Xiangcheng, Prince Yu's Mansion.

"Tai'er, what's the situation in Pingzhou now?"

In the study, King Yu Mofan looked at his eldest son with a tired face. Although it was already late at night, he had no intention of falling asleep.

Since he became independent, many chaos have occurred in Pingzhou. On the one hand, he dealt with the opposition in the county, and on the other hand, he had to deal with the pressure from the court. Although his eldest son Motai helped him share the pressure, he still felt that he was over 80 years old.

"Don't worry, sir."

Mo Tai knew that King Yu was under great pressure, so he spoke and comforted him: "Although some people jumped out to cause trouble after taking the troops away, there was no big problem. The child has almost finished dealing with it."

"Now, except for Cangyi City, the rest of Pingzhou are almost under our control. In addition, the other counties are supporting us. Even if the court strives to conquer us with all its might, there will be no big problems."

"That's good."

King Yu nodded. Pingzhou all kinds of major events need to be followed by his hands, so he is also clear about these things. The reason why I ask Mo Tai now is to seek peace of mind.

Just thinking of his second son, he couldn't help but frown and asked, "Is there any news from your second brother?"

"It should be soon."

Mo Tai thought for a while and said, "The second brother came to the information before and said that the cavalry was almost at Cangyi City. Calculate the time and they should fight today."

Speaking of this, Mo Tai saw that King Yu was a little worried, and smiled and said, "Dad, don't worry about my second brother, forty thousand versus five thousand. With such a big advantage, isn't your father still worried?"

"The second brother will win this battle. The difference is just how much we lose, and there will be no accident."

“That’s true.”

King Yu thought about it and felt that there was no reason to lose for 40,000 to 5,000, so he nodded slightly and said, "I hope your second brother won't be steady and lose less troops. After all, the soldiers he took away are all the family funds we have saved up with hard work and the capital for us to settle down in the future. If the loss is too great, we will have trouble in the future."

"Don't worry, my second brother has the experience of commanding troops, and he knows the importance of this."

Although Mo Tai didn't know what Mo Chao could do, looking at King Yu's worried appearance, he had to speak to the advantage and comfort the old man's worries.

"Forget it, since you have handed over the army to him, let him go."

King Yu shook his head, no matter what Mo Chao was thinking about, he asked about things in Pingzhou, "There are still people in Pingzhou who are making trouble now, so show me the information."

After receiving the information, King Yu watched and explained to Mo Tai with a vicious expression: "Don't be careful of small matters when doing big things. Now it is an extraordinary period. You must take ruthless measures against those who refuse to submit."

"Catch a few stubborn elements and take ruthless actions to warn a hundred people. As long as they are afraid of killing them, no one in Pingzhou will dare to jump out again."

“What my father taught me is.”

Motai nodded and echoed: "Yiyang County Government openly fought against the people of my Prince Yu's Mansion, claiming that our traitors have sent someone to arrest them."

"Don't be merciful."

King Yu looked up at Mo Tai, and his tone showed a hint of coldness, "Since they don't want to stand on our side, kill them all."

"this……"

Motai was a little hesitant. It was not that he was merciless. It was just that he was afraid of something wrong with such a cruel method. But looking at King Yu's firm eyes, he was silent for a moment without saying much. He nodded and said, "I understand, I will order Yi Yang tomorrow to behead them directly."

"Um."

King Yu nodded and said no more, looking down at the information in his hand.

...

Just as Prince Yu and his son were talking, Yang Yanzhang had already led his army to the vicinity of Xiangcheng.

In order to prevent the news from leaking, they deliberately bypassed the cities along the way. Although those paths were a little difficult to march, they were nothing to the Red Flame Dragon Knight riding the Red Blood Dragon Chaser.

After marching at full speed, he finally arrived in Xiangcheng when it was getting late.

It was about ten o'clock in the evening. Yang Yanzhang looked at the sky and turned around and ordered Li Huaien: "Let the soldiers get off the horse for the time being, put on armor and tie the horses, don't make any noise. Take the city on time after two hours."

"Here."

Li Huai'en responded and passed the general's order on.

Since Yang Yanzhang had military orders first, the soldiers of the Red Flame Dragon Cavalry were very careful when they dismounted, trying not to make loud noises, and then silently took out dry food to eat. Although there were 4,000 people, it was silent.

After the soldiers finished eating the dry food, they took advantage of the time left to rest by the war horses, but Yang Yanzhang did not rest with them, but carefully approached Xiangcheng and observed the situation there.

If they want to seize the city, they only have one chance, which is to take advantage of Xiangcheng's lack of defense and send a small number of elite troops to attack the city at night, open the city gate and let the Red Flame Dragon Cavalry enter the city. There is no other way.

There is a prerequisite for this method, that is, to make sure that Xiangcheng is not prepared at all. If Xiangcheng is prepared, it will be unrealistic to attack at night. If it cannot be opened at night, just because of these five thousand people, even if they are in the Bone Forging Realm, there is no hope of capturing Xiangcheng.

So if they want to take down Xiangcheng, they only have one chance, and there must be no mistakes in this matter.

Xiangcheng is a majestic pass with a height of nearly twenty meters. Just standing under the city wall makes you feel daunting.

At this height, Yang Yanzhang wanted to see the situation on the city wall that was not displayed at all, so he could only hide in the dark and listen to the movements upstairs.

He waited under the city wall for about half an hour, and a shift change finally came above the city wall. Although Yang Yanzhang did not hear many people on the city wall, it can be inferred from the movements they made that there were not many people on duty on the city wall.

After listening for a while, Yang Yanzhang knew it almost well. The news of the defeat of Cangyi City must have not yet been heard, otherwise the people on duty on the city wall would not be that small.

Of course, it is also possible that Xiangcheng has already received the news and deliberately pretended to be slack and waited for them to attack them at night to ambush them. However, this possibility is not great. After all, they are all experts on their side. If Prince Yu's mansion dares to set up an ambush, they will play with it if they don't do it well, and it will not be worth the loss.

After confirming that Xiangcheng's defense was not very strict, Yang Yanzhang quietly turned back. He picked a team of people with good strength and stood by him, and then quietly waited for two hours to arrive.

Fortunately, Yang Yanzhang was that the sky was not very good today, the moon did not come out, the earth was pitch black, and the visibility was very low, which greatly increased the probability of their success in the night attack. Otherwise, if the silver moon was in the sky, they would have just shit at night attacks.

Two hours passed in a flash, and time came to around two o'clock in the night. Generally speaking, this point was the most sleepy time for people, so Yang Yanzhang did not hesitate at all and directly took the group of people he picked out, asking Li Huaien to take the rest of the people here to wait.

As for the agreed secret code, they don’t need this. If the city gate is opened, then go into the city and seize Xiangcheng. If the city gate is not opened, then the city is seized. They just camp here and surround Xiangcheng.

In order to keep the movement secret, Yang Yanzhang took off his heavy armor with the team, and only wore a long sword around his waist, and quietly touched the city wall with light clothes.

Yang Yanzhang picked a place some distance from the city gate, listened for a while, and after confirming that there were no patrol guards on the city wall, he nodded to his subordinates, and then took several rolls of ropes from his subordinates.

Then he reached out to climb on the city wall, like agile antelope, and just took advantage of the force and climbed onto the city wall.

When he arrived on the city wall, Yang Yanzhang observed for a while and confirmed that no soldiers were patrolling appeared. Then he tied one end of the rope to the pile and threw it directly on the other end.

With the help of ropes, all the dozens of people under Yang Yanzhang quickly climbed up.

Because the tasks had been assigned below before, after they all came up, Yang Yanzhang didn't say much and took the people to the guards at the top of the city.

Outside the city tower, there were several soldiers on duty leaning on the wall dozing off. As for the rest, they all rested in the city tower.

Yang Yanzhang first took a few people and touched them from the darkness. Before these people could react, they directly took them off.

After succeeding, Yang Yanzhang did not hesitate at all. He led a group of people and turned to the people in the city tower. However, before he could imitate the action just now, a loud shout suddenly came from the city tower, "Who is it!"

Peng Xiu is a priest of Prince Yu's mansion, and his strength is in the quiet realm. His usual task is to guard the city tower and prevent anyone from directly attacking the city at night.

However, because Xiangcheng had never been attacked by anyone, he did not take this task seriously. Anyway, he would get a salary as long as he came, so he just changed his place to practice and was not too cautious. It was precisely because of this that he did not notice that Yang Yanzhang and others were quietly touching the city.

But he was a martial artist in the Youzhao Realm after all. No matter how careless he was, he could still feel the smell of blood suddenly came from a wall.

So after Yang Yanzhang killed those people, he was immediately awakened. After a moment of being stunned, he shouted out.

"Damn it, there are really warriors."

Yang Yanzhang cursed inwardly, but he didn't feel much annoyed. It is normal for warriors to warn to prevent night attacks in ordinary important towns. It is a blessing that they can successfully touch the city. If they were in the border town, they would probably have been shot down before they could get close to the city wall.

"Take it and kill them."

Since he was discovered, Yang Yanzhang had no scruples. He shouted loudly and directly ran the eight dragon and elephant methods. The two Dharma images condensed behind him, increasing his strength to the peak.

After beheading a soldier who had just gotten up and didn't understand what was going on, Yang Yanzhang rushed directly to Peng Xiu, who had just issued a warning.

Seeing Yang Yanzhang's face rushing towards him with a ferocious face, Peng Xiu was shocked. He was just here to earn salary, not to fight hard. It was so dark. He knew how strong Yang Yanzhang was. If he told him to do so, he would lose a lot.

Thinking of this, Peng Xiu did not hesitate at all. He stood up and ran towards the alarm bell. As long as he rang the alarm bell, the matter here would have nothing to do with him. At that time, they would be as good as they could to kill themselves and leave after they beat them.

Yang Yanzhang also saw Peng Xiu's purpose and couldn't help but feel a little anxious. If Peng Xiu sounded the alarm and alarmed the city guards in Xiangcheng, then their capture of the city would cause a lot of trouble.

Thinking of this, Yang Yanzhang grabbed the knife in his hand and threw it at Peng Xiu with all his might.

"Swoosh~"

Peng Xiu felt a chill on his back, and he subconsciously hid to the side. Yang Yanzhang's knife suddenly had a gust of wind, and directly stroked under his ribs, nailing it to the city wall.

Peng Xiu, who was almost killed by a knife, suddenly felt a deep sense of fear in his heart. He had no idea of ​​seeking revenge on Yang Yanzhang. He turned around and wanted to run out of the city tower, and he couldn't even care about ringing the alarm bell.

But after this delay, Yang Yanzhang had already rushed over. Although he did not intend to sound the alarm, Yang Yanzhang did not intend to let him go. Otherwise, he would also alarm the city guards except for the loud noise on the city tower, so this man must be killed.

Yang Yanzhang used his fist as a gun and stabbed Peng Xiu hard in the vest. If this punch was hit hard by him, Peng Xiu would be penetrated by him.

Feeling the close attack, Peng Xiu had to stop and avoid Yang Yanzhang's punch.

"Don't want it..."

After avoiding it, Peng Xiu opened his mouth to say something, but Yang Yanzhang didn't wait for him to finish speaking. After closing his fist, he used his palm as a knife and cut it towards his head.

"Damn it!"

Peng Xiu cursed in his heart, but facing Yang Yanzhang's sharp skills, he could not spare time to speak, so he had to reach out to block Yang Yanzhang's palm.

Peng Xiu is in the Guzhao Realm, and Yang Yanzhang is in the Marrow Cleansing Realm. Both are considered to be in the same realm. Logically speaking, Peng Xiu, as a true qi warrior, should be stronger than Yang Yanzhang, but the problem is that Yang Yanzhang is almost purging his marrow to break through to the Golden Body Realm, and in terms of strength, he is almost the same as Peng Xiu.

And the most important thing is that Yang Yanzhang learned the Eight Dragon and Elephant Methods. Now that Qingtian and Bashan combined, his strength doubled out of thin air, so when they fought, Peng Xiu immediately suffered a great loss.

"Click~"

Peng Xiu's left arm that reached out to block was directly interrupted by Yang Yanzhang and his hand knife. A sudden burst of pain came to his heart, making his eyes a little black.

Then before he could react, Yang Yanzhang interrupted his arm and turned his right hand into a palm, pinched Peng Xiu's throat, and twisted it hard.

"Click~"

A crisp sound came from Peng Xiu's throat, and then Peng Xiu's head drooped softly.

Yang Yanzhang, who quickly killed Peng Xiu, did not stop at all. He threw Peng Xiu's body aside, then snatched a weapon to help his soldiers, and quickly cleaned up the enemy soldiers in the city tower.

Although the alarm bell on the city tower did not sound, the commotion here still alarmed the city guards stationed under the city. However, they did not know what was going on, so they just sent some people to prepare to come up to check the situation.

Looking at the people walking upwards, Yang Yanzhang's eyes slightly condensed, and then he said, "Zhao Feng, go and bring some people to open the city gate."
Chapter completed!