Li Zhiyun raised the telescope to observe, and he found that the scale of this Niangniang Temple is not small, with more than a dozen houses and two or three courtyards. In addition to the soldiers standing guard at the gate of the courtyard, there are also soldiers coming in and out at the entrance of the main hall. At this time, I saw a group of soldiers escorting a carriage to the gate, and the carriage stopped at the gate of the courtyard, and two women and five children were sitting in the carriage.

The soldiers threw the women and children out of the carriage, drove them into the gate of the courtyard, and led them to the gate of the side hall. A soldier opened the temple door, pushed the women and children inside, and closed the door.

Li Zhiyun estimated that the main hall should be occupied by guarded soldiers, while the side halls on both sides were detained by robbed women and children. He observed for a while and found that there should not be too many soldiers in this temple, about twenty or so, no more than thirty at most.

When they returned to the station, the others also returned. Everyone gathered in Li Zhiyun's room and told everything they had learned. The four gates of the city were guarded by soldiers, and each gate was guarded by about one or two hundred soldiers. In addition, there are two barracks in the city, and most of the soldiers in the city live in the barracks.

After listening to everyone's story, Li Zhiyun pondered for a moment and said, "These demons eat ten women and ten children every day, so we can't delay for a moment, we must act tonight!" Let's hit the Niangniang Temple first, one is that the number of soldiers there is smaller, and the other is very close to the south gate. Let's eliminate the guards in the temple first, seize the weapons, rescue the women and children, and then attack the south gate!" ”

After Li Zhiyun finished speaking, everyone had no objections. Li Zhiyun asked another guard to go out of the city immediately, bring the new army over, and made an appointment with him to attack the south gate inside and outside during the fourth watch.

At night, the stationman and other guests at the inn fell asleep. The drums outside are beating loudly, listening to the drums, and the third watch has just been handed in. Li Zhiyun and the others quietly left the post station and walked along the street. In order to avoid encountering the enemy troops patrolling the night, the group walked in the shadow of the houses next to the street.

When they came to the temple, they saw that the gate was long closed, and a dilapidated old lantern hung in the doorway, flickering in a dim light. Li Zhiyun estimated that the soldiers standing guard had withdrawn to the courtyard. He glanced at Zhang Zheng and Cai Hu, and the two of them understood, and immediately jumped onto the courtyard wall with light skills, squatting on the head of the wall and observing the courtyard, and sure enough, there were two soldiers standing guard at the entrance of the main hall.

The two of them jumped softly into the courtyard and hid in the shadow of a large tree. The two soldiers, armed with weapons in hand, leaned against the wall next to the door, dozing there.

Zhang Zheng bit Cai Hu's ear, and Cai Hu nodded. The two separated and flanked each other. Zhang Zheng clinged to the base of the wall, quietly approached a soldier, stretched out his arm and clamped the opponent's head tightly, and twisted it so hard that his neck was broken.

Another soldier was awakened and was about to scream when Cai Hu grabbed him by the neck. Cai Hu's hands were like iron tongs, and the enemy soldiers couldn't breathe at all, and after struggling for a while, they didn't move. After eliminating the two sentries, the two opened the gate of the courtyard, and the crowd waiting outside swarmed in.

Li Zhiyun followed everyone through the courtyard and into the main hall. The main hall is quite spacious, opposite is the statue of the god who sent the child, and there are several ever-bright lamps enshrined on the Buddhist platform in front of the statue. On either side of the wall, a bed collapsed, and there was a snoring sound from the bed. The armor of the soldiers hung on the walls, and the weapons were placed on wooden shelves.

Without Li Zhiyun's instructions, everyone took off the knives and guns from the wooden frame, walked to the bed, and slashed and stabbed the sleeping people on the bed, and suddenly the flesh and blood splashed, and more than 20 soldiers saw the king of Hades in their sleep.

After eliminating the guards and soldiers, Li Zhiyun led people to the door of the side hall, asked people to cut the door lock with a knife, pushed open the door and walked in. A guard tied a torch, and by the light of the torch, Li Zhiyun saw that there were a large number of adults and children sitting on the ground. Many young children were curled up on the ground, their eyes closed, not knowing whether they were dead or alive.

Some of the women were awakened, and they opened their eyes and stared in horror at the group of intruders. Li Zhiyun said loudly: "Fellow villagers, we are soldiers of the Tang Dynasty, and we are here to save you." You're free, go home! But when he said it several times, the women looked at him as if they could not understand him, and did not react at all.

Li Zhiyun walked up to a teenage woman and tried to pull her up. The woman cowered in fright, and her mouth rattled and screamed, but she refused to stand up. Li Zhiyun had no choice but to give up, retreat to the door, and make a gesture to ask them out.

Li Zhiyun gestured for a long time, and finally an older woman stood up tremblingly and walked towards the door. However, she had only taken two steps, and as if she had suddenly remembered something, she hurried back to look for her child. The woman found her two children, pulled them up, took one by the other, and walked towards the door.

When the women in the house saw that the woman had gone out with the child, they also got up, found their child, pulled the sleeping child up, and led him out of the door. The effort was not great, the people in the house were gone, Li Zhiyun took a look, fortunately, those children were alive, and there was not a single corpse left on the ground.

The women went into the courtyard and found the temple door open. They did not rush out, but stopped one after another, stood in the courtyard, looked around, and chattered about something. At this time, the women and children in the opposite side hall were also rescued, and a large area of the courtyard stood in the dark.

Li Zhiyun walked to the steps at the entrance of the main hall, faced everyone, and said loudly: "Fellow villagers, you are free, go home quickly!" The woman who walked out of the temple gate first was closest to Li Zhiyun, and she cried and shouted, "Benefactor, thank you!" With that, he knelt down and dragged his two children to their knees. Other women also led the children to their knees, and the adults and children cried together.

These people brought by Li Zhiyun are all tough guys who never blink in the face of knives and guns, and at this moment, in the face of this group of weak and helpless women and children, they can't help but shed tears. Li Zhiyun wiped away his tears with his sleeve and said in a deep nasal voice: "Everyone get up, go home quickly!" Under the repeated urging of Li Zhiyun and others, the women kneeling on the ground stood up one by one, led their children out of the door, and disappeared into the darkness.

Li Zhiyun looked up at the half-round bright moon hanging on the night, and estimated that the fourth would arrive sooner. He ordered the men to put on the enemy's armor, bring their weapons, and immediately march towards the south gate.

Everyone left the Niangniang Temple, went straight to the south gate, and when they arrived at the city gate, they saw a few soldiers standing guard there. When a soldier saw a group of dark shadows walking in front of him, he immediately tightened his weapon vigilantly and shouted, "Who is it?" Li Zhiyun had an idea, and said loudly: "My own people, I came to change the guard." The soldier saw them in armor by the moonlight, and then he let his guard down and said, "Why are you here?" With that, he carried the big gun to his shoulder.

The crowd came to the gate of the city and eliminated the sentries with lightning speed. Li Zhiyun asked people to find the key on the corpse and opened the city gate.

The new army had already arrived outside the city and was preparing to attack, and as soon as they saw the city gate open, they immediately rushed in and occupied the south gate.

After the new army entered the city, according to the plan, it was going to attack the barracks. There are two military camps in the city, one large and one small. Li Zhiyun asked Scarface to lead one battalion to spy on the larger barracks, and he himself led the other three battalions to capture the other barracks.

When I arrived at the front of the barracks, I saw torches burning in front of the gate and several enemy soldiers standing guard. A soldier saw a large group of black shadows shaking in front of him, and immediately shouted a loud question. Without saying a word, the New Army soldiers who were walking in front took up their guns and fired, and after a rain of bullets, the sentries were beaten into a sieve.

The Forces nouvelles soldiers rushed into the barracks with shouts and threw grenades into the barracks through the barracks windows. With the sound of violent explosions, many enemy soldiers were killed in their beds. Some of the enemies ran out of the house naked, and were also killed by the firecrackers. In less than half a burnt of incense, the two thousand enemies in the barracks were wiped out. After cleaning up the battlefield, it was already dawn. As soon as Li Zhiyun gave the order, the new army did not stop and immediately rushed to another military camp.

There were 3,000 enemy troops stationed in this barracks, and they had already been awakened by the explosions in the city, put on their armor, and picked up their weapons, but they could not leave the barracks. Because, the barracks gate was blocked by that battalion of the new army. Moreover, these enemy troops could not figure out what was going on outside, and they did not dare to break out, so it was safer to stay in the barracks.

The new army completely surrounded the barracks. Li Zhiyun saw that there was a large open space in front of the barracks, so he asked Scarface to transfer the artillery barracks. As a result of the manufacture of another batch of red-coated cannons, the artillery battalion was expanded from three companies to four companies, each with eight cannons, for a total of 32 cannons.

The artillery battalion divided the artillery into two columns, lined up, with the muzzles aimed at the enemy's barracks. When I came to Huaixi this time, I had a huge baggage team with the army, which carried sufficient ammunition in addition to carrying grain and grass.

The soldiers in the barracks poked their heads out of the gate, and some soldiers stuck their heads out of the courtyard wall, and they had no idea what these lined wooden wheeled carts were for.

The residents of the city were awakened by the sound of the explosion last night and thought it was thundering in the sky. Many residents opened their doors in the morning to find a strange army walking through the street in front of them, and some of the brave residents were following behind the procession. At this time, a lot of people gathered at the scene, and they didn't know what these wooden wheeled cars were for. People stood from a distance and watched, pointing with their fingers and talking.

Li Zhiyun asked the soldiers of the new army to shout loudly and urge the enemy to surrender, but the soldiers shouted for a long time, and there was no reaction in the barracks. An enemy general stuck his head out of the courtyard wall and shouted: "We will not surrender, if you have the ability, come in!" ”