It's not that the Taiyuan Army's soldiers are too incompetent, nor is it that the Taiyuan Army's soldiers are not working hard, nor is it that Li Er is greedy for life and fears death and preserves his strength. He also pulled out Chen Sangliang's direct descendant of the Nationalist Army who was not easy to go into battle at ordinary times, and forcibly beat up a generation of famous general Li Er into a joke on the Dongzuohe battlefield.
The cavalrymen of the Baoguo Army who suddenly appeared hadn't made a move yet, just seeing the eye-catching white robes on them, the generals and soldiers of the Taiyuan Army who had heard the name of the Baoguo Army for a long time were already panicked. Unfortunately, they had once fought against the Baoguo Army on the battlefield The legs of the Taiyuan Army soldiers were weak, their hands were trembling, and they subconsciously began to look for escape routes before they started fighting. Although Li Er himself was not afraid of the charge and raid of the Nationalist Army, he hurriedly yelled, "Stay safe!" Stand up! Reject the carbine immediately! Reject the carbine immediately! Hold on! Hold on!"
No matter how much you shouted, it was useless. Qiu Xinggong's troops of the Sui Army who came out again took the lead in bumping into the Taiyuan Army's flank on foot, and fought hard. Opportunity to face enemies on both sides, the cavalry of the Baoguo Army, which are all heavy cavalry, immediately trotted to accumulate energy, gradually accelerated and charged with all their strength, and even killed a chicken with a bull's knife. The loud sound and impact of the explosion disturbed the Taiyuan army formation, and finally, like a sharp knife, it pierced straight and quickly into the Taiyuan army formation, and there was an earth-shattering shout of killing.
Spears broke, people shouted and horses neighed, military flags shook and white foamed like snow, shields slammed on the head, knives and axes slashed on the armor of the helmet, splashing strings of sparks, bringing up streaks of blood. The horses neighed and raised their hoofs, and the soldiers of the Baoguo Army in white robes were as indifferent as ice, their faces as calm as dolls, but the knives and axes in their hands kept chopping on the heads and shoulders of the soldiers of the Taiyuan Army, and the soldiers of the Taiyuan Army shouted endlessly , Constantly chopping horses and stabbing the enemy, although it is difficult for iron knives and spears to penetrate the fine light armor and horse armor of the soldiers of the Baoguo Army, the soldiers of the Taiyuan Army still frantically tried to fight back, trying to find a chance of survival in the fierce battle, but It is a pity that these soldiers of the Taiyuan Army basically couldn't get what they wanted. Usually, the swords and guns hit the armor of the soldiers of the Nationalist Army, and their heads were smashed and smashed by the soldiers of the Nationalist Army. The soldiers of the Taiyuan Army who were counted had already died on the battlefield.
The Taiyuan army was attacked from the east, west, and south at the same time. The battle line between the two armies was in chaos. Arrows were flying in the sky like locusts, non-stop. Every minute, every second, soldiers of the two armies fell in this killing field. Even the soldiers of the national defense army in white robes also died on the battlefield, carrying their representative identities. Lying on the blood-stained battlefield forever with the proud white robe, the horses of the lost knights galloped out of the crowd, with bloodshot eyes and messy mane.
When the two armies meet, the brave wins! What made Li Er want to cry was that although the five thousand soldiers of the Taiyuan Army newly assigned to him were all strong and elite soldiers, they were far inferior to the veteran soldiers of the Sui Army in terms of experience and bravery. Not to mention that compared with the soldiers of the Nationalist Army who climbed out of the dead for countless times, his soldiers could no longer withstand the onslaught of the soldiers of the Sui Army in less than a moment of fierce battle. Fear kept retreating, and soldiers gradually began to flee to the only open north where no enemy was encountered. The Taiyuan army supervisor team was forced to kill more than a dozen deserters from the self army with their knives, but they still couldn't stop the soldiers from fleeing cowardly.
Qiu Xinggong, whose short-handled long sword had already been chopped off, broke into the Taiyuan army formation again, opening a gap in the dense formation of the Taiyuan army, and the warriors of the Sui army swarmed in, and once again broke into the Taiyuan army formation to start a scuffle , the Baoguo army and the Mo Dao soldiers of the Sui army attacked from left to right, frantically slashing and killing the enemy on the opposite side. The situation of Taiyuan army soldiers fleeing was even more serious. Li Er yelled anxiously, but he still couldn't hold his ground and stop the soldiers from fleeing.
The sudden firing of the Sui army's artillery gave the Taiyuan army a fatal blow. After careful aiming, the Sui army's artillery fired suddenly at the risk of accidentally injuring the friendly army, and blasted two shells into the most densely populated positions in Taiyuan. Where the shells passed, the soldiers of the Taiyuan Army did not even see clearly what was going on. Unfortunately, he accidentally injured two soldiers of the Sui Army.
The generals and soldiers of the Sui army who had been warned before the war were not surprised by this, but continued to wield their knives to kill the enemy. Throwing down the weapon banner in fear, Li Er couldn't help screaming in despair, "Li Yaoshi is crazy! He is crazy! We are all entangled with his army, and he dares to fire! This madman! madman!"
After shouting this sentence, Li Er was also forced to join the fleeing team—because Qiu Xinggong had led the Sui army to attack him directly, and after Li Er fled to the north, the Taiyuan army also completely collapsed, crying and shouting. I just hate that my parents gave them two legs, and they escaped completely in the blink of an eye. Fortunately, the Sui army did not pursue them, and quickly retreated to the interior of Yanyue Formation for protection, and rescued the seriously injured and surviving companions in time.
The boos of the Dingyang Army resounded all over the world. Liu Wuzhou, Song Jingang and other Dingyang Army generals were all pale. They were extremely dissatisfied with the Taiyuan friendly army and Li Er's performance on the battlefield, and were affected by the Taiyuan Army's defeat. Huang Ziying's Department of the Dingyang Army, which could not break through the Yanyue Formation of the Sui Army, was also unable to withstand the slashing of the Modao Squadron of the Sui Army, so they had to temporarily retreat and regroup. The fierce fighting that lasted for more than an hour temporarily stopped.
Under Ding Yang Youjun's dissatisfied eyes and disdainful boos, Li Er tried to reorganize the team for the third time, but the soldiers of the Taiyuan Army who had already been killed frantically dragged their feet and dared not return to the team quickly. Fearing that the officers of the Taiyuan Army would use whips to drive them away, they did not organize their formation for a long time, and some soldiers even fled to the north and away from the battlefield because of excessive fear, forcing Li Er to send cavalry to chase and kill these escaped soldiers. .
Liu Wuzhou patted his horse and came in front of Li Er himself, his face was terribly gloomy, staring at Li Er his eyes almost spewed fire, Li Er dared not speak, but felt so wronged that tears filled his eyes. Fortunately, at this time, Li Jiancheng, who received the news, had already dispatched Yin Kaishan and led 5,000 infantry out of the battalion. He lined up and hurried over to help the battle. Yin Kaishan rode his horse and ran in front of Liu Wuzhou before he bowed his hands and said to Liu Wuzhou: "Don't worry, Your Majesty." , Although the Right Commander was defeated, the old man is still here! The old man will personally lead the army to attack, and the undefeated bandit army will never..."
"Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!"
Before Yin Kaishan could finish his words, the artillery of the Sui Army on the south bank of the Dongwo River was roaring one after another, and the new troops of the Taiyuan Army, which was marching in formation, suddenly staggered and screamed continuously. It turned out that the ten artillery pieces brought by Li Jing had all been moved to the west side of the battlefield. , lined up on the south bank of the Dongwo River, and the new Taiyuan army brought by Yin Kaishan was inexperienced and too close to the river bank—in this era, no matter which army has the means to accumulate such experience—then replaced Yuan Tiangang in calculating the range Qian Xiangmin found an opportunity to take advantage of it through the triangulation algorithm, and immediately ordered to fire. As a result, all ten shells were blasted into the ranks of the Taiyuan Army that were within the firing range, and the soldiers of the Taiyuan Army who were in a dense queue fell immediately. There was a big mold.
Yin Kaishan opened his mouth wide, the soldiers of Taiyuan Army were in chaos, the wounded soldiers rolled and wailed for help on the battlefield, but Liu Wuzhou's face became even more livid, and he asked Yin Kaishan: "The undefeated bandit army, nothing to do?"
"Never, never withdraw." Yin Kaishan bit the bullet and finished what he didn't finish just now, but his tone was so weak that even he could find it.
The next scene is even more exciting. When the Liu-Li coalition army once again joined forces to attack the Yanyue formation of the Sui army, Liu Wuzhou rushed to the front of the Sui army formation to fight head-on, but the Taiyuan army was just a little closer to the river bank. The artillery of the Sui army immediately opened fire collectively, bombarding the dense formation of the Taiyuan army. The soldiers of the Taiyuan army were staggering and screaming again and again, unable to line up to fight. As a result of wanton massacres, the brigade stepped forward and immediately summoned the artillery fire of the Sui army to cover them, and invested a small amount of troops forward in batches, but there was no way to fight in formation. It was forced to fight in close quarters, and was killed by the imposing Sui army soldiers, crying and howling, with corpses strewn all over the field, and was forced to flee in embarrassment one after another.
The battle has come to this point, not to mention Li Er and Yin Kaishan, but Liu Wuzhou and Song Jingang and other generals of the Dingyang Army have seen that the Sui Army is only ruthless against the Taiyuan Army. Although the Sui Army's tactics are beneficial to the Dingyang Army, However, Liu Wuzhou, Song Jingang and the others were unavoidably a little puzzled, and they asked each other: "How much hatred do the Li family brothers and Chen Yingliang's traitor have? How come the Chen thief's army specifically grabbed them and beat them? so heavy?"
"It seems that the Chen thief's army hates the Li family in Taiyuan the most, not us." This is the answer that Dingyang's soldiers came up with in private discussions, and many Dingyang soldiers gloated and said: "Chen thief fought well. A few years ago, the Li family killed so many of our brothers and robbed our Yanmen County, so it deserves some retribution."
It can only be regarded as an outpost battle. The purpose is to test the combat effectiveness of the Yang army besides completing Chen Sangliang's differentiated orders. Without any preparations for attacking the enemy camp, after the afternoon bid time, Li Jing took the Taiyuan army. The retreat and Dingyang's army retreated and adjusted, commanding the army to slowly retreat across the Dongwo River, Dingyang's army took advantage of the situation to launch a counterattack, but the Sui army advanced and retreated well, even when retreating across the river, Dingyang did not mess up at all. The army was still unable to break through the Sui army column. When the Taiyuan army roared and launched an attack, it was immediately hit head-on by the artillery of the Sui army. It was difficult to even charge collectively, let alone provide strong help to the Yang army. In the end, the Sui army relied on the artillery With the cover of bows and arrows, he quickly withdrew across the Dongwo River, and returned to the camp triumphantly with a record of beheading more than 4,000 animals.
Ding Yang's army was not considered a loss, at least the loss was not more than a thousand, and hundreds of Sui soldiers were killed, but the Taiyuan army was in bad luck. Li Jianxin lost nearly half of Li Er's 5,000 troops. Yin Kaishan Nearly 70% of the corpses of soldiers from the three armies lying down on the battlefield were soldiers from the Taiyuan Army. To make matters worse, Ding Yang's army was extremely dissatisfied with the wonderful performance of the Taiyuan Army on the battlefield. Internally, it was generally believed that the failure of the Taiyuan Army to win today was all caused by the Taiyuan Army's hind legs.
Li Jiancheng, who was watching the battle in the camp, also knew very well that his own army's performance today was very embarrassing, so after returning to the camp, Li Jiancheng immediately brought a heavy gift to the camp to visit Liu Wuzhou, apologized to Liu Wuzhou face to face, and took the initiative to admit that his own army's performance was too poor today. It dragged Liu Wuzhou back. Although Liu Wuzhou knew that the Taiyuan Army suffered a disastrous defeat today because the Sui Army used the main combat force on them, he still couldn't help asking curiously: "My dear brother Jiancheng, what kind of hatred do you have with Chen Yingliang's traitor? The bandit army seems to be targeting you specifically?"
"My younger brother is also very strange about this." Li Jiancheng replied very depressed: "After thinking about it, it should be because the younger brother's employment is unknown, and he sent Erlang to lead the army to fight, so he angered Chen's army and asked them to target our army. .”
"Erlang and Chen thief have a deep hatred?" Liu Wuzhou asked curiously.
Li Jiancheng was a little hesitant, but unable to withstand Liu Wuzhou's repeated questioning, Li Jiancheng still briefly told Liu Wuzhou the cause of the feud between Li Er and Chen Sangliang—that is, the incident that Li Eren framed Chen Sangliang with revenge and caused the feud. As a result, when Liu Wuzhou, Song Jingang and the others suddenly realized what they heard, a little girl who was hiding in the back tent and eavesdropping couldn't help snorting, "Shameless! I saved your brother-in-law's family, and returned my revenge to him. No wonder he I must seek revenge on you!"
He roughly introduced the reason why the Sui army wanted to hang and beat Li Er. Li Jiancheng, who was afraid of being asked more scandals about his second brother, quickly changed the subject and said to Liu Wuzhou: "Your Majesty, after today's battle, you must have the same combat effectiveness against Chen Yingliang's men." I must understand, how should your two armies defend against the enemy next, what is your majesty's plan?"
"Chen thief is really powerful!" Liu Wuzhou replied: "He didn't use his full strength at all, but our army has already deployed half of the elite, but he can't even break through his partial division battle formation. If he sends out the main force to attack, it will cost us two. The army has no chance of winning except to fight with all their strength!"
"Chen thief's artillery is also more powerful than we imagined." Song Jingang also said: "The antlers built by our soldiers to resist horses are because they can block at least three or five times of Chen thief's crossing of the river. He was vulnerable to the artillery, and was wiped out in a short while. If he sent artillery to attack our camp, the fortifications of your army and our army would certainly not be able to withstand it."
Seeing that Li Jiancheng nodded in agreement, Song Jingang took the opportunity to say: "So I think it is best for your army and our army to retreat into Taiyuan City and use the Taiyuan City Defense to resist the power of Chen's artillery, and then wait for an opportunity to attack, or fight against Chen's bandit head-on. , or light cavalry to attack and harass his grain road, so as to get the best chance of winning."
Hearing Song Jingang's suggestion, Liu Wuzhou remained silent, but Li Jiancheng's face immediately changed, and then he immediately smiled and said with a forced smile: "Brother Song's words are reasonable, but your two armies today It’s just a small setback and a slight loss, so it’s a pity to give up the natural danger of the Dongwo River, so it’s too early to retreat to Taiyuan City to station at this time?”
"It's not too early!" Song Jingang shook his head resolutely, and said, "Chen's army is strong. Even though our two armies join forces, our strength is still not as good as him. If Chen's bandit leads the main force to attack, our two armies will be on the battlefield." If there is a slight mistake, even if we can retreat to Taiyuan City at that time, the loss will definitely be not small, let alone waiting for an opportunity to counterattack, I am afraid it will be difficult to even hold on to the city."
Li Jiancheng's complexion changed even more, Liu Wuzhou observed his words, and said with a smile: "Brother Jiancheng, what are you worried about? Are you afraid that it is easy to invite gods and difficult to send gods away, and you will be reluctant to leave after entering Taiyuan City?"
"Brother Jiancheng, if you're really worried, that's okay." Song Jingang continued: "I have an idea. Anyway, Taiyuan City is divided into two cities, the east and the west. It's better for your army to retreat to the west city of Taiyuan and our army to retreat to Taiyuan. How is Dongcheng?"
"Brother, should you rest assured?" Liu Wuzhou said with a smile again: "Taiyuan's granary, arsenal and Jinyang Palace are both located in Xicheng, west of Fenshui, and protected by two barriers, Mengshan and Longshan, from the enemy. There are fewer faces, your army retreats to the west city, and our army defends the east city, you will not suffer at all, brother."
Li Jiancheng was silent for a moment, then cupped his hands and said: "To tell you the truth, my brothers, the reason why I don't want to retreat to Taiyuan City is actually not because I am afraid that you will stay behind after entering Taiyuan City, but because I am afraid that after you enter Taiyuan City , there is no chance to go out of the city. Taiyuan City is dead, easy to get in, hard to get out."
"What do you mean by this brother?" Liu Wuzhou, who was born as a rich man, and Song Jingang, who was born as a mud-legged man, were confused.
"Taiyuan's low-lying terrain is surrounded by three mountains and two rivers. It is in the shape of a trap. If Chen Yingliang attacks with water, the entire city of Taiyuan will be eaten by fish and turtles!"
Li Jiancheng frankly admitted the weakness of Taiyuan City, and took a map to introduce the possible water attack tactics adopted by the Sui army to Liu Wuzhou, a local rich man, and Song Jingang, a mud-legged man, and then said that as early as the Spring and Autumn Period, the army was flooded Regarding the matter of Taiyuan City, I finally said to Liu Wuzhou and Song Jingang with a wry smile: "Brothers, now you should understand why my younger brother dare not retreat to Taiyuan City? To be honest, if it wasn't for the difficulty in transporting food and grass, there would be no stronger nearby." The city can be defended, and my younger brother is planning to give up Taiyuan to defend other cities, because sticking to Taiyuan will only end in death, and there is no chance of escape."
They looked at each other in amazement, Liu Wuzhou was still a little bit unwilling, and asked again: "My dear brother, you know the weakness of Taiyuan city, maybe Chen thief doesn't know?"
Li Jiancheng laughed out loud, and said with a wry smile: "Brothers, Chen Yingliang is ten times as talented as I am, how could he not know the reason for this? Moreover, he also brought Yuan Tiangang, the world's number one feng shui master, with him this time. Deliberately choosing to attack Taiyuan when the flood season is approaching is obviously aimed at flooding Taiyuan, and our army and your army retreated to Taiyuan at this time, which just gave Chen Yingliang a great opportunity to flood our two armies."
Liu Wuzhou and Song Jingang, who were clamoring to be stationed in Taiyuan City, finally fell silent. Li Jiancheng took the opportunity to say: "Don't worry, two brothers, as long as we guard the Dongwo River for a while, we will definitely win the chance to turn defeat into victory. Changle King Dou Jiande hates it." Chen Yingliang stole the power of the country and wanted to crusade against Chen Yingliang, and he had already forged a mortal feud with Chen Yingliang on the Linfen battlefield. Although our army has not received any new news, I can be sure that with the hatred of the king of Changle, Yi Bo Yuntian will definitely lead the army from Xixing Pass to Taiyuan for rescue, and our army still has strong reinforcements to look forward to, and there is no need to retreat to Taiyuan City."
They exchanged a few glances with each other. Concerned about the danger of Chen Sangliang flooding Taiyuan, Liu Wuzhou and Song Jingang finally gave up the idea of taking advantage of the fire to rob Taiyuan City and agreed to continue to stick to the defense line of Dongwo River with the Taiyuan Army, waiting for Dou Jiande to definitely send reinforcements. Li Jiancheng also breathed a sigh of relief quietly, discussed some details of the joint battle with Liu Wuzhou and Song Jingang, and then hurriedly said goodbye and left.
Back to the self-army camp with a lot of worries, when Yin Kaishan, Zhang Lun and other confidantes asked him about the visit situation, Li Jiancheng smiled wryly and first told Liu Wuzhou and Song Jingang that they wanted to take the opportunity to station in Taiyuan East City, but they didn’t say anything yet. After that, Yin Kaishan was already furious, and cursed: "Fuck! The fox's tail is finally exposed! Let them enter Taiyuan City, will they leave in the future? I am afraid that if they enter Dongcheng today, they want to fight tomorrow. Xicheng’s idea! Commander Zuo, how did you answer?”
"I frightened them with the flooding of Taiyuan." Li Jiancheng gave a brief introduction to the situation with a wry smile, and then said with a more bitter smile: "It's also thanks to Brother Yingliang who let them know how powerful he is on the battlefield today." Let them know that it will be very difficult to stop Brother Yingliang from building a dam to store water, otherwise, I am afraid they will not be so easy to dismiss."
Yin Kaishan nodded, sighed with Li Jiancheng, and then asked about the next battle arrangement, Li Jiancheng replied: "The only way is to continue to hold on to the Dongzuo River. If we hold the Dongzuo River, we can hope to survive Dou Jiande's army." Come to help, Dou Jiande has an upright character, with him helping us, even if Liu Wuzhou has any shameless plans, it will be much easier for us to deal with."
Yin Kaishan didn't nod this time, after thinking for a while, Yin Kaishan said cautiously: "Commander Zuo, don't blame the general for his bad words, the road is far away, and Dou Jiande's reinforcements may not be able to arrive in Taiyuan in time, or Dou Jiande may not be able to reach Taiyuan in time. We have arrived, but he didn't send out the main force, he just sent us a partial division with insufficient strength, so what should we do?"
Li Jiancheng was silent for a while, and then he said: "If that's the case, I have another way. Our army retreats to Taiyuan City, persuades Liu Wuzhou to lead his army to move to Yuci City, and forms horns to rescue each other, and make a last stand with Brother Yingliang fight."
"Is this a clever plan?" Yin Kaishan hesitated, and hurriedly said: "Our army guards Taiyuan, and Liu Wuzhou guards Yuci, forming horns with each other. We have a strong city to rely on, and Liu Wuzhou can send troops at any time to prevent Chen Yingliang from flooding the dam. Our army seems to be better than our current tactics of sticking to the Dongwo River, why don't you implement it immediately, Commander Zuo?"
"Then what if Chen Yingliang comes to attack one by one?" Li Jiancheng asked back, and said with a wry smile: "Not to mention that Liu Wuzhou still has the strength to fight again, he would definitely not agree to defend the small city of Yuci, which is far smaller than Taiyuan, even if he agrees When the time comes, Chen Yingliang divides up his troops to contain our army, and then sends out heavy troops to attack Yuci. Do we dare to send troops to rescue? Liu Wuzhou was defeated by Chen Yingliang and ran away. Who else can we count on to stop Chen Yingliang from building a dam and attacking our army? This is the last helplessness Choice, until the last moment, we cannot choose such a passive tactic."
Yin Kaishan nodded consciously, and Li Jiancheng bowed his head again and said: "Even if it is for the people of Yuci, I will not agree to let Liu Wuzhou enter Yuci City until the last moment, and let those wolves, tigers and leopards under his command enter the city. The common people will be out of luck."