The city gate is open!

War drums roared outside Nanzheng City.

After discovering an abnormality at the city gate, because effective information communication could not be carried out inside and outside the city, Zhang Liao wanted to wait and take a look, while Wei Yan thought he could give it a try...

Zhu Ling?

Zhu Ling followed his duty and led the cavalry on patrol outside Nanzheng.

Wei Yan was not a man who was crazy about inserting needles whenever he saw an opportunity, and was diligent in studying every opportunity. He just discovered during the Hanzhong stage that Zhang's soldiers were not actually strong in fighting and did not have tenacious fighting spirit. Even if they had

It might be a trap, but it doesn't hurt to test it first.

The two people only had a slight argument, and then quickly agreed. Wei Yan led a small group of soldiers to attack the city gate, while Zhang Liao led another group of people to attack the city wall to provide cover for Wei Yan.

Naturally, Zhang Liao was the first to move out as a cover, with a scale of about two thousand, pushing dozens of Haoqiao and ladders, with a huge momentum. Wei Yan slowly set off, leading his vigorous infantry to rush towards the smoke-shrouded area.

At the gate of the city.

Wei Yan's forward column successfully passed the broken stone bridge and ran into the dim smoke. Zhang's soldiers yelled in panic on the city wall. It seemed that a few arrows were shot down, but they had almost no effect.

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There were some corpses lying under the open city gate, while several Zhang soldiers were struggling to close the opened city gate...

Zhang Liao and Wei Yan once asked the craftsmen in the engineering camp whether they could use a catapult to directly smash through the city gate, but in fact they gave up this unrealistic idea after trying it several times.

Whether it is stone bullets or kerosene bullets thrown by catapults, they can only determine a rough range. Of course there is no problem with a target as big as a city wall, but if you want to hit the city gate accurately, there is a probability, but

It is indeed too wasteful to let the catapult bet on this probability.

With this skill and so many times, the city wall has been smashed, so why bother smashing the city gate?

Therefore, the city gate of Nanzheng is generally relatively complete, but now it is suddenly opened for some unknown reason...

Wei Yan's team was the first to rush to the city gate and hacked to death a Zhang soldier who was pushing the city gate in an attempt to close it. Then the team quickly divided into two groups, each covering it, and rushed in

In the doorway.

As soon as the first few soldiers rushed out of the door, sharp weapons came towards them.

One of Wei Yan's soldiers was accidentally stabbed in the vital part and fell to the ground dead. Several other soldiers used their swords or shields to block and fight back. Immediately, several of Zhang's soldiers in Wengcheng also fell.

.Some more Zhang soldiers came in from the city, and the two sides fought within the small space within the Wengcheng.

The team leader looked around, quickly judged the situation, and immediately sent more soldiers to join the battle. The subsequent hussars rushed in. Although Zhang's soldiers occupied a certain geographical advantage, they could not withstand the powerful hussars.

As Zhang's soldiers continued to be injured and died under the fierce attack of the soldiers, the defense system in the Wengcheng gradually collapsed and collapsed.

Finally, the first hussar soldier broke through the second city gate. As soon as he rushed out, he faced the attack of seven or eight Zhang's soldiers in formation. After parrying for a moment, he was killed, but he

His death bought time for the following hussars. When more hussars rushed out of the second city gate, Zhang's soldiers who were defending at the city gate on the street were quickly forced back.

Then more hussar soldiers rushed in, and Wei Yan followed among these soldiers and rushed out of the second city gate.

Unable to resist, Zhang's soldiers turned around and ran away. The line of Zhang's soldiers on the other side also collapsed, revealing a group of people who were besieged and killed...

Li Yuan, Li Cong and others did not have enough armor, and not all of the servants were very skilled. They got the upper hand during the surprise attack, but suffered some losses in the subsequent hand-to-hand combat and were surrounded. If Wei Yan hadn't led them

When the soldiers arrive, Li Yuan and Li Cong may encounter certain dangers.

Li Yuan had also stayed in Hanzhong for a period of time before, and had a slight impression of Wei Yan. He also saw Wei Yan's recognition flag. After a little thought, he recognized it. He quickly took out his seal and stepped forward to identify himself.

The smoke and dust at this time had slowly dissipated.

Soon another group of Zhang's soldiers rushed out from the street, and there were quite a lot of them. Apparently, when there was chaos at the city gate, someone went to the city to summon them, and they only arrived at the scene now.

Wei Yan's men also made a formation. Looking at the scattered Zhang soldiers, the leader at the front shouted something, and five or six crossbows protruded from the gaps in the formation.

Zhang's soldiers didn't know whether they didn't notice it or couldn't hold their feet, so they kept running forward.

When these Zhang's soldiers were approaching a distance of thirty or forty steps, the leader of the team gave an order, the crossbows were fired, and five or six crossbow bolts roared into Zhang's soldiers. The few Zhangs in front

Shi fell to the ground almost at the same time, rolling on the ground and screaming.

On the one hand, Zhang's soldiers who rushed behind had to avoid the wounded soldiers rolling on the ground. On the other hand, they seemed to realize that the people in front of them were not the previous troops of Li Yuan and Li Cong who had no equipment, but hussars and infantry. Suddenly

They were so frightened that they howled and the queue was in chaos.

The soldiers who had previously fired the crossbow bowed back, and the soldiers in the back row who had already loaded their crossbows joined in. Another round of lasing fired, and several more Zhang's soldiers fell down immediately, and then the rest.

Zhang's soldiers just shouted and immediately broke up on the spot and fled to the alleys on both sides...

The loss of the Wengcheng caused Zhang's soldiers to lose the defensive support point of the city wall. Zhang Liao, who was outside the city, also quickly adjusted the direction of his attack. Under the attack from above and below, Zhang's soldiers became increasingly panicked.

Under the tidal-like offensive of the hussars, Zhang's soldiers above and below the city, as well as temporarily captured civilians, fled into the streets and alleys of the city to avoid harm from swords, guns and crossbows. The large-scale Zhang's soldiers were killed by a

They were all broken up and defeated. As Wei Yan occupied a vast area at the city gate with heavy armor, more and more hussar soldiers poured into Nanzheng City, and the Zhang family's defeat became a foregone conclusion.

Wei Yan probably still had some impressions of the layout of the city of Nanzheng. When he reached the cross street, he was about to lead his men to the government office of Nanzheng, but was stopped by Li Yuan.

"General! General conquering Shu! Thief Zhang is not in the government office! Not over there!" Li Yuan pointed in another direction, "The old thief is hiding in his house! Not in the government office!"

"Huh?" Wei Yan was stunned and almost couldn't believe it, but after thinking about it, he felt that this was normal. He immediately asked Li Yuan to lead the way and headed straight for Zhang Mansion.

Turn north at the intersection of the street, and then turn east. On both sides of the street were some soldiers of the Zhang family kneeling down, as well as some strong men and civilians who had been captured by the Zhang family, crying loudly and begging for mercy.

As long as these people have no weapons in their hands and do not resist, Wei Yan and the soldiers around him will not pay attention to them. Some fools are still holding onto their weapons when begging for mercy, or they stand and look around blankly, running around.

When he hit him, he was killed by the soldiers, and he really became a fool.

Wei Yan originally thought that it would take some effort to attack Zhang's Mansion. On the way to Zhang's Mansion, he even asked his soldiers to search for some wooden beams or wooden ladders that could be used to break the door, but he

What he didn't expect was that when he arrived near Zhang's Mansion, he found that the door of Zhang's Mansion was wide open...

Near the gate of the mansion, there were many corpses and many miscellaneous items scattered on the ground.

Several soldiers who were defeated or were refugees in the city were lying on the corpses, searching for belongings and pulling off their clothes. When they saw Wei Yan and others coming, they ran away like wild dogs...

The flagpole in front of Zhang's mansion was broken, and Zhang's flag was in tatters and spread on the ground.

"..." Wei Yan glanced over, without saying a word, and waved for the soldiers to come in and check.

As soon as you enter the door and step into the front yard, there is a "chirp" sound.

Wei Yan lowered his head and saw that the ground was covered with semi-solidified blood.

Looking up again, there were corpses on the ground.

Judging from the clothes and clothing, most of these corpses are Zhang's servants and servants...

"Old thief... what are you doing, old thief?" Li Yuan stood on one side, holding a sword in his hand, and was a little confused, "Could it be that he escaped?"

Wei Yan frowned slightly and waved his hand to order the soldiers to continue inward.

Zhang's house is not small. After passing the front yard and entering the atrium, there are more corpses and blood. Even in the side rooms on both sides, there is obviously blood flowing out along the cracks in the door...

The soldier kept walking, walked through the corridor, and entered the backyard.

The sound of crying came out...

"Dad...I don't want to die, I don't want to die...Mother, help me, help me..."

"I don't want to die, I don't want to die..."

"Ooooh...Mom, save me, save me..."

Zhang Ze was sitting in the backyard hall, holding a long sword in his hand, and his face was ashen. After hearing the movement, he suddenly raised his head and looked at Wei Yan who came in from the backyard gate.

In front of Zhang Ze, several women knelt down, as well as some young men. Next to these women and young children were some guards whose bodies were almost covered in blood.

Seeing Wei Yan and others walking into the backyard, a young half-year-old child's eyes moved. He didn't know what he was thinking, but he broke away from the guard's hand and ran out of the hall, but was stopped by Zhang Ze.

He took a step forward and stabbed his sword directly from the back to the chest!

"My child..." A woman rushed forward and was assassinated by Zhang Ze.

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Zhang Ze was trembling, with tears streaming down his face, and he put the long sword on his neck, "Move...do it! Do it..."

Wei stretched his hand forward and raised it halfway, but in the end he still did not issue a stop command.

Zhang Ze's guard looked around, and finally obeyed Zhang Ze's order. He raised his blood-stained sword towards these women and children, and then dropped it...

Zhang Ze stared at Wei Yan, his beard stained with blood, tears, and snot seemed to move, as if he wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't say anything, he just gritted his teeth and squeezed his hand hard!

"My lord!"

The few remaining Zhang Ze guards cried out in sorrow, then looked at each other, and either committed suicide or hacked each other to death. In the blink of an eye, all the people in the backyard hall died!

"..." Wei Yan walked forward to Zhang Ze, lowered his head slightly and looked at Zhang Ze.

Zhang Ze cut his throat, and blood spurted out from the wound. His eyes like dead fish seemed to be looking at Wei Yan, or at the lintel of his house, or looking at the sky through the lintel.

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The chaotic and noisy sounds in the city came faintly.

There was deathly silence in Zhang Mansion.

The inside and outside of the hall are like two worlds.

Wei Yan turned around, walked out, and then stood at the entrance of the hall.
To be continued...