To the northeast, two hundred miles away from Huaizhou, a Tang army with bright armor on the official road was hurrying. It would be too much to say that they were in a hurry, for their speed was not flattering, and it would be a miracle to be able to travel thirty miles a day at such a pace.

It can be seen from the equipment that this army is by no means a great person to guard, if it is used as a guard, if it is used as a guard, I am afraid that it is Li Cunqing, the son of the Tang Dynasty, who travels, so many people are used as honor guards, but it is obvious that Li Cunqiao will not appear in this kind of place where birds don't now.

There are two big characters fluttering on the military flag, which is the military horn of this army - Hold the Sun.

Seeing the army and knowing the general, the general who now commands the Tang Dynasty to support the Japanese army is the former Wei Bojie envoy. After the Tang Dynasty reorganized the Wei Bo Army, the original Hedong Army was divided into several parts, each of which was compiled and supplemented into the Tang Sixth Army and the Guards Army, and this Japanese army was the army with the original Wei Bo Army as the main body.

"Marshal, are we marching too slowly?" At the front of the horse team, a middle-aged general said to the people around him.

"If you are in a hurry, you can go to Huaizhou to rescue Li Congjing first, and Ben Shuai will never stop you." It was a white-bearded general who spoke, this general was quite old, but he was in good spirits, and he did not look old at all. He is the new commander of the Japanese army, the former envoy of Wei Bojie, Wu Jingzhong.

"Big brother laughed, you know I didn't mean that." The middle-aged general who spoke before sneered at this time, his name is Wu Jingyi, he is Wu Jingzhong's younger brother, and he served in Wei Bojun, "Dai Siyuan sent 20,000 troops to attack Huaizhou, Li Congjing came to the rescue of His Majesty, after all, you and I are ordered by the emperor to support, if you deliberately delay time on the way, resulting in the delay of the fighter, and Huaizhou is broken, it will be troublesome." Although Li Congjing's death is not a pity, if someone has a heart to impeach the eldest brother for this, it will not be a good thing after all. ”

Wu Jingzhong sneered, and said sourly: "You underestimate Li Congjing too much, he is not as useless as you think, even if Dai Siyuan sent 20,000 troops to besiege Huaizhou, Li Congjing insisted on ten days and eight days It is still no problem." ”

Wu Jingyi carefully pondered Wu Jingzhong's words, and couldn't help but light up, and said: "Big brother wants to defeat Dai Siyuan again when Huaizhou is about to be broken?" That's a great plan! Not only did Dai Siyuan's hand consume the military strength of the Hundred Battles Army, which greatly reduced Li Congjing's strength, but also used Li Congjing's hand to consume Dai Siyuan. It's a two-pronged solution! ”

"Now, are you still in a hurry to march?" Wu Jingzhong smiled faintly, and his calm and confident color was undoubtedly revealed, as if everything was under control.

"No hurry, no hurry." Wu Jingyi smiled, "Li Congjing, this kid relied on His Majesty's grace, and he didn't have to wait for me since he appeared, not to mention killing He Chong, and even made me wait to come to the stage when I was in Qimen, this is back in our hands, it's time to teach him some lessons!" ”

Wu Jingzhong was noncommittal, and said lightly: "But what you said also makes sense, it's not a matter of dragging the speed of the march like this, it's easy to give the truth, it seems that you have to find a suitable excuse for delay." ”

Wu Jingyi dug out his heart and thought for a long time, and asked tentatively: "Do you want to excuse the mountain bandits to block the way?" ”

"God-killing mountain bandits, dare to stand in the way of my army!" Wu Jingzhong scolded angrily, suddenly remembered something, and had an idea, "I heard that when Li Congjing replenished the soldiers of the Hundred Battles Army in Qimen, he recruited two bandits?" ”

"There is indeed such a thing, one is called Immortal Mountain, and the other is Liangzi Mountain, and Li Congjing is not bad about these two bandits." Wu Jingyi said.

"Then it is said that the remnants of the bandits in these two places have done evil around, killing people and goods, causing the lives of the people to be ruined, and my army has encountered a large number of fleeing villagers, so I have to take care of it, so I have to wave my army to kill the thieves first, and then march into Huaizhou." The corners of Wu Jingzhong's mouth showed a sinister smile.

"High, it's really high!" Wu Jingyi praised loudly, "Big brother, you are killing two birds with one stone, not only taking off the truth of our army's slow march, but also shaking Li Congjing's military heart, it is really high!" ”

Wu Jingzhong touched the white beard on his chin, and his faint smile was extremely unfathomable.

………………………

At this time, the east is thousands of miles away from Huaizhou.

Heavy rain.

It was getting late, and the banks of the Yellow River were shrouded in night rain, and Mo said that he could see the other side of the river, but he couldn't even see what was going on in the river.

The 5,000-strong army, which was advancing rapidly, reached the riverbank, but suddenly slowed down and crowded on the riverside.

In the rain curtain, Li Siyuan urged the horse to rush forward with a few horses, waved the horsewhip and asked the soldiers on the riverside, "Why are you stranded here, hurry up and cross the river!" ”

Li Congke ran out of the crowd, ran to Li Siyuan, and shouted: "Marshal, it's getting late, and it's raining at night, the soldiers don't want to go any further, and ask to camp on the riverside and cross the river again tomorrow!" ”

"Ridiculous!" Li Siyuan shouted angrily, "This surprise attack on Yunzhou focuses on the speed of the soldiers, how can you not move forward because of the heavy rain?" ”

It turned out that not long ago, Lu Shun, the defender of Yunzhou of the Liang Dynasty, went to Xingtang Mansion to join the Tang Dynasty, saying that the Liang army of Yunzhou was stationed on the river, and the defenders of Yunzhou City were empty, and offered Li Cunqiao a plan to attack Yunzhou.

Li Cunmiao, who had just ascended the throne, was naturally moved, and the Tang Dynasty was newly established, and he urgently needed a big victory and expansion of territory to show the world the strength and orthodoxy of the Tang Dynasty, but this matter was strongly opposed by people including Guo Chongtao, the envoy of the Central Gate.

At a critical time, it was Li Siyuan who asked Li Cunqiao for his life, "I have been using troops for many years, and the soldiers are already very tired. The minister is willing to take on this task alone and sweep away the enemy for the court! ”

Li Siyuan's request for life was in harmony with Li Cunqing, so the young emperor asked Li Siyuan to lead 5,000 soldiers and horses to attack Yunzhou.

Li Siyuan took the initiative to ask to attack Yunzhou, and he also had a hard time. The last time the Tang Dynasty (Jin) and the Liang Dynasty fought by the Yellow River, Li Siyuan had defeated the Huliu River, and this time all the ministers said that Yunzhou could not be beaten, but he wanted to take this opportunity to make up for his mistakes.

Now that he finally got the opportunity, how could Li Siyuan delay the fighter halfway?

"The rain is too heavy, father-in-law, the soldiers have been traveling for days, and they are already exhausted, and they all want to take the opportunity to rest for a while." Li Congke truthfully conveyed the meaning of the soldiers to Li Siyuan.

"Shi Jingjiao!" Li Siyuan called Shi Jingjiao over and shouted to him: "Crossing the river on a rainy night can disappear without a trace, you immediately arrange for me to cross the river with a large army, if it doesn't work out, come and see you!" ”

"Yes, Marshal!" Shi Jingjiao received the order, and immediately arranged for people to set up the ferry boat and order the army to line up.

The soldiers were resistant, and the action was not well arranged.

"General Shi, the soldiers don't want to cross the river, they have to think of a way!" The general Gao Xingzhou said to Shi Jingjiao, "Otherwise, you can forcibly cross the river, and after crossing the river, you will not be able to march according to the predetermined plan!" ”

Shi Jingjiao wiped the rain from his face, and was also anxious about how to complete Li Siyuan's military order, so he asked Gao Xingzhou: "What can you do?" ”

Gao Xingzhou pondered and said: "The soldiers are reluctant to cross the river and move slowly because they are tired, and they must find a way to boost morale and dispel this exhaustion!" ”

After speaking, Gao Xingzhou stood on a high place and arranged for his guards to shout to the soldiers in the rain with him: "At present, it is raining heavily, the road is not easy to walk, the brothers want to rest, and the commander can understand." But this heavy rain, isn't God helping me to wait? With such heavy rain, the defenders of Yunzhou must be defenseless, and our army just took this city by surprise! ”

As he spoke, Gao Xingzhou shouted again: "Meritorious service, just today!" ”

When the soldiers heard this, their spirits were lifted, and the army began to cross the river in an orderly manner.

Five thousand soldiers crossed the Yellow River without stopping at all, and went straight to Yunzhou.

If a few hours have passed, the sky is not clear, the rain is not light, and Yunzhou is already in front of the army, and a vague outline appears in the haze.

After the concealed assembly outside the city, Li Siyuan gathered the generals and issued the siege task together, he glanced around at the generals and said: "The Tang Dynasty and the pseudo-Liang have been fighting for decades, and there have been great victories year after year, but they have never captured any city south of the Yellow River. Yunzhou is in front of you, who wants to be the vanguard, attack the city, and open the city gate for the army? ”

Li Congke jumped out first, patted his chest and said loudly: "Military marshal, the last general is willing to be the vanguard and open the gate of Yunzhou for the military marshal!" ”

Shi Jingjiao, Gao Xingzhou and others were not to be left behind, and asked for their lives, "I am willing to be a pioneer!" ”

Li Siyuan pondered for a moment, looked at Li Congke and said: "Congke, this commander has made you the vanguard and led the army to attack the city, do you dare to guarantee success in one fell swoop?" ”

"If you can't take the city, the last general is willing to come to see you!" Li Congke's spirits were lifted and he generously assured.

"Okay, siege!"

Li Congke hugged his fist at Li Siyuan, turned around suddenly, gathered his troops, carried the ladder, left the camp of the army, and took advantage of the cover of the night rain to rush to the city wall of Yunzhou.

Sneaked all the way to the bottom of the city, erected the ladder, and the defenders had not yet found out, Li Congke glanced left and right, waved his hand and ordered the soldiers to go to the city, he himself gritted his teeth and climbed up the ladder first.

When the Tang army went to the city, the defenders of Yunzhou found that there was an enemy attack, and without waiting for them to move, the grinning Li Congke swung his sword.

At the head of the city, there was blood and red rain.

………………………

Li Congjing returned to the front of the military formation, looked at Dai Siyuan opposite from a few hundred steps, and glanced at the sky again, and the smile on the corner of his mouth gradually became richer.

Behind him, the mixed army of the Hundred Battles Army and the Heyang Army was ready. And in the same way, the Liang army, which has the advantage of numbers on the opposite side, is also ready.

Pulling out the horizontal knife, Li Congjing stepped forward and ordered: "Phalanx, attack!" ”

——————————————

PS: Li Siyuan's surprise attack on Yunzhou was indeed fought like this, and the details of it are also recorded in the history books. I would like to take the opportunity to state here that all the historical events mentioned in the book are written in accordance with the official historical records, whether it is the previous Li Jitao rebellion and sent money to Liang, or Li Cunqiao became the emperor on the day of the heavy rain, or the Hedong Army was charged with the Japanese army, all of them are clearly recorded in the official history.

PS2: The update has been unstable these days, and I apologize to everyone. People, there will always be some things that affect normal work and life, and I hope you will understand.

PS3: Tomorrow the book will be on the shelves, before it hits, take advantage of the last free time, and explode.

PS4: I will give a testimonial on the shelves tomorrow, and I hope you will subscribe to support it at that time.