The early morning market had already opened.
Voices calling out were heard everywhere.
In a large mansion in the southern part of the city, this was the residence of Tuoba Hong, the local garrison Commander-in-Chief.
Tuoba Hong was also one of the few vassal kings in Jin Xia with military power, and Gansha City was his assigned fiefdom.
Although his strength was not strong, only Fifth Grade, he was the brother of the Great Khan Tuoba Hui, thus he was allocated to the populous Gansha City, with a population over one hundred thousand.
At this time, he was still asleep, holding his concubine in bed.
But at this moment, urgent shouts came from outside his room.
"Report—Report—"
Seeing no response from inside the house, they immediately started knocking on the door.
"Who is it, do you have a death wish?"
Tuoba Hong was startled awake, and he was in a bad mood from being awakened.
"Report—Prince, something’s wrong, ten miles south, a unit of cavalry has been spotted, wearing Song... Wei Army armor, the number is unknown, they are rapidly approaching Gansha City..."
For the recently established Great Wei, the Jin Xia soldiers still preferred to call it the Great Song.
"What?"
Tuoba Hong’s eyelids twitched fiercely, and he sat up.
"Wei Army armor?"
"Ten miles? Is Tuoba Zhong at Haiyan Pass eating shit? How did he let the Wei Army in? Where are the sentries, are the sentries all blind..."
Tuoba Hong cursed as he got out of bed, put on his shoes, threw on a robe, fastened his belt, and as he opened the door to walk outside, he instructed the soldier who brought the message: "Send orders to Yin Chuan and Chishi Ridge to rapidly send troops for reinforcement, close the city gates, all soldiers and horses in the city, climb the walls to defend at all costs until reinforcements arrive."
Having said that, Tuoba Hong spat fiercely on the ground: "Damn it."
However, in fact, without Tuoba Hong issuing orders, the city’s generals had already gone out to prepare for battle.
After all, with a distance of ten miles, if the cavalry was fast, it wouldn’t even take two quarter-hours, and if they were a bit slow, they would already be entering the city.
After Tuoba Hong finished speaking, he walked towards the South Gate.
And at this moment, the South Gate had not yet been closed.
As mentioned earlier, today was Gansha City’s once-a-month large market.
Many merchants from nearby came over, and because they were transporting goods, there were ox carts, horse-drawn carriages, donkey carts, and townspeople attending the market, slowly entering in an orderly fashion, it normally wouldn’t be a problem.
But upon hearing that the Wei Army was attacking and would soon arrive, in their panic, the merchants and townspeople rushed into the city in a disorderly manner, blocking the city gates.
When Tuoba Hong came over and saw this scene, his eyelids twitched: "What are you all standing around for? Push them out, push them out, quickly close the city gate."
After speaking, Tuoba Hong quickly ascended the city wall to give orders.
The defense on the city wall was already prepared, the Deputy General, even stronger than Tuoba Hong, was a Fourth-Grade Martial Artist, and upon seeing Tuoba Hong arriving, quickly handed the Thousand-Mile Mirror to him and reported:
"Prince, the number appears not to be large, no more than ten thousand, and they are not carrying cloud ladders or siege vehicles, although I do not understand how they got here, as long as the city gate is closed, there is no way they can break in." The Deputy General said.
Although Gansha City was nothing compared to Haiyan Pass, it was still a major city with strong defenses.
Given the opponent’s few numbers and light equipment, attempting a siege was simply wishful thinking.
At this time, wails and panicked shouts erupted at the city gate.
The garrison of Gansha City had driven the merchants and townspeople blocking the gate out, and surely this process could not do without bloodshed and injury.
The city gate was now closed.
The sound of chains and mechanisms echoed, and the drawbridge by the moat was being raised.
At that moment, the Wei Army cavalry had already reached the moat, and Tuoba Hong hastily ordered arrows to be fired for suppression.
But what happened next almost popped Tuoba Hong’s eyeballs out in shock.
A Wei Army commander leapt from his horse, landed heavily, and with a single stride, crossed the over-three-zhang-wide moat, then leapt again, drawing the straight saber from his waist, cutting fiercely at the drawbridge chains, forcefully bringing the raised drawbridge down.
Moreover, their arrows hadn’t even touched a hair of the opponent.
"Upper-Grade Martial Artist, Prince, they have an Upper-Grade Martial Artist..." the Deputy General exclaimed in shock.
Tuoba Hong had no time to respond to the Deputy General, his mouth already wide open.
Because at that moment, that Wei Army commander was forming a small purple sun overhead.
All arrows shot towards that Wei Army commander were incinerated to ashes by the purple sun.
In the next moment, that Wei Army commander pointed in the direction of the city gate.
The gigantic purple sun smashed directly onto the city gate.
"Boom!"
A deafening explosion erupted under Tuoba Hong and the others’ feet, and Tuoba Hong felt his head spinning, the entire city wall shaking violently, making it difficult to stand, his ears ringing and unable to hear outside sounds.
Under his feet, the city gate had been blasted open with a large gap, flames soaring to the sky, and even the city walls on both sides of the gate had been blown away in a large chunk, as for the Jin Xia civilians outside, they turned into nothing more than charred corpses on the ground.
Those still alive witnessed this and fainted in terror.
"Charge, into the city!"
Nalan Yiren, on the opposite side of the moat, saw this and immediately gave orders, then charged forward, leading the charge.
"Attack!"
"The gate is broken—"
Despite having rushed all night, the Wei soldiers didn’t feel tired at all, as if injected with adrenaline, surged forward.
Tuoba Hong had just gathered his senses only to find the Wei soldiers already in the city, his face immediately ashen with despair.
There weren’t many soldiers in the city, whereas the Wei soldiers were led by an Upper-Grade Martial Artist, it was evident that with their entrance into the city, defending was impossible.
Inside the city, the military and citizens were in chaos, the South City Gate resonating with battle cries.
Chen Mo, upon entering the city, led over a dozen Imperial Guards charging onto the city wall.
With the system’s scan, Chen Mo directly charged at the strongest enemy Deputy General, assuming him to be the main general of course.
The Deputy General of Gansha City was unaware of this, as he stood with Tuoba Hong, witnessing this scene, thinking the opponent was targeting Tuoba Hong, exclaimed in panic: "Prince, quickly run, I will hold them off."
"Attack!"
The Jin Xia garrison on the wall, showing no fear of death, charged at Chen Mo and his group.
Tuoba Hong, true to command, under the guard of his personal soldiers, fled towards the other side of the city wall.
"Prince?"
Chen Mo raised his eyebrows, cutting through dozens of people as he charged straight up.
"Hold..."
The Deputy General, seeing this, attempted to engage Chen Mo in a few rounds, but barely stepped forward and uttered half a word before being cleaved in two from top to bottom by Chen Mo’s strike.
Such a bloody scene terrified the remaining Jin Xia garrison on the wall, none dared to advance.
Chen Mo took a step forward, and they took a step back.
Chen Mo ignored them.
He picked up a longbow smeared with blood from the ground, retrieved a feathered arrow from a quiver on a nearby corpse.
Chen Mo bent the bow and nocked the arrow, aiming at Tuoba Hong, who had descended the city wall and was fleeing into the city.
With a simple aim, he released it with his fingers.
"Whoosh!"
The arrow sliced through the air, its tail feathers emitting a sharp whistle.
With a "thud", Tuoba Hong, who had just descended the city wall and not run far, fell to the ground, a feathered arrow piercing his back of the head.
The personal soldiers guarding Tuoba Hong, witnessing this, looked at each other.
Chen Mo set down the longbow, looking at the similarly hesitant and fearful Jin Xia garrison before him, wiped the fresh blood from his face, and shouted angrily with his saber:
"The Emperor of Da Wei is here! Your Prince is dead, surrender quickly or face death without mercy!"
"Attack!"
"Attack!"
"Attack!"
Even the Imperial Guards behind Chen Mo showed no fear, shouting fiercely.
"Clang..."
Someone dropped their weapon, lacking the fighting spirit of the Haiyan Pass garrison, and once someone led, the remaining garrison on the wall followed, laying down their weapons and surrendering.
After confiscating their weapons and armor, Chen Mo led his troops to the other three gates.
Seizing all four city gates in the quickest time, Chen Mo ordered Gansha City sealed off, with troops resting on the spot, resupplying, and clearing out the remaining resisting Jin Xia army within the city.
Thus, the night raid from last night finally came to a close.