The new city is located on the north bank of the Little Liaoshui, about 80 miles east of the Liaoshui River. It is located on the hillside of a mountain. The city is tall and sturdy, easy to defend and difficult to attack. It is an important strategic place for the Goguryeo Army to control the upstream of the Liaoshui River. At present, the new city has 10,000 troops and 100,000 stones of grain. It is a logistics important place for Yuangaisuwen.

But after all, Xincheng is still eighty miles away from the Liaoshui River. In order to provide timely food support to the Goguryeo army entering Liaodong, the defenders of Xincheng set up a camp on the east bank of the Liaoshui River, 80 miles away. Seven thousand troops were stationed in the camp. At the same time, they captured thousands of civilians near Xincheng, forcing them to transport the food in the city to the Liaoshui Army camp.

The new city is very busy. Thousands of civilians carry heavy grain bags and line up long queues to carry bags of grain out of the city and send bags of grain to Xiaoliao Water Wharf a mile outside the city, and then transfer the boats from here. However, there are not many small boats on the pier, less than a hundred, and they can only transport more than a thousand stones of grain at a time. In order to speed up the transportation of grain, the Goguryeo army forced hundreds of carriages to transport grain on land and water.

The ingredients of the people who transported grain in the new city were very complicated. There were Goguryeo people, Muhe people, Khitan people, and Han people. They were all captured by the Goguryeo army from a radius of 100 miles, with a total of more than 3,000 people, eating the worst food and doing the hardest and heaviest work. In order to prevent them from escaping, they were all taken to the city for custody at night.

Although he only served hard labor for more than ten days, the heavy hard labor made many civilians unable to bear it. Some people kept running away. Goguryeo soldiers were very cruel. They captured the fugitives and executed them on the spot. More than a hundred people were executed in just a few days, and no one dared to escape. Although the escape tide was intimidated by bloody killing, hatred and conflicts were constantly accumulating, and a riot was about to happen.

There were about 300 Han people who worked hard in Xincheng, all of whom were young and strong. Thousands of Han people lived in Goguryeo, east of the Liaoshui River. They had locals in Liaodong, civilians who fled when they attacked Goguryeo for the first time, and soldiers who were dispersed. They opened up land, built houses and walls in Xincheng, and even brought their wives and children in their hometowns. Goguryeo also acquiesced to their existence in order to collect taxes.

Since only a minority of Han people who were in hard labor, they soon united under a Han leader named Sun Ying and became the most united group in the new city. Under Sun Ying's constraints, they did not escape. They helped each other, and there was no death. They were carrying food and working hard. They also gained the trust of the Goguryeo army, making them responsible for maintaining night order.

But the Goguryeo people never dreamed that the leader of the Han people who were arrested with the Marines had another unusual identity. He was the scout of the Sui army. Sun Ying led ninety men to the Marine tribe. With the help of the Marines, they covered up their identity and took advantage of the opportunity of the Goguryeo people to capture the civilians in large numbers and sneaked into the new city.

The new city is not big, with a circumference of only twelve miles. It is a pure military city. There are no civilians in the city, only a few large warehouses and rows of simple stone houses. Since the seven thousand Goguryeo troops went to the Liaohe River to camp, there are currently only three thousand garrisons in the new city. The garrisons, like civil servants, also live in stone houses, but they live in the east of the city, while civil servants live in the west of the city, and the two sides are a distance apart.

Although both sides lived in stone houses, the conditions were completely different. The barracks of Goguryeo soldiers were dry and spacious, with five people each, with new bedding, and the food was very good. The stone houses of the civilians were stuffy and humid, with thirty people crowded with one. The ground was covered with moldy straw, mice, fleas, and bed bugs. The food was also very crude and could not be filled at all.

At night, Sun Ying and his thirty subordinates sat in the stone room and waited patiently, while his other 60 subordinates were mingling with other Han people, and they had already united the three hundred Han people.

Sun Ying sat at the door and looked at several large warehouses not far away. At this time, the captain Wang Canghai sat next to him and smiled and said, "Are you thinking about how to get a weapon?"

Sun Ying smiled, "Only by our civilians, even if we get weapons, we are not a match for the Goguryeo soldiers. We must get help from the Martyrs."

"But no matter what, you must get the weapons first."

Sun Ying looked at an arsenal on the far right, where the armor was stored. He smiled faintly and said, "Actually, weapons are not difficult to obtain, but every day when we go out to work, Goguryeo soldiers will come to search our barracks. Where do we hide the weapons?"

Wang Canghai was excited and hurriedly said, "If I could get the weapons, I would have a place to hide them."

"Where are you hiding?"

"Hidden in the pile of graves."

The tombs are piled up behind the barracks, and the civilians who were executed and sick have been buried. More than 200 people have been buried. The Goguryeo soldiers are afraid of being infected by the epidemic and never go there. They ask the civilians to bury their bodies. It is indeed a good place to hide things.

Sun Ying smiled, then pointed to a tall tower next to the arsenal and said, "Did you see that tall tower?"

"I know, but the door is locked and I have never been in."

"I've been in there and it's full of all kinds of abandoned debris. If you climb up to the fifth floor of the tower, you will find that there is only two feet away from the Arsenal's transverse window. You can enter the Arsenal's transverse window with hooks and ropes."

Wang Canghai's eyes lit up, but then dimmed again, and he said a little depressedly: "Our war horses, weapons and hook claws are all in the Marine tribe. After talking for a long time, it's still useless."

Sun Ying smiled mysteriously, reached out to take out the corner of the door for a moment, and took out a cloth bag from the soil. When she opened the cloth bag, there was a steel hook with an eagle claw inside. Wang Canghai was overjoyed, took the steel hook and looked at it for a while, and asked in confusion: "How come you have this thing? Haven't everyone searched and checked it?"

Sun Ying smiled and said, "Meng Chi contacted me the day before yesterday. I asked him to bring me a hawk claw hook, and I only got it this morning."

Meng Chi and they went to Xincheng to be civil servants. Five days ago, they escaped under Sun Ying's cover and became one of the few people who successfully escaped. Wang Canghai also knew that Meng Chi was the confidant of the chief of the Martialid. Since he had contacted Sun Ying, there must be news about the sudden change.

Wang Canghai asked quickly: "Is the Marine Army here?"

Sun Ying nodded, "Suddenly Diji led 10,000 warriors to the nearest new city, so I'm waiting for the time to start the operation."

As soon as he finished speaking, the rattle of crows came from not far away. Sun Ying immediately stood up and saw a night patrol patrol with wooden sticks coming. There were ten people in total. They were also Sun Ying's subordinates. The wooden stick was the only weapon given to them by the Goguryeo army to maintain night order.

"Go to bed early and work tomorrow!"

The head whistleman shouted and quickly stuffed a note into Sun Ying's hand. When they walked away, Sun Ying opened the note and Wang Canghai hurriedly came forward, only one sentence on it, "Correction on the sixth day of the fourth month" was the news that Sun Ying was waiting for. At the third evening of the sixth day of the lunar month, the general suddenly led his army to attack the city. They cooperated from the city and took the new city from the inside and outside.

Today is the fourth day of June, the night after tomorrow. Sun Ying smiled and said to Wang Canghai: "It seems that you need to dig a pit in the cemetery tomorrow."

Wang Canghai was already a little impatient

The next night, Sun Ying and Wang Canghai each led a team of people to patrol the barracks of the civilians in the West District. Next to the warehouse gate, dozens of Goguryeo soldiers stood guard, and a team of soldiers were patrolling outside the warehouse.

Sun Ying and his two subordinates sneaked into the tower. The dust was covered with the ground and all kinds of debris were piled up. They rushed to the fifth floor and demolished a window. Two meters away opposite was the air window of the arsenal. Sun Ying and his subordinates were elite scouts, all of whom were skilled in martial arts and good at climbing rocks and walls. Sun Ying accurately clamped the stone wall in the air with hook claws, and then pulled up a rope bridge in the air. Sun Ying left one to guard him. He and another soldier climbed the rope and slowly climbed into the air.

The moonlight shone in through the air window, and the situation in the warehouse was clearly visible. The underside of the air window was filled with leather armor, like a hill. The two of them jumped directly to the air armor mountain, while on the other side were filled with various weapons, bundles of spears and swords, as well as bows and crossbows and arrows. Sun Ying briefly estimated that he could arm at least five thousand soldiers.

"Boss, do you want to get your armor?" the soldier asked from the side.

Sun Ying waved his hand quickly, "Don't use armor, just take a spear and a knife, and take twenty military crossbows."

The two of them fought together, throwing bundles of spears, swords and military crossbows in straw bags out of the warehouse through the air window. Wang Canghai, who was hiding outside and waiting in the dark, led his men to quickly transfer the weapons to the stone house.

(To be continued.)
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