The First Auxiliary Road from the Imperial Examination

Chapter 338 The messenger arrives

Under the night, the majestic city gate was crumbling under the attack of simple trebuchets, and the gray stone particles fell straight down.

"Quick! Drop the gate stone quickly!" Seeing that the situation was not right, the captain of the city guard ordered his subordinates to put down the gate stone.

When the stone fell to the ground, the inside and outside of the city were immediately cut off, no matter whether it was the imperial court, the rebels, or the rebellious troops outside the city, no one could enter or leave.

As soon as he issued this order, his subordinates were stunned.

The three dynasties of Yan, Chen, and Chu all had laws and regulations, and those who were good at throwing stones at the door would be executed and the nine clans would be exiled.

"What are you still doing! Hurry up!" Seeing their resistance, the sweaty captain, with veins trembling on his forehead, and his cheeks tensed, stomped his feet vigorously, and said angrily, "Go up to the peak to blame, I will take responsibility, what are you waiting for?" fear!"

Hearing the words, the subordinates ran to the mechanism room in the inner road of the city wall, ready to push and pull the gate handle of the control mechanism.

"Huh! Huh!"

Just as they touched the switch, two crossbow arrows pierced through their chests. Before they had time to shout out, they both fell on the spot, touched the hand of the switch, and slid down weakly.

"Archery!" The lieutenant's lieutenant heard the movement, led his men to catch up, and asked the archer to shoot without even looking, but the opponent was already prepared, and only a feathered arrow grazed his cheek.

"Shoot again!" The lieutenant gritted his teeth and waved his hand, not wanting the man to fall to the ground and slide the shovel to the back of the gate.

"Wait!" The lieutenant's deputy, who was afraid of shooting the switch by mistake, waved his hand to stop without any delay.

The archer on his side hastily returned the bow, but the insider had already pulled out a large string of large gunpowder tubes filled with gunpowder from the bag he was carrying, and threw them and the torch onto the switch.

Booming, the moment the explosion appeared, the lieutenant's deputy and others rushed back, but Nei Ying threw another can of tung oil at the place of the explosion.

"Hahaha!"

As the other party laughed wildly, the organ room became a sea of ​​flames.

"Quick! Put out the fire!" The lieutenant's deputy looked at the front in shock, and bursts of hot air rushed towards his face like waves.

There is chaos here, but the captain has ordered the archers to shoot from both sides.

The chaotic army outside the city and the internal response inside the city both made him burnt out.

"Boss, the signal firecrackers have been sent out twice, but there is no response!" His subordinates ran over sweating profusely, and hurriedly reported, "Our bows, arrows and ammunition are only enough for half an hour!"

"Half an hour? Enough!" The captain broke into cold sweat, but looked fiercely at the group of people in the city who were trying to open the gate.

"Order the archers and musketeers to assemble! One third is outside and two thirds is inside! Set fire to Lao Tzu to clear out the traitors! Grandma! I would rather let the foreign enemies step down the city gate than give life to these traitors ! Kill! Kill me!"

"Yes!" Hearing the sound, the soldiers under his command immediately dispatched orders.

All of a sudden, the rioting soldiers rushing inside the city gate fell down in front of the city gate one after another.

Perhaps this formation frightened the opponent, and it didn't take long for anyone to charge forward.

"Come on!" The lieutenant looked down at the city, looked at the corpses of the traitors piled up, he had a flash of inspiration, and hurriedly called his subordinates to order, "Send two teams down, one to cover, the other to pile up the corpses of these thieves at the city gate Before, kill more and pile more, and make the pile tight! I want these traitors not to be ministers in life, but to guard the gate after death!"

"Yes!"

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The plan inside the gates of the outer city was temporarily invalidated, and the actions of the former Qi soldiers lurking in the thirteen-surnamed family in the middle city did not go as smoothly as expected.

The main reason is that this imperial city is too big, but this middle city is as large as the capital city of the former Qi Dynasty.

From the beginning, they moved forward all the way, like a broken bamboo.

But in the middle of the journey, people from the inner guards and patrol officers came out to stop the battle.

Going forward, several honorable families and royal relatives tried their best to stop it.

Among them, the guards with the largest number of people and the strongest combat power are the guards with the surnames of Sheng, Zheng, and An.

Seeing the stalemate here, the main commander trapped in Zhongcheng gradually became impatient.

The sounds of clashes, clangs, roars of soldiers fighting each other, even the sound of torches, and the terrified cries behind the walls of the surrounding mansions all amplified his emotional agitation, excitement, joy, rage, anger, and worry. .

Just when he couldn't help but ordered his subordinates to harass the houses and plunder the people of Chu, his subordinates rushed forward to report: "Tong Jianjun, there is a messenger sent by the lord, please see me."

"Who?" Tong Canjun touched his face, looked at him suspiciously, and asked, "Whose messenger are you talking about?"

"My lord, the messenger sent by the lord! It is said that before the siege, the lurking people were dragged up from outside the city!"

"Oh?" Tong Canjun squinted his eyes, pondered for a moment, motioned for him to bring them up, and did not forget to tell him, "Pay their weapons!"

"Don't worry, it's just four scholars, even if you give them weapons, they won't be able to use them!" The subordinate laughed and ran down.

After a while, four young boys were brought.

Tong Canjun looked at the four children, three fat and one thin, his doubts dissipated and confusion arose.

My lord, is there no one here?Why did you send these little ones here? !
Although he was puzzled, he put on airs and snorted without raising his eyelids: "Are you from outside the city?"

"How fresh! Our Taogui Academy was not built in the city!"

The fat girl in the lead choked on him with a haughty expression on her face.

Looking at this little girl's clothes and temperament, even though Tong Canjun was angry, he didn't explode immediately.

He remembered that many of the girls studying in Taogui Academy were noble girls from the former Qi Dynasty.

Looking at the age of the other party, it seems that he was influenced by Chu Feng and became more presumptuous.

Although he despised the girl from the bottom of his heart, Tong Canjun knew that his family valued what the lord could use at this time, so he endured his anger and looked at the three people standing behind the girl.

Those two chubby little gentlemen are also very delicate in appearance, and their unruly expressions and extraordinary behavior all show that they are of noble origin.

"You wait for the name to be reported!" Not getting angry doesn't mean not giving off power, Tong Canjun thought, he must let this arrogant little girl understand that people have to bow their heads under the eaves.

But I don't want to, this little girl is completely unscrupulous, after hearing what he said, she immediately said: "When you come back to the lord alive, come and ask our names! Don't waste your ears and our tongue!"

"!!!" Tong Canjun was so angry that images of [-] kinds of weapons being thrown over instantly popped up in his mind.

This bear thing is so annoying!
His subordinates couldn't see it either, and just as he was about to reprimand him, he saw the little girl slap a piece of letterhead with a seal on the desk: "Let's gossip! It's better to go to work quickly! If you delay the master Planning, we will not cover it up for you!"

Her presumptuous appearance made Tong Canjun twitch with anger, but his heart became more and more relaxed.

The moment he picked up the letterhead, Tong Canjun recognized that it was the inseparable seal of the Lord.

Immediately, he trusted the identities of the four young boys in front of him more and more.

"What are your orders, my lord?"

Tong Canjun was relieved, and his tone was much more polite.

This can be regarded as a learning experience for him. Facing the small quarrel in front of him, he simply went straight to the point and didn't give her a chance to get angry at him.

Sure enough, he didn't talk nonsense, and she didn't talk too much. She spread her little hands back and said to the two young gentlemen behind her, "Here, take it out!"

(End of this chapter)