Different from the rolling hilly terrain of the Shandong Peninsula, Qinghe County has entered the edge of the Hebei Great Plain, although there are some hills, but they are very low, most of them are only more than ten zhang high, but the area is not small, the top of the mountain is flat, as if the plain is raised a piece of flat warts, overgrown with dense forests.

Pei Xingyan had been to Wucheng County several times, and was very familiar with the terrain and situation in this area, and he led fifty cavalry to gallop along the edge of the large hills, and the dense forest hid their figures, and the next morning, they arrived at the periphery of Wucheng County.

Pei Xingyan saw a high mountain in the distance, that mountain is called Fengshan, it is a rare mountain near Wucheng County, and behind Fengshan is the county seat, he waved his hand to stop the cavalry galloping, and pointed to the pine forest next to him, "Go and rest in the woods!" ”

He gave a few more orders to the two cavalrymen, and the two cavalrymen clasped their fists and saluted, and continued to urge their horses to run forward, while the rest of the soldiers dismounted one after another and led their horses into the pine forest.

The pine forest was covered with thick pine needles, and walking on them was exceptionally soft, without snow, and it looked warm and dry, and the soldiers looked for a place to sit down and rest, and after running for a day and a night, they were really a little tired.

Pei Xingyan sat cross-legged under a pine tree, and put the horse lance on the trunk, although Pei Xingyan's weapon was a one-to-one eight-sided plum blossom bright silver hammer weighing one hundred and sixty pounds, but he also had a horse lance, which was his family martial art.

His father Pei Renji made a horse lance, but the horse lance was far less fierce and sharp than Pei Xingyan's sledgehammer, but he would also use the horse lance under special circumstances.

For example, now, he led his cavalry on a long run, and if he brought a pair of sledgehammer horses, it would definitely be unbearable, and it would be more appropriate to bring a light horse lance.

Pei Xingyan closed his eyes and rested for a while, he had already sent two cavalrymen to look for the enemy's sentry post or patrol post, and the goal of fifty cavalry running in Wucheng County was too big.

About an hour later, the sound of horses' hooves came from the pine forest, and Pei Xingyan, who was sleeping lightly, jumped up, and the soldiers around him stood up one after another, looking vigilantly out of the pine forest. At this time, the two cavalrymen sent out urged their horses into the pine forest, and everyone breathed a long sigh of relief and sat down again.

The two rolled over and dismounted. stepped forward and knelt down on one knee to report: "General Qiyu, we have found an enemy outpost!" ”

Pei Xingyan was overjoyed, and hurriedly asked, "How many people are there and where are they?" ”

"Just in the foothills to the east, they're patrolling that area. There were about twenty of them! ”

Pei Xingyan pondered for a moment, there are roads leading to Wucheng County on the east and west sides of Fengshan, since there is a patrol post in the east, then there must also be a patrol post in the west, and this patrol post should be responsible for patrolling within twenty miles to the east, and it will not go far.

Pei Xingyan shouted in a low voice, and everyone gathered around, he told everyone a few words, everyone nodded together, got up and turned over on the horse. Turning the horse's head and running towards the foothills of the east side of Fengshan.

Fengshan is the official name, the local people call it Jitou Mountain, because the peak resembles a chicken and gets its name, Wucheng County is located in the north of Fengshan.

As Zhang Xuan inferred, Zhang Jin said that after learning that the Sui army had crossed the river to the north, he immediately sent a pigeon letter to the defenders of Wucheng County, ordering them to strengthen their vigilance to prevent the enemy from sneaking up on the city.

There were about twenty sentinels. All of them were infantrymen, and they were in charge of patrolling the official road east of Fengdong, and at noon, twenty thieves were gathering by a stream for lunch. They hunted a wild boar, and the crowd was so happy that they set up a fire by the brook to roast their meat.

But in the dense forest dozens of steps away, fifty Sui cavalry had already quietly approached them, and Pei Xingyan carefully counted their number, exactly twenty. Their spears were piled up on the side, not realizing that danger had come, Pei Xingyan pointed to both sides, and his subordinates understood, and scattered and surrounded them.

The boar had already roasted a burst of meat, and all the thieves were attracted to it, and everyone drew their daggers, all salivating, and impatiently waiting for the team to give the order to eat.

The thief army is a man in his thirties, he is not in a hurry to cut the best meat on the back of the wild boar, he wants to cut the best meat away, and then let his men eat it.

At this moment, several arrows rushed from the woods, and the few peripheral thieves closest to the weapons were shot by the arrows, screaming and falling to the ground.

"There are enemy troops!"

The thief army screamed, threw away the dagger and rushed to the place where the spears were stacked, but only ran a few steps, and met Pei Xingyan head-on, Pei Xingyan had already stared at this person, he rushed over, and the scabbard in his hand was knocked on the head of the thief army.

At this time, the cavalry of the Sui army slaughtered on a large scale, and only two soldiers of the twenty thief patrols saved their lives, and the rest were all killed.

Pei Yuanqing urged the horse to come to the roast pig and smiled at the soldiers: "Dashuai likes to eat roasted game the most, this wild boar is roasted just right, let's take it to relieve Dashuai's hunger!" ”

Everyone laughed, put away the roasted boar, and everyone turned their horses and ran south, and the figure gradually disappeared.

When everyone walked away, the thief army that had fainted by Pei Xingyan was slowly getting up, he just pretended to be dead to escape the killing of the Sui cavalry, he saw the Sui cavalry going away, and ran towards the county seat

In the evening, Pei Xingyan led the cavalry to meet Zhang Xuan's army, which was killing in a mighty way, and he came to Zhang Xuan and hugged his fists and said: "I have not failed in my mission and captured two patrol posts!" ”

"General Pei has worked hard."

Zhang Xuan praised him, and then ordered: "Bring the thief army patrol up." ”

Two detectives were escorted up, and the two knelt on the ground and kowtowed, "The general spares his life!" The villain is willing to say anything. ”

Zhang Xuan walked up to the two of them and asked the first one in a deep voice: "I want to know, what is the name of the guard general of Wucheng County?" Where are the people? How is the martial arts? Let me elaborate! ”

In the night, Zhang Xuan's army arrived at the eastern foot of Fengshan Mountain, at this time, the thieves had not yet found that the patrol post had been annihilated by the Sui army, Zhang Xuan stood on a large rock, looking at Wucheng County at the foot of the mountain.

The size of the county seat is about the same as that of Zhu'a County, they are condescending, you can clearly see the situation in the county, almost all the houses have been demolished, razed to the ground, the county is divided into two, on one side is dozens of huge warehouses, built of bricks and stones, and on the other side is a neat military camp.

Although it was night at this time, under the moonlight, the dense defenders at the head of the city could still be clearly seen, they had obviously received the news that the Sui army was about to attack in a big way, and the guards were very tight, if the city was stormed, not to mention the heavy casualties, it might not be able to take it.

To make matters worse, the head of the city and the walls were frozen into ice, shining in the moonlight, and unless a siege ladder with an iron hook was used, the head of the city was too slippery for any climbing machine to rely on the walls.

In the final analysis, there is no point in storming, he must use strategy to capture this county, Zhang Xuan came down from the boulder, and came to the side of a dirt slope, pulled out his knife to cut off the dead grass and thorns on the surface, Zhang Xuan carefully inspected the frozen soil on the hillside and the soil below, his eyes were thoughtful.

At this time, Yu Chigong and Shen Guang walked up, and Wei Chigong said: "General, we can use the Persian siege method without any siege weapons. ”

"How did the Persians attack the city?" Zhang Xuan asked with interest.

"I heard Mr. Li say that the Persians use long poles to climb the city and run to rush the city, which is simple and effective!"

Zhang Xuan also knows that this siege method is like pole vaulting, but this method is only suitable for scout raids, and it is only feasible when the enemy is defenseless, otherwise it will be useless to rush the city in front of the enemy army, and the arrows will be shot to death.

Zhang Xuan shook his head and smiled: "This method can be used as an alternative, but it is not suitable now, you must have seen the ice formation, and the enemy army is very well prepared." ”

Shen Guang next to him bowed and said: "General, this city is far from the danger of Liaodong City, and the humble position has also asked, the city wall is made of big green bricks, and the strongest is only made of rice pulp and lime to lay bricks, and the humble position only needs to use twenty daggers to climb the city with bare hands, please allow the general!" ”

Zhang Xuan also knew that they didn't have much time, Zhang Jin said that he would definitely send reinforcements to this side, and they would arrive at noon or afternoon tomorrow at the latest, they had to capture Wu'an City before tomorrow morning, and more importantly, their food could not last long, if they couldn't attack the city tomorrow, they would have to withdraw.

Thinking of this, Zhang Xuan smiled at Wei Chigong and Shen Guang: "If you want to leave room for it, I also have a plan, although it may not work, but you can also give it a try, as for the plan of the two of you, I will talk about it when my plan fails." ”

[There are only two chapters today, sorry everyone!] (To be continued.) )