Chapter 61: Finding the Needle
The team defending the city had been on the battlefield before, and when they saw these two knives picked up, they threw them into the distance, and shouted at the soldiers defending the city: "Someone! There is an enemy! ”
Dozens of people guarding the city on both sides blocked the two at the gate of the city with knives and guns, and the two men with carts saw that the situation was not good, looked at each other, pulled out daggers from their waists, and rushed up to meet the officers and soldiers.
For a while, these people fought together, and the two of them were not bad in terms of kung fu, with two daggers and more than a dozen people with spears, they did not fall into battle, but these two people were also entangled and couldn't get out of the city gate, and they were stuck together for a while.
When the whistle sounded, more soldiers gathered inside and outside the city gates.
"Don't let people go in the cave of the city gate, surround them first, don't let them run, use spears instead, don't let them in, and those with knives retreat."
With the issuance of the team's order, the physical strength of the two people gradually could not support it, and several wounds were stabbed on the two of them after a cup of tea, and blood dripped to the ground along their clothes.
"Lay down your arms and surrender, Rao Er won't die!" The team shouted at the two of them.
The two hesitated and glanced at each other, and after roaring, they continued to kill the officers and soldiers.
"Kill! Not a single one stayed" team Zheng also roared.
Not long after, the two of them who were about to leave the city fell to the ground.
By the time Xiao Zheng arrived with his people, the battle had already ended. Ji Chun went over and looked through the two corpses and said: "There are no signs on the body, the two of them are good at using knives, and their kung fu is average."
At this time, the team was walking over and said to Xiao Zheng: "My lord, the villain originally wanted to capture them alive, but these two people are extremely strong, so the villain had to kill them and ask the adult to punish them."
Xiao Zheng said to him: "Good job! There is no need to make senseless sacrifices to capture the two alive, and everyone present will be rewarded."
"Thank you, sir!" The team was happily saluting Xiao Zheng again.
"Ji Ye, this confirms our guess even more, these two people must be the pawns who test our guards. From the side, it shows that they can't hold on. Tell the teams of the other four gates to strengthen patrols at night, focusing on the city walls and city gates, I want to see who can consume whom," Xiao Zheng said to Ji Chun.
There is a street not far from the Hangzhou prison, there are several shops doing business on the street, the houses in the front yard are for trading, the back yard is inhabited by people, and then the back is a river more than two zhang wide, and it is convenient for everyone to transport some goods by boat.
Wei San is one of the proprietors of these shops, usually relying on the sale of silkworm cocoons as the main business, sometimes do some other livelihoods, the business is okay, with a smile on the face of the day to welcome the reception merchants, but these days I don't know why the door to the backyard has been locked.
At dusk, after closing the shop and closing the door, Wei San carefully looked around before opening the locked door in the backyard and entering the house, where more than two dozen sturdy men sat or stood in the house.
Seeing Wei San come in, a sturdy man sat on a chair and asked, "How is the situation outside?" ”
"Back to the hall master, on the surface, Hangzhou's city defense is not as strict as a few days ago, but the subordinates see that it is loose on the outside and tight on the inside, and there is no shortage of open and dark posts patrolling at night. Two days ago, the two brothers we went out to explore the road were folded at the gate of the city, so please be careful."
"What if we were to get out in pieces?" Another man asked.
"It's not that hard."
Wei San glanced at Gong Dajun with some hesitation and said: "Mr. Gong will be a little troublesome, even if he changes his appearance, he can't change his height and weight in the short term, this Xiao Zheng is really vicious, and it doesn't count if he paints Mr. Gong very much, and the bounty is also extremely high, which is a bit troublesome."
I saw this man look at Gong Dajun and said: "I don't know what my master likes about you, let's try our best to save you, seeing such a high bounty, Lao Tzu wants to hand you over for money."
When this person said this, Gong Dajun was so frightened that he shrank his neck and didn't dare to say anything.
"Alright, let's find a way to get us some food and some wine, damn it, people are going crazy in this place," the man said scolding.
"Subordinates obey!" Wei San turned around and walked out of the room.
"Boy, you're really not in a hurry to get them out?" Chief Sun Simiao asked while drinking wine in the mansion with a piece of cold lotus root.
"If those two people don't come out, the kid is really a little anxious, since someone has come out, now the kid is not in a hurry, and the rest should be more anxious than me."
The two were talking, and saw Tai Jiuchuan, the president of the Hangzhou Chamber of Commerce, hurriedly walking in with an old man.
Qin Jiuchuan was not polite when he saw Xiao Zheng, pointed to the old man and said to Xiao Zheng: "My lord, this person is surnamed Zhang in his lower cousin, he opened a restaurant with his youngest son in Zhangjia Alley, and he usually sells some food. In the past few days, he found something abnormal, so he found me first, and the villain felt that there was a problem here, so he took him to come to you to report it."
After pouring a cup of tea for the two, Xiao Zheng smiled and said to Zhang Laohan: "Old man, if there is anything, you can say it directly."
Zhang Laohan drank some water and said: "My lord, that's the case, the old man and his son opened a shop that sells food, not far from my house, there is a family called Wei San, his family is a silkworm cocoon, and he usually comes to my house to buy some food." Since the robbery in Hangzhou a few days ago, Wei San has come to my house almost every day to buy a lot of food, mutton, rice, and sometimes pot helmets, and he buys a lot of food, every day."
Xiao Zheng was stunned for a moment after hearing this, thought for a while and asked, "Old man, has his family hired workers during this time?" ”
"No, every time I go to the street, I pass by his shop, and sometimes I say hello and chat, and I know very well the four guys in his family."
"Do you know how many people are enough to eat the stuff he bought?"
"Those things are enough for twenty men to eat, the old man runs a restaurant, and I probably have a number in my heart who eats as much as I want."
"Go and invite Ji Chun," Xiao Zheng said to Gong Yi Ruoyi.
As soon as he told Ji Chun about the situation, the old guy's eyes immediately narrowed, and after thinking about it, he said: "There must be ghosts here, if the old man doesn't guess wrong, if he can't get these people to hide in this house."
"It's definitely hiding in this house, that place is not far from the prison, this group of people is quite good at hiding, it's really the more dangerous the place, the safer, okay!" Xiao Zheng said with a smile.
"Your words are classic," Ji Chun said with a smile.
He took two steps in the room and said to Qin Jiuchuan: "President Qin, Shopkeeper Zhang, for the sake of safety, I may have to ask the two of you to stay in my house for a while tonight, and we must prepare for action immediately, I hope you two will understand."
"Don't worry, Lord Xiao, we understand what you mean, please don't take care of us," Qin Jiuchuan arched his hand and said.
"Ruoyi, immediately transfer five hundred soldiers over, bring Qiang, and you will do something else......" Xiao Zheng instructed Ruoyi.
"Then when are we going to do it," Ji Chun asked with a smile.
"Don't worry, he robbed my prison on the third watch, I went to him on the fourth watch, and I didn't come to be rude, I want to fish them all out today."