Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 1277
Zhang Peng, chief archery instructor of the Linyi Imperial Guard, entered the barracks, and the guards at the gate saw him saluting from afar.Zhang Peng nodded with a smile, saluted and stepped into the barracks.

In the Forbidden Army camp, the soldiers are obviously not as good as before.

There are [-] imperial guards permanently stationed in the capital of Linyi, but now the situation in the north is critical, and soldiers and horses have been mobilized to the north one after another, but they still can't maintain the situation. Fan Fanzhi can only mobilize his elite guards again and again. Going north, until now, there are only two thousand guards left in the capital.

After Zhang Peng entered the camp, he wandered around here and there, and from time to time greeted people he knew as a joke.

But when they were talking and laughing, their eyes had other meanings.

Secret news was quietly passed on, and almost all the Han officers in the Forbidden Army got the news.

"Action tonight?"

"Well, take advantage of the night to launch a surprise attack. At that time, the Qin merchant gang in the city will attack first and create chaos in the city. Then the king will definitely call the imperial guards to martial law. At that time, we will call together the righteous men who have already contacted each other, and we will kill them directly. To the palace, be sure to kill him by surprise and control the king."

"Where's the city gate?"

Zhang Pengdao, "Leave the city gate to the merchant gang. They have many contacts and connections, and it is easier to approach and control the city gate than us. When the city gate opens, Li Shimin from outside the city will come in with the pirates."

Lin Yiguo is not a small place, but its territory is narrow.

From the district company's rebellion to the present, Linyi has gone through four dynasties, during which many small countries were destroyed, and it continued to go south, forming a very narrow and long territory.

As a foreign trade port and the capital, Lion City is very prosperous and has a large population. However, due to the large number of businessmen, the urban management of Linyi City is much worse. There are not only Chinese communities where Qin merchants gather, but also Arabs. Residential areas include Funan, Chenla, and Persian.

For this day, the Qin people had planned for a long time.

Many weapons have been distributed to many Qin people through various channels. Even the imperial guards have developed many reliable righteous men, not only those Sui troops left behind back then, but also many Champa imperial guards.

midnight.

Dark clouds blocked the sky, and there was no moonlight or starlight.

In the quiet Linyipu, the Lion City, a fire suddenly ignited. At first, there was only one fire, and soon several fires broke out.

The light of the fire alarmed the people nearby. Seeing that the fire was getting bigger and bigger, and there were more and more fire places, many people were awakened from their sleep.

Forbidden barracks.

Zhang Peng arrived and reported to the general on duty in the camp, "Many fires broke out outside the city. According to reports, Persian and Arab merchants fought. .”

The general was dumbfounded.

"Arabian merchants are at odds with Persian merchants. I already knew this, but why did Tianzhu merchants take advantage of the fire and rob them, and why did Roman merchants join in the fun?"

Due to the chaos in Egypt and the successive years of war between Byzantium and Persia, the traditional trade route of the Red Sea Nile River in the Persian Gulf was impassable, and many merchants switched to safer trade routes. This new trade route is through Arabia land route of the peninsula.

From the Persian Gulf in the east to the Red Sea in the west, Syria in the north, and Yemen in the south, the transportation hub made the original nomadic Arab tribes on the Arabian Peninsula stronger, and the commercial city of Mecca also prospered.

At this time, Persian Sasanian had already begun to weaken in the Hundred Years War with Rome. Conflicts broke out between Persia and Arabia, and even merchants were often hostile.

The general thought it was just a trivial matter.

But when I heard that even Tianzhu and Romans were involved, I felt something was wrong.

"What about the Chinese merchants, those Qin merchants, have they participated?" Among the foreign merchants in Linyi City, the Chinese merchants are the most powerful. Usually, the Chinese merchants are divided into several major merchant gangs to fight each other, but even a random merchant gang among the Chinese merchants is far more powerful than the merchants. Merchants in Arabia, Persia, Tianzhu and other places are powerful.

If they were also involved, it would be a complete mess.

"Calm the chaos quickly!"

The general issued an order to personally lead the troops to quell the chaos.

Zhang Peng withdrew and returned to his camp, but he did not lead his soldiers to quell the merchant rebellion with the general. On the contrary, he had already tied white cloth strips on his forehead and arms at some point.

One by one, the imperial guards wearing white cloth strips followed him to leave, and some of the imperial guards watched them leaving with white cloth strips inexplicably.

'We have other tasks! This is what Zhang Peng told them. He left the camp quickly with his reliable men, joined the white cloth strips brought by other brothers outside the camp, and then went straight to the palace.

in the city.

The warehouses and shops of Arab merchants and Persian merchants caught fire one after another, followed by the warehouses and shops of Tianzhu merchants and Byzantine merchants.

Angry Hu merchants ran into the street, shouting and cursing to put out the fire.

When they met other neighboring Hu merchants, the two parties who had already had a feud couldn't help but fight together immediately.

Fires broke out all over the city.

This place is full of flames, just like the agreed signal.

Each of the Qin merchants, with red foreheads tied on their foreheads and white towels tied around their arms, rushed out of their homes and shops with various weapons, and rushed directly towards the city gate.

outside the city.

On the inland river, Li Shimin's fleet has quietly gone up to the outside of the city.

He smiled as he looked at the firelight.

He personally led the thirteen ships of the Pirates on which the Sun Never Sets. There were 500 pirates on board. More than [-] people.

There are more than 2000 pirates, which seem to be a mob.

But Li Shimin believed that even with these mobs, he would still take the capital of Linyi tonight.

With the sword out of its sheath, Li Shimin's face was full of smiles.

"The Lion City is just ahead, there are hundreds of thousands of catties of gold and countless silver, everyone rush!"

Several outer city gates of Linyi City were caught in a melee at this time.

The soldiers guarding the gate never expected that they would suddenly be attacked by a large group of Qin merchants tonight.

In the melee, the east gate opened first.

Most of the guards at the city gate here were secretly bought by Qin Shang.

The torch flickered.

Zhang Baozai followed behind Cui Liulang, wearing a pair of Persian chain mail, a rattan card in one hand, and an Arabian scimitar in one hand. They were surrounded by dozens of Qin merchants from the Central Plains Shang Gang. They wore red foreheads on their heads and white cloth strips on their arms. Slashing with swords and shields, they killed all the way to the top of the city.

When he turned his head, he only saw the direction of the palace, and flames were everywhere.

"That's my grandfather and the others, they have already entered the palace!"

Cui Liulang cut down a Linyi city guard with a knife, wiped the blood splashed on his face, "Look, the fires everywhere are jubilant fireworks, we are done!"

Under the city, Li Shimin finally led the brigade of pirates to kill them.

With the support of the brigade of pirates, Li Shimin finally stepped into Linyi City with a knife.

"Lin Yi, I'm coming! I'll see you! I'll conquer!" Li Shimin shouted!

(End of this chapter)