It's not that the officers and soldiers of the Taiyuan Army are too incompetent, it's not that the officers and men of the Taiyuan Army don't work hard, and it's not that Li Er is greedy for life and afraid of death and preserve his strength, it's really that the Sui Army is too cunning, too fierce, and too despicable.

The sudden appearance of the newspaper ** cavalry has not yet shot, just to see the eye-catching white robes on their bodies, the Taiyuan army generals and soldiers who have heard the **** name for a long time have panicked, and those Taiyuan army soldiers who have unfortunately fought with the newspaper on the battlefield have weak legs, trembling hands, and have subconsciously begun to look for a way to escape before the fight has started, although Li Er himself is not afraid of the **** charge and raid, but also hurriedly yelled, "Hold your ground!" Immediately reject the carbine! Immediately reject the carbine! Resist! Be sure to resist! ”

No matter how much you shout, it was useless, the Sui army Qiu Xinggong who went out of the battle again took the lead in hitting the flank of the Taiyuan army on foot, and fought hard, and the Sui army Mo knife soldiers who competed head-on with the Taiyuan army also went all out to slash and contain Li Erjun, and then took advantage of Li Er's opportunity to be attacked on both sides, and the cavalry, which was full of heavy cavalry, also immediately trotted and accumulated, gradually accelerating the full charge, and also killed chickens with a knife, and threw a large number of gunpowder bottles into the Taiyuan army column in the charge, using the loud sound and impact of the gunpowder explosion to disrupt the Taiyuan army column, In the end, like a sharp knife, it pierced into the Taiyuan army formation straight and quickly, and suddenly broke out with an earth-shattering shouting and killing sound.

The spear was broken, the people shouted the horse neighing, the military flag shook like snow, the shield grabbed the pole and slammed the head, the knife and axe slashed on the helmet and iron armor, splashed strings of sparks, brought up the blood, the tall war horse wearing horse armor neighed and raised its hooves, the **** soldier in white robe was as cold as ice, his face was as calm as a puppet machine, but the knife and axe in his hand kept chopping on the heads and shoulders of the Taiyuan soldiers, the Taiyuan soldiers shouted endlessly, and kept chopping horses and stabbing the enemy, although the iron knife and iron spear were difficult to penetrate the **** soldiers' good Mingguang armor and good horse armor, But the Taiyuan soldiers are still crazy to try to counterattack, trying to find a chance to survive in the fierce battle, but it is a pity that these Taiyuan soldiers are basically unable to do so, usually the knife and gun just hit the armor on the **** soldiers, and the head has been smashed and split by the **** soldiers, the two armies collided but in an instant, hundreds of Taiyuan soldiers have been buried on the battlefield.

The three directions of the Taiyuan army were attacked at the same time in the east, west and south, the battle line of the two armies was chaotic, the iron horse went back and forth, the ground was full of corpses and wounded soldiers, the terrible guns and knives were cut densely like a storm, and the feather arrows were as dense as flying locusts in the sky, always non-stop, every minute and every second, the soldiers of the two armies fell in this killing field, even the **** soldiers wearing white robes also had many buried on the battlefield, with the white robe that represented the identity and pride of the white robe forever lying on the blood-stained battlefield, and the crowd rushed out of the war horse that lost the knight, The eyes are bloodshot and the sideburns are messy.

When the two armies meet, the brave wins! What makes Li Er want to cry without tears is that although the 5,000 Taiyuan soldiers newly assigned to him are all strong elite soldiers, they are far inferior to the experienced Sui soldiers in terms of experience and bravery, not to mention compared with the **** soldiers who have crawled out of the pile of dead people countless times, in less than a moment of fierce battle, his soldiers could not withstand the fierce attack of the Sui soldiers, and kept retreating in the face of the fear of death, and gradually began to flee to the only open north that was not affected by the enemy. The Taiyuan Military Supervision Team was forced to wield knives to kill, and hacked to death more than a dozen self-army deserters one after another, but they still couldn't stop the soldiers from fleeing timidly.

Qiu Xinggong, who had already cut the blade with a short-handled long knife in his hand, once again broke into the Taiyuan army formation, opening a gap in the dense queue of the Taiyuan army, and the Sui army fell into the battle warriors swarmed in, and once again broke into the Taiyuan army formation to start a melee, reporting **** and Sui army Mo knife soldiers left and right, frantically slashing the enemy opposite, the Taiyuan army soldiers fled more seriously, there were so many Taiyuan army soldiers who were holding their heads that they couldn't even kill the supervising team, and Li Er, who also cut the blade with a double knife, was so anxious that he yelled, However, it was not possible to stabilize the position and stop the soldiers from fleeing.

After careful aiming, the Sui artillery suddenly opened fire at the risk of injuring friendly troops, and bombarded two shells into the most dense position of the Taiyuan soldiers, where the whistling shells passed, the Taiyuan soldiers did not even see what was going on, they had been smashed through the stomach and intestines by the huge impact of the shells, and broke their hands and feet, and the two shells opened two straight blood paths, taking away the lives of dozens of Taiyuan soldiers, and unfortunately injured two Sui soldiers by mistake.

Already before the war? The soldiers of the Sui army who had been warned were not surprised by this, but they continued to wave their swords to kill the enemy, but the soldiers of the Taiyuan army, who were already unable to parry, collapsed in an instant, screaming and fleeing north, many soldiers also threw down their weapons and banners in fear, and Li Er couldn't help but scream in despair, "Li Yaoshi is crazy!" He's crazy! We are all entangled with his army, and he dares to open fire! This madman! Lunatic! ”

After shouting these words, Li Er was also forced to join the escape team - because Qiu Xinggong had already led the Sui army to kill him directly, and after Li Er fled north, the Taiyuan army also completely collapsed, crying and shouting and running so much that he only hated his father and mother for giving them two legs, and he had escaped clean in a blink of an eye. Fortunately, the Sui army did not pursue, and soon all of them retreated to the Glaive Array for protection, and also rescued their seriously injured and undead companions in time.

The boos in the Dingyang army formation resounded all over the world, Liu Wuzhou and Song Jingang and other generals of the Dingyang army were also pale, and they were extremely dissatisfied with the battlefield performance of the Taiyuan friendly army and Li Er, and were affected by the rout of the Taiyuan army, and the Huang Ziying department of the Dingyang army that could not collapse the Sui army's Yanyue array could not withstand the slashing of the Sui army's Modao team, and had to temporarily retreat and regroup, and the fierce battle that lasted for more than an hour was temporarily suspended.

In the dissatisfied gaze and disdainful crazy boos of Dingyang Youjun, Li Er tried to reorganize the team for the third time, but the officers and soldiers of the Taiyuan Army who had been killed dragged their actions and did not dare to return to the team quickly, even if the officers of the Taiyuan Army used whips to expel them, they did not organize the formation for a long time, and even some soldiers fled directly to the north away from the battlefield because they were too afraid, forcing Li Er to send cavalry to chase and kill these own soldiers who escaped from the battle.

Liu Wuzhou personally patted the horse and came to Li Er, his face was very gloomy, staring at Li Er's eyes almost breathing fire, Li Er didn't dare to speak, but he was so aggrieved that there were tears in his eyes. However, fortunately, at this time, Li Jiancheng, who received the news, had already sent Yin Kaishan to lead 5,000 infantry out of the camp, and marched quickly to help in the battle. The old man personally led the army to attack, and the thief army was not defeated, and he would never ....... ”

"Boom! Bang! Boom Boom! ”

Before Yin Kaishan's words were finished, the artillery of the Sui army on the south bank of the Dongwu River had already roared one after another, and the new force of the Taiyuan army that was advancing in formation also suddenly staggered and screamed, and the ten artillery pieces brought by Li Jing had already been transferred to the west side of the battlefield and lined up on the south bank of the Dongwu River. As a result, Qian Xiangmin, who replaced Yuan Tiangang in calculating the range, found an opportunity through triangulation, so he immediately ordered the cannon to be fired, and as a result, all ten shells bombarded into the Taiyuan army that was within the firing range, and the officers and men of the Taiyuan army who lined up in a dense queue immediately fell into bad luck.

Yin Kaishan's mouth opened wide, the soldiers of the Taiyuan Army were in chaos, and the soldiers who were wounded by bullets rolled on the battlefield and wailed for help, but Liu Wuzhou's face was even more pale, and he asked Yin Kaishan: "The undefeated thief army, by no means?" ”

"Never, never withdraw troops." Yin Kaishan stubbornly finished what he didn't say just now, but his tone was so weak that even he could find it.

The next picture is even more exciting, when the Liu and Li coalition forces joined forces to attack the Sui army's Yanyue formation again, Liu Wuzhou's side successfully rushed to the Sui army's formation to fight head-on, but the Taiyuan army was just close to the riverbank, and the Sui army's artillery on the south bank immediately opened fire collectively, bombarding the dense queue of the Taiyuan army, and the soldiers of the Taiyuan army staggered and screamed again, and they couldn't line up to fight, even if they rushed to the Sui army's Yanyue formation, they were also easily slaughtered by the Sui army's Mo sword soldiers. When the Sui army trapped the formation team again, the Taiyuan army could only be forced to fight in close combat, and was killed by the imposing Sui soldiers crying wolf, and the corpses were all over the field, and they were forced to flee in embarrassment again and again.

The battle has reached this point, not to mention Li Er and Yin Kaishan, that is, Liu Wuzhou and Song Jingang and other generals of the Dingyang Army saw that the Sui Army was only ruthless to the Taiyuan Army, although this tactic of the Sui Army was beneficial to the Dingyang Army, but Liu Wuzhou and Song Jingang and others were inevitably a little puzzled and strange, and asked each other: "The Li family brothers and Chen Yingliang traitors, how much hatred and hatred are there?" Why did the Chen thief army specifically pull them to fight, also? Hands so heavy? ”

"It seems that the Chen thief army hates the Li family in Taiyuan the most, not us." This is the answer that the Dingyang soldiers came up with in private discussions, and many Dingyang soldiers gloated and said: "Chen thief fought well!" A few years ago, the Li family killed so many of our brothers and robbed our Yanmen County, so they should get a little retribution. ”

It can only be regarded as an outpost battle, the purpose in addition to completing Chen Fuliang's order to treat differently is to test the combat effectiveness of the Dingyang army, in the absence of any preparation to attack the enemy camp, after the afternoon Shenshi, Li Jing took advantage of the Taiyuan army's defeat and retreat and the Dingyang army's retreat to adjust the opportunity, commanded the army to slowly retreat across the Dongwu River, Dingyang army took advantage of the situation to launch a counterattack, but the Sui army advanced and retreated in a good way, even when retreating across the river, there was no chaos, and the Dingyang army still could not break through the Sui army. When the Taiyuan army roared and launched an attack, it was immediately attacked by the Sui army's artillery, and it was difficult to even charge collectively, let alone provide strong help to the Yang army, and finally the Sui army quickly retreated across the Dongwu River under the cover of artillery and bows and arrows, and returned to the camp triumphantly with the record of beheading more than 4,000 bodies.

The Dingyang army was not a loser, at least the loss was not more than 1,000, and it also killed hundreds of Sui soldiers, but the Taiyuan army was full of bad luck, Li Jianchengxin lost nearly half of Li Er's 5,000 troops, Yin Kaishan's army also suffered more than 1,000 casualties, and nearly seventy percent of the corpses of the soldiers of the three armies lying on the battlefield were Taiyuan soldiers. What's worse is that the wonderful performance of the Taiyuan army on the battlefield also made the Dingyang army very dissatisfied, and it was widely believed that the failure to win today was all caused by the Taiyuan army's hind legs.

Li Jiancheng, who was watching the battle in the battalion, also knew very well that the performance of the Liberal Army today was very embarrassing, so after collecting the troops and returning to the camp, Li Jiancheng immediately brought a heavy gift to the camp to visit Liu Wuzhou, apologized to Liu Wuzhou in person, and took the initiative to admit that the performance of the Liberal Army today was too poor and dragged Liu Wuzhou back. And although Liu Wuzhou understood that the Taiyuan army's fiasco today was because the Sui army used its main combat forces on them, he still couldn't help but ask curiously: "Brother Jiancheng, what kind of hatred do you have with Chen Yingliang and traitors?" Why does his army of thieves seem to be directed against you? ”

"The little brother is also very strange about this." Li Jiancheng replied very depressedly: "Thinking about it, it should be because the junior brother is not clear about the use of people, and he sent Erlang to lead the army to fight, so he angered the Chen thief army and let them target our army." ”

"Erlang and Chen Thief have a deep hatred?" Liu Wuzhou asked curiously.

Li Jiancheng was a little hesitant, but he couldn't stand Liu Wuzhou's repeated questions, Li Jiancheng still told Liu Wuzhou about the cause of the feud between Li Er and Chen Fuliang -- that is, Li Eren designed revenge to frame Chen Fuliang and led to the feud. As a result, Liu Wuzhou, Song Jingang and others suddenly realized when they heard this, and a little girl who was hiding in the back tent and eavesdropping couldn't help but snort, "Shameless!" People saved your brother-in-law's family, and they took revenge on others, no wonder people must seek revenge on you! ”

Probably introduced the reason why the Sui army wanted to beat Li Er, and Li Jiancheng, who was afraid of being asked more ugly things about his second brother, quickly changed the topic and said to Liu Wuzhou: "Your Majesty, after today's battle, you must have a certain understanding of the combat effectiveness of Chen Yingliang's troops, how should your two armies resist the enemy next, I don't know what Your Majesty's plans are?" ”

"Thief Chen is really powerful!" Liu Wuzhou replied: "He didn't go all out at all, but our army has already dispatched half of the elite, but he can't even break through his partial division battle formation, if he sends the main force to attack, your two armies will have no chance of winning except for joining hands to meet the battle with all their might!" ”

"The thief's artillery is also more powerful than we thought." Song Jingang also said: "The reason why the antlers that our soldiers worked so hard to build to resist horses was that they could block at least three or five Chen thieves' attacks across the river, but they were vulnerable in front of his artillery and were swept away in a moment. If he sends artillery to attack our camp, the fortifications of your and our armies will certainly not be able to resist it. ”

Seeing that Li Jiancheng nodded in agreement, Song Jingang took the opportunity to say: "So I think that it is best for your two armies to withdraw into Taiyuan City and garrison, take advantage of the Taiyuan City Defense to resist the might of Chen Thief's artillery, and then wait for the opportunity to attack, or fight Chen Thief head-on, or attack his grain route with light cavalry, so as to get the best chance of victory." ”

Hearing Song Jingang's suggestion, Liu Wuzhou didn't say anything, but Li Jiancheng's face immediately changed, and then he immediately showed a smile, and said with a forced smile: "Although Brother Song's words are reasonable, but your two armies have only suffered a small setback today, and the losses are slight, and it is too much pity to directly give up the Dongwu River Heavenly Danger, and at this time we will withdraw to Taiyuan City and station, is it too much?" Early? ”

"It's never too early!" Song Jingang shook his head categorically, and said: "The Chen thief is strong, although the two armies of you and us join forces, the strength is still inferior to him, if the Chen thief personally leads the main force to attack, the two armies of you and us will make a slight mistake on the battlefield, even if we can still retreat to Taiyuan City at that time, the loss will definitely be not small, let alone waiting for the opportunity to counterattack, I am afraid it will be difficult to even hold the city." ”

Li Jiancheng's face changed, Liu Wuzhou observed his words, and said with a smile: "Brother Jiancheng, what are you worried about?" Are you afraid that it is easy to invite God and difficult to send God, and if your brother enters Taiyuan City, he will not leave? ”

"Brother Jiancheng, if you're really worried, that's okay." Song Jingang continued: "I have an idea, anyway, Taiyuan City is divided into east and west cities by the river, why don't your army retreat to Taiyuan West City, how about our army retreat to Taiyuan East City?" ”

"Brother Xian, you should rest assured, right?" Liu Wuzhou said with a smile: "Taiyuan's granary arsenal and Jinyang Palace are in Xicheng, located in the west of Fenshui, and there are two barriers to Mengshan and Longshan to protect, there are fewer enemies, your army retreats to the west city, our army guards the east city, you don't suffer at all." ”

Li Jiancheng was silent for a moment, and then he said: "Don't hide it from the two elder brothers, the reason why the younger brother is unwilling to retreat to Taiyuan City is not because he is afraid that you will not leave after you enter Taiyuan City, but because he is afraid that after you enter Taiyuan City, there will be no chance to leave the city." Taiyuan City is a dead land, it is easy to get in, but it is difficult to get out. ”

"What do you mean by this?" Liu Wuzhou, who was born as a rich man, and Song Jingang, who was born as a mud leg, were confused.

"Taiyuan is low-lying and three mountains and two waters, which is the shape of a trap, if Chen Yingliang attacks with water, the defenders of Taiyuan will become the food of fish and turtles!"

Li Jiancheng calmly admitted the weakness of Taiyuan City, and brought a map to introduce the possible water attack tactics of the Sui army to Liu Wuzhou, the rich man and Song Jingang, the mud-legged man, and then said that as early as the Spring and Autumn Period, there were troops who flooded Taiyuan City, and finally said to Liu Wuzhou and Song Jingang with a wry smile: "Two brothers, now you should understand why the younger brother dare not retreat to Taiyuan City, right?" To tell the truth, if it weren't for the difficulty of grain and grass transfer, there would be no stronger cities nearby to defend, and the younger brother planned to give up Taiyuan to defend other cities, because holding Taiyuan would only end up waiting for death, and there would be no chance to escape. ”

After looking at each other in great surprise, Liu Wuzhou was still a little unwilling, and asked again: "Brother Xian, do you know this weakness of Taiyuan City, maybe Chen Thief doesn't know?" ”

Li Jiancheng laughed out loud and said with a wry smile: "Two brothers, Chen Yingliang's talent is ten times that of mine, how can you not know the reason for this?" Moreover, he also brought Yuan Tiangang, the world's first feng shui master, to attack Taiyuan when the flood season was approaching, obviously coming to flood Taiyuan, and your two armies retreated to Taiyuan at this time, which just gave Chen Yingliang a great opportunity to flood our two armies. ”

Liu Wuzhou and Song Jingang, who shouted that they wanted to enter Taiyuan City, finally fell silent, and Li Jiancheng took the opportunity to say: "Two brothers, please rest assured, as long as we hold the Dongwu River for a period of time, we will definitely be able to win the opportunity to turn defeat into victory, Dou Jiande, the king of Changle, hates Chen Yingliang for stealing the country's dictatorship, and wants to crusade against Chen Yingliang, and has already formed a mortal enemy with Chen Yingliang on the battlefield of Linfen. It is inevitable that he will personally lead the army from Xicheng Pass to Taiyuan to rescue, and our army still has strong reinforcements to look forward to, and there is no need to retreat to Taiyuan City. ”

After exchanging a few glances with each other, considering the danger of Chen Fuliang flooding Taiyuan, Liu Wuzhou and Song Jingang finally dispelled the idea of taking advantage of the fire to loot and enter Taiyuan City, and agreed to continue to hold the defense line of the Dongwu River with the Taiyuan army, waiting for reinforcements that Dou Jiande would definitely send. Li Jiancheng also quietly breathed a sigh of relief, discussed some details of the joint battle with Liu Wuzhou and Song Jingang, and then hurriedly said goodbye and left.

When asked by Yin Kaishan and Zhang Lun and other henchmen about the visit, Li Jiancheng smiled bitterly and first told Liu Wuzhou and Song Jingang about wanting to take the opportunity to enter Taiyuan Dongcheng, but before the words were finished, Yin Kaishan was already angry and scolded: "Piff! The fox's tail is finally revealed! Let them enter Taiyuan City, will they leave again in the future? I'm afraid that if I entered the East City today, I want to fight the idea of the West City tomorrow! Zuo Dudu, how do you answer? ”

"I scared them with the flooding of Taiyuan." Li Jiancheng introduced the situation a little more with a wry smile, and then said with an even more bitter smile: "It's also thanks to Brother Ying Liangxian that he let them know how powerful he was on the battlefield today, and let them know that it will be difficult to stop Brother Ying Liangxian from building a dam and storing water at that time, otherwise, I'm afraid they won't be so easy to deal with." ”

Yin Kaishan nodded, accompanied Li Jiancheng and sighed, and then asked about the next battle arrangements, Li Jiancheng replied: "There is only one way to continue to hold the Dongwu River, hold the Dongwu River, we have hope to survive until Dou Jiande's army comes to help, Dou Jiande has an upright personality, with him by his side to help us, even if Liu Wuzhou has any shameless intentions, it will be much easier for us to deal with at that time." ”

Yin Kaishan didn't nod this time, and after thinking for a while, Yin Kaishan also said cautiously: "Zuo Dudu, don't blame the last general for making bad luck, the road is far away, Dou Jiande's reinforcements may not be able to arrive in Taiyuan in time, or although Dou Jiande arrived in time, he didn't send the main force, but just sent us a partial division with insufficient strength, so what should we do?" ”

Li Jiancheng was silent for a moment, and then said: "If that's the case, I also have another way, our army retreats to Taiyuan City, persuades Liu Wuzhou to lead the army to move to Yuci City, form horns to rescue each other, and make a last fight with the Ying Liang brothers." ”

"Is this a clever plan?" Yin Kaishan was stunned, and hurriedly said: "Our army guards Taiyuan, Liu Wuzhou guards Yuci, and they form horns with each other, we have a strong city to rely on, and Liu Wuzhou can send troops at any time to prevent Chen Yingliang from building a dam to flood our army, and it seems that it is better than our tactics of holding on to the Dongwu River now, why don't you implement it immediately?" ”

"Then what if Chen Yingliang comes to break them one by one?" Li Jiancheng asked rhetorically, and said with a wry smile: "Not to mention that Liu Wuzhou still has the strength to fight again, he will definitely not agree to defend the small city of Yuci in Taiyuan, which is far less than the scale of Taiyuan, even if he agrees, when Chen Yingliang divides his troops to contain our army, and sends heavy troops to attack Yuci, do we dare to send troops to rescue?" Liu Wuzhou was defeated and run away by Chen Yingliang, who else can we count on to stop Chen Yingliang from building a dam and attacking our army? This is the last resort, and we cannot choose such a passive tactic until the last moment. ”

Yin Kaishan woke up and nodded, Li Jiancheng lowered his head and said: "Even for the sake of the people of Yuci, until the last moment, I will not agree to let Wu Zhou enter Yuci City, let those jackals, tigers and leopards under his command enter the city, and the people in Yuci City will have great luck." ”