My Chinese ancestors

Chapter 215 Qianlong Mansion like a mad dog

Smoke and dust billowed, and the iron cavalry swept across the plain outside Guangfu City. The first to return were the three thousand string-controlling wolf cavalry and the white horse followers. As the flanking bow cavalry, the [-] Wei army behind them in the overnight attack did not suffer much loss.

A total of five thousand cavalry were parked in the wilderness in front of the military camp. The horses were swaying their manes and pawing their hooves on the spot. A famous cavalry above drew his bow and held the reins tightly. He straightened his back and stared at the people wearing mountain inscriptions from the direction of the city gate. A, King Xia, with a white cloak on his back, galloped forward on his horse, running all the way to a distance of fifteen feet in front of the long cavalry array, reining in his horse and stopping.

"My officers and soldiers, I welcome you in triumph!"

"Thank you king!"

In the gradually warming sunshine, the two cavalrymen on horseback raised their hands and shouted in unison.Lu Bu looked at Su Chen who was so young and full of energy, as if he was hallucinating himself.

"very nice."

He murmured, closed his eyes, then touched the horse's belly with both feet, and slowly pushed the horse out; Zhao Yun on the other side thrust the gentian into the ground, and also pushed the horse forward. He smiled, and there was no trace of anything on his face. Wrinkled.

With the sound of armor leaves stroking, the second general raised his hand towards Su Chen on the black horse in front.

"Give orders to the king!"

"Good work, two generals!"

Su Chen returned the gift with his hand. Lu Bu and Zhao Yun rushed forward and came to Su Chen's side to station their horses. Lu Bu raised his face slightly and looked at the route of the army back to the city. "They are still behind, escorting the prisoners. I guess they have to wait." It will take an hour to arrive.”

"I'll wait for them here." After saying that, Su Chen added: "You two generals, why don't you let the officers and men go back to the camp to rest for the time being. After running around all night, the horses will be tired and the men will be tired too!"

While he was talking, all the generals from the military camps outside Guangfu's four gates were galloping towards him on horseback. Zhang Fei was the first to gallop. His galloping posture made Dian Wei immediately pull out his halberds to meet the enemy.

'Woo! '

When he was almost here, Zhang Fei tightened the reins and turned the horse's head. The horse under him stuck out his tongue and flicked out a small piece of air, splashing a handful of dust, and shouted at the top of his voice:

"Lao Dian, what are you doing with your halberd? Do you think I look like that kind of rebellious and backstabbing person?"

Looking at the array of wolf cavalry in front of him, Lu Bu stiffened for a moment, his eyelids twitched, and he tilted his head slightly. Looking at Zhang Fei with a loud voice, his cheeks bulged.

"Third brother!" Zhao Yun called towards him, cupping his hands.

"Is Zilong in the limelight this time?" Zhang Fei squeezed his whip and urged his horse to go over and take a look. Looking at Zhao Yun, who was getting younger, he nodded repeatedly: "That's great. By the way, has my second brother killed a general?"

"Behead the commander-in-chief of an army!"

"Haha, good!" Zhang Fei rubbed his hands excitedly, "That means some people didn't get it and finally earned some face."

"Ring-eyed thief!" Over there, Lu Bu turned around and glared, "I've said enough. It doesn't matter if you mock a certain family openly or secretly. Forget that a certain family came to rescue you in Longyang County! But you only took a general. It’s just a head, just give it up next time!”

"I'm not mocking you. I have something to say. If you don't believe me, ask King Xia!"

Zhang Fei grinned and smiled: "But you don't have to pay it back, just don't take it away!"

snort!
Lu Bu was too lazy to talk to him, so he turned back and raised his halberd to let the Wolf Cavalry and White Horse Yi Cong on the opposite side return to their respective camps to rest. Soon, Xia Houyuan, Dong Zhuo, Zhang Liao, Le Jin and other generals also came over.

They had received the battle report that the [-]-strong army was directly crushed by [-] cavalry as early as the early morning of yesterday. The gap in the encirclement was opened, and the road to the north was unobstructed. Then Zhuge Liang, who was in the rear, could transport grain and fodder to the front.

This battle needs to be fought.

Soon after, four cavalry groups, namely the Tiger Cavalry Battalion, the Western Qiang Flying Cavalry, the Flying Bear Army, and the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry, returned around both sides of Guangfu City. What appeared in sight was not only the mighty cavalry, but also the trembling 8000 soldiers. Many Wei soldiers were captured.

Later, they were taken to the camp by the Yizhou Army infantry and imprisoned together with the prisoners captured before, for later use in the siege of the city.

Four generals, Guan Yu, Ma Chao, Li Jue, and Zhang He, stepped forward to hand over their orders.

"Thank you, generals." Su Chen returned the salute, reined in his horse and retreated for a while, stretched out his hand and said, "Follow me back to the city to discuss the military situation."

"My lord please!"

All the generals bowed their hands.

……

In Guangfu City, Wu Zixun led more than a dozen people from the embroidery department and quickly walked through the buildings near the city wall. He also sent some people to bring out the people in the nearby houses for questioning. While searching the fifth courtyard, someone asked Some clues were obtained, and the people being questioned had seen strange faces coming and going occasionally.

At this time, the city was under martial law, and ordinary people rarely stayed on the streets except to buy grain and rice.Wu Zixun had been in contact with a group of military generals for such a long time, and he immediately realized something was wrong. Using clues, he went to the alley where the common people saw strangers coming and going.

This place is not far from the city wall. Because of the small county town, it is only about a mile at most. After knocking on several houses, an abnormality was discovered at the fifth house. No one responded.Several people from the Embroidery Department jumped directly onto the courtyard wall, landed inside and opened the courtyard door. The group immediately rushed into the courtyard and searched all the rooms.

What was found were the corpses of four members of the family, stuffed in the woodshed. A sixty-year-old woman, two children, and a woman had unknown things put on their bodies. The corpses did not emit a bad smell. But it was still swollen and rotten, and thick water flowed all over the ground.

"The people in Qianlong Mansion are really cruel, and they are very capable of treating their own people."

Wu Zixun endured the churning in his stomach and when he exited the woodshed, someone who had gone to other rooms to dig through the walls and emptied cabinets said: "Found it!"

Here, a group of more than a dozen people rushed to the room. The bed board had been lifted, revealing a hole in the earth covered by a wooden board. The entrance of the hole had been burned with fire, and the soil was blackened and compacted.

An expert from the embroidery department got in first, and the fire gradually lit up inside. The hole was half a foot deep, and there was a dirt hole at the end, which could only pass through for one person, and he could only crawl.

After a while, the explorer returned and dusted himself off. "This earthen cave was not dug recently. It has been dug for at least more than ten years. The people in Qianlong Mansion should also happen to know that there is a secret passage leading to the city. I was in the cave and saw many footprints, at least Five to 60 people sneaked in."

One of the embroidery masters suddenly spoke at the door with a sword in his hand: "The last seven assassinations have been different each time. They disguised themselves as old men to approach the team, hid poison in their bodies, and rushed against Wang Jia... There were also various hidden weapons, buried and secretly There are throws. And each time it is one person. Are they testing the defense around King Xia?"

"The remaining dozens of people must be hiding elsewhere...and according to their all-encompassing style of doing things...could it be the county government..." The man who came out of the cave had a solemn look on his face, "After trying so many Next time, will he sneak into the county government... and then poison him!"

"Today the king welcomes all the generals back to the city...not good!"

Wu Zixun's face suddenly changed color, he turned around and rushed out of the door. The moment a group of more than a dozen people got on their horses, a master from the embroidery department suddenly threw out the hidden weapon in his sleeve, and made a loud bang on Wu Zixun's head. A flying knife was inserted into a A diamond-shaped hidden weapon was nailed to the opposite wall.

In an instant, eight figures swooped down from the wall of the small courtyard opposite.

He shouted: "Wu Chang will take some of his brothers back to the county government office!" He immediately pulled out the sword from his waist, jumped up from his horse with six of his colleagues, and fought with the spies from the Qianlong Mansion who were rushing towards him.

The moment the sound of fighting rang out, Wu Zixun galloped on his horse, with four people from the Embroidery Department behind him protecting him, and looking at the surroundings with vigilant eyes.

……

In the county government office, Su Chen strode into the court, dragging his cloak. The generals filed in behind him and sat on both sides. As Su Chen sat down, they followed suit.

Dian Wei and Li Xuanba stood on both sides.

Su Chen also talked about business at this time, "The generals defeated 10,000 Wei troops in one night and one day, and prepared a banquet to congratulate them. But this morning, the scouts came to report that the [-] troops of Qi and Liang had already moved this way. To the south, Luyang Er’s [-]+ troops and horses are also showing signs of mobilization. Let’s chat while we eat later.”

While they were talking, several officials from the county government brought tea and water to the generals present.

"Your Majesty, does that mean there is a big battle to be fought?" Dong Zhuo picked up the tea and pressed it on the table: "I came all the way south and stayed in the army, but I didn't win a single battle!"

"Fat Dong, just rest for a while, don't be acclimatized like when you were wearing the Yellow Turban!" Zhang Fei shouted beside Guan Yu.

Dong Zhuo glared over and poured tea into his mouth.

While talking in the courtroom, Dianwei looked at every officer walking around in the courtroom. Out of the corner of his eye, he also caught a glimpse of an officer who had put away a wooden tray and walked quietly to lie on his side. Perhaps it was an instinctive reaction, he turned his face slightly and glanced at Dian Wei looked at him.

As Zhang Fei's rude words of "...acclimatized" sounded, the moment their eyes met, Dian Wei suddenly shouted: "Stop!" The generals who were talking and holding cups in the hall were startled.

"What's wrong with Lao Dian?" Xia Houyuan stood up.

Lu Bu and Zhao Yun subconsciously put down their teacups. Su Chen also put down his teacup, stood up, and reached out to grab Xia Wangjian who was leaning on the desk.

"Your face is a bit unfamiliar. I have memorized almost all the servants in the yamen!"

Dian Wei pulled out a euphorbia with his backhand, raised it to the yamen servant's chin, and handed him the tea cup that Su Chen had put down, "Drink!"

At this moment, the sound of horse hooves was heard outside the door. A figure jumped down without waiting for the horse to stop, rolled and crawled past the halberd warriors at the door, and shouted towards the court: "Your Majesty, there is Qianlong Mansion in the city. Agents, be careful they poison and assassinate you!"

The moment the word 'stab' fell, Dong Zhuo's eyes widened and he spat out the tea in his mouth with a puff.

The yamen servant pointed by Dian Wei over there stepped forward, moved backwards, and shouted: "Do it!"

In the courtroom, several government servants presenting teacups, clerks holding a pile of official documents outside, and police officers walking around suddenly abandoned their disguises and rushed to the nearby soldiers, nearby wings, cooks, and maids in the backyard. He broke out of the window and rushed towards the court.

At the same time, the officer in the hall pulled out a dagger from his sleeve and stabbed the nearest Yan general. The dagger was directly grasped by the opponent's hand. Lu Bu twisted his wrist, grabbed the dagger, and kicked the opponent to the wall. With a bang, the wall was dented inward, revealing the veins of the bricks.

The fighting spread from the backyard. The assassins entangled the soldiers and rushed to the side door of the court. Zhao Yun threw the gentian and nailed the first assassin who rushed in to the wall. He pulled out the green sword and dragged his cloak directly towards the side door. The second assassin who rushed in flew away.Dian Wei grabbed the assassin just now, threw his hand and smashed it on the ground, making it look like a human.

The alarm sounded, and the shield warriors guarding various places formed a formation to kill the assassins outside. The martial arts of these twenty-odd assassins were obviously higher than the Jianghu people recruited by the Huangshen Sect that Su Chen encountered in Longyang County last time. On many.

With a few punches and kicks, they got rid of the entanglement of the soldiers, and more than 20 Qianlong Mansion spies rushed directly to the side door and the main door of the court. They saw that in the hall, the generals of the Yan Kingdom were in fighting postures.

Xia Houyuan drew his sword from his waist and walked to the middle; Yue Jin, Niu Gai, Zhou Cang, Zhang He, and Gao Shun each stood in line with weapons in hand; Lu Bu picked up his halberd and stood up, with disdain on his face; Zhang Liaoba Guan Yu took out the sword and threw away the scabbard. Guan Yu sat on the chair, holding the sword in one hand and stroking his beard with the other, opening his eyes slightly.

"Chickens and dogs!" he said.

Zhang Fei touched his waist and moved to Li Xuanba's side, "Take your two hammers and I will use them."

"And yours?"

"Did not bring."

Li Xuanba was in a hurry to go out to fight, and he threw the sledgehammer in his left hand over. Zhang Fei caught it with one hand, and the moment he held the handle of the hammer, his whole body suddenly tilted, and he was dragged to the ground with a swish.

"Damn...it's a bit heavy!" Zhang Fei sat on the ground holding the handle of the hammer, his face flushed.

When he was muttering, the fighting outside suddenly broke out, and the clash of weapons quickly spread towards the court. Niu Gai and Zhou Cang maintained a blocking posture, and were forcefully forced back. The long knife in Zhang He's hand whizzed, and he took a piece of it with him. While the blood was pouring out on his arm, his sword power had not yet returned, and his body was shaking like an electric shock. Then he was violently thrown into the back hall, and sat down next to Dong Zhuo. He lowered his head and saw the heart protector on the breastplate. The mirror was dented and there were many palm prints around it.

Su Chen pulled out the Xia Wang Sword and threw away the scabbard.

"Not a single one!"

(End of this chapter)