Tomorrow is 515, the anniversary of the starting point, and the day with the most benefits. In addition to the gift bag and school bag, this time's "515 Red Envelope Flip" must be seen, how can there be a reason not to grab the red envelope, set the alarm clock high~

Li Jiancheng's army arrived at Liangjiangkou Town on time the next morning, and Pei Renji knelt in front of Li Jiancheng's war horse in embarrassment to plead guilty.

The latest attack caused Pei Renji to lose more than 4,000 people, although there were not many people killed and captured, but many soldiers took this opportunity to flee home, followed Pei Renji base low position, poor treatment, the soldiers have long been dissatisfied, originally wanted to take advantage of this battle to improve the treatment, but did not expect to suffer a fiasco, everyone lost confidence in Pei Renji, so although Pei Renji collected the defeated soldiers, not many people were willing to continue to follow him, and they returned to their hometowns.

Pei Renji, who has no army, is like a rooster that has been plucked out of its feathers, embarrassed and embarrassed, Qin Qiong led the last five hundred people, looking at the main general from afar to ask Li Jiancheng for guilt, he also had mixed feelings in his heart, Luo Shixin, who was not as good as him at the beginning, has been promoted to a general, commanding tens of thousands of troops, and even You Junda, who was squeezed out by Pei Renji, because he surrendered Wagang, followed Li Jiancheng, and now he has become Li Jiancheng's descendant general, although the military position is the same as himself, but his status is much higher than himself, and his future is brighter.

This defeat, without the army as the foundation, Pei Renji's demotion is inevitable, then he will also be demoted, Qin Qiong felt sad in his heart, in the final analysis, he was with the wrong person.

Li Jiancheng looked at Pei Renji, who bowed his head and pleaded guilty, and said coldly: "Although victory or defeat is a common thing in soldiers, I will not severely punish the general because of a defeat, but I don't know who the other party is because of the defeat, which is intolerable, for the sake of you being a veteran, I will not humiliate and beat." However, the military regulations are strict, and when the rewards and punishments are clear, you will be removed from the post of general, demoted to a heroic general, and fined for one year, and the generals under your command are innocent. You don't need to be demoted. ”

Pei Renji's heart was full of bitterness, if he was demoted, but Qin Qiong was not demoted, then he would be in the same position as Qin Qiong, and Qin Qiong would no longer be his Pei Renji's general, although Pei Renji was dissatisfied, but he was helpless, Li Jiancheng was already tolerant of him to a certain extent, so he had to kowtow and thank: "Thank you for the grace of the governor who is not responsible!" ”

Li Jiancheng pointed at the horsewhip. He ordered Wang Junkuo and You Junda: "The two of you lead 5,000 troops to build a pontoon bridge, and within two hours, the army must cross the river!" ”

"Obey!"

The two of them clasped their fists and obeyed the order, and immediately led the soldiers to the woods to cut wood, and Pei Renji also made meritorious service and followed them to cut wood.

At this time, Changshi Wei Zheng slowly stepped forward and said with a smile: "Although the army is defeated." But it's not necessarily a bad thing. ”

Li Jiancheng knew what Wei Zheng meant, and his father had long wanted to follow Zhang Xuan's example and abolish the trilogy system. Each general is not allowed to have his own army, but if it is done in a hurry, it will lead to serious consequences, so they have been looking for an opportunity to abolish it step by step, and among all the generals who support the army, Luo Yi is the biggest obstacle. In fact, it was Pei Renji, and this time Pei Renji's troops were broken up, so that Li Jiancheng could take the lead in abolishing the tribal system in his own army, setting a good precedent for the whole army to abolish the tribal system.

So Pei Renji was defeated, and Li Jiancheng was not angry at all. Even secretly happy in his heart, if he does not demote Qin Qiong, Pei Renji's subordinates will have no more parts, only hundreds of personal soldiers will remain, and the biggest hidden danger in his army will be eliminated.

Li Jiancheng smiled faintly, did not answer the topic of Wei Zheng, and said to Wei Zheng again: "I want Changshi to inspect the counties of Hanoi and learn about the situation of the counties in each county. ”

Wei Zheng bowed and said: "The governor has an order, and he should obey the order." ”

Li Jiancheng ordered the soldiers on the left and right, "Go and find General Qin!" ”

The two personal soldiers rushed away, and brought Qin Qiong over after a while, Qin Qiong heard that he would not be demoted, and he was secretly happy in his heart, he hurriedly stepped forward and saluted with his fists, "The last general will see the governor!" ”

Li Jiancheng smiled at him gently: "Wei Changshi wants to inspect the counties of Hanoi County for me, I am a little worried about his safety, I will give General Qin a thousand soldiers to protect Wei Changshi for me, General Qin has no problem!" ”

"Of course, there is no problem with the humble position, please let the humble position go and talk to General Pei first."

Li Jiancheng shook his head, "No need, General Qin will report directly to me in the future." ”

Qin Qiong's heart was shocked, and she hurriedly said, "I understand my humble position." ”

Li Jiancheng took out a thousand-person order arrow and gave it to Qin Qiong, "Go and lead the troops!" Wei Changshi set off immediately. ”

Qin Qiong saluted Wei Zheng, the two urged the horse to leave, and Li Jiancheng went to check the situation of the pontoon bridge, at this time, Wei Zheng looked at the pontoon bridge that was burned to wreckage last night, and he suddenly had a realization in his heart that Li Jiancheng sent Pei Renji as the vanguard, I am afraid it was premeditated

Wang Junkuo and You Junda only took an hour and a half to build the pontoon bridge, and in the afternoon, Li Jiancheng led 20,000 troops to the city of Wuzhi County.

Li Jiancheng did not have a plan to attack Wuzhi County, he knew Hanoi County very well, knew that Wuzhi County was a new city built in the sixteenth year of the emperor, and the great cause was ready to replace Liyang Cang in three years and strengthen and heighten, the city was tall and strong, the moat was deep and wide, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and Li Jiancheng's siege equipment for this eastern expedition had not yet been transported from Hedong, Li Jiancheng just wanted to suppress this army, it was best to make them surrender without a fight, if they did not surrender, they should also be forced in the city, so that they could not intercept the grain fleet.

However, Li Jiancheng is more interested in the origin of this Sui army, they are obviously not the Qingzhou army, so where did they come from?

When Li Jiancheng's troops came to the city, the mystery in his heart was finally revealed, and his outer patrol soldiers caught a scout in the city, and the soldiers were pressed to their knees and said: "My general is General Wei, the general of Luokou Cang, who retreated across the Yellow River because of the defeat of Wei Shangshu's army, and was temporarily stationed in Wuzhi County. ”

Li Jiancheng suddenly realized, it turned out to be Wei Wentong, the main general of the Tiger Prison Pass, no wonder he was so clever, although he had not heard of Wei Jin's defeat, but at this time he was more concerned about Wei Wentong, since the army in the city was not the Qingzhou army, but a defeated Sui army in Hanoi County.

Li Jiancheng had already heard of Wei Wentong, a well-rounded man in civil and military affairs, a famous general, and extremely strong in martial arts, ranking ninth in the Heroes Conference, such a general was in front of his eyes, so that Li Jiancheng suddenly rose to love talent, he asked the soldiers a few words, and immediately ordered: "Pass my order, the army retreats three miles!" ”

Since he wants to say that Wei Wentong is surrendered, of course Li Jiancheng has to put on a sincere posture, and the first retreat of three miles is the first sincere gesture, and with the issuance of Li Jiancheng's military order, the 20,000 army began to slowly retreat.

The city wall is full of Sui soldiers, they have experienced the 100,000 Wagang army storming Luokoucang bloody baptism, the formation of the 20,000 troops under the city, no one is afraid or frightened, even the small soldiers can see that although the army under the city has many troops, but may not be able to attack the tall and strong Wuzhi City, and they don't even have siege weapons.

Wei Wentong stood at the head of the city and watched coldly as the army under the city retreated, could he buy him Wei Wentong if he retreated a few miles? Li Jiancheng may not be too underestimated.

At this time, Du Ruhan next to him smiled and said: "If I guess correctly, they can't carry baggage when they cross the Taihang Mountain, and all the baggage is waiting to be transported from Hedong County via the Yellow River, including siege equipment." ”

Wei Wentong has been reported by the soldiers, two hundred grain ships have returned to Hedong County, he has long admired Du Ruhui's clever strategy, basically Du Ruhui said that he obeyed what he said, Wei Wentong smiled: "How long does the gentleman think their siege equipment will be delivered?" ”

Du Ruhui stretched out a finger, "At least a month!" ”

"Why?"

"The first batch is to transport grain in order to make Li Jiancheng gain a firm foothold in Hanoi County, and then the siege equipment will be transported to follow Li Jiancheng's army north, and the ships will come and go twice, isn't it only thirty days later? Besides, they made a trip for nothing, so it's more than a month, and of course, they can also cut down trees to make improvised siege ladders, that's another story. ”

Wei Wentong nodded, this is indeed the truth, two hundred medium-sized cargo ships can send a maximum of 40,000 stone grain, which can only supply the army for two months, if you have to transport siege equipment together, then the food is too little, not enough to support tens of thousands of troops, so the siege equipment must be the second batch of transportation, mainly because the time consumption is too great.

He thought for a moment and asked, "Now that the grain ship has returned, does Mr. think Li Jiancheng's plan will still succeed?" ”

Du Ruhui laughed, "I still say the same thing, the general's appearance in Hanoi County was an accident, and it was precisely this accident that made Li Jiancheng's plan fall short, Li Jiancheng was of course unwilling, but he didn't have time." ”

At this time, a soldier ran over and knelt down on one knee to report: "General Qiyu, there is a person from the city, saying that it is Sima Yang Shilin, and he has come to ask to see the general." ”

Wei Wentong said to Du Ruhui: "This person is my fellow villager, and he was later appointed as Lishi Juncheng, I have met him a few times, this person must have come to me, and Mr. said that I saw it or not?" ”

Du Ruhui smiled slightly: "Actually, it doesn't hurt for the general to see him, even if he doesn't surrender, everyone can negotiate a condition, such as the Tang army will not attack us, and we will not hinder the Tang army's plan, what does the general think?" ”

Wei Wentong understood in his heart, he needed time now, as long as he fought for another twenty days, he could completely reorganize the soldiers, so that he would have more than 4,000 people in his hands, even if Li Jiancheng attacked the city frantically, he would not be afraid, otherwise it would be a little difficult for 2,000 people to defend the city, and he could completely use the other party's intention to make him surrender to buy time.

Thinking of this, Wei Wentong ordered: "Please Yang Sima enter the city!" ”

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