Chapter 278, The Secret Passage
Tang Lang walked along the passage to a relatively wide tunnel hall, and shouted in a low voice: "Brothers of Duobao Villa, gather!"
Although he didn't use the Loud Sound Spell, he mixed a few thoughts of his own as he spoke, and his voice was not loud, but it buzzed like thunder in everyone's ears. Soon, everyone who heard the order, whether it was Zuo Xiaowei or members of the reserve team, all came to the hall where Tang Lang was sitting.
"Where's Boss Hu?" Several veterans who were familiar with Tang Lang saw that he was the only one, and Hu Hefeng couldn't help but ask casually.
Tang Lang did not answer directly, but glanced at everyone, and then said calmly: "Brothers of Zuo Xiaowei, Tang Lang is here to thank you in advance! Thank you for accompanying us who have lost our families back to Tianqing, the next battle will be extremely dangerous, and we can't ask you brothers to continue to accompany us on adventures, so from now on, we have to divide our troops into two ways, Zuo Xiaowei's brothers will be led by Brother Hu to join Zhai Baihu, and the rest of the brothers and I will go into the city to save people!"
"What, now enter the city? There are thousands of fierce soldiers in the city now, and with your manpower, you will die a life!" muttered an old soldier.
"Even if it's ten deaths, I'm going to try!" Tang Lang said with an unchanged expression: "Of course, I can't force it!" Brothers of Duobao Villa, the Li Feng Legion has captured thousands of civilians and returned to the city, if you don't guess wrong, most of them are going to feed Gu with people, I can't see death without saving it, but this time there is more than one luck, if you are willing to accompany me Tang Lang, please step forward!"
The members of Tang Lang's group of reserve team were basically classmates of Canglei Academy at that time, and they hated Dark Yan and Li Feng to the core, and many of them had relatives and friends who died tragically under his knife.
"Okay, brothers, pack up your things, let's go!" Tang Lang didn't want to delay time, and prepared to leave immediately.
"Wait! Who would dare to take a step out of the tunnel without Lao Tzu's order!" Hu Hefeng appeared behind Tang Lang and blocked everyone's way.
"Brother Hu, don't get in the way!" Tang Lang's face sank, not wanting to argue with the other party again.
Hu Hefeng's eyes glared: "Dare to argue with Lao Tzu, right! You kid has only fought with the Li Feng Legion a few times, and you dare to go under the noses of others to save people, I think it's almost like sending you to death!"
"How could I take my brothers to die in vain?" but so many civilians were sent to the wolf's kiss, if I didn't go to the rescue, I couldn't bear it!" Tang Lang retorted.
"Then let me ask you: Where are these people imprisoned? What is the distribution of the Li Feng Legion in the city? A few days ago, 10,000 Qing troops were dispatched, is there still ...... left in the city?"
"So......" Hu Hefeng's speed of speech eased slightly: "It's not enough to have a lot of blood, you have to have brains to fight!"
Tang Lang stood for a long time before he reacted: "Brother Hu, these words are really what you thought of yourself?
Hu Hefeng's little momentum that he had managed to shape suddenly relaxed, and he said with a red face: "It's what Lao Tzu thought of himself!" At the same time, behind him, a note was tightly held in his hand.
Tang Lang didn't delve into it, and arched his hand and said, "What kind of guidance does Brother Hu have? As long as you can save those civilians, you can let me do anything!"
Hu Hefeng followed the strategy he had just seen on the note, and said eloquently: "In a war, the most important thing is intelligence. We have too little information now, so let's find out the situation first. As far as I know, the Tianqing Imperial Family built an escape teleportation formation back then......"
"I know this, the Filipinos have been destroyed after escaping from the palace!" Tang Lang interrupted.
Hu Hefeng was very dissatisfied with his answer, and continued with a frown: "In fact, in addition to the escape formation, there are several secret passages leading to the outside world in the Tianqing Palace, and we can just use it to sneak into the city. ”
"Secret Dao?Things that are not clear in Filipino language, where do you know about it, Brother Hu?" Tang Lang asked puzzledly, he and Zhao Feiyu had discussed it more than once before, and he had never heard Zhao Feiyu mention the matter of counterattacking the imperial city one day.
Hu Hefeng smiled proudly: "Tianqing and Hongxu have all received all kinds of assistance from Tianlan, so why is it difficult to get some secret information. What you should pay attention to is not these details, but how we infiltrate the city, after all, the imperial city has been occupied by the Lifeng Legion for so long, and some secret passages may have been discovered and damaged by it, maybe a trap has been arranged!"
Tang Lang thought for a moment, and quickly responded: "In that case, Brother Hu quickly tell me the location of the secret passage, and I will sneak into the imperial city tonight to find out." ”
"How can you do it alone?" Hu Hefeng directly refused.
"I'm just looking for information, not a head-on conflict. In order to avoid startling the snake, the fewer people the better!" Tang Lang still insisted on walking alone.
Hu Hefeng was a little worried: "It's better for the two of us to be together, so we can take care of it!"
"No!" Tang Lang replied without hesitation: "If the two of us are trapped in the Imperial City at the same time, what will these brothers do? Brother Hu, haven't you forgotten the previous battle with monsters in the mountain villa, the fact that I captured the prisoners, and the sneak attack, I am more experienced than you!"
"Okay, be careful!" Hu Hefeng could only agree, and handed the note he was holding in his hand to Tang Lang.
"I know!" Tang Lang looked suddenly enlightened, and saw that the handwriting on the note was written by Zhai Wu.
Hu Hefeng explained: "Don't mind, Lao Zhai is such a stinky temper, he will be wary of you until he gains his trust." Before leaving, he approached me alone and instructed him that if he found out that you just wanted Zuo Xiaowei to back you and ignore everyone's life or death, he would part ways with you, but if you have no malicious intent, I can help you as much as possible on the premise of ensuring safety!"
Tang Lang also felt that his attitude towards Zhai Wu just now was a little tough, and he couldn't help it: "Brother Hu, but I seemed to have a very bad attitude just now, Zhai Baihu won't mind!"
"No!" Hu Hefeng shook his head and said, but he secretly thought in his heart: "Your kid is dead, Lao Zhai's heart is smaller than a woman, we usually don't dare to offend him, you actually dared to confront him in front of him just now, provoke his authority, you will suffer the next time we meet! Haha, there is a good show to watch!"
Where did Tang Lang know this, he was engrossed in looking at the brief map drawn on the slip of paper, and the system also merged the map with the information recorded from his previous walks in the imperial city, and quickly pieced together a three-dimensional map.
Night fell quickly, Tang Lang said hello to everyone and asked everyone to be on guard, while he blended into the night and sneaked in the direction of the imperial city.
In order to stay vigilant, Tang Lang also released the stand-in from the system, escaped into the underground, and explored the way for himself in front, and it didn't take long for him to see the shadow of the imperial city. In the past, the imperial city was brightly lit and full of people, and now it became silent, only the torches lit every ten zhang on the city wall emitted a faint light.
There was another sting pain in his heart, and he was even more determined to make the dark flame blood debt, taking a deep breath to block the distracting thoughts in his heart, Tang Lang began to look for the entrance to the secret passage.
"System, scan with all your might!" Soon, Tang Lang found the entrance to a secret passage, and let the stand-in sneak over from the ground to check, the cover at the entrance was intact, and it seemed that it had not been discovered by the Li Feng Legion.
But he still didn't dare to be careless, so he let the stand-in continue to walk in the direction of the extension of the secret passage towards the interior of the imperial city, until he came to a gutter inside the palace before stopping.
Tang Lang carefully looked at the picture on the light curtain transmitted back to the system by the stand-in, and always felt a little uneasy in his heart, the Li Feng army had occupied the imperial city for so long, it was impossible for it to have not done any investigation, this secret passage was the easiest to find out among all the six or seven secret passages, and it should be landfilled.
didn't dare to let the stand-in show up, Tang Lang asked the stand-in to check all the other secret passages according to the map, and they were all safe and sound, which made Tang Lang's heart even more uneasy.
In fact, he didn't know that the reason why these secret passages were all preserved was because of Dongfang Shun's hands.
At that time, after the Li Feng army broke the city, in addition to emptying the Tianqing treasury, they also looted the aristocratic and wealthy merchants who had no time to escape, of course, they did not forget to check all kinds of secret passages, but under the deliberate cover of Dongfang Shun, all these secret passages were retained for other purposes.
Because of the exploration of the secret passage, Tang Lang had delayed a lot of time, seeing that it was already late at night, and the imperial city had become quieter, he turned his heart sideways, broke into one of the secret passages, and entered the palace along the narrow passage.
The other exit of the secret passage was designed under a large tree in a garden, through the gap between the soil and tree roots, Tang Lang looked out, and did not see a single figure, nor did it show anything on the scanning interface of the system.
Tang Lang didn't want to expose the exit of the secret passage, so he dived back into the ground, and let the stand-in open a hole in the corner on the other side of the garden, and then jumped to the ground.
Carefully recalling the layout of the buildings he saw inside the Imperial City at the beginning, combined with the map given by the system, Tang Lang selected several locations that were most likely to hold refugees, and prepared to explore them one by one.
The first is the Tianqing military camp, the 10,000 Tianqing troops sent from the imperial city a few days ago set off from the barracks, and Tang Lang can also check it out first.
After Tianlan had seen a lot of military camps, especially the Xuanjia Army camp, Tang Lang was already very familiar with the arrangements such as setting up bright posts and secret posts outside the barracks, and he was half a mile away from the Tianqing military camp, so he had already asked the system to scan with all his might, and he wanted to find out the sentries hiding in the shadows and knock them out.
But when he reached the gate of the camp, he didn't find any secret sentry, and the guards patrolling in front of the gate were also listless, and some were even dozing.
Tang Lang bypassed the gate and saw a shadowy corner, and lightly jumped into the camp, which was littered with all kinds of miscellaneous items and garbage......