The Sui army stationed in Liaodong City was originally the Hejian County Government Army, with more than 3,300 troops, they were stationed here before the Second Goguryeo War last year, because the terrain of Liaodong City was dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, the strategic position was extremely important, Sui Emperor Yang Guang also attached great importance to this city, and strictly ordered the Sui army to defend Liaodong City.

At this time, on the top of the tall and dangerous Liaodong City, Yayanglang General Qiu Mingda stood in front of the battlements and watched to the south, he had just received a request for help from Wu Yonglang's general Zhang Xuan, asking him to support the attack on the Goguryeo sentinels hiding near Shenlu Town.

But Qiu Mingda still rejected Zhang Xuan's request for help, in fact, Qiu Mingda didn't know that there was a Goguryeo army hiding nearby, he had already discovered the existence of this Goguryeo army, but the target of this Goguryeo army was not Liaodong City, and their activities had no impact on Liaodong City, so Qiu Mingda turned a blind eye.

But now that another Sui army has also discovered the existence of this Goguryeo army and decided to annihilate this army, Qiu Mingda is very worried that when the news reaches Huaiyuan Town, he will not be guilty of not reporting it, he can't help but sigh lowly.

"Is the general bothered by what just happened?" Adjutant General Yang Weiyuan walked up to him and asked with a smile.

Qiu Mingda nodded, and said in a very dissatisfied tone: "This Zhang Xuan himself only has 1,000 people, but he has to challenge the elite enemy army of 3,000 people, I am afraid that he will put the responsibility on me after his fiasco, saying that I will not save him when I see death, it is difficult to explain to the above!" ”

"The lowly position has also considered, if we don't move at all, it is really difficult to explain to the above, the lowly position means, it is better to let the thorn save them, not only to lose the burden, but also to explain to the upwards, wouldn't it kill two birds with one stone, what does the general think?"

Deputy General Yang Weiyuan's words suddenly reminded Qiu Mingda, how could he forget that person?

In Liaodong City, in addition to the military government led by Qiu Mingda, there is also a special army. There were only about fifty people, and they were commanded by a lieutenant.

This lieutenant was called Shen Guang, and he was originally a very famous ranger in Wu County, Jiangnan, during the first Goguryeo War. Shen Guang led more than 50 Jiangnan rangers to Liaodong to participate in the war.

At that time, tens of thousands of Sui troops besieged Liaodong City, and it was Shen Guang who exerted his superb light body skills and led a group of rangers to take the lead in attacking Liaodong City.

But in the subsequent war against Pyongyang. Shen Guang made a mistake in crossing the river, causing the defeat of the Sui army on the southern route, and was demoted to lieutenant by Yuwenshu, and also in this battle of crossing the river, Shen Guang was seriously wounded, and did not retreat with the Sui army, but stayed in Liaodong City to recuperate.

Over the next two years, the Sui army was reorganized several times, Shen Guang and his companions were gradually forgotten by the military headquarters, and Liaodong City appointed a new commander-in-chief. Shen Guang lived in the city.

Because of his upright personality and frank speech, he offended Qiu Mingda, and was regarded by Qiu Mingda as a dissident thorn, always trying to find a reason to drive him away, and today, Qiu Mingda finally found a reason.

"The general wants me to go to Shenlu Town now?"

Shen Guang was surprised, he looked at the night outside the window, the two watches had not yet arrived, how could he go to support another Sui army?

Qiu Mingda said unhurriedly: "The hiding place of the Goguryeo army should be in Huilugu. The goal is very clear, they are going to attack there tonight, and I am worried that they will lose, so I hope that Captain Shen can help them. ”

"General Qiu is going to take the opportunity to drive me away!" Shen Guang said coldly.

"How do you say that? When will I drive you away, because I have no order to attack, that's why I asked you to come to their aid, and if you don't go, forget it, just as if I didn't say anything. ”

Shen Guang lowered his head and thought about it, he originally wanted to take the opportunity of the third attack on Goguryeo to leave Liaodong City. Since Qiu Mingda wants to drive himself away, let's go! ”

"Thank you General Qiu for taking care of you for the past two years, we will have a date later!"

He arched his hand, turned around and strode away, Qiu Mingda looked at his back and disappeared into the night, couldn't help but laugh proudly, and finally shook off this thorn, he immediately ordered: "Open the city gate, let Captain Shen and his men leave!" ”

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Three watches had passed, and Chen Xu led fifty of his men to run along the ridge in the forest, they had a heavy task of entering the valley before dawn and setting fire to the enemy's tents.

This is undoubtedly a big problem for Chen Xu, who has no experience in sneak attacks, but Chen Xu is also an extremely strong person, since he promised the main general, he must do it.

Chen Xu gritted his teeth and led his subordinates to run silently in the forest, there were not many of them, and the forest was full of towering trees, so they did not alarm the birds on the trees.

After running for about half an hour, a soldier pointed ahead and shouted, "Captain, it's here!" ”

Everyone stopped, and they finally reached the back of the valley, but the scene in front of them made everyone dumbfounded, the back of the valley turned out to be a hundred-foot high cliff, not to mention that they didn't have such a long rope at all, even if there was a rope, it would be difficult for them to climb down.

Only then did Chen Xu understand why he didn't encounter enemy outposts along the way, because there was no need to post here, and it was difficult for even apes to climb down, let alone people.

"Captain, what should I do?" The soldiers all looked at Chen Xu.

Chen Xu was anxious and hateful, he had just been promoted to lieutenant, and he encountered a big problem, he squatted on the ground with his head in his hands all of a sudden, the task could not be completed, how could he explain to the general?

At this moment, there was a burst of laughter from the forest not far away, "You guys are not familiar with the terrain at all, and you want to sneak attack from behind?" ”

Everyone was taken aback, and they all pulled out their battle knives, and Chen Xu also jumped up, staring at the red eyes and asking, "Who is it?" ”

I saw dozens of people walking out of the forest, the number was about the same as them, all wearing Sui army armor, and the leader was a young man of twenty-five or sixteen years old, of medium stature, with a very delicate appearance.

Chen Xu pulled out his knife and shouted, "Stop!" ”

The man at the head raised his hand and smiled: "We are not Goguryeo, we are in Xia Shenguang, we are the captain of the Sui Military Academy in Liaodong City, and we came to support you on the order of the main general, this is my fish card!" ”

Shen Guang threw his fish card to Chen Xu, Chen Xu took it and looked at it, he still couldn't believe how many troops the Sui army had died in Goguryeo and lost countless supplies, and the other party was easy to dress up as the Sui army.

Shen Guang saw the other party's suspicions, and couldn't help but sigh and said, "If I am a Goguryeo." I've already ambushed you, so do you need to talk so much nonsense? ”

This made sense, Chen Xu finally believed it, he hugged his fists and said, "Under Chen Xu." Belonging to the 16th Battalion of the former army, may I ask Captain Shen, what do you mean by what you just said, can you go down if you are familiar with the terrain? ”

Shen Guang smiled slightly: "I have been in Liaodong City for nearly three years, and there are mountains and rivers here. Every grass and tree is ripe, and it is true that you can go down from the back of the valley, but not here, and there is a rock crack two miles ahead, which can be regarded as a cave, please come with me! ”

Shen Guang led his men to the west, and everyone looked at Chen Xu, Chen Xu hesitated, now it is not a question of believing it or not, it is now the fourth watch. If it is not time to go down to the valley, it will be too late, even if there is a sea of fire in front of him, he will have to jump, Chen Xu gritted his teeth and ordered: "Keep up!" ”

Fifty of his subordinates, under the leadership of Chen Xu, followed Shen Guang in front of him and ran westward.

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Sure enough, as Shen Guang said, there was indeed a crack in the mountain two miles ahead, which was shaded by lush bushes, and Shen Guang and his men pulled away the shrubs, and a black rock crevice led all the way to the valley.

Shen Guang turned around and said to Chen Xu in a deep voice: "I have something to say first, I am here to help you annihilate this enemy army." First of all, we will become one, and I hope that you will obey my commands, and I want you to stop and go. You must obey my command absolutely, or you will not only fail to complete the mission tonight, but your life will be lost here! ”

"Captain Shen knows my mission?"

"Of course I don't know, but I can guess that you are going to attack the Goguryeo people from behind and cause chaos. And then the main force will attack from the mouth of the valley, I'm not wrong! ”

Chen Xu nodded, he clasped his fists and saluted: "As long as the task can be completed, my subordinates and I will absolutely obey Captain Shen's orders!" ”

"Good! Let's go down. ”

Shen Guang carried a large coil of rope on his back, and quickly climbed down the crack, the rocks in the rock crevices were abrupt, and there were many places to support and stand on them, which were much easier to climb than the cliffs, and the Sui soldiers climbed down the valley one after another.

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The valley where the Goguryeo army hid is called Huilu Valley, which is about ten miles deep and two to three miles wide, but the mouth of the valley is very small, only more than 20 zhang, which is an excellent place for Tibetan troops.

The valley was densely forested, and in the middle of the forest there was an open field within a radius of several miles, and at this time hundreds of large tents were stationed in the open field, where more than 2,000 Goguryeo soldiers were hiding.

The chief general of this Goguryeo army is called Yuan Wuning, who was born in the first powerful family of Goguryeo, and his father Yuan Taizuo is the Mo Lizhi of Goguryeo, which is equivalent to the regent, and is in charge of the military and political affairs of Goguryeo.

Yuan Wuning, who was the third in his family, was highly skilled in martial arts, and made a fifty-pound broadsword, and he was ordered to lead his army to infiltrate near Liaoshui two months ago, collect intelligence, and at the same time harass the logistics and transportation of the Sui army.

In the past two months, Yuan Wuning and his army have achieved great results, not only collecting a large amount of Sui army intelligence, but also burning countless Sui army grain trucks, and at least 1,000 people have died in their hands.

The time had reached the fifth watch, the light in a large tent was on, and Yuan Wuning was sitting at the table to write a piece of information he had just received, and Emperor Sui had appointed Lai Hu'er as the general of the former army, preparing to lead tens of thousands of people to attack Pyongyang.

This is an extremely important piece of information, at present, the Sui army has gathered hundreds of thousands of troops in the Liaodong area, and the army is disorganized, giving people the feeling that it will take at least several months to attack Goguryeo, but now it seems that the chaos in Liaodong is just an illusion, in order to cover the sneak attack of the Laihu'er army.

Yuan Wuning was really uneasy in his heart, he sent someone to send back a lot of information, all of them were the Sui army was in chaos, low morale, and low combat effectiveness, if all this was an illusion, then he was a sinner of Goguryeo.

So Yuan Wuning didn't sleep all night, and got up before dawn to copy the information, at this time, there was a sudden sound of rushing outside, only to hear someone faintly shouting: "There is important information to inform the general for me." ”

Yuan Wuning put down the pen, walked out of the big tent quickly, and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

A sentinel centurion stepped forward to report: "Report to the general, one of our sentinels missed in the area of the White Wolf River and was captured by the Sui army. ”

"What?"

Yuan Wuning was taken aback, this was the first time his outpost had been captured by enemy troops, and if so, it meant that their hiding place was no longer safe.

He immediately ordered: "Send additional sentries to patrol outside the valley, and report any abnormalities to me immediately!" ”

"Obey!"

The centurion galloped away, and Yuan Wuning turned back to the big tent, spread out a map on the table, and began to look for a new hiding place, and for a while, he did not bother to send the latest information to Pyongyang

(To be continued.) )