It was finally getting dark.

With a little regret, Chen Wu issued an order to withdraw the troops.

Although he was reluctant, he knew that the current rebels did not have the ability to storm the city overnight, and it was a difficult challenge that only the most elite legions could try. In Empires, players who dare to try it out are usually miserable.

As the order spread to Mingjin to withdraw his troops, the Dharma Protector of the Good Friends Society and the soldiers of the Volunteer Battalion retreated from the city in a tidal wave. The officers and soldiers, who had reached the point where it was difficult to support, invariably breathed a sigh of relief at this moment. Too tired, many people even sat on the ground with their butts.

Kanghe, who had been worried all day, could finally relax for a while and go back to eat something.

The officers and soldiers, who had collectively relaxed, made a fatal mistake. They didn't notice that the rebels were retreating too fast compared to before. As a result, before the queue on the side of the official army dispersed, the rebel army had already withdrawn from the city as a whole. Due to the cover of darkness, they also did not notice that on the side of the stone thrower, which had stopped during the day, the rebels with the engineering battalion were busy again.

That's right, when the rebels of the last brigade were rotated, Chen Wu had already explained in advance.

He prepared a big gift for the officers and soldiers.

Twenty-six large stone throwers were destroyed during the day when they attacked the Wu'an city defense. In addition, three aircraft have failed due to material wear and manufacturing process. In addition to the above strict zhòng damage and difficult to repair, the rest can basically be used.

After the day's emergency repairs, ten of them have barely been restored so far.

At the moment, these stone throwers are combined with the previous small models. All of them have been reloaded with stone bullets that are excellent against the infantry of the Phalanx.

A large stone throwing machine with a maximum load capacity of nearly 200 catties. Each one can shoot a full fifty stone projectiles at once!

Nonetheless, the number of numbers will affect the accuracy of the guide. However, when the stone bullets were densely packed to a certain extent, they were still enough to inflict devastating damage on the officers and soldiers at the head of the city.

"Fire!"

Seeing that the rebel army had roughly withdrawn from the danger area, Chen Wu couldn't wait to give the order.

With a number of daytime calibrations, these trebuchets can hit the target area directly without the need for a test shot. And the exhaustion after the battle, coupled with the darkness of the night, gave people a sense of security, so that the officers and soldiers approaching a brigade stayed in the target city wall section, and they were not prepared at all.

Wait until they hear a dense and familiar whistling. By the time I realized something was wrong, it was too late.

Although most of the stone bullets missed, in the end, more than 200 stone bullets smashed into this section of the city wall dozens of meters wide. These stone bullets weighing two to three catties each, the destructive power generated by the chain armor can be hit and dented, and ordinary leather armor cannot block the damage at all.

In a series of short screams, the officers and soldiers suffered the most intensive and bloody losses since the beginning of the war.

In the entire army brigade, except for seven people who escaped by luck, all the others were hit by stone bullets and died on the spot. The city was instantly transformed into a flesh mill. The splashes of blood and stump flesh stunned all the officers and soldiers nearby who had not had time to go far.

After a short dead silence. The sounds of inhalation, vomiting, and the screams of several out-of-control survivors spread through the darkness. Kang He, who had just walked down the city and hurried back when he heard the sound, witnessed the tragic situation in front of him, and almost burst into anger, his eyes were full of bloodshots.

He really didn't expect that Chen Wu would give him a hand at the end of the siege, and kill an entire brigade in one pit!

However, it has already happened, and no amount of anger will help. After letting out a long, unsoothing roar, Kang He, who had barely vented his feelings, forced himself to calm down and began to deal with the aftermath of the tragedy. However, fearing that there would be a second wave of blows from the thief army, no soldier dared to risk approaching it.

It wasn't until late at night a few hours later that the militia recruited by the official army had the courage to come forward to clear the city walls.

………

This solemn night is not destined to be calm.

Worried that Wu'an would jump over the wall in a hurry, the bonfire on the rebels' side never stopped. At Chen Wu's request, there were people on the arrow tower who kept staring at the city. On the side of the phalanx of trebuchets, a group of engineering battalions was also specially left. Every half an hour to an hour, a random bombardment was launched at the head of the city. The first is to make the officers and soldiers uneasy, and the second is to prevent them from transferring and repairing the city defense weapons that were destroyed during the day as much as possible.

Chen Wu himself is not sure how much of a role it can play, but it is better to do it than not to do it.

Until the early hours of the morning, after a large number of wounded soldiers had been drugged and fell asleep, the camp was much quieter.

A group of agile black-clothed people slid down the rope silently from the unsurrounded north wall of Wu'an City, under the cover of night. The composition of the black-clothed people, who have a total of about twenty people, is more complicated, and there are personnel placed by the Emperor's Intelligence Bureau in the county town; There are Kang and carefully selected elite officers and soldiers; There are also dead soldiers who are good at infiltrating and assassinating selected from the family.

They came out with a mortal heart for two purposes.

The first and most important purpose is to assassinate Chen Wu!

In these days of observation, the officers and soldiers at the head of the city have memorized parts of the Taiping camp, as well as the heavily guarded but not without loopholes in patrols and sentry posts. Although Kang He knew that it would be difficult for these people to infiltrate and assassinate Chen Wu, once they succeeded, the results they could achieve were too good. Because of this, he couldn't resist the temptation to give it a try.

What if it succeeds?

The second, relatively easy purpose, is to sow chaos in the coalition camps.

There are many ways to achieve this, such as setting fire to food, attempting to sabotage a stone thrower, attacking other coalition camps, and so on. Although the camp of the Taiping army was strong, the other forces were much less prepared. If it is a qiē shun lì, maybe you can take advantage of the night to let these anti-thieves blow up the camp, then the fun will be great!

Quietly swimming all the way through the moat, these black-clothed men circled around and cautiously approached the army of displaced people from the northwest.

It didn't seem like anyone had spotted them.

But what these black-clothed men didn't know was that although Chen Wu used the strategy of encircling three and putting one, there was always a secret post on the empty north city wall. If there were only one or two people, there might be a possibility of accidentally missing it, but twenty people were put down in a row, coupled with the sound of paddling across the river, which immediately attracted Zhou Hu's attention.

Since this side of the northern city wall has been very peaceful these days, Zhou Hu didn't even dare to be sure at first. looked at his companion who was almost dozing off next to him, and quickly pushed him hard, and said in his ear: "Captain, wake up quickly, it seems that something has happened!" ”

Hearing the word "accident", the dazed captain was immediately startled.

Although the moonlight tonight is hazy and the sky is cloudy, it has not yet reached the point where you can't see your fingers. After a few careful observations, they immediately determined the existence of this group of black-clothed men, and soon realized that they had gone in the direction of the camp of the rebels, and they were likely to cause sabotage!

"This is going to be a great achievement!"

Realizing this, the captain trembled with excitement. After leaving the two of them to continue to keep an eye on him, he immediately took Zhou Hu and the other person and ran towards the camp on a shortcut road, preparing to warn the rebels patrolling at night.

………

Although it is difficult to find your way in the dark, Huang Sheng, who is in charge of directing this operation, has a unique skill that no one else has. He has an excellent memory and a great sense of direction. During the day, you can see the terrain, even in the dark of night, as long as there is a little starlight, you can refer to each other to identify the road. It is precisely by virtue of this ability that he can be the leader of the team as a wealthy businessman escort, defeating the dead soldiers of the Military Intelligence Bureau and the nobles of the family.

After calculating the time, Huang Sheng motioned for everyone to stop, and after avoiding the peripheral patrol of a coalition army, he slowly approached the Taiping army's camp.

"Split into two teams."

Seeing that Yi Qiē was quite smooth, Huang Sheng decided to choose the first set of predetermined plans, and said to them: "I will lead the team to burn grain first, and then take the opportunity to sabotage." Shangguan Dong, you are responsible for leading people to assassinate the thief leader Chen Wu! ”

"Good!"

As a dead soldier raised by the Shangguan family, Shangguan Dong and his three subordinates did not plan to go back when they came out. After hearing Huang Sheng's decision, he had no objection, just said a simple word, and then beckoned the three brothers to leave quietly.

These four people are not only armed to the teeth, but also wear a pair of flexible inner armor and quenched crossbow arrows!

With their skills, as long as they can infiltrate Chen Wu's Chinese military tent and break out, they can almost certainly kill and injure their targets. Within thirty paces, their crossbow arrows were enough to pierce through the iron armor, and the venom on them sealed their throats with blood. As long as the skin is scratched a little, even Da Luo Jinxian will be difficult to come back to life.

Of course, according to the rules of the empire, it is a taboo to keep such crossbow arrows privately. But the Shangguan family is a top family in Wu'an, and they have enough background in the imperial capital Zhongzhou, and they are in a hurry to obey the power now, so Kang He and Qian Boming have turned a blind eye and have not seen it.

"Let's go, too."

Seeing the four dead soldiers leave, Huang Sheng silently blessed everyone, beckoned everyone, and continued to go deeper inside.

What they didn't know was that at this time, the news that Wu'an had sent a large group of black-clothed men to infiltrate the camp had already been transmitted back to the Taiping Army before they infiltrated. Under the strict system, the news was reported layer by layer, and soon reached Chen Wu's Central Military Account and Intelligence Department. Before Wu An's operation began, it had already failed.

"Only about twenty people?"

Hearing about the number of people in black who were attacking, Chen Wu immediately understood Wu An's intention, not a night attack, but an attempt to assassinate him. If it was a night attack, it would not be possible to have only such a small number of people.

"Assassination! Qian Boming is just such a means. ”

He said not without sarcasm, quickly changed into chain mail, and transferred from the original tent. At the same time, the Intelligence Department and the Guards sent personnel to inform the sentry posts and patrols on duty at night to be vigilant, and to light all the extra torches that had been reserved.

Chen Wu's camp already had a large number of bonfires at night. The torches that had now been set aside were also lit, and the whole camp lit up as if it were daylight. In this case, even if the assassin has a high level of concealment skills, it is difficult to approach quietly.

The next thing is easy to do, the only thing he has to do is to respond to all changes with the same and wait until dawn with peace of mind! (To be continued.) )