Chapter 1206 Tang Wang Shizi Li Jiancheng is missing
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As night fell, dark clouds hung low, covering the stars and moonlight. Thick darkness shrouded Taiyuan City. Since Wang Junlin led the 50,000 Far Eastern Army troops to the city, a curfew had been imposed in Taiyuan City a few days ago. Li Jiancheng strictly ordered anyone to enter the city. No one is allowed to go out on the streets after dark.
Groups of Li Jiajun soldiers patrolled the empty streets at night. The sound of footsteps "Ka! Ka!" was particularly clear in the dark night, and it also reminded the people in the house of the situation in Taiyuan City before them.
The Li Jiajun on top of the city were also very vigilant. This was a precaution against the Far East Army's special forces.
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Late at night, Taiyuan City West District.
Inside the headquarters of the Bai Knife League, the largest gang in Taiyuan County, countless figures gathered, all with solemn expressions and holding steel knives.
"Alliance leader, the two thousand swordsmen and the one thousand warriors sent by the Wang family are all in place and can set off at any time." The headquarters of the Hundred Swords Alliance is located in a remote location, but the yard is very large. It is a martial arts training ground in itself. The crowd gathers according to the best After the basic queue requirements, three thousand people could still stand. At this time, a middle-aged swordsman entered the brightly lit hall and reported to a middle-aged man in his fifties with a stern face.
The man who is called the leader of the alliance is named Ning Shaobao. He is none other than the leader of the Hundred Swords Alliance. He is the most powerful martial arts tycoon in Hedong and a top martial arts master. He is said to have two thousand swordsmen under his command, but very few Few people know that the Hundred Swords Alliance has the support of the Wang family.
The middle-aged man nodded and inserted a dark red sword that he was wiping into its sheath. He did not rush out, but said to a burly man dressed as a military general next to him: "Commander Wang, you are good at military formations. Please excuse me." Let’s go out and sort out everyone’s team first, and then ask for action tonight.”
"You're welcome, Leader Ning." Although the burly man called Commander Wang said this, he walked out without any politeness. This man was the commander of the guards of the Wang family. There were one thousand people out of the three thousand outside the door. The master guard he brought from the Wang family.
After Commander Wang went out, Ning Shaobao, the head of the Hundred Swords Alliance, looked at Commander Wang's back with a slight twinkle in his eye, and then whispered to a man in his forties with a goatee and a military advisor and staff member next to him: "Mr. Huang, how is your contact with the people from the Far East Army's Military Intelligence Bureau?"
The goatee-bearded man also glanced at the back of Commander Wang, lowered his voice and said with a smile: "Alliance leader, Commander Wang was here just now, but his subordinates didn't say anything. Now he is about to report to the leader that the people from the Far East Army's Military Intelligence Office The operation was secretive, and we did not contact him, but the people from the Wulin Guild have contacted him, and through them, the subordinates have sent the gang leader's letter of allegiance to His Highness King Qin An outside the city."
Ning Shaobao breathed a sigh of relief and said repeatedly: "That's good, that's good. When King Qin An got rid of Han Wang Yang Liang in Taiyuan Mansion, he also had dealings with our Hundred Swords Alliance, and I even touched him. Now, this time we bypass the Wang family and directly pledge allegiance to King Qin An. This is an adventure and will definitely offend the Wang family, but it is a great opportunity for us. After all, everyone in the world knows that King Qin An not only hates wealthy families, but also hires people regardless of their origins. "It is said that heroes emerge from troubled times. If we, the reckless people, do not seize this opportunity, we and our descendants will inevitably live in the shadow of the Wang family for the rest of our lives and will always be reckless people."
Mr. Huang hesitated for a moment and said with some worry: "It's just that among the three thousand of us, one thousand are from the Wang family. I don't know if King Qin An will be credited with the credit for breaking the west city gate this time.
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Ning Shaobao looked confident and said: "I have prepared for this matter in advance. After breaking the city gate for a while, the people I arranged will loudly report to our Hundred Sword Alliance to the Far Eastern Army rushing towards the city gate.
name, so that the Far Eastern Army will know that the main force that broke through the city gate is our Hundred Swords Alliance people."
At this time, a swordsman came in and said to Ning Shaobao: "Alliance leader, Commander Wang said that the time has come, so we will set off now."
Ning Shaobao nodded and said to the man with the goatee: "Mr. Huang, you will stay with a hundred people to look after the house to prevent the family members of our gang from being implicated when chaos breaks out in the city."
Mr. Huang bowed and said: "Don't worry, leader, I will leave the house to you and I will ensure that nothing happens."
Ning Shaobao stopped talking nonsense, went out, and led three thousand people with Commander Wang to line up in two columns. In the dark, using the cover of the shadow of the alley, they headed towards
Sneak in through the East City Gate.
However, after they walked out of an alley, a team of Li family troops suddenly appeared in front of them, at least three thousand people.
The expressions of Ning Shaobao and others suddenly changed.
"General Xiahou Duan is right. You are really harboring evil intentions. Fortunately, General Xiahou asked me to guard you here." The general leading this Li family army was sent by Li Shentong's confidant General Xiahou Duan. Since he
I already had suspicions about the Wang family and the Pei family, so how could I be unprepared?
However, Li Shentong was most suspicious of the Pei family, so he personally led an army to keep an eye on the Pei family. The Wang family only sent one of his confidant generals to come with people.
"These thieves are clearly colluding with the Far Eastern Army outside the city, kill them." The general immediately ordered in anger.
But as soon as he finished speaking, the deputy general next to him suddenly swung the big knife in his hand. Before he could react, his head had been cut off, three feet of hot blood spurted out from his neck, and his body fell from the horse to the ground.
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The whole place fell into silence, and then hundreds of the general's soldiers immediately attacked the deputy general angrily, but before they could come over, they were surrounded by other soldiers nearby.
Half a stick of incense later, hundreds of the general's soldiers were also dead.
There were quite a lot of shouts of killing during this process. The defenders on the city walls and gates were already alerted. And as the shouts of kill rang out, people from the Far East Army's Military Intelligence Office and the Wulin Guild in the city also followed the previous plan.
After mobilizing, setting fires, assassinating people, etc., the entire Taiyuan City began to become chaotic, attracting many Li family troops to quell the chaos.
Obviously, this deputy general is from the Wang family in Taiyuan.
The deputy general led more than 3,000 Li family troops and the 3,000 people brought by Ning Shaobao to join forces and galloped away towards the west gate.
During this process, Ning Shaobao, the leader of the Hundred Swords Alliance, felt awe-inspiring. He couldn't help but secretly lament the power and terror of the Wang family. He was a little worried about whether the arrangement he had planned for a while would work. After all, among the 6,000 people now, only the Hundred Swordsmen Alliance members
Only two thousand people.
However, before they could rush to the city gate, the guard of the west city gate shouted loudly: "Stop!"
The three thousand people guarding the city gate aimed their spears and bows at the six thousand people who came.
"I am under the command of General Xiahou, Lieutenant Yu Fei of Guo Yi. There is turmoil in the city. General Xiahou Duan is worried that spies from the Far Eastern Army will take advantage of the chaos to seize the door. I ordered you to lead 5,000 troops to support Ximen!"
The deputy general who had his head chopped off jumped out of the crowd and said loudly.
"It turns out it's General Yu Fei!" The guard at the West City Gate obviously knew Yu Fei. He breathed a sigh of relief. While saluting, he ordered the soldiers to put down their spears and bows and arrows, and said with a smile: "I heard something not far away just now.
There were shouts of killing, so we should be more vigilant down here."
Yu Fei solemnly said: "This is natural. We just met a group of Far Eastern Army spies who wanted to burn down the house and cause trouble, but we took the opportunity to kill them."
As he spoke, he waved his hand, and the six thousand troops he brought with him were already approaching the city gate.
But as the six thousand men and horses approached, the west city gate guard used the lights on the city head to see the obviously different clothes of the two thousand sword alliance and the one thousand royal guards, but his expression changed, and he suddenly said loudly: "Stop."
Then he shouted: "Ning Shaobao, why are you guys from the Hundred Swords Alliance here?"
Without waiting for Ning Shaobao to answer, the west city gate guard suddenly remembered something and shouted: "Your Hundred Swordsmen are the dogs of the Wang family. Could it be that you, Yu Fei, are also from the Wang family? I think you should retreat first and wait until I send someone to find you."
General Xiahou Duan and the Crown Prince will ask for confirmation before we speak."
Seeing that he was suspected by the other party, Yu Fei was no longer too lazy to talk nonsense. With a hint of a smile on his face, he waved his hand and said: "In that case, let's kill him!"
Before he finished speaking, he led 6,000 men and horses to attack the 2,000 Li army who were guarding the west gate.
The next moment, the two sides were fighting together. Screams, calls to kill, and curses suddenly broke out, and people kept dying.
Six thousand people versus two thousand people. If the Li family army did not come with reinforcements, the outcome was actually doomed.
Although Li Jiancheng didn't know soldiers and didn't know how to defend the city, Xiahou Duan and others around him knew about it, so all the people sent to guard the city gate were generals and troops who were loyal to the Li family and had nothing to do with the Wang family and the Pei family.
Therefore, even if they know they are defeated, the generals will defend the city gate to the death and hope that reinforcements will arrive as soon as possible.
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Speaking of which, Li Jiancheng had a good life in the past four or five days since Li Shentong's death.
Li Jiancheng and Pei Ji's granddaughter Pei Xin'er met by chance somewhere one day under the arrangement of a caring person.
At that time, Li Jiancheng saw Pei Xin'er looking back gracefully. Li Jiancheng's feet were like stepping on clouds, his soul was floating, and he immediately stayed there.
What a beauty. She wears a white skirt and a lower skirt under the moonlight, which makes her look like a jade carving. She has narrow sleeves and a short skirt, a long skirt that touches the floor, and a tight-fitting half-armor with a pair of beads and peacock patterns.
The couplet was placed right on the rise of her beautiful chest, and she was also wearing a green mandarin shirt embroidered with partridges on her shoulders, as if she had just returned from the outside.
Her appearance is not that stunningly beautiful, but she has a special charm. She has long and thin eyebrows, a small nose, and thin red lips. She stands there so pretty, as if she is a volume on a bookshelf.
A book exuding the fragrance of ink.
When Pei Xin'er looked back, she saw a handsome young man with bunted hair, a golden crown of jewels, and an onion-white robe with silver trim, standing at the entrance of the hall with a smile, and his pretty face suddenly turned red.
Looking at each other for an instant, both men and women seemed to have a feeling of fright.
Under Pei Ji's deliberate connivance, and Li Jiancheng was also a bold man when it came to matters between men and women, Pei Xin'er seemed to be enamored of Li Jiancheng.
Therefore, for the past four or five days, this man and woman have been secretly meeting each other regardless of secular etiquette. In just three or four days, they have become inseparable.
However, under the dissuasion of his staff and military commanders, Li Jiancheng did not live in Pei's mansion, but lived in his own mansion in Taiyuan.
However, tonight, Pei Xiner suddenly changed from a weak woman to someone else.
She first secretly drugged Li Jiancheng, and after he fell unconscious, she took out a leather box. Inside the box were various things in glass bottles produced in Fanyang County. She used these things to skillfully start to treat Li Jiancheng.
Paintings on his face.
That's right, her makeup technique is just like the legendary disguise technique. In addition, Li Jiancheng's face is originally fair, small, and delicate. After applying it, Li Jiancheng magically transformed into
A maid, especially after she changed Li Jiancheng into a maid uniform, it would be difficult for even a familiar person to tell that it was Li Jiancheng without looking closely.
Then, Pei Xin'er took Li Jiancheng's token and took the maid out of the Li Mansion overnight in a carriage and returned to the Pei Mansion. The reason was that the maid was seriously ill and had to be sent back to the Pei Mansion.
Although everyone in the Li Mansion was wondering why Pei Xin'er sent the maid back to the house overnight, they didn't think much about it. On the way, they encountered soldiers sent by Xiahou Duan to intercept and inspect, but they found nothing wrong. After Pei Xin'er took out Li Jiancheng's token, they
Smooth passage.
In this way, the Pei family captured Li Jiancheng without using a single soldier, and achieved a great feat comparable to or even greater than seizing the city gate.
But for a long time after Li Jiancheng was captured, the people in Li's mansion still didn't know.
Until chaos began in the city, Xia Houduan and others wanted to find Li Jiancheng as the backbone to take charge of the overall situation. However, Li Jiancheng did not come out, so they forced their way into Li Jiancheng's room and found that the bed was decorated to look like someone was sleeping, but there was no one under the quilt.
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The person in charge of Taiyuan City, Li Jiancheng, the crown prince of the Tang Dynasty, has disappeared...
Under Li Jiancheng, all the civil and military officials loyal to the Li family in Taiyuan City were dumbfounded.
Now the city of Taiyuan is in chaos, and Li Jiancheng, the leader, has disappeared.
Fortunately, Xia Houduan and others were all talented people, and they worked together to suppress this matter, and then acted separately according to their respective responsibilities. However, they felt a little confused, and their enthusiasm and morale were inevitably low.
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"Great, Xin'er, you have made a great contribution this time. Although you are not a bloodline of my Pei family, let alone my granddaughter, from now on, your status and treatment in the mansion will be exactly the same as my granddaughter." In Pei's mansion,
Pei Ji watched Pei Xiner successfully bring Li Jiancheng back, he breathed a long sigh of relief, and said with admiration to Pei Xiner who looked cold.
Pei Xiner is not actually Pei Ji's granddaughter, but just one of the dozens of beauty experts trained by the Pei family over the years.
The masters mentioned here are not all people with strong martial arts skills, but women who are extremely good in various fields.
Some are good at charm, some are good at running a family, some are good at martial arts, some are good at hiding, some are good at espionage, and there are also women like Pei Xiner who are good at disguise and charm at the same time.