At night, the Wei River enters the south bank of the Yellow River mouth, Guangtong Cang, and most of the defenders fall asleep. Only sentries shook their spirits and stayed at night, and then kept dozing off. Tall granaries stood under the night.

Not far outside the warehouse is a canal called Guangtong Canal. This is an artificial canal excavated by the Sui Dynasty. It follows the old path of the Han Dynasty's canal from the eastern suburbs of Chang'an City and enters the Yellow River eastward.

Guanzhong is known as a fertile land, but the land is narrow and the people are crowded. The production is not enough for Chang'an, and it is often affected by drought and insufficient food. It requires Guandong to transport grain and grass into the pass. If it is difficult to take the land, it is mostly transported in the form of canal transportation.

There is the Wei River north of Chang'an, but the water is inconsistent in size and depth, and it often blocks the canal transport. Therefore, the Emperor of Sui ordered the prince Zuo Shuzi Yuwen Kai to lead the water workers to open another canal.

It leads the Wei River from the northeast of Chang'an City, and reaches the Yellow River eastward, which is more than 300 miles long, and is known as Guangtong Canal. Since then, the transportation of canals is prosperous. Except for the dangers of the Sanmenxia main pillar, it cannot be connected to the ship, and the transportation of canals from Tongguan to Guanzhong is very convenient.

The Guangtong Cang at Guangtong Canal and Weikou stored a large amount of food and grass, which was originally intended to be sent to Chang'an, but it was just because the Zhou army captured Chang'an a few years ago. The situation was critical at that time. The defenders of Guangtong Cang even thought about setting fire to prevent the grain from falling into the hands of Zhou's army.

Fortunately, reinforcements from all over the country gathered outside Chang'an City. King Yang Guang of Jin led the Bingzhou army to advance westward. After crossing the river from Pujin to the west bank, he divided his troops here to assist in defense. Guangtong Cang became the army's food and grass supply land.

The official army was at the city of Chang'an, and most of the food and grass were supplied by Guangtong Warehouse. This place was not far from Tongguan to the southeast, Huazhou to the west, and Tongzhou to the northwest. Once something happened, the three parties responded and there was a Bingzhou army that cooperated with defense, which was as solid as a destruction.

"So you said we were on the night for the middle of the night, so why are we going to have a hard time!" A sentry and his companion complained. The spring was chilly and the wind was very cool at night. However, we could not make a fire to keep warm, so we could only hold on.

"Speak quietly, don't let the team general hear it."

"What, I'm right, where did Zhou Jun come from? Where can he come from? Tell me, let me see."

"Don't there be many mountain roads in the Qinling Mountains?"

"It is true that there are many mountain roads that can cross the Qinling Mountains. There may be only a few soldiers and horses. The government army has been on guard for a long time. Other roads that can be taken are often killed. Only peddlers and mountain people can walk on this road. How can the army come here?

The sentries complained, Guangtong Cang was as solid as the sun, and the night was so boring that the wind was so loud that it was so popular that the warehouse officials were still talking well. After all, they were all acquaintances and had everything in line, but the Bingzhou generals who were in charge of defense were not so easy to talk to, and they would beat and scold them if they were not satisfied.

"They beat and scold them all day long. Are they here to help defend or act as a defence?"

"I'm stupid, I'm certainly a Bingzhou army came here to assist in defense, but I'm afraid it's my own people."

"Defend your own family? What are we good at guard against?"

"Stupid! We really have nothing to guard against. Think about it, the emperor is gone, who doesn't want an empty throne? If you want to fight for that position, you have to have soldiers. If you want to use soldiers, you have to have food and grass. Who doesn't want so much food and grass in Guangtong Cang?"

"What if we fight, what should we do?"

"What should I do? The food and grass belong to the government, and my life belongs to my own. No matter who comes when fighting, I will kneel down and stick out my butt and surrender? Do you think so? Alas, hey! What are you looking at!"

A sentry looked at the direction of the wilderness in a daze. The other two looked in the direction, but saw a fire in the dark field, floating and emitting a faint green light.

"This...this..."

"Don't point it, it will be a mess!"

"How could it be, how could it be, what has never happened before, how could it be that thing!"

"Don't say it, don't look at it, just pretend you didn't see it!"

"So do you want to report to Shangguan?"

"You are so stupid that you report to Shangguan! What did you say? You saw that thing? If Shangguan asked you to go out and see, would you go or not?"

The few people didn't dare to look out anymore. They looked down one by one and pretended that the fire outside did not exist and no one dared to provoke those unclean things.

This is so evil, but it is said that when the imperial court dug the Guangtong Canal, many lonely tombs of unknown age were dug, and bones were thrown all over the ground. Some were taken away by wild dogs, and some were just like the wind, sun and rain. Maybe they were coming out to shout for justice.

Thinking of this, everyone felt cold all over. Fortunately, those things were wandering outside and did not mean "come in". They were just in a daze, and some blurry shadows appeared around the fire.

What is that? What else can it be!

The sentries did not dare to look at each other, but closed their eyes and kept silently chanting "Amitabha" in their hearts. They all made up their minds and went to the temple to burn incense tomorrow to ask the Buddha for blessings, and ask for a talisman or something.

I don’t know how long it took, the wind in the southeast was blowing. Some brave ones looked out and found that those things were floating towards Guangnan Cang. What’s even more frightening is that many black shadows followed.

"Shoot...shoot...shoot, shoot them, shoot them, you go shoot them!"

"Why do you want me to shoot arrows? You also have bows and arrows in your hand. Will shooting them be unlucky?"

"Don't talk too much, they're all coming...ah!"

The sound of bowstrings started, and a sentry on the wall fell down by an arrow. The other sentry was so scared that they were incoherent: "There are ghosts, and there are ghosts who have killed people!"

The shouting was shrill and disappeared immediately. The feather arrows that followed shot them down. The inexplicable shouting made the soldiers patrolling in Guangtong Cang a little puzzled. When they reacted, the opportunity had passed.

He touched the Hulin Army outside the Guangtong Cang wall, threw out the iron claws with rope ladders and hooked the head of the city, and then climbed up quickly. When the other sentries were blowing the trumpet to warn, they had already touched the gate. After chopping over the defenders, they cut off the lock with an axe, pulled the door bolt and opened the gate.

The large army then rushed in and fought fiercely with the defenders who rushed over after hearing the news. They all wore skeleton masks and looked extremely terrifying under the dim firelight. Then they lit a torch and began to ignite the large granary in Guangtong warehouse.

The sound of gongs sounded, and panicked defenders rushed over. They were numerous but they were no match for these attackers.

Night marching and combat is a must-practice subject for the Hulin Army. Thanks to good nutrition and training, the eyesight of all soldiers is not affected at night. Not to mention that individual combat skills are not weak, they now fight in groups of three people to fight together to kill the enemy.

Spears, bows, arrows, swords, and cards, both length and length are combined with offense and defense. Although there are no cavalry, they are still unstoppable when they rush. They wave various weapons and howl towards the defenders.

Without avoiding arrows, he directly crashed into the crowd, slashed with swords and splashed blood. This crazy attack method defeated the first counterattack of the defenders in a hurry, and then chased them all the way, causing a greater collapse.

The Hulin Army had a clear division of labor, one group of people was responsible for attacking the defenders' garrison, one group of people was responsible for suppressing the defenders' garrison, and one group of people was responsible for arson.

The first granary ignited a huge fire. Looking at the spectacular super torch, Yuwen Wen was very satisfied. He personally led his troops to attack Guangtong Cang, and the matter has been mostly successful now.

The Sogdian businessman Antuluo, whose family lived in Tongzhou, Guanzhong for generations, was not far from this Guangtong Cang. In order to save the tribe trapped in Chang'an, he reached a deal with Yuwen Wen, who was also a profiteer.

The other party provided a route, a route to cross the Qinling Mountains and exit the mountain near Tongguan. This route is not an official road, and there are basically no one except the mountain people and a small number of vendors. This way of entering has unexpected results.

The price is that there are many reductions in personnel caused by non-combat casualties, and the cavalry cannot be taken away. Yuwen Wen chose to gamble and gamble with his old foundation.

Marine at night is not a problem, and walking on mountain roads at night is not a big problem. Using "phosphorus fire" to pretend to be a god is a trick to be tired of daily courage training. The years of hard work by the Hulin Army finally paid off.

"I said, shopkeeper Ping, can you bear one pair of feet?"

"The Duke of the State, since he was a child, could naturally bear it."

"You only walked three rounds and downs to remember that path for twenty years. It's really a good memory."

"It must be done in business."

Antulu, dressed in black, looked quietly at the ignited Guangtongcang. As a guide, he led Yuwen Wen and the Hulin Army to cross the Qinling Mountains to attack. He really admired the strength of this army's night marching and combat.

What made him even more admired was Yuwen Wen's thoughts. Along the way, Yuwen Wen made him cover his face and called him "Shopkeeper Ping", which was to hide the characteristics of the Sogdians and minimize the risks of implicating the people of the Zhou'an clan.

The sound of the gong was heard. It was the defenders who were looking for help from Tongguan to the southeast and Huazhou to the west. In fact, the sound of the gong may not be heard in those places, but the sky-sky fire has already explained everything: Guangtong Cang was attacked.

"Add a little more fire, and before reinforcements arrive, a fire dragon will burn the warehouse!"

After Yuwen Wen finished speaking, he looked at the night sky on the west side. Chang'an was nearly three hundred miles away in that direction.
Chapter completed!