Under the cover of night, Pei Xin led 30,000 cavalry to arrive more than ten miles west of Xiangyang City, Pei Xin looked at the dark city wall in the distance, he has been experienced in a hundred battles, very experienced, to take Xiangyang City, the easiest way is to use a giant iron fire thunder, the city wall collapsed, but then the 50,000 Zhu Zhu army that will be killed, the collapse of the city wall will eventually make itself passive.

Pei Xinli is very clear that Xiangyang currently has only 5,000 people to defend the city, and the troops are very weak, and at most 2,000 people will be arranged to defend the city at night, which is undoubtedly a drop in the bucket for a large city with a circumference of forty miles, and generally only defends the four city gates in the east, west, south and north, as for the city wall, at most only patrols will patrol back and forth.

As long as it was at night, without the need for iron fire and thunder, he could easily take this big city.

At this time, several scouts rushed over, and the scouts led by holding their fists and reported: "General Qiyu, no enemy outposts have been found outside the city, but the moat is very wide, more than 20 zhang long, and ordinary wooden planks can't be built." ”

The moat of Xiangyang City was very wide, and they had already known in advance that they had already prepared, Pei Xin turned his head and looked at Zhou Fei behind him, "Is General Zhou ready?" ”

Zhou Fei after the Battle of Bashu, he was promoted to Zhonglang General, named Earl, and was rewarded with a thousand silks, although he distributed the silk to a hundred subordinates who were trapped in Yazhou City with him, but he himself still got a hundred silks, which really made his wife happy, and His Royal Highness the King of Jin had clear rewards and punishments and the importance of himself, which made him more grateful and loyal.

This time, he participated in the battle to capture Xiangyang, Pei Xin asked him to participate by name, and Zhou Fei's surprise attack breakthrough ability made every general praise him.

Zhou Fei brought a thousand elite subordinates just to capture Xiangyang City, he nodded slowly, "Do you want to leave now?" ”

"That's right! Let's go. ”

Zhou Fei turned around and waved his hand, and led a thousand cavalry to run out of the ranks and run towards Xiangyang City, their war horses were wrapped in thick cloth, the sound of horses' hooves was very small, and they were running on the grass, almost without being discovered by the soldiers at the head of the city.

Three miles from the city, the soldiers turned over and dismounted, and switched to running, and the horses were left in the care of dozens of horsemen who also carried rafts.

Zhou Fei ran to the front, he specially chose to intersperse from the private houses, Dong Zhu implemented the tactics of clearing the wilderness, and all the people outside the city moved into the city, there was not a single tree within ten miles outside the city, there was not a single grain, the houses had no time to be demolished, but they were all empty, and the soldiers were running in the alleys of the houses, so that the soldiers patrolling the city could not see them.

The moat was also the source of life for the people outside the city, so the houses were built close to the moat, and in a moment, a thousand soldiers came out of several alleys.

They quickly filled the rafts, tied them into long strings, and quietly lowered them into the water, one soldier swam across the moat and tied the other end to a willow tree, and the soldiers quickly laid planks on it, and in a short time it was done, and a simple pontoon bridge was built, and the cavalry was not enough, but it was completely enough for the scout soldiers with high martial arts.

In a short time, the first group of three hundred soldiers had crossed the moat and were clinging to the bottom of the city walls, when a patrol happened to pass from above, and the soldiers stopped moving forward, and when the training team was far away, the second group of three hundred soldiers rushed across the pontoon bridge again, and soon, the last four hundred soldiers also ran across the pontoon, and a dozen soldiers began to put away the planks and pontoons.

The whole West City is ten miles long, the West City Gate is just in the middle, Zhou Fei looked at the West City Gate, they are still about two miles away from the West City Gate, that is the gathering place of the enemy soldiers, from the bright lights on the city, most of the soldiers have not slept, and are still strictly on duty and vigil, as long as they go to the city, a bloody battle will be inevitable.

"Monkey, it's up to you!"

The monkey that Zhou Fei said is the scout captain Shen Yaozu, it is he who came out of the city wall of Yazhou City to report the news, Shen Yaozu was born in a martial arts family, and his light skills are extremely skillful, and he can climb the city wall with his bare hands.

Shen Yaozu nodded, he tied a thin rope around his waist, kneaded his body, and climbed five or six steps with the help of the convex and concave of the wall bricks, he took out a bamboo strip from the back waist pouch and inserted it into the gap, so that he had a place to step on it, which was similar to the Jin King Guo Song using an iron chisel to go to the city, but the iron chisel was too heavy for Shen Yaozu, and it was lighter to use bamboo chips.

Shen Yaozu was worthy of the nickname Monkey, and it only took a tea time to climb to the top of the city, but he did not go up, but pulled the string, and soon pulled up a pair of rope ladders, the front end of the rope ladder was very wide, just enough to lassoscope a battlement.

Shen Yaozu looked at it, the patrol was still two miles away in the westernmost part, and it would take at least half an hour to walk back.

He beckoned down, and the soldiers below began to climb the rope ladder and go up, the first one to come up was Zhou Fei, he also carried two sets of rope ladders on his shoulders, Zhou Fei jumped on the city, hung the rope ladder and threw it down, and there were three rope ladders on the city wall.

The soldiers quickly climbed up the city, and one by one they climbed to the top of the city, and they all crouched under the battlements so as not to attract the attention of the enemy, and in a short time all a thousand soldiers were on the top of the city.

At this time, the appointed time had arrived, Zhou Fei looked outside the city, and in a moment, three rockets rose in the distance, and the main force of the army was already two miles away.

Zhou Fei immediately waved his hand, "Follow me!" ”

He led a thousand soldiers and galloped towards the West Tower........

There were only 2,000 soldiers stationed in Xiangyang City at night, and 400 men were deployed on each wall, and 400 people patrolled the city.

The head of the western city was no exception, with four hundred defenders deployed, one lieutenant in charge, of which three hundred were deployed at the city gate and another hundred were in charge of patrolling.

The captain of Xicheng also discovered the rockets outside the city at this time, and he immediately became nervous, and immediately ordered his subordinates to wake up all the soldiers who were napping, and sent another person to report to the young master Dong Zhu.

At this moment, there was a sudden chaos in the west, followed by a series of screams.

The captain was taken aback, drew his knife and rushed over, just ran out of a dozen steps, only to see a tall man rushing in front of him like a cheetah, the cold light flashed in front of him, the captain did not have time to raise his knife to block, only felt a sharp pain in his neck, and he didn't know anything.

Zhou Fei chopped off the head of the first lieutenant with a knife, kicked the corpse away, and rushed towards the crowd with a knife horizontal.

Zhou Fei's martial arts were simple and sharp, almost all of them were killed with a single sword, and his body was as fast as lightning, and many soldiers were killed by him without reacting.

A thousand scout soldiers swept away the leaves like an autumn wind, and in just a moment, all the four hundred soldiers in Xicheng were killed, and the battle ended without even having time to ring the alarm bell.

The drawbridge began to be lowered, the gates creaked open, and the soldiers lit three torches, waving them from side to side.

"Attack!" Pei Xin gave the order to attack.

30,000 cavalry slaughtered the western gate like a tidal wave.......

At this time, Dong Zhu had already received a report that three suspicious rockets had appeared outside the city.

He was really suspicious in his heart, where is this enemy army? Could it be that Zhu Zhu's army divided into two routes, fought against his father all the way, and came all the way to attack Xiangyang?

The more he thought about it, the more likely it was, he couldn't sleep, and immediately sent someone to inform the barracks, he had just left the palace gate, only to hear the sound of horses' hooves in the direction of the west city gate like thunder, shouting and killing to the sky.

Dong Zhu was suddenly shocked with cold hands and feet, and saw more than a dozen soldiers rushing over in a panic, shouting: "Young master, it's the Jin army, and the cavalry of the Jin army has entered the city." ”

Hearing that it was the Jin army, Dong Zhu's heart suddenly relaxed, he was actually afraid that it was Li Hongxin's army, he knew the deep hatred between his father and Li Hongxin, if Li Hongxin's army entered the city, their whole family would not want to live.

But the Jin army was different, as long as they surrendered in time, Guo Song would not necessarily kill them.

"How many troops are coming?"

"It's all cavalry, estimated at thirty or forty thousand!"

There were tens of thousands of cavalry, Dong Zhu was desperate, and he immediately ordered: "Go and inform the other party's commander, we are willing to surrender!" ”

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Pei Xin heard that the other party's main general was willing to surrender, and he immediately agreed, on the one hand, saving them from attacking the military camp, and on the other hand, it was also conducive to collecting Dong Xizhi's defeated army.

Under Dong Zhu's order, the three thousand soldiers in the barracks put down their weapons and marched out of the barracks gate to surrender to the Jin army.

The other three city gates, in addition to the soldiers at the east gate who opened the city gate and fled, the soldiers of the other northern and southern cities also put down their weapons and surrendered, and without much effort, Xiangyang City was captured by the Tang army killed by Chang'an.

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At the same moment when Xiangyang City fell, Dong Xizhi, who attacked the enemy's camp, was surrounded and annihilated by 50,000 enemy troops, and his army had completely collapsed.

Li Hongxin hated Dong Xizhi very much, and extended his hatred to the Xiangyang army, he ordered not to accept surrender, and killed the Xiangyang army, leaving no trouble.

Tens of thousands of soldiers carried out a massacre, tens of thousands of soldiers who knelt on the ground and surrendered were led by the enemy to the river to slaughter, blood stained the leaves and water, and the river was covered with the headless corpses of the soldiers.

Dong Xizhi led hundreds of people to escape from the encirclement of the enemy army, and ran all the way to the gate of Fangcheng County, Dong Xizhi raised his head and shouted: "I am Dong Xizhi, open the city gate quickly!" ”

At the head of the city, Xiang Zuo Hui said coldly: "The surname is Dong, the Son of Heaven treats you well, but you openly betray the Son of Heaven, do you think I will be like you, a ruthless and unrighteous villain?" Wish for the moon! ”

Dong Xizhi was trembling with anger, it was this Xiang Zuohui who instigated him to sneak attack the enemy camp, it turned out that he had already colluded with Li Hongxin, no wonder he would be ambushed by the other party.

Dong Xizhi's eyes erupted with anger, and he pointed at Xiang Zuo Hui and scolded: "Thief, if I hold you, I will definitely break your corpse into ten thousand pieces!" ”

Xiang Zuohui smiled, "I'm afraid it's you who broke the corpse!" Li Hongxin has prepared a big oil pot to fry your whole family! ”

He waved his hand, "Shoot the arrow!" ”

Arrows rained down on the city, Dong Xizhi retreated again and again, and there was a shout of killing from the pursuers, and he had no choice but to lead hundreds of soldiers to flee to Xiangyang City.

But Dong Xizhi didn't know that Deng Weigong led 3,000 cavalry to the front first, cutting off his retreat.