On the 23rd day of the first lunar month, in the early hours of the morning.

It was still dark.

After an hour and a half of rapid marching, Zhang Cunren and Jin Guochen led their troops to finally arrive at Nantai Fort, an important hub between Haizhouwei and Anshanyi.

At this time, in Nantai Fort, most of the soldiers of the Jin Army had already fallen asleep, only a small number of sentry guards stood guard on the lookout post, and the patrol patrolled on the wall of the fortress.

But since it was early in the morning, the garrison soldiers were a little drowsy.

They did this because there were several temporary sentry posts outside Nantai Fort, which gave them the illusion that Nantai Fort was very safe.

In fact, these posts had already been found by the reconnaissance troops of the Leopard Tao battalion and cleared them one by one.

After using a telescope to reconnoiter Nantai Fort from afar, Zhang Cunren determined that the Jin army had been uprooted and kept in the dark after the sentry inside the fort, and was in a state of defenselessness.

"Minister, you and I are divided into two ways, I will enter from the east gate, and you will enter from the south gate."

Zhang Cunren showed an excited and cold smile on his face, and whispered to Jin Guochen beside him: "After entering the fort, we will kill the west gate together, we don't have to leave our hands, and we will fight quickly!" ”

"Understood." Jin Guochen replied in a low voice.

"Okay, let's split up! When I do it, I will use the sound of arrows as a signal, and as soon as you hear the sound of arrows, you will wave your army to attack! ”

"Yes! General Zhang was more careful. ”

The two of them hugged each other's fists, and each led the leopard Tao battalion to sneak to the east and south gates of Nantai Fort.

The sound of the whirring wind almost completely obscured the footsteps of the soldiers of the Leopard Tao Battalion.

In a short time, Zhang Cunren had already led the troops to sneak less than 200 steps away from the east gate.

"II...... Three...... Four! There are four sentry posts here! ”

Zhang Cunren crouched on the snowy ground, completely ignoring the coldness of his body, carefully observing the movements on both sides of the city gate.

After confirming the number of enemies and no patrols approaching, Zhang Cunren immediately made a gesture:

The enemy is four, without him, shoot it.

The archers who were in charge of shooting the enemy soldiers immediately put down their blades and shields, took out the crossbows behind them, and crawled towards the city gate.

When he reached a position of about fifty or sixty paces, he stopped his advance, took his arrows and wound them, raised his crossbow and aimed at the vital parts of the four Houjin soldiers who were waiting at the sentry.

In the era of the revolution of hot and cold weapons, crossbows are still very useful things. In particular, the hand-held crossbow, which is easy to carry, can form fire suppression in a very short time.

With the sound of an arrow, the shooter releases the crossbow string.

Whoosh ......

Four Houjin soldiers fell in response.

"Kill!"

Zhang Cunren had a shield in his left hand and a short knife in his right hand, and rushed towards Nantai Fort.

Behind him, closely followed by the soldiers of the Leopard Tao battalion.

"Kill!" Shouts of killing also sounded from the south gate of Nantai Fort.

For a while, the originally peaceful Nantai Fort quickly fell into a commotion.

"What's going on?"

Lang Qiu, the guard of Nantai Fort, was awakened by the sound outside the house, and hurriedly put on a padded jacket and walked out of the house.

Then, he was dumbfounded.

As far as the eye can see, the entire Nantai Fort is already in a mess at the moment, and you can see people scurrying around everywhere.

Among them were soldiers of the Houjin Army who were disheveled and did not hold any weapons; There are also enemy soldiers whose origins are unknown.

The shouts of killing and screaming miserable screams are heard one after another.

What's going on here?

Lang Qiu, who had just been woken up and his mind was still blank, did not come back to his senses at all.

"Enemy attack! Adult ......"

A Houjin soldier with crooked armor stumbled up to Lang Qiu and shouted in panic.

"What!"

The cold night breeze has cleared Langqiu's mind a lot.

After listening to the soldier's report, Lang Qiu immediately broke out in a cold sweat and completely returned to normal.

In such a short period of time, it is definitely not the people, but Yang Chengying's soldiers!

However, by the time Lang Qiu first figured it out, the enemy had already killed him.

Like a tiger descending from the mountain, the soldiers of the Leopard Tao Battalion rushed all the way under the leadership of Zhang Cunren.

This is a battlefield where you live and die.

The soldiers of the Leopard Tao Battalion completely forgot about the fatigue caused by the rapid march in the middle of the night, and one by one they looked extremely excited, shouting and waving their blades to slash at the enemy.

"Huh? It looks like there's a big fish! ”

In the process of leading the army to continue to rush and kill in the fort, Zhang Cunren was not carried away by the killing, he kept an eye on the situation around him.

As soon as Lang Qiu appeared from the house, he was noticed by Zhang Cunren, and his intuition told him that this person was not an ordinary person.

In such a critical place, Jianyu would never send ordinary people to guard it.

With a flash of light in his eyes, Zhang Cunren quickly adjusted his direction and went straight to Lang Qiu.

Without Zhang Cunren to say hello, the soldiers behind him automatically followed closely, covering Zhang Cunren's sides and behind.

"My lord, you quickly hide elsewhere, and I will stop the enemy general!"

When the Houjin soldier saw that the enemy was leading his troops to kill here, he hurriedly swung his sword to meet him, trying to block the enemy for Langqiu.

"Little minions, get out of here! Don't get in the way of Lao Tzu arresting people! ”

Zhang Cunren raised his hand and stabbed him, forcing the future people to retreat.

"Don't you think about it!"

Later, although the Jin soldier was numb by Zhang Cunren's powerful knife, he had no idea of retreating.

Zhang Cunren would not let go of the opportunity and stepped forward. The short knife in his hand cut out a cold light in the cold night, like lightning in the sky, which is called a fast.

In the blink of an eye, Zhang Cunren had already rushed over from the soldier's side with a knife, and then pursued Lang Qiu, who was running not far away, without stopping.

Behind Zhang Cunren, the Jin soldier fell to the ground without a sound.

"If you run again, don't blame Lao Tzu for being polite!"

In a moment, Zhang Cunren had already chased after Lang Qiu less than ten steps, and the short knife in his hand was slightly raised.

Lang Qiu is the director of Houjin, and when it comes to martial arts, I am afraid that he cannot be stronger than the elite in the army.

When he was fleeing for his life just now, he inadvertently glanced behind him, and happened to see the scene of his own soldiers being stabbed in two by Zhang Cunren, and he couldn't help but be shocked in his heart.

Seeing that Zhang Cunren was slashing, he quickly chased after him, which scared Lang Qiu very much, and ran desperately.

In a panic, Langqiu didn't notice that there was snow under his feet, and in the depths of the snow, it was frozen again.

He landed just on the ice with one foot and his lower body involuntarily slid forward, but his upper body failed to react. The body immediately lost its center of gravity, "Smack! The ground fell to the ground with a thud.

Zhang Cunren was chasing, and when he saw Lang Qiu sliding by himself, he couldn't help laughing.

But the movement in his hand did not stop, and his right hand swung the knife towards Lang Qiu's neck. cut it directly, so that the command can be directly gone.

"Hugh is going to hurt my general!"

With a loud shout, a large knife suddenly slashed at Zhang Cunren's right arm from the left side.

"Huh?"

Zhang Cunren noticed the danger, withdrew his right hand in time, and quickly took two steps back, widening the distance between him and the person who came to help Langqiu.

"General, let's go!"

Baishan arrived in time at the critical moment when Lang Qiu was about to be killed, and after forcing Zhang Cunren back for the time being, he hurriedly shouted loudly to Lang Qiu.

"It's a big fish!"

Zhang Cunren's eyes flashed, and his heart changed his mind.