Chapter Ninety-Six: Friendship Broken
At that moment, Cheng Shi raised his heart to his throat again, and whispered to everyone to get ready, of course, if he can not fight Cheng Shi, he definitely doesn't want to fight, because it is obvious that he can't beat it.
After Yuan Wo checked the refined copper here, and confirmed that it was correct, Yuan Wo took the initiative to step forward and said, "It seems that the information is correct, then you can only blame your life is not good, and the news that this refined copper was robbed by us cannot be leaked."
Either you will surrender and go back to the mountains with us to eat and drink spicy food, or you will have to go to Hades."
It was Yuan Wo's initiative to appear that made Cheng Shi recognize him at once, after all, in the capital in the past, Yuan Wo had always been by Li Hao's side, and he had met Cheng Shi many times.
I didn't recognize it before, because Yuan Wo deliberately wanted to hide his identity and not let Lou Niu find out, so he changed into a robber's clothes and covered his face with a cloth.
At that moment, Cheng Shi couldn't figure out how the people of the Yuan family could get mixed up with the mountain bandits, it was not that Yuan Wo had rebelled.
When he was about to ask a question, he saw Yuan Wo quietly gesture for Cheng Shi's attention, and threw a small paper ball at Cheng Shi's feet under the cover of the surrounding people.
This scene made Cheng Shi happy again, knowing that he couldn't die this time, because Li Hao's move obviously didn't really want to kill, he should be calculating something.
But Cheng Shi's operation, Yan Zhong naturally didn't know, and at this time he said to Yuan Wo, who was clamoring in front: "I am the Tongniu County Commander appointed by the imperial court, how can I surrender a thief for the sake of my life, so don't be delusional."
On the contrary, I want to persuade you, now that the imperial army is on the way to come, once you learn that the refined copper has been robbed today, you will definitely send a large army to levy it, and then you will all be guilty of capital crimes.
But if you can forsake the darkness and turn to the light now, then you will be a great merit in today's affairs, and I will guarantee to His Highness the Crown Prince that you will be forgiven of all your past sins, and you will be rewarded for the glory of your ancestors."
Regarding the big cake painted by Yan Zhong, Yuan Wo couldn't help pouting when he heard it, and he had been following Li Hao, he naturally knew Yan Zhong's roots.
If this guy doesn't have an official seal, it is estimated that the prince doesn't even know who he is, where will he take his words to heart.
However, with Yan Zhong attracting attention, Cheng Shi was able to find a better opportunity to quietly get the paper ball.
On the paper ball, Yuan Wo briefly introduced the reason for coming over in two sentences, and asked Cheng Shi to fake his death and get out in the subsequent war.
Although this is not exhaustive, based on his trust in Li Hao, Cheng Shi still decided to do what was on the note.
However, considering the loyalty of his subordinates, it is obviously inappropriate to tell everyone directly, because many of them are natives of Tongniu County, although they have just proven themselves with blood.
But considering that Yuan Wo is so mysterious and secretive, he must be doing something that needs to be kept secret, and Cheng Shi is also extremely suspicious of the rebels that emerged in front of him.
Therefore, he only wanted to tell his cronies in the future, as for the others, they still played in the true colors of Xili Hutu, and I believe that Yuan Wo will do things in a measured way.
At this time, Yuan Wo was still fighting with Yan Zhong, but it was convenient for Cheng Shi to connect in series, and when Cheng Shi's side was completed, he gave Yuan Wo a signal.
Yuan Wo immediately pretended to be annoyed and angry by Yan Zhong, and immediately ordered an attack, and personally led his troops to storm the defense line on Cheng Shi's side.
With Cheng Shi's deliberate cooperation, the battle here naturally ended quickly, the corpses of Cheng Shi and his own soldiers fell to the ground, and the rest of the people were all captured alive.
Including Tongniu County Ling Yan Zhong and his family scrolls, they had always been protected in the center by Cheng Shi before, so there was no major damage.
Outside of them are some errand soldiers in Tongniu County, they are not regular troops in the first place, and after they are gone, the will to fight is naturally gone.
Of course, this is also related to the bandits dressed up like Yuan Wo, in those gang of errands, Yuan Wo's gang is nothing more than to come for money, and after taking these refined copper, they will leave, and they will not have nothing to do to attack the county seat.
In this way, it will not affect the safety of their families, and there is no need to fight to the death, as for
They themselves will follow first, and then find a way to escape when they go up the mountain.
Only Yan Zhong was such a dead man, and he wanted to die after being captured, but fortunately, Yuan Woduo paid attention to him before and blocked him.
After the battle is over, the next thing is to clean up the battlefield, this time a lot of people were captured, just to find a way to transport the refined copper, and by the way, including Cheng Shi, the corpses of a group of people from Tongniu County, as well as the corpses of their own people.
After all, no matter what, destroying the corpse and destroying the traces is something that must be done at this time, otherwise wouldn't it be exposing oneself and covering up the true purpose by the way.
As for Ma Rong's subordinates, it is naturally not necessary to transport them away, and they can be used as backpots to keep them.
After Yuan Wo and the others left, Ma Rong and Lou Niu came back with people again, it turned out that they hadn't gone far before, and they had been staring at the situation here.
Originally, Ma Rong also wanted to transfer all the soldiers and horses together, clean up these mountain bandits, and eradicate all the disasters.
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But he was persuaded by Lou Niu, after all, he wouldn't fight for so long no matter how he looked at it, and the enemy would have run out by the time he arrived, and it would affect the next plan.
In the end, Ma Rong listened to the persuasion, but looking at the corpses of his own people in this place, he still couldn't help but be indignant: "Where the hell are these mountain bandits, they beg God to worship the Buddha and not let me find them again, otherwise I will have to break their bodies into ten thousand pieces."
But after venting, he had to think about the next practical question: "What do you say we should do next, now Yan Zhong is not dead, if we still come according to the original plan, if he comes back alive, it will be all over by then."
After Lou Niu heard this, he replied, "What time is it now, how can I still have time to think about the new plan, is it possible that the general really wants to go to a dead end with Peng Kun?"
Now since the person who captured Yan Zhong is a mountain bandit, it is a big deal to send some gold and silver to them to buy a life, as long as he does not fall into the hands of the prince.
And even if Yan Zhong arrives in front of the prince alive, a person who lost himself to a thief, how much credibility can his words have in the ears of others.
Especially since he is still a poor disciple, and he doesn't even have a helper in the court, you don't have to worry too much."
After thinking about it, Ma Rong felt that this also made sense, so he replied, "Okay, then everything will go according to plan, but now I haven't got Yan Zhong's true seal letter, and the fake seal letter you gave can really deceive the city gate."
Lou Niu replied: "Naturally, Li Feng should be waiting at the city gate now, and he will help you pass the customs when the seal is verified."
After getting a definite reply, Ma Rong went back to find the main army, while Lou Niu stayed where he was, looking at the direction where Yuan Wo and the others left before and was speechless for a long time.
At this time, Lou Niu faintly felt a little uneasy in his heart, because what was happening now was far beyond his expectations.
It's just that now it's ready to be sent out, otherwise it will be difficult to deal with the collusion with Ma Rong, and if Ma Rong is really arrested, he will inevitably be implicated.
And Lou Niu has been suppressed for too long, and he is willing to gamble on the hope that he finally saw.
After coming back to his senses, Lou Niu began to arrange for people to dig a pit to bury the corpse and clean up the traces of the scene, and it took a lot of time to finish it all.
Then he ordered his subordinates to disperse to find a way to find out where this group of mountain bandits came from, and to carefully track down Yan Zhong's whereabouts.
If there is a chance, he will directly kill Yan Zhong, and when everything is arranged, he will wait for the news of the loss of Tongniu County.
Ma Rong's side moved very quickly, after all, the people and horses had been prepared in advance, and as soon as the people arrived, they set off directly to Tongniu County.
After Ma Rong entered the city, he immediately sent troops to forcibly take over the four city gates.
In order to show his loyalty, Li Feng started acting in front of everyone when Ma Rong was successful, and angrily denounced Ma Rong and Peng Kun in public as rebellious ministers and thieves, and then was successfully taken into prison by Ma Rong.
At this point, Ma Rong and Lou Niu's plan is halfway through, and the rest is as long as Lou Niu appears alone in Tongniu County in two days, showing a single general's feat of persuading a city defender.
On the other side, Yuan Wo took Cheng Shi and them back to the mountains and forests at this time, and at this time, Cheng Shi succeeded in swindling the corpse under Yan Zhong's terrified eyes.
But soon Yan Zhong reacted, after all, the theory of deceitful corpses was too ridiculous, and Zi was silent.
It's just that what Yan Zhong thought at this time was that Cheng Shi was conspiring with Yuan Wo and wanted to plot these refined coppers, so he angrily reprimanded:
"Cheng Shi, I didn't expect you to be in the same group as this gang of mountain bandits, you are worthy of Your Majesty's grace by doing this, you are simply ungrateful and shameless."
Hearing this, Cheng Shi hurriedly replied, "Yan County Order, don't talk nonsense, when am I sorry for Your Majesty."
Then he pointed to Yuan Wo on the side and said, "This is the commander of the guards next to Nan Zhenghou, I was just cooperating with him just now, although I don't understand what happened here."
After speaking, he looked at Yuan Wo, waiting for him to give a reasonable explanation.
Seeing this, Yuan Wo replied, "Today's matter really depends on the help of the Marquis of Quling, otherwise it will be difficult to hide from those people's eyes."
"Who are those people you are talking about, and who are the first people who just came out to strangle us?" Cheng Shi quickly grasped the point.
Hearing this, Yan Zhong also stared at him directly, speaking of which, he actually had some guesses in his heart, after all, his process of transporting refined copper out of the city was full of the instigation of one person.
He hadn't thought about it before, so he didn't think about it yet, but now that he came back to it, he couldn't help but feel that Lou Niu was too active in this matter.
In the expectation of the two, Yuan Wo said: "Today, it must be Peng Kunde's deputy general Ma Rong who will lead the troops to attack you, this time the prince has set the place of garrison in Tongniu County, so he sent my son-in-law to arrange it first, but he realized that something was wrong not long after he set off.
Someone has been secretly following, in order to ensure the safety of the prince and prevent the other party from guessing the purpose of this trip, so my son-in-law deliberately took some detours, and sent me out to check the origin of these people, and then he came all the way here, and just saved you."
When Cheng Shi heard this, he felt that it was still wrong, so he asked, "Since you are facing Peng Yi, what are you going to do to hide your identity."
Yuan Wo said: "Originally, it was not needed, but we got a news before, that is, Ma Rong has a good friend, Lou Niu, the eldest son of the second room of the Hedong Lou family, and now this Lou Niu is just near Shouchun, we can't think about it a little more."
"Are you sure? Lou Niu is really familiar with Ma Rong." Yan Zhong asked with a heavy face.
"This matter is absolutely true, before Peng rebelled against each other, someone in my Yuan family had seen the two of them swim together." Yuan Wo replied.
Although Yan Zhong still had doubts in his heart about Yuan Wode's words, Lou Niude's suspicion was indeed too big at this time.
"Do you know what they're going to do?" Acquiescing to this, Yan Zhong asked.
Yuan Wo replied, "We have just arrived, and we haven't had time to check yet, otherwise we wouldn't have used this kind of trick to hide from the world."
But now that I know who it is, I will immediately send someone to inform Childe, and when the soldiers and horses led by Childe arrive, I think that no matter what they want to do, they will not be able to turn over any storms."
For this, Cheng Shi and Yan Zhong naturally would not object, but Yan Zhong had another question: "By the way, where is this place now, I have to rush back to Tongniu as soon as possible, I am worried that something will happen there."
Yuan Wo replied, "This matter is not urgent, there may be how many Ma Rong's people are hiding outside now, especially near Tongniu County.
Now we don't have many people here, I'm afraid it will be difficult to protect you from entering the Tongniu safely, or wait for two more days, and it will be no problem as soon as the son arrives."
But where is Yan Zhong willing to wait, in desperation, Yuan Wo can only agree, and will find a way to escort him to Tongniu at night at night.
But before night, he heard the news of the loss of Tongniu County, and Yan Zhong was stupid after hearing it.
Finally came back to his senses and asked, "How could Tongniu County be lost, the city defense there is very strong, even if there are not many soldiers and horses in the city, it will not be so fast."
The visitor explained, "I heard that Ma Rong used the Tongniu County Order to deceive the city gate into opening the city gate, and the people in the city didn't have time to take precautions."
"Impossible, the seal letter is obviously on me, how can there be on Ma Rong." Yan Zhong took out the seal letter from his bosom as he spoke, wanting to prove his innocence.
But as he spoke, Yan Zhong was a little shaken, because he remembered that just a few days ago, he had handed over the seal letter to Lou Niu to see, could it be that at that time, Lou Niu faked the seal letter as it was.
Looking at Yan Zhong's appearance, Cheng Shi said, "What's the matter, have you thought of something?"
At that moment, Yan Zhong couldn't hide it, and directly told him about his friendship with Lou Niu.
Yuan Wo knew about this matter and was prepared in his heart, but it was the first time Cheng Shi had heard of it, after all, a very important label on Yan Zhong in the past was that he never interacted with the children of the family.
But after being surprised, he was helpless, because he was cheated because of this, and he felt sorry for himself when he thought about it.