Chapter 5: The City and the Secret Passage

Zhou Yu was anxious and annoyed, and the others were also indignant, after all, everyone is now comrades-in-arms who share life and death, and some people clenched their fists in their hands to the point of a horn.

"Where is Liu Yu?" Zhou Yu shouted.

"Xiao Wang is here!" Liu Yu replied crisply in the crowd.

"With all your efforts to rescue the adults, there must be no mistake. If there is a mistake, Lord Ran and Bendu will never spare you! “

"Where are Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Kuroka Tsuneyuki, and Lu Bu?" Zhou Yu continued to shout.

"The minister is here!" "The last general!" "Listen to the order!"

"Wait for the reorganized team, immediately set off and squatted outside the lonely city where the adults were attacked, waiting for the next order." The reason why he said that the city was a lonely city was that it was rare to encounter an oasis city in the midst of thousands of miles of yellow sand; Second, it is also to encourage these bigwigs, and it is just a lonely city.

After finishing speaking, Zhou Yu turned his head to Ran Min and knelt on one knee, hugged his old fist and said: "Report to Lord Ran, I have been sleeping in the yellow sand for more than a month, and Ru Mao has been drinking blood. Now seeing this lonely city in the vast sea of sand is a godsend, God bless our army, and the sky will not kill me. ”

"According to the Weichen, the order should be sent down immediately, with the army Bai Qi and the navy Zhang Xianzhong, and Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Hei Tooth Tsuneyuki, and Lu Fengxian to make peace, fight as a whole, cooperate with each other, carry out a fierce attack on this city, and be sure to take this city within two days. First, as the base of our army in the Terra nullius, it is necessary to ensure the survival of all generals; secondly, some soldiers can be naturalized from the captives and supplemented into the various departments; The third is to avenge the envoy Lai, and the grace of blood will be repaid by gushing blood, swearing to defend the glory and raise my mighty army. “

Everyone present was moved, originally this person is not an idle person, the best thing in life is to fight for hegemony in addition to killing, one by one with a knife is closer to his wife. Hearing what the Metropolitan Governor said, everyone rubbed their hands, licked their lips with their teeth, and couldn't wait to pull it out immediately.

Ran Min glanced at Zhang Jiao and the three of them, and got the same answer. He drank heavily and said: "The whole army listens to the order, the whole army goes out to fight, and the city is attacked with all its might, and those who violate the order will be beheaded!" “

Along the way, Zhou Yu held several rounds of military meetings with the four rotating leaders, two generals, and three captains. Our army has more than 60 officers and men, and less than 20 are brave and good at fighting, and everyone knows the combat effectiveness of the prefecture soldiers, that is, rowing against the wind -- hard support, and we know nothing about the enemy's combat strength.

Zhou Yu suggested attacking the east and west, and sending a small force to feint from the main gate to lure the enemy out of the city. Then send elite cadres to plunge directly into the heart of the enemy, that is, the inside of the relatively tall and wealthy buildings on the edge of the oasis, and capture the enemy and capture the king. The advantage of this tactic is that it can effectively reduce our battle losses, but the disadvantage is that it may not be successful in luring the enemy, and the enemy's internal situation is not clear, and there is a possibility that sheep will fall into the tiger's mouth and hit stones with eggs.

The military suggestion of a frontal assault was also rejected on the grounds that there were no available troops. Ran Min looked around and said firmly: "If you don't have a more effective siege plan, then you can only follow the law of the governor." “

Zhou Yu slowed down a little and walked beside Lai Junchen's stretcher. Before setting out, he instructed Jianguo and Lucy to split two long logs and roll a piece of leather to make a simple stretcher. Liu Yu's kid actually doesn't have any skills, let him unload eight pieces, he is a good hand, let him treat people, it's really a dog. But don't underestimate any emperor, he has the best Jinchuang medicine in his pocket, and after smearing it on Lai Junchen, he stopped bleeding at that time and began to build muscle the next day, who are you talking to?

Lai Junchen wanted to stand up, but Zhou Yu hurriedly gestured for him to lie down.

"Metropolitan Governor, the lower officials are not doing their job effectively, please punish you!" Lai Junchen said weakly. Zhou Yu had to admire this kid's scheming, at this time, it is the best time to ask for credit with an ineffective attitude, as the so-called walking in the officialdom you have to learn to do the opposite. Sometimes you have to go up, you have to come down first. Sometimes you want to bring someone down, but you have to win them over first. Lai Junchen has been favored by Wu Zetian's side for many years, but he still doesn't understand these truths? So how was the "Luo Weaving Sutra" written?

"Come, sir, where are you talking about? The adults took the lead for us, bravely entered the tiger's den and retreated with the whole body, which is really a model of wisdom and bravery, a model of a hundred officials, and a model of a hundred officials! Zhou Yu said as he squeezed his palm vigorously, which means that they are all foxes, so let's stop chatting about fasting, okay? Get down to business!

"Junchen, how many soldiers do you estimate to fight in the enemy city?" Zhou Yu asked eagerly.

"According to the humble opinion of the lower officials, there will be no more than 100 people!" Lai Junchen replied categorically.

"How so?"

"The investigation of the lower officials found that there are about three or four hundred households in the whole village, and the total number of regular statistics will not exceed 2,000. There were patrols at the gates, but there were no more than ten men. From sunset to noon the next day, there was no shift change, and only a few sergeants took time to nap nearby. Especially when we were being pursued by a few strong men, no one else came to surround or inquire, which shows that the battle force in the city is very tense. If you're a bit of the elite, you're probably going to be concentrated in the three-story building in the heart of the oasis. “

"Can I fight?" Zhou Yu asked again.

"The lower official is guaranteed by the head of the item, and he is invincible!" Lai Junchen nodded vigorously.

Zhou Yu believed in Lai Junchen's judgment, but he didn't believe that there were no accidents. As long as it is a war, there will definitely be casualties, and it will be absolutely unexpected. As for what, let's wait and see, after all, this is everyone's first battle in the Borderlands. Whether it will be the first victory or the annihilation of the group, only God knows. He dusted off the sand from Junchen's shoulders and returned an appreciative look.

After a day and a night of rapid marching, it was early the next morning when the army reached the outside of the city. Zhou Yu looked up at the starry sky that was changing from dark blue to clear blue, and the four rays of fish belly white held up the familiar four rounds of the sun like a poached egg. After checking his eyes with the four rotating leaders, he extended one finger of his right hand and pointed forward, then two fingers and pointed to his eyes.

After receiving the order, the first team composed of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Kuroka Tsuneyuki and Lu Bu quickly approached the city gate guards by taking advantage of the only bit of night, and now there were two people in front of the gate, and there was still one person standing inside the city gate, his eyes looking out and in. The two guards outside the city were obviously a little sleepy, they had already yawned for a long time, and they were talking without a match. The second team composed of Bai Qi and Zhang Xianzhong climbed to the city tower from five zhang away on both sides of the city gate, stood on the city wall to observe the situation, and waited for the opportunity to rescue and assist.

The first team of three slowly approached the city gate from a distance, all wrapped their heads in black scarves. About ten zhang away, the two guards grunted and shouted, even if they didn't understand, they probably asked who was coming.

The three of them stood still, for fear of getting too close to startle the snake. The guard saw that the three of them were not moving, and saw from a distance that they were all burly and not idle, so he hastily pulled out the long knife at his waist and slowly paced out. However, the guard on the inside of the gate glanced out, and said a few words, but he did not move, and still stood there and watched from a distance.

Just when there were still ten steps away, Toyotomi Hideyoshi looked up and found the position of the wall where Bai Qi was squatting, tightened his mask upward, and nodded. Bai Qi comprehended, and pulled out a feather arrow from the quiver, and the bow was full and the string was on. Hearing only a soft whistle, the black tooth Chang Zhi and Lu Bu each held a short sword, one left and one right catapulted out, stabbing the throat and chest of the two respectively, how skilled the two were, plus it was a sneak attack, the comer was killed without any power to fight back, and fell down like mud. At the same time, the man in the city rubbed his eyes, and as soon as he saw what was happening, he didn't take a second breath because a feathered arrow swished through his temple.

As a result, after the three people in the gatehouse, the army lined up in two columns, and the two teams of AB were led by Jianguo and Lucy respectively, because only the two of them were familiar with the terrain here. Of course, there is also a paralyzed man who can't be fingered to Junchen. In the early morning, there were already some residents walking around the city, but they saw a group of vicious people looking around and walking in, all of them clinging to the wall and not breathing, for fear that one of them would be killed if they were not thorough.

When Fu Sheng and Wan Yanliang turned around the corner side by side, they saw an old man just pushing the door out, one made a shushing gesture, and the other slashed his neck with a knife with his hand. The old man was startled, and he didn't stand firm and leaned upright. Zhou Yu shook his head helplessly when he saw it, when did these turtle grandsons not be serious, they didn't find the girls to tease, and they didn't even let go of the old man. He coughed loudly and glared at the two of them. The two of them smiled and didn't care.

The army's journey into the city was too smooth, so smooth that Zhou Yu was a little timid. He has always believed that if it is complete, it is a precursor to a big trap. It has been played thousands of times in TV series and movies. He instructed the two teams of AB to control all men and women carrying weapons, regardless of gender, and kill them if they can't control them, and they must not be careless.

He himself took Toyotomi, Kuroga, and Bongsen to the door of the three-story building on the edge of the oasis. This looks like a small palace, but it is really simple, there are no glazed tiles and no golden light beasts, but fortunately, it is clean and decent. On either side of the not-so-thick iron gate were two stoves, and the charcoal fire had just been extinguished overnight and was still billowing with smoke.

Zhou Yu didn't rush in, he walked around the outside several times, left and right, until Bai Qi and Zhang Xianzhong gathered here and asked, "How is it?" “

Bai Qi glanced at Zhang Xianzhong and said, "A total of twenty and three people with weapons were captured, all of whom were men. Now all of them have been gagged with sand and wrapped in cloth, and they are all placed by the waterwheel. There were no casualties on our side. Zhou Yu thought to himself, this method of plugging his mouth with sand is probably a common trick of Bai Qi, and it is best to prevent the other party from scolding his eighteenth generation ancestors when burying people alive.

"Let's go, two generals and three captains, accompany me to visit the master here?" Zhou Yu waved his hand and walked in front of him. He stood in front of the door, clattering the knocker.

After three sounds, the iron door was pushed open, and a girl of seventeen or eighteen years old walked out. The girl was stout and stocky, with rough skin and a wheat color, and pale blue hair was a common feature of the natives. She looked at the demons and muttered something.

"I don't know what this girl is talking about?" Bai Qi was a little impatient, pulled out his saber and waved it at the woman. Now the girl understood, and was so frightened that she hid back, and the iron door seemed to be locked from the inside. Zhang Xianzhong went up and kicked at the iron gate, scolding his mother with his mouth while kicking.

As I was sipping tea, I suddenly heard a clanging sound inside, and suddenly the iron door was opened, and more than 20 people rushed out from inside, all of whom were strong men, all of whom were armed with swords, and they rushed out to cut people when they saw them.

Although these people's swordsmanship has no routines, they are all fearless of death, and with their superior strength, they are a little embarrassed to cut the martial arts "heroes" in front of them. Seeing that his people were tight, Fu Sheng, Wan Yanliang, and Zhu Cang in the back hurriedly raised their knives to join the battle, and then gradually stabilized the situation. In more than a dozen rounds, all but five or six of the strong men were captured when they were stabbed and fell to the ground. The man at the head had a beard on his face, a height of one meter nine, his eyes scanned everyone viciously, his arms kept struggling, and his mouth shouted wow: "Kayim, Gulita!" Kayim, Gulita! “

Zhou Yu took a closer look, not good, this person shouted at the door, could it be that there was an ambush inside or some mechanism? He immediately arranged, tied his hands and held them in front, and his own people followed behind and slowly entered the palace to prevent any organs inside from causing casualties to his own people.

Entering the palace, Zhou Yu took a closer look at it, and it was really a hole. In the middle is a circular patio, and when you look up, you can see the entire roof of the palace, and in the middle of the ground is a waterwheel. In this place where water is more expensive than oil, how extravagant is it to have an indoor waterwheel to pump water from the ground?

Although they are all made of stone, the walls and floors, including the staircase, are polished and smooth, and they are spotless, simple and generous. The rooms on the first floor are all open, the rooms on the second and third floors have a gauze tent as a door, and only the room on the third floor facing the patio has two golden doors that are tightly closed.

Zhou Yu called Fan Er: "Search, don't smash things!" “

The two teams started from the first floor and searched in a carpet manner.

After a search, more than 20 women were found and thrown in the center of the hall. Ranging in age from fifteen or sixteen to fifty or sixty years old, some of them were well-looking and disheveled, attracting bursts of whistles. Zhou Yu is not worried that the princes here are lustful, they are all emperors and generals, you have to look at these wildflowers, right? What's more, there is still a head of blue hair? One by one, like Avatar.

He always felt that something was wrong, and paced back and forth a few steps, smacking his teeth. Suddenly, he shouted: "Commander-in-Chief Liu? Commander Liu, who saved lives and helped the wounded? “

Liu Yu immediately responded in the crowd: "Xiao Wang is here!" "The fart came running over, still holding a golden knife in his hand.

"Come, come, Liu. Pick a young one and dissect it for me, let me see if these blue-haired monsters are human beings, and what are they in their stomachs? “

Everyone was quite surprised when they heard Zhou Yu say it. This murder is not a big deal, and the lives of those present are more than a hundred thousand. It's just that this Metropolitan Governor's habit is really a little unacceptable, kill it, kill it, you have to go with this anatomy maniac, and let everyone watch, what are you not a pervert?

Liu Yu was not verbose, he carried a dagger and selected among the crowds, and picked the chick who opened the door at the beginning. I grabbed the hair roots on my scalp and picked it up, like catching a little chicken.

He dragged the girl and began to cry and kick her feet, and he couldn't hold it anymore. Just drag it on the ground and be lighter. Don't look at Liu Yu's fourteen or fifteen years old, he is an expert in doing this. He took a rope and tied the girl in a letter C shape three or five times, and tied a I-knot face up to her neck and ankles. Then he grinned and found a dungeon soldier, told him to lie on his knees with his hands on the ground, and buckled the girl on his back.

It's complicated to say, it takes three or five minutes for Liu Yu to do it, and finally he took out a glass bowl from his pocket, put it on the ground under the ribs of the underworld soldier and said: "Don't waste it, I'll ask everyone to drink blood in a while, fresh and hot, haha, I can't wait, I can't wait." After saying that, he slashed open the girl's blouse, the knife technique was extremely pure, and the clothes were completely open but did not hurt the skin in the slightest.

Fu Sheng and the others saw that the chests and eyes that jumped out of the ground fell to the ground, and the weapons of the Dangchang and some underworld soldiers also fell to the ground. The girl may have sensed that death was imminent, and her crying turned to silent choking tears.

Zhou Yu walked up to the kneeling bearded man, pointed at the girl who was about to be executed, and said with a smile: "Kayimu? “

The big man turned his head, Zhou Yu pinched his chin and forcibly let him look, and continued to ask with a smile: "Gulita?" “

Dahan's eyes were filled with tears, and he spat Zhou Yu and shouted: "Pama, Pama!" “

Zhou Yu shouted: "Commander Liu, execution!" “

As soon as the words fell, Liu Yu stabbed the girl in the throat, turned back to Zhou Yu with a smile, and said, "Dadudu, the first bowl is a little thick, the second bowl is the best, give you the second bowl!" “

Seeing this knife going down, the big man kicked his hands and feet, and cried out: "Pama, Pama! “

Zhou Yu made a gesture to stop, and Liu Yu stopped moving, but the blood was already gurgling down the girl's neck. The hall was eerily quiet, and the sound of blood dripping in the glass bowl could be heard. Zhou Yu pinched Dahan's chin and forcibly made his gaze look around the captives. Then he pointed at Liu Yu and said to the big man with a smile: "Kayimu? Gulita? After speaking, he pointed at the people in the hall one by one, and kept gesturing the dagger in his neck.

The big man seemed to understand what he meant, and if he didn't confess, that man would brutally kill more than 40 people here and outside the door. It seemed that after a fierce psychological struggle, Dahan stood up with anger and tears. He glanced at Zhou Yu, meaning to let him go. After receiving permission, he dragged his heavy steps and mood and approached the watermill step by step.

He glanced at the girl who was still on the execution table, and with a desperate look he stomped on the ground and pulled out a wooden cork in the middle of the waterwheel. I only heard a few squeaks, and the waterwheel rose up, like an elevator rising from the ground, and the water dripped around, like a water curtain hole. Yo Xi, there is still this kind of mechanism here, I'll bazaar, you old fox, don't use some means, you treat me as a spicy hot shabu?

Dahan turned his back to the rising waterwheel, and Zhou Yu took Fan Er and Lu Bu over. It turned out that this was a secret passage, and the tunnel under the raised waterwheel could lead to other places, and it seemed that this big man wanted to keep some secret.

Zhou Yu nodded at Lu Bu, Lu Bu didn't have to make tea when he went in, one in one hand. A woman in her 30s with her left hand and a 10-year-old Shota in her right hand walked up. The two of them were grabbed by the neck, and both feet were kicked in the air, looking around viciously.

Oh, it turned out to be a plan to secretly cross Chen Cang, wanting to protect this big and small. Unexpectedly, Zhou Yu had already seen through his scheming, and came to a trick to close the door and catch the thief, and wiped out all the people who were waiting for him.

Zhou Yu smiled at the woman, but everyone saw that his grinning mouth did not carry a friendly symbol. The woman's face was solemn, her apricot eyes were wide open, her pink fists were clenched, and she wanted to skin the governor.

Zhou Yu coughed dryly. He knew that whatever he said to these people was playing the harp to the cow. So he did some sign language, of course, all of which he learned when communicating with some deaf and mute people. Sign language in modern society is much richer, more intuitive, more convenient, and easier to understand than in ancient times.

He gestured to his brothers, pulled food into his mouth, and then made a sleeping motion. He pointed to the captured blue-haired ghost and made a gesture of tying his hands. Finally, he pointed to the four suns in the sky, stretched out the five fingers of one palm, and left two fingers in a walking away gesture. Many of the blue-haired ghosts present understood it. Roughly speaking, these people have no food or a place to sleep, and they seize your people in exchange for food and shelter. Just stay for five days, and then go.