I am not Yuan Shu

Chapter 184 Entering the city!

At Yuan Shu's command, everyone dispersed and rushed to the team they led, and formally informed all those involved in the action of the reason and purpose of Yuan Shu's initiation of this action.

Most of what Yuan Shu said was passed on to all the warriors participating in the operation, so that they would know what was going to be done and the significance of what was going to be done at the last moment.

Yuan Shu fully learned from the failures of his predecessors and did his utmost to keep confidentiality. When the news was announced, that is, when the action was officially launched, there was no time for hesitation.

As the saying goes.

The moon is dark and the wind is high, the sky is full of murders and arson.

At nightfall, Luoyang City has entered a regular curfew mode. Apart from a few patrolling soldiers patrolling the streets and arresting people who violate the curfew, only those responsible for night watch are allowed to wander outside and report the time.

No one knew that a shocking change was about to unfold.

Sun Yuan, the city gate lord who is in charge of guarding the north valley gate of Luoyang City, has been very nervous since noon. Although he tried his best to act normal, some nervousness was still unavoidable.

As a former official of the Yuan family, his life, death, honor and disgrace are in a sense bound to those of the Yuan family. As a beneficiary of the concept of dual monarchy, he will naturally be controlled by this concept.

When Yuan Feng first discussed this matter with him and Tao Ying, an old official of the Yuan family who was in charge of guarding Kaiyang Gate, they were both very panicked and scared. They were worried that this matter would not succeed and that they would lose their lives instead.

But later he calmed down and thought about it, and felt that with the power of the Yuan family, they might succeed, and once they succeeded, the benefits they would gain would certainly be huge. At least, they would no longer have to live in fear because of the eunuchs.

Chaos is the ladder to rise. If we seize this opportunity and do our best to help it succeed, then it will be easier to reach a higher position in the future. If we want to overtake on a curve, we have to take the risk of turning at high speed, right?

Both of them agreed and expressed their willingness to cooperate with Yuan's army to open the city gates and help Yuan control Luoyang.

Now that night has fallen and the agreed time is approaching, Sun Yuan's palms are sweating from nervousness.

His deputy and good friend Zhao Ran was very surprised by this.

"You usually go home early to rest, why are you still on patrol so late today? Could it be that Captain Lu is coming to inspect patrol affairs tonight? No, I heard that Captain Lu is sick and hasn't recovered yet."

As soon as he finished speaking, Zhao Ran found that Sun Yuan was looking at him with a very strange look, and looked him up and down for a long time.

He was a little scared by Sun Yuan's look and couldn't help asking, "What's wrong? Is there something strange about me? Why are you looking at me like that?"

Sun Yuan sighed and shook his head.

"I said, I will give you a fortune, do you believe it?"

"Wealthy?"

Zhao Ran looked puzzled and asked, "What do you mean? What is wealth?"

“Wealth is wealth, but it may be a little dangerous and not completely safe. But as long as you can survive, wealth is inevitable.”

Sun Yuan said slowly: "We have been friends for many years, and I want to give you this opportunity. Anyway, you should stay with me, and you will know the reason soon."

Zhao Ran didn't understand, but his long experience of living in Luoyang told him that there was something fishy going on.

He thought about it and felt that Sun Yuan, as a friend of many years, would not deceive him, and he was not moving here, so if there was any danger, he would definitely not be able to escape.

So he decided to stay here and not leave.

But what followed was that he also became nervous.

What is wealth?
What's the danger?
Time passed slowly. The soldiers who were on night watch had come twice, and the soldiers who were on duty also retreated.

The second watch has passed for a long time, and I think the third watch is not far away.

As the night deepened, the soldiers standing guard on the city wall could not help but yawn. One person's yawn would often lead a large group of people to yawn one after another.

Sun Yuan stood on the city wall, looking at the pitch-black night outside the city in silence. Zhao Ran really couldn't hold it back any longer. He moved forward and looked outside in the direction of Sun Yuan's sight, only to see a vast darkness.

There is no one in the slums outside the city who can light a lamp. The occasional stars that can be seen are the weak lights used by the night watchmen to tell the time. Moreover, it is a dark and windy night. Apart from the city tower with lit torches, what is there to see outside?

"Can you tell me what it is?"

Zhao Ran couldn't help but ask, "I've been waiting since the second watch, and it's almost the third watch, and you still haven't told me what's going on?"

"It's almost time, it's almost time, it's almost three o'clock in the morning."

Sun Yuan just asked Zhao Ran to wait a little longer and then ignored him. Zhao Ran couldn't hold it any longer and walked around. After walking for a while, he felt the tension became unbearable and planned to find Sun Yuan to find out what was going on. As a result, he heard the night watchman's ringing at three o'clock in the morning.

Well, it's already three o'clock in the morning, and it's almost tomorrow, and you still don't tell me what's going on? Zhao Ran walked quickly towards Sun Yuan. When he was almost there, Sun Yuan suddenly patted the battlement of the city wall, turned his head and saw Zhao Ran, and immediately went up to him and held Zhao Ran's shoulders with both hands, leaving Zhao Ran confused.

"what happened?"

"Now, immediately, tell the gatekeepers to quietly open the gate!"

"what?"

"Stop! Immediately! Our great wealth depends on this one time!"

"I……"

"Go!"

"Oh……"

Zhao Ran was pushed down the city wall by Sun Yuan with a confused look on his face, and then he ordered the guards in the city gate to open it.

"Ah? Sima, this... opening the city gate so late at night is not a good idea, right? What if the higher-ups investigate? This..."

"This is an order! Open the city gate immediately! Otherwise I will chop you down!"

Zhao Ran ordered the soldiers to open the city gate. The soldiers looked at each other and then did as he said.

Soldiers like them who just manage to get a meal every month and not starve to death don't have so many ideas. It's impossible to ask them to work hard for their lives with such treatment, so they do whatever their superiors say. As for other things, they don't consider them.

On the city wall, Sun Yuan also ordered the soldiers to slowly lower the drawbridge. Although the soldiers were confused, they still did as he was told.

The drawbridge of the valley gate was lowered and the city gate opened wide. Zhao Ran, who was standing behind the city gate, had a calm look on his face at first. But after the gate slowly opened and the drawbridge was slowly lowered, his eyes suddenly widened.

This this……

This is all...

what happened?

He hadn't seen anything on the top of the city wall, so how come as soon as the door was opened and the bridge was lowered, the other side of the moat was full of people?

It was pitch black, with no end in sight, and it made his scalp tingle.

and……

Is it the army?
Where did the army come from?

Northern Army?

In the light of the fire, he saw that the people opposite him were all wearing armor, holding swords, wearing military helmets on their heads, and with a red scarf around their necks. They were silent, just staring straight at the city gate.

Zhao Ran was so frightened that he dared not move, and the soldiers in the city gate were also frightened and their faces turned pale.

But at this time, Sun Yuan came down from the city wall, bypassed the soldiers in the city gate, walked straight in front of Zhao Ran, and went directly to the city gate bridge. Then Zhao Ran saw a knight on horseback came forward, jumped off the horse, and said something to Sun Yuan.

Sun Yuan ran back quickly.

"Everyone, get out of the way! Don't make any noise!"

Zhao Ran and the other soldiers had no idea why, so they could only follow instructions mechanically. They dared not say a word, and all of them made way for the path in the city gate.

Then, they watched the dark "army" pass through the city gate bridge in five neat columns and enter the city gate. There was no other sound except the sound of footsteps, breathing and the collision of armor.

As for how many people entered Luoyang City...

Hard to say.

Anyway, Zhao Ran felt it was a lot.

Because it took a while for these five columns to move forward and most of them were gone, a rough estimate is that there were at least four to five thousand people.

Have all the Northern troops entered Luoyang?
How can this be?

And the Northern Army doesn’t have that many people!

(End of this chapter)