Chapter Eighty-Eight: Everything Is Ready
Compared with Gongyi, Luoyang is like an undefended city, because this is the nominal political center of the world, the Jiuding symbolizing the royal power is in Luoyang, in the absence of absolute strength to overwhelm all the remaining princes, no prince will have a problem with his head to attack or even occupy Luoyang, only the royal family itself dares to make trouble in Luoyang when they compete for the throne, that is, the Gongzi class brought the Han army to come last time, and he did not dare to attack Luoyang, so Luoyang's arrogance is not cultivated in a day. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Although there are soldiers guarding the gate of the city, it basically doesn't matter who enters and who leaves, if it is not for the prevention of bandits, Luoyang City is afraid that it will not be closed at night. Therefore, the more than 300 warriors of the royal family from Jinmagou were almost unhindered when they entered from different gates in many batches, and they did not attract the slightest attention from anyone.
After the three hundred people entered the city, they did not gather together, but each of them, under the leadership of the captain or veteran, went to the predetermined place, one group under the leadership of Wang Sunjian mixed into Tu Huang's Tu Mansion, one group under the leadership of Liu Yun hid in the mansion of Xin Zheng, the boss of the Xin family, who was good friends with Bai Gui, and the other group lived in Bai Mansion with Bai Gui. And among the Bai Mansion, there have been successive return of the samurai raised by Bai Gui in the manor outside the city, fortunately the Bai Mansion is big, otherwise it would really not be able to squeeze in. This slaughter mansion is in the middle of the city, not far from the Ming Palace in the north of the city, and the Xin Mansion is on the east side of the street of the Ming Palace full of nobles. As for Bai Mansion, it is still in the east, although it is far from anywhere, but it is even less noticeable, and this is the command center of Bai Gui's troops. According to the discussion with the king, the affairs in Luoyang City are under Bai Gui's overall control.
Of course, it is not enough to rely on these 300 people, so after the people of Jinmagou entered Luoyang and settled down, the next day, someone crossed Luoshui from the south, and naturally the two squads drawn from the royal forest army in the royal family bent to the south, and then crossed Luoshui to the north, just to cover people's eyes.
These two squads are Zhou Zhan and Zhang Hu's squads, and before leaving, some elite soldiers were transferred from the rest of the squads, so this actually represents the strongest military force of the royal family. Of course, Zhang Hu's subordinates and others also followed, they were originally local idlers in Luoyang, familiar with the terrain, knew how to hide themselves, and talked to the local surviving gangsters, etc., it can be seen that Zhou Bian really used all the power that could be used in order to ensure success this time, although there were also worries about those local splashes leaking news, but firstly, the day of contacting them was put on the day before the event, and secondly, the last time Zhou Gong arrested a lot of idlers all over the city in order to deal with the royal family. Although they were redeemed by the royal family, the rest of the ploppy skin was ransomed by their families after being tortured, or in the end, Zhou Gong felt that it was meaningless and let go, so naturally they would have a grudge against Zhou Gong.
Unlike Wang Sunjian and them, Wang Sunjian and Liu Yun and their weapons were prepared by Bai Gui in Luoyang City, while Zhou Zhan Zhang Hu and their weapons were smuggled in the trucks of the caravan, in order to prevent them from being found out, they also deliberately transported the tip of the spear and the trunk of the spear separately, and the reason why they were so careful to transport it in was because their weapons had been replaced with iron spears, the latest iron spears made of ten steels, which were extremely sharp, and the royal family could be said to have equipped them with the best weapons regardless of blood, and the bow and crossbow were also bought back by Bai Gui from Chu Guogang, There are only more than 100 sets, and they were used first. It can be seen that in the hearts of the royal family, these two squads are the most important force for winning by surprise.
After Zhang Hu's team separated and entered Luoyang City, they converged with Li Yuan, who was also one of the king's early guards, and had been sent to stay in Luoyang to pay attention to all kinds of news in Luoyang, and this secret mansion was also an important stronghold of the royal family in Luoyang, and it has been expanded to accommodate dozens of people. Zhou Zhan and the others scattered into a courtyard in the northwest of the city, this courtyard was secretly bought by Bai Gui not long ago, and after going out and turning right from the alley, you can see the Ming Palace after going straight for a few hundred steps, which shows that the royal family planned early and thought carefully.
The words of carelessness in Jingzhou are indeed true, Ren is Duke of Zhou is calm, Ning Yue is cautious, no one thought that Luoyang City had been mixed with hundreds of warriors loyal to the royal family at this time, let alone that the weak royal family would hit themselves with their ideas. For decades, the Duke of Zhou, who was sealed in Luoyang, has habitually bullied the royal family of Cheng Zhou, and now he is a young man, so naturally no one thinks about it. However, this also depends on Zhou Bian's boldness, if it were not for the insight of later generations, he would naturally not dare to take such a risky move under the condition that the disparity in strength is so great.
As orders were issued from the palace, Zhou Bian's heart became higher and higher day by day. After repeated and precise plans with the Taishi, the young master and Bai Gui, the plan was finally decided, and the generals and generals, up to Sima Tu, down to every captain, except for Wang Sunjian and Liu Yun who were far away in Jinmagou, were all represented by Zhou Bian on behalf of their respective tasks and precautions, and after repeatedly confirming that they had been understood, they would let the future go.
If it is counted from the first day when the Han soldiers hurriedly go north, then on the second day, Zhou Bian and Bai Gui and the others determined every detail of the entire plan, and passed it on to every specific person in charge in Chengzhou, and before dawn on the third day, Bai Gui and Li An left before dawn, one to the south and the other to the east. As the tasks were arranged one by one, Zhou Bian's heart gradually hung in the air. This move is really the most risky step Zhou Bian made in his life, success has a place for development and solid backing, defeat is captured and imprisoned or even a small life, maybe many years later Zhou Bian recalled this decision, and his heart will be a little afraid.
But the good news soon came back, starting with Ang Lee's return. In fact, after sending Bai Gui and Li An away, Zhou Bian was also a little uneasy, Bai Gui thought that it should not be a big problem, but Gongyi was out of control, and I don't know if Li An could successfully sneak into Gongyi, and whether he could say that the brother of the Dong clan would get out and go back, fortunately, after waiting for two days anxiously, the next night, Zhou Bian had just finished dinner, and he heard that a guard came to report, and Li An came back.
Hearing that Li An had returned, Zhou Bian, who had been paying attention to self-cultivation, couldn't sit still all of a sudden, and stood up suddenly, Liu Qing, who was talking casually with the king in a panic, was at a loss, but seeing that the king couldn't care about anything, he hurriedly ran out with a wave of his sleeves.
In the conference hall behind the Chongde Palace, Zhou Bian saw Li An standing in it at a glance, and at this time, Li An's expression was a little tired and excited, just by looking at his face, he knew that he was bringing back good news. Sure enough, after Li Ang finished saluting in a slightly high tone, he began to speak. From being taken out by Jiang Ping early that morning, until he returned to Chengzhou, although Zhou Bian didn't care about the process, he was extremely excited when he saw what Li An said, as if this was a stimulus that he had never experienced in his life, Zhou Bian couldn't bear to interrupt, and let him continue with a slightly transfigured voice, which was not very clear.
It turned out that he followed Jiang Ping across Luoshui to the east and hurried to the southeast of Gongyi, and waited in the woods on the side of the road to the new city for more than half an hour, only to see two men coming in a hurry, and after exchanging clothes and dressing up with the latter man who was carrying a burden, he silently recited Jiang Ping's explanation, and Li An followed the merchant who claimed to be the prince of Wei to Luoshui in the north.
In fact, Li An has long known clearly that since the day the news of his death was reported back to Gongyi, he is no longer a person in Gongyi, no matter whether he surrenders to the royal family or not, it is impossible for the Gongzi class to accept him anymore, and the strict and narrow character of the Gongzi class is deeply understood by everyone in Gongyi. So after approaching Gongyi again, although the almost tall city gate was newly built after he left, Li An was still inexplicably nervous in his heart, if he didn't think about gaining a foothold in the royal family in the future, even the wealth of the prince, and caring about his wife and sister, Li An would never want to return to Gongyi.
It wasn't until he successfully entered Gongyi that Li An's mood returned to calm, and he seemed to exhaust all his strength to deal with the interrogation of the guards at the gate, but as soon as he stepped into the street that he had been familiar with since childhood, Li An almost couldn't hold back the excitement in his heart, and shouted, Gongyi, I, Li An is back again! I really didn't expect to be able to return to this place where I was born and raised, and once I came back, I really didn't want to go again, at this moment, although Ang Lee himself didn't realize it, in fact, how much he hated war in his heart now. The moment he knelt in front of his mother, who was crying with joy, Ang Lee really didn't want to go anymore.
But fortunately, the mother is still quite sensible, and after listening to the experience she said and the purpose of returning to Gongyi, she expressed great support, but the mother expressed her great dissatisfaction with the king of Chengzhou for more than half a year before releasing him, which made the family mourn for most of the year.
Although he paid more attention to the final result and was not very interested in this process and Ang Lee's feelings, Zhou Bian still smiled and listened to Li Andong's words out of the polite habits developed in later generations. In fact, Zhou Bian still has a certain amount of guilt in his heart for detaining Ang Lee for more than half a year, holding back not to let his mother and son meet, and not letting Ang Lee's family know that Ang Lee is still alive, after all, he has a big plan, if he is soft-hearted and first informs Ang Lee's family, firstly, I don't know how Ang Lee's family is, whether he will think about it, whether he will leak the news, and secondly, it is not conducive to his own firm Ang Lee's heart to serve the royal family.
Although Ang Lee didn't notice that he was talking too much, Ang Lee's patience was still a little moved, and he finally got down to business. What Zhou Bian didn't expect was that the situation was better than he expected, and it didn't take much effort for Li An to persuade his brother Li Ding, and he really blessed himself a little bit, Li Ding not only agreed to serve the royal family, obeyed Zhou Bian's arrangement, but also put forward some suggestions, Li An is still a little smart, as soon as he heard that it was good for the royal family, he immediately agreed for the king, which made Zhou Bian's opinion of Li An a lot better.
After finishing talking about business, Li An finally realized that he had said a little too much, so he just said a word about how to return to Chengzhou, Rao is so, after being praised by the king, Li An said goodbye and walked out of the door It was already a starry sky.
The good news came one after another, the day after Li An came back, someone from Luoyang reported that all the teams had arrived at the predetermined location and were ready to be in place, just waiting for the king's order. In this way, everything was really ready, just waiting for that opportunity, so Zhou Bian couldn't help but turn his eyes to the north, where there would be a war that deeply affected him.