The sky gradually darkened, and in addition to the wine shops and green buildings in the city, which were still noisy as usual, the people on the other streets gradually became sparse.

Jinan City is now the seat of Qi County, and it is also the seat of Qi State.

As the historical achievement of Emperor Gao Yang of the Northern Qi Dynasty, Qi County was the first batch of counties to carry out reforms, and the state governance of Qi Prefecture was moved from Linzi to the current Jinan City a few years ago.

Because it is close to the south bank of Jishui, and the vicinity is a rich place, and the 'transportation' is convenient, so the state governance of Qizhou has only migrated to less than a year, and the whole Jinan city has become prosperous, and all kinds of green buildings, wine shops, warehouses, etc. are full in the square market of Xicheng.

Unlike Fenzhou, Dongyongzhou and other places adjacent to the border of the Northern Zhou Dynasty and in a state of war at any time, Qizhou has always been rich and war-free, and the border with the Southern Dynasties has advanced from the Huai River to the Yangtze River, Qizhou has become a real hinterland of the Northern Qi Dynasty, and it is very safe.

security, coupled with the wealth of Qizhou, so the position of Qizhou Assassin has become a position that all forces in Northern Qi compete for.

In the end, the position of the assassin of Qizhou fell to Gao Jishi, the fourth brother of the deceased Changle County Gong Gao Qian. As the younger brother of Gao Qian, a famous minister of the Northern Qi Dynasty, Gao Jishi was also quite famous in the Northern Qi Dynasty.

At that time, before Gao Jishi took office as the assassin of Qizhou, Taishan thieves Liu Pantuo and Shi Mingyao led 10,000 people to attack the roads, plundered the villages, and swept the four prefectures of Qi, Yan, Qing and Xu.

After Gao Jishi served as the assassin of Qizhou, through all means, he exterminated this group of Taishan thieves who came out by dividing five by two.

The thieves of Mount Tai have just been exterminated here, and there is Du Lingchun, a native of Puyang, who took advantage of the famine to gather thousands of homeless people to rebel and gather tens of thousands of homeless people to attack the towns and villages.

After Gao Jishi learned the news, he immediately dispatched 300 'elite' cavalry to Puyang day and night, and captured Du Lingchun in only one battle.

Later, Xu Xian's rebellion and the thieves of Nanhe County were put down one after another, and what could be killed at that time was a river of blood, but Gao Jishi also gained a reputation as a capable official.

Although Gao Jishi is a capable official, he has a bad 'fault', that is, he likes to drink heavily, and he has always done whatever he wants.

Gao Jishi and Donglai's Gwangju Thorn Shi Li Yuanzhong 'befriended', and the two once drank together in Qi County, but once Gao Jishi remembered the old thing of the two drinking together, and violated the order to open the city 'gate' at night, and asked the left and right cronies to bring a pot of good wine and ride a stagecoach to Donglai to persuade Li Yuanzhong to drink.

Such a series of violations of the imperial court decrees were reported to the imperial court by the imperial history of the central court, and the imperial court turned a blind eye.

Later, Gao Jishi's brother Gao Shen rebelled according to Wujiaoguan, Gao Jishi was dismissed for a short time and lived in Yecheng, Gao Huan's 'son-in-law' Huang 'Gate' Lang Sima came to him for a drink one day.

As a result, Gao Jishi's buddy was addicted to drinking, and he didn't enjoy drinking for a day, so he wanted to keep Sima to make it difficult to continue drinking, and said nothing to let the family go.

Sima was very embarrassed, so he had to say to him: "I am the Huang 'Gate' Lang, and I am the close 'servant' of the Son of Heaven, how can there be a reason not to go to the emperor's side to serve 'serve' when I go to the court!" Besides, we haven't gone back after drinking all night, my father will definitely blame, if I have to drink again today and delay things, I will definitely be punished, and you will inevitably be complained! ”

When Gao Jishi heard Sima's words, he said unhappily: "You claim to be a yellow 'door' lang, and you are talking about your father, are you using your status to scare me?" I have my own way of dying, and I can't be scared of it! ”

Seeing that Sima Xiaonan still had to leave, Gao Jishi was angry, and asked the family general to tie a carriage wheel to Sima Xiaonan, and then he also tied a carriage wheel, and the two continued to drink with the wheel.

It wasn't until the third day, when Sima Xiao, who had been missing for two nights, reappeared in front of everyone, that the panicked ministers of the DPRK and China knew what had happened, and they couldn't cry or laugh one by one.

After Gao Yang learned about this, he gave Sima a few stones of wine and a few stones to comfort his brother-in-law; However, Gao Yang immediately ordered that all ministers in the DPRK who had a close relationship with Gao Jishi should go to Gao Jishi's home to accompany Gao Jishi to drink.

In this way, once Gao Jishi and Sima went to find Sun Han, who was very drinkable, and finally drank Sun Han to death.

After being reappointed as the official of Qizhou, Gao Ji Shi drank every day, and he had to drink hard every day before going to sleep. Because he dragged the county guard of Qi County to drink several times, he was stunned to drink the county guard of Qi County so much that he couldn't stand it, and he stayed in Gaoyang County all day and didn't dare to come back.

Assassin Shi is not happy with alcohol every day, of course, it also affects the officials at all levels below, one by one is also addicted to alcohol, anyway, Qizhou is not the border and there is no enemy army, some Taishan thieves are afraid of the prestige of Gao Ji before the most rob the common people in the township, and there has never been a siege.

In the middle of summer, although Jinan City has always been famous for its 'spring water in every house, and every household weeping poplar', it is very hot in summer because it is surrounded by low mountains, and Jinan City is located in a basin.

The night is hot, sweating all over, people can't sleep, just in charge of the duty of a dozen or so officers, on the high city 'gate' of Jinan City put down a few desks, this will be drinking.

In addition, the city is located between Jishui and the mountains on the south bank, forming a microclimate cycle between water and land, bringing a breeze, which is particularly cool on this hot midsummer night.

The generals on duty drank hot wine, and the soldiers on duty at night also took advantage of their bosses' drinking time to squint and nap one by one, and some soldiers could be faintly heard snoring in the cool breeze at the head of the city.

No one noticed that a group of dark shadows slowly approached in the reeds by the river in the distance.

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During the day, Wang Ze led more than 3,000 soldiers and horses to transit through the narrowest stretch of the road between the Yellow River and Jishui, and then went downstream, when the news of the attack on the plain counties north of the river had not yet spread.

Wang Ze led the army all the way, all the ships encountered were detained, there were many fishing boats and merchant ships, after all, it was a prosperous water artery between Qi County and Jibei County, there were many merchant ships, plus the people were prosperous, and many landless peasants went to be fishermen.

In ancient times, the control of 'handover' to the future was very strict, and it was necessary to have road guidance and customs clearance documents to and from various places; Therefore, at that time, the business people basically had various relationships with the ministers of the DPRK and China, so that they could have the customs clearance documents, and the people who were responsible for it might be beheaded by the generals guarding the customs as 'traitors', and their property would be seized.

Based on this, Wang Ze did not have any psychological burden on the merchant ships on the Jishui River, and from the time he boarded the big ship in the Jishui at noon and began to go all the way downstream.

By the time he arrived near the upper reaches of Jinan City at night, Wang Ze's fleet had increased by thirty or forty large ships of nearly a thousand stones, and there were also fifty or sixty other ships of several hundred stones, and the fishing boats simply ignored them.

Although time was tight, and there was no time to count how much property had been seized, at least a dozen large ships were loaded with military rations for Luoyang County and other places in Northern Yu Prefecture.

Out of caution, Wang Ze went ashore seven or eight miles upstream of Jinan City when he was close to Zishi, but after receiving the news from the sentinels who had sneaked into Jinan City in advance, he learned that the situation of Qizhou Assassin was now like this.

In line with the principle of being cheap and not taking advantage of the bastard, of course Wang Ze has to make good use of such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

At the end of June and the beginning of July, it was just in the middle of the clouds, and there was no moon in the sky

Taking advantage of the night', hundreds of black shadows quietly came to the city wall, and the ancient Chinese city wall did not begin to be built in full use of rammed earth and bricks until the Song Dynasty.

At this time, although Jinan City is the state seat of Qizhou, but the whole city is still built with rammed earth, the city wall is three zhang five feet high, two zhang wide, and even five horses can run side by side in a critical moment.

However, because it is a rammed earth wall, the city wall is not vertical, and the entire city wall has a slight slope, and the bottom of the wall is at least two feet wider than the top.

After these hundreds of black shadows 'shot' out of the rope hook, they used this inclined plane to quickly climb up, and the first wolf tooth soldier who landed in the city quietly probed from the gap in the battlement of the city wall, and saw that several nearby Qizhou county soldiers were leaning against the corner of the wall with weapons and falling asleep, and the only officer was just a chief who also nodded frequently and fell asleep.

Seeing this, the soldier gestured backwards, and a dozen or so 'elite' wolf tooth soldiers tiptoed up the city wall.

Several county soldiers who were dozing off were killed as soon as possible, and several wolf tooth soldiers dressed up as Northern Qi county soldiers continued to patrol nearby, and the soldiers of the wolf tooth and blue wolf battalion continued to come up.

"It's not good, there are thieves stealing the city!" Just as the wolf-tooth soldiers approached the city gate, there was a loud shout from the city gate; it turned out that a general of the Qi army had drunk too much and wanted to get up to go to the toilet, but he saw the soldiers of the blue wolf battalion who had come up to the city.

Cao An and Meng Xian, who led the wolf tooth and the blue wolf battalion to attack the city 'gate', saw that they were discovered, and immediately Meng Xian shouted loudly and led the team to rush to the city tower to kill the general of the Qi army, while Cao An took hundreds of people to rob the city 'gate'.

Although the general had been drinking, he was also wearing a weapon, and immediately 'drawn' his knife to resist. However, after drinking wine in the middle of the night, coupled with the hasty battle, the weapon was cut off as soon as it was closed, and the whole person was cut in two.

You must know that the weapons used by the soldiers of the cottage are originally 'sophisticated' and extraordinary, and all the weapons used by the captain and above are all the 100 forged steel made by the cottage blacksmith Cao and his eldest son Cao Lei, and the special 'door' is made of high-quality charcoal, each of which is extremely sharp.

Meng Xian didn't even look at the beheaded generals of the Qi army, and led a hundred and ten people to rush into the city tower, killing all the Qi generals inside at the first time, and controlling the top of the city 'gate'.

At this time, Cao An led a large group of more than 300 people from the blue wolf battalion under his command to fight fiercely with the defenders at the city 'gate', and the cavalry and more than 1,000 infantry troops led by Wang Ze outside the city also began to rush to the position of the city 'gate' at this time.

In fact, in addition to Wang Ze's own original more than 3,000 horses, there were also more than 1,700 fishermen and homeless people who were willing to follow along the way, all holding firewood knives, harpoons and other sharp weapons in their hands, grinding their fists and palms.

After all, there are not many defenders of the city 'gate', and the defenders of the 'gate' of the north city are only more than 200 people, and this is still the seat of Jinan County and Qizhou Prefecture; if it is other county towns, the number of people guarding the 'gate' of the city is generally about 100 people; but there is a military camp not far from the city 'gate', and if it cannot be taken quickly, it will face a bitter battle.

There were more than 300 people in the blue wolf battalion, most of them besieged and killed these Qi defenders under the command of Cao An, and dozens of others stepped forward to open the city 'gate'.

The 'gate' of the city is as wide as two zhang, all of which are made of fine locust wood and other hardwoods, up to one foot thick, covered with thick iron sheets, and the rivet caps on the 'gate' are the size of fists, and if you attack hard, you don't know how many people will die.

More than a dozen soldiers worked together to take down a locust wood 'door' bar thick as a sea bowl, such a locust wood was more than 200 catties, and there were five such 'door' bars on the entire 'door'.

At this moment, the shouting and killing on the city wall became 'fierce', and it seemed that the Qi troops on several other city walls rushed over, and the sound of horses' hooves also sounded on the streets of the city, and the Qi cavalry in the city reacted.

Cao An, who had just cleared the defenders of the city 'gate', shouted: "A team will speed up the opening of the city 'gate', and the others will follow me to deploy defenses and receive Xiao Langjun into the city!" ”