Chapter 42: The Burning of the City
Anyang County, formerly known as Fancheng County, was renamed Anyang County during the Northern Anniversary, located in the northwest of Xiangyang, on the north bank of the middle reaches of the Han River, and is an extremely important strategic location.
Guan Yu, a fierce general during the Three Kingdoms period, was attacked by Sun Quan of Eastern Wu because he couldn't attack Fancheng for a long time. At the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, when the brave and warlike Yuan army cavalry went south to attack the Song Dynasty, they also took Fancheng first, and then forced the Xiangyang defender Lu Wenhuan to open the city and surrender, ending the six-year-long battle of Xiangfan.
Qin Qiongnai, the pioneer of the Wagang Army, was a fierce general on the battlefield, and knew the importance of Anyang County.
On the official road, tens of thousands of Wagang sergeants walked in the middle of the road in an orderly manner, all of them full of spirit and fighting spirit.
The head of the general, wearing a seven-treasure gilt helmet on his head, wearing dragon scale gold armor, covered with an apricot yellow robe, pedaling tiger head combat boots, yellow fat through the bone horse under the crotch, tiger head dipped in a gold gun in his hand, two gold hammers on his back, eight feet tall, burly appearance, face like light gold, eyebrows like eight colors, eyes like stars, slightly short beard, it is the Wagang general "Xiao Mengwei" Qin Qiong Qin Shubao.
Qin Qiong was beside him, wearing a collar of chain gold armor, a lightning yellow dragon horse in his crotch, two brass dwarf melon hammers in his hands, nine feet tall, with a tiger's back and a bear's waist, and a big waist and a round waist. It is Qin Qiong's son "Sledgehammer Boy" Qin Yong.
"General Qin, walk another twenty miles to Anyang County!" The general next to him reminded in a whisper.
"Stop!"
When Qin Qiong heard this, he immediately waved his hand to signal the whole army to stop advancing, and lightly ordered: "The scout team will go to the county seat to check the situation!" ”
Dada~~~
After receiving the order, more than a dozen scouts quickly galloped out and galloped away in the direction of the county seat.
"Report, General Qin, it seems that the county seat of Anyang has become an empty city, and the people of the whole city seem to have withdrawn!"
After about a quarter of an hour, the dozen or so scouts rushed back and reported the situation to Qin Qiong.
"Empty city?" Before Qin Qiong could speak, Qin Yong on the side had already laughed and said, "Father-in-law, this must be the guard who is afraid of the prestige of our Wagang Army and fled without a fight!" ”
Qin Qiong glared at Qin Yong with great dissatisfaction, "Let you usually read more military books, why are you still so ungrowing, if this guard general flees without a fight, why should he flee with the people of the whole city?" This is clearly the Sui army's strategy to clear the wilderness! ”
Qin Yong touched the back of his head and smiled, "It's still my father-in-law!" ”
Qin Qiong glanced at Qin Yong twice, and said angrily: "Then tell me, where is my mastery?" ”
"This..." Qin was speechless for a while.
"You, you, let me say what is good about you!" Qin Qiong looked like she hated iron but not steel, "You usually don't listen to the military books that you read more, and you know all day long to go out and learn martial arts with Luo Shixin." It's not that you don't want to practice martial arts, I just hope that you can become a handsome talent instead of a general! ”
Qin Yong smiled, "Father-in-law, you know me, as soon as I see the book, I get sleepy, it's really not that piece of material." Besides, it is enough for our old Qin family to have such a handsome talent as Huaiyu in the future, so I won't steal his limelight! ”
Qin Qiong pretended to be angry, "You are still embarrassed to mention Huaiyu, a thirteen-year-old child is more motivated than you, if you don't feel ashamed, forget it and take him out as a shield, my father really has to teach you a good lesson today!" After that, he raised his hand and was about to pat the back of Qin's head.
Qin Yong was so frightened that he hurriedly clamped his legs between the horse's belly, and fled forward as if flying, turning his head to Qin Qiong and saying as he ran: "Father-in-law, don't be angry, the child will go to the city to see the situation first!" ”
"This kid!" Qin Qiong shook his head helplessly, turned around and ordered loudly: "The whole army has entered the city, and I will rest in the city for one night today." ”
More than 10,000 Wagang troops marched into Anyang County, because the people in the city had all fled, so the Wagang soldiers lived directly in the houses left by the people.
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Night gradually fell, although the Wagang army was mostly tired from the journey for several days, and went to bed early after moving into the houses. However, Qin Qiong did not dare to relax his vigilance, and still sent nearly a hundred scouts to inspect the suspicious situation within ten miles outside the city.
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Dada~~~
The scouts of the two Wagang Army were exploring all the way south, but suddenly heard the neighing of war horses, and were immediately taken aback, and hurriedly turned their horses and fled.
"Whoosh!"
I saw two green rays of light "suddenly" swept through the air, and accurately hit the two Wagang scouts, who were hit by the green light, and their bodies swayed for a moment, and then they fell to their deaths.
Not far from where the two of them fell from their horses, Yang Yanzhao suddenly rode out of the horse and smiled at a female general behind him: "Miss Yue'e is worthy of being a tiger girl, and the flying knife in one hand makes Yang's admired five-body throw to the ground!" ”
The female general behind Yang Yanzhao is about twenty years old, with a well-proportioned figure, dressed in a fiery red armor, a pink robe on her shoulders, a red horse on her seat, and a red tassel gun in her hand, which is Xin Yue'e, the sister of Xin Wenli.
Although she was a woman, she couldn't see a trace of a woman's tenderness on her face, and said coldly to Yang Yanzhao: "General Yang, now is not the time to gossip, let's leave quickly, lest there be another wave of scouts!" ”
"Yue'e, don't be rude!" Xin Wenli on the side hurriedly scolded.
Yang Yanzhao hurriedly said loudly: "No, new general, it's Yang's fault, now is indeed not the time to gossip politely!" With that, he waved his horsewhip and galloped in the direction of the county seat.
Looking at Yang Yanzhao's distant back, Xin Wenli couldn't help complaining: "Yue'e, it's not my brother who said you, you are also a big boss, how to do things is still so light and heavy!" ”
Xinyuexiu frowned, pursed her mouth, and said dissatisfiedly: "Big brother, how can I not know the severity?" ”
Xin Wenli glared at her dissatisfiedly, "General Yang just praised you twice, why did you make a look of rejecting people thousands of miles away?" Let me tell you, this General Yang is Wen Taowu and has royal blood, this is a rare wishful husband, if you miss this one, you won't have a home! ”
"Oh, big brother, what do you say?" Xin Yue'e was suddenly ashamed, and said dissatisfiedly: "You don't have to worry about me about this matter!" With that, he whipped the jujube red horse under his crotch and galloped away.
Looking at his sister's distant back, Xin Wenli shook his head helplessly, "This girl, what can I do in the future?" ”
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In Anyang County, although Qin Qiong ordered all the troops to be vigilant, in fact, even Qin Qiong himself thought that there could be no Sui army in this vicinity, so after sending some necessary guards, he went back to his house early and fell asleep.
However, in the middle of the night, the originally quiet county town of Anyang suddenly boiled.
Countless Wagang sergeants rushed through the streets and alleys in disheveled clothes and armor, shouting hoarsely all around: "Oh no, go to the water, go to the water, don't sleep, the houses are all on fire!" ”
Qin Qiong, who was originally asleep, was also awakened by this noisy shout, he didn't think much about it, quickly turned over, picked up the ancestral gold mace that was put aside and rushed out, looking around, but saw that the entire city had turned into a sea of fire, billowing smoke rising into the sky.