Chapter Eighty-Five: Internal and External Echoes
The Southern Tang Dynasty soldiers, who had already known in advance that the explosion was the signal for a general attack, immediately lifted their spirits, shouted in unison, and quickly rushed to the city wall where Cheng Yuehai was located!
The Quanzhou soldiers at the head of the city, led by several capital heads, all flocked to Cheng Yuehai and the four special soldiers who had already climbed the city wall. Cheng Yuehai took a Bafang Tibetan knife style, cut off all the weapons that were cut over in a circle, and after forcing them back, his left hand suddenly reached into his arms and took it out, and then made a gesture of throwing things.
The Quanzhou soldiers, who were still apprehensive at the sound of the explosion, were startled and couldn't help but retreat backwards. Who knew that Cheng Yuehai was just making a false move, there was nothing in his hand, and he bent down to pick up an unburned firewood from the ground. In a short time, two more special soldiers ascended to the top of the city.
A Quanzhou capital roared angrily: "He's just bluffing!" Surround him and kill him! ”
Looking at the soldiers who came around, Cheng Yuehai laughed fiercely, reached into his arms again, and this time really took out a clay pot, and the torch in his right hand approached the lead hanging down from the clay pot, and roared: "If you want to die, come here!" ”
A dark-skinned demonic god, coupled with a powerful unidentified explosive, suppressed dozens of Quanzhou soldiers at once.
The special fighters who got a chance to breathe began to climb to the top of the city one after another, and many people also took out a clay pot and put on a posture that if you dare to move, I will dare to throw it. The others leaning against the outer walls tied ropes to the pheasants and threw them down the city.
The young man in the lead was blue and red for a while, and he couldn't make up his mind for a while.
At this time, a Quanzhou soldier near the inner city wall suddenly pointed to the southwest corner of the city and shouted: "There is a fire in the city!" ”
The young man was startled, rushed to the inner city wall and looked inward, along several streets in the southwest area of Quanzhou City, there were many torches that were winding towards the west city gate and rushing rapidly, many houses along the way had already risen on fire, and there were intermittent miserable and anxious shouts. Obviously, this is an ambush in the city of Nantang!
In just a short period of time, more than 20 special soldiers had boarded the city, gradually expanding the circle of power.
"The envoy is as kind as a mountain to us, we have a lot of people, and we have fought with them!" The young man's eyes immediately turned red, and he waved his knife to encourage everyone to come forward and fight. The Quanzhou soldiers cheered up each other and pressed forward slowly.
Cheng Yuehai laughed contemptuously, suddenly lit the fuse rope on the clay pot, and then rolled the earth-shattering thunder along the city towards the Quanzhou soldiers.
Seeing this scene, the Quanzhou soldiers were frightened one by one, and desperately jumped back to the side to avoid the route of the black ball.
The clay pot exploded again, knocking down seven or eight people nearby, and one of the soldiers in the middle exploded and threw blood into the air nearby.
Immediately after, Cheng Yuehai took out another stack of paper from his arms, threw it at the panicked Quanzhou soldiers and shouted: "I, Datang, want to exempt the people of Quanzhang and Quanzhang from renting for three years, but I didn't press this order, just to fill my pockets!" Is it worth it for you to work for such hypocrites?!"
Taking advantage of the moment when the Quanzhou soldiers in front of him were stunned, Cheng Yuehai shouted after him: "Set up a defense line in the south, and break through the city gate in the north!" ”
Hearing the order, the special fighters who had already gone to the city wall immediately divided into two parts, the special soldiers on the south side quickly stabbed the Quanzhou soldiers who were in shock, and the other soldiers moved the wood, stone, and even oil pots used to defend the city wall, and set up a strange temporary defense line in the blink of an eye. In the process, the soldiers who were already good at archery picked up the bows and arrows that had fallen from the city wall and began to shoot arrows from behind the temporary defense line, knocking down the Quanzhou soldiers who were swarming over.
The south side was stable and fast, and Cheng Yuehai in the north led the team to advance faster, and the two special soldiers rushed forward with clay pots in a pair of frames that died together, which frightened the Quanzhou soldiers in front of them and retreated step by step; The other special fighters were even more ruthless, and the Quanzhou fighters retreated a little slowly, and they immediately stabbed them down.
Cheng Yuehai turned around and rushed to the outer city wall to look down at the city, the camp outside the west of Quanzhou City had basically been completely occupied, and only a few groups of Quanzhou soldiers were huddled together, still fighting the trapped beasts. More and more elites of the Southern Tang Dynasty have gathered under this section of the city wall, waiting in line to climb more than ten ropes to the city. At the same time, the first person put down more ropes, and several people pulled together, quickly pulling more people up the city. There were more and more warriors at the head of the city, and they quickly joined the two fronts of the north and south.
Cheng Yuehai, who was in a slightly relaxed mood, walked quickly to the inner city wall and carefully observed the situation in the city. I saw that dozens of torches were already running wildly two hundred meters away from the west city gate, but there were sporadic torches coming from the direction of the north and east cities, surrounding them, slowing down their progress.
It's not good, Jia Yuhang, they were dragged down! Cheng Yuehai immediately became anxious, and immediately roared: "Brothers of the Fenghua Army and the Jianwu Army, immediately enter the city and support the ambush!" ”
Immediately, more than a dozen soldiers withdrew from the battle line and quickly set up ropes and headed towards the city.
Under the city gate, it was the pirate leaders Jia Yuhang, Liu Qi, and a group of cadres under him who were blocked. Long before the start of the entire Quanzhou raid plan, Jia Yuhang arranged for his soldiers to continue to harass Quanzhou and Fuzhou ships at sea, and he brought a group of his men to quietly infiltrate Quanzhou City and live in an inn near the West City Gate.
The land of Quanzhang and Zhangzhang is narrow and sparsely populated, there are no abundant crops, and they rely more on commerce to support, otherwise, it is impossible for the source army that only owns Quanzhang and Quanzhang to raise more than 70,000 troops. It is precisely because of this that there are many businessmen from all over the city in Quanzhou, not to mention foreign businessmen, and Jia Yuhang and others naturally did not attract anyone's attention.
The group had been staying at the inn for nearly 20 days, and on the evening of March 18, they waited for Liu Qi, who had infiltrated the city, and learned of the operational plan, and then began to raid after hearing the explosion.
At the beginning, these brutal pirates were very easy to do their old business of killing people and setting fires, and they advanced quickly. But soon after, Liu Shaochi's men who were patrolling various parts of the city came one after another, and the resistance to their advance became greater and greater.
A pirate who was blinded to the left roared wildly, slashed the Quanzhou soldiers in front of him, wiped the blood splashed on his face, and shouted to Jia Yuhang: "Big boss!" Lin Feng wouldn't be lying to us, would he? Just let dozens of us raid a Quanzhou city, isn't this sending us to death?! ”
"Cao Shang! Don't chew your tongue! Lord Lin can easily take the state of Chu, will he be a reckless and unscrupulous person?! He must have a follow-up move, let's just act according to the plan! Jia Yuhang made a sharp move, quickly stabbed the three Quanzhou soldiers in front of him, turned his head to look at the place where the explosion sounded, his face suddenly became happy, and he roared wildly: "Brothers, seek wealth and danger, continue to kill forward!" Our reinforcements have taken the city and are rushing to reinforce us! ”
Hearing Jia Yuhang's shout, the pirates who were originally a little depressed suddenly became energetic, screamed, and continued to fight bravely against the enemy.
Just as the pirates thought, not long after, the elites of the Fenghua Army and the Jianwu Army arrived one after another, and they fought with Liu Shaochi's men. On one side are hundreds of elite warriors selected from 10,000 people plus pirates with bloody swords, and on the other side are more than 1,000 loyal and brave soldiers who stay behind their families.
Soon after the explosion, Liu Congxiao, who was sleeping in the study, had already received a report that the enemy was attacking the city overnight, and when he inquired and learned that Liu Shaochi had led his troops to the west city gate, and the reinforcements from all parts of the city wall were rushing to the west gate to rescue, his mood suddenly relaxed.
Immediately after, there were soldiers guarding the city at the east, north, and south gates to report, saying that the soldiers stationed outside the city heard the sound of fighting in the city and asked the envoy to allow him to send troops into the city to rescue. In particular, Chen Hongjin, who was still stationed in the Beida Battalion, sent a message requesting that special soldiers from the Beida Battalion be sent into the city to protect the envoy.
Liu Congxiao looked at the energetic Liuju Dao beside him, listened carefully to the silent outside for a while, and thought about it again before replying to the order: Everyone is stationed in place to prevent the enemy from taking advantage of the chaos to attack! Don't move without your own warrant!
What he didn't know was that it was precisely because of his order that he fell into an irretrievable passive situation. At this time, two hundred meters outside the Prime Minister's Mansion, a group of deadly masked men came from two directions, one north and one south, and it was Lin Renzhao and other 100 special masters.