"Please ask Lord Lu to stay behind for Fan on his behalf, ten days later, the Baoguo Army will always be the vanguard of the Eastern Capital Counterinsurgency Army, and the villain will not die on the battlefield, but will only bring back the good news of victory to Fan Liushou."

This is Chen Yingliang's reply to Fan Zigai's request to lead the army to fight, and after sending Lu Chu away with this sentence, he immediately returned to the team of the Baoguo Army who was training, and continued to personally lead the soldiers of the Baoguo Army to strictly train, and his calm and confident demeanor made Lu Chu, who admired Chen Yingliang, both admired and worried, and also had a strong sense of expectation, looking forward to the early passage of the ten days, and the early to be able to witness the performance of the newspaper **** on the battlefield. It was also tested earlier in actual combat to verify whether Chen Yingliang, a young man who was reused in the line of fire in the Eastern Capital, had real talent and learning.

Lu Chu was apprehensive in his heart, and Chen Yingliang himself was actually the same apprehension in his heart, because although the current Baoguo Army has improved qualitatively in terms of morale and fighting spirit, and the organization and discipline are even more complete to all the defenders in Luoyang City, but there is still a huge gap with the elite Sui army on the front line in terms of individual combat effectiveness, and the number of troops is too small, plus Chen Yingliang himself is only 423 people, and the number of rebel troops in the latest hands has exceeded 60,000 people. No matter how high the morale of the **** is and how strong the fighting spirit is, it will definitely be the life of the whole army.

The main reason for Chen Yingliang's wild words is another news introduced by Lu Chu, that is, the news that Daxing stayed behind to guard Wei Xuan and personally led 40,000 troops eastward to reinforce Luoyang, although Chen Yingliang can no longer remember the results of the battle between Wei Xuan and Yang Xuangan's rebels, but so many Sui troops came to the rescue, Yang Xuangan will definitely not ignore it, and will definitely send the main force to meet Wei Xuan's reinforcements, and the rebel pressure on the eastern capital will be greatly reduced, and even Yang Xuangan will only use a small number of second-line troops to contain the defenders of the eastern capital who have been scared. Concentrate all the elite main forces to move west to block Wei Xuan, then the Baoguo army will go out of the city to fight the rebels, which will undoubtedly increase the chances of victory.

It was also because of this analysis that Chen Yingliang dared to speak wildly to Lu Chu sent by Fan Zigai with his head held high, and at the same time, Chen Yingliang inevitably prayed secretly in his heart, praying that Yang Xuangan could send the main force westward to take the initiative to meet Wei Xuan, just like his own judgment, and don't fight the idea of fighting with the Sui army under the eastern capital, then the army of only more than 400 people will be in suspense.

Chen Yingliang's continuous good luck after coming to Luoyang seems to have come to an end, and after three days passed, in the case that the Sui army reinforcements have gradually approached, the main force of the rebels launched a strong attack on the eastern capital Anximen on the morning of the fourth day, and also used two newly made large crash cars, the battle was extremely fierce, from morning to after noon, the rebel team did not have the slightest sign of retreat, and once killed the city wall of Anximen, the large crash car almost crashed into Anximen, Fan Zigai was forced to come to Anximen to command and supervise the battle, and was forced to use Liu Changgong's reserve troops stationed in Beishi.

Hearing Anximen's shouting of killing, Chen Yingliang had already organized the Baoguo Army to prepare to the guy to Anximen for reinforcements, and cheers sounded in time on Anximen's side, it turned out that the torches and oil kettles thrown by the defenders of the Eastern Capital finally burned the last siege vehicle of the rebels, and under the morale of the great boost, the defender reserve led by Liu Changgong also drowned more than 20 rebel soldiers who rushed to the city wall with crowd tactics, and recaptured the city wall position, Yang Xuangan, who still did not have time to prepare too many siege weapons, was forced to order Mingjin, The defenders of the eastern capital narrowly won the victory of defending the city again, and at the same time, it was useless to report **** and immediately go to the battlefield to engage the main force of the rebels.

Although once again blocked the rebels' siege, but the post-war casualty statistics made Fan Zigai and Huangfu Wuyi and other important ministers of the Eastern Capital very angry, in the case of occupying an absolute geographical advantage, the casualties of the defenders of the Eastern Capital were almost the same as the rebel team, which of course had the rebel team captured a large number of bows and arrows in Kim Yong City, but more than 20 rebel soldiers rushed to the city wall and the defenders after close combat, which caused more than three times the casualties to the defenders, and more than 30 defender deserters died under the sword and axe of the warlord. The lack of courage of the defenders was not only obvious, but also obviously very strict, which made Fan Zigai and Huangfu Wuyi and others inevitably extremely worried, worried that once the rebel team created a siege weapon such as a ladder car, so that the rebel soldiers could quickly rush to the city wall in large numbers, then whether the defenders could recapture the city wall position as they did today must be a huge question mark.

While Fan Zigai and other important ministers of the Eastern Capital were worried, Chen Yingliang was full of questions in the camp of the Baoguo Army, and he really didn't understand what was the point of Yang Xuangan launching a siege today, because since Yang Xuangan was able to build a large siege vehicle, he didn't prepare more heavy siege weapons, and even filled the moat and then attacked the city? Why is it another offensive, with a clear lack of preparation? If it is said that he will take revenge, Yang Xuangan should also attack Shangchun Gate, and attacking Anxi Gate will not wash away the humiliation he received in Shangchun Gate? So Chen Yingliang came to two conclusions, one is that Yang Xuangan's head is in the water and he wants to send experience points to the defenders of the Eastern Capital to brush the level, and the other is that Yang Xuangan has ulterior motives in doing this!

No matter how many questions and conclusions there are, it is useless, with Chen Yingliang's current status, he is not qualified to participate in the decision-making meeting of the defenders of the Eastern Capital, and it is impossible to make Fan Zigai and Huangfu Wuyi, the decision-makers of the defenders of the Eastern Capital, obey his words, so Chen Yingliang can only try his best to improve the morale and cohesion of the army to serve the country, and at the same time through the channels of Pei Hongce and Lu Chu, to understand the military situation outside the city as much as possible, so as to analyze and guess the true intentions of the rebel army.

On the morning of the fifth day, the rebel army sent more than 3,000 troops again, and came to fight under the Anxi Gate, insulting and surrendering, trying to provoke the defenders to go out of the city to fight, and the defenders who had been frightened did not dare to fight, and hid on the city wall just trembling, and there were not even a few defender soldiers who opened their mouths to scold the rebels - these defender soldiers are not fools, the momentum of the rebel team these days is so fierce, no one dares to guarantee that the city wall of the eastern capital can block the advance of the rebel team, if the rebels are provoked now, When that time really comes, there is no chance to surrender and save your life.

Probably because of the inability to scold the defenders, in order to further provoke the defenders in the eastern capital, the rebel team also greatly strengthened the scout warfare, and sent a large number of cavalry to frantically kill the scout light cavalry sent by the defenders of the eastern capital to reconnoiter the enemy's situation, in less than a day, more than 20 defender scouts died tragically under the rebel swords, and more defender scouts were chased by the rebel cavalry like rabbits and fled back to the city, for a whole day, None of the scouts in the Eastern Capital could come within ten miles of the rebel camp.

On the sixth day, the rebel team repeated its old tricks and once again sent troops to fight under the eastern capital, while continuing to strangle the scouts sent by the defenders of the eastern capital, only one of the defenders scout luckily approached Kim Yong Cheng, the main garrison of the rebels, and found out that the main rebel force was still stationed in Kim Yong City. But this time, Fan Zigai and Huangfu Wuyi, who had already suffered a big loss from the scouts who were afraid of death, did not dare to be credulous anymore, in addition to harshly interrogating the scout, they also sent scouts out of the city at night to Kim Yong City to investigate the enemy's situation and reconnoiter the movements of the main rebel army.

On the seventh day, the rebels still ran to the city to fight, and at noon, several scouts who had left the city the night before fled back to the eastern capital, bringing them to see with their own eyes that Yang Xuangan's handsome banner was still fluttering in Kim Yong City, confirming the news, Fan Zigai and Huangfu Wuyi and others were relieved, and quickly sent several messengers to the direction of Tongguan to contact Wei Xuan's army, which was rapidly rushing to the eastern capital for reinforcements, and reported the news that the main force of the rebels was still being pinned down in the eastern capital.

On the eighth day, there were only less than three days left before Wei Xuan's reinforcements arrived in the Eastern Capital, and it was also the thirteenth day of the formation of the Baoguo Army, the rebel team still routinely went to Anxi Gate to fight, the strength was still about 3,000 people, but still did not carry siege weapons to put on a posture, and personally went to Anxi Gate to inspect the situation, Fan Zigai and Huangfu Wuyi and other important ministers of the Eastern Capital were relieved, and at the same time remembered that they would go out of the city three days later to serve as the field pioneer newspaper team, so they temporarily rose, came to the camp of the Baoguo Army together and personally inspected the training of the Baoguo.

To the surprise of Fan Zigai and Huangfu Wuyi and other important ministers of the Eastern Capital, when they came to the camp of the Baoguo Army, the Baoguo Army, which had not stopped from morning to night in the past, had a rare stop to practice, and more than 400 people sat on the ground under the scorching sun, facing a huge blackboard without moving, and Chen Yingliang, who was in full armor, also stood in front of the blackboard under the scorching sun, pointing at the blackboard with a bamboo pole painted with mountains and rivers in white ash, and explained loudly, "The reason why Han Xin fought this battle of Jingcheng was able to defeat the strong with the weak and win more with less, the most important thing is two tactics to attack the heart, one is to put it in the place of death and then live, the backwater array makes the Han army soldiers have no way to retreat, they can only fight desperately and kill a way out. ”

"The second attack tactic is the two thousand volt soldiers arranged by Han Xin, I just told you that the terrain around Jingcheng is not suitable for ambushes, and at the same time, the strength of the Zhao army is more than five times that of the Han army, even if the two thousand volt soldiers attack the flank of the Zhao army, it is difficult to turn defeat into victory, and at most they can only receive the effect of disrupting part of the Zhao army, and Han Xin let these two thousand ambush soldiers sneak attack the Zhao army's camp, and plant the Han army's red flag in the Zhao army's camp, which has received far better results than directly attacking the Zhao army! As for why you can get better results, you can think about it, if you leave your house and suddenly see a fire and smoke rising in the direction of your house in the village, will you be anxious? Are you anxious to go home and check on the situation? Zhao Jun had such a panic psychology when he was fighting with the Han army in close quarters, and Han Xin just couldn't do it without winning the battle, did you understand? ”

"Understood!" More than 400 **** soldiers answered neatly.

"It's good to get it." Chen Yingliang nodded with satisfaction, and said loudly: "As for the mistakes that General Zhao made in this battle, and why Ma Jian failed miserably when he followed Han Xin's tactics during the Three Kingdoms, I will explain to you later, now get up and meet Fan Liushou!" Meet General Huangfu! ”

"No!" More than 400 **** soldiers sang the promise in unison, stood up straight together, and then knelt down on one knee to Fan Zigai and others who walked to the blackboard, clasped their fists and shouted: "Meet Fan Liushou!" Meet General Huangfu! ”

"Meet Fan Liushou, meet General Huangfu, and meet all your lords." Chen Yingliang also saluted on one knee to Fan Zigai and others.

looked at the team of the national army who were still fully armored and neat under the scorching sun, and then looked at the map of the battle of Jingcheng in the Han Dynasty painted by Chen Yingliang on the blackboard, Fan Zigai and Huangfu Wuyi both nodded with satisfaction, and then Fan Zigai said: "No courtesy." ”

"Xie Fan stays behind!" Chen Yingliang agreed loudly and stood up straight.

"Xie Fan stays behind!" More than 400 **** soldiers replied loudly and neatly, like a thunderclap on the ground, got up neatly, and the action standards were neat, and more than 400 people were like one person.

"In ten days, you can train the formation discipline of an army like this, this kid really has a set." Fan Zigai secretly praised, and then asked Chen Yingliang with a smile: "Why didn't you train today?" ”

"Yu Fan stayed, three days later, our army will go out of the city to kill the enemy, in order to let the soldiers get rest and nourish their bodies, so the villain has reduced the training intensity from today on, and only did the usual training of three percent." Chen Yingliang replied loudly.

"And what does that mean?" Huangfu Wuyi asked with a smile pointing to the blackboard made of earth-lacquered wooden boards.

"General Yu Huangfu, in order to familiarize the soldiers with the battlefield, know what is most important on the battlefield, what can and cannot be done, and also in order to cultivate grassroots talents for the right military guard, the villain selected a few former battles for them to explain tactics." Chen Yingliang replied loudly: "What I just explained was the Battle of Jingcheng, and tomorrow I am going to explain the Battle of Weishui, and the day after tomorrow I will explain the Battle of Hefei New City of Zhang Teh during Cao Wei!" ”

"Zhang Te's Hefei New City Defense?" Huangfu Wuyi was a little surprised, and said with a smile: "I can't see that you kid is only seventeen years old, and you even know about such a cold war, and you usually read history books and military books, right?" ”

"General Huangfu, the villain's family background was acceptable when he was young, and he read a lot of history books and military books." Chen Yingliang replied.

Huangfu Wuyi smiled even more gratifying, and wiped a handful of sweat from the sun, Huangfu Wuyi, who was in very poor health, was a little difficult to withstand such a long period of exposure, so he said: "Since it is for the soldiers to rest, then don't let them continue to bask in the sun, let them disband and rest, and we will also find a shady place to sit down and talk." ”

"General Xie Huangfu!" Chen Yingliang thanked him, then turned to the **** soldier and shouted: "Disband, rest." ”

"Kill thieves and quell rebellion! Serve one’s country with true allegiance! More than 400 newspaper **** soldiers shouted a slogan neatly, and saluted Chen Yingliang and Huangfu Wuyi and others, and then disbanded the formation to rest in the shade, Fan Zigai and Huangfu Wuyi nodded slightly again, extremely satisfied with the organizational discipline shown by the ****.

Accompanied by Huangfu Wuyi, who was not in good health, and Fan Zigai, who was nearly seventy years old, came to the shade next to the camp, Chen Yingliang wanted to let people set up a seat for Fan Zigai and Huangfu Wuyi, but Fan Zigai waved his hand to stop him, and said: "No need to sit, we still have business, let's talk and leave, I heard that you drove some soldiers out of the ****, but is there such a thing?" ”

"Yu Fan stayed behind, with this incident, the villain expelled eleven people from the national army one after another." Chen Yingliang replied: "Some of them can't stand the strict requirements of the ****, neglect the military law, and three of them are dissatisfied with being demoted to soldiers, and their mouths are not inferior to affect the morale of the army, and the villain will each of them be heavily punished with 20 military sticks and driven out of the army to serve the country!" ”

"Well done, the old man supports you for such a thing, and if there is such a situation in the future, you have the courage to follow military law, and the old man will support you." Fan Zigai praised him and asked, "Then do you want the old man to add some soldiers to you and make up the strength of the two regiments?" ”

"Xie Fan stayed." Chen Yingliang thanked him, shook his head again and said: "But there is no need, the villain will lead the army to battle in three days, and now the newly added people are too late to train." ”

"Yes." Fan Zigai nodded, and said: "It's up to you in three days, if there are no other accidents, the reinforcements of the Criminal Department Shangshu Wei Wensheng will be able to arrive in the eastern capital in three days, and we will definitely send troops to respond, and the internal and external attacks will break Yang Rebellion, and the old man will still say that when the time comes, the army you practice to serve the country must be the vanguard." ”

"Please stay behind and rest assured, the villain will definitely not let you down." Chen Yingliang replied with his hand, and asked cautiously: "The villain has the courage to stay behind, the main force of the Yang rebel army, can there be a move to march west to meet the Daxing reinforcements?" ”

"Why do you ask this?" Fan Zigai was a little displeased, and said: "What is the crime of listening to military aircraft, you don't know, right?" ”

"Damn the villain." Chen Yingliang hurriedly pleaded guilty, and said more carefully: "The villain just thinks that there is one thing that is very abnormal, Yang Rebellion thief army has been fighting outside Anxi Gate for four consecutive days, our army has always refused to fight, but Yang Rebellion has never given up this action, worried that Yang Rebellion thief army is playing tricks to attack the west, so I can't help but inquire about the movement of the main force of the thief army." ”

"Striking the West?" Fan Zigai frowned slightly, and took the initiative to ask: "How does Yang Wei play tricks to attack the west?" ”

"Go to the city every day to fight, create the illusion that the main force is still on the battlefield in Luoyang, and then take the opportunity to secretly divide the troops, and arrange an ambush on the road where our reinforcements must pass, and sneak attack our reinforcements." Chen Yingliang explained.

Fan Zigai and Huangfu Wuyi's faces changed slightly, Chen Yingliang observed his words, and then said: "Fan Liu, General Huangfu, the villain is bold, I want to ask another question that is not a secret in the army, dare to ask Wei Shangshu West to save the Eastern Capital, whether to take the Heyang Road on the north bank of the Yellow River, or the Cuihan Road on the south bank of the Yellow River?" ”

"It's the Kuohan Road on the south bank." Huangfu Wuyi replied casually.

"What?! Walk the Kuihan Road? Chen Yingliang was taken aback, "Why did Wei Shangshu take this path?" Why not take the North Bank of Ho Yang Road? ”

"Why do you want to take Hayang Road?" Fan Zigai asked unhappily: "Taking the Heyang Road is not only a longer road, but also has to cross the Yellow River twice, and the traitor can easily defend the river, which is more convenient than taking the Cuihan Road?" ”

"But it's dangerous!" Chen Yingliang explained: "The villain came to the west and the east to join the army this time, and walked the Cuihan Road, and witnessed the narrow and steep road of the Cuihan Road, and the favorable terrain for ambush warfare everywhere, and now our Luoyang army is trapped in the city by the thieves, unable to prevent and destroy the Yang Rebel Thief Army to arrange an ambush, and even reconnaissance to confirm whether the Yang Rebel Thief Army is arranging an ambush on the Cuihan Road It is difficult to do, although Wei Shangshu's reinforcements take this road, it is extremely dangerous, and it is far from the safety of the Heyang Road on the north bank of the Yellow River. Because Ha Duong City and Hanoi County are under the control of the imperial court, it is impossible for a large army of traitors to cross the river from the eyes of our Hanoi army, so Yang Cheng naturally cannot arrange an ambush. ”

Fan Zigai and Huangfu Wuyi's faces changed again, and after glancing at each other, Fan Zigai said with some joy: "Fortunately, we can confirm that Yang Wei's main force is still in Kim Yong City, and it is unlikely that Wei Wensheng will be ambushed." ”

Chen Yingliang, who was treacherous and suspicious by nature, did not dare to take it lightly, and hurriedly bowed his hand and said solemnly: "Fan Liushou, General Huangfu, for the sake of the 40,000 troops of the imperial court, the villain dares to ask again, how do you confirm that Yang Rei's main force is still in Kim Yong City?" ”

"Of course, it's the scout who probes." Huangfu Wuyi replied casually, gave Chen Yingliang a rough introduction to the situation of the scout battle outside the city in the past few days, and said that Yang Xuangan's handsome banner was still floating in the city of Kim Yong City.

"In this way, Lord Fan, you and General Huangfu are still in Kim Yong City because Yang Xuan's handsome banner is still in Kim Yong City, so I think that Yang Xuan's main force is still in Kim Yong City." Chen Yingliang's face was extremely solemn, and he said: "But Lord Fan, General Huangfu, have you ever thought about whether that handsome flag was deliberately left by Yang Xuan's rebels to deceive our scouts?" The villain remembers that Cao Cao played such a trick during the Three Kingdoms, using a fake handsome flag to contain Yuan Shao's Jizhou army, and Cao Cao himself took the opportunity to attack Xuzhou and solved Liu Bei's worries. ”

After a little calculation, Fan Zigai, who only sent a messenger to contact Wei Xuan yesterday to send unreliable information, turned even pale, and immediately shouted: "Come on, immediately send more scouts out of the city to investigate Kim Yong Cheng and Kui Han Dao, no matter how much it costs, but also to find out the true movements of Yang Rebellion's main force for the old man!" ”

"Wait!" Chen Yingliang stopped loudly, knelt down on one knee and bowed his hand to Fan Zigai and said: "Lord Fan, it may be too late, not to mention that the rebel cavalry is frantically killing our scouts outside the city, even if our scouts can get lucky enough to get close to Kim Yong City, they will not be able to enter the city to reconnoiter whether the main force of the rebels is leaving." There is also the Cuihan Road, the mountains are high and the forests are dense, and the terrain is steep, and it is difficult for our scouts to completely explore it in a day or two! ”

"What then?" Fan Zigai was a little confused, and said anxiously: "Is there a way for you to find out where the main force of the rebels is?" The old man only sent a messenger to contact Wei Wensheng yesterday, saying that the main force of the traitors was still in the Eastern Capital, and if Wei Wensheng was tricked because of this, the old man would be unable to atone for his sins. ”

Chen Yingliang's face changed, and he quickly calculated in his heart, and quickly clenched his fists and said: "Fan stays behind, there is only one way, fire reconnaissance!" Please stay behind and allow the villain to lead the **** out of the city today to meet the rebel rebels who came to fight! Fight to win and capture the captives to interrogate confessions! ”

Fan Zigai's eyes lit up, and he returned the salute to Chen Yingliang for the first time, and said, "Chen Ji, then please leave it to you!" ”