Three Kingdoms.

  Chapter 1401 Attacking Hanchang

  Hanchang City is a pass-type small city located between two mountains.

  Hanchang City was originally not called Hanchang, but Shicheng, but after Liu Yan arrived in Sichuan, he changed the name of Shicheng to Hanchang...

  Hanchang City runs from east to west, with only two gates. The city gate on the east faces the Bashan Mountain Road, and the city gate on the west points to the interior of Brazil County. In the relatively wide open space outside the west gate of Hanchang, there is a barracks that has been abandoned for a while. It is obvious that there used to be garrisons here before, but now the garrisons have been transferred to other places. Under the occasional drizzle, the wood on many of the camps had rotted, and some gray or white mold and mushrooms grew out of the gaps in the wood, spreading arrogantly.

It is normal for the garrison to be transferred. It is not like the rotation of later generations, but soldiers in this era often take on multiple roles. Now is the time for spring plowing, so these garrisons were transferred to Brazil County to assist Farming, anyway, I heard that Zhengxi from Hanzhong is repairing the cottage on the mountain road, so he won't come here for a while...

   Drizzling.

  On the city wall of Hanchang, seven or eight shadows dangled in the rain and fog, like lonely ghosts. Under the city gate to the west of Hanchang, it was relatively good. Four or five soldiers curled up in the middle of the city gate and grabbed lice. If they found one, they would crush it between their fingernails angrily. The crackling sound can be regarded as a little relief from the pain of being bitten by blood sucking.

  There are very few pedestrians on the road. This kind of spring drizzle is the most annoying. It is not heavy, but it does not stop. It is wet everywhere, as if people can grow mushrooms from their heads after standing for a long time.

   It shook a few times in the rain and fog, but no one noticed it at first, until the sound of crackling feet stepping on the yellow mud sounded, which attracted the attention of several defenders at the city gate. This direction leads to Brazil County. Naturally, it is not as dangerous as the East City Gate, but it is the duty, so it is just a glance.

  Among the rain and mist, I saw the appearance of twenty or thirty people swaying out. The first one was wearing tattered, patched blue and black clothes, with his head covered, and he looked like a swindler. Some of them were carrying some burdens, while others were carrying baskets of writing, just like ordinary people who came to the city to buy things...

   "Huh? Scammer?" The soldier guarding the city muttered and shouted, "The one from the village?"

  Wei Yan was in the ranks. Although he was dressed in tatters and his body was soaked in rain, he was uncomfortable, but his heart was full of fire.

   There are indeed mountain roads that can be detoured in the mountains!

Going around in the mountains, the most feared thing is getting lost. If one is careless and takes the wrong path, it is inevitable that all physical strength will be exhausted in the complicated mountains. In that case, it is really impossible to die anywhere. Know.

   Fortunately, Wei Yan found some cheaters. These people don't have any sense of honor, and they will do things for whoever gives the money, so they took Wei Yan to the west gate of Hanchang from some rugged mountain roads.

   Wei Yan stabbed the person who led the way at the front: "Answer!"

  These gangsters ate the dried meat and drinks that Wei Yan carried along the way, carried Zhengxi gold and silver coins in their arms, and listened to the big pancakes painted by Wei Yan all the way. Wei Yan also attached great importance to these traitors, and even gave him a pair of close-fitting leather armor and a sword, saying that if Hanchang was captured, he would definitely be rewarded heavily...

  So when Wei Yan mentioned something, the man walking in front raised his voice and said, "What a **** village! There is only one man's cave in this ten miles and eight towns! There is Lan Sanlang in front, are you talking nonsense again?"

   "Hey..." Lan Sanlang, who was guarding the city gate, was clueless, holding a spear in both hands, leaning crookedly on the city wall, "What are you doing, it's raining and you come out, don't you want to have a happy event..."

   "I don't invite you to any happy event!" The man said carelessly, and gradually approached.

Wei Yan followed behind the concubine, his heart was pounding wildly. He had already taken quite a lot of risks all the way here, but this time was especially important. If he succeeded, it would be his first success. If he failed, he would die on the spot. ! Even though Wei Yan had already done a lot of psychological construction before leading people to raid the city gates and grab a city, when it came to the scene, he was still a little nervous, with bitterness in his mouth and dryness!

  The twenty or thirty people just walked to the side of the ditch of the city gate in a mess. The wooden bridge was across the ditch, and the opposite was the Hanchang city wall. On the top of the city wall, there were seven or eight figures swaying, but only one or two people were interested in leaning down to take a look.

   Behind the ditch, the speaker leaning against the gate of the city is Lan Sanlang, who looks a bit more handsome than the other city guards, at least he has decent shoes on his feet, although they are just a pair of straw sandals.

Lan Sanlang was smiling lazily, and said nonsense: "That's not okay, if I don't invite me, I will let..." Lan Sanlang's eyes suddenly focused on Wei Yan, "... this young man, look Get up and face..."

   Wei Yan was among the crowd, his eyes flashed like lightning. All the breath that has been suppressed in his chest for a long time, all the hardships he has encountered along the way, all the previous fears, at this moment, all spit out with a loud roar: "Kill him! Take the city!"

  The roar shook the rain and fog, the city wall of Hanchang, and the blood of all the guarding soldiers faded away!

The crowd dodged away with a clatter, and the guards behind Wei Yan had lifted the cover of the basket on their backs, copied out the crossbow bolts that had been wound up long ago, took a little aim, and then shot them out like a flash, looking straight through the head of the city. soldier's chest. Before the guards at the city gate could react, the soldiers on guard on the top of the city had already fallen from the city wall straight up and down!

  Among the rain and fog, the screams of dying people seemed muffled, passing into the ears, like knocking on a leaky drum.

Wei Yan said that the two or three people who led the preparations to seize the city were all the private soldiers of the headquarters carefully cultivated by him during this period of time. Silver money enjoys better treatment than ordinary soldiers, and of course, it is also stronger and more brave than ordinary soldiers.

  After Wei Yan yelled, these soldiers didn't stop at all, they threw down the original camouflaged burdens or baskets, drew their weapons, and followed Wei Yan directly to slaughter forward!

At this moment, it is the most critical time. If the defenders cannot be caught off guard and seize the opportunity, then even if the follow-up troops come up, they will still have nothing to do in the face of Hanchang, whose gates are closed. Method!

  Opportunity, there is only one time!

  Lan Sanlang was startled, and shouted at Wei Yan who was rushing towards him, emphasizing his courage, and then lunged and stabbed straight! The tip of the gun pierced through the rain and fog, and Hongying brushed aside the continuous drizzle, sprinkling out one after another with some spiraling arcs. This shot can be said to be a shot that is almost at its peak since Lan Sanlang joined the army for many years. Shen, fast as lightning!

  Lan Saburo even felt that even if it was a cavalryman rushing over, he could still stab and kill him on the spot!

  Unfortunately, Wei Yan is not an ordinary cavalryman who only knows how to charge.

  At this moment, when he really entered the battle, Wei Yan's previous anxiety and uneasiness had completely disappeared, leaving only the churning blood and keen nerves. Staring at Lan Sanlang's spear stabbed in the chest, Wei Yan could even see the water droplets being bounced off the surface of the spear that was pierced like electricity!

  I saw that the gun was getting old...

   "Dang!" Wei Yan turned around, raised his fist, and hit the red tassel of the spear with the iron wristband on his forearm, hitting Lan Sanlang's spear high! The saber in his right hand swept across, as if cutting the space in front of him, he chopped down Lan Sanlang with the middle door wide open!

   There was a prolonged exclamation and screams from the top of the city wall, and the roar changed in voice, highlighting how much surprise Wei Yan's surprise attack brought to the guards at the top of the city. All kinds of horns and golden drums, which were prepared to be used to send orders or warn, sounded chaotically after an obvious delay of more than ten breaths, and almost no matter what kind of sound conveyed what kind of signal, these panicked city guards Just knocking desperately!

  At this moment, Wei Yan had already rushed into the city gate with his men, hacking and killing all the more than ten defenders in the city gate to the ground!

  For the army of this era, this method, which is similar to the special raid operations of later generations, is too difficult. Because this requires extremely high soldiers' abilities, and there must be suitable generals, and in this era of cold weapons, most generals and soldiers are still used to fighting in formations, commanding with orders and banners, and advancing mechanically Or retreat, and fight in the end. There were indeed very few generals like Wei Yan who were born in surprise combat in the Han Dynasty.

Therefore, when Wei Yan led the team to rob the city, although there were only 20 or 30 people in the vanguard, the soldiers who conquered the west should be regarded as professional soldiers, and they were stronger than those part-time farmers in central Sichuan. Those who were selected and trained were even more elite, both in terms of physical strength and fighting skills, they were far superior to the Sichuan army. At the same time, Wei Yan, the **** of killing, was present, which brought shock and confusion to the defenders at the top of the city, and the effect was natural It's pretty amazing!

In the rain and mist, there was chaos and chaos, and it seemed that there were countless figures rushing towards the city gate, scaring the defenders on the top of the city. Kill the soldiers who rushed to the city, or retreat to the gate tower and wait for the arrival of reinforcements...

  At this time, the city of Hanchang was finally disturbed, and the golden gong sounded as a warning in the streets and the guarded places of the county government in the city. Ling Bao rushed out of the county yamen while hastily fastening on the belt of the bag, and shouted loudly: "Where did the thief come from!?"

  Countless noisy voices vibrated in the rain and fog, and a dozen soldiers shouted subconsciously, but no one could hear what they were talking about, and only knew that their ears were buzzing.

Ling Bao couldn't bear it, so she directly grabbed a soldier and asked about the situation, she couldn't help being furious: "Only twenty or thirty thieves can take the gate of the city!? What else can you **** do?! "

Ling Bao never expected to be attacked by Zhengxi at this point in time. It was only two or three days ago that I heard that Hanzhong's Zhengxi soldiers were repairing the cottage at Bashan. Waiting until the end of summer and early autumn, so when the west city gate was attacked, Ling Bao thought it was another rebellion by the Jin people...

Anyway, there are many ethnic minorities in various mountain villages in central Sichuan. From time to time, some internal conflicts erupted because of this or that, so Ling Bao didn't care too much. Hearing that there were only twenty or thirty people, he took the soldiers directly under him and went straight to the village. Coming towards the west city gate, they want to kill all these so-called "thieves".

There are about a thousand people under Ling Bao. Although the number of soldiers is not many, if a war breaks out, according to the routine, the residents of the city can be recruited to temporarily act as civilian husbands to carry equipment and transport weapons, etc., so generally it can be carried out according to the two Thousands of people are counted, and Hanchang City was originally stuck in the valley between two mountains. If it is really attacked, it often only needs to defend in one direction, so if it is really a direct attack on the city, even if it is Thirty to fifty thousand soldiers and horses have come, and they may not be able to attack immediately!

   After all, the unfolding area is so big, even if it is a round of attack, if you want to capture Hanchang City, you don't even think about it in less than ten or twenty days. This is still the case when Hanchang City has no reinforcements. If the barracks in the west of the city are still there, the price to be paid for capturing Hanchang must be more.

  Up and down the city, the voices of shouting were almost mixed together.

  After Wei Yan rushed into the city gate, he sent more than ten people to guard the city gate, and Wei Yan personally led people to chase and kill the guards near the city gate. Because the banner of conquering the west has not yet been raised, these defenders are similar to Ling Bao, thinking that it is a rebellion by the Jian people, so they all muster their courage and rush forward from all directions, trying to force Wei Yan to retreat.

  Every time Wei Yan's knife light splashed out, it would sweep out a big circle in front of him, and the severed spear head would fly in mid-air, accompanied by the splashed blood!

   From time to time, someone fell to the ground, but the people behind didn't care about it, so they just stepped on it!

  Blood, accompanied by rain and fog, spread at the gate of the city. The strong smell of blood was mixed with the smell of earth, and one smell would even choke one's head.

In the front, several guards rushed over with red eyes, brandishing knives and guns, and they almost jumped up, trying to kill Wei Yan who rushed into the city together, but Wei Yan didn't even look at him, and his sword swept across. He even chopped down the three of them together, one of them even broke from the waist, and struggled on the ground screaming, the blood spurted out, and even sprayed Wei Yan and the surrounding soldiers all over, like a killing **** who came out of hell!

   "Brave thief!" Ling Bao arrived, shouted loudly, and stabilized the morale of the army first, "You dare to rebel, and you will definitely punish the nine clans!"

  (end of this chapter)