On the first day of the first month of the fifteenth year of the Great Cause, oh no, it can no longer be called the fifteenth year of the Great Cause, it has to be called the second year of Yining, the second year of Huangtai or the second year of Tianshou, in short, it is the afternoon of the first day of the first month, the only rear army infantry sent by Chen Fuliang to General Yun Lao, under the leadership of Li Jing's brother Li Keshi, came to Xin'an City with flying snowflakes, and joined the former army led by General Yun Lao, and somewhat strengthened the weak eastern front of Chen Fuliang's army. It also adds more unpredictable variables to the already complex battlefield of the Eastern Capital.

General Yun's feelings about this rear army are very complicated, facing Wang Shichong, Li Mi and his brother, the three powerful opponents, General Yun, who has almost no ability to fight back, is very eager to get the reinforcement of troops, but Chen Fuliang sent a chicken-like second-line army, even if the main general Li Keshi, who is about to serve as General Yun's military deputy, is also a military newcomer who has never been on the battlefield, whether he can be reliable on the battlefield is not at all certain, if he is not careful, he may drag General Yun Lao's hind legs, but become a burden.

What's more troublesome is Li Keshi's special identity, Li Jing's younger brother, one of the few people in the world who has a blood relationship with Chen Fuliang, the meritocracy of Chen Fuliang rarely has deliberately promoted his cronies, and Chen Fuliang's henchmen who can lead the army to fight just after joining the ranks, if such subordinates don't listen to greetings and disobey, they will have a headache for General Yun, who can neither beat nor scold.

Li Keshi is very clear about the reason why he can lead the army as soon as he joins the army, and he knows that Chen Fuliang's care and promotion of him will inevitably attract criticism from his colleagues, and he has a slight mistake on the battlefield, his future and destiny and the prestige of his distant nephew Chen Fuliang have to be hit hard, and he can't tolerate any failure, and General Yun is not only an old minister of the three dynasties, but also a well-known greedy and flattering person, Li Keshi met such a boss on his first expedition, Naturally, I have to worry about whether I will be affected by such a boss and miss my bright future.

Fortunately, General Yun Lao and Li Keshi soon found that they should be unnecessary, and after arriving in Xin'an, Li Keshi immediately passed Guò's observation of the former army camp and found that although General Yun Lao did not have anything particularly outstanding in governing the army and camp, it was expensive in orthodox standards, orderly, not major omissions, and military discipline and military appearance were also clear-eyed, even if it was not a strong army, it also maintained the due level of a normal army, which was not a little stronger than the common rabble in troubled times. Li Keshi, who was worried about his boss's ability to command the army and govern the army, quietly breathed a sigh of relief.

General Yun also quietly breathed a sigh of relief, because after preliminary contact, General Yun found that in addition to the bad problem of liking hunting, Li Keshi was still very clear in his mind, at least he didn't wait to ask for troops to release his horses as soon as he came to Xin'an, and made meritorious contributions -- General Yun Lao was not afraid that Li Keshi would not be able to fight, but he was afraid that Li Keshi would blindly seek war, and indiscriminately only wanted to rush to send troops to make meritorious contributions. Then when General Yun tentatively asked Li Keshi's views on the tactics of the self-army, Li Keshi's answer made General Yun very happy and relieved.

Li Keshi replied like this, "The last general is courageous, thinking that the old general's current strategy of holding on is very appropriate, the difference between strength and weakness, whether Li Mi, Yu Wenhua and Wang Shichong, their overall strength is far above our army, our army has more than 20,000 people, but most of the soldiers are new soldiers, lack of training and little equipment, it is difficult to play a big role in the face of a really strong enemy, we will only seek a dead end in the face of a really strong enemy, we can only take a defensive position, fortify the wall to protect ourselves, wait and watch the three strong enemies kill each other, and then wait for the opportunity to send troops for the best policy." ”

After nodding with satisfaction, General Yun whispered to Li Keshi about the flies and dogs between himself and Hua and his brother, and carefully introduced the current situation of the Dongdu battlefield and the current embarrassing situation of the Xiaoguo army, and finally asked Li Keshi what he thought about it. Li Keshi pondered for a lot of time before replying: "Old general, the last general thinks that since you can indirectly influence the tactical decisions of Yu Wenhua and Pifu, it is best not to let Yu Wenhua and use the strategy of robbing the camp to break the enemy like last night, and let Yu Wenhua and the frontal consumption with Wang Shichong and Li Mishi be the most beneficial to our army." ”

"Why?" Old General Yun asked quietly.

"The last general believes that with scheming, Yu Wenhua will never be the opponent of Li Mi and Wang Shichong." Li Keshi replied: "Wang Shichong and Li Mi are recognized as heroes in troubled times, and they are notoriously treacherous. ”

"Besides, Xin'an is sixty miles away from the eastern capital, and it is more than eighty miles away from Jinyong City, and the battlefield is ever-changing. In this case, if you can manipulate Yu Wenhua and consume Wang Li and the two thieves head-on, so as to respond to all changes without change, promote the strength of the Guo army, and avoid the shortcomings of Yu culture and lack of resourcefulness, then the old general will definitely be able to make Yu Wenhua and Wang Li and the two thieves lose and complete the burden handed over to you. ”

After listening to Li Keshi's opinion, General Yun finally showed some smiles, and smiled quite gratifyingly, but Zhang Yongtong and Xian Yuzhen and others next to him widened their eyes, and Xian Yuzhen blurted out: "Exactly the same?" How is it almost the same? ”

"What exactly is the same?" Li Keshi was in a flurry.

"General Keshi, your opinion is almost exactly the same as that of General Yun." Xian Yuzhen explained: "At noon today, after we received the news that Yu Wenhua and the two thieves of Li Wang robbed each other's camp and fought an unexpected encounter, General Yun Lao immediately said that he couldn't do a trick to let Yu Wenhua and the two thieves of Li Wang fight wits and wit, Yu Wenhua and could never be the opponent of King Li's thief army, and we were too far away to improvise, so General Yun Lao hurriedly sent a letter to Yu Wenhua and built a letter to build Yu Wenhua and try to fight a war of attrition with the Li Wang thief army with a strong camp, don't risk the battle, let alone risk the mobile war. ”

Li Keshi was a little incredulous, looking at General Yun's eyes full of shock and admiration, General Yun smiled and said: "Keshi, in the future, help the old man come up with ideas, one person will be short, and two will be long." Also, I'll ask you on the Yiyang side, first prepare everything that should be prepared, and immediately send troops to Yiyang as soon as you have the opportunity, take it to protect the Bears Ears Mountain path, and when our main force is dispatched in the future, you can also have multiple choices. ”

Li Keshi hurriedly agreed respectfully, and the contempt for the famous sycophant old general Yun was completely swept away, and the old general Yun ordered someone to prepare a banquet for Li Keshi, and said casually: "Since the rear army of the guest division has arrived along the way, then we should also show some strength appropriately." Goodwill, you put pen to paper for the old man and sent a letter to Wang Shichong, saying that the strength of our army has been strengthened, and the old man will make an appropriate attack in the near future to participate in the crusade against Yu Wenhua, and at that time he will definitely take advantage of his defense area road, hoping that he will restrain his subordinates and soldiers, and do not have a misunderstanding with our army. ”

"Old general, won't this be too exciting for Wang Shichong?" Yao Yi asked with some concern.

"He must be stimulated to let him know that the old man is threatening to him." Old General Yun sneered and said: "Otherwise, he and Li Mi traitors will definitely only do everything possible to trick Yu Wenhua out of the camp for a decisive battle, and will not rush to attack Yu Wenhua's camp." ”

The stimulation effect of General Yun's hand is not bad, and it was found that there was a rear army in Guanzhong to strengthen General Yun's troops, Wang Shichong had already given birth to a certain amount of fear, and then saw General Yun's provocative letter with an implied threat, Wang Shichong immediately understood that General Yun Lao was stating that he would not give up the opportunity to meddle in the battlefield of Jinyongcheng. Although Wang Shichong was not afraid of this, he could not completely ignore it, so in addition to warning General Yun Lao in a tougher tone that he must also restrain his subordinates, Wang Shichong could only discuss with Li Mi how to speed up the decisive battle and solve the frontal enemy of Hua and his brother, so as to turn around and clean up the clown of General Yun.

Li Mi, who was dispatched by the main force, was more anxious than Wang Shichong for a decisive battle, and hit it off, Wang and Li's second army each sent out a large army on the second day of the first lunar month, and joined forces to fight outside the camp of Hua and his brother, and Hua and his brother, who had greatly increased confidence in our old general Yun, resolutely implemented the tactics of Uncle Yun and commanded the army to stick to the camp.

It was useless to fight, Wang Shichong and Li Mi could only implement the second set of plans, work together to storm the camp of Hua and his brother, and strictly implement the agreement of Wang Yi and Li Er to send troops, Li Mijun was responsible for attacking the front of Hua and his brother's camp, and Wang Shichong's army was responsible for storming the west of Hua and his brother's camp.

The result of the camp offensive and defensive battle was that the three participating armies did not take any advantage, and the Xiaoguo army, which lacked clothing and medicine, was greatly reduced by the severe cold climate, but the hastily reinforced camp fortifications gave the Xiaoguo army a chance to breathe and adjust. Although the soldiers of the Wang-Li coalition army, who had been accumulating for a long time, had a certain advantage in terms of body and morale, there was another problem in tackling tough problems, even if the front army worked hard to open the gap, it was difficult for the rear army suppressed by the strong bow and crossbow to immediately rush up to expand the gap, so they could only watch the reserves of the Xiaoguo army rush to block the gap and continue to block their way into the camp.

It is difficult to describe the specific picture of this camp offensive and defensive battle, the officers and men of the Xiaoguo army have equipment, experience, and height advantages, but they are wearing single clothes, their hands and feet are stiff in the wind and snow, their movements are stiff, and their combat effectiveness is reduced, and they can only rely on thin fortifications to resist the tidal offensive of the Wang and Li coalition forces; The Wang and Li coalition army has the upper hand in morale, but there are antlers and trenches and fences blocking the way, no matter how fast the charge speed is in front of the fortifications, it has to slow down, and it is impossible to start a hand-to-hand melee with the seriously injured Xiaoguo army, so it can only be through the fence antlers and the Xiaoguo army to cut and stab, and fight for the consumption of troops, even if a certain advantage is obtained, the advantage cannot be turned into victory, the casualties are quietly expanding together, and the elite soldiers are also quietly killing and wounding together.

In the face of such a situation, Li Mi and Wang Shichong frowned together, and Sima Dejiao, who actually commanded the camp defense battle, also frowned, Sima Dejiao did not expect that the combat effectiveness of the self-army would be sharply reduced to this point, and the one-on-one soldiers would be at a disadvantage, Li Mi and Wang Shichong frowned at the camp tactics of Hua and his brother, knowing that as long as the Xiaoguo army left the camp fortifications for protection, the self-army would have a great hope of victory, but Hua and his brother could not defend this time as if they had taken the wrong medicine, and used the advantages of the fortifications to offset and make up for the disadvantages of injuries and diseases. Although this tactic is not miraculous and very rigid, it makes Li Mi and Wang Shichong feel that a tiger gnaws on a hedgehog and has nowhere to go.

The camp attack and defense battle lasted for about three hours, until there was really no hope of breaking through the heavily guarded Xiaoguo army camp, Li Mi and Wang Shichong confirmed each other that the other party was unwilling to consume, so they gathered the troops together, and the result was that Li Mi and Wang Shichong frowned again that the total number of dead soldiers in the camp battle reached more than 2,000, and the total number of wounded exceeded 3,600. Therefore, when Wang Shichong and Li Mi met on the way back to the army, they unanimously came to a conclusion -- they must not continue to fight like this, and if they continue to fight like this, they will only lose three times, and Chen Fuliang, who is hiding in Guanzhong for nothing.

Fortunately, there is no way to avoid this situation, Li Mi and Wang Shichong, who have always been confident in their own plans, quickly made up their minds again, and decided that Li Mi would send an army to attack Heyang Bridge, cut off the connection between Hua and his brother and the rear of Liyang Cang, and force Hua and his brother to send troops to save Heyang, and as long as Hua and his brother moved, the next war would be much easier.

Li Mi and Wang Shichong's hand is indeed effective, Hao Xiaode was ordered to lead the army of 8,000 to the north to grab the Heyang Bridge, received the news of Hua and brother was indeed surprised, in order to protect the grain road and contact with the rear, Hua and brother really sent a cavalry to save Heyang, but Yang Shilan led 3,000 cavalry north to Heyang, it was natural to be ambushed by Li Mi's army, Hao Xiaode also turned around and killed, and joined hands with the ambush to attack Yang Shilan, at the same time, Li Mi's ambush also tried his best to block Yang Shilan's retreat road, just deliberately let go of a small number of cavalry of the Xiaoguo Army to return to the camp to report the news, luring Hua and his brother to continue to send troops to rescue.

Feng Deyi grabbed Hua and his brother to death, and did not let Hua and his brother continue to send troops to death, pointing out that this is the enemy's plan to lure the snake out of the hole, once the army is dispatched in large numbers, the main force of Li Mi's army fifteen miles away and Wang Shichong's main force twenty miles away will inevitably take the opportunity to attack in a big way. Sima Dejiao also stood on Feng Deyi's side at this critical moment, pointing out that even if the 3,000 army was annihilated, the Xiaoguo army could afford this loss, but if it sent troops out of the camp in a big way, it would inevitably be forced to fight the main force of the enemy that had been gaining momentum for a long time in the ice and snow, and the losses would only be even heavier at that time.

Hua and his brother finally adopted the construction of Feng Deyi and Sima Dehu, and did not send troops to order Yang Shilan to break through on his own, but Yang Shilan relied on Li Mijun's intention not to kill him, and he also successfully brought back nearly half of the army. Li Mi was surprised by Hua and his brother's quick decision, and immediately came up with a poisonous plan, bribing more than 30 Yang Shilan's subordinates who were captured on the battlefield, and letting them pretend to escape back to Hua and his brother's camp to act as an internal response, and also took the opportunity to spread rumors, saying that Sima Dejiao was dissatisfied with Hua and his brother's stupid blind command everywhere, and was ready to kill Hua and his brother, Li Mi, and Wang Shichong to make peace.

At the same time, Wang Shichong, the old fox who got Li Mi's news, also took action and wrote a letter to Sima Dejiao, in which he first scolded Hua and his brother as worthless, and then persuaded Sima Dejia to kill Hua and his brother to take the lead of the army, and promised that after he succeeded, he would not only give Sima Dejia 10,000 sets of winter clothes and 30,000 pieces of cloth, but also pull Li Mi and Sima Dejia to make peace hand in hand, and then take Guanzhong. In the end, Wang Shichong randomly selected one person from the Xiaoguo soldiers who had been captured before, and sent him to sneak to the Xiaoguo army with letters and gifts to contact Sima Dejiao, and he didn't expect the letter to really reach Sima Dejia, as long as the letter could be sent to the Xiaoguo army camp.

Wang Shichong and Li Mi almost didn't kill Sima Dejia with this hand, and after the letter was first obtained by Hua and his brother before it was delivered to Sima Deji, Hua and his brother, who was full of suspicion of Sima Deji, disregarded the current enemy in anger, and actually gave birth to the idea of killing Sima Dejiao first. Fortunately, Feng Deyi stopped Hua and Brother again, and while pointing out that this was the enemy's discord plan, he and Brother Jian Yihua and Brother strengthened the secret prevention of Sima Deji, so that Hua and Brother calmed down their anger. Then Feng Deyi didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly wrote a letter about the latest situation of the Xiaoguo Army and Sima Dejiao, and sent his henchmen to Xin'an and handed it over to General Yun.

Feng Deyi's letter sounded the alarm for General Yun, making General Yun understand that he still underestimated the cunning Cheng of Li Mi and Wang Shichong, and also overestimated the current bearing capacity of the Xiaoguo Army, which was no longer the opponent of the Wang-Li coalition army. In order to fulfill Chen Fuliang's supreme instruction to defeat the three powerful enemies, General Yun Lao had to find several subordinates and deputies to discuss countermeasures with them.

After discussion, it was found that things were very difficult to do, first of all, the self-army must not openly join forces with the Xiaoguo army in the face of the world's disapproval, and then the strength of the self-army was too weak, even if it directly turned against Wang Shichong and Li Mi, it would not be able to turn the tide of the war. After racking his brains, Yao Yi proposed a very bold proposal, and said: "Old general, since the two traitors, Li Mi and Wang Shichong, are unwilling to fight a huge battle, and only want to fight a decisive battle with Yu Wenhua and the wild, then why don't we fulfill them?" Weaken part of their strength, so that they can't go all out on the battlefield, and fight with Yu Wenhua and the decisive battle when their strength is insufficient? ”

"Weaken some of their strength? How to weaken? Old General Yun asked hurriedly.

"How about a feint attack on Luokoucang?" Yao Yi said in a surprising voice: "We will send an army, march east along the south bank of Luoshui, and threaten Luokou Cangcheng, Li Mi will inevitably divide troops to monitor us, Wang Shichong is afraid that we will take the opportunity to attack Luoyang Nancheng, and we will definitely strengthen the defense of Nancheng, and then Yu Wenhua will not take the opportunity to send troops to a decisive battle?" In this way, it is also a huge encouragement to Yu Wenhua and the morale of the army? ”

Hearing Yao Yi's amazing construction, General Yun and Li Keshi were silent, but Xian Yuzhen hurriedly shook his head and said, "Don't joke, how can we do this?" The first is that the division is unknown, and we are still Li Mi's allies in terms of reputation, and suddenly undeclared war on our allies is morally at a disadvantage. The second is that our strength is too weak, if Li Mi divides his troops to the south, and Wang Shichong also sends troops to attack us from behind, then our partial division will not be attacked by the enemy on the back and have no way out? ”

Old General Yun was still noncommittal, and after thinking about it for a long time, Old General Yun also turned to Li Keshi and asked, "Keshi, what do you think?" ”

"The last general thinks it's okay to gamble." Li Keshi replied: "This year's climate is too cold, the situation on the side of the Xiaoguo army is much more critical than ours, Yu Wenhua is too incompetent, if he continues like this, he will basically be defeated, if you want to make Li Mi, Wang Shichong and him both defeated, it is best to adopt Yao Shan's strategy, directly for Yu Wenhua and contain some of Wang Shichong and Li Mi's troops, give him courage, let him take the initiative to send troops to fight a decisive battle with Li Mi and Wang Shichong!" But the moral aspect ....... ”

"The moral aspect is not a problem." General Yun waved his hand and sneered: "The news revealed by Feng Deyi, before the old man led the army to Xin'an, Li Mipifu had privately sent a letter to Yu Wenhua and Yanhe, and he had already betrayed the alliance first. ”

"That's fine." Li Keshi Zhengse said: "Although it is very dangerous to send troops to Luokoucang, but fighting is a gamble, with a strong enemy of the Xiaoguo army by the side, Li Mi and Wang Shichong are very bold, and they dare not start another battlefield with us, it is likely that they will divide their troops to monitor us to prevent accidents, and when Yu Wenhua and send troops to fight with them, we can also quickly return to Xin'an." ”

"Then take a gamble." General Yun nodded and said: "The old man will send a letter to Yu Wenhua, tell him to calm down and wait for the fighter to appear, and also ask Li Mi for the letter, and get the letter, the old man will copy a copy and send it to Li Mi Pifu first, and he will understand that the old man is not joking with Luokoucang." ”

"Old general, how about letting the last general lead the army to feint Luokoucang?" Li Keshi volunteered again.

Glancing at Li Keshi, General Yun smiled and asked, "You're not afraid?" This is your first battle of debut, and if anything goes wrong, it will be very bad for you in the future. ”

"Of course, the last general is a little afraid." Li Keshi replied with a wry smile, and said: "But the last general doesn't want to be ridiculed as relying on his nephew and brother to lead the army, this is the best opportunity." ”