The interesting thing about history is in the details.

In the middle of the night of October 5 in the eighth year of Baoda (950 AD), on the eve of the official start of the siege of Tanzhou, there were three small overtures that happened in different places that had to be mentioned.

One is that it naturally happened on Lin Feng's ship. Lin Feng was awakened by a sudden and violent palpitation in the middle of the night, and suddenly lost his sleepiness, and woke up the big and small brothers on the ship, asking them to work together to counsel about the dangers that Lu might encounter after breaking through the city. Everyone is staring at each other, now that the situation is very good, what kind of major crisis will there be?

Seeing that everyone was silent, Duan Rui, the youngest, raised his hand and said, "Big brother, if you think it's dangerous to enter the city, then why don't we stay on the boat and not enter the city?" ”

Lin Feng shook his head and clearly rejected this suggestion: "I promised to protect the safety of the wealthy merchants in the city, now it seems that Tanzhou City will be broken tomorrow, we have no time or opportunity to send the Datang Black Dragon Flag into the city, so we can only rush into the city as soon as possible to arrange for the flag!" ”

After discussing it again, Ma Xixu, Wang Kui and other Han generals in Langzhou, tribal armies, Tanzhou defenders, and Tanzhou residents, these people seem to be the enemies who killed themselves, and they all seem to be unlikely.

Lin Feng saw that the more everyone talked, the more they couldn't discuss anything, so he made a decision himself: the two seriously injured brothers in Yiyang City and the five children including Li Congqian and Chen Fei all stayed on the ship, and he and the remaining thirteen brothers went into the city together, and they would never be separated without special circumstances.

Hearing this arrangement, Li Congqian led Chen Fei and them to jump to oppose it, and was severely reprimanded by Lin Feng and drove them all to sleep.

This small overture happened on Lin Feng's boat, and it was carried out quietly, so naturally it didn't cause any impact, although the second overture also happened on the boat, but the movement was big.

Soon after returning to the warship, the commander of the Zhan Yi envoy Xu Qiong urgently convened all the Tanzhou Zhan Yi commanders to discuss with Yu Zishi's army.

Not long after, seventy-six commanders of the warships arrived at the command ship in small boats, and all of them unloaded their weapons and entered the cabin according to custom. This was a strict order issued by Kuo Qiong after the navy army was assembled, nominally to prevent the Tang elite from raiding.

Seeing that the personnel were all there, Xu Qiong waved his hand, and two rows of heavily armed soldiers ran in from the hatch, one left and one right quickly separated, and formed an encirclement along the perimeter of the cabin, and the long guns with cold light were all directed towards everyone in the cabin, and the already crowded cabin was even more crowded, and at the same time, rows of bows and arrows protruded through the cabin windows. Seeing this formation, the faces of many Zhan Yi commanders immediately turned pale.

Xu Qiong stood on a few cases, and said in a loud voice: "Today, the king of Chu is unreasonable, tyrannical and impermanent, and hurts the people excessively, and now there is a Shuntian general Ma Xicao who conforms to the will of heaven and wants to eliminate harm for the people and seek long-term peace in the Chu country. If everyone is willing to gather with Xu, they will be promoted to one level and Lu to two levels; If we don't come to our senses, then we will be enemies from now on! ”

Originally, Xu Qiong has been operating in the Tanzhou Navy for more than 20 years, and his foundation is extremely deep, and most of the commanders of the Zhan Yi present were single-handedly pulled up by him, which is also his biggest bargaining with Ma Xicao.

Seeing that no one was silent at the scene, Xu Qiong nodded with satisfaction and said loudly: "Anyone who is willing to follow Xu, please squat down immediately!" ”

Immediately, the crowd in the middle of the boat basically squatted down, and only three people remained in the middle, and a thin young man hurriedly said: "Please make me think twice, my family members are all in the city!" ”

With a slight finger of his right hand, the spears of the surrounding soldiers stabbed out together, forcing the young man, and more than ten arrows were shot at the same time, which had already turned the person into a hedgehog, and he was suddenly angry. One of the battle commanders standing next to him immediately knelt down, kowtowed and begged for mercy, declaring that he was absolutely willing to follow Lord Xu for the rest of his life.

Xu Qiong pointed to the last person standing, and asked angrily: "Shen Kefei, it's you again, do you really want to go against the Great Dao of the World?" ”

The commander of Zhan Di, named Shen Kefei, is in his thirties and is a dark-skinned man. A few days ago, Shen Kefei advocated that the dominant Tanzhou naval army take the lead in attacking, and asked Xu Qiong to talk to him several times, but Xu Qiong repelled him for various reasons. Later, Shen Kefei also lost his usual respect under his words, and two days ago he even questioned Xu Qiong for blindly sticking to it but not attacking "what is his intention", Xu Qiong had already hated the root of his teeth.

Shen Kefei spat into the ground and said angrily: "Bullshit Avenue! The seller seeks glory, I'm afraid it's for your glory and wealth, right? It's a pity that the people of Tanzhou, Chu State! I can't ...... hate."

Before he finished speaking, the annoyed Xu Qiong had already thrown the saber on his body and nailed it to Shen Kefei's chest.

Shen Kefei roared bitterly: "Xu Qiong, you must not die well...... Seven or eight spears stabbed out at the same time, deeply piercing his body. Before he lost his breath, Shen Kefei grabbed the handles of the two guns with both hands, held his body hard, and stared at Xu Qiong with a pair of angry eyes.

Xu Qiong's heart trembled for no reason, turned around, and commanded angrily: "Chop it into pieces of meat and scatter it into the river!" ”

The bodies of Shen Kefei and another ship commander were quickly pulled out, and quickly some soldiers wiped out the fresh serum in the cabin with smears and clean water, and all the soldiers on the side also withdrew.

Permission Qiong Zhenzhen clothes, solemnly said: "We are brothers for many years, naturally we have to share joys and sorrows, and share prosperity!" Please rest assured, your family members are all in the city, and my family is also in the Tiance Mansion, so I, like everyone, will definitely do my best to save their lives! ”

Subsequently, Xu Qiong revealed the plan for tomorrow to everyone, and the commanders of the ships took the orders one after another.

The third overture took place at the Huang Zongwang Mansion in Tanzhou City, and the twenty-three wealthy people with fame and status in Tanzhou City basically gathered in the Huang Mansion that night.

In this era, the rich people who can make a name for themselves in a country, especially in the capital of a country, are definitely well-informed people. The news that the Langzhou tribal army was lured by the Tanzhou City to send troops could not hide it from them, the gossip that the Datang Black Dragon Battle Banner could protect the safety of their families and property could not hide it from them, and the top-secret news that Tanzhou City was afraid that it could not be guarded could not hide from them.

The fact that the Langzhou tribal army had plundered Xiangyin Road for three consecutive days was vividly placed in front of them, and these rich men were like drowning people who wanted to grasp the last life-saving straw, and they invariably found the Huangfu with boxes of gold and silver treasures, and ran to Zhou Qizhi and Yan Ruoli brothers, scrambling to stuff money into their hands and arms.

Zhou Qizhi and Yan Ruoli couldn't cry or laugh, in the past few days, these people have been like maggots attached to the bones, and there are more and more. No matter where their brothers go to the Yellow Mansion, or even when they go to the toilet, someone may mysteriously pull them aside, desperately saying good things, and desperately stuffing them with things.

"Everyone, be quiet!" Zhou Qizhi was really unbearable, got rid of the pull of several rich people's accompanying housekeepers around him, jumped onto a chair, and yelled loudly.

The huge Huangfu study suddenly fell silent, and everyone stared at Zhou Qizhi with blank eyes.

Zhou Qizhi said loudly: "Thank you for your trust and preference!" There are a few words, our brothers have said countless times, but everyone doesn't believe it, it just so happens that everyone is there, Zhou repeats it again:

Our Lord Lin Fenglin has always paid attention to integrity, fairness and transparency, and he will definitely find a way to do what he has promised. So, please relax! In addition, we Lord Lin hate corruption the most, so don't shoehorn anything into our brother anymore, we don't even dare to collect a penny! ”

"General Zhou, we believe in you, but the Black Dragon Banner hasn't seen one yet!" A voice rang out at the back of the crowd. The corners of the group of rich people in front of him all twitched, and they smiled, and their eyes stared at Zhou Qizhi even brighter.

Zhou Qizhi hugged his fists and replied loudly: "Everyone has also seen that the city is very heavily guarded, and the situation is changing too quickly, and our original action plan has been disrupted. Just now, I discussed it with Mr. Huang and came up with an expedient solution:

On the one hand, from now on, you can move your relatives and valuables that are easy to pack to Huangfu first, our brothers all carry Datang military uniforms, and we will stand at the door when the Langzhou soldiers enter the city, temporarily acting as a Datang military flag for everyone. However, this is just a temporary refuge, not a move, I know that everyone is rich and expensive, there are many relatives, and there are more property, so I will limit it to a special limit: no more than 30 relatives per household, no more than 20 guards, and no more than three cars per household, otherwise, our richest man in Da Chu should also regret that his yard is not big enough! ”

Hearing this, a few people couldn't help but laugh, but then, like everyone else, lowered their heads and began to calculate.

Seeing that no one answered, Zhou Qizhi continued: "On the other hand, from tomorrow morning, we will send a brother at each of the four city walls to wait to receive Lord Lin, and strive to welcome Lord Lin here as soon as possible, and we will also send the Black Dragon Banner to your mansion as soon as possible, can you be satisfied?" ”

"Xie Lu, Mr. Xie Huang, and General Zhou!" The reply below was uneven, and the impatient rich man had already begun to go outside.

Zhou Qizhi jumped off the table, pulled Yan Ruoli and Huang Zongwang, and found a quiet place to discuss how to strengthen the security protection of the Huang Mansion.