Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 510
Jingkou.

This is a famous ferry, and the northern end of the Jiangnan Canal that also communicates with Yuhang is also here.

Cheng Yaojin and Pei Xingyan are partners for the first time, and they are still a little strange.Cheng Yaojin is more willing to partner with Qin Qiong, Shan Xiongxin, or Su Dingfang, and he doesn't understand why Luo Cheng will appoint Pei Xingyan as a partner. In fact, in his heart, he still has some estrangement from Pei Xingyan, the sons of Guanlong generals.

Along the way, the two of them didn't communicate much.

Fortunately, Luo Ting had explained that the two were to partner, with Cheng Yaojin as the main general and Pei as the second-in-command, which gave Cheng Xinshi a little comfort.Otherwise, it would be too embarrassing for a 30-year-old man to listen to a young man in his teens.

The river is surging, and the night breeze is blowing.

They crossed the river at night, and everything went smoothly. Sailors from the Jianghuai River sailed the boat and let them cross the Yangtze River smoothly.For such an important ferry as Jingkou, the rebels only sent a mere 1000 people to guard it.

And it was still shrunk in Yanling County.

Jumping ashore and stepping on solid ground, Cheng Yaojin heaved a sigh of relief.

Now that they have crossed the river, no one can stop them.

The sailors from the Yangtze and Huaihe Rivers occupied the ferry, and Cheng Yaojin and Pei Xingyan tacitly led the cavalry to continue marching towards Yanling County.

When they arrived at the bottom of the city, the city was dark and still asleep, not knowing that the royal master of the imperial court had already killed Jiang Lai.

The city gates are closed.

Pei Xingyan snorted, "Build a knife ladder!"

Setting up a knife ladder can be regarded as a technical job. After reaching the bottom of the city, he inserted the horizontal knife into the city wall, and forcibly inserted a knife ladder on the city wall.

Most of the city walls are made of rammed earth. As long as the defenders don't pay attention, it's no problem to set up knife ladders.

This is usually the skill of scouts or secret agents, but it turned out that Pei Xingyan was also proficient. He led a team of people directly to the city, all the way quietly.

"General, can you do it?" one of his subordinates asked Cheng Yaojin.

"It should work, no one is allowed to drop my pants for a while, just wait for the signal over there, and then we will kill, understand?"

"Don't worry, we will never compare to General Pei."

Some long time.

When the city gate finally opened slowly, in fact, less than half an hour had passed, and when the city gate opened, the torch was shaking.

Cheng Yaojin sighed, "I didn't expect that Pei Yuanqing is really capable, come on!"

The rebels in Yanling City were still sleeping soundly, but the officers and soldiers had poured into the city, and several other city gates were also blocked.

When many rebels were stabbed to the throat with a knife, they were still confused about what happened.If it weren't for Luo Cheng's order that people are not allowed to be killed indiscriminately, and they are not allowed to surrender, these people would have already become the leaders of the officers and soldiers asking for credit.

"Brother Yuanqing, none of the rebels escaped. Our casualties were only dozens, so we captured Yanling City and Jingkou Ferry, and captured a thousand rebels. Thanks to you, brother, you led your men into the city and opened the city gate. .”

Pei Yuanqing didn't take it lightly and said, "There are only a thousand rebels in the district. They were just a group of peasants and pawns before. They are not soldiers. Such a small county has nothing to show off when it is broken."

Cheng Yaojin nodded, "That's right, a thousand rebels in such a small city is really nothing to praise, you say, if our brothers go to Danyang, there are tens of thousands of rebels there, and Zhu Xie, an important figure in the rebels Well, if you can defeat the rebels and capture the Zhu thief alive, it will be a great achievement."

Pei Yuanqing was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect Cheng Yaojin to be so bold.

"But the commander gave us the military order to capture Jingkou."

"The military order is correct, but it's not that the plan can't keep up with the changes. Our previous mission was to occupy Jingkou, so we also took down Yanling. Now that Jingkou and Yanling are in hand, we can take Danyang by the way. Anyway, the thief doesn't know we've crossed the river yet, so he can be caught off guard."

"Isn't that good?" Even though Pei Yuanqing said so, his heart was moved.

"Let's hand over Jingkou and Yanling City to Jianghuai soldiers to guard, and we will go to Danyang with [-] cavalry to make him a great contribution."

"Okay, let's go!"

Cheng Yaojin patted Pei Yuanqing on the shoulder, "This is a good brother and a good partner. If you don't go today, I will definitely not be able to partner with you in the future."

Danyang County City, Jiangning.

Jiangning is the former Jinling. After the Sui army broke through Jinling, the capital of Southern Chen, it demolished Jinling City. Later, Danyang County was established here, and a city was rebuilt next to the old site.

The new city is Jiangning City.

From Jingkou to Jiangning, it is only more than a hundred miles away.

Since ancient times, Jinling has mostly been used as the center of the capital when the south was separated. However, because Jinling is close to the Yangtze River, if you want to separate the south, you must rely on the Yangtze River defense line.

But guarding the river must defend the Huai River, and only when Huainan or even Huaibei is occupied, Jinling's northern defense line can be considered safe.If the Huaihe defense line is lost, Jinling will be in danger. If the entire Jiangbei is lost, Jinling will be even more dangerous.

When guarding only one Yangtze River, it is necessary to ensure the safety of Jingkou and Dangtu, the left and right ferry crossings, otherwise Jinling will be gone if you break through one of them.

It's a pity that the rebels didn't pay much attention to this point. In other words, the rebels hadn't captured Jiangning City yet, so they didn't pay much attention to it after they occupied Jingkou.

They arranged 1000 men and horses near Jingkou, but these 1000 men and horses didn't even play the role of signaling and warning, so they were blamed.

Six thousand cavalry, all cavalry have one man and two horses, and infantry also have a mount and a pack horse, and their maneuvering speed is very fast.Especially from Jingkou to Jiangning, the road is very flat, and it happens to be autumn at this time, the sky is high and the clouds are clear, there is no continuous rainy season, and there is no soaring river blocking the way.

It only took one day.

The second general Cheng Pei marched 120 miles to Jiangning.

At this time, the rebels had besieged Jiangning for nearly two months, but they could not attack for a long time.

The rebel army has also been a little slack. Under the city of Jiangning, there are continuous barracks, and the rebel army comes in and out very casually.

Cheng Yaojin and Pei Xingyan arrived with [-]-step cavalry, and without a moment's rest, they immediately took advantage of his surprise and launched a strong attack on the rebel camp.

Six thousand cavalry, although the soldiers are far less than fifty thousand rebels.

But all the officers and soldiers have horses, and the six thousand cavalry are completely used as six thousand cavalry at this time.

When six thousand cavalry charged, the momentum was not something that the rebels who lacked cavalry could resist.

Almost as quickly as lightning, the two generals Cheng and Pei had already defeated Zhu Xie's main force.

The left servant of Eastern Wu shot at Zhu Xie and fled to another camp, hoping to gather the defeated army for a defensive counterattack.

They fled to the back of the barracks and shot randomly with bows and arrows, hoping that this move would be effective, but what they faced was not the weak county soldiers from the Three Wus, but the soldiers from the Beidi Prefecture who had returned from Liaodong.

In one go, take advantage of the victory to attack.

Pei Xingyan even took the arrows himself, leaped over the fence and took the lead in rushing into the enemy camp.

One ride after another rushed in, and the last hope of the rebels was shattered.

Zhu Xie was overtaken by Pei Xingyan in the camp and stabbed to death by a spear.

The entire army of [-] rebels was defeated, and [-] officers and soldiers rushed to kill, fighting for a day.

In the end, only a few thousand rebels escaped, and the rest were killed and captured by the second general Cheng Pei and the defenders who came out of Jiangning City.

When the envoy sent by Cheng Yaojin to report the victory arrived at Jingkou, Luo Cheng had just led his army to land.

The two good news were almost delivered one after the other.

Shan Xiongxin and Xu Shiji sent an urgent report, "Wu County has been broken, Liu Yuanjin and his puppet court officials have been captured alive, and [-] puppet Wu imperial troops have been sent down, great victory!"

Cheng Yaojin and Pei Xingyan's success report was only one step late, "Rushing for hundreds of miles, Jiangning city defeated Zhu Xie's [-] soldiers and horses, beheaded Zhu Xie, killed more than [-] rebels, and captured more than [-] prisoners. Great victory!" '

After reading the two good news, Luo Cheng couldn't help raising his right hand.

"The whole army stops advancing!"

"Boss, but what happened to the striker?" Yu Juluo asked

"Well, accident, big accident, the second general Shan Xu has already broken through Wu County, captured Liu Yuanjin alive, and wiped out all the officials of the puppet Wu Dynasty and the imperial army. The second general Cheng Pei also raided Jiangning from a hundred miles away, beheaded Zhu Xie, and killed him. The [-] rebels defeated."

As soon as the news came out, there was an uproar.

(End of this chapter)