In the early hours of the morning, hundreds of Song soldiers surrounded an inn located near the east gate, the Song army got a report, there was an abnormality in this inn, Zhang Shun soon found out where the abnormality was, there was no guest in this inn, and there were only three people including the shopkeeper, but they purchased a lot of food and mutton, which made people have to suspect that there were other people hidden in this inn.

Soon, Zhang Shun found another suspicious place, there is a courtyard behind this inn, there is no door and no road, and it seems to have nothing to do with the inn, such a structure is really unreasonable.

After three days of surveillance, the Song army spies confirmed that there were people of unknown origin hidden in the courtyard, and they had a great relationship with the inn, and Zhang Shun immediately decided to destroy the inn and arrest suspicious people.

In the night, a soldier rushed to Zhang Shun and whispered to Zhang Shun: "There is a light in the room on the third floor of the inn, but it is blocked by the curtains!" ”

At this time, the lights were still on, it was definitely not a good thing, Zhang Shun smiled at the deputy general Ruan Xiaoqi and said: "Let's divide the labor, you take someone to the third floor to arrest, I'll go to the backyard!" ”

"Words are untrustworthy, no wonder Yan Qing doesn't like to work with you!" Ruan Xiaoqi pursed his lips, and really despised Zhang Shun's backsliding.

"I'll give you the first credit, now it's okay!"

"It seems that I really want this first merit, but since you are sincere, then I won't say much about it, brother."

Zhang Shun smiled, and immediately turned around and ordered: "Attack!" ”

The order was given, and hundreds of soldiers rushed towards the inn from all sides.

The soldiers of the Song army slammed open the door of the inn and immediately divided into two ways, one led by Ruan Xiaoqi and rushed to the third floor, and the other led by Zhang Shun and rushed to the backyard.

The backyard of the inn was empty, and there was no imaginary small door connected to a courtyard outside, Zhang Shun's eyes fell on the firewood room in the corner, he pointed to the firewood room, and the two soldiers kicked open the firewood door and rushed in.

"General, there's a small door here!"

They finally found the small gate that connected to the courtyard behind them, and the soldiers broke through the door and rushed into the next courtyard, and hundreds of soldiers also climbed the high wall and aimed their crossbows at the rooms in the courtyard.

It was a very square courtyard, covering an area of about another acre, and a row of five or six houses was built along the courtyard wall, when a man opened the door and came out, he saw the soldiers at a glance, and immediately shouted in shock, "There is an enemy situation......

Without waiting for him to finish shouting, the Song soldiers led by the crossbow were an arrow, the man screamed, fell to the ground on his back, and his screams suddenly woke up the people in the room, they shouted one after another, Zhang Shun coldly ordered: "Release the arrow!" ”

A hundred soldiers suddenly fired arrows in unison, and a dense number of crossbow arrows shot into the room through the window, and the room screamed everywhere, and the soldiers fired two rounds of arrows, and the room was dead.

The soldiers in the courtyard rushed into the room, and in a moment, several men who were hiding under the bed were not shot.

"General, it's a Jurchen!"

Several men's hats were swept off, revealing bare crowns and pigtails on both sides.

The soldiers soon brought out forty more bodies from several rooms, making a total of forty-three people, together with the three who had been captured, and the soldiers found hundreds of armor from the cellar, which could equip nearly five hundred.

Zhang Shun turned around and returned to the inn, and the shopkeeper and the three guys were all pulled down from the upstairs by Ruan Xiaoqi, "Brother Shun, I actually found a few thousand taels of silver, and reward them to the brothers!" ”

Zhang Shun's face was very serious, and he had no intention of joking with Ruan Xiaoqi, he shouted and said: "No matter what interrogation methods you use, you must let them explain immediately, how many golden soldiers are hiding in Taiyuan City, we must find these people before dawn!" ”

Zhang Shun found that there were hundreds of pairs of armor, and an intuition told him that there were more than forty-three golden soldiers hiding in Taiyuan City.

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As soon as the morning dawned, Zhang Shun rushed to the front of the big tent of the Chinese army in the barracks, and said to the soldiers at the door: "Please tell the capital, just say that I have an urgent matter to report!" ”

In the big tent, Li Yanqing was sitting at the table and writing a letter, one was to Cao Xing of Tongguan and Liu Ziyu of Jingzhaocheng, especially he wanted to remind Liu Ziyu that the 3,000 Song troops stationed in Wuguan in Shangzhou should be vigilant to prevent the Jin soldiers from going north to Shangzhou from Dengzhou and sneaking into Wuguan.

Another letter was to Wu Jie, who of Yan'an Prefecture, also asked him to be vigilant, not to be negligent, and at the same time to send people to pay attention to the situation of the Luoshui Dao Jin soldiers.

Of course, the letter was not sent to deliver it, but was used to fly to Jingzhao Mansion and Yan'an Mansion with the letter eagle.

As soon as he put down his pen, at this time, his own soldiers reported at the door: "Qiyu is the capital, General Zhang Shun has an urgent report!" ”

"Let him in!"

After a while, Zhang Shun walked into the big tent quickly, knelt down on one knee and saluted, "I am fortunate to be humiliated, and the task has been completed!" ”

Li Yanqing smiled slightly: "How many golden soldiers have you caught?" ”

"We caught 350 Jin soldiers at four points, including 26 Jurchens, and the rest were Jin and Han soldiers."

Speaking of this, Zhang Shun took out another list and handed it to Li Yanqing, "This is a list found in the Sifang Inn, it should be the Jin soldiers of the Song Army, a total of eighty people, please look at them all." ”

Li Yanqing is not surprised, they are openly recruiting soldiers, and it is strange that there are no Jin soldiers in it, he took the list and read it carefully, the names on it are specific to the level of the team, and they can be arrested according to the roster.

"How can there be more than 400 golden soldiers in the city?"

Li Yanqing was a little puzzled, not long ago Taiyuan City was still under the control of the Jin State, it was necessary for them to ambush so many of their own people in the city? Could it be that they already knew in advance that Taiyuan was going to fall? This is obviously impossible, so Li Yanqing is a little puzzled.

Zhang Shun bowed and said, "The lowly post has already interrogated the reason. ”

"What is the reason?"

"These more than 400 Jin soldiers are the internal affairs army of Wanyan Lou Room, responsible for capturing the Song army of Taiyuan Mansion, they are not in the barracks, they usually disguise themselves as various identities and mix in the market of Taiyuan Mansion, so when we capture Taiyuan City, they have changed their bodies, and they have become the fine work of Jin soldiers hidden in Taiyuan Mansion, in fact, they are two sides of the same identity."

"It's an interesting explanation, two sides of the same identity, in short, they went from cat to mouse, right?"

"Exactly!"

Li Yanqing nodded, "It's very important to catch them, otherwise the battle will be together, they will cooperate with the Jin soldiers in the city to attack the city, and the situation will not be good. ”

In the army, emphasis is placed on accumulating merit and promotion, and every time a battle merit is made, the military Sima will record one or two merits depending on the size of the merit, and when it accumulates to twelve turns, he can be promoted to one level or receive a lot of rewards.

Li Yanqing gave the first meritorious person three turns, obviously attaching great importance to this operation.

"Thank you for the reward!"

Li Yanqing thought for a while and asked, "Have they been in contact with Wan Yanchang?" ”

"I contacted, two days ago they sent someone south to deliver a letter and report our situation to Wan Yanchang, who knew that their army existed."

Li Yanqing was thoughtful, he took a few steps with his hands in his hands, and then turned back to Zhang Shun and said: "Don't slack off, you can continue to dig deeper, and understand their eagle letters or pigeon letters thoroughly, I need to send a letter to the other party's main general!" ”

"Ignorance, understood!" Zhang Shun saluted and retreated.

Li Yanqing handed the list to his soldiers again, "Give this list to General Wang Gui and tell him that you can't let go of a spy, but don't wronged an innocent person!" ”

"Obey!"

The soldiers hurriedly left with the list, Li Yanqing stood up, walked to the door of the big tent with his hands, their military camp is located in the north city, two hundred steps away from the north city wall, you can clearly see the trebuchet on the head of the city, a trebuchet stands at the head of the city like a giant, at this moment, Li Yanqing's heart is like a mirror, if he sticks to Taiyuan this time, he will completely change the fate of the Song and Jin countries.

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Two days later, Wan Yanchang led an army of 50,000 to pass through Jiexiu County and enter the territory of Taiyuan Prefecture.

Along with the Jin soldiers, there were also 80,000 people who were forcibly conscripted, who transported a large amount of grain and grass materials, and established a logistics supply center for the Jin soldiers in Jiexiu County.

The strategic position of Jiexiu County is extremely important, in the south of Jiexiu County, three miles to build Yangliang North Pass, this pass is the entrance of the Mouse Bird Valley in the middle of Hedong Road, hold the Yangliang North Pass, almost cut off the land connection between Taiyuan Mansion and the states in the south of Hedong Road, in the south of the Mouse Bird Valley, there is also a Yangliang South Pass, two passes one south and one north, guard the central key point of Hedong Road.

Of course, the transportation of bulk materials in the north and south of Hedong Road was completed by Fenshui, and the Jin soldiers placed the logistics base in Jiexiu County, also because they were afraid that the Song army would seize Jiexiu County, thus cutting off their retreat.

But Wan Yanchang didn't expect that the reason why Li Yanqing did not occupy Jiexiu County was that he hoped that the Jin army would go north and make them hate under Taiyuan City.

'Boom! Boom! Boom! As soon as the day dawned, the defenders at the head of the southern city of Taiyuan faintly heard the sound of leather drums in the distance.

The soldiers stood up one after another, stared into the distance, only to see a faint battle flag fluttering in the wind ten miles away, and the main force of the Jin soldiers finally came on the eighth day when the Song army occupied Taiyuan City.