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Chapter 597
"Senior, how is it?" Wei Bao had just left Li Zicheng's barracks, and immediately two young men in Confucian robes greeted him. Wei Bao shaved his teeth and said, "The roast chicken is not bad, the elbows are not stewed, eat it." Fei Ya."

After hearing these words, the two students had black lines on their heads. Did we want to ask you what you ate in Li Zicheng's camp?

We don't care if your elbow is stewed or not?

Thinking about it, the two looked at Wei Bao and said, "Senior, stop joking. I'm asking about the one hundred thousand catties of gunpowder."

"It's sold."

Wei Bao gritted his teeth and said, the student said excitedly, "What's the price?"

Wei Bao stretched out a finger.

"10 million taels?"

The two frowned, this is too cheap, Wei Bao shook his finger and said: "Multiply by ten."

"100 taels!!"

Both students opened their mouths wide in surprise, Wei Bao made a silent gesture: "Shh, keep your voice down."

"Uh-huh."

The two students nodded desperately when they heard the sound, their eyes were full of excitement, Wei Bao said: "Notify the caravan, come to Li Guo to make a deal tonight, and pay the money with one hand and deliver the goods with the other."

"Yes."

The two students responded immediately: "We will do it right away."

Wei Bao said again: "Go back and send a message to Luoyang City, saying that the gunpowder will be handed over tonight, and they will be ready at any time."

"clear."

The two went to work immediately, while Wei Bao cheerfully rode his little donkey, and rushed to the distance step by step.

At this time, in Li Zicheng's camp, Li Zicheng looked at the blueprints on the table, and followed closely: "Li Guo, when you are in charge of handing over tonight, you must be optimistic about the quality of this batch of gunpowder, and don't be fooled by this guy."

"Yes, nephew understands."

Li Guo clasped his fists in response, followed Li Zicheng to look at Tian Jianxiu and Hao Yaoqi and said, "I'll leave it to you two to handle the authentic matter of Luoyang City. Any intelligence, otherwise they will be prepared, and we will not be able to do things."

"Yes, the end will know."

The two immediately responded, Li Zicheng nodded very satisfied, followed Li Zicheng's eyes and said: "The rest of the generals obey the order, and when Luoyang City is blown up, the whole army will charge. Don't give the officers and soldiers any chance to counterattack. Understand?"

"Yes."

"Okay, everyone, go down and get ready."

Li Zicheng waved his hand and let everyone go down to prepare. When everyone left, Li Guo didn't move, but stayed behind. When everyone left, Li Guo looked at Li Zicheng and said, "Uncle."

"Oh, what's the matter? Come?"

At this moment, Li Guo looked at Li Zicheng thoughtfully and said, "Uncle, hand over to Lan Tian tonight, shall we?"

Li Guo made a gesture to wipe his neck, seeing this gesture, Li Zicheng was slightly taken aback, then shook his head and said, "No."

"Why?"

Li Guo asked puzzledly, and Li Zicheng laughed after hearing this: "Guoer, our identities are different now. If we can win Luoyang, we will be princes. As princes, we must establish our reputation." , this gunpowder was sold to us by Lantian for 100 million taels of silver. There was no fraud or injustice in the whole process. If you like me, if we come to a gangster to eat gangsters, then we will still be thieves. Come on, let’s forget that Luoyang is also a bandit, whether it’s civilians or scholars, they don’t bother to join us, so we can’t recruit talented people, it’s not good for our cause, understand?”

Li Guo scratched his head when he heard this and said, "Uncle means that we used to be heroes of the green forest, but after taking Luoyang, we will become princes and official figures, so we have to establish our own prestige ,Is it right?"

"Well, children can be taught. That's right. We also need to have our own base and develop our own territory, just like Li Chaosheng in Lantian. I want to use Luoyang as a base to radiate the whole of Henan after we occupy Luoyang. Let’s see if we can manage Henan into a second Lantian, if we also have a foundation like Lantian, then great things will happen!”

After hearing this, Li Guo nodded: "I understand uncle, then I'll go."

"Go."

When Li Guo left the tent, Li Zicheng was the only one left in the tent. Li Zicheng looked at the roof of the tent solemnly, as if there was a person there, and said to himself, "Li Chaosheng, Li Chaosheng, they all came from the Green Forest Road. , why the gap is like a moat now!"

……

Inside Luoyang City, Li Chaomeng opened his mouth wide and yawned: "Ah...are you still asleep? Xiaolei?"

After hearing this, Shi Xiaolei said: "No hurry, wait, wait."

"What are you waiting for?"

Li Chaomeng rubbed his eyes, Shi Xiaolei said: "Wait for the letter."

At this moment, I heard a person running in from outside and knocking on the door: "Minister, I have a letter."

"Ok!"

Shi Xiaolei got up all of a sudden and said, "Come in, let's talk."

The person opened the door and came in. He was from the investigation department. He looked at Shi Xiaolei and said, "I just received the news that Mr. Wei Bao sold the gunpowder to Li Zicheng for 100 million taels of silver, and the handover will be tonight."

After hearing this, Shi Xiaolei's eyes lit up: "Okay, Wei Bao really has a lot of money, 100 million taels, Li Zicheng, a fool, is willing to buy it."

Hearing this, Li Chaomeng also laughed and said, "Since Wei Bao came back from Liaodong, he's become a bit more cunning, and he's even more talkative than before."

Shi Xiaolei rubbed his hands together and said, "Li Zicheng can get the gunpowder tonight, but he absolutely can't wait for such a long time, that is to say, he must have started digging the tunnel now, according to the distance from their army to the city, he can be within 500 meters at the nearest Start digging at a distance of about [-] feet, and when you get to the bottom of the city wall, it will be almost dawn, and the gunpowder will be delivered in the morning, so Li Zicheng is likely to explode in the morning tomorrow!"

Thinking of this, Shi Xiaolei's eyes lit up, he looked at Li Chaomeng and said: "Brother Mengzi, I can't sleep tonight, we have to make preparations, maybe tomorrow morning when we do it."

Li Chaomeng heard this and said: "Then what are you waiting for, let's go!"

"Walk."

The two said they got dressed, then took up their weapons, closed the door, and soon came to a compound not far from the Fu Wang Mansion, where five or six hundred people had already gathered. But they are all good fighters in the army. At this moment, their eyes are round and round, and they can't tell the evil spirit.

As soon as Shi Xiaolei and Li Chaomeng came, everyone looked at them, Li Chaomeng signaled to Shi Xiaolei, and Shi Xiaolei said: "Everyone is ready to prepare, sleep with clothes on tonight, wait for the opportunity tomorrow morning."

"Yes."

Everyone clasped their fists, whispering yes, followed by a group of people in this small courtyard, leaning against the wall and falling asleep, whistling...

Shi Xiaolei and Li Chaomeng were also leaning against the wall, and soon Li Chaomeng fell asleep. Shi Xiaolei looked helpless. It seemed that he had to be on duty tonight. He and Li Chaomeng had to have a night watch. Once Li Zicheng worked faster, everyone It exploded in the middle of the night, so I have to do it quickly, otherwise when they are ready to do it, Li Zicheng will enter the city.

Thinking of Shi Xiaolei's eyes widened, he can't sleep tonight!
At this time, at the head of Luoyang city, Liu Zeqing checked the city defense again in armor, and found that there was nothing wrong with it. After working hard for a day, he went down the city defense and returned to his camp. touched Liu Zeqing's feet: "Master, wash your feet."

Liu Zeqing nodded, and the concubine took off Liu Zeqing's boots...

In the dead of night, the general fell asleep, and only the sad patrolling soldiers stood firm on the city wall. Although they were too sleepy to open their eyes, the patrolling could not stop. They patrolled like this all night. In the middle of the night, suddenly a soldier said: "Hey, you guys Did you hear any sound?"

After hearing this, the rest of the soldiers shook their heads, and one of them said, "It seems like someone is throwing stones."

After hearing this, a soldier said: "Yes, it seems that someone is throwing stones."

Ding, ding, ding!
Although the sound was very soft, it was still very ear-piercing in the dead of night. At this moment, a soldier said: "Someone is throwing stones, so it's not like someone is smashing the city wall?"

After hearing this, the other soldiers all laughed: "Are you kidding, smashing the city wall, this city of Luoyang is more than three feet thick, who can smash it through?"

A few soldiers couldn't believe it, even if the city wall could be smashed through, ghosts wouldn't believe it.

All the soldiers looked in disbelief, but the sound of smashing the wall was still the same. A slightly older soldier said: "This is not going to work. If someone really smashed the city wall, we did not report it in time. We will wait until the captain's meeting tomorrow." Punish us."

After hearing this, a soldier said: "Then what shall we do?"

The older soldier said, "Notify the centurion."

"Yes, go to the centurion."

The centurion was woken up by a group of soldiers from his sleep, and he stared at him and said, "What's the matter? Sleep well."

"My lord, it's not good, we found out the situation, someone smashed the wall!"

"what?"

The centurion was shocked and looked at the bewildered faces of several people. What does it mean that someone smashed the wall?

"Centurion, when we were patrolling, we heard a wall smashing. We were afraid that someone would smash the city wall, so we came here to report to the centurion."

"Smashing the city wall in the middle of the night?"

The centurion opened his eyes, and immediately said: "Go, go and have a look."

Speaking of which, the centurion put on his clothes and ran out, and came to the section of the city wall where these soldiers were patrolling. He lowered his head and looked around, but found nothing. The centurion frowned and said, "Where is someone smashing the wall?" ?”

"I don't know, we haven't found anyone yet, but Centurion, listen to the voice."

Ding, ding, ding...

"This is obviously the sound of a chisel chiseling a wall?"

Hearing this, the centurion blinked and said, "But where is he? Why can't you see the person who chiseled the wall? Ma San threw the torch down."

"Yes."

The centurion gave an order, and a soldier named Ma San immediately threw the torch down the city wall. The torch fell freely and illuminated the wall, but no one was digging the wall at all?

"My grass..."

Seeing this, the centurion couldn't help swearing. There was no one there, but the sound of ding ding ding reached everyone's ears clearly.

At this time Ma San said: "Everyone, do you think it might be haunted!"

"Haunted?"

The rest of the soldiers widened their eyes after hearing this: "Don't talk nonsense?"

Ma Sandao: "No, it's nonsense. You see, this is a battlefield. Tens of thousands of people died during the day. Do you think this place can't be full of yin? If it is too yin, it is easy to be haunted. Let me tell you, I will I’ve seen ghosts in our village, there was an old bachelor in our village, after he died, a black cat jumped over his head, and then he stood up, chasing anyone he saw, that scene was scary.”

"I'm stupid, Ma San, don't scare me, I'm timid."

"Yeah, Ma San, you bastard, you are talking about this in the middle of the night, but what Ma San said is not unreasonable. So many people died here during the day, and if there is trouble, there will be ghosts or something. The city was not taken down, and at night it turned into a ghost and came to dig the wall!"

……

A group of people felt chilly when they heard this, a gust of cold wind rushed from the base of their tails to their heads, it was really haunted!
"Go! Don't scare people here. There are no ghosts. I have been a soldier for seven or eight years, but I have never seen a ghost. I am afraid that ghosts will become a ball player!"

The centurion was furious when he heard the conversation of a few people. What kind of demonic talk is confusing the crowd? There are no ghosts in this world.

After hearing this, everyone didn't say anything, but Ma San pointed behind the centurion, what do you think is that?

The centurion was shocked when he heard the words. At this moment, he felt the cold wind whistling on the back of his neck. No way, no way to turn his head and just...

"Who!"

The centurion shouted and drew his knife out of its sheath: "Don't come here, I will kill you!"

"Ah~ what are you doing?"

Just when the centurion was getting nervous, a lazy voice came over, and a centurion from another team came over with his trousers in his hands and said, "I'm urinating at night, what are you shouting for?"

The centurion heaved a sigh of relief after hearing this, and thought that the fact that he was frightened should not be spread, otherwise he would not be able to mess around in the future, thinking that the centurion glared at the back fiercely, Ma San stood at this moment He came out and said with a smile: "Master Zhang, it's like this. We were patrolling in the middle of the night, and when we got here, we heard a sound of smashing against the wall."

Ma San paused for a while, then heard the sound of chiseling the wall again.

"That's it. We don't know what's going on, so we report it to the centurion. Centurion, check it out. If there is no one, I just want to shout and scare it. It would be the best if it can be cheated out, but this thief The quality of his heart is very good, and he didn't cheat out of it."

Ma San was talking, and Chief Officer Zhang heard this and said, "That's the case, old Wang, but where did the sound of digging the wall come from?"

Centurion Wang shook his head and said, "I don't know either?"

Zhang Baifu said: "Come on, let's look for it together."

Centurion Zhang called his team and searched along the city wall, but there was still nothing, but the sound of ding ding ding... the wall was still heard endlessly.

"Damn it, it's so weird. I've searched around a lot, and I haven't even seen a ghost. Where did the sound of digging walls come from?"

"Yes, the sound is here."

A soldier agreed, and seeing everyone's puzzled faces, Ma San whispered: "You guys said, this can't be done by ghosts!"

(End of this chapter)