On October 14, the thirteenth year of the Great Cause of the Sui Dynasty, three o'clock in the morning, was the key moment that decided the final victory or defeat of the Guanzhong battlefield, the key moment that decided who the color of the Great Sui River and mountains belonged to, and even the key moment that determined the future historical trend.

To tell the truth, before the start of the war, including the rebel general Li Yuan, there were some drums in their hearts, knowing that the victory of the rebels in this battle was not very sure, and having the courage to fight was completely unconvinced by Chen Fuliang from the bottom of his heart, believing that his command ability was by no means under Chen Fuliang, and suspecting that Chen Fuliang, the commander of the Sui army in the eastern capital who was not in good health, was likely to be sick, which offset the advantage of many strong generals and brave soldiers of the Sui army in the eastern capital, and the army had great hopes of turning the tables. Personally lead the army to initiate this decisive battle in the field.

The Sui army in the eastern capital was too light on the enemy's large formation to give the rebels a chance to win, and noticed that the right and left light of the Sui army's battle formation were too unbalanced, Li Yuan was ecstatic and decisively arranged a large number of cannon fodder troops on the left flank of the self-army, determined to give the elite soldiers of the self-army a chance to break the enemy, and at the same time secretly rejoiced in his heart, "Okay, there is a chance!" There is great hope for this battle, even if it can't be won, at least it can consume a large number of elites of Chen Yingliang's thieves, which is conducive to the next battle of our army. If Chen Yingliang's thief is really sick, our army will basically win this battle! ”

Chai Shao is also one of the few rebel generals who are confident of winning, Chai Shao, who is very close to Li Er, often studies the style of the enemy with his second brother-in-law, and often hears the second brother-in-law contemptuously point out that Chen Fuliang is conservative in his use of soldiers, likes to seek undefeated first and then win, does not dare to take risks on the battlefield and often misses the opportunity to break the enemy, and does not dare to chase and fight to the end after victory, he only likes to accept it when he sees it and often gives the enemy a chance to escape. When encountering a truly strong enemy, you can only stare at it and suffer from it, and in fact it is not difficult to deal with.

Often brainwashed by such remarks, subtly, coupled with his confidence in his father-in-law Li Yuan, Chai Shao is full of confidence even if he is not full of confidence in this battle, looking at the evil banner of Chen in the distance, Chai Shao's heart is still full of expectations, and he said secretly: "Come on, the kid surnamed Chen, I want to see today, how you win more with less today, how to win my father-in-law today!" ”

Chen Fuliang took the initiative to send an envoy to ask for an answer before the battle, which gave Li Yuan and his son a surprise, the answer before the battle not only allowed Li Yuan to immediately identify whether Chen Fuliang was really sick, but also gave Li Er, who is good at riding and archery, a godsend-given opportunity to use cold arrows, under great joy, Li Yuan immediately agreed, and turned to Chai Shao and ordered: "Shao'er, you also come, listen to my arrangement and answer a few words with the little thief in a while, and help me distract his mind." Chai Shao couldn't ask for it, so he immediately agreed.

Under the gaze of more than 100,000 soldiers of the two armies, Li Yuan slapped his horse out of the formation, Li Er, Pei Lian, Dou Wei, Liu Wenjing and Chai Shao and other rebel civil and military forces followed closely around him, and Chen Fuliang also led Fang Xuanling, Wei Chi Jingde, Luo Shixin and Liu Shishan and other Sui army civil and military trotted forward, and took the initiative to approach Li Yuan, Li Yuan was secretly happy when he saw it, and he just took more than ten steps out of the battle to restrain the horse's head, but Chen Fuliang continued to step forward stupidly, until he was only more than eighty steps away from Li Yuan and others before he strangled the horse's head, Not only did he give Li Ertu the opportunity to cast a cold arrow, but he also moved nearly eighty steps away from the Sui army's main formation.

After Emperor Wen of Sui reunified the weights and measures, he took five feet as a step, each step was about 1.5 meters, and there were still 120 or 30 meters after more than 80 steps, and it was difficult to see Chen Fuliang's ugly face now, and it was naturally difficult to observe whether Chen Fuliang was really sick. However, this also did not make it difficult for Li Yuan, Li Yuan deliberately shouted loudly: "Ying Liangxian nephew, after two years, the virtuous nephew not only has the same demeanor, but also has been appointed to the Eastern Capital to stay in a high position, it is really gratifying, the old man is here to say hello to you." ”

What answered for Chen Fuliang was Wei Chi Jingde's loud voice, the voice was like a thunderbolt of a tiger and a leopard, both loud and mighty, "Li Yuan is a traitor!" We Chen Liushou said, what are you? Dare to call him a virtuous nephew? What is his relationship with you? ”

"Hahahaha." Li Yuan laughed, and said in his heart that the thief should be really sick, and said: "Virtuous nephew, it is really different if the status is high, the old man is thirty years older than you, what is the reason to call you a virtuous nephew?" The virtuous nephew still remembers that when you were in Daxing, you picked up the vegetable leaves that the people didn't want to boil porridge every day to satisfy your hunger, and when you saw the old man's age, I was afraid that you had to call grandpa, right? ”

The rebels laughed in the array, but Chen Fuliang's civil and military cronies around him were furious, Chen Fuliang, who has studied a lot of thick black studies, naturally would not care about eating such a small loss, in order to buy time for Yuan Tiangang in the back, Chen Fuliang asked Wei Chi Jingde to shout for himself: "Li Yuan old thief, we Chen Liushou said, now he personally led the army to crusade against you, the soldiers pointed out, the sky and the earth changed color, the sun and the moon have no light, the thieves are scattered, your son and son-in-law are all fleeing in front of our army, and the defeat of your thief army is decided, How long do you want to resist? If you are smart, hurry up and dismount and surrender, be merciful today, maybe for the sake of your voluntary surrender, I will spare your dog's life! ”

Li Yuan laughed out loud again, and said with a wild laugh: "Virtuous nephew, just because you fought those small victories before, you dare to be so arrogant in front of the old man?" The reason why the old man's two sons were defeated by you before was because the troops were inferior to you, and they were deceived by your treacherous tricks, which unfortunately failed, and now the old man personally brought 70,000 male soldiers to come, and he should obediently dismount and surrender, it should be you, right? ”

"And." Li Yuan laughed again and said, "Virtuous nephew, why don't you speak by yourself and ask someone else to answer the old man for you?" Could it be that he has done too much evil for abuse, and he has been punished by God, and he is so sick that he can't even speak loudly? ”

After that, Li Yuan laughed out loud again, and the rebel Wenwu next to him also laughed, who knew that Chen Yingliang suddenly spoke, his voice was loud and full of energy, and he laughed and said: "Who said that this official is sick?" Li Yuan, old thief, everyone says that you are an old fox, in my opinion, you are just an old stupid pig, this official is just a little tricky, you think this official is really sick? ”

The laughter of Li Yuan and the others stopped abruptly, and Chen Fuliang tapped his temple with his finger again, laughing loudly: "Old thief Li Yuan, why don't you think about it, with the intelligence of this official, how can you tell important military information in front of outsiders?" Why don't you move your pig's head and think about it, just boil some decoction in the military tent, do you want any medicine? How can you be so stupid as not to think that I have deliberately arranged the illusion of illness, and how can you not deliberately leave some flaws in the letter to you, so that you can be more sure that I am sick? ”

The faces of Li Yuan, Li Er and the others all changed, and they were finally sure that they had been fooled, and Chen Fuliang laughed again and said, "Hao Shou Horseman! Bearded old thief! It's a shame that you're in your early fifties and over half a hundred, and you're so unwise and incompetent, and you're being teased by your own officials, and you have to see that your officials take the initiative to divide their troops and weaken their strength on their own, so you dare to raise troops out of the city to fight, and a young man like you who is as brave and unwise as you dares to speak out in front of your own officials and call yourself an elder? Have you forgotten how you saluted the official during the Yanmen War, and how did you bow down to the official when you were in the prison, crying bitterly and begging for your life? ”

The green tendons on Li Yuan's forehead began to jump violently, and Chai Shao next to him couldn't bear it anymore, and shouted: "Shut up!" Shameless thief, what are you, how can my father-in-law bow down to you and beg for mercy? ”

"Brother Sichang, you think too highly of your father-in-law!" Chen Fuliang laughed wildly and said loudly: "You haven't seen the ugliness of your father-in-law, what hasn't he done in order to survive?" At that time, he not only bowed to me and begged for mercy, but also promised that as long as the official stretched out his hand to save his life, he would be a slave and a servant to the official, leading the horse and falling into the stirrups, sweeping the floor and carrying water, and making grass and rings to repay my great kindness to him! It's a pity that I can't look down on him, and I'm too lazy to pay attention to him! ”

"You ......, you talk nonsense!" Chai Shao was so angry that he trembled.

"Chai Sichang, you get away from me, you don't have the right to talk here." Chen Fuliang scolded while secretly scolding Yuan Tiangang for being too slow, in order to gain time, Chen Fuliang said loudly: "Li Shimin, Li Erlang, do you still remember what I said to you in front of the prison gate when I told you, I told you to do it yourself, otherwise, I will take your life as easy as a finger!" Since you refuse to listen to the good advice of your official and insist on killing yourself, it is your time to die! This time, don't blame the ruthlessness of the official's subordinates! ”

"If you have the ability, you can come!" Li Er sneered loudly, and while holding the handle of the bow tightly and waiting for the opportunity to appear, he laughed loudly: "Chen Yingliang thief, since you are so confident, then do you have the courage to go out in person and fight me for three hundred rounds?" ”

To the surprise of Li Yuan and the others, after hearing Li Er's covenant, although Chen Fuliang did not agree, he did not agree, and closed his mouth as if he was thinking, Li Yuan and the others, who knew Chen Fuliang's bad force, looked at each other, and Chai Shao couldn't wait to shout: "Chen Xiaothief, if you don't dare to fight Erlang, I will accompany you!" I'm bare-handed, whatever weapon you take, ten rounds and so on, I can't kill you, I'll be caught immediately, let me kill you, let you dispose of it! ”

At this time, the three dogs next to Chen Fuliang finally whispered: "Stay behind, Mr. Yuan sends a signal, he is ready, waiting for your order." ”

Chen Fuliang smiled, smiled very happily and comfortably, and then said loudly: "Li Erlang, Chai Sichang, you don't need to provoke me, I am learning from ten thousand enemies, not the courage of a horseman." Now I just want to ask you one last question, what other words do you have to explain? ”

Chai Shao and Li Er both laughed loudly and sneered at Chen Fuliang's arrogant words, but Chen Fuliang laughed even more happily, and said loudly to Li Yuan: "Old thief Li Yuan, if I'm not mistaken, you seem to have three daughters who haven't married, right?" Don't worry, after you die, if the Holy One graciously rewards them to me as slaves, I will take care of them for your good life. By the way, there is another question, old thief Li Yuan, what kind of coffin do you like? ”

After that, Chen Fuliang whispered to the three dogs to send a signal, and the three dogs waved the red order on their chests with their backs to Li Yuan and others, and the soldiers of the Sui army, who had already been waiting behind the bronze cannon, immediately lit the fuse with the incense in their hands, and the fuse coated with nitrate powder beat happily and burned rapidly, quickly drilling into the cannon hole. But Li Yuan didn't notice it, and just sneered loudly: "What kind of coffin do you like, this question should be asked to you, right?" ”

"Cannon blast! Weijia Hainexi returns to his hometown! Chen Fuliang suddenly chanted out a bullshit limerick poem loudly, and looked up to the sky and laughed wildly: "Old thief Li Yuan, congratulations, you are destined to go down in history!" ”

"There's a chance!" Seeing Chen Fuliang looking up to the sky and laughing wildly to reveal his flaws, Li Er did not hesitate, and immediately rushed forward with a horse, raising a bow and arrow to aim at Chen Fuliang, and Chai Shao on the other side also did not hesitate to hold a knife and kick the horse to follow, and rushed straight towards Chen Fuliang.

"Boom! Bang! Bang! ”

The earth-shattering explosion suddenly sounded one after another in front of the Sui army's formation, the sound was like thunder, and the loudness far exceeded the primitive gunpowder bottles that the Sui army and the rebels had gradually become accustomed to, Li Er and Chai Shao in the charge, as well as Li Yuan and Pei Lin and others in the back, first saw the front end of the twelve strange cars in front of the Sui army's formation spitting fire, and then immediately saw in amazement that there were twelve small black dots rushing towards them left and right with a galloping momentum.

With a whoosh, a black dot flew in front of Li Yuan, just hitting Zheng Yuanshou on Li Yuan's right, shamelessly offering the former Wencheng Taishou of Wencheng County to Li Yuan's rebels Zheng Yuanshou didn't even have time to scream, he fell off the war horse directly, the black dot continued to move forward, and after landing, it smashed on the ground that was frozen hard by the cold wind, and then immediately bounced up, and continued to fly forward into the dense crowd of rebel soldiers, and the rebel soldiers who were waiting in line suddenly staggered.

Bang, the second black dot came from right to left, smashed into the ground on Li Yuan's left side, Li Yuan didn't even have time to turn his head to look at the situation, and immediately felt a huge force that was enough to overwhelm his left leg, and suddenly even the man and the horse were knocked to the ground, but the black dot pierced out from the right side of Li Yuan's horse, and smashed on the body of the rebel general Liu Wenjing with blood, and Liu Wenjing also fell off the horse immediately.

The firing accuracy of the twelve-pounder bronze cannon is actually quite good, and the history of the Pearl Kingdom clearly records that during their Civil War, on December 13, 1862, in the Battle of Fredericksburg, Major Braxton and Lieutenant Marye of the Confederate Army used such bronze cannons to fire spherical solid shells at a Northern standard-bearer 1,600 yards away (1,460 meters away), the first shot knocked down a soldier next to the standard-bearer, and the second shot hit directly!

Of course, the casting accuracy of the Sui and Tang dynasties cannot be compared with the nineteenth century, but the distance is only more than two hundred meters, and the famous astronomer Yuan Tiangang, who is ranked first in human history, personally aimed and calculated the shooting height, the Sui army's round of artillery bombardment was still quite accurate, only two of the twelve shells deviated from the target, and directly drilled into the rebel formation behind Li Yuan and others, and the remaining ten shells basically hit Li Yuan's side, and received the artillery coverage effect that Chen Fuliang expected.

Ten shells fell into their crowd, either like Zheng Yuanshou and were directly smashed to broken tendons, or like Li Yuan and Liu Wenjing, they were killed and injured by the terrible bounce of solid shells, and a large area fell almost in the blink of an eye, and also eliminated half of the rebel command in an instant, but the shells were castrated, and they quickly drilled into the dense crowd of rebels, and the rebel soldiers fell to the ground one after another. Although it did not reach the terrifying record of 32 people killed by the bronze cannon in one shell, the two solid shells that directly hit the rebel formation also killed and injured more than a dozen rebel soldiers in each bullet, and the originally extremely neat rebel formation was suddenly in chaos.

Subconsciously looking back and seeing this picture, Li Er was so shocked that the bow and arrow in his hand landed directly, and he reacted very quickly and immediately turned around and rushed back to check his father's situation, and some rebel soldiers behind also rushed up, but when they saw Li Yuan's situation at this moment, they were all stunned.

In the end, he was a martial artist, he ate too well when he was a child, and his body was good, although his legs were already painful, Li Yuan still struggled to half-prop up his body to check his injuries, but at a glance, Li Yuan himself was also stunned - a large part of his left leg had disappeared without a trace, leaving only a small half of the bloody leg stake, the bloody leg stake, and the belly of the war horse that had been blasted out of a big blood hole.

Subconsciously groping, Li Yuan suddenly felt a severed limb on the ground, looked down and only glanced at it, Li Yuan immediately recognized that it was his left leg that had left his body, and then immediately after, Li Yuan screamed hysterically in despair, "How is it possible?" There are still such weapons in the world?! ”

"Li Yuan's old thief!" Chen Fuliang's crazy laughter echoed on the battlefield full of screams, "I already knew that you wanted to sneak attack me with a secret arrow, you attacked me with a bow and arrow, and I used a cannon to fight back at you, let's even!" When you arrive at the palace of Hades, don't blame you for injustice! We're fair! ”

(Li Yuan, Li Er: "Fair!") It's fair! ”）

When Chen Fuliang laughed wildly, in fact, his crisis had not been resolved, and Chai Shao, who hated him deeply, was still rushing directly at him regardless of it-to be precise, Chai Shao's war horse was frightened, and he couldn't stop it at all. But fortunately, Chen Fuliang still has a few very reliable bodyguard accomplices around him, seeing Chai Shao rushing over, Yu Chi Jingde and Luo Shixin each sneered, and both slapped their horses forward, and then the little monster Luo Shixin hit the saber in Chai Shao's hand with a lance, and Chi Jingde, the god of the left door, smashed Chai Shao off the horse with a lance, and then quickly used the horse lance to hit the chest of Chai Shao, who was already stunned, and asked: "Stay behind, do you want to live?" Or are you going to die? ”

Looking down at Chai Shao, who fell to the ground, and also saw the desperate look on his face, Chen Fu's conscience softened, shook his head and said: "Let him go, for the sake of his friends in the world, and for the sake of his conscience and the merits he has made for me before, I will spare him this time in the end." Chai Shao, you are so self-conscious, think more about your poor parents and sister. ”

After that, Chen Fuliang turned around and walked back, returning to the main formation to command the battle, Wei Chi Jingde and Luo Shixin and others followed with the lance, leaving Chai Shao lying motionless on the ground, his heart was blank, and there was only Chen Fuliang's words over and over again, "Do it yourself, think more about your poor parents and sister." ”

Bang! Bang! Bang! The artillery of the Sui army poured artillery fire again, and the heavy solid iron bullets roared into the rebel crowd one after another, and everywhere they passed, the rebel soldiers were either on their backs or their tendons were broken and fractured, either dead or wounded, and the shells were jumping and jumping between chickens and dogs, staggering and screaming, and there was a great chaos, and the Sui soldiers had not yet launched an attack, and the rebels had already shown signs of collapse.

"Command the two wings, charge in a straight line! Artillery, give me the front of the thief army! ”

Between the wave of the flag, the two wings of the Sui army shouted and charged together, the momentum was down the mountain and the tigers, straight to the two wings of the rebels, the rebels on both wings were in chaos, and they had already been chaotic before the battle, countless rebel soldiers ran away, the artillery roared, and poured steel artillery fire on the rebel Chinese positions with the most dense crowds, the poor rebel Chinese army was in chaos without a fight, and they were hiding and fleeing up and down, for fear that the terrible shells would hit them, countless rebel soldiers were frightened and cried loudly, and more rebel soldiers ran directly, Crying as he ran, "Run!" The general is dead! The general is dead! ”

Li Yuan is not dead, but he is almost dead, after being carried back to the formation by the soldiers, seeing that the self-army has been in chaos, and hearing that the strange weapons of the Sui army are still roaring, Li Yuan used his last strength to order the troops to retreat back to the city, and then he couldn't bear the dizziness of a large amount of blood loss and the severe pain of the wound, and fainted directly.

"Fire! Fire! Hit me hard! Cannon blast! Weijia Hainexi returns to his hometown! General Zhang, your poem is really appropriate for me! Daxing, isn't it my hometown? Daxing, brother is back! It's finally back! Seeing Chai Shao rushing over, Yu Chi Jingde and Luo Shixin each sneered, and both slapped their horses forward, and then the little monster Luo Shixin hit the saber in Chai Shao's hand with a lance, and Chi Jingde, the god of the left door, smashed Chai Shao off the horse with a spear, and then quickly used the horse lance to directly hold Chai Shao's chest, who was already stunned, and asked: "Stay behind, do you want to live?" Or are you going to die? ”

Looking down at Chai Shao, who fell to the ground, and also saw the desperate look on his face, Chen Fu's conscience softened, shook his head and said: "Let him go, for the sake of his friends in the world, and for the sake of his conscience and the merits he has made for me before, I will spare him this time in the end." Chai Shao, you are so self-conscious, think more about your poor parents and sister. ”

After that, Chen Fuliang turned around and walked back, returning to the main formation to command the battle, Wei Chi Jingde and Luo Shixin and others followed with the lance, leaving Chai Shao lying motionless on the ground, his heart was blank, and there was only Chen Fuliang's words over and over again, "Do it yourself, think more about your poor parents and sister." ”

Bang! Bang! Bang! The artillery of the Sui army poured artillery fire again, and the heavy solid iron bullets roared into the rebel crowd one after another, and everywhere they passed, the rebel soldiers were either on their backs or their tendons were broken and fractured, either dead or wounded, and the shells were jumping and jumping between chickens and dogs, staggering and screaming, and there was a great chaos, and the Sui soldiers had not yet launched an attack, and the rebels had already shown signs of collapse.

"Command the two wings, charge in a straight line! Artillery, give me the front of the thief army! ”

Between the wave of the flag, the two wings of the Sui army shouted and charged together, the momentum was down the mountain and the tigers, straight to the two wings of the rebels, the rebels on both wings were in chaos, and they had already been chaotic before the battle, countless rebel soldiers ran away, the artillery roared, and poured steel artillery fire on the rebel Chinese positions with the most dense crowds, the poor rebel Chinese army was in chaos without a fight, and they were hiding and fleeing up and down, for fear that the terrible shells would hit them, countless rebel soldiers were frightened and cried loudly, and more rebel soldiers ran directly, Crying as he ran, "Run!" The general is dead! The general is dead! ”

Li Yuan is not dead, but he is almost dead, after being carried back to the formation by the soldiers, seeing that the self-army has been in chaos, and hearing that the strange weapons of the Sui army are still roaring, Li Yuan used his last strength to order the troops to retreat back to the city, and then he couldn't bear the dizziness of a large amount of blood loss and the severe pain of the wound, and fainted directly.

"Fire! Fire! Hit me hard! Cannon blast! Weijia Hainexi returns to his hometown! General Zhang, your poem is really appropriate for me! Daxing, isn't it my hometown? Daxing, brother is back! It's finally back! ”