At this time, I could only hear the general on the tower of the city shouting: "All the troops stand back, release the arrows!"

When the guards under the city heard the general's order, they all retreated, and then they heard a "whoosh" sound of breaking the air, and long arrows shot down towards Nianhua like rain.

Nian Hua waved his sword to block the rain of arrows, and quickly retreated backwards. After retreating for dozens of paces, the arrows stopped being fired from the city gate.

Nianhua's lungs were about to be blown up. With her temper, she immediately wanted to rush forward with a sword to kill, with her martial arts, these people may not have hurt her.

But after thinking about it, I came to report to the guards and solve the problem, and if I fought like this, I was afraid that things would not end. It's better to go back first and wait until it gets dark to figure out what to do.

In this way, Nianhua found a farmhouse outside the city to rest. finally survived until dark, and Nianhua couldn't wait to walk towards the city gate.

But before Nianhua set foot on the road, he heard a sound of small footsteps. She took two quick steps and looked out onto the road. I saw a black shadow running quickly on the main road in the direction of the city gate.

Strange, how could someone rush into the direction of the city at this time? Could it be that the enemy's spies wanted to sneak into the city while it was dark?

Suddenly, a bright reflection reflected from the man's back. Nianhua took a closer look, and it turned out that this person was carrying a wide-backed knife behind his back.

Nianhua quietly followed the man until outside the city gate. But the man stopped, crouched behind a large tree, and looked secretly at the gate of the city.

Nianhua also looked up at the city gate, only to see dozens of torches lit at the city gate, illuminating the entire city gate building. On the tower of the city gate stood dozens of soldiers armed with knives, guns, bows and arrows, and the guard who was seen during the day was patrolling back and forth with his hand on the hilt of his sword. The defense is very tight.

The man was not in a hurry, turned around, sat down behind the tree, leaned his back against the tree, and began to sleep.

Nianhua guessed that this person was waiting for an opportunity, and would not act until the guards on the city gate tower were relaxed. She wanted to find out what the man was trying to do, so she sat down and waited for the man to do it first.

But after waiting for more than an hour, the city gate tower was still the same, and the soldiers guarding the city did not have the slightest intention of relaxing their vigilance. And this person is really able to endure his temperament, and he has been motionless behind the big tree.

After a while, perhaps feeling hopeless, the man quietly got up, went around the gate, and walked to the right. Nianhua saw that this person moved, so he followed closely behind him.

The man detoured to the right side of the city wall, where there was a cliff and the terrain was very dangerous. But the guards here were also much lax, and only two torches were lit on the city gate, and four soldiers could be faintly seen walking back and forth.

The man in front of Nianhua hid in the grass on the edge of the cliff, carefully observed the time of a cup of tea, and saw that there was no other situation on the city gate, so he tightened his belt. He took out a flying claw from his baggage, turned it around, and flew out with a shake of his hand.

The steel claw flew up the tower and firmly grasped the turning head on the tower. Immediately afterwards, the man grabbed the rope, exchanged his hands quickly, and leaped up the tower.

Nianhua waited for the man to go up to the city tower, hurriedly walked a few steps, came to the city tower, and looked up. Then he slammed it up, flew up, stretched out his feet on the wall and lightly touched it like a swallow, and in the blink of an eye he stood on the battlements.

And the four soldiers on the tower who were patrolling back and forth were unaware.

Nian Hua saw the man in front of him cross the city wall, jumped on the roof of a row of houses, and galloped towards the city. Fearing that she had lost the man's whereabouts, she hurried to follow.

The two leaped forward on the rooftop, but did not make a sound. Most of the people in the city had already slept, so it was pitch black, with only a few faint lights in a few places.

After a while, I came to the outside of a compound. From a distance, the yard is huge, and there are lights in many parts of the yard.

The man paused on the courtyard wall, observed the situation in the courtyard, and flew in.

Nianhua came to the roof on the left side of the first courtyard and looked in, only to see four heavily armed soldiers standing at the entrance of the lobby, and two other teams of soldiers patrolling back and forth.

Nianhua saw the person in front of him jump into the courtyard, sneakily came to the right side of the upper room of the second courtyard, and leaned under the window to listen to the movement inside.

So Nianhua also leaned forward slowly, came to an upside-down golden hook, hung it on the eaves, and looked in through the gap under the eaves.

There were three people in the room, one of whom was sitting on the top of the central hall, wearing a gray cloth robe, with a tall figure, thick eyebrows and big eyes, and very heroic.

There are two people sitting below, one is a lupine scarf, dressed as a scribe, and one is wearing armor and carrying a big sword at his waist, and he looks like a military general.

I only heard the military general say: "General, according to reliable information, the 8,000 vanguard of the Manchu Qing Dynasty has been stationed at the grassland slope thirty miles away, and will launch an offensive against my Yongren Pass at any time. Moreover, the follow-up 20,000 elite soldiers have already arrived at Huili and are rushing here.

And our soldiers defending the city are only more than 3,000 in total, and in the face of such a powerful enemy army, the last general is very worried. Once Yongren Pass is lost, the consequences will not be imagined. ”

The man in the center had a calm face, and after listening to the words of the military general beside him, he nodded and said: "General Luo doesn't have to worry too much, fighting a war pays attention to the time, place, and people." Don't look at our only more than 3,000 troops, but all of our soldiers can fight well, and one is worth more than 10,000 men. Moreover, our Yongren Pass City has thick walls, and the terrain is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack. First of all, we are safe to the south, and to the east is a mountain cliff from which the enemy cannot take the city. So we just need to focus our attention on the north and west sides.

We are facing the enemy to the north, and in the event of a battle, we will bear the brunt of it. But the art of war is that 'soldiers do not tire of deceit,' and I heard that the enemy's leader was a suspicious man, so I decided to put him in an ecstasy array. I placed 200 soldiers in the north, all of them in the front, and put dozens of flags there to give the enemy the illusion of heavy defense. In fact, I concentrated all my forces on the west. I know that the enemy will abandon the north gate and launch a full-scale attack from the west gate, so the heavy troops I have placed at the west gate will be able to give the enemy a head-on attack and break their siege plan in one fell swoop. ”

The scribe beside him said: "Ye Shuai's arrangement is really like a god, compared to Zhuge Kongming, who is strategizing and winning thousands of miles away, it is not inferior!"

(End of chapter)