Chapter 1198: The Thunder Can't Cover Your Ears (2)
To the southwest of Xiagui in Weinan, about sixty miles away, there is Qin City. Therefore, there is "Linhe" in the east of the city and "Tonghe" in the west, so it is called Lintong. It is a city with a natural moat.
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It is precisely because of this that as early as hundreds of years ago during the ancient Zhou Dynasty, Lintong was known as the gateway of "Fenghao (Xi'an)" until today.
On the evening of the fifth day of November, King Su Zhao Hongrun led half of his troops to the Lintong area. When the Green Crows who were responsible for exploring the road ahead discovered the Qin city of "Lintong", Zhao Hongrun immediately ordered the entire army to stop advancing to avoid
Alarmed the Qin army in Lintong.
The biggest advantage of "long-distance attack" lies in "attacking the enemy unprepared". Just like the Wei army's sneak attack on "Xiagui" during the day, when the Qin army defending the city had almost no defense, the Wei army easily defeated the enemy.
The city fell.
But if the Qin army is alerted in advance and prepared, or if the city is not captured in a sneak attack, then the Wei army will fall into a passive situation.
After all, the Wei army under Zhao Hongrun did not carry any baggage and only asked the soldiers to carry a few days of rations. If the sneak attack failed, then without catapults, ladders and other siege equipment, the Wei army would not even be able to capture the city.
The defensive city of Qin.
As the sky gradually darkened, Zhao Hongrun, Que'er, Wei Jiao and a few Green Crows stood on the east bank of the Linhe River and looked at the Qin City "Lintong" in the distance, thinking about ways to capture this city.
On second thought, he came up with a strategy: let a group of Wei soldiers disguise themselves as Qin soldiers who retreated from "Xiagui", and when they managed to sneak into Lintong, they would then expose the Wei soldiers to the eyes of the Lintong Qin army, so that
The Qin soldiers were frightened and relaxed their vigilance towards the group of Wei soldiers pretending to be Qin soldiers.
But in the end, Zhao Hongrun gave up this strategy for a simple reason: the Wei soldiers under his command could not speak the Qin dialect.
In this situation, Zhao Hongrun could only rely on the Qingya people who accompanied the army.
He summoned the Qingya people who were accompanying the army and ordered them to try to climb the wall of Lintong City after nightfall, then open the city gate and let in the Wei army.
The Blue Crows followed the order and left.
Around Xu o'clock that night, about a hundred Green Crows gathered on the east bank of the river. One of the Green Crows took off his leather armor and swam from the freezing cold river to the other bank.
His companions, however, wrapped his leather armor in a thick sheepskin blanket, tied it with a rope, and then swung the rope, using the throwing force, to throw it to the other side of the river, letting the naked Green Crow climb up.
After landing, you can dry yourself with a sheepskin blanket and put on your clothes and armor.
Repeating this method, more than a hundred Green Crows crossed Linhe quietly.
Afterwards, ten of the Qingya people left behind to help the Wei army build the pontoon bridge, while the rest quietly sneaked towards Lintong City.
Since Lintong was located at the rear of the war, and the news of the "fall of Xiagui" had not yet spread here, the Qin soldiers in Lintong did not know the arrival of the Wei army at all. They did not even send a few soldiers to patrol.
This allowed the Green Crows to sneak under Lintong City effortlessly.
After lurking under Lintong City, a member of the Green Crows took out the grappling hook hanging from his waist, but was stopped by his captain Crow Seventy-Nine, because the process of throwing the grappling hook up to hook the city wall stacks was likely to cause
Qin Bing’s attention.
"Use this."
After whispering to his companions, Crow Seventy-Nine took out a few small items from the pouch on his waist, a kind of finger cot made of iron, and a pair of things with hooks at the bottom, like shoe covers.
As the rest of the Green Crows suddenly realized their expressions, Crow Seventy-nine put on the iron finger cots, put on the iron shoe covers, used the sharp front end of the iron finger cots to penetrate into the gaps between the city bricks, and tried to dig out the loose broken bricks.
Come out, use the iron thorns on the soles of your shoes to pierce these gaps, and use this force to climb up little by little - this is one of the climbing tools specially created by the General Administration of Steel for the Green Crows and Black Crows. "Note
:It is said that Japanese ninjas also have this skill, which is called "pulling stones". Is this actually considered a ninjutsu? I'm really disappointed."
At this time, on the Lintong city wall, Qin soldiers in twos and threes, holding spears, gathered together and huddled on the inside of the wall stacks. They did not notice at all that on the outer wall of the city wall, a group of people were climbing up in the cold wind.
This is no wonder, after all, who would have thought that the Wei army had already attacked here? After all, Lintong is nearly four hundred miles away from Taolin, so it can be said that it belongs to the rear area.
Suddenly, a head slowly stretched out from the outer wall of the city wall and glanced at the wall alertly. Then, the owner of the head revealed half of his body and glanced at the two Qin soldiers who happened to be sheltering from the wind on the wall below him.
I smiled secretly in my heart: What a weak defense.
"Hey!"
With a chuckle to himself, Ya Qijiu leaned his body on the wall and gently tapped the head of the Qin soldier under him with his left hand.
The Qin soldier raised his head blankly. At this moment, Ya Qijiu covered the other man's mouth with his arm, and at the same time, the dagger in his hand quickly cut the latter's throat.
"Swish, swish, swish—"
More than a dozen figures climbed over the wall and jumped onto the city wall, killing the unsuspecting Qin soldiers on the wall with the force of thunder.
Unfortunately, some of the Qin soldiers died in confusion in their sleep.
"Let's go! Gate!"
After dealing with the Qin soldiers on this section of the city wall, Crow Seventy-Nine made a few gestures.
At the same time, on the east bank of the Linhe River, the Wei army had already built a pontoon bridge with the help of the ten Qingya people. Building the pontoon bridge was very simple. Wei Jun only needed to use the piece on the sleigh as a baffle.
Just take down the wooden boards and tie them together with ropes. There is no need to cut down the trees at all.
After the pontoon bridge was built, Wei soldiers quickly crossed the river on the pontoon bridge.
While waiting for the first group of Wei troops to cross the Linhe River and quickly arrive at the foot of Lintong City, an early warning signal indicating an enemy attack had already sounded in Lintong City.
But fortunately, the Qingya people had opened the city gate and put the Wei army who had arrived outside the city into the city.
When the Wei army took control of the city gate, it meant that Lintong had fallen. After all, how could the remaining Qin soldiers in this city defend the city in front of nearly 40,000 to 50,000 Wei troops?
Following Su Wang Zhao Hongrun's order for a general attack, a steady stream of Wei soldiers rushed into Lintong.
Looking at the heavily armed Shang Shui Army Wei soldiers, or the Sichuan-Luo Alliance soldiers wearing sheepskin coats, the soldiers of the Lintong Qin Army widened their eyes in shock, as if they had seen a ghost in the daytime: Wei Army?! Isn't the Wei Army on the four sides?
A hundred miles away?
Due to the hasty response and the disparity in strength, the Lintong Qin army was no match for the Wei army. In just half an hour, it lost control of the entire city and could only retreat to Tongshui in the west.
However, the Wei army persisted in pursuit and pursued the Qin army all the way to Tongshui, forcing thousands of Qin soldiers to jump into Tongshui to escape.
By the time Hai Shi approached, the Wei army had fully occupied Lintong.
Seeing this, Zhao Hongrun ordered his soldiers to take a break and at the same time ordered his men to search the city guard's house, hoping to find the map of Qin from the city guard's house.
A moment later, Zongwei Lu Mu sent a brief map of Qin to Zhao Hongrun.
I remember that after the capture of Xiagui, the Wei army also found a map of the Qin Kingdom from the city guard in Xiagui. However, Zhao Hongrun decided to divide his troops at that time, so he left the map to Zhai Huang, the deputy general of the Shang Shui Army. After all, Zhai Huang
Juan didn't have that kind of photographic memory.
After taking the map, Zhao Hongrun read it carefully and compared it with the map in his mind.
To be honest, the two maps are very similar. The only difference is that the map obtained from Xiagui shows the grain and grass transportation routes of the Qin army, "Jingyang", "Gaoling", "Xiagui" and so on——
This was also the route along which Zhai Huang, deputy general of the Shang Shui Army, planned to capture Qincheng after the Wei army divided its forces.
However, the map of Qin State captured from Lintong at this moment did not indicate the grain transportation route. Obviously, this was just because Lintong County was not responsible for the grain transportation matters of the Qin army on the front line.
Other than that, the two maps of Qin are very similar and can be said to be almost identical.
"Going southwest from Lintong, that is, Ba River, crossing Ba Bridge, that is Fenghao... northwest of Fenghao, is Qin's new capital, Xianyang..."
In the light of the torch, Zhao Hongrun moved his fingers slowly on the map, and finally stopped at "Fenghao".
To be honest, it is not realistic to rely on a long-distance attack to conquer Xianyang, the royal capital of the Qin State. After all, the capital of a country must be heavily defended, but Fenghao next door to Xianyang, in Zhao Hongrun's opinion, can be fought for.
Thinking of this, Zhao Hongrun ordered: "Send the order, the whole army will stay in this city for the night, and at dawn tomorrow, five thousand troops will be left to garrison, and the rest will follow my king to attack Fenghao!"
"Obey the order!" the nearby merchant navy soldiers responded.
In fact, at this time, there were only about four hours until dawn the next day.
The next day, the sixth day of November, King Su Zhao Hongrun left 5,000 troops to garrison Lintong, and led the remaining 40,000 or so troops to set off for Bashui again.
Along the way, the Wei army encountered the bodies of many Qin soldiers who had frozen to death on the way.
Obviously, these are the Qin troops in Lintong. After they were forced into Tongshui by the Wei army last night, some of them may have escaped by chance, but it is a pity that these people did not survive in the end - in such cold weather
Even if these Qin soldiers climbed ashore from Tongshui, how could they survive with their wet bodies?
This is also the reason why the Wei army did not pursue the Qin soldiers after seeing them rushing into Tongshui: These Qin soldiers must die!
While Zhao Hongrun led the army to attack Bashui, on the east bank of Linhe River east of Lintong City, Qin State's Xiagui garrison Zhang Tang braved the severe cold and finally arrived here.
However, in the Lintong that appeared in his eyes at this moment, there was a flag with the word "Wei" flying on top of the city.
"Lintong fell?"
Muttering to himself, Qin general Zhang Tang seemed to feel a giant hammer hitting his chest, making him feel like stars were shining in his eyes: Two cities fell in just twelve hours?
He turned his head and looked to the southwest, with a bit of fear in his eyes.
"When Lintong falls, Fenghao cannot defend it...and once Fenghao falls, the Wei army can attack Xianyang City..."
Thinking of this, Zhang Tang galloped towards the west. It was too late to rush to Fenghao to give a warning. He decided to go straight to Xianyang from another road to report the Wei army's entry to Xianyang.
The most terrifying thing is that the Qin State has lost several cities, but Xianyang does not know that the Wei army has entered.
And the reason for all this lies in that person...
"Wei Gongzi Run!"
Holding the rein tightly, Zhang Tang drove the horse and galloped towards Xianyang.
It was the first time that he was so afraid of someone.