Since coming to this era, Chen Fuliang has not spent much time in Daxing, before and after adding up to only more than three months, the various situations in the city are very strange and alienated in Chen Fuliang's impression, so unfamiliar that Chen Fuliang has never regarded Daxing as his home, and has been treating Daxing as his temporary foothold for several years.

When he returned to Daxing for the third time, Chen Fuliang found that this was not the case, only to find that Daxing City has indeed been inextricably linked with himself, and then he found that Daxing City has too many memories of himself, remembering that he came to this era and opened his eyes in Daxing City, met Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui in Daxing, met his lover Yang Yuer and his wife eldest grandson Wujian, and the brothers and sisters Chai Shao and Chai Qian, who were entangled in grievances and hatreds, and also met Li Yuan's family, which he did not hate but was destined to become an enemy of the heavens. and all sorts of past events that happened as a result.

Riding a horse and looking at the city of Daxing, remembering these sweet or bitter pasts, Chen Fuliang of course was full of thoughts, full of emotion, completely forgetting that he rode his horse and led the army to come here to personally explore the terrain and observe what arrangements and adjustments the rebels had made in the defense of Daxing City, until the Sui army next to him reminded the city of movement, Chen Fuliang came back to his senses, looked at the Chunming Gate Tower not far away, and soon saw Li Yuan's handsome banner.

A personal soldier rushed back from the front, and reported that Li Yuan invited Chen Fuliang to the city to answer, but Chen Fuliang, who usually liked to answer with the enemy in the battle, was very faceless this time, and ordered lightly: "Go and tell Li Yuan the old thief, just say that I will not waste saliva with a dying person, tell him to wash his neck clean, and when our army breaks through Daxing, I will cut off his head with my own hands and pay tribute to the spirit of His Royal Highness the Acting King." ”

The soldiers received the order, rushed to the Chunming Gate, and shouted out Chen Fuliang's reply, the rebel generals around Li Yuan in the city were furious, and asked for orders to lead the army out of the city to fight with Chen Fuliang, Li Yuan's face was also very ugly, but he did not agree to go out of the city to fight, and Li Er, who had already dressed himself up heroically, also scolded: "Shut up!" The general has an order, and without his personal permission, no one is allowed to lead the army into battle without permission, and those who violate the order will be engaged in military law! ”

Frontal siege is only the last choice, after a cursory observation of the city defense situation of Chunming Gate, seeing that there is little change from before, Chen Fuliang did not spend too much effort to study how to break the city, but did not go back to the camp to rest, but took advantage of the fact that there was still some time before dark, Chen Fuliang rode southward to observe the situation of Yanxing Gate in the south, and led hundreds of cavalry to swagger through the city under Daxing City, seeing the number of more than 150,000 rebels in the city as nothing, and the rebel soldiers in the city along the way also stretched their necks, competing to see Chen Fuliang's appearance, and the discussion continued.

Sensing the curiosity of the rebel soldiers, Chen Fuliang was also very face-saving, smiled and rode his horse close to the moat, and shouted at the city: "The people of the Great Sui in the city, do you want to see the appearance of Chen Yingliang left behind in the eastern part of the Great Sui?" See clearly, I'm the same as you, I also have two eyes and a mouth, not three heads and six arms, not three eyes with green faces and fangs, the only difference with you is that my loyalty to the Great Sui River is outstanding, if you want to be like me, you also have a chance, as long as you are as loyal to the Great Sui court as I am! ”

Most of the rebel soldiers were silent, but they just stretched their necks as much as possible to see Chen Fuliang's scratching posture, and whispered and talked constantly, until the rebel generals who followed here were angry and ordered to release arrows, Chen Fuliang smiled and beat his horse and left, leaving countless rebel soldiers whispering in the city, "I heard that he is a person from this Daxing City, when he was a child, he was so poor that he often picked vegetables and leaves in Liren City to make porridge, and the general's son-in-law looked down on people, forcing him to divorce the sister of the general's son-in-law, and later ......." ”

For the military and civilian people of Daxing, Chen Fuliang, who was born in Daxing and grew up in Daxing, always has an indescribable sense of intimacy with them, and Chen Fuliang's legendary experience also makes them extremely envious and yearning, as a result, these two points are added together, these Daxing military and civilian people have naturally become Chen Fuliang's free and effective propagandists, and all kinds of rumors and legends about Chen Fuliang are circulating in the rebel army, and the morale of the rebels will be affected, no matter how the rebel generals stop the spread of rumors, But it still couldn't stop the officers and soldiers in the army from knowing all kinds of grievances and grievances between Chen Fuliang and the old Li family, Chen Fuliang, who always had the moral upper hand, became a hero respected by the rebel soldiers, and Li Yuan, who was affected by his son-in-law, was completely compared.

Coincidentally, when Chen Fuliang rode his horse to Yanxingmen, Xu Shixu, the rebel general who had met Chen Fuliang a lot during the Battle of Yanmen, happened to be in the city, Chen Fuliang was too lazy to pay attention to Li Yuan, but he was quite affectionate to Xu Shixu, and shouted at Xu Shixu: "Xu Shixu, when you were in the Yanmen War, didn't you threaten to kill me behind my back several times?" Why don't you want to come out and give it a try now that the opportunity has come? Don't forget, you're 150,000, and I've got 50,000 troops! ”

Xu Shixu was silent with a dark face, Chen Fuliang whispered a word to Yu Chi Jingde next to him, Yu Chi Jingde promised, pulled the bow and shot the arrow forward, an arrow shot at Xu Shixu, the arrow broke through the air and came very fast, frightened Xu Shixu quickly dodged in a low voice, as a result, the feather arrow hit his top helmet, and flew away with his helmet, the Sui soldiers cheered, but the rebel soldiers were in an uproar, and their morale dropped greatly, and Wei Chi Jingde loudly threatened to take Xu Shixu's head on the battlefield, and then slapped the horse and left. Seeing that the effect of damaging the enemy's morale had been achieved, Chen Fuliang did not continue to waste time, laughed and led the army back to the camp directly.

It was also until Wei Chi Jingde patted his horse and walked away, the defenders in the city woke up like a dream and remembered to shoot back with arrows, most of the arrows shot were weak and weak, and the morale was obviously a little low, after Xu Shixu sent someone to report the situation to Li Yuan, Li Yuan, who was also aware of the low morale of his army, was both worried and helpless, and had to ask the generals on the left and right: "The thieves are rampant, but our army's morale is low, and the soldiers are afraid of the enemy like tigers, how is it good?" ”

Li Jiancheng, Liu Wenjing, Wang Changhuan, Pei Lian, Yin Kaishan and Dou Cong and other important civil and military forces of the rebel army were all on the scene, but none of them could answer Li Yuan's question, and they were all helpless against the low morale of the army, only Li Erlang replied: "Father, the child thinks that what our soldiers and soldiers are afraid of is just the undefeated prestige of Chen Yingliang's thief. ”

"You're going to risk it again?" Li Yuan asked, slanting at his precious son.

"No, no." Li Er hurriedly shook his head and replied: "The morale of the officers and soldiers is high, but the morale of our army is sluggish. The child thinks that the current plan should be to take advantage of Chen Yingliang's thief's lack of sufficient siege weapons, and try his best to lure Chen Yingliang's thief to attack the city. ”

Li Yuan was a little moved, and Pei Lin next to him also echoed: "General, what the right capital governor said is very true, I remember that when Yang Xuangan was in the past, Yang Xuangan's army won many battles, and the official army of the Eastern Capital was defeated in successive battles, and Chen Yingliang's thief also used a trick to lure Yang Xuangan to attack the city in a hurry, and defeated Yang Xuangan with the advantage of the city, which gradually inspired the morale and fighting spirit of the defenders of the Eastern Capital, and gradually suppressed the momentum of Yang Xuangan's continuous victory. ”

"Then how do you attract the officers and troops to attack the city?" Li Jiancheng on the other side questioned and said: "Don't forget, this strategy was originally thought up by Chen Yingliang, and if we use such a strategy against him, wouldn't it be an axe for the class?" ”

Pei Lin and Li Er were a little speechless, but Li Yuan was silent, and after a little calculation, he ordered: "It doesn't matter, as long as there is a direction, how to lure Chen Yingliang's thieves to attack Daxing City, I will arrange it." Go back to the Wude Palace, and by the way, send someone to find Yun Dingxing and ask him to come to the Wude Hall to see me immediately. ”

When Li Yuan returned to the Wude Hall with a group of henchmen and assistants, Yun Dingxing, who had already been retained in the military power, was also passed to the Wude Palace, although he had already had the intention of defecting to Chen Fuliang if he had a chance, but the old slippery head Yun Dingxing still obediently saluted Li Yuan, Li Yuan first ordered someone to give him a seat, and then suddenly asked: "General Yun, I heard that when you left Luoyang and led the army north to Taiyuan, you had met with Chen Yingliang before leaving, what was his last verbal explanation to you?" ”

"One last verbal confession?" Yun Dingxing was stunned, and he didn't understand why Li Yuan asked him this question-Li Yuan had sent a letter to Chen Fuliang under the banner of Yun Dingxing before, and the people sent were of course Li Yuan's own subordinates, and Chen Fuliang's request to Yun Dingxing's messenger, of course, the previous messenger would not tell Yun Dingxing.

"Yes, what is the last verbal confession, or the only one you and him know?" Li Yuan asked.

"It's ......." Yun Dingxing's face was embarrassed, and he replied: "General, please let the last general think about it, it's been too long, and the last general has to recall." ”

Of course, Li Yuan agreed, and Yun Dingxing also started to think about it, and said secretly in his heart: "Why did Li Yuan's old thief ask this question? The eldest nephew wanted me to run south when the war was unfavorable, because he was afraid that Old Man Fan would have a bad temper and cut me with a knife, and he didn't have a chance to save me if he wanted to, this matter has nothing to do with Li Yuan's old thief, why did Li Yuan's old thief ask? Does Lao Tzu want to answer truthfully? ”

"Don't remember yet?" Li Yuan urged impatiently: "I heard that incident is very important to you, you should be very impressed, why haven't you remembered it yet?" ”

"Damn, you can't tell the truth." Yun Dingxing quickly made a decision in his heart, and said secretly: "Last time Li Yuan's old thief forced the old man to write a fake letter to deceive Ying Liang's eldest nephew, I may have offended the eldest nephew, and now the eldest nephew has already hit Daxing City, at this time, if you offend him to death, do you want to live in the future?" ”

After making up his mind, Yun Dingxing hurriedly replied: "General, I have already remembered, but the last general is a little embarrassed to say, at that time, Chen Yingliang wanted the last general to stay in Taiyuan as much as possible, saying that Fan Zi Gaifan was too old to stay in Taiyuan at that time, and he was sick for a long time, so he wanted the last general to stay in Taiyuan as much as possible to prevent accidents, in this case, the last general may still have hope to take over Taiyuan to stay behind." ”

"Really?" Li Yuan asked.

"Absolutely." Yun Dingxing nodded hurriedly, and said very seriously: "In front of the general, how dare the last general say half a lie?" ”

"Very well, I believe in you." Li Yuan nodded with satisfaction, and said with a smile: "Old General Yun, I bother you to write a book again, write a letter to Chen Yingliang, and say that you have organized some old troops to prepare to surrender the city, and tomorrow night at the third watch in the city to light a fire in the city, open the Guanghua Gate in the northwest of Daxing to receive his army into the city, and ask him to send troops." ”

Yun Dingxing's face changed slightly, and he didn't dare to agree, but Li Yuan couldn't help but say, and immediately ordered someone to take a pen and paper and put it in front of Yun Dingxing, forcing Yun Dingxing to make a book on the spot, and our old general Yun's virtuous friends who are greedy for life and afraid of death know that although they know that they are offending Chen Fuliang in death, but for the sake of their lives now, Yun Dingxing still wrote a letter according to Li Yuan's request with a smile, and handed it to Li Yuan with both hands. Li Yuan took the letter and carefully read it several times, until he confirmed that there was no secret sentence to hide his head, then he showed some smiles and said: "The old general has a merit in luring the enemy, and he has worked hard. ”

Yun Dingxing hurriedly thanked him modestly, but Li Yuan said with a smile: "The old general doesn't have to be modest, this is what you deserve, by the way, the war is urgent at the moment, and there are too many dangers in the outer city, old general, don't go back, just live in this palace city, come on, arrange a place for General Yun in the imperial city, ask the old general to go down and rest, and be entertained, and don't be lazy." ”

Yun Dingxing's face finally turned pale, knowing that Li Yuan wanted to put himself under house arrest, but he didn't dare to resist, so he had to promise with a slight tremble, and obediently followed Li Yuan's personal soldiers to accept house arrest. And Yun Dingxing is indeed not popular in the rebel ranks, it is not enough to be under house arrest, as soon as he left on the front foot, Pei Lin and Dou Wei next to him immediately reminded: "General, be cautious, Yun Dingxing is despicable and shameless, and you must prevent him from turning against each other when he sees that the situation is not good." ”

"Of course I know that this old man is unreliable, and I can conclude that he has already given birth to a different heart!" Li Yuan sneered and said, "Do you know why I asked him about the verbal agreement with Chen Yingliang's thief just now?" In fact, this was Chen Yingliang's thief's request to screen the authenticity of his messenger. ”

After that, Li Yuan told everyone about the last time he sent someone to pretend to be Yun Dingxing's messenger, and then said with a smile: "If the old man of Yun Dingxing told the truth to the old man and really helped the old man lure Chen Yingliang's thief to come to his death, then Chen Yingliang's thief is very likely to fall into the trap of our army." If Yun Dingxing's old man didn't tell the truth, if there was any accident with the messenger sent by the old man, the old man could use this as an excuse to execute him, and solve this hidden danger once and for all, understand? ”

Only then did the rebel generals suddenly realize that they praised Li Yuan's clever calculations and unpredictable tricks, and then Li Yuan naturally immediately arranged for an absolutely reliable messenger to go out of the city and go to the Sui army camp with a book to meet Chen Fuliang.

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When the rebel messenger came to the Sui army camp, Chen Fuliang had not rested, and was also worried about how to lure Li Yuan out of the city for a decisive battle. Here's your chance! It's really Yun Dingxing's messenger, of course, it's better, it's Li Yuan's old thief who forced Yun Dingxing to send a fake messenger! Lao Tzu is not afraid that he Li Yuan's old thief will make a move, but he is afraid that he will not make a move, so he can just plan and trick Li Yuan's old fox out of a decisive battle! ”

After eagerly ordering to meet Yun Dingxing's messenger, Chen Fuliang was led to a young man who claimed to be Guo Nu, saying that he was Yun Dingxing's confidant and personal soldier, and presented Yun Dingxing's handwritten letter to Chen Fuliang with both hands, Chen Fuliang took the letter and did not read it, but just asked Guo Nu about the question of distinguishing the true from the false, Guo Nu replied according to Li Yuan's instructions: "Chen Liu, the last oral explanation you gave to my old general Yun last time was to let him stay in Taiyuan County as much as possible, Fan Liushou is old, old and sick, We want General Yun to stay in Taiyuan as much as possible just in case. ”

Hearing this answer, Chen Fuliang naturally immediately understood that the messenger was fake, but of course Chen Fuliang would not expose it, and immediately showed ecstasy, admitting that it was this answer, and then opened Yun Dingxing's letter and watched it carefully, Chen Fuliang immediately felt clear in his heart, and said with a dark smile: "Who is not good at learning?" Learn from Lao Tzu's methods to clean up Yang Xuangan, want to deceive our army to rashly attack the ambush, step into your trap and lose the battle, defeat my winning streak, boost your morale, think beautiful! ”

immediately guessed Li Yuan's vicious intentions, Chen Fuliang was naturally reflexive, and immediately came up with a countermeasure, pretending to be a plan to sneak attack Guanghuamen, and then deceitful and luring the enemy, leading the rebels into the Sui army ambush circle, and then beating the rebels out of the city to the ground looking for teeth, so that they would be incontinent when they saw the Chen Zijun banner in their lives, and they couldn't take care of themselves! But just as he was about to make such a planned arrangement, when the words came to his lips, Chen Fuliang suddenly remembered a major event, and said secretly: "What about Yun Dingxing?" Isn't that old shameless old man going to die soon? ”

Chen Fuliang's impression of Yun Dingxing was not good at first, when he fought against Yang Xuangan, when Yun Dingxing returned to the battlefield in the Eastern Capital with Yu Wenshu, Pei Hongce had already quietly told Chen Fuliang in private, and at that time, Chen Fuliang did have the idea of revenge when he had the opportunity. But people have feelings, and later Yun Dingxing was indeed quite good to Chen Fuliang, and he shared hardships with Chen Fuliang several times, and also helped Chen Fuliang, the reason why Chen Fuliang has always maintained friendly relations with the military boss Yu Wenshu is also a lot of blessings for Yun Dingxing, Chen Fuliang no matter how he lost his conscience, and his impression of Yun Dingxing has also changed a little, so when Yun Dingxing led the army north to reinforce Fan Zigai, Chen Fuliang will especially explain that Yun Dingxing fled south when the war was unfavorable, I'm afraid that Yun Dingxing died tragically under the grumpy Fan Zigai, so that he didn't even have a chance to reach out and pull him.

Putting the letter back on the bookcase, Chen Fu's conscience continued to calculate, "With the current situation of Li Yuan's army, Yun Dingxing's mind is normal anyway, he didn't tell the truth to Li Yuan, he should also want to leave a way back, if I plan it, at most, I will only defeat Li Yuan's thief army again and get some gains, I can't hurt the bones of Li Yuan's thief army, and I will definitely kill Yun Dingxing." But if I keep him, with his temper, he will definitely come over whenever he has the opportunity, and maybe he can play a greater role at the critical moment, and what I lose is only to give up a small chance of victory, which is insignificant to our army and the rebels. ”

Thinking about it, Chen Fuliangyun thought like flying, and asked in a deep voice: "Uncle Yun, why did he choose to do it in Guanghuamen?" It is located in the northwest of Daxing, the distance is far away, and there is a wide canal between it and our army camp, which is not very convenient for our army. ”

"Because Li Yuan's thief army guarded the three gates of Daxing East too strictly, he didn't have a chance to do it at all." Guo Nu replied according to Li Yuan's instructions: "Originally, the other city gates of Daxing were also very tightly guarded, but General Dong Rui, the old general under the command of our old general, happened to be stationed at Guanghuamen, and he might defect at a critical moment, so our old general decided to do it there." ”

Chen Fuliang continued to remain silent, wanting to save Yun Dingxing's despicable old life, but he didn't want to miss this opportunity to deceive the enemy, and he couldn't think of any way to make good use of this opportunity for a while, so he could only continue to think in silence. But after all, the loss of conscience is the loss of conscience, at the critical moment, the captain of the pro-soldier Sangouzi suddenly came in, attached to Chen Fuliang's ear and whispered: "Stay, there are a few more children who claim to be from the Guan Long family who ask to see me, and I beg you to summon them." ”

"What?!"

It was an inconsequential triviality, but Chen Fuliang's reaction startled everyone in the tent - Chen Fuliang jumped up violently, grabbed the collar of the three dogs, and asked with a shocked face: "What did you say?" Li Mi's rebel thief broke through the Tiger Prison Pass? How is this possible?! ”

In the end, he has been with Chen Fuliang for nearly four years, although it happened too suddenly, but after seeing Chen Fuliang's slightly squeezed eyes, Sangouzi immediately came back to his senses, nodded and said: "It is the news that General He Lanyi of Luokoucang has just sent with five hundred miles of urgency, Li Mi rebels have also surrounded Luokoucang, and General Wang is defending against Pei Renji's rebels in Hanoi, so he has no time to return to the army to save him." ”

Chen Fuliang slowly let go of his hand, his body shook slightly, and then with a bang, he fell directly to the ground, and fell unconscious on the spot, the Sui army in the tent was in chaos, and the messenger sent by Li Yuan, Guo Nu, hung his head tightly, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and said secretly: "Great news." Quietly told Chen Fuliang, and at that time, Chen Fuliang did have the idea of revenge when he had the opportunity. But people have feelings, and later Yun Dingxing was indeed quite good to Chen Fuliang, and he shared hardships with Chen Fuliang several times, and also helped Chen Fuliang, the reason why Chen Fuliang has always maintained friendly relations with the military boss Yu Wenshu is also a lot of blessings for Yun Dingxing, Chen Fuliang no matter how he lost his conscience, and his impression of Yun Dingxing has also changed a little, so when Yun Dingxing led the army north to reinforce Fan Zigai, Chen Fuliang will especially explain that Yun Dingxing fled south when the war was unfavorable, I'm afraid that Yun Dingxing died tragically under the grumpy Fan Zigai, so that he didn't even have a chance to reach out and pull him.

Putting the letter back on the bookcase, Chen Fu's conscience continued to calculate, "With the current situation of Li Yuan's army, Yun Dingxing's mind is normal anyway, he didn't tell the truth to Li Yuan, he should also want to leave a way back, if I plan it, at most, I will only defeat Li Yuan's thief army again and get some gains, I can't hurt the bones of Li Yuan's thief army, and I will definitely kill Yun Dingxing." But if I keep him, with his temper, he will definitely come over whenever he has the opportunity, and maybe he can play a greater role at the critical moment, and what I lose is only to give up a small chance of victory, which is insignificant to our army and the rebels. ”

Thinking about it, Chen Fuliangyun thought like flying, and asked in a deep voice: "Uncle Yun, why did he choose to do it in Guanghuamen?" It is located in the northwest of Daxing, the distance is far away, and there is a wide canal between it and our army camp, which is not very convenient for our army. ”

"Because Li Yuan's thief army guarded the three gates of Daxing East too strictly, he didn't have a chance to do it at all." Guo Nu replied according to Li Yuan's instructions: "Originally, the other city gates of Daxing were also very tightly guarded, but General Dong Rui, the old general under the command of our old general, happened to be stationed at Guanghuamen, and he might defect at a critical moment, so our old general decided to do it there." ”

Chen Fuliang continued to remain silent, wanting to save Yun Dingxing's despicable old life, but he didn't want to miss this opportunity to deceive the enemy, and he couldn't think of any way to make good use of this opportunity for a while, so he could only continue to think in silence. But after all, the loss of conscience is the loss of conscience, at the critical moment, the captain of the pro-soldier Sangouzi suddenly came in, attached to Chen Fuliang's ear and whispered: "Stay, there are a few more children who claim to be from the Guan Long family who ask to see me, and I beg you to summon them." ”

"What?!"

It was an inconsequential triviality, but Chen Fuliang's reaction startled everyone in the tent - Chen Fuliang jumped up violently, grabbed the collar of the three dogs, and asked with a shocked face: "What did you say?" Li Mi's rebel thief broke through the Tiger Prison Pass? How is this possible?! ”

In the end, he has been with Chen Fuliang for nearly four years, although it happened too suddenly, but after seeing Chen Fuliang's slightly squeezed eyes, Sangouzi immediately came back to his senses, nodded and said: "It is the news that General He Lanyi of Luokoucang has just sent with five hundred miles of urgency, Li Mi rebels have also surrounded Luokoucang, and General Wang is defending against Pei Renji's rebels in Hanoi, so he has no time to return to the army to save him." ”

Chen Fuliang slowly let go of his hand, his body shook slightly, and then with a bang, he fell directly to the ground, and fell unconscious on the spot, the Sui army in the tent was in chaos, and the messenger sent by Li Yuan, Guo Nu, hung his head tightly, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and said secretly: "Great news." ”