Chapter Ninety-Three: The Three Caves of the Cunning Rabbit
At this time, Shen Peng, standing in the big tent of Haili Creek, said with an embarrassed face: "General Hai, it is almost dark today, even if the villain caravan leaves, it will not go far, it is better to wait for the dawn tomorrow, and the villain will set off to Lord Taiwei again." Then he instructed his subordinates to take some of the fine wine specially prepared in the caravan and give it to Haili Creek. It turned out that Fang Caiping Zhangguo's personal soldiers came to the big tent to give an order, asking Shen Peng to lead the caravan to leave immediately.
Shen Peng had already seen that Qin Zhuofeng, Jiang Xian, and Zhu Quan were by no means good at stubble, how dare they spoil their big things, so they also tried their best to deal with it.
Hailixi was originally a good wine person, and while smiling and tasting the wine, he secretly thought to himself: Shen Fatzi has dealt with us for several years, and there has never been any trouble, and he is a thousand people in my 20,000 military camp, and he is expected to make no trouble. Tomorrow before dawn, I will drive him on the road, and my father will not know about it, so I will agree to this.
In the night, Zhu Quan and Xu Ying, under the leadership of Qin Zhuofeng, changed into black clothes, sneaked out of the camp quietly, and came to a corner of the city wall away from the Hailixi military camp.
Qin Zhuofeng listened to the Yuan army patrolling the wall on the city wall, poured internal force into his palm, performed the gecko swimming wall, and quietly dived to the city head with a height of more than five zhang, and then roped Zhu Quan and the other three up.
Jiang Xian went to the top of the city and secretly thought to himself: With my current internal strength, I can go up to three zhang at most, and I can't climb five zhang with ease like him. Thinking of this, he was even more jealous of Qin Zhuofeng, and said in a different mind: It seems that when this matter is over, the three of them must leave him early.
Staying on the city wall, looking down at the city, Zhu Quan and the other three couldn't help but cry bitterly in their hearts, it turned out that the city was dark at this time, and there was a faint flickering fire in countless houses, thinking that it was the Yuan soldiers who were taking fire in the houses to keep warm, and there were teams of Yuan army sentry horses with torches in the city from time to time to patrol, but they couldn't see where the Pingzhangguo of the three army generals lived.
It turned out that the main general of the Yuan army, Guo Lai, had fought with the anti-Yuan rebels in the past, and he had heard and witnessed the assassins of the rebel army, and he was very jealous. In addition, he is cunning and steady by nature, and the dwellings in the city are always changed from place to place, so at this time, at a glance, it is impossible to find his location.
Zhu Quan and Xu Ying saw that in such a dark night, if they went to the countless houses in the city to find the main generals of the three armies, it would be tantamount to looking for a needle in a haystack, and they couldn't help but look at each other and smile bitterly.
Jiang Xian asked in a low voice to Qin Zhuofeng beside him, "Do you want the junior to capture a Yuan army and interrogate him?" ”
Qin Zhuofeng smiled, shook his head, with a confident expression, and said in a low voice: "There is no need to be like this, grain and grass are the lifeblood of the army, let's go to the granary and put a fire, I am not afraid that he will not show up." With that, he turned around and led the three of them, and when he carried the salt bags into the city during the day, he had already seen the location of the granary, and quietly sneaked away.
After tea time, the four of them avoided several teams of Yuan soldiers and soldiers patrolling all the way, and quietly hid on the roof of a house near the granary. Not far away, in a large room adjacent to the granary, there were more than a dozen Yuan sergeants who were drinking and gambling on dice, and it was a small group of sentinels.
After a while, Qin Zhuofeng saw that the dozen or so Yuan soldiers walked out of the big house under the leadership of the commander, turned the corner of the street, and began to patrol the sentry, so he immediately ordered Zhu Quan and the other three to hide on the roof, but he went down to the ground, and ran into the empty house with a smoke, picked up the wine bottle placed by the Yuan army, and poured the liquor into the bonfire of the Yuan army for warmth, invisible.
At this time, it was the middle of winter, when the weather was dry and dry, the flames spread, and they were suddenly discovered by the Yuan army guarding near the granary.
The hooves of horses sounded on the long street, and dozens of horses galloped towards the granary, and it was Guolai who arrived with more than 100 of his own soldiers. It turned out that his residence tonight was two streets not far from here, and he had not had time to sleep peacefully, when he suddenly heard an unusual noise outside, and when he came out of the room, he saw the direction of the flames, which was actually such an important place as the granary, and he was immediately shocked and immediately led a group of his guards to come.
Jiang Xian saw that the atmosphere of the Yuan army did not dare to take a breath, standing on both sides of the street, greeting Guolai's posture, he already guessed his identity, reached out and took out a few poisonous needles from his waist that sealed his throat with blood, held his breath, and waited for Guolai to approach from the long street, and he was about to make a move. At this time, although there were hundreds of yuan troops on the long street, as long as he came to within three zhang, he was sure to kill him with one blow.
Qin Zhuofeng's eyes flickered as he watched Guolai approach, thinking back to the cunning captain Hailanda he saw at the city gate during the day, and groaned slightly, stopping Xu Ying and Zhu Quan from pulling out the long sword on their waists, and said softly: "Don't be impatient, don't be busy, you have your own plans for the teacher." ”
At this time, Jiang Xian had already seen that Qin Zhuofeng was an expert in doing such things, so he also forced himself to bear it, and knelt on the roof side by side with Zhu Quan and the others, watching the changes.
Ping Zhangguo came to the side of the commander of the thousand, raised his hand and whipped his head and brain, and shouted: "Immediately lead the people, search the whole city, and arrest the spies." Turning his head to see the torches held by the sentries on the city wall in the distance moving slowly in the dark night, he did not send out the warning signal of the enemy's attack, and he was still relieved, and ordered the two commanders who arrived quickly behind him: "The three armies are on alert immediately, and you two will each take 10,000 men to the city wall to prevent the Ming army from raiding." In addition, I sent someone to the Hailixi army to pass on my general's order, and all the cavalry were immediately on guard and ready to fight. After that, he took out the three arrows in his arms, handed them to his subordinates, and quickly came to a place more than ten feet away from the fire, commanded his troops to fight the fire, and looked at the three houses that were already burning at this time, and paced back and forth angrily, jumping like thunder.
Zhu Quan saw him take out the token of the commander-in-chief of the three armies and issue the military order, his eyes flashed, and his heart moved.
Recently, the weather is cold, the Yuan army can not bear the cold at night, so they have in the residential houses, burn bonfires to keep warm, there are sporadic fires from time to time, is to prepare a lot of buckets near the granary, a group of Yuan troops to fight the fire, the fire gradually decreased.
Seeing that the spread of the fire had been brought under control, he was slightly relieved. After half an hour, the two captains who led the army to the city wall sent people back, saying that they had not found any movement outside the city. The commander who searched the city also sent a message to tell him that until this time, no spies had been found in the city.
At this time, the fire had been completely extinguished, and Guolai heard the reply of his subordinates, and did not find that the Ming army was attacking in a big way, and no spies were found in the city.
In his opinion, his son Hai Lixi must have respected his military order and drove Shen Peng's caravan out of Gyeongju City, so although he was a little suspicious, he never thought through it. Turning to inquire about the soldiers in charge of guarding the granary, he walked into the big house where the fire originated, and the smoke was still faint. After checking, I saw a mess, several wine jugs shattered on the ground, no body, and no other abnormalities, turned around and walked out of the house, calmly ordered the more than a dozen Yuan troops stationed here to be beheaded and displayed to the public, and ordered the three armies. At this time, he had already concluded that the fire was caused by the soldiers guarding the granary, who were greedy for a cup and drank wine, which caused the granary to catch fire.
Seeing that there was no Ming army attacking, Guolai relieved himself and issued a military order, asking the 20,000 troops in the city to return to the city to rest, turn around and get on the horse, and wanted to leave.
At this moment, he saw several Yuan soldiers pushing and shoving a Mongolian man wearing a sheepskin jacket, walking towards his horse, and he couldn't help frowning and looking at this Mongolian man carefully.
On the street here, there were full of Yuan soldiers holding torches, and under the light of the fire, Jiang Xian saw clearly the figure and appearance of the Mongolian man who was about forty years old who was escorted to the Yuan army, and couldn't help but tremble slightly, and his face actually showed a trace of joy. When he whispered to Zhu Quan and the other three people beside him, the origin of the Mongolian man.
It turned out that this person was the confidant of the left general Guantong who followed him to Liaodong to rebel, and later surrendered to the Ming Dynasty and served as an official in Beiping.
It turned out that after Naizhuwu was separated from Jiang Xian in the Tuhuan army, he had to lie that he was a partner in Shen Peng's caravan, and he was a Mongol, so he was not embarrassed, and asked Tuhuan for a horse, and then broke away from the army. I didn't know the way, and under the pressure of hunger and cold, I wandered around for a while, and I actually came to Gyeongju. Hungry, he lied that he was a herdsman who had been attacked by wolves.