Wang Bodang and Wang Junkuo were slapped in the face of archery. Before parting, Li Keshi suddenly gave Wang Bodang another blow. While bidding farewell to Wang Bodang, he said casually: "Bodang General, I heard that the camp of your army is well-built, but are your soldiers a little too lazy? To save effort and trouble, they cut down a lot of poplars and willows to make fences. If the Yuwen rebels suddenly attacked Doesn't it immediately become the most vulnerable weakness?"
Wang Bodang's pupils shrank a little, and then he cupped his hands and said, "Thank you, General Hakka, for your guidance. I understand. I'll go back and teach those lazy soldiers a lesson, and leave." After finishing speaking, Wang Bodang returned to his horse and left.
After returning to the self-army camp, Wang Bodang was not in a hurry to clean up those lazy soldiers. He first wrote what happened today into a letter, and sent Pei Shufang to rush back to the main camp of Li Mijun next to the ruins of Luocang, and told the teacher Li Mi reported the details of his negotiations with Master Li. After Li Mi's calculations for a long time, although he did not continue to increase troops to the south bank of Luoshui as Li Keshi expected, he did not dare to rest assured about the southern line. Moreover, when formulating a tactical plan to attack the Xiaoguo army camp, they had to keep a group of troops in the self-barracks just in case.
It was also a coincidence that on the night of the eighth day of the first lunar month, the north wind picked up again, and the clouds were overcast. At the second watch, snowflakes fell again, and the temperature dropped again. Zhizhi was overjoyed, and even couldn't help laughing up to the sky, "God help our army! God help our army! Let it fall, the bigger the snow, the better, and the colder the better! The bigger the snow, the colder the sky, Yu Wenhua and everyone The more uncomfortable it is, the greater our army's chances of winning!"
At the same time, Wang Shichong, who also received the good news of snowfall, also hurried out in his clothes to check the snowfall situation for himself. He laughed wildly, "Let's go down! God, let's go down, the bigger the snow, the better, and the better for the truth!"
The severe cold weather is indeed the biggest enemy of the Xiaoguo Army now, and the heavy snow that fell again is destined to further affect the combat effectiveness of the Xiaoguo Army, which is short of clothes and medicines. But what Li Mi and Wang Shichong probably never dreamed of was that after a few days The heavy snow that fell again made Hua and the three brothers, who had been hesitant before, finally make up their minds and made an important decision concerning the fate of the Central Plains. The headquarters in the city announced this important decision in public.
The generals of the Xiaoguo Army almost entered the meeting hall with sad faces, discussing in low voices about the sudden heavy snowfall, they were all worried about the weather falling again and the lack of warm clothes for our own army, and some people asked Huaji brother face to face Faced with this situation, Brother Hua Ji kept silent, and let the generals complain and slander as usual. However, when the generals of the Xiaoguo army arrived, our brother Huaji suddenly clapped the table and said loudly: "Everyone, please be quiet! The truth is to announce the military order now, and the generals will immediately start preparing for the battle. Tomorrow morning is the right time. Except for the defenders of Jinyong City, all the troops outside the city will be mobilized, led by Zhenxiang himself, and go south to fight to the death with the two thieves Li Mi and Wang Shichong!"
"What?!" Xiaoguo's generals were stunned, looking at each other, they all suspected that their ears had misheard. Sima Dekan even exclaimed and asked, "Prime Minister, did we hear correctly? You want to send troops tomorrow to meet Li Mi and Wang Shichong. decisive battle?"
"You heard me right!" Hua Jixiong rarely showed some fortitude, and said again: "Tomorrow, we will send out troops for a decisive battle. There will be no winner or loser. We will never withdraw our troops!"
Sima Dekan was tongue-tied, and looked up and down his brother as if he didn't know each other. Chen Zhilue, who was next to him, hurriedly reminded: "Prime Minister, it's snowing heavily tonight, and everyone knows whether it will continue tomorrow, but the weather must be colder." , Our cold clothes are seriously insufficient, and the soldiers are seriously frostbitten, so sending troops to a decisive battle is not good for us?"
"If you hide in the camp and don't go out, will the weather get warmer?" Hua Ji asked back, and then said fiercely: "It's because of heavy snowfall that the weather has become colder, so we must hurry up and fight decisively, otherwise If we don’t, we will be frozen to death! If we want to survive, we must defeat Li Mi and Wang Shichong for the truth, and win Luokoucang, the Eastern Capital, for the winter!”
Chen Zhilue also felt that brother Huaji seemed to be a different person suddenly, but Yuwen Zhiji over there took over the conversation and said, "Generals, I have some good news for you now. General Yun from Guanzhong has a secret in his heart. To our army, in order to share the pressure for our army, he suddenly sent troops to the east yesterday, taking the south bank of Luoshui River to threaten the Luokou warehouse. In order to take precautions, Li Mipifu was forced to divide his troops to the south to take precautions. At present, Li Mi's partial division has been forced to Crossing the Luoshui River to set up camp on the south bank, and Wang Shichong's side were also forced to adjust the garrison in the city and increase the number of troops in the south city, which has actually weakened its own combat power."
"Together with the battle, the two thieves Wang Shichong and Li Mi must keep the reserve team in order to prevent the old general Yun from taking advantage of the vacancy. It is absolutely impossible to fight our army with all their strength." Yuwen Shiji also added: "This is a rare opportunity. We played well, and it is very likely that General Yun will turn against Li Mi and Wang Shichong directly and share more pressure for us! Chen Yingliang went to the west to conquer Xue Ju, but he was unable to go east, so he ordered Old General Yun not to turn against Li Mi and Wang Shichong, but If a fighter plane appears, Old General Yun dares to take this responsibility!"
While all the generals of the Xiaoguo Army nodded their heads, Brother Huaji suddenly asked Feng Deyi to take out a letter and hand it to Sima Dekan. Sima Dekan opened it and was surprised. It turned out that this letter was sent by Wang Shichong to persuade Sima Sima Dekan was startled and asked where the letter came from, and Brother Huaji replied magnanimously, "It was sent by Wang Shichong, and our patrol soldiers caught it on purpose, so that the letter fell directly to the In my hands, I want to separate the brotherhood between you and me. Brother Dekan, I trust you, I will hand over the messenger to you in a while, and let you do it, I will never ask!"
He opened his mouth wide and looked at Quanji Ji for a while, then Sima Dekan came back to his senses, hurriedly knelt down on one knee and saluted Jishou Huaji, and said solemnly: "Thank you, Prime Minister, for your trust. Please rest assured, Prime Minister, tomorrow will be the decisive battle." , the last general will definitely take the lead and repay your trust in the last general!"
Brother Hua Ji nodded, first he left the table and personally helped Sima Dekan to stand up, then took out a piece of paper, looked at the content on the paper and read: "Generals, I know that you are tired, I also know that you are full Affected by the cold, we need to rest and rest, but the weather is severe and the enemy is at hand. If we don't work together to defeat the two thieves Li Mi and Wang Shichong as soon as possible, then without them doing anything, our army will collapse without fighting. Self-defeat! At this time of life and death, we have only one choice, and that is to defeat our life-and-death enemies Wang Shichong and Li Mi before we are defeated by severe cold and injury! Kill the enemy and destroy the thief, and take my life!"
Putting down the speech in his hand, Brother Hua Ji said loudly again: "Generals, I have sent people to make a new military flag overnight. The generals on the military flag have the words "kill the enemy, break the thief, and seize my way of life." I also write these eight characters on my military flag, so that all our soldiers know that if you want to survive, there is only one choice - kill the enemy and destroy the thief, and take my life!"
Although it is very clear that Brother Huaji's words and this decision came from the advice of an expert, but Brother Huaji's words still spoke to the hearts of the generals of the Xiaoguo Army, and Brother Huaji's de facto military deputy Sima Dekan also put With a wave of his arm, he clenched his fist and raised his arm and said, "The prime minister's words are right. We want to survive, to be rich, to be rich, to be rich, to be rich, to be high-ranking officials, and to be rich. This is the only way! Kill the enemy and destroy the thieves, and take my life away!"
"Kill the enemy and break the thief, take my life!" All the generals of the Xiaoguo army raised their arms and shouted, including Zhang Tong'er who was actually ready to betray. If you still have the courage, what is Lao Tzu doing in secret? If you are determined to work hard with Wang Shichong and Li Mi, we may not have a chance to win a big victory!"
Not to mention, General Yun's letters to Brother Hua really helped a lot. When the generals of the Xiaoguo army brought this slogan back to the army and explained the reason and purpose of sending troops to the decisive battle, The soldiers of the Xiaoguo Army, who were suffering from illness and cold, responded one after another. The slogans of killing the enemy and thieves and taking our way of life kept coming and going, and the morale, which had been sluggish for a long time, rose sharply. Despite the hasty preparations for the battle at night, all the soldiers of the Xiaoguo Army still moved swiftly. They sharpened their knives and guns in the snow, checked their equipment, and rushed to produce the dry rations necessary for the decisive battle the next day. Shame on me. —No way, because the foundation of Xiaoguo Army is so good that even Chen Sangliang in Xiongba Pass is jealous.
Of course, the noise and movement in the Xiaoguo Army camp could not be hidden from the eyes of the scouts of the Second Army Wang Shichong and Li Mi who were close at hand. As the omen of the decisive battle, I once suspected that there might be internal strife in the Xiaoguo Army. I thought it was likely that one or more generals of the Xiaoguo Army could not bear Hua Ji's incompetence and stupidity, and finally couldn't hold back the same as killing Sui Yang Emperor. Kill Hua Jixiong—with the situation of the Xiaoguo army during this period, this possibility is actually not small. Therefore, not only did Wang Shichong and Li Mi not let the army prepare for the battle immediately, but they couldn't wait to send more scouts to investigate the internal situation of the Xiaoguo army to see if such a good thing happened.
Then, in the early morning of the ninth day of the first lunar month, Wang Shichong and Li Mi were completely dumbfounded. Their scouts kept coming to report, saying that the Xiaoguo Army not only kept shouting the slogan of killing the enemy, breaking the thief and taking my life, but also put this murderous The slogan was written on every military flag. At the same time, judging from the assembly and mobilization of the Xiaoguo Army, almost 90% of them will take the initiative to go out to fight. While Wang Shichong and Li Mi were tongue-tied, they could only let the army hastily prepare for the battle, and at the same time send plenipotentiaries to each other to discuss the matter of facing the battle, and urgently discussed whether to take the initiative to fight or defend the camps and cities.
Brother Huaji killed two traitors, Wang Shichong and Li Mi, by surprise this time. Before Li Mi and Wang Shichong could make up their minds about how to deal with it, the soldiers of Xiaoguo Army outside Jinyong City had already marched out under the leadership of Brother Huaji himself. More than 60,000 soldiers of the Xiaoguo Army who were tortured by severe cold and injuries looked determined. Even though most of them were wearing thin summer clothes, they completely ignored the ice and snow. They strode southward against the knife-like cold wind mixed with snow particles, heading directly to the southwest in a menacing manner. Li Mijun came to kill him. Li Mi was forced to have no choice but to hastily decide to close the camp and stick to it. At the same time, he asked Wang Shichong to attack appropriately to share some pressure for himself.
Brother Huaji's luck finally improved. At the moment of the decisive battle, Brother Huaji casually placed Zhang Tong'er in the rear army and ordered him to lead the army to block the attack from Wang Shichong. Arrayed inside and out, Zhang Tong'er couldn't deal a fatal blow to Hua Jixiong even if he tried his best to fight back. At the same time, the generals of the Xiaoguo Army also came to fight in front of Brother Huaji one after another, demanding to be the vanguard to launch the attack first, and their fighting spirit was quite high.
The vanguard task was handed over to Chen Zhilue, the general who had beaten Li Mijun to the ground several times on the battlefield by Brother Huaji. He shouted curses in front of the camp and asked Li Mi's army to leave the camp to fight. Li Mi, who found that his brother Huaji had not prepared many weapons to attack the camp, refused to go out and ordered the troops to guard the camp and not go out. cavalry.
What Li Mi probably never imagined in his dreams was that the fact that he might close his camp and stick to it was predicted in advance by General Yun, the culprit behind the battle, and he also prepared a countermeasure for his nephew Hua and his brother in advance. See Chen Zhilue can't scold Li Mi, who is old and treacherous. Feng Deyi, who has received secret instructions a long time ago, invites Ying to join Chen Zhilue's army. They scolded Pei Renji, Yang Jishan, Shan Xiongxin, and Xu Shiji, the four generals of the Li Mi Army, and scolded Pei Renji for abandoning his wife and daughter for treason and surrender to the enemy. His subordinate Li Mi acted like a bull and horse, dishonored Yang Su's old face, even more scolded Shan Xiongxin and Xu Shiji for being ungrateful, betraying the master and ungrateful, not avenging Zhai Rang, but also helping Li Mi who killed the benefactor, what face will he have in the future to meet Zhai Rang's family
Of course, General Pei Yangdan and Xu Si didn't have the face of a city like Li Mi. They couldn't bear the scolding. They all rushed to Li Mi and asked to fight. Being insulted like this, Li Mi, who was a little weak under the imperial court, couldn't bear the persecution of so many important generals - in the history of the Yanshi War, Li Mi was forced to fight by his generals, so he could only agree with Pei Xingyan to lead a thousand cavalry of the internal army Going out of the camp to fight a cavalry battle with Chen Zhilue, and also to attack the arrogance of the Xiaoguo army.
Li Mi soon regretted his decision. After the cavalry of the internal army went out to fight, Pei Xingyan, who was furious, took the lead and showed his glory by killing several enemies one after another. However, the cavalry of the internal army that Li Mi was proud of was defeated The cavalry of the Xiaoguo Army, who had sacrificed their lives for their lives, suffered heavy casualties. The cavalry of the two armies continued to charge back and forth, and collided head-on on the snow. At one time, a large number of precious war horses neighed and fell to the ground. From the beginning to the end, there was no victory or defeat. The soldiers of the two armies suffered heavy casualties, and the losses were basically equal.
The loss is basically equivalent to Li Mi's old life, which is the most important thing. Li Mi's cavalry, including the cavalry of the internal army, has less than 10,000 cavalry after the Tongshan battle. There are still 30,000 people, and the one-on-one battle loss is better than Li Mi's loss and the Xiaoguo army's advantage. Therefore, Li Mi had no choice but to bite the bullet and send Pei Renji to lead 5,000 infantry to attack to help Pei Xingyan resist Chen Zhilue and reduce the loss of cavalry. Brother Huaji also immediately sent Fan Wenchao to lead 5,000 troops to join Pei Renji's army in the camp. Before the scuffle.
The result of the scuffle was still tied. Although the Xiaoguo soldiers under Fan Wenchao's command had been tortured by the severe cold and suffered severe injuries, and their combat effectiveness was severely reduced, they would have morale and fighting spirit, which made up for part of their combat effectiveness. Although Pei Renji's army was well fed Dress warmly and be affected by the climate, but the quality of individual soldiers and weapons and equipment are still a little bit worse. After the long-term balance, the two armies of Fan Wenchao and Pei Renji still fought a tie. During the period, Pei Renji and Fan Wenchao once met in a scuffle. One scolded the other party for killing the king and rebelling against the thief, and the other scolded the other party for being a beast who abandoned the country and family. , also ended in a draw.
At the same time, Wang Shichong also took action. Although Wang Shichong was happy to see Xiaoguojun and Li Mijun fighting both sides, but considering that Li Mi would die even worse if he fell, Wang Shichong sent Wang Shiyun to lead an army of four thousand Go out of the city, run behind Hua Jixiong to put on a show, try to get the maximum containment effect at the minimum cost. Brother Huaji immediately ordered Zhang Tong'er to lead the army to meet him, and asked Zhang Tong'er to repel Wang Shiyun.
It's Zhang Tong'er's turn to be in trouble, he wants to turn against him suddenly, Li Mi and Wang Shichong's main forces are still hiding in the camp in the city and have not come out, but Brother Hua is the main force and mobilizes the same enemy, Zhang Tong'er turns against the enemy at this time It's like the old birthday star eats arsenic, and if he doesn't turn his back on, Li Mi has already held the handle in his hands. So Zhang Tong'er had no choice but to let the army line up slowly. On the surface, he wanted to meet the enemy with a battle, but in fact he planned to scare Wang Shiyun away, and Wang Shiyun was originally a man who only liked to take advantage Shih, seeing that Zhang Tong'er's plan was right in his arms, he simply led the army to run around in circles. On the surface, he wanted to attack Zhang Tong'er's flanks, but in fact he just swam without attacking to waste time.
As a result, this of course made poor Wei Gong Li Mi miserable. Wang Shiyun's circle over there hardly played a restraining role, but Pei Renji and his son were fighting head-on with Xiaoguo Saber, and they were so bad that they couldn't eat anymore. Indignant and furious, Li Mi could only prepare for the third attacking army, and at the same time sent a fast horse to contact Wang Shichong urgently, asking Wang Shichong to show some sincerity to contain Huaji brother.
After thinking about it for a while, Wang Shichong sent his elder brother Wang Shishi to go out and scold Wang Shiyun who was going around in circles. , Li Mi sent five thousand troops again, led by Yang Jishan, went out from the side door, and went back to share the pressure with Pei Renji and his son. However, Brother Huaji did something that made Li Mi yell at him - he didn't even consider the threat Wang Shichong's main force was behind him, and ordered 3,000 cavalry and 3,000 infantry to attack, hand in hand to fight Yang Jishan, forcing him to fight. Yang Jishan could only come in a hurry, and although Yang Jishan escaped the bad luck of being crushed by the cavalry of the Xiaoguo Army, he was forced to start a frontal war of attrition with the infantry of the Xiaoguo Army.
Snowflakes fell quietly again. In the wind and snow, the soldiers of the three armies of Xiaoguo Army, Li Mi and Wang Shichong threw their heads and blood, groping and rolling on the snow-capped land of Luoyang, fighting with their lives, and the sharp steel knives kept cutting off limbs The head, the belly and the chest were cut open, splashes of bright blood splashed one after another, spears and spears pierced through the human body continuously, steaming blood spilled on the snow field, dyeing the snow-covered land red and black, and the horses fell into the snowflakes one after another. Hissing and falling to the ground, there are countless soldiers of the three armies who fell down with unwilling roars, and before the goose feather snow covered their gradually cooling corpses, more corpses fell on their bodies, and countless fell to the ground The wrestling soldiers rolled and scrambled on their corpses, and the blood melted the ice and snow, merged into streams and flowed into the depressions, forming icy puddles of blood.
There are no winners, Hua Jixiong, Li Mi and Wang Shichong are all losers. Countless soldiers of the three armies who died in battle did not understand for whom they died, for whom they sacrificed, and for whom their hot blood was for. flow? In the western sky, there seemed to be a gloomy and proud grinning sound, bringing a bit of gloom to this cruel and bloody battlefield.
The pre-war preparations were too insufficient, and Li Mi did not dare to continue the refueling tactics. The fierce battle reached just after noon, and as soon as he saw Brother Hua eagerly increasing troops forward, Li Mi had no choice but to issue the Mingjin order, causing heavy casualties. Pei Renji and Yang Jishan led the remnant soldiers to flee back to the camp, and the Xiaoguo army took the opportunity to attack. Li Mi ordered the archers to shoot at the front of the camp gate regardless of enemy or friend, and let the arrows without eyes kill the soldiers of the own army and the enemy soldiers. He paid a heavy price to withdraw the defeated soldiers to the camp, and did not give the Xiaoguo army a chance to enter his camp.
Seeing Li Mi's retreat, Wang Shiyun, who was also killed by Zhang Tong'er, also led his troops to flee. He won the war on both the east and west fronts at the same time, and his self-confidence and arrogance naturally returned to Brother Hua, regardless of Li Mi's camp. The defense was strong, and the team continued to storm Li Mijun's camp after a little reorganization. Li Mijun resolutely defended the camp and fought. .
In the end, Brother Hua was held back by Sima Dekan and Feng Deyi. Feng Deyi said that his own army had won a big victory, which had already boosted enough morale and confidence. Going back to the camp to discuss again, Sima Dekan also said that there were not enough weapons for attacking the fortifications, and it was meaningless to continue fighting. He patted his chest and promised that when he came with a large number of siege weapons tomorrow, he would definitely take down Li Mijun's camp and turn him into a brother. Only then nodded, and ordered Mingjin to withdraw.
With cheers of victory and countless clothes stripped from the corpses, Huaji proudly left with the Xiaoguo army, leaving cold naked corpses all over the ground, and then Li Mi and Wang Shichong immediately fell on the snow. We had a hasty meeting and agreed that our army's defeat today was entirely due to lack of preparation. They also agreed to lead the main force to attack tomorrow. If we are fully prepared to face Huaji, we must be complacent and come to fight again!
More than two hours later, the Guanzhong Sui army scouts who had been closely monitoring the battlefield of the three armies also rushed back to Xin'an City, and reported the situation of the battle to General Yun, who was drinking and having fun with a beautiful girl in his arms. After winning the victory at a considerable price, Old General Yun nodded in satisfaction, then frowned quickly, and while putting his skinny old hand into the corset of the bad girl, he said in a deep voice, "There must be a big battle tomorrow, The temper of nephew Hua Jixian is clear to the old man. After fighting a beautiful battle with great difficulty, he will definitely not give up and must continue to fight. Li Mi and Wang Shichong did not suffer too much today, and they still have the power to fight back. It will definitely be more tragic, and it will definitely be difficult to predict the outcome..."
"The last general also thinks this way." Yao Yi nodded in agreement, and asked again: "Old general, can we think of a way to continue to control the situation on the battlefield, if Yu Wenhuaji can't hold on, we can help him stabilize the situation, no Let him be defeated; if Li Mi and Wang Shichong can't hold on, we should help them properly, lest they be wiped out by Yu Wenhuaji?"
Old General Yun continued to caress the tender skin of the girl in his arms without saying a word. After thinking for a long time, he said, "There is a way. Immediately send an order to Li Keshi to prepare him for dispatching troops tomorrow..."