Reality did not give the ninja even a second to think. Almost immediately after the bell rang, someone in the city started shouting.
"Hurry, hurry, the bell is ringing. There is something happening outside the city. Light the fire quickly and shout for help."
After this shout, several people on the city wall quickly followed suit and shouted, "Hurry up, there's something going on below the city wall."
Then, torches were seen lighting up on the city wall, and someone leaned out with a torch to shine down on the city wall.
He leaned out and was right above the head of the ninja who hit the bell.
"Baka!"
The Japanese pirates under the city cursed softly and hooked the wrist of the defender who leaned out. The hidden weapon tied to his wrist was activated, and a steel needle shot out and hit the forehead of the defender who was leaning out of the city wall to check the situation.
"ah... "
The defenders on the city wall screamed and fell down from the city wall.
When the defenders fell from the city, they were still holding torches in their hands, and when they landed, the torches illuminated the path of their fall.
The ninja who was the instigator on the city wall and the bunch of Japanese pirates like grasshoppers under him were all exposed.
All were exposed to the eyes of other defenders.
"Enemy attack, enemy attack, the Japanese pirates are climbing the city wall." The defenders on the city wall shouted hurriedly after seeing the group of Japanese pirates.
The surrounding defenders rushed over and shot their bows and arrows and stones at the Japanese pirates who had revealed their tracks.
Although their accuracy was not very good, they were numerous, and a large number of stones and arrows fell down.
The ninja is worthy of being a ninja. His skills are really amazing. He can climb on the city wall and move sideways to avoid arrows and stones. But the same thing applies, there are too many arrows and stones falling from the city wall.
After the ninja dodged several fatal attacks, he was finally hit by a big rock. He resisted for a while, but was hit by the second and third rocks. He fell off the city wall with a scream and turned into a pool of meat.
The group of Japanese pirates under him were smashed to death or shot to death by stones and arrows from the defenders long before he was crushed into a pulp. A few of them even thought of jumping off the city wall to escape, but they did not think about how high they were from the ground, and they fell half to death after jumping down. Before they could get up, they were smashed to death or shot to death by numerous stones and arrows.
Only the two Japanese pirates at the bottom, who were only five meters above the ground, saw that the situation was not right and slid down the rope directly. They managed to escape with their lives even though their palms were rubbed bloody by the rope.
The defenders also banged the alarm bell on the city wall hard, and the loud "bang bang bang" sounds resounded through the sky.
As soon as the monk prefect Zhu Ping'an heard someone shouting that the enemy was attacking, he rushed to this section of the city wall. The distance of three hundred meters was not far, and Zhu Ping'an ran all the way and soon arrived at the scene.
Prefect Shang was old and his legs were not very agile, so after Zhu Ping'an arrived, he was still chasing after him, panting.
"Report, sir, a group of Japanese pirates attempted to climb the city wall for a night attack, but they bumped into a bell hanging on the wall and exposed their whereabouts. Zhang Er was holding a torch to check down and was killed by the Japanese pirates' hidden weapons. We avenged Zhang Er. Only two of the Japanese pirates who climbed the wall escaped. The rest were all smashed to death or shot to death by us."
After Zhu Ping'an arrived at the scene, the surrounding defenders reported to him the situation of the Japanese pirates climbing over the wall and attacking at night.
"Quick, throw down a torch every three meters around you. There should be more than one place where the Japanese pirates climbed the wall to attack at night."
"Bows and arrows, muskets, stones, and wood troughs are all ready. Once you find any trace of the Japanese pirates, attack immediately!"
After hearing this, Zhu Ping'an quickly gave orders to everyone. How could the Japanese pirates climb over the wall to attack at night only through this place
Whoosh whoosh
Torches were thrown down one after another, falling freely, and beams of fire illuminated their falling paths.
In an instant, the other four Japanese pirate wall-climbing teams were exposed to the public under the light of torches.
The moment they saw the Japanese pirates, numerous stones, arrows, and bullets fell down, and the defenders also threw down ashes.
The Japanese pirates hanging in the air above the city wall were unable to move forward or backward and had no power to fight back. In the face of the flying ash, stones, feather arrows, and bullets, they could only scream and fall off the city wall, turning into a pool of meat paste.
Only the ninja at the top could hold on a little, using the hand and foot hooks to dodge or avoid one or two attacks. There was one ninja in particular who was extremely brave. After dodging several deadly stones and arrows, he used his hands and feet to rush towards Zhu Ping'an like a monkey, trying to capture the leader first.
However, he obviously overestimated himself, and was pierced through the body by the spear thrown by Liu Dadao before he had rushed halfway.
Liu Dadao used up almost all his strength when throwing the spear. After the spear pierced through the ninja's body, the remaining strength did not diminish, and he rushed the ninja down the city wall, and also pierced through an unlucky Japanese pirate below, nailing him under the city wall like a candied haws.
Just like the first team of pirates, these four groups of pirates also had only the lowest few pirates who were low to the ground. They slid to the ground with their palms rubbing their flesh and blood, and limped away into the night. With the cover of the night, they managed to escape with their lives.
However, they could only escape for a while, as Xu Hai and his men had already sharpened their knives and were waiting for them.
As early as when they lit fires and shouted warnings on the city walls, Xu Hai and others knew that tonight's night attack had failed.
This night attack failed, someone has to take the blame...
You are afraid of death and you deserted the battlefield. How can you escape responsibility for the failure of this night attack?! Then I will lend you your brains!
By the time Magistrate Shang arrived at the scene breathlessly, the night raid had already been settled.
There were many burning torches under the city wall, dimly illuminating the dead bodies of Japanese pirates under the wall.
Let Prefect Shang know that a real fight had just taken place.
"Zihou, is this all over? Will the Japanese pirates come again?!"
Prefect Shang looked at the corpses of the Japanese pirates lying all over the city wall and asked Zhu Ping'an breathlessly.
"Sir Shang, the Japanese pirates' night attack has ended. Just now, about 300 Japanese pirates tried to climb the wall from five places in this section of the city wall to launch a night attack. Fortunately, our arrangement worked. The pirates who climbed the wall hit the alarm and exposed their tracks. The soldiers rushed to risk their lives and wiped out these pirates. Only about ten pirates escaped."
Zhu Ping'an simply answered Prefect Shang's question.
"This night attack failed. The Japanese pirates will not come again. As I expected, they will withdraw tomorrow. Of course, to be on the safe side, we must continue with our arrangements before dusk, and we must not slack off in our patrols."
Finally, Zhu Ping'an emphasized that the arrangements for the evening must be adhered to and there must not be any slackness to avoid accidents.
"Yes, Zihou is right. You all listen carefully. Everything will be carried out according to Master Zhu's instructions."
Magistrate Shang repeated this to his officials and soldiers.
"Yes, sir."
After experiencing what happened today, all the officials and soldiers have already been convinced by Zhu Ping'an.