The enemy troops outside Beifu Yu City could not stand the cold of ice and snow and had retreated dozens of miles away; this also made Yuan Taizuo in the city feel at ease. He knew that a big war was very likely to happen next, so in addition to arranging necessary arrangements In addition to the guards, most of the soldiers were allowed to recharge their batteries.
For the Goguryeo army, there are now three most important places: the first is the place where prisoners are held; there are now more than 4,000 prisoners. If the enemy forces outside the city attack, these people will definitely respond to the army outside the city by making trouble. ; If someone sneaks into the city and releases the prisoners, it will be even more dangerous, so this is the center of defense.
Secondly, there is the warehouse area located in the northeast for storing food and supplies. Since the Goguryeo army came from afar and was an expeditionary force, it was seriously out of touch with the mainland, so food and supplies were the top priority. Once food was lost, Then the Goguryeo army collapsed without a fight. In order to prevent the enemy soldiers who sneaked into the warehouse from burning down, Yuan Taizu deployed fifty patrol teams in the warehouse area to patrol in turn, and stationed 3,000 soldiers inside. In this way, even if a small group of enemy troops evaded the guards on the city and sneaked into the warehouse area, it would not be a big deal.
The third important place is the Maquan area where Zhang Chuchen and others are now.
War horses are extremely valuable things. If they are exposed to frost and snow, the skin of war horses will be easily cracked by the frost water. Therefore, in the evenings of autumn and winter, they should be put away in a shed to avoid frostbite. Therefore, Yuan Taizuo concentrated his war horses in the northwest of the city. And this is also the livestock breeding area left by Sumo Mohe. However, relatively speaking, the importance of Maquan District is weaker than that of Granary District. Yuan Taizuo only sent ten patrol teams to patrol, and there were only a thousand auxiliary soldiers inside. So this is far easier to take than the food area. But what Yuan Taizuo didn't expect was that Yang Ji used the horse circle area, which he thought was not important, as a breakthrough. 【Note】
The night was dark, and most of the Goguryeo soldiers were fast asleep. There were only sporadic patrol soldiers patrolling the city walls for warning purposes.
There are also some teams of soldiers patrolling in the city, but despite this, Beifu Yucheng is a bit eerily quiet in the middle of the night. Even the extremely bold Goguryeo soldiers feel a sense of panic when walking on the empty streets with falling snowflakes. Numb feeling.
In the northern streets of the livestock area, a patrol team was patrolling with torches. They were only looking at the situation on the left and right and in front of them. They had no idea that black shadows had been catching up behind them. The moment they turned east, they were covering up. The dark shadow suddenly pounced on him.
The black shadows each pounced on their targets, and their movements were exactly the same. They covered the patrolling soldier's mouth with one hand, tilting his head back, and slashed the patrolling soldier's neck with the other hand with a dagger.
The patrolling soldiers opened their eyes wide, made useless gestures with their hands, and screamed "wuwu" to warn the people ahead. However, their mouths were tightly covered, and their "wuwu" sounds were howling. It was a snowy night and could not reach the front at all. After struggling for a few times, he fell softly.
The shadows put the bodies down and followed the same pattern as before, killing the patrolling soldiers in front one by one.
Soon, more than twenty Goguryeo soldiers died silently in the night. And their corpses were quickly dragged into the shadows on both sides of the street. If it weren't for the bright red blood stains on the ground, it would have been as if no one had ever passed by here.
These shadows that sneaked into the city from the secret passage include both the Suzaku Guards and the Xuanwu Guards, and the "coach" is naturally Zhang Chuchen; in addition, Zhu Can also came, but his assassination skills are not as good as those of the assassin Zhang Chu Chen, so during this trip, he was mainly responsible for killing people. As for everything else, Zhang Chuchen had the final say.
Zhang Chuchen saw that the Xuanwu Guards headed by Zhu Can completed their mission, put on the armor of Goguryeo soldiers, and walked towards the horse circle with torches in a swagger. I couldn't help but let out a long sigh of relief: Although there were a lot of patrol soldiers deployed by Goguryeo in the city, the Goguryeo army didn't know there were two secret passages in the north city; secondly, they saw the "enemy troops" outside the city retreating one by one, so It's somewhat insensitive.
By now, they had eliminated four patrols without anyone noticing. When this patrol was annihilated in front of them, it also meant that the northwest of Maquan District had fallen into the hands of the Xuanwu Guard and the Suzaku Guard. The other five patrol troops mainly patrol in the south and east of Maquan District. They cannot affect the actions of Zhang Chuchen and others.
With a strong smell of blood, Murong Xianyue came closer and asked Zhang Chuchen in a low voice: "Commander, there are more than a thousand people in the livestock area, what should we do now?"
"The patrol army thought that the city was heavily guarded, so they became careless." Zhang Chuchen looked at the dark horse circle area in front and whispered: "The fighting will, combat effectiveness, military discipline, and vigilance of the auxiliary soldiers inside Their hearts are not as good as the main battle army, and they also think that there are city defense troops and patrol troops outside; so they are far more careless than the patrol troops, so it is not difficult to capture them."
Yang Ji gave their battle plan to burn the horse pens, and use fire horses to attack and trample the tents all over the city, trying to kill the Goguryeo soldiers alive under the hoofs of the horses; and Yuan Taizuo regarded them as the top priority. Yang Ji didn't even think about burning or capturing the prisoner areas and granary areas. He believed that compared with annihilating the enemy's vitality, the rest were not important. As long as the Goguryeo soldiers were almost dead, all problems would not be a problem.
If you foolishly use a small army to seize the heavily guarded granary area, you will be disregarding the lives of the soldiers and giving the enemy heads in vain.
Murong Xianyue responded and said, "Next, we just need to open a hole, and things will be much easier to handle."
"Let's take action!" Zhang Chuchen took a deep breath and ordered Murong Xianyue and others: "Fire and water are merciless, and horses and fire do not recognize people. Everyone, please be careful."
"Yes!" Everyone solemnly responded to the order, leading their soldiers towards the area where the fire flickered like ghosts.
Before infiltrating, Zhang Chuchen and others were equipped with enough flammable materials. After the meeting between Tu Diji and Shen Faxing, when they withdrew into the secret passage, not only were there no hay in the livestock area to burn, but there were also fireworks in the secret passage. A lot of animal oil was consumed, so Zhang Chuchen and others had no shortage of things to burn.
They entered and used their unique methods to kill all the defenders of the tent directly in front of them.
"General Tu Dizuo." When the teams regrouped, Zhang Chuchen called over General Sumo Mohe.
In Yang Ji's arrangement, Zhuque Guard and Xuanwu Guard were responsible for setting fire in the northern part of the livestock area. As long as the fire burned, they could escape into the secret passage as quickly as possible, thus reducing the casualties of their own family members. But the most critical thing is the central area of the stable. If the central area cannot be burned, no matter how big the fire is on the outside, it will easily be put out by the Goguryeo army at the risk of death, and ultimately the effect of thousands of horses rushing into the camp will not be achieved.
However, there are 60,000 to 70,000 horses and more than 10,000 cows in the stable and livestock area. If someone goes to set fire in the middle, it will be a complete loss of life. Since we can't let our own people do it, we have to encourage the Sumo Mohe people to do it.
Tudiji and Goguryeo had the hatred of destroying the country and killing their tribesmen. As long as the enemies in the city could be wiped out, he would agree to anything. So when Shen Faxing discussed the matter with him in detail, he immediately selected two hundred dead soldiers to listen. Yes, the leader of the dead men is his brother Tu Dizuo.
Tudisuo and the others are not fools, and they naturally know that this trip will lead to death. However, Sumo Mohe and the Turks are both races that believe in shamanism; their teachings are similar, and the most important one is that warriors only need to If their own clan dies, then they will become the patron saints of Sumo Mohe, and like the "gods of heaven", they will live forever. So when they were selected, instead of being afraid, they were proud of being selected as the death squads.
If it weren't for the fear of alarming the Goguryeo army in the city, even five hundred or a thousand dead soldiers could be killed.
"Commander Zhang!" Tu Dizuo and others did not participate in the previous assassination operation. Instead, they divided into small teams and followed silently. At this time, they saw the "Sui Army" silently clearing the obstacles and felt heartbroken. The next step is up to them.
Zhang Chuchen glanced at the general with the faint light of the fire and said, "General Tudi, you must be very familiar with the situation in the stables, right?"
"Yes, Commander Zhang!" Tu Dizuo replied in blunt Chinese, "I understand very well."
"Then let's separate here and act according to our plan. As long as we see a fire starting, we will set a fire here." After the explanation, Zhang Chuchen whispered: "May God bless you."
"Thank you, Commander Zhang!" Tu Dizuo thanked Zhang Chuchen and said no more nonsense. He led the dead soldiers and ran forward. Each of them was carrying a large package filled with fuel. things.
They opened a fence door and filed in; inside were large sheds built with wood and thatched roofs, and surrounded by fences to prevent the animals from escaping.
After the Goguryeo army occupied North Buyu City, they did not change the architecture here, so Todizo and others ran towards the middle along the passage between the wooden sheds on the familiar road.
"Let's separate!" Zhang Chuchen ordered.
Upon hearing this, the "captains" of the small teams dispersed, each occupying an area, waiting for the dead soldiers of Sumo Mohe.
After waiting for about a moment, it finally became bright ahead.
Soon, thick smoke rose into the sky and fierce fire shot into the sky, reflecting the night sky of Beifu Yucheng red. The sound of horses neighing and cows braying filled the sky.
Zhang Chuchen and others knew that there was not much time left for them, so they lit more torches and threw them on the fodder and the fodder table of the stable; when they saw the fire rising into the sky, the horses were frightened and walked, Neighing, they dispersed and ran towards the entrance of the secret passage.
"Boom, boom, boom!" Just as everyone hid in the secret passage one by one, there were bursts of muffled thunderous explosions. The huge sound was particularly loud in the closed secret passage.
Zhang Chuchen was so courageous that she asked everyone to hide inside first, while she, Murong Xianyue, Xian Yufang, and Zhu Can stayed at the entrance to watch the results.
The fire was blown by the biting north wind and spread southward and eastward at a speed visible to the naked eye. The horses and cattle were all on fire. They ignited each other and galloped desperately.
The vast herds of horses and cattle were burned by the fire, but they could not extinguish the fire on their bodies. They were in unbearable pain and just ran around. What's even more terrifying is that fire horses and fire cows are the best kind of fire. Their hair grows long and dense during this season, and they are very flammable. When they are crowded together, they will burn. Will set other horses on fire.
This scene was far more spectacular than any of Yang Ji's fire bull formations and fire horse formations.
Seeing this, they all knew that this mission had been a complete success.
But this matter is not over yet.
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[Note: The paddy fields in my hometown are layered terraces, which cannot be accessed by machinery. To this day, animals are still used to plow the fields. In the past, oxen were used to plow the fields, but the oxen were not very obedient. Horses are more docile than oxen and can carry loads, so the oxen were replaced by horses. However, horsehide is not as strong as cowhide. Once it is "pickled" by the frost and snow at night, its skin will crack with blood marks. Therefore, in autumn and winter, horses cannot spend the night in the wild and must be allowed to spend the night in a shed. . As for the cattle, it doesn't matter if they are raised day and night all year round, as long as they are afraid of being stolen by robbers at night. 】
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