Chapter Thirty-Six: The Fish That Slipped Through the Net
Lin Feng's large group of ** swaggered through the blockade line of the Houzhou soldiers.
Seeing that Linhuai Town was already behind him, Feng Jingyun leaned over and asked, "Lord Lin, the surname Zhao doesn't seem to have much specialty, why did the adults come to see him?" ”
Lin Feng smiled and didn't answer, but asked rhetorically, "Have all of our people withdrawn?" What about the people of Yuanqing? ”
"All withdrawn!" Feng Jingyun still had doubts, and asked in a low voice, "After the people have withdrawn, then many of the attack plans we envisioned behind enemy lines will not be implemented?" ”
Lin Feng shook his head and replied softly, "Hold it off for the time being." "The other party's nearly 200,000 horses are heading south, and the base camp is very likely to be placed near Linhuai Town.
Feng Jingyun glanced back at Linhuai Town, unwilling, and lowered his voice: "Lord Lin, I have never seen you care about someone so much!" Why don't I lead my brothers back and slaughter that kid and his men? ”
Lin Feng was slightly stunned, and after thinking for a while, he shook his head very resolutely. Now is undoubtedly the best time to organize a surprise attack to kill Zhao Kuangyin, but in his vision of the future, a unified northern power with only one leader is very necessary. If you only want to kill Zhao Kuangyin for a while, and wait for Zhou Shizong Chai Rong to die of illness nine years later, the north at that time is likely to fall into the chaos of feudal secession again, in case there is another traitorous thing like Shi Jingtang, who will resist the Khitan iron cavalry in the north at that time, and who will protect the innocent people?
Lin Feng looked up at the river embankment in front of him, quickened his pace, and said loudly: "Brothers, today we left Linhuai Town in a beautiful way, I promise that in the future, we will return here even more beautifully!" Let's go home! ”
"Go home!" The brothers shouted in unison, leaving the wanton laughter in the autumn wind.
Lin Feng, who successfully completed a wish, didn't know that when he was fighting with Zhao Kuangyin, a small change occurred at the south gate of Shouzhou City.
Although Lin Feng once again issued a call to evacuate out of the city, there were still not many people who went out of the city to take refuge, and occasionally there were women, children, the old and the weak who went out of the city one after another, and the number of people added up was not as large as the number of people who came into the city to help. Therefore, at noon on 21 September, when the guards at the South City Gate, who had just changed their guards, saw that two families, young and old, were all about to go out of the city to avoid trouble, their faces could not help but look with disdain, and they immediately stepped forward for a routine inspection.
The family in front of the head is a family of three, a middle-aged couple and a young man, the young man is holding the woman with both hands, looking very filial; Behind is a family of four, a middle-aged couple and a pair of sons, the younger son tightly wraps his right hand around the younger son's neck. The middle-aged man with a sad expression was also pushing a frame cart with a very heavy coffin on it.
The son in front of the head saw the soldiers defending the city coming, and hurriedly said: "Master Jun, my mother is seriously ill, and we are going to go out of the city to Jinling to see a doctor." ”
The soldier went up to look through their luggage one by one, and there was nothing wrong with it, waved them away, and then went up and knocked on the coffin on the car behind them, and asked, "What is in here?" Open it and take a look! ”
"Master Huijun, it is the body of my father, and we will transport it back to our hometown in Huoqiu countryside for burial." The middle-aged man wiped the sweat from his face and replied with a nervous expression.
"Open it and take a look!" Two soldiers gathered around and shouted. After all, the order to search for Wang Jianfeng has not yet been revoked, and no place where it is possible to hide people cannot be let go.
The middle-aged man had no choice but to step forward and lift the corner of the coffin lid, a soldier stepped forward to see, a miserable white old face appeared in front of him, a smell came to his face at the same time, he was immediately choked back two or three steps, spit into the ground twice, and called "bad luck".
A soldier pointed to his youngest son's panicked expression and asked strangely, "What's wrong with your youngest son?" ”
The middle-aged man replied in a panic: "We have been busy with the old man's funeral for the past two days, and this child has been left unattended, and he accidentally fell from the house, and he was so frightened that he didn't dare to leave his brother for a moment." ”
This explanation made sense, and several soldiers simply looked through their luggage and waved away.
The middle-aged man pushing the cart put down the car, pulled his wife to kneel on the ground, kowtowed to the "eldest son" and cried: "My father, my father has been killed by you, I have helped you hide for so many days, and I have helped you get out of the city smoothly, so please let my two sons go." ”
The "eldest son" was Qian Gui, he let go of his younger son, stepped forward, lifted the lid of the coffin, took out the old man's body, lifted another layer of boards, and said to Wang Jianfeng below: "General Wang, is there anything wrong?" ”
"Oh my god, I'm going to suffocate me!" Wang Jianfeng's body, which was curled up in the shape of a shrimp, moved back and forth a few times, but one hand was still tightly clasped around the throat of a small child.
The middle-aged woman rushed up, lay down on the side of the coffin, looked at her little son distressedly, and tears flowed down her face: "My child, you have suffered! If you dare to hurt our children, I won't let you go! ”
Qian Guiyi pushed the woman aside and said in a cold voice: "Don't worry, you have completely become our request, so I will let you go." ”
Qian Gui took two steamed buns and handed them to Wang Jianfeng, took out two weapons from the side of the coffin and stuffed them into the baggage he carried, turned around and lifted the shelf, and said to Wang Jianfeng: "General Wang, you still have to suffer a little more grievances, and it will be easy to do it when we get out of Shouzhou!" ”
Wang Jianfeng nodded and curled up again.
Qian Gui covered the thin board, tore off the clothes stuffed with a few round holes on the board, and then put the old corpse in, walked over and kicked the middle-aged man who was paralyzed on the ground, and shouted: "Don't mother-in-law! Your father is sick like that, and we send him back to the West to liberate him and liberate you! Hurry up and go! Out of Shouzhou, let you two go! ”
The middle-aged man glared at Qian Gui with great resentment, and reluctantly went to push the cart. In the meantime, the three men had fled to their house, abducted their children at the first time, and then hid in the cellar, forcing them to eat and drink every day, and they had been terrified for many days. Just yesterday, as soon as the three men heard that they could leave the city, they immediately killed their seriously ill father, forced them to leave the city in the name of returning to their hometown for funerals, and coerced a couple next to them. For the lives of their two children and their wives, both families had to be obedient.
Qian Gui nodded to the "fake son" of the other family, hugged the younger son, and continued on the road. At this point, Wang Jianfeng became the "fish that slipped through the net" of Shouzhou City's patrol net, and walked to Jinling City step by step with endless danger.
At this time, Lin Feng, who had just returned to Shouzhou City, received the most shocking information from Li Yuanqing: A total of 160,000 troops had been assembled on the 20th of the Great Zhou, known as 300,000, and they had set off from Tokyo City and went south to kill Linhuai Town!