All kinds of good news continued to fly like snowflakes, believing that Zhang Zhengdao would open the city gate, the main force of the Huoyi Sui army marched north as promised, and set up camp under Lingshi City to build siege equipment, and then the Taiyuan army scouts repeatedly confirmed that Liang Naizhu, the general of the Sui army, had escorted the artillery into the Bird Mouse Valley. In addition, there is good news, that is, the Taiyuan army lurking in the Huoyi area has finally confirmed that the Huoyi Sui army made a bluff a few days ago, but in fact, it did not get much reinforcement, after the nine thousand Sui army entered the Bird Mouse Valley in the north, the Sui army camp was already empty, and there were not even a few ghosts and shadows.

In the face of these good news, none of the civil and military forces of Li Er's army were not smiling, knowing that the self-army was already a sure chance of victory, although Li Er couldn't help but be overjoyed, and understood that his plan to lure the enemy had been successful, but for the sake of prudence, Li Er still asked the scouts to continue to tighten Huoyi's Sui army camp, especially pay attention to Huoyi's road to Linfen, so as to judge that Liu Heimin, who was sitting in Linfen, suddenly sent reinforcements to Huoyi.

During this period, Duan Lun, who was stationed in Jiexiu, also used carrier pigeons to send a message to contact Li Er, informing Li Er that the garrison was ready to fight, and also asked Li Er about the progress of the plan and asked when it would start. Because at present, he only saw the dawn of victory, but there was no sure whether the last step of the plan could be successful, Li Er did not give an immediate reply, but just put aside Duan Lun's flying pigeon biography asking about the time of dispatch, and then continued to wait fearfully in Lingshi City for the follow-up report - Li Er was really worried about it this time, because he missed this opportunity, Li Er didn't know if he still had such a good opportunity to capture the Sui army's artillery.

The night of the second day of the first month of March was spent in painful torment, and before the dawn of the third day of the first month of March, Li Er had already personally climbed the Lingshi city wall, looking at the movement of the Sui army camp in the distance, for fear that the Sui army Wang Xingben and other troops would notice that the situation was not good, and led the army to withdraw in advance, but fortunately, the Sui army camp was still there, and there was no sign of retreat, and at the same time, the Taiyuan army scouts also confirmed that the Sui army sent soldiers to cut wood again, and they were still making siege weapons, Li Er was a little relieved. Then Li Er turned his gaze to the official road of the Sparrow Mouse Valley due south, and secretly said in his heart: "You must come!" ”

More than an hour later, when Li Er had returned to the city to command and deploy military affairs, the scouts who went south finally sent back the first report, saying that the rear team of the Sui army led by Liang Naizhu had already pulled out of camp and stood up, escorting the heavy and difficult artillery to continue north to Lingshi. Hearing this news, the brush in Li Er's hand suddenly made a crisp bang and broke it directly into two, and then Li Er tried to take a deep breath, and then calmly ordered: "Gather all the generals to discuss the matter, and by the way, prepare the carrier pigeon that is in contact with Manager Duan, and then prepare a reliable messenger." ”

After the order was delivered, Li Erjun's generals rushed to the council hall one after another, during which Li Er had already written a pigeon book, informing Duan Lun that Duan Lun would send troops at the time of today's unitary time, and strive to arrive at the Lingshi battlefield tomorrow, and send this letter to Jiexiu with carrier pigeons. At the same time, for the sake of prudence and to prevent the carrier pigeon from encountering unforeseen events on the way, Li Er asked the messenger to bring Duan Lun a message with the same content, asking the messenger to arrive at Jiexiu before today's unitary time, so that Duan Lun knew the time of dispatch and the time of battle.

After one person, one pigeon and two messengers were sent out, all the generals of Li Erjun had already arrived, facing the anticipation of the generals under his command, Li Er smiled at first, and then said: "Princess, immediately start to arrange preparations for battle, tomorrow at two o'clock (four o'clock in the morning) to send troops to attack the Chen thief camp, I hope you must take the lead, inspire the soldiers to fight bravely, break through the Chen thief camp, and seize the Chen thief artillery!" ”

The generals of Li Erjun did not rush to sing the promise, on the contrary, they all looked at each other a little, and then Zhu Cang timidly asked: "Right Governor, are you too anxious?" The artillery of the thief army is still on the way, and it is difficult to say whether it can be transported to the spirit stone today, so it is too eager to decide to send troops tonight, right? Anyway, even if the thieves transport the artillery today, it will be difficult to launch an immediate siege tomorrow, so it is more certain to wait another day? ”

"Can't wait." Li Er decisively refused, and Yan said: "You have to be in a hurry!" Liu Heimin is both wise and brave, once he learns that Wang Xingben and others led the army north, it is very likely that they will send reinforcements and delay the major events of our army, we must pay attention to the precious opportunity that he has not yet sent reinforcements or the reinforcements are still on the way, so that the grasp is greater! Besides, General Duan Zhixuan and they are lurking in the mountains, and they may be discovered by the thief scouts at any time, and the longer the time drags on, the more likely it is to expose our strange soldiers! Got it? ”

Zhu Cang nodded, then immediately clenched his fists and said, "Understood!" The last general asks for the order to be the vanguard, please ask the right governor for permission! ”

"Very well, let you be the vanguard!" Li Er nodded with satisfaction, and said to the generals under his command: "Rest assured, in tonight's battle, our army not only has strange soldiers to disturb the rear of the thief army, but also the main force of General Manager Duan to help, Wang Xing is a general who is often defeated under our army, Cao Qing and Liang Naizhu are martial artists, and they are definitely not our army's opponents!" Our army is victorious, and you can rest assured that you will win a big victory! ”

The generals of Li Erjun sang a promise, praising the governor of the capital in unison for being as clever as a god, and his army will undoubtedly win! Then immediately rushed down to prepare for tonight's battle arrangement, Li Er immediately sent someone to contact Duan Zhixuan, who was lurking in the mountains, to pass the order, and after all the arrangements were made, Li Er sneered and said secretly in his heart: "Wang Xingben, you must not have guessed, the day your artillery arrives at the camp will be the day of your fiasco!" ”

Li Er guessed correctly, in fact, Wang Xingben, who had been drawn by the Li family's army several times on the Hedong battlefield, couldn't even guess the real purpose of Li Er's luring him into the spirit stone, let alone guessing the time of his counterattack. But Wang Xingben couldn't guess, it doesn't mean that Liu Heimin couldn't guess, in fact, after analysis and deduction, Liu Heimin had already found out as early as yesterday that the time of Li Erjun's counterattack should be on the night of the artillery resisting the Lingshi battlefield, and he had already informed Wang Xingben and other generals in advance. However, Liu Heimin is not an immortal of the unpredictable prophet, although he guessed the date of Li Erjun's counteroffensive correctly, he misexpected the specific time of Li Erjun's counteroffensive............

So, a very interesting thing happened, although Wang Xing's army already knew that Li Erjun would launch an attack tonight, secretly prepared for battle, and pretended not to check the artillery in the evening of the same day to transport the artillery into the camp, but Wang Xingben and Cao Qing personally led the army to ambush in the camp, and waited until the third watch of the night, but never saw half of the shadow of the enemy, the Sui army soldiers complained in a low voice, Wang Xingben and Cao Qing also complained in their hearts, and said that Liu Heimin expected the enemy to be poor, and completely misjudged the enemy's situation.

In the end, Wang Xingben, who didn't quite believe in Liu Heimin's analysis and judgment, discussed with Cao Qing a little, and felt that Liu Heimin must have guessed wrong this time, so he simply collected his troops and returned to the account when the fourth watch was approaching, so that the soldiers could rest well. But what Wang Xingben and Cao Qing probably never dreamed of was that just when they collected their troops and returned to their tents to rest, the officers and soldiers of Li Erjun in Lingshi City had already gotten up one after another under the urging of generals at all levels, and quietly began to make final preparations for the battle, and on the official road of Bird Mouse Valley, the seven thousand Taiyuan troops led by Duan Lun himself were also trotting and quickly approaching the Lingshi battlefield............

Not to mention, Li Er gave up the most favorable night attack opportunity of the third watch, although he was forced to do it in order to cooperate with Duan Lun's entry time, but the crooked attack received a lot of unexpected effects, in addition to making Wang Xing's army travel a hundred miles and half ninety in vain in the middle of the night, it also made Liu Heiminbai, who was waiting outside Huoyi City, wait for a lot of time, and once suspected that his enemy was bad, and the time for Li Erjun's counterattack was not tonight. But fortunately, Liu Heimin was much more patient than Wang Xingben and Cao Qing, not only decisively refused his subordinates to let the soldiers go back to the tent to rest, but also secretly said in his heart: "It's great to let the soldiers work hard all night, anyway, I'm here in the rear, and the soldiers can rest at ease during the day." ”

"Knock-knock! Boom! Boom! ”

The four watchmen finally rang, hearing the slow and fast bangzi sound, in the northeast mountains and forests of the Huoyi Sui army camp, more than 800 Taiyuan soldiers holding war horses walked out silently, all dressed in black clothes and black armor like ghosts, all with thick waists and round arms and eyes, it was the only remaining Xuanjia cavalry that Li Ernai became famous and fruitful. Looking at the sparsely lit Sui army camp in the distance, Li Er's cavalry chief Duan Zhixuan's eyes seemed to breathe fire, and he gritted his teeth and ordered in a low voice, "Prepare for battle, lead the horse forward!" ”

The order was conveyed, more than 800 Xuanjia cavalry people wrapped their horses and hooves, quietly stepped forward, and gradually approached the Sui army camp that was already empty, after stopping half a mile outside the camp, Duan Zhixuan waved his hand, and several masters who were proficient in night raid warfare stepped forward, first shot down the Sui army sentry on the arrow tower with bows and arrows, and then quickly moved the antlers of the camp gate to reject the horse, and then opened the Sui army camp door along the way, and the Sui army soldiers who were very sparse in defense noticed the enemy attacking, and quickly shouted loudly, desperately ringing the alarm gong!

At the same time, the Xuanjia cavalry had already mounted under Duan Zhixuan's order, and when Yao Yao saw that the door of the Sui military camp had been opened, Duan Zhixuan was extremely happy to say a word of heavenly protection, and then without hesitation, he immediately raised the saber in his hand and shouted: "Brothers, take revenge!" Today! Kill me! ”

Roaring, Duan Zhixuan grabbed the war horse, and took the lead in rushing to the door of the Sui military camp that had been opened, and the eight hundred Xuanjia cavalry shouted in unison, the horse was like a dragon flag with the wind, rushing forward with the tide rushing, shouting that the killing sound was majestic and heroic, and it rushed straight into the sky, "Kill!" Kill all these thieves and lackeys! Kill! ”

In the shout, Duan Zhixuan was the first to rush into the door of the Sui army camp, galloping towards the Sui army's camp on a fast horse, and some chaotic torches appeared in the Sui army's camp, obviously he was already caught off guard, Duan Zhixuan's heart was secretly happy to charge faster, but just when he was about to rush to the door of the Sui army's middle camp, the front hooves of the war horse under Duan Zhixuan's crotch seemed to have stumbled on something, and he fell directly to the ground with a stumble, Duan Zhixuan was also thrown out by strong inertia, flew forward more than a foot away, and fell heavily to the ground.

"Ahh Yes! Ah! The screams continued to sound, and the Xuanjia cavalry behind Duan Zhixuan seemed to be pulled by some unknown thing, and they also fell down one after another, and the momentum of the charge suddenly disappeared into invisibility.

"What's wrong?" Duan Zhixuan, who was dizzy, was a little confused for a while, but when he saw the cavalry under his command falling one after another, and inadvertently grabbed a suspended tough rope on the ground, Duan Zhixuan finally came to his senses, and immediately screamed heartbreakingly, "Tripping horses!" We were fooled! Chen thief is prepared, this is a trap! ”

It was too late to find out that he had been fooled, and in the sudden explosion of gunpowder bottles, the two sides of the Xuanjia cavalry suddenly burst into flames, and the heavily armed Sui army infantry cavalry was headed by both sides, and the first general was riding a horse, majestic, and laughed loudly on the horse: "Taiyuan thief, do you know me Zhangnan Liu Heimin?!" ”

"Liu Heimin?!" Duan Zhixuan screamed in disbelief again, and he couldn't believe that Liu Heimin, an old opponent who was already the commander-in-chief of the Hedong Military Region and the head of the soldiers and horses of the six counties, would personally lead the army to participate in such a small-scale battle! Immediately afterwards, Duan Zhixuan, who had already suffered countless big losses in front of Liu Heimin, also suddenly sank in his heart, and said secretly: "It's over!" Liu Heimin personally went out, I have already lost! ”

It is indeed already lost, Liu Heimin laughed loudly at the same time, the Sui army had already launched a charge from the two wings of the Xuanjia cavalry, although the Xuanjia cavalry was elite but met the enemy in a hurry, and the combat effectiveness was greatly affected in a panic, and the Sui cavalry that was the first to rush to the formation was directly disrupted, and the savior would not dare to retreat without authorization, and then gave the Sui infantry the opportunity to rush up and fight with them. Over there, Duan Zhixuan hurriedly rode on his war horse with the help of his subordinates, and shouted loudly: "Retreat!" Evacuate! Kill it! ”

Can't kill out, there has been a Sui infantry to block the retreat of the Xuanjia cavalry, the retreating Xuanjia cavalry in a hurry did not have time to give full play to the advantage of the charge to break through, barely in front of the Sui infantry, but also the opportunity to be stabbed by the Sui infantry and cut the horse, the experienced Liu Heimin commanded the army to calmly encircle the enemy, determined to kill Li Er's magic weapon, Duan Zhixuan was forced to be helpless, he could only lead the cavalry in the Sui army formation left and right, looking for a chance to break through, However, the space that was quickly compressed into a small range did not give the Xuanjia cavalry a chance to charge at all, and the reluctant charge could only be forced into a melee, and each charge had to pay a lot of casualties, but they could never find any way to break through.

It must also be admitted that the Xuanjia cavalry formed by Li Eryi is indeed very good in terms of combat effectiveness, even if it is attacked in a hurry and cannot give full play to the strength of the charge assault, it still brings a lot of casualties to the Sui soldiers in the melee, especially Duan Zhixuan is invincible in the melee, stabbing several Sui soldiers one after another, killing the Sui soldiers in fear, and almost killing the encirclement from the front. However, although Duan Zhixuan's active expression succeeded in inspiring the morale of the army and boosting morale, it also annoyed Liu Heimin, who was more skilled in martial arts, and rushed directly to fight Duan Zhixuan with his cavalry, shouting: "Piff! Ben Shuai will meet you in person! ”

Shouting, Liu Heimin's horse lance stabbed Duan Zhixuan's chest, coming very fast, Duan Zhixuan knew that once he dodged, he would definitely be swept away, so he reluctantly raised his knife to hold it, and successfully swept away Liu Heimin's horse lance, Liu Heimin was a little surprised, and immediately recognized Duan Zhixuan's old opponent by the light of the torch, and couldn't help laughing again: "It turned out to be your husband, just right, the past account, let's settle it!" ”

Saying with a smile, Liu Heimin suddenly roared and stabbed again, Duan Zhixuan knew that he was not Liu Heimin's opponent but he still barely parried, and he also tried his best to launch a counterattack with a blue face, thinking in his heart that even if he lost or died, he would have to pull his old rival Liu Heimin to be buried, but it was a pity that the gap in martial arts and strength was not offset by Duan Zhixuan's full strength.

"Go there!" There was another thunderous roar, Liu Heimin suddenly swept the horse lance, and in the middle of Duan Zhixuan's vest, beat Duan Zhixuan to the point of spitting blood, and fell directly from the horse, and this time, the Xuanjia cavalry, which had been entangled by the Sui soldiers, could no longer come up to help Duan Zhixuan get back on the horse, and the two Sui infantry rushed forward and immediately held down Duan Zhixuan, who was still struggling.

"Don't hurt him, catch him alive! I'm going to ask for a confession! Liu Heimin shouted and ordered, and then immediately led the army to cut down the remnants of the Xuanjia cavalry, and then because the number of Sui troops was too small and the encirclement was relatively thin, although the Xuanjia cavalry also successfully found a gap to partially break through, but only about 300 people managed to escape, and the rest were captured either by being killed, and only a few surrendered on their own initiative.

At this time, the sky was already light, and seeing that the victory was decided, Liu Heimin no longer personally led the army to chase and kill, and handed over the cavalry to the generals to lead the pursuit and kill, so as to expand the results of the battle as much as possible. He then immediately rushed to the place where the prisoners were being held for personal interrogation. After seeing Duan Zhixuan, who had been tied up by five flowers, Liu Heimin immediately asked, "Why did you come to rob the camp on the fourth watch?" The time when you started to rob the camp was Li Erlang's order, or was it your own decision?! ”

Duan Zhixuan's loyalty to Li Er must also be praised here, when Li Er fought in the Eastern Capital in history, Duan Zhixuan also thought that he had lost the battle and was captured by Wang Shichong's army, but Duan Zhixuan not only did not surrender, but also seized the opportunity to escape back to Li Er. This time it was the same, after listening to Liu Heimin's question, Duan Zhixuan immediately spit out a mouthful of bloody spittle and scolded: "Phew! Piff, kill me if you have the ability! If you want me to confess, you are dreaming! ”

Duan Zhixuan was loyal, but it was still a pity that his subordinates were not as loyal and fearless as him, and a Xuanjia cavalryman who took the initiative to surrender suddenly shouted: "Dashuai, Dashuai Liu, I know, it was the right governor who gave us the order, and it was the right governor who asked us to rob the camp in the fourth watch!" ”

The scolding was everywhere, and the wounded Xuanjia cavalry captive kicked the traitor with his foot, Liu Heimin hurriedly ordered the soldiers to rescue the traitor of Li Erjun from the captive crowd, and asked him: "Are you sure it was Li Erlang's order?" ”

"Back to Liu Dashuai, yes!" The traitor of the Second Army of Li hurriedly nodded, and took the initiative to say: "Yesterday afternoon, the messenger of the Right Governor found us and brought a message to General Duan, asking him to sneak attack your camp on the fourth watch last night, and also burn your camp baggage, and cooperate with the main force to fight. After we succeed, we will go north to rob and kill your defeated army in Lingshi. The villain happened to be not far from General Duan's side at the time, and happened to hear this order. ”

"Oops!" Liu Heimin heard the bitter cry and said: "I guessed the day of Li Erlang's troops, I didn't guess the time of his operation, Wang Xingben and Cao Qing's two coasters will not use their heads to fight, if they take the initiative to give up the ambush, not only will they have no chance to capture Li Erlang alive, but they may also have to lose the battle." ”

"Marshal, why don't we hurry up and send troops north to respond?" The subordinates next to him immediately built a yì road.

"It's too late, and besides, I don't have enough power in my hands right now." Liu Heimin shook his head, and then Liu Heimin had an idea, and suddenly thought of one thing, that is, when he sent Liang Naizhu to escort the artillery north, in order to complete the task of fighting grass and scaring snakes arranged by Chen Fuliang, he once explained that Liang Naizhu tried not to expose the artillery if he could not expose it, and there was still something to do on this point. After a little more calculation, Liu Heimin made up his mind again, and immediately grabbed a subordinate casually, whispered an explanation in his ear, and asked him to carry the rotating war horse and ride to Lingshi to give orders to Wang Xingben and others.

"Hopefully I can get it." Liu Heimin secretly prayed in his heart, "Heaven bless, if this matter can be successful, it will not stop the main force of the Tang King, and with the strength in my hands alone, I can consume a large number of troops of the Taiyuan thief army!" ”R1148