Chapter 311: Old Lang Dies: On the Beach
Outside the Confucius Temple, Ma Xiu and his subordinates took advantage of the night to surround these Dong Zhuo soldiers who broke into the Confucius Temple.
After a while, the ground was already full of corpses, and Ma Xiu ordered his subordinates to quickly change into the clothes of these people, and prepared a suit for Han Sui, if he didn't pay attention, almost no one could recognize him and Han Sui.
"Uncle nephew, it's really yours, it only took half a pillar of incense to do all this, it can be seen that there is indeed something outstanding!" Han Sui was mixed with Ma Xiu's men, and couldn't help but look at Ma Xiu, a young man who looked a little immature, with some surprise, and sighed that people were not good-looking.
Matthew snorted coldly: "The back waves of the Yangtze River push the front waves, your old wave has already died on the beach, but you don't want to admit it!"
Han Sui was speechless, so he changed the topic and said: "It seems that I can't stay here, I will be found out if I am late, I still have to find a way to go out of the city, otherwise as soon as the morning dawns, Dong Zhuo's reinforcements will arrive, and if you want to leave at that time, it will be too late!"
Matthew nodded in agreement, and continued: "Having said that, but don't be careless, our people outside the city are just bluffing, and now your people are gathered in the east, north and west of the city, and the city guards must think that you will escape from these places, so the defense of the south gate will definitely be slack, and we will pretend to be the enemy's men and horses, there will always be a way to get out of the city!"
After saying this, Matthew immediately gave the order to go down, hiding the corpses of the enemy, and marching towards the south of the city.
Unexpectedly, as soon as everything was settled, everyone came out of the Confucius Temple, and a team came to open the way, and Ma Xiu and Han Sui took a closer look, and they were actually the guards of Jincheng.
The guard naturally discovered Matthew's group, but because they were far away and saw that Matthew and the others were wearing the clothes of his troops, he didn't suspect much, but stopped and shouted at Matthew: "Have you searched here?
Ma Xiu and Han Sui glanced at each other, lowered their heads and didn't dare to make too much noise, and only said: "It's been searched, there is no one here, and the subordinates are planning to go to other places to search and arrest!"
The guard shook his head and sneered: "No need, now there is not enough manpower, I need to send someone to the military camp in the southeast of the city to bring rescue troops, this is my warrant, with this, they will definitely believe that you are not lying about the military situation, of course, it is not a problem to go out of the city!"
As he spoke, the guard took out an iron plate made of metal from his body and handed it to Matthew, but just as he was about to hand it to Matthew, the keeper smelled a strong smell of blood from Matthew.
His hand flickered in the air, and he glanced coldly at Matthew and the soldiers behind him, and found that they were all faces he had never seen before, and his heart was shocked.
Ma Xiu didn't know that the other party had already recognized his identity, so he only asked suspiciously: "Is there really no one in that Confucius Temple?"
He said this, but he looked at the Confucius Temple not far behind Ma Xiu, and Ma Xiu also looked over, only to see a group of night owls screaming miserably, flying from a distance, and landing on the branch of a dead tree in the Confucius Temple, as if he did not notice the existence of Ma Xiu and other centaurs outside the temple, but continued to scream towards the houses in the temple, like a ghost crying.
Night owls are birds that specialize in feeding on human corpses, and they are now appearing here in large numbers, and Matthew and the others have a strong smell of blood, and this guard knows what must have happened just now, no matter how stupid he is.
Ma Xiu turned his head and pretended to look at the temple, but he was actually showing his eyes to everyone under him, and once there was a change, he was ready to do it.
Han Sui suddenly laughed out loud at this time, he walked in front of the guard with his head down, and said in a deep voice: "What does the general mean by this, do you suspect that we have done something illegal? At this time, it seems that dealing with the enemy army outside the city is the most important thing, right? If it is delayed for a while, I am afraid that the thief army will surround the entire golden city, and if you want to go for help at that time, it may not be useful!"
Although he was right, the guard general still couldn't help but be suspicious, especially after hearing Han Sui's voice, he always felt that he had heard it somewhere, and he shouted: "You, raise your head, let me see!"
Ma Xiu and the others suddenly raised their hearts to their throats, Han Sui, this guy, wouldn't he want to betray them when the catastrophe was coming, right?
At this moment, suddenly a group of more than ten soldiers ran quickly to the defender and said: "General Qiyu, the enemy troops outside the city don't know why, there is a commotion in the rear, and the enemy soldiers who are attacking the city are also forced to withdraw!"
"Huh?" When the guard heard this, he still didn't believe it, and he didn't care about Ma Xiu Han Sui and these people, and went straight to the city tower with a large group of men and horses.
Ma Xiu and the others breathed a sigh of relief, but he immediately asked Han Sui coldly: "Old thief, did you just want to save your life and send us all out?"
Han Sui laughed, and the beard on his mouth also trembled: "It turns out that young heroes also have times when they are afraid, but how can I, Han Wenyu, be this kind of villain who will take revenge? Uncle nephew, I just don't want you to kill this person on impulse, in that case, it will be really difficult for us to get out of the city!"
Matthew snorted coldly: "What good idea do you have, not to be protected by my people? Now that the enemy will not die, the city will naturally not be able to cause chaos, if it is not chaotic, how can you get out of the city?"
He didn't say any more about the rest of the words, because he saw Han Sui slowly and leisurely take out something from his arms-it was actually the warrant that the guard had just taken!
Matthew could hear it clearly just now, and only with this warrant could he get out of the city smoothly.
"How did you do that, old thief?" he asked in surprise.
Han Sui smiled lightly: "When I was kidnapped by Beigong Boyu's rebels last year, I learned the method from his subordinates, you can easily obtain the things on the other party without the other party noticing, I just talked to him, in fact, I deliberately distracted his attention, naturally, this warrant will also be used!"
Ma Xiu took the warrant and looked at it in his hand a few times, and the hostility towards Han Sui in his mouth was not as strong as before, but he still said with a straight face: "The old thief can't see how many times there are left!"
"Don't always call the old thief and the old thief, didn't Brother Shoucheng teach his son how to talk to people? I am a brother with a different surname from Ling Zun, you should call me uncle!" Han Sui laughed and said speechlessly.
Ma Xiu ignored Han Sui, and ordered everyone in a deep voice: "Go, go to the south of the city, Zhong Qi has probably been waiting for a long time!"
Taking advantage of the night, the group hurried towards the south of the city, and when they were interrogated, they only said that the guard had ordered them to go out of the city to the camp of the commander to move the rescue troops, and they were allowed to leave.
But after walking out of the city for a long time, Ma Xiu still didn't find the people and horses that Ma Tie came to answer, and he couldn't help but beat a drum in his heart, and said to himself: "Strange, why hasn't Zhongqi arrived yet?"
At this time, there was a sudden shouting and shouting behind them, and the torches were all in the same name, it turned out that the Jincheng guards soon found out that their warrants were lost, and immediately suspected that they had just met Han Sui and Ma Xiu, hundreds of people, and heard that the guards at the south gate said that some people said that not long ago someone said that they were out of the city because of a mission, so they guessed that it must be the hands and feet of the people who responded to Han Sui.
"It's coming so fast!" Seeing the enemy soldiers and horses coming out of the city, Matthew immediately ordered to speed up the march, and at the same time prepared to meet the battle at any time.
"After all, they are all Dong Zhuo's men and horses, but they are not fools!" Han Sui also had a long sword in his hand at this moment, because there were no horses, he could only march on foot like Ma Xiu. But because he was relatively fat, he was out of breath after a while.
"Spot them, chase!" the shouts of enemy cavalry sounded in the distance, sounding incomparably clear in the night.
Ma Xiu frowned, stared at Han Sui and said, "Your people are really unreliable, they haven't come to answer after so long!"
Han Sui looked at the nearby terrain and sighed and said: "This is not surprising, Jincheng is surrounded by mountains on three sides and has water on the other, although it is not as steep as the terrain of the Central Plains, but it is not suitable for a large group of people to march, so your small force of hundreds of people is easy to mix in!"
Ma Xiu smiled bitterly: "But it's easy to come in and difficult to get out, and the mountain road is not easy to walk, so we can only go down the river to the east and enter and exit the Jincheng territory." โ
After saying that, Ma Xiu was about to order his subordinates to quickly go down the river, but Han Sui said at this time: "It's not so simple, the enemy we can think of may not be unthinkable, and besides, it seems that our exit from the city is a little too smooth, what if the enemy lays an ambush in the lower reaches of the river? It is better to swim up and enter the rugged land in the southwest, so that not only can we hide people's eyes and ears, but even if our whereabouts are exposed, the enemy's brigade can only be held back!"
The terrain that Han Sui said was also explored in advance, and it is indeed as Han Sui said that the road is rugged and difficult to walk, and it is a place that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, but there is also a bad thing that if you choose to defend to the death, you will lose a great opportunity to escape from Jincheng, just like a person retreating to a dead end, although you can only concentrate on defending and attacking, but it is almost impossible to get out, not to mention the supply problem.
"Time is pressing, we must divide our troops!" Matthew said his opinion, and at the same time said to the crowd: "From now on, our troops will be divided into two ways, and I will take half of my men down the river to attract the enemy soldiers from the city, the old thiefโ"
Speaking of this, Ma Xiu also felt that it was not good to call it like this, so he changed his tone and said: "Uncle Han led the remaining half of the people to swim up, and after I attracted the enemy army, I went directly over the frozen river, and then destroyed the ice surface to prevent the enemy from pursuing!"
Han Sui heard that Matthew was actually going to attract enemy troops for him, and his heart was naturally shocked, but before he had time to say anything, Matthew had already gone down the river with half of his men, and at the same time, he deliberately let the soldiers shout together to expose their whereabouts to the pursuing enemy soldiers:
"Your grandfather Han Sui is here, if you have the ability, you will come to arrest me!"