Chapter 51: Hold on for an hour
The crow was persuaded by Sanniang, and the seven marksmen prepared poisoned arrows, which were used against those who were not easy to sneak attack, such as those on the watchtower, and those patrolling Qing troops.
After all the preparations were made here, the people sent by the crow also came back, and the blacksmith inside also began to prepare secretly, just waiting for the night to come, tonight is a moonless night, Wu Sanniang selected fifty elites, the crow had to follow, Sanniang thought about her skills and agreed.
Wu Sanniang took fifty-one people to quietly approach the city wall, the crow in order to show his skills, planning to jump on the city wall with Sanniang, both of them are athletic types, only need to gently step on the city wall twice to turn up, after turning the city wall, Wu Sanniang first lie on the wall to see the situation inside.
The position chosen by the two turned over to the inner courtyard of the official fang, where there was basically no sound at night, the soldiers on the four corner towers were also leaning on the pillars, Sanniang made a gesture, and the people below began to climb the city, the four corner towers were in the four corners, three of which were easier to solve by the city wall, and the last one was indeed at the crossroads.
The other three Sanniang were handed over to their subordinates, and the Sanniang at the intersection planned to solve it by himself, and the others began to prepare Sanniang and the crow to sneak towards the corner tower at the crossroads.
Passing by the yard along the way, Sanniang didn't make a sound, and continued to sneak in the shadows of the house, and when she reached the bottom of the corner tower, Sanniang was a little speechless, the guy upstairs was asleep, and Sanniang could hear him snoring below.
Gesture to the crow and let her wait below, Wu Sanniang climbed to the corner tower vigorously, climbed up the corner tower Sanniang really saw that the guy above was sleeping against the pillar, such a profound technique I don't know how he practiced it, and he was not afraid to climb down against the pillar.
Sanniang stepped forward to cover his mouth and thrust the dagger into his neck, the soldier on the corner tower shook a few times and lost consciousness, Sanniang continued to lean against the pillar, and he turned down the corner tower and sneaked towards the west gate of the official square with a wave of his hand.
The dozen or so soldiers at the west gate were divided into two shifts, four of them guarded the gate, and the door was also closed at night, so these soldiers who guarded the gate slept by the door, and the others slept in the house.
It's also too peaceful, so these people are not the slightest guard, Sanniang blew a pipe of smoke into the house and waited for a quarter of an hour, the others turned into the yard one after another, Sanniang made a gesture to wipe the neck of the crow and the others, pointed to the four people, everyone nodded, and quietly sneaked over.
Things were done neatly, and the four of them only had time to kick their legs to go up to the western sky, Wu Sanniang climbed the courtyard wall of the official square again, and looked towards the city gate, where torches were lit, and there were four or five village soldiers gambling in the besieging circle, while the others were hiding in the leeward corner to sleep.
The others entered the house to get rid of the stunned people in the house, Wu Sanniang made a gesture of encirclement to the people who were gambling money, and then made a gesture to wipe the neck of the sleeping people, everyone nodded, only the crow seemed to understand a little.
Everyone poured a little vegetable oil on the door bolt, and quietly spread them out a crack, more than 20 people quietly sneaked along the city gate, Wu Sanniang waited for everyone to be in place, and waved his hand violently, and he took the lead in rushing towards the gambling people, and solved one first.
This group of people was in a daze in the middle of the night, and they saw a black shadow rushing over, and then fell down, only one neck was lowered enough to escape the surprise attack behind him, this person was stunned for a moment and was about to shout, Wu Sanniang took a step forward, and the dagger was ready to stab the throat, and the person slowly fell to the ground.
Things were surprisingly smooth at this time, Wu Sanniang opened the city gate, and shook three torches outside the city, and after a while, the remaining more than 200 people drove into Yangfan Town, and after a while, there began to be a blacksmith with a small family out of the official workshop, Wu Sanniang waited for two quarters of an hour, and more than 100 people were withdrawn, and most of the remaining people were hesitating, and the lights began to be lit up in the official workshop one after another.
Wu Sanniang knew that she was afraid that she would be discovered by the Qing army in a short time, so she secretly ordered everyone to prepare for battle, and sure enough, after another quarter of an hour, there was a sudden scream, and then the gong sounded, and someone howled and the blacksmith of the official workshop ran away, and then the whole Yangfan Town seemed to come to life, and the adults and children cried.
Wu Sanniang frowned, not knowing what to do, at this moment Li Qingyuan came in from the city gate to see Wu Sanniang: "You go to the official square to continue mobilization, block those green battalion soldiers, in a quarter of an hour, no matter how many people there are, they will immediately retreat, and I will take people to the front to block." ”
Wu Sanniang knew that this was not the time to be hypocritical, nodded her head, and rushed towards the official square with people, while Li Qingyuan advanced to the intersection with fifty soldiers of the sharpshooter battalion, preparing to block the enemy in other directions.
Li Qingyuan was nervously preparing, but after waiting for a quarter of an hour, the street was still quiet, Li Qingyuan touched his chin, and felt that he was not too high to see the Qing army, Wu Sanniang and the people had already gone out of the city, and Li Qingyuan also withdrew near the city gate.
At this time, the township soldiers organized in the city were late, and seeing the township soldiers holding torches gathered in a group and slowly walking towards this side, Li Qingyuan looked at the other party and said: "Fight those who carry torches, whoever takes torches will hit whom." ”
Then there was a roar of gunfire, and everyone with torches hung up, and then whoever went to pick up the torches died, and the villagers immediately dispersed, and they all hid away from the torches, for fear that they would be unlucky.
Li Qingyuan shook his head helplessly, such a war is really unchallenging, and the township soldiers are also very entangled in hiding under one roof at this time, and the steward of this official workshop escaped from Yangfan Town as soon as he heard that the Green Battalion General was killed, claiming that he went to Xingzhou to ask for reinforcements.
As a result, there was no one to command the green battalion soldiers in the city, and the township soldiers always wanted to command these green battalions, but these people would not listen, and the officers in the green battalion were just hacked to death by two women after hanging up with the general manager, and they didn't know what to do for a while.
After a stalemate for a quarter of an hour, the villagers came to drive out these unknown people at the request of Li Zheng and the big families in the city.
As a result, more than ten people were killed before they reached the city gate, and these people immediately dispersed, Li Qingyuan waited for another quarter of an hour and saw that the other party had no intention of coming over to recover the city gate, so he retreated with his people, and they had to go all the way to the north to lead the troubled water to the north.
To the north of Xingzhou Mansion is Zhending Prefecture Luxian County, known as the dry wharf of the West and Sanjin, which is an important cargo distribution center and one of the important land passages connecting Shanxi in Zhili.
Such a place can naturally raise a large group of bandits, so there is a bandit named Wu Duyan who is said to have as many as seven or eight hundred people, which not only affected the important trade routes of the Qing court, but also blocked Li Qingyuan's north, and was an ideal target for blame.