Neon Clothes and Iron Clothes

436 The Fall
"Don't worry! I have deployed guards at every key pass, and it is not so easy for the envoys of the Tang Dynasty to fight over!" Brother Zhong nodded: "I will wait for you to come back!"

"It's raining outside!" Abebirov said suddenly.

"Just finished planting the rice seedlings!" Brother Zhong went to the window and looked at the crackling bamboo forest in the courtyard: "It's a good thing to rain at this time, and there will be a good harvest this year!"

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The west wind whipped Wang Wenzuo in the face with drizzle. He whipped his mount with a whip and crossed the swollen stream.Beside him, Yuan Aolie tugged on the hood of his cloak, cursing the weather in a murmur.The rain washed the road, turning the soil into pools of mud. People's feet and horseshoes walked on it, slipping every step, and people or horses fell from time to time.What the hell!Wang Wenzuo thought to himself whether it was raining or splashing water.

He secretly hoped that the soldiers could hold on, they had been walking for two days without resting for three hours, and the soldiers were extremely exhausted.The current rain has made the road, which was not very good, extremely dangerous. There are soft mud and gravel everywhere. If you are not careful, you will hurt the feet of people or horses. Can't open it; the rain that falls fills the creeks and rivers.

At this time, Wang Wenzuo couldn't help but think of Cui Hongdu who stayed in Xiaolizhuang. It is estimated that he should be wearing dry clothes, sitting by the firepit in the hall, drinking hot wine and waiting for dinner.At this time, Wang Wenzuo couldn't help secretly envious, his own fur was completely soaked, his neck and shoulders were aching from the weight of the armor, and he was cold and hungry, but when he thought of the dry biscuits and bacon in his arms, he couldn't bear it. Just no appetite.

"Where is the right mansion, where is the right mansion?"

In front, an oncoming figure on horseback yelled loudly, and Cao Wenzong next to him raised his right hand and shouted, "Who is looking for Duke Ming, what's the matter?"

"I've found it, I've found it!" The knight jumped off his horse and ran over through the muddy water: "Mr. Black Tooth has arrived at Sasaki Manor, which is still half a day away from Omi Guoji, and he asked his subordinates to report to you! "

"Very good, go to the back and tell everyone the good news, tell them that there will be hot food, dry clothes and a roof soon!" Wang Wenzuo cheered up. According to the little rib Saburo Pingzuo, Sasaki Village is his His friend’s farm, and the distance from the country is only half a day away, so he suggested to go to Sasaki village first, let the soldiers get rest and food, and then surprise the country.Wang Wenzuo was originally noncommittal about this suggestion, but the heavy rain encountered on the way made him change his mind.

The knight returned to his horse and galloped towards the rear of the team, shouting loudly while running. Wang Wenzuo didn't have to worry about his whereabouts being revealed by the shouting at this time, since the heavy rain could hide everything under it.

Soon, Wang Wenzuo arrived at Sasakizhuang. Like most Japanese manors at that time, Sasakizhuang was composed of wooden fences, highland villages, livestock pens, and large rice fields and vegetable gardens.Most of the buildings here are built with rammed earth walls and tall thatched roofs. Even the best houses have only one extra raised floor, no windows, long and short halls, and wooden houses. Rough, with grass on the roof, and leaks here and there from the heavy rain.

But at this time, Wang Wenzuo had no time to complain. He changed his armor and soaked clothes into dry clothes, and after eating two bowls of hot porridge, he suddenly felt ten catties lighter.He asked the black-toothed Changzhi beside him, "How are the soldiers doing now?"

"Everyone gets hot porridge, but too few fires and roofs to dry clothes on, and the stables, barns and barns are full, but at least half of them are still drenched in the rain!"

"What about the people from Sasaki Village?" Wang Wenzuo asked.

"I've shut them all up in a big room, under the watchful eye of my men!"

"Very good!" Wang Wenzuo nodded with satisfaction: "Tell the officers that they can take charcoal, dry firewood, wine, dried fish and livestock as they please, and I will make up for it afterwards. But I don't allow anyone to touch the people and people in this village." Property is not allowed at all, otherwise the military law is ruthless!"

"Yes, I remember!"

"I'm going to rest first, wake me up as soon as the rain stops!" Wang Wenzuo lay down beside the firepit as soon as he finished speaking, and almost a second later, snoring started.

When Wang Wenzuo woke up again, he felt that his bladder was about to explode, so he got up and walked to the corridor, unbuttoned his pants and let go.The urine was mixed with rainwater and fell in the courtyard. He noticed that the rain was much lighter, and stars and the moon could be seen in the sky. He looked at it for a while and confirmed that it was still about half an hour before the first shift.

"Call the officers over!" Wang Wenzuo said to Cao Wenzong, "Right away, the sooner the better!"

Wang Wenzuo was sitting on a stool by the firepit. He was the only one who had a stool to sit on. The others were sitting on the ground. Most of their clothes were still wet, some were still dripping, and their armor was black and shiny.Wang Wenzuo didn't waste time, he said loudly: "Time is very urgent. It is impossible to hide the news about us here from Brother Zhong for a long time. It is very likely that he already knows by now, and he is trying to mobilize the army. Let's attack and kill us all! Don't forget, our bowstrings are soaked, we can't bounce back, the ground outside is full of mud, the horses can't run, unless we strike first, we will die! "

The officers whispered to each other, the Tang people and the Baekje people were eager to try and excited, but the Japanese people's expressions were much more complicated, some were afraid, some were nervous, and some were excited. After all, most of them were very short under Wang Wenzuo's command, unlike Tangren and Baekje already had firm confidence in their commander in chief.

"Great Commander, at the latest in the future, please let the latter be the vanguard!" Heizhi Changzhi said in a deep voice.

"Okay, the forward is under your command, 600 people!" Wang Wenzuo said: "The deputy general of the Ministry of Things! I will be your successor. If you lose, I will cut off your head first, and then supervise all the troops. The army is attacking the city!" At this point, he stood up and shouted: "Okay, let's all go back! The horn sounds, let's go immediately!"

The horn sounded.Wang Wenzuo got on the horse, and there were bursts of tingling pain in the inner thigh, but he didn't seem to feel it at all.The rain is getting smaller, the wind is getting stronger, and the sky is getting colder.Wang Wenzuo's body couldn't help shivering slightly, but he couldn't avoid it. Most of the soldiers' clothes were still wet, and it would only get colder under the cold wind. As a commander, since he couldn't let the soldiers have dry clothes to wear, at least they had to blow the cold together wind.He straightened his back, pretended to be fearless, and hoped that people would see his courage.But can they see in the dark?Wang Wenzuo had some doubts in his heart.

"Duke Ming, Hei Chi Chang Zhi in front captured a city gate and killed more than sixty people!" Yuan Ao Lie said.

"Understood, order the soldiers to hurry up!" Wang Wenzuo said.

In the middle of the night, Wang Wenzuo caught up with the black-toothed Changzhi, and he asked in surprise, "Changzhi, what's wrong with you? Now is not the time to rest, why don't you move on?"

"Look!" Hei Chi Changzhi pointed forward: "There is a small town by the roadside, we must have alarmed them by passing by!"

With the help of the moonlight, Wang Wenzuo finally found the small town that Hei Chi Changzhi was pointing at. It was located on a mound on the right side of the road. The mound was only 30 meters above the road. If his army passed the road, It would definitely alarm the guards at the top of the city, and that would be bad.If you want to attack, the small town is right on the top of the hill, so you might not be able to take it in a while; if you want to go around, there is a big pond on the left side of the road, so it's really hard to get around in the dark.Thinking of this, Wang Wenzuo thought hard.

"What are those? Those dark, shed-like things by the lake?" Wang Wenzuo asked.

"Let the soldiers check it out, it's the shed of the Japanese who raise ducks!"

"The shed where the Japanese raise ducks?"

"Yes, the local Japanese people have the habit of raising ducks. The ducks lay eggs everywhere, so the duck raisers have to pick up the eggs every morning, otherwise they will be gone, so the duck raisers are often by the pond!"

"I have a solution!" Wang Wenzuo had an idea: "Go to the shed with some smarter soldiers, first arrest the duck breeder, then startle the ducks, make them squawk more, and do it several times!"

"Why is this?"

"The duck shed is so close to the city, the guards must have been used to the ducks' calls. As long as the ducks can cover the sounds we have heard, we don't have to worry about being discovered by the guards!"

Hei Chi Chang Zhi's eyes lit up, and he said with a smile: "This is a good idea, I'll let someone try it right away!"

The fact is just as Wang Wenzuo expected, the first time, the second time the ducks croaked a little bit of attention from the defenders of the small town, but from the third time onwards, no matter how loud the ducks croaked outside, the defenders of the small town didn’t seem to hear anything. To the same, continue to sleep.Wang Wenzuo took the opportunity to lead the troops through the small town and continued towards the destination. At about four o'clock, Wang Wenzuo arrived at Omi Guosi. He first ordered the exit to be blocked, and then ordered the soldiers to fill up the trench with clothes wrapped in soil, and climbed over the trench with a ladder. For the earth barrier, remove a short section of the wooden fence and enter over the wall.

At that time, the guards guarding the gate of the outer wall of the Guosi were still asleep.Black Tooth Chang ordered to kill them all, leaving only one to continue to work according to the original time, so as not to be found abnormal.Then Heizhi Changzhi opened the gates, allowing Wang Wenzuo's army to pour in and surround the mansion where Brother Zhong lived.

"Report to the governor, the grain depot and arsenal have been taken!" Yuan Aolie said out of breath.

"Very good!" Wang Wenzuo nodded in satisfaction. Brother Zhong has not been idle in the past few months. He has mobilized all the manpower and material resources of Omi, Mino, Owari and other countries to train troops and build weapons. Omi has already had a situation, but he did not expect that Wang Wenzuo broke into his lair after the first battle, and the bows, arrows, weapons, and armor prepared with great effort in the arsenal became wedding dresses for others.

"Brother Zhong must not have woken up yet!" Wang Wenzuo said with a smile, "It's not a good habit to sleep late. Come and blow the horn to wake him up!"

Whoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
The long horn sounded through the sky, like a pair of invisible hands dragging Brother Zhong out of his sleep.

"What's going on?" He sat up sleepily and looked at the sky outside: "Which bastard blows the horn so early? Come on, go out and see what's going on?"

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

The maid knelt down and bowed like a salute, exited the door, and came back soon, her face full of horror: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, there are enemy soldiers outside the house, everywhere, I don't know how many there are!"

"Enemy soldiers? How is this possible?" Brother Zhong laughed: "I have deployed guards at various strategic passes. If the enemy troops come, why don't the guards at the pass have any news? Certainly some people feel that the army's rations and clothes are not enough. , come back and ask for it!"

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty!" The maid was not persuaded by Brother Zhong's reason, but she did not dare to continue speaking.Brother Zhong was upset when he saw this, he put on his robe, and was about to go out to have a look, but saw Abebirov rushing over.

"It's not good, Tang Bing has already entered the city!"

"Tang Bing?" Brother Zhong was taken aback: "You must not be mistaken, right?"

"Absolutely can't be wrong!" Abebirov said: "I have dealt with them in Baekje, the outsider must be Tang Jun, can't be wrong!"

"Then, how did they come here?" Brother Zhong was taken aback by the sudden bad news: "Obviously I have deployed so many guards, but there is no news, and it rained so much yesterday, could it be Did they fly over?"

"Back then in Baekje, Zhenxian City was the real natural danger, and in the end it was captured by the Tang people!" Abebirov said coldly, and he stuffed the bow and quiver into the hands of Brother Zhong: "Pursuing this has already been done." It's too late, all we can do now is this!"

Brother Zhong nodded blankly. He felt like a puppet, who was put on armor and pushed up the courtyard wall. Above their heads, the Royal Banner of Brocade fluttered high, which dispelled his last illusion.Someone was shouting loudly, which should be to persuade them to surrender.He sluggishly drew out an arrow, opened his bow and shot an arrow, marking the full stop of persuading him to surrender.

The battle started with mutual shooting of arrows. From the beginning, the strength of the two sides was unbalanced. The besiegers had at least ten times the advantage in numbers. The advantage in numbers increased their morale. The dead and wounded were almost gone, but Brother Zhong did not retreat. He stood on the arrow barn next to the gate of the house, aimed at the enemy and shot arrow after arrow until his shoulders were sore and his fingers were bleeding. Although the people around him kept falling, He himself was unharmed!
"Hurry up, let's get out of here!" Ampebirov climbed up the Yakura, and shouted loudly to Brother Chaozhong: "Otherwise the bandits will surround us!"

"Come up!" Brother Zhong turned around, only to find that there were seven or eight ladders on the courtyard wall, and the tide of soldiers climbed over the courtyard wall along the ladders, and the few resisters were about to be submerged.

(End of this chapter)