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The exit of the underground drainage ditch in Changsha City is hidden on the bank of an overgrown river, surrounded by vines.

The inside of the gutter was dark, and the further you went inside, the more you couldn't see anything, and it was constantly flowing out of muddy sewage and smelling bad, but it was still much better than in later generations.

Team member Xie Xiaobao jumped down from the ditch, holding a torch and bowing his head to get in. The gutter was about five feet high, and it could only be bent down and could not walk upright.

Meng Ke next to him grabbed Xie Xiaobao and scolded in a low voice: "Xiaobao, do you want to die?" ”

Xie Xiaobao looked at the captain in amazement, not knowing what he meant.

Meng Ke ignored him, turned his head and ordered someone to take a torch, find a long bamboo pole, tie the torch to one end of the bamboo pole, light the torch, and then put the torch into the drainage ditch.

Meng Ke stretched the bamboo pole into it and said, "Didn't my lord say that poisonous gas is likely to be produced in such a relatively closed ditch, and this ditch is so long, the air in it is likely to be uncirculated, and if you rush in, it will be easy to suffocate." ”

When Xie Xiaobao heard this, he broke out in a cold sweat, and then asked puzzledly: "Team Meng, what is air?" ”

"Air is ......" Meng Ke was suddenly asked, he didn't know how to explain the problem of air, he had only heard Mo Li talk about it, but he didn't know it very clearly. I don't know much about this, but I said that people must have air to live, and this torch must also have air to burn, and if this torch is extinguished, it means that there is no air in it, and people cannot enter. ”

The torch went deeper and deeper, and it burned all the time, but it was not extinguished. After a long while, the bamboo pole has reached the end, this bamboo pole is three or four zhang long, Meng Ke let the torch burn in it for a while, and saw that there was nothing unusual, so he withdrew the bamboo pole and ordered someone to go in.

Tang San walked in the front as a guide, and everyone bent their waists, stepping on the stinking sewage and some small garbage under their feet along the drainage ditch.

Fortunately, it hasn't rained in the last few days, and it's noon again, when there is less water, so there is not much sewage in the drain, only to the calf, but it is still a little cold.

Sixty team members entered one by one under the leadership of Meng Ke and walked into the drainage ditch. Mo Li was worried that dozens of troops were too few, so he ordered Guan Feng to select a thousand elite soldiers led by Tong Da Hammer and follow the Snow Eagle Brigade in.

A few people with a torch moved forward slowly, but fortunately, most of the drainage ditches were built straight and straight, and there were not many places to turn.

The walls of the brick and stone ditch are overgrown with moss and weeds, and even swarms of rats and cockroaches can be encountered from time to time. Suddenly, so many people with torches broke into their territory, and these rats and cockroaches were so frightened that they scurried around and avoided them.

The more inside, the more unpleasant the smell became, and many team members endured the pungent disgusting smell and almost vomited, Meng Ke hurriedly asked everyone to cover their faces with wet towels and cover their mouths and noses.

After traveling like this for about half an hour, turning a few corners, finally, there was a ray of light in front, and the team members couldn't help but feel very excited, and one by one they held their breath and walked gently towards the front.

The light is getting stronger and stronger, and according to Tang San's description and the drawings he depicted, the front should be the exit of the street in front of the apricot forest ** shop in the west of the city. This is chosen because this exit is closest to the city gate, which is less than two miles away from the west gate.

Below the exit, Tang San first tried to push open the large stone slab with many small holes with his hands, but there was no response. That big stone slab was too heavy.

The big stone slab was square in shape, about two meters long and wide, and weighed several thousand catties. Since it was laid flat on top of the exit, it was impossible for such a large stone slab to prop it up.

The space under the exit is half larger than in the ditch, but it can only accommodate five or six people. Meng Ke found six people, stood under the big stone slab and lifted the big stone slab upwards together, although he moved slightly, but it was still to no avail.

"Captain, what should I do?" Xie Xiaobao and the others asked anxiously, and they all looked at Meng Ke.

Meng Ke frowned, looked around, and suddenly said, "There is!" ”

As he spoke, Meng Ke pointed to the side wall under the big stone slab at the exit and said: "These are all built with bricks and stones, let's hollow out the wall on one side, and this big stone slab will fall, just be careful, so as not to be smashed." ”

Everyone hurriedly used the weapons and shovels they carried with them to dig up the wall on one side of the hole, due to the erosion of sewage for many years, the masonry of the cave wall was somewhat loose, and it was overgrown with weeds, and the team members had weapons such as shovels and guns and sticks, so it was not very difficult to dig up.

After only a cup of tea, the team members hollowed out the hole wall on the left, and then hollowed out the adjacent side, and the left side of the big stone slab lost its support point, and suddenly fell down with a bang, but fortunately, the team members had already taken precautions, so there were no casualties.

The big stone slab fell, revealing a two-meter-wide hole, Xie Xiaobao threw away the torch, put the long knife on his back, grabbed the masonry at the entrance of the cave with both hands, and borrowed his feet on the big stone slab, and the whole person jumped up like a nimble monkey.

The entrance of the cave was at the corner of a secluded side street, Xie Xiaobao glanced around after running up, but there was no sign of him, and then he reached down and grabbed the hand of another team member and pulled him up.

One, two, three...... One by one, the team members jumped up to the entrance of the cave, because there was a fierce battle on the city, the rebels went up to the city, and the ordinary people saw that there was a battle, and most of them hid in their own huts, how dare they come out. In addition, this place is relatively remote, and there are few people coming and going, until the team members come up, and no one notices that their team has come out of the ground.

The 1,000 elite soldiers led by Tong Da Hammer also jumped up one by one.

Then, Meng Ke and Tong Da Hammer soldiers divided into two routes, one was Tong Da Hammer led 300 people to set fire everywhere in the city to attract the attention of the rebels, and one was led by Meng Ke to go straight to the west city gate, killing the rebels guarding the city gate and opening the city gate to receive the army into the city.

In order to avoid causing the entire city of Changsha to be destroyed in a sea of fire, Tong Da Hammer decided to touch the rebel camp and set it on fire. If the rebels knew that their barracks had been set on fire, they would have been in turmoil.

Soon, hundreds of people led by Meng Ke appeared near the West City Gate, only to see their faces painted with oil paint, dressed in bizarre camouflage uniforms (the costume of modern special forces), armed with flint guns or long knives, and screaming at the rebels behind the city gate.

When the 100 or so rebel soldiers at the city gate saw this, they were all frightened and frightened, and the strange costumes of the team members were like ghosts, and the flint guns in their hands were even more angry bullets, almost empty, and each bullet took the life of a rebel soldier.

The strange costumes of the team members are secondary, and what surprises the rebels even more is who they are and how did they suddenly appear in the city?

To the horror of the rebels, those who didn't know whether they were humans or ghosts rushed over, took out small black balls and threw them at the city gate, and then with a loud rumbling sound, dozens of rebel soldiers were blown up, and their stumps fell to the ground, bleeding like rivers.

At the same time, smoke suddenly rose from a corner of the city, and then a fire clashed. Then I heard someone shouting: "The officers and soldiers have entered the city!" The officers and soldiers are entering the city! Run, everybody! ”

"The Eight Kings have been killed! Run, brethren! ”

"The new Liao army is in......"

When the rebels on the city wall heard this, they were even more confused, and they were all shocked and made a mess.

Meng Ke led his team members and Tong Dazhu's subordinates to rush to the West City Gate, where more than half of the rebel soldiers had been killed, and the remaining dozens of people had no intention of resisting and raised their hands to surrender.

The team members work together to open the city gate and control the rebels at the city gate.

Outside the city, it was the thousands of soldiers led by Ma Jinzhong who were storming the city gate, and when they saw the city gate open, they couldn't help but be overjoyed and rushed in cheering.

"Kill! Kill! Tens of thousands of soldiers of the New Liao Army poured into Changsha City like a tide, rushing towards the rebels on the city walls everywhere, and the shouts of killing resounded throughout Changsha City.

The city gate was broken, the military camp in the city was set on fire again, the rebels in the city instantly lost their fighting spirit, and before the new Liao army could rush to the ground, many rebels dropped their weapons and knelt on the ground to beg for mercy.

Generals such as Ma Jinzhong, Cao Bianjiao, Guan Feng, Bai Zhicheng, Hui Dengxiang, and Luo Dashan led their troops to quickly control various key points in Changsha City, and the rebels surrendered.

Surrounded by generals such as He Zhenbei, Xiao Yang, and Sima Jian, Moli led a large army into Changsha City and personally searched for and captured Zhang Xianzhong. I searched for a long time, but there was no one.

Soon, as tens of thousands of soldiers of the New Liao Army marched into Changsha City, the rebels in Changsha surrendered one after another, and the New Liao Army quickly controlled the situation in Changsha City, restored order, and guarded the gates of the city walls.

After a while, Guan Feng rode his horse and came to report, saying that Zhang Xianzhong saw that the situation was not good, and fled from the East City Gate with Liu Wenxiu and other generals, and Cao Bianjiao was leading his troops to pursue.

Mo Li nodded, Changsha City has four city gates, Zhang Xianzhong has tens of thousands of troops, the city is in chaos, this Zhang Xianzhong is an old thief, it is not strange that he escaped early when he saw the opportunity.

"Immediately calm the situation in Changsha City, search for all hidden rebels, maintain order in Changsha City, and immediately post a notice and a recruitment list!" Mo Li ordered.

"Yes!"

A group of officers and soldiers of the New Liao Army hurriedly led the order, nervously and orderly to carry out the work of clearing out the remnants of the enemy and pacifying the people, everywhere the soldiers were busy, Changsha, finally captured!

Changsha City, after more than a month of ravages by Zhang Xianzhong's rebels, finally returned to the jurisdiction of the Ming Dynasty, and finally it was a place where I could show my strength!