Chapter 233: Entering the City

A gust of wind blew, and the dark clouds in the sky slowly moved to the northwest.

Standing on the low earthen wall of Dingxiang City, facing the wind blowing from the southeast, Li Yuanluo seemed to smell the aura of swords coming from the Evil Yang Ridge.

Li Yuanluo is an ordinary Turkic soldier stationed in the east of Dingxiang City, although his great-grandfather used to be Turkic warriors, but in his generation, he is no longer brave, and a bow and arrow that can make a stone is already good. But fortunately, he had good eyes and sharp eyesight, almost as good as an eagle soaring in the sky, and he could see people a hundred steps away in the dark night.

Therefore, Li Yuanluo became a sentry who stood guard and patrolled in the night.

With a short bow in his hand, he was standing at the head of the city looking out of the city walls, his eyes blazing, carefully sweeping every inch.

If we can win the Tang Dynasty, then we will obtain the rich cities, fertile land, and countless treasures of the Tang Dynasty. In this way, the life of his own family can be improved, and there will be enough cattle and sheep to propose marriage to the uncle of the tribe and marry the most beautiful woman in the whole tribe.

Looking forward to a better life after the victory, Li Yuanluo did not realize the danger coming.

At this time, in the grove two hundred steps away from the city wall, fifty reconnaissance battalion soldiers were looking at the city wall of Dingxiang City from afar.

"Lao Hu, tell me, the city wall of Dingxiangcheng is not high, mostly earthen construction, let the artillery bombard for a while, and ensure that he will be razed to the ground, why do you have to make such a trick, what lobbyists do you send first, and you want us to sneak attack the city wall!" A soldier complained to Boss Hu.

"This ......" Boss Hu was obviously asked, and then said solemnly, "Little Maozi, have you forgotten how the boss taught us in the first place?" Obedience to orders is the first criterion, don't ask what you shouldn't ask, don't say what you shouldn't say, and don't listen to what you shouldn't hear! You remember, don't ask about these things next time! ”

The soldier hurriedly nodded his head again and again, not daring to say more.

Boss Hu took a look at the reconnaissance battalion soldiers who were hiding in the woods, then raised his head to look at the moving clouds in the sky, and shouted in a low voice: "Action!" ”

Suddenly, I saw the black figures in the grove suddenly move, one by one, dressed in camouflage nets made of branches and grass leaves, holding crossbow arrows, risking their waists, and running towards the city wall.

When they reached a hundred paces, fifty people stopped in unison. From here to the bottom of the city wall, there is an open field, except for shallow weeds, there are no trees, no pits, no hills, if you rush directly over, it is very easy to be discovered by the sentinels at the head of the city.

"Creeping forward!" Boss Hu whispered in the ears of the two soldiers on the left and right beside him. The two soldiers each whispered in the ear of the soldier next to them.

Fifty people slowly crawled on the ground, slowly advancing with their elbows and legs.

Since they were all clad in a good camouflage net, their entire bodies seemed to melt into the green ground background as they crawled forward.

They were not slow to advance, and it took less than three quarters of an hour to reach the bottom of the walls of Dingxiang City.

Looking at the sentries patrolling the city walls, ten soldiers suddenly stood up, half-kneeling on the ground, holding steel crossbows in both hands, aiming black arrows at the sentries and pulling the trigger.

There was only a string sound, followed by the sound of "poof" arrows entering the flesh, and a group of patrolling Turkic soldiers was instantly hit by arrows and fell to the ground. And the locations where they were shot were all heads without fur hats.

The Li Yuanluo, who had a pair of good eyes, was also pierced through his head by the arrow that was shot, and fell to the ground full of doubts. Where did this arrow come from, why didn't I see it?

Ten Paths with flying claws is rope, and when the crossbow arrows fly out, they also fly up the city wall. No sooner had the patrolling soldier fallen than the claws seized the city. Then the rope tightened, and in a moment ten of the scout battalion soldiers were already on the city.

When Boss Hu climbed the city wall with fifty soldiers, this section of the city wall had already fallen into the hands of the Tang army.

As is the case here, this scene occurred on the city wall east of Dingxiang City. The scout battalion soldiers had already taken control of the entire eastern wall of Dingxiang City.

Unlike the east, which needs to fight and kill, the west of Dingxiang City performed a play of "peaceful reception".

Zhang Yunwen and another general named Du Ziting rode a tall horse and stood calmly in the southwest of Dingxiang City. Behind them, two phalanxes stood neatly, totaling 3,000 people. They are all elites who have participated in the Battle of Evil Yang Ridge. A hundred artillerymen with fifty mortars also stood in this column.

Three thousand people stood neatly and solemnly, standing under the wall of Dingxiang, but they did not make the slightest sound, but just stood quietly. The evening breeze blows the big tree embroidered with the word "Tang" and makes the sound of hunting.

Calm as a mountain, one in one. This was Kang Sumi's first impression of this army. Compared to them, the Turkic army that came and whistled away was more like a plate of scattered sand, unorganized. Seeing this, Kang Sumi couldn't help but be a little glad that he had surrendered to Tang Jun, otherwise he would have turned into someone else's sword!

"Marshal Kang, I wonder if your army has been arranged? What happened to the army of the deer leaves? As soon as they met, Du Ziting hugged his fist to Kang Sumi, and then hurriedly asked.

You must know that this echo of Kang Sumi, the first errand to enter Dingxiang City was obtained after he begged Li Jing for a whole day. Thinking of this, he couldn't help but look at Zhang Yunwen beside him, but a sour feeling rose in his heart. This Zhang Yunwen just wanted to bring troops into the city in front of Li Jing, and Li Jing immediately agreed, this kind of treatment is too different!

Although his heart was a little sour, he still managed to control this feeling very well. He is the son of the Du family in Luoyang, although the Du family is in business, but he is very close to the ministers in the court, and he also knows how hot this young earl is, how he is favored by the emperor, so as long as he has the opportunity, he will express his goodwill to Zhang Yunwen.

Hearing Du Ziting ask like this, Kang Sumi couldn't help frowning slightly, and then said with a smile: "General, please rest assured, everything has been arranged by the young general, and the eight thousand men and horses are firmly controlling several passages and dangerous positions outside the Bulu Ye camp, just waiting for the general to give an order, and then step on the Bulu Ye!" ”

Seeing that Du Ziting was going to say something, Zhang Yunwen hurriedly said: "Since Kang Dashuai has made arrangements, when can I enter the city?" ”

Kang Sumi sighed softly and said: "Don't hide it, there are more than 10,000 people under the command of the young general, and 2,000 people are scattered all over the west of the city to maintain order, in fact, the only people who can resist Bu Luye are the 8,000 people deployed outside his camp." However, 8,000 people and 10,000 people fought against each other, and the young general was really a little uneasy. So the young general dared to ask the two generals to make a move! ”

Hearing Kang Sumi's words, Zhang Yunwen said with a smile: "Didn't Kang Dashuai say when he talked about the conditions with my envoy that he wanted to kill Bu Luye with his own hands, if I interfered, I am afraid it would not be good!" ”

"Yes, yes!" Du Ziting's mind turned, and he also said.

Kang Sumi still smiled: "The young general only needs to kill Bu Luye, and the rest of the Turkic warriors still need to ask the two generals!" ”

Zhang Yunwen nodded suddenly: "Since Kang Dashuai said so, I will do it!" However, our army is weak, and I am afraid that the main force is still the handsome soldiers! I have long heard that the soldiers under Marshal Kang are brave and good at fighting, hehe, I can finally see it today! ”

Kang Sumi's eyes suddenly showed a hint of awe, and his plan seemed to be seen through by the young general in front of him. chuckled at the moment: "Since the young general has surrendered to the Tang Dynasty, the soldiers under his command are the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty, and please be more considerate of the two generals!" ”

Facing Kang Sumi's smiling face, Zhang Yunwen had no choice but to say vaguely: "Definitely, definitely!" ”

After talking with Kang Sumi for a while, the three of them were going to lead their troops into the city and kill the deer leaves in that step.

Buluye's military camp is located in a clearing in the east of the city. The location here is high, and there was originally a low mud house, but later Bulu Yexiang built a military camp here, so all the mud houses were razed to build the current military camp.

Bu Lu Ye had noticed that something was wrong as early as yesterday. That Empress Xiao originally planned to go to the dental tent, and was packing her luggage, but who expected that after Kang Sumi went to a trip, Queen Xiao actually changed the location, and under the escort of Kang Sumi's own soldiers, she went out of Dingxiang City, but she didn't know where she went. From this incident, Bu Luye smelled a trace of unusual breath.

And at night, Kang Sumi's army suddenly dispatched and actually closed several avenues leading to the outside of his military camp and surrounded the military camp in three ways, which really caught him off guard. At this moment, he was almost certain that this Kang Sumi was reversed.

However, that was just speculation, and if he started a war with Kang Sumi based on speculation, the consequences would not be something he could bear, so even if Kang Sumi's army surrounded his camp with hostility, he still ordered his soldiers to be on guard, not to fight.

When Zhang Yunwen came to the outside of this barracks with artillery, he saw that the camp was still brightly lit, and a brazier was set up in the camp, illuminating the soldiers patrolling back and forth.

Looking at this camp, Zhang Yunwen couldn't help but be frightened, he originally wanted to have a surprise attack, but looking at this situation, I'm afraid that half of the soldiers didn't sleep, and the patrolling people were constantly coming and going, crossing each other. As long as there is a slight action on this side, I am afraid that this military camp will immediately become a war bulwark.

Zhang Yunwen and the artillerymen are located nearly five hundred steps away from the opponent's barracks, and the terrain here is only higher than the barracks at the beginning of Luye.

"If only I could let that deer boy run to the fence on his own!" Zhang Yunwen thought in his heart. Suddenly, his heart moved, turned his head, and said to Kang Sumi beside him: "Kang Dashuai, do you have any way to get that step of the deer leaf to the fence?"

Kang Sumi looked at the distance from this side to the fence, the bow and crossbow must not be enough, unless the Tang Army has a large city defense crossbow, could it be that he wants to use firearms? Kang Sumi thought secretly in his heart, but nodded and said, "If I go to make an appointment with him, he will definitely come out!" ”

Zhang Yunwen hurriedly stopped Kang Sumi's thoughts. What are you kidding, if you accidentally kill the general, I'm afraid that Li Shimin wants to protect himself, and it will be a little difficult.

At this time, Du Ziting said: "General Zhang, Kang Dashuai, in fact, we can send someone to send a letter over." Those soldiers will definitely be sent to Bu Luye, and when the time comes, as long as General Zhang concentrates his artillery, he will definitely be able to bombard their bones! “

Zhang Yunwen pondered for a moment and smiled at Du Ziting: "General Du is really quick-witted, and he has an idea in his head!" And it's a great idea! Well, the matter of writing and sending letters will trouble Kang Dashuai! The youngster also has to find a suitable place to place the firearms! ”

Kang Sumi looked at Zhang Yunwen and Du Ziting, looking like he wanted to say something.

Zhang Yunwen immediately knew what he was thinking, and immediately smiled: "If Kang Dashuai is not happy with artillery bombardment, he can personally lead the troops to rush and kill!" Maybe I can capture that step of deer leaves alive and give you a thousand knives! ”

Looking at the brightly lit barracks over there, Kang Sumi sighed slightly: "Forget it, it's too cheap to die under the firearms of the Tang Dynasty!" ”