Two days later, tens of thousands of Sui troops arrived at Yongfeng Town on the other side of the Yellow River, and set up camp on the other side of the Yellow River, although the Yellow River here is indeed very gentle, and it is also the narrowest place, but it is the Yellow River after all, the river is still as wide as 150 zhang, and it is impossible to cross the river without a boat. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

As soon as the army was stationed, Li Jing ordered 3,000 soldiers to go to a radius of 50 miles to look for trees.

Soon, Zhang Changxun got the news, he came to the Yellow River and looked at the Sui army camp on the other side, sneered, and said to Gao Jing, the general beside him: "The Sui army thought that this place was full of forests, and it was easy to cut down wood and build ships, but he couldn't have imagined that the south bank of the Yellow River was actually a desert, and there was no grass within a hundred miles, so where did they go to find trees?" ”

Gao Jing was a hussar general of the Tang Dynasty, who was sent by Li Yuan to Wuyuan County to assist Zhang Changxun in commanding the army.

He said to Zhang Changxun: "The characteristics of the Sui army's operations have always been intelligence priority, and this Li Jing once led an expedition to Lingnan and recovered Quanzhou and Lingnan in one fell swoop, he is a very powerful general, since he has captured Yulin County, how can he not know the situation here?" If he didn't even have preparations to cross the river, how could such a person Zhang Xuan send him to the west, the general said right? ”

Zhang Changxun thought about it, it did make sense, Li Jing sent cavalry to the ferry to seize the boat, which was obviously very unrealistic, but Li Jing still did it, and now in retrospect, it seems that he is pretending to be a little.

"Could it be that Sui Jun is pretending to be a gesture?" Zhang Changxun hesitated.

"I'm not sure, but at least Li Jing knows very well that if you don't prepare in advance, you will definitely not be able to cross the river."

"And what does he mean now?"

Zhang Changxun's mind turned sharply, and suddenly remembered something, although there are no trees here, but if you continue to go west, after walking out of two hundred miles, there will be an irrigation area, there are large forests there, most of them are trees planted in the Han Dynasty, all of them are towering trees, and shipbuilding will not be a problem.

"Could it be that one of their armies has already gone to cross the river from the irrigated area to the west?"

Gao Jing smiled, "The general has deployed so many scouts on the other side, if there is an army going west, how can the general not know?" ”

Zhang Changxun is right to think about it, south of the Yellow River is an endless desert, and if the Sui army has an advance army, it is impossible to go out of the desert, so it can only go west along the Yellow River, as Gao Jing said, he will definitely know.

Zhang Changxun was even more confused, so what was the intention of the Sui army?

.........

The next day, an astonishing news came from Jiuyuan County, a Sui army of more than 10,000 people had been killed under the county seat, this news shocked Zhang Changxun dumbfounded, where did the Sui army come from? How did you cross the Yellow River?

But he didn't have time to find an answer, he couldn't help but panic, and asked Gao Jing urgently, "What should we do?" ”

Gao Jing had already woken up at this time, the Sui army must have a boat or raft to cross the river, but they put it behind, 10,000 people crossed the river from behind, and went around to Jiuyuan County from the north, and the main force in front was a bait to attract them to Yongfeng Town, and 10,000 Sui troops killed Jiuyuan County from behind.

Although Gao Jing also felt that the general trend had gone, he still comforted Zhang Changxun, "General, don't worry, our army is more numerous than the Sui army, we can flank the front and back, defeat this sneak attack Sui army, we still have a chance." ”

As soon as the words fell, a soldier rushed to report: "General, there is a boat!" A fleet of boats came up on the river! ”

Zhang Changxun and Gao Jing hurried to the Yellow River, the scene in front of them made both of them stunned, only to see hundreds of narrow and long boats appeared on the river, the mighty and magnificent are quite spectacular, in the first big ship, a green dragon red flag fluttering high, this is the battle flag of the Northern Sui Army.

The Sui army on the other side cheered, and the generals were all surprised, how could the Sui army's worm boat appear here, at this time, Li Jing stepped forward and said to everyone with a smile: "This is a warship from Loufan County, because it takes time to come, and we have to transport our rear army to cross the river, so we can only march as slowly as possible and drag the enemy army in Yongfeng Town, our 10,000 rear army has become the front army to kill Jiuyuan County, and the capture of the county seat is in front of us." ”

Everyone was convinced, bowed down and said, "General Li's plan, we are far from it!" ”

Li Jing smiled and waved his hand, "Everyone clean up, the army will start crossing the river tonight!" ”

That night, just after the enemy troops on the other side of the river had just withdrawn, tens of thousands of Sui troops began to speed up their speed to cross the Yellow River, because the situation in Jiuyuan County was critical, Zhang Changxun had already led the army back to rescue the county, overnight, tens of thousands of Sui troops crossed the Yellow River without hindrance, and as soon as the day dawned, tens of thousands of Sui troops rushed to Jiuyuan County to kill........

Yongfeng Town is about eighty miles away from Jiuyuan County, and if the army marches in a hurry, it can be killed overnight.

Zhang Changxun led 15,000 soldiers to Jiuyuan County in the starry night, Jiuyuan County is not only his old nest, all food and materials are hoarded in Jiuyuan County, more importantly, most of the soldiers' families live in the county seat, every day outside the county town to cultivate the land, early and late return, the vast and fertile land outside the county is enough for them to cultivate, even if it is ripe once a year, the grain produced can make them worry about food and clothing.

It is precisely because there is a sufficient source of food that Zhang Changxun is also the army with the most sufficient food in the local army, and the warehouse maintains a stock of 300,000 stone of grain all year round.

But overnight, the 300,000 stone grain seems to have changed owners.

At the fifth watch, when Zhang Changxun's army was still twenty miles away from the county seat, an army came to meet him, and some soldiers came to report: "General, it's Gongzi's army!" ”

Zhang Changxun's heart sank suddenly, his son was stationed in Jiuyuan County, and his son's army appeared here, does it mean that the county seat has been .......

At this time, Zhang Wu was led up by the soldiers, and when he saw his father, he knelt down and cried bitterly: "The child is incompetent, failed to keep the county, and failed to live up to his father's expectations, and is willing to be severely punished by his father!" ”

Zhang Changxun couldn't blame his son, it was his own misjudgment that fell for the Sui army's plan to divert the tiger from the mountain, and it had nothing to do with his son.

He held back his heartache and asked, "How did the Sui army capture the county seat?" ”

"Back to my father, the Sui army attacked the city at night, our soldiers were not trained in night fighting, it was very chaotic, and finally the Sui army attacked the west city, and the child could only retreat from the east city."

"How many troops are left?" Zhang Changxun asked again.

"There were about 2,000 people left, hundreds of killed, and many surrendered, but most of them fled home when the city was broken."

Zhang Changxun was extremely depressed, the way back to the city was broken, and the Sui army should have crossed the Yellow River later, where should he go?

At this time, Gao Jing said beside him: "The general can withdraw to Yongfeng County and wait for the Tang army to come to the rescue, I have sent someone to ask the court for help, I believe that the saint will not sit idly by." ”

Gao Jing was afraid that Zhang Changxun would have the heart to surrender, and hurriedly persuaded him to go to Yongfeng County to wait for reinforcements, although he also knew that the reinforcements were not reliable, but at least gave Zhang Changxun a glimmer of hope.

Zhang Changxun has no way out, the Sui army has 10,000 troops, with their current strength, not only can they not capture Jiuyuan County, but they will also fall into a serious situation of being attacked by the enemy, there is no choice but to find another way, fortunately, Yongfeng County also has some food, and there is no problem with stationing troops for a month or two, so he nodded, "Okay!" Let's go to Yongfeng County first. ”

The two armies joined forces and immediately rushed to Yongfeng County........

At noon, the army led by Li Jing arrived in Jiuyuan County.

Jiuyuan County is a big county, it was built in the Han Dynasty and Han Dynasty, it is the first place where the Hetao immigrants lived, after hundreds of years of development, after repeated reconstruction, Jiuyuan County has become the second largest city in the Hetao area after Lingwu County Zhihuile County, the circumference of the city is more than 20 miles, the population is more than 100,000 people, the city wall is tall and solid, there are moats on all sides, it is such a city that can be defended, but because the defenders are not good at night fighting, they were captured by the Sui army in one fell swoop.

Tens of thousands of troops marched into Jiuyuan County, the county has been martial law, every family is closed, because half of the county is a military household, most of the children of the family have fled to Yongfeng County with Zhang Changxun, so the military family is particularly nervous, I don't know what kind of fate they will encounter, the whole county is shrouded in an uneasy atmosphere.

Li Jing first went to inspect the warehouse, for him, the food supply of the 50,000 Sui army was more important than anything else, if he wanted to develop south based on the Hetao, then he must first ensure the supply of military food.

The warehouse has been taken over by the Sui army, the warehouse in Jiuyuan County is a warehouse city, surrounded by high walls, equivalent to a city within a city, covering an area of hundreds of acres, three thousand Sui troops guarding dozens of large warehouses in the city, the defense is extremely tight.

As soon as Li Jing walked to the warehouse, there was a rapid sound of horses' hooves behind him, Li Jing turned around, only to see a messenger rushing over, the messenger turned over and dismounted, knelt down on one knee to report, "General Qiqi, the commander has an urgent warrant!" ”

The soldier presented a roll of warrants, Li Jing opened it and read it, and was immediately overjoyed, the marshal led 10,000 cavalry to Yulin County, and was rushing along the north bank of the Yellow River to Jiuyuan County. (To be continued.) )