The situation on the battlefield of Tiger Prison Pass is becoming more and more bad for the Zhai and Li coalition army, in terms of strength comparison, the Zhai and Li coalition army with many soldiers and generals actually has an advantage over the Sui army in the eastern capital or against Wang Shichong, even if Chen Fuliang can't be destroyed by fighting head-on, at least Chen Fuliang can be beaten to the point of great injury, and the advantage over Wang Shichong is even greater, if it weren't for Chen Fuliang's unprecedented conscience to find out once, behind the frequent attacks to threaten the Zhai Li coalition army during this time, the main force of the Zhai Li coalition army may have already defeated Wang Shichong, Even if Wang Shichong can't be killed, he will definitely be able to beat Wang Shichong away and drive Wang Shichong's army back to Guancheng to continue to nibble on vegetable dumplings.

has an advantage over any one of Chen Fuliang and Wang Shichong, but Chen Fuliang and Wang Shichong joined forces, Zhai Rang and Li Mi frowned a little, Chen Fuliang occupied Luokoucang and had a city to defend, Wang Shichong's soldiers and horses were tenacious, indomitable, and the best at fighting a protracted war, even if the Zhai and Li coalition forces had an advantage, they could not defeat them in a short time, and once the time was delayed, the rear would inevitably change - for example, this time, the elite main force of the Zhai and Li coalition army had just been contained by Wang Shichong on the Banzhu battlefield, Chen Fuliang immediately jumped off the beam as a clown on the Western Front, beating Li Mi's division to the point of crying wolf, unable to parry, and had to repeatedly ask Zhai Rang and Li Mi for help.

The heavy losses of the partial division are just small things, the most important thing that makes Li Mi and Zhai Rang angry is Chen Fuliang's unguardable despicable treachery, full of tricks and tricks, not to mention, not to mention the abduction of Liu Heimin, who has unlimited potential, the most hateful thing is that Chen Fuliang desperately provoked the internal relationship of Li Mijun, and separated the intimate alliance between Li Mijun and the Wagang Army, and finally made Li Mijun re-make Hao Xiaode hate the Wagang Army to the bone, and he may go to the east at any time to help Chen Fuliang attack the Tiger Pass, and as a last resort, Li Mi could only hurriedly decide to temporarily let go of Wang Shichong, who was still struggling to support, and persuaded Zhai Rang to immediately lead the main force back to Shihu Prison to deal with the aftermath and avoid further deterioration of the situation.

Zhai Rang hesitated and didn't want to retreat, because the Zhai and Li coalition forces not only had an advantage in the Banzhu battlefield, but also once broke through the antlers and horse defense line of Wang Shichong's military camp, and was only one step away from being able to enter Wang Shichong's camp.

Pei Renji, who was well aware of the internal situation of the Sui army, helped Li Mi to move Zhai Rang, Pei Renji pointed out: "Although Wang Shichong is not afraid, he is destined not to be the opponent of our army, but most of the soldiers under his command are Jianghuai soldiers, and they are either fellow villagers or relatives with each other, and the cohesion is very strong, it is easy to defeat them on the battlefield, but it is difficult to defeat them, but it is difficult to break them up, if we continue to attack, even if we finally annihilate or defeat Wang Shichong, our elite main force will inevitably pay a heavy price, and then turn back and fight Chen Yingliang, It will be difficult for us to be sure of victory. And the war between us and Wang Shichong continues to drag on for a long time, once there is any mistake in the Tiger Prison Pass, we will completely lose the initiative on the battlefield in the Eastern Capital, and Chen Yingliang will not have to fight with us at that time, nor do he have to expect Wang Shichong to continue to contain us behind our backs, just by consuming grain and grass can completely consume us to death! ”

"If the Duke of Dongjun is worried that Wang Shichong will follow Chen Yingliang's example and take advantage of the opportunity of our main force moving westward to make waves, this is even more unnecessary." Pei Renji said again: "I have already said before that Wang Shichong is too selfish, and he likes to preserve his strength and watch the fire from the other side, and now that he has suffered heavy losses and injuries, he definitely doesn't want to continue to attack, so even if we withdraw from the Banzhu battlefield, Wang Shichong will definitely not dare to follow Chen Yingliang's initiative to attack and share the pressure on Chen Yingliang's side." And Wang Shichong came thousands of miles, the supply of grain and grass was difficult, and the counties behind him were eroded, unable to provide him with grain and grass supplies, as long as the time passed, Wang Shichong's grain and grass were not enough, and he would inevitably retreat without a fight. ”

Considering that the Tiger Prison Pass was indeed in danger, Zhai Rang was still forced to accept Li Mi and Pei Renji's proposal, and agreed to withdraw to the Tiger Prison Pass to clean up the mess, and the result was just as Pei Renji expected, after learning that Zhai and Li's allied forces retreated westward, although Wang Shichong's camp broke out in continuous cheers, he really did not send a single soldier to pursue, and he couldn't wait to immediately repair the fortifications and strengthen the camp, without any sign of moving the camp westward. And if Zhai Rang and Li Mi could know what Wang Shichong said about it, then they would definitely admire Pei Renji's high arguments even more - Wang Shichong said this, "It is Chen Yingliang's turn to carry the main force of the thief army, and it is finally Lao Tzu's turn to hide behind and sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight." ”

When the Zhai and Li coalition troops withdrew to the Tiger Prison Pass, it was already the morning of the second day of Hao Xiaode's defeat, and the soldiers of the Sui army had already burned the beaten camp to ruins, during which Shan Xiongxin never dared to open the city gate to let Hao Xiaode return to the city, just to provide a dinner for Hao Xiaode's remnants of the defeated army. Li Mi, who suffered a big loss this time, was also very personable, and did not pursue Shan Xiongxin's refusal to let Hao Xiaode return to the city, but Zhai Rang couldn't save face, and took the initiative to scold Shan Xiongxin, forcing Shan Xiongxin to apologize to Hao Xiaode, and then Zhai Rangcai ordered to open the city gate and sent an envoy to invite Hao Xiaode into the city, saying that he wanted to make amends to Hao Xiaode in person.

After returning to the city, Hao Xiaode was very calm, not only did he not make trouble, but also accepted Shan Xiongxin and Zhai Rang's apologies with an expressionless face, and just asked Zhai Rang and Li Mi to provide camp rest for his remnants, but the more calm Hao Xiaode became, the more Li Mi and Zhai Rang did not dare to rest at ease with him, and discussed a few words in a low voice, and sent Hao Xiaode to lead the army to retreat to the camp east of Hugao Pass to rest under the pretext that Hao Xiaode's army was tired from the battle, Hao Xiaode also accepted this arrangement very happily, After thanking him, he immediately led the army out of the city and went to the camp designated by Li Mi and Zhai Rang to camp and rest. And seeing Hao Xiaode's back of leaving without looking back, Zhai Rang and Li Mi also had the same thought in their hearts, "Hao Xiaode, it's unreliable." ”

It's not without good things, Li Mi and Zhai Rang withdrew to the Tiger Prison Pass to stand on a foothold, and soon a pro-soldier presented a letter to Li Mi's face, and whispered the identity of the sender, Li Mi quickly opened the letter to watch, and then only looked at it a few times, Li Mi soon laughed proudly, Zhai Rang and others asked Li Mi why he was so happy, Li Mi laughed and said: "The eastern capital sent a line report, Fan Zigai Lao Pifu finally died, the night of his death, Tang Guogong Li Yuan suddenly appeared in Taiyuan, organized the old department to launch a mutiny, Kill Fan Zigai's deputy Wang Wei, occupy the two cities of Jinyang and Taiyuan, and build a banner against Sui! ”

Zhai Rang and the others, who had never even heard Li Yuan's name a few times, were confused, but Pei Renji immediately jumped up and asked in surprise: "Is the news reliable?" Tang Guogong has been tossed by Chen Yingliang into that, can he still launch a mutiny in Taiyuan and take the important town of Taiyuan in one fell swoop? ”

"Of course it's reliable." Li Mi laughed and said: "General Deben, you must not underestimate Tang Guogong, he is one of the masters of the Guanlong Eight Gate Valve, he has already mastered the Li Valve when he was only seven years old, and after more than 40 years of operation, just one million yuan and 400,000 silk, can he really make his family bankrupt?" The old foolish Fan Zigai's purges in Taiyuan can really uproot Tang Guogong's power in the Taiyuan army? Fan Zigai's old foolish and blind methods are rude, the Taiyuan army has long been very dissatisfied with him, Tang Guogong wants to carry out a mutiny, is it not easy? ”

Although Pei Renji still felt a little unbelievable about this matter, seeing Li Mi's confident demeanor, he thought that the matter should be true, so he immediately rejoiced: "Okay! Good! Li Yuan's family and Chen Yingliang's grudge is not the same, Li Yuan raised troops, and sooner or later he would inevitably find Chen Yingliang on the battlefield to take revenge, we are equivalent to adding a new reinforcement, a good thing! ”

Zhai Rang and the others next to him hurriedly asked what happened to Li Yuan and Chen Fuliang, Pei Renji smiled and introduced, Li Mi continued to read the letter, and then soon, Li Mi cheered again, "There is another good thing!" Yang Tong asked people to pack up the ship and organize sailors, load pigs, sheep and cloth, and took out 50,000 stone grain from Shangluocang and loaded it on the ship, and moored at Luoshui Wharf. ”

"No wonder Wang Shichong wants to be stationed on the bank of the Yellow River!" Pei Renji was pleasantly surprised again, and suddenly realized: "It turns out that Wang Shichong is counting on the eastern capital Luoyang Tongguò waterway to replenish him with grain, grass and military supplies, so he refuses to stay away from the waterway no matter what, even if he retreats to Banzhu, he must set up camp with his back to Tongji Canal!" ”

"Great!" Zhai Rang also jumped up happily, and said with great joy: "Luoyang, the eastern capital, will send grain to Wang Shichong, and it will definitely pass through the Yellow River in the north of Guò Tiger Pass, and we will immediately organize ships to prepare to intercept and take down this batch of grain and grass!" ”

"What the Dongjun Gong said is extremely true, no matter what, I have to take this batch of grain and grass!" Pei Renji nodded and said: "By taking this batch of grain and grass, we can not only not worry about the food problem, but also let Wang Shichong completely cut off the grain, get out of the house obediently, and drive him away without sending troops!" ”

"Don't rejoice too soon." Li Mi thought about it carefully, and quickly shook his head and poured cold water and said: "Not to mention that the communication channel between us and the inner line of the Eastern Capital is not very smooth, even if we can know the time when the official and military supply fleet departs from Luoyang, the official and military grain ships will first pass through Luokou Cang before turning into the Yellow River. ”

"Duke Dongjun, Duke Wei is right, it's not so easy for us to rob grain." Xu Shiyun also poured cold water and said: "Although there are many water masters in our army, the Yellow River is never as good as the Tongji Canal, and the water flow route is very complicated, and the official army fleet is sending grain from upstream to downstream, and from Luokoucang downstream, at most two hours can cross the Tiger Prison Pass and sail downstream, if we can't hijack the ship within these two hours, it will be difficult to have a chance to completely cut off the official army's waterway grain route." ”

"Afraid of what? We have eaten water rice for so many years, and we are still afraid of those official and military landlubbers? Zhai Rang waved his hand and shouted: "Immediately collect the boats, prepare water warfare equipment, send more scout boats, closely monitor the upstream movements, and then arrange land scouts, monitor the Luokoucang wharf, and if we find the official and military fleet, we will immediately send troops to intercept it!" ”

The intelligence channel is not smooth, Zhai Rang's arrangement is undoubtedly the safest arrangement, although Li Mi and the others feel that this method is too stupid, but there is no way, they can only temporarily agree to this arrangement, Mulan behind Shan Xiongxin also blinked and kept this matter in his heart............

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At the same time, the problem of transporting grain to Wang Shichong was also put in front of Chen Fuliang, and it was found that Zhai Rang and Li Mi led the main force back to Shihu Prison, Chen Fuliang immediately knew that Wang Shichong would definitely send someone to urge grain soon, and at the same time, the eastern capital also sent news on the first day, reporting to Chen Fuliang that the grain ship had been prepared, and asking Chen Fuliang for the sailing time, Chen Fuliang only made a little calculation, and immediately instructed Wei Zheng: "Mr. Xuancheng, take the trouble to write a seal to His Royal Highness King Yue for me, and ask him to prepare a fleet of the same size, An empty ship will do, but the sailors and escort soldiers must be ready, and then they will be sent to Luokoucang with the grain ship, which will be of great use to me. ”

"Why?" Wei Zheng was stunned at first, and then immediately came to his senses and said, "Stay behind and be afraid that Wagang thieves will rob the grain? ”

"Of course." Chen Fuliang replied: "The Wagang thieves have been living by plundering the Tongji Canal for many years, and they are familiar with water warfare, once they find out that we want to send grain to Wang Shichong through the guò waterway, they will definitely organize ships and sailors to rob on the water, there is no naval army in the east, no matter how many landlubbers are sent to guard the boat, once they are successfully intercepted by the Wagang thieves on the water, the grain and grass will inevitably be robbed by the Wagang thieves." If you want to successfully deliver the grain to Wang Shichong, you must prepare two grain fleets, one true and one false. ”

Wei Zheng nodded, and then asked worriedly, "Stay behind, what if the Wagang thieves intercept our two fleets at the same time?" ”

"Don't worry, the Wagang thieves don't have this power." Chen Fuliang replied with a smile: "Although the Wagang thieves are familiar with water warfare, how many boats can they find to carry soldiers in a hurry?" Stopping one fleet is enough for them to have a headache, and blocking two fleets at the same time, the Wagang thieves can't send all the urine barrels and wooden basins in the Tiger Prison to the Yellow River. ”

Wei Zheng suddenly realized, and then immediately put pen to paper and wrote a chapter for Chen Fuliang, Chen Fuliang turned to Yuan Tiangang again, and said with a smile: "Mr. Yuan, it's your turn to play to your strengths, calculate the weight of 50,000 stone of grain, and the approximate weight of those pigs, sheep, vegetables and horses, and also calculate how many straw bags of soil are needed, which are as heavy as these five stone and ten thousand grains of cattle, sheep, vegetables and horses, and then prepare so many straw bags for me, all of which are loaded with soil." ”

"The left-behind guards are really as careful as a hair, loaded with the same heavy soil, and the Wagang thieves are familiar with eating on the water, and they can't figure out the guò boat draft level to see that one is a real grain ship and that one is a fake grain boat." Yuan Tiangang gave a thumbs up, and then asked worriedly: "Stay behind, but we load fake grain and grass, and we can't hide it from the soldiers and sailors on the ship?" If they leak the news, wouldn't the Wagang thieves immediately know the truth or falsehood? ”

"Don't worry, I have already thought about this detail, and I have my own way to keep it secret." Chen Fuliang replied with a smile: "By the way, by the way, organize some soldiers who can drive boats, if it is not enough, you can find boatmen from Gongxian County." Also, prepare some seals and prepare to seal the cargo door. Yuan Tiangang agreed, and immediately gave full play to his strengths to follow the plan.

The Sui army of the eastern capital and the Zhai-Li coalition army were very tired, so even if the main elite of the Zhai-Li coalition army retreated to the Tiger Pass, they did not rush to launch an operation against the Sui army of the eastern capital, and the battlefield of the Tiger Pass remained calm for the time being. During this period, Mulan Tong guò Zhang Kai's channel sent Chen Fuliang the news that Zhai Rang and Li Mi were preparing to rob the grain, Chen Fuliang was glad that he had been prepared, but he also immediately understood that Li Mi had an insider spy in the eastern capital, so he immediately set out to track down the spies, strengthened the water and land connection between the eastern capital and the Tiger Prison Pass, and made every effort to cut off Li Mi's intelligence sources.

Or during this period, Wang Shichong, who was desperately taking advantage, really sent a messenger to urge the grain and grass, Chen Fuliang smiled and agreed, saying that Wang Shichong shared the huge pressure for himself this time, and he would definitely do his best to send the food to Wang Shichong's army, and would never let the soldiers of Pengcheng go hungry to fight. Wang Shichong's envoy thanked him happily, and reminded Chen Fuliang to be careful of the Wagang thieves intercepting him on the water, and Chen Fuliang waved his hand and said: "Go back and tell my father-in-law, tell him to put a hundred hearts, if the Wagang thieves can rob the grain and grass I sent him, my Chen character will be written upside down." ”

By the way, after the envoy brought Chen Fuliang's words back to Wang Shichong's army, Wang Shichong, who was extremely unbelieving in his son-in-law, also said: "There will definitely be trouble, if Chen Yingliang's boy really keeps his promise and sends me food as much as possible, the Wagang thief who is proficient in water warfare can't stop the food he gave me, and my king character is written upside down." ”

At the same time, Chen Fuliang suddenly ordered the construction of a temporary wharf ten miles upstream of Gongxian County, and organized the people to load soil with straw bags near the wharf and pile it on the shore for later use. I'm afraid that we will rob the grain on the water, so we have to prepare two fleets, one real and one false! ”

After listening to Li Mi's careful analysis of Chen Fuliang's sinister intentions, Zhai Rang, Shan Xiongxin and other Wagang generals suddenly panicked, and said one after another: "Duke Wei, what should I do?" Although we have a lot of sailors, but there are too few ships, it is very difficult to rob an officer and army fleet, Chen Yingliang traitors arranged two fleets, one true and one false, if we rob the fake fleet, it will not be in vain? ”

Li Mi didn't answer, his calm black face was just nervous calculation, he felt that if Chen Fuliang wanted to arrange two fleets, one true and one false, he would definitely lock the scene tightly when loading fake grain, and for the sake of prudence, maybe he would let the sailors of the fleet leave the scene temporarily, so that the sailors and soldiers did not know whether they were escorting real grain or fake grain, so that no information would leak out, if he wanted to know which fleet was true and which fleet was false, then there were only two ways, one was to choose one of the two bets, bet on winning all, betting on losing all, Another way is to visit the scene at any cost to confirm and screen the real and fake food teams.

"Exploring the scene at any cost, the grasp is too small, Chen Yingliang is so deliberate, he will definitely not give me such an opportunity." Li Mi was a little desperate in his heart, and then suddenly thought of a question, and said secretly: "Chen Yingliang traitors arranged a real and false fleet, let me choose one of the two, it will definitely prevent me from being lucky and betting right, the safest way is to release false news and let me make a wrong judgment!" In this case, why don't I come to a place where I can wait for work, strike later, and wait for him Chen Yingliang to make the first move, and then go the opposite way and take the opportunity to find out the real official and military food ships! ”

It was also a coincidence that as soon as Li Mi thought of this key issue, the herald suddenly came to report in a hurry, saying that there was a person outside the pass who claimed to be Li Shicai's confidant and personal soldier, and he had sneaked back to the Tiger Prison Pass on the order of Li Shicai, who had surrendered to the Sui army, and had important matters to report to Li Mi and Zhai Rang. Hearing the news, Li Mi's black face suddenly showed a smile and said, "God help me, please hurry up!" ”

"Duke Wei, Chen Yingliang is treacherous, be careful." Bae In-gi and Seo both reminded.

"It's okay, I like Chen Yingliang's self-inflicted cleverness this time." Li Mi replied with a smile. After Li Mi's careful analysis of Chen Fuliang's sinister intentions, Zhai Rang, Shan Xiongxin and other Wagang generals suddenly panicked, and said one after another: "Duke Wei, what should I do?" Although we have a lot of sailors, but there are too few ships, it is very difficult to rob an officer and army fleet, Chen Yingliang traitors arranged two fleets, one true and one false, if we rob the fake fleet, it will not be in vain? ”

Li Mi didn't answer, his calm black face was just nervous calculation, he felt that if Chen Fuliang wanted to arrange two fleets, one true and one false, he would definitely lock the scene tightly when loading fake grain, and for the sake of prudence, maybe he would let the sailors of the fleet leave the scene temporarily, so that the sailors and soldiers did not know whether they were escorting real grain or fake grain, so that no information would leak out, if he wanted to know which fleet was true and which fleet was false, then there were only two ways, one was to choose one of the two bets, bet on winning all, betting on losing all, Another way is to visit the scene at any cost to confirm and screen the real and fake food teams.

"Exploring the scene at any cost, the grasp is too small, Chen Yingliang is so deliberate, he will definitely not give me such an opportunity." Li Mi was a little desperate in his heart, and then suddenly thought of a question, and said secretly: "Chen Yingliang traitors arranged a real and false fleet, let me choose one of the two, it will definitely prevent me from being lucky and betting right, the safest way is to release false news and let me make a wrong judgment!" In this case, why don't I come to a place where I can wait for work, strike later, and wait for him Chen Yingliang to make the first move, and then go the opposite way and take the opportunity to find out the real official and military food ships! ”

It was also a coincidence that as soon as Li Mi thought of this key issue, the herald suddenly came to report in a hurry, saying that there was a person outside the pass who claimed to be Li Shicai's confidant and personal soldier, and he had sneaked back to the Tiger Prison Pass on the order of Li Shicai, who had surrendered to the Sui army, and had important matters to report to Li Mi and Zhai Rang. Hearing the news, Li Mi's black face suddenly showed a smile and said, "God help me, please hurry up!" ”

"Duke Wei, Chen Yingliang is treacherous, be careful." Bae In-gi and Seo both reminded.

"It's okay, I like Chen Yingliang's self-inflicted cleverness this time." Li Mi replied with a smile.