Chapter 900: Fraudulent City
In Yulou City, on the south gate wall, because there has been no fighting for several days, the soldiers responsible for the night watch have begun to relax. It is now the second watch, and the generals patrolling the city have left the city wall and returned to their own homes. residence, so only a few of the soldiers guarding the city were left to occasionally look outside the city in the darkness, while the rest hid together to rest.
At this moment, a soldier suddenly exclaimed: "Sir, look quickly, a large number of fires from the south are approaching towards the county seat!"
The rest of the people were shocked. They quickly grabbed the weapons around them and walked quickly to the Stamping Gate of the city. Everyone looked into the wilderness to the south. Sure enough, in the dark, they could faintly see a long fire dragon. Heading towards the city wall.
"Chief, do you want to sound the alarm?" one of the soldiers asked;
"Bang!" His words immediately triggered a huge blast from him.
"You kid, are you stupid? You don't know the enemy or us, so you sound the alarm. You want to kill us. What if the brothers who went out in the afternoon come back? Besides, if it is really an enemy attack, they will be so stupid. Iām lighting a torch a few miles away for you to see!ā
When the soldier heard this, he felt that he was indeed making a fuss, so he calmly stopped talking.
Not long after, the fire dragon arrived a mile outside the city. Just when everyone was alert, they found that the fire dragon had stopped, and several torches came out of the crowd and walked towards the city gate.
After a while, several torches stopped two hundred steps away, and one of them shouted towards the city wall: "This is Chen Hua, the general of Dingqujia Village on the left! Which brother is on duty on the city wall? Please come out and answer Just talk!ā
"Chief Chen, wait a moment. The younger one is from the right. Go and ask our commander immediately!" When the chief heard that it was indeed his own troops who were leaving the city this afternoon, he felt relieved. However, the battle was going to start in the middle of the night. The city gate was not something that he, a small commander, could decide, so while he sent someone to ask for his music director, he stretched out his head and answered Chen Hua;
"Sorry, brother!" Chen Hua urged in a hurried tone: "Brothers, please hurry up a little bit. My captain is seriously injured and needs to go to the city for treatment immediately. We can't delay for too long!"
"Ah..." Shi Chang was stunned. The captain on the left was seriously injured. Didn't he say that there were only less than 300 defeated troops? How could something like this happen? The captain of the Zuo Bu was probably very unlucky. Thinking of this, he hurriedly said: "Chief Chen, wait a moment, my head Qu will be here soon."
Just as he was talking, Commander Qu, who was on duty at the south gate, had already arrived at the top of the city. He looked down the city. The village chief at the bottom of the city did look familiar, but he did not dare to be careless. He stuck his head out and said, "Li Duwei has suffered." What's the injury? Where is the person now? Please bring him over and let someone take a look! There's nothing you can do. It's your duty. Please forgive me!"
Chief Chen said anxiously: "Please prepare to open the city gate as soon as possible, Chief Qu. My captain was hit by a hidden arrow from the defeated army and was seriously injured, so he led five hundred brothers overnight to send him back to the city." "
With that said, he turned around and shouted towards the fire dragon behind him: "Quick, you guys, be careful, lift the captain up and let Commander Qu have a look!"
As soon as he finished speaking, several more torches came out from the fire dragon place, illuminating a dozen soldiers carrying a stretcher and running cautiously towards the city gate. They didn't stop until they were more than a hundred steps away, and then illuminated the person on the stretcher with their torch for the people at the top of the city to inspect.
The people at the top of the city looked over and saw that it was Li Ning, the captain of the left army, who was on the stretcher. His face was pale and he was covered in blood. When he looked at the soldiers around him, they were all soldiers in the city. Everyone looked at him in disbelief. It looked familiar, and now everyone in the city felt relieved.
The commander quickly ordered: "Quick, quick, you guys, hurry up and open the city gate. You, you, you, you guys, lower the suspension bridge. Hurry up, don't wait any longer."
For a time, the city was busy. Soon the suspension bridge outside the city was lowered, and the city gate was slowly opened amidst a creaking sound.
at the same time,
The fire dragon outside the city also began to slowly approach the city gate. At this time, the eyes of everyone on the city were attracted by the tragic situation of the captain below the city. They did not notice that there were many unfamiliar faces in the large firelight. .
It didn't take long for the fire dragon outside the city to arrive at the city gate. The city guard, Qu Chang, ran down in person, preparing to escort Captain Li and his entourage into the city. Just as he approached Captain Li's stretcher and was about to step forward to take a closer look, he suddenly Suddenly he noticed that Captain Li's face seemed a little too pale, as if he had been dead for a long time. Just when he was about to ask, he suddenly felt a sharp blade inserted into his chest. He raised his head with difficulty and faced When the man who assassinated him looked around, he realized that it was the village chief who he had just seen. At this moment, he suddenly understood something, but he could no longer make any sound. Then his eyesight went dark, and then Don't know anything anymore.
Almost at the same time that the city guard Qu Chang was killed, dozens of soldiers suddenly rushed out from among the soldiers entering the city, and suddenly pounced on the soldiers who had just opened the city gate in the city gate cave.
"puff!"
"puff..."
The soldiers who were caught off guard were killed in an instant, but some of them still screamed of enemy attack before they died. Seeing this situation, Zhang Yang knew that there was no need to hide anymore. He raised the halberd in his hand and shouted: "Jiaqu, guard the city gate. The others will follow you to the top of the city, seize the tower, and give it to the outside." The cavalry signaled, hurry, hurry!"
With that said, he took the lead and killed towards the city wall.
At this time, there were less than 2,000 garrisons in Yulou City, so there were not many soldiers on night watch. There was only one troop on each wall. More than 20 people had been killed in the city gate, and the rest were still scattered on the several-mile-long city wall. They could not stop the 200 elite halberd soldiers led by Zhang Yang. Soon the tower of the south gate was occupied.
At this time, the cavalry outside the city had also rushed to the city gate. Seeing that the city gate had been controlled, the 1,000 cavalry did not stop and rushed into the city in one breath, rushing towards their respective targets. Soon the city was filled with killing sounds.
A quarter of an hour later, Zhang He led more than 4,000 other soldiers to rush in. Seeing that their army had successfully rushed into the city, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
Standing on the steps at the city gate, Zhang He left 500 soldiers to take over the city gate, and then led 1,000 halberd soldiers to the county government office in the city. As for the other generals, after entering the city, they had already led their troops to kill according to the prior arrangement.