As early as when Li Mi deliberately delayed whether to decide whether to adopt Li Er's strategy to lead the way to the west, Li Er had already sensed that the situation was not good, and made second-hand preparations in advance, and the result was not as expected by Li Er, the short-sighted Li Mi really rejected Li Mi's clever plan at the last moment, and expelled Zu Junyan, who Li Er had bought at a great price, from the shogunate, cutting off Li Er's biggest source of information in Li Mi's army.

Fortunately, Li Er had already made preparations with both hands, and the powerful messenger Ren Bi had also taken Li Er's two sets of plans to visit Yu Culture and the army early, as long as Ren Bi could catch up with Yu Culture and the army, with the relationship between the old Li family and the old three Yu Wenshi of the Yuwen family, there was great hope for bringing Yu Wenhua and the army back to the right path in time. Therefore, even if Li Er deliberately refused Li Er's 'kindness' at the last moment, Li Er was still not in a hurry, patiently just waiting for follow-up news, and at the same time, he naturally had to quietly pray for God's blessing, so that Li Mi would be defeated in the hands of Yu Wenhua and the army, who were strong and strong, but lacked a think tank and an excellent coach - this is also human nature.

There is another point that Li Er regrets, that is, Li Mi not only expelled Li Erjun's inner line ancestor Junyan, but also strengthened the blockade of water and land roads, making it difficult for Li Er to get in touch with Yu Wenshi, Ren Bi and others, and also greatly limited the speed of Li Erjun's meticulous transmission of intelligence to Jinnan, until August 25, Li Er still has not received any news about the Tongshan War, let alone that Yu Wenhua and the army have severely damaged Li Mijun with his secret help, and he is in a hurry but there is no way.

After not hearing from him for a long time, when he was somewhat apprehensive, an unexpected news was suddenly sent to Zhengping City, Jiangjun County, where the main force of Li Er's army was currently located, and it was also directly sent to Li Er's front - Liu Heimin's department of the Daxing Sui Army, which had been holding on to Hedong before, suddenly dispatched more than 10,000 soldiers and horses, and under the personal leadership of Liu Heimin, they entered the territory of Wenxian in the south of Zhengping. Li Er was confused when he heard this, and said secretly: "Liu Heimin's head is in the water?" For no reason, how could you suddenly think of Dawenxi? If you want to take Jiangjun, his strength is insufficient? ”

Puzzled, Li Er hurriedly asked the messenger sent by Wen Xishou's general Duan Zhixuan, "Why did Liu Heimin send troops?" Is there a reason? ”

"Got it." The messenger's answer made Li Er cry and laugh, "I heard that Liu Heimin has a favorite concubine is Wen Xiren, the whole family is Wen Xi, when Liu Heimin sent someone to pick up his concubine's family to go south, he found that his concubine's family had been killed, and I heard that even the meat was eaten, Liu Heimin suspected that General Duan Zhixuan did it, and his favorite concubine cried and asked Liu Heimin to avenge her family, Liu Heimin decided to send troops to fight with General Duan." ”

Li Shentong, Tang Xian and the others next to him laughed when they heard this, and Li Er couldn't help laughing out loud and said, "Really? Can he, Liu Heimin, be so affectionate and righteous, and be able to avenge tens of thousands of soldiers and horses for one of his favorite concubines? He, Liu Heimin, is not afraid that Chen Yingliang will know about it and skin him? ”

"Absolutely." Wen Xi's messenger replied truthfully: "The fine work we sent to Hedong has confirmed this matter, and we have also seen with our own eyes that Liu Heimin is filial piety is on the expedition. However, General Duan can assure you that he will definitely not cause trouble by arson, let alone kill people and eat meat, General Duan suspects that this matter may be a good thing done by Meng Haigong's broken up remnants. ”

Li Er smiled again, nodded and said: "Go back and tell Duan Zhixuan, just say that I believe he won't do this, tell him to take a defensive position and confront Liu Heimin, and keep in touch with me at any time, Wenxi is only more than fifty miles away from Zhengping, if necessary, I can send reinforcements to help him at any time." ”

After the messenger sang the promise and left, Li Shentong, Tang Xian and the others laughed, Li Shentong, who had suffered a big loss in the hands of Liu Heimin before, couldn't wait to instigate him: "Right Governor, Liu Heimin was arrogant after a few victories, and the lone army marched lightly, this is just a great opportunity for us to take revenge, in my opinion, we might as well take the opportunity to send the main force south, and he will fight with him in Wenxi, and avenge our soldiers who died in Yuxiang!" ”

"Don't worry, it's not far anyway, wait until Liu Heimin and Duan Zhixuan do it." Li Er shook his head, and said thoughtfully: "I always think this matter is a little strange, for a woman to send tens of thousands of soldiers and horses to start a war, this is too ridiculous, right?" This Liu Hei Min puppet, shouldn't he want to play some tricks? ”

"What tricks can he play?" Tang Xian said disdainfully: "Although this thing is ridiculous, but for a dark slave like Liu Heimin, it is not strange at all, relying on Chen Yingliang's traitor's appreciation and luck to win a few battles, from a thief general suddenly to a local heavyweight who is in charge of one side, Liu Heimin doesn't do anything to show off his indispensability, isn't it like walking at night?" ”

Although he knew that Tang Xian's words were reasonable, Li Er still refused to draw conclusions lightly, and said after thinking: "Let's wait a little longer, send more scouts to keep an eye on Liu Heimin's army, and report any changes immediately." Also, send more detailed work to the bank of the Yellow River to keep an eye on, and find that there is an army crossing the river in Guanzhong, and immediately report it. ”

Not to mention, Liu Heimin seems to be really avenging his beloved woman, from the station Pusaka to Wenxi 300 miles away, Liu Heimin's army only walked for more than three days, and then Liu Heimin let the rear army camp by the river ten miles south of Wenxi, and couldn't wait to take two thousand troops to Wenxi City to fight, wearing linen and filial piety, condemning Duan Zhixuan for killing his pet concubine and eating human flesh and beast crimes, Duan Zhixuan, who was more wronged than Dou E, was furious, and also took two thousand troops out of the city to scold Liu Heimin, Scolding Liu Heimin for being a good person who does not distinguish between right and wrong, and wrongs a good person for no reason, Liu Heimin was even more furious, and immediately urged the army to step forward and fight with Duan Zhixuan.

The result of the big fight was that Li Erjun suffered a loss, although Duan Zhixuan was also one of the twenty-four heroes of Lingyan Pavilion, but the famous generals enshrined in Lingyan Pavilion, including Super Fierce Captain Chi Jingde, as long as they fought against Liu Heimin, there was no one who did not suffer losses! Therefore, Duan Zhixuan, who is famous for his bravery, also soon discovered that the unknown young general Liu Heimin opposite him was even more ruthless and fierce than him, and he slashed more than a dozen soldiers of Li Erjun in one breath on the battlefield, killing Li Erjun up and down in horror, and the Sui soldiers brought by Liu Heimin were inspired, and they also rushed fiercer than one another, and one cut harder than the other, and Duan Zhixuan's army was the outer barrier of Li Erjun's main force, and there were not many elites, and soon he couldn't parry Liu Heimin's army and rushed violently, losing more than 300 corpses and fleeing back to Wenxi City. Liu Heimin led the army to pursue to the city, and pointed to the city with a saber to greet Duan Zhixuan's eighteenth generation ancestor, and then left with a proud retreat.

Before the matter was over, Duan Zhixuan's scouts soon discovered that after Liu Heimin's army set up camp, he actually went to cut wood to create siege weapons, preparing to launch a frontal assault on Wenxi Town! Duan Zhixuan, who only had more than 3,000 troops in his hand, was very cowardly, and hurriedly sent someone north to Zhengping to report the battle situation to Li Er, and asked Li Er to send troops south to help.

There is no need for Duan Zhixuan to report the battle situation, the distance is only more than fifty miles, and the scouts of the main force of Li Erjun have already explored Liu Heimin's situation clearly, but the more this is the case, the more suspicious Li Er becomes, because Liu Heimin is really unreasonable to do this, just enter alone, and when the enemy's main force is nearby, Liu Heimin even dares to build siege weapons to launch a frontal assault, how unreasonable does this be, so that Li Er is very suspicious that this is Liu Heimin's plan to lure the enemy, indicating that he is preparing to trouble Duan Zhixuan, In fact, he wanted to lure Li Er's main force to leave the protection of Zhengping Jiancheng and go south to the Wenxi battlefield to fall into a trap.

Fortunately, although Wen Xi is the base of the old Pei family, which has a deep relationship with Chen Fuliang, and the money and grain situation is so-so, the strategic location is not as good as Jiangxian County in the east, even if it is lost, it is not a pity, so for the sake of prudence, Li Er categorically rejected the proposal of Li Shentong and Zhu Cang and others to take the opportunity to go south to fight a decisive battle, and chose to stand still, ordering Duan Zhixuan to continue to close the city and defend it, and at the same time secretly Xiaoyu Duan Zhixuan, allowing him to abandon the city and retreat when he could not support it. At the same time, Li Er, who was cautious by nature, naturally had to strengthen the reconnaissance of the rear roads of Liu Heimin's army, looking for the Sui army ambush soldiers who were very likely to survive.

What happened next made Li Er even more suspicious, and after hastily building some siege weapons, Liu Heimin's army really launched a frontal attack on Wenxi Town, and even organized the people to dig trenches and rammed earth as walls to block Duan Zhixuan's escape path, which made Li Er can't help but suspect that Liu Heimin's purpose of sending troops is true, and he really came to avenge his beloved concubine.

In addition, Liu Heimin also sent a large number of cavalry to fight the scout battle, desperately hunting and killing the liaison messenger between Li Er and Duan Zhixuan, the range of activities is also very large, more than once invaded the main defense area of Li Er's army, Li Er was still calm for this, Zhu Cang and Li Shentong and others couldn't bear it, and took turns to lead the light cavalry to attack the scout battle, and hit Liu Heimin's arrogance head-on, and was lucky to catch two prisoners of war and escort them to Li Er for interrogation.

The result of the interrogation of the captives made Li Er gradually shaken, although one of the captives did not confess despite the torture, the other captive truthfully confessed, saying that Liu Heimin was really to avenge the concubine's family this time, and all the Sui army knew about it, and at the same time, Liu Heimin also asked the generals at all levels to appease the soldiers, saying that although Li Er's main force was fifty miles away, Liu Heimin could guarantee that the main force of Li Erjun would never dare to go south, and also said that after breaking Wenxi City, all the money and cloth seized belonged to the soldiers, and Liu Heimin only took a penny for revenge.

"Could it be that Liu Heimin is really just here for revenge?"

At the same time that Li Er was even more shaken, the fatal blow suddenly came, and the scout sent to investigate Liu Heimin's rear reported that the Sui army banners had indeed been found in the mountains and forests on the road behind Liu Heimin, and there were quite a few of them. While Li Shentong, Zhu Cang and others were taken aback by this, Li Er was overjoyed, and said, "You can go south!" Fiction is real, reality is fiction, Liu Heimin deliberately set up more flags in the rear, clearly in order to arrange the illusion of ambush, intimidating our main force not to dare to go south to rescue Wenxi! Immediately send the order down, the whole army will prepare immediately, and tomorrow send troops south to fight a decisive battle with Liu Heimin! ”

It was Li Shentong's turn to be worried about the revenge of Liu Heimin, and persuaded Li Er to use troops cautiously to find out the truth of the ambush behind Liu Heimin, but Li Er said with a smile: "Don't worry, we have already found out how many soldiers and horses there are in Hedong, and in the past few days, Wang Xingben, Cao Qing and Huo Shiju have not moved, even if Liu Heimin secretly mobilizes troops and horses to set up an ambush in the north, how many troops will he transfer without alarming us?" Don't say that there will definitely be no ambush, and even if he does have an ambush, we don't need to be afraid! ”

Seeing that Li Er was full of confidence, and knew that Li Er had always been like a god, Li Shentong and Zhu Cang and others no longer objected, and the next day after leaving Tang Xian to guard Zhengping, Li Er led 25,000 main forces south to find Liu Heimin desperately, in order not to give Liu Heimin a chance to escape, Li Er also ordered the army to march south at a rapid pace, and try not to give Liu Heimin time to react. As a result, this hand really had an effect, and after the scout reconnaissance found that the main force of Li Er's army was suddenly dispatched, Liu Heimin, who was still attacking Wenxi City, was caught off guard, so he could only quickly collect his troops and withdraw to the camp, and there was no time to abandon the camp and retreat, Li Eryi also immediately divided his troops to the south, blocking Liu Heimin's way back.

In addition to the dense number of flags in the mountains and forests behind Liu Heimin, only the old and weak soldiers of one school were bluffing, and after capturing more than half of the old and weak soldiers who fled for their lives in a hurry, Li Erjun quickly knew that Liu Heimin had indeed only sent the army of one school to set up a fake ambush in the rear. At the same time, these old and weak soldiers also explained an important situation: Liu Heimin only brought 15 days of food this time, and the grain and grass could not last long at all.

Without any scruples, Li Er immediately ordered Zhu Cang to lead an army of 7,000 to the south of Liu Heimin's camp to set up camp on the road, blocking Liu Heimin's way back, Duan Zhixuan, who was beaten by Liu Heimin on the head for four days, also immediately led the army out of the city, and in turn ran to the gate of Liu Heimin's camp to show off his might, greeting Liu Heimin's female relatives to provoke Liu Heimin to fight, and Liu Heimin, who was caught off guard by Li Er, closed the camp and defended it, while sending a number of messengers south to the rear to ask for help.

Although the number of cavalry was very small, the light cavalry brought out by Li Er still succeeded in capturing two Sui army messengers, and from them they found Liu Heimin's letters asking Huo Shiju and Wang Xingben for help respectively, and the letter only asked Huo Wang and other generals to raise troops to the north to meet Liu Heimin's breakthrough, and did not mention anything else. The generals of Li Erjun were overjoyed when they saw the letter, not only confident that they would defeat Liu Heimin in this battle, but also had the idea of encircling the point to send reinforcements, wanting to take this opportunity to severely damage the main force of the Sui army in Hedong, and then take the entire territory of Hedong that had been coveted for a long time.

Li Er, who has always been very lucky, is very confident that he has good luck this time, and he ran into Liu Heimin's head into the water and the lone army marched lightly, but he still didn't dare to take anything lightly, and still continued to send scouts to the south to investigate the movements of the Sui army, and the result made Li Er both happy and secretly suspicious, of course, he was happy that he did not find that a large number of Sui troops appeared, and the suspicious thing was that he had not received the news from Guanzhong for more than ten days, as if the Sui army in Guanzhong had tightly sealed the road checkpoints.

Li Er's doubts were soon answered, and on the third day of the complete siege of Liu Heimin, and at the same time, when Liu Heimin's grain and grass should only have five days left, a meticulous work sent to Hedong to listen to the news returned to Li Erjun, in addition to reporting to Li Er that there was no abnormal situation in Hedong, there was also a report that the Sui army had indeed blocked the pontoon bridge crossing of the Yellow River, but the purpose was not to target Li Erjun, but the Sui army in Hedong found that there were Xue Jujun soldiers disguised as merchants and sneaked into Hedong to buy salt in Yuncheng Yanchi, This was done in order to cut off Xue Jujun's supply of salt, and Li Er's meticulous work also confirmed that the Sui army did inspect the salt caravan very strictly.

After understanding why he couldn't receive the Guanzhong line report, the next day, when Liu Heimin's food was only four days left, the greater good news suddenly came, a messenger sent by Ren Bi finally brought Li Er the great news of the defeat of Li Mi's army after crossing the Hanoi County controlled by Li Mi's army with great difficulty.

"Father's heroic spirit bless."

After putting his mind at ease, Li Er sighed lightly and sat back on the handsome chair, with a relaxed smile, and then Li Er did not hesitate, and immediately took up the pen in person, and wrote a letter to Yu Wenhua and asking for surrender, building Yu Culture and bypassing the Tiger Prison Pass and the eastern capital Luoyang, and going straight to Hedong through Hanoi County, at the same time, Li Er also promised in the letter that he would provide Yu Wenhua and the army with military rations for attacking Guanzhong and the necessary ferries to cross the Yellow River. In the end, Li Er also prepared a rich gift for each of the Yuwen brothers, and arranged reliable people to go east immediately to contact the Yuwen brothers.

On the premise that Liu Heimin was well aware of the shortage of grain and grass and had no place to supply, Li Shentong and Duan Zhixuan and others strongly persuaded Li Erwei not to fight, and waited for Liu Heimin to break through before launching a pursuit, and won the greatest victory at the minimum cost in the pursuit battle. But Li Er, who was very assertive, once again tried his best to defy public opinion, insisted on seizing the victory that could be obtained with all his might, and did not want to delay the time to avoid extraneous branches, so he resolutely launched a frontal attack on Liu Heimin's camp.

The brutal camp offensive and defensive battle was launched, the lone army of Liu Heimin had no way to retreat, and could only desperately defend the camp and resist, Li Shentong and Duan Zhixuan, who were bullied by Liu Heimin before and wanted to cry without tears, will have Li Er's backbone, all of them are personally dressed in battle, taking the lead in attacking the Sui army camp, Zhu Cang, who has completely torn his face with Chen Fuliang, in order to show loyalty to the new master, he personally led the death squad to charge hand-to-hand combat, the Sui army camp was not strong enough, and the fight was extremely hard, and he was killed into the camp by Li Erjun several times, In the end, it was the death squad composed of Liu Heimin's own soldiers who fought back desperately, which drove Li Erjun out.

The corpses of the soldiers of the two armies were piled up on the edge of the camp, and the blood flowed down the ditch into the water at the rear of Liu Heimin's army's camp, dyeing the water with a large amount of water pink, but as the attacker's second army, because of the proper use of tactics, orderly advance and retreat, and close to Wenxi City's convenient material replenishment, the casualties were even smaller than Liu Heimin's army. In this regard, of course, Li Erjun's confidence was greatly increased, but Liu Heimin's army was demoralized, and the soldiers began to surrender.

That night, Liu Heimin sent people out of the camp to ask Li Er to surrender, Li Er accepted Liu Heimin's surrender, and arranged for his cousin Li Shuliang to lead the army to rob the camp, the result of the camp robbery was that Li Er and Liu Heimin scolded each other for being despicable and shameless, because Li Shuliang had only completed half of the way in the sneak attack on Liu Heimin, and met the sneak attack team sent by Liu Heimin head-on, and the two armies suddenly encountered each other when they were most likely to relax before dawn.

It is rare to believe Liu Heimin once - although it was only temporarily believed for less than five minutes, but the result was almost Yin by Liu Heimin's deception, Li Erjun was of course furious, and the next morning launched an attack on Liu Heimin's army, Liu Heimin once again led the army to defend the camp, and shouted out the helpless slogan that the camp is in the people and the camp is broken.

The battle was more fierce than the first day, the units of Li Erjun's army who took turns to fight were like a tide, constantly impacting the weak camp defense of Liu Heimin's army, Liu Heimin's army resisted desperately, but the camp fortifications that were not strong enough did not bring much advantage to Liu Heimin's army, and the casualties were always roughly the same as that of the attacking Li Erjun, and the fence and defense line that had been repaired many times were constantly opened up gaps, and they could only rely on flesh and blood to fight hard with the outnumbered Li Erjun, and it became a foregone conclusion that Li Erjun was consumed alive.

After noon, Li Erjun once again opened the gap and entered the camp, forcing Liu Heimin to dispatch the reserve team to fight hard, but at this time, a man wearing civilian clothes was brought to him by Li Erjun's scouts, while showing Li Er's identity credentials to prove that he was the fine work that Li Er had sent to the south before, and said to Li Er: "Yu Youdu Dudu, the villain is responsible for the fine work of sentry Anyi, yesterday at noon, an army of Chen thieves arrived outside Anyi to rest, and the Chen thief army of Anyi provided them with drinking water and food, At the same time, the road was blocked from pedestrians, and the villain was afraid of being blocked in Anyi, so he hurried back to report. ”

"Thief Chen's reinforcements arrived in Anyi yesterday?" Li Er was a little surprised, and hurriedly asked, "How many troops are there?" How many cavalry? Whose banner is it? ”

"The number is about fifteen thousand, and the cavalry accounts for about one percent, about fifteen or six hundred." Xiaozuo replied truthfully: "It's under the banner of the thief Fang Huang." ”

"Fang Huang's banner?" Li Eryi listened to the music, nodded and said: "Yes, counting the time distance, if Fang Huang marches all the way, it is indeed possible to arrive in Anyi at noon yesterday." But it doesn't matter, most of his army is newly formed, so there is nothing to fear. ”

"Right Governor, if Fang Huang continues to march rapidly, it is possible to come here this evening." Zhu Cang couldn't wait to give an order: "The last general is bold, please order to lead an army of 5,000 to the south and take the initiative to meet the tired army of the thief general Fang Huang." ”

"I heard that there are more than a thousand war horses, and you can't wait for it?" Li Er saw through the thoughts of his subordinates at a glance, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, let's find out their movements first, if Fang Huang wants to meet Liu Heimin's breakthrough at night, he will definitely rest and wait in the distance to the south, and wait for our scouts to detect their ......movements." ”

"Report ——!" The sudden roar of the scouts interrupted Li Er's confident arrangement, and at the same time, several scout fast horses rushed over, and before they could get off the horse, they yelled: "Governor You, the reinforcements of the thief Chen are here!" ”

"How is that possible?!" Li Er jumped up violently and yelled, "How could it come so quickly? How many troops are there? Got there? ”

"Right Governor, it seems that he has gone behind our back."

A pro-soldier next to him timidly pointed to the south, Li Er quickly turned his head to look, and saw that the dust and smoke were billowing in the direction of the official road in the south, and indeed a large number of cavalry were approaching quickly, Li Er first rubbed his eyes in disbelief, and then hurriedly shouted: "Zhu Cang, go back to your camp quickly, organize the army to intercept, and buy time for our main force!" ”

Zhu Cang closed his mouth after only half of what he said, because Zhu Cang had already seen that in the churning dust, the cavalry of the Sui army had directly bypassed his camp and went north, directly killing in the direction of the main force of Li Erjun! When they looked at the enemy situation more closely, the faces of Zhu Cang, Li Er and the others suddenly turned pale, because they clearly saw that the arrogant and domineering Sui cavalry was wearing a cloak on their bodies, and the color of the cloak was the same as their faces, all white.

"I've been tricked." Li Er's head was dizzy, and he finally understood why Chen Fuliang wanted to use the excuse of fighting salt sellers to desperately block road traffic, and finally understood why Liu Heimin would find an excuse to enter alone, because this qiē was a trap, a trap set up with Liu Heimin, one of the few heavy generals under Chen Fuliang's command, as bait, but Li Er, who was the directional prey, couldn't help but bite the hook.