Chapter 180: Capture of Hechuan City
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The south gate of Hechuan City, the entire section of the road that stretches more than ten meters south from the city gate, or groups of refugees gathered together, dressed in tattered clothes and unkempt, slowly walking towards the city.
The officers and soldiers in charge of standing guard and checking almost only glanced at the refugees, and never did much inspection. This does not mean that the officers and men are irresponsible or lax. Rather, in addition to the broken bowls used for begging, the refugees also had rotten wooden sticks that they had picked up from nowhere and used as crutches. The ragged clothes on his body are in tatters, and he can see them at a glance.
No wonder those officers and soldiers were too lazy to inspect and interrogate, and their faces were disgusted.
If the officers and soldiers were careful, it would not be difficult to find that the vast majority of these pedestrians who went in and out had stick-like things in their hands, and they slowly entered and exited like ordinary people, without arousing any suspicion.
A carriage came from a distance, swaying close to Hechuan City. In addition to a person dressed as a medicinal herb merchant and a few men on the carriage, there was a thick layer of withered grass on the pavement, and a group of six people went straight to the first layer at the front to check it, looking calm, like those medicinal herb merchants who entered Hechuan City to purchase.
"Stop! Stop the carriage and everyone will come down and be cross-examined! An officer and soldier walked up, shouting as he walked, followed by two officers and soldiers, all three of whom drew their broadswords, and had the posture of starting to do without saying a word.
"Phew..."
With a long neighing of a horse, the groom pulled the reins, stopped the carriage, and the herb merchant behind jumped down, jumped out of the carriage, and greeted him at the same time: "Okay, okay, a few soldiers, you wait a minute, the little one is at your disposal and accepts the inspection." โ
"Hehe... Yes, it's worthy of being a businessman, it's just fun! โ
The officer and soldier who scolded said like this, and when he saw the medicinal herb merchant cooperating like this, his heart relaxed a little, but he still walked very seriously.
At this time, the herb merchant nodded his head and bowed, and while saying something unnutritious to the officer and soldier, he leaned back slightly, one hand behind his back, and his three fingers closed one after another.
In the process, more than a dozen pedestrians, far or near, approached the carriage without a trace, some slowed down, some sped up a minute.
Everything happens so naturally, and the connection is very smooth, as if moisturizing things silently!
At the same time, the groom and the five men had also disembarked from the carriage and were standing next to the carriage, vaguely, as if waiting for something? Beneath the fluffy clothes was a tense body
As soon as the three officers and men approached the carriage, they stood there, trying to separate the people and the carriage and inspect them separately, as usual. However, before the words could be shouted, he saw the herb merchant slam his last finger away, and shouted at the same time: "Action! โ
Suddenly, the herb merchant, along with the groom and the five men, took out a knife from the layer of hay on the carriage and slashed at the officers and soldiers.
From the herb merchant's loud shout, to the drawing of weapons and slashing at the officers and soldiers, it was almost an instantaneous thing. As soon as the three officers and men realized that something was wrong and had no time to react, they heard two "poof" and "poof" sounds in their ears, their heads dizzy, their eyes darkened, and they were no longer conscious, only instinctively wailing and screaming.
"Ahh
"Ahh
"Ahh
At the time of the three screams, the pedestrians around them had already run, and came straight to the carriage, and they all drew their weapons from the carriage, and with quick and skillful movements, they immediately turned around and rushed to the city gate!
Three bloody corpses fell to the ground, trampled by people and horses, and no one cared about them, only the sound of fighting echoed.
When the herb merchant burst into drink, those who either walked into the city gate, or only a few steps or meters away from the city gate, the victims were no longer weak, and their sick expressions suddenly disappeared, and they became extremely fierce, and they broke the crutches with their hands, took out an arm-long wooden stick from it, and then pressed a certain place, and the two ends of the wooden stick were separated from two bright sharp cones, which were extremely sharp!
Although there are many words, what happened was just an instant, those "refugees" brandished wooden sticks and rushed towards the officers and soldiers guarding the door, and some even raised their crutches and smashed them at the officers and soldiers who were in charge of the investigation.
"Not good! Enemy attack... Enemy attack... Hurry up and close the gates! โ
I don't know if it was the officer and soldier who shouted a few words to remind the officers and soldiers on the city wall, and the latter immediately took their bows and arrows and fired indiscriminately below.
Whoa...
Obviously, these "refugees" who suddenly attacked were Li Jiajun who had undergone some disguise, and the medicinal herb merchant was Tian Jianxiu.
There had been a lot of investigation in the early stage, and the city defense of Sichuan City had already been clearly felt, in the face of the dense arrows on the city wall, how could Liu Fangliang not be prepared?
I saw that at the moment when the two fought, the two carriages behind them came galloping, but in a few seconds, they stopped in front of Tian Jianxiu.
Three carriages stood side by side, and amazingly, the carriage board slowly rose to the height of more than a person. Immediately, without any greeting, the surrounding twenty or so Li Jiajun were divided into three groups, got into three carriages, and stood behind the carriage board.
At the same time, a flat plank came out of the way, and it had to be suspended above the warhorse, protecting it from the bow and arrows.
"Drive!"
"Drive!"
"Drive!"
With three loud shouts in unison, the three carriages galloped up at the same time, shuttling through the rain of arrows, whether it was the horse pulling the cart or Li Jiajun, none of them were injured and passed through the area covered by the arrows safely.
Just for a while, in less than ten minutes, the city gate was controlled by dozens of Li Jiajun, and the officers and soldiers were wiped out. Only the officers and soldiers at the head of the city were still resisting, guarding the stairs leading to the head of the city, waiting for reinforcements.
For a time, the two were at loggerheads, and the battle entered a stalemate.
Stomp Tread...
At this moment, there was a chaotic sound of horses' hooves, and the shouts of horses: "Drive, drive..."
Whether it was the officers and soldiers at the city head or the Li family army at the city gate, they couldn't help but look sideways when they heard such a vigorous sound of horses' hooves and the sound of shouting and urging war horses one after another.
I saw a cavalry of more than 300 people galloping forward, enveloping the fierce time.
Seeing this situation, the faces of the officers and soldiers at the head of the city changed greatly, and the secret path was not good, and most of them began to panic. However, Tami-hide's look was not good. Because, he knew very well that if he didn't deal with the official archers on the city as soon as possible, Liu Fangliang and them would not be able to rush at all. Even if the means of forcible attack are used, but in the face of dense arrows, the Li family army will suffer heavy losses!
It seems that the officers and generals at the head of the city also realized this, and immediately sent two teams of archers to guard both sides of the end of the passage, and once the thieves entered the staircase passage, they were greeted with bows and arrows.
At this critical moment, when the two armies were holding each other, Tian Jianxiu's eyes suddenly lit up, and he gave a few orders to some soldiers, and then someone dismantled the wooden plank of the carriage, a group of nine, a team of three people, a small team of three people lifted the plank, and the three teams added the plank into a triangle, protected some of the Li family troops in the middle, entered the ladder passage, and directly killed the head of the city, and the arrow rain did not have any effect at all.
"Kill~!"
As more than a dozen Li family soldiers entered the city, completely disrupting the deployment of the official army, Tian Jianxiu began to lead the rest of the people to the city. Without the coverage of the rain of arrows, Liu Fangliang and the others no longer stayed, kicked their legs, the Meng family was in trouble, and they rushed out in an instant, like arrows off the string.
It didn't take long for there to be chaos in Hechuan City, and there were sounds of fighting everywhere.