Chapter 264
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Chapter 264: Tricking Open the City Gate (2)
Inside Songhe City’s gate, as the gate lowered once more, Zhang Dapeng visibly relaxed.
Zhou Yi, looking disheveled, quickly stepped forward, approached Zhang Dapeng, and, with a grateful look, cupped his fists.
“Thank you, brothers…”
Zhang Dapeng had no particular thoughts upon hearing the thanks.
He waved his hand, about to say something, but then, a hint of murderous intent flashed in Zhou Yi’s eyes, who was still in the cupped-fist posture.
A bronze dagger he had hidden in his leather wrist guard was instantly drawn!
A chilling gleam rapidly flashed before Zhang Dapeng’s eyes.
At that moment, unable to react, he only felt a cold sensation in his throat.
His entire expression froze.
“Brothers, move!”
Zhang Dapeng’s falling corpse seemed to be their signal to act.
The seemingly bloodied and barely standing remnants of soldiers, who appeared to need support just to stand, suddenly erupted.
In the blink of an eye, they cut down all the defending soldiers closest to them!
This wave of attack was too sudden, causing Chen Mingrui, who was a few steps behind Zhang Dapeng, to instantly change his expression.
Looking at the situation, if he had taken two steps faster, the corpse lying on the ground would probably have been his.
Thinking of this, Chen Mingrui felt both shock and rage.
He immediately shouted for the surrounding soldiers to surround and kill the attackers!
However, in this era, everyone’s focus was still on daytime.
At night, hardly anyone would launch an attack on a city.
After all, in the dark, how could a siege battle even be fought?
Precisely for this reason, the number of soldiers on night watch was very small.
Usually, only one squad, or 10 people, were responsible for standing guard on the city wall at night.
Now, under martial law, Songhe City’s defending general, Liu Hu, had symbolically doubled the number of night watch soldiers, but doubling one squad only resulted in two squads.
There wasn’t much change in numbers at all.
The enemy’s unexpected attack directly cut down most of their two night watch squads.
Realizing this, Chen Mingrui shivered and immediately took off running.
As he ran, his mind raced.
“It’s over, it’s over!”
“I’m the one who let them in.”
“If the general holds me accountable later, then I…”
Thinking of this, Chen Mingrui’s entire face instantly became unpredictable.
Then a thought quickly rose in his mind.
“I-I’ve got it! Push this matter onto Zhang Dapeng!”
“Say it was he who ordered the city gate opened.”
“Anyway, most of them are already dead, and the remaining few are probably dead too.”
“If I don’t say anything, who would know?”
“Yes, that’s what I’ll do.”
Who knew that as he was thinking this, Chen Mingrui, who was running wildly, suddenly felt a sharp pain in his back.
His entire body instantly lost balance, and he fell heavily to the ground.
“Wh-what happened?”
The fall disoriented him.
Chen Mingrui instinctively reached for his back.
His hand met something wet and warm, and the blood seeping from his back instantly stained his entire palm red.
It turned out that Zhou Yi, seeing him try to escape, had directly thrown the bronze dagger in his hand like a hidden weapon.
It must be said that his throw carried a significant element of luck, but it still hit its mark.
“W-wait, Zhou Yi, listen to me…”
Chen Mingrui’s legs trembled as he saw Zhou Yi, now holding a bronze battle axe, charging towards him.
A puddle of water spread, as he was so frightened he lost control of his bladder on the spot.
As for Chen Mingrui, Zhou Yi now remembered him.
He wasn’t particularly strong, but he was very skilled at buttering up and pleasing his superiors.
He was originally a soldier from East Frontier City, but East Frontier City, being on the border, often had to fight.
This guy was afraid of going to the battlefield, so he used connections, bribed with money and women, to get himself transferred to Songhe City in the rear.
This was basically what he knew of the situation.
What Zhou Yi didn’t know was that even in Songhe City, this guy hadn’t been honest.
Every day he was busy looking for beautiful women.
The two concubines of the defending general Liu Hu were both gifts from him, and he even managed to get himself a captain’s position because of it.
As his thoughts raced, the bronze battle axe in Zhou Yi’s hand swung down.
A clean, swift strike instantly took the man’s life.
Then, wiping the blood from his face, he quickly shouted.
“Quick, open the city gate!”
The military camp wasn’t far from the city gate.
Zhou Yi could clearly see torchlight appearing in the distance, exceptionally conspicuous in the dark.
He figured some soldiers must have noticed the commotion here.
Quickly opening the city gate and letting Luo Ji and his troops into the city was the priority!
After the city gate slowly rose again, Zhou Yi, holding a torch, quickly ran outside and used the torch to wave the prearranged signal to notify Luo Ji and the others in the distance.
Looking at the signal, Luo Yong felt a mix of emotions, while Luo Ji waved his hand.
“Enter the city!”
For this night raid, he brought half of his 3,000 troops, leaving the rest in East Frontier City as backup.
However, even with half the forces, once the city gate was open, wouldn’t taking Songhe City be effortless?
East Frontier City, as a border city, only garrisoned 500 or 600 defending troops.
Songhe City, being further behind East Frontier City, would at most have 500 troops.
Facts proved Luo Ji was indeed right.
Except for East Frontier City, which had a slightly larger defending force, both Songhe City and Songshan City only had 500 defending troops.
In Zhou Dongnan’s view, his ‘iron triangle’ deployment in the eastern territory should have been as stable as a mountain.
Whatever unexpected situation arose, the other two cities just needed to send two waves of reinforcements, and they could gather over a thousand defending troops in minutes.
How could it not be stable?
Who would have thought reality would be so harsh?!
Luo Ji’s army entered the city, and their first priority was to head straight for the military camp.
1,500 bloodthirsty soldiers against 500 enemy troops who hadn’t even had time to put on their weapons and equipment, some still groggy from sleep, the outcome of this battle required no further words.
After a round of slaughter, Luo Ji ordered most of his forces to remain at the military camp, keeping an eye on the disarmed and surrendered soldiers.
Then he called Luo Yong and Zhou Yi, and with 200 soldiers, headed directly for the mansion of the defending general, Liu Hu.
According to Zhou Yi, Songhe City’s defending general, Liu Hu, was one of Zhou Dongnan’s top fierce generals.
However, Luo Ji didn’t care.
What good was a fierce general?
This wasn’t a world where one could simply rampage through enemies like a video game.
With Luo Yong and 200 shield-axemen, even the fiercest general wouldn’t escape being hacked to death by axes!
