Chapter 587: Tiger's Mouth (I)
In the middle of September of the eleventh year of the Apocalypse, when Wan Yi's order was sent to Li San'er from the Xuanying Guard's secret guard channel, Qin Kong had already sent the latest order from Byzantium, the content of the two orders was different, but its basic meaning was the same, both ordered all the Xuanying Guards around Jerusalem to fully cooperate with the Flying Eagle Brigade from the time they received the order, and smuggle out all the treasures in Jerusalem that were marked by the secret guards in advance at all costs. And Qin Kong had already asked the secret guards to intercept the two caravans of the Yelu family, and they traveled south along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea to converge.
After Li San'er received the order, before Lao Jiu could send a message from the city, the crusaders had already begun to attack the city. The result of the first attack on the city by this group of troops with the archbishop and some generals as the top made Li San'er and others, who were in the rear army and had not been sent to the front line for the time being, stunned. Facing the city wall that is nearly four or five zhang high and divided into several layers, and there are countless soldiers guarding the city wall, these crusaders actually rushed forward directly, and some of the soldiers were holding something similar to the hook and rope on the Central Plains, which was going to climb the wall to enter the city wall?
Li San'er gasped, and the original intention of fishing in troubled waters was completely gone. These guys don't know how to fight at all, huh? And even if the Western-style castle is set up because of the dense layering of the city walls, the first floor is usually low, but according to the current number of garrisons on the castle tower, it is tantamount to a fool's dream to rely on ropes to climb up, are those archers really idiots? Moreover, although the Western-style castle has such drawbacks, the layers of castle towers have brought more intensive and effective attacks, making this kind of castle tower once made the Tiance army feel tricky for the first time, not to mention that this chaotic crusader army can be attacked?
"Immediately inform all the brothers to withdraw from the crusader array immediately, and we will find another way." Li San'er was not optimistic that these people would be able to capture such a city, and the crusaders were originally a rabble, and in addition to the demagogic effect of religion, they were more likely to collude with interests and take Jerusalem, and there were many kinds of wealth that the pope had gathered over the years. The reason why these people were able to attack the city was because of the attraction of money, but under the strong army of troops, if they could not attack it for a long time, it would inevitably cause chaos in the army's mind. Once these soldiers are discouraged, then relying on the more than 1,000 Flying Eagle Brigade soldiers in Li San'er's hands, there will be no chance at all. Therefore, Li San'er immediately decided to go it alone, taking advantage of the fact that these people were still able to contain the main energy of the defenders in the city, and no one could notice his opportunity, smuggled into the city and then helped this group of people open the gate and transport the treasure out of the chaos.
The crusaders numbered tens of thousands of people, and at this moment it was the critical juncture of the siege, and the entire battlefield was in a hustle and bustle, so the withdrawal of more than 1,000 people in batches was naturally unnoticed, and the crusaders were originally composed of cultists and ruffians from all over the country, and they didn't know each other internally, so Li San'er and they almost swaggered when they left, and they didn't hide their whereabouts at all.
"Old Baitiao, you immediately take someone to find your leader, I need all the information in the city, and immediately notify the secret guards, follow me to Jerusalem to find out the bottom of the city, I am afraid that it will be too difficult to attack the city from the north. When will the more than 1,000 of us who are smuggled on a small scale enter the city? Li San'er shook his head and immediately arranged for Lao Baitiao to go out to find Lao Jiu, and then asked the main force of the third team to wait in place immediately, while he took a team around in a circle. Jerusalem was originally located near a mountainous area, so the city was so large that it was not so much a complete and continuous wall as a series of numerous citadels interconnected. As Li San'er walked, the people around him began to record and draw graphics.
"Boss, our boss is out." When Li San'er came to the vicinity of this hill, Lao Baitiao also came over with Lao Jiu, and he was panting along the way, obviously it was not easy for the other party to enter the city this time.
"Lao Jiu, what is the situation in the city now?" Li San'er also knew that at this time, when the attack and defense of the two sides were fierce, it was not easy for Lao Jiu to come out safely, so he pulled the other party to find a hidden place and sat down and asked.
"Boss, the city is now in chaos, the three popes gathered a large number of congregations in the city to pray in their respective Holy Sees, among which this Catholic Church was almost besieged by the other two religions, and almost had a fight, I think as long as the crusaders can hold out for more than ten days, the city will inevitably fall into civil strife, and then it will be able to break through the city defenses without much effort." Lao Jiu said: "However, there are many black-haired and yellow-faced people like us in the city, but when I hear his accent, I don't want to be from my Central Plains, because I want to find out their details, so I will delay the time." ”
"Did you check the treasure that the Dark Guard said?" Li San'er is not interested in whether these are from the Central Plains, and it is possible that Anxi has been lost for a hundred years, and it may be that the descendants of the Tang people came here in exile. So the conversation hurriedly turned to the treasure.
"Boss, the Heavenly Fang Sect has a lot of money in the city, a few of them have been targeted by the secret guards for several months, and there is an underground treasure house, the location of which I have visited, but only the dark guards have been inside. What is it called Judaism, nothing has been found for the time being, there is only a residential area, but the Catholic Church has many churches in the city, and according to the secret guards, there are at least three treasures, but no one knows what is inside, and even the dark guards can't touch it. Lao Jiu said: "Boss, with all due respect, we are afraid that we will not be able to move out of a single treasure with more than 1,000 people." ”
Lao Jiu's distress Li San'er understands, especially since he has been to a place, so it is not so much worrying about whether he can go in as much as worrying about whether he can't move back.
"If only the big marshal could send people, even a few thousand." Lao Jiu's complaint made Li San'er wake up suddenly, and immediately said: "Lao Jiu, you immediately take my token to the vicinity of Anxizhou as quickly as possible, and let the garrison of the Anxi Corps immediately come west lightly to assist us." Fortunately, you reminded me, I'm afraid that the Anxi Corps has already made some moves, and the handsome man has always been meticulous and thoughtful in his work, and there will be no mistakes or omissions. Li San'er's words also made the surrounding Flying Eagle Brigade soldiers suddenly realize, so many treasures, I am afraid that the Western Expeditionary Army has long known that even Chang'an will be sent back by the secret guards, so how can it be that when the matter comes, there is not the slightest preparation, not to mention that the Western Expeditionary Army is not prepared, and Xuan Yingwei's side can still be prepared? After figuring this out, Lao Jiu immediately galloped towards the rest of the state. And Li San'er took the third brigade of the Flying Eagle Brigade and began to plan to climb over this mountain into the city. The hill in the east of the city was nothing to the Flying Eagle Brigade, although at this time the vicinity of this hill was the seat of the Catholic Holy See, and it was besieged by the other two sects, but Li San'er easily got out with someone.
"Anyway, the crusaders didn't have any results today, but even if something goes wrong with the tens of thousands of troops, it will be in a few days, and our task now is to find a way to move the treasure house of the Heavenly Fang Sect out." Li San'er came to the secret stronghold where the secret guard was and said, "What about your secret guard's passage out of the city?" Wouldn't it really be true that we would fly out with the treasure? ”
"No, I have a path that is just not easy to follow." The secret guard is a person from the Tang Dynasty, and he is also familiar with Li San'er and others, but he said with a smile: "I originally planned to dig tunnels here, but digging tunnels in Jerusalem, a ghost place, will not work at all, so there is only one way to think about it, the location of our place is near the east of the city, and I control all the houses on the line from my house to the city gate, as long as you can transport the treasure here, you can use these rolling houses to reach that small gate." The dark guard smiled: "And the commander you see, this is the map I drawn, the four treasures and underground treasure troves are the shortest in a straight line from our location, among which the treasures on the side of the Heavenly Fang Sect have been controlled by us and can be transported at any time." All you Eagle Brigade have to do now is to snatch the three treasures of the Catholic Church. Dark Guard said: "The most embarrassing thing at the moment is that the Catholic side is surrounded by the members of the other two sects, we are okay, otherwise I will fall short, these sects are really fanatical." ”
"Wait until the evening, you can take us over to have a look, we must find a way to transport these treasures out before the city is broken, otherwise we will have no chance among the thousands of soldiers and horses." Li San'er already had an idea in his heart at this time, but he couldn't make up his mind whether the crusaders outside the city could act according to their own wishes.
The Flying Eagle Brigade waited until night, and Li San'er and the secret guard immediately went to check the location of the three underground treasure houses in the dark. With the Flying Eagle Brigade and these warrior kings coming out, these underground treasure houses were opened to Li San'er and others without any obstruction.
"I thought these Tessie people had some talent to build an underground treasure house, and at this level, it was not as good as the cellar dug by my old man." A soldier of the Flying Eagle Brigade from near Bianzhou scoffed at this brutal method of hollowing out the mountain and then packing all the treasures into a box, and said disdainfully: "It's still the tomb left by our ancestors, my grandfather's generation really touched Captain Jin for that old guy Zhu Quanzhong, so the means of going to the tomb - alas, why did you beat me, boss?" Before the Flying Eagle Brigade soldier could show off, he was slapped aside by Li San'er, and Li San'er's impatient voice came from his ears, "Owl, hurry up and check if these chests are treasures, and then take someone to the next location, check whether these treasure houses are true as soon as possible, and don't show off those glorious deeds in your family in front of me." Li San'er slapped the soldier of the Flying Eagle Brigade who robbed the tomb to the next treasure house, and then personally opened a large wooden box closest to him, only to see that a piece of jewels instantly appeared in the originally dim treasure house, and countless bright and crystalline yellow-orange lights made Li San'er cover the box in an instant, and then shouted in a low voice: "Hurry up and count how many boxes there are, they are all sealed for me." ”
"Boss, it's really sent now, I just glanced at more than a hundred boxes." Li San'er thought that the deputy smiled and said, "If this is shipped back, I guess the emperor should personally receive us." ”
"That's all you kid is doing, what's so strange about the emperor summoning you? When the Flying Eagle Brigade was first established, the emperor personally ate and lived with us for many days. Don't worry, maybe the emperor will invite us to dinner when we go back this time, and the queen will cook it herself. Li San'er casually arranged a few words, and then hurried out of the underground treasure house with a few people and rushed to the next location.
Li San'er didn't sleep at all that night, and checked all the four underground treasure vaults overnight, and even recorded all the important places along the way, including the situation of the change of guards in the city, which were all clear with the cooperation of the secret guards.
"Three days after the notice, we will start to move, the first step is to move all these treasures here, and then the second part is to be transported out of the city." After Li San'er finished the order, he immediately said: "The first step is that all the staff will come together, and when the second step is executed, you will take the third, fifth and seventh teams to be responsible for receiving the treasure outside the city, and the rest of the people will transport the treasure out with me." All of the Darkguard's belongings are doing what I tell you to do, and this time we're really going to take food from the mouths of the tigers on both sides. ”
When Li San'er's side began to mobilize people to implement his plan step by step, Lao Jiu also took Li San'er's token and met a battalion of Pang Lingming's Tiance Army on the peninsula who had already led people towards Jerusalem. As soon as the two converged, Pang Lingming immediately began to follow Lao Jiu's arrangement and began to head towards the east of Jerusalem, and covered his whereabouts along the way, trying his best not to let other passers-by in the vicinity see him.
Around Jerusalem, the Crusaders, the Eagle Brigade, and the Shadow Guard were almost all in full force, and although each had different goals, the two sides began to lock the time firmly around September 20, the 11th year of the Apocalypse. Because both Li San'er, who was on the front line, and the high-level of the crusaders had already seen the most critical problem at this time, that is, the crusaders had shown fatigue after a high-intensity siege campaign that lasted for three days, and the rabble was still weak after a long period of attack.
"Act now from tonight. There is also a secret message that the secret guard immediately planted for you, asking him to find a way to organize a siege again, saying that Jerusalem will be broken in three days at most. Although Li San'er didn't look down on the combat power of the Crusaders, he still needed them to contain the attention of the defenders and sectarians in the city at this critical moment, so he still needed them to make persistent efforts at this critical moment, so he directly took out his killer weapon, "Tell the shadow son that we will help him break the city in three days, but we need them to launch a feint for three days to buy us time." Li San'er waved his hand, and it was a pile of seven blasters, which made the secret guard no longer worried, and turned around and began to go out to interrogate.