Chapter 1488

Two hours after the city was broken, it was midnight.

It should have been a time when ten thousand families were silent and immersed in dreams, but the people in Mayi City were experiencing a waking nightmare.

Thick smoke wrapped in sparks rushed onto the city tower, and the blood seeping from the cracks in the bluestone slabs on the ground shone with a rust color under the moonlight.

A Xiongnu cavalryman with a grin on his face held a curved saber and hooked the neck of a Han soldier, dragging him along; the sound of the blade scraping the stone slab mixed with the whimpering of a broken throat.

In front of a residential house nearby.

Several Xianbei soldiers wrapped in packages kicked open the carved wooden door and crowded into the house.

The shadows reflected by the torches showed the action of raising curved sabers through the window, accompanied by screams and cries, and blood splattered all over the window.

East of Mayi City, the gate of the County Magistrate's residence had been pulled down alive.

Four warhorses were tied with chains to the iron rings of the gate, pulling open the two vermilion-lacquered gates.

Inside the house, a Xianbei teenager who looked only in his teens used a deer-horn dagger to pry open the teeth of the Magistrate's wife, and when the pearls rolled down, they brought out half a severed tongue.

The courtyard was full of corpses lying in pools of blood.

Next door, the maid who was always arrogant and followed the Magistrate's wife wherever she went on weekdays was being pressed onto the wreckage of a loom, the sandalwood shuttle piercing through her palm, and the blood-stained plain silk was wrapped around the grinning Xiongnu.

The curved saber sliced open the abdomen, and the intestines hung on the scorched roof beam, swaying slightly in the heat wave.

There were no living Han soldiers on the city tower at this time.

After slaughtering the Han soldiers guarding the city, the city wall of Mayi had become a land without an owner.

All the Xiongnu and Xianbei soldiers charged into the city and began to slaughter and plunder crazily.

The torches illuminated the embroidered shoes floating on the surface of the moat.

Near the bottom of the city wall, the thin layer of soil covering the ground suddenly loosened.

Then, one black figure after another pushed open the cover above their heads and revealed their figures from the pits pre-buried under the city wall.

Around the city wall surrounding Mayi, hundreds of such figures crawled out of the pre-buried soil pits.

After observing the surroundings and finding no movement, the black shadows that crawled out of the soil pits took out sealed wooden barrels from the soil pits.

After the lids of the wooden barrels were opened, a black liquid with a pungent smell, like grease, flowed into the moat.

Besides the moat, the drawbridge leading to the moat in the city was also sprinkled with this black liquid called "flammable water."

When everything was ready, everyone hid and waited for the signal from the city.

Inside the official residence of Mayi City.

Yufuluo, Budugen, and Guo Tu were gathered in the main hall.

Plundering wealth was naturally not something that the two Chanyus, Yufuluo and Budugen, had to do themselves; naturally, their subordinates did it for them.

At this time, both of them were in a good mood, tasting the fine wine collected from the city.

The desk in front of them was also piled with all kinds of delicious dishes.

Budugen and Yufuluo were drinking and exchanging cups.

Only Guo Tu still looked a bit uneasy.

"Mr. Guo, the city is broken, why are you still frowning?" Yufuluo asked, looking at the pensive Guo Tu.

Guo Tu raised his eyes.

That's right, Mayi City is broken, but until now, Jia Xu, Li Ru, Cheng Yu, and even any of the Liangzhou Army generals have not been seen.

This made Guo Tu extremely strange.

And the resistance of the Han army in the city was not fierce, basically not causing any obstruction to the Xiongnu and Xianbei attacking the city; all these made Guo Tu feel a bit uneasy.

"Two Chanyus, not a single important general of the Liangzhou Army has been captured so far. I always feel something is wrong." Guo Tu shook his head and said.

Yufuluo sneered: "Mr. Guo, those Liangzhou Army generals are probably already hiding. Among the Liangzhou Army, there is only Duan Yu; the names of the others have never been heard."

"By the way, I know there is also a warrior named Lu Bu, but it is said that this person is currently in the Western Regions."

When Duan Yu visited the Xiongnu back then, he went with Lu Bu.

That Lu Bu staged a one-against-ten show among the Xiongnu.

It left a deep impression on Yufuluo.

Yufuluo's words were a bit arrogant.

Guo Tu could not agree.

There was more than one powerful person in the Liangzhou Army besides Duan Yu.

Just when Guo Tu was pondering what was going on.

Tuoba Liwei's grandfather, Tuoba Lin, walked into the hall with two Xianbei soldiers, then bowed to Budugen and said: "Great Chanyu, there is a small city in the east of the city, with many Han troops inside. Our warriors are attacking, but it has not been broken yet."

Huh?

Hearing this news, Yufuluo and Budugen were both stunned.

The city had been broken for two hours, and there were still places that had not been broken?

The corpse of the Mayi County Magistrate was already cold.

"I know." Guo Tu suddenly stood up and said: "That should be the fortress of the Zhang clan in Mayi County."

"The Zhang clan of Mayi County is the number one powerful family in Mayi. Zhang Liao and Zhang Xun serve as generals under Duan Yu. I think... the Han army generals and others must be hiding there."

Guo Tu said, then looked at Yufuluo and Budugen: "Two Great Chanyus, if the important generals of the Liangzhou Army did not escape, then it is very likely that they are in the Zhang clan's fortress."

Budugen stood up, his eyes narrowed into a slit: "Immediately mobilize the troops and attack with all your might. I want to see how long they can persist after the city is broken."

Saying this, Budugen walked toward the outside of the hall.

Yufuluo also followed out with his crutch.

The Zhang clan's fortress, which covered more than ten acres, was now surrounded.

The high courtyard walls were full of Xiongnu and Xianbei soldiers.

Wave after wave of arrow rain pressed the Zhang clansmen standing on the fortress wall so they could not lift their heads.

But when the arrows stopped and the Xiongnu and Xianbei soldiers began to use ladders to climb the wall, the Zhang clansmen hiding behind the wall would immediately stand up and start to counterattack.

The courtyard wall was high, more than two zhang.

And it was wide enough on the wall to accommodate two or three people walking side by side.

Calling it a fortress, it was actually a small castle.

It was no wonder Tuoba Lin said this was a small city.

In the middle of the courtyard, there was a chair.

Zhang Liao's grandfather held a long spear instead of a crutch with one hand and sat in the middle of the courtyard.

Around him were Zhang clan young men holding torches.

All the women, old, and young of the Zhang clan had already been concentrated in the back house.

"After the gate is broken, first light a fire to burn the back house. The women of the Zhang clan must not be bullied by this group of beasts." Zhang Liao's grandfather's face was determined.

The Zhang clansmen beside Zhang Liao's grandfather, although they had an irrepressible nervous emotion in their eyes, none of them retreated.

On the wall, there were constantly corpses of Zhang clansmen falling, but immediately there were Zhang clan young men charging onto the wall to supplement combat power.

The heavy mansion gate, which was usually open, was being held tightly by dozens of people.

Outside the fortress.

Tuoba Liwei, full of desire, stared at the mansion gate of the Zhang clan.

Such a huge mansion must be owned by an extremely wealthy family.

Since that was the case, there must be mountains of gold and silver treasures and beautiful Han women inside this mansion.

Around Tuoba Liwei, the vast majority of Xiongnu and Xianbei people who were drawing bows and shooting arrows had thoughts similar to Tuoba Liwei's.

"Use warhorses, pull these two doors open for me!"

Tuoba Liwei looked at the two huge mansion gates with a fierce look.

The heavy mansion gate had no place to tie ropes, but iron nails could be chiseled and nailed onto it.

The Xiongnu and Xianbei soldiers who were using round logs to ram the gate put down the round logs in their hands and began to find things to nail onto the mansion gate.

More than a dozen warhorses were led to the gate of the Zhang clan's mansion, and ropes had already been tied to them.

Just at this time, Yufuluo, Budugen, Guo Tu, and others also arrived in front of the Zhang clan's fortress gate.

"Great Chanyu."