The bear child of the Red Chamber, Jia Cong

Liu Xiaoqi sent Lao Yan and the young master away, retreated back to Su Zheng's yard, stood under the old camphor tree and blew his whistle.Upon hearing this, Chen Ruijin found an excuse to go out.Liu Xiaoqi said that she just passed by, and finally said: "I'm a little suspicious."

Chen Ruijin glanced at him: "Just because he is interested in Cheng'er?"

"Of course not." Liu Xiaoqi said, "Am I a person whose public and personal interests are unknown?"

"Yes."

"It's really not this time!" Liu Xiaoqi said seriously, "I just sat on this tree and thought," he looked up at the crown of the tree, "If I were the opponent, how would I arrange the assassins to succeed. It is known that Mr. Su has many masters around him." , and firearms, relying on martial arts is probably difficult. Xu Qi and other bandits are good cards in their hands, but Xu Qi's death seems to be unfathomable to Mr. Su. It is always useful to quietly withdraw the bandits and save them for later. Why bother? In a hurry to use it at this moment? Even if we lure Mr. Su to the gate tower, we are not dead, how can the opponent be sure that the assassination will be successful? If not, wouldn’t it be a waste of damage to the bandits?"

Chen Ruijin said: "Maybe Qian donkeys are poor, and they are not willing to give up, so they put all their eggs in one basket? Besides, you are afraid that you will use your own heart to judge the other's belly. They have [-] bandit soldiers, and there are only [-] grain soldiers in Nanchang city. , There is a huge disparity in military strength. If Mr. Su climbs the tower to defend the city, he will die when the city is broken."

Liu Xiaoqi withdrew his gaze and shook his head: "They know Jia Cong's temperament, and they will never allow Mr. Su to die in the city. It's not bad to take a sack after being knocked out. Sister, they prepared hidden poison weapons twice when they wanted to assassinate General Yang. "Chen Ruijin frowned.Liu Xiaoqi went on to say, "Let's wait a little longer. If no one else comes to present the family members and bodyguards, the Lao family is the most suspicious."

Chen Ruijin thought: "I have noticed that Lao Yanhe, he is really interested in Cheng'er."

Liu Xiaoqi said: "He thought Eldest Miss Su was Mrs. Su's niece, so he really didn't know her identity. Senior sister thinks she is very familiar?" Chen Ruijin looked at him.Liu Xiaoqi pouted into the room, "Brother-in-law likes to do this kind of thing the most. Use a real cover to cover up the fake purpose. Lao Yan and this cover are real, his clan brother Lao Yanxiao and that old ancestor It's hard to say."

Chen Ruijin frowned slightly before answering, Jia Cong ran out from inside, waving his hands with drooping mouth: "What's the matter?"

Liu Xiaoqi said: "It's okay."

Chen Ruijin said: "It's all right. Is there something going on inside?"

Jia Cong said: "My idiot senior brother insisted on guarding the city gate, but the old man was persuaded by him. We still underestimated Confucian scholars."

Liu Xiaoqi smiled and said: "He doesn't need to guard, just go and have a look." Nai winked, "I've already thought of a countermeasure." Jia Cong glanced at him.

Su Tao then changed into the light armor sent by the Taiwan government, and Su Zhenghong put the helmet on for his son himself, quite tragically.The father and father walked out of the yard hand in hand, and walked all the way to the front yard, they were stunned.I saw a big round ball rising slowly in the courtyard, with fire underneath.Su Zheng pointed and asked, "What is this?"

"Hot air balloon." Jia Cong said, "Brother, isn't he going to the battlefield to supervise the battle? This can overlook the overall situation."

The father and father of the Su family had never seen this thing before, so they were very curious, and surrounded it for a long time to look at it.Liu Xiaoqi gave Su Tao a binoculars, pointed to the basket and said, "I will accompany you on this thing. Don't worry, my lord, I will ensure that nothing will happen."

Su Cheng laughed beside him and said, "Father, don't worry, I've sat down."

Su Tao turned his head and looked at his daughter with a strange expression: "Have you ever sat here?"

"I used to sit during military training in the Taiwan government last year."

Su Tao felt a little uncomfortable in his heart, but the city gate was in danger at this moment, and he couldn't care about anything else, so he had to put it aside for the time being.Su Tao, Liu Xiaoqi, a sniper and an operator got into the basket together, and the hot air balloon slowly lifted off to the city gate.Chen Ruijin was left to guard the young and old of the Su family, while Jia Cong led a few guards and rode across the ground on horseback.

Outside the west gate of the city, bandit soldiers flocked towards the city gate fearlessly like migratory locusts.The clear oil was scorching hot, and Yang Guotai ordered the city guards to pour it in pots, and it was so hot that ghosts and wolves howled under the city wall.There is also clear oil that has not been boiled, and I take a large oil paper bag, put it in a long crossbow, and shoot it out with a crossbow.The paper bag smashed to pieces.Immediately, a rocket followed, and the clear oil boiled and burned into one piece in the blink of an eye, and the city wall became a purgatory on earth.When Su Tao and others flew close to the sky above the west city gate, they saw the karmic fire below engulfing the living beings like huge waves, and the sound of cries spread for several miles.Su Tao was originally a kind person, so he couldn't help crying with pity when he saw it, and sighed, "Why do you bother to be a bandit?"

The fire below was too fierce, and the hot air balloon operator was afraid that the air flow would change and dare not pass, so he told Su Tao to prepare to land.Su Tao said: "I want to fly to the heads of the bandits to persuade them to surrender."

Liu Xiaoqi hurriedly advised: "How can they care about listening to you at this moment? They may cry or shout, and there is also the sound of wind and fire. Besides, the place is extremely high, and your voice is not that loud."

Su Tao clenched his fists and said, "This big ball is hanging in the sky, so it is necessary to use the wind to transmit sound." Liu Xiaoqi was stunned, not knowing how to explain the physical principle of sound wave transmission to him.

Then the operator said: "If the hot air balloon was damaged in the past, what should we do if we land outside the city?"

Su Tao straightened his back and stroked his beard: "Left is nothing more than killing the enemy..."

Liu Xiaoqi hurriedly said: "Master Su, you don't know the rules on this hot air balloon. But when it comes up, it is the operator responsibility system, and we have to listen to him. He is the biggest official here." Su Tao looked embarrassed .

The operator said indifferently: "It is my duty to ensure that everyone survives and survives. Everyone is not only Mr. Su, but also Mr. Liu, this sniper brother and myself. Once we land outside the city, we All three have to work hard to protect the adults, and it is difficult to guarantee that one will be sacrificed. We are soldiers, and we are not afraid of death, but this kind of death can be avoided. If you can not die but die, it is the failure of a soldier. There is no honor at all. Death In the future, it will always be used as a negative teaching material to teach future generations not to make the same mistakes as us." He paused, "It's almost a long-lasting infamy."

Su Tao frowned: "That's unreasonable! How can you be stigmatized for thousands of years by fighting against bandits and dying on the battlefield? My brother, if your robes are damaged, I will write an article, so that you will be immortalized forever!"

The operator didn't even blink his eyelids: "Who cares about the eternity." Su Tao was stunned.The operator said, "We came to serve as soldiers in order to protect our parents, wives and children, and earn a soldier's salary to support them. It is obvious that we have sacrificed our lives through the ages. Parents lose their children when they are old, wives lose their spouse when they are young, and children lose their father when they are young. Maybe future generations will help me to be filial at the knees of my parents and raise my wife and children?"

Liu Xiaoqi said leisurely: "My lord, the most worthless thing on the battlefield is reputation and morality. You can only live if you kill the enemy yourself and Paoze. Besides, so many middle-aged men don't do childbirth, but live by robbery, so they don't know how to hurt them." How many passing civilians and merchants died."

As long as he talked, the operator began to adjust his bearings, looking for a place to land.The streets in the western part of the city are narrow, and there are few large courtyards in the houses, so there are no cheap spots.The operator had to raise the hot air balloon again and go elsewhere.

While the hot air balloon was circling in the air, there was another accident outside the city.Su Tao and the others could see clearly that a group of men and horses came out from the slanting stabs. They were wearing the military uniforms of the Yan Army, and all of them covered their mouths and noses with scarves. They fired guns from a distance. shooting.He rushed to the gate of the city, took off his gun and took off his weapon to fight.The two leading generals wore steel helmets on their heads, one was holding a big knife and the other was holding a long gun tightly, and they fought like a tiger sweeping a flock of sheep.The one with the knife is the most brave. The big knife flies up and down, and no one can stop it from death to death.There are cavalrymen behind them, holding a tall flagpole in their palms, with the word "Li" floating on it.Su Tao was overjoyed: "Could it be that General Li's reinforcements have arrived?" He urged on.

The operator said: "There is no place to land here. A hot air balloon is not a horse-drawn carriage. It is not easy to land at a fixed point, and you need a wide area." It took a long time to find the landing point.Su Tao was so anxious that he wanted to turn around, but the basket was too small to move.

After a long time, I finally saw a large courtyard, and the hot air balloon landed slowly.When I got there, I asked, but it was a soy sauce workshop that usually dried beans.I was drying the beans today, but because the bandits came from outside the city, they didn't have the heart to do anything, so they even put away the beans.Suddenly hearing that the master magistrate descended from the sky, the guy in the workshop knelt down in fright.Su Tao laughed and said, "Don't worry, General Li Guopei's reinforcements have arrived!"

While they were looking for a place to land, the soldiers and horses outside the city had already reached the city gate, and the soldiers behind took off their guns and guns again to shoot at the bandit soldiers.The leading knife-wielding general took out an apricot-yellow flag from his arms and made a move.Above the city gate, Yang Guotai ordered people to get ready.As soon as he saw the flag, he immediately ordered the gates of the city to be opened wide to let reinforcements in.I saw more than 2000 people stepping into the city gate majesticly, shouting: "We are Mr. Li Guopei's first battalion—come to report——Mr. Li led the army and will arrive later—" There was a burst of cheers inside the city gate.As soon as the front foot of the first battalion came in, the city gate was closed behind the foot.

Liu Xiaoqi borrowed two horses from the soy sauce workshop, left two soldiers to pack up the hot air balloon, and he himself escorted Su Tao to the west gate.If you are far away, there are noisy people blocking the road.Liu Xiaoqi found a good person to inquire about.It turned out that the wealthy households in the city heard that bandits were coming, and ordered the stewards to lead the housekeepers to help defend the city.Yang Guotai, who was the leader of the army, refused to accept him, saying that there were enough officers and soldiers, and now he sent a small leader to persuade the stewards to go back.Then I heard the little leader shout loudly: "Did you hear that? Master Li Guopei's army will arrive soon, and the first battalion has already entered the city——Xu Qi died a long time ago——Now the rest are just shrimp soldiers and crab generals—— Thank you for Lord Su, General Yang, and General Qi—please go back—everyone——”

These housekeepers, Ding, have always bullied the unarmed people, but how many of them are willing to let them beat the bandits seriously?Hearing that there were officers and soldiers in the city, and that Li Guopei's reinforcements had arrived, Duba had to fight.Then they scattered.Because they came here one after another, one group after another, the little leader can't leave yet, he will wait for the next group to be persuaded.

Suddenly someone asked loudly: "This military lord, I have heard that the surname of the food security officer sent by Lord Li to secure food is Qi, and who is General Yang?"

The little boss smiled and said: "General Yang is under Lord Su's command. He fought the Tartars in northern Xinjiang in the early years, and the heads of foreigners who died in his hands are piled up to a mountain."

Another said: "Are there really enough officers and soldiers?"

The little leader said: "If it is not enough, how can our general not bother you to help? There are enough people to fight the war, and enough rice and grain. But if you add everyone, there will be not enough people to cook. It will be dark now, everyone go back Everyone, let's go eat—it's not that our master can't afford the food, it's because we don't have so many cooks." Everyone burst into laughter.Seeing that the military master is generous and doesn't really look like there are not enough officers and soldiers, I believe it inside.

Just as Su Tao was about to speak, Liu Xiaoqi pulled him and said in a low voice, "My lord, your clothes don't fit well." It turned out that Su Tao took off his armor before boarding the basket in order to lose weight in the hot air balloon.He took off his official robe when he put on his armor before, but now he looks like a private visit in a micro-clothes.When Su Tao thought about it, it really hurt the official authority, so he just let it go.

The two pretended to be ordinary passers-by and walked forward.The little boss naturally had to stop them.Liu Xiaoqi gave a military salute: "Comrade, we have something to see Comrade Jia Cong." Then he took something out of his bosom.The little boss held it in his hand and looked at it, then gave a military salute and let them pass.

When I got to the top of the city gate, I saw Yang Guotai, Jia Cong and others smiling and looking down—the bandit soldiers had temporarily retreated.Su Tao hurriedly asked who the first officer sent by Li Guopei was.Everyone applauded and laughed.Yang Guotai pointed to Zhenming and General Qi and said, "It's them two!" Su Tao was stunned.

General Qi clasped his fists and said, "General Yang is a good plan, and he will be convinced in the end."

There was no reinforcement from Li Guopei at all, but it was General Qi who led [-] food escorts out of the north gate early and hid outside the city.Yang Guotai thought, the enemy is outnumbered, and he is most afraid of being surrounded by the city.Fortunately, Li Tao received a warning, and learned that the enemy intends to assassinate Su Tao, and even the incomplete security of the bandits attacking the city is a cover.He deduced that the opponent would not besiege the city at first, and only attacked from the west to lure Su Tao to the city gate.Moreover, they are people from the green forest, and there must be many people with high martial arts skills, who must rely on their martial arts to break into the city wall and open the city gate.

So at first he kept Zhenming on the top of the city gate, and after the five Taoist priests died, he bothered the old man to go around a long way and climb out of the city wall to find General Qi to reunite.Yang Guotai suppressed the morale of the bandit soldiers with artillery and fire attacks, and when they fell into the sea of ​​flames and their hearts collapsed, he sent out fireworks signals to go out.Relying on their true martial arts to open the way, General Qi and the [-] food escorts pretended to be reinforcements to break through the enemy's formation.The bandit leader Xu Qi is dead, and now they just heard that Nanchang Mansion has no soldiers and horses, and they are desperate to attack the city in order to loot the city.Unexpectedly, after suffering the loss of firearms, and then being attacked by fire, and then hearing that Li Guopei's army is approaching, people's hearts will be scattered.

Su Tao stroked his beard and nodded, "Sure enough, soldiers are not tired of deceit, and low officials are educated." Then he asked, "Since there are only 3000 people, why don't you accept the young men sent by the rich?"

Jia Cong said: "There must be collaborators among those people. In such a big city, we can only stop Muggles by closing the city gates, but we can't stop green foresters who are good at flying over eaves and walls, and we can't stop carrier pigeons. Now the news is spreading from the city, Those who cooperate with the enemy must send messages outside the city."

Yang Guotai said with a smile: "Mr. Jia has sung an empty plan for the city."

Jia Cong cupped his hands: "I'm nothing but a small one. It's no better than General Yang's tree blooming. It's really a good plan!" The two praised each other for a long time.