Li Mi took advantage of the emptiness of the Central Plains troops, entered Xingyang, and captured Luokoucang in one fell swoop, China was shaken, Zhai Rang repented in his heart, led the army to join Li Mi, and elected the lord of Li Mi Wagang, respected as the Duke of Wei, and he was willing to be the second lord of Wagang.

Wagang more than 400,000 troops are only more than 100 miles away from the capital Luoyang, the situation in Luoyang is in crisis, Wagang army 100,000 troops immediately surrounded Xingyang County to govern the city and county, Xingyang Taishou Xun Wang Yang Qing urgently asked the emperor Yang Guang for help.

Yang Guang was intimidated by the strength of the Wagang army, and ordered Zhang Xutuo, the ambassador of Henan Province, to lead 50,000 troops to attack Wagang, and crowned him as the general guard of Xingyang.

At this time, Zhang Xutuo also fought successively, swept the twelve counties of Henan Province, invincible, he and the Wagang army had fought several times for the battle for Puyang, all of which were defeated by the Wagang army, and even Zhai Rang almost died in the hands of Zhang Xutuo.

Zhang Xutuo generously accepted the order and led an army of 30,000 to kill all the way to Xingyang, and the thieves fled.

In the afternoon of that day, Zhang Xutuo approached Guancheng County and ordered the army to set up a large camp twenty miles east of Guancheng County.

It was the New Year of the 12th year of the Great Cause, the Sui army camp was quiet and peaceful, the soldiers had a holiday today, but they were not allowed to go out of the camp, the soldiers were resting in the tents, some slept, some got together to chat, talking about the customs of their hometown.

Zhang Xutuo rode around the camp, and the reason why he dared to let the soldiers rest was because he had received information that the Wagang army had withdrawn from the siege of Guancheng County and retreated to Xingyang County, with no enemy troops around twenty miles.

Zhang Xutuo is fifty-two years old today, and his greatest hope in life is to have a son, but God does not favor him, he has no children under his knees, only two daughters, but the two daughters also died tragically, making him seem to be ten years old all of a sudden.

In the eyes of the soldiers, he was a strict and merciful commander, and he would rather have no money to support his family than a father who could not have wronged the soldiers; In the eyes of the court officials, he is an impersonal and inflexible foolish general, who has made so much credit, but he doesn't know how to boast about himself, and will only ask for credit to the soldiers; In the eyes of Emperor Yang Guang, he was a fierce general who won many battles, a loyal minister, and a pillar supporting the Great Sui; In the eyes of the people, he is a clean official who is jealous of evil and loves the people like a son.

But no matter what everyone thought of him, no one thought about his family, thought about his pain of losing his daughter, as if he had no family, no wife and daughter, only some careful soldiers found that his hair was half white, and found that his lonely back began to become a little clumsy, and they slowly realized the great grief buried in the heart of the commander.

At this time, Qin Qiong came to Zhang Xutuo's side at some point, "Dashuai, go and rest for a while!" Humble to replace the commander. ”

Zhang Xutuo smiled and asked, "What about Shixin, why don't you see him?" ”

"He's in a bad mood, I'll let him be quiet for a while."

Zhang Xutuo nodded, "Let's go!" ”

The two of them rode slowly.

"Uncle Bao, you are forty this year!"

"I'll be forty next year."

Zhang Xutuo sighed, "Time flies! When you came to me, you were not yet thirty years old, and now you are also a veteran, and I am also old. ”

Qin Qiong pondered and asked, "Dashuai, I heard that the imperial court is preparing to split us, is there such a thing?" ”

"It's not called splitting, it's that the imperial court is preparing for half of our army to be transferred to Hebei Province to deal with Dou Jiande, maybe after this battle is over, I will go to Hebei, and then leave some generals and soldiers here to form three new armies, which will guard the twelve counties of Henan respectively."

"Is there a lowly rank among the three commanders of the new army?" Qin Qiong asked in a low voice.

A trace of sadness flashed in Zhang Xutuo's eyes, originally he recommended Qin Qiong as the chief general of the East Road Army of Henan Province and stationed in Qi County, but there was no Qin Qiong's name in the list of feedback from the Ministry of War, Zhang Xutuo also knew that the problem was there, just because Qin Qiong's father was an official of the Northern Qi Dynasty, and it was for this reason that he repeatedly asked for credit for Qin Qiong, but he was repeatedly rejected.

Qin Qiong sneered, "I know, those people from the military department have seen my origin again, right?" ”

Zhang Xutuo sighed, "Not necessarily, the official appointment has not come down now, just some rumors, after this battle, I will personally go to Jiangdu to see the saint, if you still refuse to give you a promotion, I will not do it." ”

Qin Qiong was silently moved in his heart, and at this time, he remembered something again, and said cautiously: "I heard that Yang Xuangan rebelled this time, and Yuanqing did not lead the army to meet in Guanzhong. ”

Zhang Xutuo understood what he meant, he smiled, "That child's mind is not something you can understand, I know him very well, he ignores his father does not mean that he is loyal to the Sui Dynasty, if there is only one person in the Yang family who can make him loyal, it is his grandfather, but I have already figured it out, it is also my Zhang Xutuo's blessing to have such a promising apprentice." ”

Zhang Xutuo remembered the first time Yang Yuanqing was thrown into the ice cave when he was a child, the child's stubbornness made him still remember it vividly, I don't know what will happen to Yang Yuanqing's child, will he also throw his son into the ice hole like himself? Thinking of this, the corners of Zhang Xutuo's mouth showed a knowing smile.

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Early the next morning, Zhang Xutuo led the army to continue to march westward, and at noon the next day, 30,000 Sui troops arrived 30 miles away from Xingyang County, and the Wagang army also laid 150,000 heavy troops in Xingyang County, preparing to meet Zhang Xutuo.

In the big tent of the Wagang Chinese Army, Zhai Rang was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, and Li Mi said that he would come, but by now, Zhang Xutuo had already arrived in the city, and Li Mi's shadow could not be seen.

Zhai Rang was defeated by Zhang Xutuo three times, he had a fear of Zhang Xutuo in his bones, Zhang Xutuo's 50,000 elite soldiers are famous all over the world, and they have always been invincible with less battles and more, Lu Mingyue's 100,000 army was defeated by Zhang Xutuo's 20,000 troops, Lu Xingxing's 100,000 army, Zuo Xiaoyou's 100,000 army, and Hao Xiaode's more than 100,000 troops were all defeated by Zhang Xutuo with 10,000 or 20,000 troops, and he was defeated by him three times.

Thinking of Zhang Xutuo's 30,000 elite soldiers, Zhai Rang was terrified, if Li Mi didn't come again, he was ready to withdraw his troops back to Gongxian.

Just then, a soldier came to report, "The envoy of the Duke of Wei is here." ”

Zhai Rang was disappointed for a while, how could it be the messenger and not Li Mi himself, he held back his anger and said, "Let the messenger come in!" ”

Two people came in a moment, the one in front was Li Mi's confidant Wang Bodang, and the one in the back was wearing a wide-brimmed hat and covering his face.

"Who is this person?" Zhai Rang pointed to the person behind him and asked strangely.

The person behind took off the hat, but it was Li Mi himself, which startled Zhai Rang, and he was surprised and delighted, "Why is Gong Wei like this?" ”

"Shh

Li Mi sighed and said in a low voice: "Don't let people know that I'm coming, and it's best not to say it yourself." “

Zhai Rang nodded and instructed his soldiers, "No one is allowed to come in!" ”

Only then did he ask Li Mi, "Duke Wei is here to break Zhang Xutuo?" ”

Li Mi nodded, "Don't let Zhang Xutuo know that I brought it, I have sent someone to pretend to be me, and I am on the way to this side in Gongxian, and I will not be able to arrive until tomorrow night, so we must break the enemy today." ”

Zhai Rang was overjoyed, "Duke Wei has a strategy to break the enemy?" ”

Li Mi smiled coldly, "This person has won a hundred battles, he is already extremely conceited, he has an army of 50,000, but he only brings 30,000 people to deal with our 400,000 army, his conceit can be seen, even if you don't use strange soldiers, I can use 400,000 troops to besiege him to death, but this time, I want to use strange soldiers to deal with him, I asked no less than 100 soldiers who have fought against him, I already know his fatality." ”

Zhai Rang hurriedly asked, "Where did Wei Gong's plan come from?" ”

Li Mi smiled proudly, "Big brother, don't ask, I've already arranged it, just let the army fight him, it's good to win, but if you lose, then it's time for me to appear." ”

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There is a famous temple in the southeast of Xingyang County, called Dahai Temple, the temple has long been destroyed in the military disaster, only the ruins and broken walls remain, surrounded by dense forests, and the battlefield has been set up on the once fertile farmland.

At this time, on the vast field in the south of the Great Sea Temple, the golden drum is great, the sound of killing shakes the ground, the flag is like a cloud, the murderous spirit is soaring, Zhang Xutuo's 30,000 troops are lined up into three phalanxes, attacking the dense Wagang Army, the Wagang Army at this time does not have any lineup, dozens of generals are each on behalf of the troops, relying on the strength advantage of five times that of the Sui Army, and launch a fierce attack on the Sui Army from all directions.

And no matter how the Wagang army attacked, the Sui army maintained its three phalanxes and unwaveringly slaughtered the Chinese army, like three lions caught in a wolf pack, and their goal was to target the wolf king.

The experience summed up by this Sutuo from hundreds of battles, the bandits have almost no training, and there is no formation, and more importantly, a large bandit is generally composed of countless small bandits, which leads to the bandits being surrounded by mountains, and they are also in their own formations when they start a battle, and there is no unified command.

He only needs to concentrate his forces to defeat the rebel army, then the rebel army will be defeated on all fronts, and it has always been like this since a hundred battles have been fought.

Li Mi may not be like this, but Li Mi is not in Xingyang, Zhang Xutuo got the scout information, Li Mi led 30,000 troops on the way to Xingyang County, this army should be commanded by Zhai Rang.

Zhang Xutuo and Zhai Rang fought three battles, Zhai Rang's army was no different from other bandits, and Zhai Rang's Chinese army was only more than 50,000 people.

Zhang Xutuo's eyes stared coldly at the banner of Zhai Rang's Chinese army that he could vaguely see in the distance, the opponent's position had begun to waver, and the time for a full-scale attack came, Zhang Xutuo resolutely ordered, "Beat the heavy drum!" Three phalanxes combined to hit the army. ”

"Boom! Boom! Boom! Fifty heavy drums sounded at the same time, and three red flags were displayed on the command platform, and the drums and flags were all told to the Sui army that the three armies were united and an all-out attack on the enemy's Chinese army.

The three phalanxes of the Sui army began to change, and gradually, the three phalanxes merged into a formation, and two cavalry of 5,000 men fought out from the left and right flanks and attacked the two flanks of the enemy's central army.

Although the Wagang Army was huge on the battlefield, most of the soldiers did not have the opportunity to attack the Sui army, and in fact, Zhai Rang's 50,000 Chinese army was struggling to support the repeated attacks of the Sui army's 30,000 army, and gradually showed signs of collapse.

In the north of the battlefield, in a forest next to the Great Sea Temple, Li Mi led 5,000 cavalry to ambush here, waiting for Zhang Xutuo to appear with a deadly habit.

Li Mi watched the changes on the battlefield coldly, he had already seen that Zhai Rang was not good, less than two hours after the war, Zhai Rang's army gradually could not support it, there was no rule and formation of the battle, it would always be a rabble, the chaos of the Wagang army made Li Mi make this judgment.

At this time, Li Mi suddenly understood a truth, the reason why the bandits from all walks of life were repeatedly defeated by the Sui army was that they did not establish an official hierarchy like the Sui Dynasty, they were in their own positions, and the power was not centralized, and the same was true for Zhai Rang, he was too conniving with his subordinates, so that he could not restrain everyone in the war today, no one listened to his command, he Li Mi must not make such a mistake again, and the Wagang army must belong to him Li Mi alone.

"Duke Wei, the Wagang army has been defeated!" A pro-soldier exclaimed in a low voice.

Li Mi also saw that the banner of the Wagang army had fallen and began a large-scale rout, Li Mi turned around and ordered in a low voice: "Wait for my order to attack!" ”

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On the battlefield, Zhai Rang's Chinese army collapsed, the army was defeated, Zhang Xutuo waved his knife and shouted: "Chase and kill all the way, behead Zhai Rang, reward 5,000 taels of silver, and the official will be promoted to three levels!" ”

The Sui army pursued and killed all the way for more than ten miles, killing the corpses of the Wagang army all over the field, and the blood flowed like a river, but at this moment, what Li Mi discovered, a habitual loophole of Zhang Xutuo appeared, Zhang Xutuo's command center of more than 500 people, did not chase and kill with the army, and waited for the battle report of the army around the command tower in the same place, Zhang Xutuo was in the team, only his 500 personal soldiers around, and the 30,000 army had been chased out of more than ten miles.

Seeing that the time had come, Li Mi shouted: "Kill!" ”

The elite of the five thousand watts gang came out of the woods under the leadership of Li Mi, Zhang Xutuo saw the ambush soldiers who suddenly came out, he was taken aback, and immediately shouted: "The three armies are assembled!" ”

The five hundred soldiers immediately gathered into a phalanx, but the five thousand cavalry of the Wagang army were extremely fast and galloped out from both sides, cutting off Zhang Xutuo's front and back retreat, and the team closed and surrounded Zhang Xutuo.

Zhang Xutuo roared, led the army to break through, he swung his knife and slashed, a Wagang general's head was chopped away, turned around and stabbed again, cut off the two cavalry, Zhang Xutuo was brave and abnormal, slashed left and right, only killed the head rolling, flesh and blood flying, he was killed out of a bloody way, rushed out of the encirclement, but when he turned around, his five hundred personal soldiers and the general Jia Wuben were not able to rush.

These 500 soldiers have followed him for many years, and they all regard him as their father, and he only heard the screams of his own soldiers coming constantly, and he roared, "Get out of the way for me!" ”

He split dozens of people in a row, and once again entered the encirclement, his five hundred personal soldiers have been separated into several piles by the Wagang army, Zhang Xutuo entered the encirclement, found more than 100 people, killed them from the other side, and rescued 100 people, at this time, he saw Jia Wuben leading dozens of people to be surrounded by more than 1,000 cavalry, and saw that they were killed one by one.

Zhang Xutuo's eyes were red, he shouted like thunder, and entered the enemy's large array for the second time, rescuing Jia Wuben and the remaining dozen or so personal soldiers.

Li Mi saw that Zhang Xutuo was extremely brave, and couldn't help but be furious, and made a look at Wang Bodang, Wang Bodang opened his bow and arrow, aiming at Zhang Xutuo's war horse, the bowstring was loosened, and a wolf tooth arrow shot out like lightning, and an arrow shot into the eyes of Zhang Xutuo's war horse.

The war horse neighed miserably, and its front hooves were raised high, knocking Zhang Xutuo to the ground, Li Mi was overjoyed, and immediately ordered, "Don't kill, surround him!" ”

Thousands of war horses galloped quickly, and in a moment, Zhang Xutuo was surrounded in the middle, thousands of weapons pointed at him, Zhang Xutuo pulled out his Cold Moon Treasure Knife, stood upright, covered in blood, and looked coldly at the thousands of cavalry surrounding him.

Li Mizhan pointed at Zhang Xutuo and said with a smug smile: "Zhang Xutuo, so far, haven't you surrendered?" ”

Zhang Xutuo raised his head and laughed, "How fast it is for the generals to die on the battlefield!" ”

He's plopped! He knelt down to the south, kowtowed three times, and shouted in a sad voice: "Your Majesty, the minister Zhang Xutuo can't serve Your Majesty anymore, and I hope to defend the Great Sui Dynasty for the Sui ministers in the next life!" ”

Zhang Xutuo stabbed his heart with his backhand......

Thousands of Wagang cavalry silently looked at Zhang Xutuo's corpse, and a gust of wind blew a broken red flag of the Great Sui and covered Zhang Xutuo's body.