13. Li Ma's old vendetta
Ma Sui summoned the general Li Ziliang and asked him how to fight this battle.
Li Ziliang was originally a subordinate of the former Hedong Jiedu envoy Bao Fang, when the Hui invaded Taiyuan, Bao Fang wanted to lead the army to fight, but Li Ziliang persuaded him that it was better to stick to the city, and then don't send an army to build a fortress behind the Hui Hui, cut off its retreat, and wait until its soldiers are exhausted and the food is exhausted, and then pursue it head and tail, you can get full success.
However, Bao Fang did not listen, so he had to fight and fight on the plains with Hui and suffered a heavy defeat.
After Bao Fang was dismissed, Ma Sui became the envoy of the Hedong Festival, thinking that Li Ziliang was both wise and brave, so he entrusted him with the task of being the heart of the heart, and he would inevitably consult before the war.
Li Ziliang pointed to the map and said that Yang Chaoguang only had 5,000 soldiers and horses, and he joined forces with Li Baozhen and Li Sheng, and it was easy to break his camp, but Tian Yue's main force may come to reinforcements at any time, and this is where I should be concerned: I can be given 3,000 elite soldiers to go around to Shuanggang between Lu and Tian Yue's main formation to resist Tian Yue, and then I will concentrate on attacking Lu Lou, and I will concentrate on blocking Tian Yue, and this battle will be won.
"Very good, Shuanggang will be handed over to you, if Tian Yue has a soldier and a soldier to reinforce Lu Yuan, he will kill you!" Ma Sui agreed.
The next day, Ma Sui, Li Baozhen, and Li Sheng's 40,000 elites were exhausted, and they attacked Lu Lou one after another, and Yang Chaoguang was terrified and hurriedly asked for help from Tian Yue.
"Lu Building can't be lost, if you lose it, the battle of Linwei will be doomed!" Tian Yue, who realized the seriousness, together with Tian Xu, personally led the most elite more than 10,000 Wei Boya soldiers to prepare to reinforce Lu Xuan.
Who wants to be at Shuanggang, meet Li Ziliang who came here to intercept, Wei Boya soldiers shouted, the front of the heavy armor to support the shield, the back row to raise the long-handled sword, Yutian Chenghei was the most proud of the "Thousand Knife Array" when he was alive, like a wall, attacking Shuanggang.
Li Ziliang led 3,000 Hedong armor soldiers to resist to the death, and Tian Xudu Wei Bo's Thousand Sword Array attacked more than ten times, but failed to win, let alone capture Shuanggang.
On the other hand, Ma Sui recruited hundreds of people who dared to die, pushed an oil-filled light cart full of firewood and grass, and rushed to the camp of Yang Chaoguang in Lu Tower, and set it on fire, the wooden fence erected by Yang Chaoguang and Lu Zichang was suddenly wiped out, and the two armies of Li Chen and Li Baozhen were outflanked from both wings, killing 5,000 Wei Bo soldiers on Lu Dunshan Hill, Yang Chaoguang was beheaded, and Lu Zichang was captured and his head was shown to the public.
Then, the Ma Sui cavalry drove directly to Shuanggang to help Li Ziliang, and Tian Yue, who saw that the situation was not good, no longer had the courage to continue to surround Linhao City - thousands of Wei Bo soldiers abandoned the camp under Linwei City and rushed towards the direction of Lishui - Zhang Ling, the defender of the city, took the opportunity to open the door and pursue, and obtained countless baggage.
Tian Yue, who rushed to the water, was so angry that he even cut several people to hold back the collapsed formation, and then asked the whole army to turn around and fight in formation.
As soon as they lined up, the armies of Ma Sui, Li Baozhen, and Zhang Ling arrived as quickly as the wind and fought fiercely with Wei Bo's army.
And Li Sheng led the Shence army to cross the water in a roundabout way, appeared in the rear of Tian Yue's side, and struck over, all of a sudden like sweeping the ground, like a fire burning the plain, beating Tian Yue to the ground, Dr. Wei was killed more than 10,000 people, Tian Yue and Tian Xu, the two cousins, hugged their heads and cried, and fled in embarrassment, "I regret not listening to the words of Xing Caojun, the assassin of Beizhou, we are really not Ma Sui, Li Baozhen, and Li Sheng's opponents!" ”
Taking advantage of the cover of night, Tian Yue gathered the defeated troops and went south in great panic, crossing the boundary of Cizhou and heading towards Xiangzhou.
Xiangzhou was the gateway to Wei, and it could also control the key points of Hebei Province and Henan Province to the south.
And the imperial court Fang Heyang Jiedu envoy Li Geng, has led the army to approach Weizhou, and Ma Sui and others are in a situation of attacking from north to south.
As long as Xiang and Wei fall, the Wei Mansion will have no danger to defend, and Tian Yue can obediently hand over his head.
The frightened Tian Yue retreated in the area of Anyang City, the seat of Xiangzhou Governance, and asked the general Wang Guangjin to build a glaive barrier by the Zhangshui River and lock the long bridge.
Ma Sui, who was in pursuit, ordered the soldiers to push the chariot, fill it with soil bags, chain it with iron chains, and stuff it in Zhangshui, and soon the water flow became shallow, and the whole army crossed Zhangshui, stationed at Tuncangkou, and Tian Yue was separated from the water, which frightened Tian Yue all day long.
"Don't be afraid, I'm afraid that the other party's food is about to run out, as long as I hold on to Anyang City and wait for reinforcements from Chengde and Pinglu, I can still have a chance of victory." Tian Yue of Anyang City kept cheering himself up like this.
Not long after, the Ziqing Ping Lu army really sent more than 10,000 people, and Li Weiyue's Chengde army also sent 3,000 people to meet Tian Yue.
At this time, Tian Yue knew that Li Zhengji was dead, and Li Na was in charge of the overall situation, and he couldn't help but feel sad: "In the past, Li Baochen, Li Zhengji and my uncle Tian Chenghei had dealt with Emperor Daizong all their lives, but they were a little affectionate. Now the new emperor and those of us (Li Weiyue, Li Na and myself) have no feelings to talk about, we must not surrender, surrender is destruction, I have to defend Anyang City to the death! ”
Just when Tian Yue made up his mind to resist stubbornly to the end, a dispute broke out in the imperial army camp on the other side of Huanshui.
Because of Ma Sui and Li Baozhen's old grudges.
When Emperor Daizong was still alive, Li Baozhen wanted to kill Yang Qin, the assassin of Huaizhou.
In fact, people are really strange, Li Baozhen is in the Zhaoyi Military Embassy Mansion, he has always been known for treating talents leniently, and he likes to cultivate immortals, and his moral quality is higher than that of ordinary military generals, but no matter how good a person is, he also has a wrongdoer who wants to put him to death - for Li Baozhen, Yang Qin is such an enemy.
In the Daizong Dynasty, there is no discipline at all, and the festival will make the army kill a history of assassination, drizzle.
Yang Qin heard that Li Baozhen was going to sharpen his knife to kill him, so he ran all the way to join Ma Sui, who took him in, and formed a bond with Li Baozhen.
Of course, Ma Sui is not really chivalrous, he protects Yang Qin, in fact, he wants to include Huaizhou in his own forces.
Therefore, in this expedition, he and Li Baozhen could still protect each other if they were defeated, but it was logical that they began to tear each other down. Sure enough, after the great victory, the imperial court added Ma Sui to recruit envoys for Wei Bo, and Li Baozhen began to have some "strange appearances".
When the army was still in Yecheng, Li Baozhen began to use the name of "taking pills to cultivate", and often did not come to meetings with Ma Sui and Li Sheng to coordinate, staying in his own camp and guarding the burning Dan furnace, not knowing what to do.
Recently, Ma Sui was even more annoyed: Li Baozhen suddenly arbitrarily pulled out 2,000 soldiers and horses to go north, saying that he wanted to rescue Li Hong, the assassin who was holding Xingzhou.
"After Linwei defeated Tian Yue, Wei Bo's Kang Su had already lifted the siege of Xingzhou, so why did Li Hong need him to save him! It is clear that he wants to take away my credit, and take the opportunity to swallow Xing, Zhaozhou, and Cizhou into the mouth of the Zhaoyi army. Ma Sui in the camp was furious, and complained to Li Sheng, the silent Shence army, "I am Wei Bo's envoy, and I am under the order of His Majesty to command all the armies, but Li Ashi (Li Baozhen's tenth in the family line) does not take my dogma in his eyes so much, so don't you continue the crusade against this Tian Yue?" ”