Chapter 630 [First Update]
When the first group of people entered the tunnel, everyone felt very heavy in their hearts.
Everyone present has experienced some ups and downs over the years, but the tension in the face of danger and the unknown has not changed at all.
This was especially true for Liu Tan, as the backbone. To be safe, he sent out all the elite troops around him.
He watched these people grow up little by little. His mood now was so complicated that he wanted to find a place to hide alone, not to see anyone, not to look at anything, and he wished that the results would come out as soon as he woke up from a sleep.
But no, he had to sit there with a calm and composed expression, as if nothing could shake him.
However, the elite members of the regiment that he was worried about were in a good mood. They had traveled all over the country and seen many storms over the years, but this was their first time traveling underground. Especially after entering the city, they could occasionally hear the footsteps of the Huns patrolling at night. The dull footsteps seemed to knock on their hearts, making them nervous but also a little excited.
After the tunnel reaches the city, there are five forks. The middle one leads to the county governor's office and is also the most dangerous one.
Everyone needed to separate here, but because the tunnel was narrow, they passed the message one by one when they said goodbye.
Each one made the unique gesture of wishing peace to their elite regiment, and then ran towards their battlefield without hesitation.
The people behind will continue until the end.
The group that went to the County Magistrate's Mansion was the most elite group that Liu Tan had just sent out this time. Each of them had a chopstick in his mouth to prevent himself from talking.
After they reached the county magistrate's mansion, they waited for a while and judged the other party's patrol situation based on the footsteps above.
This wait lasted for an hour. In fact, even an hour might not be enough to figure out the order of patrolling and changing of guards, but there was no other way. They didn't have time to drag it out.
The brothers in other places are still waiting for their signal. Only when the County Governor's Office takes action will the rest of the places start to take action. Otherwise, if other places take action first, it will easily alert the enemy, and then the County Governor's Office will not be able to control the Huns leader in time.
After determining that the defense of the county magistrate's office was not tight, the leading captain immediately gestured for someone to remove the bluestone slabs.
Fortunately, the Yan State had not had time to use cement for the project, otherwise they would not have been able to get up there without using black gunpowder.
This incident also reminded Liu Tan that no matter how useful cement is, he must reserve space for green space in the future.
In later generations, greening was done for the environment, but he was doing it now so that they could dig tunnels if the city was occupied in the future. It could be considered a blessing in disguise.
While the patrol personnel were not here, the elite group quickly pushed the bluestone slab. One person went up first and observed the surroundings before making gestures to the people below.
The people behind put out the torches in their hands and came up one by one.
After coming up, they found that it was not as dark as they had imagined. The county magistrate's mansion was still brightly lit at this time.
Everyone hid in a blind spot, took the chopsticks out of their mouths, and whispered to the captain: "Boss, what should we do?"
The captain looked around, determined the location of the main building of the County Magistrate's Mansion, thought for a moment and said decisively, "Turn off the lights!"
How could they launch a surprise attack in such bright light? Furthermore, after a series of battles, the elite regiment now understood that their advantage lay in the darkness—because most people in this world had that… what did His Highness call it? Oh, night blindness.
But they don’t. His Highness has taken good care of them. Not only do they not suffer from night blindness, but their eyesight is still good at night.
After all, the elite regiment was selected from so many people in the Northern Kingdom, and basically any indicator is higher than that of ordinary soldiers.
But the more this happens, the more important tasks they have to undertake, and such tasks usually involve danger.
The method the captain and his men chose to extinguish the lights was also very strange - using bows and crossbows.
Although the people of Yan State were poor, the previous King of Yan, the Yan court, and the county magistrates were not poor.
Therefore, even in a small county magistrate's office, candles were used and oil lamps were nowhere to be seen.
The captain secretly cursed the county magistrate for his extravagance while feeling relieved. Candles were good. They were easier to deal with than oil lamps at certain times. As long as the candle was knocked down by a crossbow, the flame would most likely be extinguished.
Of course, if you have better skills, you can just go towards the flame and put it out directly.
These people have been trained hard, and each of them has good accuracy. In addition, they have flexible sights on their hands. They can install them on the crossbow when needed and remove them when not needed, making the crossbow more convenient to carry.
This is something that was recently developed, but this kind of sight is even more tailor-made, and no one else has it except their elite regiment.
The captain and his men began to diligently extinguish the candles.
It is easy to extinguish the candle, the only difficult thing is how to retract the crossbow arrow.
All of them were lightly equipped, and in order to move quickly they only carried a few crossbow arrows. Each one they used was one less. There were quite a few lights along the way, and they extinguished them one by one. The number of crossbow arrows was simply not enough.
Fortunately, the captain is also a smart man. They usually carry ropes with them when they go out, so that they can use them in special circumstances.
The rope is not particularly strong, but at this time it can be tied to the crossbow to recycle the crossbow arrows.
The captain was unsure at first, so he tried it out. When he found that it was feasible, he immediately let everyone do it.
Liu Tan could never have imagined that the first thing his elite regiment did when they arrived at the county magistrate's mansion was to extinguish other people's candles. The whole team was filled with a dishonest atmosphere.
The candles in the county magistrate's mansion are all watched over by a special person, and they will be lit immediately if they go out.
As a result, these slaves discovered something horrible - any candle that was extinguished would be extinguished again as soon as it was lit. Not only that, the candles became shorter and shorter, and some even had their cotton threads disappearing.
After going through the process of searching and destroying, searching and destroying, and still not finding any suspicious people or even any suspicious objects, both the original slaves of the county magistrate's office and the Huns who later occupied this place were all scared to death.
The Huns ran away, chattering something, and the slaves also scattered.
On the other side, they had been waiting with crossbows for the Huns to come and kill their elite troops:
The subordinate came over and asked, "Boss, what should we do now?"
The captain said decisively: "Chase!"
Even when they are chasing, these people are very dedicated. They hold the idea that as long as there is no light, it is their advantage, and they put out the candles wherever they go.
So in the eyes of the Huns, it was obvious that there was a ghost chasing them. If it wasn't a ghost, why would they turn off the lights?
These Huns shouted out their gods and then started making noise in the entire county government office.
The captain never expected that extinguishing a candle would cause such a commotion. He originally wanted to destroy the Huns' patrol without alerting others, and then quickly control the Huns' leader Zuoguduhou. However, it now seems that this plan is not working.
The people below asked, "Boss, we seem to have messed up."
The captain sighed with great sadness: "Let's go, just kill them."
Anyway, they are very powerful. No matter how tightly the County Governor's Mansion is defended, it is impossible to bring all the troops here to guard it. Even if the County Governor's Mansion is capable of accommodating a maximum number of people, they can still kill their way in.
It will just waste some time.
After hearing this, the other members of the elite regiment immediately prepared for battle. Of course, even so, they habitually sought dark places to walk in, harvesting heads as they walked.
Originally everyone thought that this would be a tough battle, but the location they chose was not far from the main house of the county magistrate's mansion, so it would be no problem to resist.
What I never expected was that the Huns seemed to... have no intention of resisting.
Each of them looked so frightened... and looked particularly... murderous.
They harvested heads here, and to be on the safe side, they did not use the method of slitting the throat, but stabbed directly from the back or front of the body, stabbing the knife into the heart and then rotating the handle of the knife, which could almost kill instantly.
Then the Huns became even more panicked - the ghosts had already started killing people!
The elite regiment felt that they had never fought such an easy battle. Before they could do anything, the other side lost their composure.
The captain saw that these people were not a concern and guessed that the Xiongnu Zuoguduhou would be the next to take charge of the situation. He turned around and said, "Go to the roof and wait for him to come out and capture him alive."
They planned very well. They didn't go up to the roof before because the Condor Archer had been hiding there. But just now... they saw the Condor Archer running to a place that was said to be haunted. They could take advantage of this opportunity to ambush him and wait for the Condor Archer to come back and shoot him in the face with a crossbow arrow.
Just as the captain said, Zuoguduhou, who was sleeping, was woken up at this time. After hearing that the yard was haunted, he walked out very angrily.
Just as he was about to shout something, he was slammed in the face by the elite group that seized the opportunity and descended from the sky.
The members of the elite regiment just raised their hands to knock Zuoguduhou unconscious and use him as a hostage to kill their way out, but then they saw Zuoguduhou's face full of horror, his eyes rolled back, and he fainted.
Elite Regiment: ...
Is this... so easy to get? Are they that scary?
The captain made a quick decision: "Let's go back through the tunnel."
Capturing Zuoguduhou alive was a great achievement. Everyone was so excited that they went straight back to the location of the tunnel.
Just when they came up, they covered the stone slab back. In addition, this was the birthplace of the "ghost", so it was very quiet here for a while. Everyone carried Zuo Gudu Hou away without anyone noticing.
When Liu Tan heard that the elite regiment had returned, he was completely shocked: "Why are they back? Is it not going well? Why didn't I hear the signal?"
Because there was no time to make any signal flares, he originally instructed the elite regiment to directly ignite the black powder after they succeeded and notify everyone to take action through sound.
Everyone in the elite group: Oh no, we were so excited about catching people that we forgot about it!
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