First Minister of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 278 Breaking the City Easily
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In Yidu City, as the sun sets, the city gate is about to be closed, and the people outside the city are scrambling to rush in to the city gate, all wanting to enter the city at this last time.

This is also one of the reasons why Gao Chong and others landed on the side, but no one found it. The city gate was about to be closed, and everyone's attention was on the city gate.

"Hurry up, run faster," the guard kept urging.

As the city gate creaked and moved, people who wanted to enter the city were in a hurry without being urged by the guards. However, the north gate of Yidu City was close to the river, and there was a wharf not far away. Many people entered the city with goods. Once you enter the city, the speed is even slower.

"My lord, my lord, please slow down, I still have a few trucks behind me...".

The city gate had been closed to the point where only pedestrians could pass through. Seeing that vehicles could no longer enter, a trader hurriedly took out a string of money and ran to him, saying respectfully with a flattering smile.

The guard weighed the weight of the money, nunuzui signaled the people who closed the gate to put some water, and the city gate remained wide enough to accommodate a car, and the people behind also stepped forward to express their gratitude.

Naturally, the guards never refuse anyone who comes, which is also a big extra income for the gate guards every day. Anyway, Liang Jun is very lax, and no one is questioning when he closes the city gate later. There are always some people who miss the time to enter the city every day. Relying on this income, even if the defenders are tired, there are still people vying to come here.

"Tsk, I don't know which caravan this is, there are so many people," a guard seemed to have bad eyesight, set up an awning with his hands, squinted his eyes and looked into the distance, and said tut-tsk in his mouth.

The people next to him heard the words and looked in the direction, they were stunned, and then they jumped up and shouted, "You are blind, this is a rogue", then turned around and ran, "Quickly close the city gate, rogue! Here comes the bandits."

Everyone panicked when they heard the words, and rushed towards the city in a hurry.

"Officer, you have received the money, please let me in with these trucks first." Seeing the city gate slowly closing, the businessman who was stuffed with money hurriedly pushed his car forward and said.

Watching the dark crowd getting closer and closer, the guard shouted in horror: "You don't want to die, come in quickly."

The guard was somewhat "honest". Since he had received the money, he had to do something, so he dragged the businessman and ran to the door.

"No, no, my goods, this is all my belongings." Unexpectedly, the chubby businessman struggled back to push the cart.

The guard was furious, "Get out of here", he just pushed the fat businessman away, and then sneaked into the door cleverly.

"You let me in", the fat businessman rolled around on the ground, hurriedly got up and rushed in pushing the cart.

Coincidentally, just as the city gate was about to close, the cart was stuck between the two gates, preventing it from closing.

The guard's eyes widened when he saw this, and before he could speak, he heard a loud shout from outside the door: "The Heavenly Soldiers of the Tang Dynasty are here, surrender to avoid death."

Then there was a sound of piercing through the air, an arrow was shot through the gap in the door, and overturned a Liang army guard who was trying to push the cart away. It was said that the gap in the door was actually three or four feet wide. , after all, there is a cart in the middle.

Seeing that the guard died on the spot, the guards of the Liang army who hadn't seen blood for a long time retreated one after another, and the frightened people outside the gate rushed forward in panic, unexpectedly pushing open the unclosed city gate.

Gao Chong was overjoyed when he saw this, put down his bow, raised his horse spear, and took the lead, "kneeling aside to avoid death".

Seeing dozens of people crowding at the gate of the city, Gao Chong shouted loudly. Hearing this, the people pulled aside and knelt down one after another.

What surprised Gao Chong the most was that many of the guards dropped their weapons and knelt on the ground after hearing the words.

There were more than a hundred guards on duty at the gate of the city, Gao Chong only shot one person with his bow, and Ma Qian had not yet seen blood, Jiang Baoyi bravely killed three or five enemies, and then followed the army behind him into the city, and the rest of the Liang soldiers knelt down one after another Please drop.

"Baoyi leads people to occupy each gate, and the rest follow me to clear out the enemy army in the city," Gao Chong raised his spear and ordered.

Gao Chong randomly took a prisoner and "take me to the camp".

The prisoner didn't dare to delay, and hurriedly took Gao Chong straight to a big camp in the north of the city. It was said that it was a big camp, but it was just a barracks near the city wall.

There was no one guarding the gate of the camp, "Rush in and kill the rebels," Gao Chong said with a wave.

The lieutenant general of the water army was named Wei Ling, and Wei Ling led his men to rush in. There was chaos in the camp, but after a while, Wei Ling came back with a bloody horizontal knife, "Gao Changshi, more than [-] rebels have been put to death." ".

Only fifty people resisted?Although the land of Jingchu has been peaceful for a long time, there has been no large-scale war for many years, and the quality of the soldiers is not high, but Yidu City is a high-class county after all, and there are only more than 50 defenders in the battalion to fight back. Gao Chong is a little surprised different.

Seeing this, Wei Ling hurriedly said: "There are less than 300 people in the camp."

Hearing this, Gao Chong's eyes narrowed, and he looked at Liang Bing who was leading the way, "Where is he?"

The Liang Bing trembled, lying on the ground in horror and said: "General, there are only such people. There are only more than 800 city defense troops in Yidu, and the others have been sent to various places."

Gao Chong's face was weird when he heard this, Wei Ling also laughed and said: "This Xiao Xian is quite polite."

Night fell, but Yidu City did not fall into silence. Jiang Baoyi led people to quickly take over the city gate, while Gao Chong asked Wei Ling to lead the troops to patrol the city, and he himself went to the county office. After the county office, he found that there was only Several small officials did not see the county officials.

"Where is your county magistrate?" Gao Chong asked a small official who came over sharply.

"Run, run away," said the little official tremblingly.

"What, ran away?" Gao Chong was very surprised, how could the magistrate's reaction be so fast, and what the little official said next made Gao Chong speechless.

"Yes, yes, I ran away a few days ago, I heard that Tang Jun is coming...".

Gao Chong was speechless. The county magistrate was quite a bachelor, so it could be said that he had a foresight. Hearing that the Tang army was coming, Yidu City was on the front line, so he ran away early.

At this time, Wei Ling, who was supposed to be patrolling the city, strode in. When he saw Gao Chong, he smiled and said, "Gao Changshi, a certain family is lucky. They met a group of people while patrolling the city. After the cross-examination, it turned out to be the guard of Yidu," he said, waving someone to bring them up.

Gao Chong was quite interested, he saw that the soldiers of the Tang army escorted more than ten people up, and the leader was Lin Zhisong, guard of Yidu.

However, Lin Zhisong was already as drunk as mud, and the rest of the accompanying guests were not drunk, they were all lying on the ground trembling.

"He is Lin Zhisong, the guard general of Yidu." Wei Ling pointed to Lin Zhisong who was lying on the ground and said, "They said they were entertaining Lin Zhisong in a restaurant, and these people are all well-known local merchants." ".

Gao Chong nodded, and looked at the merchants who were still somewhat sober, "Have you heard that the Heavenly Soldiers of the Tang Dynasty are about to attack?"

(End of this chapter)