Chapter 1215: Easily Conquer Two Cities

Early the next morning, when the sun had just risen, the Tang Army had already appeared at the foot of Changzi City. As the war drums of Tian Yu's army sounded, thousands of Tang Army soldiers had begun to slowly approach the three walls of Changzi City. In the middle army, Tian Yu couldn't help but frowned when he looked at the situation at the top of the city.

"No, the situation at the top of the city is wrong!" Tian Yu suddenly said;

The deputy general next to him also realized that the situation at the top of the city was a bit abnormal, because as the Tang army's siege soldiers approached the city wall, although there was a counterattack at the top of the city, it was completely different from the orderly one yesterday. Today's top of the city seemed very... Confusion, as if Sergeant Zhao's counterattack was just an instinctive reaction.

"Could it be Zhang Yang's trap?" Tian Yu said to himself;

However, at this time, the soldiers attacking the city were almost in front of the moat, so it was naturally impossible for Tian Yu to order the soldiers to retreat. However, he ordered the deputy general next to him: "Pass the order, the second wave of attacking soldiers and horses are well prepared. Once any abnormality is discovered, they will respond to the first wave of soldiers."

"No, the general will take your orders!"

At this moment, a cavalry galloped from the east. As he ran, the cavalry shouted loudly: "General! Old thief Zhang Yang has run away... Zhang Yang has run away..."

At this time, Tian Yu was stunned and looked at the galloping cavalry with some disbelief. In a moment, the cavalryman had already arrived under the Chinese army's chariot. He dismounted, quickly ran to the chariot, and loudly reported: "General, two quarters ago, the north gate of the eldest son city suddenly opened. More than a thousand cavalry rushed out, broke through our cavalry defense, and fled to the north. The leader was a middle-aged general. Colonel Chen recognized the old thief Zhang Yang who appeared at the top of the city yesterday! "

"More than a thousand cavalry? How can there be so many cavalry in the city? Besides, you have three thousand cavalry, can't you still stop more than a thousand cavalry?" Tian Yu asked solemnly;

"Back to the general, when these cavalry rushed out of the city, we were already preparing to form a formation to meet the enemy. However, the more than 500 cavalry led by He was too strong. In a hurry, the cavalry formation was broken through by the Zhao army's cavalry. We tried our best There were only less than three hundred cavalry left, and the remaining more than a thousand cavalry were allowed to break out. Then these cavalry went straight north without any pause. General Chen had already led the cavalry to catch up. Come and report to the general!" the cavalryman replied breathlessly;

"Are you sure the leader is Zhang Yang?" Tian Yu said solemnly;

"You can't be wrong, General Chen, General Xie and other generals have confirmed it!" The visitor replied decisively;

"Damn it!!" Tian Yu waved the guardrail in front of him, "We have all been deceived by this little old man. Someone came and ordered a full-scale attack. At the same time, he ordered the soldiers to shout in unison that Zhang Yang has escaped and the defenders in the city have abandoned Those who surrender will be spared death! Those who resist will be killed without mercy!”

"promise!"

"Dong dong dong dong..."

"Woooo..."

"Zhang Yang ran away! The general has an order. Those who abandon their weapons and surrender will be spared death! Those who stubbornly resist will be killed without mercy!"

"Those who abandon their weapons and surrender will be spared death! Those who stubbornly resist will be killed without mercy!"

"Those who abandon their weapons and surrender will be spared death! Those who stubbornly resist will be killed without mercy!"

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"Kill! Kill! Kill!!!"

As expected, the defenders at the top of the city also discovered that today's situation was a little unusual. Now when they heard the shouts of the Tang army below the city, they looked around and saw that not to mention the prefect Zhang Yang, he was the one who killed the enemy at the top of the city yesterday. All the soldiers of the prefecture were nowhere to be seen. They didn't understand what happened. So with a shout, the newly recruited soldiers dropped their weapons and ran away. Soon, the soldiers from the county and state on the top of the city also They all followed the same example, one by one dropped their openings, some ran away, and some surrendered.

In less than a quarter of an hour, the soldiers of Tang Dynasty who were attacking the city successfully climbed up the city wall. Then some of them guarded the soldiers of Zhao who were kneeling in surrender. The door opened, and thousands of Tang soldiers who had been waiting outside the city gate rushed into Changzi City like a tide.

The county town of Shangdang fell into the hands of the Tang army.

Although Changzi City had been captured, Tian Yu's face could not be seen to be happy at all. Instead, he looked depressed. The punch he was ready to throw out with all his strength suddenly hit the air. What depresses Tian Yu the most is that Zhang Yang ran away. If Zhang Yang could be captured or killed, it would be much easier to pacify the Shangdang. Now that Zhang Yang has run away, it means that the next war will definitely become more and more serious. The harder it is.

Half an hour later, the city was completely under control. Tian Yu entered the city under the escort of his own soldiers and went directly to the prefect's mansion.

Soon Shi A followed closely and reported to Tian Yu: "General, let me ask clearly, old thief Zhang Yang actually started making preparations last night."

With that said, Shi A explained the situation he learned to Tian Yu in detail. It turned out that last night, Zhang Yang arranged for Lu Jiu to recruit the wolves in the city and escorted Chang Shi directly from the north gate. Zhang Yang's personal guard commander selected nearly a thousand soldiers from the defenders overnight. In the name of supplementing the personal guards, they all were incorporated into his own personal guards, and all the horses in the city were also collected. Then early this morning, in the name of leaving the city to attack the Tang army, he ordered the north gate guard to open the city gate and then leave the city directly.

At first, the North Gate guard thought that his governor was really going to attack the Tang army, but he didn't expect that he actually led his own soldiers and ran away like this.

What Tian Yu and his men didn't know was that Zhang Yang not only ran away, but also transferred all the 2,000 defenders in Tunliu City and 5,000 soldiers in Hukou Pass to Huguan County last night. Now, more than 10,000 soldiers have been assembled in Huguan County. Zhang Yang, who had fled all the way to Huguan County, immediately selected all the elite soldiers and defenders and incorporated them into his personal guard army, reorganizing 1,000 cavalry and 3,000 infantry.

In addition, in the past two days, Zhang Yang has ordered some food and grass to be transported from other cities. Now, Huguan County can be said to have enough soldiers and food. With these support, Zhang Yang is confident that he can defend Huguan County for one or two months. It is already mid-September. If he is lucky, maybe the first snow of this winter comes early, and he has the confidence to defend until next year.

At noon, after the cavalry returned to Changzi City, Tian Yu learned that Zhang Yang had even given up Tunliu City. After receiving this news, Tian Yu could not help but admire Zhang Yang's decisiveness. However, admiration was admiration, but Tunliu still had to be occupied, so he immediately sent 2,000 soldiers and horses to rush to Tunliu to control the city.