readx; Perhaps aware of the arrival of Tang army reinforcements, the Yan army began to retreat east overnight, in the night, Li Qing'an and dozens of generals on the city wall of Fuchengguan, staring at the enemy movement on the opposite bank, the lights on the sentry tower were extinguished in turn, and the opposite bank was silent in darkness, at this time, a carrier pigeon flew from the opposite bank, which was the scout on the opposite bank sent the news. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"General, the latest information!"

A lieutenant handed a roll of pigeon letters to Li Qing'an, and the two soldiers hurriedly raised torches, Li Qing'an unfolded the pigeon letter and looked at it, and said to everyone: "This is the news from the scouts of Liangma Village, Li Huaixian's army has retreated from Liangma Village first." ”

Li Siye frowned and said: "I heard that An Qingxu has arrived in the other party's army, this should be An Qingxu's main general who replaced Li Guiren, and only he can coordinate Li Huaixian's withdrawal at the same time." ”

"Are you worried that they're starting to work together again?" Li Qingan asked with a smile.

Li Siye nodded, "I am indeed a little worried, An Lushan should also be aware of the contradiction between Li Huaixian and Li Guiren, so he let An Qingxu be the main general, and with An Qingxu in the middle, the contradiction between the two Li is likely to disappear invisibly." ”

Li Qingan smiled and shook his head, "It's useless for An Qingxu to come, they are only a superficial reconciliation at most, and there may be no problem with withdrawing troops and marching, but once it involves the vital interests of both sides, such as fierce battles, their contradictions will be undoubtedly revealed, this is not only the contradiction between them, but also involves the respective interests of both sides, and their interests are irreconcilable, I am convinced of this." ”

"Perhaps! The general thinks differently from us, and perhaps sees it more clearly. ”

Li Qingan smiled and said, "Early tomorrow morning, let's go and take a look at Li Guiren's camp, there should be more gains." ”

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The day gradually dawned, and the scouts on the other side came with the news that all the soldiers of the Yan army had withdrawn from Liangma Village and went in the direction of Shangdang, Liangma Village was about eighty miles east of Qinshui, where the terrain was dangerous, both offensive and defensive, and the Yan army's withdrawal from Liangma Village meant that they were indeed retreating to Luzhou, and Li Qingan immediately ordered the Northern Tang Army to cross the river.

Within two hours, the engineering battalion of the Northern Tang Army built two pontoon bridges on the Qinshui, and the army began to cross the river quickly, Li Qing'an ordered the general Lifei Yuanli to be the vanguard, leading 10,000 cavalry, limiting him to take Liangma Village within half a day, Lifei Yuanli immediately received the order, led 10,000 cavalry, and galloped towards Liangma Village.

Li Qing'an and Li Siye came to Li Guiren's camp, and Li Guiren seemed to realize that Li Qing'an would come to check on his camp, and when he left, he cleaned up and did not leave any valuable information, but it was this that showed Li Guiren's meticulous side.

Seeing that several of Li Qing'an's personal soldiers were measuring the distance between the guard towers, Li Siye couldn't help but step forward and said with a smile: "This is the details of the great general that determine success or failure." ”

Li Qing'an also stepped forward and said with a smile: "Although Li Guiren thinks that he has erased all traces, dismantled the stove, and filled in the well, I can still get a lot of useful information from this watchtower." ”

Li Siye said curiously: "Humble but I have heard of it. ”

Li Qing'an smiled, stepped forward and asked the soldiers, "How many have you measured?" ”

"Back to the Great General, we have measured five."

"That's enough, give me the measurements."

A pro-soldier lieutenant handed Li Qing'an a measuring board, the measuring board was square, with more than a dozen pages of paper sandwiched on it, and a standard table was drawn on the paper, which was one of the measuring tables designed by Li Qing'an himself, specifically for the measurement of the enemy's guard tower, and there were also dozens of tables such as the battalion, the grain and grass storehouse, and the sheep and horse pen, etc., after the special surveyors finished the measurement, they were handed over to the staff battalion for analysis and summary, and finally obtained all kinds of accurate information.

This method has not yet been promoted by Li Qing'an in Anxi, and it was only after he entered the Central Plains that he began to implement it, so Li Siye also saw it for the first time.

Li Qing'an looked at the data, and then smiled at Li Siye: "As I guessed, the spacing between every two guard towers is one hundred steps, and there is no deviation, although the guard towers have been dismantled and do not know the height, we can still find some clues." ”

Li Qing'an walked to a sentry tower, the floating soil on the surface of the sentry tower has been cleaned up, revealing the four pile holes of the black hole, he pointed to the pile hole and smiled at Li Siye: "These pile holes can also reveal a lot of secrets, first of all, the pile spacing of the four piles, all of which are eight feet full, very accurate, and the five sentry towers are the same, followed by the depth of the holes, my own soldiers have measured, each hole is one foot and two feet deep, and the twenty pile holes of the five sentry towers are the same, although there is a difference of one or two inches, but you don't need to consider it, what does this mean, Did General Lee think of it? ”

Li Siye pondered for a moment and said: "Li Guiren doesn't need to deliberately measure the depth of the hole, it can explain one thing, all his bottom piles are the same length, and there are scales on the piles, so they are so accurate." ”

Li Siye was also frightened by his own inference, and he exclaimed: "Does this Li Guiren even have a prescribed scale for this?" It's incredible. ”

Li Qingan shook his head and said: "It is from these details that I can deduce Li Guiren's combat style, this person fights according to the rules and regulations, everything will be done according to the deployed plan, and even a little rigid, not good at surprise soldiers, the advantage is that his army is well-trained, when the two armies face each other, it will be a strong enemy, and the south of the camp should be the station of Cai Xide's department, which is obviously much more messy, does not pay attention to rules in all aspects, is very casual, and even did not burn some intelligence when withdrawing, In stark contrast to Li Quy Ren's army, this shows that Cai Xide's army is scattered and disorganized, and it is the weakest brigade of the three armies, and we have to observe the distribution of its garrisons, and if possible, we might as well eat Cai Xide's army first. ”

Li Siye listened to it and surrendered, in his opinion, Li Guiren had erased all traces and would not gain anything, but he did not expect that Li Qingan could deduce so much useful information from the details of a sentry tower, and it was reasonable and convincing, he couldn't help but sigh: "As long as you are with the general, you will gain every time, and you will be taught in a humble position." ”

At this time, a group of scout cavalry came from afar, running in front of Li Qing'an, they dismounted one after another, and bowed to Li Qing'an for the first captain: "Report to the general, there is the latest information!" ”

"Speak!"

"We found that there was a Yan army stationed in Changzi County, two hundred miles to the southeast, with about 5,000 people."

Li Qing'an understood after a little thought, Changzi County is located between Changping Pass and Shangdang, but it is not on the road to pass, this must be because the other party has discovered that Li Guangbi's army has arrived at Changping Pass, so he is stationed in Changzi County, if Li Guangbi's army participates in the battle for Shangdang, then this garrison of Changzi County will inevitably pose a serious threat to Li Guangbi's rear army.

Li Siye also realized the danger of this army, so he clenched his fists and asked: "General, let the humble post go and pull out the Yan army of the eldest son!" ”

"It's okay, let's try a battle first, and find out the reality of the enemy army!"

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Changzi County is located about 40 miles southwest of Shangdang, the north bank of the turbid Zhangshui, the terrain here is high in the west and low in the east, gradually from the hilly area to the plain area, the county seat of Changzi County is not big, about 2,000 civilians in the city, when Li Guiren's army slaughtered the people of Shangdang County, tens of thousands of people in Changzi County basically ran out, and when Li Guiren's department drove Ashina from Li Li to 10,000 cavalry to Changzi County, the county seat has become an empty city, and there are only more than 70 old people who would rather die than leave their homeland.

At present, the Yan army stationed in Changzi County has a total of 5,300 people, basically all of whom are Khitans, and are led by the Khitan nobleman Yelu Chongguang.

Changzi County, like other county towns in Hedong, has fallen into disrepair and has become very old due to the calm and war-free nature of the past hundred years, and the county city wall cannot defend itself against the attack of the army at all, but only plays a role as an ornament.

Because the eldest son county is very close to Shangdang, so Li Siye's attack can be called a sneak attack, late at night, eight thousand cavalry galloping in the hills and valleys, gradually, the terrain began to be low, in front of a bright and swaying river, that is the turbid water, running for a day and a night, the cavalry has already passed the Fajiu Mountain, only twenty miles away from the county seat of the eldest son, the Northern Tang cavalry gradually slowed down.

They stopped in a large dense woods, while seizing the time to rest, while waiting for news of the scout, Li Siye stood under a large tree, staring intently at the east.

Although this is only a small battle, it is the first battle of Li Siye's participation in quelling the An Lushan rebellion, and the significance to him is not trivial, Li Siye has already held his breath in his heart, and he wants to prove his strength with a real battle.

"It's coming!"

Wei Boyu, the deputy general beside him, saw that under the moonlight, several cavalry were galloping towards this side, and in a moment, several scouts rushed to the front of the dense forest, and a team was turning over and dismounting and reported to Li Siyeyu: "Report to the general, about 5,000 enemy troops are divided into two, half of them are stationed in the big camp outside the north city, and the other half are stationed in the city. ”

"How is the county defense?"

"General Huiyu, the county city wall is two zhang high, very dilapidated, and there is a moat, but the moat in the east city is only one zhang wide, and the east city gate is being repaired, there is no suspension bridge, and the city gate can be directly knocked open."

"Good! Let's go and find out. ”

Li Siye gave an order, and several cavalrymen turned their horses and continued to move east.

At this time, Li Siye convened a short meeting, dozens of officers above the rank of lieutenant all gathered around him, Li Siye said to everyone in a deep voice: "Today is the first time we have directly engaged the Yan army, we have more battles and less, victory is inevitable, the key is what kind of victory, according to the order of the general, Li Guiren's army does not accept surrender, so I ask for the total annihilation of the enemy army, with the head of the meritorious, the time is an hour, an hour later, whether or not all the enemy army is annihilated, we must return, disobey the order of the warriors, beheaded!" ”

Everyone bowed together and said, "Obey!" ”

Li Siye waved his hand and ordered: "Okay, let's go now, don't stop, with the momentum of thunder, first smash the camp outside the city!" ”

Eight thousand cavalry began to set off in a group, and rushed along the turbid water towards Changzi County.

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The barracks outside the north city of Changzi County are very quiet, it is now less than the fourth watch, it is the time when the soldiers sleep the deepest, the whole camp is dark and silent, only a few large lanterns are lit in front of the barracks gate, swaying with the wind in the night, more than a dozen sentries patrol back and forth, although the location of Changzi County is slightly biased, it belongs to a relatively safe area, but the garrison still does not dare to be careless, eight guard towers have been erected around the camp, including the patrol sentries in the county seat, the defense is very tight.

The wind was very strong at night, and the wind made a piercing whistling sound in the night sky, and suddenly, a sentry on the watchtower seemed to hear something, and shouted loudly, and at the same time as the sentry shouted, the beacon tower at the head of the city suddenly burst into flames, and the fire went straight into the night sky.

"When! While! While! ”

The sharp bells rang at the same time on the four western guard towers, and the sentinels discovered the enemy almost at the same time, at this time the ground under their feet began to tremble slightly, and the sound of thunderous horses' hooves was heard in the distance, and the whole camp was alarmed, and two thousand five hundred Khitan soldiers rushed out of the camp tents with shouts, many of them shirtless and carrying spears in their hands.

Eight thousand cavalry as fast as thunder, with a kind of overwhelming momentum swept towards the enemy camp, hundreds of Khitan crossbowmen just rushed to the front of the camp fence, the Tang army has rushed to a hundred steps away, overwhelming arrows to the camp fence to cover the fire, hundreds of Khitan crossbowmen were caught off guard, have been shot to the ground, the remaining more than 100 people saw that the situation was not good, turned around and fled.

The cavalry of the Tang Army had rushed to thirty paces away, and quickly spread out to both sides of the camp fence, hundreds of ropes went to the fence, and the fence was lassoed, and the cavalry struggled to pull together, and in the shout, the camp fence fell down violently, and a hole dozens of zhang wide appeared on the north and south sides.

Eight thousand cavalry jumped over the trench and rushed into the camp of the Khitan army like a surging tide. Not a single one is left. ”

The Northern Tang army roared angrily, slashing with swords, stabbing with spears, heads rolling down, rivers of blood, the cavalry group stepped on the camp tent, opened the bow and released arrows, and the Khitans in the running screamed and fell to the ground after being shot, and then the heads were cut off and plundered away by the Tang cavalry who caught up.

The sheep and horse pens in the camp were the first to be occupied by the Tang army, so that the Khitans had no horses to ride and could only run on two legs to escape, and the Tang soldiers were extremely brave and chased the barefoot Khitan soldiers in all directions.

At this moment, the cavalry of the Tang Army showed no mercy, each of them became the embodiment of death, many Khitan soldiers knelt on the ground and raised their hands to surrender, but the war horses jumped over their heads, and the cold light chopped down, cutting off the heads of the Khitans who knelt on the ground and begged for mercy.......

At the head of the city, the Khitan lord Yelu Chongguang was so anxious that his feet jumped, in the dark night, he couldn't see how many Tang troops came to cover up, and he didn't dare to open the city gate to support, so he had to light all the beacon fires on the four city heads, the flames soared into the sky, and asked for help from Shangdang County to Pingchuan all the way to here, and at most one hour, the reinforcements could arrive.

At this moment, a soldier rushed to report, "General, the Tang army has begun to attack Dongcheng!" ”

Yelu Chongguang suddenly fell into an ice cave, and in less than two quarters of an hour, the Tang army began to attack the city, which showed that all the brothers in the military camp outside the city had been annihilated, and the strength of the Tang army was at least more than 10,000 people.

Yelu Chongguang was very aware of the holes in the defense of the eastern city, the moat had fallen into disrepair and had become very narrow, only one zhang wide, and the war horse could jump over it, and the drawbridge was also rotten and rotten, so the Tang army could directly hit the city with a giant wood by putting on a wooden plank.

Yelu Chongguang was so anxious that he shouted: "Order all the soldiers to rush to the eastern city to defend and shoot with arrows!" Move boulders to block the door, no matter what, the Tang army is not allowed to attack the city! ”

Nearly 3,000 soldiers in the city rushed to the east gate from all directions, only to see the Tang army outside the east gate black pressure as far as the eye can see, the temporary bridge on the moat has been paved, hundreds of Tang soldiers holding a huge crash wood are slowly coming towards the city gate, in addition to hundreds of Tang soldiers holding a tree, there are hundreds of Tang soldiers holding giant shields on both sides, hundreds of giant shields will completely cover the crash wood, like a huge centipede, little by little to move towards the city gate.

"Shoot!"

Arrows rained down on the city's head, stones and logs fell like hailstones, the arrows had no effect, but the boulders and logs were difficult to resist, and the dozen or so Tang soldiers in the front were hit and fell to the ground screaming, and the 'centipede worm' began to slowly retreat again.

In this way, when the head of the city stopped smashing stones and rolling wood, the besieging Tang army advanced, and when the defensive stones and trees were too dense, the besieging Tang army was forced to retreat, forming a tug-of-war, and at this time, more than 1,000 Khitan soldiers had moved hundreds of thousands of pounds of boulders, and the east gate was tightly blocked.

Just when Yelu Chongguang had just breathed a sigh of relief, an earth-shattering crash echoed in the sky above the entire county town, "Boom! ”

The dilapidated city wall was shaking, and the tower on the north wall had collapsed due to disrepair, and all the soldiers were terrified and looked around, not knowing where the huge crashing sound came from?

Yelu Chongguang's face was even more earthy, although he didn't know where the crashing sound came from, but he understood one thing, the Tang army's attack on the east gate was fake, and they were attacking the east gate as a cover.

"General!"

A soldier rushed madly, he was so nervous that he couldn't speak clearly, pointed behind him and shouted: "Tang Army..... Tang Jun! ”

Yelu Chongguang grabbed him by the placket and scolded: "Say it quickly! Where is the Don Army? ”

"In ..... At the North Gate! ”

Yelu Chongguang was stunned, at this time, there was another earth-shattering crash, his feet were shaking violently, Yelu Chongguang did not stand firm, he fell to the ground heavily, and there was clearly a sound of the city gate breaking in this muffled sound, and the inner city was breached.

He closed his eyes in agony, and when it was over, he was gone.

The north gate of the city has been opened, and the Tang army is like a flood that bursts the embankment, surging into the city, only to hear Wei Boyu's angry shout, "No one is left, all killed!" Take credit as a head. ”

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An hour later, Yelu Chongguang's head was cut off by Wei Boyu himself, an hour has arrived, the Yan army of Changzi County has been annihilated, the Tang army has been killed and wounded less than 300 people, the army turned the horse's head, with more than 5,000 Khitan heads, galloped away to the west, and disappeared in a moment at the end of the morning light that the sky was already twilight, and the 10,000 reinforcements from Shangdang rushed to the county seat of Changzi were still ten miles away.

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(To be continued)