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In the first battle of the main force, only a small part of the elite forces were used, and they successfully landed the small city of Yueyang, which was geographically very important, and severely damaged and defeated the reinforcements sent by Dou Jiande. After the victory, the Sui army camp naturally had to be a burst of indulgent cheers, and more and more sycophants in the Sui army team once again flattered in front of Chen Fuliang, flattering, slapping horses, saying that the Sui army was so sharp, and the leadership of His Royal Highness the Tang King was so wise, it was definitely easier to take the Bird Mouse Valley and break through Taiyuan City to exterminate the Li family brothers than to eat and drink.

It's a pity that the sycophants of the Sui army slapped the sycophants on the horse's legs this time, Chen Fuliang not only didn't appreciate it, but also waved his hand to interrupt the flattery of the sycophants, looked at the direction of the Bird Mouse Valley in the north and said: "Yueyang is only a three-mile small city, and the surrounding terrain is not dangerous enough, of course it is very easy to break through and take it." But the Valley of the Sparrow is different, where the real difficulties are, and our real test is only the beginning. ”

The sycophants of the Sui army who were gagged once thought that Chen Fuliang was deliberately sticking a cold ass to their hot faces, but two days later, when Chen Fuliang took them and the main force of the Sui army to Huoyi and came to the entrance of the Bird Mouse Valley, these Sui army civil and military who had never been to the Bird Mouse Valley found that Chen Fuliang's words were by no means modest, and the real test of the main force of the Sui army was indeed just the beginning. I finally understood why Liu Heimin, the former commander of the Sui Army, fought a tug-of-war with the Taiyuan Army in the Bird Mouse Valley with huge casualties, and did not give the Taiyuan Army a chance to build fortifications in the Bird Mouse Valley, but also understood why Liu Heimin not only did not feel the slightest dissatisfaction with him after paying so many seemingly senseless casualties, but on the contrary, he trusted and loved him more.

The reason is that the terrain of the Bird Mouse Valley is too steep, it is surrounded by the two major mountain ranges of Taiyue and Luliang, and there are surging Fenshui running through the whole territory between the valleys, threatening the safety of the march at any time, the narrowest part of the road is only three or four zhang, and the cliffs on both sides are as high as dozens of zhang, even if there are hundreds of enemies to seize the high ground on both sides and block the road condescendingly, it is enough to block the advance of the 70,000 main forces of the Sui army, and if the Taiyuan army once builds a military fortress in the dangerous terrain, then it can definitely be said that it is a fortress when the pass, and it is impossible to open it. The Sui army did not know how much it would cost to take the blocking position of the Taiyuan army.

When it was time to really enter the Bird Mouse Valley, the deeper the Sui Army walked into the Bird Mouse Valley, the more the Sui army civil and military personnel who came here for the first time found out how difficult and painful Liu Heimin had fought before, and also thanked the soldiers of the Sui Army in Hedong for their sacrifices and efforts to contain the Taiyuan Army before, and was even more glad that the vanguard of the Sui Army was able to take Lingshi City first and control most of the Bird Mouse Valley first, otherwise, no matter how optimistic the Sui Army civil and military officials were, they would not dare to guarantee how much time it would take for the army to break through the Taiyuan Army's heavily guarded Bird Mouse Valley. I don't dare to guarantee that the main force of the army will definitely be able to break through the Bird Mouse Valley.

Once walked back and forth in the Bird Mouse Valley, Chen Fuliang of course knew how important the hard work of Liu Heimin and Cheng Yanjin and others was, and he was more grateful for the miracles they had created before to win the opportunity for the army, so after leading the main army to the Lingshi Basin, the only suitable place to garrison the main force in the Bird Mouse Valley, when Cheng Yanjin, Liu Heimin and Wang Fubao lying on the stretcher came up to greet Chen Fuliang, Chen Fuliang first bowed to them with his fists and bowed, and said sincerely: "Everyone, you have worked hard. ”

Liu Heimin, Cheng Biting Jin and Xue Renguo and others will be frightened by Chen Fuliang's actions and quickly kneel down on one knee to return the salute, Wang Fubao, who was carried in front of Chen Fuliang, also struggled to get off the ground to return the salute, Chen Fuliang hurriedly held him down, patted his hand and let him lie down, and picked up Liu Heimin, Cheng Biting Jin and Xue Renguo one by one, and loudly canonized Cheng Biting Jin, Xue Renguo and Wang Fubao as the county duke, and named Liu Heimin as the county duke, and gave Wang Fubao iron coupons to avoid death twice except for rebellion, and rewarded a large amount of gold and silver money and silk, and gave real rewards for food. Cheng Yanjin, Liu Heimin and Xue Renguo hurriedly thanked them respectfully, but Wang Fubao, who was very good at being a person, carefully reminded: "Your Highness, there are also soldiers under the command of the last general, they are even harder." ”

"No wonder this guy is so hated under Dou Jiande, he really can't be a man."

The civil and military forces of the Sui army muttered quietly, Chen Fuliang smiled slightly, and said: "Of course, the hard work of the soldiers, can this king forget?" According to Wang Junzhi, the meritorious soldiers under the command of Cheng Zhijie and Xue Renguo will be rewarded and doubled, and the meritorious soldiers under Liu Heimin and Wang Fubao will be given twice the rewards and pensions! Those who deserve to be rewarded with official positions will be crowned with one level of official products! ”

Wang Fubao thanked him respectfully, and the soldiers of the Sui Army who had worked hard to contain the Taiyuan Army and take Lingshi City before were also full of joy, and they asked Chen Fuliang together? The first bow and thanks, Chen Fuliang smiled and waved his hand, and said loudly: "All the soldiers, please get up, you don't have to thank this king, this is what you deserve!" The soldiers of the Sui army kowtowed again, but they still thanked Chen Fuliang again.

After the drama of buying the hearts of the army was over, he carefully set up camp on the original highlands of Dusuoyuan, and at the same time, Chen Fuliang held a military meeting in the big tent of the Chinese army, convened the main civil and military officials to attend the meeting, and learned about the recent situation of the Taiyuan army with Liu Heimin and Cheng Yanjin and others in person, and also discussed how to break through the northern section of the Bird Mouse Valley and enter the hinterland of Xihe County by the way.

After the meeting began, Liu Heimin and Cheng Yanjin first joined forces to present Chen Fuliang with the latest Taiyuan Army defense map, so that Chen Fuliang and the main generals of the Sui Army could understand the approximate strength layout of the Taiyuan Army, and explained to Chen Fuliang and others: "Your Highness, the thief Marshal Li Jiancheng has already led the retreat to Jiexiu long before the start of the Lingshi War, and has been repairing and reinforcing various fortifications day and night, and has built three fortresses within fifteen miles south of Lengquan Pass, all of which are high cliffs with dangerous terrain, and the garrisons are more than 200 people from a school. And prepared a large number of rolling stones and falling trees, which can condescendingly attack our army at any time, and it is extremely difficult to break it. ”

"In addition, Li Jiancheng also spent a lot of effort to strengthen the cold spring pass at the exit of the valley road." Liu Heimin continued: "The wall of Lengquan Pass has been thickened by more than seven feet, and is currently at least one and a half zhang thick, and has been raised by about five feet, and is currently as high as two zhang and three feet. Eight arrow towers were also built behind the wall, which are three feet high, which can cover our key roads, and can also accurately shoot our soldiers in the battle of the ants, which is a great threat to our ants. The ditch is dug up to one and a half zhang deep, two zhang wide, and the sheep and horse wall is built behind the ditch, and the antlers are dense, and it is extremely difficult to break through. ”

"There are also winch crossbows (bed crossbows) and trebuchets." Cheng Yanjin added on the side: "Our scouts ventured up to the high ground to peep inside the pass, and found that the thief army had prepared a large number of winch crossbows on the pass wall, the number of which was about twenty, and there were more than thirty trebuchets on the high ground on both sides of the pass and outside the pass. ”

Lengquan Pass is the northern exit of the Bird Mouse Valley, and the importance is still above the Jiexiu City of the Taiyuan Army garrison, Li Jiancheng will definitely build the Lengquan Pass into a copper wall and an iron wall, which was already expected by Chen Fuliang, Chen Fuliang to Liu Heimin, Cheng Yanjin and others The report is naturally not surprising, after nodding, Chen Fuliang asked again: "How is the situation in Jiexiu City?" ”

Liu Heimin and Cheng Yanjin's faces were a little embarrassed, and they hurriedly asked Chen Fuliang for their guilt and said: "Your Highness, the Taiyuan thief army has strictly blocked Lengquan Pass and the surrounding roads, and our scouts have no way to cross Lengquan Pass to investigate the situation of Jiexiu, so the last general and others know very little about the situation of Jiexiu, only that the thief army has requisitioned a large number of people to strengthen the city defense, and has also established a large battalion in the northeast of Jiexiu City to garrison the main army. ”

"It's okay, it's normal for the thieves to block the big and small roads, and it's not surprising that you can't find out the specific situation." Chen Fuliang waved his hand without mind, and said confidently: "When we break through the Lengquan Pass and enter the city, what ...... will it be, huh?" Wait a minute. ”

Speaking of this, Chen Fuliang suddenly found something strange, and hurriedly pointed to the map presented by Liu Heimin, Cheng Yanjin and others and asked, "Is this marked wrong?" How did the main force of the Taiyuan thief army set up camp in the northeast corner of Jiexiu City? ”

Cheng Yanjin and Liu Heimin looked at the map carefully, and hurriedly replied: "Your Highness, we marked it wrong, our scouts saw it from a distance when they climbed the high ground, and confirmed that the camp of the main force of the thief army was in the northeast of Jiexiu City. ”

"Strange? How could Li Jiancheng place the main camp in this location? Chen Fuliang recalled and said: "If I remember correctly, that area is not suitable for the main force to camp?" Not to mention anything else, at least it should be very troublesome to get water, and you have to cross Jiexiu City to Fenshui in the west to get water? How could he not take this into account in his power? ”

"It's weird." Li Jing also said: "Although there are only more than eight miles from Jiexiu City to Lengquan Pass, this distance is enough to accommodate his main army of less than 30,000, but Li Jiancheng let the army be stationed in the north of Jiexiu and extend the distance of the troops by himself, which is a bit unreasonable. Generally speaking, soldiers do not make such mistakes unless they have an other purpose. ”

found something suspicious, but Chen Fuliang couldn't think of the purpose of Li Jiancheng's arrangement for a while, and was racking his brains, but Yuan Tiangang volunteered: "Your Highness, don't worry, when the lower officials personally go to explore the terrain for you, make a sand table, so that you can understand the direction of the mountain flow in the northern section of the Bird Mouse Valley, Your Highness will definitely be able to understand the purpose of the thief army's abnormal camp." In addition, Xia Guan also observed the situation of the thief army's barricade fortress by the way, and saw if he could use artillery to capture the thief army's fortress. ”

Everyone knows how much Yuan Tiangang has in this regard, Chen Fuliang naturally will not refuse when he hears this, and immediately arranges for Qiu Xinggong to lead an army to protect Yuan Tiangang and personally go to the north to explore the road terrain, and also tells Yuan Tiangang to pay attention to finding a place for himself to build a camp for the army.

The distance from Lingshi to Lengquanguan is about sixty miles, and it is about seventy miles to Jiexiu, and it is quite time-consuming to investigate, so Yuan Tiangang set off early the next morning and did not return to Lingshi until the evening of the third day. After meeting, Yuan Tiangang still looked a little depressed, and said to Chen Fuliang: "Your Highness, the thief army is also a master of geography, the lower official carefully explored the terrain and found that among the three fortresses of the thief army, except for the second one that may be hit by our artillery, the remaining first and third forts are too high to even be hit by our artillery. In addition, the thief army was tightly sealed in the northern section of the Bird Mouse Valley, and Xia Guan had just seen Lengquan Pass from a distance and had been discovered by the thief army, so he was forced to retreat and failed to climb to the high ground to explore the situation. ”

"It's okay, take your time, we still have plenty of time anyway." Chen Fuliang comforted Yuan Tiangang, and asked Qiu Xinggong, who was protecting Yuan Tiangang's exploration terrain: "Xinggong, you are good at mountain warfare, in your opinion, is it possible for our army to storm and take the three fortresses on the periphery of the thief army?" ”

"Your Highness, it is possible, but the cost is definitely not small, and the time will inevitably continue." Qiu Xinggong replied truthfully: "Although the three forts of the thief army are all located on the high ground and are easy to defend and difficult to attack, after all, there are not many troops and there is no rescue supplement, as long as our army forcibly attacks at any cost, it is still sure to take it." ”

"How about giving you this task?" Chen Fuliang asked again and said, "How about you go to the camp and select a thousand soldiers who are proficient in mountain warfare to be responsible for capturing these three fortresses, and I will let Liu Shishan lead five thousand troops to cover you?" ”

Qiu Xinggong did not hesitate to hold his fists to receive the order, Chen Fuliang was overjoyed, and immediately ordered Qiu Xinggong and Liu Shishan to lead the army into battle, and specially equipped Qiu Xinggong with 120 catties of gunpowder and 200 gunpowder bottles, so that he could have sufficient firearms to use when attacking the fortification. However, Qiu Xinggong and Liu Shishan's joint siege of the fort progressed a little slower than Chen Fuliang expected, and it took two days for Qiu Xinggong to send someone to send good news, saying that he had finally broken the first fortress on the periphery of the Taiyuan army, but the soldiers of the Sui army died more than 200 people in the siege battle, and the losses were quite small.

Chen Fuliang, who knew that the battle was difficult to fight, understood the hardships of Qiu Xinggong and Liu Shishan, and showed full patience to give them time, but the Taiyuan army also learned the lesson of the fall of the first fort, and when the Sui army went to attack the second fortress, the Sui soldiers not only encountered more fierce resistance, but the Taiyuan army also sent reinforcements to harass and destroy, and the covering army led by Liu Shishan fought two battles in the narrow valley road, helping the second fort to repel Qiu Xinggong's strong attack twice, In the end, Qiu Xinggong personally led 50 warriors to climb to the top of the mountain from the steep place at night, and after hard fighting, he took the second fort of the Taiyuan Army. At the same time, Qiu Xinggong himself was injured in the fierce battle and was forced to be replaced by Liu Shishan to be responsible for attacking the third fort of the Taiyuan Army.

The more difficult it became, the third fort of the Taiyuan army was only five miles away from Lengquan Pass, and the Sui army had to guard against the Taiyuan army for every attack, and had to face more steep terrain and more vigilant Taiyuan army officers and men, and failed to take the four strong attacks and sneak attacks, on the contrary, they also lost more than 350 people - all of them were elite soldiers. In the end, it was also relied on Liu Shishan's urgency and wisdom that he saw the weakness of the small area on the top of the third fort of the Taiyuan army, cut down a large amount of timber and started a fire under the cliff, and covered the enemy fort with thick smoke for a whole day and two nights, which forced the Taiyuan army that could not bear the smoke and fire to abandon the fort and flee, but the three fortresses were beaten down one by one, and the Sui army paid the price of more than 1,600 soldiers and soldiers, and it took a full nine days before and after.

There was only a small fortress of more than 200 soldiers in the three garrisons, Liu Shishan and Qiu Xinggong took 6,000 troops but took so long to pay such a big price, and finally let all the defenders of the enemy's third fort escape, and the Sui army could definitely be said to be very embarrassed and defeated in this battle. But in the face of such a result, Chen Fuliang did not accuse Liu Shishan and Qiu Xinggong word by word, and no one in the Sui army complained about the ineffective combat of the second general Liu Qiu, on the contrary, they were extremely glad that Liu Heimin's previous containment strategy at any cost was appropriate, and Wang Fubao's surprise attack was successful, otherwise, the main force of the Sui army would probably not even be able to see Lingshi City.

The real test of the Sui army is only one, after the three highland forts are taken, there is a more tricky and difficult Lengquan Pass, and what is even worse is that the open land in the northern section of the Sparrow Mouse Valley is very pitiful, and the main force of the Sui army can not even find a place to camp in the north, so Chen Fuliang can only continue to lead the main army to be stationed in the Lingshi Basin, and send another general to lead the army to the north to attack Lengquan Pass. But fortunately, Chen Fuliang also has a cousin Li Jing who is more reliable than him in terms of fighting, and Li Jing, who is good at fighting tough battles, also wants to use Lengquan Pass, which is heavily defended by the Taiyuan Army, as a stepping stone, and takes the initiative to ask Ying to lead an army of 15,000 to go north to be responsible for attacking Lengquan Pass, Chen Fuliang agreed, and also sent Yuan Tiangang and the artillery team to help Li Jing.

In the evening of the next day, Li Jing led the army to arrive near Lengquan Pass, and joined Liu Shishan's army who had arrived here first, but was forced to divide the army into two due to the terrain, and set up camp in two open areas. Li Jing, who originally really had this plan, saw that the enemy was prepared, and he only took it and gave up this plan with great regret.

On the morning of the next day, while the army stepped up its encampment, Li Jing and Yuan Tiangang, with the help of the ropes of the Sui soldiers, both climbed to the commanding heights of the highlands east of the camp, condescendingly observing the terrain, and also observing the situation in Jiexiu City farther away. However, in the direction of Jiexiu due north, the faces of Li Jing and Yuan Tiangang, the world's chief military expert, changed together, and then carefully looked at the situation of the main camp of the Taiyuan Army with faint outlines, Li Jing and Yuan Tiangang first glanced at each other, and then said in unison: "No wonder Li Jiancheng wants to garrison the troops to the northeast of Jiexiu, away from the water intake point, where is the high ground!" He's also ready to attack with water! ”

"It's fine!" Yuan Tiangang patted his chest again and said: "The flood season in Fenshui is July, and today is only May 25, and there is still a full month before the flood season, and we still have time." But ......, isn't it? ”

Talking to himself and glad to be here, Yuan Tiangang suddenly remembered a big event, and hurriedly said: "No! When I followed His Royal Highness to King Qinwang of Yanmen, I walked this road, out of the Bird Mouse Valley and walked north along Fenshui not far from Zehu, and the terrain has become flat, Fenshui has no terrain and space to build a dam to store water, and the Taiyuan thief army can't use Fenshui to flood our army anyway! ”

"Wenshui (Wenyu River)!" Li Jing said categorically: "There is no flood storage place in Fenshui in the upper reaches of the Bird Mouse Valley, but Wenshui does!" Although the amount of water in Wenshui is not as good as that of Fenshui, as long as the amount of water is stored, it can at least destroy our march roads, make it difficult for us to transport grain and grass, and slow down our march speed. In the flood season in July, Wenshui is far more likely to flood than Fenshui, and if the Taiyuan thief army is a little lucky, it is not hopeless to flood the main force of our army! ”

"It is precisely like this, the record of the flooding of the text on the "Water Injection Sutra" is more than that of Fenshui." Yuan Tiangang hurriedly nodded in agreement, and said, "This matter must be reported to His Highness immediately and asked him to prepare." ”

Li Jing nodded and replied, "I have to report this matter to His Highness immediately, and I also have to take Lengquan Pass as soon as possible and go upstream to Wenshui to stop the thief army from storing water." But how can this Cold Spring Pass be taken quickly? ”

How did Li Jing quickly take down Lengquan Pass, but after Chen Fuliang received Li Jing and Yuan Tiangang's Pegasus report, he was also so angry that he flipped the table, kicked the case in front of him into the air and was still angry, Chen Fuliang also roared like thunder and said: "Li Jiancheng!" Piff! I can't bear to flood you immediately after hitting Taiyuan, you still want to drown me first! Since you are unkind first, don't blame me for being unrighteous last! When I get to Taiyuan, let's see how I build Fenhe Park in advance! ”

"Fortunately, Li Shangshu and Yuan Shangshu detected the thieves' treacherous plans in time, otherwise our army would be in danger!" Feng Deyi, a well-known sycophant who had recently joined Chen Fuliang's command, also patted his chest happily, and then hurriedly said: "Your Highness, since the thief army has a plan for water attack, will our army move the camp to a higher place as a precaution?" ”

"That's not necessary." Chen Fuliang shook his head and said casually: "Dusuo, where our army set up camp, was originally a highland, but there is no need to worry about the sudden flooding of Wenshui that needs to be injected into the Fenshui River, and now is not the flood season, even if the Taiyuan thief army suddenly releases water, at most it will only wet the low-lying part of the road in the Bird Mouse Valley, making it difficult for our grain and grass to be transported, and it will not threaten the safety of our army." ”

"That's good." Feng Deyi was relieved, and hurriedly said: "Your Highness, since we don't have to worry about the thief army's water attack for the time being, then we will quickly take the Lengquan Pass and break through the Lengquan Pass, and our army can immediately divide our troops to go upstream of Wenshui to stop the thief army from building a dam, and no longer have to worry about the danger of flash floods when the flood season comes." ”

"Cold Spring Pass is not so easy to take." Chen Fuliang shook his head, pointed to Li Jing and Yuan Tiangang, who were kicked to the ground by himself, and said: "In the Tang newspaper that my cousin gave me, in addition to reminding me to beware of the thief army's water attack, he also attached a map of the thief army fortifications of Lengquan Pass, but there was no word about how he attacked Lengquan Pass, which is enough to show that Lengquan Pass is strong and difficult to attack, and he is not sure to capture Lengquan Pass within the time limit. I'm not good at fighting tough battles, he's not sure, I'm even more unsure. ”

Feng Deyi, who is ranked number one in the world, hurriedly objected, saying that Chen Fuliang was too modest, and His Royal Highness the King of Tang was invincible in all battles, and he had never been defeated in a hundred battles, so how could he not be good at fighting tough battles? Chen Fuliang, who was in a bad mood, didn't bother to pay attention to Feng Deyi's flattery, just continued to grit his teeth, and said very arbitrarily: "This must be Li Erlang's plan!" Li Jiancheng and I are close friends, he is kind-hearted, and it is impossible for him to come up with such a vicious plan! Only Li Erlang, only Li Erlang has such a vicious heart! ”

(Li Er: "......, why is it my turn to be more wronged than Dou E?!!") ”）

Of course, Chen Fuliang didn't know that he had wronged Emperor Li Er this time, and under the secret hatred, Chen Fuliang's head full of bad water suddenly had such a vicious thought, and he said secretly: "The thief army has tightly blocked the big and small roads, which can basically ensure that our scouts will not be able to detect that they are building a dam upstream of Wenshui, and we never expect that we can guess that they are going to attack with water based on the location of their camp!" Is it possible to take advantage of this? ”

After thinking about it for a moment, Chen Fuliang said in a deep voice: "Fu Jia, pick up the pen and make a book for me." ”

Sun Fujia agreed, immediately laid out the letter paper and picked up the pen, and asked what to write, but Chen Fuliang changed his mind again, shook his head and said to himself: "No, I can't come forward in person, my reputation in this area is a bit stinky, as soon as my letter reaches the enemy's hands, the enemy will immediately understand that this is my strategy." ”

Sun Fujia and Feng Deyi were a little white-eyed, and they all said His Royal Highness King Tang, you are still a little self-aware, and your reputation for deceiving and deceiving enemies is not only a little stinky? It's just a stinky wind!

Feng Deyi was muttering quietly, but Chen Fuliang turned his gaze to him again, and said with a smile: "Feng Neishi, if I'm not mistaken, your relationship with Li Yuan's family has always been very good, how about it?" Can you help? It's up to you to come forward and help me contact Li Erlang? ”

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