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Li Jing smiled slightly, put down the military book, and said to the guard: "Seeing your face, are you newly transferred?" ”

The guard hurriedly retracted his gaze, bowed his head and arched his hand: "Assassinate Master Shi, the little one is named Wang Erniu, he is a person in this city, a new recruit before the traitor came to commit the crime, yesterday your guard Brother Hao has already gone to the city to defend, so today it is the turn of the little one to serve you." ”

Li Jing laughed: "Wang Erniu, don't be impatient, don't worry, the rebels can't attack it!" ”

Wang Erniu was surprised and delighted, but in an instant, he changed to an expression of disbelief, he lowered his head and didn't dare to speak.

Li Jing shook his head and asked, "You don't have confidence in defending this city?" ”

Wang Erniu muttered: "The sound of killing is earth-shattering, and it is getting closer and closer, the little heart has been beating the drum, I don't know where the confidence of Lord Thorn Shi comes from." ”

Li Jing stood up and paced in the hall: "Because the momentum of the rebels has declined these days, have you heard it, those shouts of killing stopped when they arrived at the city pass, and they can't get any closer, in the past four or five days, the enemy army has used a thousand dragoons to escort the siege of the city every time, which is a helpless move to fight hard, and they can't change any tricks." ”

Li Jing's eyes began to shine, and his voice began to gradually become higher: "But even so, they can't even break through the first pass of our army, they just smashed a few gaps, even the largest gap of more than two zhang wide, at most two or three people can only squeeze in at a time." At the head of the city are our archers and boiling oil. Behind the wall there are axemen and crossbowmen. How could they have attacked?! ”

Wang Erniu said excitedly: "Since the adults are so sure, why don't you come to the city in person to boost everyone's morale?" ”

Li Jing laughed: "Morale is not inspired by me going to the city, the soldiers who defend the city are more and more confident, this is the best morale, if you listen to it every day, you can hear that most of this earth-shattering killing sound is from our army, and the loud voice that has been shouting 'his grandmother' must be Feng Sima!" ”

"These twenty days. The head of the city, Lu Justice, was well guarded, and almost none of the traitors' ladders and siege towers could be erected on the head of the city, so they were all destroyed, and although there were a few gaps in the city wall, Feng Sima and the dead man's camp under the wall did not let a thief in. They are doing a good job, and I can be completely assured that I will hand over the power, as long as I am in the middle of this assassin's mansion and replenish what they need for war preparedness. ”

"What reassures me even more is that Hou Mo Chen Yitong has already built another urn city in the city gate, even if the outer city wall can't hold it. We can also retreat to the Urn City to defend. ”

"These days, the losses of the enemy army in the siege of the city are more than 10,000 people, and various methods have been tried. Now that even the dragoon guards, who are the main force in the field, have been transferred to attack the city, which can only mean that they have no other means, and they are filling this bottomless pit with human lives in vain. Wang Erniu, did you panic if you changed you to my position? ”

Wang Erniu scratched his head embarrassedly and said with a smile: "The adult is really clever, how can the little one understand this!" With that, he walked to the door with his head held high and stood up

The smile on Li Jing's face gradually dissipated as Wang Erniu left happily, turning heavy, he sighed faintly, and said to himself, "How long will it take for the imperial court's reinforcements to come?" Yang Yichen, you won't really see death and not save you! ”

Outside Daizhou City, Qiao Zhongkui, who had a fierce face, a face full of scars, a black blindfold on his right eye, and his whole body was wrapped in a bright light armor, helplessly watched the dragoon guards who had been fighting at the gap for half an hour, but had never stepped into the city, and withdrew unwillingly.

And the soldier who was in front of the battle also beat the gong weakly, and he had to repeat this action more than a dozen times a day for the past twenty days, and he had long lost the excitement of the beginning.

Qiao Zhongkui's heart was furious, and he pointed at the little soldier and shouted: "You are weak when you hit the gong, haven't you eaten in the morning?" Come on, drag this guy out for me, and beat forty sticks! ”

Pei Wen'an, who had changed into a silver battle armor, stood beside Qiao Zhongkui with a gloomy face, and sneered: "General Qiao, if you can't capture the city, you can't be angry with a small soldier, in my opinion, you still have to think of more ways." ”

Qiao Zhongkui suddenly became angry, turned his head and yelled at Pei Wen'an: "Pei Wen'an, don't think that you can use the chicken feathers of King Genhan as an arrow, you don't know where to eat milk when Lao Tzu is fighting." This siege battle has to be filled with human lives, and the enemy army will be shaken after attacking it several times in a row, do you understand?! ”

Pei Wenan let out a disdainful breath from his nostrils and pointed to the Daizhou City standing in the distance: "Shake? General Joe, can't you hear the cheers of the enemy troops in this city? In my opinion, they have not wavered in the past few days, but they have become more and more confident, and even the dragoon guards have been on the line, and I will be full of confidence if I change them. ”

Qiao Zhongkui was dumbfounded, but he couldn't find the right words to refute it, so he could only hit his left palm with his right fist and stomped his foot hard by the way.

Pei Wen'an was also very annoyed in his heart, he thought that Qiao Zhongkui was a fierce general on the battlefield, but he didn't expect that he was just a brave and unscrupulous horseman, he only knew that he fought hard regardless of casualties, and the 10,000 infantry troops were almost damaged in more than ten days of siege, if it weren't for the fact that Yang Liang sent nearly 40,000 horse infantry troops to help the battle three days ago, I am afraid that even the ability to attack the city is insufficient now.

Pei Wenan even regretted his own willfulness, he knew that this dynasty was so difficult to fight, it was really better to use this strong force to open up Henan and march into Jianghuai according to Wang Yan's strategy.

These days, the unfortunate military reports came like snowflakes, first Yu Gongli's troops in Henan were defeated by the right guard general of the imperial court, Shi Xiang, the head of the Henan Road March, with the remaining troops in Luoyang, almost all the troops were annihilated, Yu Gongli was killed on the spot, and his lieutenant fled back to Jinyang with thousands of remnants of the wolf.

Then the troops of Su Liang went out of Hebei to attack Liyang, first attacking Shangguan Zheng Buke in Cizhou, and then turning to attack Xiangzhou, but they had a relationship with the former criminal department Shangshu and the current Xiangzhou assassin Shi Xue Xuan (the criminal department Shangshu who fought for reason when Yang Jian abolished Gao Gong five years ago).

Xue Xuan wrote to Su Liang that everyone eats together, and he will save face and leave a way out for himself. It was as if he had fallen under a spell. I really won't attack Xiangzhou. Take a detour and turn into Liyang.

Because he wasted too much time in these two places, when he arrived in Liyang, he was also caught up from behind by Shi Xiang's victorious division, and in the face of Shi Xiang's strong army of more than 100,000 troops, Su Liang actually abandoned the army and fled alone, and took refuge in Xue Xuan's government, so that Yang Lang's army sent through Shandong was also annihilated.

As for the siege of Jingcheng, Liu Jian, who was preparing to pass through the land of Yan Zhao. I heard that the situation is also half a catty and eight taels here, Zhang Xiang, the defender of Jing Cheng, insisted on refusing to fight, because Zhang Xiang usually loves the people like a son, the soldiers and civilians of Jing Cheng are willing to serve it, Liu Jian lost his troops under the city, and gained nothing, and finally thought of a way, set fire to the city, and saw that he was about to succeed, but Zhang Xiang ran into the Dragon King Temple. I cried a lot, and I actually begged for a downpour. He extinguished the fire and defended the city. It seems that even the heavens are not on the side of King Han.

Pei Wenan sighed hatefully, and became more and more frightened in his heart, the information he had just received in the morning was that it was Dou Kang in Youzhou, and there had been no movement since Yang Liang raised the army, and the imperial court sent Bohai people, and the general Li Zixiong pretended to be Turkic and took office on a bicycle. This Li Zixiong stopped at the pavilion outside Youzhou City, and while ordering Dou Kang to come to receive the order, he bought several local wealthy families with a lot of money, and ambushed more than 1,000 swordsmen around the post house.

When Dou Kang swaggered to the pavilion, Li Zixiong threw a cup as a number, ambushed the soldiers, took Dou Kang down on the spot, loaded it into a prisoner car and transported it back to Daxing, and Li Zixiong justifiably became the governor of Youzhou, and mobilized thirty or forty thousand riders within a few days, and I heard that Liu Jian was going to Jingcheng there.

The most terrible news still comes from Guanzhong, Yang Su's single ride back to Beijing completely dispelled Yang Guang's doubts about his heavy troops, more than ten days, Guanzhong Longyou area has been requisitioned more than 100,000 troops, elite soldiers and strong generals gathered, Yang Su has led the wheat iron rod three days ago, Zhou Luohu, Zhang Xutuo, Yujuluo, Tu Wanxu and other famous generals, with the right Tunwei army as the forerunner, with great fanfare to send troops to Tongguan, has passed Pujindu, the soldiers pointed directly to Jinyang City.

The more than 10,000 soldiers who were put home under the city of Puzhou also played a terrible role, these people can't fight, but their ability to talk nonsense is stronger than anyone else, and when they go to the township, they say everywhere how terrible the imperial court and the heavenly army are, and the leading Yang Xuangan has simply become the reincarnation of the three-headed and six-armed god of war.

These rumors became more and more ferocious, and within ten days, Yang Liang's old nest in Jinzhong and Jinnan, which had been operated for many years, was panicked, and the army that was requisitioned did not even have half of the plan, and many villages fled to the mountains with the whole village to avoid being cannon fodder for Yang Liang, and some prefectures and counties began to have private contact with the imperial court to prepare to negotiate surrender.

Yang Liang had no choice but to leave Jinyang City again, and led sixty or seventy thousand personal guards to the area of Jiezhou in southern Jin to declare military strength and stabilize the hearts of the people.

Unexpectedly, this Dou Lu Yu is a white-eyed wolf who eats inside and out, he saw that Yang Liang was unpopular with the army, and he had already fallen to the imperial court, and this person was a bold and black-hearted lord, not only did he not only ride back to the court to defect to Yang Guang, but also stayed in Jinyang City to play infernally, Yang Liang just left with his front foot, and he killed the general Zhu Tao who was loyal to Yang Liang with his back foot, and together with the eldest grandson Wunai, he released the emperor in the prison and captured Jinyang at once.

It's a pity that Dou Luyu and others underestimated Yang Liang's power in Jinyang City for many years, he killed Zhu Tao at night, and there were dead soldiers who escaped from Jinyang City overnight, and caught up with Yang Liang who had been out of the city not long ago the next morning, and spread the news of Jinyang's change.

Yang Liang could no longer care about holding an armed parade to declare military prestige, the whole army immediately changed the rear team to the front team, the front team to the rear team, and rushed back to Jinyang, Dou Luyu and the eldest grandson Wunai were still doing the work of Zhang Bang Anmin, but they didn't expect Yang Liang to come so quickly, and they didn't even have time to arrange the city defense.

When Dou Luyu ran to the head of the city in the south of the city, Yang Liang had already rushed to the city with the vanguard cavalry, thinking that his wife and children fell into the hands of others, Yang Liang burst out of amazing potential this time, and actually rushed to the front of everyone, the result was that the Hu soldiers temporarily hired to defend the south city did not know Yang Liang, Dou Luyu took the opportunity to coax everyone to say that this was a thief army, so the defenders rained down arrows, and Yang Liang almost shot directly into a hedgehog.

Yang Liang saw that the south gate could not be passed, so he turned to the west gate, and this time the defenders of the west gate were all Han. Meet Yang Liang. The gatekeeper is still a sworn friend loyal to Yang Liang. Seeing this, he immediately put Yang Liang's army into the city, this time it was Dou Luyu's turn, the eldest grandson Wunai and Huangfu were unlucky, none of them escaped, and they all became the ghosts of Yang Liang's knife.

It's just that as soon as this incident came out, Yang Liang was so frightened that he no longer dared to take a step away from Jinyang, except for sending 40,000 reinforcements to urge Qiao Zhongkui and Pei Wenan to quickly get through Daizhou, he didn't do anything, just sat on the last 200,000 troops in Jinyang and waited for the end to come.

Pei Wen'an thought of this. With a long sigh, he couldn't imagine how this well-planned uprising suddenly became like this, it was only a month, after the failure of the plan to attack Guanzhong, the plan to divide the troops and conquer the Quartet also failed, and the plan to go south to Jiangnan was destroyed by himself early, and now even Jinyang City has people rebelling, it can be seen that the people's hearts are back, and the outcome of this war seems to be self-evident.

Pei Wen'an's eyes suddenly became fierce. Full of fighting spirit again, a voice in his heart shouted: "No. I haven't lost yet, as long as I get through Daizhou, as long as I can get in touch with the Turks, it's possible. As long as you don't let Qiao Zhongkui, a fool, command like this blindly again, I will definitely be able to capture this generation of state cities with my methods! ”

Pei Wen'an's eyes rolled, and he put on a smiling face, and said to Qiao Zhongkui: "General Qiao, the war is not good now, everyone is not in a good mood, you have nothing to say just now, don't take it to heart." Now is the time for us to cooperate sincerely, don't mess with your own people. ”

Qiao Zhongkui snorted heavily, and was about to continue to taunt Pei Wen'an for a few words, but suddenly remembered that this person was the most trusted person of the Han King now, not only gave him the official position of a pillar country, and was at the same level as himself, but also came with a military order to act cheaply, which really annoyed him, and he ordered to kill himself and had nowhere to complain.

Qiao Zhongkui also put on a smiling face and said: "It's all the general's incompetence, and he can't capture this small Daizhou City for so many days, he has the high hopes of the king, Pei Zhuguo has learned a lesson, but in your opinion, what is the best way to attack the city?" ”

Pei Wenan gritted his teeth and said: "I also underestimated this Daizhou City, I didn't expect it to be so difficult to fight, I knew that I should have dug a tunnel to attack the city at the beginning, but now that the fighter plane has been lost, I think it is not easy to attack, it is better for us to withdraw for the time being." ”

When Qiao Zhongkui heard this, his face changed, and the only eye left was full of fierce light: "What, retreat?" By all means, I have made a military order in front of the king, if you withdraw from the army, you will kill my head when you go back, Pei Zhuguo, if you want my surname Qiao to die, kill it directly here, you don't need to use this trick! ”

As soon as these words came out, the guards around Qiao Zhongkui all looked at Pei Wen'an angrily, and a tower-like man with a nine-foot-long body and a double halberd on his back stared at Pei Wen'an with tears in his eyes, just waiting for Qiao Zhongkui to give an order, he was about to come up and tear Pei Wenan alive.

Pei Wen'an laughed, and when his eyes swept over the big man, he was so frightened that he was shocked. He waved his hand and said calmly: "It's not really retreating, it's pretending to retreat, and when the enemy army is slackening, let's kill him overnight!" ”

As soon as Qiao Zhongkui heard this, his eyes lit up, and he suddenly grabbed Pei Wen'an's hand, and asked urgently: "Pei Zhuguo, what good way do you have, let's talk about it quickly!" ”

Pei Wenan twisted his beard, and a smile hung on the corner of his mouth: "People, when facing pressure, they can always concentrate and concentrate a lot, but if this external pressure is withdrawn, it will inevitably relax." ”

Pei Wen'an's eyes turned to the soldiers of Li Jingsuo's department who were cheering in the city, and a cruel killing intent flashed across his face: "Just like them, they have resisted us for more than 20 days in this city, and it is said that their physical strength and will have long passed the limit, but they can still persevere, for what?" ”

"Isn't it because everyone knows that once the city is broken, not a single person will be left alive in our army? So now they are desperate not for any loyalty, but for their own lives. ”

"And although this Daizhou City is also an open land in front of the South Pass, the Chengguan is still built in the canyon, and each time our army attacks the city, there can only be a thousand people at most, and the others can only stare at the back, which can also make up for the lack of strength of the defenders of the city to the greatest extent, which is the reason why our army besieged this city with ten times the military strength and could not capture it for more than 20 days."

Qiao Zhongkui nodded: "Yes, the general I received needs to quickly capture the city, in this case, the siege, detour and crypt tactics cannot be used, so we can only take turns to attack and attack hard." By the way, Wen An, you haven't mentioned the withdrawal of troops for a long time. ”

Pei Wenan smiled "hehe" and said: "Let's pretend to withdraw the army first, do it realistically, don't tear down the camp tent, and throw the banners all over the ground, so that the enemy army thinks that something is happening in our rear and hastily withdraws." General Qiao, you said that if you were Li Jing, what would you do when you saw this situation? ”

Qiao Zhongkui laughed: "For the generals, if the enemy army attacking the city really withdraws, it is nothing more than two choices, one is to go out of the city to pursue, and the other is to reward the three armies." ”

Pei Wen'an nodded, and a murderous look appeared on his face: "If he goes out of the city to pursue, then we just use these ironclad dragoon guards to destroy it in the field, and then take advantage of the situation to attack the city, if he rewards the three armies, then the city defense must be relaxed, and when the time comes, we can sneak attack at night with light soldiers, and we can also fight." ”

Qiao Zhongkui clapped his hands violently: "Clever plan, wonderful plan, then let's do it now?" ”

Pei Wen'an's voice revealed a hint of pride: "Be realistic, it's too fake, people will see through it." (To be continued......)