Chapter 18: The Dying Struggle
Zhai Rang was beheaded by Li Mi, Wagang changed drastically, and the news that many Wagang generals fled angrily soon reached Yang Gao's hands, but this incident did not cause Yang Gao too much surprise. Although history has changed because of one's own crossing, one's own crossing cannot change people's hearts. Li Mi's generation of heroes will never tolerate the existence of a character like Zhai Rang under his rule.
However, due to his own crossing, Yu Wenhua has been greatly injured, and it is impossible to fight with Li Mi like in history, so can Wang Shichong still take the opportunity to reap the benefits and defeat Li Mi to occupy the Central Plains as he did in history?
Yang Gao shook his head helplessly, put down the fold in his hand, and smiled bitterly, his heart was inevitably too big, although Zhai Rang died and the Wagang army was divided, Li Mi was still the head of the princes of the Central Plains. Yang Yanzhao sat in Nanyang to guard against Li Yuan, came to Hu'er to lead the army to attack Lin Shihong, and Xue Rengui stationed troops in Huainan, where else could he transfer troops to manage the affairs of the Central Plains?
And even if he can draw out a force and horses to march into the Central Plains, but now that Wang Shichong is defeated in Luoshui, Li Mi is in the limelight, if he enters the Central Plains, he will inevitably face Li Mi's soldiers, which will undoubtedly drag him into the quagmire of war.
Putting down this book, Yang Gao picked up another book, this is Xue Rengui's battle report, after he escorted the captured Li Zitong to the outside of Huoqiu County, the defenders in the city collapsed without a fight, Ye Xiaobian killed himself, Ren Ze died in the chaos, only Fang Jie desperately broke out of the encirclement and fled north, should have gone to Li Mi.
Yang Gao lightly put down Xue Rengui's twists and turns, and picked up the good news sent by Laihu'er, a month ago, Laihu'er fought Lin Shihong in Poyang Lake, and won a complete victory, annihilating more than 40,000 Lin Shihong. In the melee, Zheng Chenggong, the general of the sailor, personally risked the arrow, beheaded Lin Shihong's brother Lin Yaoshi, and recovered Yuzhang County. Lin Shihong retreated to Jian'an County and could not hold out.
Although the battle situation has reached a stalemate for a while, Yang Gao has confidence in Lai Hu'er and Zheng Chenggong, and Li Xiaogong's conquest of Lin Shihong has almost been pushed all the way in history, not to mention that the current Lin Shihong is just in its infancy, and his strength is much weaker than when Li Xiaogong conquest.
Yang Gao slowly got up and walked out of the imperial study, looking at the south, which was the direction of Zhuanyang Lake, thinking that it must be a killing sound at this moment!
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Jian'an County, the county guard's house.
Lin Shihongkut sat behind the desk, staring at the map deadly, his eyes full of unwillingness.
He never imagined that the sailor army he was most proud of would be so vulnerable in front of Laihu'er. In the battle of Turning Yang Lake, 50,000 sailors were killed by 30,000 people who came to protect their children and abandoned their armor, and his younger brother Lin Yaoshi and general Wang Xian were all killed in battle, and he only led thousands of remnants to retreat to Jian'an County.
The more serious consequence of the defeat at Zhuanyang Lake was the loss of people's hearts, and Lin Shihong's rule in the south had begun to crumble, and many local officials fell with the wind and surrendered the city to Sui; There were also many dissidents in the army, and as of today, thirteen generals had led the team to defect to the Sui army.
"General, a messenger came to the Sui camp and sent a letter to the general, saying that it was a handwritten letter from their commander to the general." General Wang Rong cautiously walked into the house and reported softly.
Lin Shihong frowned, "Where is the messenger?" ”
Wang Rong bowed and replied, "Just wait outside the door!" ”
"Let him in!"
Wang Rong took the order and left, and brought up a young civil official who delivered the letter in a moment, and the civil official bowed to Lin Shihong and handed a letter to Lin Shihong, "This is the handwritten letter that my general asked me to hand over to General Lin!" ”
Lin Shihong took the letter and read it carefully, and Lai Hu'er wrote in the letter that as long as Lin Shihong surrendered in Kaicheng, he could protect him from death.
Lin Shihong pondered for a long time, and said in a deep voice: "Okay, you go back and tell your general, I can surrender, but I need to communicate with my brothers, please let him give me three days!" ”
"Good!" The envoy answered, and under the escort of several soldiers, he left the county guard mansion and returned to the camp of Laihu'er from Jian'an City.
As soon as the envoy left, Wang Rong couldn't wait to say, "General, do you really plan to surrender to the Sui army?" ”
Lin Shihong sneered, "My whole family died at the hands of the officials of the Sui Dynasty, my good brother Cao Shi Qi and younger brother Lin Yaoshi all died at the hands of the Sui army, I and the Sui Dynasty do not share the sky, and I will never surrender to the Sui Dynasty in this life!" ”
Wang Rong asked suspiciously, "Then why did the general just now..."
Lin Shihong said with a sneer: "The soldiers are not tired of cheating, what I just said is nothing more than deceiving the envoy of the Sui army, after coming to Hu'er to know that I am going to surrender, I will definitely get carried away and relax my vigilance, so I will take this opportunity to attack the Hu'er camp and reverse the defeat in one fell swoop!" ”
Wang Rong suddenly realized, and arched his hand and said: "The general is wise, and his subordinates admire!" ”
The two looked at each other and laughed tacitly, and the rampant laughter of the two echoed in the house for a long time.
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After listening to the envoy's words, he smiled slightly, turned his head to look at Zheng Chenggong who was sitting on the side, "Success, what do you think?" ”
Since coming to Hu'er to conquer Lin Shihong, Zheng Chenggong has made many military exploits, from a partial general to be promoted step by step to the deputy marshal of the water division, quite favored by Laihu'er, he has regarded him as his successor, and asked Zheng Chenggong's opinion from time to time on many major matters.
Zheng Chenggong smiled when he heard this, "Lin Shihong carved insect Xiaoji'an can hide from the old general's eyes, this thief must be a deception to deceive our army to relax its vigilance, and take the opportunity to raid our army in a vain attempt to turn defeat into victory!" ”
Laihu'er pretended to be surprised, "How can you see success?" ”
Zheng Chenggong replied: "As far as the last general knows, Lin Shihong's family was all involved because of Lin Shihong's rebellion, and this thief hated me to the bone. Today, he agreed to surrender with only a letter from the old general, which must be a fraudulent surrender! ”
Lai Hu'er stroked his beard and laughed: "It's really the same as the hero's vision, the words of success are very much in line with the old man's intentions, I don't know how success plans to deal with Lin Shihong, a thief?" ”
Zheng Chenggong replied lightly: "Tight on the outside and loose on the inside, lure Lin Shihong to come to rob the camp, and take the opportunity to exterminate this thief in one fell swoop!" ”
Came to Hu'er to shoot the case, "Okay, just follow the words of success!" ”