Yang Meng led two thousand thieves to rush to Mengyin Fort, and it could be seen that Wang Bo's news was not wrong, Mengyin Castle had indeed been repaired, and there was a Sui army flag on the castle, and it seemed that there were troops stationed in the city.

Yang Meng didn't dare to rush up the mountain, seeing that it was less than two miles away from the castle, he waved his hand, and the army slowly stopped.

"Let's find out!"

The two spies rushed towards the mountain, Yang Meng looked at the castle on the mountainside, in order to transport food, there was a flat slope up the mountain, the slope was full of unfinished bluestones, and there was not a single Sui soldier or craftsman around, but there was a rare garrison on the city, but the terrain was too low, he couldn't see the situation of the garrison.

After a while, the two spies rushed back and reported to Yang Mengyu: "General Qiyu, there are about more than 100 soldiers and hundreds of craftsmen at the head of the city, the city gate has been closed, and there are no Sui troops around. ”

Yang Meng was overjoyed, and then asked, "Are you sure there are only a hundred Sui soldiers?" ”

"The humble function is confirmed, it is true that only more than 100 people are seen, and the rest of the city is craftsmen, but the castle has been repaired completely, and there is no place for collapse."

Yang Meng secretly thought in his heart, "It seems that the Sui army only has 100 people to guard the craftsmen to repair the city, and this is an opportunity to destroy the castle." ’

Another task that Yang Meng got was to completely destroy the castle, of course, if the Sui army was heavily garrisoned, he would have no choice, but now that the Sui army only has more than 100 people, wouldn't it be his chance?

At this time, Yang Meng found the simple hanging tower placed by the craftsmen outside the city, and saw a large number of felled pine trees under the mountain, high and straight, piled up next to the bluestone, he couldn't help but smile proudly, "God help me!" ”

"Make a siege ladder now!"

Yang Meng led an army of two thousand thieves, while the other party only had a hundred. How could he give up this opportunity, two thousand thieves began to make a simple siege ladder, nailed several large trees side by side, and nailed a wooden strip that could be stepped on in the middle, and a simple siege ladder three feet high was completed.

An hour later, the thieves had made more than a dozen siege ladders. At this time, the drums beat loudly, and the thief soldiers who were sitting at the bottom of the mountain to rest got up one after another and began to assemble.

At the head of the city, hundreds of craftsmen had withdrawn, and only a hundred soldiers remained, but the other nine hundred soldiers hid behind the battlements, bows and arrows in hand, waiting for the order of the lord to shoot.

Li Shoujie was extremely nervous in his heart, this was the first time he had led an army to fight against the thief army alone. Although it was only a small-scale battle, the consequences of the defeat were very clear, not only to severely defeat the plan to conquer Langya County in the south, but also to cause heavy casualties to the Sui army, and he would become the sinner of the Sui army in Beihai.

His eyes were firmly fixed on the thief army under the city, and his temples were already oozing dense beads of sweat, and at this time, the war drums of the enemy attack under the city rumbled and beat. Li Shoujie was so nervous that his heart was about to explode, and he looked at the Sui army at the head of the city again. The calmness and composure of the soldiers of the Sui army gave a little comfort, and he kept telling himself that this was a well-trained Sui army soldier, how could he not defeat the two thousand thief army?

Mengyin Fort is not large, with a circumference of only four miles, and its eastern side is bordered by cliffs. The north side is backed by a cliff, and only the south and west sides can attack.

The attack of the thieves had already begun, and two thousand thieves were approaching the east wall of the castle step by step along the ramp up the hill, carrying ten siege ladders and holding their shields high.

"Shoot the arrows!"

Li Shoujie gave an order. A hundred soldiers threw arrows at the ramp together, and the sparse arrows were shot at the thieves, and some of the thieves began to be hit by the arrows, screaming and falling, and tumbling down the mountain.

Dozens of casualties could not stop the attack of the thief army, Yang Meng waved his big knife and roared viciously: "Attack!" ”

"Kill—"

Two thousand thieves rushed towards the castle with a shout, one after another siege ladders were erected high, rushing closer and closer to the castle, not only Li Shoujie, all the Sui soldiers were extremely nervous, if it wasn't for strict training, the Sui soldiers couldn't help but stand up.

Li Shoujie stared at the thieves who were getting closer and closer, 'Whoosh! An arrow grazed his scalp and shot over his head, causing Li Shoujie to crouch down.

'Boom! ’

Several siege ladders rested on the city wall almost at the same time, and the thief soldiers began to swarm upwards, Li Shoujie looked at the siege ladder above his head, and he shouted: "Go to war!" Fight! ”

At this time, the Sui army squatting behind the city wall got up one after another, smashed the big stones down, a group of thieves and soldiers were smashed over by the big stones, rolled and fell down the city, the arrows were like rain, and the dense arrows shot at the thieves under the city, and the thieves fell down one by one screaming, and suddenly suffered heavy casualties.

Dense Sui soldiers suddenly poured out of the city, which shocked Yang Meng, and he suddenly realized that he had been tricked, there were far more than a hundred soldiers in the city, and the Sui army was luring him to attack the city.

"Retreat!"

Yang Meng shouted loudly, and the frightened thief army stumbled down the hillside, the team was no longer in formation, scrambling, chaotic, Li Shoujie shouted: "Open the city gate, kill out!" ”

The city gate opened, a thousand Sui soldiers came out of the castle, chased and killed the thieves in the back, killed the corpses of the thieves all over the field, the blood flowed like a river, countless thieves knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, the Sui soldiers chased and killed all the way, the thieves fled in all directions, and countless surrendered people.

Yang Meng was shot in the back shoulder by an arrow, so frightened that he ran away in a hurry on his horse, ran out of more than 20 miles in one breath, waited for a while, and the remnants fled one after another, and finally only collected more than 300 remnants, Yang Meng couldn't help but sigh, how should he explain when he goes back?

"General, let's go back first!"

Several pro-soldiers persuaded him, "Our troops are too small, and it is inevitable that we will be defeated by the Sui army, and the king will not blame!" ”

Yang Meng had no choice but to turn his horse's head and head towards Fei County, he had an arrow stuck in his body and did not allow the soldiers to pull it out, but simply bandaged it, at least to let the king see his injuries.

A group of soldiers walked back a few miles in frustration, and at this time, an army of hundreds of people came to meet them, and the general at the head was Sun Xuanya, so frightened that Yang Meng hurriedly turned over and dismounted, and crawled on the ground.

When Sun Xuanya saw that he had an arrow wound on his back, he knew that he had returned from a fiasco, and couldn't help but ask angrily, "What's the matter?" ”

Yang Meng wept and said: "King Qiyu, there is a large Sui army hidden in the castle, and he can't resist his humble duties, and he returned in a miserable defeat, so I apologize to the king!" ”

"How many Sui troops are there?" Sun Xuanya asked again.

Yang Meng's head lowered even deeper, he didn't dare to say that the other party only had more than a thousand people, he must not let the king know that he was because of the scheme.

"I don't know if there are thousands of people, and the momentum is very strong."

Sun Xuanya didn't notice that Yang Meng was lying, he frowned, there would be thousands of people? At this time, Sun Zhi'an stepped forward and whispered: "I suspect that Wang Bo actually knows the details of the Sui army very well, and he wants to use our hands to destroy Mengyin Fort. ”

Sun Xuanya nodded slowly, he was a little awake, there was no caravan at all now, if Wang Bo knew that Mengyin Fort was being repaired, it must have been his spies who found out, how many people were in the Sui army, and what they were doing, how could Wang Bo not know?

He told himself that the situation was uncertain, this was obviously luring him to send troops to deal with the castle, and he was borrowing his own hand to deal with the Sui army going south, Sun Xuanya gritted his teeth with hatred, he was actually played by Wang Bo in the palm of his hand, damn bastard!

"Go back first!"

Sun Xuanya waved his hand angrily and led the army to retreat to Fei County

The next day, a 3,000-strong Sui army under the personal leadership of Zhang Xuan escorted a mighty grain convoy to Mengyin Fort, which was a grain convoy composed of more than 1,000 grain and mule carts, mobilizing most of the mule carts in Qi County and Beihai County, and more than 2,000 mule drivers went south with the army, which could transport nearly 5,000 stone of grain at a time.

The arrival of a grain convoy led by Zhang Xuan made Mengyin Fort lively, and the soldiers used rolling logs to push cartloads of grain up the hillside and move them into the castle.

Li Shoujie stepped forward and knelt down on one knee and saluted, "See the general!" ”

Zhang Xuan met the soldiers sent back by Li Shoujie to deliver the letter on the way, and he smiled slightly: "In the first battle yesterday, General Li was brave and strategic, and fought very well, and the famous generals are nothing more than that, I remember your first contribution to the southern expedition!" ”

Li Shoujie's achievements were affirmed, and he was really moved in his heart, and he hurriedly said: "Yesterday was the first time to face the thief army alone, and I was very nervous, and it was a fluke to win." ”

Zhang Xuan smiled, didn't say anything, and continued to walk towards the city, and behind him, Wei Chi Gong reprimanded Li Shoujie in a low voice: "I told you before, don't lie in front of the general, defeat the two thousand thief army with a thousand Sui troops, and actually say that you won by luck, you will make people laugh." ”

Li Shoujie suddenly woke up and hurriedly followed Zhang Xuan, "General Qiyu, in yesterday's battle, we captured more than 1,200 enemy prisoners of war, and the brothers were killed in three and wounded fourteen. ”

Zhang Xuan nodded, "In the future, you can be humble when you use numbers to speak, but you can't be vague, understand?" ”

"Humble duty understood."

Zhang Xuan immediately said to Wei Chigong: "Let the brothers camp on the spot to rest, and add two virtual camps at night, Sun Xuanya will definitely send someone to investigate!" (To be continued.) )