A few flowers bloomed, each with a branch, and during the period when our unconscionable Chen Fuliang led the main force back to Daxing, our brazen Yun Dingxing Yun veteran general finally tore his face with his once good nephew Yu Wenhua and turned against each other.

The reason for tearing his face and turning his face into hatred is, of course, from General Yun's old army, during the Battle of Jinyongcheng, in fact, as long as General Yun Lao made a timely move, it was entirely possible for the Xiaoguo army to win the decisive battle, even if the Wang Li coalition army retreated, as long as General Yun Lao was willing, he could also help the Xiaoguo army take advantage of the situation to take the camp of Li Mijun and completely break the main force of Li Mi's army, but our old general Yun didn't go to the last straw that broke the camel's back, not only kept hiding more than ten miles away from the battlefield and stood still, but also rushed before Hua and his brother asked him for help. With an army that can make or break the battlefield, he ran away, and the messenger of Hua and his brother was not given the opportunity to meet him for help.

Things have come to this point, not to mention that the treacherous Li Mi and Wang Shichong have already understood Chen Fuliang's true intentions, that is, our brother Hua and his brother are also suspicious, and they begin to suspect that General Yun just doesn't want him to lose, and at the same time, he doesn't want him to win at all. But our brother Hua and brother still still have a glimmer of hope, so they sent Feng Deyi to go in and ask General Yun for help, asking General Yun to help him attack Li Mi, who was already injured, but Feng Deyi not only did not ask for reinforcements from General Yun, but also took advantage of the situation to stay in Xin'an City, and asked his entourage to bring a letter of resignation to Hua and his brother, saying that he would resign from his position in Hua and his brother's army, and that he would change his court and go to the new court opened by Chen Fuliang to eat.

The truth was completely revealed to the world, and after being played like a monkey for many days, Hua and his brother suddenly realized that he was completely furious, and he ordered an attack on Xin'an in a rage, and vowed to capture the old general Yun who deceived his innocent heart and Feng Deyi, who shamelessly betrayed him, and put them in a sack and trampled them alive with three thousand war horses!

However, this order was not carried out at all, and the Xiaoguo army, which was already suffering from severe cold and injuries, and had suffered heavy casualties in the Battle of Jinyong City, and was greatly injured, now only wanted to rest and rest as much as possible, so what interest was there to attack the Sui army camp that had long been repaired by General Yun Lao to be stronger than the iron turtle? Therefore, Sima Dejiao and Chen Zhiluo and other generals of the Xiaoguo Army refused to carry out the order, and directly told Sùhua and his brother, saying that even if the army under their command was sent to the battlefield, there was absolutely no possibility of defeating the Guanzhong Sui army, which had been gathering strength for a long time, on the contrary, it would definitely suffer a major defeat and a crushing defeat.

In fact, Hua and his brother still have the Jinyong City defenders as a new force available, but in addition to guarding Jinyong City, which has a foothold, this army also has to guard the civil and military officials and ministers brought by Hua and his brother from Jiangdu, and at the same time, Wang Shichong and Li Mi, the two mortal enemies, are still watching and delaying on the sidelines, and Hua and his brother dare not use this last reserve no matter what, so in the case that the generals of the Xiaoguo army refused to fight, although Hua and his brother hated the old general Yun to the bone, they were still helpless. I don't know how to get revenge.

Can't extinguish the old general Yun hiding in the turtle shell, and can't extinguish Wang Shichong and Li Mi who joined hands to form an alliance, Jin Yongcheng is far away from Liyang Cang, and the grain and grass are difficult to transport, and the severe cold and injuries are like two nooses, constantly tightening on the scarred body of the Xiaoguo army. In desperation, Hua Ji came up with a genius idea, and decided to lead the army to temporarily withdraw to Hanoi County, shorten the distance of grain and grass supply, and let the army rest for the winter, and wait until the weather warms up to take revenge.

From a tactical point of view, Hua and his brother's step back is actually quite correct and impeccable, but for the morale of the army, Hua and brother's decision is undoubtedly digging their own graves, and the soldiers of the Xiaoguo Army, who are eager to go home, have just seen a little hope of going home, but Hua and brother want them to go back and stay away from their hometown again, and the officers and soldiers of Guanzhong will naturally explode immediately! Sima Dejiao and Zhao Xingshu and other generals of the Xiaoguo Army finally decided to launch a mutiny and kill Hua and his brother to become self-reliant!

However, it is a pity that Sima Dejiao and others did not have the luck of the success of the Jiangdu mutiny this time, and accidentally leaked the news and was told by someone, and turned his brother into a strong attack and pretended to convene the generals to discuss the matter, and deceived Sima Dejiao and Zhao Xingshu and others into Jinyong City and slashed them with a knife, executed Sima Dejiao and more than a dozen of his comrades, and then immediately ordered to retreat north to Hanoi County, not giving Li Mi and Wang Shichong a chance to take advantage of the fire to rob.

Of course, Hua and his brother Yan Zhan Ng underestimated Wang Shichong and Li Mi, the two heroes of the troubled times, and the Xiaoguo army was forced to retreat to Heyang Bridge, Li Mi and Wang Shichong immediately joined forces to send troops to pursue, and also divided troops to the west to prevent General Yun Lao from also taking advantage of the fire to rob. At the same time, Hua and his brother also underestimated the patience and tolerance of the soldiers of the Xiaoguo army, Chen Zhiluo and Fan Wenchao, who were appointed to the palace, both rebelled, Chen Zhiluo accepted Wang Shichong's surrender and surrendered to Wang Shichong with his cavalry, while Fan Wenchao took his soldiers and horses and many homesick Guanzhong soldiers to go west directly to join his father's proud disciple Chen Fuliang's soldiers and horses - of course, for Fan Wenchao, this is undoubtedly his most ideal choice.

The melee started again, coveting the good equipment and strong combat effectiveness of the Xiaoguo army, Wang Shichong and Li Mi both coincidentally chased Fan Wenchao's troops in front of and back, wanting to force Fan Wenchao to surrender to his own army, Fan Wenchao also hurriedly sent a fast horse to ask General Yun for help, and also knew that the Xiaoguo army could be used by General Yun Lao did not hesitate, and immediately personally led the army to respond, and the Wang Li coalition army did a battle in the Cijian area, although he failed to win, but also successfully received back more than 5,000 Xiaoguo elite soldiers, and also rescued Fan Wenchao, who was born to the Sui army in Guanzhong, It also officially opened the curtain of the war between the Sui army in Guanzhong and the allied army of Wang and Li.

The same is true on the Heyang side, the Xiaoguo army that does not want to go back has surrendered to the Wang-Li coalition army that is chasing and fighting, some surrender to Li Mi and some to Wang Shichong, a large number of military supplies and baggage were also captured by the Wang-Li coalition army, Hua and his brother were forced to cut the Heyang Bridge to avoid the pursuit of the Wang and Li coalition army and prevent the soldiers from fleeing and surrendering, and finally Hua and his brother brought more than 90,000 troops to the battlefield in the eastern capital, only more than 23,000 people accompanied Hua and his brother to escape across the Yellow River and fled into Hanoi to temporarily shelter.

Fortunately for Hua and his brother, his reserve team walked in front of him and crossed the Yellow River first, keeping the lineage army, and also protecting the civil and military officials and the concubines of the six palaces of Emperor Yang of Sui, at the same time, there are still some rear troops and grain and grass on the side of Liyang Cang, and Hua and his brother still have a little capital to turn over, and at the same time, there are also Meng Haigong and his wife under Li Mi in Hanoi County who can be used as a punching bag for Hua and his brother, and Hua and his brother, who have the Yellow River to defend, as long as they manage well and implement policies properly, there is still hope for a comeback. - Of course, this is quite difficult for Hua and brother.

Taking advantage of the opportunity of the Wang and Li coalition forces to pursue and kill Hua and his brother, the long-standing Sui army's division Li Ke's division immediately went south, and very shamelessly took advantage of the weakness to attack Yiyang County, which was also the ancestral home of Chen Fuliang. By the time Wang Shichong, who was in charge of Yiyang County, received the news, Li Ke's army had already deepened and raised the moats of Yiyang by half a zhang.

By the way, Li Bird Thief stationed in Yiyang County also did a very miraculous thing in a hurry - immediately sent Mr. Feng Shui to explore the terrain of Chen Fuliang's ancestral tomb, and then came to the conclusion that Chen Fuliang's ancestral tomb was buried on the dragon vein, and it was widely publicized among the people - although Yuan Tiangang, a feng shui master under Chen Fuliang, later came to explore the terrain again, he found that the place where Chen Fuliang's ancestral tomb was buried did not look like a dragon vein, but Yuan Tiangang naturally did not make a noise. This is a later story, so I won't mention it here.

Finally completely torn his face with his unscrupulous son-in-law, Wang Shichong in his anger in addition to preparing for war with his son-in-law, at the same time salute first and then soldiers, and sent people to General Yun Lao to ask for guilt, righteous words asked General Yun Lao to go back to Guanzhong, return Xin'an and Yiyang counties, and prepare to have the moral upper hand and then fight with his son-in-law. However, it is a pity that Wang Shichong's envoy not only saw Yun Fu, the precious nephew of General Yun Lao, but also saw a soldier of Wang Shichong's army who defected, proving that Wang Shichong sent someone to pretend to be a Xiaoguo army to chase and kill Yun Fu, and then General Yun scolded Wang Shichong's envoy and expelled him from the city.

Once again, he found that he underestimated Wang Shichong and became angry, and once wanted to send the main army to attack Xin'an and kill General Yun, but at this time, the news that Chen Fuliang had broken through Xue Ju and led the main force back to Daxing suddenly came from Daxing, Wang Shichong did not dare to act rashly under the shock, so he could only change his mind to invite Li Mi to meet, and was ready to negotiate with Li Mi in person about the next plan to join forces to resist Chen Fuliang's attack, and by the way, he also asked Li Mi to promise to give him half of the Luokoucang grain.

Li Mi happily accepted Wang Shichong's invitation, and the two of them each led twenty guards and met on the bank of the Luoshui River to negotiate. However, as the negotiations officially began, Wang Shichong immediately found that it was not for nothing that Li Mi was so happy, because Li Mi said this, "Zheng Gong, both your and our armies suffered a lot of injuries in the Battle of Jinyongcheng, and they urgently need time to rest and recuperate, but fortunately, the main force of Chen Yingliang's traitors has just returned from the northern expedition, and the soldiers are tired and also need time to rest, so it is best for us to immediately storm and take back Xin'an and Yiyang, and choke the dangerous places of Cuihan Road and Bear's Ears Mountain, so as to resist the large-scale attack of Chen Yingliang's traitors in the future." ”

After that, Li Mi smiled again and said: "In this case, Zheng Gong, do you think this is feasible, the defenders of Xin'an and Yiyang on the left and right are almost the same, why don't you send troops to attack Xin'an, and I will send troops to attack Yiyang, advance and retreat together, and never withdraw troops if you don't take these two cities, how about it?" ”

Of course, Li Mi's construction only looks fair, but in fact, he pit Wang Shichong to his grandmother's house - Xin'an is a tight official road, and its strategic position is far more important than Yiyang, but Yiyang is only choking the Bear's Ears Mountain road, even if the Sui army in Guanzhong is lost, it will not be too distressed, as long as the road is blocked, it will still have a defensive effect, at most it will only lose a chance to surprise the army. So in this way, if they really send troops to attack the city according to Li Mi's proposal, then Li Mi's resistance will definitely be much smaller, but Wang Shichong will definitely encounter stubborn resistance from the Sui army.

"Traitor!" After secretly scolding Li Mi for being treacherous, Wang Shichong thought about it again, and then asked tentatively: "Duke Wei, can you send troops to Xin'an, and I will send troops to Yiyang?" ”

"Gong Zheng, is it convenient for you to send troops to Xin'an?" Li Mi immediately pretended to cry out for bitterness, and said: "I sent troops to Xin'an, I must pass through your defense area, and the grain, grass, military supplies and army movements must pass through the eastern capital. How good your son-in-law is at this, Zheng Gong, you don't know it, right? ”

Wang Shichong wanted to punch Li Mi's nose, but for various considerations, Wang Shichong finally endured this breath and changed his words: "What Duke Wei said is extremely true, it is more convenient for the old man to send troops to Xin'an, but the old man is now tired of soldiers and horses, and the soldiers are tired of war, so he can't send troops to Xin'an for the time being." In this way, both your and our armies will not move for the time being, let him Yun Dingxing and the old man be free for a while, and when the fighters are mature in the future, how about you and I discuss the entry into the army? ”

Li Mi, who had Wang Shi as a human shield, smiled, and immediately promised to say that there was no problem, Wang Shichong took the opportunity to bring up the matter of military rations, Li Mi laughed again when he heard it, and said: "Gong Zheng, the covenant you and I have signed seems to agree that after joining forces to defeat Yu Wenhua and Yu, I will give you half of the food, right?" Now Yu Wenhua is just being beaten away by us, as if he hasn't been completely defeated, right? ”

Hearing this, Wang Shichong's forehead immediately jumped violently, and his hands were subconsciously clenched into fists, although Li Mi was not afraid of this, but in a flash of thought, Li Mi changed his mind again, and hurriedly said: "Zheng Gong rest assured, Li Mi is not a person who is untrustworthy, although now Yu Wenhua and the traitors have not been completely eradicated, and they are still entrenched in Hanoi County, which borders you and me, but I also know that Zheng Gong is currently short of food and grass, and needs to be replenished urgently." Do you think this will work, I will give you one percent of the Luokou Cang grain now, and when you and I work together to break the Yu culture and the remnants, take off the head of the Yu culture and the horseman, and then give you the remaining forty percent? ”

Wang Shichong's expression slowed down, and after a little calculation, Wang Shichong said: "Sancheng! You have to give me 30% of the Luokou warehouse grain first! In the future, no matter who breaks through Yu Wenhua and, as long as Yu Wenhua and Pifu die, you must give me the remaining two percent! ”

It was Li Mi's turn to calculate, and after a while, Li Mi said: "Twenty percent, you send someone to Luokou warehouse to transport grain, and you will bear the cost of the journey." Besides, you'll have to give me 30,000 pieces of cloth! ”

"Thirty thousand pieces of cloth can be given to you, but you have to exchange it for thirty thousand stone of grain." Wang Shichong replied quietly.

"Deal!"

Li Mi agreed, Wang Shichong turned his anger into joy, and hurriedly negotiated with Li Mi on the details of the exchange date and grain inventory statistics, and also agreed to return to Los Angeles as the boundary to divide the territory of Henan County, Li Mi also showed great sincerity, made a lot of concessions and reached an agreement with Wang Shichong, and at the same time very generously agreed that the self-army was responsible for garrisoning Heyangdu, and the defense and brother went south again, and successfully completed the post-war negotiations that almost turned around and started a war. However, just as the two sides said goodbye to each other, Li Mi added casually, "Gong Zheng, Chen Yingliang is your son-in-law, if he sends an envoy to rebuild the old friendship with you, or if someone of your subordinates takes the initiative to rebuild the old friendship with Chen Yingliang, I don't know if you will accept it?" ”

"No wonder they promised to give me 20% of the grain, it turned out that they were afraid that they would completely force me to Chen Yingliang's side." Wang Shichong suddenly realized, and said with a smile: "Of course not, Duke Wei can rest assured, you are true to your word, and the old man will not go back on his word." ”

"That's fine." Li Mi nodded with satisfaction, and said with a smile: "Gong Zheng, don't blame me for not reminding you, Chen Yingliang has the danger of mountains and rivers and the ambition of the world, if Gong Zheng is willing to live under people, you may be able to get along with him amicably." But Zheng Gong, if you want to make a big deal with him, I'm afraid that your son-in-law will never tolerate you. Regarding this, please don't forget about it. ”

"Of course, Gong Wei instructed, the old man will never forget it." Wang Shichong thanked with a smile, but said in his heart: "Let's get the grain first, and then talk about it, when the food is in hand, the old man will immediately send someone to contact Chen Yingliang, as long as he agrees to break the soil with the old man, see how the old man cleans up your husband!" ”

After Li Mi returned to the camp, his decision was naturally strongly opposed by his henchmen, who felt that Li Mi should not agree to give Wang Shichong two percent of the grain first, and should use the excuse that Yu Wenhua had not been completely eradicated, and not a single grain would be given to Wang Shichong. Li Mi replied helplessly: "Of course I don't want to give Wang Shichong a grain of grain and a horse grass, but there is no way, if I don't take out two percent of the grain to stabilize Wang Shichong, this puppet will definitely fall to Chen Yingliang traitor immediately, and Chen Yingliang traitor will definitely immediately send troops and food to help him fight us, how can we resist when we are already seriously injured?" ”

"But we gave the food to Wang Shichong, what should we do if the shameless puppet fell to Chen Yingliang again?" Chai Xiaohe reminded: "Wang Shichong can definitely do such a thing!" ”

"I believe he can do it, but neither he nor Chen Yingliang are fools." Li Mi replied: "Chen Yingliang's thief will definitely drive the tiger and devour the wolf, and deliberately support Wang Shichong to attack us, Wang Shichong will definitely have to weigh the consequences of defeating and losing with us, even if he is a traitor with Chen Yingliang, he will definitely not really fight with us." In this way, we have bought a crucial amount of time. ”

"Gong Wei, what are we going to do when we buy time?" Yu Wenwen asked curiously.

"Of course, it is to reorganize the troops and expand the army." Li Mi replied with a smile: "Our rear is the Central China Plain, the land is vast, and there are many counties, although most of these counties have been crippled now, but there are still hundreds of thousands of troops, and it is quite easy to replenish the troops and expand the army, as long as we give us a little time, it is easy to reorganize an army of two or three hundred thousand." Does Wang Shichong have this advantage of ours? ”

"Nope." Chai Xiaohe came to his senses and hurriedly said: "Wang Shichong is now surrounded by enemies on all sides, there is only one city in the eastern capital, the source of troops is quite limited, the soldiers die one less and one is missing, and if the stalemate continues, he is not destined to be our opponent." Wei Gong sacrificed two percent of the grain to temporarily stabilize him, to prevent him from jumping over the wall and fighting with us with the support of Chen Yingliang, and then we took the opportunity to expand the armament war, don't say that Wang Shichong is destined not to be our opponent, even if Chen Yingliang goes out of the east of the country, we may not have no hope of turning defeat into victory! ”

Li Mijun's civil and military forces suddenly realized this, and praised Li Mi for being far-sighted, far-sighted, strategic, and decisive from thousands of miles away. Li Mi shook his head very self-knowingly, and said with a wry smile: "Princess, there is no need to be a sycophant, I was also forced to choose to act like this out of desperation." And I can be sure that I can see this, and Chen Yingliang can also see this, whether he can give us time and a chance to make a comeback, or two words. ”

After smiling bitterly, Li Mi casually ordered: "Go and bring Ren Bi, the envoy who took the initiative to defect to our Taiyuan Li family, and I will discuss with him the important matter of joining hands with the Taiyuan Li family to form an alliance." ”

"Duke Wei, what are you doing when you conclude an alliance with the Li family in Taiyuan?" Wang Xuance of the Confidential Office rarely spoke, and asked suspiciously: "The Li family brothers were beaten by Chen Yingliang and have already run to Taiyuan to survive, thousands of miles away from us, and we have concluded an alliance with them, it is useless?" ”

"Who says it's useless?" Li Mi smiled and said: "Taking the opportunity of signing an alliance with the Li family brothers, take the opportunity to lure Chen Yingliang's traitors to send troops to Taiyuan first to conquer the Li family brothers, then wouldn't we be able to win time to make a comeback, don't worry about Chen Yingliang's traitors dispatching the main force to attack us first?" ”R1148