Xincheng is located on the north bank of the small Liaoshui about 80 miles east of Liaoshui, is located on the mountainside of a big mountain, the city is tall and strong, easy to defend and difficult to attack, it is an important strategic place for the Goguryeo army to control the upper reaches of Liaoshui, there are 10,000 garrisons in Xincheng at present, 100,000 stone of grain, it is the logistics center of Yuangai Suwen.

However, Xincheng was still 80 miles away from Liaoshui, and in order to provide timely food support to the Goguryeo army that had entered Liaodong, the defenders of Xincheng set up a large camp on the east bank of Liaoshui 80 miles away, and 7,000 troops were stationed in the camp, and at the same time captured thousands of people near Xincheng and forced them to transport grain from the city to the Liaoshui military camp.

The inside and outside of the new city are very busy, thousands of people carry heavy grain bales, line up in a long line, carry bags of grain out of the city, send them to the small Liaoshui wharf a mile outside the city, and then transfer the small boats from here, but there are not many small boats on the wharf, only less than 100 boats, each time can only transport more than 1,000 stone of grain, in order to speed up the transportation of grain, the Goguryeo army forcibly requisitioned hundreds of carriages, water and land to transport grain.

The composition of the people who carried grain in Xincheng was very complicated, there were Goguryeo people, there were Jin people, there were Khitans, and there were Han people, they were all captured by the Goguryeo army from a radius of 100 miles, a total of more than 3,000 people, eating the worst grain, doing the hardest and heaviest work, in order to prevent them from escaping, all of them were escorted into the city at night to be guarded.

Although the hard labor was only more than ten days, but the heavy hard labor made many people unbearable, people kept fleeing, the Goguryeo soldiers were very brutal, caught the fleeing people and executed them on the spot, more than 100 people were executed in just a few days, no one dared to flee again, although the wave of escape was intimidated by bloody killings, but hatred and contradictions were accumulating, and a riot was about to happen.

There are about 300 Han Chinese who served hard labor in Xincheng, all of them are young and strong, and there are thousands of Han people living in Goguryeo east of Liaoshui, including Liaodong natives, people who fled when they first attacked Goguryeo, and soldiers who were scattered, who opened up wasteland and farmed land, built houses and walls, and even returned to their hometowns to bring their wives and children, and Goguryeo also acquiesced to their existence in order to collect taxes.

As the Han Chinese were only a minority in hard labor, they soon united under a Han leader called Sun Ying, and became the most united group in Xincheng, under Sun Ying's constraints, they did not flee, they helped each other, there was not a single death, they carried food and worked hard, and they also gained the trust of the Goguryeo army to keep them in charge of maintaining order at night.

But the Goguryeo people never dreamed that this leader named Sun Yinghan, who was captured together with the Ya people, had another unusual identity, he was a scout general of the Sui army, Sun Ying led 90 of his men to the Ya tribe, and they covered up their identities with the help of the Ya people, and took advantage of the opportunity of the Goguryeo people to capture a large number of people and blend into the new city.

The new city is not big, the circumference of the city is only twelve miles, it is a pure military city, there are no civilians in the city, only a few large warehouses and rows of simple stone houses, because the seven thousand Goguryeo troops went to the Liaohe garrison, there are only three thousand garrisons in the new city at present, the garrison and the people also live in the stone house, but they live in the east of the city, and the people live in the west of the city, and the two sides are separated by a distance.

Although both sides lived in stone huts, the conditions were completely different, the barracks of the Goguryeo soldiers were dry and large, with a room of five people, with new bedding and good food, while the stone houses of the people were hot and humid, crammed into a room for thirty people, with moldy straw on the floor, rats, fleas, and bed bugs rampant, and the food was very poor, and there was no food at all.

At night, Sun Ying and his thirty men sat in stone huts and waited patiently, while his other sixty men mingled with other Han Chinese, and had firmly united the three hundred Han Chinese.

Sun Ying sat at the door silently looking at several large warehouses not far away, when Captain Wang Canghai sat beside him and said with a smile: "Are you thinking about how to get weapons?" ”

Sun Ying smiled, "With us folks, even if we get weapons, we are no match for the Goguryeo soldiers, we must get the help of the Tatar people." ”

"But no matter what, you have to get a weapon first."

Sun Ying looked at an armory on the far right, where the ordnance and armor were stored, and he smiled faintly: "Actually, it is not difficult to get weapons, but every day when we go out to work, Goguryeo soldiers will come to search our barracks, where do we hide our weapons?" ”

Wang Canghai perked up and hurriedly said: "If I can get a weapon, I have a place to hide." ”

"Tell me, where can you hide?"

"Hiding in a mass grave."

The mass grave pile is behind the barracks, specially burying the people who were executed and the dead of disease, more than 200 people have been buried so far, the Goguryeo soldiers are afraid of being infected by the epidemic, and never go there, they are all let the people go to bury the corpses, it is indeed a good place to hide things.

Sun Ying smiled, then pointed to a tall tower next to the armory and said, "Do you see that tower?" ”

"I know, but the door is locked, and I haven't been inside."

"I've been in, it's full of all kinds of discarded debris, and if you climb up to the fifth floor of the tower, you'll find that it's only two feet away from the armory's gas window, and you can enter it with a hook and a rope."

Wang Canghai's eyes lit up, but then they dimmed again, and he said a little depressed: "Our war horses, weapons, and hook claws are all in the tribe of the Tatans, and it is still in vain to talk for a long time. ”

Sun Ying smiled mysteriously, stretched out his hand and took out a cloth bag from the corner of the wall next to the door for a moment, and took out a cloth bag from the soil, opened the cloth bag, and inside Huo Ran was an eagle claw steel hook, Wang Canghai was suddenly overjoyed, took the steel hook and looked at it for a long time, and asked puzzledly: "How do you have this thing, haven't everyone searched and checked it?" ”

Sun Ying said with a smile: "Meng Chi contacted me the day before yesterday, and I asked him to get a hawk claw hook for me, and I only got it this morning." ”

Meng Chi went to Xincheng with them as a people's husband, and escaped under the cover of Sun Ying five days ago, becoming one of the few people who successfully escaped, Wang Canghai also knew that Meng Chi was the confidant of Tudiji, the chief of the Yatar people, and since he was in contact with Sun Ying, there must be news of Tudiji.

Wang Canghai hurriedly asked, "Is the Yan army coming?" ”

Sun Ying nodded, "Tudi Ji has arrived near the new city with 10,000 warriors, and I'm waiting for the time to do it." ”

As soon as the words fell, the croaking of crows was heard not far away, Sun Ying immediately stood up, only to see a team of night patrols with wooden sticks coming, a total of ten people, they were also Sun Ying's subordinates, wooden sticks were the only weapons given to them by the Goguryeo army, used to maintain order at night.

"Go to bed early, I'll have to work tomorrow!"

The head of the patrol shouted a voice, and quickly stuffed a note quietly into Sun Ying's hand, and when they went away, Sun Ying opened the note, Wang Canghai also hurriedly stepped forward, only to see that there was only one sentence on it, 'Correction on the sixth day of April', this is the news that Sun Ying is waiting for.

Today is the fourth day of the sixth lunar month, that is, the night after tomorrow, Sun Ying said to Wang Canghai with a smile: "It seems that tomorrow you need to dig a pit in the mass grave." ”

Wang Canghai was gearing up, he was already a little impatient

The next night, Sun Ying and Wang Canghai each led a team of people to patrol the barracks of the people in the western district, and there were dozens of Goguryeo soldiers standing guard next to the gate of the warehouse, and a group of soldiers patrolling back and forth outside the warehouse.

Sun Ying slipped into the tower with two of his subordinates, the tower was full of dust, all kinds of tattered debris piled up, they ran to the fifth floor, demolished a window, two zhang away from the opposite side is the gas window of the armory, Sun Ying and his subordinates are scout elites, all of them are strong in martial arts, good at climbing rocks and climbing walls, Sun Ying accurately buckled the hook claw to the stone wall in the warehouse air window, and pulled up a rope bridge in the air, Sun Ying left one person to guard, he and another soldier climbed the rope, and slowly climbed into the warehouse air window.

The moonlight shone in through the air window, and the situation in the warehouse was very clear, under the air window was full of leather armor, like a small mountain, the two of them jumped directly to the leather armor mountain, and on the other side was full of various weapons, bundles of spears and war knives, as well as bows and crossbows and arrows, Sun Ying estimated that at least five thousand soldiers could be armed.

"Chief, do you want to take the armor?" The soldier asked from the side.

Sun Ying hurriedly waved his hand, "Don't take the armor, just take the spear and the knife, and take the military crossbow twenty." ”

The two of them started together, throwing bundles of spears and swords and crossbows in straw bags out of the warehouse through the air window, and Wang Canghai, who was waiting in the dark outside, led his men to quickly transfer the weapons to the stone house.

(To be continued.) )