Chapter 11 Chapter Ten Love and Trap

People in all aspects are busy today.Gao Tangbing and the people from Channel 5 continued to deal with Liu Ying; Pei Xu personally went to Liaoyang County, 20 miles north of Zhengzheng, to investigate Yu Cheng's household registration and social connections; The general affairs of the military workshops on the mountainside of Qinglong Mountain. General affairs are different from the military workshops that embarrassed the Jingan Division. The latter is dedicated to production, while the former is only responsible for administrative affairs. Therefore, the office in charge of general affairs is usually filled by civilian officials.The name of the current General Affairs Office is Huo Yi.Huo Yi is only in his twenties, but he has a profound background. His father, Huo Jun, was the prefect of Zitong during his lifetime and was one of Liu Bei's heroes when he entered Sichuan.Huo Yi himself was originally a guest of the emperor Liu Chan, Zhuge Liang specially transferred him to Hanzhong because of his outstanding ability, and was regarded as a member of the third generation of high-ranking officials of the Shu Han.

Xun Xu and Huo Yi had met several times in Chengdu, and they were friendly to each other; in addition, Huo Yi himself came from the administrative system, and the general affairs under his rule did not have so much military flavor; so when Xun Xu asked to set up an ambush in the general affairs He didn't encounter as much resistance as he did when he went to the crossbow machine workshop, and Huo Yi immediately agreed to his request after hearing his request. But Huo Yi is a straightforward person.After Xun Xu told him his plan, he said bluntly: "Xun Zheng, how can you be sure that the enemy will be active in these few days? Their utensils have been intercepted by the Jing'an Division. Even if they still have second-hand preparations, according to Common sense would also delay the plan.”

Xun Xu secretly admired Huo Yi's sharpness, and he explained: "Hehe, their schedule is as tight as ours, and delays will make their situation more dangerous; moreover, in order to lower their vigilance, I played a trick." He made a gesture and didn't continue. Huo Yi knew the nature of his work, so he didn't ask any further questions, but said lightly: "I hope everything goes as expected." Xun Xu's little trick is very simple. He will send all of Cheng's remnants to the Nanzheng county magistrate, and they will come out and issue an announcement: announcing that a woodcutter resisted the inspection by the guard the day before, and finally fell to his death from a cliff; Those who know him or know his inside story, please report to Cheng Yunyun of Nanzheng County as soon as possible.This is tantamount to telling the enemy that Yu Cheng's death was regarded as an accident by the Nanzheng authorities and did not attract the attention of Jing'an Division.

Huo Yi took the floor plan of the general affairs and laid some stones on the case, and said to Xun Xu: "Xun Xu is engaged, this is our current deployment situation." The general affairs office is located on a flat ground halfway up Qinglong Mountain. The plan looks like a T-shape facing east and backing west.After entering the main entrance, there is a long corridor, with scribes' rooms on both sides; the general affairs recording room--the crossbow machine blueprint is stored here-is located at the end of the corridor; the recording room protrudes to the left and right sides respectively. The side is about thirty or forty steps long.There are two open spaces outside the walls on the south and north sides of the general affairs compound, where four people can walk side by side.Huo Yi took small stones to represent the guards and placed them on the map one by one, and explained them.

"Lord Huo, why don't you place some guards here?" Xun Xu suddenly pointed to the west side of the recording room.Stones are placed in the three directions of north, south and east, but only here is left blank. "Oh, because the recording room is backed by a cliff." "cliff?" "Yes, there is a cliff at the back of our general affairs desk, the bottom of which is extremely steep, not to mention human beings, even apes are difficult to climb up to. This danger is worth a hundred thousand soldiers." Xun Xu was skeptical, he walked out of the recording room and walked around to the back to have a look.The terrain was exactly as Huo Yi said. Behind this wooden building there was a steep slope that could almost be called a cliff. The slope was almost perpendicular to the ground, and the top was jagged with sharp rocks.

Xun Xu nodded in satisfaction and went back to the house.The two people gathered in front of the defense map and continued to exchange opinions with each other. Xun Xu found that Huo Yi was a natural congenial person with the intelligence department. He was very similar in his way of thinking and behavior. He almost wanted to poach this person. Come to Jing'an Division. At this moment, a general affairs guard came to the door of the room and looked inside.Huo Yi noticed him, quickly said sorry to Xun Xu, then went out to talk to the guard.After a while, Huo Yi came back to the room, holding a piece of modesty in his hand, with a strange look on his face.

"Why, Mr. Huo has official business to do?" "Ah, how should I put it, this is really a coincidence." Huo Yi handed the Qianbo to Xun Xu, who noticed that the Qianbo was wrapped with ocher silk, obviously it was an official document issued by the prime minister's residence.The official document stated that in view of the recent transfer of the legion, the city defense guards were short of manpower, and asked the general affairs to allocate some guards to support. The Kingdom of Shu has always been plagued by a shortage of troops. Prime Minister Zhuge had to organize the limited troops into field troops as much as possible. As a result, there was a serious shortage of local garrison troops in various places, including Nanzheng.Once the main force entered the state of combat readiness, Nanzheng had to deploy guards from various functional departments to fill the gap left in the city defense.This is not the first time either.

"It seems that the people from the Jing'an Department will have to act independently these few nights." Huo Yi said apologetically, and Xun Xu sighed. This is an order from the Prime Minister's Mansion and cannot be violated; Cancel this transfer order - if Yang Yi or Wei Yan find out about this operation, who knows what will happen. Xun Xu took down a few small stones from the defense map, looked at the few remaining stones on the map, and started arranging again. Neither of them knew that at this time Mi Chong and Huang Yu were lying between the rocks on a high place near the general affairs, peeping at the movement of the general affairs compound through the gap between the interlaced rocks.They have been lurking here since the morning, and now they finally saw movement in the compound.

Under the order of the chief, more than 20 soldiers of the Shu army quickly ran to the empty space in the courtyard to assemble, then stood in two columns, and under the leadership of Huo Yi, they slowly drove out of the general affairs and walked along the mountain road towards Nanzheng city. go. "It seems that Master 'Candle Dragon' is really amazing!" Huang Yu whispered excitedly. "Candle Dragon" is like a finger to the guards of the Shu Army. Mi Chong stared at the general affairs who had become deserted, and said expressionlessly: "He also took a great risk, we can't waste this opportunity."

"Then shall we act according to the original plan tonight?" Huang Yu asked, "Although brother Yu Cheng died unfortunately, I have already found a suitable person to take his place." "No one has found out Yu Cheng's real identity?" "Someone found Brother Yu Cheng's corpse identification notice in front of the guard. It seems that he didn't notice it. Otherwise, people from the Jing'an Department would have intervened." "Well, since that's the case, it's not too late. Let's do it tonight." After Mi Chong finished speaking, he crawled out of the rock pit, patted the dirt on his body, turned around and walked down the mountain.Huang Yu followed closely behind.

Just in case, they left a Wudoumi believer to continue watching.Two hours later, the watcher noticed that two curtain cars with peacock feathers on the top came to the general affairs. They stopped near the porch, and the angle of view was just blocked by the raised cornices.The two civil servants appeared at the entrance of the main building of the General Affairs Department in a swaggering manner. They chatted with the guards for a while before returning to the sedan chair.The sixteen porters carried the sedan chairs back the same way, and soon disappeared at the end of the mountain road. "These two officials really like to talk about ostentation..." the watcher yawned, thinking enviously. He didn't know that the people crowded together in these two sedan chairs were ten members of the Jing'an Division's action team, and they had already sneaked into the General Affairs Court without making a sound.The irony is that Xun Xu sent Jing'an Division "Taoists" in this secret way, not to guard against Wei's spies, but to guard against the eyes and ears of the military and Si Wencao himself. The day on March 3 passed peacefully. After nightfall, Nanzheng City, where the curfew was imposed, became extremely quiet, and the General Affairs Office located on the remote mountain of Qinglong Mountain seemed even more lonely. Under this seemingly peaceful night, a black figure quietly approached the General Affairs Compound. He cleverly used the undulating curve of the ridge to hide his figure in the darkness most of the time. According to the establishment, there are 35 guards in total for the general affairs of the Armament Zhufang, of which 25 are in office and 10 are on leave.Twenty people have now been transferred by Nanzheng City Defense, so there are actually only ten people in charge of patrolling tonight.It is very difficult for ten people to be in charge of patrolling an area of ​​twenty-five people.Therefore, only two of the four turrets of the general affairs compound had one person stationed in each of the front buildings, two guards at the main entrance, and the remaining six people were divided into groups of two to patrol the T-shaped corridor back and forth.Both patrol interval and density are not satisfactory. The black shadow wandered to the outer wall of the north ear room, leaned against the base of the wall and looked towards the turret.The turret at this location was unguarded today, and no torches were lit.After confirming that he would not be seen, the black shadow took out a flying hook from his arms, tied a hemp rope on the hook, and threw it towards the other side of the wall.The flying hook flew over the wall with a swish, and the special iron head of the return hook snapped and caught the inner side of the mud brick outer wall of the general affairs. The black shadow tugged at the rope to confirm that the first hook was secure, and then took out the second hook to do the same.Next, he dipped some talcum powder in his hands, supported his hands with two hemp ropes, and climbed up with hands and feet.After a while, he climbed to the top of the wall.His first movement was to crouch down, as the patrol happened to be coming from the inside of the wall.The two guards glanced lazily around the yard before turning around. The black shadow immediately seized the gap and pulled the two ropes from the other side, hanging to the inside of the wall, which was to prepare for a retreat in case of emergencies.Then he slid down the wall with the help of a rope and squatted down beside the pillars in the corridor of the wing.In such darkness, it was impossible to spot the man in black unless he went to the pillar. Almost at the same time, the guards guarding the gate noticed a strange thing: in the darkness in the distance, something seemed to be moving towards here, and there were dots of green in the night.He hurriedly woke up another colleague, and the two of them stared for a long time before realizing that it was a wild wolf. "Wild wolf?!" Although Hanzhong is mountainous, wild beasts such as jackals, wolves, and badgers are often seen, but this is the first time that wolves have been seen near the general affairs near Nanzheng.And not just one, but seven or eight wolves, with withered and yellow fur and listless spirits, pacing slowly in front of the general affairs gate. "Hey, look, there are wolves!" shouted the soldier on the front turret, his voice was more excited than warning.There are ten heavily armed soldiers here, and it is not a problem to deal with seven or eight wild wolves. Wolf meat is a rare tooth sacrifice for these poor soldiers. After hearing the yelling, the three patrol teams rushed to the gate from the side rooms and corridors on both sides.This group of soldiers looked at the wolves and chattered.Some said that now ten people should gather together and rush out to fight wolves;It was more or less a diversion during the long and tedious night patrol. Taking advantage of the opportunity when all three patrol teams had left the patrol area, Heiying ran from the north ear room to the front of the recording room.There is a small lock hanging in front of the door of the recording room.The black shadow easily poked it open with a copper needle, then held his breath, pushed open the wooden door and walked in, then turned around and closed the door from the inside. Sombra is now only five steps away from the purpose of his trip. He turned his head and looked out through the pane. The group of soldiers were still arguing cheerfully at the door, and it seemed that it would not end for a while.So the black shadow took out the copper needles from his arms with confidence, walked directly to the row of wooden boxes in the center of the recording room, squatted down and tried to distinguish the words on them in the dark. These paulownia boxes were made very thick, with red paint on the outside, and the corners were wrapped with iron sheets.There are more than a dozen boxes lined up, big and small, the big ones can hold two people, and the small ones are only the size of a handful.He started to look at them one by one from the right, and soon found that one of the small wooden boxes had the words "Records of the Inner Palace" written on the cover.Hei Ying stretched out his hand and slowly rubbed the iron lock on the front of the box for a while, then slowly poked the copper needle in, fiddled with it a few times skillfully, and only heard a snap, and the lock opened in response. Hei Ying opened the box and saw several rolls of silk documents neatly placed inside.He picked up the rolls one by one to read, and finally saw that the seal on one of the rolls read "Yuan Rong System Method" and "Shu Capital System Method"; The paper is carefully studied. At this moment, a cold voice suddenly sounded behind him: "Does the drawing look good?" The black shadow was startled, and hurriedly looked back, only to see chaotic footsteps outside the office, suddenly many figures poured out, the leader among them was looking at him through the window pane. Xun Xu, who was in ambush in the general affairs department, had been waiting for a long time, and now he finally confronted this spy of the State of Wei. Facing this sudden crisis, Sombra's first reaction was astonishing, he rushed to the door at an extremely fast speed.Two soldiers were about to open the doors to come in, but he suddenly pushed them inside and closed the two doors abruptly.Immediately afterwards, he pressed his body against the door, took out the iron lock to lock the door from the inside, and ran towards the back hall of the recording room. Xun Xu sneered, there is no other exit in the recording room, and the other party locked the door, which is actually tantamount to being caught in the urn.So he ordered his men to smash the door forcibly.The wooden door of the general affairs was not very strong, and it was quickly smashed open.Xun Xu rushed into the dark room with his people, only to find that there was no one there. "Search!" Xun Xu ordered that the recording room is not particularly large, and that guy must be somewhere in the corner.Several people raised a fire to illuminate the whole house brightly. They searched the front and back halls, but they still found nothing. The black shadow seemed to evaporate out of thin air. Looking at the bewildered subordinates, Xun Xu calmly made a calm gesture: "He must be in the house, search carefully!" Except for the clerical box and the necessary screens, desks, candlesticks, and incense burners, there are no other objects in the recording room.If not here, then there is only one possibility.Thinking of this, Xun Xu lifted his head up and saw the thick beam on the roof. The recording room is a single building. Although its interior is divided into two parts, the front and the back, the ceiling structure is integrated.A large beam runs through the front and back rooms from above. "Hold the door!" Xun Xu hurriedly turned his head and shouted. The two "Taoist priests" of the Jing'an Division near the door heard the officer's voice and looked around quickly, but they couldn't see anything.Suddenly, the two people felt a strange sound above their heads, and when they looked up, they saw a black shadow falling from the sky and hitting them all at once.Only two screams were heard, and the two people were smashed to the ground.The girder was several feet high from the ground, and a person who weighed a hundred kilograms would jump off it, and the castration would be heavy enough to kill someone. Because of the two unlucky ghosts as cushions, Sombra did not get injured.He got up from the bodies of the two and rushed out of the door as if flying. Xun Xu immediately called everyone in the house to go out to chase after him, and at the same time he was secretly surprised.It is more than three feet high from the floor of the recording room to the roof girder. This guy can climb up in such a short period of time, then climb up the girder to the top of the door, cleverly use the height to knock down two people and escape, regardless of his agility or quick wit All pretty amazing. However, this did not improve the situation much. The general guards who were discussing catching wolves were all guarding the door now. When they saw the shadow rushing out of the room, they all took up weapons and forced them forward.Seeing that there was no way to escape, the black shadow threw out a copper needle in desperation and pierced a guard rushing to the side, and then rushed towards the corridor of the north ear room while the soldier fell down. At this time, two other guards rushed over from the left and right directions. The black shadow did not let go of his feet, and dodged their attacks at a clever angle during the run. Seems to be a master of wrestling!Xun Xu, who was rushing to the recording room, happened to see this scene, and regretted that he should have brought Gao Tangbing along, as his Wu Qin Xi would definitely be able to subdue this guy. The black shadow had already fled under the wall at this time, he quickly climbed up the wall along the rope prepared just now, and jumped to the other side.The soldiers who had followed him to the base of the wall were helpless; they could not climb up.Seeing his figure disappearing on the wall, Xun Xu was not in a hurry, just waved his hands, and led the "Taoists" of the Jing'an Division and the general guards towards the gate. The black shadow jumped over the high wall and landed on the ground. He didn't care to rub his numb feet and turned to run.At this time, only a deafening gong sounded suddenly, and seven or eight soldiers in full armor and holding spears rushed out from the east of the north wall. A sharp wall completely blocked the only escape route for the shadow. This was Xun Xu's pre-planted trick. When he rushed into the recording room, he also sent two teams to guard the outer high walls on the north and south sides, just in case.As a result, the security on the north side really played a key role. No matter how strong the black shadow's fighting ability was, he couldn't fight against the seven fully armed soldiers. He stopped hesitantly, as if he was overwhelmed.At this time, Xun Xu led a large group of people around from the main entrance to the east end of the north wall, making the already indestructible human wall even thicker.The western end of the north wall is a steep cliff. There are chasing soldiers in front, and there is no way out behind. It seems that the black shadow has no escape and no way out. "Hurry up and catch him, you can save your life!" A soldier shouted, and the other soldiers responded in unison, with an astonishing momentum, and the sound echoed in the empty mountain for a long time in the empty night.The only one who didn't make a sound was Xun Xu, who was staring at this black figure who still refused to take off his mask. He finally had the opportunity to take a closer look at his opponent at such a close distance. The figure of this person is not very tall, even a little thin, but the limbs tightly wrapped in black clothes are well-proportioned and vigorous.Although the face could not be seen clearly because of the black mask, a pair of exposed eyes shot out a sharp light.Xun Xu, who has some experience in judging characters, knows that this person is by no means simple. At this time, the black shadow shook his body slowly, and seemed to behave very hesitantly.Xun Xu signaled the soldiers not to move, and gave him some time to think. After about two-thirds of the stalemate, the black shadow made a gesture of surrender, then slowly unbuttoned his shirt, and took the initiative to throw away the blueprints, copper needles and other small utensils stuck in his waist one by one. on the ground.It seemed that he was completely desperate and was about to give up resistance. After throwing these things away, Hei Ying raised his hands high, and Xun Xu heaved a sigh of relief.Unexpectedly, Soi Ying didn't move forward with his hands raised, but faced Xun Xu, stepping back step by step.Every step is extremely cautious, but unwavering. Xun Xu suddenly felt something was wrong, so he asked the people around him to go over and grab him immediately.So four soldiers and a "Taoist" from the Jing'an Division rolled up their sleeves and walked towards the shadow.Although the black shadow still raised his hands high, the speed of retreating was a little faster.Seeing this, Xun Xu knew that he must have other plans, so he urgently ordered the five people to come forward as soon as possible. The five people quickened their pace, but in the next instant they all squatted on the ground, hugging their feet and moaning in pain. Taking advantage of this gap, the black shadow turned around and ran quickly, rushed to the edge of the cliff at the west end of the north wall in a few steps, and plunged under the dark and steep cliff without hesitation... "hateful!" Only then did Xun Xu come to his senses, he yelled angrily, grabbed the torches of the people around him and rushed over.But it was too late.He rushed to the edge of the cliff, but only had time to see the bottomless abyss in front of him and the faint rumbling sound from the bottom of the valley. He thought it was the sound of stones falling with Wei Guo's spies hitting the rock wall. Xun Xu left the edge of the cliff resentfully, and went back to the outside of the north wall, and saw the five people sitting on the ground, each holding their feet and moaning.He walked over and leaned over to have a look, and found that each of their feet had a four-pointed horse nail, which was smaller than ordinary horse nails, and was obviously specially made to deal with humans. Just now, Sombra threw these things on the ground deliberately pretending to disarm, because he had planned to use them to hinder the pursuit of soldiers.Because it was dark and the light was poor, Xun Xu and the others didn't even notice this. "You go back to your house to recuperate first." Xun Xu ordered angrily, "The others follow me to the cliff to find the corpse, now!" "But, it's so late..." One of the soldiers wanted to say something, but he swallowed the rest of the sentence as soon as he met Xun Xu's angry eyes.Xun Xu had estimated all kinds of possibilities in advance, but he didn't estimate that the spy would commit suicide by jumping off a cliff. He didn't expect this person to be so desperate. "Does Wei Guo actually have such a loyal spy?" While Xun Xu was feeling this way, he led 20 people down the mountain from the middle of the mountain overnight, and then turned to the bottom of the cliff on the other side of the mountain to search for the corpse. The mountain road is rugged, and it took half an hour for the search team to get there.At the bottom of the cliff is a large pile of wide rocks, overgrown with weeds, and the search work in the dark is quite difficult.It wasn't until dawn that someone found a black cloth with some blood stains in a grass nest. "No way...you can still live after jumping from such a high place?" Xun Xu raised his head and looked towards the top of the cliff, where it seemed unreachable.At this time, a soldier next to him said: "I see that although the cliff is steep, it still has a gentle slope. Could it be that he was just injured because he rolled down the mountain?" "Don't talk about unreliable things!" A person next to him scolded, "Is this possible? In such a steep place, as long as any convex rock is not avoided, he will die." The soldier quickly shrank his neck, The cowardly expression was just a casual remark. "But, can the corpse go away by itself?" The third soldier asked. Xun Xu didn't express his opinion, he just frowned and looked up at the cliff in silence.Although from any point of view, rolling down the cliff is a certain death, but it is also an iron fact that the spy's body was not found.Could it be possible that someone could fall down from such a dangerous place without dying? Xun Xu didn't have the vision to travel through time and space, so he wouldn't know that thirty-four years later, a general of Wei State would lead his troops to do the same thing in Yinping. Instead of falling to their deaths, they attacked all the way to Chengdu. The Shu Han perished because of this. "Xun is engaged!" Suddenly a soldier ran over and shouted, Xun Xu noticed that what he was holding was a piece of cloth. "What's wrong?" "Look at this! It was found in the lining of the black suit." The soldier handed over the piece of cloth, Xun Xu took it and looked at it, his whole body was shocked.The piece of cloth was painted with a simple talisman, and Xun Xu recognized it as the celestial master's heart-protecting talisman, which was sewn into the lining of underwear by every Wu Dou Mi Cultist to ward off evil and prevent disasters.The significance of finding such a talisman on that black dress can be said to be self-evident... In the mountain depression five miles away, Huang Yu and his disciples drove a few large carts silently towards the mountain.There are several large cages on the cart, and yesterday's wild wolves were released from these cages.On the last cart lay a man, covered with a mat, with a pale face, as if he had just been in a catastrophe. Huang Yu gave some instructions to the leading coachman, then boarded the last carriage, and took out a skin bag full of water and brought it to the man's lips with concern. "Mr. Mi, Mr. Mi, are you feeling better?" Mi Chong opened his eyes, raised his right hand and gestured to Huang Yu that nothing had happened.Although he was slightly injured, he was still very conscious. Before he rolled off the cliff last night, he was mentally prepared to die and survive.Although that section of the mountain wall is steep, the slope is not as steep as imagined, and there are quite a lot of raised rock corners and dead trees.After falling more than ten feet, Mi Chong struggled to grab a stone with both hands, barely stopping the fall.The rumbling sound Xun Xu heard was actually a stone he deliberately kicked down the mountain.After Xun Xu left the edge of the cliff, Mi Chong adjusted his posture, climbed the branches and stones and descended towards the bottom of the valley bit by bit. He knew that Xun Xu would definitely go to the bottom of the valley to check, so he had to speed up his actions.When it was about ten feet away from the ground, Mi Chong couldn't hold it anymore, he let go of his hand, and fell straight to the ground.Fortunately, the place where he fell was a grass nest, which was relatively soft, and he did not kill him—even so, Mi Chong's waist was still scratched by sharp stones, and his black clothes were soaked in blood. Mi Chong didn't make any stop, he held back the pain, roughly judged the direction, took off the clothes that were in the way, and staggered towards the pre-arranged meeting place.When he saw Huang Yu, his body had almost reached its limit.Surprised and admiring, Huang Yu hurriedly helped him into the carriage, and then urged the carriage to leave. Seeing that Mi Chong was in good spirits, Huang Wan gave him a pulse, left the leather bag by his side, and sat back in the leading carriage again.The coachman asked, "How is Mr. Mi?" "You're in good spirits." Huang Yu let out a long sigh of relief. "Mr. Mi is really amazing. He fell down from such a high mountain and survived." The coachman thought it was inconceivable. Huang Yu nodded solemnly, and put his hands on his chest. There was also a celestial master's life-saving talisman on the lining of his clothes: "This is the blessing of Zhang celestial master's spirit in the sky. Good omen, it seems that our plans and ideals will definitely succeed." "But haven't you got the blueprint yet?" "This is just a small setback." Huang Yu's tone was full of trust and confidence, "Mr. Mi will definitely succeed in the end. He is a genius, and the Celestial Master is on our side." Mi Chong didn't hear Huang Yu's prophecy. He was lying motionless on the car and staring at the blue sky, with indescribable thoughts in his eyes.