Chapter 108 The King's Army Enters Pingcheng, Is This What It Feels Like to Win Without Effort?

In fact, all of Bering and his family's dozen or so secret escape routes had been destroyed.

A cunning rabbit has three burrows; how much more so the Bai family, who have enemies everywhere?

The Bai family has many secret locations, many of which are unknown even to the descendants of the Bai family. Only the head of the Bai family and the future heirs know their specific locations. There may even be an escape tunnel that was dug decades or even hundreds of years ago right under your nose. Many members of the Bai family may never know about it in their entire lives, even until their death.

But today is the day when we need to escape for our lives.

Bering was as anxious as an ant on a hot pan!

He knew only of the many secret escape routes, which could be used to hide in emergencies. These routes were well-stocked with food and water, and could even lead to different destinations.

But today, all the secret doors at the entrances to these passages seem to be broken. After the mechanisms are activated, they can't be opened at all. What's going on?

The head of the Bai family was completely baffled. How could so many escape routes all malfunction?

In reality, these places would be impossible for ordinary people to find, but Liu Fu's treasure-hunting rat was different. It found all the tunnels that the Bai family used to escape, and then the information was sent back to Liu Fu.

At Liu Fu's next command, the treasure-hunting rat destroyed the mechanism that triggered the stone door of the secret chamber, thus sealing off these secret passages. No matter how the Bai family head tried to turn the mechanism from the outside, these stone doors could not be opened, and the passages could not be entered.

Those treasure-hunting rats can easily bite through copper basins and steel bars, let alone the mechanisms in the secret passage of the stone gate.

Seeing that there was no way to escape, the head of the Bai family could only place his last hope on his grandson, who had escaped and was now able to mobilize troops.

But he didn't know that.

The young grandson, who had gone out to deliver a message, was captured alive by Liu Fu and taken back as soon as he left the city.

Outside Pingcheng.

Two gleaming steel knives were held to Bai Siji's neck:

"Tell me, where are all those people your Bai family bribed to rebel hiding?"

Bai Siji remained silent at first.

It wasn't until the cold, sharp blade sliced ​​a cut more than half an inch long on his neck, and blood began to gush out, that he was terrified and confessed everything.

“These are several hideouts. My grandfather told me that I only need to follow the markings on this map, contact the corresponding people, reveal my identity and tokens, and I can gather all three thousand people together within an hour.”

Liu Fu immediately detained the man.

If these more than 3,000 rebels already planted by the Bai family are not eliminated, Pingcheng will be thrown into chaos again in the future.

But he's not in a hurry right now.

Let's see how things develop within the city. Right now, the most important thing is the struggle between Zhao Zhouling and Bai Linghe.

Back at the Bai family home.

Seeing that there was no way to escape, the head of the family, Bering, had no choice but to muster his courage and fight to the death!

He immediately ordered his henchmen to clear a path ahead, and his guards to protect himself and his family, determined to get out of there no matter what.

Thirty or forty suicide soldiers made a makeshift battering ram out of a large wooden pillar and charged it directly at the wall of a secluded courtyard.

After about ten attempts, and with everyone working together, a large hole was finally pushed open in the courtyard wall.

"Charge! Brothers, those who want to live, follow us!"

The suicide soldiers, pushing siege engines and wrapped in waterlogged blankets, rushed forward and scattered the firewood piled up nearby.

"Someone has broken through! Someone has broken through! Report to the lord immediately!"

The soldiers on this side immediately started beating drums and gongs and shouting for help.

Meanwhile, people nearby kept firing arrows, killing those who rushed out. Then, people kept adding firewood and grass, and the breach in the wall was sealed back up with a sea of ​​fire.

After their first attempt to break out failed, Beringhah immediately devised a feint attack.

They acquired another large pillar and built a second siege ram. It broke through the wall at a distant location, drawing a large number of soldiers to that side. Then, taking advantage of the feint attack, while a large number of soldiers rushed to the other side to fill the gap, they launched another attack from the weakest point in the defense!

This time, although many of the assassins lost their lives, and even many of the Bai family members died in the fire, Bai Linghe, the head of the Bai family, and his sons still managed to break through and succeed!

"Quickly, have a few men lie in ambush here. Shoot that corrupt official, the prefect, when he sees him!"

"The rest of you, follow us and escape first. A gentleman takes his revenge even after ten years. Once we escape from here, I will surely avenge this blood feud!"

After saying that, the Bai family head led his men away.

When Zhao Zhouling realized something was wrong, he immediately led his men to rush over and try to block Bai Linghe.

But the cunning and treacherous head of the Bai family had already successfully broken through the encirclement. Zhao Zhouling had just arrived here and hadn't even said a word yet.

Suddenly, several cold arrows whizzed towards him.

At this moment, because he had not made any prior preparations, Zhao Zhouling did not have a dozen or so shield guards in front of him like last time. He was immediately pierced through the heart by the cold arrows of these assassins, and in the blink of an eye, he followed in the footsteps of Bai's grandson and was also shot to death by cold arrows.

"The lord is dead! Avenge the lord!"

The assassins who shot the magistrate of Zhao Prefecture didn't have time to escape; they were immediately surrounded by the guards and hacked to pieces.

joke!

If a high-ranking official, the governor of a prefecture, sent by the emperor to govern a region, were to die without cause, and right before everyone's eyes, then all those present would be in deep trouble.

After killing these assassins, the guards immediately went to chase after the fleeing Bering.

After escaping from the Bai residence, Bai Linghe and his accomplices immediately began looking for a place to hide.

Unfortunately, I did too many unethical things back then.

The common people are weak and cannot fight you, but they have kept the grudges of these past years in their hearts.

If you are kind to them, they will be kind to you; if you are mean to them, they will naturally punish evil in their own way.

"Quick, after them! Where did those Bai family's wanted criminals run off to? If I catch them, I'll tear them to pieces!"

Several guards had already passed by in a flash, but just then, a chamber pot suddenly smashed out of a window of a house.

The chamber pot smashed onto the straw raincoat below the window, and the person hiding under the raincoat rack immediately let out a scream:

"oops!"

As soon as the man spoke, the search party immediately seized one of the young masters of the Bai family.

Those who had gone into hiding were all caught overnight.

Bering and a few assassins hid in a well, but a group of lame old men managed to lift a 300-pound boulder and pin it to the well opening.

These men were trapped inside and couldn't get out until the morning when the guards passed by. Bai Linghe was captured and brutally beaten by several of Zhao Zhou's magistrate's henchmen, until all his bones were broken and he was lying on the ground unable to stand up.

At the same time, dawn broke.

When the city guard saw that the imperial sword in Liu Fu's hand was real, and that it was indeed the prince who had arrived, he was so frightened that he died on the spot.

The city gates opened, and the royal army entered the city. In the span of one night, Liu Fu did nothing, yet the entire city of Pingcheng was already pacified...