Chapter 40: Thunder Strikes
"Taiping Road?"
After hearing Guo Jia's confession, Gao Chang asked in a deep voice: "Then the purpose of their assassination of me is to provoke the chaos in Jizhou, so that they can take the opportunity to cause trouble?" β
Guo Jia nodded, "It should be so!" β
Gao Chang sneered: "These people are shouting for the benefit of the people of the world on the surface, but I am curious, the people of Jizhou are gradually settling down under my governance, but they want the people to rebel with them, I really don't know what happiness this has for the people!" β
Guo Jia also sneered: "What these people say is good, but in fact, they are not planning to addict the emperor, fake benevolence and righteousness, and be extremely shameless!" β
Gao Chang said with a murderous face: "Fengxiao, act tonight, let me wipe them out, I don't want these shady guys on my territory!" β
Guo Jia said in a deep voice: "No! β
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It was late at night.
In the room, the body of Huineng, who was killed during the day, had already been disposed of. At this moment, the man and his junior sister Zhang Ning were holding a meeting with several backbones to discuss their next move.
The man's voice was still cold, "Last time we failed to assassinate Gao Chang, he will definitely strengthen his vigilance in the future, and it will become more difficult to kill him!" β
"But..." He changed his words again and said word by word: "We can't just give up, for the sake of our great cause of Taipingdao, we must overcome many difficulties and be sure to take off the head of Gao Chang'er." β
A backbone next to him snorted and said: "But we have limited manpower, only more than a hundred people, and after the last assassination, Gao Chang's defense has been significantly strengthened, and every time he comes out, there are at least five hundred personal soldiers around him, and it is too difficult to kill him!" β
"No matter how hard it is, I'll kill him!" The man looked coldly at the people in the room, "You guys listen to me, since you have joined the Taiping Dao, you must be prepared to give your life for the great cause of the Taiping Dao, if anyone is greedy for life and afraid of death, my Huang Chao will kill him immediately!" Did you hear that? β
As soon as Huang Chao finished speaking, the outside 'bang!' There was a loud bang on the ground, and then one of his subordinates rushed into the house, and said in a panic: "Senior brother, countless soldiers have come from outside, surround us!" β
Huang Chao was taken aback, he suddenly realized that it must be because of Huineng, and he scolded hatefully, "Damn bald donkey! β
"Everyone broke through from all sides, and they would rather die than be caught!"
Huang Chao turned around and took out a wooden box from the drawer, which was the important information he had collected, and he wanted to take it away, he took the wooden box into his arms, pulled out a knife with one hand, and took the hand of his sister Zhang Ning with the other hand, and strode out.
Huang Chao's martial arts are good, he quickly climbed a tree, and with the elasticity of the branches, he jumped over the backyard wall, but Zhang Ning was delicate, and after climbing the tree, he didn't grasp it for a while, and he fell to the ground with a "bang". Huang Chao was in a hurry and was about to pull Zhang Ning along, but at this time, the soldiers surrounding the house had already discovered him and shot arrows at him.
Huang Chao said helplessly: "Senior sister, I'm sorry!" He turned and ran along the roof of a house behind him.
Zhang Ning watched Huang Chao leave ruthlessly, and couldn't help crying and shouted, "Senior brother, don't leave me!" β
The only thing that responded to her was constant shouts of killing!
Zhang Ning turned around and saw that the Taiping Taoists were constantly being killed by the soldiers who rushed in, and he was so frightened that he cried!
The battle in the house ended quickly, and dozens of Taiping Dao believers were either killed or captured, except for Huang Chao, who escaped.
Guo Jia walked into the backyard, and there were more than 20 crossbowmen of the internal guard standing at the head of the backyard wall, holding crossbows against the entire courtyard, and all the living Taiping disciples were squatting in the center of the courtyard with their heads in their hands. Only a young woman crouched in the corner and wept silently, and several Han soldiers were holding knives to her neck. Guo Jia glanced at them indifferently and waved his hand, "Take them all away!" β
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The Dark Guard Military Office is located outside the East City, it is a military camp covering an area of hundreds of acres, and the military office is also in the military camp, separated from the soldiers' military camp by a wall.
Gao Chang was escorted by hundreds of personal soldiers, and rode to the Inner Guard Army, Guo Jia was already waiting at the door, seeing Gao Chang coming, he hurriedly stepped forward and bowed, "See the lord!" β
Gao Chang turned over and dismounted. "Where are the prisoners?" he asked. β
"In the dungeon, please go this way."
Guo Jia led Gao Chang into the military office, the dungeon is located in the backyard of the military office, above is a courtyard, after entering there are stone steps leading to the underground, the entire dungeon is built with big bluestone. Extremely rugged.
The dungeon is dark, gloomy and eerie.
Guo Jia led Gao Chang to a cell, pointed to the woman inside and said: "Lord Lord, those people have all been recruited, and the one who confessed is Zhang Ning, the righteous daughter of Zhang Jiao, the first of Taiping Dao, and the one who escaped is Zhang Jiao's eldest apprentice Huang Chao, they were ordered to come to Hebei to develop, and when the time is ripe, they will respond to Zhang Jiao and revolt together!" β
Hearing Huang Chao's name, Gao Chang was already surprised. Indifferently asked, "Then did she recruit it?" β
Guo Jia shook his head helplessly, "She just cried and didn't say anything, and the brothers were afraid that she would commit suicide and didn't dare to interrogate her strictly." β
Gao Chang nodded, "I know, open the door, I'll go in and have a look!" β
Guo Jia arched his hand and said, "Yes!" With a wave of his hand, the two big men beside him hurriedly pushed the door open, Gao Chang walked into the room, and looked fixedly, only to see a woman in a long skirt curled up in the corner, her hands tied behind her back, her feet were also tied, her head was deeply bowed, and she was crying in a low voice.
Gao Chang stepped forward, squatted down in front of her, looked at her for a long time, and asked with a smile: "Your name is Zhang Ning, and your father-in-law is called Zhang Jiao, right?" β
Zhang Ning didn't say anything, and the soldiers next to him shouted angrily: "What did the general ask you about?" Say it! β
Gao Chang waved his hand, stopped the angry reprimand of his own soldiers, looked at her for a long time, and said lightly: "Your father-in-law wants to rebel, right?" β
Zhang Ning's body trembled slightly, still whimpering and refusing to speak.
Gao Chang slowly stood up, lifted the woman's face with a horsewhip, and saw a tearful face like a pear blossom with rain, with crystal skin, white and greasy, pitiful, and quite pretty.
Gao Chang stared at this face and said regretfully: "It looks really Peugeot, but it's a pity, it has something to do with the thief, alas, do you know that the rebellion is to be beheaded by the whole family, poor woman, even I can't protect you, imagine the situation when your head falls to the ground!" Then he turned around and was about to leave.
Zhang Ning suddenly cried, although she was taught by Zhang Jiao to instill the idea of Taiping Dao since she was a child, but in the end, she was just a sixteen-year-old girl, just like a flower in a greenhouse, she couldn't withstand the test of wind and rain at all. So at this moment, when death was really close to her, the so-called belief in sacrificing for the cause of Taiping Dao completely collapsed, and she cried and grabbed the corner of Gao Chang's clothes, "General, I don't want to die!" β
Gao Chang smiled smugly in his heart, turned around again, cut the rope on her hand with a dagger, stroked her hair, and said softly: "Your fate is actually in my hands, I will give you another chance, maybe I can save you from death, tell me, where is your father-in-law, and the current development of Taiping Dao!" β
Zhang Ning sobbed and said, "I... I. All said, will. Checkmate.. Certain.. Talk the talk! β
Gao Chang smiled indifferently: "General Ben's words count!" β
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