"I also invite Duke Zhang and Fan Quan Dalang to come. Only when I meet them will I tell the truth."
South of Shule City, in the side camp where Zhang Zhao led his troops, Zhu Qingquan couldn't help but shook his head in the barracks responsible for verifying identities.
Now he has also been recruited into the team by Zhang Zhao because he can write and do calculations. Zhang Zhao is in short supply of such talents.
In front of him were a group of men and women who looked like Han Chinese.
These were the cannon fodder pushed out by the Shule God Warriors at the beginning. There were hundreds of them. After Zhang Zhao showed mercy, most of them crawled in the ditch and survived.
Zhang Zhao kept all the Han-looking ones among them, and wanted to identify them to see if he could find a few descendants of Shule Town of the Anxi Army in the past. But as soon as he identified the first one, Zhu Qingquan hit a snag.
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"This is Zhang Zhao, Duke of Fengtian County, and this is Fan Quan Da Lang. If you have anything to do, you can tell me now!"
Zhang Zhao heard this guy's yell while he was still outside the door, so he opened the curtain and walked in.
The one who clamored to see Duke Zhang was Tang Er, who was slightly short and had a strange accent. He looked at Zhang Zhao with burning eyes, and then looked at Fan Quan behind them.
"Fan Erlang is really right, the Duke is indeed the best among men!"
Li Qilang bowed to Zhang Zhao and said, "A certain Li Qilang went out of the city to carry a message for Fan Shun and Fan Erlang."
"How is Fan Erlang doing now?" Zhang Zhao was also a little nervous when he heard Fan Shun's name.
Fanshun had been in Shule for so many days, but no information had been sent back. He regretted sending Fanshun into the city.
Upon hearing that Zhang Zhao asked Fanshun how he was doing instead of directly asking what letter he had brought, Li Qilang couldn't help but nodded with satisfaction.
"Don't worry, Lord. Fan Erlang is safe now. It's just that someone should have found the Lord long ago, but he was unlucky and was caught by the defenders of Shule City. It took several days."
Upon hearing that this guy was among the group of driven cannon fodder, Zhang Zhao was also a little lucky. Fortunately, the day before yesterday, he had not ordered the man who was pushed to fill the trench by the God Warrior to be shot, otherwise he would not have been able to find this person.
People.
This is a key figure who is familiar with Zhang Zhao's plan and is probably a descendant of the Tang Army in Anxi.
"Please wait a moment, Lord!" Li Qilang was already sure that the man in front of him must be the Zhang Erlang that Fan Shun mentioned, because the Fan Dalang next to him was very similar to the Fan Erlang in the city.
After finishing speaking, Li Qilang touched his mouth, and after a while he pulled out one of his teeth.
This is a denture made of silver and copper. There is a thin wire wrapped around the tooth. The other end of the thin wire is tied with a very thin fish bladder. In the fish bladder, there is a ball of paper.
What a ruthless man! There are signs of digestion in the fish bladder, and it did not affect his speech much just now. It is very likely that Li Qilang tied the fish bladder with a thin rope and hung it at the top of his throat.
This is not something that just anyone can do, it should be the result of long-term training.
"Please, Lord, please turn around, lest I stain your eyes!" Li Qilang urged Zhang Zhao to turn around with a slightly embarrassed look on his face.
Zhang Zhao nodded and motioned to old Zhang Zhong to stare.
Old Zhang Zhong looked at it and suddenly took a breath of cold air.
It turned out that Li Qilang started to take off his pants in front of him. Then, Zhang Zhong saw that Li Qilang's face was red and a little painful, and he also pulled out a small shooting rope from the Soul Gate. At the other end of the rope, there was also a large
A piece of fish maw.
Zhang Zhao, who knew the truth, was also shocked!
There is a swim bladder in the throat, and the soul also has a swim bladder, so when carrying these two swim bladders, he cannot eat or drink.
You can't eat or drink even before setting off, because if you eat or drink, you will inevitably have to excrete.
"You haven't eaten or drank for a few days? I asked someone to prepare some food. Who taught you this skill?"
After the shock, he became excited. Zhang Zhao knew very clearly that this skill could not be achieved just by being cruel to oneself. It must be inherited and require a lot of practice.
With this inheritance, it further proves that the descendants of Tang'er in Shule City who have Tang Jianzhong coins in their hands are still organized.
"Today happens to be the fourth day. I would like to ask Mr. Lang to order someone to get some light salt water for me. If I eat a lot now, I am afraid I will die here.
As for where these little tricks come from? When the city of Shule is destroyed, everything will be revealed to the Duke."
"Okay! Since Qi Lang is inconvenient to say, I won't ask. When we get to Shule City, you and I will get drunk. Now, let's determine the location of digging the tunnel!"
As he spoke, Zhang Zhao resisted his nausea and spread out the two pieces of paper in Li Qilang's fish bladder. This was the Shule City defense map drawn by Li Qilang and others under Fan Shun's guidance and in accordance with Zhang Zhao's drawing requirements.
"Bring us our map!" Zhang Zhao shouted.
His map was drawn based on the first draft drawn by Wu Yuan'er and Ma Yaozi, and then verified with Li Shengtian's map of Shule City.
As soon as the two maps were in hand, Zhang Zhao, Fan Quan, Bai Congxin and others who had just arrived observed them carefully.
After a long while, they compared this map with the map he took out of the fish bladder and found out the most suitable place for digging in Shule.
The rocky slope in the west of the city!
"Erlangjun! This is the junction of the west and south of the city. We are pagans from Bugra Khan, so we dug cellars here very early. In some places, the cellars can still communicate with each other.
The original intention is to save life, but since Erlangjun has the Heavenly Fire God Thunder, then I can cooperate inside and outside to give those thieves a hard blow!"
Li Qilang was a little excited and gritted his teeth. He pointed at the places with X's on his map and said.
It is absolutely impossible for others to dig several cellars to hide people in Shule City, especially near the city wall.
But locals like them, who have lived here for decades, and are surrounded by haters of the Tianfang Sect, can still do it by digging some cellars under each other's cover.
"Call Shi Chongmin and ask him to bring over the road map in his hand. Let's change the direction according to the map in Li Qilang's hand!"
Under Shule City, the sound of killing was loud. After Li Shengtian's army arrived, they only rested for one day before the two sides started a battle under Shule City.
For this battle, Khotan prepared a large number of rush and collision vehicles, and the three nest vehicles were also raised to the highest level, monitoring the situation in Shule City anytime and anywhere.
In addition, there are wooden curtains used to defend the city from crossbows and slings, as well as simple churning vehicles that cover the archers who rush under the city wall to shoot with the defenders.
Although Li Shengtian launched this war hastily at the urging of Zhang Zhao, it seems that the preparations are still sufficient.
However, at the top of Shule City, Ittihad, who did not have to go out to fight outside the city, also showed his due strength. Under his command, the defenders of Shule City fired volleys of bows and arrows, threw rolling stones, chopped down ladders with big axes, and poured hot oil on people. , burning the chariot with kerosene.
The Shule City Wall is more than five meters high, and it is built on a hill with its own rock foundation. Strictly speaking, Shule City is almost eight meters high.
The eight-meter-high city wall faces the water in the east, the mountain in the south, and the rocky slopes in the west that the army cannot get away from. Only the north can be attacked. This is an absolutely strong city in the Central Plains.
Frightened cries came from a distance, and Zhang Zhao climbed up to look. It turned out that the Khotanese army wanted to fill the moat with loads of earth.
As a result, just when the river was about to be closed and the diversion canal was built and the river was being filled, the upstream flood suddenly poured downhill.
It turns out that Ittihad had people build a dam on the Chihe River upstream. As soon as the signal from Shule City was sent, the dam was destroyed and the man-made flood poured down.
Li Shengtian had to break the riding whip in his hand. This not only blocked the river for half a month, but also dug the diversion canal for half a month in vain, and also blocked hundreds of people.
More importantly, all the fabric bags placed by the river were washed away. Now I want to continue filling the river, but there are no bags left to hold soil.
This chapter has been completed!