In the early morning, the looming fog shrouded the Yellow River, at the entrance of the Tongji Canal into the Yellow River in the north of Xingze County, Xingyang County, a fleet of 100 large ships was slowly sailing into the Tongji Canal, they entered the Tongji Canal for about ten miles and then slowly docked, a group of Sui soldiers got down from the big boat, quickly assembled on the shore. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

This was the first group of Sui troops to cross the river, about 16,000 men, and the fleet immediately turned around and headed for the north bank of the Yellow River.

Although the Sui army gathered 80,000 troops in Xiangyang County, and Zhang Xuan, the king of Qi, personally sat in Xiangyang County, putting on a posture of preparing for a northern attack, but in fact this was just a false move, the main force of the Sui army to attack Luoyang was in Xingyang County, led by the generals Su Dingfang and Wei Wentong 100,000 troops from Hanoi County, Dong County and Liang County respectively into Xingyang County to assemble, and then quickly went east to Luoyang.

The 30,000 troops led by Wei Wentong were the 30,000 troops who came by boat from the Yellow River, and they were to cross the Yellow River in two parts, and since their landing was only more than 50 miles away from the Tiger Pass, this meant that the first tough battle after their landing was to capture the Tiger Pass.

Wei Wentong arrived at the south bank of the Yellow River with the first batch of Sui troops, and their landing place was less than ten miles away from Xingze County, at this time, the county commander and the county Cheng of Xingze County rushed to the shore of the Sui army, and the two were led to Wei Wentong by a soldier, and the county commander Xu Lang bowed down and saluted: "Xiaguan Xu Lang, see General Wei!" ”

Wei Wentong had been stationed in Xingyang County, and he was familiar with these magistrates, and he knew Xu Lang, so he smiled and said: "The order of Xu County came so quickly!" ”

"The lower officials heard that General Wei had returned to Xingyang, and he came to greet the general."

Wei Wentong smiled slightly, "Are you afraid that my army will enter the city!" ”

The county commander Xu Lang was told that his heart was broken, and his face was suddenly full of embarrassment, and he said for a while: "It is true to greet the general, if the army wants to enter the city, I should arrange it in advance." ”

Wei Wentong smiled and said: "Although you can rest assured, the army will not enter your small county town, but I would like to ask, has the Tiger Prison Pass been renovated in the past two years?" ”

"If it is not repaired, what the general will look like when he leaves, and what it will look like now, I am afraid that it will be even more dilapidated."

Wei Wentong pondered for a moment and then asked, "Have there been any caravans or pedestrians coming from the Tiger Prison in the past two days?" ”

The county commander Xu Lang shook his head, "After the Xingyang army retreated westward ten days ago, the Tiger Prison Pass was closed, and no caravans and pedestrians were allowed to pass. ”

Wei Wentong nodded, "I know, the two county officials go back!" We will not enter the city, but we will set off as soon as we assemble. ”

Xu County Ling and County Cheng hurriedly saluted, and then returned to the county seat with confidence, at this time, the deputy general Shen Qian stepped forward and asked, "How does the general plan to seize the Tiger Prison Pass?" ”

Wei Wentong had been the chief general of the Tiger Prison Pass for more than a year, and he knew very well about the structure and defense of the Tiger Pass, and he knew that the Tiger Prison was tall and strong, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it was located between the mountain passes, and it required at least ten times the strength of the defenders to capture it, which was also the main reason why Wang Shichong dared to withdraw the army of Xingyang County to Luoyang.

Wei Wentong said slowly: "It is very difficult to capture the Tiger Prison Pass, but the Tiger Prison Pass itself also has weaknesses, and its biggest enemy is not the army, but time. ”

"I don't understand it." Shen Qian was really confused, he didn't understand the meaning of Wei Wentong's words.

Wei Wentong said with a smile: "I said the time refers to the wind and rain for many years, the wooden structure of the Tiger Prison Pass is a lot, generally twenty or thirty years to overhaul once, but the last overhaul of the Tiger Prison Pass was in the Northern Wei Dynasty and the Northern Qi Dynasty period, it has been fifty years since then, many places in the pass have been dilapidated and old, I submitted a report to the Ministry of War when I was sitting in the Tiger Prison Pass, asking for a major repair of the Tiger Prison Pass, but there has been no news, and then I heard that Wang Shichong was ready to rebuild, but in the end it was not done. ”

"In that case, the general should know where the weakness of the Tiger Prison Pass is, right?"

Wei Wentong nodded, "Of course I know, and I've been prepared for it for a long time!" ”

Wei Wentong and Shen Qian discussed for a while, and finally decided that Shen Qian would stay behind to continue to meet the follow-up Sui army to cross the river, and Wei Wentong personally led 15,000 troops to the direction of Tiger Pass.

Tiger Prison Pass is only more than 50 miles away from the landing place of the Sui army, the master of Tiger Prison Pass will be Wang Shichong's nephew Wang Honglie, leading 5,000 troops to guard Tiger Prison Pass, although the number of troops is not very many, but for the Tiger Prison Pass that is not open by one man, 5,000 people are enough to resist the siege of 50,000 troops.

Wang Honglie is about 30 years old, among Wang Shichong's many nephews, Wang Ren is the strongest in leading troops, Wang Wan is second, Wang Xingben is second, although Wang Honglie's name is good, but in fact he is an out-and-out gentleman, fighting cocks and horses and drinking flower wine, everything is good, of course, Wang Honglie is not useless, his martial arts are good, the bow and horse are skillful, and he makes a 60-pound Yanling knife.

After Wang Shichong ascended the throne, he was named the king of Jiyin County, the general of the right Tunwei, commanded 10,000 imperial forest troops in Luoyang, the main general of the Tiger Prison Pass was originally Qiu Huaiyi, before the Zheng army withdrew from Xingyang, the Tiger Prison Pass was only the inner pass, and after the Zheng Army gave up Xingyang, the Tiger Prison Pass became the gate of the east of Luoyang, because the strategic position of the Tiger Pass was too important, the suspicious Wang Shichong was unwilling to hand over such an important pass to outsiders to guard, so he transferred his nephew Wang Honglie to the Tiger Pass as the main general.

It was a series of changes of horses and generals that made Wang Honglie's time in the Tiger Prison Pass only ten days, and before he was fully familiar with the army and the pass, Wei Wentong led 15,000 Sui army forwards to the Tiger Pass.

At this time, it was noon, 15,000 Sui troops were neatly arranged under the city, spears were like forests, the armor was cold, and it looked murderous, which was the first step of the Sui army to attack the city.

The city was full of Zheng soldiers, they opened their bows and crossbows, and they were all nervous, Wang Honglie was also nervous in his heart, he had never experienced a big war, this kind of murderous aura before the big war made his palms full of sweat, he swallowed his saliva and asked a partial general next to him: "Why didn't you see the siege weapons of the Sui army?" ”

The partial general has experienced many battles and has a certain amount of experience, he pointed to the hundreds of large lanes in the distance: "General, please look over there, the weapons should be over there, now it is just an appearance before the siege, the Sui army is about to set up camp, they will not attack the city immediately." ”

Sure enough, a quarter of an hour later, groups of Sui soldiers began to retreat and began to set up camp in the open space two miles away.

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Wei Wentong stood in front of the pass and looked at this Xiongguan that he was very familiar with, and he remembered the scene when he fled north from Xingyang to Hanoi County in a hurry, when he came back again, everything had not changed, every grass and tree was the same as before, only the people had changed, and the mood had also changed.

Wei Wen informed that there were 5,000 Zheng troops guarding the pass, and he also knew that the main general would be Wang Shichong's nephew Wang Honglie, and even the Luoyang Intelligence Bureau sent Wang Honglie's resume and other information to the Sui army in time, so that Wei Wentong had already figured out the details of Wang Honglie.

This is actually a new general without any qualifications and combat experience, two years ago he was a frequent visitor to the major green buildings in Luoyang, only a year ago he put on armor, from a playboy to a general, he was stationed in the Tiger Prison Pass only because he was Wang Shichong's nephew.

It is precisely because the main general of the Tiger Prison Pass is not worried that Wei Wentong is full of confidence in winning the Tiger Prison Pass.

"Pass my order, Ying Yanglang will bring all the above generals to my big tent!"

Wei Wentong whipped his horse violently, turned around and ran in the direction of the Chinese army's big tent.

In order to attack the Tiger Prison Pass, Wei Wentong began to make preparations as early as a year ago, and in view of the weakness of the Tiger Prison Pass, which had fallen into disrepair for a long time, he drew up a detailed combat plan.

On the table of the Chinese army's big tent is a model of the tiger prison carved out of wood, all the details are exactly the same as the actual pass, and it took more than a dozen craftsmen three months to carve it.

There were more than a dozen generals standing on both sides of the table, Wei Wentong said slowly to everyone: "Although the Tiger Prison Pass is easy to defend and difficult to attack, it is not a natural danger, the general only needs to invest more troops to fight desperately, and pay huge sacrifices for soldiers, and generally can capture this Xiongguan, so the capture of the Tiger Prison Pass is not worth showing off, and it is not a merit, the reason why the marshal handed over the task of attacking the Tiger Prison Pass, because I promised the marshal that the Tiger Prison Pass could be captured in one day, and the sacrifice of soldiers would not exceed five hundred people......" (To be continued. )