Chapter 1,205: Invading the Xun Clan City

More than 20 ox-horse carts, under the command of Guard Shi, began to slowly drive towards the city gate. The Zhao army soldiers at the city gate had no intention of coming forward to check. They all stood on both sides and pointed at the ox-horse carts with a smile, but their eyes kept glancing at the position of their own village chief, wondering how much money the village chief had collected this time and how much money he would give them.

At this moment, the soldiers on the tower suddenly shouted again: "Tunzhang, there is another group of people over there, but it seems to be cavalry..."

After hearing this, everyone looked up to the west. Unfortunately, it was just the time when the sun was setting. Under the sun, the people at the city gate could not see the situation in the west at all.

"Cavalry! A large group of cavalry! At least several thousand cavalry, the enemy is attacking..." The soldiers on the tower finally saw clearly that there was a large group of cavalry coming over there, as many as several thousand people. Although they didn't know where these cavalry came from, there was no doubt that they were definitely not the army of Zhao State, because the entire Zhao State had only two thousand cavalry in Shangdang, and they were the personal soldiers of the governor and the captain.

When the captain heard this, his face changed drastically, and he hurriedly said: "Quick, close the city gate quickly, the enemy is attacking, sound the alarm!..." As he said, he turned his head and looked at the caravan and said: "Quick, don't worry about the car anymore, hurry into the city..."

Manager Li hurriedly said: "Hurry up, everyone hurry up..."

At this time, seven or eight carts had already entered the city gate. Hearing the shouts for everyone to hurry up, the driver and the guards were anxious, and they whipped the horses and cattle of their carts fiercely, wanting to drive the carts into the city as soon as possible. But the more anxious you are, the more likely you are to get into trouble. A driver was so panicked that he drove his cart directly into the city gate on one side. With a "crash", the whole cart fell directly in front of the city gate, blocking the city gate on one side.

The other cart behind him dodged in a hurry, but who knew that it would rush directly to the city gate on the other side, blocking the city gate on the other side. Each cart weighed nearly a thousand pounds of food, plus the weight of the cart, all piled in front of the city gates on both sides, and it would be a bit difficult to move them away for a while.

Seeing this, the captain couldn't help but get anxious. He drew out the ring-headed knife at his waist and was about to command the soldiers to move forward, but he found a flash of cold light in front of his eyes, and then found that there was a sharp blade on his neck. When he looked up, it was the guard Shi.

At this time, the captain knew that this caravan was not from Gao's shop, but was disguised by the enemy. As for who the enemy was, it was clear that it must be the Tang army.

"Captain Cheng, right? To live or die, make your choice!" Guard Shi said to him with a smile;

I thought this captain would surrender like the one at Gaoping Pass, but what Shi A didn't expect was that the captain's face changed and he suddenly shouted: "Brothers, this caravan is disguised by Tang thieves, kill them and drive them out of the city!"

"Puff" Shi A saw this and killed the captain with a knife, and shouted: "Do it!"

With his order, more than a hundred caravan guards and drivers suddenly drew long and short weapons from the carts and killed the Zhao soldiers closest to them.

"Puff!"

"Ding Dang!"

"Kill!"

As a burst of shouts of killing sounded, dozens of Zhao soldiers outside the city gate were killed in a moment. Shi A looked at it and ordered: "Leave 40 people to guard the city gate and support the cavalry to enter the city. The rest of you follow me to the tower!"

As he said this, he couldn't help but rush to the top of the city wall. Unlike Gaoping Pass, the captain who led the troops was killed at the first moment under the city, which made the soldiers on the top of the city at a loss for a while. They were ordinary county soldiers. Only these generals above the level of captain were drawn from the combat soldiers. Now that there was no leader, they didn't think of blocking the enemy at the first moment.

Soon Shi A led the rest of the people to the top of the tower. There were less than 30 soldiers on the city wall.

Under the attack of the Shadow Guards, which was twice their number, the soldiers on the city wall were quickly killed.

The Tang army quickly took control of the tower. Shi A ordered people to cut off the suspension bridge ropes, and then sent people to guard the tower. He led dozens of people down the tower again, because Zhao army reinforcements had arrived outside the city gate and were fighting with the shadow guards in the city gate.

The first Zhao army reinforcements to appear were another team of soldiers under the slain captain. They were on duty in the morning, so they rested in a small courtyard next to the city gate in the afternoon. Suddenly, they heard the shouts of killing from the city gate, so they rushed to the city gate under the leadership of the captain, trying to take it back. Unfortunately, Shi A and his men took the tower too fast. Before he could defeat the Tang army in the city gate, Shi A had led his men to kill down from the city wall. Under the two-pronged attack, fifty Zhao soldiers were quickly defeated and became the dead souls of the Tang army.

Just when Shi A was about to breathe a sigh of relief, the sound of running footsteps suddenly rang out on the streets of the city. When he looked up, he saw hundreds of Zhao soldiers led by a general running towards the west gate. Shi A's face changed drastically. He was about to order a gathering for defense when suddenly the rumbling sound of cavalry hooves rang out behind him, followed by a wild shout outside the city gate: "Brothers inside the city gate, get out of the way..."

Everyone looked back and saw that their cavalry had already reached the moat and rushed to the suspension bridge. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly pulled the Zhao army corpses and some debris in the city gate to both sides, clearing the road inside the city gate. When everyone counted out a road in the city gate, the cavalry had already entered the city gate.

Thousands of cavalrymen roared out of the city gate. Just a hundred steps out of the city gate, they collided head-on with the Zhao army that came to support the west gate. Hundreds of Zhao soldiers instantly became a pile of mud under the iron hooves of 5,000 cavalrymen. Later, they learned that the county lieutenant of the Xun family was among the mud.

It turned out that after the generals who summoned the county and state soldiers discussed the matter, although the county lieutenant was not convinced, he still decided to go to the military camp for inspection. He knew that when the county lieutenant came to support from the eldest son, he would most likely come to inspect. He must go to the military camp before the lieutenant came to check so that the lieutenant would not find any fault with him.

He first patrolled the South Gate and the East Gate and then headed for the military camp. Just after entering the camp, he heard the alarm from the West Gate. Without thinking too much, he led the more than 500 soldiers from the East City Camp who had assembled and rushed towards the West Gate. Just when he had reached the West Gate, suddenly thousands of cavalrymen rushed out of the city gate and scattered the 500 soldiers, and he himself died on the spot.