Chapter Forty-Four: A Sudden Change
On the head of the noble man, his eyes were slightly open, his face was bloodstained, and his face was full of sorrow, as if he had suffered great pain before he died. Gao Yue couldn't bear to look at it anymore, his eyes closed all of a sudden, and his heart seemed to be suddenly tightened. When he opened his eyes again, there seemed to be flames rising in his eyes, and he just wanted to bite the steel teeth to pieces.
"Good traitor!" Li Hu's eyes were cracked, and he paused again and again.
Originally, he just wanted to exile Zhiping, but now he must die. Gao Yue shouted with incomparably firmness in his heart, he took a deep breath, raised his cold and translucent eyes, and looked out.
Outside the gate, a torch was already lit. Under the dazzling firelight, there were figures and horses, and I don't know how many soldiers and horses. The shouts and curses of people, the clash of blades, and the neighing of war horses were intertwined, and it was noisy and chaotic.
"Kill all the people inside!"
"Listen to me, get ready to rush in!"
"Shoot arrows first, shoot arrows!"
“……”
The chaotic and startled voices are getting louder and louder. Suddenly, two soldiers rushed in from outside the gate in a hurry, waving their blades and slashing back, while hurriedly pushing the gate outward.
With a creak, the door was closed, and the two of them hurriedly plugged in the door bolt and turned around to shout.
"Gao Sima? Team Leader Lee? ”
The two soldiers stumbled inward. The person here was about to respond loudly, but Gao Yue sternly waved his hand to stop, and shrank behind the pillar to observe carefully.
After some identification, it was indeed the soldiers under his command, and it was two of the four people who were on duty outdoors just now. Gao Yue leaned out from behind the pillar and beckoned to several people.
"Just now, the city lord of Zhicheng suddenly brought a large number of soldiers and horses, black and suppressed, and fully armed, and the four of us were on duty outside the door, I don't know why, so I stepped forward to salute."
"After the city lord asked if Pan Wudu was indeed dead, he suddenly turned his face for some reason, countless arrows shot behind him, the brothers were caught off guard, Wu Fei and Da Zhuzi were shot to death at once."
The soldier who spoke looked panicked and nervous, and his left cheek was bruised by a long wound from a flowing arrow, and he was bleeding freely; The man next to him was also in the same embarrassed situation as him, and even had a feather arrow stuck in his back.
Li Hu gasped heavily, and when he heard the words, he ordered in a deep voice: "Don't panic, all the brothers in the courtyard will gather behind the gate." He was still furious, and now he was suppressing his emotions to keep his mind calm.
All the soldiers in the front yard and backyard of Pan Mansion all ran to the gate and stood behind the gate when they heard the words, and most of them were Bailing's disciples. A little number, there were eighty-eight people, and twelve were killed in the battle.
On the one hand, everyone spontaneously organized their men and fought against the gate to prevent people from outside from entering. As the rough sound of the gate outside became more and more dense, the soldiers began to look at Gao Yue and Li Hu uneasily.
Li Hu said eagerly: "The top priority now is to come up with a countermeasure. He looked puzzled, "There are no more troops in the city. Where did Zhiping get these soldiers and horses? It feels very sophisticated, and it's by no means a rookie egg. Fuck, how can you be virtuous with Pan Wudu, and you will do this? ”
"There are nearly 100 of us, as long as we are united, there will be thousands of troops, so what are we afraid of?"
Between Gao Yue's words, his bearing was calm, and he had an indescribable confidence and decisiveness, which made everyone feel refreshed.
Seeing that everyone was a little more relaxed, he said loudly again: "No matter what, hold it for a while." I knew about Zhiping's conspiracy early in the morning, and I had already left a back hand, Han Sima immediately brought someone over, don't panic, don't be afraid first, and mess up. ”
As he spoke, he suddenly thought of something, took the torches in the hands of the soldiers beside him, and ordered everyone to take out a large pile of mattresses, tables, cabinets, and the like from the house, and put the torches together and light them.
Except for Li Hu, all the soldiers were puzzled and looked at him in a daze.
Gao Yue said as if nothing had happened: "Thousands of practices on weekdays are not worth an hour in actual combat." On the battle array, it is also common to be attacked and besieged by the enemy. ”
"No need to panic. Now is your chance to test everyone. Whether you are a good man or a turtle grandson, you will know it when you compare, I will watch here to see if you are a good man with courage. ”
The soldiers' eyes were excited, and they exchanged their heads and ears in low voices, and their morale was obviously much higher.
Gao Yue smiled again and said to everyone: "Besides, people from outside want to come in, but they can't get in for a while." Let's keep a good guard inside, and when the reinforcements arrive, we will open the door and kill them, and we will cover these dog thieves. ”
Li Hu also said loudly: "Brothers! All cheer up Lao Tzu, we have guns and knives in our hands, although we don't know what the origin is, it's not three heads and six arms, it's all a neck and a head, and there is no more egg under the crotch, afraid of his eggs? ”
Li Hu strode up to the soldiers, slapped this hard, kicked that gesture, raised his neck and said: "Defend it, keep it well, and if you fight it later, you will kill your mother." Don't embarrass Lao Tzu, whoever behaves well, go back and invite him to eat wine and eat flower wine! ”
All the soldiers raised their swords and shouted and laughed and scolded, and their morale was extremely strong for a while.
At this moment, another shout came from outside: "Listen, people inside, I am Wu Tuzhen, the general of Longxi County and the commander of the captive school." Under the order of Lord Taishou, he came to exterminate the traitors, which has nothing to do with ordinary soldiers, except for the first rebel Gao Yue, he can abandon his weapons and surrender, and he is not to blame for the past! ”
During the two Jin Dynasty periods, the highest military governor of a county was nominally the county taishou, but the specific person in charge of military affairs was the county general, also known as the county commander and the county lieutenant. Wu Tuzhen, the general of Longxi County, commanded a battalion of 1,000 county soldiers in Longxi County, and he really had the rank of 1,500 stone and 7 grades of capture captain.
Hearing that it was him, Gao Yue and Li Hu glanced at each other, and both had a grim look on their faces.
An hour ago. In the prefectural government.
The hall was dark, and not a single light was lit, which was specially ordered by Zhi Ping, and at this moment he was sitting on a wooden chair, his face gloomy, his eyes closed, and his mind was constantly thinking.
He has also been running around for half his life, and now it is easy to have a Shouyang County and be the lord of a city. He was over half a hundred years old, and he had three sons, the eldest son died on the battlefield, and the second son and youngest son were taken captive by the Hu people and never saw each other again.
However, he now plans to accept a few more concubines at the same time, and there will be a successor. Everything is moving in the direction of serenity and stability. What is the king and hegemony, what is the great cause of a thousand years, Zhi Ping does not have that ambition at all, and he also knows that he does not have that strength.
He just wants to live in peace and comfort, and no longer live in fear and displacement. For example, in Shouyang County, be a quiet and wealthy city lord, give birth to a few more sons, and then die here.
Therefore, there must not be anyone or anything that threatens the ideal life that he has so hard to get. Pan Wudu was rough and domineering, and he had already turned his face, and at the critical moment of preparing to flee west to Liangzhou, in order to prevent Pan Wudu from making chaos, he had to be removed.
Han Yong's personality is dull and low-key, and after watching it for a long time, he doesn't look like a domineering and ambitious person, at least on the surface, so he keeps it for the time being. And Gao Yue, with extraordinary skills, extraordinary conversation, and extraordinary knowledge, this is by no means a simple and easy to match. In time, how do you know if it's another Pan Wudu?
When he first met Gao Yue, he suddenly had a flash of inspiration. You can use Gao Yue's skills to get rid of Pan Wudu, and then take advantage of his fledgling to get rid of Gao Yue with a backhand.
Therefore, on the one hand, he connected with Gao Yue and showed goodwill, and even when he knew that Gao Yue's few people and Pan Wudu, who had a large number of people, had a conflict on the street, he hurriedly took people to calm down, for fear that Gao Yue would be killed, which would lead to his long-term plan and fall short;
At the same time, he temporarily tolerated Pan Wudu and paralyzed his heart. Recently, after receiving the grim news of the attack on Chang'an, he weighed it and felt that he could do it.
After discussing with Gao Yue and others during the day, he urgently repaired a letter and sent it to the Taishou Mansion of Xiangwu County, where Longxi County was located. Asked Taishou Ding Xuan to secretly send troops, come to Shouyang County to kill the thieves, and after the matter was completed, he was willing to offer 300 taels of silver, 100 horses of satin, and 2,000 stones of millet.
Longxi is too guarded by Ding Xuan, and Zhiping is very close, and there is oil and water to obtain, after reading the letter, there is no disallowed, so he sent the county general Wu Tuzhen, led the county soldiers 700 people, to the letter of the appointment, all the way to Shouyang County, hidden.
Han Yong was responsible for going to the barracks to suppress it, which was also proposed by Zhi Ping. This is actually to break away from Han Yong and create better conditions for killing Gao Yue. In order to express his sincerity and paralyze the other party, Zhi Ping also took the initiative to allocate a hundred soldiers directly under his command and let Han Yong lead - anyway, when Gao Yue was attacked and killed, there would be a group of county soldiers to contribute.
After the county soldiers were ready, they sent someone to report to Zhiping. whispered a few words in the inner room, and Zhi Ping's heart was a lot more stable. When he went out of the outer hall, he saw the old man suddenly expensive, and his face was very unnatural, Zhi Ping's heart couldn't help but move, and he suddenly became alert.
So he secretly made people keep an eye on Tugui, and sure enough, it didn't take long to learn that Tugui went straight to the dormitory of the second Sima in the north of the city. Zhi Ping knew that Tugui must be leaking the news, and when Tugui came back with his front foot, he killed him with his hind foot.
As Zhi Ping thought in his heart, everything was ready, Gao Yue was on guard, and finally he couldn't escape from the palm of his hand. There is another layer, and he also coincides with Gao Yue.
Zhi Ping also planned to take advantage of the opportunity of the Xiongnu Han State to attack Chang'an, and take advantage of the situation to kill Pan Wudu and Gao Yue.
Taking advantage of the fact that Gao Yue went to encircle and suppress Pan Wudu tonight, and the north of the city was noisy, Zhi Ping quietly opened the east gate and put Wu Tuzhen in, intending to be the yellow finch behind the mantis and remove the existing threat and potential threat together.
After the matter is completed, the rest of the soldiers in the county will be collected, and after a few days of stability, they will flee west to Liangzhou, regardless of what the Jin and Han kingdoms are, let alone what they are too guarded.