Chapter 640: One Man Destroys One Country
In the darkness, Zhao Qian lightly high-fived, fifty servants of the army and ten Great Song warriors of the True Qi Realm got up one after another, and followed Jin Yang, who was born in the Great Song Dynasty, into the moat, and at the head of this Kabul city, six sentries were keeping vigil, and a few butter lamps were obliquely inserted on the battlements, and the faint fire illuminated the surrounding more than a dozen steps. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Since the invasion of Tianzhu by the Huoluo Kingdom and the Western Liao, Kabul City has significantly strengthened its night patrols, not only the number of sentries on the watchtowers in each city has tripled, but the number of patrols patrolling back and forth on the city towers has also increased by more than a dozen squads, and the patrol interval between each squad has also been greatly shortened.
Twenty patrolmen had just passed by, and suddenly there was a sound of jumping outside the city.
"What sound?" said one of the sentinels, alerted for a moment, and asked the other five, "did you hear that?"
The other five shook their heads one after another, and one of them frowned and reprimanded: "Tatar, don't be suspicious of your mother's goodness, Lao Tzu is also frightened, but you are not wrong to be vigilant, these dog mongrels in Xiliao are attacking two acropolis." ”
"No!" everyone received the order, and continued to patrol with strong spirits, these days they were guarding against the country of Huoluo and Xiliao, and they were nervous, and these suspicious things often appeared, and everyone didn't care, especially many of the soldiers on patrol were still strong men who had just been captured.
At this time, Jin Yang led many dead soldiers to the rusty iron fence, and several True Qi Realm martial artists directly broke the iron fence, and then carefully dived into the sewer.
The night was dark, the river was bubbling, and the sentry at the head of the city had not noticed that the patrol had come and gone, and fifty soldiers had already entered the city through the sewers and hid in the shadows.
A group of fourteen patrolmen with torches, lined up slowly by the ditch, without warning, dozens of black shadows suddenly burst out from the shadows that the torches could not shine on the ditch, before the fourteen patrols could react, more than a dozen pairs of powerful hands had already covered their mouths, and then the sharp horizontal knife with a cold light slashed through their necks, blood splashed, and the fourteen patrolmen were already limp to the ground.
In less than a moment, Jin Yang took these dead soldiers who had changed into Tianzhu's armor and battle robes, and then swaggered through the horse road with torches and spears, and walked up to the north gate, while the remaining thirty or so dead soldiers took advantage of the cover of shadows and silently pounced on the barracks on the side of the north city gate.
In fact, this also benefits from the night, otherwise the different appearances of the Han and Tianzhu people and the people of the Western Regions will be noticed, fortunately, now everyone is patrolling with their heads down, plus the night cover, it is difficult to detect, but just in case, several servants of the Western Regions stood on the outermost periphery to prevent anyone from checking, along the way, everyone secretly killed some patrol soldiers, and slowly approached the city.
The soldiers patrolling above curiously asked why these people came, but before the words came out, Sen Leng's horizontal knife slashed over, and for a while the city's killing shouts were shocked, but fortunately, these people were all masters, and quickly pacified the city, Jin Yang immediately shouted: "Send a signal, answer the army into the city!"
The next moment, an eagle archer beside Jin Yang unloaded an iron tire bow from his shoulder, and buckled a heavy arrow with wolf teeth on the bowstring, and the dead man had already torn off his battle robe and wrapped it tightly on the arrow, and ignited it with a torch, the condor archer immediately raised the iron tire bow, and an arrow was instigated outside the city, and in an instant, the burning rocket drew a clear trajectory under the night sky.
Immediately, a tidal wave of shouts sounded outside the north gate, and almost at the same time, the closed city gate had been opened, and the high suspension bridge was slowly lowered, and the sound of killing shook the sky.
As the sound of killing sounded, the soldiers outside the barracks at the north gate immediately poured the fierce fire oil on the ground, burned the door, and then threw the gunpowder they carried into the barracks.
The guards around the city of Kabul were also alarmed, and when the generals of the two city wall guards closest to the north gate hurriedly climbed to the top of the city and looked out, they saw that the scattered fires had been lit up from the wilderness like ghosts, and in the endless glimmer of torches, it seemed that tens of thousands of armored soldiers were killing the city of Kabul.
"Enemy attack!" The two generals immediately shouted bitterly, "Blow the trumpet quickly......!"
In an instant, the low, desolate sound of the trumpet had already rushed into the sky, shattering the silent night sky.
Zhao Qian held a long knife in his hand and broke in, he was originally a master of the Yin and Yang Realm, his means were strong, and after killing the stubborn people in the corner, he immediately shouted: "Wang Shui took fifty people to guard the city gate, placed explosives and blew up the north gate for me, and the others broke in for me and set fire to everything!"
Zhao Qian didn't plan to use 2,000 people to occupy a big city with a population of hundreds of thousands, and now he just wanted to take advantage of the night to burn down the grain depot and ordnance in the city, and it was best to destroy the north gate to prepare for tomorrow's siege!
With Zhao Qian's roar, a large number of soldiers poured the fierce fire oil on several main streets, and at the same time piled up the hay that had been prepared one by one under the eaves of those shops, warehouses, workshops and private houses, and after a while, the sporadic fires appeared in the dark Kabul City, and when these firelights flickered, they slowly connected together, turning into a terrifying sea of fire and swept towards Kabul City.
There are a large number of wooden buildings in this Kabul city, which were ignited by the flames and instantly spread.
Those armies didn't care about dealing with Zhao Qian and the others, and they were all busy fighting fires, otherwise the flames would really roll, and the whole of Kabul would be destroyed.
In the fire, the grain and grass piled up at the north gate and the armory were soon burned, and other grain and grass barracks were also touched by Jin Yang and others, and the fire was burned.
When the sky was about to dawn, Zhao Qian and others gathered outside the city, except for some people who were burned by the flames, there were no casualties, but the city of Kabul was almost burned by the flames.
"General, I have captured a Tianzhu man! This guy can speak Western Regions dialect and Chinese dialect, and when he was caught, he claimed to be a Brahmin of Tianzhu. Jin Yang grabbed a shivering teenager.
Zhao Qian looked at the young man and said lightly: "Jin Yang, this is just an ordinary soldier, the Brahmin of Tianzhu will not serve as any soldiers, beheaded!"
Zhao Qian's words made Jin Yang's face change, and he was immediately annoyed when he looked at this young man named Tatar, and he was about to take out a horizontal knife.
It's just that Tatar immediately shouted: "General, I know a lot of languages, although I am a third-level Vaishya, but my ancestors are merchants, with Western Regions blood, and some Han blood, and the most important thing is that after I know Kabul, Tianzhu is the best place to attack, and it is the richest there!"
Under the threat of his life, Tatar kept begging for mercy and shook off everything he knew.
Zhao Qian looked at Tatar and said to Jin Yang: "Go and catch some Tianzhu people who can speak Chinese, select some Tianzhu servants from Kebuli City, we will bypass Kabul and go straight to Tianzhu!"
"Bypass Kabul, General, this Kabul has been almost burned by us, as long as the army converges, it will definitely be able to go down in one go, and this matter is leaving, isn't it in vain that the general will let Xiao Char go!"
Zhao Qian looked at Jin Yang and said: "What do we want the military exploits of the Western Liao? The more military merits, the more the Western Liao will be squeezed out, so it will be given to Xiao Char, we will rob the wealth of Tianzhu, now Your Majesty needs a lot of money to carry out domestic construction and rectification of soldiers and horses, we have to share the worries for Your Majesty, this time Your Majesty took advantage of our southward attack on Tianzhu, and transported a large number of weapons to the Western Regions, which has cost a lot!"
Zhao Qian said this, looked at the generals around him, most of these are soldiers and generals of the Great Song Dynasty, they are extremely loyal to His Majesty, and immediately smiled: "In addition to wealth, Tianzhu also has some peculiar steel, I heard the people of the Ministry of Tiangong say that it is iron, if we get it, we will definitely make Your Majesty Longyan happy! And the Tianzhu people are not strong in battle, and now that Kabul has not been destroyed, the other cities will definitely be lax in defense, and it is our opportunity to make contributions!"
Zhao Qian's words made everyone look a little expectant, with Zhao Qian returning to the city of Kebul on the second day, Xiao Char's army surrounded the city of Kabul, and Zhao Qian led 3,000 elite Han soldiers to drive more than 30,000 servant troops, straight to the inside of Tianzhu, so that Zhao Qian could not imagine that the army conquered the three cities in one day, many of the defenders of the city saw countless soldiers and horses, almost did not even have decent resistance, the speed of the army's advance almost made Zhao Qian and others a little expected, and the looted wealth made everyone red.
Half a month after Zhao Qian invaded Tianzhu, Zhao Shu in Yanjing City looked at Zhao Qian's folds on the case, and couldn't help laughing: "Yes, yes, I didn't expect this little guy of Zhao Qian to have this ability!"
When Zhao Shu was happy, the ministers who came to play had different expressions, and these ministers were all important ministers, so they also knew the arrangement of the Western Regions.
Among these people, Li Gang stepped forward with an ugly look and said, "Your Majesty, Weichen feels that this matter is not a complete happy event!"
"Huh?"
Zhao Shu's face changed, and he looked at Li Gang, and the other ministers also looked at Li Gang with a slightly surprised look.
"Lord Li Gang, isn't this a good thing? General Zhao Qian will advance for hundreds of miles, and we will be able to open up the road to Tianzhu from the land of the Southern Barbarians, and join forces with General Zhao Qian, this is the key to opening up the land route of Tianzhu, plus the attack of the naval army from the sea, Tianzhu will also be slowly eroded by my Great Song Dynasty, and the huge wealth will also be used by my Great Song Dynasty, and even the Great Snow Mountain can be completely surrounded!"
Zhao Hu's expression was a little displeased, he was the leader of Zhao Shu's Qilin Army, a high and powerful position, and he was also the largest leader of the generals surnamed Zhao in the Great Song Dynasty, many generals surnamed Zhao were cultivated by him since Qinghe Villa, and now he saw that Zhao Qian could attack the country, and he was overjoyed in his heart, and he couldn't help but be annoyed when Li Gang said this.