Chapter 22: Night Attack

In the middle of the night, Zhang Xiao led the chengguan brigade to set off towards the Xiongnu camp under the leadership of the soldier. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

After walking for about ten minutes, Zhang Xiao stopped and asked the soldier, "How far is it now?"

"At the speed just now, it should be less than five miles!"

Zhang Xiao said when he heard this: "Everyone get off the horse and walk over!" ”

When they heard this, they got off their horses, drove a few stakes on the ground, tied their horses, and set out.

After more than 20 minutes of work, Zhang Xiao and the others saw a glimmer of light in the dark night. Zhang Xiao immediately turned off the flashlight in his hand and hid behind a sand dune with everyone behind him.

With the help of the faint firelight in front of him, Zhang Xiao found that it was a stockade, which felt like a miniature version of the city, and the distance was only more than a hundred meters. Then he took out his binoculars and observed that the earthen city wall also had a city gate, and there were eight sentry posts on the city wall.

Zhang Xiao put down the binoculars and turned around and said, "There are eight sentry posts on the city wall, exactly one for each person, solve it at the same time, go!" ”

Hearing this, everyone nodded, and with the help of the cover of night, they touched towards the city wall. When they were only about thirty meters away from the city wall, they stopped, and then everyone took off their small bows and crossbows, hung up the strings, aimed at the sentry on the city wall, and pulled the trigger at the same time.

Eight bolts shoot out of the darkness to take out all the enemies. Zhang Xiao saw that the enemy on the city wall was eliminated, and walked over with the soldier with a swagger.

The group quietly came to the city wall, and Zhang Xiao glanced at the city wall, but it was only seven or eight meters high.

Zhang Xiao pointed to the top of the city wall, and when everyone saw this, they immediately took out a rope, and a hook was tied to one end of the rope, and everyone threw the hook with the rope on the city wall, and climbed up the city wall along the rope.

After Zhang Xiao climbed the city wall, he immediately observed the other side of the city wall, Zhang Xiao could only use the faint light of the torch to see that there was a huge open space three or four meters deep below the ground, and then there were some houses.

The open space on this side of the city wall is a bit like a gladiatorial arena, and there are many cells on the edge, and there is a person guarding the cell every ten meters outside the cell, because the torch light is too dim, Zhang Xiao can't see who is locked in the cell.

However, according to Zhang Xiao's experience of watching TV dramas for so many years, he feels that the soldiers who were arrested are in charge of the prison cell.

After observing, Zhang Xiao said softly: "On the edge of the open space below are some cells, there is a guard every ten meters, there are about twenty, now it is divided into three groups, Qinglong Baihu and I are in a group, Vermilion Bird Xuanwu Pheasant is in a group, we will act separately to solve the problem The guards will release the people in the cell, and the rest of the people will be in a group, responsible for opening the city gate, understand!" ”

Hearing this, everyone nodded and began to act separately. Zhang Xiao took the green dragon and white tiger down from the city wall, and quietly touched the top of the cell at the edge of the gladiatorial arena, if you look closely, you can vaguely see a few half-crouching black shadows on the opposite side of a hundred meters away from them, it is the Vermilion Bird.

Then, the six of them scattered all over the edge, and Zhang Xiao took the lead in jumping down from above, landing behind one of the guards, twisting his neck, and taking out his crossbow and shooting at a nearby guard. Zhang Xiao, who suddenly appeared, attracted the attention of several guards around him, but before they could make a move, he was dealt with by Qinglong and others who jumped from above.

Dark night is the best disguise, the diameter of the gladiatorial arena is almost a hundred meters, what is happening on this side is difficult to find on the opposite side, and the movements of Zhang Xiao and the others did not make too obvious sounds, plus this time is the time when people are most mentally exhausted, and there are even a few signs that the guards are not aware of.

Qinglong and a few people quietly touched over and used bows and crossbows to deal with the remaining guards, and Zhang Xiao found the key to the cell from the guards.

Some of the people in the cell woke up because of the movement outside, Zhang Xiao approached the cell, saw the clothes worn by the people inside, and confirmed that these were the captured soldiers of the Qin State, so he made a silent action and quietly opened the prison door.

Qinglong and the others were also opening other prison doors, when the rattlesnake ran over and said, "Sir, the city gate has been opened, you can leave at any time!" ”

But as soon as the rattlesnake finished speaking, a sudden cry came: "There is an enemy!" ”

When Zhang Xiao heard the prestige, he saw that there were more than a dozen Huns with weapons standing on the stairs below, and according to Zhang Xiao's estimate, they should have come to change the guard.

Zhang Xiao immediately took out his bow and crossbow and shot at one of them, he couldn't care so much now, the shout just now must have alarmed the other enemies, and immediately shouted: "Hurry up, everyone hurry out of the city!" ”

At this time, all the cells had been opened, and with Zhang Xiao's shout, a large number of Qin soldiers ran towards the city gate, estimated to be several thousand.

Zhang Xiao and the Chengguan Brigade followed last, and when they arrived at the gate of the city, the enemy's troops chased after them, and Zhang Xiao immediately shouted: "The Chengguan Brigade is broken!" ”

When the chengguan brigade heard this, they took out a bamboo tube fireworks bomb while running, and when they ran out of the city, they lit the fireworks bombs in their hands and threw them back to the city gate, and the eight fireworks bombs released gorgeous fireworks, blocking the pursuing enemies at the city gate, and even some people were directly injured by the fireworks, and they wailed on the ground.

When the enemy at the city gate came out, Zhang Xiao and them were no longer there, so they had to give up the pursuit.

Zhang Xiao and the Chengguan Brigade found the horses and motorcycles they came, and escorted the Qin soldiers back to the barracks.

"I am Li Gang, the leader here, thank you so much tonight, although I don't know who you are, but you saved me and my brothers, this kindness cannot be repaid!" After arriving at the barracks, a man said to Zhang Xiao.

Zhang Xiao smiled when he heard this: "The general is polite, we belong to the Mengjia army, and when we learned that the border military situation was urgent, we rushed over first!" ”

Li Gang was surprised when he heard this: "Oh! Your Excellency is a member of the Meng Army, when will General Meng arrive? ”

"It will take another half a month for General Meng's team to reach it!" Zhang Xiao replied.

"Half a month, that's good, I'll let my brothers guard it well, and wait for General Meng's reinforcements to arrive!"

Zhang Xiao asked again: "General Li, I heard that you were captured in this defeat because the waterwheel was destroyed, the brothers had no water to drink, and their bodies collapsed, what is going on?" ”

Li Gang sighed when he heard this: "A few days ago, the barracks took in a homeless person, but who knew that the waterwheel was destroyed that night, and the brothers who went out to carry water should come back tomorrow!" ”

"Those Huns should not take action until they find out our latest situation, General Li should let your brothers hurry up and rest, and leave the guard work of the military camp to me tonight!" Zhang Xiao said.

Li Gang hugged his fists when he heard the words and said, "Then there is Your Excellency Lao!" ”