Chapter one hundred and eighty seventh broken office
"End-end-end..."
The West Gate was killed by surprise, but in the entire Kelan City, except for the Juen Temple Tower in the Southeast City, there was no taller building than the four-gate tower. Therefore, when the incident happened, the guards on the other three gate towers, even though
It is the farthest east gate, and you can also see the west gate being attacked by enemies.
The sound of warning bells and drums rang loudly, echoing in the sky above Kelan City.
Cao Shixiong was in charge of the military and political affairs of Lanzhou. In order to show his integrity, he did not build another mansion or compound in the city. The Cao family and his family all lived together in the mansion behind the Yamen.
The old lady was still alive, and neither the Cao Shili family nor the eldest son Cao Xuanwen lived in separate households. Before the rebellion, Cao Shixiong used worshiping Buddha as an excuse to arrange for the old lady and other children to temporarily live in Mayinghai Temple on Guanluo Mountain, but he succeeded.
After taking control of Kelan City, these people moved back.
When the alarm bell rang, Cao Xuanwen was eating snacks with his grandmother Chen Cao in the back house. He stood up in shock and asked his neighbors: "Why is the alarm bell ringing?"
"My eldest son, there are enemies riding into the west gate!"
The long street coming in from the West City Gate leads directly to the state government office.
The killings in Kelan City had just stopped, and ordinary people did not dare to take to the streets. The long street could be seen at a glance.
The guards and subordinates of the West Courtyard of the Prefecture Yamen had already seen the attack on the West City Gate. At this moment, one of them was rolling and crawling to the back house, reporting anxiously.
"There is a group of enemy cavalry coming directly to the state government office to kill! Eldest son, there are few people in the state government office. Please escort the madam, the old lady and several other young men to the military camp for temporary shelter!"
After Cao Shixiong took control of Kelan City, he still wanted to make the yamen run. He appointed his eldest son Cao Xuanwen and his close relatives to take over the power of the Judicial Court and the various Cao bureaus. He also filled in more than 200 officials in the former yamen.
These soldiers were either old soldiers who had retired from the Qing Shun Army, or young men recruited from the Han people who had moved south to Shuozhou, so there was no problem with their loyalty to the Cao family.
However, these soldiers are mainly responsible for maintaining order and acting as yamen servants. Most of them cannot participate in drills. They only have a sword with them and it is impossible to distribute precious armor to them. Their armaments are not even as good as those of Beicheng County yamen.
There are sword archers who are responsible for maintaining law and order in the city.
In addition, there are more than 30 armored soldiers protecting Cao Xuanwen and the back house.
At this time, in Kelan City, in addition to the four city guards, there were 600 armored soldiers stationed in the barracks more than a hundred steps away from the back house. They were also the core mobile combat force in Kelan City.
The barracks in Kelan City are next to the state prison. As a permanent barracks, the walls are high and thick, and there are many defensive equipment.
Everyone saw the enemy attacking fiercely, and their first thought was that Cao Xuanwen immediately escorted the old lady and Cao's family to the barracks through the alley behind to escape. They waited until the situation in the city stabilized to say that even if the attacking enemy was too strong, they could still survive.
Stay in the military camp for a while, or fight your way out of Kelan City under the escort of six hundred armored soldiers.
"How many enemy soldiers have come in? Do you know where they came from?" Cao Xuanwen was still calm. He stood in front of the corridor and held the saber on his waist. When someone went to the room to fetch his armor, he asked about the enemy's situation with a gloomy face.
"Before, the West City Gate sent someone to report that three hundred armored cavalry were coming from the north. I thought it was the second general who sent people here. Now it seems that it is definitely not possible that they came from somewhere.
"The remnants of the Western Army scurrying south may also be enemy cavalry sneaking in from Shuozhou." Hearing the sound of galloping horse hooves, the general was approaching the West Courtyard of the State Government. While quickly reporting the information he knew, he urged Cao Xuanwen to hurry up.
The family rushed to the barracks.
"We are just attacking the enemy so little, why should we be so panicked?" Cao Xuanwen said, "Have the gates of the state government been closed tightly?"
"The alarm bell has sounded, and many gates have been guarded and locked up. However, the enemy is coming with such ferocity that if we can't resist it, if the eldest son cuts off all his hair, we will have no face to face the commander in chief!" Dujiang urged in panic.
"There are two to three hundred soldiers from each court in the Yamen. Are you afraid that the guards from the four cities and the military camp will come to help you?"
Cao Xuanwen thought to himself that he was being placed in Kelan with high hopes and would take over the Cao family business in the future, so why was he acting so cowardly? At this moment, he had some doubts about whether he had other intentions in urging him to avoid him in such a panic.
?If he remembered correctly, this would seem to be related to his little mother, so he immediately scolded him sternly,
"After this attack on the enemy, I fled to the military camp to hide, and brought some manpower to protect me. In the end, Zhizhouya was massacred by strong thieves. Even if these strong thieves were finally wiped out, how could I have the face to meet my father? Stop nagging,
Immediately send an order to everyone to guard the gates, and all the extra men will follow me to the west courtyard to defend the enemy!"
Cao Xuanwen took a pair of double armor from the guard and put it on directly. He saw that his cousin Cao Cheng and his two younger brothers had already put on the armor and ran out eagerly with sharp blades in their hands.
Cao Xuanwen said to his cousin, Cao Shili's eldest son Cao Cheng, who had not just turned eighteen years old, "Cao Cheng, take my seal and rush to the military camp immediately, and transfer all the soldiers here to defend against the enemy..."
He told his two younger brothers, "Xuan Wu, Xuan Xing, take people to protect your grandmother. My sisters, please don't let thieves sneak in from the backyard!"
Cao Xuanwen immediately led more than 20 assembled armored soldiers and ran through the passage to the west courtyard.
The West Courtyard of Zhou Yamen is where the Si Li Yuan, Cang Si and other yamen handle official business. Several groups of buildings surround a small square, which is connected to the gate of the West Courtyard, which is now closed.
In addition to the Supervisory Department of the Military and Horse Departments, the Sili Yuan has the largest number of soldiers who are in charge of state prisons and trial power. Most of them are veterans of the Qing Shun Army. Cao Shixiong arranged them in this way, and also allowed these veterans who had been with him for half his life to serve
This means to take care of oneself till old age.
"How many enemy cavalry are approaching?"
Cao Xuanwen saw that the soldiers in the West Courtyard were still calm, while the soldiers from other government agencies were gathering here. He calmed down a little and looked up at the old soldier who was standing on a ladder and looking outside the wall.
what's the situation.
As soon as the old soldier turned his head to reply, two sharp arrows shot out, hitting him in the back of the head. Without even uttering a word, he fell down the ladder with a plop.
"Archers!" Cao Xuanwen ordered loudly, asking people to find more ladders so that the archers could stand on the ladders and shoot the attacking enemies outside the wall. But before he could give the order, dozens of people were seen.
Soldiers in armor had already climbed up the one-foot-two-three-foot-high courtyard wall from the outside and stared at it with murderous intent.
The rammed-earth courtyard wall of the state government office is six feet thick and one to two or three feet high, which is comparable to the protective wall of an ordinary camp. It would take half a day to knock down the wooden walls. Of course, Xu Huai had no time to waste playing with this.
Planting flowers.
Although there are only two or three hundred soldiers in the state government, it would be difficult to deal with these two or three hundred soldiers if they have time to gather together.
Not to mention that the troops garrisoned in Kelan City could assemble in the barracks and enter the back house of the state government through the alleys. It would not even take a cup of tea at the fastest.
The courtyard wall, which was more than one foot, three or four feet high, was of course not considered an obstacle to Xu Huai and others who stood up from their horses. They jumped up and could grasp the top of the wall with just their hands even though they were wearing armor. Except for Cao Xuanwen who was carrying
More than 20 soldiers stood under the verandah facing the gate of the west courtyard. More than 30 soldiers had already gathered inside the gate.
Xu Huai squatted half-crouched at the top of the wall, then swung his saber at the head of an old soldier under the wall.
Xu Huai's sword was so fast that the old soldier only had time to turn his head, but the blade had already hit his shoulder. Xu Huai took advantage of the momentum and jumped off the wall. After landing, he closed the sword and slashed horizontally. He immediately surrounded the three men with swords who wanted to attack.
Come over, the soldiers who can't hold back will disembowel you.
Wang Ju and Wang Xian both jumped down with long spears and charged into the crowd of soldiers, like tigers and sheep. In the blink of an eye, they killed these soldiers who had no shields and armor. They were turned upside down and their stomachs were broken.
Blood flowed.
The armored soldiers behind Cao Xuanwen are the elite soldiers left by Cao Shixiong in the city. If only Xu Huai, Wang Ju and the two men force their way in, the more than twenty armored soldiers can still use the neat formation and the seamless tactics to contain them.
, or even suppress it.
However, among Yin Peng, Wang Xian, Yuan Lei and the other dozen or so people who followed Xu Huai over the wall and broke into the Prefecture Yaxi Courtyard, which one was not an elite member of the Tongbai Mountain Stroke?
Like wolves and tigers, they eliminated the soldiers and went to the verandah opposite the small square, forcing the armored soldiers around Cao Xuanwen to line up to fight. In Xu Huai, there were only four armored soldiers in front of Wang Ju, who wanted to protect him.
Lives in Cao Xuanwen.
"Go to hell!" Xu Huai dragged his sword forward. Before he touched the enemy, he turned around and spun away. He leaned back and slashed the sword with his backhand towards the heavy shield that was raised to block it.
past.
There were no enemy forces on either side to restrain him. Xu Huai used his sword with great force. Not to mention it was covered with a thick layer of iron, even if it was Niu Er's special shield at this time, covered with a thick iron armor on his little finger.
Xu Huai can also split with one knife.
The heavy shield was broken open, and the left arm of the armored soldier holding the shield was almost broken by the huge force of the shock. Facing the sword force, which was less than a foot away and as fast as thunder, the armored soldier had no time to avoid it, and looked at the cold light with his canthus eyes.
The overflowing blade struck from between the eyebrows.
"Young Master, run away!"
They all saw Xu Huai slashing at Cao Xuanwen's face with his next sword. They roared and raised their swords and struck at Xu Huai, hoping to wrap him up and give Cao Xuanwen a chance to escape.
Wang Xian stabbed four guns from the side, and the three dramas of the "Dang Dang Dang" all stopped the three shots instantly. Watching the fourth shot pierced from the armpit, he thought at this moment:
!
Without the entanglement of the general, when Cao Xuanwen turned around and ran away, the sword in Xu Huai's hand moved faster, but before hitting the target, the blade instantly reversed, causing the spine of the blade to severely cut off the iron helmet on Cao Xuanwen's head.
Xu Huai still had to spare Cao Xuanwen's life, and only by catching Cao Xuanwen alive could he lure the city guards to fight to the death to rescue him.
Otherwise, with their limited manpower, they would not be able to hunt down and kill the guards guarding the back corners of the streets and houses all over the city. They might not be able to kill many people even if they killed them in a hurry, and they would have to flee Kelan City in a hurry.
Cao Xuanwen didn't have time to dodge, and his brain suddenly buzzed, and he seemed to be frozen, and he collapsed on the ground in a daze...
