Wang Huaqiang and Mai Tiezhu came here the day before yesterday, Buddhism was extremely popular in the Southern Dynasties, even if it was a murderous rebel, they did not dare to search and invade the temple at will, Wang Huaqiang took this into account before leaving, and specially crossed the river at night, smuggled to Jingkou by a small boat, and ran with Mai Tiezhu to the Zexin Temple on the Jinshan Mountain in the northwest of Jingkou (at this time it was also called this name, and later generations changed its name to Jinshan Temple, and because of the legend of Fahai and the White Lady), asked for two sets of degrees, dressed up as two walking feet with hair heads,

Jingkou is more than 340 miles away from this Suzhou, the two of them go out day and night all the way, the wheat iron rod is familiar with the terrain, all the way to those paths, the soldiers are in chaos, many villages are collectively fleeing, ten rooms and nine empty, even if the most prosperous in the south of the Yangtze River, the most densely populated southern Jiangsu area, it was not spared, it took three days, the two people arrived at the Tiger Hill Bao'en Temple, and relied on two degrees to live in the temple, these two days have been in the woods outside the temple to spy on the mountain.

Wang Huaqiang stared at the avenue under the mountain, the patrol soldiers were ten people in a team, the distance between the front and back was only about a mile, the two teams were completely within the line of sight, day and night, you can run into the moat of Suzhou City under the avenue, Suzhou is a big city, the city is high and the pool is wide, the moat is more than ten zhang, but as long as you can dodge those patrolling soldiers, rush into the river, swim through the rope hook that Guò carries on your body, take the battlements of the city wall, and climb up.

Wang Huaqiang carefully calculated the time, unless he could divert all the two or three patrolling enemy troops, otherwise even if he swam across the river, he would definitely be discovered by the enemy troops, and if they let go of the arrows, he would be in trouble. The four or five zhang high Suzhou city wall has to climb for a while. As long as the enemy army is within a mile, when they arrive, they can shoot themselves into stacks of arrows.

Wang Huaqiang's face sank like water. Glancing at the wheat iron rod beside him, it seemed that the mention before crossing the river had to be implemented. If Yang Su's task is not completed this time, with Yang Su's strictness in governing the army, his head will be like the hundreds of deserters that day, Yang Su will be used as a declaration of military prestige, and he will be taken to various battalions to tour the exhibition, and Lai Hu'er must be eager to cut off his head in person.

Although Mai Tiezhu is a rough man, his mind is extremely fine, and he understood it from Wang Huaqiang's eyes, and he grinned. showed a mouthful of yellow teeth and laughed: "Wang joins the army, are you going to use that trick?" No problem. It's wrapped around the iron staff, but you look at these patrolling thieves, a team of more than a dozen people, I only lead one team, I'm afraid you won't have time yet. ”

Wang Huaqiang nodded, groaned for a while, and said, "Then when you are caught." You must struggle desperately to resist, I have calculated the time, if you can attract the next two teams to follow, you can open up a distance of about two miles. The route of their patrol was from the camp in the north of the city, by the moat, and walked in a large circle around the city of Suzhou. Finally, return to the camp in the north of the city. But if he catches you here, he will definitely take you back to the camp directly.

So as long as you can fight desperately. and even flee in the direction of their camp in the north of the city, after the enemy has captured you. Several teams will fight for merit together, and they will escort you in the direction of the big camp, and you have to find a way to get them to drink the wine in this gourd before they take them into the big camp, and then, you know. Don't forget, when you go back, you go straight to Jingkou, Yang Dashuai should have captured it by this time. ”

Mai Tiezhu smiled, patted the wine gourd on his waist, and said, "It's wrapped in Lao Mai." ”

After the two discussed, they went back to the temple for a meal, and when it was dark, groups of rebel patrol soldiers with torches crawled up and down the avenue outside Suzhou like flowing centipedes, and gave them full instructions.

The two of them lurked in the grass at the foot of Tiger Hill for a long time, until after the hour, the speed of the enemy troops coming out of the camp slowed down a little, but the uninterrupted patrol still illuminated the road as if it were day, and the wheat iron rod first poured a few large sips of wine with another clean wine gourd, so that he was covered with the smell of wine, and then took the sweat medicine wine gourd in his hand, and got out of the grass, laughing while walking crookedly on the road.

The nearest patrol was only more than a hundred steps away from the wheat iron staff, and when he saw this Toutuo holding a big wine gourd, his face was flushed, and the leading sergeant frowned and shouted: "Stop that Toutuo in front, who are you?" As he spoke, he waved his hand, and several sergeants around him drew their swords and arrows and surrounded him.

Mai Tiezhu just drank up the liquor in a big gourd, more than a catty, at this time he was half pretending to be drunk, half was really drunk, looking at the sergeant, he laughed, pointed at the sergeant, and hooked his fingers: "Baby, come, incense, the Buddha has money, hahahaha." When he finished speaking, he burped a high-intensity wine and fell to the ground, his mouth full of gibberish.

A short soldier beside the leading sergeant stepped forward and said: "Brother Liu, look at this guy should be a drunk Toutuo, and the mountain is Tiger Hill Bao'en Temple, this kind of person has seen a lot, so let's leave him alone and let him go." ”

The sergeant surnamed Liu shook his head: "No, what time is this?" Even if it is the head of the mountain, he would have gone back long ago after drinking too much, and the nearest town to the Tiger Hill Bao'en Temple is also seven or eight miles away, and they are all north and west of the Tiger Hill, but he appeared in the south of the moat, which is very strange, I think this person is likely to be a spy of the Sui army, and he wants to take the opportunity to sneak into the city, and when we find out, he begins to pretend to be crazy and stupid. ”

Another horse-faced soldier chimed in: "Brother Liu is right, this kid is probably a spy of the Sui army, take it down and send it to the camp for interrogation, it's always right!"

The sergeant major surnamed Liu nodded, waved his hand, and several soldiers who had already surrounded the wheat iron staff stepped forward, first touched the legs of the wheat iron staff with the knife and spear in their hands, and the wheat iron staff just turned over and reflexively flicked the knives and spears with their hands, and the soldiers took out a rope and tied the wheat iron staff firmly.

The sergeant major, surnamed Liu, stepped forward, rummaged around the body of the wheat iron staff, found a degree of the rod, the words on which he did not recognize, sneered twice, held it high, and said to the soldiers around him: "Look, this is the letter that this spy wants to bring into the city, but fortunately we have caught him." This is a great achievement, and now everyone will escort him back with me!"

Dozens of steps away in the grass, Wang Huaqiang heard clearly, a burst of laughter in his heart, this degree has only appeared since the Northern and Southern Dynasties, at this time has not been officially popular, after the two extermination of Buddhism in the Northern Dynasties, it is less than 100,000 monks and nuns in the country, in order to prevent the people from becoming monks and evading taxes and servitude, the Northern Dynasty will issue this officially recognized degree, with this thing is allowed to be a monk, otherwise once caught, it will be forced to return to the vulgar.

Wang Huaqiang brought two degrees this time, are from the Zexin Temple to get, the abbot looked at the Jiangbei Sui army all day long, how dare not follow, himself and the first two degrees of the offering, Wang Huaqiang did not pay attention at the time, until the Tiger Hill found that something was wrong, the two monks written on the degree are fifty or sixty years old, and he and Mai Tiecane will not be more than thirty, even if they are carefully watched, they will find flaws.

However, this sergeant major surnamed Liu is obviously illiterate, and he has never seen this kind of degree, which was originally only popular in the north and began to be issued in temples in the south last year.

A group of people happily walked backwards with wheat and iron rods, the fire was getting farther and farther away, Wang Huaqiang's front became pitch black, and the enemy patrol team that went out in the other direction had already walked away for two or three miles, and now was a good opportunity to cross the river!

Wang Huaqiang took a deep breath, quickly got out of the grass, and jumped directly from the embankment on the other side of the avenue, he changed into a tight night suit today, and there were seven or eight circles of thick hemp rope on his right shoulder, and one end of the rope was a claw hook, and he would count on this thing when he climbed the city wall for a while.

There was a commotion on the avenue in the distance, and the loud voice of the wheat iron rod could drift along the breeze of the river bank to Wang Huaqiang's ears under the river embankment two miles away: "The Sprinkle family is a monk who leads the hair to practice, you even dare to catch the Buddha, is there still a royal law?!" (To be continued......)

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