Chapter 124 Tianguan City was attacked in the middle of the night, and Zhuang Xiaowei visited Pang Mansion at night

That night, dark clouds covered the moon, and the sky was gloomy and obscure, with almost no starlight.

In the middle of the night, the entire Qixiu Mountain was shrouded in darkness, and only the lights of Tianguan City flickered sparsely.

The autumn wind blows through the mountains, and there is a rustling of leaves, which not only makes people feel that it is not noisy at all, but very peaceful.

At this moment, on the narrow city wall, a ballista and a small trebuchet are under the reflection of the torches, showing a hideous posture, next to the neatly stacked saltpeter wood, crossbow arrows and stone bullets, and dense fortifications will arm Tianguan City to the teeth, which is also an important guarantee that Tianguan City has never been conquered since it was built.

On the city wall, the soldiers who were responsible for guarding the city were five steps, one post, ten steps and one sentry, and gathered in groups of three or five.

Being in the middle of the mountain, on top of the high wall, blown by the cold night breeze, there was really a trace of coolness, but with this cool breeze to wake up, the soldiers defending the city were not sleepy.

The night was dark, and there was nothing to see under the city, and when you listened closely, you could only hear the sound of leaves. However, the absolute confidence in Tianguan City made the soldiers defending the city not have the slightest worry.

When they had nothing to do, the soldiers gathered together and chatted.

"Chen Ergou, have you heard of it? It is rumored that not long ago, a major incident occurred in the capital, Cheng Younian of the Zhaowu Battalion led troops to rebel, and was beheaded by Yuwen Junxun and Yang Yunxiu. ”

The national funeral of Generalissimo Hong Hui has spread all over the world and everyone knows about it. However, after all, there are many secrets involved in the imperial court and the dignity of the national body, so the official documents issued by the imperial court generally separate Hong Hui's national funeral and the rebellion in the capital. In this way, except for generals who have reached a certain level, few people can know the details of the rebellion in the capital in detail. These low-level soldiers were only hearsay, and they often exaggerated these unsubstantiated rumors as talking points, so as to show that they were well-informed and satisfy their own petty vanity.

"Li Heiniu, who did you listen to? It seems that your news is not well-informed! Obviously, Yuwen Junxun left the fiefdom privately and wanted to compete with Cheng Younian for the handsome position, but Yuwen Junxun secretly bought Yang Yunxiu, and the two worked together to encircle and suppress the Zhaowu camp, Cheng Younian was unwilling to be humiliated, drew his sword and killed himself, how did he become beheaded?"

Li Heiniu was refuted by Chen Ergou for a while, and the people around him looked at him with a little suspicion, which made him feel very unhappy, and he glared at him and argued: "How is it possible? I learned this news from the military envoy from the capital, and the people in the capital all saw Cheng Younian's beheading with their own eyes, can this be fake? On the contrary, what you said is nonsense, right?"

Chen Ergou was stunned when he heard this, but he didn't refute it.

Li Heiniu thought that he had been refuted by himself, and suddenly showed a somewhat smug look.

Chen Ergou was silent for a moment, and suddenly asked suspiciously: "The military envoy from Beijing you said is the eldest brother of Wang Ruiwang, who came to pass on the gongwen a few days ago?"

Li Heiniu nodded: "What? Aren't you still giving up? Since you know that it was Brother Wang who said it, what questions do you have? I invited him to eat a pot of white dry when I was on duty, can this be fake?"

Chen Ergou snorted fiercely, and scolded in his mouth: "This rotten Wang Rui! deceived Lao Tzu of five catties of bacon, and his daring is all rumor-mongering! The news of Lao Tzu was also told to me by this turtle grandson!"

"What?" Li Heiniu listened,

I was dumbfounded.

He and Chen Ergou glanced at each other, and invariably began to scold that Wang Rui.

The surrounding sergeants couldn't help but let out a cackling laugh, and one of them laughed and laughed and suddenly fell to the ground with a plop on his stomach.

The companions on the side couldn't help but shout when they saw it......: "Zhao Si, is it so funny?

At this point, his words came to an abrupt end, and a look of horror appeared on his face.

I saw that an arrow feather on Zhao Si's lower abdomen trembled slightly, and under him, blood was dripping and it had soaked the ground.

At the same time, there was a buzzing sound of sharp objects breaking through the sky in the dark night sky, followed by a terrible roar that resounded through the city wall: "Enemy attack ~ ~ ~"

In the next second, the entire city wall was covered by thousands of sharp arrows, and the Southern Qi soldiers on duty on the city wall were defenseless, and they were immediately killed and wounded.

After a full half a moment, the arrow feathers gradually stopped, and the Tianguan city wall was already full of corpses.

After another half a full hour, the messenger drum at the head of the city was heavily beaten by the lucky Nanqi soldiers, and at this time, there were already groups of attackers who climbed the walls of Tianguan City with the help of hooks, and in the reflection of torches, countless shiny sabers were waving, and the attackers and the remaining Nanqi soldiers slammed together.

At the same time, at the city gate, a huge crashing sound slammed into everyone's hearts, it was the sound of the battering ram hitting the city gate!

The gates of the city were attacked, and the walls were plunged into a bitter battle.

On the streets and alleys of Tianguan City, the bright light of torches illuminated the walls on both sides of the alleys, and groups of heavily armed night patrol soldiers of the Southern Qi Dynasty staggered past from time to time, and they immediately went to support in the direction of the city wall.

However, after all, the army patrolling the night was only a minority, and the main force left in the Tianguan City camp had not yet received the military order to set off, and none of the main generals of the three major battalions of Tianguan City appeared.

In the iron battalion, Zhuang Xiaowei, the deputy general on duty, was very anxious, and as soon as he heard the sound of drums in the city, Zhuang Xiaowei ordered the soldiers of the whole battalion to be ready to go, and at the same time, he also sent the sergeants to report to the mansion of the general and the chief general, but until this moment, not only the military order of the general has not been issued, but the main general Pang Biao has not appeared, and even the military envoy who went to report the news has not returned.

Listening to Nancheng's shouting and killing, the situation was already extremely critical, Zhuang Xiaowei gritted his teeth and decided not to wait any longer, he stepped on horseback and issued an order to the iron battalion: "The whole battalion listens to the order, and immediately gallops to the aid of Nancheng!"

"General Zhuang, the military orders of General Zhao and General Pang have not yet been issued! If you do this, you will be held accountable!" one of his generals kindly reminded.

Zhuang Xiaowei said sharply: "The city gate has been attacked, the situation is critical, we can't control so much, let's set off immediately! When something happens, I will naturally be fully responsible!"

The main general is not there, and the deputy general is naturally the supreme commander, since Zhuang Xiaowei has repeatedly insisted, the soldiers and horses of the iron battalion immediately took the order and set off.

But halfway through, Zhuang Xiaowei unexpectedly found that only the Tiezi Battalion was heading to the front line among the three battalions, but he did not see the soldiers and horses of the other two battalions. This suddenly made Zhuang Xiaowei puzzled.

There are three armies in Tianguan City, namely the Iron Battalion, the Zhongzi Battalion and the Kuizi Battalion, each battalion has 3,000 soldiers and horses, plus the soldiers and horses in charge of logistics, there are more than 12,000 people, each of the three battalions has a main general, two deputy generals, responsible for the military defense of the camp, and above the three main generals, it is Zhao Yingzhi, the general leader of Tianguan City. The commander-in-chief and the three main generals and the deputy generals all have their own

, but the two lieutenants will take turns to be on duty in the barracks in case there is an emergency, and there is no one in charge of the army.

On weekdays, Zhao Yingzhi is naturally the best candidate to command the whole city, but in the event of emergency defense, without the order of the commander-in-chief, the commanders of the three battalions have the right to issue general orders independently.

Now that the attack on Guancheng is today, this is already an extremely urgent situation, and it stands to reason that the commander of the third battalion should issue an order to support the front line as soon as possible. Pang Biao of the Iron Battalion did not show up, which can be attributed to an accident, but there was no movement in the three battalions, which is a bit strange.

Zhuang Xiaowei was suspicious, and a faint uneasiness hit his heart. He suddenly reined in his war horse, turned his head to one of the generals beside him and said, "Ancestor, you first command the Iron Battalion to support the city gate, and I will go to General Pang's Mansion for a walk, and I will be back in a moment!"

Zu Wei is the general who reminded Zhuang Xiaowei before, and this person is Zhuang Xiaowei's confidant. He only said that this was a compromise method that Zhuang Xiaowei came up with for fear of being questioned afterwards, and he didn't ask much at the moment, and obeyed the order to continue to lead the army instead of Zhuang Xiaowei.

As soon as Zu Wei left, Zhuang Xiaowei also led a team of people to set off and went straight to the direction of Pang Biao's mansion.

Pang Biao's mansion is not far from the camp of the Iron Battalion, which is also convenient for him to rush to the camp in time in case of emergency.

The military situation was urgent, Zhuang Xiaowei did not dare to delay at all, and galloped all the way with the soldiers and horses.

A few meters away from the door of the mansion, Zhuang Xiaowei had already jumped off the horse, threw the reins to the relatives on the side, and stepped forward to pull up the knocker is a fierce beat. At this moment, he was in a hurry, and he couldn't care about many courtesies.

However, even though Zhuang Xiaowei banged on the door, there was no movement in the house. Zhuang Xiaowei suddenly felt that something was wrong, he stretched out his hand, and the soldiers under him immediately rushed forward.

The soldiers and horses that came with him were all his cronies, and he was the only one who looked at the horse. Zhuang Xiaowei turned his head and made a look, and everyone drew their swords out of their sheaths.

Zhuang Xiaowei took a step back, drew his sword in his hand, and raised a heavy kick on the door panel. His cultivation is not bad, and he already has the top grade in the Qianyuan Realm, and this foot makes enough strength, no less than a hundred catties. The bolt behind the door was immediately broken in two, and the door clanged and the door opened.

Zhuang Xiaowei took the lead with a sword and led his soldiers to rush into the Pang Mansion.

However, there was such a big movement at the door, and there was still no reaction in the house, Zhuang Xiaowei shouted, "Come with me!" and led the troops straight to the backyard.

As soon as he entered the backyard, Zhuang Xiaowei was shocked, only to see that in the backyard, the bodies of seven or eight soldiers and servants were lying on the ground, but there were no obvious traces of blood. Zhuang Xiaowei waved his hand, and his soldiers immediately stepped forward to investigate, and at the same time, everyone scattered around to guard the surroundings.

Zhuang Xiaowei's face was gloomy, he had already expected the reason why Pang Biao had not appeared.

"General, there are no wounds on the body, and the body temperature is still alive, it should have just died. ”

"Search for me!" Zhuang Xiaowei immediately ordered when he heard this, and rushed to the room with everyone, the corpse was still warm, and it was very likely that the assassin had not gone far!

At the moment when everyone was about to rush into the room, a hoarse laugh suddenly resounded in the courtyard, and with a loud "bang", a rickety figure broke through the roof and jumped towards the outside of the courtyard.

Zhuang Xiaowei followed the sound, not knowing if it was an illusion, he saw several gray fireflies flying around the other party, shining.