Li Sheng and the soldiers sat together in the brightly lit ferry terminal, munching on dry food and eating something with cold water.
They were still busy tonight, so they could only eat more to replenish their energy and keep themselves energetic.
Lieutenant General Wang Luo led two soldiers over quickly and clasped his fists at Li Sheng and said: "General, all the ships at the ferry pier are ready.
There are a total of twelve large ships and twenty-eight small ships.
Each large ship can hold fifty Each small boat can hold ten people, and 900 people can be crossed at one time.
The general has selected enough boatmen from the prisoners and can start crossing the river at any time."
Li Sheng stuffed the last bite of pancake into his mouth, took another gulp of water, and after swallowing the food, he said to Wang Luo: "Okay, let the second battalion send out 600 people, and also notify the deputy general of the Huya Army, Yang Yihu, to be ready.
In a quarter of an hour, , these 800 people followed me across the river to raid Pujin Pass."
"No."
Wang Luo agreed, and then asked: "Since the general is going to lead troops to raid Pujin Pass, what should we do here?
How should we deal with these prisoners?
Should they all be killed?"
"Leave the rest of the troops under your command.
Guard this ferry for me and wait for my news."
Li Sheng said and paused, thinking of the hundreds of captured rebel soldiers.
These rebel soldiers were all Han.
It's not that the barbarians outside the Great Wall were killed like this, I'm afraid it wouldn't be easy to explain to the superiors.
"In addition, you can send someone to guard these prisoners for the time being.
I will deal with these prisoners after I capture Pujin Pass."
Wang Luo agreed: "Promise" A cool breeze blew from the river late at night, which made the soldiers of the Beiting Army who were crossing the river feel very cool.
In order to avoid being discovered by the rebels at Pujin Pass, Li Sheng ordered that no torches be lit and no soldiers were allowed to make any noise.
Even the boatmen operating the oars must move slowly and not make any noise.
Pujin Pass guards the Yongji Ferry in the east of the river.
There are not many rebels at the pass.
However, the terrain here is dangerous.
Unless a large army is sent to attack in turns, these few hundred people will not be able to capture the pass.
However, this will not only cause heavy casualties, but also be time-consuming. long.
But now it is different for Li Sheng.
He has two hundred Huya troops under his command.
Each of these two hundred people are good at crossing mountains, climbing walls, climbing walls, and crossing rivers.
The city wall of Pujin Pass cannot stop them at all.
After dozens of ships gently docked, Li Sheng jumped off the ship first and waved to the people on board.
The soldiers quietly got off the ship and approached Pujin Pass.
In order to avoid being discovered by the rebels at Pujin Pass, everyone, led by Li Sheng, arrived under the city wall of the pass and hid on the mountain walls on both sides.
Their swords and guns were hidden to prevent the moonlight reflection from being discovered by the rebels.
Li Sheng lay on a rock and looked at Pujin Pass in the night, and asked Yang Yihu, the deputy general of the Huya Army next to him: "General Yang, are you sure about what you think?"
Yang Yihu is the youngest of the Eighteen Tornado Horsemen, known as Xuanbaba.
His martial arts skills are only ranked lower among all the brothers, but his combat effectiveness cannot be underestimated, because his strength does not lie in fair duels on horseback. , and he is only the deputy general of the Huya Army, and the leader of the Huya Army is Xuan Liuliu.
Yang Yihu observed Pujin Pass for a while.
There was a lantern on the tower.
Through the weak light, he could see that there were no sentries on the tower.
I was afraid that the sentries were sleeping against the wall.
He said to Li Sheng: "No problem, now It's Yin time, the time when people sleep the deepest in a day.
As long as we climb the city wall, we can eliminate the rebel posts on the wall."
After speaking, Yang Yihu waved to the two hundred Huya Army soldiers behind him.
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Immediately, a dozen Huya Army soldiers carried ropes and iron hooks and quietly touched the bottom of the city wall, followed by a dozen companions holding repeating crossbows.
These people touched Immediately after entering the city wall, they crouched on the ground, and all the Huya Army armed with repeated crossbows aimed their crossbows at the city tower.
At this time, a leading team leader picked up a small stone from the ground and weighed it in his hand.
Then he stood up and threw it towards the city wall.
After throwing it, he squatted on the ground again.
The stone was thrown into the sky and landed on the city wall, making a crisp sound.
Then someone on the city tower screamed: "Who is it?
Don't scare me.
If you scare me, you will scare people to death."
After the words fell, all the Huya Army officers lying under the city wall saw a spear being raised, and then a figure stood up with his back to the wall.
Then this man leaned over to pick up stones.
This man was obviously on the city tower.
Rebel soldiers standing guard.
I saw the rebel soldier picked up the stones and then turned around and leaned on the wall stacks to look under the city wall.
A Huya Army soldier under the city wall immediately fired a crossbow.
Only a slight "swish" sound was heard, and the rebel sentry post was shot.
Then he held the throat where the arrow hit him and fell down towards the city wall.
Several Huya Army soldiers in the front row quickly stood up and stepped forward together to catch the fallen corpse.
The repeating crossbowmen responsible for covering continued to squat on the ground and use their repeating crossbows to provide cover and warning, while the remaining front row soldiers immediately took off the ropes and iron hooks from their backs, and used the iron hooks as crossbow arrows and placed them in the firing slot of the crossbow.
The wall stacks on the city wall were launched, and the iron hooks fell on the city wall with a series of ding-ding-ding dings.
After the rope was tightened, the iron hooks were hooked on the wall stacks.
The leader of the Huya Army waved his hand: "Go" The other soldiers of the Huya Army took out their daggers and put them in their mouths, and then climbed up the rope quickly and dexterously like apes.
At this moment, the other soldiers of the Beiting Army under Li Sheng were stunned.
Oh my god, these People actually have this ability.
If we encounter a fortified city that is difficult to attack in the future, we can just send these tiger-toothed troops to touch the city wall late at night.
Wouldn't it be very easy to control the city gate?
After the first row of Huya Army soldiers all climbed up the city wall, the second row of Huya Army soldiers put away their crossbows and quickly climbed up the city wall with ropes.
Behind them, there was another group of Huya Army soldiers who used crossbows to protect themselves.
This tactical action was well coordinated.
Very tacit understanding and proficiency, obviously after practicing for a long time.
"Creak, creak, creak!"
The city gate of Pujin Pass was opened.
Seeing this, Li Sheng rushed to the middle of the road in front of the pass, drew his horizontal sword and shouted: "The pass is about to be broken, soldiers follow me into Pujin Pass."
"Rush"
Everyone took out their weapons and followed Li Sheng into Pujin Pass, shouting: "Kill, kill" as they rushed.
The sudden appearance of a large number of shouts of killing woke up the defenders in Pujin Pass.
They began to panic and run around.
Some people who just ran out of the barracks were beheaded by the Beiting Army soldiers who rushed in.
Beiting The army blocked the rebels in the barracks and came out to chop them one by one.
After a while, the ground in front of the barracks in the pass was covered with After finding the corpses of the rebels, some people lived at the gate leading to Anyi City.
After hearing the shouts of killing, they immediately opened the door and fled towards Anyi.
Several people even rode horses.
Li Sheng wanted to When chasing, the ferry was unable to carry war horses.
How could we catch up with the rebels on horseback on foot?
We could only let those few rebels run away.
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After dawn, all the remaining rebels in Pujin Pass surrendered.
Li Sheng successfully took over the pass fortress leading to Hedong, and began to station troops, arrange sentries and patrols, and strengthen vigilance.
In view of the fact that some rebels had already fled towards Anyi, Li Sheng did not think about continuing towards Anyi.
Firstly, he had too few troops, and secondly, some people had already fled towards Anyi.
The rebels in Anyi City would definitely strengthen their defense.
Moreover, at this time, he had completed most of the tasks assigned by Zhao Ziliang, and only one Feng Ling had not yet been captured.
Li Sheng immediately sent people across the river to return to the other side and asked Vice Admiral Wang Luo to ferry over to guard Pujin Pass instead of him.
After waiting for Wang Luo to arrive and take over the defense, Li Sheng returned to the ferry on the other side by boat.
If Shi Daniu had not let Feng Ling's If the defenders surrender, he will find a way to lead troops to capture Feng Ling.
On the morning of the sixth day of July, Li Sheng escorted the rebel prisoners captured at Pujin Pass back to the ferry on the west bank of the Yellow River.
Together with the prisoners at the previous ferry, he conducted screening and interrogation.
He found that most of them were former Tang Army soldiers who had been rebelled.
The army surrendered after the attack.
Li Sheng found the military leaders among these people and asked them if they were willing to serve the court.
These military leaders were originally from the Tang Army.
Of course they were willing to return to the Tang Army at this time.
Li Sheng then appointed these people to continue to be military leaders.
However, by breaking up all their subordinates and then mixing them together, this can prevent their acquaintances from connecting in series and rebelling again.
This mixing is conducive to strengthening control over them, but it also has disadvantages, that is, combat effectiveness.
There will definitely be a decline over a period of time.
At this time, a troop of two hundred soldiers and horses came from the road from Anyi to Pujing Pass.
Judging from the armor and flags of the soldiers, this troop was from Anlu Mountain, and the leader was a soldier from Anlu Mountain.
General Cui Qianyou.
It turns out that since An Lushan's Beiting Army had already arrived in Chang'an, and Zhao Ziliang was a general who was accustomed to fighting, his Beiting Army would certainly not be able to deal with it, so he sent Cui Qianyou to guard Pujin Pass, Tongguan and Pujin Passes are the two most important passes blocking the Beiting Army's eastward advance.
There is Li Guiren at Tongguan, so he is not too worried, but there is no general guarding Pujing Pass, so in order to reassure himself, he sent Cui Qianyou.
Cui Qianyou was rushing towards Pujin Pass with his two hundred soldiers at this time, but he saw several panicked soldiers riding on horseback in front of him.
He immediately sent people to stop these people.
After several people were stopped, they were brought to Cui Qianyou.
One of the soldiers begged for mercy and cried: "General, spare your life, spare your life.
It's not that we are greedy for life and have to escape, but the Tang army is too powerful.
If we don't escape, we will be dead."
"One piece" Cui Qianyou asked sharply: "Where are you from?
Why did you run away?"
"We are all soldiers in Pujin Pass.
The Tang army suddenly entered the pass last night.
We were killed so unprepared that we could only flee for our lives in panic.
General, please spare our lives."
Cui Qianyou's face changed drastically, "Why did the Tang army raid Pujin Pass last night?
Tell me what's going on in the pass now, or I will kill you immediately."
"The Tang army suddenly entered the pass.
Neither the soldiers nor the generals were prepared.
The brothers suffered heavy casualties.
Pujin Pass was probably lost at this time."
The deserter's words made Cui Ganyou realize that he was in serious trouble.
If Pujin Pass was lost, the Tang army could march to the east of Hedong from the direction of Pujin Pass at any time.
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Tongguan's role as a defense against the Tang army's eastward advance would also be reduced, and Tongguan's defensive power to the west would be reduced.
It's not big in itself.
In addition, Sun Xiaozhe is about to lead an army of 100,000 people out of Tongguan to attack the Beiting Army.
At this time, if the Beiting Army crosses the river from Hedong to harass, then Sun Xiaozhe is afraid that he will not be able to attack with all his strength, and he has to be prepared for the Tang Army to cross the river from Hedong to attack.
His way out.
Although Cui Qianyou was anxious, he also knew that there was nothing he could do at this time.
He could only quickly return to Anyi with two hundred soldiers to deploy defense to prevent the Tang army from coming over.
At the same time, he sent people to Luoyang to report to Anlu Mountain
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