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“Original…”

The Xicheng Gate was killed off guard, but there was no building higher than the Four Gate Tower in the entire Kelan City except for the Juen Temple Pagoda in the southeast city. Therefore, when the incident happened, the guards on the other three city gates, even the farthest distance from the East City Gate, could see that the Xicheng Gate was attacked by the enemy.

The warning bells and drums sounded desperately, and were circulating above the city of Guilan.

Cao Shixiong was in charge of the military and political affairs of Lanzhou. In order to show integrity, he did not buy another luxury house in the city. The Cao family lived together in the back house of the prefecture yamen.

The old lady was still alive, and Cao Shili's family and eldest son Cao Xuanwen did not live alone. Before the rebellion, Cao Shixiong used the excuse of worshiping Buddha and arranged for the old lady and other family members to temporarily live in Mayinghai Temple on Guancen Mountain, but after successfully controlling Kelan City, these people moved back.

The alarm bell rang, and Cao Xuanwen was accompanying his grandmother Chen Cao to use snacks in the back house. He stood up in shock and asked his side: "Why did the alarm bell ring?"

"Big Young Master, there is an enemy cavalry entering the West City Gate!"

The long street that comes in from the Xicheng Gate leads directly to the state yamen.

The killing in Kelan City has just stopped, and ordinary people dare not take to the streets. They can see the long streets.

The guards and clerks in the West Courtyard of the State Council had already seen the attack on the West City Gate. At this moment, one of them was rolling and crawling to the back house and reported in panic.

"A team of enemy cavalry came directly to the state yamen! The eldest son, the few people in the state yamen, you can escort the wife quickly. The old lady and several other young masters will go to the military camp for a while!"

After Cao Shixiong controlled the city of Kelan, he still wanted to let the yamen run, and appointed his eldest son Cao Xuanwen and his direct confidants to take over the power of the judiciary and the Cao officials. More than 200 soldiers from various yamen were included in the front yamen.

These soldiers were either old soldiers who retreated from the Qing Shun Army, or young and strong men recruited by the Hanminli who moved south to Shuozhou. There was no problem with their loyalty to the Cao family.

However, these soldiers are usually responsible for keeping order and acting as yamen runners. Most people are not likely to participate in training. They only have a sword with them - it is impossible to distribute precious armor to them, and their military skills are not even as good as those of the sword archers in Beicheng County who are responsible for maintaining public order in the city.

In addition, there are more than 30 armored soldiers guarding each other around Cao Xuanwen and the back house.

At this time, in addition to the four cities of defending troops, there were more than 100 steps from the back house and 600 soldiers stationed in the barracks, which was also the most core mobile combat power in the city of Kelan.

The barracks in Kelan City are next to the state prison. As a permanent barracks, the walls are high and thick, and there are also many defensive equipment.

Seeing that the attack on the enemy is coming in full force, the first thought was that Cao Xuanwen immediately escorted the old lady and the Cao family to hide through the alley behind, and waited until the situation in the city stabilized before saying that even if the attack on the enemy was too strong, they could still hold on in the military camp for a while, or escort from the six hundred soldiers and break out of Kelan City.

"How many enemy soldiers have come in? Do you know what their origin?" Cao Xuanwen was calm. He stood in front of the corridor, pressed the sword at his waist, and walked to the room to get his armor, and asked about the enemy with a gloomy face.

"Before, the Xicheng Gate sent someone to report that three hundred cavalry were coming from the north. I thought it was the second general who sent people over. Now it seems that it is definitely not - it is possible that the Western Army soldiers who were running south from some gap, or that they may be enemy cavalry sneaking in from Shuozhou," the generals heard the anxious sound of horse hooves and were almost approaching the West Courtyard of the State Yamen. While quickly reporting what he knew, they urged Cao Xuanwen to hurry up and rush to the barracks.

"It's just such a little attack on the enemy, so it's necessary to panic like this?" Cao Xuanwen said, "Is the gates of the state yamen tightly closed?"

"The alarm bell rang, and many doors have arranged people to keep an eye on the lock, but the attack on the enemy is fierce, and I am afraid that it will not be able to resist it - if the eldest son cut off his hair, we will have no face to face the commander!" Everyone urged in panic.

"There are 200 or 300 soldiers in the yamen, and are you afraid of resisting the four cities and military camps to help?"

Cao Xuanwen thought that he was placed in charge of Kelan with high hopes and would take over the family business of Cao in the future. Why did he be too timid? At this moment, he was a little suspicious and would persuade him to avoid it in such a hurry. Do you have any other thoughts? If he remembered correctly, this would seem to be related to his little mother, and immediately scolded him,

"I will escape to the military camp to hide from this point of attacking the enemy. I will also have to bring some people to guard it. In the end, the state yamen was slaughtered by thieves. Even if these thieves were finally wiped out, what kind of face would I have to meet my father? Don't talk anymore, immediately order everyone to guard the doors, and the extra people will follow me to the West Courtyard to fight the enemy!"

Cao Xuanwen took a pair of two armors from his arms and put them on his body. He saw that his cousin Cao Cheng and his two younger brothers were all wearing armor, and he ran out with a sharp blade in his hand.

Cao Xuanwen said to Cao Cheng, the eldest son of Cao Shili, who was not yet eighteen years old, and Cao Shili,: "Cao Cheng, take my seal talisman and immediately rush to the military camp and transfer all the soldiers here to fight the enemy..." He ordered the two young brothers raised by the young lady, "Xuanwu, Xuanxing, you can take people to protect your grandmother, little lady and the others, don't let the thieves steal in from the backyard!"

Cao Xuanwen immediately took more than 20 gathered armored soldiers and ran through the corridor to the west courtyard.

The West Courtyard of the State Council is the place where the Office of the Ministry of Management, the Cangsi and other offices shall be held for official duties. Several groups of buildings are surrounded by a small square, which is connected to the gate of the West Courtyard, and is now closed.

In addition to the military and horse supervision department, the officials and officials who were in charge of the power of prefectures and punishments were the most of them, and they were mostly old soldiers of the Qing Shun Army. Cao Shixiong arranged them in this way, and he also wanted these old soldiers who had followed him for half his life to live their lives here.

"How many enemy cavalry are approaching?"

When Cao Xuanwen saw that the soldiers in the West Court were still calm, while the soldiers from other yamen were gathering here, he was a little calmer and looked up at the old man standing on a ladder and looking out the wall.

The old man turned his head and wanted to reply, and two sharp arrows shot at him "swoosh" and shot him in the back of the skull. Without spitting out a word, he fell down from the ladder.

"Arrowman!" Cao Xuanwen ordered loudly, and asked someone to find more ladders so that the archers could shoot and kill the enemy outside the wall. However, before he could speak this order, he saw dozens of armored soldiers climbing up the courtyard wall 1,200 and 300 feet from the outside, staring at him with murderous intent.

The rammed earth courtyard wall of the state yamen is six feet thick and one twelve or three feet high, which is comparable to the ordinary fortress wall. It takes a long time to carry the wood to collapse. Of course, Xu Huai has no time to waste such a flower job.

Although there are only two or three hundred soldiers in the prefecture, it is difficult to get these two or three hundred soldiers to gather together if they have time.

Not to mention that the troops stationed in the city of Kelan gathered in the barracks and entered the back house of the state yamen through the alleys, it didn't even take a cup of tea at the fastest time.

The courtyard wall, which was more than 10,000 feet tall, was of course a barrier against Xu Huai and others who stood up from the horse's back. They jumped up and could even grab the wall with their armor. In addition to Cao Xuanwen standing under the corridor facing the gate of the West Courtyard with more than 20 soldiers, more than 30 soldiers gathered in the gate.

Xu Huai squatted down on the wall and then slashed the sword against an old man under the wall.

Xu Huai's sword was so fast that the old soldier had only time to turn his head, but his shoulder was already slashed by the blade. Xu Huai took advantage of the situation and jumped down the wall. After landing, he put the knife and slashed horizontally. He immediately sieged three soldiers who were trying to siege with their swords, but could not hold them up and broke their stomachs.

Wang Ju and Wang Xian both jumped down with long spears and killed the soldiers in the group, like tigers and sheep. In the blink of an eye, they killed the soldiers without shields and armor without armor to turn their backs, their stomachs were broken, and blood was flowing.

The armored soldiers behind Cao Xuanwen were the elite soldiers left by Cao Shixiong in the city. If only Xu Huai and Wang Ju and others forced to break in, more than twenty armored soldiers could use their neat formations and cooperate with Wujian tactics to restrain them and even suppress them.

However, Yin Peng, Wang Xian, Yuan Lei and the first dozen people who broke into the western courtyard of the state yamen with Xu Huai over the wall, which one was not the elite stroke of Tongbai Mountain?

They were like wolves and tigers to deal with the soldiers, and they rushed to the corridor opposite the small square, forcing the armored soldiers beside Cao Xuanwen to fight. In front of Xu Huai and Wang Ju, there were only four armored soldiers with shields and armored soldiers, who wanted to protect Cao Xuanwen.

"Go to die!" Xu Huai dragged the sword forward, before touching the enemy, he turned his body and spun away, leaned back, and slashed his backhand to slash. The sword raised the heavy shield that blocked the sword to one side with the dragging sword.

There is no enemy restraint on the left and right. Xu Huai used his sword force and was powerful enough. Not to mention covering a thick layer of iron sheet, even if it was a heavy shield that was used exclusively by Niu Er at this time, covering his little finger with a thick iron armor, Xu Huai could cut it with one knife.

The heavy shield broke open, and the left arm of the armored guard with the shield was almost broken by the huge force that was reversed. Facing the sword force that was less than one foot apart, it was as fast as thunder. The armored guard had no time to avoid it, and his eyes watched the cold-light blade slashing in from his eyebrows.

"Young Master, run away!"

Everyone was about to look at Xu Huai's next sword and slashed at Cao Xuanwen in front of him. He roared and raised the sword and slashed at Xu Huai, trying to entangle him to death, so that Cao Xuanwen would have a chance to escape.

Wang Xian stabbed four gun flowers from the side, and three loud "dang" sounds, blocking the three guns instantly. Seeing the fourth gun piercing into his armpit, he thought to himself: It's so powerful to attack the enemy!

Without the entanglement of the general, when Cao Xuanwen turned around and ran away, Xu Huai slashed the saber in his hand faster, but before the slash, the blade body turned instantly, causing the blade to slash off the iron helmet that Cao Xuanwen wore.

Xu Huai still has to keep Cao Xuanwen's life now, and only by catching the living Cao Xuanwen can he lure the defenders in the city to rescue him to death.

Otherwise, they would have no way to chase and kill the defenders in the streets and alleys and houses. They might have killed each other in a hurry and could not kill a few people, so they would have to escape from Kelan City in a hurry.
Chapter completed!