The drum beat rapidly, Qin Hao walked out of the granary, his expression extremely solemn.
"Jiang Da, what's going on?" Qin Hao looked stunned.
On top of the fortress, Jiang Da replied: "Sir, the bandit army appeared out of nowhere and is attacking outside the north gate at the moment!"
"How many people are there in the bandit army?"
"About...seventy or eighty people!"
While rushing towards the city wall, Qin Hao scolded: "Stop the drums and keep all troops on guard!"
"yes!"
Climbing up the fort wall, Qin Hao could see the situation clearly, which made him feel a lot more at ease.
Seventy or eighty people, without siege equipment or long-range weapons, trying to capture Tianma Fort is basically a dream.
So at this moment, Qin Hao still has time to focus on other things.
"By the way, someone from the Guards Department is back? Where is he?"
Hearing this, Jiang Da looked at the bottom of the fort wall and said, "It's right there, waiting for your arrangements, sir!"
"Go and have a look!"
"yes!"
Qin Hao was from a hundred households, and Zhang Ziming pretended to be a small flag official. According to the law, the latter should come to see the former.
However, the palace guards had a special status, so Qin Hao would be more polite, so he went to see Zhang Ziming in person.
Zhang Ziming saw everything that happened just now, but the development of things was different from what he imagined.
In addition to the initial panic, the garrison in the fort immediately returned to their positions, which gave them no good opportunity to take action.
Therefore, Zhang Ziming could only wait for Zhu Gui to feign an attack. There would always be some chaos in the fort, and no matter what the situation was at that time, he would order his men to take action.
But at this moment, he saw Qin Hao walking towards him.
"Everyone, how is the battle on the front line?" Qin Hao asked.
But just as he finished speaking, a soldier on the fort wall shouted: "Sir, the bandits are attacking!"
Zhang Ziming was secretly happy. It seemed that Zhu Gui was not holding him back. At this moment, he finally chose to attack.
Unexpectedly, Qin Hao didn't pay much attention, but stared directly behind Zhang Ziming.
Zhang Ziming thought Qin Hao was looking at the corpse, so he didn't think much about it and replied slowly: "The rebels on the front line are cunning..."
"Who are you?" Qin Hao's tone was cold and he stared straight at Ma Cheng.
In fact, Ma Cheng also recognized Qin Hao at this moment. They were both familiar with each other's face.
In fact, Qin Hao was not sure about Ma Cheng's identity at this moment. After all, his face was smeared with blood and he was wearing Yong Army armor.
Suspecting the palace guards requires caution and caution.
But Ma Cheng felt guilty. Seeing Qin Hao was like seeing a ghost, and he immediately concluded that he had been exposed.
"Brother, do it!" After saying this, Ma Cheng immediately drew his sword out of its sheath.
Although he was shocked, when Ma Cheng shouted these words, Zhang Ziming knew that the matter was irreversible.
"Do it!"
Zhang Ziming shouted loudly, and the people lying in the car quickly stood up. Suddenly, there were more than a dozen big men in front of Qin Hao.
This scene stunned Jiang Da who was watching from the side, and also caught the soldiers who were already defending the city wall unprepared.
But at this time, there was no time to think more, because Zhang Ziming had already raised his knife and came to kill him.
Qin Hao drew his sword out of its sheath and fought directly with Zhang Ziming. Jiang Da next to him also quickly drew his sword.
The soldiers who realized something was wrong were froze on the spot for a moment. Baihu and the palace guards started fighting. They didn't know which side to help.
While resisting and retreating, Qin Hao shouted: "These people are spies and traitors!"
Qin Hao had a high prestige among the soldiers, so some people quickly reacted to his words.
Under the coordination of the other two generals, some soldiers stayed on the fort wall, while others quickly came to support.
After forcing Qin Hao and his two men back, Zhang Ziming and his companions aimed at the granary. However, the granary was guarded by only a dozen people, and they were distributed at each granary door.
I saw several Ming soldiers climbing over the fence, pouring oil directly into the doors and windows of the granary under the cover of their companions, and quickly ignited the fire.
But they only had time to set fire to a granary before they were forced out of the fence by the defenders inside the fort, and then someone came to help put out the fire.
The fighting continued, but to Zhang Ziming's disappointment, even though it had been doused with kerosene, the granary burned so slowly that it was quickly extinguished by Yong soldiers.
He led his people and rushed in desperately to set fire to it, but the result was this, which made him deeply disappointed.
It can be said that every step he took when entering the fort was completely different from what he expected, especially the step of revealing the secret, which can be said to be without warning.
Yong soldiers approached in large numbers. These people were equipped with spears, shields, bows and arrows. More than 40 people formed a complete military formation, which was simply not something Zhang Ziming and his party could resist.
By this time, their mission had failed.
The most important thing right now is to find a way to escape.
"set fire……"
While resisting and retreating, Zhang Ziming's men were not many, and six of them had been killed at this moment.
They had a lot of fire tools left, and they could use them now. Soon they lit a lot of fires around them.
Perhaps because they were too nervous, two people set themselves on fire when setting fire, and turned into burning men and were burned to the ground.
But Zhang Ziming had no time to care about this. He called on his men to resist and retreated.
The kerosene burned violently, temporarily blocking Yong's army, giving Zhang Ziming and his seven men a chance to breathe.
Jiang Da directed his men to encircle him, but he heard Qin Hao say in a cold tone: "Thief, do you know who I am?"
This was said to Ma Cheng.
Knowing that he might not survive today, Ma Cheng became bolder. He retreated and said with a smile: "Haha, you are just a deserter. Those brothers who died that day are all watching you in the sky!"
These words stimulated Qin Hao. Although more than half a year had passed, the original situation was still vivid in his mind.
He could never forget the tragic death of his brothers, or the wailing of his boss Zhang Ersheng...
"I'm going to make your life worse than death today!" Qin Hao was so angry that he rushed out with his knife.
He stepped on the kerosene and rushed out, his feet lit up on fire, but Qin Hao didn't care about it and hacked the first person to death.
Zhang Ziming had already retreated to the rear. He ignored the attacking Qin Hao. Anyway, Ma Cheng and several others were blocking him in front.
If they don't find a way to escape as soon as possible, they will surely die if the Yong army encircles them.
At this time, they were forced into a corner, but Qin Hao found a way out here. He overturned the cart that was being pushed and used it as a ladder to climb up.
The fort wall was only over a foot high, and with the aid of a cart, it was just high enough for him to climb up the fort wall.
But this method only has one chance, because no one would have thought that he could escape like this, so after Zhang Ziming climbed up the wall, someone immediately gathered around and blocked the road.
At this moment, Qin Hao had killed two people in a row, and with the cooperation of the sergeant, he further narrowed the scope of activities of the four Ma Chengs.
Qin Hao didn't care about Zhang Ziming who had escaped. At this moment, he only had Ma Cheng in his eyes, and he wanted to capture him alive and eat him alive.
"Keep this guy here and I'll kill him!" Qin Hao gave the order specifically.
Qin Hao was an upgraded person, and his combat power was already stronger than ordinary people. At this moment, with the help of the soldiers around him, he easily killed several others.
At this moment, Ma Cheng was the only one left. He was holding a knife in both hands and looking towards the fortress wall while retreating.
"Brother, save me!"
At this moment, on the fort wall, under the instinct of survival, Zhang Ziming's combat effectiveness greatly increased, and he repelled the two soldiers who surrounded him. At this moment, he came to the outside of the fort wall.
After looking at the wall that was more than ten feet high, Zhang Ziming gritted his teeth and yelled: "Brother, I will avenge you!"
After saying this, Zhang Ziming jumped directly under the wall when he saw the Yong Army soldiers surrounding him again.
Zhu Gui was leading a feint attack and was very close to the fortress wall. Zhang Ziming endured severe pain and ran away.
There were soldiers firing arrows on the fort wall, but their archery skills were really poor. Only one of the dozen arrows hit Zhang Ziming's shoulder.
On the contrary, three people who were sent to rescue by Zhu Gui were shot to death by random arrows.
"Brother Zhang, how is the situation?"
Pressing his shoulders, Zhang Ziming felt lingering fear.
Only when you are truly close to death is life so precious, so you must not die.
Looking back at Tianma Castle, Zhang Ziming said coldly: "Retreat!"
If pursuers were sent from the fort, they would be in real danger.
Knowing that something must have happened, Zhu Gui trusted Zhang Ziming's judgment, so he ordered without hesitation: "Withdraw..."
Besides, in Tianma Castle, Qin Hao pinched Ma Cheng's neck and punched him more than a dozen times while pressing against the wall of the castle. At this moment, his face was covered in blood and flesh.
After venting his anger, Qin Hao did not feel relieved.
Instead, he turned around and ordered: "Leave two people and take him back to my room, and everyone else should return to their places!"
Today, Qin Hao will use the most cruel method to make Ma Zheng pay the price for his original behavior.
Qin Hao wanted him to be unable to live or die, so he would naturally do what he said, and death would be a relief for Ma Cheng.
