The king behind the empress

Chapter 368 Night Attack
Xiangcheng, Prince Yu's Mansion.

"Tai'er, what's the situation in Pingzhou now?"

In the study, King Yu Mo Fan looked at his eldest son with a tired face. Although it was already late at night, he didn't intend to fall asleep at all.

Since he became self-reliant, there have been many disturbances in Pingzhou. On the one hand, he has to deal with the voices of opposition in the county, and on the other hand, he has to deal with the pressure from the court. Although he has his eldest son Mo Tai to help him share the pressure, he is already over eight years old. At ten, he still felt a little overwhelmed.

"Father, don't worry."

Knowing that King Yu was under a lot of pressure, Mo Tai said to comfort him: "Although some people jumped out to make trouble after the second brother took the troops away, the problem is not serious, and the child has almost been dealt with."

"Except for Cangyi City, almost everything else in Pingzhou is now under our control. In addition, the rest of the counties are also supporting us. Even if the imperial court goes all out to punish us, there will be no major problems."

"That's good."

King Yu nodded. All major events in Pingzhou need to be handled by him, so he is also clear about these matters. The reason why he asked Motel now is just to seek peace of mind.

Just thinking of his second son, he couldn't help frowning, and asked, "Is there any news from your second brother?"

"It should be soon."

Mo Tai thought for a while and said, "Second brother came to inform me that the cavalry is almost arriving at Cangyi City. Counting the time, they should also fight today."

Speaking of this, Mo Tai saw that King Yu was worried, so he said with a smile: "Father, don't worry about the second brother. Forty thousand is against five thousand. With such a big advantage, isn't father still at ease?"

"The second brother will win this battle, the difference is just how much we lost, there will be no accidents."

"That's true."

King Yu thought for a while, and felt that there was no reason to lose [-] against [-], so he nodded slightly and said, "I hope your second brother can keep his focus and reduce the loss of troops. After all, those soldiers he took away are all It is the family property we have worked so hard to save, and it is also the capital for us to settle down in the future. If the loss is too large, we will be in trouble in the future."

"Father, don't worry, the second brother has experience in commanding troops, and he knows the importance of this matter."

Although Mo Tai didn't know how far Mo Chao could go, but seeing Yu Wang's worried appearance, he had to say good things to appease the old man's worries.

"Forget it, since the army is handed over to him, let him go."

King Yu shook his head, no matter what happened to Mo Chao, he asked about things in Pingzhou, "There are still people making trouble in Pingzhou, please show me the information."

After receiving the information, while watching, King Yu confessed to Motel with a stern expression: "Don't be too fussy when doing big things. It's an extraordinary time, and we must be ruthless when dealing with those who refuse to submit."

"Catch a few diehards, and ruthlessly kill them as an example. As long as they are frightened, no one in Pingzhou will dare to jump out."

"Father taught me."

Mo Tai nodded and agreed: "Yiyang County's county government openly confronted people from my Prince Yu's Mansion, claiming that we are traitors, and the boy has sent people to arrest them."

"Don't be soft-hearted."

King Yu raised his head and glanced at Motel, with a hint of coldness in his tone, "Since they don't want to stand by our side, then kill them all."

"This……"

Mo Tai was a little hesitant, it wasn't that he was soft-hearted, but that he was afraid of something going wrong with such a cruel method in such an extraordinary period, but looking at King Yu's firm eyes, he was silent for a moment without saying anything, nodded and said: "My child understands, I will send an order to Yi Yang tomorrow to directly behead them for public display."

"Ah."

Yu Wang nodded and said no more, he looked down at the information in his hand.

……

While Yu Wang and his son were talking, Yang Yanzhang had already led the army to the vicinity of Xiangcheng.

In order to prevent the leak of news, they deliberately bypassed the cities along the way. Although those small roads were somewhat difficult to march, it was nothing to the Red Flame Dragon Knight riding the Scarlet Blood Dragon Horse.

After marching at full speed all the way, they finally arrived at Xiangcheng when it was dark.

The time at this time was about ten o'clock in the evening. Yang Yanzhang glanced at the sky, turned his head and told Li Huai'en: "Let the soldiers get off their horses and rest for the time being. They should be wrapped in armor, and their horses should be bitten. Don't make any noise. After two hours, they will be seized on time." city."

"Here."

Li Huai'en responded and passed on the general's order.

Because Yang Yanzhang had a military order first, the soldiers of the Red Flame Dragonriders were very careful when they dismounted, trying not to make loud noises, and then silently took out dry food to eat. Although there were 4000 people, there was silence.

After the soldiers finished eating their dry food, they leaned against their horses and closed their eyes to rest while there was still some time. However, Yang Yanzhang did not rest with them, but cautiously approached Xiangcheng to observe the situation there.

If they want to seize the city, they have only one chance, and that is to take advantage of Xiangcheng's unpreparedness, send a small number of elites, attack the city at night, open the city gate and let the red flame dragon ride into the city, there is no other way.

And this method has a premise, that is, it must first be sure that Xiangcheng has no defenses. If Xiangcheng is prepared, it is unrealistic to think about night raids. Even if they are all at the bone forging level, they have no hope of capturing Xiangcheng.

So if they want to win Xiangcheng, they only have one chance, and there must be no mistakes in this matter.

Xiangcheng is a majestic pass. The city wall is nearly 20 meters high. Just standing under the city wall has a daunting feeling.

At this height, it was unrealistic for Yang Yanzhang to see the situation on the city wall, so he could only hide in the dark and try his best to listen to the movement upstairs.

He waited under the city wall for about half an hour, and finally there was a change of shift above the city wall. Although Yang Yanzhang did not hear how many people were on the city wall, he could infer from their movements that there were no guards on the city wall. many.

After Yang Yanzhang listened to it for a while, he almost knew it. The news of Cangyi City's defeat must not have come out, otherwise there would not be so few people on duty on the city wall.

Of course, it is also possible that Xiangcheng has already received the news, and deliberately pretended to be slack and waited for them to attack and ambush them at night, but this possibility is not great. After all, I am a master here. Ambush, if you don't make it right, you will get rid of it, and the gain outweighs the loss.

After confirming that Xiangcheng's defense was not very tight, Yang Yanzhang quietly turned back. He picked a team of good people to follow him on standby, and then quietly waited for two hours to arrive.

Fortunately for Yang Yanzhang, the weather is not so good today, the moon has not come out, the earth is pitch black, and the visibility is very low, which greatly increases the probability of their night attack success, otherwise the silver moon will be in the sky, and everything will be clearly illuminated It's clear, then they are still attacking at night.

Two hours passed in a flash, and the time came to more than two o'clock at night. Generally speaking, this point is when people are most sleepy, so Yang Yanzhang did not hesitate at all, and set off with the group of people he picked out, and let Li Huai'en Wait here with the rest.

As for the secret code, they don't need this. If the city gate is opened, they will go into the city and take Xiangcheng. If the city gate is not opened, then forget about taking the city. Just get up.

In order to move stealthily, Yang Yanzhang led this group of people, all took off their heavy armor, only wore a long knife on their waist, and went into battle lightly and quietly touched under the city wall.

Yang Yanzhang picked a place some distance away from the city gate, listened for a while, and after confirming that there were no patrolling guards on the city wall, he nodded to the people under his command, and then took a few coils of rope from the soldiers under his command.

Then he stretched out his hands and climbed on the city wall, like a nimble antelope, and climbed to the city wall with just a few leverages.

When he reached the city wall, Yang Yanzhang observed for a while and made sure that there were no patrolling soldiers, so he tied one end of the rope to the pile and threw the other end directly down.

With the help of ropes, the dozens of people under Yang Yanzhang's command quickly climbed up.

Because the tasks had already been assigned below, after they all came up, Yang Yanzhang didn't say much, and directly led the people to the guard at the top of the city.

Outside the tower, a few soldiers on duty were leaning against the wall and dozing off, while the rest were resting in the tower.

Yang Yanzhang took a few people first, and touched them from the darkness. Before they could react, he directly killed them.

After succeeding, Yang Yanzhang did not hesitate at all, leading a group of people, he directly turned his butcher knife to the people in the tower, but before he could imitate the action just now, there was a loud shout from the tower, "Who is it!"

Peng Xiu is the enshrinement of Prince Yu's Mansion, and his strength is Youzhaojing. His usual task is to guard the city tower to prevent people from directly attacking the city at night.

But because Xiangcheng had never been attacked by anyone, he didn't take this task seriously. Anyway, as long as he came, he would get a salary, so he just regarded it as a different place to practice, and he wasn't too cautious. Because of this, he didn't notice that Yang Yanzhang and others had quietly touched the top of the city.

But after all, he is a warrior in the Underworld, no matter how careless he is, he can still feel the smell of blood suddenly coming from a place separated by a wall.

So after Yang Yanzhang beheaded those people, he was awakened immediately, and after being dazed for a moment, he yelled out directly.

"Damn, there really are warriors."

Yang Yanzhang cursed secretly, but he didn't feel too much trouble in his heart. It's normal for ordinary important towns to have warriors to warn against night raids. They were lucky to be able to reach the top of the city. If they were in a border town , It is estimated that they were shot down before they got close to the city wall.

"Go ahead and kill them."

Now that he was discovered, Yang Yanzhang didn't have any scruples anymore. With a loud shout, he directly executed the Eight Dragon and Elephant Laws, and the two figures gathered behind him, raising his strength to the peak.

After smoothly beheading a soldier who just got up and didn't understand what was going on, Yang Yanzhang rushed directly at Peng Xiu who had just issued a warning.

Seeing Yang Yanzhang rushing towards him with a ferocious face, Peng Xiu was startled. Guarding the city is only here to earn salary, not to fight for his life. The ghost knows how strong Yang Yanzhang is, so if he confesses to himself Then it would be a big loss.

Thinking of this, Peng Xiu didn't hesitate in his heart. He got up and ran towards the alarm bell. As long as he rings the alarm bell, the affairs here have nothing to do with him. Just leave.

Yang Yanzhang also saw Peng Xiu's purpose, and couldn't help feeling a little anxious. If Peng Xiu sounded the alarm and alarmed all the city guards in Xiangcheng, then they would cause a lot of trouble to seize the city.

Thinking of this, Yang Yanzhang grabbed the knife in his hand and threw it at Peng Xiu.

"Whoosh~"

Peng Xiu felt a chill on his back, he subconsciously dodged to the side, Yang Yanzhang's knife suddenly slashed against his ribs with a gust of evil wind, and nailed hard on the city wall.

Peng Xiu, who was almost killed by a knife, suddenly felt a deep fear in his heart. He didn't have the slightest thought of seeking revenge from Yang Yanzhang.

It's just that after this delay, Yang Yanzhang has already rushed over. Although he didn't plan to ring the alarm, Yang Yanzhang didn't plan to let him go. Otherwise, besides making loud noises in the city tower, he would also alarm the city guards, so this person must to kill.

Yang Yanzhang used his fist as a gun, and stabbed Peng Xiu's vest fiercely. If he punched hard, Peng Xiu's entire chest would be pierced through by him.

Feeling the attack that was close at hand, Peng Xiu had no choice but to stop and dodge Yang Yanzhang's punch.

"Your Excellency don't want to..."

After dodging, Peng Xiu opened his mouth to say something, but Yang Yanzhang didn't wait for him to finish speaking, and after closing his fist, he used his palm as a knife, and slashed at his head.

"damn it!"

Peng Xiu cursed inwardly, but facing Yang Yanzhang's sharp skill, he couldn't spare the time to speak, so he stretched out his hand to block Yang Yanzhang's palm.

Peng Xiu is at the Illumination Realm, and Yang Yanzhang is at the Marrow Cleansing Realm. They are both at the same level. It stands to reason that Peng Xiu should be stronger than Yang Yanzhang as a true qi fighter, but the problem is that Yang Yanzhang is about to cleanse his marrow and break through the golden body. In terms of strength, it is almost the same as Peng Xiu.

And the most important thing is that Yang Yanzhang has learned the eight methods of dragon and elephant. Now that the two methods of Qingtian and Bashan are added together, his strength has doubled out of thin air, so when the two of them fought like this, Peng Xiu suffered a big loss immediately. .

"click~"

The left arm that Peng Xiu stretched out to block was directly interrupted by Yang Yanzhang and the knife in his hand, and a sudden sharp pain spread to his heart, making his eyes a little black.

Before he could react, Yang Yanzhang's right hand, which had broken his arm, turned into a palm, grabbed Peng Xiu's throat, and twisted it violently.

"click~"

There was a crisp sound from Peng Xiu's throat, and then Peng Xiu's head limply drooped down.

Yang Yanzhang, who quickly killed Peng Xiu, didn't stop at all. He threw Peng Xiu's body aside, then grabbed a weapon, and helped the soldiers under his command, and quickly cleaned up the enemy soldiers in the tower .

Although the alarm bell on the tower side didn't ring, the commotion here still alarmed the city guards stationed below the city, but they didn't know what happened, they just sent some people up to check the situation.

Looking at the people walking up below, Yang Yanzhang narrowed his eyes slightly, and then said: "Zhao Feng, go and bring some people to open the city gate."

"As for these people, I will block them."

　There are only two chapters today. I originally wanted to release three more chapters, but I feel a little uncomfortable...

　　Well, the above is an excuse, in fact, I fell asleep at 04 o'clock in the noon until 30:[-] in the afternoon, so I lost a chapter, I am guilty, I repent...

　　But having said that, it is true that I am not feeling well. I have been having difficulty breathing for the past two days. I don’t know the reason. I made an appointment yesterday, and I plan to go to the hospital tomorrow to have a look. I hope there is no major problem.

　　But these are not for asking for leave tomorrow. If there is no major problem, the update will not be interrupted tomorrow. Of course, if the update is really interrupted tomorrow, then... it means that I have a big problem.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)