The night is like ink, and the whole world is shrouded in darkness as the sun sets, even if it is a large city like Wancheng, at night, you can only find a glimmer of light in the rows of torches on the city wall.
The battle on the front line has basically come to an end, but Wancheng's side, obviously not able to receive the news so quickly, the night vigil soldiers are also drowsy on the city wall after the routine inspection, the war on the front line has nothing to do with them, 30,000 troops, even if they are defeated, it is impossible to defeat so quickly.
The drowsy soldier was awakened by the sound of chaotic footsteps.
In charge of the night patrol was a close general under Zhang Xun, who was quite capable, and when he heard the voice at this moment, he couldn't help frowning, and climbed the female wall with two personal guards, and stomped across the city wall to look down.
Under the city wall, in the chaotic footsteps, mixed with a few torches, under the uncertain firelight, you can vaguely see that the other party is wearing the military uniform of the Nanyang Army, but it looks a little embarrassed, and the number of people is not much, only a hundred people.
"Who is under the city" The general stood up, holding a shield in his hand, and frowned.
Under the city of "Li Yan Taishou in Xia Nanyang", Li Yan asked people to put torches in front of him to illuminate his appearance.
His description was a bit embarrassing, his helmet was broken at a corner, the armor on his body was torn, and his face was pale.
The general frowned slightly, the name Li Yan was not very familiar before, but in recent days, I have often heard Zhang Xun mention it, he is a talent, although he has not seen it, but the authentic Nanyang accent should not be checked.
"It turned out to be the county order of Li, I don't know why the county order came to this" The general looked at Li Yan suspiciously, frowned and asked, Li Yan's current appearance is obviously a group of remnants of defeated generals.
"Wuyang has been lost, the eight hundred soldiers in the city plus four thousand militiamen, almost all the army has been wiped out" Li Yan looked up at the top of the city wall bitterly, and said astringently: "It's not that I don't do my best, but the imperial court is menacing, and our army's reinforcements have not arrived for a long time, so it is really difficult to return to the sky, so I have to take these remnants of the soldiers, escape to the mountains and forests, and flee back to Wancheng, praying for General Zhang's assistance, Wuyang must not be lost" Li Yan's words are quite desolate, with 800 people against tens of thousands of elite divisions of the imperial court, to be able to defend until now, it can be said that they have done their best, but it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, with 800 soldiers, even if you add 4,000 militia, it is difficult to stop the general trend, that kind of sad and depressed mood was conveyed to everyone's ears through the voice, and suddenly people had an indescribable sour feeling, looking at Li Yan's gaze, and suddenly felt a little more sympathetic.
"Li County Commander doesn't know, the general has sent troops last night, and early this morning, he should have arrived in Wuyang, but the county order has fled the mountains and forests and staggered with the army."
The general defending the city sighed, shook his head and sighed.
Creation makes people, if Zhang Xun left two days early, Wuyang was not lost, and it would not be so, but the family in Nanyang continued to make trouble, so that Zhang Xun could not make a move, and it was delayed until yesterday, resulting in the loss of the best opportunity to rescue Wuyang.
"I see, it's a pity" Li Yan heard this, muttered twice, then rolled his eyes and fell to the ground.
Several soldiers of the "county honor" hurriedly supported Li Yan's body, and a person who looked like he should be a county lieutenant came to the city, fell to the ground with a puff, and roared: "Ask the general to open the door and find a Langzhong for my county honor, he has not closed his eyes for three days and three nights." ” "Guanzhong accent" The general guarding the city frowned, and looked down at the county lieutenant: "General Ben remembers that the county lieutenant of Wuyang County is from Yuyang, who are you?"
"The last general is a person from Shangluo, he has been in Nanyang for three years, the former county lieutenant has died in battle, and the last general has been promoted by the county honor."
The county lieutenant hissed.
In fact, it is not a big deal, this year, the world is turbulent, there was a rebellion of Dong Zhuo and Li Guo in Guanzhong, a large number of people in Guanzhong moved to Nanyang, and it is not strange that the people in the army are concerned, but at this juncture, the Nanyang garrison is empty, and it is no wonder that the Nanyang County Lieutenant is suspicious.
"Ask the general to open the door, my county has really done his best, the court 20,000 soldiers around Wuyang, my county is mobilizing the people, while coming to the battle in person, three days and three nights without sleep, begging the general to be gracious, let my county zun in, the end will kowtow to you."
After speaking, he really began to kowtow, and the sound was heard very clearly even on the city wall.
Behind the county lieutenant, the more than 100 remnants did not speak, but just knelt quietly behind the county lieutenant, and an inexplicable sad atmosphere made the city guards who had woken up at the head of the city inexplicably sour.
"General, or" A lieutenant came to the guard's side, looked at the soldiers kneeling under the city, and said a little unbearably.
"Before the general left, there was a strict order, no one should come and not open the city at night."
The guard shook his head, he also sympathized with these people, but he had a military order, and his vision was blocked at night, and the place where he could see it was just that, no need for Taiyuan, a stone's throw outside the city, for them, it was simply unknown, once the city was opened, if there were enemy troops nearby, it would be easy to be sneak attacked.
Wancheng is an important town in Nanyang, once it falls, the entire city north of Nanyang will be considered finished, and in that case, the soldiers and horses of Nanyang will completely lose contact with Yuan Shu.
"The general is too cautious" The captain shook his head, looked at the remnants of Wuyang under the city gate, and sighed: "Although the front-line battle report has not yet come, but Taishou has mobilized almost all the troops that can be mobilized in Nanyang this time, even if the imperial army is powerful, it is impossible to kill here, if it is only a small force, there are still 3,000 defenders in my city, why be afraid of him" The guard general nodded when he heard this, he didn't know this truth, but the military order was like a mountain, and he couldn't disobey it.
"The most important thing is that these soldiers are all warriors who fought bloodily for me Nanyang and the Lord, and the general should also hear it, that Li Yan has not closed his eyes for three days and three nights to protect Wuyang, if we expel or ignore it at this time, let the soldiers think" "I don't expect anything to happen, but more than 100 people, even if they really vote for the imperial court, what can we do I'm afraid that this mere 100 people won't be able to do it."
"There's some truth to that."
The guard was silent for a moment, nodded, looked at the remnants of Wuyang who were kneeling down in the city, and sighed: "Open the city gate, let them in, and pay attention to the police circle." ” "Huh" The captain immediately nodded when he heard this, and waved his hand: "Open the city gate" Immediately, several soldiers began to pull the winch and slowly lowered the drawbridge.
"No, I always feel that something is wrong, I should go down to the city to see it myself."
The guard frowned, and said with some unease.
"The last general will accompany the general."
The lieutenant hurriedly bowed and said.
"No need, you are here to guard, if anything is wrong, put away the drawbridge immediately."
The guard shook his head and led the men towards the city gate.
Hearing this, the captain bowed down and agreed, and in the direction that the guard could not see, the corners of his mouth swept an arc.
The heavy city gate, under the joint impetus of eight soldiers, slowly opened, and when the guards arrived at the city gate, the city gate was already half opened.
"Stop" The guard waved his hand, looked at the remnants of the kneeling army outside, waved his hand to stop everyone's movements, and said: "Just open these, and when these soldiers come in, close the city gate immediately." ” "Wow," several soldiers who pulled the city gate hurriedly bowed down.
"Ladies and gentlemen, hurry up and help Li County Commander enter the city."
When they came to the city gate, the guard did not go any further, but just waved to everyone.
"Thank you, general, great grace, I will never forget" The county lieutenant hurriedly kowtowed, and then beckoned everyone, helping Li Yan, who seemed to be completely unconscious, to walk towards the city.
"Hurry up."
Seeing a group of people starting to walk towards the city in an orderly manner, the guard frowned, as if there was something wrong, but he couldn't think of it for a while, and seeing that everyone didn't have any radical actions, for a while, he also relaxed a little, turned around and walked towards the city.
Outside the city gate, everyone came in, and the eight soldiers in charge of closing the gate were about to close the city gate, when a sudden chill hit behind them, and the eight soldiers didn't even have time to make a sound, their mouths were already blocked, followed by the cold light, the eight soldiers only felt a cold throat, and the strength of their bodies dissipated like a flood bursting the embankment, and they couldn't help but widen their eyes and look at the sky in front of them blankly.
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The eight soldiers carefully put the eight people down, and then came to the other side of the city gate, and began to push the city gate in the opposite direction, and another soldier with a bow and arrow on his back rushed to the outside of the city gate, took off the bow and arrow on his back, and shot an arrow into the sky.
It was a ringing arrow, a piercing screech that shattered the silence of the night sky.
"No" almost at the same time as the arrow was fired, the guard who was walking in front suddenly turned around, he finally thought that something was wrong, it was obviously a remnant army, but it was orderly, acting like the wind, and when he spoke, he was also full of energy, where it looked like a long-distance rush and escape.
Suddenly turned around, but it was Li Yan's somewhat pale face, who was looking at him with a strange smile at the moment, and at night, that smile looked a little infiltrating.
At this moment, there was only a cold chill left in the bottom of the heart, and at this moment, the arrows were shot into the air, and the piercing screams tore apart the silence of the night, and at the same time, an earth-shattering shout of killing sounded outside the city gate.
"Qiang" The shock was sudden, although the guard general reacted and wanted to draw his sword, Li Yan had already drawn his sword out of the sheath, and the cold cold light cut the guard general's throat with a cold energy, and the guard stared at Li Yan with a pair of eyes, staring at Li Yan deadly, but he couldn't say a word, just looked at Li Yan, but his body fell straight to the ground.
The defenders outside the city gate are not far from the city wall, but the distance is also a mile, in a hurry, it is difficult to rush in immediately, Li Yan holds the sword in his hand, and the soldiers around him have fiercely pounced on the bewildered defenders around him at the moment when he took out his sword.
"Li Fang, you lead people to guard the city gate, and the others follow me to the city wall, and you can't let the drawbridge rise again" t1706231537: