Junyang County, Xiyang County, is a county town surrounded by mountains. The terrain is high in the west and low in the east. The Wudang Mountains are high in mountains and densely forested, sparsely populated, and are rich in high-quality fur, mushrooms and precious nanmu. Danshui and Hanshui meet at the east side of the county town. This is also a major advantage of Junyang County. It is convenient for water transportation. A large number of mountain goods are shipped from Danshui to Chang'an or Xiangyang. Every year, a large number of merchants come to purchase high-quality mountain goods produced here at low prices.

Although Junyang County is located in Xiyang County controlled by Wang Shichong, it is close to Xiangyang and the place where Danshui enters the Han River, and its strategic position is very important. It has actually become the most important material transfer center for the Tang army. Since Danshui can only sail 500 stone cargo ships and have a low transportation capacity, the food and grass materials transported from Shangluo County arrived in Junyang County and had to be replaced with a thousand stone cargo ship to Xiangyang.

The Tang army built hundreds of warehouses on the west bank of Danshui, piled up countless food and supplies, and an army of 3,000 people stationed here. Although it still belongs to Wang Shichong's territory, it has actually been occupied by the Tang army.

That morning, an army of unknown origin appeared on a path west of Junyang County. The army was all cavalry, about a thousand people, very well-equipped. The cavalry were all tall and tall, with strong arms, as if they were composed of specially selected soldiers.

This army is Fenglei, the new army just established by the Sui Army. All soldiers were selected from the 10,000 scouts. The scouts themselves are composed of elite Sui Army, and they are even more elite among the elite. They are all brave and good at fighting and have high martial arts skills. They are not only brave in close combat, but also good at riding and shooting. They are equipped with the best armor and equipment of the Sui Army. Their swords and spears are made of iron, and even the war horses are specially selected from the Liaodong Horse Farm. They can not only travel long distances and rush quickly.

Zhang Xuan had long thought of creating this Fenglei Army. Now with strong national strength, this army was born. The leader of the army was Liu Lancheng, who had just been promoted to General Huya Lang. He had two capable deputy generals, one named Zhang Li and the other named Li Keshi, and Li Keshi was Li Jing's younger brother. He was only twenty years old this year, and they were both rising stars recommended by Shen Guang to Zhang Xuan.

The task of the Fenglei Army this time was to attack the logistics of the Tang Army in Xiangyang and weaken the combat capabilities of the Tang Army. Based on various previous information, Liu Lancheng locked the first target in Junyang County. They came from Hefei and ran for thousands of miles. After a little supply and rest in Zaoyang County, Chongling County, which is close to Xiangyang County, he passed through Tongbai Mountain and entered Nanyang County, hiked during the day and walked around at night, and walked around Junyang County.

The soldiers were resting in a valley about three miles away from Danshui, waiting patiently for news of the scouts. For Liu Lancheng, who led his troops to fight for the first time, he was under great pressure. He knew that the tasks he shouldered were related to the development of the war situation in the south. The King of Qi told him that they could not stop the Tang army from the east, but hoped that they would delay the Tang army's eastward expedition as much as possible and gain time for the Sui army to assist Xiao Xian in the fight against the Tang Dynasty.

Liu Lancheng and two scouts stood on a hill and watched the situation at the foot of the mountain. Danshui was at the foot of the mountain. The wide Hanshui River continued to the south less than five miles south. Since the Hanshui River was about to be injected into the Hanshui River, the river surface of this section of Danshui was very wide and could sail a large ship of thousands of stones. The water flow was very smooth, which was an excellent place for building a wharf.

The other side is Junyang County. The county is very walled and the circumference is only eleven or two miles long. Liu Lancheng's eyes are retracted to the foot of the mountain.

At the foot of the mountain is the Tang army's warehouse group, distributed on the east bank of Danshui, stretching for seven or eight miles, with about fifty or sixty large warehouses built of wood. A Tang army camp is located at the eastmost point of the warehouse group, about two miles away from the warehouse. The wharf is located between the military camp and the warehouse. The three are distributed in a font shape. The wharf is filled with thousands of stone ships, with dozens of ships.

After observing for a while, Liu Lancheng took two subordinates back to the valley.

Back at the valley, Liu Lancheng asked the soldiers to invite two deputy generals. The three of them discussed the battle plan in front of a big rock. Liu Lancheng drew a sketch and said to the two: "The focus of our attack this time is the warehouse. I plan to burn all the warehouse with a fire, and the ship doesn't want to let it go, but we must face the Tang army, the distance is too close."

"General, how many troops does the other party have?" asked Li Keshi.

"Judged from the land occupied by the other party's military camp, there are about three or four thousand people?"

"Will there be garrisons in the county town?" Zhang Li also raised his own questions.

Liu Lancheng shook his head, "The county town has no strategic value. They are here to protect the wharf and warehouses, not Junyang County. Unless there are no places to garrison on the east bank, I see that there are many places around the military camp and can be expanded further, so I can conclude that there are no garrisons in the county town."

Liu Lancheng's analysis convinced the two of them. Zhang Li smiled and said, "With the general's opinion, how should we fight this battle?"

Liu Lancheng pointed to the military camp on the map with a thick finger, "As long as we kill this army, the warehouse and the dock will be our turtle in the jar."

Junyang County is rich in wood. The Tang army used wood to build more than 50 large warehouses with fences around it. The warehouse was filled with more than 100,000 stones of grain and various military supplies. This warehouse is the most important transit station of the Tang army. It has extremely strict defense. Three thousand soldiers are divided into three shifts, defending the safety of the warehouse day and night. Teams of soldiers patrolling the warehouse everywhere. The soldiers who came in to carry the grain were also guarded by the soldiers. No fire is allowed to be brought into the warehouse. To the south of the fence is the warehouse gate. More than a hundred soldiers are stationed. All civilians must be strictly searched when entering the warehouse.

Although the jurisdiction of Junyang County belongs to Luoyang, it is actually within the sphere of influence of the Tang army. It is far away from the territory of the Sui army and is located in a remote location. Therefore, the Tang army did not defend against the Sui army, but targeted the small groups of bandits around, and three thousand garrisons were enough to deal with it.

As usual, a group of more than a hundred Tang soldiers were patrolling along the fence on the east side. This place was close to the mountains and was also the focus of the Tang army's defense. Not only were there 300 teams patrolling, but three sentry towers were also built, and soldiers observed the situation in the mountains on the sentry towers.

Just as the patrol team walked past a sentry tower in the middle, a cold arrow suddenly shot out from the mountain, hitting the sentry's throat. The sentry covered his throat and rolled down from the sentry tower.

The heavy sound of falling to the ground alarmed the patrol soldiers. They drew their knives and ran towards the patrol. Just as they were ten steps away from the patrol, countless arrows suddenly appeared from the crack of the fence. Lan Yingying was shining with poisonous light. Only a sound of bowstrings were heard, dozens of arrows were shot at the patrol soldiers. The Tang soldiers were wailing and fell down one after another. The Tang soldiers behind were scared to death and turned around and fled, but they could not escape thirty steps. A poisonous arrow shot out again, shooting most of the running soldiers down, and only a dozen people ran away.

"There is an enemy!"

The soldiers ran wildly and shouted, "Someone is coming in!"

At this time, the alarm bell rang on the mail tower, and nearly a thousand Tang soldiers in the warehouse ran from where something happened in all directions.

"boom!"

The camp was pulled down and a gap of three meters wide appeared. Two hundred Fenglei cavalry led by Zhang Li to enter the warehouse. At this time, Tang soldiers came from all directions.

"Form a formation!"

The cavalry quickly became four teams, each with fifty people, each with a round shield and a battle spear, urging the horse to kill in four directions. The soldiers of the Fenglei Army were extremely brave, and each could fight five. The fifty people were a team, cooperated with tacit understanding and played a great advantage in cavalry. In a moment, they reversed the situation and killed a thousand Tang soldiers so that they ran all over the ground and fled in a panic.

At this time, Zhang Li lit a fire stick. The fire stick was a must-have item for the Sui army scouts. In fact, it was to dry the oil-soaked linen strips and stuff them into the dry bamboo tube with sulfur powder, and then wrapped them with oil paper. This kind of fire stick could burn rapidly and was an excellent fire-attracting object. Zhang Li threw the ignited fire stick into a forage warehouse. The soldiers followed suit and quickly lit more than twenty warehouses.

Two hundred cavalry united one, turned their horses to kill them at the gate of the camp.

The alarm bells sounded in the warehouse and the thick smoke alarmed the camp two miles away. The Tang army commander who commanded the army was named Song Wenfu. He was having lunch when he suddenly heard the alarm bells coming from a distance. He was stunned and put down his chopsticks and walked out of the tent. A soldier reported: "General, it seems that something happened in the warehouse."
Chapter completed!