With his reputation, as long as Zhenzhou City is captured, he can quickly develop a force of his own and have a great chance of making a comeback.
It is impossible that Zhang Yangquan did not consider this, but still took the risk to let him do this. Apart from the benefits of capturing Zhenzhou, the main reason was to protect him.
Li Er didn't say anything more. He stared at Zhang Yangquan and said word by word: "Commander, please rest assured, I know what to do!"
Zhang Yangquan smiled and said: "You can lead a rebellion of 1,500 people." His eyes wandered among the people for a while, and he said: "Monkey, you have a good relationship with Li Er, so you can rebel with him!" p>
The monkey raised his hands and said: "I accept the order." He hesitated for a while and then said: "Military advisor, can you tell your family about our pretended rebellion?"
Zhang Yangquan was about to answer when Qin Lingjun suddenly said: "The family members in the village can inform her, but Yang Ying cannot. If you are worried, I can ask Yang Ying to return to the village and inform her of the situation!"
The monkey was worried that Yang Ying would leave Yangzhou because of her rebellion, so he hurriedly said: "Then let her return to the village."
Qin Lingjun nodded in agreement.
Qin Lingsi's eyes were filled with stars, she clapped her hands and said with a smile: "Great, if we can capture a city, we can quickly develop our strength!"
Everyone cheered.
The mountain pig said: "I'm afraid they won't believe it!"
Wang Da glared and said: "Why do you like to do the opposite of everyone else?"
Zhang Yangquan raised his hand and said: "The mountain pigs are right to be worried. If you want them to believe this, you really need to plan carefully."
Shanzhu saw that Zhang Yangquan was confident and said: "I have no objections."
Seeing that everyone had reached an agreement, Zhao Desheng raised his hands and said: "Military advisor, leader of the stronghold, then... my subordinates will take orders and go back to the stronghold!"
Zhang Yangquan glanced at him and said, "Do you have any concerns?"
Zhao Desheng said hurriedly: "I have no worries, but... I wonder if I can select people from the brothers who came from Zhenzhou. They are more familiar with Zhenzhou, and their plans are less likely to go wrong!"
Zhang Yangquan said: "Okay!"
Zhao Desheng was overjoyed: "That's it!" He turned around and strode away.
Zhang Yangquan said: "Geng Si, Wang Da, you also go back to the mountain stronghold and tell Xu Baisheng the situation. Then the three of you take 4,500 brothers and get ready."
Wang Dashan asked: "What are you preparing for?"
"After Li Qianhu's rebellion, he will raise a banner near Zhenzhou to recruit heroes. You will take these more than 4,000 brothers and divide them into more than a dozen groups to defect to him. Remember to wear red scarves!"
Wang Da accepted the order and left with Geng Si.
Zhang Yangquan then ordered: "Monkey, I will imprison Li Qianhu later, and you rescue him tonight. You two each select 750 people from your own group, pretend to be a mutiny, and escape from the city!"<
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"Get the order!"
"Master of the Dazhai, Master of the Second Village, you will put on a show tonight and lead people to hunt down Li Er and Monkey. Only the veteran soldiers will be allowed to participate in this matter, and the new recruits will not be used."
Qin Lingjun nodded in agreement. Qin Lingsi smiled and said: "The thief calls for catching the thief. I am the most familiar with this trick."
Zhang Yangquan continued: "Early tomorrow morning, we will lead our troops to exit the North Gate and return to Longtan Village."
Qin Lingjun said blankly: "Do you want to return to the village?"
"Don't worry, Master Dazhai, we are just returning temporarily. In a few days, Boluo Buhua will invite us back!"
Qin Lingjun nodded and said "Yeah".
Everyone received military orders and left. Geng San did not receive the mission. When he followed everyone away with a disappointed look on his face, he was stopped by Zhang Yangquan.
"Geng San, how is your Nanmen Army soldier doing lately?"
Geng San perked up and said hurriedly: "According to your instructions, my subordinates have promoted him to captain of ten, and he is very valued."
Since Xu Baisheng discovered a spy last time, Zhang Yangquan has given orders to every centurion, asking them to closely inspect their recruits to find out the spies who have infiltrated the army.
As a result, after some investigation, no detailed work was found. It was not until the day after Miao Daheng was overthrown that Geng San discovered that there was something wrong with one of his recruits named Li Yi.
After sending people to investigate, it turned out that it was a meticulous work and was sent by the Nanmen Army.
When Geng San reported the matter, Zhang Yangquan did not let him deal with the spy. Instead, he befriended the man and made him a confidant.
This time we want to win the trust of King Zhennan and Huang Boyan, and this person can come in handy.
He called Geng San closer and explained in a low voice. Geng San nodded repeatedly and accepted the order.
……
Li Yi was in a daze when he was woken up by a loud noise. He opened his eyes with difficulty. Based on the weight of his eyelids, he concluded that it was not yet time for morning training.
Damn it! I don’t get enough sleep every day, but who is still making noise outside so late!
Li Yi turned over and prepared to continue sleeping, but the soldier beside him got up, rubbed his eyes and said, "What happened outside?"
This barracks is one of many barracks built around the main campus. The room is small and has a stone platform on the left and right.
Each stone platform is covered with thin mattresses, and five people sleep side by side, so ten people live in one room.
"Don't worry, go to sleep!" Li Yi growled. He has been suffering here for almost a month, and his temper is very bad now.
He was a captain of ten. The soldier did not dare to say anything more and went back to sleep.
At this moment, there was just a bang, the door was pushed open hard, and a person strode in.
Everyone looked up and shouted in unison: "Centurion!"
The person who came was none other than their centurion Geng San.
Li Yi hurriedly got up and asked: "Brother, what happened outside? Why is it so noisy?"
Geng San's face was as dark as water, and he shouted: "Don't ask any questions, get up immediately, I'll wait for you outside. I'll count to twenty, and if there are still people who haven't come out, prepare to get fifty military sticks!"
After he left the house, his counting sound soon sounded outside.
The North Gate Army had a mountain of military regulations. Li Yi didn't dare to think too much, quickly put on his clothes, and ran out of the room to stand up when Geng counted to sixteen.
When Geng San counted to eighteen, everyone was already standing in line.
Geng San ordered them to line up and stand in line, and he went to the next few rooms to call for people.
Li Yi took the opportunity to observe the situation in the main campus and found that the campus was in chaos, with flames filling the sky, and centurions could be seen everywhere gathering their troops.
Many assembled teams held torches, lined up in two lines, and headed towards the front hall, as if they had some mission.
When Geng San assembled his hundred-man team, Qin Lingjun came over and told him: "Geng San, your team does not need to participate in the battle. You take them to the front hall to protect Qianhu!"
Geng San accepted the promise and took Li Yi's 100 people to the front hall. He ordered 80 people to guard outside and 20 people to go in and guard the corners. Li Yi was one of them.
In addition to Zhang Yangquan, there are thousands of mountain pigs in the house.
Li Yi quietly walked away and saw Zhang Yangquan sitting on a chair, looking up at the ceiling without saying a word.
Geng San came close to him and whispered a few words, then came to the wild boar and said angrily: "Hou Baisi is a thief, the military advisor and the leader of the stronghold have been extremely kind to him, but he actually rebelled with Li Er.
I swear to kill this thief!"
Shanzhu glanced at him and said coldly: "I heard that he and Li Er had just gotten married. The two of them were able to lead more than 1,500 brothers to betray them. This shows that Li Er has been buying people's hearts for more than half a year!" Zhang Yangquan suddenly lowered his head and said, "Boar, do you suspect that Li Erda had evil intentions from the very beginning when he entered the village?"
Shanzhu said sternly: "Qianhu, my subordinates should not say anything. You should have sent Li Er to King Zhennan yesterday. You should not have listened to Bai Si and locked him up."
Zhang Yangquan sighed: "Oh, Hou Baisi said that Uncle Guo should be consulted, but I didn't realize that it was his delaying words, which gave them an opportunity! If they were not careful for a moment, everyone would have to go back to do it again.
Bandits, it’s my fault!”
Geng San said hurriedly: "Thousands of households don't have to worry. The master of the big village and the master of the second village will go after them personally and they will surely catch those two dog thieves!"
The mountain boar snorted and said, "That's easy to say! We didn't find out until half an hour after they started that the brothers guarding the city didn't know that Hou Baisi had rebelled. The city gate could be easily opened by cheating, so how could we capture him?"
Geng San said anxiously: "Then go and explain clearly to His Highness the King of Zhennan. His Highness may not blame us!"
The wild boar said coldly: "Our strength is greatly reduced now. Even if His Highness lets us go, Huang Boyan will take the opportunity to eat us."
He turned to Zhang Yangquan and said: "Qianhu, according to my subordinates' opinion, the only way is to retreat to the village!"
Geng San wanted to say something more, Zhang Yangquan waved his hand and said: "Okay, no need to argue, let's wait for news from the two village leaders first!"