Prince of the Song Dynasty

Chapter 444: Catching turtles in the urn

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I don't know if it was because of the panic that the soldiers even forgot to close the city gate. Now Li Xuanyi is much cheaper. Li Xuanyi shouted at General Liu Guangyi's army behind him with a smile of joy: "Rush into the city in one go. Kill!"

"Kill!" With Li Xuanyi taking the lead, General Liu Guangyi, who had been holding back in the small woods for three days and nights, was also morale up, roaring, and following Li Xuanyi, he rushed towards the gate of the small county town. Without any accident, more than two thousand Liu Guangyijun rushed into the small county like this smoothly.

And Li Xuanyi, who rushed into the city first, took the lead and rushed towards the center of the city in one breath. According to Li Xuanyi’s idea, since the enemy was so scared that he couldn’t even take care of the city gate, he would simply take the city. If the Shoufu was captured, this small county seat would be taken down.

"No." Li Xuanyi, who had rushed through several streets, suddenly changed his complexion, and the ominousness that had hovered in his heart from the beginning was getting worse at this moment. Pulling the rein with force, and neatly stopping the mount, Li Xuanyi looked around, and the two thousand Liu Guangyijun behind him had all rushed into the city at this time, like a one Like Zhang Mi, it has shrouded the small county town that was originally small.

The current situation is very good, but Li Xuanyi still sees the problem. Although the small county town is not big, there are thousands of people in the city. Moreover, Li Xuanyi's attack was a sudden attack. It stands to reason that in such a big day, the city should be full of people running in panic. But now Li Xuanyi looked around, and there was not even one person in the entire city.

"Is it in the scheming? No! Retreat! All retreat from the city!" Li Xuanyi suddenly thought of something, his face turned pale, and he hurriedly turned his horse's head and shouted at the subordinates who were only rushing forward.

It's a pity that Li Xuanyi wants to understand the joints too late. Just as Li Xuanyi's shouting sounded, immediately afterwards, loud rumbling noises were heard coming from the south, north, and east where Li Xuanyi's army rushed into the city. Such a loud noise immediately suppressed the extremely excited General Liu Guangyi's army, and everyone looked at the three directions of the sound with horror.

I saw billowing dust and smoke rising from the city gates in the three directions from north to south, and Li Xuanyi and Liu Guangyijun's soldiers were all chilling. After the dust and smoke gradually dissipated, Li Xuanyi's heart fell to the bottom step by step.

For some reason, the gates in these three directions all collapsed. Those collapsed city walls blocked the gate of the city tightly, which is equivalent to blocking all the roads out of the city. Moreover, the fire that spread all around was burning, black smoke blasted into the sky, and the smoky smoke made the soldiers cough. And Li Xuanyi turned his head and looked at the only city west where there was no movement, his face was very ugly.

Even now, no matter how stupid Li Xuanyi is, he certainly understands that this is a trick. Although I don't know what powerful firearm the enemy used, it can make the city gate collapse in an instant. But Li Xuanyi didn't have the idle time to care about these things now. The only way out was to rush out through the gate to the west of the city.

However, if Li Xuanyi didn't guess wrong, outside the city gate in the west of the city, I am afraid that the person who greets him will be the ambush of the Wugong Mountain Army. But now Li Xuanyi has nowhere to go. If he stays here, he can only be a dead end. Li Xuanyi bit his scalp and shouted at the panicked subordinates behind him: "Don't panic, as long as we rush out, we will win. Everyone will follow me and rush out!"

Not to mention, although Li Xuanyi's words were half-truth, they really played a role. The soldiers who were panicked heard these words and finally settled down, slowly moving closer to Li Xuanyi's back, and listed again. Military formation. Li Xuanyi didn't delay anymore at this time, and Paima rushed towards the west of the city.

With extreme anxiety, Li Xuanyi rushed out of the city gate first, but before Li Xuanyi could see the situation outside the city clearly, he suddenly felt that he was sitting down, and the sky and the earth seemed to have suddenly turned upside down.

"Not good." Li Xuanyi was startled, and the first reaction was to guess that he was caught in a trap. Fortunately, Li Xuanyi was not an ordinary person. He pressed his hands against the back of the horse on which he was sitting, and jumped directly from the back of the horse, and the whole person leaped out of the trap. Only pitiful that warhorse, being pressed by Li Xuanyi, fell heavily, leaving only a sorrowful neigh.

One jumped up, knowing that he had fallen on the edge of the trap, and Li Xuanyi was a little relieved. Looking back, Li Xuanyi's back was chilling.

At this moment, Li Xuanyi had already jumped outside the city, and a long and narrow trench appeared at the city gate behind him. This trench is more than one foot wide, but it is more than ten feet deep. At the bottom of the trenches were covered with inverted and sharpened stakes. The war horse that Li Xuanyi had used as a replacement for the dead ghost was already stuck on two or three of the sharp wooden stakes, sprayed with blood, and was still shaking.

Looking at this deadly trap, Li Xuanyi hurriedly shouted to the soldiers who were about to rush out of the city gate: "Stop, watch out for the trap!"

It's just that the soldiers of Liu Guangyi's army were anxious to escape, and few heard Li Xuanyi's exclamation. A few heard Li Xuanyi's shout, but even if they wanted to stop, the soldiers behind them didn't stop.

The crowds rushed down the trench immediately. In the blink of an eye, hundreds of soldiers fell into the trench and hung directly on the wooden stakes. Fortunately, the stakes passed through the heart, and the death was straightforward. Unfortunately, the stakes pierced the hands, feet or stomach, but they couldn’t die for a while, they could only endure the heart-piercing pain. , Let out a sad scream.

Hearing the screams, Li Xuanyi's scalp numb after watching the tragedy scenes in the trenches. At the gate of the city, the generals of Liu Guangyi's army finally stopped their forward momentum, but at this time, two or three hundred people had died tragically in the trench. The corpses on the stakes were bloody and shocking.

Li Xuanyi took a deep breath and forced herself to stop looking into the trench, but shouted to the subordinates at the gate: "Be careful, don't be anxious, go around from the side."

And just when Li Xuanyi and a group of soldiers and generals Liu Guangyi were frightened by this series of changes, on a small hill not far from the west of the city, the Wugong Mountain general Wang Zongshizheng who shouldn't have appeared here squinted his eyes. Watching the tragedy at the city gate ahead. By his side, the vice general, Wang Lao Er, who had followed Wang Zongshi for many years, looked down at the other side with sweat.

Wang Lao Er was sweating profusely, not because the weather was too hot, nor because he had just done some strenuous exercise, but because he was frightened out of a cold sweat. Wang Lao Er's eyes are now staring at a thin, middle-aged civil official next to him, but Yao Da, who was ordered by an adult to assist Wang Zongshi not long ago.

For this Yao Da, Wang Lao Er knows his wisdom and viciousness. Wang Lao Er is just a military commander, but he can't figure out so many turns. However, Wang Lao Er could not help shivering when he thought of the dark corpses that he saw in the camp of Longquan Army leader Peng You that night.

And this time, Yao Da was also sent by the adults to assist Wang Zongshi in defending against Liu Guang’s attack. However, as far as Wang Lao Er himself is concerned, he is willing to bring the soldiers and the army of Liu Guang to fight for a good time, and he does not want to be with this guy anymore. There is no other reason, just because this Yao Da is too vicious. Although the Peng Youyi army who was poisoned by Yao Da was an enemy, watching the tragedy of the Peng Youyi army made Wang Lao Er also unbearable. But this time, this Yao Da's strategy was even better than the last Wugong Mountain battle.

On the first day Yao Da arrived in Yichun, Yao Da concluded that Liu Guang’s army would sneak attack on this small county in the northeast of Pingxiang, and suggested that Wang Zongshi ignore the soldiers and horses who came to attack Yichun and lead two thousand soldiers to defend. This small county. If this is the case, Wang Lao Er has no idea yet, and the army of leader Liu Guang has indeed appeared outside the small county. But this Yao Da has played a set of insidious tactics.

First of all, Yao Da advised Wang Zongshi not to fantasize, and send more than a hundred city guard soldiers to patrol the city every day, but secretly send people to quietly drive the people in the city to the villages outside the city to live temporarily for a while. Only an empty city was left. Immediately afterwards, he hollowed out the foundation of the three-sided city gate and planted a fire mine underground. Later, people dug a trench as a trap at the gate of the west city gate, which was the only foundation that had not been dug out. Looking at the trap, Wang Lao Er felt that his back was swishing.

And the development of the matter was exactly as Yao Da had calculated. After Liu Guangyijun rushed into the city, the soldiers who had been hiding under the city gate received the signal, and at the same time pulled down the logs that supported the city gate, and let the three sides of the city gate. Collapse at the same time. However, Liu Guangyijun was forced to flee from the west of the city, but he fell into the trap set earlier. The most insidious thing is that Yao Da deliberately let people dig this trap to be only one foot wide and ten feet long, but it made those Liu Guangyijun hope that they would slowly go around. Only in this way, Liu Guangyijun’s speed out of the city must be slowed down a lot, and finally Wang Zongshi led two thousand Shimen troops to Liu Guangyijun's final blow.

This series of tactics are closely linked to each other, allowing Liu Guangyijun to walk into a dead end step by step. Even if it was a hostile relationship, Wang Lao Er couldn't help but lament Liu Guangyijun, and the eyes looking at Yao Da became more and more in awe, and he secretly said: "I will kill me in the future, I don't dare to offend these literati. . Too ruthless, even more vicious than our warriors!"

It seems that he felt the gaze of the second child. Yao Da turned his head and glanced at the second child, but he was shocked, and lowered his head in a hurry, for fear that he might get involved with this. People who hook up. Seeing Wang Lao Er's panicked appearance, Yao Da just smiled faintly, and then walked to Wang Zongshi's side, and said to Wang Zongshi, "General Wang Zongshi, you can do it."

"Yeah." Wang Zongshi nodded, without any expression on his face, just drank: "Wang Lao Er, take someone to kill, make a quick fight!" It is true that looking at the Liu Guangyijun ahead, there is nothing at all. In terms of lack of fighting spirit, this kind of battle is completely unattractive to Wang Zongshi, and Wang Lao Er alone can win with his soldiers and horses, and he doesn't bother to work hard.

"Yes." The second king was anxious to leave Yao Da to fight the enemy quickly, so he immediately clasped his fists and snorted, and then he waved his hands again, leading the Shimen soldiers who could not wait for a long time. Killed and rushed towards the small county in front.

"It's very boring." Wang Zongshi snorted coldly, and glanced at Yao Da beside him. Although he didn't really like this wicked counselor all over his body, Wang Zongshi had to admit that Yao Da's talents. It's really big. At least with his help, Wang Zongshi had already won two big victories without any effort. After thinking about it, Wang Zongshi couldn't help but ask: "Master Yao, now we have defeated the doglegs sent by Chief Liu Guang, then should we take advantage of the victory and pursue directly to Linjiang Military City and the surrounding areas of Linjiang Army? Retake it?"

However, Yao Da seemed to have expected Wang Zongshi to ask this question a long time ago, and said with a smile: "General Wang Zongshi is a general appointed by the adult. The soldiers and horses of Yichun are all under the control of the general. How dare the villain dare to ask the general? Is your decision-making tricky?"

Dare not? I'm afraid I really have to make any decision, you turn your head and go to the lord to sue me. Obviously, Wang Zongshi was very dissatisfied with Yao Da's perfunctory answer. He curled his lips and glared at Yao Da.

But Yao Da didn’t show any fear at all, so Wang Zongshi’s strength was not used in his whole body. He could only say: "Master Yao, you are not straightforward in saying this. Wang is sincere and sincere this time. I ask you for advice, why do you deal with things like this?"

Yao Da turned his head and glanced at Wang Zongshi, the corner of his mouth curled slightly, and smiled: "Why did the general say this? How dare the villain deal with the general? Haha, I still misunderstood if I wanted to come to the general?"

Wang Zongshi didn't believe a word of Yao Da's nonsense. In addition, this time, Wang Zongshi has cooperated with Yao Da twice, so Wang Zongshi still has some understanding of Yao Da. If what Wang Zongshi said is correct, Yao Da will immediately agree, but if Yao Da thinks what Wang Zongshi said is wrong, he will not object to it. Attitude.

Although Wang Zongshi got the answer he wanted from Yao Da's attitude, he couldn't understand why he couldn't pursue the victory and retake Linjiang Army City and Linjiang Army. After all, the Linjiang Army City and Linjiang Army were originally defeated by the Shimen Army, but they were taken by the leader of Liu Guang. As the saying goes, if you have grudges and don't retaliate against non-gentlemen, of course, you have to grab it back as soon as possible.

Seeing Wang Zongshi's staring eyes, Yao Da smiled faintly, and then said: "If the general insists on listening to the villain's opinion, the villain will only show his ugliness. In fact, what the general said is to take back Linjiang Military City. There is nothing indispensable with the Linjiang Army. This time the Liu Guangyi Army here was defeated, and the main force of the leader Liu Guang is still in the bloody battle between the Nankang Army and the officers and soldiers, so he must not come to rescue. If the general pursues victory, he will surely be able to successfully conquer the land. Jiang Jun’s surrounding area."

Wang Zongshi nodded. In fact, he also thought about it this way. Hearing Yao Da's words, he should be right to think like this, but why does Yao Da disagree with his opinion? Wang Zongshi became more and more confused, he could only look at Yao Da with a puzzled face, waiting for his answer.

Yao Da said with a smile: "The general's method is indeed able to bring the Linjiang army under the control of the adults again. It is all right. It is just in the humble opinion of the villain that it is better to take Linjiang army city and Linjiang army forcibly. It will be more beneficial to temporarily give this difficult site to Chief Liu Guang."

"Eh?" Yao Da's words made Wang Zongshi more and more confused. Is there anything wrong with how to capture this Linjiang Military City? Apart from other things, the surrounding area of Linjiang Military City has always been Liu Guang’s wealthy land, and the annual tax and grain are a very objective income. If it is not retaken, wouldn’t this income be in vain, Chief Liu Guang?