The moment Chen Shilang fell, more than two dozen soldiers of the Jiannan Army beside him also fell to the ground almost at the same time. The barbarians who can become the guards of the princess of Nanzhao Erhai are all very skilled, especially the mastery of the Nanzhao barbarians. Poisoned arrows pierced their bodies, paralyzing them in an instant, and then killing them.

More than 100 barbarians quickly crawled to the place where the corpse had fallen and dragged the corpse into the darkness, and after a while, more than 20 barbarians dressed in Tang Army armor and weapons swaggered out of the darkness and walked to the fortifications outside the camp made of sandbags.

Next to the bonfire, another group of more than 20 Tang soldiers was sleeping soundly, and a deputy team was in charge of patrolling in the second half of the night. Hearing the familiar sound of armor touching the blade, and knowing that it was the return of the first patrol, he didn't bother to open his eyes and spoke in a daze.

"Lao Zheng...... There seemed to be some noise in the northeast just now, like the sound of something falling to the ground, so it's fine. ”

"It's nothing." The 'Lao Zheng' replied vaguely, and the footsteps came to stand by the bonfire.

"That's good, that's good." The deputy team was moving, and suddenly felt that something was wrong, the voice of Lao Zheng just now was a little wrong, so he opened his eyes suspiciously, and then he saw a person standing in front of him holding a bright steel knife against his neck.

"You ......" The deputy was only halfway out of his words, and the steel knife stabbed him in the throat, cutting off all the remaining words and doubts. At the same time, the barbarians who were standing in their positions slashed all the sleeping Tang soldiers one by one.

As the bonfire slowly became extinguished by the sand, and the surroundings were plunged into gloom, a brute soldier shoved a leaf into his mouth and let out a few crisp chirpings of nightingales into the darkness, and a moment later, Princess Arlo quickly arrived at the fortifications with hundreds of black shadows behind her, all lying in the improvised sentry camp made of straw bales.

"Ah Shui, it's beautiful." Ah Luo raised his white finger at a brute soldier dressed in Tang Army armor and praised in a low voice.

"Princess Xie compliments." Captain Ah Shui grinned.

Ah Luo nodded, leaned on the straw bale and looked along the Tang army barracks, which were brightly lit up and down four or five hundred paces away. Several tall arrow towers stood in the darkness on the inside of the Tang military camp, and piles of bonfires lit at the edge of the camp illuminated the rows of giant trebuchets placed on the outside of the camp. The long throwing arm is in a state of no force at the moment, pointing obliquely at the starry sky, like a big arm pointing to the sky.

"The light near the Tang army camp is too bright to sneak in with grass and rattan clothes. There must be soldiers and horses of the Tang army on top of the arrow tower, and any movement around the camp will be discovered by them, and it seems that they will have to disguise themselves as Tang troops to approach. Arlo said in a low voice.

"Don't worry, princess, Ah Shui will take someone to sprinkle fire oil. Tang Jun should not be suspicious. ”

"Okay, I can only take risks, the Tang Army's defense is so strict, the surrounding earth, rocks and trees have been razed to the ground, and there is really no way to sneak around, so I can only use this method to try. Prepare now. Princess Arlo nodded and ordered.

More than 20 sets of Tang army armor were stripped from the corpse, and more than 20 barbarian soldiers were transformed into Tang army soldiers, and after a while, 53 Jiannan army soldiers stood up from the fortifications, and Ah Shui took the lead, lined up and slowly marched towards the barracks.

The fake Tang soldiers slowly marched through the open area hundreds of paces before the barracks, and were soon exposed to the light of the bonfires and the torches and wind lamps on the walls of the barracks. But no one seemed to notice the group of Tang soldiers who were walking towards the trebuchet, until they reached a distance of thirty paces where the trebuchet was placed, when suddenly there was a click of the crossbow wrench spring from the nearest tall arrow tower. Immediately after that, the voice shouted.

"What for? Stop. ”

"Night patrol outside the camp." Ah Shui replied in a deep voice.

"Night patrol outside the camp? You are only responsible for the area 500 paces outside the camp, what are you doing close to the barracks? I don't know that the deputy marshal has an order, and everyone can't wait to get within a hundred steps of the place where the Shenwei cannon is parked? Get out of here! Otherwise, we're going to have to shoot the arrows. The man on the tower shouted.

Ah Shui stopped, pondered for a few breaths, said a few words in a low voice, and then suddenly ran wildly, and dozens of fake Tang soldiers behind him also ran quickly, and dozens of people rushed straight to the area where the trebuchet was located. The Tang army on the arrow tower shouted loudly, and at the same time, the bow and crossbow machine springs made a buzzing sound, and dozens of feathered arrows fell from the sky.

These barbarian guards are all agile people, who can leap freely in the mountains and forests on weekdays, and run fast on the flat ground, and jump and roll without walking in a straight line, so that all the crossbow arrows on the arrow tower miss. In a matter of moments, more than fifty people rushed into the jungle of long-armed trebuchets.

Ah Shui shouted: "Sprinkle oil." Then he quickly removed the leather sac he was carrying on his shoulder, cut it with a sharp knife, and poured the black and pungent oil juice on the wooden floor of the trebuchet.

The rest of the brutes also quickly moved and began to pour fire oil with great speed. At the same time, the gong on the arrow tower exploded, and the soldiers on the six or seven arrow towers in the area received the message at the same time and rang the gong while shooting at the barbarians. The soldiers and horses in the northeast corner of the camp were immediately alarmed, and the soldiers patrolling outside the camp also quickly approached the camp.

Six or seven arrow towers could have completely blocked the crossfire in this area, which was one of the reasons why Wang Yuan agreed to place the trebuchet here. There are thirty crossbows on each tower. Archers, more than two hundred crossbow arrows from six or seven arrow towers rained down on the barbarian soldiers who were rapidly pouring fire oil. Soon, before the infantry arrived, one by one the barbarian guards were hit by arrows and fell to the ground, and soon more than fifty barbarian guards died.

Ah Shui leaped quickly in the trebuchet, dodging the arrows, and at the same time picked up the fire oil skins that had not yet been dumped by the dead barbarian guards and dumped them on the trebuchet. When he emptied the eighth bag of oil bladders, there was no one left with him. Seeing the soldiers and horses of the Tang Army running from the open area around the camp gate, and the crossbow arrows and arrows swishing from the arrow tower, Ah Shui knew that he couldn't go. Reaching out and pulling out a small horn hanging from his waist, he blew a loud sound into the night sky. Then, he was shot in the back by seven or eight crossbow arrows and threw himself to his death.

A hundred paces away in the darkness, more than two hundred burning arrows lit up, Princess Arlo led more than two hundred guards to stand in a row on the barren gravel, the crossbow arrows in their hands were flat, and the arrows were burning with green flames.

"Shoot!" Alojiao snorted. More than 200 crossbow arrows flew like meteors with sparks, and they flew a distance of one hundred and fifty paces and were nailed to the catapults. Nearly half of the crossbow arrows hit the spot where the oil was spilled, and there was a bang, and dozens of trebuchets burst into flames, engulfing the entire trebuchet.

The second round of rockets was fired, igniting the fire oil on the remaining dozen trebuchets, and suddenly, the flames began to burst and burn, and more than 50 trebuchets suddenly fell into a raging sea of fire.

Princess Arlo stood quietly in place, her pretty face flushed by the firelight a hundred steps away, and a grim smile on the corner of her mouth.

"Princess, withdraw. The Don army found us, the crossbow arrows on the arrow tower could shoot us, and their cavalry also came out of the camp. Captain Amu said in a deep voice.

"Withdraw to the hillside." Ah Luo gave a deep order, and more than two hundred brute soldiers quickly turned around and ran, where they stood, hundreds of crossbow arrows plunged into the gravel ground with strong force, splashing yellow dust like a splash.

……

On the head of the city, Ge Luofeng and the general Ah Hu looked at the city, and there was no movement after the third watch, Ge Luofeng had already begun to send A Luo to attack the camp, and he was also relieved, and at the same time he was a little disappointed.

Under Ah Hu's persuasion, he was about to go down to the city to go back to rest, when he suddenly heard someone shouting: "It's on fire, the Tang army camp is on fire." ”

Ge Luofeng and Ah Hu hurriedly ran up to the city tower to take a look, but saw that the direction of the Tang army's camp was full of flames, and a wall of fire was raised. In the midst of the fireworks, countless panicked figures of Tang soldiers were running wildly.

"Arlo really did it, she really did it." Ge Luofeng stared at the firelight and muttered to himself.

"Yes, Princess Aluo does what she says, and I'm ashamed of myself." Ah Hu also muttered.