Of course, Wu Shitong understood why Li Xiaogong asked himself, at this time they actually had no choice, but Li Xiaogong was unwilling to make this decision for the sake of face, and he wanted to bring it up himself. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Wu Shi Tong pondered for a moment and said: "An important reason for the Holy Lord to give up Jingzhou is to preserve his strength, although Wang Renze should be cut with a thousand knives, but I think our enemy is still Xiyang County, and it is enough for the Sui army to clean up Wang Renze, we should withdraw from Jingzhou as soon as possible, what does Your Highness mean?" ”

Wu Shi Tong said very implicitly, in fact, he meant two things, one was to preserve his strength, and the other was that Wang Ren had nothing to do with them, Li Xiaogong understood what he meant, so he nodded and said: "Wu Gong is reasonable, we only need to send a scout to report the situation to the Sui army in the north, and then we will withdraw to Xiyang County to the northwest, which can be regarded as the implementation of the agreement reached between the two sides." ”

"In that case, let's evacuate as soon as possible without further ado!"

Wu Shi Tong and Li Xiaogong quickly reached an agreement, and Li Xiaogong immediately sent two of his own soldiers to deliver a message to the Sui army heading north, while they themselves turned northwest and withdrew in the direction of Xiyang County.

The Northern Sui reinforcements from Jiangxia have been killed one hundred and thirty miles away from Xiangyang City, this army is led by the main general Luo Shixin and the deputy general Luo Cheng 30,000 cavalry, the action is extremely fast, from Wang Renze led by the Zheng army in Jingling County Fengxiang County slaughter city, Zhang Xuan immediately sent this 30,000 cavalry to Xiangyang.

Zhang Xuan did not intend to intercept Wang Renze's army, but handed them over to the Tang army to intercept them, but Wang Renze slaughtered the city, making Zhang Xuan immediately realize that this was a great opportunity for him to buy the hearts of the people in Jingzhou, and the total annihilation of this army with boiling public discontent would help reverse his unfavorable image in the Xiangyang area.

On the one hand, Zhang Xuan issued an urgent order to Lai Hu'er of the garrison Hanshui to intercept Wang Renze's army at any time and prepare to support the defense of Xiangyang City, and on the other hand, he ordered Luo Shixin and Luo Cheng to lead 30,000 cavalry to kill Xiangyang City quickly.

At this time, just after noon, the cavalry who had been running for a day was resting and eating dry food in a wilderness, and a small river not far away was crowded with war horses and soldiers drinking water, under a big tree, Luo Shixin couldn't suppress his anger, and said to Luo Cheng on the side: "When Wang Shichong served as the head guard of the Qinghe River, in order to satisfy the *** of his army, he dared to cross the Yellow River to rob Zhu'a County and Linyi County of Qi County, and tens of thousands of people in the two counties were tragically devastated. I keep this matter in mind, sooner or later I will cut off the head of Wang Shichong's dog thief, and this time I will first attack his nephew Wang Renze. ”

Luo Cheng nodded, "Dashuai's attack on Jingzhou this time can be described as interlocking, not only to unify the south, but also to destroy Wang Shichong, but unfortunately the Tang Dynasty emperor and officials did not understand, without Wang Shichong's buffer, it means that our next target is the Tang Dynasty." ”

Luo Shixin was greatly surprised, Luo Cheng actually had such a clever opinion, and he asked puzzledly: "This is what the general himself thought of?" ”

Luo Cheng shook his head and said with a faint smile: "This is what Master Fang told me, where did I think of it." ”

Luo Shixin laughed, "I said! If we, the generals who lead the troops, can think of such a profound truth, then we can also be prime ministers. ”

Luo Cheng just smiled, in fact, these truths are not profound, although he couldn't think of it for a while, but Fang Xuanling hinted slightly, he immediately understood, this is also where Luo Cheng is more conceited, he is second only to Li Jing among all the generals, and his martial arts are far higher than Li Jing.

While the two were talking, a captain walked quickly, knelt down on one knee and saluted: "General Qiyu, Tang General Li Xiaogong sent someone to deliver the letter!" ”

Of course, Luo Shixin knew that the Tang Army was in front of them, and the reason why he let the soldiers rest temporarily was to get detailed information about the Tang Army, and Li Xiaogong himself sent someone to explain, which was the best.

"Bring the messenger up!"

Not long after, Li Xiaogong's own soldiers were brought up, and he bowed and saluted, "See General Luo!" ”

"Did your boss tell you to bring a letter or a message?"

"General Qiyu, it's a message, my commander asked me to tell the general that Wang Ren is attacking the city urgently, and the whole line has been pressed, the situation in Xiangyang is critical, they originally wanted to rescue Xiangyang, but since the general has led the army to kill, we will no longer overstep the line, please go to Xiangyang as soon as possible to rescue."

"And where is your army going?" Luo Cheng asked next to him.

"General Qiyu, our commander has led the army to retreat to the northwest direction, and will retreat directly to Xiyang County."

"You're telling the truth?"

"Returning to General Luo, I completely restate the original intention of my family commander, every sentence is true, and I dare not have the slightest lie."

Luo Shixin nodded and ordered his subordinates to take him down, at this time, Luo Cheng smiled and said: "It is estimated that Li Xiaogong will have a vicious fight with Li Shenfu after returning to Beijing, and at this time he will not let people seize the handle, and he thinks that there should be no fraud." ”

Luo Shixin sneered, "I'm 30,000 cavalrymen, if he dares to cheat me, I will kill him directly." ”

After speaking, Luo Shixin got up and shouted: "Order the whole army to assemble and rush to Xiangyang immediately to rescue!" ”

A quarter of an hour later, 30,000 cavalry were assembled, and they increased their speed and slaughtered Xiangyang City overwhelmingly.

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The siege of Xiangyang has entered a white heat, the battlefield is full of corpses and charred wreckage of siege ladders, both sides have suffered heavy casualties, in the face of the ferocious Zheng army, the improvised militia soldiers can not play a role at all, all were withdrawn, and only 10,000 people of the Sui army sailors were fighting fiercely with the enemy army at the head of the southern city.

Under the tight defense of the Sui army, the Zheng army was never able to attack the city, but an accident happened, and the easternmost corner of the southern city collapsed, forming a gap more than 20 zhang wide.

Wang Ren seized this opportunity and threw 3,000 strong troops to storm the gap, while the Sui army also invested 3,000 men to defend desperately, and the entire siege almost stopped, and everyone was nervously watching the fierce battle of 6,000 soldiers at the gap.

The Sui army threw thousands of men at the forefront of the gap, forming a dense defensive wall and a fierce Zheng army, and the battle for the road to the city between the two sides entered a white heat.

There were 300 heavily armored sword teams in the Sui army's naval division, and this time they also put into the defense, and the 300 soldiers' swords were unstoppable, and when the long broadswords were swung, blood would be splashed, and the enemy soldiers were cut off or their heads were cut off.

But after killing a batch, another batch will pour in, one after another, and the dead bodies are piled up one after another, and they are piled up three feet high, seriously obstructing the way up to the city, and the Zheng soldiers behind continue to pick the dead corpses off the city wall with spears, fall into the inner moat, and fight upwards regardless of their lives.

The soldiers of the heavy armor sword team at the head of the city also suffered heavy casualties, and nearly 100 people had been killed in the battle for more than an hour, and many of them fell into the river and drowned.

The sky was getting dark, but the battle showed no signs of stopping, and 12,000 Zheng troops under the city were lined up a mile away, ready to replenish the gap in the upper city, and they held torches in their hands, forming a sea of sparks.

At this moment, 30,000 Sui cavalry had quietly arrived, they crossed a long hill, rushed out of the woods, Luo Shixin raised a big iron spear, raised his arms and burst out with an angry roar: "Kill all the enemy troops, do not accept prisoners of war!" ”

The shouts of killing shook the sky, and tens of thousands of Northern Sui cavalry rushed towards the sea of sparks several miles away like a frenzied tide.

The soldiers of the Zheng army noticed the abnormality one after another, and many of the soldiers turned around in surprise, they felt that the earth was trembling, and the river was shaking, as if there had been a slight earthquake, and the soldiers looked at each other, no one knew what was happening, and suddenly, a soldier pointed to the distance and shouted in horror: "Look, what is that?" ”

All the soldiers stood up straight, their eyes were full of horror, and they saw an overwhelming black cavalry appear three miles away, the war horses galloped, the swords and halberds were like a forest, like a black frenzy, and the monstrous murderous aura was like a shock wave on the flat ground, sweeping towards the 12,000 Zheng troops.

The soldiers of Zheng Jun were stunned, and Wang Ren was also stunned, and suddenly, he reacted and shouted loudly: "Queue up, prepare to fight!" ”

If there were only 10,000 cavalry, maybe the Zheng army could still muster up the courage to fight, but the huge pressure brought by the 30,000 cavalry made the Zheng army's courage collapse, first hundreds of soldiers in the west fled in a hurry, which instantly triggered the rout of the whole army, countless soldiers fled desperately to the west, and 12,000 soldiers were infantry, and they all knew in their hearts that they could not compete with the cavalry at all, and there was only one way to escape.

The Zheng army was defeated like a mountain, they cursed the spies patrolling the periphery, and at the same time hated their parents for giving him two feet less, and rushed to the west, Xiangyang City was full of fleeing soldiers, and even the soldiers besieging the city turned around and fled, at this time the desire in their hearts was frightened away by the boundless Sui cavalry, and escape was their only thought.

More than 15,000 Zheng soldiers threw away their armor, weapons, packages, and everything they could, and all had only one thought: escape! Escape from the slaughter of the Sui cavalry.....

But where can they outrun the Northern Sui cavalry, in an instant, the defeated Zheng army was caught up by the Sui cavalry, the cavalry like a wind and clouds engulfed the defeated army piece by piece, whether it was kneeling and surrendering, or desperately resisting, could not escape the fate of being cut and stabbed to death, everywhere was a desperate howl.

Wang Renze and his three hundred personal soldiers were riding war horses, they were swept by the defeated army, and kept running westward, at this time, a group of Sui cavalry came from the oblique spur, and the general headed by the plum blossom bright silver spear, went straight to Wang Renze, it was the general Luo Cheng.

Dozens of pro-soldiers next to him swarmed up and surrounded Luo Cheng, while Wang Ren seized this opportunity to turn around and fled, and more than 100 pro-soldiers followed closely behind, and in a moment, they were engulfed by the fleeing crowd.

When Luo Cheng killed all the enemy troops blocking the way, Wang Ren had already fled without a trace, Luo Cheng roared angrily and urged the horse to chase away.

Hundreds of steps away, Luo Shixin, the commander of the Sui army, coldly ordered: "Order Sun Changle, order him to cut off the enemy's escape route from the west, and not let anyone go!" ”

The cavalry of the Sui army was like wind and lightning, the war horses tread through the water, stirring up patches of water, and another cavalry galloped along the western hills, this is the 6,000 rear army led by the general Sun Changle, who are responsible for intercepting the enemy from the west,

The burly Sui cavalry, with bright armor and bows and knives, was fierce, and in the blink of an eye, they rushed past the fastest fleeing Zheng soldiers, cutting off their escape path.

The cavalry of the Sui army surrounded the defeated army from three sides, shouting and killing shook the sky, at this moment even if they knelt and surrendered, there was no way out, groups of desperate Zheng soldiers were ruthlessly killed by the Sui cavalry, and the front of the moat was full of surrendered soldiers, but they were also killed and rolled down into the river, the clear moat changed color, and the blood stained the river red.

The cries shook the sky everywhere, the screams filled the four fields, the Zheng soldiers were killed to the ground, their limbs were broken, blood flowed like rivers, dead bodies were everywhere, and the fleeing soldiers were pierced through the body by the cavalry with a spear from the back and nailed to the ground.

The soldiers were stunned and stunned, they desperately kowtowed and begged for their lives, and their heads were still ruthlessly slashed off with a knife. (To be continued.) )