In the southwest direction of Weinan Xiaqi, there is a Qin city in the place where it is about 60 miles away, so there is "Linhe" in the east of the city and "Tong River" in the west, so it is called Lintong, and it is a city and county with a natural moat. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

It is precisely because of this that as early as hundreds of years ago in the ancient Zhou Kingdom, Lintong was known as the gateway of "Feng Ho (Xi'an)", until now.

On the evening of the fifth day of the first month of November, Zhao Hongrun, the king of Su, led half of his soldiers and horses to arrive in the Lintong area, and when the green crows, who were responsible for scouting the road conditions in front, discovered the Qin city of "Lintong", Zhao Hongrun immediately ordered the whole army to stop advancing, so as not to alarm the Qin army in Lintong.

The biggest advantage of "long-distance attack" is that "the enemy is not prepared", just like the Wei army sneaking up on "Xiaqi" during the day, when the Qin army defending the city was almost defenseless, the Wei army captured this city without much effort.

However, if the Qin army was alarmed in advance, the Qin army was prepared, or the city was not taken in one fell swoop in the sneak attack, then the Wei army would fall into a passive situation.

After all, the Wei army under the command of Zhao Hongrun did not carry any baggage, and only let the soldiers bring a few days of rations, if the sneak attack could not be successful, then, in the absence of catapults, ladders and other siege equipment, the Wei army did not want to take the city of Qin that had been defended.

The sky gradually darkened, Zhao Hongrun took Qi'er, Wei Jiao and a few green crows, standing on the east bank of the river to look at the Qin city "Lintong" in the distance, thinking about the way to capture this city.

In the blink of an eye, he came up with a plan: that is, let a team of Wei soldiers pretend to be Qin soldiers who had retreated from "Xiaqi", and when they tried to blend into Lintong, they would expose Wei soldiers to the noses of the Lintong Qin army, so that the Qin soldiers could relax their vigilance against the Qin soldiers pretending to be Wei soldiers in fear.

But in the end, Zhao Hongrun still gave up this strategy, for a simple reason: the Wei soldiers under his command could not speak the dialect of Qin.

In this case, Zhao Hongrun could only rely on the green crows who accompanied the army.

He gathered the crows who accompanied the army and instructed them to try to climb the walls of Lintong City after dark, and then open the gates and enter the Wei army.

The crows went as ordered.

Around midnight that night, about 100 crows gathered on the east bank of the river, and one of them took off his leather armor and swam from the cold and biting water to the other bank.

His companions, on the other hand, wrapped his leather armor in a thick sheepskin blanket, tied it with a rope, and then threw it to the other side of the river with the force of the thrust, so that the naked crows could dry themselves with the sheepskin blanket and put on their armor.

Repeating this method, more than 100 green crows quietly crossed the river.

Subsequently, the green crows left ten people to assist the Wei army in building a pontoon bridge, while the rest quietly sneaked towards Lintong City.

Since Lintong was located in the rear of this war, and the news of the 'fall of Xiaqi' had not yet reached here, the Qin soldiers in Lintong did not know about the arrival of the Wei army at all, and they did not even send a few patrolling soldiers, which made the crows sneak to Lintong City without difficulty.

After lurking under the city of Lintong, a group of green crows took out the grappling hook hanging on the waist, but was stopped by its captain Crow Seventy-Nine, because the process of throwing and hooking the battlements of the city wall on the grappling hook was likely to attract the attention of the Qin soldiers.

"Use this."

After whispering a word to his companion, Raven Seventy-Nine took out a few small objects from the pouch around his waist, a finger cuff made of iron, and a pair of shoe-like shoe covers with a thorn at the bottom.

In the expressions of the rest of the green crows, Crow Seventy-Nine put on iron finger covers, put on iron shoe covers, and used the sharp tip of the iron finger cover to pierce the gaps in the city bricks, trying to cut out the loose broken bricks, piercing these gaps with the iron thorns on the soles of their shoes, and climbing upwards little by little with the help of this force - this is one of the climbing tools specially created by the General Administration of Metallurgy for the crows and black crows. "Note: It is said that Japanese ninjas also have this technique, which is called "stone pulling". Anyway, this is actually ninjutsu? Great disappointment.'"

At this time, on the Lintong city wall, the Qin soldiers in twos and threes held their spears, gathered together, and shrank on the inside of the battlements, without noticing that on the outer wall of the city wall, there was a group of people who were climbing up in the cold wind.

It's no wonder, after all, who would have thought that the Wei army had already attacked here? After all, Lintong is nearly 400 miles away from the peach forest, and it can be said that it belongs to the rear completely.

Suddenly, a head slowly stretched out from the outer wall of the city wall, and glanced at the city wall alertly, and then, the owner of this head showed half of his body, glanced at the two Qin soldiers who happened to be sheltering from the wind under him, and smiled secretly in his heart: What a weak defense.

"Hey!"

Secretly chuckling, Crow Seventy-Nine leaned his body on the wall, and lightly tapped the top of the head of a Qin soldier under him with his left hand.

The Qin soldier raised his head blankly, and at this moment, Crow Seventy-Nine covered the opponent's mouth with his arm, and at the same time, the dagger in his hand quickly cut the latter's throat.

"Brush, brush, brush—"

More than a dozen figures jumped over the wall onto the city wall, killing the unsuspecting Qin soldiers on the city wall with the power of thunder.

Pity some of the Qin soldiers, who died in their sleep.

"Let's go! City gates!"

After dealing with the Qin soldiers on this section of the city wall, Crow Seventy-Nine made a few gestures.

At the same time, on the east bank of the river, the Wei army had built a pontoon bridge with the help of the ten green crows—it was very simple to build a pontoon bridge, and the Wei army only needed to remove the wooden plank used as a baffle on the sled cart and tie it in series with ropes, so there was no need to cut down the forest at all.

After the pontoon bridge was built, the Wei soldiers quickly crossed the river on the pontoon bridge.

When the first Wei army crossed the Linhe River and quickly rushed to the city of Lintong, an early warning sound representing the enemy's attack had sounded in the city, and the "bell bell" rang non-stop.

But fortunately, the crows had opened the city gate and put the Wei army that had arrived outside the city into the city.

When the Wei army took control of the city gate, it meant that Lintong had fallen, after all, how could the remaining Qin soldiers of this city hold this city in front of nearly forty or fifty thousand Wei troops?

With the order of Zhao Hongrun, the king of Su, to attack generally, a steady stream of Wei soldiers entered Lintong.

Looking at the heavily armed Wei soldiers of the Shangshui Army, or the soldiers of the Sichuan Alliance wearing sheepskin jackets, the soldiers of the Lintong Qin Army widened their eyes in shock, as if they had seen a ghost in the daytime: Wei Army?! Isn't the Wei army four hundred miles away?

Due to the haste of the battle, coupled with the disparity in troops, the Lintong Qin army was not the opponent of the Wei army at all, and lost its control of the whole city in just half an hour, and could only retreat to Tongshui in the west.

However, the Wei army pursued the Qin army all the way to Tongshui, forcing thousands of Qin soldiers to jump into Tongshui to flee for their lives.

By the time it was approaching, the Wei army had fully occupied Lintong.

Seeing this, Zhao Hongrun ordered the soldiers to hurry up and rest, and at the same time ordered people to search the city guard mansion, hoping to find a map of the Qin State from the city guard mansion.

A moment later, Zongwei Lü Mu delivered a brief map of the Qin State to Zhao Hongrun.

I remember that after the capture of Xia, the Wei army also searched out a map of Qin from the city guard mansion in Xiatai, but at that time Zhao Hongrun decided to divide the troops, so he left the map to Zhai Huang, the deputy general of the Shang Water Army, after all, Zhai Huang did not have his ability to remember.

After receiving the map, Zhao Hongrun looked at it carefully and compared it with the map in his mind.

To tell the truth, these two maps are very similar, the only difference is that the map obtained from Xia Tai depicts the grain and grass transportation routes of the Qin army, "Jingyang", "Gaoling", "Xia Tai", etc., which is also the route of Qin City that Zhai Huang, the deputy general of the Shang Water Army, prepared to capture after the Wei army divided his troops.

The map of the Qin State seized from Lintong at this moment did not mark the grain and grass transportation route, and it was obvious that this was only because Lintong County was not responsible for the grain transportation of the Qin army on the front line.

Other than that, the two maps of the Qin state are very similar, almost identical.

"Lintong to the southwest, that is, Ba Shui, crossing the Ba Bridge, that is, Feng Ho...... The northwest of Feng Ho is the new capital of Qin, Xianyang......

In the light of the torches, Zhao Hongrun's fingers slowly moved on the map, and finally stopped at "Feng Ho".

Relying on a long-distance attack to break through Xianyang, the royal capital of Qin, is not realistic to be honest, after all, the capital of a country must be heavily guarded, but Feng Ho next door to Xianyang, in Zhao Hongrun's opinion, can fight for it.

Thinking of this, Zhao Hongrun ordered: "Pass the order, the whole army will spend the night in this city, and tomorrow will be dawn, leaving 5,000 troops to garrison, and the rest will attack Feng Ho with this king!" ”

"Obey!" The nearby merchants and sailors will answer.

In fact, at this time, it was only about four hours before dawn the next day.

The next day, that is, on the sixth day of the first month of November, Zhao Hongrun, the king of Su, left 5,000 troops to garrison Lintong, and led the remaining about 40,000 men and horses to set off for Bashui again.

Along the way, the Wei army came across the corpses of many Qin soldiers who froze to death on the way.

Obviously, these are the Qin troops in Lintong, after they were forced to go down to Tongshui by the Wei army last night, or some people were lucky to escape at that time, but unfortunately, these people did not survive after all - in such a cold weather, even if these Qin soldiers climbed ashore from Tongshui, they could drag a wet body, how could they survive?

This is also the reason why the Wei army did not pursue after seeing those Qin soldiers rushing into Tongshui: these Qin soldiers will die!

At the same time that Zhao Hongrun led the army to attack Bashui, on the east bank of the Linhe River in the east of Lintong City, Zhang Yao, the general of the Qin State, braved the cold and finally arrived here.

However, in Lintong in his eyes at this moment, the flag with the word "Wei" fluttered on the head of the city.

"Lintong has fallen?"

Muttering to himself, Qin Jiang Zhang Jin seemed to feel a giant hammer hit his chest, making him feel like his eyes were shining with stars: In just twelve hours, two cities had fallen?

He turned his head to look southwest, his eyes showing a hint of fear.

"Lintong fell, and Feng Ho couldn't hold it...... And once Feng Ho falls, the Wei army will be able to attack the city of Xianyang......

Thinking of this, Zhang Jiao set his horse and galloped towards the west side, rushing to Feng Ho to warn that it was too late, he decided to go straight to Xianyang from another road, and report to Xianyang about the entry of the Wei army.

The most terrifying thing is that his Qin State has fallen several cities, and Xianyang has not yet known that the Wei army has entered.

And the reason for all this lies in that person......

"Wei Gonggongrun!"

Holding the reins, Zhang Yao drove the war horse and galloped in the direction of Xianyang.

For the first time, he was so jealous of a person.