Things always go in the worst direction, Lu Shixiang felt that he was unlucky, and when he was helped down by everyone, he stood up unwillingly, and then an arm was on his shoulder.

"You're still in a hurry, Lu Xing'er and they are actually ready, just wait for a while"

It was Wang Yin who spoke, and he was now frowning as the dark clouds pressed down on Hangzhou City.

"It's Lu who is in a hurry, I just didn't expect Zhao Ting's dog thief to be so vicious! All such killing weapons have been used. Lu Shixiang clenched his fists, resentful.

Wang Yin said lightly: "I know that the right envoy Lu wants to reduce the casualties of the Houtu Banner, they sneaked in alone, and it will definitely take too many casualties to take Hangzhou with less than 2,000 troops, but this is also a necessary sacrifice!" ”

The two were talking, when a sergeant came to report that a large number of deserters had appeared in the rebel army, and that 3,000 people had been taken away by the leader of the Nanyan Cottage, and other displaced people had also secretly fled.

"These bandits! Straight sissy thief! If only you killed it in the first place! Lu Shixiang was furious.

Wang Yin shook his head and said: "Forget it, now our morale is not high, I have also thought of this situation, we don't have many troops available at the moment, my God Sect has eight thousand five banner troops, and five thousand were taken away by King Fang, and now there are only three thousand left, plus 10,000 people from the Qingxi uprising, the others are not enough, it is good to run away some, and you can save food." ”

"Wang Zuo, the three thousand Five Banner Army is the elite of my teaching, but after all, there are few people, most of the Flame Banner and Ruijin Banner have been taken away by King Fang, although there are 10,000 general altar soldiers in Qingxi, but there is no training like the Five Banner Army, I think it is still unusable."

"Hehehe! ......" Wang Yin smiled and said, "Haven't you forgotten that we still have a strange army of 2,000 people in our hands, so what's useless?" Wang Yin's smile was weird.

"Ahh Lu Shixiang was shocked: "Do you want to use that team?" ”

Wang Yin nodded, "That's right, it's useless to keep your hands now, we must take Hangzhou before King Fang arrives"

Lu Shixiang frowned and nodded slowly......

The subordinates reported it, and the thick soil flag made Lu Xing'er ask to see him.

"Quick!"

A thin man walked into the big tent, "Lu Xing'er saw the two envoys of light. ”

Lu Xing'er is the leader of the Mingjiao Five Elements Banner and the Houtu Banner, and he belongs to the sect and does not belong to the army, so he only calls Wang and Lu the Mingjiao positions, and Lu Xinger has no position in the army.

Mingjiao is more strange at this point, the religion respects the Ming Jun as the Ming Zun, the church is more mixed, many soldiers, merchants, peddlers, pawns, fallen scribes, petty officials, and even green forest heroes can join the religion, but the real core is a few special people, east, west, north and south, Tiani and others are assistant teachers, left and right light envoys, subordinate five elements of the flag to hold the flag, most of them are called scattered people, scattered people can be set up in other states and counties in the country after meritorious service, called the altar master, now the Ming Sect leader Fang La raised troops, set up six imperial courts, build an army, However, the main generals in the army must also be selected from among the scattered people.

Although Lu Shixiang, Wang Yin and others are the left and right light envoys, but Lu Shixiang commanded the army to fight, in addition to the privy envoy, he was also awarded a military position, called Ming Zun recruited the right generalissimo, Fang La proclaimed himself the left generalissimo, and Zhu Yan Yu Ruijin made Fang Qifo divided into left and right vanguard officers, but the Five Banners Army under his command was not an army, but a martial arts team of the Mingjiao Nursing Academy.

"—You said you're ready? This is true," Lu Shixiang said to Lu Xing'er.

"Exactly!" Lu Xing'er bowed and said, "It took three days for the subordinates to open the tunnel, and now the exit is behind the garrison of the South Gate Urn City, just waiting for the right envoy to order, Zhong Shiyang's deputy envoy has already led his subordinates to ambush where." ”

"Good! Good, very good! Lu Shixiang stroked his palms and laughed, and then frowned again: "Although the Houtu Banner Sect is brave, but after all, you are too few in number, I am very ...... but I am very good" turned his head to look at Wang Yin.

Wang Yin smiled and said: "Send those 2,000 people to them, they must be in place tonight, and if they attack early tomorrow morning, they will definitely take Hangzhou." He raised his head and looked in the direction of Hangzhou City, saw the muffled thunder, and the lightning that kept stretching out said slowly: "Thunderstorm, okay, God really help me, let the rear camp light the cannon ...... when the time comes."

……

The secret agreement of the demon rebels has been decided, but Xiao Ming and they don't know that just after winning the battle, the rebels retreated like a tide, and all the soldiers defending the city suddenly collapsed on the ground, and a large number of people came up to clean up the corpses, treat the wounded, and then set fire to the ladder.

This time, a lot of arrows and other things in the city were consumed, the crossbow arrows of the Black God Crossbow were almost used up, and other things also needed to be replenished, all of which were commanded and handled by Yang Zhen, while Zhao Ting, Chen Luzhang, Chen Jian, Zhao Yue and others were elated, and when they saw that the rebels were vulnerable, they were relieved and returned home one after another.

Zhao Tingyan said that tonight's feast was celebrated, everyone dispersed, just waiting for the evening to drink, only Yang Zhen and Wang Tong were worried, the thieves attacked the city for a day, the Song army defending the city suffered seven or eight hundred casualties, and the people were more than 1,000 dead and wounded, and now the Song army defending the city is less than 5,000 people, and the demon rebels are defeated but still have tens of thousands of horses, if they come to attack tomorrow, Hangzhou City will be dangerous.

Arrows need to be replenished, gunpowder must be rainproof, this thing didn't expect to be so powerful, today's powder keg is like a super thunderbolt earthquake thunder, Yang Zhen really regretted it, he only transformed more than a hundred barrels according to Xiao Ming's requirements, and there will not be many gunpowder kegs in the battle tomorrow, I don't know if the gunpowder keg that Gu's refinery helped to transform can be transported over.

For this reason, Yang Zhen found Xiao Ming, told the matter of the exhaustion of crossbow arrows, casually mentioned today's grenade, I don't know if Xiao Ming went back to make a batch of crossbow arrows overnight, and it is best to send the powder keg made by the refinery to send over, Yang Zhen really has high hopes for this thing now, when those gunpowder kegs exploded, even he was startled, it was simply shaking the ground! And the results are amazing, it's a big killer!

Xiao Ming knew that the matter was urgent, so he immediately left, he instructed Luo Wen to leave three hundred tiger guards to assist Yang Zhen in defending the city, and he took the remaining tiger guards to return to the iron factory immediately, anyway, staying will not help for the time being, I don't know if I will invite myself to the celebration banquet tonight, as a small officer, it is estimated that he has no share, if he wants to invite the squire of Shijia, maybe he will be invited.

To tell the truth, Xiao Ming didn't want to participate in any celebration banquet, the prefect's virtue has been seen today, as soon as the city is difficult to protect, the thieves attack the city wall, this Lord Zhao will run away, once the rebels are repulsed, he will run back and stand on the city tower triumphantly.

There is also that Chen Luzhang, as a garrison envoy, he was originally a guard in Hangzhou, but Chen Luzhang was a civil official, this guy was purely having fun on the city tower, and when the powder keg grenade exploded, Xiao Ming obviously saw Chen Luzhang peeing his pants.

Xiao Ming went all the way back to the iron refinery, and fell asleep after arranging the work, these two days were enough for him to work hard, not that he was physically tired, on the contrary, Xiao Ming felt full of energy, but his mental state was too nervous, he needed to take a rest, and when he returned to the room, Xiao Ming used a golden needle to pull out the poison for himself, in recent times, he has rarely pulled out poison for himself, he always feels that the changes in his body, more than half of the benefits come from the fire poison, counting, the medicine that Gou Juling injected himself, it cannot be said that there is no benefit at all.

After receiving the golden needle, Xiao Ming fell asleep, this sleep was not solid at all, Xiao Ming was still the same as before, dreaming of those hellish monsters - those blood-red eyes, torn skin and a mouth full of fangs, thousands of countless monsters rushed towards Xiao Ming...... Xiao Ming woke up suddenly.

Stabilized his mind, Xiao Ming wiped the sweat off his forehead, drank some water, Xiao Ming got up and opened the door, the sky was still not bright, what time it was, he didn't know, but according to the hour, it seemed to be the hour, the sky was about to dawn, when he came back yesterday, Xiao Ming instructed the following, if the prefect came to invite him to the celebration banquet, he would shirk it for him, he was still very worried about the city defense, in addition to these, Xiao Ming was also very concerned about the Chengxi Iron Factory, where the guards were still relatively weak, and more people should be dispatched.

There are still many things to worry about, Xiao Ming can't sleep anymore, so he dresses and goes out, and as soon as he walks out of the door, he sees Bai San and Gu Xiaoliu standing anxiously at the door, thinking that there is something to report, but he is afraid of disturbing Xiao Ming's sleep.

"Well, what's important?" Xiao Ming asked.

Gu Xiaoliu arched his hand and said, "Archdeacon, the arrow we built overnight had an accident when it was sent to Nancheng. ”

"Oh? What's wrong? You speak slowly. ”

"Yes, the fifty brothers of the Tiger Guard Battalion were intercepted and killed when they were carrying arrows to the south gate with their craftsmen...... It's ......"

Gu Xiaoliu Ai Ai didn't seem to be able to speak, and his eyes turned to look at Bai San.

"What is it? Say it. Xiao Ming ordered.

Bai San said, "The people who came back said that it was a group of evil ghosts who attacked them!" ”

"What? What evil spirits? Sling the bull! Xiao Ming said angrily, "How can there be ghosts in this world!" ”

Gu Xiaoliu said: "The villain doesn't believe it either, but the craftsman said that he saw the evil ghost eating people with his own eyes......"

Xiao Ming settled down, and said secretly in his heart: "Don't you know what's wrong?" The ancients did not understand science and were very fearful of ghosts and gods, so it is no wonder that they were. So he asked, "When did it happen?" ”

"Yinshi, we wanted to wake you up, but Bai San said...... Said to let you sleep a little longer"

The things of ghosts and gods can be big or small, this matter must not be sloppy, it is not good, it affects morale very much, and the ghosts appear at the south gate, if the soldiers guarding the city are scared away, this Hangzhou city will not be guarded, Xiao Ming immediately took people to investigate, found those craftsmen who fled back, Xiao Ming asked in detail.

The matter is actually not complicated, the team transporting the arrow powder barrel was attacked near the garrison at the south gate, fifty tiger guards were wiped out, the craftsmen and coachmen were also damaged, things were robbed, according to the craftsman's description, the group of ghosts, black cloth wrapped in head, blood-red eyes, full of fangs, some of them were festering, some were huge, and invulnerable, under the claws of the sword, many people were in different places, and the group of ghosts also ate people, the craftsman saw a ghost grab people's arms and bite!

After appeasing the craftsman, Xiao Ming was shocked in his heart, the craftsman's description was exactly the same as what he saw in his dream, could it be that the Demon Sect was playing tricks? Thinking of this, Xiao Ming immediately led people to the Tiger Guard Camp of the Xicheng Iron Factory, if it was really a trick of the Demon Sect, it must be solved immediately by relying on strong force, otherwise this group of ghost soldiers would make trouble in the city, and Hangzhou City would definitely not be protected!

Without further ado, Xiao Ming took Gu Xiaoliu and Bai San, the three of them lit torches and lanterns, called the coachman, and immediately drove to the west of the city, the sky was getting darker and darker, and it was already dark clouds, plus it was the darkest time before dawn, the air was extremely dull, it rained a little in the first half of the night, and now it stopped again, and the water on the ground was splashed high by the speeding wheels......

With a sharp neighing sound, the two healthy horses of Xiao Ming's carriage suddenly fell to the ground screaming, and the first two legs of the galloping horse were suddenly broken, and the inertia lifted the carriage directly and smashed heavily on the injured horse, and the two horses were immediately crushed to death, and the horse's blood mixed with muddy water flowed all over the ground.

The seismic performance of the carriage could not prevent such a large impact force, and the carriage that fell crooked to the side basically fell apart, and then, more than a dozen figures flashed out from the shadows, slowly approaching the carriage......