Chapter 136 Who opened the city gate?
"Ma, Ma Ma Prefect?" Liang Bing, the commander of the East Gate, looked carefully when he heard the other party's name, and found that it was Ma Mingfeng, but he did not dare to open the door. The thief was in full force now. If the thief was rushed into the city by the thief, who is the responsibility?
So Liang Bing said to Ma Mingfeng: "Master Ma, there are so many thieves now, please forgive me for not being able to open the door for you, but we can hang you in through a hanging basket. As for those people around you, we can only try our best to save them."
However, after saying this, a young man shouted: "Bastard, Liang Bing, take a look at who I am? Open the city gate quickly and put me in, otherwise, be careful of your head!"
Seeing that the other party was so loud, Liang Bing immediately felt that he should be a big shot, but after looking carefully, he found that he didn't know him.
Actually, this is not surprising at all. Liang Bing knew King Fu, but he had never seen King Fu's prince. When he saw the young man say this, he asked in a deep voice: "I don't know who you are?"
Zhu Yousong opened his mouth and was about to speak, but saw Ma Mingfeng whispering to remind him: "Your Highness, you can't tell your identity at this time, otherwise the thief would definitely attack you, and even if he was sitting in a hanging basket, he might be shot to death."
When Zhu Yousong heard this, he swallowed the words he wanted to spit out, and then said to Liang Bing in a deep voice: "When you enter the city, you will know who I am."
Liang Bing thought for a while and said, "No matter who you are, the city gate must not be opened. At most, I will pull you up through the hanging basket..."
However, before he finished speaking, he saw another team coming from the front. The leader shouted: "I am Chen Yongfu, deputy general of Kaifeng City, quickly open the city gate and let me in."
Liang Bing was about to put the hanging basket and pull people, but when he encountered this kind of thing again, he looked under the city and found that Chen Yongfu brought about a hundred people, and he was immediately overwhelmed. Chen Yongfu's 100 people, plus Ma Mingfeng's nearly twenty people, was simply impossible to pull them up with the hanging basket.
As for opening the city gate, that is absolutely impossible.
So Liang Bing shouted to the city: "It is impossible to open the city gate. I can only pull you up through a hanging basket. However, there are too many people in your number. I can only pull up at most ten, Kaifeng Ma Tai and Deputy General Chen, each of you will choose four more people, and I will pull you up. As for the others, I am really sorry."
"Ten people? How can this be done?" Chen Yongfu looked at Liang Bing on the top of the city and said loudly: "The last general led five hundred brothers to come day and night. He encountered an ambush on the way, and only such a few people were left. Now he has arrived at the city. How can he abandon them? The governor is proud and put us into the city."
However, Liang Bing did not agree and said impatiently: "Things are settled. If you want to get on, you should get on as soon as possible. Once the bandits catch up, you can't get on as long as you want."
Seeing this, Chen Yongfu sighed and thought about compromising.
But he saw a man shouting: "Mr. The governor led by the governor are brothers who share life and death. It is impossible for the subordinates to abandon the brothers of life and death in times of crisis. But please ask the governor to pull this noble person up first, so that we will die without regrets even if we die together."
Zhu Yousong looked at Ma Mingfeng and said with emotion: "Master Ma, you, you treat each other like this. I will definitely be grateful to you in the future. If I violate this vow, I will not die a good death!"
Ma Mingfeng hurriedly said, "You don't have to be polite, this is what the officials should do."
Then the hanging basket was blown down, and Ma Mingfeng helped Zhu Yousong up, and held a musket in his hand as a cover.
But when Chen Yongfu walked up and said in a deep voice, "Master Ma, we have not yet agreed. Just let this person go up. Isn't it a bit too much for you to do this?"
Ma Mingfeng quickly whispered Zhu Yousong's identity in Chen Yongfu's ear.
"What? So that's how it is..." Chen Yongfu was shocked when he heard Ma Mingfeng say this, and he had no objection to Zhu Yousong's first entry into the city.
However, Chen Yongfu was hesitant about whether he would also escape back to the city while sitting in a hanging basket. Ma Mingfeng said that just now, and he would definitely not leave his generals. In this case, if he left, his reputation for being unjust may be followed by his whole life. In this way, he would never be supported by his soldiers.
As a military general, losing the support of his soldiers is equivalent to being just a bare general. How can you have another chance to make meritorious service in the future?
But if I don't leave, I will die here, with almost no luck.
Should I save my life or save my accumulated reputation? Chen Yongfu looked at Ma Mingfeng and the soldiers under his command, and was hesitant.
At this time, Chen Yongfu's son Chen De came up and said to him: "Father, if you want to leave, please forgive me for not being able to follow you anymore. The prefect is just a civil servant, and he can live and die with his generals. Is the child not as good as him?"
When Chen Yongfu heard this, he laughed and said, "You bastard, are you using this to scold me for being greedy for life and fearing death? Hehe, isn't it just a death? What's the big deal? As a general, I have been fighting on the battlefield for twenty or thirty years, and have long been used to life and death. Hehe, even if I die, I will not abandon my brothers. Today, we all fight side by side and kill the thief to death!"
Chen Yongfu's words immediately moved the hundreds of soldiers under his command. They were all excited and shouted loudly: "Fight side by side, kill the thief to death! Fight side by side, kill the thief to death!"
Just as Chen Yongfu was hesitating, the siege troops led by Tian Jianxiu had already arrived near. At this time, Chen Yongfu knew that even if he put down the hanging basket, he would not have a chance to escape.
"Since I chose to die, I don't have to regret it anymore. Twenty years later, I will be a hero again!" Chen Yongfu thought of this, grabbed the knife in his hand and prepared to go forward to fight the enemy.
However, at this moment, a creaking sound was heard. Chen Yongfu looked back and couldn't help but widen his eyes. It turned out that the city gate was actually opened!
Above the city head, the left governor Liang Bing looked at the city gate being opened, and his face changed drastically, and asked sternly: "Who is it? How dare you open the city gate without obeying the order? Do you want to die?"
Chapter completed!