Chapter 369 I've Been Waiting For You For A Long Time
The scolding battle continued until the torches at the top of the city were lit and the thieves below the city could no longer be seen.
Although the thieves were not scolded to the point where they couldn't hold their heads up, this wave of foaming at the mouth did increase the morale of the people on the city. And right now, the thing that Pingyang Mansion lacks the most is morale.
After escorting a group of proud villains, Chen Yuan slowly breathed a sigh of relief. Although the gang of villains did not receive the reward of exonerating their guilt on the spot, after hearing with their own ears that the prefect gave them extra meals,
All of them also had colors on their faces.
Who the hell says us heroes are a nuisance? Let's just fight with them. We are the ones who helped the prefect resist the thieves at the top of the city.
Chen Yuan had no time to pay attention to what these guys were thinking. He just looked at the night that was slowly getting thicker in the distance. The direction he looked at was exactly the direction of the bandit group before dark. It was just that there was a little fire in that direction at this moment.
None can be seen.
"Everyone is on alert. Every two hours, people are replaced on the city wall. No one is allowed to fall asleep!"
He ordered with a solemn expression: "Li Sansheng, send your men to inspect the city. If anyone is found to be slacking off, he will be punished severely, and three households will be seated in a row!"
Li Sansheng left in response, and his colleague Han Li, who was beside him, had the same serious look on his face.
"Today is the third day. What does it mean that the thieves are surrounding but not attacking?" His eyes were bloodshot: "Are you trying to bring down my Pingyang Mansion?"
"They have tasted the sweetness!"
Chen Yuan shook his head: "Besieging but not attacking, that's because they know that all the people in our Pingyang Mansion are armed at this moment, and everyone knows that no one will be spared after they enter the city. Now that they are attacking the city, all my soldiers will fight to the death!
"
He sneered: "How many thieves are there, and how many soldiers and horses there are in our Pingyang Mansion. It is impossible for them to enter my Pingyang Mansion without paying a sufficient price!"
"Then what do you mean they besieged the city and refused to leave?" Han Li frowned.
"Needless to say, the troops we sent to Xiangning were defeated by them last time. They must have known about the emptiness of my Pingyang Mansion. At this time, some of them surrounded us, and some went to the counties and towns near my Pingyang Mansion to plunder. How could it be so?
Not taking your time!”
"I don't think it's like this!" Han Li shook his head: "I always feel a little panicked in my heart. These bandits are somewhat different from the bandits I have heard of. Just because my Pingyang Mansion is empty does not mean that my Shanxi Province is empty. Don't tell me.
The army in Datong Town, that is, in Taiyuan, is very easy to dispatch another army to rescue our Pingyang Mansion. Are these traitors planning to..."
His face became solemn: "No, the thieves are using my Pingyang Mansion as bait, and they want to severely damage the troops who came to rescue us!"
"Our Pingyang Guards have suffered all losses. Dusi Yamen will not make the same mistake as our Pingyang Mansion!"
Chen Yuan's face didn't look good either. If the troops who came to help were defeated again, these thieves would get more weapons, armor and food. As long as they were given time, they would threaten more people. By then, even if
If Shanxi has soldiers and horses to stop them, Pingyang Mansion will definitely be doomed.
"My lord, my lord!"
There was a sudden noise in the distance, and the rapid sound of gongs also sounded. Chen Yuan and Han Li's expressions suddenly changed.
"Master Han, please stay here while I take people to take a look!" Chen Yuan said hastily, and with a wave of his hand, a dozen soldiers behind him ran towards the noisy area with weapons in hand.
The sound of the gong is a signal that the enemy's traces are discovered. However, according to the regulations of the prefect's Yamen, if the enemy is attacking the city, the gongs will sound continuously, starting from the place where the enemy's traces are found, and then spread to every part of the city wall.
A place.
After the gong sounded, it stopped after a while. Although there was some noise and panic, the sound of the gong did not spread. This made Chen Yuan feel a little relieved. Maybe it was a test by the thieves, but it shouldn't be
A massive attack on the city.
"what happened!"
When he arrived at the place where the incident occurred, Chen Yuan saw that Li Sansheng had already rushed there and was looking at something in his hand.
"Sir!" Li Sansheng was his confidant. When he saw him coming, he handed over what he had in his hand without hesitation: "The man who shot up from below the city is about to report to your lord, so please come over here!"
Chen Yuan glanced at the thing in his hand and lowered his voice: "Where are the people?"
"It should be under the city!" Li Sansheng said: "I don't know if it is true or not. If it is true, how did they get down to the city!"
"Throw a hanging basket down and ask them to put something that can prove their identity in it and pull it up. If there is nothing, then it is a plan of the thieves. Just drop the torch and hot oil to kill them!"
"Understood!" Li Sansheng replied simply and neatly. He looked around at the soldiers guarding the city and saw that they were all nervously preparing for battle. He took a few steps forward and shouted towards the bottom of the city.
A bamboo basket was tied with a rope and thrown down into the city. The rope was soaked in fuel. There were soldiers standing by the female wall, ready to light or cut the rope at any time.
However, what made them all breathe a sigh of relief was that after the city was rustling for a long time, when the hanging basket was pulled up again, there was a bunch of things in it, and no one tried to climb up the city wall.
Chen Yuan inspected the contents in the basket. In fact, just by looking at it, he knew that the people under the city were not bandits. Even if the bandits wanted to pretend to be officers and soldiers to deceive the city, they could only pretend to be Pingyang Guards.
They were defeated officers and soldiers, but the bandits would never be able to impersonate the Imperial Guards.
Let's assume the worst, the bandit may be able to impersonate Jinyiwei, but how many hundreds of thousands of Jinyiwei can he pretend to be? Unless these bandits rush into Taiyuan Mansion and wipe out all the thousands of Jinyiwei in Taiyuan.
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The silver Jinyiwei Thousand Household Waist Cards and several bronze Jinyiwei Baihu waist medals in the basket are not something that these thieves can get if they want to.
"Enlarge the hanging basket and let people come up. Everyone should be on guard. If something goes wrong, follow my orders and kill everyone who comes up!"
Out of caution, Chen Yuan still made some arrangements. Normally, he didn't like any of the Jin Yiwei guys, but at this moment, above the dangerous city in the night, he suddenly felt that he could see a few Jin Yiwei.
Actually it's not a very good thing either.
"Qin Xie from the Qianhu Office of the Shanxi Jinyi Guards, take me to see your magistrate!"
The man who climbed up first and was dressed as an ordinary officer and soldier said to the people around him after he came up. People climbed up from the hanging basket one after another around him. They saw the soldiers on the top of the city looking like they were facing a powerful enemy.
Not surprising at all.
"I brought news of reinforcements!"
"Where are the reinforcements?" Chen Yuan slightly arched his hands: "I am Chen Yuan, the governor of Pingyang Prefecture. We have been waiting for you for a long time!"