Chapter 1510: Chapter 1511: An Jing, Indispensable
The person in charge of guarding the northern gate of the Chilin Imperial City is called Bi Xiangjing.
Bi Xiangjing is quite different from Gao Yufeng. Even if Liu Buli scolds, he couldn’t be bothered to respond, so Liu Buli didn’t waste words and instead directly ordered an attack on the city.
An Jing was somewhat surprised by Liu Buli’s decisiveness and boldness, to launch the attack directly like that.
When Bi Xiangjing heard the drums and the sounds of battle overwhelming, he knew Liu Buli was attacking the city, and quickly brought his men to the gate tower to command.
But he had no idea that going up to the city gate tower was exactly falling into Liu Buli’s trap.
As soon as Liu Buli saw Bi Xiangjing, he signaled retreat with a whistle and returned to the original position, stopping the attack.
Bi Xiangjing, with his heart already racing due to the siege, was so tense and serious, suddenly found that Liu Buli had stopped attacking, felt he was being toyed with, got so angry that he, who never cursed, began to swear: "Liu Buli, are you crazy? If you’re going to attack, do it, if not, then leave, attacking and not attacking like this, you—"
Unfortunately, before Bi Xiangjing finished cursing, he was shot dead by An Jing with a single shot.
An Jing fired three consecutive shots, killing the two commanders beside Bi Xiangjing as well. If Ye Zhi were beside An Jing at this moment, she would definitely praise her precise marksmanship.
The two commanders beside Bi Xiangjing were next only to Bi Xiangjing in rank. Including Bi Xiangjing, with all three dead, the rest of the defenders at the north gate were in complete disarray, each panic-stricken and at a loss on how to handle the enemy, resorting to haphazard defense.
Upon seeing Bi Xiangjing fall, Liu Buli decisively ordered another siege, this time a genuine attack.
An Jing, at the back of the army, only after the shooting of Bi Xiangjing and his two subordinates, slung the sniper rifle over her back again, then picked up a water pouch, took two hasty drinks, and drew the longsword at her waist to join in the attack on the city.
But An Jing hadn’t crossed the moat yet when she saw nearly a hundred masked men in black appearing to assist in the siege.
An Jing couldn’t help but ponder: Are these men in black coming from the south gate? Or are they another group?
In fact, men in black appeared at all four city gates: four hundred at the south gate where Ye Zhi was, and one hundred at each of the north, west, and east gates.
It’s just that An Jing only saw men in black appear at the south and north gates.
With the enemy like this, how could the city not fall? Plus with the assistance from such highly skilled men in black, it took a total of merely six hours for all four gates to be captured separately.
Originally, capturing even one city gate was considered a great victory in the eyes of Xiyun soldiers. Unexpectedly, the first attack captured all four city gates. When Qi Tengfei, Liu Buli, Qiao Shouye, and other generals saw An Jing, they all happily and curiously asked how she had killed those commanders.
The fact that they could capture all four city gates this time, An Jing’s contribution was indispensable.
Everyone had seen the sniper rifle on An Jing’s back, and some saw her aim and shoot at the enemy with it, so she didn’t keep it too secret, lying reasonably, pointed to the sniper rifle, and said: "This is a kind of hidden weapon, as long as you aim, you can kill enemies from very far away."
Everyone looked at the sniper rifle, clicking their tongues in amazement: "What a fine thing." They all had personally witnessed An Jing at the back of the army, how the commanders on the gate towers were killed just like that.
An Jing continued: "This hidden weapon was accidentally obtained from a strange person, there aren’t many of the cores inside it, now seven cores have been used, there’s not much left, once they’re used up, this thing will be useless, unable to kill enemies."