The wind blowing from outside the plug was blowing more and more intensely, and the snow had been falling for a whole day and a night. A few branches of the dead tree that had not been crushed by the snow stretched out into the dim sky like jagged and bony withered arms, as if begging for something. A crow with its neck shrunk a few times on the branch, and seemed to be suddenly startled, and quickly spread its wings and flew away.

In the Changchun Palace, Pei Qiantong had just had a double match with a beautiful palace maid, and was about to have a plum blossom three lanes, when suddenly there was a sound of hurried footsteps outside.

He heard the whispers of the soldiers outside the door, and shouted with some dissatisfaction: "What is disturbing! ”

Pei Hu, the captain of the pro-soldiers, reported in a deep voice outside: "My lord, it's Feng Yi's Wang Sima." It is said that Feng Yi suddenly discovered a large number of enemy horsemen and had broken through the east gate and entered the city? ”

Pei Qiantong sat up from the couch at once, and pushed out the charming palace man who was still wrapped around his waist like a water snake. Exclaimed: "How is it possible? ”

There was a sound of dressing in the house, and after a while, Pei Qiantong pushed open the door barefoot in a loose robe and picked up Wang Sima's collar: "Where did the soldiers and horses come from, and what banner did they fight?" ”

Wang Sima is the elder brother of the concubine that Pei Qiantong has been favoring recently, and relying on the relationship of this cheap brother-in-law, he has made a Sima petty official in a military ranch. However, although he has this official position, he actually never stays in the ranch outside the city. It is precisely because of this that he escaped tonight. When the guards at the gate of the northern city reported that the war horses of the pasture were found outside the city, he did not dare to hurry up, but because of this, the Xiliang cavalry was able to escape as soon as possible when they entered the city through the east gate.

At this time, Wang Sima galloped all the way here, and he was already out of breath: "My lord, the thieves first raided the pasture in the north of the city, and then drove the pasture horses to the north of the city, while covering up the sound of their actions, and secondly, attracting the attention of the soldiers defending the city. Then the thieves suddenly attacked the east gate, sent the dead to sneak into the city, opened the east gate, and led the thieves into the city. Seeing this, the little one didn't dare to delay, and hurriedly came to deliver a message to the adults. ”

"The thieves have already entered the city?" Pei Qiantong's face changed drastically, and he asked tremblingly: "Then do you know how many thieves there are, and where did they come from?" ”

Wang Sima was the first to flee to the south gate as soon as he heard that the thieves had entered the city, and he didn't know a lot of them, but he still told everything he knew: "The thieves are all cavalry, and I don't know the specific number in the dark, at least thousands." According to small speculation, the thieves may have come from the north, and it seems that someone vaguely recognized them as Xiliang's Qiang cavalry. ”

"Qiang cavalry, there is a Qiang cavalry in Xue Ju's Western Qin Army, could it be the Western Qin Army?" Pei Qiantong felt that his heartbeat was uncontrollable.

Pei Hu was a fierce man, and when he heard this, he shook his head and said, "Xue Ju's father and son have been captured by Chen Pojun, how can there still be thousands of Xiliang cavalry raiding Feng Yi?" Could it be Chen Jun? ”

"Yes, it must be the Chen army, it must be the Chen army that surrendered the Xiliang cavalry, and they killed it. Hurry up and pack your things, let's go to Imjin City right away! "Although Pei Qiantong was the Eagle Yang Lang general of the government army in the Sui Dynasty, the army master of the government. However, it is only his gate valve background, and he is just a greedy person who is afraid of death. As soon as he thought that it might be killed by Chen Jun, he felt that his legs were weak and weak, and he couldn't wait to fly to Imjin Pass immediately.

"My lord, the thieves killed Feng Yi, but there was no news from the surrounding cities before. According to the villain's opinion, it is estimated that it may be a lone army, and the number of people is unlikely to be large, at most three or five thousand people. My lord, now that the thieves have just arrived, Feng Yi has not completely fallen. At this time, it is better for the adults to lead the troops to kill Feng Yi and annihilate the thieves in one fell swoop, which must be a miracle. "Pei Hu, as Pei Qiantong's personal guard, is naturally also a member of Pei Valve's side tribe, and he is also a soldier on the battlefield. Faced with enemy news, his first thought was not to run but to fight.

However, Pei Qiantong did not have Pei Hu's courage, he was already frightened at this time, and when he mentioned Chen Jun, he felt that his legs were weak and his limbs were weak. At that time, he also followed Yu Wenhua and conquered Liaodong, and still remembers that time because of Yu Wenhua and the military exploits of the greedy curtain, as a result, they were besieged by the Goguryeo people with light troops, and thousands of people were surrounded by 80,000 people in a small valley, thinking that they would die. He would never forget that Chen Pojun later led a thousand mounted cavalry to the rescue. One thousand against eighty thousand, how strong this is.

"No, gather your troops and horses immediately and retreat to Imjin immediately." If it weren't for the fact that Tongguan was farther away, Pei Qiantong would have retreated to Tongguan without hesitation.

Woo woo -

Before Pei Qiantong's words fell, a rapid horn sound sounded in the distance.

The faces of the three of them changed drastically at the same time, and they all thought of an extremely terrifying possibility, that Qiang army had come over.

There was a rapid sound of alarm bells on the outermost palace wall of Changchun Palace, which sounded extremely frightened. In the darkness of the night, torches kept moving, and the lanterns used to give orders on the bucket kept moving the heralds.

The heralds ran back and forth, and the officers shouted loudly, their voices showing panic. The soldiers who rushed out of the camp tent hurriedly lined up to make adjustments, and some soldiers stopped hesitantly, at a loss, and the scene was very panicked!

There was a rumbling sound in the northwest direction!

"An army appears in the northwest!"

"All cavalry, the number is unknown!"

"My lord, it's the Xiliang Qiang soldiers, but they are all carrying the banner of the Chen army, and the black flying eagle battle flag is at the front!" A group of cavalrymen who had been sent out to inspect them sped back into the city, shouting in terror.

As if to confirm the scout's words, a black wave suddenly surged on the white snow outside the north gate of Changchun Palace.

"For the Empire!"

Ma Ning, the general of the Western Liang cavalry who was at the forefront of the charge, shouted out the battle call before the attack.

"For the Empire!" Although more Xiliang cavalry did not know the meaning of that battle call, it did not prevent them from shouting at the same time, once again stimulating the battle spirit of the whole body.

Pei Qiantong's face was like ashes, he never thought that they would come so quickly. "Run!" He had only time to spit out a word, and he didn't care about his disheveled clothes, and he was already rushing towards the stables outside the temple, barefoot, and clothed in dishevels.

Changchun Palace is a separate palace, which was originally built for Yang Jian's leisure. Because it originally lived in the Guanzhong Plain, and was very close to Chang'an, and it was twenty miles outside Feng Yi City, and there were guards from Imjin and Tongguan, so although the Changchun Palace was built gorgeously, Qionglou Yuyu, but the outer defense was only a palace wall of about three zhang.

The sudden arrival of the Xiliang cavalry, Pei Qiantong's escape without a fight, made this gorgeous palace full of chaos at this time.

Some are assembling, some are already running away, and some soldiers and ruffians actually took the opportunity to enter the palace at this time to rob everywhere, and some are even raping beautiful palace people

Approaching the palace wall, I saw a sparse group of soldiers gathered on the wall. Ma Ning did not hesitate at all, and shouted: "The whole army will rush me!" ”

Facing the palace wall, the Xiliang cavalry did not have the slightest fear, roaring and riding their horses.

The cavalrymen used their fierce horsemanship, controlled their horses with their legs, let go of the reins, drew their bows and arrows on their horses, and launched mounted fire directly at the defenders of the city.

There are 3,000 Pei Qiantong's subordinates in Changchun Palace, plus 1,000 guards from other palaces, there are 4,000. The Xiliang cavalry led by Ma Ning originally had 5,000, but Feng Yicheng left nearly 2,000 people, and at this time he brought less than 3,000 men and horses.

However, the momentum of the Xiliang cavalry is undoubtedly several times that of the Xu army.

The Xiliangqiang people are extremely strong in cavalry and archery, and they are riding and shooting in the charge, although the accuracy is much worse, but such a fierce rain of arrows still presses the sparse defenders in the city and can't raise their heads.

The distance of more than 100 steps is coming in an instant, and the Xiliang cavalry behind is still charging, but the cavalry in front has already rushed to the city, and then skillfully controls the war horse to gallop around the palace wall.

A group of Xiliang cavalry in the middle had already rushed to the city gate, and unlike the other cavalry, they did not shoot arrows with bows, but each carried an iron hook with a rope.

"Drink!"

With a loud shout, the cavalrymen who rode their horses and rushed to the bottom of the wall had already thrown out the rope hooks in their hands.

The iron ropes were hooked to the palace wall at a height of the zhang, and the cavalry had jumped off their horses and climbed desperately along the ropes by the bows and arrows of the other cavalry.

The palace wall is too short, and the tall and sturdy Xiliang cavalry has already rushed to the wall with their scimitars almost a few times. Some of the cavalry in the back didn't even need ropes at all, and rode directly to the wall, and then stood on horseback and jumped directly onto the city.

The defenders on the wall were only a few hundred, and they could not be lifted up under the suppression of the cavalry of the Xiliang cavalry, and at this time more Xiliang cavalry began to jump onto the city. The Xiliang cavalry was tall and strong, and they were skilled in cavalry and archery, but they were not weak in close combat. In order to increase their combat power, the Xiliang cavalry who rushed to the city chose short-handled battle axes as melee weapons, and their heavy two-handed battle axes matched their fierce figures, they were almost unstoppable on the wall.

"Bang!"

The ropes of the drawbridge were cut by a tomahawk and smashed across the moat.

At this time, the Xuanwu Gate, the north gate of Changchun Palace, was finally taken down and slowly opened.

Seeing the city gate open, thousands of Xiliang cavalry let out a shocking cry of joy as if they had seen a peerless beauty who had been stripped naked.

Thousands of powerful Xiliang cavalry brandished spears and let out wild screams.

Qi Qi roared: "Kill!" "The horse's hooves thundered, and the wild cavalry poured into the city gate like a flood that burst the embankment!

The follow-up troops were not afraid of any confusion, the impact continued, and in an instant, they all rushed in, and a one-sided killing began!

Ma Ning climbed on top of the Xuanwu Gate Tower, looking at the Changchun Palace, which had been completely chaotic, and finally had a smile on his face.

"Cut and scatter all the arrays that try to assemble, ignoring the defeated troops that have already broken up. Each battalion immediately occupied all important places and warehouses in the palace, and the Xiongwu battalion immediately mounted a guard within twenty miles, and intercepted and searched for all the fleeing soldiers, leaving no one behind, and all of them were wiped out! ”

"Order!"

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