Chapter 793: No coincidence, no story
As soon as Ada arranged the tasks, the bandits arrived.
hey-hey.
The bandits walked down the mountain without noticing anything. They kicked and stomped the civilians they were holding, talking nonsense.
"The rebel army in the south is said to be about to cross the Yangtze River. I wonder if they will attack our Tongli County?"
"It would be better if they attack us. We have hundreds of brothers on our mountain. If we all surrender together, we can become a small leader at least."
"I heard that the rebels robbed many rich people. Even the lowest-ranking soldiers had several gold bracelets on their bodies."
"We are all in the same business of putting our heads on the line, but look at them, eating delicious food, drinking spicy drinks, and sleeping with fair and tender women. What kind of hard life do we live? We dare not touch anyone with a little status in Tongli County. We can only target these poor guys, and even if we crush their bones, we can't squeeze out two ounces of oil."
"Life in the Yunzhou base is better than ours, why don't you go and join them?"
As soon as these words were spoken, the bandits cursed at him.
"Yunzhou has too many rules. This is not allowed, that is not allowed. It's so boring!"
"If you go to Yunzhou, won't you still have to do hard labor? If you want to get rich, what better way than by robbing?"
They wandered around, calculating how much money they could make from this operation.
Suddenly, da! da! da!
No additional orders were needed. With Ada's first shot, the Yunzhou soldiers opened fire at full force.
Five minutes, or ten minutes?
The bandits who were so proud just now were all killed.
However, a dozen or so civilians in the middle were frightened by the sudden gunshots and ran around in panic. Several of them were unlucky and were injured by stray bullets.
Ada got up and touched his head.
Did this ambush end too quickly?
"Lao Li, take three people with me to clean up the battlefield."
The so-called cleaning up the battlefield means finishing off the fallen bandits and then releasing the civilians, telling them not to tell anyone about what happened today.
Erniu, who was lying in the bushes, sighed deeply: "It really has nothing to do with our grenade throwing team! I saw it just now, that brat Lao Si shot and killed four people! His mouth was grinning so much that it was almost to the back of his head."
So envious!
Erniu touched the grenade as if it were a treasure. When will it be your turn to show off your power?
"Erniu, did you hear any sound just now?"
“No.”
The comrade beside Erniu turned around. No, he must have heard a click just now!
The next second, his face turned pale as paper, and his voice broke as he shouted, "Erniu, I fuck your ancestors! Pull the bolt!"
ha?!
Everyone in the grenade throwing team was stunned.
Erniu was also confused and looked down at the grenade in his hand.
I just touched it casually and it was bolted?!
"What the hell! What are you still standing there for? Throw it away quickly! Are you trying to kill us?"
Erniu broke out in a cold sweat. Boss Ada had just said that the grenade was extremely powerful and could easily kill four or five people.
If the grenade exploded here, the entire group would be killed.
Erniu threw it down the mountain reflexively.
This action scared his comrades around him: "We're going to die! Our boss is down the mountain! Quick, throw it in another direction!"
If you don't throw it now, the grenade will explode.
Erniu didn't have time to think and threw the grenade directly to the bend of the mountain.
There was no one at the bend in the mountain road.
Bang!
There was a loud explosion, which seemed to have exploded in everyone's heart.
It was just a little bit more, one second later and I would be the one to be bombed!
"Erniu! Come, let's have a sparring match!"
"Erniu! You are dead!"
The comrades were ready to fight and vowed to teach Erniu a profound lesson.
Erniu seemed to be frightened and stood there in a daze, his lips trembling constantly, and his eyes showed despair: "Stop it, I, I seem to have blown someone to death."
Um?!
Everyone followed Erniu's gaze and saw that after the dust had settled, they saw a man and a horse lying quietly in the bend of the mountain that was originally empty.
Oh my god!
Who was so unlucky that he turned the corner at that time?!
The people at the foot of the mountain who were observing everything hurried over to see if there was any possibility of saving this unfortunate guy.
Bad news, he couldn't be deader.
Good news, he seems to be the messenger of the Great Zhou Palace.
"So, while you were suppressing the bandits, you also blew up a postman of the Great Zhou. This postman was ordered by the Emperor of the Great Zhou to deliver a letter to Li Aotian?" The old man with a long beard said expressionlessly.
Ada nodded shamefully.
The old man with a long beard said sarcastically, "You guys are really awesome. The Great Zhou Emperor and Li Aotian can't do anything to Duke Yun, but if they are determined to deal with us, won't that be easy for them?"
Erniu burst into tears: "It's all my fault, Ada, please punish me by military law! I'm sorry to Duke Yun, and sorry to you all."
The old man with a long beard: "What's the use of crying? Can crying bring the messenger back to life?"
"Well, you can't cry yourself back to life, but you can pretend to be a postman. Li Aotian has never seen him anyway." Someone nearby suggested.
Ada's eyes lit up, that makes sense!
The old man with a long beard hissed. This was a direction he had never thought of. He had made a mistake. Since he had already defected to the Yunzhou base, there was nothing he dared not do.
"Since we're going to send someone to pretend to be the courier, why not open the letter and take a look at it?"
Everyone agreed.
The Emperor of the Great Zhou wrote a thick stack of letters, and the first third was about his relationship with Li Aotian. For example, when he first met Li Aotian, he knew that Li Aotian was a close minister sent by God to assist him.
The next third emphasized how treacherous and ambitious Duke Yun was, and how he was eyeing the Great Zhou covetously. If the world fell into the hands of Duke Yun, it would be in dire straits, and the people would surely suffer.
The last third was to repeatedly ask Li Aotian to defend Suining County and prepare for a counterattack.
Only one sentence was added on the first page of the last sheet: "Fang La's rebellion is nothing to be afraid of. If you cross the Yangtze River, you can make your own decision."
The content of the letter made everyone clench their fists.
How dare the emperor's son slander Duke Yun! How can this be absurd!
"Are you still going to deliver this letter?"
Ada snorted coldly: "No more!"
The old man with a long beard shook his head and said with a wicked smile: "Send it, of course I will! Modify it first!"
The handwriting reflects the person. The little emperor's handwriting is erratic, some big, some small, revealing a sense of randomness, which gives people a lot of room for manipulation.
It happened that the Yunzhou base was full of talented people, so Ada found a scholar who was good at imitating handwriting and changed the content of the last sentence in the letter.
[Fang La's rebellious army is nothing to be afraid of. If you cross the Yangtze River, you cannot make your own decisions.]
A difference of one word can lead to a world of difference in meaning.
Sure enough, after receiving the letter, Li Aotian did not doubt its authenticity, but wrote a sincere reply, suggesting that if the rebel army crossed the river, he would like to lead a large army to guard Kyoto.
Naturally, this letter was withheld by Ada and not sent to Kyoto.
Ada and the old man with a long beard originally wanted to prevent the Emperor of the Great Zhou from getting what he wanted, and did not really believe that Fang La's rebel army could cross the river.
Who knows, history is made up of countless coincidences.
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