Chapter 189: Being Used
"Yes, the Jin Kingdom has always intended to invade the south, and it must covet the defense map of the capital Lin'an. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info If the defense map is lost, it can be determined that Qin shot the tiger, so wouldn't it be justified for General Cao to arrest him?" Zhao Chengzong said categorically.
General Cao slapped his thigh suddenly, and said excitedly: "That's right, that's right." ā
But General Cao was only excited for a moment, and then he stopped down and said: "This defense plan is a confidential part of the forbidden army, and it is only collected in the account of the commander General Huangfu, and it is never shown to anyone. Although I am the deputy envoy of the forbidden army, I have no contact. ā
"If you can't get the defense map, General Cao will inevitably die, and maybe he will be sent to Jinguo. The golden thief is bloodthirsty, and he may use some terrible means to deal with you. Zhao Chengzong said worriedly.
Zhao Chengzong's words made General Cao very frightened, and he suddenly sat still.
"I know where the defense map is stored, and it seems that I have to give it a go. General Cao said fiercely.
Zhao Chengzong guessed what General Cao would do, but he pretended to be puzzled and asked, "But I don't know what General Cao plans to do?"
General Cao then said his thoughts, it turned out that he wanted to infiltrate the tent of General Huangfu and steal out the defense map. However, Zhao Chengzong shook his head and said: "The defense plan is an extremely confidential thing, and General Huangfu must have sent heavy troops to guard it, how can it be so easy to get it? Not to mention that if General Cao shows up, even if he gets it, he will not be able to escape the involvement." ā
General Cao knew that what Zhao Chengzong said was true, so he had to sigh repeatedly.
"General Cao doesn't have to be so discouraged, since I promised to save you, I will definitely help you to the end. Give me the whereabouts of General Huangfu and the map of his camp, and I will order someone to take care of the matter. Zhao Chengzong said in a low voice.
General Cao immediately told everything he knew, but Zhao Chengzong was greatly excited to hear it. It turned out that General Huangfu had taken a leave of absence to worship his ancestors for the past two days, and there was only a cadre of soldiers left in the camp tent to guard it.
Zhao Chengzong then told his plan, that is, he would send someone to the tent of General Huangfu tonight to steal the defense map, and General Cao only had to pretend to know everything and stay in his mansion.
"Miaoji, when General Huangfu returns tomorrow, I will report on Qin Shooting Tiger, and when the time comes, the two will be combined, and he will really have the name of a spy. Without further ado, please also ask the owner of Zhao Zhuang to arrange it early. General Cao said excitedly, and hurriedly left Yinglong Villa.
But Zhao Chengzong did not start arranging, but went back to the room to comb and go to the major restaurants to greet the heroes. When the heroes saw Zhao Chengzong's arrival, they all stepped forward to salute each other, although Zhao Chengzong also politely returned the salute, but he politely refused to drink and meat.
"Today, there are more than ten restaurants to entertain the heroes, and Zhao still needs to entertain other heroes everywhere, so please be considerate. Tomorrow I will have a banquet at the house, but everyone will get drunk again. Zhao Chengzong said.
Under the heavy night, the heroes in the major restaurants competed for wine and chat, and Zhao Chengzong also shuttled among them repeatedly, which can be described as full of interest. But General Cao was tossing and turning in the bedroom, he only hoped that the people arranged by Zhao Chengzong could succeed, and only hoped that General Huangfu would send someone to pass him into the account early tomorrow morning.
General Cao couldn't sleep at night, but suddenly he heard the sound of hurried footsteps in the courtyard, and later heard the sound of someone calling. General Cao was very curious, so he got up and went out to see what was going on, but when he opened the door, he saw that the courtyard was densely packed with sergeants.
"What are you doing here?" said General Cao angrily.
Another general among the sergeants immediately appeared and scolded: "Cao Dezhi, you ordered the archers to shoot more than 100 of your subordinates with arrows, which violated military regulations. Come on, take him down for me. ā
General Cao was about to defend himself, but the sergeants who swarmed up without saying a word stabbed him with swords and stabbed him to death on the spot. The subordinates who heard the sound were shocked, and the entourage of wives and concubines in the house was even more frightened and speechless.
Cao Dezhi was arrested by force, had to be killed, and his body was carried back. The general said simply.
In the tent of General Huangfu's camp, a black figure floated in and quietly stole the defense map under everyone's noses. After the man in black succeeded, he couldn't wait to open the defense map, but he saw that the troops in Lin'an City were marked in detail, especially the annotation of the palace pattern, which was even more amazing.
The next day, the heroes really gathered at the horse farm of Yinglong Villa, and the horse farm was already densely packed with seats, it seems that Zhao Chengzong really planned to set up a banquet for the group of heroes.
But not long after everyone sat down, a civil and military official arrived outside the venue, but everyone who watched was surprised. The people in the rivers and lakes have always disdained to deal with officials, so they all looked unhappy.
But these officials did not come to the banquet after all, which can be seen from their solemn expressions. Seeing that all the heroes present were puzzled, one of the officials at the head explained his intentions. It turned out that the tent of the forbidden army was stolen last night, and the Lin'an defense map was lost, and they came to investigate, in addition, the forbidden army commander Huangfu Dao also had to verify Cao Dezhi's order to shoot his subordinates.
"The defense map of the Beijing division is related to the Great Song Dynasty, once it falls into the hands of thieves, it will cause endless harm, I hope that the heroes here can actively assist us in finding the real culprit. Huangfu said heavily.
The crowd immediately began to discuss, and the people present who made a living from robbery became nervous.
"The Jingshi Deployment Map is a summary of the Lin'an Deployment Garrison, and it is useless for ordinary people to steal it?" Zhao Chengzong said confusedly.
"Of course, the people who will attack the defense map of the capital division will not be ordinary people, and those who covet this thing must be those from the enemy country. Huangfu said firmly.
When the group of heroes heard him say this, they all thought of one person: Qin Shooting Tiger.
Although Huangfu Dao was curious, he also said indignantly: "The heart of the Jin Kingdom is not dead, then Qin Shooting Tiger is the right-hand man of the Jin Kingdom, and he invades the south in the future, this person must be the vanguard." It was not surprising that he would come to Lin'an to spy on him. ā
Seeing that the Jingshi defense map was lost, and Qin Shooting Tiger was the only one who was interested in it, they scolded him one after another for being a spy, but they all wished that they could intercept him yesterday. Taixuan Sanqing is not confused, because Qin Shooting Tiger has been seen in the battle yesterday, and his martial arts attainments are not necessarily outstanding, but how can he come and go to the forbidden army's camp tent to steal the defense map?
"Qin Shooting Tiger himself may not be able to do it, but he can send a person with strong martial arts, can't he also succeed?" Zhao Chengzong said.
Speaking of people with strong martial arts and who can help Qin Shoot Tiger, Qunxiong naturally thought of Yang Zhan, but no one would have imagined that Yang Zhan would help the Jin State spies to steal the state secrets of the Song Dynasty. Seeing that everyone seemed to be unconvinced, Zhao Chengzong said: "Yang Zhan has killed many officials in the court or returning to the field, but I don't know why?"
"Yang Zhan is Fang Wanli's grandson, Fang Wanli's collusion with gold thieves was discovered by the imperial court, and finally ended up in a ruined situation. The four officials who were killed were all the chief judges of the case that year, and Yang Zhan killed them to obviously avenge his grandfather's family. Huangfu said.
Everyone was stunned, before that, everyone only knew that Yang Zhan was the ancestor of the Crazy Sword, but who would have thought that he still had such a background After listening to Huangfu's words, everyone divided into two completely different attitudes. The first is of course to believe that Fang Shilang is innocent, they think that Yang Zhan is only doing this to avenge his grandfather's family, and the second is much more complicated, they think that the upper beam is not right and the lower beam is crooked, Fang Wanli can have a history of collaborating with the enemy, then his descendants must also be the same, so killing these officials and assisting Qin Shuhu to steal the secrets of the Jingshi defense are all acts of collusion with the Jin people. But no matter what kind of attitude people hold, they obviously strongly disagree with Yang Zhan's practice of killing these officials, after all, they are in the court and can't help themselves.
"Unexpectedly, Yang Zhan not only owes Wulin a lot of bloody cases, but now he is also colluding with gold thieves to steal the defense map of the Beijing Division, I knew this, I should have killed him directly yesterday. Zhang Bingzhu said indignantly.
All of a sudden, the heroes all scolded Yang Zhan. Seeing this, Zhao Chengzong counted Yang Zhan's various crimes, and finally analyzed these latest ones in series, and came to the conclusion that Yang Zhan had already colluded with the gold thieves, and in order to weaken the resistance of the Great Song Dynasty, he intercepted and killed the martial arts heroes several times, and the case of Jianmen and Jianmen can also be attributed to this.
"I specifically checked the records of the Demon Sect last night, and found that he was canonized as the true god of Helan Mountain by the lord of the Jin Kingdom decades ago, and enjoyed supreme glory in the Jin Kingdom. It was normal for him to find a Yang Zhan who was familiar with the martial arts of the Central Plains to help. Zhao Chengzong said.
Yang Zhan had already dissociated himself from the Jianmen tragedy, but after the theft of the Jingshi defense map, everyone hated his traitorous behavior, and Zhao Chengzong's analysis made the group believe it again. It's just that Mo Zhi is no longer there at this moment, and although the three clears are self-purifying, they are powerless to reverse the unanimous opinion of everyone.
Huangfu Dao was not interested in pursuing Yang Zhan's culpability, so he took the opportunity to find Zhao Chengzong and said, "Master Zhao, regarding what happened here yesterday, I hope that the people who witnessed it can actively assist us in our investigation. ā
Zhao Chengzong immediately stood up and told everything he had seen and heard yesterday, and then called on the heroes to cooperate with the investigation of Huangfu Dao and other officials. As a result, there was a unique scene in history on the horse farm in which people in the rivers and lakes of the DPRK had close exchanges with the officials of the dynasty.
Although the heroes enthusiastically assisted in the investigation, these officials only asked about Cao Dezhi's various behaviors, but did not ask about the situation of Qin Shuhu and Yang Zhan at all, which was really curious. After some meticulous interrogation and verification, the officials finally had a clear understanding of what happened yesterday, and they found Cao Dezhi's various charges on the spot.
In fact, how did Qunxiong know that these people came here entirely to find evidence of Cao Dezhi's personal grudge with Qin Jiehu, because the imperial court needed these certificates to prove that this was just Cao Dezhi's personal behavior and had nothing to do with Zhao Song. In this way, the contradiction between the Song and Jin countries can be quickly resolved. (To be continued.) )