Li Ji, the word Bojing, the head of the Li family in Hongyang Shou County, his reputation is very big in Hongyang Mansion and even half of the northern part of Youzhou, and he is widely spread for his bold personality and righteousness.

Li Ji is very good at communicating, whether it is black and white in Hongyang Mansion, or official, civilian, military and business, he has certain contacts in all walks of life, and he has a strong influence.

When Hongyang was still under the rule of the Western Zhou Dynasty, Li Ji served as a counselor in Hongyang Mansion, and the counselor was similar to a strategist's staff, with a low grade, only about seven grades, but he was a confidant of Fu Yin.

This is also part of the reason why Li Ji was able to quickly contact the Western Zhou Dynasty and get support when he later raised troops, because he himself had the official imprint of the Western Zhou Dynasty.

Speaking of which, Li Ji picked the timing of the incident at a very good time, and it can be seen that he did not raise troops in a hurry, but had been prepared in advance.

Last year, Di Yi was recalled to the capital by Emperor Liyang, Fang Rui couldn't suppress the situation, the Hongyang Jin army was leaderless, and Li Ji took the opportunity to spread rumors around Shou County.

The Daobei Jin Dynasty was ready to reward the heroes of the Jin and Zhou Kingdoms, and each of them gave 10,000 acres of fertile land, and all the land that was rewarded was set aside in Hongyang Mansion.

Li Ji's rumors really captured the pulse of most of the people, for them, the land is their life, and the annexation of land by the imperial court is their life.

Seeing that the rumors had a remarkable effect, Li Ji immediately struck while the iron was hot, and sent people to pretend to be people in the government to measure the land in the fields, and let people pretend to be caravans from the Northern Jin Dynasty to fake the news of the annexation, in short, after a series of operations, the people of Shou County and the surrounding counties were completely hostile to the Northern Jin Dynasty.

At this time, Li Ji stood up and shouted, saying that he had received the support of the Western Zhou Dynasty and led the people of Hongyang to break away from the Northern Jin Dynasty and return to the embrace of the Western Zhou Dynasty.

Li Ji's reputation in Hongyang was already very high, and at this critical moment when rumors were spreading, as soon as he came out, he immediately received countless responses.

In addition, the Western Zhou Dynasty secretly made trouble in the future, and many of the remaining parties who were interested in the Zhou State have thrown themselves into Li Ji's command, and Li Ji gathered more than 10,000 people in less than half a month after raising troops in Shou County, and captured Gushan County, Feng County, and Shuxian County.

After Fang Rui came to suppress him, Li Ji first showed weakness to the enemy, making Fang Rui despise the Shou County rebels as just a rabble, and advanced the army and suffered a heavy defeat.

After this battle, Li Ji's own prestige and prestige among the rebels reached a new level.

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Originally, according to Li Ji's intention, taking advantage of the aftermath after the great victory, the rebels should attack on a large scale, not to mention taking the capital city, recovering the entire Hongyang Mansion, at least taking two more counties, and expanding their territory.

As a result, he heard that the Northern Jin Dynasty court intended to let Di Yi come back to guard Hongyang, and Li Ji, who was afraid, did not rashly attack, but returned to Shishou County to wait and see the progress of the situation.

Later, to Li Ji's surprise, Di Yi did not return to Hongyang, and the Northern Jin court sent another difficult opponent - Yan Kui, a general of Pingbei who had made great achievements in the Jin and Zhou wars.

Hongyang is close to Yongzhou, Yan Kui's battle deeds in the national war are not clear to others, and the people in Hongyang Mansion are almost all clear.

Hearing that the Northern Jin Dynasty court sent this evil god, the rebels were panicked, and Li Ji wasted a lot of energy to pacify his subordinates and prepare to meet the counterinsurgency army brought by Yan Kui.

But he didn't want Yan Kui to lead the army into Hongyang, so he didn't come to Shou County to fight him, but first planned to sweep away the two soft persimmons of the Cheng family brothers and Gao Xinggong.

This made Li Ji breathe a sigh of relief, and at the same time, he also secretly paid attention to the battle situation between the Jin army and the two rebels, and planned to understand the strength of Yan Hui's command and know himself and the enemy.

Second, Li Ji was holding back the bad water in his heart, and wanted to send troops to help the two rebels at a critical moment, add some trouble to Yan Kui, and consume the strength of the Jin army.

However, what Li Ji didn't expect was that the Cheng family brothers and Gao Xinggong were so brittle that they didn't even have a decent resistance, so they were cleaned up by Yan Kui with three strikes and five divided by two, so that he didn't have enough reaction time to send troops to rescue.

This result made Li Ji deeply jealous of Yan Kui.

He is a native of Hongyang, and he knows the ability of the Cheng family brothers and Gao Xinggong, although he is not a handsome man in the world, but he is also a local hero.

Li Ji held the strength of his command, but he didn't dare to say that he could easily take down these two groups, but when he came to Yan Kui, he killed the Cheng family brothers and Gao Xinggong with a wave of his hand, and he didn't even make a loud sound.

With such an old-fashioned method of using troops, how could Li Ji, who was also a rebel, not be allowed to treat Yan Kui cautiously.

Therefore, Li Ji learned from the failed experience of the Cheng brothers and Gao Xinggong, and realized that he could not sit still, so he listened to the advice of his advisers, took the initiative to attack, and lined up to meet Yan Kui outside Shou County.

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There are about 60,000 rebels under Li Ji, and these 60,000 people are young and strong soldiers, but they are not the 20,000 army like the Cheng brothers, and only 5,000 or 6,000 people can actually fight.

This is also the reason why Yan Kui attaches so much importance to Li Ji, compared with Li Ji's strength, the Cheng family brothers and Gao Xinggong are just small characters who do not enter the stream, Hongyang rebelled, and Li Ji was the focus.

After Li Ji seized the four counties as a foundation, in addition to the main force still guarding Shou County, he sent out an additional 12,000 soldiers and horses, divided into three divisions, and stationed them in the remaining three counties he occupied.

Among them, Shuxian County and Gushan County are small counties, and they are of little strategic significance, and Li Ji only sent 3,000 people to garrison them.

Feng County is a large county, and borders Youzhou, belongs to the pass land, but also Li Ji prepared for himself where the back road is, in case of rebellion failure, he is ready to flee from Feng County to the Western Zhou Dynasty to live.

Therefore, Li Ji attached great importance to Feng County, and specially sent his younger brother Li Yuan to garrison here, and the garrison was 6,000 people, which was twice that of Gushan County.

After taking out these 12,000 people, Li Ji only had 48,000 people in Shou County, plus miscellaneous auxiliary soldiers and people, he could barely gather 50,000 people.

This time Yan Kui came to attack, Li Ji left 10,000 garrisons in Shou County, and personally led 40,000 soldiers and horses out of the city, wanting to try Yan Kui.

This is not Li Ji looking for death, I don't know how powerful Yan Kui is, but he deliberately tests the strength of the Jin army as a strategy for dealing with it in the future, otherwise as soon as Yan Kui's army is surrounded, he can only be trapped in the county seat, even if there is any strategy, the road is blocked.

Now it seems to be reckless, but in fact, he is testing whether he can open a way for himself.

If it succeeds, everyone will naturally be happy.

If it didn't work, he was cautious in his heart, and when he saw that the timing was not good, he immediately returned to the division and retreated, and he couldn't hurt the muscles and bones of the troops under his command.

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Li Ji's exquisite thoughts, Yan Kui has not seen through it for the time being, but he saw that the 40,000 rebels were in a strict formation, and they were leaning on Shou County, and when he saw the Jin army appearing without moving, he knew that Li Ji was doing it on purpose.

Yan Kui stretched out his hand to summon Chen Xingxiao and several generals, and asked them to lead their headquarters to attack the rebel camp, and he himself sat in the Chinese army and watched the battle.

Chen Xingxiao and others took the order, ordered the headquarters to go, divided it into two parts, and killed the left and right wings of the rebels.

Yan Kui's position has a wide field of vision, and his observation of the formation is naturally quite clear, he saw that Li Ji let the two wings of the rebels be embarrassed by Chen Xingxiao and others, but still let the Chinese army not send troops to support, he couldn't help but shake his head and laugh.

"It's a tough opponent."

Fang Rui next to him nodded thoughtfully, and his words were a little emotional: "This person is cautious in his use of soldiers, dares to make trade-offs, has determination, and is the capital of a good general, such an opponent, I actually despised him last time, and I was unjustly defeated." ”

Fang Rui's words undoubtedly admitted his previous guilt of being greedy and reckless, and dared to act, but it made Yan Kuigao look at him.

This General Fang has mediocre fighting ability and a passable personality............

Thinking like this in his heart, Yan Kui's attitude towards Fang Rui also eased a little, he looked at Li Ji, who was sitting on a horse not far away, with a calm expression, and smiled slightly.

"Although he is a good general, he is invincible, unless the Western Zhou Dynasty makes a move. Otherwise, this person's defeat will only be a matter of time. ”

Fang Rui bowed slightly, expressing his agreement, he is also a veteran in the army, and he will judge the war situation.

In his opinion, Yan Kui raised 100,000 troops, and his combat power was far superior to the rebels several times, while Li Ji had no strong city to defend outside, and no elite soldiers and fierce generals to rely on, and the only one to rely on Shanxi Zhou, I am afraid that because of civil strife and scruples about the Northern Jin Dynasty, he would not be able to send troops to Li Ji for effective support.

In such a situation, unless Yan Kui underestimates the enemy to death, otherwise under the steady and steady attack, give full play to the advantages of the Jin army, under the disadvantages of layers, Li Ji is not able to return to the sky at all, and it will take a few months or half a year at most, and he will be eaten away by Yan Kui step by step, and he will be killed.

And now that Yan Kui obviously attaches great importance to Li Ji, it is impossible to expect Yan Kui to get away with it by himself, so under the siege of 100,000 Jin troops, it is not a matter of time before Li Ji is defeated.

Seeing that the war was self-interested, Fang Rui was very happy, if Yan Kui successfully took Li Ji and quelled the Hongyang rebellion, as a general who participated in the counterinsurgency, not to mention the meritorious service, he was completely exempted from the punishment of the previous defeat, but the credit was in hand, at least Emperor Liyang would not reprimand him heavily.

At that time, Fang Rui will also find someone to dredge up the activities, and it should not be difficult to keep the position of Hongyang Town Guard and General Anbei.

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Thinking of this, Fang Rui's smile became more and more kind, he looked at the stalemate in front of him, and took the initiative to propose to Yan Kui.

"Governor, we have seen the two wings of the rebels clearly, why don't we try their combat strength."

As soon as Yan Kui heard this, he knew that this General Fang couldn't sit still, so he simply followed Yan Kui's suggestion, and Yan Kui was happy to be a favor, so he nodded.

"I wish the general a triumphant victory."

"The last general will live up to the expectations of the governor."

Fang Rui was overjoyed, Chong Yan Kui bent down and was defeated, then turned the horse's head, commanded the 30,000 horses of the Chinese army, and killed Li Ji.

Yan Kui saw clearly in the rear, the rebels had few troops, and their combat strength was even weaker than that of the Jin army, and the head-to-head confrontation was not the opponent of the Jin army at all, if it weren't for the stable formation pressure, the two wings of the rebels would have been crushed by Chen Xingxiao and them.

Now as soon as the Jin army came out, the rebel army could not resist at all, and the defeated army retreated, and the rebel army retreated, even with the two-wing formation was also implicated and dispersed, Chen Xingxiao and other troops saw this, and immediately stepped up the offensive.

After a fierce battle between the two sides for half an hour, the rebels' right flank defense line was completely defeated by the Jin army, and the Jin army went straight to the Chinese army from the rebels' penetrated right flank.

The rebel Chinese army was originally beaten by the Jin army commanded by Fang Rui, and as soon as the right flank was lost, the Jin army on the right side came to kill and attacked Fang Rui's troops from both sides, and the situation of the rebel Chinese army suddenly worsened.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Li Ji immediately made a decision, led the army to unite the left flank, and retreated back to the city, and the Jin army was unwilling to let the enemy flee and tightly bite the rebels.

In the end, it was Li Ji who gave up nearly 3,000 rebels at the cost of painfully, broke his arm to survive, and was able to return to Shishou County safely.

In the first battle, Yan Kui defeated Li Ji's nearly 8,000 men and horses, which fiercely deterred the arrogance of the rebels, and also made the rest of Hongyang counties honestly and dare not think about it anymore.

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However, there is also a drawback to the big victory in this battle, that is, Li Ji was scared, no matter how Yan Kui lured him, he hid in Shou County and did not come out, and he defended the city wholeheartedly, wanting to fight a war of attrition with Yan Kui.

Would Yan Kui be afraid of this rogue trick?

He himself led the main force to confront Li Ji in Shou County, but ordered Fang Rui and Chen Xingxiao to bring 15,000 men and horses each to attack Gushan County and Shu County, which were located on both sides of Shou County.

Yan Kui's purpose is very clear, aren't you Li Ji avoiding the war and not coming out, I will abolish your left and right door gods, go straight in, and you will close the county in the back road.

The closure of the county is Li Ji's retreat for himself, and it is his hope for life, Yan Kui wants to take this place, how can Li Ji be indifferent?

And if he dared to send troops out of the city to rescue the three counties, Li Ji sent out a group of men and horses, and Yan Kui fought a group of men and horses, gradually weakening the main force of the rebels in Shou County.

At that time, Li Ji's main force of soldiers and horses continued to weaken, and there were no soldiers to defend, Yan Kui raised troops to attack the city, and took Shou County in one fell swoop, which was calculated to lure the snake out of the hole.

Of course, it would be easy for Li Ji to stick to Shou County, the three counties of Gushan were taken, Yan Kui cut off the connection between Li Ji and the Western Zhou Dynasty, and Shou County was just a lonely city.

As long as the army is surrounded, whether it is a frenzied attack day and night, or a siege without attacking, and the grain stored in the city is consumed, Li Ji is a dry skeleton in the grave, and he is dying.