Fang Jianzhi led Gao Jun and others on horseback to the west city wall. Under the mighty and thick city wall was a moat. Gao Jun and others stood on the city tower, built a pergola with their hands, and looked outside the city. As expected, there was a group of people not far away, with flags fluttering, and the queue was in order. The armor on the leader was particularly bright. It seemed that that person should be Brother Chen.
Gao Jun glanced at Lu Zuo and asked, "What should I do?"
Before Lu Zuo could speak, Fang Jianzhi said first, "Marshal Gao, I'm afraid there is a scam. Everyone here knows how powerful Chen Tuizhi is, and the government has suffered from him many times. Now for no reason. If you come here to surrender, you must be deceived."
Gao Yun ignored his words and continued to look at Lu Zuo. The look in his eyes seemed to say that the elder brother should come up with an idea quickly. Sure enough, Lu Zuo said calmly: "No need to worry, I would like to see what kind of meeting gift he offered. Let their people come over and ask questions first."
At this moment, one of the opponent's troops rushed to the city. When he looked closer, it was Chen Tuizhi. Chen Tuizhi looked up at the city tower and shouted: "Is the person on the city tower the Marshal Gao of this Western Expedition?" ?”
Fang Jianzhi looked impatient. When he was about to say something, he was stopped by Gao Yun beside him. Gao Yun glanced at him and signaled him not to speak, and then replied: "A certain family is Gao Yun. Dare I ask? Who is this good man?" After saying this, Gao Yun smiled secretly in his heart.
Chen Tuizhi couldn't help laughing. Fortunately, others couldn't understand, "I am a rebel here. I have killed several corrupt officials in the past, but the government regards us as thieves. Now my hometown is It was occupied by foreign countries and plundered by barbarians. I heard that Marshal Gao was ordered to conquer the country of Tibet this time, so today I specially led my brothers to surrender."
"Since you are here to surrender, but you are a key criminal wanted by the court, how can we recruit you?" Gao Jun pointed and said, unable to respond immediately, waiting to see what Brother Chen would say next.
Chen Tuizhi, who was at the bottom of the city, continued to reply loudly: "Marshal, I have brought you two greeting gifts today. I thought it would be worthwhile to vote for the certificate. Let's see if the marshal thinks it is worth it."
"Meeting gift? Okay..." Gao Yun said cheerfully, "Then give it to me! I will do my best to show you mercy!"
Chen Tuizhi turned the horse's head and shouted loudly at the group of people: "Present it!" Chen Tuizhi's roar resounded through the sky. Two horses slowly walked out of the crowd in the distance. Behind the two horses, there was a person tied up with a rope and walking behind.
Gao Jun and others built a pergola with their hands. Under the sunlight, they couldn't see the person coming. They only felt that the figure looked familiar and felt strange. So they turned to look at their elder brother. Lu Zuo didn't say anything, but just smiled at him. Could it be that Are those two people them?
Fang Jianzhi was also suspicious at this time. When he looked closely, the men led by the two horses looked familiar. When he got closer and closer, he recognized them and shouted excitedly, "Marshal, Marshal, they are tied behind them." The people are Master Zhang De and Master Xu Wuyou.”
"What?" Gao Yun pretended to be angry, "That's unreasonable. This bandit is really hateful." Then he cursed at Chen Tuizhi who was under the city, "Bold maniac, you are arresting our Han officials. How can you say this as a courtesy? You You still have Wang Fa in your eyes, hurry up and let him go, I can still spare your life."
Chen Tuizhi was secretly amused. He didn't expect Gao Jun to be quite good at acting, so he sternly raised his hands to Gao Jun on the city and said, "Marshal Gao, please calm down. The two people we captured are indeed officials of the Han Dynasty. But they are also real Tibetan spies.”
"Spy?" Fang Jianzhi pointed at Chen Tuizhi and said loudly, "You have no evidence. How can you say who is the spy and who is the spy? I think you are trying to claim credit, so you are talking nonsense."
"You must be Fang Jianzhi, the governor of Lanzhou!" Chen Tuizhi said with a smile and cupped his hands. Seeing Fang Jianzhi turn away with a look of disdain, although he was unhappy, he still said politely, "I have admired you for a long time. As for whether I am talking nonsense, You will know later when you ask, and we also have physical evidence here.”
Fang Jianzhi and Gao Yun looked at each other and continued to ask: "Where is the physical evidence now?"
While the two sides were talking, two of Chen Tuizhi's minions had already arrived behind Chen Tuizhi on horseback, leading Zhang De and Xu Wuyou. Chen Tuizhi said to the tower: "Now you can send someone to get this meeting gift. I will put the physical evidence in the sleeve of old thief Zhang De. You will know the clues at a glance."
Fang Jianzhi was still very defensive and snorted coldly, "Who knows what you are worried about? What if you want to use these two to deceive our city gate and take the opportunity to attack the city! Do you think we are all A three-year-old?"
Chen Tuizhi laughed loudly, "I didn't expect that the dignified governor of a state, coupled with the marshal of a country, would be afraid that someone like me would gain access to your city." As he said this, he pointed to his troops in the distance behind him. "My men and horses are a mile away from here. Even if they have wings, they won't be able to close the city gate as fast as you. With Lanzhou's city defense and guards, it will be difficult for us to conquer it with just a thousand people."
Fang Jianzhi looked at the rebel soldiers in the distance, and then looked at Gao Yun helplessly, "Marshal! This..."
Gao Yun wanted to just open the city gate, but he knew that Fang Jianzhi was very cautious and could not easily open the city gate, so he looked at Lu Zuo and asked him for an idea.
Lu Zuo waved his hand, indicating that they should not be suspicious, "I don't think they are cheating, but to be careful, Lord Governor, how about we hang down two baskets and pull the people up, what do you think?"
Fang Jianzhi nodded, thinking that this was the safest way, "Master Lu is absolutely right." So he shouted to the people below the city, "Okay! Let's put down the two baskets, and you put the two of them into the baskets, and wait until we ask. Then you’ll know.”
"good!"
Two soldiers on the city tower tied the bamboo basket with ropes and threw the bamboo basket under the city. Seeing this, the two minions below also dismounted and drove Zhang and Wu to the base of the city wall and asked them to sit in the frame. Then after the two minions checked the safety, they shouted to the two soldiers upstairs: "The people in the city can be pulled up."
The bamboo basket was slowly pulled up to the city. When the soldiers released the two of them, they saw that they were gray-haired, unkempt, and disheveled. Their hands were behind their backs, and their backs were tied tightly. Take a closer look. He was still a little wet, and it seemed that he had been caught by them when it rained last night. When Zhang De and Xu Wuyou saw Gao Jun and Fang Jianzhi, they immediately knelt down and cried bitterly, begging for mercy, "Marshal, Lord Governor, we don't dare anymore, not anymore."
Fang Jianzhi frowned. It seemed that they were indeed spies. Before Gao Yun could speak, he asked angrily: "Are you really spies from the Great Fan Kingdom?"
