Because Chen Yingliang saw through the trick to lure the enemy at a glance, and because there was no other team in the Dongdu garrison who dared to go out to fight in the field except for the national army, the rebel team led by Yang Xuanting and Li Mi was of course outside the Anxi Gate. After waiting for one day in vain, before the sun set, he retreated to the Jinyong City camp eighteen miles away, and took away some flying ladders and toad carts built on the battlefield, as well as a thousand soldiers lying in ambush. Five hundred elite cavalry were replaced by two thousand fresh troops led by Zheng Yan to continue to harass the Anximen defenders.
Yang Xuanting, who was eager to avenge his shame, was of course full of anger. On the way back to the camp, he cursed endlessly, cursing Chen Yingliang's 18th generation of ancestors and all the female relatives, and by the way offered a plan to lure the enemy Li Mi also suffered, and was often accused by Yang Xuanting of pointing and scolding Huai. The very self-restraining Li Mi pretended not to hear it, because Li Mi had long understood that it was difficult for him to hide this trick of luring the enemy from Chen Yingliang. , the follow-up plan arranged under the cover of luring the enemy is the trump card that Li Mi puts high hopes on.
Li Mi and Yang Xuanting had already returned to the rebel army camp outside Jinyong City after a distance of more than ten miles, and it was just getting dark. What surprised Li Mi was that Yang Xuangan didn't come to the gate of the camp in person this time as usual. Li Mi, who is proud and arrogant, was quite dissatisfied with welcoming him as a military adviser back to the camp. He felt that Yang Xuangan's tolerance was a little too narrow. So disrespectful.
It was also in the big tent of the Chinese army that Li Mi realized that he had wrongly blamed Yang Xuangan this time. At the same time, he was also pleasantly surprised to find that Li Zixiong, the former general of Youwuhou and the famous general of the Sui army who was hailed by Emperor Sui Yang as the reincarnation of Zhuge Liang, appeared unexpectedly. In Yang Xuangan's tent! After being introduced by Yang Xuangan, Li Mi knew that Li Zixiong was suspected by Emperor Yang Sui of the Sui Dynasty. He suspected that Li Zixiong, who had been Yang Su's right-hand man, participated in the rebellion and ordered his arrest. It was also because Li Zixiong, an important minister of the Sui army, had to accompany him when he arrived, so he made an exception and did not go to the gate of Daying to welcome Li Mi, the military adviser.
Emperor Sui Yang forced himself to rebel against Yang Su's right-hand man Li Zixiong, who was actually not involved in the rebellion. Immediately asked Li Zixiong, who had just escaped from the Liaodong battlefield, about the situation in the north, that is, the return of the main force of the Sui army who was away from the battle. The main elite of the Sui army brought to the Liaodong battlefield by Emperor Sui Yang.
Li Zixiong's answer made Li Mirang raise his heart to his throat. Li Zixiong, who also knew the gap between the elite of the Sui army and the rebel army, looked helpless, and replied: "As far as I know, the tyrant Yang Guang immediately relieved the army after he learned that Duke Chu raised troops. In order to encircle Liaodong City, an important town in Goguryeo, he led the main force back to the Central Plains. Goguryeo's army had been frightened by the main force under the tyrant's command in the field battle, and did not dare to take advantage of the momentum to launch a pursuit. They pursued the rear of the army and killed thousands of old and weak soldiers."
"Goguryeo's army failed to hold back Yang Guang's main force?" Li Mi's face changed slightly.
"Also, I heard the news on the way to the south." Li Zixiong introduced with an even more helpless expression: "I heard that after Lai Huer led the army to Donglai, the news that Duke Chu raised troops happened, and he did not ask Yang Guang for instructions. On his own initiative, he gave up his plan to cross the sea to attack Pyongyang, and led his army back from Donglai to aid Luoyang, the eastern capital. According to the distance, he has at least reached Lujun."
"Lai Huer?" Li Mi's complexion changed again, and he did not dare to take Lai Huer, a famous general of the Sui army who had experienced many battles, lightly.
"Lai Hu'er just returned to the division from Donglai?" Yang Xuangan, who was talented and talented, also rarely frowned, and said: "This tyrant's lackey is quite knowledgeable about military affairs, and Yuan Wu, who stayed behind in Liyang, might be hard to resist."
"What Chu Gong said is very true." Li Mi hurriedly echoed: "The current strategy should be to move westward as soon as possible, capture Guanzhong, control the danger of Tongguan according to the mountains and rivers, and resist Yang Guang's returning army. This is the best policy."
Although Li Zixiong was praised by Emperor Sui Yang as the reincarnation of Zhuge, he didn't know the military situation when he first arrived in the rebel camp, so he didn't dare to express his opinions indiscriminately, and he didn't agree with Li Mi's correct strategy. Yang Xuangan, who never listened to Li Mi's opinions on strategy, still refused to adopt it, and said coldly: "Of course I want to take Guanzhong, but before taking Guanzhong, I have to take Luoyang first and capture the tyrant surnamed Chen." Running dog, cut him into ten thousand pieces, execute him Ling Chi, and let him pay off my hatred of severed ears, Mangshan's hatred!"
Li Mi smiled wryly, and he really couldn't understand Yang Xuangan's way of thinking—for an enemy, he was willing to give up the best chance to capture Guanzhong? But Yang Xuangan didn't think so, and just took advantage of the situation and asked: "Master, you and your third brother went to Dongdu to lure the enemy. How is the situation? Did Chen Yingliang, the tyrant's lackey, go out of the city to fight with you?"
"No." Li Mi replied truthfully: "We just saw three officers and soldiers in white robes coming up to Anxi Gate from a distance. We think there must be a thief Chen Yingliang among them, but that thief is as treacherous as I guessed. Did not lead the army out of the city to surprise us, presumably this little traitor has already seen through our trick to lure the enemy."
"Little traitor!" Yang Xuangan cursed, and then said viciously: "It doesn't matter, then implement the second step of your master plan, and go to attack Dongdu tonight, break through Luoyang, and capture Fan Zigai, Huangfu Wuyi and Chen Yingliang alive These tyrant lackeys!"
"Grand Chu, should we wait a little longer?" Li Mi advised kindly: "Our strategy of exhausting our troops only took one night, and the effect is not obvious enough. Why don't we use the drum and gong team to harass the defenders of the Eastern Capital for a few more nights, and then we can use the drums and gongs to harass the defenders of the Eastern Capital for a few more nights. It’s not too late to launch a surprise attack.”
"Time is precious, don't wait." Yang Xuangan waved his hand and said decisively: "I just checked the weather, and there should not be much moonlight tonight, which is just right for the second step of the plan! Of course it would be best to sneak attack on Luoyang City tonight, even if If we can't succeed, we still have time to launch a frontal attack and take Dongdu directly!"
Li Mi hesitated for a moment, seeing Yang Xuangan's resolute attitude, and Li Mi, who knew Yang Xuangan's ruthless temper, also understood that the persuasion was only in vain, so he said helplessly: "Since that is the case, then it is best to launch a sneak attack after the fourth watch in the middle of the night, so that you can be more confident. Some. Also, may I ask Duke Chu, which city gate are we going to raid tonight? Hui'an Gate or Shangchun Gate?"
"Shangchunmen!" Yang Xuangan replied loudly, gnashing his teeth and said: "Of course it's Shangchunmen! Our country suffered the most humiliation there, so of course we must take revenge there!"
"Hey, how can such a narrow-mindedness make a big deal happen?" Li Mi sighed inwardly, and comforted himself in his heart: "But it's all the same, we harassed Anximen last night, and the Dongdu officers and soldiers will definitely pay attention to it tonight." Concentrate on the Anximen area, it doesn't matter whether you attack Hui'anmen or Shangchunmen, there is no difference."
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As the night was getting darker, the vengeful Yang Xuangan personally raised the most capable elite teams, and assembled a large group of cannon fodder teams, carrying a large number of climbing equipment such as shovels, hoes, and ropes with flying claws, and Dozens of strong and light flying ladders made of moso bamboo were gathered at the second correction, and they quietly touched Luoyang City, eighteen miles away, to carry out Li Mi's plan to destroy the city. In the second step, under the cover of night and Anximen's fake army, they sneaked into Luoyang City, which had been unable to attack for a long time.
In addition, in order to get acquainted with the situation of the rebel army and the situation of the Luoyang defenders as soon as possible, Li Zixiong, who also had nowhere to retreat, insisted on fighting with the army regardless of the fatigue from the distance. Happy, after a few words of persuasion, he readily accepted Li Zixiong's request.
The distance was very short and there was plenty of time, so Li Mi carefully reminded Yang Xuangan to send someone to contact Zheng Yan's team who was in charge of harassing Anximen on the way, to understand the reaction of the Luoyang defenders, and the result made Yang Xuangan and Li Mi overjoyed —When Zheng Yan’s team repeatedly harassed Anximen, the Anximen defenders were not only forced to stand up and prepare for battle every time, but also many Sui soldiers in white robes appeared on the city wall!
"Okay!" Li Mixi said: "The enemy really took the bait and transferred the most capable white-robed soldiers to Anxi Gate. Even if the nearby Shangchun Gate and Hui'an Gate have strengthened their defenses, they are definitely not as tight as Anxi Gate. "
Yang Xuangan nodded with a smile, and agreed with Li Mi's judgment. Li Zixiong, who already knew the steps of the plan, also praised: "Mr. Fazhu is really clever, he harassed Anximen for two consecutive nights, and built siege weapons outside Anximen, arranged an ambush, arranged With this series of illusions, even if it were me, I would definitely think that the main battlefield chosen by Duke Chu is Anximen, and I would never think that the real purpose of our army is to prepare for a sneak attack on other city gates. A clever plan, indeed a clever plan."
After praising, Li Zixiong asked a little strangely: "But Mr. Fazhu, I don't understand one thing. Since there are as many as twelve gates in Luoyang, why don't our army go to attack other cities farther away?" Gate, but want to sneak attack on one of Shangchun Gate and Hui'an Gate adjacent to Anxi Gate?"
"Old general, are you testing me?" Li Mi was more confused than Li Zixiong, and replied, "I don't want to attack other city gates. The first reason is that the geography is not suitable for sneak attacks. The second reason is to make it dark under the lights. The enemy may suspect that we are preparing to attack east and west, but they will never think that we are preparing to sneak attack Shangchunmen or Hui'anmen, which are the closest to Anximen, and there will be psychological negligence. Of course, our army can launch a surprise attack.
"That's how it is, Gao Ming." Li Zixiong nodded in praise, but he was very vigilant in his heart, and secretly said: "It's really clever, I didn't even think about it, it seems that my thinking is too simple, with this kid named Li Mi here, I think it won't be that easy to become the number one general of Yang Xuangan's volunteer."
"This old general Li is a bit too famous." Li Mi also muttered in his heart: "He is still called the reincarnation of Zhuge. It's fine if he doesn't have a detailed understanding of Luoyang's terrain, and he doesn't even understand the principle of darkness under the lights. It seems My disturbing tactics can also affect the details of Shangchun Gate and Hui'an Gate, so you won't notice it. If you have such a little skill, then it's okay to use you to decorate the facade, and entrust you with a heavy responsibility, then If it’s not done well, something bad will happen.”
While thinking about each other, the lights on the city of Shangchunmen were already faintly visible. Li Mi hurriedly suggested that Yang Xuangan issue a strict order to strictly prohibit making any noise, and slowly approach Shangchunmen under the cover of night, trying to touch the Shangchunmen as much as possible unconsciously. Under the Spring Gate. What made Yang Xuangan and Li Mi secretly happy was that although there were many lights on the city wall of Shangchun Gate, there were not many soldiers standing on guard beside the arrow stacks. It was discovered that most of the soldiers in the city were dozing off against the wall, and the defense was very loose.
After confirming this point, Yang Xuangan and Li Mi were even more determined, and hurriedly urged the army to come forward in a low voice, but when the rebel army approached within a mile of Shangchun Gate, there was a sudden loud sound from the Anxi Gate in the northwest. The sound of drums, gongs and shouts frightened everyone in the rebel team, including Yang Xuangan and Li Mi, to fall to the ground and keep silent, for fear of being noticed by the defenders at Shangchunmen.
The noise made by Zheng Yan's team was not small, and it spread far away in the quiet night, even the Shangchun Gate could still be heard clearly, and it did wake up quite a few Shangchunmen. The guards of the Spring Gate, leaning against the arrow stack, the sleepy sentry yawned and stretched, and opened their eyes cursingly. The patrol team who didn't know where they were lazy before also patrolled the city wall with torches, but the haze The night sky provided the best cover for the rebel army. No matter whether it was the patrolling sentries or the soldiers standing guard lazily sticking their heads out to observe the movement below the city, none of them noticed that there were tens of thousands of rebel troops more than half a mile away. In ambush in the night.
The time has suddenly become extremely long for the rebel army, everyone is worried, for fear that the enemy in the city will find out that all previous efforts will be wasted, but fortunately, the guards of Shangchunmen, who were also affected by the rebel harassment tactics Apparently, he had become used to it for a long time, and the noise from Zheng Yan's side hadn't stopped yet, many sentries had already leaned against the wall and dozed off again, and the patrolling sentries went directly to the north without noticing, without any signs of abnormality.
The noise made by the rebel army in the northwest finally stopped, and the city of Shangchun Gate quickly regained its tranquility. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Yang Xuangan and Li Mi also quickly arranged a siege team, led by Yang Xuangan's second brother Yang Xuanzong Leading 1,500 elite soldiers as the vanguard, responsible for climbing the city wall and attacking the defenders on the city, Yang Xuangan led the Chinese army as a support, and Li Mi commanded the cannon fodder team as an auxiliary, ready to launch a full-scale attack as soon as Yang Xuanzong managed to sneak up on the city wall .
The arrangement was fixed, and seeing that most of the guarding sentries on the city wall had fallen asleep again, Yang Xuangan immediately sent an order in a low voice. A group of wolves in the dark night, with green light in their eyes, quietly touched the edge of the moat, squatted half-squatting and quickly walked up the bridge, crossed the river directly from the fixed stone bridge erected on the moat, and quickly touched the edge of the city wall. Step down, and quickly move towards the sparsely lit place designated by Yang Xuanzong earlier.
When Yang Xuanzong's forward team crossed the bridge, Yang Xuangan and Li Mi were so nervous that they could almost hear their own heartbeats. They just felt that the time was extremely long, and the movements of Yang Xuanzong's team were too slow. No matter how fast they walked forward, they were like turtles crawling. The pace is slow, and the team seems to be endless no matter how far they go. But fortunately, this long period of time finally passed, without alarming the defenders in the city at all, Yang Xuanzong's team finally passed the bridge, and quickly touched the sparsely lit place south of Shangchunmen.
Heaving a sigh of relief, Yang Xuangan hurriedly led the troops of the Chinese army to crawl forward, half-squatting and quickly approached the Shangchun Gate. The rebel soldiers of the rock either stepped up the ladder, or climbed directly with auxiliary tools such as shovels, hoes, and flying claws. They touched the city wall quietly and swiftly. When the Chinese army team led by Yang Xuangan touched On the edge of the moat, the first rebel soldier finally made it to the top of the city wall!
Seeing the first rebel soldier stepping on the bamboo ladder to the city wall, no matter how hard the rebel team below the city wall tried to keep quiet, there was a little commotion. The rebel soldiers on the ladder seemed to be fighting Climbing up desperately like chicken blood, he rushed to the top of the city unstoppably. Yang Xuangan on the other side of the moat was even more ecstatic, so excited that he almost wanted to shout and cheer for his successful sneak attack. And Li Mi in the distance also slammed his fist hard on the ground very rarely, with a smile on his black face, he secretly said: "Little thief Chen Yingliang, you are still a little tender after all!"
"Hey, traitor Li Mi, can you hear me?!"
When hundreds of rebel soldiers rushed up the city wall, a handsome young man in a white robe suddenly stood out at the place where the lights of the Shangchun Gate Tower were the densest, and shouted down the city with a smile: "You must Are you laughing? Unfortunately, you laughed too early, now we should laugh! Brothers, do it!"
"Chen Yingliang, little thief!" Hearing this familiar disgusting voice and seeing that familiar thin figure, Li Mi, who was once less than a step away from Chen Yingliang, was stunned and exclaimed.
"Kill!"
At the same time as Li Mi blurted out his screams, the Shangchunmen city wall, which was still extremely quiet before, suddenly heard the sound of drums and killing sounds, and in the bright light of the fire, countless brave soldiers in white robes appeared in the north and south of the rebels' boarding point. On both sides, surrounded by left and right, roaring tides flocked to the rebel soldiers who had just climbed the city wall. At the same time, the gates of several towers on the wall of Shangchunmen were opened wide, and a large number of heavily armed Sui army soldiers charged out of the towers with countless torches, and rushed to the edge of the city wall. Without saying anything, he threw the torch down the city wall, and at the same time threw down a large amount of firewood and tung oil, and soon the fire was brightly lit under the city wall, no matter whether he had successfully touched Yang Xuanzong's team under the city wall or just touched the moat Yang Xuangan's team on board were all exposed to the flames in an instant, and there was nothing to hide.
"It's been tricked!" Li Mi, who is good at ambush warfare, roared, "Quickly retreat! Quickly retreat! Quickly retreat!"
At the critical moment to determine the size of casualties, Li Mi, who knew the power of ambushes, yelled rationally and ordered the troops to retreat. Unfortunately, the decision to attack and retreat was not in his hands, but in the hands of Yang Xuangan, who was extremely adventurous. More than a hundred elite soldiers had already charged up the city wall, relying on the fact that there were enough flying ladders in their hands, Yang Xuangan, who utterly despised the melee capabilities of the Dongdu defenders, hesitated for a moment, and immediately shouted: "Beat the drum! The whole army charges! No matter how much you pay, you must win the Shangchun Gate for Benzhu Kingdom!"