Chapter 1259

After a short rest at the back of the mountain ridge, the five thousand Tang army took advantage of the dusk to advance quietly along the mountain depression towards the South official road.

Hurry up and slow down, the army finally arrived near the fujiabao before it was completely dark, and ordered the army to hide on the spot and wait for the order. Liu Shang led the other four generals to quietly approach the fort and observe carefully.

In the dark, you can see that there are four people on the wall of the fortress. It is estimated that because of the outbreak of war in the county town several miles away, the defense of the whole fortress has also been strengthened.

Several people quietly took a look around the fortress again. Except that the back of the fortress is directly against the ridge, the whole fortress has three walls, but its defense is extremely poor. Except for ten people in the direction of the main gate, there are five people on each side of the other things.

Seeing this situation, several people quietly returned to the valley hundreds of steps away.

"It seems that the defense of the fortress is still very strong. Despite the strong fighting power of these people, there are at least 20 people on the three walls of the fortress. It can be seen that the people in Fu's fortress still attach great importance to it. Let's talk about it. What should we do? " Liu Shang asked;

"according to a certain point of view, it's just a matter of attacking directly after waving. Where are so many troubles? There are no more than three or five hundred people inside, and the real young people are no more than a hundred. If you don't want to surrender, you can just kill them. " What he said was square. In his opinion, it was more straightforward to kill directly.

"No, Shangjun will soon be under the rule of the king. These people are our countrymen. If we start the killing so easily, I'm afraid it will do harm to the king's reputation." Yu Xin immediately objected;

"well, Fang Duwei's method is really direct, but I don't agree with it. They are just the common people, not the enemy. If they can't kill, it's best." Yuan Quan also said: "if the battlefield Bo Sha, then life and death by fate, since there is nothing to say."

Seeing that everyone didn't agree to attack the castle directly, Liu Shang said, "well, after a little rest, one of the soldiers and horses will surround the castle with torches to persuade them to surrender. The other soldiers and horses will hide first and pay attention to the surrounding situation. If they are stubborn, they will attack again."

"No!" The other four were all holding their fists to answer the promise

Inside and above the wall of Fujia castle, several people were guarding there, but now there was only one person standing there watching the sentry, and the rest of them all hid in the gatehouse above the gate of the castle to warm themselves around a fire. This kind of fortress is not like a city. It has all kinds of defense facilities. A better fortress has a gatehouse and four corner turrets, but almost none of them. There are only four bare walls.

It is obvious that fujiabao belongs to the former category. There is not only a trench at the south main gate, but also a two-story gate above the main gate, and a turret at each corner of the wall. Besides, a trench about two feet wide was dug outside the wall, which can be said to have complete defense facilities.

Several people gathered around the brazier, baking the fire and talking about the war several miles away.

"Second uncle, do you think the Tang army can capture dingyang city?" One of the young people looked at the middle-aged man sitting at the top;

"who knows!" The middle-aged man replied, "however, I heard the young master say that the Tang kingdom is now the most powerful vassal state in the world, occupying 30% of the cities and population in the world. Besides, I heard that all the Tang troops are as strong as calves, and they are invincible in the world. Our Hengye general used to be from Hedong. Later he heard that he was driven away by the Tang army. Now he's coming to dingyang to bully us. It's estimated that the Tang army is coming to settle accounts after autumn. "

"Ah, that Qi doesn't mean that the Tang army will definitely attack dingyang. Will they catch us as rebels?" Another young man turned pale with fright and quickly asked,

"bang!"

As soon as his voice fell, the middle-aged man slapped him on the head and scolded: "liuwazi, you crow mouth, who said we were rebels?"

Liuwazi was slapped by the middle-aged man, and he was afraid to speak again.

Several people were chatting when the young watchman outside called out: "two Second uncle! Come on, look, there are so many people over there

"Hula..."

A few people in the gatehouse ran out quickly. Without looking at the young people, we all saw a lot of torches gushing out of the East Col. although the number of torches was not large, the dark group of people seemed to have at least a thousand people.

"Come on Seeing this, the second uncle quickly yelled, "come on, ring the alarm!"

"Dangdang..."

Soon, the clear alarm bell rang in Fuji castle. Suddenly, the castle was full of people and dogs barking everywhere. Soon, the castle master and his eldest son came to the gate tower. Together with them, the rest of Fuji castle's more than 40 people were on the wall. At this time, those people outside the fort had arrived only 200 steps away from the fort gate.

On the gate tower, people looked at the dark crowd two hundred paces away. They were too scared to speak.

Just at this time, a man came out of the crowd outside the fort. He walked a hundred steps away and said in a loud voice to the wall of the Fort: "listen to the people of Fu family fort, we are the Tang army. Let your people in charge come out and answer!"When they heard that it was the Tang army, they were even more scared. The Tang army appeared here. Has the passage dingyang city been broken? But I haven't seen any rout soldiers running away from the official road in front of me these days. With the strength of dingyang City, it's impossible that there is no one running out. At least Mr. Fu and Mr. Fu knew that there were at least three or four thousand Hun cavalry in dingyang. These cavalry might not be able to defend the city, but they certainly had no problem escaping.

However, it is no longer the time to think about this. Seeing that no one came out to answer, the Tang army outside was impatient and was urging. Seeing this, Mr. Fu quickly stood up and said in a loud voice, "I'm the Lord of Fu family castle. I don't know what you want from this Tang army warrior to my Fu family castle?"

"My general said that this time we came to pacify the rebellion army of the Shangdang under the order of the king. Now the army has arrived here and wants to have a rest in the fort."

"Heroes of the Tang army, the place of our fujiabao is too small to accommodate more than 1000 people of your army. If you don't want to abandon it, you should set up a camp outside the fort. The little old man will send people to send food, cattle and sheep to work for the army. At the same time, I would like to present 500 Guan of money and 200 Shi of grain to the army to strengthen its military power! "

"Don't be shameless, you old man. Let's just open the door. Don't worry. If you cooperate, we promise not to hurt you. But if you don't know what's good and what's bad, we'll attack the fortress later, we'll leave no one behind."

"Ah!..." All the people on the wall were so frightened that they all cried out, one by one turned pale and looked back at the castle master beside them.