Chapter 222 Night Attack and Breaking the City

When Luo Li was wrapped in two blankets and sleeping soundly in the tent with four fire pots lit, Qin Wang Zhao Defang, with twenty shadow guards and sixteen military masters led by Yang Yanzhao, quietly came to the bottom of the Yingzhou city wall.

In the dark night, a torch was lit every ten feet on the Yingzhou city wall. Next to the flickering flames in the cold wind, there were two soldiers on duty.

The soldiers on duty were so cold that they wanted to hide their faces in their fur collars. They kept stamping their feet and rubbing their hands to curse the damn weather and the damn Song army. It was cold, and the hot air they sprayed out of their mouths was instantly frozen into cold mist.

"Groups two and three, on guard, group one, follow me first!" Qin Wang Zhao Defang looked at the three-meter-high city wall and gave a low order.

The precious swords and sabers made of snowflake iron in the hands of the shadow guards were painted black, not reflecting a single ray of light in the night. Yun Yi and the six shadow guards raised their heads and threw the thin ropes in their hands to the preferred position. The hooks on the ropes made a light "click" sound and buckled onto the blue bricks at the battlement entrance. After tightening the rope to check its stability, Yun Yi made a gesture.

The Qin prince Zhao Defang and Yun Yi, wearing black iron armor, took the lead, leaped up in the air, grabbed the rope for leverage, tapped the wall with their toes, and climbed over the wall.

Yang Yanzhao watched from below with admiration. If the prince and commander Yun did not wear heavy iron armor, they would not even need to use the rope for leverage to jump over the wall.

The four Liao soldiers on duty heard the sound of armor, and their eyes blurred. Their frozen numb bodies and sluggish nerves had not yet reacted. Before they could open their mouths to warn, their throats were cut by the sharp blade.

The Qin prince and Yun Yi supported their stiff and numb bodies, which were not much warm, and gently leaned against the wall.

When the two of them rushed to the soldiers on duty ten feet away, six shadow guards had already climbed up and rushed to the gate.

One by one, black figures climbed over the city wall. Under the cover of the night and the cold wind, the strong figures of King Qin and Yun Yi expanded the killing distance to both sides.

Yang Yanzhao led his men to rush into the hidden bunker at the gate, and sent dozens of Liao soldiers who were wrapped in blankets and huddled together for warmth to sleep to the west in their sleep.

When the city gate was slowly opened, the Liao army finally sounded a terrified warning. Amid the sharp warnings, the Liao army rushed out from the hidden bunkers with bows and arrows. They fired arrows in panic and fear, fighting desperately with the enemy who had suddenly attacked them. There was

also a commotion in the city. The Liao army under the city were stationed in tents and houses near the city wall. It took time to gather the troops in the dark. The battle on the city wall was fierce. The screams and shouts were carried into the city by the chilly north, as if they were bloody slaughters from the distant hell.

On the contrary, the two thousand elite Moyun cavalry soldiers who were ready to go in the dark two miles outside the city heard it more clearly. Deputy Commander Wu Xing waved his hand, and the hooves of the war horses under the Moyun cavalry warriors gradually rose, faster and louder, like thunder, rolling towards the south gate of Yingzhou!

The Liao army in the city had just gathered several teams and rushed towards the south gate, and a black iron stream rushed in from the wide-open city gate like a ghost killer!

The barricades had been removed by Yang Yanzhao and his men. After the Mo Yun Cavalry and the Iron Cavalry crossed the gravel pile as high as a person, they just happened to meet the Liao army who came to rescue them. They were like a tiger entering a pack of wolves and crushed them!

The Iron Cavalry rushed into the enemy group. The Mo Yun Cavalry elite soldiers' Mo Daos were like ghosts seeking their lives. The Liao army's heads were as fragile as winter melons in the cold light.

A team of archers behind the Liao army had just arrived and had no time to throw an arrow when the Iron Cavalry rushed in front of them. With the cold light of the Mo Dao swung, after a burst of miserable screams, the archer team disappeared in a moment.

Zhu Fang, the garrison commander of Huanzhou, who had fled to Yingzhou City, sighed in pain!

"Let's go! Follow me to charge out of the west gate and flee to Yunzhou."

The personal soldiers escorted the commander, turned their horses around, and fled to the west gate.

Six thousand elite Song cavalrymen followed closely behind the elite Mo Yun cavalrymen and rushed into Yingzhou City.

The leader of the army, Jiao Zan, tapped the axe in his hand in dissatisfaction and complained: "Following behind the two thousand Mo Yun Cavalry, it seems that we have no chance to charge and kill the enemy. Brothers of Mo Yun Cavalry, don't you know to leave us some time to satisfy our desire?" The

personal soldiers beside him laughed and said: "General, we won't meet the organized Liao army. The Liao army that is fleeing in all directions There are not a few, let's follow the Moyun cavalry brothers to pick up the fish that slipped through the net!"

Zhu Fang was really lucky. Song troops were ambushed near the three city gates. The defender of Yingzhou City, Yelu Boutuo, also chose to escape from the west city gate. General Yelu, who rushed in front of Zhu Fang, was shot off his horse by the archers of the Song army and trampled into meat paste by the iron hooves of countless war horses behind him.

When Zhu Fang rushed out of the west city gate again, the rain of arrows he encountered was much thinner. After leaving behind thousands of corpses, he led more than a thousand personal soldiers to break out of the encirclement and escape to Yunzhou.

Luo Li heard the shouts of battles in the distance in a daze, thinking that the battle scene in the daytime was reenacted in her dream, so she turned over, hugged the wool blanket tightly and slept lazily.

"Miss, from the sound, Yingzhou City must have been taken by our army."

After Hong Gu's voice reached her ears, Luo Li was startled and sat up with her eyes closed.

"Hong Gu, are you talking in your sleep?"

"It's not a dream, Miss. The prince left the barracks with his shadow guards an hour ago. They must be going to attack the city at night."

Luo Li opened her eyes, rubbed her hands, and muttered unhappily, "Zhao Defang is such a heartless man. He didn't even tell me in advance about such a dangerous and important operation as attacking the city at night."

Hong Gu pursed her lips and smiled secretly, and urged, "Miss, see you . After seeing the prince, I will give him a good beating."

Luo Li yawned, her sleepy voice lazy and coquettish, "Hong Gu, I listen to you, after seeing Zhao Defang, I will give him a good beating."

Hong Gu blushed, "Miss, can't you be a little more shameless?"

Luo Li opened her eyes and looked at the blushing Hong Gu, "Hehe" a burst of coquettish laughter!

"Hong Gu, tell me the truth, which man did you give your first kiss to?"

Hong Gu's face sank in anger, "Miss, don't make fun of me!" After that, she turned around and walked out of the tent.

Luo Li was stunned for a moment, is Hong Gu angry?

After putting on shoes and the purple mink fur coat, she opened the thick cotton curtain of the tent and saw Hong Gu standing in the open space a dozen steps away, looking up at the crescent moon and stars in the sky. That strong figure looked extremely lonely and desolate at this moment.

Luo Li felt a pain in her heart!

"Hong Gu!"

Hong Gu turned around and wiped her tears.

"Miss, it's too cold outside, you should go back to the tent."

Luo Li sat on the bed and held Hong Gu's hand. Looking at her tear-stained face, she said distressedly, "Hong Gu, you refused to tell me about your past. Everyone has their own privacy, so I never asked.

Hong Gu, now I just tell you that you are my relative. If there are any difficult problems, you should ask me for help, okay?"

Hong Gu's eyes welled up with tears again, and her voice was choked with sobs: "Miss, you saved my life, and I shouldn't have hidden it from you, but my enemies are powerful, and I don't want to drag you into taking risks for me."

Luo Li raised her hand and patted Hong Gu's pretty face, "Hong Gu, you are because I am the most greedy and afraid of death. "You are afraid of death, so you dare not drag me into danger, right?"

Hong Gu laughed, "Miss, you were really afraid of death in the past, and you always said you were afraid of death. Now I can see that you are just afraid of death in words, but you are not a afraid of death in your bones."

Luo Li was happy, "Who is not afraid of death when you can live well?

Hong Gu, now our family is so powerful that even the dog emperor is not afraid of us, and we have killed two princes. No matter how powerful your enemy is, can he be stronger than Qin Wang Zhao Defang?

Tell me, who is your enemy? Zhao Defang and I will join forces to help you avenge."

Hong Gu was amused by the young lady's audacity again. After pondering for a moment, she said, "My enemy is Pan Mei."

"My husband Fan Lei was once a general under Pan Mei. When he was fighting against the rebellion in Lingnan, he was angry that Pan Mei, as the commander of an army, killed innocent people and took credit for it. After arguing with him, my husband angrily wrote a letter to the emperor requesting a judicial decision. Pan Mei held a grudge against him and accused him of treason. He was beheaded on the front line of the battle between the two armies!"

Hong Gu gritted her teeth and paused for a moment before continuing, "I left my three-year-old daughter and came to the capital. In order to avenge her husband, she failed to assassinate Pan Mei and was injured by the guards in his mansion.

When she was chased and fled to the corner gate of Luo Mansion, she thought her life was in danger before she fainted and she would never see her daughter again in this life. Unexpectedly, she was saved by the miraculous medical skills of the young lady. Young lady, Hong Gu's life was given by you. The obsession of revenge for her husband has faded. In the days to come, I will just protect you. "

Luo Li put his arm around Hong Gu's shoulders and let her lean on him. This woman who was unbelievably strong on weekdays was carrying too much pain.

"Hong Gu, we will avenge you together if there is a chance!"