Chapter 288: Earning the City
At night, the snow falls heavily.
There are several braziers burning on the walls of Linyu.
The commander who patrolled the city didn't know where to hide, and a few soldiers were left around the brazier, trying to use the flames to dispel the cold.
It was dark outside the city.
Outside Xicheng, where the defense is the weakest, two teams of people and horses are wearing white gilly clothes, approaching the root of the wall.
The strong declaration of war during the day, coupled with the deliberate felling of the woods behind the camp, made a posture to create siege equipment.
In fact, there is Gongsun Yan, where is it necessary to go to the city to make equipment, which is so time-consuming and laborious.
It's just for the people of the city to show them, so that they miscalculate the time and the situation.
The craftsmen and sailors of the Linyu family are all precious resources that cannot be let go.
As early as when the flying pigeon in the city came out, Zhao Yun had a thought.
Now the people of Linyu are panicking, and they are all thinking about the migration to Qingzhou, where will they still worry about the city defense.
Zhao Yun took the lead at night, and he was surrounded by carefully selected good players.
From time to time, a group or two of soldiers walked by the walls, but no one noticed anything out of the ordinary.
In this era, the average person is night blind, and it is common sense that winter night battles will not happen.
A special operation like Zhao Yun touching the city like this is unprecedented.
Staying late at night is when people are most sleepy and alert.
A group of soldiers had just walked through the gap.
Under the dark city walls, several flying claws attached to ropes were thrown up.
The blackened metal claws have a non-slip and sound-dampening mat at the tip, and when they are thrown on, they are snapped against the female wall.
The black shadow under the city wall climbed up the rope with agility.
A gloved hand, climbing up the female wall.
Zhao Yun popped out half of his head from the wall, looked left and right, and retracted again.
With both hands, he climbed the city wall and landed on tiptoe silently, like a vigorous big cat.
He beckoned and waited for the rest of his men to climb the wall.
After gesturing a few tactical gestures, he took the lead in leading a few people towards a brightly lit corner tower.
The rest of the people were ordered and quietly dispersed.
The walls were also covered with a layer of snow.
Zhao Yunmao stood on tiptoe and walked along the root of the wall without making any sound.
Follow the shadows and touch the corner tower.
In the corner tower were a few low-ranking generals who were nested together to keep warm.
Nowadays, the hearts of the people in Linyu City are fluctuating, and those who have a little ability are thinking of contacting the sea ship and going to Qingzhou.
Those who are still assigned to the night city patrol task are all small roles.
I bought a jar of light wine mixed with water, and I drank it dry in a sip in the corner tower that leaked everywhere.
One of them drank so much that his stomach was bloated and got up to pee on the corner of the city wall.
As soon as he untied his trouser belt, he was covered from behind, and a dagger swiped his throat, and hot blood gushed out of his throat.
Someone else lifted him by the legs, lifted him up, and put him down again.
Cutting throats, lifting people, and the assembly line operation is very skillful.
On the watchtower, the armor soldier guarding the bronze bell suddenly threw a stone beside him.
He squinted at the bewilderment.
A pair of hands reached out from the darkness, covered his mouth, and dragged him into the darkness.
When he was young, Zhao Yun adjusted the wristband of his gloves and walked out of the darkness with an expressionless face.
Controlling the watchtower warning point, Lao Lei, who came with him, led a few people, wearing tattered robes taken from the dead people, and walked down the city wall.
It was warm in the cave of the city gate, and five or six people stood inside, snoozing by the brazier with wooden spears.
One of them didn't sleep too much, but he raised his eyes and looked at the few people who were coming, and found that some of them were alive, and they were about to say hello, when a sword struck.
Blood splattered and spilled on the ground.
The cave in the gate tower was soon filled with corpses.
After dealing with these people, Lao Lei and the others quickly rushed to the city gate.
The guard guarding the noose at the gate had his head chopped off before he could understand what was happening.
The stout latch was untied by several men, and the sound of the noose lowering the drawbridge over the moat sounded particularly loud at night.
Xia Houlan chewed chicken jerky in her mouth, led a large army that secretly bypassed, and ambushed in the forest.
He held a night vision device in his hand and watched Zhao Yun's actions.
This new type of combat method made him very excited.
Xiahou Lan, who was suffocating in Lu Longsai, rubbed the stubble on his chin, and said in his heart that he would try it next time!
When Ling Zhi and Zhang He and others were drinking, they once reviewed the process of Zhang He's earning and opening the city gate, and several people also asked for experience in earning the city.
When it is really implemented, it is really exciting.
Looking at the city gate from afar, a figure rushed out, waving the pine torch in his hand, Xia Houlan's expression was solemn: "Let's go." ”
The shaft of the gate is dry, and when it is pushed open, it makes a long sound.
Only then did a few officers and soldiers on the corner tower who were drinking hear the voice and noticed that something was wrong: "Who is opening the city gate!" ”
"Ring the bell!"
They shouted for the soldiers on the corner tower to ring the bell, but received no response.
Grabbing the weapon that was set aside, he was about to rush out the door to gather his soldiers, but was forced back by several sharp blades.
They saw a tall figure standing on the tower with his hands in his hands, and in the distance they could hear a large number of approaching footsteps.
The men looked at each other, then at the knife around their necks, and they didn't know who was the leader, and they threw down their weapons one after another.
The armor soldiers and the cavalry of the brigade entered through the city gate, and dispersed violently, heading to the county office, arsenal and other places.
The soldiers who lit the pine torches and the galloping cavalry woke up the entire Linyu City.
When Jiang Xuan was woken up from a dream by the servant, he was still holding a warm concubine in his arms.
Hearing that the city was broken, his heartbeat skipped two beats, and he was stunned for a long time speechless.
His young concubine hurriedly sat up, patted him on the back and rubbed his chest.
was viciously pushed away by him, and he sat on the ice-like ground shivering in a single dress.
"How is that possible?" Jiang Xuan muttered to himself a few times, and suddenly thought that now was not the time to be in a daze, so he hurriedly got up and put on his clothes, "Go to the dock." ”
The city of Linyu was already boiling over, and was alarmed by the shouts of killing, knowing that the enemy army had entered the city, and for a time the chickens and dogs jumped.
Like Jiang Xuan and others, they urgently gathered their family and ran towards the dock.
Civilians had nowhere to go, so some people hurriedly smeared the faces of their wives and daughters and sisters with firewood, closed the doors and windows, and guarded them in front of their homes with short firewood knives.
Of course, there are not a few people who take advantage of the chaos to rob homes and fish in troubled waters.
The sergeants who entered the city were divided into several routes, and went to military targets such as granaries, treasury, and arsenals in the city, so as not to take advantage of the fire to loot.
Xia Houlan took a few soldiers who quickly rebelled against the water and went to the county barracks.
The wagons were hauling a load of goods towards the docks.
Along the way, hastily loaded goods and cloth were sprinkled all over the ground.
Jiang Xuan rode on horseback, whipped his horse and wanted to rush to the dock as soon as possible.
However, when I got closer, I found that the gate of the dock was closed.
Someone stood on the watchtower of the walled gate.
The firelight jumped, and Jiang Xuan desperately saw Mr. Yu stroking his beard and looking at him with a smile, his eyes full of cunning.
And Zhao Yun stood aside and said: "Look at the eldest prince Jiang, pay attention to the proper etiquette next time." ”
A group of sergeants were drawing their bows and arrows, aiming at this side.
In the next second, arrows rained down.