In the evening, the afterglow was swirling, the sky was gray, and it gradually melted into the night, Pengzhou City, at the east city gate, when the two gates were about to be combined, at this moment, a group of people came from afar, looking at its mixed costumes, it was one of the sect troops of the White Lotus Sect. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The two gates that moved slowly stopped abruptly, and a voice came from the city gate: "It seems that our people are coming, and the others are ready, follow my orders, once you find out that those people are disguised by Qing soldiers, immediately close the city gate for me, and all the archers and bird guns on the city wall shoot at me, do you listen?" ”

"Yes, I heard you!"

The group gradually came, getting closer and closer to the city gate, and when they came to the city gate, the head of the city gate tower finally saw the person clearly, and immediately shouted: "Let go, it is Gou Wenming who leads them, go and report to Zhang Zicong!" ”

Crunch ~ crunch ~

The hidden city gate was completely opened, and Gou Wenming led a group of people straight in, followed by Lao Wei, whose dense beard and tall height were his trademarks. However, at this time, he was wrapped in a cloth on his head, just enough to cover his hair, and no one doubted his identity in the White Lotus Sect clothes.

When night falls, Pengzhou City is deserted, the hotels and inns on both sides of the street are even more scarce, the gloomy clouds are bleak, even those fireworks places are also business withering, and the merry fireworks guests are scattered, and there are few people.

Pengzhou City is like a dead city, there is no bustling and lively night market, there are no hundred lights, everything is lifeless, dark, the sky is just dark, but there is no candlelight flickering, it can be described as quiet and a little weird.

From Guangzhou all the way to the north, followed Yang Lin to fight, until he reached the capital, went south again, to the southwest, along the way, in a few months, Lao Wei saw many barren villages, broken walls. However, it was the first time I had seen a medium-sized city as depressed as Pengzhou City, so I was very curious, wondering what kind of gunsmoke and war this city had experienced before it was destroyed like this and dilapidated?

Looking at Zhang Zicong's subordinates leading the way in front, taking advantage of the night, Lao Wei looked sideways at Gou Wenming and asked in a low voice: "Brother Gou, what's going on in this Pengzhou City?" How did it come to be like this? At first glance, there are hardly many people living in the city. It was just dark, and there were hardly any lights on it. ”

At this time, Gou Wenming's heart was thinking about another thing, is it not enough to lead people to attack Zhang Zicong's sect army tonight? Is it against the oath of the original sectarians?

However, the safety of his brother, a large number of believers are on the verge of death, and he can't help but be merciful and remember the original oath of various sects and soldiers, let alone refuse anything.

When Gou Wenming was at war between heaven and man, and secretly struggled in his heart, when he heard Lao Wei's inquiry, he immediately woke up and replied without thinking: "Brother Wei, you must also know that the war in Sichuan has been going through several years, and the war has almost burned Sichuan red, and there are more or less wars every day, and there is no quiet place. ”

"In the past year, our war with the Qing army has become more and more intense, affecting more and more widely, large areas of land are barren, many people have been displaced, fleeing their hometowns, far away from Sichuan, and fleeing to the surrounding areas, for two or three consecutive years, of course, it has become like this. Moreover, this is not only the case in Pengzhou City, but also in many prefectures and counties in Sichuan. ”

Lao Wei nodded suddenly, as if he had thought of something, and said thoughtfully: "Also, when I was in Guangzhou, I heard about the battle between the White Lotus Sect and the Qing army, ranging from tens of thousands of people to hundreds of thousands of people. Hey, by the way, Brother Gou, many of the soldiers in our Daguang Army are from Sichuan and Hunan. In particular, most of the members of the Qilin Army and the Navy Thunder are victims who fled from Sichuan. ”

Hearing this, another knot in Gou Wenming's heart was opened, and the doubts that had been bothering his heart finally understood, why the Qing court had been destroyed for so long, and he had not heard a little news in Sichuan, it turned out that Thunder was also an army of the Great Guang Dynasty, with this powerful sailor, the supreme person of the Great Guang Dynasty was completely able to arrange two blockade lines on the water surface of the Yangtze River and the Yellow River, so that the news of the Qing court's destruction, or the news of the war in the north, would be difficult and difficult to spread to the southwest.

"Hey, Brother Gou, what's wrong? What are you thinking? Seeing that Gou Wenming didn't react for a long time, Lao Wei asked in a low voice.

"Oh, oh, Brother Wei, I'm fine, I just thought of something and lost my mind." Gou Wenming woke up and turned around, and said meaningfully, looking at the dark front, a bright mansion appeared, and then reminded: "Brother Wei, the front is Zhang Zicong's residence, wait a minute, act carefully, everything is up to me to deal with, you keep silent as much as possible, so as not to expose your feet and be discovered by Zhang Zicong." ”

"Well, okay, everything depends on Brother Gou~" Lao Wei responded in a low voice, looked ahead, and saw a group of people walking out of the bright mansion, so he didn't say anything more, and quietly followed forward.

Looking from afar, by the light of the lantern in front of the bright mansion, I saw those people standing on the street waiting, it was obvious that those people were Zhang Zicong's subordinates, who specially greeted Gou Wenming and others.

Seeing this situation, Lao Wei secretly thought in his heart, it seems that the information given by the deputy hall master of Qu Kun is correct, the various sect armies of the White Lotus Sect are not monolithic, and they often engage in internal power struggles, and this scene in front of him is a good proof of this.

In any case, even if Gou Wenming is brave, there are not many disciples who are pursued and suppressed by the Qing army, but, according to the level, Gou Wenming is also the leader of the sect all the way, and Zhang Zicong should come to greet him in person. It can be seen that Zhang Zicong really did not take Gou Wenming and Xian Dachuan in his eyes, and did not treat them as equals.

Thinking of this, the group had come to the door of Zhang Zicong's mansion, only three or five steps away from the person who greeted him, the other party immediately walked a few steps quickly, greeted him, and said loudly: "Leader Gou, what a rare guest, please come in, please come in, Leader Zhang is waiting for a banquet inside~!" ”

Although the words were polite and the smiling face was welcoming, it was full of arrogance, Gou Wenming didn't seem to feel it, and he also smiled and said politely: "Hehe, Brother Cai Xin, it's really polite, what is the leader, just call me civilized!" ”

Immediately afterwards, Gou Wenming stretched out his right hand, pointed to the front, and said loudly: "Let's go, Brother Cai, let's not greet here." This time, I came here, but I asked Leader Zhang, if he waited for a long time, the medicinal materials and grain and grass we needed would be completely hopeless! ”

"Okay, Brother Wenming, please inside, what you said, it's true, Leader Zhang should be in a hurry." After Cai Xin said this, he walked side by side with Gou Wenming, and led his people towards the mansion together, and in an instant, he glanced at his people, and they looked like they were really like this.

At this moment, Lao Wei was far behind the back of the team, holding his hands behind his back, gesturing quickly, as if he was giving some kind of order. At the same time, dark shadows flickered in the dark streets, hiding in the night, and they took action.

The moment he entered Zhang's Mansion, Gou Wenming glanced at the team out of the corner of his eye, and immediately sent a quarter less and disappeared without a trace.

Late at night, Zhang's mansion was brightly lit, with warblers singing and dancing, and there were sect members standing guard everywhere, and groups of believers were patrolling.

In the hall, the dancer twisted her waist vigorously, her face was charming, and between a smile and a smile, she was full of seduction. At this moment, everyone in the hall had been drunk and convicted, talking nonsense, Gou Wenming sat at the head of the right side, drinking happily, listening to the lascivious sound, looking at the sexy singer in the center of the hall, drunk and hazy.

Lao Wei fell in the last seat, and he was also drunk and hazy, burping, and drinking repeatedly: "Good wine, good wine, really good wine, this woman is really watery, if you can bring one back and enjoy it, there will be no regrets if you die!" ”

The hall was very chaotic, all kinds of voices were intertwined, Lao Wei was not the only one who was drunk, nor was he the only one who talked nonsense, his voice was quickly drowned out, and no one noticed.

At this moment, Lao Wei stood up tremblingly, drunkenly walked towards the door of the hall, swaying step by step, if it wasn't for the person next to him, he wouldn't have known how many times he fell.

Standing at the door, lying on the shoulders of a gatekeeper, his eyes narrowed slightly, and he asked with a mouth full of wine: "Brother, where is the latrine?" Can you point it to my brother, I can't hold it back. ”

"That, walk along this corridor all the way, reach the bend, turn left, walk along the path, about thirty steps to arrive~!" The doorkeeper tilted his neck and said in disgust.

"Thanks, brother!" Lao Wei patted the man's shoulder, said loudly, and then took heavy steps and staggered away.

This scene did not escape one person's eyes, that is, Gou Wenming, perhaps others did not notice.

At this moment, Gou Wenming supported his head with his right hand, his eyes narrowed slightly, and he looked drunk and about to fall asleep, from this direction, he could just see all the actions of Lao Wei, although the noisy scene made him unable to hear what Lao Wei was saying, but he knew in his heart that the war was about to start.

In the dark night, in the thatched house of Zhang's mansion, there was a black light blinding, and a footstep sounded, and gradually came to it, it was Lao Wei. At this moment, Lao Wei was still swaying and drunk, but as soon as he walked into the thatched house and closed the door, his whole body was shocked, and he was not a little drunk, his eyes were shining with shrewdness, and he took out a fist-sized bottle from his arms.

After listening quietly for a while, he soaked in urine and confirmed that there was no one, then he uncorked the bottle and splashed the liquid inside on the wooden eaves of the thatched house, and suddenly a pungent smell hit, it was oil.

Immediately afterwards, Lao Wei took out something from his arms, wrapped it in a cloth, and after opening it, he suddenly revealed a ball of cotton and a piece of ice that had almost melted, and muttered in his mouth: "I don't know if it's really as the commander said, the ice cube is completely melted, and this phosphorus can be natural as soon as it is exposed to the air." No matter what, just do it..."

Immediately, Lao Wei first took out a cotton ball, smeared it with some oil, and then, wrapped the ice cube with a cotton ball, and placed it in the eaves of the thatched house, where the oil was most concentrated.

Ten minutes later, at the eaves of the thatched house, the cotton ball suddenly caught fire, and suddenly, the eaves of the thatched house were full of fire, spreading to all sides, the fire was getting bigger and bigger, and suddenly, the yard sounded with an exclamation: "Oh no, the thatched house is on fire, quickly put out the fire, the fire is about to burn to the main house, come quickly, put out the fire!" ”

At the same time, on the street not far from the east gate of Pengzhou City, the fire of Zhang's Mansion was soon discovered, and in the darkness, in the alley, a cold voice suddenly sounded: "Action!" ”

One by one, black shadows sprang out, with a small bow and crossbow tied to their right arm and a gun in their left hand, tiptoeing towards the city gate.

Crunch ~ crunch ~

With a long, dull sound from the two gates, a wake-up call sounded on the city wall shrouded in darkness: "Oh no, someone opens the city gate, hurry, go down and have a look!" ”

Bang bang bang!

A burst of gunfire pierced the night, echoing in the city of Pengzhou, and the sparks flickered, which was just the light produced by the bullet shooting out of the chamber.