The sunset was drooping, standing under the tall and majestic Tongguan City, Chen Fuliang did not move for a long time, did not say a word, the expression on his face seemed to be a little excited, but also a little intoxicated and nostalgic, Li Jing, who led Liu Gang, Ma Sanbao and Zhang Jixun to greet him, saw his nephew's thoughts, so he smiled and said: "Virtuous nephew, I feel that I am revisiting my hometown, and I want to come to a few poems?" ”

"Let's talk about it in Daxing, that is the place where I am most worthy of emotion." Chen Fuliang smiled and ordered: "Let's go, let's all enter the customs, it's rare for people to gather so together, let's have a meeting so that everyone can get to know each other." ”

It is indeed rare to get people gathered so together, in addition to the eldest grandson Wuji who stayed in Luoyang and Gao Shilian who is in Hongnong, the accomplices who helped Chen Fuliang to abuse him are gathered for the first time, Wen has Fang Xuanling, Wei Zheng, Yuan Tiangang, Pei Xingfang, Cui Hongdan and Qian Xiangmin, etc., military generals include Liu Changgong, Ma Sanbao, Kan Liang, Wei Chi Jingde, Cheng Yanjin, Niu Jinda, Qin Qiong, Luo Shixin, He Yanyu, Liu Heimin, Liu Shishan, Guo Feng, Chen Ci and Zhang Jixun, etc., etc., plus Li Jing who is both civil and military and Liu Gang, who is temporarily running tricks, Dozens of people gathered together, but it was also spectacular.

There was also an interesting thing happened between the gossip greetings and ceremonies, Liu Changgong and Liu Gang, who met for the first time, told each other about the genealogy, and found that this pair of living treasures turned out to be relatives of the same clan, and the younger Liu Gang was even older than Liu Changgong.

Chen Fuliang also laughed, and therefore thought of a very important thing, that is, he had to make good use of the relationship between the same clan and relatives under his command, and he had to vigorously promote the relatives and clans of these powerful lackeys, so as to use the clan power behind them to fight against Li Yuan's gate valve background. While he was thinking about it, someone suddenly came to report from outside the door, saying that Li Jiancheng, the commander of the rebel division, had personally come to Tongguan City and asked to meet Chen Fuliang. As soon as Chen Fuliang heard the joy, he immediately ordered everyone to go out of the customs with him to meet his friend Li Jiancheng, and also ordered the door to be opened and closed, and he rode out of the customs to meet Li Jiancheng.

This is a very rare battlefield spectacle, the commanders of the warring sides met, not only did not have swords rattling and swords facing each other, after seeing each other, they also laughed together, chanting and clapping their horses and rushing to each other, so frightened that the accompanying generals of both sides hurriedly followed, pulling alive, and finally let the two bosses stand ten steps apart, and then Chen Fuliang and Li Jiancheng also shouted in unison and ordered: "Do not act rashly, those who violate the order will be engaged in military law!" ”

I haven't seen him for two years, the twenty-eight-year-old Li Jiancheng is obviously much more mature, and the twenty-one-year-old Chen Fuliang has changed even more, the childishness on his face has almost disappeared, and his gestures are even more majestic, looking at each other with a smile, Li Jiancheng first smiled and said: "Brother Xian, you have completely grown into an adult, I remember that when we first met four years ago, you were just a half-old child, thin and weak. ”

"Brother, you've changed a lot." Chen Fuliang said with a smile: "I remember that when we first met, you were just a rich boy with a polite manner, and it has only been a few years, brother, you have already become the commander of the first army who commands thousands of troops." How is it, how are the sister-in-law and nephew okay? ”

"Okay, it's all good, your sister-in-law and your nephew are in Taiyuan, and someone will take care of them." Li Jiancheng nodded again and again, and said with a smile: "Speaking of commanding thousands of troops and horses, the foolish brother is still far inferior to you, when the brother-in-law laughed at you for picking vegetable leaves and boiling porridge in the market, it has only been four years, and you have become a left-behind in the eastern capital of Luoyang, and you are only under one person in the eastern capital of Luoyang, above a million people, the virtuous brother is talented, and the foolish brother admires him so much that he throws himself to the ground." ”

"The elder brother has won the award, and the younger brother is just a good chance and luck." Chen Fuliang was modest, and asked with concern: "Brother, how is it, are you still used to it?" This seems simple to lead troops to fight, but in fact it is a thousand things, and it takes the most effort, brother, you must take care, don't get tired. ”

"Thank you, brother, thank you for your concern." Li Jiancheng thanked him, and also said with concern: "It's you, brother Xian, you need to take care, the foolish brother had a good family background when he was young, he ate better than you, his foundation is better than yours, your body is weaker, and you have been tired and sick on the battlefield, you must pay attention to rest, don't be too strong." ”

Chen Fuliang also thanked him repeatedly, but the generals of the Sui army and the rebel generals next to him couldn't cry or laugh, and they all said that you are enemies, okay, don't care so much about each other, okay? But there is also an exception, at least Chai Shao's face has always remained iron-blue, and he couldn't help but say: "Boy Chen Yingliang, we finally meet again." ”

Glancing at Chai Shao very contemptuously, Chen Fuliang sneered and said, "Chai Sichang, don't talk, okay?" I'm catching up with Brother Jiancheng, and Brother Jiancheng and I are close friends like siblings, and I have no such relationship with you. ”

Chai Shao's face immediately turned pitch black, and when he subconsciously went to pull out the knife, Li Jiancheng next to him was quick-eyed, and immediately held him down, and shouted: "Chai Sichang, don't forget my military order, if you dare to pull out the knife, even if you are my brother-in-law, I will not spare it!" ”

Li Xiuning on the other side also hurriedly pulled Chai Shao back, and Li Jiancheng turned to Chen Fuliang and said with a wry smile: "The foolish brother is not strict under the rule, so the virtuous brother laughs." Brother Xian, this is indeed not the place to talk, can we find a chance to sit down, have a good talk, and talk about old feelings? How about tomorrow? Foolish brother and you each bring two retinues in ....... ”

"Brother, I'm really sorry, I don't have a chance this time, I can only wait for next time." Chen Fuliang shook his head and refused, and said with a smile: "The battle is like fire, the junior brother will have to attack you tomorrow, and he must also defeat you and recapture Yongfeng Cang, so this time it won't work, if you have the opportunity in the future, the junior brother will definitely have a long chat with you." ”

Li Jiancheng, who was ordered to delay Chen Fuliang's attack speed, changed his face slightly, and then said, "Brother Xian, must you be in such a hurry?" Can't take a few days off? ”

"No way." Chen Fuliang shook his head, sighed and said: "I also want to let the soldiers rest a little, but there is no way, your father must be attacking Daxing with all his might, and now he may have already attacked the outer city of Daxing, if the younger brother delays any longer, Daxing Palace City will be in danger." ”

"Brother Xian really expects things like a god, yes, I received the news today, General Yin and Gu Zanzhi have given up the outer city of Daxing the day before yesterday and retreated to the inner city with all their might, and my father has indeed entered the outer city of Daxing." Li Jiancheng nodded, and told Chen Fuliang about this important military situation very calmly, and then said helplessly: "Brother Xian, the foolish brother must apologize to you, my father wants the foolish brother to lead the army to stop you with all his might, and my father's order is difficult to disobey, although the foolish brother is not talented, he can only be forced to meet you with swords and guns, fight to the death, and hope that the virtuous brother will forgive his sins." ”

"It's okay, I understand." Chen Fuliang nodded, and said: "Brother, don't worry, if you unfortunately die at my hands, I will definitely try my best to take care of my sister-in-law and nephew, as long as there is a glimmer of hope, I will also try my best to save their lives." ”

"Thank you, brother." Li Jiancheng bowed his hand, thanked Chen Fuliang solemnly, and said with a wry smile: "Brother Xian, Brother Fool knows that he is not your opponent, but if Brother Fool is lucky to ...... and wins you, you can rest assured, as long as Brother Fool still has a breath, he will definitely protect your wife and children and will not let them be hurt in the slightest." ”

"Thank you, brother, little brother knows you will definitely do this." Chen Fuliang bowed his hand, also thanked him solemnly, and then shook his head and said: "But this is impossible, not to mention the use of military tactics, but in terms of military strength, brother, you can't win me, brother, you have more than 40,000 or 50,000 troops in your reputation, but your army is either a division that surrendered and defeated the army, or a new recruit who joined the army for a few days. But now that your attacks on Tongguan have been frustrated one after another, your morale has been weakened, and you have no hope of winning me. ”

Li Jiancheng's expression darkened, nodded and said: "Brother Fool knows, Brother Fool knows that there is no hope of winning you, so Brother Fool plans to defend the Cangcheng camp to the death, delay time, and wait for his father's main force to come back." Brother Yu has been ordered to build a strong camp fortifications, and also built Yongfeng Cangcheng, you have to be careful. ”

"Brother, you must not personally sit in the camp, guard the warehouse city, and prepare a few spare boats." Chen Fuliang advised: "Because the junior brother wants to attack your camp first, and then attack Cangcheng, after the city is broken, you must not escape by land, I have a lot of cavalry, it is very likely to catch up with you, and you can only hope to escape by water." ”

Li Jiancheng was gloomy again, nodded silently, but Chai Shao over there couldn't bear it, and shouted: "If you have the ability, you can come, I am responsible for guarding the camp outside the warehouse, if you have the ability, just come, I will accompany you to the end!" ”

Chen Fuliang turned his gaze to Chai Shao again, his gaze was sharp and cold, so that Chai Shao in anger inevitably had a feeling of temperature dropping, and then Chen Fuliang said coldly: "Chai Sichang, you still have the face to fight against me, I spared you a few times at the beginning, it was completely for the sake of your parents and sisters, I didn't expect that you, a brute, could bear to abandon them and rebel from thieves!" Haven't you thought about what kind of impact your parents and sisters will suffer if you do this? If I had known that today, four years outside Daxing City, I shouldn't have saved you! ”

"I did this just to make you regret saving me!" Chai Shao gritted his teeth, and couldn't help but add, "Besides, my father and mother, as well as Qianmei, have all been rescued from the prison by my father-in-law, and they are in good condition now!" ”

"It's you, you don't deserve to make me regret it!" Chen Fuliang snorted heavily, and he was somewhat relieved.

The sunset had already set, the light was fading, and he turned his gaze back to Li Jiancheng, Chen Fuliang said helplessly: "Brother, it's not early, I should go back to the city, let's go here today, if there is a chance, we will meet again." ”

Li Jiancheng agreed, and told Chen Fuliang to rest for a good life, and then he helplessly led everyone to leave first, Chen Fuliang gave him away, and when Li Jiancheng and the others gradually walked away, Chen Fuliang suddenly shouted: "Chai Shao, if you want to prove that you are stronger than your wife, then you will stick to the camp for two days, and before sunset the day after tomorrow, if you can hold the camp without losing, I will admit that you are stronger than your sister-in-law!" ”

Chai Shao turned around and said word by word: "Just come, accompany you to the end!" ”

Chen Fuliang smiled, then turned the horse's head, the generals of the Sui army on the left and right had long known Chen Fuliang's unscrupulous virtues, and knew that his words must be uneasy and kind, and as soon as they entered the gate, they couldn't wait to ask Chen Fuliang: "Stay behind, you let Chai Shao hold on until the sunset the day after tomorrow, are you arranging any clever plan to break the enemy?" ”

Chen Fuliang smiled and turned his gaze to his cousin, Li Jing also smiled and said, "Zhugong, you shouldn't have even read "Cao Di's Polemic", right? Morale is a thing, it is one and it is prosperous, then it is declining, and it is exhausted, Chai Shao let the thief army desperately defend it for two days, and on the third day, how much morale and fighting spirit can the thief army have left? If we want to sweep away the fortifications outside the camp of the thieves, won't it take some time? Our main army marched seventy miles a day for seven days, doesn't it take a little time to rest and prepare? ”

The generals of the Sui army suddenly realized, and praised Chen Fuliang for really losing his conscience, and Wei Chi Jingde scratched his head and said: "But in this way, Chai Shao won't win and stay behind?" ”

"What did he win me?" Chen Fuliang smiled and said: "I just said that if he can hold the camp before sunset the day after tomorrow, I will admit that he is better than his daughter-in-law, I admit it, what impact does it have on us?" ”

Only then did the generals of the Sui army completely wake up, and they all laughed loudly, praising Chen Fuliang for not being a thing, and even taking the opportunity to catch up with his friends. Chen Fuliang sighed with a smile: "Li Jiancheng has a steady personality, he must know that he can't take risks at this time, and Li Yuan ordered him to only defend without fighting, and if he wants to use his skills to break the enemy, he has almost no chance, and he can only make some fuss about morale and fighting spirit." ”

It is not only the generals of the Sui army who are familiar with Chen Fuliang's bad character, but also the rebels who know that what Chen Fuliang said to Chai Shao must be uneasy and kind, so that even Li Jiancheng, who is close to Chen Fuliang, kept admonishing Chai Shao on the way back to the camp, saying: "Sichang, be careful, you can only defend the camp, and you must not risk going to war, although Chen Yingliang's character is ancient, but he is famous for his tricks on the battlefield, he has repeatedly provoked you, there must be a special purpose for him, don't be careless." ”

Li Xiuning also told Chai Shao not to take risks in the battle, Chai Shao did not get tired of it, and simply said angrily: "If you are afraid of the tricks of the thief in my middle Chen, then just let me lead the death squad!" After that, Chai Shao didn't look back, and went back to the camp first, leaving Li Jiancheng and Li Xiuning, brothers and sisters, shaking their heads and sighing behind their backs, worried.

After Chai Shao returned to the camp, the first thing he did was not to organize the death squad, but immediately began to arrange the night defense of the camp, arranged a team of elite soldiers to be on duty at night, and sent double posts to monitor the enemy's situation to strictly prevent the Sui army from robbing the camp late at night.

That night, Chai Shao, who had a wife as his companion, did not care about the hardships, and had to patrol the camp every other hour, check the posts and sentry posts, and comfort the soldiers on duty at night, Li Xiuning felt sorry for her husband and advised Chai Shao not to make such a high-frequency night patrol, so as not to tire out his body. Chai Shao said with a gloomy face: "This is my best chance to atone for my father-in-law, and it is also my best chance to take revenge, as long as I can hold the camp and persist until my father-in-law returns, not to mention being tired and sick, even if I am tired to death, I am also willing!" ”

The next day, which was also September 23 of the thirteenth year of the Great Cause, Chen Fuliang, who was true to his word, really sent Ma Sanbao to lead the army to attack the rebel camp, but Chen Fuliang did not ask Ma Sanbao to directly attack the rebel camp, but sharpened his knife and cut wood, and asked Ma Sanbao to command the army to fill the rebel camp with shrimp and toad carts to fill the rebel camp as many as three layers of camp protection trenches. The rebels did not dare to underestimate the enemy in the slightest, and the whole battalion prepared to monitor the movements of the Sui army, constantly suppressing the Sui army's shrimp and toad carts with bows and arrows and hard crossbows, and delaying the Sui army's trench filling speed. Yongfeng Cangcheng was also fully armed, carefully guarding against a sudden attack by the Sui army.

At noon, when the red sun was in the sky, Chen Fuliang suddenly personally led a cavalry in white robes out of the pass, and came to the rebel camp, Chai Shao and his wife did not dare to slack off when they heard the report, and hurriedly came to the camp to check the situation, and the rebel generals in the camp also ordered the whole army to be on guard, but unfortunately Chen Fuliang only turned around, inspected the Sui army's trench filling work, and immediately went to Yongfeng Cangcheng in the north to personally explore the enemy's situation, and asked the sergeant to set up a city viewing car, personally boarded the car, and condescendingly peeked at the situation in the city, which also made Li Jiancheng vigilant, Worried about the tricky friend, he threatened to attack the camp first and then take Kurajo, but in fact he suddenly attacked Kurajo.

Tossed for nearly an hour, Chen Fuliang led the cavalry in white robes to swagger away, in the noon sun exposure under the rebel soldiers for nearly an hour just relaxed, but there was a Sui army in Tongguan, frightened the rebels quickly re-guarded, who knew that this army only rotated the Ma Sanbao army to continue to fill the trenches, with a strong bow and crossbow and the rebels in the camp to shoot, and did not attack, Ma Sanbao army also directly withdrew to the camp to rest.

In the evening, Chen Fuliang led the cavalry out of the pass again, which shocked the rebels up and down, but Chen Fuliang only inspected the progress of filling the trenches, and then collected the troops and returned to the pass to rest.

On the night of the 23rd, the rebels continued to be on strict guard, but after the second watch, the trumpets suddenly sounded on the city of Tongguan five miles away, and the gongs and drums shook the sky, and there seemed to be signs of sending troops, and the rebels got up to prepare for battle, and strictly guarded the fence fortifications, but only after a while, the sound of the horns and war drums suddenly disappeared, and there was not a single Sui army out of Guanzhong.

That night, the Sui army used horns and war drums to disturb the rebels every half an hour, and the rebels were forced to get up and prepare for war every time by Chai Shao and Li Jiancheng, and they were miserable, but the Sui army did not send troops every time.

On the 24th, Chen Fuliang lost his conscience more tricks, the rebels had just begun to receive breakfast, the Sui army had already gone out of the customs to kill, and did not carry the shrimp toad car and the long shield, it seemed that there was a direct attack on the camp, the rebel army hurriedly prepared for battle, but after the Sui army arrived outside the camp, it immediately stopped the formation, and then the shrimp toad car and the long shield went out of the pass, and continued to fill the trench and shoot non-stop, the rebels could only eat while on guard, and the pain was unbearable up and down.

On that day, Chen Fuliang personally went out of the customs three times, and the Sui army took turns to fill the trench army twice, each time it made the rebel army nervous, and every time it made Chai Shao and his wife and Li Jiancheng very vigilant, but every time the Sui army moved was thunder and rain, and it never launched a decent siege on the rebel camp.

When Li Jiancheng and Chai Shao were vaguely aware of being deceived, the sun had already set, and Chen Fuliang also appeared in front of the rebel camp for the third time in one day.

"What's the hurry? If you want to find death, I can fulfill you at any time! Well, the sun has set, Brother Sichang, I just admit that you are better than your sister-in-law, but between you husband and wife, do you need to fight over who is stronger than whom? ”

Throwing down this sentence, Chen Fuliang laughed and led the army to retreat, and finally understood that Chai Shao, who was fooled, scolded, but Chen Fuliang's next sentence made Chai Shao raise his vigilance again, "Brother Sichang, take a good night's rest, I'm not good at night battles, let alone surprise attacks, tonight, I won't come to trouble you, you just have to rest assured!" ”

Chen Fuliang, who broke the main force of the ****** overnight, said that he was not good at night fighting, not to mention that Chai Shao, who had experienced the Battle of Yanmen, did not believe it, even those newly joined the thief soldiers did not dare to believe it, and they all understood that there would not be a good day tonight. The result was as expected, after returning to the customs, the first thing Chen Fuliang did was to pat Liu Gang on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Captain Liu, work hard all night tonight, go out of the customs and beat gongs and drums nearby, I will give you another thirty gunpowder bottles, the camp of the thief army and Yongfeng Cangcheng, throw some more or less, let the thief army sleep well." The attack was not launched, and the Ma Sambao army also directly withdrew to the camp to rest.

In the evening, Chen Fuliang led the cavalry out of the pass again, which shocked the rebels up and down, but Chen Fuliang only inspected the progress of filling the trenches, and then collected the troops and returned to the pass to rest.

On the night of the 23rd, the rebels continued to be on strict guard, but after the second watch, the trumpets suddenly sounded on the city of Tongguan five miles away, and the gongs and drums shook the sky, and there seemed to be signs of sending troops, and the rebels got up to prepare for battle, and strictly guarded the fence fortifications, but only after a while, the sound of the horns and war drums suddenly disappeared, and there was not a single Sui army out of Guanzhong.

That night, the Sui army used horns and war drums to disturb the rebels every half an hour, and the rebels were forced to get up and prepare for war every time by Chai Shao and Li Jiancheng, and they were miserable, but the Sui army did not send troops every time.

On the 24th, Chen Fuliang lost his conscience more tricks, the rebels had just begun to receive breakfast, the Sui army had already gone out of the customs to kill, and did not carry the shrimp toad car and the long shield, it seemed that there was a direct attack on the camp, the rebel army hurriedly prepared for battle, but after the Sui army arrived outside the camp, it immediately stopped the formation, and then the shrimp toad car and the long shield went out of the pass, and continued to fill the trench and shoot non-stop, the rebels could only eat while on guard, and the pain was unbearable up and down.

On that day, Chen Fuliang personally went out of the customs three times, and the Sui army took turns to fill the trench army twice, each time it made the rebel army nervous, and every time it made Chai Shao and his wife and Li Jiancheng very vigilant, but every time the Sui army moved was thunder and rain, and it never launched a decent siege on the rebel camp.

When Li Jiancheng and Chai Shao were vaguely aware of being deceived, the sun had already set, and Chen Fuliang also appeared in front of the rebel camp for the third time in one day.

"What's the hurry? If you want to find death, I can fulfill you at any time! Well, the sun has set, Brother Sichang, I just admit that you are better than your sister-in-law, but between you husband and wife, do you need to fight over who is stronger than whom? ”

Throwing down this sentence, Chen Fuliang laughed and led the army to retreat, and finally understood that Chai Shao, who was fooled, scolded, but Chen Fuliang's next sentence made Chai Shao raise his vigilance again, "Brother Sichang, take a good night's rest, I'm not good at night battles, let alone surprise attacks, tonight, I won't come to trouble you, you just have to rest assured!" ”

Chen Fuliang, who broke the main force of the ****** overnight, said that he was not good at night fighting, not to mention that Chai Shao, who had experienced the Battle of Yanmen, did not believe it, even those newly joined the thief soldiers did not dare to believe it, and they all understood that there would not be a good day tonight. The result was as expected, after returning to the customs, the first thing Chen Fuliang did was to pat Liu Gang on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Captain Liu, work hard all night tonight, go out of the customs and beat gongs and drums nearby, I will give you another thirty gunpowder bottles, the camp of the thief army and Yongfeng Cangcheng, throw some more or less, let the thief army sleep well." ”