Chapter 421, Soldiers Sent to Sword State
In front of the Laoyeling Pass, Xiahou Lingyu picked up the Honghuang Sword discarded by Ye Gongzi, and gave Tang Jiusheng a golden medicine, Tang Jiusheng took a few more healing pills, the wounds on Tang Jiusheng's shoulder and left chest were not fatal, and the bleeding quickly stopped, with Tang Jiusheng's physique, it is expected that it will be all fine in no more than ten days.
Ning Chenggang led more than 500 subordinates to surrender to Tang Jiusheng, the king of Wei, and Tang Jiusheng dug a pit at the foot of the Laoyeling Mountain, where the mountains and rivers were beautiful, and buried the remains of more than 100 robes who died in battle. Ning Chenggang and more than 500 elite soldiers under his command saw Tang Jiusheng lead down the heavenly thunder and severely injure Ye Gongzi, and they all became in awe of Tang Jiusheng, in the eyes of Ning Chenggang and others, Tang Jiusheng was like a god descending from heaven.
Although Tang Jiusheng suffered a little, he successfully collected more than 500 elite soldiers, especially those sunset ballista and heavy arm god ballista, these ballistas will definitely be able to shine in the offensive and defensive battles in the future. Tang Jiusheng remembered the battle with Ye Gongzi just now, and still had palpitations, as long as Ye Gongzi could hold on for a while, it would definitely be Tang Jiusheng who died. Tang Jiusheng sighed, it was really time, luck, and fate.
Cheng Zifei took the ten horsemen straight to Jianzhou City and went to explore the road first. The fat man and Ning Chenggang were in front, Tang Jiusheng and Xiahou Lingyu and Linghu Yu of Xiaowei were behind, and they came to the old man's village ten miles away with more than 500 elite soldiers. Although the old man's village is a temporary cottage, it has also begun to take shape, there are things such as rejecting horses at the entrance of the village, and the bamboo house is also very decent. The surrounding mountains and rivers are beautiful, easy to defend and difficult to attack, which shows that it took a lot of thought at the beginning.
The group repaired in the old man's village for two days, the fat man's injuries were healed, and Tang Jiusheng's sword wounds were also mostly healed.
Tang Jiusheng took Ning Chenggang with him, and inquired in detail about the situation of Niu Mandi and the Yamen of the Jiannan Dao Jingluo, in order to know in his heart. Tang Jiusheng had already made up his mind to attack Niu Manchu after getting rid of Ye Tengjiao. The courage of the cattle is too fat, and they dare to command their elite soldiers to do something to the people of the Guardian's Mansion, how can such a strategic envoy stay?
At noon that day, the fat man saw that only he and Xiahou Lingyu were on the left and right, and hurriedly persuaded Tang Jiusheng secretly, "Old Tang, you are too bold!" Ning Cheng just surrendered just now, and you are not familiar with him, so you dare to take him with you, in case he still cherishes the old master, and assassinates you again when people are unprepared, wouldn't it be a big disdain?"
Xiahou Lingyu also agreed, "Brother Tang, I think what the dead fat man said makes sense, people's hearts are separated from their stomachs, and they don't know how to do things, especially if you are the prince with a heavy responsibility, it is good to be careful!"
Unexpectedly, Tang Jiusheng shook his head and said with a smile: "Ning Chenggang was originally under Niu Mandi, but he was just a low-level general, today he came to me, I will treat him with courtesy and treat him as a national soldier! Heart-for-heart, how could he assassinate me? Our Weiwang Mansion was founded, and it was at the time of employing people, so we should be eclectic! I think Ning Chenggang is a man, he has a set of commanding troops, and he is skilled in bows and horses, and his martial arts are outstanding, I am willing to trust him and reuse him, you don't need to persuade him!"
The fat man and Xiahou Lingyu were very unhappy when they heard this, but they couldn't help Tang Jiusheng. The fat man could only secretly take precautions, and discussed it with Xiahou Lingyu in private, and the two agreed not to leave Tang Jiusheng as much as possible, at least to ensure that Tang Jiusheng had a cronie by his side.
The two were discussing, and there was an eagle chirp above their heads, and they looked up to see the sparrowhawk Xiaoqing above their heads
Circling up, the fat man was overjoyed, stretched out his arm, Xiaoqing fell on the fat man's shoulder, the fat man took out the letter from the thin bamboo tube on Xiaoqing's feet, entered the house and handed the letter to Tang Jiusheng, Tang Jiusheng read the letter, his face was happy, and patted the fat man's shoulder, "Fat man, it's a good thing, everything is ready!"
Tang Jiusheng immediately ordered someone to prepare pen, ink, paper, and inkstone, called more than a dozen soldiers who could write in, and wrote a total of hundreds of letters of persuasion, which were sealed and kept useful.
On the morning of the third day, Tang Jiusheng took the fat man, Ning Chenggang, Xiahou Lingyu, Ling Huyu and others with more than 500 elite soldiers to abandon the old man's village and go straight to Jianzhou City. On the way, Ning Chenggang quietly asked Tang Jiusheng, "Lord Wang, let's just drive to Jianzhou in such a mighty way, the defenders in the city will definitely close the city gate when they see it, we will have more than 500 people, the city wall of Jianzhou is tall, the soldiers are good and the food is sufficient, we will definitely not be able to defeat Jianzhou with this little man!"
Tang Jiusheng smiled and said: "General Ning, don't worry, this king has his own clever plan! We are not here to fight the city, we are here to scare people!"
Ning Chenggang was a little puzzled, but seeing Tang Jiusheng's determined expression, he didn't ask any more questions, a few days ago at the Laoyeling Pass, Tang Jiusheng's god-like performance had already convinced Ning Chenggang and his subordinates. When the fat man and Xiahou Lingyu persuaded Tang Jiusheng to guard against Ning Chenggang, Ning Chenggang happened to pass by and overheard Tang Jiusheng's answer, Ning Chenggang was extremely grateful in his heart, and swore that he must be loyal to Tang Jiusheng, the king of the guard, in order to repay the kindness of his acquaintance.
In the afternoon of the same day, Tang Jiusheng led this team of more than 500 people to the east gate of Jianzhou City, and the city guards saw an army of hundreds of people coming from a distance.
Tang Jiusheng took the fat man, Xiahou Lingyu, Ling Huyu, and Ning Chenggang to a distance of thirty zhang outside the city gate, and Fu Ercong, the captain of the city gate, asked loudly on the city tower: "Hey, where did you come from the army? Do you have any documents from the Ministry of War?"
Tang Jiusheng patted the fat man on the shoulder, and said with a smile: "Fat man, now it's your turn to appear, remember, speak a little harder, and show the momentum of our palace!"
The fat man smiled obscenely, "It's not a problem!" The fat man stepped forward immediately, raised his head and replied to the captain in the city: "Hey, the boy who watches the gate, we are the army of the Wei Wangfu, and we want to enter the city to arrest the thief Ye Tengjiao by the order of the Wei Wang, you quickly open the city gate!
Fu Ercong, the captain of the city gate, was taken aback, he was Ye Tengjiao's descendant, so he knew that Ning Chenggang had just led people to intercept and kill the officials of the Weiwang Mansion on the road, he originally thought that Ning Chenggang had just returned victoriously, but where would he have thought that it was the army of the Weiwang Mansion! Fortunately, there were not many people in this army, only four or five hundred, which was not enough to cause trouble! Thinking of this, Fu Ercong asked: "Hey, that fat man, you said that you are from the Weiwang Mansion, is there any evidence to prove it?"
The fat man took out a piece of yellow paper with a horizontal axis from his arms, and said loudly with the yellow paper: "King Wei has a purpose for this!" It has been found out that Ye Tengjiao, the guard of Jianzhou County, abused his power, robbed the people's daughters, disregarded people's lives, and intended to rebel.
Fu Ercong, who was standing on the city tower, knew the truth and falsehood, and he was scared
, said loudly: "Shangcha, the humble post is just a guard of the city gate, and you have to ask for instructions to go to the peak, wait a little while on the road!" After finishing speaking, he ran down the city tower like a fly, took the reins of his horse from the hands of the colonel, and ran in the direction of the county guard yamen.
When he arrived at the county guard yamen, Fu Ercong broke in in a panic, fortunately, the soldiers standing guard at the yamen knew him, and seeing that he was so flustered, he must have something urgent to report to the county guard, so he didn't stop him. Fu Ercong asked where the county guard was while running, and someone told him that Lord Ye was in the third hall. Fu Ercong rushed to the third hall and saw Ye Tengjiao drinking tea with Liu Shenjun of the Jingluo Yamen, talking and laughing.
Fu Ercong saw Ye Tengjiao in civilian clothes, and hurriedly shouted: "My lord, it's not good!"
Ye Tengjiao turned his head and saw that it was Fu Ercong, his triangular eyes widened, his face sank, and he said unhappily: "What are you panicking about! Don't you see that there are guests here? What is the matter, can it scare you like this?"
Fu Ercong said in a panic: "My lord, it's bad! There are hundreds of people from outside the east gate, they are very powerful and majestic, and they hurriedly let people pull up the drawbridge, and when they asked, they said that they came from the Weiwang Mansion to arrest your lord!
Ye Tengjiao was startled, stood up from the chair suddenly, and overturned the celadon tea bowl on the table with his sleeves, and the celadon tea bowl fell to the ground with a bang and shattered. Ye Tengjiao didn't care about this, stepped forward and grabbed Fu Ercong's collar, "What did you say?
Fu Ercong repeated what he had just said, Ye Tengjiao's three souls and seven spirits were out of his body, my God, how could this be? Ye Tengjiao let go of his hand, turned around and trembled and asked Liu from the Yamen to join the army, "Old Liu, what's going on? Didn't you mean Uncle Cousin, ah, the envoy had already sent troops and horses to intercept and kill the officials of the Weiwang Mansion a few days ago? What is going on with this army?"
Liu Senjun was puzzled: "That's right! I set off at the same time as General Ning Chenggang and Captain Zhang Shuihuan, and General Ning also brought twelve ballistas to defend the palace There are masters, and the six or seven hundred elite soldiers are all the elite soldiers of our strategic envoy Yamen, the elite of the elite, even against two or three first-class masters!"
The three of them were talking, and another official ran in outside, "Report to the county guard, someone outside the city gate has shot hundreds of letters with arrows, saying that the Wei Wangfu has sent troops to arrest your county guard, and asks the officers and soldiers to open the city gate and surrender! If there is anyone who captures Ye Tengjiaosheng and sends the official, a reward of five hundred taels of silver!"
Ye Tengjiao's face was as earth-colored, he returned to the chair, sat down, stunned, his hands and feet were cold, he didn't know what to do, he stayed for a long time, stood up and took Liu Shenjun's hand, and asked with a crying voice: "Lao Liu, it's over, King Wei wants to arrest me, what should I do?"
Liu Senjun gritted his teeth and ordered: "There is still something to be done! There are thousands of elite soldiers and fierce generals in Jianzhou City, as long as the four gates are guarded well, there are only a few hundred people and horses in the Weiwang Mansion, what can I do? Hurry up and pass the book to the envoy of the Jingluo, I guess we will have to start an incident in advance! If there is really an incident, we will kill out of the city and chop off all the people in the Weiwang Mansion to sacrifice the flag! I just don't know what happened to Lao Ning and them, could they have been destroyed? Impossible!"
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