Withdraw the troops and return to Yongcheng to tell the eldest grandson Wuji about Zhang Xutuo's situation, and the eldest grandson Wuji, who was born as a son of an official eunuch, is also very worried about the consequences of offending Zhang Xutuo in person, but the matter has come to this point, no matter how sorry and worried it is, it is useless, and the eldest grandson Wuji can only follow Chen Yingliang's arrangement, immediately start to investigate and grasp the various situations on the battlefield of Menghaicheng, and prepare for emergencies.

Meng Haicheng is located in the middle of the northern part of Liang County, not very far from Yongcheng, and the transportation is quite convenient, considering that the information of friendly forces may not be reliable, Chen Yingliang simply arranged a few reliable bandits to surrender troops, so that Ma Sanbao rescued the little bandit and led the team to the north, to the front line to understand the situation, at the same time, Chen Yingliang also secretly instructed He Er and others, saying that as long as they can spy on the enemy, even if they take the risk to join the Meng Hai Gong Bandit Army.

Of course, the intelligence of friendly forces is also very important, at this point, Chen Yingliang rarely had to send an envoy to Liangjun to guard Yang Wang, and as a result, Yang Wang, who was friendly with Pei Hongce, looked at Chen Yingliang's distant uncle's face, but it was very painful for people to copy a copy of the information about Meng Haicheng that they had and sent it to Chen Yingliang, and at the same time scolded Chen Yingliang with a handwritten letter, accusing Chen Yingliang of not repeatedly offending Zhang Xutuo, the favorite minister of Emperor Yang of Sui, and not refusing to refuse Zhang Xutuo's invitation to send troops to Meng Haicheng. By the way, help Yang Wang solve the big trouble of the northern border.

Chen Yingliang, who has long been accustomed to being scolded by his elders, of course will not mind Yang Wang's accusations, but is only concerned about the specific situation of Meng Haigong and Meng Haicheng, and judging from the information provided by Yang Wang, Meng Haigong is indeed an extraordinary big thief, who beat the officials and soldiers of Liang County and Jiyin County to the point that he has no temper, and he has also built a city in his hometown of Zhouqiao, and openly resisted the invasion of the officials and troops by accumulating grass and grain. A thief like Meng Haigong, who built his own castle, is still a scorpion on the land of the Central Plains - the only one.

As for Meng Haigong's life experience, the information provided by Yang Wang is very vague, only saying that Meng Haigong is a rich landlord in Zhouqiao, and he is quite prestigious in the local area. However, Yang Wang is also a general guard who can only eat dry rice for nothing, and attached a sketch of Meng Haicheng to Chen Yingliang in the letter, so that Chen Yingliang can understand some specific situations about Meng Haicheng in advance.

When looking at the sketch provided by Yang Wang, Chen Yingliang found that the Menghai City built by Meng Haigong is the structure of the north and south twin cities, and between the two cities is a small river called the Hulu River, which connects the neighboring Makeng River, and the specific water potential is unknown, but from the situation that the north and south of Menghai City need to be connected by bridges, the water potential should not be small. The periphery of the city wall is protected by a moat, the length from north to south is more than five miles, the width from east to west is about four miles, the height is more than three zhang, and the thickness of the Liang County scouts has not been discovered, and the number of houses and streets in the city and how much grain there is naturally do not know, in short, this is all that Chen Yingliang can understand.

After carefully studying the information provided by Yang Wang, Chen Yingliang came to a conclusion and concluded: "This city is not easy to fight, if Zhang Xutuo only uses the tactics of frontal attack, and then encounters Meng Haigong who is slightly proficient in the tactics of defending the city, Zhang Xutuo does not want to break the city quickly, and it is not impossible to be consumed by Meng Haigong to be forced to retreat!" ”

"Brother, if it were replaced by our Qianjun army, would you be sure that you would take this city?" Eldest Sun Wuji asked curiously.

"With the strength of our army in the county, we will definitely not be able to take this city, and the strength is too insufficient." Chen Yingliang replied frankly, and said: "If we want to break through this city, we have to join forces with Zhang Xutuo's team, even if we join forces with Zhang Xutuo, the hope of breaking through head-on is not very great, and even if we can finally break through this city, we will inevitably have to pay a heavy price." ”

"Brother, do you have a way to break the city with a clever plan?" The eldest grandson Wuji asked, and said: "If there is, the younger brother thinks that you can't hide your personal interests, brother, it is best to give it to Zhang Xutuo as a personal favor, leave a line of life, and meet in the future, Zhang Xutuo's official status is extraordinary, and maintaining friendly relations with him still has more advantages than disadvantages for us." ”

Chen Yingliang shook his head, frowned and said: "The information provided by Yang Wang is too rough, I rely on this information to imagine a plan to break the city out of thin air, it is not realistic at all, if I want to break the city by skill, unless I go to the scene to investigate, maybe there is still a hope or two." ”

"It's okay, brother, you don't need to worry." The eldest grandson Wuji comforted, and said: "Since there will be no plan to break the city for a while, then we will simply continue to wait and see what happens, while continuing to collect information about Meng Haicheng and Meng Haigong, and on the other hand, see how he Zhang Xutuo fights this battle, if he Zhang Xutuo can take Meng Haicheng, of course, it is the best." If he can't attack for a long time, we will immediately send troops to help him and give him charcoal in the snow, so that the effect of easing relations may be better. ”

"That's it." Chen Yingliang nodded sullenly, knowing that the eldest grandson Wuji's construction was the safest, but he was worried that Zhang Xutuo would send troops in a negative mood and hit the Qi County team that he had coveted for a long time - Zhang Xutuo was not a person who liked to be calm, and when he was impulsive, he dared to lead four cavalry to attack the enemy formation.

Like Chen Yingliang's worries, Zhang Xutuo's fiery character doomed him to act calmly, the southern expedition and the northern war for four full years, in the case of the army suffering from fatigue and injuries, Zhang Xutuo just let the soldiers of Qi County rest for a short period of seven days, and then immediately sent troops to Menghai City, and also ordered the officers and soldiers of Liang County and Jiyin County to also send troops to help in the battle, and entered Menghai City in three ways, with a total strength of more than 20,000 people. Upon hearing this news, Chen Yingliang could only shake his head and sigh, still not very optimistic about Zhang Xutuo's siege operation this time - because Chen Yingliang vaguely remembered this history, and Meng Haigong seemed to have survived until Zhang Xutuo died in battle and was not exterminated.

Chen Yingliang really remembered this history, in history, Meng Hai Gong did survive until Zhang Xutuo died in battle, and once took the land of two entire counties and proclaimed himself King Song Yi, but this is not because Zhang Xutuo could not destroy Meng Haigong, but because Zhang Xutuo has been busy killing other thieves, and he has never dealt with Meng Hai Bus at all. However, the history changed by Chen Yingliang's demon moth effect is by no means limited to Meng Haigong............

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On the evening of the second day after Chen Yingliang received the news of Zhang Xutuo's troops, in the southern suburbs of Yongqiu County, Liang County, in a peaceful and peaceful small village, a well-off family was holding a wedding, the owner of this family was called Wang Xiucai, who was a chivalrous man who was well-known in the entire Yongqiu County, and what surprised the people in the village was that Wang Xiucai did not hold a wedding for his son, but recruited a son-in-law for his daughter who was only 15 years old, or a son-in-law in his early thirties and dark skin.

There were not many guests attending the wedding, except for the people in the village, there was only a young man in his twenties, no one knew his identity and origin, only that he was a distant relative of Wang Xiucai, and a friend of Wang Xiucai's son-in-law, and he had been eating and living in Wang Xiucai's house during this time. During the banquet, some of the young men in the village also wanted to go and drink with him, but his face was full of love and ignorance, and his expression was very arrogant.

Blowing and blowing, after the heaven and earth worshipped, the son-in-law who looked ordinary but behaved kindly was also poured into a blushing neck by the guests, it was time to enter the cave room, several good things in the village insisted on sending the son-in-law into the cave room, Wang Xiucai, who was familiar with the temper of the villagers, stopped him, and was making a fuss, but an outsider suddenly broke into the wedding scene, attached to the ear of the son-in-law and whispered a few words, the son-in-law's face immediately changed, first whispered a conversation with outsiders to a remote place, and then immediately returned to the field, glanced at Wang Xiucai, Wang Xiucai realized, and Weng and his son-in-law immediately found an excuse to leave the front hall temporarily and talk alone in the back room.

After entering the back room, the son-in-law first carefully checked that there were no outsiders following, and then closed the door, and then immediately knelt down on one knee to Wang Xiucai, and said solemnly: "Father-in-law forgives the sin, the son-in-law is ashamed, and he must say goodbye to you immediately." ”

"Why? What's wrong? Wang Xiucai asked in surprise.

"My brother-in-law sent someone to deliver the news." The son-in-law said in a deep voice: "The tyrant lackey Zhang Xutuo decided to gather the troops of Qi County, Liang County and Jiyin County to attack Meng Hai City, and the son-in-law thought that this was a rare opportunity, so he decided to say goodbye to his father-in-law's family and go to Meng Hai City to join Meng Hai Gong to help him resist Zhang Xutuo's conquest. ”

"Zhang Xutuo?" Wang Xiucai was taken aback and said: "That's the right-hand dog under the tyrant's command, and he is a famous general!" The virtuous son-in-law intends to do great things, why should he be hostile to him? ”

"Don't worry, Zhang Xutuo is not afraid." The son-in-law's tone was very contemptuous, and he sneered and said: "The son-in-law has carefully studied his battle examples, and knows that this person is indeed brave and invincible, but he almost always wins by bravery in battles with soldiers, and he is completely a brave and reckless man, so there is nothing to be afraid of!" He was invincible before, but because he had never met a decent opponent, if he was replaced by his son-in-law commanding an army to fight him, his son-in-law would be ten percent sure that he would be defeated lightly! ”

"The virtuous son-in-law is amazing, of course I know." Wang Xiucai reminded: "But virtuous son-in-law, you don't have an army to fight Zhang Xutuo?" ”

"So the son-in-law decided to go to Meng Haigong." The son-in-law replied: "Judging from the situation grasped by the little brother-in-law, Meng Haigong has more than 20,000 troops under his command, among which there are many elite warriors who have been on the battlefield for a long time, and there are strong cities that he built by himself to defend. ”

Speaking of this, the son-in-law's tone became a little excited, and he said excitedly: "Please think about it, if the son-in-law assists Meng Haigong to defeat Zhang Xutuo, and defeats the tyrant Yang Guangyi's twelve counties who are like the Great Wall to arrest Zhang Xutuo, and shatter his myth of invincibility, how will the world be shaken?" How shocked will the rebels on the land of Qingxu Qilu be? How could those rebel troops who were afraid of Zhang Sutuo's obscenity not be demoralized? As long as the rebels from all walks of life fight bravely and are no longer afraid of the prestige of the government, the tyrant Yang Guang will be destroyed one day! Such a God-given opportunity, the son-in-law must not miss it! ”

The door-to-door son-in-law said excitedly, but Wang Xiucai remained silent until the door-to-door son-in-law finished speaking, Wang Xiucai thought about it for a long time, and then said: "Two questions, first, after you go to Meng Haigong, how can you get his reuse and make him obey you?" Second, what about my daughter? ”

"Please rest assured." The son-in-law said confidently: "The son-in-law is also a little famous, Meng Haigong is being attacked by Zhang Xutuo, I am afraid that Zhang Xutuo will be in a panic, the six gods have no master, as long as the son-in-law speaks properly and offers advice to help him frustrate the official army for a while, Meng Haigong will definitely rely on the son-in-law as a confidant and obey his words." ”

"As for Xiao Fang......." The son-in-law hesitated for a moment, knelt down on Wang Xiucai's knees, and said in a deep voice: "Lord Yue, you don't think your son-in-law is poor, you don't care about the origin of your son-in-law, and you are not afraid of dangerous consequences. In this way, the son-in-law will not enter the cave room tonight, and will leave tomorrow morning, and ask Lord Yue-in-law to choose another virtuous son-in-law for Xiaofang! ”

"You can go, but you have to have sex with my daughter tonight!" Wang Xiucai said solemnly: "In order to overthrow the tyrant and relieve the suffering of the common people, almost all of your family have been killed, and you have to go to the battlefield to fight. If she can give birth to a boy and a girl for you, you can also worry about the battlefield between the two armies. ”

"Uncle Yue......." The son-in-law's voice trembled a little.

"That's it!" Wang Xiucai waved his hand categorically, and said: "Go to the cave room, I'll go and prepare dry food for you, and then prepare a letter for you to recommend to Meng Haigong." ”

"Uncle Yue, do you know Meng Haigong?" The door-to-door son-in-law asked in surprise.

Wang Xiucai nodded and said: "A few years ago, when the world was peaceful, I traveled all over the world, and I once had a relationship with Meng Haigong in Zhouqiao, but I don't know if he remembered me. Also, I have also seen Meng Haigong's wife, Ma Saifei, who is a woman who is quite greedy for money, I will prepare a gift for you, you bring it to her, and she will definitely speak for you in front of Meng Haigong. ”

"Uncle Yue......." The son-in-law cried and choked up: "Over the years, you have squandered your wealth and lost most of your property, and your son-in-law really can't bear to add any more burden to you." ”

"I'm willing to marry you even my only daughter, let alone money?" Wang Xiucai asked calmly, and the son-in-law didn't speak anymore, but just looked at Wang Xiucai again and again, crying silently.

The next morning, when his wife was still asleep, the son-in-law had quietly gone out of the house, and his father-in-law Wang Xiucai said goodbye with tears, leading his only companion, riding a war horse quietly sent by his brother-in-law's family, and the fast horse rushed towards Meng Haicheng, which was about to fall into the flames of war. At the same time, when he was on the road, his only companion said to him: "You are really willing, although the daughter of Wang Xiucai's family is a mountain woman, she is a little beautiful at all, and she is only fifteen years old and so young, you are willing to leave immediately after only one night of husband and wife, you are ruthless enough." ”

"It's not that I'm ruthless, it's that we don't have time." The son-in-law replied calmly: "Zhang Xutuo has already sent troops to Menghai City two days ago, even if his team is large and walks slowly, there is not much time left for us, we have to hurry up and rush to Menghai City to help him Meng Haigong preside over the defense and resist Zhang Xutuo's attack." ”

Speaking of this, the son-in-law paused for a moment, and said: "Besides, compared to me, our sworn enemy Chen Yingliang's thief is the real ruthless, three generations of single transmission, after the engagement, he didn't even get married, and immediately moved the errand of Qian County to serve in this smoky Qingxu land." If we want to take revenge, we must learn from his ruthlessness of first the big and then the smallest, otherwise, if we are bound by the love of our children, how can we be the opponent of him, a vicious thief? ”

Hearing the son-in-law mention the name of the enemy, the companion snorted heavily, and then said: "Speaking of Chen Yingliang's thief, Meng Haicheng is not too far away from Qian County, and I asked my father's old department to give Chen Xiaothief activities in the court, you said that is the messenger, what if Chen Yingliang's thief also comes to Menghai City?" ”

"As long as Meng Haigong can adopt my correct opinion, I can't wait for him Chen Yingliang to be sent to death as a thief!" The son-in-law said confidently: "Although that little thief is treacherous, he has never fought a siege battle, and the strength in his hands is insufficient, if he dares to go to the battlefield of Menghai City, it will be just the opportunity to give us revenge!" ”

"I hope so." The companion said in his heart, and then said: "Okay, I'll believe you again, and I'll accompany you to bet again, let's go!" ”

The son-in-law was indeed very confident in his strategy, and he was lucky not to encounter any accidents on the road, and it took only more than two days to rush to Menghai City, and he also rushed to Menghai City before the arrival of Zhang Xutuo's army, but after carefully observing the geographical situation of Menghai City on the high ground outside the city, the son-in-law's face changed a little, and he said with a worried expression: "The location of Meng Haigong's city is a bit risky, and this Menghai City may have a huge flaw. ”

"What's the flaw?" The companion wondered, "This city is strong, isn't it?" The two cities in the north and south, standing between the rivers, are each other's horns, and the fortifications are also very perfect, which should be built in imitation of the regular city, I don't see any flaws? ”

The son-in-law didn't answer, but just observed it with a gloomy face for a long time, and then said: "It's just a flaw that may exist in zài, whether it really exists in zài, it still needs to be investigated on the spot." But if this flaw really exists, then this city may be difficult to defend for a long time. ”

"What the hell is the flaw?"

Just as the companion wanted to ask, there was already a loud shout behind them, "Who are you?" What are you doing here? Looking at the situation in our city, could it be a spy sent by the official army? ”

The son-in-law and his companion turned around, and saw that it was a small group of thieves and soldiers wearing ordinary cloth clothes who opened their questions, and the son-in-law of the door was busy smiling slightly, and said to the team of thieves and soldiers: "General, we are not spies of the official army, your king Meng Haigong Meng Lushi is still a friend of my father-in-law, my name is Li Mi, please lead the way to your camp, I want to meet your Meng Lushi, there is a military aircraft major event to report to him." ”