Masquerading as ordinary people, he was lucky enough to come to the city of Hui'anmen in Luoyang, the eastern capital. Wang Shichong, the prime minister, was also mentally prepared to be humiliated, expelled or even beheaded.
Sure enough, Wang Shiyun, who was guarding Hui'anmen, not only did not invite Yu Wenwen to enter the city, but also yelled at Yu Wenwen, scolding Li Mijun for rejecting Wang Shichong's offer of alliance several times before. Still thick! The scolding also alarmed the Yuwen Army patrol team patrolling outside the city, and the Yuwen Army patrol team immediately blocked Yu Wenwen's escape route, and stepped forward to the man only after Yu Wenwen left the city's bow and arrow protection.
Fortunately, when Yu Wenwen was begging to enter the city, Dai Zhou, a foreign soldier Cao Canjun who was trusted and loved by Wang Shichong, happened to pass by Hui'anmen. It was hard to get Wang Shiyun to put down the gondola, and let Yu Wenwen, who had been targeted by Hua Jixiong's scouts, go to the city in a gondola. However, the matter was not over yet, Wang Shiyun immediately ordered someone to disarm Yu Wenwen, and Wu Huada was tied up and taken to the imperial city and handed over to Wang Shichong. During this period, Wang Shiyun's personal soldiers still rewarded Yu Wenwen with fists and feet, and Yu Wenwen, who knew he was wrong, did not dare to say anything .
Originally, it was even worse after meeting the notoriously ruthless Wang Shichong, but Yu Wenwen soon found out that he had underestimated Wang Shichong too much. After learning about Yu Wenwen's identity, the old Wang family around Wang Shichong were all angry He was full of faces, shouting and shouting, but Wang Shichong not only did not get angry, but also ordered someone to untie Yu Wenwen and give him a seat, and then asked Yu Wenwen for the specific purpose of coming.
Heaving a sigh of relief, Yu Wenwen hurriedly presented Li Mi's autographed letter and valuable gifts, while explaining: "Prime Minister Wang, please learn from me. At the beginning, the Taiwei refused to cooperate with you repeatedly. The common enemy Yu Wenhua and the rebels are all Because I believed the slander of Zu Junyan and was misled by their short-sighted and stupid words, I was confused and rejected your kindness. Now Li Taiwei is extremely remorseful and has expelled Zu Junyan and other villains The shogunate is determined to apologize to you, and work together with you to break Yuwen Culture and this regicide traitor. I also ask Prime Minister Wang to remember the feelings of his colleagues, stop worrying about the past, and reconsider the relationship with us as national affairs are important. military alliance."
Yu Wenwen's low-pitched begging was exchanged for wanton ridicule from everyone in the Wang family, and Wang Ren laughed the most rudely and presumptuously, saying: "Misled by short-sighted stupid words? If you can listen to such stupid words, what kind of Li Taiwei is yours? Can it only be described as short-sighted?"
Again, Li Mijun was really wrong this time, so even though Wang Renze ridiculed him face to face, Yu Wenwen kept his head down and said nothing, too embarrassed to say anything. However, to Yu Wenwen's surprise, he only read Li Mi's handwritten letter once, and after thinking about it for less than three minutes, Wang Shichong nodded and said, "Okay, I promise to form an alliance with you."
"accepted?!"
Yuwen raised his head warmly, his face full of disbelief, and all kinds of arguments that were brewing in his stomach suddenly flew out of the sky. Over there, Wang Renze and other members of the Wang clan were all taken aback. They jumped up and screamed and asked, "Prime Minister, you just agreed? What conditions did Li Mi set for us, that you agreed so quickly?"
Wang Shichong didn't answer, but just handed Li Mi's letter to a lot of his relatives to read together. What made Wang Renze, Wang Shishi and others even more dumbfounded was that Li Mi said a lot of apologies and other nonsense in the letter. He just agreed to give Wang Shichong's army 100,000 shi of military rations free of charge after defeating Yu Wenhua or establishing direct contact, and then discuss the next step of cooperation plan. So just after reading the letter, Wang Renze immediately yelled, "Uncle, this is too cheap for Li Mi's traitor, isn't it? One hundred thousand shi of military rations is just for us to send troops and Yu Wenhuaji desperately. How can there be such a thing in the world?" Good thing?!"
"Idiot! Shut up! What do you know?!" Wang Shichong scolded his nephew angrily. He winked at a group of relatives to shut up, and then turned to Yuwenwen and said, "Mr. Yuwen has been working hard from afar. Please go change your clothes and take a bath first. After meeting the truth, we will arrange a banquet to welcome you and discuss the details of the alliance. Come, send Mr. Yuwen down to take a bath and change clothes, so that he can serve you."
Yuwenwen knew that Wang Shichong wanted to leave him alone and talk to his family, but since Wang Shichong had readily agreed, it was too late for Yuwenwen to be happy, so why would he care about these trivial matters? So Yu Wenwen hurriedly thanked him respectfully, and then left temporarily with Wang Shichong's personal soldiers. As a result, Yu Wenwen just left, and Wang Shichong's elder brother Wang Shishi immediately asked in surprise: "Fifth brother, are you joking? Shi Junliang, you agreed to send troops?"
"The lips are dead and the teeth are cold! To keep Li Mi is to keep ourselves!" Wang Shichong replied coldly: "Although Yu Wenhuaji is incompetent, his military strength is too strong. If we don't send troops to help, Li Mi will definitely be defeated by him, even if Li Mi is just defeated. He was rushed to Hulao Pass, but as long as the Luokou warehouse is taken by Yu Wenhuaji, we will never have peace. At that time, we will not only have to pay a heavier price, but may also invite disaster!"
"We have brother-in-law to help." Wang Renze yelled: "Brother-in-law has already promised to send troops to help us. Even if Li Mi is wiped out by Yu Wenhua and the husband, brother-in-law will also send troops to help us."
"Idiot!" Wang Shichong cursed again, humming: "If Li Mi is a jackal, your brother-in-law is a hungry tiger. We can still fight the jackal. How can we resist the hungry tiger?"
"Fifth brother, do you mean that Chen Yingliang's helping us is a lie, and taking the opportunity to annex us is true?" Wang Shiheng, the second child of the Wang family, asked cautiously.
"Do you think he can't do such a thing?" Wang Shichong sneered even more, with anger in his tone, and said: "Not to mention whether he will really send troops, even if he really will send troops to help, he will definitely have to wait until we meet with him." Li Mi exhausted Yu Wenhua and the rebels by turns, and his vitality was seriously injured, and then it was the best time for him to send troops. At that time, once Yu Wenhua and the severely injured Yu Wenhua were destroyed by him, he would immediately turn around , destroy Li Mi, destroy us, and annex Luoyang, the eastern capital, in one fell swoop! Annex Canghulao Pass in Luokou!"
After speaking angrily, Wang Shichong sneered again and said, "Otherwise, why hasn't there been any news about the reinforcements Chen Yingliang promised? No matter how much our envoy urged, he said he was preparing? If we keep pressing, Tianshui Xue Ju and Wuwei Li You can believe it or not? My son-in-law, you can even describe him as a tiger with a smiling face, and you can still wrong him.”
Considering that Chen Sangliang's reinforcements have not been seen yet, everyone in the Wang family shut their mouths, and Wang Shichong said: "Although Mrs. Li Mi is also a jackal, it may not be that this jackal eats people and spits out bones." He has the ability to eat us, and he joins forces with him to deal with Yu Wenhua and ordinary people, and exchange for the 100,000 shi of military rations we urgently need is also a good deal, at least it is much better than us dealing with Yu Wenhua and ordinary people alone."
After everyone in the Wang family nodded, Wang Shishi asked timidly: "Fifth brother, what if Li Mi reneges on his promise and refuses to give us food in the future?"
Wang Shichong laughed, and said with a smile: "Don't worry about this, Li Mi will never go back on his promise! Even without the threat of Yu Wenhua and his husband, he would not dare to play this trick, because after Yu Wenhua and his death, he still has Chen Yingliang This even more terrifying enemy needs our help even more, so he doesn't dare to go back on his word, so he can only keep his promise and give us food, otherwise, it will be easier for Chen Yingliang's traitor to destroy him again!"
The members of the Wang family had nothing to say. At present, Wang Shichong was discussing with a group of relatives about sending troops to help Li Mi, while preparing a banquet, and invited Yu Wenwen to discuss the alliance. It turned out that Lang had a concubine who was interested, and Wang Shichong's asking price was not high. He just increased the amount of compensation for military rations to 150,000 shi, which was much lower than Li Mi's reserve price of 200,000 shi. Then Yu Wenwen took the initiative to say: "Prime Minister Wang, Li Taiwei still has a small request. If you can agree, we are willing to give you another 10,000 shi of grain in return."
"What request?" Wang Shichong asked directly.
"Cannon." Yu Wenwen said hastily, "Prime Minister Wang, please help us build cannons to defend against the attacks of Yu Wenhua and ordinary people."
The small-bellied Wang Renze immediately stood up, clenched his hands into fists, and Yu Wenwen hurriedly said: "Prime Minister Wang, you also know that we have also signed an alliance with Chen Yingliang, and we also hope to exchange for artillery from Chen Yingliang. It’s just that the roads are far away and the traffic is not frequent, and it’s hard to get any news in ten days and a half months, and the water can’t quench the near thirst, so I can only ask the Prime Minister to help you with this.”
Waving his hands to stop his family's words, Wang Shichong, who has always been stingy, was uncharacteristic this time, and nodded without blinking his eyelids and said, "Okay, I will give you the artillery."
Yu Wenwen was completely relieved, thankful that his luck was good enough, Yu Wenwen couldn't help but said in his heart: "Wei Gong is right, Wang Shichong is an extraordinary person, he really has courage and courage, it seems that we can do it this time." Take it easy."
Ever since, out of the consideration of having a cold heart and the threat of a bad son-in-law in the future, Wang Shichong quickly concluded a formal covenant with Li Mi, while Wang Shichong sent someone to send Yu Wenwen and the blueprint of the pine tree gun to Luokou Cang, and immediately set about dispatching troops to attack Li Mi. Behind Yu Huaji's back he shared the positive pressure for Li Mi, and as a result, the poor Huaji naturally suffered.
Although he is far inferior to Huaji brother in terms of strength, Wang Shichong still has a little capital in his hands. At least the backbone of the Huainan lineage he brought from Jiangdu is still there. The soldiers of the Guo army, their weapons and equipment are even more comparable, and they have always been used by Wang Shi as a reserve team in the battle of defending the city. They have never revealed their true strength. But this time, in order to put pressure on Brother Hua in the field, Wang Shichong did not hesitate to invest in this elite army of about 8,000 people, supplemented by a newly formed army of more than 10,000 people, and directly attacked Jinyong City where Hua and his brother imprisoned all civil and military officials and the concubine of Emperor Sui Yang.
Yu Wenjun, who was used to despising the world's opponents in the field, also made the mistake of underestimating the enemy. It was discovered that Wang Shichong suddenly sent troops to kill Jin Yongcheng. They only sent more than 10,000 troops, led by Xu Hongren, out of the city to fight against Wang Shichong at the White Horse Temple in Luoyang.
The Yuwen army paid a heavy price for their underestimation of the enemy. The battle formation has not yet been set up. Wang Renze, the fierce general of the Eastern Capital, led 300 heavy cavalry to launch a charge. , Fierce as flying, the Xiaoguo Army who underestimated the enemy failed to stop the cavalry with a dense infantry formation, and Wang Ren, who was also armed to the teeth, broke through three phalanxes one after another, causing chaos on the right wing. Then Wang Shichong immediately ordered the front army to attack. Before Xu Hongren launched a charge, he used five thousand new troops to entangle the front of the Xiaoguo army. He didn't want to defeat the enemy, but he didn't give Xu Hongren any chance to strike first.
If Xu Hongren's army was the first to attack, then with his overall strength and Ruhong's momentum, even if he couldn't win against Wang Shichong, he wouldn't suffer too much. But it is a pity that the old treacherous Wang Shichong understands the truth that morale can never be discouraged. From the very beginning, he aggressively took the initiative to attack, boosted the morale of his own army, and put psychological pressure on the enemy. The Xiaoguo Army, which massacred the enemy like melons and vegetables, encountered adversity suddenly, just like the elite soldiers of Qi County under Zhang Xutuo's command, not only the morale was immediately frustrated, but also the psychological panic was inevitable, which further affected the morale and shaken the morale of the army. , A fatal vicious circle is formed, and failure is inevitable.
It was Xu Hongren's left wing that collapsed first. The right wing was disturbed by Wang Renze, who was like a madman, and was entangled by Wang Shichong's infantry. In order to reverse the situation, the impatient Xu Hongren chose to order the left wing to attack and counterattack Wang Shichong's battle formation. However, Xu Hongren's army soon discovered in despair that what appeared in front of them was a Huainan army with the same excellent equipment as theirs, an ace army that was generally slightly smaller in stature but had more combat experience than them, led by Wang Shichong himself. The trump card attacked, and took the initiative to touch Xu Hongren's left wing, like a torrent hitting an earth dam, it instantly smashed Xu Hongren's left wing to pieces.
It’s not that the generals of the Xiaoguo Army can’t fight, it’s that their opponents can also fight and they know how to fight. It’s not that the soldiers of the Xiaoguo Army are not brave enough, but their opponents are braver and more tenacious. The Huainan infantry and even the Turkic cavalry who wore thin leather armor back then They all dared to carry it head-on, and those riding on top of horses raised their heads to see the blood of the Turkic cavalry. Chen Sangliang, Li Yuan and other heroes in troubled times were surprised by their performance. Waiting for the armor, holding the sharpest weapon made by the power of the Sui Dynasty, and having a local numerical advantage, if the Huainan Army can't defeat Xu Hongren's left wing, the historical Wang Shichong is not worthy of performing black eight miracles in Yanshi up.
During the tide-like offensive, the fearless Huainan soldiers strode forward closely following Wang Shichong's handsome flag, stabbed their bodies with knives, axes, and guns, their red eyes just greeted the enemy with their weapons, and the sparks of gold and iron collisions could be seen everywhere , The teeth-stinging sound of steel rubbing against each other is endless, even if you fall to the ground with a serious injury, you will die with an enemy in your arms. Since the Jiangdu Mutiny, the soldiers of the Xiaoguo Army, who have never encountered such a crazy and brave enemy, quickly began to panic, unknowingly began to be timid and deserted, while the Huainan soldiers marched forward triumphantly, and quickly defeated Xu Hongren like a tide The left wing continued to rush towards Xu Hongren's flag formation.
With the defeated soldiers of the Xiaoguo Army as the vanguard, it was even easier for the Huainan Army to directly attack Xu Hongren's flag formation. It was the first time Xu Hongren, who was able to gain the favor of his brother by flattering him, saw such a crazy enemy rushing towards him. He was so frightened that his face was pale and his hands and feet were weak, and he subconsciously turned his horse's head and ran towards Jin Yongcheng. The right wing of Xu Hongren's army, who had been disturbed by Wang Renze, was flustered when he saw it. The generals and soldiers subconsciously ran away to keep up, and then affected the frontal army that had a certain advantage, making them also choose to run away in a panic. Wang Shichong took the opportunity to order an attack With the general attack, Xu Hongren's army has no hope of turning back.
Hearing that Xu Hongren was defeated, Yuan Wuda was shocked and immediately sent troops out of the city to respond. However, Xu Hongren, who had seriously failed in command, panicked. Like many rookie generals, he ran there when he saw that there were too many people there. Of course he was seeking the protection of friendly troops, but the result was that he led his defeated soldiers to directly attack the front of his own reinforcements, disrupting the queue of reinforcements for Wang Shichong for free, and also affected the morale of the reinforcements. In the face-to-face confrontation with Wang Shichong, the situation is already messy, and the army is panicked.
Such a big pie suddenly fell from the sky, Wang Shichong is not worthy of being a hero in troubled times if he doesn't catch it, he drove Xu Hongren's defeated soldiers to be the vanguard, Wang Shichong's army rushed all the way, like the autumn wind sweeping the fallen leaves, they were easily crushed After accepting Xu Hongren's enemy, he drove the two defeated enemy troops forward and rushed all the way to the Jinyong city. He slashed and killed the defeated Yuwen army who had no time to enter the city like chopping melons and vegetables. The battle was very huge.
This day is definitely the most humiliating day for the Xiaoguo Army since it became an army. In the snow-capped wilderness, Wang Shichong, with uneven equipment, training and combat effectiveness, defeated the strong with the weak, and chopped down more than 10,000 well-equipped soldiers of the Xiaoguo Army. The corpses of the soldiers of the Xiaoguo Army who were wearing good armor were covered with snow, and the sharp weapons in their hands quickly became the murderous weapons of the recruits in Wang Shichong's army, which was more powerful and convenient. Kill the defeated Xiaoguo army. The soldiers of the Xiaoguo Army only cared about fleeing into the city. In the panic, they pushed each other and trampled on each other.
If Wang Shichong hadn't ordered Mingjin to retreat, Wang Shichong's army would have had a glimmer of hope even if they wanted to take the opportunity to enter Jinyong City. As a result, after the Mingjin gong rang, the soldiers of the Xiaoguo Army who were silted up in front of the narrow city gate seemed to be amnesty. Back to the city, Wang Renze, who had already been killed with blood all over his face, rushed back to Wang Shichong, shouted and asked, "Uncle, why are you asking for gold? We hope to take the opportunity to enter the city?"
"Let's take it when you see it. Rabbits will bite people when they are in a hurry. We have to prevent their dying counterattack from hurting us." Wang Shichong replied coldly: "We only have 8,000 strong soldiers in our hands, and they are disabled now. How will we fight in the future? Let us keep our current victories first, this battle is enough to make Yu Wenhua and everyone feel pain."
After all, Wang Shichong ordered: "Immediately send an order that all soldiers of the Xiaoguo Army who surrendered are not allowed to be killed or abused. Tell them, as long as they are willing to join us, after I have defeated Yu Wenhua and the traitors, I will let them When I return to Guanzhong to reunite with my family, I will immediately notify my beloved son-in-law, Chen Yingliang, and ask him to treat their family in Guanzhong kindly for me!"