The battle ended quickly, except for the main general and dozens of Tang Army soldiers were killed, the remaining more than 240 Tang troops all surrendered, they were not the main force of the Tang Army, basically the old and weak army, so they were sent to guard the military cities and dangerous passes along the way. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Sun Ying gathered more than 200 surrendered troops together, in the blazing fire, he condescended, and said loudly to everyone: "I am Sun Ying, the general of Yingyang of the Zhou army, this time I am personally ordered by His Majesty the Emperor of the Great Zhou to seize Changwu City, as long as we can hold Changwu City until the reinforcements arrive, each of our soldiers can get a hectare of Ueda and twenty taels of gold, if unfortunately killed, the reward will be doubled to his family, if you also join in defending the city, they can also get the same reward, how about it, do it with us!" ”

The soldiers looked at each other, this reward shocked them, one hectare of land, twenty taels of gold, so much land and gold, they could immediately live a relatively rich life, if they were unfortunately killed, the reward could be doubled, this temptation made them unable to refuse, more than a dozen soldiers took the lead in waving their arms and shouting: "Willing to listen to the general's command!" ”

The other soldiers also raised their hands, "We are willing to defend the city!" ”

Sun Ying quickly persuaded all the surrendering soldiers by the simplest and most effective means, and he immediately dispersed the surrendered troops into various teams, increasing the number of his defenders to 1,200 and entering their respective defensive lines.

At this time, a surrendered brigade commander stepped forward and said: "General, there is a good plan for humiliation!" ”

"You say!"

"Ten miles to the west is Fulong Pass, the terrain is also more dangerous, there are only fifty defenders there, the defenders are my brothers, I am willing to persuade him to surrender, one more defense, we can buy more time."

This method is very good, Sun Ying asked him, "What position do you have now?" ”

"The villain is the brigade commander!"

"Take down Fulong Pass, I will promote you to captain, and the reward will be doubled!"

The brigade commander was overjoyed, bowed down and said, "Thank you for the general's support!" ”

Sun Ying then asked Lang General Xie Yong to sort out the ordnance materials, and he personally led 300 cavalry to follow the brigade commander to capture Fulong Pass.

The topography of Fulong Pass is exactly the same as Changwu City, one side is a high mountain cliff, the other side is a canyon, just because the road is very narrow, only a hundred steps wide, can not build a military city, the Tang army built a city gate pass that is three zhang wide here, there is a road down the city in the east, and the city head can be deployed with a hundred soldiers.

This gate can only defend against small enemy forces, and if it encounters a large army, it can hold out for an hour or two at most.

After a while, they arrived at Fulong Pass, and the brigade commander hugged his fists and said: "The villain went to find his brother, please rest assured that the general is from Hedong County, and our parents, wives and children are all in Hedong County, so we will never dare to deceive the general." ”

Sun Ying saw that the Shangcheng Yongdao was to the east, and even if he deceived himself, he could easily capture the pass, so he nodded and agreed, and the brigade commander urged the horse to run towards the pass.

About a quarter of an hour later, the brigade commander came to surrender with his brother, these two low-level officers themselves are from Bingzhou, and their families are already the people of the Great Zhou, seeing that the general trend of the Tang Dynasty has gone, they are not willing to work for the Tang Dynasty.

Sun Ying appeased their brothers for a few words, then left 200 cavalry to guard the pass, and told the defenders that if the pass could not be held, they could abandon the pass and flee back to Changwu City on horseback, and after arranging the defense, Sun Ying returned to Changwu City with the surrendered Tang army soldiers.

As soon as Sun Ying returned to Changwu City, Lang General Xie Yong reported to him on the defensive deployment, "There are 8,000 spears, 50,000 arrows, and 5,000 rolling wood and stones, but there is not enough food, only enough for us to last for ten days." ”

"Ten days is enough, what else?"

"In addition, the brothers have two suggestions, one is that Changwu City is on high ground, and we can put some fire-inducing objects on the slope to burn them in the fierce battle, which can effectively deter the enemy army."

Fire oil is a must for the scout cavalry, each of them carries a bag of fire oil, Sun Ying nodded, "Don't panic first, it's too late to sprinkle sulfur oil after the enemy is killed." ”

"I understand the lowly position, and there is also a hill in the distance."

Xie Yong pointed to the hill two hundred steps away, and said with some concern: "If the Tang army sets up trebuchets on the hill, I'm afraid we will suffer heavy casualties." ”

Sun Ying saw that the hill was densely covered with pine trees, so he said coldly: "Didn't you say using fire just now?" We set fire to the mountain, and they won't want to go up for at least two days. ”

"Brilliant plan!" Xie Yong praised.

He and Sun Ying glanced at each other, and suddenly said in unison: "Light the fire on the official road!" ”

The two of them laughed together, piled up big trees on the official road, and burned them with fire, which could stop the enemy for at least a few hours.

Xie Yong said excitedly: "I will take hundreds of brothers to cut wood. ”

Sun Ying pointed to the hillside above the official road in front of him and said with a smile: "You don't have to go far, go directly to the mountain to cut trees, don't remove the branches and leaves, just let the trees roll down by themselves, you can cut as much as you can, and immediately withdraw after seeing the beacon fire in Fulong Pass." ”

"Obey!"

Xie Yong immediately went up the mountain with 300 brothers, and they began to cut down trees about two miles from Changwu Pass, and one after another large pine trees that had grown up for decades suddenly fell, tumbled down the hillside, and landed on the mountain road, while several other soldiers went to the hill 200 paces away with fire oil to arrange arson.

The Zhou army was preparing intensively, and when the day was about to dawn, the Fulong Pass ten miles away suddenly ignited with billowing smoke, soaring into the sky, and the main force of the Tang army finally came.

The beacon smoke is the alarm, the soldiers of the Zhou army outside the city have withdrawn to the city, and the soldiers all go to the city, but they hurry up and take a nap for a while, and Fulong Pass will buy them two hours.

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The first Tang army to arrive was the vanguard of 5,000 cavalry led by Li Xuanba and Changsun Shunde, and Li Shimin's plan was to let this cavalry kill under the city of Chang'an, and use the huge momentum of the cavalry to overwhelm Li Yuanji's Xuanwu Jingwei to cause panic in the city.

But the Tang army did not expect that their road to Chang'an was blocked by an army of unknown origin, and the eldest grandson Shunde was greatly shocked, could it be that Li Yuanji deployed the army to Beidi County, it is impossible! If the Chang'an army headed north, the garrison of Beidi County would inform the King of Qin in time.

"Uncle Eldest Sun, is it that the defenders of Northland County have surrendered that turtle grandson!"

Li Xuanba's thinking was relatively simple, but to the point, the eldest grandson Shunde nodded, it is possible, the families of the generals are in Chang'an, if Li Yuanji threatens his family, they are likely to surrender.

But no matter what the reason, they must clear the obstacles, otherwise they will not be called pioneers, the eldest grandson Shunde is experienced, he immediately ordered: "The whole army dismounts, prepare to make a battering ram!" ”

It took too long to make a siege ladder, and it was faster to cut down a large tree to make a battering ram, and immediately hundreds of soldiers went up the hill to cut down the tree.

Li Xuanba didn't have the patience to wait, he waved his sledgehammer and ran towards the city gate, the eldest grandson Shunde was shocked, and hurriedly ordered: "The archers press the city!" ”

A thousand archers rushed up, at this time Li Xuanba had rushed to the range of the bow and crossbow, two hundred crossbow arrows were fired together, Li Xuanba swung the sledgehammer to hit, the sledgehammer flew up and down, the arrows could not penetrate his protection, and they shot on the hammer surface with a clang.

At this time, a thousand archers had already pressed on, and the road was too narrow for them to form a formation, so they lined up in ten rows and released arrows to the city head together, and the dense arrows flew to the city head, and immediately suppressed the Zhou soldiers on the head of the city of Fulong Pass.

Li Xuanba rushed to the city gate, and with a fierce lunge, the war horse rushed through the side of the city gate, 'Boom! Boom! Two muffled slams rang out as dust fell, and a crack broke in the hard wooden door.

The eldest grandson Shunde sent five hundred crossbowmen to join the battle, the crossbowmen's shooting was more accurate, one by one on the battlements crackling, rubble splashed, at this time, Li Xuanba no longer rode the horse, more than a dozen hammers smashed on the gate in a row, the gate could no longer bear it, and was smashed open a big hole.

A soldier at the head of the city shouted: "Captain, the gates of the city have been smashed." ”

The lieutenant was so angry that he scolded, "What a fucking rotten door, it's not iron!" ”

But the situation was critical, and he had to order: "Withdraw!" ”

The soldiers bent down and ran towards the city, and there were two hundred war horses next to the woods under the city, and they turned over their horses one after another, galloped their horses, and ran in the direction of Changwu City, and shot a rocket into the sky for the first captain, indicating that the Fulong Pass had been lost.

At this time, there was another loud bang, and the gate was smashed open by Li Xuanba's sledgehammer, and he roared, urging the horse to chase the fleeing enemy army, and the Tang soldiers behind broke out into a shout, charging towards the city gate like a tide.