Tang Qian pretended that the two soldiers continued to sleep, and he began his next move.
Tang Qian and the thirty soldiers were all wearing the military uniforms and leather armor of the signing army soldiers. Now that they knew the password, they simply lined up and walked towards the tower.
Along the way there were sleeping enemy soldiers. They moved quickly, covering their mouths and stabbing their chests with a knife to kill them. The sleeping soldiers would never wake up again.
Walking and stopping along the way, they actually killed more than a hundred soldiers without missing a single one. When the three sentries saw a general coming, they quickly bowed and saluted.
"The moon is bright and the stars are thin!"
Tang Qian said a command and asked: "Are you just the three of us? Are there others?"
The soldier pointed to the tower and said, "Everyone is sleeping inside, and everyone takes turns on duty!"
As soon as they finished speaking, the three people had their mouths covered from behind and stabbed through their vests to death.
Thirty soldiers entered the tower, and in just a moment, they killed all the more than twenty sleeping soldiers. In addition to the more than a hundred people who had just been killed, more than half of the soldiers on the entire west city were killed. Of course,
, there are more than this number of soldiers guarding the west city, there are 500 soldiers in total, most of them are sleeping under the city.
Tang Qian's main purpose was to kill these three sentries and create opportunities for Liu Qiong's main force so that they could come to the city gate and shorten the time to enter the city as much as possible, so that they could catch the enemy barracks by surprise. After all, inside the city
If there are 10,000 enemy troops fighting in the streets, they will suffer heavy casualties.
Tang Qian took out the fire stick and waved it three times in the air. Liu Qiong, who was lying in ambush two miles away, saw the three fire spots and immediately led his army to continue advancing towards the city. Now they did not have to worry about the sentries discovering them.
At this time, the city was completely controlled by Tang Qian's men. Five hundred soldiers went up to the city and killed all the remaining soldiers on the west city. Their bodies were thrown down the city. They transformed into sentries, and some were lining up.
Patrolling, some stood guard, and some leaned on the city wall pretending to sleep.
The suspension bridge was slowly lowered, and the city gate was next. Tang Qian waited patiently, and more than 27,000 people finally arrived outside the west city gate.
Everything is ready except for the east wind, and all that remains is to open the city gate downstairs.
Tang Qian led hundreds of soldiers down to the city. As expected, there were sleeping soldiers lying on both sides of the city gate and in the caves.
"Everyone get up! Everyone get up!"
Tang Qian kicked the soldiers inside the city gate fiercely, "There is an urgent military situation and we need to open the city gate. Go outside and don't block the way!"
"What urgent military situation?"
Suddenly there was a loud shout from outside, and a general was seen walking up, followed by several subordinates. He angrily shouted: "Zhang Dutong has given orders many times before that you are not allowed to open the city gate without permission under any circumstances. Don't you know?"
Tang Qian didn't know who the visitor was. He quietly took a short steel spear under his hand. The general approached the city gate and suddenly saw Tang Qian's face clearly. He couldn't help but be startled, "Who are you?"
"Don't you recognize me, general?"
Tang Qian walked forward with a smile, "We were drinking together last month!"
"Who is you?"
The general took a few steps back and reached out to draw his sword. Tang Qian waited for this moment, flicked his hand, and shot the short steel spear at the opponent like lightning.
The distance was only a dozen steps, and the speed was so fast that the general had no time to dodge. 'Poof!' The sharp steel spear shot through the chest. The general screamed and was nailed to the ground alive.
Tang Qian shouted, "Do it!"
Hundreds of soldiers drew their swords and attacked the enemy at the same time. The enemy soldiers were unprepared, and screams suddenly broke out around the city gate.
Song Jun took the opportunity to open the city gate. The city gate was wide open, and Liu Qiong shouted, "Come in!"
More than 27,000 main troops entered the city gate in a mighty manner. They continued to divide into two groups. Tang Qian led 5,000 soldiers to clear out the enemy soldiers on the four city walls.
Liu Qiong led an army of 23,000 troops into the signing camp in the northwest.
At dawn, except for the deputy general Li Ai who led more than a thousand people who resisted desperately and were all killed, the other 8,500 soldiers of the 10,000 signature army surrendered. However, to Liu Qiong's surprise, Zhang Zhongxiong was not in the city.
I went to Nanyang County early this morning. No wonder the soldiers were a little sparse today. It turned out that the general was away.
Liu Qiong quickly carried out reorganization. He separated all the enemy commanders and generals above. If he was willing to go home, he would be given a travel fee and if he was willing to join the Sichuan-Shaanxi Army, he would be sent to the Jingzhao Martial Arts Hall for re-education. This is
According to the rules of the Western Army, unless special circumstances are approved by the governor of each capital, all other surrendering generals must undergo martial arts training for one year.
Liu Qiong ordered Zhang Le to lead 5,000 people to train more than 8,000 surrender troops. He and Tang Qian led an army of more than 20,000 people to kill Nanyang County, 150 miles northeast.
Dozens of 5,000-stone ships have arrived in Luoyang from Mengjin on the Yellow River. Craftsmen renovated five of the ships overnight. Each ship was equipped with five medium-sized trebuchets and two heavy oil fire cabinets. They were busy until the next day.
In the afternoon, the renovation was completed.
Each large ship consists of a commander, fifty black-armored soldiers, and one hundred and fifty ordinary soldiers.
The black-armored soldiers are the armor of Wanyan Zonghan's black-armored cavalry. The Jurchen sentry cavalry that Chen Qing first encountered also had this kind of armor. It was slightly less sturdy than the Iron Buddha heavy armor and could be penetrated by a crossbow.
It can also be penetrated by heavy divine arm crossbows while walking, but it is much more flexible than heavy armor. It can run, jump, and control trebuchets. Ordinary crossbows cannot threaten it. As for the explosion of gunpowder barrels and flying poison nails,
It doesn't do any harm to it.
Another feature of black armor is that it can prevent kerosene to a certain extent. The main reason is that it cannot catch oil. If you wipe it with a towel, the burning kerosene will be wiped clean immediately.
However, its weakness is also obvious. It is afraid of water. Once it falls into the river, it will definitely die unless someone rescues it. This is why each black-armored soldier is equipped with an ordinary soldier. They serve the black-armored soldiers.
There are also a hundred soldiers who are full-time crossbowmen, all of whom have excellent archery skills, and are specially responsible for dealing with the soldiers manipulating the iron chains on both sides of the strait.
As night fell, two hundred small boats full of soldiers followed five large ships sailing from east to west. One mile away was the city of Luoyang. The big ships raised their sails. The wind was very strong at night. It was an east wind, and the sails were bulging and speeding up.
Ship speed.
The key is the first big ship. The general on the first big ship is none other than General Hongwu, who conquered Mengjinguan. He took the initiative to request Ying, and Yang Zaixing approved him as the first big ship's general.
Yu Hongwu was wearing black armor and standing on the bow of the boat, holding a huge shield in his hand, staring sharply ahead. There was no garbage on the water to the east, but there were also two iron cables blocking the river. Not far behind the iron cables were dense wooden trees.
Piles and pontoons.
The walls on both sides were filled with enemy crossbowmen, trebuchets, and a hundred crossbows. When dozens of them appeared on the river in the distance, Zhe Keqiu knew that the Song army must be attacking from the east.
, he also made full preparations, preparing to use two barrels of weapons to deal with the Song army, gunpowder barrels and kerosene barrels.
The speed of the big ship is getting faster and faster, not only because of the sails, but also the human power on both sides.
There were still one hundred and fifty steps away from the city wall, Zhe Keqiu shouted: "Rockets and sails!"
Dozens of rockets rose into the sky and shot at the sails. Yu Hongwu shouted: "Remove the sails!"
A soldier cut off the rope with a knife, and the sail fell with a crash. The rocket missed the sail and shot directly into the fire or the ship.
"Trebuchets fire powder barrels, crossbowmen shoot trackers on the shore, and pontoons throw kerosene!" Zhe Keqiu gave three orders in a row.
Dozens of trebuchets were fired, and burning gunpowder barrels flew toward the ship. They exploded continuously on the ship and in the water, making deafening explosions. Poison nails flew everywhere, thick smoke flew everywhere, and the main mast was blown into pieces.
Two pieces were broken, and half of the mast fell heavily, smashing a trebuchet into pieces, and the mast crashed into the water.
At the same time, the two thousand soldiers on the top of the city fired arrows together. The dense arrows shot at the fiber-drawing soldiers on both sides of the bank. The fiber-drawing soldiers raised their shields to resist. The arrows were too dense. Many soldiers were shot and fell to the ground screaming.
In front is the moat.
"Remove fiber!" Yu Hongwu shouted, and the bell rang. The fiber pullers gave up the fiber rope and retreated one after another.
There were still more than sixty steps away from the city wall, and the big ship rushed towards the city with the help of its strong inertia.
The river was in flames, and the enemy troops dumped hundreds of barrels of kerosene on the pontoon, turning the river into a sea of fire, and the big ship rushed directly into the sea of fire.
The trebuchets on the big ship also removed the defensive tarps. Except for one that was destroyed by the mast, the other four were intact. The black-armored soldiers controlled the four trebuchets and began to counterattack.