Chapter 19: Riddled with Holes
Pang He decided this, and Lin Chong had no better way, so he could only start a series of deployments according to Pang He's decision. First of all, Pang He believes that sooner or later it will be broken anyway, and it is better to break it earlier, so as not to struggle more, the more painful it will be. For the common people, it is better to live under the rule of Zeng Lang than to live under the management of Song Jiang. Therefore, Pang He was ready to make Zengtou's defenses more fragile, prompting Song Jiang to attack more urgently. This is also more beneficial to saving Shi Wengong, because Song Jiang didn't expect that there would be less of this arrangement. Zeng Lang was not prepared, so Shi Wengong was even more shocked and flustered.
Therefore, Pang He asked Hu Sanniang to set fire to it in the middle of the night, causing an accident, so as to give Zengtou City a shining afterglow in the middle of the night. Once there is a fire, the city will definitely be disrupted, and it will depend on how Song Jiang decides.
According to the plan, late at night the next day, Hu Sanniang secretly sneaked into the dark corner and set a fire in the kitchen of a large family. The fire slowly dispersed, and the smoke filled most of Zengtou City. Unfortunately, when the family members who were preparing to fight the fire were fetching water in the well, they found that the rope was also broken, and the people who were in a hurry were in a hurry. After a while, a fire broke out in the house of Zeng Yan's eldest son, Zeng Ran, and now, Zeng Tou City became lively. I don't know who shouted on the street that Song Jiang came in, and Song Jiang called in. As a result, the entire Zengtou City was boiling, those with knives took knives, and those with halberds took halberds, and hurriedly gathered to deal with the situation.
Shi Wengong also dragged his tired body, gathered his subordinates, and launched an inspection to see what happened tonight, who was behind the fire, and whether Song Jiang was ready to come in.
In addition, it was none other than Pang He and Lin Chong, they were shouting, nothing more than to attract everyone's attention, and at this time, most people's attention was only focused on fighting the fire, and after a reminder from the two of them, they naturally thought that this was logically correct news. Even so, I don't know who passed it on, but it has been believed by everyone.
By the time everyone started to look for the source of the news, Pang He and Lin Chong had already taken advantage of the chaos to leave, and the rest of the people could only go to their bosses to deal with this matter.
Song Jiang, seeing the fire in Zengtou City, called Wu Yong in the middle of the night: "Look, what does this fire mean." ”
Wu Yong said: "I don't know, wait a minute, someone should come to report the news." ”
After a while, I really received a message from the spies in Zengtou City, saying that they were all shouting that it was our people who set the fire.
This made Song Jiang a little strange, Wu Yong said: "It's strange, we didn't let people set the fire, who set this fire." ”
Song Jiang said: "Is it possible that they don't know who put it, but they can't find anyone for a while, so they say we put it?"
Wu Yong nodded: "This, it's also possible." The current city of Zengtou is like a beast trapped in a cage, and we are archers with bows and arrows ready to shoot at any time. As long as we are not happy, we can always solve them. It's normal for them to have such deranged thoughts under such pressure. ”
Song Jiang said: "Well, that's what you said. Judging from the situation in the past few days, we can take Zengtou City at any time. You say, can we use today's situation as an opportunity to knock down Zengtou City in one fell swoop. ”
Wu Yong said: "Actually, we can fight at any time now, and they are powerless to resist at all." Tonight's mess must have a certain impact and blow to them. If we want to solve it as soon as possible, then we can try to attack them tonight and solve them, so that he doesn't want to think about it later. ”
Song Jiang said: "Yes, the meat on the side of your mouth, you said, you can already eat it, but you deliberately dry it, it's really uncomfortable." It's better to do this, let's take advantage of tonight, we will take the initiative to take down Zengtou City. ”
Wu Yong said: "Well, since my brother wants to take it, let's take it." Summon, let the leaders come, we will distribute the action, and take Zengtou City tonight. ”
Lu Junyi had already arrived in the tent, and Song Jiang asked Lu Junyi with concern: "Brother Lu, how can you live here?"
Lu Junyi replied: "Thank you brother for your concern, I am doing well here." I don't know what happened when we were called over in the middle of the night, is it going to attack now?"
Song Jiang nodded: "Well, Zeng Lang is a native of the Jin Kingdom, and he dares to spread wild in our Great Song Dynasty, today, we will let them disappear, so that they know that in the Great Song Dynasty, it is not their turn to be arrogant." It's just that your junior brother Shi Wengong is now working in Zengtou City. I was thinking that if you can convince him to abandon the darkness and turn to the light, it will be good for us and for you. ”
Lu Junyi said: "I don't have much intersection with this junior brother. But brother, since I said that, I'm willing to give it a try. ”
Song Jiang said: "Well, okay, then you will have to work." If your brother is stubborn, I hope you can take him down, and when the time comes, we will let him go again in the heart of your brotherhood. ”
Lu Junyi said gratefully: "Thank you, brother, for your understanding!"
Song Jiang said: "Hey, everyone is a brother, so you don't have to be polite." Okay, now you have to listen to the arrangement of the military advisor, we must take Zengtou City before dawn. ”
After speaking, Wu Yong began to make detailed arrangements step by step. Under the circumstance that he had a complete advantage in both troops and equipment, Wu Yong spoke generously and passionately, and the leaders under the seat were all enthusiastic. After speaking, Wu Yong concluded: "This operation depends on everyone, and I believe that everyone will be able to complete the task." ”
Song Jiang said to his younger brother Song Qing: "Brother, you arrange it now, and wait for us to return triumphantly after dawn." ”
After that, the army began a frenzied attack on the city of Zengtou. Zengtou City, which was originally at the end of the strong crossbow, was simply unable to resist the offensive of Song Jiang's army, and was defeated and retreated, and could not defend at all.
At the same time, Zeng Lang also sent people to discuss with Shi Wengong how to break through the siege in order to protect his own life. For this situation, Zeng Lane has no choice, compared to the family business, naturally his own life is more important, and now that the army has attacked, if you don't escape at this time, you won't be able to escape in the future. At this time, Zeng Rong's only reliance was Shi Wengong's martial arts, and he believed that with Shi Wengong's martial arts, he would definitely be able to kill himself a bloody way.
When Shi Wengong heard that Zeng Lane wanted to give up his territory and wanted to escape, he had no way, and said that he would do his best to protect Zeng Lane's family to break through. So, Zeng Lane went back to clean up and arranged for Su Ding to do the final defense. But can things go as planned?