Like Yu Wenhua and the Wagang army, Wang Shichong's attack can also be regarded as a "wave", and if the battle is won, the future will be bright; If the battle fails, the Eastern Capital will be finished

In this march, Wang Shichong selected all elite soldiers, 20,000 foot soldiers and 2,000 cavalry, which is already all his belongings.

Due to repeated defeats at the hands of the Wagang army, Wang Shichong's troops were afraid of the Wagang army, and they immediately panicked when they knew that they were going to fight with the Wagang army.

Because he was worried that the morale of the army would be weakened, Wang Shichong thought of a way.

Wang Shichong engaged in a witchcraft show, he asked Zhang Yongtong, the guard of the left army, to lie that he had dreamed of Zhou Gong three times, and Zhou Gong said to Zhang Yongtong in his dream that the army should go out of the eastern capital and attack the Wagang army.

Wang Shichong built a temple of Zhou Gong, let the famous local sorcerers in the eastern capital practice in the temple, and then conveyed the instructions of Zhou Gong to the soldiers, saying that if they did not send troops again, God would send a plague in the army, and all the soldiers would die.

In this era, in an environment where most ordinary people are illiterate, there is a big market for pretending to be a ghost.

Believing the words of the wizard, Wang Shichong's subordinates asked for battle, and he chose the auspicious day of the zodiac to send troops from the eastern capital to attack the camp of the Wagang army.

This day was cloudy and rainy, which made this expedition quite a bit of wind and depression and easy to cold, and the strong man was gone and never returned.

Wang Shichong's troops were very secretive, and when the scouts left in the eastern capital of Wagang got the news, the army had already left the eastern capital for more than half a day.

When Zhai Rang got the news from the scouts, the Eastern Capital Army was already approaching Yanshi.

Wang Shichong has been nesting in the eastern capital like a turtle with a shrunken head, and the Wagang army is really depressed, and Zhai Rang should be happy that he can take the initiative to send troops to seek a decisive battle.

The problem is that after the previous battle with Yu Wenhua and the First Division, the elite soldiers and horses of the Wagang Army suffered heavy casualties, although the number of the Wagang Army is still nearly 100,000, but there are really not many troops that can really fight.

When he heard that Wang Shichong sent troops to Wagang, the veteran Pei Renji immediately suggested, "Wang Shichong is now leading the Eastern Capital Army out of the empty nest, and the Eastern Capital must be empty, we can divide our troops to guard the main road that Wang Shichong's army will pass through, so that he can no longer advance eastward, and select another 30,000 elites to march west along the river to force the Eastern Capital." If Wang Shichong returns to the army, our troops will not move; If he sends out the army again, we will force the eastern capital again. In this way, we still have surplus strength, and the other party is tired of running for his life, and he will definitely be able to defeat him! ”

Pei Renji's current proposal is inspired by Li Mi's last confrontation with Yu Wenhua and Jun, and this strategy is obviously just as effective against Wang Shichong.

Li Mi also felt that this strategy was good, nodded and said, "Your method is very good, we just fought a tough battle, and now it is really thankless to fight with people like Wang Shichong who have been resting for a few months." As long as we use the city to hold on, keep our strength and wait, and focus on dissipating their ambition, we will surely win. ”

Zhai Rang felt that Pei Renji's proposal was too conservative, and most of the young generals expressed their opposition to this proposal except for Li Mi's nod in agreement.

They unanimously agreed that Wang Shichong had always been the defeated general of the Wagang Army, and now the number of the Wagang Army was more than five times that of the Eastern Capital Army; What's more important is that the newly surrendered Xiaoguo army is very eager to participate in the battle to obtain meritorious service, and with such a strong fighting spirit, they will definitely be able to easily defeat Wang Shichong.

The generals spoke one after another, thinking that Wang Shichong was a fish on the chopping board, and there was really no need to die with them, only Wei Zheng and a few other ministers felt that it was better to seek stability.

Zhai Rang looked at the enthusiasm of the brothers below, and immediately made up the proposal of the generals and decided to fight with Wang Shichong.

Subsequently, Zhai Rang left Li Mi in the rear to guard Kim Yong Cheng to protect his own back road, and he personally led the army to Yanshi, and at the same time blocked the main road of Pishan and blocked the way of Yuwen's army.

The army led by Zhai Rang had more than 70,000 people, which was undoubtedly several times more than Wang Shichong's 20,000.

But there is still a major hidden danger in today's Wagang Army, that is, Yu Wenhua and the Xiaoguo Army that surrendered in World War I account for a large proportion; And Zhai Rang's descendants suffered heavy losses in the last battle, and these short ten days were not enough to recover their vitality.

Whether it is combat effectiveness or cohesion, the Wagang Army is not at the same level as the Eastern Capital Army compared with the Eastern Capital Army.

In addition to the descendant troops, the other miscellaneous armies are obviously unreliable.

When the war is going well, they can come in handy; When the war enters the confrontation stage, they can also bluff and help the main force to set up a field; If the war does not go well, their role can only be negative

In the Battle of Tongshan, it was not those miscellaneous troops who withstood the main force of the Jiangdu Army; If it weren't for the fact that they had escaped, the battle between the Wagang Army and the Jiangdu Army would not have been so difficult to win.

As for the newly surrendered tens of thousands of Xiaoguo Army, they do have the same combat effectiveness as the Eastern Capital Army, but although they are now eating and drinking Wagang, they have not really integrated into Wagang; When it comes to life and death, can your back be exposed to these people?

Although Zhai Rang led the team to meet Wang Shichong's army, he seemed to be carrying fifteen buckets in his heart, seven up and eight down.

After Wang Shichong set up a large camp in the south of the Tongji Canal, he first sent hundreds of cavalry to launch a tentative attack on the Shan Xiongxin troops stationed in the north of Yanshi City, and as a result, the weak nature of the Wagang army was immediately revealed.

Wang Shichong's brave generals Yang Gongqing and Zhang Zhenzhou led thousands of elite soldiers and hundreds of cavalry to cross Luoshui and launched a fierce attack on Shan Xiongxindi's camp.

Yang Gongqing was originally a giant thief in the plains, but was later recruited by Wang Shichong, and changed from a thief to an officer and soldier.

Zhang Zhenzhou once led an army of 10,000 people to the Ryukyus together with Chen Liang, and included the Ryukyus in the territory of the Great Sui; Later, Yang Guang ordered Wang Shichong to be the ambassador to attack the Wagang army, and Zhang Zhenzhou followed him to the north, and fought with Wang Shichong and the Wagang army many times.

Shan Xiongxin made meritorious contributions, and did not send people to hold on to the shore of Luoshui, nor did he close the camp to defend himself, and used the defensive offensive of the large camp to resist the attack of the Sui army; But after Wang Shichong's troops crossed Luoshui, he led a large army to attack, wanting to drive it down Luoshui.

Shan Xiongxin did not expect the opponent's offensive to be so ferocious, and as soon as the two armies came into contact, his troops were defeated.

It was just the impact of hundreds of horsemen, and Shan Xiongxin's troops were defeated by them with one blow, and Zhai Rang had to urgently assign Cheng Yanjin and Pei Yuanqing to lead troops to help in the battle.

Pei Yuanqing's bravery is beyond doubt, he took the lead, and rushed into the enemy formation with two sledgehammers, only to break a few heads in a moment, but the light cavalry sent by Wang Shichong came and went quickly.

When Pei Yuanqing led his troops to pursue desperately, he was ambushed by the Eastern Capital Army, and nearly a third of the nearly 1,000 soldiers he commanded were shot down at once; Pei Yuanqing was also hit by an arrow from Zhang Zhenzhou and was accidentally shot off the horse.

At this time, the drum beat thunderously, earth-shattering.

Pei Yuanqing staggered up from the ground, a white arrow feather stuck in his chest, blood like a trickle, slowly gushing out from the wound; His mount was frightened and had already run off into the distance.

After falling off the galloping war horse, Pei Yuanqing was dizzy, and for a while he didn't know where he was, sitting on the grass with his butt.

A Sui soldier who was in a hurry to make meritorious service rushed to the front of the team, and the distance between him and Pei Yuanqing was only twenty or thirty paces, and with his horse speed, he arrived in an instant.

Cheng Yanjin, who was closest to Pei Yuanqing, was anxious at this time, and his body was close to the horse's back and legs and galloped towards him with his legs clamping the horse's belly; But even if his mount could fly, how could he get closer to the enemy?

"Roar!"

Cheng Biting Jin raised his head to the sky and roared, his voice soared into the sky, and even the enemy's war drums were suppressed.

Cheng bit Jin's body and bent to the side of the war horse, the toe of one foot hooked the stirrup on the other side, and his hand reached forward, in the high-speed sprint of the war horse; He stuck a spear in the mud, and he drew his spear without knowing who his master was.

The Sui army had already rushed in front of Pei Yuanqing, and the war horse galloped past Pei Yuanqing's side, and he held a horizontal knife high in the air, aiming at Pei Yuanqing's head and cutting it off.

His head was still a little confused, but looking at the sharp blade in front of him, Pei Yuanqing still involuntarily dodged to the side; However, the injury on his chest affected his movements, and this knife could not be completely dodged at a moment's notice.

"Whew!"

The blade of the horizontal knife swept past Pei Yuanqing's cheek with a wisp of cold wind, and at the same moment, Cheng Yanjin threw out the spear in his hand, and the spear was inserted into the neck of the Sui army, directly nailing him to the ground.

The next moment, Cheng Yanjin had already come to Pei Yuanqing, and dozens of Sui troops under the leadership of Yang Gongqing arrived almost at the same time as him, and several knights rushed in front of Cheng Yanjin, wanting to cut off his back road.

"Get on the horse!"

Taking advantage of the momentum of the war horse rushing forward, Cheng Yanjin's left hand pulled suddenly, and Pei Yuanqing flew up like a cloud, and was pulled onto the horse's back by Cheng Yanjin and placed behind him.

The two rode together, and the speed of running naturally slowed down, Cheng Yanjin knew that his life was important, so he had no choice but to abandon the pair of plate axes that Su You had customized for him back then.

Rao is like this, Cheng Biting Jin and Pei Yuanqing were still killed back by the cavalry who lured the enemy just now, Cheng Biting Jin fought hard to take a horse lance, and broke the enemy's horse lance, and his guards rushed over and killed those cavalry together.

After the first battle, Wang Shichong only used more than 100 cavalry to fight out nearly 1,000 people of the Wagang army, Pei Yuanqing was seriously injured after the crossbow, and Cheng Yanjin was stabbed by a horse lance and bled nonstop.

As soon as the battle began, the Wagang army planted a big heel, how can such a defeat be embarrassing?

After this defeat, the weakness of the Wagang army was also exposed, that is, they did not have sophisticated armor, and they encountered the enemy's hard. When the crossbow is fired, there is no way to do it.

This can also be seen from the previous battles, before Li Mi's most important adviser was shot down and drowned in the water when crossing the river, and Li Mi was also shot twice, and now he is still seriously injured.

A mere stray arrow can almost knock down anyone in the Wagang Army from top to bottom, how can such a protective ability fight against Wang Shichong, who has carefully prepared equipment?