Wuguan is located in the northwest of Neixiang County 60 miles, is the must pass to enter Shangluo Road, but also the south of Guanzhong Xiongguan, Xisanguan, North Xiaoguan, Dongtong Pass, South Wuguan, which shows the importance of Wuguan's strategic position.

At this time, the Jin army was still on the south bank of the Yellow River, six or seven hundred miles away from Wuguan, and the entire Shannan East Road in the south and the Central Plains in the east were Zhu Zhu's territory.

There is no enemy within a radius of 600 miles around Wuguan, and for the defenders of Wuguan, it is necessary to guard against mountain bandits and thieves.

Although there are no enemies around, the rules of Wuguan are very strict, unless it is the gold medal of Zhu Zhu, the son of heaven, the city gate will not be opened at night.

This made the Jin army, which was good at night fighting, only able to act during the day.

In the early morning, it was deserted in front of Wuguan, less than ten days before the New Year, there were basically no business travelers on the official road, and there were fifty soldiers on duty at the north and south city gates.

At this time, fifty wagons came in the distance, and slowly went up the slope, and the defenders at the head of the city saw it and immediately shouted: "Brothers, there is a fat sheep coming!" ”

Dozens of soldiers poured out, and if it was a caravan, it would be a good time to extort a fortune.

At this time, Hu Tong urged Ma Yuan to step forward and said with a smile: "It's Wang Lvshuai!" I am the master of Neixiang Hu, and it is about to be the New Year, and my county gentleman asked me to send hundreds of fat pigs to reward the brothers! ”

Hu Tong helped count the supplies in Wuguan for half a month, and everyone in the customs knew him.

Although it was not a caravan, the soldiers still smiled, hugged their fists for the commander of the first brigade and said: "It's hard work, please go to the city to rest!" ”

Hu Tong waved his hand, "You drive the pig cart into the city!" ”

There were two young and sturdy offspring in each cart, followed by more than 20 sturdy young men who helped catch pigs, and more than 100 sturdy young men appeared at once, although the number seemed to be a little more, but everyone's attention was on the fat pigs, but they did not pay attention to the number of people.

At this time, Hu Tong said with a smile: "There are more than a dozen carts transporting vegetables and fruits behind, I'll urge them." ”

After saying that, he turned his horse's head and ran into the distance, and the cart carrying the pigs had blocked the city gate, and at this moment, the young man at the head shouted sharply: "Do it! ”

More than 100 big men attacked at the same time, they drew out the spears and knives on the cart, and killed the surrounding enemy troops, the defenders were caught off guard, and were instantly stabbed and cut down more than 20 people, and the rest of the soldiers in the city were so frightened that they turned around and ran, shouting: "The enemy is coming, the enemy is coming!" ”

At this moment, the dull sound of horses' hooves was heard in the distance, the ground was shaking, and ten thousand cavalry were killing from miles away.

The Jin army at the city gate has occupied the south city gate, they opened the cart, and there are countless enemy soldiers in the city to kill to seize the city gate, the young man led by the Jin army is Yang Xuanying, he can speak the words of the Nanyang accent, can fool the defenders.

Yang Xuanying brandished a spear, extremely brave, stabbed over more than a dozen people in a row, the enemy was so frightened that they retreated, and in a blink of an eye, the muffled thunder reached the ears, and the cavalry killed, led by five hundred cavalry instantly rushed into the city........

There were only 1,000 defenders in the city, and the armament was weak, and when the cavalry of the Jin army came in, hundreds of people, including the main general Hou Zhu, knew that the general situation had gone, and fled from the north gate in panic and fled to Shangzhou.

Yao Jin entered the city and ordered the banner of Wuguan to be replaced with the black dragon flag on a red background, which was the banner of Guo Song, which had never been changed from Hexi to Hedong.

Yao Jin came to the grain depot first, and although Hu Tong told him that there was enough food, Yao Jin still had to see it with his own eyes.

The warehouse occupies a large area, fully occupying half of the area of the buildings in the city, and the layout is almost the same as that of the Tianshi City in the Great Dou Tu Valley, half of the warehouses are stacked with grain and grass, and the rest are reservoirs, ice warehouses and weapons and materials warehouses, and a large amount of meat and wine are also piled up in the freezers.

Hu Tong looked at the account book and said with a smile: "It hasn't increased, it's still the same as when I left, 5,000 stone of grain, 10,000 quintals of forage, and 1,000 pairs of armor, bows and arrows." ”

At this time, Yao Jin noticed a strange phenomenon and asked, "There are no livestock here, why do you need so much forage?" ”

Hu Tong smiled slightly: "The general doesn't know, this is how many years to leave the way to make money, generally will forcibly sell forage to the caravans, and it is sold at a high price, in the name of providing supplies to the caravan, why is it forage, because the cost of forage is the cheapest, and in addition, it also sells ice in summer, basically all of them are businessless businesses, not only Wuguan, most of the passes are like this, all of them have a way to make money." ”

Yao Jin said happily: "Okay! Let's wait patiently for Zhu Jun's reaction. ”

He asked again: "Where is the nearest army to us?" Shangzhou? ”

Hu Tong shook his head, "There are only two thousand people in Shangzhou, and the nearest army to us is the Dengzhou garrison, in Nanyang, there are about ten thousand troops, and you can kill Wuguan in one day." ”

.........

Zhu Zhu's southern tour team has set off, a total of 80,000 troops, guarding Zhu Zhu's concubines, palace maids, eunuchs, civil and military officials and their families, as well as the convoy of transporting grain and property, a total of more than 100,000 people, 5,000 carts, mighty and 20 miles long.

Three days later, the team arrived at Shangluoshui, followed Shangluoshui all the way to the south, and then entered Shangzhou, the team walked relatively slowly, and could not walk dozens of miles a day, at this rate, it would take at least another seven to eight days to reach Wuguan.

Just turned around on Shangluo Road, just went south, suddenly rushed to the front, this cavalry is the former army spies, they brought the news of Shangzhou, not long after, the head of the cavalry captain was brought to Zhu Zhu, knelt down on one knee and said: "Your Majesty, bad news came from Wuguan, an army of unknown origin captured Wuguan. ”

"What?"

Zhu Zhu's eyes widened, he couldn't believe his ears, Wuguan was lost, this ..... What's going on?

He looked at Liu Sigu for help, Liu Sigu's face was also very ugly, he couldn't speak, and a group of ministers looked at each other, all of them were shocked.

"What the hell is going on?"

Zhu Zhu finally roared angrily, "You say! Where exactly did the enemy troops come from? ”

The lieutenant trembled with fright and said, "Indeed.... It is indeed inexplicable, and the brothers who escaped are also.... I don't know. ”

Liu Sigu sighed and said: "It can't be the Bashu Tang Army, it can only be Guo Song's army, which has cut off Tongguan Dao, and then cut off Wuguan Dao, there will be no one else except them." ”

"Where did they come from, they are by the Yellow River, how can they fly to Wuguan, the government along the way, why don't anyone report it?"

"Your Majesty, please calm down, I think that this should be a sneak attack, the defenders of Wuguan are only a thousand people, if you lose your vigilance, Wuguan is easy to lose, and now the top priority is to take Wuguan back."

Zhu Zhu forcibly calmed himself down, he gritted his teeth and asked, "How to take it?" Send an army to Wuguan to fight an outpost, will I slow down? ”

"Your Majesty, we don't have siege weapons, we can't attack Wuguan, Weichen remembers that there are a lot of siege ladders in the Dengzhou warehouse, which were left when attacking Xiangyang, and the Dengzhou garrison is only a day's journey away from Wuguan, so we might as well let them rush to Wuguan, if they can't take Wuguan, we can only think of another way."

"What do you mean by being different?" Zhu Jun asked.

Two words burst out from between Liu Sigu's teeth, "Negotiation!" ”

Zhu Jun was stunned for a moment, and he let out a long sigh and said, "I don't want to go down to Guo Song again. ”

He was annoyed in his heart, gritted his teeth and ordered: "Send an order to Cheng Jun, the envoy of Deng Rujiedu, asking him to immediately lead the army to recapture Wuguan!" ”

A pigeon fluttered up, circled twice in the air, and flew southeast.

"In the evening of the same day, Cheng Jun, the envoy of Deng Rujiedu stationed in Nanyang, received an order from Zhu Jun to recapture Wuguan within two days."

This order really caught Cheng Jun off guard, who occupied Wuguan? How many troops are there? He didn't know anything, so he was going to send troops to recapture Wuguan, Cheng Jun was also shocked, where did this army come from, if it was Guo Song's army, how could he know nothing when they passed through Dengzhou?

Changshi Wang Changxin said to Cheng Jun: "Since it is a sneak attack on Wuguan, then the opponent's troops should not be too much, at most more than 1,000 cavalry, riding through Dengzhou at night, so that we can explain why we don't know that the other party is crossing, if there are not many troops, it is indeed easy to conceal."

"The question is what do we do?"

Wang Changxin knew that the Jiedu envoy didn't want to send troops, so he persuaded him: "Zhu Zhu's temper makes you not ignorant, if we don't send troops, the consequences are indeed very serious, and it is recommended to bring enough siege weapons to kill Wuguan as soon as possible, no matter whether you can capture Wuguan or not, at least you have to make a show, so that Zhu Zhu has nothing to say." ”

Cheng Jun nodded, "You're right, now we are far from having the capital to disobey military orders, so we can only send troops!" ”

That night, Cheng Jun led 10,000 troops with 300 siege ladders to Wuguan.