After Zhao Junsheng entered the city, he said to Gao Jinzhi: "This time the siege battle can't be fought, and it is beyond my expectations to break through Wuzhou Pass in five days!" ”

Gao Jinzhi hugged his fists and replied: "Thank you for the praise of the king, the siege battle of the last general is only decent, and breaking the city in five days is not fast!" ”

Gao Jinzhi is modest, Zhao Junsheng knows this very well, breaking the city in five days is not fast in terms of time, but he broke the city with an overall casualty of less than 400 people, this ability is remarkable, if it is changed to the command of other generals, the casualties will be at least doubled.

What's more, Gao Jinzhi has not yet used several large-scale siege equipment, such as well fences, trebuchets and fire oil bombs, mainly because the area before the closure is not open enough, and it cannot be used with these large-scale siege equipment.

The army did not stay too long at Wuzhou Pass, and marched to Shanwu County one after another on the same day.

As soon as Zhao Junsheng arrived outside Shanwu County, the pioneer Lanyun sent people to report to him: "King Qiyu, the mouth of the tiger is occupied by the troops sent by Daqian, our vanguard army is blocked, the defenders are already vigilant, and our army cannot break through and continue to pursue!" ”

Zhao Junsheng looked up at the sky and ordered: "You go back and tell Lan Yun, find a place to camp, send spies to monitor the defenders who kill the tiger's mouth, and then concentrate troops to attack when the siege equipment arrives tomorrow!" ”

"Yes!"

The defenders of Shanwu County ran away, and there were only more than 100 county soldiers left, and a county commander with a fat head came out with a group of officials trembling and knelt on the ground.

Zhao Junsheng rode on horseback and looked at the officials of Shanwu County who were kneeling on the ground, and asked: "This king is very strange, this way, the soldiers and horses who came to Daqian robbed all the places they passed, why didn't they rob you too?" ”

The fat county magistrate was so frightened that he couldn't speak, but a small official beside him said: "So that the king knows that when the people and horses who came to Daqian withdrew from Wuzhou Pass, the lower officials and others closed the gate of the county ya, and guarded it with the gate and the wall. ”

Zhao Junsheng asked, "Really?" In that case, why didn't you close all the gates beforehand? If the city gate is closed, how can the remnants of the defeated soldiers who come to Daqian enter the city to wreak havoc and kill the people? ”

At this time, the fat county commander was a little bolder, and hurriedly said: "The king doesn't know, Lai Daqian is worried that his back road will be cut off, and he has stationed a number of troops in the city before, and the lower officials and others also want to close the city gate, but in this way, they must first solve the garrison of that building, and the county government is less than a hundred old, weak, sick and disabled, and there is no power!"

"Did Lone ask you? Noisy! Come on, slap your mouth! Zhao Junsheng shouted.

Several soldiers stepped forward to hold up the fat county order, and one of them raised his palm and opened the bow left and right, and beat the fat county order until he passed out before stopping.

Seeing this scene in the eyes of the officials who were also kneeling on the ground, they all felt happy in their hearts, and it seemed that the hatred in their hearts had been soothed.

Zhao Junsheng pointed to the little official who was the first to answer his question: "What is your surname, and what is your official position?" ”

"Back to the king, the subordinate is Yu Fang Yu, but he is a good county and a county!"

Zhao Junsheng nodded: "Okay, Yu Fangyu, I want you to temporarily take the position of county commander, although to appease the people, organize the arrest of fast soldiers to clean up the chaos and bandits in the county, and encourage the people to resume production, within three months, if you do well, you will be given this temporary county order to become regular, if you do not do well, you will also go home and take the child!" ”

Yu Fangyu kowtowed again and again: "The lower officials don't dare to slack off, they must do their best to govern a county for the king and serve the people!" ”

Zhao Junsheng immediately waved his hand: "Come on, order all the troops to camp outside the city, and set off tomorrow to kill the tiger!" ”

Not long after nightfall, Zhao Junsheng was about to inspect the camp after dinner, Lu Xuanbo hurriedly came to report, and said with a serious face: "King, the Rouran people have been dispatched and are storming Wuchuan Town!" ”

Zhao Junsheng's heart skipped a beat when he heard this, "It's finally here!" ”

He immediately instructed Chang Kun to take someone to inspect the camp in his place, and then went in with other generals to discuss countermeasures.

The atmosphere in the tent was solemn, originally this was an internal dispute in the Central Plains, but now that Rouran people intervened, things became complicated, fortunately, Zhao Junsheng and the ministers were prepared, the main reason why he chose to lead the army to reinforce Pingcheng from the north road this time was to worry about Rouran interfering, and now it seems that his decision was right.

Zhao Junsheng said to Lu Xuanbo: "Tell me what you know in detail!" ”

"Yes!"

"This time the Rouran people dispatched more than 60,000 people, by the Rouran Khan Wu Ti personally commanded the troops, at the beginning of their troops crossed the desert in three ways to the south and raided the three forts deployed by Wuchuan Town on the edge of the Great Wall at the same time, fortunately, one of the forts was breached before the people sent people to risk death to break out of the siege to report the news, Sima Chuzhi immediately ordered to move the residents, livestock and grain outside the city into the city as soon as possible!"

"Up to now, Wu Ti has led a large army to attack Wuchuan City for more than ten years, it stands to reason that our inner line and the black-clothed guards in Wuchuan Town should have sent the news back to Qianjing a long time ago, but we got the news from Fu Mingshu, which means that the black-clothed guards we deployed in Rouran and Wuchuan City failed to spread the news, and the minister guessed that the message should have been intercepted!"

Zhao Junsheng frowned and said, "How did the Rouran people know that we had planted an inside line within them? ”

"The Northern Wei Imperial Court has had a confrontation with our black-clothed guards, and the Rouran people should also be aware of it, since the Northern Wei Imperial Court has united with the Rouran people, they will definitely leak some of the news they know to the Rouran people, and the minister thinks that the Rouran people will not be able to find out who the inside line is in a short period of time, but they can tightly seal the news!"

Zhao Junsheng also knew how difficult it was to send the news back to Qianjing in time from within Rouran, mainly because the transmission of the news was inconvenient, and the transmission method of the letter eagle used by Zhao Junsheng was still learned from Rouran, and it was too simple for the Rouran people to block the news.

Zhao Junsheng calculated silently in his heart, even if the 30,000 cavalry plus 7,000 infantry had to rush to Wuchuan Town unimpeded along the way, the fastest speed would take six days, and there were three passes along the way, such as Killing Tiger's Mouth, Nantianbao, and Baidao.

Since the Northern Wei court has been in cahoots with the Rouran people, they will assist the Rouran people in breaking through Wuchuan City, so they will definitely send heavy troops to guard these passes.

Zhao Junsheng said to the generals and officials: "The defenders of Wuchuan Town have 7,000 people, including 3,000 cavalry and 4,000 infantry, and only 4,000 infantry can be used to defend the city. Lone believes in Sima Chuzhi's talent, but there is a huge disparity between the enemy and me, the city wall of Wuchuan City was built by Lone himself back then, and it is not easy for the Rouran people to break through it within three or five days, but it may be said after a long time, and if you come to Daqian to send someone to Wu Ti to send siege equipment, the height of the city wall of Wuchuan City will ······"

Wuchuan City was built by Zhao Junsheng himself, its height and thickness are aimed at the Rouran people, the Rouran people will not build siege equipment, at most it is to use trees to build wooden ladders, so whether it is Wuchuan, or Huaishuo, Woye and other towns, their city walls are not as high and solid as the walls of the city in Guannei.

Dongfang Chen stood up and arched his hand and said: "King, our army wants to capture the Killing Tiger Mouth, Nantianbao and Baidao to reach Wuchuan Town, I don't know how long it will take, the variables are too great, the minister suggested ordering General Gao Xu to lead the army from Yuyi Town to contain the Rouran army, so that the Rouran people can't attack the city with all their might, try to delay the time, and wait for our army to cross the Baidao and then attack the Rouran people on two ways!" ”

Zhao Junsheng thought about it, and now it seemed that there was only this way, and he asked Shen Hui, who was in charge of military intelligence liaison: "How many people from the barbarian tribes in the northeast have arrived in Dongqile?" ”

Shen Hui said: "There are more than 10,000 soldiers and horses gathered in Dong'e by various barbarian tribes so far, but the men and horses of various tribes are still coming one after another, and it is expected that there will be about 16,000 people at most!" ”

Sixteen,000 people is really not much, and there are more than 20 large and small barbarians in the northeast, and there are many large tribes in Beji alone, as well as the Goguryi people recruited from Andong Prefecture.

Zhao Junsheng thought for a while and ordered: "Give Gao Xu an order, leave the headquarters of the King of Eile to garrison, and let him lead the soldiers and horses of Yuyi Town and the various tribes of the Northeast Barbarians to immediately set off to Wuchuan Town for reinforcements, if the main force of our army has not passed through Baidao, let him try to deal with the Rouran people as much as possible!" ”

The edict was quickly written, and Zhao Junsheng stamped the seal and sent a fast horse to Yuyi Town to hand it over to Gao Xu.

In order to open the passage to Wuchuan as soon as possible, early the next morning, Zhao Junsheng led his army to march to the northwest to kill the tiger.

According to the investigation, the spies estimated that the defenders guarding the tiger's mouth were about two buildings, not to mention that there were only five or six hundred people stationed there, but the terrain here is dangerous, and the Great Wall is built on a mountain ridge, so it is not easy to break through this pass.

The eastern, western, and northern mountains enclose the mouth of the tiger like a semicircular wall.

Zhao Junsheng looked up at the pass in the distance and asked Gao Jinzhi beside him: "How to fight this pass?" ”

Gao Jinzhi looked at it and said, "Wait for the minister to go and investigate first!" ”

After Gao Jinzhi finished speaking, he dismounted and took a few soldiers to reconnoitre, and after an hour, he came back and said to Zhao Junsheng: "King, this pass is built to resist the cavalry, but it can't stop the attack of the infantry, and within today, the minister can break it!" ”

"Okay, organize soldiers to attack the city immediately!"

Gao Jinzhi really didn't brag, he used a lot of troops to carry a large number of ladders to rush to the wall, a large number of arrows were shot down on the wall, and there were also stones to shoot, and at the beginning he lost a lot of soldiers, but in the siege ladder on the wall, Gao Jinzhi sent a team of archers to cover remotely under the city wall.

After three attacks in one day, the infantry stormed the wall, ending the battle before dark.

The eyes of the soldiers looking at Gao Jinzhi have become different, once it is a fluke, and twice it is not a fluke, but strength!