On this night, Chen Chang seemed to be the only one who enjoyed the romance in front of flowers and under the moon.
Jiang Yong's mood was not that good. Tonight was destined to be a sleepless night for him.
Not long after he led his men to surround the house where Liang Yu and others were hiding, the man in tight-fitting shorts who was guarding the door was called into the courtyard to eat. It only took him two sticks of incense to go there.
Jiang Yong waited patiently outside. As time passed, he became more and more uneasy.
This feeling is very mysterious, like prey escaping from a trap little by little.
The soldiers guarding various intersections sent word that everything was normal in the house and no suspicious persons had escaped.
However, Jiang Yong still felt uneasy in his heart.
Quiet, simply too quiet!
He completely lost his patience and simply put the diamond-shaped bronze mirror in his arms, stretched his head out from behind the collapsed earth wall, and his eyes quickly fell on the window of the main room of the house.
The walls of the mansion collapsed in many places. Looking through one of the gaps, you can see two windows.
A figure moved in a window on the left. Jiang Yong breathed a sigh of relief when he saw this. But the next moment, his eyes suddenly widened.
Not good! Jiang Yong seemed to have fallen to the bottom of the Nine Nether Valley. He rushed out of the Huanshou Saber and shouted to his subordinates: "Quick, rush in!"
This order was a bit abrupt, but fortunately these soldiers were well-trained and were ready at their respective fighting positions. It only took them a moment to close the net.
The two soldiers rushed straight to the gate with their swords, and behind them were four companions holding hard crossbows. As long as anyone resisted at the gate, they would be shot into hedgehogs immediately.
At the same time, the other three directions also acted quickly. They climbed over the wall and entered. Once they entered the courtyard, they did not go straight to the main house, but looked for bunkers nearby to provide cover and support for their companions who entered later.
As more companions entered, the soldiers formed groups of three, alternately covering each other and moving forward slowly. As long as the other party showed up, they would be shot by several crossbows immediately.
This sequence of actions flows smoothly without any lag.
Jiang Yong entered the courtyard with the second group of attacking troops. Behind him were more soldiers. They raised their crossbows and shouted: "Follow the low! Don't kill if you stay low!"
Before, Jiang Yong issued orders to all his ministries to keep as many people alive as possible. In his view, this would be a life-and-death fight, and Liang Yu and others who were trapped in the house would definitely not be willing to just wait for death.
However, the fact exceeded his expectation.
From the moment they broke in, until they approached the main house, they encountered no resistance, and there was not even any movement inside.
When the main room was completely surrounded, Jiang Yong waved his hand, and eight hard crossbows began to fire. Qingjinjin's crossbow arrows accurately passed through the window lattice and shot into the room like lightning.
"Tuk tuk tuk..."
Without the muffled sound of metal being ripped into flesh and the screams of people, Jiang Yong judged that these crossbow arrows had almost without exception shot into low tables, pillars and other objects.
"Quick, rush in!"
Jiang Yong gave an order, and the soldiers rushed into the main room. Everyone, including him, was stunned.
There was no one in the house, only a straw man wearing a shabby black robe was swinging gently in front of the window. The lower end of the straw man was an old rope, and the other end was tied to a big rooster that was flapping its wings.
The waiting officer took control of the mansion, but found nothing.
"Search for me, don't let go of any corner!" Jiang Yong's face turned pale. He couldn't accept this fact, and he couldn't swallow this bad breath. Being teased twice in a row had completely ignited the anger in his heart.
The soldiers did not relax their vigilance and searched carefully bit by bit, followed by Jiangyong.
A row of ancient racks with dark brown surfaces are placed against the west wall. These racks are well-proportioned, simple and elegant, simple and natural. The ancient bronzes, porcelain, jade and other furnaces, bottles, bottles, etc. originally placed on them are of Yi origin.
But now it is empty, with only a solitary frog-shaped basin placed on it.
A soldier carried a ring-headed knife and rummaged around here and there, trying to find some clues.
Jiang Yong stared at the frog-shaped basin and said to the soldier: "You stay on guard and I'll see what's going on here!"
After saying that, he hurriedly touched the frog-shaped water bowl and lifted it up. The water bowl did not move at all, even when he turned left and right.
Jiang Yongji was not discouraged. After a moment, he focused his eyes on the mouth of the frog. He pinched the frog's tongue and pulled it outward. The tongue moved but did not open the mechanism.
Then I tried to twist it sideways, and there was a creaking sound on the wall, and then a gap appeared in the wall.
Sure enough, there is a secret door!
The soldier was also startled and jumped back suddenly.
Jiang Yong exerted more force, and the secret door was completely opened, and a long and narrow tunnel was revealed.
Jiang Yong was overjoyed and immediately ordered a small number of people to stay in the house, while more people followed him and lit torches into the secret room to pursue him.
However, as soon as two people entered the secret passage, Jiang Yong felt a faint sense of danger coming. Just as he warned his men, the two soldiers in front suddenly froze, and immediately fell backwards to the ground, each with his chest
There was a Qingjinjin crossbow arrow stuck in it.
Jiang Yong was so furious that he dodged a hard crossbow from a soldier on the side. He dug his hanging knife into the secret passage and the crossbow arrow shot out quickly, but it didn't hit the target.
What is unexpected is that there are no enemies ahead. There are only two hard crossbows mounted on the wall of the secret passage. Thin metal wires are tied to the hanging knives, and the other end is tied to the trigger mechanism on the ground.
, the two soldiers in front of him accidentally triggered the mechanism and were killed by arrows.
The secret passage is dark and dark, with twists and turns.
Next, you will have to be much more careful when chasing all the way.
It took about two sticks of incense to get out and see the light of day again. The exit was on the wall of a well. After Jiang Yong and his party came up, they looked around and saw no suspicious traces.
After tracing the traces of Liang Yu and others, and then completing the siege of the hiding place, Jiang Yong had all this under his control. He and his men did not make any mistakes.
But the result was far beyond their expectations. Those craftsmen of Northern Qi seemed to have known their actions for a long time. They worked for a long time and came back without success. This was not the result he wanted.
The soldiers who inquired about the situation from the surrounding people and merchants came back quickly, and indeed no one saw anyone suspicious.
Jiang Yong walked around the well with anger on his face, his eyes scanning the deep well at his feet.
Suddenly he was stunned for a moment, squatted down and looked towards the wall of the well.
"Sure!" Jiang Yong suddenly shouted, "Quickly, go back to that abandoned mansion!"
Almost at the same time when Jiang Yong and others were halfway through the secret passage, two floor tiles were separated by a green-lacquered desk with an upturned head in the main room of the mansion. As the deep entrance suddenly appeared, two crossbow arrows were fired rapidly.
When he came out, the two soldiers guarding the door were hit by arrows in their vests and fell immediately.
At the same time, two men in black suddenly jumped to the ground from the entrance of the cave, passed over the soldiers who had just fallen, and firmly controlled the door in their own hands.
Since most of the soldiers followed Jiang Yong into the secret passage, there were not many people left in the abandoned house, only six.
A soldier heard the movement in the main room, but before he had time to react, a square girdle seat, four-corner cast-edge copper body and gold-plated incense burner came out of the air, and his head was immediately smashed into thousands of peach blossoms.
The dead body fell to the ground.
A scarred-faced man strode out of the room with majestic steps.
The other three soldiers roared and rushed towards them, and suddenly fell to the ground, letting out painful screams.
Three hard crossbows were fired against the window lattice, and the one-foot-long triangular pyramid-shaped arrowheads accurately hit their throats.
For these men in black who suddenly appeared, these soldiers were like living targets.
When Jiang Yong led the crowd in a hurry back to the abandoned mansion, all he was left with were six corpses lying in a pool of blood.
He roared with grief and indignation, knelt on the ground with one leg, and picked up a dead soldier.
"If I had discovered earlier that no one was escaping in the secret passage, you would not have died innocently here!"
Boundless annoyance and regret were like ants gnawing at Jiang Yong's heart, and the muscles on his face trembled violently.
It wasn't until he stood on the ground and looked at the well that he realized that before they climbed up, there were no signs of climbing on the wall.
He was deceived and fell into the opponent's plan to lure the tiger away from the mountain from the very beginning!
The abrupt frog-shaped water basin on the ancient shelf is certainly a mechanism to open the secret passage, but it was all designed to allow Jiang Yong and others, together with Liang Yu and others, to escape from the secret passage.
In fact, these detailed works never left the main house, and there was another secret room in the house.
The rest of the soldiers looked at the corpses of their companions with heavy hearts. They had encountered many craftsmen, but they had never seen such a cunning and cruel one.
A soldier came in a hurry. Seeing Jiang Yong's anger, he stood aside and said nothing.
Jiang Yong turned his head and said in a cold tone: "What's the matter?"
The soldier crossed his hands and lowered his head and replied carefully: "Sir, the surrounding government officials also followed us to the wellhead, so here...here..."
As soon as the waiting officers and government servants in charge of the outer perimeter left, the surrounding traffic jams were opened, and Northern Qi's Xizuo escaped calmly.
Jiang Yong gently put down Paoze's body, took a sudden breath, and stood up again, with angry flames dancing in his eyes.
Another failure certainly made him furious, but it also aroused great pride in his heart.
Don't be swayed by the anger in your heart, stay calm.
"Keep looking!" He shouted with a sullen face, gritting his teeth. "The craftsman named Liang has shown his face. He has placed a reward, painted figures, and posted them everywhere. Whoever can capture Liang Yu will be rewarded with a hundred guan.
Those who follow the whereabouts will be rewarded with ten sticks."
"No!" All the soldiers shouted in unison and took the order.
Jiang Yong slashed hard on the door frame!
This chapter has been completed!