These civilian men transporting grain were naturally disguised as Huai'an troops.
But the people in Xuzhou City are not fools, so although these Huai'an troops can pretend to be civilians and enter the city, they have no weapons in their hands!
More importantly, they had no armor on them.
This is undoubtedly very disadvantageous.
Originally, there was no need for them to take risks like this, and this was not the case with Lin Sheng's pre-designed plan. He had prepared two hundred grain trucks tonight. The more than one hundred grain trucks in front were all normal grain trucks, and the civilians who transported the grain were also He was unarmed.
But the last dozen grain trucks were filled with standard combat knives!
After all, this is Master Pan Zhizhou's business. These soldiers only conduct a symbolic search of the grain truck when entering the city. It is impossible to search out of the city. Therefore, the vehicle following the team can carry weapons.
According to Lin Sheng's plan, when the last dozen or so vehicles entered the city, he suddenly raised weapons and took control of the city gate, setting off arrows and fireworks to notify the main force of the Huai'an army that had arrived quickly!
It happened to be midnight at that time, and the vanguard of the West Route Army who was ordered to rush from Luliang Mountain should have been approaching Xuzhou City, and the time was just right!
Unexpectedly, halfway through the process, these Qi people suddenly received news that the Huai'an army was attacking. Seeing that the city gate was about to close, Lin Sheng had no choice but to adapt to the situation, change the plan temporarily, and act immediately!
These Huai'an troops disguised as civilians were elites personally selected by Su Ding. They were ordered to accept Lin Sheng's dispatches and had a plan in advance. After hearing Lin Sheng's words, these Huai'an troops first pretended to be afraid and ran around, and then a few of them Together they swarmed towards the soldiers guarding the city.
These soldiers were originally just government officials who guarded the city. They had no fighting ability at all. Once they were squeezed, they immediately became unsteady. When they leaned, the spears in their hands or the sabers hanging on their waists were almost useless. In a few breaths, these "civilians" gave it to them!
After a while, the weapons of the thirty or so officers and soldiers who defended the city were all removed. Lin Sheng immediately had more than thirty combat forces here. His hands were trembling now, and he carefully hid behind the city gate, his voice trembling. .
"Control the city gate, control the city gate!"
At this moment, someone had already set off the sounding arrows, and each of the dozen or so "grain trucks" originally in line were pushed by seven or eight people, approaching Xuzhou West Gate at high speed!
At this time, General Du Shen had not yet understood what happened. He was stunned for a moment before a subordinate came over to report: "General Du, Pan Zhizhou is dead!"
"Pan Zhizhou is dead, what does it have to do with me?"
He cursed loudly and was about to speak when he suddenly saw a bright red fire rising into the sky at the city gate, then exploded, forming a sky full of red stars, and then disappeared in the night sky.
General Du was stunned for a while, and then a chill came to his heart: "No, no!"
He shouted: "Southern thieves! It's southern thieves!"
He looked around and shouted loudly: "Left and right! Clean up the southern thieves and take back the city gate!"
"The southern thieves are coming!"
Although Lin Sheng was trembling with fear, he still called someone over and told him to shout the expected slogan.
"The conquering army is grabbing food! The conquering army is grabbing food!"
"The soldiers of the Southern Conquest Army killed Master Pan and robbed him of food!"
The reason for shouting like this is naturally to confuse the situation and muddy the water in Xuzhou City. After all, theoretically speaking, even if the Lingsu Division of the West Route Army gets some horses to rush over, it will take midnight at the earliest. In other words, these people will have to control this city gate for at least an hour!
At this time, if you can delay for a moment, it will be of great help to the situation!
General Du Shen had already understood. He became furious and cursed: "These evil southern thieves killed Pan Zhizhou and poured dirty water on my head!"
"Come on, kill them all!"
A Qianhu next to General Du looked at the situation and whispered: "General, we only brought more than two hundred people to take over this city gate..."
"Go first!"
General Du Shen cursed: "Didn't you see that it was a group of civilians who were making trouble? We, the King of Qi, can't even deal with a group of civilians!"
With that said, General Du Shen glanced at the west city gate. At some point, one or two hundred civilians had gathered at the city gate, and many of them had already obtained weapons!
"You guys rush forward immediately, and I will immediately mobilize a thousand-household camp to crush these southern thieves into ashes!"
General Du spat on the ground and cursed: "You are so daring, you don't even have a piece of leather armor, yet you dare to seize the city gate. I'll call a hundred archers over and shoot them all!"
After saying that, he turned around and left in large strides.
Qianhu beside him had no choice but to grit his teeth and charge forward with his men.
At this time, more than a dozen carts of weapons were almost delivered to the city gate. More than thirty people who had grabbed the weapons were fighting in front with the more than one hundred Xuzhou defenders, while the remaining people were They took turns running to the weapons cart, taking off the weapons, and immediately ran back to the city gate to join the battlefield!
However, one side was composed of well-dressed city-defending officers and soldiers, and the other side was the Huai'an army, all dressed in civilian clothes. Although they obtained weapons, they still suffered a huge loss.
Fortunately, with their temporary numerical advantage, these hundreds of Huai'an troops still firmly controlled the city gate!
In addition, the terrain near the city gate tower is relatively narrow. It was originally used to prepare for street battles with the enemy after they entered the city. At this time, it was actually beneficial to the Huai'an army who occupied the city gate!
Only a dozen people can guard the pass and prevent the Xuzhou defenders from rushing over.
However, there was no armor, and the two sides only fought for a tea time. The Huai'an army suffered more than a dozen casualties, and blood was everywhere at the gate of the West City.
As time drags on, large groups of Xuzhou defenders will soon rush over.
Lin Sheng was hiding behind the city gate at the moment. He watched the battlefield for a while, then suddenly gritted his teeth and said, "Brothers, let's go up to the city tower!"
"Their reinforcements will arrive soon, and they will definitely bring bows and crossbows. We have no armor and no shields. We are at a huge disadvantage!"
"It's hard to shoot them if you go up to the tower. As long as you guard the stairs, you'll be safe!"
These officers and soldiers of the Huai'an Army are now under Lin Sheng's command. After he spoke, everyone looked at each other. Taking advantage of the fact that the number of Qi people was not large, they rushed forward to kill for a while, and then succeeded in killing them on the tower!
But in this way, the city gate was naturally occupied by Qi people, and the city gate that had been opened was closed again!
Lin Sheng was carried to the top of the city tower by a group of strong men.
In order to prevent being hit by Qi Ren's arrows, he carefully lay down behind the bunker, his face turned pale with fear.
At the gate of the city tower, the fighting became increasingly fierce.
Fortunately, at this time, the corridor was even narrower, and even the Qi people couldn't attack it for a while.
Lin Sheng lay on the ground, feeling that time passed extremely slowly, and every breath was torture.
Every cry of death coming from outside made this scholar-turned-died newspaper secretary tremble with fear.
After all, he used to be a scholar.
After joining the Di Bureau, he also did intelligence work. When he was working in Jiankang in the early years, Group 8 had never seen blood on his hands. Today's stabbing of Pan Mao was the first time he had killed someone.
Time passes extremely slowly.
It seems like ten thousand years have passed.
Finally, red fireworks exploded in the night sky.
Lin Sheng, who was lying on the ground, suddenly looked back at the sky, filled with surprise: "Reinforcements are here!"
"Quickly, set off fireworks and tell them we are at the west gate!"
At Lin Sheng's command, red fireworks exploded into the sky again at the West Gate.
Immediately afterwards, there were faint sounds of horse hooves.
About two thousand cavalrymen rushed to the west city gate.
However, the west city gate in front of them was closed.
Leading this cavalry was Zhang Meng from the Western Front. He looked at the closed door in front of him and frowned slightly.
Just when Zhang Meng was wondering if there was a rebellion among the city's insiders, a young man's head popped out from the top of the city tower.
The young man waved his arms hard and shouted at the top of his lungs.
"Attention please!"
He shouted: "We are opening the city gate!!"
After saying this, Lin Sheng looked back at the more than 300 Huai'an Army officers and soldiers left behind him, gritted his teeth and said, "Brothers!"
"Open this door. Everyone here today is a fucking hero!"
"He is the hero of the Huai'an Army and the hero of our Dachen!"
He turned around and glanced at the more than a thousand people gathered below, and blushed: "Just open the door latch and open the door bolt!"
After saying this, Lin Siwu patted his chest and said in a trembling voice: "This time, I will rush with you!"
A Huai'an army man on the side grinned: "Young master, just stay on the tower!"
After saying that, he buttoned up his armor, looked back at the twenty or thirty Huai'an soldiers next to him who were also wearing armor, and said in a calm voice: "Brothers, it's time to record merit, are you afraid?"
These armors were ripped off from Qi people.
During this hour of guarding the corridor, they repelled several Qi people's charges and killed and injured more than a hundred Qi people. They dragged more than twenty Qi people up to the tower and took off their armor.
These Huai'an soldiers looked at each other and laughed heartily: "General Su said, if you die here, you will be compensated fifty taels of pension, I'm afraid of you!"
"good!"
The leading man was their leader Qian Hu. He stood up and shouted: "Come down with me and open the city gate!"
Lin Sheng's eyes turned red and he said nothing.
The Huai'an army on the tower, with more than 20 armored soldiers as the vanguard, raised the few snatched shields and resolutely rushed down the tower.
Under the city tower, blood suddenly flowed all over the floor, and there were stumps and broken arms everywhere!
The bloody smell rushed up to the tower.
However, these are the elites of the Huai'an army after all. In addition, the terrain is narrow, and there will not be too many Qi people facing them at the same time. With a strong breath, after a cup of tea, they were actually rushed to the city gate. The leader He Qianhu shouted violently and slashed to death a Qi Ren who was holding the door bolt, and then fought hard to receive a blow from another Qi Ren, and together with his comrades next to him, he forcibly carried the heavy door bolt!
He Qianhu was stabbed on the left shoulder, but at this moment he had no time to cry out the pain, but shouted: "The door is unlocked!"
"The door is unbolted!"
At the same time, more than a dozen Huai'an Army soldiers shouted in unison!
Lin Sheng on the tower had red eyes. He turned around suddenly and looked outside the city.
This young man, who was born as a scholar and never said bad words, used all his strength to shout angrily at Zhang Meng outside the city.
Shout at the top of your lungs!
"Bump me!!"
