Late at night, everything is silent.
There was not even a sound of birds outside Yunzhong City because a hundred thousand troops were stationed outside the city, and the birds did not dare to approach.
It was late at night, and the lights on Yunzhong City were still bright. Groups of Yunzhou Army soldiers patrolled back and forth on the city to prevent the Huns from suddenly attacking the city in the middle of the night.
However, until midnight, the Xiongnu side was still quiet and there was no movement at all.
The night is getting deeper and deeper, the dark clouds in the sky gradually cover Wangshu, and the night becomes darker.
"Ah woo~"
The time has come to the third quarter of Yin hour, and the patrolling soldiers couldn't help but dozed off.
After patrolling all night, there was no movement from the Huns. Now, the spirit of the soldiers has gradually become slack.
However, they did not see that in the night, a group of Hun cavalry took advantage of the dark clouds covering the horses' hooves and wrapped cloths on their horses' hooves and quietly came under the city wall, and entered the blind spot of the defenders' sight along the city wall.
One team, two teams, three teams, four teams...
Gradually, the north gate of Yunzhong City was filled with soldiers clinging to the city wall. After a brief calculation, there were no fewer than five thousand people.
The dark clouds gradually dispersed, and these people revealed their true colors. Each of them had a ferocious face, and their hair was left unknotted. They looked like the Huns who were supposed to be stationed four hundred steps away.
They actually took advantage of the dark clouds and quietly reached the foot of Yunzhong City.
However, they did not plan to attack the city suddenly. With only five thousand of them, they could not attack the city without bringing the siege ladder.
The reason why they approached secretly was because they had already received news that the inner city would open the North City Gate soon. As long as they moved fast enough, they could quickly enter and occupy the North City Gate, even if they were attacked from the top of the city. , the remaining more than 80,000 Xiongnu troops could quickly rush into Yunzhong City through the North City Gate.
As long as the army is allowed to rush in, the Huns can still kill the thousands of people in Yunzhong City no matter how sophisticated their weapons are!
However, as time passed little by little, the waiting signal never appeared.
The leader of the team this time was King Huxie, the current Youxian King of the Xiongnu.
Now he was hiding in the corridor at the gate of the city. Seeing that he had not received the agreed signal after waiting for so long, his soldiers asked in a low voice: "King, is it possible that our detailed work was discovered by the Song Dynasty people?" , why is there no news until now?”
King Huxie looked at the sky, shook his head and said:
"The agreed time is at the fourth quarter of the Yin hour. At that time, the vigilance of the soldiers of the Song Dynasty will be reduced to the lowest, so that we can act easily.
The time has not come yet, so please wait patiently. "
The guard nodded and waited quietly again.
Time passed bit by bit, and soon the fourth quarter of the Yin hour finally arrived, and just when King Huxie couldn't help but think that Xizuo had been discovered, when they couldn't wait for the signal, the city gate suddenly slowly opened a crack.
A torch stretched out, but was thrown to the ground. Then three more torches were thrown out, for a total of four torches.
During this period, King Huxie and others remained motionless, just quietly watching the four torches being thrown out.
After waiting for five breaths, King Huxie signaled, and someone immediately came forward with a kettle that had been prepared and doused the four torches.
The moment the torch went out, the hand that had just thrown the torch suddenly retracted. After a moment, the city gate was slowly pushed open, and a group of people appeared in front of King Huxie and others.
The leader of this group was a short man from Song Dynasty, and the rest were all dressed as Tatars.
King Huxie did not know anyone else, but he recognized this Song Dynasty man. Before leaving, Gosying showed him the detailed portraits in Yunzhong City.
So when he saw this short Song man, King Huxie finally breathed a sigh of relief and stepped forward and said:
"Zhao Cheng, I thought you were discovered and arrested by the secret guards of Yunzhong City, but you are finally here."
Zhao Cheng was the name of the short man Xizhuo. Upon hearing this, Zhao Cheng immediately nodded and bowed to King Huxie like a pug to apologize:
"Forgive me, King Youxian. I had no choice but to find a chance to poison the water the defenders were drinking when they were not paying attention.
The medicine didn't take effect until just now, otherwise we would have been here long ago.
But it's not too late now. We didn't alert the defenders in other places. King Youxian hurriedly followed us in. As long as they held the north city gate, Da Chanyu and the others could march straight in! "
King Huxie had no doubt after hearing this. The onset of this medicine cannot be controlled by others, so accidents are normal. Now that everything is going well, it is already good, and he said immediately:
"Wait a minute. I'll send a signal to Shanyu first and then I'll follow you in."
Following this, King Huxie ordered his men to light four torches and extinguish them one by one in the direction of the Xiongnu army. Then he turned around and followed Zhao Cheng towards the city gate.
The Xiongnu army had already led its troops to look at the waiting Tila. After seeing the agreed signal, he immediately knew that King Huxie should be following Xizuo. When he gave the order, tens of thousands of troops were behind him. He immediately made preparations and waited for the next signal to launch a surprise attack with lightning speed.
At this end, King Huxie followed Zhao Cheng into the city gate. However, after entering, he was surprised to find that this place was different from what he thought. He thought that after crossing the city gate corridor, it would be Yunzhong City. .
But after they came in, they discovered that after passing through the city gate corridor, there was actually a long corridor in the city. Looking at the dark corridor in front of him, King Huxie's heart began to beat, and he grabbed Zhao Cheng who was walking in front. Asked: "Why is there such a long corridor behind here? Why didn't you spread the news before?"
Zhao Cheng looked at King Huxie with a puzzled look on his face and said, "King Youxian, didn't Leader Xunri tell you the news?"
The Xunri leader Zhao Chengkou mentioned was the Xiongnu Xunri who was the original leader of the army in their city.
It was only according to the news that he was discovered and executed by the secret guards on the tenth day that Zhao Cheng became the temporary leader.
King Huxie shook his head, and Zhao Cheng could only sigh and explain: "Perhaps Chief Xunri thought this was a trivial matter and did not mention it.
It's not just the three cities in Yunzhou County here. Behind the gate entrance of each city is a corridor of about a hundred steps.
But don’t worry, King Youxian, the troops in Yunzhong City are limited and they have all gone to guard the city wall. There are no troops to guard these corridors, so no one will find out. As long as we firmly control the innermost gate. , everything will be no problem! "
King Huxie looked at Zhao Cheng suspiciously, but Zhao Cheng looked at him sincerely. Secretly, Zhao Cheng's hands were covered with sweat, but his face still had that flattering and sincere look.
King Huxie finally believed him, and the army continued to advance quietly. Soon more than 4,000 of the 5,000 people entered the wide corridor.
King Huxie, who was at the front, could already see the slightly bright exit in front of him.
King Huxie could not express the excitement in his heart. He involuntarily accelerated his horse and rushed toward the exit. However, he did not notice that Zhao Cheng, who had been by his side just now, and a group of craftsmen who were responding to them, quietly approached the walls on both sides. Ye Qiaoqiao grabbed a rope and climbed toward the wall while no one was paying attention.
King Huxie rode his horse and rushed towards the exit excitedly. However, just as he was about to rush out, he heard a click and the sound of a rope breaking. A large iron door suddenly fell down from the shimmering exit in front. Block the exit tightly!
The heavy iron door fell heavily, not only blocking the exit, but also making King Huxie's heart skip a beat!
He quickly turned around and asked, "Zhao Cheng! What's going on!"
However, he then discovered that Zhao Cheng had disappeared without knowing when.
For fear of being discovered, none of them had any torches. It was normal for them to live in darkness without seeing anyone.
But in this case, the disappearance of Zhao Cheng cast a haze in King Huxie's heart.
The next moment, as if to verify his guess, torches lit up one by one on the walls on both sides of the corridor, and soon the walls at both ends of the corridor were brightly lit by torches.
The Yunzhou soldiers, each holding a repeating crossbow, pointed the repeating crossbow at them in the corridor with indifferent expressions.
King Huxie's heart suddenly sank to the bottom at this moment!
broken! Fell into a trap!
Those damn guys in Zhao Cheng defected to the Song people!
Now, it's over!
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(End of chapter)
