The camp of the Guanlong coalition army is on a high ground five miles west of Chang'an, covering an area of about 3,000 acres, with thousands of big tents distributed, and a camp fence has been built around the camp, and more than a dozen guard towers are distributed. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The 5,000 troops of the Hou Mochen family and the Zhao family were responsible for guarding the northwest corner, while the 1,000 troops of the Sima family were deployed in the southwest corner.

The army of the Hou Mo Chen family has 3,000 people, ranking third among all the families, second only to the Dugu family and the Yuan family, and the chief commander of this army is Hou Mo Chen Duo's nephew, called Hou Mo Chen An, who also served as a general of Wu Yonglang in the Sui army.

Not long after, his own soldiers led the scout sent by Li Shimin into the big tent, and the scout knelt down and saluted worriedly, "I am here to deliver a letter by the order of His Royal Highness the King of Qin!" ”

The scout presented a letter, and Hou Mo Chen An took the letter and asked, "Is His Royal Highness King Qin still in the Ancient City of Chang'an now?" “

"It's no longer there, it's a few miles away from the big camp now."

Hou Mo Chen An was taken aback, he hurriedly opened the letter and read it carefully, only then did he know that the 60,000 Tang army had surrounded them and was about to launch a general attack tonight, he was stunned for a long time, and hurriedly asked: "What does Your Highness mean, why is it not clear in the letter?" ”

"General Qiyu, Your Highness is afraid that I will be caught and the letter will fall into the hands of Dugu Huaide, so I can't say it clearly in the letter, I will verbally convey His Highness's plan, the army will break through from the general at the third watch tonight, kill the barracks, I hope the general can cooperate."

"So how do I cooperate?"

"It's very simple, before the third watch, the general needs to remove the camp fence and fill in the trench, His Highness said that it is best to remove the big tent, and then the general's soldiers put a white cloth on their left arm to show the difference, if the general's soldiers can create a surrender momentum in the camp, His Highness said that he will credit it again. In short, I hope that the general will fully cooperate with the Tang army to attack the camp and surrender all the soldiers. ”

Hou Mo Chen was a little puzzled, if you want to surrender all the soldiers, then the best way is to besiege but not attack, wait for ten days and half a month, everyone naturally surrendered, it seems that His Royal Highness the King of Qin is very anxious, he only attacked the ancient city of Chang'an last night, and he will conquer the camp today, since this is the case, then what is the need to attack the ancient city of Chang'an?

Of course, Hou Mo Chen An would not understand Li Shimin's thoughts, and he had no room for negotiation, so he just answered whether it was okay or not, Hou Mo Chen An nodded, "Then it is a word, tonight at the third watch, with the rocket as the number, I will help His Highness!" ”

Hou Mo Chen An immediately sent soldiers out to patrol the sentry under the pretext of sending the Tang army scouts out, Hou Mo Chen An pondered for a long time, and then said to his own soldiers: "Go and ask General Zhao and General Sima to come and see me!" ”

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Of course, Hou Mo Chen An didn't know why the Tang army couldn't wait for a day, and today Li Shimin got the information that Zhang Xuan increased his troops by 100,000 and personally conquered Taiyuan, which made Li Shimin anxious.

Li Shimin knew that in the past, the Zhou army besieged Taiyuan but did not fight, because the Zhou army wanted to use Taiyuan and Bingzhou to contain the Tang army, and now with the end of the battles of Bashu and Hexi, Zhang Xuan drove the expedition in person, which was actually to seize Taiyuan, how could Li Shimin not be anxious?

He didn't care if Taiyuan could hold Li Shimin, but he must withdraw Qu Tutong and the army, so Li Shimin decided to attack the coalition camp that night, instead of waiting for them to surrender after they ran out of food, he couldn't wait for that time.

In the deep night, Li Shimin stood on a hill a few miles away from the coalition camp and watched the outline of the swarthy camp from afar, his expression was very serious, he had no worries about defeating these coalition forces, he was deeply worried about the situation in Taiyuan, whether Qu Tutong could hold Taiyuan? Will the various forces in Taiyuan City also plan for themselves like the Guanlong coalition army?

Now that even the Guanlong nobles have begun to rebel, can they still expect the scholars of the state to still have their hearts set on the Tang Dynasty? Obviously impossible, there are 200,000 troops outside to press the border, and there are families with ill intentions inside, close to Qu Tutong alone, how can Taiyuan still be able to hold it?

Now Li Shimin's only hope was that the Zhou army had not yet garrisoned Lishi County, and then used civilian ships, rafts, and captured cargo ships to open a passage over Lishi County and the Yellow River, so that the Tang army in Taiyuan could withdraw, although the hope was very slim, Li Shimin was still determined to make every effort to achieve it.

"Your Highness, the hour has come!" A pro-soldier reminded Li Shimin in a low voice.

"Have you already watched three shifts?" Li Shimin asked.

"It's been three shifts."

Li Shimin turned his head to look at the woods ambushed by the Tang army, including Qin Qiong, Wu Yunzhao, Hou Junji, Duan Zhihong, Liu Hongji, Changsun Shunde and other generals were ready, Li Shimin nodded, "Shoot rockets!" ”

After speaking, he turned over his horse, turned his horse's head and went down the mountain, three soldiers opened their bows and arrows, ignited three rockets and shot them into the sky, three bright rockets crossed the night sky, and even the head of Chang'an City more than ten miles away was clearly visible.

Qin Qiong was in charge of the first wave of attacks, he led three thousand cavalry to ambush the coalition camp, three rockets were fired, and he waved his hand, "Attack!" ”

Three thousand cavalry followed him to the northwest corner of the camp, at this time there were hundreds of soldiers in the northwest corner of the camp were busy, they had filled in the trench, with ropes to lasso the camp fence and pull hard, the camp fence fell down, revealing a large open space, here was originally hundreds of tents, now all demolished, turned into an open space, the army of the Hou Mo Chen family and the soldiers of the Zhao family army are tied with white strips on their right arms, everything is ready according to Li Shimin's requirements.

Dugu Huaide received a patrol report at noon, a large number of Tang troops were found around, Dugu Huaide was also very nervous, and ordered all armies to strengthen the periphery scout vigilance, but Dugu Huaide did not consider that the Tang army would immediately attack the camp, the Tang army only took the ancient city of Chang'an last night, and the Tang army would not easily launch an attack if it did not trap itself for ten days and half a month.

It is this conventional way of thinking that the coalition camp is not sufficiently prepared, and the soldiers are still asleep at night, not yet in a state of readiness.

In the middle of the night, Dugu Huaide was suddenly woken up by his own soldiers, he put on a coat and got up and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

"General Qiyu, the soldiers on the inner patrol found that the tents in the northwest of the camp have been demolished, I don't know why?"

Dugu Huaide was stunned for a while, and it took a while to remember that the army stationed in the northwest corner was the private army of the Hou Mochen family, did they want to withdraw without authorization?

Dugu Huaide hurriedly put on his armor and shouted: "Lead my war horse!" "He's going to see for himself what's going on?

The soldiers hurriedly brought him a war horse, and at this time, a soldier suddenly pointed to the northern sky and shouted: "General, look! ”

Dugu Huaide looked up, three fire points appeared in the north sky, this was obviously shooting three rockets, it seemed that the Tang army was sending a signal, Dugu Huaide suddenly became a little nervous in his heart, the Tang army was about to act, and there was an abnormality in the northwest corner of the camp, he felt a little bad.

Dugu Huaide hesitated slightly, and a gut told him that something was likely to happen tonight, so he still gave the order, "Pass my order, ring the alarm bell!" ”

'When! While! While! ’

The alarm bell in the center of the camp rang, and the sound was particularly harsh, which immediately woke up the sleeping Tang soldiers one after another, and the soldiers hurriedly got up and put on their armor, and the various tents were in chaos.

At the same time, Qin Qiong led three thousand vanguard Tang troops into the coalition camp, the sound of horses' hooves was like thunder, the cavalry rushed wildly, their goal was very clear, to the commander in the center of the camp to kill, and tens of thousands of Tang troops also killed the coalition camp from three directions.

The drums around the camp were loud, the shouts of killing shook the sky, and the Tang army camp also began to be chaotic, and soldiers kept shouting: "100,000 Tang troops have entered the camp, and the brothers in each battalion have surrendered, surrender quickly!" ”

All kinds of news are disturbing the morale of the army, quickly disintegrating the will of the coalition to resist, and the major families are detached from Germany and begin to consider their own retreats.

Qin Qiong led the cavalry to quickly rush to the front of the Chinese army camp, and an army came head-on, it was Dugu Huaide who led more than 1,000 soldiers to check the situation of the northwest camp, and happened to meet the Tang army head-on.

"General Qin, that's Dugu Huaide!" One of the lieutenants of the coalition forces who led the way to the Tang army shouted loudly.

Qin Yong didn't say a word, the spear swung, and killed Dugu Huaide, yesterday Wu Yunzhao picked Dugu Changfeng in the ancient city of Chang'an, and made the first contribution, Qin Qiong had already held his breath, today His Royal Highness the King of Qin made him a pioneer, that is, to give himself the opportunity to make the first contribution, no matter what, he will not lose the opportunity again.

Dugu Huaide saw a Tang army killing him, he was taken aback, raised his knife to fight, Dugu Huaide's martial arts are also very brave, he and Qin Qiong fought fiercely for more than a dozen rounds, and finally Qin Qiong caught the loophole in his knife technique, that is, Dugu Huaide's left arm strength is weak, the two horses pedaled wrongly, Dugu Huaide turned around and slashed, Qin Qiong held the gun in one hand, 'When!' With a loud bang, he picked up the knife with little strength, and Qin Qiong immediately pulled out a single hammer from his back and hit Dugu Huaide's vest with one blow.

At this time, Dugu Huaide's knife was exhausted, and his left arm could no longer wheel the big knife, so he only listened to 'Bang!' With a crisp sound, this knot hit Dugu Huaide's back firmly, the heart goggles were shattered, the nail leaves were scattered, Dugu Huaide spurted out a mouthful of blood, his body shook, and he fell off the horse, he struggled and was just about to get up, Qin Qiong's spear had already pressed against his throat, "If you move again, you will die!" ”

The soldiers in the back swarmed up and tied up Dugu Huaide, and when Dugu Huaide's more than 1,000 soldiers saw that the commander was arrested, they all had no intention of fighting, and they knelt down and surrendered, Qin Qiong said coldly to Dugu Huaide: "The general trend has gone, do you still want your brothers to be slaughtered and killed?" ”

Dugu Huaide sighed, turned back to his own soldiers and said, "Go and order the Dugu family soldiers to surrender!" ”