"The thieves are coming, the thieves are coming."
clang! clang! clang! clang!
The guards on the watchtower sounded the gong.
"Get ready!" Li Kaiyang looked at the crowds of people outside the city and told the Zhenwumen guard beside him.
"Don't worry, general. The general will definitely handle things properly."
The guard of Zhenwu Gate assured him, turned around and left quickly.
As the Tiger Flag army outside the city got closer and closer, Li Kaiyang stepped away from the crenel and went to a tower on the city wall.
boom! boom! boom!
The roaring sound of cannons reached Zhenwu Gate from other city gates. The guards on the city wall clenched their weapons, and the archers carefully lowered their bodies and hid behind the brick wall beside the crenellations.
Hundreds of cavalry appeared outside Zhenwumen City and entered the shooting range of the archers on the city wall.
However, the guard on the city wall did not give the order to attack. The archers and other guards hiding on the city wall could only wait for the order to attack.
The strange thing is that the thieves outside the city did not attack the guards on the city wall.
At the same time, the other gates of Yulin City all heard the shouts of killing that should be expected during an siege, which was exactly the opposite of the calm here at Zhenwu Gate.
"Open the city gate." The guard of Zhenwu Gate ordered the several guards guarding the city gate.
The guards who heard this were all stunned, almost thinking that they had heard wrongly.
One of the guards looked at the Zhenwu Gate guard and asked hesitantly: "There are thieves outside the city. Once the city gate is opened, the thieves will enter the city. General, do we really want to open the city gate?"
"Stop talking nonsense and open the city gate quickly. What I want is to let the thieves outside the city enter the city." The guard of Zhenwu Gate cursed and grabbed the handle of the knife at his waist with his right hand.
Although several guards were panicked, they still carried out the other party's orders.
Soon, the city gate was opened.
"If you want to survive, you all kneel down. Don't resist, and don't think about escaping." The Zhenwu guard general said a few words, then turned and left.
As soon as the city gate opened, the cavalry waiting outside quickly rushed towards the city gate.
After the cavalry entered the city, they were followed by a large group of infantry, and the number of infantry was several times that of those who entered the city before.
The tiger-shaped banner army suddenly entered the city, and many of the officers and soldiers guarding the city became panicked. Before many people could understand what was going on, Zhenwu Gate had already been lost.
"Everyone put down their weapons and no resistance is allowed." The guard of Zhenwu Gate returned to the top of the city and shouted loudly to the officers and soldiers guarding the city. While shouting, he walked forward along the city wall.
At this moment, some of the guards on the city wall began to take up weapons and aim them at their companions.
Many guards who didn't know what was going on subconsciously dropped their weapons.
From beginning to end, there was not much trouble on the city wall.
The situation on the city wall was brought under control, and Li Kaiyang walked out of the watchtower.
"General, everything is fine." The guard of Zhenwu Gate came to Li Kaiyang's side.
Li Kaiyang nodded.
At this time, many soldiers dressed differently from the officers and soldiers on the city wall appeared on the horse path, holding firecrackers and running up the horse path towards the city wall.
The officers and soldiers on the city wall were quickly controlled by the soldiers who followed the Tiger Flag.
"Who is General Lee?"
A big man walked up on the horse road with a fire gun on his waist. As soon as he came up, he asked about Li Kaiyang's whereabouts.
"I am." Li Kaiyang, who was not far from the horse path, raised his hand to signal.
The visitor noticed, quickly came to him, and said with a smile: "I am She Dongfei, the first battle barracks battalion."
"Hello, General She." Li Kaiyang raised his hand to She Dongfei.
She Dongfei smiled and said: "I'm not much of a general. You can call me She Yingzheng or Old She. But General Li has helped us a lot this time. Maybe I will have to make a living under General Li in the future."
"We're all friends now," Li Kaiyang said with a smile on his face, and She Dongfei's words just tickled his itch.
The reason why he wanted to give up Yulin City was not only because he had promised Liu Heng in Datong, but also because he wanted to have a good future within the Tiger Character Banner in the future.
She Dongfei glanced at the officers and soldiers being guarded on the city wall, and said: "Next, we have to rely on General Li here. The First Battle Battalion and I need to go to other city gates to support and assist several other battle battalions in entering the city."
"My soldiers are very familiar with Yulin City, let them lead the way for you." Now that he has become one of his own, Li Kaiyang devotes himself to serving the Tiger Flag.
She Dongfei nodded and accepted, and said gratefully: "Thank you so much, General Li."
"You guys, follow She Yingzheng and do your best to serve She Yingzheng." Li Kaiyang handed over several soldiers around him to She Dongfei.
She Dongfei left Zhenwumen with several of Li Kaiyang's soldiers.
However, before leaving, he left behind a squadron of soldiers to assist Li Kaiyang in seeing the officers and soldiers here at Zhenwu Gate and at the same time take over Zhenwu Gate.
The Zhenyuan Gate in the south of Yulin City and the Daximen and Xiaoximen in the west of the city were all attacked by tiger-character flag soldiers from at least one military camp.
Among them, Zhenyuan Gate was the worst. The Tiger Banner army outside the city took out nearly 70 cannons and continuously bombarded Zhenyuan Gate.
Although the two gates in the west city were bombarded by so many cannons, there were also more than twenty cannons that continuously bombarded the Xuanwei Gate in the west of the city, which is also the Great West Gate.
Wu Zimian, the commander-in-chief who was stationed at the west city gate, was not under much pressure.
Although there were more than twenty cannons, the defenders on the city had already been prepared. Except for the initial shelling, when the defenders did not react and there were a few more casualties, there were basically not many casualties later.
Not only that, he also hid all the archers guarding the city, waiting only for the bandits outside the city to rush under the city wall, and then let the archers take action.
"The general is in trouble, something happened."
As the voice fell, an armor-clad officer and soldier ran up panting from under the city wall.
"Let him come over." Wu Zimian asked his soldiers not to stop this man.
The other party quickly came to Wu Zimian and said eagerly: "General, Zhenwu Gate has been captured. A large number of traitors are entering the city from Zhenwu Gate and heading towards Zhenyuan Gate."
"Why did Zhenwu Sect fall? Isn't Li Kaiyang sitting there?" Wu Zimian asked with an ugly face.
The visitor said: "It was General Li who opened the city gate and took the initiative to let the traitors into the city."
"Please also ask the two generals to follow the younger ones to the hall as soon as possible." The servants of the General Military Mansion who were guarding the corridor outside the door saw the two people coming out of the house and hurriedly asked them to go to the hall to see Wu Zimian.
The servant walked in front and led the way, followed by Li Kaiyang and Liu Chun.
"The leader of the bandit army really didn't leave any time for us. Such a big thing happened at night, but he actually started attacking the city so early in the day." Liu Chun complained as he walked away.
