Chapter 229: Turmoil
At the east gate of Fengzhou City, in a mess and corpses strewn all over the doorway, the drizzle diluted the smell of blood, but it was difficult to hide the scorching smell and the smell of fireworks wafting from the city.
Wang Tianming, the head of the jumping team who was sitting shirtless and wrapped around his shoulders on the pile of corpses, also sighed slightly, looking at the man who was hoarse and roaring with a neat and brutal accent, and it was difficult to hide all kinds of praise in his eyes.
His name is Chen Yuan, and he is actually a son of a mountain people, but his mother is from a nearby barbarian tribe; Very early as a miscellaneous servant with the local caravan in and out of the mountain field and the wild market, so he practiced a flawless barbarian accent, because this time the rebels came to recover Annam, and he was selected from many bitter and bitter young people who joined the army, and he was quite qualified as a guide and interpreter.
Especially in this battle of cross-disguised sneak attack on the city gate, it was all because he negotiated and sang well on the surface, and vividly deceived the barbarians guarding the gate, so that when the children scattered all over the key points suddenly broke out, he attacked and killed most of them on the spot before he was able to react; Then the first reaction of the remaining brutes was not to fight back, but to flee in a hurry.
Therefore, now Fengzhou City is already in chaos and the fighting is still in full swing, but Wang Tianming never thought that his move to seize the door would lead to the cannibalism of these barbarians in the city, but it saved him a lot of things; All you have to do is beat back the barbarians who rushed to the city gate in a scattered way.
It's just that although there are no dead people after such a rush, everyone is inevitably injured, so he learned the previous lesson, and he did not continue to rush to the city to participate in this chaos; but remained at the gates of the city and waited for help;
After bandaging the wound, he took out a small piece of compressed ration, stuffed it into his mouth and saliva, and chewed it vigorously; In between battles, they need to seize all the time to eat and rest; Otherwise, there may not be another chance.
Behind him, the jumping athletes had already untied the contents of the package they were carrying and formed a dozen rapid-fire crossbows.
At this time, in the sound of bullhorns, a group of barbarians armed with knives and guns, as well as shields and bows and arrows, gathered again at the corner of the street; Finally something different, Wang Tianming couldn't help but be excited.
Although it seemed that the other party was at least a dozen times as large as his own, the steps and passages leading to the city wall had been blocked by him and his men with brute corpses; Relying only on the weapons that had been captured from the barbarians, he was fully confident that he would hold out for a longer time again.
So, after I don't know how long it took, he was almost buried by a pile of twisted corpses, and Wang Tianming, who was back to back with the remaining dozen scars, finally looked forward to the long-awaited drum and trumpet outside the city, and used the last strength of his body as if echoing, and held a cyan flag high above the sky.
Then the brutes, who were also exhausted and red-eyed, gathered around him, as if they had met the last straw that broke the camel's back, suddenly cried out in amazement and were shaken and confused, and even threw down their weapons and flags and turned away to the formation.
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In the light rain like a mist, Fan Xuan, who was carrying some complicated emotions like this rain, also stepped into the camp of the rebels again.
Yet after passing through one camp after another, which was either noisy, or silent, or orderly; He was not able to see Zhou Huai'an as scheduled; Instead, in the big tent of the Chinese army with three steps, one post, five steps and one sentry, Qu Chengyu, who was in military uniform, came forward to receive him.
"How did Fan Sheng get out of the city?"
"May I ask where General Void is."
Fan Xuan said a little impatiently.
"But it was the one in the city who wanted to negotiate and sent me here."
"Yes."
Qu Chengyu's expression did not change much better when he heard this, but instead led him into an empty inner tent, and he hesitated for a moment before speaking.
"Then I won't tell you the truth. Fan Sheng, you came at an inopportune time. ”
"In fact, many days ago, the leader of the army had already led the people north overnight to meet the barbarian army."
"What..."
At this moment, Fan Xuan was a little shocked and discolored, and then there was a faint shame and guilt; But because of the suspicions and suspicions I had before, whether the other party was just a superficial effort and means of pretending to be a gesture, but I didn't want to really put down other things at a critical time in the city, and the overall situation was the focus on going north to fight against the barbarians.
"But... But.. ”
For a moment, he was a little confused, but there were more questions to spring up in his mind.
"Therefore, what remains under this city now is only some false shelf led by me."
Qu Chengyu continued to explain.
"Don't look at the fact that there are still so many people running and acting outside, in fact, they are all military envoys who have changed their careers and continue to act according to the regulations left behind."
"That is, the people outside who are properly handling the attack equipment are the righteous soldiers who specially left me with the righteous scriptures."
"Then I'll go back to the city, and try to delay and cover it up."
After hearing this cause and effect, Fan Xuan also took the opportunity to say decisively.
"Even if you give up this body to make amends, you definitely can't live up to General Xu's painstaking efforts and intentions."
"It's late, and the meaning of this peace talk is only a temptation for Zeng Thief."
Speaking of this, Qu Chengyu's face suddenly changed.
"Yi Fan gave birth to you in my camp, maybe the next step will follow soon."
"Don't do that,"
Fan Xuan's face was also a little difficult to look at, and he only felt that something in his heart was broken again, and his voice became difficult.
"He swore to me that he would 。。。。。"
"This thief also tried his best to make peace with the coalition forces. The result?"
Qu Chengyu was thinking about something, and couldn't help sneering.
"Those who believed him were dead. Now, it's just a matter of bullying Fan Sheng and trying to repeat the old tricks. ”
"No, I have to ask Captain Xu to come over and discuss one or two, and come up with a countermeasure."
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Just after nightfall, all that was left was the flickering fires and the rhythmic sounds of fighting in the camp.
And the rustle of the rain that had fallen again also muffled many small noises in the vast darkness outside the camp; It is like a school of swimming fish crossing the water in the undercurrent, or the sound of spring silkworms chewing mulberry leaves in the dark room, or the sound of bustard ducks slapping the water at night on the river to feed.
As these small voices surged, the fire cages and torches on the outposts outside the camp were swallowed up by invisible forces one after another, and then extinguished and disappeared into a dull darkness.
However, a sudden crisp sound tore apart the silence of the night, and as if it had awakened and angered some lurking beast in the darkness, it turned into an irrepressible roar and roar.
"Kill."
"Kill the thief..."
"Kill all the grass thieves...
The third sentence was shouted from the waves of sound rushing in the darkness, and suddenly more than a dozen bright fireballs suddenly rose in the camp, and then like meteors across the sky and slapped into the darkness outside the camp, they burst into countless brilliant fires in an instant; There are also many panicked figures competing to dodge between the blazing light and the extinguishing, or the human body that has been burned and rolled to the ground and hissed.
Then, on the walls and fences of the camp shrouded in darkness, there were also countless figures with open fire and staffs, shining armor, bent bows and crossbows, and some people roared loudly:
"Good thief, I have been waiting for you for a long time."
"Wash your neck and die quickly...
After a few more hours, Zeng Gon, who saw that the sky was white in the west gate of Daluo City, with a solemn and frowning face, was also looking at the subordinates who had fled back with the smell of fireworks and listened to their instructions.
"Your night attack failed?。。"
"It's really that the other party has been on guard for a long time,"
Sun Kui, who was responsible for leading the Shu army, was a little depressed.
"It's so easy for the sons and daughters to touch it, and they are illuminated by the light of the fire. If they failed to break through their walls, they were forced to retreat. ”
Then, there were people and horses who went out of the city one after another to attack at night, and there were hundreds of people. And the statements of interrogating them one by one in the city gate are basically the same as those of Sun Jiang, which makes the doubts, discord, and disobedience in Zeng Gon's heart more and more obvious.
As a veteran general who has been on the battlefield for a long time, what is it that makes him feel that something is wrong; He pondered and watched over and over the city, and the enemy camp was slowly falling silent under the cover of the sky, which had gradually become white, and the torches that had been lit all night had been extinguished; Then I saw some scattered figures running and fleeing under the city, and continued to call the door under the city.
"No... It's really wrong. ”
He suddenly muttered to himself on the edge of the battlement, pacing back and forth.
"How did these grass thieves let them escape so easily? Why don't you take advantage of the victory to pursue, and even sneak to capture the door. ”
But they themselves led the team to wait here at the city gate, just to prevent this possibility, unless they either did not want to, or were just powerless to do such a thing; Then he was taken aback by this thought, and suddenly he loosened his brows in his heart with some blessings, and turned to shout loudly at the pro-army Du Yu Hou Zeng Quanxing who rushed over.
"Pick up the rest of the soldiers and horses and straighten up their bags, and as soon as the sky shines, they will immediately follow me to the enemy outside the city."
"No."
"In addition, the city was ordered to unite the children and the guards, and Li Jingluo was under the command of the second way to go out of the battle, and also served as the men and horses who responded."
"Jiaozhou's offensive and defensive future, maybe we have to look at it."
(End of chapter)