The Red Mansions

Chapter 729 Liu Jixian: Commander, it's the sound of killing!
Jinling, Ningguofu
"Captain, the secret agent ambushing Cheng's family sent an urgent letter. It seems that people from the Ma family have entered Yangzhou city, and they want to rescue Ma Xianjun while the lord is not in Yangzhou." Liu Jixian said in a deep voice.

"Prison robbery?" Jia Heng's eyes flickered, and he looked at the sky outside. It was in the afternoon, and the sky was so dark that there seemed to be dark clouds gathering and it was about to rain. He said in a low voice, "It's really lawless and unscrupulous!"

At the beginning, Jin Yidu commanded his fellow acquaintance Lu Jingyao, and sent a team of scouts from Shenjing, who were intercepted and killed by dead soldiers from the Ma family or several other salt merchants.

Chen Xiaoqing's eyes flickered, she looked at the young man, and reminded: "There are nearly ten thousand soldiers and horses in the Yangzhou camp, but only six or seven thousand are usable. At this moment, they are all sent out to block the ferry and search for criminals, and you took them away again." Five hundred brocade clothes, Yangzhou didn't have many troops, and many Jiangbei generals had old acquaintances with them, and the two supported each other. As long as Ma Xianjun was robbed, he could escape by boat. At that time, the mastermind of this case escaped , can no longer implicate them, and they will be safe."

It was indeed a good opportunity in the eyes of the Yangzhou salt merchants to arrest a family member of the Ma family and mobilize many guards. In addition, the guards of the Yangzhou Salt Court left some good hands to protect Lin Ruhai.

Liu Jixian frowned and said: "General Jiangbei Daying, if you give convenience to the criminals and let them go, aren't you afraid that the governor will pursue them?"

"The southern soldiers don't know the strictness of the military law and the sharpness of the axe. Since the officer supervised the Jiangbei camp, he has always spoken nicely to them. You are naturally negligent. They will not help robbers and criminals, but just open your eyes. If you close your eyes, instead of escaping conveniently, there is no psychological burden." Jia Heng's eyes were gloomy, not surprised.

After he took over the Jiangbei camp, he did not make drastic cuts to the generals and soldiers.

There is a lot of consideration in doing this, as a newcomer, surrounded by wolves, rashly radicalizing the army will only attract generals and soldiers to mutiny.

In fact, the fact that they did not take advantage of the opportunity to cause military chaos is the reason for the previous soft measures.

But the salt merchants in Yangzhou raised the dead, and the Ma family hadn't done anything before, just because he made a sudden attack, they were caught off guard, and Ma Xianjun's two sons fled outside, they must either rob the prison to save people, or seek the dead like Xu Gongmenke to assassinate Sun Ce story.

If he was still in Yangzhou, with more than a thousand brocade clothes, these people would not dare to act rashly, but now he left Yangzhou with five hundred brocade clothes and went to Yangzhou for business. In an instant, Yangzhou was empty, and the Ma family was ready to move.

And the reason why he chose to come to Jinling was also to see how the Ma family, or the other families, would react.

They don't dare to make big troubles yet, but small actions will definitely continue.

"Where is Qu Guang's cavalry?" Jia Heng asked suddenly.

Henan Dusi dispatched troops to come here, but previously blocked the news along the way, and Yangzhou did not know about it.

Liu Jixian quickly replied: "The flying pigeons who came yesterday afternoon passed the letter. Commander Qu Du abandoned the boat and traveled day and night. Today he should hurry to Pingshan, Yangzhou, and he can enter the city tonight."

Qu Guang clearly wanted to show off in front of Jia Heng, so he abandoned the boat and set off for Yangzhou in the starry night.

"Prepare a fast boat. We will quietly return to Yangzhou to catch them. In addition, we will send a letter to Nie Hongfeige in Yangzhou, asking him to quietly transfer the criminals and be on guard in secret. Don't leak the news. I want to see how many Yangzhou soldiers there are this time. Connect the majestic place with them." Jia Heng's face was gloomy, and he made a prompt decision.

To fight against the outside world, we must first secure the internal affairs, and did not attract the attention of the Jiangbei camp, just worried that the methods would be too cruel and not conducive to the rectification of the Jiangnan camp's military affairs.

Five thousand elite cavalry troops who have gone through the Central Plains War are enough to suppress Yangzhou Xiaoxiao.

Chen Xiao said: "How many of us are there?"

"It's enough. There will be more movement when there are more people." Jia Heng said in a deep voice.

Although he went to Jinling, he still put [-] brocade clothes in Yangzhou Hundred Households, which was enough to deal with a small-scale prison robbery.

As long as they resist for a while, Qu Guang can send troops to respond, and then wipe them out.

Jia Heng turned his head and told Liu Jixian to secretly prepare the boat, looked at Chen Xiao, and said, "Xiaoxiao, don't go, you are here to protect sister Lin."

Chen Xiaoxiu frowned, her clear eyes flickered, and she said softly: "There are guards in brocade clothes here, so there is no danger, I will go with you."

If she doesn't watch, this person doesn't know what kind of danger he is doing.

Jia Heng looked at Chen Xiao's serious expression, pondered for a moment, and said softly: "That's good, I can have one more helper."

Then, he turned back to the wing room and turned to look at Daiyu.

Daiyu was talking to Shui Xin in the room at the moment, the girl hugged little loli and taught Shui Xin how to untie the Nine Links.

At this moment, Zijuan's voice was heard outside, saying: "Girl, Master Heng is here."

Not long after, I saw Jia Heng coming in from the outside, under Daiyu's surprised gaze, he said softly: "Sister Lin, something happened in Yangzhou, I will go back to Yangzhou later."

Under the smoldering eyebrows, Dai Yu's starry eyes were slightly different, and she saw a look of worry on her snowy face, and asked, "Brother Heng, what's the matter, walking in such a hurry?"

Asking Zijuan to hold Shui Xin and talk aside, Jia Heng sat down beside Daiyu, took Daiyu's plain hand, and said softly: "Sister, don't worry, there is nothing wrong, just need to go over."

Daiyu felt Jia Heng's lingering look of sternness between his brows, and she was very worried, but all the words came to her lips, and finally turned into one sentence, and said softly: "Brother Heng should be careful in everything."

Jia Heng gently embraced Daiyu's shoulders, hugged the girl's petite and exquisite body into his arms, and said softly: "Sister Lin, after the business in Yangzhou is over, we will play with you in Jinling City."

Daiyu gently grabbed Jia Heng's hand, and said in a low voice: "Brother Heng, don't worry about these things, the swords and soldiers outside are dangerous, Brother Heng should be more careful outside."

Jia Heng supported Daiyu's face, and said: "My sister is at the mansion these two days, playing with Xinxin, don't leave Ningguo Mansion, I left people outside to protect my sister."

"Yes." Daiyu nodded and agreed.

Suddenly, the shadows were approaching, and the familiar warmth and softness struck again, her cheeks were as red as a cloud.

Jia Heng looked at the girl with starry eyes like water, and said, "Speak to Xin Xin, I'm leaving."

Daiyu responded softly, her dewy starry eyes stared intently, watching the young man leave the wing.

Jia Heng came out of Daiyu's room, looked at Chen Xiao who had changed into a bamboo hat and green gauze dress, and said in a low voice, "Let's go."

Chen Xiao didn't say much, and followed Liu Jixian and Jia Heng to leave Jinling Ningguo Mansion.

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At the same time, in the Cheng family manor in Yangzhou, the back house was brightly lit, and there were figures in the study room. Several strong men in black bunts, bamboo hats, and knives hanging from their waists stood awe-inspiring.

In the study room, Cheng Peili was talking to a tall young man, who was Ma Xianjun's second son, Ma Zesheng.

In his early twenties, with a hulking back and a fierce face, his callused hands tightly grasped a big knife at his waist.

Cheng Peili said: "Nephew, your father is so confused that he was framed by others. I heard that under the torture of Jinyi Mansion, he didn't say a word, but I think my nephew has heard about these methods of Jinyi Mansion. If this goes on, I'm afraid the consequences will be disastrous." .”

In fact, Ma Xianjun really didn't inform Duoduo, but the smuggling business was real, and it happened that Tushan's supply general came out, which immediately caught Jia Heng.

Ma Zesheng looked angrily, with murderous intent in his eyes, and said, "Uncle Cheng, Jia Heng, this dog official, I must tear him to pieces!"

There are hundreds of people in the Ma family, and the men were arrested and tortured by the Jinyi Mansion, while the female family members were detained in a manor of the Ma family, and guarded by Tiqi from the Jinyi Mansion.

In an instant, the Ma family collapsed. It is conceivable that Ma Zesheng felt resentful when he came back.

"Nephew, don't be impulsive. The most urgent thing now is to rescue your father, then leave this Yangzhou, and then make plans. The green hills left behind are not afraid of running out of firewood." Cheng Peili said in a low voice.

The so-called Three Caves of the Rabbit, the Ma family is also the general merchant of Yangzhou, and Ma Xianjun naturally left behind, and the latter is his second son Ma Zesheng. Second son, don't come back.

As the Ma family is engaged in smuggling business, they naturally have a lot of people under their command, plus some dead men from the Ma family, they have a lot of people.

After Ma Xianjun was arrested, Ma Zesheng was shocked. He called the dead men in Yangzhou, and secretly observed the situation in Yangzhou. Then he found that the Ma family had been caught by the court, and they were all sent to prison for interrogation. He came to Cheng's house to inquire about the situation.

Then, the two families came up with a plan, to rescue the person first, and then discuss the rest.

Ma Zesheng said coldly: "Uncle Cheng, there are not many guards in Jinyi Mansion in Yangzhou now. I have two to three hundred people under my command, all of whom are elites. Why don't we take this opportunity to massacre the Yamen of Yangzhou Yanyuan tonight, kill Lin Ruhai, and take revenge!"

Cheng Peili hurriedly said: "Nephew, we haven't reached that point yet, it's more important to save your father first, so we don't get into trouble."

Attacking the Yanyuan in full view and killing a salt official will inevitably attract thunder and wrath from the imperial court, and the army will suppress it.

Ma Zesheng looked aggressively, and said coldly: "Uncle Cheng, then get father out of prison first, and it won't be too late to settle these old scores."

As they said that, several people reconsidered the plan to rescue Ma Xianjun.

Because the generals of the Jiangbei camp in Yangzhou had a good relationship with the Ma family, and they got money from the Ma family and the Cheng family in advance, so the problem of escaping after kidnapping and rescuing people was much easier.

The rest is to deal with it. The guards of the Jinyi Mansion, which Jia Heng left behind to guard the criminal female family members of the Ma family, have about 400 people. They are all concentrated in the Yangzhou Hundred Households, and there are not many people.

Ma Zesheng brought two to three hundred experts this time, and many of them were recruited by the officers and soldiers of the Jiangbei camp before they were able to sneak into the city of Yangzhou.

After Ma Xianjun's son led several people away, one person turned around from the screen, it was clearly Huang Cheng and Bao Zuhui.

The so-called rabbit bites people in a hurry, the Wang family doesn't say it, maybe it should be cleaner, but Cheng, Huang and Bao, who have done smuggling business with the Ma family, may have sensed the potential crisis, and if Ma Xianjun is not rescued, It will be bad luck for everyone involved.

Bao Zuhui said worriedly: "Old Cheng, why does this look so unreliable? If the guy surnamed Jia catches him, then we will all be implicated."

"Old Bao, do you think that the things we did were really investigated? Many of the smuggled boatmen were arrested today, and the servants and men of the Ma family who escorted the goods can talk about everything. Du Yan? When the time comes, none of the three of us can escape." Cheng Peili said coldly.

"But didn't Master Wang go to Jinling to find helpers?" Huang Cheng also hesitated and said with some lingering fear.

I feel regretful in my heart, I shouldn't have attended Cheng Peili's invitation before, who would have thought of secretly planning a prison robbery.

Cheng Peili said: "Mr. Wang thought that with the support of those people in Jiangnan, he could sit back and relax, but he was completely wrong. Besides, the old horse fell into their hands, and I didn't make a move. How could he not be disappointed? Are you really going to shake off the salt storehouse?" A bad debt on the Internet, we are also finished."

As he said that, seeing the increasingly ugly faces of the two, he said in a deep voice, "If you take a step back now, you will die, and if you take a step further, you will die! No matter what, you will die at the same time."

Anyway, he has sent his two sons out with his confidantes, and the property he left behind in the name of his son-in-law in Hangzhou and other places over the years is enough for the family to make a comeback in the future.

Hearing the words, Bao Zuhui sighed, and said, "How did this get to this point? This family is not in trouble yet. We are going to rob the prison. Why is this getting bigger and bigger?"

Cheng Peili said: "Judge Huang and General Hu Cang have taken care of everything there. They will go from Pingshan, from Shaobo Lake, and then take a detour to the sea."

He thought to himself, look at how cowardly you are, why not just sit at the children's table when eating in the future.

"Why don't you go directly by water?" Bao Zuhui asked with a frown.

Huang Cheng thought for a while, then took the lead and said: "It seems that the waterway has blocked the ferry, and the generals of the Jiangbei camp are afraid of being ruined, so they are unwilling to walk along the waterway."

Bao Zuhui worried: "After saving this person, if the Jinyi Mansion traces it down and tortures it..."

Huang Cheng also had a look of worry on his face. No one knew about Jin Yi Mansion's methods.

Cheng Peili comforted and said: "Don't worry about Lao Bao. If he starts killing people, Jiangnan will be terrified. If those people in Jinling impeach him, he won't be able to stay in Yangzhou for long."

And just when several people were making intensive preparations, the night fell and the sky was dark——

Jia Heng also took a fast boat, accompanied by Liu Jixian and Chen Xiao, and quietly returned to Yangzhou City in casual clothes.

Yangzhou Hundred Households Office
It was already midnight, when people were sleepy, and there were only a few sparse stars in the sky. Under the doorway, a lantern with the words "Jinyifu" mimeographed on it swayed in the wind. In the dark, moonless sky, there was sometimes summer. Raindrops fell at night, and suddenly there seemed to be a gust of wind. In the misty rainy night, a large number of black shadows appeared from the streets and alleys, slipped by the walls, and approached Baihu.

Dozens of dark shadows rushed through the painted red gate of the Yangzhou Baihusuo, and entered the courtyard with high green walls.

Ma Zesheng looked at several bright lights in the inner government hall, his face was gloomy, his eyes were bloodshot, and he said in a deep voice: "Old Ding, you go to the backyard to save people, I will kill all these court eagle dogs!"

The retinue named Lao Ding led his men towards the torture chamber in the backyard of Jinyi Mansion.

Because he spent a lot of money in advance to buy the family of the Hundred Households Office of Jinyi Mansion, the internal layout of the Yangzhou Hundred Households Office, and the place where Ma Xianjun was detained, so he rushed directly to the punishment room.

But... nothing!
Ma Xianjun drew his knife and led a group of sailors behind him to kill the Baihu government office.

But at this moment, in the valued room of Jinyi Baihu, I don't know if I heard the movement outside, and it seems that I have been prepared for a long time.

Unanimously, the lights suddenly went out, and then on the eaves tiles on both sides, pine oil torches suddenly appeared. In an instant, the lights were brightly lit, and a figure suddenly appeared. , and Fang Ying from a hundred Jinyi households in the capital, leading fifty or sixty crossbowmen, said, "Fire the arrows!"

"Swirling!!!"

With a groan of pain, the people Ma Zesheng led were worthy of the name of "elite". After more than a dozen arrows fell to the ground, they retreated towards the archway and the eaves.

Not long after, a large number of Jinyi school lieutenants poured out from the wing rooms in all directions, persistently killing the pirates led by Ma Zesheng with the Xiuchun knife, and there were countless shouts of killing coming from outside the Jinyi mansion.

Because Feige's biography stated that Jiangbei Daying was no longer reliable, Nie Hong only used the manpower of Yangzhou Jinyi Hundred Households, plus the Shenjing Jinyi House's Tiqi, a total of three to 400 people, divided into two groups. Bo, ready to encircle and suppress the prison robbers.

Seeing this scene, Ma Zesheng's pupils shrank sharply, he clenched the saber in his hand, and the servant beside him said anxiously: "My lord, the Jinyi Mansion is on guard!"

Ma Zesheng collected himself, waved the weapon in his hand, and said, "Don't panic, there are not many of them, kill them!"

He raised his knife and fought a Jinyi captain on the spot. Ma Zesheng was extremely brave, and the Jinyi captain was defeated in a few strokes. With a scream, he fell to the ground, with blood gushing from his neck.

"Ping ping pong pong..."

The sounds of clashing weapons and groans of pain rang out one after another, and accompanied by the heaven-shaking shouts of killing, the entire courtyard of the Hundred Households in Yangzhou was filled with the sound of killing, which gradually spread farther away in the quiet rainy night.

But because the city of Yangzhou was originally very large, the location of hundreds of households in Yangzhou was a little remote, and the sound of nearly a thousand people fighting could only be heard in one city area.

But even so, as time passed, it caused panic among the people of Yangzhou again, not knowing what happened in the city.

After fighting for about a while, Ma Zesheng's deputy, Lao Ding, came running from not far away with blood all over his body, panting with panic clearly in his voice: "Young master, the master is not in the torture room, we have been deceived!"

Ma Zesheng already knew that Jinyi was on guard at this moment, his whole body was covered with blood, and he killed a Jinyi captain, his eyes were bloodshot, and he roared angrily: "Go!"

Because Ma Zesheng brought more than 200 gangsters, they were divided into two groups to respond to each other, although Nie Hong, a hundred households in Jinyi Mansion, was ambushed for a while.

The difference in manpower between the two sides is not bad, but it has not formed an overwhelming advantage.

The main reason is that the Yangzhou Hundred Households Office is short of troops, while the Jiangbei Daying soldiers are blocking the ferry and searching for Duoduo's hiding place under the leadership of Jinyi Mansion.

And just a stone's throw away from the hundreds of households in Yangzhou, Jia Heng rode a horse and led Liu Jixian, Chen Xiao, and five or six captains of Jinyifu to hurry over.

"Captain, it's the cry of killing!" Liu Jixian whispered beside him, his face as cold as iron, and whispered.

Jia Heng looked at the shadowy figure in front of the gate of Yangzhou Hundred Households, and said in a deep voice: "We are here just in time, let's kill them!"

Withdrawing the Xiuchun knife from his waist, he dismounted the horse and killed hundreds of households in Yangzhou in the distance.

Seeing this, Chen Xiao, Liu Jixian, and several captains in Jinyi behind them rode their horses to follow.

At this moment, Ma Zesheng was leading a group of brothers to rush out, with a fierce momentum, and after a while, he was killed by Xiaowei Jinyi who was attacking from both front and back.

Gradually, in the thin encirclement of the guards of Jinyi Mansion, he gradually cut a bloody road to the long street, leading twenty or thirty brothers to flee towards the streets and alleys.

At this moment, I heard the sound of the horse's hoof "da da", Ma Zesheng and the people around him couldn't help but follow the sound, and saw a fast horse coming, the young man on the horse was holding a embroidered spring knife, and the lanterns of the houses on both sides were swaying The candlelight in the sky reflected a blazing and dazzling knife light.

"brush!"

When he rode up to the sword, Ma Zesheng was startled, he held up the sword to resist, only heard the sound of "clang", the sword came out of his hand, and the man slammed backward like a kite with a broken string.

(End of this chapter)