Remember [Chinese Network] in one second, and provide you with high-speed text debut. As Ren Bi introduced, because the Daxing Sui army strictly blocked the road checkpoints, the Taiyuan army could only return to Yan'an County to send the letter back through Longquan, wasting the journey and delaying time, and the news was first sent to the Li brothers on the Huoyi battlefield. The result was that although the Li family brothers had been mentally prepared for this, after really confirming the bad news, Li Jiancheng was still so shocked that the tea bowl in his hand fell to the ground, his face was somewhat pale, and Li Er also stood up, and his face was suddenly very terrifying.

The Taiyuan army and civil and military forces present also looked better than the Li family brothers, and they couldn't see there, because they knew very well in their hearts that the critical moment that would determine their life and death, honor and disgrace had come, and they could not escape or dodge, so they could only face it head-on, some people began to think about how to face the battle, some people fantasized about how to defeat Chen Fuliang, and some people were already secretly thinking in their hearts how to sell themselves at a good price in front of Chen Fuliang. There was almost half a pillar of incense, and there was no sound in Li Jiancheng's big tent of the Chinese army.

In the end, it was Li Jiancheng who made the first sound, and slowly picked up the fallen teacup, Li Jiancheng said in a very calm tone: "It's finally here, it's a little later than we expected, but it doesn't matter, it's the same early and late, it's the same fight, just go all out." ”

"Brother, Chen Yingliang's time to send troops is very mysterious." Li Er also opened his mouth and said with a sneer: "Chen Yingliang has already threatened to crusade against our army more than two months ago, and he has already let the Hedong Partial Division take the initiative to provoke the war, but the main force did not officially send troops until April 17, which seems to have a great purpose, as if it was coming for a certain opportunity. ”

"Brother Xian, are you referring to the Fenshui flood season in July and August?" Li Jiancheng asked.

"Isn't it?" Li Er asked rhetorically, and said with a sneer: "On April 17, the main force will move north slowly, attack the Bird Mouse Valley to break through the blockade of our army, sweep away the outer defenders of our army, and then encircle Taiyuan City, if the time rhythm is well controlled, isn't it at that time?" ”

Li Jiancheng lowered his head and thought about it again before saying, "With his character, I'm afraid he won't be willing to use that tactic." ”

"My brother Bishamen (Li Jianchengming), should you be Chen Yingliang and be a bodhisattva like you?" Li Er sneered even more and said: "Yes, Chen Yingliang has always shown people with magnanimity and hypocrisy, but when it is time to be ruthless, he will be ruthless to anyone!" If he is really a good gentleman, he will deliberately fall out with Yang Tong regardless of Yang Guang's edict? Will he steal our father's title and proclaim himself the king of Tang? No matter how many people there are in Taiyuan City, how many people can die at his hands? ”

Li Jiancheng was speechless, and only after a while did he say: "Regardless of whether Chen Yingliang has such a vicious heart or not, we should go all out to stick to the Bird Mouse Valley, and strive to let Chen Yingliang's main force stop in the south of the Bird Mouse Valley and preserve our Taiyuan foundation." ”

"Of course, it is impossible to rely on the Bird Mouse Valley to block Chen Yingliang's main force forever, but as long as we can hold out in the Bird Mouse Valley until the rainy season in July, there is hope." Li Er rarely agreed with Li Jiancheng on major matters, and said: "As soon as the rainy season comes, the roads will be muddy and difficult to walk, and the Fenshui will also rise sharply, which is not conducive to the large-scale march of Chen Yingliang's main force. But if we can't stop Chen Yingliang before the rainy season, and he forces us to retreat to Taiyuan City, then we will be in big trouble. ”

"Immediately prepare to retreat and return to Jiexiu Lingshi, and make every effort to build a defense line in the Bird Mouse Valley." Li Jiancheng made a decision immediately, and immediately said: "Contact Cao Dan and Yin Kaishan, and let them give up attacking Linfen and retreat their troops, didn't the previous Wang Fubao say that he was ready to retreat to Yueyang to contain Chen Yingliang's main force?" This is a clever move, please Cao Dan lead the army to retreat to Yueyang, so that Chen Yingliang's main force does not dare to go north with confidence, and force Chen Yingliang to divide his troops to fight Yueyang, so as to reduce the frontal pressure for us. ”

"I'm afraid it's too late." Li Er pointed out: "Chen Yingliang ordered Cheng Yanjin and Xue Renguo to lead 10,000 troops as the main and deputy vanguards, and this vanguard must advance very quickly, if it is fast, it may take another three days to reach Taiping Pass and directly join the Linfen battlefield." At that time, even if they are tired from afar and cannot be put into the battlefield of the Bird Mouse Valley for the time being, they can also rotate the Chen Thief Army's Qin Qiong, Huo Shiju and other troops to go north to the Bird Mouse Valley first, delay and destroy our plan to build fortifications in the Bird Mouse Valley, and never give us any chance to rest and breathe, and create fighters for their main force. ”

"And Liu Heimin's husband in Huoyi City." Li Er pointed to the direction of Huoyi outside the tent again, and said: "With the cunning and ruthlessness of that horseman, once we find out that our army is retreating, we will inevitably take the opportunity to launch a counterattack, do everything possible to harass and contain our army, and will not give our army a chance to retreat smoothly, let alone give us a chance to build strong fortifications in the birds." If the troops are used properly, there is even a chance to annihilate our army's partial division Yin Kaishan outside the mountain road in the Bird Mouse Valley, and weaken our already insufficient strength. ”

Considering that Liu Heimin's tactical purpose of using Hedong's partial division to consume the strength of his own army was very clear, Li Jiancheng did not dare to take it lightly, and after his head, Li Jiancheng said in a deep voice: "Dou Jiande's general was called Wang Fubao before, and he once proposed to attack Taiping Pass first to hold the dangerous pass, so that when Chen Yingliang's main force attacked, we did not agree, and we did not agree in order to strive for Linfen City, I don't know if we can still let Dou Jiande's side divide troops to take Taiping Pass, and fight for the critical time ...... for us to retreat and deploy defenses." ”

"It should be fine." Li Er hurriedly said: "Yin Kaishan has already heard and understood, that Wang Fubao and Dou Jiande's wife and brother Cao Dan have a personal vendetta, Cao Dan is also obviously deliberately trying to put Wang Fubao to death in Linfen, if we ask Cao Dan to send Wang Fubao to attack Taiping Pass, temporarily block the road of Chen Yingliang's main force to the north, and also lure the enemy in Linfen City to go south to attack Wang Fubao, Cao Dan will definitely agree." After all, by borrowing Chen Yingliang's hand to kill Wang Fubao, Cao Dan can also bear some less infamy for communiqué personal vendettas. ”

"Then let's do it, send Ren Bi to give it a try." Li Jiancheng didn't hesitate, and immediately agreed to try this luck, and said: "Wang Fubao is a general, although it is a pity to die like this, but for the sake of the overall situation, I can't care so much." Besides, what we need to please now is Cao Dan, and we can't make Cao Dan unhappy for him. ”

So, under the unanimous decision of the Li brothers, then Ren Bi Pegasus rushed to Linfen to stop the Dou Li coalition army from continuing to attack Linfen City, and Ren Bi pretended to ask Wang Fubao if he still had a chance to attack Taiping Pass. Although Wang Fubao replied that the defenders of Taiping Pass must have received the news that the main force of the Sui army sent troops, in order to ensure that the main force of the Sui army marched into the road unblocked, they would definitely make every effort to hold the Taiping Pass, and the difficulty of attacking Taiping Pass was far greater than before, but Ren Bi refused to give up, and asked for a secret talk with Cao Dan, and talked with Cao's brother-in-law sneakily in the back tent for a long time.

Here we must also say a fair word for Cao's brother-in-law, Cao's brother-in-law, who hates Wang Fubao so much, wants Wang Fubao to die without a place to be buried, but to let an army accompany Wang? Bao went to die, but Cao's brother-in-law had to think about whether he would be held accountable and scolded by his brother-in-law in the future, and he was a little hesitant for a while. Ren Bi saw Cao's brother-in-law's thoughts, so he said generously: "General Cao, please rest assured, our army will not let your army fight alone, attack Taiping Pass and temporarily block the main force of the thief army, our army will also send 2,000 troops to participate in the battle, and obey the command of your army, with the commander of your army as the main general!" ”

Cao's brother-in-law was still a little hesitant, and Ren pointed out that this was also very important to Dou Jian's German army, because Dou Jian's German army also needed to guard against the Sui army from sending troops to chase and kill, and at the same time, after Cao's brother-in-law retreated to Yueyang City, he also needed time to strengthen the city defense and build fortifications to make a long-term plan. Considering these circumstances, Cao's brother-in-law gradually became moved and gradually wanted to agree.

It was at this time that Yuan Ge, who served as a supervisor in Wang Fubao's army, suddenly came to report, saying that after Wang Fubao's soldiers heard that they were going to serve as the ant-attached vanguard of the attack on Linfen City, they all scolded Cao's brother-in-law's ancestors for the eighteenth generation, and some people privately threatened to release cold arrows to Cao's brother-in-law on the battlefield if they had the opportunity! Cao's brother-in-law did not hesitate in anger, and immediately agreed to Ren Bi's request, agreeing to let Wang Fubao lead his headquarters and two thousand Taiyuan troops to go south to attack Taiping Pass together, so as to buy time for the Dou Li coalition army to retreat and deploy defenses.

At this time, it was not only very good to attack Taiping Pass, even if it was difficult to break out of the encirclement after success, hearing Cao's brother-in-law's order, Wang Fubao of course understood that Cao's brother-in-law still wanted to deliberately let himself be sent to death, but if he continued to resist the order and did not obey the end, it may be even worse, and the Taiyuan army also showed some sincerity to send two thousand troops, and at the same time, Cao's brother-in-law also promised to allow Wang Fubao to break through and withdraw to Yueyang County after ten days, Ren Bi also repeatedly explained the importance of attacking Taiping Pass at this time, Wang Fubao hesitated again and again, Finally, he took over this task, went into battle with his wounds, and led 2,000 people from his headquarters and 2,000 Taiyuan troops to attack Taiping Pass, which was easy to go down before.

It was also on the way to Taiping Pass that Wang Fubao gradually discovered that the situation was not right, and the 2,000 Taiyuan troops sent by Yin Kaishan to help were scattered on the march, with uneven weapons and equipment, and the generals and soldiers were obviously very nervous, and it did not look like they had received strict military training. After asking about the origin of this army, Wang Fubao almost spurted out his throat with a mouthful of blood, it turned out that the two thousand Taiyuan troops were all recruits recruited by Yin Kaishan when he attacked the hinterland of Linfen County, almost all of them were natives of Linfen County, supplemented by a small number of veterans who were separated when the Li brothers were defeated, such an army is not only unreliable in combat effectiveness, but also may become a burden to Wang Fubao's army at any time!

Of course, Wang Fubao, who was furious, immediately sent someone back to complain to Cao's brother-in-law, and Cao's brother-in-law also found Ren Pi to ask the reason, and Ren Bi explained that he wanted to help Wang Fubao's army understand the situation in Linfen, and on the other hand, he said that the two thousand troops were actually very capable of fighting, and many of them had followed Li Yuan into Guanzhong Daxing, and said that all the heroes in the world started with such an army, and no one had thousands of elite soldiers available as soon as they debuted. Cao's brother-in-law ate people and had already begun to arrange for the withdrawal of troops to return to Yueyang, so he did not continue to pursue and ignored Wang Fubao's accusations.

Wang Fubao, who never received a reply, could only continue to lead the troops forward, and in the evening of the same day, he successfully arrived outside the Taiping Pass, which was not far away from Linfen, and hurriedly observed the terrain of the Taiping Pass by the last sunset. When the old Li family fought from Taiyuan, they directly forced down this pass without letting go of an arrow, and when Chen Fuliang chased and killed Li Er, he also relied on the soldiers of the Sui army to bite the weapon and climb this pass empty-handed, which shows how fragile this pass is.

I probably had the bottom in my heart, Wang Fubao did not hesitate, and immediately arranged a plan to tackle key problems, and let the Taiyuan army go to the pass to set up a camp first, and ordered the Taiyuan army to launch a feint attack on the pass every half an hour or a moment, and it was also necessary to alarm the defenders of the whole pass, so as to exhaust the enemy and disturb the enemy. Then Wang Fubao ordered the headquarters army to seize the time to rest, eat and drink enough to nourish their physical strength, get up at half the fourth watch, gather on the fifth watch to listen to the order, and selected three hundred elite experts in advance to wait for the order.

Wang Fubao's harassment tactics were very useful, that night, the Taiping Pass defenders were indeed tossed by the Taiyuan army, randomly every half an hour or half an hour by the Taiyuan army's shouts and drums and gongs to wake up, constantly forced to get up to prepare for battle, tired and tired but never half of the enemy, but also gradually in this repeated harassment and disturbance numbness, gradually lost vigilance, and then after the fifth watch, the sky was about to dawn, the tired Sui army soldiers were drowsy, the truth of the ten falsehoods finally came.

By the last dark cover before dawn, three hundred Dou army experts who followed Wang Fubao to fight in the south and north all the year round carried simple climbing tools such as ropes and rakes, and quietly touched the low wall of Taiping Pass, taking advantage of the opportunity of the tired napping of the defenders in the pass, they almost quietly climbed up the wall without making a sound, and finally there were already more than 20 Dou soldiers who climbed the end of the wall, and the defenders on the wall finally found that the enemy was coming, and hurriedly sounded the gongs and drums to warn.

In the twilight, the Dou army soldiers quickly set up the wall of less than 20 simple flying ladders, or stepped on the flying ladder and shouted, or bit the weapon and climbed directly empty-handed, relying on the previous successful landing of the companions to the death to cover the wall, one after another rushed to the wall, and then killed into the pass to split the bolt and lock down, miraculously opened the north gate of Taiping Pass in less than half an hour, the Dou army soldiers swarmed in, the number of only more than 1,000 people of the Taiping Pass defenders saw that the situation was not good, they could only quickly open the south gate to Taiping County to flee, Wang Fubao took the opportunity to urge the army to enter the pass, Successfully seized this pass before the sun crossed the top of Taihang Mountain.

After the success of the victory, before the Dou Li coalition army cheered down, and before the Taiyuan army transported a small amount of grain and grass into the city, a sudden change occurred, and in the sound of rumbling horses' hooves, the Sui cavalry had already been killed in the direction of Linfen in the north, and it was still the banner of Qin Qiong, the fierce general of the Sui army. Wang Fubao was shocked when he saw it, and quickly ordered the Taiyuan army to come forward to meet the battle, and at the same time sent people to rush to transport grain and grass and military supplies into the pass, and the defenders of Taiping Pass, who had just fled not far away, found that the reinforcements had arrived, and they immediately turned around and killed, forcing Wang Fubao to quickly close the south gate of Taiping Pass and command the soldiers to climb the wall and defend it.

The performance of the Taiyuan army on the battlefield was even worse than Wang Fubao feared, after turning around in a hurry, Qin Qiong led the Sui cavalry to use only one charge, and the Taiyuan army was rushed to collapse, scattered and scattered, and then the Sui cavalry did not stop, and immediately killed the Dou army soldiers who were urgently carrying grain and grass military supplies, Wang Fubao was forced to be helpless, and could only order the soldiers to give up the grain and grass military supplies that had not yet entered the pass, and all retreated to the pass, and closed the north gate in time and dangerously, and did not give the Sui cavalry the opportunity to enter the Taiping Pass.

When the sun was shining all over Taiping Pass, the infantry brigade of the Sui army had also come to the north gate of Taiping Pass, with flags like the sea and swords and guns like a forest, completely blocking the northward retreat of Wang Fubao's army. The Taiyuan soldiers sent by Yin Kaishan to perfunctory their fathers knelt on the ground outside the pass, and the surrenderers were in groups, begging for mercy and begging for their lives, but Wang Fubao and other Dou soldiers were grim on the wall, silently watching the ugliness of the Taiyuan army competing to surrender and flattering, and most of them were silent.

While the flag was fluttering, Qin Qiong, who had already dealt with Wang Fubao a lot on the battlefield, personally patted his horse and came to the pass, and shouted at the wall of the pass: "General Wang Fubao!" Cao Dan Pifu has already run away with the army last night, Yin Kaishan old Pifu ran faster with the Taiyuan thief army, you are now a lone army, Cao Dan and the Taiyuan thief army cannot have reinforcements for you, our main army is also moving towards here, you have no way to escape! If you don't surrender yet, when?! ”

Wang Fubao was silent, but Qin Qiong shouted under the pass: "General Wang, we also know about your situation under Dou Jiande!" Dou Jiande has no eyes, listens to slander, owes you a lot, Cao Dan Pifu has a personal enmity with you, but Dou Jiande still sent him to be the coach, let Cao Dan Pifu announce his personal vendetta, and frame you harshly in every way, what are you still obsessed with? Don't you hear that good birds choose trees to perch on, and virtuous ministers choose their masters? His Royal Highness the King of Tang is wise and martial, Corporal Lixian, knows people well, if you switch and surrender, His Royal Highness the King of Tang will definitely be reused for you! Although I am enemies with you, I still have great admiration for you, and I am willing to swear by arrows to ensure that you ...... in front of His Royal Highness King Tang. ”

"Shoot the arrows!"

Wang Fubao finally spoke, calmly ordered, the Dou soldiers next to him did not hesitate, immediately pulled the bow and released arrows to shoot Qin Qiong, Qin Qiong was furious, while avoiding the arrows and returning to the horse, he pointed at Guan Shang with a horse lance and scolded: "Wang Fubao! Piff! I was kind enough to save your life, and you shot me with an arrow! Good! Since you insist on seeking death, then I will fulfill you, and I want to see how long you can stay in this tax collection gate! ”

Wang Fubao didn't pay attention to Qin Qiong's scolding at all, but just turned to the left and right and ordered: "Pass the order, immediately start arranging defenses, and prepare to guard the pass, Chen Thief's army may soon launch an attack." ”

Left and right agreed, and then someone timidly asked: "General, you are already alone, what should you do next?" ”

"Hold on for nine days." Wang Fubao replied quietly: "General Cao ordered our army to break through the siege after ten days yesterday, hold on for nine days, and then we will break through and retreat to Yueyang." ”

"Nine days? Break out after nine days? The subordinates on the left and right were all dumbfounded, and asked one after another: "General, this Taiping Pass wall is only one and a half zhang, and there are no antlers to resist horses and trenches, and the main force of the thief army is coming soon, can we hold it for nine days?" Even if we hold on for nine days, we will definitely have heavy casualties after nine days, how can we break through? ”

"If you can't keep it, you have to keep it." Wang Fubao replied lightly, and said: "Only after holding on for nine days, I will find a way to break through." ”

Wang Fubao's efforts were not fruitless, at least because he went south to attack Taipingguan, Qin Qiong's department of the Sui army, who was afraid that the main force would be blocked, let go of the opportunity to take the opportunity to chase and kill Cao Dan and Yin Kaishan, and gave priority to sending troops to save Taipingguan - but Qin Qiong really didn't expect Wang Fubao to take Taiping Pass so quickly. Cao's brother-in-law took the opportunity to run away, and fled to Yueyang County, which could be withdrawn to Shangdang County at any time, Yin Kaishan ran faster, and just divided his troops with Cao's brother-in-law, he strode straight to Huoyi to flee for his life, and at the same time, Yin Kaishan and Ren Bi and other Taiyuan civil and military forces were still complacent, "Left and right are superintendents, Wang Fubao is indeed a second son!" ”

Wang Fubao's stunned personality helped Cao's brother-in-law and Yin Kaishan, but it completely angered the Sui army soldiers, Qin Qiong, who had been disgraced in front of Wang Fubao several times, did not have to grit his teeth to take revenge, and after Cheng Yanjin and Xue Renguo, who were hurrying north, received the news of the loss of Taiping Pass, they both jumped like thunder, urging the army to move quickly, and also swore together, "When the Taiping Pass is laid, Lao Tzu must put Wang Fubao's puppet into a sack and trample to death with three hundred war horses!" ”