Chapter 91 Overcoming the Wall
While Ma Yuanyi was swearing an oath with all the canal leaders in Qingzhou, a believer came in in a hurry in front of the hall. As soon as he came in, he saw all the leaders there, but he didn't dare to enter. He just wandered around outside the hall and hesitated.
Zhang Chong, who was closest to the outside of the hall, saw him. He called this person:
"What's the matter?"
The believer glanced at Tang Zhou hesitantly, and when he saw that he didn't refuse, he murmured:
"Back in the ditch, a group of county soldiers came outside the house and were calling the door. They said there was a wanted criminal inside the house and were about to knock on the door."
As soon as these words came out, the whole hall was in an uproar.
Tang Zhou immediately stood up and reprimanded the believers:
"How can you patrol outside the hall for such a serious matter? How long have you been calling the door?"
The believer's face turned pale, and he knelt on the ground in fear, muttering to the point of being speechless.
Zhang Chong sighed, stood up and helped him up, then turned back and said to everyone:
"Old Tang, why don't we let everyone hide for a while? You and Big Beard are the hosts and are familiar with these tigers and wolves, so why don't you two go and deal with them."
Everyone nodded.
Tang Zhou's eyes flickered, then nodded, and went to the wall of the house with Ji Sun to deal with it.
Over there, Zhang Chong and others protected Ma Yuanyi and went around to the left wing. Since they could observe the situation on the front wall, they could climb over the wall of the house and enter the next door house. There is also a Taipingdao stronghold there, which is designed to deal with this situation.
Outside the house wall over there, a dozen city gatekeepers, led by a capable team leader, stood in front of the door with their swords and halberds drawn. Several more city gatekeepers were knocking hard on the door, but no one answered for a long time. One of them ran to the head of the elite team and said:
"Chief, the people inside didn't open the door at all, why should we rush in?"
The elite team's face turned dark and they cursed:
"Bump? Why did you hit it? Can you find the bumping wood here? Why don't you go find the ladder and let's climb in."
The doorman was scolded, so he smiled and hurriedly ordered several colleagues to find the ladder together.
The team leader cursed again:
“It’s really hard for Nai Gong to worry about.”
Then the person turned his head and said to the person next to him:
"Xiao Xue, this wave of brothers listened to you and brought the team here, but don't shake me, otherwise rough guys like me will be really angry."
The man next to him was Xue Zhou, the city gatekeeper who was originally on guard duty at the city tower. It was he who led a group of capable men to block this place.
Today, he saw Zhang Chong's oxcart with an apricot-yellow flag swaggering through the city, and he felt unhappy. But later he saw a continuous stream of oxcarts with apricot-yellow flags flowing into the city. He felt strange and took leave to go home.
On the way, he followed one of the bullock carts to the mansion, and then saw a dozen people chatting outside the house. One of them he knew. There was a picture of this person in the county. The large sarcoma on his neck was too eye-catching.
This person is Donglai Guancheng, the pirate wanted in Qingzhou.
This monarch has more than 3,000 disciples and dozens of ships. He invades the coast of the sea and the counties cannot govern.
Xue Zhou endured his excitement and carefully observed the mansion. Seeing that there was no back door, he slowly exited and went straight to Gao Jin, the chief of the south gate of Dongpingling.
As for why Xuezhou didn't go to the county thief Cao, but went to the city gate chief who was not responsible for the thief, it was naturally for greater credit.
If you ask the county thief Cao, he can at most report the thief, but if you ask his chief to capture the thief together, then he, Xuezhou Shao, can say that he is good at catching the thief.
In this way, Xue Zhou found Gao Jin and told him that Guan Cheng, the Donglai pirate, was in the city and he didn't have many followers, so he would be rewarded today.
Gao Jin was overjoyed and hurriedly ordered twenty city gate soldiers under his command, then ran all the way with Xue Zhou and blocked Zhang Chong and others here.
Xuezhou is motivated, and he, Gao Jin, is even more motivated than Xuezhou. He is a member of the local Gao clan.
The Gao family and the Guo family have been powerful families in Qi since the Western Zhou Dynasty. These two families were originally envoys sent by the King of Zhou to the State of Qi. Later, they granted the territory to Qi and gradually spread their influence in Qi. But the Xuanhe within the clan could not help Gao Jin much. He shot and killed the city gate chief himself because he was already at the bottom of the clan.
At this moment, Gao Jin's men rushed over carrying three ladders, and then surrounded Gao Jin and listened to his orders.
Gao Jin motioned to the strong man next to him. This man was thick and majestic. He lined up in a row and sounded like a loud bell:
"Listen up, rats in the wall. Someone is looking for thieves. Open the wall quickly. Those who abandon their weapons and surrender will live. Those who resist stubbornly will die!"
This person is Gao Jin's younger brother Gao Yu. The two brothers have helped each other since they were young and have come to this day.
There was no sound in the wall at this time.
Gao Jin looked solemn, waved his hand and asked his subordinates to set up the ladder, then climbed up first with a knife, stepped on the ladder, and stepped on the wall of the house in a few steps. Over there, Gao Yu and Xue Zhou followed suit.
But as soon as they crossed the wall, the three of them looked at each other in shock. They saw a row of archers below aiming at them, and the three of them did not dare to move.
Tang Zhou smiled and said to the three Wu Bian who were straddling the wall of his house:
"Three of you came in uninvited, are you trying to become thieves?"
Gao Yu over there is fierce and scolds:
"The thief is your mother, a male and an official. Why don't you kneel down and surrender?"
Over there, Gao Jin stopped talking, simply because he recognized the following two people as the local Taiping Dao leader Tang Zhou and Ji Sun. In the past, when Feng Chang was still the Prime Minister of Jinan, these two people were guests of the temple.
Gao Jin secretly cursed Xue Zhou for not telling him that the pirate was actually hiding in their Taiping Taoist house. But now that it was over, he had no choice but to cheer up. He spoke loudly to Tang Zhou and Ji Sun below. Says:
"Tang Daokui, Tang Dao envoy, we have a report from a certain family. Donglai pirate Guan Cheng is here. You two will send him to me. I will treat him as someone captured elsewhere and will never involve you."
After hearing this, Ji Sun smiled and replied:
"Chief Gao, why don't you come down first and go to the house to talk? You can also see if Guan Cheng is here."
After hearing this, the expressions of the three people on the wall changed. If they jumped down and were left alone, wouldn't it be a dead ball?
After all, it was Gao Jin who gritted his teeth and jumped into the house first, followed by the other two.
Gao Jin bowed:
"Can you open the wall and let my subordinates come in together?"
Over there, Tang Zhou sneered:
"Are you dreaming? Just the three of you will search, and if you find anything, you will take it away. But don't blame me, little man. If you don't find anything, huh, then I will go to Gao Gongcao's place."< br>
After hearing this, Gao Jin's expression changed, and he knew that things were bad.
Because even if the Guan Cheng was inside the wall, he couldn't take it away. Once he searches inside and finds something, the lives of his two brothers will definitely be in danger based on the attitude of the two people opposite him.
And if he goes in to search and fails to find Guan Cheng, then these two people will accuse him, and then the future of his two brothers will be unsafe.
But he was unwilling to go in and search. He still knew Xue Zhou as a person and knew that he would not make a show of this matter. Guan Cheng must have appeared here before.
But then again, if they came all the way, it's possible that Guan Cheng would have left long ago. Therefore, Gao Jin was at a loss at this moment and really didn't know what to do.
Ji Sun still gave him a sentence, Ji Sun said:
"Chief Gao, you'd better take your brothers back. Guan Cheng is not here, so don't let yourself go."
Finally, Ji Sun opened the door to the Gao brothers and Xue Zhou, but they did not have the courage to search.
Over there, Zhang Chong and other commanders also escorted Ma Yuanyi out of the city.
When Zhang Chong and others heard the momentum from the other side calling the door, they knew that these people would definitely come in, so they did not hesitate to help Ma Yuanyi climb over the wall and escort him all the way out of the city.
When Ma Yuanyi sat on the bullock cart and said goodbye to the leaders of Qingzhou, Zhang Chong felt complicated.
(End of chapter)