Fenghou

Chapter 185 Night Attack
In the dark night, a cavalry of [-] men was galloping southward at high speed.

This army was the Chen Qing cavalry who went north to fight against the Xixia Army two days ago. After running northward for more than a hundred miles, they turned south and went straight to Zhoujiabao.

Going north to fight against Xixia and the so-called negotiations are just a smoke bomb for Chen Qing to relax the vigilance of Zhoujiabao and prepare for the Song army's raid on Zhoujiabao.

Now that he has decided to kill Zhou Jiabao's chicken to scare the monkeys in all the castles in Qinzhou, no matter whether Zhou Jiabao is sincere or not, Chen Qing will kill it.

The army was still ten miles away from Zhoujiabao. The cavalry stopped, and the soldiers got off their horses one after another, rearranged their equipment, and left their horses in a forest. Two thousand soldiers rushed towards Zhoujiabao on foot.

Not long after, the army arrived at the bridgehead, and Zhao Xiaoyi, who arrived earlier, reported to Chen Qinghui: "Reporting to the control system, all the hidden sentries at the foot of the mountain have been pulled out."

The last time Chen Qing came here, he found some shacks next to the wheat fields, which looked like they were used by farmers to guard the crops, but the farmers in the shacks blew their horns when he arrived, and Chen Qing suspected that these shacks were actually Zhoujiabao. There are secret whistles placed at the foot of the mountain, and even Chigu Town has their secret whistles, such as tea sheds selling snacks.

"Where is Chigu Town?"

"We searched three tea shed mud huts and found gunpowder bows and arrows in one of them."

Chen Qing nodded. They had already arrived at the foot of the mountain, but so far there was no call to the police, so it can be concluded that the hidden sentries of Zhoujiabao at the foot of the mountain have been pulled out.

Chen Qing raised his head and looked up the mountain. The first defensive wall was about [-] steps away from the foot of the mountain. During the day, [-] steps were not far away, but at night, [-] steps seemed far away. The torches stuck on the top of the wall It turned into dots of stars, as if hanging in the night sky.

Tonight's day was well chosen, with dark clouds and no moonlight or stars in the sky. It was windy and dark, suitable for a sneak attack.

Everyone was still waiting, and two Song army scouts had already gone up. Not long after, there was movement ahead, and two scouts who went up the mountain to investigate came back.

"Regulations are rewarding!" Zhao Xiaoyi reported.

Chen Qing immediately ordered to build a marching tent, and a candle was lit inside the tent, and there was a thick curtain outside the tent, so that no light could come out.

While drawing on paper, a scout described: "To enter the first defensive wall, you must pass through a sentry gate. There is a sentry post on the top and a thick wooden door below. It caused the alarm bell to ring, and it is estimated that the alarm switch is in the sentry building."

"What does the sentry building look like? What is the status of the sentry?" Chen Qing asked.

"Actually, it should not be called a sentry building, but a sentry booth. It has a cover on the top, a wooden fence on the bottom, a bell hanging directly above it, and a torch on each of the four corner eaves. It is easier to identify. Then inside the sentry box There were three sentries, none of whom slept."

"Are you sure there are only three?"

"It is certain that the humble staff saw them changing guards, and there is no fourth person."

At this time, Yang Zaixing asked from the side: "How far are you observing the guard post?"

"About sixty steps, there are two stone tablets over there, you can hide behind them."

Chen Qing understood Yang Zaixing's meaning, he asked Yang Zaixing to wait, and continued to ask: "Have you observed the route to the second defensive wall?"

"Beizhi only saw a mountain road, and there was a heavy gate on the mountain road. I couldn't tell whether it was a wooden gate or an iron gate."

This information was what Chen Qing wanted to know. After rushing up to the first defensive wall, he was basically exposed. He was more concerned about the preparations he needed to make before going to the second defensive wall. Obviously, they needed to prepare a bumper.

Chen Qing ordered Zhao Xiaoyi to prepare to hit the wood, and then he smiled at Yang Zaixing: "Call Liu Cui, we will kill the three guard posts!"

Two large stone tablets were erected on the mountain road about sixty steps away from the first defensive wall. One smaller stone tablet was engraved with the three characters of "Zhoujiabao", while the other slightly larger stone tablet was engraved with the words Jin Zhou. The ten rules of Jiabao.

Chen Qing took Yang Zaixing and Liu Cui each with a god-armed crossbow and quickly went up the mountain and hid behind the big stone tablet, Chen Qing hid behind the smaller stone tablet, Yang Zaixing and Liu Cui hid behind the other slightly larger stone tablet.

Chen Qing observed for a while, just as the scout dutou described, a heavy wooden door was built in the middle of the mountain road, with high walls made of stones on both sides, and a sentry box above the wooden door, with one under each of the four cornices The torch illuminated the surroundings of the sentry box very clearly. Three sentries stood inside the pavilion, with bows and arrows on their backs and spears in their hands, looking around vigilantly.

There is an alarm bell above their heads. It doesn't matter how to open the wooden door. After killing the three guards, everything will be solved.

Chen Qing made a gesture to Yang Zaixing and Liu Cui, and the three of them shot one person according to their positions. Chen Qing was on the far right, he shot the person on the far right, Yang Zaixing shot the sentry in the middle, and Liu Cui was in charge of the sentry on the left. To make them speak out, they must be killed with one arrow.

All three of them were carrying light divine arm crossbows. Although they couldn't compare with the heavy divine arm crossbows, they were equally powerful, surpassing ordinary military crossbows, and could shoot through the head with one arrow.

The three of them raised their crossbows and aimed at the sentry. Chen Qing coughed lightly, and the three crossbow arrows were shot out at the same time, which was incomparably fast. The three sentries were shot through their heads almost simultaneously by the crossbow arrows, and fell down softly without a sound.

Chen Qing waved back, and twenty scout soldiers flew up, all of them were skilled in lightness, and climbed up to the sentry box lightly. Not long after, the heavy wooden door was opened.

In the darkness, densely packed soldiers of the Song Army rushed up from the foot of the mountain. According to the agreement in advance, they were divided into two groups. Chen Qing led a thousand soldiers to attack the second defensive wall, and Yang Zaixing and Liu Cui each led five hundred soldiers from the camp to capture it. The first defensive wall.

As the soldiers of the Song army rushed up the first defensive wall, they were immediately spotted by the guard Bao Ding, who shouted suddenly, and Yang Zaixing ordered loudly: "Anyone who does not surrender will be killed!"

Behind the defensive wall are cave dwellings. The cave dwellings are basically barracks for soldiers and warehouses for storing food and supplies. Soldiers kicked open the doors and killed them.
Chen Qing led a thousand soldiers to rush up along the mountain road on the left. Their goal was the second defensive wall. The second defensive wall was exactly the same as the first defensive wall. The two sides were built with huge stones, and the middle of the high wall was also A heavy wooden door also has a sentry box above it, but there are only two sentries.

The two sentinels had already seen the Song army rushing up from the mountain, and hurriedly sounded the alarm bell, 'Dang!when!when! 'Sharp alarm bells rang through the night sky.

The second wooden door can also be climbed, but Chen Qing chose a simple and rude method.

"Bump the door!" Chen Qing turned around and ordered.

Dozens of soldiers rushed up holding a thick ramming log.

"Boom!" There was a dull and loud sound, and the wooden door shook violently, almost dying.

"Come again!"

The soldiers retreated dozens of steps, and rushed up again. The gate couldn't bear the force, and the bolt was broken, and the gate opened.

Chen Qing waved Fang Tian's painted halberd, and charged forward first, but there was a dense rain of arrows coming towards him. Chen Qing waved the long halberd, and pushed aside dozens of arrows that were shot at him, but behind him But the soldiers were shot down one after another, screaming.

"Change the heavy shield army!"

Chen Qing turned his head and shouted sharply, ran for more than ten steps, jumped up, and swept the halberd towards the crossbowmen on the left. The four crossbowmen squatting on the wall had nowhere to dodge, and were swept down the high wall by the halberd Then, with a flick of his halberd, Chen Qing charged into the crowd of crossbowmen like a tiger.

Three hundred soldiers with heavy shields also rushed up the steps and rushed into the crossbowmen on the right.
(End of this chapter)