Guiyi Fei Tang

Chapter 35: Sui Ding Shan Dan
"Sorry..."

"Open the city gate!"

At 15 p.m., as the city gates opened and the horses' anxious breathing could be heard, the th Regiment at the gate of Shandan City was on alert.

"Enter the city!"

Seeing that the city gate was completely opened, Jiu Juyan led the fifty soldiers of the first team of the first brigade and walked into the city gate in unison without Liu Jilian saying anything.

Watching them pass through the corridor and enter the city wall, Liu Jilong's eyes were fixed on the dozens of foreign soldiers at the city gate, not missing any trace.

As a quarter of an hour passed, Jiu Juyan led two armored soldiers back and bowed to Liu Jilong in front of the city gate.

"Captain, there is no problem with the two city gates. Our people have already taken control of the inner city gate. Please go to Jie'er Mansion without Lu Yan."

"But before that, he asked the remaining 100 of us to leave our horses, carriages and armor in the city wall..."

"Impossible!" Liu Jilong rejected the request in a flat tone. He looked towards the city with sharp eyes, but then turned his eyes and nodded in Tibetan: "Tell them, it's okay."

"Yes..." Jiu Juyan agreed. Just as he was about to turn his horse around and leave, he heard Liu Jilong whisper in Tang dialect: "Follow me after entering the city!"

Jiu Juyan's eyes lit up, so instead of returning to the city himself, he sent a special soldier into the city to report the news.

Not long after, when the special forces returned, Liu Jilian took the lead and led the remaining 150 soldiers and civilians, except the cavalry outside the city, into the city wall.

"Ma Cheng, take twenty people with you and block the city gate with a few carts!"

Liu Jilong spoke in a low voice, and Ma Cheng understood what he meant and slowly retreated to the end of the team.

Gradually, the team entered the city wall. The place was flat and empty, with an area of about two or three acres. It was surrounded by two-meter-high rammed earth walls, and there were only two gates at the front and back that could be passed through.

Liu Jilian saw the first team of soldiers guarding the inner city gate and the city tower. Without any warning, he suddenly took action and rode his horse towards the inner city gate.

Jiu Juyan reacted quickly and shouted behind him, "Follow the captain!"

"What are you doing!!"

"No one is allowed to move!"

On the city gate tower, several Tibetan centurions also reacted. They tried to close the city gate, but were confronted by the armored soldiers arranged by Liu Jilian with long weapons.

Liu Jilong rode his horse through the inner city gate corridor, rushed directly into the inner city, and rushed towards Jie'er Mansion.

When the ordinary soldiers in Shandan City heard that they were going to surrender, they became unguarded against them, and the centurions did not expect that the once docile Han slaves would be so unruly.

Caught off guard, a large group of soldiers from the 13th Regiment rushed through the inner city gate, and Liu Jilian led 20 special forces to rush towards Jie'er Mansion.

The sudden situation was seen by a captain, who jumped on his horse and tried to overtake Liu Jilong and his men and return to Jie'er Mansion first.

However, seeing his actions, Liu Jilong took the spear from the horse hook and threw it directly in front of him.

The military horses neighed, startled by the sudden appearance of the spears.

The centurion was thrown off his horse unexpectedly. Liu Jilong did not stop, but shouted to him in Tibetan: "I know where he is, no need to send him!"

The captain was knocked unconscious after the fall, and when he got up, he could only watch Liu Jilian and his men rush towards Ji'er's mansion.

In less than half a cup of tea, Liu Jilong and his twenty-odd men rushed to Jie'er Mansion, and more than a hundred foreign soldiers guarding there were on alert with guns in hand.

Liu Jilian was on horseback. He raised the whip in his hand and signaled the special forces to stop.

"Sorry..."

He rode back and forth on horseback, steering the military horse, and at the same time said in Tibetan: "Tell Xiaojieer, I'm here with my men!"

The palms of the more than one hundred foreign soldiers in front of the mansion gate were sweating. One of them retreated back into the mansion and ran to the main hall in a hurry.

At this moment, Lu Yan, who was in the main hall, didn't know what was happening outside. He just heard the noise.

"Jie'er, General Tang is rushing to the gate of the mansion with twenty special forces!"

The captain rushed in in a hurry and spoke nonchalantly to Lu Yan, who was sitting in the main seat.

"What did you say?!"

Lu Yan stood up suddenly, and when he realized what was happening, he said angrily: "Didn't we have instructions at the city gate? Five hundred people can't stop two hundred of them?!" "This... I... I don't know either, but the Tang general is already at the gate." The captain explained dryly.

"Useless thing!" Lu Yan was also very flustered, but he still raised his hands: "Help me put on the armor!"

"Yes Yes!"

The captain and several soldiers from the main hall came up in a hurry and started to put armor on Mei Luyan.

About half a cup of tea later, Mei Lu Yan, with a gloomy face, walked out of Jie'er Mansion with a hundred households and several soldiers.

At this time, outside Jie'er's mansion, nearly a hundred Shazhou soldiers wearing armor and holding Sanchen flags lined up in front of the mansion.

To the left and right and behind them, there were Tibetan defenders chasing them, forming a huge crowd that occupied the road.

Seeing that the situation was still on his side, Lu Yan breathed a sigh of relief.

He had never fought against elite troops like the Shazhou Army, but when he heard that Zhangye had fallen and that his own clan member Shang Bibi was in a bad situation in Hehuang, he considered surrendering.

Although they were not careful enough and allowed this group of Tang people to rush to Jie'er's mansion, fortunately they had been surrounded and it was unlikely that they would cause any trouble.

Thinking of this, Lu Yan, who had originally felt a little guilty, became bolder.

He pushed aside the two foreign soldiers who were blocking his way, walked in front of Liu Jilong, looked up at the tall man on horseback, and frowned slightly.

"You are the captain from Shazhou, right? Why is it different from what I promised you just now?"

No Lu Yan refers to what Liu Jilong had promised before, but Liu Jilong chuckled and responded in Tibetan: "I am worried that some people will be dissatisfied with your surrender to us, so I brought people to help."

"You..." Lu Yan's eyes widened. He really didn't expect Liu Jilong to use such an excuse.

"Well, now that they are inside, please ask the soldiers in the city to take off their armor and surrender, and return home to wait for the governor to lead his troops to arrive."

Liu Jilian glanced at the hundreds of soldiers on his left and right and did not take them seriously.

Seeing his arrogant look, Lu Yan felt a little annoyed and subconsciously put his hand on the hilt of the knife.

But before he could react, Liu Jilong suddenly urged his horse forward, scaring Lu Yan so much that he took several steps back.

"Haha... the horse is frightened. Sorry to bother you, Xiaojie!"

Liu Jilong laughed heartily, and the soldiers of the 13th Regiment behind him also laughed.

When the Tibetan soldiers in the city saw the appearance of their commander, their morale was crushed.

After Lu Yan reacted, he also looked around hurriedly, and then said with a gloomy face: "I will not hand over the Shandan before Governor Zhang arrives!"

"Well, then let's..."

Before Liu Jilong could finish his words, he heard a commotion among the Tibetan troops.

He subconsciously turned his head to look at the city gate tower, only to see that the Tibetan flag on the city gate tower had been replaced and replaced by the Sanchen flag of Shazhou.

Liu Jilong grinned, turned his horse's head and looked at Lu Yan: "In this case, I will take my brothers to guard the West City Gate Tower... Go!"

He shook the reins of his horse and left. Zhang Chang, Geng Ming and Li Ji also led their teams to follow him to the city gate tower.

"How did the city gate tower get lost?!"

Watching Liu Jilong and his men go away, Lu Yan yelled at the centurions incompetently.

"We...we saw them heading straight here, so we all followed them..."

"Me!" Lu Yan was almost angry to death, but he didn't think that the soldiers were so lax because he didn't train regularly.

Instead, Liu Jilian led his troops back to West City and lived in the city gate tower.

Looking at the Jie'er Mansion in the distance, Liu Jilong raised the corner of his mouth, and he could vaguely hear cheers coming from some courtyards under the city.

"Shandan, then settled..."

(End of this chapter)