"Don't, don't ...... like that"

As soon as Er Lai walked to the door, he was pressed to the throat by a sharp short sword. He hurriedly raised his hands and retreated.

The gamblers were stunned, and after a moment of hesitation, they all grabbed their knives and surrounded them. The kidnapper was a thin masked man with a slender waist that could be held in his hands, but a pair of meat balls on his chest were bulging and very eye-catching.

"Tell them to open the gates." It was a woman who spoke. The tone is cold and unquestionable.

"Brothers, for the sake of our past love, save my brother, open the door, open the city gate quickly." Erlai bowed his hands and mourned to the soldiers.

There was no order to open the city gate without authorization, and the staff and sixty military sticks were clear, and the white and black characters in the military regulations were clear. But seeing that Erlai's life was not guaranteed, some people still walked outside.

"No one can open the door." A young man with thick eyebrows and big eyes standing in the corner suddenly said coldly. The soldier who was originally going to open the door suddenly felt like a clay sculpture when he heard this, and he didn't dare to move. The young man who spoke was named Zhang Cheng, a distant relative of Meng Wei, who now lived as the captain of the prison gate, the second-in-command of the patrol camp, responsible for guarding the four gates of Yongfeng City.

The masked man was taken aback when he saw Zhang Cheng, threw away Erlai and turned around and ran out, and was blocked by four guards as soon as he went out. Zhang Cheng jumped up to her with an arrow step, stretched out his hand and snatched the short sword in her hand, surprisingly the masked man did not resist at all from beginning to end, and seemed to have no martial arts. The soldiers tied him up.

"Third lady, I've been staring at you for a long time." After taking off the masked man's scarf, everyone let out a burst of exclamation, and the masked man turned out to be Meng Weixinna's concubine Liuyun.

"Hmph, you also come to earn the city?" Zhang Cheng sneered.

Er Lai Se stared at Liuyun's chest in a daze, swallowing saliva greedily. Zhang Cheng pushed him with his hand, and scolded: "A little girl can't deal with it, what's the use of raising you." ”

"What adults teach is that adults are smart." Erlai nodded and said flatteringly.

"Tonight, someone is going to raid the Assassin's Mansion and murder Lord Assassin, and this Liuyun is their internal response. At this time, there are hundreds of rebels hiding outside the city, waiting for Liuyun to open the door for them. Zhang Cheng seemed to be saying something that had nothing to do with him, and after speaking, he looked at the soldiers who were staring at his pockets, and he smiled again: "What are you afraid of, Lord Assassin Shi has already seen through their conspiracy!" Go and open the gates, and let them in, and let them in, and let us catch turtles in his urns. ”

Er Lai raised his thumb and praised: "My lord is really clever, when they are put into the urn city, we will have a thousand arrows......

"Ten thousand of your mother's head!" Before Er Lai finished speaking, he received several slaps on the head.

"Listen, let them into the city, no one is allowed to make a sound, let alone release arrows, and those who violate them will be punished by military law!"

The crowd shouted "Yes!" in unison. ”

At the fourth watch, the south gate of Yong'an City quietly opened, and a soldier carried a lantern and shook it a few times towards the south. Seeing this code, the soldiers of the Hengsai Town Patrol Battalion, who were squatting in the snow nest and were already half frozen and numb, suddenly jumped up and rushed into the south gate.

Yongfeng Thorn Mansion is two miles away from the south gate, and it is necessary to pass through the south camp of the Tiande Right Army garrison in the middle. In the dead of night, it was almost impossible for more than a hundred people to pass through the barracks gate without being noticed. Yang Hao didn't expect this layer in advance, and his heart was suddenly very anxious.

At this time, three men and one woman came from the direction of the south gate, and the man smiled when he saw Yang Hao: "Lord Yang, don't worry, Zhang Cheng is here to help you." Yang Haoxi said: "It turns out that you are Zhang Cheng, why didn't I see you at the south gate just now?" Zhang Cheng pointed to the Liuyun beside him, and laughed loudly: "Originally, I was going to open the city gate to welcome the adults, but it was the Liuyun girl who broke the south gate without bloodshed. Yang Hao was overjoyed, but asked Liuyun: "Is there a way for the girl to help me get through this hurdle?" ”

Liuyun said with a smile: "This matter is easy, the adults just need to lead the people to swagger forward, and everything will be handled by Zhang Cheng." Yang Hao thought for a while, then beckoned the army to follow behind the two and swaggered over. The right guard suddenly saw a group of people coming from the street and immediately blocked the way. Zhang Cheng smiled and said, "Brothers, don't misunderstand, we are from the Assassin's Mansion. ”

The leading sentry commander recognized Zhang Cheng and said with doubts: "What is the reason why Captain Zhang brought so many people in the middle of the night?" Zhang Cheng sighed, so as a look of embarrassment, but pulled the sentry commander aside, and whispered a few words in his ear, the sentry chief was full of astonishment, turned his head to look at Liuyun, looked at Yang Hao and his party, nodded and said: "Where the duties and responsibilities are, where to disturb, Captain Zhang is not strange." After saying that, he dispersed his subordinates and let everyone pass.

Yang Hao was curious and asked Zhang Cheng what he said to the sentry chief. Zhang Cheng lowered his voice and said: "I told him that Miss Liuyun was the concubine of Lord Assassin Shi, because the adults beat her, she fled from the city overnight, and was taken by you and sent back overnight." You're here to ask for a reward. After Zhang Cheng finished speaking, he glanced at Liuyun with bad intentions and laughed deliciously. Yang Hao didn't know what the relationship between the two was, and he didn't have the heart to ask. At this time, the question in his heart was where the fifty soldiers who were hiding in the city had gone?

The attack on the Yongfeng Assassin's Mansion was unusually smooth, and it was unbelievable that the guards of the Assassin's Mansion were hiding in the duty room to gamble money except for three fixed posts at the gate, and Yang Hao easily disarmed everyone. Then he rushed into Meng Wei's bedroom under the guidance of Zhang Cheng.

Meng Wei just hugged the concubine and fell asleep, and when he saw Yang Hao leading the troops into the bedroom, he was furious, pointing at Yang Hao and scolding: "Villain! When you were desperate, it was my brother who took you in, but now you colluded with rebellion and murdered me, has your conscience been eaten by dogs? Yang Hao was reprimanded by him, but his face was red, and he lowered his head and couldn't speak.

Zhang Cheng sneered: "Don't say this, now that the eunuchs are in power and the dynasty is chaotic, it is the time for the courtiers to serve the country." But you covet the wealth of your family, and ignore the whole world, is this the work of loyal ministers? Now Yang Changshi is willing to live in private friendship and axiom, it is the act of a benevolent gentleman, you are still cheeky and scolding, where is your conscience? ”

Meng Wei sneered: "Another white-eyed wolf, when you and your mother fled from Hedong to Yongfeng, if I hadn't taken in your mother and son, you would have starved to death on the streets." You say I covet the wealth of my family? Then let me ask you, what are you trying to collude with outsiders to harm me? Don't you want to seek glory and wealth? ”

Yang Hao said: "It is understandable to gain fame and wealth in life at the World Expo. It's just that if you harm the righteousness of the world for your own selfishness, it is not a gentleman's doing. Now that the eunuchs are in power, and the government is corrupted, how can you, as an important minister in the court, sit idly by? When Yang Hao was in trouble, he was taken in by the adults, and he never dared to forget this kindness. Now that he is disrespectful to the general for the sake of lifting a big matter, Yang Hao will take the blame in the future. Yang Hao said that, and motioned to the left and right guards to escort Meng Wei down.

Meng Wei shook off the guards and shouted, "The vertical son is pedantic!" Now what is the way of the world, what nonsense do you still say about loyalty to the monarch and serving the country! If you come from Chang'an, you should know how many people will freeze to death on both sides of Chang'an Avenue after a heavy snowfall? How many people in Guanzhong are hungry and unclothed? If you look at the three places of Fengzhou, the people live and work in peace and contentment, and have enough food and clothing. You said that you want to be loyal to the king, but that king has long been mediocre, and the people under his rule have long been in dire straits and miserable. Are you still going to be stubborn and foolish to him? ”

Yang Hao was shocked when he heard this. Zhang Cheng suddenly roared and slashed at Meng Wei, Meng Wei screamed, covered his face and fell to the ground, and immediately bled like an infusion. Zhang Cheng saw that he was not dead, so he stabbed with a knife, and was caught by Yang Hao in the arm. Zhang Cheng shouted: "Meng Wei said the opposite, when will he not kill?" Yang Hao persuaded: "He is the old master of Yongfeng, killing him will lose people's hearts!" ”

When Zhang Cheng heard this, he hated it.

After detaining Meng Wei, Yang Hao invited Lu Benzhong, the deputy general of the Tiande Right Army, to assassinate the Shifu in the name of Yongfeng Changshi. Naturally, he understood what it meant to "discuss the big plan together", so he refused to do so on the grounds that he was unwell, and secretly ordered the battalions to guard the gate. Just like a hedgehog opening its thorns, it doesn't want to hurt people or be hurt.

There are 6,800 people in Tiande's right army, and 3,200 people are stationed in Yongfeng City, of which 1,800 are stationed in the city, and the remaining 1,400 people are stationed in various towns outside the city. As soon as the rebellion in the Assassin's Mansion occurred, Lu Benzhong got the news that the general Chen Lin advised him to lead the army to quell the chaos, but he vetoed it on the spot. However, he adopted another suggestion from Chen Lin and sent troops to take over the defense of the eastern, western, and northern gates under the pretext of preventing a Uighur invasion. At the same time, the garrison of Changqing Town in the south of the city was transferred to garrison five miles south of the city.

Yang Hao can understand Lu Benzhong's psychology of riding on the wall and watching from the wall. He also understood that as long as Meng Bochang could successfully take Fengzhou, Lu Benzhong would quickly turn around, otherwise, he would immediately block the south gate, surround the Assassin's Mansion, and throw himself into prison in the name of purging the rebellious party. Meng Wei is a card in his hand, but it is not a big card, let alone a shield, in case Meng Bochang misses, waiting for him is only a dead end.

Thankfully, as soon as the first day of the first month of the first month was dawning, good news followed: first Meng Bochang and Han Sui worked together to capture Fengzhou, and then Han Sui and Liu Yifeng captured Feng'an and Jiuniangguan. Zhang Yannian's soldiers successfully took over the defense of the three towns of Hengsai, Wufeng, and Changqing in three ways. Everything is in danger. Zeng Chongyang served as the commander of the Tiande Army in Fengzhou, appointed Meng Bochang as the general of the Tiande Right Army, appointed Han Sui as the general of the Tiande Left Army, and appointed Liu Yifeng as the Feng'an Assassin and the envoy of the Tiande Left Army. Yang Hao still did his Yongfeng long history and did not get any promotion.

Changshi is the governor of the state and county, and the assassin can't look at things, so he is naturally represented by Changshi, which is in line with the rules of officialdom. Yang Hao, supported by Zhang Cheng and others, announced that he would officially take over Yongfeng's government affairs. As Yang Hao guessed in advance, Lu Benzhong's illness suddenly improved, he asked a hundred soldiers to wear red and green, carry cattle, sheep, wine and meat to the Thorn Mansion to pay New Year's greetings, and Yang Hao had a very happy conversation, and the atmosphere was harmonious as if nothing had happened at night.

The die is cast. Yang Hao did two things, first, send someone back to Hengsai Town to pick up Qing'er. Second, the original Yongfeng City Patrol Battalion, Hengsai Town Patrol Battalion, Yongfeng Prison Gate Battalion and Assassin Mansion Guards were merged into the Yongfeng Patrol Battalion. The patrol battalion has less than 1,000 people, and is mainly responsible for public security in Yongfeng City, guarding important facilities such as the Assassin's Mansion and the grain depot. In order to show friendship, Lu Benzhong presented some ordnance and horses to the patrol battalion, and also allocated a military camp in the north of the city to the patrol battalion.

Yang Hao really wanted to appoint Hou Jie, the infantry army of the original Hengsai Town, to serve as the commander of the patrol battalion, but this Hou Jie disappeared without a trace as if the world had evaporated.