"What happened?" Outside the nearly 1,000 Yancheng soldiers, Wang Hongjun turned his head to look south in surprise, and said with wide eyes: "Is there something going on over there at the South City Gate?" ”

I saw smoke rising there, and a small and noisy shouting could be heard. Soon, a firework burst into the sky and exploded in mid-air, and the fireworks exploded seven or eight times in quick succession before stopping.

"One salute is an emergency outside the gate, two salutes are someone attacking outside the city gate, three salutes are immediately calling for help, and four salutes are the danger of the city gate being broken" Wang Hongjun muttered to himself: "I have never set a rule for sending seven salutes, how could seven burst out at once?" ”

Ge Bai, who was beside Wang Hongjun, also looked to the south with wide eyes, and said, "City Lord, there must be an extremely urgent situation there, and it is possible that someone is attacking Yancheng. ”

"It's not possible, it's absolutely, and it may be broken at any time" Wang Hongjun said with a low roar: "The whole regiment immediately withdrew to the south city gate, and went to not let people break through Yancheng"

Li Minghua, who was surrounded by the crowd, was also full of shock when he heard it, and after hesitating for a moment, he ordered the soldiers to retreat immediately, and then turned his head to Qiu Chen and said coldly: "Now Yancheng is in trouble, whether you want to engage in civil strife or not, if you are from Yancheng, go and guard the city gate together, and don't let outsiders invade here." ”

After saying that, he immediately led people to run in the direction of the south city gate.

After Qiu Chen heard his words, his face also changed, and he wanted everyone to go to guard the South City Gate together, but Meng Wen grabbed him and said, "Don't worry, those are your own people, they won't harm the residents inside Yancheng." ”

Qiu Chen was stunned for a moment and asked, "I don't understand what you mean, the attackers outside the city are our own people?" ”

Meng Wen smiled and said, "Let's go over and know." ”

South city gate, only to see more than 100 catapults in the distance outside the city, every ten seconds to throw stones to the city gate, and some stones hit the city gate, actually will explode violently, although there is no harm to the city gate, but the momentum is large, the explosion scene can not stop.

When the soldiers who were originally defending the city saw these catapults, they were so frightened that they did not dare to approach the city gate, and they could only bomb the catapults outside the city gate.

After a while, the south gate was blown to the ground, and a large gap with a diameter of several tens of meters appeared in the city wall, which was enough for hundreds or thousands of soldiers to rush into the city.

But the soldiers outside the city did not directly enter the city, but lined up in formation and lined up outside the city gate, as if they were provoking.

Soon Wang Hongjun arrived with his people, and when he saw the two thousand soldiers lined up outside the city gate, he couldn't help but be angry, and ordered his men to immediately draw their bows and shoot them.

"Report to the city lord, we can't shoot at this distance, the range of our bow and arrow is 65 meters, and they are standing more than 100 meters away, we can't shoot them even if we shoot indiscriminately," a company commander defending the city reported to Wang Hongjun.

Wang Hongjun's face was gloomy, and he roared angrily: "Then all of them will be dispatched and fight with them in close quarters, with the physical fitness of our military academy, there is no problem in beating ten of them at a time."

"Absolutely not, city lord" As soon as Li Minghua saw that Wang Hongjun was about to give an order, he immediately stopped him and said: "There are catapults on their side, and they will kill more than half of them before we get close." ”

"Don't we have catapults?" Wang Hongjun asked Ge Bai. Because Ge Bai was in charge of some materials in Yancheng, Wang Hongjun could only ask him.

"No," Ge Bai shook his head and said, "Because we don't have any cities around here to attack, we don't have siege weapons." Instead, we made some hunting weapons. ”

The corners of Wang Hongjun's mouth twitched, he turned his head to look at the two thousand soldiers outside the city, and roared: "Where did these guys come from, why did they suddenly appear outside the city, there is no such big force around us that can send two thousand troops to attack us"

"What now?" Ge Bai said a little confused. It happened so suddenly, Ge Bai didn't know what to do at all.

Wang Hongjun said in a low voice: "Mobilize all the reserve troops in Yancheng, and thousands of troops will go out directly to get rid of them."

Li Minghua shook his head and said: "City Lord, this is really difficult to do, if it was ten days ago, these soldiers of the reserve army would still be able to obey our transfer, but now after they are bewitched by rumors, they do not listen to orders one by one, and even the usual training is procrastinated or even repeatedly absent, we have not mobilized them at all." ”

Wang Hongjun glared when he heard this, and wanted to lose his temper, but he didn't know what to say. What is happening now is once again unexpected for him.

Ge Bai thought for a moment and said to Wang Hongjun: "City Lord, otherwise, I will lead eight hundred soldiers out from the west of the city and go around behind them to attack. You will continue to hold them back here, and when our side disrupts their formation, you will immediately appear and flank them and destroy them completely. ”

"Feasible" Li Minghua nodded and said: "Now those guys' biggest threat to us is just those catapults, as long as we disrupt their formation from behind and let them have no chance to use the catapults, those two thousand people are not a problem for us at all." ”

"Okay, just do it, Lao Ge will get it immediately" Wang Hongjun asked Ge Bai to prepare immediately, and then he picked up one by himself and found a megaphone, and shouted to more than 2,000 people outside the city: "Friends outside the city, where did you come from, I don't know where we offended you in Yancheng, if there is any misunderstanding, I hope we both sit down and have a good talk, don't hurt the face of the blade and sword." ”

However, the more than 2,000 soldiers outside the city did not react and remained in formation.

"What do you say they want to do, they don't attack the city and don't negotiate, they just stand there stupidly, are they waiting for something?"

As soon as Li Minghua said this, Wang Hongjun's face suddenly changed slightly, and he said, "There won't be more soldiers coming, right?" ”

"Probably not," Li Minghua continued: "If they are waiting for other soldiers to come, there is no need for them to attack the city now, they can wait until more people arrive before attacking the city together." ”

"Why is that?" Wang Hongjun muttered depressedly, he thought about it for a while, and called a henchman to go to the wine seller in the west of the city to call Ye Liangchen, and asked him to bring some shadow assassins over to investigate the situation outside the city.

The best at tracking in Yancheng is Ye Liangchen's shadow assassin, although the soldiers they fight head-on are average, they can be regarded as masters.

At this time, Qiu Chen and the others, who were following Wang Hongjun and their arrival, also looked at the more than 2,000 people outside the city from another direction, Lin Xing was a little puzzled and said: "Where did these two thousand people come from, why do you say that they are my own people?" ”

Shan Qingzi smiled and said: "This is the rescuer Lin Yue found, before the robbery, he ordered us to let a person take the opportunity to escape from the city, and then go to the rescue, it was supposed to be me, but Qing Zhao said that she was more familiar with the road, so she went." I didn't expect to really get reinforcements, and it was more than 2,000 people."

"Where's the reinforcements?" Qiu Chen asked Shan Qingzi and the others, "And who is Lin Yue, how can there be such a powerful foreign aid?" ”

Meng Wen, who was on the side, said with a smile: "This is a rescue soldier from Yuancheng, far to the south, from there, it will take three or four days to get here at the earliest." ”

"Yuan Cheng?" Lin Xing was a little stunned, looked at Shan Qingzi and the others and asked, "You are from Yuancheng?" ”

Shan Qingzi shook his head and said, "I don't know, but" said Shan Qingzi turned his head to look at Meng Wen.

Meng Wen shrugged his shoulders and said, "That's right, we are indeed from Yuan City. ”

"You guys? Who is included? Qiu Chen continued to ask, "Is Lin Yue too?" ”

Nodding, Meng Wen said: "That's true, Lin Yue Longtao and I are both from Yuancheng. "At this time, there is no need to hide their identities, and Lin Yue also told him that as long as the reinforcements from Yuancheng arrive, they don't need to hide their identities anymore.

Qiu Chen's eyes widened, and he stared at Meng Wen for a long time before he said, "Then what kind of people are you in Yuancheng, you can actually invite more than 2,000 reinforcements." ”

Meng Wen smiled and didn't say it.

Seeing that Meng Wen didn't say anything, Qiu Chen didn't continue to ask, but said, "Then how do we get in touch with them now?" ”

Shan Qingzi said: "Lin Yue has explained before, and he used this to get in touch with the army outside the city. Saying that, Shan Qingzi took out a walkie-talkie and continued: "This was left to me by Lin Yue, tell me that as long as the foreign aid arrives, use this walkie-talkie to say a code, they will receive our signal and will learn the information of the code." ”

Qiu Chen frowned slightly, and said, "What if they also send a code over there, do you know how to crack it?" ”

Shan Qingzi nodded, took out a piece of paper, and said, "This is the way the cipher code is parsed." ”

Meng Wen patted his shoulder and said, "I don't need to parse the paper manuscript, I will translate the code." ”

Hearing this, Shan Qingzi nodded, handed the walkie-talkie to Meng Wen, and said, "I think Lin Yue handed this over to me for the sake of insurance, now that you understand the process, then this will be handed over to you."

Smiling, Meng Wen took the walkie-talkie, and then started to call, and when it was connected, Meng Wen immediately said a string of ciphers.

Outside the city, two thousand soldiers lined up in a straight formation, standing at the front, it was Liao Huan, and next to Liao Huan was Qing Zhao. After Qing Zhao received Lin Yue's information before, she quickly went to Yuancheng when she left the city, but fortunately, Lin Yue drew her a map so that she could reach Yuancheng accurately. After Liao Hua received Lin Yue's distress signal, he immediately organized most of the troops in Yuancheng and quickly rushed over.

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