Li Xiaogong led hundreds of men to gallop towards the Yellow River, his camp was very close to the Yellow River, less than three miles away, and in a few moments, they ran to the Yellow River, and there were 1,200 soldiers on the wharf, with bows, arrows and spears in hand, all watching the river nervously.

Li Xiaogong's arrival caused the soldiers to dodge a road, Li Xiaogong turned over and dismounted, walked quickly to the river, he also asked a little nervously, "Where is it?" ”

A lieutenant pointed to the river, "Your Highness, look carefully, can you see it?" ”

A round of bright moon shines on the river, the river surface is sparkling, the moonlight shines on the river surface very clearly, Li Xiaogong stared at it for a moment, there are many huge black shadows with black pupils on the river surface more than a thousand steps away, that is the figure of a big ship, there are more than 100 ships, quietly moored on the river, bright and dark under the moonlight, it is like a ghost, it looks particularly weird.

Li Xiaogong gasped, this was the big ship of the Sui army, they were about to launch an offensive on the south bank, he asked urgently, "What time is it now?" ”

"Back to Your Highness, it's just past one watch."

As soon as a personal soldier finished speaking, a shout of killing suddenly broke out from the barracks, Li Xiaogong turned his head sharply, only to see a fire in the barracks, and the piercing alarm bell faintly came, Li Xiaogong was taken aback and shouted, 'Not good!' He turned his horse's head and ran toward the camp.

He was full of remorse in his heart, he should have thought that Yang Yuanqing and Wang Shichong would attack at the same time, there was already an abnormality on the river, so how could Wang Shichong's army not react?

He should have let the soldiers rise up in time to fight, and blamed the arrival of the Inspector Yushi. Disturbed his mind, he didn't even think of this, Li Xiaogong hated and complained in his heart, he only hoped that Wang Shichong's night sneak attack would be successfully blocked by the soldiers on duty.

Li Xiaogong rushed all the way back to the camp, and he was slightly relieved by the situation in the camp, although the camp was chaotic, but Wang Shichong's army failed to attack the camp. It was successfully intercepted by the general Zhao Song with 2,000 crossbowmen.

Li Xiaogong entered the camp from the west gate, and there was no enemy attack here at the west gate, so he entered the camp. The general Zhao Song greeted him, "Your Highness, Wang Shichong sent five thousand cavalry to attack the camp at night. Spotted by the patrolmen, we managed to intercept them. ”

Li Xiaogong nodded, pointed to the southeast firelight and asked, "What's going on?" ”

"Back to Your Highness, dozens of large tents in the southeast corner have been ignited by enemy rockets, and the soldiers have withdrawn."

"What about the casualties?"

"The enemy killed and wounded several hundred brothers when they stormed the camp, but they were also killed by bows and arrows, two or three hundred."

"Pass my order, and the generals will immediately reorganize the army and stop the chaos."

Li Xiaogong gave the order, and he urged the horse to run towards the Dongying Gate, where four thousand crossbowmen had already been concentrated. Nervously staring at the dark depths outside the camp, in the darkness, a large number of troops could be faintly seen, not only 5,000 cavalry, it should be Wang Shichong's 30,000 troops. They are also not in a hurry to attack, but are patiently waiting for something?

Li Xiaogong's heart was anxious, he looked back in the direction of the Yellow River, he knew what Wang Shichong was waiting for, Wang Shichong didn't want to attack the camp at night, he just wanted to contain his army. So that the Northern Sui army can land calmly.

"Pass my orders, and all soldiers are ready to evacuate!"

The sense of crisis in Li Xiaogong's heart was extremely strong, and he could not wait until the Northern Sui army, which was good at night fighting, landed before evacuating, and then his army would be finished.

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Also at the same time, the last team of the Northern Sui army of Fenglingdu boarded the ferry, with a heavy bell ringing, more than 600 ferries set sail, taking advantage of the cover of night to the south bank, thousands of sails are lined up, the momentum is huge.

At night, the Yellow River is not safe, full of murderous opportunities, the river is covered with large and small whirlpools, if you are not careful, the boat will be sucked up when it encounters a big whirlpool, and even the boat will be destroyed and killed.

In order to cross the river tonight, the Sui army made full preparations, they used merchant ships as a cover, and tried to cross the river at various hours of the night one by one, and finally determined that it was the safest time of the first watch, and according to the experience of decades of old boatmen, although the night crossing of the river was poor, the water surface was safer than during the day.

Hundreds of big ships sailed along the strong northwest wind on the Yellow River, in the middle of a building boat, Yang Yuanqing stood at the bow of the boat and watched the situation on the opposite bank, it is now the dry season in October, the water surface of the Yellow River is actually only seven or eight miles away, and it can reach the opposite bank in more than half an hour.

At this time, Yang Yuanqing was a little worried that the enemy army would use fire oil to block the river, and when he found that fire oil also appeared in the Tang army, this became an indelible shadow in Yang Yuanqing's heart.

In the sound of the rushing waves, the big ship got closer and closer to the opposite bank, only more than 500 steps apart, the commander of the river crossing made Qin Qiong wave his hand, and the main boat was lit with a lantern and hung high on the mast, which was a signal, the large group of ships quickly dropped their sails and slowed down, and the thirty hundred stone warships as the vanguard, rushed to the shore.

Everyone watched as the thirty hundred-stone boats rushed towards the shore, and the other side was still quiet, without any movement.

Yang Shidao was a little uneasy in his heart, and whispered beside Yang Yuanqing: "It's a little weird!" At a distance of 500 paces, the other side should be able to spot our fleet, why is there no movement? ”

Yang Yuanqing looked up at the moonlight, the moonlight was exceptionally bright, sprinkled the river with silver night light, he also had experience, if there was no moonlight, only by starlight could see the movement on the river four or five hundred steps away, not to mention that there was no fog today, the moonlight was clear, and the defenders on the shore could indeed see them clearly, but they did not move, which made Yang Yuanqing a little surprised.

Yang Yuanqing did not rush to respond to Yang Shidao's question, he watched with full attention as the thirty pioneer ships sailed towards the shore, which was already less than a hundred steps, but there was still no movement.

"Isn't it possible to have no defenders on the docks?" Yang Yuanqing secretly thought in his heart.

The vanguard ships finally docked one after another, and more than 1,000 soldiers on the 30 ships, holding shields and spears in their hands, cautiously jumped off the ship and ran to the shore, but there was still no movement on the shore.

At this time, the Sui soldiers on the shore lit three large lanterns, which indicated that there were no ambushes. Qin Qiong immediately ordered, "Ship landing!" ”

Hundreds of big ships raised their mainsails again and began to move closer to the shore, Yang Yuanqing was puzzled in his heart, why was there no army defense on the shore, he got the information that there were at least two thousand defenders on the dock, could it be that they all fled?

It's unrealistic to think about. Fenglingdu has already gathered ferries, and with Li Xiaogong's intelligence, he will inevitably send heavy troops to defend here. Then how could there be no army appearing, allowing him to land smoothly, and none of the several enthronement battle plans that he had bothered to prepare were useless. Yang Yuanqing was puzzled, but this was fine, and it could greatly reduce the casualties of his army's landing.

The large ships approached the wharf in turn, and the soldiers of the Northern Sui Army landed one after another from the big ships, they had a clear division of labor, and they acted quickly, and soon occupied the area within two miles of the wharf, and the first 1,000 soldiers to go ashore were patrolling three miles away to protect the landing of the main army.

It was not until the fourth watch that the 30,000 Northern Sui troops completed all the landings. Yang Yuanqing boarded the dock at the end, and at this time, the commander of the river crossing made Qin Qiong step forward to hand over the order, "The last general has completed all the landings, everything is going well, whether to march to Ruxiang County." Please instruct the manager! ”

Yang Yuanqing looked at the sky, shook his head, and said, "Order the brothers to rest on the spot, and then march to Ruxiang County after dawn." ”

Yang Yuanqing's order was issued, and 30,000 Northern Sui soldiers rested in place one after another, they had eaten and drunk enough before they boarded the ship, and now they each took out their blankets to wrap their bodies and sleep upside down. Everyone is fighting for time to rest in order to maintain enough physical strength for tomorrow's big battle, which the soldiers have experienced for many years.

A marching tent was set up on the wharf, the tent was brightly lit, and a smaller sand table was placed, and Yang Yuanqing was discussing the next battle with the generals in front of the sand table.

"It's very surprising, we didn't encounter any resistance and landed directly on the south bank, what should have happened, but don't think about this for the time being, what I want to tell you now is that Li Jing and Wang Shichong's army also launched an attack on the Tang army in Shaanxi County at the beginning of the watch, and now their combined army is 50,000 people, and Li Xiaogong's army in Shaanxi County is only 20,000 people, plus our 30,000 people have cut off their retreat, the victory or defeat is clear at a glance, after dawn we will divide the army into two roads, I led 20,000 people to seize the county seat of Ruxiang, With the support of reinforcements to defend Tongguan, General Qin led 10,000 troops to capture Hongnong County, in order to dash Li Xiaogong's hope of withdrawing to the defense of Hongnong County. ”

As soon as Yang Yuanqing said this, Qin Qiong bowed down and said: "Chief, set off again at dawn, the last general is afraid that it will be too late, please allow the last general to lead the army to set off now." ”

Yang Yuanqing thought about it and agreed, gave him the arrow of the Third Army, and told him: "There are only 1,000 defenders in Hongnong County, so don't worry, but you must be careful of being ambushed on the road, the enemy did not intercept us at the dock, I suspect that they will set up an ambush halfway, you must be careful." ”

"The last general will be careful!"

Qin Qiong saluted, and hurriedly left the camp to order troops, not long after Qin Qiong left, a personal soldier came in, and said to Yang Yuanqing with a strange expression: "Report to the governor, Huang Junhan, the general of Ruxiang County, sent someone to ask for a meeting, saying that Huang Junhan has decided to surrender to the governor." ”

The generals in the big tent were stunned, no wonder there was no one guarding on the dock, it turned out that the enemy defenders were about to surrender, Yang Yuanqing and Yang Shidao exchanged a look, and both of them laughed knowingly.

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The day is gradually bright, Yang Yuanqing led 20,000 troops to arrive at Ruxiang County, this is a small county seat, the city is not precipitous, surrounded by mountains, more than 20 miles away in the west is Tongguan, Ruxiang County is on the way to Tongguan, the geographical location is extremely important.

At this time, in the wilderness in front of the county seat, more than 3,000 Tang troops have put down their weapons, lined up and waited for the Sui army to surrender, the head of the general is Huang Junhan, he has a total of more than 8,000 soldiers, some of the generals in Guanzhong are unwilling to surrender, Huang Junhan is not reluctant, they and nearly 5,000 Guanzhong soldiers who are unwilling to surrender are put back to Tongguan, and he led more than 3,000 Hedong soldiers who have been following him to surrender to the Northern Sui army.

Huang Junhan also knew that after he returned to Chang'an, Li Yuan would give him generous treatment because of his apologies, but he would rather surrender to Yang Yuanqing than accept this great shame, a person who only knows how to protect his son and does not know how to pity the general is not worthy of his loyalty, his eyes are full of absolute fierceness.

Although his wife and children are in Chang'an, he believes that Yang Yuanqing will solve it for him, Yang Yuanqing is willing to exchange even the family members of ordinary soldiers with captured ministers, not to mention his own wives and children, Yang Yuanqing's concern for soldiers and Li Yuan's selfishness are in stark contrast, which Huang Junhan understands more deeply.

At this time, Yang Yuanqing led the army to arrive, Yang Yuanqing urged him to step forward, and said with a slight smile: "General Huang abandoned the dark and turned to the light, which is admirable!" ”

Huang Junhan took a few steps forward, knelt down on one knee, raised his fists with both hands, and said loudly: "The last general Huang Junhan has awakened and is willing to be loyal to His Royal Highness the King of Chu!" ”