When the rising sun shone the first rays of sunlight, the Dou army was finally in the array? sounded the golden gong, heard the retreat signal, the Dou soldiers under the wall of the Tiger Prison Pass were like death row prisoners hearing the amnesty edict, threw down the broken flying ladder that was already stained with blood and sweat in their hands, and fled back and forth with their legs, many Dou soldiers were still happy in the retreat, and rejoiced, "It's finally over, it's finally over, I thought I couldn't wait for this battle to be over." Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ”

Diametrically opposed to the Dou soldiers who were forced to abandon the siege and quietly rejoice, the Sui soldiers who were the victors on the city did not have any cheers, the swordsmen and spearmen threw down their weapons and sat directly on the city, and the crossbowmen forced themselves to chase the enemy out of range with long-range weapons, and they all sat on the corpse-strewn city, sitting on the blood-stained ground, gasping for breath, and many soldiers fell directly to the ground and snored and fell asleep.

"Dou Jiande Pifu! Sure enough, it's just a mediocre talent! The sun has risen, the sun is in his favor, and he is even willing to retreat! Piff! Mediocre person! Fool! If it was me, I would be willing to retire at this time! ”

At the head of the city, only Chen Fuliang's cousin Li Keshi was still waving his knife and shouting loudly, but he obviously had no strength in his words, and when he waved his horizontal knife to provoke the enemy, Li Keshi was about to fall down as soon as he slipped under his feet, and when Xu Shichang next to him hurriedly hugged him, but because his hands and feet were already weak, he was taken by Li Keshi and fell down, and they were all embarrassed. However, after glancing at each other's embarrassed faces covered with blood and dust, Li Keshi and Xu Shiyun both laughed out loud together, and there was relief, joy, and bitterness in the laughter.

At this time, Mingjin retreated, not that Dou Jiande did not know that the sun had gradually begun to favor him, it was that Dou Jiande's army could not fight, in the siege battle of one day and one night, the Dou army had invested more than 50,000 people of various types of troops, and the ants were attached to the siege 13 times, and the soldiers were killed and wounded more than 10,000 people, but not only did they still have no way to take the strong city defense of the tiger prison, but also beat the large siege cities such as ladder cars and crash trucks, and the combat team was exhausted from top to bottom, and the generals kept crying and begging Dou Jiande to withdraw as soon as possible. It was impossible for Dou Jiande to force the army, which had worked hard for a day and a night, to carry a simple flying ladder to attack the city wall, so Dou Jiande had no choice but to give the order to retreat, and led the army to retreat with endless anger and bitter hatred for Chen Fuliang.

After the war, the corpse mountain and sea of blood on the battlefield of Tiger Prison Pass, the battlefield of Luokoucang is also the same, although the soldiers of the Sui army have attacked the city in the middle of the night, but there is no way to escape Zheng Jun Wang Xuanying still refused to give up, and took out amazing fighting spirit and perseverance to do the final dying struggle, Wang Xuanying also categorically refused Chen Fuliang's personal surrender, led the remnants of the defeated army to retreat to the high ground in the city to resist stubbornly, and hurriedly withdrew to return to the Tiger Prison Pass to prevent the main force of the Sui army had to concentrate on besieging this remnant enemy, It took a considerable price to annihilate nearly a thousand remnants of the enemy led by Wang Xuanying at dawn, and captured Wang Xuanying, who was already wounded.

When the scarred brother-in-law was escorted to Chen Fuliang, Chen Fuliang did not try to surrender or comfort the brother-in-law, nor did he pay attention to the brother-in-law's pretending to be calm and fearless but in fact full of fear, but only ordered his subordinates to take Wang Xuanying down for treatment and imprisonment, and put him in the prisoner car for later use. After his subordinates followed the order, looking at the dejected appearance of his brother-in-law when he was escorted away, Chen Fuliang's bloodshot eyes also showed some tiredness, and he muttered: "I didn't kill you immediately, it was for Xue Ji's sake, and you were still a little useful when recruiting the Luoyang defenders." If the ambition of your father and son was not so great and the resistance was so stubborn, how many fewer people would have died? ”

After successfully taking the Luokoucang, where there was still some grain left, the Sui army of the Eastern Expedition not only solved the problem of grain and grass supply and transportation of ordnance baggage, but also got rid of the passive situation of two-front combat in one fell swoop, and finally could free up their hands to deal with the threat from Dou Jiande with all their might. However, Chen Fuliang himself did not dare to relax in the slightest, because there was still a huge problem in front of Chen Fuliang - how to cross Li Er, severely damage Dou Jiande's army on the battlefield of Tiger Prison Pass, and capture or kill Dou Jiande himself?

After resting for a day and leaving an army to garrison Luokoucang, the exhausted Chen Fuliang led the equally tired main force of the Eastern Expedition back to the Tiger Prison Pass, Li Keshi and Yin Kaishan and other civil and military generals came to the west gate of the Tiger Prison Pass to greet Chen Fuliang's triumph, when they met, Chen Fuliang did not have time to praise his cousin's outstanding performance in the battle to defend the city, Ma? He asked, "How is Dou Jiande's thief army?" What's new? For example, chopping wood to build new siege weapons? ”

"Nope." Li Keshi shook his head and introduced: "The Dou thief army has not made any moves since it withdrew its troops back to the camp yesterday, and it has not been crazy about cutting wood like a few days ago. ”

"It's broken." When Chen Fuliang heard this, he said, "The Dou thief is going to run away, and now we are in big trouble." ”

Li Keshi did not participate in the military meeting held by Chen Fuliang outside Luoyang City, and did not know Chen Fuliang's arrogant ambition to beat Wang Shichong and Dou Jiande with grass and rabbits. Why do you want to scream bad? ”

This time, it was the turn of the Sui army, who had participated in the Luoyang Conference, and the civil and military forces smiled bitterly, but Chen Fuliang shook his head and said: "Let's go into the city and talk about it, after the army is settled, we will slowly discuss the next things." ”

Li Keshi and other generals agreed and hurriedly followed Chen Fuliang into the city, Chen Fuliang followed the ** generation, and explained the placement of the army to his accomplices, and he was thinking hard about how to avoid Dou Jiande from slipping away from the battle - at present, the Sui army of the Eastern Expedition is exhausted, injured and sick, if Dou Jiande runs away with the army in advance, Chen Fuliang will really have no way to do anything with him.

Naturally, Chen Fuliang first thought of his most shameless trick, and immediately remembered Wang Fubao, the only one under his command who surrendered from Dou Jiande's side, and subconsciously called Wang Fubao to the front. ”

Wang Fubao was confused, he didn't know what Chen Fuliang was doing, but Chen Fuliang's pair of thief eyes began to scan the accomplices under his command, dripping around in his heart, and once his eyes stayed on Mulan's beautiful face, and he didn't move away for a long time, Mulan was stared at by Chen Fuliang a little weak, and quickly glanced at Chen Fuliang and twisted his face away. But fortunately, Chen Fuliang finally gave up on Mulan, and turned his attention to Shi Wanbao, who had not performed particularly well since his surrender, and quickly made up his mind, and instructed Shi Wanbao with a smile: "General Shi, see me after you settle the army, and I will explain to you on an errand." ”

Shi Wanbao promised, Chen Fuliang led everyone to hurriedly return to the headquarters in the Tiger Prison Pass City, and went to the lobby, Chen Fuliang's first thing was to immediately call Sun Fujia to the front and instructed him: "Fujia, write a letter to Dou Jiande for me, the content is to laugh at his failure to attack the city, show off my success in taking Luokoucang, the more vicious the words, the better, by the way, ask him if he dares to make an appointment with us for a decisive battle, and say that if he has the guts, this king will definitely accompany him." ”

"Your Highness, is this okay?" Sun Fujia said worriedly: "Our soldiers are too tired and urgently need time to rest and rest, if Dou Jiande asks us to fight tomorrow, then how can we fight?" ”

"It doesn't matter, anyway, the initiative is in our hands, we have the final say on whether to fight or not, and then we will find a way to refuse." Chen Fuliang waved his hand shamelessly, and said: "Let's trap Dou Jiande first, let's write quickly, cousin, you go and get me a Dou thief captive, let the Dou thief's captive send a letter, send this book to kill the head, don't let our people die in vain." ”

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As Chen Fuliang was worried, there was indeed a voice within the Dou Army that he would no longer attack the Tiger Prison Pass, and what Chen Fuliang never imagined was that not only were there many civilian officials of the Dou Army who opposed continuing to attack the Tiger Prison Pass head-on, but even Dou Jiande's wife Cao Shi also blew the pillow wind, persuading Dou Jiande not to waste time and energy outside the Tiger Prison Pass, and suggested that Dou Jiande find another way to save his ally Wang Shichong as soon as possible.

The reason why Cao and the civilian officials of the Dou army opposed the continued attack on the Tiger Prison Pass was very simple, attacking the fortifications head-on, Dou Jiande's army was helpless in the face of the Sui army's partial division, and now the main force of the Sui army had taken Luokou Cang, and had no worries about it, and had free up his hands to deal with Dou Jiande's army with all his might, what hope could the Dou army have to win the Tiger Prison Pass? Dou Jiande also considered this fateful problem, so after withdrawing the battalion, when the large siege weapons had been exhausted, Dou Jiande did not let the army rebuild siege weapons, and his heart gradually began to waver.

Fortunately, Chen Fuliang also had two free helpers in the Dou military camp called Wang Wan and the eldest grandson An Shi, in order to keep Dou Jiande and keep the hope of rescuing Luoyang, Wang Wan and the eldest grandson An Shi spent a lot of money to bribe the important generals of the Dou army, and ran to Dou Jiande to cry and beg, begging Dou Jiande to continue to attack the Tiger Pass, and the heavy generals of the Dou Army who received their benefits also ate people's soft mouths, and did not follow the civil officials to persuade Dou Jiande to give up attacking the Tiger Pass. In addition, he had to consider the issue of face, so Dou Jiande did not immediately make up his mind to withdraw from the army - he led the troops of the whole country to rescue Wang Shichong, but he only fought a battle and slipped away, and Dou Jiande's face was indeed a little nowhere to rest.

In this context, when the prisoners of the Dou army sent Chen Fuliang's letter to Dou Jiande, Dou Jiande, who was already annoyed in his heart, of course immediately burst into a rage, yelling and tearing Chen Fuliang's letter to shreds, and then roared: "Immediately write a letter to Chen Thief for me, and ask him to fight tomorrow!" If you don't fight to the death, you don't distinguish between male and female, I will never withdraw my troops! ”

Dou Jun Wenwu, who was present, was dumbfounded when he heard this, and hurriedly asked: "Your Majesty, the thief Chen is sitting in the Tiger Prison Guan Jiancheng, and he is the one who takes the initiative to fight or defend the battle, how can he agree to fight with us?" ”

"How is that possible? In Chen Thief's letter, he asked me to make an appointment with him to fight again! Dou Jiande took the case again, and wondered: "Huh? Where did the thief's letter go? ”

Still noticing the confetti on the ground, Dou Jiande remembered that he had torn up Chen Fuliang's letter in a fit of rage, and in desperation, Dou Jiande had no choice but to introduce the general content of the letter, vaguely Chen Fuliang's vicious ridicule of himself, and focus on Chen Fuliang's promise to make an appointment for a decisive battle. As a result, some of the generals of the Dou army were overjoyed after hearing this, and said that Chen Fuliang got carried away after the victory, and the enemy would be defeated, and some people thought it was incredible, and reminded Dou Jiande that "Your Majesty, Chen Thief is notoriously treacherous, his army is tired of being soldiers one after another, and it is difficult to fight again, he will never start a decisive battle in the near future, this matter is too weird, please be cautious." ”

"There's no need to be cautious!" Dou Jiande slapped the case again, and said viciously: "What is the loss of writing a letter? It's so decided, ask him to fight tomorrow, if he dares to agree, I will send him to heaven in the field! ”

The thin arms can't twist the thighs, although many Dou Jun's civil and military generals suspect that this is Chen Fuliang's trick, but since Dou Jiande has made a final decision, Dou Jun's civil and military forces, who already have Song Zhengben's previous experience, still don't dare to say anything, let Dou Jiande personally pick up the pen to make a book, and wrote a letter that insulted Chen Fuliang to the blood, and asked Chen Fuliang to fight a decisive battle outside the Tiger Prison Pass the next day, and immediately sent someone to send the letter into the Tiger Prison Pass City and handed it to Chen Fuliang.

Dou Jiande's handwritten letter scolded Chen Fuliang even worse, but unfortunately although such an insult is extraordinary to the face-loving tyrant Dou Jiande, it is useless for Chen Fuliang, who is thicker than the corner of the Great Wall. After reading Dou Jiande's letter with a smile, Chen Fuliang personally picked up the pen and wrote a very shameless sentence at the end of the letter - there is no time tomorrow, and the decisive battle will be fought in ten days!

When ordering the envoy of the Dou army to bring the letter back and hand it to Dou Jiande, the envoy of the Dou army was dumbfounded when he saw Chen Fuliang's reply on the letter, and asked in surprise: "Your Royal Highness the King of Tang, didn't you say that as long as we make an appointment to fight, you will definitely accompany you?" Why did we agree on a decisive battle tomorrow, and you have to change it to ten days later? ”

"This king said that he must be accompanied, but this king didn't say that you must designate the date of the decisive battle?" Chen Fuliang smiled and said: "Go back and tell Dou Jiande, just say that this king has just returned from Luokoucang, he is already very tired, and he needs time to rest, if he has the courage to fight, then ten days later, I am afraid that he does not have the courage." Well, this king is tired and has to rest, send off the guests. ”

The envoy of the Dou army still insisted, the guards on the left and right had already come up to catch up with the people, the envoy of the Dou army had no choice but to obediently go out of the city and return to the camp with the letter to report to Dou Jiande Chen Fuliang's reply, Dou Jiande, who was teased, heard that of course he was thunderous again, and ordered the army to immediately prepare siege weapons in a rage, intending to attack the Tiger Prison Pass head-on again, Dou Junzhong Wenwu hurriedly persuaded Dou Jiande to calm down, so that Dou Jiande could calm down, and successfully persuaded Dou Jiande to take back his life, There was no more wasted effort on the construction of siege weapons.

But these Dou army's calm efforts only ended in the evening, and after dark, a messenger who claimed to be a confidant of Shi Wanbao, the general of the Sui army, came to Dou Jiande's camp, claiming that Shi Wanbao was not reused under Chen Fuliang's account, and planned to avenge the old lord Li Yuan, and he wanted to voluntarily act as an internal response for the Dou army, and open the city when the Dou army began to attack the city.

In addition, Shi Wanbao also reported an important situation to Dou Jiande in the letter, that is, the Sui army of the Eastern Expedition is currently tired and injured, and its combat effectiveness has seriously declined, and at the same time, Wang Shichong in Luoyang City also fought back for a time, so Chen Fuliang decided at the military meeting to temporarily stabilize Dou Jiande with the strategy of delaying the army, while letting the soldiers rest and rest, while looking for an opportunity to return to Luoyang alone to preside over the war there, and only falsely intimidated Dou Jiande's army from attacking on the Tiger Prison Pass.

Dou Jiande, who was actually very suspicious, did not immediately believe the envoy of Shi Wanbao, so he pretended to see through Shi Wanbao's trick of deception, and ordered the envoy of Shi Wanbao to be pushed out of the tent and beheaded, and took the opportunity to observe the reaction of the envoy of Shi Wanbao to distinguish the truth from the fake. However, it is a pity that the messenger sent by Chen Fuliang is either absolutely reliable, or he is a dead man who does not know about it at all - this messenger served by Shi Wanbao's personal soldiers is no exception, so although he was so frightened that he peed his pants, the messenger still cried desperately and insisted, saying that he was sent a letter on Shi Wanbao's orders, and Shi Wanbao's dedication to the city was by no means a fake, but out of sincerity.

After carefully observing that there were no flaws, Dou Jiande ordered to bring the unlucky messenger back to the front, and carefully asked him about Shi Wanbao's situation under Chen Fuliang's account, and the messenger truthfully explained that Shi Wanbao's situation under Chen Fuliang's account was generally mediocre, and he was not reused by Chen Fuliang like Yin Kaishan and Feng Li, and also said that Shi Wanbao was reprimanded and scolded by Chen Fuliang at the meeting today - this was of course introduced by Shi Wanbao to his own soldiers. Although Dou Jiande was still a little skeptical after hearing this, he was inevitably very moved, and felt that he would have to meet his luck no matter what.

So, in this way, in the early morning of the next day, Dou Jiande also issued an order again, ordering his subordinates to prepare a large number of siege weapons again, determined to attack again, when Dou Jun Wenwu carefully persuaded him, Dou Jiande slapped the imperial case and shouted: "I personally raised the soldiers of the whole country to save Luoyang, Luoyang is in danger, but I sit here and watch, afraid of the enemy, isn't it afraid of him Chen Yingliang traitor?" Turning away from the faith, making people laugh? I have made up my mind, re-prepare to attack the city, and if there are any more blockers, immediately behead! ”

The Dou army had no choice but to shut up, Wang Wan and the eldest grandson An Shi and other Zheng army envoys couldn't wait to sing praises, and the Dou soldiers were also forced to carry axes and saws up the mountain to cut wood, and brought a large amount of wood down the mountain to make siege weapons. And such a big move, of course, could not be hidden from the eyes of the Sui army scouts no matter what, after the Sui army scouts reported the news to Chen Fuliang, Chen Fuliang also immediately laughed out loud and said, "Sure enough!" Dou Jiande Pifu, since you have been trapped by this king, then your death is not far away! ”

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