Chapter 213: This person really exists
Hu Yidao also thought it was okay, as there was no one else with the same skills as them .
Zhao Yulin said that a sneak attack should be done unexpectedly and quickly. Otherwise, what is a sneak attack if you don't have the first move?
The brothers who had been exploring the way came back and chose a section of the city wall three miles south of the west gate, where the water was shallow, the weeds were lush, and the location was well hidden.
He was worried that something might happen in the city, so he ordered them to go there immediately and take up their position ahead of time.
Hubili camped at Wulong Beach, 20 miles north of Xiangyang, and the central army led by Tachaer was still 30 miles away from him. Just now, after a confrontation with the navy of the Shenwei Army, he found that Zhao Qier's Shenwei Army was no longer what it used to be.
The navy of the Shenwei Army actually had independent infantry, and the ship artillery and infantry artillery worked together very well. The three charges of 5,000 cavalry did not gain any advantage but lost more than half of them. He was embarrassed to report to Tachaer.
He made up his mind to sneak into the camp at night, and while they were still unstable, he would strike the Shenwei Army with a hammer, knock them unconscious, and throw them into the Han River to feed the turtles.
Hubili wants to deal with Zhou Ping, and Zhou Ping also wants to deal with him.
After Zhao Yulin sent someone to pass a message to Zhou Ping, he realized that he had been careless. The Mongolian army was marching south in large numbers, and their strength was far greater than his. Why did he send out a detachment to seize the west gate?
Zhou Ping immediately adjusted the deployment and only left guard troops at the west gate.
Let's go back and discuss how to get through this dangerous night. The Mongolian army has stopped attacking, but under the cover of night, they are likely to cross his ship and gun blockade and launch a surprise attack.
His subordinates said that the young master’s reminder was good. The enemy would definitely try every means to enter the city. If they attack us, can’t we attack them back?
We are outnumbered and have to launch a surprise attack on them. Only by disrupting their formation can we buy time.
We can also prepare a pile of firewood at the passage where the enemy may hide and pass through, and light the firewood when the enemy approaches, so that they have nowhere to hide. Then the catapult on the ship can play a role.
Once a plan was devised, it was immediately implemented. Although Zhou Ping was not very smart, he was good at learning from the strengths of others and was not slow in doing things. The camp immediately became busy.
In March in Xiangyang, the weather was warm but still cold. Zhao Yulin was lurking in the preset position. After a long time, he felt a little numb.
In the second half of the night, there was a sudden commotion in the city opposite, followed by the lighting of fires.
Zhao Yulin's first instinct should be that the actions of the Beggars' Sect have been exposed. It was the rebels in the city fighting with the Beggars' Sect disciples.
He said: Not good, take action immediately.
This was indeed the case. The law enforcement elder of the Beggars' Sect was on good terms with Li Boyuan and had been excluded from this operation. However, this guy had a high position in the sect and had many close followers. He actually found out that the female leader and her husband Guo Jing were going to open the west gate to welcome the Shenwei Army, and immediately reported it to the rebel general Li Boyuan.
How can this be tolerated?
Li Boyuan was already frightened when he saw the Shenwei Army approaching the city. When he heard that there were people in the city who wanted to rebel against him, he immediately mobilized his troops to encircle and suppress them. As a result, the city became a mess.
Zhao Yulin checked the equipment and asked Hu Yidao to wear a cotton vest. His father-in-law actually said proudly that the arrow that was going to hit him had not been made yet, which was too scary.
He did not understand these gangsters at all, so he carried a bundle of ropes on his shoulders, held a sword in his hand, and set off with Hu Yidao, with his brothers following closely behind.
They flew over the water, performed Qinggong and jumped up, quickly climbed up the city wall and saw that there were not many soldiers on it. Li Boyuan deployed heavy troops to guard the north gate wall and other gates, so there were naturally fewer soldiers on this section of the wall. The defenders were attracted to watch the excitement because of the sudden chaos in the city.
Hu Yidao went up and reaped lives easily. Zhao Yulin passed the rope through the parapet, tied it into a knot and threw it down, then picked up his sword and joined the action of clearing out the guards.
Soon, countless eagle claws with ropes were thrown onto the city wall to hang on. The brothers below grabbed the ropes and climbed up the city wall desperately, and the sneak attack began.
After Zhao Yulin and Hu Yidao opened up a climbing area of more than ten meters long, the soldiers guarding at both ends swarmed towards them. They punched, kicked, and used swords, but two fists were no match for four hands, and the situation became very dangerous.
The squad's gunners opened fire immediately when they saw the cluster of torches moving on the city wall, but many rebels still broke through the blockade and fought with them.
No matter how strong your martial arts skills are, you are still just a mortal body. There is no such magical kung fu in reality. The enemy in front of you must be killed with one sword and one knife.
The rebels were getting more and more numerous, and Hu Yidao was already a little tired due to the continuous consumption of their physical strength. At this time, an arrow hit his right shoulder. Hu Yidao swayed and switched his sword to his left hand to continue blocking, and immediately he was in danger.
This man was proud of his martial arts skills and refused to wear the tactical vest of the Shenwei Army. The arrow bit directly into his flesh and he must have been seriously injured.
Zhao Yulin was fighting back at the north end, and the two were dozens of meters apart, so how could they know? Fortunately, his father-in-law's eight Vajra came up and immediately went to both ends to support.
These were martial arts masters, so it was no problem for them to chop down a soldier. The wall was only a little wide, so the climbing ground for the squad was stable, and soldiers kept climbing up the wall.
The guard brought his 800 million rifle on his back. Zhao Yulin took it, loaded the bullet with a click, and shot the rebel directly in the head.
Although the bullets in his magazine were all reloaded, their range and accuracy were limited, but they could be completely ignored at such a close distance.
Zhao Yulin wore Zhu Congwen's steel helmet on his head and Zhu Congwen's tactical vest on his body, which were the essence of later military industry. He was not afraid of the rebels' swords, guns and arrows. He raised his gun and shot, and blocked with his gun horizontally. Like a robot, he led his brothers and rushed to the west gate.
Behind them, even the mortar gunners came up.
At this time, the melee in the city was also developing towards the west gate.
The Beggars' Gang heroes in the city saw the fight on the city wall moving towards the city gate, and immediately told their leader happily that it was the Divine Might Army that had rushed up the city wall.
The female gang leader was under siege by the rebels after being exposed in advance because of a traitor in her gang. She was delighted when she saw the flashes of fire and explosions on the city wall, knowing that the Shenwei Army had indeed come to seize the city gate.
The gang leader was greatly encouraged, and he wielded a dog-beating stick with great skill, shouting to Brother Jing to go to the city gate quickly, and she would cover them.
The water ghosts also saw it clearly. While shouting to their brothers to charge forward, they fired attack arrows to the navy under the city. The naval guard troops at the west gate immediately launched an attack on the city gate.
Zhao Yulin and his men rushed into the city wall, quickly cleared out the remaining enemies and controlled the commanding heights. The superiority of the Shenwei Army's rapid-fire crossbows was immediately demonstrated. A dozen crossbows blocked the top of the city wall. No matter how many soldiers and horses came, the city wall was so wide that it was immediately blocked.
The assault team quickly arranged a three-attack formation and fired intensively. The rebels could not rush over at all and kept retreating. They were only safe when they were within an arrow's reach.
The rebels in the city also rushed to the inner city gate. The gunner saw clearly and fired three shots at the rebels who were blocking the city, disrupting their formation. The rebels immediately retreated like a deflated ball.
With the support of mortars, which specifically killed the ruthless rebels, the rebel army became more powerful and braver as the battle went on. They rushed forward and opened the city gate.
The outer city wall had been captured by the Shenwei Army's guard troops, and Xiangyang had completely opened its doors to the Shenwei Army.
Zhao Yulin went down to the city gate and yelled at the captain of the Marine Corps: Quickly control the key points and expand the results. Then he asked the guards to tell Zhou Ping that the other side could be abandoned and to dispatch troops into the city immediately.
At this time, the water ghost brought a couple, a man and a woman, to introduce to him: General Guo Jing, a subordinate of Li Boyuan, and the wife of the leader of the Beggar Gang.
Guo Jing reported honestly that a battalion of soldiers under his command did not want to follow Li Boyuan and become traitors, so he discussed with his wife to ask the Shenwei Army to save Xiangyang, and the general did come.
Zhao Yulin was stunned. There really was a person named Guo Jing in this world.
The female gang leader asked dissatisfiedly: Are you stupid?
Do you look down on our Beggars' Sect? Or do you look down on my husband? Humph.
"Rong'er." The honest Guo Jing immediately stopped her.
Zhao Yulin then came to his senses and quickly apologized, saying, "No way, my wife is also a disciple of the Beggars' Sect." He even praised the couple for their loyalty and patriotism, and said that the leader of the sect was a heroine among many others.
However, the female gang leader did not buy his story at all. He did not understand the situation and ignored her, asking Guo Jing to lead the way and to take down the granary and armory first.
Guo Jing immediately led the way to the Xiguan warehouse.
The rebels knew that Simon had failed, so they had already opened the warehouse and were pouring kerosene on it in an attempt to burn the granary.
Fortunately, they arrived in time and easily defeated the enemy. After putting out the fire, they guarded the warehouse and rushed towards the south gate.
The battle became stalemate as more and more rebels blocked the streets.
After the defeat at Ximen, the rebel general Li Boyuan finally came to his senses and realized that the situation was hopeless, so he planned to flee. However, his subordinate Huang Canjiang said no, since we have already surrendered to the Lord Meng, how can we stand firm without a letter of surrender?
The two of them calculated that they still had tens of thousands of troops at their disposal, and it would be a great achievement if they could defend Xiangyang and wait for Lord Meng to come in. If they lost Xiangyang, how could they be valued when they had done nothing?
Therefore, Li Boyuan drove his gang of desperate men to rush forward howling...
Outside the city, Zhou Ping was battling wits with Hu Bili.
Last night he received a reminder from Zhao Yulin, and after discussing with the generals, he sent out 300 death squads to launch a surprise attack on the enemy camp in advance.
In order to deal with the sneak attack of the Mongolian army, he quietly withdrew the troops from the two military camps on the left and right to the dock to deploy defenses, prepare pies and wait for the Mongolian army to arrive.
When Zhao Yulin and his men climbed the city wall, the Mongolian army was sneaking into the camp. The Mongolian army rushed into Zhou Ping's left front camp. The Shenwei Army soldiers who were secretly monitoring them immediately sent a signal with rockets.
The cannons on the shore roared immediately, covering the camp twice in a row. The 5,000 Mongolian troops who rushed in were killed by the fragmentation bombs that fell from the sky without even seeing the shadow of the Shenwei Army. After the charge of the Shenwei Army sounded around, the rest stumbled back, supporting the wounded.
Zhou Ping was overjoyed when he received the news that the west gate had been breached, and he immediately sent a detachment to board a ship and cross the river. Now that he had no worries, he could work with all his might.
