Volume 10 The First Sound of the Goryeo Drum Chapter 11 The Night Attack on Cangcheng

After thirteen days and nights of sailing, the Great Sui fleet from the north finally arrived at the destination of this trip, Jiangdu, but Jiangdu City was still dozens of miles away from the Yangtze River, and the closest city to the Yangtze River was its affiliated small county, Jiangyang County.

Jiangyang County is only a small county and has no garrisons, but Jiangyang Cang, which is close to Jiangyang County, is a strategic place for Wei, and all the military rations and materials of the Wei army are stored in Jiangyang Cang.

Jiangyang Cang is actually a warehouse city, with a circumference of about twelve miles, the city wall is tall and strong, and there are hundreds of warehouses large and small in the city, storing hundreds of thousands of stone grains and countless armor and equipment, as well as millions of silk and silk cloth.

At the beginning, Li Mi seized the materials of Yu Wenhua and thousands of large ships transported from Jiangdu, except for gold, silver, jewelry and other valuables, the rest were stored in Jiangyang warehouse.

At present, there are 5,000 troops stationed in Jiangyang Cang, commanded by Zhang Wenqi, one of Li Mi's henchmen, Zhang Wenqi is known as the second arrow of Wei, and his archery skills are very clever, second only to the archer Wang Bodang.

He is not only skilled in archery, but also careful and prudent, Li Mi repeatedly told Zhang Wenqi when he left, not to allow him to have any carelessness.

The importance of Jiangdu City lies in the fact that the families of the soldiers are in Jiangdu City, and the importance of Jiangyang City lies in the fact that all Li Mi's military grain and grass are stored in the city.

As early as on the big ship, Yang Yuanqing made a plan to attack Jiangyang Cang, and taking Jiangyang Cang became the most important task of the Sui army.

At this time, it was already dark at night, and the Sui army came ashore one after another on the riverside fifteen miles east of Jiangyang City, and groups of Sui troops and their war horses began to go ashore one after another.

Since the Sui warships had been anchored in the Yangtze River for a day, the soldiers and horses had been well rested, and their physical strength had gradually recovered, so the soldiers went ashore without much fatigue.

Yang Yuanqing stood at the bow of the boat, looking at the Jiangyang Cangcheng more than ten miles away, the night was deep, and there was a faint green belt on the horizon, which was the dim light of the river reflecting the moon. However, Cangcheng can't be seen, it is blocked by Jiangyang County, and the swarthy outline of the county seat can be seen.

Yang Yuanqing did not come to Jiangnan in person to attack the city and plunder the wall, the siege operation was naturally completed by his generals. He came to appease the Jiangnan Shi clan and stabilize the Sui army's occupation of Jiangnan, when the Sui Dynasty spent ten years in order to appease the Jiangnan Shi clan, and also laid a solid foundation for him to pacify the south today.

The chief responsible for tonight's attack on Jiangyangcang was the general Wang Junkuo, who had led 10,000 cavalry and slowly marched in the direction of Jiangyangcang. 10,000 cavalry are ready, as long as there is news from Jiangyang Cang, the cavalry will directly enter the Cangcheng......

There are two city gates in Jiangyang City, one is a land gate and one is a water gate, and the iron fence with a thick arm on the water gate has been lowered, and the suspension bridge of the land gate has also been pulled up, and the moat surrounds the cangcheng. There were constant patrols of soldiers patrolling the city.

In a forest about 100 steps away from Cangcheng, more than 300 Sui army scouts had sneaked into the forest, and these more than 300 scouts were selected from nearly 100,000 Sui army soldiers. All of them are strong in martial arts, led by Shen Guang, the general of Zuo Xiaowei.

Shen Guang has been relatively silent over the years, or that he has fewer opportunities to appear in various battles, which does not mean that he was snubbed by Yang Yuanqing, on the contrary, he was promoted to the general of Zuotunwei, and he did not lag behind others at all, mainly because Shen Guang was reassigned to logistics and was responsible for the training of scout soldiers, and almost all the scout troops in the Great Sui had undergone his strict training.

This attack on Gangnam. Because Shen Guang himself is a Jiangnan clan, and he has been in Jiangdu for a while, so this time he is also dressed in battle.

Shen Guang is known as the meat flying fairy, his hundred opera skills have been superb, and the hundred operas are today's acrobatic skills, and climbing the wall and crossing the city is his forte. Yang Yuanqing handed over the heavy responsibility of the night raid vanguard to him.

Shen Guang crawled in a bush, looking at the patrol soldiers at the head of the city, he observed for almost half an hour, and gradually felt the law of the patrol soldiers, a soldier pointed to the water city, and said in a low voice: "General, you can dive under the sluice." ”

Shen Guang shook his head, he knew the structure of the iron fence of the water gate of Jiangdu City, there were barbs under the fence, and the tip of the spear was directly against the bluestone slab at the bottom of the water, and there was only an inch of space at the bottom, so he couldn't pass it at all, and it must be the same here.

"It's okay, we'll climb the wall."

When he saw that the patrol at the head of the city had gone away, he beckoned to the four most capable men, "Follow me!" ”

The five men rushed out, carrying two planks and rushing towards the city wall, and the rest of the soldiers also took the opportunity to rush out, and when they were more than thirty steps away from the city wall, three hundred soldiers quickly lay on the ground, they were dressed in black, and they could not see their figures from the top of the city.

The moat is two feet wide, and you can go directly by putting on a wooden plank, Shen Guang led four or five people to run to the base of the wall, at this time, a team of ten patrolmen in the city came over again, Shen Guang and several of his men stood against the wall, holding their breath.

They waited for a while, and when the patrol sentry turned around again, several people untied the rope from their waists, made a looper, and threw it gently, the rope flew up to the city head nearly three zhang high, and accurately put it on the battlements, Shen Guang climbed upward, this is his best skill, the movement is extremely fast, faster than an ape, and the other people are obviously slower than him, but they can barely keep up.

Shen Guang climbed to the top of the city in the blink of an eye, he hid behind the battlements, hooked the arrows on the battlements with one hand, and untied the rope to prevent the patrol soldiers from seeing the ropes on the battlements when they returned.

Several of the other soldiers did the same, each hiding behind a battlement, and they could be clearly seen from below, but not from the top.

At this time, ten patrol soldiers returned, they walked around in front of the city wall, and found nothing unusual, someone yawned and scolded in a low voice: "Walking back and forth, living like a donkey pulling a mill, tired to death, Lao Tzu must find a place to sleep." ”

"Don't be stupid, General Zhang will come to inspect later, and he will find out, being whipped is a trivial matter, and maybe he will lose his head."

Everyone was helpless, muttering and continuing to patrol, at this time, Shen Guang gave a look to the other people, everyone understood, one hand hooked the battlement arrow eye, and the other took out three flying knives from the skin, the tip of the knife was coated with the highly poisonous 'Papamu', seeing the blood sealing the throat, they couldn't even shout, Shen Guang and the other four people were all good at flying knives, trained hard, and hit a hundred shots within twenty steps.

They bit two flying knives in their mouths, holding another flying knife in their hands, and their eyes were aimed at their respective targets, in order, Shen Guang killed the first person, and the other four killed one target each.

Shen Guang nodded to the four of them, and the five of them started together, only to see five cold lights flash, and five flying knives came out of their hands at the same time.

The patrol team just turned around, facing them from the side, only to hear a muffled snort, and the five people behind fell to the ground at the same time, and Shen Guang and they didn't wait for the five people in front to react, and five flying knives came, and the five people fell to the ground, everything happened in an instant, and the ten patrol guards were killed almost at the same time.

Five Sui scouts jumped out from behind the battlements, and they moved quickly, stripping off the clothes of the ten patrol soldiers, and also taking off the waist tags, and throwing their bodies down the city wall, and the five of them put on the Wei military uniforms and became the patrol team.

At this time, it was the third watch, the city was very quiet, there were two hundred patrol sentinels on the city wall, divided into twenty teams, each responsible for a section of the city wall, the city wall occupied by Shen Guang was a section between the south city and the east city, about half a mile long, at this time, three hundred Sui Dynasty scouts climbed the rope and went up, not long enough, three hundred scouts all went to the city.

They divided into two routes, one way to grab the drawbridge winch, the other way under the leadership of Shen Guang to occupy the city gate, one hundred and fifty scouts with swords and shields in hand, followed Shen Guang to the city, just ran to the city gate when they heard someone shouting: "Who is it?" ”

"Come to change the guard, go back to sleep!"

Shen Guang rushed forward, and without waiting for the other party to react, a knife was inserted into his chest, and a long scream sounded in the night sky, and at this time, the screams on the city head also came one after another, and a piercing jǐng bell sounded next to the city tower, 'Dang! While! While! ’

The sound of the bell resounded throughout the city, and it also followed the night wind for several miles away, three miles away, Wang Junkuo led 20,000 cavalry and had been waiting for a long time, he heard the sound of the jǐng report, raised the Qinglong Yanyue sword high, and shouted: "Brothers, the meritorious service is tonight, kill!" ”

20,000 cavalry launched, and the sound of horses' hooves was like muffled thunder, shaking the earth and overwhelmingly slaughtering Cangcheng......

At this time, the Sui scouts had already occupied the tower, the drawbridge creaked down, and a bunch of fires were ignited to show the Sui army in the distance.

But the city gate is still in a fierce battle, the defenders of the city gate are only more than 100 people, the number is not much, but at this time, Jiangyang warehouse guard Zhang Wenqi led more than 300 personal soldiers to inspect the city gate.

Zhang Wenqi couldn't help but be furious when he saw that the Sui army had sneaked into the city, and ordered his own soldiers and Sui army scouts to fight and protect the city gate, and the two sides launched a bloody battle to occupy the city gate and defend the city gate at the city gate.

Zhang Wenqi's personal soldiers instigated war horses, spears in their hands and rushed forward to kill, while Sui scouts held shields and war knives to block the city gate, some of them fought with the defenders in the city gate hole, and the other part of them resisted Zhang Wenqi and his 300 personal soldiers and continued to charge.

Time passed little by little, both sides were red-eyed, and people kept screaming and falling to the ground, especially the Wei general Zhang Wenqi's archery skills, he cast cold arrows in the back, every time he shot out of the arrow, there must be a Sui army scout who fell down with an arrow, and every arrow shè pierced the throat of the Sui army scout.

Shen Guang was furious, these scouts were taught by his own hands, they were his apprentices, and they died under the cold arrow, he roared, jumped on the war horse of a Wei cavalry, the war knife waved, the cavalry head flew up, he took the spear, stood on the war horse, and waved his arm hard, and the spear flew towards Zhang Wenqi like a bolt of lightning.

Zhang Wenqi was stretching his bow and arrows, aiming at a Sui scout at the head of the city, the spear stabbed in an instant, he couldn't dodge, the spear entered his throat, the tip of the spear pierced the back of his neck, the huge impact made him soar into the air, fell to the ground hard, and the spear nailed him to the ground.

At this time, the city gate finally opened violently, and the cavalry outside the city rushed into the city like a surging rage, and the Sui cavalry waved their spears and swords, shouting loudly, and rushed to kill the defenders of Cangcheng who had just rushed to the street...... (To be continued.) If you like this work,. )