In Yinzhou City for a few days, Liu Pan's troops sent to Suizhou, surrounded Suizhou City, Li Xiuyuan said: "The last general is willing to enter the city to persuade Wu Cao to surrender." Liu Pan said: "Although General Li has good intentions, Liu can't bear to put you in danger, thinking that there are only a few thousand remnants in the city, and the city is broken and not repaired, but it will take a day or two. ”

Li Xiuyuan said: "The general's love, the last general is grateful, that Wu Cao and I are sworn brothers and brothers-in-law, I go to talk about him, he may not be willing to surrender, but he will definitely not kill me, the so-called siege on three sides, shake the general's heart, and wait for the general to convey the general's kindness, forgive him in his heart will not insist, then our army can save a lot of trouble in attacking the city." ”

Liu Pan was overjoyed, so he sent Li Xiuyuan into the city,

Wu Cao was discussing the account of the promotion, and suddenly heard that Li Xiuyuan came to persuade him to surrender, he was furious, and said: "This guy still has the face to betray the lord and treason, come on, drag it down and behead it,"

Qiao Yuan, a deputy general next to him, stopped him and said: "Li Xiuyuan is a general ordered by the imperial court, and the general will be killed without a will, which is contrary to the law of the country, so it is better to play the Ming court and kill again,"

General Li Tong sneered: "The border marshal has the right to kill, just a partial general, why bother to ask the court,"

Wu Cao said: "What General Li said is extremely true. Drink out: "Where is the military Chinese book, immediately submit the text to the marshal's judgment." ”

Li Xiuyuan was put on death row to be beheaded without seeing Wu Cao, his face was as white as earth for a while, thinking that he was self-defeating and almost lost his life, he was really remorseful and hateful, and suffered until midnight, when he suddenly heard a noise outside the cell, which frightened him, and saw two men in black cloaks walking in with dim lanterns,

After being locked up in the black prison for a day, Li Xiuyuan couldn't open his eyes because of the light of the lantern, and asked tremblingly, "Who." ”

The visitor replied, "It's me." ”

Li Xiuyuan was overjoyed when he heard this, the person who came was Wu Cao, and the person carrying the lantern next to him was the deputy general Qiao Yuan, Li Xiuyuan grabbed the wooden fence and asked: "Big brother, my brother came to see you with good intentions, why do you want to kill me if you don't see me." ”

Wu Cao said: "You still have the face to say me, you came to see me, why don't you go to the private house but come to my camp." ”

Li Xiuyuan was puzzled, Qiao Yuan said: "General Li misunderstood the marshal, yesterday Gu Shentong sent the supervising army Li Tong to the camp, there are many eyes and ears, the general has to be cautious,"

Li Xiuyuan said happily: "So the eldest brother doesn't want to kill me,"

Wu Cao said: "If I want to kill you, I will come to see you late at night." ”

Qiao Yuan sighed: "It's hateful that Gu Shentong is jealous of his ability and encroaches on the military power of the marshal, seeing that the brothers have no way to live, the marshal has made up his mind to join forces with Yang Dashuai to expel Gu Shentong and eliminate harm for the people." ”

Liu Pan received a secret letter from Li Xiuyuan, saying that Wu Cao had decided to turn against the water, and was determined to lead the department to follow Liu Pan to expel Gu Shentong and seize Xia Sui Town.

Liu Pan said with a smile: "This Wu Cao's appetite is quite big, and it looks like he is really surrendering, so he replied one by one, and all the conditions put forward were agreed, and he only asked Wu Cao to come to the camp to meet.

On the appointed date, Wu Cao really came to the Liu Pan military camp and presented a meeting gift: the head of the supervising army Li Tong, in order to show his own heart, Liu Pan was overjoyed, held Wu Cao's hand and said: "You are a refreshing person, I Liu Pan is also a straight intestine, this time to attack Xia Sui, my troops are sufficient, my brother does not need to spend a soldier, only lead the army to garrison Suizhou, guard Hedong, after the fact, fulfill the promise according to the contract, and never break the word." ”

Wu Cao said: "Since the two families have joined forces to expel the Gu family, how can the younger brother not move, the younger brother has a small number of generals, and he is unable to fight big cities and big cities, it is more than enough to fight small towns and towns, and the general will not give up." ”

Liu Pan was overjoyed, and then joined forces with Wu Cao, first persuaded Li Cheng, the guard of Chengping Fort, to attack Suide in the north and south, He Mochi abandoned the city and fled to Xiazhou, Liu Feng was ordered to attack Xia Sui with Li Xiuyuan and Wu Cao's coalition army, Gu Shentong resisted a little, and then abandoned the city and fled into Suining, He Mochi fled west into the territory of Shuofang, and was expelled by Xiao Enqing, Wu Cao asked himself to raise troops to chase, He Mochi was defeated, and a family of two hundred people was killed by Wu Cao,

Liu Pan was overjoyed, rewarded Wu Cao and Li Xiuyuan, and asked Wu Cao: "I heard that Gu Shenhuo of Ningzhou Chongzi Pass is the general's own family, and the general may say that he will turn his back and return to obedience." ”

Wu Cao said: "He is my cousin, I have a good relationship with him, if I go, I can naturally move him, but Chongzi Pass is four hundred miles away, and there is a Gyeongju city in the middle, even if I persuade him to surrender, it will ......."

Before Wu Cao finished speaking, Liu Pan took over the conversation with a smile and said: "Although the city of Gyeongju is high and deep, and the heavy troops are hoarded, if I attack it, it will be instantaneous, but Wang Yi of the unified army is an old and cunning guy, I will take the city, and I can't hurt his vitality, and when he joins forces with Yu Cheng, with high walls and deep trenches, and confronts me, it will be very unfavorable to me, even if it is stormed, it will inevitably lose the soldiers and generals, and in the future the eunuch party counterattack, I will be under too much pressure, therefore, if I can capture the heavy word pass before capturing Gyeongju, it is equivalent to curbing Wang Yi's throat of fleeing south, Wait for me to swallow his 30,000 military horses in one bite, and see what Yu Cheng still has capital. ”

Wu Cao said: "The terrain of the Chongzi Pass is dangerous in the north and slow in the south, it is a dangerous pass to defend the enemy in the north, and there is really no danger to defend in the south, even if I persuade my cousin to surrender, I will definitely not hold on for long, please show the general, when should we start something." ”

Liu Pan said: "This doesn't matter, I will naturally send someone to inform you at that time, if you make this contribution, you will be the marshal of Suining Town in the future." Wu Cao exclaimed: "How can he de, the last general...... Dare not die. ”

In order to confuse Wang Yi, Wu Cao lied that Suizhou was lost, and he took Li Xiuyuan and Qiao Yuan to lead more than 1,000 remnants of the defeated soldiers to Qingzhou.

Wang Yi said: "One mountain does not tolerate two tigers, I am old, if you take in this mourning dog, I am afraid that you are not his opponent, send him to his cousin." ”

Wang Lan said with a smile: "My father has said that he is a lost dog, he is a dog not a tiger, what are you afraid of him, welcome him into the city, swallow it in one bite, and talk about quenching hunger and thirst." ”

Wang Yi reprimanded: "What do you know, isn't the dignity of my Wang family dependent on the soldiers and horses in my hands, why am I still struggling to live in my sixties, I don't want to keep this wealth for you, you are all unscrupulous, Yu Cheng has long had the intention to plot against my soldiers and horses, if you take in Wu Cao, Yu Cheng will use the excuse to ask me to divide the troops to him, do I agree or not, you bastard thing." ”

Wang Lan received this training, and went back in a daze, and when he arrived at home, he smashed everything and smashed it, and it was not pleasing to the eye, no wonder he, a man of forty, was still a minor child in the eyes of his father Wang Yi, with a general's brand on his head, but there was no soldier in his hand, and he was not assigned any errands, and only let him watch politics by his side every day.

Father Lao Tzu said that military affairs, not child's play, young people have to watch more, listen and understand more, in order to learn skills, so as not to take detours, and when you learn, father I will naturally entrust you with errands, you Lao Tzu I will be such a son as you, this family will not be yours sooner or later, what are you in a hurry,

I'm not in a hurry, I'm almost forty, my two brothers didn't live to forty, it's not certain whether I can survive, hey, when I die, you will always have an empty bamboo basket to draw water,

When Wang Lan came home, his wife He ran over and said with a spring breeze on her face: "There are distinguished guests in charge." ”

Wang Lan rolled his strange eyes, bared his teeth and said: "Distinguished guest, what kind of distinguished guest I came from, Lao Tzu has no soldiers, and no one listens to him standing on the street of Gyeongju City and shouting loudly." ”

He Shi said angrily: "Why are you so loud, this time you are really a distinguished guest." ”

"What a guest." Wang Lan still doesn't believe it,

"That's still fake, there is an emperor's edict in my hand, from Chang'an City."

As soon as Wang Lan heard this, he pushed his wife away in a panic and ran away, and He chased after him: "Hat, hat, see Qincha, can you not wear a hat, hey, it's all to make trouble with this seal." He grunted and chased into the inner courtyard, and saw that his head was pouting and lying on the ground listening to the announcement.

He was afraid that the man would smack her, so he hurriedly retreated, clasped his palms and said to the sky: "God, our family has finally come out." ”

On the fourth day of the capture of Xiazhou, Liu Pan's army surrounded Gyeongju, Wang Yi was really cunning, he saw Liu Pan coming from afar, taking advantage of his unstable foothold to attack immediately, in the east of the city, the north of the city each fought a victory, beheaded more than 400 levels, and waited until the main force of the Yangwei army came to find him, he slipped away and hid in the city of Gyeongju, let you insult in every way, he only listened to the wind,

Liu Pan's department is less than 50,000, half of them are forceful, and there are only 20,000 people who really have combat effectiveness, of which more than ninety percent are cavalry, if you talk about field warfare, Wang Yi is far from being an opponent, but if it is a siege war, you can't take advantage of it, Wang Yi is interested in this, so he has no fear, with a strong city and confronted him, he has grain and grass in the city, and some are armor, he is not afraid that Liu Pan will bypass Lingzhou to attack the heavy word pass, and whether he can fight it or not, even if he fights, he can't hold it,

Yu Cheng is no longer a thing, and he doesn't dare to sit back and watch himself perish, the day Gyeongju City falls is the day he Yu Cheng falls,

General Wang Lao is not in a mess, Liu Pan is also comfortable, he has already filled the city with explosives, the fuse is in his own hands, as long as he lights a fire, he can immediately blow him upside down, he is waiting for someone, waiting for Zheng Huatai's Suide army, waiting for the main force of Meng Ming and Yu Yanlu to go south, Lingzhou's bone is too hard, even if he gnaws it on his own teeth, he will definitely have indigestion,

Zheng Huatai's 20,000 army is heading south day and night, and it is expected to arrive in seven days, Meng Ming and Yu Yanlu's mixed army of horses and feet is faster than the Suide army, which is dominated by infantry, and it will take at least five days to arrive, and he can't be idle these days, he has to play with the old fox, lest this guy be suspicious of ghosts, pat his buttocks, and leave,

Liu Pan is divided into three times a day, morning, noon and evening, attacking the city from east to west, north and south, his siege equipment is very limited, most of the time relying on the most primitive ant attachment method to attack the city, the loss of soldiers and generals, very tragic, this gives Wang Yi an illusion: the enemy is so urgent, it can be seen that there is no reinforcement after the rear, there is no food and grass inside, he cheers up the generals, as long as we hold on for another ten days, the enemy army will retreat without a fight,

Five days passed, Meng Ming's 10,000 horse infantry army arrived first, Yu Yanlu's 8,000 horse army also arrived in the early morning of the second day, Zheng Huatai also sent news that the army arrived a day later, one day faster than the original time,

Liu Pan happily said to Yang Hongyang: "Don't wait for him, let's do it." ”

Yang Hongyang thought about it and didn't speak, as long as Zheng Huatai can arrive in a day, then there will be no mistake, even if it is half a day late, it will not be a big deal, Zheng Huatai is an old general, what he said, he should not be suspicious,

According to the plan, Yu Yanlu's 8,000 horse army immediately went around the city to seize the Chongzi Pass, no matter what, even if the whole army died, it must be held for a day and a night, as long as this day and a night, Wang Yi's 30,000 army will be wiped out, and then Yu Cheng will become a loner, and he will die without a fight.

Yu Yanlu went with confidence, although the terrain on the south side of Chongzi Pass was not as dangerous as the north, but the eight thousand cavalry were still sure to deal with Yu Cheng's less than 20,000 foot soldiers for a day and a night.

Yu Yanlu is worried about whether the heavy word pass will change the flag as Liu Pan said, in case it is under the pass, Wu Cao repents, or he can't use the plan, he will be passive, Yu Yanlu cautiously approached the heavy word pass, and at a glance, the knot in his heart was immediately untied: the heavy word pass has fallen into the hands of Wu Cao and Li Xiuyuan, he sighed: It is said that the inner temple will only be rectified at home, and it is far less than the Zuo Mansion to the outside, and it does not look like it is at all, at least Zhang Bozhong is not an idle eater, those who think that the Zuo Mansion and the inner temple will only spy ** , acting as eyes and ears, either fools or stupid, how do they know that there is another mystery in this,

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