Chapter 182: (Li Xiucheng died in battle)

On July 14 of the first year of Fengtian, a total of 500,000 troops of Han, Yan and Liang attacked Hejian City, Li Xiucheng, Qian Menglong, Ouyang Qing, Deng Yu, He Qing and other four generals led an army of 60,000 to defend desperately, Chai Shang led 70,000 troops to retreat east of Cangzhou, after entering Cangzhou, left 20,000 troops to defend Cangzhou, and personally took the remaining 50,000 soldiers to Hejian to reinforce, Wentai led the Guanxi Iron Cavalry to block the road from Hejian to Bazhou, so that Shangguan Yin Feng's original plan to let Li Xiucheng withdraw to Fanyang failed, so that Li Xiucheng had to desperately defend Hejian. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

On the same day, Saizun entered Hebei from Anyang, led 40,000 troops to raid Jizhou City, and attacked Xian County from Jizhou City, Xian County Guard General is Li Xiucheng's cronies and deputy generals stationed, there are 10,000 troops, as a horn to cover the river, but also in case the river can not be held, Li Xiucheng and others can cover the army when the army can be hidden.

Xianxian was lost, Chai Shang's reinforcements were blocked in a small town a hundred miles away from the river, and the one who blocked Chai Shang was the sacrifice of Zun, after Chai Shang and the sacrifice of the Zun encounter, and was attacked by Yuan Xian's flank cavalry, which made the army in chaos, and had to retreat to Cangzhou to hold on to wait for help.

Hejian is an important town in Hebei since ancient times, it is also the boundary city of Jizhou and Youzhou, the status is important, the construction of the city is also quite exquisite, the city height is nearly three zhang, that is, it is almost ten meters high, it is also the height of the big city, the city capacity is very large, the military and civilians can accommodate nearly 200,000 people, and the Li Xiucheng defenders in the city of Hejian are only 60,000, and they have to defend four gates, which makes the defense of the city quite difficult, and the enemy coalition forces take turns attacking the city every day, so that the Li Xiucheng troops who defend the city are physically and mentally affected.

July 16, two days later, the city of Hejian was broken, the west gate attacked by Kou Sui broke through He Qing's defense line, the Han army poured into the city wall like a tide, attacked the inner city, and then attacked the south gate Yuan Long led his Yan army to climb the south gate city wall, Li Xiucheng personally held a gun on the city wall to kill the enemy, the two sides began a scuffle, bows and arrows, crossbow arrows shot against each other for a long time, both sides suffered heavy casualties, Li Xiucheng was hit by several arrows, still killed the enemy 14 people, was rushed to reinforcements Qian Menglong left the city wall.

Due to the breaching of the south gate and the west gate, Wentai of the north gate relaxed the pace of the attack, and just concentrated on guarding the north gate with the Kansai cavalry, and the siege of the city was not their strong point for the Kansai people.

The south gate and the west gate were broken, the river has lost the meaning of continuing to defend, the road to Fanyang was blocked by the Kansai people, and now Li Xiucheng can only lead the army to retreat to Cangzhou, so he united with several other people, led the troops to rush out of the city towards the east gate, the siege of the three missing is a method of warfare since ancient times, Li Xiucheng's troops out of the city are in the arms of Kou Xun, and have been ambushed in the middle of the road to follow the way forward, the two sides launched a fierce contact battle, Li Xiucheng's troops suffered heavy casualties, the road to Nanpi is too far, and most of his men are foot soldiers, It was easy to be caught up by the cavalry, so in desperation, Li Xiucheng led his troops to withdraw to Wuyi County, the closest to the Shandong border, and prepared to hold on and wait for reinforcements.

After Chai Shang learned that Li Xiucheng was ambushed, he hurriedly led his troops out of the city to prepare for support, but he was ambushed by the prepared priests, and more than half of his cavalry were killed and wounded, and he himself was also wounded, and withdrew to Cangzhou City again.

On July 20, Shangguan Yin Feng received a report from the Hebei War at Shanhaiguan, and after learning that Li Xiucheng had withdrawn to Wuyi, his heart was panicked, and because he was not at ease, he hurriedly asked people to open the map and observe the forces around Wuyi.

"The surroundings of Wuyi are safe, and the nearest one is Nanpi, if Chai Shang can send troops from Nanpi to pick up Li Xiucheng and go to Nanpi, maybe there will be a turnaround." Shangguan Yin Feng pointed to the map and said with some concern.

Due to Cheng Gongwu's rebellion and the establishment of the Qi State, and Wuyi was connected to Dezhou City, an important border town in Shandong, if Cheng Gongwu sent troops to attack Wuyi County, Li Xiucheng would not be able to hold it anyway.

"Lord Wang, General Li is resourceful and has outstanding martial arts, and he will definitely be able to turn danger into a disaster, please don't worry about it." Huang Wei comforted, it was not that he was a sycophant, but that Li Xiucheng was really capable.

On July 22, Shandong Dezhou city guard Cheng Chang led 30,000 troops to attack Wuyi County, at that time Li Xiucheng was wounded by arrows and was recuperating from his injuries, and Li Xiucheng left less than 20,000 people in Wuyi County, and there were many wounded, just on the 20th, Li Xiucheng also personally led an army of 3,000 to attack Yuan Long's troops who came to attack Wuyi, killing thousands of enemies and returning to the city, which greatly boosted morale, so that Yuan Long did not dare to attack Wuyi easily, waiting for Kou Xun's reinforcements, but I don't know what happened, Chengchang suddenly made a mistake and led his troops to attack Wuyi County, Due to the long battle, the soldiers of the Cheng Dynasty were physically and mentally exhausted, and the city defense was broken through after a short time.

Li Xiucheng, He Qing, Qian Menglong, Ouyang Qing, Deng Yu and other five generals have each led their own troops to break through, their destination is only Nanpi and Cangzhou, agreed to withdraw to Nanpi, but Li Xiucheng was too seriously injured, in the middle of the horse arrow wound burst out, bleeding nonstop, fell off the horse, was driven by the Qi army to surround in the middle, Li Xiucheng's personal guard troops rose up to fight back, wanted to give Li Xiucheng a bloody way, but bad luck, Li Xiucheng was hit by an arrow again when he got on the horse, and after falling off the horse, he was shot and killed under the horse by the Qi army who rushed up. His son Li Chengdong escaped with more than a dozen people at the age of 16.

Qian Menglong and others, who escaped, were all surprised when they learned the news of Li Xiucheng's death, but the matter was a foregone conclusion, with Ouyang Qing as the governor, he led the remnants of thousands of people to flee to Nanpi, and rushed to Cangzhou City to wait for help under Chai Shang's response.

On July 28, news of Li Xiucheng's death reached Beiping City, when Shangguan Yin Feng was gathering generals at Yuan Jingchu's palace to discuss the matter of aiding Cangzhou.

A Jinyi guard captain hurriedly ran into the main hall, knelt down on one knee towards Shangguan Yin Feng on the high platform, and said: "Lord Qiqi, Cangzhou urgent report, Hebei recruiting envoy, Ruyang Li Xiucheng died in Wuyi County, General Qian, General Ouyang, General He, General Deng and others returned to Cangzhou, all injured. ”

Shangguan Yin Feng stood up, goosebumps all over his body, and asked tremblingly, "Which General Li?" ”

Hearing this, Jin Yiwei replied: "The former military governor's mansion, the left governor of the palace, the envoy of Hebei, and the Marquis of Ruyang, Li Xiucheng, General Li. ”

After Shangguan Yin Feng confirmed that the deceased was Li Xiucheng, he instantly felt a burst of dizziness, he only felt the shouts of the generals in the hall, and the call of Huang Wei, who was standing not far from him, and then his throat was sweet, and after spurting out a mouthful of blood, his eyes were dark, and he fainted.

When he woke up, he was already in Yuan Jingchu's dormitory, the dormitory was full of generals, Shen Lihua was sitting next to the bed, Shangguan Yin Feng opened his eyes, and after shouting 'Gonghuan', he spit out a mouthful of blood again, his eyes were dark, and he fainted again.