Chapter 347: Camp panic and first to climb [Thanks to everyone for your support! Bow again!]

"Kutan!"

(Bai Gao language: hurry up)

Just as Gu Tingyu walked out of the tent where he was detained, he was pushed hard by the two soldiers behind him, staggering forward two steps.

Looking at the Bai Gao Kingdom soldiers holding torches in front, Gu Tingyu recognized that these were the personal guards of the commander of this military stockade.

Gu Tingyu thought as he walked:

"It's so late, and they pulled me out of the tent; I don't know if they are going to interrogate me, send me to Xingqing Prefecture, or give me a knife."

"If they really want to give me a knife, I wonder if these Bai Gao people will let me write a suicide note."

"When I die, my head should face the direction of Bianjing."

Thinking about these things, Gu Tingyu continued to walk.

Suddenly!

A loud shout came from afar!

Although it was only one sound, Gu Tingyu couldn't understand what it meant, but he could hear the hysteria in it.

Consequently, the people holding torches in front of Gu Tingyu suddenly began to run!

Gu Tingyu was very happy to add to the chaos for these people, so naturally, he wouldn't follow them,

so he was pushed several times by the soldiers behind him.

When the Bai Gao Kingdom personal guard was running, he looked back at Gu Tingyu, who was still strolling, and said a few fierce words in Bai Gao language.

The two soldiers behind Gu Tingyu each grabbed an arm, preparing to drag Gu Tingyu over.

Then, Gu Tingyu stuck his butt out, exerted force backward with his whole body, and even used his feet to brake and drag on the ground to delay.

But the Bai Gao Kingdom soldiers didn't indulge him and punched Gu Tingyu hard in the stomach.

Gu Tingyu could only arch his waist, clutch his stomach, and let people drag him forward.

Soon, Gu Tingyu arrived in front of the main tent he had been to several times.

However, the scene in front of the tent made Gu Tingyu somewhat surprised!

The Bai Gao Kingdom personal guard who brought him here threw the torch he was holding onto the ground and was kneeling there, hugging the burly personal guard leader lying on the ground to check.

Gu Tingyu looked at the personal guard lying on the ground closer to him and could vaguely see the flying axe on the guard's head.

He also looked at the corpses of several other Bai Gao Kingdom personal guards nearby; no matter what the situation was, Bai Gao people had died.

"Hahaha!! Hahaha~"

Gu Tingyu endured the discomfort in his stomach and laughed loudly.

His laughter made the personal guard who brought him glare, but he didn't pay attention to him; the personal guard drew his weapon and walked toward the tent.

At this moment,

a group of people walked out of the dark tent; this group saw the personal guard in front of the tent and also saw Gu Tingyu being held.

Bang!

The personal guard was knocked down by Qingyun with a shield, and the Li family brothers went up to finish him off.

"Are they this close?"

A somewhat familiar voice speaking Great Zhou language came over.

Gu Tingyu hadn't thought of who the owner of this voice was; under the dim light, he felt wind blowing violently past his ears.

He looked back belatedly and only saw two white arrow feathers moving slightly behind him.

Afterwards, two tall black shadows walked toward him; passing by the torch thrown on the ground, the firelight flashed, and he saw the faces of the two.

Gu Tingyu said with disbelief:

"Little Five?!! Qingyun!!? How are you..."

Xu Zaijing went up and hugged Gu Tingyu, hugged him, and said:

"Brother-in-law, can you still ride a horse?"

"Yes, yes! No, how are you... Little Five, did you..."

Before Gu Tingyu could finish his sentence, Xu Zaijing handed him to the Li family brothers who came from behind and said:

"Brother-in-law, let's talk after we get out of this stockade!"

Qingyun was already walking in front of the crowd holding a shield.

"Right! Where is the commander of this stockade?"

"He's tucked in Taotie's waist!"

Gu Tingyu was stunned: "What...?"

Gu Tingyu looked down at Li Taotie beside him; there was a fairly large cloth bag at his waist, and he understood.

"If we could capture him alive, or even seriously injure him, we might be able to trick open the city gate of Shizhou!"

Xu Zaijing in front shook his head and said:

"Brother-in-law, Great Zhou's closest stockade to us is about fifty miles away, and there are several Bai Gao Kingdom military stockades in between!"

"Just relying on the four or five of us? Even if we tricked it open, there's no support!"

Gu Tingyu nodded and said: "Little Five is right, but leaving just like this, I'm always somewhat unwilling."

Xu Zaijing looked at the patrolling soldiers attracted by the sound and shot one with each arrow, saying: "Let's open the stockade gate after we get on our horses."

At this moment, the sound of gongs, shouting, and groaning began to ring out in the military stockade, and torches began to light up in many places in the camp.

Amidst this noisy sound, Gu Tingyu said: "Little Five, did you ride your Dragon Colt here?"

Xu Zaijing observed the surrounding situation while saying: "No, it's too conspicuous; I left it in Yongle City."

"An ordinary horse?"

"Hmm!"

Bai Gao Kingdom soldiers explored from time to time on the road, and they were met with sharp arrows.

Borrowing the darkness and chaos, Xu Zaijing and the others walked quickly.

Gu Tingyu looked at the restless camp in the night and said: "Little Five, if we create more chaos, we might be able to cause..."

Xu Zaijing said: "Camp panic?"

"Right!"

Xu Zaijing nodded: "Taotie, Li Chi Mei, shout! Make the sound louder! Create chaos!"

As he spoke, Xu Zaijing drew his strong bow and shot at a fire basin; after the fire basin tipped over, it ignited the tent beside it.

The Li family brothers on the side were shouting in Bai Gao language:

"Enemy attack!"

"Zhou dogs have entered the stockade!"

"The Commander is dead!"

"Zhou dogs are disguised as Bai Gao soldiers!"

Listening to the words of the Li family brothers,

Xu Zaijing, Gu Tingyu, and Qingyun shouted together: "Kill!!!"

The sound of the three of them shouting with force in the night traveled very far.

Xu Zaijing walked while pulling his strong bow, aiming originally at the chest of the enemy under the firelight; after thinking for a moment, he moved it down and released his fingers.

The Bai Gao Kingdom soldier whose thigh was pierced by the arrow began to howl loudly because of the pain, unable to control himself.

The sound of Great Zhou language shouting to kill, the warning sound of Bai Gao Kingdom, and the howling after someone was injured,

in the night where the situation could not be seen clearly, it sounded as if a real army had broken in and severely damaged the stockade.

At this moment, everyone had arrived at the entrance of the stockade.

Xu Zaijing let Li Li Chi Mei take Gu Tingyu to lead the horses out of the stockade and change clothes outside the stockade wall,

while he closed the stockade gate again and locked the heavy door bolt with Qingyun.

Looking at the already somewhat unstable military stockade,

Xu Zaijing, Qingyun, and Li Taotie walked back into the stockade.

Seeing places where large groups of Bai Gao soldiers gathered,

Li Taotie first asked in Bai Gao language which battalion the opposite side belonged to,

and when he heard someone answer, Xu Zaijing shot an arrow directly.

Amidst the miserable howls of the opposite side, the three left after shooting,

and when leaving, Li Taotie shouted a few times in Bai Gao language, "There is an enemy here."

When they encountered a team of Bai Gao soldiers hurriedly walking out of the camp tent, the three mixed in.

Seeing people near this team, when the two sides were negotiating, Xu Zaijing shot several arrows to create chaos.

Li Taotie roared: "They are Zhou dogs in disguise!"

When the two sides started fighting, the three left again.

Sometimes the three encountered Bai Gao Kingdom soldiers in small numbers,

Li Taotie first spoke in Bai Gao language to get close, then shouted "Avenge the Eastern Courtyard King!" in Bai Gao language, and Xu Zaijing and Qingyun began to kill like tigers into a flock of sheep.

But they wouldn't kill them all; they would leave one or two survivors to let them escape and spread chaos, fear, and lies.

In short, the more chaotic, the better.

Originally, Great Zhou's winning streak had already made some of the Bai Gao Kingdom soldiers in this stockade panic,

and coupled with the fire, screams, shouting horses, and the sound of weapons clashing in the stockade.

Some smart military officers took people to the main tent to find Commander Rendo Zhanji, but what they saw were the corpses of Rendo Zhanji and his personal guards, so they became even more certain that there were enemies in the stockade.

Hearing someone shouting to avenge the Eastern Courtyard King, fine, even those speaking Bai Gao language couldn't be trusted.

Soon,

Gu Tingyu and Li Li Chi Mei, who were waiting outside the stockade, heard that the various sounds in the stockade were getting louder and louder.

Some of the sounds of killing were no longer what Xu Zaijing and the three could create.

Outside the military stockade, one could see huge firelight emerging from the stockade.

At this moment,

Xu Zaijing finally took Qingyun and Taotie out of the stockade along the rope.

Just as the three landed and were preparing to ride away, three cavalrymen holding torches arrived at the stockade gate in the distance,

and the Li family brothers hurriedly stood in front.

After stopping their mounts, the messenger knight asked in Bai Gao language: "What happened in the military stockade?"

Li Taotie lowered his head and told the truth: "Replying to my lord, it is camp panic!!"

"What!?? How is Rendo Zhanji leading the troops!"

The messenger knight listened to the movement in the military stockade and looked at the fire illuminating the stockade, shaking his head.

The messenger knight also knew that this camp panic was very chaotic, and getting involved would definitely not have a good result; he said on his mount:

"I have other places to go; you listen to the order!"

The Li family brothers skillfully made a gesture of listening to the order.

"By the order of the Wei Fu and Chao Shun Army Divisions, Commander-in-Chief, military order!"

"Order the Commander of the military stockade outside Shizhou City, Rendo Zhanji, to quickly prepare the grain and grass in the camp for the army; those who do not follow the order will be executed without mercy!"

After announcing the military order,

the messenger knight threw the order into Li Taotie's arms and looked at the chaotic, burning military stockade again.

The messenger knight shook his head, knowing that this Rendo Zhanji was dead for sure.

"Wait for the camp panic to subside, and pass the military order to him!"

"Yes!"

Afterwards, the messenger knight turned his horse and was about to whip the horse to leave.

Suddenly!

The messenger knight felt a heat and pain in his neck, and his body couldn't be controlled and fell forward.

The messenger knight fell from the horse to the ground; he lay there in pain, his face was very painful, and what was even more uncomfortable was the severe pain in his throat, the feeling of a foreign object, and his limbs that he couldn't control.

At this moment,

a person walked over and picked up the torch he had thrown on the ground.

Under the light of the torch, the messenger knight saw the face of the little soldier clearly.

"Li... cough... gurgle..."

In his field of vision, the two little soldiers standing behind walked over with bows and arrows.

Xu Zaijing: "Recognize him?"

Li Taotie: "Hmm! An enemy."

Xu Zaijing nodded and said: "Change clothes, we are returning to Great Zhou from the front!"

Afterwards,

Li Taotie threw the things at his waist aside and began to take off the clothes of the three knights with Qingyun.

The sky was bright,

in the Bai Gao Kingdom pass spanning the valley entrance.

"Bang!"

The last stone flying from afar smashed heavily onto the thick flag pole, and amidst the loud noise, it fell to the ground.

Xu Zaijing, dressed as a Bai Gao Kingdom soldier, followed Li Taotie with somewhat stiff arms, tilted his body slightly, and dodged the ricocheting gravel.

At this time,

Great Zhou's first wave of artillery bombardment had ended; in Xu Zaijing's field of vision, the Bai Gao soldiers in the pass were busy putting out the fire on the distant pass wall.

After they threw the soaked cloth onto the fire, they ran down hurriedly.

"Pitter-patter,"

another round of artillery bombardment struck.

Because the Bai Gao Kingdom soldiers came down quickly, they didn't suffer any damage.

Xu Zaijing followed Li Taotie to continue walking forward and soon arrived at the pass main tent built on the gentle slope behind the mountain to avoid artillery bombardment.

At this moment,

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

The high-pitched sound of Great Zhou's army advancing came from afar.

After entering the main tent,

Xu Zaijing's slightly stiff forearms relaxed, and the two steel maces slid out from his sleeves and fell into Xu Zaijing's hands.

Outside the tent,

Xu Zaijing had been inside for less than ten breaths,

amidst the shouting of the Great Zhou soldiers,

the two Bai Gao Kingdom personal guards at the entrance of the main tent turned around in confusion, looked at each other, and then lifted the tent curtain and walked in.

After two muffled groans.

Li Taotie poked his head out to look outside the tent; seeing no one paying attention, he sheathed his sword and walked out calmly.

Xu Zaijing, who followed closely behind, shook the things on the double maces and inserted them back into the belt outside his armor.

The two walked out of the main tent, and after meeting up with Qingyun and the others, Xu Zaijing strung his strong bow.

Li Taotie borrowed his clothes and asked for quite a few arrows from the Bai Gao Kingdom soldiers.

The five of them walked toward the pass wall where the fierce battle was taking place.

Li Taotie looked back at the Bai Gao Kingdom soldiers who were pointing at them and said: "Brother Jing, do you know what they are saying?"

Xu Zaijing shook his head.

"They are saying, we came to deliver orders and still have to help defend the pass; truly good sons of Bai Gao."

Xu Zaijing looked back, smiled at the person Li Taotie mentioned,

and then Xu Zaijing pointed to the pass wall and said: "We are going up."

Arriving on the pass city wall,

there was a Bai Gao Kingdom general who was shouting and directing the defense; he turned his head, looked at the strong bow in Xu Zaijing's hand, and roared gibberish while pointing at the people behind several shields not far from the pass wall.

Seeing Xu Zaijing draw his bow and aim the sharp arrow at the foot of the wall, the general showed an approving smile.

When Xu Zaijing's arrow turned direction and aimed at this general, the general's eyes were full of anger.

Then, the general saw Xu Zaijing's eyes after drawing the bowstring; before he could react, a feathered arrow pierced his skull.

Outside the pass wall,

a strong Great Zhou brave soldier was holding a shield and stepping on a ladder to attack the pass wall.

Listening to the screams coming from above, the strong Great Zhou brave soldier tightened his body.

Boom!

A feeling of a heavy object hitting the shield he was holding came over.

Fortunately, he was strong enough; after unloading some force, he looked down holding the shield, and the squad leader who was as strong as him was already lying under the pass wall.

It seemed he wasn't dead yet, struggling to lift his shield to block the arrows shot from the wall.

Unable to care about his comrade, this brave soldier continued to step on the ladder and climb up.

When the brave soldier was about to climb to the top of the ladder and tilted his head to observe the pass wall, his eyes widened instantly!

For no other reason,

it was just because this brave soldier saw the figure on the pass wall preparing to pour boiling gold juice downward.

The pottery jar containing the gold juice was already tilted, and the gold juice was about to spill onto him and the comrades behind him in the blink of an eye.

This thing, as long as it touches you and breaks your skin, you can only wait for death.

The brave soldier closed his eyes in pain, preparing to welcome his death.

"Ah!!!"

A painful scream came.

The Great Zhou brave soldier opened his eyes in confusion; he didn't scream either!

"What are you waiting for! Come up!"

A shout came from above the brave soldier's head.

The brave soldier was stunned and then climbed up with all his might.

Arriving on the pass wall, the Bai Gao Kingdom soldier who was about to pour the gold juice on him was rolling on the wall.

All around were broken pottery jars.

A young man wearing Bai Gao Kingdom armor was holding a shield on the foul-smelling wall, covering him as he climbed the wall.

Feathered arrows were still shooting past the brave soldier's eyes from time to time,

and when he tilted his head, he found a young man with a strong bow in his hand shooting continuously and desperately.

The brave soldier jumped onto the pass wall and roared loudly after surviving the disaster: "Kill!"

Far away from the pass wall,

under the general's flag,

Zhang Fangshun, who was watching the battle, said to Cao Zhao beside him: "This probing attack by the thieves should be able to consume some of the defensive materials in the pass."

Seeing the Bai Gao Kingdom soldier on the pass wall preparing to pour the gold juice,

Cao Zhao nodded and said: "Hmm, let's sound the gong and let them retreat! It's a pity for the brave soldiers mixed in."

Then...

The gold juice didn't come down, and the expected screams didn't come over.

A Great Zhou brave soldier... just like that, climbed onto the pass wall.

Marquis Ningyuan Mansion,

Pingmei, who had successfully given birth to a child, looked at the swaddling clothes beside her and smiled gently.

Then, she sighed,

turned her head to look at Madam Sun beside her, and said: "Mother, my husband, did something happen to him?"

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 348 =====