Chapter Seventy-Four: The Capture of the City in Broad Daylight

"What? I heard you right, my lord, how can it be successful during the day. Duan Xiaohan didn't seem to believe his ears.

"I am unprepared for the enemy, and no one would have thought that we would raid the gates during the day. Duan Xiaohan infiltrated Shucheng with a group of capable brothers, and started to capture the city at three o'clock in the afternoon, and the cavalry outside the city would attack Shucheng at the same time. In addition, 200 men were selected to squat outside the city to intercept and kill those who had gone from Shucheng to the military camp outside. Lu Zhan made the final arrangements.

Duan Xiaohan and more than a dozen people dressed up as merchants, and the rest of the people pretended to be hunters or people who went into the city to do small business and entered the city in batches from different city gates. After a brief interrogation, the soldiers defending the city let a few people in, after all, it was not uncommon to see some fresh faces.

The people who entered Shucheng gathered according to the pre-agreed location, and the innkeeper had no idea that dozens of dangerous people had arrived at his inn.

"The boss and my brothers are businessmen passing through Shucheng, and we are going to have a few upper rooms." Duan Xiaohan threw a string of copper walls on the table.

Seeing that the owner of the door seller warmly entertained a few people, more than a dozen people dressed as hunters walked in when Xiao Er's tea was pouring water. One of them said, "The boss just has a chase shop for our brother."

These hunters were naturally the people brought by Duan Xiaohan, and the reason why they pretended not to know was because Duan Xiaohan ordered them. Those who cannot recognize each other in front of outsiders do not become suspicious.

On the same day, dozens of people came one after another, and the boss kept fiddling with the abacus to calculate how much money was recorded today, and today was really a full harvest day. In the middle of the night, these strangers gathered to discuss tomorrow's division of labor.

Except for the dozens of people who sneaked into the city behind Duan Xiaohan, everyone slept in the woods outside the city. Lu Zhan waved at the full moon above his head to drive away mosquitoes, and slowly closed his eyes listening to the sound of snoring and cicadas.

It was the soldiers who were guarding the city in the hot noon yawning listlessly, and who didn't want to lie down in the house in the hot noon to cool off. A soldier defending the city saw a group of people in different costumes slowly approaching the city gate, and asked his commander to report that something was wrong.

Who knew that the officer on duty scolded him, although Shucheng was not too far from the front line, but what else could happen at this time. The officer on duty snorted coldly at the group of people who might have a problem, but it was nothing more than a group of people dressed as merchants, hunters, and peasants.

The leader took it out for the soldiers defending the city to see, and when the soldiers were lazily looking at the papers, they felt a cold neck, and those people dressed as hunters took out their hunting bows and took feather arrows and shot them at the soldiers defending the city.

These soldiers of the Jin Kingdom who were guarding the city suddenly panicked when they encountered such a change, and the brothers beside them fell one after another, making it difficult for these people to react. A few people who reacted wanted to close the city gate and close the door one by one, and when they beat the dog, they were stabbed by a sharp blade.

With deliberate calculations or unintentional, more than half of these soldiers defending the city were killed by a sneak attack with sharp blades, and the rest hurriedly picked up the spears and broadswords in their hands and prepared to fight. But where could these ordinary soldiers who had not formed a battle formation be the opponents of a martial arts master like Duan Xiaohan, but they were killed by the sharp blade in Duan Xiaohan's hand in the blink of an eye.

The soldiers at the head of the city found the mess at the gate of the city, and when they looked at it, they were shot through the throat by a sharp arrow, and fell heavily from the city wall to the ground.

The rest of the soldiers saw smoke and dust rising from outside the city, and the experienced veterans, knowing that it was a cavalry attack, shouted to close the city gates, only to find that there was no movement under the city walls.

Lu Zhan led more than 1,300 cavalry through the city gate under the gaze of Duan Xiaohan and others and approached the Shucheng Treasury, where had the residents on the streets of Shucheng seen such a battle, and after a short period of stunnedness, they hid on both sides of the street.

The inhabitants shivered as they heard the sound of horses' hooves passing through the streets, and a few brave men poked their heads out of the windows to look at the cavalry, none of whom were dressed in uniform or under the banner of the Jin Kingdom. Looking at the banners of Lu and Yan that were erected, these residents knew that it was Lu Zhan, who was newly sealed in Yanzhou, who led the troops to fight.

"Who's so noisy out there? I don't know if I don't like to be disturbed when I'm working. Shucheng's Kong Taishou said loudly after listening to the hurried voices outside.

A person dressed as a subordinate stumbled in, and before the subordinate could speak, Kong Taishou accused: "Look at what kind of body you look like, and say something slowly." Saying that, Kong Taishou poured himself a cup of tea.

"My lord, something is wrong. Lu Zhan of Yanzhou entered Shucheng with his soldiers. ”

"What did you say? This Lu Zhan has entered Shucheng, are the soldiers at the gate of the city decorations! ”

"My lord, how dare the villain deceive, this Lu Zhan's cavalry has gone straight to the Shucheng Treasury."

After hearing this news, Kong Taishou sat on the ground, he knew the news that the Zhi family wanted to move troops to Yanzhou, there was a large amount of grain and grass stored in this Shucheng, and now the grain and grass in this treasury could not be saved, and he would definitely be held accountable. For now, the only way to do this is to send someone to inform the soldiers in the large camp outside the city to protect the grain and grass.

"Quick! Ordered people to go quickly to the situation outside the city of Dayingshucheng. ”

"Yes, the little ones will go and let them rescue Shucheng." After saying that, the man was ready to leave.

"No, let them hold on to the camp and be sure to protect the grain and grass." Kong Taishou knew the importance of the grain and grass outside the city, even if the grain and grass in the Shucheng Mansion Treasury were burned, as long as the grain and grass outside the city were safe and sound, maybe the Zhi family would leave this head.

The soldiers guarding the treasury looked at the roaring cavalry and gave up useless resistance, except for a few unlucky ghosts who were killed by the street, and most of them hid behind the gates of the treasury.

Seeing the closed gate, Duan Xiaohan raised the corners of his mouth, and opened the door of the treasury with more than a dozen nimble brothers and a dozen nimble brothers.

Seeing that the closed gate was opened by Duan Xiaohan, the cavalry poured in, and the remaining guards discarded their weapons and surrendered to the cavalry of the landing exhibition. The cavalrymen took the oil from the treasury and poured it on the grain and grass, and burned it down.

Zhang Yu stood outside and looked at the sky-high flames and thick black smoke, and then said to Lu Zhan beside him, "The next step is to prepare to attack the camp outside the city, right?"

"Of course, the defenders in Shucheng will soon find out that we are not many and will come and block us." After speaking, Lu Zhan beckoned the cavalry to prepare to leave the city,

The messenger who left the city one step earlier than Lu Zhan was shot down by an arrow on the way to gallop on horseback, and the soldier who shot the arrow said in a low voice Fortunately, this Lord Lu had already prepared, otherwise the Jin army in the camp would have been prepared.