readx; Among several generals, marching Sima Liu Yang is a native of Hanzhong, he is very familiar with the mountains and rivers in Hanzhong, he got up and said: "General Li, there are two roads to go to Nanzheng City, one is the Hanshui Road, that is, along the Hanshui River to the west, through Xingdao County, Chenggu County, and finally arrive at Nanzheng, this is actually a big road, but Xingdao County and Chenggu County are located in dangerous places, and the city walls are strong, it is not easy to capture them." Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info”

Liu Yang walked to the sand table, pointed to another narrow mountain road with a wooden pole: "The other road is a small road, the local people call Luo Baodao, ten miles south of Huayang County, there is a small road leading to the west of Baogu Road, although the road is narrow, but there is no danger of Xiongbao, just pay attention to the ambush of the enemy, after arriving at Baogu Road, and then turn to the south, you will arrive at Baocheng County, this is actually the outer gateway of Nanzheng, the city is solid, by the mountains and rivers, the location is very dangerous, after taking Baocheng, Nanzheng City is in front of you, Both roads can reach Nanzheng, each with its own length and disadvantage, and the general can choose one or the other. ”

Li Siye was concerned about time, and he asked again: "Then from the two roads, which one is faster?" ”

"It should be said that they are all about the same, but the Han water road has to pass through two cities, if there are garrisons, it will take a little longer, on the contrary, if you take the Luo Bao Trail, then you only need to attack one city in Baocheng, but it is very difficult to capture Baocheng, and casualties are inevitable."

Li Siye pondered for a moment, and then resolutely said: "Then take the Luo Bao Trail, no matter how difficult it is to fight Baocheng, will it still be sad for Lianyunbao?" Pass my orders, and the army will set off on the third watch! ”

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At the time of the two watches, the Anxi army got up and cleaned up, put away the camp tents, pulled out the camp fence, and acted very quickly, at the time of the third watch, 50,000 troops and 10,000 camels set off to the south, and the general Zhao Chongjie led 10,000 cavalry to open the way in front.

Luo Bao trail in the south of Huayang County ten miles fork, in fact, a and Han level line of the trail, from the Han water is only more than 30 miles, but blocked by a big mountain, Luo Bao trail is along the north foot of this mountain to the west, although it is a trail, but the road is quite wide, you can take war horses and camels, to Baocheng County about 150 miles, if it is on the Anxi prairie, 150 miles away, an hour can be reached, but the Hanzhong road is rugged, the mountain road is difficult to travel, the march will take a day and a night.

In order to prevent being ambushed by the Hanzhong army, the Anxi army, which is extremely heavy on intelligence, sent twenty scout teams to patrol in front, but the Anxi army did not encounter any trouble on this march, and the road was very smooth, which is also the reason why Hanzhong has few troops, Li Huan needs to concentrate his troops, the Anxi army marches through the mountains and mountains, it is the end of September at this time, and the Hanzhong land has also entered the late autumn season, the leaves are colorful, the forests are dyed, the morning and evening are full of cold, but the day is under the sunshine, warm and warm, and the autumn is high and refreshing, The weather was pleasant.

It was the beauty of heaven that made the march of the Anxi army rapid, and in the evening of the next day, the army arrived in the valley about ten miles away from Baocheng County, and the gurgling Baoshui flowed through the valley, and the mountains on both sides were open, and it was difficult for the enemy to ambush here.

Li Siye ordered to camp in the valley, at this time, the sky gradually darkened, the autumn wind full of chill passed through the valley, making a huge wind whistle, the Tang army soldiers simply ate dry food and quickly fell asleep, replenish physical strength, Li Siye stood on an abrupt boulder, looking south, in the dark, you can vaguely see a corner of Baocheng County, the so-called county seat is actually a castle, built in a huge canyon gap, cut off the road to the south, the terrain of the county is not high, from Li Siye's point of view, You can see that the castle is almost level with the canyon here.

At this time, several soldiers led a local man forward and reported to Li Siyeyu: "General Yu, this man is a woodcutter who is very familiar with the situation in the county seat, and you can interrogate him about the specific situation." ”

Li Siye glanced at this man, about thirty years old, sturdy, vigorous gait, perhaps because of his perennial absence, his skin looked very dark, even at night, he could feel the luster of his face, I don't know why, Li Siye's first impression of him was not a woodcutter, but like a soldier.

"What's your name?"

The woodcutter stepped forward and saluted: "General Huiyu, the villain's name is Qiu Shilang, and he is a local." ”

"Hmmm! Tell me about the situation in the city, how many garrisons are there? ”

"General Hui, the garrison is about 2,000 people, and there are more than 1,000 other residents."

"How high and thick are the walls, and what materials are they made of?"

The woodcutter said without hesitation as if he had endorsed it: "The height of the city is about seven zhang, and the thickness is three zhang, all of which are made of boulders. ”

Li Siye stared at the woodcutter for a while, and then ordered left and right: "Reward him with ten silver dollars, let him go!" ”

"Thank you, General!"

The woodcutter gave Li Siye a deep salute and followed the soldiers down, at this time, Sima Liu Yang, the marching soldier next to him, stepped forward and said, "General Li, I think this person is deceitful!" ”

Li Siye frowned and said, "Tell me, what's wrong with this person?" ”

"The main thing is that he behaved too calmly, seeing that the general didn't kneel, and when he said the situation of the city wall, he didn't think about it at all, and opened his mouth to say, as if he had prepared it in advance, if he was an ordinary person, could he not be nervous? It's impossible to say it so smoothly, I feel that this person is deceitful. ”

In fact, Li Siye also had some doubts, not that this person should deal with it calmly, and this person's temperament is clearly a soldier, and he walks with a slight looped legs, which is the traces left by long-term horseback riding, Li Siye nodded and instructed his own soldiers: "Find a few scouts to keep an eye on this person, as long as he has the slightest abnormality, arrest him immediately!" ”

Several pro-soldiers went, Li Siye turned back and stared at Baocheng County, the moonlight was bright, but in the night, there was a layer of silver light fog, which shrouded the city wall, now three full days have passed, he still has seven days, counting the way back, he actually only has four days to fight, tomorrow before dark, he must take Baocheng County, although he also knows that Li Qing'an's ten-day limit is not completely serious, but it also stimulates Li Siye's competitive heart, he also thinks that if he can't take Nanzheng within three days, it will be a great shame for him.

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For the general army, the soldiers and horses have not moved, and the grain and grass go first, but for the Anxi army, the soldiers and horses have not moved, and the scouts go first. When the main Anxi army was stationed in the river valley, a scout team of ten people sneaked near Baocheng County, and the scout leader was a lieutenant surnamed Zheng with great experience. He is not in a hurry to get close to the city, but first observe the terrain a few miles away, Baocheng County is sandwiched between two mountains, it is actually the river valley of Baoshui, there are cliffs on both sides, the narrow river valley is only about six or seven miles wide, more than ten miles long, this is the only way to go to Nanzheng on the Baogu Road, if you don't take this river valley, then you have to continue to detour to the west for hundreds of miles to Nanzheng, or retreat to Huayang County, and then retake the Han Water Road.

It is precisely because of the dangerous terrain here that the city of Baocheng was built, and it became a fortress that strangled the Baogu Road, the scout team of the Anxi army did not approach the city, but climbed the cliff next to the city, the stone wall went straight up, steep and steep, about 100 zhang high, for the average soldier, it was almost inconceivable to go up the mountain from here, but it was common for the scout army, they were as flexible as monkeys, using the vines on the cliff and the rope they carried, quickly climbed up, and the ten scouts approached the top of the city little by little.

"Captain, there's a cave up there!" One of the scouts whispered.

Captain Zheng looked up, only to see that there was a swarthy cave two zhang away, flat and wide, about seven feet high, but two or three feet wide, he nodded, and struggled to climb towards the cave, the cave was covered by vines, it looked gloomy and damp, Captain Zheng was not in a hurry to enter, if there were poisonous snakes or the like hidden in it, biting the soldiers, the screams would reveal their whereabouts.

He stood on a protruding rock, pulled the long vine with one hand, drew a knife with the other hand and cut off the vines covering the cave, turned his back again, asked a soldier to help, and lit the smoke tube, which is also a kind of gunpowder invented by the Anxi Firearms Bureau, the shell is a bamboo tube, which can release a large amount of smoke after ignition, and there are various ingredients in it, such as chili peppers, poisons and realgar, Zheng Xiaowei uses the realgar smoke tube, which is generally used to clean up poisonous snakes, he threw the smoke tube into the cave, and for a moment, the smoke in the cave was billowing and the smell was unusually pungent, Listening to the sound of snorting, more than a dozen long snakes perched in the cave escaped one after another and climbed down the cliff along the vines.

He threw three scent tubes in a row, and the smoke filled the entire cave, expelling all the poisonous insects and snakes that inhabited the cave, and waited for a while, when the smoke gradually cleared, Captain Zheng jumped into the cave as soon as he jumped up, and the soldiers behind him also rushed into the cave one after another.

The cave is damp and dark, but it is quite spacious, it can accommodate ten of them, and with a foothold, it is much easier to explore the situation of the city, Zheng Xiaowei squatted at the entrance of the cave, and looked down, and the whole picture of Baocheng was extremely clear from their perspective.

Under the moonlight, Baocheng County is a rectangle, six miles wide, about a dozen miles long, that is, two high walls are built to block the two entrances of the canyon, the city is basically stone buildings, there are no residents, only a team of soldiers patrolling in the city, the city wall is very high, but the city gate is not big, only three people are allowed to walk side by side, the high suspension bridge is pulled up, but these are not the focus of the scouts, their task is to find the weakness of the city.

'River! One of the scouts shouted in a low voice.

Zheng Xiaowei saw clearly, Baoshui came from the north, passed through the city, and a waterway was opened in the westernmost part of the city wall, and the river flowed into the city from this waterway, but the waterway was estimated to be very small, and it was completely submerged by the river.

Captain Zheng quickly drew a sketch and marked the waterway, which, with his years of scout experience, was the weak point of Baocheng County's defenses, and he pondered for a moment, it was best to find a way to dive into the water to take a look.

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In the camp, the screams of torture continued, and the woodcutter was taken back again, and the scouts who followed him found that he had brought a horse out of the woods, and immediately arrested him, and sure enough, it was a war horse, and there was a military uniform in the sack.

Li Siye sat in the handsome position with a gloomy face, and dared to run in front of him to deceive, which was really an ambitious leopard.

After a while, a personal soldier entered the tent and reported: "General, he has been recruited!" ”

"Bring him up!"

The soldiers went out, and soon several big men of the Anxi Army dragged up the woodcutter who was beaten all over his body, and the woodcutter had already fainted and could no longer answer Li Siye's question, so an interrogator said: "Report to the general, this person's name is Qiu Yong, he is the scout captain under Li Huan, he is following us from Huayang County, and he is not very clear about the situation in Baocheng County, but he knows the situation in Nanzheng very well." ”

"What's going on with Nan Zheng?"

"Returning to the general, Li Huan thought that we would come from the Han Water Road, so he deployed 5,000 heavy troops in Xingdao County and Gucheng County, but we did not take the Han Water Road, and he would withdraw to Nanzheng with this 10,000 troops, the problem is that this scout lieutenant only sent a pigeon letter to Nanzheng two hours ago, telling Li Huan that we did not take the Han Water Road, so that the withdrawal of Xingdao County and Gucheng County will take a while, according to this scout's explanation, it will not be withdrawn until tomorrow afternoon at the earliest."

Li Siye is pacing in the big tent with his hands behind his back, and he will be able to rush back to Nanzheng tomorrow afternoon, is there a fighter plane hidden in it? A bold plan popped into his mind, soldier, treacherous!

At this time, the scouts sent to explore the city came back, and Captain Zheng immediately came to see Li Siye, Li Siye waved his hand and ordered someone to drag the half-dead spy down to heal his wounds, and to continue to interrogate him about Nan Zheng's information, he returned to his seat and asked Captain Zheng, "What do you gain?" ”

Li Siye said that the harvest refers to the way to break the city, Zheng Xiaowei bowed down and said: "Hui general, the city is indeed very high and thick, there is a moat in front of the city wall, it is difficult to set up a ladder, but the water passes through the city, and there is a passage under the city wall. ”

"Passage?" Li Siye's eyes lit up, and he immediately asked, "Have you been to investigate?" ”

"I went, and a brother with a good surname of the water dived down the water, and the passage was a half-moon shape, six feet under water, and the highest part of the waterway was five feet from the bottom of the river, but it was equipped with a very thick iron fence, and people could not pass through."

"Waterways, Iron Fences, ......"

Li Siye lowered his head in contemplation, his knuckles lightly tapped the table, and at this time, the marching Sima Liu Yang stepped forward and said, "General Li, the waterway five miles ahead is very narrow, and you can cut off the flow of Baoshui. ”

Li Siye suddenly slapped his head, he has a way!

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There are 3,000 garrisons in Baocheng County, a large amount of food and arrows are prepared, 3,000 people plus tall and strong city walls, enough to resist the attack of tens of thousands of people, this is also the most difficult first step in attacking Nanzheng, Baocheng County is like a solid armor, tightly guarding Nanzheng.

The general of Baocheng County is surnamed Yang, called Yang Wei, and is a member of the Zhonglang General, he and Yang Guozhong have a little bit of kinship, but they are too far apart, and he did not gain any benefits when the Yang family was in its heyday, but when the Yang family was executed, he was not implicated.

This General Yang Wei is very cautious, it sounds like it is cautious, and it is timid to say it badly, but Li Huan just likes him to be cautious and cautious, so he let him guard Baocheng County, Li Huan thinks that the main force of the Anxi Army will come by the Han Water Road, but it will also send a sporadic army to take Baocheng west, so as long as the cautious General Yang Wei never comes out, then Baocheng County will be foolproof.

But General Yang Wei never thought that the main force of the Anxi Army was actually going to Baocheng County, and the troops were already in the city, he was panicked and anxious, ordered all 3,000 soldiers to go to the city to defend, and ordered people to rush to Nanzheng for help, all night, Yang Wei could not sleep, he ran to the warehouse again and again to check the food arrows and other materials, only to see these materials piled up, he can settle down.

At the fourth watch, he suddenly got a report, saying that there was an abnormality in Baoshui, Yang Wei only felt that his legs were weak for a while, as if Baocheng had been lost, and he went to inspect the situation with one foot deep and one foot shallow.

The city was already full of soldiers, thousands of torches lit up the city as if it were day, all the defenders went up to the city, but most of the people were sleeping under the base of the walls, only a few hundred people patrolled back and forth, watching the situation in the distance, there was nothing unusual in the distance, but there was something unusual in the river.

After passing through the city wall, the Baoshui River converges into a three-acre pond in the city, and then continues to flow southward, through Baocheng County, and finally flows into the Han River.

At this time, hundreds of people gathered in front of the pond in the city, each with torches, surrounded the pond and whispered.

"The general is here!" Someone shouted, and everyone dodged away, only to see Yang Wei walking quickly under the escort of more than a dozen soldiers.

"What's going on? What is unusual about the river water? Yang Wei's voice trembled a little nervously.

A lieutenant stepped forward and reported: "General Yang, we feel that the river has suddenly become smaller, and the water level of this pond is constantly decreasing. ”

"Ahh With an exclamation, Yang Wei hurriedly stepped forward to inspect that the water level had indeed become lower, and it had dropped by five feet, and the waterway under the city was about to be exposed.

"What's going on?"

The officers under him didn't look down on this timid and incompetent general, and the captain just now secretly sneered in his heart, and said, "Isn't this easy to explain? The Anxi Army has already cut off the river upstream, so the water level here has dropped significantly. ”

"Really? But why did they cut off the river? Yang Wei was not a stupid person after all, he suddenly reacted and exclaimed: "Are they going to drain the moat, in order to attack the city!" ”

Everyone nodded, it should be like this, the moat is connected to Baoshui, and if Baoshui is cut off, the moat will naturally dry up, which is a major weakness of Baocheng County, but I didn't expect it to be discovered by the Anxi Army so soon, and a sense of foreboding swelled in everyone's hearts, I'm afraid that Baocheng County will be difficult to hold.

At this moment, there was a sudden rumbling of war drums in the distance, and someone shouted at the head of the city: "General Yang, the main force of the Anxi Army is coming!" ”

Yang Wei was so frightened that he seemed to step on the air and fell into the abyss, the Anxi army finally came, and he didn't care about the matter of the water being cut off, so he turned around and ran up to the city, shouting out in a gaffe: "Get up!" It's all for Lao Tzu to be united, and it's time to fight. ”

The soldiers woke up from their dreams, grabbed their weapons and stood up, rubbed their sleepy eyes, looked to the north, only to see that in the dark night, a boundless army was heading towards Baocheng County, black and oppressive, terrifying, the soldiers at the head of the city shouted exhaustedly under the screams of the main general Yang Wei, and they opened their bows and arrows to carry the rolling wood.

The Anxi army got closer and closer, and began to walk into the trumpet-shaped valley mouth, and stopped about three miles away from the city, Li Siye took the lead, he looked at this majestic castle coldly, with a contemptuous smile on the corner of his mouth, no matter how strong the castle is, as long as there is a weakness, then it is no different from tofu rubble, and he will take Baocheng County without spending a single soldier today.

His eyes couldn't help but glance at the water, the upstream of the water has been blocked by them, but it has not been completely stopped, but the water level has been greatly reduced, turning into a shallow river, at this time, the waterway under the city wall has been half exposed, a crescent shape of a black hole, and the iron fence in the hole can be vaguely seen.

Li Siye waved his hand and gave the order to act, only to see more than a dozen soldiers carrying a wooden plank and jumping into the river, the river that was originally a few people deep, now only the waist of the people, they put down the plank, on the plank put four swarthy pumpkin-like flat objects, the plank began to float in the water, not fast or slow towards the city wall, by a soldier with an excellent surname below to grasp the direction of the plank.

This is just a small detail, the soldiers at the head of the city are nervously watching the changes in the position of the Anxi army, no one notices the anomaly on the river, and even if someone does, they will treat it as a piece of wood or something, and if they don't pay attention, no one can think of what it means.

The Anxi army was constantly changing its position, sometimes the cavalry stood out, sometimes the crossbow army stepped forward, attracting the attention of the city, and several wizards were dancing in the moonlight, looking up at the moon and shouting, no one could understand what they were shouting, but Li Siye's eyes were watching the wooden plank closely, at this time, the wooden plank quietly flowed into the crescent-shaped waterway, the waterway was several zhang deep, and the wooden plank was blocked by an iron fence.

I saw a little spark in the waterway, which seemed to be burning, and the water ghost who had lit the fuse plunged headlong into the water, desperately swimming back, and he had to swim a hundred paces away in less than half a column of incense, otherwise he would surely die.

Li Siye and all the soldiers of the Anxi Army beside him held their breath, the cavalry turned around and ran northward at the beginning, the officers and soldiers of the Anxi Army seemed to understand something, many of them were lying on the ground, covering their ears, and only a few wizards were still dancing wildly, attracting thousands of pairs of stupid eyes on the city wall.

At this moment, I saw a bright red light burst out in the waterway, and then I only heard an earth-shattering explosion, the water waves rushed to the sky, as if the mountain collapsed and the ground cracked, the city wall shook violently, and the city head erupted into a scream of fear, the screams were shrouded in black smoke, and there was a loud collapse sound in the black smoke, screams, wails, one after another.....

When the smoke cleared, the soldiers of the Anxi army slowly stood up, the city wall in front of them had completely changed, the northwest side of the city wall, that is, above the waterway, a section of the city wall three hundred zhang long collapsed, the boulder rolled down to the ground, wrapped in the corpses of countless soldiers, in the middle of the river, revealing a large gap about dozens of zhang wide.

The natural danger in Baocheng County disappeared in an instant, and Li Siye suddenly burst out with an angry roar: "Kill into Baocheng County, don't let anyone go!" ”

The shouts of killing shook the sky, and tens of thousands of Anxi troops rushed towards Baocheng County like a frenzy.

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(To be continued)