As soon as the slanting yang turned west, Suizhou City was cold and scared.

A new checkpoint was set up on the inner street near the north gate, specifically to interrogate pedestrians out of the city, it was getting late, and there were fewer and fewer people out of the city, and finally there was no longer a figure in the streets and alleys, the gang elder Pan put his hand in his sleeve, while jumping his feet, while constantly looking at the sky and counting the hours, the soldiers around him kept urging: "It's almost." ”

Lao Pan raised his hand: "When the time comes, close the door." The soldiers hurriedly went to close the door, and Lao Pan shouted again: "Slow down." But he saw a monk walking slowly in the direction of Fuqing Temple in the west of the city, and the guards saw him walking slowly and shouted at the top of their voices: "Then the monk should go quickly, and the city gate will be closed." The monk seemed to have some ears behind his ears, and still walked slowly, until the second urging of the people, he trotted all the way over, the monk's face was folded, his eyes were cloudy, he bowed to Lao Pan, and continued to walk forward, a recruit stopped him and was about to search his body, Lao Pan wrinkled, waved his hand and let him go,

The city gate was slammed shut, and the soldiers got on the latches and top door bars, and the recruits asked Lao Pan in confusion: "Brother Pan, why didn't the monk interrogate." Lao Pan glared at him, pouted, and said, "You also see that the person is a monk, so what are you asking?" The recruit scratched his head and stopped talking, but he was puzzled in his heart: "The monk is not a prince and minister, can't he pretend to be able to shave his head, such negligence, he is not afraid of the real murderer going out of the city." ”

Lao Pan took a group of brothers to withdraw from the post and went back to the camp, this morning they did not collect a few fat sheep, this time the mutton is afraid that it has been roasted, the cold day, eat mutton and drink wine, brag about the cowhide bubble girl, that is also a great joy in life, the recruit is a stubborn temper, after the old Pan left, he climbed up to the city alone, looking north,

In the snowy wilderness, the old monk Long Zhong just now was running faster than a rabbit at the moment.

"Wu Cao ran away, Wu Cao ran away......" the recruit shouted at the top of his voice,

The monk in the snow outside the city seemed to hear his shout and ran more happily.

……

Six miles north of Suizhou City, there is a dirt mountain called Wai Ma Tai,

Zhang Bozhong stood on the top of the mountain in a military uniform, looking at the gradually sinking red sun, closing his lips tightly and not saying a word, Zhang Bozhong was burly and majestic, although he was born as a civil official, he had a bit of the demeanor of a leading general, Li Wei stood on his right, and Fang Litian, the head of Suizhou in the intelligence room,

"It's coming, it's coming."

Li Wei called out in surprise, lifted the reins, and urged the horse down the dirt mountain.

More than ten horses galloped from the direction of Suizhou City, led by Zhang Xiao and Wu Zhang, with a bald monk in the horse team, looking at the face of fifty or sixty years old, in fact, he was only a young man in his early twenties, this is Wu Cao after the disguise modification, Wen Lan painted his image and searched all over the city, but he relied on the disguise and makeup skills he learned from the actors, constantly changing his identity, and escaped one search after another without danger.

But this kind of precarious days are not people's lives after all, and finally one day, Wu Cao decided to disguise himself as a woman and go out of the city, not wanting to say a word mistaken at the street entrance to be recognized by the lawyers, and fled in a hurry and strayed into a dead-headed alley, at a critical moment a big man fell from the sky, knocked unconscious Luo pawn and saved him, the big man claimed to be a horse thief in Linzhou, surnamed Luo Minggan, because of sympathy for his own experience, admired his own person, so he helped, Wu Cao's heart was mirror-like, Wenlan dealt with the captured horse thief extremely cruel, When the horse thieves heard the name of Wenlan for hundreds of miles around Suizhou, they hated and feared it, even if there were occasional brave people who dared to come to Suizhou, who dared to come forward to save people at this juncture.

This big man who calls himself Luo Gan is by no means as simple as a horse thief, he is most likely Wenlan's enemy, saving himself is nothing more than trying to use himself, Wu Cao is out, he has a rotten life, and let him use it, it is better than dying in the hands of Wenlan,

On this day, Luo Gan told him that he had bought off the guards and let himself pretend to be a foot monk, and went out of the city when it was dark. ”

Luo Gan replied: "Only when it gets dark can our people get close to Suizhou to pick you up, otherwise even if you can get out of Suizhou City, you will still be caught by him if you don't go far." ”

In this way, Wu Cao cut his hair and pretended to be an old monk, and mixed out of Suizhou City without any danger, as Luo Gan expected, he had just left the city not long ago, and a cavalry chased out, and he was panicking, Luo Gan's sworn brother led the army to kill, and solved the chasing soldiers cleanly, Wu Cao could see clearly, although Luo Gan's sworn brothers were wearing civilian clothes and using a variety of weapons, but the horses under the seat were all war horses,

It is true that someone wants to use himself, and after Wu Cao saw through this layer, not only did he not feel the slightest annoyance, but sneered proudly: You use me, I want to use you,

……

The thick black clouds obscured the last star in the night sky of Suizhou,

The north wind that has been whistling for a day is blowing harder at the moment, the cold wind rolls up the debris of ice and snow, and is rampaging in the north camp of the Suizhou garrison with a whistle, and the old Pan who got up in the middle of the night and walked to the door in a daze, the sound of the water just sounded, the door suddenly opened, and a cold wind couldn't wait to squeeze in, Lao Pan couldn't help but shudder,

"Who."

The sane old Pan seemed to see a person hiding behind the door, and he was suddenly sleepy, he wiped his eyes and wanted to take a closer look, suddenly, a thick hand reached out of the black shadow, and strangled Lao Pan's neck like lightning, and before he could make the slightest movement, a sharp knife was sent into his heart.

"What's the matter?" Lou Wuniang heard movement on the bed and asked in a daze,

Lou Wuniang is a young and beautiful widow, her husband died without children, she made a living by washing clothes in the barracks, she got money for washing a piece of clothing, she got ten pieces of eight jobs a day, she couldn't live with the money she begged for, she couldn't eat enough to eat on her main business, she had to do some part-time work at night, Lao Pan was her old customer, she was honest and generous, never took credit, and she was serious and willing to work hard.

"It's fine."

Lao Pan responded vaguely, Lou Wuniang turned over and continued to sleep with her, suddenly, a pair of cold hands reached into the quilt and pressed on her chest, Lou Wuniang woke up, but did not dare to shout, the world is so unfair, sometimes it is clear that she can only earn one money, but she has to pay two efforts, she is used to all this, Lou Wuniang just lay motionless like that, waiting for the cold body to get in, the strange thing is that the cold hand in her chest and abdomen after a circle, actually retracted, and then the footsteps gradually faded away,

"Brute, are you still human?"

Lou Wuniang hated Lao Pan who betrayed herself, and as soon as the footsteps went away, she jumped up angrily, lifted the hard pillow and smashed it at Lao Pan who was squatting behind the door, and something strange happened, Lao Pan was smashed by the pillow and lay on the cold ground.

"Ah...... Kill, kill. ”

Lou Wuniang screamed at the top of her voice, she rushed out of the door barefoot, and in the school military field outside the door, she ran wildly in the snow with her head, and her terrible and frightened voice echoed in the sky above the Peking University camp,

There are two brigades of Shence sergeants stationed in the Beida camp, and the focus of the defense area is the north gate of Suizhou, which is half a mile away.

"Stop, someone."

As soon as the guard asked, he was shot through the throat by a crossbow arrow, and the team of men and horses divided into three ways, one to open the city gate, one to solve the defenders huddled in the arrow tower, and the other to guard the surroundings,

The city gate opened, a cavalry team of two or three hundred people shouted in, after entering the city, the cavalry was divided into four roads, along the four streets, while beating gongs and drums, while setting fire everywhere, in a moment, Suizhou City was in flames, and the voices of the people were boiling,

Zhang Bozhong climbed to the top of the city and looked at the city, frowned for a while, and saw that Li Wei led a group of people back with a smile, so he stepped forward and asked, "Solve the Beidaying so quickly." Li Wei smiled: "A group of rabble, what a way." Zhang Bozhong lowered his voice and asked, "Has that person solved it?" Li Wei nodded slightly,

Zhang Bozhong lowered his head and pondered: "Didn't you say that there are two brigades in the Beidaying garrison, Li Wei and them are only twenty or thirty people, I originally expected them to go in and make a fuss, so that it would be convenient for us to seize the city gate, but who knew that they actually occupied the Beidaying, could it be a fraud?" "Zhang Bozhong doesn't know how many people there are in the Beida Camp, all the information is provided by Fang Litian,

Although the inner temple fang and the intelligence room have always been at odds, Zhang Bozhong still believes that in the face of this matter, the intelligence room should not play any tricks, after all, they also have credit for this matter, Fang Litian also saw the doubt in his heart, so he said: "Zhang Tongzhi doesn't need to be suspicious, the Beida Battalion does have two brigades of garrisons, but today's Shence Army is not as good as it was back then, the officers are greedy for pleasure, they don't know the soldiers, they only know how to make money, eat empty salaries, deduct military rations, loot and punish, and do all kinds of evil, The officers of the Beida Battalion are all settled outside the camp, the weather is cold, no one wants to stay in the camp, the non-commissioned officers are unrestrained, and many people do not return at night. ”

Zhang Bozhong was worried, and suddenly a junior colonel came to report: "Wen Lan ran out of the south gate with Thirteen Niang." ”

"What, run,." Zhang Bozhong almost couldn't believe his ears, the Shence Army was known as the "pillar of the Tang Dynasty" and "the strongest force in the world", who would have thought that a fire would burn their generals and flee without a trace.

"Are you sure you're not mistaken?" Zhang Bozhong's voice was quite stern,

Undeterred, the Colonel replied, "We have brothers who have seen him go with his guards, and the fine soft cage alone contains one hundred and thirty horses. ”

Everyone laughed when they heard this, and Zhang Bozhong immediately ordered to take over the four city gates, but the other party stood up and said: "Wenlan has left, I think I will use your people to take over Suizhou City." ”

Fang Litian asked suspiciously: "Didn't you say that you want to hand over Suizhou to Meng Dashuai, you regret it at this moment, where will you put your adult in the future." ”

Zhang Bozhong said with a smile: "This time is also that time, no one expected that Wenlan would be so bad, how could the meat in his mouth be spit out again, this matter is indeed inconvenient for adults to come forward, then occupy Suizhou in the name of Wu Cao, and I have my own way to deal with him when Meng Dashuai comes." ”