At the head of Taiyuan City, Qu Tutong stood in front of the battlements with his hands and was watching a group of cavalry return, the Zhou army was reluctant to attack the city for a long time, and he refused to fight, and his heart was also a little anxious. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

At present, the Zhou army has the initiative to attack, and the entire state is under the control of the Zhou Dynasty, and Taiyuan has become a lonely city, and the pressure brought by this lonely city and the passivity in defense will weaken the morale of the Tang army a little bit, which will eventually lead to the collapse of the army's morale, and the Zhou army will win without a fight.

Moreover, it is difficult to re-boost the morale of this kind of long-term pressure, unlike the occasional defeat, where the soldiers can be regrouped with a few words, and this kind of psychological long-term pressure will only lead the soldiers to despair.

Qu Tutong knew that there were too many such examples in history, and the long-term siege made many soldiers finally become crazy, killing each other, jumping off the city in despair, and a little better was to surrender the city, so that the besieging army won without a fight, and Qu Tutong did not want his own army to take this step.

He hoped that the Zhou army would come to attack Taiyuan City, and use the defensive advantages of Taiyuan City to kill and wound a large number of enemy troops, which would help boost morale.

Not long after, a group of cavalry entered the city, Qu Tutong turned around and walked down from the road, turned over and dismounted for the leading cavalry, handed over the invitation to Qu Tutong, and shook his head at Qu Tutong.

Qu Tutong took the invitation to fight, only to see that he didn't open the package at all, but just criticized two big words behind his back: 'No war!' ’

He was annoyed in his heart, tore the invitation to smithereens, and threw it to the ground, at this time, the deputy general Wang Junkuo stepped forward and said in a low voice: "General, the Zhou army is obviously using the Bingzhou battlefield to contain the energy of the imperial court and create conditions for the battle situation in Bashu and Hexi. ”

"I also want to take the initiative to break the game, why can't Wei Chi Gong be fooled!"

"General, since the Zhou army is stationed in two counties, if we attack Yuci County, the cavalry of Jiaocheng County will definitely come to the battle, and we can ambush the enemy with bows and crossbows halfway, the general thinks ......"

Qu Tutong shook his head, "If one side is a weak brigade, you can use this strategy, but the opponent's strength is too strong, this plan will cause the other party to lose two or three thousand cavalry at most, but the other party is 30,000 cavalry, if you don't know our ambush will be wiped out by the other party, unless it is a fire that burns Jiaocheng County, or breaks the river embankment and floods it with water, otherwise it will not have any effect, if you go to attack Jiaocheng County, then you don't need Wei Chigong to support at all, 30,000 cavalry is enough to deal with us, and Wei Chigong's army can directly capture Taiyuan City, The other party also wants to get this plan, and it won't give us a chance, and the only way is to let the other party attack the city. ”

"And what is the general going to do?"

Qu Tutong groaned and said, "I want to use the method of fierce battle to stimulate the Zhou army to come and attack the city." ”

"But Wei Chigong has always been known for his steadiness, will the Radical Law be effective?"

Qu Tutong smiled bitterly, "Other than that, I don't have a better way. ”

On the morning of the next day, on the east city wall of Taiyuan, several huge cloth drawings were hung, these cloth drawings were two zhang long, one zhang wide, and there was a portrait of a human-headed dog body vividly painted on it, with a few big characters written on it, the image of the dog thief of Yu Chi, and the painting of a human-headed mouse, which also wrote 'the image of the mouse of Yu Chi', ridiculing Yu Chi Gong for being as timid as a mouse.

Qu Tutong sent dozens of soldiers wearing mourning clothes and holding spirit flags to close to Yuci County to send Wei Chigong to mourn.

But to Qu Tutong's disappointment, Wei Chigong responded to his insult in another way, and at noon the next day, several huge cloth drawings were also hung on the city wall of Yuci County, on which a portrait of a human head and turtle body was painted, which read, 'Qu Tutong Lao Wang Ba', and a portrait of a turtle without a head, which also read 'Qu Tutong with a shrunken head turtle', and a team of soldiers knocked on the city head to send Qu Tutong to mourn.

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Although there is a war of words that is close to a farce in Taiyuan, a thrilling and tragic battle is taking place in Hedong County.

When the Zhou army captured Yan'an County, the situation in Guanzhong suddenly became tense, and it also invisibly exerted great pressure on Li Shimin, who was fighting in Hedong County.

On the twelfth day of Li Shimin's arrival at Pujin Pass, Li Shimin received the gold medal sent by his father for the third time, and Li Shimin did not choose, although some of the special siege weapons he rushed to produce had not yet been completed, but he knew that if he let his father give the fourth gold medal, I am afraid that Hedong County would have to change generals again, he didn't care about losing his position as the main general, he was just worried that the change would have an adverse impact on the battle of Hedong County.

At the first watch, 60,000 Tang troops began to set off from Pujin Pass and headed for Hedong City on the other side of the Yellow River, Li Shimin was dressed in golden helmets and gold armor, standing on the head of the city and looking at the faintly visible Hedong city wall in the distance, Duan Zhixuan felt the complicated mood of His Royal Highness the King of Qin, and stepped forward and said: "This battle will be fought sooner or later, Your Highness, let's do our best!" ”

Li Shimin shook his head, "It is not easy to attack the east of the city, not to mention that there are 50,000 troops eyeing the side, the obvious enemy is strong and I am weak, the time and place are not on our side, I don't know how to fight this battle, if I don't do it, my reputation will fall in this battle." ”

"Your Highness advises the Holy Lord again, we should wait patiently for the arrival of the warplane."

Li Shimin still shook his head, "The further back you go, the more unfavorable the situation will be, and when the Zhou army takes the west of the Bashu River and concentrates its forces to kill Guanzhong, we will have no fighters at all,"

Li Shimin let out a long sigh, "Let's go!" ”

Li Shimin and Duan Zhixuan got out of the city, turned on their horses, and followed the army to the outside of Pujin Pass.

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At night, the dark night shrouded the land of Hedong, but tens of thousands of defenders at the head of Hedong City had already rushed to the city, and everyone's eyes were full of anticipation for the big battle.

The vast field outside the city was covered with firelight, forming an incomparably huge flame phalanx, spread out on the ground outside the city, the phalanx became larger and larger, and gradually converged into a sea of firelight, which extended to the Yellow River more than ten miles away, and on the two chain bridges on the Yellow River, two red flames continued to surge from the opposite bank and injected into this sea of fire.

Li Shimin's main army and Duan Zhixuan's logistics army marched towards Hedong City almost at the same time, and it was not until the third watch that the troops injected on both sides began to gradually weaken, and the people west of Hedong City shouted horses and neighed, and torches illuminated the field like day, and from the top of the city, it could be clearly seen that tens of thousands of Tang troops were building large camps, and a large tent rose from the ground on the field.

At the head of the city, Wei Wentong, the chief general of the Zhou army, was also paying attention to the progress of the Tang army, he was not worried that Hedong City would be captured, not to mention that Hedong City itself was tall and strong, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and more importantly, there were 30,000 elite Zhou troops in the city, and 20,000 young and strong people to help defend the city.

This is what Wei Wentong has always been very puzzled about, it stands to reason that the Tang Army has been running Hedong County for many years, and the people of Hedong City should be the same as the Tang Army, but the people in the city unexpectedly welcomed the arrival of the Zhou Army, and the young and strong men enthusiastically signed up to help defend the city, so it can only be said that Li Shentong is very unpopular in Hedong City.

In addition to 30,000 elite soldiers and 20,000 young and strong militias, there are also 50,000 Zhou troops led by Su Dingfang who are hundreds of miles away, and they hold the official road of Jiangjun in the north, but if there is a crisis in Hedong City, Su Dingfang will also lead the army to support at any time.

For Wei Wentong, he doesn't need Su Dingfang's support, he has such good conditions, if he can't hold Hedong City, he Wei Wentong will be ridiculed by the world, and he has no shame to see His Majesty the Emperor.

"Leave a thousand troops to keep an eye on the enemy, and the rest of the brothers rest on the spot, and leave nothing to do with the movement outside the city."

Wei Wen informed that the Tang army would not attack the city overnight, and there was no need for the soldiers to be nervous all night, and to maintain sufficient physical strength in order to better defend the city.

Wei Wentong gave an order to rest, and the soldiers wrapped themselves in blankets and fell asleep at the head of the city, leaving only 1,000 soldiers to continue to monitor the Tang army outside the city, and Wei Wentong himself went down to the city to return to the military office.

In the early morning of the next day, the sky finally dawned, the warm sun shone on Hedong City, and the soldiers defending the city finally saw the situation outside the city clearly, only to see that three miles outside the city were covered with dense tent groups, such as mushrooms that grew after a night of spring rain, and tens of thousands of tents were close to each other, surrounding the west and north sides of Hedong City.

At this moment, the earth-shattering war drums suddenly sounded in the Tang Army camp.