Chapter 247: Xu Chu: Old Dian, what are you barking about

Seeing the casualties increasing, the enemy troops on the city wall began to counterattack.

But it had basically no effect;

The arrows were either knocked away by the personal guard soldiers with their blades or bounced off the steel armor they were wearing, failing to injure the personal guard soldiers in the slightest.

Not even a single unlucky one appeared.

It made sense; with at least the cultivation of the early stage of Anjin and wearing steel armor, how could they be injured by these soft arrows?

For a time, the rebel troops on the city wall were shot and killed by Xu Chu and his 600 personal guard soldiers, not daring to show their heads.

At this time, Su Xuan had already taken the remaining 200 personal guard soldiers and Su Zhan and retreated several li, blocking the main road to the north.

Preventing any enemy troops from fleeing to the north.

Ten minutes later,

After shooting and killing all the enemy troops on the city wall who dared to show their heads, Xu Chu prepared to attack the city.

"Kill!!!"

At this time, the sound of fighting came from inside the city, and it was very close.

"Damn! Are Old Dian and the others that fast?"

"Quick! Follow me to climb the city!!"

Xu Chu's expression changed, and he immediately prepared to lead his troops to dismount and climb the city.

Anyway, with their martial arts cultivation, the mere eight-meter city wall of Xinye couldn't stop them at all.

"Ah!!"

"Don't! Don't kill me! I surrender!"

At this time, sounds of fighting, screams, and surrender came from the city wall.

Xu Chu's heart skipped a beat, and he roared at the city wall: "Old Dian! Old Dian! Is that you?"

"Hahaha!"

The next moment, Dian Wei's familiar wild laughter rang out, and Xu Chu looked up, just in time to see Dian Wei poking his head out to look down.

Immediately, Xu Chu's face darkened.

Damn! Got beaten to it!

"Hehe! Old Xu! Sorry! This time, the merit of breaching the city belongs entirely to our Xuanwu Battalion!"

Dian Wei grinned triumphantly.

Xu Chu's face darkened even more, and he said indignantly: "Old Dian, don't be so triumphant. If the Lord hadn't forbidden us from charging the city directly before, this Xinye city wouldn't have had any share for you!"

"What are you barking about here?"

"Hahaha!"

Seeing Xu Chu's look of shame turned into anger, Dian Wei just laughed loudly, not caring at all about Xu Chu's verbal abuse.

He knew this was just angry talk and joking.

Everyone had a good relationship!

Of course, it was also because he had indeed taken advantage this time.

So what if he let someone curse him a few times?

He also knew that what Xu Chu said was true; the strength of these rebel troops was truly poor.

With the terrifying combat power of the personal guards, taking this Xinye city was simply easy.

"Old Dian! You owe me a favor this time. When we go back, you have to treat me to ten meals of wine, and it has to be top-tier Drunken Immortal Brew, otherwise, I'm not done with you!"

Xu Chu shouted again.

If he didn't eat it back, he wouldn't feel balanced!

This time, Dian Wei could get at least one major merit.

He was envious to death.

"Haha! No problem! Ten meals it is! I'll treat! Calm down!"

Dian Wei replied with a smile immediately.

It's just a little wine money; that's not an issue.

From the money and grain seized in the city, even if 70% was handed over, the Xuanwu Battalion soldiers would get 20%, and he and Zhou Cang would share 10%, which was still a large sum of money.

There was no help for it; the rebel troops under Zhao Ci this time had not been soft at all toward the scholar-officials, powerful families, and wealthy households in the city.

They had seized quite a lot of money, grain, gold, silver, and antiques.

And this was just a mere small city of Xinye.

Heaven knows how much they had seized in Wancheng?

Thinking about it, the scholar-officials and powerful families of Nanyang were also disaster-stricken.

Two years ago, they were seized by the Huang Jin army's Zhang Mancheng, and now they were seized by Zhao Ci again.

The first time, everything went to Su Xuan, and this time, it was estimated that it would be no exception.

After confirming that Xinye had been handled by Dian Wei, Su Xuan did not stay there and led the personal guards to the north.

In a forest between Xinye and Yuyang:

Huang Zhong, Zhao Yun, and Taishi Ci, along with Zhang He and Zhang Liao, led the Black Armor Army and the Xiaoji Battalion soldiers to hide in the forests on both sides and wait quietly.

To avoid the ambush being discovered, the secret guards and scouts used their bird beast-tamers to communicate with and guide the birds in the forest.

Letting them not circle above the forest, but land in the forest and make calls as usual.

Making the forest look like a normal situation.

One hour later,

The scouts reported: "General! The rebel army is less than 10 li away from here."

"Very good! Keep watching! Pay attention to concealment!"

Huang Zhong nodded with satisfaction and instructed.

"Yes!"

The scouts accepted the order and left.

Because they had telescopes, they didn't need to get too close; they just needed to find a high ground from afar and use the telescope to investigate from a distance.

Safe and efficient.

This was also the reason why Su Xuan created the glass-firing process, manufactured qualified telescopes, and equipped the high-level generals and scouts in each army.

With this, the advantage was too great.

On Zhao Ci's side,

"General, that Su Xuan is truly pedantic. Just as you expected, without the court's permission, he really didn't dare to move troops into Nanyang!"

"Now we just need to launch a surprise attack to take Dengxian and capture his parents and family alive; we will definitely be able to force him to surrender;"

"Maybe the General can even take him into his own service!"

On the march, Zhao Ci's dog-headed advisor Wu Qi couldn't help but flatter him.

"Haha! Well said!"

Zhao Ci smiled triumphantly: "No matter how capable Su Xuan is, in the end, he still has to drink my foot-washing water;"

"If he is sensible, this General is not unable to spare his life and give him a chance to serve me;"

"In the future, when I capture Luoyang and behead the Son of Heaven of the Great Han, he can also mix in some merit of following the dragon;"