Looking at the gorgeous sunset in the west, Qiu Laohu only felt panicked in his heart, as if something bad was about to happen. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info He kept walking around in place, and his heart was getting more and more irritable.

"Did the scouts come back?" Qiu Laohu's eyes were bloodshot and he asked the guard next to him.

The guard shook his head: "They've been out for more than an hour, and they haven't come back yet." ”

Qiu Laohu's heart was as heavy as pressing a stone, and when he heard the guard's words, he suddenly patted his head and immediately walked quickly towards the city wall.

"Get people ready for battle immediately!"

The guards looked at Qiu Laohu in some surprise, and didn't understand why they had to enter a state of combat readiness now, when there were obviously no enemies?

"I'm afraid our scouts are already more than lucky, Xiao Xintian and they should have wanted to attack us by surprise!"

Qiu Tiger lifted the halberd inserted in the weapon rack, turned his head to the guards and said, "Pass the order, everyone immediately return to their positions and beware of the enemy's surprise attack!" ”

The guards stood in place and were stunned for a moment, then immediately reacted and ran out all the way to convey Qiu Laohu's orders to the soldiers in each battalion.

The wind was blowing, the dust was flying, and the afterglow of the setting sun stubbornly fell on the walls of Shancheng, giving it a layer of orange luster.

Qiu Lao Hu ran up the city wall, pushed away a soldier who was in front of him, and looked in the direction of the Tuyuhun military camp at the top of the wall, only to see a flock of big black birds rushing there, hovering in the air for a long time and unwilling to fall.

"Immediately enter the state of combat readiness, Xiao Xintian may attack the city tonight!" Qiu Laohu turned around and shouted to the soldiers beside him.

Qiu Lao Hu and Xiao Xintian have been fighting for so long, and they already know each other's routines, and similarly, Xiao Xintian also knows Qiu Laohu's ability. The two old enemies, Qiu Laohu and Xiao Xintian, know each other and are afraid of each other, so the two sides generally do not start a war lightly.

Every time he attacked the city, Xiao Xintian just made a scene, not seeking merit but no fault, and the battle with the defenders of Shancheng was more like training, and he didn't care very much about winning or losing. So the two of them have a very tacit understanding to fight once a month, practice each other's soldiers, and the two know in their hearts that if they want to completely destroy each other, they will also break their muscles and bones, as long as there is no major incident, neither of them will make a big war.

But this time the Tianzhu King gave an order, obviously extremely dissatisfied with Xiao Xintian's passive battle before, and demanded that Shancheng must be taken this time, which made Xiao Xintian have to get serious. He poured out of the nest this time, commanded more than 20,000 people in the barracks, and decided to have a life-and-death battle with the autumn tigers in Shancheng.

The blades were in the direction, the dust was flying, and all obstacles that stood in the way were quickly cleared. In the distance, on the horizon, a huge city rises from the ground, and the walls are constantly filled with firelight.

"Do you already feel it?" Xiao Xintian rode on his horse, looked at the movement on the wall of Shancheng in the distance, guessed that Qiu Laohu already knew that he was going to attack Shancheng, whispered, and then turned his head and shouted to the soldiers behind him: "Speed up, we will kill the Tang army by surprise before they can fully react!" ”

Under the leadership of their respective captains, the Tuyuhun soldiers of each team lined up in a neat line and accelerated their speed to kill Shancheng!

The rats found the soldiers on Shancheng from a distance doing fortifications, and then listened to the sound of horses' hooves not far behind, and the four of them ran desperately panting, hoping to enter Shancheng before the Tuyuhun army arrived, and tell the guards inside the news of the other party's entire army.

"Who are those four people in front?" Xiao Xintian saw the rats and the four of them running towards Shancheng in front of him, turned his head and asked his subordinates.

"General, no one is in or out of the camp today!"

"Then send someone up and kill them, there can be no negligence in this attack!" Xiao Xintian's eyes narrowed, and he said calmly, sending a small team of his own people to follow quickly on horseback.

A small group of Tuyuhun soldiers broke away from the large group, rode on their horses and shouted in a low voice, and quickly chased after the four rats in front. Seeing that the distance between them and the rat was getting closer and closer, a captain raised the bow and arrow in his hand, pulled the bow and arrow, and with a "boom", a bow and arrow rushed towards the rat's vest like a meteor.

I saw that the whole body of the mouse moved to the side, giving up a position, and the bow and arrow grazed his body, and the "poof" nailed to the ground, and the arrow feathers still trembled incessantly.

The sound of bows and arrows breaking through the air sounded one after another, and all the Tuyuhun soldiers in the squad shot arrows at the four of them, and a small rain of arrows came instantly, enveloping the four of them inside.

A scout turned around, stared at the oncoming bow and arrow in horror, shouted, lowered his head, and avoided the bow and arrow shot at the head, but was shot by another bow and arrow ****, let out a sharp scream, and fell down with a "plop".

When the other three saw their teammates being shot, their faces changed drastically, and they turned around and drew the long knife at their waist to block the flying bow and arrow.

The dull sound of three bows and arrows hitting the body sounded, and the three mice were also hit by arrows one after another, and fell to the ground one after another.

"Da da da".

The captain of Tuyuhun's squad rode a horse, and walked over step by step with his own team, looking condescendingly at the four people who fell to the ground with their eyes closed, without any expression on his cold face, raised the spear in his hand, and stabbed the mouse below.

The mouse lying on the ground suddenly opened his eyes wide, his body jumped up from the ground suddenly, the big knife in his hand came first, flashing a cold light, and with a "boom", a beautiful crescent moon crossed the air, and a blood fountain spurted out of the captain's neck, and the captain's head flew several meters away at once.

The sudden change caught the rest of the team off guard, and the whole person couldn't react, and his captain had already been cut off by the enemy who should have been hit by the arrow.

At this time, the other three Cloud Breaker soldiers who pretended to be injured and fell to the ground also jumped up from the ground, brandished the weapons in their hands, and killed the closest enemy to them who were stunned in place at once, snatched their horses, united with the mice, and killed two more Tuyuhun soldiers with two "swishs".

At this time, the rest of the Tuyuhun soldiers reacted, looking at the four rats who were killing, their eyes suddenly became red, they shouted, waved the weapons in their hands, and attacked the four of them together.

Seeing the situation here, Xiao Xintian snorted coldly, waved his hand, and sent a team of people to ride over to support.

The rat cut down one of the enemies who pounced on him and dismounted, and when he saw that a team of men and horses were sent from the opposite side, he greeted the other three companions, and the four of them gathered together, danced with their big swords, and fought a bloody way in the siege, turned the horse's head and ran in the direction of Shancheng.

"Come back, don't chase it, Shancheng should know our situation at this time, and it's useless to catch up!" Xiao Xintian shouted loudly, summoned all the soldiers who wanted to chase the rats back, and said to the deputy general beside him: "You first lead two thousand troops and a siege vehicle to bypass Shancheng to its north gate, and from there make a feint to attract Shancheng's attention!" ”

"Yes!" The adjutant general clenched his fists and received the order, turned around and ordered more than 2,000 soldiers and horses, separated from the large team, and quickly left in the direction of the right front of the troops.

On the wall of Shancheng, Qiu Laohu was stepping up the inspection of their respective fortifications, and a soldier ran over to him and said: "General, there are four soldiers under the city who are said to be the Cloud Breaking Army who are going to enter the city, saying that there is very important information about Tuyuhun!" ”

Qiu Laohu's eyes lit up when he heard the words "Cloud Breaking Army". When he was in Yuanzheng this year, he also had the honor to go back to Chang'an, and when he got together with the brothers of the Xuanjia Army, he heard them mention the army of the Broken Cloud Army, and knew that this was a brand-new branch of the Tang Dynasty, which was very different from all the existing armies of the Tang Dynasty in terms of training and combat methods. The soldiers in the Cloud Breaking Army are not only super capable of individual combat, but also very good in the strategy and execution of marching operations, so they have become the most elite mysterious troops in the hands of His Majesty.

Qiu Laohu walked quickly to the edge of the city wall, looked down, and saw four dusty Tang Dynasty people standing below on horseback, each of them carrying a special backpack behind their backs, and a big knife in their hands. Their hair was messy, their faces were a little haggard, and their clothes were dirty, as they could tell they had gone through a long journey.

The mouse saw a middle-aged man being embraced by soldiers and walked to the city wall, so he shouted loudly: "Your Excellency is General Qiu Yeqiu, the guard general of Shancheng, and I am the ****** of the scout battalion under the command of the Meridian Marquis Poyun Army, and I have come to assist General Qiu Ye on the order of the Meridian Marquis." This is the identity token of my Cloud Breaking Army, I believe that General Qiu Yuan Zhengshi has seen this token. ”

The mouse took out a snow-white square jade pendant the size of two fingers from his arms, and the jade pendant was carved with a dragon with teeth and claws in the clouds, and below the dragon was a small turtle with a shrunken head and brain, and in the blank space next to it, three very small seals "******" were also engraved on it.

A basket was hung on the city wall and the jade pendant was passed up, Qiu Laohu hurriedly took the jade pendant, carefully counted the toes on the dragon's paws, and saw that the front one of the dragon's claws had more toes than the others, so he immediately went down and ordered someone to open the city gate and welcome the mice into the city.

Qiu Lao Hu greeted the mouse, handed the jade pendant back to the mouse, and said happily: "I am Qiu Ye, the guard of Shancheng, welcome to your arrival!" ”

"You are General Qiu Ye Qiu, I heard Commander Li Hu Li mention you and say that you two are good friends!" The rat stepped forward to say hello to the autumn tiger, and then asked the autumn tiger to take him to the city gate.

"On the way here, we found that Tuyuhun's army was pouring out, with a total of about 20,000 people, coming from there towards Shancheng." The mouse stretched out his finger and pointed in the direction where they came, looked at Qiu Laohu and said solemnly.

Qiu Laohu looked in the direction of the mouse's finger, and on the vast plain, there was suddenly a black shadow, and he could vaguely see many flags fluttering in the air, and as time passed, the black shadow was squirming rapidly towards Shancheng.

"20,000?" Qiu Lao Hu groaned, and the other generals next to him changed color, and they all looked at Qiu Laohu.

"This Xiao Xintian is going to fight the last battle with an iron heart!" Qiu Laohu looked at the Tuyuhun army that was heading towards Shancheng, and said calmly: "It seems that he can't help it." It's a good thing, I'm also depressed in this city, if he doesn't attack with all his strength today, I'll pull out his camp tomorrow! ”

The guard next to him heard what Qiu Laohu said, and his face became a little soothed. The adjutant general said beside him: "General, since the enemy is coming, then hurry up and give an order, my brother has long wanted to go out of the city!" ”

Qiu Tiger laughed, patted everyone on the shoulder, and distributed tasks to everyone one by one according to the usual arrangement, and asked them to strengthen the fortifications to prevent a sudden attack by the other party, and then they walked down the city gate with the rats.

Qiu Laohu stepped down from the city gate, and saw that there were no other soldiers around, his eyes and brows were wrinkled together, and the word "Chuan" was wrinkled on his forehead.

"General Qiu, how many people are left in the city now?" The mouse understood Qiu Laohu's concerns and directly asked the most critical question.

"There are about 5,000 civilians, about 10,000 soldiers, and if mobilized, about 2,000 people will join the battle. Although we advocate the use of soldiers in the whole city, in fact, I have never used civilians as soldiers to kill the enemy in a long time! Qiu Laohu sighed: "The rest of the people in the city are almost all the families of those veterans from the past. After those veterans came here, because of the war, they were injured and disabled, and finally stayed here, became a family, and became authentic Shancheng people. Therefore, the people in Shancheng have always had the same hatred for Tuyuhun, and there is no need to mobilize to fight them! ”

The mouse looked at Qiu Laohu and said: "This time Tuyuhun and they are menacing, in addition to the cavalry, I also saw that they have prepared more than a dozen siege vehicles, General Qiu should be very careful." ”

Qiu Laohu's brows furrowed even tighter, he looked at the sky that began to fall silent, the night began to fall on the earth, and the black sky completely enveloped Shancheng.

"In the past, the war between us and Tuyuhun was more like training each other, what prompted the other side to attack Shancheng on a large scale this time, and it seems that they want to take Shancheng at all costs?" Qiu Laohu asked the mouse that he wondered why the Meridian Marquis had sent his men to him, as if he had expected Tuyuhun to attack Shancheng.

The rat then briefly told Qiu Laohu about Tuyuhun's current situation, and then concluded: "Fu Yun wants to surrender to the Tang Dynasty, and some guys such as King Tianzhu are unwilling. So they began to sabotage in secret, and Shancheng was the most important part of them! ”

Qiu Laohu nodded after listening: "Then I understand, Xiao Xintian's parents died at the hands of the Sui Dynasty, and he transferred this hatred to Datang, no wonder he did this!" ”

Several people discussed the plan to deal with the siege of Tuyuhun this time, and a soldier hurriedly ran down the city, found Qiu Laohu, and said anxiously: "General, a large number of Tuyuhun troops appeared at the east gate and the north gate at the same time. The enemy at the east gate is gathering, but the cavalry at the west gate has already begun to attack the city gate! ”

Everyone's faces changed, how could it be so fast! (To be continued.) )