First Minister of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 94

92. The Night of Gaoyou Takes the Great Earthquake Pass
Seeing the admiration on Liu Hongji's face, Gao Chong would not tell the truth. He was just thinking about being prepared. After all, he was going deep into the enemy's territory. After changing into the Western Qin army uniform, the chance of escaping in troubled waters was much higher.

Liu Hongji felt more and more that Gao Chong was unpredictable.

Gao Chong immediately said: "It is necessary to select more than a dozen dead soldiers, change into Western Qin military uniforms, and open the gate of the city. I will lead the remaining soldiers and horses, and I will lie down in the forest on the left side of Dazhen Pass. When the gate opens , these dozen or so dead men tried their best to delay the time, not to close the city gate, but when I saw the city gate open, I immediately launched a charge",
"From the forest on the left to the city gate, it's only [-] steps away." Then Gao Chong gestured on the ground, "My men and horses can quickly rush to the city gate when they gather strength."

Liu Hongji nodded straight when he heard it, but when he looked up, he saw Gao Chong looking straight at him.

"Hongji, such an important task...".

Liu Hongji shuddered, and got up awkwardly, "Dazhenguan has no more than [-] defenders, and they are scattered everywhere. It is estimated that there are hundreds of people at the west gate, so leave it to me."

Gao Chong nodded in satisfaction, clenched his fists tightly and encouraged him: "Zong Luohu just left the gate from the west gate during the day, and the guard inside the gate must never have imagined that we would snatch the gate overnight, let alone that it would be the west gate.

You are a native of Guanzhong, and then you should shout in your local accent: "General Zong is in ambush, and I have important military information to report to Your Majesty." The guards in the city will definitely dare not open the city."

Liu Hongji cheered up, very excited, and then grabbed Gao Chong's arm, "You must not make any mistakes, or brother, I will never return."

"Don't worry, I can't cheat anyone." Gao Chong patted Liu Hongji on the shoulder with a bright smile on his face.

Liu Hongji twitched the corners of his mouth, he was a little apprehensive when he was always happy when he heard about the war.

After nightfall, Gao Chong immediately ordered the whole army to prepare, and when it was nearly midnight, Gao Chong got on his horse and said, "Brothers, follow me to win the pass tonight. ".

After the words fell, the more than [-] light rides were silent, and the horses only hooved from time to time, and the audience was silent.

It's not that the morale is low, it's just that the whole army and horses are restrained with cloth strips, so they can't make a sound.

Gao Chong was stunned, and glared at Liu Hongji. Liu Hongji's heart thumped when he saw this: I knew that I would stop talking after the training, this guy won't retaliate later, scholars are very bad.

Dazhenguan, just as Gao Chong and others thought, there are only [-] defenders left, scattered in several city gates.

Outside the west gate is the hinterland of the West Qin Kingdom, and it was through this gate that General Zong Luohu entered Tianshui County in the west, so the defense of this gate was the most lax.

As soon as the hour passed, the moon shadow shifted and reflected on the right side of the west gate of Dazhenguan, while the mountain forest on the left where Gao Chong was hiding was dark under the lamp, it was pitch black, Gao Chong was secretly happy.

Not long after, Liu Hongji appeared, leading more than a dozen people staggering towards the city gate in panic.

However, at the foot of the city gate, there was no movement.

Liu Hongji was stunned, and he couldn't help being outraged, saying that this trip was for nothing.

"Wake up the melons in the city," Liu Hongji roared at the top of his voice, blurting out a strong Guanzhong accent, the voice was so loud that even Gao Chong, who was far away, heard it, and couldn't help but secretly marveled.

This voice made the city head who was sleeping in a daze, and the Western Qin defenders were stunned.

"It's under General Zong," Liu Hongji shouted, "General Zong is lying down in the afternoon, and I want to ask His Majesty for help. You group of melons should go to the city."

From Tongguan in the east to Dazhen Pass in the west, this area is Guanzhong. The guards at Dazhen Pass are all Fufeng locals. Hearing Liu Hongji's words, they were all shocked and frightened.

"Wait a minute, go and report to the general," the guard at the top of the city hurriedly replied.

"Wet you, Kerry, please!" Liu Hongji cursed as soon as he opened his mouth, and immediately lit up the torches.

Soon, the guard of Dazhen, who was sleeping soundly, came to the head of the city. In the light of the fire, he could vaguely see more than ten Western Qin soldiers under the city, and the leader seemed to be a school lieutenant.

Seeing a group of people watching from the top of the city, Liu Hongji knew that the critical moment was coming, so he repeated it again and urged Kaicheng.

The defender didn't dare to delay, so he ordered to open the city.

"General, the moon is dark and the wind is high, be careful of fraud," the deputy general reminded him.

"There are only a dozen of them, and they are coming from the west again, so I'm afraid," the defender waved his hands and said, "If it delays the military situation, I will inevitably die."

The city gate creaked open, Liu Hongji was overjoyed to hold it tightly, and tightened the long spear in his hand.

At this time, Gao Chong in the forest on the left saw the gate of the city opened wide, and immediately patted his horse and shouted: "Brothers, follow me."

At the gate of the city, the guard was about to go forward to greet him, when he suddenly heard the sound of rumbling horseshoes from the side, he was shocked and pointed at Liu Hongji, "You... the enemy attack?"

"Don't worry, general, that's one of our own," Liu Hongji shouted with an idea.

"My own?" The guard was stunned.

"That's the one who fled back with me to ask for help," Liu Hongji gestured, and more than a dozen people behind him lined up with knives and arrived at the gate of the city.

The guard took a closer look, and saw a group of cavalry charging headlong, and then he saw that Liu Hongji had arrived at the gate of the city, and he was frightened and angry: "The enemy attacked, kill me."

"Gua, it's already too late." Unexpectedly, the idiot was stunned by howling casually, Liu Hongji looked up to the sky and laughed.

He raised his hand and handed it out, piercing through his chest, and the Great Earthquake Gatekeeper returned to the west on the spot, without even leaving his name, only known to be a member of the Ju family of the Western Qin Queen.

"The king of Tang's army has arrived, surrender to avoid death," Liu Hongji shouted, shook his long spear to throw off the guard, and roared angrily.

More than a dozen dead men behind him raised their horizontal sabers, lined up in twos and threes, and resisted the city gate, slashing anyone they saw with their sabers.

It was too late to say it, and then it was too fast, in a short time, Gao Chong had already rushed forward.

"I wait for the willingness to surrender, the willingness to surrender."

As soon as the guard died, the deputy general saw that the city gate had opened and the cavalry had arrived, so he threw down his saber and knelt down to beg for surrender.

The effect of taking the lead in begging to surrender is very obvious. Once the lieutenant surrendered, the remaining hundreds of troops surrendered in unison.

"Who are you?" Gao Chong asked the lieutenant general as he rode up to him, pointing the tip of his mace.

"Ma Di, deputy general of Dazhenguan, has met the general."

"Very good, take General Liu to take over the rest of the sects," Gao Chong ordered.

Ma Di didn't dare to delay, he was busy obeying orders.

Half an hour later, the government office in the Great Earthquake was brightly lit.

Liu Hongji smiled, "Youzhi, the Western Qin soldiers had no intention of resisting at all. I took over the city defense without killing anyone."

Ma Di on the side laughed and praised, "General Liu is mighty."

"When will Jincheng's food delivery team come?" Gao Chong looked at Ma Di and asked.

"According to the date, I was supposed to arrive today, but I was delayed on the road, and I should be here tomorrow at the latest." Ma Di dared not hide anything, and told the truth.

Gao Chong nodded and was thinking about it, but Liu Hongji scratched his head and muttered, "How can we swallow the grain transport team with only a thousand people like us?"

"More than 1000 people?" Ma Di's eyes widened when he heard the words, "General Liu, may I ask where Tang Wang's army is?"

Liu Hongji laughed loudly when he heard the words, and put his arms around Ma Di's shoulders, "You are confronting Xue Ju in Yong County, what's the matter? Vice General Ma wants to go to Yong County to join the war?"

(End of this chapter)