Wanli 1592

Chapter 40
On the night of the eighth day of April, when the moon was dark and the wind was high, Xu Chao and Liu Dongyang discussed in the secret room of the mansion how to unobtrusively kill the father and son of Qi Bai and Cheng En Cheng Chong, end the power of the Qi family, and then engulf the whole city Surrender, and who must be killed. For example, Tu Wenxiu must be killed. If this guy is not killed, he will definitely find a way to avenge the father and son of the Qi family. This is unacceptable to the two of them.

"I can go to Zhou Guozhu to join forces. He has [-] infantry. I have [-] cavalry and [-] infantry. You have artillery. We have all the firearms in the city. Zhou Guozhu fell to us, and we took advantage, surrounded the mansion of Xiaobai, and then killed them, and the event was accomplished!"

Xu Chao calmly analyzed.

Liu Dongyang nodded: "Then, without further ado, you should immediately contact Zhou Guozhu and persuade him to cooperate with us. I will dispatch troops and lead people to surround and kill the father and son. The success or failure depends on it!"

"Well! Success or failure depends on one move." Xu Chao stretched out his hand: "If things are successful, we will share wealth and wealth. If things fail, there will be no place to die."

Liu Dongyang reached out and took Xu Chao's hand, forming a life and death alliance.

What they didn't know was that at this moment, Qiao Bai had sent his son, Xiao Chengchong, to Zhou Guozhu's garrison camp.

Zhou Guozhu was worrying about the future of the rebel army. The city was besieged tightly, and he repeatedly sent people to attack but was beaten back. The two major forces in the city were not stable with each other, and he was quite embarrassed as a third party. Chengchong, but Chengchong is still the son of Baibai after all, but he was coerced into rebellion.

While he was in trouble, someone came to announce that Xiao Chengchong had come.

Zhou Guozhu hurriedly sent someone to greet him, and soon, Qiao Chengchong opened the tent and appeared in front of Zhou Guozhu.

"Brother Chong, it's so late, what can you do with me?"

Qiao Chengchong looked around to see that there was no one there, approached Zhou Guozhu, and cut straight to the point: "Come here and invite Brother Zhou to raise important issues together."

"Big event?" Zhou Guozhu thought it was a bit funny, who didn't know the current situation, he could still do big things?So he asked suspiciously: "What's the big deal? What's the big deal?"

Chengchong lowered his voice and said, "Brother Zhou, do you know that Xu Chao sent people out of the city behind our backs to talk to Wei Xuezeng about surrender?"

Qian Chengchong suddenly broke the news, which scared Zhou Guozhu to his feet all of a sudden: "What? He wants to vote..."

Zhou Guozhu didn't say anything, but Chengchong reached out and covered his mouth with his hand, motioning him to whisper, Zhou Guozhu swallowed, and calmed down: "You mean, Xu Chao wants to surrender? Surrender to Wei Xuezeng? They have already and Wei Xuezeng Contacted? But, how did you know? Who told you?"

Chengchong said in a low voice: "The person Xu Chao sent out took my favor. My people saw him when he went down to the city. When he went up to the city, I waited there and told him about it. He also explained the matter, Liu Dongyang instructed Xu Chao to do it, exchange the heads of my father and son in exchange for the surrender of the whole city, and save their lives."

Zhou Guozhu was so frightened that he couldn't speak. At the same time, the feeling of being betrayed pervaded his heart. He thought that they were all Han Chinese, and they were both from the military households of the Ming Dynasty. The guy still squeezed him out, and took him with nothing, and even survived, it was the two of them.

"Is this true?"

Zhou Guozhu swallowed hard.

"How can this be false? Brother Zhou, you should be clear that you and I have a close relationship and have never been liked by the two of them. They also suspected that you might inform me, so they never told you. Now The plan is all for the two of them themselves, why have you ever thought of you? Maybe, in order to save the lives of the two of them, they even killed you together. In order to survive, these two people can do anything. !"

Zhou Guozhu frowned, his eyes were terrified, his eyes were full of panic, he tilted his head slightly, and looked up at Xiao Chengchong: "What's the purpose of you telling me this?"

"It's very simple! I just don't want to die! I don't want Brother Zhou to be sold out for no apparent reason!" Cheng Chong said with a sincere look on his face, "So I'm here to tell you that I want Brother Zhou to leave a note for me." live."

"Are you going to strike first? Kill them?"

Zhou Guozhu regained his composure at this time.

"That's right! They are not benevolent, so don't blame my father and son for being unrighteous. Everyone is doing it for survival and for wealth. Don't blame anyone."

Xiao Chengchong's complexion began to twist.

"Then even if you kill them, how can you survive? The city is surrounded by the Ming army, and we only have an isolated city left. We will start eating tree bark, horses, grass, and even people in two months at most. What do you think? How long can we live? How can we survive? Will the Ming army watch us survive? Kill them today, and tomorrow the Ming army will start to attack the city, and we will not survive!"

"No! We can live!" Xiao Chengchong's face was completely distorted: "We will continue to send people out of the city to attack, looking for the weakest defense of the Ming army to attack, even if it is only one person, as long as we can have someone rush out , will be able to bring the news of our help to the grassland, Xu Yizhongli!

The 30 population of Ningxia City and the gold and silver treasures of the whole city, whoever can rescue us, these things belong to them!After that, we may not be able to stay in Han, but we still have a chance of survival on the grassland!Brother Zhou!This is the only chance to survive, we have no next chance! "

Chengchong firmly held Zhou Guozhu's hand and squeezed Zhou Guozhu's hand "clucking", but Zhou Guozhu didn't feel it at all.

That's right, that's right, there's nothing wrong with it, this is the only hope of survival, the only place where there is a way to survive, the Ming court will not accept their surrender, after this time, their only way to survive is in the grasslands!
"General! General Xu asks to see you."

A communication woke them up, Zhou Guozhu looked very confused, and Chengchong had realized the only chance, and immediately whispered: "I will hide behind your screen, if you want to unite with Xu Chao Kill me, I have no complaints, but if you want to live, just throw a cup and kill Xu Chao together!"

After finishing speaking, Qian Chengchong hid behind the screen, Zhou Guozhu was completely awakened by the gust of wind he brought, wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, and said: "Invite General Xu Chao, by the way, you didn't say Is General Chengchong here?"

"The subordinate didn't say anything."

"Well, don't say anything, just let him in."

The soldiers nodded, and after a while, Xu Chao appeared in Zhou Guozhu's tent with his head wrapped in a bandage.

"Brother Xu, are your ears okay?"

Xu Chao smiled wryly, "What an idiot, that bastard Xiao Ruhui, I'll kill him if I find a chance, it hurts me to death, brother Zhou, to be honest, brother, I'm here today because I have something important to do Negotiable."

"Important matter? Brother, you are already like this, what else is there to discuss?"

Zhou Guozhu poured wine for Xu Chao calmly.

(End of this chapter)