Feng Minda strode into the main room of the post station, patted Shen Chenxing, who was leaning against the wall and napping, and asked clearly! ”

Shen Chen was excited, rubbed the extremely obvious dark circles under his eyes, stood up and said, "How?" How many people are there in Lee Kwang Yan? ”

Fine-sealed Minda picked up the water bag placed on the ground, first tilted his neck and poured a breath, and said: "There are only two cardinals in the city, but there are only two copies of each account, and all of them are deputy soldiers, most of them are original free people or Han slaves, and there are only twelve tents in the elite of the Tuoba family in armor, which is left by Tuoba Yi Yin to Tuoba Guangyan to control the team in the city...... The city of Rulin County is only two zhang high, the south side is not even set up with a battlement, there are only eight tents of soldiers patrolling the city every night, each change is rotated, scattered on the four sides of the city wall, the south side of the city wall is only two tents of soldiers and eight people patrol the night, two cardinal inscriptions take turns to defend the city wall according to the single and double days, the water of the moat is the water of the Wuding River, about five to six feet deep, the width is twelve to thirteen steps......

Shen Chen's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he asked, "Are you sure no one ran out?" ”

Fine-sealed Minda said: "None of them ran away...... This doesn't need to be determined, there are only four people in the entire military station, three heads, and an Akni, what I just said! ”

Shen Chen nodded, rubbed his hands slowly, and said, "The moat is a big problem......

Fine Feng Minda narrowed his eyes: "You want to fight Rulin?" ”

Shen Chen nodded: "The army's food is not enough, I haven't seen a single stockade along the way, and there is no place to replenish it." In two days, the team will run out of food. ”

Xi Feng Minda said: "Rulin is the city of Yinzhou. In such an important place, don't you wait for the master or the old man to give orders? Otherwise......"

He said this but did not continue, Wei Xun, who was sitting on the side and snoring loudly, seemed to feel something, stopped snoring and wiped the saliva on the side of his mouth with his sleeve, and said: "As long as you can win, I have no opinion!" ”

Let's talk about it. Snoring again......

Shen Chen said: "There are hundreds of us, and we can't hide in such a small post station, Li Guangyan will soon know that we are coming." Once he knew about it, he would impose martial law in Yinzhou City, open a warehouse to release grain, and then issue weapons to all the people in the city and drive them up the city wall. In that case, it will be difficult to fight again. Although the total strength of our army is ten times that of the enemy, that is not counting the common people in the city. If you really count it, people may not be less than us. Therefore, Yinzhou either does not fight, if it wants to fight, it must be fast, and if you see it, you can't hesitate! ”

Xifeng Minda pouted: "Your prison army has no opinion, if your commanders also agree, I have no opinion." ”

Shen Chen woke up a herald and asked him to summon a meeting of officers above the command of the army.

Since a fire was unleashed on the edge of the meadow, the entire army of the Guanbei camp turned around, and instead of going straight down to Tongwancheng along the Qinzhi Avenue, they crossed the mountains in the east and returned to the root of the Great Wall. Marching northeast along the Great Wall, they completely disengaged from King Arrow's forces. It wasn't until three days later that King A Luo led his cavalry, which was almost roasted by the fire, to return to the Qin Straight Road, only to find that the enemy army, which had penetrated deep into the territory of the party, had disappeared inexplicably.

It will take some time for King A Luo to communicate with Tuoba Guangxiu, Tuoba Yiyu's nephew and uncle of Xiazhou about this matter, and at this moment, the Guanbei coalition army has crossed the Hengshan Mountains and appeared in Yinzhou.

The coalition forces occupied Ningshuo on the third day of disengagement with the enemy.

Ningshuo County is the Tang Dynasty Dahun Governor's Office, belonging to the original Yantuo Department of the settlement area. After the rise of the Tuoba family, they destroyed the Yantuo tribe and turned it into a slave of the Tuoba family. When the coalition army marched into the so-called Ningshuo county, they found that the Tuoba nobles in this chest-high earthen enclosure had fled, and they took all the cattle, sheep, livestock and grain with them, leaving only some old, weak, sick and disabled slaves to stay where they were.

The slaves were scrawny and scrawny, and they looked at people like fat sheep.

It's a pity that the coalition forces themselves have limited food, and there is no surplus to help these people.

Therefore, the coalition forces did not camp in the county seat, but chose to be in the mountains five miles north of the county seat.

These are desperately hungry people. I really don't know what to do.

After coming out of Ningshuo, the coalition army marched north through the Hengshan Mountains for two days and two nights, and finally on the sixth day they broke through the gradually low but rather beautiful mountains. This piece is called Wildcat Mountain, and the two rivers of Dangcha and Yuxi flow into the Wuding River in the south and north. The alluvial plains formed by the confluence of the three rivers are covered with a few golden colors, and here you can see a rare agricultural scene on the territory of the Dingyan Army.

Rulin County, the seat of Yinzhou governance, is on this alluvial plain.

Since Ningshuo, the Yan'an regiment, which was originally in charge of the left flank of the army, has become the vanguard, and it is no wonder who let the Yan'an regiment have the only cavalry in the whole army?

The large army is still behind, and Shen Chen's current location is behind a small hillside less than three miles away from Yinzhou City, which is close to the Yinxia Post Road built along the Wuding River Valley, so the party members built the last post station outside Yanzhou City here.

To the north of Yinzhou is the Wuding River, and opposite the wharf in the north of the city is the entrance of a tributary of the Wuding River called the Rulin River. On the wharf, there are nearly 200 large and small ships docked, which are responsible for the mission of transporting the grain and straw supplies that have been uniformly requisitioned and assembled in Yinzhou upstream, and more than 10,000 Dingnan troops rely on this Rulin River to maintain the grain route.

Tuoba Yiyin attacked Fuzhou this time, and set up a grain and straw heavy transfer department in Yinzhou, with Yinzhou defense envoy Tuoba Guangyan as the transshipment envoy, responsible for the unified grain and grass dispatch in the rear.

So important

However, only two of the Pivotal Commander's troops remained, and most of them were old and weak and slave soldiers.

This can't be blamed on Tuoba Yiyin, Yinzhou is really too far away from Yanzhou, and there are many mountains in the middle, separated by Xiazhou and Suizhou.

If you attack along the avenue, the enemy army in the south does only have two roads, one is to go out of Luzi Pass and go straight up to Tongwancheng along the Qin Straight Road, and then go down the river along the Yinxia Road in the Wuding River Valley; The other is to go out of Weiping Pass and then trace the lower reaches of the Wuding River upstream, and first conquer Suizhou, an important town in the southeast. Then pass through the two major landing defense areas of Yelijia and Fei Tingjia to reach Yinzhou.

Therefore, theoretically, Yinzhou has sufficient warning time, and there is no need to be afraid of enemy attacks.

Of course, this time it was a very coincidental accident that the Li coalition army extended the city.

People who are accustomed to fighting on horseback can easily form a mindset and leave the road. All mountainous areas are natural barriers.

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Therefore, when the Yan'an regiment had already touched the tip of Yinzhou's nose, the defenders of the Dingyan Army in the city were still unaware.

The bank of the moat is only about twenty steps from the head of the city, and it is illuminated and reflected by the *** on the city, and the moon is very round tonight, and it is almost impossible to approach the city wall without being discovered under such visual conditions.

Theoretically, this situation is beneficial to the defenders.

The premise is that the defenders have enough troops.

The situation was reversed when only eight soldiers patrolled the wall more than two hundred paces wide, and three of them were still lazy and dozing.

Of course, only four of the two tent soldiers in the city were Tuoba freedmen's lieutenants, and the other four were slave soldiers, of course. At this moment, these deputy soldiers are called regular soldiers, and slave soldiers are called auxiliary soldiers.

Three party soldiers dozed against the city wall, and a diligent party soldier led four slave soldiers on patrol.

When the sound of horses' hooves came from outside the city, the leading party soldier was confused and stunned into the darkness in the distance, he was not informed that friendly troops would arrive this evening, but listening to the sound, it was clearly a large cavalry team, and this party man estimated that at least a cavalry force of more than ten tents could make such a move.

Several party soldiers who were dozing off were awakened by the sound, and they stood up in a daze and looked out of the city. It was as strange as the party soldier who first discovered the situation.

The rammed railings on the walls of the two zhang heights were waist-high, and the upper bodies of the defenders were exposed beyond the protection of the walls. None of them were armoured, their shields were all on the ground, their scimitars were still in their sheaths, and they had no sense of battle.

The party leader scolded a few slaves who were beginning to look panicked, then turned his head and ordered one of the party members to report to his boss for instructions.

Until this moment. The defenders also identified the cavalry outside the city as friendly troops from the direction of Xiazhou, which was often the case both in peacetime and in wartime.

When Xifeng Minda and the others rode to the moat, the enemy troops in the city were still in a daze, and the party members who had been ordered to report and ask for instructions had just walked down the city.

The cavalry of the Yan'an regiment dismounted one after another, and then stood in a row, raising the crossbow machine in their hands against the seven enemy soldiers who were quite eye-catching in the city head.

The party officer shouted, and he realized that something was wrong—

With a dense sound of breaking the sky. A row of extremely kinetic crossbow arrows flew up to the top of the city, and immediately there was a scattered cry and shouting, and five of the seven defenders at the head of the city fell, and the other two party soldiers who did not fall woke up from their hazy sleep in an instant. He then quickly fell to the ground to avoid the second wave of enemy bolts.

Under his loud order, more than 20 scout cavalry jumped into the moat on horseback, less than six feet deep in the river, not at all more than a horse's head, but the river water in late autumn was really a little cold, the young men of the scout team gritted their teeth, and the moat was more than ten steps wide, and they crossed it in a blink of an eye.

Unable to build ladders, the scouts quickly dismounted after crossing the river, erected a wall of men one on top of the other, and sent the two soldiers to the top of the city.

From the time the crossbow bolt was fired to this time, it was only half a moment in total, and the alarm bell had just sounded in the city.

The first to climb the city was Kang Shishi, who held a B-type crossbow in his left hand and a flat knife in his mouth, and slowly rose to the top of the city under the help of the brothers under him.

A party soldier who had just fallen to the ground had just gotten up, and after hesitating for a long time whether to run down the city or stay in the city, Kang Shi's upper body had already appeared on the outside of the city wall.

The party soldier had just pulled out the scimitar at this time, and before he could raise the knife, with a "boom-" sound, Kang Shi fired a crossbow arrow, and in a hurry, the crossbow arrow passed through the lower abdomen of the party soldier, and pierced out from behind his waist, he screamed and fell to the ground, Kang Shi leaned forward, threw the crossbow machine on the city with his left hand, took off the knife in his mouth, rolled forward, and stood up straight at the city, and at this moment the other party soldier was so frightened that he screamed, and fled to the city with his hands and feet.

Kang Shi did not hesitate. He stood up and stepped over, wielding his knife and cutting off the head of the party soldier who was rolling around in the city with his stomach in his hands.

At this time, another of his companions climbed up to the top of the city, and the scout, who had not yet had time to launch the crossbow machine in his hand, quickly pounced on the other side of the city, pointed at the streets in the city, and took on the task of guarding.

For the party soldier who ran away with a shout, this young scout named Zhang Guizhi paid no attention to it. In this kind of battle, no one comes to reload the ballista, so each crossbow machine is fighting

Launch once, you have to throw it away when you run out, this launch opportunity, you must play a role when you have to keep it, it's too wasteful to kill this kind of deserter.

At this time, with the help of Kang Shi, two more soldiers climbed to the top of the city, and these two people did not stop after going to the city. He trotted down the stairs and ran down the city to open the gates.

Guarding the gate of the south city is a tent Tuoba family soldiers, four people hidden in the city gate hole, at first heard the sound of horses' hooves did not care, until they heard the sound of the city just now to react to the wrong, just about to go to the city, but was frightened by the terrible wave of crossbow arrows of the enemy outside the city, for the city head parapet is highly aware of the high level of several people until this moment blindly rushed to the city wall to do the target, so simply nested in the door hole, holding the sword and shield in the hand quietly waiting. They knew that the enemy was besieging the city. Immediately after going to the city, they came down and opened the gates of the city, and received the large army from outside the city into the city.

Sure enough, with the sound of hurried footsteps, two soldiers in cavalry armor ran down with crossbows in one hand and knives in the other, and after going down the stairs, they turned sideways into the city gate.

The streets were sprinkled with blue and white moonlight, and the barracks in the distance were in a commotion. The sound of stray footsteps began to sound, and the sleeping enemy began to react.

As soon as they entered the dark doorway, the two scouts narrowed their eyes to adjust to the darkness of the doorway.

At that moment, a flash of white light flashed, and a sharpened scimitar slashed diagonally through the gap in the neck of the armor into the scout's neck, smashing his collarbone straight through to the chest. Crushed the top three ribs and split the heart, lungs and other internal organs in half.

The viscous and fishy hot liquid splashed the knife-wielding party member's body, and the scout let go of his hands, and the crossbow fell to the ground. A dying hiss followed.

The scout behind him immediately stopped, and without hesitation, he picked up the crossbow in his hand and wrenched his iron teeth at the darkness.

In such a small space, the chance of missing a crossbow arrow was extremely small, only a mournful cry was heard, but a party soldier was shot in the shoulder, and the companion beside him who was swinging his knife at the scout was even worse, and the two crossbow arrows hit him in the front of the head in unison, and the unlucky fellow fell to the ground like a rotten log before he could make a sound.

Immediately, your scout swung his sword and pounced on the three party soldiers inside the city gate.

There was a creaking sound of wheels spinning at the top of the city, and it was the scouts who had climbed the city to turn their winches and lower the drawbridge.

The noise coming from below the city alarmed Kang Stone, and by this time seven scouts had already ascended the city, two of them putting the drawbridge.

Kang Shi pointed at a scout named You Sanxiao and said, "You come with me!" ”

The two of them went down the stairs down the city wall, and the sound of weapons clashing in the city gate cave had stopped, and only the sound of continuous swords into flesh was heard.

There were still two party soldiers left under the city gate, and the chest of the party soldier who had just been wounded by the crossbow arrow was stirred to pieces by the sharp and sharp head of the flat knife, and at the same time, a party soldier hidden in the dark slashed the scout's back, and the fallen scout did not say a word, but clung to one of the legs of the enemy who had cut him over, and the party soldier kept falling with a scimitar, and the knife was slashed on the back of the scout, and the back armor made of leather had been broken by the scimitar, and the blood kept splashing, and the meat crumbs were flying. The party soldier who slashed people with a knife didn't know how many knives he had chopped, and the scout never screamed, but just hugged one of the party soldier's legs and refused to let go.

"Hey...... You *** help me-" The sweaty party soldier said to his companion.

The companion had picked up the crossbow that the scout had thrown on the ground, and was studying it with his tongue in curiosity, deaf to his cries.

The party soldier gasped for exhaustion and scolded, "This guy ...... Are you dead or not......"

At this moment, Kang Shi and You Sanxiao, who were hiding at the entrance of the ladder, had already adapted to the light in the doorway, You Sanxiao gently pulled the iron teeth, and the party soldier who was studying the enemy's advanced weapons screamed and was nailed to the ground. And Kang Shishi walked into the city gate hole coldly, raised his knife diagonally, and slashed down at the party soldier who was holding one leg.

The party soldier couldn't move, and he desperately brushed the knife of Kang Shi with the knife in both hands, only to feel that his arm was sore, and it took too much strength to cut down the enemy under his feet.

Kang Shi did not pretend, and cut it down with a knife.

The party soldier squeezed again, and this time he was pressed by Kang Shi's strength and half knelt down on one leg.

Kang Shi's third knife was slashed down......

This time, the weak-armed party soldiers no longer had the strength to raise the scimitar in their hands......

With the creaking of the doorway shaft, the gates opened......

Storm into the city, anyone with a sword in his hand is an enemy, no matter how to kill—

Hosophon Minda gave the order.

In the darkness in the distance, Shen Chen breathed a sigh of relief and gave an order to Yang Li beside him: "The whole army of the right battalion enters the city and crushes all resistance

After dawn, we will have breakfast in Lee Kwang Yan's mansion......"