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    ———————————— With the appearance of the soldiers on duty, there were more and more black shadows two hundred steps away from them, and their speed was getting faster and faster. They immediately disappeared at the foot of the west gate city wall, as if they had never appeared.  Live the same.  ∽↗ Not long after, five hundred soldiers came to the bottom of the city tower. The leading military lord was shouting to the military lords upstairs while he quickly climbed up the city tower with the soldiers under his tent.  While joking, the shift change has been completed.  At the moment when the two military princes met face to face, the military prince who came to take turns whispered: "The prefect ordered me to come and deliver the message. There are wild ghosts in the city tonight and hungry wolves outside the city. General Lei Bo will guard the city with me."  As he passed by, he said with a smile: "You have been standing all night, go to bed!" The Junhou who was about to take a rest paused for a moment, then smiled and waved his hand, leading his men into the squad room on the south side.  .  As soon as he entered the door, he saw Lei Bo wearing ordinary armor sitting in the room: "I'm afraid you won't be able to rest tonight, come and sit down." As soon as Lei Bo opened his mouth, he directly stated his purpose and waved his hand to indicate that the military commander should sit down.  By his side, he told the military lord without any concealment what he knew: "This evening, Zhuge Military Advisor, who was commanding the army in Wancheng, sent his general Shi Sima Yi to Yingchuan, and left the south gate an hour ago.  Entering the city. Sima Changshi brought important news, claiming that there were sneaky people sneaking into the city. After hearing the news, the prefect immediately sent people to the civilian alley in Xicheng to make an unannounced investigation. Sure enough, some farmers said that there were some generous people with Jingxiang accents today.  The young men entered the city with them. At this moment, Sima Changshi, Governor Chang Lin, and General Ji Ling were discussing matters in the inner hall. They ordered us to be more careful tonight to prevent the enemy from attacking the city gate. Listen up.  Bring all the crossbows and arrows. Turn off the lights after a quarter of an hour, then go downstairs from the dark rooms on both sides of the city gate. Set up the crossbows and shoot them immediately if anyone approaches the city gate.  My task is to guard the city gate firmly and make sure no one can approach the city gate from inside the city. As for the enemy troops lurking outside the city and the small group of enemies inside the city, it has nothing to do with you. You will stay in the dark room before dawn and die.  Keep an eye on the city gate and don't go out no matter what happens outside. Even if the enemy attacks the tower, don't touch it!" As he spoke, Lei Bo's expression was solemn and his tone was firm, even a little generous.  .  It is obvious that the current situation is not optimistic and the situation is serious.  Yangzhai City was not prepared for a war and faced huge defensive pressure. The 25,000 defenders in the city alone were not enough to withstand the sneak attacks of tens of thousands or even 100,000 troops.  After hearing what Lei Bo said, the city defenders did not dare to ask any more questions.  After respectfully accepting the order, he divided his 500 garrison soldiers into two, with half staying in the guard room of the south tower and half going to the north tower.  Two groups of people, led by their respective commanders, entered the city gate secret room directly from the underground passage of the squad room, and then opened the secret hole.  Place yourself in the dark rooms on both sides of the city gate and guard the city gate.  The darkrooms on both sides of the city gate are not large and are distributed in a staircase shape with three floors above and below.  Each floor is six feet high and half as wide as the city gate wall. The bottom floor is eight feet high.  The upper two floors allow archers to kneel on the ground to set up their bows and release arrows.  There are crossbows on the bottom floor, with four crossbows on each side.  therefore.  Strong bows and crossbows are stored in the wall slots around the dark room, as well as enough crossbow arrows and ordinary arrows.  The more than two hundred soldiers hiding in the darkroom were divided into five teams. Two teams were responsible for controlling crossbows on the bottom floor. Two teams entered the upper two floors to shoot and kill freely. The remaining fifty people served as a reserve team. Where there was not enough manpower, it was inconvenient.  Make it up immediately.  This is Yangzhai City's unique defensive method.  Yangzhai City is not only the county town of Yingchuan, but also the most populous, prosperous and prosperous city in Yuzhou. In addition, Yingchuan County is located in the hinterland of the Central Plains, with convenient transportation and extending in all directions, so the defensive pressure is far greater than that of ordinary county towns.  After the Yellow Turban riots, Yangzhai City was completely renovated, heightened and reinforced, and the city walls were repaired every year to strengthen its defense capabilities.  Over time, the city wall is now three feet high and one foot seven thick, and the four city gates in the east, south, west and north have been built even more magnificently, and are no less impressive than the rebuilt Luoyang City.  Therefore, secret rooms, known as soldier-hiding caves, were specially built in the walls on both sides of the city gate. The purpose was to strengthen the defense of the city gate and ensure that the city gate would not be breached.  As long as the city gate is not broken, no matter how many enemy troops attack the city outside, they can only enter the city through the city head, and they will definitely not be able to flood into the city on a large scale. In this way, the defenders can rely on the sufficient manpower in the city to fight with the enemy.  Thereby defending the city from being captured.  Suddenly, the light in the prison cells on both sides of the tower disappeared.  The city gate guards who were chatting and laughing just now gradually fell silent, and the city tower became quiet again. Only the more than ten wind lanterns hanging under the eaves swayed left and right with the evening breeze, and the dim light stretched out the five hundred people.  The figure of the night watchman.  Time passed little by little, and the crescent moon in the night sky moved quietly. At this time, it seemed extremely quiet inside and outside the Ximen, so quiet that you could not hear the chirping of insects and frogs in the fields outside the city.  ??It was a rare quiet night.  Suddenly, with a scream of "boo", a rocket with flashing flames roared into the sky, surpassing the city tower in the blink of an eye, and soared into the sky.  At the same time, hundreds of big men in black suddenly jumped out from under the west gate of the city. They were seen waving their weapons and running wildly. There was no shouting to kill, only lightning-fast surprise attacks, and they rushed towards the city gate with ferocious looks.  Soldier.  "Puff, puff, puff!" But the three burly men at the front rushed to the city gate with lightning speed and killed the four defenders on the south side of the city gate with their swords.  The moment the blade slipped, the soldier whose throat was cut didn't even scream, and fell suddenly into a pool of blood.  Immediately, I saw the big man in black who had killed two soldiers with a single blow raised his blood-stained sword and swung it fiercely. While shouting "kill", he jumped over the corpse in front of him and swung his sword to kill the body standing in front of him.  A group of defenders in front of Antlers.  The hundreds of men in black who followed him were also skilled men. Although they were not as fast and fierce as him, they were only one step behind. After he killed two soldiers, almost all the men in black caught up with him.  , and then rushed with him to the antler fence across the city gate, and almost unanimously swung their swords to chop down the city gate defenders.  At this moment, a sudden change occurred.  But the moment the ten defenders standing in front of the antlers saw the man in black rushing past, they ran away. Instead of retreating towards the city gate, they ran in the opposite direction of the man in black, turned around and ran north.  As they fled without a fight, there were only three antler fences blocking the way of the men in black. Apart from that, there was no defender in the corridor behind the city gate, so that the men in black had already seen the bullets inserted into the door panels.  , middle and lower three door bolts.  Among the three door bolts, the middle door bolt is the thickest. It is a semicircular crossbar about four feet long and two feet in diameter. It requires at least five or six strong men to move it at the same time.  Except for the door latch in the middle, the remaining two door bolts are crossbars as thick as an adult's calf. They are nothing to worry about. The door bolts can be cut off with just three or five cuts.  Seeing the gatekeepers fleeing, the men in black did not pursue them. They immediately swarmed forward, removed the antlers blocking the way, and poured into the city gate corridor, which was five feet wide and about twenty meters long.  However, they didn't notice it at all. Just as they moved the antlers barricade, dense holes suddenly appeared on the walls on both sides of the city gate corridor. The holes at the top were as big as walnuts, while the walls five feet above the ground were filled with holes.  A hole in the wall as big as a fist was exposed.  It is worth noting that there are not many large holes at the bottom, less than twenty on both sides combined, and the holes on both sides are asymmetrical, staggered on the left and right.  In contrast, there are many small holes located in the middle and upper sections of the wall, which are densely packed like honeycombs. Moreover, these small holes are not horizontal straight holes, but inclined vertical holes.  If it weren't for the burning torches stuck on the walls on both sides of the corridor, perhaps the man in black would be able to see the light coming from these holes, and these little bits of light almost cover the entire corridor, from the open inner door to the closed door.  There are no blind spots between the outer city gates. As long as you enter the corridor, you will be illuminated by the bright light.  "Compared to the city, as the rocket drew a beautiful arc under the night sky, the originally silent official road outside the city suddenly became lively.  Amidst the roaring flames, thousands of torches suddenly appeared on both sides of the moat. Among them, there were the most torches on the official road on the west bank of the moat, lighting up almost half of the field. Along with the torches, tens of thousands of iron armor appeared.  Soldiers.  However, there were not many torches on the east bank of the moat, in front of the city gate, only more than a hundred, which meant that more than two thousand people had successfully crossed the moat.  "Kill——!" The moment the torch was lit, more than two thousand infantry troops rushed towards the city gate with a roar. The leading generals at the front were Jiang Qin and Jiang Gongyi, the lower generals of Xu Shuzhang.  Behind him, Wei Yan led an army of 20,000 people to kill the general along the official road. At this time, a pontoon bridge had been set up on the moat, allowing the army to rush directly across the moat and head straight to the city gate to attack.  It must be mentioned that Xu Shu, the "strategist", led the army to attack the city together with Wei Yan.  Although Wei Yan and Jiang Qin always called Xu Shu a military advisor, in fact he was not a military advisor, but the commander-in-chief of the Jingzhou Army who attacked Yangzhai City this time.  Therefore, he did not sit in the rear wearing a brocade robe as usual, but went into battle in person, marching alongside Wei Yan, and led the army to attack the city gate.  In addition, there is another point worth noting. This is that the Jingzhou Army led by Xu Shu did not display a banner, and the armors of more than 20,000 soldiers were all very common black armors.  Black or gray armor can be said to be the most common colors nowadays. The Southern Han Dynasty, Northern Wei Dynasty and Western Jin Dynasty all have this kind of clothing. Therefore, what can distinguish and identify them is the battle flag or the commander's flag, or the king of the Three Kingdoms leading the army.  A unique imperial banner during the personal expedition.  In other words, if you meet during the day, you can usually identify them, but not at night. If the opponent does not send out a flag, it is usually difficult to identify where they are coming from; unless the generals on both sides of the offense and defense are familiar with each other, in this way, you can identify them even without a flag.  out of each other.  ——???——To be continued————————————————(To be continued please search Piaotian Literature, the novel will be better and updated faster!
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