The time gradually reached the fourth watch, the night was darker, and the camp of the Sui army was still pitch black, as if all the soldiers had fallen asleep in the night.

Half an hour ago, the city head had just changed shifts, and most of the defenders were exhausted by the high-intensity defense for several days, and many soldiers even found a place to wrap themselves in blankets and sleep secretly, at this time the city's defenses had reached the weakest moment.

Chen Haishi, the chief general of Fei County, did not dare to slack off at all, although he was also very tired, he still fought hard and rode a horse to patrol the city.

"What's going on over there?"

Chen Haishi pointed to a row of black shadows under the battlements with a horsewhip, and it was obvious that dozens of people were sleeping wrapped in blankets, and he couldn't help but be furious, and shouted: "Give me a cane to fight!" ”

Dozens of pro-soldiers rushed forward with military sticks in their hands, and the sleeping soldiers were woken up one after another, and they stood up in fright, and they lowered their heads one by one and did not dare to speak, Chen Haishi became more and more angry, and asked: "Who is the captain on duty here?" ”

A lieutenant rushed over, trembling and saluting: "See the general!" ”

Chen Haishi became more and more angry, and waved his horsewhip, "Drag it down and beat a hundred military sticks!" ”

Several soldiers dragged the lieutenant down, set up a wooden stick and beat him, and in a moment he was beaten until his skin and flesh were opened, and the screams were not stopped, Chen Haishi's anger calmed down a little, and he ordered: "Pass my order, whoever dares to indulge the soldiers to slack off again, will not be spared!" ”

There was silence all around, only the screams of the executing officer were heard, Chen Haishi snorted heavily, and continued to inspect forward, at this time, a soldier said in a low voice: "After days of high-intensity defense, the soldiers are very tired, and they are afraid that if they press too tightly, they will have no energy when the real battle comes." ”

Chen Haishi sighed. "We will defend Fei County like an iron wall, the only chance for the Sui army is at night, I am afraid that we will slack off at night, and give the Sui army a chance to take advantage of, and then it will be too late to regret it."

"Shogun Takami!" The surrounding entourage was impressed by Chen Haishi's insight.

Chen Haishi shook his head and said with a wry smile: "Zhang Xuan is a person who is good at using tricks. Unless he is forced to do so, he will never forcibly attack the city, and besides, he only has five thousand troops, no need to count, how can he be able to attack Fei County? So we have to be very cautious and not careless at all. ”

Everyone was convinced, and no longer felt that his sternness was superfluous.

Chen Haishi's strict order has been conveyed, and the captains at the heads of the surrounding cities have checked their defense areas one after another, and the soldiers are not allowed to slack off and sleep. Especially afraid that the Lord will check into his defense zone.

The lieutenant in charge of the Beicheng Tower, surnamed Qian, is also a person who likes to drink and gamble for money, and he was also hiding from sleeping, but when he heard the inspection order, he had to get up and go to inspect his defense area.

Walking to the front of the drawbridge machine room, I saw four soldiers standing straight at the door of the machine room, and Captain Qian saw that they were a little strange, not his own subordinates. I couldn't help but ask, "Who are you?" What about Yang Laogen? ”

"Back to Captain, we are brothers in the sixth battalion. Someone paid us to guard here. ”

A soldier handed his bamboo card to Captain Qian, who immediately understood that his subordinates had paid for them to be on duty, and he cursed in his heart: 'A bunch of bastards! ’

At that moment, a soldier rushed to report, "Captain." General Chen is here! ”

Captain Qian was startled, hurriedly returned the bamboo card to them, and whispered to the four people: "Don't say anything, don't say anything, don't say anything, understand?" ”

"Humble duty understands!"

Captain Qian ran out to greet Chen Haishi. The four of them wiped the cold sweat on their foreheads and knocked on the door of the computer room, and Zhao Ying, the scout hiding behind the door in the room, continued to throw several corpses through the gap into the wall, and wiped off the bloodstains.

They were indeed very lucky, if Captain Qian had taken a closer look just now, the door would have been unlocked, and then he would have opened the door to check, and he would immediately find several corpses lying in the room, and everything would have been exposed.

These five people are the inner response that Shen Guang planted on the head of the city, because the moat is too wide, it is not easy to climb the wall and attack the city, so the best way is for them to control the city gate and drawbridge.

After the shift change, the five people did not go down to the city, but continued to stay in the city, they looked for an opportunity to kill several soldiers guarding the machine room, replacing them to guard the machine room, just now Captain Qian suddenly came to check, they almost fell out.

"Lock the door!" The leader, Zhao Ying, hid the body, walked out of it, and whispered orders to the others.

The five of them locked the iron door with a large chain lock, and there were two keys, one in their hands and the other in the hands of the captain on duty, and the keys would be handed over when the shift changed.

At this time, the main general Chen Haishi walked into the city tower quickly accompanied by Captain Qian, Captain Qian's expression was very nervous, once the main general found out that his soldiers spent money to find someone on duty, he would not be able to eat and walk, fortunately, the light in the city tower was very dim, and he could not see the expression on Captain Qian's face.

Fei County is a big county, there are four city gates, and there are also four city towers correspondingly, and the computer room in each city tower is the hub for controlling the city gates and suspension bridges.

There were five soldiers standing at the door of the computer room, holding spears in their hands, standing straight, looking very dedicated, without a little slack and malaise, which made Chen Haishi very satisfied, he stepped forward and pushed the door, the iron chain rattled, he found that there was a lock, he looked inside from the crack in the door, and asked, "Is there anything abnormal?" ”

Captain Qian was afraid that a few soldiers would be exposed, so he hurriedly preemptively said: "General Qiyu, there is nothing abnormal!" ”

Chen Haishi nodded and waved his hand, "Let's go!" ”

He walked out of the city tower, surrounded by a large group of subordinates, and continued to patrol along the city wall, looking at the main general walking away, Captain Qian breathed a long sigh of relief, turned around and rushed back to the city tower and scolded: "You bastards, go and get Yang Laogen and them back!" ”

At this moment, there was a sudden sound of 'Bang! Syllable! The sound was crisp and deafening, and it spread far away in the silent night, and it was heard very clearly in the city.

This is the signal to do it, the appointed time has come, several scouts glanced at each other, one scout slammed his mouth from behind, Zhao Ying pulled out a sharp dagger, and stabbed him in the heart, Captain Qian's eyes widened, and he finally understood that he had been fooled until he died.

Everyone unlocked it, dragged Captain Qian's body into the room, locked the door from the inside, and the five began to push the winch, the winch rattled and turned, and the huge drawbridge began to go down little by little.

There was a crisp sound in the city and also alarmed Chen Haishi, the chief general who was patrolling the city wall, he looked into the city and faintly saw the fire, and there was thick smoke rising, "General, it seems that Ninghai Restaurant is on fire!" A soldier shouted by pointing to the distant firelight.

Chen Haishi was secretly surprised, Ninghai Restaurant was his property, and all his savings were invested in this restaurant, so he immediately turned his horse's head and returned to the North City Gate.

But many things are so wrong, at this time they are less than three feet away from the drawbridge, but no one found that the drawbridge is slowly descending, but was attracted by the firelight and sound in the city, Chen Haishi rushed down the city directly along the road next to the north city gate, and ran towards the firelight in the city.

At this time, the soldiers on the city wall were attracted by the fire in the city, and they ran to the female wall on this side of the city to see the excitement, and there were many discussions, Ninghai Restaurant is the largest wine shop in Fei County, and it is also an important architectural symbol in Fei County, and business has always been prosperous, almost every soldier has eaten in it, and its fire makes everyone feel deeply sorry.

At the same time that the fire in Ninghai Restaurant attracted most people's attention, Zhang Xuan led 5,000 troops to appear in a wheat field only a hundred steps away from the North City Gate, and the night covered their figures. ”

Hundreds of soldiers held a thick ramming ram, this was their backup plan, once Shen Guang and they failed to open the city, they would directly use the ramming ram to break through the city gate and enter.

At this moment, a soldier at the head of the city accidentally discovered that the drawbridge had been tiled on the moat, and shouted in shock, "How did the drawbridge go down!" ”

The soldiers ran back and looked down, they were all very puzzled, they were just ordinary soldiers, they had no say in this major change, maybe it was the general's order, at this time, a captain also saw the drawbridge go down, he suddenly woke up, "Not good! Ring the alarm! ”

On the head of the city' dang! While! While! The alarm bell rang, Zhang Xuan heard the alarm bell, and immediately shouted an order: "On the hammer of the city, the shield army guards, and the archers shoot the city!" ”

A hundred soldiers rushed towards the gate with the giant tree hitting the city hammer, and the other two hundred soldiers held their shields high to protect the soldiers on both sides of the giant tree.

Three thousand soldiers rushed forward with bows and arrows in hand, rushed to the moat and fired arrows at the northern head of the city, and the dense number of arrows shot at the head of the city, and the war finally began. (To be continued......)