It's time to go back and take a look at the situation on the side of the Liu-Li coalition army, sure? The Sui army withdrew across the Dongwu River and walked away, Liu Wuzhou just ordered to lift the battle preparations, and the camp gate and fence that were shattered by the Sui army's artillery were immediately surrounded by Dingyang soldiers who were watching the excitement, discussing the power of the Sui army's artillery, Liu Wuzhou and Song Jingang and other decision-makers of the Dingyang army also came to the scene to observe it personally, the result was that it was okay not to look at it, and after a careful look at the situation of the camp gate and fence, Liu Wuzhou and Song Jingang and others immediately gasped.

The thigh-thick latch on the camp gate was directly broken into two because it was hit by the cannonball, and the fence post thicker than the arm was also directly bombarded into a powdery state. Stroking the broken pile of the fence that exposed the fresh xylem, Liu Wuzhou simply didn't imagine that the human body would have consequences if it was directly hit by a cannonball, and finally believed the introduction of the Li family brothers to him - Li Yuan's thigh was directly blown into two by the cannonball after it bounced up on the ground!

"The camp can't be guarded." Song Jingang said with a gloomy face: "No matter how strong the fence camp gate is, it can't stop the Chen thief's artillery, I heard that the Chen thief brought at least thirty artillery pieces this time, if he sends the main force to attack, he will also use all thirty artillery pieces on our army's camp, just one round of bombardment, the front of our camp will be broken." ”

Liu Wuzhou nodded gloomily, agreeing with Song Jingang's analysis, and then suddenly slammed his fist on the broken fence, and said viciously: "Call Li Jiancheng and force him to agree to our entry into Taiyuan City, only the strong walls of Taiyuan can block the thief artillery!" Otherwise, no matter how strong the camp is, we will have no room for it! ”

"Li Jiancheng is very cunning, and he will definitely find an excuse to refuse us to enter the city." Song Jingang shook his head and said: "Also, the low-lying terrain of Taiyuan City he said is also a big problem, if the Chen thief army really floods Taiyuan, what should we do?" ”

"Let's fight to enter Taiyuan City first." Liu Wuzhou insisted, and while sending someone to ask Li Jiancheng to go through the camp to negotiate the military, he hummed: "After entering the city and having a safe foothold, our cavalry can attack at any time to sabotage the dam built by the thief army, and it is not so easy for the thief army to drown us." Also, didn't Li Jiancheng say that Dou Jiande would also send reinforcements? As long as we persist until Dou Jiande comes to help, there will be a chance to turn defeat into victory. ”

In fact, even if Liu Wuzhou didn't send someone to invite Li Jiancheng, Li Jiancheng would have to take the initiative to visit - the Taiyuan army was a little desperate for Dingyang's army, and if Li Jiancheng didn't explain the reason and resolve the misunderstanding as soon as possible, the gap between the Liu-Li coalition army would definitely get bigger and bigger, and the contradiction would definitely get bigger and bigger. Therefore, after Liu Wuzhou's envoy went west and came to the Taiyuan army camp, Li Jiancheng not only agreed, but also immediately arranged for Yin Kaishan and Wang Qi and other henchmen to temporarily guard the camp, and immediately set off for the camp.

When Li Jiancheng came out of the account, Li Er, who had already changed into clean clothes, came out of there and asked to visit Liu Wuzhou and others in the camp with Li Jiancheng, saying that he wanted to apologize and explain to Liu Wuzhou and others in person for the ineffective rescue of Ding Yang Jun in today's battle, Li Jiancheng didn't care, nodded and agreed to the request for the second brother, but he didn't pay attention to the corner of the second brother's mouth at all, and already brought a smug smile............

When Li Jiancheng and the two Li brothers came in to the camp of the Dingyang Army, the first thing that greeted them was of course the contemptuous gaze of the soldiers of the Dingyang Army, many of the soldiers of the Dingyang Army were still very dissatisfied, obviously still minding the Taiyuan Army to flee the battlefield early today, and the brothers of the Li family did not dare to mind under the eaves, but secretly prayed that Liu Wuzhou and Song Jingang and others would not be too concerned about this matter, and the result was okay, Liu Wuzhou and Song Jingang and other high-level officials of the Dingyang Army were still very polite and personally welcomed out of the camp of the Chinese army. politely invited the Li brothers into the big tent of the Chinese army to set up a banquet and entertain them, and did not mention the Taiyuan Army's ineffective rescue today for half a day, and Li Jiancheng was a little relieved.

Then Li Jiancheng quickly understood why Liu Wuzhou and others were so easy to speak, after three rounds of drinking, Liu Wuzhou immediately mentioned the next battle issue, and said: "Two virtuous brothers, today's war situation, you have seen with your own eyes, Chen Thief is not only strong and brave, but also sharp artillery, and the fortifications of your and our armies are vulnerable in front of him. If the thief Chen personally leads the main force to attack tomorrow and directly bombards the fortifications of our army camp with artillery, how can your two armies resist? ”

As soon as Liu Wuzhou cocked his tail, Li Jiancheng immediately understood what he was going to fart, and knew that Liu Wuzhou would definitely mention the matter of entering Taiyuan City again, and in desperation, Li Jiancheng bit his teeth a little, and immediately bowed his hand to Liu Wuzhou and said: "Even if the elder brother doesn't mention this matter, the younger brother will take the initiative to mention it immediately." Yes, the younger brother is also worried that Chen Yingliang will send the main force to directly attack the camp of your and our armies, so on the way here, the younger brother has already thought of a countermeasure for both sides, and asked the elder brother to adopt it. ”

"Brother Xian, have you already thought of a two-pronged solution?" Liu Wuzhou was slightly taken aback, and hurriedly asked, "What is the clever plan of the virtuous brother, please come quickly." ”

"The younger brother suggests that your two armies might as well abandon the camp outside the city together and withdraw to the city to station." Li Jiancheng spoke very quickly, and said: "The younger brother led the army to retreat to Taiyuan City, and you led the Dingyang army to the east and moved to Yuci, relying on the advantages of the city to resist Chen Yingliang's artillery, and also formed horns with each other, rescued each other, and resisted the enemy together." ”

Hearing this, the expressions of Liu Wuzhou and Song Jingang, who were determined to enter Taiyuan City, were inevitably a little sluggish, but Li Er was silent, and glanced at his brother from the corner of his eye, sneered in his heart, and said secretly: "It's not too incompetent, I can think of this way to perfunctory Liu Wuzhou." Unfortunately, I expected it. ”

"Let our army move to Yuci City?" Liu Wuzhou came back to his senses, and immediately his face turned angry, and he asked, "Brother Xian, what do you mean by this?" I personally led the main force of Dingyang to the south to rescue you, and the Dingyang soldiers threw their heads and spilled their blood, and resisted the front of the Chen thief's army for you for two consecutive days, but now you ask our army to move to Yuci City, which is scarce in grain and grass and the city is in tatters, and you yourself hide in Taiyuan City, where there is plenty of grain and grass and the city is strong. ”

"Brother misunderstood, the younger brother did this by no means to repay virtue with resentment, but for the sake of the safety of your army." Li Jiancheng shook his head and said sincerely: "Brother, the weakness of Taiyuan's city, the junior brother has already given you a detailed introduction yesterday, don't you know that as long as the thief Chen uses a water attack, your two armies will have no power to fight back?" The younger brother asked your army to move to Yuci, where there is no worry about flooding, and to enter the dangerous place of Taiyuan that may be surrounded by floods at any time, in order to repay your army for the grace of long-distance rescue, how can it be regarded as repaying virtue with grievances? ”

"So that's the case, it's really a misunderstanding of the virtuous brother for the brother." Liu Wuzhou is also a person who turns his face faster than a book, and immediately smiled, waved his hand and said: "Don't worry, brother Wei, I have already carefully considered this issue, even if the thief Chen builds a dam to besiege the city, it doesn't matter, the Fenshui Dam will not be able to go out of the city in one day, your two armies can send troops to destroy and block the thief Chen to build the dam at any time, and don't give him a chance to succeed." Besides, didn't you say that we still have Dou Jiande's support army? As long as we insist on Dou Jiande's help, why worry about not defeating the Chen thief army? ”

"Brother Jianxian, if you are worried that our army will not be able to fight effectively, then there is absolutely no need for this." Song Jingang also haha: "Whether we can stop the Chen thief from building a dam to flood Taiyuan is also related to the life and death of our Dingyang army, even if we don't want to!" ”

Li Jiancheng was silent for a moment, and then said with a smile: "Two brothers, if you think that you can stop the enemy from building a dam just by a sudden attack, then you are underestimating Chen Yingliang, right?" Two brothers, you have already fought against Chen Yingliang twice, and you already have a certain understanding of his strength, do you think that after we enter the city, there will be a chance to go out of the city to defeat them? ”

"Chen Thief's elite soldiers are indeed very large, and they are indeed difficult to deal with." Song Jingang smiled and said, "But I don't believe it, these elite soldiers of the Chen thief have always been on duty on our way out of the city, and they can stay vigilant day and night, without revealing any flaws?" ”

Li Jiancheng smiled again, and smiled very happily, and said: "Brother Song, if you think that the enemy that your two armies have encountered in the past two days is already the strongest under Chen Yingliang, then you are very wrong. Don't hide it from Brother Song, the most fierce generals under Chen Yingliang have not yet appeared, and the most powerful troops under his command have not made a move until now! ”

"There are still elite soldiers under the command of Chen Thief who have not made a move?" Liu Wuzhou's face changed slightly.

"The name of Ma Yi Wei Chi Jingde, Brother Wu Zhou, you shouldn't have heard of it, right?" Li Jiancheng said with a smile: "He is now Chen Yingliang's commander of the Chinese army, unless Chen Yingliang personally goes into battle, he and the elite soldiers under his command will never make a move." There is also Chen Ci, the general of the newspaper who captured the first Bi Khan on the battlefield of Yanmen, and Guo Feng, the head of the newspaper, they have not yet appeared, Chen Yingliang personally formed this newspaper **** How much reputation has it made in the past few years, your army will not have heard of it, right? ”

Speaking of this, Li Jiancheng glanced at Liu Wuzhou and Song Jingang, who were already solemn, and added with a smile: "In addition, Chen Yingliang's names and Qin Qiong, Cheng Yanjin, Liu Heimin and Wang Fubao have not yet made a move on the battlefield of the Dongwu River, as far as the junior brother knows, Brother Song, your old master Wei Dao'er was actually defeated and killed by Wang Fubao's raid, Brother Song, you don't remember his name, right?" In addition, Chen Yingliang also has a team of musketeers who have only appeared on the battlefields of Yanmen County and Yiguan, but they still haven't shot yet, and the muskets in their hands can even penetrate the best Mingguang armor directly! ”

Liu Wuzhou and Song Jingang's two hearts were like falling into a bottomless abyss, they never expected that there would be so many elite soldiers under Chen Fuliang's command who were not used, and they had to reconsider whether there was any hope for the Sui army to build a dam by a sudden sneak attack after the army entered the city - after all, there were too many fierce people on the Sui army's side, even if it was three shifts or four shifts, it could easily guard against the Taiyuan defenders' surprise attack out of the city, and as long as they delayed a little, until the main force of the Sui army reacted, a backhand slap could kill all the defenders out of the city!

Seeing that Liu Wuzhou and Song Jingang had been shaken, Li Jiancheng said: "So, junior brother, I ask my brother to move to Yuci, it is really for the sake of your safety, Yuci is sixty miles west of Taiyuan, the road is not far and the space is huge, it is the place where your cavalry is used, after the two armies of your army become horns of each other, our army is responsible for holding Taiyuan to contain Chen Yingliang's main force, your army will send troops to destroy Chen Yingliang's dam when he has the opportunity, or destroy the enemy's embankment, and if he has no chance, he will temporarily retreat to the city and garrison, and he can attack and retreat. Isn't it far better than being beaten passively with our army in Taiyuan and being swallowed up by floods at any time? ”

Liu Wuzhou came to protect the southern front barrier of the Taiyuan Army and take advantage of the opportunity, not to accompany the Taiyuan Army to wait for death, after listening to Li Jiancheng's scaremongering words, Liu Wuzhou inevitably began to waver again, and after thinking for a long time, he couldn't help but say to himself: "Our army moved to Yuci, it is relatively safe, but this grain and grass problem, it is impossible for the Chen thief army to give us the opportunity to replenish grain and grass from Taiyuan?" ”

"Grain and grass are not a problem." Li Jiancheng waved his hand and said with a smile: "Two brothers, don't worry, I don't dare to say that there is more grain and grass in Yuci City, and it is absolutely not a problem for your army to use it for three months!" ”

Including Li Er, who had never spoken, looked up at Li Jiancheng in surprise, Liu Wuzhou and Song Jingang were even more dumbfounded, and asked in unison: "Yuci Town, can there be so much grain and grass?" ”

"Yes." Li Jiancheng finally showed his last hole card, and said with a smile: "Don't hide it from the two brothers, in order to prevent accidents, and in order to prevent King Dou's reinforcements from going west to Taiyuan so that there will be no food to spare, the younger brother has already secretly hoarded a large amount of grain and grass in Yuci City, so that your army will not have to worry about grain and grass for at least three months!" ”

After that, Li Jiancheng asked with a smile: "Two brothers, in three months, King Changle's reinforcements can rush to the Taiyuan battlefield no matter what, right?" At that time, your army and the army of King Changle will join hands, and you are afraid that you will not be able to defeat Chen Yingliang and will not be able to lift the siege of Taiyuan? ”

Liu Wuzhou finally changed his mind, considering that it was more convenient to move to Yuci to escape for his life, Liu Wuzhou finally nodded and agreed with Li Jiancheng's opinion. However, just when Li Jiancheng was secretly happy in his heart and Liu Wuzhou was about to agree to go east to Yuci to station, Li Er, who had not spoken, suddenly stood up and said loudly: "Brother took precautions and secretly hoarded grain and grass in Yuci City, which is indeed worthy of the admiration of the younger brother. But the younger brother believes that Brother Wu Zhou's army must not be stationed in Yuci, and can only be stationed in Taiyuan City with our army to fight against the army of Chen thieves! ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone was shocked, and Li Jiancheng suddenly stared at him in a round, and almost blurted out a sentence, "Are you crazy?!" ”

Of course, Li Er was not crazy, and turned to Liu Wuzhou and Song Jingang and said: "Two elder brothers, the younger brother suggested this for your sake, it is safer for your army to move to Yuci, but in this way, the strength of your two armies will be divided in half, and it will immediately give Chen Thief's army a chance to break through!" Two brothers, please imagine, if you are Chen Yingliang's traitors, do you dare to ignore the threat of your army after the main force of your army moves to Yuci, and attack the fortified Taiyuan City first, and ignore the small city of Yuci? Not to mention the treacherous and fox-like Chen Yingliang traitor, if you change any army commander, you must first fight Yuci and then attack Taiyuan, when Yuci is in an emergency, our army is unable to go east to rescue, and your army is fighting alone, how can it be the main opponent of Chen Thief? ”

Liu Wuzhou and Song Jingang, who were almost fooled into the pit by Li Jiancheng, woke up and quickly nodded their heads, even saying that this was exactly the case. Li Jiancheng, who deliberately avoided mentioning this before, glared at his second brother angrily, eager to strangle his younger brother to death on the spot, but Li Er was not afraid, and said to Li Jiancheng: "Brother, the younger brother proposes that it may be so, the main force of our army retreats to the west city of Taiyuan, the main force of Brother Wu Zhou retreats to the east city, the two armies work together to defend the city of Taiyuan, and the younger brother I lead the first army east to Yuci to garrison, properly contain the army of Chen thief, and also keep the communication between our army and the king of Changle unimpeded, so as to receive the reinforcements of the king of Changle." ”

Hearing this, Li Jiancheng finally understood the second brother's vicious intentions, but Li Er was full of words, and continued: "The junior brother has few soldiers, and the Chen thief will definitely not send the main force to attack Yuci, even if the Chen thief hates the younger brother to the bone and insists on fighting Yuci first and then Taiyuan, the younger brother can also act at the opportunity, or close the city and hold on, or transfer in a mobile way, and delay the time as much as possible, or directly attract the main force of the Chen thief for your brother and Brother Wu Zhou, and kill more than one stone, isn't it wonderful?" ”

"If you want military power, you want to be independent, just say it! Don't say it so nicely! Li Jiancheng roared angrily in his heart, "You hid in Yuci and settled outside, let me and Liu Wuzhou contain each other, no one can dominate Taiyuan City, everyone has to ask for you!" You can take the opportunity to sit on the ground and start the price, and after eating, you can take advantage of both sides of the house, and at the end of the day, you can also make Dou Jiande as a strong reinforcement, forcing Liu Wuzhou to withdraw from Taiyuan and forcing me to hand over Taiyuan, taking advantage of the fire to rob to this point, you can be regarded as the peak! ”

Of course, Li Jiancheng didn't dare to shout these words in front of Liu Wuzhou and the others, and after hesitating for a moment, Li Jiancheng hurriedly gave Li Erenvoy a look and asked, "What if the enemy builds a dam and attacks the water?" Don't you know that Taiyuan is low-lying and is most vulnerable to water attacks? ”

"Brother, have you forgotten what your younger brother told you about Zhao Xiangzi's defense of Taiyuan?" Li Er smiled and said: "Zhibo encircled Taiyuan repeatedly and could not be attacked, leading Jin water to irrigate the city, although Zhao Xiangzi was caught off guard and failed to raise the city wall and was flooded into the city, but Zhao Xiangzi still led the defenders to live in the nest, hanging the kettle and drinking, holding Taiyuan for more than three years, and finally won the opportunity to turn the corner and destroy the Zhi clan. Now that we have reinforcements to rely on, and we have time to prepare, retreat to the city and immediately raise and strengthen the city wall waterproof, so we are afraid that he Chen Yingliang traitor will lead water to irrigate the city? ”

Li Jiancheng, who never expected his younger brother to be vicious to this point, was completely desperate, but Liu Wuzhou and Song Jingang were overjoyed? Hurriedly asked Li Er about the story of the failure of Zhibo's flooding of Taiyuan, and after listening to Li Er's eloquent introduction, Liu Wuzhou and Song Jingang didn't even blink their eyelids, and immediately asked Li Jiancheng to accept Li Er's proposal, Li Jiancheng blushed and didn't say a word, Li Er took the opportunity to lean into Li Jiancheng's ear, and whispered: "Brother, the younger brother is for your good, don't forget, we are in the Dingyang military camp, if Liu Wuzhou and Song Jingang are forced to ......." ”

"Brother Jiancheng, what are you hesitating about?" Liu Wuzhou smiled and urged: "Erlang's plan is wonderful, what else do you hesitate to make?" ”

"Brother Wu Zhou, brother, he is worried that our army is small, especially the cavalry." Li Er took the opportunity to say: "There are too few cavalry, even if there are fighters after I move to Yuci, it will be difficult for me to seize the opportunity to attack in time and share the pressure for the east and west of Taiyuan." ”

"I see." Liu Wu laughed when he heard this, and immediately said: "This matter is easy to do, I will send you a thousand war horses, so that Erlang you have enough cavalry to wait for the opportunity to attack!" ”

Li Eryi was overjoyed when he heard this, and hurriedly thanked Liu Wuzhou again and again, and then urged Li Jiancheng: "Brother, without further ado, it is best for our army to withdraw overnight tonight, otherwise, it will be too late until tomorrow." ”

Li Jiancheng's face became even more gloomy, glaring at Li Er silently, Li Er observed his words, and after smiling again, he suddenly gave Li Jiancheng a fatal blow, and said with a smile: "Brother, why don't you sit down in Brother Wu Zhou's camp first, and continue to discuss with Brother Wu Zhou how to defend Taiyuan City together, and the younger brother will go back to our army's camp first to organize the army to prepare for retreat?" ”

As soon as Li Er's words came out, Liu Wuzhou and Song Jingang's eyes immediately lit up, but Li Jiancheng jumped up in shock, knowing that if he insisted on refusing, the ruthless second brother would definitely let Liu Wuzhou detain him immediately, so that he could take the opportunity to dominate the Taiyuan army. Forced to be helpless, Li Jiancheng could only nod immediately, "The second brother has a great plan, and the brother agrees." ”

Liu Wuzhou and Song Jingang were smiling, Li Er was also smiling, and hurriedly thanked Li Jiancheng, and said: "Brother, the younger brother knows that you will definitely accept the little brother's suggestion, so before passing the camp, the people of the headquarters have been prepared to go, so the younger brother thinks that I don't need to go back, just send someone back to inform Zhu Cang and Liang Jianfang that they will lead the army over to listen to the order, brother, please go back to our army camp first to prepare for the withdrawal of troops, and the younger brother will stay here and wait for Brother Wu Zhou to reward the war horse, how about it?" ”

"The virtuous brother is far-sighted, and the foolish brother admires! Admire! ”

When he said this, of course, Li Jiancheng was full of resentment, but Li Er smiled slightly, and leaned into Li Jiancheng's ear and whispered: "Brother, don't blame, the younger brother is also doing this for your own good, the Dingyang army moved to Yuci, it is indeed only a chance to give the main force of the Chen thief to break us, and our army has no hope of defeating the Chen thief to protect Taiyuan, if you want to keep Taiyuan, there is only one way to work together with the Dingyang army to defend the city, and we can talk about other things slowly in the future." Whether the younger brother did the right thing or not, brother, you can think carefully on the way back to the camp, the younger brother knows, brother, you will definitely be able to figure it out. ”