Li Jiancheng was still on his way back to the camp, when the news came from the Taiyuan Army camp first, saying that Li Er's headquarters led by Zhu Can and Liang Jianfang suddenly gathered in front of the Taiyuan Army's Dongying Gate, claiming to have received an order from Li Er to go to Dingyang The order outside the barracks required them to leave the camp from the east gate, but Yin Kaishan, Wang Gui and others who were staying in the camp did not dare to make decisions without Li Jiancheng's order. Come to Li Jiancheng for instructions.
If it weren't for the fact that there were other outsiders watching and procrastinating, Li Jiancheng would have preferred to fight a civil war and detain his second brother's headquarters, and also cut Li Er's confidantes including Zhu Can and Liang Jianfang into pieces and executed Ling Chi! But not now, not to mention that Chen Sangliang, who killed his father and enemy, is still watching the tiger not far away. There must be no civil strife in the Taiyuan army. Carelessness may cause allies to turn against each other. So after much deliberation and hesitation, Li Jiancheng still shouted loudly: "Let them go! The farther the better!"
I have never seen the gentle and elegant Li Jiancheng so angry. The messengers sent by Yin Kaishan, Wang Gui and others were obedient, and rushed back to the east gate of the Taiyuan Army to send an order to allow Li Er's headquarters to leave. Li Jiancheng slapped his horse straight back to his own army camp with a livid face. After striding into his large tent of the Chinese army, Li Jiancheng kicked over the case table in the tent again, fell down on the commander's seat and sulked. His face was so ferocious that the guards in the tent refused to breathe out of fear.
In the end, it was after Yin Kaishan, Wang Gui, Yang Wenqian and others entered the camp that the Chinese army's tent heard voices. However, the expressions of Yin Kaishan and the others were obviously a little flustered, and they asked anxiously without taking a closer look at Li Jiancheng's expression: " Commander Zuo, what happened? Why did Commander Right dispatch troops out of the camp at night? Why didn’t we know about this beforehand?”
Li Jiancheng didn't say a word, and his face became more gloomy and terrifying. Yin Kaishan and the others finally saw that something was wrong. After looking at each other in surprise, Wang Gui asked cautiously, "Captain Zuo, what happened? Why is your face so ugly?"
"I have a good brother!" Li Jiancheng finally opened his mouth and let out a long sigh: "Brother Ying Liang really has a sense of knowledge, and his words are true. My good brother is really not a good person!"
After a long sigh, Li Jiancheng roughly explained how he and Li Er went to Yang Jun as envoys, but Yin Kaishan, Wang Gui and others became more and more dumbfounded the more they listened, and they became more and more unbelievable. When the two men threatened to have Ding Yang Jun detain Li Jiancheng, the two generals Yin Kaishan and Yang Wengan suddenly had beards and hairs all stretched out, and they both shouted angrily: "Rebellion! Li Shimin is rebelling! Eat inside and out! Kill each other!"
Roaring and furious, Yang Wengan immediately bowed his hands to Li Jiancheng and said, "Commander Zuo, please let the last general lead the army out of the camp to capture the traitor Li Shimin for you!"
Li Jiancheng looked up at Yang Wenqian, looked at his bloodshot eyes and asked with a wry smile, "What if the Dingyang army goes to war with us because of this? What if we fight with Dingyang's army and Chen Yingliang also takes the opportunity to send troops?"
Yang Wenqian was stunned for a while, and then he remembered that he must not turn his face against Yang Jun now, otherwise he would only benefit in vain. Chen Sangliang, who was watching the tiger in the Dongwo River, came back to his senses, and Yang Wengan hurriedly asked Li Jiancheng again: "Captain Zuo, what should we do? We can't really let Dingyang's bandit army enter Taiyuan City, can we? It's easy to ask God to send God away, let Dingyang's bandit army enter Taiyuan City, and if we want to drive them away in the future, then But it is so difficult.”
Li Jiancheng is silent again. Now Li Jiancheng still has hope to repent. He can immediately withdraw his troops back to Taiyuan City. Dou Jiande, another ally, and Luo Yi, a potential ally, were afraid and refused to send reinforcements to the Taiyuan Army, making it even more difficult for the Taiyuan Army to stand alone, let alone resist Chen Sangliang's butcher knife. In addition, as long as there is a slight mistake during the hasty retreat, and they are forced to fight the angry Dingyang army, the consequences will only be even more unimaginable.
Being caught by Li Eryan, Li Jiancheng, who was a little weak in his bones, thought it over and over again, and finally said helplessly: "This is the end, we can only drink another glass of poisonous wine to quench our thirst. Anyway, if we can't beat Chen Yingliang, we It doesn't matter whether Ding Yang's army is allowed to enter Taiyuan City, if Chen Yingliang can be driven back, then Changle King Dou Jiande can still rely on, and with his help, there is no need to worry too much about Liu Wuzhou taking the opportunity to strike."
Yin Kaishan and Wang Gui were silent, Yang Wenqian gritted his teeth, but they both knew that Li Jiancheng's choice was out of helplessness, and it was the least harmful, so they could only accept Li Jiancheng's decision swallowing his anger. Li Jiancheng first ordered the army to immediately set out to pull out the camp and retreat, preparing to abandon the camp and retreat back to the city with the Dingyang army at the third watch, and then sent people back to the city to contact Pei Ji, Feng Li and others, so that they were ready to respond, and then Li Jiancheng Then he said in his heart: "With the character of the second brother, after arriving in Yuci, he will definitely take advantage of the opportunity to get in touch with Dou Jiande first, to please Dou Jiande first and establish a friendship with him. Regarding this, how should I deal with it?"
When Li Jiancheng was thinking nervously, and when the soldiers of the Taiyuan Army were in a hurry to get out of camp and retreat, something happened again. A guard suddenly rushed into the tent of the Chinese army, and presented a pond newspaper with chicken feathers to Li Jiancheng's hands. In front of him, he played loudly: "To the governor, the emergency pond report just sent from Jingxing Pass, the messenger passed out as soon as he entered the camp, so the villain reported it on his behalf."
"The pond newspaper from Jingxing Pass? Dou Jiande's reinforcements are here?" Li Jiancheng quickly raised his head, a glimmer of hope rekindled in his almost ashen chest, and quickly took the pond newspaper. He kept trembling, but when he finally opened the pond newspaper and took a closer look, Li Jiancheng was completely stunned, so absent-minded that he didn't even notice that the pond newspaper in his hand fell to the ground.
"Captain Zuo, what happened again?" Wang Gui, who was helping Li Jiancheng to pack up the documents in the tent, asked quickly.
Li Jiancheng didn't say anything. After a long time, Li Jiancheng suddenly picked up the pond newspaper and stood up. He said with a blank expression, "Prepare the horse for me. I'm going to Ding Yang's camp again!"
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Next, it's time to look back at the situation in the Dingyang Army camp. After Li Jiancheng left the Dingyang Army camp dejectedly, Li Er, who sold his brother and begged for glory, was naturally submerged in the great enthusiasm of the Dingyang Army generals. Out of admiration and gratitude to Li Er, Liu Wuzhou not only immediately sent someone to give Li Er the thousand horses he had promised, but also called Liu Xiaomou, the baby sister promised to Li Er, to the central army tent, and asked her to marry Li Er's fiancé Li Er. Two see you again. As a result, Liu Xiaomou, who had already fallen asleep and was woken up by someone, was already very unhappy, but when he saw Li Er in the tent, the expression on Liu Xiaomou's pretty face naturally became even uglier, and he asked Liu Wuzhou directly: "Brother , If you have anything to say, I’m sleepy and I have to go back to sleep.”
"Little sister, I'm sorry, you can't rest tonight." Liu Wuzhou said with a smile: "We have to move to Taiyuan City overnight, so you can't sleep tonight. You prepare a good house in the city, and arrange a few more maids to wait for you to rest."
"We want to enter the city?" Liu Xiaomou was taken aback, and quickly asked, "Brother, didn't you say that Li Jiancheng was stingy and didn't want us to enter the city?"
"It's all thanks to Erlang." Liu Wuzhou smiled happily, pointed to Li Er who was standing aside, and said with a smile: "It was Erlang who persuaded his elder brother to agree to our stationing in the city. Afraid of violence, he volunteered to lead an army to move to Yuci, and form horns with us, to contain the main force of Chen's bandits from the outside. How about my little sister, the husband-in-law chosen for you by my brother is a rare hero, right? Erlang, Erlang, you are leaving soon, tell my sister if you have anything to say."
When talking to Liu Wuzhou, Liu Xiaomou intentionally never glanced at Li Er, but Li Er kept looking at Liu Xiaomou, admiring her sleepy beauty just woken up, and her beautiful figure with protruding front and back. It won't be long before such a voluptuous little beauty can legally and reasonably be embraced in his arms to invade and possess wantonly. Li Er, who has not touched a woman for a long time, is inevitably itchy in his heart. You can just press this little beauty under your body and go crazy.
Thinking of this, Li Eryi was rarely distracted for a while, so it was not until Liu Wuzhou called out that Li Er came back to his senses, hurriedly saluted Liu Xiaomou, and said in a very graceful manner: "Sister Xiaomou, Brother Yu will be here soon!" To lead the army to garrison in Yuci, the next time we meet, we must wait until after the Chen thieves have been defeated, you must take care of yourself."
He glanced at Li Er with incomparable contempt, Liu Xiaomou showed some delicate smiles like flowers, and Li Erzheng, who had never gotten any good looks in front of Liu Xiaomou, was in a state of elation, and never thought that Liu Xiaomou's cherry lips moved, and suddenly spewed out venom, He smiled and said, "Maybe it's not that big. If you want to meet me again, you can talk about it after you come back alive."
Li Er's expression was dull, but Liu Wuzhou immediately shouted: "Little Mou, what nonsense are you talking about? Erlang is about to go to war, so don't say unlucky things!"
"Am I talking nonsense?" Liu Xiaomou said with a sneer, "Brother, haven't you seen Li Erlang's performance on the battlefield these two days? Didn't you get beaten by Uncle Li that time and ran away in embarrassment? Even Uncle Li If you can't beat him, you still want to count on him to contain Chen Yingliang's main force? With his little ability, if he meets Chen Yingliang, it might not be so easy for him to escape."
Liu Wuzhou and Li Erlang looked extremely embarrassed together, they couldn't find anything to refute Liu Xiaomou, but Liu Xiaomou yawned again, and said: "It is said that Chen thief must send envoys to separate each other in every battle, and what is said that Chen thief must liquidate the old man?" It’s a new account, I’m too lazy to listen to these bragging, are you going to the city? Okay, I’ll go back and prepare.”
After all, Liu Xiaomou really turned around and left, but Li Er couldn't bear it anymore, and shouted: "Sister Xian, please wait a moment, since you think Brother Yu is incapable of bragging, Sister Xian, then Brother Yu will give you another promise. Within three days of moving to Yuci, my brother will definitely send you good news, and at least one victory will be fought to severely injure Chen Yingliang!"
Turning his back to Li Er, Liu Xiaomou covered his mouth and smiled. The flowers were trembling with joy, and he said, "Do you think I still believe it? Also, I heard that you are also a son of a noble family. Can you be educated? Learn from others." Chen Yingliang is polite and demeanor, don't always scold someone traitor behind his back, no matter how badly he scolds, can he hurt a hair of him?"
Smiling coquettishly, Liu Xiaomou walked away with his head held high, leaving Li Er gnashing his teeth on the spot, yelling in his heart, "It's because I have never had the chance to confront Thief Chen head-on, either because my father or brother tied my hands and feet, because of my strength." The disparity is too far to fight! This time I don't believe it, the traitor Chen Yingliang can be left alone in Taiyuan, and he personally brought the main force to fight me! Apart from that shameless traitor, who else in the world can be my opponent?!"
Liu Xiaomu was so unhappy about moving to the city of Taiyuan, and Liu Wuzhou couldn't hold back his face, but fortunately, at this moment, it happened that Zhu Can, Liang Jianfang and others led Li Er's headquarters to the Dingyang Army Camp The news outside the west gate directly proved that Li Jiancheng had succumbed. Liu Wuzhou and Li Er turned their anger into joy, and then Liu Wuzhou naturally hurriedly ordered the army to start retreating. Very busy.
During the busy time, the mutation regenerated, and the messenger suddenly reported that Li Jiancheng had come to the gate of the Dingyang Army camp again, and asked to meet Liu Wuzhou and others at the gate of the camp. Liu Wuzhou was surprised at first and quickly asked Li Jiancheng if he had brought troops. After learning that Li Jiancheng had only brought more than 20 cavalry, Liu Wuzhou felt relieved a little, and hurriedly led another group of guards out of the camp, all the way until he met Li Jiancheng in front of the barracks.
While the torch was shining, Li Jiancheng had a very complicated expression on his face, and he said to Liu Wuzhou straight to the point: "Brother Wu Zhou, out of the morality of our allies, this little brother is here to tell you a bad news and to ask you for the last time, would you still like it?" Follow me into Taiyuan City? If you are still willing to guard Taiyuan with me, you will spend all your food and grass in Taiyuan, and my younger brother will provide it with all our strength until we eat all the food in Taiyuan together!"
"What do you mean by my brother?" Liu Wuzhou was startled for a while, then he came to his senses and hurriedly asked: "My brother, is there something wrong?"
Li Jiancheng nodded, handed the pond report he just received to Liu Wuzhou, and said: "The Jingxingguan emergency pond report just received, Luo Yiyi accepted Chen Yingliang's canonization of King Yan, swore to serve Chen Yingliang, and sent troops Hengshan County, blocking Dou Jiande's way to rescue our troops. The envoy I sent to ask Luo Yi for help has also been thrown into prison by Luo Yi, and he is going to present it to Chen Yingliang as a meeting gift."
"Luo... Luo Yi has turned his back?"
Liu Wuzhou couldn't believe his ears, so he quickly took the pond newspaper handed over by Li Jiancheng, trembling and opened it for a closer look, Liu Wuzhou's face immediately turned pale, because the pond newspaper clearly wrote, Luo Yi has indeed turned his back and changed his banner, swore allegiance to Chen Sangliang, and sent troops to Hengshan County first, not giving Dou Jiande a chance to rescue Taiyuan! Then, Liu Wuzhou roared like crazy, "Luo Yi! Are you crazy or stupid? It's not right to be the emperor of Zhuojun County, but you want to be Chen Yingliang's running dog! You are still turning against us at this terrible moment. The hardest stab in the back!"
"Perhaps Luo Yi was just waiting for this opportunity. To turn against him at this time, he sold Chen Yingliang the most favor." Li Jiancheng smiled bitterly, and asked again: "Brother Wu Zhou, how are you? Are you still willing to follow me into the city?"
When it was Liu Wuzhou's turn, his complexion was extremely ugly, and he subconsciously checked the pond newspaper carefully again. Li Jiancheng sensed his thoughts and said, "Brother Wu Zhou, this pond newspaper came too coincidentally. You suspect that my younger brother forged threats. For you, this is human nature, I don’t blame you. You can also believe that this Tang newspaper is a forgery, and the younger brother will still keep his promise to invite you to settle in Taiyuan Dongcheng, but after entering the city, don’t regret it.”
Liu Wuzhou knew exactly what Li Jiancheng meant. He knew that Li Jiancheng was reminding him to enter Taiyuan City at this time, so it would be very difficult for him to leave the city again. He was almost destined to be caught by Chen Sangliang and take away Dingyang Army and Taiyuan Army! So after hesitating for a moment, Liu Wuzhou quickly said: "Brother Jiancheng, since we can no longer count on Dou Jiande's reinforcements in a short period of time, why not follow your wishes and lead an army eastward to station in Yuci for my brother, and fight with him?" You become the horns of each other, rescue each other, and work together to resist the Chen bandit army! If the Chen bandits build a dam and flood the water, I promise to send troops to rescue you!"
"Then please brother." Li Jiancheng nodded, and said: "Yuci is small, but the city is still strong, Chen Yingliang has always been afraid of attack, brother only needs to block the city gate during the war, and his artillery can be rendered useless! If the elder brother can rely on the city to frustrate the enemy's spirit, and the younger brother also chooses an opportunity to attack and harass his food road behind, it is not that our two armies have no chance of winning!"
"Then it's settled." Liu Wuzhou spoke more quickly, and said, "Yuci is far away, and may be pursued by the enemy. Brother, I will send troops eastward at two and a half o'clock. I am troublesome brother, stick to the camp until half past three o'clock. How about withdrawing troops later?"
"Before the fourth watch, unless Chen Yingliang breaks through our camp, my younger brother will never leave the camp!" Li Jiancheng said calmly: "At least buy an hour and a half for my brother."
A good reputation is good. Knowing that Li Jiancheng is a kind man and never deceives friends, Liu Wuzhou was overjoyed and immediately bowed his hands to Li Jiancheng to thank him, and hastily agreed on the future contact method. It turned out that it was at this time that Liu Wuzhou suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly asked Li Jiancheng: "My dear brother, what should Erlang do? Should he go back to Taiyuan? Or let him accompany him to Yuci?"
"It's up to him to choose." Li Jiancheng smiled and said: "If he is willing to go to Yuci with you, brother, you don't dislike him. Of course you can take him with you and let him listen to your orders. If he wants to go back to Taiyuan, of course OK, let him come to me by himself."
After all, Li Jiancheng cupped his hands, and without looking back, he quickly returned to the self-army camp to organize the retreat. Like Liu Xiaomou, he deliberately didn't even glance at his brother Li Er who had received the news and was rushing over, leaving Liu Wuzhou behind. Smiling wryly, he said to himself: "It's strange that Li Erlang dared to go back to Taiyuan again, but this kid's heart is too poisonous, he would betray his own brother in order to please me, and in the future, he must dare to betray me in order to please others!"
And then, of course, it was our second brother Li's turn to be dumbfounded. He snatched the Jingxing Guantang newspaper from Liu Wuzhou in disbelief, and carefully checked the true and false under the light of the torch. Unfortunately, second brother Li soon became desperate again. It was found that this pond newspaper was indeed the handwriting of Li Daliang, the guard of Jingxing Pass, and the ink had already dried completely, so it did not look like it had just been forged. Then, Second Brother Li was struck by lightning, and only one thought remained in his mind, "It's nothing to be a villain, nothing to be a villain, I knew Luo Yi would turn against Chen Yingliang's traitor to contain Dou Jiande, I just now You shouldn't offend Li Jiancheng to death!"
"Erlang, your elder brother said just now that you can stay or go as you choose." Liu Wuzhou said with a wry smile, "He said, if you want to go to Yuci with me, follow my order to go to Yuci together. If you want to go back to Taiyuan, you can go to Yuci together." Go to him to discuss it yourself. There is not much time, so you decide quickly."
Li Er was even more stupefied, and after finally regaining his senses, Li Er immediately knelt down on one knee to Liu Wuzhou and said in a clear voice: "Little brother is willing to listen to elder brother's orders, and go to Yuci with elder brother to defend against the enemy!"
"Okay." Liu Wuzhou was quite conscientious, and immediately nodded in agreement with Li Er's request, and then said: "Withdraw the troops at half past two, you lead the rear."
"Promise!" Li Er agreed without hesitation, clasped his fists, and said cautiously: "But brother, the younger brother's headquarters has only about 2,000 people left. For the safety of the army, can you send an army to join the younger brother..."
"I let Huang Ziying go at the end of our army, and let him be ready to help you at any time." Liu Wuzhou interrupted Li Er with a smile, and said: "Also, time is urgent, and the thousand horses are handed over to you now, you have a half hour You can’t find so many cavalry to ride, so let’s carry it with our army first, and I’ll give it to you when I arrive in Yuci. How about it?”
Hearing this, Li Er's expression was as ugly as he wanted, and he was very unhappy, but he still clasped his fists obediently and said: "What brother said is very true, it should be done like this."