The third emperor of the Sui Dynasty

Chapter 931 Condescending, Absolutely Suppressing

Jiameng Pass is located in the southwest corner of Yicheng County. It is an extremely important pass in the Jinniu Road. According to legend, King Qin Huiwen had no way to conquer Shu, so he specially ordered a man to be a five-stone ox, saying that it could excrete gold to deceive the king of Shu. Opening the way, there is a feasible road between Qin and Shu. This road is also jokingly called the Golden Bull Road by later generations. After nearly a thousand years of continuous excavation and repair, the Golden Bull Road is also the main road to enter Shu. After passing through Jinniu Road, Jiameng Pass was built on the steep mountain.

It was a twilight day, and the Jiameng Pass built on the perilous mountain was bathed in the faint morning light. Looking from a distance, the pass city was shrouded in clouds and mists, and the scenery was picturesque.

A soldier of the Tang army leaned his spear against the female wall on one side, and stretched his waist in the morning sun. The long night has passed, and it is almost time for the changing of the guard. It is another peaceful and peaceful day.

Over the years, when Li Xiaogong took Yizhou, he had disputes with the local tyrants. However, the Chengdu Plain was mostly the back garden of the Guanlong nobles. Because the Dugu faction and the Dou faction fully supported Li Yuan, the scale of Li Xiaogong's war against Yizhou was not large. Not too big, it was calmed down quickly, and it didn't spread to Jiameng Pass at all.However, the flames of war in the Sui and Tang Dynasties were far from reaching here, so the defensive attitude was slightly better than usual.

At this time, the low-pitched horn sounded continuously, and the soldiers who had slept soundly all night woke up one after another. They quickly put on their armor and armor, and began the necessary inspections and drills for a new day.

Li Yuan knew that the decisive battle of the Sui and Tang Dynasties was coming soon, so after entering Shu, the first thing he did was to collect military power and train the Tang army's combat power. Especially after Li Shimin entered Chengdu, he paid special attention to the defense capabilities of the three passes. Even though Jiameng Pass is set up between Baishui Pass and Zitong Pass, it is considered the safest line of defense, but the daily inspections and training have not been let go.

The guard at Jiameng Pass has also been replaced by Xia Houxun, Li Shimin's confidant general. He followed his old subordinates when he was in Taiyuan, and he has experienced a lot of wars. He became a confidant general, and promoted Xia Houxun to be a general of Zhonglang, in charge of guarding Jiameng Pass.This person is not well-known, and he doesn't have much ability. The only advantage is honesty and self-knowledge. He may not be able to achieve extraordinary feats, but he can earnestly carry out the orders given by his superiors, which happens to be a must-have for a guarding general This is like General Liu Gang of the Sui Dynasty, who guarded Tongguan, Wuguan, and Dasanguan successively for Yang Tong. If the guards were replaced by young generals like Luo Shixin and Pei Xingyan, I am afraid that he would not do as well as Liu Gang.

The sky seemed dark at this moment.

Xia Houxun, who was about to leave above Guancheng, subconsciously looked up, and the next moment, his eyes suddenly opened wide.

The rising sun sprinkled thousands of golden lights, and the mist lingering between the mountains was quickly dissipating. The sky that should have been clear was suddenly covered by huge UFOs.

These mere things are like lanterns, and there are boat-like things hanging below them, slowly approaching the city gate.

"What is this?" Xia Houxun looked at the densely packed lanterns in the sky in shock.

Not only him, but the officers and soldiers of the Tang Army at Jiameng Pass were also inexplicably horrified when they saw the flying object suddenly appearing in the sky.

"General Xiahou, look, there are people up there." A team member who came back to his senses was pointing at the nearest 'lantern' and exclaimed.

As these flying objects were approaching, on the ships below the lanterns, someone could vaguely see someone looking down.

"What?" Xia Houxun looked intently, and found that there were indeed people in the 'boat' under the 'lantern', and they were not ordinary people. The swords and guns reflected a palpitating cold light in the morning sun.

"No, it must be the enemy army. The whole army is preparing for war." When Xia Houxun saw the small flag hanging on the flying boat, his face changed drastically. It was the small army flag of the Sui army. It was obviously not a good thing for them to appear here at this moment.

"Woooooo~" The desolate horn sounded, but compared to the previous continuous sound, it was replaced by a rapid and vigorous rhythm.

After hearing the news, the officers and men of Guanzhong walked up to the city wall, and the rolling logs and rolling logs were ready. Catapults and crossbows were strung up one after another, but the next moment...

"General, they are in the sky, our rolling logs, rocks and stepping crossbows cannot harm them!" A soldier looked at Xia Houxun bitterly.

The crossbow is also a type of bed crossbow for defending the city. It needs two people to operate it at the same time. The big crossbow can be opened by stepping on it. However, this kind of bed crossbow is huge and can only be used for defending the city. Gao, when defending the city on weekdays, it is not a problem at all to shoot downwards, but now they are facing the enemy from the air, and they can't aim at the invading enemy at all.

"Raise them and shoot them!" Xia Houxun also realized that he raised a crossbow with all his strength and pointed it into the air, but the calibration became a problem.

"Bang~"

A broken and long crossbow shot out through the air amidst the tremor of the bowstring, but in the end it went to nowhere.

Not only crossbows, but also catapults can't point stone bullets at the "lanterns" in the air, and ordinary defense equipment such as logs, stones, and kerosene are even less likely to pose the slightest threat to enemies flying in the air.

It's just that within a short time, those big lanterns had already flown above the city wall, and arrows pierced through the sky condescendingly, shooting a famous Tang army guarding the city at the top of the city, and the female wall on the city wall was useless.

Xia Houxun hurriedly ordered people to release arrows, but the pod under the lantern was made of rattan, light and strong, and ordinary arrows could not shoot through it at all, but the soldiers of the Sui Army inside relied on the rattan cabin to block the arrows. When the guards changed their arrows, they stood up and shot.

On a small flying Shenzhou, there are no more than ten soldiers at most, and the number is actually not many, but they are condescending, and it is impossible for Tang Jun to take a ladder to go up, all he needs to do is to release arrows leisurely and leisurely.As more and more flying Shenzhou approached the city wall, the arrows became denser.

This kind of weird tactics has never appeared on the battlefield before, and the morale blow to the Tang army guarding the pass is devastating. Before the flying boat reached the sky above the city pass, deserters appeared. Can't use it anymore.

"But when we get to the sky, the enemy soldiers should poke their heads out, right?"

Xia Houxun stared fixedly at the flying Shenzhous that gradually stopped above Jiameng Pass, frowning and thinking, waiting for the enemy to show his weakness and immediately counterattack.

"Shoot the arrows!" A general saw that the lantern was in the sky, and subconsciously commanded the soldiers to shoot.

"No!" Xia Houxun wanted to stop it, but it was too late.

"Xuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu~" Arrows shot up into the sky and shot towards the flying Shenzhou in the air.

The soldiers on the Flying Shenzhou took out their rattan shields and put them on top of their heads to completely cover the top. The arrows piercing through the air could not cause them the slightest harm at all, but the arrows were at the end of their strength and fell from the sky. The complexions of the officers and soldiers of the Tang Army on the ground all changed.

Xia Houxun hurriedly hid in the tower, but most of the soldiers were not so lucky, and were injured a lot by the falling arrows. The feeling of being shot by their own family's arrows was really not good.

Xia Houxun wanted to settle accounts with the general, and ran out of the city tower angrily, but when he found the man, he saw that he had been pierced through the face and into the head by an arrow that fell from the sky, and he had long been silent. Xia Houxun held his breath in his chest and had nowhere to vent it.

When Angrensi looked up at the sky again, he found holes the size of human heads were opened under the pods one by one, and clay pots fell from the holes.

"Papapapa~" Clay pots fell from the sky, and many soldiers were smashed to the ground. The viscous liquid overflowing from the shattered pots gave off a pungent smell, which soon filled the entire tower.

"It's kerosene, let's go quickly." Xia Houxun's expression became extremely ugly in the chaotic crowd, and he walked towards the aisle without saying a word.

The Tang army guarding the pass also realized that they were scrambling to run down the city, and many of them were squeezed down from the tower by the soldiers behind, and fell to pieces.

"Huhuhu~" Torches fell from the Flying Shenzhou, and the kerosene flowing on the entire city wall burst into flames when it encountered an open flame. Countless Tang army soldiers who had no time to escape were engulfed in flames in an instant.

In an instant, the entire city tower became a sea of ​​Shura flames. Countless fire men screamed and bumped around, trying to extinguish the fire on their bodies, so that the places that had not been ignited were quickly covered by the fire.

After the flying Shenzhou caught fire in the city, it separated to the two sides by the heat flow, and slowly landed under the operation of the soldiers. A number of Sui soldiers came out in a file and lined up on both sides of the pass.

Soon, the gate of Jiamengguan City was opened by the Tang army from the inside, and countless soldiers of the Tang army rushed out of the city, but what awaited them were cold crossbow arrows that locked them in place.

"I am Wang Xiongdan, the Great Sui Ying Yanglang General." Among the crowd, a strong general came out. He looked at the bewildered Tang Jun and said in a loud voice: "Those who surrender will not die, and those who resist in the corner will be killed without mercy."

"Daydreaming." Xia Houxun spit out a mouthful of phlegm, drew out the horizontal knife from his waist, and pointed it at Wang Xiongdan: "Don't underestimate me, a good boy from Yizhou!"

"Xia Houxun, you are from Taiyuan, Bingzhou. When did you become a native of Yizhou?" Da Sui's intelligence was done very well, and he knew the civil and military officials of Tang Junguan City very well. Wang Xiongdan naturally knew where Xia Houxun was from. Glancing at the cowering Tang soldiers, he said loudly: "Sheep have the grace of kneeling and breastfeeding, but Li Shimin killed his brother and father, which is even worse than animals. Sons of Yizhou, the puppet Tang Dynasty is gone, don't you want to Fight to the death for a beast?"

Xia Houxun heard the sound and looked around, and as far as his eyes could see, everyone lowered their heads unconsciously.

"You..." Xia Houxun looked at these soldiers under his command and said angrily: "The bandit army is not large in number, so we may not be incapable of defeating them. Why don't the soldiers follow me to kill the enemy?"

"The one who descends lives, and the one who resists dies!" Wang Xiongdan took a step forward, with a ferocious expression on his face. More than 300 soldiers behind him quickly raised their crossbows and aimed at the front. The army hunted and killed them one by one.

"I don't want to fight to the death for the beast that kills my brother and my father. I surrender..." After hearing a "clang", a soldier of the Tang army dropped his spear, silently stepped aside and squatted down, holding his hands in his arms. head.

"Dang bang dang bang..." With a leader, as if the plague had infected the whole city, more and more soldiers of the Tang army dropped their weapons and knelt down to beg for surrender. The short confrontation before had completely destroyed their morale. At this moment, even though there were only 300 people behind Wang Xiongdan, the number of people was not more than them, but the generals of the Tang army were obviously unwilling to fight any more.

After all, Li Yuan's time in Shu was too short, and his control over Yizhou was far inferior to other places. Moreover, after entering Shu, the army was cleaned up countless times. It can't be all day long, and after Li Shimin successfully seized power, he replaced his own direct line general. Xia Houxun has not been in Jiameng Pass for a long time, and he has not established his authority and reputation. Between life and death, the soldiers are naturally unwilling. Follow a general who doesn't know how capable he is to fight the Sui army.

"Looking for death." Xia Houxun roared angrily, and beheaded two soldiers of the Tang Army who knelt and surrendered one after another, but it was difficult to restore the morale of the army. He let out a roar in anger, and went straight to kill Wang Xiongsheng.

"I think you are looking for death." Wang Xiongdan snorted coldly, picked up a special big knife and walked towards Xia Houxun, and when the distance was close, he swung the big knife and slashed.

With a crisp sound of "铛~", Xia Houxun's hands cracked, and the knife was also sent flying. He staggered back, but was caught up by Wang Xiongdan and kicked down.

"Go to hell!" Looking at Xia Houxun, who was trampled under his feet and struggling non-stop, Wang Xiongdan's eyes flashed coldness, and the sword cast a cold light in the morning sun. Amid Xia Houxun's desperate roar, cut off.

The head rushed a long way, Wang Xiongdan wiped his knife, and told a priest: "Jiameng Pass has been breached, please report quickly."

"Here."

(End of this chapter)