Chapter 23: The Army Approaches
At first, Wei Guang and Sun Yaba didn't know why Zhao Youcai targeted them.
Until the rumor that there was food in the general's mansion, and today, everyone who received porridge could get a piece of sweet watermelon.
Zhao Youcai was even more certain that there was a large amount of food in the general's mansion!
Before the barbarian army marched south, Wei Guang was a well-known gangster leader in Zhenguan. In the patrol camp, he had brothers who were willing to die for him.
He had connections in both the black and white worlds on the streets of Zhenguan.
On weekdays, you don't have to pay for food in the store.
Stores with good business will take the initiative to pay protection fees to avoid encountering hooligans making trouble in the store.
Wei Guang will definitely do the job after receiving the money, but he will have people drag out and beat up anyone who doesn't pay for the meal.
Although he is a gangster, he still has moral principles. The reason why Zhao Youcai had to go with Wei Guang was because Wei Guang had been wanted by the town garrison.
It is said that he knew the secret passage leading to the outside of the town, so he had never been caught.
Zhao Youcai wanted to pass the message to the outside, and wanted to lead the barbarians into the town through the secret passage, attack the general's mansion to rob food...
He was so bold that he didn't care about the lives of the people in the city for money.
He said that if he robbed the general's mansion, he would have countless wealth in this life, the next life, and ten generations of descendants.
China was dry, and the six countries had no harvest.
With this batch of grain, he could reap the wealth of the world.
That's why he was so crazy that he didn't hesitate to lead the barbarians into the city.
And now... He caught Wei Guang and Sun Yaba, tortured them severely, and asked them where the secret passage was.
Wei Guang refused to say anything and was tortured for two days and two nights.
Sun the Mute can read lips, which is very useful to Zhao Youcai, so he can be tortured less.
Wei Guang is almost dying now, breathing in less than breathing out.
Sun the Mute risked his life to run out and ran straight to the general's mansion to save his life.
Sun the Mute explained the whole story in a disjointed manner. Zhan Chengyin's face was gloomy and terrible. He immediately ordered to go to Zhao Youcai's hiding place to arrest people.
Hundreds of Zhan's soldiers came to Zhao Youcai's hiding place, but it was already empty.
And Wei Guang was lying on the ground, covered in blood, with various whip wounds, burns, and scars from torture instruments...
Zhan Chengyin touched his breath with his finger, and there was still air.
Song Yunhui came along and gave him a life-saving pill. Wei Guang opened his eyes faintly.
Seeing Zhan Chengyin, he wanted to say something.
Zhao Youcai rushed over and put his ear close to him, only to hear Sun Yama say: "General, Zhao Youcai knows where the secret passage is. Go and catch people immediately. Maybe it's still in time."
Zhao Youcai said the address: 30 miles south of Zhenguan, under a big mountain.
Zhan Chengyin heard the words and hurriedly ran with the guards.
They arrived at the entrance of the secret passage at the foot of the mountain, and the door had been opened.
Tian Qin lit a torch and led the way.
The secret passage is a natural cave. They walked along the cave and saw a group of messy and hurried footprints on the dry sand.
An hour later, they were about to approach the exit of the cave.
Seeing the light of torches in the distance, Zhan Chengyin asked the soldiers to hide behind the cave stones.
He saw barbarian soldiers and Han people at the exit, including the traitor Zhao Youcai.
No one knew what the group was talking about, as they were too far away to hear.
Zhan Chengyin asked Tian Qin, "Did you bring the Qinnu?"
Tian Qin said, "I brought a pair."
Zhan Chengyin drew his bow and aimed at the man in the center of the group, who was wearing armor and was in a lower position.
Whoosh~
The other person was hit right in the middle of the eyebrows and fell down.
Suddenly, the barbarian army pulled out their knives and stood at the entrance of the cave but did not dare to enter.
Zhan Chengyin drew his bow again and aimed at the second person.
Whoosh, the second person fell down.
Seeing this, everyone retreated, moved large stones to cover the entrance of the cave, and fled in a hurry...
Seeing this, Zhan Chengyin put down the Qinnu and ordered, "Retreat!"
A group of more than a hundred people quickly walked out of the cave.
As soon as I got back to the General's Mansion, all ten soldiers were present.
They heard the news and rushed here without stopping!
It's because there is food in the town pass, and it can't be concealed anymore.
Tomorrow, maybe in the middle of the night, the barbarians will come to the border with a large army and be at the gates of the city.
Now the natural cave is another threat.
Zhan Chengyin left a hundred people to guard the entrance of the cave. There are three hundred thousand barbarians, and a hundred people cannot resist it. Before, they only had to guard the city gate. Now, the single-line battle has been stretched into two lines. The Zhan family army is already short of troops. How can they resist the two-line attack of the barbarians?
Everyone's face was serious.
At this time, there was a military report outside the gate, "General, the barbarians are approaching. They were originally stationed thirty miles away from the city gate, but now they are moving and getting closer and closer to the city gate."
Chen Kui heard this, picked up his sword, and said to Zhan Chengyin: "General, I will lead the troops to fight."
"All soldiers, listen to my orders, and prepare to fight!"
"Yes!"
"Chen Wu, take three thousand troops and the Qinnu team to defend the natural cave."
"I will listen to my orders!"
The group put on new armor and ran straight to the city wall.
Torches can be seen in the distance, getting closer and closer.
The barbarian general is Luo Ge, the younger brother of the King of Mobei. He is extremely conceited. He believes that the throne of Mobei should be passed on to him, but his father favors his eldest brother and lets him lose the throne.
His siege methods are barbaric and rough. As long as he captures the city, his father will change his mind about him and take back his eldest brother's throne and pass it to him.
In order to make merit, he uses tough and extreme methods.
No matter how many casualties there are, as long as he can capture the town, the entire Daqi will be in the pocket of the Mobei royal court.
As soon as he knew there was food in the city, he led his army to attack.
I'm afraid the natural cave has been surrounded by the barbarian army.
Zhan Chengyin was on the war tower, the night wind was blowing, and he watched the light spots moving in.
He had to resist the army and block the exposed cave entrance.
He clenched his fists and said, "If there is any movement from Chen Wu, report it in time. The army will lead 30 horses to pass the message to them."
"Yes, General!"
The others stood behind Zhan Chengyin, worried.
In the past, as long as they resisted the city gate, they could hold on to it at the cost of huge casualties.
Now, there is still a cave entrance to guard.
"If we can block that cave entrance!" Someone among the soldiers said this.
Zhan Chengyin knew that it would be good to block the cave entrance.
However, the natural cave has a huge space inside, how can it be blocked.
In addition to holding on to it and filling it with human lives... there is no other way.
At this time, someone said, "General, ask the gods, she must have a divine object to block the cave entrance."
"Yes, the general is now under the pressure of the army, there is no time to hesitate, the gods are omnipotent! There must be a way!"
Even Xu Ming, who had been silent for a long time, silently took out the vase and put it on the ground.
He touched his nose. "General, I think you need it!"
So, Zhan Chengyin took out the writing brush and pen and wrote down the current predicament of Zhenguan.
Ye Mumu hadn't slept yet, so she went to take a shower.
After washing, she was about to pull the water pipe to drain the water, but she saw Zhan Chengyin's note.
The army is approaching. There are spies in the city, exposing the cave.
Now we have to block the cave entrance as soon as possible, otherwise the barbarians will enter Zhenguan through the cave entrance and disintegrate the Zhan family army from inside and outside!
Seeing this news, Ye Mumu was more anxious than Zhan Chengyin.
She bought so much food, fruits, vegetables, cloth...
She spent more than 200 million on armaments and weapons, but Zhenguan was destroyed before they were delivered?
How can a man endure this!
"Wait, I'll help you blow up the mountain!"
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