Anding County and Guanzhong are also blocked by heavy mountains, the only passage is to enter Guanzhong along the Jingshui River Valley, the army first has to enter Beidi County, and then turn south from the shallow water plain, and then directly enter Jingzhao County, not far from Chang'an. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

But in the process of entering Beidi County, it is also necessary to pass through a lot of dangerous passes, when the Tang Army and Xue Ju's Western Qin Army fought, the battle situation was repeatedly unfavorable to the Tang Army, the Tang Army built eight large and small passes and military cities in dangerous places, the most famous of which are two military cities, one is located in Anding County, called Zhejia City, and one is located in Beidi County, called Changwu City.

Changwu City is the last pass from Anding County to Beidi County, after passing Changwu City, the army can be divided into three routes, all the way to the north to Honghua County, all the way to the east to Shangjun, all the way to the south into Guanzhong.

The circumference of Changwu is about three miles, and a maximum of 2,000 troops can be stationed, and there are currently 300 Tang troops stationed here, which belongs to the absolute control area of the Tang army.

Since there were 5,000 garrisons from Honghua County in the north, 5,000 garrisons in Ding'an County, Beidi County, a hundred miles away, and 5,000 garrisons in Shangjun, the garrisons in these three places were dispersed to 15,000 troops, which was really a huge pressure on Li Shimin, who did not have many troops.

In order not to disperse his troops as much as possible, Li Shimin could only garrison a small number of troops at various dangerous passes, Changwu City was a large military city, and the garrison was correspondingly the largest, with 300 people, and the rest of the small passes were only a few dozen people.

At dusk, a Taoist priest who collected medicine appeared on a mountain cliff about 200 steps away from the north of Changwu City, the Taoist priest tied his body with a long rope, and was carefully digging a yellow essence tree on the smooth cliff, as long as he turned around, he could clearly see all the movements in Changwu City, barracks, warehouses, defensive weapons, fortifications, the number of soldiers, and so on.

At this time, several Tang Army patrol soldiers saw the Taoist priest on the cliff and shouted at him, "Go away, otherwise the arrows will be released!" ”

The two soldiers raised their crossbows and aimed at the Taoist priest on the cliff, and the Taoist priest finally dug out the yellow essence, raised his hand to the soldiers at the head of the city, and slowly climbed up the cliff and entered the woods on the mountain. ”

A soldier pointed to the cliff and said, "There was a Taoist priest who was collecting medicine over there just now, and we drove him away. ”

Li Shouyi looked at it for a while, but didn't see any trace of the Taoist priest, so he said: "Don't care about the Taoist priest, go and clean up the barracks and warehouses, it is estimated that His Royal Highness the King of Qin will come over in the past two days, let him see our messy barracks, he will definitely be angry again, don't be like last time." ”

Several soldiers agreed, and hurriedly went down to the city to the warehouse, at this time the entire military city was cleaned inside and out, ready to welcome the arrival of His Royal Highness the King of Qin, Li Shimin, the king of Qin, had very strict requirements for the appearance of the soldiers and the cleanliness of the barracks, and his inspection made the generals in every place fearful.

Just when the Tang soldiers in the military city were sweeping the floor and wiping the walls, the Taoist priest on the cliff continued to hide in the woods to observe the situation in the military city, just now he just deliberately appeared, to test the vigilance of the soldiers in the city, according to experience, if there is an unknown person within three hundred steps to appear, the soldiers should come out to arrest, but the soldiers did not take him to heart at all, indicating that the defenders did not have a sense of hostile situation, which is the most critical piece of information.

The Taoist priest observed for a few more moments, then asked his two companions to continue observing, and he quickly disappeared from the cliff and ran north.

At this time, it was about ten miles away from Changwu City, ambushed a cavalry of more than 1,000 people of the Zhou army, this is a cavalry scout, led by the general Sun Ying of Yingyang, Sun Ying since Langya joined the Northern Navy at that time, has repeatedly made military exploits, has been promoted from a small brigade commander to General Yingyang, especially in the Liaodong Campaign, was knighted as the Marquis of Yincheng County, this time he was ordered to explore the terrain of Honghua County and the deployment of the Tang Army, but he did not expect to receive a major urgent task, to capture Changwu City, while holding on for a day.

This task was personally given by the Son of Heaven, and a heavy reward was promised, which made Sun Ying and his men very excited, and they galloped overnight, and rushed to Changwu City from Maling County, two hundred and fifty miles away, in only three hours, and at this time, Li Shimin had just received an urgent letter sent by Liu Wenjing.

The soldiers were seizing the time to rest, while Sun Ying and several lieutenants discussed the plan to seize the military city, which was nothing more than a strong attack and a sneak attack, and for the scout army, it was obvious that the latter was the choice.

"The military city is built on the road to the northern county, the south is a cliff, the bottom is Jingshui, if it is frozen in winter, you can walk from the river, but not now, the water is very fast, the raft is also easy to overturn, the road is close to the city wall in the north, it is easy to block the passage at the head of the city, so you must control the military city to march, and the east half is also a slope, it is not easy to attack, only from the north and the west to attack, the city is two feet eight feet high, it is built with nearby rocks, it is very strong and strong, can resist the blow of the trebuchetWe can only sneak up on it at night, but we'll have to wait for the scouts to come back. ”

At this time, a soldier reported, "The scout is back!" ”

I saw a scout dressed as a Taoist priest walking quickly, he had already taken off his Taoist robe, knelt down on one knee and reported: "The lowly post is here to reply to the order!" ”

"What's going on inside the military city?"

"General Hui, there are about 300 defenders in the military city, warehouses and barracks, and the sketches have been drawn."

The scout presented a sketch, Sun Ying took it and looked at it for a moment, and then asked, "How are the defenders defending?" ”

"Back to the general, the three hundred defenders are busy cleaning the barracks and warehouses, and the lowly position has tested the defenders, deliberately showing up on the cliff two hundred steps away to collect medicine, they just drank the lowly duty to leave, and did not go out of the city to pursue."

Sun Ying nodded, and said to several captains: "They are cleaning the barracks, it is estimated that Li Shimin is coming soon, we can't delay it too late, in case the main force of the Tang Army comes at night, it will be bad, we have to act now." ”

One thousand Zhou troops got up one after another, Sun Ying left fifty people to take care of the war horses, and he ran in the direction of the military city with nine hundred and fifty soldiers, at this time, it was already dark, this area was deserted, very calm, only the sound of soldiers running quickly.

Half an hour later, they arrived at Changwu City, and at this time, two other scouts came forward to report the situation, "General Qiyu, there are about 100 defenders in the city, only there are no defenders in the south city. ”

"A bunch of pretentious guys!"

Sun Ying scolded, obviously there are not so many defenders in normal times, just temporarily pretending to be for Li Shimin.

"General, what should I do?"

Sun Ying asked, "How wide is it outside Nancheng?" ”

"General Huiyu, about three feet."

Three feet was enough, and Sun Ying immediately ordered several captains: "I will lead a hundred brothers to the south city, and when there is a war in the east city, you will immediately lead the army to the city from the east, there must be no mistake!" ”

"Obey!"

Sun Ying immediately led a hundred elite soldiers to the south under the cover of the terrain.

Because there is a cliff outside the south, as high as more than ten zhang, and there is a turbulent river below, but the southern city is not built close to the cliff, but is separated by a distance of three feet, and it is not possible to set up siege ladders, but these scout elites with high martial arts do not need ladders.

They quickly set up a human ladder, the soldiers climbed the human ladder and quickly climbed up, Sun Ying was the first to go to the city, he looked at both sides for a moment, there was not a single soldier on the hundreds of city walls, he gently went up to the city, crawled to the inner wall, and lay down against the female wall, and the soldiers behind followed one by one to the city, all following his example, crawling on the wall, only for a moment, and the last two soldiers also climbed the rope to the city.

Sun Ying's judgment was not wrong, most of the soldiers were in Xicheng, and there were only a dozen soldiers in Dongcheng, he led his men to run towards Dongcheng, and suddenly rushed to the southernmost soldiers, and without waiting for these soldiers to react, he pounced on them and killed them with a knife.

But they were still discovered, and several soldiers on the east wall shouted in horror, "There is an enemy!" ”

Sun Ying was furious, led the army to rush up, threw several rope ladders down, and shouted to the soldiers under the city: "Go to the city!" ”

The soldiers who were ambushed under the city climbed up to the city one after another, and Sun Ying led the army to rush down the city along the east road, and more than a dozen Tang soldiers below ran in fright, shouting at the same time: "The enemy is coming, the enemy army is entering the city!" ”

At this time, a group of soldiers rushed out of the barracks, led by the main general Li Shouyi, Sun Ying shouted, "Shoot!" ”

Hundreds of soldiers fired crossbows at the same time, and the dense crossbow arrows were fired, and the Tang soldiers fell to the ground one after another, and Li Shouyi was hit by more than a dozen arrows and was killed on the spot.

Sun Ying shouted: "Those who surrender will not die, and those who resist will be killed!" ”

He led his soldiers into the enemy camp......