Turbulent Times Chapter 153: Night Battle (Part 1)

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Under the command of Mai Tiezhang, more than a dozen people tried to climb the wall from the darkness, but these dozens of figures just appeared on the wall, and half of them were caught by a few lassoes flying from inside. Stopped, pulled in, half of them were shot off the wall by the opponent's crossbow, and the screams rang out for a while, and then there was no sound.

This is just the temptation and beginning of Mai Tiezhang. He wants to find out exactly how many people are in this small courtyard in the dark.

After Mai Tiezhang calmly observed the middle courtyard, he found that the wall of the middle courtyard was about one and a half feet high, and there were several small forests nearby. Only the courtyard in front of me was still there quietly, there was not much sound coming out, and it was unknown how many people were lying in ambush inside and nearby, and the shadow of the lights came out from the gap in the main entrance.

Mai Tiezhang faintly felt that something was wrong, but before he really figured out how many people the opponent had, he naturally couldn't withdraw with a little doubt.

"Shen Guang, can you tell who these thieves are?" At the same time, Wang Junlin was sitting on the stone steps at the entrance of the living room in the middle courtyard, and while sipping a drink, he asked Shen Guang who had hurried over.

At this time, fighting was still going on outside the courtyard, but the number of people participating was not large, and it would not let Mai Tiezhang see the clues of the whole battle situation clearly. The main thing was that the two sides were engaged in an offensive and defensive battle around the walls and gates of the middle courtyard, and this was also the tactical location specially set by Wang Junlin in order to minimize the casualties of his own side under the premise of killing all the opponents.

At this time, it was Zhan Peng who led the defense. In fact, there were only fifty people, but they were able to defend the wall of the middle courtyard without any gaps. Use crossbow arrows to sneak attack and harass the thieves.

"Hou Ye, I just used a lasso to get down a few times and captured two people alive. They acted extremely tough, but I can tell that they are all from the green forest road, and they are not from Guanzhong near the capital." Shen Guang said truthfully.

"Not from Guanzhong?" Wang Junlin was a little surprised.

"Fresh-faced, daring to fight, brave and fearless. It can be inferred from the accent and the way that they are all from other places." Shen Guang further added.

The people near the capital are rich, and there is a large army in town. There are relatively few people on the green forest road, and it is difficult to have a big climate, so these people can only come from other places.

"These people may be powerful in martial arts, and they are not afraid of death, but they don't even carry long-range crossbows. They are obviously wild people. I'm not afraid that they can break through here, but I'm afraid that they won't be able to die tonight." Jun Lin said lightly, his expression full of confidence.

At this time, the attack from outside suddenly stopped. Wang Junlin remembered that the general Zuo Tunwei, who was born in the green forest, might be commanding the outside. The encirclement, I guess it will take a while, these thieves cannot be evacuated in advance. So, don't grind with them, do it!"

"Here!" Shen Guang agreed, and ran over to convey Wang Junlin's order to Zhan Peng.

At this time, under the eaves and in the shadows of the courtyard, guards with steel crossbows and indifferent expressions were standing. They were all guards who had just arrived from Gaotai City in the northwest yesterday. The elite soldiers who climbed out have undergone intensive training by Wang Junlin for more than half a year. Whether it is a group battle or an individual soldier, their abilities far exceed those of ordinary elite soldiers.

"Go up the wall and shoot." Zhan Peng ordered softly.

The guards held the stringed steel crossbows, climbed up the ladder prepared in advance without saying a word, and shot at the figure outside without saying a word.

Screams suddenly rang out, but the thieves outside were really skilled. The first wave caught them off guard and killed more than a dozen people. They dialed with weapons.

"Master Hou, do we really want to set fire to our own mansion?" Shen Guang asked again unwillingly while watching Zhan Peng directing the guards to shoot and kill the thieves outside.

"Burn it! Why don't you burn it? I don't want the people below to die, but I want the emperor and the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty to feel that we have lost a lot, so that they can gloat and give us more There are many benefits, except for setting fire, there is no..."

Wang Junlin didn't say a word, he suddenly roared, turned around, picked up the dragon bird sword on the table with his right hand, grabbed the copper wine pot next to him with his left hand, and threw it towards the roof above his head. I saw a figure who did not know when he had arrived on the roof.

Almost at the moment when Wang Junlin threw the copper flagon, the figure on the roof reacted in an instant, and with a backhand slash, it was also a big knife, and slashed hard at the copper flagon.

Among the sound of gold and stone colliding, sparks lit up in the night sky, the copper flagon was smashed into the air, and the figure suddenly staggered several steps on the roof, trampled on the roof, and fell into the room behind Wang Junlin .

"Go to hell!" Shen Guang was half a beat slower than Wang Junlin, and quickly rushed into the room with the Heavenly Cicada Knife in his hand. He directly smashed half of the window and rushed in.

Qiang, qiang, qiang... As soon as Shen Guang entered, there was a series of firecracker-like crashes of gold and stone, and the lights of knives danced in the room, and sparks burst out with the shouts of "Ah--", and the tables and chairs , The wooden frame was hacked and exploded, flying in the air, brightened by sparks.

"Go to hell!" In the room, Shen Guang yelled again suddenly, and then a loud noise was heard, and a figure was split out of the window. The man was tall and thin, holding a steel knife, half of his body was already stained red with blood, and the cloth covering his face was also knocked off. He was quite embarrassed, but he had a fierce face and wolf-like eyes.

The man jumped up from the ground in an instant, shouted loudly, and rushed towards Wang Junlin like a madman.

Wang Junlin sneered, and prepared to kill this person with one blow. But the loyal Shen Guang had already rushed out of the room, and blocked the man again with the Tian Chan Knife in his hand. The two weapons intersected. Clang pulled out countless sparks, both of them fought fast, and the speed of the knife was so fast that Shen Guang couldn't kill him for a while.

The two fought for a moment, both felt exhausted and had to separate, panting heavily.

Wang Junlin looked at this person coldly and said, "Who are you?"

The blood-stained tall and thin man stretched out his hand to brush his hair away, gritted his teeth and said, "You think grandpa dare not say his real name, so why don't you say it again? Grandpa's name is Niu Jinda!"

"What? Your name is Niu Jinda." Wang Junlin was slightly taken aback, thinking how could this former great Tang Dynasty founding general be a bandit at this time, or maybe this Niu Jinda was not Niu Jinda.

Wang Junlin was hesitating whether to capture Niu Jinda alive, but suddenly the sound of fighting at the gate suddenly became fierce, and the wind howled, and the four guards who were standing against the gate were blown away. A burly, strong man like steel, stepped in with his face covered and holding an iron gun, stood there, examining the situation in the courtyard, the corpses of his companions in the middle of the courtyard, and... the courtyard was full of enemies and cattle. up to this one and only companion.

The person who broke into the door was naturally Mai Tiezhang, and to him, although the yard was full of enemies, except for Wang Junlin and Shen Guang, everyone else was restrained by the green forest heroes he brought.

Including Mai Tiezhang, all the thieves who came here covered their faces. Niu Jinda exposed his face because he accidentally dropped his mask during the fight with Shen Guang.

"I'm relieved to see you coming in." Wang Junlin carefully looked at the big man who rushed in and the weapon in his hand. The Mai Tiezhang was exactly the same, plus he was able to break into the door, and there was no one else but him.

Mai Tiezhang also confirmed Wang Junlin's identity, and was about to rush over to kill Wang Junlin regardless, and then leave quickly, not wanting Wang Junlin to say such a nonsensical remark suddenly.

Wang Junlin suddenly raised his hand when Mai Tieshang was stunned, and the steel crossbow that appeared at some point in his hand shot at Niu Jinda who was confronting Shen Guang.

In the face of Niu Jinda's face changing, he roared, dodged a crossbow arrow, and knocked a crossbow arrow flying with the steel knife in his hand, but he also staggered back in extreme embarrassment and fell to the ground. Then you must die.

But Shen Guang ignored him, and rushed into the house with Wang Junlin at the fastest speed.

While Mai Tiezhang and Niu Jinda were in shock, after chasing into the house, there was no one there.

"There are secret passages in the dog days."

"There are organs."

The two exclaimed and cursed, and made a judgment easily. They quickly searched for the secret passage in the house where Wang Junlin and Shen Guang left, but they couldn't find it for a while, not to mention that they were not good at it.

Outside the house, after the main gate of the middle courtyard was broken open, those green forest heroes naturally no longer carried their crossbow arrows to climb over the wall. The ten guards all fled over the wall at Zhan Peng's order.

In an instant, the offensive and defensive sides switched positions.

Mai Tiezhang suddenly couldn't hear the shouts of killing outside the house, and felt something was wrong. He ran out and saw that there was no enemy left, and the courtyard was full of bewildered green forest heroes.

"It's not good, I've been tricked, and evacuate quickly." Mai Tiezhang suddenly thought of something, exclaimed, and ran out first, but it was too late.

When he had just rushed to the entrance of the middle courtyard, a rain of arrows covered his head. He let out a strange cry in fright, and dodged to the side in embarrassment. Blocking it, he didn't see the rain of arrows before, so his reaction was delayed by half a beat, and he was shot to death five or six on the spot.

At this time, the sounds of fighting in the small woods outside the central courtyard had completely disappeared, and what came was the mobilization of a large number of people.

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