The night rain did not stop, and the soldiers who patrolled the city at the head of the city all ran down the city wall one after another, and went to the city gate cave to take shelter from the rain. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The hanging gourd city is the state of Yuzhou, after the war in recent years, the city wall, the city tower is broken and repaired, repaired and broken, because of the frequent use of the counterweight trebuchet during the offensive and defensive war, the city tower on the city wall has become very sparse.

One night a few months ago, the soldiers who were patrolling the city at night were making a fire in a castle tower to roast and eat, and accidentally walking in the water almost caused a catastrophe, so the night patrol soldiers were later forbidden to enter the castle tower.

If it is nothing on weekdays, it rains tonight, and only a few soldiers on the night patrol can hide under the eaves of the city tower, and the others can only find another way, anyway, now it is safe, so they hide in the doorway to take a nap.

Military discipline belongs to military discipline, no official will come to inspect this kind of ghost weather, and at this time, most of the night patrols are soldiers, once they get sick in the rain, and they have no money to treat the disease, it is easy to die.

A dozen soldiers huddled in the doorway, talking about rambling topics, lighting a fire, baking their rain-soaked uniforms, and although it was a little cold bare-chested, it was better to be uncomfortable than to be drenched in the rain at the head of the city.

"Don't pick your feet, that smell is really smoky."

"It's itchy feet, it's comfortable to pick."

"It's your itchy feet! The brothers are all crowded, and they are so smoked that they are about to vomit! ”

Laughing and scolding, the soldiers passed the time, they were the weaker soldiers who had been selected as surpluses, and they did not have to go with the army on the march, but had to do some miscellaneous work, which included patrolling the city at night.

If you find that something is wrong outside, you will quickly beat the gong and drum to warn you of the enemy army stealing the city.

However, for today's hanging gourd, there is no enemy army around, so the city defense is a little lax, after all, the boundary of Yuzhou is very peaceful now, and it is the Jingxiang area in Shannan that is unlucky.

A veteran in his forties sighed: "Alas, in the past ten years, there has been a war every three or five days, and I don't know when it will stop." ”

"After this fight, it should stop, Chen Guo seems to be finished, and when the battle between Guanzhong and Shannan is over, the world will be peaceful."

The veteran smiled helplessly: "When the Qi Kingdom was finished, everyone thought so, but what was the result?" ”

"When the Qi State was over, everyone thought that Chen Guo was about to finish, but it was only two or three years later that the war began again, and the fight was seven or eight years, and it was finally stopped, seeing that the Chen State was about to finish again, but now the fight is going to start again, do you say that it is unlucky?"

"This time is different, there are so many soldiers and horses in the hands of the imperial court, will it not be able to take Shannan?"

"Hey, can we take it or not, as long as we don't get unlucky, what do you want to do so much? There won't be an extra piece of meat in the bowl. ”

The soldiers talked a lot, and finally went back to firewood, rice, oil and salt, their status is humble, they don't know a few big characters, they don't have so many ideas, they want to live a peaceful life with their families.

At that time, Yuzhou was still under the rule of Qi, and later the Zhou army broke through Yecheng, and the Qi army in Yuzhou surrendered, so that everyone escaped a catastrophe.

The Zhou State was divided, and the fighting stopped going back and forth, and everyone thought that they could live a peaceful life, but they stopped fighting again after a year.

What "traitors", "killing kings", and "everyone will be punished", ordinary people and soldiers do not know, anyway, the officials will do whatever they want, and the most important thing is to keep their own heads.

This time near the autumn harvest, the officials and troops of the Yuzhou Governor's Office suddenly mobilized, to attack Jingzhou to crusade against the rebels, the old, weak, sick and disabled who were lucky enough to stay in the hanging gourd, although there was no hope of meritorious service, but there was no need to go to the battlefield, only to spend time in the city.

The north of the Yuzhou Governor's Mansion is the Yellow River, the east is the Bozhou Governor's Mansion, the southeast is the Yangzhou Governor's Mansion, the south and southwest are Tongbai Mountain-Dabie Mountain, and the west is the remaining veins of Tongbai Mountain.

And the west side of the Yuzhou Governor's Mansion can enter the boundary of Jingzhou in Shannan through the Fangcheng Pass, and now the main force of the official army has surrounded Fangcheng, and divided the troops to block the three passes of Yiyang in Tongbai Mountain, and there is no enemy who can threaten the Hanging Gourd.

And there are officers and troops marching south from Gwangju to attack the five passes on Dabie Mountain in five ways, and the Huangzhou army at the southern foot of Dabie Mountain is now seeing that it is about to end, and it cannot threaten Gwangju Prefecture, let alone Hangg.

Even if a small number of enemy troops take a small road to bypass the official army and cross the Dabie Mountain, it is not easy to take Guangcheng, not to mention that they have to pass through Xizhou all the way north, and the Xizhou garrison will never let these people succeed.

So why didn't the Hanging Gourd garrison hide from the rain at night and endure hard in the city?

The soldiers crowded into the doorway to hide from the rain, humming and chirping for an unknown amount of time, gradually getting tired and rising, and some even snoring, but after all, they were afraid that the movement would be too big to attract the Shangguan to inspect, so the man was quickly woken up.

"Sleep and snore! When you get bumped into someone, you don't think you get enough whips, right? ”

"Hey, I'll just sleep for a while..."

In the muttering, the soldiers were drowsy, and the city was long gone, and the few soldiers who hid under the eaves of the city tower to hide from the rain also took a nap against the wall.

The sky was full of dark clouds, it was dark everywhere, and the wet ground was only the "rustle" sound of rain falling on the ground, and suddenly a slight muffled sound came, which was the sound of an iron claw stuck in the gap of the female wall at the head of the city.

The three iron hooks of the Iron Claw were wrapped in cloth to minimize the sound of the collision, which was so faint that it was drowned out by the sound of rain falling on the ground, and a moment later, a dark figure appeared beyond the female wall.

It was a man in military uniform, with a sharp knife in his mouth, and he was not wearing armor, he climbed the female wall and looked left and right, and after making sure that there was no one, he skillfully climbed over the female wall, and squatted at the head of the city.

Another man climbed up, and the two of them carefully removed the bow and arrow they had brought with them, and looked back to back at the left and right.

After a while, there were more than ten iron hooks hooking the female wall, and countless black shadows climbed up the wall along the ropes tied by the iron hooks, and they were divided into three strands, one stayed in place, and the two outer strands touched the left and right of the city head.

The elite of the Anzhou army should have gone to Jingzhou, fought bloody battles with the army, and lifted the siege of Fangcheng, but they did not expect that the enemy who came from the five passes of Dabie Mountain was annihilated, so they were ordered to attack from Dabie Mountain and attack Yuzhou Prefecture.

The hanging gourd is less than three hundred miles away from the Gwangju Prefecture Zhiguang City at the northern foot of Dabie Mountain, and the enemy army would never have imagined that when the Fifth Route Army was defeated, the army of the Yuwen clan actually attacked immediately.

The elite cavalry of the Anju Army, disguised as the Yangzhou Army, entered the border of Gwangju by the Muling Pass Road, turned into several separate marches, assembled near the Baigou Station in Xizhou, and then rushed straight to the Hanging Fortress 80 miles away, arriving at the outskirts of the city at night.

The surprise attack on the Hanging Gourd was a powerful counterattack by the Yuwen Clan, carrying the hope of reversing the situation, but they were not sure about the garrison of the Hanging Gourd, if the imperial court had soldiers and horses assembled in the Hanging Gourd, then their move would be like a moth to a fire.

The outcome of the unclear gamble, everyone was ready to die, before the departure of each family was given a field, after the death there was double the pension, and Xiyang Wang Yuwenwen personally led the troops to attack, so that the morale of the soldiers rose to the peak.

The first to climb to the top of the castle quickly eliminated the defenders next to the tower, and then touched down the city wall and killed the soldiers who were hiding in the doorway to avoid the rain, all in a very short time.

The pioneers carried away the corpses, struggled to open the city gate, and the cavalry who had already been ready rushed in, and Yuwenwen, the king of Xiyang, who was draped all over his body, wiped his face soaked with rain, pulled out his saber, and pointed to the depths of the dark street:

"Enter the city and turn the world upside down!"