"The combat effectiveness of Liu Wuzhou's rebel army is higher than what I estimated." Li Jing reported to Chen Sangliang: "It seems that Liu Wuzhou's younger sister and half of the family property were not given to Song Jingang for free. Song Jingang brought it from Wei Daoer to Liu Wuzhou's command. The more than 4,000 elite soldiers in the army do have some combat effectiveness. Song Jingang himself is as talented as the rumors. He commanded the Dingyang bandit army and encountered Kan Leng. I'm afraid my brothers couldn't take back Yanmen County from Liu Wuzhou before."
Chen Sangliang had also heard about the fact that Liu Wuzhou took half of his family property and a younger sister to win over Song Jingang, so he was not surprised to hear Li Jing's report again, so he asked directly: "If Liu Wuzhou didn't make the mistake of underestimating the enemy today, what would happen if our army crossed the river for a couple of days?" A surprise attack was launched when there were thousands of people, are our soldiers sure to kill them?"
"If our advance team for crossing the river is the main force, then there must be no big problem." Li Jing replied.
"Then continue to fight like this, scare the Taiyuan bandits and hurt the Dingyang bandits, and they should move on their own," Chen Sangliang said.
Li Jing and Chen Sangliang, the unscrupulous uncle and nephew, just exchanged a few words, which directly doomed another bloodbath. In the early morning of the next day, Li Jing once again led 15,000 Sui troops and ten cannons out of the camp, and for the second time charged towards the defensive position of the Dingyang Army, which was a little further away. Bite the bullet and dispatch Li Er and Yin Kaishan to lead the army out of the camp, ready to assist Ding Yang's army in battle at all times.
Of course, the pontoon bridge erected by the Sui army the day before had been destroyed by Ding Yang’s army, but it didn’t matter. The rich and powerful Sui army’s main force didn’t take the loss of ropes and floating bases seriously, and used long shields to form temporary fortifications as usual to protect bows and arrows. Arrows were released to suppress the enemy on the opposite bank, and then the Sui army's skilled soldiers swam across the river and erected pontoon bridges. It didn't take much time to erect several temporary pontoon bridges. Cover more soldiers from the army to cross the river.
Learning from the lessons of the previous day, Liu Wuzhou did not dare to underestimate the enemy this time. Seeing that the Sui army had only 1,200 or 300 people crossing the river, Liu Wuzhou ordered an attack without hesitation, and sent General Xunxiang to lead an army of 3,000 to attack head-on. Trying to drive the Sui army across the river again. However, the Taiyuan Army did not move at all. Neither Li Er nor Yin Kaishan ordered to attack. The reason is that the battlefield is small and the Taiyuan Army will not be able to fight even if they rush forward. With the banner of the pioneer of crossing the river, I feel too scared to touch this bad luck.
As a result, the poor General Xun Xiang, who led three thousand infantrymen to kill him with a menacing cry, not only rushed to the front, but also gave orders like thunder, "Come on! Go! ! Rush into the scuffle, don't give the Chen bandit army a chance to fight in battle!"
The Sui army didn't just defend their position and not fight back like yesterday. On the contrary, there was an astonishingly young general of the Sui army who led 300 soldiers to launch a countercharge. , the face as young as a half-grown child was still full of excited smiles, and he muttered, "Finally, I can have fun, and finally I can kill a lot."
When the two charging armies collided head-on, Xun Xiang was the first to collide with the young Sui general. He bullied the Sui general because he was young and inexperienced, so Xun Xiang planned to shout loudly to get ahead of others. The general roared like thunder on a sunny day, and then he slashed towards Xun's head with a saber with his right hand, which was as fast as lightning and returned to the ground, Xun Xiang hurriedly raised his saber to parry in shock, and held the young Sui general dangerously. There was a chopping knife, and then Xun Xiang immediately felt a huge force hitting his knife, making a loud bang, and almost sent the steel knife in his hand flying on the spot!
There was another sound of wind, and the left hand knife of the young Sui general slashed at Xunxiang's head in an unbelievable manner. Xunxiang hurriedly went to the parry room, and immediately found that the strength of the young Sui general's left hand was not in the right hand at all. Under the same shock, his mouth was numb, and the big knife was almost dropped again. Xunxiang was shocked again, but the young Sui general roared in dissatisfaction, as if he was very unwilling to take down the leader of Xunxiang with two swords, and he was very angry with his two swords, as fast as a storm, without any hesitation. Showing his flaws, looking for the prime minister, struggling to fight back, not only had no strength to fight back, but was also killed by the young Sui general and made him retreat again and again.
Seeing that Xiang Xun's situation was not good, Ding Yang's soldiers beside him hurried up to help, but the young Sui general beheaded two of them one by one. He also quickly retreated and fled back to the interior of his own army, his mind was still at a loss, and he said in a distraught heart: "Who is this guy? Why is he so powerful?"
What made Xun Xiang even more dumbfounded was that he was still behind, he had already fled into his own army to seek protection, but the young Sui general refused to let him go at all, and pursued him with a pair of knives, slashing and chopping like no one As long as the soldiers of Ding Yang's army dared to step forward to stop them, they would either be chopped down by him or seriously injured by him, and they would run away screaming in embarrassment. Encouraged by the young Sui general, the soldiers of the Sui army also strode forward with great momentum, following behind him, dashing from left to right in the Dingyang army, invincible. The Sui army killed so many ghosts and howls that they couldn't stand it.
At the same time, seeing the brave performance of this young Sui general on the battlefield, Liu Wuzhou, Song Jingang and other senior generals of the Dingyang Army inevitably opened their mouths, asking who is this thief? Why so fierce and brutal? Surprised, Liu Wuzhou patted his horse in front of Li Er and Yin Kaishan in the west, pointed at the general of the Sui Army who was rampaging in the formation of his own army and asked, "Who is that man? Do you know?"
"I know." Li Er nodded, and replied with a wry smile: "Luo Shixin, who cut his nose and became famous all over the world at the age of fourteen, was the number one fierce general under Zhang Xutuo's command, and now the number one killer under Chen Yingliang's traitor. He is famous for his bravery and invincibility. I also suffered a big loss in front of him in the Lishan battle back then."
"Then why didn't you say it earlier?" Liu Wu was furious when he heard it on Monday, and roared: "I said earlier that he is Luo Shixin, who is famous all over the world, and I would have asked Xiang Xun to charge forward and give this ordinary man a chance to fight us in close quarters? "
Li Er's face was a bit ugly, and he took a long time to swallow his anger and explained: "My brother thought that my brother also knew Luo Shixin's banner, so I didn't remind him in advance. It was my negligence. Please forgive me."
Liu Wuzhou snorted heavily, patted his horse and returned to the self-army with an unhappy face, and after introducing Luo Shixin's situation to another brother-in-law Song Jingang, Song Jingang, who had also heard of Luo Shixin's famous name, suddenly realized, and first said something No wonder he was so powerful, and then he suggested to Liu Wuzhou: "Brother, why not withdraw the army and regroup, let the Taiyuan army go to entangle Luo Shixin first, and then we launch an attack."
Liu Wuzhou nodded in agreement without even blinking his eyelids, and immediately called for gold to withdraw his troops, and asked Xiang Xun, who had been killed by the Sui army, to retreat and reorganize his formation. He also sent someone to contact Li Er, demanding that the Taiyuan army launch an attack immediately. The Sui army had a lot of opportunities to cross the river and form formations. Li Er and Yin Kaishan heard the words and complained, but they were soft-spoken. At present, the Taiyuan army who was begging Liu Wuzhou was forced to have no choice but Li Er led his troops to march forward, slowly crushing the advance team of the Sui army crossing the river. .
The result was as expected by Li Er and Yin Kaishan. They had just pushed close to the advance team of the Sui army crossing the river. Today, the artillery of the Sui army deployed directly on the west side of the ferry opened fire immediately. Ten shells roared into the formation of the Taiyuan army. In an instant, twenty or thirty soldiers of the Taiyuan Army were killed. One of the shells hit Li Er's horse's leg while jumping irregularly, causing the horse to hiss to the ground. .
The artillery of the Sui army continued to roar, forcing the Taiyuan army to speed up their pace and fight with the Sui army at close quarters, and the Sui army was not polite to the Taiyuan army. Thirty gunpowder bottles were sent out, and the Taiyuan army was blown up, screaming and howling, flying like dogs, and then Luo Shixin, who found a fighter, immediately led the warriors who fell into the formation to charge, entered the ranks of the Taiyuan army, and fought his best melee melee At that time, no one in the Taiyuan army dared to stop Luo Shixin, the famous killer, and was even more confused and chaotic when he was rushed into the formation by the Sui army. Dissatisfied boos once again sounded in the Dingyang army, and the gap between the two armies gradually deepened.
In this fierce battle, the Sui army, whose speed of input of troops was limited by the river, fought more difficult in the early stage. When they were at a local absolute disadvantage in strength, they once fought very hard in front of the second attack launched by Dingyang's army. The enemy cannot expand the space without retreating, but when Xue Renguo, another super general of the Sui army, led his army across the Dongwo River to join the battlefield, Ding Yang's army no longer had the opportunity to drive the advance team of the Sui army across the south bank. Xue Renguo also personally led the warriors who fell into the battle to charge into the battle, killing the Dingyang army led by Xunxiang, and kept exclaiming why there are so many fierce generals under Chen thief's command
It was good for the Dingyang army. After the Sui army crossed the river and accumulated enough counterattack strength on the north bank, all the counterattack forces were used on the Taiyuan army. The army attacked the Taiyuan army, and killed the Taiyuan army to tears, crying and screaming. The cavalry of the Baoguo army led by Zhao Yu also took advantage of the opportunity of Yin Kaishan's retreat to expel Yin Kaishan's defeated army and smashed Li Er's formation. Feared by the Sui army, Li Er's subordinates fled in all directions. Four hundred soldiers of the nationalist army rushed left and right in the chaos, killing people like hemp, and they still held Li Er's banner, forcing Li Er to be In embarrassment, they fled back to their own army camp to seek protection, but it turned out that just after noon, all the Taiyuan troops had already fled back to their own army camp.
After Li Er and Yin Kaishan were defeated and fled back to the camp, Li Jiancheng, the commander of the Taiyuan Army, dared not send troops out of the camp to help the battle. The army went out of camp to die in vain? Li Jing waited for a long time for the Taiyuan army to come out of the camp. In secret joy, he immediately ordered the artillery to shift its position and head east to bombard the Dingyang army. Liu Wuzhou and Song Jingang were not fools. They saw the Sui army's artillery moving east, and they immediately understood. Finally, it was the turn of the self-army to be unlucky, so Liu Wuzhou and Song Jingang immediately recalled the front-line troops of the self-army without blinking an eyelid, and then immediately led all the troops back to the camp to guard behind closed doors, allowing the troops to be outnumbered. The Sui army of the army shouted arrogantly outside the camp.
Things have come to this point, Ding Yang Jun and Taiyuan Army can't do without a estrangement. Li Jing, who is not yet ready to attack the camp, originally wanted to accept it when he was good, but Li Jing's unscrupulous nephew Chen Sangliang received the battle report from the front Afterwards, he refused to give up, and sent someone to urgently send a trench bridge vehicle customized for the Dongwo River, demanding that Li Jing must transport a cannon across the river, and fired a few shots at the camp of the Dingyang Army, forcing the Taiyuan Army to leave. Battalion rescue. At the same time, as a precaution, Chen Sangliang also secretly sent Guo Feng and Chen Ci to Li Jing's command to listen to him, so as to deal with the desperate struggle of the Liu Li coalition army.
In order to satisfy his unscrupulous nephew's bad taste, Li Jing had no choice but to let the soldiers transport a cannon across the north bank of the Dongwo River, and under the protection of the Sui Army's soldiers, they fired three cannons at the Dingyang Army's camp. One cannon blasted open the gate of Ding Yangjun's camp, and the other two cannons smashed two big holes in the fence and Juma antlers of Ding Yang Jun's camp, and then flew into the camp, killing and injuring a few who couldn't dodge. The Dingyang army was unlucky, and the Dingyang army, who was full of confidence in the camp fortifications, also screamed in horror, and said that the camp would be destroyed today.
When Ding Yang's army was terrified, Li Jiancheng in the Taiyuan barracks in the west also fell into a dilemma. Li Jiancheng could see that the Sui army had no real plan to attack Ding Yang's camp, and his own army didn't need to send troops to rescue him at all, but if he didn't If he sent troops, Yang Jun would be held accountable in the future, and he would have no way to explain to Liu Wuzhou—after all, Liu Wuzhou came to help the Taiyuan Army with good intentions. As a result, after thinking about it, Li Jiancheng, who already had little capital, decided to stand still and prepare to observe the situation again.
The Sui army really looked at Ding Yang army differently. After three shells blasted Ding Yang army out of their wits, Liu Wuzhou and Song Jingang, who knew that the original civil engineering works were vulnerable to the Sui army's artillery, were ready to set up flesh and blood fortifications to resist When the Sui army was attacking, the Sui army surprised Ding Yang's army and did not fire the fourth shot. Instead, he chose to hold back and wait for the fighter to appear. Ding Yang's army was puzzled and did not dare to attack rashly. He held his breath and kept a distance from the Sui army. Confrontation, the battlefield fell into a temporary calm.
Halfway through the application time, the Taiyuan army still did not come out of the camp to ask Yang Jun to help, so Li Jing sent an envoy with a white flag to the gate of Dingyang's camp and shouted, "Liu Wuzhou, Song Jingang, soldiers of Mayi, you See clearly? We can enter your camp at any time, but your so-called allies, the brothers of the Li family, stand still and refuse to send a single soldier to help you! Our Highness Tang Wang is a bodhisattva with a heart of compassion, and decided to fight again I will give you one last chance, today we retreat, you have one night to think about what to do! We will come back tomorrow, tomorrow, we will never show any mercy!"
After leaving these words behind, all Sui army teams began to retreat under Li Jing's personal command, covering the only artillery crossing the river and retreating slowly. Ding Yang's attack position was stared at by nine Sui army artillery on the south bank. Seeing this, Liu Wuzhou and Song Jingang did not dare to act rashly, and the Taiyuan army, which would have to be severely beaten when they left the camp, did not dare to move. It was all about you watching me and I watching you standing still, watching the soldiers of the Sui army swaggering through the cave. Wohe, return to the Sui army camp five miles to the south to rest.
Not to mention how the Dingyang Army and the Taiyuan Army, who preserved each other's strength after the Sui Army withdrew, argued and argued, but just said that after Li Jing led the Sui Army soldiers to return in triumph, he returned to the self-army camp and saw the Sui Army at first sight. The soldiers were busy preparing torches and rations. Although the sun had already started to set, it was very common to prepare torches and rations in the barracks, but the military god Li Jing immediately came to the conclusion from the amount of torches, rations, and horse feed that his unscrupulous nephew was Ready to start the night battle.
Then he led Luo Shixin, Xue Renguo and other generals into the tent of the Chinese army and saw that Chen Sangliang had already ordered the guards to light a lot of candles in the tent, and he was huddling with Yuan Tiangang and other civil servants beside the map sand table. After discussing furtively, until Sun Fujia saw Li Jing coming in and reminded him, his unfilial nephew Chen Sangliang also got up to greet his uncle Li Jing. Li Jing smiled and asked, "Your Highness, what's the matter? Do you want to fight again today?"
"Nothing can be hidden from uncle's eyes." Chen Sangliang smiled, and said: "If there is no accident, Liu Li's bandit army should adjust overnight tonight. Fighting opportunities are rare, so we must prepare early."
"Your Highness is so sure that the bandit army will make adjustments tonight, so you're not afraid that all the hard work will be in vain?" Li Jing asked curiously.
"It's for sure." Chen Sangliang replied: "My nephew has a certain amount of research on psychology, and I know exactly how selfish a person is. Liu Wuzhou personally led the main force to come south to help the Taiyuan bandit army, in order to covet the Taiyuan bandit army. The return of money, food and land and the fear of death and cold teeth are not for the purpose of spending all their capital to pick up cheap ones for the Taiyuan bandits. Today, the gap between the two armies has emerged, and our army has used artillery to prove that the fortifications of the earth and stone camp are completely vulnerable to our army. Uncle, you On behalf of my nephew, I also threatened to officially attack the camp of Liu Wuzhou's bandit army tomorrow."
Speaking of this, Chen Sangliang paused, and continued: "Add all these points together, in order to preserve his strength, Liu Wuzhou must make adjustments to avoid our army's sharp edge, and the Taiyuan bandits who have been scared by us will definitely They don’t dare to set up camp outside the city anymore, so they will definitely make some moves tonight, and we’ll be ready to send troops as soon as we get the chance, and we’ll win a big victory!”
"Your Highness's ability to figure out the enemy's mind is really admirable. After listening to His Highness' analysis, I also think that Liu and Li's bandits will definitely do something tonight." Li Jing nodded, and in turn complimented the junior Chen Sangliang, Then he asked curiously: "Then, in His Highness' opinion, how should the bandit army adjust?"
"I'm also having a headache with this problem." Chen Sangliang replied with a frown: "It stands to reason that it is the most convenient and safest way for Liu and Li's bandits to withdraw directly to Taiyuan City, but the Li brothers are not fools. They will not fail to see the dangerous consequences of entering Taiyuan City. Therefore, I suspect that the Liu and Li bandits may adopt another method... "
"Li's bandit army guards Taiyuan, Liu Wuzhou's bandit army guards Yuci, each defending the city, forming horns with each other!" Li Jing quickly finished speaking for Chen Sangliang.
Chen Sangliang nodded, indicating that Li Jing had guessed correctly, and Li Jing quickly asked, "Then, can you be sure that Liu and Li's bandits will do this? If so, then we will send a team to the east to ambush and cooperate with you." Our chasing army pinches Liu Wuzhou, and there is great hope for Liu Wuzhou to fight on the first day!"
"I'm just worried because I can't make a conclusion." Chen Sangliang frowned and said, "Although it is most beneficial for the Li brothers to defend Taiyuan and Yuci respectively, Liu Wuzhou's side is also not a fool. Willing to garrison the small city of Yuci, which is far smaller than Taiyuan, and Liu Wuzhou's rebel army's food and grass is also a big problem, so I am worried that even if the Li family brothers make this request, Liu Wuzhou will not agree."
Li Jing nodded slightly, admitting that Chen Sangliang's analysis was good, and it was difficult for Liu Wuzhou to accept the disadvantageous proposal of defending the city. Over there, Feng Deyi said cautiously: "Li Shangshu, I originally suggested His Royal Highness Tang Wang to be on the safe side, only to pursue and not to ambush, but His Royal Highness Tang was noncommittal..."
"Feng Nei Shi, you still don't know our Highness the Tang Dynasty too much." Li Jing interrupted Feng Deyi with a smile, and said with a smile: "Our Highness the Tang Dynasty is usually a good person, no matter how much hatred or hatred you have with him. How much hatred, as long as he admits his mistake and begs for mercy, he can forgive him, but when it comes to the battlefield, our Highness doesn't want to suffer at all, and wants to take advantage of it. If he can defeat Liu Wuzhou's main force in the field, what will His Highness do? Are you willing to miss it?"
Feng Deyi shut up with a sneer, while Chen Sangliang said with a wry smile: "My cousin knows me best, yes, I don't want to let go of such a good opportunity, but I'm still not sure whether Liu Wuzhou will move east or not. Go to defend Yuci for the Li family's bandits. Uncle, what do you think, do you think Liu Wu and Mr. Zhou will accept Li Jiancheng's proposal?"
"Even Your Highness, you can't even predict the enemy's thoughts, let alone your servants." Li Jing shook his head, and said seriously: "However, Your Highness, I think you might as well take a gamble, betting that Liu Wuzhou will move the army again, and we will Arrange an ambush in advance, and use the main force on him! Bet that he enters Taiyuan City with the Taiyuan bandit army, and we will use all our strength to the north!"
"Gambling? I'm not good at this." Chen Sangliang scratched his head shamelessly, and said, "But, if I must gamble, I'd rather bet on Liu Wuzhou Xijin Yuci..."
"Why?" Li Jing asked.
"Because even if I bet on Liu Wuzhou's move to Taiyuan City, even if I win the bet, I won't win much." Chen Sangliang replied: "The camp of Liu and Li's bandit army is less than ten miles away from Taiyuan City, and the retreat is ten miles away." Convenience, no matter how fast our pursuit speed is, we will not be able to win many victories in the pursuit battle. But if Liu Wuzhou goes east to Yuci, then the distance of more than 50 to 60 miles can create enough space for us to pursue and kill the enemy. Time, winning the bet is a big victory, and you will definitely not win too little."
"Then why doesn't Your Highness take a bet?" Li Jing asked, "Since Your Highness knows that Liu Wuzhou went north and we won't win much, why don't we bet that he goes east to Yuci? In this way, the most we lose in the bet is only us." It is useless to take risks in the ambush, and the gains in the pursuit battle are less, but if we gamble correctly, the gains will be huge. In such a stable game, why don’t you bet on big wins, Your Highness? You also have to consider the small ones. Jie?"
Chen Sangliang was stunned for a moment, and the hesitation on his treacherous and obscene face was immediately swept away. He nodded vigorously and said, "It should be a big bet! Not to mention winning a big bet, maybe you can even get that person out of the way." Grab it!"
Although Chen Sangliang didn't make it clear who he was taking over, Li Jing, Feng Deyi, Yuan Tiangang, Sun Fujia and others said in their hearts at the same time: "It must be Liu Wuzhou's beautiful sister! Our Highness Tang Wang , in terms of lust, it's really admirable."