When Yang Xuan felt that there were more than 20,000 people in Lingchang County in Dadong County, he asked left and right in high spirits: "What is the boundary ahead?" ”

Left and right replied: "Yu Chu Gong, in front of you is the sour jujube county of Xingyang County." ”

"Sour jujube...... Sour jujube ......" Yang Xuangan suddenly remembered something, "Then Li Yin, the concubine of the Li Yuan family, is serving in this sour jujube Yingyang Mansion?" ”

"Yes, Li Yin is now the deputy general of the Yang Mansion of Sour Zaoying, and he was ordered by the faint monarch to exterminate the righteous army everywhere, and in April, he had just defeated and besieged Guo Fang's reserve army in Jiyin County." Left and right replied in more detail.

Yang Xuangan once again remembered the humiliating situation in the Taining Palace, and anger appeared in his eyes, "Pass my general's order, the whole army will accelerate its advance and besiege Suozao County!" ”

After the army accelerated for a while, Li Mi hurriedly rode to Yang Xuangan's side, "Duke Chu, why are you besieging the small city of Sour Jujube?" It is imperative to take advantage of Luoyang's lack of preparedness to go to Luoyang as soon as possible! ”

Yang Xuan said with hatred: "Li Yin Xiao'er, he bullied me too much in the Taining Hall that day, and he happened to pass by this time, how could I spare him?" He patted his horse and stepped forward, not wanting to say anything more.

Li Mi looked at Yang Xuangan's back and let out a long sigh.

……

Li Yin hadn't been involved in a decent battle since he defeated Guo Fang's reserve army at Jijun in April.

No way, his reputation spread all over Henan after that war, the nearby thieves fled far away, in May, I heard that there was a group of tens of thousands of thieves who seemed to be passing by the sour date, Li Yin rushed to lead people to meet the battle, but waited for a long time, did not find a figure.

After sending a scout horse to inquire, I learned that the group of tens of thousands of thieves had made a big detour and went elsewhere, so I had to return to the sour jujube in a depressed state.

He is just a general of the Yingyang Mansion of Sour Zao, and he can only manage the affairs in Sour Zao, and without an edict, he cannot leave the country to be hunted down, otherwise it will be a major crime of rebellion.

So these days, Li Yin has nothing to do to train the army, and occasionally goes back to his residence to do something shameless and impatient with Cailian, and plays with Fluttershy and Niuniu, but he is also at ease.

At the same time, Li Yin estimated that Uncle Yang in Liyang should also be about to rebel, so he asked the county order to continue to strengthen the city wall, because the sour jujube seemed to be on the marching route of the uncle, and Li Yin knew that the arrogant Uncle Yang would definitely not spare the sour jujube county.

On this day, the news of Yang Xuangan's rebellion finally reached Sour Zao, and the officials and people in Sour Zao City were in an uproar, because no one had thought about it before.

When Yang Xuangan led the army across the Yellow River and came to Lingchang County, only one step away from the sour date, Cui Wenxuan, the county commander of the sour date, found Li Yin again in a panic, "General Li Lang, Yang Xuangan is coming to the sour date, this ...... How can this be? ”

Li Yin said: "Cui County ordered not to panic, you immediately send someone to organize Zhuangding, and then let County Lieutenant Liu strengthen patrols and arrest people with suspicious behaviors, I will lead troops to defend, Yang Xuangan If he just passes by Sour Jujube, if he dares to attack Sour Jujube City, I will let him know what pain is!" ”

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Yang Xuangan's army quickly entered Suojube County, and then quickly surrounded Suojube City.

In the city of Suojube, there are now 2,000 soldiers directly under Li Yin, 500 county soldiers, and 3,000 strong men who have just been organized, and nearly 2,000 of these 3,000 strong men were captured when Li Yin defeated Geqian's army, and Li Yin only included 1,200 of them under his command at that time, and the rest let them continue to do some miscellaneous things such as repairing and strengthening the city walls in the city, and now it finally comes in handy.

"The Art of War: Attacking Chapters" says: "Therefore, the method of using soldiers, ten is to encircle it, five to attack it, and to divide it if it is doubled, and the enemy (the equal strength of both sides) can be divided, and if there are fewer troops than the enemy, it can be avoided." ”

Siege warfare is the most difficult of marching battles.

In the era of cold weapons, if the morale of the defenders is high, the food is sufficient, the army and the people are united, and the defenders are good at war, it is difficult to be captured.

That's why Sun Tzu felt that only when the strength of his own army was ten times that of the enemy, he would choose to besiege the city, and five times the enemy's strength before he could attack.

Now that the ratio of forces between the two sides is four to one, Li Yin is quite confident that he will hold the sour jujube city.

Besides, Yang Xuangan's 20,000 people came from the east, and the 2,000 soldiers directly under Li Yin were elite divisions, so how could he be afraid of Yang Xuangan?

"Where is Li Yin'er, dare to come out and answer?" Yang Xuangan held a helmet in one hand under the city, and pointed at Sujube City with a horsewhip in the other hand and shouted loudly, because the two sides were more than a hundred meters apart, Yang Xuangan was not afraid of dark arrows.

Li Yin didn't say anything, he asked someone to bring an oversized bow, put the special bow and arrow on the bowstring, pedaled the bow body with his feet, and pulled the bowstring with both hands.

This arrow Li Yin shot at the edge of the arrow tower of the city wall, and the distance was far away, so no one in Yang Xuangan's army found it.

Yang Xuangan was trying to wait for Li Yin to come out at this time, scold him, raise the morale of his army, and destroy the prestige of the enemy army, if Li Yin didn't dare to come out, it didn't matter, because it could also achieve the same effect, of course, Yang Xuangan hoped that Li Yin could appear and be abused by him.

However, Yang Xuangan never expected that what he was waiting for at this time was a fatal arrow, a few "careful" sounded, Yang Xuangan subconsciously lowered his head, and then he felt a pain in his right ear, and when he reached out and touched it, his right ear was gone, and his hands were full of blood.

"Li Yin'er! If I don't kill you, I swear not to be a man! Siege with all your troops! Yang Xuan shouted with a terrifying expression.

Li Yin on the city wall saw that the bow and arrow seemed to hurt Yang Xuangan, and he was quite satisfied, the distance between the two was so far, and the operation of the large bow and arrow was not flexible, he was just to scare and scare Yang Xuangan, and he didn't expect to really hurt people.

After Yang Xuangan gave the order to attack the city, he immediately asked people to treat and bandage his wounds, and after getting it done, seeing that his troops were still standing still, he said angrily: "Why don't you attack yet?" ”

His younger brother Yang Xuanzong replied: "Big brother, we don't have siege equipment!" ”

Yang Xuangan whipped Yang Xuanzong: "Then why don't you hurry up and ask someone to make it?" ”

Yang Xuanzong left in a hurry, commanded people to cut down the nearby trees, and made siege equipment, and half a day later, he successfully made more than 20 ladders, catapults, arrow towers, etc., which could not be made in a short time.

However, at this time, it was almost dusk, and it was not suitable for fighting, so Yang Xuangan had no choice but to order to camp on the spot in a hurry.

Nothing happened overnight.