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"The city wall of Xia County is too strong, trebuchets can't break through the city wall, if you want to capture this city, you can only order a strong attack, but in this way, our army's casualties will be very heavy......" Song Jingang looked at the outline of the city wall of Xia County in the hazy night, and couldn't help muttering to himself.

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At this time, the other 50,000 Tang troops assigned by Li Xiaogong, under the leadership of Hou Junji, had already arrived outside the original city, and they had already discovered at this time that there were only 10,000 Liu troops guarding the original city, and all of them were old and weak soldiers. A head-on battle would never be able to defeat their 50,000 Tang troops. But if the city is closed and the city wall is held, it will be difficult for the Tang army to break through for a while. After all, the original city is the largest city in Hedong, with high and thick walls, easy to defend and difficult to attack.

However, Hou Junji is not a mediocre general, and after he sent scouts to scout carefully, he was pleasantly surprised to find out. The defenders in the original city did not know that the Tang army had arrived nearby, and the city gates were still wide open, so that the surnames and merchants could enter and exit the city. It's just that there are more than one soldiers at the gate of the city checking the pedestrians.

Hou Junji frowned, and quickly took it to heart. He immediately sent a number of daredevils, pretending to be paupers, and quietly approached the city gate, preparing to sneak into the city and take the city gate in one fell swoop. Then give a signal for the army to enter the city.

As long as his 50,000 Tang troops enter the Yuan, I believe that he will soon be able to defeat the Liu army that defends the city and recapture this county town known as the center of Hedong in one fell swoop.

But what he never expected was that twenty miles east of the original city, Yu Mingzheng led 100,000 Zhou troops and rushed towards the original city.

The defenders of the original city did not expect that the Tang army would actually touch the original city, and the guards at the city gate were completely defenseless, and were soon killed all over the field by the daredevils organized by Hou Junji, and the southern city gate was lost.

And Hou Junji immediately sent out a signal of success, and lit a few ceremonial flowers into the sky.

With the explosion of the ceremonial flower, the Tang army, which had been waiting nearby, immediately rushed into the city like a tiger pounced on food, and began to seize various important locations.

The defender of the original city was Liu Wuyuan, Liu Wuzhou's cousin, and when he learned that the Tang army had entered the city unnoticed, he was immediately frightened, and hurriedly ordered his own soldiers to organize men and horses to resist.

It's just that there are only more than 10,000 of his people, and most of them are old, weak, sick and disabled, how can he be the opponent of Hou Junji's 50,000 elite Tang army?

The two sides fought in the south of the city for half a day, and Liu's army suffered nearly 20,000 casualties, and was defeated and retreated, and even the original city guard in the center of the city was lost.

However, the Tang army only suffered more than 8,000 casualties, which can be described as a victory.

It's just that Hou Junji never dreamed that just ten miles east of the original city, an army of 100,000 people was slowly heading towards the largest city in Hedong.

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Facing the snowflakes flying in the sky, Yu Ming was leading 100,000 Zhou troops and marching towards the original. On this one, he has conquered two county towns and more than ten county seats, and the Liu army guards in these places are very stubborn and refuse to let him pass, forcing him to take a strong attack.

Of course, after seeing the huge contingent and sharp attack power of the Zhou army, more city defenders wisely chose to surrender. Yu Ming knew that if the Tang army fought over and Liu Wuzhou led the army back, they would also surrender to the enemy again.

"After the situation on the front line is stabilized, let's consider adjusting the defense of these cities!" Yu Ming secretly thought in his heart.

At this moment, he suddenly saw a bouquet of red fireworks rising in front of him, which exploded in the sky in this icy winter, making it particularly eye-catching.

"Huh! What's that? Luo Shixin couldn't help but be surprised.

"It should be a ceremonial flower, judging from the direction of rising, it is the original." Qin Qiong sighed: "It seems that most of the original accidents have happened!" ”

Yu Ming frowned, he never expected that Tang Jun had already hit the original. Could it be that Liu Wuzhou's main force on the Baibi front line has been wiped out?

At this moment, Lin Mo arrived quickly on a war horse, and then left a person tied up with five flowers and said in front of Yu Ming and the others: "King Zhou, this is the spy I just caught!" ”

Yu Ming took a closer look, only to see that this person was about ten years old, not tall, slightly fat, because he was tied up by five flowers, and was hit hard by Lin Mo, some of his nose and face were swollen.

He knelt on the ground at this time, trembling with fright, and shouted in his mouth: "Don't kill me! I was also forced to surrender Liu Wuzhou...... After all, villains are also old and young. But I have always been loyal to Datang in my heart......"

Cheng Yanjin sneered after hearing this: "You guy seems to really have backbone!" In front of us, you dare to say that you are loyal to Datang? Well, we'll make it happen to you! Drag it down and cut it! ”

"Ahh The captured man was startled, and he saw clearly the generals of the Zhou army standing in front of him. An unbelievable thought flashed in his heart and said, "Aren't you Tang Jun?" ”

"Of course we are not the Don Army anymore! We are Zhou Jun! Luo Shixin said coldly: "Who are you?" What are you doing sneakily near our army? ”

The captive came to his senses at this time, and there was a look of surprise in his eyes, obviously not understanding why the Zhou army in Hebei suddenly arrived near the original area. However, looking at the cold eyes of the generals, he realized that he was still in danger, and if he didn't satisfy the generals of the Zhou army in front of him, he was afraid that he would be cut off.

He hurriedly said cautiously: "The villain's name is Wang Lin, and he is a partial general under Liu Wuyuan, the former city guard. Early this morning, I don't know where a Tang army came, pretending to be a surname, took the city gate, and entered the original city. General Liu led his army to fight fiercely with him for half a day, but he was defeated, and now half of the city has fallen. Seeing that the situation was not good, I fled, and prepared to flee back to my hometown of Wu'an to take refuge for a while......"

"It turns out that the Tang army really killed the original." After Yu Ming heard this, he was also shocked, and he hurriedly asked, "How many Tang Jun are coming?" Who is in charge? ”

That Wang Lin scratched his head and said, "I don't know, but there are more people than us." Although I didn't see their main general, I heard Tang Jun say something like General Hou to report to, and it was expected that it should be surnamed Hou. ”

"Surname Hou? That's probably Hou Junji. This person can also be regarded as a veteran of the Tang Army, and Li Yuan has followed him since he started the army. "Yu Ming has obviously put a lot of effort into studying Li Tang's generals.

Then, he and Lin Mo and the others interrogated Wang Lin in detail, so that they could find out the situation in the original city and Liu Wuzhou's military deployment.

After ordering someone to escort Wang Lin down, the eldest grandson Wuji said solemnly: "King Zhou, the current situation is already clear. Li Shimin sent a partial division, I don't know where it came from, and secretly killed it. At the moment, we don't know what the situation of Liu Wuzhou is at the front. But one thing is certain: if we don't go into battle now, it will fall into the hands of the Tang army, and Hedong will return to Li Yuan's hands. ”

"Hmm!" Yu Ming looked at the original city that had already been lit with thick smoke, and said lightly: "But fortunately, now the Tang army has not completely controlled the situation in the city, and there are still many Liu troops resisting in the original city." And Hou Junji never dreamed that the main force of our army had come to the original city, and he could catch turtles in an urn! ”

After that, he immediately assigned the task of dividing the 100,000 Zhou army into four armies, led by Qin Qiong, Cheng Yanjin, Luo Shixin and Lin Mo, respectively, and then killed the four gates of the original city.

At this moment, neither Tang Jun nor Liu Jun expected that Zhou Jun would suddenly arrive. And because the city gate fell early, they were all fighting in the city, and they didn't think to close the city gate at all. As a result, the four gates were quickly lost and fell into the hands of the Zhou army.

"Brother Liu Jun, we are Zhou Jun! It's here to help you repel the Tang Army! Please don't think of us as enemies! While the surrounding troops were killing in the center of the city, they shouted in the city according to Yuming's orders.

Most of Liu Jun in the city knew that Yu Ming and Li Yuan had a deep enmity like the sea, and it was Li Yuan who framed him back then, and Yu Ming became a thief in Yang Guangtong's series. And Li Yuan's Li Xuanba was also killed by Yuming on the way to arrest Yuming.

And Yuming's marriage to Li Xiuning as his wife was not announced to the world, and only some middle and high-level generals and medical women knew Li Xiuning's identity. Therefore, Liu Jun thought that Li Yuan and Yu Ming were mortal enemies. And Liu Wuzhou and Yuming had signed a mutual aid agreement before, so many of them thought that Zhou Jun was a reinforcement invited by Liu Wuzhou.

After thinking that the reinforcements had arrived, Liu Jun's morale was naturally greatly boosted, and the situation that had collapsed was stabilized again.

Hou Junji had just killed Liu Wuyuan with a knife at this time, thinking that he could celebrate taking the Yuan. But I didn't expect another half-kill to bite the gold, and the battle became a mess.

He immediately shouted in anger, and then ordered his soldiers to turn around and retake the city gate to stop the Zhou army from entering the city. In his opinion, the Zhou army had just finished the battle of Shandong and was recuperating. It is impossible to send a lot of troops to Hedong to aid Liu Wuzhou. Cheng Yanjin's troops were only 20,000. If the Tang army fights hard, it is still possible to defeat both Liu Jun and Zhou Jun at the same time. He can still make a great contribution and recover smoothly.

However, as the war progressed, he soon found himself wrong. Not only did Cheng Yanjin appear at the east gate, but also the troops of Qin Qiong, Luo Shixin and Lin Mo appeared at the west gate, north gate and south gate respectively, and the number was not lower than Cheng Yanjin's army. The soldiers he sent out would simply not be able to recapture the city gate in front of so many Zhou troops.

As a result, with the Zhou army encircling and attacking on the periphery, and the Liu army desperately resisting inside the city, the Tang army was finally defeated and collapsed. Although Hou Junji fought bravely, he was still far behind Qin Qiong, Cheng Yanjin and others. It didn't take long for him to have the handle of the gun cut off by Cheng Biting Jin's axe, and then he was captured in one fell swoop.

Since Liu Wuyuan and his lieutenant were dead, there were no remnants of Liu Jun in the city, and Wang Lin, a partial general, became the highest-ranking person in Liu Jun. He immediately ordered the city officials and Liu officers and soldiers to fully cooperate with the Zhou army, so that Yuming quickly took control of the original city.

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