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With the appearance of the rotating armor soldiers, more and more black shadows were two hundred steps away from them, and the speed became faster and faster, and they immediately disappeared at the foot of the city wall of the West Gate, as if they had never appeared.

After a short time, five hundred soldiers came to the city tower, and the leading military marquis shouted with the military marquis upstairs in the air, and at the same time quickly climbed the city tower with the soldiers under his own account. In a joke, the shift change has been completed.

At the moment when the two military marquis met head-on, the military marquis who came to take the turn said in a low voice: "I am too guarded to pass the word, there are wild ghosts in the city tonight, and there are hungry wolves outside the city, and General Lei Bo will defend the city with me." ”

Passing by by a stagger, he smiled and said, "After standing all night, go to sleep!" The military marquis, who was about to rest, paused slightly, then smiled and waved his hand, and led his men into the squad room on the south side.

As soon as he entered the door, he saw Lei Bo in ordinary armor sitting in the room: "I'm afraid you won't be able to rest tonight, come and sit down." ”

As soon as Lei Bo opened his mouth, he directly picked out the intention, waved his hand and motioned for the military marquis to sit beside him, and then told the military marquis without concealing what he knew: "This evening, Zhuge Junshi, who was commanding the army in Wancheng, sent his subordinate Shi Sima Yi to Yingchuan with the army commander Shi Sima Yi, and entered the city from the south gate an hour ago. Sima Changshi brought important news, claiming that there were sneaky people sneaking into the city, and Taishou immediately sent people to Xicheng Civilian Alley to make an unannounced visit, and sure enough, some farmers said that there were a few young people with a generous hand and a Jingxiang accent who entered the city with them today.

At this moment, Sima Changshi, Chang Lin Taishou, General Ji Ling and others are discussing in the inner hall, and they strictly order us to be more careful tonight to prevent the enemy from sneaking up on the city gate. Listen up. Prepare your bow and crossbow at once, and bring all your arrows with you. After a quarter of an hour, the lights went out, and then he went downstairs through the dark rooms of the castle towers on both sides. Open the dark holes on both sides of the city gate, set up a crossbow, and shoot arrows as soon as anyone approaches the city gate. Remember, your task is to keep the gates firmly for me, and not to let people approach them from the inside.

As for the enemy forces lurking outside the city and the small group of enemies inside the city, it has nothing to do with you, you stay in the dark room until dawn, keep an eye on the city gates, and do not go out no matter what happens outside. Even if the enemy army breaks through the tower, it must not be moved! As he spoke, the expression on Lei Bo's face was very solemn, his tone was resolute, and there was even a bit of generosity and determination.

Obviously, the current situation is not optimistic, and the situation is serious. Yangzhai City was not ready to deal with the big battle, facing huge defensive pressure, and the 25,000 defenders in the city alone were not enough to withstand the sneak attack of tens of thousands or even 100,000 troops.

After hearing Lei Bo's words, the marquis defending the city did not dare to ask more. After receiving the order, Gong Sheng divided his 500 soldiers to defend the city in two, half of them stayed in the class room of the south city tower, and half went to the north city tower. The two groups of men and horses led by their respective commanders entered the dark room of the city gate directly from the underground passage of the squad room, and then opened the dark hole. Stand in the dark rooms on both sides of the city gate and defend the city gate.

The dark rooms on both sides of the city gate are not large, and are distributed in a stepped manner, with three floors above and below. Each floor was six feet high, half as wide as the walls of the city gate, and the ground floor was eight feet high. The upper two floors allow archers to half-kneel on the ground and set up their bows and arrows. On the ground floor, there are crossbows, and there are four crossbows on the left and right. Therefore. The walls around the dark room are stocked with strong crossbows and crossbows, as well as enough crossbow arrows and normal arrows. The more than 200 soldiers hidden in the dark room were divided into five teams, two of which were responsible for controlling the crossbow at the bottom floor, two teams entered the upper two floors to shoot freely, and the remaining fifty people were used as reserves. This is a unique defensive method for Yang Zhai City.

Yangzhai City is not only the county seat of Yingchuan, but also the most populous and prosperous city in Yuzhou, and Yingchuan County is located in the hinterland of the Central Plains, with convenient transportation and extensive access, so the defensive pressure is far better than that of ordinary counties. After the Yellow Turban Rebellion, Yangzhai City was completely renovated, heightened and reinforced, and the city walls were repaired every year to strengthen the defense capability. Over time, now the city wall is as high as three zhang, one zhang thick seven, the east, south, west, north four city gates are built more magnificent, and the rebuilt Luoyang City is not far behind.

Therefore, dark chambers were specially built in the walls on both sides of the city gate, that is, the hiding cave, the purpose of which was to strengthen the defense of the city gate and ensure that the city gate was not breached. As long as the city gate is not broken, no matter how many enemy troops outside the city attack the city, they can only enter the city through the head of the city, and it is categorically impossible to pour into the city on a large scale; In this way, the defenders will be able to fight the enemy with the abundant men in the city, so as to hold the city from being captured.

Suddenly, the light in the classrooms on both sides of the tower disappeared. The city gate guards, who were still talking and laughing just now, gradually fell silent, and the city tower was quiet again, only the more than ten wind lanterns hanging under the eaves swayed left and right with the evening breeze, and the dim light elongated the figure of five hundred night watchmen.

Time passed little by little, and a crescent moon in the night sky moved quietly, and at this time, the inside and outside of the west gate seemed exceptionally quiet, so quiet that you could not hear the sound of insects and frogs in the fields outside the city. It's a quiet night that you can't see before.

Suddenly, with a scream of "Xiu", a flickering rocket roared into the air, overtaking the city tower in the blink of an eye, and soaring into the sky. At the same time, hundreds of black-clothed men suddenly burst out from under the corner of the west gate of the city, only to see them brandishing their weapons and running wildly, without shouting and shouting to kill, only as fast as lightning as a raid, and rushing towards the city gate armor like a fierce god.

"Puff puff!" But seeing that the three big men who rushed to the front rushed to the city gate with lightning speed, they wiped out the four defenders on the south side of the city gate with their swords in their hands, and the moment the blade slipped down, the armor soldier whose throat was cut did not even scream, and fell into a pool of blood.

Immediately, I saw the black-clothed man who had killed two armor soldiers with one knife raised his bloody broadsword and swung it fiercely, shouting to kill while jumping over the corpse standing in front of him, and swinging his knife to kill the defenders standing in front of the antlers. The hundreds of men in black who followed him were also athletic, and although they were not as fast and fierce as him, they were only one step behind, and when he killed two armorers, the men in black almost all caught up with him, and then rushed with him to the antler fence across the city gate, and slashed at the city gate defenders with almost unison.

At this moment, a mutation protruded. But the moment the ten defenders standing in front of the antlers saw the man in black rushing past, they ran away, not retreating towards the city gate, but running against the man in black, turning their heads and running north. As they fled without a fight, there were only three antler fences in front of the man in black, and there was not a single defender in the corridor behind the gate, so that the man in black had already seen the upper, middle, and lower deadbolts inserted in the door panel.

Among the three latches, the middle bolt was the thickest, about four feet long and two feet in diameter, and it took at least five or six strong men to move it with force at the same time. Except for the middle latch, the remaining two deadbolts are horizontal logs as thick as an adult's calf, and there is no need to worry about cutting the latch with three or five knives.

Seeing that the guards of the gate fled, the men in black did not pursue, and immediately rushed up, removed the antlers that stood in the way, and poured into the city gate corridor that was five zhang wide and about 20 meters long. However, they did not notice at all, and just as they removed the antler barricade, the walls on both sides of the city gate suddenly appeared in a dense number of small holes, the upper holes were as large as walnuts, and the walls five feet above the ground showed holes as large as fists.

It is worth noting that there are not many large holes below, less than twenty on both sides combined, and the holes on both sides are asymmetrical, and the left and right sides are staggered. In contrast, there are many small holes in the middle and upper part of the wall, densely packed like honeycombs, and these holes are not horizontal straight holes, but inclined longitudinal holes. If it weren't for the burning torches on the walls on both sides of the corridor, perhaps the men in black would have been able to see the light from these pores, and these dots of light almost covered the entire corridor, from the open inner gate to the closed outer gate, there was no dead angle at all, as long as you entered the corridor, you would be illuminated by the light of the pores.

Compared with the inside of the city, as the rocket drew a graceful arc under the night sky, the originally silent official road outside the city suddenly became lively. Listening to the roar of the flames, thousands of torches suddenly appeared on both sides of the moat, among which the torches on the official road on the west bank of the moat were the most, illuminating almost half of the field, and tens of thousands of ironclad soldiers appeared with the torches. However, there are not many torches on the east bank of the moat, that is, in front of the city gate, only more than 100, which means that more than 2,000 people have successfully crossed the moat.

"Kill!" At the moment when the torches were lit, more than 2,000 infantry troops rushed to the city gate with a roar, and the leading general who rushed to the front was Jiang Qin and Jiang Gongyi, the lower generals of Xu Shu's account. Behind him, Wei Yan led an army of 20,000 to kill the generals along the official road, and at this time the moat had been erected with a pontoon bridge, so that the army could directly rush through the moat and rush straight to the city gate.

I have to mention that together with Wei Yan, he led the army to attack the city and the "military advisor" Xu Shu. Although Wei Yan and Jiang Qin have always called Xu Shu a military advisor, in fact he is not a military advisor, but the chief general of the Jingzhou army who attacked Yang Zhai City this time. Therefore, he did not sit in the rear in a brocade robe as usual, but went into battle in person, alongside Wei Yan, and led the army to attack the city gate.

In addition, it is worth noting that the Jingzhou army led by Xu Shu did not play the banner, and the armor of more than 20,000 soldiers was a very common black armor. Black or gray armor can be said to be the most common color at the moment, the Southern Han Dynasty, the Northern Wei Dynasty and the Western Jin Dynasty all have this kind of clothing, so it can play a role in distinguishing and identifying the battle flag or handsome flag, or the unique emperor Daxu when the monarch of the Three Kingdoms led the army to conquer. That is, if they meet during the day, they can generally be recognized, but not at night, and if the other party does not play a flag, it is usually difficult to identify where they are coming from; Unless the generals of the offensive and defensive sides are familiar with each other, then they can recognize each other even if they don't have a banner.

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