Chapter 388: The Battle of the Gate
Wei Qi said a very common name, and then told his figure and personality in detail, in order to please Chang Wei, Wei Qi also confessed to the secret agents in the Shiqiaozi White Lotus Army who had surrendered to the official army. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
After setting a specific time to open the city gate, Chang Wei gave him two flags as a certificate of passage.
After the discussion, Wei Qi returned to Zou Cheng alone, and the first thing Chang Wei and Han chased back to Weishan Camp was to search for the secret agent, and as soon as he said the name and appearance of this person, Cheng Laohu was both surprised and regretful.
Because, this person is one of his right-hand men, since the night of the upheaval in the Weishan Battalion, this person has participated in all the major events of the Weishan Battalion, and it can be said that except for He Wenlie and a few others, this person is one of the most outstanding officers. It was surprising to have imagined that such a person would be a secret agent, but unfortunately he was killed in the battle of Nishan Lake.
That's right! Originally, Chang Wei was still suspicious of the identity of the secret agent, but after hearing the news that this person had died in battle, he believed it instead. Because, after the Battle of Nishan Lake, the Volunteer Battalion and the Weishan Battalion joined forces, and Chang Wei's identity almost became a semi-public secret, if the secret agent hadn't died, how could Wei Qi not know Chang Wei's true identity?
After dealing with the matter of the secret agent, Chang Wei immediately deployed troops to prepare for the offensive in the city. In the face of Yuan Keli and Chang Wei outside the west and south gates of Zoucheng, the White Lotus Sect also sent the most powerful troops and manpower to garrison the defense, Xu Jiashi led 100,000 disciples to guard the west gate, Chen Canyu led 80,000 people to guard the south gate, and the officers and troops outside the second gate in the northeast did not attack, obviously only to assist Yuan Keli and Chang Wei in the siege, so Hou Qiongyin and Jing Yiming each led 30,000 people to garrison.
Wei Qi's target was the east gate where Hou Qiongyin was stationed, and this choice was reasonable. Because the other three guards are Xu Hongru's henchmen, although Hou Qiongyin has shown signs of turning her back on the Wenxiang Sect and joining the White Lotus Sect, but now in this situation, no one will have confidence in the White Lotus Sect anymore, so she began to re-woo Hou Wu, Wei Qi and the Four Holy Maidens.
But the White Lotus Envoy she sent under her rough hand to assassinate Yan Ruyu was already known to Hou Wu, which caused an irreparable rift between the two, and Hou Wu and they had already made up their minds to eradicate this ambitious woman.
Joining forces with Chang Wei can not only get a chance to escape from Zou Cheng, but also get rid of Hou Qiongyin with his hands, which is a clever move to kill two birds with one stone, as for the fate of the White Lotus Sect and Xu Hongru? That is not something that the Wenxiang Sect needs to worry about.
At the darkest time before dawn, more than a dozen masters such as the Nine Sons of the Big Dipper, Han Chai, Tang Jinyi, Yan Ruyu, Enlightenment, and Chang Wei hid in the darkness two hundred steps away from the east gate of Zou City, and behind them were the elite soldiers led by Jin Hong'er, Cheng Laohu and others, as well as dozens of sharpshooters such as Yin An.
They were the vanguard and main force in the battle to seize the gate, followed by the 2,000 volunteer soldiers led by Huang Chongwen, and farther away were the men and horses of the chief soldier Liao Dong, who would immediately follow up once the city gate was opened.
Suddenly, several dead wind lamps on the city gate went out at the same time, which was the signal given by Wei Qi. Chang Wei raised his hand and made an offensive gesture, and then more than a dozen masters slowly crawled on the ground, and after a quarter of an hour, they entered the land of a stone's throw, but from the city wall, they looked like a gray-yellow soil. The reason for this effect is due to the earthy camouflage clothes on their bodies.
As we all know, in the long process of evolution in nature, many creatures have learned this strange trick of camouflage in order to protect themselves against enemies. Military camouflage originated from the initial bionic consciousness of soldiers, and long ago, people would cover themselves with animal skin, feathers or branches when hunting, and suddenly attack when they approached their prey.
In Chang Wei's words, in the era of more and more sophisticated guns, "discovery can destroy" has become possible, so he attaches great importance to the tactic of "discovering the enemy and disguising himself", and even at the beginning of the establishment of the volunteer battalion, the soldiers have special camouflage and reconnaissance training in their subjects.
Therefore, military uniforms account for a large part of the equipment of the Volunteer Battalion, and the earthy gray military uniforms that can confuse the enemy when fighting at night are one of the basic equipment.
In the process of their crawling forward, the lights on the west city gate were extinguished in turn, taking advantage of this opportunity, more than a dozen masters galloped quickly to the city gate within dozens of steps, the lights went out and caused a small commotion, in the officers scolding and soldiers complaining to each other, no one found that the city gate quietly opened a gap.
"Up!" More than a dozen masters discarded their camouflage clothes at the same time, and swept into the city gate like the wind, and more than a dozen men with cyan cloth strips wrapped around their right arms turned around and left, these people were Neiying.
As soon as he threw himself into the city gate hole, Tang Jinyi took the lead in throwing the fireworks flag in his arms for half a day, and the battle for the gate began!
Before the soldiers guarding the gate could react, a dozen masters brandished their swords and began the slaughter.
"Enemy attack!"
"The officers and soldiers are coming, run for your life. ”
"The official army has broken the city gate, flee quickly!"
The soldiers of the Wenxiang Sect who acted as internal responses howled and fled in embarrassment, and the attention of the soldiers defending the city had just been attracted by them, and the roaring cannons roared in the night on the opposite side, and the soldiers of Dongcheng who were smashed by dark red cannonballs lost their minds instantly.
Then dense and hurried footsteps rang out in the night, and it was the long-awaited Vigilant Battalion Musket Team, all of whom were wearing gray-yellow camouflage clothes, and even if they moved to the city, the White Lotus Cultists guarding the city couldn't see where they were for a while.
"Close the city gates! The officers and soldiers are coming!"
As soon as the officer's order was issued, the elite soldiers led by Cheng Laohu and Jin Hong'er braved the rain of arrows to kill, and immediately, the dense gunfire rang out, the Dongcheng disciples had never fought with the volunteer battalion at all, at this time, the cannonballs on their heads were roaring, the bullets were flying in front of them, and there were hundreds of elite soldiers led by ten masters at the gate of the city, and they couldn't resist at all.
What's even worse is that the commander Hou Wu who is on duty at the east gate tonight is completely gone, what is the result of the rabble without a commander and the elite battle led by the master?
Soon there was no White Lotus Sect standing at the city gate, the east city gate immediately opened, and the musket team that rushed into the city gate frantically poured ammunition, Chang Wei took the lead in killing the streets of the city, and the subsequent elite soldiers rushed into the city, immediately fired rockets, and set the houses along the street on fire.
For a time, the cannon at the east gate of Zou Cheng rumbled, shouting and killing, and the flames soared into the sky.
Outside the south, west, and north gates, Wuding, Yuan Keli, and Zhao Yan saw this movement and immediately ordered the siege of the city. Suddenly, the horns of the four gates of Zou Cheng sounded in unison, shouting to kill the heavens, and the White Lotus Sect was in a panic, completely unsure of which side to save.
The Volunteer Battalion, which had taken control of the East City Gate, immediately climbed the East City Wall and slaughtered the South City, so that the advantage of the White Lotus Sect in the city wall was gone, and the city wall became a massacre of the rabble by musketeers.
After expanding the advantage, the follow-up artillery moved dozens of tiger squat cannons onto the city wall, so that the White Lotus Sect only had to flee for their lives, and soon the volunteer battalion opened the south gate.
He Wenlie took the lead in killing the west gate, the volunteer battalion still advanced along the city wall to the west gate, and the European artillery team under Zhang Ke under the west gate was even more powerful, and the White Lotus disciples saw that the general trend had gone, and they fled out of the city from the north gate where the attack was weakest.
At this time, Chang Wei and other masters took Cheng Laohu, Yin An and other elites to enter the White Lotus Holy Mother Temple! )