Zhao Kuangyin felt sorry in his heart, remembering that he and Guangyi were both bachelors, Zhao Pu's family had a good wife, and he cooked a good dish, so he often brought wine from elsewhere to Zhao Pu's house to eat barbecue, and he often took Zhao Guangyi with him at that time, although the prices in Kaifeng City were expensive, and Zhao Pu's money was not much, and life was tight, but Zhao Pu's wife never gave him a white eye. He and Zhao Guangyi also took the name of the same sect, and called Zhao Pu's wife sister-in-law.

He pondered for a while and said: "Zeping is an old man, as a Zaifu, a model official in the world, who knows that he doesn't know self-love, he actually accepted a bribe of gold and silver from the vassal king, and he also bought and sold it forcibly in Bianliang City, causing the discussion to boil. If it is not dealt with, I am afraid that all officials will follow suit. You send him ten truckloads of good carbon from the house, so that he can stay in Heyang for a few more years with peace of mind. ”

At this time, the bell and drum sounded far away, and the two brothers went to say good night to the Empress Dowager Du together, and then went back to rest surrounded by palace maids and eunuchs.

Adhering to the gist of not using suspicious people and employing people, Wu Yingying did not think that Yu Xi was Wu Yue's background, and he selected capable and reliable people to form an ocean-going fleet. During the Tang Dynasty, China's maritime trade with the four directions had initially begun, although it was not as prosperous as the Southern Song Dynasty in later generations, but there were still many sailors who had gone to sea in the Jinling sailors, and Yu Xi did not live up to the trust, and in ten days, he picked more than 800 sailors of various colors, such as straight warehouses, miscellaneous affairs, subordinates, pinsmen, helmsmen, fire chiefs, anchors, and cable workers, and recruited more than 100 sailors who had gone to the ocean among the merchant sailors stranded in Jinling. After the manpower was ready, Yu Xi selected fifteen merchant ships suitable for going to sea on the Dajiang wharf moored outside Jinling City. The money spoke, and the owner of the ship went away rejoicing. When the sailors were familiar with the drill and cooperation, Wu Yingying prepared the ship with water, pigs, sheep and poultry, fresh vegetables and fruits, as well as ballistas for piracy, crossbow arrows, swords and shields, hook and sickle guns for self-defense of the crew according to the list listed by Yu Xi.

After everything was ready, Yu Xi accelerated the training of sailors, familiarized himself with the performance of the ship, and took advantage of the fact that the Song army had not yet completely blockaded Jinling City, and quietly sailed away from Jinling Wharf on a dark cloudy night.

Wu Yingying said goodbye to Yu Xi and the others at the pier, and went to a mansion south of Hongqiao, east of Miyagi, accompanied by his personal guards. The original owner of the mansion was a businessman who ran the industry for the Divine Guard, and after getting Wu Yingying's permission, he packed up his belongings and went out of the city to take refuge on the second day, and Chase justifiably led a group of guards to enter the courtyard and chose a large room as a place to dig into the palace.

At this time, it was more than six months, and the weather was hot, so Chase and others dug in the house shirtless, in order to prevent outsiders from discovering it, the excavated soil was directly piled up in other houses and not transported out, which was quite secretive.

"The shaft has been laid, and there are still more than 100 meters left to pass through the palace wall from the ground. Hearing that Wu Yingying had come to inspect in person, Chase crawled out of the tunnel, his face covered with sweat and mud, panting. The rest of the dozen or so soldiers who had been transferred to dig the tunnels also gathered around him, all sweating profusely, and their faces pale from the continuous digging in the tunnels.

Wu Yingying personally climbed down the tunnel to see, the size of the tunnel dug by Chase and others was between the mine of later generations and the tomb robbers' caves, the diameter was about one meter, the diggers crawled inside, pulling the small basket of soil to transport the soil out of the tunnel little by little, the deeper they went, the more they felt the lack of oxygen, and gradually felt a little dizzy, Chase lay behind and explained in a whisper: "The soil in the depths of the tunnel is too heavy, and a soldier will have to change people when he digs half a pillar of incense in front." ”

Wu Yingying nodded, no longer went inside, turned around and crawled out of the tunnel little by little like a mouse, looked at Chase and other soldiers with a muddy face, and arched his hand: "All brothers are not afraid of hard work, and risk death to do this great thing, thank you." "The soldiers here are all the most confidants, most of them are in the Jinfan army to follow all the way, if they promise rewards at will, it will chill their hearts, and Wu Yingying is just thanking him.

Chase and the other soldiers saw that the commander was so polite, and they all fell to the ground and did not dare to accept this salute, and Chase knelt down on the ground and said: "The commander entrusts the matter to the heart, and we have to do it even if we sacrifice our lives." "If the passage into the palace is rebellious, although the other soldiers only know that such a major event is not trivial, Chase knows that he and the others have committed ten heinous crimes since the day they excavated this tunnel, and if it is leaked out to punish the nine clans, since he has strengthened his heart to Wu Yingying, he does not take this punishment to heart, and admires Wu Yingying's decisiveness even more, unlike some generals who are jealous of the monarch and wait to be killed.

Wu Yingying bowed slightly, thinking that Chase was a careful person, and he didn't tell him much, and after drinking a few glasses of wine with the soldiers here, he took two of his own soldiers to Stone City to find Hu Ze, the commander of the Tiande Army.

Hu Zezheng was under the city wall, looking solemnly at a soldier who was lying on the ground and put his ear on the face of a big drum half-buried in the ground. ”

Hu Ze's face was slightly better, and he said: "If you listen again, you can't relax for a moment." The soldier put his ear to the drum again, and he looked up to see Wu Yingying standing by in amazement.

Wu Yingying saw this scene, how could he not understand, this earth listening technique is a special method in ancient warfare to restrain the excavation of tunnels, used to detect the sound of the enemy digging tunnels, secretly bitter in his heart, this Hu Ze is really a famous general, he quietly dug a tunnel into the palace, I don't know if he noticed. With a smile on his face, he arched his hand and said, "Brother Hu, what is this for?"

Hu Ze saw that it was him, and he didn't think much about it, and said with a smile: "The Song people threw stones and bombarded the city wall all day and night these days, but the battle in the city was not very fierce. Thinking about it for my brother, it is either a tired plan, or I have other plans, which is nothing more than two roads: tunnels and waterways. Lu Lao Jiedu has already sent additional people to guard the East and West Water Gate, and the jack gate is also ready to be lowered at any time, and a place is set up every 500 feet on the inner side of the city wall for his brother, so as to prevent the Song people from using the tunnel to surprise soldiers. ”

Wu Yingying saw that he was so fine, no wonder his heart was as fierce as Cao Han was also deflated, fortunately, the palace city was still some distance away from the Jinling city wall, and the scale of the tunnel he dug was extremely small, but since Hu Ze had set up so many places to listen, he had to pay attention to it from time to time, and arched his hand: "Brother Hu has found any clues about the Song army's attack on the city?"

Hu Ze did not think that Wu Yingying was selfish, and he was defenseless against him, nodded and said: "Now that some movements have been heard in the south and west of the city, I am arranging for the soldiers to step up patrols within these two city walls, prepare dung juice and vegetable oil, and let them be buried underground once they find the entrance to the Song army's tunnel." ”

Listening to Hu Ze viciously talk about dealing with the Song army who were digging tunnels, imagining the scene in the dark tunnels, the hot dung juice and boiling oil scalding the soldiers stuffed with tunnels to the flesh, Wu Yingying couldn't help but shudder, if he escaped with Huang Wen and was discovered, I am afraid the end would not be much better than these Song troops. Thinking of this, Wu Yingying looked in the direction of Miyagi, looked at the faint halo of lampposts in the night, and secretly determined in his heart that he must bring Huang Wen out safely. Ever since I came to Hu Ze, for some reason, a feeling of extreme uneasiness lingered in my heart and lingered.