Late Tang

Weiba Mountain City, also known as Wugucheng Mountain City, is located on Weiba Mountain, more than 100 feet high, on the right bank of Biliu River.Weiba mountain city, 180 miles east of Fuzhou city.Weiba Mountain City is located in the southeast of Liaodong Peninsula, close to the Yellow Sea.It is about [-] miles away from the back city of Chengshan Mountain City in the northeast, about [-] miles away from Gaolicheng Mountain City in Mopan Township in the east, about [-] miles away from Biliu River in the east, about [-] miles away from the mouth of Biliu River in the southeast, and about [-] miles away from Baiyun Mountain City in the southwest. Twenty miles.

The walls of Weiba Mountain City follow the trend of the mountain, undulating along the mountain, surrounded by mountains on the west, south and north sides, shaped like a dustpan.There are three gates in the east, west and south on the city wall of the mountain city. Among them, the east gate is the main passage to and from the mountain city. It is about two feet wide and the city wall is three feet high.There is a water gate at the corner on the right side of the east gate, and clear mountain springs flow from the bottom all the year round.The endless mountain spring is an important source of water for the Koguryo soldiers and civilians guarding the mountain city.The mountains on the west and north sides of the mountain city are steep.The terrain in the city is high in the west and low in the east, with a gentle slope.The city walls on the north and south wings of the mountain city extend to the outside of the city along with the trend of the ridge, forming a platform outside the city to protect the mountain city.The two outer towers are like shrinking bottlenecks. When the enemy invades, the city gate wall and the two outer towers can condescendingly attack from three sides, forming a natural urn city.Therefore, the plane layout of the mountain city is like a concave shape.

Another small city was built on the north side of Weiba Mountain City, the city wall was also built of stones, and it was called Zicheng.There is a reservoir on the inner side of the west gate, also known as Yinma Bay, which is formed by the convergence of clear springs in the mountains.Inside the east gate is a temple named Qingquan Temple.In addition, there are some general platforms, fish ponds and other buildings.In the mountain city, the regular layout of Lifang and market wells cannot be seen, and there is a lack of civil building facilities.

The mountain city is now full of soldiers from Zhendong Army and various ministries in southern Liaoning. Standing on the bell tower of Qingquan Temple, Li Jing overlooks the entire mountain city. The circumference of the mountain city is about six miles. Much smaller.It can be said that it is dangerous, but it is not bad at all.

Weiba Mountain City is to the east of Jili City, just to the west between Shirenzhu City and Shicheng City.For a long time, Shicheng and Shirenzhucheng have been threatened by Goguryeo soldiers and horses in the majestic mountain city for a long time, and they are often robbed and blackmailed.

Three thousand Goguryeo soldiers and horses guarding the Weiba mountain city are like a nail firmly wedged in the southeast seaside of Liaodong.

Fifty miles to the northeast is Seongsan Mountain Fortress, thirty miles to the east is Koryoseong Mountain Fortress, and twenty miles to the southwest is Baiyun Mountain Mountain Fortress.

The four mountain cities are closely linked together, forming the barrier of Jili City.For a long time, because of the presence of these four mountain cities, Jili Prefecture has completely occupied a comprehensive advantage over the many Han forces in the south, and can retreat and defend, and advance and attack.Every year when the harvest season comes, the Goguryeo soldiers and horses in Jili Prefecture start to go down the mountain to hunt grass valleys and loot everywhere.

But for these robbers, the nearby Tang forces such as Shirenzhucheng and Shicheng are completely helpless.It's not that they haven't fought the Goguryeo people, but as long as the Goguryeo people retreat to a few mountain cities, they will be guarded by one man, and no one will be opened.But if they want to bypass the four mountain cities and directly attack Jili City, their backs will be exposed in front of the Goguryeo people, and they may be shut down by the Goguryeo people at any time. After fighting such aggrieved battles a few times, no one will Hit again.Every time it's autumn harvest, we can only send more troops to defend.

But no one thought that these mountain cities, which seemed to them to be indestructible forever in their eyes, would be so easily breached by the Zhendong Army.

As the most dangerous and fortified mountain city among the four mountain cities, it fell overnight.Although it was captured by night raids, they had also raided at night before, but which time did they not come back in defeat?It can be seen that the Zhendong Army easily captured Weiba Mountain City overnight, and captured all [-] Goguryeo people in the mountain city, even Gao Zhaokang, the eldest son of Gao Dexin, the governor of Jili City, became a prisoner.

The Goguryeo people are very sturdy, and each one is extremely strong.But at this time, these Goguryeo soldiers with full faces were all forced to take off, leaving only a pocket cloth, half naked and tied with ropes in strings, and drove them into the wide camp.

The weapons of the three lines of defenders were handed over and piled up on one side like a mountain.These weapons are well maintained, piled up there, as if they are within reach, but the Goguryeo soldiers have no chance to touch these weapons again.

Although Gao Zhaokang was the chief general, he didn't get any special treatment, just like his subordinates, he was stripped naked.Fortunately, he was wearing a pair of cotton boxer briefs sold from Dengzhou, which looked a little better than his subordinates.At this time, he couldn't help but think, what kind of boxer briefs made of cotton material brought in from the Western Regions cost him five pennies a piece at the beginning, and he thought it was expensive at the time, but now it seems that it is still a bit embarrassing.

When he turned his head, he saw a familiar figure walking in front of him, it was Qin Zongshou.He couldn't help getting angry, and wanted to struggle violently, but a group of people were connected together, and he jumped up violently, but was pulled to the ground violently by the rope tied to the other people, and a group of people were also brought along. Everyone was dragged around, and even gnawed a mouthful of mud.But no one dared to scold him, so he had to admit that he was unlucky.

Gao Zhaokang struggled a few times and couldn't stand up, so he sat on the ground and cursed at Qin Zongshou: "The surname Qin, come here for me, and I ask you, I treat you well on weekdays, why do you hurt me so much?"

Qin Zongshou was following Li Jing to check on the prisoners of war. When he heard the scolding, he looked up and saw that it was Gao Zhaokang, so he grinned and said to Li Jing, "My lord, this is Gao Zhaokang, the governor of Jili City, Gao Dexin." His eldest son, this kid is married to the princess of Daxuanxi, the current King of Bohai Sea. He is only 30 years old this year, and he has already been granted the title of Duke of Dongping County, and he is also serving as a general of the Zuo Shence Army."

Li Jing was slightly surprised when he heard about it.

"How could such a person stay in Weiba City?"

"Weiba Mountain City is the first of the four mountain cities to the northeast of Jili City. Now that Jili Prefecture is fighting with Jian'an Prefecture, the location to the northeast of Jili Prefecture is very important. Bone City, Domestic City, Bodiao City and other Goguryeo forces. Moreover, these mountain cities are also the strongholds for monitoring and controlling our Han forces in the south. They are also the gateway barrier to the northeast of Jili Prefecture. Such an important city, Gao Dexin is naturally Send his eldest son to guard."

"My surname Qin, you eat my food and drink mine. Don't you remember how you ran to me and begged me to take you in when you were poor? Now you actually repay your favor and bite back. You are not even as good as a dog!" Gao Zhaokang was still there curse.

He is very angry now, Qin Zongshou and him are old acquaintances.Qin Zongshou was a mercenary back then, and he led a group of clansmen to fight outside. Once he was defeated and fled with his clansman, he happened to meet him.At that time, because Qin Zongshou and others were seriously injured and surrounded, and they killed seven people in a row, Gao Zhaokang rescued them.He also healed their injuries, and finally Qin Zong guarded Gao Zhaokang for three years after guarding him.Three years later, Gao Zhaokang gave him a sum of money when he left.It was with this money that Qin Zongshou recruited troops and later established the Langya Village in Qinglang Mountain.

Although Qin Zongshou left Gao Zhaokang's side, the other two have always been in contact.In the initial stage of starting a business, Qin Zongshou got the support of Gao Zhaokang to send troops to fight against his opponents several times.However, these are not priceless. Over the years, Qin Zongshou has been based on Langya Village, and his power has gradually become stronger. While farming and hunting, he also does business and sells goods. Few, but most of them were handed over to Gao Zhaokang.Especially this year, due to conflicts between the Goguryeo people and the Khitan people, the need for food and grass increased. Gao Zhaokang sent people to ask Qin Zongshou for food and grass several times, which was several times as much as in previous years.

Previously, Qin Zongshou was unwilling to belong to Li Jing because he was actually a subordinate of the Goguryeo people.Now after surrendering to Li Jing, Qin Zongshou is still a bachelor, and directly offered advice to Li Jing that he could help Li Jing win the towering mountain city.

His strategy is actually very simple, the majestic mountain city is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it is indeed difficult to conquer it by ordinary methods.

However, he used an unusual method. Qin Zongshou took his Spike Battalion and escorted a batch of grain and grass to Weiba Mountain City.He only said that he was delivering food and grass, because Qin Zongshou also stayed in the mountain city for a few years, and he often came to deliver food and grass every year, so the Goguryeo people were familiar with him, so they let them enter the mountain city without too much doubt.After Qin Zongshou handed in the food and grass, he presented Gao Zhaokang with a batch of fine wine.

This wine is Wuliangye wine produced in Shamen Town. Gao Zhaokang also drank it in Jili Prefecture, and it was brought by Tang merchants in southern Liaoning.I happily accepted the wine at the moment.In addition to sending good wine to Gao Zhaokang, Qin Zongshou also brought a batch of wine to thousands of defenders. Although it is not as good as Wuliangye, it is still good wine.

Since Qin Zongshou sent a lot of grain and grass, Gao Zhaokang was happy that day, so he ordered the slaughter of pigs and sheep to entertain Qin Zongshou and his subordinates who came to deliver grain.Moreover, all the wine sent by Qin Zongshou was directly taken out to reward the soldiers.

Unexpectedly, Qin Zongshou and his subordinates had already drugged these wines.Because they were acquaintances before, the Goguryeo people did not check carefully. As a result, they only drank half of the wine. Except for some on duty, the rest basically passed out and were tied up by Qin Zongshou.Then he took the wine and gave it to the night watchmen, taking the opportunity to bring down most of the night watchmen.A few of them were vigilant, but they didn't make much waves in the end, and all of them were captured.

So almost bloodless, Qin Zongshou took down Weiba Mountain City, opened the gate of the mountain city, and welcomed Li Jing's army up the mountain.When Gao Zhaode and other Goguryeo soldiers woke up, they had only one pocket cloth left, tied into a string.

Qin Zongshou was cursed by Gao Zhaode, and his face turned cold: "You did save me back then, but I have been with you for three years, how many enemies have I led my tribe to kill for you, and how many times have I saved your life? Think about the life-saving way back then. Grace has already been repaid. Except for me, didn’t all the members of my tribe who were rescued by you die for you in the end? You and I have already settled the dispute. Over the years, you have sent people to help me several times , but every time you don’t ask for a lot of money and food. Especially this year, how much food and grass did you ask for? We are already hungry, and you took away our last bit of food. In your eyes Is there us? You don’t know, because you took away the food, I had to go out to rob it in Langya Village, but I took a hundred stones of food, but lost more than 100 lives? You just took me, Qin Zongshou, as you It’s just a dog that will help you get food and grass.”

Gao Zhaode wanted to say, you were my dog ​​in the first place, but when the words came to his lips, seeing Qin Zongshou's hideous look, he finally swallowed it back.After thinking about it, Gao Zhaode lowered his tone, and said cautiously: "Langya, I don't know about these situations. If I knew, I would definitely not ask for your food. You see, this is all made by the people below. You let us go, and I will give you Weiba Mountain City, and I will also give you [-] shi of grain."

"Another five hundred horses!"

Seeing that Qin Zongshou hadn't moved at all, Gao Zhaode gritted his teeth: "Langya, if you let me and my brothers go, I'll give you another [-] coins and a thousand sets of knives and guns!"

At this moment, Li Jing laughed softly beside him: "Brother Zhaode doesn't seem to understand the current situation. To tell you the truth, Langya is now the captain of the Langya Battalion of our Zhendong Army. You, now I am Li Jing Since you want to make a deal, I will also make a deal with you. Five thousand war horses, plus Weiba Mountain City, Chengshan Mountain City, Gaoli City Mountain City, and Baiyun Mountain City are ceded to our Zhendong Army. Let you go!"

"Suppressing the East Army? Li Jing?" Gao Zhaokang's mouth opened wide, and he froze there.

(To be continued)