Li Sheng and the soldiers sat together in the brightly lit ferry wharf and nibbled on dry food, and ate some things in the cold water. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Adjutant General Wang Luo led two soldiers over quickly and hugged his fists at Li Sheng and said, "General, all the ships on the ferry dock are ready, a total of twelve large ships and twenty-eight small boats. The big boats could hold fifty people each, the small boats could carry ten people each, and 900 people could be crossed at a time, and the last general had already selected enough boatmen from among the captives to start crossing the river at any time! ”

Li Sheng stuffed the last bite of pancakes into his mouth, took another sip of water, swallowed the food, and said to Wang Luo: "Okay, let the second battalion send out 600 people, and inform Yang Yihu, the deputy general of the Huya Army, to get ready, and after a quarter of an hour, these 800 people will follow me across the river to raid Pujin Pass!" ”

"No!" Wang Luo agreed, and then asked: "If the general wants to lead troops to raid Pujin Pass, what should I do here?" What to do with these captives? Did they all kill? ”

"The rest of the men and horses will be handed over to you to take over, and you will guard this ferry for me and wait for my news!" Li Sheng paused as he spoke, thinking of the hundreds of rebels who had been captured, these rebel soldiers were all Han Chinese, not barbarians outside the Saiwai, so they were killed, but they were afraid that it would be difficult to explain to the above.

"In addition, you can send people to guard these captives for the time being, and then deal with these captives when I take the Pujin Pass!"

Wang Luo promised: "No! ”

In order to avoid being discovered by the rebels on the Pujin Pass, Li Sheng ordered that no torches should be lit, and no soldiers were allowed to make a sound, even the boatmen who operated the oars had to move slowly and not make the sound of water.

Pujin Pass guards the Hedong (Yongji) ferry, there are not many rebels on the pass, but the terrain here is dangerous, unless a large army is sent to attack in turn, otherwise only these hundreds of people can not take the pass, but then not only heavy casualties, but also take a long time.

But now it is different for Li Sheng, he has two hundred Huya troops under his command, and these two hundred people are all good at climbing mountains and mountains, climbing walls and climbing cities, crossing rivers and wading waters, and the city wall of Pujin Pass cannot stop them at all.

After dozens of ships lightly docked, Li Sheng took the lead in jumping off the boat, waving his hand to the people on board, and the soldiers got off the ship lightly and approached Pujin Pass.

In order to avoid being discovered by the rebels at Pujin Pass, everyone under the leadership of Li Sheng arrived at the city wall of the pass and hid on the side of the mountain walls on both sides, hiding their knives and guns to prevent the moonlight reflection from being discovered by the rebels.

Li Sheng lay on a rock and looked at Pujin Pass in the night, and asked Yang Yihu, the deputy general of the Huya Army beside him, "General Yang, what do you think?" Are you sure? ”

Yang Yihu is the youngest of the eighteen whirlwind horsemen, known as Xuan Eighteen, his martial arts can only rank lower among all the brothers, but his combat effectiveness cannot be underestimated, because his strength is not in the duel on horseback, and he is only the deputy general of the Huya Army, and the commander of the Huya Army is Xuan Sixteen.

Yang Yihu observed Pujin Pass for a while, there was a lantern on the city tower, and through the faint light, you could see that there were no sentry posts standing guard on the city tower, but I was afraid that those sentry posts were sleeping against the wall, and he said to Li Sheng: "No problem, now is the time of Yin, it is the deepest time of the day, as long as we climb the city wall, we will solve the rebel sentry on the city wall!" ”

After speaking, Yang Yihu waved his hand to the two hundred Huya soldiers behind him, and immediately more than a dozen Huya soldiers quietly touched the city wall with ropes and iron hooks on their backs, followed by more than a dozen companions with repeaters, these people immediately squatted on the ground after touching the city wall, and the Huya soldiers with crossbows all aimed at the city tower with crossbow arrows.

At this time, a leading squad leader picked up a small stone from the ground and shook it in his hand, then got up and threw it to the city wall, and after throwing it, he squatted on the ground again.

The stone was thrown into the sky and landed on the city wall, making a crisp sound, and then I heard someone on the city tower screaming: "Who, don't scare me, people will be scared to death!" ”

As soon as the words fell, all the Huya soldiers lying under the city wall saw a spear stand up, and then a figure stood up with his back to the battlement, and then this man leaned down to pick up stones, this person was obviously a rebel soldier standing guard on the city tower.

I saw that the rebel soldier picked up the stone and turned to lean on the battlement and looked under the city wall, and the Huya soldier under the city wall immediately fired a crossbow arrow, only to hear a gentle "whoosh", the rebel sentry was shot in the throat, and then covered the throat of the arrow, and the body fell down under the city wall, and several Huya soldiers in the front row quickly got up and stepped forward together to catch the falling corpse steadily.

The crossbowmen in charge of cover continued to crouch on the ground and use their crossbows to provide cover and guard, while the remaining soldiers in the front row immediately removed the ropes and iron hooks from their backs, and put the iron hooks as crossbow arrows in the firing slots of the crossbow bows and fired them at the battlements on the city wall.

The squad leader of the Huya Army waved his hand: "Up!" ”

The other Huya soldiers took out their daggers and put them in their mouths, and then climbed up the rope quickly and dexterously like apes, which made the other Beiting Army soldiers under Li Sheng's command stunned, I rub, these people still have this kind of ability? In the future, if it is difficult to attack the fortified city, as long as these tiger tooth troops are sent to touch the city wall in the middle of the night, wouldn't it be very easy to control the city gate?

After the first row of Huya soldiers all climbed the city wall, the second row of Huya soldiers put away their crossbow arrows and quickly climbed to the city wall with ropes, and there was a group of Huya soldiers who used crossbow arrows to maintain, this kind of tactical action was very tacit and skillful, obviously after a long time of practice.

・・・・・・Seeing this, Li Sheng immediately rushed to the middle of the road in front of the pass, pulled out his horizontal knife and shouted: "The breakthrough is in front of you, and the soldiers will follow me into the Pujin Pass!" Come on! ”

Everyone took out their weapons and followed Li Sheng into Pujin Pass, shouting as they rushed: "Kill, kill!" ”

The sudden appearance of a large number of shouts and killings woke up the defenders in Pujin Pass, they began to panic, scurrying around, some people just ran out of the barracks and were cut off by the soldiers of the Beiting Army who rushed in, the Beiting Army blocked the rebels in the barracks, came out and cut one by one, after a while, the ground in front of the barracks in the pass was covered with rebel corpses, and some people lived at the gate of the city on the side leading to Anyi City, after hearing the shouts of killing, they immediately opened the gate and fled in the direction of Anyi, and a few people also rode horses, Li Sheng wanted to catch up, but the ferry couldn't carry the war horse before he came, so how could he catch up with the rebels on horseback on foot? The only way to let those rebels run away.

After dawn, all the remaining rebels in Pujin Pass surrendered, and Li Sheng successfully took over the fortress of the pass leading to Hedong, and began to send troops to garrison, arrange sentry posts and patrols, and strengthen the vigilance.

In view of the fact that there have already been rebels fleeing to the direction of Anyi, Li Sheng did not think about continuing to Anyi, firstly, he has too few troops in his hands, and secondly, there are already people fleeing to Anyi, and the rebels in Anyi City will definitely strengthen the garrison, and at this time he has completed most of the tasks assigned by Zhao Ziliang, and only one Feng Ling has not yet been captured.

Li Sheng immediately sent people to cross the river and return to the opposite bank to let the deputy general Wang Luo ferry over to garrison Pujin Pass in his place, and he waited for Wang Luo to arrive and take over the defense before returning to the ferry on the other side, if Shi Daniu did not let Feng Ling's defenders surrender, he would have to find a way to lead his troops to capture Feng Ling.

On the morning of the sixth day of the seventh month, Li Sheng escorted the rebel prisoners captured at Pujin Pass back to the ferry on the west bank of the Yellow River, and screened and interrogated them together with the prisoners at the previous ferry.

Li Sheng found out the military leaders among these people and asked them if they were willing to serve the imperial court, these military leaders were originally the Tang Army, and of course they were willing to be the Tang Army at this time, so Li Sheng appointed these people to continue to be the military leaders, but they were all scattered and then mixed, so as to prevent the acquaintances between them from rebelling again, so that the mixed organization is conducive to strengthening their control, but this also has drawbacks, that is, the combat effectiveness will definitely decline within a period of time.

At this time, a group of 200 soldiers and horses came from Anyi to Pujin Pass, but the armor and banners of the soldiers were An Lushan's men and horses, and the leader was Cui Qianyou, a general under An Lushan.

It turned out that An Lushan in view of the fact that the Beiting Army had arrived in Chang'an, and Zhao Ziliang was a general who could conquer and fight habitually, and the Beiting Army under his command must not be easy to deal with, so he sent Cui Qianyou to guard Pujin Pass, Tongguan and Pujin Pass are the two most important passes to block the eastward advance of the Beiting Army, there is Li Guiren in Tongguan, he is not too worried, but Pujin Pass is not guarded by a general, so in order to reassure himself, he sent Cui Qianyou.

Cui Qianyou and his 200 soldiers were rushing towards Pujin Pass at this time, but when he saw a few panicked soldiers riding horses in front of him, he immediately sent someone to stop them.

After several people were stopped, they were brought to Cui Qianyou, and one of the soldiers begged for mercy and cried: "The general spares his life, spare his life, it's not that I want to be greedy for life and afraid of death and want to escape, but the Tang army is too powerful, if you don't escape, it can only be a dead end!" ”

Cui Qianyou shouted and asked, "Where are you soldiers?" Why run away? ”

"We are all soldiers in Pujin Pass, the Tang Army suddenly entered the pass last night, we were caught off guard, we could only flee in panic, and the general spared my life!"

Cui Qianyou's face changed greatly, "What? The Tang army raided Pujin Pass last night? What is the situation in Kannai now? Say it, or Ben will kill you in no time! ”

"The Tang army suddenly entered the pass, whether it was a soldier or a general, they were defenseless, the brothers suffered heavy casualties, and Pujin Pass was only afraid of being lost at this time!"

The words of this deserter made Cui Qianyou realize that the trouble was big, and if he lost Pujin Pass, the Tang army could march to Hedong from the direction of Pujin Pass at any time, and the role of Tongguan as a defense against the Tang army's eastward advance would also decline, and Tongguan's defensive strength against the west was not large.

In addition, Sun Xiaozhe is about to lead 100,000 troops out of Tongguan to attack the Beiting Army, at this time, if the Beiting Army crosses the river from Hedong to harass, then Sun Xiaozhe is afraid that he will not be able to attack with all his strength, and he has to guard against the Tang Army crossing the river from Hedong to attack his back road.

Although Cui Qianyou was anxious, he also knew that there was no way to take full power at this time, so he could only quickly return to Anyi with two hundred personal soldiers to deploy defense to prevent the Tang army from killing him, and at the same time send people to Luoyang to report to An Lushan. (To be continued.) )