Mu Qingyuan pointed to the snow, originally under the night, Xiang Kejian didn't care, this time it was pointed out, he looked closely, only to find that there were many messy footprints in the snow, although it had been covered with snow, but the outline of the footprints could still be distinguished, and the footprints began to spread from the exit of the grain depot until the end of the street.

"This?"

Mu Qingyuan signaled silence, he took the lead and cautiously came to the door of the grain depot, Xiang Kejian remembered his duty, and immediately followed, and at the same time pressed his hand tightly on the saber on his waist. The two looked at the door of the grain depot and found the two lying in the snow, stepped forward to remove the snow, and the Liang Dynasty official uniform on their bodies came into view.

"It's the depot guard!" Mu Qingyuan immediately realized that the big thing was not good, he ran into the grain depot and saw that the twenty grain trucks were still quietly parked in the square, he jumped on the grain truck and lifted the roof of the grain truck hard, but saw that it was empty, Xiang Kejian concocted all the grain trucks to check, and the result was the same as what Mu Qingyuan saw.

"What's going on? I obviously received the grain team outside the city, why is the food gone! Xiang Kejian has realized that he is derelict in his duties, but he still can't figure out the cause and effect.

"If the grain cart is full of grain, how can it be diverted in such a short time? Even if it is transferred, it is impossible to leave not even a grain of rice left! ”

"What .......do you mean, sir?"

"This grain cart is not filled with grain at all!"

"How?"

"Go back to the yamen immediately, prepare the horse quickly, you go and inform all the yamen, let them prepare their weapons and go to the south gate immediately, I will go to the barracks!" Mu Qingyuan ran towards the mansion and commanded Xiang Kejian.

Mu Qingyuan, who had just run to the yamen, didn't have time to catch his breath, and took advantage of the opportunity to go to the stable to Kejian, picked up the bell and was about to blow it, but he heard a loud noise, and before he could recover his numb ears, he saw a sky-high fire in the north of the city.

The barracks have been attacked! For a moment, Mu Qingyuan's mind was blank, as if he was in a dream, he never expected that someone would launch an attack on Hanzhou on this New Year's vigil! But who could it be? Lower Tang people? Combined with the situation of the grain cart, then such an association is very reasonable, it must be that the people of the Tang Dynasty used the grain cart to sneak into the city and wait for the opportunity to sneak attack the military camp!

"Your Excellency!" Xiang Kejian obviously knew that the situation was urgent, and he led the horse and ran over, waiting for orders.

"Don't panic! Don't panic! Although Mu Qingyuan had imagined a variety of possible scenarios in his heart in order to start a war with Xia Tang, he didn't expect tonight's accident at all, he gritted his teeth, clenched his fists, and used all his strength to calm himself down. Xia Tang made a sneak attack on the military camp, the capacity of the grain truck is limited after all, as long as the city gate is not lost, we can still control the scene! Or do what you said before! ”

"Subordinates must ensure the safety of adults!"

"What you want to ensure is the safety of the people of Hanzhou!"

However, the unfortunate reality is that Mu Qingyuan was optimistic as expected, when the first wine jar exploded, the Xia Tang army, which had already been ambushed outside the city, rushed through the north city gate, and when the wine jar exploded one after another, the right guard fell into a panic for a while. Yan Yuxin, who never left his armor, issued three military orders to stabilize the whole army: the right army went out of the camp to the direction of the city gate; The left army immediately extinguished the fire in the barracks; Yan Yu Xinqin led the Chinese army to rush out of the barracks to meet the Tang Dynasty.

By the light of the fire, the black figures that had been hidden in the night began to reveal their true faces: a black veil covered the entire skull, revealing only the eyes of a falcon; The whole body is covered in black armor, reflecting a cold light in the snow. Seeing the appearance of the right-rank guard, everyone consciously pulled out a weapon similar to a three-section stick from between their legs, and the surface of each section was densely covered with spikes, and each spike thorn was faintly flashing with a blue demonic light.

"No matter how you sneaked into the city, since you're here, don't think about going back alive!" Yan Yuxin clamped the horse's belly, rushed out first, and pulled out the serrated nail lance on his back, the lance was six feet long, the lance body was smooth, and the head of the lance had a total of nineteen nails, arching the sharp tip of the lance, and the whole sawtooth nail lance exuded a silver-gray cold light.

Two black figures jumped into the air from the left and right, and at the same time threw the wolf's tooth three-section stick, trying to force Yan Yuxin to fall off the horse, he inserted the lance into the snow, and used his strength to take off the air to avoid the enemy's attack, and after the three-section stick was recovered, he fell back to the horse, and at the same time when he pulled out the lance, he threw the dirt on the face of the man on the left, and when the person on the left fell to the ground, the tip of the lance had been inserted into the throat of the person on the right.

"Kill!" Under the leadership of the commander, the Chinese cavalry took advantage of the advantage of horses to start a fierce battle with those black figures, the cavalry of the right rank pierced the enemy's chest with silver spears, and they themselves were hit by three sticks, fell off their horses, and for a time the two sides were inextricably entangled, and each suffered casualties.

After Yan Yuxin knocked over several enemies in a row, he found that one of the enemies was obviously the leader, and his whole body was no different from other black figures, but there was obviously a black pattern on his right eye, and there were not a few right-rank guards who died under his hands. Yan Yuxin rode his horse to attack the man, but he didn't think about it, and a three-section stick was firmly nailed to the horse's hooves, and the wolf's teeth on the stick immediately poked several bloody holes in the horse's hooves, and the mount was in pain and neighed in the sky.

Yan Yuxin was about to jump off the horse, and his opponent had already stepped on the horse's head at the moment, and the three-section stick roared according to his face, leaning on several backflips in a row to dodge the attack, but when he was about to land, he was kicked in the chest hard, although he was protected by Chiyun armor, but he still took a few steps back and relied on the sawtooth nail lance to stand firm. Yan Yuxin clearly saw the smile in the corner of the man's eyes, distorting the black mark.

The right army to the north city gate was led by Jing Yue, the deputy commander, a total of 2,000 people, the military camp burst into a fire, there were not many horses that could be used, Jing Yue rode with more than a dozen generals, and everyone else was running. The north city gate is not far from the military camp, in normal times, a horse galloping a stick of incense is more than enough, tonight before the time of a stick of incense, Jing Yue has already seen the fire at the city gate, and at the same time saw the Tang army in brown uniforms.

The gates are gone! At this moment, he can only fight hard, Jing Yue gave an order, and the entire right army was thrown into the battle for the city gate, he knew that he had to regain control of the city gate, otherwise the Tang army would continue to pour into the city. The open space near the north city gate, without any other buildings, is very conducive to hand-to-hand combat, at first the two armies were still comparable, but as more and more Lower Tang troops poured into the city, the right army could only fight and retreat.

Seeing that he was getting farther and farther away from the city gate, and the hope of regaining control of the city gate was getting slimmer and slimmer, Jing Yue was very impatient in his heart, and he tried to counterattack several times but was still defeated, and the robes around him were constantly falling. He knew that it was not an option to continue to delay, and that he had to quickly get rid of the entanglement and convey the news of the gate out of control to the commander so that he could prepare.

"Retreat!" Jing Yue shouted, with the rest of the people want to return to the barracks, there is only one road leading to the barracks from the north city gate, and there is just a corner built by the city wall in the middle of the way, just at this corner, from this corner, from the darkness flashed an unknown number of black figures, they wrapped their heads with veils, so that they were all wolf teeth three-knotweed, they raided the right army from behind, killing Jing Yue and they were caught off guard. After Jing Yue saw clearly the enemy who had intercepted them, he immediately understood that he had fallen into a situation of being surrounded.

"Don't think about going back to the barracks, just stay here!" The leader of the Lower Tang Army, dressed in blood-red armor, with two wolf heads with open mouths and large mouths on both sides of his shoulders, his eyes showed a fierce light, and he roared provocatively, "Kill them all!" ”

The Lower Tang Army, which was several times larger than the Right Army, surrounded the Right Army in the corner area and began to practice target shooting, spears, machetes, and feather arrows were greeted one after another, and there were fewer and fewer people in the Right Army who could fight, Jing Yue's shoulders, thighs and arms had been hung with colors, he knew that it was impossible to retreat with his whole body, but he had to pass on the news anyway, so he took advantage of the chaos to catch a small soldier next to him, and took off his armor from a Lower Tang soldier and handed it to the soldier, saying: "Change it immediately!" Later, I will lead people to rush towards an opening, you find an opportunity to sneak out, and tell the commander the news that the city gate is lost and the Tang army has entered the city! With tears in his eyes, the little soldier nodded vigorously, and immediately changed into the armor of the Lower Tang Army.

"Follow me, rush!" Jing Yue spotted a small number of people in the encirclement, and began to break through violently, all the soldiers of the right army regardless of life and death, went forward and followed, and filled a gap with the corpse, Jing Yue first pushed the small soldiers out, and then the remaining soldiers of the right army also squeezed out of the crack, everyone was injured but had to flee in the direction of the barracks, but everyone did not run a few steps, a handle of three sticks wrapped around their necks like ropes, and then they watched themselves being dragged into the enemy's army formation and were instantly dismantled.

Jing Yue's whole body was full of wounds, he knew that he was unlucky, the only hope was in the little soldier, one fell to the ground, his legs were bleeding uncontrollably, and when he looked back, he found that none of the robes who were fighting side by side were left. The arrogant leader of the Lower Tang Army walked to Jing Yue's side, he wanted to use the knife in his hand to slash at the man but was easily kicked away by the man, Jing Yue used all his strength to stand up and retreat, facing the black pressure of the Lower Tang Army in front of him with his bare hands.

"You're smart, but you're just clever!" The man at the head pulled the disguised soldier past him, and when he saw him fall on this person's hand, Jing Yue's pupils contracted and his whole body trembled.

"You killed him, but it's a pity that he is still young!" The leader slashed the soldier's throat with his blade, only to see blood spurt out, making the red armor on the man's body extremely bloody!

"Ahh Jing Yue raised his fist and rushed towards the man, the man shook his head to avoid the fist full of anger, and instead clamped Jing Yue's throat with a tong-like palm and slowly lifted him up, letting Jing Yue's face become redder and redder, and his hands and feet couldn't stop struggling, only to hear a click, Jing Yue finally stopped moving, and opened a pair of blood-red eyes. The man at the head shook Jing Yue's body away, turned to the army behind him and said, "We want to take revenge on the Liang Dynasty!" ”

"Revenge!"

The brutal battle at the North City Gate, Mu Qingyuan didn't see it; He didn't hear the revenge roar of the Tang Army, and he was busy evacuating the people in the city at the moment. The people who were on the New Year's Eve were completely unaware of what was happening, and when the explosion broke out, the flames and shouts of killing came from the direction of the barracks, and people were surprised to realize that they were in danger. The soldiers sent by Mu Qingyuan to investigate the situation at the south gate never returned, so he had to order Xiang Kejian and the few remaining servants around him to gather the people and retreat in the direction of the south of the city.

If the military camp is lost, then the Tang army will soon occupy the city of Hanzhou, there is a wine shop in the direction of the south city gate, the surface is a wine shop but in fact a secret passage out of the city, as a strategic city of Hanzhou City has been built here at the beginning of the construction of the secret passage to the outside of the city, in order to be in the city after the city is captured, the people in the city can ventilate through the secret passage. After going to Hanzhou, Mu Qingyuan also learned of the existence of this secret passage, which is why he sent people to explore the south of the city.

When Mu Qingyuan led more than 1,000 people in the city to the south of the city, there were already more than a dozen people standing opposite, and they were the drivers who transported the grain carts into the city. Xiang Kejian immediately protected Mu Qingyuan with a knife, and asked sharply: "You are not a coachman at all, who are you!" ”