Throughout the night, Gaimu City and its surroundings were filled with a romantic and peaceful atmosphere. There was no sign of a war.
In the dark night, although there were some sentries on Gaimu City who were sneaky, most of them strictly carried out their duties.
In the dark, there was a small forest very close to Gaimu City. At first glance, there were no strong walls and clear fields because even at night, the small forest could be seen clearly. However, what was unbelievable was that there were pairs of black eyes in the small forest at this moment, and they were carefully looking around. Perhaps he knew that the other party was on guard, or perhaps he had other plans.
These people were lying on the ground tightly. Their bodies were covered in earthen yellow hemp, like chameleons. Under the cold moonlight, they fused with the ground.
All in all, this night seemed to be very calm, but there were undercurrents surging below. To the Dragon Cavalry, this was a storm that was about to come. It was like the calm before the storm, nervous and excited.
As for the guards on Gaimu City, they were extremely bored.
But whether it was the Goguryeon soldiers inside Gaimu City or the Dragon Riders outside Gaimu City, they were all waiting quietly. However, while one side was waiting for breakfast, the other side was waiting for the opportunity to attack.
Yawning lazily, Li Zhi rubbed his neck and looked at Guihai Yidao, who was standing guard beside him with his eyes wide open. He looked at the sky and saw that it was already dark. The moon was also gradually leaving his stage. He had probably slept until dawn. However, Li Zhi still smiled at Guihai Yidao, who had not slept the entire night, and asked,"Xiao Gui Zi, what time is it now?”
"Your Highness, it's dawn." Guihai Yidao said as he looked at the sky with his slightly sour eyes.
Li Zhi stood up abruptly. Although there were still some traces of sleep on his face, he was no longer as calm and indifferent as before." Yidao, call Jiang Ke and the other lieutenants over."”
Guihai Yidao's simple and honest face turned solemn. Every time His Highness called him " Yidao ", he was serious. When there was something serious to discuss, he would quickly agree in a low voice and then leave in a hurry.
Not long after, Jiang Ke and the Dragon Cavalry Commanders arrived. However, Zhang Wendan and Sun Qingyang, who were equivalent to the political commissar of the future, did not come. Li Zhi had let them join the army in the beginning because he wanted them to handle the daily lives of the soldiers, military discipline, and the thoughts of the soldiers. As for military power, it was still the original General and Commanders.
In this way, these generals and lieutenants were only responsible for leading the troops into battle and not for anything else. They could control each other and increase the combat strength and loyalty of the army.
Compared to a few months ago, Jiang Ke and the other lieutenants had a more vigorous look on their faces, and even their eyes were brighter. They looked valiant, but their eyes were filled with admiration when they looked at Li Zhi.
He gently took an extremely luxurious halberd from Guihai Yidao's hands. Li Zhi had spent a lot of manpower and money to find enough star iron, which was also meteoric iron, and finally asked a grandmaster in the Tang forging world to personally forge it.
Interestingly, in order to promote his own craftsmanship, this grandmaster used himself as a signboard. He even gave the halberd in his hand a bloody and wuxia name," Severed Blood."
The black halberd was carved with auspicious clouds and ferocious beasts. Not only was it beautiful, but it also increased friction.
This was Li Zhi's first time using this halberd on the battlefield. Li Zhi rubbed the patterns on it carefully, looked up at everyone, and revealed a cold smile."Let's begin."
All the generals nodded silently and bowed to Li Zhi before returning to their respective positions. In a short while, the entire forest began to become lively, but no one spoke. Everyone silently ate the salted vegetable pancakes they carried with them, drank some water, led their horses, and quietly stopped on the back slope behind the forest, waiting for military orders.
Each of them carried a cage of crossbow bolts on their backs, a strong crossbow tied to their right waist, and a sheathed horizontal saber on their left waist. There was a cloth bag on each side of the saddle. The right cloth bag contained five or six javelins, while the left cloth bag contained a large spear.
Each Dragon Knight wore armor on his head. Perhaps only the God's Will Army and the Yulin Royal Guards had such a privilege in the entire Tang Empire. However, the quality of the armor was far inferior to the top-quality armor that Li Zhi had spent a lot of money to forge.
The strongest warriors, the best equipment in the Great Tang, and the most detailed plans. Li Zhi did not believe that those Goguryeons would be able to last until dawn.
While Li Zhi and the others were moving, the people who were originally hiding in the small forest not far from Gaimou City received the order and started moving.
The darkness before dawn, coupled with the yellow oakum on their bodies, gave them the best cover. A total of dozens of people quickly approached the city wall. As they got close to the city wall, these people immediately found a position that they had observed for a long time.
The city wall was not very high, just over twenty feet. Dozens of steel claws were thrown onto the city gate tower, and none of them missed. They were all hooked up and removed the hemp. If there were people in the future here, they would find that these people's clothes were almost the same as the Jinyiwei of the future, except that they did not have hats and embroidered spring knives. Instead, they had a bright horizontal knife in their mouths and a short crossbow at their waists. However, they were also wearing flying fish clothes. The work clothes made of Shu brocade were considered very luxurious.
They were the night guards under the Brocade Guard that Sun Qingyang had mentioned, and the ones that were specially used to gather information were called the Nighthawk Guards. Although they belonged to the same Brocade Guard, their duties were very different.
The night guards were more like the special forces of the later generations. Li Zhi believed that the Jinyiwei, which had been established for ten years, was not as powerful as the special forces of the later generations. However, in this era, their strength was very advanced. They were not inferior to the famous Black Ice Platform of the Qin Dynasty. Just to build them, the silver spent every year was like a stream. It was not inferior to the annual income of the Great Tang.
Today was also the first time the Night Guards had carried out such an operation. Although they had carried out this kind of simulation exercise countless times before, no one knew if there would be any accidents.
They were as agile as monkeys. These night guards were generally thin and short, but their movements were unusually fierce. Anyone with a discerning eye would know that their ability to climb the city was comparable to the famous "Flesh Fairy" Shen Guang at the end of the Sui Dynasty.
It was said that Shen Guang was brave and agile when he was young. He was good at riding and playing. He was the best in the world.
At that time, there was a Zen Temple in the capital. When the temple was first built, a ten-zhang-tall banner pole was erected. One day, the rope tying the banner pole was weathered and broken by the sun and rain. According to the Sui Dynasty, ten feet was now 296 centimeters, and more than ten feet was about 30 meters. Ordinary people really couldn't handle this matter.
Coincidentally, Shen Guang passed by the temple or went to burn incense and worship Buddha. Anyway, he happened to see the monks helpless about this matter, so he stepped forward and said to them,"Hurry up and get the rope. I'll go up and deal with it for you.”
The monks were pleasantly surprised and gave him the long rope. Shen Guang held one end of the rope in his mouth and held the banner pole. His hands were like a fairy holding the moon, and his feet were like a dragon cutting its tail. He climbed up the banner pole until the top of the banner pole was pierced by the dragon head.
After he tied the rope, he let go of his hands and feet and descended through the air. Like a poor bird falling into his arms, like a meteor falling to the ground, he was about to fall to the ground. In the blink of an eye, Shen Guang reached out with his palms and pushed against the ground. He flipped backward and retreated dozens of steps before he could relieve the force of his fall. The onlookers were both soul-stirring and pleasing to the eye. They were all amazed by Chenguang's good skills. Thus, he got another nickname, called "Flesh Flying Immortal".
Although the Night Walker was not Shen Guang, it was still closely related to him. I won't go into detail now and leave it for later.
The night guards were hanging lightly on the city wall, but everyone could stick to the wall and listen quietly. When the masked leader of the night guards saw that his subordinates nodded at him, indicating that nothing was wrong, he waved his hand. The night guards hanging on the city wall immediately took a few steps up, like the legendary Wudang's ladder clouds. They jumped into the wall like crazy rabbits, lowered their bodies, and hid in the shadows under the city wall.
The leader of the group was a middle-aged man. A cold light flashed in his eyes as he made a few hand gestures, and the dozens of people scattered.
Gradually, in the darkness, the guards were killed silently while they were sleeping and patrolling. The corpses were covered with cloth that was processed in a special way. If one did not look carefully in the dark, one would not be able to find anything unusual.
The sound of an owl was heard from the city gate. Unfortunately, those who were still asleep were already used to such cries and did not notice the difference in the sound.
"General, we've received the message." Sun Qingyang said excitedly.
Li Zhi suddenly opened his eyes and growled,""Dragon cavalry, mount your horses and charge straight for Gaimu City.”
"Dragon cavalry, mount your horses and charge straight for Gaimu City.”
"Dragon cavalry, mount your horses and charge straight for Gaimu City.”
"Dragon cavalry, mount your horses and charge straight for Gaimu City.”
Li Zhi's orders were passed down level by level. All the voices were low, but it made the eyes of the Dragon Cavalry soldiers, who were already prepared for battle, turn red with excitement.
Silently but nimbly, they mounted their horses. They did not need to shout or be encouraged by horns. Under the leadership of their respective lieutenants, the nine thousand dragon cavalry charged out of their caves like poisonous dragons that had been dormant for a long time and fought in the world.
At this moment, Li Zhi was also charging at the front. No one dared to go against Li Zhi's wishes. However, it was obvious that a large number of personal guards who could wield spears on horses and knives on horses had gathered around Li Zhi to protect him. Although they were using their bodies to block the incoming knives, spears, swords, halberds, and flying arrows for Li Zhi.
The nine thousand warhorses galloped wildly outside Gaimou City, accelerating and getting closer and closer to the city. Meanwhile, the city was no longer as calm as before. It began to become chaotic.
9,000 warhorses galloped at the same time. This kind of aura caused even the earth to tremble. The soldiers of Gaimu City didn't wake up until the dragon riders were two thousand meters away from the city gate.
At first, he was confused and did not know what was going on. Then, he heard shouts and shouts.
"Water! Water! Come and put out the fire! The granary is on fire! The City Lord's Mansion is also on fire! Come quickly!"
"Mm, it's gone. What's going on? Who's guarding the granary tonight? And what's going on with my City Lord's Estate? "Ah!" Yizhi Taozhi roared and grabbed a soldier beside him. Just as he was about to slap him, he suddenly felt a chill in his heart. He cried out in pain and subconsciously pushed the short soldier away.
Then, he lowered his head and stared blankly at the dagger in his chest. After being stabbed by this strange dagger, the blood flowed out like a fountain. Yizhi Taozhi's heart was broken as he shouted,"Hurry up…Hurry up and save me, go find a doctor."
Yizhi Taozhi felt that his vision was becoming more and more blurry, and his breathing became more and more rapid. His entire body was sweating profusely, and even his head was dizzy. His throat felt sweet, and he suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood that kept surging up. He fell down in a daze," I'm so unwilling. It wasn't easy for me to rely on uncle Yizhi Wende's previous contributions to sit on the position of the City Lord. I didn't expect that I would die so soon…"
Yizhi Taozhi was dead. He couldn't hear the panic of the guards around him, nor could he care about the panic of the entire Gaimu City. The soldier who had assassinated Yizhi Taozhi seemed to have never appeared in this world, disappearing into the night.
At the city gate, it was also bustling. The soldiers who were closer to the city gate heard the approaching sound of horse hooves and knew that the Tang army was coming. They quickly informed the city lord, but who knew that the city lord had stopped the assassination. For a moment, all the soldiers were in a state of panic. However, some of the generals were still flustered and subconsciously ordered their troops to go up the city tower and strengthen the city gate at the same time.
However, just as the order was given, a series of miserable cries suddenly rang out. The soldiers looked and were shocked. It turned out that the soldiers guarding the city like them had actually raised their butcher knives at their companions. The city gates in the distance were slowly opening.
Everyone was shocked, frightened, and angry." Kill them! They are spies! They want to open the city gate!"" Kill them! Take back the city gate!"" Quick! The Tang army is coming in! Let's run!"" The City Lord is dead! Let's run!"
Just as the general wanted to raise the morale of the soldiers to defend the city, discordant voices rang out from all over the soldiers, causing the morale that had just been built up to instantly collapse.
The remaining generals were not fools. Although they knew that these were spies hidden among them, they wanted to kill the bandits but were powerless to do so.
"Rumble!" With a dull sound, the soldiers couldn't help but look at each other. Then, they heard a voice that seemed to be able to break through the sky."Steel Cavalry, Steel Cavalry, Steel Cavalry!"
As these cries pierced through the sky, the generals who had the intention to resist were completely in despair. They mounted their horses and rushed into the city without thinking about anything else.
As soon as these generals left, they no longer needed the Night Guards to push them from behind. The soldiers immediately scattered and ran like wolves and rabbits, becoming deserters.
At this moment, the night guards each took out a small booklet from their clothes and opened it. Immediately, fireworks appeared. It was very beautiful in the dark night, but most importantly, it was very dazzling. When the dragon cavalry saw the soldiers holding the fireworks, they all went forward to pull them onto their horses and continued to chase after the deserters of Gaimu City.
The lovely dividing line.
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