When Liu Xiaoyan was quietly surprised by Liu Wuzhou's side, Song Jingang and Huang Ziying and other generals of the Dingyang Army beside Liu Wuzhou were already angry, and then Liu Wuzhou quickly came back to his senses, also pointed at Chen Fuliang with a horsewhip, made two seduction gestures contemptuously, and sneered loudly: "Since His Royal Highness the King of Tang is so confident and thinks that he can wipe out my army and my Taiyuan friendly army under this Taiyuan city, then come here, cross the river, I will be waiting at any time." ”

"Rise to fight thieves, dare to call me me?" Chen Fuliang laughed and sneered, and said, "Liu Wuzhou, what are you anxious about? The big river Qinling Taihang can't stop the footsteps of this king's army, not to mention this small river? Don't worry, within a day or two, this king's army will attack your camp, and then you don't want to be like Li Erlang's incompetent, every time this king attacks, you will hide in the turtle shell and not come out! ”

What surprised Chen Fuliang was that Liu Wuzhou, who was straightforward in appearance, did not answer anything after hearing these words, and there was a bit of sarcasm in his laughter, Chen Fuliang was secretly surprised and unwilling to surrender his momentum, so he smiled and said: "Speaking of Li Erlang, Brother Wu Zhou, I really don't know what your eyes are?" You married your eldest sister to Yuan Junzhang and your second sister to Song Jingang, you are not wrong, Yuan Junzhang and Song Jingang are both heroes and heroes in the world, and your sister is not wronged by marrying them. ”

"But are you stupid or crazy, how could you choose Li Erlang, the husband of Xiaoyan Xianmei? Don't you know that from Xinfeng to Daxing, and then from Daxing to Hedong to Huoyi and then to Taiyuan, Li Erlang was not beaten by this king to hide in Tibet like a lost dog, and he couldn't live in fear? Xiaoyan Xianmei is such a good girl, you forced her to marry such a lost dog, didn't you push her into the fire pit? As an older brother, are you worthy of your deceased parents? ”

Liu Xiao's eyes widened, she really didn't expect that Chen Fuliang, who met for the first time, would be able to speak for her psychologically, but Liu Wuzhou snorted coldly and said: "This is my family matter, it has nothing to do with you!" ”

As the so-called country is easy to change, and the nature is difficult to change, Chen Fuliang has already been persuaded by his cousin to no longer want to use the divisive strategy, but now that the opportunity appears, Chen Fuliang still can't help but say casually: "Okay, Brother Wu Zhou!" You don't understand that the reason why you pushed your sister into the fire pit is entirely for yourself! You know that Li Erlang is ambitious and bent on murdering his brother Li Jiancheng to replace him, you push your sister into the fire pit to marry him, and then join forces with him to kill Li Jiancheng, and then take the opportunity to swallow the five counties of Taiyuan occupied by Li Yi's brothers, right? You can hide your poor sister from your little care, but you can't hide it from me! ”

Li Jing and Yuan Tiangang and the other Sui army and civil and military officers all rolled their eyes a little, and said in their hearts, His Royal Highness the Tang King, you really came to sow discord again, but Liu Wuzhou, who was on the other side of the Dongwu River, had a slight change of color on his face, but Chen Fuliang said loudly: "It's a pity, you have found the wrong partner!" Li Erlang is a fierce and introverted person, not to mention that he has no ability and no chance to murder his brother, even if you help him kill Li Jiancheng, he will never bow down to you and be at your mercy! At that time, the first thing he will do will definitely be to try to kill you, take the opportunity to swallow your Ma Yi thief army, and then he will not hesitate to kill your sister and kill your Liu family, leaving no children behind! This is his nature, and he can't change it! ”

"Shut up! Don't sow discord here! Liu Wuzhou couldn't bear it anymore and shouted angrily: "Thief Chen! Don't think that I don't know your despicable character, I will use shameless tricks in every battle, either sowing discord or bribing division, I will not fall for you! ”

"Good medicine is bitter, loyal words are contrary to ears, do you believe it or not!" Chen Fuliang sneered, and said loudly while turning the horse's head: "Okay, this king is very busy, I don't have time to chat with you here, see you on the battlefield next time." ”

After turning back to the horse's head, Chen Fuliang added loudly without looking back, and said: "Also, Sister Xiaoyan, don't be afraid, for the sake of my cousin's face, I will defeat your brother as soon as possible and save you, and I won't let him really push him into the fire pit completely!" But when it's time for you, you have to change my temper for me, and I don't look like a girl anymore, be careful that I teach you a lesson with a ruler! ”

After that, Chen Fuliang really slapped his horse and left, Li Jing and Yuan Tiangang and others followed closely, and Wei Chi Jingde led the Sui cavalry to carefully guard. On the way back to the camp, Li Jing and Yuan Tiangang naturally had to ask why Chen Fuliang didn't take the opportunity to design and lure Liu Wuzhou across the river to fight, and Chen Fuliang replied: "Originally, I had this plan, but have you noticed it?" I deliberately provoked Liu Wuzhou with flamboyant words, and none of the several generals around Liu Wuzhou scolded him, which is enough to prove that the close civil and military people around Liu Wuzhou are all calm personalities, and they will not easily lose their minds, and it is difficult to let them cross the river. ”

"And. Liu Wuzhou is also treacherous. Chen Fuliang added: "I provoked him to go out of the camp to fight, but he didn't leave room for my stubble at all, which is enough to show that his tactical thinking is clear, that is, to insist on standing on the ground, and then waiting for the opportunity to counterattack, and will never easily waver and change." In the face of such a calm and rational enemy, the chances of success in our military strategy are very small. ”

"Yes, Xia Guan also found that Liu Wuzhou is not an impulsive person, and it is very difficult to trick him into fighting across the Dongwu River." Yuan Tiangang nodded in agreement, and then asked, "Your Highness, in this way, you are going to fulfill the promise you made in front of Liu Wuzhou and prepare to launch a frontal attack on his camp?" ”

"Of course not." Chen Fuliang shook his head with a smile and said: "Although the camp fortifications of Liu Li's thief army are vulnerable in front of our artillery, after all, there is a vortex river in the middle, which seriously restricts the use of our troops and artillery transportation. Therefore, we still have to use tactics to force the enemy to adjust their tactics and make changes, and then we will seize the opportunity of confusion and vacillation during the adjustment of tactics by Liu Li's thief army, and use all our strength to break the enemy in one fell swoop. ”

"So what exactly does Your Highness plan to do?" Li Jing asked.

"Feint to attack Liu Wuzhou, and actually attack the Taiyuan army." Chen Fuliang replied without blinking an eyelid: "Just now when I found out that Liu Li's thief army was camping five miles away, I had already thought of this tactic, and then we only need to feint to attack Liu Wuzhou's defensive position, force the Taiyuan thief army to send troops to share the pressure for Liu Wuzhou, and then take the opportunity to storm the Taiyuan thief army and break the enemy with all our might." Then after a few battles, Liu Li's thief army will inevitably be unable to withstand the pressure and be forced to make adjustments, and then our opportunities will appear. ”

"Brilliant plan!" Li Jing was overjoyed when he heard this, and pointed out: "Liu Wuzhou came from afar to save the Taiyuan thief army, his position was attacked, whether it was for morality or to curry favor with Liu Wuzhou, the Taiyuan thief army will inevitably send troops to help the war, and our army will take the opportunity to meet the head-on attack, so no matter how the battle situation develops, Liu Wuzhou and Li soldiers will inevitably hate each other, and give birth to suspicions, Liu Wuzhou and the Li brothers can only make adjustments if they can't stand the complaints of the soldiers, and as soon as they move, our opportunity will come." ”

At the same time that Chen Fuliang and Li Jing decided on offensive tactics, Liu Wuzhou and Chen Fuliang met across the Dongwu River was also reported to the Li brothers by the Taiyuan Army Scout, and learned the content of Chen Fuliang and Liu Wuzhou's conversation, and the Li brothers naturally joined forces to scold Chen Fuliang's shameless discord, although Li Jiancheng knew very well in his heart that Liu Wuzhou's deliberate purpose of marrying his sister to Li Er was indeed to wait for an opportunity to annex the five counties of Taiyuan. But at the moment, Li Jiancheng is asking Liu Wuzhou, so even if he knows that Chen Fuliang is definitely not talking nonsense, he can only pretend to be stupid and condemn his friend for talking nonsense.

Of course, Li Er was even more annoyed by Chen Fuliang's shameless slander of him, and after scolding, Li Er also said to Li Jiancheng: "Brother, since Chen Yingliang's traitor really has another plan to discord, then we must not take this matter lightly, the younger brother proposed, as long as the position of the Dingyang army is attacked, then no matter whether Liu Wuzhou sends a messenger to ask our army for help, we should take the initiative to send troops to help the war, use ironclad facts to stabilize the confidence of our friendly troops, and crack the shameless discord of Chen Yingliang's traitors." ”

Or at the same time when Li Jiancheng nodded in agreement with Li Er's suggestion, Liu Xiaoyan also returned to the Dingyang military camp with Liu Wuzhou, and after returning to the camp, Liu Xiaoyan, who had been spoiled by Liu Wuzhou, naturally made a fuss, and asked Liu Wuzhou if he deliberately pushed her into the fire pit just for his own interests? It's a pity that Liu Wuzhou didn't let his sister go this time, and explained a few words Liu Xiaoyan didn't listen, Liu Wuzhou's big slap had already slapped Liu Xiaomu's cute little face, and after Liu Xiaomu cried and left, Liu Wuzhou also looked at the south with hatred, and said secretly: "Thief Chen, don't think that this can separate the relationship between me and the Li family!" I don't believe that things have come to this point, and the Li brothers dare to be disrespectful to me! ”

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The day passed quickly, and in the early morning of the next morning, which was also the early morning of June 17 in the third year of Yining, the Sui army dispatched about 15,000 troops to attack the Dongwu River, which was held by the Liu-Li coalition army, while the fortifications had not yet been perfected. Although the Sui army's attack this time obviously did not seem to be to attack the camp and military village of the Liu-Li coalition army, but only aimed at the river defense fortifications of the Liu-Li coalition army, and at the same time, Chen Fuliang did not personally go out to command the battle and handed over the command to Li Jing, but Liu Wuzhou and the Li brothers still attached great importance to this outpost battle, and assembled the army early to wait for orders, ready to rescue the riverbank positions at any time to prevent the Sui army from crossing the river.

To the great surprise of the Li brothers and Liu Wuzhou, the main attack point of the Sui army's attack was not the nearest Taiyuan army camp, but the Dingyang army's river defense position five miles to the east. He also easily destroyed the three pontoon bridges that Dingyang Jun could destroy at any time.

Then, Li Jing waved his army forward, and used the long shield to build a temporary sheep and horse wall on the south bank of the Dongwu River, protecting the archers of the Sui army to release arrows behind the long shield wall to suppress the defenders of the Yang army, and cover the Sui soldiers to build a pontoon bridge.

The tragic battle for the river beach began, in the case of not being able to effectively prevent the Sui soldiers with the protection of the long shield from building a pontoon bridge with bows and arrows, the Dingyang army could only send infantry to the river beach to fight with the Sui army, the advance team of the Sui army that had been prepared for the battle was divided, and the archers of the Sui army also shot as accurately as possible to help the advance team stop the enemy from attacking, the north bank of the Dongwu River shouted to kill the heavens, the soldiers of the two armies met with short knives, and the soldiers of the two armies continued to die and fell to the ground when the knives saw blood, and the fight was extremely fierce.

After the first pontoon bridge was built, the infantry of the Sui army immediately stepped on the bridge to cross the river and quickly seized the position on the river beach, and the Dingyang army, which was too seriously suppressed by the Sui archers, retreated tactically under the personal command of Liu Wuzhou, allowing the Sui soldiers to cross the river, and at the same time Liu Wuzhou quickly assembled a large number of troops outside the barracks, preparing to seize the opportunity of the half-crossing attack to launch a counterattack.

Li Er also led 5,000 Taiyuan troops out of the camp early to prepare for battle, Liu Wuzhou wanted to catch the fighter plane that was halfway crossed, Li Er also understood it very well, but Li Er was very worried about an important issue, so Li Er also personally patted the horse early and came to Liu Wuzhou to warn, saying: "Brother, the Chen thief will be fierce, but make it cross the river too much, it is best to launch an attack immediately after the Chen thief's army crosses the river of about 1,000 people, and beat them across the river again." ”

Glancing at Li Er with some contempt, Liu Wuzhou said: "The Chen thief crossed the river with more than a thousand people, and we launched an attack, so how many Chen thief troops can we kill?" With such a few people easily retreating across the river, we probably didn't kill as many of the thief soldiers as the self-soldiers who were shot by the thief archers, right? ”

"But it's better than having a large army of thieves cross the river." Li Er said bitterly: "Brother, you haven't fought with the Chen thief army on the battlefield, you don't know that the thieves under his command are powerful, that traitor has always believed in the supremacy of elite soldiers, even if we let him cross the river with 2,000 people, it will be difficult for us to expel him across the river ......." ”

"Alright, alright, I know." Liu Wuzhou interrupted impatiently, and said: "Go back and command your army, when it is time to attack, I will give the order to attack, I have my own certainty, you don't have to worry about it!" ”

Li Er was helpless, so he could only sigh lightly and turn around and return to the army formation, but Liu Wuzhou still snorted at his back and said in a low voice: "Thief Chen is really right, it is really a lost dog who has been killed!" ”

What made Li Er desperate was that it was not until the Sui army soldiers crossed the river that Liu Wuzhou ordered the general Huang Ziying to lead the army to attack, but the Sui army had already lined up a strong defensive glaive array on the river beach position, and the solid moon wheel firmly blocked the attack of the Dingyang army outward, and the space behind the wheel covered the Sui army soldiers to continue to cross the river to strengthen the battle formation, and at the same time, the Dongwu River had already set up more than 30 pontoon bridges, and the Sui army was quite easy to attack or retreat. What made Li Er even more helpless was that the Sui army's river-crossing army was still the Kan Liang team under Chen Fuliang's command who was best at fighting tough battles, and although the offensive of the Dingyang army was fierce, it could never rush into the interior of the Sui army's glaive array, let alone completely defeat the Sui army's glaive.

After biting a few bites, he didn't gnaw the Sui army's glaive, on the contrary, he also saw the tragic scene of his sergeant being killed all over the field in front of the big Mo knife, Liu Wuzhou secretly regretted letting the Sui army soldiers cross the river too much, and he could only let the front army temporarily retreat and reorganize the army, preparing to launch a second round of attack, and at the same time sent someone to ask Li Er to also attack, Li Er did not dare to disobey, so he could only go up under Liu Wuzhou's request to attack the northwest of the Sui army's Yanyue Formation, and the Dingyang Army was responsible for attacking the northeast of the Sui army's Yanyue Formation.

Li Jing waited for this opportunity, and when the flag waved, Kan Liang continued to lead the army to hold the front of the Glaive Formation, but when the two armies were entangled, the western part of the Sui Army's Glaive Array highlighted 600 infantry, led by the fierce general Qiu Xinggong to rush Li Er's flank, Li Er was forced to divide his troops to meet the battle, and started a melee with the Sui army.

A more tragic fierce battle unfolded in the northwest of the Sui army position, although the number of infantry of the Sui army led by Qiu Xinggong was small, but everyone took the lead bravely, with red eyes just crazy slashing and killing the enemy opposite, Qiu Xinggong himself walked in front with a big knife in his hand, roaring and constantly swinging the knife wildly, killing more than ten enemies in a row was unstoppable, and at the same time, the Sui army Yanyue Formation under the command of Kan Liang also struggled to slash and kill the Taiyuan army on the opposite side under the condition of insisting on a firm position, and did his best to share the pressure for Qiu Xinggong's trapped division, and the sword and sword shadow on the battlefield, the sound of killing was like thunder, The soldiers on both sides of the battle suffered heavy casualties.

Although Li Er is also a peerless brave general, Zhu Cang and Liang Jianfang and others under his command are also rare fierce generals, but the Taiyuan soldiers under their command are far less brave than them, and they are demoralized after consecutive defeats, and they are so sacrificed by Qiu Xinggong that they will not be able to parry, and the formation will gradually become chaotic, and Qiu Xinggong's army will take Qiu Xinggong himself as the arrow, rushing left and right in the Taiyuan army formation, such as entering no man's land, killing the Taiyuan army is almost unable to parry, and even the soldiers fled timidly. Li Eryi saw that the situation was not good, so he could only quickly withdraw his troops and temporarily withdraw the army and reorganize his team.

Li Er's golden gong sounded, the Taiyuan army fled back one after another if it was amnesty, and retreated to a distance to reorganize the army, although the Sui army led by Qiu Xinggong did not pursue far before withdrawing to rest inside the Yanyue Formation, but the main force of the Dingyang Army was booing because at this moment, the Dingyang Army infantry led by Huang Ziying was still fighting hard with the Sui army soldiers in the northeast of the Sui Army's Yanyue Formation, and the Taiyuan Army that retreated from the battle naturally attracted the disdain and dissatisfaction of the Dingyang Army. Even Liu Wuzhou, Song Jingang and others couldn't help but be a little angry, and scolded together: "This Li Erlang, why is it so useless?" ”

Of course, Li Er also knew that his decision would definitely attract the dissatisfaction of the friendly army, so after slashing and killing a few soldiers who took the lead in fleeing, Li Er immediately led the army to attack again, but like the last time, the Taiyuan army had just met with the Sui army's glaive array, and the western part of the glaive array, which was covered by Sui army archers, immediately killed another 600 fallen divisions, led by another Sui army general, Liu Shishan, who did not hesitate to attack the flank of the Taiyuan army as last time, and also attacked the Taiyuan army with the same crazy charge and raid as last time, and killed the Taiyuan sergeants and soldiers.

After holding on for more than half an hour than last time, Li Er, who was outnumbered, ordered Ming Jin again with tears in his eyes, and withdrew to a distance to regroup in the midst of the louder disdainful boos of Dingyang's friendly army, and this time Liu Wuzhou couldn't bear it anymore, and immediately sent someone to ask Li Er face to face, "Do you dare to fight with Chen's army?" Why is our army still holding out in the eastern sector, when you have already retreated twice? ”

Gritting his teeth and not saying a word in front of Liu Wuzhou's envoy's questioning, Li Er quickly reorganized his team, strengthened the flank defense, and launched an attack on the Sui army's Modao array for the third time, but just when the Taiyuan army infantry met the Sui army's Yanyue array for the third time, the western part of the Sui army's Yanyue array once again highlighted the Sui army's trapping infantry led by Qiu Xinggong.

What made Li Er a little confused was that Qiu Xinggong did not rush to charge after coming out of the battle this time, but quickly formed a team that seemed to be ready to advance slowly, and when Li Er, who had relatively many troops on the local battlefield, was secretly happy in his heart, his eyelids involuntarily jumped behind Qiu Xinggong's back, and he actually slapped his horse out of the Sui cavalry of about two schools.

Li Erjun's position was not too far from the Sui cavalry's formation, and there was not enough room for charging, Li Erjun expected that the Sui cavalry would inevitably detour back to his west or behind him to charge again, so he decisively ordered Liang Jianfang, a powerful cavalryman, to lead the only 600 cavalry under his command to be on guard, preparing to fight a cavalry battle with the Sui cavalry. However, as soon as the order was delivered, Li Er was immediately dumbfounded again, and the Taiyuan sergeants beside him also screamed heartbreakingly, "White-robed soldiers! It's a white-robed soldier under the command of Thief Chen! ”

It is indeed a newspaper ****, under the leadership of Yu Le, the **** soldier who had been deliberately low-key before suddenly showed his iconic snow-white cloak while trotting around to find space, and the white robe was fluttering, which was particularly eye-catching in the loess blood sand. Seeing those iconic white robes, before the **** soldiers could charge, the Taiyuan army, who had been frightened, already had a feeling of weakness in their legs, but Li Er almost cried out and scolded: "Li Yaoshi!" Did I dig up your ancestral grave, or did I rob your sister? Why do you only defend Liu Wu and Zhou Pifu, and if you have a little elite soldiers, you will all greet me? You want me to lose my face to the end! ”