Because of the proportion of protein in the dietary structure, the Longxi soldiers are obviously stronger than the Sui soldiers who are the majority of the Central Plains farming soldiers in terms of height and body, which is also the fundamental reason why Xue Renguo's army pressed Ma Sanbao to fight before, but the Longxi soldiers also have two shortcomings, one is the small population and insufficient soldiers, and the other is the poor organization and discipline.

The poor organizational discipline is not easy to expose when the Longxi soldiers have the upper hand, although it is to attack the crowd with less, and it is still facing the problem of tackling tough problems, but because the soldiers of the Sui army have always stuck to the camp and not come out, the Xue Renguo army, which has the initiative on the battlefield, is still high-spirited, and once almost entered the Sui army camp, even if the commander Xue Renguo temporarily left the battlefield, Xue Renguo's army still looks orderly, at least on the surface, and advances and retreats freely.

That is, it can do this for the time being, as the wolf smoke in the Sui army camp rises, the east gate of the Sui army camp that has been opened before is opened again, and the three thousand Sui army infantry led by Qiu Shili and Qiu Xinggong suddenly attacked, and rushed back to the right wing of the main infantry force of Xue Renguo's army. Kill all these Longxi dogs! ”

Until this moment, Xue Renguo's army still did not have any panic, and the disdainful Shizheng who temporarily commanded the whole army instead of Xue Renguo was also extremely disdainful, just ordered the right flank to face the battle, and did not make any adjustments, and was full of absolute confidence in the combat effectiveness of the soldiers of the army.

If the gentleman quickly sentry into the mountains and forests behind him, then he would definitely not have such confidence, seeing the wolf smoke rising, the impatient **** soldiers immediately dispatched, under the leadership of Yu Le, the standard-bearer of the newspaper army when it was first formed, led the war horse away from the mountains and forests that had been ambushed in advance, and came to the edge of the forest area to line up on the horses, Yu Le gave an order, two hundred and eleven newspaper **** soldiers charged neatly, their white robes fluttered, and they rushed out of the mountains and forests in the blink of an eye. With a cruel smile, he rushed directly behind the defenseless Xue Renguo army.

When he saw the sudden appearance of the iron cavalry of the Baoguo Army, Xue Renguojun finally began to panic, and shouted to call the police at the same time, Yan Shizheng was also taken aback, and immediately understood the plan, and hurriedly yelled and ordered: "The rear army turned around, lined up to meet the battle, and resolutely resisted me!" Quick, send a fast horse to the prince and ask him to come back immediately! ”

At the same time, the Sui infantry led by the Qiu brothers also hit the right flank of the Xue army with feather arrows and javelins, Qiu Xinggong, who was the first soldier, waved his long knife, roared loudly and slashed two enemies in a row, opening a small gap in the Xue army's battle array, and the Sui army infantry that followed behind took the opportunity to rush up, and started a melee with the Xue army in the local area, and more Sui soldiers rushed up in line, hitting the enemy with shields, slashing axes and stabbing short spears, and the soldiers of the Xue army were also desperately fighting back, and the killing sound of the two armies was shocking, and the swords and guns collided endlessly.

Li Jing's biggest surprise attack is still the ****, and the **** soldiers who are famous for being good at fighting vicious wars did not disappoint Li Jing, when the soldiers of the Xue Army were still in a hurry to line up in a dense horizontal line and there was a little confusion, the extremely fast Iron Cavalry of the Baoguo Army was like a steel knife, straight into the middle of the Xue Army's horizontal team, and the armored war horse spewed a scorching snort like fire, and directly hit the Xue Army soldiers with inertia. has already knocked the soldiers of the Xue army on their backs, and some soldiers have been knocked into flying directly.

The hooves of the horses nailed to the hooves trampled on the bodies of the Xue soldiers and continued to move forward, and the **** soldiers who had long been accustomed to this situation were stabbed with sabers, spears and spears, and the enemy soldiers who were stopped one after another were cut down and stabbed, and the footsteps kept moving straight, and at this moment, the weakness of Xue Renguo's poor discipline was also immediately exposed. Even the grassroots generals did not make any effort to restrain the soldiers from lining up, and the momentum of the charge of the national army continued unabated, and the knife was directly stabbed into the rear of the Xue army, and it was also directly stabbed into the back.

Xue Renguo's army finally began to be chaotic, especially when he saw the Baoguo army killing directly towards their command flag formation, the generals and soldiers of Xue Renguo's army were even more panicked, but fortunately, the disgraceful Shizheng reacted quickly, and immediately loudly ordered the Chinese army to line up to meet the battle, and the fierce general Hun Gan also came to the front of the formation to command, loudly reprimanding and restraining the soldiers to line up, which did not let the Chinese army team break and escape, and quickly lined up a new dense horizontal formation.

It's a pity that there is a golden finger in the ****, when it was about to collide with Xue Renguo's Chinese army, more than a dozen gunpowder bottles suddenly flew out of the **** team, and they fell into the enemy's dense horizontal team and exploded, the violent explosion not only made the Xue army horizontal team a mess, but also made many Xue soldiers who encountered gunpowder weapons for the first time scattered, and lost their courage in the face of the unknown fear that they had never faced, and subconsciously ran away, and even Xue Jun's fierce general Hun Gan was scared stupid on the spot, exclaiming: "What is this?" ”

After using gunpowder weapons to confuse the enemy's dense formation, the Baoguo army once again easily penetrated into Xue Renguo's Chinese army, and slashed Hun Gan easily during the impact, and the forward also directly faced the Xue army's command platform, and once again threw gunpowder bottles to disrupt the enemy. He was also frightened by the gunpowder weapon, and subconsciously slapped his horse and left, and his own soldiers around him also hurriedly followed, and the originally very neat flag formation suddenly staggered, and he could no longer command the whole army with guò flags, war drums and horns.

Li Jing was waiting for this moment, after the flag waved, the main gate of the Sui army camp was opened, and Niu Jinda, who had been waiting impatiently, immediately led the army to attack and launched a counterattack against the enemy outside the camp, and the soldiers of the Xue army who were attacking the camp had already been distracted by the loud noise in the rear, and frustrated their morale.

The Qiu brothers also succeeded at this moment, benefiting from the destruction of the enemy's flag formation by the Baoguo army, the morale of the new surrendered army of the Sui army under the command of the Qiu brothers was high, but the morale of the Xue army was greatly reduced, and the Xue army, which was still supported, quickly collapsed, and many soldiers fled for their lives, driving and influencing the Xue soldiers who were fighting with the Sui army on the front line, the Sui army took the opportunity to rush and fight, and rushed out of multiple gaps in the Xue army's interception position, and finally I didn't know that the Xue army soldier shouted a quick run, and the right flank of the Xue army collapsed in an instant, The generals and soldiers fled everywhere.

The left flank of Xue Renguo's army directly collapsed on its own, seeing that the battle situation was unfavorable, these Xue soldiers who had been tired and injured in the previous battle didn't even have the mind to resist a little, so they rushed directly to the Wentang River pontoon bridge, scrambling to cross the river to escape, scrambling between the pontoon bridges, you pushed me, and fell into the water countless times, and the winter fell into the river, waiting for these Xue soldiers who fell into the water, and only the end of being drowned or frozen to death was left.

The battle situation was completely reversed in almost a moment, Niu Jinda from the front, the Qiu brothers from the right flank, the two heads went straight together, and the **** rushed left and right in the Xue army formation, as if entering no man's land, but the Xue Renguo army, which still had the upper hand in between, was in chaos, and the generals and soldiers were all rushing to flee for their lives, rushing to the snow-capped Wentang River. The generals of the Xue army, such as Yan Shizheng and Hun Gan, originally wanted to work hard to hold out until Xue Renguo returned to help, but no matter how loudly they shouted and ordered, they couldn't stop the army from breaking up one after another, and in the end, even the soldiers around them were rapidly reduced.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the generals such as Yan Shizheng and Hun Gan had no choice but to join the fleeing team, and fled west with the army that could still be commanded by them, while the various departments of the Sui army pursued and fought fiercely, forcing the defeated soldiers of the Xue army to take the risk of crossing the river, and were drowned and froze to death. The soldiers of the Sui army slashed and killed in the back, prompting the Xue army to flee east in a panic, killing countless people, and also causing the soldiers of the Xue army to be drowned and frozen to death.

At the same time, Xue Renguo, who was transferred away from the mountain by the Sui cavalry, also faintly noticed that the situation was wrong, and took the initiative to order to stop the pursuit, turn around and rush back to the Wentanghe battlefield, no longer paying attention to the Sui cavalry's scolding and provocation, although Liu Shishan, who had been instructed by Li Jing in advance, did not attack, but led the Sui cavalry to follow him from afar, always staying within the scope of Xue Renguo's field of vision, exerting psychological pressure on the Xue cavalry, so that they did not dare to return directly to the Hekou battlefield without distraction.

On the way to retreat, Xue Renguo finally received an urgent message sent by the fast horse sent by the Shen Shizheng faction, and in a panic, Xue Renguo ordered the whole army to return to help at full speed, and Liu Shishan also ordered the Sui cavalry to speed up the bite, keep a distance from the Xue cavalry and wait for the fighter to appear. When Xue Renguo returned to the camp with his cavalry, his main infantry force had collapsed and been defeated, and the dead bodies had almost cut off the Wentang River, and at the same time, a Sui infantry blocked Xue Renguo's cavalry's westward advance to help him.

Lost so quickly and so badly, in a fit of rage, Xue Renguo, who was furious, led the army straight to the Sui army's interception position, wanting to kill some Sui soldiers to avenge his own infantry, but Xue Renguo soon found out that he had done a stupid thing, the Sui infantry who were waiting in the formation not only warmly entertained him with a strong bow and a hard crossbow, but also suddenly used a musket weapon on the battlefield, although the original arquebus was inferior to the bow and arrow in terms of rate of fire, and the range was not as good as the strong crossbow, but suddenly saw a loud noise in the Sui army's formation, spewing fire, not to mention that the Xue soldiers were frightened, even the horses of the Xue cavalry were so frightened that they stopped one after another, causing many unlucky Xue cavalry to fall off their horses.

Liu Shishan is stupid to let go of such a good opportunity, after a little formation, the Sui cavalry charged at full speed and slammed the back of the Xue cavalry, the Sui infantry also lined up, and the cavalry of the own army attacked Xue Renguo before and after, the cavalry of the Xue army suffered the enemy on the back, Xue Renguo was forced to lead the army to bypass the infantry position of the Sui army, and fled westward with all his might.

It was also after Xue Renguo escaped the Wentang River with the cavalry that Li Jing ordered a general attack, and also led the army to chase Xue Renguo's army to the Weishui Ferry, where he once again thwarted Xue Renguo's army, forcing Xue Renguo to block the Sui army's pursuit by cutting the pontoon bridge, and the losses were quite heavy.

Of course, Ma Sanbao was not polite, seeing that Xue Renguo's army was defeated and fled back, Ma Sanbao also immediately sent troops to counterattack, and took advantage of the fire to rob when Xue's defeated army fled north of the river, and made a lot of gains, and it was also a loss that Xue Renguo was quite cautious to leave 5,000 troops outside Meixian County, and sent troops in time to respond to block Ma Sanbao's offensive, otherwise, Xue Renguo's army would definitely be more defeated in this battle. But even so, after escaping Weishui, Xue Renguo still didn't dare to continue fighting on the battlefield in Meixian, so he collected the defeated troops a little, and abandoned the camp and fled to the way he came that evening.

Like Xue Renguo's analysis, the Sui army can now tolerate Xue Jujun's temporary control of Longxi and Tianshui, but will never allow Xue Jujun's entrenchment in Fufeng County, which is very close to Daxing, and when he heard that Xue Renguo abandoned the camp and retreated, Li Jing immediately ordered Ma Sanbao's fresh army to launch a pursuit, and he led the army to cross Weishui overnight, rested under Meixian County, and then concentrated elite soldiers to launch a pursuit, not giving Xue Renguo's army time and opportunity to take Fufeng County and Zhiyong County.

In such a situation, Fufeng Taishou Dou Jin suddenly became an important figure in the Guanzhong battlefield, although there are only a few thousand local troops in his hands, but Dou Jin has a strong city defense Yongxian Chengchi in his hands, if Dou Jin closes the door, or sends troops to attack Xue Renguo, who is in a hurry to lose his home, Xue Renguo can only obediently roll out of Fufeng County even if he is not completely wiped out. However, if Dou Jin opens the city to welcome Xue Renguo's army into the city, and directly falls into Xue Ju's arms after secretly communicating with Li Yuan's rebels, then even Li Yuan, the god of war, may not be sure to take Yongxian County, and Chen Fuliang can only be forced to dispatch the main force to recapture Fufeng County under the condition of Daxing Xinding, and it is even possible that he is forced to launch a decisive battle with Xue Jujun in the case of insufficient preparation.

Xue Renguo and Li Jing were very aware of this powerful relationship, and both sent fast horses to Yongxian County to contact Dou Jin at the same time, Xue Renguo asked Dou Jin to welcome the army into the city, and Li Jing asked Dou Jin to close the city gate tightly and not allow Xue Renguo's defeated army to set foot in Yongxian County. At the same time, Xue Renguo and Li Jing kept urging the self-army to speed up their pace, racing against time to rush to Yongxian, striving for contingency time, from Meixian to Yongxian 110 miles away, Xue Renguo's army and Sui army only walked for one day.

On the afternoon of the second day of the defeat at the mouth of the Wentang River, Xue Renguo's army was the first to arrive at the outskirts of Yongxian, but Li Jing's army was still more than ten miles away from Yongxian. As a result, what made the panting soldiers of Xue Renguo's army overjoyed was that when they came to the south gate of Yongxian County, the city gate of Yongxian County immediately opened by itself, and Dou Jin, who had met Xue Renguo before, also climbed the south gate city wall and shouted loudly: "Prince Xue, please enter the city, the official army is only ten miles away from here, enter the city quickly!" ”

"Prince, come into the city."

The disgruntled Shizheng and the injured Hun Gan were both overjoyed, and they hurriedly asked Xue Renguo to enter the city immediately to avoid the pursuers. However, at this critical moment, Xue Renguo, who had been worried before, suddenly calmed down and shouted: "Let the two hundred soldiers enter the city first, and then talk about it depending on the situation." ”

"Prince, isn't this too much of a heartbreak for Dou Taishou?" Shi Zheng asked with some concern.

"Be careful!" Xue Renguo replied viciously: "If there is no accident when our people enter the city, I will kowtow to him Dou Jin and apologize after I go in!" But we must not risk making it to the city, if there is any ambush in the city, we are all done! ”

The hearts of the people were cold, so they hurriedly arranged for two hundred infantry to enter the city first, but after seeing this on the city wall, Dou Jin could only shake his head helplessly, only to know that Xue Renguo, who was known for his courage and ferocity, was actually a thick and fine person, and had to order: "Ambush the soldiers out of the city and capture Xue Renguo." ”

The war drums suddenly sounded, the arrows on the city wall were fired in unison, and at the same time, the sound of killing in the city shook the sky, and the Yongxian defenders who were ambushed in the streets and houses shouted and killed. Seeing this scene, Xue Renguo, who was almost captured alive, was shocked and angry, pointing at Dou Jin in the city and roaring like thunder, "Dou Jin Pifu, I swear to kill you!" You shameless traitor, first betrayed Yang Guang and then Li Yuan, you can't die a good death! Come to a sticky end! ”

Vaguely hearing Xue Renguo's scolding, Dou Jin, who was born in a famous family, smiled slightly and said, "Xue Renguo, who said that this official betrayed the Great Sui Imperial Court?" This official bowed his head to Li Yuan's rebel thief before, but in accordance with Chen Liushou's order, he pretended to be a useful person from the rebels, and waited for the opportunity anyway, now that Li Yuan's old thief is dead, Chen Liushou has entered the lord Daxing, and this official will not hurry up to make meritorious service anyway, do you still want to give you, a common man, a slave and a servant? ”

"Uncle, after you see Deputy Envoy Li in a while, please test Chen's attitude of staying behind for my father." Xiao Kai, the second son of Uncle Xiao next to him, said nervously: "My father was ordered to pretend to be a rebel, and he also had correspondence with Li Yuan's rebels. ”

"Don't worry, Chen Liushou can even forgive Chai Shao, and can he still care about the little things with your father before? Compared to Chai Shao, what are those things about your father? Dou Jin smiled and comforted: "I bet that in the future, after you go to Daxing with me to meet Chen Liushou, not only will he not take care of the past, but he will definitely give you a meritorious service, so you will wait to be enthroned." ”

In normal times, with this little soldier and horse in Dou Jin's hand, he dared to go out of the city to fight with Xue Renguo, Xue Renguo tied one hand and could kill the entire Dou Jin army, but at this moment it was different, the wolf bèi who was more than a hundred miles away fled, Xue Renguo's army was already tired, hungry and exhausted, and its combat effectiveness had dropped greatly, and there was Li Jing leading the Sui army to chase after him, and Xue Renguo's army could only be called a miracle if it could still win Dou Jin. The result was that after the Yongxian defenders suddenly killed, Xue Renguo didn't even have the mind to vent his anger after counterattacking, and led the defeated soldiers to flee directly to the northwest.

The nightmare of Xue Renguo's army is not over, after getting rest and supplies in Yongxian, Li Jing still led the army to chase closely, and at the same time, Li Hongzhi and Tang Bi, who were wandering in Fufeng, probed his defeat, and coveted a large number of valuable war horses in his army, and suddenly launched a sneak attack when he was exhausted and rested, and killed many of his people and stole many of his war horses, and finally Xue Renguo brought out the 20,000 soldiers and horses of the Great Earthquake Pass, and only less than 3,000 people fled back to Tianshui County, and the losses were very heavy. Xue Ju was furious and executed Wen Daya, the envoy of Li Yuanjun's army, and was forced to temporarily give up his plan to march to Daxing because of the lack of food and grass and the threat of Li Liang and Zhang Long in the rear.

After Li Jing's report was sent back to Daxing, the Daxing officialdom, which was once worried about the emergency on the Western Front, was inevitably full of cheers, and they were all surprised by the speed of Li Jing's destruction of the enemy, but Chen Fuliang, who had already been the emperor of the soil in Daxing, disagreed, and said very calmly: "Of course. "In normal times, with this little soldier and horse in Dou Jin's hand, he dared to go out of the city to fight with Xue Renguo, Xue Renguo tied one hand and could kill the entire Dou Jin army, but at this moment it is different, the wolf Bèi who is more than a hundred miles away escaped, Xue Renguo's army is already tired, hungry and exhausted, and its combat effectiveness has dropped greatly, and there is Li Jing leading the Sui army behind him to chase after him, and Xue Renguo's army can only be called a miracle if he can still win Dou Jin. The result was that after the Yongxian defenders suddenly killed, Xue Renguo didn't even have the mind to vent his anger after counterattacking, and led the defeated soldiers to flee directly to the northwest.

The nightmare of Xue Renguo's army is not over, after getting rest and supplies in Yongxian, Li Jing still led the army to chase closely, and at the same time, Li Hongzhi and Tang Bi, who were wandering in Fufeng, probed his defeat, and coveted a large number of valuable war horses in his army, and suddenly launched a sneak attack when he was exhausted and rested, and killed many of his people and stole many of his war horses, and finally Xue Renguo brought out the 20,000 soldiers and horses of the Great Earthquake Pass, and only less than 3,000 people fled back to Tianshui County, and the losses were very heavy. Xue Ju was furious and executed Wen Daya, the envoy of Li Yuanjun's army, and was forced to temporarily give up his plan to march to Daxing because of the lack of food and grass and the threat of Li Liang and Zhang Long in the rear.

After Li Jing's report was sent back to Daxing, the Daxing officialdom, which was once worried about the emergency on the Western Front, was inevitably full of cheers, and they were all surprised by the speed of Li Jing's destruction of the enemy, but Chen Fuliang, who had already been the emperor of the soil in Daxing, disagreed, and said very calmly: "Of course. ”