"General Liu, wake up, wake up, it's time to get up and eat, we have to go to Hongnong after dinner, we can rest when we get to Hongnong, wake up, wake up."
"Wei Shangshu, it's time to get up, please wake up, wake up, we have to go to Hongnong! Wei Shangshu, Wei stay behind, it's time to get up, please, it's time to get up."
"Brothers, it's time to get up! Get up! Get up and eat! After eating, go to Hongnong, and then you can rest in Hongnong!"
Similar shouts and urgings came and went in Changpingcang's warehouse city. In order to wake up Liu Changgong's team as soon as possible, the Baoguo Army and Changpingcang's defenders almost all went out, urging the generals and soldiers of Liu Changgong's team to get up one by one, but they answered Yes, but it was snoring one after another, and he answered like a dream, "I won't eat, let me sleep again." And the big feet of General Liu Changgong, "Go to hell! Let me sleep again!"
This time, I really can’t blame the Sui Army soldiers for being too lazy. The key is that the Sui Army soldiers under Liu Changgong’s command were too tired. After a big U-turn before the battle, Liu Changgong’s team walked from Mianchi to Hangu Pass in about five hours. Liu Changgong's team was already exhausted after repeated hard work. , They fell asleep like dead pigs as soon as they lay down. After only resting for two hours, it was strange that the soldiers of the Nationalist Army could wake them up immediately.
Of course Chen Yingliang understood this very well, but Chen Yingliang also understood that every minute and every second is extremely precious to the Sui army now. I scooped up the bucket of water with my own hands, and poured all the cold water on Liu Changgong's face. As a result, Liu Changgong, who was snoring like thunder, woke up immediately. He yelled, "Fuck you! Who the hell threw water at General Ben? You want to die!"
"Brother Liu, it's me." Chen Yingliang hurriedly said: "I can't wake you up, so I have no choice but to use this method. If I offend you, I will apologize to you when I get to Hongnong."
Liu Changgong, who followed Chen Yingliang's ass and picked up countless cheap people, was too embarrassed to continue to get angry, wiped the cold water on his face, yawned and said, "Brother Yingliang, my brother, what else?" Apologize or not? What time is it now?"
"The time has passed." Chen Yingliang replied: "Brother Liu, you can't sleep any more. Quickly order your team to get up. We have to hurry to Hongnong. When we get to Hongnong, you can rest well."
"Sishi Chuji?" Liu Changgong was trembling with anger, suppressing his anger and said, "Brother Yingliang, we only slept for two hours, and you forced us to get up? Do you know how many miles we ran yesterday?" road?"
"Brother Liu, I know you are tired, and I know you have worked hard." Chen Yingliang said helplessly: "But there is no way, the rebel team is close at hand, and they will definitely rush to Guanzhong before us at all costs in order to survive. If you want to prevent Yang Rebellion from entering the customs, you can only race against them and rush to Tongguan to reinforce the defense before they arrive, so before reaching Tongguan, your team must survive no matter how hard it is!"
After all, there is a military order, so Liu Changgong can only accept Chen Yingliang's request no matter how angry he is. First, he splashes his own soldiers with water to wake them up, and then takes his own soldiers to urge the troops to get up cursingly, and is forced to use them. The method of splashing water and whipping the soldiers forced the soldiers to get up. As a result, there was a lot of shouting and scolding in the warehouse city of Changpingcang, and the complaints and screams of the soldiers of the Sui army were also one after another. Wake up all Liu Changgong's team for dinner.
Only Wei Xuan, no one dared to pour water on him—not to mention his identity, but he was seventy-three years old, and no one could guarantee the consequences of pouring a ladle of cold water while he was asleep. But fortunately, he is the only one who can handle it. It is enough to arrange a light carriage to lift him up. Thousands of troops carry a carriage on the road and it will not affect the speed.
Chen Yingliang, who had already delayed for an hour and a half, did not dare to neglect, and hurriedly bid farewell to Yao Yi, the county magistrate of Shan County, and Dugu Xiu, the guard of Changping Cang, and led the Baoguo Army and Liu Changgong's team to join forces. westward. Before leaving, Chen Yingliang naturally had to tell Yao Yi and Duguxiu, who had been working together happily, to be careful. Yao Yi and Duguxiu also told Chen Yingliang to be careful. At the same time, they told Chen Yingliang that the rebel army would not attack the city of Shan County and Changpingcang. Forget about the city, if the rebels dare to come, even if they are not strong enough to be defeated, they will delay the main force of the rebels for more than a day, and buy Chen Yingliang precious time to reinforce Tongguan.
When leaving Changpingcang and marching westward, the disadvantages of the Sui army's excessive physical exertion were fully exposed. Despite Chen Yingliang and Liu Changgong's repeated urging, the Sui army's excessively exhausted physical strength in the first day did not matter. Unable to pick up the speed, it took an hour to barely walk fifteen or six miles. Many soldiers still dozed off while walking. No matter how much Chen Yingliang cheered, it was useless. The Sui army was still fast. Can't get up, and there is a trend of getting slower and slower.
Seeing this situation, Chen Yingliang, who was worried that the rebels would get ahead, was of course very anxious. If he hadn't worried about hurting morale too much, Chen Yingliang would have wanted to whip people himself. Liu Changgong didn't care about this, and yawned and said, "Brother Yingliang, don't worry, don't worry, it's only more than sixty miles from Changpingcang to Hongnong, and we can definitely finish the journey before dark. Yang Xuangan's traitor is as tired as we are, and he definitely won't be able to speed up. Besides, we haven't received the alarm from the rear yet, have we?"
"Brother Liu, I didn't force you, but I have to be careful." Chen Yingliang said with a sad face, "Yang Xuangan's team of rebels is too much. Once he catches up with us, he can immediately entangle us, and at the same time divide his troops to detour forward. Seize the narrow road from Hongnong to Tongguan in advance, if he succeeds, we will be finished."
"But the traitor Yang hasn't caught up yet, has he?" Liu Changgong yawned again, and said lazily, "Don't worry, the traitor Yang really dares to catch up, brother, I just want to fight side by side with you this time." , you charge forward, I'll fill in the gaps for you, and don't give the rebels a chance to pass us, okay?"
Chen Yingliang kept a straight face and did not speak, but turned his eyes to look at the mountains on both sides of the road. To the north, there was the old Hangu Pass Road in the Warring States Period. Fighting more and more, the abandoned road has long been heavily populated, and no one can guarantee that the rebel army will take this old road to the west. In the depths of the remaining veins of the Qinling Mountains in the south, there are countless remote mountain paths. Even Yang Zhiji, the local snake, can't guarantee that he knows every remote path, and he can't spend so many troops to block every remote mountain. If there is a guide who is familiar with the terrain, it is not impossible to take the trail and cross the Sui army to advance westward first.
Considering these dangers, the worried Chen Yingliang inevitably hated the old stubborn Wei Xuan for his stubbornness. If it wasn't for his stubbornness and insisting on blocking the main force of the rebel army in Mianchi for the sake of face, how could there be such dangers? If Wei Xuan could give up the dangerous road of Weihan and return to the safest line of Tongguan in advance, this narrow and long Weihan road would definitely be the burial place for the main force of the rebel army! But now, Chen Yingliang himself was a little uncertain about whose burial place Xiao Handao would be.
The more you worry, the more you will see the devil. Just after noon, when the exhausted Sui army team finally crossed Taolin County and arrived at the Taolin Sai area where the big brother Shu Han was later defeated in Anlu Mountain, suddenly the horseshoes behind the Sui army team thundered. A large number of rebel troops caught up. Seeing this situation, Chen Yingliang hurriedly ordered the Baoguo army to turn around and face the battle, and arranged soldiers to climb up to a high place to observe the enemy's situation condescendingly, to prevent the rebel troops from dividing their troops forward. Bows and arrows cover the Nationalist Army team without long-range weapons.
After arranging all this, the rebel cavalry had already chased close to them, reined in their horses 300 paces ahead of the Sui army, and shouted loudly at the battle. Naturally, Chen Yingliang would not be provoked by the enemy, but calmly observed the enemy's situation, and found that The number of this rebel cavalry is about a thousand people, and it is unknown that the brother of Yang Xuangan is in charge of the army under the banner of Yang Zi. At the same time, the soldiers of the Sui army who climbed to the high place also reported loudly that the rebel cavalry team At the back, no infantry team was found, and Chen Yingliang was relieved a little, knowing that the rebel cavalry could be dealt with only by serving the national army.
At this time, Wei Xuan finally woke up, got out of the car and came to Chen Yingliang to observe the enemy's situation together. Seeing that the rebel cavalry were only shouting and fighting, Wei Xuan couldn't help being very surprised, and hurriedly asked: "Since the rebel cavalry is chasing Why don't you come and fight when you're on us?"
"Because they don't want to fight, they just want to entangle us." Chen Yingliang replied: "If they entangle us, they can not only buy time for the main infantry to arrive, but also cover their other troops to move forward and detour in front of us to seize the opportunity." The dangerous terrain blocks our way forward."
"Then what should we do?" Wei Xuan asked again.
"The villain is trying to find a way." Chen Yingliang frowned and replied: "This is a very difficult tactic. If we turn around and kill them, they will definitely turn around and run away. If we ignore them, they will bite us and let us They don’t dare to advance at full speed and slow down our westward advance. If we advance at full speed, they will rush up whenever they have the opportunity and hit us a few times. They don’t want to hit us hard, but they only need to hold us back. In short, ten In six words, when the enemy advances, we retreat; when the enemy is stationed, we harass; when the enemy is tired, we attack; when the enemy retreats, we pursue."
"When the enemy advances, we retreat, when the enemy is stationed, we harass, when the enemy is tired, we attack, and when the enemy retreats, we pursue? Is there such a low-level tactic in this world?" Wei Xuan, who had never heard of these sixteen words, was a little speechless.
"Tactics can only be distinguished between high and low and ingenious and clumsy, there is nothing noble and lowly." Chen Yingliang replied coldly: "If we are not in a hurry to reinforce Tongguan and give me enough time, I will take care of it better than Yang's rebels use this tactic." It's better, so that Yang Ni's rebels can't walk thirty miles a day."
After finishing speaking coldly, Chen Yingliang had already figured out a contingency plan, and after whispering a few words in Liu Changgong's ear, Liu Changgong's eyes lit up immediately, he laughed and hurried to organize the team to act according to the plan, and waited again After a period of time, when Liu Changgong returned to Chen Yingliang and said in a low voice that the arrangements had been made, Chen Yingliang ordered the two regiments of the nationalist army to charge without hesitation, and rushed forward to fight with the rebel army. As expected, the Baoguo army had just rushed halfway, and the rebel cavalry had turned their horses and ran away, not giving the Baoguo army a chance to fight in close quarters.
Chen Yingliang, who had been psychologically prepared for this situation, was of course not surprised, and decisively ordered the whole army to continue westward, rushing to Hongnong to join Yang Zhiji against the clock. When the order was conveyed, Liu Changgong's team ran away without hesitation, but Wei Xuan asked in surprise, "Where are the two regiments you sent to pursue? What should they do?"
"Wei Shangshu, please don't worry, I have told you that they will only chase for three miles at most, and they will come back soon." Chen Yingliang replied calmly, took Wei Xuan's horse rein and walked forward.
After walking two or three miles forward, the pursuing Nationalist Army team had already withdrawn. At the same time, Wei Xuan suddenly realized that the Sui army team that had been walking ahead had already urgently cut down some trees and piled them on the side of the road. When all the troops crossed this narrow area, the infantry of the Sui army immediately piled trees and firewood on the road and set them on fire. After the fire rose, the road was immediately blocked. Seeing this scene, Wei Xuan laughed so hard that he couldn't even close his mouth, and he repeatedly praised: "Wonderful idea, fantastic idea, unexpectedly, in a short while, you can come up with a clever plan to break the harassment tactics of the traitors. amazing!"
"Wei Shangshu won the prize, it's just a small plan, and it won't do much." Chen Yingliang was modest, and urged: "Wei Shangshu, it's getting late, let's go quickly, don't waste time."