Volume 10 Chapter 280

Chapter 280

The latest chapter of Zhu Zhuke leading his 7,000 Zhen soldiers to follow Wu Chao back to the city gate. Seeing the fierce fighting on the top of the city, Wu Chao rushed up the city wall with a knife without saying a word, commanding his soldiers to fight.

Seeing Wu Chao leave, Tang Yin immediately realized that the opportunity had come. Without waiting for Zhu Zhuke's order, he shouted: "Brothers, follow me to hold the city gate!"

While speaking, he took the lead in rushing to the city gate. As soon as he moved, the dark arrow personnel and the thousand Zhen soldiers led by Gu Ji followed him.

In the siege, the city gate is definitely the focus of the defenders' defense, but now the coalition forces attacking outside the city do not carry any weapons such as battering rams to break the city. They rely entirely on people pushing and bumping. Relying on manpower alone, they do not pose any threat to the fortress gate.

It's just that the people inside the fortress don't know the situation outside. Seeing Tang Yin and other Zhen soldiers rushing to block the city gate, others can't say that they are wrong.

Although Zhu Zhuke was dissatisfied with Tang Yin, he had no time to argue with him. He turned around and looked at his Leting Army and shouted, "Brothers, follow me to the city wall to resist the enemy!"

He gave an order and took all the more than 5,000 Leting Army to the city wall, leaving Tang Yin and his thousand men to defend the city gate.

The city wall of Longding Fortress is double-layered, with a circular corridor more than three meters wide in the middle. At this time, the corridor was full of Zhen soldiers. Some people carried rolling logs and pounding stones to the outer city wall, while others waited under the city wall, waiting for the commander's call at any time.

Now Tang Yin can of course lead his men to rush directly to the outer city gate and open the city gate in the chaos, but there is a problem. When they open the outer city gate, the inner city gate is likely to be closed by the Zhen army. At that time, the soldiers who rushed in will be blocked in this circular corridor and become living targets for others.

Tang Yin had already thought of a countermeasure. After entering the inner city gate, he did not move forward. He stayed where he was, lowered his head to the people on his left and right, and signaled them with his eyes to go over and open the outer city gate while the chaos was going on.

Gu Ji nodded, waved his hand behind him, and led more than a hundred Zhen soldiers to squeeze into the outer city gate.

However, this place had already been occupied by Zhen soldiers, so how could Gu Ji and his men squeeze in? Seeing this, Gu Ji was very anxious. His brothers were fighting bloody battles outside. If the city gate was opened a moment later, who knows how many more brothers would be injured or killed!

He made up his mind, drew out his sword, and turned it into spirit while shouting to his left and right: "Brothers, the spirit sword in his hand shone suddenly, and then the soul-chasing thorn was released.

At this time, the city gate was crowded with people, inside and outside. The soul-chasing thorn suddenly attacked from behind. More than a dozen Zhen soldiers didn't even know what was going on, and their bodies were pierced by the spirit thorn. For a while, screams were heard everywhere, and the wails of dying continued.

Gu Ji gritted his teeth and killed the Zhen soldiers in front of him. With the flash of cold light, several people were stabbed to the ground in an instant. The Zhen soldiers who came with him were not idle either. They raised their spears high and stabbed the crowd in front of them. For a while, the outer city gate was in chaos. Many Zhen soldiers didn't understand why their own people suddenly attacked them, and shouted: "Don't fight, they are our own people! We are our own people...ah..."

People often only shout halfway, and the rest is screaming. The more than one hundred Zhen soldiers led by Gu Ji kept their heads down and did not speak, but they never stopped firing their weapons and attacked the crowd in front of them like crazy.

The Zhen soldiers stationed in the city gate were stunned by the sudden change, and the soldiers who were hit in the vital parts fell to the ground one after another. At this time, someone finally reacted and screamed: "It's a spy! An enemy spy has sneaked in! "

As soon as they shouted, the Zhen army in the circular corridor was in chaos, and people gathered towards the city gate.

The Zhen soldiers in the city gate shouted spies, and the Zhen soldiers led by Gu Ji also shouted spies. The uniforms and armor of both sides were the same, and they all spoke with the accent of Zhen. How could others tell the truth from the false?

The Zhen soldiers who gathered here couldn't figure out which side was the spy. They stood in place, not knowing which side to help.

The Zhen army gathered in the city gate had been killed or wounded by Gu Ji and others. The surviving soldiers saw that their brothers outside were standing there without helping, and their faces flushed with anxiety. They shouted to the outside with their hearts broken: "Help! The spies want to open the city gate..."

"Don't listen to them!" Before people could react, Gu Ji immediately shouted again: "They are the spies! They want to open the city gate to let the enemy enter the city!"

"That's right! The people inside are spies! "Tang Yin and others standing in the inner city gate also shouted loudly. If one person said so, the Zhen army soldiers who didn't know the truth might not believe it, but if thousands of people said so, they had no choice but to believe it.

The deceived Zhen army soldiers stood on Gu Ji's side and attacked the Zhen army in the outer city gate with them.

It's a pity that these Zhen soldiers were speechless in the chaos. They didn't die at the hands of the enemy, but they were confused and became ghosts under the knife of their own people.

In just a blink of an eye, the Zhen army stationed in the outer city gate was killed. Looking around, there were corpses stacked on the ground, and scarlet blood slowly flowed outside the city gate.

After cleaning up all the Zhen soldiers here, Gu Ji sighed and said to the Zhen soldiers who helped: "Everyone, go to the city wall to help, we are guarding here!"

The Zhen army was not all fools. One of the centurions squeezed out of the crowd, looked Gu Ji up and down, and asked, "What's your name? Which army are you from?"

Gu Ji was now only wearing the clothes of an ordinary soldier. Seeing that the person coming was a centurion, he pretended to be flattering and said, "Sir, my name is Gu Ji, and I came from Leting City with General Zhu."

It's the Leting army! The centurion narrowed his eyes and rolled his eyes.

As soon as the Leting army arrived at the fortress, the coalition forces attacked. What was even more strange was that a large number of spies appeared in the fortress, which was too suspicious. He pondered for a moment and asked, "Where is your general?"

Gu Ji pointed to his head and was about to speak. At this time, a Zhen soldier came up behind the centurion and whispered, "Sir, centurion?"

"What's the matter?" The centurion instinctively turned his head, but he didn't see the person behind him clearly. He only saw a cold light flashing in front of him.

There was a sound of "plop" in his earlobe, and a gloomy steel knife was inserted straight into his throat, and the bloody tip of the knife came out from his back.

The centurion didn't even scream, his eyes were wide open, and there was an expression of disbelief on his face, but his body had already fallen straight down.

"Ah--"

In front of everyone, the centurion was stabbed to death by someone, and the surrounding Zhen soldiers screamed.

The Zhen soldier who attacked quickly drew back the steel knife, and then a black mist rose from his body. At the moment when the surrounding swords and spears attacked, the man disappeared out of thin air and disappeared.

Someone in the crowd shouted: "The assassin is a dark spiritualist!"

"There! The assassin ran into the inner city!"

Whoosh! When they heard that the assassin ran to the inner city, the Zhen soldiers rushed to the inner city gate again.

As soon as they left, Gu Ji in the outer city gate said secretly that it was a good opportunity! He shouted to his left and right in a low voice: "Open the gate quickly! Let the brothers enter the city!"

After hearing this, more than a dozen Zhen soldiers below put down their weapons and worked together to move the bolt on the gate.

The gate bolt was made of pure copper and was extremely heavy. More than a dozen Zhen soldiers used all their strength to barely lift the bolt. There was a strange creaking sound, and the bolt slowly moved under the joint efforts of everyone.

When the gate bolt made a sound, all the Zhen soldiers on the outer city wall, the Zhen soldiers in the circular corridor, and the Zhen soldiers on the inner city wall were dumbfounded. It was not until this time that they realized that they had been fooled. The spy was not dead and was still in the city gate.

The Zhen soldiers on the outer city wall could not attack the city gate. Even if they knew there was a spy under their feet, they could do nothing about them, but the Zhen soldiers on the inner city wall could see the outer city gate.

Hou Qiu, who was commanding the battle on the inner city wall, had red eyes at this time, and roared to his left and right: "Shoot! Shoot all the spies in the city gate!"

At his command, the sound of bows being fired on the inner city wall rang out, and then countless arrows flew down from the city wall and penetrated into the outer city gate.

Gu Ji knew that this was the most critical moment. Even if he had to use people to block, he had to protect his brothers who were moving the door bolt.

He shouted: "No one is allowed to retreat! Withstand the arrows!"

Even if he didn't say it, people would not retreat, and the city gate was so small that they had nowhere to retreat. The arrows flew over, and the soldiers standing outside were the first to bear the brunt. With a series of "puff, puff, puff" sounds of arrows breaking through armor, a row of Zhen soldiers outside were shot into hedgehogs, with white eagle feathers all over their bodies. Their bodies knelt on the ground and couldn't fall down.

This was just the beginning. More and denser arrows flew into the city gate from all directions like raindrops. The more than one hundred Zhen soldiers gathered inside had nowhere to hide, and they were shot one after another with screams.

Gu Ji had put on his spiritual armor at this time, holding a sword in one hand and holding a Zhen soldier's body as a shield in the other hand, while constantly shouting to the left and right: "Use the body to block the arrows, don't bear it hard!"

Seeing that his own arrow formation could not kill all the spies in the city gate in a short time, and the city gate had a tendency to be opened, cold sweat fell on Hou Qiu's forehead. He ordered his left and right to quickly close the inner city gate. He must not let the spies take advantage of the loophole again. If even the inner city gate was opened, the fortress would fall completely.

Hearing his order, Wu Chao's sword eyebrows stood up, and with a strange cry, he rushed down the city wall with a group of Zhen soldiers, running towards the inner city gate while shouting to the Zhen soldiers in the city: "Go and close the inner city gate! Quick!"

The Zhen soldiers did not dare to delay and rushed to the inner city gate. At this time, Tang Yin and his group were guarding inside and outside the inner city gate. Seeing a large number of Zhen troops pouring in, people subconsciously tightened their weapons in their hands, waiting for Tang Yin's order to fight the enemy to the death.