"Heaven will not kill me! Heaven will not kill me! Hahaha, Fan Zigai, Wei Xuan, you two old puppets have exhausted their skills, never thought that the warriors under the command of this pillar country would be able to take the lead in detouring back to you, right? You want to block the country of this pillar in the road of Cuihan, but unfortunately the country of this pillar has the blessing of the sky, and the sky is blessed! Hahahaha......! ”

Knowing the good news that Yang Xuanting's team had successfully penetrated and seized the favorable terrain as he wished, Yang Xuangan, who was overjoyed, immediately ordered a heavy reward for the Huayin villagers who voluntarily came from Guanzhong to lead the way, and laughed wildly for nearly an hour, and the above passage was repeated over and over in his mouth, if it weren't for the baggage team led by Li Zixiong and Wang Zhongbo who hadn't had time to rush to the battlefield in Shaanxi County, Yang Xuangan couldn't wait to kill under Hongnong City immediately and see the desperate faces of Wei Xuan and Yang Zhiji with his own eyes.

Crying with joy, just as Yang Xuangan finally remembered to praise Li Mi, the hero behind the scenes, and praised Li Mi's magical tactics of outflanking and interspersing with cavalry on foot, the bad news suddenly came, Yang Wanshuo, the fifth elder of the Yang family, who was responsible for harassing the sluggish Sui army, in the case of harassment tactics with little effect, in order to buy time for Yang Xuanting, the third elder of the Yang family, and in order to ensure the success of the interspersed tactics that are crucial to the life and death of the rebels to the greatest extent, Yang Wanshuo resolutely led the rebel cavalry to launch a suicidal charge against the Sui army, and reported to the rebel nemesis in the case of doomed defeat Launched a fierce battle in close quarters, and as a result, the morale, fighting spirit and combat effectiveness were not as good as the rebel cavalry of the **** of course defeated, more than half of the soldiers fled the road, and Yang Wanshuo, who fought desperately, was also seriously injured and died, and became the second member of the Yang family who was killed by the national army.

Knowing the news and knowing that the self-army could pay such a heavy price for the success of interspersed tactics, Yang Xuangan naturally cried with joy on the spot, "Fifth brother, my good fifth brother!" Why are you so stupid? Why are you so stupid? Then if it weren't for Li Mi pulling to the death, Yang Xuangan would definitely not wait for the rear army to arrive, and he would have already pulled the team around him to kill Hongnong to find the decisive battle of the national army to take revenge.

In the early morning of the second day of the successful intersperse, the rear army led by Li Zixiong and Wang Zhongbo arrived in the west of Shaanxi County, and joined the main force of the rebels stationed here, although after a series of fierce battles and continuous division of troops, there were still forced to leave a part of the army in Jinyongcheng, Hujiaoguan and Luokoucang and other places to contain the main force of the Sui army, the rebel army was no longer at its peak, in addition to the 4,000 troops interspersed to the west of Hongnong, Yang Xuangan had only 50,000 people left, But it still still had an overwhelming advantage over the neighboring Sui army, so Yao Yi, the county commander of Shaanxi County, and Duguxiu, the general of Chang Ping, did not dare to rush into battle, and they all honestly closed the city and held on, and the rebel team who had no time to prepare siege equipment was temporarily peaceful.

Yang Xuangan and Li Mi, who had been forced to kill horses to provide military rations for the interspersed team, were relieved, and hurriedly led the main force to stride westward, ignoring the nearby Shaanxi County and Changping City. And when things came to this point, even if the rebels' two major think tanks, Li Zixiong and Li Mi, discussed in advance, they had to take turns to tell Yang Xuangan repeatedly on the road, "Duke Chu, now, our army is only one step away from attacking Guanzhong, you must not make any more extraneous branches, you must concentrate on attacking the west to fight Guanzhong, and you must not have any other thoughts." ”

"Of course." Yang Xuangan was a little impatient by Li Mi and Li Zixiong's repeated admonitions, and said angrily: "This pillar country is not a child, there is no need for you to be so wordy, entering the army is the established strategy decided by me personally, and for this reason, I also sacrificed my fifth brother Yang Wanshuo, and finally won the favorable situation today, how can I still have extraneous branches?" ”

"Duke Chu, it's because of the sacrifice of the five generals that the old man and the master are worried." Li Zixiong, who had basically understood Yang Xuan's bearish temper, smiled bitterly and said: "The old man heard that the Duke of Chu was under Luoyang City a few days ago, and the siege equipment had not yet been prepared, so he was scolded by the thief Chen Yingliang and almost lost his life, and then launched a siege regardless of a qiē, and gave the officers and soldiers of Luoyang a victory ...... in vain. ”

Seeing that Yang Xuangan's face was difficult to see, Li Zixiong hurriedly skipped this topic, and said: "Now the two generals Yang Xuanzong and Yang Wanshuo have died at the hands of Chen Yingliang's thief, the Duke of Chu and this thief have a deep enmity like the sea, and this thief is quite cunning and treacherous, or it happens to be stationed in Hongnong City, our only way, if this thief has another treacherous scheme, or humiliates the general, or deceives and seduces, so that the Duke of Chu gives up immediately advancing west to launch an attack on the city, I am afraid that it will ......, and I am afraid that our good situation will be in vain." Therefore, I hope that the Duke of Chu will investigate it carefully. ”

was played by Chen Yingliang like a monkey several times, and now he was poked in the center by his subordinates in the center of the scar, his temper was not good Yang Xuangan was of course as ugly as his face was, and finally suppressed the anger in his heart, Yang Xuangan gritted his teeth and said: "Old general, don't worry, this time it is the fifth brother who gave me the opportunity to enter the army in exchange for his life, no matter what kind of tricks Chen Yingliang's thief plays, this pillar country will definitely not be fooled again, and will never waste precious time on the Hongnong battlefield again." ”

After that, Yang Xuangan said viciously: "Of course, if that thief dares to go out of the city to fight in the field and fight me head-on like Wei Xuan's old horseman, this pillar country will never mind sending him to the Netherworld Mansion!" ”

"Regarding this, Chu Gong can rest assured." Li Zixiong smiled bitterly and said: "That Chen Yingliang thief is more cunning than a loach, and he is stupid enough to confront my tens of thousands of righteous teachers, I believe he can't do it no matter what." ”

There are no absolutes in the world, just over half of the afternoon, when the rebel front team that was rushing all the way crossed the southern suburbs of Taolin and was only more than 20 miles away from Hongnong, a rebel soldier who had been captured when he had fought with Yang Wanshuo returned to Yang Xuangan, and also brought Yang Xuangan a handwritten letter from Chen Yingliang, the secretary of the Zanzhi Mansion in Henan County. Hearing this news, Yang Xuangan couldn't care about the huge identity gap between himself and Chen Yingliang, so he snatched the letter and opened it, opened the letterhead and only glanced at it, Yang Xuangan, who was still trying to keep calm on the road before, suddenly burst into a rage, and shouted: "Little thief, since you want to find death, then this pillar country will fulfill you!" ”

"Duke Chu, what's wrong? What does the letter say? ”

What Li Mi is most afraid of now is hearing Chen Yingliang's name, and seeing Yang Xuan's angry expression, he immediately understood that the situation was not good, and hurried up to read the letter together, and Li Zixiong over there also came up vigilantly, but saw that Chen Yingliang only wrote a short paragraph neatly on the letter: "Yang Xuangan is a traitor, do you want to avenge your second brother Yang Xuanzong and fifth brother Yang Wanshuo?" If you want to, I'll give you a chance, tomorrow morning, outside Hongnong City, let's fight to the death in a dignified manner! Your brother-killing enemy, the Eastern Capital of the Great Sui Dynasty will report to Chen Yingliang, the chief general of the national army! ”

After reading Chen Yingliang's unliterary vernacular article, Li Mi and Li Zixiong's first reaction was to look up at the sky - when did Chen Yingliang, who could only bully the second and third line of the rebel army, dare to fight a decisive battle with the main force of the rebels? When did Chen Yingliang, who only likes to steal and play tricks and be opportunistic, dare to fight head-on with the main force of the rebels, and die in a dignified duel? Isn't it possible that the sun is coming out of the west today?

Li Mi and Li Zixiong were looking at each other, but Yang Xuangan couldn't wait to give an order, and shouted: "Order Wang Zhongbo and Yang Gongdao, let them urge the rear army to advance at full speed, and they must rush to Hongnong City before sunset, the sooner the better." Then give the forward Yang Jishan an order, let him send someone to explore the terrain of Hongnong, find a suitable camp, and cut wood for the village, remember, logging for the village! ”

The left and right heralds received the order, and each flew forward, and Li Mi, who had become a frightened bird, hurriedly said: "Duke Chu, be cautious, Chen Yingliang is a thief who is cunning, and it is against common sense to send a book to war, so we must beware of him having treacherous schemes." ”

"And what do you say I'll do?" Yang Xuangan said angrily: "Let the army stop, and wait for Qu Tutong, Yuwenshu and Laihu'er to catch up and kill me?" Or marched overnight, letting Chen Yingliang's thieves and Yang Zhiji sneak attack and ambush our baggage grain and grass convoy? ”

Li Mi was speechless, and then remembered that although Yang Xuangan's order was promulgated in a hurry, it was actually the only foolproof strategy, because carrying the necessary grain and grass baggage, no matter how fast his own rear army team was, it could only arrive at the Hongnong battlefield in the evening today, at that time, not only would the people be tired and tired, it would be difficult to continue the march, even if it was forced to march overnight, it would only give the opportunity for the army to sneak attack with the help of Yang Zhiji, the head snake Yang Zhiji. Then without the Sui army's team, the rebel team can starve to death in the Cuihan Road.

"Master, there is nothing wrong with the arrangement of Duke Chu, we don't know yet that it will take a few days to take Tongguan, and we must carry the necessary grain and grass baggage." Li Zixiong also said: "Dragged down by the weight of grain and grass, we can only reach Hongnong today at most, Master, you can't ask Duke Chu to march overnight, right?" The Duke of Chu ordered the logging and establishment of the village, which was already the safest tactic. ”

Li Mi obediently closed his mouth, his expression was extremely embarrassed, fortunately, Li Zixiong was too lazy to fall into the trap for Li Mi, but turned to Yang Xuangan and said: "Duke Chu, the old man thinks that Chen Yingliang is a thief who sent a book to fight, there are only two reasons, the first is to make us take it lightly, thinking that there will be a war tomorrow, the defense is loose tonight, and we will take the opportunity to rob the camp tonight, and strive to win with a sneak attack." Second, Chen Yingliang's thief was ordered to block our army's westward advance, and now our army's vanguard has successfully seized the favorable terrain, and it is already easy to take Guanzhong. ”

Yang Xuangan nodded, agreeing with Li Zixiong's judgment, and Li Mi hurriedly said: "I think the second one may be very small, with Chen Xiao's treacherous character, it is almost impossible to bet on a head-to-head decisive battle." The first one may be very large, and it is not excluded that there is a third possibility, Chen Yingliang's thief deceived our garrison Hongnong, and he took the opportunity to sneak attack our striker, General Yang Xuanting's team. ”

"This third possibility cannot be ruled out." Li Zixiong also agreed with Li Mi's analysis, and said: "But it doesn't matter, Yang Xuanting has the Huayin fellow villagers of Chu Gong to lead the way, and the seizure is a favorable terrain, we only need to send a messenger to contact the three generals and remind him to be prepared for a sneak attack." Yang Xuangan nodded again and again, and hurriedly arranged for people to contact Yang Xuanting, and continued to lead the main force of the rebels to the west.

Although he believed that with Chen Yingliang's treacherous temper, it was unlikely that he would really launch a head-on decisive battle with the self-army, but after calming down and carefully weighing and calculating, Li Mi still felt that something was not quite right, so he privately found Li Zixiong, who had been working with him quite happily recently, and said to Li Zixiong alone: "Old general, do you think there may really be such a possibility?" Chen Yingliang's thief really jumped over the wall in a hurry, and led Hongnong's team to fight us head-on? ”

"Of course there is such a possibility, could it be that you are only considering this now, Master?" Li Zixiong asked rhetorically, and said lightly: "In fact, the old man still thinks that this may be even greater, because our main army of soldiers suffered quite a lot of losses in the siege of Luoyang, and then was forced to leave a part of the army to contain the main force of the official army, and then General Yang Xuanting took more than 4,000 main forces back to the west of Hongnong, and dispersed many combat forces, our main force is currently in the weakest and most dangerous moment, if Chen Yingliang thief can detect or expect this, Of course, there is a good chance that we will go head-to-head. ”

"That's what the juniors think too." Li Mi hurriedly agreed, and said: "Old general, since this is the case, what can I do?" ”

"Master, it seems that you still need to hone more." Li Zixiong replied with a smile: "Yes, our main force has been weakened now, but you only took into account our situation, but forgot to analyze the enemy's situation, how many officers and soldiers do you think there can be in Hongnong City now?" ”

"How many officers and soldiers are there in Hongnong City?" Li Mi began to analyze, "Hongnong is not a military town, there are only more than 1,000 troops in the city at most, Taishou Yang Zhiji is the cousin of the tyrant Yang Guang, and he will never dare to find his own death to expand the army, and there should be no change in the strength of the army." Chen Xiaothief's strength is more than 700 people, Wei Xuan's side can have at most five or six hundred remnants left, and the most is Liu Changgong's team, at least 3,000 troops, if you add them together, it should be 5,000 troops of 34, and at most no more than 6,000 people. ”

"Isn't this the end of it?" Li Zixiong said with a smile: "Except for the necessary army to defend the city, Chen Xiaothief's decisive battle force will never exceed 5,000 people, if these 5,000 troops are all elite soldiers like white-robed soldiers, we will be in some trouble." It's a pity that the main force of this army is Liu Changgong's team, how can you be our opponent with the group of veterans under Liu Changgong's command who can only flee for their lives? ”

Asked with a smile, Li Zixiong smiled confidently and said, "There is a more important point, there is an old man!" There is an experienced old man here, and in a head-on decisive battle, in terms of battlefield tactics, we will never suffer! ”

"Listening to the old general's words is better than reading a book for ten years." Li Mi turned his worries into joy, applauded and smiled: "Yes, there are veteran generals who have experienced a hundred battles, and it is absolutely impossible for us to suffer losses in a head-to-head battle!" ”

When the old Li family, an old man and a young man, smiled happily, a rebel herald rushed to the west of the official road, and shouted from afar, saying that there was an urgent military situation to report to Yang Xuangan, Li Zixiong and Li Mi did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly returned to Yang Xuangan's side, striving to understand the military situation and military aircraft as quickly as possible, but after the herald galloped in front of Yang Xuangan, the military intelligence report shouted made the well-informed and resourceful big and small bad people dizzy together......

"Yu Chu Gong, General Yang Jishan ordered the villain to fly Chu Gong, eight miles ahead, a mysterious thing happened! General Yang Jishan didn't dare to be good at it, so he asked Duke Chu to go to the scene immediately to check the situation! ”

"Strange things?" Yang Xuangan, Li Zixiong, and Li Mi dizzed together, and blurted out, "What kind of gods and ghosts?" ”

"It's ......." The herald hesitated for a moment before replying: "Yu Chu Gong, on the mountain wall by the roadside eight miles away, countless ants have appeared for some reason, gathered and did not disperse, and seven words crawled out on the mountain wall!" ”

"Countless ants gathered? And crawled out seven words?! Yang Xuangan was not only dizzy, but also directly incredulous, and asked in surprise: "Those seven words?" ”

The herald did not dare to say anything, and lowered his head even lower.

"Why don't you answer those seven words?" Li Zixiong also became interested, and shouted: "Answer, those seven words!" ”

"Strategist, the villain doesn't dare to answer." The herald replied tremblingly, "It's not far ahead, and the military advisor can go and check it out in person." ”

"Those seven words?" Li Mi's keen sixth sense told him that his situation was not good, and he hurriedly said: "Answer truthfully, forgive you for your innocence." ”

Li Mi's words were obviously not weighty enough, and the herald not only did not answer, but also lowered his head.

"Say!" Yang Xuan, who was full of curiosity, was a little anxious, and shouted angrily: "What are those seven words? If you don't play it truthfully, you will be punished immediately! ”

"Duke Chu, that's all the villain can say." The herald was forced to be helpless, so he had to answer truthfully: "Those seven words are, Yang Xuangan died in Hongnong!" ”

"What?!" Hearing these seven words, all the rebels were dumbfounded, and then Li Mi immediately came back to his senses, jumped up and kicked the herald over, and roared angrily: "Bold! Who taught you to speak such a great rebellion? Did you accept bribes from officers and soldiers and come here to confuse the hearts of my righteous soldiers?! ”

"Deputy military division, you just killed the villain, and the villain didn't dare to confuse the army's heart." The herald replied aggrievedly: "If you don't believe it, look for yourself, just eight miles ahead, tens of thousands of ants crawled into the seven words 'Yang Xuangan died in Hongnong', and now there are all kneeling there with our brothers, and so is General Yang Jishan." If the villain lies, you just cut off the villain's head! ”

"Really...... is there such a thing?" Li Mi was also a little stammered.

"Drive!" Yang Xuangan suddenly rushed forward as soon as he clamped the war horse, and roared as he rushed, "Command the whole army, speed up, and keep up with me!" ”

"Chu Gong, Chu Gong, wait for us." Li Mi and Li Zixiong were in a hurry together, and hurriedly slapped their horses to catch up, and at the same time yelled and urged the team to keep up, not to get out of touch and get separated.

Fortunately, the distance of Bali Road is not far, and there is no harassment and chaos by the Sui army team on the way, and there is no chaos among the rebel teams in the hasty march, but when they arrive at the scene of the incident eight miles away, the rebel pioneer Yang Jishan's team walking in front is already a big mess, countless rebel soldiers kneel and kowtow in front of an ordinary stone wall, and many rebel soldiers have cried. Seeing Yang Xuangan's handsome banner approaching, most of these rebel soldiers still ignored them at all and refused to line up to greet them, only a small number of soldiers stood up at Yang Jishan's request and saluted to welcome Yang Xuangan's arrival, and at the same time, the faces of these rebel soldiers were still full of despair.

"Brother." Yang Jishan grabbed Yang Xuangan's face, pointed to a position on the stone wall with a pale face and said, "It's there, those ants are still there." ”

Without help, Yang Xuangan jumped off the war horse directly, pushed away Yang Jishan and all the rebel soldiers in front of him and strode forward, Li Zixiong and Li Mi hurriedly followed, and rushed to the stone wall full of rebel soldiers, Yang Xuangan, Li Mi, and Li Zixiong saw at first glance that on the stone wall, from right to left, there were indeed seven big brown and black characters - Yang Xuangan died in Hongnong!

Unwilling to give up, he continued to stride forward, kicked away the rebel soldiers who were kneeling under the stone wall and kowtowing desperately, and took a closer look, Yang Xuangan's little face suddenly turned miserable white - the seven big characters of 'Yang Xuangan died in Hongnong' are really composed of tens of thousands of tiny ants! The tiny brown-black ants kept crawling on the stone wall, chaotic, but no matter how chaotic they crawled, they always only crawled out of these seven big characters - Yang Xuangan died in Hongnong!

Who wrote the swan song of the historian, the rhymeless separation? If Gonggong Sima is also a traverser, maybe he will include this inconspicuous folk legend into his historian classics, or if this folk legend can appear hundreds of years earlier, then the erudite Li Mi and Li Zixiong must be able to see the clue at a glance, but unfortunately, Sima Gonggong is not a traverser, this folk legend has not yet appeared in this era, so the future Wagang fox Li Mi and the reincarnation Zhuge Li Zixiong can only be stunned together, unbelievable.

This is not over, after a long time, the old general Li Zixiong, who has been completely brainwashed by feudal superstition toxins for many years, couldn't help but moan in despair, "Omen! This is a bad omen from heaven! ”