weaving

Chapter 487
"Stop, who?"

There was a bonfire burning in the opening of the east gate of Luoyang, and seven or eight recruits were gathering here to take shelter from the wind and enjoy the fire. When they saw a group of people approaching from a distance, they shouted and asked.

"Brothers are tired from touring the streets, come here to ask for some water to warm up your bones." Wang Liugen said in the dialect of Luoyang, which he is not very proficient in.

The guards in the city gate seemed to feel something was wrong, one of them shouted and asked: "Wait, the accent is wrong, stop quickly, don't go in..."

"Whoosh!"

Before he finished speaking, an arrow pierced his throat. There was a trace of remorse in his eyes, but also a trace of unwillingness, but it was too late. He raised his hands violently to pull out the arrow on his neck. But as soon as he touched the arrow, he lost his strength, and then hung down weakly and slowly.

"Killer..."

"... There are spies... There are spies in the city..."

Where have they ever seen such a battle? When they are free on weekdays, they hold a red-tasseled spear in their hands to show off their might, but after seeing the blood, they run around like rabbits being chased by falcons. He couldn't even think of turning around to get the long spear placed on the wall of the doorway.

"Rush up, you go to the city and put down the suspension bridge. Quick, quick!" Wang Liugen shouted loudly.

Wang Liugen had previously mixed into the team of recruits Shao Shichang later recruited to defend the city. Although he didn't talk much inside, he observed the layout carefully.

Today he was ordered to lead two teams of rangers lurking in the city to pretend to be night guards, and was responsible for surprise attacking the east gate. Fortunately, the cold winter of the fourth watch was bitterly cold, and many night patrol teams found shelter in the corners of old houses to warm themselves. Walk to the east gate.

After all, they are old soldiers who have gone through battles, and almost all of them are born at night. Dealing with these newly recruited hungry people is not as easy as cutting melons and vegetables.

"Bang bang bang..."

Amid Wang Liugen's orders, they strode toward the city gate. After reaching a distance of [-] steps, there was a burst of gunfire, which knocked out the guards who were already fleeing in all directions, and they all knelt on the ground trembling. .

Apart from the whistling cold wind, there was no other sound in the originally silent night sky, it was eerily quiet, and a dissonant burst of firecrackers sounded even more ear-piercing.

Dozens of people on the top of the city were hiding in the gate tower to avoid the wind. At this moment, when they heard the sound of the guns exploding below, they immediately rushed out of the gate tower, shouting loudly. A few people were so anxious that they even forgot to take their weapons.

Wang Liugen had already climbed up the steps to the city, and he shouted loudly: "Brothers below, quickly open the city gate."

Then he yelled at the top of the city wall: "Xuanzhen's army seized the city, surrender and don't kill!"

"The officers and soldiers have entered the city... Surrender without killing..."

A group of capable warriors rushed up the majestic Luoyang City Wall following Wang Liugen, and saw dozens of people rushing out from the East Gate Tower. One of them was waving a long spear in his hand, and was screaming and commanding. The rest are all.

Wang Liugen rushed forward alone, holding a waist knife in his right hand and a short-handed gun that hadn't been fired in his left hand. He raised his hand to shoot a gun at a distance of less than twenty steps.

"Bang!" With a bang, the brains of the leading guard burst open, splashing the faces and bodies of the people next to him.

Before they could react, another burst of "bang bang bang..." bursts of firecrackers came one after another, and the strong men rushed out in the smoke, and they screamed and screamed again and again.

These guards were originally recruited by the hungry people in the city, and they had never seen such a battle, and seven or eight people fell down immediately, blood was flowing all over the ground, and the blood was mixed with other unknown viscous materials. all over the place.

The guards in the east gate building just saw each other and dispersed like birds and beasts. Some of them even lay down on the city wall, crying on the ground.

Wang Liugen put the short gun in his left hand back into the gun bag, took out a small inconspicuous gray porcelain bottle from his bosom, threw it vigorously towards the east gate building, and shouted: "Hurry up and set the suspension bridge!"

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Outside the Dongguan Gate of Luoyang City, Cui Shijie looked at the city gate tower not far away, and said a little anxiously: "Tou Chen, do you want to send some smart soldiers to climb the city?"

"Why, I'm in a hurry. Take it easy, Wan Guangjin has five or sixty people in the city. To deal with these newly recruited hungry people, it's not a piece of cake to win a door."

After Chen Zhong finished speaking, he looked up at the sky, and said again: "It's only four o'clock, everyone get up, move your arms and legs, it's time to start working."

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard a crisp sound coming from the city. Although it was far away, in such a silent night sky, as long as there was a single sound, it would be heard far away.

Immediately after the crisp sound, there was another sound like popping beans. This time even Cui Shijie exclaimed in surprise: "The fight is on. It's our gunfire. Brothers are ready to enter the city!"

After a while, I saw a fire ignited on the east gate tower, and the flames shot up into the sky in an instant, followed by a burst of noisy fighting, chasing and shouting, coming down from the wall of the urn.

Chen Zhong also got up at this moment and shouted loudly: "The cavalry mount their horses and prepare to enter the city."

Immediately afterwards, he saw more torches on the Wengcheng, noisy voices, and the huge suspension bridge slowly falling down. Chen Zhong turned around and said to Cui Shijie: "Mr. Cui Qian, see you at the magistrate's yamen!"

Yang Shijie, the third master of the Yang family building, also led two of his relatives to ride horses to Chen Zhong's side. Teams of cavalry had already mounted their horses, waiting for the suspension bridge to fall completely.

Just at this moment, the suspension bridge in Dongguan also fell down. Chen Zhong knocked his stirrup, waved the mace in his hand at the same time, and shouted: "Enter the city!"

He ran across the suspension bridge first and rushed into the urn city. There was a big fire burning above the city gate. Flying tiles and burning wood fell from time to time. A piece of fire fell right in front of Chen Zhong's horse, almost hitting his horse's head.

He hastily waved the mace in his hand, knocked the fire blocks that fell in the air aside, turned around and shouted loudly: "Quick, take down all the gates quickly, and don't get away from Shao Shichang!"

He himself rushed into the east gate of Luoyang City first, followed by groups of cavalry, galloping forward without encountering any obstacles along the way, at the intersection of Gulou Street.

Chen Zhong swung the mace again and said loudly, "Separate!"

So the cavalry separated, and each post was assigned in advance to seize the other three city gates. He and Yang Shijie led four teams of fine cavalry and galloped straight to the magistrate's yamen.

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There was silence in front of the yamen of the prefect of Luoyang, and there was not even a single person. Wan Guangjin led dozens of brothers to the outside of the Yimen, and stuck their bodies against the wall of the yamen courtyard.

He turned his head and said to several sergeants: "Go and knock on the door, and tell them that there are officers and troops attacking the city, please Shao stay behind and go to the city as soon as possible."

At the moment when those sergeants ran to knock on the door, Wan Guangjin saw flames rising from the east gate, and felt a little anxious, so he got up and ran to the Yi gate.

"Dong dong dong... dong dong dong..."

Several sergeants were banging on the door with their knife handles, and an impatient voice inside shouted: "Damn, knock so urgently..."

It happened that Wan Guangjin also came to the door at this time, and he yelled: "Sleep your mother, the officers and soldiers took advantage of the night to steal the city, and the east gate is lost. Open the door quickly, and protect Shao Liushou to join the King Chuang!"

The guards inside the gate also seemed to have seen the soaring flames from the east gate, only to hear panic and confusion inside, chaotic footsteps and screams, and the gate slowly opened.

Wan Guangjin didn't wait for the gate to be fully opened, so he stood up and kicked the gate open, rushed in and cut down a guard with a knife, and shouted: "Throw the knife if you don't want to die, I will get down!"

(End of this chapter)