Man Tanghong

Chapter 72 Breaking into Mingshui City

"Your Highness..."

Qu Tutong was still unwilling to give up. Li Yuanji's words could convince Su Dingfang, but not him.

Li Yuanji didn't wait for Qu Tutong to finish speaking, he took a big gun from the guard's hand and threw it out.

The big gun whizzed past in the snow, and with the sound of the wind, it stabbed steadily into the tree trunk not far away, opened a hole in the tree trunk, and half of the gun head protruded from the other side of the tree trunk.

Li Yuanji's sudden attack shocked Qu Tutong, Su Dingfang, and all the guards around him.

Qu Tu couldn't continue talking on the phone, opened his mouth slightly, and looked at Li Yuanji in astonishment.

Su Dingfang, as well as all the guards around him, were shocked when they saw the half of the gun head protruding from the tree trunk.

Li Yuanji clapped his palms as if he had never done anything, and smiled at Qu Tu: "If you have to go, it's not impossible. As long as you can beat me, I will let you go."

The smile on Li Yuanji's face was bright, but Qu Tutong felt a little chill from it.

Qu Tutong opened his mouth, but he didn't dare to say something like 'Please enlighten me, Your Highness'.

Although Li Yuanji only showed his hand a little, it was this hand that made Qu Tutong clearly realize the difference in force between the two.

"Fight?"

Li Yuanji asked Qu Tutong eagerly.

Qu Tutong shook his head stiffly.

Only fools fight with Li Yuanji.

Li Yuanji could easily pierce the trunk of a big tree with a big gun, and he could easily pierce a person's body with a big gun.

Qu Tutong felt that even if he put on three layers of iron armor, he might not be able to withstand this shot.

Li Yuanji is a little too strong, a little beyond ordinary people.

Fortunately, he is an ally, not an enemy.

If it is an enemy, it must be Datang's nightmare.

"Since you don't want to fight, then do as I tell you."

Li Yuanji put away his eager expression, glared at Qu Tutong and ordered.

Qu Tutong reluctantly agreed.

Li Yuanji didn't bother to care about Qu Tutong's thoughts anymore, and immediately ordered the flag bearer to go to the highest place of the high tomb, and send a message to Luo Shixin in Mingshui City, so that Luo Shixin was ready to respond.

Mingshui City is now surrounded by Liu Heita's army. Although Liu Heita has not yet started to attack the city, there are Liu Heita's soldiers and horses everywhere in Mingshui City.

If Li Yuanji hadn't communicated with Luo Shixin through semaphore in advance, even if Qu Tutong and Su Dingfang led people to break into the gate of Mingshui City, Luo Shixin would not dare to open the door easily.

The flag bearer held the flag and dangled on the top of the high tomb for a long time. Only then did Luo Shixin in Mingshui City find out, and immediately ordered the flag bearer to answer.

After a brief communication between the flag bearers on both sides.

Li Yuanji ordered Qu Tutong and Su Dingfang to lead 500 people out of the dense forest.

Li Yuanji kept 500 people for himself.

He was outside Mingshui City and could run away at any time, so he didn't need so many soldiers and horses.

On the contrary, Luo Shixin was in urgent need of soldiers and horses to defend against the attack of Liu Heita's tens of thousands of troops.

After Qu Tutong and Su Dingfang led the soldiers and horses out of the dense forest, Qu Tutong himself led the five hundred armored men to the west gate, and Su Dingfang led the rest to the south gate.

The four gates of Mingshui City all have soldiers and horses of Liu Heita.

Among them, Ximen faced Guangfu and also faced the direction of Datang soldiers and horse camps. In order to prevent Datang from sending reinforcements to rescue Luo Shixin, Liu Heita deployed heavy troops in Ximen.

Qu Tutong led people to the west gate to help Su Dingfang attract firepower.

Once the west gate is attacked, there is a high chance that the enemy soldiers at the south gate will rush to help. Once the enemy soldiers at the south gate leave, Su Dingfang can easily lead his men into Mingshui City.

After Su Dingfang entered the city, Luo Shixin in the city would lead the soldiers and horses to rush in and out from the west gate, and cooperate with Qu Tutong to deal a head-on blow to the enemy soldiers at the west gate.

The heavy snow blocked the road, not only the road for Li Shimin to rush to rescue Luo Shixin, but also the road for Liu Heita to send troops to rescue the west gate of Mingshui City.

From the northeast of Mingshui City, wading through the snow to the west of Mingshui City, at least half an hour.

In half an hour, the battle at the West Gate of Mingshui City was over.

After Qu Tutong and Su Dingfang set off, Li Yuanji took people to Gaofen to watch the battle.

After Qu Tutong and Su Dingfang left the dense forest, they quickly divided up their troops, but they didn't move.

Qu Tutong dispatched scouts to clean up the enemy's secret posts all over Mingshui City.

The soldiers of Luo Shixin's department on the wall of Mingshui City cooperated with each other with heavy crossbows.

However, in places where people could hide, or where there were suspicious places, Luo Shixin's soldiers would first set up heavy crossbows and shoot at them, and then the scouts sent by Qu Tutong would touch them.

After half an hour of searching and platooning, the enemy's hidden sentry ambushing between the south wall and the west wall of Mingshui City was completely removed.

Qu Tutong and Su Dingfang led people out decisively, rushed to the corner of the city wall at the fastest speed, and then one led soldiers and horses to the south gate, and the other led soldiers and horses to the west gate.

Although the enemy's secret whistle has been pulled out, it does not mean that they can move slowly.

Most of the secret sentries are on rotation. When a new secret sentry comes to replace the old secret sentry, if no one responds to the signal, it will be clear immediately that something is wrong.

Therefore, Qu Tutong and Su Dingfang must rush to where they need to go before the time for the enemy's secret sentry rotation arrives.

After Qu Tutong and Su Dingfang separated.

Su Dingfang was on his way quietly.

Qu Tutong let go of his limbs and ran wildly.

Qu Tutong rushed to the west gate first, and went straight to the enemy soldiers.

The enemy soldiers were not deployed near the west gate, but a thousand steps away from the west gate.

The reason why the enemy deployed soldiers and horses here was also to avoid being injured by hidden arrows on the top of the city.

After the enemy soldiers found the traces of Qu Tutong and the others, they panicked.

Qu Tutong greeted for a round with a hand crossbow first, and when the enemy soldiers dodged the crossbow arrows, he quickly rushed to the position where the enemy soldiers were, and started a fight with the enemy soldiers.

The number of enemy soldiers was not small. After a short period of panic, they immediately came back to their senses and formed a formation with the help of the 'military fortress' they had built in advance to resist Qu Tutong's attack.

While resisting Qu Tutong, the enemy soldiers kept beating drums to remind Liu Heitai of the enemy's invasion, and also reminded the soldiers and horses at the south gate and north gate to come to help.

After hearing the sound of the drum, the enemy soldiers at the south gate immediately moved.

Su Dingfang led his men lying down in the snow, and when the enemy soldiers at the south gate passed by them, he suddenly jumped out of the snow and caught the enemy soldiers at the south gate by surprise.

The enemy soldiers at the south gate didn't react much at all, and they were cleaned up by the people led by Su Dingfang.

After Su Dingfang cleaned up the enemy soldiers at the south gate, he immediately rushed to the south gate with the prisoners.

The people in Mingshui City immediately opened the city gate after Su Dingfang and his party arrived, and Su Dingfang and his party filed in.

After Su Dingfang and his entourage entered Mingshui City, there was a sound of bull horns above the city.

The west gate of Mingshui City suddenly opened, Luo Shixin led his men out, gathered together with Qu Tutong, gave the enemy a head-on blow, and then quickly retreated into Mingshui City without any reluctance to fight.

When the enemy soldiers from the north gate and the troops sent by Liu Heita arrived at the west gate, there were only corpses left.

When Li Yuanji saw this, he didn't look any further.

Qu Tutong and Su Dingfang had already led people into Mingshui City, and there was nothing left to see.

It was nothing more than Liu Heita throwing a stone into Mingshui City to vent his dissatisfaction when he was angry, and he couldn't do anything else.

After Li Yuanji got off the high tomb, he ordered people to find a place with less snow and good soil quality at the foot of the high tomb mountain, and dug a cave.

The battle in Mingshui City cannot be ended within three to five days. He wanted to witness this battle recorded in history with his own eyes, so he did not intend to leave.

But it was impossible for him to stay in the snow for three to five days, so he had to dig a cave for a temporary shelter.

……

Inside Mingshui City.

Luo Shixin, Qu Tutong, and Su Dingfang gathered in the yamen. Luo Shixin and Qu Tutong were sweating profusely, but Su Dingfang was doing everything as usual.

Although Luo Shixin and Qu Tutong just fought for a while, they also exhausted a lot of physical strength in rushing forward and retreating, so they were sweating profusely.

The first time Qu Tutong saw Luo Shixin, he saw a piece of cloth wrapped around Luo Shixin's neck for bandaging the wound.

After Qu Tutong recovered his breath, he stared at Luo Shixin and asked with concern, "Are you injured?"

Luo Shixin nodded silently.

Qu Tutong was puzzled and said: "Hasn't Liu Heita not attacked the city yet? How could you be injured? You still injured a vital point."

It's fine if Qu Tutong doesn't say this, but Luo Shixin's face is quite ugly when he mentions it.

Seeing this, Qu Tutong hurriedly said, "Could it be that something happened in the city?"

Luo Shixin said nothing, but looked at Su Dingfang.

Qu Tutong hurriedly introduced: "His name is Su Dingfang, he used to be Liu Heita's man, and now he has surrendered to my Tang Dynasty, and he is now the brigade commander of the Qi Palace."

Luo Shixin frowned when he heard that Su Dingfang was Liu Heitai's person before, and looked at Su Dingfang with more vigilance.

Seeing this, Qu Tutong and Su Dingfang probably guessed what happened to Luo Shixin before.

Qu Tutong said in a deep voice: "Li went to confuse that guy to surrender?!"

Luo Shixin saw that Qu Tutong did not shy away from Su Dingfang at all, hesitated again and again, and said with a solemn expression: "Then Li Quhuo can't see any problem for the time being, but the captains under his command have ghosts.

When I replaced Wang Junkuo in guarding Mingshui City, they wanted to open the city gate and let Liu Heita's vanguard troops in before I had a firm foothold.

Fortunately, the brothers in my house discovered this in time and stopped them. "

Speaking of this, Luo Shixin clenched his fists, and said with a sad face: "More than [-] brothers in my family have died..."

When Luo Shixin entered Mingshui City, he only brought 200 people with him.

These 200 people are all his parts, and they are also brothers who have followed him through life and death for many years.

　Thank you for the reward of [-] book coins for "with you and without me, wine for the rest of my life"!
　　
　
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