0525 It's up to you to decide
Youzhou City, Nanjing, Liaoning, as the largest city south of Yanshan, not only has a permanent population of more than 100,000, but also is the material tax distribution center of Xijing Road, Pingzhou Road and West Liaoning Road in the southern region of Liaoguo. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
On the other hand, the income from agricultural and commercial taxes also made Youzhou City form a strong rule and control over these areas, but in the final analysis, the basis for maintaining rule is the army. And now, more than 100,000 troops of the Great Zhou Dynasty are coming to the city, and they continue to attack the city for several days with a small force, and the large army collects stones to dig and build fortifications, which is to prepare for a large-scale siege of the city.
Xiao Siwen's official official position is to stay in the Jinfu and the king of the Southern Courtyard, but the real master of the army is Yelu Chusi, the head of the Nanjing Luti Division, who is thirty or forty years old, and later became a privy envoy, the tiger army is detailed and stable, and belongs to the royal family, but now the official status is much lower than Xiao Siwen.
Since Yang Gon's defeat and escape, all kinds of unfavorable news came from outside the pass, Xiao Siwen actually had his mind, but he was not good at bringing it up himself, but the close generals went to Yelu Chusi to test, but Yelu Chusi was determined to stick to the help, and opposed any general's proposal to withdraw part of the troops first, Xiao Siwen was helpless, and only led more than 30,000 Khitan soldiers to defend the lonely city.
In fact, the Khitan army in the city is only more than 30,000 soldiers, but there are 15,000 soldiers mixed with the Han army, and there is a precedent that the Han army in the local prefectures and counties are all looking down on the wind, so naturally they do not dare to use it.
In the case that there were a large number of materials in the city and there was no shortage of weapons and equipment, Yelu Chusi was still very confident that the reinforcements were coming, so he went to the city wall every day to supervise the battle, and the Han army guarding the palace city gradually relaxed its surveillance.
Since the first day of the siege of the city by the Zhou army, the main streets of Lifang in various parts of Youzhou City have been under martial law, except for the soldiers patrolling at noon every day will relax for a while, let the residents go to the street to buy, the rest of the time there are teams along the street patrol duty, as soon as the evening will be imposed curfew, residents who go out of their homes without authorization, once they are found, will be arrested.
Le Pingyang has been in Youzhou City for a long time, he is from Hebei Shuikou, his accent is completely flawless, and he looks no different from the residents of the city, but he now lives in the north of the city when he is in the Guiyi Temple of Hefang, and he has become a warrior monk who protects the courtyard, of course, it is necessary to facilitate the secret action.
Because Buddhism has gradually entered the circle of the upper nobility of the Liao State, and is gradually accepted by the middle and lower classes, the monks are still in awe, even if the fierce and vulgar Liao soldiers see the monks, most of them will show a kind smile.
"Master, please stay! Now that the war is raging, you can't go out when it's dark! "It was the beginning of the night, and there were five soldiers in front of him, and the officer smiled at Le Pingyang with one palm, it seemed that he believed in Buddhism.
"Can the donor make it convenient, the poor monks want to go to the Baozhong Temple in the south of the city to spend more happiness for the Khitan warriors who died in the daytime!" Le Pingyang was dressed in a gray cloth monk's robe, pedaling shoes, and carrying a crescent shovel in his hand, which was a common weapon for warrior monks, and he would also use it.
Shi Saburo behind him also became a novice, carrying a load of cages on his shoulders, the box was actually a weapon iron armor, and a dozen monks wearing monk's hats behind him were also carrying luggage burdens, and there were several magic weapons in conspicuous places on the surface.
Because Yelu Chusi transferred the Han army to the palace, Le Pingyang wanted to persuade the Han army to rise up, and had to follow there, he recently lost contact with Bian Lingxun, the deputy head of Fanhan Mabu, for more than ten days.
However, more than 200 brothers were in the city, and recently they were transferred to the south of the city in batches every day, and this was the last trip. Moreover, Zhuang Shao has a grocery store in the south of the city, and there are also a hundred and ten people available there.
"Then you wait!" The officer turned and went, and quickly waved his hand to let him go, and did not send a soldier to supervise and guide the way.
Le Pingyang was secretly happy in his heart, and walked briskly with Shi Saburo and other dozen people, and there were guards interrogating every time he arrived at the street along the way, but fortunately, they generally did not check the monk's things, and quickly went out of Xibianmen Street, turned to Guang'anmen Street, and arrived in front of Huayan Fang, and called Fang Ding to come out and open the door, and entered the workshop smoothly.
"You go to Baozhong Temple to place an order, it's all done over there, Master Miaofa will help you cover up, don't go out if you have nothing to do. Shi Saburo will go to Xuanhe Gate with me, remember to follow me later! As soon as he entered the fangmen, Le Pingyang took out a few copper coins and sent the fangding away, then summoned his subordinates over to order, and took off the monk's robe, revealing the tight black clothes inside.
Huayan Fang is also called Huayan Fang, Baozhong Temple is Huayan Sect Temple, in the northeast corner of the Fang, from the side of the Fang Gate to the past can be reached quickly. Le Pingyang and the two entered the square and quickly turned into an alley, all the way to the west wall of the seven bends and eight turns, the two alternately assisted to climb over the wall, below is the palace city Xuanhe Gate Street, these two ends of the street are patrolled by Liao soldiers during the day, from the east corner of the palace is also very close, belongs to the danger zone.
"I'll count one, two, three, and you'll run with me!" Le Pingyang turned around and whispered, listened carefully for a while, and ran wildly across the street, and soon disappeared into the shadow of the palace wall.
"Alas...... Is it Bian Lingxun's person who is on duty tonight in front of the palace gate? If not, what can we say? Shi Saburo was very nervous, and his speech was a little unpleasant.
"Even if it's not, what can it be, the Liao army doesn't trust them anymore, and he still dares to hand us over?" Le Pingyang said without fear, in fact, he didn't know the bottom in his heart, even if it was Bian Lingxun, he was not very reliable, and he could betray himself at any time.
The two of them carefully walked forward against the edge of the ditch at the foot of the palace wall, and after a while, they could see the tall gate in front of the Xuanhe Gate, as well as the two squatting white marble gate beasts downstairs in the gate, there were soldiers on duty in front of the door, but they could only see the back.
Le Pingyang lifted his foot and picked off a small grain of sand on the sole of his shoe, and saw a soldier roll up the eaves and helmet and threw it over, with a ding, the soldier turned his head, and suddenly half a familiar face appeared.
"This way, this ......" Le Pingyang snorted, and the soldier stood up and looked left and right for a while, then turned around and walked to the shadow of the palace wall.
"Sure enough, it's you again, a fake monk, you came very quickly, I've been waiting for you for many days, have you done anything over there?" It was none other than Bian Lingxun himself.
"Of course! Now I am waiting for your words, you must know that the emperor of my dynasty is outside the city, and it is absolutely glorious to do this, and it is better than you as a deputy commander of the miscellaneous army. "Le Pingyang is good and tempting.
"Go, go, go! You've said this many times, and you don't know it in your heart, but how to cooperate with the seizure of the door outside the city, this thing is really not easy to do. Except for the two walls in this palace city, I can't go anywhere else, and if we dare to run around, we, a few thousand people, will have to lose our heads! And the officers under my command may not be of the same mind as me, and I have to observe for a few more days. "Bian Lingxun is over forty years old, and his family members are all in the city, but some of the soldiers are transferred from outside the city, so there is no need to worry.
"Time is running out, I have a plan, once I get in touch with the outside of the city, I can act, now it's up to you to decide!" Le Pingyang urged.