Chapter Thirty-Six: The Crossing of the City

The whole Tanju Ridge stretches for more than 40 miles, the road up the mountain and down the mountain are steep like a knife, the road is extremely difficult, it is night, Li Qingan led more than 200 subordinates to quietly go down the mountain, until the second watch, everyone is difficult to touch down the cliff, hidden behind a boulder, in the night, the swarthy crossbow city wall in the distance is faintly visible.

"General, are we taking the opportunity to take the city of Ayuyue?" He Yanming asked in a low voice.

Li Qingan shook his head slightly, "No, we can't startle the snake and ruin the tactics of the big handsome." ”

"Then how do we disguise ourselves as Aguyue and go up the mountain to greet the brothers?"

"You don't need too many people." Li Qing'an's eyes fell on the col on the right, where there was a small village with more than a dozen residents.

"Yan Ming, you lead the headquarters to bring all the Ah Yue people there, and those who refuse to come, kill them!"

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He Yanming led his team to quickly touch the small village, and Li Qing'an's eyes once again turned to Ah Xuan Yue City, in fact, before he went down the mountain, Gao Xianzhi had already instructed him, "Ah Xuan Yue City's troops are relaxed, and you can see the opportunity to act." ’

This sentence was vague, but Gao Xianzhi's implication was that he was allowed to do his own thing, Ah Xuan Yue City, could he take it in one fell swoop?

While Li Qing'an was pondering, a soldier ran to report, "Team He is coming back." ”

I saw He Yanming hurrying with more than 30 Ah Xuan Yue people, and when he saw Li Qing'an, he smiled proudly: "General, it was unexpectedly smooth, these Ah Xuan Yue people are greedy for small profits, and they each give them 200 yuan, and he is willing to go up the mountain to greet them." ”

Li Qing'an glanced at the Ah Yue people behind him, there were men and women, old and young among the thirty or so people, everyone's eyes were full of expectation, he nodded and smiled: "Very good, pick twenty people out, and our soldiers will also send twenty people, change into their clothes, go up the mountain to welcome the army together, and tell them that as long as they are sincere and enthusiastic, I can give 500 yuan each." ”

A soldier translated Li Qing'an's dialect into Tocharian, and the people of Ah Yue immediately cheered, and they took out suona, gongs and drums and other musical instruments, ready to go up the mountain with the Tang army.

Li Qing'an said to He Yanming again: "You will take these people up the mountain, you can speak Tocharian, and you will always pretend to be one of them." ”

He Yanming was stunned for a moment, and secretly scolded in his heart: "Grandma, Lao Tzu is unlucky, and it will be my turn to do anything unlucky!" ”

He hurriedly covered his feet and grinned: "General, can you go up the mountain with another person, my foot was twisted just now, I'm afraid I can't climb the mountain." ”

"Are you really twisting your foot?"

"Really, General, look, the instep is swollen."

"Alas! It's a pity, if you go up again, maybe you can be promoted to second lieutenant. ”

"Lieutenant? General, my feet seem to be fine, you see, it's fine. ”

"It's okay, you can go!"

Li Qingan smiled and waved his hand to everyone: "Everyone come here, I have something to say to everyone." ”

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The night is vast, in the cold wind, the sky above the city is particularly bright, countless stars are like jewels in the night sky, exuding bright light, under this bright starry sky, the city of the city is sleeping quietly, the third watch, it is the sweetest moment for people to sleep.

At this moment, nearly two hundred black shadows appeared outside the city, and they moved quickly, as fast as a tanuki, and under a low command, they quickly crossed a trench one zhang wide.

The city is very small, about 1,000 steps in circumference, there are three or four hundred families living in it, and there are three or four hundred defenders, and a nobleman serves as the lord of the city.

"General, what should I do?" Li Fei Shouyu asked in a low voice.

In front of the Tang army is a huge stone crack, five or six zhang wide, forming a natural moat, connected by a rattan bridge on both banks, there is a stone house on the side of the rattan bridge on the opposite bank, there should be more than a dozen defenders in it, but at the moment the lights are dark, and the defenders should be sleeping.

It is no wonder that in the hundred years since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, no army has ever crossed the Tanju Ridge to this point, and the Lianyun Fort in front is still heavily guarded, and the people of Ah Xuanyue never dreamed that the Tang army would suddenly arrive tonight.

Li Qingan pondered for a moment, it is not a problem to take the city of Aoba, the key is not to reveal the news.

"You lead a hundred men around the back of the city, block their retreat, and use a rocket as a signal, and we attack at the same time."

"Yes!"

With a wave of his hand, Li Fei Shouyu led a hundred people to quickly run across the rattan bridge and go around the back of the city, the stone house was quiet, and the defenders did not find that the danger had arrived.

"General, there are five of them!" Next to the stone house, Han Jinping pointed to the stone house and said in a low voice.

Li Qing'an made a hands-on gesture, and the two Tang soldiers immediately slowly blew a few tubes of incense into the stone house, and after a while, Han Jinping led a few of his subordinates in, and soon changed into the costume of a crossbow city soldier.

At this moment, a bright light suddenly crossed the sky, and a rocket soared into the air, and the flames dragged their long tails and quickly dissipated into the darkness.

"Up!" More than 100 Tang troops rushed to the city of Ao, they ran to the city, the flying claws in their hands threw on the three-zhang high city wall, and went up, a crossbow Yuecheng sentry suddenly heard the movement, rushed to inspect the situation, but was shot through the throat by Li Qing'an an arrow, muffled a scream, fell down from the city, suddenly, the sound of killing in the south of the city suddenly rose, woke up the sleeping people, the soldiers guarding the city ran to the south, but they did not expect that more than 100 people of Li Qing'an had entered the city silently from the north gate.

The lord of the city of Aguyue is called Alilaitz, one of the ten nobles of Xiao Bolu, and the city of Abayue is his territory, he was awakened by the sound of killing in his sleep, he thought that it was the Tubo people who came to steal women, and in a fit of anger he drew his sword and rushed out of the mansion.

"City Lord, the enemy army is here with more than a hundred people, they are very powerful, I can't resist it." A soldier came running and reported in a panic.

"Bastard! More than a hundred Tibetans scared you like this? ”

"Report to the city lord, it's not the Tubo people, it's the Tang army!"

"Tang Jun!" Alilaitz was stunned, he couldn't believe his ears, but at this moment, more than a hundred Tang soldiers dressed in Mingguang armor suddenly appeared in front of him, and surrounded him in a fan shape, all with bows and crossbows, and aimed at him coldly.

"We are the vanguard of the Tang Army, the Tang Army's heavenly soldiers have arrived, abandon the sword, spare your life!" A Don soldier who was fluent in Tocharian said loudly.

Alilitz was stunned for a long time, he finally understood, couldn't help but sigh, threw his sword on the ground, turned back and ordered his subordinates: "The heavenly soldiers of the Heavenly Khan have arrived, order all the people to surrender, not to resist." ”

The order spread, and the soldiers of Aguyue City surrendered one after another, and the Tang army easily took Abayue City at the cost of not hurting a single person.

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The next day before noon, the main force of the Tang army drove to the front of the road down the mountain, here as high as a thousand zhang, the mountain is steep, the glacier is dense, the slope is almost perpendicular to the ground, as Gao Xianzhi expected, the Tang army looked at the steep mountain wall under the mountain, one by one was afraid and trembled, no one refused to go down the mountain.

"Dashuai, kill us! We'd rather be killed by you than broken to pieces. ”

Especially the people who fought bravely in the war, as if they all had a fear of heights, and sat on the ice and snow, and no one could pull them.

Only Xi Yuanqing, who was eager to make meritorious contributions, said impatiently: "Dashuai, why don't you let me go down first!" I'm going to take the city of Akuyue. ”

Gao Xianzhi just shook his head and said nothing, he was still waiting, waiting for news from Li Qing'an, he knew that Li Qing'an would definitely not let him down.

At this time, there was a burst of suona drum music on the mountain road, and the enthusiastic A Xuanyue people went up the mountain, they beat drums and gongs, the flags were flying, and the Tang soldiers looked at each other, and no one knew what happened?

Dozens of people got closer and closer, and a few soldiers from the scout battalion suddenly noticed that the black-faced standard-bearer seemed to be a little familiar, looking a bit like their He team, and even the triumphant demeanor was the same.

"Ah Xuanyue natives welcome the Tang Heavenly Soldiers!"

Everyone shouted in unison: "The Tang Heavenly Soldiers are invincible, sweep away the law." ”

Gao Xianzhi frowned, that one shouted so neatly, isn't this obviously trained? But he didn't show his face, and turned back to everyone with a smile: "Have you seen it, the people of Ah Xuanyue have come to meet us, all the sons, cheer up, let's go down the mountain!" ”

"Down the mountain!" The Datang soldiers were excited, raised their arms and shouted together, and the team began to drive towards the bottom of the mountain.

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