On the afternoon of the same day that Chen Yingliang and Yang Zhiji, the king of Cai, the main force of the rebel army led by Yang Xuangan also penetrated deep into the Cuihan Road, arrived at the edge of the Mianchi battlefield where Wei Xuan's army was stationed, and set up camp twenty miles away. At the same time, Qu Tutong's team, which had returned to the Luoyang battlefield from thousands of miles away, had just begun to cross the river because the soldiers and horses were too tired, and Laihu'er was also temporarily blocked by the easy-to-defend and difficult-to-attack Tiger Prison Pass.

The scouts of the Daxing army reported the movements of the rebel team to Wei Xuan, Wei Xuan knew that his opportunity for revenge and the final test came at the same time, and without saying a word, he immediately summoned the qualified civil and military officials in the army, and announced that he had decided to launch a night attack, taking advantage of the opportunity of the rebel army's main force to gain a foothold, and attacked the rebel camp very much in the middle of the night.

The decision made by Wei Xuan, who was as stubborn and domineering as Fan Zigai, naturally did not dare to have any objections from the civil and military officials in Daxing, the western capital, and Wei Xuan's tactic of suddenly attacking with ease and waiting for work was also in line with the right path of the soldiers, so the civil and military forces of Daxing naturally would not have any objections. But there are exceptions, and Liu Changgong, the right-hand martial guard Hu Benlang who belongs to the Eastern Capital, stood up and said cautiously: "Wei Shangshu, is this move too risky?" Cuihan Road is located in the valley, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the most vulnerable to ambush, Yang rebels and thieves have always been cunning, risky night attacks, if they are ambushed, the consequences are unpredictable. ”

"Fighting a war is an adventure, if you're afraid, you don't have to go." The old stubborn Wei Xuan said coldly.

"Wei Shangshu, can you think about it again?" Liu Changgong insisted: "Fan Liushou and Chen Ji are both suspected that there may be Yang rebels and spies hidden by your side, such a dangerous tactic of sneak attack at night, once it is leaked to Yang rebels by the traitor, the consequences will be unimaginable." ”

Hearing Liu Changgong's words, the faces of the great civil and military forces in the big tent of the Chinese army inevitably changed slightly, but Wei Xuan was furious, and roared: "Nonsense! There are only loyal ministers around the old man, and there are no traitors in Yang Rebellion! Don't think that you are the general of the east, I will not dare to treat you if I stay in the western capital, and then dare to slander the old man's military affairs with red lips and white teeth, and don't blame the old man for his ruthless military law! ”

Good intentions are not rewarded, Liu Changgong, who has a big temper and is not firm in his will, of course, is full of fire, so he retreats from the train and lets Wei Xuan toss by himself. And Wei Xuan did not hesitate, and immediately arranged for Zuowu Weihu Benlang to lead Zhang Jun to lead an army of 2,000 to serve as a sneak attack mission, and more carefully arranged for his right-hand man Hu Si Wanshan to lead an army to respond later, and at the same time, Wei Xuan also listened to a little persuasion, and carefully instructed the generals under his command to keep the soldiers secret, and never allow the plan of action to be leaked to the grassroots generals and soldiers until the last moment, so as not to hide the rebel traitors in the army.

General Liu's crow mouth unfortunately hit most of the words, although the rebel traitors have left Wei Xuan's team after the last battle of Bishan, but Wei Xuan's tactics of sneak attack overnight have long been expected by the scheming Li Zixiong and the scheming Li Mi, in order to prevent just in case, the rebel team with sufficient troops has already laid an ambush on both sides of the official road, and there is also a rebel team directly ambushed in front of the door, ready to meet the sneak attack team of Wei Xuan's army, At the same time, the special terrain of Cuihan Road was also destined to be difficult for Wei Xuanjun's sneak attack to succeed, and the combat team led by Zhang Jun had almost just entered the narrow terrain, and was immediately discovered by the rebel scouts who had always been more competitive, and flew to Yang Xuangan at the fastest speed.

Ran into the enemy who was prepared to fight, of course, Zhang Jun's team could not get half a little better, just lurked in front of the main gate of the rebel camp, Zhang Jun didn't even have time to order a surprise attack, the rebel camp was already a war drum like thunder, the rebel team that had been prepared immediately came head-on, and the rebels who were ambushed on both sides of the road also killed left and right, Zhang Jun's team was attacked on three sides, and was immediately defeated. failed to arrange an army to cut off Zhang Jun's retreat, if it were not for the rear army led by Hu Si Wanshan to enter the valley in time to respond, Zhang Jun's team was almost doomed to the death of the entire army. Even so, when Hu Si Wanshan responded to Zhang Jun's withdrawal to the camp of Michi, the 2,000 teams that Zhang Jun brought to the sneak attack were still three out of ten, and Zhang Jun, who was brave and good at fighting, was also injured by the rolling stones falling from the valley, and almost died on the spot, unable to continue to charge for Wei Xuan for the time being.

Stealing chickens does not eat rice, and almost loses the life of the heavy general Zhang Jun, the Wei Xuanjun team, which was originally reorganized into an army by the remnants of the defeated generals, will inevitably have a lower morale, and the morale of the army will inevitably be even more depressed, and Wei Xuan, who has already been disgraced, is even more angry and gritted his teeth. But the matter was not over, at dawn, about 200 soldiers under Zhang Jun's command who were captured in the sneak attack were released on the spot by Yang Xuangan generously and returned to the camp of Wei Xuan's army.

Yang Xuangan naturally couldn't be generous in vain, and it was impossible for the old slippery head Li Zixiong and Wagang fox Li Mi to persuade Yang Xuangan to do so, and more than 200 Sui army prisoners returned to the camp and reported the specific situation of Wei Xuan, saying that Yang Xuangan was asking them to return to Wei Xuan's army to bring a message, and brought a message to Wei Xuan that Honghua had left behind Yuan Hongsi to rebel against Sui and formed an alliance with Yang Xuangan's rebels. I was also going to bring a message to the soldiers of the Sui army, saying that after the main force of the rebels hit Hongnong, the first thing was to open the Changping warehouse to release grain, whether it was the people, the army or the people, they could go to the Changping warehouse where thousands of stones of grain were stored to take grain, and they could take as much as they could, and the rebel team would never stop them.

Li Zixiong and Li Mi teamed up to use this tactic to attack the heart and received the most satisfactory results, knowing that Yuan Honghei rebelled and did not know the truth or falsehood, Wei Xuan, who had an impatient personality, was of course suspicious, angry and worried, and Fang Cun was in chaos. At the same time, more than 200 Sui soldiers who were released back also gave Wei Xuan a big problem, rejoining the team will definitely affect the morale of the army, and if they are all slaughtered, it will hurt morale and shake the morale of the army, so after hesitating for a long time, Wei Xuan can only roar and roar to let these soldiers return to the team, and at the same time ask them not to spread the reactionary propaganda of the rebels, so as not to shake the morale of the army.

As for whether such a request can really prevent these soldiers from spreading the reactionary propaganda of the rebels, Wei Xuan himself does not know.

As soon as these prisoners were sent away, before Wei Xuan could calm down the anger in his chest, there was a sudden herald outside the tent, saying that the main force of the rebel army had reopened to the west, and Yang Xuangan personally led the front army to the west, and it seemed that he was planning to attack the camp of Wei Xuan's army directly. Hearing the news, Wei Xuan was even more furious, jumped up and shouted: "Order the whole army, go out of the camp and line up, and fight to the death with Yang Rebel and the traitor!" ”

"Stay behind and fight carefully!" Hu Si Wanshan was taken aback, and hurriedly gave up his hand to persuade: "Our army suffered a new defeat last night, the army is depressed, and it is not conducive to a decisive battle, so it is better to rely on the fortifications to defend the camp and resist the attack of the traitors." Our army has been stationed in Mianchi for many days, and the camp is strong, and Zhengli is holding on. ”

"Can the old man understand this truth?" Anyway, Wei Xuan, who was the former general of the right imperial guard, shouted, "But what if Yang rebels bypassed our camp and went west directly?" Unless we don't want to close it, we won't have to chase it down, and the battle will be even more difficult to fight when the time comes! ”

Hu Si Wanshan thought about it carefully and found that this was also the truth, so he could only helplessly receive the order, and at that moment Wei Xuan's army urgently blew the trumpet and raised the account, summoned all the generals in the army to give command, and decided to let the last more than 4,000 Daxing troops pour out, and Wei Xuan himself personally led the camp to prepare for the frontal attack of Yang Xuangan's main force. At the same time, because the shape was extremely critical, Wei Xuan, who did not intend to accept Fan Zigai's kindness, could only mobilize Liu Changgong's 4,000 reinforcements out of the camp and join forces with the Eastern Capital reinforcements to resist the enemy.

The well-prepared rebel army came quickly, and the 8,000 troops on Wei Xuan's side had just laid down their positions, and the rebel vanguard led by Yang Xuangan had already arrived at the Mianchi battlefield. Wei Xuan dug Yang Xuangan's ancestral grave, Yang Xuangan repeatedly beat Wei Xuan to the point of losing his armor and fleeing for his life, so that Wei Xuan, who was a major minister of the Great Sui, lost face, and each other had a gritty hatred, so the two armies had just finished arranging, and an earth-shattering bloody battle was immediately launched.

The first to launch the attack, of course, is eager to advance westward rebel team, in the first rebel general Yang Xuanting under the leadership of the rebel team, the rebel team directly hit the front of the Wei Xuan army, in order to encourage morale and boost morale, the general doctor Hu Si Wanshan also came to the battle, with a civilian body personally operated to kill the enemy, led the team of soldiers under his command to fight hard, the two army teams fought fiercely with knives and guns, shouting and killing like thunder, and there was no winner or loser for a long time.

After a long time of fierce fighting, the main brigade of the rebels has also arrived on the battlefield, under the command of Li Zixiong, the old slippery head who carefully observed the enemy's situation, Wang Zhongbo and Yang Wanshuo each led an army to kill left and right, outflanking and attacking the left and right flanks of Hu Si Wanshan, inducing Wei Xuan to also increase his troops in the formation. As a result, Wei Xuan also fell for the plan, worried about the safety of the love general Hu Si Wanshan, and immediately sent troops to catch the rebel team that was killed by the two wings.

Wei Xuan's contingency completely fell into Li Zixiong's trap, because Wei Xuan forgot one thing, the reason why Hu Si Wanshan's team was able to stalemate with Yang Xuanting was because the Sui soldiers under Hu Si Wanshan were the core team that protected him Wei Xuan from the Bishan battlefield to Mianchi, and their combat effectiveness and cohesion were the strongest. Completely forgetting the other Sui army teams, whether it is morale or combat cohesion, they cannot be compared with the elite of the Sui army under the command of Hu Si Wanshan............

The development of the battle situation completely fell into the grasp of Li Zixiong, the great director, after Wei Xuan put the new force into the battlefield, not only did not continue to stabilize the stalemate, but the left-wing team also quickly fell into the disadvantage, under the leadership of Wang Zhongbo, the veteran of the rebel army left by Yang Su to Yang Xuangan, the rebel team beat Wei Xuan's left-wing team to the ground and retreated, cutting down the ghost and crying wolf, and there were signs of collapse in less than a moment.

Seeing this scene, Wei Xuan was of course anxious, and hurriedly arranged for the new force to reinforce the left wing, but he was stunned to find that there was no Daxing army available in his hands, and he was forced to have no desperation, Wei Xuan ordered Liu Changgong's team under the eastern capital to step forward to reinforce, and asked Liu Changgong to send a thousand troops to reinforce the left flank and re-stabilize the balance of power on the battlefield.

After receiving Wei Xuan's order, General Liu, who was always ready to flee with dry food hidden on his body, simply had an urge to vomit blood, not daring to disobey Wei Xuan's order, but also afraid that once he fell into the quagmire of melee, he would not be able to complete the real task of covering Wei Xuan's defeated army to Hongnong as much as possible, and he was in a dilemma and at a loss.

Fortunately, General Liu, who has been partnering with Chen Yingliang for a long time, has always had good luck, and at the critical moment, the left wing of the Wei Xuan Army, which was already crumbling, suddenly collapsed on the whole line, and a large number of Sui soldiers threw down their weapons and flags and ran backwards, crying and shouting to flee for their lives. Seeing this scene, General Liu, who did not want to fight the main force of the rebels at all, was of course overjoyed, and decisively ordered the whole army to give up the attack, and used a phalanx to block the impact of the rebels and the defeated troops of the Sui army, and also unceremoniously ordered to shoot arrows and stab the soldiers of the defeated army of the Sui army, so as not to be disrupted by the defeated soldiers of the friendly army.

At the same time, General Liu also sent people to contact Wei Xuan more carefully, and Wei Xuan led the few remaining Chinese troops to move closer to the self-army, so that the self-army could protect and flee.

Wei Xuan, who was in a state of rage, of course, could not accept General Liu's kindness, and as a result, Wei Xuan soon found that he could not accept this kindness, because with the collapse of the left-wing team, the right-wing team, which was greatly affected by the morale of the army, soon could not support it, and was defeated by Yang Wanshuo, who took the lead, and the rebel team was defeated and retreated, and there were also signs of collapse quickly.

Soon, with the complete collapse of the right-wing team, another defeat and fiasco of Wei Xuan's army was inevitable, and with Yang Xuangan's personal leadership of the army, Hu Si Wanshan's team could not withstand the onslaught from three directions no matter how brave and good the team was, even if Hu Si Wanshan himself was still struggling, but the soldiers under his command joined the fleeing team one after another. Forced to be helpless, in order not to let love send Hu Si Wanshan to death in vain, and in order not to let himself fall into the hands of the enemy and suffer a great humiliation, Wei Xuan could only cry and order Hu Si Wanshan to retreat, and at the same time led the few remaining Chinese troops to move closer to Liu Changgong's team, and accepted the kindness of Liu Changgong's team, and entered the internal safety zone of the phalanx of the Sui army in the eastern capital.

Husi Wanshan, the only one in the Daxing army who could fight, also began to retreat, and the rebel team's victorious pursuit also began, and General Liu, who did not want to fight the main force of the rebels, also did not hesitate to order a strategic turn - fleeing to the west. At the same time, General Liu ignored Wei Xuan's strong opposition, and sent his own soldiers to hold Wei Xuan's war horse, and Wei Xuan's strategy turned around.

It was also at this time that the rebel ranks spat blood and discovered that the team of General Liu they were pursuing was simply a team born to flee for their lives! When the rebel team killed in front of General Liu's team, and could cut the soldiers under the command of General Liu with a knife, they just raised their knives, and the soldiers under General Liu's command had already turned around and ran to a distance that could only be pierced with a spear, and the rebel soldiers put down their knives and just raised their spears, and General Liu's team had fled to a distance that only bows and arrows could shoot, and the rebel soldiers put down their spears with tears in their eyes and picked up their bows and arrows, and General Liu's team had actually fled to a position that only bed crossbows could shoot, and then the stunned rebel soldiers, I can only see the rolling yellow sand rising high behind the buttocks of General Liu's team.

No matter how General Liu can run and escape, the main force of the rebels must also be pursued to the end, because it doesn't matter if General Liu escapes with his life, let General Liu escape to Tongguan with Wei Xuan, then the main force of the rebels is the general trend - just because of the tragic terrain of Tongguan, just because General Liu's team hides on the wall and smashes stones, it is likely to hold on until the main force of the Sui army completely encircles the rebel team! Therefore, even though General Liu showed an extremely amazing ability to escape, Yang Xuangan still did not hesitate to order a close pursuit, and personally led the team of soldiers to launch a pursuit, no matter what, he did not give General Liu's team a chance to escape.

Yang Xuangan, who likes to take the lead, led the troops to pursue, and the work of cleaning up the battlefield and leading the rear army to follow was naturally handed over to Li Zixiong and Wang Zhongbo and other rebel civil and military generals, Li Zixiong, who was old in the military, quickly arranged various tasks, and just wanted to discuss with his deputy Li Mi whether to arrange an army to defend the danger in the Cuihan Road, and do his best to delay the pursuit of the main force of the Sui army, but he was stunned to find that Li Mi, who had always been loyal to his duties, was rarely not around, and hurriedly asked the soldiers next to him, and the soldiers replied: "The deputy military division interrogated the prisoners, He seemed to have suddenly remembered something, and hurried to interrogate the captive. ”

"This Master Li, the battle situation has reached this point, what other confessions need to be interrogated?" Li Zixiong smiled, and then Li Zixiong suddenly remembered a big event, and quickly jumped up and shouted: "Where is the Dharma Master interrogating the prisoners? Take me there! ”

Under the guidance of his own soldiers, he hurriedly came to the scene of Li Mi's interrogation of the prisoners, and as soon as they met, Li Zixiong immediately asked with a slashed face: "Master, where is the white-robed soldier of Chen Yingliang's thief now?" Why didn't you appear on the Michi battlefield today? Is this important situation asked? ”

"Old general, the junior has already asked." Li Mi replied with a stern face: "The prisoners of war confessed that Chen Yingliang's thief did not come to reinforce the Mianchi battlefield, but had already gone directly to Hongnong at noon the day before yesterday to reinforce Yang Zhiji, the king of Cai, who was stationed there. ”

Li Zixiong opened his mouth and stammered, and only after a while did he pause and yell, "Fan Zigai, you old slippery head!" Old fox! He was so shrewd in his calculations, knowing that Wei Xuan's old puppet would definitely fight with us to take revenge, and also knowing that Wei Xuan couldn't stop us, so he sent your elite team to the rear first, ready to help defend Tongguan at any time! Calculated and shrewd to this point, you can be regarded as perfect! ”

"There is also Liu Changgong's team, which must also be arranged by Fan Zigai." Li Mi said with a gloomy face: "Liu Changgong's team obviously has no intention of fighting with us, Wei Xuan's handsome banner has just been transferred to their team, and they immediately retreated quickly to the west, it is obvious that this team was arranged by Fan Zigai to wipe Wei Xuan's ass, which can not only keep Wei Xuan's stubborn life safe, but also provide sufficient troops for holding Tongguan." We were all careless, a few days ago we should have stopped Fan Zigai from rescuing Wei Xuan at any cost. ”

"Old fox!" Li Zixiong looked up to the sky and sighed, then thought about it a little, and immediately shouted: "Master, leave the matter here to the old man, you go and catch up with Duke Chu and tell him about the situation!" At any cost, he must go all out to pursue Liu Changgong's defeated army! If there is a chance, immediately divide an army to move forward alone, choke the dangerous road between Hongnong and Tongguan, and do not give Chen Yingliang and Liu Changgong a chance to reinforce Tongguan! ”

"Old general, will it be too late?" Li Mi still lacked some experience in the end, and asked worriedly: "Chen Yingliang, that thief, will he have already rushed directly to Tongguan?" ”

"Impossible!" Li Zixiong replied categorically: "First, Tongguan is the most important place in Guanzhong, and without Wei Xuan's official document, even the team sent by Fan Zigai is not qualified to enter the Guancheng garrison!" Second, Tongguan is too far away from Mianchi, and no matter how much Liu Changgong can run, he is not sure to escape to Tongguan with Wei Xuan in one go! Therefore, Chen Yingliang, that thief, will definitely pick up Liu Changgong's team between the abandoned Hangu Pass and Hongnong, and then retreat to Tongguan with Wei Xuan. ”