Chapter 536: Night Dive Palace
By the time Lin Haotian crawled out of the sewer, it was already dark, and fortunately, the defenders on the city wall were taking over, which gave Lin Haotian and the others a chance to escape from the moat.
Lin Haotian, Shao Lin, and the Demon Warrior saw the shadow under the house not far away, and quickly flashed over, while Zhang Li repeated the old trick, continued to use the earthy yellow cloak as a camouflage, and slowly crawled away from the open area next to the moat.
After Lin Haotian returned to the coalition camp, he immediately summoned the generals of all armies and began to arrange the offensive plan.
With a personal experience, Lin Haotian was more sure of how to break the city, and after all the generals arrived, he explained the matter of the waterway straight to the point.
When the generals heard this, they were all surprised and delighted, but the generals of the You army were surprised.
It is unbelievable that the waterway in which the garbage is dumped in the palace can be used as a secret passage into the city, and I wonder who came up with such a ghostly idea.
Song Hao was so happy to hear that his mouth couldn't close together, there is such a waterway, and his army can appear in King You's palace at any time, so wouldn't it be easy to break through Huaiyang?
He stood up excitedly, looked around at the generals, and said loudly: "The guards in King You's palace are at best ten thousand people, as long as we sneak in twenty or thirty thousand people through the secret passage, we will definitely be able to control the palace and capture Nie Xing!"
"What His Royal Highness King Song said is reasonable!" all the generals nodded in agreement.
Lin Haotian shook his head with a wry smile and said, "Brother Song Wang, I haven't finished my words yet, although the secret passage is hidden and not easy to be detected, it is very narrow, and in addition, the space where the exit is located is not large, I estimate." Through the secret passage, we can only infiltrate a hundred people at most!"
"Huh?" Hearing this, Song Hao was dumbfounded, and muttered dumbfounded: "Only a hundred people can sneak in?"
"That's right!" Lin Haotian said with a straight face: "Even if you sneak into a hundred people, you have to try your luck, in case someone touches or notices it halfway." It's going to have to be exposed in advance. ”
Song Hao was half discouraged, spread his hands and said, "You can only sneak into a hundred people, so what else can you do......"
Lin Haotian looked up and smiled, and said: "If these hundred people are all outstanding underworld warriors in our army, then it will be a big deal, of course, this also requires the cooperation of the whole army." ”
Song Hao followed Lin Haotian's words and asked, "Brother Lin, what good plan can't be achieved?"
Lin Haotian said leisurely: "On the bright side, our army wants to attack Huaiyang, and it must attack with all its might. Besieged from all sides, attracting the attention of the defenders in the city, secretly, Ben Shuai personally led a hundred soldiers of our army to sneak into the palace and go directly to capture and kill Nie Xing!"
The faces of everyone present changed at the same time, Song Hao thought about it carefully, and said in a low voice: "Brother Lin did this. Isn't the risk too great?"
Lin Haotian said confidently: "As long as the defenders can't spare their time to reinforce the palace, they only rely on the more than 10,000 guards in the palace. It will definitely not be able to stop the 100 soldiers I personally led. ”
After speaking, he straightened his waist, looked at the generals below, and asked: "As a general, who is willing to enter the palace with this commander, capture the traitor Nie Xing, and make this miraculous feat?"
The generals looked at each other. No one dared to say anything immediately.
The palace is important, and you don't need to ask to know that the guards inside are all outstanding elites, and if their own number is equal to them, there is still the possibility of a war. But there are only 100 people to face the tens of thousands of palace guards, and I am afraid that there will be many bad luck.
Just as the generals were holding a wait-and-see attitude, someone shouted: "My lord, the last general is willing to go!"
The first person to stand up and express his stance was not others, it was Zhang Bufan. As soon as his words fell, Ling Wuya also stepped forward and said, "The last general is also willing to follow the lord!"
As the two of them took the initiative to ask for help, Jin Jiang stood up one after another and expressed his willingness to sneak into the palace with Lin Haotian.
The Jin Army signed up enthusiastically, and there was an endless stream of people who invited them to fight, and the high momentum immediately infected the New Red Army. The generals of the New Red Army also stood up one after another, and expressed their willingness to fight with Lin Haotian.
Seeing the example of the generals, Lin Haotian nodded with satisfaction, and said with a smile: "The fighting spirit of the ranking generals can be so high, and the commander is very pleased, but all the generals in the army can't all follow the commander to fight, and some of them have to stay outside the city to lead the brothers to fight." Speaking of this, he paused, rolled his eyes, raised his head and said: "Jin Army, the two generals of Bufan and Wuya can go with Ben Shuai, the New Red Army, the two generals Xu Wen and Huang Mian can go, and the You Army, Gu Ji and Yang Xuan, the two generals can go." ”
He called names very quickly, and in one breath, he selected six generals among the three armies.
Needless to say, these six generals, Zhang Bufan and Ling Wuya, the other eight generals are also fierce generals in various armies, and each has a pure martial arts cultivation.
After he finished counting the names of the ten generals, he pretended to ask Song Hao's opinion.
Although this operation was extremely dangerous, Lin Haotian, as the commander of the Jin Army, was willing to go there in person, and now he was only borrowing a few generals from him, so how could he be embarrassed to refuse? Song Hao didn't even think about it, and when he nodded in agreement, Lin Haotian began to arrange the offensive targets of the various armies.
The task of the coalition army outside the city is to firmly attract the defenders up and down the city wall, naturally it cannot be a feint, but to really fight, if the whole army is mixed together, a swarm of siege of the city, I am afraid that it will not be able to exert a few percent of combat effectiveness, Lin Haotian has to disperse them, let the armies attack different targets.
Under his arrangement, the First Army of the Jin Army attacked the northern city of Huaiyang, the Fifth Army attacked the southern city of Huaiyang, the New Red Army attacked the western city of Huaiyang, and the You Army attacked the eastern city of Huaiyang.
Song Hao and General You have no objection to his arrangement, this battle is likely to be the last battle of the coalition army, and they all intend to take advantage of this last opportunity to show their country's combat strength.
Lin Haotian arranged the troops very quickly, and in a few words, he finalized the plan.
Seeing that he was finished, Song Hao opened his mouth and said: "Brother Lin wants to take a hundred people to infiltrate King You's Palace, and now only ten fierce generals have been selected, and there are still ninety people missing, I don't know what Brother Wang plans to do? If there is a need to be a brother, just ask!"
Lin Haotian arched his hand to him with a smile and said, "Thank you Brother Song for your kindness." However, I have already chosen the remaining ninety people, so Brother Song doesn't have to worry about it anymore. ”
Most of the candidates he said were demonic warriors. The other is the personal guards around him.
Fighting deep into the enemy's hinterland, and being outnumbered, Lin Haotian didn't dare to be careless, even if the New Red Army was willing to provide elite dead soldiers, he was not at ease, he could really make him trust. It has to be someone on your own side.
There was nothing to say that day, pigs and sheep were slaughtered in the camp of the coalition army, and the soldiers were fed with war meals and rested for a day. The next day, the war drums and horns sounded loudly in the coalition camp, and one after another the corps drove out of the coalition camp and lined up in battle formations in the southeast, northwest, and northwest directions outside Huaiyang City, opening up a formation to attack at any time.
The actions of the coalition forces immediately aroused alarm in Huaiyang City. The defenders of the four cities have all entered a state of combat readiness, above the city wall, under the armor forest, and under the city wall, the defenders are densely covered, one by one the swords are out of the sheath, and the arrows are wound, as if facing the enemy.
At the solstice. That is, at about eight o'clock in the morning, the coalition forces sounded the horn of the attack.
Due to the limitation of Huaiyang outer city. The advance of the coalition forces could not be arranged in a neat battle formation, and the overwhelming soldiers walked through the streets and alleys like ants, rushing forward quickly.
The coalition forces were not lined up in a neat battle formation, but the cluttered houses provided them with plenty of cover, allowing them to minimize the damage from the defenders' arrows as they advanced.
When the coalition forces advanced to the open area twenty meters in front of the moat, this was the real beginning of the bloody battle between the two sides. If the coalition forces want to push forward, they will have to pay the price of blood.
For a time, arrows rained down on the city's head, and its arrows were numerous and dense. Like a plague of locusts, it opened a black curtain in the air and fell all over the sky.
The sound of arrows in the coalition camp was everywhere, and countless soldiers were shot to the ground during the advance, some with arrow wounds gritted their teeth and continued to move forward, while others never got up again.
In just twenty meters, the corpses of the coalition soldiers were covered in an instant, and people stepped on the corpses of the fallen soldiers and continued to advance.
The coalition army launched an all-out onslaught on Huaiyang, laying ladders on the moat, using the ladders as bridges, and people stepped on the ladders to launch a strong attack under the city walls.
At this time, the coalition army behind the stone thrower had already set up, and launched a wild bombardment and smashing on Huaiyang's city defense.
As the fighting between the two sides heated up, the casualties of the soldiers on both sides also skyrocketed. At this time, Lin Haotian's previous 'benevolent government' began to play an effect.
The wounded soldiers of the coalition army were dragged into the homes of the people in the outer city nearby, but instead of stopping them, the people of You also helped to rescue them, prepared water and medicine, and contributed to the efforts, which saved a lot of effort for the coalition army to deal with the wounded soldiers.
On the one hand, there is an army of more than one million forcibly attacking the city, on the other hand, hundreds of thousands of soldiers are fighting against the water, desperately defending the city, the huge Huaiyang, the four city walls, there are fierce battles everywhere, and there are soldiers on both sides fighting everywhere.
Lin Haotian conveyed to the whole army early that they were ready to fight a protracted war, and the coalition forces were also relatively well prepared, and the two armies of You and Xinchi, which attacked head-on, were divided into several batches, with some soldiers attacking in front, and other soldiers staying in the outer city, each looking for a shady place to rest, and at the same time setting up pots and stoves and cooking on the spot.
Once the soldiers in front of them are tired, they will have hot soup and hot rice to eat immediately after retreating, and when they have enough physical strength, they will rush to the battlefield to kill.
The offensive of the coalition army was not very strong, but it was very continuous, one wave of troops could not be defeated, and the next wave of troops would take over immediately after retreating, and so on, and the offensive was endless. This is the advantage of having more soldiers.
On the other hand, the You army defending the city, limited by the strength of the army, could not fight a wheel war like the coalition army, and the soldiers had to hold on from beginning to end, and the physical consumption was naturally far better than that of the coalition army.
But you people can indeed endure hardship, no matter how difficult the environment, as long as the morale has not collapsed, people can grit their teeth and persevere.
The battle lasted from early morning to late at night, and when it was dark, the coalition forces lit torches and attacked the city overnight.
Of course, the intensity of the coalition attack at night was much weaker than during the day, and the number of troops directly attacking the city was greatly reduced, while the number of troops firing arrows from outside the city was greatly increased.
The battle lasted until ten in the morning, and Lin Haotian took his carefully selected generals Zhang Bufan, Ling Wuya, Gu Ji, Yang Xuan and other generals, as well as Shao Lin, fifty demonic warriors and forty Jin State guards, under the cover of tens of thousands of Jin troops, to the battlefield where the two armies were fighting.
After crossing the moat, the Jin soldiers immediately lined up in battle formation, propped up their shields, and blocked the rain of arrows shot from the city, and at the same time blocked the enemy's sight.
Lin Haotian and the others, under the cover of their own soldiers, quickly dived into the moat.
Last time, Zhang Li led the way. This time, Lin Haotian was already familiar with the road, and after entering the waterway and surfacing the water, he stayed where he was, and every time someone floated up, he told them to disperse their armor. At the same time, cover the incense towel that has been prepared in advance.
The more than 100 people, led by Lin Haotian, unknowingly burrowed into the moat and entered the waterway leading to King You's palace, crawling forward one by one.
The environment in the waterways is harsh and disgustingly dirty, but compared to the battlefield where you live and die, it's surprisingly safe.
There is no need to fight, no need to fight, you can directly enter the interior of King You's palace. Such an opportunity is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
Overhead, there is a battlefield where both sides are bleeding, and he crawls forward under the battlefield, which makes everyone feel a strange feeling.
To make a long story short, Lin Haotian's more than 100 people successfully crossed the waterway and climbed out of the exit in the palace.
100 people is not much, but in the small space of the garbage room, people still fill it up. When it came out, the reaction was unanimous. Immediately dissipate the aura and remove the face towel. Then he inhaled heavily.
After a long pause, Lin Haotian looked around at everyone, and seeing that everyone's faces had returned to normal, he nodded slowly, his voice was not loud, but sonorous and powerful. He said: "Everyone is almost recovered, right? Our officers and men are still fighting hard with the enemy outside the city, and it is up to us whether we can let the brothers minimize casualties! Today's ranks, including this commander, are all dead. No matter the cost, be sure to capture Nie Xing. If it succeeds, the battle will end immediately, and if it fails, this place will be the burial place of you and me!"
Hearing this, the bodies of everyone present were shocked, and they all arched their hands and said in unison: "I will swear to follow the Lord to the death, live and die together, advance and retreat together, and never give up if we don't capture Nie Xing!"
Lin Haotian nodded with satisfaction, then stretched his muscles and bones a few times, and pulled out his Xuantie Halberd, and at the same time, a layer of black mist was released around his body, which instantly condensed into Immortal Qi, and the Xuantie Halberd also completed the transformation of the beast armor.
As soon as he took the lead, the scene on the battlefield was extremely spectacular, more than 100 people, each holding a weapon, the changes of the beast armor came and went, almost in the blink of an eye, and everyone turned into black and white.
The black ones are demonic underworld warriors, and the white ones are human and beast underworld warriors.
"Let's go!" Lin Haotian said briefly and took the lead out of the garbage room.
He had asked Zhang Li to draw a map of the palace in advance, and he already had a general understanding of the environment of King You's palace, but he didn't know where Nie Xing was.
Now is the time for his own large-scale siege of the city, and it stands to reason that Nie Xing can only be in two places, one is the study, and the other is the main hall of the palace.
The garbage room is located on the west side of the palace, close to the study, and the route taken by Lin Haotian is also to go straight to the study.
These more than 100 people, without any intention of avoiding others, ran rampant in the palace, but what is puzzling is that they have walked a long distance, but they have not even met the patrolling guards.
Lin Haotian frowned secretly, and couldn't help but wonder in his heart, what was going on? Could it be that Nie Xing had already quietly escaped? When he was secretly suspicious, two palace maids carrying lanterns came in front of him.
Lin Haotian's eyes lit up, and he walked over head-on with a halberd.
He has strong eyesight, and he has night eyes, and he can see far in the middle of the night, although the two palace maids have lanterns in their hands, but they didn't appear until Lin Haotian approached.
A stranger holding a halberd and covered in black armor suddenly appeared in front of him, and the two palace maids involuntarily screamed, thinking that they had encountered a monster, and they were so frightened that they fell to the ground on the spot, their legs were numb, and they couldn't run if they wanted to.
Lin Haotian came to the second daughter, lowered his head, and his warm gaze swept coldly over the two of them, and then asked in a deep voice, "Where is Nie Xing now?"
He called Nie Xing by his name, and the two palace maids were stunned for a moment before they reacted, and the two women stammered and couldn't speak, just shook their heads vigorously.
These two palace maids were not the maids who served Nie Xing, so in their memories, there was no clue about Nie Xing's whereabouts at all.
Lin Haotian stunned them in annoyance, then took a deep breath, shook his head at the people behind him, and said, "Keep walking!"
As soon as he finished speaking, he heard the sound of messy footsteps in front of him, and then more than a dozen guards with spears in their hands rushed over.
They rushed over when they heard the screams of the palace maids, and when they arrived at the scene, they saw two palace maids falling to the ground, and there were more than 100 underworld warriors with armor and weapons standing nearby, the faces of the guards were the same, and their hearts were shocked, but they were stunned for half a second, they came back to their senses, and some of them opened their mouths and were about to scream, but suddenly, an electric light pierced into his mouth.
It was Shao Lin's scimitar! The distance between the two sides was more than ten meters, but the moment Shao Lin opened his mouth and shouted, he suddenly appeared in front of him, and the scimitar in his hand also pierced his throat, and the tip of the knife poked out at the back of his head.
In addition, those guards were so frightened that their eyes widened, but unfortunately they didn't have a chance to shout, and the demon warriors cast shadow drifts one after another, appearing around more than a dozen guards at the same time, and long knives pierced into their bodies from all directions.
More than a dozen guards turned into more than a dozen corpses in the blink of an eye, and the terrifying nature of the demon warriors can also be seen.
Solving the guards who ran out halfway, Lin Haotian and the others were not only not surprised, but also breathed a sigh of relief, as long as there were guards in the palace, it meant that it was not an open space, and Nie Xing was still in the palace.
Lin Haotian had a bloodthirsty smile on his face, today, he was bound to take off Nie Xing's head! He held his knife in one hand and waved his hand to all the demon martial artists, letting them take the lead.
It wasn't until Lin Haotian and his party were approaching the center of the palace that they really aroused the vigilance of the guards, and for a while, the palace whistled everywhere, the alarm bell rang for a long time, and the screams, shouts, and fighting sounds were all in one. (To be continued......)