At the same time that Xing set off for Xianning and decided to implement the fraudulent surrender plan, the 5,000 special combat army led by Zhang Ying also began to make a detour and entered Tongshan County.

In order to prevent leakage of information, as soon as Zhang Ying's 5,000 special combat troops entered the city, they immediately blocked the city gate and prevented any people from entering or leaving.

The 5,000 Special Warfare Army, like 5,000 tigers lurking and ready to ambush their prey, are waiting for this big battle to encircle and annihilate Yuan Zongdi under Puqi City.

After Xing arrived in Xianning, he immediately informed Gao Ze and Li Benshen of Fang Yuan's strict orders, as well as the strategy of defeating Yuan Zongdi.

Fang Yuan was limited to the Gao army must immediately send troops to defeat the besieging Yuan Zongdi's army, Gao Ze and Li Benshen were in a dilemma, and they could no longer sit on the wall and watch, either go to battle immediately, or follow Yuan Zongdi's persuasion to surrender and surrender Li Zicheng again.

As soon as Fang Yuan and Li Zicheng compared, the two of them knew that they should choose Fang Yuan even if they were fools, not Li Zicheng, who could not see any prospects.

Fang Yuan forced the Gao army to fight, although there was a suspicion of ordering them to be cannon fodder, but they had no choice but to choose to follow the strategy of the Xing family, sent a letter of surrender to Yuan Zongdi, and then the whole army pulled out of Xianning City and attacked Puqi.

Yuan Zongdi received the surrender letter from Gao Ze and Li Benshen, he was also a battle-hardened general, and he didn't believe that Gao Jun would turn his back on Fang Yuan, who had a bright future, and chose to return to Li Zicheng.

This time the surrender was clearly a fraudulent surrender.

Yuan Zongdi besieged Puqi City without fighting, and was already staring at this reinforcement in Xianning, preparing to besiege the city and send reinforcements. As a result, Gao Ze and Li Benshen refused to send troops in Xianning, which disrupted Yuan Zongdi's previous calculations. can only exchange letters and surrender to test the true purpose of this high army.

At present, since Gao Jun left Xianning and went south to Puqi in the name of surrender, it was in line with Yuan Zongdi's calculations. Regardless of whether the Gao army came to surrender or not, they will be surrounded and annihilated first.

In order to gather and annihilate this 15,000-strong army, Yuan Zongdi only ordered 5,000 people to continue to besiege Puqi City, and personally led 20,000 soldiers to set up an ambush.

He divided into 20,000 sergeants and divided into ten teams, each with 2,000 men, and set up an ambush on the waterway between Xianning and Puqi, waiting for the prey of the Gao army to enter the trap, and then gathered and annihilated in one fell swoop.

Gao Ze and Li Benshen led the army to Puqi to surrender, and Xing also went with the army.

As soon as the march reached a hundred miles away from Puqi, they were surrounded by the ambush soldiers ambushed by Yuan Zong on the tenth side.

The two knew that the so-called deception plan had failed, Gao Ze and Li Benshen saw that Yuan Zongdi's ambush was in a panic, and the nature of fleeing if they couldn't beat the rogue resurged, so they wanted to abandon the army and flee, as long as they saved their lives, they could make a comeback by collecting the defeated army.

Xing Shi immediately stopped the two of them, and said in a deep voice, "Gao Ze, Li Benshen, you two want to escape again, the world is so big, where can you escape?" Do you know why we have survived until now and not been liquidated by the regent?! ”

Li Benshen muttered in a low voice, "That's aunt, you serve well!" ”

Although the relationship between Fang Yuan and Xing's did not spread, Li Benshen and Gao Ze could still guess that there was a problem with the relationship between the two. Xing's family, a woman, would go to Fang Yuan's mansion from time to time, and stay for a few hours. What's more, in those days, Xing's complexion was more radiant than when Gao Jie was there before, and the two of them could naturally guess the cattiness.

Xing Shi glared at Li Benshen deadly, slapped him in the face, and scolded, "Li Benshen, disaster comes from your mouth, your nonsense but one word reaches the ears of the regent, and no one can save your life." ”

"When the regent captured Qingzhou Mansion, one of you earned the city gate, and the other fled away from the battle, if it weren't for my compromise, you would have the opportunity to lead the troops to fight again today?!" A rogue can cut the two of you to surrender and escape! No matter what I do, it is also to save Gao Yuanjue's life and the glory and wealth of the Gao family's personal soldiers! ”

Gao Ze and Li Benshen knew that they were at a loss, no matter whether the Xing family had an affair with Fang Yuan or not, at least she kept the hope of the Gao family's lineage, if she didn't have her, the two would be fish on the chopping board.

Li Benshen hurriedly knelt down at her and slapped himself again and again, "Auntie, I should die!" I will never dare to talk nonsense again! ”

Gao asked her humbly, "Sister-in-law, now that you have been ambushed, if you don't run away, I'm afraid you will be wiped out!" ”

Xing said coldly, "This army is our capital to save our lives, and if this army is here, we still have use value; This army is gone, whether it is the regent or Li Zicheng, they will definitely kill us! ”

Gao Ze sighed and said, "Sister-in-law, I understand the truth, but how can we retreat from the enemy now?!" ”

Xing said sharply, "Two big men, when the matter comes, it is not as knowledgeable as me as a woman's family. Li Benshen, you lead the army to camp on the spot and wait for reinforcements; Gao Ze, you immediately go to Yuan Zongdi's military camp to deliver the surrender letter, keep in mind, delay for a day, and then agree to any surrender conditions, and come back immediately! ”

As soon as Gao Ze and Li Benshen heard this, they knew that Xing wanted to delay time and wait for reinforcements.

Li Benshen asked, "Auntie, the regent sent us to conquer Yuan Zongdi, just to treat us as cannon fodder, and there will be reinforcements coming?" ”

After being ambushed, Xing gradually came to his senses, "With my understanding of the regent, even Yuan Zongdi can think of tricks, the regent will never be unexpected." He didn't use us as cannon fodder, but as bait, and there will be reinforcements in the future! ”

Li Benshen, who was stationed in place, was nothing, and Gao Ze, who was sent to the tiger's den in Longtan, was still a little worried, "Sister-in-law, do you really trust the regent so much that he will send reinforcements." ”

Xing thought about the days when he was entangled in the bed with Fang Yuan, and at this critical juncture, he couldn't help but give birth to Fang Yuan's trust, and said slowly, "The regent is a little bit more than us, he is a hundred times stronger than us, don't doubt it, go and do it immediately." ”

Li Benshen and Gao Ze were dead horses as live horse doctors, one went to stop the riots in the army, and the other went to Yuan Zongdi's military camp with several horses, submitted a letter of surrender, and delayed time.

Yuan Zongdi received Gao Ze's letter of surrender, and he did not suspect that Gao Ze was delaying time. But now that this Gao army is already in the ambush circle, there is no escape, what is the problem of delaying for two or three days? If he could take it, his pro-army camp would be doubled; If you want to forcibly destroy it, the high army will fight the trapped beasts, and it will inevitably lose its troops.

After thinking about it, he decided to surround this high army first and talk about the conditions of surrender. If you can't talk about it after three days, you won't eat it if you annihilate it again.

What Yuan Zongdi didn't expect was that it was the hesitation of these three days that decided the fate of him, as well as the two or thirty thousand intruding troops.

The special combat army led by Zhang Ying had long been waiting for Yuan Zongdi to go to encircle and annihilate the Gao army in Tongshan. After Yuan Zongdi surrounded the Gao army, Zhang Ying immediately chose to attack, and the five thousand special operations troops changed into the military uniforms of the intruding army, like tigers descending from the mountain, and rushed to the camp left by Yuan Zongdi under Puqi City.

Although there are 5,000 sergeants left behind in the camp, the difference between their combat strength and that of the special operations army is more than one or two points? What's more, the special operations army still used the banner of Yuan Zongdi to directly deceive the gate of the village and enter the village.

This battle lasted only until the second day, when the 5,000 soldiers who broke into the army died and fled and dispersed in a hurry. The big camp, as well as the military rations in the camp, all fell into Zhang Ying's hands.

The 20,000 ambush soldiers sent out by Yuan Zongdi were originally lightly armed, and they did not bring much military rations with them, and they were still waiting for the support of military rations from the rear.

Unexpectedly, a day later, instead of waiting for the military rations, he waited for the defeat report of the fall of the battalion. Only then did Yuan Zongdi know that he had fallen for the trick of the Xuanjia Army, and wanted to kill Gao Ze to get angry, but Gao Ze didn't dare to stay in the Yuan Army's military camp for a day, and he had already secretly escaped.

The military rations have been lost, and any ambush on all sides is a fart, Yuan Zongdi immediately withdrew the encirclement of the Gao army, and led the division back to the camp, wanting to recapture the camp and military rations.

By the time Yuan Zongdi led the army back to the barracks, Zhang Ying had already burned the camp and the military rations, and withdrew with the special operations army.

Yuan Zongdi cut off the military rations, and had to report that after the siege was lifted, the Gao army began to move south, preparing to come to relieve the siege of Puqi. Yuan Zongdi did not dare to stay under Puqi City any longer, so he immediately withdrew his troops to the southwest and went to Baling to join Li Zicheng's main force.

What Yuan Zongdi didn't know was that the special combat army led by Zhang Ying did not withdraw, but chose to go to Linxiang County between Puqi and Baling to set up an ambush, preparing to gather and annihilate Yuan Zongdi, who had run out of military rations and fled here.

Five days later, Yuan Zongdi led 1 or 20,000 hungry troops to retreat to Linxiang.

Zhang Ying led 5,000 special combat troops to attack the Gao army that followed after him, and the annihilation battle against Yuan Zongdi officially began.

The two sides fought fiercely in Linxiang for three days, and the 20,000 troops of Yuan Zong's headquarters were either killed in battle, or surrendered, and the whole army was annihilated.

Yuan Zongdi himself refused Zhang Ying's surrender and died in battle.