The meeting time agreed between Li Mao and Ashina was March 12, in order to let the Pei brothers put all the military horses out, Li Mao carefully planned this plan to lure the snake out of the hole, and used himself as a bait to induce the Pei brothers to carry out the encirclement and reinforcement. Li Mao wanted to lure out the big snake of the Pei family brothers to Ashinabei to beat, and the Pei brothers used Li Mao as bait to catch Li Yu and Chen Wanchun to take the bait, come to a siege point to send reinforcements, and completely defeat the official army with the advantage of geography and people, and keep their own one-third of an acre.

Zheng Xiaozhang persuaded Li Mao, but his attitude was not resolute, in his opinion, this is undoubtedly the only rule of quick victory, the Pei family brothers have two thousand military horses in their hands, this time to save Ye Shuodu There are 1,500 people, according to the regular actions to fight, it is bound to pay an extremely heavy price, and the longer the delay, the greater the variables, it is the best choice at the moment.

But Li Mao used himself as a bait, the risk is too great, a little careless, will end up a snake bite instead of being bitten by a snake, Zheng Xiaozhang therefore advised Li Mao to think twice, and then saw that Li Mao had made up his mind, so he did not persuade again, since ancient times, wealth and wealth are in danger, although high returns are accompanied by high risks.

Except for Zheng Xiaozhang, Li Mao did not tell the second person about his plan, and now it seems that all this is worth it although it is a bit risky.

Ashinabe, after the Turks, his ancestors once dominated the steppe during the Sui and Tang dynasties, and were famous. At the beginning of the Li Tang Dynasty, it was plagued by Turkic invasion, and after the unremitting blows of the three generations of emperors Li Shimin, Li Zhi, and Wu Zetian, the once prosperous Turkic kingdom collapsed. It has been more than 100 years since the Ashina Pei family moved inward, and he inherited the surname of his ancestors, but he has the blood of the Tang people in his body.

In order to go to Li Mao's appointment, Ashina Pei specially changed the equipment for his cavalry, 500 cavalry were all dressed in heavy armor, horses were also armored, 500 heavy armored cavalry in the narrow strip south of Ye Shuodu Beizhuang and north of the Ye River to launch a group charge, which can be described as overwhelming, and the bandits with poor equipment and insufficient training formed a crushing trend from the beginning.

This is not a close fight, this is a complete massacre.

After Huang Renfan, who was ordered to lurk outside Ye Shuodu Beizhuang, completed the task of guiding Ashina into the battlefield, he began to carry out his second mission - to lead his troops to rescue Li Mao. Li Mao rode on the military horse brought by Huang Renfan, but he was not in a hurry to leave, he stayed on the battlefield to observe the situation, and when he saw that the Pei family army had collapsed under the impact of the cavalry of the Pinglu army, Li Mao decided to go straight to the command center of the Pei family brothers, pull out the teeth of the tiger, and destroy the Pei family brothers' will to fight in one fell swoop.

According to the prior assignment, the two teams of personal soldiers on the left and right quickly dispatched, went upriver in the chaos, and went straight to the base camp of the Pei brothers in the northeast corner of Ye Shuodu.

The reversal of the battlefield situation is so drastic that the Pei family brothers, who have been reading military books since childhood, but are relatively inexperienced on the battlefield, are at a loss, even if they have a thousand strategies, they can only lament the fate of defeat in the face of opponents whose strength is far superior to their own.

After being stunned for a long time, Pei Renjing, who was lying on the stretcher, tearfully persuaded Pei Renyong: "God doesn't help me, if I am defeated, I will withdraw." ”

Pei Renyong picked up his gun and got on the horse, and said with tears in his eyes: "If you are defeated, you have to kill hard, so go back, how can you face the brothers who died in battle?" ”

Pei Renqu dragged the reins of the horse and persuaded: "There are still hundreds of elite soldiers in Daxiao Pu Mountain, the soldiers are full of food, and the horses can't go up the mountain, we still have a chance to turn defeat into victory. ”

Pei Renyong sighed heavily, and then gave up the idea of suicide, and rushed back to the Chinese army under the escort of a group of personal soldiers, wanting to get the picture book and leave again. After all, the Pei family brothers were not born in the regular army, and they had no experience in leading troops, and the Chinese army did not leave a general to garrison when they went to war. A group of people rushed to the gate and looked at the empty camp, Pei Renyong smashed his head and shouted regretfully: "Self-righteous, I told you to be self-righteous, after reading so many books, you failed to be wise but read as a nerd, and you still boast that Han Xin is alive, Li Guang is reborn, but he is a stupid person who plays chess and dies without caring about his family." ”

was feeling sorry for himself, and suddenly there was one more person in front of him, but it was a thin old man with a white beard and red face, carrying a thin Qinglong Yanyue knife on his shoulder, and he was staring at himself with a pair of blood-red eyes. Pei Renjing recognized at a glance that this old man was the frightened Mao Taigong, a military general who had been killed on the river beach two days ago, and hurriedly issued a warning to Pei Renyong to dodge.

The veteran rolled his eyes when he heard this, and said with a smile: "You are Pei Renyong, take the head." The big knife flipped over, and a circle of white light reflected on the face of the horse under Pei Renyong's seat, and the horse saw the blade of the cold forest, and couldn't help but let out a wail, and raised his front legs high and screamed with relish, and Pei Renyong, who was pouting, almost fell down.

Pei Renyong was full of anger and had nowhere to vent, he was suddenly furious when he was teased by Mao Taigong, and he grabbed his horse and shouted and charged, Pei Renjing and Pei Renqu shouted together, but the momentum was also successful, and it was difficult to turn around.

When Taigong Mao saw Pei Renyong coming, he screamed strangely, volleyed backwards, sat cross-legged on the ground, twisted his body, and lifted the eighteen-pound Qinglong Yanyue Knife upward, but heard a strange sound of "hiss", Pei Renyong's mount's abdomen was opened by the blade A huge opening, and the blood did not flow out, and the internal organs were squeezed out first.

Pei Renyong fell under the horse with an "ouch", knocked out two front teeth, and before he could get up, a capable pawn jumped over and sat on his back, and shouted at Pei Jiajun:

"The Lord will be captured, and if you don't give up your weapon and ask for sin, are you still waiting for me to give you a reward?"

It is shocking that the main general was captured by the enemy in front of the battle, but the terrifying knife of the red-eyed old man was even more shocking, and the soldiers of the Pei family army had no fighting spirit, and they were stunned like mud puppets. Pei Renjing, who was lying on the stretcher, forcibly struggled and shouted: "Pei Renqu, why are you still stunned, run." Pei Renqu, who was in a daze on the side, came back to his senses, Pei Renyong was captured, Pei Renjing was dying, if the whole army was annihilated, what would happen to the relatives of the Pei family left on the Xiaopu Mountain, and what would happen to the soldiers under his command and the people who depended on them? He clamped his knees between the horse's belly, sat down, and with a neigh, the horse neighed, and rushed out of the crowd and fled northeast.

Qingmo raised his bow and fired two arrows at Pei Renqu in a row, but they all missed, Qingmo dropped his bow and used the crossbow, but he was held down by Li Mao, and in the blink of an eye, Pei Renqu was already out of range.

The Chinese army was attacked, the main generals were both captured, the Pei family army was leaderless, and it had become a rout under the impact of Ashinabei's cavalry, and in the face of the thieves who fled like ants, Ashinabei sneered and ordered to gather the team. He has already helped his friend, but he still keeps his friend's ass to wipe it himself, and it is not cost-effective to carve arrows and shoot dung beetles.

Li Mao led the crowd forward to thank him, Ashina was not good at words, and reluctantly dealt with a few words, and then said: "I went out to inspect this time, and I happened to meet your army to suppress bandits here, so I helped, General Li doesn't have to thank me, don't pass by." ”

Ashina is short-tempered, not sociable, but not stupid, he knows that Li Shigu is the most taboo for his generals to have too close personal friendships, so he doesn't want to have anything to do with Li Mao. After explaining these few words, he led the crowd to retreat westward, and in this round of fighting, there were also seven or eight dead and wounded in his team, and the bodies of the dead had been tied to their horses, and the wounded were properly settled.

Li Mao looked at the yellow dust rolling away, and praised sincerely: "This generation is a good general." ”

After the collapse of the Pei family's army, Li Yu and Chen Wanchun did not have the slightest soft-heartedness, led the crowd to clash left and right, killed countless people, and were exhausted at the moment, looking at the mountain of human heads, the two looked at each other and laughed, sat in the pile of dead people and drank together, rested their strength, and then came to see Li Mao. After fighting for a long time, both of them were blood-soaked and heavily armoured, and there were no less than ten large and small wounds on their bodies, which were temporarily wrapped in bandages, and they were relieved to see that Li Mao was safe and sound. Asked where the distant cavalry came from, Li Mao said: "General Ashina of Lishan Town, Puzhou, went out to inspect, passed by here, and saw that our army was fighting hard with the thieves, so he gave a helping hand, and he left. ”

Li Mao said it lightly, but Li Yu and Chen Wanchun were surprised when they heard it.

Ashinabei's 2,000 iron cavalry is the elite of the elite of the Pinglu army, Li Shigu regards it as the treasure of the town, how can he go out to patrol without anything, and help fight the bandits by the way, these reasons are untenable, Ashinabei's trip must be a special trip for the Pei family brothers, Li Mao used his example as a bait to coax the Pei family brothers to take the bait and gather here. Whether this plan is good or not, Li Yu thinks that in general, although Pei Jiajun's training is insufficient, but there are many people and they occupy a geographical advantage, and it is not easy to talk about it if they want to gather and annihilate it in one go.

However, if you count Ashinabei's move, this strategy of luring the snake out of the hole and slaughtering it on the spot is perfect. It's just that mobilizing Li Shigu's henchmen and cronies is by no means a simple matter, and Li Mao is a bit famous. After this incident, the two of them were impressed by Li Mao, and they were still slightly contemptuous in their heads-up, but now they can only look up.

Seeing that the battlefield was chaotic, everyone persuaded Li Mao to get on the boat and cross south, Li Mao pointed to the bandits who were unable to form an army and only cared about fleeing: "Fighting with this generation, why be afraid? ”

led the crowd to escort Pei Renyong and Pei Renjing brothers to the south gate of Ye Shuodu Beizhuang, and shouted to the guards in the village: "The Pei family brothers have been captured, and the Pei family army has been defeated. It is only the bandit leader Zhu Jiu who is responsible for the trouble, and those who are coerced will not be held accountable. If you are obsessed and break the village door when you are young, you will inevitably break the crime of breaking the family and filling the army. ”

Someone else called: "Tie up the nine out of the village to donate, reward 10,000 dollars." ”

Most of the guards in Zhuangzi are Zhu Jiu's cronies, after Zhu Jiu's soldiers defeated Lao Turtle Tai, life and death are unknown, the defenders in the village have no leader, and they have already become a plate of scattered sand, and they have witnessed the defeat of the Pei family brothers, and they are even more at a loss, and when they hear this, they ask: "If we surrender, can the chief spare our lives?" Li Mao took an arrow, broke it in public, raised his hand and swore an oath: "If you break your promise, there will be such an arrow." The people in the village no longer doubted, hurriedly opened the door of the village, and knelt down on both sides of the street.