readx; In the early morning of the next day, the blue-black city walls of Luoyang, the ancient capital of the Nine Dynasties, gradually revealed their true face from the white mist. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info In the Tang Dynasty hundreds of years ago, she was once prosperous, known as the "Divine Capital", with a population of no less than one million; However, since then, it has been completely destroyed by wars, especially when the Jin people invaded the south, and now although it is rebuilt, the scale is far less than before, the circumference of the city wall is only ten miles, and the population is only tens of thousands.

But the Ming Dynasty has always attached importance to the city defense, although the scale of the city is small, but the city wall has been changed from the rammed earth wall to the city brick covering, up to four zhang, the moat outside the city is five zhang deep, three zhang wide, easy to defend and difficult to attack. Now Zhu Changxun has just usurped the throne, and issued an edict that the capital should be Tianfu, with Luoyang as the accompanying capital, the rebels in the city are gathered, the city is heavily defended, and there are artillery at the head of the city. If you want to attack hard, you don't have several times more troops and half a month or even longer, so you can't even think about it.

Just after the hour, the Anxi Gate of the North City Gate of Luoyang was opened, and the people who wanted to enter the city lined up in a long column, and they were moving forward under the strict surveillance and inspection of the rebels. More than half a mile away from the city gate, there was also a small group of people driving a cart full of firewood, moving slowly while observing the movement near the city gate.

A young man under the age of twenty at the head whispered to the people behind him: "Distance yourself away and pretend that you don't know anyone." Have you practiced the local dialect taught by the villagers yesterday? Relax, just think of yourself as a firewood seller, anyway, we're not afraid to check! ”

Another person who was about thirty years old and had a powerful figure, but deliberately made an unkempt appearance, said with some hesitation: "I have heard for a long time that General Dingnan is good at using strange soldiers, and today is considered to be a lesson." Yes, although the defenders of Luoyang will definitely strengthen the city defense, but the weather is cold, and this firewood and charcoal cannot be broken for a day. General Dingnan only came up with this plan to hide from the sky and the sea from the word 'Qiao' in the poem, and Zuo really admired it. But General Jin, I still have some bottom in my heart. ”

The young man laughed and said, "Oh? What else is General Zuo worried about? ”

"You see, the defenders in front are very scrutinized." The strong man frowned and said, "We are only twenty or thirty people, and we don't have any weapons, once we show our horses' feet, won't we be captured?" Besides, even if they sneak into the city, what can such a few people do? ”

"Don't worry, when you pass the city gate for a while, General Zuo will do it without saying a word, and wrap it up on the last general." The young man smiled slyly, "Do you think that's all we have?" To tell you the truth, there are already our troops in the city, and there are also rebels who secretly surrender, and when they are launched, at least a few thousand people will obey our orders. In addition, we are not in a hurry to launch, 50,000 border troops are coming in the starry night, and then the inside and outside should be combined, can the defenders of Luoyang still be able to stop it? ”

The strong man was a little more confident in his heart, but it was still difficult to make up his mind. The young man sneered when he saw it: "If General Zuo really doesn't dare to enter the city, please go back to the camp immediately, don't miss General Dingnan's plan." ”

It turned out that this strong man pretending to be a woodcutter was Zuo Liangyu, the chief soldier of Luoyang, and with him was Jin Tongwu, the deputy chief officer of the 3,000 battalion. Yesterday, Zuo Liangyu and Zhu Dadian were captured by Li Dingguo, and of course they tried their best to excuse themselves, saying that not only did they not participate in the rebellion, but they had been trying to put down the rebellion, and now they were willing to help Li Dingguo.

Li Dingguo originally wanted to put the two under house arrest first, and then hand them over to Zhu Youzhen for disposal after the rebellion was quelled, but he suddenly came up with a clever plan, and this clever plan must be helped by Zuo Liangyu to succeed. He first learned from Zuo Liangyu about the original generals and troops in Luoyang City, Zuo Liangyu had been in Luoyang for a long time, and of course the answer was fluent.

Immediately afterwards, Li Dingguo asked him and Jin Tongwu to disguise themselves as woodcutters and infiltrate the city, and when the time was ripe, they would join forces to capture Luoyang in one fell swoop. Zuo Liangyu is not stupid, he knows very well that this is a test for Li Dingguo himself, if he doesn't dare to go, what he said before will be all false, and it is very likely that he will be sent back to Beijing as a criminal, not only will he not be able to live, but his family will also be implicated. At that moment, I had to smile and say: "General Jin said that he was joking, how can Zuo be a person who is greedy for life and afraid of death!" ”

While they were talking, they had already arrived at Anxi's door. Jin Tongwu was very well prepared, and yesterday he sent dozens of small detachments to arrest dozens of ordinary people who had gone up the mountain to cut firewood, and temporarily detained them in the camp. From these people, it is natural to learn the rules of entering the city.

When it was their turn, Jin Tongwu hurriedly smiled all over his face, and said to the city gate official in the Henan dialect that he had repeatedly practiced last night: "Good boss!" ”

"What are you doing in the city? What do I think of you being so naïve? The city gate official looked at Jin Tongwu and the others with a stern gaze.

Jin Tongwu hurriedly handed over a piece of broken silver, and said with a low smile: "Boss, we are all from Sunjiagou, and we entered the city to sell firewood." My father's name is Sun Laozhong, and he sends firewood to the city every day to sell. But it happened that the weather was cold these days, and the firewood was sold well, and my father was happy, and he went back yesterday to chop firewood and load the car overnight, but he didn't expect to get frostbite. He was reluctant to do business, so he asked me to sell it for him for a day. I'm afraid that I'm too young and won't sell, so I didn't invite a few neighbors to help! ”

The city gate official took the silver with his hand and said nonchalantly, "Who the listens to you talk this nonsense." Now is an extraordinary period, and the emperor has an order: strictly check the people who enter and exit, and beware of spies from entering the city. You have so much firewood on your car, do you have any entrainment? Do you have a blade hidden in your body? Search for me! ”

As soon as the order was given, a few rebels immediately came over next to them, and they couldn't help but say that they searched Jin Tongwu, Zuo Liangyu and others first, and took this opportunity to search some copper plates specially prepared by them. He picked up the firewood from the car with a spear and turned it over. Of course, Jin Tongwu didn't bring any weapons with them, and of course the rebels got nothing.

The city gate official snorted with his nose at this time, and scolded Jin Tongwu again: "You Diao people, take advantage of the cold weather to increase the price indiscriminately, my lord and my family are almost unable to afford it!" ”

Jin Tongwu was clever and clever, and immediately crawled along the pole and said: "The boss said earlier, after entering the city in a while, you sent someone to lead us in the way, and I will send two bundles of firewood to the boss's family first!" ”

"You little devil knows everything." The gatekeeper waved his hand in satisfaction and motioned for a rebel to lead the way. There are also five steps, one post, ten steps and one sentry in the city, but there are rebels leading the way, so naturally no one will check them.

Everyone walked into a secluded alley, Jin Tongwu saw that there was no one outside, and called: "Master Jun!" ”

The rebel didn't know what was going on, and as soon as he turned around, he was violently choked by Jin Tongwu, and he only heard a soft "click" sound, and his throat was crushed, and this guy died in a daze without saying a word. The rest of the soldiers rushed up, stripped off the uniforms of the dead bodies, and pretended to rest on the cart, but used the cart as a cover, quickly dug a pit in the ground, and buried the corpse in it. From the beginning to the end, it only took more than two minutes.

Zuo Liangyu was dumbfounded, and fine beads of sweat appeared on his head. I thought that I was fortunate that I chose to cooperate with them, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable! It took him a long time to come back to his senses and asked Jin Tongwu in a low voice: "Now should we get in touch with Neiying first?" ”

"What's the answer?" Jin Tongwu pouted and smiled.

Zuo Liangyu was taken aback and said, "General Jin, didn't you say just now that there was already an internal response in the city?" ”

"Yes, yes, but just now." Jin Tongwu smiled wickedly, "We are Neiying." ”