Chapter 15 A Rare Opportunity
Facing the city of Beizhou, Minghao attacked for several consecutive days after coming, but it still had no effect. The official documents of the Privy Council urged him to ask questions every day. Faced with the deadlock, Minghao was at a loss and could only continue to urge the army.
In the second half of the night, Minghao summoned several main generals to discuss the current situation in his own tent. Some advocated for forcing the ants to attack the city, some advocated digging tunnels, and some advocated building Qucheng, and ran directly to the city. There were many different opinions.
At this moment, a personal soldier came in, crossed his hands and sang a promise. He held an arrow in his hand and said, "Mr., just a while ago, this arrow shot out in the city. There was no arrow, only a letter saying that his husband wanted to do it in person."
Minghao didn't understand why, so he ordered his personal soldiers to present the arrow.
Wang Kai on the side said: "Please advise, beware of the monsters in the city using tricks and poisoning the arrows!"
Ming Hao smiled and said, "I can't think of such tricks. Besides, I haven't heard of such poisonous substances in the world."
Even so, I was careful and took the letter from the arrow, picked it open with the pen on the case, and spread the letter on the case.
Moved closer to the candle and looked at it. It turned out that there were several people in the city who were willing to lead officers and soldiers into the city. The letter clearly stated that by tomorrow night, they would light three lanterns at the top of the city. As long as the officers and soldiers walked towards the lanterns, they would hang down a powerful rope from the city and let the official army climb up the city. The following signature is Wang Wenqing, Guo Bin, Zhao Zongben, and Wang Shun.
After reading the contents of the letter, Ming Hao was overjoyed and handed it to Wang Xin, Wang Kai and others to read it.
Everyone saw it, and Minghao said, "Do you think this matter is feasible? If a large rope is hanging down from the city, can the officers and soldiers climb to the city?"
Wang Xin said: "If someone picks up the city, it is not difficult to climb the city. As long as you go up to the city wall and seize the city gate, the demon thieves can be destroyed at will. However, this matter is really a matter of the people picking up the officers and soldiers, and it is still a monster plan, which is difficult to judge. If the monsters and soldiers are tempted to climb the city, they will break the ropes and only give them military achievements. The demons and thieves in the city are already embarrassed, and with this skill, they can inspire people."
Wang Kai said: "No matter what, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and must not be missed."
Mai Yunyan said: "The Grand Marshal made sense. How could he miss such a good opportunity? Even if it was a treacherous plan, he would only lose a hundred people."
Ming Hao pondered for a while and said, "This matter is not difficult. There are people under the city who escaped from the city a few days ago. The letter also has its name. Just ask the people tomorrow if there are so many people. If there are really these people, they are all ordinary people, and this matter is 80% or 90%."
Everyone said yes together. As long as they were not the Maitreya religion, they could basically be concluded that they were from the real government army. In the past, the Maitreya religion was open to activities, and the church did not conceal its identity, nor were they afraid that these people would hide their identity.
Early the next morning, Ming Hao found the new magistrate Gao Jilong, took out a letter to him, and said, "Master, you can send someone to the people who lived in the original city to investigate whether there are such four people in the city and what their identities are. If you have nothing to do with the Maitreya Sect, you can trust them. If you can climb the city tonight, destroy Beizhou and destroy the demon thieves, it will be a great achievement!"
Gao Jilong said with his hands, and wrote down the name signed in the letter and went to check it out.
At noon, Gao Jilong found out and came to see Minghao with a happy face.
After entering the Minghao army tent, he divided the guests and the host and the soldiers to leave. Gao Jilong said, "The counselors and the officials investigated it. There are indeed these four people in the city, and they have nothing to do with the Maitreya Sect. These four people are all families who do business next to the Yongji Canal. They have always been responsible and have some family business, so they can do this."
Such a big thing is obviously not something that four people can do. It must be a big family, a wealthy family member, a certain wealth, and a help from the family children and slaves. Since the four people are businessmen, I want to come to the family to have many slaves.
After hearing the result, Minghao was overjoyed. He sent Gao Jilong away and ordered someone to invite Wang Xin to come.
When Wang Xin arrived at the military tent, Ming Hao told him the result and said, "Taiwei, your troops are stationed at the border and are the elite soldiers of the court, which are not comparable to other soldiers. You can arrange for the generals to watch the lanterns at night, and wait for the force to come down and go up the city. I will order the Dragon God Guards to wait at the city gate. The people who climbed the city opened the city gate and rushed in! If everything goes well, break the city tonight and catch a group of demon thieves tomorrow, and rebellion can be settled!"
Wang Xin didn't expect it to be so smooth, and he became a little excited, ready to respond with his hands.
Back at his military camp, Wang Xin called two commanders whom he could trust, one Zhang Du and the other Lu Ming, and told them what someone in the city was receiving. He said, "You make meals early and you will have to rest in the afternoon. When it's dark, each of them will bring their troops and horses to the city. Look at the place where three lanterns light up on the city, and bring troops over. At that time, the strong rope will be hung down from the city. You will lead the troops to the city. After entering the city, you will reach the nearest gate as soon as possible, open the gate, and lead a large group of people into the city."
Zhang Du and Lu Ming agreed with each other with their hands crossed.
Wang Xin said again: "Tonight you can climb to the top of the city and open the city gate, so you will get the first step. Don't be careless! If you destroy the demon thieves, the court will definitely reward you very much! If there is any gap, I will take the head of your neck!"
The two said together: "Abide by the orders of the Grand Marshal, and we will take Beizhou tonight!"
He ordered the details of the two, and Wang Xin asked them to go back early to rest. When the two left, Wang Xin recruited his generals again, but did not tell them the news of climbing the city tonight, but only let them not get news at night, and waited not far from the city gate, ready to climb the city at any time.
Minghao's heart was obviously biased towards Wang Kai. When he entered the city, he let Wang Xin's troops go, and let Long Shenwei wait at the city gate. As soon as the city gate opened, Wang Kai's troops quickly entered the city and captured the leader of the demon thief. Most of the credit was stolen by them. How could Wang Xin be willing to do so? Arrange his troops early and prepare to enter the city with Long Shenwei. Whoever has the greatest contribution at that time depends on his ability.
Lu Ming returned to his military camp, called a few of his confidants over, and told them what to do tonight.
Just give orders, Lu Ming said: "Why are we joining the army and licking blood from the knife? Isn't it just to work hard for the army, get more rewards and make some money to support our wife and children? Tonight we will be the first to climb the city, and the court will definitely give a lot of rewards. You should be motivated!"
Several subordinates responded to the promise, and they were all extremely excited. Unexpectedly, the great contribution hit them.
One of the small schools, Bai Dahai, has always been resourceful and respected by Lu Ming. After listening to Lu Ming's words, he thought for a while and said, "As far as I know, only Xuan Yi's army and Baoxiao Jie Battalion commanded the troops and horses. The other monster thieves forced the people to join the army, which is not worth mentioning."
Lu Ming said: "That's true. There are not many soldiers and horses in the small town of Beizhou, and only these two battalions were bewitched by demon thieves. The rest of the soldiers and horses were outside the city. Tian Tixing left the city in time and no one caused trouble again."
Bai Dahai said: "Xuan Yi's army is an imperial guard for food protection. The Baoxiaojie camp guards the city, which is vulnerable. Moreover, it has always been dissatisfied. The two battalions have only seven or eight hundred people in total, and there are no more than a few more people than us-"
Lu Ming's heart moved: "According to your wishes--"
Chapter completed!