang Zhimu let himself calm down and calm down. Took a few turns around the command center.

At this time, Yan Boju said: "Zhimu, you have to think about it. At this time, you must have your own opinions. ”

Zhang Zhimu nodded gratefully to Yan Boju and did not speak. After a pause, he shouted to a staff officer, "Record." Call received. For the above situation, I think: one. Li Zicheng is in Tongguan City, and it is not easy for us to attack the city. You must know that the rabbit is dead and the dog is cooking, we need Li Zicheng to live; Second, if Li Zicheng has decided to get rid of Li Yan and his wife, then when we attack the city, Li Zicheng will take the lead in getting rid of them; Third, now that we get Tongguan, we will spend troops to maintain contact with Li Zicheng in Tongguan. The above three unfavorable conditions, I hope you refer to the decision. ”

Seeing that the staff officer had finished writing it, Zhang Zhimu said, "Read it again." ”

After the staff officer finished reading, Zhang Zhimu said: "Yes." Send it to the front line immediately. ”

The staff officer went out. Yan Boju said: "Zhimu, that's right. ”

After a while, Chen Yufeng's telegram returned. Meaning, we know your opinion. I will seriously consider this. Li Jing and his diving team arrived at Fenglingdu. Let's look at whether there are other ways to rescue them.

The inscriptions are Chen Yufeng and Ouyang He.

Zhang Zhimu said to Yan Boju: "I think our top priority is to suppress the bandits first. There are not many big bandits in Shanxi. However, the bandits of the guy also make people unhappy. ”

At this time, Lu Chengxiang came in and happened to hear what Zhang Zhimu said, he took it and said, "If the bandits are not eliminated." We couldn't do anything else. ”

Now Lu Chengxiang and Yan Xing are cooperating very well, and they have cooperated with government officials at all levels in Shanxi to start a farming assistance team first. Last year, Lu Chengxiang insisted on buying a lot of cattle, and this time he used it. Shanxi has suffered from severe drought for many years, and has been hit by military disasters, and many of the cattle used to be cultivated are gone. The production capacity is already low, and there are many who have few men in the family, and there are no ploughing cattle and no land can be planted. Lu Chengxiang and the others distributed a lot of cattle to various places, which were controlled by kiln officials in various places. For those peasant households who really have difficulties in arranging land, let them use ploughing cattle for free to help them do a good job in production. This time, a big problem has been solved. At this time, cattle are productivity. A lot of the farmland that had been abandoned for several years could be replanted because of the cattle.

Zhang Zhimu also admires Lu Chengxiang's foresight. Because although Lu Chengxiang was a shopkeeper in the past. But they are farmers in their family, and he knows very well what the farmers need most. Therefore, Zhang Zhimu felt that these silver flowers for buying cattle were the most valuable. There are also the most difficult farmers that Lu Chengxiang asked the officials to count, and he wants to send a pair of sheep to each family and let them raise them at home to help them tide over the difficulties. This is also a way for Lu Chengxiang to help those who have no land and no strong labor.

From this point, Zhang Zhimu has a new understanding of Lu Chengxiang. This person usually looks very good at his subordinates, but he is very kind in his heart. Especially what he doesn't reveal easily is that he also has a deep attainment in Chinese studies.

Yan Xing was very satisfied with the work given to him by Zhang Zhimu. Now I can finally do something that is not a big bandit. Yan Xing worked day and night to make him excited, and he cooperated very well with Lu Chengxiang. Especially in some places where there was a telegraph call, he had to call them almost every day to find out what was going on there. This surprised the young man who worked with Yan Xing. They originally thought that a bandit leader would be angry when he came to be his boss. Unexpectedly, this bandit leader turned out to be a person-like man with a personable son.

Chen Yufeng and Ouyang He, who were on the front line, were not as calm as Zhang Zhimu when they heard the news that Li Yan was going to be executed. What they thought was that they had done so much work for Li Yan, and it would be a pity if Li Yan was killed by Li Zicheng. Especially Ouyang He, who is still friends with Li Yan, if he is killed because of his own design of Li Yan, he will be even more unbearable.

It just so happened that Ningde, the main battle faction, was also here, and he said: "It's better for us to defeat Tongguan immediately." It's not a problem for so many of our troops to wait here. ”

Chen Yufeng and Ouyang He also agreed to take Tongguan immediately. This was the first telegram they sent to Zhang Zhimu.

After Zhang Zhimu's telegram came back, Chen Yufeng and Ouyang He also calmed down. They all know that the points put forward by Zhang Zhimu are correct.

At this time, Li Jing, who had already rushed back, said: "It's better for me to take someone into the city to see the situation." ”

Liu Yun said: "No, you can't get in." The guards at Tongguan are not ordinarily strict. Every night, torches were lit on the city walls, and a sentry was not far away. Li Zicheng seemed to be out of order. There are also quite a few torches lit every night. ”

Ning De suddenly said at this time: "Tongguan not only has a land gate, but also a water gate in the north and south, and there is a tributary of the Yellow River that passes through the city." On the north side of the Yellow River, there are two large iron fence gates that can be raised and lowered. Let's see if we can look into it and think of a way from here. ”

As soon as Li Jing heard this, "As soon as I came back, I saw the ten brothers I sent to learn diving with Mr. Zhang. This time, they also brought diving equipment. If there was a way underwater, they would be able to get in. ”

Chen Yufeng said: "Give Zhimu a telegram back first, so that he can rest assured." Let's study whether Li Jing's divers can be used. ”

Ouyang He personally drafted a telegram and sent it to Zhang Zhimu. At this time, Ouyang He was very uneasy, he knew that he was not calm enough as a military advisor, if it wasn't for Zhang Zhimu's timely reminder, he would have almost made a big mistake. Now Zhang Zhimu is already a five-body cast that Ouyang He admires, and he knows that Zhang Zhimu is a very far-sighted person, and he can be surprisingly calm when encountering problems. It seems that his cultivation is still not enough.

Li Jing asked Ning De, "General Ning, why do you use a lifting iron gate for your water gate, isn't it very difficult to open it every day?" ”

"Yes, the original water gate was also an iron gate that opened on both sides. But the sediment in the Yellow River is too large. It didn't take long for the door to open. Later, there was no way to change it to lifting, anyway, as long as it does not affect the entry and exit of the boat, there is no need to clean up the sediment. I cleaned up twice when I went to Tongguan. Ningde said.

"Isn't it that the big iron gate just fell on the mud and sand?" Li Jing asked.

"It's on the sand." Ningde replied.

"How deep can the sediment be?" Li Jing asked again.

"It's been a long time since I've cleaned it up, so it's deep." After Ning De answered, he asked, "Do you want to go in from under the door?" ”

Li Jing nodded and said, "We can dive over and dig a hole under the mud and sand under the door to drill through." Then he took the winch above and lifted the iron gate, and the rest of us rowed in the rubber boat. ”

After Li Jing finished speaking, no one in the room spoke. Because Li Jing's idea is too bold. What's more, they don't know what diving is all about and whether they can complete the task Li Jing said.

Chen Yufeng asked Li Jing: "You kid will tell us about your diving water first." We don't know, and we can't say if we let you go? ”

Li Jing didn't speak, turned around and went out, and after a while, a soldier wearing a full set of diving equipment came in.

Everyone couldn't help but laugh when they saw a soldier come in like this.

Liu Yun said: "How do you make it look like a water ghost? ”

The diver said, "Yes, Mr. Zhang said that we are water ghosts. ”

This diver combined his own equipment and introduced to everyone what diving is.

Chen Yufeng asked him: "Li Jing said, you can go to the bottom of the water to dig a hole under the iron gate." Do you think it's feasible? ”

The diver didn't know what Li Jing was studying here, and he said, "As long as we can touch it." ”

Ning De shook his head and said, "I can't see it, the water of the Yellow River is too muddy." You may not be able to see your way underwater during the day, let alone at night. ”

The diver was also very clever, and said: "Don't be afraid, we can snorkel at night, our heads are exposed, they can't see us from a distance, just wait until we get to the door and then go down." ”

Ouyang He said: "Our warship can also use searchlights to interfere with them and cover our people to approach the water gate." In any case, our ships can still cover them with heavy machine guns and mortars. ”

Li Jing said: "The rest of the people I brought with me will also approach the water gate from the water along the shore. The dinghy is not ready to use right away. ”

Everyone carefully deliberated on Li Jing's action plan for entering the water gate. Ning De pointed to the map of Tongguan and pointed out the location of the yamen prison to Li Jing. Because according to intelligence, Li Yan and the Red Lady are held here. Li Jing carefully studied several roads out of the Water Gate and approached the prison, and knew it by heart. Then he said, "Without further ado, we'll do it tonight." I'll go back and prepare. ”

After Li Jing went out, Chen Yufeng couldn't help laughing and said, "The little rabbit cub is really out of luck." ”

When it was dark at night, the two warships of Yaogang began to patrol the Yellow River according to the rules of this time. When the first warship came to the vicinity of Tongguan, it shone its searchlight on the city of Tongguan, and the light of the searchlight was very disliked by the Dashun army, and he was shaken by his eyes, and he would not be able to see for a while. But the kiln gang cattle are very, they don't care if you like it or not, they often shake over when they have nothing to do. The Great Shun Army is used to it. As soon as the searchlight came, they hid behind the battlements of the city wall. This time, when the second ship came, it shook its searchlight back and forth to the city wall. At this time, a string of rubber boats dragged behind the second warship loosened the towing rope and turned into the waterway leading to Tongguan. When you come to the waterway, the current is not as rapid as in the Yellow River. The people on the dinghy all rolled over and went into the water, sticking to the shore as they moved forward, dragging the dinghy as they went.

What made the defenders of the Dashun Army on Tongguan feel strange was that the warships of the Yaogang people seemed to be particularly interested in them today, and they were illuminated endlessly with searchlights. They knew that the searchlight of the kiln gang was to cover Li Jing and them.

Li Jing and the others finally came to the bottom of the water gate and hid in the door hole of the water gate. Li Jing asked everyone to wait quietly for a while, listened carefully, there was no other situation, and it seemed that the soldiers standing guard on the city wall could be heard from a distance, and there was a sound of talking.

Li Jing signaled that she could go into the water, and the two soldiers with diving equipment on their backs took out the small shovels they were carrying, put on water goggles, and turned over and dived underwater. Li Jing heard the sound of bubbles constantly coming out of the water and felt that the sound was too loud. In fact, it was too quiet in this doorway, and the sound was close, and I was nervous, so I felt that this sound was simply intolerable. But it can't be helped.

Li Jing felt that after waiting for a long time, there was a little sound of water coming from inside the first door, and a head with a water mirror came out of it. The person who showed up made a gesture, and Li Jing knew that it was done. Just make a gesture and ask him to dig underneath the second door.

Li Jing felt that after a long time, news came from inside, and the second door had been dug through.

Li Jing immediately motioned for the remaining eight people with diving equipment to go over together.

The eight people who went down behind felt the hole dug by the person in front of them and got through two iron fence gates, and they quietly unloaded their heavy diving equipment and took out their weapons and equipment wrapped in rubber bags. Especially when he took out the secret equipment, the pistol that Li Yunhe gave them. They quickly screwed the pistol to the muzzle. Ten men held their breath and listened to the fact that there was no movement outside, and they went out of the opening of the water gate, and slowly came to the gatehouse along the stairs next to the doorway, where two soldiers were standing guard.

One of them said, "The boat lights in the kiln have been shining for so long today, will something happen?" ”

The other said: "Maybe it looks good, if you take a little more photos, what can happen." ”

"Hehehe!" Before they could finish laughing, a man jumped up beside them, almost the same move, one hand covering their mouths and the other stabbing them in the heart with a sharp blade from the back. The technique is clean and clean, without a single sound. After the two men killed the two sentinels, one of them quietly came to the other side of the city gate tower, where there were two more sentinels. They used almost the same method to kill the two sentinels.

Of the ten people, two people were set aside to monitor the situation on the east and west walls, and then eight people worked together to push the winch and pull the big iron gate. The creaking sound of the big iron door was loud at night, and it shocked Li Jing, a person who had never known to be afraid, was also in a cold sweat.

The people on the tower of the city gate finally lifted the first iron gate, and when they were about to lift the second gate, there was a sound of footsteps and talking from the steps where the divers had just come up, "Hey, I said, I just seem to hear the sound of a winch." They don't stand guard well, what are they doing in the suburbs? ”

"Let's have enough to eat."

"Haha!"

Li Jing's soldiers knew that this was a change of guard, and they were alert, so they couldn't help it, so they pulled out their pistols and loaded them, and ambushed them at the entrance of the steps. In a moment, four soldiers who had changed the guard were revealed.

One of them shouted, "Hey! There was a change of guard. What do you do? ”

The answer to him was "Puff puff!" "A few shots, after *** silenced gunshots. Each of the four men had received at least two bullets.

Li Jing was below, and found that there was no movement above the first door, knowing that something must be wrong, and she was even more nervous below. I had no choice but to wait, and finally the squeaky sound came out again. Although Li Jing was afraid that this voice would attract the attention of Da Shunjun, it was stronger than no sound at all.

When the two iron gates were lifted, Li Jing led people to quietly row in the rubber boat. When Li Jing and the others came to the city gate, they saw that there were so many people guarding here, and asked, "That's not right!" They shouldn't be just a little bit of a person here, right? ”

Someone replied: "If these two large iron gates are not lifted from above with a winch, there is no way to do it from below, and there is no need to strengthen the defense." You don't see that there is also a jack gate between the two iron fences, and if there is a problem below, they put the jack gate down. There's no way to get in from outside. ”

When Li Jing came up, he saw the soldiers who had been killed, and knew that his time was running out. Leaving two people to guard the gate tower of this water gate, he led the people and quickly followed the pre-selected route and went straight to the backyard of the yamen. The prison of the Yamen was there. Along the way, Li Jing led people to avoid the patrol, and finally arrived

Outside the backyard of this yamen, it was found that there were two other sentry posts outside the courtyard. It is conceivable that there must be people standing guard inside the courtyard wall.

Time was too late, Li Jing ordered two groups of people, each to touch a sentry, let his people put on the clothes of the sentry, and stand here. Without the sentinels, the patrol would soon find out what was wrong.

Get rid of the sentry, although Li Jing wanted to jump into the wall of the backyard of the yamen immediately, he understood the truth that if you want to hurry, you can't reach it. He asked two people to set up a human ladder, climbed the wall himself, and looked into the courtyard. It was found that there were two sentry posts in the courtyard.

After Li Jing came down slowly, she pointed to the positions of the two sentinels in the courtyard, set up two ladders for each of them, and drove the two people to quietly climb the wall. Then jumping off the wall at the same time, each of them pounced on a sentry, immediately slicing the sentry's throat with a sharp blade. What the two people who jumped down didn't expect was that there was a third sentry in the courtyard, they were on the other side of the courtyard, Li Jing didn't see it, he heard a voice here, a little alert, but he wasn't sure what was wrong, "Hey!" What's wrong? ”

The special forces who came in, they were all carefully selected by Li Jing, and after countless battles, they were very clever, deliberately pretending to cough, and at the same time quickly approached the sentry, but when they saw the sentry, the pistol in their hands "poof" continuous shooting, and hit the sentry.

When Li Jing and the others jumped into the courtyard, they found that the door of the prison was locked from the inside.

Among Li Jing's people, there are masters of picking doors and pressing locks, but he fiddled with them from the outside for a while and didn't open the door. Li Jing saw a small window next to the door, so she knocked on the window with her hand. After a while, the sliding door of the small window opened, and a head appeared in front of the small window. The man was just about to look outside, when Li Jingyi reached out and grabbed his hair bun and dragged his head into the window, and the people inside exclaimed in fright. Li Jing's knife flickered in front of his eyes, stopped his voice, and said, "Give me the key to open the door." ”

The man said, "You let me go, and I'll go and get you the key." ”

Li Jing knew that it would be troublesome to let him go, so she cut his throat with a knife and pushed him in with her hands. Li Jing tried, but the window was too small to get in. Embarrassed, a small special forces soldier behind him said, "I'll try it!" ”

Li Jing let go of the window, this special soldier was already thin, but he did it lightly, and Li Jing also chose him because of this. I saw that he took off all the things on his body and handed them to the man, and then he put his hands and arms into the small window, and his body shrunk like a snake into the house through this small window.

Li Jing was shocked and said: "This is the bone shrinking skill, I have heard of it before, but I have never seen it." Looks like this kid is hiding deep enough. I showed my hand at a critical time today. ”

Besides, the special forces who knew how to work on the clavicle entered the house, but he was startled. It turned out that there was another person in the house who was sleeping in bed. There are so many things going on around me that I don't even know it.

This special soldier used to put a knife at this sleeping guy, pulling his ears to wake him up. This guy, by the light, saw a knife on his neck, and he didn't know what was going on, but he knew he should beg for mercy.

But this special soldier, after asking where the key was, did not hesitate to kill him. Then he pushed open the room, came to lead the door, opened the door of the prison from the inside, and let Li Jing and them in.

After Li Jing and the others came in, in another room, they found more than a dozen guards and servants. Li Jing waved her hand, and after a burst of "poof" pistol sounds, they were all resolved.

Li Jing and the others flashlighted and entered the corridor of the cell, and a musty smell rushed to their noses and nostrils.

But Li Jing didn't care about these and shouted, "Which one is General Li Yan and which one is the Red Lady?" ”

But no one answered, and Li Jingyi shouted in a hurry: "General Li Yan, Li Zicheng is about to cut off your head." We are here to save you. ”

It turned out that Li Yan had heard someone whisper that Li Zicheng might be going to kill him. But Li Yan still didn't believe it. He believes that even if Li Zicheng is dissatisfied with himself, he will not want to kill him. Besides, even if you believe in it, you can't do anything about it. Li Zicheng not only locked himself up, but also imprisoned his cronies in charge of the army.

At the beginning, Li Yan heard someone calling him, but he didn't know what the situation was, so he didn't say anything. But Li Jing said that Li Zicheng wanted to kill himself, and he couldn't help asking: "Who is here, why are you talking nonsense here?" ”

Li Jing heard someone answer, knew that this was Li Yan, and asked people to open Li Yan's prison door and said: "General Li, I am from Yaogang, and our military advisor Ouyang He got the news and sent me to save the general." ”

At this time, Li Yan still couldn't accept everything in front of him, and said: "I have been friends with the emperor for a long time, and we are like brothers. The emperor won't kill me. I'm not going with you either. ”

At this time, the red lady in the prison next to her spoke, "Husband, don't be stupid anymore. Li Zicheng is an ungrateful villain. If you don't leave today, it will be difficult to escape the suspicion of collaborating with the enemy. Just look at the faces of the brothers who are in prison with us, let's go! ”

Li Jing hurriedly went over and opened the door of the red lady's prison, opened the chain for her, and helped her to Li Yan's prison. Li Jing said, "General Li, let's go." Otherwise, it's too late. ”

Under the repeated persuasion of the red lady, Li Yan sighed and said, "It seems that I am really an unkind and unrighteous person." You can take my brethren with me, but you must take them all away. ”

Li Jing said: "Okay, take them all." Then he motioned for Li Yan to open the chains.

supported Li Yan and released more than a dozen of his cronies from prison one by one.

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