So I play chess

Chapter 127 Confrontation Outside the City
The inference of Chuyang Pass comes from several places.

First of all, there are no more or no less than two teams, each with a hundred or so.

Ordinary bandits would not dare to attack easily even if they had an advantage in numbers when they encountered a neat army.

There are only two possibilities to force them to take action. One is that life and death are at stake, but Dingyi's army is only on their way, and there is really no action to wipe out the bandits. I'm afraid this is unlikely.

That is the second type, they are in urgent need of supplements of equipment and food.

The Liangzhou army was forced out of Liangzhou by the Huaiyang army, and then some of them took Tongcheng to build a stronghold, but they were beaten back by Liu Zhu. At this time, they should be in a situation of no money, no food, no armor, and no horses.

Judging from their looting behavior, it is indeed in line with this situation.

This is something that Chuyangguan did not expect before sending out troops.

According to his inference after discounting the numbers reported by several team generals, the number of people who looted this time was about a thousand, so based on his understanding of the Liangzhou Army, it was impossible for the opponents to come out in full force, at most half of them.

And this time he only brought 4000 horses, excluding those who returned to Dingyi to Linchao to report the news, those who had just been damaged, and those who had lost their weapons and horses and had no actual combat effectiveness, there were only three thousand and five horses left in total. There are more than a hundred people, and there are only more than a thousand people from the front that came with him.

The 500 people in the rear are expected to catch up in half a day, and there are still 500 soldiers and soldiers.

If two thousand Liangzhou troops came, it would definitely not be so easy for him to deal with it.

In such a situation, if he didn't want to turn back, the only way out was to enter Tongcheng as soon as possible.

Now that he had made up his mind, Chuyang Pass ordered the army to rush towards Tongcheng without delay.

Along the way, they happened to pass two places where the Liangzhou army ambushed them. The corpses were still in place, but they were also stripped of their armor. There were not only horses and weapons around, not even a broken arrowhead left.I think they were all taken away by those poor and crazy Liangzhou Army.

Although Chuyang Pass was in a hurry, the soldiers still asked the soldiers to bury these corpses nearby before continuing on the road.

By the time we arrived outside the south gate of Tongcheng, it was already approaching the fourth watch, and it was the time when the night watchmen were most likely to be sleepy. The guards who were dozing off at the top of the city were woken up, and went up to the watchtower with a yawn, but they were immediately overwhelmed by the army. Woke up.

A team general came out of Chuyang Pass and was about to shout, when he heard the city guard yelling "The bandits are coming!" while turning back and running down the watchtower, he disappeared.

No matter how the team shouted, no one came out from the tower.

Seeing this, a commander wanted to ask for orders to attack the city, but was stopped by Chuyang Pass.

There are more than a thousand people, if there is no resistance in Tongcheng, it will be fine for them to break through the city gate easily.If someone resists, their team must suffer a lot of losses. Now that the troops are precious, they can't take such a risk.

Without waiting for a moment, there was a sound from the top of the city, and then many archers poked their heads out on the crenel, pointed their bows and arrows at them, but judging from the strength and posture of these people drawing the strings and drawing the bows, there were not many archers. good hand.

In such a situation, Chu Yangguan still held back his anger and announced his name: "I am..."

"Your grandma, you should kill the bandits!"

Someone on the top of the wall cursed, and then someone missed, and an arrow shot out, landing two steps away from the horse's head in Chuyang Pass.

The mounts at Chuyang Pass neighed, and Dingyi's army immediately became vigilant. Some put up shields, and some stepped forward to protect Chuyang Pass and the lieutenant generals.

However, this arrow not only caught the Dingyi army below the city by surprise, but also made the defenders on the top of the city unaware. Therefore, seeing the soldiers and horses under the city forming a prepared formation, they thought they were going to attack the city, and they didn't hear anyone's order, so they went again. One arrow came out of the bow, and then two, three, and dozens of arrows shot down sparsely.

During the chaos, two Dingyi soldiers were shot in the arms and chest, and the rest hurriedly carried them to the back and let the medical officers accompanying the army deal with them.

Now the soldiers were furious, no matter how big the plan was at Chuyang Pass, they couldn't tolerate further chaos, so they simply ordered the left and right to get out of the way, raised their heads and said loudly: "I will rule the Yi army at Chuyang Pass! If there is an urgent military situation, please hurry up and invite the chief of the city to come and discuss it!"

This sentence really worked. There was a burst of unintelligible discussion on the top of the wall, and then the archers all lowered their bodies and hid beside the crenel again.Another young general who couldn't see his face clearly in the dark poked his head out.

The young general looked at it carefully for a long time before shouting: "Who do you say you are?"

The lieutenant quickly stepped forward and replied for Chuyangguan: "We are the Dingyi Army, this is General Chu of Chuyangguan, please open the city gate as soon as possible!"

The young general obviously hesitated when he heard the words, then retreated to Qiaolou behind him, and then appeared again, shouting: "Do you have a certificate?"

Chu Yangguan saw that he was serious and he should be more or less in charge, so he asked his followers to fetch the tiger talisman, and asked the soldiers holding the torches to get closer, and raised their hands for him to see.

But the man shouted: "It's too dark to see! Get closer."

Chu Yangguan originally wanted to hand over the Tiger Talisman to the lieutenant general, but after hesitating for a while, he gave up. He urged his horse forward and raised it again.

I don't know if the young general saw it clearly, but after watching it carefully for a long time, he finally shouted from the top of the city: "Why did you come to Tongcheng?"

Hearing that he didn't even address him, Chuyangguan was secretly annoyed in his heart, but he didn't attack: "The prefect Liu Zhe came to Beijing temporarily, and I will take care of Tongcheng affairs temporarily. There is an urgent military situation at this time, so don't delay the important matter."

After shouting this sentence, the young general laughed and shouted to the people on the top of the wall: "The crossbowman is ready! Shoot this bird man for me."

Hearing the words, Chuyang Guan quickly reined in his horse and retreated to the formation. Soldiers from left and right surrounded him to see him protecting him.Just as he was defending, a round of bows and arrows shot out.

Although this round was obviously still lacking in training, it was much neater and tighter than the previous round.

Taking advantage of the gap between crossbow shots, the young general took two steps back, and said to Wen Gu who was dozing off behind him in Qiaolou with his chin propped up, "Miss, I see clearly, the person who came is Chuyangguan."

Wen Gu specially changed into a gray-green jacket and skirt, and even Zhixia, who was already asleep next to him, also wore a blue shirt, hiding in the Qiao Tower at night, without lighting a torch, and no one could be seen here from under the tower.

After turning day and night upside down once, Wen Gu wasn't overly sleepy, but he said lazily, "Chuyang Pass turned out to be a bandit? Let's shoot again."

The black-faced young general was of course Zhou Tong, and he whispered "De Ling", then returned to the front of the tower, and shouted loudly towards Chuyang Pass: "You pretend to be Shen Jing and I will not be afraid of you, let alone you Pretend to be Chuyang Pass!"

After yelling, he said loudly to the left and right: "Bandits pretending to be my big Chu soldiers are trying to sneak into the city, let me shoot them back!"

(End of this chapter)