Chapter 119: Surprise Attack on Anxi City

The city had been besieged for ten days. The Hangui Wang army organized wave after wave of attacks, but it was never able to break through the eastern city of Dian. The eastern city of Dian was built on the hillside. It was built by Zhu Lingqian, the Tang Dynasty's city building. It was also this city that triggered the Han people's riot last year. It was different from the local rammed earth walls. The city walls were made of granite, which were tall and strong, and had a good geographical advantage. In addition, the Han people's weapons of siege were backward, so the Hangui Wang had no choice but to use the method of siege to cut off food and finally surrender.

On this day, King Hangui looked at the city as usual, and he returned to the castle in a depressed mood until his eyes were sore. His castle was temporarily built, with a simple structure and could only accommodate a hundred people. This was because King Hangui was not suitable for living in the camp and was built for him. He lived in it with his wives and concubines, and on both sides of the castle were endless camps, filled with brave Han warriors.

"Father, is there any news on the leopard?"

As soon as Han Guiwang returned to the door, his son Han Shouyu was impatient to come forward to ask. Han Guiwang glanced at him and saw that he was anxious and felt a little unhappy in his heart. He shook his head and ignored him, but Han Shouyu did not give up and asked again: "The leopard has been gone for almost ten days. It will be impossible to catch people and dare not come back!"

King Hangui stopped, stared at him with his eyebrows standing up, and scolded: "You are thirty years old this year! You are still so immature. What else do you think besides women? So many soldiers fight in blood. Is it just to take a woman for you?"

Seeing that his father was angry, Han Shouyu lowered his head and said no. He didn't understand. At noon, his father also discussed with him the possibility of the leopard grabbing Awan. Why did he turn against him now? Seeing that his son was frightened by his few harsh words, King Han Gui was even more angry. He pulled him down and glared at him fiercely, saying, "Remember, if Awan catches him, he will send him back to Piluoge, not for you to enjoy."

"But we worked hard, isn't it just for it?" Han Shouyu swallowed the second half of the sentence when he saw that his father's eyes were already on fire.

"Silly!" King Hangui slapped the table, "Even Duan Rujian knew that I was taking advantage of the problem, but you are my son but don't understand. I think you have a pig brain. I will go back to Anxi City tonight. I don't want to see you again."

After saying that, King Hangui walked out the door angrily. When he lifted the curtain, he hit a soft body head-on. He raised his fist to smash it. After seeing the charm of the other party's face, he flew to Jawwa Country with anger. He turned around and glanced at the room from the corner of his eyes. Another kind of anger rose between his chest and abdomen. He stared at her chest with a fiery look and said in a low voice: "Why are you here?"

The one who was hit by him was Piluoge's eldest daughter, named Ruyu. According to Piluoge's arrangement, she married the son of King Han Gui, namely Han Shouyu, who was just now. She had a thin waist and plump buttocks, and had a natural appetite for men. Han Shouyu's white-faced scholar could not satisfy her? After a while, the guards around her even her father-in-law had a leg with her. Although her skin was white, she had a little dryness, with her almond eyes, thin eyebrows raised, and looked quite like her sister A Wan, but she was not as popular as A Wan. It was no wonder that if she wanted to marry such a woman, there were probably few men who would.

In addition to seducing men, Ruyu has another ability, eavesdropping. Her ears are more powerful than ordinary people, and she belongs to the kind of "ears in the wall". Of course, in addition to listening to secret affairs of other couples, she often brings a lot of useful information to her father. For example, just now, she heard King Han Gui's "taking advantage of the situation", but King Han Gui came out quickly and she did not avoid it.

Listening to the King of Hangui, why she was here? Ruyu trembled and smiled grimly, and used her bright red jade fingers to poke her father-in-law's forehead, "Old Jiangtou, what do you think?"

After saying that, his waist swayed lightly, as if he was carrying a hook, and slowly brought Han Guiwang into her room.

Just after raining, a dark full moon hung over the dark mound. The abandoned village was filled with dust. The broken doors and windows were beating in the wind. The dense waves of pine forests rose and fell with the wind, making a huge and empty sound. The weeds were stepped into the mud, but large pieces of soil were turned out, exuding a fresh and fishy smell. This is the Eastern Yunnan Plateau. A secret path winds south through the river valley. This is the shortcut for wolves and deer to step out. From here, you can directly pass through the narrow valley between Qixing Mountain and Nipple Mountain, bypass the Eastern Yunnan City, and go straight to Anxi, the old nest of the King of Hangui.

A group of cavalry rushed along the wolf path, splashing the mud and water on the path, "Stop!" Li Qing made a move, and hundreds of cavalry behind him stopped hearing the sound. "Go to the pine forest over there to wait." A group of cavalry turned their heads and rushed towards the mound, passing through the shallow river water, splashing black waves, leaving the path in a rapid manner and turning towards the river, and disappeared without a trace in an instant.

Gao Zhandao has not come back yet, and Li Qing decided to wait for his news in Hei Songlin for a while. After about a quarter of an hour, there was a faint sound of horse hooves, but this was Awan and her subordinates.

"Master Li Dong, my lady is invited."

Uncle Zhong caught up with panting, and he began to doubt Li Qing's identity. Ordinary businessmen did not have the ability or cruelty of them. They even killed more than 500 people they tracked, and even those who fell off the cliff and were not dead were filled with arrows.

Li Qing followed him to an open space in the pine forest. As soon as Awan came down from the horse, the sweat beads on her face were slightly shining under the moonlight. Seeing Li Qing coming, she stared at him with a slight complaint and confusion, "It's okay if you refuse to go to Nanzhao, but you promised to send me back to Dong Diancheng. Now it has passed long ago. Where are you going?"

Li Qing smiled and said, "Diandong City has been surrounded by the King of Hangui. You can't enter the city even if you go back. What I have to do now is to let you go home. Don't ask more questions, just follow us." Although the voice is soft, the words cannot be disobeyed.

A Wan showed concern in her eyes and reminded softly: "But the direction you are going is getting closer and closer to danger."

Li Qing smiled proudly, his waist was straight, his weathered eyes were full of wisdom, and his tone was firm and confident, "Of course I know that if I don't enter the tiger's den, I will get a tiger's son! I will let King Hangui run back tomorrow morning."

Awan felt that there seemed to be a huge power in his ash cloak. She couldn't help but be stunned. She remembered her strange "husband". The two were about the same age. One lived under his father's wings, while the other led a group of dead soldiers to go to the tiger's den to seize the tiger's son.

Under his tall figure, Awan's long and straight eyebrows gradually turned into roundness, and her deep pool-like eyes showed a rare weakness. She turned around silently and stopped talking.

"The boss, Commander Gao is back, there is important information." A soldier called him softly outside the pine forest.

"I understand." Li Qing turned around and said to her: "I will let you stay in a safe place. If I don't come back, you will not be allowed to go anywhere!"

After saying that, Li Qing strode away from the pine forest. Awan turned around and looked at his free and easy back and couldn't help but sigh softly.

The horse's hooves were covered with thick Shu brocade, and a group of cavalry ran rapidly and silently in the starry night. The dark world flew past them, and the wind roared in their ears. At the second day, they arrived at the silent Anxi City. A wide river was like a jade belt under the dim moonlight, passing through the city, surrounded by mountains, like steamed buns standing on the eastern Yunnan Plateau.

The suspension bridge is hung high, and occasionally soldiers can be seen walking by the city wall with their tired bodies. In the quiet night, you can hear the sound of the jangle of the husband. You can get close to the city gate and then turn back.

"We can dive into the city from the river. I have tried it. The iron fence in the river has decayed, the water is very cold, and there are water snakes to wrap your feet." Gao Zhandao's hair was already dry, but his pale face was still in black and his voice was trembling, but everyone's eyes were staring at him. No one wanted to hear his complaints about diving, as long as he quickly went into the water.

Helplessly, Gao Zhandao had to take off his shirt, and under the eyes of everyone, his upper body was naked, which was also ashen, and led ten subordinates to leave the woods and run towards the riverside.

"General, I'll help him!" Wu Xingsu turned around and asked Li Qing for instructions. Li Qing nodded. Wu Xingsu then took off his shirt, revealing his dark and strong muscles, slapped a pot of crossbow arrows across his body, held a cold steel crossbow with his left hand, and ran away quickly with Gao Zhandao.

I saw more than a dozen heads popping up from the river surface, diving down, and again from a distance. Gao Zhandao's ten subordinates all had martial arts and were also called masters in the world. Soon they disappeared from everyone's sight.

Speaking of Gao Zhandao, his subordinates had already traveled near the city gate, and his cursing mouth finally closed. There were not many defenders in Anxi City, with only more than 800 people, but they were very dedicated. Although it was midnight, the sound of footsteps of the patrol team still came from time to time, especially the four city gates, which was the focus of their defense. Gao Zhandao and his friends were going to enter a water gate, which was close to the north gate on the land. During the day, small boats were allowed to enter the city. At night, the thick iron fence was put down and stretched to a foot under the water. It was difficult for ordinary people to dive, but Gao Zhandao's dependence on the iron fence was that a bar of the iron fence had been rusted and could allow him to go in sideways. This was what he discovered a few hours ago.

But when he fumbled through the iron fence again, an accident happened. Now the iron fence is different from the previous one. When he looked up, he realized that the iron bar that was about to be broken by him was hanging high in the air. There were two iron fences. Now it has been replaced with another one. The iron bars are as thick as arms, and they are newly made. Gao Zhandao actually sweated coldly in the water. What should he do? Although it was not his responsibility, he had no way of leaving a way out. Could it be that this sneak attack failed? Or wait until tomorrow to sneak into the city during the day?

Although the plan was feasible, his ambition still made him shake his head, no! He must take down the north gate tonight. He looked up at the city wall, about four meters high, and the wall was very smooth, and no matter how high the lightness skills were, he could not get up.

"Commander Gao, I have a flying claw here." A subordinate took a flying claw from his bag. The rope was six meters long. Gao Zhandao was very happy. He took the flying claw, crawled out of the water, and threw it hard on the wall. However, he failed after several attempts and could not grasp the inner edge of the battlement.

"let me!"

Wu Xingsu, who arrived, took the flying claws from Gao Zhandao's hand, tied them to the crossbow arrow, and took a few steps back. He flattened the crossbow, narrowed his eyes slightly into a slit, aiming at a thick wooden tripod on the city tower, and gently clenched his fingers. With a 'swoosh!', the crossbow arrow left the string with the flying claws, flew out of a long parabola, accurately passing through a foot-wide tripod, and the flying claws were firmly fixed in the gaps of the tripod.

"Success!" Everyone shouted in unison, their faces showing uncontrollable joy, and they slapped each other to celebrate.

"Okay, come on! It's easy to be discovered." Wu Xingsu still had a expressionless face.

Gao Zhandao jumped, grabbed the rope head, and with the force of the rope, he climbed up the city wall in two seconds, and disappeared into the night. Then the second and third ones, like a bunch of roasted frogs, hanging long in the air.

After a while, the patrol soldiers on the city wall suddenly disappeared like a row of trees that were cut down at the same time. Then the suspension bridge at the North City Gate creaked and the North City Gate also opened. Li Qing was overjoyed and pointed the long sword in his hand straight at Anxi City, roaring, "Take Anxi City, and the resistance will kill you!"

There is no longer a need for Shu brocade to pack the hooves. The sound of the hooves of three hundred war horses is like thunder rolling across the ground. They sprint into Anxi City, breaking through the quiet night, awakening people's dreams. Parents cover their children's crying and hid in the house, listening to the sounds of killing from the street in horror. On the street, arrows are like drizzle flying, drawing arcs of death in the air and shooting densely towards the Anxi defenders.

Li Siye swung Mo Dao more than 100 pounds. The most powerful Mo Dao general in the Tang Dynasty exuded a fierce murderous aura, like a slashing waves, or like a tiger or a flock of sheep. He was ten feet tall and rode on a horse like a god descending to earth, invincible in the cold army, killing a flesh-and-blood alley.

Nan Jiyun fought alone from the north gate to the south gate. He swam like a white dragon in the low altitude, his gun was flying like a pear blossom, just like Zhao Yun reborn. Someone turned over and fell off the horse at the sound of the bowstrings. In less than half an hour, the three hundred elite cavalry of the Yulin Army cleaned the Anxi City defenders.

"Light the fire and burn the grain warehouse, and no grain is allowed to be left behind!" Li Qing gave the last order.

"Yangming, should the people take away the food?" Gao Zhandao looked at the warehouse of nearly 10,000 stones of grain that was about to be burned, and he felt really distressed.

Li Qing shook his head, "Burn it, no one left!"

Gao Zhandao wanted to say something, Li Siye stepped forward and pressed his shoulder and said, "Yangming did the right thing. Giving food to the people is equivalent to returning it to King Hangui. Only by destroying King Hangui's grain stored can this battle be impossible."

A moment later, thick black smoke rose from Anxi City, mixed with flames and soared into the sky, as if it was a huge beacon tower, telling the King of Hangui who was a hundred miles away that his nest had been removed.

The sky gradually became brighter, and the morning light was first revealed, and the east sky was covered with a faint golden light. Hundreds of war horses ran out from Anxi City, facing the rising sun on the plateau, and galloping towards the brightest part of the golden light.

Two more hours later, the Hangui King, who heard the news, began to withdraw from the East City of Diandong. Teams of soldiers in black uniforms ran rapidly on the avenue, followed by hundreds of carriages. Outside the East City of Diandong were full of tents and supplies that were not too late to be taken away. The soldiers on the city stared at this scene blankly, not knowing what had happened, but soon, cheers drowned the entire East City of Diandong.

On a hill, more than a dozen riders were standing a young woman as beautiful as a fairy, looking at the army of Hangui Wang who was retreating south from afar. Her eyes were filled with surprise and admiration, and his mind was echoing what he said, "Tomorrow morning, I will let Hangui Wang run back with his feet." Her already numb heart began to warm up, and the weakest heart string was quietly plucked.

It was not until the army disappeared from her vision that she realized that there was a young man next to her, smiling and staring at her eyes, her high nose showed his confidence and pride. Behind him, hundreds of cavalry were arranged neatly, and their faces were filled with the joy of the winner.

Her face was flushed with shame, and she suddenly fell over. Li Qing laughed, "Let's go! I'll take you home now."
Chapter completed!