48. Night of the City I

Looking up and right, there is starlight in the sky,

Finger moon, drizzle and slanting wind,

The first war between male and female, the dream of breaking Yangzhou Road

That night, the night rain was like ice and cold to the bone marrow.

The lights in front of the west gate suddenly turned bright and dark, swaying with the wind. It was late at night, and the cold air gradually became stronger. The soldiers guarding the door squatted down with long guns and yawned against the corner. They said that it was a cold day. It was impossible to rest early. It is still unknown whether the solar energy could not rise tomorrow.

At this moment, a few dark shadows flashed fifty steps away from the gate, which shocked a soldier standing guard at the head of the city. He carefully lay on the wall and looked down, holding his eyes, wanting to know what had just run across the street.

Suddenly, something cut through the night sky. What was that? What a familiar sound. When he understood, it was too late, and more than a dozen arrows shot at him. It really hurt. It really hurt so much. The soldier fell down the city before he could scream.

When the blood flew into the air, the battle began.

Countless dark shadows gushed out of the street and ran towards the west gate. They waved the bright knife in their hands, and the arrows kept passing over their heads, shooting straight at the panicked people in the gate. They screamed and fell into a pool of blood.

"Kill!"

Di Ning shouted a word. As the sound of that word fell, dozens of people in black rushed into the inner gate first. Then, Lu Jun rushed to the head of the city with two knives. Behind him were more than a dozen desperate men.

The blade kept crossing the night sky, and several unlucky people fell down. Lu Jun killed the head of the city in one breath, flew with two knives, and soon put down several enemies who rushed up to fight for their lives. In the blink of an eye, more people rushed to the head of the city, and the remaining enemies were killed and fled. It seemed that they had not encountered tenacious resistance. The profit is unbelievable.

The rain is still falling at night, and the night seems to be darker.

A moment later, the west gate of Yangzhou opened. Lu Jun stood at the highest point of the city and shook the torch, sending an attack signal to the army in the distance.

After a stick of incense, the ground shook, and countless dark shadows rushed to the west gate of Yangzhou. In the blink of an eye, a gray army appeared in sight. The leader was the neatly dressed Yang Wenguang. He ran in the front, followed by as many priests as leaves.

Lu Jun looked excitedly at the approaching army and said that it was almost there. As long as the army entered the city for a while, it would be done.

However, the defenders in the military camp in Xicheng, Yangzhou reacted very quickly.

The head of the West City was lost, and a team of more than 300 people killed it. Then, the defenders of Nancheng also rushed here along the city wall, and the defenders of Beicheng were also rapidly approaching.

"Mom, how can we come together?" Di Ning waved the big knife in his hand and shouted loudly, "Give me an arrow, hold them back, and shoot arrows quickly!"

For a moment, the arrows rained all over the sky and flew into the dark night. For a moment, I heard one scream after another. The defenders of the West City were temporarily suppressed halfway and did not dare to attack immediately, but approached little by little along the private houses on both sides of the street.

This is troublesome. Di Ning cursed angrily and was about to order his brothers to light the broken house near the gate to prevent the enemy from approaching, and the defenders of Nancheng were killed. Lu Jun, with more than a dozen men, rushed up the wall and fought with the enemy.

Di Ning wanted to climb to the top of the city to help Lu Jun, but the enemy below was also approaching. He did not dare to divide his troops, because he was really short of manpower, and it was good to be able to defend the West Gate.

"Kill, take back the west gate!"

In the dark night, I don't know who shouted loudly. The defenders knew as soon as they heard it. It turned out to be Zhou Wuneng, and Zhou Wuneng came back.

"Damn it, I want to kill your grandfather. Listen to me, brothers. Life and death are tonight. Go to me, kill the head of the city and take back the west gate!"

Once someone comes to lead, You Yong Sanbing will become a terrible force. In particular, Zhou Wu can shout a sentence of life and death tonight.

In the blink of an eye, the defenders hiding around to avoid arrows rushed to the street, shouted and rushed to the west gate.

"Come on, come on, shoot me an arrow, shoot an arrow!"

In the firelight, Di Ning saw hundreds of people rushing over. If it was close, it would not take long to fight with them, and Ximen would be taken back.

Under the gate, there were more than a hundred people gathered, with a short crossbow, and only one shot. Most of the people who rushed over fell on the way. The rest were so scared that they fainted and lay on the ground and did not dare to move.

Seeing this, Di Ning hurriedly shouted, "Listen, the rebels in Yangzhou. There are debts and masters. The rebellion is only the idea of Wang Lun and other people. Don't be deceived. Put down your weapons and go home quickly. The government will no longer pursue it. If you don't repent and blindly follow Wang Lun, see it. This is the end. Damn, damn it!"

At this time, Qiu Jun was also by Di Ning's side. Seeing that he couldn't stop shouting, he quickly said, "Brothers in Yangzhou, listen, someone from Yangzhou, joined the army of Qiu Jun. If you don't hit your own people, put down your knives and guns and go home quickly. Someone swore to heaven that you will never pursue your fault, and don't be trapped again... "

Although it was raining outside and the wind passed by, the words of Di Ning and Qiu Jun were very clearly transmitted to the distance, and even Zhou Wuneng across the street heard it.

"Damn it, don't listen to the nonsense of the court. Brothers, you have no way out. The court has always settled accounts after autumn. Even if you dodged tonight, you will be raided and destroyed in the next day. It's better to fight hard tonight. Maybe you can still live. Kill me. The people in the court are bluffing."

Zhou Wuneng shouted again and encouraged his hands to continue to attack.

A moment later, there was another shout of killing in the street.

"Bastard, shoot me an arrow, shoot an arrow quickly." Di Ning waved his knife, and the brothers around him raised his crossbow again and shot at the black shadow on the street.

After paying the price of 200 lives, Zhou Wuneng's archer ambushed and occupied the commanding heights near the West Gate. After an order, dozens of feather arrows flew through the air.

The brothers next to Di Ning fell down one after another. Everyone was shocked and began to retreat. In the blink of an eye, they were forced into the gate hole by the rain of arrows, and were driven out of the west gate only a few steps away.

"Damn it, fight back, fight back quickly, and release all the remaining arrows"

One light and one dark, the attack and defense shifted. Three quarters of an hour ago, Di Ning and others attacked. The initiative was in his hands. Now it's Zhou Wu's turn to fight back, and the initiative is in the hands of others.

In just a quarter of an hour, there were more than half fewer people around Di Ning, and the rest were injured.

Under the cover of arrows in the air, waves of enemies rushed over. Di Ning gritted his teeth and killed two groups of people. The crossbow in his hand had no arrows, so he had to throw away the knife and hand-to-hand combat.

If the other party attacks at this time, I'm afraid he will have to withdraw from the city, but what about Lu Jun and others, what should they do?

In the city, the melee is more fierce.

Lu Jun's double knives have been lost, and the rest of the knives have also been cut into pieces. More than 30 brothers around him have been killed and injured. Now they only occupy the gate tower and resist the enemies in the north and south with sporadic crossbow arrows.

The aisle under the gate is connected to the inside of the gate.

Lu Jun rushed down a few steps and shouted behind Di Ning, "If you insist for a while, the army will arrive. If you really can't, fight. You can't die so many brothers in vain. You must hold on."

Another wave of arrows came.

Di Ning was hit by an arrow in his left arm, but he was still waving the knife in his palm and killed the enemy bravely. Qiu Jun also became a bloody man, and the blue clothes on his body were broken one by one. The sword was gone. Now he is holding a stick and struggling to resist the horrible knife and gun.

When Zhou Wuneng sent the last wave of knives and shields, Di Ning showed a desperate look, because he foresaw that he was going to die here.

However, in the blink of an eye, Yang Wenguang's leading army arrived and rushed into the gate. They shouted loudly: The imperial army came, the rebels surrendered quickly, and the violators died... The voice echoed over the west gate of Yangzhou, and I really wanted thousands of troops to kill.

The reinforcements have finally arrived.

Zhou Wu Neng waved the machete in his palm to resist the first wave of Song's attack, but only resisted the first wave. When the second wave of Yang Wenguang led the army to come in person, he had already fled to Dongcheng with Qian Jingsheng with the few remaining personal soldiers.

The war situation in Xicheng was immediately reversed after Yang Wenguang's army arrived. As soon as the armies of the two sides clashed, Yangzhou's anti-army collapsed.

Many people lost their knives and guns and ran back home, and more people chose to surrender.

When the Chinese army led by Zhao Ze entered the city one after another, Yang Wenguang led the army to fight with Qian Jingsheng in Dongcheng in various streets of the city.

The battle situation was very tragic at one time. Hundreds of people were killed and injured by the Song army, but Qian Jingsheng also killed almost all his own soldiers in the old Benyizhou. The remaining scattered soldiers recruited in Gaoyou and Yangzhou turned against each other as soon as they saw the Song army, which caused Qian Jingsheng's army to collapse in an instant.