Chapter 302 was lured out of the city

(For the sake of easy memorization, the Tang Army will be directly used to represent Li Yuan's army in the following text.) ）

"General, the last general asks to go out of the city to fight!"

"General, the last general is willing to lead a team to destroy the enemy army outside the city!"

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On the city wall, the crowd was indignant, and the generals spoke out one after another. They were provoked by the Tang army outside the city for several days, and their hearts were already extremely aggrieved, and they were eager to cut off the heads of the enemy generals to make night pots.

Song Laosheng was also angry, and was about to agree to the general's request, but Liu Xin dissuaded him at this time: "Please also ask the general to think twice!"

"The rebels have been challenging for many days, how can they think twice?"

Before Song Laosheng could make a statement, Dou Liang was already angry and said, "If you think about it again, the military spirit will be scattered!" ”

Song Laosheng endured his anger, stared at Liu Xin coldly and asked, "If you don't go out of the city to face the battle, will General Liu have a way to exterminate the rebels outside the city?"

"This..."Liu Xin was dumbfounded for a while.

"General Liu has no way to retreat, but he has repeatedly prevented the general from leading the army to meet the battle, I don't know what General Liu wants?" Song Laosheng asked coldly.

In the past few days, Liu Xin and Yin Hongzhi have repeatedly prevented Song Laosheng from going out of the city to fight, because Yin Hongzhi's father is the auxiliary minister of Daxing City, and Yin Hongzhi came with his father's orders, Song Laosheng had to repeatedly succumb to Yin Hongzhi's persuasion, in fact, his heart has accumulated a stomach full of anger, so as soon as Yin Hongzhi proposed to leave, he approved it without saying a word. Unexpectedly, Yin Hongzhi left, but Liu Xin still dared to speak out to dissuade him, and Song Laosheng immediately looked at him unpleasantly.

Dou Liang observed his words and looked at his expression, and said in a deep voice: "If you keep it for a long time, you will lose!" As a battle-hardened general, General Liu has repeatedly prevented the general from going out of the city to face the battle, and I think General Liu is either greedy for life and afraid of death, or has colluded with Li thieves outside the city..."

"Shut up!"

Before Dou Liang finished speaking, Song Laosheng snorted and glared at him fiercely, and then looked at Liu Xin coldly, but there was obviously a suspicion in his eyes!

Song Laosheng didn't let the generals speak again, and said sharply: "The generals listen to the order, Dou Liang stays in the city, and the other generals follow me out of the city to fight!"

"Yes! Not obeyed! The generals said in unison.

Half an hour later, the heavy city gate was opened, the drawbridge was lowered, and Song Laosheng led 20,000 cavalry and horses to kill.

At this time, he not only wanted to take down the Tang army in front of him, but also prepared to kill Jiahubao, even if he couldn't exterminate Li Yuan's army, he also planned to teach Li Yuan a hard lesson, and show the evil spirit that has been challenged in the past few days.

Seeing that Song Laosheng was finally willing to go out of the city to face the battle, Hou Junji couldn't help but secretly rejoice. He wanted to wait for the Sui army to suddenly launch an attack when they were out of the city and lined up, ready to take Song Laosheng by surprise.

However, what he didn't expect was that Song Laosheng seemed to see through his thoughts, and he had no intention of arranging outside the city at all. The 20,000 cavalry soldiers were ready for battle in the city, and they passed through the city gate and directly killed the 5,000 Tang army soldiers of Hou Junji.

The soldiers of the Sui army were armed with spears and swords, shouting and slaughtering into the Tang army. In the blink of an eye, the two armies were killed together, and the soldiers of the Sui army did not disperse, after they passed through the city gate, they killed the Tang army at high speed, like a sharp arrow, and shot directly into the middle of the Tang army's formation. Obviously, Song Laosheng planned to cut the 5,000 Tang Army soldiers of Hou Junji from the middle, and then surround them from behind and divide them up.

For a while, the soldiers of the Tang army were taken by surprise, and as the soldiers of the Sui army continued to kill from the city, Hou Junji saw that the situation was not good, and hurriedly shouted, "The whole army retreats!" ", with his own cavalry soldiers quickly retreated.

Song Laosheng was overjoyed and shouted, "The whole army is pursuing!" ”

Song Laosheng took the lead and personally led 20,000 cavalry in pursuit, and the morale of the 20,000 soldiers was suddenly high, shouting and chasing after the enemy soldiers.

More than a quarter of an hour later, the two teams arrived at a mountain in front of a mountain, Hou Junji fled in a panic, and rushed into the mountain with the team without any hesitation, but Song Laosheng hesitated a little, and his speed couldn't help but slow down.

This place is a mountain about three miles long, the two sides are steep, the width in the middle is less than five zhang, but the narrow place is only more than two zhang, it is a very suitable place for ambush.

At this time, Liu Xin rode a horse and followed, "General, don't chase after the poor Kou, be careful that there is an ambush in the mountains!" ”

Song Laosheng suddenly became angry, he was repeatedly dissuaded by Liu Xin and Yin Hongzhi in the past few days, and he had already held back his anger in his heart, now that Yin Hongzhi had left, he had no worries, and reprimanded angrily: "The rebels are defeated, and they are obviously fleeing in a panic, where did they come from the ambush!"

Originally, he was still a little hesitant, but now that he was persuaded by Liu Xin like this, he was suddenly covered with anger, and after thinking about it again, he ordered sharply: "Liu Xin, you are the striker, lead the army to pursue at full speed first!"

"Yes!" Liu Xin's face changed slightly, but he was helpless, the general had already issued a military order, and he could only accept the order solemnly.

With the order, the soldiers of the Sui army set off at full speed again, chasing the tail of the Tang army at high speed.

At this time, perhaps because he was worried that after the army entered the mountain, the line would be too long, and it would be inconvenient to command the rear team too far in front of the team, or for other reasons, Song Laosheng no longer led the army to pursue, but temporarily stopped aside and merged into the middle of the team.

The Sui army pursued at full speed, getting closer and closer to the tail soldiers of the Tang army. Half an hour later, all the officers and men of the Tang Army had rushed out of the mountain, and Liu Xin and other advanced soldiers of the Sui Army who were the first to pursue were also about to chase out of the mountain.

At this moment, I heard a loud shout, "Get up!" Immediately after that, there was a change before the mountain, and the wrist-thick hemp ropes were pulled up out of thin air, and there was a burst of "boom! Rumble! Rumble! After the sound, five trenches appeared on the ground at the exit of the mountain.

It turned out that this mountain was the ambush place that Li Yuan had chosen. Two days earlier, Li Yuan had ordered 30,000 soldiers to dig five trenches one zhang apart from each other, about one zhang wide, and five feet deep. Such a trench, through which neither infantry nor cavalry could pass.

"Be careful! There is a trench ahead! Liu Xin, who was in pursuit first, instantly discovered the anomaly on the ground in front of him and immediately shouted.

It's a pity that Liu Xin himself led the army to chase too close, and the speed was too fast, so he didn't have time to slow down and stop. Syllable! Syllable! There was a burst of sounds, including Liu Xin, hundreds of soldiers of the Sui army fell heavily into the trench with their horses.

Seeing this, the soldiers behind them immediately shouted, "There is an ambush ahead!" He quickly stopped his horse. In a moment, 20,000 soldiers of the Sui army who were running at high speed stopped in the middle of the mountain.

However, some of the team who couldn't react, or were too close to each other, collided together, and for a while, the whole team was a little chaotic!