Fan Zigai and Huangfu Wuyi, who were loyal to Emperor Yang of Sui, arranged a tactical plan overnight, designated a special person to be in charge of scout affairs, and arranged a large number of scouts to disguise themselves as ordinary people to go out of the city overnight to monitor the necessary roads between Kim Yong Cheng and the Bishan battlefield, so as not to give the rebel team the slightest chance to secretly smuggle grain and grass.

Because of the merit in analyzing the enemy's grain transportation situation, Liu Changgong, who had already been in the limelight twice, once again got the beauty of cooperating with the Baoguo army to attack the rebel army's grain transportation team, and the task of destroying roads and bridges was arranged by Fan Zigai to another Hu Benlang general of the right military guard, Helanyi, and at the same time, the task of establishing the beacon tower was also given to Helanyi, and Fan Zigai only gave Helanyi one day to arrange the beacon tower, so as to quickly convey the enemy's situation and buy time for the Luoyang army to send troops to rob grain.

In order to save time and facilitate the battle, Fan Zigai, who regarded the power as his life, also gave Liu Changgong and Chen Yingliang the right to fight on their own for the first time, so that Liu Changgong and Chen Yingliang could lead their troops out of the city from any Luoyang city gate at any time without asking for instructions, and rush to the battlefield to attack the rebel grain transport team, and no longer had to ask Fan Zigai's consent as before, and entrusted Liu Changgong and Chen Yingliang with enough trust.

The next morning, after resting in Luoyang City for a night, Pang Yu sent by Wei Xuan took Fan Zigai to reply and leave with hatred, not listening to the explanations of Huangfu Wuyi and Lu Chu and others, and refusing to believe that Chen Yingliang's strategy of cutting off the enemy's grain route could really work.

If Pang Yu had left an hour late, maybe what would have happened later would not have happened, because less than an hour after Pang Yu left, when Chen Yingliang was still hand-handing out a lot of rewards to the soldiers of the Baoguo Army, Luoyang's Anximen and Shangchunmen sent people to report to Chen Yingliang at the same time, saying that they saw wolf smoke rising outside the city, and it was likely that the Sui army scouts had discovered the rebel food team, and Chen Yingliang was not ambiguous, so he immediately temporarily stopped issuing rewards and ordered the soldiers to immediately put on their clothes and prepare.

After the Baoguo army was ready to fight, another fast horse rushed directly into the camp of the Baoguo army, bringing Chen Yingliang the news that he had indeed found that the rebel grain transport team had set off from Kim Yong City, Chen Yingliang was not ambiguous, while sending someone to report to Liu Changgong, asking him to lead the rear army to the battlefield to reinforce as much as possible, and at the same time did not hesitate to lead the eight hundred newspapers **** out of the camp from Anximen, and trotted to the north to intercept it.

When Chen Yingliang led the Baoguo army to the official road north of Luoyang, about 3,000 rebel troops and a large number of ordinary people, carrying thousands of large and small grain trucks, just walked west from the direction of Kim Yong Cheng.

Seeing the appearance of the Baoguo army team that killed their own team under Kim Yong Cheng on the first day, and the rebel team escorting the grain and grass was already scattered, and saw the Baoguo army shouting and killing, the three thousand rebels from top to bottom had no fighting spirit, threw down the grain and grass vehicles, and rushed to flee for their lives, and the people who drove the cars and burdens fled all over the mountains, and the precious military rations of more than 20,000 stone were easily captured by Chen Yingliang, and the battle was so smooth that Liu Changgong rushed to the scene with the rear army, Not a single rebel soldier was visible from the scene.

won such a big credit without much effort, General Liu's team was of course smiling so much that they couldn't even close their mouths, and the **** team was also smiling, but Chen Yingliang didn't have time to celebrate the victory with the soldiers, so he only personally interrogated a few rebel soldiers who were captured by the national army when they fled, "Where are your grain and grass going to be taken?" In addition to your food team, is there any other food team preparing for Kim Yong Cheng? ”

It's a pity that the rebel soldiers are as low as Su zhì of the Sui army scouts in Luoyang, and they don't know anything about Chen Yingliang's questions, they only care about crying and kowtowing and begging for mercy, and they can't provide Chen Yingliang with any useful information, Chen Yingliang has no choice, so he has to change his tone and ask: "Then do you have a deadline for transporting grain?" Did your general order you to deliver the grain and grass to your destination by when? ”

"General, what's the destination?" A rebel soldier asked timidly.

"I'm tired." Chen Yingliang slapped his forehead and shouted: "It's Yang Xuangan, the destination is Yang Xuangan's camp, your general, did you order you to transport grain to Yang Xuangan before what time?" ”

"Yes, yes." Several rebel soldiers hurriedly kowtowed and hurriedly replied: "General Yang told us that within tomorrow, we must transport grain and grass to the camp of the Duke of Chu, and we will be rewarded for transporting it in advance, and we will be punished for being late, and General Yang will be punished, and we will all be punished!" ”

"Within tomorrow?!" Chen Yingliang was overjoyed, clenched his fist, and blurted out: "Great, Yang Xuangan really has insufficient grain and grass there, otherwise, Kim Yong Cheng would not be in such a hurry to send food!" ”

Basically confirmed that his judgment and analysis were correct, Chen Ying's conscience was happy, but also secretly worried, because no matter how correct the tactics and strategies of Luoyang's side were, it also needed Wei Xuan's side to cooperate with this tactic to be effective, if Wei Xuan did not listen to Fan Zigai's kind advice, refused to adopt the tactics of sticking to the attrition, and insisted on sending troops to a decisive battle, then no matter how Luoyang cut off the enemy's food route, it would be useless. -- Chen Yingliang, who was familiar with the world, could see that Pang Yu, who was sent by Wei Xuan, was very dissatisfied with him, and when he returned to Wei Xuan, he was likely to speak ill of himself.

Taking this into account, after returning to the city for the third time, Chen Yingliang came to Fan Zigai for the first time to ask for a meeting, and reported his worries directly to Fan Zigai, but Fan Zigai smiled bitterly after listening to it, and said: "You are worried that Wei Wensheng will not listen to the old man's advice, the old man is more worried than you, although the old man and Wei Wensheng can be regarded as a small friendship, but he knows that the old thing has a stubborn temper, except for the emperor, it is difficult for others to say that he can touch him, so the letter that the old man gave him, he may not be able to listen." ”

"Left-behind adults, what should I do?" Chen Yingliang asked worriedly: "If Wei Shangshu insists on refusing to fight against consumption, we must immediately send troops to fight Yang Rebellion's main force, if there is any accident, we will be useless no matter how much we run out of food." ”

Fan Zigai pondered for a moment, and quickly said: "In the evening, the old man sent Wei Wensheng another letter, telling him about your achievements and the harvest of the grain robbery, and persuading him again, if he still refuses to listen, then the old man will have no choice." ”

"Does that work?" Chen Yingliang was still very worried, but he really couldn't think of any way to make Wei Xuan firmly implement his tactical strategy, so he had to let Fan Zigai gamble on his luck. At the same time, Chen Yingliang secretly comforted himself with no conscience, "I'm afraid of a ball!" Wei Xuan lost so badly, what does it matter to me? If that old creature refuses to listen to my good ideas, then he had better die on the battlefield so that he will not hold a grudge in the future! If that old thing has a beautiful and unmarried granddaughter, I will take care of his granddaughter for him in the future, and I will be very worthy of him. ”

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Chen Yingliang, who has been lucky since coming to Luoyang, seems to have absorbed all the luck of the people around him, and this time is no exception, relying on the intentional indulgence of the rebel team, Pang Yu took Fan Zigai's letter back to Wei Xuan's camp very smoothly, and also brought the news of Luoyang's defenders' 'ungrateful' refusal to help Wei Xuan, Wei Xuan, who was already worried about the successive fiascos, suddenly became furious, and did not read the content of Fan Zigai's letter, just after listening to Pang Yu's introduction, he slapped the table and roared, "Fan Huazong, you old immortal old thing!" The old man came hundreds of miles to save you, and you repay the old man like this?! ”

Pang Yu didn't dare to offend Fan Zigai, who was deeply trusted by Emperor Yang of Sui, and hurriedly launched a scapegoat, "Wei Liushou, in fact, Fan Liushou planned to send troops to cooperate with us to attack Yang rebels, but there happened to be a small clerk named Chen Yingliang who was present at the time, and he indiscriminately instigated Fan Liushou not to send troops to meet us, and proposed a strategy to cut off the bullshit of the thieves' food channel, so Fan Liushou changed his mind and refused to agree to send troops to help us quell the rebellion. ”

"A clerk named Chen Yingliang?" Wei Xuan was stunned, and said in his heart, how could the old man seem to have heard of this name? Then Wei Xuan said suspiciously: "No, Fan Huazong's old immortal I know, stubbornness is stubbornness, but he is still unambiguous in terms of court affairs, and he has always been reliable in doing things, how can he listen to a little official's nonsense for no reason?" ”

"That little official just made some small contributions, and he happened to be by Fan's side at that time." Pang Yu gave a general introduction to the situation at that time, and during this period, he naturally had to add fuel and vinegar, and pushed all the sins of the Luoyang army's refusal to rescue Wei Xuanjun on Chen Yingliang, who he absolutely dared to offend, and intentionally or unintentionally concealed Chen Yingliang's incisive analysis of the battle situation, and said that Chen Yingliang's rational analysis was all speculation and nonsense.

Being fanned by Pang Yu like this, Wei Xuan, who was already in an extremely bad mood, was inevitably even more angry, and only then did he open Fan Zigai's handwritten letter to read, but after carefully reading the content of the letter, Wei Xuan calmed down a little - after all, in the first year of the Liaodong War, in the case of a complete defeat by Emperor Yang of Sui's blind command, Wei Xuan's team was the one with the least losses.

"Fan Huazong's construction is actually reasonable, if Yang rebel's grain and grass are really insufficient, he will cut off Yang rebel's grain road in Luoyang, or in a few days, the old man will be able to win the opportunity to turn defeat into victory." Wei Xuan calculated in his heart, and at the same time warned himself, "Don't be careless, Fan Huazong has a set of rules in governing the people, but not in terms of fighting, Yang Rebellious is becoming more and more intense, it is because of his ineffective counterinsurgency that Yang Reversible is becoming more and more rampant, and the tactics he proposed are ......." ”

Hesitating, Wei Xuan once planned to rest for a few days to see the effect of the Luoyang army cutting off the main force of the rebels - anyway, the Daxing reinforcements had just been defeated for a while, their morale was very low, and they were tired from afar, and it was also the time to rest. Therefore, Wei Xuan did not rush to order the battle, but just ordered the army to step up the construction of the camp, do a good job in the defense of the camp, and prepare to be invincible first. But......

"The guard stays behind, the guard stays behind, there is movement in the rebel camp under the mountain!"

But what no one expected was that on the morning of the next day, the movement of the rebel camp under the mountain disrupted Wei Xuan's plan, after getting the sentry report, Wei Xuan personally led his generals out of the tent, climbed to a high place and condescendingly observed the movement of the rebel camp, and what surprised Wei Xuan and others was that a fairly large rebel convoy was slowly driving into the rebel camp, and the car was full of sacks full of grain, and the grain bags were moved into the back camp of the rebel camp, and soon piled up into a hill, and at the same time, the rebel camp was full of smoke, Rebel soldiers squatting on the ground and nibbling on steamed buns are everywhere!

Seeing this scene, Wei Xuan was of course shocked and angry, and the generals under his command were also talking to each other, all of them were worried about the sufficiency of grain and grass for the main force of the rebels, but Pang Yu mocked loudly beside him, "This is the effect of the Luoyang army cutting off the traitor's grain route, this is the Luoyang army's clever plan to break the enemy, it is well broken, it is really well broken!" ”

It was also a coincidence that at this time, the messenger sent by Fan Zigai came to the camp of Wei Xuan's army, bringing Fan Zigai's second letter to Wei Xuan, and after reading the news of the successful grain robbery that Fan Zigai had informed, Wei Xuan was suddenly furious, regardless of his identity, he pulled the Luoyang messenger to the side of the high platform, pointed to the rebel camp under the mountain and shouted, "You cut off Yang Yi's grain route? Robbed Yang Reyi of 20,000 stone of grain? Where did the grain and grass of these rebels come from under the mountain? ”

The Luoyang messenger was dumbfounded, and only after a while did he say, "How is it possible? We've obviously cut off Yang Reverse Grain Dao? Yesterday, I also saw with my own eyes that Chen Ji Room and they escorted the captured rebel army rations back to the city? Where did Yang Xuan's rebel thief's military rations come from? ”

"Where did Yang Wei's grain and grass come from?!" Wei Xuan was completely furious, and roared: "You ask the old man, who will the old man ask?" What are you doing in the Eastern Capital Army, Yang Rebel Army has transported so much food, you will actually know nothing! ”

"Wei stays behind, even if the subordinate has a hundred guts, he won't dare to lie to you!" The Luoyang messenger hurriedly knelt down on his knees to Wei Xuan, who was as domineering and dictatorial as Fan Zigai, and said with a sad face: "At noon yesterday, they really robbed the 20,000 Hu military rations of the Yang rebel army!" Perhaps, perhaps, ....... ”

"That's right." The messenger hurriedly added: "Maybe it was our scouts who discovered this grain transport team, our scouts in the eastern capital can't do it, Fan stayed behind him during this time and killed dozens of scouts who lied about the military situation and omitted to report the military information, and it was those useless scouts who didn't find out that Yang rebels and thieves still had a grain transportation team, which made Yang rebels' army successfully transport grain." ”

"I'm afraid your Eastern Capital army is not just scout incompetent, right? It's all sake bags and rice bags, right?! Wei Xuan roared angrily, "Go back and tell Fan Zi to cover the old thing, he doesn't dare to come to attack Yang and the traitor, whatever he wants, he doesn't fight, the old man will fight by himself!" Ordered the whole army, stop reinforcing the camp, immediately start preparing for battle, and tomorrow morning the whole army will go out and go down the mountain to fight to the death with Yang rebels! ”

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At the same time in the rebel camp, Yang Xuangan and Yang Xuanting and other rebel decision-makers were also observing the movements of Wei Xuanjun's camp on the mountain with fear, all of them were worried and nervous, only the military advisor Li Mi looked as usual, and he smiled and comforted Yang Xuangan: "Duke Chu, don't worry, tomorrow at the latest, Wei Xuan's old horseman will inevitably go down the mountain for a decisive battle, Wei Xuan's old horseman's temper I know, the most anxious and adventurous, but in order to grab time, even the dangerous road like Cuihan Road dares to walk, seeing us transport grain into the camp, Can you be in a hurry to fight us? ”

"I hope so." Yang Xuan sighed and said, "If the old thief Wei Xuan refuses to go down the mountain tomorrow to fight a decisive battle and continues to hold on to the danger, then we will be in big trouble." ”

After that, Yang Xuangan added another sentence in his stomach, "Because we will have to run out of food the day after tomorrow!" ”

"Don't worry, Duke Chu, the little raw material is sure that the old thief Wei Xuan can't see through my clever plan." Li Mi smiled confidently, and hurriedly added, "But Luoyang has to be on guard, the Luoyang army can guess that we don't have much grain and grass, and send troops to cut off our grain and attack us, it's hard to guarantee that you can't see my clever plan, fortunately, the scouts of the Luoyang army can't do it, our army had better re-strengthen the scout war, and don't let Fan Zigai and Wei Xuan, the two old thieves, contact us at will." ”

"Okay." Yang Xuangan nodded, and immediately ordered Yang Xuanting to arrange a strengthened scout battle, and do his best to cut off the contact between the Wei Xuanjun army and the Luoyang defenders, and then Yang Xuangan gritted his teeth and said: "Those group of dog thieves wearing filial piety robes, kill my army's family members, cut off my main grain channel, this revenge is not avenged, I can't get rid of the hatred in my heart!" When I break the old thief Wei Xuan, I will immediately go back to the army to settle accounts with them! ”

"That's nature." Li Mi smiled and agreed, and said secretly in his heart: "However, I'm very curious about the commander of that group of white-robed soldiers, I heard that it is a young man surnamed Chen, where did this kid emerge and can train a group of recruits who have never been on the battlefield so well?" ”

"Wait!" Li Mi suddenly remembered a big event, and said secretly in his heart: "I remember that the little ghost who scolded Chu Gong so violently that he almost died in vain in Shangchunmen in Luoyang, it seems that he is also surnamed Chen, they should not be the same person, right?" Impossible, right? Scolding Chu Gong, that little ghost, looks like he is not even twenty years old, if they are the same person, then this kid will grow up and have it in the future? ”