Chapter 50 - Night Attack on Qicheng (II)
According to the plan that Feng Yuchong, Feng Shanshan, and Kong Hong had discussed with Wang Ling at the beginning, this start of serving food was a signal, indicating that they could take advantage of this opportunity to directly find an opportunity to kill Wang Ren and his four guards. Now that Wang Ling has completely left his personal feelings behind, if they want to keep their family status and family influence, then they must make this decision, whether to cut off their own back road, in order to show their loyalty to the Qi country or to leave the country.
However, although reason told Wang Ling that he should do this, emotionally speaking, it was the widow of his brother, whose father had died of a miscarriage long before Wang Ren was born. His mother, after giving birth to Wang Ren, followed his father. Wang Ren was brought up by him since he was a child, and found the last martial arts master to teach him martial arts and the art of war, to be honest, he still pities Wang Ren very much. If it weren't for the last resort, Wang Ling would definitely not do this. But now, if we don't make a decision, I'm afraid it's too late. Compared to the confiscation of power or even the extinction of the family, this result left Wang Ling with no choice but to do so, sacrificing the ego to ensure everyone's interests and names.
This is also mentioned in the letter of Kong Hong's father, Kong Jian, the head of the Kong family, who told Wang Ling that if he still wants to keep his family under great external pressure, then he must break his wrist with a strong man. And the best performance of the strong man's broken wrist Wang Ling knew that it was to sacrifice Qicheng, kill Wang Ren and seize the 5,000 army, in this consideration, in the end, Wang Ling decided to let Feng Yuchong, Feng Shanshan and Kong Hong deal with the predicament in front of them and break the situation. He really couldn't bear to kill his nephew Wang Ren with his own hands.
Kong Hong slowly walked to the front of the main seat with a plate of vegetables and fruits, and her original action of holding this jade plate with both hands also changed to supporting the jade plate above with one hand, and the other hand secretly leaned on her waist, condensing extremely cold ice crystals in an instant.
When Kong Hong's figure staggered past the position of Wang Ren in front of her, she immediately cast her eyes and glanced at Wang Ling in front of her, Wang Ling nodded lightly, and then pretended to pick up the wine glass and raised her hands, smiled at Wang Ren in front of her and said: "Virtuous nephew, you have worked hard all the way, come, I salute you! I wish the virtuous nephew a smooth sailing in what he is doing now, and we will fully cooperate with you, you can rest assured." ”
Wang Ren was tasting the cut and exquisite beef that Fang had just delivered, and when he saw his uncle's toast, he quickly stood up and saluted back: "Uncle is serious, this is what I should do" Wang Yan raised his wine glass above his head, and he was only halfway through his words, and at the moment when he wanted to drink it all later, Kong Hong, who was kneeling at Wang Ling's table in front of him and pretending to serve food, suddenly made a move, and the ice crystals that had already condensed in his hand instantly froze Wang Ren's body at this moment, Wang Ren was defenseless at all, and his body directly stiffened in place motionless. Then, an ice crystal shattered from his waist, and a golden token rolled out of it, rolling all the way to the edge of where Kong Hong and Wang Ling were.
At this time, Kong Hong slowly stood up, and the surrounding Wang family members were stunned to look at Wang Ren, who was now directly frozen in place and could not move, or even knew whether he was alive or dead. Wang Ling looked at the situation in front of him fixedly, and asked in a slightly trembling voice, "How is it, Hong'er, is he dead or alive now?"
Kong Hong smiled with his hand, "Uncle Shi, I didn't kill him now, I just temporarily froze him, but if you want to forcibly unseal it, he will really die." Okay, anyway, now that we have what we want, Uncle Shi, let's start according to our original plan. ”
Wang Lingqiang squeezed out a smile, he didn't expect that Kong Hong had said this sentence to such a point, and he had reached a situation where there was no room for recovery, which was something that Wang Ling did not expect. However, now Wang Ling had no choice, so he stood up and announced loudly: "Wang Ren, as the general of the imperial Chen family, has been affected by the implementation of the imperial Chen family's regulations, and he is no longer the same person in our family at the beginning. He is now leading 5,000 troops back to Qicheng, not only to defend this Qicheng, but also to take advantage of this opportunity to seize our power. We're not going to let his plot succeed, and now that we've managed to capture the Talisman Token, it's up to us to succeed!"
The surrounding members of the Wang family actually understood this matter. For them, the current situation was not very surprising, but the movement and speed of Kong Hong's sudden attack just now made these members of the Wang family very curious. However, they are very self-aware, and they will never take the initiative to ask Kong Hong what kind of ability this is.
Kong Hong bent down and picked up the golden token under his feet, on which was written a Chinese character engraved with a vermilion ink seal. Obviously, this is the highest level of power symbol of the royal Chen family. With this token, they can dispatch the Chen family army of the royal family who is now stationed inside Qicheng to temporarily leave their guard positions, and at the same time, let the members of the Wang family and the local army planted in the army temporarily take over the city defense of Qicheng. And after doing this, he immediately contacted Mei Lin, the general of Qi who had already begun to prepare for the current situation outside the city, and attacked inside and outside, and broke the city today!
Kong Hong had just walked out of this main hall, and the two brothers and sisters Feng Yuchong and Feng Shanshan in the auxiliary hall also walked out quickly, and like Kong Hong, they did not kill the four Wang Ren's guards, but handed them over to the Wang family members who were already waiting here after being enchanted with drugs. Immediately, the three of them glanced at each other, and they knew that the first step of the current strategic plan had been successful. Therefore, Feng Yuchong immediately glanced up with his gaze, signaling Kong Hong and Feng Shanshan to find a safe place to pass the message first, and then he took this golden token to the commander of the army brought by the five thousand Wang Ren and transferred them away from the city defense
Kong Hong didn't hesitate much, and walked directly to Feng Yuchong's side quickly, and handed over the golden token in his hand to Feng Yuchong's hand. She naturally knew very well that no matter when, the appearance of their women in the army would inevitably attract the distrust of the soldiers, not to mention that this woman still held the token of honor in the royal Chen family held by Wang Ren. If this matter is to be dealt with now, Feng Yu will inevitably need to rush there, and maybe he will be able to find some opportunities.
Feng Yuchong took the gold medal and immediately left the royal compound, and just as Kong Hong and Feng Shanshan were also about to get up and leave the royal compound, a family member suddenly ran from behind, and this family member shouted loudly behind Kong Hong and Feng Shanshan: "Please stay, the head of the family has an invitation, and there is something important to discuss." ”
Kong Hong and Feng Shanshan, the two girls, glanced at each other, and they immediately decided to go in first to see if there was anything going on in Wang Ling to talk to them. Anyway, they weren't in a hurry to get out of here, and it would be great if Wang Ling could deliver the news for them.
There was no deviation in their guesses, and now at this time, Wang Ling tried his best to do something that could prove himself useful, so as to try to protect the interests of himself and his family in this complex and changeable situation. And now, to prove the sincerity of their royal family to the Qi State, this is a very good starting point.
"The two of you must be going to spread the message outside the city now, but in fact, the two of you don't need to be so troublesome, our Wang family's control in this Qi City is definitely enough. Now all I have to do is release a carrier pigeon and go to our farm outside the city, and when the time comes, the royal family members in the farm can directly hand over this letter to General Merlin directly. This saves a lot of time and ensures some safety. I don't know what the two of you think?" Wang Ling is working very hard now, because he knows that once the Qi army enters Qicheng, it means that their family's traditional interests will be seriously affected and even destroyed. This is something that Wang Ling doesn't want to see, so the reason why he is working so hard now is that he hopes that the Qi army can nominally occupy Qicheng and not have to enter Qicheng. So he took this opportunity to contact Merlin in advance, and it was for this reason.
In this way, there is the head of the Lao family. Kong Hong and Feng Shanshan, the two girls, bowed their hands, since Wang Ling wanted to come forward for them, why not do this? Besides, carrier pigeons should be much more convenient than them to go out.
Kong Hong and Feng Shanshan didn't think of going to a deeper level, of course, they didn't know that long before the Qi army sent troops to Xiaoguan to Qicheng, Li Fu had already told Mei Lin that if he could, he would weaken the influence of the Wang family in Qicheng as much as possible, and if it was really not possible, he would consider other actions. In fact, it is necessary to implement a series of measures to weaken the family, confiscate land and pay the population, and even if it cannot be done for a while, the general direction will not change. But Wang Ling didn't know about these things, otherwise he would never have worked so hard to help Qi Guo, at least at this time, he would have expressed neutrality. Because his core interest is his family.
Wang Ling summoned a servant and gave him a letter that had already been written, and ordered him to send it to their royal family's farm outside the city. Then, Wang Ling waved his hand and said with a smile: "Now this dinner is not over, the two of you are distinguished guests, I wonder if you can reward me with a thin noodle to have a feast together?"
Kong Hong and Feng Shanshan waved their hands at the same time and said with a smile: "The head of the family invites, and we are naturally happy to go to the banquet." With that, the three of them walked side by side into the main hall, and after a small episode, the dinner returned to its original peace. The sound of the silk bamboo air pipe lingered in the ears, and the dinner officially began
In the Qi State camp outside Qicheng City, since Merlin's order had already been issued, it was equivalent to saying that every soldier had already adjusted their spirits tonight, sharpened their weapons and armor, and was ready to attack at any time. These 8,000 elite troops of the Qi Kingdom were hidden in their respective camps, and once they waited for the news of Merlin's attack, they immediately went to Qicheng, which was five miles away from the garrison, and occupied it in one fell swoop.
And these soldiers waited for two hours, and finally Merlin's order was delivered, ordering the whole army to set off to Qicheng immediately, and concentrate the whole army to set up a cloud ladder to attack Xicheng, and strive to break Qicheng within half an hour.