Here is also an introduction to Liu Dewei's origin, Liu Dewei was originally from Pengcheng, Xuzhou, described as Kuiwei, and also had some talent and strategy, as early as the ninth year of the Great Cause, he followed Li Yuan when Emperor Yang of Sui conquered Goguryeo for the second time, and accompanied Li Yuan to fight in the south and the north, and he also won Li Yuan's trust and love. After Li Yuan raised his army, he ordered Li Yuanji to stay in Taiyuan, and ordered Liu Dewei to serve as the Sima of the Taiyuan march to Li Yuanji as the chief military assistant, and because Li Yuanji was only fifteen years old at the time, before Li Jiancheng fled back to Taiyuan, the Taiyuan military was actually in charge of Liu Dewei.

During the period of accompanying Li Yuanji to stay in Taiyuan, although Liu Dewei did not have any outstanding performance, it can be regarded as a good loss, at least it is to keep the basic plate of the old Li family, and it is precisely because of this experience that Li Yuanji has always regarded Liu Dewei as his confidant, Li Jiancheng fled back to Taiyuan to reorganize the army, and Li Yuanji, who gradually grew up and had ambitions, forcibly recommended Liu Dewei to serve as one of the thirteen commanders of the Taiyuan Army, and he had to let Liu Dewei be in charge of an army. And Li Jiancheng not only agreed to give up power to the fourth brother, but also kept Liu Dewei guarding Taiyuan, so the soldiers and horses under Liu Dewei are still intact, and he has always had a very close relationship with Li Yuanji.

The relationship is intimacy, but it is definitely not so easy for Andy Lau to make up his mind to help Li Yuanji launch a mutiny, but fortunately, Li Er was very smart to let Li Yuanji have a showdown with Lau Dewei at this moment, and suddenly forced Lau Dewei to a desperate situation where he had to choose either yes or no, completely eliminating the possibility of Dewei Lau betraying the Li clan, and Dewei Lau, who had no knowledge in advance, was also completely caught in a dilemma and didn't know how to choose.

"General Liu, you can't surrender, you can't surrender." Li Jiancheng, whose mouth was strangled, said with difficulty, "We still have hope, we still have hope to hold Taiyuan City, and we can't surrender on our knees." ”

"General Dulwich, we didn't want to do that." Li Er said with a smile: "But there is no way, if we don't make a decision early, when the Tang Wang's army releases water to besiege the city, it will be too late for us to abandon the darkness and turn to the light." From the dragon to take the morning, we are now going to vote for His Royal Highness the Tang King, not only sure that our lives are worry-free, but also can be awarded official titles, and enjoy glory and wealth, general, you are a smart person, you will not understand this truth, right? ”

"Dulwich, don't forget how beautiful you were when you were under my account, and what kind of situation were you in after my eldest brother took charge of Taiyuan?" Li Yuanji said viciously: "If it weren't for my insistence, would you be the head of the march?" My eldest brother is nepotistic and alienated from flesh and blood, and he is not the material to be a commander at all, and sooner or later he will kill the entire army in Taiyuan, and if you follow him again, you will only bury him in vain! Surrendering the city to His Royal Highness King Tang with me is the right way! ”

Liu Dewei, who was loyal to the Li family, hesitated and hesitated, but Li Jiancheng said with difficulty: "General Liu, don't forget my father's kindness to you, my father died at the hands of Chen Yingliang, if you surrender to him and come to Jiuquan in the future, what face do you have to see ......?" ”

"Shut up!" Li Yuanji smashed a fist on Li Jiancheng's face, and shouted at Liu Dewei: "Dewei, it's not that I forgot to kill my father's revenge, I did it for the sake of the military and people of Taiyuan, Taiyuan can't hold it, no matter how strong the city is, it's useless, once His Royal Highness the Tang King releases water, the people of Taiyuan will either be drowned by the flood, or as Yuan Tiangang said, the city wall will collapse by itself, and when the Tang Wang's army enters the city, how can we resist?" Capitulating Kaesong is the only way to save the people of the city, what are you hesitating about? Make up your mind! ”

Liu Dewei's current situation is very similar to Li Yuanhong during the Wuchang Uprising, he didn't want to rebel at all but was pushed to the cusp, in a dilemma, so after hesitating for a long time, Liu Dewei not only didn't dare to agree, but also said: "Duke Qi, the right governor, it's not that I don't want to serve you, it's that even if I want to, I can't do it, only 5,000 of the 20,000 Xicheng defenders are under my command, and I was unprepared in advance, whether those subordinates will go with me or not is not certain, Feng Li and Xie Shufang Once they receive the news, I will definitely lead the army to quell the rebellion, how can I resist when the time comes? ”

"You don't need to worry about this, General Liu." Li Er smiled and said: "We don't hide it from you, in fact, we have already secretly contacted His Royal Highness King Tang, as long as we light a fire on the city wall and send a signal, His Royal Highness King Tang will immediately send troops to attack the city, and when the time comes, general, you only need to open the city gate to welcome King Tang's army into the city, Feng Li and Xie Shufang These horsemen will not be afraid." ”

Liu Dewei was still a little hesitant, but Li Yuanji was impatient to wait, and he drew his knife and shouted: "Liu Dewei, do you agree or not?" We dare to kidnap Li Jiancheng, we are sure, if you don't agree, we will send you to see Hades immediately! Open the city gate by yourself to welcome His Royal Highness King Tang into the city! ”

Knowing that Li Yuanji's heart was ruthless, and he also knew how to continue to refuse, it would definitely only end up being a head-to-head landing, Liu Dewei was forced to be helpless, nodded with the idea that it would be better to get out first, and said: "Okay, I listen to you, I will go to the city to set fire to the city, open the city gate to welcome the Tang Wang's army into the city." ”

Li Jiancheng roared angrily, Li Er and Li Yuanji smiled together, and then Li Er said very cunningly: "General Liu, then let's do it, I will accompany you to the city wall to set fire, I hope you will be smart, don't play any tricks, otherwise don't blame me for not reminding you, my knife has been smeared with aconite poison." ”

Liu Dewei nodded helplessly to show that he understood, and at that moment Li Er immediately escorted Liu Dewei to the south gate of Taiyuan Dongcheng with Li Fengci and Li Boyi, and Li Er's only subordinate Zhu Cang didn't know where he got out of there, and Li Eryi left and left with Liu Dewei and left the back door to leave Li Yuanji's mansion. Li Yuanji and others stayed at home and waited, and also piled up a huge firewood pile in the back garden to prevent that if the fire failed in the city, then Li Yuanji and others would light a fire at home and release smoke, which could also make the Sui army outside the city find out that the situation was wrong and send troops to Taiyuan City to respond.

Not to mention that Li Yuanji and others were anxiously waiting at home, just that Li Er, Zhu Cang and others escorted Liu Dewei out of the door, and immediately forced Liu Dewei to go straight to the South Gate Tower, Liu Dewei was pale and kept thinking in his heart, and wanted to escape or shout a warning several times, but Li Er, Zhu Cang and others were too tightly guarded, and Liu Dewei couldn't find a chance at all, and he was unknowingly escorted to the south gate in a trance.

As mentioned earlier, the Taiyuan soldiers on duty on the city wall today are all Liu Dewei's subordinates, seeing Liu Dewei and Li Er and others come to the door steps together, although the Taiyuan soldiers on duty on the steps felt strange, but they did not dare to come forward to interrogate and block, Li Er and Zhu Cang also took the opportunity to hold Liu Dewei hostage all the way to the city wall, and then just arrived at the top of the city wall, Li Er immediately couldn't wait to whisper to Liu Dewei and ordered: "Light the wolf smoke immediately and send a signal." ”

Liu Dewei hesitated for a while, Li Er saw his thoughts, so he leaned into his ear and whispered: "General Liu, you haven't looked back, just now you promised to help us in front of Li Jiancheng, do you think Li Jiancheng will spare you again?" Your retreat is already a dead end, and only by continuing to move forward is your only way to live. ”

After hesitating for a moment, he felt that Li Er's words still had some truth, so Liu Dewei also gritted his teeth and made up his mind, and immediately ordered the south gate city to light wolf smoke under the pretext that Li Jiancheng had an order to contact the outside world, and because the guards at the south gate were Liu Dewei's subordinates, he also faithfully carried out Liu Dewei's order, set up a firewood pile and set fire to smoke, and soon a blue and black smoke rushed into the sky on the south gate of Taiyuan, which was particularly distinct in the clear sky after the rain.

Li Er and the others also somewhat underestimated the response speed of some of Li Jiancheng's henchmen such as Feng Li and Xie Shufang, and as soon as they smelled the smoke on the South Gate City in the Jinyang Palace, Feng Li and Xie Shufang and other Li Jiancheng's henchmen and generals immediately became suspicious, and at that moment, Feng Xie and the others immediately sent people to the South Gate to inquire about the situation, and immediately sent people to Li Yuanji's Mansion to report the matter to Li Jiancheng, and at the same time, for the sake of prudence, Feng Li and Xie Shufang also ordered the army under their command to assemble and wait for orders, ready to fight at any time.

At the same time, the scouts of the Sui army flew the news of the wolf smoke released from the south gate of Taiyuan to Li Jing, who only thought about it for less than three seconds before ordering the army to assemble and prepare for war, and he personally led the rush to the south gate of Taiyuan to wait for the opening of the door. At the same time, Li Jing sent people to the main camp to report the matter to Chen Fuliang, and asked Chen Fuliang to prepare for contingencies, and after Chen Fuliang received the news, although some generals were suspicious and some were unbearable, he also ordered the army to immediately start preparing for war, and also ordered to prepare torches and dry food in advance for night fighting.

Time has become 10,000 times more precious than gold for Li Jiancheng's side, if Feng Li and Xie Shufang and others will be able to immediately send troops to the city gate to guard, then the Li clan and Liu Dewei and others will definitely not be able to open the city gate, and Li Jiancheng must still have hope of being saved, but unfortunately, at this critical moment, Wu Shitong, who usually shows great loyalty to Li Jiancheng, seems to have been taken away by ghosts and gods, and even told the messenger sent by Feng Li and others in the honor of Li Jiancheng, saying that the wolf smoke at the south gate of Taiyuan was lit by Li Jiancheng's order, so that Feng Li and the others don't have to be nervous, just guard Jinyang Palace. As a result, after Feng Li's envoy Pegasus brought the news back to Jinyang Palace, Feng Li and the others did not dare to make claims under the suspicion of the generals, and wasted a lot of precious time.

But it was only the end of it, when he saw the Sui army coming out of the camp and assembling from a distance, although Liu Dewei declared that he didn't need to be nervous at Li Er's request, he didn't immediately send someone to warn Jinyang Palace. However, when the Sui army brigade was seen coming towards the south gate of Taiyuan, the loyal defenders on the city of Taiyuan immediately rang the gong alarm, Liu Dewei and Li Er wanted to stop it too late, and the city wall of Taiyuan West City soon was the sound of the gong alarm, Feng Li and Xie Shufang, who had faintly sensed that the situation was wrong, did not dare to have any hesitation, Xie Shufang immediately led the troops and horses of the headquarters to the south gate to reinforce, and Feng Li once again sent people to Li Yuanji's mansion to warn Li Jiancheng.

It was Li Er's turn and Liu Dewei and others to be anxious, and when they saw the army coming from Jinyang Palace from a distance, Li Er and Zhu Cang didn't dare to hesitate at all, and immediately forced Liu Dewei to go down to the city to open the door, and Liu Dewei, who had no way out, was forced to be helpless, so he could only hurry down to the city with Li Er and others, and rushed to the door latch, asking the city gate official to open the city gate immediately. As a result, the city gate official was shocked when he heard this, and asked in exclamation: "Manager Liu, are you crazy?" The thieves are coming this way, and you still have to open the city gates, what do you want to do? ”

A wind sounded, Li Er immediately decided that he immediately slashed at the city gate official, the city gate official hurriedly dodged and his left hand was cut off on the spot, and all the gate soldiers stepped forward to stop in shock, Li Er, Zhu Cang, Li Fengci and others each wielded their knives and slashed, quickly killed the unprepared door soldiers, and pounced on the city gate official to snatch the city gate key. Who knew that the city gate official was brave and abnormal, knowing that Li Er and others had the purpose of tearing off the key on their waists first, inserting it into the crack of the door and trying to break it, Li Er was shocked and hurriedly flew out with a knife, and hacked the loyal and brave city gate official to death first, rescued the deadly key that was already a little bent, and then hurried to unlock the lock and latch.

What's even more thrilling is still to come, when Li Er, Zhu Cang and others struggled to remove the door latch, Xie Shufang had already rushed to the city gate with follow-up reinforcements, and saw the door latch fall to the ground from a distance, Xie Shufang's face immediately turned pale into rice paper, and then he didn't even have time to roar loudly, and immediately swung his knife into the city gate, while Li Er and others opened the city gate, and turned back to resist Xie Shufang and others.

At the same time as the city gate opened, the Sui army forward has also rushed to the south gate 100 steps away, far away to see the city gate open and the city gate at the person fighting, as the forward Liu Shishan did not have time to ask Li Jing, roared and led the army to kill over, the same understanding of the arrival of the fighter plane of the Sui army soldiers everyone brave, one by one, regardless of the head has begun to fall feather arrows, the footsteps do not stop just rushing straight to the city gate, the tide generally surged up the stone bridge across the river, flying straight to the city gate.

"Quick! Shut the door! Xie Shufang didn't finally shout the first sentence until this time, but no matter how bravely the Taiyuan soldiers stepped forward to close the door, Li Er and the others were desperately blocking their way, and didn't give them a chance to close the door, Xie Shufang was furious when he saw it, and shouted Ignoring Zhu Cang's horizontal knife had already slashed to the waist and abdomen, he just slashed at Li Er's head with a knife, "Traitor!" Come on! ”

At this moment, Li Er's right hand knife was blocking the spear stabbed by another Taiyuan Army soldier, seeing Xie Shufang's knife slashing, he wanted to retreat, but his footsteps were tripped by the latch of the landing door, and he suddenly lost his balance, and Xie Shufang's straight knife had also been cut in front of the door, and when he saw that he was about to die tragically under the Xiao Xiao knife, Li Er had an idea, and his left hand suddenly grabbed Zhu Cang next to him, and used his strength to pull Zhu Cang in front of him, flesh and blood flying.

"Shameless villain!"

At the same time that Zhu Cang roared wildly, Li Er had already taken the opportunity of his slight blockade to roll on a lazy donkey on the spot, rolling a little farther, and Xie Shufang, who had not been able to kill Li Er with a knife in his waist, had nowhere to vent, so he could only slash at Zhu Cang's neck with red eyes, and the blade broke through the wind, and actually cut Zhu Can's neck directly! General Zhu Cang, who rarely made a significant contribution to Chen Fuliang this time, also fell down with hatred at the last moment before dawn, and closed his eyes forever with great regret.

After hacking Zhu Cang to death, Xie Shufang, who was not lightly injured, originally wanted to continue to step forward and kill Li Er, but it was too late to do so, the Sui soldiers had already rushed to the front and waved their knives to catch Xie Shufang. Seeing this scene, Uncle Xie had no choice but to yell: "Go to the city and put the jack gate!" Put the jack brake! ”

Putting down the jack gate will definitely be able to block the soldiers of the Sui army for a period of time and win time for the defenders in the city, but if you do this, the officers and soldiers of the Taiyuan army in the city gate and corridor, including Xie Shufang himself, will definitely not be able to escape for life, so after hearing this order, the soldiers of the Taiyuan army in the city gate and corridor not only did not dare to give an order immediately, but also cried and shouted: "Manager Xie, you enter the city quickly, enter the city quickly!" You enter the city and let the city release the gates! Here's it to us! ”

Not to mention that Xie Shufang has been entangled by the soldiers of the Sui army at this time and can't come back, even if he has the opportunity to enter the city, Xie Shufang will definitely not leave his subordinates and escape on his own. So Uncle Xie still roared, "Go and release the jack gate, otherwise it will be too late!" Fast! ”

The soldiers of the Sui army have already entered the city gate, no matter how desperately the soldiers of the Taiyuan army resist, they still can't stop the footsteps of the soldiers of the Sui army, and Xie Shufang has already killed all the blood, and he can't stop the advance momentum of the soldiers of the Sui army, and he was soon forced by the soldiers of the Sui army to retreat to the middle of the road at the city gate. Seeing that the situation was critical, and hearing Xie Shufang's continuous roaring and shouting to release the gate, some of the Taiyuan soldiers cried on the city wall, and ordered the gate to be released for Xie Shufang, who was already nervous and sweaty, and struggled to pull the winch, and the heavy jack gate wrapped in iron sheet fell to the ground, smashing several Taiyuan soldiers who could not dodge into meat sauce, and also completely blocked Xie Shufang and more than 100 Taiyuan soldiers in the city gate.

Seeing the jack gate fall to the ground, the soldiers of the Sui army who had been defeated roared angrily, Xie Shufang also laughed loudly and shouted: "Brothers! Kill me! Buy them time! Kill! ”

Roaring, Xie Shufang actually waved his knife and launched a counter-charge, inspired by him, more than 100 officers and soldiers of the Taiyuan Army who were already certain to die also roared again and again, slashing their knives and swinging guns to fight with the soldiers of the Sui Army sacrificing their lives, and also relied on this breath to seize back a lot of Yongdao positions, but killed the soldiers of the Sui Army a large part of the retreat. During this period, Xie Shufang also laughed wildly while slashing and killing, and the hideous appearance of laughing wildly with blood on his face made the soldiers of the Sui army who had experienced a hundred battles secretly frightened when they saw it.

At the same time, under the command of Li Jing, the soldiers of the Sui army also took advantage of the opportunity of the Taiyuan army's hasty response to the situation, and immediately launched an ant attack on the city of Taiyuan. What is even more fatal for the officers and men of the Taiyuan Army is that the well-prepared Sui Army rear army is already urgently transporting two artillery pieces and two coffins filled with gunpowder to the front line In front of the Sui army's artillery, the Taiyuan Army's emergency jack gate is purely just an ornament, and the coffin filled with gunpowder and tightened with pig iron is also very likely to directly explode the emergency jack gate.

Of course, the Taiyuan army is not completely without a chance, as long as the defenders can temporarily repel an attack by the Sui army and close the city gate again, then the officers and men of the Taiyuan army can immediately lift the jack gate and move the sandbags that have been prepared enough into the Yongdao to block the city gate and prevent artillery, and re-stabilize the entire battle situation. It is precisely because he knows this opportunity very well in his heart, so even if he has many injuries on his body, Uncle Xie still wields a knife to kill the enemy, like a mad tiger and a wild beast, and the constant roar in his mouth is also the same voice, "Kill!" Kill! Kill! ”

With a loud bang, a sinful gunpowder bottle fell to Xie Shufang's side, which happened to explode in Xie Shufang's ears, and at the same time that the eardrum burst and bleed on the spot, Xie Shufang's eyes couldn't help but be pitch black, and then two more sinful spears pierced his lower abdomen and chest one after another, and they also pulled him off the ground together.

Trying to open his eyes, Xie Shufang used the last strength of his body to smash the steel knife stained with blood and hair in his hand at a Sui soldier, and at the same time shouted his last voice in this world, "Zuo Dudu, the last general has done his best!" ”