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After this incident, the guards knew the strictness of Li Congjing's military law, and everyone was afraid of it, and they did not dare to relax when they attacked the city again. Li Congjing struck while the iron was hot, and ordered the military judge to take a hundred elite horsemen, cruising in the formation with arrows in hand, and supervising the soldiers to fight.

Wu Jun saw Li Congjing's punishment of ineffective soldiers with his own eyes, and his determination to take Shouchun City by Li Congjing's vow to seize Shouchun City was also clear, and he felt the pressure of the fierce siege of the guards and pro-army, and everyone's hearts were like being clouded with a layer of haze.

Fortunately, Gao Shensi is not a mediocre person, and he does not forget to be impassioned, and with the righteousness of his family and country and his determination to serve Wu Guo to the death, to inspire the soldiers of the Wu army to resist, and at the same time he clearly told the three armies that reinforcements will soon arrive, which makes the morale of the Wu army a little boosted.

Li Congjing did not go to the front of the battle to supervise the battle today, but called Meng Ping and gave him a face-to-face lecture. The reason why the face-to-face teaching was appropriate was because Liu Xin would come from the west of Haozhou, because he had hundreds of warships, and the speed of the ships on the water was relatively fast, and the distance of one hundred and forty miles would not take long.

"Liu Xin is menacing, and he must block him for a while and kill his majesty, otherwise once he is allowed to come with sharp energy, I am afraid that the pontoon bridge will not be easy to guard. Moreover, even if the Huainan sailors could not cross the pontoon bridge, they could also land and march to Shouchun by land. If Liu Xin's reinforcements in the four towns and eight prefectures were allowed to come first, they would echo each other with the soldiers in Shouchun City, and the situation would be very unfavorable to me. ”

Li Congjing said to Meng Ping.

"Where can the thieves be stopped?" Meng Ping asked.

Li Congjing took Meng Ping to the hanging map, and pointed his finger from Shouchun along the Huaishui to the east, pointing to a small bend in Huaishui, "This place is a hundred miles away from Shouzhou, called Tu Mountain, several rivers converge under the mountain, guarding the critical place of Huaishui, if you can take Tu Mountain first, you can hold the Huainan Sailor hostage, so that it does not dare to rush forward." At that time, if Liu Xin wants to attack the Hundred Battles Army, he must land on the shore, and it will not be difficult to win with the good fighting of the Hundred Battles Army. ”

Meng Ping nodded, laughed, his face full of scumbags was very bright, "Your Highness, don't worry, the last general will go here." ”

Li Congjing advised: "This time, don't be careless, it's good to be able to win against Liu Xin, if the situation is unfavorable, you don't have to try to win, as long as you can delay him for some time." ”

Meng Ping bowed his head and led the order.

After the departure of the Hundred Battles Army, Li Congjing came to Shouchun City and supervised the battle for half a day. After the troops were collected on the same day, the next day, Li Congjing ordered the whole army to rest and recuperate, and did not attack the city again. Now there are not many troops outside Shouchen City, which is no longer enough to support the siege of the city, if the army in Shouchun City is killed, the guards are likely to be counterattacked.

did not attack the city, but still had to be in front of the gate to deter and restrict, of course, Li Congjing also used a suspicious tactic, so that the figures in the camps everywhere were one after another, so as not to let Gao Shensi see through the truth and cause him to do something bad.

On Shouchun City, the soldiers of the Wu army were overjoyed when they saw that the Tang army was no longer attacking the city, and there was humanity: "The Tang army is not good for attacking the city, and they no longer dare to attack the city. ”

Gao Xiansi stroked his chin and fell into deep thought, and said half-loudly: "In recent days, the Tang army has been attacking very urgently, if it is said that the siege is unfavorable, although it is true, but judging from the morale of the Tang army, it is not appropriate to ask Li Congjing to temporarily rest and attack the city. Looking at the battalion, it seems that the troops are very sufficient, and there should not be such a move. ”

There was nothing to say for a day, Gao Shensi did not act rashly, and at night, Gao Shensi felt more and more strange, so he convened the staff to discuss the situation outside the city, and there were staff members at the moment: "Shouzhou is besieged, it has been a long time, and it is expected that reinforcements are coming, so Li Congjing can't capture my Shouzhou City, and he must divide his troops to block my reinforcements. ”

As soon as this statement came out, many people agreed.

The staff member was more confident when everyone sang peace, and then said: "The Tang army is here, it was a long-distance attack, and when it came to Shouchun, it didn't take much rest, and it attacked the city for days, and the soldiers must be tired. ”

The staff members were justified again.

Gao Shensi was not so optimistic, he muttered: "Looking at Li Congjing's past achievements, he has a lot of tricks, often likes to deceive, and hears that under his account, the strategists are like clouds, and they are all good talents in the world...... If Li Congjing saw that he could not attack Shouchun, he pretended to stop the siege and lured our army out of the city to fight with him, so as to take the opportunity to set up an ambush, what would happen? ”

"This ......"

The staff didn't know what to say for a while, but when they thought about it, it was possible.

But the staff who spoke before didn't care, he said: "If Li Congjing really set up an ambush to paralyze us and induce our army to attack, it will inevitably show me that the camp is empty, how can it be like now, let me see the smoke and dust in the camp?" On the one hand, Li Congjing temporarily rested to attack the city, and on the other hand, there seemed to be plenty of soldiers and horses in the camp, isn't this contradictory? In my opinion, there are enough soldiers and horses in the Tang military camp, and they must be fake, in order to show me that I am full of soldiers, so that we dare not attack! ”

"This ......"

There is a lot of truth in that.

Gao Xiansi hesitated, but he was cautious by nature and would not act rashly, otherwise, after Zhengyang was defeated by the Hundred Battles Army for a while, he would not immediately collect troops into the city and defend the city.

Gao pondered: "Do you know that the Tang army is here, how many soldiers and horses are here? ”

The answers of the people were different, some said that the formation was only 50,000 or 60,000 troops, and some said that the company and battalion were long, and I am afraid that there were more than 100,000.

"I don't know the strength of the Tang Army, how dare you say that the Tang Army has few soldiers now?" Gao Xiansi made up his mind, "As for the smoke and dust in the Tang military camp, it seems that the soldiers are cheating, and it is even more difficult to determine." The way of the art of war, how can it be judged lightly? That Li Congjing's sudden dispatch of troops to Huaidi this time was already unexpected, that is, Xu Xiang had been deceived by him, and he was not cautious when he fought with this person! ”

"Pass my military order, the four gates are closed, and the soldiers are not allowed to come out in vain, just defend the city!"

When Gao Xiansi and his staff were discussing these things in the palace, in the Tang military camp outside the city, Li Congjing and Mo Li were playing against each other under the lamp.

Li Congjing never expected Gao Shensi's conversation with his staff, and he would not have thought that everyone in the world would think that he was treacherous and cunning, and he was scheming.

If Li Congjing heard this, he would definitely smile bitterly. The so-called conspiracy and trickery are all because of insufficient strength, and they have to be done as a last resort, if they are full of soldiers, why bother to calculate, you need to know that there is a risk of calculation and miscalculation, and if you are not careful, you may lose all the games.

Therefore, when it came time to pacify the two rivers, Li Congjing had become less and less calculating, and he needed to know that attacking each other in a dignified battle was the invincible royal road.

Of course, the necessary conspiracy is not among them, and it cannot be said in one word.

It is said that Meng Ping led the Hundred Battles Army, and rushed to Tushan non-stop after leaving Shouchun, because he was worried about occupying Tushan to seize the opportunity, Meng Ping specially sent a thousand horse troops to go first, to strangle the danger, so as not to be taken by Liu Xin to occupy the favorable terrain first.

However, the world is impermanent, and before the main force of the Hundred Battles Army arrived at Tushan, Meng Ping received a report from the vanguard Ma Jun, saying that the scouts had found out that Tushan had been occupied by Liu Xin first, and now he was camping on the mountain. Meng Ping was annoyed, and secretly said that it was a pity that he had lost the important place of Tushan, they were all foot riders, and there was no sailor, and it was impossible to stop Liu Xin's hundreds of warships from advancing west along the river.

However, things on the battlefield are always changing rapidly, and there are few deployments that are exhaustive, and most of them rely on on-the-spot response.

Meng Ping got the report of the vanguard Ma Jun, and after thinking for a while, he ordered the Ma Jun to stop moving forward, find a place to hide, and never be discovered by the Wu army.

The general who led the horse army to take the lead was Zhao Hongyin, after he saw Meng Ping, he reported the relevant situation in detail, Meng Ping was relieved to learn that they were not found by the Wu army, and still let the Ma army hide in place, he took Zhao Hongyin and a team of personal guards, and marched to Tushan in concealment.

After being able to see Tu Shan's situation clearly, Meng Ping stopped approaching, so as not to be discovered by Liu Xin's rangers. Looking around, I saw that there was a camp on Tu Mountain, and under Tu Mountain, hundreds of warships were lined up one after another, majestic and magnificent.

Seeing this scene, Meng Ping was a little disappointed, "There is only one battalion on the mountain, it can be seen that most of Liu Xin's troops are on the boat, and our troops are all riding on foot, so why can't these sailors, if they want to complete the errand assigned by His Highness, they must think of a way." ”

Zhao Hongyin thought for a while and said: "What's so difficult about this, if you want to lure the snake out of the hole, there will be a way to do it." ”

Meng Ping was overjoyed, looked at Zhao Hongyin, and said quietly: "You can tell me and listen to it." ”

Zhao Hongyin then put what he thought in his heart and told him, Meng Ping thought for a while, felt that he could give it a try, no longer hesitated at the moment, and hurried back to the army and stepped up the arrangement.

In the Tushan Wu military camp, Liu Xin was dining, and the small case in front of him was full of big fish and meat, and there was a huge wine jug next to it, looking at the amount, it was enough for three people to eat, but in a moment, it was all in Liu Xin's mouth, and the wine jug was empty in the end.

After eating, Liu Xin burped loudly, patted the general's belly, stood up, and asked people to put away the dishes and chopsticks. At this time, a military general was outside the tent, saw the empty wine jug, his face changed, to be reported into the tent, seeing Liu Xin, he hesitated for a moment, or said: "When the last general just entered the tent, he saw a big wine jug empty, but now the general's face is as usual, presumably the general must be massive." ”

He intended to persuade Liu Xin, but he would not speak directly, but to try the other party's tone first.

Liu Xin laughed when he heard this, patted his belly and said: "If General Guo said this twenty years ago, the general would have been very happy, but today is different. Seeing Guo Tingwei's puzzled face, Liu Xin smiled even more happily, "A huge pot of wine, the generals have drunk it all, but after you entered the account, have you ever smelled the smell of wine?" ”

Haozhou's observation made Guo Tingwei wake up at this time, "Could it be that the pot is not filled with wine?" ”

He was surprised just now, Liu Xin had a few burps, and he didn't smell the smell of wine, and when he heard Liu Xin say this, he knew that there must be something hidden in it.

Liu Xin was quite complacent, boasting to himself: "In the past, the general was also a drunkard, and I won't tell you that it was in front of Taizu back then, and the general was also drunk like mud, and Taizu complained, so he hung up his sword and left!" ”

In the second year of Tiancheng, Yang Pu, the king of Wu, was called the emperor, and Yang Xingmi was respected as the ancestor.

After laughing, Liu Xin's eyes showed a look of reminiscence, "But now it's different, the general has already quit for many years, leading the troops to fight, how can the general be clear from time to time?" As for the wine jug, but because it was given by Taizu, it would have been used to hold the pulp, and he was always vigilant about himself. ”

When Guo Tingwei heard this, he was greatly admired, "The general's demeanor is convincing!" ”

The two were talking, when they suddenly heard a report from the sergeant, saying that a group of Tang soldiers had come from outside the camp and were scolding outside the camp.

Liu Xin and Guo Tingwei glanced at each other, and the former immediately ordered the soldiers and went out of the camp.

When he arrived outside the camp and saw Tang Jun, Liu Xin's face changed slightly, and he suddenly felt that he was smiling.

There are less than 200 Tang troops outside the camp, old and young, tall and short, the appearance is really difficult to see, but they are constantly scolding there, and they look very majestic.

Liu Xin shouted, "I heard that the Tang army was besieging Shouchun, and the general thought that you were so elite, but I never thought about it, but it was such a crooked melon and cracked dates, why, you also want to kick my military camp?" ”

Tang Jun, the first short man, scolded with a smile: "Although your ancestor and I were not as burly as you, but your good grandson knows that without your ancestor and me, how could I give birth to a good grandson like you?" Now you are born like a dog, what's the matter, the dog is not poor, the son is not ugly, but you still dislike your ancestors? ”

Liu Xin was suddenly furious, he was so ridiculed by some shrimp soldiers and crab generals, where could he endure the evil anger, and immediately did not say much, and rushed up to kill the troops, "Dog day is not a son of man, dare to insult you Liu Zuzong, I really don't know whether to live or die, give me my life!" ”

Although the more than 100 Tang troops looked strange, there were war horses under the seats, and when they saw that Liu Xin did not agree with each other, they led the army to cover up and kill, and immediately dispersed, turned the horse's head and ran.