Chapter 1418 Night Attack Failed

Since Cai Cheng's rebellion, those people in the court of Nanping have been thinking about their own ideas. Some, like Jiang Yun and Jiao Zhiyuan, want to get close to Cai Cheng, some are loyal to the Wu family, and some are hesitant.

Although everyone may have different ideas, everyone knows that this incident is a test for everyone and an opportunity for everyone to make a choice. If you make the right choice, you can continue to enjoy wealth and glory, or even go further. If you make the wrong choice, you may lose your life or even the lives of your family.

Obviously, Jiang Yun and Jiao Zhiyuan are very confident in their choices. They are sure that their choices will not be wrong. After this incident, their status in Nanping will not only not decline, but will rise.

Of course, to achieve this goal, the two still need to do something. Fortunately, both of them have already made some progress.

Under the night of Nanping, not only Jiao Zhiyuan and Cai Cheng met secretly, but also murderous aura was boiling.

Outside Fengyu City, a team wearing black night clothes and fully equipped, followed the cover of the night, slowly approached the wall of Fengyu City.

There are no searchlights or street lights in this world. Today's night is not very good. The moonlight is dim, and the clouds also block the stars in the sky. The surrounding environment seems to be darker than usual.

Such an environment seems to be more convenient for doing some things that are not allowed to see the light.

"Hurry, hurry up."

"Take light steps, don't let the people on the top of the city find out!"

"Everyone, be quick, get on the top of the city, and occupy the advantageous terrain immediately!"

The team in black night clothes successfully arrived under the city wall under the cover of the night, and then everyone began to climb up with the help of hooks and other tools.

The crawling process was very smooth. The defenders on the top of the city seemed to have fallen asleep, and there was no movement at all.

However, it turned out that they were wrong.

Just when the first batch of soldiers climbed up to the top of the city wall, before they could see the surrounding situation clearly, countless torches lit up on the top of the city wall in an instant. The light of their companions completely dispelled the surrounding darkness, and all the men in black were clearly revealed under the light of the fire.

"Kill!" In the crowd, Chen Wende, dressed in military uniform, looked at the group of men in black with a cold face, and gave the order to kill without hesitation.

"Kill!" After receiving the order, the defenders on the top of the city wall killed the group of men in black without hesitation.

The poor men in black were surrounded before they could react, and they could only fight desperately. Unfortunately, they were a minority after all, and they were no match for the surrounding defenders.

The men in black who climbed up the city wall were besieged, and the situation of those who had not yet come up was also not good.

Barrels of boiling oil poured down from the top of the city wall, pouring on the black-clad people who were climbing or waiting to climb. Then, torches with flames were thrown down by the defenders on the top of the city wall. Then, under the city wall, there were creepy screams.

"Retreat, retreat quickly!" Seeing this, the general in charge of this operation immediately issued an order to retreat.

It was obvious that the defenders on the top of the city wall had been prepared. Their actions this time were completely expected by the other party. In just a short period of time, half of the team that came to attack at night was reduced, and everyone died miserably.

After receiving the order, the black-clad people chose to retreat without hesitation, with deep fear on their faces.

The tragic death of their comrades just now happened in front of them. They were hacked to death, fell from a high altitude, and burned to death by fire. The ways of death were endless, but equally miserable.

"Archers, free shooting!" After killing all the black-clad men who climbed up the city wall, Chen Wende immediately ordered to shoot at the enemy troops retreating outside the city.

Although the surrounding environment was relatively dark, under the rain of arrows, there were still many black-clad men who could not escape the range and fell under the arrows.

"If I had known you were coming, I would have prepared this great gift for you. You must be very satisfied." On the top of the city wall, Chen Wende murmured to himself after asking all archers to stop attacking.

Before Wu Fan left, he had warned him to be careful of the night attack of the rebels outside the city. Sure enough, Wu Fan guessed it right. The enemy troops outside the city really came to attack at night. Chen Wende, who had been prepared, was naturally not panicked at all and gave the enemy a head-on blow.

After arranging people to clean up the battlefield and stand guard, Chen Wende did not immediately return to the camp to rest, but looked up at the sky and said to himself: "This night is so long!"

At the same time, in the reserve team under the city, those commanders who were left in the garrison by Cai Cheng gathered together again. After Chen Wende readjusted the army's deployment, they were all in the same team, and it was naturally more convenient to get together.

"You all know what happened on the city just now, right?"

"With such a big commotion, unless you are deaf or blind, who would not know?"

"The people sent by Lord Cai returned in defeat, and I don't know if the loss is big."

"I just took a sneak peek. The people on the city carried down a lot of corpses, and the people outside the city were killed before they got to the city. Lord Cai is afraid that the loss this time is not small."

"Then Chen Wende is really good. Lord Cai is probably furious at this time."

"Who said it wasn't."

Everyone talked one after another, and there was some worry in their words.

They are all Cai Cheng's men, so they naturally hope that Cai Cheng's offensive will go smoothly. However, everything that happened today was quite unfavorable to Cai Cheng. First, the catapult was seized, then the losses during the siege increased, and the night attack was also discovered by Chen Wende. In short, today's battle was quite bad for Cai Cheng's army.

As Cai Cheng's men, they were naturally not in a good mood.

"Should we do something?" One of the generals said.

"What?" Everyone looked at each other.

"Yes, do something!" The general who had just spoken became firm in his tone: "Before, everything went well for Lord Cai, so we can naturally continue to hide and watch the show, but now Lord Cai's offensive is not going well, we should do something to help Lord Cai."

"But, Lord Cai has not given us an order yet, is it really okay for us to act privately?" Someone worriedly said.

In fact, they had discussed this topic before. At that time, some supported waiting and watching, while others advocated taking the initiative. Now, when Cai Cheng's offensive was not going well, this topic was brought up for discussion again.

There are still two different views, but the difference is that this time there are more people who support taking the initiative.