Xin Fang'er didn't know Luo Cheng, in a fit of rage, he just wanted to smash the person who was in the way with a stick, Xin Fang'er roared, and hit Luo Cheng head-on with a stick, Luo Cheng's silver spear in his hand seemed to weigh only more than thirty pounds, which made Xin Fang'er, who only admired strength, extremely contemptuous, he didn't put the opponent's spear in his eyes at all, and the mace in his hand smashed towards the opponent's Tianling Gai fiercely. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

At this moment, he suddenly weakened, the strength in his hand disappeared, the mace fell from his hand, Xin Fang'er slowly lowered his head, and looked at the spear in front of him in disbelief, he didn't see the other party make a move at all, but the opponent's spear had pierced his throat.

Luo Cheng sneered, knocked Xin Fang'er off the horse, and shot him again, resulting in his life.

At this time, a thousand cavalry had already entered Canglong Fort, hundreds of cavalry had entered the barracks, and nearly two thousand soldiers who had just woken up from their sleep were frightened and scattered in rags to flee for their lives, but the gate had been blocked by the Sui army, and the soldiers were cornered and surrendered on their knees.

The day gradually dawned, tens of thousands of Sui troops arrived at Canglong Fort, a group of captured soldiers escorted down from the mountain, when Zhang Xuan learned that the Sui army took Canglong Fort without hurting a single person, he praised it in his heart, and smiled at Duan Decao: "General Duan's strategy is really clever, I don't know if we can use this strategy to deceive back to Lexian?" ”

Duan Decao shook his head and said: "The reason why the lowly position can use this plan in Canglong Fort is because the lowly position understands that Xin Fang'er loves horses like his life, and he is rude and unwise, he will definitely pick a few good horses among the war horses of the party to stay, so the strategy can be successful, but Liang Shidu is insidious and cunning, he will not believe in the party members, and between Canglong Fort and Huile County, he will definitely use the eagle letter to contact, at this time, he should know that Canglong Fort is lost." ”

"Then what do you suggest for attacking Huile County?"

"Marshal, when he led the army to leave Lingwu County, there were only 6,000 people left in the Liang Division, and no one in Lingwu County was willing to die for him anymore, if his army recovered to tens of thousands in just two months, then these soldiers must have been forcibly conscripted into the army, and the equipment was poor, needless to say, the key is that they must not be willing to work for the Liang Division, there are no strong combat soldiers, no matter how tall and strong the county is built, it is useless, as long as our army captures a gap, the army of the Liang Division will collapse, so the Humble Duty suggests that a point be attacked."

At this time, the soldiers of the Sui army brought a group of craftsmen, about fifty people, and a Lang general stepped forward to report to Zhang Xuanyu, "Marshal Qiyu, these are the craftsmen who built Canglong Fort, and they also built Huile City!" ”

A group of craftsmen saw the chief general of the Sui army and knelt on the ground and begged for mercy.

Zhang Xuan smiled, it was better to come early than to come by chance, he just needed to understand the situation of the county, so he caught the craftsman who built the county seat, and he ordered the soldiers: "Take them with you, don't abuse them, I still use them!" ”

The Sui army continued to march westward, and in the afternoon, they were only ten miles away from Huile County, Zhang Xuan ordered camp, and tents began to appear in the endless wilderness.

At this moment, a scout rushed to report: "Commander Qiyu, General Li's team is also here!" ”

Zhang Xuan also saw an army in the north from a distance, which was the banner of the Sui army, which was the 20,000 troops led by Li Jing. ”

After a while, a group of cavalry rushed to the north road commander Li Jing, and rushed to the front, Li Jing hugged his fists and saluted: "Humble Li Jing see the marshal!" ”

"No need to be polite!"

Zhang Xuan smiled: "When did the general arrive in Huile County?" ”

"Returning to the Great Marshal, I arrived in Xuanwu Town in the north the night before yesterday, and I have been waiting there for the arrival of the Great Marshal's army."

Zhang Xuan nodded and asked, "Are there any defenders in Xuanwu Town?" ”

"There are a thousand defenders, but they have already fallen into the wind."

Li Jing looked at the county seat, and asked with a smile: "Dashuai has a strategy to attack the city?" ”

"General Duan has a suggestion, the general might as well discuss it together."

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In the big tent of the Chinese army that has just been built, more than a dozen generals gather around a large table, on which is a wooden carved city, which is a model of Taiyuan City, which was temporarily used by Zhang Xuan as Huile County.

Duan Decao introduced to everyone: "Huile County is a big county, at most there was a population of more than 300,000, even now there are 200,000 people, the circumference of the city wall was originally thirty miles, but the year before last was demolished and rebuilt by the Liang division, so that the length of the city wall increased to more than forty miles, the city wall is three feet high, the width is one zhang and five feet, the outer moat is three zhang wide, tall and strong, the river is wide and deep, it is a rare strong city, the Tang army attacked the city three times, but failed to capture this strong city, this is indeed a hard bone to gnaw. ”

"How's the food situation in the city?" Zhang Xuan asked again.

Duan Decao said: "Liang Shidu's most abundant resource is grain, he boasts that the stored grain can be eaten by soldiers for ten years, but according to the information we got at the beginning of the year, the grain in Huile County is about one million stones, which is worthy of being a grain-rich Hetao, and a few years of official food have been cheaper for Liang Shidu." ”

"And what does he lack the most?" Li Jing couldn't help but ask.

"Pig iron!"

Duan Decao said with a smile: "Lingwu County itself does not produce iron, the official and folk iron and bronze tools are almost all stripped clean by the Liang Division, ordinary people can only use clay pots to cook, he later attacked the south, collected millions of catties of pig iron in the counties of Longyou, and stored it in Jincheng County, but before he transported the pig iron away, he was defeated by the Tang army, and fled north in a hurry, these pig iron became the trophies of the Tang army, I heard that it was transported to Chang'an last year, I don't know the equipment of the army in the city now, but it can be seen from the prisoners of war in Canglong Fort. ”

Zhang Xuan nodded, "Please General Duan continue!" ”

Duan Decao continued: "I specially checked the equipment of the prisoners of war, half of the prisoners of war were wearing low-quality Turkic leather armor, which should be eliminated by the Turks, and the other half of the prisoners of war were wearing cloth armor, the soldiers' weapons were all spears, a jujube ash rod was equipped with a spearhead, most of the soldiers did not have a war knife, I asked the prisoners of war, they still had war knives two months ago, but they were all searched, not even daggers, although these soldiers did not know the purpose of war knives, but we can infer that It must have been re-melted by Liang Shidu to create a spearhead, which shows how scarce Liang Shidu's pig iron is. ”

Zhang Xuan asked Li Jing again, "What is the situation of prisoners of war in Xuanwu Town?" ”

Li Jing said with a smile: "It's not as good as Canglong Fort, at least there are leather armor and cloth armor here, and the soldiers in Xuanwu Town don't even have armor, they are all wearing cloth clothes, and they only have spears, no swords." ”

At this time, Tuoba Chici, who had been silent, added: "Leather armor is the descendant army of Liang Shidu, there are 6,000 people, called the Canglong Army, the army wearing cloth armor is selected from the 30,000 new troops recruited later, 8,000 strong, organized as the White Tiger Army, and the remaining 20,000 people are divided into two, one is called the Xuanwu Army, the other is called the Vermilion Bird Army, the name is good, in fact, it is a group of rabble, all wearing black and white cloth clothes, weapons have spears, hoes, wooden sticks, all kinds of mess. ”

Zhang Xuan smiled slightly: "Speaking of which, there are only five thousand people left in Liang Shidu's descendant army now, are they all cavalry?" ”

"Back to Your Highness, they only have a thousand cavalry!" Tuoba replied.

At this time, everyone turned around, only to see two soldiers with a gray-haired old man staggering in, and the soldiers saluted Zhang Xuan, "Dashuai, someone has brought it." ”

The old man knelt down, trembling all over, and said in a trembling voice: "Your Highness, the old minister was coerced by Master Liang!" ”

Zhang Xuan sneered and said to everyone: "This person is called Zhao Song, he was originally a waiter of the Ministry of Industry of the previous dynasty, and he retired to his hometown Jincheng County in the twelfth year of the Great Cause, when Li Yuan recruited him to go to Chang'an to serve, Liang Shidu also recruited him to go to Lingwu County to be the prime minister, he finally unexpectedly chose Liang Shidu, became a member of the three phases of Liang Shidu, and was named the left minister, Zhao Xiangguo, I am not wrong!" ”

Zhao Song said with tears: "The old minister was lost for a while, and he regretted it after coming to Lingwu County, but he couldn't turn back, and he was coerced by Liang Shidu to become Xiangguo." ”

"Really?"

Zhang Xuan snorted, "But I heard that you married a seven-room concubine in Huile County, and you lived a free life, if you didn't happen to be caught in Canglong Castle, would you say that you were coerced?" ”

Zhao Song lowered his head in shame and whispered for a while: "The old minister should be damned!" ”

"To die or not to die is not me, but yourself, do you know what I mean?"

Zhao Song is an old fritter in the officialdom, how could he not understand what Zhang Xuan meant, and hurriedly kowtowed: "The old minister is willing to make meritorious service to atone for his sins!" Meritorious atonement! ”

Zhang Xuan glanced at the model of the city on the seat, and asked lightly: "I heard that you presided over the construction of Huile New City?" ”

Zhao Song saw a wooden city model on the table, and immediately understood where his opportunity was, "Your Royal Highness, including the palace of Liang Shidu and the new city of Huile County, all the buildings were built under the auspices of the old minister, and the old minister knows very well where the loopholes in the city wall are?" ”

"Go on!"

"Your Highness, the biggest weakness of Huile County is the four city gates, because there is no pig iron, so the four city gates are all wooden gates, which can be broken open with giant trees or burned by fire."

"But there is a drawbridge above the city gate, how can it be cracked?"

"Your Highness, the North City Gate Suspension Bridge is not pulled by iron chains, but ropes, and there are really no iron chains in the city, so they can only be replaced by hemp ropes, which will be broken when burned with fire."

There was a burst of laughter in the big tent, and it was the first time that the generals had heard of using hemp rope to pull the suspension bridge, but this Zhao Song didn't say it, and everyone really couldn't think of this.

(To be continued.) )