The night after Shen Shuren looked for Lin Yangcheng and Liu Sandao to discuss secretly.

Outside the west gate of Hengzhou City, a few scout cavalry quietly touched the city, and then used the usual contact code of the thieves to request to enter the city.

"Let me go into the city! My king has confidential matters to contact the eight kings! ”

The defenders at the head of the city were originally a little hesitant and wanted to put the hanging basket down, but later they saw that there were at least four or five people on the other side, and they were afraid of long nights and dreams with the hanging basket. In addition, Hengzhou is also a relatively large capital city in the south of Huguang, and there is an inner urn city inside the city gate, and it is not afraid of a sudden sneak attack after deceiving the door.

So the guards on the tower of the city asked a few soldiers with huge axes to stand guard near the winch of the jack gate, and then opened the outer door, let people in first, and then open the inner door after closing the outer door.

The person who came was Liu Sandao, but the identity he claimed to the public this time was Lin Yang's righteous son, not Liu Xiyao's righteous son. He temporarily used a pseudonym, called Lin Daorong.

Anyway, Zhang Xianzhong's subordinates have never seen such a small role as him, and Lin Chengcheng Liu Xiyao's two armies were originally very familiar with each other, and he had a high success rate of impersonating Liu Xiyao's subordinates.

At the same time, Shen Shuren is also more assured to let Liu Sandao deceive, because he has a name for killing his father and abandoning the secret and surrendering to the light, which is not easy to return to the thief's side. Let him take this risk, which can be regarded as a wealth and danger.

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After a while, the news that Lin Chengcheng had sent secret envoys to collude reached Zhang Xianzhong's ears.

Zhang Xianzhong has been able to personally inquire about the war in the past few days, but he rarely personally went to the city wall to inspect and supervise the battle. Because he was blown into a pockmarked face by lead bullet debris and had one ear cut off, it has not been ten days, and he still has to recuperate.

When he heard that there were other former thief factions coming, he was afraid that he would lose his prestige, so he couldn't meet him personally. So he asked the guards who came in to report a little nervously: "Lin Yangsheng sent someone?" So what's going on? When was he sent to the front by the Sinking Treemen? ”

The guards didn't understand much: "The subordinates don't know, and the people who come refuse to talk about it in detail, as if they want to reach some tacit agreement with the king and avoid cannibalism." ”

Zhang Xianzhong thought about it and gritted his teeth: "Let the second child be responsible for meeting guests!" Bai Wenxuan watched from the side. helped me to the back of the hall to listen to the screen, and said to the outside world that I had fallen asleep and was too lazy to see the people who had cultivated I. ”

Zhang Xianzhong's original status in the thief world was indeed much higher than Lin Yangsheng's, and there was nothing wrong with him putting up this shelf. And in this way, you can also avoid giving away negative news about your injury.

In case of fraud, it will not be known to the officers and soldiers, and the morale of the officers and soldiers will be boosted.

The guards hurriedly went down to make arrangements, so that Li Dingguo, who had been coldly treated for a month, got another opportunity to deal with "foreign affairs work".

The contradictions between the righteous father and the righteous son, they are all family ugliness, and they still have to be harmonious to the outside world, and family ugliness should not be publicized.

After Li Dingguo received the order, he was also quite grateful, thinking that his father-in-law was willing to reuse him again, and decided to behave well.

After a while, Liu Sandao was led to the main hall of King Gui's mansion, Li Dingguo Bai Wenxuan sat on the side of the main seat, with a majestic demeanor, Liu Sandao saw him, and hurriedly saluted humbly: "The last general, Lin Daorong, brought his father-in-law's secret letter to the king of the world, and presented it to the eight kings." ”

Between his words, he naturally took Lin Cheng's bandit name to report to his family, and he looked very proficient, and his tone and demeanor looked like an old thief.

Bai Wenxuan got up and took it and handed it to Li Dingguo, Li Dingguo took it apart and took a general look at it, and asked: "General Lin is saying: The official army and General Wang Shangli were both defeated?" But General Wang Shangli successfully burned the grain, grass and ammunition of the official army in Hengshanwei in the bloody battle? ”

Liu Sandao immediately repeated the rehearsed rhetoric, and finally emphasized: "...... That's true, the Shen Shuren attacked very quickly before, but in fact, he used his troops regardless of the durability, and the ammunition was used too quickly. Although his soldiers, horses, and firearms were excellent, the ammunition was all specially made, and he had to travel thousands of miles from Wuchang.

This time it was burned by General Wang, and although the losses of the troops on both sides were still unknown, they could not get new ammunition supplies for at least five or six days. Shen Shuren was afraid that the Eight Kings would seize this opportunity to break through, because he was short of ammunition, and with this little force, he was temporarily unable to pursue, and he was afraid that he would not be able to defeat him if he pursued.

So he didn't care about us waiting for the army to live or die, and in the past few days, he wanted us to temporarily block the opening of the original three missing ones in the west of the city, and let us fill in the escape route of the west gate with our lives.

The father-in-law doesn't want his brothers to fight to the death with the troops of the Eight Kings, so he wants to talk to you first, the people who have been in Ximen these days are all old Shaanxi, don't break through from Ximen, make it difficult for us to do. ”

Li Dingguo's heart moved, and he said tentatively: "General Lin is at Shen Shuren's place, isn't he having a good time?" ”

Liu Sandao didn't dare to act excessively, everything was according to Shen Shuren's explanation, only emphasizing that "I didn't get promoted, the meritorious service judgment was very harsh, and the salary was not high".

He also emphasized one point vividly: Lin Chengcheng was a thief and robbed a lot of gold and silver before, and later last winter in order to obtain supplies, he did business with many gangsters and gentry in Jiujiang Prefecture.

As a result, after this surrender, Shen Shuren's subordinates often talked about the derivatives of those transactions, and asked Lin Chengcheng to squeeze the money if he didn't have a partner, and asked him to spit out some of the money left over from the robbery that year to eliminate the disaster.

However, only for the real thing that happened that "Lin Yangcheng's troops have been broken up and reorganized", Liu Sandao didn't mention it, at most he just said "Shen Shuren has mixed sand into our troops to infiltrate and arrange officers".

In this way, the unwillfulness of Lin cultivation is vividly brought to life, and it does not arouse suspicion.

Fortunately, Li Dingguo was still cautious, and after listening, he suddenly added a question: "Since General Lin is so unwilling, and now he has the opportunity to be separated to take charge of himself, why don't you take the opportunity to abandon the darkness and enter the city to accept the adaptation of the Eight Kings?" ”

Of course, Li Dingguo's question was nonsense, and it was purely a test of the other party's reaction.

Zhang Xianzhong, who had a pockmarked face behind the screen and had the same face as Mu Muyin, was also angry when he heard this, and almost made a fuss: If Lin Chengcheng agreed, it is entirely possible that the official army sent him to surrender! If you let him into the city, won't Hengzhou City be lost!

Fortunately, Liu Sandao did not agree on behalf of Lin Chengcheng, but just said euphemistically: "You don't have to enter the city...... Everyone is a friendly army, and they will continue to be friendly forces when they have the opportunity in the future. ”

Li Dingguo didn't want to give the other party a chance to think, so he immediately asked: "Then why is General Lin unwilling to let our army leave?" For example, if the Eight Kings plan to take advantage of the lack of ammunition in the past few days when the officers and troops are running out of ammunition and dare not pursue, they will break through.

General Lin can sit back and watch our army pass by your army's camp and only make noise and not attack, so that both sides will not be defeated? ”

Liu Sandao was slightly shocked in his heart, and he had to admit that Li Dingguo reacted quickly, but fortunately, before he came, Shen Futai rehearsed a very golden oil answer for him.

He hurriedly said without thinking: "My father-in-law is now a general of the imperial court after all, isn't it a crime to set up a thief without permission?" If you don't have the capital to set up another mountain, how can you protect yourself in the future?

My father-in-law asked me to come this time, in fact, there is another plan, I can discuss it with your army - others may not know how many gold, silver and jewels the Eight Kings looted in Changde, Changsha, and Hengzhou, but we are all all people along the way, and my father-in-law has already counted it.

After the eight kings entered Hunan and used the army to expand the army, it is estimated that it cost the wealth of a Rongwangfu, and the wealth of the Guiwangfu of the Jiwang Mansion and the looting of the Changsha Massacre are left, right?

After all, the homeless are not valuable, there are delas everywhere, and it is difficult to carry them to war, but silver is much easier to carry. It's better to use the homeless people somewhere, and then it's too late to temporarily scatter money and recruit troops.

If my father-in-law really offended the government because he didn't want to fight with the Eight Kings, then he would have to think of a way out, wouldn't he? The people's wealth plundered by my father-in-law in Anlu is now almost squeezed by the group of people who eat people and don't spit out bones under the command of Shen Gou Guan. Thinking about it again, there is also a lack of money to expand the army, buy food and make ordnance.

So before I came, my father-in-law said that if the Eight Kings really want to take advantage of these few days to break through from his defense area and force him not to fight you to the death, it is not impossible. As long as you take out 30% of the money of King Gui's Mansion of King Ji, he will let you go immediately, and he can even cover you.

He took this huge amount of money, and he didn't have to worry about being questioned by Shen Shuren, our army immediately drove to the south, went to Wuling at the junction of the two Guangzhous to reoccupy the mountain as the king, and it was no problem to rely on this huge amount of money to re-expand the army several times. When the time comes, the two Guangzhou's armaments will be relaxed, and they will not let me wait to come and go? This Daming, except for Shen Shuren, the governors of the rest of the places are not afraid, and he can't chase after him in Liangguang.

If the Eight Kings can be a little more lenient and directly give half of the money of King Gui's Mansion and King Ji's Mansion, then my father-in-law can directly defect before the battle and help you kill the Shen Shuren together. ”

Liu Sandao opened this condition on behalf of Lin Yangsheng, and Zhang Xianzhong's side immediately believed it several times.

Especially when people came up, they had already exposed a short term of Shen Jiajun, saying that Shen Shuren had a shortage of ammunition recently, and then combined with the later ones, the credibility was simply multiplied.

After Li Dingguo heard this, he and Bai Wenxuan glanced at each other, and finally Bai Wenxuan came forward to ask: "Sancheng is not negotiable, in fact, our army spends a lot of money, and Sancheng actually only has ...... left."

Liu Sandao interrupted them: "Changsha slaughtered the city, I'm afraid there are more than a thousand taels, right?" And King Gui, as the uncle of today's son, has a family property of at least five million taels or more. We need at least 5 million taels for 30 percent, and 8 million taels for 50 percent. Anything less than that would be unjust. ”

This number was also taught to him by Shen Shuren in advance, and at first glance it was the appetite of the old thief.

Li Dingguo and Bai Wenxuan were slightly surprised, because Zhang Xianzhong slaughtered the city and killed several palaces, he really got so much.

What kind of thing is Lin cultivation? Five million taels to buy a road, this is too much to look up to yourself.

However, this matter is not for Li Dingguo to make a decision, so he said that he would leave Liu Sandao to serve tea, go down to rest and have some supper first, and he would go to ask his father-in-law.

After a while, Liu Sandao finished eating and drinking, and Li Dingguo also asked Zhang Xianzhong to come over for a showdown with Yan Yuese: "General Lin Gaoyi, although the bid is a little higher, it is not impossible to negotiate."

In this way, my father said, three million taels, before the day after tomorrow, your army will quietly let our army leave, and at least delay half the night so that the people of Shenshu will not know, lest the other departments of the official army come to pursue us immediately.

As for tonight, there are only a few of you here, and you can't take much of the worth of millions of taels. I'll give you 3,000 taels of gold first, plus two sacks of Dongzhu, Baoyu, and precious stones, which will be worth more than 20,000 taels of gold in total. It should be worth 300,000 taels of silver and 10% of the total price as a deposit. Take it and go back as soon as possible. ”

After that, Li Dingguo took out the property he had just been ordered to prepare, top-grade jewelry and gold worth 300,000 taels of silver, weighing more than 400 catties in total, and asked Liu Sandao and other five horsemen to take it away on horseback (one catty and sixteen taels, so three thousand taels of gold is only about 200 catties)

The gold density is large, and a bag of 1,500 taels of gold is only the size of a solid basketball, so it is easy to take away.

After Liu Sandao and the others left with the deposit, Bai Wenxuan met Zhang Xianzhong and asked him about his true plans.

Zhang Xianzhong didn't even think about it: "Lin is also worthy of cultivation!" If you want to break through, you can break through a few days ago, and there was no official camp in the west of the city at that time! Why don't you pay millions of taels of silver for nothing a few days late!

Lonely does not break through, but he feels that the army of seventy or eighty thousand under his command, if he breaks through the siege, he can only keep up with twenty or thirty thousand people at most, and if the rest are surrounded, it will be cheap for nothing! So I want to fight until both sides are defeated and seriously weaken the Shen Shuren, and then retreat!

These new annexed troops, if they stay, they don't have the stamina to run to Qianzhong Road into Sichuan, it is better to consume them under this Hengzhou City! Since the Shenshu people are short of ammunition, they will concentrate their troops out of the city tomorrow and attack the official camp on the north road of the city! Giving Lin a small amount of 300,000 taels is just to paralyze him! ”

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ps: From today, the normal two shifts will be resumed, and there will be a second shift before 5 pm.