In terms of judging the situation through clues, Li Er, who is extremely talented, is not in the slightest under Chen Sangliang, who was born as an undercover agent. As early as Li Mi deliberately delayed whether to adopt Li Er's strategy of diverting disasters to the West, Li Er had already sensed that the situation was not good. The second-hand preparations were made in advance, and the result was as expected by Li Er. The short-sighted Li Mi rejected Li Mi's trick at the last moment, and expelled Zu Junyan, whom Li Er bought at a lot of money, from the shogunate. Li Er was Li Er's biggest source of intelligence in Li Mi's army.
Fortunately, Li Er has already made two-handed preparations before, and the powerful emissary Ren Yu has also brought Li Er's two plans to visit Yu Wenhua and the army early. The relationship between the Li family and Yuwen Shiji, the eldest son of the Yuwen family, has great hopes of bringing Yu Wenhuaji back to the right path in time. So even if Li Er deliberately rejected Li Er's "good intentions" at the last moment, Li Er still did not rush or panic, patiently just waiting for the follow-up news, and at the same time, naturally he had to pray for God's blessing in secret, Li Mi's disastrous defeat was due to the lack of brains. Yu Wenhua and the army with an excellent coach-this is also human nature.
Another thing that makes Li Er regret is that Li Mi not only expelled Zu Junyan, the insider of Li Erjun, but also strengthened the blockade of water and land roads, which made it difficult for Li Er to get in touch with Yuwen Shiji, Ren Yu and others, and greatly This limited the speed at which Li Er's army could send information to Jinnan. Until August 25th, Li Er still hadn't received any news about the Battle of Tongshan, and he didn't know that Yu Wenhua and his army had already secretly assisted him. Li Mijun was severely injured, but he was in a hurry but there was nothing he could do.
I haven't heard back for a long time, and when I was a little nervous, an unexpected message was sent to Zhengping City, Jiangjun County, where the main force of Li Erjun is currently located, and it was also sent directly to Li Er—Liu Heida, the Daxing Sui Army who had been sticking to Hedong before. Suddenly, more than ten thousand soldiers and horses were dispatched, and under the personal leadership of Liu Heitai, they rushed into the territory of Wen County in the south of Zhengping. Li Er was confused when he heard this, and thought to himself: "Liu Heita's head got flooded? For no reason, why did he suddenly think of beating Wenxi? He doesn't have enough strength to take down Jiangjun?"
Confused, Li Er hurriedly asked the messenger sent by Wenxi Guard General Duan Zhixuan: "Why did Liu Heita send troops? Have you found out the reason?"
"We found it." The messenger's answer made Li Er dumbfounded, "I heard that Liu Heita has a favorite concubine who is from Wenxi, and the whole family is in Wenxi. When Liu Heita sent someone to pick up his concubine's family when they went south, they found His concubine's family has been killed, and it is said that even the meat has been eaten. Liu Heitai suspects that General Duan Zhixuan did it, and his concubine is crying and begging Liu Heitai to give it to her family For revenge, Liu Heita decided to send troops to fight General Duan."
Li Shentong, Tang Xian and others next to him laughed when they heard it, and Li Er couldn't help laughing out, saying: "Really? He, Liu Heita, can be so affectionate and righteous, and he can be a favor for him." The concubine dispatched tens of thousands of soldiers and horses to avenge? He, Liu Heita, is not afraid that Chen Yingliang's traitor will find out and skin him?"
"It's absolutely true." Wen Xi's envoy replied truthfully: "The secret agent we sent to Hedong has confirmed this matter, and also saw with his own eyes that Liu Heitai went out to fight in filial piety. But General Duan can assure you to the right governor, he There is absolutely no possibility of setting up troops to cause disaster, and it is even more impossible to kill people and eat meat, General Duan suspects that this may be a good thing done by Meng Haigong's scattered remnant soldiers."
Li Er smiled again, nodded and said, "Go back and tell Duan Zhixuan that I believe he won't do this, tell him to take a defensive position and confront Liu Heitai, and keep in touch with me at any time. Wenxi is only fifty miles away from Zhengping. If necessary, I can send reinforcements to help him at any time."
The messenger sang Nuo and left. After Li Shentong, Tang Xian and others laughed, Li Shentong, who had suffered a big loss in Liu Heita's hands before, couldn't wait to encourage him: "You Dudu, Liu Heita has won a few battles by chance. Just being arrogant and arrogant, advancing alone, this happens to be a great opportunity for us to avenge our hatred. In my opinion, we might as well take the opportunity to dispatch the main force to go south and fight him in Wenxi to avenge our soldiers who died in Yuxiang! "
"Don't worry, the distance is not far anyway, we'll talk about it after Liu Heitai and Duan Zhixuan get involved." Li Er shook his head, then thought about it and said, "I always think this is a bit strange, dispatching tens of thousands of soldiers and horses to start a war for a woman , this is too ridiculous, isn't it? Is this Liu Heitai trying to play tricks?"
"What kind of tricks can he play?" Tang Xian said disdainfully: "Although this is ridiculous, it is not surprising to a dark slave like Liu Heitai. After several victories, from a petty general to a local heavy general, if Liu Heita doesn't do anything to show off his incomparable power, wouldn't it be like walking at night in brocade?"
Although he knew that Tang Xian's words were also reasonable, Li Er still refused to jump to conclusions lightly, thinking, "Let's wait a little longer, send more scouts to keep an eye on Liu Heita's army, and report any changes immediately. And , Send more secret agents to the bank of the Yellow River to watch, and if you find that there are troops crossing the river in Guanzhong, report it immediately."
Not to mention, it seems that Liu Heitai really came to avenge the woman he loves. From Puban, where he was stationed, to Wenxi three hundred miles away, Liu Heitai's army only walked for a little over three days. The rear army set up camp at Yihe, ten miles south of Wenxi, and impatiently brought 2,000 troops to the foot of Wenxi city to fight. They were dressed in sackcloth and filial piety and cursed, condemning Duan Zhixuan for killing his concubine and his family and eating human flesh. Duan Zhixuan, who was more wronged than Dou E, was furious. He also led two thousand troops out of the city to scold Liu Heitai. Urge the army to come forward and fight Duan Zhixuan.
The result of the big fight was that Li Erjun suffered a disadvantage. Although Duan Zhixuan was also one of the twenty-four heroes of Lingyan Pavilion, the famous generals enshrined in Lingyan Pavilion included the super fierce Yuchi Jingde. There is no harm! Therefore, Duan Zhixuan, who is famous for his bravery, soon discovered that the unknown young general Liu Heita opposite him was even more ruthless and fiercer than him. The soldiers of the Sui army brought by the black gun were encouraged, and they charged more fiercely and slashed harder than the other. As Duan Zhixuan's army was the outer barrier of the main force of Li's second army, there were not many elites in the first place, and soon they couldn't stand Liu Hei The army of the army rushed and fought fiercely, and fled back to Wenxi City after losing about 300 corpses. Liu Heita led the army to pursue to the bottom of the city. The retreat troops left.
Before the matter was over, Duan Zhixuan's scouts soon discovered that after Liu Heita's army set up camp, they went to cut down wood to make siege weapons, preparing to launch a frontal assault on Wenxi Town! Duan Zhixuan, who only had more than 3,000 troops in his hand, felt very timid, so he quickly sent someone north to Zhengping to report the battle situation to Li Er, and asked Li Er to send troops south to help as soon as possible.
There is no need for Duan Zhixuan to report the battle situation, the distance is only more than 50 li, and the scouts of the main force of Li Second Army have already detected Liu Heitai's situation clearly, but the more this is the case, the more suspicious Li Er is, because Liu Heitai did this It is really unreasonable, even if the lone army advances lightly, when the main force of the enemy is nearby, Liu Heikai dares to build a siege weapon and launch a frontal attack. How unreasonable is this? Twenty suspects that this is Liu Heitai's trick to lure the enemy, and it shows that he is planning to trouble Duan Zhixuan, but actually he wants to lure Li Er's main force to leave the protection of Zhengping Jiancheng and go south to the Wenxi battlefield to fall into the trap.
Fortunately, although Wenxi is the base of the old Pei family who has a deep relationship with Chen Sangliang, the money and food situation is so-so, but the strategic location is not as good as that of Jiang County in the east, so it would be a pity to lose it, so for the sake of caution, Li Er categorically rejected Li Shentong, Zhu Can and others' suggestion to take the opportunity to go south for a decisive battle. He chose to stand still and ordered Duan Zhixuan to continue to close the city. At the same time, Li Er, who is cautious by nature, naturally had to strengthen his reconnaissance of the road behind Liu Heita's army, looking for possible Sui army ambushes.
What happened next made Li Er even more suspicious. After hastily building some siege weapons, Liu Heitai's army actually launched a frontal attack on Wenxi Town. The rammed earth was used as a wall, blocking Duan Zhixuan's escape route, and Li Er couldn't help but suspect that Liu Heitai's purpose of sending troops was not false, he really came here to avenge his beloved concubine.
In addition, Liu Heikai also sent a large number of cavalry to fight scouts, desperately hunting and killing the contact messenger between Li Er and Duan Zhixuan. Hold on, but Zhu Can, Li Shentong and the others couldn't bear it any longer. They took turns leading the Qingqi to attack the scouts. They beat Liu Heitai's arrogance head-on. They were lucky enough to capture two prisoners of war and brought them to Li Er for acceptance. interrogation.
The result of the interrogation of the captives made Li Er gradually shaken. Although one captive refused to confess despite being tortured, the other captive confessed truthfully, saying that Liu Heikai really came to avenge his concubine's family this time. Everyone knew that at the same time, Liu Heitai asked generals at all levels to appease the soldiers, saying that although Li Er's main force was only fifty miles away, Liu Heitai could guarantee that the main force of Li Er's army would never go south. All the money, cloth and silk belonged to the soldiers, and Liu Heita did not take any money just for revenge.
"Could it be that Liu Heita really just came here for revenge?"
While Li Er was more shaken, the fatal blow came suddenly. The scouts sent to investigate behind Liu Heita reported that they had indeed found Sui army flags in the forest on the road behind Liu Heita, and there were quite a few of them. While Li Shentong, Zhu Can and others were astonished by this, Li Er was overjoyed and said, "It's time to go south! What is false is real, and real is false. Liu Heita deliberately set up more flags in the rear. Set up the illusion of an ambush, intimidating our main force from going south to rescue Wenxi! Immediately send an order, the whole army will immediately prepare, and tomorrow the troops will go south to fight against Liu Heitaifu!"
It was the turn of Li Shentong, who clamored for revenge against Liu Heita, to be worried, and persuaded Li Er to be cautious in using troops, and to find out the truth of the ambush behind Liu Heita, but Li Er said with a smile: "Don't worry, how many soldiers and horses are there in Hedong?" We have already found out that Wang Xingben, Cao Qing, and Huo Shiju have not moved in the past few days. Even if Liu Heitai secretly mobilized troops and horses to set up an ambush in the north, how many troops will he mobilize without alarming us? Don't say for sure There will be no ambushes, even if he really has an ambush, we don't need to be afraid!"
Seeing that Li Er was full of confidence, and knowing that Li Eryi had always predicted things like a god, Li Shentong, Zhu Can and others no longer objected. After leaving Tang Xian to guard Zhengping the next day, Li Er led the main force of 25,000 He went south to look for Liu Heitai desperately. In order not to give Liu Heitai a chance to escape, Li Er also ordered the army to march southward at a rapid pace, trying not to give Liu Heitai time to contingency. As a result, this move really had the effect. Liu Heita, who was still attacking Wenxi City after Li Erjun's main force was suddenly dispatched through scouting, was caught off guard, so he could only withdraw his troops and retreat to the camp. Divide up and go south, blocking Liu Heita's way back.
Quickly organized a sentry team to scout the situation in the south. Li Shentong, Zhu Can and others soon admired Li Er. In the forest behind Liu Heitai, except for the dense number of flags, there were only old and weak soldiers from one school in the district. After bluffing and capturing more than half of the old and weak soldiers who were fleeing in a hurry, Li Erjun soon knew that Liu Heitai had indeed only sent an army of one school to set up a fake ambush in the rear. At the same time, these old and weak soldiers also explained an important situation. Liu Heitai only brought 15 days' worth of food this time, and he couldn't last long in terms of food and grass.
Without any further scruples, Li Er immediately ordered Zhu Can to lead an army of 7,000 troops to the south of Liu Heita's camp to set up a camp to block Liu Heita's way back. Going out of the city, he ran to the gate of Liu Heita's camp to show off his power, greeted Liu Heita's female relatives, and encouraged Liu Heita to fight. Liu Heita, who was caught off guard by Li Er, closed the camp and sent a number of messengers to the south. Call for help from the rear.
Although the number of cavalry was small, the light cavalry led by Li Er successfully captured two messengers from the Sui army. From them, they found Liu Heita's letters of appeal to Huo Shiju and Wang Xingben respectively. The letters only asked Huo Wang Waiting to raise troops to the north as soon as possible to meet Liu Heita to break through, and did not mention anything else. The generals of the Second Li Army were overjoyed when they saw the letter. Not only were they confident that they would defeat Liu Heitai in this battle, but they also wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to severely damage the main force of the Sui army in Hedong, and then take down the long-coveted entire territory of Hedong.
Although Li Er, who has always been very lucky, is very confident that he has good luck again this time, and ran into Liu Heita with his head in the water, he still did not dare to take it lightly, and still continued to send scouts to the south to investigate Sui However, Li Er was both happy and secretly suspicious. Of course, he was happy because he did not find a large group of Sui troops appearing, but he was suspicious because he had not received any news from Guanzhong for more than ten days. The army has tightly blocked the road checkpoints.
Li Er's doubts were quickly answered. On the third day of the complete siege of Liu Heita, and when Liu Heita's food and grass should only be left for five days, a spy sent to Hedong to inquire about the news returned to Li Er's army. In addition to Li Er's report that there was nothing unusual in Hedong, he also reported that the Sui army had indeed blocked the pontoon crossing of the Yellow River, but the purpose was not to target Li Erjun, but the Sui army in Hedong discovered that Xue Jujun's soldiers had sneaked in disguised as merchants. Hedong went to Yanchi, Yuncheng to buy salt, and did so in order to cut off Xue Jujun's salt supply. At the same time, Li Er's detailed work also confirmed that the Sui army did check the salt caravan very strictly.
After understanding the reason why he failed to receive the Guanzhong Line report, the next day, when Liu Heitai had only four days of food left, even greater good news came suddenly. After Li Mijun controlled Hanoi County, he finally brought the great news of Li Mijun's defeat to Li Er. At the same time, when Ren Yun's messenger set off, Yu Wenhuaji had already entered the Liyang warehouse, and Wang Bodang couldn't stand it. The elite Xiaoguo, who was already starving and red-eyed, had no choice but to abandon their warehouse and flee.
"Father's heroic spirit bless you."
After feeling relieved, Li Er sighed softly and sat back on the handsome chair with a relaxed smile on his face. Without hesitation, Li Er immediately picked up his pen and wrote a letter of surrender to Yu Wenhuaji, He suggested that Yu Wenhua and his army bypass Hulao Pass and Luoyang, the eastern capital, and go straight to Hedong via Hanoi County. At the same time, Li Er also promised in the letter that he would provide Yu Wenhua and his army with the military rations used to attack Guanzhong and the necessary supplies for crossing the Yellow River. ferry. In the end, Li Er also prepared a generous gift for each of the Yuwen brothers, and arranged reliable people to go east to contact the Yuwen brothers immediately.
Putting down Yu Wenhua and this huge rock, Li Er finally settled down and concentrated on cleaning up Liu Heita. Knowing that Liu Heita was short of food and grass and had no place to replenish it, Li Shentong, Duan Zhixuan and others urged him to deal with it. Li Erwei did not fight, and waited for Liu Heitai to break through the siege before launching a pursuit. In the pursuit battle, he won the greatest victory at the lowest cost. But Li Er, who was very assertive, once again stood up to all opinions, insisting that he should seize the victory that could be obtained with all his strength, and did not want to procrastinate to avoid accidents, so he resolutely launched a frontal attack on Liu Heitai's camp.
The cruel offensive and defensive battle of the camp unfolded. Liu Heitai's army, who advanced alone and lightly, had no way to retreat. They could only defend the camp desperately and resist. Second, the backbones were all dressed up in person and took the lead in attacking the Sui army's camp. Zhu Can, who had already broken his face with Chen Sangliang, led a death squad to charge and fight hand-to-hand in order to show his loyalty to his new master. The Sui army's camp was not strong enough. The fight was extremely hard, and Li Erjun was killed into the camp several times. In the end, the death squad formed by Liu Heita's personal soldiers fought back desperately, and then Li Erjun was driven out.
On the first day of the offensive and defensive battle of the camp, there were corpses all over the field. The corpses of soldiers from the two armies piled up on the edge of the camp. As the attacking side, Li Erjun's casualties were even smaller than that of Liu Heita's army because of the proper tactics, orderly advance and retreat, and close proximity to Wenxi City to replenish supplies. In this regard, Li Erjun's confidence was greatly increased, but the morale of Liu Heita's army was frustrated, and the soldiers began to surrender.
That night, Liu Heita sent someone out of the camp to ask Li Er to surrender. While accepting Liu Heita's surrender, Li Er arranged for his cousin Li Shuliang to lead the army to rob the camp. As a result of the robbery, Li Er and Liu Heita yelled at each other The other party was despicable and shameless, because Li Shuliang's surprise attack on Liu Heitai had only completed half the way, and he ran into the sneak attack team sent by Liu Heitai head-on. The two armies met suddenly when they were most likely to relax before dawn. One is invincible and undefeated, and each retreats.
It is rare to believe Liu Heitai once—although I only believed it temporarily for less than five minutes, but in the end, I was almost deceived by Liu Heitai's false surrender plan. Of course, Li Erjun was furious, and he challenged Liu Heitai's army again the next morning. After the attack, Liu Heita led his army to defend the camp again, and shouted the helpless slogan that the camp is alive and the camp is broken.
The battle was more intense than the previous day. Li's Second Army took turns to fight like a tide, constantly attacking the weak camp defense of Liu Heita's army. How many advantages it brings, the casualties are always roughly the same as the attacking Li Erjun's, and the fence defense line that has been repaired many times is constantly being opened. .
After noon, Li Erjun once again opened the gap and rushed into the camp, forcing Liu Heitai to dispatch the reserve team to fight resolutely. However, at this moment, a man in civilian clothes was brought in front of Li Erjun's scouts, and he showed Li Er his identity card , Proving that he was the spy sent by Li Er to the south, he said to Li Er: "I report to the governor on the right, the villain is responsible for the spy of Anyi. Yesterday at noon, an army of Chen thieves arrived outside the city of Anyi to rest. The bandit Chen in Anyi provided them with drinking water and food, and at the same time blocked the roads to prevent pedestrians from passing, so the villain was afraid of being blocked in Anyi, so he hurried back to report."
"Did Chen's reinforcements arrive in Anyi yesterday?" Li Er was a little surprised, and hurriedly asked, "How many troops? How many cavalry? Whose banner is it?"
"The number is about 15,000, cavalry accounted for about 10%, about 1,500 to 600 people." Xi Zuo replied truthfully: "It is the banner of the thief general Fang Huang."
"Fang Huang's banner?" Li Eryi listened happily, nodded and said: "Yes, considering the time and distance, if Fang Huang marched all the way in a hurry, it is indeed possible to reach Anyi at noon yesterday. But it doesn't matter, most of his troops are newly formed Army, nothing to fear."
"Your Commander, if Fang Huang continues to march in a hurry, he may come here this evening." Zhu Can couldn't wait to ask for orders: "The last general is bold, please order five thousand troops to go south and take the initiative to meet the exhausted general Fang Huang." teacher."
"I heard that there are more than a thousand war horses, are you impatient?" Li Er saw through his subordinates' minds at a glance, and said with a smile: "No hurry, let's find out their movements first, if Fanghuang wants to kill them at night To respond to Liu Heita's breakout, we will definitely rest and wait in the distance to the south, waiting for our scouts to detect their movements..."
"Report!" The sudden roar of scouts interrupted Li Er's confident arrangement, and at the same time there were several fast scout horses rushing forward, and before they got off their horses, they shouted in a hurry: "Report to the right governor!" , Chen thief reinforcements are coming!"
"How is it possible?!" Li Er jumped up fiercely, and shouted: "How could it be possible to come so fast? How many troops are there? Where are you?"
"The right captain, it seems that he has come behind us."
A soldier next to him pointed to the south timidly. Li Er quickly turned his head to look, and saw that the official road to the south was billowing in dust and smoke. Indeed, a large number of cavalry were approaching quickly. Li Er rubbed his eyes in disbelief, then hurriedly He shouted: "Zhu Can, go back to your camp quickly, organize an army to intercept, and buy time for our main force!"
Zhu Can closed his mouth only halfway through what he promised, because Zhu Can had already seen that the Sui cavalry had already bypassed his camp and headed northward amidst the dust, heading directly towards the main force of the Second Li Army! When they took a closer look at the enemy's situation, the complexions of Zhu Can, Li Er and the others suddenly turned pale, because they could clearly see that the arrogant and domineering Sui cavalry in the front were all wearing a cloak, The color of the cloak, like their faces, is white.
"It's a trick." Li Er's head was dizzy, and he finally understood why Chen Sangliang tried to block the road traffic under the pretext of attacking the salt dealers, and finally understood why Liu Heita made an excuse to enter alone, because all of this It was a trap, a trap set up with Liu Heita, one of Chen Sangliang's leading generals, as bait, but Li Er, who was the targeted prey, couldn't help biting the bait.