I made up my mind and wanted to get closer to Isaac, but the assassin behind me sensed the movement and looked back at me, his hands not taking a moment from his dagger, and I glanced at the black and red patterns on its blade, and decided that it was safer to sit here and talk:

"Isaac, since you won't help me attack the Poles, let's make a compromise, can we find a way to get my men into the city?"

Isaac tilted his head and smiled, stood up on the shoulders of one of the Assassins, and in my surprised eyes, lifted the fur cushion under his seat, and the two Assassins stepped forward to lift the planks hidden underneath, and a bottomless tunnel appeared in front of him, like a bottomless pit inhabited by dwarves in mythology, and a large cloud of cool air poured out of it, making the air in the room cold, and instantly dropping a few degrees.

"I can only help you here, my lord, the rest is up to you, there are not many guards in Gniezno, but there is still enough for you to drink a pot, there are a hundred people in the row of houses under the city gate, and the rest are all concentrated in the castle on the hill of Lech, and we have a secret passage leading there."

Isaac curled the corners of his mouth and made a gesture of invitation to the tunnel, "We will definitely not interfere with your actions. ”

"Thank you." I nodded at him gratefully, took the torch from one of the Assassins, and crept into the tunnel.

I didn't know how long I crawled in the tunnel, and I didn't find the exit until the torches were about to go out, and I was well hidden in a pile of rocks by the river, which no one would notice at all.

Thank goodness the swordfish Ebriy hasn't slipped away yet!

Perhaps he weighed it and found that even if his men were on fire, they would lose at most and lose both, so he wisely chose to hide outside the city, wait for our human skin to be put on a gourd to show the public, and then kidnap a few knights with good skills by the way, which is simply a profit!

So when he saw me appear, the look of disappointment on the swordfish's face changed vividly many times, until I was out of breath and spoke with the support of the warrior, and he led the crowd as if he had just woken up from a dream.

"I don't have much to say about the time urgency, you take a few agile ones to go with me first, and the rest of the people are ambushed outside the city gate to respond, bring all our guys, and go into the city to play the big ticket!"

I made a series of words like a cannon, obviously making his rusty head running at high power for a long time, but he still reflexively beckoned a few of his men to follow me.

The sound of frightened birds flapping their wings could be heard in the woods, the screaming of unknown insects in the eastern sky, the last darkness before dawn reigned over the world, the fire on the walls of Gniezno was faint, and the soldiers fell asleep.

Before the dampness in the tunnel finally made me unbearable, I was about to vomit with a pair of hands, and pulled me back to a dry and warm room, my eyes couldn't adapt to the light in the room for a while, and my slits barely opened for a long time.

The ten people I led crawled out of the cave one by one, unkempt and unkempt, showing the strong physique and absolute adaptability that they had developed over the years as a pirate who licked blood with a knife head.

"The guards are asleep, the streets leading to the castle are empty, and I have arranged for the reception in the castle, do your own business, my lord."

Isaac changed into a piece of soft leather armor and lifted a corner of the room's closed window to point to the castle in the distance on Mount Lech, which was blackened by night.

I nodded gratefully, and rushed out the door first, and the pirates rushed out, and a few of us quickly disappeared into the shadows under the cover of night, and cautiously touched the city gate.

Sure enough, as Isaac said, several guards guarding the gate were staggering against the wall and sleeping soundly, and there was no one still patrolling the city, so I tiptoed to the edge of the house next to the city gate, and looked in through the crack in the open door, and the Polish soldiers who were not on duty were also snoring like thunder in the straw pile, and the fire in the middle of the house was red and looked like it had been extinguished for a long time.

I turned around and made a gesture of action, and the pirates immediately dispersed in groups and began to do their work, a few people jumped up the city to signal the comrades who were lying in ambush outside, a few people untied the fire oil they carried with them and threw them into the house where the soldiers were on duty, and were preparing to light the fire with flint, and the rest of the people quietly touched the soldiers standing guard, waiting for me to give the final order to act.

"!"

I raised the torch I had just lit and threw it into the room where the oil flowed, and the flames burned along the trail of the liquid, and several Polish soldiers, who had been awakened by the smoke, opened their eyes in a daze, and were immediately stunned by the fire in front of them, screaming and running away with their heads in their hands, and stumbling into the pile.

At the same time, the pirates at the city gate slit the throats of the guards as swiftly as chickens, unbolted the door with great difficulty, and pushed open the heavy wooden gate with great difficulty.

Swordfish Ebrey couldn't wait to be the first one, and came in through the crack in the door that had just been opened halfway, carrying an axe upside down, like a murderous Liangshan hero, and in fact he was.

For a time, the fire burned more and more vigorously by the wind, and the rotating room full of 100 people was instantly annihilated in the sea of fire, turning into a purgatory with thick smoke billowing out, and the bitter screams of the Poles before they died, like a terrifying ghost with long hands and feet, woke up the sleeping Gniezno.

The pirates who entered the city skillfully divided into small groups, carrying torches and setting fires to the fleeing Poles while slashing at them, spreading plague-like death among the more incomprehensible crowds, and using their own swords to explain the horror of the dream.

In the blink of an eye, there were fires everywhere as far as the eye could see, from time to time there were terrible screams and women and children's cries, there were more and more corpses on the ground, and the pirates were also red-eyed, and began to uncontrollably carry out their old business, collecting the spoils from house to house.

"You come with me!"

Seeing that the undisciplined pirates were useless and profitable, and immediately put the plan behind me, I had to concentrate my soldiers, hurry up and run to Isaac's house, and sneak in to give him a center to bloom before the enemy in the castle can react, and by the way, find Shelov, who pretended to be a big-tailed wolf with me, and Figura, the little girl who was with me, and teach these two bastards a hard lesson.

No one could have imagined that at the end of the long tunnel, it turned out to be the cellar of the castle, and the closer to the exit, the stronger the fishy smell, when Isaac was guarding the exit, pulled me out, the large and small shoddy mud jars in front of me explained the reason for the fishy smell in the tunnel.

This is the castle's room where pickles are stored, dry and dark full of cobwebs, except for the cook who is responsible for preparing food, but no normal person wants to wander here, so it has become an exit from the secret passage, so that Isaac's inner line can enter and exit with confidence.

In the light of the torches, a large face full of fat was reflected, and if it weren't for the shadow looming under his forehead, it would have been difficult for ordinary people to find his almost thin eyes.

Dressed in a dirty and grease-stained cook's uniform and holding a small torch, the man waited until all my men came out of the tunnel, looked at the number of people, and asked a little worriedly, "Is there only such a small number of people?" There are more cooks in the castle than you alone! ”

"We're here to make trouble, and we're not here to make trouble, so there's no need to bring so many people."

I said to him with confidence, "Tell me, how is the situation in the castle now?" ”

"From the moment the city gate caught fire, the castle exploded, Lord Shelov personally led the garrison knights to suppress it, the rest of the soldiers guarded their posts, Princess Figura was also closely protected, there were no soldiers along the corridor out of the kitchen until the end, they didn't expect that there was a secret passage here." The fat cook used his fingers to draw a simple sketch of the castle on the thick ash on the ground, so that it was convenient for me to tell it intuitively.

I stared at his sketch for a long time, the castle of Mount Lech was built in the shape of a mountain, and the ups and downs were very long, so the floor plan looked like a locust with a thick middle and thin sides, and the dwellings of the main characters and the castle hall were concentrated in the tallest tower in the middle, and were connected by the city wall and the forts on the left and right sides of the garrison, and the cellar where we were located was located on the left side of the castle facing the city, a small fortress, and the garrison was said to be only thirty soldiers, all of whom were now standing guard by the side of the storehouse where the grain was stored. So the kitchen on the ground floor of the entire fortress is safe for the time being.

"There are only thirty enemies, so it's easy to do!"

I stood up and patted the ashes on my body, and said to my soldiers: "Quietly touch it, kill them all, and then set fire to the food on the spot, the enemy who sees the fire will definitely send troops to come to the rescue, you don't have a hard top, while setting fire to the favorable terrain to counterattack, try to delay the time, I took a dozen people to touch the central tower, to catch the princess Figura who deceived us, after the deed is done, raise the fire as a signal, you withdraw from the tunnel to respond, I will burn the entire castle and find a way to withdraw, we will meet in front of the castle." ”

The soldier at the head frowned slightly worriedly, and volunteered to say to me: "My lord, it is too dangerous for you to act in person, the central tower is the focus of the enemy's defense, even if you can catch the Polish princess, when you withdraw from the main gate, you may encounter the enemy who rushed back from outside the city, it is better for me to take the brothers to arrest people, you and the rest of your comrades will stay in the granary and set fire, and if necessary, you can escape through the tunnel at any time." ”

I patted him on the shoulder with satisfaction, and the leader is indeed proud of himself for doing this: "Thank you for your concern, but this matter is very important, I must personally carry it out, don't worry, have you forgotten the secret weapon we carried on this trip?" The nightmare of the Normans has not been eliminated to this day. ”

(End of chapter)