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Under the command of Mai Tiezhang, another dozen people tried to climb the wall from the darkness, but these dozen figures had just appeared on the wall, and half of them were caught by a few nooses flying from inside, and they were pulled away. After entering, half of them were shot off the wall by the opponent's crossbow arrows, and the screams disappeared after a while.
This was just the beginning of Mai Tiezhang's test. He wanted to find out exactly how many people were inside this small courtyard in the darkness.
After Mai Tiezhang calmly observed the courtyard, he found that the wall of the courtyard was about one and a half feet high. There were several small woods nearby. From a distance, the sound of the wind blowing the leaves in the woods was like the cry of a night owl. Only the sound in front of him could be heard. The courtyard still stood there quietly, with no too many sounds coming out. There were no one knows how many people were ambush inside or nearby, and the shadows of lamps shone through the cracks in the front door.
Mai Tiezhang vaguely felt that something was wrong, but before he really knew how many people the opponent had, he naturally couldn't evacuate based on a little suspicion.
"Shen Guang, can you tell who these thieves are?" At the same time, at the door of the living room in the central courtyard, Wang Junlin was sitting on the stone steps, sipping a drink while asking Shen Guang, who was walking over in a hurry.
At this time, fighting was still going on outside the courtyard, but there were not many people participating, and it would not allow Mai Tiezhang to see the clues of the entire battle. The two sides were mainly engaged in offensive and defensive battles around the walls and gates of the middle courtyard, and this was also the time when Wang Junlin In order to kill all the opponents and reduce the casualties on one's own side as much as possible, the tactical location was specially determined.
At this time, Zhan Peng was leading the defense. In fact, there were only fifty people, but they were just enough to hold the wall of the middle courtyard without any gaps. The other sixty-nine guards used the darkness and familiarity with the terrain outside the middle courtyard to sneak attack with crossbows. Harass the thieves.
"Master Marquis, I just used a lasso to lasso a few people and captured two of them alive. I acted extremely tough, but I can see from my humble position that they are all people from the Green Forest Road, and they are not from Guanzhong near the capital." Shen Guang said truthfully. said.
"Not from Guanzhong?" Wang Junlin was a little surprised.
"They have fresh faces, they dare to fight hard, and they are brave and not afraid of death. From the accent and the way they go, you can infer that they are all from other places." Shen Guang further added.
The people near the capital are prosperous, and there are large armies stationed there. There are relatively few people on the green forest road, and it is difficult to have a good climate, so these people can only come from other places.
"These people may have great martial arts skills and are not afraid of death, but they don't even carry long-range crossbows. They are clearly wild. I'm not afraid that they can break through here, but I'm afraid that I won't let them die cleanly tonight." Wang Junlin said calmly. He said, his expression full of confidence.
At this time, the attack outside suddenly stopped. Wang Junlin remembered that the outside might be commanded by General Zuo Tunwei, who was a green forest thief. He frowned slightly and said: "The soldiers from Jingzhao Mansion gathered around to form an encirclement. We have to wait for a while, we can’t let these thieves evacuate early. So, don’t bother with them, do it!”
"Here!" Shen Guang agreed and ran over to convey Wang Junlin's order to Zhan Peng.
At this time, under the eaves of the courtyard, there were guards standing in the shadows holding steel crossbows and looking indifferent. They were all guards who had just arrived from Gaotai City in the northwest yesterday. They had all crawled out of the dead on the battlefield. The elite soldiers who have fought in hundreds of battles have been intensively trained by Wang Junlin for more than half a year. Whether it is group combat or individual soldier capabilities, they far exceed those of ordinary elite soldiers.
"Go up the wall and shoot." Zhan Peng ordered softly.
The guards held loaded steel crossbows, climbed up the ladder prepared in advance without saying a word, and fired at the figures outside without saying a word.
The screams suddenly became loud, but the thieves outside were indeed very skilled. The first wave caught them off guard, and after more than ten people died, the subsequent crossbow arrows were either dodged by them, or they used their weapons. The call was opened.
"Master Marquis, are we really going to set fire to our own mansion?" Shen Guang asked again with some reluctance while watching Zhan Peng command the guards to shoot the thieves outside.
"Burn it! Why not burn it? I don't want the people below to die, but I also want the emperor and the Manchu civil and military officials to feel that we have lost a lot, so that they can gloat at the misfortune and give us more benefits. ,Except for setting fire, there is nothing..."
Wang Junlin didn't say anything, but suddenly roared, turned around, picked up the dragon bird sword on the table with his right hand, grabbed the copper wine pot next to him with his left hand, and threw it toward the roof above his head. I saw a figure who had arrived on the roof at some point. .
Almost at the moment Wang Junlin threw the copper wine pot, the figure on the roof reacted instantly, swung his backhand behind his back, and slashed hard at the copper wine pot with a big knife.
There was a bang of gold and stone, sparks lit up in the night sky, the copper wine pot was smashed away, and the figure suddenly staggered several steps on the roof, stepped on the roof, and fell into the room behind Wang Junlin.
"Go to hell!" Shen Guang was half a beat slower than Wang Junlin. He held the Cicada Blade and rushed into the room. He directly split half of the window and rushed in.
Clang, clang, clang, clang... As soon as Shen Guang entered, there was a series of firecracker-like clashing sounds of gold and stone. The light of swords danced in the room, and sparks continued to explode with loud shouts of "Ah——". Tables, chairs, and wooden frames It was chopped up, flying in the air, lit up by sparks.
"Go to hell!" In the room, Shen Guang suddenly shouted again, and then heard a loud noise, and a figure was hacked out of the window. The man was tall and thin, holding a steel knife, and half of his body was stained with blood. He was red, and the cloth covering his face had been knocked off. He looked quite embarrassed, but his face was fierce and his eyes were like a wolf.
The man instantly jumped up from the ground, shouted loudly, and rushed towards Wang Junlin like a madman.
Wang Junlin sneered and prepared to kill this man with a knife. But the loyal Shen Guang had already rushed out of the house, waving the Tianchan Dao in his hand to block this man again. The two weapons met, and the tall and thin man violently With a shout, the big knife rotated rapidly in his hand, and countless sparks were drawn out. Both of them were fighting fast, and the speed of the sword was extremely fast. Shen Guang found it difficult to kill him for a while.
The two fought for a while, but both felt exhausted and had to separate, each panting heavily.
Wang Junlin looked at this person coldly and said, "Who are you?"
The tall, thin man whose body was stained with blood stretched out his hand to push back his hair, gritted his teeth and said: "You think grandpa dare not say his real name, what if grandpa said it again? Grandpa's name is Niu Jinda!"
"What? Your name is Niu Jinda." Wang Junlin was slightly surprised, wondering how this historical founding general of the Tang Dynasty was still a gangster at this time, or maybe Niu Jinda was not Niu Jinda.
Wang Junlin was hesitating whether to capture Niu Jinda alive. Suddenly, the sound of fighting at the courtyard gate suddenly became fierce. The wind roared and the four guards who were holding the courtyard door were knocked away. The courtyard door burst into pieces. One of them was tall and strong.
A steel-like man stepped in with his face covered and an iron gun in his hand. He stood there and looked at the situation in the courtyard, the corpses of his companions in the middle of the courtyard and... the enemies in the courtyard and Niu Jinda, the only one in the courtyard.
companion.
The person who broke in was naturally Mai Tiezhang, and for him, although the whole courtyard was full of enemies, except for Wang Junlin and Shen Guang, everyone else was restrained by the green forest heroes he brought.
Including Mai Tiezhang, all the thieves who came had their faces covered. Niu Jinda's face was exposed because his face mask was accidentally removed during the fight with Shen Guang.
"I felt relieved when I saw you coming in." Wang Junlin carefully looked at the big man who rushed in and the weapon in his hand. Although he couldn't see his face clearly, he was able to identify the man and the iron rod described in the information he had.
Exactly the same, plus he was able to break in, and there was no one else but him.
Mai Tiezhang also confirmed Wang Junlin's identity, and was about to rush over and kill Wang Junlin without hesitation, and then left quickly, but he didn't expect Wang Junlin to suddenly say such a nonsense.
Mai Tiezhang was stunned for a moment, and Wang Junlin suddenly raised his hand. A steel crossbow appeared in his hand at some point and shot at Niu Jinda, who was confronting Shen Guang.
Niu Jinda's face changed, he roared, dodged a crossbow arrow, and knocked away a crossbow arrow with the steel knife in his hand. However, he staggered back in an extremely embarrassed manner and fell to the ground. If Shen Guang came to strike at this time, he would definitely die.
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But Shen Guang ignored him and rushed into the house with Wang Junlin as quickly as possible.
Mai Tiezhang and Niu Jinda were in a state of surprise. After chasing into the house, they found that there was no one in the house.
"There is a secret passage in a dog's day."
"There is a mechanism."
The two people screamed and cursed, made a judgment easily, and quickly looked for the secret passage in the house where Wang Junlin and Shen Guang left, but they couldn't find it for a while, not to mention that they were not good at it.
Outside the house, after the main entrance to the central courtyard was broken open, the green forest heroes naturally no longer climbed over the wall with crossbows. They all rushed in with the iron staff and the iron staff while roaring with joy. The fifty guards who were originally on the wall
, at Zhan Peng’s order, they all climbed over the wall and left.
In an instant, the positions of the offensive and defensive sides changed.
Mai Tiezhang suddenly couldn't hear the shouts of killing outside the house, and felt something was wrong. He ran out and saw that there were no enemies left. The yard was filled with bewildered green forest heroes.
"No, you've fallen into a trap, evacuate quickly." Mai Tiezhang suddenly thought of something, exclaimed, and ran out first, but it was already too late.
As soon as he rushed to the entrance of the central courtyard, a hail of arrows hit his head. He screamed in fright and dodged aside in confusion. The group of green forest heroes following him were blocked by his tall figure.
He had not seen the arrow rain before, so his reaction was half a beat slower, and five or six people were shot to death on the spot.
At this time, the sounds of fighting in the small woods outside the central courtyard had completely disappeared, and what was heard was the sound of the movement of a large number of people and horses.
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