Chapter Seventy-One: Killing the Chicken

The action team did a lot of things in three days, but in these three days, the Chengdu court finally discovered the problem.

Chengdu and the "Ministry of Industry" had daily contact, and after two consecutive days of severance of contact, the people of the imperial court finally sensed that something was wrong, and they sent several groups of people to the "Ministry of Industry" to contact them, but they were like mud cows in the sea and there was no news at all.

The last time, they sent out 500# people, but still not a single soldier came back, now even fools know that something is wrong, they panicked, they were at a loss, and on the third day, they completely closed the city gate and waited for it.

The people of the action team also felt that they had to take action, and the atmosphere in the city became more and more tense in the past two days, with more and more soldiers patrolling, fewer and fewer pedestrians on the road, and a feeling of mountain rain coming and wind filling the buildings filled the entire Chengdu city.

If they don't act, it's too late, and as the shape becomes more and more severe, they may be exposed at any time. Therefore, on the fourth day, Huang Xu issued an order for the operation, and the execution team immediately got busy.

First of all, Xu Jing received a letter, the content of the letter was very inexplicable, it was written like this: "Those who steal the hook will be punished, and those who steal the country will be punished, this is false." The thief is just a monkey, and he will eventually be headless. If you return the stolen goods, you will be spared death. ”

The meaning of this letter is that those who steal hooks will be put to death, and those who usurp power will become princes, and Zhuangzi is wrong in saying this. The usurper of state power is nothing more than a monkey, and he will eventually lose his head. If you can return the stolen power to me, I can spare your life.

When he received this letter, Xu Jing was in the study to deal with government affairs, and the advantage of controlling the government is that he has great power, and many people's life and death and well-being can be decided in one word, but the disadvantage is that he is too busy, and there are endless political affairs to deal with all day long.

After seeing this letter, Xu Jing was taken aback, the letter was not signed, and the content of the writing was vague, but with his intelligence, he could certainly guess who wrote it, and he could also understand the meaning of the letter.

He immediately called the porter Xu Sanduo and asked who had sent the letter and where was the person? The porter told him that the person who came was well-dressed, and at first glance he was a member of an official eunuch's family, and after the letter was delivered, he left, without saying whose letter it was, where he lived, and did not explain anything else.

Of course, he concealed the fact that he had accepted a large amount of bribes, and if it wasn't for someone who came to stuff him with a large ingot of silver, how could he have sent a letter from unknown sources into the study to show his master.

Seeing that the old man's face was as black as the bottom of a pot, Xu Sanduo felt worried, if he knew that this letter would make the old man angry, he would not dare to send the letter to death.

People often say that the prime minister's seven-grade official in front of the door, with Xu Jing monopolizing the government, his porter has also risen, during this period of time, countless people have come to the door to scold Xu Jing, even if it is a seven-grade official in front of Xu Sanduo, he is also respectful, and Xu Sanduo has also received a lot of benefits.

Today, when he saw that the person who came was well-dressed and talked extraordinary, and he was generous, as soon as he came up, he first stuffed a silver ingot with ten taels, and the request was just to send a letter, so he agreed. Unexpectedly, he caused trouble because of this, and it would be strange to say that he didn't regret it. He secretly hated the visitor, and made up his mind that if he saw him again next time, he would definitely look good.

Xu Sanduo was remorseful, Xu Jing finally recovered from the shock, waved him back, and told him before leaving, if the messenger came again, he must keep him and invite him to the study to meet. Xu Sanduo was taken aback, obviously seeing that the master was very unhappy when he saw the letter, why did he still see the visitor?

However, he has been a protégé of an official eunuch for many years, so he naturally knows the truth that he should take care of the things that should be taken care of, and the things that should not be asked should not be asked. So, he said "yes" and then retreated to the porter to continue his gift-receiving business.

Xu Jing was left in the study worried, lonely and lonely, for a long time, Xu Jing called a family member and told him to go to the general's mansion to invite the general Wu Yi to come over the mansion for a gathering, saying that there were 100,000 urgent matters to discuss with him, and asked him to come over as much as possible.

When encountering such a heavy matter, it is natural to find Wu Yi, who is in trouble with his wolf, to discuss how to deal with it. However, the people he sent out went for a long time and did not invite Wu Yi to come.

Where is Wu Yi? Wu Yi is now on his way to the barracks. After three days of reconnaissance, the execution team learned about Wu Yi's daily routine, and his activities generally included the general's palace, the imperial palace, the military camp, the city gate and the city wall, and his activities were very regular.

Generally speaking, he goes out of the general's palace when he is in the middle of the day, and goes to the palace first, and there are generally three things to do when he arrives at the palace: there will be an early court every three days, and at this time, he will go to the court like other ministers;

When he was not in court, most of him would go to his official office to work, and the whole army was now notoriously under his jurisdiction, so his affairs were also very busy; Another thing is that he regularly enters the harem to visit his sister, the original Wu Guifei, who is now revered as the queen mother.

After lunch, he does not have the habit of taking a lunch break, under normal circumstances, he will first go to the city gates and even climb the city wall to inspect the city defense, especially in the past few days, he attaches more importance to inspecting the city defense.

After inspecting the city defense, it was already close to dinner time, he would go to the barracks, as a qualified general, he needed to always care about the lives of soldiers, Wu Yi knew how to get closer to soldiers.

He would stay in the barracks until after dinner, and eating dinner with the soldiers was a habit he had developed over the years, a trick that made him very popular in the army, which was one of the important reasons why he was able to get the support of the army to carry out a coup d'état.

After dinner, he returned to the General's Palace, and at this time many people would come to visit him. As one of the two giants of the current imperial court, he, like Xu Jing, had to set aside time every day to meet a large number of visitors, and unlike Xu Jing, most of the people who came to visit him were military generals.

This is Wu Yi's life in a day, the people in the executive team have figured out the rules of his activities, as a "country thief", from the perspective of security, there should not be such a regular life, let alone maintain a fixed itinerary and route for a long time. It's a pity that Wu Yi is not the kind of person who is as cunning as a fox.

His scheming city government is only a little better than ordinary military generals, and even worse than many ordinary civil officials. He didn't understand how important it was to keep his trip a secret. This is also one of the reasons why the executive team is ready to choose him.

The goal of selecting Wu Yi as the "chicken killer" was the strategy that Liu Hou and Guo Youzhi had set before the action team entered the city. The location of the attack was based on the results obtained by the reconnaissance of the execution team in the past few days. The place they chose to start was on Wu Yi's way to the barracks.

The biggest reason for choosing this place is the condition of the ground. Most of the city's ground has been hard-bottomed, that is, the ground is paved with granite or blue bricks, and a few places are paved with cement, which has become popular in recent years. Such ground is hard and difficult to excavate, especially the cement pavement, which is basically impossible to dig in the current situation of the lack of tools of the task force.

The barracks are not in the central city, but in the more remote parts of the city, which are sparsely populated and the ground is still muddy, which is very easy to excavate. Why do you need to dig the ground? The reason is simple, because it is necessary to lay mines, or rather explosives#.

If anyone still asks why they planted mines, then I can sue him, because the goal of this operation is to assassinate Wu Yi. The "Killing Chickens and Monkeys" operation is actually divided into two parts, or it can be said to be two actions. The first part is "killing chickens", and the chickens that are killed are Wu Yi.

The second part is the "Monkey Monkey", and the monkey to be Monkey is of course Xu Jing, one of the "country thieves". The most important reason for choosing Wu Yi as the target of "killing chickens" was that he controlled the army in Chengdu, and once he was killed, the army would be leaderless. The chaos of the army in the city has infinite benefits for the Hong army.

And without the support of the army, it will be difficult for Xu Jing, a scholar, to succeed. In addition, a scholar like Xu Jing naturally has a cowardly personality, and after being hit, he is easy to succumb.

If Xu Jing is dealt with first, the situation may be the opposite, Wu Yi holds the military power, if the light kills Xu Jing, the military strength in the city will not suffer a little loss, Wu Yi is a martial artist, and his personality is relatively resolute, Xu Jing's death is likely to backfire, arouse his ruthlessness, make him more crazy, and thus defend the city with an iron heart, and then it will not be good.

Therefore, Guo Youzhi and Liu Hou finally decided to kill Wu Yi, so as to beat Xu Jing, who was not determined enough, and prompted him to surrender.

Wu Yi was particularly busy today, and since he lost contact with the "Ministry of Industry", he felt bad, so he decided to further strengthen the defense in the city. Today, he has been dispatching troops all day, and even the regular program of going to the barracks to communicate with the soldiers is much later than usual.

This made the members of the executive team who were waiting for him to enter the army on both sides of the road wait, and everyone almost thought that he would not go to the barracks today. Just when everyone wanted to give up today's action, Wu Yi, who was long overdue, finally appeared on the way.

Wu Yi rode a tall horse, the Sichuan horse was relatively short, this kind of tall horse was obviously a good horse from the Western Regions, and only this kind of horse could be worthy of his status as a general.

Wu Yi led a guard of two hundred people, but Wu Yi did not take the lead, but was mixed in the middle of the team. The guards were all infantry, and they were lined up in four rows, with Wu Yi walking in the middle, and two rows of soldiers on the left and right. It seems that he did some security measures anyway.

It's a pity that he rides on a tall horse, like a tall crane standing in a flock of chickens, and like a lighthouse in the night, he is so windy and conspicuous. It is estimated that he is a very confident general, and thinks that his martial arts are strong enough to dodge and block anyone's bow and arrow.

It's a pity that even if he is a general of the Shu Kingdom, he has not yet realized that the form of war has transitioned from the era of cold weapons to the age of firearms.

This is a dirt road, two rows of jujube trees are planted on both sides of the road, and there is a small mound next to a section of the road. This is the most suitable section of the whole road for hiding and sneak attack.

After all, it is in the city, there are really not many places suitable for sneak attacks, even this mound is a very small mound, hiding a dozen people is already the limit, and no matter how many people there are, it will be easy to be exposed.

If it is a sneak attack with cold weapons, it will definitely not work to set up an ambush here, but for the special forces of the Hong Army who use firearms, eleven people are enough.

Wu Yi's team got closer and closer, and the sound of horses' hooves was inaudible, because it was muffled by the sound of "Peng, Peng, Peng". Two hundred people walked in unison, which was still very imposing. The whole group was not spoken, and it was eerily quiet, except for the sound of neat walking, and the atmosphere was very oppressive.

This also reflects from one side that this is a well-trained team, and those who can be the general's personal guards must be the elite of the elite in the army. Therefore, the action of the enforcement team must be hit with one hit, otherwise, if these elites react and launch a counterattack, they will inevitably fail.