"When you arrive in this town, the front is not far from Bozhou, so all departments must be vigilant, Wang Qiu, you lead the troops to copy from the right; Liu Zhuo, you led your troops to copy from the left, and you can't let one person escape. "The commander of the forward cavalry is the commander Wang Shibin, who is also a young general.

From the time the troops were dispatched to the present, the cavalry of the Wu army was marching towards Bozhou at a very fast speed, galloping for nearly 100 miles in one day, and also defeated several patrols of the Liang army in the middle, and then arrived here.

By this time, everyone was exhausted, and the horses were panting and tired, so it was necessary to spend the night in this town.

In order to prevent the news from leaking, it is naturally necessary to control all the people in the town.

Under Wang Shibin's order, the two teams of cavalry separated left and right to outflank the town, and soon surrounded the town.

At this time, the lame middle-aged man and the ninth uncle had just prepared food, water, etc., and came out to greet them.

"Xiaomin and others welcome the generals here, these drinks and food are a little bit of the hearts of the villagers, and the generals are invited to enjoy it." The white-haired old man trembled and raised the flask in his hand.

"Okay, do you know who I'm waiting for?" Wang Shibin raised the horsewhip in his hand, pointed at the old man, and then asked.

"This ......" the old man glanced up at the visitor, and said with some fear, "The generals seem to be from the south?" ”

"Huh? You old man has some knowledge. Wang Shibin was a little surprised.

They also passed many villages along the way, but many of those people thought they were cavalry of the Liang army and did not recognize them as Wu army.

It is no wonder, after all, when the two countries were still at war, the Wu army never invaded Bozhou; In the past few years, Wu and Liang have remained peaceful, and the people of Liang on the side of Bozhou have never had the opportunity to see Wu Jun, and they will not expect that Wu Jun will suddenly come here.

Wang Shibin said with a smile: "Since you know that we are from the south, then I will ask you in the future, do you have Liang Jun in this town?" How many Liang troops are stationed around here? ”

The old man didn't dare to hide it, and replied directly: "Our town has a small population, and there is no Liang army stationed in peacetime, but there is a post station five miles away from here, where a small number of Liang troops are garrisoned. ”

For the old man, what court, what righteousness, these are not comparable to the lives of the people of a town, and he will not ignore everyone's lives for the sake of these news.

"A post station five miles away?" Wang Shibin thought for a while, and then asked, "Will the Liang army there come here to inspect?" ”

"I come once in a while, but I don't usually come." The old man replied.

Wang Shibin nodded, and asked again: "Do you know anything about the situation in Bozhou?" ”

"Bozhou?" Before the old man could answer, the lame middle-aged man was shocked in his heart: "It seems that Wu Jun came here this time, and it is indeed not good." ”

In the past few years, the people of Wu have not moved at all, so that many people are used to keeping peace with Wu; Now Wu Jun suddenly came here, and he was still asking about the news from Bozhou, which was obviously an attempt at Bozhou.

However, just like the old man's thoughts, for him, will revealing the intelligence of Bozhou lead to Bozhou being attacked by the Wu army, what does it have to do with him?

He fought in Hebei for the Liang State, and one leg was lame, but he did not receive any compensation after returning, which made him very disappointed in the Liang court; Perhaps it would be a good choice to let Wu manage Bozhou.

At this time, the old man had already spoken: "The general wants to inquire about the news from Bozhou?" The little people don't know. However, my seventh child also went to Bozhou City yesterday, and he must know some news. As he spoke, his gaze looked at the middle-aged man beside him.

The middle-aged man did not hesitate, and immediately spoke: "General, as far as I know, I heard that Bozhou is preparing to send troops to exterminate the rebel party recently. ”

"Destroy the rebels? Did they send troops? How many troops were sent? How many people are left behind? Who are the generals who stayed behind? Wang Shibin knew in his heart that what he was talking about should be the matter of pacifying King Hui's rebels.

"This ......" the middle-aged man smiled bitterly: "General, these specific circumstances are not clear. ”

Wang Shibin nodded, while asking, he ordered the soldiers to enter the town to search, and after confirming that there was indeed no Liang army in the town, he ordered the whole army to enter the town to rest, leaving only a few people outside to be responsible for guarding.

At the same time, he quickly sent back the news he had received and told it to Chai Kehong, who commanded the main cavalry.

Soon after, Chai Kehong led a large group of cavalry to arrive here, and began to dismount and rest, feed the horses some forage, replenish water, etc.

This time, in order to make the raid go smoothly, in addition to the 3,000 cavalry, they also concentrated thousands of war horses, which were responsible for transporting grain and grass to facilitate the advance of the army.

So at this time, they don't need to bother with collecting forage and other problems, and they can rest in peace.

In addition to resting, Chai Kehong did not forget to send a message to Li Chengding in the rear, telling him the progress here.

This place is only thirty miles away from Bozhou, and the cavalry will be able to arrive quickly, so he plans to rest in this town tonight, and send troops to attack Bozhou early tomorrow morning.

Of course, before launching the attack, Chai Kehong naturally did not forget to determine the actual situation in Bozhou first.

Although he inquired about some news from the villagers, in the final analysis, these villagers had limited knowledge and the information they received was also limited, which could not make Chai Kehong satisfied.

So he immediately ordered an army of five hundred men to raid the post five miles away, hoping to capture some prisoners from there in order to get the news.

This task was quickly explained, and Wang Shibin personally led 500 people led by the locals to capture the prisoners, and did not return until late at night.

"General, the last general successfully completed the mission, captured seven prisoners, and did not let any of them go." Wang Shibin hugged his fists.

"Okay, did you ask them?" Chai Kehong asked indifferently.

"General, I have already inquired, according to their explanation, the army of Bozhou only received the order at noon today, and is ready to attack and intercept the rebels of King Hui; However, Wen Tao was impatient to wait, so after receiving the order, he took an army of more than 7,000 people to march first, leaving less than 1,000 troops to defend the city......"

It turned out that the name of the Bozhou Assassin was Wen Tao, and this person was originally Li Maozhen's general, Li Maozhen promoted Huayuan County to Yaozhou, and ordered him to be the Yaozhou Assassin.

Later, Wen Tao repeated between the Liang State and the Qi State, sometimes descending to Liang, sometimes descending to Qi, but always guarding the vicinity of Chang'an in Guanzhong, for as long as seven years.

Within these seven years, the imperial tombs of the Tang Dynasty, as long as they were within his jurisdiction, except for the Qianling Tomb, all the others were stolen by him, allowing him to steal a large amount of gold, silver, jewelry, etc., but also caused catastrophic damage to these imperial tombs, many precious calligraphy and paintings were lost because of him, it can be said that this person is a more notorious tomb thief than Sun Dianying in later generations.

Two years ago, Zhu Youqian rebelled against Liang and introduced the Jin army as reinforcements; After the Jin army arrived, they defeated the Liang army and entered the pass, Wen Tao was afraid, so he sent a large number of jewels obtained from tomb robbery to Zhang Hanjie and others, and was finally transferred to Bozhou Assassin History.

This rebellion of King Hui should have been a good opportunity for Wen Tao to make meritorious contributions, but because of Huo Yanwei's delay, Wen Tao never got the order to attack, and he was already impatient to wait.

So when Huo Yanwei's order to send troops at noon today, Wen Tao naturally immediately attacked with an army of 7,000 people; As for Huo Yanwei's original order to only let him send 5,000 troops, he had long forgotten it.

Adjutant General Feng Shuo asked, "I took 7,000 people to the battle, leaving only 1,000 people to defend the city?" Wen Tao has always spared his life, why is he so active in fighting this time? ”

"This is normal, King Hui's rabble has been defeated, and now it is just beating the water dogs, Wen Tao will naturally be positive about this opportunity to make meritorious contributions." Wang Shibin said disapprovingly.

"Since the enemy army has only a thousand men left to defend the city, it is more likely that our army's surprise attack will succeed tomorrow. This is a good thing, but everyone should also pay attention to the fact that tomorrow's war must be resolved quickly and without delay; Now the various units immediately go back to prepare, and send troops early tomorrow morning. Chai Kehong immediately ordered.

"The last will obey." The generals hurriedly replied, and their faces showed joy.

The current situation couldn't be better for them, Wen Tao was originally just a bandit from a bandit, and he was not good at regular warfare or anything; If it weren't for the gold, silver and jewelry obtained from tomb robbing, how could he have achieved the position of the assassin of Bozhou, let alone be prosperous in the Liang Kingdom.

This time, Wu Jun's forwards were already approaching Bozhou for thirty miles, but Liang Jun did not receive any news at all, although part of the reason for this was because Wu Jun's secrecy measures were done well, but more importantly, because Wen Tao did not have the slightest vigilance.

Now that the Wu army is about to be killed at his house, he is out with most of the army, leaving only a thousand people to defend the city, isn't this looking for death?

After resting in the town for the night, early the next morning, Chai Kehong continued his march to Bozhou.

Along the way, the Wu army did not encounter any Liang troops patrolling, but many people thought that it was the cavalry of the Liang army crossing the border after seeing them, and they were not at all frightened by their arrival.

Towards noon, Wu's army finally arrived in Bozhou, facing a city with few troops defending, and the city gate was open, and the defenders were lax.

At this time, Wen Tao's nephew Wen Xuan, the guard general in Bozhou City, was still drinking and eating meat with his subordinates, and he didn't know any news about the arrival of Wu Jun.

When he got the news that Wu Jun had entered the city, he panicked and prepared to flee with his guards, but it was too late.