The inner city wall, here is the second line of defense of Daxing City, and it is also the only passage from the urn city to the inner city.

Guarding the city gate was Zheng Ming, a lieutenant from the northern defense line.

Zheng Ming, who is about forty years old, lacks momentum and is more than calm, and it is precisely because of this that the empress will put him in the inner city as a city gate official.

At the beginning of the fight, Zheng Ming faintly heard a shouting of killing, and the sound came from the direction of the palace.

In a short period of time, Zheng Ming was full of hesitation, he didn't understand in his heart anyway, how could there be a fight in the palace in the middle of the night?

With curiosity in his heart, Zheng Ming wanted to send someone to investigate, but his temperament made him dare not send someone to go, after all, if there was nothing in the palace, he would send someone to go, which would cause the empress to misunderstand, and the loss of official affairs was small, and the loss of life was big.

It is precisely this kind of character that makes Zheng Ming stay where he is, stunned and didn't dare to move a step, he really would rather have no merit than any mistakes.

It's a pity that the 3,000 officers and soldiers guarding the city under his hand followed him and delayed the fighter.

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Wan Yuping led a large group of people, wearing night clothes, and quietly came to the corner of the inner city, and whispered to everyone around him to be cautious and not to alarm the officers and soldiers guarding the city.

Immediately after, he quietly walked out into the opposite shadow, took a deep breath, and made a few soft cat meows.

This is an agreement with their own people on the city wall, as long as their own secret signal sounds, the other side will immediately respond, and then their own people will open the iron door of the stairway leading to the city wall and put themselves in.

After the whistle, Wan Yu waited calmly.

About a quarter of an hour later, a few bird calls came to the city.

Hearing the voice, Wan Yuping knew that it was time to do it, so he smiled and made a move, and followed, and a large group of people gathered in front of the corridor.

After waiting for a cup of tea, the door creaked open, and then, Zheng Ming's adjutant Shi An appeared in the door.

Seeing Wan Yuping, Shi An whispered: "Zheng Ming just lay down, Master Wan, you come with me." ”

Wan Yuping nodded, followed and waved behind him, and the black-clothed people quietly followed.

Leading people to the city tower, Shi An rushed all the way to Zheng Ming's residence, pointed to a room not far in front of him, and said, "Zheng Ming is inside." ”

Wan Yuping snorted and commanded in a low voice: "Look at my signal in a while, as long as Zheng Ming dies, you will immediately control the soldiers loyal to Zheng Ming, this operation, there must be no omission." Whether the palace succeeds or not, it all depends on whether our side can take the inner city wall. ”

Shi An nodded: "Don't worry, adult, the little one knows the stakes." ”

Wan Yuping didn't continue to talk nonsense, but touched the outside of Zheng Ming's house, and gently pushed the door, the door was only half-hidden, and when he touched it, it squeaked and opened by itself.

Seeing this, Wan Yuping felt that something was wrong in his heart, but the arrow was on the string, and he had to send it, so he caught up in a few steps, and without saying a word in front of the bed, he raised his sword and chopped it down.

Jian Feng broke the quilt, and there was no familiar sound of breaking the bag as he imagined, which made Wan Yuping stunned for no reason, and said in his heart, What's going on?

Just wondering, there was a yawn outside, followed by constant muttering: "It's strange, how can there be birds in this winter?" Could it be that you got lost on the way to the south? ”

Zheng Ming walked in from outside, and his mouth was still nagging, but of course when he walked into the room and saw the situation in the room clearly through the moonlight reflected on the snow outside, he was taken aback: "Who are you?" ”

Wan Yuping didn't dare to answer, so he raised his sword and went up.

Seeing this, Zheng Ming also knew that the comer was not good, so he took off the sword from the wall next to him, snorted, pulled out the sword in the sheath, and shouted: "What a bold thief, dare to steal from grandpa." ”

Wan Yu said calmly that you are really a fool, no wonder you have been a city guard all your life.

One of the two was a famous swordsman in Daxing City when he was young, and the other was a general who retired from the front line.

The jingle of the long sword strike, above the hard power, Wan Yuping was still half a cut behind Zheng Ming after all, and was sold by Zheng Ming, kicked his wrist, and smashed out like a somersault.

Shi An, who was waiting outside, was already ready to clean up the soldiers who were loyal to Zheng Ming and the empress. was caught off guard, but saw Wan Yuping being knocked out, and said, if he comes out, he will come out, and Zheng Ming, who was provoked, ran out and shouted that there was an assassin.

At this moment, it was directly exposed, and there was a loud noise, and the soldiers on the city were alarmed, and they all ran out with their weapons, and asked where the assassin was.

At this time, the traitors who had agreed with Shi An to raise a flag all looked at Shi An, and they were asking if they should do it now?

Fortunately, Shi An was calm and stopped them with his eyes.

It's just that in this way, Wan Yuping and the two hundred or so black-clothed people he brought were exposed, surrounded by thousands of people, and they couldn't advance or retreat.

Fortunately, the city wall is narrow and cannot be fully spread out to the army, otherwise, just these 200 or so people will have to be explained in an instant.

Zheng Ming strode up with his sword, pointed at Wan Yuping, and laughed: "Thief, dare to provoke you General Zheng, I see that you are an old birthday star hanging, and your life is too long, so you will run away and see Lao Tzu turn out of you." ”

And when he had said this, he rushed forward.

Wan Yuping's bare eyes instantly chilled, and he had to resist hard when he raised his sword.

At this time, Shi An's eyes rolled, and a trick came to his mind, and he immediately shouted, and then rushed up and shouted: "The general will rest for the time being, and Rong Mo will take down this thief." ”

As soon as the stupid Zheng Ming wanted to say no, Shi An had already rushed to him and fought with Wan Yuping.

The two approached, and Shi An reminded in a low voice: "Lord Wan, you watch my movements, and I'm ready to kill Zheng Ming's guy." ”

Wan Yuping nodded.

Then, the two of them had a sword dance in front of many people.

A group of people stared at each other, suddenly bored, and Zheng Ming kept shouting: "Brother Shi, you step back first, and let General Ben take care of him." ”

Shi An shouted while looking for an opportunity: "Use a cattle slaughtering knife to kill chickens, general, you can rest assured that the last general will definitely take down this thief." ”

Zheng Mingzhi was depressed, as long as he got on it himself, he could kill Wan Yuping in minutes, and he had to spend so much money.

I was about to go up, when I suddenly heard a shout from inside the inner city, and when I looked back, the iron door of the corridor in the city was opened, and a large number of armed men came up.

The leader looked at it, the more he looked at it, the more familiar he became, no matter how he looked at it, he looked like Lin Lei, the secretary of the Criminal Department.

Zheng Ming still wondered, his heart said that he was a little thief, as for the criminal department Shangshu personally brought someone to catch him?

At this moment when he was wondering, Lin Lei rushed up with someone, and without saying a word, he slashed at his subordinates.

Seeing this situation, Zheng Ming shouted directly: "Lord Lin, what are you doing!" ”

Seeing this, Shi An thought that he had a good opportunity, so he pretended to be invincible and staggered towards Zheng Ming.

Originally, Zheng Ming was distracted, and he was approached so easily by Shi An, and before he could react, he felt a chill in his lower abdomen, and then looked down, Shi An's knife stabbed him in his lower abdomen.

Looking at Shi An blankly, Zheng Ming opened his mouth and spurted out a mouthful of blood, but he didn't speak, and knelt on the ground with a thud.

Shi An drew his knife and beheaded, in one go, holding Zheng Ming's head in his hand, Shi An shouted loudly: "Zheng Ming has been beheaded, you still haven't surrendered, when will you wait?" ”

At the head of the city, there are also many righteous people, seeing Shi An being killed, he was angry at the time, and raised his knife to avenge Zheng Ming, but among them, Shi An's subordinates hidden in the crowd, as well as the people brought by Wan Yuping and Lin Lei, launched an attack on three sides, but in less than half an hour, the battle on the city wall was completely ended.

Blood flowed all over the ground, and nearly 2,000 soldiers who refused to go along with Shi An were either killed directly, or they were taken down and then killed.

It was only an hour before and after, and the control of the inner city was transferred to the rebels.

The situation is seriously tilted in favor of the rebels.

Even if the Wangcheng Guards set off at this time to support King Qin in the palace, then they would be afraid that they would hit their heads on the inner city wall, and when they crossed this hurdle, the situation on the palace side would already be cold and transparent.