Chapter 1212: Taking the Royal City at Night, Yu Shu Becomes a Slave

The tenth day of the first lunar month, just after the hour of Mao.

There is no atmosphere of celebrating the Spring Festival in Linhe County.

Two thousand five hundred soldiers stood in front of the county government office, facing each other in pairs, checking each other's leggings, swords, crossbows and other armor and weapons.

Su Mingzhe also completed putting on his armor under the inspection of Cao Wushang and Zhou Bo.

Not long after.

Zhao Wu came with a group of men and horses. When he arrived at the gate of the yamen, he jumped off his horse and knelt down, saying:

"General, everyone in the city has been sent to the county town. Now Linhe County is empty!"

Su Mingzhe frowned:
"Has General Meng replied?"

Zhou Bo received information from scouts that Tuan City would invade the south again.

Su Mingzhe took the opportunity to report that he was outnumbered and unable to defend the city, and requested to be allowed to leave the city to launch a surprise attack on the enemy. He also signed a military order, stating that the minimum gain would be to capture 5,000 enemies.

Zhao Wu replied:

"General Meng said 'yes'!"

"Return to the team!"

When Su Mingzhe received the order, his brows immediately lit up with joy.

Immediately, he held his sword with his left hand, took two steps forward, looked at all the soldiers silently, and said nothing more, just waved his hand:

"Get on the horse and go!"

At the same time, in Xian City, three hundred miles away, King Tuan was seeing off his eldest son Hukam.

Hukam was over thirty years old, in the prime of his life. He raised his head to drink the farewell wine, and with a whoosh, he rode his jet-black precious horse and galloped southward.

It was different from Su Mingzhe who only brought 2,500 people with him, which was a sparse group.

There were more than 20,000 people behind Hukam, which were all the young and strong warriors in Xian City.

In addition to the 20,000 people behind him, the other four cities of Tuan Kingdom also came out in full force, with a total of more than 50,000 people heading south to the Great Wall.

Line, line, line, line.

An eagle flew over the grassland for an unknown period of time and circled for a long time, as if looking for a target.

Following a sharp and piercing scream.

Su Mingzhe, who was more than ten miles away, heard it and responded with a long howl.

The eagle cried for a while again, then slowly flew away.

After the eagle flew away, Su Mingzhe was thoughtful, with a gleam in his eyes:
"Lord Tuan is so bold that he actually staged the Empty City Plan. Isn't this a godsend?"

"All troops, listen up! Speed ​​up and advance! Cross Yinshan Mountain before the sun sets today!"

Yinshan Mountain is just north of Yunzhong County, and the straight-line distance is only seventy or eighty miles.

The five cities of Tuan State are all located to the north of Yinshan Mountain.

More than 2,000 people directly crossed the Yinshan Mountains and saved themselves more than 100 miles.

When everyone stood at the highest point of Yinshan Mountain and looked to the north, they could vaguely see a few small black dots in the vast sky.

"Master, that direction is Xian City!"

Zhou Bo pointed Su Mingzhe in a direction and explained:
"Even though we can see it now, Xian City is still at least a hundred miles away from here!"

"It's over a hundred miles, and we can get there in one day!"

Su Mingzhe knew that Tuan was now an undefended city, so he immediately ordered:
"Pass the message, everyone rest here tonight and set out early tomorrow morning!"

"Here!"

The teams were receiving orders and immediately went down to make arrangements.

The next day, the wind blew up the snow, and the sky and earth looked vast.

Zhou Bo, Zhao Wu and others looked at the heavy snow flying all over the sky, and all wanted to persuade Su Mingzhe to take a day off and attack Xian tomorrow.

Unexpectedly, Su Mingzhe burst into laughter:
"Brothers, this is God helping us! With such a heavy snowstorm covering our tracks, the Tuan people will never guess that we will attack them today!"

When everyone heard this, they felt it made sense, and their original fear of traveling in the snow instantly disappeared.

However, although everyone no longer felt afraid, it was still very easy to get lost while traveling in the wind and snow.

It was Su Mingzhe's determined gaze as he led everyone forward in the snow that prevented everyone from mentally collapsing.

It was just after 3 p.m. in the afternoon.

The shadow of a city gradually appeared on the horizon.

"Brothers, Tuan is right before our eyes. This is the chance to build a career, get married and have children. Charge!" "Charge!"

Everyone traveled for two days with their heads down and finally arrived at the destination. Without any more time to think, they drew their swords from their waists and followed Su Mingzhe to charge into the city.

The young and strong men in Xian City were taken away by the eldest prince Hukam to attack the Great Wall, and the only ones left were the elderly, the weak, women and children.

King Natuan never thought that the Qin people would brave the wind and snow to launch a surprise attack on him, so he did not make any arrangements for defense.

Su Mingzhe took the lead, climbed to the top of the city wall and opened the city gate from the inside.

This city, with a population of more than 80,000, is destined to become Su Mingzhe's possession.

Su Mingzhe took the lead and led 500 troops to rush into the palace, killing the resisting guards and came to King Tuan who was still drinking and having fun.

King Tuan was already old. When he saw the Qin people who seemed to have fallen from the sky, his face turned pale and he tried several times but failed to get up from the ground.

When Su Mingzhe drew his sword and pointed it at the old man, King Tuan could only helplessly throw away the jewel-studded sword in his hand and declare surrender.

Su Mingzhe is very experienced in capturing grassland prisoners.

After informing the public that King Tuan had been captured, the people were told not to resist anymore.

When the sounds of fighting gradually came to an end, Su Mingzhe had his men in the city who were taller than the wheels gathered together, tied up their hands and feet, and then ordered the sharp soldiers to guard them with bows and crossbows.

Control the men first, then deal with the women and children.

Among them, women with children were imprisoned together, and women without children were imprisoned together.

Finally, there were a group of old and weak people left, and they were killed directly.

In addition, there was a group of Qin people captured by the Tuan people in Xian City.

There were about 15,000 captured Qin people, both men and women, all young and strong.

Su Mingzhe selected some of the captured Qin people who were capable and willing to help the Qin army, and asked them to help the Qin army suppress and guard the prisoners.

The remaining Qin army warriors began to sweep through the city like autumn wind sweeping fallen leaves.

We were busy like this until the next afternoon.

Zhao Wu led six people holding dozens of bamboo slips to the main meeting hall of Tuan State. Seeing his general hugging two crying beauties and enjoying themselves, he did not dare to look up, but just lowered his head and reported:

"General, all the gold and silver items have been registered!"

Su Mingzhe listened and just waved his hand:

"According to the laws of the Qin Empire, two-thirds of all items must be handed over. Of the remaining one-third, half must be handed over to General Meng. Of the last one-sixth, I will take half, and everyone will share one-twelfth equally!"

"Here!"

Seeing that Su Mingzhe had no intention of keeping anything to himself, Zhao Wu handed the bamboo slips over to someone else and left.

Su Mingzhe and the two Princesses Tuan were the only ones left in the hall.

The most beautiful princess in Tuan is naturally Princess Yushu.

However, Princess Yusu's sister, Princess Yurong, is not bad either.

After a desperate fight, Su Mingzhe successfully completed his first emotional communication with the two women.

One day passed.

The snowstorm that had lasted for two days finally stopped.

The army loaded all the harvest onto horse and ox carts, and then began to head towards Yunzhong County.

On the way back, everyone walked slowly because we were not in a hurry.

It was five days later when everyone rushed back to Linhe County.

At this time, the 50,000-strong army led by Prince Hukam of Tuan was intercepted outside the Great Wall by General Meng Tian. When he learned that Xian City had been broken, he was so scared that he fled in panic.

Meng Tian took the opportunity to lead his army in a surprise attack, killing more than 8,000 people.

Everyone returned to the city.

When Su Mingzhe handed over the captives, he suddenly asked for the two princesses, Yu Shu and Yu Rong, to be his official slaves.

Meng Tian didn't care about it at all and approved it directly.

In his eyes, the two princesses were just daughters of Rongdi chieftains and barbarians, so he just gave them a reward.

After Su Mingzhe expressed his gratitude, he handed over the spoils that he had already divided.

Meng Tian didn't care about these captured spoils. He only cared about King Tuan.

When the official business was finished, Meng Tian held a banquet and rewarded the three armies.

(End of this chapter)