On the trees, the crystal clear ice skates are urging down, the dense snow turns the entire sky into a white, and among the trees, the howling northeast knife wind makes a howling sound, but occasionally the crisp cry of birds that come out to find food adds a little vitality to this forest.

A piece of snow suddenly fell from an unknown fruit tree, revealing the seeds of the tree that had been hidden for half the winter, and immediately a hungry bird fluttered and flew over, scrambling to peck at it, but suddenly, a mountain bird with a gray and blue flash stopped pecking, stopped on the trunk of the tree next to it, tilted its head to look down, and after a while, in the rapid chirping, a flock of birds disappeared in an instant.

In the snow below, several white heads were exposed.

"I, I, I said Brother Mao, you're not crazy! But, but ......"

"The territory of Yizhou Jiannu, Lao Tzu knows!"

The binoculars were frozen with a layer of frost in this cold winter, Mao Jue pulled his hand out of the cotton gloves, wiped the lens hard, and then pulled the monocular open and looked down.

The city can be broken enough, the city wall is about four or five meters and there are many places collapsed, most of the enemy buildings are incomplete, but even so, if this is the city, and it is also the territory of Jiannu, in the telescope, clearly look at the five pigtailed soldiers on the city wall pacing back and forth, the city gate is open, and there are also a few pigtailed soldiers lazily basking in the winter sun.

This place is a nail that Jiannu nailed in the Korean Kingdom, and it is also a thorn in Mao Jue's heart, from here to Tieshan, less than three days away, each time the Eight Banners sweep the north four roads of the peninsula, but also from here, everywhere to fight grass valley.

Back then, Jianzhou and Yehe fought a big battle, and the shouting and killing did not go out for three days and three nights, which frightened the Korean defenders trembling, and the four doors were closed, and it took many days to dare to cross the river to collect the corpses, which can also be seen how close this is to Houjin. The Battle of Moon Valley had just ended, and Mao Jue's eyes were already fixed on it.

Zhao Kuangyin has a domineering saying, how can others be allowed to snore on the side of the couch! The same is true for Mao Jue, there is such an unstable time bomb in the north, no matter how hard he tries, he can't develop it, he has worked hard to plant crops for a year, and as soon as people come over with fire, he will be blind.

But if you take this place back, there is the Yalu River in front, with the advantage of the sailors of Dongjiang Town, you can completely defend the river, and you can also attack and harass the rear of Houjin, and the strategic initiative can be transferred to your own hands, and the entire Ping'an North Road will be in your own pocket.

And there is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity in front of him, in order to enter the customs to conquer the Ming, Huang Taiji transferred most of the living forces, and more than 3,000 banners of the Zhenglan Banner and the Red Flag in Yizhou are also in the recruitment sequence, and there should not be many people guarding it, and at this time, it is just the New Year's Day, and the army that entered the customs is also on the way to victory, and Yizhou City is also the time when people's hearts are the most lax, if you don't grasp this opportunity, it will be difficult for Mao Jue to fight again.

To paraphrase the eagle text, make a European milk nest!

It's just that the opponent is the Eight Banners, how to be careful, before hunting, the old head of the scout team brought a group of old hunters from Liaodong to come here to step on the plate, with his own 800 people, Mao Jue didn't even open the gang all the way, gnawed dried sweet potatoes, ate air-dried meat, drank snow water, and touched the thirteen miles near Yizhou, Mao Jue asked Liu Chong and Shen Rong to take the team to squat first, and he brought dozens of people to personally come to investigate.

Looking at Yizhou City below, Mao Jue still frowned, the money Zeng still wanted to say something, but Wen Meng stuffed the snow ball into his mouth, and the choked kidney deficiency boy covered his mouth and bent it again.

"General?"

The old man also leaned over, the eyes of the hunter mink were miami, and the old guy was still in full view from a distance of several hundred meters without a telescope.

"Five at the city gate, seven on the city wall, and two secret sentries hiding in the nest under the big tree, general, call the big guy here and start fighting?"

Although he was defeated all the way, the anger in the heart of the Ming army was still defeated, and it was not cold to the end, at least Wen Meng, the old brothers, and the newly recruited soldiers were similar, and the money was piled aside, and several old scouts were all focused on Mao Jue with blazing eyes.

Who knew that Mao Jue shook his head gently.

"No hurry! Keep an eye on it first!"

After staring at the telescope for a while, Mao Jue hooked his hand at the old man's head.

"Old man, you keep an eye on Lao Tzu, there are a few people at the gate of this city, when will the guard be changed, how often the city wall is patrolled, how many steps, all of them are clearly remembered by Lao Tzu, after this battle, you can retire and get your grandson, Lao Tzu can't treat you badly!"

"What did the general say, the old man and my grandsons have died in Liaoyang! The old man's life is the general's! You command, old man listen!"

Stunned, Mao Jue nodded again.

"Lao Tzu retracts what he just said! Old man, keep an eye on it, Lao Wen, you and I will go over there and have a look, waiting for Mr. Qian!"

The two old guys were lying comfortably on the snow, just like lying on their own kang, carrying Qian Zeng, whose tongue was frozen, and Mao Jue climbed to the right ridge.

…………

After almost a day of investigation, Mao Jue only had an approximate number in his mind, but he didn't plan to stay any longer, after all, there were more than eight hundred people, even if the Houjin people were all cats in winter, but the danger of the same exposure was getting bigger and bigger with the passage of time, and he had been trekking in the snow for three days, and in the cold winter, the soldiers' morale energy was getting worse and worse, and they had to fight quickly, and the possibility of being responsible for capturing the city would become smaller and smaller.

He dug out a shack in the snow to spend a difficult night, and before dawn the next day, Mao Jue pulled all the soldiers under his command over.

In addition to guns, bayonets, ammunition, each soldier is also equipped with an iron shovel, Mao Jue here to eat well, vitamins are not lacking, now he has no night blindness under his hands, taking advantage of the dawn, dozens of sword and shield hands first use shovels to dig out a trench in the snow shell almost one meter deep, the top is flat, there are more than 200 infantry carrying guns down to the trench, the rest are still lying on the back of the ridge.

This Yiju city is a mountain city, the city wall is located on a raised high hill, the Joseon Dynasty cast the city also inherited the style of the Goguryeo period, fortunately, compared to the brave and warlike Buyeo, these Silla Houyi became a lot lazy on one side of the south city wall is still placed on the flat ground, facing the ridge where the Mao Jue department is located, this road leads directly to the commercial part of the city, which is convenient for the Houjin people in the nearby villages to trade and catch the market, and it also happened to become the breakthrough of Mao Jue.

On the north side of the city wall, the trees are luxuriant, the terrain is rugged, and there is no gate, which is not conducive to the attack of large troops, but the city wall is quite low.

There is also a gate of the East City, which is too far away, but it has not been ignored by Mao Jue.

"Lao Liu, you take the cavalry to the east, if Yizhou is not smoking, be careful, exposed, if it smokes, grab the estuary for Lao Tzu at any cost, and if you meet, regardless of men, women and children, they will be slaughtered!"

In this era, there is no international law and the law of war, and it is estimated that Liu Chong's cavalry did not have the leisure to ask if it was a Han Jurchen before killing, and a single order may kill many people in vain, but this is war!

The only thing that made Liu Chong a little depressed was that in this way, there was no other part of the frontal battlefield, and after being entangled, this man just hugged his fists.

"The last general obeys!"

"Shen Rong! Knife players are given to you, you go around to the north of the city, you must arrive before the second pole on the day, find a way to climb over the wall into the city, there are a few gaps, you can use, your task is to ignite the fire, create chaos, just act when you see the opportunity, if you can't do it, hide it, as long as the fire starts, Lao Tzu will discipline you a gong, reward a hundred taels of silver! Everyone has a reward for the big guys!"

To be honest, Shen Rong is not Mao Jue's most trusted, but Wen Meng can't leave, Mao Jue is a little unconfident to let him go over the wall, so he can only hand it over to Shen Rong, but this person took this time as an opportunity and slammed his fist into his chest.

"Don't worry, the general will be saved!"

agreed, followed Liu Chong, who led the horse down the mountain, with more than eighty sword and shield hands, and Shen Rong also quickly slid down the ridge from behind.

On this day, the old man observed, the south gate is to change the defense when the sun is three poles, so in front of the three poles, it is the time when the guards are the most lax, and it is also Mao Jue's opportunity.

The soil method measured the time, a stick was stuck in the snow, and the experienced old man stared at the shadow, although this was not Mao Jue's first battle, but it was the first battle he carefully planned to launch, his heart was anxious, lying in the snow trench, Mao Jue looked down frequently.

The higher the sun and the moon, the warmer the weather, the following pass, there are a few Jin people who enter the city, it is estimated that they are going to Yizhou to visit relatives for the New Year, the guards at the door are not strict, and they are released after muttering a few words to each other, but Mao Jue does not dare to take this risk, after all, this place is too small, and these people are almost acquaintances and it is easy to be exposed to a new person.

After crawling in the snow for about two hours, finally, the counting old soldier gestured three fingers to Mao Jue, and there was still time for three sticks of incense, and the hearts of more than 200 pro-soldiers in front of him were all raised to their throats, and everyone was looking to the north tightly.

But at this juncture, the city gate guard, who was originally lazy, actually walked nervously all of a sudden, and a person walked to the city wall and shouted something to the city wall patrol, and Mao Jue sighed in his heart.

Exposed?

Immediately, his hands tightened again, and he wanted to give himself a slap in the face, and the sun shone obliquely, and his telescope was reflected at this angle, perhaps on someone's face.

But the matter has come to this, and Mao Jue did not put away the telescope, but continued to shake the lens forward, and the bright light kept shaking at the city gate.

In the middle of the cold winter, the wooden gate of Uiju City, which was frozen stiffly, suddenly made a creaking sound......