A Sui army composed of 20,000 elite soldiers, in the vast twilight, marched quickly between the Hongnong hills, looking at its marching route, undoubtedly advancing towards the Lu clan.

This area is borderless, undulating hills and dense forests, villages are distributed on the edge of the hills, but due to the Central Plains years of war, the situation is not good, Wang Shichong has repeatedly forcibly conscripted young and strong into the army, a large number of people have fled, and the people in this area should be the same, resulting in the houses left behind to be empty. Luo Shixin didn't even meet a single person asking for directions, so he was so anxious that he just wanted to scold his mother.

As the commander of this mobile force, Yang Tong also gave Luo Shixin the right to self-determination in battle, and did not interfere, these days, Luo Shixin lurked in the mountains, ready to give the Lu Tang army a fatal blow, but the damn heavy rain caused him to miss countless opportunities to break the enemy.

Just an hour ago, Yang Tong sent a shocking piece of information to Luo Shixin through Daqing, saying that Li Shimin was very likely to flood the Bears Ears camp, and ordered him to conquer the Lu clan at all costs, and then swim down to find the embankment that might exist, if the Tang army had just built it, it would be destroyed immediately, and if the embankment had been completed and the water potential was enough to cause harm, the dam would be defended to buy precious time for the Bears Ears Sui army downstream...... If nothing exists, then control the section of Luoshui from the 'Lu Family-Changyuan' and cut off Li Shimin's road to the west and south.

Rao is Luo Shixin is bold, but when he saw the urgent letter, he was also frightened into a cold sweat, he has been in the army for many years, and under the persecution of Yang Tong to learn all kinds of knowledge, his knowledge and vision are all greatly increased, how can he not know the consequences of flooding the camp?

If Li Shimin really had this plan and succeeded, not only would the Bear's Ears camp suffer and the 100,000 soldiers would be wiped out, but the lower Bears Ears County, Yiyang County, and Xingtai County would become a Ze country, and even Luoyang further down would be finished.

Luoyang, the eastern capital, has a very significant feature, that is, the well-known 'five waters around Luocheng'. Luoyang's location is the place where the five rivers converge, the five rivers are divided into countless tributaries, the large and small rivers crisscross and crisscross, if the five rivers are flooded, Luoyang is dangerous. Before the war, the monarchs and ministers of the Sui Dynasty led by Yang Guang were aware of the seriousness of the problem, and they had to mobilize the people to fix the embankment and dredging every year, and after Wang Shichong entered Luoyang, he focused on military conquest, whether it was manpower, material and financial resources, or personal energy, it was not enough for him to pay attention to these, and he had never done this kind of thing at all.

And these days the heavy rain is endless, the rivers have skyrocketed, with today's water potential, embankments, if the upstream water accumulated for many days so down, Luoyang City is in danger of being washed away.

Luoyang, as the center of the Great Sui Southern Expedition, will become the capital of the Great Sui Dynasty again, and now it is full of materials transferred from the north, except for Pei Xingyan in the direction of Qingzhou and Xue Wanjun in the direction of Guanzhong, the materials of other battlefields are transferred and supported by this, if Luoyang is destroyed, the terrible consequences are self-evident.

It is precisely because Luo Shixin knows the seriousness of the consequences, so even after an hour, his back is still in a cold sweat. But as the head of an army, he cannot, doesn't dare, and won't take this anxiety into a blind form, and he silently bears this heavy pressure.

After the Tang army withdrew from Luoyang, Changyuan County became the front line, and the Lu family naturally became the Tang Army's logistics grain and grass center, hoarding a large amount of grain and grass and military materials, and usually through the convenience of Luoshui, the Changyuan Tang Army was transported various materials, and its strategic position was very important.

Because the Tang army did not have large ships, the low transportation capacity was not enough to supply the Changyuan army, and the county seat was three or four miles away from Luoshui, so the Tang army built hundreds of warehouses on the south bank of Luoshui, stacked countless grain materials, and stationed 10,000 troops here. Based on this, Luo Shixin also concluded that even if Li Shimin built an embankment, he could only build an embankment in the downstream of this warehouse group, otherwise the first thing to bear the brunt of the flood would be the logistics center of the Tang Army. In the case of unsure of Yang Shanhui's plan, if Li Shimin bursts the embankment upstream of the warehouse, it is tantamount to digging his own grave. But Luo Shixin did not dare to be careless, and sent a large number of spies to check upstream. In Luo Shixin's view, the pseudo-Tang Dynasty is like a gambler who has lost everything, as long as there is a chance to defeat Yang Shanhui and sabotage the Great Sui Southern Expedition, let alone the grain and grass of an army, even if it is exchanged for more than 100,000 troops, it is cost-effective, and if he Luo Shixin and Li Shimin change places, they will do the same.

In addition, when the expedition to Goguryeo was made, Fang Xuanling unexpectedly built an embankment fifty miles away from Zhuhan City, so as to easily avoid the enemy's light and dark outposts, and finally broke the embankment and annihilated the army of Eulzhi Wende and Yuan Taizuo in the water.

"General!"

The deputy general Li Zhengbao galloped over on horseback, walked side by side with Luo Shixin, and said with a little worry: "Is there a change on the battlefield somewhere?" ”

Li Zhengbao had long realized that the situation was unusual, but Luo Shixin didn't say it, and he didn't want to ask. But not now, I vaguely feel that things are very big.

"Don't you know?" Luo Shixin frowned and asked.

"This ...... The general never said it, and of course the general didn't know. Li Zhengbao Khan knew that his guess was correct, there must be an amazing change somewhere. Otherwise, the general who is good at accepting advice will not give the order to go to battle alone, and the bold general will not lose his soul to this point.

"The war has indeed changed, but not elsewhere, but our Hongnong battlefield ......" Luo Shixin quickly explained the cause and effect.

"I thought that the Holy Lord asked us to defeat the Lu clan at all costs, but we lost patience with the unresolved war, but it turned out that the truth was like this!" After listening to Luo Shixin's statement, Li Zhengbao's face was shocked, and Li Zhengbao shuddered when he thought of the consequences of flooding Luoyang.

"Speaking of which, you have dealt more with Li Shimin than I do." Li Zhengbao had served under Liang Shidu and had many head-to-head confrontations with Li Shimin, and Luo Shixin wanted to hear his opinion.

Li Zhengbao said without hesitation: "The Jin faction led by Li Shimin has fought many times with my Great Sui and has been defeated repeatedly, which gives the world the impression that he is a very incompetent general and a defeated army, but the last general feels that Li Shimin is a very terrible person, and Liu Wenjing, Yin Kaishan, Duan Zhixuan, Liu Hongji, Yu Zhining, Tang Jian and others under his command are also quite terrifying. The reason why they have been defeated again and again is not that they can't do it, but that there are some things that they simply can't help themselves. ”

Luo Shixin nodded, the system of the pseudo-Tang Dynasty commanding the gun is not a secret, Li Zhengbao said that the Jin King faction was involuntarily right, thought for a while, and asked again: "Then do you think the saint's worries will happen?" ”

"I think they're trying to get it, and they're even working on it." Li Zhengding gave the answer unexpectedly, he thought about it for a while, and continued: "Even if they don't think of a plan to flood, but the terrible consequences make us not be lucky, otherwise, we will be the sinners of the Great Sui through the ages." ”

"Your thoughts coincide with mine! The consequences of this fear make us dare not and dare not hope in the enemy. Luo Shixin took a deep breath and said, "I think a fierce battle is inevitable. ”

Li Zhengbao nodded, quickly entered his role, and solemnly suggested: "We also know that the Tang army in Lushi County is only 5,000, and the storage area is 10,000 people, and our department has an absolute advantage in terms of troops. The last general means to temporarily let go of the Tang army in the county seat, concentrate superior forces to attack the storage area, and annihilate the 10,000 defenders with the power of thunder, the Tang army stationed in the county town sees that the storage area has changed, and must go out of the city to rescue, we will give them an ambush again, what does the general think? ”

"That's a good law, so let's do it." Luo Shixin knew that the main task of this trip was to destroy the embankment that might exist, but if Li Shimin had this intention, he would definitely send heavy troops to guard, which would be a tragic battle that could not be defeated, if he did not annihilate the Tang army in Lu's county town and storage land in advance, his own side would be attacked from front to back, and the chance of victory would be lower, which was also Yang Tong's intention to let him take the lead in fighting Lu's.

Li Zhengbao saw that Luo Shixin had adopted his opinion, and continued: "Now it is less than thirty miles away from the storage area, and the last general suggests that the army immediately stop advancing and rest for two hours. ”

"The order went down, and the whole army stopped advancing and rested on the spot for two hours."

No matter how anxious and uneasy Luo Shixin was, he also knew that the general could not send hungry soldiers, so he could only listen to Li Zhengbao's advice against his will and order him to rest.

The two continued to discuss for a while, and found that there was really no shortcut, so they gradually calmed down, preparing to fight a battle full of blood and corpses, but just when the two of them made up their minds, things suddenly took a major turn.

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