Although there are no troops stationed here, it still belongs to the Xiang family.
When my army arrived, the local county magistrate should have opened the door early to greet them, so why was the door still closed?
Xiang Yang frowned slightly and noticed something was wrong, so he quickly ordered the troops to stop.
Stretching out his hand, he said, "Come here, go to the city and shout for them to open the city gate!"
"Yes!" A soldier agreed and rode away.
At this time, the team was already very close to Linchuan County, only about three to four hundred meters away.
The soldiers ran to the bottom of the city in just a moment and shouted to the city tower: "Hey... the army on the city has arrived, why don't you open the city gate quickly!"
He shouted several times in succession, but there was still silence above the tower.
When the soldier was confused, he looked around and suddenly found that the city gate was actually open a small crack.
Although the suspension bridge is retracted, there is a very narrow wooden bridge in the moat.
The soldier took a closer look and saw that the wooden bridge seemed to be a temporary one and was so narrow that it could only accommodate one person.
He scratched his head suspiciously, and if he wanted to go back, he would keep his order with him.
Thinking of this, the soldier gritted his teeth, turned over and dismounted, took out his sword and held it in his hand, and slowly walked towards the wooden bridge.
Xiang Yang behind him looked at it from a distance, still a little worried.
Then he said to the other soldiers around him: "You guys, hurry up and help. If anything seems strange, get out quickly."
"yes!"
Everyone agreed, and five more people rushed over after hearing the news.
After reuniting with the first soldier, the six of them carefully and slowly crossed the narrow wooden bridge.
I came to the city gate and took a look. Sure enough, the city gate seemed to be closed from a distance, but when I got closer, it turned out to be ajar.
There is a gap through which one person can pass.
Several people walked over and looked through the crack in the door, and were surprised to find that there was no one in the city.
One of the soldiers scratched his head and wondered: "How could this happen? There is not even a human figure..."
Hearing this, another person pondered for a moment: "Uh...could it be...that they all fled?"
"It shouldn't be... It's easy for those poor people to flee. They can just pack up their bedrolls and leave, but what about the county magistrates and wealthy families? Are they willing to leave?"
Everyone looked at each other, and some bold ones waved their hands directly: "Hey! Why don't you just go in and take a look!"
"There are so many of us, so we are afraid of ghosts."
"In this small broken city, does anyone dare to ambush us here? Are you tired of living?"
"That's right!" Everyone nodded: "Come on, let's be careful and go in and take a look!"
After saying that, everyone slowly pushed the city gate open, some took out their sabers, some picked up blazing guns and crossbows, and slowly walked into the city.
Outside the city, Xiang Yang watched them slowly enter, but there was no movement for a long time.
Just when he was impatient and wanted to send more people, the suspension bridge slowly fell down.
Immediately afterwards, several soldiers ran out from the city gate, slowly pushed the city gate open, and waved to Xiang Yang.
On top of the city gate tower, there were several soldiers waving to him: "Young Marshal... there is no one in the city... they have fled... there is food..."
The sound came intermittently, and it seemed to mean so.
Xiang Yang listened from a distance and immediately breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that the war was raging, and everyone who heard that his army was approaching was scared away.
I didn't hear that there was any food inside. It seemed like he escaped in a hurry.
It seems that I can have a good sleep in the city today. When my army retreated from Yunzhou Zhongzhou, it was also in a panic.
Food and grass have long been stretched thin.
Xiang Yang immediately waved his hand: "The whole army will enter the city in an orderly manner. First, collect the food."
"Yes!" His subordinates nodded in agreement and began to direct the troops to slowly enter the city.
The entire army formed four columns and walked into the city with some impatience.
Xiang Yang sat on a tall horse and walked majestically in the middle of the team.
The troops slowly entered the city. The leading troops had just passed through the barbican city and were not far from the city gate.
Suddenly, Xiang Yang, who had just walked into Wengcheng, heard a dull gunshot.
"boom...!"
All the troops were stunned for a moment. Before they could react, the city suddenly heard the sound of intensive gunfire.
"Bang...bang...bang..."
The troops instantly became chaotic.
"What's going on?" Xiang Yang, who didn't know what was going on, shouted loudly, and a faint reply came from the front: "The enemy is attacking... there is an ambush... there is an ambush..."
Xiang Yang was shocked when he was inside the Wengcheng. If there was an ambush, his current position would be extremely dangerous.
He quickly shouted: "Quickly retreat...quickly withdraw..."
As soon as he finished speaking, a large number of enemy troops suddenly appeared on all the city walls.
The bright sun and moon flags and the new rifles in their hands showed that they were all soldiers of the Ming Army.
The soldier couldn't help but start shooting randomly at the enemy below him.
For a moment, no matter whether they were in Wengcheng, they thought they had arrived inside the city, or they were still outside the city crossing the suspension bridge.
All came under intense firepower.
Only then did Xiang Yang realize that the soldiers he had just sent in had been killed long ago.
And the people he had just recruited at the city gate and on the city wall were all Ming soldiers who had changed into the clothes of his own soldiers.
There were crackles everywhere in the city and on the city walls. Xiang Jun soldiers were injured, fell to the ground or dead everywhere, and the scene was instantly chaotic.
In addition to the shooting of firearms, thunderwood, rolling stones, gold juice and hot oil, bows, arrows, crossbows, bricks and stones all hit the heads of Xiang Jun soldiers.
Under the protection of his own soldiers, Xiang Yang desperately got into the city gate and shouted loudly: "Don't mess around...get out quickly...don't block the city gate..."
Although Xiang Yang shouted at the top of his lungs, he had little effect.
The troops had begun to panic, crowds and stampedes abounded, and the only escape route was blocked by corpses and wounded soldiers.
The troops panicked and had no choice but to step on the bodies of their comrades and run away.
Among them, Xiang Yang and his troops were also included.
Everyone panicked and ran to the suspension bridge in a panic. They were crowded and staggered.
As soon as they crossed the suspension bridge, there was a way out. The soldiers were so anxious that they ran forward using their hands and feet.
However, the enemy seemed to have been prepared, just when everyone boarded the suspension bridge and thought they could escape.
Suddenly, several dense cannon shots were heard from the city wall behind, and several explosive shells flew across the sky and landed directly on the Dian Bridge.
"Boom...boom...boom..."
The huge power tore apart the wooden suspension bridge effortlessly, and at the same time ignited the explosives planted in advance under the bridge.
"Boom...boom..."
With several violent explosions, the wooden suspension bridge instantly turned into debris, floating undulatingly on the water of the moat.
The people who were still in the city instantly became trapped animals with no way out.
Nearly a thousand people were shot and killed one by one by the Ming troops on the surrounding city walls as if they were targets.
A large number of soldiers died from crowding and trampling.