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Chapter 223
The night after Shen Shuren approached Lin Chengcheng and Liu Sandao for a secret discussion.

Outside the west gate of Hengzhou City, a few cavalry scouts sneaked under the city, and then used the contact codes used by thieves to ask to enter the city.

"Let me enter the city quickly! My king has a secret matter to contact the Eighth King!"

The defenders at the top of the city were a little hesitant at first, and wanted to put the hanging basket down, but later saw that there were at least four or five people on the other side, and they used the hanging basket for fear of long nights and dreams.In addition, Hengzhou is also considered to be a relatively large prefecture in the south of Huguang. There is an inner urn city inside the city gate, so you are not afraid of a surprise attack after cheating the gate.

So the guards on the city tower asked a few soldiers with huge axes to stand guard near the winch of the Qianjin gate, then opened the outer door, let people in first, and then opened the inner door after closing the outer door.

The person who came was Liu Sandao, but the identity he declared to the outside world this time was Lin Cheng's adopted son, not Liu Xiyao's adopted son.He temporarily used a pseudonym, Lin Daorong.

Anyway, none of Zhang Xianzhong's subordinates had ever seen such a small character like him. Lin Chengcheng and Liu Xiyao were familiar with each other, so he had a high success rate in impersonating Liu Xiyao's subordinates.

At the same time, Shen Shuren was more at ease in allowing Liu Sandao to cheat, because he had the certificate of killing his father, abandoning the dark and turning to the light, and he was an existence that was not easy to return to the side of the thieves.Let him take this risk, it can be regarded as wealth and wealth.

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After a while, the news that Lin Chengcheng had sent secret envoys to collude reached Zhang Xianzhong's ears.

Zhang Xianzhong has been able to take part in the war in person these few days, but he rarely went to the city wall to inspect and supervise the battle in person.It was less than ten days since he was blown into a pockmarked face and had one ear cut off by lead bullet fragments, and he had to recuperate well.

He heard that there were other ex-rogue factions coming, and he was afraid of losing his prestige, so it was difficult for him to meet in person.So he nervously asked the guard who came in to report: "Did Lin Chenggong send someone here? What's the matter? When was he sent to the front line by Shen Shuren?"

The personal guards didn't quite understand either: "The subordinates don't know, and the visitor refused to elaborate, as if he wanted to reach a tacit agreement with the king to avoid killing each other."

Zhang Xianzhong thought for a while, then gritted his teeth: "Let the second child be in charge of seeing the guests! Bai Wenxuan will watch from the side. Help me to listen on the screen at the back of the hall, and tell the outside world that I have already fallen asleep, and I am too lazy to see Lin Chengren."

Zhang Xianzhong's original status in the thief world was indeed much higher than that of Lin Chengcheng, so there was nothing wrong with him putting on airs.And in this way, you can also avoid leaking negative news about your injury.

In case there is a fraud, it will not be known by the officers and soldiers, and the morale of the officers and soldiers will not be boosted.

The personal guard hurried down to make arrangements, and this gave Li Dingguo, who had been treated in the cold for a month, another chance to deal with "foreign affairs".

Contradictions between foster father and adopted son are all family ugliness, so it is better to pretend to be harmonious to the outside world, family ugliness should not be publicized.

After Li Dingguo received the order, he was also quite grateful, thinking that his adoptive father was willing to use him again, so he decided to perform well.

After a while, Liu Sandao was led to the main hall of King Gui's Mansion. Li Dingguo Bai Wenxuan sat on the side of the main seat, with a majestic demeanor. When Liu Sandao met, he hurriedly saluted humbly: "The last general, Lin Daorong, is fighting for the king with his adoptive father." 'Secret letter, submit it to the Eight Great Kings."

In between his words, he naturally used Lin Chengyang's bandit number to report himself to his family. He seemed very proficient, and his tone and demeanor could be seen as an old thief.

Bai Wenxuan got up to take it, and handed it to Li Dingguo. Li Dingguo took a general look at it and asked, "General Lin, did you mean that both the army and General Wang Shangli were injured? Grain, ammunition?"

Liu Sandao immediately repeated the rehearsed rhetoric, and finally emphasized: "...It is true. Shen Shuren attacked very urgently before, but in fact he used his troops regardless of durability and used up ammunition too quickly. Although his soldiers, horses and firearms are fine, However, the ammunition is all specially made and must be transported from Wuchang all the way.

This time it was burned by General Wang. Although the loss of troops on both sides is still unclear, new ammunition supplies will not be available for at least five or six days.Shen Shuren was afraid that the Eighth King would seize this opportunity to break out of the encirclement, because he was short of ammunition, and with this force, he was temporarily unable to pursue him, and even if he pursued him, he was afraid that he would not be able to defeat him.

So he didn't care about my life and death when I waited for the surrendered army. These days, he wanted us to temporarily block the three gaps in the west of the city, and let us block the escape route of the west gate with our lives.

The foster father does not want his brothers to fight to the death with the troops of the Eight Great Kings, so he wants to communicate with you first. Those who are in Ximen these days are all old from Shaanxi, so don't break out from Ximen, it will make it difficult for us. "

Li Dingguo's heart moved, and he tentatively said: "General Lin is not happy with Shen Shuren's place?"

Liu Sandao didn't dare to act too much, everything was explained by Shen Shuren, only emphasizing that "there is no promotion, the judgment of meritorious service is very harsh, and the salary is not high",
He also emphasized one point vividly: Lin Chengcheng was a thief and robbed a lot of gold and silver before, and then last winter, in order to obtain supplies, he did business with many gangsters in Jiujiang Prefecture.

As a result, after the surrender this time, Shen Shuren's subordinates often talked about the derivative cases of those transactions at the beginning, and asked Lin Chengcheng to extract money, asking him to spit out part of the money left over from the robbery in the past to eliminate disasters.

However, only regarding the fact that "Lin Chengcheng's troops have been dismantled and reorganized", Liu Sandao bit him to death and didn't mention it, at most he just said "Shen Shuren has gone to our troops Mixed with sand to infiltrate officers."

In this way, the frustration of Lin's cultivation can be brought to life without arousing suspicion.

Fortunately, Li Dingguo was still cautious. After listening, he suddenly added a question: "Since General Lin is so unsuccessful, and now he has the opportunity to be separated to take charge of his own affairs, why not take the opportunity to abandon the dark and turn to the bright, and go to the city to accept the adaptation of the Eight Great Kings?"

Li Dingguo's question was of course nonsense, it was purely to test the other party's reaction.

Zhang Xianzhong, whose face was pockmarked like a mummy behind the screen, was furious when he heard the words, and almost made a noise: If Lin Chengcheng agreed, it is entirely possible that the army sent him to feign surrender!If you let him enter the city, Hengzhou City will fall!

Fortunately, Liu Sandao did not agree on behalf of Lin Chengcheng, but said euphemistically: "There is no need to go to the city... We are allies, and we will continue to be allies when we have the opportunity."

Li Dingguo didn't want to give the other party a chance to think, so he immediately asked: "Then why is General Lin unwilling to let our army go? For example, if the Eighth King intends to break out of the encirclement when the officers and troops are short of ammunition these days and dare not pursue them.

General Lin can just sit back and watch our army pass by your army's camp, just shouting but not attacking, wouldn't both sides be hurt in that way? "

Liu Sandao was slightly startled, and had to admit that Li Dingguo reacted quickly, but fortunately, before he came, Shen Futai had rehearsed for him a very golden answer.

He quickly said without hesitation: "My adoptive father is now a general of the imperial court in name after all, wouldn't it be a crime to indulge a thief without permission? If you don't have the capital to set up another mountain, how will you protect yourself in the future?

The righteous father asked me to come this time, in fact, there is another plan that can be discussed with your army - others may not know how much gold, silver and jewels the Eight Great Kings looted in Changde, Changsha, and Hengzhou, but we are all from the same way, I The adoptive father has long since forgotten,
After the Eight Great Kings entered Hunan, they used it to expand the army and reward the army. It is estimated that the wealth of the Rongwang Mansion was spent. The rest of the wealth of the Ji Wang Mansion and the Gui Wang Mansion, as well as the looted gains from the Changsha City Slaughter, I am afraid that most of them will be left behind. ?

After all, refugees are worthless, there are Dela everywhere, and it is difficult to carry them to war, but silver is much easier to carry.It's better to use refugees wherever you go, and there is still time to spread money and recruit soldiers temporarily.

If my adoptive father really offended the government because he didn't want to fight the Eight Great Kings, then he has to think of a way out, right?The people's wealth that my adoptive father plundered in Anlu back then has been almost squeezed out by the group of cannibals under the command of Shen Gouguan.Thinking about it again, there is also a lack of money to expand the army, buy food and make ordnance.

So before I came, Yifu said, if the Eight Great Kings really want to take advantage of these few days to break through his defense area and force him not to fight to the death with you, it is not impossible.As long as you take out [-]% of the money of Prince Ji's Mansion and Gui Wang's Mansion, he will let you go there immediately, and he can even cover you.

With this huge sum of money, he doesn't have to worry about being questioned by Shen Shuren. Our army will immediately head south to Wuling at the junction of Guangdong and Guangxi to reoccupy the mountain as the king. It will be no problem to expand the army several times with this huge sum of money. .At that time, Guangdong and Guangxi's military equipment will be relaxed, so why not let me wait to come and go?In this Ming Dynasty, except for Shen Shuren, the governors of other places are not afraid, and he can't chase after him in Guangdong and Guangxi.

If the Eight Great Kings can be more generous and directly give half of the money from Prince Gui's Mansion and Prince Ji's Mansion, then my adoptive father can just defect and help you all kill Shen Shuren. "

When Liu Sandao made the conditions on behalf of Lin Chengcheng, Zhang Xianzhong immediately believed them more.

Especially when they came up, they had already exposed Shen Jiajun's shortcoming, saying that Shen Shuren was short of ammunition recently, and combining this with the latter, the credibility was almost doubled.

After Li Dingguo heard the words, he looked at Bai Wenxuan, and finally Bai Wenxuan stepped forward and asked: "Thirty percent is not negotiable. In fact, our army also spends a lot of money. In fact, only thirty percent is left..."

But Liu Sandao interrupted them: "Changsha massacred the city, I'm afraid the income is more than ten million taels, right? As the uncle of today's son, King Gui's family property is at least five million taels. Thirty percent we need at least five million taels, fifty percent If it’s 500 million taels, it’s not righteous if it’s less than that.”

This number was also taught to him by Shen Shuren in advance, and it seemed to be the appetite of the old thief.

Li Dingguo Bai Wenxuan was slightly surprised, because Zhang Xianzhong had gained so much by slaughtering the city and several palaces.

But what is Lin Nurture? Buying a road for 500 million taels is too much for myself.

But this matter is not Li Dingguo's decision-making, so he said that he would stay with Liu Sandao to serve tea, and go down to rest and have some supper first, and he is going to ask his foster father for instructions.

After a while, Liu Sandao finished eating and drinking, Li Dingguo also asked Zhang Xianzhong for instructions, and Yan Yuese came over for a showdown: "General Lin Gaoyi, although the bid is a bit high, it is not impossible to negotiate.

How about this, my father said, 300 million taels will be delivered before the battle in the next day, and your army will quietly let our army go away, and at least wait until midnight so that Shen Shuren will not know, lest other departments of the army come to chase us immediately.

As for tonight, there are only a few of you here, and the property worth several million taels, you can't take much.Let me give you 3000 taels of gold first, plus two sacks of Dongzhu, Baoyu, and precious stones, which should be worth more than 2 taels of gold in total.Just pay 30 taels of silver, [-]% of the total price, as a deposit.After you have taken it, go back and return to your life as soon as possible. "

After all, Li Dingguo took out the property he had just prepared under orders, top jewelry and gold worth 30 taels of silver. , so 400 taels of gold is only about two hundred catties)

Gold has a high density, and a bag of 500 taels of gold is only the size of a solid basketball, so it is easy to take away.

After Liu Sandao and others left with the deposit, Bai Wenxuan met Zhang Xianzhong and asked him about his real plans.

Zhang Xianzhong didn't even think about it: "Lin Chengcheng is also worthy! I just wanted to break through, and I was able to break through a few days ago. At that time, there was no army camp in the west of the city! Why did I spend millions of taels of silver a few days later!
I don't want to break through the siege, but I feel that if the 3 to [-] troops under my command really break through, only [-] to [-] people can keep up. If the rest are surrounded, it will be in vain for Shen Shuren!So I want to fight until both sides are hurt and Shen Shuren is severely weakened before withdrawing!

These new attached troops didn't have the stamina to run to Qianzhong Road and enter Sichuan, so they might as well be exhausted under the city of Hengzhou!Since Shen Shuren is short of ammunition, he will concentrate his forces to go out of the city tomorrow and storm the official camp on the way north of the city!Giving Lin 30 taels of cash is nothing more than numbing him! "

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PS: From today, the normal two changes will resume, and there will be a second change before [-] pm.

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