Although Sheng Yanshi had already led the people to surrender to the Sui army, this was only a move in Yang Yuanqing's chess game in Guannei, and it was also a key 'lure', using the crisis of Huining County to lead out the Tang Army in Hexi, which is also the real reason why Yang Yuanqing wanted to fight Huining County first and not Yan'an County.

Since it is used as a 'lure', the most important thing is two things, one is to block the news and never allow the matter of Sheng Yanshi's surrender to leak out.

Therefore, except for the generals brought by Sheng Yanshi, who knew a little bit of the inside story, all the rest of the soldiers concealed it, not only that, but Yang Yuanqing also sent hundreds of scouts to patrol along the Yellow River, strictly prohibiting anyone from crossing the river to the west.

The second is to continue the layout, the Sui army put on an encirclement posture in Huining County, besieged but not attacked, waiting for the Hexi army to take the bait......

In the big tent of the Chinese army of the Sui army outside the city, several generals stood in front of the sand table to discuss the battle plan, Yang Yuanqing did not say a word, and listened carefully to Sheng Yanshi's narration, he hoped to find a way to break the enemy from Sheng Yanshi's narrative.

"Just when His Highness led the army into Huining County, I received a report from the sentry, so I immediately ...... to the prince."

When Sheng Yanshi said this, his tone was sluggish, and he quickly glanced at Yang Yuanqing, Yang Yuanqing waved his hand, "It's okay to call the prince, keep talking." ”

"Yes!"

Sheng Yanshi continued: "The humble official immediately sent an eagle letter to the prince for help, because the prince repeatedly told the humble post before leaving, the silver mine in Huining County is related to the national fortune of the Tang Dynasty, and it cannot be lost no matter what, so the humble official knows that the imperial court will definitely send troops to rescue Huining County." ”

"How can General Na Sheng be sure that Tang Ting will definitely send troops from Hexi?" Yang Yuanqing asked him again.

"Returning to Your Highness, in terms of distance, Wuwei County is the closest to Huining County, and it will be there after crossing the Yellow River, at most two days away, and Wuwei County has 20,000 garrisons, Zhangye County has 10,000 garrisons, and the strength is enough to support Huining County, although Honghua County is about the same as Huining County and Wuwei County. But Honghua County only has 5,000 garrisons, and the troops are insufficient, and in addition, he knows that the prince actually has a little selfishness......"

Yang Yuanqing jīng God was shaken. His heart was full of curiosity, and he smiled: "Tell me, what selfishness does the prince have?" ”

This involves the power struggle of the high-level of the Tang court, originally Guannei Dao was Li Shentong's territory, but later because Chai Shao was captured, Li Yuan assigned the power of Guannei Dao to the prince, which made Li Shentong very dissatisfied with the prince. Some time ago, the King of Qin recommended Li Shentong to stay in Luoyang, because Li Shentong and the King of Qin showed signs of approaching, so the prince had the intention of plotting Hexi, this is because Hexi is guarded by Li Shentong's brother Li Shenfu, so the prince will definitely advocate Li Shenfu to rescue Huining County, so that I can take the opportunity to seize Li Shenfu's military power.

Although Sheng Yanshi's words were simple, Cheng Yanjin and Luo Shixin looked at each other when they heard it, and even Pei Renji didn't fully understand it. Yang Yuanqing knew it well, this was the fourth military power figure in the Tang Dynasty, Li Shentong, who switched to Li Shimin and caused infighting.

You can take advantage of the complex relationship of this Tang court's infighting to design and lure Li Shenfu to the bait.

Meantime. Yang Yuanqing also carefully found that although Sheng Yanshi called Li Yuan's name, he still called Li Jiancheng the prince, which showed that he still had a lot of feelings for Li Jiancheng, which made Yang Yuanqing secretly think that he had to prevent Li Jiancheng from pulling Sheng Yanshi back.

At this time, Pei Renji also added: "Your Highness, the old minister also thinks that the possibility of the Tang Dynasty sending troops from Hexi is very great, the defenders of Honghua County and Anding County are all infantry, but the Tang army in Hexi is all cavalry, and as far as I know. There is no snow on the Gobi Desert for hundreds of miles west of the Yellow River, in fact, it doesn't take two rì, it only takes one rì to arrive overnight. ”

'One day and one night! ’

Yang Yuanqing recited silently a few times, stared at the sand table and pondered for a moment, and then slowly said to everyone: "There are many ways to deal with the Hexi Army, and we can use the least costly way. ”

He saw that everyone's eyes showed great interest. He smiled slightly and said, "My plan is called inviting you into the urn." ”……

It is not far from Liangzhou City of Wuwei County to Huining County, only more than 100 miles, in fact, as long as the Yellow River is the boundary of Wuwei County, Wuwei County is Liangzhou, including Ganzhou (Zhangye County) in the north, Suzhou (Jiuquan County), Shazhou (Dunhuang County) and so on, connected into a famous Hexi Corridor, which was a strategic place of the imperial court in the old Sui period, and raised nearly one million horses in the Hexi Corridor at the peak of the Great Sui.

It was precisely with the war horses on the Hexi Corridor that the powerful cavalry of the Great Sui was created, which enabled the Great Sui to win many battles in battles against the powerful Turks, and then expanded its territory to the Western Regions.

At present, the Tang court has taken over the pastures and war horses of the Sui Dynasty, and although the number of war horses has declined, there are still as many as 400,000.

After destroying the Western Liang Kingdom, Li Yuan appointed his younger brother Li Shenfu as the marshal of the Hexi march and the governor of Liangzhou, commanding the soldiers and horses of the three counties of Hexi except Dunhuang County, totaling more than 30,000 people. The crisis shrouded in the sky over Huining County, the silver mine of Huining County was related to the national fortunes of the Sui and Tang dynasties, and also became the focus of contention between the two dynasties, in Li Jiancheng's army deployment, he also considered that Yang Yuanqing's 10,000 cavalry was likely to go north to Huining County, so he deployed 20,000 troops in Huining County.

However, Li Jiancheng did not expect that Pei Renji would lead 15,000 Fengzhou troops south from Lingwu County, forming a north-south flank attack on the Tang army, and by the time he realized this serious problem, the crisis had already formed.

Under Li Jiancheng's repeated pleas, Li Yuan finally agreed to send troops from Hexi to support Huining County, although Li Yuan did not want to fight Yang Yuanqing again, he was also unwilling to lose the Huining silver mine......

On the vast Gobi Desert, a mighty cavalry is running eastward along the wide gallop road on the Gobi Desert, with banners overwhelming, this is a 20,000-strong Tang Army cavalry, headed by Li Shenfu, the king of Xiangyi County.

Li Shenfu is about thirty-seven or eighteen years old, looks like his brother Li Shentong, a nose through the sky is extremely tall and straight, two eyes are blazing, so that a sixty pounds of Yanling long knife, bow and horse skill, outstanding martial arts.

Hexi Province was originally Li Shentong's sphere of influence, and after Li Shentong took over the five southern counties of Guannai Province, he recommended Li Shenfu to be in charge of Hexi military and political affairs.

It can be said that everyone has their own scheming, Li Jiancheng wants to take the opportunity to take back the Hexi forces, and Li Shenfu also wants to take this opportunity to take over Huining County and regain control of the five counties in Guannan.

After receiving Li Yuan's flying eagle edict, he led 20,000 cavalry to Huining County overnight, just as Pei Renji judged, in just one day and one night, Li Shenfu's army gradually approached the Yellow River.

It is already afternoon, the sun's warm light shines on the sandy and gravel Gobi Desert, which is an interesting phenomenon, perhaps under the influence of the Helan Mountains in the north, the east of the Yellow River has abundant precipitation, and the winter is snowy, while the large area west of the Yellow River has scarce precipitation, and there is very little snow in winter, forming a Gobi desert of nearly 100 miles.

Li Shenfu was extremely familiar with the terrain in this area, and he knew that he was about to reach the Yellow River, so he ordered the army to slow down their horses and walk slowly, waiting for news from the scouts.

At this time, a group of cavalry galloped in the distance, and Li Shenfu jīng shook his spirit, this is the scout he sent back.

In a moment, the cavalry team rushed to him, and there was a messenger sergeant in the team, and the scout team was leading the messenger up, kneeling down on one knee to report, "Commander Qiqi, there is no ambush by the Yellow River, but we met the messenger captain sent by General Sheng." ”

Li Shenfu glanced at this captain, only to feel a little familiar, as if it was Sheng Yanshi's personal captain, "You are ...... Captain Sun? Li Shenfu could barely remember his name.

The captain knelt down on one knee and saluted, "The humble position is none other than Sun Da, who sent a letter to His Highness a few months ago on the orders of General Sheng. ”

The lieutenant took out the order arrow again, presented it with both hands, and said: "Because I am afraid of being intercepted by the Sui army, there is no written letter, only oral message." ”

Li Shenfu took the arrow and looked at it, and asked again, "What message?" ”

The lieutenant said in a deep voice: "At noon today, Yang Yuanqing led the army south to the silver mine, leaving only Pei Renji's 15,000 troops in the north of Huining County, General Sheng hopes to divide the labor with His Royal Highness, Pei Renji's department in the north will be dealt with by us, and Yang Yuanqing, who went to the mine in the south, only has 10,000 cavalry, and His Royal Highness is responsible for annihilation. ”

Li Shenfu looked up to the sky and laughed, Sheng Yanshi's wishful thinking was really wonderful, he actually let himself deal with Yang Yuanqing, as if he had taken a big advantage for himself, Sheng Yanshi hoped that he and Yang Yuanqing would lose both, and then he came to grab this great credit, and by the way, he also took his army into his own, no wonder the prince regarded him as a confidant, and he was really scheming!

Li Shenfu's face sank, "I am the king of the county, the marshal of the Hexi marching army, it is not his turn to arrange for me, since the holy decree is to order me to keep Huining, then I will be the master here." ”

"But...... Your Highness, General Sheng has already led his army north to meet Pei Renji's army

"That's his business, what does it have to do with me!"

Li Shenfu shouted angrily, jerked his war horse, and galloped towards the Yellow River a few miles away, he was now going to rush to the county seat, and after a little supply and rest, he would arrange a battle.

Li Shenfu sneered all the way, and actually wanted to use a fait accompli to blackmail himself, and the Holy Lord wrote very clearly on his edict, asking him to save Huining County, not to save Sheng Yanshi, what does Sheng Yanshi's life and death have to do with him? ……

When Li Shenfu arrived in Huining County, Huining County was already an empty city, with only more than 100 guards, and the leader was none other than Sun Da, the captain of Sheng Yanshi's own army.

Sun Da then also came, he called the soldiers guarding the city to his side, everyone turned over and got on the horse, Sun Da bowed his hand on the horse, and said angrily: "Your Highness is a royal family, not that I can afford to provoke, since His Royal Highness refuses to accept General Sheng's arrangement, then I have to go back to General Sheng, Your Highness, please take care!" ”

After speaking, he waved his hand, "Let's go!" ”

More than 100 cavalry followed the urging horse, and quickly galloped towards the north, Li Shenfu snorted heavily, but did not stop them, he hoped that Sheng Yanshi would come back, and he happened to take over his army.

Watching the cavalry go away, he turned around and ordered: "When the whole army enters the city, bury the pot and cook immediately!" ”