Volume 1: The Death of the Cycle Chapter 25 The Breakthrough Begins
The next day, early in the morning.
Last night's wind and snow raged all night, a white scenery outside the city, this snow white covered all the traces of yesterday, it is hard to imagine that there were dozens of people here yesterday to stop to say goodbye.
The city wall exudes a cold color in the faint light of the sky, and there is no one to defend the city in Xilin City at night, or after entering the winter, there are few city guards who are on duty to guard the city without sleep.
This is all thanks to the actions of the two major families of Xilin City, the Zhang family and the Li family, who crusaded against the bandits five years ago, which greatly damaged the vitality of the bandits around Xilin City.
Many bandits chose to disband on the spot, leaving only a handful of bandits to survive in the surrounding mountains and forests, and only dared to make a move against the small merchants and small households in Xilin City.
As for sneaking into Xilin City at night before, it never happened again.
However, this peaceful scene did not last long, in the mountains and forests far away from Xilin City, hundreds of bandits wearing leather armor and fur coats quietly walked out of the mountains and forests.
Everyone's feet were tied with gray strips of cloth, and there was almost no sound of trampling in the snow, as if they were a group of ghosts.
When the nearly 100 people approached the city gate, the bandits scattered around the city gate, and then a strong man with a copper hammer and a man with a gloomy expression walked from behind the bandits.
Lin Shuanghuo looked at the closed door and frowned.
"How are you going to open the gates?"
Yin Fei smiled slightly, and said confidently:
"Don't worry, my Zhou family has already sent someone to answer at the city gate, and I will let them open the door immediately!"
As he spoke, the man walked to the gate of the city and knocked on the gate three times according to the pre-agreed code, but there was no response at all.
Inside the city gates
"Zhang Yu, someone knocked on the city gate, what should I do?"
Ten Zhang family Fu guards stood in a pool of blood, the talisman knives in their hands faintly emitting blood, obviously they had just drunk blood.
"Don't worry, let him knock for a while?"
The yin man outside the city had faint sweat on his forehead at this time.
Behind him, there was the urging voice of Lin Shuanghuo, the second master of the Black Tiger Cottage.
"I said, are your Zhou family playing tricks on me!"
At this time, the yin man also scolded in his heart.
"Second master, don't worry, maybe that group of tired goods accidentally fell asleep. Immediately, the shadow man couldn't help but knock on the door with a little strength in his hand and shouted in a low voice, "It's me, open the door!"
In the sound of the heavy city gate and the friction of the snow, the city gate slowly revealed a crack, seeing this, the yin man couldn't help but want to go in to see what the tired and lazy thing was!
Just as the Yin Men moved, an arm dressed in the Zhou family's service stretched out from the dark city gate hole, pulled the Yin Man in, and then fell into silence again.
"Second master, what's going on?"
Lin Shuanghuo's cronies walked up to him and looked at everything that had just happened suspiciously.
"It seems that the Zhou family's plan has been seen through. ”
The cronies hesitated, but still asked, "Then do we still want to ......?"
Lin Shuanghuo smiled.
"Yes, why not, when did I say that our collaborators are only the Zhou family?"
The cronies looked puzzled.
"Boss, then we ......"
Before the cronies could express their doubts, a corpse that fell from the top of the wall made everyone turn their attention to the group of guards with bows and crossbows above the wall.
Dozens of Fu guards drew their bows and aimed at the bandits below, and all the bandits on the cold thorn above the arrow couldn't help but squint their eyes.
Zhang Yu stood at the top of the wall at this time and looked down at the bandits under the city wall, with a faint smile on his face, as if he was already in control.
"Second master, let me introduce myself, Zhang Yu, a nobody of the Zhang family, I came to negotiate with you today on the order of the eldest young master of the Zhang family. ”
Zhang Ming?
Lin Shuanghuo's face did not fluctuate, but there were some waves in his heart, yesterday, Lin Shuanghuo learned that the eldest young master of the Zhang family left alone.
So he immediately sent someone to arrest the legendary waste young master Zhang Ming, but when Lin Shuanghuo's men caught up, they found that there was only one horse running in the mountains and forests.
There was no human figure on his horse, and Zhang Ming didn't know when he had broken away from the horse and was driving alone in the mountains and forests.
"It seems that your Zhang family is ready to break the boat. ”
Seeing the appearance of the Zhang family Fuwei who had defeated the Black Tiger Cottage, Lin Shuanghuo did not have any worries, on the contrary, when the Zhang family Fuwei appeared at the city gate.
In Lin Shuanghuo's heart, this should be the most dangerous time for the Zhang family, if it weren't for this, how could the Zhang family have divided so many people to stop them in this situation.
"This is not to worry about the second family, my young master has already arranged everything when he leaves, and now it depends on whether your Black Tiger Cottage is the enemy of our Zhang family!"
A disdainful smile appeared at the corner of Lin Shuanghuo's mouth.
"Enemies of your Zhang family? Aren't you crazy, when are you and I not enemies? Let me tell you, this city, my Black Tiger Cottage has settled!"
Zhang Yu nodded and said perfunctorily:
"I naturally believe in the courage of the second master, but my young master said that there are no eternal enemies in the world, only friends with different purposes......"
At this time, the bandits outside the city gate all laughed, and they looked at Zhang Yu who was standing above the city at this time with disdain, this guy shouldn't be a fool!
Lin Shuanghuo said even more disdainfully:
"Don't say it, today this is either your death or my death, brothers, siege the city!"
Zhang Yu hurriedly waved his hand and said loudly:
"Second master, my young master said that you would change your mind. ”
Lin Shuanghuo didn't plan to spend it with this guy, maybe this guy in front of him was just sent over to delay time.
Just when Lin Shuanghuo was about to wave his hand and lead his brothers to break the city gate and attack Zhang's house, he actually saw a person who should not be here.
Outside the gate of Zhang's mansion, the sky was cloudy, and the lanterns outside the mansion had not yet been extinguished by the servants who had risen early, and a little glimmer of light emanated from this dim environment, illuminating only a small area outside the mansion.
But in the place where the light barely reached, stood a hundred figures in leather armor and holding long swords.
These people were like ghosts in the night, baring their sharp teeth and looking at the Zhang family who was still sleeping with bloodthirsty eyes.
They were waiting, waiting for the first ray of light between heaven and earth to illuminate Xilin City, and at that moment, it was when they attacked the Zhang family and were destroyed.
At the back of all the teams, Zhou Xiong, the head of the Zhou family, looked to the east, looking at the place where the first rays of light rose