Erwuzai Zhao Jiqing really sold Jinyong City, and suddenly opened the city gate in the dark night to welcome the Sui soldiers into the city, but who has no loyal ministers? Wang Deren, who is only surnamed Wang but is not a relative of Wang Shichong, is more or less worthy of the word loyalty, and still carries some Zheng soldiers who are loyal to Wang Shichong to resist to the death, and indeed caused a lot of casualties and troubles to the Sui soldiers, and once almost recaptured the city gate opened by Zhao Jiqing.

However, Wang Deren and a small number of Zheng Jun's loyal and brave soldiers could not turn the whole battle situation around no matter how dying and struggling, and the struggle to fight back to the front of the door was just a return to the light, seeing that the facts proved that Zhao Jiqing's dedication to the city was not fake, and Liu Heimin, who was somewhat worried that this was the enemy's trap, was no longer worried, and immediately personally led the main force under his command to charge, and soon regained control of the city gate, and quickly advanced towards the interior of the city.

Jinyong City is a conjoined city composed of three small cities, seeing that the middle city betrayed by Zhao Jiqing is difficult to protect, Wang Deren once planned to retreat to Xicheng to continue to hold on, but unfortunately the Sui army is as familiar with the situation in Jinyong City as he is, Liu Heimin's right-hand man Cao Qing early in a detour blocked Wang Deren's westward retreat road, Wang Deren's westward advance was blocked and then turned around to the east It was too late, Liu Heimin's main force had already blocked his retreat, and quickly surrounded it, Wang Deren led hundreds of remnants of the army to rush left and right and could not get out, There were fewer and fewer soldiers around him, and the injured Wang Deren sighed, and had no choice but to kill himself to thank Wang Shichong, and the rest of the defenders surrendered one after another when they saw that the general trend had gone, and Jinyong City, the most important acropolis in Luoyang, also fell into the clutches of Chen Fuliang.

After several days of hard fighting, the Hanoi division of the Sui army led by Qin Qiong and Fan Wenchao finally took the isolated city of Heyang, opening up a direct connection with the main force of the Sui army, and the Sui army's grain ships could therefore go straight to Heyang to provide supplies for the Sui army.

Chen Fuliang was overjoyed when he heard this, and immediately ordered Qin Qiong to divide the partial division into two, one was Qin Qiong led the southern crossing to force back to Luo, and the other was Fan Wenchao to lead the east to Linqing Pass to prevent Dou Jiande from attacking Hanoi, and ordered Qiu Shi to send 5,000 troops to attack Huiluo to share the pressure for Qin Qiong's tired army. As a result, it turned out that Chen Fuliang's arrangement was purely a waste of effort, Xi Wei took the remnants of Heyang to rest in Los Angeles for more than a day, and immediately fled to Luokoucang, the Sui army had just arrived in the city, and there were only a few hundred people left to return to Luocheng, and the defenders of Luocheng immediately surrendered, and Qiu Shili and Qin Qiong successfully joined the city.

After the victory with Qin Qiong's partial division, the Sui army seemed to have more military strength, but it was bitter to know that in a short period of time, the main soldiers of the Sui army, who had fought three times in a row, had actually shown some fatigue, and were forced to enter the Hanoi battlefield without resting, as well as Liu Heimin's army, which had been confronting the main force of the Zheng army before, was even more exhausted, and the soldiers and wounded soldiers were seriously injured, and they needed time to rest and rest, and it was difficult to launch a large-scale war in a short time.

But it's okay, the fatigue of the soldiers of the Sui army is serious, the Zheng army's is more serious, the soldiers are more injured and the physical strength is reduced, and the battlefield advantage is still firmly in the hands of Chen Fuliang, and at the same time, Chen Fuliang's previous tactics of picking grass and fighting rabbits also determined that the main force of the Sui army does not need to rush to attack the imperial city of Luoyang. Therefore, after Chen Fuliang and a group of accomplice staff, he simply did not rush to launch an eastward expedition to attack Luokoucang and Hujiaoguan, so that the soldiers of the Sui army could rest and rest on the spot, and at the same time drove the people and prisoners of war to dig deep trenches, build high camps, and build fortifications to surround the Luoyang Imperial City, so that Wang Shichong could be effectively trapped after the next division of troops to the east.

The same cruel enslavement of the people, Chen Fuliang's means are undoubtedly much more vicious than Wang Shichong, looking at the dilemma of the people of Luoyang lack of food and salt, Chen Fuliang not only provides food and drink for the people who serve in forced labor, but also promises to give each person half a catty of salt and money 300 Wen as wages after the completion of the repair, coaxing the poor people to happily carry the hoe for Chen Fuliang to do almost free volunteers, the project progress is very fast, seven or eight days to make the trench and the wall out of the prototype, but also outside the Longguang Gate to build a fort higher than the city wall, Let the artillery of the Sui army directly enter the palace city at the core of the imperial city.

During this period, the Zheng army in the city did not go out of the city to obstruct the Sui army from building siege fortifications, so that the unfilial son-in-law Chen Fuliang, who was counting on weakening some of the strength of his father-in-law, was very disappointed, and at the same time, the Sui army soldiers also once robbed and killed a Zheng army messenger who slipped out of the imperial city, and found a handwritten letter written by Wang Shichong to his eldest son Wang Xuanying from his corpse. And once it is confirmed that Dou Jiande sent troops, then no matter what way he thinks, Wang Xuanying must also send the news to the Luoyang Imperial City.

It was precisely because of the seizure of this letter that Chen Fuliang immediately ordered to strengthen the blockade of the Luoyang Imperial City, strictly prohibiting his father-in-law from getting in touch with his brother-in-law, but even Chen Fuliang himself did not expect that this hand really had an immediate effect, and on the afternoon of March 27, the Sui army patrol really sent a Zheng Jun messenger to Chen Fuliang, and also presented a letter sealed with fire paint.

At the beginning, Chen Fuliang, who didn't take this as a meeting, also asked with a relaxed expression that the Zheng Jun messenger was sent by his brother-in-law Wang Xuanying to contact Wang Shichong, but when he opened the letter and took a closer look, Chen Fuliang's hideous smile suddenly froze on his face, and he was so shocked that he almost opened his mouth to scream, but fortunately he woke up in time, in order to avoid affecting the morale of the army, he quickly closed his crow's mouth, waved to the scouts who escorted the prisoners and said: "You did a good job this time, go down and receive the reward, continue to keep an eye on the big and small roads for this king, and then the thief army messenger will come." , be sure to stop the king, and the king will have a reward. ”

Several scouts were overjoyed and hurriedly saluted and left, and then Chen Fuliang ordered the guards to temporarily escort the Zheng Jun messenger outside the tent to wait for disposal, and after the Zheng Jun messenger was escorted away, Fang Xuanling and Yuan Tiangang, who had already seen that Chen Fuliang's expression was wrong, and other accomplices hurriedly asked: "Your Highness, what happened?" ”

"Dou Jiande is coming." Chen Fuliang's face was a little gloomy and he replied: "As I wished, Dou Jiande has decided to personally lead the army to help Wang Shichong, but what surprised me was that Dou Jiande would make up his mind so quickly, and now our time is in a hurry." ”

After that, Chen Fuliang handed the seized letter to Fang Xuanling and others, and when Fang Xuanling and others took the letter and read it carefully, they found that the content of the letter was indeed that Wang Xuanying reported to Wang Shichong that Dou Jiande had promised to send troops, and explained that Dou Jiande would personally lead the army to rescue Luoyang, but the date for sending troops had not yet been determined, and at the same time, it was clear that Dou Jiande announced this decision at the court meeting on March 16.

In addition, Wang Xuanying also reported a small matter to Wang Shichong, that is, Wang Shichong's former mastermind of the military department Dai Xuan offered advice to Wang Xuanying, suggesting that Wang Xuanying should give up Luokou Cangcheng at the necessary time, and concentrate his forces to give priority to fortifying the Tiger Pass, so that after the arrival of Dou Jiande's reinforcements, he could ensure the tactical initiative in the Luoyang battlefield, although Wang Xuanying felt that Dai Xuan's suggestion was very reasonable, but it was a pity to give up Luokoucang, which still had some grain left, so Wang Xuanying did not dare to call the shots. It can only be to ask Wang Shichong's opinion on this with the letter.

After reading this letter, Fang Xuanling and Yuan Tiangang and other accomplices inevitably looked sad, because now the siege fortifications of the Sui army have not been completely completed, and it is not possible to ensure that Wang Shichong's road out of the city can be blocked with some partial divisions. And more importantly, the Sui army has not yet won the Luokoucang and Tiger Prison Pass, which are crucial to the tactical position, once Dou Jiande's army rushes to the first place in the Tiger Prison Pass, then the main force of the Sui army will completely lose the tactical initiative on the Luoyang battlefield, when to fight and how to fight is Dou Jiande's final say, but the main force of the Sui army is only passively beaten, and the situation is extremely disadvantageous.

After thinking about it for a moment, Chen Fuliang said helplessly: "There is no way, we can only quickly divide our troops to fight Tiger Prison Pass and Luokoucang, only by taking down these two ghost places first, we will have the opportunity to break Dou Jiande and Wang Shichong, otherwise, let alone break their siege and reinforcements, it is difficult not to be forced to retreat by Dou Jiande." ”

"But Wang Shichong still has about 18,000 troops in the imperial city, and after our main force advances eastward, what if Wang Shichong takes the opportunity to launch a counterattack?" Qu Tutong said worriedly: "Not to mention that it is impossible for us to stop all Wang Xuanying messengers, even if we can stop them all, seeing our main force advancing eastward, Wang Shichong Old Fox will definitely seize the opportunity to launch a counterattack?" ”

After scratching his head and thinking for a long time, Chen Fuliang made up his mind and said: "The main force stays in Luoyang and falsely beats my banner, and I personally lead the partial division to attack Luokoucang and Tiger Prison Pass." ”

"Your Highness, I'm afraid it's not quite certain to do this, right?" Fang Xuanling hurriedly reminded: "Tiger Prison Pass and Luokou Cang are the lifeblood of Wang Shichong, the two places are each other's horns, with a total strength of more than 38,000. And, ours? The siege tactics of medicine blasting have already caused Wang Shichong to suffer two big losses, and Wang Xuanying's side is likely to have taken precautions, and if he wants to quickly take these two important places, he is afraid that it will be more difficult. ”

Chen Fuliang was silent, carefully calculating the number of troops and siege tactics in his heart, and suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly beckoned to Feng Deyi, who was holding the letter in his hand: "Feng Neishi, bring the letter, I'll take a closer look." ”

The sycophant Feng Deyi hurriedly presented the newly seized Wang Xuanying letter to Chen Fuliang, Chen Fuliang took it and looked at it carefully, and kept pondering all kinds of bad ideas in his heart, and then soon, Chen Fuliang, who lacked everything in his stomach and did not lack bad water, his eyes lit up, and he said happily: "There is a way!" ”

Fang Xuanling, Yuan Tiangang and others, who knew Chen Fuliang's ability, hurriedly asked if there was any good way, but Chen Fuliang did not answer, and handed the letter to Feng Deyi again, and instructed: "Feng Neishi, Brother Qiao Song, you are all masters of calligraphy, quickly take a look for me, is there any anti-counterfeiting secret mark in Wang Xuanying's handwriting on this letter?" ”

Feng Deyi and Fang Xuanling sang a promise, and quickly took the letter to read it carefully, and then soon, Feng Deyi and Fang Xuanling reported: "Your Highness, there are secret marks, there are two secret marks in the handwriting, and there is a small ink dot on the lower right corner of the letterhead, which may also be a secret mark." ”

"Good!" Chen Fuliang was overjoyed, and hurriedly ordered: "Any of you, immediately forge a handwritten letter from Wang Xuanying for me, the handwriting must be exactly the same, but the secret memory cannot be imitated, and the small ink dot in the lower right corner cannot be pointed." ”

Feng Deyi, who relied on the pen to eat, agreed with Fang Xuanling, and hurriedly asked, "Your Highness, what is the content of the letter?" ”

"I don't need to write anything special." Chen Fuliang said with a smile: "Just copy Wang Xuanying's letter once, and you don't need to change a word." ”

"Why?" Fang Xuanling and Feng Deyi were dumbfounded together, and asked in surprise: "What is the purpose of copying Wang Xuanying's letter and deliberately making it a false letter that can be seen through by the enemy?" If you want the enemy to see the same content, wouldn't it be better to send the original? ”

"Wang Shichong can't be allowed to see the original, he can only be allowed to see the forged original letter." Chen Fuliang shook his head like a rattle, and said with a smile: "As for the reason, you can imagine that if you are Wang Shichong, and you see this letter and find out that it is a forgery, what will you think in your hearts?" ”

After thinking about it carefully according to Chen Fuliang's instructions, Feng Deyi was the first to come back to his senses and blurted out: "Trap! This is a trap you have set for your Highness! The contents of the letter must be false, Your Highness, you have no other purpose! ”

"It's still the history of the seal that is smart." Chen Fuliang praised Feng Deyi, who was really smart except for his apologies, and said with a smile: "Since Wang Shichong believes that the content of this letter is forged and that we deliberately arranged it for him, what will he think when he sees us dividing our troops to move west?" ”

"Lead the snake out of the hole!" This time, it was Yuan Tiangang, who had been completely damaged by Chen Fuliang, first came back to his senses and said in surprise: "Wang Shichong saw the fake letter that Dou Jiande was about to send troops, and saw that we were dividing our troops to the west, he would definitely think that we were trying to lure the snake out of the hole and set a trap to trick him out of the city to annihilate him, but he didn't dare to go out of the city to fight easily. In this way, our division of troops can take the opportunity to attack the Tiger Pass and Luokoucang in the east, and we don't have to worry too much about the emergency in the rear! ”

When the Sui army suddenly realized, Chen Fuliang quickly shook his head and said, "No, it's much more than that!" What's more, there happens to be a piece of content on this letter, that is, Wang Xuanchong should ask Wang Shichong if he can give up the important Luokou Cang, which is now no longer the Tiger Prison Pass, at a critical moment, and give priority to the Tiger Prison Pass, after Wang Shichong sees this content, he will definitely think that we are trying to induce him to agree to this suggestion, and then take the opportunity to easily take Luokou Cang, and then Wang Shichong will definitely try his best to send an order to Wang Xuanying, asking Wang Xuanying to stick to Luokou Cang with all his strength and not give us a hole to drill, and then in this way, we will have a better opportunity! ”

"Your Highness, what better chance do we have?" Qu Tutong hurriedly asked.

"Of course, it is to attack the east and the west, attack Luokoucang openly, and take the tiger prison." Chen Fuliang sneered and said: "Do the opposite, first hit the tiger prison, close the door and beat the dog, and then take Luokoucang!" ”

After thinking about it for a long time, it was only after the accomplice lackeys finally figured out the real purpose of Chen Fuliang's trickery, although it was very clear that it was not possible to say that it could be done by saying that Chen Fuliang was abducted and deceived in the pit? faced absolute trust, and the accomplices still nodded their heads one after another. Then soon, Chen Fuliang first instructed Feng Deyi to forge a letter for himself, and then instructed Fang Xuanling: "Brother Qiao Song, you know the relationship between me and Duan Da, write a letter to Duan Da for me, and persuade him to kill Wang Shichong and surrender in Kaicheng, and try to be as sincere as possible, and you might as well give a bigger reward." ”

Fang Xuanling sang a promise, and then asked with some worry: "Your Highness, how did you send this letter of surrender into the city and hand it over to Duan Da?" We can't deliver the letter directly to Duan Da? ”

"Who said that I was going to show this letter to Duan Da?" Chen Fuliang asked with a smile.

"Who is that for?" Fang Xuanling was stunned again, and then after seeing the lewd smile on Chen Fuliang's face, Fang Xuanling quickly came to his senses, slapped his forehead and scolded him for being stupid, and then immediately wrote a letter for Chen Fuliang to recruit Duan Da.

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So, of course, what should have happened happened in the evening, that night, or the messenger that Wang Xuanying brought from Luokoucang, with the letter to the west of the Luoyang Imperial City, loudly identified his identity and asked to enter the city, after the imperial city defenders hanged him to the city with a hanging basket, the messenger was soon received by Wang Shichong in person, and the ghost pulled his thrilling letter to send the letter, and then immediately presented the so-called Wang Xuanying's handwritten letter to Wang Shichong.

Then the matter was very simple, opened the baby son's letter and read the content and found that there was no anti-counterfeiting secret mark agreed in advance, Wang Shichong, who was clear in his heart, did not even blink his eyelids, and immediately ordered the guards to take down the unlucky messenger and torture him. Then before Wang Shichong's guards could make a move, the unlucky messenger who knew that things were not good had already made a confession like pouring beans from a bamboo tube, explaining that he had been taken down by the soldiers of the Sui army on the road, and was personally received by Chen Fuliang, who was bribed by Chen Fuliang with his gold and silver official position to betray himself before he came to send a credit plan again.

The unlucky messenger explained it thoroughly, and even reported to Wang Shichong the details that Chen Fuliang had already opened the letter and watched the contents, and also reported that Wang Xuanying had announced the good news that Dou Jiande was about to personally raise troops to help in Luokoucang and Tiger Prison Pass. However, it is a pity that the treacherous and cunning Wang Shichong said anything to the truth that he didn't dare to believe any of his words, and while continuing to interrogate all kinds of details, he ordered the guards to search his body carefully, and then it was extremely natural, Chen Fuliang wrote a letter of surrender to Duan Da, and it was logical to search it out of the mezzanine of the unlucky messenger's clothes.

Next, the ancestor Bujide happened to run into Chen Fuliang, the unlucky messenger of the bad goods, even if he had 10,000 mouths, he couldn't tell clearly, and every big truth he said immediately turned into nonsense that could be instructed by Chen Fuliang. Therefore, although the unlucky messenger repeatedly stated that the clothes he was wearing were given to him by Chen Fuliang, the suspicious Wang Shichong still refused to believe a word, and in addition to ordering him to be taken outside the palace to be tortured and interrogated for confession, Wang Shichong naturally picked up the false letter that was actually a real letter as Chen Fuliang expected, and studied the real purpose of the unfilial son-in-law's move.

It can't be said that Wang Shichong is stupid, nor can it be said that Chen Fuliang is clever, it is completely due to human nature, and when he knows that the letter is forged, Wang Shichong, who is very smart, can only ponder and study this letter in turn. Then, more logically, Wang Shichong quickly concluded that the unfilial son-in-law had taken action in the near future, and it was likely that he was showing the enemy to lure the snake out of the hole, and he couldn't get into the middle of the plan anyway! Soon, the judgment that Luokoucang was likely to be in danger in the near future immediately appeared in Wang Shichong's mind.

The effect was better than Chen Fuliang expected, Wang Shichong quickly called three henchmen and guards, and asked them to disguise themselves as ordinary people and go out of the city overnight to Luokoucang to bring an edict to Wang Xuanying: "Give priority to stick to Luokoucang!" It is appropriate to transfer some Tiger Prison Pass troops to strengthen the defense of Luokoucang, and Chen Thief is likely to attack Luokoucang in the near future! ”

The three guards agreed, and while they were familiar with Wang Shichong's instructions, some guards said cautiously: "Your Majesty, the army of the Chen thief is tightly blocked, if the lowly rank can't pass the blockade of the Chen thief, can you return to the city immediately?" ”

"Go with confidence." Wang Shichong smiled and received: "The blockade of the thief Chen is very tight, but I can conclude that you will definitely break through the blockade of the thief tonight, because the thief wants you to pass on the message to me." ”

The three guards promised to be suspicious, and Wang Shichong prepared a fake letter with the same content for each of them, to prevent the unfilial son-in-law from deliberately letting go of one or two and arresting one of them, so that the guards could offer a letter in exchange for their lives when they were accidentally captured, and find an opportunity to get out and come back, but after seeing Wang Xuanying, he had to explain that he didn't need to read this fake letter. The three henchmen saw that Wang Shichong had made comprehensive arrangements, so they were relieved to leave with confidence.

"Little thief, dare to play with the old man, you are still a little tender!" This is Wang Shichong's heartfelt words.