Zhang Xutuo did not stay in the north city for a long time, and went around the city to the south city, outside the south city is a wilderness, the terrain is low, and the southwest direction is more than ten miles away is the swamp of Gaojibo.

Han Zhishou almost followed Zhang Xutuo and galloped wildly at the head of the city, "Give me my war horse and knife!" He turned around and shouted, and several of his own soldiers led his horses and ran towards the southern city.

Outside the southern city, Zhang Xutuo and more than 20 soldiers were still one hundred and fifty paces away, which was just outside the range of crossbow arrows, he raised his horsewhip and pointed at the city wall and said something to the cavalry next to him, and then dismounted and climbed on the ground, as if to check the situation on the ground.

Han Zhishou was lying on the battlements panting, his eyes staring at Zhang Xutuo without blinking, he only felt that the blood in his body rushed towards his head, at this moment, his pupils suddenly contracted into a slit, and a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity appeared in front of him, Zhang Xutuo actually left the war horse and walked towards a mound not far away, standing on the mound seemed to see more clearly.

The blood vessels in Han Zhishou's brain finally exploded, and he could no longer restrain his desire to make meritorious contributions, and shouted: "Open the city gate and kill it, and capture Zhang Xutuo alive!" ”

A partial general was shocked and hurriedly said: "The king is not allowed to open the city gate!" ”

Han Zhishou whipped him in the face and scolded: "Idiot, where is the Sui army? ”

He turned and ran down the city, "Open the gates!" ”

The city gate slowly opened, the drawbridge was slowly lowered, Han Zhishou waved his big knife, urged the horse to rush out of the city gate, and led hundreds of soldiers to kill Zhang Xutuo two hundred steps away.

At this time, Zhang Xutuo also found Han Zhishou out of the city, he hurriedly ran down the mound, turned over his horse and ran to the northeast, where was Han Zhishou willing to let him go, urging the horse to gallop, and the soldiers were also running fast behind.

More than 20 cavalrymen did not run with Zhang Xutuo, and one of them was Pei Xingyan, who saw that the city gate was wide open, and immediately took out two sledgehammers from behind the hill, which were hidden here in advance last night.

Jang Hyun's strategy. The most important link is that the city gate of Wucheng County is opened, and the opportunity is fleeting, even if Pei Xingyan leads the cavalry to kill the city gate, it is too late, at this moment. The ground about twenty steps away from the city gate suddenly cracked, and countless Sui soldiers drilled out from the ground, and Shen Guang was the first to rush out and run towards the city gate.

The distance was too short, and all the soldiers in the city did not respond. Shen Guang had already led the first batch of 100 soldiers into the city gate, and then Wei Chigong rushed out of the cave, and he led the second group of more than 200 soldiers to rush to the city gate.

At the same time, a low horn sounded in the woods in the distance, and the sound of the horn echoed in the sky, Pei Xingyan also shouted, and led the cavalry to the northeast, his task was not to enter the city, but to intercept the retreating enemy general.

At this time, there was a great chaos in the city. All the thief armies were stunned by the sudden situation, and by the time they reacted, the two most elite Sui armies had already entered the city one after another.

"Close the gates!" The general at the head of the city was so anxious that he stomped his feet and shouted!

The drawbridge creaked up, but the city gate could not be closed, and the Sui soldiers stuck the crack of the door with an iron block, Shen Guang led a hundred Sui troops to control the city gate, and the continuous killing of the thief army fought fiercely, but it was Wei Chigong's task to seize the drawbridge.

The pivotal winch of the drawbridge was placed in the castle tower, controlled by more than two dozen thieves, at this time. Wei Chigong had already led 200 soldiers to kill the city.

Wei Chigong still used the Wei Tuo stick and the hundred-pound stick to wave it when he charged into battle, and the thief army broke his bones and tendons, and his brain burst. One by one, the thieves were beaten and flew out, and the screams rang out.

Wei Chi Gong was the first to rush to the head of the city, hundreds of thieves surged towards him, Yu Chi Gong roared, and killed the enemy group with a stick, and more than 200 Sui soldiers followed him to kill the city

Han Zhishou chased him to the east of the city. But at this time, Han Zhishou finally began to wonder, this Zhang Xutuo fled in the wilderness, frightened, where is there still a little bit of the temperament of the commander of the Sui army, and those pro-soldiers don't care about him at all, how can it be impossible, Han Zhishou faintly felt that something was wrong in his heart, and he slowly reined in the war horse.

At this moment, the soldiers shouted in unison from the top of the city: "General, return to the city quickly!" ”

Suddenly there was a loud drum behind him, and as soon as Han Zhishou turned around, he saw countless Sui soldiers killed from the woods in the northeast, led by a strange Fang Tian halberd in his hand, urging a flaming majestic war horse in his crotch to gallop towards him, Han Zhishou was so shocked that his scalp exploded, and he immediately realized that he had been fooled.

Han Zhishou was full of remorse in his heart, turned his horse's head and fled towards the south city gate, like all small counties, Wucheng County only has two city gates, and now he has no way to escape except the south city gate, and hundreds of soldiers under his command also follow him to the south.

But after only running a few hundred steps, he was stopped by more than 20 cavalry led by Pei Xingyan, Pei Xingyan also saw Zhang Xuan running in the distance, he was anxious, shouted, urged the horse to rush up, only to hear the sound of 'woo~', and the sledgehammer smashed towards Han Zhishou.

The sledgehammer came extremely fiercely, Han Zhishou couldn't dodge, so he had to raise his knife to block, but with a muffled sound, the knife was smashed by the sledgehammer, Han Zhishou was smashed to the ground with a horse, his head was smashed flat, and he died tragically on the spot without even screaming.

The rest of the soldiers saw that the main general was killed, and they were frightened and fled, and were chased and killed by more than 20 Sui cavalry, at this time, Zhang Xuan led the main army to kill, he restrained the war horse, Pei Xingyan stepped forward and hugged his fists and said: "The despicable position is too strong, the enemy general is unrecognizable, and I don't know who he is?" ”

Zhang Xuan glanced at the dead corpse and said with a smile: "Just ask the soldiers of the thief army, how is the situation at the city gate?" ”

"General Wei Chi and Captain Shen have already been killed, and now I don't know the situation."

Zhang Xuan nodded, "You can lead the army of your headquarters to block the north gate, and I will go to the south gate to answer." ”

"Obey!"

Pei Xingyan shouted to the soldiers, "The Donglai Army will follow me!" ”

A thousand soldiers diverted out of the ranks and followed Pei Xingyan to the north gate, while Zhang Xuan led the rest of the army to the south gate.

The battle for the head of the southern city has reached a fever pitch, the deputy general of the thief army, Song Changling, led 3,000 soldiers to fight back desperately, trying to recapture the city gate, Shen Guang led a hundred of his men to die in the city gate cave and more than 1,000 thieves fought fiercely.

The fierce battle at the head of the city was particularly tragic, Wei Chigong and his two hundred men encountered the attack of two thousand thieves, both sides suffered heavy casualties, the corpses piled up on the city, and the blood flowed like a river, and nearly half of Yu Chigong's men were killed and wounded, but they withstood the impact of thousands of thieves.

Inside the tower, more than a dozen Sui soldiers defeated the thieves and grabbed the hub of the drawbridge, they pushed the winch hard, and the huge drawbridge began to creak and fall, and there was no water in the moat below, but it was full of sharp piles, and they could only rely on the drawbridge on the moat to enter the city gate.

With a muffled sound, the drawbridge finally hit the ground with a bang, and the soldiers slashed the winch pushrod with their knives, making the winch ineffective, and the drawbridge could no longer be pulled up, and they also fought out of the castle tower and fought fiercely with the enemy.

The fierce battle between the two sides had reached the last moment, and every Sui soldier was desperately shouting, they were covered in blood, and they still fought with the enemy army regardless of their together.

At this moment, there was a loud horn sound from the city, the horn whistled like a cold wind, the morale of the Sui soldiers was greatly boosted, Wei Chigong roared, and Song Changling, the deputy general of the thief army, was knocked down from the city with a stick, and the military heart of the thief army in the city began to waver, they retreated one after another, and many thieves turned around and fled to the north city.

At the city gate, Zhang Xuan took the lead and led the army into Wucheng County, and the thieves in the city finally collapsed and fled to the north city, but the outside of the north city has been blocked by Pei Xingyan and the army, and the thief army has nowhere to escape.

At this time, the 5,000 troops in the city arrived, and the desperate thief army surrendered on their knees, but they were mercilessly killed by the Sui soldiers who were full of hatred.

When Zhang Xuan gave the order to stop the fighting, there were less than 2,000 of the 5,000 thieves left, and the rest of the thieves all died under the swords and spears of the Sui army

The Sui army was quickly taking over Wucheng County, Zhang Xuan strode into the warehouse surrounded by dozens of soldiers, and the two bookkeepers in charge of the warehouse walked up and knelt down tremblingly: "See General Zhang!" ”

"Get up!"

Zhang Xuan walked straight into one of the largest granaries, only to see that it was full of bags of grain, like a hill, "How much grain is there?" Jang Hyun asked back.

A bookkeeper hurriedly stepped forward and bowed down and said, "General Qiyu, there are nine thousand four hundred stone of grain in here. ”

"How many are there?" Zhang Xuan asked again.

"A total of 92,000 stones, 50,000 quintals of forage!"

Zhang Xuan suddenly thought of something, and hurriedly asked, "Is there a war horse called by Zhang Jin in the city?" ”

"Yes! There were three hundred and twenty horses. ”

Zhang Xuan was overjoyed, he thought that Zhang Jincheng had taken all the war horses away, but he didn't expect that there were more than 300 horses in the city, this was an unexpected gain, he hurriedly said: "Take me to see it!" ”

At this moment, a soldier rushed over and knelt down on one knee to report: "General Qiyu, Captain Chen has sent an urgent report, a large number of thieves have been found thirty miles away, about 20,000 people, and they are rushing to this side. (To be continued.) )