The western edge of Nanyang Basin, Nanxiang County, Xiyang County, is a low mountainous area in the northwest, a hilly area in the middle, a hill area in the southeast, and a hill and alluvial plain area in the southeast, which belongs to the south side of Funiu Mountain in the eastern section of the Qinling Mountains. When Yuwenkai built Luoyang, many building materials and landscape trees of Ziwei City originated from Nanxiang, Xishui and Danshui converge in the northeast of the county, trace Danshui straight up to Qinchuan in the west, and reach Hongnong against Xishui, convenient water transportation conditions are a major advantage of Nanxiang, in the era of peace, a large number of mountain goods and timber are transported to Daxing or Xiangyang and Luoyang on ships in Nanxiang, convenient water transportation resources, so that Guanzhong, Jingxiang, Central Plains, Jiangnan giant businessmen come directly to Yunfan and trace the river, and purchase high-quality goods here at a low price. It is also very convenient by land, only need to go out of the city for more than 20 cities, you can reach the official road in the county to Nanyang in the east and Wuguan in the west.

Although Nanxiang County is close to the northern part of Nanyang controlled by the Sui army, because the grain and grass of the Tang Army of Waiwuguan and Zhuyangguan have to go through Danshui and Xishui respectively, Nanxiang, where the two rivers meet, has become the most important material rotation center of the Tang Army on these two roads. So the Tang army built hundreds of warehouses at the confluence of the two rivers, stacked with countless grain materials, considering the needs of the direction of Nanyang, this warehouse city was built on the east bank, Li Xiaogong when he went east, it was from this to get supplies. In the past, only 1,000 troops were stationed here, but now that it is in a period of war, and the northern part of Nanyang has been occupied by the Great Sui, the army has directly increased tenfold, reaching 10,000 people.

In the afternoon of that day, an army of unknown origin appeared on a small road east of Nanxiang County, this army was all cavalry, about 10,000 people, they were burly and tall, with strong arms, and well-equipped, as if they were specially selected soldiers to build an army.

This army is known as the Son of Heaven pro-army of the Great Sui Xiaoguo Army, all the soldiers are selected from nearly ten legions, the ten legions themselves are composed of the elite of the Sui army, and they are the elite of the elite, all brave and good at fighting, not only good at cavalry and cavalry, but also very brave in hand-to-hand combat, they are equipped with the best armor and equipment of the Sui army, and their swords and war lances are all made of good iron.

War horses are also specially selected from the pasture of Pegasus County in Liaodong high-quality war horses, which can not only travel long distances, but also can rush at close range, this is after the end of the battle of Hongnong, Luo Shixin complained to Yang Tong, saying that it is useless in the Hequ horse, and he does not need to be killed by the Hequ horse, the Great Sui has several large horse sources, and the war horse is more, love will complain so much, and considering the actual situation, Yang Tong gave an order, and the combat Sui army collectively transferred to the Liaodong horse, and the Hequ war horse sent to Henan fell into the homes of ordinary people, and the Xiaoguo army and the Xuanjia army were ridden, It is the child of the Hequ horse and the Liaodong horse, and has the strengths of both parents.

The main general of this Xiaoguo army is naturally Luo Shixin, he is Feng Yang Shanhui with Xue Wanjun's battle plan, responsible for attacking the logistics of the Tang army, in order to weaken the combat capability of the Tang army, according to Xue Wanjun and various previous intelligence, Luo Shixin locked the first target in Nanxiang County, just because this is not only the logistics center of Zhuyang Pass, but also the supply of Waiwu Pass, once this place is destroyed, then the two Tang armies will be affected.

If Li Shimin is defeated, then the defenders of the Sui army outside the Wuguan will be hit hard from behind by the Sui army, and the 30,000 Tang army will become what kind of climate.

They drifted from Nanyang Ju, went west out of the barracks, and then went south along the Chaoshui Road of Nanyang, to the vicinity of Champion County, and then entered the intersection of Junyang County and Nanxiang County in Xiyang County, and then swaggered north. On the way, he met the Tang Army scout and asked, and he exhaled with a slap, and then regarded himself as Li Yuanji's new army.

The new army stepped on the Red Armor Army to become famous in a battle, becoming Li Tang's first strong force, arrogant, coupled with the similar style of equipment in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and it came from the south, the scouts also believed it, as for the sophisticated equipment, it was also quite reasonable in their opinion, Li Yuanji was the emperor's son, his pro-army, if the equipment was poor, there would be ghosts.

In this way, the group went to a valley three miles away from Danshui to rest, patiently waiting for news from the scouts.

Although it is not the first time to do such a thing, but Luo Shixin is not idle, he personally took a few scouts to stand on a hill, carefully observe the situation under the mountain, feel that the field of vision is not wide enough, and climb to the tree to watch, under his feet is the Danshui and Xishui confluence of the big river, continue to the south and then into the wide Han River, this section of the river is relatively wide, can sail about a thousand stone of big ships, the water surface is also very gentle, it is the construction of the dock port is excellent. On the other side of the river is Nanxiang County, which is the seat of the county, the county is large, the city wall is tall and strong, the circumference is more than 20 miles, according to the standards of the Great Sui Dynasty, it should be a densely populated county, but this is not the goal of Luo Shixin, so his eyes received the foot of the mountain again.

At the foot of the mountain is Luo Shixin's target - Tang Army Cangcheng, it is distributed on the east bank of the river, stretches for eight or nine miles, there are about sixty or seventy large warehouses built of wood, and the Tang Army camp guarding Yucang City is located in the easternmost part of the warehouse, from the layout point of view, this is to defend the Nanyang Sui army from the land attack hastily set up, it is about two miles away from the warehouse, and the wharf is located between the barracks and the warehouse, the three are in the shape of the character, the wharf is now full of thousand stone cargo ships, a cursory look, there are as many as fifty or sixty ships.

After observing for a moment, Luo Shixin returned to the valley where he rested.

Back in the valley, Luo Shixin asked the soldiers to invite Xin Fang'er, and the two discussed the battle strategy in front of a big rock, Luo Shixin drew a sketch and said to Xin Fang'er: "The focus of our attack this time is the warehouse of the Tang Army, I plan to burn all the warehouses with a fire, and don't let the ships go, this is different from Hongnong, we can't get these grains and grass, and it is cheap to stay in the pseudo-Tang." ”

"May I ask the general, how many troops does the Don Army have?" Xin Fang'er asked.

"Judging from the area occupied by the barracks, there are about 10,000 people?"

"Will there be a garrison in the county seat too?"

Luo Shixin shook his head, "The warehouse is related to the supply of the two armies, if it is lost, it will be two turbulence, the two armies will be in chaos Zhuyang Pass, Waiwu Pass These two portals will not be broken, and then the entire Xiyang will be lost, plus the main force of our army is close to Nanyang, so the warehouse is the most important place in Nanxiang County, relatively speaking, the county has no strategic value, but I see that there is a lot of flat land around the barracks, and it is easy for the barracks to expand, but they don't, so I conclude that there is no army in the county, even if there is, I'm afraid it's also a local army that can't make a climate. ”

Luo Shixin's analysis convinced Xin Fang'er, and said with a smile: "In the opinion of the general, how should we fight this battle?" ”

Luo Shixin's finger focused on the military camp on the map, "It's very simple, as long as this army is killed, the warehouse and dock are lambs for our army to slaughter." ”

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Nanxiang County is rich in wood, the Tang army took local materials, built more than 70 large warehouses with wood, surrounded by fences, the warehouse is full of grain and grass and all kinds of military supplies, this warehouse is the most important transit station of the Tang Army at present, the defense is very tight, 10,000 soldiers are divided into four squads, day and night to guard the safety of the warehouse, a team of soldiers can be seen everywhere, even if the people who carry the grain also have soldiers specially guarded, not only are not allowed to bring in a sharp weapon, even the fire that can start a fire is not allowed to be brought into the warehouse, To the south of the fence is the gate of the warehouse, where more than 1,000 soldiers are stationed, and all the people who enter the warehouse must be strictly searched by them.

As usual, the 1st Brigade of Tang soldiers was patrolling along the fence to the east, which was not only close to the mountains, but also the focus of the defense of the Sui army in the direction of Nanyang, with not only a detachment of 1,000 people patrolling, but also four guard towers, on which the soldiers took turns to observe the situation.

Just as the patrol was about to reach Tower No. 1, a cold arrow suddenly shot from the hill and hit the sentry in the throat, and the sentry rolled down from the tower with his throat in his throat.

The sound of falling to the ground alarmed the soldiers of the nearby patrol, they pulled out their knives and ran towards the sentry tower, just when they were dozens of steps away from the sentry tower, countless arrows were shot from the cracks in the fence, the blue arrows were glowing with poisonous light, only to hear the sound of a bowstring, the whole brigade of soldiers let out a wail, and fell to the ground with arrows, and the Tang soldiers behind were so frightened that they turned around and fled, but they couldn't escape dozens of steps, and a poisonous arrow shot down most of the running soldiers again, and only a few people ran away.

"There is an enemy!"

The soldiers ran wildly and shouted with all their might: "Someone has come in!" ”

At this time, the guard tower sounded the alarm, and the 4,000 Tang soldiers in the warehouse ran from all directions to the place where the accident occurred.

"Boom!"

The barracks were pulled down by the Sui army's noose, and a gap of ten zhang wide appeared, and two thousand Sui cavalry led by Xin Fang'er entered the warehouse, and at this time, Tang soldiers killed from all directions.

"Formation!"

With Xin Fang'er's order, the cavalry quickly became ten squads, each team of two hundred people, each soldier held a round shield and a war lance, urging the horse to kill in four directions, the soldiers of the Xiaoguo Army were extremely brave, they were fifty people as a team, with tacit understanding, fully exerted the advantage of the cavalry, and reversed the situation in a moment, killing the four thousand Tang Army soldiers all over the place, and fled in embarrassment.

"Burn it all to Lao Tzu!"

At this time, Xin Fang'er lit a torch and threw it into a forage warehouse, and the soldiers followed suit, and soon more than thirty warehouses were set on fire.

The two thousand cavalry joined forces in one place, turned their horses' heads and went to the camp gate.

The alarm bell in the warehouse and the billowing smoke alarmed the barracks two miles away, coincidentally it was Zhang Liang who commanded the army, he was asked to go back by Li Shimin, or obtained the task of sticking to the grain and grass, this time he learned the lesson of the Luoshui battalion, and put all the troops into the cangcheng, Zhang Liang was having lunch at this time, and suddenly heard the alarm bell in the distance, so he put down the dishes and chopsticks and walked out of the big tent, and a soldier hurriedly reported: "General, there is an accident in the warehouse." ”

Zhang Liang was taken aback and shouted: "The whole army is assembled!" ”

At this time, there was already billowing smoke in Cangcheng in the distance, Zhang Liang was so anxious that he led five thousand to rush out of the camp and rush towards the warehouse two miles away.

There are 300,000 stone grains, 100,000 loads of forage and 100,000 sets of winter clothes stored in Cangcheng, which are ready to be transported to Zhuyang Pass and Waiwu Pass.

The mountains on the east bank of Danshui are round, so that there is a large open space at the north and south ends, but in the middle, the protruding mountains are pushed to the line along the river, and the banks of this expedition are cut into the shape of gourds that are wide at two ends and slender in the middle.

Due to the low terrain in the middle part, which is convenient for ships to dock, the Tang army built a wharf more than two miles long here, and dozens of large ships moored were the thousand-stone fleet that had just sailed from Xiangyang, and had not yet unloaded grain and grass materials.

The boatman was not in the ship at this time, but ran to the county town on the other side to squander, and waited until the people unloaded the supplies and left tomorrow, which allowed the Xiaoguo army to seize the gap in the attack.

Zhang Liang took the lead and led 5,000 soldiers to gallop along the trail, which was a wharf to the west and a gloomy mountain forest on the other side, which was dark even during the day.

There was still a mile or so away from the warehouse, and there were faint shouts and screams, Zhang Liang was startled, tightened the reins, and the war horse immediately slowed down.

"Puff ......"

At this moment, there was a sound of crossbow arrows in the mountains and forests, and the dense arrows fell to the ground one after another with the arrows of the Tang army, and the screams suddenly rang out, the main general Zhang Liang was not as lucky as last time, Zhang Liang, who was riding a war horse, became the target of the public, hundreds of arrows shot at him to greet him, and more than 100 arrows were hit on his body, and the whole person fell from the horse like a hedgehog, following in the footsteps of Qiu Xinggong.

Luo Shixin, who was ambushed here, roared, "Kill out!" ”

Eight thousand Xiaoguo troops rushed out of the mountains and forests, instantly breaking the Tang army into several sections, and the Xiaoguo army was like a tiger descending the mountain, wielding a war lance to kill the chaotic Tang soldiers.

The smoke from Cangcheng alarmed the county seat on the other side, but there were only hundreds of local soldiers guarding the city in the county, and they were so frightened that they closed the city gates, and the boatmen who bought local goods in the city and tried to bring them to Xiangyang to make a fortune heard the news, and ran up to the city to look at the other side, but saw that the warehouse community had been shrouded in smoke and fire, and the smoke covered the entire sky, and even the mountains and forests were affected and began to burn, and the military camps in the southeast direction were soon also ablaze.

Obviously, the barracks had also been destroyed, as the fighting between the two sides was no longer visible.

At this time, a boatman pointed to the big boat and shouted: "Look, someone is on the pier!" ”

In fact, there was no need for him to remind them, many boatmen saw hundreds of horsemen with torches thrown at the big ship, and the hearts of all the boatmen from Xiangyang sank into the abyss at once, they knew that the enemy cavalry was preparing to burn the ship.

Under the watchful eyes of the crew, dozens of large ships caught fire one after another in less than a moment, and the fire grew bigger and bigger, and was soon engulfed

The cavalry who set the fire was so bold that they waited until the ship slowly sank, and then they rushed up the hill and gradually disappeared from everyone's sight.

"The Sui army is ready to kill, hurry up! Man your posts! Prepare to defend the city. ”

At this time, a terrible sound shook people's eardrums, and I saw the county Cheng ascend to the head of the city, commanding the local army in a hoarse voice.

"You will also guard the city with me. Otherwise, they all have to die. ”

"Good, good! Weapons! ”

"Give me armor."

The Sui army was seriously demonized by Li Tang officials, and these Xiangyang crew members were also afraid when they heard this, and they threw away the mountain goods in their hands one after another, cooperating with the command of the county Cheng.

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