Chapter 207: Surprise Attack on Anqing Mansion

When some of the guards saw a large number of black and oppressive Xingtian soldiers suddenly rushing out of the rain curtain and appearing outside the city gate, they were all frightened crazy, just screaming and fleeing towards the city, but no one estimated that the city gate of the urn city would be closed first, and even the officers and soldiers on the city tower were still dizzy at this time and just walked out of the city gate tower, lying on the battlement and looking outside, when they saw that a large number of people had arrived outside the city gate, they panicked, A general who was on duty at the north gate today thought that he should quickly close the city gate and raise the drawbridge, so he hurriedly ordered his soldiers to close the gate and pull up the drawbridge.

But at this time, their actions have been too late, the huge city gate closed is not a job that one or two people can do casually, it takes a dozen or even twenty or thirty people to work at the same time, in order to push the heavy copper-clad gate, close the city gate, as for the suspension bridge, not to mention, the operation of the suspension bridge requires dozens of people to work at the same time, push the winch to pull the suspension bridge up, and the suspension bridge is not said to be able to pull up, it takes a considerable period of time to slowly rise.

Although they also reacted and began to do these things, but it was too late in time, just when the suspension bridge was finally squeaked and just pushed by the guards and soldiers to push the winch, and it rose two feet slightly, the first to rush to the suspension bridge Xingtian soldiers had already arrived next to the suspension bridge, these soldiers who rushed to the front were naturally the most elite and strongest generals under Liu Yaoben, they can be said to be the role of death squads, everyone is either holding a machete in their hands, or holding a big axe, Regardless of whether the city shot arrows at this time, all attention was focused on the drawbridge.

When they saw that the drawbridge was about to rise, these people flew up to the rising drawbridge one by one, and each chose the target with a clear division of labor, and a few strong soldiers did not say a word, they waved the knife and axe in their hands, and slashed desperately at the rope of the drawbridge, and the rest of the people did not stop for half a step, and flew on the drawbridge and continued to run wildly, straight to the city gate.

The cable of the suspension bridge is a brown rope with the thickness of an adult's arm, not an iron lock, mainly because the brown rope is tough, and it is corrosion-resistant, and it has to be replaced every year, but in the face of the knives and axes of these Xingtian soldiers, this kind of rope is not easy to use, although they are strong enough, but under the crazy chopping of the Xingtian soldiers, they still quickly began to break.

The commander in the city saw that it was not good, and immediately shouted to bring in the soldiers and began to release arrows towards the city, and immediately a dozen archers aimed at these Xingtian soldiers who tried to cut the ropes of the drawbridge and fired.

A soldier of the Heavenly Army was swinging a machete, chopping the sturdy sling, and in an instant he was hit by several arrows, one fell to the ground, and an arrow shot into his shoulder and neck from the diagonal top, causing him a fatal injury, he fell but did not die immediately, but struggled to stand up again, and continued to raise the machete with difficulty, slashing heavily at the sling, and as a result, two more arrows were shot at him, and then he shook and fell down again.

A soldier who had just climbed the suspension bridge saw him fall, and without saying a word, he pounced on him and took the machete from his hand, and continued to chop the sling like crazy, the sling was very strong, and it was not cut a few times, under the promotion of the officials and soldiers in the city, the suspension bridge was still squeaking and slowly rising, at this time, a large number of soldiers of the Xingtian Army had rushed to the front of the suspension bridge, but the suspension bridge had also risen more than one person high, and it was no longer within reach, so anxious that the soldiers and generals of the Xingtian Army shouted together.

Several soldiers in charge of cutting the slings were soon shot down on the drawbridge by the defenders of the city, and after two arrows, they fell directly off the drawbridge and fell into the moat, only to sink in an instant, leaving only a scattered red on the water.

The two remaining soldiers continued to slash the slings of the drawbridge in a frenzied manner, and in an instant they were also shot by arrows, but fortunately their breastplates blocked the arrows, and they were able to continue.

Liu Yaoben had also arrived next to the moat at this time, looking at the slowly rising drawbridge, his heart could be said to have been raised in his throat, if the drawbridge was not cut off, then their surprise attack was basically a failure, even if a small number of soldiers rushed in, I am afraid it would be difficult to control the gates of the urn city and the inner city, and the officers and soldiers who relieved themselves would definitely take the gate and close the city gate with their lives, so he was so anxious that he couldn't wait to fly on the drawbridge and cut the sling in person.

Just when everyone was so anxious that they were about to go crazy, the soldiers in charge of cutting the rope finally cut the rope of the suspension bridge, and the suspension bridge that had risen more than one person high was first skewed, and a soldier immediately fell into the moat, and then another heavily damaged sling could not support the huge weight of the entire suspension bridge at this time, and fell down with a bang, and was heavily burdened on the moat. Some people were directly shocked into the moat, and the last soldier was even more unlucky, he was slashing the sling, but the sling suddenly broke, and half of the sling was directly pumped in his face, and he was pumped all over the face on the spot, and the huge impact pulled him out, and he died directly after landing on the suspension bridge.

But in any case, these soldiers still completed the task, although most of them paid the price of their lives, but after all, they still cut the sling, so that the officers and soldiers could no longer put away the sling, Liu Yaoben saw the suspension bridge fall at the bridge, immediately overjoyed, and roared: "Kill into the city!" Rush! ”

A large number of Xingtian soldiers who had already gathered at the head of the bridge let out a thunderous cheer, and then poured onto the suspension bridge like a black flood.

The general in the city turned his face to ashes, looking at so many Heavenly Torture Troops outside the city, his lips trembled, and he muttered, "What a hell! Hell yes! Where did they come from? ……”

A pro-soldier grabbed the boss and shouted, "Master! Run! The thieves have entered the city gates! The brothers at the gates failed to close the gates! Finished! Let's go! ”

As soon as the general heard this, he suddenly came to his senses, turned around and ran down the city, and the dozens of officers and soldiers in the city saw that the officials had run away, where would they stay here! So Hula fled from the city wall and ran towards the city with a shout.

A large number of soldiers of the Xingtian Army, under the leadership of Liu Yaoben, flooded into the north gate and quickly poured into the city of Anqing Mansion.

Wang Longping, the prefect of Anqing, saw that the weather was not good at this time, and there was nothing to do in the palace, so he returned to the house early, lying on the bed and letting the concubine wait to drink tea and laugh, and suddenly he vaguely heard a shouting sound in the direction of the north gate, so he immediately sat up and listened with his ears pricked up, and for a while he couldn't figure out what was happening in the north of the city, his mansion was not far from the north gate, and the shouting and killing sound from the north gate could be clearly transmitted to his house, and after listening carefully, Wang Longping's face suddenly turned white with fright.

A domestic servant couldn't even care too much about crawling at this moment, so he crashed into Wang Longping's room, and shouted with a look of horror: "Master Qiqi! Punishment thief! It's the thief who is coming! Lots of ......."

Wang Longping grabbed the tea bowl beside him, and when he smashed it on the head of this servant, he scolded: "Nonsense! It can't be a thief! It must be a thief from Damaling! The Xingtian thief is still under the city of Luzhou, where can he come here? Quickly find Liu Shoubei and order him to lead his troops into the city to quell the thieves! What about the family? Gather together, close the gate quickly, and guard the gate for me! Don't let the thieves in! ”

Wang Longping arrived at this time, still don't believe that it was the Xingtian Army that killed him, in the mountains northwest of Anqing Mansion, there is a place called Damaling, entrenched in a group of bandits with about one or two thousand people, occasionally around Anqing Mansion, but it is not a climate, so Wang Longping did not pay more attention to them, in the past two years, he has sent troops to suppress them several times, but because they are all hiding in the mountains, they have not been able to exterminate them, and now when something happens in the city, the first thing he thinks of is this group of bandits in Damaling, I couldn't believe that this was the attack of the Xingtian Army, and he was still lucky, thinking that with the strength of the official army of Anqing Mansion, he could completely expel this group of thieves from Anqing Mansion, and even thought of taking this opportunity to exterminate them, of course, the premise was to keep his mansion from being broken by the thieves, but he didn't think about escaping quickly.

After listening to his instructions, the servant who had been beaten with a tea bowl felt that what the old man said seemed to make sense, after all, he also listened to the shouts of the people outside, but he didn't see with his own eyes what the thief was, so he hurriedly ran to call the family to close the door and put the wall on the wall according to Wang Longping's words, and then sent people to run outside the west gate to transfer the officers and soldiers of the barracks outside the west gate into the city to clear the "bandits" who attacked Anqing Mansion.

At this time, the city of Anqing Mansion was already chaotic, almost everyone in the city heard the earth-shattering shouting sound of killing in the north gate, the officials were panicked one by one, the officers and soldiers were even more frightened to run around, the people in the city were also frightened and ran back to their homes and closed the courtyard door, and looked out from the crack in the door of the courtyard in fear.

The sudden incident made both the officials and the defenders in the city fall into chaos, and those who didn't see the Xingtian Army for a while couldn't figure out the real situation at all, some of the defenders' generals also tried to lead the troops towards the north gate, wanting to find out, while others began to pack up and run in the direction of the south gate wharf, wanting to escape from Anqing Mansion.

After Liu Yaoben led his troops to attack the north gate, he did not delay for a moment, according to the situation of Anqing Mansion that had been carefully explored before, he had assigned their respective tasks to his generals before entering the city, and after entering the city, these soldiers and generals immediately rushed to all parts of the city in the direction assigned to them.

Only one battalion of soldiers will attack the West Gate, only to begin to encounter strong resistance from the official army, the officers and troops outside the West Gate at this time have also received the news that there are thieves raiding Anqing Mansion, the main general of the defenders Liu Garrison was originally in the city is leading a few of his generals to have fun in a brothel, when he heard the north gate shouted to kill, Liu Garrison was also stunned on the spot, or under the general reminder of his subordinates, he reacted, and hurriedly took a few men to run towards the barracks outside the West Gate, to mobilize troops and horses to enter the city from the west gate to suppress bandits, at the beginning, he didn't even figure out who the enemy was, just relying on his identity, he wanted to save the situation.

So after some tossing, he ran to the barracks outside the west gate to gather a part of the officers and soldiers to enter the west gate, at this time Liu Yaoben had personally led a group of men and horses to kill the west gate, just at the city gate met the official army of Liu Garrison, who had just entered the city, so the two sides immediately started a fight at the west gate.

It was only at this time that Liu Garrison completely figured out the identity of the enemy who came to attack, looking at the scarlet Xingtian Army flag, Liu Garrison was completely panicked, after a face, the two sides fought together, the officers and soldiers were already taken by surprise, coupled with the unknown enemy situation, the military spirit was already very sluggish, not to mention the morale, although the Xingtian Army generals after these three days of forced march in the rain, when they arrived here, they were already exhausted, but the success of the raid still greatly stimulated the morale of the generals, After making it into the city, the morale is like a rainbow, so it also greatly makes up for their lack of physical strength, as soon as the two armies fight, the fierce and fearless Xingtian soldiers will crash into the crowd of officials and soldiers, both sides have no possibility of using firearms in the rain, and with the knives and guns in their hands, they will knock the officers and soldiers who entered the city to try to seize the city back into the urn city, this Liu Garrison is also a greedy person who is afraid of death, and when he saw the menacing Xingtian army, he urinated on the spot, and he howled and let the soldiers go up, And he himself hid behind, but he was knocked out of the west gate, and the Xingtian army quickly seized the inner gate, blocking them in the urn city, many Xingtian army generals poured up to the city tower, and briefly fought with the officers and soldiers guarding the gate for a while, then defeated the officers and soldiers on the city tower, and began to shoot fiercely from the city wall towards the urn city with the bow and arrow that was snatched at the officers and soldiers in the Weng city below, and those who did not have bows and arrows began to move the rolling wood and stones and smashed down, and the result was that the officers and soldiers in the city of Weng cried, They scrambled to flee outside the city.

Liu Yao himself was stabbed in the arm first, but fortunately, the officer and soldier who cut him were soft and did not remove one of his arms, but only made a big cut on his arm, and the guards immediately dragged Liu Yaoben down, which saved his life.

However, once Ximen was controlled by the Xingtian Army, this battle was basically declared a victory, only with the remnants of the officers and soldiers in the city, at this time there was no possibility of driving the Xingtian Army out of the city again, many remnants of the officers and soldiers saw that the situation was not good, and they could not escape, so they quickly laid down their weapons and announced their surrender.

After Liu Yaoben entered the city, the first targets of control were the city gates and water gates, and he did not pay attention to the government and treasury in the city first, until they completely controlled a few city gates, Liu Yaoben mobilized his troops and began to attack the last few control points of the officials and troops in the city.

It was not until this time that Wang Longping completely figured out the identity of the attacker, hiding in his mansion and being scared of urine, and the dozens of family guards in his house saw that the situation was not good at this time, and they ran away half of them first, and the remaining loyal ones had little resistance anymore.

When a team of Xingtian soldiers was about to kill Wang Longping's house, these remaining family guards also resisted desperately, but in the face of several times more Xingtian soldiers than them, their resistance did not play much role at all, under the attack of the Xingtian soldiers, the gate was finally broken in one fell swoop, and a large number of Xingtian soldiers poured into the mansion of the Wang Governor's Mansion, and after a short fight, they killed the few remaining recalcitrant family guards, but they searched for a long time and did not find Wang Longping, After finally catching his housekeeper, the first instance learned that Wang Longping was actually hiding in the cellar in the house, so he sent someone down to find out Wang Longping, and it was already the second half of the night at this time.

(How about a big chapter?) Hehe! )