The city of Qingzhou is very quiet. The people in the city are asleep late at night, and the soldiers guarding the city are still standing in the cold wind.

The atmosphere in the city was quite peaceful. The news that Daxing City was captured by the Tang army the day before yesterday had already been heard. After the city was broken, the news that all the people in the city were slaughtered by the Tang army also came. Qingzhou was only more than 200 miles away from Daxing City. It is said that the defenders and people in Qingzhou City should be nervous and panic. However, this morning, news came that the Tang army was raided by the Marine cavalry and the logistics food and grass were burned out. The Emperor of Tang had no choice but to issue an order to withdraw his troops west.

For two consecutive days, bad news and good news came one after another. The military and civilians in Qingzhou City experienced great ups and downs. They knew that the main force of the Tang army had withdrawn, and they even heard that Quan Gai Suwen personally led a 150,000 army to pursue the Tang army. The defenders of Qingzhou couldn't help but feel more relaxed.

The battle has reversed, the Tang army retreated, and Goguryeo has no worries. As for the news that the Emperor of Tang left 20,000 troops to block Quangai Suwen, the Qingzhou defenders only smiled in their eyes. The brave men dared to resist Quangai Suwen's 150,000 troops, which was simply a mantis mantis armed and overestimated his ability.

With this mentality, the people of Qingzhou City slept very soundly tonight, and the defenders naturally became relaxed. The Tang army retreated. They felt that there was no need to face a great enemy, so they were ready to live a peaceful life.

The reason why Xue Rengui and the 500 soldiers under his command were able to easily sneak into Qingzhou City was probably related to the slack mentality of the defenders, because no one expected that the 20,000 Tang troops who left behind did not go east to fight Quan Gai Suwen, but went north to stare at Qingzhou City.

So, on this night when there was almost no defense, Xue Rengui and five hundred disguised soldiers easily sneaked into the city of Qingzhou.

After nightfall, the city gate was closed, the shops were closed, and the people fell asleep. Xue Rengui and five hundred soldiers were scattered and lurking in the city, waiting quietly.

Outside the corridor of the south gate, dozens of refugees dressed like beggars were still shivering under the walls, their hands were put into their ragged sleeves, and their whole bodies were curled up like poor beggars who had no hope and could not even survive tonight. Not far from them, the defenders of the city gate stood with their swords, and scattered snowflakes fell on the iron clothes, and a thin layer of white snow was accumulated. From time to time, teams of soldiers patrolled by on torches. Every time they passed by the city gate, the soldiers' eyes just glanced at the beggars and ignored them.

Xue Rengui also got involved in the group of beggars at some point. Like everyone else, he shrank under the wall with his hands together, but his eyes were staring at the city gate without blinking.

"Have you figured it out? Several groups of patrol guards passed by this incense stick?" Xue Rengui asked in a low voice.

"Three groups, only one team of people patrolled by each time, each team of fifty people, and one number of fire should be the leader of the fire..." A soldier next to him replied in a low voice.

"Where are the defenders standing at the city gate?"

"There are about 200 defenders standing in the city gate corridor, and there are also on the city tower, but they are too far away to count."

Xue Rengui still stared at the city gate, thought for a moment, and said, "Let's wait for another incense stick to determine the interval between each team of patrol guards, and then take action. The general's men were probably outside the city at this time. Just wait for us to succeed and open the city gate, and the city will fall into our hands."

All the soldiers around nodded and responded to their orders.

Everyone continued to lie down and stared quietly at the city gate.

After one incense stick of time, Xue Rengui mastered the rules of the patrol and guards, and was probably six or seventy percent sure. So a sharp look flashed in his eyes, and he suddenly raised his right arm and waved it forward fiercely.

At this time, a patrol garrison had just passed, and there were only two hundred defenders in the city gate corridor in the field of vision. Xue Rengui and his team of dozens of people took advantage of the darkness of the night and rushed towards the corridor. At the same time, a shrill arrow passed through the quiet night sky and suddenly exploded in the air. The defenders immediately noticed something was wrong. While looking around alertly, nearly five hundred Tang soldiers lurking in the dark alleys of the residential houses in the south of the city appeared one after another, and under the cover of the night, they rushed towards the south gate quietly.

While the defenders were urgently pursuing the source of the arrows, Xue Rengui and dozens of soldiers behind him had approached the city gate corridor. It was pitch black now. Only torches were lit above the city gate corridor. Xue Rengui and others were sneaking under the corridor before they were discovered by the defenders.

It was vaguely visible that the group of people were dressed up by beggars, but at this moment, just now, when an arrow exploded, dozens of beggars appeared outside the corridor. It was obvious that they were malicious. It was impossible to ask the defenders for late supper.

After the defenders in the corridor were stunned, they immediately raised their spear and yelled something with a stick. Xue Rengui was not interested in knowing what they said, but just shouted suddenly: "Take it!"

Dozens of Tang soldiers rushed up, showing off the small daggers hidden in their arms, and rushed into the flock of sheep like tigers, and began to fight without any scruples.

A scream cut through the silence of the night sky, and the defenders on the city tower were also alarmed, and a chaotic footsteps immediately ran towards the city gate corridor.

Tens of feet outside the corridor, nearly 500 Tang soldiers were about to arrive. Xue Renguihun didn't realize the scolding of the defenders on the city tower, and took out a dagger to see a guy in armor in the corridor. The defending general happened to see him. The two of them looked at each other and knew that they had found the target and went up to him without saying a word.

Xue Rengui in history was the most outstanding young general during the reign of Emperor Gaozong. In terms of force, he was no match for a young general who guarded the city gate of the enemy country. As soon as the two fought, their weapons collided violently, and a spark burst out. The enemy general was shocked and his arms were numb. He suddenly felt that he was definitely not the opponent of the person in front of him. His heart was sank, so his heart was also confused. When dealing with Xue Rengui's killing moves one after another, You did not forget to raise his throat and shout something.

The martial arts skills of Xue Rengui were not as good as Xue Rengui, and his mind was confused and the gods were at once. The enemy general suddenly showed a flaw. Xue Rengui seized the opportunity and flew up. A cold white light flashed in the dark. The enemy general's movements suddenly stopped, and he kept his defensive movements standing still. Then he knelt on the ground with a plop, threw his weapons and covered his neck with his hands. Thick blood kept flowing out of his fingers, and soon spilled all over the ground. The general covered his neck and made a strange giggle sound in his throat. Finally, his vitality was gone and he fell heavily into the dust.

Xue Rengui breathed a few breaths, bent down and wiped all the blood from the dagger in his hand on the corpse of the enemy general, and then shouted loudly: "The enemy generals at the city gate have been killed. I immediately opened the city gate, put down the suspension bridge, search for the hay and dead trees in the corridor, ignite the fire in front of the city gate, and support the general to enter the city!"

While speaking, the five hundred Tang troops had already arrived in the corridor. Some of them were fighting with the two hundred defenders in the corridor, while the other was blocking the stone steps leading to the city wall, fighting with the defenders who came down to the city wall.

At the same time, the city suddenly had a rapid and harsh sound of gongs, which rang through the night sky. The defenders guarding the city gates in various directions and sleeping in the city camp were alarmed, and they picked up their weapons and rushed towards the south gate.

With intentional calculations but no intentions, the two hundred defenders in the corridor were quickly killed. After a dull sound, the heavy city gate slowly opened, and the ropes of the suspension bridge also made a creaking sound of inverted teeth, slowly lowered and crossed the moat.

Outside the city gate, the fire was lit, and the fire rose, illuminating the night sky. Less than three miles outside the city gate, a torch suddenly lit up. One, two, hundreds, and thousands. Under the dim and swaying firelight, a dark and invisible cavalry stood quietly outside the city. Seeing the fire on the city gate, a loud shout came from the team outside the city.

"kill"

The whip flowers exploded, and thousands of people urged the horses. The rumbling sound of horse hooves was like a tsunami that destroyed the world, sweeping towards the city gate.

The defenders on the city tower saw countless torches, and a cavalry of more than 10,000 people rushed towards the city gate. The defenders couldn't help but feel distracted. They screamed in fright, turned around and shouted loudly at the bottom of the city. Then the defenders on the city tower gathered urgently, and bows and arrows were aimed at the wall outside the city.

The defenders were almost crazy, and they didn't even care about the guards of other city gates. Amid the desperate roar of the generals guarding the city, all the defenders in the city swarmed towards the south gate corridor, striving to close the city gate again before the Tang army brigade reached. At this time, the Tang army's ten thousand cavalry were racing towards the city gate. The five hundred Tang army soldiers led by Xue Rengui were still struggling to support them, gritting their teeth to resist the tide of the tide. The enemy and us all used their strength to fight and kill each other wildly at any cost. As the sound of the horse hooves of the Tang army cavalry approached, the defenders in the city became more and more crazy, and launched repeated attacks on Xue Rengui's troops without any chance. Both sides were trying their best to fight to the death.

"Snatch the long weapons and form a formation in the corridor!" During the melee, Xue Rengui shouted loudly.

The corridor was now full of corpses of the defenders. The soldiers of the Tang army put the daggers into their arms without hesitation, leaned over and picked up the defenders' weapons, and lined up in several rows in the narrow and narrow corridor. After forming a formation, they held spears and spears in their hands and stabbed them straight outward in a neat manner.

The sound of horse hooves was getting closer and closer, and the defenders became more and more anxious. As the city gate was about to be driven straight into the Tang army, an atmosphere of despair quickly spread among the defenders, and the defenders' counterattack became more and more crazy. Everyone rushed forward desperately, often facing the Tang army's spear in front of their chests, and was penetrated by the spears without hesitation. Even if they fought their lives, they would slash the Tang army with the last knife in their lives.

However, all madness is a precursor to destruction. No matter how desperate the defenders fought, the iron cavalry of the Tang army outside the city has arrived!

The leader of a Tang army general wearing armor rode on the horse and rushed into the city gate first. The man rushed forward with the horse's stance. The dense defenders were immediately rushed out of a gap. Then, the Tang army cavalry behind followed closely, and countless torches swarmed into the city. The defenders general who commanded the city gate made a shrill cry. Then they were hit hard by the Tang army general who was riding a cavalry. The defenders' head was smashed to pieces and his body fell softly to the ground.

The generals were dead, but the remaining defenders did not lose their fighting spirit. Li Shimin attacked Goguryeo for a long time but failed. The combat effectiveness of Goguryeo soldiers is obvious to all. From generals to soldiers, they were all brave soldiers who were not afraid of death. Even if the generals were killed, the soldiers were not defeated at all. They still fought desperately towards the city gate. Under such an absolute disadvantage that most of the Tang army entered the city and had no hope, the defenders continued to attack the city gate one after another, trying to regain control of the city gate.

All the stubborn resistance was futile. At this time, there were thousands of Tang army entering the city, and the iron cavalry of the Tang army behind were still pouring into the city, as if the flood peaks were broken and pouring down, and manpower was unstoppable.

The Tang army entering the city had a clear division of labor. They divided two thousand men and horses to continue fighting with the defenders in the city gate. The remaining thousands were divided into more than a dozen teams and quickly dispersed in units of two or three hundred. Some rushed to the top of the city to annihilate the defenders at the top of the city, some cleared out the sporadic defenders who wandered in the houses in various places in the city, and controlled the city's military political office and the children and families of officials, etc.

As Li Su guessed in advance, the defenders in Qingzhou City were mostly only about 3,000. After a fight, the defenders were basically annihilated by the Tang army. A torch was set up on the top of the city wall and inserted it at the highest point of the city tower. The royal flag representing Goguryeo was taken down by the Tang army soldiers. It was thrown down the city wall contemptuously and replaced with Li Ji's handsome flag. A huge black-bottomed and gold-edged "Li" character fluttered in the night sky in the wind.

After replacing the flag, an unknown Tang army soldier shouted excitedly.

"I've got Qingzhou!"

"The Tang Dynasty has thousands of victories! Ten thousand victories!"

Excited emotions quickly spread throughout the army, and deafening cheers and roars were heard in Qingzhou City. Until this moment, the defenders finally collapsed completely. They knew that the situation was over and things should not be done. Some defenders threw down their swords and collapsed on the ground and cried desperately, while others would rather break than bend, and tragically held the knife and wiped their necks with their hands, and their movements were straightforward and decisive.

Li Ji and Li Su were the last Tang troops to enter the city. Li Suce cavalry ordered as soon as he walked into the city gate.

"Look for the Guan Cang immediately, hurry up! Take control of the Guan Cang before the defenders burned the Guan Cang!"

The commissar beside Li Ji hurriedly conveyed the order. Not long after, a sound of fighting came from the east of the city, and then a thick smoke rose. Li Su looked at the direction of the smoke with fear. Fortunately, the smoke gradually became thinner and it was obvious that the fire was extinguished.

A Tang army captain came on horseback and excitedly clasped his fists to Li Ji and Li Su and said, "Fortunately, Major General Li reminded him that when we found the Guan Cang, a group of defenders were planning to ignite the fire, but my soldiers killed them on the spot and put out the fire."

Li Su asked with concern: "Have you found the official warehouse? How much food and grass are left in the official warehouse?"

"There are nearly half of the food and grass in the official warehouse, all of which are wheat and millet, as well as a small amount of air-dried meat strips and salt. I guessed it, it's enough for our army to need for two months."

Li Ji next to him couldn't help but be overjoyed when he heard this, and laughed a few times, then slapped Li Su on the shoulder.

"Boy, you're doing a good job! There is indeed an official warehouse in Qingzhou City, and our military's urgent food and supplies have been solved!"

Li Su also smiled and sighed: "I finally don't have to eat that kind of black thing anymore. I want to eat barbecue tonight."

Li Ji laughed and said, "Okay, I have the best of Qingzhou City, and I will make an exception to give you more meat tonight."

Li Su was not polite, and thanked him immediately.

Li Su's behavior is different from others. Yesterday, he shared the joys and sorrows with the soldiers because of the lack of food in the army. For the generals, he must set an example of sharing hardships. Today, he broke Qingzhou and got the official warehouse. The soldiers in the army had no food and sorrows. Everyone can eat with them openly. At this time, there is no need to share the joys and sorrows with the soldiers. There is no need to act in the full set. Half set is enough. The food and sorrows are already guaranteed. You should improve your personal quality of life. Anyway, Li Su won't eat anything like yesterday, even if you kill him.

Just as he was about to slap the horse, Li Su suddenly stopped and turned to look at Li Ji and said, "Uncle, Qingzhou City is broken, what should the people in the city deal with it?"

Li Ji's smile froze. This is a difficult question, and it is really hard to answer. In theory, with the style of the Tang army, it is normal to massacre the city after breaking the enemy's city. Especially in this dangerous period when the lonely army penetrates deep behind the enemy, there is no need to stay in the city. Killing them all can shock the enemy. However, Li Ji's personality is different from other generals. His insidiousness and cruelty are usually only shown on the battlefield, and he is not very interested in the massacre of the city.

After pondering for a while, Li Ji asked back: "In accordance with Zizheng's opinion, what should we do?"

Li Su smiled bitterly and said, "I don't know. It would be too kind to let go all of them, and it would be too cruel to kill them. After all, the lives of the people of the enemy country are also living lives. If there is no sympathy for the heavens, there is really no need to kill them all..."

Li Ji's eyes flashed: "So, Zizheng means...all released?"

Li Su thought for a while and sighed, "Let me go, God has the virtue of being a good life, which can be regarded as a way for me to accumulate some merit for my newborn daughter and seek blessings in this life."

Li Ji looked at him deeply and nodded, "Your daughter is also my husband's nephew and granddaughter. Forget it, I will accumulate some merit for her. Just let the people of the whole city go."

With a few words from the two of them, tens of thousands of lives in the city walked around the gate of hell and finally returned to the sun...

Li Ji suddenly frowned when he looked up at the sky.

"The news of breaking the Qingju City will soon spread. How will Quan Gai Suwen choose?"

Li Su smiled lazily and said, "To adapt to changes in the world, we will first occupy the city of Qingzhou. The scout sent two hundred miles away to monitor the movements of Quangai Suwen's troops to see what choice he would make. As I said yesterday, if Quangai Suwen divided his troops to rescue him, 30,000 to 50,000 people would not be able to capture the city. The division of troops was destined to return in terror. If he gave up pursuing Your Majesty, all 150,000 soldiers turned around to attack the city, our mission of blocking the enemy will be completed. We can abandon Qingzhou and enter the Thousand Mountains. I want to see if Quangai Suwen has the courage to let all 150,000 people rush into the woods to chase us..."

"If he is unmoved, what if 150,000 people will still pursue His Majesty if they remain unchanged?" Li Ji asked in a deep voice.
Chapter completed!