Chapter 722: Hostage Threat

In the early morning of the second day after Du Fuwei was killed, when the city of Xuzhou was in turmoil, the advance of the Zhao army had already arrived at the city of Xuzhou.

In the north of Xuzhou, the Jianghuai army camp is stationed here under the 5,000 men of Ximen Junyi, the general of Du Fuwei. In the hazy sky, the forward scout cavalry of the Zhao army had already arrived outside the camp of Ximen Junyi. Hearing the news of the Zhao army's attack, Ximen Junyi immediately led a thousand soldiers out of the camp to challenge.

A thousand soldiers of the Jianghuai army formed a strong formation, and Ximen Junyi, who had a white horse and a silver spear, stood in front of the formation, majestic.

Qin Qiong, the forward general of the Zhao army, led five hundred cavalry, and he had already arrived. Qin Qiong watched the battle on the hillside, and saw that the Jianghuai army was still arrayed outside the camp gate in front of the unparalleled Zhao army, and couldn't help but say: "It seems that the Jianghuai army still has some confidence!" ”

On the side, Wang Xiong said: "Ximen Junyi is a veteran of the Jianghuai Army, when he was still a rebel army, the Sui army attacked the camp, and the righteous father, no, it was King Wu who was seriously injured at that time and couldn't move." Thanks to Ximen Junyi, who carried King Wu on his back and fought with a spear on the other, desperately fighting to the death, King Wu escaped with his life. This person is a fierce general in the Jianghuai army, the general be careful! ”

"Lao Tzu is a fierce general!" Qin Qiong didn't believe it at the moment, and was about to step forward to meet the battle, when a fast horse galloped from behind and said to Qin Qiong: "General Qin is slow, Your Majesty has a will." ”

Qin Qiong listened to the moment and reined in the war horse and asked, "What will?" ”

The general of the command said: "General Qin, there was a drastic change in Xuzhou City last night, Du Fuwei was killed by Wang Shibi, and now the city is in chaos, and His Majesty has ordered to come down to inform General Qin." ”

Qin Qiong and Wang Xiongdan both showed shocked looks.

As the pillar of the Jianghuai Army, the Jianghuai Heroes are the bosses. Du Fuwei was actually assassinated to death. Wang Xiongdan's eyes suddenly showed a touch of sadness.

Qin Qiong said: "Du Fuwei is dead, which saves a lot of effort. ”

The general also said: "Your Majesty has a word." Now Danyang and Jiangdu have been captured. The families of most of the generals of the Jianghuai Army have fallen into our hands, and now that the Jianghuai Army is in civil strife, we can take this opportunity to take advantage of the chaos and persuade the generals of the Jianghuai Army to join us. ”

After speaking, the general looked at Wang Xiongdan, and the meaning of his words was very obvious. As a military general of the Jianghuai Army, Wang Xiongdan's influence in the Jianghuai Army is extraordinary, and if the matter of persuasion is not handed over to him, who else can it be handed over.

In front of the city camp in Xuzhou. Ximen Junyi raised his gun and waited for him, he knew very well what happened in Xuzhou last night, Du Fuwei was kind to him, but now he died inexplicably. Ximen Junyi was full of sadness, but as a former army general, seeing the Zhao army coming, he could not show weakness and not face the battle, which would have ruined the morale of his own army.

At this time. The cavalry of the Zhao army was on the mountain, and did not move, but rode a horse slowly down the mountain. After seeing the person clearly, Ximen Junyi couldn't help but be furious. The horse stepped forward and said, "Wang Xiong, have you surrendered to the Zhao army?" I still have the face to meet my brothers! ”

Hearing that the other party was Wang Xiongdan, the Jianghuai soldiers present were in an uproar, the most trusted general of Du Fuwei. actually surrendered to the Zhao army.

Wang Xiongdan smiled bitterly when he heard this: "Brother Ximen is polite, and I am greedy for life and afraid of death." It's just that now that the Jianghuai Army is gone, can't you see it? Last night I heard about my father. I feel distressed, who is the real murderer of my father-in-law, you should know it well, why bother to work for him again. Brother Ximen, tell you the truth, now that Danyang has fallen, your wife and children are in the hands of Zhao Jun, if you want to save the lives of your wife and children, it is better to retreat as soon as possible. ”

Hearing Wang Xiong's birthday say this, Ximen Junyi couldn't help but be surprised, he knew that Wang Xiong's birthday words might be true. And Wang Xiongdan took a few steps forward and said loudly to the Jianghuai sergeant in front: "Brothers, I am Wang Xiongdan, don't fight anymore, Danyang has fallen, our family is in Danyang, surrender early now, you can save your family's life!" ”

Wang Xiongdan has always had prestige in the Jianghuai army, and as soon as this remark came out, the Jianghuai sergeant was full of voices bowing his head and discussing.

Ximen Junyi looked left and right, but when he saw that the soldiers suddenly had no intention of fighting again, he couldn't help but look up to the sky and sighed: "Okay, you are a king, you dare to move the heart of our army!" ”

Wang Xiongdan lowered his head and did not speak.

Twenty miles north of Xuzhou City, Zhao Jun camped.

The soldiers hurriedly laid out the sheepskin map in front of Li Chongjiu. Li Chongjiu looked down, but saw several eye-catching arrows intertwined on the sheepskin map.

Ji Chuan said on the side: "At present, after Du Fuwei retreated from Langya County to Xuzhou, he sent his generals Wang Hua and Wenren Sui'an to retreat to Xiaopei, and went down to defend to form a horn with Xuzhou. This Wang Shi's defense was unclear, and he gave all his territory to the Jianghuai army as a dowry. ”

Li Chongjiu nodded and said: "Du Fuwei is courageous, and he is not afraid of angering Li Yuan, but what to do now, he has already asked Fu Gongyou to slaughter." ”

"Fu Gongyou can do it, but we are also secretly fueling the troubles, he probably thought that if he killed Du Fuwei, our Zhao army would retreat, and then we would be safe." Zhang Xuansu said with a smile.

Yu Shinan laughed and said: "Yes, I gave Fu Gongyou such a hint, but when did I promise him again, not to mention that even if I agreed, I can regret it." ”

Speaking of which, Zhang Xuansu and Yu Shinan both laughed.

Ji Chuan said: "We are not borrowing a knife to kill people, this Fu Gongyou has long had the intention of killing Du Fuwei, even if we didn't promise him anything, he will still do it, if you really think that he fell for your plan to kill people with a knife, then you are too underestimated to be a hero in the world." ”

Yu Shinan was reprimanded by Ji Chuan like this, and he stopped talking at the moment.

Li Chongjiu said: "Ji Shilang, don't speak so sharply. Yu Aiqing has been planning for this matter for a long time. ”

"No!" Ji Chuan agreed in a low voice.

Hearing Li Chongjiu say this, Yu Shinan suddenly looked much better.

Li Chongjiu said: "Although we now occupy Jiangdu and cut off the retreat of the Jianghuai army, but the Tang army's movements, we must also be careful, you see Li Tang's Shuzhou Zhang Zhenzhou, and Hongzhou governor Zhang Shan'an, these two people are not fuel-efficient lamps, they are trying their best to move towards Xuzhou, this is to tear our blockade of Xuzhou." ”

Hearing what Li Chongjiu said, everyone nodded, and Ji Chuan said: "Your Majesty, we are now joining forces with the Song Jingang army, as well as Zhang Qingte and Jiang Shanhe, and the two of them are also leading the township soldiers of several counties to come, the strength of our army is not Baekje, and the reinforcements of Silla have reached nearly 60,000 people." Not only is it enough to besiege the city, but it can also send reinforcements! ”

Zhang Xuansu said: "Ji Shilang is right, we can not only attack Xuzhou, Pengcheng, and Xiapi on the one hand, but also take the family members of the Jianghuai Army generals from Danyang as hostages, and use this strategy to persuade the Jianghuai Army generals to surrender." Besides, Fu Gongyou's children are all in our hands, and we take them as hostages to force Fu Gongyou to comply. ”

Ji Chuan said dissatisfiedly when he heard this: "Zhang Shilang, this is too much, using a wife and daughter as a threat is a matter of inferiority." Our army is a dignified king, how can it do such an act. What's more, Fu Gongyou can kill Du Fuwei, obviously a person who is not recognized by his six relatives, Liu Bang's father was captured by Xiang Yu back then, Xiang Yu threatened Liu Bang and said that he would cook his father, Liu Bang can say a piece of the pie, not to mention today's Fu Gongyou? ”

Yu Shinan said: "Ji Shilang's words are bad, even if he can't force Fu Gongyou to surrender, he can disturb his mind." ”

Li Chongjiu listened to a few people and discussed: "It is true that threatening the children of the auxiliary government may not succeed, but the matter of blackmailing the generals of the Jianghuai army can be done." Now is not the time to talk about benevolence and righteousness, Luoyang City is being attacked by the Tang army on both sides, and now the top priority is to immediately break through Peng and Xu Liangzhou, and reinforce Luoyang! ”

Hearing Li Chongjiu say this, the three waiters immediately weighed things together.

Just when the matter of discussion was settled, an urgent letter was sent from this side.

Li Chongjiu couldn't help but be shocked after reading the letter, it turned out that Li Yuan had gathered hundreds of boats and ships in Chang'an, carrying grain and grass, and forcibly crossed the Sanmenxia natural danger.

After seeing this news, everyone couldn't help but start worrying about the situation in Luoyang again. This news came through Guò Kuaima, it was ten days ago, and now that ten days have passed, I don't know how the battle around Luoyang is going?

Luoyang Heyang Military Camp.

The haze of lack of grain that shrouded the Tang Army's Heyang camp finally disappeared because of the arrival of this grain ship.

Li Jiancheng is now full of ambition, standing on the north middle city, looking at the pontoon bridge leading to the other side of Heyang has been completely paved, and the next moment his army gets enough military rations, he can pass the guò pontoon bridge, and after breaking through the remaining Heyang South City on the south bank, he will go straight to Luoyang City, realize the division with the Tang army of Li Xiaogong, the king of Hejian, and complete the original plan of encircling Luoyang by the north and south roads.

Li Jiancheng looked at Qu Tutong and asked, "How is it, have all those nasty fanqi in Hanoi been expelled?" ”

Qu Tutong told Li Jiancheng: "Back to the prince, General Chai Shao has successively captured the territory of Hanoi, and the original Zhao army controlled the three counties of Huojia, Xinxiang, and Huangwu, and arranged enough troops to guard in this area, and now unless these horses put on their wings and fly over, they can no longer pose a threat to the rear of our army in the future." ”

"Very good, there is Chai Shao, and the rear of the lonely is as stable as Mount Tai. It's just that I wronged him, and I know that he actually wants to enter Luoyang. ”

Qu Tu channel: "Your Royal Highness the Prince, General Chai will understand your intentions." ”

Li Jiancheng nodded and said: "That's good, General Qu Tu will lead his army to cross the Yellow River tomorrow and arrive at the city of Luoyang. Tomorrow Lone wants this good news and sends it back to Chang'an. ”

Qu Tu channel: "His Royal Highness the Prince, it will be a success." ”

Li Jiancheng laughed and nodded with satisfaction.

When Li Jiancheng was happy, he didn't know that in the lower reaches of the Yellow River, Cheng Mingzhenzheng, the chief of the Zhao army's navy, led an inland river division with 200 warships and 10,000 soldiers, was already approaching Heyang. (To be continued......)

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