Ju County, the northernmost part of Jiyin Prefecture, is also the border with Yanzhou Prefecture.

Thousands of Shanyang soldiers and soldiers, mixed with heavy soldiers and people, totaled tens of thousands of people marching south in the snow. When he arrived in Ju County, he passed through the border under the "escort" of the defenders of Ju County and continued south.

"Well, there is nothing abnormal, it seems that they are really transporting grain and grass for the land of Fengwei County. I ought to report the situation here to the Governor, lest he be worried. After hearing that the Shanyang Army's baggage team had moved south for dozens of miles, the general of the Juxian garrison breathed a sigh of relief. They are the northernmost part of Jiyin Mansion and the front line of the Shanyang Army, so there are more than 8,000 defenders here. It's not that he's timid, it's that the Shanyang Army has been in the limelight lately, and he can't be careless.

A day later, the Juxian garrison general Su Yi was reported on the side, and another logistics team of the Shanyang Army came down from the north, slightly smaller than the first one. Although he didn't understand why he didn't set off together, he didn't dare to be careless, and sent a large army to "escort" them and send them out of the country. I'm afraid that the baggage team of the seven or eight thousand Shanyang Army will do something here in the county seat of Juxian County.

However, on the afternoon of the third day, another team of seven or eight thousand came to the north, which was also the baggage team of the Shanyang Army, and Su Yi was very puzzled why the baggage team of the Shanyang Army did not set off at the same time, but moved forward intermittently. Cautious, he also sent someone to ask, and Shanyang Jun's answer was also very simple. Because it was not clear what the road ahead was, the first baggage team was needed to explore the way. After that, it passes along the lì. Of course, it was also in order to raise more grain and grass for the south, so the first batch of goods was brought first, and the second and third batches were followed by a little later.

Seeing the other party say this, Su Yi relaxed a little. Although the Shanyang Army and the Yanzhou Army are now fighting in alliance and standing on the same front, it does not mean that there is no hostility between the two sides. This time, the Shanyang army transported grain and grass for the south, and the Yanzhou government troops along the road were careful and careful.

"What? Are they going to stay here for the night? It's not dark yet! When Su Yi heard that his subordinates had reported that the Shanyang Army's baggage team was going to spend the night here, he felt a little uneasy in his heart. Although the team of the Shanyang Army is a baggage team, together with the people and guards, it is seven or eight thousand people. The reason why there are so many people is that the heavy snow and slippery roads are also a reason. The defenders in the city were only 8,000 men, and the other side's baggage soldiers were 7,000. How dare he let the other party stay by his side?

"General, they say, it gets dark very quickly in winter, and here is still a long way from the next village. By the time we arrived, it was already dark. Traveling in the wilderness, they are really not sure. General, in the eyes of his subordinates, what they said is true. In addition, most of them camped outside the city to rest, but they needed to buy some food and cold wine in the city. The North Gate Gate Ling said in a deep voice.

"Forget it, stay and stay, you must take care of them, and there must be no accidents, otherwise, it will not only be me who will be unlucky at that time, but you will also be difficult to protect." Su Yi explained in a deep voice.

The North Gate Gate Ling breathed a sigh of relief, he had taken the benefit of the Shanyang Army's baggage team, and he couldn't help but handle things well. Now that Su Yi agreed, there was basically no surprise.

In the middle of the night, the sky began to fall again with snowflakes that had been heard for less than two days. The sky was called by the north wind, and the snowflakes that gradually began to grow larger fell from the sky, and soon the earth was covered with a layer of snow white. All of a sudden, the whole world seemed to be a snow-white world wrapped in silver makeup. Even though it was night, the fire in the makeshift camp still lit up the surroundings through the snow. On weekdays and nights, it was pitch black all around, but now when you look at it, it has a faint grayish white.

Five miles away from the north of the city, the temporary camp of the Shanyang Army's baggage team is here. Although the whole camp was silent, none of the soldiers in the camp rested, all of them were neatly equipped and on standby in the tents.

In the snow, the soldiers on duty stood in various places, and many snowflakes had fallen on the black armor, but the soldiers did not feel the slightest discomfort.

"This God, in just half a month, it has been rained several times, and it is endless." The first lieutenant looked at the snowflakes outside the tent that were blown into the big tent by the north, and couldn't help but say.

"Although it may not be too good for the people. But for us, that's the best thing. It should be said that God is helping us, and with this snow, our movement is much easier. Another lieutenant on the side said happily.

"I don't know if the first two roads have arrived at the designated place, and we need to go down to the three counties. As a result, the three southeastern counties of Jiyin Prefecture, Juxian, Chengyang, and Qi County were occupied by our army, and Xu Jie, who was stuck in the narrow place of Luzhou Mansion. ”

The generals of the third road, Min Zhongyuan, the fifth lieutenant of the right capital, said in a deep voice: "No matter what, we must act. As planned, after tonight, this place will be ours. Tomorrow, the follow-up garrison and civilian officials will arrive to take over the administrative affairs of the place and provide relief to the surrounding displaced people and disaster victims. Needless to say, the rest, even if the previous ones can't catch up, it won't have much impact on the overall situation. After all, in such weather, it would be even more difficult to transmit information about the breach of the city to the rear. In addition, in the land of Jiyin Mansion, in addition to the 8,000 defenders here, the rest of the counties and the defenders from all over the country are less than 1,000 people, and it will definitely not be too difficult to take them. ”

"Have you taken out all the armor and equipment hidden in the weight of grain and grass?"

"Lord Hui, all the baggage soldiers and young men have been organized, and they are ready to act at any time." Lieutenant Zuo reported in a deep voice.

"What about the enemy sentries watching us outside the camp?"

"It's all cleaned up!"

"Very well, the army left a thousand heavy soldiers to guard the camp, and the rest of the soldiers all set out from the flanks and went straight to the south gate. Along the way, no ignition or too loud noise. After the first song entered the city, he went straight to the south gate and took it down. The second song is the East Gate. The third and fourth songs occupy the treasury, granary, and county government in the city. Let's go! ”

In the snowy night, it is indeed not easy to travel, and the cold wind cuts the face like a knife, especially at night, which is even colder. However, for the Shanyang Army, it is not a big problem, after all, this is in the north of the city, and there is no danger. After a stick of incense, six thousand soldiers rushed to the city of Juxian in the dark night, and the city did not react at all, it looked like a dead city. Of course, in such a situation, and there is no war on the body, there will naturally be no stupid soldiers guarding the city on the city wall.

"Let's get our people, on!" Min Zhongyuan waved his right hand fiercely, and more than 100 of the most elite soldiers came out of the crowd and quietly rushed towards the city wall. These more than 100 soldiers are not armored, but white cotton clothes, which look no different from a snowdrift in the snow from a distance. Of course, the most important thing is not to prevent the other party from inspecting, but to facilitate quick action and avoid the crackling sound of metal striking during quick action.

In a remote corner, rows of ziplines flew up, tightly clasped on the long wall of Juxian County. In the vast snowy night, on the city wall of Ju County, one white dot after another is climbing towards the city wall.

The soldiers who had gone up to the city all went to the sentry tower, and then a series of crossbow arrows were fired, killing several of the soldiers on duty. Immediately afterwards, the lazy and sleeping Yanzhou army in the hidden soldier cave and the city gate tower in the city wall will be solved one by one. Even the greedy city gate order was slain in his sleep, and in a moment's time, the news of the three hundred defenders above the tower was so silent. And in the howling wind, some of the sounds produced were simply not enough for the Yanzhou army under the city to notice. Before they knew it, the defenders on the walls of the northern city of Juxian County had been eliminated.

Immediately, the soldiers on the city walls began to lower their ropes and lure more soldiers up the city. Dozens of ropes, and it didn't take long to lead a song of five hundred soldiers to the city. Gathering their men, they brandished their long knives and rushed straight to the city gates.

In the middle of the night, the soldiers of the Yanzhou Mansion of the large battalion began to gather in a hurry and rushed towards the city gate, but unfortunately they did not wait for them to arrive, the north gate of Juxian County had been opened, and the suspension bridge had fallen.

Seeing this, Min Zhongyuan, who had been waiting for a long time, put down the worry in his heart for a moment, and the long knife was quietly tortured

"Put rockets, let the indecisive Yanzhou Mansion military law in the city see, my Shanyang army has broken the city. If you still don't come to your senses, Hugh blame will be a prisoner in the future, instead of surrendering before the battle. I don't believe it, we've stormed the city, and these bastards can't see what to do? Entering the north, Min Zhongyuan arrogantly ordered, "As long as they are dispersed, this city will be ours, brothers, kill me!" ”

In fact, among the 8,000 Yanzhou government troops in the city, there are also some officers who have been secretly bribed by the Shanyang army, both large and small. Although this time there is no direct explanation of the matter. But they have also been tempted before, so that they are ready to move. But these officers were a little uncertain, because after the battle between Xu Jie and the Xuzhou Army in Luzhou Mansion, they doubted whether Xu Jie had contacted the Xuzhou Army again, so that most of these officers began to waver again about the attraction of the Shanyang Army. Although tonight's action did not rule these people, the sound of the open fire and the arrow was the statement of the time of the incident, and it was the action order that the Shanyang Army first told these people.

On one side is the well-prepared, swarming and fighting Shanyang soldiers, the other side is really caught off guard, and I don't know what happened, I just got up from the camp, and I haven't adapted to the cold weather for a while. As soon as the battle began, it became a one-sided trend, and the soldiers of the northern camp of the city were suddenly scattered by the Shanyang army.

You must know that in the camp north of the city, in order to prevent the movement of the Shanyang army, nearly half of the soldiers in the city were stationed here, totaling 4,000 people. But tonight, he didn't resist for long, and he was scattered by the Shanyang army.

Sure enough, as Min Zhongyuan expected, after the soldiers of the camp north of the city scattered and fled all at once, the other defenders in the city immediately learned that thousands of Shanyang troops broke through the north city of the city and killed them in the city. And the soldiers of the camp north of the city can't stop it.

Hu Changhe, the captain of Zhiguo, who had just prepared to support from the south of the city, was hurrying towards the north with seven or eight hundred soldiers, when he encountered the soldiers who had broken down from the north. What does it mean to immediately send a chill in his heart and the soldiers to disperse? It means that the situation of the war is unfavorable. He immediately stopped the soldier and asked, and then he knew what was going on.

"Stop!" Hu Changhe stopped the soldiers who were preparing to support. After summoning seven or eight officers to confuse, he killed the remaining four officers on the spot, leaving the non-commissioned officers unknown and almost causing a mutiny. Fortunately, there were more officers with Hu Changhe, and the rioting soldiers were suppressed.

"Brothers, the Shanyang Army has broken the city! The camp in the north of the city also collapsed. Now, there are two roads in front of us, one is to go to the north and fight to the death with the Sanyang army. One, that is, with me, surrender the Sanyang Army. ”

"I know that some of you are dissatisfied, but you also know how the Shanyang soldiers are treated and how the people under their rule are also clear. So, now think for yourselves. Those who are willing to come with me will stop here and wait for the military order. Those who are willing to go to the Shanyang Army to die can go now. Hu Changhe said coldly. He was not stupid when he arrived, and directly condemned the behavior of going north to support his army as sending him to death. In this way, there were many fewer soldiers who planned to go to the north of the city.

In the end, only more than 200 soldiers were willing to continue to fight with the Shanyang army, and the rest followed Hu Changhe towards the granary in the city. He knew that there was still a lot of food here, after all, there were thousands of troops in the city, and it was a great achievement to be able to keep this place in the Shanyang army.

When Hu Changhe arrived, there were already two Yanzhou army with a total of more than 500 people on his side, and he planned to fight, but found that these people, like him, were all soldiers who should have gone to the north to support. After the exchange, I learned that they were also the same as themselves, who were bought by the Shanyang Army, and now they are falling to the Shanyang Army.

Because this place will be under the control of his command in the future, the Shanyang soldiers did not destroy it indiscriminately here. While shouting the slogan that those who surrender will not be killed, he declared to the surrounding residences that the Shanyang army would not harm the people when they entered the city, and they should stay at home and not go out, so as not to be injured by mistake.

An hour later, the four gates of the city were taken by the Shanyang army, two of which were directly seen by the Shanyang army surrendering, and one was the surrender of the city gate order after a little resistance. In the end, there were only less than 1,000 Yanzhou Mansion sergeants left, and they retreated to Juxian County to defend them.

After the persuasion to surrender to no avail, Min Zhongyuan did not show mercy, the army attacked together, and after paying the price of 600 soldiers killed and the main general Su Yi was seriously injured and died, the rest of the soldiers surrendered. In Ju County, the night of the wind and snow was broken by the Shanyang army, and the passage between Jiyin Mansion and Yanzhou Mansion was opened......