Xiangfan is formed by connecting two cities, Xiangyang and Fancheng. The most important passage inside is a floating bridge built across the river.

In the eyes of ordinary people, this is obviously a bit shabby, because the load-bearing and carrying capacity of the floating bridge cannot be compared with the real stone bridge and wooden bridge, which has a certain impact on the exchanges between the two cities. But in fact, both the local government and the imperial court have a considerable recognition of this, because the existence of this floating bridge is more stable for Xiangfan.

If an accident occurs, no matter which city on one side is attacked, the two cities can quickly transport troops and supplies with pontoon bridges. It seems that the two cities are actually one city. But once a city really loses its opponent for some reason, the other side can quickly pull up the pontoon bridge connecting the two cities before the enemy rushes over to achieve the purpose of self-protection.

So even if the floating bridge will affect the convenience of the city, everyone agreed. At the same time, hundreds of officers and soldiers have been stationed at both ends of the floating bridge, guarding against possible changes at any time, especially now that there are frequent riots in the city, and the Luotian Sect’s rebels will emerge at any time. The soldiers guarding both ends of the floating bridge dare not slacken at all.

At this time, an official army slowly came to the near the floating bridge from Fancheng. The officer Zhang Yong, who was guarding the bridge, immediately looked over. After recognizing that Cai Zhixin, who had some friendship with him, he smiled and said hello with a little relaxed smile: "Why are you here to patrol the floating bridge today?"

Cai Zhixin also walked up with a smile and replied, "Of course it's what the above means. You don't know. Now the city is in a panic, so you have to be careful." As he said, the man had already walked past several soldiers and came to Zhang Yong, and it seemed that he had to explain something to him.

Zhang Yong did not doubt that he was. After all, the other party's identity was much higher than his. He was a member of the Cai clan of Fancheng. He had no chance to make friends with him on weekdays. So he subconsciously took a step closer and lowered his head slightly, wanting to hear what he had to explain.

Sure enough, when Cai Zhili came to him, he bent down slightly, held the knife with one hand, and said in a low voice: "I'm here to go to the top, I'm here..." The following words were both light and vague, which made Zhang Yong unable to hear clearly. He could only stretch his neck forward and asked: "What?"

"Kill you and grab the bridge!" When these four words were clearly heard, Zhang Yong was shocked and obviously could not keep up with the reaction. And just as he was stunned, Cai Zhixin's sword on his waist had been unsheathed, and without any stop, it had already slashed down quickly, and was slashing at his stretched neck.

Now it was like Zhang Yong put his head up and was chopped. With a sound, the blade had already penetrated into the back of his neck, and then came out from the front, cutting off his big head, rolling forward, with a hint of surprise and disbelief on his face. Then the blood splattered out while his body fell, splashing out, splashing on Cai Zhixin's head and body, and splashing on the faces of other guards beside him, making them stunned as if they were immobilized. After a while, they screamed, and realized that something was wrong. This was the enemy!

But then they realized that something was too late, because they were still stunned, the officers and soldiers who followed Cai Zhixin to the bridge head had seized the opportunity and rushed over fiercely. Their weapons were slammed into the body of the defenders who had not yet reacted, and they screamed and fell down.

This was another one-sided massacre. Although Cai Zhixin brought even fewer people, they were all prepared. Under the sneak attack, the defenders had almost no power to resist and were killed half of them in an instant. The others could only retreat in a panic in a scream.

At the same time, the Xiangyang defenders at the other end of the pontoon bridge were also shocked by the sudden killing. After a long time, they each exclaimed. Under the order of their chief general Fang Xian, they set up a team and wanted to cross the bridge.

But at this time, Cai Zhixin had already decisively ordered: "Broken Bridge!"

He did not want to continue chasing the remaining defenders who fled to the bridge, but he had already ordered people to disconnect the interface from the pontoon bridge. The people under him were prepared and did not hesitate when he received the order. He immediately rushed to the noose at the bridge. Several people held the winch wooden stall and pushed it hard, pulling the rope as thick as the arm on the pontoon bridge, allowing it to slowly tighten it, causing the pontoon bridge to squeak up and disconnecting the connection with the opposite bridge body.

This made it difficult for the Fancheng defenders who had just run along the bridge deck to the opposite side. Before they could even run from the bridge to the dozens of steps that belonged to the Fancheng floating bridge, they felt the bridge's body tremble, and then quickly lifted up, causing their bodies to fall down.

On that side, there were many enemies who were smiling and holding swords and guns waiting for them to fall. This made them full of despair, but they could only scream.

As for the Xiangyang defenders who had already rushed up, it was too late to reach this time. The rapidly lifted bridge body would become a huge shield blocking their eyes. Not to mention letting them pounce on the other side to support, they could no longer see what the next scene was.

"Hurry, go and pass the message to the prefect. The Luotian Sect's rebels colluded with the Cai family and launched a rebellion in Fancheng!" Fang Xian turned around and shouted in a hurry after being shocked. Although it was a little late, this deadly information had to be sent back to the city immediately so that the adults could come up with good solutions to deal with it early.

As the possibility of going to rescue was cut off, another shocking scream could not be heard at the floating bridge in Fancheng. Although their vision was blocked, they could clearly feel how terrible the killing was and how desperate the situation of Fancheng's robes was!

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In fact, it is not just the defenders on the floating bridge that have fallen into deep despair, but other places in Fancheng have also undergone despair at the same time.

The rebels who had already rushed to the streets rushed to several important warehouses in a very planned manner, and some of them even rushed to the garrison.

There were more than 200 people in the warehouse, but they were about to defend the enemy, but someone suddenly attacked the two officers in the middle of the team and assassinated the two leaders on the spot. Then someone from outside quickly climbed into the wall. After killing several people in a row, they finally put down their weapons and resisted under their urging threats.

As a result, in just half an hour, the arsenals, granaries and other important government warehouses fell into the hands of the rebels. As these warehouses were obtained, the rebels replaced them with sharper swords and guns, and put on thick armor, making their combat power stronger, thus gathering and rushing towards the garrison yamen that were still fighting desperately.

The garrison yamen is finally in sufficient force, and the buildings here are easy to defend but difficult to attack, so when they see the enemy suddenly rushing over, the defenders hurriedly set up a formation to defend.

It was just because the most elite group of troops had followed Shi Wenhai to support Ximen, so they had only a few dozen crossbowmen on hand and could not organize a dense rain of arrows to defeat the enemy. Moreover, when the people who were ordered to go to the inner hall to find the main generals Chen Tai and Shi Xuan found that the two main generals died and disappeared, the entire team was stunned in an instant.

No matter how brave and good the army is, it needs to be commanded by the commander of the general to exert its combat power. The defenders in Fancheng obviously have nothing to do with the elite soldiers. Now they have suddenly lost their backbone and are attacked by the enemy in a fierce manner. The morale of the army will be completely chaotic. The low-level officers don’t even know what decision they should make, so they can only shout desperately, let the soldiers stand by the gate and fight head-on with the enemy who climbed the wall and block the attack.

Just when the scattered defenders were about to collapse completely, the enemy's offensive suddenly stopped. But before they could be glad, a creepy sound of bowstrings suddenly sounded outside the door. In the blink of an eye, the sound of arrows breaking through the air came clearly, and they saw hundreds of arrows crossing the high wall like dark clouds covering the sky and shooting.

Suddenly, screams rang out in the first courtyard of the yamen.

Without any defense or the corresponding equipment, the thousands of officials who were guarding here could hardly even get the power to fight back. In an instant, more than a hundred people were shot and overturned to the ground.

Seeing this terrifying scene, the fighting spirit of the remaining people quickly disappeared and collapsed. Without hesitation, they turned their heads and fled back, no longer caring about guarding the gate.

There was no commander of the general, no geographical advantage to defend, and even weapons such as bows and crossbows were not as good as those of the rebels... At this time, the Fancheng official army had completely lost the will to fight again, and only wanted to save their lives.

After shooting three rounds of arrows and no longer hearing any screams inside, Pei Zhui, the rebel general outside the yamen, waved his hand and shouted: "Crash it away! Capture this yamen, Fancheng is ours!"

At that moment, a group of strong men rushed up with a huge bumping wood. Within a few bangs, they easily knocked open the gate of the garrison yamen that had no one blocked it, revealing a mess inside, with blood and corpses.

Pei Zhui and the others didn't even glance at the corpses, so they shouted decisively and rushed in with swords and guns. After rushing through the courtyard a few times, they saw many officials losing their weapons or climbing up the wall to escape, or hiding themselves under the table, which was really ugly.

A crazy murderous intent flashed in Pei Zhui's eyes, and he immediately rushed over and snatched over: "Kill! No one left!"

Suddenly, the sound of killing screams in the garrison yamen mixed up, corpses were everywhere and blood was rolling. These Fancheng defenders could not escape death after all.
Chapter completed!