Sui and Tang Dynasty Generals

Chapter 106: Fighting in the Valley
West City of Jinyang.

On the top of the city wall, the soldiers guarding the city saw from afar a faint fire in the east. Because of the distance, it could only be seen from the top of the west city wall. The soldiers guarding the city were certain that it must be a big fire.

"quick!"

"Go and report to the Lord!"

Amidst the cries of surprise, several soldiers ran down the city walls and rode their horses to disperse on the streets of the west city to give notice.

Inside the Wen family mansion.

"What? Firelight!!"

Upon hearing the soldier's report, Wen Dayou hurriedly lifted up the quilt, picked up a coat, and left the room.

The servants in the mansion had already prepared the war horses. When they saw Wen Dayou coming, they hurriedly handed over the reins.

Under the cover of night, Wen Dayou, accompanied by his soldiers, hurried to the city gate, then hurried to the top of the city wall, looking towards the east.

When he saw the faint light of fire in the distance, Wen Dayou showed a hint of worry.

Coincidentally.

At this time, I saw Zhang Pinggao, Xu Shixu and others had arrived not far behind me.

Wen Da did not rush to speak, but suppressed his uneasiness and raised his hand to salute the two of them.

After watching Zhang Pinggao and Xu Shixu return the gift and then looking at the night sky in the east with a puzzled look on their faces, Wen Dayou suppressed the unrest in his heart.

"Zhen Zhai'er divided his troops and marched south. It is very likely that Fu Zihou led his troops to attack the bandits at night in the East City!"

Wen Dayou spoke to Zhang Pinggao and Xu Shixu.

Zhang Pinggao and Xu Shixu looked at each other when they heard what Wen Dayou said. Before, they would have scoffed at Wen Dayou's guess. According to the information they received, there were a total of 10,000 bandits and 3,000 elite ambushes outside the east city of Jinyang. With the troops from the east city of Jinyang, going out of the city for a night attack would be tantamount to seeking death.

But since they learned what happened on the east side of the Fen River, and learned that Fu Zihou personally beheaded Tu Ye and led his troops out of the city for a night attack to capture Xiang Yifeng, Zhang Pinggao and Xu Shixu no longer dared to question Wen Dayou's speculation with certainty.

After what happened before, Zhang Pinggao and Xu Shixu both understood one thing.

That guy is the guy from East City on the other side of the river. He is so fierce that it’s scary!
It’s not necessarily the case. It was Fu Zihou who led his troops out of the city for a night attack!

"According to the information we received, Fu Zihou of Dongcheng was not aware of Zhen Zhai'er's ambush!"

Xu Shixu spoke softly, then glanced at Wen Dayou calmly.

"Yes!"

Wen Da nodded, this was also what he was most worried about at the moment.

The troops from East City attacked the bandit camp at night, and they were already at a disadvantage in terms of numbers. However, Zhen Zhai'er had left behind an elite ambush force of 3,000 troops. The reason why elite troops are elite is that they are strong and brave, far beyond ordinary soldiers. In battle, they are more powerful and fearless.

Fu Zihou didn't know about this situation, and Wen Dayou was really worried that Fu Zihou, who was raiding the bandits' camp, would be surrounded by the bandits.

"The most important thing right now is to prevent the bandits outside the West City from crossing the river to reinforce us!"

When Wen Dayou said this, he couldn't help but look at Zhang Pinggao.

There were already torches on the city roads.

Zhang Pinggao naturally saw Wen Dayou's eyes, thought for a moment, and finally nodded under Wen Dayou's gaze.

"If we find that the bandits outside the city are trying to cross the river, we can take the opportunity to launch a surprise attack!"

Zhang Pinggao did not take a tougher stance this time.

In the past, Zhang Pinggao did not dislike Fu Zihou as much as Pan Changwen did. The reason why he was dissatisfied with Fu Zihou later was because they were ambushed by bandits and General Pan Changwen was killed. When he returned to Xicheng, he saw that Fu Zihou, who had always wanted to defend the city, actually ordered to scorch the city and clear the fields without any warning.

This made Zhang Pinggao instinctively vent his anger through Fu Zihou.

The reason why Wen Dayou was stopped was more rational. Zhang Pinggao disagreed with sending troops because he compared the strength of the enemy and ourselves and felt that leaving the city would only result in unnecessary casualties and put West City in danger.

at the moment.

Zhang Pinggao naturally had no objection to Wenda's attempt to stop the bandit army outside the west city and cross the river to the east.

The bandit army has already divided its forces and marched south. Now, there are only 10,000 bandit defenders outside West City. As long as half of them cross the river, West City can send troops out of the city to fight with the remaining bandits. It will not be too late to order the subordinates to withdraw back to the city after the bandits who have crossed the river return.

For such a matter that was not very dangerous, Zhang Pinggao naturally did not want to further increase the conflict with Wen Dayou because of it.

Zhang Pinggao was born into the Zhang family of Taiyuan. Although the Zhang family was also a well-known and prominent family in Taiyuan, Zhang Pinggao was not so arrogant as to think that the Zhang family could compare with the Wen family of Taiyuan.

"it is good!"

After hearing what Zhang Pinggao said, Wen Dayou finally breathed a sigh of relief. He looked into the distance outside the city, and then at the faint spot of light in the east.

Guo’s mansion.

Jiang Baoyi reeked of alcohol and felt his long beard itchy. He moved his head involuntarily and opened his eyes hazily. In the dim light, he felt a woman on each side of him.

Jiang Baoyi then remembered that he had accidentally drunk too much at Guo's house that night.

Realizing that there were two soft girls in his arms, Jiang Baoyi was a little amused.

At night, he heard people like Guo and Di say that General Pan Changwen was killed by bandits. According to his understanding of Emperor Yang Guang, he would definitely be named Taiyuan Yingyang Langjiang.

Thinking of his origin from the Jiang family of Tianshui and that Yang Guang sent him to Taiyuan, Jiang Baoyi actually thought so in his heart. He was so happy that he drank too much.

"From now on, no matter what you say, it won't work!"

As Jiang Baoyi was sighing and preparing to go to bed, he suddenly heard some noise outside the door.

Two breaths later, there was a knock on the door.

"My lord! My lord!"

Jiang Baoyi wanted to ignore it at first, but he recognized it was his servant and the tone seemed a little unusual, so he thought about it.

"What's the matter?"

Jiang Baoyi asked.

As he spoke, he felt the women in his arms move slightly, apparently they had woken up.

"Sir, the soldiers guarding the city have reported! They said they spotted some fires in the rebel camp on the other side of the river!"

The servant outside the door said.

"Firelight?"

Jiang Baoyi was surprised at first when he heard this, but he quickly realized what the fire in the bandit camp meant. He suddenly pulled his hands away from the women on both sides and stood up in a hurry.

..............................

In the canyon of Taihang Mountains.

After calculating the time and seeing that no one from the front camp had sent over to report, Fu Zihou led Hu Jingyuan and others and began to attack the bandit camp.

It was already the second half of the night, and the bandits and guards were already sleepy. They had barely even reacted when they were shot by arrows and fell to the ground.

On the lookout tower, before a rebel soldier could react, Qi Lingyang shot an arrow at him in the neck from a distance in the darkness. Without making a sound, he simply took two steps back and slowly sat down against the wooden railing.

"kill!"

Fu Zihou shouted in a low voice, then drew his sword, and led Hu Jingyuan and others, and rushed into the bandits' camp directly past the corpses at the gate.

The bandit soldiers who were patrolling between the tents had not yet reacted when they saw Fu Zihou leading a group of people and charging straight towards them.

"Enemy attack!"

"Someone come! Enemy attack!!!"

The rebel soldiers cried out in surprise. One of them took up his long spear and swung it at Fu Zihou and his men with all his strength, trying to force them to retreat. However, Hu Jingyuan held the sword with both hands and stepped forward to block it without hesitation.

Without waiting for the rebel soldiers to react, Fu Zihou quickly stepped forward and slashed at the soldier with his sword. In an instant, the rebel soldier's entire arm was cut off by Fu Zihou.

"what!!!!"

The rebel soldiers opened their eyes wide, screamed, and looked at their severed hands with fear as they continued to bleed.

Fu Zihou's cheeks were splattered with blood, but he stepped forward step by step and swung a sword at the rebel soldier. The rebel soldier fell to the ground with blood flowing from his neck.

Other soldiers had already rushed into the tents and slaughtered the drunk and dreaming bandits.

"Enemy attack!!!"

Inside the camp, the rebel soldiers who were still awake and resisting kept shouting desperately. However, looking around the camp, they saw Sui soldiers attacking everywhere in the night. These rebel soldiers soon realized that the camp had been surrounded by the Sui army.

They had no worries and no need to defend to the death. Now seeing this situation, with many generals drunk and not awake, more and more rebel soldiers had no intention of resisting and either tried to hide or escape.

"Enemy attack~!"

Inside the commander's tent, Liang Dan was in a daze, dreaming a beautiful dream about the Liang family becoming the most respected county in the world, when he suddenly heard a faint cry of surprise.

"Ok?"

Liang Dan opened his eyes hazily and frowned slightly.

From a powerless person, Liang Dan experienced power and status for the first time. He was now worried about how to establish his prestige. After all, he had already won over the generals in the camp, and the next step was to test them.

Liang Dan still remembered Uncle Xuanmo's instructions that one must not only be gracious but also powerful, so that the soldiers of the army can be under control. Liang Dan had great admiration for Uncle Xuanmo, also known as Liang Shidu in the eyes of the world.

People only know that Liang Shidu, the general of Shuo Yingyang, was dismissed from office and sent home, but they don't know that this was done intentionally by his uncle.

"what!"

"kill!!!"

Liang Dan vaguely noticed that there was a flickering fire outside the general's tent. When he heard the faint sound of killing, he slowly woke up from his drunken state and realized that something was wrong.

Why is there a sound of fighting?
wrong!

Liang Dan quickly got up and walked hurriedly out of the general's tent without paying any attention to the woman on the bed. Then he thought of something, stopped, walked to a wooden rack nearby, and drew his sword.

In the rebel camp.

As bonfires fell to the ground, tents were burned, and Sui soldiers were everywhere, hacking and killing the unprepared rebel soldiers.

"kill!!"

"kill!!!"

Even though the bandit soldiers were elite, they never expected that they would be ambushed by the Sui army in the middle of the night. They had already drunk a lot of wine at night, and now facing the Sui army, none of the rebel soldiers had armor and could only randomly find weapons to resist.

However, without armor, the Sui army soldiers who came with Fu Zihou were all soldiers of Yingyang Prefecture before. They were soldiers who had been on the battlefield all year round. They were no match for the bandit soldiers. Even with weapons, facing the ruthlessness of the Sui army soldiers who would take advantage of their weakness to kill them, they were either killed or fled in panic.

"Get out of here!"

A burly rebel captain blocked a Sui army soldier's attack with a sword, then pushed him aside.

The rebel captain almost fell to the ground. If it were any other time, with his skills, he could easily pick up the rebel soldier and throw him down. However, because he drank too much, he felt a little weak at the moment.

Although he had woken up, the captain looked at the scene around him and did not dare to fight anymore.

Just as the rebel captain turned around and wanted to escape, he saw a young man with a sword not far away, looking at him, slowly putting the sword back into the scabbard, and then pulling out a knife.

See this.

Although he didn't know why the young man was wearing both a sword and a knife, he looked around and knew that he had to kill the young man before he could leave, so the rebel captain made up his mind and rushed towards the young man with a sword.

As Fu Zihou watched the burly bandit charging towards him, he couldn't help but think of the sword skills taught by the old man and what Old Liu had said in the past.

Both the blind old man and Mr. Liu taught Fu Zihou a truth.

There is no place that can make a person progress better than the battlefield! Any method of killing must be tempered in killing. Year after year, thousands of times of tempering, are in the moment of killing, to gain enlightenment.

Ten steps, five steps, three steps...

Looking at Fu Zihou standing there, pointing the knife at himself with both hands, motionless, the rebel captain, who was originally extremely vigilant, became more ferocious and a confident smile appeared in his eyes.

Within three steps, it is not so easy to dodge or block a sword attack with all his strength.

Under the gaze of the rebel captain, Fu Zihou slowly closed his eyes.

"court death!"

When seeing this scene, the bandit captain was filled with disbelief, and then became excited, thinking that the young man had been frightened silly.

But in the next moment, as the rebel captain was about to chop with all his strength, he found that the young man had his eyes closed and instantly dodged to the side.

"How can it be……"

The rebel captain's eyes were full of surprise. Before he could think about it, when he looked at the young man and wanted to raise his sword to chop again, he felt a flash of knife light passing through his eyes, and then he felt a cold feeling on his neck, which instantly filled his entire mind.

The rebel captain opened his mouth, wanting to exhale, but after keeping it open for a long time, he was unable to move. He fell to the ground with his head spinning. When he stopped, the last scene of his life seemed to be a headless corpse a few steps away.

"what!"

Inside the rebel camp, many bandit soldiers around saw this scene, and they all looked at the knife-wielding boy with horror in their eyes.

When they saw the young man holding the bloody sword slowly opening his eyes, all the rebel soldiers couldn't help but tremble, because fear arose in their hearts when they saw his strength.

"Do not kill me!"

As the first rebel soldier dropped his weapon and knelt down to beg for mercy, other rebel soldiers also began to not want to resist anymore and knelt down to beg for mercy.

Some other rebel soldiers saw others begging for mercy and looked around with a glimmer of hope in their eyes, hoping to escape and not being captured, so they all ran for their lives, and all of them became the targets of the Sui army.

"kill!"

"kill!!!"

Fu Zihou walked step by step with his sword in hand, watching the soldiers around him chasing after the bandits, and watching the soldiers using torches to burn the bandits' tents and illuminate the camp.

Soon.

Fu Zihou came to a place not far from the general's tent and saw more than twenty bandit soldiers protecting a man with a sword.

Although he had never seen the bandit leader, Fu Zihou had a rough idea of what was going on after seeing this scene. So, under the gazes of the bandits, he bent down, picked up three long spears that had fallen to the ground, and swung them at the bandits with all his strength while running.

Under the guidance of Mr. Liu in his early years, Fu Zihou had already mastered the throwing of long weapons.

One of the swung spears did not cause much damage to the rebel soldiers, but the other two hit the campfire basin, knocking them to the ground in an instant.

As the fire dimmed.

Liang Dan and other bandits saw Fu Zihou rushing towards them with a knife.

"kill him!"

Liang Dan pointed his sword at Fu Zihou and gave the order.

When the other bandits saw that Fu Zihou was only followed by three or four Sui army soldiers, they looked at each other, then rushed towards Fu Zihou with their weapons in hand.

"kill!!!"

Amid shouts and screams, Fu Zihou dodged the first rebel soldier's stab while charging, instantly leaped up, turned around and slashed down with his sword, knocking the rebel to the ground with blood splattering all over the ground. Another rebel was about to take the opportunity to chop at Fu Zihou with his sword, but he found that Fu Zihou had already pulled out to chop at him for the second time, so he quickly blocked it with his sword.

Seeing that Fu Zihou was not a burly man, the rebel soldiers initially thought that his strength would not be particularly great. But at the moment of blocking, an irresistible force instantly fell down along with the sword. Looking at the knife embedded in his shoulder, the rebel soldier's face was full of pain.

Fu Zihou drew his sword with both hands, holding the handle with one hand and placing the other hand on the bloody blade, sliding across the blade as he walked.

"kill!"

Three rebel soldiers who wanted to kill Fu Zihou rushed towards him with knives and swords in hand.

Fu Zihou blocked with his knife and quickly dodged the chopping attack by using his toes, ankles, thighs, waist, arms and wrists to exert force one after another.

At this moment, he turned around with one hand and swung the knife, and in front of the gazes of all the rebel soldiers, he instantly cut off the arm and neck of a rebel.

"what!"

The rebel soldiers around looked on in horror as a headless body with broken arms fell to the ground. They couldn't help but take a step back instinctively.

When he raised his eyes from the headless corpse, he saw that one of the three rebel soldiers who had charged together was killed by Fu Zihou, and the last rebel soldier was so scared that he took a few steps back.

this moment.

In the slightly swaying firelight that did not seem particularly bright, all the rebel soldiers watched the young soldier raise his sword and point it at them. No one dared to step forward.

"kill!!!"

"kill!"

As the sounds of killing came from all around, the remaining bandits realized that the Sui army soldiers from other places were coming to attack them. They no longer cared about Liang Dan and hurriedly took advantage of the dim night to escape to other places.

They came here to protect Liang Dan, but they were just fantasizing about helping Liang Dan escape and gaining wealth in the future.

But now, with the appearance of the young Sui army soldier, these rebel soldiers all knew that it was good enough if they could save their own lives. As for Liang Dan, who could care less?

You need to be alive to enjoy wealth and honor!
Liang Dan watched in horror as the rebel soldiers around him all fled. After he came to his senses, he quickly followed them and fled.

However, after a few steps, he noticed a figure approaching. Liang Dan was born in the Liang family of Shuofang. Because he admired his uncle Liang Shidu, he had always known some martial arts. So he made up his mind and swung the sword in his hand vigorously.

He thought he could catch the Sui soldiers by surprise, but he unexpectedly felt the sword in his hand hit a knife. With a faint spark, Liang Dan was about to put away his sword when he heard the sound of a sword being drawn.

The next moment, when Liang Dan saw clearly, he felt a sharp pain on the back of his hand and instinctively let go of the sword in his hand.

When the sound of the sword falling to the ground was heard, a cold sword blade was already placed on Liang Dan's neck.

Liang Dan covered the back of his cut and bleeding hand, breathing slightly, looking at the expressionless boy in front of him holding a sword against his neck.

"Colonel Captain!"

"Captain!!"

As the rebel soldiers fled in all directions, the Sui army officers and soldiers came to Fu Zihou with swords in hand.

"Colonel Captain!"

Liang Dan listened to what the Sui army soldiers said and looked at the young Sui army boy with surprise.

He is a captain? So young...

Suddenly, Liang Dan thought of something, his pupils shrank, and his expression changed drastically.

These Sui troops were the defenders of East City! This young Sui general was the Fenwu Wei called Fu Zihou in East City mentioned by Zhen Zhai'er, Yang Boyue and others!
(End of this chapter)