In Luoguan, the army of 60,000 has been assembled. The army is spread out on the field in front of Luoguan. Under the moonlight, the armor is shining with cold light. The 50,000 cavalry are leaping to try, full of murderous intent.
This time it was very important to attack Guanzhong. Guo Song still personally led the troops. Guo Song was wearing fine scale armor and a golden crown. He waved his sword and said: "Let's go!"
Sixty thousand cavalry went south quickly along the official road. Going south from Luoguan, they first went to Fangzhou. There was not a single soldier in Fangzhou. The state and county officials had also surrendered to the Jin Palace. The Luoshui River passed diagonally through Fangzhou. The terrain here
It is flat, and there are wide official roads along both sides of the Luoshui River. There are no dangerous passes that can stop the army from moving south.
Sixty thousand troops marched rapidly on the pass. Before dawn, the army entered Tongzhou. Entering Tongzhou meant entering Guanzhong, but there was still at least three days' journey from Tongzhou to Chang'an. The Jin army immediately divided its troops.
Two routes, one led by Guo Song led an army of 50,000 people to attack Chang'an directly, the other led by Li Bing led 10,000 cavalry, turned east and attacked Pujin Pass and Tongguan.
Although Pujin Pass and Tongguan are important passes in the east of Guanzhong, their current role is in name only. Pujin Pass is to defend Hedong, but its back is exposed to the enemy troops coming down from Tongzhou. The same is true for Tongguan
, can defend the front, but cannot defend the rear.
Zhu Si knew very well that the defense of Pujin Pass and Tong Pass was meaningless. They were originally heavily defended, but now the army has withdrawn south to Shangzhou, and only 3,000 people are left to guard the two passes.
It is very close from Tongzhou Road to Pujin Pass. The cavalry can kill it in just half a day. At noon, a thousand soldiers in Pujin Pass were gathering together to eat. Suddenly they felt the ground shaking slightly. The soldiers stood up in shock and looked at each other.
, at a loss, at this time, a soldier on the top of the city shouted: "The cavalry is coming!"
The soldiers immediately rushed to the camp outside the city as if their nest had been exploded. The defender's general was called Sun Li, a Zhonglang general. He shouted loudly: "Don't camp, retreat south!"
Pujinguan is a pass city, occupying a very small area. There are two gates on the east and west sides. The east gate leads to the east of the river, and the west gate leads to the middle of the pass. The pass in the east is very dangerous, and an iron cable bridge connects both sides of the Yellow River.
Pujin Pass is at a high place. For Hedong, Pujin Pass is easy to defend and difficult to attack, but for Guanzhong, it is a very ordinary pass with no danger at all.
There are mainly tax offices and military offices in Guancheng. There are no military camps. The military camps are all outside Guancheng in the west. The soldiers rush to the military camps because their personal belongings are in the military camps. Each soldier has a locked door.
The boxes were their money savings. It was simply impossible for them to give up their belongings and evacuate.
When Sun Li saw that the soldiers were disobeying orders and that the enemy was already two miles away and was about to kill them, he stamped his feet angrily and said, "Let's go!"
He led more than a hundred soldiers to abandon Pujin Pass and quickly evacuated toward Tongguan.
The soldiers got their belongings and rushed out of the military camp. There was no way to go. Ten thousand cavalry surrounded the general camp. The cavalry raised their crossbows and aimed at the military camp. Li Bing shouted: "Surrender quickly, and you will be spared and die!"
After a while, groups of soldiers came out of the military camp with their hands raised. They all took off their armor and only wore civilian clothes. Under the orders of the cavalry, the surrendered soldiers knelt down on the open ground one after another, holding the backs of their heads with their hands.
Someone reported to Li Bing that these soldiers were all locals from Tongzhou. They did not evacuate because they wanted to come back to get their money, and then they wanted to flee home directly because they did not want to sacrifice their lives anymore.
Li Bing nodded and ordered: "These soldiers can be released and returned to their hometowns. The personal belongings they can take away are limited to ten guan of money. Anything above ten guan of money will be confiscated!"
Li Bing's heart was like a mirror. Many soldiers extorted caravans at Pujin Pass and accumulated a lot of money. They could take away the normal military salary income, but how could they take away the ill-gotten gains from extortion.
He left two thousand soldiers to deal with the aftermath, while Li Bing led eight thousand cavalry and continued to rush towards Tongguan.
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In Chang'an City, in the afternoon, Song Tian, the leader of the Jin Wei Mansion stationed in Chang'an, hurriedly found Zhang Yun who was inspecting the Daozheng Square.
Daozhengfang is adjacent to Chunmingmen Street in the north and the city wall in the east. Zhang Yun is very experienced. They can climb up the city wall from inside the square. He has already discovered several big trees close to the city wall. They can easily climb up from the big tree.
Climb the city wall from the tree and capture the Chunming Gate.
At present, the number of scout soldiers who have entered Chang'an one after another has reached 1,500, and they have also used the Qujiang waterway to secretly transport a large number of armor and weapons. In fact, they have formed a powerful force to capture the city of Chang'an.
Just wait for winter to come and launch the winter hunting operation. In fact, the winter hunting operation refers to the operation against the enemy's general Zhu Jinqing. Zhu Jinqing loves hunting. After the first snow in winter, he will take his men to hunt in the Wuting River area.
Guo Song decided to take advantage of Zhu Jinqing's hobby and ordered Jin army scouts to arrest him, and then blackmailed Zhu Jinqing to transfer the army out of Chang'an. Zhang Yun led the scouts to take the opportunity to control Chang'an, so that the damage to Chang'an would be minimized.
"Inspector Zhang!"
Song Tian finally saw Zhang Yun and his men wearing tax inspection uniforms. He waved and shouted from afar,
Zhang Yun also saw Song Tian and saw that he was coming in a hurry. He thought there was something urgent, so he reined in the reins.
"Brother Song, is there something urgent?" Zhang Yun asked with a smile.
"I just got the news that the big proprietor has arrived in Guanzhong."
Zhang Yun was shocked. The big proprietor was His Royal Highness the King of Jin. He actually came to Guanzhong. Doesn't that mean the situation has changed?
"Where is he now?" Zhang Yun asked anxiously.
Song Tian saw many pedestrians around and said, "Let's go to the inn and talk in detail."
Zhang Yun looked both ways, then nodded, "Go to the inn!"
Gaosheng Inn is not far from the gate of Daozhengfang. Not long after, they arrived at the inn and the two of them sat down in a quiet room. Song Tian handed the pigeon letter he received to Zhang Yun, "General Zhang, take a look at this!"
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Zhang Yun took the pigeon letter and read it again. This pigeon letter was sent in Fangzhou. In other words, not long after the pigeon letter was sent out, His Highness the King of Jin personally led an army into Tongzhou. That was the one sent out this morning. The last one was sent out in Fangzhou.
The army will arrive at Chang'an City at noon the day after tomorrow.
Zhang Yun has a backup winter hunting plan. This plan is what should Zhu Jinqing do if he doesn't go hunting this winter?
Zhang Yun figured out the enemy's garrison situation this month, and he made a bold plan. The enemy's 30,000-strong army was stationed in the West Neiyuan. The West Neiyuan was actually outside the palace city.
Gate and the Danfeng Gate of the Daming Palace, 30,000 troops could not enter Chang'an City and had to go around the city to find other gates.
Of course, his 1,500 men cannot defend the entire city of Chang'an, but they can guard each city gate separately and hold for a few hours before the enemy builds a siege ladder. This will buy time for the arrival of the main force.
But there is a big loophole in this. Once Zhu Jinqing knows that the Jin army has entered Guanzhong, he will definitely deploy 30,000 troops at the top of the city and will not return to the West Inner Garden. Even if he cooperates with the outside to capture a city
Door, large-scale street fighting is inevitable, which will destroy Chang'an.
Of course, Zhang Yun understood that the purpose of King Jin sending himself to Chang'an was to protect Chang'an. This was also the reason why His Highness King Jin personally led the army to capture Chang'an. But now, how to solve this loophole?
Zhang Yun was so anxious that he was spinning around in the room. Song Tian asked, "What can I do to help the general?"
At this time, Zhang Yun suddenly felt something in his heart and asked quickly: "How can Zhu Jinqing know that the Jin army has entered Guanzhong?"
Song Tian thought for a while and said: "Generally there are two channels, one is the eagle letter, and the second is the fast horse messenger."
Zhang Yun became nervous and asked again: "Is there only faith in eagles and no faith in pigeons?"
Song Tian shook his head, "Zhu Jinqing likes eagles and never uses pigeons to send letters."
Zhang Yun's heart was moved. If he wanted to use Eagle Letter, he would have to use Eagle Tower. Chang'an's official Eagle Tower was in Xingqing Palace. If he controlled this Eagle Tower, it would block a channel for Zhu Jinqing to obtain information.
Song Tian understood Zhang's worries and said with a smile: "Yingxin from Chang'an is in contact with Luoyang, Tongguan, Wuguan and Dashanguan. Only Tongguan can know that we are entering Guanzhong. I think my lord
We will definitely capture Tongguan as soon as possible. Yingxin, the source of intelligence, is blocked. The key is to report the information quickly. This is possible."
Zhang Yun shook his head, "We can't be careless at all, we must control the Eagle Tower."
Song Tian thought for a while and said: "How about this! We will act separately and I will be responsible for controlling the Eagle Tower."
"Do you have any idea?" Zhang Yun asked.
Song Tian nodded, "I can bribe the general manager of Xingqing Palace and place one of my subordinates, the Eagle Slave, on the Eagle Tower. He will be responsible for receiving the message, and then General Zhang will be responsible for ambushing the messenger. As long as the official road coming from the east is guarded,
No problem."
Zhang Yun was overjoyed, "Then let's take action now!"
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[I have something going on at home, so I’m asking for a little leave from everyone. There are only two chapters in these two days.]