Continuing from the previous words, because these families kept refreshing the bottom limit and dying, they waited until Huangchao entered Chang'an to harvest a wave, and then in the hands of Zhu Laosan, they gave these only remaining world-class "clear streams" to the turbidity of the Yellow River.

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In the city of Dantu,

Once again, he calmed and inspected most of the defenders on the city wall, and arrested more than a dozen examples of unscrupulous and unauthorized abandonment, and hung them in the gatehouse to follow suit. hugged all the way back to the inner house, Zhou Bao's tense face did not relax,

So much so that after hastily removing the clothes and armor and crown belts, the concubines and attendants who were holding face towels, silver basins, teapots and cups, and hot soup did not dare to step forward for a while.

Because just yesterday, after coming back, two more maidservants were dragged out and killed in the hall by this Linggong because of his lack of service. Fortunately, after patrolling the city today, Zhou Bao looked even more sleepy and didn't want to do much, so he quickly moved the corners of his mouth to signal them to retreat, leaving only three concubines who were responsible for beating their shoulders, waists, and legs;

In the cautious and gentle movements, Zhou Bao, who was full of worries, tossed and turned several times, and slowly fell into a small sleep. However, his rest was not destined to last long, and a greeting sounded again outside.

"Meet the young marshal."

"All are well."

"Why did you come back so soon, didn't you go to reward and dispose of the camp?"

Zhou Bao was a little dissatisfied and slowly opened his eyelids, and looked at the eldest son who had entered the road.

"But there is a good news, and I want to share it with my grandfather. But it was Dong Chang, the training envoy of the Badu regiment who commanded the Hangzhou military horses, that there was news. ”

A submissive Zhou Yu in front of him, this is a rare way to be happy.

"At this time, he sent people to risk death along the riverside, and secretly took a boat overnight to the city to call the door. Now he has come to the city, just waiting for Aya to ask."

"Whether there is fraud in this, you need to prevent the thief from taking the opportunity to deceive you."

When Zhou Bao heard this, a trace of essence appeared in his open eyes.

"The child is from the province, so he asked in detail about the situation of the passers-by, and some of the gatekeepers identified it as Huang Jie, the general of Longquan Town who had worshiped in the house in the past;"

Zhou Yu is also a solemn promise.

Then I checked that the token was not fake, but it was the half jade jue that Aya rewarded the Dong Du Tuan at the beginning. Therefore, the news in the north gate was strictly blocked, and the news came quickly to ask for instructions. ”

"Oh, I don't know what news is there, or what Dong Luoping means."

Zhou Bao couldn't help but exhale slightly, straightened up, waved the concubines back, and then gave a sharp look at the pro-army general standing on the inner wall, and the other party immediately understood and hidden.

"But Dong Badu said that in addition to the Hangzhou army, about 30,000 soldiers and horses from Chang and Taizhou have gathered under his command, and they want to fight the thieves with the inside and outside of the city."

It wasn't until this moment that Zhou Bao's face, which had been described as unmoving, showed a momentary expression. After half a ring, at the military meeting temporarily convened by the ya, the generals and important officials and subordinates under the leadership of the festival also competed to speak out and fell into arguments and arguments.

"This Dong Chang is not the first rat at both ends, and the wings are intended to preserve. The public commissar really can't be trusted. ”

This is a natural skepticism that belongs to the conservative and stable arguments.

"However, since he sent someone to risk his death to spread the word, it is more or less an intention to repay the service, which is enough to inspire and inspire people's hearts for a while; There's no need to be so demanding. ”

And this is from the opinion of a rather optimistic and radical group.

"Since ancient times, what has been the most important thing to defend the city is not that there is no external support, and there is constant chaos inside. In any case, this kind of information should be used to the fullest. ”

This is a middle-of-the-road argument between the two.

"In that case, please come up and witness a good show with us."

Zhou Bao, who had been watching coldly for a long time, immediately sneered and turned to him with a Yu Hou who walked to his side.

Immediately, most of the unknown generals appeared behind the city disk in the east of the city with Zhou Bao; The smell of fresh blood still lingered in the air of the city roads and stairs. Dozens of slashed corpses were scattered under the inner walls.

Around these corpses, a circle of low walls and fences built by new forts formed an irregular shape of a small urn city.

"Qi Yu Linggong, everything is ready to stop. Just wait for the order. ”

Then there was Zhou Rang, the Marquis of Zuo Yu, who led the tooth soldiers, and greeted him from the door with a group of fully clothed armor soldiers.

"Dare to ask the festival marshal, this is ?。。"

Only then did someone come back to his senses and cover his nose and ask in surprise, but it was Pei Lu, the fair-skinned and literary transfer judge.

"These are the unscrupulous people among the sergeants on the wall, who are trying to secretly communicate with the thieves outside. Fortunately, there are loyal people who have the court in their hearts, so they gather along the vine to ambush the city. ”

Zuo Yuhou explained Zhou Rang at the moment.

"It's just that the thieves outside the city they are connected with have not yet realized it, and they are still potential to exchange letters under the city. So I ordered the public to wait for me not to make a noise and make a false accusation, and now it is time to end. ”

As his words fell, a long time passed, and the faint moonlight began to sink in the west, and everyone waited in the gatehouse a little impatiently; Suddenly, I saw the armored soldiers sitting in ambush and sitting on the battlements, and suddenly moved.

and many rustling sounds, drawing closer and closer under the walls of the city as the night darkened; And from under the city walls, there were already many soldiers who had been sent from all parts of the city to cross their bows and crossbows; Looking down from the inside of the city, I saw the layers of torches reflecting the armor light and extending into the city, and I vaguely didn't know how many people there were.

The breath they exhaled between their silent and silent standing unexpectedly appeared in the sky between the city square and the gatehouse, revealing a continuous faint mist and a dim moonlight. This also made many hearts awe-inspiring, and it seemed that most of the Jianrui in the city were gathered here.

Then, in some scorching and tormenting silence, the incessant cries of the night owls came from outside the city; And in the tooth-aching coarse door shaft rotation subsound; The gate was slowly opened from the inside out, and then stopped at a large beveled angle. Among the crowd on the city tower who instinctively held their breath and rested, they also raised their hearts and eyes to their throats in an instant.

Then, with the dozen or so fire cages that were extinguished one after another on the battlements, a large number of chaotic running and footsteps under the city were heard; It is like a trickling spring that gathers from a short distance, and then becomes a stream rushing down from a distance, and then merges and accelerates into a rushing river that is close at hand; It was like a flood that used the doorway and corridor under its feet, and it also shook the people waiting on the gatehouse to feel the obvious vibration and trembling under their feet.

Then, I saw that Hou Gao Rang of Youyu personally threw a huge firecracker filled with medicinal stones into a cage fire, and the sparks splashed in the silent night sky with a deafening explosion; Then, with the clattering movements, the whole city was illuminated by torches and fire cages lit one after another.

"Kill the thief"

"Kill the thief"

"Kill the thief"

In the midst of such a shaking shout, the crossbowmen and archers who scrambled to rise from behind the battlements and the city saucers, like a jungle that had suddenly grown out of the walls, shot rockets and arrows like a storm of rockets and arrows under the darkness of the city in a dense humming sound that alternated one after another.

The officers and soldiers who were waiting on the inside of the city wall also shouted loudly in the blazing light that lit up the night sky, and surrounded and fought with the enemy who had passed through the corridor under the city and temporarily built a small urn city.

After listening for a while, Zhou Bao's face suddenly became a little strange, and he suddenly put aside the guards and walked up to the top floor of the gatehouse in person, and longed to visit with the cover of the battlements and baffles. ，

I saw that the city was dotted with rockets, and it was hazy and dim, and it seemed that there were not many corpses left. And the city suddenly shouted:

"The thieves set it on fire. Stop them."

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"It's so dangerous."

Zhou Huai'an, who insisted on standing at the forefront to watch the battle and help, couldn't help but wipe the cold sweat on his forehead.

Despite this, he insisted on personally inspecting the figures who had retreated from under the city walls one after another, although there were many arrows on his body and in his hand

Basically, they all supported each other, helped and covered, and got out of the killing range of the officers and soldiers at the head of the city. It can be said that except for a few unlucky ghosts who were really unlucky and accidentally stepped into the trench in the dark and tripped over, there was no left behind and no loss.

It's just that he didn't notice that in addition to the paleness and loss of strength on their faces, these soldiers looked at him with a look of reverence, awe, gratitude, and other complex emotions that were like gods.

Fortunately, he habitually used the full-field scanning ability covering the city gates to play a role. In time, he noticed that there were too many vital signs gathered on the city wall, and only then did he hastily stop and change the plan to try to open the door and steal the city.

In the end, dozens of donkeys and mules loaded with fierce fire oil and other arsonist materials were used to act as pioneers in the open doorway, so that most of the sneak attack and the vanguard team were able to retreat from the battle.

It looks pretty good now. According to the movements and reactions in the city, the defenders have been caught off guard by the arson teams that rushed in, and some of them are too busy to take care of themselves, but it is a pity that this time the inside and outside should cooperate to steal the city.

However, even if he failed to steal the city, it didn't mean that he couldn't do anything else, and in the distance, on the gradually illuminated earthen ramparts and high platforms, the stone cannons, hair rods, and whirlwind cannons that had set the shooting boundary standards also began to carry out a dense attack on the obviously densely populated city wall and its back.

Not long after, Zhou Huai'an saw that the gatehouse was ignited by the flint that was accidentally hit, and he stumbled out and screamed.