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Volume 1 Chapter 603: Scum rises

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    Wang Xuanying, who was brought up by a strong father and lacked independent opinions, also helped Chen Sangliang a lot. When the Sui army was actually quite exhausted during the Eastern Expedition, Chen Zhilue and Guo Shizhu and other generals suggested Wang Xuanying several times to attack appropriately.  The purpose is not to win any battles, but to use a small number of troops to frequently harass the Sui Army of the Eastern Expedition and not give the Sui Army of the Eastern Expedition a chance to calmly prepare to attack Hulao Pass.  However, Wang Xuanying remembered his father Wang Shichong's order not to fight, and flatly refused every time. He watched helplessly as the Sui army of the Eastern Expedition quickly prepared to attack the city.  In this way, two nights and two days passed quickly. By the evening of the third day, the Sui Army of the Eastern Expedition never launched a frontal attack. Yang Gongqing, the experienced general of the Zheng Army on the battlefield, also paid more and more attention to night defense.  A military meeting was convened to arrange to strengthen the night watch force. The troops were divided into three teams, commanded by himself, Wang Xingben and Pei Xiaoda respectively. Each team took turns to be on night watch. Pei Xiaoda, the general of the Zheng Army who was on night duty, was asked to live at the west gate of Hulao Pass.  In the city tower, the soldiers are urged to watch carefully at night, and any soldiers on night watch are strictly prohibited from sleeping and dozing at night.  Such an arrangement would of course have a significant impact on the physical strength of the defenders. Generals of the Zheng army such as Pei Xiaoda and Zhang Gongjin also questioned Yang Gongqing, fearing that the soldiers would be overtired and the Sui army's frontal attack in the Eastern Expedition would be detrimental to the defenders. Yang Gongqing  Then he told them bluntly, "Our army has absolutely no need to fear a frontal attack by the rebels. Although there are currently less than 13,000 defenders in Hulao Pass, the length of the pass wall is only four miles from north to south. Even if it is only in the pass,  The two thousand troops deployed above are enough to block the rebels' frontal attack and will not give the rebels any chance to quickly break through the city!" "The only thing we need to worry about is night fighting," Yang Gongqing pointed out: "We can't see clearly in the dark.  , the weather was a little bad, and it was difficult for us to see clearly how many enemies were at the foot of the city wall. It was the time when the enemy made a surprise victory. The bandit army came here with little food and grass, so they had to find ways to break the city. At the same time, the bandit army was good at night fighting, outside Xin'an and Luoyang.  The city was captured by Chen's army at night, so this time the army is more likely to attack at night than during the day! If we don't strengthen our defense at night, if the army suddenly attacks, we will be caught off guard.  The consequences will definitely be disastrous!" Emphasizing that the Sui Army of the Eastern Expedition was most likely to attack Guancheng at night, Yang Gongqing also ordered: "Remember, sentries must be placed behind the sheep and horse wall under the city, and they must use ropes to get down to the city every half an hour.  Check the situation of the sentries and prevent the enemy from reaching the city at night. Light more torches at the winch of the suspension bridge. No one is allowed to approach the winch without permission. No matter who it is, Pei Xiaoda and him will be killed immediately!  His deputy Zhang Gongjin reluctantly agreed, but Yang Gongqing still refused to rest assured. He also ordered the gate officials of the east and west gates to hand over the keys and keep them for himself. Then he announced the adjournment of the meeting and asked his generals to go down to organize the army to rest and watch the night.  Finally, Yang Gongqing discussed with Wang Xingben and decided to use the three-and-a-half watch as the boundary, to be on duty in the first half of the night and the second half of the night respectively, to inspect the situation of the night watch troops at any time, and to prevent the night watch troops from slacking off without supervision.  Originally, out of respect for Wang Xingben's status, Yang Gongqing suggested that Wang Xingben guard the relatively relaxed first half of the night. Wang Xingben also planned to agree, but Shen Yue, a soldier who was trusted by both Yang and Wang, interrupted and said: "Your Highness, King Jing, it is better to let Yang  General, let's stay on duty for half the night. After the first half of the night, you can rest assured. This will be easier for General Yang. He is our commander and we have to count on him to take the lead during the day. How about you stay on duty for the second half of the night with Your Highness? "  In the second half of the night, Wang Xingben had to get up in the middle of the night and interfere with his rest. Of course, Wang Xingben was reluctant to do such a hard work, but considering that he really relied on the experienced Yang Gongqing to take the lead in the battle of Hulao Pass, Wang Xingben still nodded and agreed to this suggestion. In the past few days,  Yang Gongqing, who was indeed struggling, knew that this was the good intention of Wang Xingben and Shen Yue, so he did not insist on it and nodded to accept the suggestion.  The hard night watch had begun. While most of the soldiers and civilians in Hulao Pass were sleeping soundly, one-third of the Zheng Army soldiers had to work hard to fight against sleepiness while at the same time forcibly keeping their spirits up to be alert to sneak attacks from the darkness.  , At the beginning, the officers and soldiers of the Zheng Army could still hold on. However, as the night deepened and the time went by, the officers and soldiers of the Zheng Army who were on duty at night inevitably fell asleep from fatigue. Many soldiers began to secretly lean on the arrow stacks.  Because of the lack of supervision at the sentry post behind the sheep and horse wall below the city, some soldiers even sat down directly behind the wall and fell asleep.  It would have been fine if such a lazy soldier was caught by Pei Xiaoda, Zhang Gongjin and others. At most, he would have been scolded and slapped. But when he was caught by Yang Gongqing, he was in bad luck. Twenty military sticks were immediately applied to his body, and he even  No one begged for mercy, and a dozen unlucky guys received such military sticks before the third watch. One unlucky guy who was lying down and sleeping under the city was beaten with double military sticks because he couldn't even wake him up.  Forty soldiers beat him with a bat until his butt was bloody and bloody, so he had to lie down and be carried back to his room to rest.  "What Yang Gongqing did was obviously a waste of effort. In fact,Until halfway through the third watch, not a single Sui soldier was found in the city. Instead, Wang Xingben and Shen Yue yawned and came to Yang Gongqing to exchange their night duty. Yang Gongqing, who was already very tired, repeatedly told Wang Xingben to be careful.  After that, he went back to his room to rest. However, as soon as Yang Gongqing left, Wang Xingben immediately sat down and pulled a quilt to cover him. He told Shen Yue: "Sir Shen, call me at the beginning of the fourth watch. Let's go patrolling the city together."  " Shen Yue respectfully agreed, and asked the servant to bring a food box. He took out two bowls of chicken soup from the food box, held one bowl in front of Wang Xingben and said with a smile: "Your Highness, eat your midnight snack before going to bed.  Knowing that the night shift was hard, the officer specially prepared two bowls of ginseng chicken soup. You want to use one bowl first? "Wang Xingben, who is not as careful as Shen Yue, was a little hungry when he got up in the middle of the night. When he smelled the aroma of chicken soup, he was rude and started eating meat with his chopsticks.  While drinking soup, Wang Xingben also found that the chicken soup had a bitter taste, but he still thought it was the medicinal taste of ginseng. He didn't think anything about it, and ate up the bowl of chicken soup with meat and soup. Then he fell down next to the table, covered himself with a quilt, and fell asleep.  , but Shen Yue ate very slowly, putting down his chopsticks only after confirming that Wang Xingben was completely asleep, with a ferocious smile on his face.  After finishing laughing, Shen Yue quickly got up and went out. First, he ordered Wang Xingben's soldiers not to enter the room and disturb him. Then, he used an excuse to go to the city to inspect on behalf of Wang Xingben, left the headquarters with his entourage, and actually took more than a dozen of his entourages to the tiger.  He closed the west gate of the city wall and carefully inspected the situation on the city - but no one noticed that three of Shen Yue's entourage had red lanterns, and they also extended three red lanterns out of the city wall at the same time several times, shining down on the city.  Check the sentry situation behind the sheep and horse wall.  Unfortunately, it is cloudy tonight and the night is too dark. It is difficult to see clearly what is going on below the city from above, so our responsible Shen Sibing took more than a dozen of his followers down to the pass and came to the city gate, pretending to be serving the king.  Ordered to go out of the city to check the situation of the sentry outside the city.  As a result, the city gate officer smiled bitterly and replied: "Sir Shen, it's not that you are unwilling to obey because of your humble position. It's because General Yang has taken away the key a long time ago. I can't open the city?" "His Royal Highness King Jing still doesn't know that you don't have the key."  ?" Shen Yue smiled and took out a secretly assigned city gate key from his arms. He unlocked it himself and said with a smile, "General Yang gave the key to His Highness when he and His Highness Prince Jing were on duty.  He gave it to me again, but no one is allowed to touch this key except me." With that said, Shen Yue had already unlocked the door and removed it with his own hands. The city gate official believed it and hurriedly commanded the door.  The soldiers took off the heavy latch and opened a city gate to let Shen Yue go out to check the sentry. As a result, Shen Yue only took the three followers with red lanterns out of the city. While pretending to check the sentry, Shen Yue deliberately raised the red lantern several times above his chest.  Sheep and horse wall.  As a result, the unexpected accident that was supposed to happen naturally happened. Under the cover of night, a trench bridge truck suddenly appeared on the edge of the moat. Forty or fifty sneaky black figures quickly entered the water. A few black figures  The shadows helped the trench bridge car to reach the other side of the moat, while a large number of shadows crossed the river directly, climbed onto the river bank and climbed the deer antlers. It turned out that it was only when these sneaky shadows sneaked past the Juma deer antlers that the Zheng Army sentry behind the sheep and horse wall was  Seeing their shadows, they quickly shouted a warning, "Enemy attack! Enemy attack! Sound the gong!" "There is an enemy attack! Commander Shen, come back quickly!" At the same time as the gong sounded the alarm, the kind-hearted city gate officer also  He quickly shouted to Shen Yue to return to the city, but Shen Yue actually rushed back to the gate with a knife. When the city gate officer quickly ordered the gate guards to close the door and bolt it, the knife in Shen Yue's hand flashed.  He cut the kind-hearted gatekeeper's neck in half and fell to the door with an inarticulate scream and blood all over his body.  At the same time, more than a dozen followers headed by Shen Jian also immediately showed their weapons. They raised their swords and killed the unprepared gate soldiers and ran away. At the same time, they quickly opened two city gates. The gates were wide open, and those sneaky black men before  Ying Ye rushed to the door one after another and joined forces with Shen Yue and others to control the city gate.  At this time, gongs and drums were already blaring above and below the city of Hulao Pass, which woke up countless Zheng soldiers who were taking a nap, and also woke up the Zheng Army reserve team who were waiting in the barracks in the city. Pei Xiaoda, who lived in the city, immediately commanded the army.  To fight, Zhang Gongjin also immediately ordered the reserve team to assemble immediately.  However, the Zheng army moved quickly, and the Sui army soldiers who were better prepared moved even faster. As soon as the first trench bridge vehicle was set up, Sui army swordsmen and axemen rushed up to chop off the antlers and open the way forward. At the same time, there were more  Many moat bridges and vehicles rushed to the edge of the moat to build more bridges across the river.  A slow step means a slow step. When the Zheng army on the city panicked and threw the first wave of arrows down the city, at least six moat bridge carts had already set up temporary bridges on the moat, and a large number of Sui soldiers charged with shields.  Crossing the river, they frantically chopped antlers to block the horses and opened the way. At the first trench bridge, the Sui soldiers had already cut a half-foot-wide opening. The Sui soldiers, holding shields in hand, quickly charged across the river.  , flying across the wall of sheep and horses, rushing towardsThe city gate protects the road into the city.  Pei Xiaoda howled and urged the soldiers to fire arrows to suppress them, but they still could not stop the advancement of the Sui soldiers who were racing against time.  When Zhang Gongjin rushed to the city with more than a thousand Zheng Army reserves under his command, he saw the city gate that had been opened. Zhang Gongjin immediately turned pale as a sheet. At the same time, he didn't even have time to issue orders. He roared and rushed into the city with a sword.  Doorway.  However, it is a pity that although Zhang Gongjin, who was named in Lingyan Pavilion, is famous for his immense strength, this time he was extremely unlucky to encounter Wang Fubao, the most adept at assault warfare under Chen Sangliang. The former army immediately launched a counterattack to stop him.  Zhang Gongjin approached the city gate and fought fiercely with Zhang Gongjin in the middle of the corridor. Then Wang Fubao personally led his troops into the gate. Therefore, although Zhang Gongjin was extremely brave, he killed several Sui soldiers in a row and gained a certain advantage. Then he encountered Wang Fubao himself and fought with him with a sword.  At this time, Zhang Gongjin immediately stopped his advance and fought with Wang Fubao for a long time without deciding the outcome. At the same time, the oil soldiers under Wang Fubao also kept shouting and killing from both sides, and kept throwing bottles of gunpowder to explode the Zheng army soldiers and reduce the charge.  The pressure firmly controlled half of the city gate corridor.  Explosions continued in the city gate corridor, and shouts of "kill" were heard on the city walls. The Zheng army soldiers, who were relatively well prepared, desperately drew their bows and fired arrows, constantly throwing arrows down the city. However, the Zheng army was well prepared, and the Sui army was even more prepared.  Enough, knowing that there would be no store after passing this village, the Sui army soldiers rushed forward one after another, building a bridge and clearing the way forward. At the same time, the dark night also greatly limited the power of the bows and arrows of the Zheng army defenders, and the feathers shot blindly  The hit rate of the arrows was extremely low, and they could not stop the charging pace of the Sui soldiers. Multiple sections of the antlers were destroyed one after another. The Sui soldiers continued to cross the river to continuously strengthen the city gate.  The Zheng army actually still had a chance. Due to terrain and fortification restrictions, no matter how fierce the Sui army's soldiers charged, they could not effectively invest a large number of troops on the other side of the moat. At the same time, Zhang Gongjin's army still controlled most of the city gate corridor, with a total force of nearly 10,000.  As long as the three thousand Hulao Pass defenders launched a timely counterattack, they still had great hope of driving the Sui army out of the city again and protecting Hulao Pass.  But what no one of the Zheng Army officers and soldiers expected was that even Shen Yue, the commander of the Zheng Army who shamelessly sacrificed his life, did not know beforehand that it happened to be that at this time, fire suddenly broke out in Hulao Pass, and subordinates to the subordinate Zhang Sheng  The officers and soldiers of Zheng's army set fire everywhere while shouting slogans as they rushed toward the city gate, "The city is broken! Run! Brothers, the city is broken! Run!" Such slogans were the worst in the chaos.  , hearing the cry that the city was destroyed, the morale of Zheng Jun's officers and soldiers was of course declining, and people were panicked, but what was even more vicious was still behind. After Zhang Sheng led his men to rush to the city gate, he not only waved at the friendly troops inside the gate without hesitation,  The swords were pointed at each other, and he kept shouting slogans that caused chaos to the enemy, "The thieves have entered the city, kill the thieves quickly! Don't fight, we are our own people! I am our own people!" Zhang Sheng's subordinates, who were his own people, were all tied to their left arms.  There was a white cloth to distinguish between ourselves and the enemy, but it was difficult for Zhang Gongjin, who was not one of his own people, to distinguish between friend and foe. In a moment of confusion, he was either hacked to death and stabbed by his own people, or was forced to kill the real one of his own people with a knife. The rear army was in chaos, and the front army was also quickly attacked.  The impact, including Zhang Gongjin, had to take the time to look back and check the situation in the city. Wang Fubao's army took the opportunity to rush and attack, quickly opening up space and covering more rear troops to enter the safe city gate corridor.  Pei Xiaoda and Zhang Gongjin were relatively good, but the most panicked ones were Yang Gongqing and the main force of the Hulao Pass garrison. The sleeping soldiers hurriedly got up and dressed in armor and became a mess. Needless to say, Yang Gongqing also rushed out without even having time to put on his shoes.  Checking the situation, when he heard the sound of killings and explosions from the city gate, Yang Gongqing complained and had to quickly send people to contact the generals at all levels and assemble the main force to launch a counterattack - although Yang Gongqing also knew very well that he was so  It is difficult to catch up in time, and it is absolutely impossible for the main army to launch a counterattack in a moment.  Even more panicked were Wang Xingben's soldiers who rushed in and couldn't wake up Wang Xingben no matter how much they yelled or shook. In the end, they had to use a bucket full of water to wake up Wang Xingben who was sleeping like a dead pig. But even if  Although he had woken up, Wang Xingben was still confused, "What happened? Why is it raining so heavily?" At this time, the main force of the Sui army, which had opened many roads, had already launched an attack on the city, and volunteered to take on this difficult task.  In order to please the new master Chen Sangliang, Shi Wanbao, a newcomer to the Sui Army on the mission, took the lead and climbed up on the flying ladder. Dozens of flying ladders were built one after another on the city wall. The Sui Army soldiers holding weapons in their mouths used their hands and feet to bear such heavy blows.  The Yujian Stone climbed quickly. Even though the companion above was hit by an arrow and fell off the ladder, the Sui Army soldiers behind still continued to climb on the bloody ladder. Many Sui Army soldiers climbed up the wall with bare hands, relying on  With such indomitable courage, no less than twenty Sui army warriors took the lead in rushing to the top of the city during the first wave of ants attacking the city.  At the same time as the fierce battle at the top of the city began, Zhang Gongjin's army was finally unable to withstand the front and rear attacks of Wang Fubao and Zhang Shengjun. The soldiers scattered one after another. Zhang Gongjin, who was wounded in many places, was unable to save himself. He could not stop the Sui army officers who came one after another, so he had to fight.They fled deep into the city. Wang Fubao's army took the opportunity to enter the city and completely controlled the entire road into the city. Sui army officers and soldiers entered the city in an endless stream.  Then Wang Fu, who was familiar with this situation, kept running forward and led his soldiers to attack the steps of the upper city, joining Shi Wanbao's ant army to attack the city.  Although Yang Gongqing was also able to make prompt decisions and ordered his generals to rush to the west gate for reinforcements as long as they gathered into an army without asking for orders, it was still too late. When the first main force rushed to the west gate, the Sui army officers  It has already occupied a considerable space position within the west gate.  Unwilling to give up, the main force of the Zheng army launched a charge in an attempt to retake the city gate. The Sui army officers gritted their teeth and fought hard. There were shouts of killing both inside and outside the city, torches were dazzling, heads were intertwined like numbness, and the sky was darkened by the fighting.  No light.  It was only when Wang Fubao's army successfully seized the winch and smashed it to let the suspension bridge fall to the ground that the third wave of Sui troops led by Luo Shixin was able to directly enter the city. At the same time, after seeing Luo Shixin's flag entering the city in the distance, Chen Sangliang kept hanging tightly.  The heart in his throat returned to his stomach, knowing that his army had a sure chance of victory in this battle, and it was only a matter of time before he captured Hulao Pass.  However, after letting go of his heart a little, Chen Sangliang quickly turned to Feng Deyi next to him and asked: "How is it? Is there any movement over at Luokou warehouse to the west?" "Your Highness, don't worry, I just received it.  According to the news, there was still no movement from Luokou Cang until half an hour ago," Feng Deyi replied with a smile.  "It's good that there's no movement." Chen Sangliang breathed a sigh of relief again and said with a smile: "The response speed is slower than I hoped. Even if I have already responded at this time, it will be too late." After saying proudly, Chen Sangliang said  Liang You immediately sent someone to send an order to Yin Kaishan and the Baoguo Army, telling them that the main force had successfully captured the west gate of Hulao Pass, so that they could attack Luokou Cang's reinforcements with peace of mind and not have to worry about the situation on the main force's side.  According to what Chen Sangliang said, it was actually only when the suspension bridge at the west gate of Hulao Pass landed that the Luokou warehouse received news of the emergency at Hulao Pass. Although Wang Xuanying was shocked, he immediately dispatched Chen Zhilue to lead the army.  The cavalry moved eastward to reinforce Hulao Pass, but it was still much too late.  Chen Zhilue led four thousand cavalry in a hasty march eastwards. They had just gone ten miles when they were stopped by the Sui army infantry led by Yin Kaishan on a relatively narrow road. Chen Zhilue, who was anxious to rescue Hulao Pass, did not dare to entangle with Yin Kaishan and led his cavalry.  They rounded off to the more open area in the south and headed eastward, but ended up running into an infantry and cavalry trap jointly constructed by Yin Kaishan and the Baoguo Army.  In the twilight, the white robes of the Baoguo Army were mobilized in full force. They suddenly rushed out from the southeast of Yin Kaishan's army and blocked Chen Zhilue head-on. Chen Zhilue, who had heard about Baoguo's name for a long time, bravely fought. However, his subordinates  The combat effectiveness of the soldiers was no longer comparable to that of the Xiaoguo Army's cavalry, and they were all light cavalry. In close combat, they were no match for the heavy cavalry of the Patriot Army - the gap in defense was too great. Then Yin Kaishan also led the infantry.  Attacking from the side and behind, the Zheng army's cavalry was attacked from head to tail, and its mobility was unable to be used. They fought fiercely until daybreak and were unable to resist. They were forced to flee westward back to Luokou warehouse, where the national army pursued them with all their strength. They attacked separately and only focused on Chen Zhilue.  The general did not let go of his flag, and Guo Feng, the leader of the Baoguo Army, killed Chen Zhilue on the battlefield. The Zheng Army's cavalry was defeated, with many casualties and surrenders. Only half of the cavalry fled back to Luokou warehouse in embarrassment to report the news.  After receiving the news of Chen Zhilue's defeat and death, Wang Xuanying collapsed on the ground and was helped up. He yelled that he wanted to send troops to rescue Hulao Pass. After being stopped by Guo Shizhu and others, Wang Xuanying couldn't help but howl.  Weeping loudly, "What should I do? What should I do? Hulao Pass is lost, how can I explain to my father? How can Dou Jiande's reinforcements arrive at Luoyang City to relieve my father from the siege?" Wang Xuanying was still howling loudly.  At the same time as he was crying, several counterattacks failed to take back the west wall, and he was unable to withstand the Sui army's offensive. Forced to do so, Yang Gongqing had no choice but to open the east gate and lead the defeated army to flee towards Niuzhukou.  , the Sui army took the opportunity to pursue and kill, and made a large number of gains at the east gate of Hulao Pass. They captured many generals and soldiers of the Zheng Army, including Zhang Gongjin, and successfully captured the entire city of Hulao Pass before noon.  It was the first time that Hulao Pass was captured by force, but Chen Sangliang was not very happy. After entering the city, he walked directly through the city streets covered with blood and corpses, climbed up the east gate wall of Hulao Pass, and stood there.  There were also many blood-stained corpses on the east gate, looking north, filled with emotion, and murmured, "Dou Jiande, come quickly, Hulao Pass and Linqing Pass are both in my hands, you just bring your whole country's troops  , I'm not afraid anymore. You'd better bring all your troops. This chaotic world in the late Sui Dynasty is too cruel and has lasted for too long. It's time to end. Come and end this cruel chaotic world with me.  ¡±
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