On the twentieth of March, the snow was still falling, and the goose-feathered snow flakes drifted with the north wind for an hour, and there was no sign of stopping, and the earth was dazzlingly white everywhere. Although the windows were tightly closed, there was still a "crackling" sound, as if the roaring north wind would rush in and sweep everything away.

Yuwen Zhihe couldn't sleep, hugged the quilt and sat up, suddenly heard the wind outside the window mixed with footsteps and a few bursts of horses, he got up and looked out the window, only to see a group of sergeants wearing armor and bows, a cluster of spears shining with a star-like cold light, the generals have saddled their horses, and rushed to the west together. He frowned, as if he had a premonition.

Since the first half of the month, the weather in the northwest has suddenly plummeted, as if it has suddenly returned to the time of the cold winter wax moon. In the past five or six days, except for the first two days, after a small pause in the middle of the first two days, the snow has become heavier and heavier in the past two days. For two days and two nights in a row, the goose-feathered snowflakes had no intention of stopping.

Although Imjin City is a military fortress, there are also many military families in the city, and although the shantytowns in the east of the city are constantly clearing snow, nearly half of the shacks have been crushed. Even the military camp in the north of Imjin City was pressed into a few barracks, these are not the most troublesome things, the heavy snow for many days in a row, the snow has long been knee-high, and even the path has not been half a point. This makes the people in the city even can't get firewood for cooking, and the barracks are better, after all, there are already some preparations, plus the charcoal in the barracks warehouse can also be used first, and some fire oil can also be used, but the people are in trouble, and they can't go up the mountain to fetch firewood, so they basically have to cut off cooking.

The troublesome things are one after another, which makes Yuwen Zhi and the Han King, who likes to be sexual, also a little worried. It seems that it is almost April, but this thief is still snowing heavily. The weather reminded him of three years ago, when it was the same strange weather, with snow and snow. In that year, the entire Central Plains was plagued by disasters everywhere, with grain production reduced and no production everywhere, and then there was the great famine that swept the entire Central Plains. If it weren't for the truce and the war that seemed to have been negotiated by all sides in those two years, I don't know how many people would have starved to death.

It's only been three years, and now that I've recovered, I'm going to be a slut again.

These are not the most upsetting, after all, life in troubled times is as cheap as a dog, and he doesn't care so much. Those troublesome things are up to the emperor and the ministers to worry about, he just needs to eat and have fun, although he has always been a little unhappy with the emperor's brother for sending him to Imjin Pass, and he always feels that this is a bit like sending down the border pass, and Imjin is always not as prosperous as Chang'an. However, he has been in Imjin for almost two years, but he can be regarded as having fun in suffering, and he feels that although Linjin is not as prosperous as Chang'an, it is also good in Imjin, that is, this place is far away from the emperor, even if he sometimes does something out of the ordinary, no one can control him.

It's just that the recent bad weather has made him reluctant to take a step out of the warm palace. Moreover, Pei Qiantong from Feng Yicheng's side said that a group of beauties would be sent, but he didn't see them for a long time. Originally, he thought it was due to the wind and snow, but when he asked Meng Jing and Yuan Li, the generals of the town guards in the lower Linjin Pass, and learned that the news with Feng Yicheng had been interrupted for two whole days, he already had a bad premonition in his heart.

Recently, there has been a lot of war in Guanlong, and Xue Ju and Liu Wuzhou have been wiped out by Chen Pojun. At this time, Yu Wenhua issued a holy decree to all counties and towns as soon as possible, and officials and generals in various places must be strictly vigilant, and the beacon fire must be transmitted in the morning and evening, and messengers must be sent every day to inform the defense.

There is also a Chaoyi city between Feng Yi and Imjin, but the Chaoyi city is small and directly belongs to Imjin Pass. For two consecutive days, there was no news of Feng Yi in the news sent back from Chaoyi, which made him faintly uneasy. There is no beacon fire relay, and it can also be regarded as the cause of wind and snow weather. But there was no messenger for two days in a row, which was a somewhat disturbing situation.

A little restless as he walked through the room, his gaze couldn't help but look at the team that had just gone away. This team was led by the tiger general Meng Jing, a thousand light cavalry. Feng Yi did not deliver the news for a long time, which made Yu Wenzhi, who was a little suspicious, uneasy, and finally decided to send Meng Jing to personally lead a thousand light horsemen to Feng Yi. If there is an accident, you can provide timely support. If nothing happens, it is just right for Meng Jing to take his brothers to transport the latest batch of supplies back from Feng Yi.

The wind and snow seem to be lighter, and in the Changchun Palace, there are many soldiers lying in the palaces. There are not only the Xiliang cavalry, but also the Praetorian Guards and the women's army. After a day and night of rapid marching, all the soldiers were very tired, especially Ma Ning's Xiliang cavalry, which not only marched 200 miles a day and night, but also raided and took Feng Yi and Changchun Palace one after another, destroying more than 1,000 enemies and capturing nearly 5,000 prisoners.

Chen Kefu rushed to Feng Yi, and after seeing that Feng Yi had successfully captured it, he immediately asked He Ruohuailiang and Xiao Shilian to lead 1,500 men and horses to stay in Feng Yicheng with Ma Wu's 1,500 Xiliang cavalry. He and Chang Zhongxing hurriedly rushed to Changchun Palace, and saw that Ma Ning had even taken Changchun Palace, Chen Kefu couldn't help but be very happy. Although in the plan, it should not be a problem to take Feng Yi, but sometimes the plan is done well, but it cannot guarantee 100% success, and now he saw that not only Feng Yi and Changchun Palace were taken, but also all the defenders were captured, and he did not escape the enemy army, and his heart couldn't help relaxing.

Seeing that the soldiers were exhausted, Chen Kefu simply ordered the whole army to rest in Changchun Palace for half a day. There are a lot of grains, vegetables and meat in the Changchun Palace, which were originally prepared by Pei Qiantong and his subordinates, but now they are all cheaper than Chen Jun. After a full meal and drink, except for a few soldiers on duty, in fact, they couldn't stop their exhaustion, and they didn't set up camp, so they slept in military blankets everywhere in the palace.

However, at this time, the whole army was still alone, surrounded by the Xu army.

The whole army only slept for half a day before they were called up by their respective officers. The soldiers all got up from the ground with their eyes rubbed, although most of them yawned and did not sleep enough with red eyes, but although Chen Kefu had strict military orders, he treated his subordinates kindly and cordially, and the rewards and punishments were clear. Although the danger of the officers and men of the Chen army is high, the salary subsidy and pension are extremely high, and the opportunity for meritorious service is also great. Therefore, there was no laziness to disobey the order, Chen Kefu ordered He Ruodong and He Ruolong brothers to lead 2,000 death squads as the lead, and he and Chen Lei and Zhang Chuchen led 5,000 forbidden troops and 5,000 female troops as the Chinese army, Ma Ning led 3,500 Xiliang cavalry from the forward to the rearguard, Chang Zhongxing led 1,000 cavalry to stay in Changchun Palace, and left hundreds of wounded and sick people in Changchun Palace. More than 10,000 people set off immediately, and in this 300-mile attack, in addition to the main generals in the army, in fact, most of the soldiers were still a little confused at this time, and they didn't know where the target was going.

Most of the soldiers secretly guessed in their hearts that they would go all the way west along Weishui and take Chang'an. Chen Kefu was already swinging his sword and pointing diagonally on the horse, shouting and ordering: "The whole army sets off and marches eastward!" ”

The snow seems to be a little smaller, and the soldiers have a lot of energy after eating and sleeping, and they have traveled for sixty miles in a row, and a city is faintly visible in front of them, and everyone knows that it is the Chaoyi City between Feng Yicheng and Imjin Pass.

The circumference of the city wall of Chaoyi is four miles, one zhang and five feet high, and the moat is one zhang deep and one zhang wide. There are five city gates: Linhe in the east, Jintang in the northwest, Zhenqiang in the west, Wangyue in the south, and Yingen in the north. Although Chaoyi is not a military town, it is close to the Imjin Pass, which is the key point of the Qin-Jin passage, and is located in the middle of the Yellow River, Weishui and Luoshui. To the south of Weishui, there is Yongfeng Warehouse, one of the six major granaries of Sui.

However, although Chaoyi is a place of commerce and distribution, because one left and one right are Feng Yi and Imjin important towns, so the entire city is not very fortified. Although the city is quite large and has a large population, the defense has always been handed over to Feng Yi and the two towns of Imjin. In normal times, only a regiment of 200 infantry was stationed here, which was dedicated to maintaining the security of the merchant brigade and collecting taxes with it. The other is to maintain a beacon tower in the city, which is responsible for the daily transmission of beacon smoke.

Xu Jun on the beacon tower saw a large black figure in front of him by the snow light, lit a torch and wanted to take a closer look, but his position was exposed, and he was shot down by He Ruodong with an arrow. The death squad charged, quickly jumped onto the city, broke in, and rushed into the city. The sergeants of Chaoyi had already fallen asleep, and hurriedly got up in a panic, and many of them died in Huangquan before they even got their weapons. In less than half an hour, with the corpses of hundreds of soldiers on the spot, the other residents and merchants in the city also went home and closed their doors according to the order, and the city quickly returned to peace.

Chen Kefu led the Chinese army and the rear guard to arrive quickly, ordered the soldiers to rest for a while, and ordered He Ruolong to lead 500 people out of the south of Chaoyi to set up defenses, in case the Xu army in the direction of Weishui found out to come to help, and then set up a battle flag to urge the army.

Some of the soldiers had unsolved the doubts in their hearts, so they asked the officers to come forward and ask Chen Lei where the troops were?

At this time, Chen Kefu looked at the soldiers who were a little dazed, and said solemnly: "Attack Imjin and seize the return to the Kanto Passage!" ”

When many soldiers heard this, they thought that the emperor was going to take everyone to capture Imjin Pass and cross the Yellow River back to Luoyang, Guandong. They were all excited, and they had been in Guanlong for several months in a blink of an eye, and they couldn't help but feel homesick. Previously, everyone went deep into the enemy territory alone, and many veterans rumored that the emperor was going to go straight to Guanzhong and attack Chang'an. This made many soldiers a little worried, although they trusted the emperor, but when they thought that only 20,000 people would go to fight Chang'an, they still couldn't help but be terrified. Now that the emperor wants to fight back to Luoyang, this is undoubtedly a great thing.

In the soldiers' mind, Chang'an will fight sooner or later, but it is a bit risky to fight with only 20,000 people, so it is better to wait for a rest and recuperate, and it is not too late to come after mobilizing the army.

It's just that no soldier thought that although the emperor said that he would attack Imjin and seize and return to the Kanto passage, he did not say that he would have to go back after opening the passage.

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