Late Tang

The storm raged in the dark night, and the sound of the rain resounded through the sky and the earth.The gust of wind and the torrential rain hit the body, and the bone-chilling chill surged into the body, and the frozen people shivered.However, compared with the physical coldness, the scouts' hearts were occupied by the passion of blood.

Over half a month of devilish training on Shaobing Island, these heroic men who were originally selected from the army have been reborn even more.Tonight is the first time the reconnaissance capital shines its sword, and it is still going to Liaohai to test the sword against Cat Island, a fortress that has not been breached for decades!

With 100 people crouching under the city wall, Li Wei looked up at the top of the city in the rain and fog. A quarter of an hour passed without even a guard patrolling the city.

"Go!" He yelled softly and waved his right hand.

The scouts quickly took off a handful of crossbows from their backs, held the crossbows with both hands, and pulled the trigger against the two-foot-high battlement. The special zipline immediately penetrated the rain and fog, and landed on the city. The battlements on the parapet.Wearing tactical leather gloves and leather boots, Li Wei led the crowd to climb towards the top of the city wall while holding the flying rope.

In the dark night, the two-foot-high city head seemed to be a peak that could not be scaled to giants, until finally the undulating crenels were seen.Li Wei jumped up first, and landed firmly on the top of the city.One after another, the scouts jumped onto the top of the city. Thanks to God's blessing, there was such a heavy rain and storm that all the guards on the city hid in the towers and turrets to avoid the rain, and there was no guard on the city wall.

The sound of the huge rainstorm and the squalling wind perfectly concealed the actions of Li Wei and others, until they leaped to the top of the city, no one noticed.

The matter was half done, Li Wei couldn't bear the joy in his heart, and wiped the biting cold rain on his face.

"City Gate Tower!"

Li Wei gave a low shout, and immediately everyone reloaded the crossbow arrows and pulled the crossbow strings.Bending down, he quietly touched the gate tower emitting light.

In the city gate tower, about [-] guards of the Feng family were warming up inside.A few of them took off their outer clothes and held their spears to roast near the fire, cursing loudly about the damn weather.They were all members of the night watch team, and they were patrolling outside the fort when the rainstorm hit, and they were drenched to the brim.

A big man who looked like the head of the team took a big sip of wine, and said to the guards: "It seems that the rain will not stop for a while, everyone should go out and inspect according to the rules. The island patrol, the city patrol After the tour, everyone can wait until the rain stops."

"Head, it's raining like pouring outside, and the weather is so cold, once you go out, it's like you have to fish it out of the sea. It's been wet for a while now. If you do it again, you will definitely get up on the bed tomorrow. I won’t come. Otherwise, let’s wait until the rain stops. With such a heavy rain, no boat will dare to go to sea, and we will have nothing to do on the island.”

The other also said with a smile: "That's right, it has been 50 years since our island built the fort, except for the unsightly Zhensanjiang who committed a crime 20 years ago and was killed completely. , 30 years have passed in a flash, except for those sea cats who come to the island every year, how can half of the pirates dare to approach us. What's more, today is still such a stormy weather, it is even more impossible."

Seeing this, the leader laughed and cursed a few words, "This is the rule of the island. Even if it is raining outside, you can't slack off. It's fine to go out of the castle, but it is still necessary to go to the city wall every other hour. In this way Let's take turns going out, two every hour, and save everyone from being exposed to the rain over and over again. Wang Qi and Zhao Heizi, you two should go out now and inspect the city wall to see if there is any movement."

Both Wang Qi and Zhao Heizi were relatively thin and weak, and they were always bullied in this group of guards.It was their turn in the first shift, and they could only slander in their hearts, but they still had to wear a smile on their faces.Each of them took a big bamboo hat and put on a coir raincoat, and each took a spear and chased out of the city gate.

As soon as the two chased into the rain curtain, they suddenly felt a gust of wind and rain hit, and then their necks were strangled by a cold wrist.Before they could even say a word, a sharp triangular army thorn pierced their hearts.

Li Wei slowly retracted the three-edged army thorn inserted into the chest of the enemy guard. This is also a new type of equipment specially made by Xinjunfang for the scouts according to the blueprint drawn by General Li Jing. It can quickly pierce the armor of the enemy, and quickly bleed the enemy to death.This kind of army thorn stabs the target, and it can bleed profusely without dying. Even if it is rescued, the wound will be difficult to heal.

After taking off the bamboo hat and coir raincoat from the dead body, Li Wei and the other leader of the scouting team immediately put them on.With the bamboo hats hanging down and the coir raincoats pulled aside, the two of them walked into the city gate tower with a spear each.

Captain Feng, who was drinking to keep out the cold, saw that the two came back immediately after going out, and he couldn't help but said angrily: "Two thieves, the fucker just went out and didn't have time to take a pee, and then got back, you **** Who are you fooling, hurry up and go out to patrol again for Lao Tzu, and don’t come back to Lao Tzu without a stick of incense. Otherwise, be careful.”

He cursed loudly, but saw that the two of them were nailed to the ground like nails, motionless.He couldn't help but get even more angry, usually two wretches would dare to offend him, but today these two guys were muddled by the rain?

Just as he was about to scold again, he suddenly saw the two men throwing their spears at him, then they lifted their coir raincoats and grabbed a crossbow from their waists.

The head of the team was so scared that he rolled on the ground in fright. He had just avoided one of the spears, but he saw the other spear piercing Zheng Lao Scar beside him.

"Xuuuuuuuuuuuuu!" The crossbow machine fired non-stop, and three or four crossbowmen fell down in a blink of an eye.The fire-warming guards who were caught off guard by the sudden attack did not understand why Wang Qi and Zhao Heizi suddenly went crazy and killed everyone they saw.Some people rolled on the spot, some got up to get their weapons, and some were shouting and cursing at Li Wei.

But what they got in return was the sound of hurried footsteps, and then suddenly countless people rushed in from the rain outside the building, all of them holding a handful of crossbows, and killed everyone in the house on sight.

The howling crossbow nails nailed the guards to the ground one by one, and many people died without understanding what happened.

"Enemy attack!" Captain Feng screamed frantically, holding a shield in one hand and a horizontal knife in the other.

It's a pity that although his cry was loud, the wind and rain outside was even louder. As soon as his voice came out of the city gate, it was immediately covered by the huge wind and rain, and disappeared without a trace.

The twenty or so guards were no match for Li Wei and the hundred of them, and all of them died under the crossbow nails without a single stick of incense.Team leader Feng struggled for a while, but in the end he became a hornet's nest, nailed with twenty or thirty crossbow nails.

"Lift the winch to pull up the jack gate, open the gate of the fort, and lower the drawbridge. The others will guard the gate with me. Before the general leads most of his troops into the city, no one can take half a step back. Even if he dies, he must die in the position." Come on!" Li Jing held up the blood-dripping horizontal knife and shouted orders.

Li Wei left 20 people to twist the Jinjin gate, and he led the others along the horse path on the city wall, heading straight for the city gate.There, there are two rows of caves for hiding soldiers, and there are likely to be castle guards inside.As Li Wei predicted, when they rushed into the city gate with rain all over their bodies, twenty guards had already picked up their weapons in a hurry.Another leader was picking up a bullhorn and blowing vigorously with his cheeks puffed up.

Li Wei threw the triangular thorn in his hand towards the leader vigorously, and the short thorn hit his throat, and the bright red blood gushed out from his throat with bubbles. The bull horn just blew twice, Then it stopped suddenly with an out of tune.

"Let's not stay, clear the field quickly, the guards have issued an alarm, hurry up, hurry up!" Li Wei's eyes were tearing, and he bowed 99 times, but something went wrong with the last one, which made him extremely annoyed.Although the sound of the horn was only a short sound, Li Wei was not sure that no one in the city heard it.

The sound of the horn stopped, and countless roars completely filled the city gate.Li Wei and others picked up the crossbow and began to quickly form three rows, one row after another divided into three stages of shooting.The castle guard charged forward with a shield in one hand and a spear in the other.The crossbow bolts of the scouts poured down on them like rain, ten, twenty, thirty, and hundreds!

Many people fell to the ground with arrows, howling and rolling on the ground.At this time, the crossbowmen in the first row knelt down to reload, the crossbowmen in the second row started firing again, and the crossbowmen in the third row behind were ready to load.

The huge iron cast iron gate in the city gate has been twisted by the winch, making a creaking sound and slowly rising.Seven or eight scouts of huge men with double-edged hatchets slashed at the iron chains of the suspension bridge. After dozens of slashes, the iron chains as thick as pigeon eggs finally broke, and the suspended suspension bridge slammed into Haogou with a loud noise. smashed to the other side.

With a bang, water splashed in all directions, and the two-foot-wide Hao communicated.

Li Jing, who had been closely watching the movement of the city gate on the other side of Haogou, saw the suspension bridge fall for the first time. He jumped up, swung his seven-foot sword towards the city gate, and shouted passionately: "Brother! Let's go!"

Leaping first, Li Jing rushed forward with Zhang Chengzong and Liu Shouqian. He held a round shield in his left hand and a long sword in his right. With both feet stepping on the rainwater that was not as deep as the back of his feet, he rushed all the way towards the suspension bridge.The ten young children of the Xiao family didn't show any fear at all, Yuan Fan jumped up, raised his sword and held his shield, roared excitedly and led a hundred family members to rush forward following Li Jing's footsteps.

(To be continued)