An arrow pierced the night sky, making a unique scream, which could be heard all around, and the people in Xiyang City were hiding in their homes and shivering, and no one dared to open the door or window to check when they heard the footsteps on the street from time to time, because everyone knew that something was wrong.

Since the newly appointed Yuwen envoy rectified the accumulation of malpractices and strictly enforced the curfew, Xiyang City at night was silent, except for urgent matters such as fires, there was an emergency illness to seek medical treatment, there was no one else on the street except the patrol, so that the thieves who took advantage of the night to commit crimes everywhere disappeared, and they thought that they would live peacefully like this, but they did not expect that the good days would end soon.

Tonight's invalid curfew, the movement of people and horses walking around, coupled with the faint firelight and shouts everywhere, everyone knows that something is wrong, and the target of the thieves is probably the mansion of Yuwen Envoy.

What a good official, it's gone

At the intersection, several carts were lying on the road, behind which dozens of men with weapons, bows and arrows were watching, and a middle-aged man in armor was sitting on a bed to warm up in front of a bonfire, and a person next to him held an umbrella to keep him out of the snow.

"Lord Lang, did you want me to wait for reinforcements from that arrow just now?"

"It doesn't matter, this is the master of the Tian army calling others, and if you want two arrows to be released in a row, you will tell us to come over." The middle-aged man gnawed on the chicken leg and said nonchalantly, there was a porcelain jar next to him with hot chicken soup in it, and when he saw a young man next to him looking into the distance, he smiled and beckoned:

"Come on, Tian Saburo also eats some, this Chinese New Year's Eve out of the cold wind can be uncomfortable."

Hearing this, the young man smiled and shook his head to signal no, he couldn't help but ask when he saw the middle-aged man looking confident: "Uncle Li, do you think the person surnamed Yang will come over here?" ”

The middle-aged man surnamed Li Mingfang is one of the backstage loan sharks in the city, and the young man is the third son of the military lord Tian Yuansheng, known as Tian Saburo, tonight in Xiyang City who have been 'bullied' by Shi Yuwenwen joined forces to make a move, Li Fang's task is to lead the troops to guard this crossroads to intercept the state soldiers and prevent the other party from reinforcing Yuwenwen's mansion.

"This intersection is the only way for the military camp to go to Yuwenwen. It is said that he will definitely come over, but" After Li Fang finished speaking, he bought a pass, and saw Tian Saburo looking at him, and then said: "The military workshop is on fire, and those poor ghosts are rushing to fight the fire, where will they listen to the command surnamed Yang to come and save people." ”

Tian Saburo said that the newly appointed Yang Jizhi army had strictly controlled the state soldiers in just over a month, and Yu Wenwen pretended to be a ghost and tossed out the name of the white turtle to offer treasures, and the debts of the state soldiers were relieved, and these poor ghosts were afraid that they would obey their words and work for each other.

He was ordered by his father Tian Yuansheng to lead the tribe to come here and guard the street with Li Fanghuan, just to prevent someone from passing by to save Yu Wenwen, the two tribes together have more than 100 people, and then with the obstacle formed by the cart, it is expected that the state soldiers who will pass through here are delusional.

It is said that there is no need to worry, but Tian Saburo always feels uneasy in his heart, he is afraid that those state soldiers will drink the 'ecstasy' poured by Yang Ji, and they will obey the command and rush up to play for their lives.

"Saburo-kun. The human heart is the hardest thing to say. Li Fang said with a smile and didn't seem to be worried about this at all, "People, saving your life is the most important thing, what kindness and what morality are secondary." ”

"Didn't these poor ghosts obey Ling Zun before? Now that there is a thicker thigh, I naturally want to hug it, but this thigh is about to be finished, so where to go is not very simple? ”

"Ling Zun ordered people to set fire everywhere in the city, just to disturb people's hearts, so that everyone knows that something is wrong, this Yuwen Wen is trapped in the mansion and can't get out, life and death are unknown, then the people and horses he arranged in the city are unstable, and they are fighting each other, where can they still be twisted into a force."

"For example, the defenders of the granary and the arsenal, in order to prevent the treasury from being burned, they naturally closed the door and did not go out to prevent people from setting fire, and the defenders of the west gate and the north gate were entangled by the Tian clan and did not dare to easily adjust their defenses. The defenders at the east gate did not dare to act rashly when they saw that the military camp outside the city was surrounded, and the remaining state soldiers led by Yang Ji thought about where the relatives in the fang were in the mood to play with their lives. ”

"Even if those poor ghosts are stubborn and follow Yang Ji to rush here, but as long as we wait to guard against it, and then say that it is only for Yu Wenwen and his minions, and the rest of the people are not to blame for the past, hum, then Yang Ji is not taken as a vote on the spot."

"No one would have thought that Chen Jun in Jiangnan would enter the city, the situation has been decided, so San Langjun should not worry." After Li Fang finished speaking, he took a sip of chicken soup to moisten his throat, and Tian Saburo's face was slightly soothed when he heard this, he knew that these plans were only the first time he had experienced a major event, so he was a little nervous.

"It's just like that if you don't repay your debts, it's the most important thing to save your life when it comes to it. This person's heart, but it is the most difficult to say. ”

As soon as Li Fang's voice fell, he saw the shadows on the dark street in front of him shaking, and it seemed that many people were running towards this direction. Seeing this, Tian Saburo perked up and hurriedly let Li Fang look over.

"It's really here, San Lang Jun, this time I'll let you know what the human heart is!" Li Fang said with a sneer, he pulled out his saber and shouted: "Attention, prepare to release the arrow!" ”……

On the eastern outskirts of the city, next to the barracks of the New Army. The soldiers of the Lu clan are besieging the camp gate. They relied on the cover of the big shield to bring many stones and throw them on the ground outside the camp gate, which was to prevent the opposing cavalry from rushing out to support Xiyang City.

Tonight's incident, the participating forces have a division of labor, some are responsible for arson, some are responsible for feints, some are responsible for receiving the Jiangnan Chen army, and their Lu clan is responsible for entangling the soldiers in the barracks in front of them.

So far, things are going well, the soldiers in the barracks have not rushed out and they have set up more and more obstacles. In all fairness, if the other party is desperate, they can't stop it.

A clan soldier was pulling the rope to the side under the cover of a large shield, and just as he was concentrating on pulling the rope, his head came out a little, only to hear the sound of breaking through the air, and then a crossbow arrow was inserted into the front door, and he fell to the ground with a thud and no longer breathed.

"Be careful, be careful!" An older man shouted in a low voice, the crossbowmen in the barracks were somehow going on, even if they fired arrows at night, the crossbows were the same as in the daytime, and at this distance they looked at the barracks wall was already vague, but the other party was like a night owl, and their companions would be shot as long as they showed their heads.

Fortunately, these soldiers shrank in the barracks and did not come out, it is not bad for the clan soldiers to be consumed like this, and the lack of hand-to-hand combat means that the chances of survival are much greater, and when the situation in the city is settled, they can call it a day and go home.

A hundred steps away from the west side of the barracks, a young man was looking at the barracks from afar, and beside him stood a scribe and more than a dozen sturdy men.

"It's a little strange, what do you think, sir?" Young Langjun asked. He is Lu Xiuping, the son of Lu Rongjia, the head of the Lu clan who participated in the uprising, and he is also the next head of the Lu clan.

"They don't seem to have any intention of rushing out, as if they're waiting for something." The scribe said, he looked at the barracks and frowned, and the performance of these soldiers under Yuwen Wen was a little uneasy.

There was already a fire in Xiyang City, and two arrows rang out. According to Lu Ping, only the second arrow is your own signal, so the first arrow should be the signal of Bazhou's assassin Shi Yu Wenwen's side.

The other party must be signaling people elsewhere to do it, he and Lu Xiu Pingyuan thought that they were going to summon the military camp garrison to enter the city for reinforcements, so they ordered the clan soldiers to prepare to block it, but the door of the military camp was still closed, and there was no intention of rushing out inside.

"Could it be that Yuwen Wentuo is calling the state soldiers in the city, or is the situation already under control?" A middle-aged man said that he was the leader of the clan sent by the patriarch Lu Rongjia to Lu Xiuping's town, Lu Rongfa, and this time the young men in the clan were recruited to fight for fear that someone would not listen to Lu Xiuping's command, so he helped to suppress the formation.

"This is impossible, King Shixing led thousands of soldiers to cross the river into the city, so it is impossible for Yuwen Wen to resist it." Lu Xiuping flatly denied that he had been planning this game of chess for a long time, and he had participated in it, so there could be no mistakes.

Chen Shuling, the king of Shixing in the Chen State, not only gave them a large piece of land in the south of the Yangtze River, but also made an official wish, not only he and his father, but also other clan elders also got official positions, and only in this way would the Lu family help each other.

The ancestral inheritance that has been passed down for hundreds of years is not to be abandoned and abandoned, if it weren't for Yuwen Wen's aggressiveness, they wouldn't want to jump off the wall in a hurry. As soon as the other party took office, he 'lit a fire' to eliminate the accumulated shortcomings, and their Lu clan has many disputes with the surrounding people on weekdays, which can be described as full of flaws, if Yu Wenwen is like this, 'judging the case like a god' and 'making decisions for the people', then the Lu clan will be brought down sooner or later.

The case of Tian Yilong, the son of Tian Zongguang, the head of the Tian clan, was turned up again as a knife against the Tian family, and as soon as the Tian clan was finished, it would be their turn to the Lu clan, and if they didn't fight back at this point, they would be fools.

Yu Wenwen thought that he could force the anti-Tian clan to arrest him, so he never thought that he was already playing with fire and self-immolation, he thought that he would visit the Lu clan in Bahe City and say some good things about his side, and he would see death without help, which was simply ridiculous and generous.

"Lang Jun, could it be that Yuwen Wen detected that King Shixing had something to do, so he had already taken precautions?"

"This is impossible, the fine work he sent to Jiangnan was arrested as soon as he came ashore." Lu Xiuping sneered, "The family members of those meticulous works have been found out clearly. In order to blackmail those fine works after they were put back, they all said that there was no abnormality, where did Yuwenwen know the real situation. ”

"The praying mantis catches the cicada and the yellow finch is behind. It is unlikely that there will be a problem, but this military camp" the scribe muttered to himself, Lu Xiuping was also a little entangled, for him, everything was going according to him, except for the behavior of the garrison of this military camp.

After thinking for a moment, he smiled: "It's okay, even according to the worst plan, if this matter doesn't work out, my Lu clan won't have much loss." ”

As the so-called three caves of cunning rabbits, the Bahe City where the Lu clan is entrenched has its own wharf and ships on the north bank of the Yangtze River. On weekdays, there is no one to stop them from going back and forth between the north and south of the river, and the Bazhou Prefecture government also turns a blind eye because they can't manage it at all, and it is precisely by taking advantage of this convenience that they have transferred some of the property of the clan to the new site in Jiangnan.

If it is done tonight, then everything will be fine, if they fail, they can immediately return to Bahe City, and then take a boat to the south, leaving Yuwenwen with an empty city, anyway, the land allocated to them by Chen Shuling, the king of Shixing, already has a land deed, which is a certainty, so it is not much to lose.

The scribe suddenly said that the other party must have reinforcements, so the soldiers in the barracks deliberately did not attack to attract our troops to surround here, Lu Xiuping heard this, disagreed, and said that it was impossible, he thought that Yuwenwen's biggest reliance was the more than 2,000 soldiers stationed in this barracks, where did the reinforcements come from.

"Hengzhou, the closest to Bazhou, is also nearly a hundred miles here, and the soldiers of Biancheng County and Yiyang County are all waste, how can they come over." After Lu Xiuping finished speaking, he looked at Xiyang City in the distance, showing disdain.

"Yu Wenwen thinks that he has fallen into my trap and is still complacent. What kind of judgment is like a god, it is a silver-like pewter gun head! ”

As soon as the words fell, Lu Rongfa, who was standing next to him, was suddenly startled and immediately looked to the north, Lu Xiuping was a little strange when he saw this, and he also looked to the north, only to see that the wilderness was dark and misty, and the moonlight was covered by dark clouds, and he couldn't see anything in that black mist.

A gust of north wind blew, and Lu Xiuping's nose smelled the smell of nothingness, and then his complexion changed greatly: the smell was familiar to him that it was the smell of horses, and there was more than one horse.

There can be no horses in the wilderness for no reason, and the only answer is that there is a cavalry in the north, and the cavalry cannot be his own, because the only riders of the Lu clan are behind Lu Xiuping.

It can't be the cavalry of the barracks garrison, because according to the situation that the sentinels have been monitoring since this morning, the opposing cavalry is still in the barracks, so are these cavalrymen friend or foe?

"There is an ambush in the north, hurry, quickly set up the formation!" Lu Rongfa shouted loudly, he had already sensed that something was wrong and immediately commanded the defense.

As soon as the words fell, a loud horn sounded in the north, like a thunderclap in the hearts of the Lu clan soldiers, and before everyone came back to their senses, they only heard the sound of horses' hooves, and there were many tall figures rushing south in the wilderness.

"You, protect Lang Jun and retreat!" Lu Rongfa gave an order to the surrounding guards, and the reinforcements from the other party rushed over, no matter what, the first thing was to keep his nephew Lu Xiuping, who was also the head of the young sect, safe.

Lu Xiuping's eyes widened when he heard this, where was he the main general who was frightened back by the cavalry attacking, there are also a lot of his clan soldiers here, if he escapes and leads to the rout of the whole army, what is it.

"Lang Jun, let's go, we've been tricked! Don't stay here for long! The scribe said anxiously, and as soon as he changed his calm appearance, he took the other man's arm and left, regardless of the rudeness.

Lu Rongfa saw that Lu Xiuping's donkey temper came up and refused to go, he was sweating profusely, he had been on the battlefield, he was well-informed, just listening to the movements, he knew that the opponent had a lot of cavalry, and now since the other party dared to come to the battle, it seemed that the military camp was ready to launch, and if he didn't leave at this time, he really couldn't go.

"Lang Jun, things are not good!"

As soon as the words fell, the dark clouds dispersed, and the bright moonlight sprinkled in the wilderness, illuminating their figures and the figures of the attackers, only to see hundreds of cavalry rushing towards Lu Xiuping in the snow, and the distance was less than two hundred steps.

Under the moonlight, a big flag fluttered, and the huge word 'Zhou' on it was very conspicuous, Jiangbei was the territory of the Zhou State, so it was not surprising that it was the Zhou army that attacked, but Lu Rongfa saw the Zhou flag, but his face turned pale as if he had seen a ghost.

At that moment, he recalled the tragic situation of the Lu clan being trampled by the iron cavalry that year, as well as the unforgettable memory of the whole city of Bahe City.

"Zhou Langjun run away, run away!!" (To be continued.) )