Chapter 330 What kind of bad thoughts can Lord Hou have?
On the morning of the eighth day of April, Zhang Yanling and his party rode to the north of Damingfu City.
A cavalryman rode up to the city and shot an arrow up to the city tower. There was a letter tied to the arrow. The rebel soldiers who defended the city immediately gave it to Liu Chong after getting the letter.
"Liu Liu, Yang Hu, Qi Yanming, all of you, you have raised an army to rebel, causing war and disaster, causing heavy casualties to the people of Hebei, and leaving them homeless. You will bear the infamy of the ages, and trap the people in disloyalty and injustice. This kind of retrograde behavior, today,
It’s time to rest. Today, Zhang Yanling, the great general who defeated the thieves, came with his army.
At this point, you have reached the end of the road and there is no need to fight against the trapped beasts. But if you have a little compassion for the people, you should stop immediately and leave the city to accept the surrender. So as not to involve more people and hurt more lives. You thieves are solid.
It cannot be exempted, but those who follow it can be forgiven. I hope you will think twice and make a decision early."
Qi Yanming read the letter aloud, while Liu Chong and Yang Hu sat aside and laughed out loud, stroking their beards.
"I'm afraid this guy has lost his mind and gone crazy. Are you trying to persuade us to surrender at this time? He doesn't even urinate and show himself. Can he capture Daming Mansion?" Liu Chong laughed.
"Isn't that right? This guy keeps talking about the people and thinking about the people. What has the court done so far? If the people had not been forced to have no way of living, they would have followed us in rebellion? This guy's brain is full of fat, and his head is full of excrement." Yang Huye.
laughed.
"Two marshals, I don't think this is a letter persuading us to surrender. This is a deliberate attempt to provoke us. If we are persuading us to surrender, do you think we can't be pardoned this time? Isn't this forcing us to fight to the death?" Qi Yanming said.
"That's right. You have to be sincere when trying to persuade us to surrender. This guy doesn't even have sincerity. If we surrender, we will die. How can we surrender to his grandma?" Yang Hu said with a smile.
Qi Yanming also smiled and handed the letter to Liu Chong, but suddenly found that there were words on the back.
"Another: Liu Qi's body has been delivered to the city. Although I and you have different positions and are mortal enemies of each other, human relations cannot be abolished. Death is a respectable person and should be buried among relatives. Liu Qi died after his death.
In order to express my respect, I put the high-grade coffin in the thick coffin. Soon after, I ordered a carriage to pull it to the city, so that you can take it back to the city to be buried and reunited. I am extremely kind and sincere, and I hope you can express your condolences."
Liu Chong was in a daze, then stood up suddenly and said, "Has he sent back the seventh brother's body? I'm going to meet the seventh brother."
Yang Hu frowned and said: "This guy is so kind? He actually sent Lao Qi's body back? Didn't he cut off his head to ask for credit?"
Liu Chong glared angrily. Yang Hu said hurriedly: "Don't misunderstand me. I'm worried that this guy has no good intentions."
Liu Chong said solemnly: "What's so bad about this? He just made some hypocritical gestures to make us surrender. Besides, by sending the seventh brother's body back, maybe he thought it would make me feel sad and scared.
, this may be a means of intimidation. However, this made me even more angry and vowed to avenge my seventh brother."
Qi Yanming and Yang Hu nodded and said, "It makes sense. Let's take a look."
The three of them rushed to the north city tower and saw hundreds of horsemen standing a few miles away. After a while, a carriage slowly came pulling a huge black coffin and stopped in the open space a hundred steps below the city.
There was only one driver sitting there waiting in the carriage.
"I'll take the seventh brother back to the city." Liu Chong turned around and headed down to the city.
"How can the Generalissimo go in person? My brother can do this for me. The General must not make any mistakes. Who knows it is not a ploy to lure the enemy." Qi Yanming said solemnly.
"Brother Qi doesn't recognize Lao Qi. If you want to open the coffin for inspection, why don't you go with me?" Yang Hu said in a deep voice.
Liu Chong waved his hand and said: "No one should go, let a few brothers go. Everyone from Wen'an knows Lao Qi. Sun Laoliu, you take a few brothers to borrow the deputy commander's body and bring it into the city. Remember to open the coffin to see clearly. Don't do it.
Wrong person."
Liu Chong was also worried that this was a trap. If the enemy attacked and killed people after leaving the city, he and a leader like Yang Hu would be falling into the enemy's trap.
Sun Laoliu immediately agreed and led a few soldiers down to the city. The entire city was on alert, and they slowly lowered the suspension bridge and opened the city gate. Sun Laoliu and his men walked towards the carriage with vigilance.
When the coachman saw someone coming, he jumped out of the carriage and shouted: "What are you waiting for? Do you still want a corpse? My general has kindly sent back Liu Qi's body, but you have been waiting for a long time. If you don't want to accept it, you will burn it."
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Sun Laoliu cursed: "Damn it, why are you talking so much nonsense? Isn't this coming?"
Sun Laoliu and others stepped forward, pushed the carriage driver aside, looked at the large coffin on the carriage, walked around and said, "Such a big coffin?"
"What do you think? My general spent a lot of money to buy longevity materials from a family in Baoding Prefecture," the coachman said.
Sun Laoliu waved his hand and said, "Open the coffin and take a look."
Two soldiers jumped on the car, pushed open the heavy coffin lid, and found a body wrapped in white cloth. It had been too long, and when the coffin lid was opened, a stench leaked out. Sun Laoliu covered his nose and used the tip of a knife to open it.
On one end of the white cloth, I saw a terrifying dead face. Liu Qi was beheaded, and his head was placed directly on top of the body. Perhaps due to the bumps of the carriage and horse, it was in an unnatural twisting state at this moment.
But Sun Laoliu was the brother who hung out with Liu Liu and Liu Qi in Wen'an County, so he still recognized him as Liu Qi.
Such a big coffin, with Liu Qi lying inside, didn't seem spacious. There were quilts stuffed around it, but it was tight and solid.
"It's Deputy Commander Liu. Cover the coffin and carry it away." Sun Laoliu said, covering his nose.
The soldiers hurriedly pushed up the coffin and tied it up with the ropes they brought. Together with the six soldiers who came with Sun Laoliu, they worked hard, but the coffin did not move at all.
"Why is it so heavy?" Sun Laoliu asked in surprise.
"What do you think? This is a red sandalwood coffin. It's a high-quality longevity coffin and it's very heavy." The coachman teased from the side.
"Then what should I do? I can't lift it." Sun Laoliu frowned.
"Go back and call for help. It's true, you guys can't even lift a coffin, and you still imitate others' rebellion." The coachman was sarcastic, holding a gun and a stick beside him.
Sun Laoliu scolded: "What are you talking about? If someone comes, we will take him away with the car."
Hearing this, the coachman shouted: "That can't be done, the coach is ours. Giving you a coffin is already the most benevolent thing. You can't give away the carriage and horses."
Sun Laoliu Canglang drew out his knife with a loud sound and cursed: "If you don't give it away, you have to give it away. Believe it or not, I will chop you down and bury you with our seventh master."
The coachman was startled, and took a few steps back with a pale face. Seeing the large number of people in front of him, he could only admit that he was unlucky and remained silent. Sun Laoliu glared at him fiercely, sheathed his sword, and ordered the two rebels to
He took the horse's reins and dragged the cart toward the city gate. The horse struggled to drag the cart and walked slowly.
After walking a long way, the coachman jumped up behind him and cursed: "I'll fuck you, eighteen generations of ancestors, for stealing my carriage. You will not die well. The dead ghost in the coffin will pretend to be a corpse tonight and come out to eat you."
You have chewed the bones and reduced them to dregs."
Sun Laoliu turned around and drew his knife as if to kill the coachman, but the coachman turned around, cursed and ran away.
The carriage pulling the coffin entered the North City Gate, and the city gate closed behind it. Liu Liu had already been waiting in the square inside the gate. Seeing the coffin coming in, Liu Liu quickly came up to greet him and asked loudly: "Yes... yes
Seventh brother?"
Sun Laoliu said: "It's Master Qi."
Liu Liu howled loudly, came forward to hold the coffin and cried loudly.
Yang Hu consoled him and said: "My condolences to the Generalissimo. Lao Qi can be regarded as a dead hero. He did not give in."
Qi Yanming looked at the coffin and was very confused.
"With such a big coffin, this trillium is really impressive to Deputy Commander Liu." Qi Yanming said.
Yang Hu said: "Yes, this coffin is too big, isn't it?"
Liu Liu understood the implication of their words and said solemnly: "Open the coffin, I want to take a look at the seventh brother."
The coffin was opened again. When Liu Liu saw Liu Qi's body and the broken head, he was even more sad. But this time the coffin was opened to eliminate doubts. The coffin was too big.
So everyone took out the quilts and other items in the coffin, and then discovered that there were weapons, armor, boots and other items next to the body, as well as some paper money, horses and other items. Yang Hu specially knocked on the edge and bottom of the coffin and found that it was indeed
It's solid. It's just a tall, big and deep red sandalwood coffin made of half a foot thick wood.
Only then did everyone understand, no wonder Sun Laoliu said that they couldn't lift it. This large red sandalwood coffin, plus the corpses, weapons, armor, and other burial objects inside, weighed at least 800 kilograms. Six volunteers and civilians
Naturally, it is difficult to lift it up according to the market conditions.
The market price of this red sandalwood birthday coffin is at least three to five hundred taels of silver. This is a coffin that can only be enjoyed by wealthy and wealthy families.
After checking the coffin, Yang Hu and others felt relieved. At first, when they saw the coffin, they were worried that there was something fishy inside, but now they realized that they were just trying to scare themselves.
Liu Liu ordered the coffin to be pulled to the Xinghua Temple in the city and placed there, and a mourning hall was set up to express condolences. The rebel soldiers pulled the horse away. Seeing that the horse was struggling to walk, a group of people followed behind and pushed the coffin away.
Liu Liu wiped his tears, ordered someone to find pen and paper, and dictated a reply.
"Hello, Zhang Yanling, Marquis of Jianchang. I am Liu Chong, the Grand Marshal of the Fengtian Army. I would like to express my gratitude to you for returning my younger brother's body and collecting my younger brother's body. But my brother died at your hands, and you and I are irreconcilable. A little bit.
Good intentions are not worth mentioning. You
The words of persuasion to surrender in the letter are very absurd. The current situation is caused by the government forcing the people to rebel and the people are in dire straits. The court is unkind and the people are unjust. How can you people in the temple understand the suffering of the people? We who rebel are seeking gain.
It’s just a way to survive.”
"...Marquis Jianchang, please send a message to the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Xiao'er, and tell him that soon we will attack Beijing, pull him from the throne, and shit on his head. He is responsible for all this.
No wonder we. As for you
Marquis of Jianchang, I advise you to return home early, otherwise Daming Mansion will be your burial place. If you refuse to retreat, you will come to attack the city. We will not be afraid of you. Either you die or I die, and we don’t have to talk.
, see the real chapter on the battlefield."
A rebel soldier took the letter and went out of the city, shooting the letter in front of Zhang Yanling and others from a distance. Zhang Yanling read the letter and nodded slightly.
"Come on, there's nothing more to say. Get ready, start the war." Zhang Yanling turned his horse's head and shouted.
Zhang Yin, wearing the clothes of a groom, said with a smile: "Let the black tiger take out the heart first. I hope Master Hou's clever plan will succeed. What did Master Hou call this plan? It's quite a mouthful."
"Trojan horse!" Zhang Yanling whipped up and walked away.
"What's so special?" Zhang Yin asked the person next to him, rolling his eyes.
"Master Special. Which master came up with this plan? It's strange." Meng Liang replied, rolling his eyes.