Chapter 11: Night Raid
As time passed, the refugees found that those who chose to stay and were recruited into the militia when the last time the ghost horses came to attack, did not have to work, only needed to practice martial arts to be full, so some people asked how to join the militia.
Andrei took advantage of the situation and began to openly recruit militiamen.
At Bai Qi's suggestion, André declared that once a refugee was elected to the militia, not only would he receive an adequate supply of fish and meat, but also his family would get easy jobs, and all they would have to pay for their loyalty.
All of a sudden, refugees signed up to join the militia.
Andrei arranged for the experienced captain of the infantry guard, Knight Leonard, to be in charge of the selection, and selected thousands of militiamen from the tens of thousands of refugees and put them into the training camp.
These selected militiamen either have a background in martial artists behind them or are very talented.
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This victory won Wanghai Town more than a month of peace, and as the thick walls made of huge blue bricks gradually became larger, not only Andre and his soldiers were filled with joy, but also the refugees gradually settled down.
Some things will only feel precious after they are lost, and the war has brought too much harm to the people, and at this time, people realize that even brutal rule is a hundred times stronger than no rule and falling into complete chaos.
At this time, in Wanghai Town, the old city wall outside has been repaired, the burned city gate has also been repaired, and the new city wall inside has also begun to see scale, but the city gate has not yet had time to be built.
In the middle of the night, the sky was covered with dark clouds, and the empty plain outside Wanghai Town was pitch black, and it was almost impossible to reach out to the five fingers.
In the wheat field, hundreds of big men in messy armor were quietly touching Wanghai City in the night.
There was silence in Wanghai City, and the group of big men quickly touched the north gate of Wanghai Town. The leading man put his hands to his mouth, made a trumpet, and let out several cries similar to those of night owls, and the same cries sounded inside the city gate.
The gates opened quietly, and a burly man poked his head out. He waved to the crowd outside the door.
The two leading men nodded to each other, waved their hands at the same time, and took the lead towards the city gate.
This group of big men sneaked into the city gate and quickly touched the inner city.
Andre can send a nightingale to spy on the ghost horse, and of course the ghost horse can also send spies to Wanghai Town.
When Li Zhengkui heard that Wanghai Town was recruiting militiamen, he had an idea and selected dozens of strong brothers with good kung fu from his subordinates, disguised as refugees and did not blend into Wanghai Town. And managed to sneak into the militia battalion.
After more than half a month of training, the militiamen basically knew what military discipline was, and in order to relieve the pressure on the regular soldiers, Andrei ordered that the task of guarding the outer city wall be handed over to the militia.
The spies of the ghost horse immediately passed the news back, and Li Zhengkui immediately decided to attack Wanghai Town at night, and ordered the spies who had infiltrated the militia to send a message, asking them to find a way to cooperate in opening the city gate.
In order not to startle the snake, the cunning Li Zhengkui led his subordinates. Leave the cottage in small batches and take advantage of the night to round under the mountain.
Among the horse thieves in the North Yokoyama. Li Zhengkui is notoriously cunning, and of course he would not have imagined that Wanghai Town would send scouts to spy on him.
Li Zhengkui took the three hundred most elite brothers under his command to leave the village first, in order to confuse Wanghai Town, on the third day after he left, the three masters took the remaining 2,000 brothers in the cottage to pour out. Mighty towards Wanghai Town......
Under the leadership of Li Zhengkui, the three hundred elites of the ghost horse and the horse quietly entered the inner city, and familiarly touched the military camp located in the west.
In the new inner city of Beihai City, there is a primary alchemy workshop to the south, and a militia training camp to the east. To the west is the barracks.
At the moment when the horse thieves touched the wall of the barracks, sixteen balls of light suddenly rose in the sky, illuminating the open space in front of the barracks.
This is a Level 0 spell Dance Light Technique.
At the same time as the dancing light technique illuminates the clearing, in the barracks in the barracks, from the piles of wood around the clearing, countless soldiers with heavy crossbows suddenly burst out, and hundreds of crossbow arrows fell like raindrops in the crowd of horse thieves, and the terrible screams suddenly rose one after another.
Li Zhengkui, who was in the group of horse thieves, reacted very quickly and made a judgment in an instant.
I saw him turn over and take out a yellow paper talisman, sandwich it between his two fingers in the middle of the food, and draw a few strokes in the air, the yellow paper talisman spontaneously combusted without fire, turning into a ball of golden light to cover him, forming a circle of golden light armor around him.
With the light armor covering the body, Li Zhengkui jumped up, rushed into the military camp like a meteor, and rushed into the ambush soldiers.
Li Zhengkui's unexpected move frustrated the knights' plans to ambush the knights in the piles of wood on both sides of the clearing.
Li Zhengkui is a fifth-level martial artist, and he has already stepped into the door of a monk, where is an ordinary soldier his opponent.
Heavy crossbow bolts shot at him, all ricocheted off by the golden armor.
In the blink of an eye, Li Zhengkui rushed into the group of soldiers ambushed in the barracks, and the tip of the long sword in his hand shot out a two-foot-long sword.
In a moment, Li Zhengkui killed the soldiers guarding and broke into the barracks behind the soldiers.
A moment later, there was a loud bang, the back wall of the barracks was knocked through, and Li Zhengkui, who rushed out of the barracks, disappeared into the night after a few ups and downs......
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Li Zhengkui's self-conceived ingenious night attack had already fallen into the calculations of Andrei's side.
Originally, Andrei still had some concerns about recruiting local militiamen, not only for fear of infiltrating spies, but also about the loyalty of the Orientals.
It was only under Bai Qi's persuasion that he decided to open the militia training camp.
In order to persuade Andrei, Bai Qi took the initiative to recruit the task of identifying whether the militia was a spy or not.
Since Bai Qi was so confident, Andrei simply handed over the militia battalion to Bai Qi to be in charge.
Bai Qi has his own set of distinguishing spies.
First of all, at present, the King of Beihai should not know about their existence, and even if he knew, he would not take it seriously, and he would not send spies, so it was only horse thieves who could send spies to Wanghai Town.
The first batch of militia they recruited before, that is, the group of people who chose to stay and fight the horse thieves during the first attack of the ghost horses, Bai Qi thought that they should all be trustworthy, and they had a deep hatred with the horse thieves.
Bai Qi started with this group of people, and he called these more than 300 people and asked them to name each of his acquaintances among the refugees, as well as the general situation, such as their place of origin, parents, the names of their wives and children, and so on.
In the end, through the information provided by each of them, Bai Qi found that these 300 people were all natives of Linhai County, and the background was very clear. (To be continued......)