"The combat effectiveness of Liu Wuzhou's thief army is higher than estimated by His Majesty." Li Jing reported to Chen Fuliang: "It seems that Liu Wuzhou's sister and half of the family property were not given to Song Jingang for nothing, Song Jingang brought more than 4,000 elite soldiers under Liu Wuzhou's command from Wei Dao'er did have some combat effectiveness, and Song Jingang himself also had some talent for using troops as rumored, and commanded the Dingyang thief army to meet Kan Liang in battle, and it was not a big loss, if the Dingyang thief army had this ability, the Li family brothers might not be able to snatch back Yanmen County from Liu Wuzhou's hands before." ”

Chen Fuliang had also heard about Liu Wuzhou taking half of his family property and a younger sister to entrap Song Jingang, and it was naturally not surprising to hear Li Jing's report again, so he asked directly: "If Liu Wuzhou hadn't made the mistake of underestimating the enemy today, and launched a surprise attack when our army crossed the river with one or two thousand people, would the officers and men of our army be sure to kill them?" ”

"If our advance team to cross the river is the main force, it will definitely not be a big problem." Li Jing replied.

"Then continue to fight like this, scare the Taiyuan thief army, and beat the Dingyang thief army, and they should be able to move on their own." Chen Fuliang said.

Li Jing and Chen Fuliang, the two unscrupulous uncles and nephews, answered in just a few words, which directly doomed another bloody storm. In the early morning of the next day, Li Jing once again led 15,000 Sui troops and ten artillery pieces out of the camp, and the second time he killed the defensive position of the Dingyang army a little farther away.

Of course, the pontoon bridge erected by the Sui army on the first day has been destroyed by the Dingyang army, but it doesn't matter, the main force of the Sui army with deep pockets does not take the loss of ropes and pontoons in mind, and uses long shields to form temporary fortifications as usual to protect the archers and suppress the enemy on the opposite bank, and then the skilled Sui soldiers swim across the river to set up pontoon bridges, and it didn't take much time to erect a few temporary pontoon bridges.

Drawing the lessons of the first day, Liu Wuzhou did not dare to have any light enemy this time, and saw that the Sui army crossed the river with only 1,2300 people, Liu Wuzhou did not hesitate to order an attack, and sent the general Xunxiang to lead an army of 3,000 frontal assaults, trying to drive the Sui army across the river again. However, the Taiyuan army did not move at all, Li Er and Yin Kaishan did not order an attack, the reason is that the battlefield is narrow, and the Taiyuan army will not be able to fight even if it rushes up, and second, Li Er and Yin Kaishan have clearly seen the banner of the Sui army's pioneer in crossing the river, and they dare not touch this moldy head.

As a result, the poor general Xunxiang naturally suffered, and when he led the three thousand infantry to kill with a menacing shout, the Dingyang army not only rushed to the front with the first soldier, but also roared like thunder and kept ordering, "Rush!" Rush! Rushing into the melee, you can't give the Chen thief army a chance to fight in formation! ”

The Sui army did not only defend the position and not fight back like yesterday, on the contrary, there was a surprisingly young Sui army general who led three hundred soldiers to launch a counter-charge, and rushed to the front with the same hand-held double knives as Xunxiang, and the face of a young half-grown child was full of excited smiles, and there were words in his mouth, "Finally you can enjoy it, you can finally kill happily." ”

When the two charging armies collided head-on, Xunxiang first collided with the young Sui general, bullying the Sui general was young and inexperienced, Xunxiang was going to yell and wanted to take the first place, who knew that Xunxiang's mouth had not yet opened, the young Sui general had already roared like thunder on a sunny day, and then a knife in his right hand slashed down at Xunxiang's head, fast as lightning and powerful sinking, Xunxiang was shocked and hurriedly raised his knife to parry, dangerously holding the young Sui general's head with a knife, and then Xunxiang immediately felt that there was a huge force smashed on his knife, making a loud bang, almost chopping the steel knife in his hand on the spot!

There was another wind sound, and the young Sui general's left-handed knife slashed at Xunxiang's head in an incredible way, Xunxiang hurriedly went to parry again, and immediately found that the power of the young Sui general's left hand was not under the right hand at all, and he was also shocked to the point that his mouth was numb, and the big knife almost came out of his hand again. Xunxiang was shocked again, but the young Sui general roared very dissatisfied, it seemed that he was very unwilling that the two knives failed to take off the head of Xunxiang, and he was very angry with the double knife slash, as fast as a storm and did not show any flaws, Xunxiang was exhausted in parrying, not only did he not have the power to fight back at all, but he was also killed by the young Sui general and retreated.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the Dingyang soldiers next to him hurriedly came up to help, but they were slashed by the young Sui general, and the Dingyang soldiers screamed loudly, and the tiger's mouth was already red and swollen Xunxiang also quickly retreated and fled back to the army, his mind was still at a loss, and he said in a depressed heart: "Who is this horseman?" Why is it so powerful? ”

What made Xun Xiang even more jaw-dropping was still behind, he had already fled into the army to seek protection, but the young Sui general refused to let him go at all, carrying a double knife and slashing and slashing stride in pursuit, as if entering a no-man's land, as long as the soldiers of the Dingyang Army dared to step forward to stop them, they were either cut over by him or seriously injured by him, screaming and fleeing in embarrassment. Inspired by the young Sui general, the soldiers of the Sui army also strode forward with great momentum, following behind him in the Dingyang army to rush left and right, invincible, although the Dingyang army had many troops, but it was killed by this small Sui army and howled, unable to parry.

At the same time, seeing the brave performance of this young Sui general on the battlefield, Liu Wuzhou and Song Jingang and other senior generals of the Dingyang Army inevitably opened their mouths wide, and asked in surprise who this thief was? Why is it so ferocious and brutal? Surprised, Liu Wuzhou also personally patted his horse in front of Li Er and Yin Kaishan in the west, pointed to the Sui army general who was rampage in the army formation and asked, "Who is that horseman?" Did you know? ”

"Yes." Li Er nodded and replied with a wry smile: "Luo Shixin, who was famous all over the world at the age of fourteen, was the number one fierce general under Zhang Xutuo back then, and now the number one killing god under Chen Yingliang's traitor, and is famous for his courage and invincibility. At the beginning of the Lishan War, I also suffered a big loss in front of him. ”

"Then why didn't you say it earlier?" Liu Wu was furious when he heard this, and shouted: "I said earlier that he is the world-famous Luo Shixin, I will let Xunxiang surprise and charge, and give this puppet a chance to fight with us in close combat?" ”

Li Er's face was a little ugly, and he couldn't help but explain after a while: "The younger brother thought that the elder brother also knew the banner of Luo Shixin, so he didn't remind him in advance, it was all the younger brother's negligence, please forgive the elder brother." ”

Liu Wuzhou snorted heavily, slapped his horse back into the army formation with an unhappy face, and introduced Luo Shixin's situation to another brother-in-law, Song Jingang, who had also heard of Luo Shixin's famous name, suddenly realized, first said No wonder it was so powerful, and then suggested to Liu Wuzhou: "Brother, it's better to withdraw the army and reorganize the team, let the Taiyuan army entangle Luo Shixin first, and then we will attack." ”

Liu Wuzhou nodded in agreement without even blinking an eyelid, and immediately Mingjin withdrew his troops, let Xunxiang, who had been killed by the Sui army, retreat and regroup, and sent someone to contact Li Er, asking the Taiyuan army to attack immediately, and not give the Sui army a chance to cross the river in large numbers to form a formation. Li Er and Yin Kaishan complained bitterly when they heard this, but they were soft-mouthed, and the Taiyuan army, which was begging for Liu Wuzhou, was forced to have no choice but to be led by Li Er to lead the men and horses of the headquarters to line up and slowly crush the advance team to cross the river to the Sui army.

The result was the same as Li Er and Yin Kaishan expected, just forced into the vicinity of the Sui army's advance team to cross the river, and the Sui army's artillery directly arranged on the west side of the ferry today really opened fire immediately, and ten shells flew into the queue of the Taiyuan army with a roar, instantly carrying the lives of twenty or thirty Taiyuan soldiers, one of the shells also smashed on Li Er's war horse's leg in an irregular jump, neighing the war horse to the ground, and Li Er also fell on the spot with an embarrassed face.

The artillery of the Sui army continued to roar, forcing the Taiyuan army to speed up the pace and fight with the Sui army in close combat, and the Sui army did not have the slightest politeness to the Taiyuan army, the soldiers of the Taiyuan army had just rushed to the front, and the Sui army had already rushed out of thirty gunpowder bottles in the formation, and the Taiyuan army blew up a ghost crying wolf howl, chickens and dogs jumped, and then Luo Shixin, who found the fighter plane, also immediately led the warriors to charge, and entered the Taiyuan army to fight their best hand-to-hand melee, and no one in the Taiyuan army dared to stop the famous killing god Luo Shixin, The Sui army was even more embarrassed and chaotic, and the Dingyang army once again sounded dissatisfied and booed, and the estrangement between the two armies gradually deepened.

This time the fierce battle, the Sui army that was limited by the river to invest the speed of the troops was more difficult in the early stage, in the case of the absolute disadvantage of the local troops, once in front of the second attack launched by the Dingyang army was very difficult, and the enemy could not expand the space, but when Xue Renguo, another super fierce general of the Sui army, led the army to cross the Dongwu River to join the battlefield, the Dingyang army no longer had the opportunity to drive the Sui army's advance team across the south bank, and Xue Renguo, who was known as the enemy of 10,000 people, also personally led the warriors to charge into battle, killed the Dingyang army led by Xun Xiang in horror, and kept exclaiming why there were so many fierce generals under the command of Chen Thief?

Fortunately for the Dingyang army, when the Sui army crossed the river and the army accumulated enough counterattack strength on the north bank, all the counterattack forces were used on the Taiyuan army, Luo Shixin, Xue Renguo, Qiu Shili and Zhao Yu and other fierce generals took turns to lead the army to attack the Taiyuan army, killing the Taiyuan army with tears in their eyes, crying and shaking the sky, Zhao Yu led the newspaper ** cavalry also took advantage of the opportunity of the defeat of the Yin Kaishan army, expelled the defeated soldiers of Yin Kaishan and broke Li Er's array, Li Er's subordinates, who had already been killed and feared by the Sui army, scattered and fled, four hundred **** The soldiers rushed left and right in the chaotic army, killing people like hemp, and holding Li Er's banner, forcing Li Er to flee back to the self-army camp in embarrassment to seek protection, but just after noon, the Taiyuan army had already fled back to the self-army camp.

After Li Er and Yin Kaishan were defeated and fled back to the camp, Li Jiancheng, the commander of the Taiyuan Army, said that he would not dare to send troops out of the camp to help fight the Sui army. Li Jing waited for a long time and did not see the Taiyuan army out of the camp, and immediately ordered the artillery to transfer the position and prepare to bombard the Dingyang army to the east, and Liu Wuzhou and Song Jingang were not fools, and when they saw the Sui army's artillery advancing eastward from a distance, they immediately understood that it was finally the turn of the self-army to be unlucky, so Liu Wuzhou and Song Jingang did not even blink an eyelid, and immediately recalled the front-line team of the self-army, and then immediately led all the troops back to the camp and closed the door, allowing the Sui army, which was inferior to the self-army, to shout and curse arrogantly outside the camp.

At this point, the Dingyang army and the Taiyuan army just didn't want to create a gap between them, and Li Jing, who was not ready to attack the camp, originally wanted to accept it when he saw it, but Li Jing's unscrupulous nephew Chen Fuliang refused to give up after receiving the battle report from the front, and sent someone to urgently send a trench bridge car customized for the Dongwu River, asking Li Jing to transport an artillery gun across the river, and fire a few cannons at the camp of the Dingyang army, forcing the Taiyuan army to come out of the camp to rescue. At the same time, in order to prevent accidents, Chen Fuliang also secretly sent Guo Feng and Chen Ci's second generals to Li Jing to listen to them, so as to deal with the dogs of the Liu and Li coalition army jumping off the wall and dying and struggling.

In order to satisfy the bad hobby of his unscrupulous nephew, Li Jing had no choice but to let the soldiers transport a cannon across the north bank of the Dongwu River, and under the protection of the Sui army's officers and soldiers, he fired three cannons at the Dingyang army camp, and only one cannon blasted open the gate of the Dingyang army's camp, and the other two guns smashed the Dingyang army's camp fence and the horse-rejecting antlers out of two big holes, and then flew into the camp and smashed and injured a few unlucky Dingyang soldiers who couldn't dodge.

When the Dingyang army was frightened, Li Jiancheng in the Taiyuan military camp in the west also fell into a dilemma, Li Jiancheng could see that the Sui army did not really plan to attack the Dingyang army camp, and the army did not need to send troops to rescue at all, but if he did not send troops at this moment, the Dingyang army would be investigated in the future, and he would not be able to explain to Liu Wuzhou After all, Liu Wuzhou was kind enough to help the Taiyuan army. As a result, after thinking about it, Li Jiancheng, who already had little capital, decided to stay put, ready to observe the situation again.

The Sui army did look at the Dingyang army differently, after the three shells bombarded the Dingyang army, Liu Wuzhou and Song Jingang, who understood that the primitive civil fortifications were vulnerable in front of the Sui army's artillery, were ready to form flesh and blood fortifications to resist the Sui army's attack, but the Sui army let the Dingyang army unexpectedly did not fire the fourth cannon, and chose to wait for the fighter to appear.

After more than half of the Shen time, he never saw the Taiyuan army out of the camp to give Yang Jun help, so Li Jing sent a messenger to the door of the Dingyang army camp with a white flag and shouted loudly, "Liu Wuzhou, Song Jingang, the soldiers of Ma Yi, you can see clearly, right?" We can enter your camp at any time, but your so-called friendly Li family brothers will not move and refuse to send a single soldier to help you! Our Royal Highness the King of Tang is a bodhisattva heart, compassionate, and decided to give you one last chance, today we will withdraw from the army, and you have one night to think about what to do! We'll come back tomorrow, and tomorrow, we'll never show any mercy to our men! ”

Throwing down this sentence, the Sui army began to retreat under the personal command of Li Jing, covering the only artillery to cross the river and slowly retreating, the Dingyang army's attack position was staring at the Sui army artillery on the south bank of the nine gates, Liu Wuzhou and Song Jingang did not dare to act rashly, and the Taiyuan army, which had to be beaten hard when leaving the camp, did not dare to move.

Not to mention how the Dingyang Army and the Taiyuan Army, which preserved each other's strength after the Sui army withdrew, said that Li Jing led the Sui soldiers to return triumphantly and returned to the camp of the self-army, and at first glance saw that the soldiers of the Sui army were busy preparing torches and dry food and other things, although the sun had begun to set at this moment, and it was very common to prepare torches and dry food in the barracks, but the military god Li Jing immediately concluded that his unscrupulous nephew was preparing to launch a night battle through the number of torches, dry food and horse feed.

Then led Luo Shixin and Xue Renguo and other generals into the Chinese army's tent to take a look, Chen Fuliang had indeed let the guards light a large number of candles in the tent early, and was also discussing with Yuan Tiangang and other civil officials next to the map sand table, until Sun Fujia saw Li Jing come in and reminded him, and his unfilial cousin Chen Fuliang also got up to greet his cousin Li Jing, and Li Jing asked with a smile: "Your Highness, what's the matter?" Want to fight again today? ”

"I can't hide anything from my uncle's eyes." Chen Fuliang smiled and said: "If nothing else, Liu Li's thief army should be adjusted overnight tonight, fighters are rare, and they must be prepared early." ”

"Your Highness is so sure that the thief army will definitely make adjustments tonight, and you are not afraid of working hard in vain?" Li Jing asked curiously.

"Sure." Chen Fuliang replied: "The little nephew has a certain amount of research on psychology, and he knows very well how selfish a person is. Liu Wuzhou personally led the main force south to help the Taiyuan thief army, in order to covet the Taiyuan thief army's money, grain and land return and fear of losing lips and teeth, not to fight for the Taiyuan thief army to choose cheap, today the gap between their two armies has appeared, and our army has used artillery to prove that the earth and stone camp fortifications are not vulnerable in front of our army, uncle, you threaten for your little nephew that tomorrow will officially attack the camp of Liu Wuzhou's thief army. ”

Speaking of this, Chen Fuliang paused and continued: "These points are added together, in order to preserve his strength, Liu Wuzhou must make adjustments to avoid the edge of our army, and the Taiyuan thief army, which has been frightened by us, will definitely not dare to camp outside the city again, so they will definitely make some moves tonight, we will prepare as soon as we have the opportunity to send troops immediately, and we will win a big victory!" ”

"Your Highness figured out the enemy's thoughts, which really made your subordinates admire, and after listening to Your Highness's analysis, Your Highness also thinks that Liu Li's thief army will definitely make some moves tonight." Li Jing nodded, and in turn complimented the junior Chen Fuliang, and then asked curiously: "Then in the opinion of His Highness, how should the thief army be adjusted?" ”

"I'm also having a headache with that." Chen Fuliang frowned and replied: "It stands to reason that the Liu Li thief army must be the safest in the most aspect of directly withdrawing to Taiyuan City, but the Li family brothers are not fools, what are the dangerous consequences of inviting Liu Wu and Zhou thief troops into Taiyuan City, they will not see it." Therefore, I suspect that Liu Li Thief Army may have adopted another method ....... ”

"The Li family's thief army guards Taiyuan, and Liu Wuzhou's thief army guards Yuci, each embracing the city and defending it, forming horns for each other!" Li Jing quickly finished speaking for Chen Fuliang.

Chen Fuliang nodded, indicating that Li Jing had not guessed wrong, and Li Jing hurriedly asked again: "Then Your Highness, can you conclude that Liu Li Thief Army will definitely act like this?" If we can conclude that we will divide our troops to the east to ambush in the east, cooperate with our pursuing army to flank Liu Wuzhou, and make Liu Wuzhou a battle! ”

"I'm worried because I can't tell." Chen Fuliang frowned and said: "Although it is most beneficial for the Li family brothers to defend Taiyuan and Yuci by Liu Wuzhou's army, Liu Wuzhou's side is also not a fool, and he is definitely not willing to go to the Yuci small city in Taiyuan to garrison the city, and the grain and grass of Liu Wuzhou's thief army is also a big problem, so I am worried that even if the Li family brothers make this request, Liu Wuzhou will not agree." ”

Li Jing nodded slightly, admitting that Chen Fuliang's analysis was good, and it was difficult for Liu Wuzhou to accept this proposal to defend the city. Over there, Feng Deyi said cautiously: "Li Shangshu, originally the lower officials suggested that His Royal Highness the King of Tang should be on the safe side, only pursue and not ambush and not risk ambushing, but His Royal Highness the King of Tang did not ...... the matter. ”

"Feng Neishi, you still don't know much about our Royal Highness the Tang King." Li Jing interrupted Feng Deyi with a smile, and said with a smile: "Our Royal Highness the Tang King is a very good person in peacetime, no matter how much hatred and hatred he has with him, as long as he admits his mistakes and begs for mercy, he can forgive, but on the battlefield, our Royal Highness doesn't want to eat at all, and he wants to take advantage of it all if he is a little cheap, and he can break Liu Wuzhou's main force in the field Such a good opportunity, His Royal Highness will be willing to miss it?" ”

Feng Deyi sneered and shut up, and Chen Fuliang said with a wry smile: "It's still my cousin who knows me best, yes, I don't want to let go of such a good opportunity, but I'm just not sure if Liu Wuzhou will move his army east to defend Yuci for the Li family's thief army." Uncle, what do you think, do you think Liu Wuzhou Pifu will accept Li Jiancheng's proposal? ”

"The thoughts of the enemy that you can't even expect Your Highness, let alone your subordinates." Li Jing shook his head, and said with a straight face: "However, Your Highness, Your Majesty thinks you might as well take a gamble, bet on Liu Wuzhou's move to Yuci, we will arrange an ambush in advance, and also use the main force on him!" Bet that he and the Taiyuan thief army will enter Taiyuan City together, and we will use all our strength in the north! ”

"Gambling? I'm not good at that. Chen Fuliangtian scratched his head shamelessly, and said: "However, if I have to gamble, I am very willing to bet on Liu Wuzhou Xijin Yuci ......." ”

"Why?" Li Jing asked.

"Because even if I bet my chips on Liu Wuzhou and moved to Taiyuan City, even if I win the bet, I won't be able to win much." Chen Fuliang replied: "The camp of Liu Li's thief army is only less than ten miles away from Taiyuan City, and it is very convenient to retreat, no matter how fast we pursue, we will not be able to win much victory in the pursuit battle. But if Liu Wuzhou is to go east to Yuci, then the distance of more than fifty or sixty miles can create enough space and time for us to pursue and kill the enemy, and if we win, it will be a big victory, and we will definitely not win too little. ”

"Then why doesn't Your Highness gamble?" Li Jing asked: "Since His Highness knows that we can't win much if we bet on Liu Wuzhou to go north, why don't we bet on him to go east to Yuci?" In this way, the most we lose in the bet is just our ambush soldiers taking some risks in vain, and we get less in the pursuit battle, but if we bet right, the harvest will be extremely huge, such a sure bet without losing money, why don't you bet on a big victory, Your Highness? Do you want to consider Xiaojie? ”

Chen Fuliang was stunned for a moment, and the hesitation on his treacherous and obscene face was immediately swept away, and he nodded vigorously and said, "It should be a big bet!" If you win a big win, you might be able to snatch that person too! ”

Although Chen Fuliang didn't make it clear who he would snatch over, Li Jing, Feng Deyi, Yuan Tiangang, Sun Fujia and others still said in their hearts at the same time: "It must be Liu Wuzhou's beautiful sister!" Our Royal Highness the King of Tang is really admirable in terms of lust. ”