The existence of the Li family's battalion is a guarantee that Taiyuan will not be surrounded, and Li Yuan naturally knows its importance, so he fell into a painful choice on whether to increase his troops or not.

In the tent of the Li family's big camp, Li Shimin hadn't slept much for two days, not because he didn't want to sleep, but as soon as he closed his eyes, there was a picture of the imperial army attacking, and his eyes were full of exhaustion.

Li Shentong hurriedly entered the tent, walked up to Li Shimin, and asked, "Li Shimin, do you feel it? The eldest brother has sent someone to inquire again, do you want to increase the number of troops in the camp?"

Li Shimin knew that the increase in the battalion was actually of little significance to Yang Guang, who had air superiority, but not increasing it was not enough to resist the next offensive.

Seeing that Li Shimin was silent because of hesitation, Li Shentong sighed and said with relief: "Otherwise, let's retreat directly to Taiyuan, with our city defense, I believe that it must be possible to defend for a month or two, there is no news from Tangmen, and Du Fuwei has already taken action." ”

Li Shimin said: "Uncle Shentong, Yang Guang will not give us a chance to defend for a month or two, as long as he is strong enough to attack the city, my father will not be able to resist the pressure, just these two days of battle, many people in Taiyuan began to quarrel, and some people even said that the eldest brother is right, and I, Li Shimin, am the sinner of the Li family!

Li Shentong saw Li Shimin's determination, and he sighed: "Shimin, I know your hardships, but if you don't make a decision at this time, it will be too late in the time for dispatch." ”

The messenger outside the account trotted in, clasped his fists and saluted, saying, "Second son, there is a person who claims to be a disciple of the Tang Sect who asks to see you. ”

Li Shimin's eyes lit up, and he quickly stood up and said, "Hurry up and invite him in." ”

Li Shentong said: "In the past two days, the person surnamed Wu has not known where he has gone!

Li Shimin said: "Fortunately, there is Brother Wu who blocked Zhang Xutuo, otherwise maybe the army should have come to Taiyuan City at this time." ”

Li Shentong took over and said: "Yes, we also went to look for him later, looking at the battlefield, you can imagine how fierce the battle was at that time, but since he survived, why didn't he come back quickly?"

Li Shimin said: "I estimate that Brother Wu was not lightly injured, he didn't dare to come back, he was afraid of me!"

Li Shentong was stunned for a moment, then showed a look of sudden realization, and sighed: "What a guy who doesn't leak." ”

The disciples of the Tang Sect were introduced into the big tent, and after a brief salute, he handed Li Shimin a letter and a waist card, the waist card was issued by Li Shimin in order to face Wu Ming walking in the army, after confirming the authenticity of the waist card, Li Shimin opened the letter, and asked while looking at it: "How is the situation of Brother Wu?"

The Tang Sect disciple shook his head and said that he didn't know who Brother Wu was, so Li Shimin asked directly, "How is the situation of your Divine Son?"

The Tang Sect disciple replied, "Our Divine Son is preparing to launch a counterattack in the south. ”

Li Shimin didn't say anything more, read the letter carefully, handed the letter to Li Shentong, and then said, "This brother, take a break first." The disciples of the Tang Sect withdrew from the big tent under the guidance of the guards.

Li Shentong read the letter and handed it back, Li Shimin took the letter and asked, "Uncle Shentong, do you think this method is feasible?"

"It's adventurous, but it's really worth a try. ”

Li Shimin clasped his fists and bowed, and said: "I also think this method is feasible, but it is very dangerous, Shimin is injured, although Yuanba's injury is not serious, but if he implements it, I can never rest assured, so I have to implore my uncle to go out in person!"

Li Shentong picked up Li Shimin and said, "You are serious, I will not hesitate to live or die for the sake of the Li family." ”

Li Shimin expressed his gratitude again, and immediately invited the Tang Sect disciple back to the big tent, and said, "I bother you to return to Elder Tang for this brother, and we will fully cooperate with her plan." ”

The Tang Sect disciple clasped his fists and said, "General Li, don't worry, I'll go back to our elders." Then he turned and left.

Li Shentong said to Li Shimin: "Let the eldest brother increase the camp now, and I will go to prepare for the action now." ”

Li Shimin bid farewell to Li Shentong and left the camp, and then asked the messenger soldiers to contact Taiyuan, asking for 10,000 more troops, and after arranging everything, Li Shimin sat in the big tent, watching the moonlight scattered in front of the door of the big tent, and had a lot of thoughts.

The moonlight became brighter and brighter, shining on the Li family's camp full of the smell of blood, and the soldiers of the Li family were in their respective camps, either missing their comrades-in-arms, or praying to the gods, hoping that they could survive tomorrow's battle, no one noticed, and five hundred soldiers quietly left the camp.

In the early morning of the next day, Taiyuan's reinforcements arrived at the camp, and they did not rest for a moment from entering the camp, and hurriedly began to prepare for battle.

The Li family made a stubborn posture, and after Zhao Gui got the news, as Wu Ming expected, he canceled the original plan to besiege the Li family's camp again, and ordered the soldiers to defend the line of Ming Chaoshan, and then quickly asked for help from the Falcon Cliff forward camp behind him.

At this time, sitting in the forward camp was Yang Guangai's general Wei Wentong, who was also a strong man at the level of Wuzong, he received a letter from Zhao Gui, and left and decided to send 5,000 Praetorian Guards to reinforce, and at the same time, Wei Wentong sent a letter to Yang Guang's base camp stationed in the Luliang Mountains, requesting the transfer of 50 dragon guards to the Falcon Cliff camp.

At noon, the 5,000 forbidden army entered the camp of Ming Chao Mountain, and after a short rest, began to advance towards the Li family's camp. Before then, Zhao Gui arrived at the Li family camp with the army, and immediately launched an offensive.

At this time, there were only more than 800 soldiers left in the camp of Ming Chaoshan, most of them were logistics soldiers, and suddenly the barracks in the back kitchen caught fire, and the fire spread at a very fast speed, and more than 20 men who would only bury themselves in cooking on weekdays suddenly took out their long swords from the firewood, and they took off the military uniforms of the gang leaders, revealing the red armor inside, and began to slaughter the other soldiers in the back kitchen.

Under the leadership of the captain on duty, the sergeants of the battalion came to the back kitchen very quickly, and the captain on duty saw that the more than 200 leaders of the back kitchen had been slaughtered.

The captain was also a little knowledgeable, and he could see at a glance that the red armor and long sword were the logos of the Yin Kui Sword Sect, and he shouted angrily: "Brothers are the demons of the Yin Kui Sword Sect, everyone will kill them on the spot!"

More than twenty Sword Sect disciples had already prepared, and they retreated while fighting, retreating towards the dense barracks area, because there was a formation there that was not conducive to the battalion defense sergeants to spread out their formations.

Just when the soldiers of the battalion were attracted by the disciples of the Sword Sect, Li Shentong, who was in ambush in the hilly woodland, launched an attack with five hundred soldiers, and broke through the door of the camp of Ming Chaoshan in one fell swoop.