In the thick night, the mighty Sui fleet went north along the ditch, the target was directly aimed at Jiangyang Cangcheng, and the city wall of Jiangyang Cangcheng could be seen from the boat, and the torches of the Sui army surrounding Cangcheng were seen from afar, like fireflies.

At this moment, Yang Tong, Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui and others on the bow of the ship unexpectedly found that there were five thick smoke rising into the sky on the mountain near Jiangyang Cangcheng, and a sound of surprise sounded from the lower floor, no one expected that the warning beacon fire of the Wei army was actually set up on the mountain.

"People are not as good as heaven, and the warning beacon fire in Jiangyang Cangcheng is actually set up outside the city." Fang Xuanling shook his head and sighed: "The beacon fire is lit here, and it won't be long before the whole county can be seen, and the plan to conquer Jiangdu City by surprise will not be executed." ”

As Fang Xuanling expected, as soon as the words fell, I saw that thick smoke also appeared in Jiangyang County and the nearby mountains, and the beacons were lit one after another, and the smoke had also appeared in Hailing County in the southeast.

"Does Xuan Ling think this beacon fire is meaningful?" Du Ruhui on the side suddenly said.

Fang Xuanling shook his head and said, "It's meaningless." ”

Yang Tong smiled: "If Shan Xiongxin hadn't lost his troops, these beacons could indeed cause us trouble, but he was too busy to take care of himself, how could there be soldiers to help?" Shan Xiongxin saw the beacon smoke, and Du Fuwei could also see it, so we didn't need to inform him. ”

The crowd laughed.

With the fall of Jiangyang Cangcheng, how can the 10,000 defenders of Jiangdu City play any role? Although Shan Xiongxin has scraped together an army, it is far inferior to the Sui army in terms of number and combat power, as long as he sends a cavalry to the west, he can give him a knife from behind, and when Du Fuwei enters, the Sui army in Jiangdu has more than 130,000 people, even if Li Mi rushes back from Huainan, it will not play the slightest role.

"General Xue!"

"The end will be." Xue Wanche hurriedly stepped forward to obey the order.

"When we get off the boat, you quickly gather 20,000 Xiaoguo, and kill Quanjiao as soon as dawn, if Shan Xiongxin rushes to help, he will be annihilated halfway; If he is as stable as Mount Tai, you will cooperate with General Du to take Quanjiao County and open up the connection between Liyang and Jiangdu. All in all, no matter what, the Wei army led by Shan Xiongxin must be annihilated in Jiangdu. If Shan Xiongxin is willing to surrender, or can be easily captured, he will be escorted to me. If he is stubborn and stubborn to the end, there will be no forgiveness for killing. ”

It is true that Yang Tong likes famous generals, but it is not his style to raise tigers, he is by no means like Cao Cao, because he loves famous generals and let Guan Yu and Zhao Yun leave safely. If Shan Xiongxin insists on not complying, Yang Tong will definitely not let him leave easily, although the famous general is good, but since you can't be used by me, what good is it to stay?

"The last general obeys!" Xue Wanche bowed down and answered.

While speaking, the Qilin ship slowly docked on the dock of Cangcheng in Jiangyang, where the flames were soaring, and the Xiaoguo army that had returned from destroying the enemy was under martial law at all levels. When Yang Tong stepped on the field, Yin Mingyue, Su Dingfang, and Niu Jinda, the three main generals, stepped forward and bowed down to plead guilty: "The last general did not find the beacon and failed to extinguish the beacon fire in time, so that the whereabouts of our army were exposed, please punish the saint." ”

"Li Mi regards Jiangyang Cangcheng as the root of his life, and carefully set up the beacon on the mountain outside the city, it is normal if he doesn't find it, you don't have to blame yourself." Yang Tong helped the three of them one by one, looked at Yin Mingyue, who had made the first contribution, and said with a smile: "This time I completely captured Jiangyang Cangcheng, our army will have no worries about food, you have made a great contribution, and I have my own reward." ”

"I ...... The last general is grateful to His Majesty. Yin Mingyue lowered her long eyelashes, and a sense of cowardice flew on her pretty face in the firelight. After Yin Mingyue finished speaking, she stood behind Yang Tong, this was her duty, and everyone was accustomed to it.

In addition to the relevant people in Luoyang, only Yang Qinfang knows about their current relationship, which is also deliberately done by Yang Tong for the sake of Yin Mingyue's reputation.

Yang Tong asked Xiang Niu Jinda: "Old Niu, how is the battle situation in Cangcheng?" ”

Niu Jinda smiled: "Holy Lord, the war inside is over. Presumably, Li Mi is very concerned about Cangcheng, and the defenders are all die-hards, and they resist stubbornly and do not surrender. The last general and others had no choice but to annihilate them all. Our army came prepared, with the advantage of a strong crossbow, but it paid more than 100 casualties. ”

"What about you?"

"There is no army in Jiangyang County, as soon as the city gate is opened, the last general will enter, and there will be no casualties." Su Dingfang said with a smile.

"Not bad." Tonight's results made Yang Tong quite satisfied.

Niu Jinda arched his hand and said, "Do you want to enter the city to inspect?" ”

Yang Tong nodded and said, "Let's go in and have a look." ”

Everyone readily agreed, and Fang Xuanling smiled: "Jiangyang Cangcheng is closely related to our army's battle plan, and after reading it, I also have a number in my heart." ”

Lixian Arrow also got off the boat, and walked to Yang Tong's side, and Yang Tong got on his horse. With the expedition of civil and military forces, he went to Cangcheng.

Cangcheng is a logistics center with soldiers and no people, and now it has been completely killed, the soldiers of the Sui army are cleaning up the battlefield and cleaning up the dead ends, and Li Mi's lifeline is completely in the hands of Yang Dong.

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Jiangdu is Yangzhou, located in the west of the ditch, north of the Yangtze River, it has an extremely important position in the Great Sui Dynasty that ended the confrontation between the north and the south for hundreds of years, it is not only the frontier position of the two emperors of civil and military affairs with their backs to the north and the south controlling the south, but also the strategic hub of communication between the north and the south. After Yang Guang destroyed Chen, he was ordered by Emperor Wen to pass through the south and lived here for ten years, and Jiangdu also ushered in the most important development period in history because of the attention of two generations of emperors. Because he has lived in Jiangdu for too long, Yang Guang regards it as his second hometown, and when Guanzhong, who gave birth to him, becomes no longer reliable, he turns to Jiangdu, which haunts his dreams.

Jiangdu City and Jiangyang Cang are only more than 30 miles away, and they are connected with each other by more than 20 beacons, and the beacon smoke on the edge of Jiangyang Cangcheng is lit for less than a moment or so, and Jiangdu City knows that something happened to Cangcheng.

After dawn, the gate of Jiangdu City was closed, and all the 10,000 troops left behind went to the city for defense. Overnight, news spread throughout the city, and the whole city fell into a state of panic, with every house closed, all the shops not opening for business, and the straight streets deserted, with not a single pedestrian in sight.

On the upper floor of Nancheng City, Zhang Tongren frowned, looking at the direction of Jiangyang in the southwest with anxiety, and the ignition of the beacon fire meant that Jiangyang Cang was attacked by hostile forces at night. However, because Jiangyang County has been under martial law by the Sui army, there has been no news so far, and Zhang Tongren, who has lost the source of information, immediately became blind, he has no idea who attacked Jiangyangcang, let alone whether Jiangyangcang has fallen.

After thinking about it, Zhang Tongren felt that the Sui army was the most suspicious: Shan Xiongxin sent an urgent report not long ago, saying that Du Fuwei's army had marched east by boat overnight and went around to the back to give him a fatal blow, which led to the fiasco of Liuhe Mountain, and sent a limited naval army to fortify it day and night.

Du Fuwei, who was on the verge of Quanjiao, had an army of 50,000 or 60,000, and he was in an absolute advantage in terms of troops, so it was extremely possible to repeat the technique.

At this moment, a soldier pointed to the ditch in the distance and shouted in a trembling voice: "General Zhang, a fleet is coming!" ”

Zhang Tongren greeted the prestige and couldn't help but gasp.

A huge fleet sailed on the south of the Yangtze River, and as the fleet approached, the soldiers in the capital city became terrified.

This is a fleet of more than 1,000 large ships, this huge fleet is spread all over the river, there is no end in sight, the mast is as dense as a forest, a thousand sails are like clouds in the sky, and the majestic momentum of looking at the world makes people feel cold.

The big ship presented in front of the Wei army was not a merchant ship, but a warship like a hill, the giant ship headed by it was as high as fifteen zhang, about forty zhang long, and the side of the ship was densely packed with soldiers, like a moving castle, and the walls of the four-zhang high Jiangdu City became a baby in front of it.

Witnessing this shocking scene, the hearts of countless Wei soldiers were cold.

"It's the banner of the Sui Army!" Someone suddenly shouted.

In fact, there is no need to be reminded, almost everyone saw a huge red flag waving in the wind on the big boat that led the ten thousand boats to race.

Zhang Tongren only felt that there were bursts of blackness in front of him, his legs were weak, and the two trembled. With sharp eyes, he saw more clearly, this golden dragon flag embroidered with teeth and claws was the banner of the Great Sui King, and its appearance also meant that Yang Tong was on the boat.

This huge fleet slowly anchored on the canal three or four miles away, and as soon as the boats reached the shore, a group of armor soldiers lined up from the big ships, and some of them led their horses to the shore. From a distance, a long procession of nearly 1,000 soldiers and horses is like an ant colony, forming a magnificent scene.

There was a dead silence on the Jiangdu City, and the soldiers of the Wei army were watching the Sui army gather outside the city freely and magnificently, and countless troops gathered like a trickle, gradually converging into ten huge squares of 10,000 people, quietly arraying outside the Jiangdu City.

At the front of the team, there stood a golden dragon banner as high as two feet high, and the red battle flag looked very gorgeous, but the hearts of the Wei soldiers seemed to sink into the abyss of hell.

For they know that a phalanx of ten thousand men is an army of one hundred thousand.

In the city of Jiangdu, there were only 10,000 defenders.

Suddenly, the ten phalanxes suddenly changed formations, gathered together in a neat manner, one by one, one by one, forming a huge and incomparable phalanx, with a prosperous military appearance and high morale, crushing the city.

During the whole process, the 100,000 army did not make an abnormal sound, nor did it make a single noise, and it was straight and straight in rows.

"Knock, knock, knock......" Three stirring drums sounded on the ship.

"Kill!"

100,000 soldiers roared in unison, and the earth-shaking sound was full of murderous aura, but its might was enough to make people have a fierce momentum that could not be confronted.

Next, the sound of drawing the sword came out together, and the war knife pointed directly at the Jiangdu City, and under the blue sky and white sun, the sword forest reflected the cold light.

Every Wei soldier at the head of the city was demoralized, immersed in fear and horror. As the soldiers of the Sui army suddenly slammed down, the cowards in the city couldn't help but take a few steps back in fright, collided with the people behind them and fell to the ground.

"Prepare for battle, mobilize the people to defend the city."

Zhang Tongren, who was stunned, suddenly let out a hysterical cry.

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Bing Yuanzhen in the barracks handled the military account books slowly and methodically, he used to be in charge of the food, clothing, food, drink and Lazar of hundreds of thousands of people, but now he is only dealing with the affairs generated by the 10,000 defenders, which is naturally handy and extremely easy.

The news of the arrival of the Sui army, Shi Hao told him as early as yesterday, Bing Yuan was really excited, he knew that this was a godsend opportunity for him to show his face in front of Emperor Shengwu. If he can't show irreplaceable value, he Bing Yuanzhen may only die with the grass and trees in this life. Bing Yuan really thought about it for a night, and had a rough plan in mind.

"The last general will see the Taishi." At this time, a general in his thirties walked in, this general was burly, dignified, and looked extraordinary.

His name is Fan Qin, is the grandson of Fan Zigai, originally served as an obscure lieutenant under Yang Yichen, after the Jiangdu Rebellion, in order to avenge Yang Guang and Yang Yichen, with Yang Yichen's other guards infiltrated Yu Wenhua and his command, because of the courage of the battle, he became Yu Wenhua and the personal guard, when the Yuwen brothers had internal strife, Li Mi took the opportunity to send troops, Yu Wenhua and the army was defeated and escaped, and Fan Qin, who followed Sui, had a chance to take revenge, they put Yu Wenhua and Ling Chi to death, after breaking the corpses into thousands of pieces, they wanted to defect to Yang Dong in Yecheng, was blocked by Li Mi's army, and in desperation, he had to take out Yu Wenhua's first invitation and become Li Mi's officer.

When Li Mi ascended the throne as emperor at the beginning of the year, he was a great hero, and Fan Qin also won the titles of General Zuotun and Duke of Wukang County. It's just that, like most people, the official position is extremely high and the real power is not much, and there are only 200 soldiers under his control in peacetime, Li Mi led the army to the west this time, so he ordered him to lead two regiments of soldiers (one regiment of 200 people) to protect the official office in the city.

When he heard the news of the Sui army's attack, he hurried to the barracks to obey the order, but Zhang Tongren, who was in charge of the defense of Jiangdu, was not there, and only the down-and-out Bing Yuanzhen was alone in dealing with military affairs.

When Bing Yuan really saw Fan Qin, his rough plan was perfected at once, and he said in a low voice: "Jiangyang Cang has fallen into the hands of Yang Dong, and more than 100,000 Sui soldiers are coming to the city, does General Fan have any other ideas?" ”

Fan Qin's face changed slightly, his eyes stared at Bing Yuanzhen sharply, and he said in a deep voice: "What can the last general think, naturally live and die with Jiangdu." ”

Bing Yuanzhen glanced at him and said lightly: "Jian'an Hou (Fan Zigai) was an honest official and strict in governing the army during his lifetime, and when he died of illness, Emperor Wu of Sui ordered hundreds of civil and military officials to enter the palace to mourn on his behalf, and there were more than 10,000 soldiers who buried him. As the only surviving descendant of the Marquis of Jian'an, does General Fan want to accompany Li Mi to the funeral? ”

"I don't know what the master said." After Fan Qin finished speaking, he turned around and wanted to leave.

"General Fan is a disciple of the general, brave and good at fighting, and his wit is extraordinary, Zhang Tongren and his ilk are far inferior to generals, but you have never shown yourself, obviously you don't want to contribute to Li Mi. The object of allegiance in my heart has always been the Great Sui Dynasty. Besides, you took Yu Wenhua and the head of the coast to the north, obviously planning to defect to the Sui Dynasty, if you weren't blocked, you wouldn't have surrendered to the Wei army, so you deceived Li Mi, but you couldn't hide it from me. Now that the Sui army is here again, presumably the general army is plotting to sacrifice the city, right? ”

Fan Qin's heart sank, holding the hilt of the knife, and his eyes were already full of murder.

Bing Yuan really knew it, for fear that the other party would cut it with a knife, and it would be too cost-effective to be Li Mi's funeral goods in a daze, so he hurriedly explained: "It's not a secret, I have already descended to the Sui Dynasty, and I have always been in contact with the fine work in the city, otherwise, how would I know that Jiangyang Cangcheng fell into the hands of the Sui army?" ”

The murderous intent in Fan Qin's eyes slowly subsided, as Bing Yuanzhen said, he really remembered the Great Sui, the regiment of soldiers belonging to him was under his absolute control, and the other four old troops served as brigade commanders and team commanders respectively, although the soldiers were pitiful, but there were not many Wei troops in the city, once the offensive and defensive battles reached a critical moment, he could play a role.

"General Fan, please take a look." In order to make Fan Qin completely believe in himself, Bing Yuanzhen handed over Yang Tong's amnesty order.

When Fan Qin saw the jade seal, he had already believed it, returned the letter, and sighed: "It's a pity that I only have four hundred soldiers. ”

Seeing that he had expressed his intentions, Bing Yuan finally put his heart into practice, and said with a smile: "The Sui army also has a lot of detailed work in the city, plus the general's four hundred people, plus me, the old man of Wagang, cooperates with the general, why worry about the big thing?" ”

"Okay, I'll listen to the master." Fan Qin had a smile on his face, although Bing Yuanzhen was much snubbed, but after all, he was the founder of the Wagang Foundation, and he was also a supporter of Li Mi's annexation of various small hill forces, he had great influence in the army, and he was much stronger than himself when he came forward to liaise.