5131 Dive into the city wall
"Sir, why are you here in person? This is too dangerous..." Cao Futian and others turned their heads and saw that Ronglu came up in person.
Ronglu is indeed a general. He is not those incompetent Eight Banners playboys. His personality is very similar to Sushun among the Eight Ministers.
He has talent in hard work, but his temper and personality are very arrogant, so his historical reputation is polarized. There are many people who say he is good, and there are many people who say he is not good.
However, once such people encounter a critical moment, they will definitely be able to sacrifice their lives and lead by example.
He was worried that someone like Cao Futian would do such a big deal if he cheated on the Tianjin Weicheng Gate.
"There is an omission in your plan..." Ronglu whispered, "How many disciples can you have? The biggest official in Tianjin Wei is Chonghou, the Minister of Commerce of the Three Guards!"
"I am familiar with this person. Although I am a little weak, I am still very careful! Do you know that he has no backup plan? He is so confident that he can let the local people's green camp soldiers guard the city gate?"
"I have to look at this at critical moments!"
Ronglu reached out and pointed to the waist knife beside him and the waist card in his hand. "Those three dead ghosts are just our disguise!"
"Great! General is so smart!" Cao Futian and others all gave their thumbs up.
Ronglu guessed this matter correctly. Just like today, Chonghou, the highest commander of Tianjin and Wei, was already restless like an ant on a hot pan, and the city defense also increased by 40% of its troops.
In the past, Chonghou's life was relatively easy. He was responsible for the important Tianjin Western Affairs Affairs in the three-door business. In fact, to put it bluntly, he negotiated with foreign devils such as the Chinese and British.
Now that the Chinese people are rising, the huge Tanggu industrial zone has expanded to Tangshan, and has become Chonghou’s largest business partner, and almost all work revolves around dealing with the Chinese people.
As long as the Chinese are coordinated well, he will naturally rise. If he pays more taxes to the court, he will also get rich and promoted!
In addition, Xiao Letian's subordinates are good at using money to eat up Qing officials. Chonghou said that he was an official in the court in Tianjin, but the money he earned from the Chinese side secretly did business was more than tens of times more than the court gave him!
Life is beautiful, but this good life has not been able to survive since the rebellion of the Japanese Sixth Rebellion!
Tianjin Wei is an important strategic location in northern North China second only to Sijiucheng, controlling maritime trade in the entire North China Plain and even Shanhaiguan direction.
The Japanese Guardian Liu must have known it, so the Tianjin Guardians' work became difficult all of a sudden. No one knew when the Japanese Guardian Liu would attack the Tianjin Guard.
In addition, the sudden appearance of 20,000 rebels in Wang Qingtuo in the later period made Chonghou extremely anxious. If the spies had not reported that they were all a group of waste rebels who were eating, drinking, having fun, smoking and smoking cigarettes, Chonghou would have been unable to sleep well during this period.
But tonight, Chonghou had insomnia again because the sudden detention of Gordon and others made him smell the danger.
Gordon and his friends took the train to pass through Tianjin, and they had little to do with Chonghou, but when Xiang Lang from the Jingwu Heroes Club led Gordon and others to ask him Chonghou to open the city gate late at night, Chonghou was so scary.
The Qing Dynasty curfew system was very strict, let alone Tianjin Wei during the war. Deng Shichang and his friends had to open the gate of Tianjin Weitongzihe defense line to rescue Hunchun.
They were walking in the north gate, and the temporary switch of the north gate must have a Chonghou token!
Chonghou dared not offend the King of Far East. He had to consider Xiang Lang's post, let alone the celebrity Lord Gordon and a group of naval students.
There was no way he could only open the city gate and let these people go out of the city, but Gordon and the others did not tell him what to do when they went out of the city to keep it confidential!
Chonghou didn't know the plan to rescue Hunchun at all. He just stood restless in the government office with all his heart, and poured bitter and thick tea cup after cup.
To be at ease, he kept increasing the number of soldiers patrolling the city walls, and by this time it had increased by more than 40%.
Cao Futian crawled forward and climbed to the lurking point where they often smuggled, took out a strange whistle, and blew it gently and couldn't tell what the bird's screams were.
After blowing three times in a row, there was a movement across the moat. There was only a clamor of water. Three oil-soaked ropes were lifted from the water and jumped straight three feet above the water.
Cao Futian climbed on the rope with his hands and feet, and there was a hook hanging on it to him to play a safe role. He used his hands and feet together, and quickly climbed to the other side of the river.
After a while, maybe Cao Futian and the other side had confirmed that a fire broke out, and the red flames drew strange figures in the dark, and the strange birds cries sounded again.
Yihequan and Ronglu's subordinates on the other side received a safety signal and began to climb across the moat one by one along the rope.
When he arrived on the other side, more than a dozen people wearing green camp soldiers' costumes whispered in surprise, "Oh... Why are there so many people this time? There are too many, there are dangers..."
"Senior Brother, you have to be careful. Chonghou doesn't know what crazy tonight, and he has added a lot of patrol people!"
"I just heard that Chonghou himself ran to the outer city to check, and I don't know where he found it!"
Cao Futian waved his hand, "This time it's not about smuggling opium, this time there is a big deal to do... As long as it is done, our brothers will be the best in their lives!"
"Stop talking nonsense, I will fall off the rope and come out quickly!"
The city wall behind the Twin River is not high, and it is absolutely incomparable to the ones in Sijiu City. It is only more than five meters high. There are also these Yihequan brothers on the city wall. When they get the signal, they throw away the five thick ropes.
Cao Futian and Ronglu grabbed the rope without saying a word and climbed up. Not to mention that Ronglu was really not a playboy. He rushed to the top of the city in just a few seconds. His physical fitness was really not comparable to that of the waste bannermen in the capital.
More and more dead soldiers climbed up to the city. Ronglu carefully observed the terrain. "Okay, put down the suspension bridge, open the city gate..."
"Ah? No... This is not possible... What is Senior Brother Cao doing? You are talking about big business. Didn't we do business like this before?"
"If the city gate is opened and the suspension bridge is put down, the life of everyone will be gone. If Chonghou's army is alarmed, we will all die!"
The soldiers guarding the city said nothing wrong. In the past, the smuggling of opium and foreign goods were all secretly transported back and forth with rope hanging baskets in the middle of the night.
But I have never said that I opened the city gate and smuggled. Today, I have changed the rules!
Cao Futian sneered and said, "Brothers! I won't smuggle today, nor will I make big opium... Grandpa, I sold Tianjin Wei!"
"Sold to Emperor Guangxu, to Emperor Long live!"
"Open the door...If you don't open the door, don't blame me for not talking about brotherhood. If you kill you, you have to open the city gate..."
The cold-lit dagger hit his own heart, which scared the Yihe who was guarding the city to his face pale, "Ah... Brother, what are you doing? It's easy to discuss, they are all brothers..."
There was movement here, and there was also a noise on the north wall, "What's going on? What's going on over the West Gate? It's so chaotic, why are there so many people..."
I was really afraid of anything I came to, and the patrol soldiers came over with murderous aura. Cao Futian's face was so scared that he was pale.
Chapter completed!