Qiu Xinggong was the general of Li Xiuning, the former princess of Pingyang, and he assisted Princess Pingyang to occupy Guanzhong, and he made immortal meritorious deeds, but he was unreasonable and arrogant to his colleagues, and no one took it seriously, and most of his colleagues did not have the same knowledge as him, or retreated, or tolerated, and he himself did not know that his character was not good, which led to an embarrassing situation where his official position could not be up or down.

Liu Hongji glanced at Qiu Xinggong with an indifferent face, but he didn't say anything, this guy makes a small report at every turn, and gets along with him, Liu Hongji doesn't dare to let people catch him easily, lest he be sold by him in a blink of an eye.

In fact, their army of 20,000 originally had an absolute advantage, but now they were surrounded by Wang Tai and fled to Michi, why is this?

In Liu Hongji's view, in the final analysis, it is Qiu Xinggong's sake, if it weren't for Qiu Xinggong's utilitarian and greedy work, who would not wait for his own layout to shake the prince of several ranks, where would there be the current predicament?

"General Liu, order the army to attack overnight! If there is a mistake in the Central Plains War, you will be the culprit of the defeat. Qiu Xinggong met Liu Hongji's indifferent gaze, and he also felt a little noisy, because Liu Hongji was not only higher than himself in his position, but also the chief general of the Northern Route Army, and he should obey him.

The look of disgust in Liu Hongji's eyes flashed away, and he didn't bother to care about his Yue Ku Dai, and said slowly: "Does General Qiu think that our soldiers and horses can capture Michi in two days?" Even if it is captured, how many of us will be left? The important thing is that our current great enemy has changed from Wang Shichong, who was a turtle in an urn, to the Sui Dynasty, which has a large number of soldiers, and every time we lose a soldier, we have one less chance of winning. ”

Liu Hongji was captured alive by Xue Jusheng in the battle of Shallow Water Plains, and was later ransomed by Li Yuan with a lot of money, he regarded this encounter as a great shame, he has been studying the book of war for many years, and his vision has long been different from what it used to be, coupled with rich combat experience, he saw at a glance that the situation in front of him was actually a game between the Sui and Tang dynasties in the Central Plains, and Wang Shichong, who only had a few lonely cities left, was no longer worried.

What Li Tang has to do now is to take a step ahead of the Sui Dynasty and capture Luoyang, and then continuously transfer troops and generals to suppress the Sui army north of the Yellow River, east of Hujiao, and west of Hangu, and expand the confrontation line between the two countries to reduce the pressure on Bashu and Jingxiang. And to complete this arduous task, we must first conquer Luoyang and maintain superior forces into the city, and then use this as a base point to cooperate with the army outside the city to devour the Sui army one by one.

It can be said that this is a very dangerous move, if Xiangcheng, Shuyang, Nanyang, and Xiyang fall into the hands of the Sui army, then they will be the current Wang Shichong in the future. And this is also the reason why Li Shimin sent the general Li Xizhi to lead 20,000 troops to sit in Zhuyang Pass, because that was one of their ways to return, as for Li Xiaogong and Li Daozong's stagnation, on the one hand, it was to contain and deter the Sui army, so that it could not enter Henan County unscrupulously, and on the other hand, it was also to keep the road unblocked, if they could not do anything in Luoyang, they could withdraw from any way and return to Li Tang safely, so as to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past, and once again there was a dilemma of having no way to return.

Now in front of the Northern Expeditionary army is how to take Luoyang first, and preserve enough strength, this is the most important, if you follow Qiu Xinggong's method of strong attack, even if the Tang army uprooted the outer fortress of Luoyang, the strength will be seriously damaged, at that time, even if Luoyang is conquered, Li Tang has also paid a huge sacrifice, so how to play with the Sui Dynasty here?

"Then what do you think should be done now?" Qiu Xinggong was not stupid, and quickly came to his senses.

Seeing that Qiu Xinggong finally let go of that arrogance, Liu Hongji said lightly: "Your Highness asked us to go around to exterminate Wang Shichong's living force, hoping to lose a little less under Luoyang City; And Wang Shichong ordered the defenders from all over the country to abandon the vast land, with the intention of borrowing Luoyang to fortify the city to give me a heavy blow to the Tang Dynasty. And for the prince in Michi, his mission was to return to Luoyang with this army. So, we're going to retreat now and give him a fatal blow in the wild. ”

"Will he be out of town?"

"Yes!" Liu Hongji said with a determined expression: "Mrs. Wang has two reasons why she has to go out of the city, on the one hand, Mrs. Wang is in a hurry to return to Luoyang, on the other hand, Michi is a small city, and he can't hold on for long, he is afraid that we will gather heavy troops to fight, and he can't afford the consequences of the annihilation of the whole army." So as soon as we leave, he will go out of town. ”

"Then withdraw, General Liu led the army to withdraw first, and after the soldiers and horses of the headquarters of the last general were slowly broken, he gave Wang Tai the illusion of a careful evacuation." Qiu Xinggong thought for a while, then gritted his teeth and said: "General Liu is good at commanding large armies, and his wisdom is far above that of the last general, so he can set up an ambush in front first. ”

"That's very good." Liu Hongji didn't stop it, either he broke it off, or Qiu Xinggong broke it. Now that Qiu Xinggong took the initiative to break it, he let him take a look at it, at least, in some aspects, this Qiu Xinggong is still a little responsible.

"That's great, let's do it!" Qiu Xing looked at the mottled city wall in the distance, the city wall had been destroyed a lot, and there were loopholes everywhere, maybe it would take a few days to break through the enemy's defenses and attack the city. But for the sake of the overall situation, he had no chance to attack Michi City, so he could only look at the city and sigh.

"We'll have a chance." Liu Hongji was comforted and left first, and he led all the elite soldiers and horses and baggage first.

The alternating evacuation of the Tang army outside the city, the prince in the city also saw it, and finally breathed a long sigh of relief, the pond has been broken, if the Tang army is really ruthless and dies with himself, then things will not be good. It's not a pity to die by himself, but Luoyang needs the elite soldiers in his hands to guard it.

At this time, the deputy general Dong Jun stepped forward and said, "Your Highness! Mr. Tang Jun, after the elite was broken, it seems that they really retreated eastward. ”

Wang Tai nodded silently, he had already received the holy order to return to Luoyang, if he hadn't met this Tang army, he would have successfully arrived.

Now the Tang army took the initiative to evacuate, but it made him feel very bitter. Because he is in a dilemma, should he risk going to Luoyang or sit here and wait for death?

"What are we going to do? Withdraw to Luoyang or? Dong Jun's eyes also showed a look of helplessness, among the many brothers and nephews of the saint, except for a limited number of people such as Wang Renze and Wang Tai who can lead troops to fight and are quite strategic, the rest are either reckless or incompetent, if there are a few more clans like Wang Tai, Zheng Guo will not fall so quickly. Now the only ones who can fight are His Royal Highness in front of him and Wang Renze in Luoyang City.

Wang Tai slowly ordered: "We will also retreat east and participate in the defense of Luoyang." ”

"But on the road!" Dong Jun looked at Mrs. Wang worriedly and reminded: "If you go out of the pond, you will completely take a road full of murderous opportunities!" ”

"We are here to defend or die, to fight a bloody road and a glimmer of life. Strive to get to the Fort before dark. Let the soldiers bring dry food, and let the county order distribute the rest. ”

After saying that, the princess turned around and walked towards the city.

An hour later, Wang Tai led more than 5,000 troops to leave Mianchi and march along the valley of the Gushui River in the direction of Luoyang.

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The remnant sun is like blood, and the valley water under the sunset is sparkling and beautiful.

Wang Tai rode slowly on a war horse, scanning the surroundings while thinking about Zheng Guo's predicament.

The terrain here is open, he has walked hundreds of times, and he knows that the Changshi Mountain twenty miles ahead is the only ambush point on this road, but he is not worried about ambushes on the road, but in case of emergency, he still sent scouts to explore the way. But everyone thinks that this is not a place to ambush, and that there is slackness in the scouts.

Just when the army bypassed a bend in the river, more than 10,000 Tang troops who were waiting for work had quietly arrived, they crossed a densely wooded forest, rushed out of it, Qiu Xinggong raised his broadsword, raised his arms and burst out with a roar: "Kill all the enemy troops, do not accept prisoners of war!" ”

The shouts of killing shook the sky, and more than 10,000 Tang soldiers rushed towards the unsuspecting Zheng army like a frenzy.

The soldiers of the Zheng army were stunned, and the prince was also stunned, and suddenly, he reacted and shouted loudly: "Line up to fight!" ”

"Woo Woo Woo ~ "

At this moment, there was a short buzz.

Mrs. Wang was horrified to see that the soldiers in front of her were like wheat harvested by an invisible sickle, and Dong Jun, who took the lead, was directly shot into a hedgehog, and the soldiers in the back row turned around and ran away when they saw that the situation was not good.

However, dense arrows kept falling from the woods on both sides, and the Zheng army, which had no formation at all, was shot by the arrow clusters, and the seemingly weak arrow array made these soldiers unable to advance an inch, and the rain of arrows that broke through the sky fell as if there was no end, and the Zheng army that killed them kept retreating. A deep despair welled up in everyone's hearts.

If the other side only has more than 10,000 soldiers, maybe the Zheng army can still muster up the courage to fight, but in front of the rolling dust, obviously a large number of cavalry are killing here, and the huge pressure brought by the cavalry makes the Zheng army's courage to resist collapse, first hundreds of soldiers fled in a hurry, which instantly caused the rout of the whole army, countless soldiers fled desperately to the road, more than 5,000 soldiers are infantry, they know that they can't compete with the cavalry at all, only by fleeing for their lives can they survive.

The Zheng army was defeated, throwing away the armor, throwing away the weapons in their hands, throwing away everything that could be thrown away, and everyone had only one thought: to escape, to escape from the slaughter of the Tang army as quickly as possible.

But they walked dozens of miles, where to run past the Tang army who was waiting for work, in an instant, they were shot by arrows on the way to escape, some people who were lucky enough to get out of the range of bows and arrows were soon caught up by the Tang cavalry, and the cavalry swallowed up pieces of defeated troops like a whirlwind and clouds, whether it was kneeling and surrendering or desperately resisting, they could not escape the fate of being hacked to death and stabbed to death, and the terrible howl of despair overflowed the world.

Wang Tai and his three hundred personal soldiers were riding war horses, they were wrapped in the defeated army and returned to the original way, at this time, a team of Tang cavalry killed from the oblique stab, and the general brandished a big knife and rushed straight to Wang Tai, it was Qiu Xinggong.

Dozens of pro-soldiers next to him swarmed up and surrounded Qiu Xinggong, Wang Tai seized this opportunity to turn around and fled, and more than 100 pro-soldiers followed closely behind, only to be engulfed by the fleeing crowd for a moment.

When Qiu Xinggong killed all the enemy troops blocking the way, Wang Tai had already fled without a trace, and he was so angry that he yelled and urged the horse to chase away.

After the prince fled the battlefield, she looked at the few remaining guards, and knew that the general trend had gone, so she turned around to the north.

"Poof~"

A sharp arrow that broke through the air did not give Wang Tai any time to turn around, and at the moment when he turned the horse's head, it entered his throat and pierced his neck, Wang Tai's eyes widened in astonishment, and she maintained an order posture, and her body fell straight from the horse's back.

In the jungle, Liu Hongji threw a bow and arrow, and ordered in a cold voice: "Don't let go of any of them." ”

His personal guards cavalry were like wind and lightning, armed with bows and knives, and their momentum was fierce, and in the blink of an eye, they rushed to the Zheng soldiers who had fled the fastest, cutting off their escape path.

Qiu Xinggong in front also drove the defeated army from behind like a sheep, shouting to kill the sky, at this moment the Zheng army even if he knelt down and surrendered, there was no way out, groups of desperate Zheng soldiers were ruthlessly killed by the Tang army, and the valley was full of surrendered soldiers, but they were killed one by one and rolled into the river, and the clear river water instantly changed color.

Qiu Xinggong saw the head of the prince in the hands of Liu Hongji's personal guard, his face turned blue with anger, and he roared and rushed into the defeated army. But no matter how angry he is, it is useless, because the task of intercepting in front was chosen by himself, and he couldn't complain about Liu Hongji at all, because he couldn't look down on Wang Tai, so he missed the opportunity to make meritorious contributions.

At this time, the Tang army, which was dragging branches and pretending to be a large army, also joined the slaughter with the rope behind the horse's tail. In the valley, the cry shook the sky, and the screams filled the four fields, Zheng Jun was killed to the point that his head was rolling, his limbs were broken, and the fleeing soldiers were pierced through the back by the cavalry and nailed to the ground.

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