The situation on the Guanzhong battlefield has changed beyond everyone's expectations, even beyond the expectations of Chen Sangliang, a traverser. It is absolutely ever-changing, unpredictable, dazzling, and at a loss. The main force of the Sui army in full swing has the upper hand. , but under the control of Daxing Jiancheng, the demoralized main force of the rebels only lingers on the city, but there may not be no hope of a comeback.
No, on the morning of October 18th, the Li Jing Department of the Sui Army in the Eastern Capital and the Qu Tutong Department of the Sui Army in Daxing had just arrived at the Daxing Battlefield, completely reversing the disadvantage of the Sui Army on the Daxing Battlefield. The Ma Sanbao Department of the Sui Army's Partial Division quickly sent the urgent news, saying that although the Sui Army's Partial Division successfully entered Mei County yesterday, Xue Jujun's forward Xue Renguo, who dispatched troops on October 14th, advanced faster. They crossed the Great Earthquake Pass in one day, and reached the base of Liyuan City on the 15th day. If Dou Jin, the prefect of Fufeng, whose attitude is unknown at the moment, does not send troops to stop him or surrender directly to the city, it will take at least three or four days, and at most six days. For seven days, Ma Sanbao had to have sex with Xue Ju's eldest son and prince Xue Renguo.
In addition, the situation in Fufeng County is also extremely complicated. The prefect Dou Jing just did not openly display the red and white anti-flags, but in fact deliberately allowed Li Yuan's rebel officials and envoys to operate in Fufeng County. , the small town of Mei County, where the Sui Army was stationed, was ransacked several times by bandits. The residents in the city were less than 600 people. The city was dilapidated and food and grass were scarce. The hostility towards the Sui army is obvious. If it is not impossible to resist at all, it is even possible to refuse the order of Chen Sangliang, the ambassador of Guanzhong, to arrest the Sui army and let the Sui army move into Mei County.
In addition, there is also the slave thief Bai Yupo who is active in the northwest of Fufeng County. Li Hongzhi, who previously claimed to be the Emperor of Chu, and Tang Bi, who claimed to be the King of Tang, are entrenched in Nanyou. Uncle Xiao Guo of Hechi is also ready to make a move, using the pretext of suppressing the bandits to set up troops in Sanguan, he may enter Guanzhong to join the battlefield, and he can also welcome Li Yuan's rebels to enter Shu at any time. Ma Sanbao's troops, with only over 10,000 troops, were unaccompanied in Fufeng territory, and it was difficult for them to support themselves alone. Not to mention the aggressive Yong County forced Dou Jing to stand in line, even self-protection was very difficult.
After reading Ma Sanbao's military report carefully and calmly, he marked the approximate positions of the enemies on the sand table in Guanzhong with his own hands. After thinking about it for a while, Chen Sangliang said with a sullen face: "The situation in Fufeng is too serious. It's complicated, unless the main force of our army advances westward and crushes it strongly, it will not solve the problem of Fufeng. At present, we can only let Ma Sanbao hold on patiently and stop Xue Ju to buy us time, other than that, there is no other way."
"Chen Liushou, why didn't you consider sending a support army to help Ma Sanbao?" Yuan Tiangang asked: "Increasing troops in Mei County can more effectively stop Xue Ju's army from westward and buy us more time. The strength of the troops on the Daxing battlefield has already exceeded 110,000, and it would not be a big problem to divide the troops by another 20,000 to 30,000?"
"You can't divide your troops, and you don't need to divide them." Chen Sangliang shook his head and said: "Now dividing our troops to the west is tantamount to telling the bandits in the city that their reinforcements are coming, so that the bandits will be more determined to defend the city. It's still reliable, even if he can't beat Xue Renguo, it shouldn't be a big problem to defend himself with a strong wall, which is enough to buy us a lot of time."
"Then we must speed up our actions." Fang Xuanling suggested: "First, we don't know when Xue Ju will dispatch the main force to go west to Daxing, and second, He Panren who is next to Ma Sanbao has not joined our army for a long time, so it is difficult to guarantee that he will As loyal as General Ma Sanbao, in order to buy time for our main force, we can fight to the end, so we have to be careful."
Chen Sangliang nodded, made some calculations, and quickly said: "If Dugu Huai'en goes well, there should be news tonight, then we will take down Daxing Outer City tomorrow night. If Dugu The progress of Wynn's side is not going well, and we have not been able to win the control of the Daxing City Gate. Then we will use gunpowder to blow up the gate tomorrow night to plan to take the Xuanwu Gate. Of course it is best if we succeed. If we can't succeed, we will launch a strong attack the day after tomorrow and take it forcibly Let’s talk about the outer city of Daxing!”
Fang Xuanling, Yuan Tiangang and others agreed that, in addition to ordering Ma Sanbao to let him defend resolutely, while discussing with Chen Sangliang the specific plan of taking advantage of the attack tactics, while patiently waiting for the news from Dugu Huai'en and the gang, but left Wait and wait, wait until almost the second watch, but there is no movement from Daxing. Unable to do so, Chen Sangliang had no choice but to yawn and personally patrol the camp, and then returned to the tent to rest exhausted, and entrusted Fang Xuanling with the task of receiving the secret envoys in the city.
Born to be a hard worker, Chen Sangliang was carefully woken up by the soldiers before he lay down for a long time, saying that Fang Xuanling had invited him. I was overjoyed for a while, but when I asked casually, I got an answer that surprised Chen Sangliang—this time, the person who came to meet overnight was not the messenger of Dugu Huai'en and other dudes, but the messenger of Chen Sangliang's old running dog Zhu Can , also came to discuss how to deal with the Sui army entering the city.
After all, it was a good thing. Although he really wanted to save Zhu Can's pawn in the inner city for reuse, Chen Sangliang still put on his clothes and got up to meet Zhu Can's envoy in the tent of the Chinese army. It was only after meeting that I found out that the envoy sent by Zhu Can was one of his personal soldiers. Four years ago, when Zhu Can first entered Zuo Tunwei, he was an absolute confidant with Zhu Can. He was ordered by Zhu Can to go out of the city to contact Chen Sangliang. , also immediately presented a joint letter from Zhu Can and Miao Haichao to Chen Sangliang.
He took out the letterhead and took a closer look. In addition to a lot of flattery and flattery, Zhu Can also cleverly mentioned the hidden fact that he was ordered to lie in hiding for four years, so that Chen Sangliang knew that the letter could not be faked. Then he told Chen Sangliang that he had won Li Er's trust and promotion, and that he would be on duty at the Chunming Gate of Daxing on the night of the 19th, and agreed to light three red lights on the city at midnight, and open the gate to welcome him. The Sui army entered the city. In addition, Zhu Can also said that Miao Haichao also agreed to join forces anyway, and that he has not been able to find out whether Li Yuan is alive or not.
Typical chicken ribs, Chen Sangliang finally realized Boss Cao's feeling of tasteless food and a pity to discard. Originally, Chen Sangliang deliberately helped Zhu Can gain Li Er's trust, and the original intention was to let Zhu Can further lurk into Li Er Next to him, after the Sui army captured the outer city of Daxing, they would play a greater role in the inner city of Daxing, but Chen Sangliang never expected that after Zhu Can guessed the help he deliberately gave him, he was so eager for quick success that he was still in the outer city. I just want to make a difficult move, and I can't wait to win the contribution of contributing to Daxing Outer City! ——The ninety-mile-long Daxing Outer City is full of breakthroughs. As long as Chen Sangliang is willing to sacrifice his life, it is actually very difficult to win the Daxing Outer City.
Fortunately, just as Chen Sangliang was quietly regretting, Fang Xuanling came up in time and said in a low voice: "The previous information from our army is that Li Shimin's right commander-in-chief's mansion is located in Yirenfang. I asked the messenger carefully just now, Li Shimin Rest overnight in Yirenfang every day. Yirenfang is quite close to Chunming Gate. If we move fast enough, we have a chance to block Li Shimin in the workshop. Also, Dugu Huai'en and the others haven't sent an envoy yet .”
Some meat grew on the chicken ribs, and Chen Sangliang somewhat coveted it. After thinking for a while, Chen Sangliang asked the messenger sent by Zhu Can, "Did General Zhu ask you to go back overnight?"
"Report to Chen Liushou, please decide." The messenger sent by Zhu Can replied respectfully: "If Chen Liushou feels that the villain needs to return to the city, the villain can go back now. There are people in the city to take care of the villain. If Chen Liushou is worried Leak the wind, and the villain can also stay. Before the attack tomorrow night, the soldiers who stay behind just need to use the eagle horn three times to notify General Zhu, who will light up three red lights to respond. If there is any accident or the stay behind feels that the time is not suitable If you don’t hear the Eagle, General Zhu will not do anything for now to avoid being exposed.”
"It's quite careful consideration." Chen Sangliang's voice was somewhat dissatisfied, and he also disliked Zhu Can's personality more and more. After spending so much effort to help Zhu Can gain the trust of Li Er, Zhu Can will definitely be able to stay in the future as long as he waits. The inner city has made greater achievements, and even has the opportunity to take down Li Er's head at a critical moment. What's the rush at this time? Typical eager for quick success, throw watermelon and pick sesame seeds!
Whether you like it or not, Zhu Can's dedication to the city is very sincere, and absolutely reliable and feasible. Seizing this opportunity can at least reduce a large number of casualties in the attack, and there is also a chance to kill the most dangerous opponent, Li Erdu, in Yirenfang In addition, in addition to the fact that Dugu Huai'en has not sent any news so far, Chen Sangliang finally nodded reluctantly, and said to the envoy sent by Zhu Can: "Understood, you have worked hard, and you don't have to risk going back City, stay here. Someone, invite this strong man down to receive a reward, and treat him with wine and meat."
Zhu Can's messenger went down happily to receive the reward, and Fang Xuanling immediately asked Chen Sangliang, "My dear brother, is Zhu Can's trustworthy?"
"Reliable." Chen Sangliang nodded, and said, "He is a pawn I laid out four years ago. Let him take advantage of his position under Yun Dingxing's command to deliberately get close to the old thief Li Yuan who had already made a big feud with me at that time. One family, no one else knows about this matter except me and him, he deliberately mentioned this matter in his letter, just to let me distinguish the truth from the fake."
"So, it's easy for us to win the Daxing Outer City." Fang Xuanling was overjoyed at first, and then said with regret: "Unfortunately, it would be great if Zhu Can could calm down a little longer. With his current status, he will definitely win in the future." Follow Li Shimin to withdraw into the inner city, and then do it again, it will definitely play a greater role."
"The mud can't support the wall!" Chen Sangliang scolded angrily, and then said: "Let's talk about it tomorrow, if Dugu Huai'en and the others can send news tonight, we will see who is more confident and use them first. If Dugu Huai'en is more confident, I will send Zhu Can's personal soldiers back, let him continue to stay by Li Er's side honestly, follow Li Er into the inner city, and open the inner city for me when he has a chance door, or kill Li Er for me!"
Fang Xuanling also agreed with Chen Sangliang's decision, but waited and waited until the sky was clear, Dugu Huai'en and other dudes still got a little bit of news, and at the same time, the Sui army's scouts also repeatedly confirmed Daxing South Sanmen City The Dugu flag was not found on the map, which proved that Dugu Huai'en did not get the military power of Nansanmen. Disappointed, Chen Sangliang had no choice but to say, "There is no other way. In order to reduce the casualties of the soldiers, and to let the troops enter the city as soon as possible to avoid the wind and snow, we can only use Zhu Can's line."
Fang Xuanling and Wei Zheng, who already knew the situation, also agreed with great regret, but Yuan Tiangang said: "It's a good opportunity. If the wind direction remains unchanged, there should be snow tonight, which can just cover our surprise attack." Chen Sangliang, who used Zhu Can's gun, nodded sullenly, and he could only start to think carefully about the night attack plan with the idea that it would be good to have no fish or shrimp.
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Now it's time to take a look at the situation on Zhu Can's side. After impatiently sending the contact messenger out of the city, Zhu Can continued to work hard to capture the vacillators in the rebel army. Besides expressing his loyalty to the old Li's family, he naturally became even more impatient. He began to fantasize about the glory and wealth he would obtain after successfully dedicating the city, and felt flattered that as one of Chen Sangliang's oldest accomplices and running dogs, his qualifications were second only to Chen Sangliang's absolute cronies such as Ma Sanbao and Yuan Tiangang, After returning to Chen Sangliang's tent, at least he had to be a fourth-rank official, and he had to have at least tens of thousands of soldiers under his command, so that he could flex his muscles and kill all directions.
Here I must also say a fair word for Zhu Can. In addition to his flattering fantasies, Zhu Can also considered that if he had the opportunity, he should chop off Li Er's beautiful head and present it to Chen Sangliang to earn more money. Rewards for merit. However, considering Li Er's excellent martial arts and the numerous personal soldiers who are always around, Zhu Can still quietly dismissed this idea, not daring to think about how to implement it, and decided that it is better to be down-to-earth. Grab the credit rewards you are destined to get and don't be too greedy.
The courier who never came back gave Zhu Can another shot, thinking that Chen Sangliang would not let the courier take the risk of going back to the city so as not to miss this opportunity, so as to avoid complications. In the morning, he quietly found Miao Haichao, told Miao Haichao that everything was going well with the plan, and asked Miao Haichao to act according to the plan. Miao Haichao was also overjoyed when he heard the news, and immediately started to prepare for the big event.
In the blink of an eye, it was already afternoon, and the good news came again. In view of Zhu Can's ability to capture wavering people in the army, Li Er suddenly sent someone to summon Zhu Can to the Wude Palace in Miyagi for a discussion. Said it was a good thing, Zhu Can was overjoyed when he heard the news, and wanted to take the opportunity to figure out the mystery of Li Yuan's life and death. Without hesitation, he followed the envoy into the palace city, and all the way to the Wude Hall, the general headquarters of the rebel army, which was heavily guarded.
After entering the Hall of Martial Virtue, Zhu Can finally realized that something was wrong—his rebel ally Miao Haichao was also in the hall, and was kneeling in front of the Li brothers and Pei Ji by several rebel soldiers! At the same time, the smiling emissary beside Zhu Can has quietly disappeared, replaced by eight fully armed rebel guards, all pointing their swords at him!
"General Zhu is here?" Li Er smiled very kindly, and said with a smile: "Thank you, General, please come in quickly, we have been waiting for you for a long time."
Seeing Li Er's friendly smile, Zhu Can fell into an ice cellar, but the rebel soldiers behind him couldn't help but snatched his sword, turned his hands and pushed him to Miao Haichao's side, and forced him to kneel down. Next, Zhu Can wanted to resist but saw the bright sword pointing at his body, but he didn't have the courage, so he could only obediently be pushed down to kneel in front of Li Er and the others, feeling at a loss, "Where did the news leak?"
"General Zhu is indeed a smart man." Li Er smiled approvingly and said, "A good man doesn't take advantage of immediate losses. He is much better than your friend General Miao. He even wanted to draw his sword to kill us, but he suffered a loss, right?"
Taking a sneak peek at Miao Haichao, seeing that he was indeed wounded and there was a lot of blood on his face, Zhu Can's heart couldn't help but tremble again. Li Er over there smiled again and said: "General Zhu, you are indeed a smart person. You played a good show with Chen Yingliang's dog thief. You almost fooled me. You really are a bit powerful."
"You Dudu, what are you talking about? Why can't the general understand?" Zhu Can asked tremblingly.
"What are you pretending to be?" Pei Ji, who was sitting next to Li Jiancheng, said with a sneer, "To tell you the truth, you and the little thief Chen Yingliang played the show of loyalty together, and the right governor had already seen through it. I didn't expose you, what I was waiting for was that you sent someone out of the city last night to contact Chen Yingliang's thief."
Zhu Can's body trembled, and he peeked at Li Er, but Li Er smiled even more happily, and said, "General Zhu, you look at me quietly, do you want to know how I can see through the tricks of you and Chen Yingliang's bastard? It's actually very simple, because you are so smart, you are so smart that you never suffer a disadvantage. How could a person as smart as you suddenly do everything when Chen Yingliang's gangsters approached the city, blocking your own escape route? You put Chen Yingliang's dog The thief’s surrender letter was handed over to me, besides being moved, I immediately felt extremely strange, how could someone as smart as you do such a stupid thing?”
"Of course, I was only suspicious at the time. There was no evidence, so I couldn't say much about you." Li Er smiled again and said, "So I simply appointed you as a military judge, let you walk freely in the army, and then secretly observed your reaction. , the result is as I expected, you really sent Tu Yong, your most confidant soldier, out of the city at the second watch last night to contact Chen Yingliang, the dog thief, and I completely believe that my suspicion is true .”
Zhu Can's face was as pale as paper, sweating profusely, but Li Er laughed more and more happily, and said with a smile: "General Zhu, I think you are too quick for quick success. If you can bear it any longer, you can endure it until you are arrested in the outer city of Daxing." Po, follow me to retreat to the inner city, then I basically believe you. But why are you so eager to sacrifice the outer city? Isn’t this giving me a chance to discern your loyal traitor? I can’t eat hot tofu in a hurry, General Zhu, Are you burning your mouth now?"
Hearing this, Pei Ji, Li Jiancheng and other high-ranking rebels next to him couldn't help but sneered, but Chai Shao, who was waiting in the palace, didn't smile, and looked at Zhu Can and Miao Haichao with complicated eyes.
"Let's talk." Li Er said with a smile again: "How did you contact Chen Yingliang's dog thief, how did you act, when did you do it, and what is the contact signal? Tell me, not only will I not kill you, but I will also reward you. If you don’t say it, I admire you.”