"Assemble, let's work!" A shout interrupted Wang Ran's thoughts, and when he saw that the people around him had gotten up and gathered in the open space in front of the wooden stack, he hurried to follow.

After the soldiers in charge of the people counted the number of people, they began to direct everyone to move logs, rolling stones, as well as bows, arrows, forks and other materials to the city wall. He wanted to observe the situation of the rebels camping outside the city, but it was not yet dawn and the distance was too far away, so he could only vaguely see some fires sandwiched between the cliffs.

In this way, they were busy until dawn, and everyone carried all the prepared supplies to the city wall, but before they could rest for long, there were drums and shouts of killing from the rebels outside the city.

After about an hour, there were officers and soldiers who came to gather people to carry the corpses, which was originally the work that the soldiers should do, but these days the officers and soldiers of the city were injured too much, and now they are a little stretched to resist the attack of the rebels, so they have to force the people to carry them.

When all the people heard that they were going to go up the city wall like a mountain of swords and a sea of fire at this time, they all retreated and kept shrinking back, making Wang Ran, who was standing still in place, look a little different, and fell into the eyes of the officers and soldiers.

In this way, Wang Ran and more than a dozen other people climbed the city wall where the battle was in full swing, and saw what it means to "fight bloodily and the sun and the moon are yellow", and know what it means to make human life like a mustard.

The stone-throwing arrows and feathers came overwhelmingly, and the ladder covering the opposing army was set up on the wall, and the officers and soldiers could only bow down, and several people worked together to push with fork rods. "Fork pole" is also called "resistant", the shape is similar to the gun, the two sides of the gun head are sharp, about two zhang long, several officers and soldiers hold the gun shaft, force forward, the ladder that has just been taken up is overturned, only to hear a scream and pop to the ground.

But there were too many rebels, and some of the walls were inevitably climbed up by them, so the defenders could only wave their swords and guns to fight them, shouting and killing, screaming, and the angry roars of the generals echoed on the wall, shaking the hearts of Wang Ran and others hiding on the steps.

"Don't be stunned!" The officers and soldiers who led them up to the city wall scolded them, and then said solemnly: "Be smart, when the offensive of the anti-army is over, immediately carry down the seriously injured and dead brothers, and don't worry about the lightly injured." ”

After the tea was over, the offensive of the rebels slowed down a little, and everyone quickly stepped forward to carry the corpse that had fallen behind the female wall, as well as the officers and soldiers who were seriously injured and unable to move.

In this way, a day passed, the rebels launched a total of three offensives, but they were all repulsed, the sky gradually darkened, the rebels finally withdrew their troops, and the defenders and people above and below the city wall breathed a sigh of relief, but Wang Ran looked at the blood-stained city wall, listening to the endless screams and screams around him, but his heart could not calm down for a long time.

After cleaning up the mess on the city wall, and helping the baggage team to move logs, rolling stones and other materials to defend the city under the city wall, it was already dark, and the people were allowed to return to the camp for food.

Wang Ran hid in the pile of wooden stacks by night, and waited until midnight to quietly climb out, and then sneaked under the city wall, found a place that he had marked, carefully dug up the soil on the ground, took out the burden buried in it, and tied it to his body, and then leaned on the city wall and walked forward carefully. It wasn't until he reached the bottom of the corner tower on the east side of the city wall that he stopped, cowering in the shadows to survey his surroundings.

About thirty paces away from him at this time was the staircase to the corner tower, and his target was a dark hole next to the staircase. After a day of fierce fighting, everyone was exhausted, and the soldiers who were supposed to guard the secret door were nowhere to be seen at this time, and they should have lazily run back to rest, but there were soldiers standing guard on the stairs. However, Wang Ran observed for a while, and saw that the soldier was leaning his back against the trunk, holding a spear as if he was napping, so he relaxed his heart and sneaked to the dark cave with light steps.

The dark hole was pitch black, Wang Ran stretched out his feet and probed, felt that there were steps below, so he bowed down and drilled down, touched the wall and walked for a while, Wang Ran took out the fire and blew it, and saw that the dark hole was about seven feet high and about two feet wide by the faint light of the fire, deep and crooked, like a bottomless hole, and walked forward for a distance, and saw that the side of the dark hole opened again, and stretched out his hand to use the fire to probe it, it turned out that it was a cellar inside, Wang Ran breathed a sigh of relief, this dark hole is indeed a hidden soldier cave.

When transporting the baggage before, Wang Ran found that there seemed to be a dark hole next to the stairs in the east, and felt a little strange, so he asked others, and an elderly man said that this could be a hidden soldier cave, as if there was a Tang Dynasty, Wang Ran secretly noticed it in his heart.

The cave is similar to a bunker, which can be used to garrison troops and hide baggage, but it also has one of the most important functions, which is to transport ambush troops out of the city.

There are moats outside the north, east and south of Chengdu, but there is no one in the west, because the peaks and mountains outside the west city are steep and mostly mountainous, so it is impossible to dig ditches, so if you attack Chengdu City, the best choice is the West Gate, and now the rebels outside the city are doing this.

Chengdu City is mainly built in the late Tang Dynasty Bohai County King Gao Yu when he was the Yin of Chengdu, the former Shu, the latter Shu to the current Song Dynasty, are only slightly strengthened on the original basis. At that time, the people who repaired the city naturally knew about this flaw, so they put more thought into other aspects, in addition to building the west city wall higher and stronger, they also built this hidden soldier hole, which could take advantage of the enemy's siege to secretly transport troops out of the city and kill the opponent from behind by surprise.

At this time, 100,000 anti-army troops outside the city are fierce, even if they have to divide their troops into the other three city gates, but most of them must still be stationed outside the west gate, and there are only more than 10,000 defenders left in the city, and they are all demoralized teams, so they will not take the initiative to go out to find death, so this hidden soldier cave is useless, and it is almost forgotten.

took out the oil lamp that had been prepared long ago and lit it, Wang Ran continued to move forward, but this hidden soldier cave was tortuous and winding, and after walking for a while, he actually came to a fork in the road, looking at the two opposite passages in front of him, he couldn't help but smile bitterly, if he got lost and was trapped in this hidden soldier cave, it would really be crying without tears.

But it is not his character to retreat from the battle, he pressed his doubts and walked to the fork in the road, and was about to gamble to go to the left first, when he suddenly felt the breeze blowing on his face, the lights were shaking, he held his breath and felt it for a while, and noticed that the wind was blowing from the right passage, Wang Ran firmly walked into the right passage.

In this way, he was guided by the breeze for a long time, walked through three forks along the way, and there were still a few places to climb up, Wang Ran finally came to the end, the road in front was blocked by stones and mud, but there were several small gaps near the top of the cave, and the cool breeze penetrated into the dark passage from here. Silently calculated the distance, Wang Ran couldn't help but be a little speechless, I am afraid that this secret passage is almost three miles long, then this exit must be far away from the city wall, I don't know how far away from Brother Wang's military camp.

Wang Ran blew out the oil lamp, cleaned the stones and soil at the entrance of the cave by the moonlight sprinkled through the gaps, cleared it for a long time, and finally dug a hole for him to drill out, climbed up and poked his head out, Wang Ran's heart tightened, in front of the entrance of the cave was a curvy ancient tree, and the left and right were indeed a void, and the exit was actually on a cliff.

The Tibetan Soldier Cave is for transporting ambush troops out of the city from within the city, but if it is discovered by the enemy, it will be self-defeating, so in addition to relying on the mountain or vegetation to cover the exit, there are many characteristics of "can go out and not enter", there are many mountains outside the West Gate, Wang Ran naturally also expected that the exit may be on the cliff, and it is necessary to rely on the rope to climb down, and his only worry is that the exit is too high and cannot find a rope available.

Wang Ran carefully climbed out of the hole, hugged the trunk of the ancient tree before standing firmly, looked around, and saw that this place was located on the side cliff of the mountain next to the official road, although it was not directly facing the official road, but the distance was not far, and he lowered his head to look at it, and judged that this place was about three zhang from the ground, so he breathed a sigh of relief. Although Sanzhang is not low, it is enough to find a few ropes to tie together, but he is not prepared enough this time to bring only a rope less than two zhang, so it will take some effort to go down, and it will be difficult to climb to the sky if he wants to come back.

After thinking about it for a while, Wang Ran decided not to take risks, even if he climbed down to find the rebel camp now, it must have taken a lot of effort to meet Brother Wang and Second Brother Li.

But he was a little unwilling to leave like this, Wang Ran gritted his teeth, took off the burden on his body and tore off a piece, bit his fingers and barely wrote some words, and then threw a stone in the direction of the official road.

I hope that tomorrow Brother Wang will find it when they lead the troops to pass here, Wang Ran prayed silently, groped all the way back to the entrance under the city wall, Wang Ran listened with bated breath for a while, it seemed that there was no one around the entrance, and there was a faint snoring sound on the steps above, so he quietly climbed out and slipped towards the people's assembly place.

"Stop!" A snapping voice came from the stairs.

Wang Ran, who had run less than ten steps, was shocked, turned around in annoyance, and saw an officer and soldier dressed as an escort officer on the stairs kicking the soldier standing guard who had just been napping, and then walked quickly down the steps towards him, his face full of suspicion.

"What for? How did you get from there? The officer walked up to Wang Ran and pointed to the entrance of the cave.

"Little... The villain is a conscripted man, who has just passed by this neighborhood, and there are... There was some urgency, seeing that it was pitch black, so..."Wang Ran hesitated, and his hand quietly touched his belt.

"Straight bitche, is that where you pee?" The detainee kicked Wang Ran and said impatiently: "Get out, stay away from here." ”

"Oh, Master Xie forgives the sins, and the little ones don't dare anymore." Wang Ran trembled and bowed his hand, then turned around and ran, feeling lucky.

Sneaking back to the gathering place of the people, seeing that no one had come, Wang Ran hid back in the wooden stack, took out the cold baked cake from his arms and ate it, and seized the time to close his eyes and rest for a while.