The moon finally fell, and the dark night was dark, and the eyes were shining.

After marching for two hours, I finally arrived outside Gaoyou Mansion. At night, Gaoyou City seemed to have fallen into a deep sleep. It was very quiet everywhere, and only frogs in the fields kept shouting, and it was a quiet scene.

The horse's hooves were wrapped in cloth. When they walked, there was no sound. Only the horse's mouth was chewing gently and gasping for breath.

"Master Youcheng, Gaoyou Mansion is ahead." A vanguard soldier quietly reported.

Yuque looked at the top of the city wall, and there were only candlelights on the city wall. He saw some sentries standing guard in sporadic ways.

"Have you arrived by Lord Dashi?" Yu Que asked.

"Lord Dashi has arrived in the north of Gaoyou Mansion. After he attacked the city and attracted the attention of the defenders, he will attack from the north." The spy has returned from the north.

Yu Que nodded. This time, the troops on both sides cooperated very well. He changed the offensive plan halfway and sent people to issue new instructions to Dashitemuer. The lucky ones, or rather unlucky, were behind the schedule because of the collapse of the navy. Originally, Dashitemuer had to complete the plan to surround Gaoyou Mansion first. In that case, he would lose his suddenness. This time, both sides attacked together and must take down Gaoyou Mansion!

As the news that Wanzhetu was defeated had not spread yet, Yuque was a little optimistic. If the surprise troops worked tonight, they would take down Gaoyou Mansion and march eastward tomorrow. Taking advantage of the remaining power of the army, they could take back all the lost land. The key attack, full bloom, attack Gaoyou first, and then destroy others is Yuque's plan.

"Order, the first ten thousand team in front is ready to attack the city." Yu Que said: "The four ten thousand teams in the back are spread out to both sides, ready to provide cover for bows and arrows, be careful not to make any sound."

The front team of ten thousand people has already started to dismount. Similarly, Yuque's troops are all cavalry. If you want to attack the city, only infantry can complete it. The horses cannot go up to the city wall, nor can you climb up with your bare hands. Therefore, when Yuque came out this time, he had already brought the siege equipment in advance: a simple ladder.

Among all the siege equipment, the ladder is the simplest, and there are also two types of ladders: one is relatively short, which can be mounted on the moat, and the other is relatively long, which can be mounted on the other side's wall. Two types of ladders are used together. First put down the short ladder, cross the moat, and then build the long one and step up the head of the city.

The ladder was still in the baggage team behind, and it was probably half an hour before it could arrive. At that time, it was just the time when the soldiers guarding the city were sleeping the most. They quietly went up and probably had already stepped onto the top of the city. The soldiers guarding the city had not discovered it yet. In that case, they could take down Gaoyou Mansion at the lowest cost.

Yu Que didn't know that there were the same gaze on the high city wall, looking at them.

"Brother, will they really come?" Shi Wenbing asked quietly.

"I hope they won't come." Zhang Yang said. Those fireworks are really reluctant to use. During the day, if they attack, they will make full use of the advantages of the firearms equipped by their army. On this night, even if they use fireworks, the effect will be poor.

In order to prevent the Tartars from attacking, Zhang Yang also ordered things like door panels to be placed on the city wall. At that time, if there are Tartars' arrows that escape the net, they can also be blocked. However, this possibility is slim.

Zhang Yang focused on the two city walls in the north and south, and arranged two thousand-person teams each. It is expected that the Tartars on both sides of the north and south will choose to attack at the same time on both sides of the north and south, while on the east side, there is only one thousand-person team and another thousand-person team, as a reserve team, ready to rush to the places where they need it at any time.

To the south, it will contact the right chief of the province, which will be a tough battle. Zhang Yang personally led his men to guard it. To the north, Shi Nai'an, and to the east, he was guarded by Shi Xin. As for the west, it was Gaoyou Lake, with Bian Yuanheng's naval army patrolling. When necessary, Bian Yuanheng's naval army could also go ashore as a powerful reinforcement.

The moon had already gone down, and the city was pitch black. Even the people with the best eyesight could not see a hundred steps away. Zhang Yang only left a few people with good eyesight to monitor him, and the rest were hiding in the city wall, giving the enemy an illusion that he was unprepared.

Some of the soldiers were already snoring. Zhang Yang went over without hesitation, covered his mouth and kicked him.

"Everyone is more energetic. When you sleep at this time, you want to die?" Zhang Yang said in a low voice.

Suddenly, the soldier in charge of looking out whispered: "Brother, there is something going on."

Zhang Yang quietly poked his head out and saw several figures appearing on the dark open space. They quietly stepped forward, carrying short ladders in their hands.

How could such a small ladder be able to get on the top of the city? Zhang Yang was puzzled.

The soldiers became nervous.

"Pay attention to discipline, no orders are allowed to shoot." Zhang Yang whispered.

With those figures, many more figures walked out of the darkness. The front one was gradually approaching the moat. They quietly raised the short ladder, flipped the ladder over, and just landed it on the moat.

Under the city wall here, there is not a moat closely, but a few feet of open space. This ladder can be placed on both sides.

Only then did Zhang Yang understand that the Tartars were also very smart. They came up with such an idea, came to the moat and walked over the ladder steadily.

This method saves a lot of effort to fill the moat compared to ordinary warfare. However, the disadvantages are still very obvious. Once the ladder is broken, all the soldiers who have passed the moat will have no way to retreat.

In a blink of an eye, dozens of ladders were already built on the moat under the city wall.

As there was no order, the soldiers did not fight back.

Zhang Yang did not give an order. He was very curious about how the Tartars wanted to set up a ladder, because there was only a few feet of distance under the city wall. Even if you cross the moat, the ladder could not be set up. It was almost ninety degrees. The right way to fill the moat was to fill it up.

Seeing that the short ladders had been set up, Yu Que was delighted, and the next step was to go to the stage.

Hundreds of people carried dozens of cloud ladders and slowly came to the stage. The people in front carried the ladder over the moat under their feet and laid the ladder on the city wall. The people in the back slowly pushed the ladder forward, and the ladder rose up along the city wall. They were very skillful, but the ladder under their feet was a little soft and they had to keep a close eye on them.

A soldier stepped on the air and fell into the moat. He did not make any sound, nor did he flap, and he was drowned in the moat like that.

Yu Que was sweating for a while, fortunately, the rash soldier was not exposed. Although the sentry on the city wall had fallen asleep, the sound woke the other party up and everything was over.

Zhang Yang silently gave a hint of respect to the soldier. At the same time, he also felt that the battle would be very heroic, because the courage exuded by the soldier proved that the army in the province was still very combat-effective.

Everything was going on quietly, as if there was a silent movie.

The ladder was almost reaching the top of the city wall, and the lower half was still on the ladder of the moat. At this time, a miracle scene appeared: the soldiers took out a rope and tied the ladder legs together with the ladder below. In this way, although the ladder was hanging on the moat, it was also very stable.

Damn, do you think you are all performing acrobatics? Zhang Yang really wanted to pull the Tartars below and ask if they had trained in a place called Wuqiao.

Everything is ready, and Zhang Yang is ready to start.

When Yuque saw that the ladder to attack the city had been set up, the soldiers were all motivated, and this battle would be very relaxed.

The siege of soldiers has begun to move towards the city. At the front is the knife hand, climbing the cloud ladder, and scimitar is easier to carry than a spear.

Then there were the spearmen. They had left their bows and arrows next to the horses, and the task of covering them was under the responsibility of the other four cavalry teams. The cavalry were also slowly moving towards the city, preparing to enter the range of the bows and arrows. When they climbed up to the city, they would release the rain of arrows to cover their siege.

Suddenly, "Tun, Tong, Tong." A few loud noises, and a few white lights suddenly shot out from the top of the city. Immediately afterwards, a few beautiful "white flowers" bloomed in the sky, illuminating the entire position.

All the offensive troops were stunned at this moment.

Night attack is to have a sudden sex. Now, when someone has discovered it, what else can it be? Everyone has already backed down.

"Strong attack, attack the city!" Yu Que shouted loudly from behind.

The entire team started attacking again.

Yu Que knew that although he had been discovered and the other party was already prepared, the night sky could still greatly reduce the range of the opponent's musket, and pull the opponent down on the same starting line as him, so that he could capture Gaoyou Mansion. Otherwise, during the day, he could only approach the city wall after paying a huge price.

Now that we are approaching the city wall, the vanguard of troops can even run to the moat and prepare to climb the ladder.

"Go up, go up, rush up, kill them all!" Yu Que's voice echoed throughout the position.

Suddenly, all the soldiers began to yell, their morale was inspiring, and rushed over desperately.

Looking for death! Zhang Yang said lightly: "Shoot!"

The first to fire was nearly two thousand Tianque guns. One volley shot, knocking over a large number of Tartars that rushed over.

"Boom, boom." The scattered fireworks also began to shoot, and they were aiming at the Tartar cavalry.

There were more than a hundred scattered fireworks arranged on the top of the city. The scattered fireworks were Zhang Yang's secret weapon. This time, they were finally taken out, and the siege troops were shrouded in the rain of bullets.

The cavalry were charging forward, they were close to the range of the bow and arrow. At this time, the fireworks above their heads had been destroyed. They were delighted. Although the other party had this kind of lighting method, they could not maintain it for a long time. After the darkness came, they would not pose too much threat to themselves.

Suddenly, they felt a strange sound coming from their ears, whistling like raindrops, and it seemed that they were not.

A soldier suddenly raised his head, because of the light just now, his eyes were not used to such darkness for the time being, and only saw bright spots falling from the sky.

"Ah!" A miserable voice came from the cavalry crowd. They lined up in dense formations, trying to attack the city with the densest rain of arrows to cover the team's charge, but unexpectedly, they were favored by scattered fireworks.

The marbles fell into the cavalry like rain, and everywhere they went, there were corpses everywhere.

In the darkness, many cavalrymen did not know what happened to their companions, so they insisted and shot the arrows out.

Another firework exploded in the sky, and this time, they saw it clearly.

Many people have become, and they are not even considered corpses, but only parts of the corpse, and all parts of the corpse are scattered everywhere. What happened just now in the dark?

The fireworks darkened again, and the cavalry felt a sense of fear. They longed for light and did not want to be swallowed by some monster in the dark like this.

They pulled the bow again.

"Ding, Dang" Many bows and arrows flew from the top of the city, hitting the door panel above the head. Some of them flew in through the cracks in the door panel and shot some people. However, no one was willing to bandage the wound. As long as they could still shoot, they were pulling the trigger. Just now, with the light, they had seen the distribution of the crowd clearly. The crowd was so dense that they didn't need to aim too much. They just needed to know the range roughly and could shoot, and they would definitely knock down the other party.

In addition to the musketeers, the gunners were also firing continuously. However, the firing of the scattered fireworks was a little more troublesome than the Tianque gun, because it was a front load, and the launching medicine bag and projectile had to be stuffed into the front of the muzzle separately, and then the leads were ignited.

However, the power of the scattered fireworks is much more powerful than that of the Tianque gun. As long as it is fired once, a large number of enemies will fall down.

"Spikeman, throw the grenade!" Zhang Yang said.

Now, on the city, the only idle person is the spearman. Since he is idle, he is still idle. Zhang Yang has already prepared grenades for the spearman. What they need to do now is to open the back cover of the grenade, ignite the lead, and throw it out.

With the cover of the rain of arrows, soldiers have already begun to climb the ladder. Yu Que looked anxiously at the city wall in front. Even if a soldier goes up, he will win. Proving that his tactic is a firearm method to fight against the opponent.

"Boom, boom, boom." Countless grenades fell from the sky, not far from the landing, just beside the soldiers who were preparing to attack the city under the city.

The sound of explosions and violent air waves from a distance made even the soldiers on the top of the city feel, and the Tartars below were even more afflicted. Basically, there were no complete corpses around the explosion.

Moreover, the explosion continued to occur, and Zhang Yang prepared at least two boxes of grenades for each spearman. The only thing they needed to do was to pull it away, ignite it, and throw it out. Their firepower was even more fierce than the scattered fireworks.

With the explosion, many ladders were blown off, and the soldiers on it screamed and fell off the ladder.

The battle has entered a white-hot stage.

A Tartar suddenly jumped onto the top of the city. He picked up the scimitar on his mouth and rushed towards the nearest musketeer.

Several spears stabbed him and pierced him.

"Hurry up, put the fireworks again to see if there are any ladders for the Tartars." Zhang Yang said.

In the darkness, there was smoke from the Tianque gun shooting. I didn't see it just now, and there was a ladder coming up, which almost made the Tartars succeed.

The sky brightened again, and there were three or four ladders, which were covered with people like candied haws.

"Looking for death, spearman, hurry up and leave it to you." Zhang Yang said.

"Yes, brother." The spearman rushed over quickly, first using a grenade, and then using a spear to drive the Tartars down.

Zhang Yang felt a little embarrassed until now when this battle was fought. He was already ready and had the ability to stop the Tartars from outside the moat. However, because of the night, he almost suffered a loss without finding all the ladders of the Tartars.
To be continued...