In a forest more than ten miles away from the city, Wei Chigong led two thousand Sui troops to arrive in Dong'an County at the fifth watch, and they lay in ambush in the woods, patiently waiting for the opportunity to attack the city.

Wei Chigong was appointed as the vanguard by Zhang Xuan, and ordered him to take Dong'an County as the logistics supply center of the Sui army, this was the first time that Wei Chigong led the army to act alone, he was very nervous, but at the same time he was also looking forward to it.

Hu Ping, who entered the city just now, was a caravan specially arranged by Wei Chigong, in order to confuse the army defending the city, although Wei Chigong did not read much, but he was very studious, and this time he sent Hu Ping into the city was the strategy he learned from Zhang Xuan: 'take advantage of the enemy's weakness to attack it'.

Wei Chigong waited patiently for the opportunity, he was also observing the county seat, the height of the city wall was only one zhang and five feet, there was no moat, and you could go to the city with an ordinary siege ladder, according to the information he had obtained from the scouts sent in advance, the city defenders had only a thousand people, and the equipment was very rudimentary, there was no problem in capturing this county, the key was how many soldiers he would lose, and Wei Chigong hoped not to lose a single soldier.

As the day passed, dusk came, and the soldiers had slept for a day and were gathering together to eat dry food, when a scout who had gone to the county seat to inquire about the news rushed to Wei Chi and reported to Wei Chi Gongyu: "General, the defenders are mainly concentrated in the north of the city, and the defenders on the south wall are very few, less than a hundred. ”

Wei Chigong nodded, this was in his expectation, the defenders guarded against the army from the north, and they would naturally be negligent to the south, especially this kind of bandits, they almost relied on instinct to defend the city, and there would be no rules.

Wei Chigong sneered, turned around and ordered: "Pass my order, act after dark!" ”

Night is falling, it is often raining these days, the weather is not very good, and the sky is closed by dark clouds after nightfall. The head of the city and the four fields became pitch black, only a large lantern of dead air hung on the castle tower, which was bright and dim, and the light was faint, so that pedestrians outside the city knew the location of the city gate.

Perhaps it was the news brought by Hu Ping that made Hu Sanlang a little lax, and he did not go to the city to inspect at night, but hid in his room to drink wine and eat meat. The two **s found from the Qinglou accompanied him.

Although it was already March at this time, the night in the mountains was still a little chilly, the main general was not there, and the soldiers were looking for places to sleep, and there were only a few patrols patrolling back and forth in the city.

Hundreds of steps away from the southern city wall, two thousand Sui troops were quietly lying in ambush in the grass, carrying ten siege ladders, all eager to try, waiting for the main general's order.

Wei Chigong held a large iron spear in his hand. His eyes were sharply fixed on the head of the city, and there was only a team of patrols at the head of the city, about twenty people, who walked lazily up and down the city, and did not pay any attention to the movements outside the city, as if they were only dealing with errands, and the frequency of their patrols became slower and slower, and only appeared once in the last half hour.

When the patrol soldiers turned around and headed east. Wei Chigong knew that the opportunity had come, and he whispered a few words. With a wave of his hand, dozens of soldiers carried a siege ladder and quickly ran down the city, followed by Wei Chigong, who was very cautious and would order the soldiers to attack on all fronts only after he had captured the city.

The siege ladder was set up at the head of the city, and Wei Chigong quickly climbed to the head of the city with a big iron gun in his hand. But it was so coincidental that a thief soldier who was sleeping at the head of the city suddenly urinated, climbed up the battlements and peed downward, just standing on top of Wei Chigong's head, he saw the siege ladder and countless black shadows under the city at a glance. I was stunned.

The foul urine spilled on Wei Chi's helmet, and he was immediately furious, and stabbed it with a fierce shot, and the thief soldier was pierced through the lower body by the spear, screamed, and fell down the city.

But this scream alarmed the patrol team that had just left, more than 20 thief soldiers rushed to this side, Wei Chigong had already rushed to the city, he roared, waved his gun to kill the thief army, and pierced the three thieves with a shot, and the spear was picked, and the three of them flew down the city together.

Wei Chi Gong killed vigorously, the big iron spear was like a storm, the gun was deadly, and in the blink of an eye, more than half of the two dozen soldiers were killed by him.

The rest of the soldiers turned around and fled in fright, shouting at the head of the city, and the rest of the hundred soldiers on the southern city wall also woke up in their sleep and rushed out of the tower, 'Dang! While! While! The alarm bell rang at the head of the southern city.

At this time, more than 20 soldiers who followed Yu Chigong also quickly went to the city, followed Yu Chigong to block the counterattack of the soldiers defending the city, and the two thousand Sui soldiers on the city wall also launched, they carried ten siege ladders to the city wall like a tide, and one after another siege ladders set up the city wall under the command of the Sui soldiers at the head of the city, and 2,000 people struggled to climb to the city head.

At this time, more than 100 soldiers at the head of the city were not the opponents of Wei Chigong and his men at all, and they were killed and retreated, with heavy casualties, only a moment, a large number of Sui troops rushed to the city, and the remaining dozens of thief soldiers saw that the situation was not good, and fled to the city one after another

Hu Sanlang was drinking and playing with two fans in the room, and he was having fun, when suddenly the nervous shouts of his own soldiers came from the courtyard, "General, there is an alarm in the city!" ”

Hu Sanlang was taken aback, he didn't care about drinking anymore, kicked over the two **s, put on his clothes and ran out of the yard, "What's the matter?" He asked.

"I don't know what's going on, it's the sirens over there in Nancheng!"

"Follow me!"

Hu Sanlang turned over and got on his horse, running towards the Nancheng Tower with a big knife in his hand, followed by hundreds of soldiers, but they ran less than a hundred steps on the street, and rushed towards a large group of black-clothed people, Hu Sanlang pointed with a big knife, "Who is it?" ”

"It's your ancestor!"

Before Hu Sanlang could react, a large spear head with a glittering light had appeared in front of him, and he couldn't dodge, 'Poof! A big gun pierced his throat, killing Hu Sanlang on the spot.

Wei Chi Gong sneered, shook off the corpse of the main general of the thief army, and shouted: "Lao Tzu is the giant spirit god Wei Chi Gong, those who surrender will not die, and those who resist will not be left behind, and they will all be killed!" ”

Wei Chi's compliments were like thunderbolts, and he stabbed Hu Sanlang to death with one shot, and the rest of the hundreds of soldiers were already frightened, and they knelt down and surrendered, "We are willing to surrender and spare our lives!" ”

Wei Chi congratulated and waved his hand, and hundreds of Sui soldiers rushed forward to collect the weapons of the surrendered soldiers and escorted them back to the south gate.

At this time, the Sui army had already killed the north city, and killed hundreds of thief soldiers defending the city, the thief soldiers could not resist, so they had to kneel and surrender, and in less than half an hour, Dong'an County was attacked and conquered by the Sui army.

However, the north gate had been opened, and more than a dozen soldiers guarding the gate took the opportunity to escape from the city and disappear into the night.

This accident made Wei Chigong very annoyed, he still didn't think it through, he should ambush two or three hundred troops outside the north city gate, so that none of them could escape.

And in the final count of the soldiers, the Sui soldiers still killed three people and injured five people when attacking the north city wall, and did not realize Wei Chigong's plan of zero casualties, which made Wei Chigong very frustrated.

At noon the next day, Zhang Xuan led two thousand Sui soldiers to arrive in Dong'an County, when Zhang Xuan urged the horse to slowly enter the county, Wei Chi Gong was full of shame, and knelt down on one knee to report, "General Qiyu, it is not good to attack the city with humble duties, please punish the general!" ”

Zhang Xuan turned over and dismounted, helped Wei Chi Gong and asked with a smile: "Why are you not attacking the city effectively?" ”

Wei Chigong sighed, "I was willing to plan not to hurt or kill a single person, but in the end, three people were killed and five were injured, and more than a dozen thieves escaped, so they could have been completely annihilated. ”

Zhang Xuan laughed, "How can you not die in a war, and if you don't think it through, it's also your lack of experience, but I think it's already very good, how can there be a perfect thing, don't blame yourself, otherwise everyone will feel faceless." ”

Wei Chigong understood what Zhang Xuan meant, scratched his head and smiled: "Is the general going to see the warehouse?" ”

Zhang Xuan nodded, he was currently going south with light troops, and he was counting on getting food supplies from Dong'an County.

Zhang Xuan took Fang Xuanling, who joined the army, and followed Wei Chigong into the granary of the barracks, which was not large, consisting of three rooms, and was full of bags of grain and rice.

Wei Chigong pointed to the granary and said: "I have counted last night, there are about 3,000 stone of grain, and in addition, 400 stone of grain and more than 100,000 yuan of money were found in the house where Hu Sanlang, the main general of the enemy army, lived, according to Hu Sanlang's personal soldiers, this is Hu Sanlang's embezzled money and grain, and he is ready to transport the grain to Qi County to sell it at a high price." ”

Zhang Xuan smiled and nodded, "The harvest is good, three thousand four hundred stone grain, enough for us to support for a few months." ”

Zhang Xuan said to Fang Xuanling next to him: "All the 100,000 guan money will be rewarded to the three armies, and Wei Chi's 2,000 troops will be rewarded twice, and a little will be left for Luo Shixin's army, I hope he will not disappoint me." ”

At this time, Wei Chigong suddenly realized that the dozen or so people who fled were not necessarily a bad thing. (To be continued......)