On the second day of the seventh month, at night, Li Sheng led 5,000 elite horsemen to quietly march to Weinan. At dawn on the third day of the first www.biquge.info month, the army arrived at the city of Weinan and surrounded the four gates of the city.

At this time, there were only 3,000 rebels in Weinan City, and most of them were the original Tang troops who surrendered to the rebels, and their morale was low, and only a small part of them were the rebel headquarters sent by An Lushan to monitor the officials and surrendered troops here.

The soldiers who were on duty on the city wall in the morning just woke up and found that the flags were waving outside the city, and the horses were neighing. The soldiers screamed in amazement, and an arrow came from under the city and nailed to the gatepost of the tower.

The soldiers screamed and hid to the side, turned their heads to look, and found that the arrow was staring at a letter, Yang Ping, the captain of the military academy, walked over and pulled out the arrow and took down the letter, and the envelope said that the city gate guard would open it in person, Yang Ping was the west city gate guard, and he sent someone to find a literate old Xiucai to read the letter.

Lao Xiucai read the letter and said to Yang Ping: "Lord Captain, the letter says that they are the Beiting Army, and the general who leads the army is Li Sheng, the general under the command of Zhao Ziliang, the deputy marshal of the soldiers and horses, General Li said that he knows that we are forced to surrender to the rebels, if the captain can change his past mistakes and open the city gate to surrender, he will show the marshal, not only will not investigate the crime of the captain leading the army to surrender to the rebels, but will also ask the marshal to ask for merit from the captain!" ”

Yang Ping was stunned when he heard this, and many soldiers next to him looked at him with eager eyes, and one of the military leaders said to Yang Ping with courage: "Lord Captain, we have long had enough of the infamy of this army, and now that the imperial army has arrived, this is the time for Lord Captain to take us anyway, and we must not miss the opportunity to come again!" Captain, do it! Anyway, it's just dawn, the officials sent by the rebels are estimated to be still sleeping with the beauty in their arms, let's open the city gate now, but we can lead the imperial army directly to the government to capture the rebel officers alive, the captain not only has the merit of taking the initiative to open the city gate to surrender, but also the merit of capturing the rebel officers alive. ”

As soon as the military leader said this, the other military leaders next to him were also moved, and they all immediately echoed one after another: "Yes, Lord Captain, Liu Tou'er is right, no matter what, we are still the people of the Tang Dynasty, aren't we?" Is it true that he has followed the rebels all his life and been scolded by future generations? ”

Yang Ping was also moved, he looked at the army leaders and asked, "You all think so?" ”

"Yes, Captain, do it! We have long had enough of the bird officers and generals sent by An Lushan, they have never treated us as human beings! Fortunately, the imperial army has counterattacked, as long as we open this gate and let the imperial army enter the city, we will no longer have to be afraid of the rebels! ”

Yang Ping held the hilt of the sword and walked back and forth in place for a few times, and suddenly stopped and said sharply: "Okay, Lao Tzu will block it, let's open the city gate and let the imperial army enter the city!" Lao Tzu doesn't expect the court to reward him, as long as the court doesn't hold me accountable for my previous mistakes! Brothers, go down with me, open the gates of the city, and welcome the army of the court! ”

"Obey your orders!"

Under the leadership of Yang Ping, the army leaders and many soldiers walked to the gate of the city gate, lowered the drawbridge, opened the city gate, and summoned all the soldiers to line up in the urn city to meet Li Sheng's army.

Li Sheng saw the city gate wide open, he didn't expect this trick to be so effective, he also thought that if the persuasion was not successful, wait until the night to send the Huya army to attack the city gate, and now the persuasion was successful, he was suddenly overjoyed, holding the horse lance and shouting: "Come on, send a hundred horsemen to go in to see the situation!" ”

Ma Sheng is not a reckless person, he has followed Zhao Ziliang for so many years of fighting, and he has extremely rich combat experience, even if the city gate is wide open, it is difficult to ensure that there are no traps inside, and he and Yang Ping do not know each other, it is impossible to fully believe that the other party will surrender unconditionally before they meet, first send one person in to explore the truth, if there is no ambush inside, he will lead a large army into the city.

A brigade commander quickly entered the city with a hundred cavalry, rushed to the urn city, and saw that the urn city was full of soldiers standing on both sides, all the weapons were placed on the ground, and the surrounding city walls were empty.

The brigade commander immediately commanded fifty people to control the city gate, and then sent people to the city wall to check whether there were archers in ambush on the wall of the urn city, and then rode a horse to Yang Ping and asked, "Are you the guard of the West City Gate?" What is the last name? ”

Yang Ping hurriedly clenched his fists and said: "Villain Yang Ping, the rebels were strong before, and Lord Taishou Liu ordered us to surrender together, the villain couldn't disobey the order, so he could only surrender the rebels with his brothers, it was really helpless!" I've been looking forward to the arrival of Master Wang for a long time! ”

The soldiers who went up to the city wall to check the situation ran back and reported to the brigade commander: "The city wall is empty, there is no ambush!" ”

The brigade commander immediately sent someone to report to Li Sheng outside the city, and Li Sheng got the news that there was no ambush in the city, so he immediately waved forward with his horse lance and shouted: "All the soldiers will follow me into the city!" ”

When he rushed to the urn city, the brigade commander who was exploring the road immediately stepped forward and reported: "General, the guard of this city gate is called Yang Ping, and he is the one who led the crowd to open the city gate and welcome Wang Shi into the city!" ”

Li Sheng looked at Yang Ping and said, "You are Yang Ping?" ”

Yang Ping immediately said: "Yes, it is the villain!" General, the Weinan Taishou sent by the rebels is in the Taishou Mansion at this time, and the villain is willing to take the lead with his brothers in the front to capture the Taishou Mansion and capture the rebels alive Taishou to dedicate to the general! ”

Li Sheng immediately said: "Okay, if you can succeed, the general will recommend you to the marshal and promote you to be a general!" ”

Yang Ping was overjoyed: "Thank you, General!" ”

Under the leadership of Yang Ping, Li Sheng's army directly killed along the street to Taishou Mansion, and several waves of rebel patrols that had just come out to patrol the city happened to be encountered by Li Sheng's army, and all of them were cut into meat sauce.

After arriving at the Taishou Mansion unimpeded, and after surrounding the Taishou Mansion, Li Sheng immediately sent a group of men and horses to attack the rebels' camp in the city, and sent people to take over the other three city gates.

Early in the morning, there were a large number of shouts and killings in Weinan City, and the fighting did not sweep the whole city, only in two places, one in the Taishou Mansion, and the other in the military camp in the city, the Taishou Mansion and the rebel barracks in the city were surrounded, and the rebels did not expect that the Tang army would sneak attack at dawn, nor did they expect them to suddenly enter the city, so they were all surrounded before they found themselves besieged.

In less than an hour, the rebel camp in the Taishou Mansion and the city were captured successively, the rebel Taishou was captured, most of the rebels in the rebel camp were killed, a small number surrendered, and the rebel Taishou was also cut off by Li Sheng, and Weinan City was easily taken by Li Sheng.

Late that night, Li Sheng left a small number of soldiers and horses to guard Weinan City, and he set off to Huayin with a large army overnight, and the Beiting Army, which had rested for most of the day, was in good spirits again, and did not feel tired after a night of galloping.

When they arrived outside Huayin County on the morning of the fourth day of the seventh month, the rebel soldiers guarding the city gate found that the cavalry rushed to the city, and they were immediately frightened.

Soon, all the four gates of Huayin City were closed, and the rebel generals appeared on the city gate tower.

Outside the west city gate, the cavalry of the Tang Army lined up in a neat phalanx, densely packed, swords and guns like a forest, the cold light flashed, bursts of killing intent swept towards the city tower, the rebel soldiers were scared one by one, and the Tang army was different from other Tang troops at a glance, not only the armor and weapons and clothing were quite different, but also the spirit was not comparable to other Tang armies, and the elite cavalry of the rebel army was not on this army of soldiers and horses.

Li Sheng rode a horse and shouted under the west city gate: "Listen to the rebels on the city tower, I am Li Sheng, the pioneer general of the counterinsurgency, and you will open the city gate and surrender quickly, you will not be guilty of the past!" If not, when I break through the city, I will kill a chicken and dog! Those who have the heart to surrender can kill the stubborn guards and open the city gate to welcome the king, and they will be the marshal to ask for merit! ”

Li Sheng's troops are all cavalry, of course, it is impossible to attack the city, after he released his words, there was no reaction on the city tower, but also shot a wave of arrows, Li Sheng waved the horse lance to block the arrows and hit the horse back, led the army back two miles to camp, and ordered the soldiers not to take off their armor and saddles, to prevent the rebels in the city from sneaking out of the city, ready to fight at any time.

On the west gate tower of Huayin City, the rebel general An Shouzhong looked at the Tang army camping two miles outside the city, and said extremely angrily: "This Li Sheng is so bold that he dares to camp two miles outside the city, and he doesn't take the general in his eyes at all, he thinks that the general will only hide in the city because he is afraid?" Wasn't he afraid that Ben would suddenly lead his army out of the city and attack his camp? ”

A scribe next to him wondered, "General An, could this be a trick of the enemy general?" ”

An Shouzhong laughed: "You look up to him too much, we watched them set up camp, he has no infantry, all of them are cavalry, two or three miles, our cavalry charge is instantaneous!" What could he do if he had a trick? ”

The scribe thought for a moment, nodded and said, "That's right! ”

An Shouzhong waved his hand and said: "Leave him alone for the time being, let the general's two thousand cavalry get ready, the sons and daughters will eat and drink enough, feed the war horses, and wait until after noon, when the sun is in the sky and the weather is the hottest, we will open the city gate and rush out, and kill them without leaving a piece of armor!" ”

"The general is wise!"

After noon, there were only a few sporadic soldiers walking around the Tang army camp outside the city, and there were some sentry posts and patrol soldiers, and the rest of the soldiers seemed to have entered the tents to rest.

An Shouzhong, who was on the tower of the city gate, saw that there was almost no movement in the Tang army camp, so he thought that the Tang army had already entered the tent to escape the summer, and he immediately asked, "Are the sons and daughters ready?" ”

"General, it's all ready!"

"Okay, come with me!" An Shouzhong shook his cloak and walked down the city tower with his sword, the two thousand elite Hu cavalry in the urn city were ready, An Shouzhong held a big knife and shouted: "Open the city gate, the sons and daughters will go out with me, destroy the Tang army camp, and kill him without leaving a piece of armor!" (To be continued.) )