"Report to the General! The warehouse complex has been controlled by our army......"

"Report to the General! The thieves have given up their resistance, and the whole battalion has begun. ”

"Report to the General! General Xin has returned triumphantly, and the enemy army has been routed... Li Junxian fled with the rout..."

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Luoshui Camp.

Good news came one after another, but the main general Luo Shixin replied without exception: 'Got it, go down!' ’

This made the herald wonder, with such a big victory, why did the general look so weak? Are you not happy to win? But he didn't dare to ask more, and retreated in confusion.

"Report to the General! Marina ......"

"Got it, let's go down!" Luo Shixin looked at the herald at a loss, and he also realized that his attitude was not good, and said with a pleasant face: "Won?" ”

"Ugh!" The herald was stunned for a moment, a little flattered, but the people who did this job were quick to react, and hurriedly replied: "General Hui, the dock is under the control of our army, and the ships on the dock are full of grain and grass, and I learned from the captives that they plan to transport it to the Changyuan camp tomorrow." ”

Luo Shixin's eyes suddenly lit up, and he shouted happily: "Quickly invite General Li and General Xin to come to the meeting." Be quick. ”

"Whoa." The herald retreated,

After a while, Li Zhengbao and Xin Fang'er hurriedly came, and Luo Shixin didn't wait for the second general to salute, and said to himself: "Our task is to seize the embankment, and we must also take the embankment." But the reality is that our army has been running for a long time so far, and it has never had a good rest. Then they fought another battle, and the physical strength of the soldiers fell from the peak of excitement to the trough, and if we run again, not to mention the strength of our army, the strength of the enemy's numbers, the mere fact that the sky is about to brighten will cause us to have no effect of surprise, and time is the treasure that we cannot afford to spend at the moment. ”

Li Shimin set up a total of five barracks in the Luoshui River section between Lu's Changyuan, each barracks garrisoned 1,000 troops, and there were two beacons on the hills near the barracks. If our whereabouts are exposed in advance, it is very likely that Li Shimin will take advantage of our eagerness to send heavy troops to attack us in an ambush, and even if we break through the layers of Tang troops to intercept us, there will not be a few people left, and destroying the embankment will become an impossible task to be completely achieved. In other words, a long-distance raid is no longer realistic! ”

"The general is very worried."

The second general nodded silently, agreeing with Luo Shixin's statement. Their current mood is the same as that of Li Junxian who rescued the Luoshui battalion, and they are easily used by the enemy. Once taken advantage of by the enemy, Li Junxian's tragic situation is their end, and they can't afford to bear the consequences.

"But I just thought of a solution!" Luo Shixin first relayed the words of the herald soldier before, and then continued: "We can take the waterway in the guise of the Tang army, and avoid the enemy's light and dark posts in the name of the food delivery team, so that our whereabouts can be kept secret, and the physical strength of the men and horses can be saved and restored on the ship, and finally we can fight with full and high spirits; If you are lucky, you can still hit the Tang army on the embankment by surprise. ”

Li Zhengbao laughed: "General's method is indeed the most labor-saving and effective method. We have been fighting for so long, and many of the routs have fled to the east, so in order to prevent Li Shimin from knowing the news of the loss of the Lu clan first, I suggest that we act immediately. ”

"Makes sense!" Luo Shixin, who was in a good mood, saw Xin Fang'er pondering deeply, and said strangely: "What is General Xin thinking?" ”

Xin Fang'er scratched her head and said with some embarrassment: "I'm thinking, the embankment mentioned by the Holy Lord may not exist at all. ”

"Huh? ......" Luo Shixin and Li Zhengbao were all stunned, and asked in unison: "How can you see it?" ”

"First of all, the Holy Majesty said that the levee may exist, and the news is not accurate, but the stakes are so important that there is no room for negligence, which is why we urgently march! Secondly, we have inquired many times, knowing that the Tang army transports grain is a flat-bottomed boat, this kind of ship transport is huge, shallow draft, can sail in various rivers, but its weakness is that there is no way to go by itself, it is okay to go straight downstream, if it is against the current, you must use a slender man to pull, some time ago the water volume is small, the Tang army is slow to ship, connected with iron chains to form a long string, pulled by the slender man, even now has not been unraveled, if the Tang army is in the Luoshui cofferdam, how can the Tang army's grain ship pass? Xin Fang'er said her reasons in one breath.

"You're right!" After Xin Fang'er said this, Luo Shixin also realized that this so-called embankment may not really exist, thought about it, but said: "However, the Tang army may also stop the ship in front of the embankment and take the land route by manpower!" ”

"I'm thinking nonsense, the general doesn't have to take it seriously." Xin Fang'er hurriedly said.

Luo Shixin nodded, no longer dwelling on the issue, because whether there was a levee or not, their footsteps had to continue.

At this time, Li Zhengbao suddenly got up and said in a trembling voice on the side: "The Tang army may also plan to break the embankment tonight!" If the embankment is gone, it will naturally not create obstacles for the grain ships, and won't the grain ships be able to pass through victoriously? ”

Luo Shixin and Xin Fang'er's faces turned pale all of a sudden.

"In other words, Yang Servant is very likely to be flooded now?" Luo Shixin said in shock.

"The general doesn't need to worry too much!" Li Zhengbao was also taken aback by his own speculation, he saw that Luo Shixin was frightened, and hurriedly comforted: "The Holy Lord will not watch the right servant shoot in danger and not say anything, the right servant may get the news one step ahead of us." ”

It is not a secret that the Great Sui uses the eagle to communicate among the high-level leaders of the Great Sui, and Yang Dong's first eagle and three eagles are more magical and of higher quality than ordinary letter eagles, especially the huge and friendless eagle is fierce and abnormal, which can be called the overlord of the air, and the eagle Daqing can still find them in the night, and the Condor and the second and third green can naturally be transmitted to Yang Shanhui in time.

"I hope so!"

Luo Shixin didn't dare to hold out too much hope, it was one thing for Yang Shan to be notified, but it was another thing for him to be able to retreat victoriously, if Li Shimin had such a plan, how could he watch Yang Shan withdraw his troops, in other words, he Luo Shixin, even if the plan of flooding was seen through by the enemy, he would give the enemy a knife when the enemy retreated in chaos, and he would have to make him half-crippled if he didn't die. He took a deep breath and tried to calm the panic in his heart, Huo Ran got up and ordered: "General Xin, you order eight thousand elite horsemen and march east along the river with me." General Li, you are in charge of everything here, and let the soldiers come to us by water. ”

"Whoa!"

This conclusion came too quickly, and after Li Zhengbao and Xin Fang'er subconsciously responded, the three of them lost their minds for a short time in the next moment.

"If Li Shimin really wants to do this, Lao Tzu will definitely punish him for the nine clans! It is not okay for the Holy Lord to oppose it......" Luo Shixin roared like a whirlwind and ran out.

Li Zhengbao and Xin Fang'er couldn't sit still, and they did their own things in a hurry.

However, what Luo Shixin, Li Zhengbao, and Xin Fang'er didn't know was that the right servant of Shang Shu, Song Guogong, and Yang Shanhui, the generalissimo of the march, who they were worried about, were going crazy at this moment! Ruthlessly play with life.

That's right, Yang Shanhui is playing with his life, playing with countless fresh lives.

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As Li Zhengbao said, Yang Shanhui also received Yang Tong's urgent report, and at a glance, it also frightened Yang Dong's news, and immediately now the deputy marshal Zhang Zhenzhou, the generals Xie Yingdeng, Mai Mengcai, He Panren, and Feng Li discussed countermeasures.

In this situation, everyone thought that they should withdraw their troops to a higher place, make the army invincible, and then seek to seize the dike.

But Yang Shan will not be biased!

He gives people the image of a personable and gentle Confucian general, but in his bones, he has the crazy characteristics of their old Yang family, otherwise how could he dare to attack Zhang Jin as the main force with five hundred dead soldiers, and frighten him to flee in all directions? Of course, no one dares to underestimate his military achievements, Yang Yichen pacified Hebei when he had to listen to him, when he led the troops to fight alone, it was to achieve a real sense of victory in a hundred battles, how can such cattle people not know that under the hasty retreat, no matter how elite the army will be chaotic, and at this time, it is a good opportunity for the enemy to attack, he used to like to do this kind of thing the most, it can be described as full of experience.

Now that the strength is equal, why will he, Yang Shan, give the enemy a chance to break the enemy? Besides, Li Shimin is not blind or stupid, even if there is no chance to attack, but when he sees the Sui army retreating to a high place, he will also know that the plan of water attack is known to the Sui army, and then break the embankment in advance, that is, he cannot let the Sui army be wiped out, and it can also make the Sui army hurt his muscles and bones, and it would be better if he could destroy Luoyang. And whether it is the army's injuries or the flooding of Luoyang, it is not a consequence that the Great Sui can accept.

Yang Shanhui's conclusion was that the Sui army could not withdraw, but it could not do nothing, let alone wait, so he decided to launch a strong attack on the Tang army camp, not seeking to kill the Tang army, as long as the Sui and Tang armies were entangled to death, Li Shimin's words to break the embankment would be equivalent to the same end, the Great Sui could withstand the loss of more than 100,000 troops, but the pseudo-Tang obviously couldn't bear it, as for whether Li Shimin dared to do this, Yang Shanhui didn't know, and he didn't bother to guess, what he wanted to do was to drag the Tang army to the gate of hell together, and buy the most precious time for Luo Shixin, If Luo Shixin can't deal with the Lu Tang army in time, Li Shimin really breaks the embankment again, and it's a big deal to end up together. As for whether the Great Sui's plan to unify the world has been affected, it is not something he has to consider now, his current identity is neither Song Guogong nor Shangshu's right servant, but the commander of this army, and his mission is to lead everyone to survive, win, and make meritorious contributions! And storming the camp of the Tang army is the most convenient shortcut. Yang Shanhui thinks so and does so. He threw down the camp and the mountains of military supplies, and slaughtered the Tang army camp with great force.

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"Boom! Boom! Boom! ”

The rumbling war drums tore the silence of the night, resounding through the heavens and the earth, in the fierce war drums, tens of thousands of Sui troops attacked, dense soldiers to the Tang army with overwhelming momentum, they gestured shield blades, shouting to kill endlessly.

The black-pressed army escorted more than 300 huge siege vehicles, all of which were dragged by horses, and there were soldiers pushing them behind them, and the huge wooden wheels slowly rolled, and the piercing sound of friction sounded from these instruments.

On the high platform of the Tang Army's camp, Li Shimin quietly stared at the Sui army who were violently attacking the camp, a handsome face was obviously a little eerie and terrifying under the flickering light of the fire, a pair of eyes flashed with a cold light to the bone, and his eyes flashed like a blade, as if he could see through everything! Even Liu Wenjing, who was not targeted, also had a burning feeling the moment he met Li Shimin's gaze.

Behind the two of them, Zhai Changsun, the commander of the Red Armor Army, was holding a horizontal knife in his hand, as if a creeping beast wanted to choose someone to devour. On Zhai Changsun's side, it was Zheng Rentai, the deputy general of the Red Armor Army, although the momentum on his body was not as terrifying as Zhai Changsun's, but it was also chilling to the bottom of his heart.

Li Shimin looked at the battle of the Sui army, as if it was a strong attack, which made his two sword eyebrows frown even deeper.

Generally speaking, the warring parties will not fight at night except for stealing camps and robbing villages at night, and there are even fewer models like the Sui army, which is not much different from the daytime, mainly because the heavy night is not conducive to command, but also because the warring sides are prone to cannibalism. But there are always exceptions to everything, if one side specializes in night combat and solves the problems of unclear command and unclear flag, it can also launch a night battle! The Sui army is such an outlier, they not only specialize in night warfare, but also have rich experience in night warfare, the army led by Yang Shanhui is the elite of the Sui army, and night combat is an indispensable training subject for them.

On the other hand, the Tang army did not have this ability, first, there was no trace of the night battle of the large corps, and there were too many problems to overcome, and the Tang Dynasty did not have generals in this regard; Second, it is not easy for an army that is good at night warfare to become an army, and the requirements for the comprehensive quality of soldiers are extremely high; The most important reason is that the Tang Dynasty didn't have time to practice, every time they trained an elite division, they encountered the powerful Sui army, and every battle ended in a fiasco, and the army was defeated, how could they still carry out intensive training? After the war, the Tang Dynasty had to spend time training recruits, and finally it was difficult to fight a battle, and fought with the Sui army again, and the Tang army, which fell into a vicious circle, was not even trained in normal combat mode, let alone to engage in night combat training, if the amount of training was increased regardless of life and death, it is estimated that the army would be trained to death before it went to the battlefield!

"Your Highness, do you want to let the Red Armor Army go out and charge into battle?" Zhai Changsun on the side suggested.

"The battle has not begun, and it is far from the time for the Red Armor Army to go out." The Red Armor Army is the trump card in Li Shimin's hands, and only when it is put into the battlefield at a critical moment can it get the miraculous effect of taking it by surprise and turning things around, and it is too early to enter the battlefield and not give full play to the due value of the Red Armor Army, Li Shimin naturally will not agree to Zhai Changsun's suggestion.

When Zhai Changsun and Zheng Rentai heard this, they both showed regret. The Red Armor Army is formed by the two of them to form a trump card, and Yang Tong's Xuanjia Army has a-for-tat meaning, but since the formation of the army, even the ghost of the Xuanjia Army has not been seen, let alone fighting, and when Zhai Changsun and Zheng Rentai proudly prided themselves on the Red Armor Army as the world's first strong force, Li Yuanji used the new army of less than two years to form the army to press the Red Armor Army to the ground and rub it fiercely, which made the second general ashamed and angry, in addition to strengthening the training of the Red Armor Army, he also wanted to find an opportunity to justify the name of the Red Armor Army. However, Li Shimin's thinking concept is obviously different from theirs, and the defeat of the Red Armor Army to the New Army did make Li Shimin a little unhappy, but he was not so angry that he was not angry, just because war was never a fair and just contest of martial arts, and once all kinds of frames and tricks were removed, he could lead the 5,000 Red Armor Army to easily kill Li Yuanji's 30,000 new army.

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