Chapter 440: Shi Jin's meritorious service

Wang Shichong always thought that outsiders could not be trusted, and he looked at the military power very strictly, and for some dangers, he also sent his own family members to sit in the town.

The Tiger Prison Pass is undoubtedly dangerous, so he sent Wang Wan to sit in the town, so that he could buy enough time for transporting grain into Beijing, but who would have expected that Wang Wan, who was entrusted with the important task by him, and Wang Xuanying, Wang Xuanshu, Wang Renze, Wang Tai and other promising people are completely different, the other side of this person's fierceness and cruelty is that he is as timid as a mouse, and his psychological endurance is not as good as that of an ordinary soldier, so when Wang Shichong gave the order to retreat, Wang Wan, who was afraid of the might of the Great Sui Army, did not even do a decent resistance, so he unceremoniously gave up the Tiger Prison Pass, led the army to run back to Luoyang in a hurry.

Such a dangerous pass fell into the hands of the Great Sui, which in turn affected Duan Da, who was carrying grain into Luoyang City in Luokou Cang.

Luokou warehouse is known as the first warehouse in the world, the circumference of the cangcheng is more than 20 miles, can hold more than 24 million stones of grain, although it has not been fully filled with grain, but in the heyday there are also 20 million stones of grain, one million sets of soldiers, it is the important symbol of the great Sui Dynasty to enrich the world.

This place was once occupied by Li Mi, who once planned to use it as the capital and establish his Great Wei Kingdom, so he added Xingluo City, which was surrounded by forty li, and expanded Luokoucang several times.

From the beginning of the Eastern Expedition to Goguryeo, Luokoucang transferred grain to the outside many times, and the grain was decreasing day by day, and Yang Tong cleared the warehouse and crossed the river on the day he went north, so the grain stored in Cangcheng was put in by Wang Shichong later. At present, only 2.8 million stones remain, guarded by 3,000 soldiers.

A few days ago, Wang Shichong made the decision to withdraw the Xingyang garrison and transport the grain back to Luoyang, and the Xingyang garrison has also withdrawn to Luoyang, and at the same time replaced the chief general of the Tiger Prison Pass, Wang Shichong ordered Duan Da to be the grain transporter, forcibly conscripted 150,000 people, and transported the grain from Luokoucang back to Luoyang.

Although 150,000 people were requisitioned, it was a great difficulty to transport all the 2.8 million stone grain back to Luoyang, and the waters of the Yellow River had become the world of the Great Sui Navy, so Wang Shichong's hundreds of small boats did not play a role at all, so they had to rely on mules and horses to transport, and for nine days and nights of transportation, only 500,000 stone were transported, and 2.3 million stone grain was transported.

At this time, more than 30 miles away from the Tiger Prison Pass, there was also news that the Sui army occupied the Tiger Prison Pass, which made Duan Da very anxious, he was not anxious that all the food could not be delivered, but that he knew that Wang Shichong was going to finish.

In the lobby of the Cangcheng official office, Duan Da paced back and forth with his hands in his hands, extremely anxious in his heart, where should he go?

Duan Da was nearly sixty years old, and he was deeply used during the period of Emperor Wen, and when he was a general under Yang Yong, he secretly befriended Yang Guang, and he secretly observed the movements of the crown prince Yang Yong, and secretly reported to Yang Su. As a result, Yang Yong was slandered everywhere inside and outside the court, and Yang Yong's sins could be heard every day. When Yang Guang succeeded to the throne, he was deeply reused. After the change of Jiangdu Palace, he united with Yuanwen to support Yang Qi, which was located in Luoyang, and was named Chen Guogong.

At that time, Yuan Wendu and others tried to get rid of Wang Shichong, and Duan Da secretly told Wang Shichong about it. Yang Qi had no choice but to capture Yuan Wen and send it to Wang Shichong, who killed him. Wang Shichong relied on him very much because of this. When Li Mi was defeated, Duan Da and others persuaded Yang Qi to add a gift of nine tin to Wang Shichong. hinted that Yang Dong gave the throne to Wang Shichong. After Wang Shichong succeeded to the throne, he appointed Duan Da as Situ. Now that Wang Shichong's building is about to fall, how can he Duan Da accompany Wang Shichong to the funeral.

He is the same as Yun Dingxing, both are official oils, after hearing that Yun Dingxing and Li Yuan have a good relationship, the two secretly contacted Li Shimin, but with the Sui Dynasty army crossing south, Duan Da was a little hesitant. He knew that Sui was strong and Tang was weak, so he should choose a good tree to live on, and no matter what, he should go to the big tree of Sui instead of the weak Li Tang.

Duan Da and Yang Tong worked together for a few years, but because Yang Tong had no future at that time, and Pei Shi said something from it, he did not hesitate to fall to Yang Qi and continued to play the role of a spy in a spy, but Yang Dong had a good character and never did anything out of the ordinary, so he couldn't play much of a role, so he and Yang Tong had no old grudges at all, so he was worried that he would be liquidated by Yang Dong if he took refuge in Yang Dong now. Because from the perspective of the policy of the Great Sui, a person like him with a head and a mouse at both ends and a particularly dirty foundation is a figure who must be eliminated.

Duan Da not only hated that he didn't know the treasure when he was holding the pearl and jade, but also complained that Yang Tong hid it too deeply, if he had revealed a little bit of a king's temperament at the beginning, he would not have turned a deaf ear because of Yang Qi, but when he thought of the current situation but had nothing to do, he didn't know what to do for a while?

At this moment, a personal soldier hurriedly came and reported in the hall: "Qiyu Situ, there are 100,000 Sui Dynasty elite horsemen from the Tiger Prison Pass. ”

Duan Da sat down on the couch and shouted, "100,000 cavalry? ”

"Exactly!" The pale-faced guard said in a trembling voice: "One hundred thousand, no less? ”

Duan Da lost his mind and said, "Where are you?" ”

The guard said miserably: "Less than ten miles." ”

Duan Da waved his hand in disappointment, "Let all the people enter the city and close the four gates!" ”

"Whoa!" The soldiers hurriedly retreated.

Duan Da's face is like earth, he is really afraid of something, there are only 3,000 soldiers in Xingluo City, which is more than 40 miles around the city, and there are less than 75 people in one mile, while the Sui army has more than 100,000 people, how can this be guarded?

His first thought was to run away with his guards, but now it was too late to even run, just because Luokoucang was located on the Loess Ridge in the northeast of Gong County. It is located in a hilly area, the situation is dangerous, the soil is hard and dry, and it is convenient for water transportation. From Luoshui upstream, you can reach the eastern capital Luoyang, go up against the Yellow River to reach Tongguan and Daxing in Shaanxi, go down the river to reach the mouth of the Yellow River, and communicate with the Grand Canal at the same time, and can also reach Jiangdu in the south and Zhuojun in the north. It is bordered by the Yellow River in the east, the Yellow River in the north, and the Luoshui in the west, the only land route is in the south, but there are ten miles away from the Cangcheng to the official road, if you run out of Cangcheng at this time, in terms of time, you just meet the Sui army at the fork in the road, as for the waterway, don't even think about it, whether it is the Yellow River or Luoshui, Bishui, it has long been the world of the Great Sui Wuya boat and the ship, and the boat in the Cangcheng is not enough for people to collide.

"Report!" At this moment, a soldier rushed over and said to Duan Da: "Situ, a large number of troops have been found outside the city, and they are rushing towards Xingluo City. ”

Duan Da's face changed, and he turned his head to look at the visitor: "Who are the soldiers and horses?" ”

"Look at the flag, it's the soldiers and horses of the Great Sui!" The general had a frightened look on his face, and the fame created by Da Sui in the past few years was too great.

"Quick, go to town!" Duan Da couldn't help but be surprised why the Sui army came so quickly.

"Report!" Just as Duan Da was about to go to the city to retreat from the enemy, a blood-stained warrior in the distance stumbled over, and let out a heart-rending scream from a distance: "Lord Situ, the big thing is not good, the north gate has been broken, and the Sui army has come in!" ”

"What?" Duan Da's complexion changed greatly, and he grabbed the soldier's collar, at this moment he could no longer take care of his image, the expression on his face was distorted and hideous, and he roared angrily: "Didn't you say that the Sui army is still ten miles away?" Where do people come from? ”

According to the news that came before, it would take at least a while for Yang Tong to call, and it was only a long time, but he was told that the city gate had been broken, and the defense of the city gate was fake?

"People came from the Yellow River." The guard said bitterly.

"What about you? What do you do? Why were the gates so easily breached? Duan Da roared.

"Qiyu Situ ......" the guards said astringently: "The soldiers defending the city all went to the south gate to help the battle, and there were not many defenders in the north city, and the people in the city suddenly killed a group of women, and the soldiers defending the city were shot clean by the crazy women before they could react, and they opened the city gate, and the Sui army had come to the city at this moment." ”

"Women?" Duan Da's heart sank little by little, others may think that these women who suddenly appeared are nothing, but Duan Da doesn't think so, he knows that when the Sui Dynasty was crazy about taking revenge on Li Mi, nearly sixty percent of the assassins were women. It is because all the princes say that Yang Tong has a terrifying team of female assassins in his hands, and it is the assassins trained by Yang Su's chief assassin, the Red Whisk Girl, all of whom are as beautiful as flowers and are all-encompassing.

These rumors are somewhat exaggerated, but it is undeniable that among the many princes, only Yang Tong has such a large number of female assassins in his hands, and the current situation also shows that Yang Dong has already arranged in Xingluo City, and this female assassin is only one of them, Duan Da does not know how many assassins there are among the more than 100,000 people.

"Quick, put on armor for me!" Duan Da, who was born in Guanlong, was good at riding and shooting, and in the early years when Yang Jian was not the emperor, he was Yang Jian's personal guard governor, but his ability to lead troops to fight was average. In the eighth year of the Great Cause, he was ordered by Yang Guang to go to Jizhou to quell the rebellion, but Duan Da was repeatedly defeated and suffered many casualties. So the thief army jokingly called him Grandma Duan. But Duan Da's fate was good, and he met Yang Shanhui, who was the county commander of Juan County at the time, and under his planning, Duan Da suddenly became fierce and defeated the thief army.

But now, everything is up to him.

He wears armor and helmets, holds a horse lance, and has a bit of a veteran style.

The five hundred parts behind him are also well-equipped elite cavalry. Hundreds of people rolled up a cloud of yellow dust and rushed to the north gate.

When they arrived, they saw a fierce general with a Mo knife rushing in, and behind them were a mighty Turkic slave army, all murderous, and the city was filled with blood, making these slave troops from the steppe like beasts smelling fish.

"Kill!" Seeing this, Duan Da didn't care about what to say, he shouted loudly, and rushed to the Sui army first, the city gate must not be lost!

A slave soldier came forward, but Duan Dama's lance flew over, and then relied on Jiajian, although he had countless arrows on his body, he also killed a large number of people.

"Hey, this old man is really not afraid of death!" is the head of the Sui generals, and it is Shi Jin who is in the limelight in the martial arts.

When he saw that he was going to be powerful, and there were hundreds of guards following, he knew that the other party was Duan Da of Luokou City, and this person was an official worship of Situ under Wang Shichong, but it was a great feat. At that moment, the corners of his mouth grinned, and without saying a word, he picked up the Mo knife and rushed towards Duan Da.

Duan Da also urged the mount, the horse galloped, the horse lance in his palm was pushed out flatly, the momentum was like a mountain, trying to stab the opponent to death with a mighty momentum, in his decades of conquest career, there were many powerful enemies, that is, he was overwhelmed by this style, and finally died under his horse lance.

"Look for death!" Shi Jin sneered, his eyes were full of contempt, the two war horses staggered in an instant, and he slammed the back of Duan Da's heart with a knife, directly knocking him off the horse's back.

Duan Da faced the loess with his back to the sky, and the horse lance flew a few feet away, he wanted to get up, but he fell down halfway up.

"Tie up!" Shi Jin was too lazy to take a look, wielding a knife to slash and kill Duan Da's troops who were desperate to save him, behind him, a large number of slave soldiers rushed up like a surging tide, colliding with Duan Da's soldiers and horses, although these slave soldiers who had not been ashore long ago were a little dizzy, but their morale was extremely high, on the other hand, the troops under Duan Da's tent, with the main general being captured alive, the morale suddenly dropped to a trough, the two fought, one by one the poignant blood splashed everywhere, and the sound of shouting and killing resounded.

Duan Da had been firmly tied, his helmet had fallen off, his face and body were covered with loess, he was extremely embarrassed, he stared at Shi Jin deadly, and hissed: "You used Shi Wansui's 'wrong horse to turn around and kill', who are you Shi Wansui?" ”

"Shi Wansui is the ancestor of the family." Shi Jin said proudly.

Duan Da took a deep breath and said, "I know your grandfather. ”

"So what?" Shi Jin said impatiently.

"Let me go!"

Shi Jin: "......"

Everyone: "......"

"I've seen shamelessness, I've never seen such shamelessness." Shi Jin had a disgusted expression on his face, met Duan Da's expectant gaze, and sneered: "Daydreaming." ”

He rode out, the Mo knife in his hand turned into a cold light, and where he passed, the enemy ghost who killed was crying wolf, and no one could stop him, killing all the way to a bloody road