The house where Zhang Zheng fainted was home to an elderly couple. The old couple heard something moving in the yard and took a look. They saw a person lying on the ground, which shocked them. The father-in-law shone a lantern in fear and found that the man was seriously injured, the wound on his chest was still bleeding, and he had passed out.
The two old men were very kind. Although they were scared, they still squatted next to Zhang Zheng, pushed his body with their hands, and called softly. After a while, Zhang Zheng woke up. After seeing the other person's face clearly, he said with difficulty: "Quick... go to King Chu..." After that, he passed out again.
The old man was a little hard of hearing and didn't hear clearly, so he asked the old woman, "What did he say?" The old woman heard clearly and said, "He said to go find the King of Chu."
"Looking for the King of Chu? Where can we find such a fool?" The old man shook his head and said, "We can only talk about it tomorrow."
"But we can't let him lie on the ground all the time. It's so cold, he might freeze." The old woman said worriedly.
The old man looked at Zhang Zheng and said, "He's so big, neither of us can move him." The old woman thought for a while and said, "I'll go next door and call Daniel over."
The old woman went to the neighbor's house and called the Daniel couple over. Several people carried Zhang Zheng into the house and placed him on the bed. Mrs. Niu also asked her husband to help take off Zhang Zheng's coat and bandage his wounds.
The next day, at dawn, my father-in-law went out. However, after a while, he came back again. The old woman asked him why he came back so soon? The old man said: "There are two people in the alley. They don't look like good people. They have fierce eyes and they have knives hidden in their bodies." Although the old man is very kind, he is also very timid. When he sees someone guarding the alley, he doesn't dare to go out. .
The old woman was not afraid and volunteered: "I'll go. I'm an old woman, so they don't dare to do anything to me." After saying that, she walked out of the house. When passing by the alley, the two people just glanced at her and let her go. She passed. The old woman went onto the street and walked towards the county government office. She didn't know where King Chu was, so she had to go to the county government office to look for him. When she arrived at the gate of the county government office, the gatekeeper asked her who she was looking for. She said she wanted to find King Chu.
"King Chu is not here, please leave quickly." The officer said impatiently.
Unable to find anyone, the old woman didn't want to leave, so she forced her way in, but the government officials stopped her from entering. While the two sides were arguing, Fan Shuxiang happened to pass by. She walked over and glared at the yamen servant: "Hey, why are you bullying the old man? She is older than your mother, do you treat your mother like this?"
Seeing that she was well-dressed, the yamen servant knew that she was not someone to be trifled with, so he had to laugh and say, "Miss, she wants to go in to find the King of Chu, but the King of Chu is not here." When Fan Shuxiang heard this, he turned to look at the old woman and said, "Mother , Do you really want to find King Chu?" The old woman glanced at her and nodded.
"Auntie, what are you doing with King Chu?"
"I can't say it. I can only tell King Chu if I meet him."
Fan Shuxiang laughed when he heard this and said: "Auntie, come with me, I will take you to find the King of Chu." The old woman looked at her and said doubtfully: "Girl, can you really help me find the King of Chu?" Fan Shuxiang He nodded and said: "Yes, I can definitely do it!" After saying that, he picked up her arm and took her away from the county office and walked along the street.
The two were chatting while walking. Fan Shuxiang had sharp eyes and suddenly pointed with his hand and said: "Look, isn't that the King of Chu?" Sure enough, not far ahead, Li Zhiyun, Cai Hu, Scarface and a group of soldiers were walking towards him. Come this way. Zhang Zheng didn't return home last night. Li Zhiyun was worried that something might happen to him and was leading people to search for him. He saw Fan Shuxiang waving and shouting at him, so he walked over and said, "Miss Fan, why are you here?" Fan Shuxiang pointed at the old woman and said, "This lady is looking for you."
Li Zhiyun turned his attention to the old woman: "Auntie, are you looking for me?" Seeing that he was just a teenager, the old woman shook her head and said, "No, I'm not looking for you, I'm looking for the King of Chu." Li Zhiyun smiled. "I am the King of Chu." The old woman looked at him up and down, as if she didn't believe it. Cai Hu on the side said: "Auntie, he is really the King of Chu. He will not lie to you." The old woman saw so many people surrounding Li Zhiyun, and this Then he believed it and said: "There is a big man. He was injured. He asked me to come to you."
When Li Zhiyun heard this, he immediately thought it was Zhang Zheng and said quickly: "Mom, where is he?"
"At my house, I will take you there."
The old woman took Li Zhiyun and a group of people to her house. When they arrived at the entrance of the alley, the two guys were so frightened that they saw so many people coming, followed by a group of heavily armed soldiers, that they ran away immediately.
After everyone entered the house, the old woman led Li Zhiyun to the bed. When Li Zhiyun saw Zhang Zheng lying there, unconscious, he quickly moved a stool to sit beside the bed, held one of his hands, and called softly. After a while, Zhang Zheng finally woke up. When he saw Li Zhiyun clearly, his eyes lit up and his lips moved. Li Zhiyun quickly put his ear to it, and Zhang Zheng struggled to say: "North of the city...Dongsheng Trading House...in the alley...the house..." After he finished speaking, he passed out again.
Li Zhiyun stood up and looked at him with a scarred face and said, "Your Majesty, what did he say?"
"That group is in the north of the city, hiding in a house in the alley next to Dongsheng Trading House." Li Zhiyun said, "Wang Baoqiang, Cai Hu, you two take Zhang Zheng back to the barracks and ask the doctor for diagnosis and treatment. I will take people to that house House. Remember, after you go back, immediately send people over for reinforcements." Scarface and Cai Hu both clasped their fists and said, "Yes!" When Fan Shuxiang heard that he was going to fight, he quickly shouted: "I'm going too!" Li Zhiyun He looked at her, nodded and said, "Then just follow me."
When the guys guarding the alley saw that the officers and soldiers were alerted, they immediately retreated and ran back to the compound. As soon as they closed the door of the house, Li Zhiyun arrived with his soldiers. He ordered the soldiers to surround the entire house.
This house is called Feng Family Courtyard. The Feng family was not prosperous and they only gave birth to two daughters, both of whom were married abroad. When the couple grew old, they moved to their daughter's house, leaving this huge house guarded by two servants. The two servants were a couple, and they didn't have much to earn a living from. Someone happened to be renting a house, so the couple thought that the old couple would never come back to live in this life. The house was idle, so it was better to stay idle. When he had something to use, he took the decision privately and rented out the house to earn some money to support his family.
About half a stick of incense later, Scarface arrived with five hundred soldiers for reinforcements. As soon as Li Zhiyun saw him, he asked, "How is Zhang Zheng?" Scarface said, "Cai Hu is guarding him. The doctor took a look and said it was not life-threatening." When Li Zhiyun heard this, he felt relieved.
Although the Tang army surrounded the Feng family compound, it was not easy to break in. There are many houses in this courtyard, and the layout is very complicated. Outsiders can't figure out what's going on inside. Li Zhiyun thought that although there were not too many people guarding inside, they must all be brave men. Moreover, the enemy was hidden and we were clear, so if we attacked forcefully, we would definitely pay a high price.
So, he asked the soldiers to shout inside and launch a psychological offensive. More than a dozen soldiers stood outside the courtyard wall and shouted loudly: "Listen, people inside, you have been surrounded. You will die if you fight stubbornly. Only by surrendering can you survive!" The soldiers shouted for more than half an hour, their throats were shaking. I shouted hoarsely, but there was no movement at all in the yard.
Scarface became impatient and shouted: "Your Majesty, when will this wait? Let's attack in, shall we?" Fan Shuxiang also shouted that he would lead people in. Li Zhiyun shook his head and said: "No, the situation inside is unknown. If we attack by force, the casualties will be huge." Scarface frowned and said: "What should we do? The people inside are unwilling to surrender. We can't waste our time doing this, right?"
Indeed, maintaining this stalemate is not an option. Li Zhiyun pondered for a moment and said to Scarface: "Send someone to the New Army camp and transfer the firearms battalion." Upon hearing this, Scarface turned around and found a close aide and asked him to ride to the New Army camp and transfer two firearms. Come here.
An hour later, two firearms companies were transferred over. Li Zhiyun ordered everyone else to retreat, and the firearms battalion launched the attack. Soldiers from the firearms battalion knocked down the courtyard walls and fired into the houses with blunderbuss. Those hiding in the house fought back through windows and with crossbows.
This group of thieves resisted stubbornly and used the cover of the wall to cause a lot of damage to the attackers. The soldiers in the firearms battalion were annoyed and some soldiers threw grenades. The grenade was thrown through the window and there was a violent explosion. The room filled with flint, sulfur, rosin and other flammable materials immediately burst into flames. The houses in the Feng family compound are all connected, and most of them are wooden structures, which are vulnerable to fire. One house caught fire and soon it spread to other houses. The fire took advantage of the wind, and the wind assisted the fire. It seemed that in just the blink of an eye, all the houses were on fire.
The fire broke out suddenly, and before Li Zhiyun realized it, the entire Feng family compound was engulfed in raging flames. The fire grew stronger and stronger, and anyone standing ten feet away could feel the heat. Fortunately, the Feng family compound is an independent house and is not connected to the surrounding houses. Otherwise, it would have been burned down. Even so, there were still some flaming objects, set off by the heat waves of the flames, flying into the air, blown away by the wind, and landed on the roofs of several houses downwind, setting those roofs on fire. When Li Zhiyun saw it, he quickly asked Scarface to send out men to put out several burning roofs to prevent the fire from spreading further.
After the fire broke out, the soldiers of the firearms battalion retreated. Since most of the walls of the house had been knocked down, the soldiers stood watching from a distance. Not far from Li Zhiyun, there was a man in civilian clothes. He ignored the dissuasion of others and insisted on rushing into the fire. He was tightly held by several soldiers.
Li Zhiyun asked someone to bring the man over. The man came to him, knelt down with a bang, kowtowed and cried: "Master, this is my master's house. If the master knows that the house has been burned, he will have to skin me!..."
It turned out that this was the servant who was guarding the house. He wanted to rent out the house to make some extra money, but he didn't expect that he got into such a big trouble.
Li Zhiyun asked someone to pull him up and said: "The fire is so big, do you want your life? If there is any loss, ask your master to go to the government, and the government will compensate." After hearing this, the man stopped crying and looked doubtful. "Really? Will the government really compensate?" The scarred man on the side stared and said, "You still don't believe what the prince said?" The man nodded quickly and said, "Believe it, believe it." Li Zhiyun raised his hand. , and asked the soldiers to take the man away.
