When Sanssouci Cave fell, the battle on the side of the Ghost Fan Tower had actually just entered the white heat.

Compared with the terrain disadvantage of Sanssouci Cave, the location of the Ghost Fan Tower is deeper, and the officers and soldiers forcibly rushed into it, even if there was a location that should provide a secret outpost, it was still discovered in advance because it was too long to go deep.

Moreover, in terms of numbers, Sanssouci Cave is more dispersed, because Sanssouci Cave has a greater power underground, so a large number of chapters have been formed, and each branch has hundreds of people.

In this way, with the addition of five or six thousand people in the headquarters, there are more than 10,000 members in the entire Sanssouci Cave, which is stronger than the Ghost Fan Lou among the underground forces.

The number of people in the Ghost Fan Tower is relatively small, mainly because their territory is more on the ground, so Bianliang launched a war to sweep away the underworld and eliminate evil, and their strength suffered the greatest losses, at least thousands of people were captured.

But it was also the damage to the power above, which caused a large number of people to move underground, making the current number of people in the Ghost Fan Building Headquarters one or two thousand more than the number of people in the Sanssouci Cave Headquarters.

There are still seven of the twelve helmsmen of the Ghost Fan Tower, and under the leadership of the left and right whips, the left and right swords, and the left and right sticks, they are barely united to resist foreign enemies.

Although there are some internal disputes these days, fortunately, the Ghost Fan Tower has a large power on the ground, and a large number of materials were transferred in the early stage, so although there are many people and consumption, it can still be supported, and there is no large-scale civil strife.

When the government suddenly attacked, a sharp whistle sounded throughout the cave. Many people in the cave woke up one after another, grabbed their knives one by one, and rushed to the outside of the cave to scan the situation.

"The government has killed you."

"Don't mess up, don't mess up, gather now."

"Quick, blow the whistle."

In the wooden houses and caves of the ghost market below the ghost fan building, I don't know how many people are rubbing out.

All kinds of whistles are constantly heard.

Outside the second floor of the Ghost Fan Tower, the top floor of the cave, a middle-aged tall man with Ning Shuojun engraved on his face walked out and looked down with the left whip of the Ghost Fan Tower.

This person is the right palm whip of the ghost fan building, called Ma Zhiwu, is a close confidant of the owner of the building, Ning Shuo was born in the army, and has a certain sense of military rank.

In addition to guarding the capital, Bianliang also has a forbidden army stationed on the periphery of the capital to defend Tokyo.

There are mainly 21 battalions of Gongsheng Army, 23 battalions of Xiao cavalry, 5 battalions of Xiao Sheng, 10 battalions of Ningshuo army, 8 battalions of Long Meng, 2 battalions of Feimeng army, 4 battalions of Xiao Meng, 4 battalions of Xiaoxiong army, 18 battalions of Shencai Army, 4 battalions of Qingshuo army, 5 battalions of capture army, and 6 battalions of infantry fighting army.

These forbidden armies consisted of 500 men per battalion, numbering 55,000 men, and were managed by commanders, not generals.

Di Qing was arrested by the government and put in prison because of a conflict with the villagers earlier, and his household registration was cancelled, and he was assigned to the Beijing division to fill the army, which became a pawn in the Gongsheng Army.

Later, because he was proficient in horseback shooting and outstanding performance, he was selected into the Imperial Horse Straight to become a cavalryman, and then served as the leader of the scattered squad, and now he was promoted to the commander of the Imperial Horse Straight Division, in charge of a battalion of soldiers, responsible for protecting Zhao Jun's safety.

This time, Zhao Jun encircled and suppressed the Bianliang underground, and Di Qing led his battalion of soldiers to kill them.

The Ning Shuo army belongs to the peripheral forbidden army, because the ghost fan building forces are mostly on the ground, and they need to be brave and ruthless, so they have absorbed a lot of people from the peripheral forbidden army, and they have a little more combat effectiveness than the Sanssouci Cave.

At this moment, there was chaos below, Ma Zhiwu kept whistling, and gradually the nearby people and horses came closer, forming a small military formation around him.

"Let's go!"

Ma Zhiwu shouted, and personally led the men and horses down.

At this time, the officers and soldiers had already killed the outer beach, and the peripheral personnel who originally lived on the outer beach could not stop it at all, and fled inside one after another.

Compared with the terrain that is close to the outlet of the Cai River water channel, it is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the Guifan Tower is closer to the Bianhe River, which is far away from the outlet of the Bianhe River, but it is easy to attack and difficult to defend.

The main reason is that the entrance to the outer edge of Sanssouci Cave is very narrow, and if Sanssouci Cave is a little more vigilant and finds the enemy in advance, it is easy to defend from a high position.

The entrance of the cave of the Ghost Fan Tower is relatively open, and the periphery is a river beach, and then through the river beach and then go inside, you can reach the headquarters of the Ghost Fan Tower, which is not a condescending terrain, but a relatively flat gentle slope.

So when it really fought, the ghost fan tower still didn't have much advantage in terms of terrain.

But no matter what, you still have to fight.

Otherwise, years of hard work will be wasted, and everyone will want to give it a go.

Ma Zhiwu led the men and horses of his headquarters down to the market, and then kept giving orders, gathered a large number of thugs, and ambushed them at the entrance.

At the same time, Jiang Dalang followed Huang Fatzi to hide on a gentle slope in the north.

Huang Fatzi suffered heavy losses this time, and he brought down no more than 100 people, and there were only 20 or 30 core personnel, who have been bullied these days.

If it weren't for the combat power of Jiang Dalang, I am afraid that his position as the helmsman would not be guaranteed.

"Big brother, aren't we going to war?"

Jiang Dalang still had a red scarf in his arms, but now was not the time, because his target was not the fat man, but Ma Zhiwu in the distance below.

Only by assassinating Ma Zhiwu will the resistance of the Ghost Fan Tower collapse instantly, and the officers and soldiers will naturally be able to easily kill them.

So he didn't want to stay here, but wanted to go down to see if he could get along with Ma Zhiwu.

Unexpectedly, Huang Fat Man was afraid of death, shook his head and said: "We have few people, so we won't join in this excitement, there is a dark passage in the north, and I will follow me later." ”

A cronie hesitated: "We are already in a weak position in the building now, if we flee without a fight, in case they defeat the officers and soldiers, we will be liquidated afterwards."

"Hmm"

Huang Fatzi felt that it made sense, so he said, "Then let's wait and see the situation here first." ”

Jiang Dalang was helpless.

But there was nothing he could do, so he had to wait patiently and watch below.

At this moment, the officers and soldiers had already rushed to the outer river beach, and were going straight to the hinterland of the Guifan Tower along the passage, and one by one the torches were shining, and they could almost see the reflection of the flames on the passage outside.

"Kill!"

"Those who surrender will not die."

"Those who resist will be killed!"

Officers and soldiers with spears in their hands drove the perimeter personnel to rush inside.

Ma Zhiwu frowned in the rear, the other party obviously intended to use their peripheral personnel to disperse the military formation inside them.

But after a moment he soothed his brow and whispered, "Set fire!" ”

"Quick, set fire!"

The people next to him immediately shouted.

The order was given, and a large amount of hay was thrown at the entrance of the passage.

Immediately after that, the fire broke and ignited the straw, and the fire burst into flames.

The passage was already long, although there were several roads leading to it, and several entrances could directly reach the Ghost Fan Tower, but the people who couldn't stand the Ghost Fan Tower had already set the fire on fire.

When the perimeter personnel had run for three or four miles, and when they finally arrived, the raging flames mixed with billowing smoke made them feel terrible.

"Straight lady thief, you brutes, you betrayed us like this."

"Damn, there is fire in front, there are pursuers in the back, and death is certain."

"Jump into the canal."

Someone shouted.

In fact, this passage still follows the previous water channel, with passages on both sides and canals in the middle.

Jumping into the canal water can also swim into the ghost fan tower, because the flames only block the passage mouth, but the canal mouth cannot be blocked.

But how could he run over the shore by jumping into the water, and soon a large number of people behind were stabbed to death with spears by the soldiers pursuing from the corridors on both sides of the passage, and they screamed again and again for a while.

"Commander, they block the way with fire!"

The person in charge of the front line here is Di Qing and another commander, plus the people of the Yamen, there are about 4,000 people, and the front is Di Qing's elite army of Yulongzhi.

Knowing that the other party actually burned with fire, the young Di Qing said without hesitation: "The shield man goes ahead, the crossbowman is behind the shield player, first bow the crossbow to open the way to prevent them from continuing to add fire inside, and the rest of the people go outside to find a bucket, drive the boat over, and scoop water to extinguish the fire." ”

There are about seven or eight passages, which connect to the canals outside, and there are large shantytowns on the river beach, which are the residences of the peripheral people, and there is no shortage of daily necessities such as buckets.

Although it is also possible to wait until the other party's fire goes out.

But there are a lot of escape routes in the Ghost Fan Tower, and if they use the flames to stop everyone from pursuing and divert people and money, it will inevitably make the operation fail.

So Di Qing immediately chose to attack.

Countless crossbow arrows rained down in the flames, shooting the people of the Ghost Fan Tower, who had originally gone to throw straw, into a mouse.

Immediately after that, dozens of small boats rowed over, and the soldiers on the boat first jumped into the river to wet themselves, and then got on the boat and approached not far from the flames, and began to splash water at a distance of about three or five meters.

In an instant, the flames were much smaller.

Ma Zhiwu on the slope in the distance frowned, he suffered a loss because he was not equipped.

The forbidden army is fully armed, with armor, shields, bows and crossbows costing hundreds of times, not to mention armor, leather armor is not available, only a few elite cronies have forbidden army equipment.

More important is the bow and crossbow.

If they had crossbows, the terrain wouldn't be bad.

It's a pity that the weapons and equipment of the forbidden army do circulate on the black market, but there are not many of them, and there are so many gangsters in Bianliang, and there are only tens of thousands of pairs when they are divided, which is not enough at all.

Ma Zhiwu knew that people had shields, and his more than 200 crossbows were estimated to be useless, so he could only sigh and say, "Retreat to the slope." ”

"Quick, retreat."

"Let's go."

"Go up there first."

The people of the ghost fan tower evacuated one after another.

What followed was a tough battle, and in the dark, both sides had to fight with torches.

Soon the officers and soldiers were killed, seven or eight passages, the commanders of the battalions gave the order to charge, and more than a thousand heavily armed soldiers poured up.

They were followed by a large number of Kaifeng Mansion officials, and almost at the moment when the soldiers rushed out, more than 200 crossbowmen arranged by Ma Zhiwu on the right slope immediately fired, and hundreds of crossbow arrows shot out in an instant.

Ma Zhiwu actually wanted to use these bows and crossbows as killer weapons for critical moments, but he was afraid that the men and horses in front of him would encounter the regular army and collapse directly.

At that time, the people of the Ghost Fan Tower will collapse at the touch of a button, and they will directly roll out and bring them down.

Therefore, it is necessary to use a bow and crossbow to fight a wave to temporarily block the opponent's attack, and then readjust the formation.

"Woohoo!"

A large number of crossbow arrows arced through the air and landed into the pile of Praetorian Guards who had just rushed in, making a "clanging" sound.

Some of them were shot at the rock walls of the passage, some were shot at the ground, and most of them were shot at the shields or armor of the Praetorian Guards, and the crossbow arrows collided with the iron armor, and some of them sparked metal.

"They have crossbows?"

Di Qing and another commander, as well as three Kaifeng Prefecture judicial and Silu soldiers, looked at each other.

Bows and crossbows are forbidden items, and they actually appeared in the hands of gangsters.

But several people were silent.

Everyone knows that the forbidden army is quite bad, and the ordnance in it is often resold.

Liu Yuanyu is still in prison, and one of the charges is to resell prohibited items such as armaments, in addition to embezzlement and perversion of the law.

Therefore, the fact that the people of Ghost Fan Lou have so many bows and crossbows can only be said to be unexpected, which is reasonable.

"Commander Di, you can dispatch this battle."

The commander said.

He knew that Di Qing was Zhao Jun's cronies, so he naturally took him as the first to follow.

Di Qing glanced at the situation, the soldiers' attack was blocked by the bow and crossbow, and the momentum stagnated, and there was no previous offensive.

Although the opponent is not on a particularly high ground, there are still some high slopes on both sides, which may be only half a zhang high, and it will still pose a great threat to their strong attack.

The Praetorian Guards are fine, mainly the officials in the back. They don't have armor, they have to be shot by crossbow arrows.

After thinking for a while, Di Qing issued an order: "The forbidden army lists the formation to attract them to the front army, you look at the slope on the right, can the people of Kaifeng Mansion rush to the bottom of the slope?" ”

A judicial officer took one look at it and said in a low voice, "If you don't bring a torch, you may be able to rush over." ”

"Okay, I'll personally lead the team, and the main force will attack, and I'll kill from the side."

Di Qing said.

As he said that, he waved his hand, and Li Yi and Liu Qing beside him, plus several teams of officials from Kaifeng Mansion, threw away the torches and touched the flanks.

Ma Zhiwu above was still commanding the people in front to fight with the forbidden army, and the two sides fought quickly and together.

As soon as the scuffle began, the crossbowmen began to shoot at the officers in the rear.

But the Praetorian guards were not vegetarians, they also had crossbowmen, and there were more than the enemy, and under the cover of the shieldmen, more than three hundred crossbowmen fired at the rear of the Guifan Tower.

Originally, the narrow tunnel was not suitable for shooting, but it couldn't stand the ghost fan tower had already run this place into an underground city, and the surrounding terrain was relatively open, which could accommodate tens of thousands of people, so except that the vision was too dark and could only be illuminated with torches, there was no difference from the outside.

The main reason is that the Bianliang underground is actually more exaggerated than people think.

Since the beginning of the Warring States Period, complex underground waterways have been built here, and according to later archaeological excavations, there are also buried cities in the Warring States, Han Dynasty, and Northern and Southern Dynasties under Bianliang, and the upper city was newly built after the establishment of the Tang Dynasty and the Song Dynasty.

So there's really a city buried underneath.

The two sides fought together, shouting and killing, roaring, roaring, wailing and screaming, and the sound of thumping weapons clashing did not stop.

But in fact, the people of Ghost Fan Lou have been a little unable to hold on, after all, they are just vicious criminals, and there is still a big difference between them and the well-trained regular army, not to mention that the equipment of both sides is not of the same level, and they lost a lot of men and horses at the first meeting.

The only thing that kept them from collapsing immediately was the support of the bow and crossbow and Ma Zhiwu's fairly decent command.

But it didn't take long for that to change.

As Di Qing and about forty or fifty of them threw away the torches, they took advantage of the chaos to touch the gentle slope on the right, and in the cooperation of everyone, Di Qing was the first to rush to the gentle slope and rushed into the group of crossbowmen.

In a moment, a scream rang out, and the crossbowmen's camp was in chaos. Many people threw down their bows and crossbows and fled, and the battle situation showed a trend of reversal in an instant.

Seeing this scene, Ma Zhiwu knew that it was over, so he did not hesitate, simply threw down the troops behind him and fled with his cronies.

The fat yellow man who was watching from above saw that he only lasted less than half an hour before he collapsed, so he sweated profusely and said, "It's over, let's go!" ”

As he spoke, he turned around and ran.

Jiang Dalang frowned, he didn't want to entangle with Huang Fat Man and them now, once he made a move, it would just get rid of a helmsman.

His target must at least be Ma Zhiwu and that Scarface's left whip.

So he didn't make a move, but patted the brothers behind him, motioned for them to follow him, and took advantage of the chaos to break away from the group and go to another passage.

(End of chapter)