"A bunch of bastards!"

Liu Lancheng, who was wearing the armor of the Tang Army's lieutenant general, scolded, "Are you still standing guard?" Those who lie down, squatt, all of them will be beheaded according to military law! ”

Several gatekeepers were so frightened that they didn't dare to come out, but they didn't know which kind of god this hot-tempered general was?

Liu Lancheng shouted again: "Go and let Yang Zhaolai see me!" ”

"May I ask who the general is?" One of the team members asked cautiously. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Liu Lancheng took out Li Shimin's Qin King Gold Medal and raised it among them, and sneered: "Do you see it clearly?" His Royal Highness the King of Qin gold medal, on the order of His Royal Highness the King of Qin, came to Ba County on business, I have something urgent, and I will report to Yang Zhaonian as soon as possible. ”

When the team heard that it was a messenger sent by His Royal Highness the King of Qin, he was so frightened that he didn't dare to slack off, so he hurriedly ran to the barracks and ran to report to the main general Yang Zhaonian, although there were still many doubts in it, such as why did it come in the middle of the night? Another example is why there is no horseback riding? Why didn't the soldiers defending the city come to report?

There is no horseback that can be explained as coming by boat, but there are no soldiers defending the city to report, which is the biggest flaw, but the status of the gatekeeper is too low, and they are frightened by the gold medal of Li Shimin, the king of Qin, and they don't dare to ask a word, so they turn around and run to the barracks to report.

Liu Lancheng also knew that they had a lot of flaws, and this team didn't dare to ask, it didn't mean that the main general Yang Zhaonian didn't doubt it, he gave his subordinates a look, and his subordinates swooped up, knocked down seven sentry posts, and killed them with one sword.

Liu Lancheng immediately led more than 100 of his men to walk quickly out of the barracks, and followed the sentry team that reported the news to the easternmost room, where two soldiers stood in front of the door, and it seemed that it was Yang Zhaonian's barracks.

The team was whispering a few words to the pro-soldiers, a pro-soldier went into the house to report, and after a while, a general wearing only a military robe walked out, this person is the main general Yang Zhaonian, Yang Zhaonian is the henchman of Li Shenfu, the king of Beichuan County, who is ruthless and strong in martial arts, he has participated in the suppression of the rebellion of the counties in northern Shu, and has killed countless people, and the Shu people call him 'Yang Zao' behind his back.

At this time, Yang Zhaonian was also confused, how could His Royal Highness the King of Qin send someone here, there was no news from Chengdu at all, and it was actually in the middle of the night, he was a little suspicious in his heart, but he did not suspect that the Zhou army was attacking at night, after all, there was no news of the Zhou army's attack on the Three Gorges Road, and it was impossible for the Zhou army to fall from the sky, he suspected that the King of Qin was doing something with Li Shenfu behind his back.

He walked out and asked the sentinels who had arrived, "Who is it, and did he say why?" ”

As soon as the words fell, I saw someone on the other side laugh and said, "How can the sentry know, why don't you ask me directly." ”

As soon as Yang Zhaonian looked up, he saw a person standing more than a dozen steps away, and there was a large group of soldiers faintly behind him, shrouded in darkness, and the soldiers couldn't see clearly.

"Who are you?" Yang Zhaonian shouted angrily.

"Under Liu Lancheng!"

As soon as Liu Lancheng's voice fell, the hundred soldiers behind him raised their crossbow arrows at the same time, Yang Zhaonian suddenly saw the crossbow arrows, and was taken aback, it was too late to retreat into the room, and the dense arrows shot like a torrential rain, and the four people at the door were suddenly shot like hedgehogs, and they were killed on the spot.

Liu Lancheng stepped forward and cut off Yang Zhaonian's head with a knife, and shouted: "Send a signal!" ”

Three rockets took off at the same time, and the red flames streaked across the night sky, and a thousand soldiers waiting outside the barracks door came out of the darkness and quickly rushed into the barracks.

At the same time, the 6,000 soldiers of the Zhou Army were also led by Li Keshi, from Zhang Feimiao to Ba County, and rushed straight to the military camp. While! While! 'The sound of the siren.

But the alarm that echoed throughout the city sounded too late, and to Liu Lancheng's ears, this was just a death knell for their lord.

..........

Liu Lancheng's army rested for five days after taking Ba County, and five days later, Zhang Li led 3,000 troops to follow the main force of the Zhou army to arrive in Ba County by boat, and Liu Lancheng's army converged, and the two armies immediately joined forces and marched west along the Yangtze River to Luchuan County.

Although there were more than 1,000 soldiers in each county, under the strong suppression of the Zhou Dynasty's army, the counties of Bashu had no will to resist, and they surrendered one after another, changed their banners, and expressed their allegiance to the Son of Heaven of the Great Zhou Empire.

After the naval fleet of the Great Zhou Empire entered Qianwei County, it immediately turned north and went along the Min River to Chengdu, while the other Zhou army also entered Tongchuan County under the leadership of Xu Shiji, and also marched in the direction of Chengdu.

........

There are three counties in the Hexi Corridor, namely Wuwei County, Zhangye County and Dunhuang County, Li Jing seized Wuwei County, and then led the army to the west, five days later entered Zhangye County, the troops came to Zhangye City, and Li Changqing surrendered to the Zhou army.

Li Jing appeased Li Changqing, continued to let him serve as the Taishou, and ordered Huyalang to lead Zhou Qiong with 3,000 troops to sit in Zhangye County, and he himself led tens of thousands of troops to continue westward and march to Dunhuang County.

At noon on this day, Li Jing led 30,000 troops to arrive at Yumen Pass, just as a sandstorm was about to strike, the sky was as dark as ink, Li Jing saw that the situation was not good, and urgently ordered the army to be stationed on the spot, 30,000 troops in just half an hour set down thousands of big tents, soldiers and war horses were crowded in the big tent to avoid the whistling sandstorm, not long after, the whole sky was dark, the sand and dust raged, the wind roared, the heaven and the earth became pitch black, as if the end was coming.

Li Jing's big tent lit a glass lamp, the dim light reflected the big tent flickering, Li Jing stood in front of the tent door with his hands, looking at the terrifying celestial phenomena outside through a gap in the tent door, he sighed and said: "Compared with the power of heaven and earth, manpower is so small. ”

There are also more than 20 civilian officials hiding in the big tent, and Yang Xin, who joined the army, said with a smile: "Dunhuang County is just the junction of the grassland and the Gobi, the weather changes greatly, sometimes the sun is still shining, but in the blink of an eye, it will rain heavily, it is spring, the sandstorm will often take care of it, and it will be much better to Zhangye. ”

Li Jing asked curiously, "Then what is the most lethal?" ”

"Hail!"

Everyone in the big tent laughed, "Yang Senjun said that he laughed, how lethal can hail be?" ”

Yang Xin shook his head and said: "That's what you haven't seen, walking on the Gobi, suddenly the hail the size of an egg fell all over the world, and there was no place to hide, the light was injured, and the heavy was killed, and what was more exaggerated was that a hailstorm in the spring of the second year of the Great Cause, the size was like a grapefruit, hundreds of people died, thousands of livestock died, and the wheat harvest of that year was almost wiped out, so the people of Dunhuang regarded hail as the first disaster, and this sandstorm was really nothing?" ”

Li Jing smiled, "Speaking of which, every soldier must bring a round shield." ”

"The general doesn't have to worry too much, although the hail is terrible, it is not encountered every year, and it is not the entire Dunhuang County that hails, it is only a small area, and the fourth year of the Great Cause happened to be the disaster of Dunhuang County, so it suffered heavy losses."

Li Jing sat back in his seat, took out an eagle letter written by the military advisor, and read it carefully, this is an eagle letter sent by them when they seized Wuwei County, the saint made clear instructions to the Western Regions and the counties of Hehuang, if the counties in the Western Regions have been captured by Tuyuhun and the Western Turks, they can slow down, do not attack for the time being, and then concentrate their forces to recover after unifying the world.

Li Jing picked up the glass lamp and walked to the map, carefully inspected the location of the counties in the Western Regions on the map, he knew that Yang Guang had conquered Tuyuhun twice, and had set up Heyuan, Xihai, Shanshan, and Momo counties in the Tuyuhun area, and set up Yiwu County in the sixth year of the Great Cause, in fact, there were five counties, and there were no troops there for so many years at the end of the Sui Dynasty, and since these five counties were not attached to the Tang Dynasty, it means that they are very likely to have fallen.

After pondering for a long time, Li Jing beckoned to Yang Xin and asked him to come forward, Li Jing pointed to Yiwu County and asked, "Does Yang Senjun know whose hands Yiwu County is in now?" ”

Yang Xin was about 30 years old, a scholar in the fourth year of the Great Cause, and served as the county commander of Dong'e County, Jibei County, and later served as the county commander of Feicheng County, because he was a native of Dunhuang and his qualifications were sufficient, so Zhang Xuan transferred him to join the army under Li Jing's account, which was to let him serve as the Taishou or County Cheng of Dunhuang County.

Yang Xin shook his head and said: "After entering Luoyang for four years, he never returned to Dunhuang, if the general asks about the situation in Dunhuang County, he still knows a little about it, Yiwu County really doesn't know, and several other counties are not clear, but the general can find out tomorrow." ”

"Why?" Li Jing was puzzled.

"Because there must be caravans hiding from sandstorms in Yumen Pass, I heard from the mouths of these merchants."

"Don't the officials of Dunhuang County know?"

"Even if the government knows, it's a long time ago, and only businessmen will bring the latest news."

Li Jing nodded slowly, he must ask about the situation tomorrow, this question is related to his military decision of whether to divide the army into two routes. (To be continued.) )