There is a very strange phenomenon in the melee in the eastern capital, that is, Brother Hua, Wang Shichong, and Li Mi are all deliberately shorting the western front, leaving Mianchi and Xin'an, two small counties with great tactical significance, empty on the western front. No fight, no one to rob. Li Mijun Yang Defang, who once occupied Xin'an City, voluntarily gave up Xin'an City and withdrew to Yanshi before the Yuwen Army crossed the Yellow River to the south, and deliberately gave up Hua and his brother Xijin. The road from Guanzhong and Chen Sangliang to the east out of Xiaohan Road.
The purpose, Wang Shichong and Li Mi's purpose is of course to drag Chen Sangliang into the Eastern Capital battlefield as soon as possible, lest he blindly hide in Guanzhong to watch the excitement and pick up cheap, and hope for a miracle that Hua Jixiong can lead the main force directly to the west Xiao Han said that he went directly to trouble Chen Sangliang, so there was no need to deploy any troops on the western front.
It's a pity that brother Huaji is not stupid on this point. He knows that once he leads the main force westward to Xiaohan Road, the two white-eyed wolves, Wang Shichong and Li Mi, will definitely make trouble behind his back, and at the same time, brother Huaji, who was born in the family, will definitely make trouble. No matter how incompetent he is, he also knows the importance of geographical advantage. He understands that Xiaohan Road is easy to defend and difficult to attack. If Chen Sangliang's army can be lured out of Xiaohan Road to fight, it will be of great benefit to Xiaoguo's army, so Hua Jixiong never paid any attention to the Western Front. And when the battles on both fronts were going badly, Brother Hua certainly didn't want to station troops on the western front to open up a third battlefield.
The tacit understanding of the three forces, of course, made Chen Sangliang cheaper in vain. Although the two cities of Mianchi and Xin'an were small and dilapidated, and were devastated by the flames of war, there were less than a thousand residents in the cities, but Chen Sangliang only needed to send troops to take over these two small cities. It is tantamount to controlling the entire Weihan channel antenna, close to the tactical initiative of the Dongdu battlefield. But with this temptation in front of him, Chen Sangliang, who always liked to take advantage of it, rarely restrained his temper, and refused to send troops to the east. Stretching out his claws quickly made the intelligent generals in Huaji's army secretly happy, and only hoped that Chen Sangliang would never send troops to Dongdu.
What is supposed to come will always come. Just as Wang Shichong and Li Mi were trembling under the power of Huaji's powerful army, on the first day of the twelfth lunar month, a fast horse finally rushed into the Eastern Capital with a letter written by Chen Sangliang. Hui'an Gate brought Wang Shichong, who was waiting hard, a piece of good news that was bigger than the sky-before the seventh day of the twelfth lunar month, the vanguard of the Daxing Sui Army must rush to the Xin'an area to participate in the war, and bear the pressure from the Yuwen Army for Wang Shichong!
In addition, although Chen Sangliang could not personally lead the main force east out of Xiaohandao because of the alliance between Xue Ju and Li Gui to invade Guanzhong, Chen Sangliang clearly told Wang Shichong in his letter that the size of his former army With 10,000 infantry and 2,000 cavalry, a total of 12,000 cavalry, even if you can't defeat Brother Hua, you can still pose a real threat to Brother Hua!
In view of Chen Sangliang's treacherous but good reputation, Wang Shichong's heart, which had been held tightly in his throat, was finally safely put back into his stomach, and he smiled with relief. Said that this time can finally save a lot of worry. Only Wang Ren was not satisfied, and said dissatisfiedly: "There are only 12,000 troops, how effective can it be? The great thing is to force Yu Wenhua and Ping Fu to divide tens of millions of people to guard against them. If Yu Wenhua and Ping Fu iron Those who are determined to only defend and not fight, and 5,000 troops stationed in Xin'an are enough to contain the forwards in Guanzhong."
"Don't be dissatisfied. A good son-in-law can send 12,000 troops, which is pretty good." Wang Shichong was more optimistic, and said with a smile: "Ying Liang's good son-in-law has always used soldiers, even if it is to recruit soldiers. Li Mi and Li Yuan, who have more than 100,000 people, have always controlled the scale of sending troops to around 50,000, and still beat Li Mi and Li Yuan to the brink of death. This time, he can send 12,000 reinforcements in one go, and the old man is already very satisfied. .”
"That's right, it doesn't matter how many troops he sends, as long as he sends troops to fight with Yu Wenhua and the ordinary people!" Wang Shiyun said fiercely: "As long as he starts a war with Yu Wenhua and the ordinary people, we can find ways to blame Guanzhong and let the people fight." Yu Wenhua and everyone will do their best to deal with it!"
"Fifth Brother, in Brother Yu's opinion, it's best to find a way to let Yu Wenhua and my husband know about this, the sooner the better." Wang Shishi, the boss of the Wang family, suggested: "Yu Wenhua and my husband know that Chen Yingliang is about to send troops to the Eastern Capital, so they must Mobilizing the army to intercept and fight, he will not only reveal his flaws when he moves, but also give us a chance to counterattack, and the pressure we face will be much less immediately."
"This matter is easy to handle. Let the news be announced immediately, together with the news that the Daxing army arrived in Xin'an before the seventh day of the twelfth lunar month. Let our army know, and let the people in Dongdu city know." Wang Shichong said relaxedly: "In this way, not only can our morale be boosted, but Yuhuahua and the common people will also know about it soon."
Everyone in the Wang family was overjoyed and praised together, and then Wang Shiheng, the second son of the Wang family, also suggested: "My dear brother, it is best to send a few messengers to contact Li Mi, let him know the good news, and be firm in his determination to fight to the death with Yu Wenhua and the common husband." Determined. Even if the Yuwen thieves block it tightly, and our courier is captured by the Yuwen thieves on the way, we can let Yu Wenhua and the common man know about it directly, which will hurt his morale."
Wang Shichong was very satisfied when he heard it, and immediately nodded his head to accept it, and immediately arranged for a cannon fodder messenger to deliver the letter. When Wang Shishi picked up the pen and wrote the letter for Wang Shichong for Li Mi, Wang Shichong finally discovered a small problem, and scolded: "This Ying Liang, how can you send me a letter?" Such negligence, he didn’t mention who his former military commander was in the letter?”
It was only then that the members of the Wang family realized that Chen Sangliang had indeed forgotten to mention this point, but it was obviously just a trivial matter, so no one took it to heart, and comforted Wang Shichong that it was okay, waiting for Chen Sangliang's former army When you arrive, you will know who the leader is. Wang Shichong didn't pay much attention, just said in his heart: "It's okay, it doesn't matter who comes, how many men don't like gold, silver, jewelry and beautiful women? When the time comes, send a lot of bejeweled beauties in front of him. Don't worry about not being able to pull him into the battlefield immediately."
As Wang Shichong expected, when he fully activated the propaganda machine and announced the good news that the Guanzhong reinforcements would arrive at Xin'an before the seventh day of the twelfth lunar month, the Dongdu army, which had only half of the northern city left, was indeed ecstatic and their morale was high. Zhen, even ordinary people were all smiling, saying that Chen Sangliang, who loves the people like a son, has finally returned, and there is hope for a better life. As a matter of course, Yuwen Army's spy scouts of course also quickly found out this important news, and immediately reported it to Jin Yongcheng.
Hearing this news, Yuan Wuda, who stayed behind in Jinyong City, and Sima Dekan, who had just been transferred back, were of course taken aback. They hurriedly dispatched more scouts to confirm the authenticity of the news, and at the same time dispatched fast horses to the Luokou warehouse eighty miles away. On the battlefield, report this bad news to Hua Jixiong—for the current Yuwen Army, this news is indeed a huge bad news.
After receiving the report from Yuan Wuda and others, Brother Huaji, who was so frightened, couldn't believe the news was true. He yelled and said it was impossible. trouble. However, to the despair of Hua and Brother, his scout team quickly captured two messengers from Dongdu, and found the letter written by Wang Shichong to Li Mi from them, which once again confirmed that the news was probably true. It is indeed possible for good reinforcements to arrive in Xin'an within five or six days to join the battle.
Roaring and ordering the two unlucky messengers to be buried alive, Brother Hua could only hastily gather a group of confidants to discuss the countermeasures, but this time it was finally the turn of Brother Hua and his group to frown. He was worried from head to tail, and even more afraid that Chen Sangliang's front army would have the main army behind him, all of them were worried and worried. In the end, due to helplessness, Hua Jixiong could only hastily order Xu Hongren to lead an army of 5,000 troops to enter Xin'an City immediately, block the exit of Weihan Road, buy time for the main force, and immediately start to arrange the offensive, preparing to launch another attack on Luokou Cang's violent attack.
Wang Shichong sent a total of three messengers to contact Li Mi, and one of them slipped through the net by chance and met Li Mi in the Luokou warehouse. It was also because Chen Sangliang had always had a good reputation and never broke his word—he just liked to play tricks. Li Mi also heaved a long sigh of relief. , Knowing that I have survived until the turning point is about to appear. And then our Mi Gong didn't even blink his eyelids, and immediately ordered: "Prepare me a pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and then go to the camp to ask, is there anyone who dares to send a letter to Yu Wenhua and my husband? No matter who it is If you dare to go, you will be rewarded with ten taels of gold, and if you come back alive, you will be rewarded with twenty taels of gold!"
"Wei Gong, why do you want to contact Yu Wenhuaji?" Chai Xiaohe asked curiously.
"Peace, of course I want to make peace with him." Li Mi replied with a smile: "As long as Yu Wenhua and the man agree to withdraw, I am willing to give him ten thousand stones of rations."
"Seek peace?" Chai Xiaohe was taken aback, and said in amazement: "Wei Gong, why did you suddenly think of asking for peace? It's impossible for Yu Wenhua and Pifu to agree?"
"Not necessarily." Li Mi said with a sneer: "Chen Yingliang's little thief is about to send troops, and Yu Huahua and the common man will definitely hear the news. If he asks him for peace at this time, even if he doesn't agree immediately, he will be tempted. If he is tempted, the future will be settled It's easy."
"But how do you explain to the world?" Chai Xiaohe hurriedly reminded: "Even if Wei Gong has an excuse to delay the army, if Yuwen Shi and the other side deliberately let Chen Yingliang's traitor know about this, Chen's character must be the same. Stopping the army for this reason, will it be even more unfavorable at that time?"
After being reminded by Chai Xiaohe, Li Mi realized that he was still too anxious. Chen Sangliang's reinforcements are still on the way, and they have not even finished their journey. It is to give Chen Sangliang the handle to catch. With Chen Sangliang's humble character, once he knows this, he will definitely stop the army with the excuse of destroying the alliance and breaking promises from the army, or even turn back the same way. So after thinking about it for a long time, Li Mi still nodded, and said: "Thanks to Xiaohe's reminder, I almost committed this confusion. Well, let's put aside the matter of peace for the time being and wait until the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. Although the little thief Chen Yingliang Treacherous, but always keep their promises, the agreed time will never be delayed, on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, Yu Wenhua and everyone can confirm that Chen Yingliang's reinforcements have arrived in Xin'an."
Called back to recruit the messenger who sent the death messenger, Li Mi changed his words and ordered: "Announce the news that Chen Yingliang's reinforcements are about to arrive, announce the time and strength, and let all our soldiers know the good news. Besides, be on guard. If the city is prepared, Yu Wenhua and the common man are likely to jump over the wall in a hurry."
The third enemy is coming, and it is the most terrifying and dangerous enemy. Of course, Brother Huaji will jump over the wall in a hurry. On the fourth day of the twelfth lunar month, Brother Huaji once again launched a large-scale attack on Luokou Cangcheng, and the attack was extremely fierce Crazy, five hundred warlords line up behind, even if the siege soldiers take a step back, they will be executed immediately! However, it was Li Mijun's crazier and tenacious resistance that answered Brother Huaji. The soldiers of Li Mijun, whose morale was boosted by the good news of the reinforcements, fought one after another, tenaciously resisting the repeated attacks of Yuwen Army with their flesh and blood. They broke Hua Jixiong's soldiers with stones, fists, and even teeth. In just one morning, nearly a hundred soldiers of Li Mi's army hugged the enemy and rolled down the city wall, dying together with Hua Jixiong's soldiers.
The crazier ones are yet to come. In the afternoon, when Luokou Warehouses are running out one after another, Li Mi's Yanyue City defenders suddenly rush out. Under the leadership of Gao Jifu, they launch a suicide charge against the Yuwen Army. The houses and warehouses in the fort directly destroy the fort gate and attack, leaving no retreat at all. The result is that one man is desperate, and ten men are hard to beat. No matter how elite the Xiaoguo army is, it is difficult to parry the desperate attack of Gao Ji's auxiliary army. Gao Ji's auxiliary army broke a gap in the defense line, and returned to the Luokou Cang City. And brother's ants attached to the army.
More than a thousand defenders of Yanyue City, less than 300 of them were finally able to escape back to Luokou Cangcheng under the support of friendly troops. At a considerable price, the dozen or so ladder vehicles that had approached Luokou Cangcheng were all destroyed by Gao Ji's auxiliary army, losing the most threatening siege weapon to Luokou Cangcheng, and at the same time forcing Brother Hua to divide his troops Strengthen the monitoring of Black Rock Fort and Hulao Pass, lest Sun Changle and Yang Jishan do the same thing, and Brother Huaji will cry.
Gao Ji’s auxiliary army’s suicide charge dealt the biggest blow to the Xiaoguo army’s morale and psychology. Seeing such a frenzied enemy, the soldiers of the Xiaoguo army, no matter how elite they are, would inevitably feel a little frightened. He has no confidence and confidence in taking Luokou Cangcheng. This is reflected in the battlefield. Of course, the combat effectiveness is declining. Even if he dare not retreat, he dare not rush too busy. The onslaught reached the third watch of the night, but the Luokou warehouse was still unable to be breached. On the contrary, the generals and soldiers were all exhausted, and their morale declined even further.
In the end, it was Yuwen Zhiji and Feng Deyi who joined hands to hold Brother Huaji, saying that if the fight continues, it is not only doomed to be useless, but will only increase the casualties in vain, and further affect the morale of the army. It is better to say that Brother Huaji gave the order in the middle of the third watch withdraw troops. After finally surviving brother Hua Ji's doggy jump over the wall, Li Mi, who hadn't sat down from the beginning of the war to the end of the war, once again sat slumped on the city wall full of dead bodies and blood, with a gratified smile on his black face, and murmured: "It's good to get through it, it's good to get through it, it's enough to get through this time. Yu Wenhuaji can't prepare a lot of siege weapons in a short time, and he won't be able to attack the city in the last three days."
Mi Gong slightly underestimated Brother Hua's determination. After letting the army rest for a day on the fifth day of the twelfth lunar month, on the sixth day of the twelfth lunar month, Brother Hua even launched a large-scale attack on the sixth day of the twelfth lunar month when the large-scale siege weapons had been exhausted. When the siege was dissuaded by his subordinates, Hua Ji yelled with red eyes, "Where do we still have time to prepare siege weapons? Tomorrow, maybe today, Chen Yingliang's reinforcements will arrive in Xin'an. Hurry up, how will you fight in the future?"
"But brother, you should go and see the army first." Yu Wenzhi said with tears in his eyes: "Go and see the current situation of our soldiers first, do you think they can fight again?"
Under Yuwen Zhiji's repeated persuasion, Brother Huaji finally had a rare time leaving the tents and sleeping tents, and went to the camp to inspect the situation of the soldiers. What left Brother Huaji speechless was that his camp was already full of wounded soldiers. It can be seen that countless Xiaoguo soldiers covered in mud are wearing summer single clothes, shivering beside the smoky fire, and their blood-stained faces are full of exhaustion and disappointment, even if they see Brother Hua approaching When people stood up and saluted, even the generals at the middle and lower levels were stunned, Hua Ji brother kindly stepped forward to encourage him, but the answers he answered were all weak slogans and endless low-pitched complaints.
If you continue to force it like this, you might have to mutiny. Brother Hua Ji, who was born in Jiangmen, is incompetent, but he also understands this truth, so brother Hua Ji finally agreed with Yuwen Zhiji's suggestion and decided to let the army rest for a few more days and not to fight again. Forcibly launched a siege. What followed, of course, was the consideration of temporarily giving up the attack on Luokou Cangcheng, and some people even suggested that they simply withdraw to Hanoi and survive this winter before considering how to enter the army.
The situation on Li Mijun's side is actually even worse. Xiaoguo's army is only half injured and exhausted, while Li Mijun's side is already nearly half dead or injured. , the number of dead has reached a terrifying 13,000 people, and most of the rest are wounded. The army is so tired that it doesn't even have the strength to clean up the battlefield, forcing Li Mi to send the cavalry of the internal army to pretend to be ordinary soldiers Go down to the city to clean up the dead bodies to avoid exposing the false and the true. Gou Dehua and his brother came to attack the city again.
Fortunately, at the critical moment, Wang Shichong once again sent good news. On the night of the sixth day of the twelfth lunar month, a messenger from the Eastern Capital once again entered Luokou Cangcheng through the layers of blockade of the Xiaoguo Army, and brought Li Mi reinforcements from Guanzhong. The news of entering Mianchi. Li Mi breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that Chen Sangliang had finally not broken his promise this time, and without hesitation, Li Mi immediately sent someone to Hulao Pass to contact Yang Jishan, asking Yang Jishan to send a new force to the Luokou warehouse the next day As reinforcements, at the same time, he immediately prepared a letter pleading for peace with brother Hua and brother, and on the morning of the seventh day, he couldn't wait to send a death-defying messenger out of the city to the Xiaoguo army camp to ask to see brother Hua.
Changed to a few days ago, Li Mi's messenger must have been ordered to be buried alive by Brother Hua before entering the camp, but this time it can't work, also last night, Sima Dekan also sent an urgent letter, reporting After hearing the bad news that the Guanzhong army had entered Mianchi City on the night of the fifth day of the lunar new year, the dagger of Wang Shichong was on the stomach of the enemy before and after. He treated Li Mi's messenger with courtesy to a certain extent, and then took Li Mi's handwritten letter from the messenger.
Although the compensation for Wan Shi’s military rations is not much, it can barely make up for Brother Hua’s face—at least it proves that Brother Hua’s sacrifice of so much blood and human life is not for nothing, so after reading Li Mi’s peace letter, Brother Hua and opened his mouth. Said: "Very good, since he, Li Mi, already knows that Truth is powerful, Truth can also consider forgiving him again, it's just military rations..."
"Brother! Brother! Brother! Good news!"
Yu Wenzhiji, who suddenly stumbled and rushed in, interrupted Brother Huaji's words to save face, and every time he made money, Yuwen Zhiji yelled loudly: "Brother! Great news! The forward leader sent by Chen Yingliang, It’s Uncle Yun! It’s our Uncle Yun!”
"What?!" Brother Hua jumped up straight away, and asked with an unbelievable roar: "That old man Yun? Is it Yun Dingxing? Is it the old man Yun Dingxing who has a life-and-death relationship with our father?" ?!"
"Yes! That's him!" Yuwen Zhiji nodded vigorously, and leaped another ten feet away, and whispered into Brother Huaji's ear, "The secret envoy sent by Uncle Yun has arrived outside the camp. Come to talk to us, Old Uncle Yun’s secret envoy is still his nephew Yun Fu, Yun Fu who used to visit our house for Old Uncle Yun, he said that Uncle Yun didn’t want to fight us, he just wanted to get over it!”
"Quick! Please come in with the emissary of Uncle Yun!" Brother Hua yelled in a hurry, "Prepare the banquet! Prepare the best banquet! Also, chop off the envoy of Li Mi's dog thief and throw his head into Luokou Cang Go down!"
When the unlucky Li Mi envoy hurriedly begged for mercy, another scout rushed into the tent, saying that he had discovered that Yang Jishan had sent 20,000 troops from Hulao Pass to the west, and was rushing towards Luokou Cang! And if Chen Sangliang sent someone else to serve as the forward leader, Brother Huaji must have succumbed to Li Mi's hard and soft tactics, and promised Li Mi to seek peace and not intercept him, but now it is completely different, Huaji Brothers who have regained their confidence Without even blinking an eyelid, he immediately shouted: "Let Chen Zhilue lead ten thousand cavalry to attack, and give Benxiang the reinforcements to attack Li Mi's dog thieves head-on! Damn, if you dare to fight with him in the field, you will die!"
"Also! Immediately send a quick horse to deliver an order to Sima Dekan, ordering him to abandon Xin'an and retreat back to Jinyong City. Unless Old Man Yun takes the initiative to beat him, he is not allowed to fight Old Man Yun! If he dares to attack Old Man Yun himself, I will skin him !"
Soon, Li Mi was stunned to see on the blood-soaked city wall of Luokoucang that the head of his envoy who should be very sure was thrown under the city gate by the soldiers of the Xiaoguo Army, and then Li Mi was dumbfounded to see, Tens of thousands of cavalry from the Xiaoguo Army suddenly attacked, and rushed directly towards the Hulao Pass with a murderous look, and went head-to-head with Yang Jishan's new force. After being tongue-tied for a long time, Li Mi let out an exclamation, "Have Yu Wenhua and this man gone crazy? When is this, and he still wants to fight me?!"
At the same time in the Eastern Capital City, the envoy sent by Wang Shichong to contact the Guanzhong Reinforcement Army finally returned to the Eastern Capital City, and brought Wang Shichong the good news that the general of the Guanzhong Reinforcement Army accepted all his valuable gifts with a smile, and the general promised to take them. The good news that Xiaxin'an City opened up direct contact with Wang Shichong. Wang Shichong was overjoyed, and hurriedly asked again: "By the way, who is the leader of the reinforcements sent by Ying Liang's son-in-law? Kan Leng? Luo Shixin? Or Liu Heita?"
The envoy truthfully answered the name of the chief general of Chen Sangliang's reinforcements. Wang Shichong also fell to the ground on the spot. Already! Send this shameless old man to lead an army to reinforce, is it to reinforce the old man? Or to reinforce him, Yu Wenhua and the common man?"