"Zhang Zhongwu, this gambler!"

Cao Xin was a little out of shape.

Commanding the large army to fight, both of them are experienced people, if you really want to grasp the details, Cao Xin may be stronger, but Cao Xin, who was born in Jinshi, also has a weakness in his character, that is, he thinks too much about everything, does not think about victory, thinks about defeat first, and always has to be thoughtful in all aspects, steady and steady, and move forward step by step.

Zhang Zhongwu is not like this.

Zhang Zhongwu, who came from a humble background, has a stronger gambling nature, and his luck has always been very good, in the past 20 years, he has won every gamble, which also makes him extraordinarily confident, or surging.

Although as Zhang Zhongwu's power increased step by step, this kind of luck gambling became less and less, more often, he crushed the past with a kind of domineering spirit to win. But this time, Li Ze forced him to gamble.

He can't consume Li Ze.

Especially when he found out that Li Ze was ready to spend it with him, his mentality of wanting to gamble was even more explosive.

In the case of continuous battles with Shi Zhuang and Wang Sili's troops without an inch, and when he found that Wuwei's army was not weaker than his army, a big gamble sprouted in his heart day by day.

To this end, he did not hesitate to let Shi Zhuang, Wang Sili and other Wuwei generals attack the Juma River, capture one important town after another in Zhuo County, and at the risk that Zhuo County may be captured by Wuwei, despite the huge losses of his other troops being defeated and eliminated by the Wuwei army one after another, he gathered all his cavalry troops, detoured hundreds of miles, and hit the key point.

Zhang Zhongwu was convinced that as long as he caught or killed Li Che, then his battle with Wu Wei would be over.

Li Ze was also a little stunned.

After the war, he entrusted all the command to Cao Xin, and he didn't pay attention to the things on the battlefield at all, because he knew very well that he was really not able to command such a large-scale corps battle. He can conceive a big strategic direction and command the most efficient way to fight there, but he is a little confused about how to fight such a tactical problem.

"Jieshuai, Cao Xin's command is wrong, putting Jieshuai in danger, please leave Yixian immediately and retreat to Dingzhou." Cao Xin took a deep breath and knelt down in front of Li Ze, "Cao Xin stays and fights to the death with him in Yi County." ”

Li Ze stared at the map, and it took a long time to turn around, and when he saw Cao Xin kneeling on the ground, he smiled and took a step forward to help Cao Xin up.

"It's impossible to retreat. Where can I go back? Li Zedao: "Retreat to Dingzhou?" What's next? And then let Zhang Zhongwu chase his ass? More importantly, if I retreat and have already attacked Shizhuang in the Juma River, what will Wang Sili do? was copied by Zhang Zhongwu's 20,000 cavalry and cut off the grain road, do they still have a way to live? ”

"Stay in the green mountains, don't be afraid of no firewood. As long as the festival commander is okay, we can finally make a comeback. Cao Xin said in a low voice.

"Nothing is coming back! I'm in Yi County, fighting Zhang Zhongwu to the death! Li Ze didn't pick up Cao Xin, he simply straightened up and said sonorously.

Li Ze himself is also a gambler. In the last life, he didn't know how many times he was born after death, and he didn't leave any way back for himself at all, and bet all his net worth on the gambling table.

"Twenty thousand iron horsemen, is it a lot?" Li Ze sneered.

Now in Yi County, Li Ze has 3,000 guards in his hands, these 3,000 people are elite knights selected by thousands of people, Li Ze does not believe that Zhang Zhongwu's 20,000 cavalry have their kind of quality, there are 5,000 people, even if Zhang Zhongwu is amazing. But when it comes to equipment, his own personal guards and righteous servants can throw off Zhang Zhongwu's cavalry a few streets.

In addition to the three thousand righteous soldiers, he also has Min Rou's 100 Chengde wolf cavalry and 1,000 cavalry as a supplementary cavalry of Chengde wolf cavalry, and he has Li Han's 1,000 Mo swordsmen.

In addition to these people, he also had 3,000 armor soldiers each of Liang Han and Wanfu under the command of Tu Lichun.

Zhang Zhongwu had 20,000 cavalry, and he also had more than 10,000 elite troops. Who said he would lose this battle?

Suddenly pulled out the dragon knife on his waist, slashed it violently, and cut the big case in the hall into two, and then turned to look at Min Rou, Li Han, Li Mi, Liang Han, Wan Fu and other generals in the hall, and shouted: "Do you want to fight, or do you want to escape?" ”

"Fight, fight, fight!" Led by Min Rou, everyone pulled out the horizontal knife at their waist and shouted.

Li Ze looked up to the sky and laughed, looked at Cao Xin who was standing up beside him, and said angrily: "Cao Gong, do you see it?" Zhang Zhongwu wants to kill me in one battle, but I also want to finish it in one battle! As long as Zhang Zhongwu's 20,000 cavalry returns in front of me, he will lose Zhuozhou, and without Zhuozhou, can he still defend Jicheng? If he loses Jicheng, can he still have Youzhou? Without Youzhou, what else would he Zhang Zhongwu do to compete with me? ”

"Jie Shuai, the victory or defeat is only between the two!" Cao Xin said in a low voice.

"Cao Gong said too much!" Li Ze said with a smile: "The number of wins and losses, he is six and I am four." But so what? With a 40% chance of winning, it's worth the risk. ”

Cao Xin took a deep breath: "In this case, please cross the river and go to Fanyang Shizhuang's army to supervise the battle, and command Wang Sili and Shi Zhuang to attack Zhuozhou, I am in Yi County, command this battle!" ”

"No, it's you, not me, who are going to the north bank of the Juma River!" Li Ze said with a smile: "I will command the army here to meet Zhang Zhongwu and Cao Gong, and command the army to fight, I am indeed inferior to you, but in this battle, there are not many tactics to speak of." This is a collision of courage, a bloody battle, no one can take a step back, take a step back, and defeat. I'm here better than you're here! ”

"Jie Shuai!"

"Needless to say, I've made up my mind!" Li Ze said categorically: "You take my handwritten letter and tell Shi Zhuang that when I defeat Zhang Zhongwu, if he hasn't taken Zhuo County yet, let him get rid of the stripes and run naked from the north bank to Yi County to ask me for my guilt!" Hahaha! ”

Cao Xin clenched his fists, slammed it to the ground deeply, turned around and left.

Li Ze only mentioned Shi Zhuang and did not mention Wang Sili, naturally knowing that if Shi Zhuang knew about the crisis here, he might return to the division with the whole army and withdraw the army before the battle, and he was afraid that it would be a big defeat. Li Ze wanted to go to Shi Zhuang's army by himself, just to stop such a thing from happening, and Wang Sili, naturally there is no need to say much, he is different from Shi Zhuang.

Looking at the back of Cao Xin striding away, Li Ze looked at the generals in the house and shouted, "What are you still doing here?" Shouldn't we be preparing for war at this time? ”

"Yes!" The generals agreed.

"Tell the soldiers, how many times can you fight in life? If you don't fight now, when will you wait? Zhang Zhongwu won this battle, and the soldiers who participated in the war were rewarded with 100 acres of Yongye field each, and they were never paid, and each person was rewarded with 100 yuan, and each officer was awarded nine turns. For those who die in battle, all rewards will be passed on to their families. ”

"No!"

The generals turned and strode away.

Only Li Ze and Tian Bo were left in the house

Li Ze found pen and ink from the ground, squatted on the ground, wrote a letter with a wave, put it in an envelope, sealed it himself, and then handed it to Tian Bo: "Tian Bo, you leave Yi County immediately and sneak back to Zhenzhou." Remember, don't let anyone know your whereabouts. ”

"Childe, I'm not leaving, although Tian Bo is lame, he can still wield a knife when he is on a horse." Tian Bo said loudly.

"What a fart!" Li Ze snorted: "If this battle is lost, maybe I will die, you are in Zhenzhou, once you know my death, immediately rush to Wuyi, hand over this letter to my father, what will Wuwei do in the future, I already have some arrangements in the letter, if we win, haha, then needless to say, you will immediately burn this letter on the spot." This is related to the future of my Wuwei and the survival of the Li family, do you think the burden on your shoulders is lighter than that of Tu Lichun and Li Yu? ”

Tian Bo knelt down and kowtowed a few times: "Childe, I am waiting for your good news in Zhenzhou." ”

"Of course there will be good news." Li Ze said with a smile: "Cao Xin is about to leave, you should also take advantage of this moment to leave quietly, don't alarm anyone." ”

When Li Ze was the only one left in the house, the entire Yi County suddenly heard earth-shattering cheers, and there were roars of "don't fight now, but when" everywhere.

Under the heavy reward, there will be brave men.

Li Ze's reward is really too rich, one hundred acres of Yongye land that will never have to pay taxes is something that ordinary soldiers dream of, a hundred rewards are equivalent to their military salaries for several years, and for officers, nine turns of the medal is equivalent to a promotion of three levels in a row, I don't know how many people, so they can fulfill their dream of shining the lintel.

Jumping from an ordinary officer to a lieutenant, from a lieutenant to a general, is basically out of reach for the vast majority of officers, but now, it only takes one battle.

No one thought about whether they would die in this battle.

Li Ze walked up to the city with armor, outside the city wall, more than 10,000 of his most elite troops were ready to go, seeing Li Ze, all the soldiers once again raised their weapons in their hands and shouted loudly.

Li Ze pulled out the dragon sword, stood at the head of the city, and shouted: "Make meritorious contributions, just now, set off!" ”

When the army commanded by Li Ze was marching towards Baima Township, the battlefield selected by Li Ze, in Matouzhai, which was only dozens of miles away from Baima Township, Cheng Yuzheng, the general of the Shence Army, was stunned and looked at the Lu Dragoons who came from all over the mountains in the distance.

Originally, they were just here to make soy sauce, but now, they suddenly found that they had become the first target.

After a moment of panic, this founder of the Tang Dynasty and the descendant of Guogong Cheng Biting Gold showed amazing courage.

"We are the pro-army of the Son of Heaven, fighting for the Son of Heaven, fighting for the Tang Dynasty, Shence Army, ready to fight!"

The camp of 3,000 people, in front of 20,000 iron horsemen, is like a small boat in the wild waves of the sea. But at this moment, the people on the small boat are ready to fight to the death against the wild waves.