Chapter 20: Flour Can Kill
Yan Wuying fled, the commander of the border city was killed, and the already chaotic border city became more and more undisciplined. Zhao Ren saw that the time had come, so he sent troops to the border city, and after killing several leaders and rioting soldiers, he successfully collected 30,000 prisoners.
Zhang Qing hugged his fists, and his gratitude was beyond words. Zhao Ren seemed to know what he was going to say, and immediately said: "There is no need to say words of gratitude, just take what you need, send someone to report the good news to the king, and he needs to send someone to take over the city, as for the post-war indemnity and the ransom for the prisoners of Tianhe Kingdom, he also needs to determine." Zhang Qing nodded yes, and was about to go down to write the good news, but he heard a report from his subordinates: The king has sent a letter, and along with the gift of the little prince.
Zhang Qing was very curious about this little prince, and all the way over, from curing the eldest prince, to the shadow guard who went to assassinate him, and Zhang Fei, who took over as the vanguard, could achieve fruitful results, and it seemed that they were all inseparable from him. As soon as I heard that there was a gift from the little prince, I immediately wanted to see it.
Zhao Ren called Zhang Fei, and after Zhang Fei opened the gift box, he browsed the instructions and said to everyone: "This is a talisman machine, as long as you press the key above, you can talk to the little prince who is far away in the royal city." When Zhao Ren heard this, he was slightly excited: "Really, the royal city is not less than a thousand miles away, is it really that magical?" Then he thought that it seemed that a lot of magical things had happened to this younger brother, and it was no longer strange, so he instructed Zhang Fei to continue, and demonstrate it by the way.
Zhang Fei didn't talk nonsense, and continued to introduce: "According to the little prince's letter, this is a machine made by combining the knowledge of Fu Gong, so it is called a Fu machine, as long as you dial up, you can communicate and talk, and it is sent to us from No. 3 to No. 5, and the little prince is No. 2, and No. 1 has been sent to the prince and princess." And we need to contact the little prince, we only need to press the number two button, and when he is connected, we can speak. Then he pressed the number two button.
After waiting for a few seconds, Zhao Yi's lazy voice came: "Hey, hello, who one!" Ying Yi said excitedly: "Sure enough, it was the voice of the little prince." "Of course it's me, it's Yingyi, right?, what about my brother?" Zhao Yi's question continued to be heard inside. Ying Yi replied and respectfully handed over the talisman machine to Zhao Ren.
Zhao Ren also couldn't wait: "Brother, it's me, this is called Fu Ji, it's amazing, you can talk thousands of miles away." Zhao Yi replied lightly: "It's okay, it's easy to use!" and then his tone became a little sad: "Brother, how long is the war over there? I also sent a talisman machine over to my parents, it should be almost there, so let's talk to my parents first!"
Zhao Ren suddenly felt a little guilty, he had been out for more than three years, and he had only been to a few letters in the middle, and he suddenly felt that he must stay with his parents for a few more years when he went back this time. Hurriedly agreed: "Certainly, definitely." Later, Zhao Ren told the situation here again, and asked Zhao Yi to tell the king of Tianhe. After the king of Tianhe learned the news, he handed over the matter to Zhang Qing with full authority to deal with, and asked him to discuss it with the eldest prince. For the personnel who will take over the city, they will be selected and appointed later, and they will rush over as soon as possible.
It's easy to do now, just send an envoy to Tianping Country to discuss the armistice indemnity to redeem the prisoners of war, originally it was a very dangerous thing to send an envoy to the enemy country, after Zhao Ren took out an invisibility talisman, there were a bunch of people vying to go, one is that there are a few people in the small kingdom who are as strong as Yan Wuying after all, and the other is that they only need to save their lives and escape, and it is more than enough to have an invisibility charm for self-defense. Besides, it is a great achievement to do this well, and it is no longer a problem to add officials to the knighthood. It's exciting.
Zhao Ren chose a very shrewd official as an envoy, in order to save time, and handed over the No. 5 Fu Ji to him, holding two artifacts in his hand, the envoy was so excited that he wiped his tears, resolutely made a military order, rode on a horse, and ran towards the Tianping King City.
A few days later, bad news came, the king of Tianping did not agree to compensation, nor was he willing to redeem the prisoners of war, but gathered the whole country's troops, a total of 100,000, and wanted to fight a decisive battle with the Tianhe Kingdom in the border city. In about ten days, you will be able to reach Qiushui City, which is the closest to the border city.
Zhao Ren was furious when he heard this: "This King Tianping really doesn't know how to lift, this prince is going to let him go, and he still wants to delay my time, do you have to be hurt to learn to behave?" Then he looked at Zhang Qing and the others: "General Zhang, I want to send troops to Qiushui City and capture it within three days, but is there a problem?" Zhang Qing was also angry, and finally he could stop fighting and return to China to be honored, at this time King Tianping was still uncomfortable, so he took the lead in answering: "Listen to the orders of the eldest prince!"
Thinking of the usual siege methods, Zhang Fei couldn't help but stand up and say, "Prince, this time, why don't you let me go to Qiushui City with the shadow guard for the beheading mission!" Zhao Ren decided to fight quickly, thinking that it would be good to send Zhang Fei there, so he agreed, and left an invisibility talisman for self-defense, and the other talismans were handed over to Zhang Fei and others.
After Zhang Fei entered the city, he assigned an assassination target with the shadow guards, and then sneaked to the city lord's mansion in person, this city lord was a relative of the emperor and the country, and he was very favored by the king of Tianping, so he was sent to guard the border pass. Zhang Fei thought to himself, if the assassination was successful, I am afraid it would be enough to make King Tianping's heart ache, and it would also make him afraid, once the city lord died, the 20,000 garrisons of Qiushui City would not be able to keep it, and this would be enough for King Tianping to drink a pot.
At the beginning, the lord of Qiushui City was afraid of the trick and did not dare to support the border city, but he could not imagine that someone would dare to assassinate him. Zhang Fei decided to play big, entered the kitchen, and saw that there was no one inside, so he secretly carried a bag of flour, and soon flashed into the city lord's room, sprinkled it evenly in the room, and put some flour on the beams to ensure that it could continue to spill down and float in the air. After doing all this, it was estimated that the lord of the city would return soon, so he stuffed the flour bag under the bed, exited the room, and left far away.
After reading the letter from the king, the lord of Qiushui knew that the army of the balances was coming. He was still worried when he heard the news that the Tianhe Kingdom army was about to attack a few days ago, but when he saw the letter, the worry on his face suddenly disappeared. I can finally get a good night's sleep.
The city lord of Qiushui walked into the room, stepped on the wooden floor, and suddenly felt a cloud of powder fall on him, "Could it be that there are rats on the beam?" his lips pursed, and he felt a little strange in his heart, "Oh, how can there be a taste of flour?" He decided to light the lamp to see, "What did this servant do, this lampshade is not even covered." He didn't think much of it and prepared to light the lamp.
"Snort!" This is the sound of the fire folding, "Snort!" Two consecutive sounds, the Qiushui City Lord only felt that the fire in front of him seemed to be bigger, and then with a "boom", he became a fire man, he only had time to let out a terrible shout, the whole room was burned, and he was unconscious.
The guards of the City Lord's Mansion all ran over, but the fire was getting bigger and bigger, and the housekeeper of the City Lord's Mansion shouted angrily: "Fetch water to fight the fire", and the personnel in the entire mansion ran up in a panic, the sound of the explosion just now frightened many people, and now there are still people trembling on the side, muttering in their mouths: "Lei Gong is angry, Lei Gong is angry!" When the first two people ran into the fire, ready to save the city lord out, but they followed the city lord and burned into a burning man, and after a while, there was no sound, and the people behind had to fetch water to extinguish the fire around, control the fire, and wait for the fire to subside by itself.
"No, it's so powerful, it's good to run far, scared the baby to death!" Zhang Fei patted his little heart and sold a cute, but he didn't think that three people would die in his hands at this time.
"No, that's the City Lord's Mansion, and it was made by Zhang Fei's kid?" Shadow had just assassinated a general in the city, but at this time he was secretly puzzled.
"No?......" This was the thought of the rest of the shadow guards.
"No, there is no thunder?" Zhang Qing looked at the sky and asked Zhao Ren suspiciously. Zhao Ren couldn't figure it out. It's just that at this time, the rune machine sounded. Zhao Ren answered, and after hanging up, he hurriedly ordered: "General Zhang, you can call the brothers to attack the city!"
Zhang Fei saw that the city was beginning to be chaotic, and after passing the news with the talisman machine, he ran to the city gate with a group of shadow guards, and the soldiers defending the city who were panicking at the sound of explosions in the city, where was the opponent of Zhang Fei and his party, three times five divided by two, was solved. The city gate was opened, and the Tianhe soldiers waved their shields to block a few waves of scattered arrows and attacked the city.
The soldiers resting in the city had just been awakened by the sound of explosions in the city. Then he saw the enemy army attacking the city, and was taken by surprise, and the city was quickly calmed down. This battle really came and ended quickly. Zhao Ren instructed Zhang Qing to take 60,000 soldiers out, and leave 40,000 in the city for himself. After hearing this, Zhang Qing took the order and left.
After Zhao Ren sent Zhang Qing to deal with the follow-up matters, he could no longer hide the curiosity in his heart, and stared at Zhang Fei with burning eyes. Zhang Fei had no choice but to explain: "This is not something I came up with, this is what the little prince once told me, in a confined space, as long as the combustible dust reaches a certain concentration and is between the lower and upper limit of the explosion, it will explode in case of fire." Seeing that everyone was still puzzled, he continued: "The flour I used in the City Lord's Mansion was flour, and this flour was a kind of combustible dust, I sprinkled it in the room, estimated the concentration, and just expected the City Lord to light the lamp, and then this was the result, but I didn't expect it to be so powerful." ”
Zhao Ren couldn't help but be stern: "I dare to use things that I didn't expect, fortunately, nothing happened, don't do this next time." Although Zhang Fei was criticized, he felt warm in his heart, "The first thing the eldest prince cares about is our safety!" hurriedly replied: "Pay attention next time." "What Eichi and the others think is that they will be closer to the little prince after they go back, and maybe they will be able to grow a lot of skills. Zhao Ren felt more and more that this younger brother would know a lot, but after thinking about it, no matter how great his ability was, he was not my Zhao Ren's younger brother, so he smiled.