Reincarnation of the powerful minister

Gao Shuo led a "Rebel Army" team of 70 to [-] people to escort thirty or forty "captives". The gate of the state city.

This is also due to the complex composition of the "Rebel Army". People from Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan, Shandong... There are people from everywhere, and there are many small forces that have established their own factions in the local area, and they come here for fame.If there are too many sources, the structure will inevitably be loose, and it is common for small leaders to not know each other. Therefore, Wang Wu thought of a way to require all rebels under his command to wear white scarves on their arms as a mark, so the folks also called it For the "White Armed Army".

Gao Shuo took advantage of this, and sneaked into Bazhou City with "the prisoners of war who were dedicated to the two commanders" without telling the guards.

In the dark alleys of the city, the "prisoners of war" turned their clothes inside out and wore their white scarves on their arms. They became a rebel team of hundreds of people again. Under the guidance of the small flag, they broke up and approached Meiyuan quietly.

The torches in the hands of the soldiers all over the street illuminated the night road. Wang Wu and Wang Chen rode side by side, dismounted at the gate of Meiyuan, chatted with each other and entered the front yard.

Wang Chen asked his elder brother: "That little girl looks at Yaojiao, but her bones are very hard, she won't let go. What should I do, just kill me?"

Wang Wudao: "give her more trouble, a prostitute who has sold her body in the brothel, what kind of chaste and strong woman can she be? It is best to live for me, even if she dies, as long as that boy Su really cares about her , we can also use her corpse to open the city gate."

A trace of pity and regret flashed through Wang Chen's heart, but he quickly let go of that point of unbearable, and said, "I'll try to persuade her again, if it still doesn't make sense, I'll have to see you on the city wall."

Wang Wu waved his finger at him, and went back to his room to rest.Wang Chen turned to the small building where Ruan Hongjiao was imprisoned, and saw that Ruan Hongjiao was sitting at the table in a daze, as if he hadn't slept all night.

"Miss Ruan, it's almost dawn, can you think about it?"

Ruan Hongjiao didn't turn her face to look at him, but said indifferently: "Forgive me. Although I come from a brothel, I know what loyalty is, and I don't want to join forces with rebels and rebels."

Wang Wu sent someone to talk to her about the general trend of the world today, and about the idea of ​​the Yijun Kuang Fuzheng Shuo, but unfortunately they did not win the sympathy and approval of the other party, so they stopped talking and said coldly: "Since the girl If you're stubborn, then you can't blame me. Someone—"

Several soldiers rushed into the house, escorted Ruan Hongjiao with spears and spears, left Meiyuan, and walked to the gate tower of the city wall.

At that time, Gao Shuo and the others were patrolling around Meiyuan, looking for an opportunity to sneak in, when they suddenly saw the soldiers escorting Ruan Hongjiao out, their blood was agitated, and they almost rushed forward desperately to save them.Fortunately, at the last moment, his professionalism as a secret agent of Jinyiwei brought back his reason, and he ordered his subordinates in a hoarse voice: "Follow quietly." At the same time, he took out a small notebook and a charcoal pen from his pocket, and hurriedly wrote a few words Tear off the current page and knead into a small ball.

On the way to the city wall, an accident happened. An old tea house on the second floor suddenly collapsed by the roadside, splashing mud and water all over the street and screaming.The soldiers were alert and preparing for the battle as if they were facing a big enemy. After they found out that there was no movement, they thought that the teahouse had been in disrepair for a long time and had suffered from war, so it just happened to fall down at this moment.

Wang Chen ordered to move on, and when he climbed to the gate tower of the city wall, the dawn was approaching but there was no light, and the distant mountains were still a gray shadow.

"Miss Ruan, this is your last chance. You are still so young, don't you really care about your own life?"

Ruan Hongjiao walked to the edge of the battlements, looked down at the six-foot-high city wall, her face was pale, and her voice was firm: "Second Commander, let's do it!"

Wang Chen raised his chin to the soldiers, and the soldiers took the ropes forward, first splashed a bucket of sticky slurry on Ruan Hongjiao, then tied her hands and hung her outside the battlements.

"This syrup is the most attractive to rats and ants. If you are bitten by insects for several hours, no matter how beautiful you are, you will not be human. Before sunrise, as long as you change your mind and are willing to help the rebels attack the capital, I will let you live, otherwise ... get ready to expose the corpses in the city!"

Ruan Hongjiao, who was hanging in the air, closed her eyes tightly and said nothing as her wrist was worn out by the hemp rope.

Wang Chen was not in a hurry, he sat on the saddle brought by the soldiers, and ate mutton buns with his legs crossed.

There was a faint noise from the streets behind the gatehouse, a soldier ran up the city wall out of breath, and said to Wang Chen: "Second Commander, a few more buildings collapsed... one of them is next to Meiyuan, which disturbed the Commander-in-Chief. Wake up, and send someone to check what happened."

Wang Chen frowned: "Someone is causing trouble in the city!" He threw away the half-eaten steamed bread, patted the crumbs on his hands, got up and said, "Leave a team here to watch, I'll go to the street Look up and find out the thief who caused chaos."

Not long after he left, a sharp arrow shot out from the darkness below the city, piercing the throat of a soldier at the top of the city in the blink of an eye.Immediately, there were a few more rapid-fire meteor-like cold arrows, and the soldiers who were hit by the arrows fell to the ground before they even had time to call out a warning.

Dozens of brocade guards dressed as white-armed soldiers rushed to the top of the city, and fought with the team of soldiers left by Wang Chen, and quickly knocked down the soldiers one by one.

Ruan Hongjiao, who heard the movement, raised her face and tried her best to look at the battlements behind her, but saw a sword light in the melee.The blade happened to cut on the rope hanging her between the battlements, Ruan Hongjiao lost weight instantly, and fell sharply towards the loess ground below, her skirt was blown away by the air current, like withered petals in the wind.

She subconsciously exclaimed, watching the ground getting closer and closer, her heart was so desperate that she couldn't close her eyes.

At this moment, a figure jumped up from the galloping horse, barely caught her a foot above the ground, and landed safely with her in his arms.

Ruan Hongjiao was gasping for breath, staring at the man in front of her for a moment, her heart was filled with thousands of words in a mess, but what she blurted out was: "Hurry up!"

Gao Shuo supported her limp waist and said in a deep voice, "Let's go together! I'll take you out of Bazhou City."

"—You two wild mandarin ducks can't get away from each other." A rough male voice said.Two brothers Wang Wu and Wang Chen rode out from the shadow of the city gate, and a large group of cavalry rushed out from behind, and surrounded them with bows and crossbows.Wang Wu pointed at them with a horsewhip, and sneered, "Did you really think that by changing your clothes and saying a password, you could join our rebel army? I'll wait to see what your plans are, so it's because of this bitch hanging on the wall."

Wang Chen asked: "Which party are you Bailaihao from, the guards, or the soldiers from Qi Jingtang?"

Gao Shuo protected Ruan Hongjiao behind him, stared at them coldly, and did not answer.

"It doesn't matter if you don't say anything, you're going to die anyway." Wang Wu signaled his subordinates, "Go, hang that mother back to the top of the wall, and let her see with her own eyes how her wild man is divided into pieces."

Ruan Hongjiao wailed: "Don't—"

Gao Shuohan said: "Wars are a man's business. Winners and losers are responsible for each other. Why persecute a weak woman and ruin the reputation of the rebel army. If you let her go, you will come at me if you want to die."

A large group of soldiers involuntarily surrounded them, Gao Shuo drew his sword to fight back, and killed dozens of people bravely, but after all, two fists were no match for four hands, and he had to be distracted to protect Ruan Hongjiao. In the end, he was caught by Wang Chen himself .

Seeing several soldiers escorting Ruan Hongjiao and about to drag her back to the city wall, Gao Shuo became anxious and shouted, "Don't touch her! Don't touch her! I'll make a deal with you!"

Wang Chen sneered: "All of you people's lives hang in my hands, what qualifications do you have to negotiate a deal with me? Besides, what can you come up with that I am interested in? It's almost the same for her."

Gao Shuo gritted his teeth: "I have information about the success or failure of the rebel army, will you listen?"

"Lord Gao, don't do it!" Ruan Hongjiao blurted out after being astonished, "I don't care about the life and death of my family alone. If my lord misses the important affairs of the country because of me, I will never redeem my family!"

"'My lord'? What lord, you might as well talk about it. If you are really qualified, we brothers will consider it."

Wang Wuchong winked at Wang Chen, and the twins immediately understood, and also said: "Yes, if this information is important enough, we don't have to take this little girl's life."

"I am the imperial court—"

"——Gao Shuo!" Ruan Hongjiao interrupted again, this time it can be said that her voice was stern, "If you really want to be so disregarding the overall situation, I will sever all ties with you and have nothing to do with you!"

Gao Shuo showed a conflicted and struggling expression, and finally made up his mind: "It's better to be merciless than to watch you being tortured beyond recognition and exposed to death. Hongjiao, this is my choice."

He turned his head and said to Wang Wu and Wang Chen: "I am the Jinyiwei General Banner sent by the imperial court to send an order to the Tianjin Wei Naval Battalion. Tonight, the Naval Battalion will sail upstream in a warship at Sanjiao Lake and will land on the north bank of the Daqing River. Raid Bazhou, capture and kill you and so on. Counting the time, it is almost time to land."

Wang Chen was startled, and immediately retorted: "We have also fought the three guards in Tianjin, but it's nothing. Besides, before he lands, the rebel army has already marched north to Gyeonggi, so what about a naval battalion?"

Gao Shuo said: "Is it that easy to go north? The front is heavily deployed, and the three major battalions are waiting for you. In order to prevent you from approaching the capital, even the emperor's own army has been mobilized. The entire city of the capital is now under martial law, and the nine gates are closed. A strong attack will inevitably lose It’s terrible, maybe the whole army will be wiped out here.”

Wang Wu frowned upon hearing this.

Ruan Hongjiao grabbed Gao Shuo's sleeve with grief and indignation, said "you, you you" a few times, and passed out immediately.

Gao Shuo swung back the soldiers who touched her with the blade, held her tightly in his arms, pointed at Wang Wu and Wang Chen with the tip of the knife, and said sharply: "This information is enough to change her life, believe it or not. If you refuse to let people go, then continue to delay until the warship docks, and everyone will die together."

Such a mood does not seem to be fake, but it makes Wang Wu hesitate.Wang Chen leaned close to his brother's ear and said in a low voice: "What if what he said is true? We will be flanked."

Wang Wu pondered for a moment, then said in a low voice: "Take him first. Let's lead our troops out of the city to the Daqing River. If we see the surface of the river floating, it means there are warships. At that time, we will send water ghosts down the river and board the boats to attack them. If we can With these warships in our hands, we can disguise ourselves as the court navy, go east around Sanjiao Lake, and go straight to the capital from the north section of Caohe River, catching the emperor by surprise!"

While pondering, Wang Chen nodded: "Good idea. This can also just avoid the southern line of defense in Gyeonggi."

The two quickly agreed and ordered their subordinates to tie up Gao Shuo and Ruan Hongjiao, bring one back to Meiyuan to continue house arrest, and throw the other into a dungeon and lock them up.

The Jinyiwei who were captured together with Gao Shuo had a total of six to seventy people, filling the small dungeon to the brim.And Ruan Hongjiao was thrown on the floor of the boudoir of the small building by the soldiers, and the door was also locked.

After the sound of chaotic footsteps disappeared, Ruan Hongjiao opened her eyes, sat up slowly from the floor, stretched out her tube top with her fingers, and took out a piece of paper from between her plump breasts.The piece of paper seemed to be torn directly from a small notebook, and six words were scrawled on it with toner: Trust me, cooperate with me.

The note was thrown into her arms by someone during the chaos of the collapsed teahouse on the way of escort. Ruan Hongjiao didn't know what it meant at first, but the moment Gao Shuo caught her when she fell from the top of the wall, She suddenly understood.Holding the note and meditating for a moment, she lit a candle and burned it, with a slight smile on her lips, and said silently: I believe in you, even if I die, I will have no regrets.

Besides, the Wang brothers hurriedly assembled the army, left the city and headed south, and arrived at the bank of the Daqing River at dawn. From a high distance, they saw that the river was moving with sparks, and the outlines of warships could be seen in the mist.

According to the agreed battle plan, the two sent a large number of water ghosts down the river to sneak attack, and ambushed the rest of the soldiers in the forest valley near the river bank.

The water ghost quietly sneaked into the middle of the river, climbed onto the deck with a flying rope with hook claws, and suddenly launched an attack, attacking and killing the soldiers of the navy battalion and snatching control of the warship.

Caught off guard, the naval battalion suffered a great loss. Although they tried their best to fight back, they were bombarded by the artillery of the warships controlled by the enemy. Rebels besieged.Under the scuffle, the naval battalion with insufficient troops was frightened and retreated, driving the few remaining ships back to the Delta Lake, and many people jumped out of the boat to escape.

It can be said that the Wang brothers won a complete victory in this battle. They captured more than a hundred warships, all of which were small and maneuverable light ships such as Cangshan boats and eagle boats. With ease.

After counting the spoils, Wang Wu and Wang Chen immediately made a decision: they will lead most of the rebels, drive the warships to the east, enter the Beicao River from near Tianjinwei, and raid the capital.The rest of the rebels continued to go north from Bazhou to attract the firepower of Gyeonggi's defenses.

As for Ruan Hongjiao and Gao Shuo who made "great achievements", they naturally cannot let them go. Wang Wu ordered his men to go back to the city to pick up the two of them, and prepare to put them on a boat and take them away. Maybe they will be useful when they attack the capital. .

Under the command of the Wang brothers, the rebels boarded the warships in batches, and within two hours, the hundreds of ships were packed to the brim.

Wang Chen looked at the sky, and murmured, "It's just to pick up two people, why hasn't it been half a day?"

Wang Wu was also muttering: "It's been raining for several days, the river should have risen a lot, why do you feel that the water level is a little lower than the dry season..."

The two brothers were discussing together on the boat in the middle of the river, when suddenly a soldier looked up and listened carefully, wondering: "What's the sound? It's rumbling like thunder. Listen..."

Everyone listened carefully, and the sound of rolling thunder in the sky seemed to be getting clearer and clearer from far to near. At the same time, a white line appeared faintly at the junction of water and sky in the west.

Wang Wu and Wang Chen grew up inland, and they are not very familiar with the rivers and seas. Some of their subordinates were fishermen, and when they saw this, they changed their expressions and shouted: "It's Hong Feng!"

While speaking, Hong Feng blinked.The originally clear Daqing River seemed to be stirred upstream by Nezha's Huntian Ribbon, creating a turbulent and turbulent torrent line, rushing towards them like thousands of troops advancing and thousands of horses galloping.

The light warships seized by the rebels may not be able to withstand the impact of such a torrent.Wang Wu loudly ordered: "Dock! All ships dock!"

The soldiers tried their best to drive the boats to the shore, but the draft of many boats was getting deeper and deeper, gradually sinking, and the cabins began to flood.

The water ghosts ventured down to the river to check the situation, and when they came back, they hurriedly reported: "The bottom of the boat has been dug several big holes, and sealed it with wax, so it can be waterproof for a short time. It's starting to melt...these boats are going to capsize eventually!"

Wang Wu and Wang Chen's expressions changed drastically. Looking at the billowing flood peak approaching in front of them, they shouted hoarsely: "Hold on! Try to keep the boat as steady as possible, and it will be safe to dock!"

The torrent swept in irresistibly, and the turbid vortex fiddled with these light warships like toys. For a while, the sound of rushing waves, calling, and mourning rang through the river.

In the upper reaches of the west, Qi Jingtang ordered his subordinates to blow up sandbags, giant trees and other objects that blocked the river with gunpowder.The temporary dam was dismantled, and Maoerwan, which was about to burst, finally had a vent. The water level difference formed a flood peak, rushing towards the Daqing River.

The soldiers were stunned and murmured, "It's so powerful, it's like the Yellow River bursting its embankment..."

Qi Jingtang lamented: "Tianwei is certainly formidable, but what is even more formidable is the manpower that can flexibly utilize the power of God!"

Seeing that the water level in Mao'er Bay was gradually decreasing and the torrent was about to subside, he shook his spear and shouted loudly: "Brothers, follow me to the south bank of the Daqing River to encircle the rebellious army and block half of their retreat! "

Wang Wu and Wang Chen struggled in the torrent after the capsized ship, and survived the catastrophe. They were dragged ashore by a few soldiers with good water skills, and they were in a daze, unable to distinguish north from south.

After vomiting the river water, they realized that this was the north bank, not far from where they boarded the boat before.

Looking back at the turbulent river surface, some boats were swept away, most of them were half-sunken, and the stern of the remaining boat was stuck on the river surface.Countless soldiers were also washed away by the current, but fortunately there were quite a few survivors, trying to swim back to the shore.

Wang Wu thumped the ground in anger and annoyance, and hissed: "The boat was moved by hands and feet, and the flood came suddenly. That Jin Yiwei deliberately led us into a trap... Who! Who set up the trap? It's too ruthless! It's too ruthless!" Already!"

On the slope hundreds of feet away, the army from Yongqing hurriedly unfurled the handsome flag with the word "Mu".Under the banner, Zhu Helin steered his mount, Chi Xiafei, pointed at the countless black dot-like figures on the bank of the river with a whip, and ordered loudly: "The enemy is tired and our morale is low. My fighting spirit is high. The right time and place are all in my hands. The battle will be victorious! Soldiers, follow me to charge and kill the enemy!"

Countless cavalry echoed in unison, and the voices merged into a huge torrent, rushing towards the enemy with the commander-in-chief flag.

Su Yan, who was on horseback, was full of enthusiasm, and wanted to go forward, but was grabbed by the military counselor: "Mr. Ge, Mr. Su Ge! You and I are both literati, and it is a great achievement to turn the tide of battle by making suggestions during the march. It is better to leave the hard work of charging into the battle to the martial arts practitioners!"

Su Yan yelled worriedly like an old father: "Oh, my little comrade Zhu, this is his first battle. There is no eye for swords and guns on the battlefield. If there is a mistake—"

The counselors had seen the flirting between the emperor and the elders along the way, and at the moment they were only selectively deaf, and with the oracle in their belly, they persuaded bitterly: "The emperor is proficient in the art of war, has excellent strategies, commanding advances and retreats well, and can take the lead in mobilizing soldiers." The morale of the whole army, this battle must be won, you can rest assured, Mr. Ge!"

Su Yan was stunned, watching the red tassel on Zhu Helin's head flashing in the smoke, suddenly laughed slowly, and said to himself: "Yes, he is a real man now."