So under all circumstances, Xue Ju did not choose to consume his elite troops to forcibly try to defeat the Tang army on the opposite side. He suddenly remembered that there was a mention in the previous intelligence that the warehouse in Chang'an City, which was responsible for supplying grain and grass to the Tang army, was set on fire and burned down. But to this day, his spies in Chang'an City have not sent back any news to investigate who did it, and all the mysteries seem to have become a complete mystery with the mass of coke in the fire.

However, Xue Ju was not very interested in this mystery, and the only thing that interested him in this matter was the lack of military food for the Tang army in front of him. And Li Shimin, as the commander of the Tang Army, definitely knew the news, but Liu Wenjing on the other side didn't seem to know about it, and three meals a day were still supplied truthfully, and the food supply of the soldiers was not reduced because of the lack of logistics resources. After speculating a little about Li Shimin's thoughts, Xue Ju had already guessed a rough idea. Thinking of this, Xue Ju decided to make a big gamble, he wanted to bet that Li Shimin did not inform his subordinates of the lack of military food in his army, so around this possibility, Xue Ju made a plan.

In the early morning of the next day, Xue Ju organized the army to begin to beg the enemy outside the Tang military camp, trying to induce Liu Wenjing to lead his troops to attack. Although Liu Wenjing was very contemptuous of these Qin troops in front of him, out of his intuition as a general and his unconditional obedience to Li Shimin's orders, these made Liu Wenjing resist the idea of attacking, but he just stuck to his camp without any reaction. But the shouting and scolding outside the camp has been incessant, and from early morning to noon, all Liu Wenjing's relatives have been turned out and scolded. He also made up a lot of meat jokes about Liu Wenjing's wife outside the camp, and described Liu Wenjing's wife as very hospitable, and she had a good relationship with the neighbors in the street.

Hearing this, Liu Wenjing finally couldn't bear it anymore, and suddenly got up from his seat with a blue face. Then he picked up his weapons and led his personal guards out of the camp to fight to the death with the Xue Ju army on the opposite side. At this time, another general next to him stopped Liu Wenjing and said to him: "General, no!" The general has an order, we just have to guard the camp to avoid the battle, but the camp is against the military order, when the general investigates it, the general, your head may not be saved. ”

After Liu Wenjing listened, she snorted coldly and said, "Hmph! As a manly husband, his wife can endure being corrupted in the mouths of those people, is that still a man? Listen to the scolding on the other side, the green hat they put on my head is about to break the sky on my head! What am I doing with this head? Is it used to wear such a tall green hat? You let me go, or don't blame me for killing you together. ”

At this time, another general next to him stood up and said to the general who stopped Liu Wenjing: "Hey, no one said that the general was going to go out of the camp to face the enemy army in front of him." It's just to understand the strength of the enemy army on the opposite side, so we must go and scout before the battle, right? The sentries we sent out earlier were so angry that they couldn't even get out of the barracks when they were beaten by the army on the other side. Now that the war is about to start, we don't even know the details of the enemy on the other side, how can we win this battle? The general is doing it himself, and he wants to lead the army out of the camp to reconnoiter the specific situation of the enemy army on the opposite side, not to go out of the camp to meet the enemy army, so you don't want to stop the general here, and it is also a capital crime for you to delay the military plane. ”

After listening to what this general said, Liu Wenjing's complexion softened a little, and then he looked at the general who stopped him in front of him and moved out of the way, so he said in a relaxed tone as much as possible: "You go out of the camp with General Ben." Take your brethren and the general's own soldiers out of the camp to reconnoiter the reality of the enemy army on the opposite side, and immediately order the troops to go out to battle. ”

The general saw that Liu Wenjing couldn't stop him, so he also nodded, turned around and returned to his army to order all the men and horses to go out of the camp with Liu Wenjing. The general who had come out to make peace was appointed by Liu Wenjing to take charge of everything in the military camp until Liu Wenjing returned from outside the camp. Then the men and horses were gathered, Liu Wenjing opened the camp gate and led a group of people and horses out of the camp, and went straight to the Qin army on the opposite side to fight the enemy and scold the array.

The Qin army, who was scolding, saw that someone finally came out of the camp, so he turned over his horse and fled behind him without hesitation, and Liu Wenjing saw this and led the army to chase after him. However, because the horses under the crotch were not suitable for this kind of long-distance running battle, they gradually began to be thrown away by the group of Qin troops from afar, until they finally lost the trace of the Qin army.

At the same time, a grain transport team of the Tang Army slowly came from the east and came to the outside of Liu Wenjing's military camp. The general who stayed in the barracks saw that it was the team carrying grain, so he hurriedly came down to check his identity, and then ordered the soldiers next to him to open the camp gate and take the convoy into the camp. Just as the general wanted to beckon his subordinates to come forward to help the soldiers of this team carry food down from the cart, he suddenly shot countless arrows from the cart full of grain, knocking the soldiers who came forward to the ground one after another. Then countless elite soldiers came out of the car, and they pulled out their sabers at their waists and slashed at the Tang army in front of them. Before the Tang army near the grain truck could react, they had already fallen in a pool of blood. The elite soldiers then set fire to the camp. At this time, it was the wind season, and the wind helped the fire quickly spread to the entire Tang army camp. At this time, these soldiers wandered around the Tang military camp again, and after the Tang army, which was a little dizzy and smoked by the fire, cut down countless times one after another, they robbed the horses in the Tang military camp and left safely to the west.

When Liu Wenjing led the army to pursue the Qin army on the opposite side without success, he returned to his own camp. All that was left in front of him was the burned ruins of the camp. The Tang troops who were originally in the camp died and fled, and finally collected the troops, and after counting the troops, they found that the losses were nearly seven or eight out of ten. At this time, he was no longer able to resist the Qin army on the opposite side, so Liu Wenjing wrote a letter to Li Shimin to inform him of what happened to him, and asked him to allow him to retreat first to avoid being surrounded and annihilated by the opposite Xue Ju army in Anding County.

After Li Shimin saw this information, he was even guilty of spinning sickness again. He held on to the camp gate on the side, knowing that this expedition to the west was a complete failure. So he ordered Liu Wenjing to lead his troops to retreat, and his side also packed up the camp and began to retreat gradually.

(End of chapter)