Inside the city of Huoyi. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

After Song Laosheng received the note with words, he sneered and didn't care, but a few days later, he found an abnormality in the army, and many generals, supervisors, and envoys sent by the imperial court began to secretly gather and communicate, all suspecting that Song Laosheng really intended to take refuge in Tang Guogong, so he would hold on to the city and not go out to meet the enemy, and missed the great opportunity to attack the Tang army in vain.

People are afraid, after Song Laosheng heard these criticisms, he was furious, but he was also a little frightened, because the imperial court was in danger and the suspicion was serious, if he did not act, showed his loyalty to the imperial court, and smashed the rumors, he was likely to be instigated by the prison to mutiny and take him down.

Or when the news reaches back to the imperial court, someone will definitely be sent with a holy decree to abolish his official position as the chief general.

Song Laosheng thought of this, forced to be helpless, transferred troops, and decided to go out to meet the Tang army, he sent some scouts, and found that part of the Tang army was retreating because of insufficient food and grass supplies, and some of them wanted to go around Huoshan.

Therefore, Song Laosheng's soldiers were divided into two routes, a 10,000-strong cavalry went to attack the military camp that had not yet retreated in the Mouse Bird Valley, and he personally led more than 20,000 horses to pursue Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin around Huoshan, and wanted to borrow the Tang Army, the vanguard of the party county on the road.

"Bang Bang!"

When Song Laosheng led his troops to catch up with Li Jiancheng's army, suddenly, countless flags lit up in the surrounding jungles and mountains, and countless figures stood up, shouting and shouting.

"Song Laosheng, your time of death has come." Li Shimin had already laid an ambush here, shouted loudly, and ordered the arrows to be released.

In an instant, arrow feathers shot out from all directions, attacking and killing the Sui army in the ambush circle.

The sound of drums and trumpets intertwined, the arrows broke through the air quickly, the Sui army screamed again and again, and the faces of the soldiers were full of fear and despair.

Puff puff puff -

The arrows pierced the armor and sternum of the Sui soldiers, and people continued to die tragically.

Song Laosheng led his troops back, but was intercepted by Yin Kaishan and Duan Zhixuan, two tiger generals, and the two sides fought together.

Hand-to-hand combat, fierce confrontation, war horse impact, knife slashing stumps, flesh and blood blurred, and soon blood flowed.

Half an hour later, Song Laosheng escaped with a team of 1,000 people, but on the way back to Huoyi, he was intercepted by Liu Hongji and his troops, and he was killed directly by an arrow.

The cavalry that went to attack the Mouse Bird Valley were also ambushed and suffered heavy casualties.

There were less than 10,000 defenders in Huoyi City, and in the face of the onslaught of the Tang army's returning army, there was no main general to command, and the army was discouraged and soon collapsed.

Li Yuan sent troops to occupy Huoyi, and the supplies, grain and grass, and military salaries were all replenished, and he couldn't help but smile.

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In Luoyang City, Wang Shichong was familiar with the Eastern Capital for a month, and confronted the Wagang Army, but because he had not fought for a long time, some people behind him had begun to talk about his 'self-respect', and his intentions were ill-intentioned.

Wang Shichong couldn't hold his breath anymore, so he could only take the initiative to attack, first sending 50,000 troops to cross the western branch of Luoshui under the cover of night, and set up a large camp at Heishi Pass.

This is the choke point of the Luoyang area, and occupying this piece is equivalent to choking the route of the Wagang army to attack Luoyang.

Subsequently, Wang Shichong personally brought another 30,000 elites to cross the Luoshui tributary and march north.

The main forces of the Wagang Army were stationed on the north bank of the eastern branch of Luoshui, outside the Luokou warehouse.

Li Mi learned that Wang Shichong attacked, led the elite to line up on the east bank of the west tributary of Luoshui, he was overjoyed, he didn't know Wang Shichong, felt that he was a sloppy and afraid of horses, he had no ability, so he didn't care, so Li Mi decided to lead the army across the east tributary of Luoshui to the south, and Wang Shichong fought a battle to eliminate the living force of the Sui army.

But Wang Shichong came prepared, cunning and treacherous, deliberately giving people the illusion that he would not lead troops, in fact, he had already sent a strange army to the river bank to hide.

When the Wagang army crossed Luoshui, it had not yet stood firm, Wang Shichong suddenly led the army to launch a sneak attack, the cavalry charged, and the ambush soldiers released arrows, adopting the classic strategy of 'attacking it halfway'.

Because Li Mi underestimated the enemy, the Wagang army was caught off guard, and suddenly made a mess, and a large number of soldiers drowned in the water, killing and wounding.

"Capture the thief Li Mi!"

"Capture the traitors of the Wagang Army—"

The Sui army shouted and covered up, and at once dispersed Li Mi's team and blocked the Wagang reinforcements on the riverbank.

"Duke Wei, retreat quickly, while Wang Shichong's main army has not yet surrounded us, immediately flee downstream, and then cross the river to the north and return to the camp."

Wang Bodang, Pei Xingyan, Cheng Zhijie and others surrounded Li Mi and persuaded him to go back immediately, command the camp and defend against Wang Shichong's pursuit of victory.

Li Mi's face was pale, it had been smooth sailing for more than a year, but he was defeated by Wang Shichong, a villain, today, which was really a loss of face, and more than half of the tens of thousands of troops were killed and wounded, how could he swallow this breath?

"Send someone to find out where Wang Shichong's main force is!"

"Whoa!" There were scouts who went to investigate.

Li Mi led people to retreat downstream, but soon, he got the news that Wang Shichong did not lead the army to chase and kill their men and horses at all, but grabbed the warship and crossed the river directly to the north bank of Luoshui, and wanted to directly end the Wagang army camp, and succeeded in the first battle to exterminate the rebels.

"This Wang Shichong is too greedy, and if he wants to swallow the elephant in one bite, he will choke himself to death after all." Li Millema stopped and made an astonishing move, they were less than 10,000 people, and they did not flee, but wanted to storm Wang Shichong's camp at Heishiguan.

"Duke Wei, this is too dangerous, first of all, our battalion may be lost, and there are at least twenty or thirty thousand people stationed in the Heishiguan camp, we are not manpowered, and the past impact is likely to fail, and we are in a desperate dilemma."

"Needless to say, the soldiers are treacherous, I have made up my mind, everyone, follow me to the Sui Army's Blackstone Battalion."

Pei Xingyan, Cheng Zhijie and others looked at each other, and they all felt that Li Mi was crazy, but when everyone saw Li Mi's expression, no one could persuade them, so they had to take the risk.

As a result, both sides are catching up with time and racing against time to achieve their military goals one step ahead.

Li Mi never thought that Wang Shichong was so cunning and a little underestimated; Wang Shichong never thought that Li Mi was so ruthless, and he was a little careless.

As a result, Wang Shichong attacked the Wagang army camp and was blocked by Xu Shiji and Shan Xiongxin with troops, but his own camp at Heishiguan was full of wolf smoke and there was no good general to defend it.

"Li Mi, you are ruthless enough!" Wang Shichong had to turn around and go back to save his camp, because he couldn't afford to lose, once the camp was destroyed, then how could he have the face to return to Luoyang City, and how to explain to Yang Guang, the capital of Jiangdu?

In a hurry, Wang Shichong gave up continuing to attack the Wagang army camp and hurriedly returned to the south bank of Luoshui to save his Heishiguan camp.

Li Mi got the news, turned around and fought back, and after a rush, he returned to the bank of the Luoshui River, and Shan Xiongxin and Wang Junkuo led troops to pick them up and returned north safely.

In this battle, both sides have their own wins and losses, and they both weigh what kind of opponents they are with!