(A mistake, Wang Ji should be in Jinxiang, not Heze, Heze has not yet established a county.) ）

It is indeed an exaggeration to say that the honor of the 52nd Army is maintained on Ding Shiliang, who is a general who has gone deep behind enemy lines, but after all, he cannot be expected to take the rank of general among the million-strong army. Ding Shiliang came here mainly to spy on the enemy, and to grab two tongues by the way. As the head of the scout battalion of the 52nd Army, he didn't need to go out in person for these things, but Ding Shiliang had to come by himself, because the soldiers and horses in several nearby places were moving closer to Yutai recently, and the previous information of the Statistics Department could only be used as a basis for judgment, and to find out the specific situation, he had to make a reasonable judgment based on many clues, and Ding Shiliang believed that his ability was stronger than others.

In the evening, Ding Shiliang finally returned to the army, of course, lived up to expectations, untied the two wriggling sacks from the horse, and opened them to see that they were all officers. Ding Shiliang threw the wine bag into the hands of his soldiers and said:

"Pour the wine!"

And he lifted his feet and returned to the account. Everyone knew that he was tired for several days and wanted to go back to sleep, so he went, and the interrogation was naturally handled by Hou Weiqing, Li You and others.

As an army composed entirely of former rebels, the 52nd Army has always lived in the eyes of discrimination and suspicion from others, especially after they have made great achievements, Han Yu still called them "thieves" in "Pinghuai West Monument". But Li Yu believed them, and at Li Yu's request, Li Yu at least formally treated them the same as other armies, which filled the 52nd Army with an atmosphere of gratitude and revenge to prove itself. Now, the opportunity has finally arrived.

The disappearance of the two officers who went out to supervise the grain was not discovered by the Yutai defenders in time, and it was not until the evening that the guard Wang Xing knew about it, Wang Xing suddenly became worried, and the scouts inside and outside Yutai City began to go around, and several teams of more than 100 people were also dispatched. Wang Xing was worried that the official army would suddenly attack Yutai. Compared with Hou Weiqing's department, who still doesn't know where it is, Wang Xing is actually more concerned about the progress of Wang Zhixing's department. As his name suggests, Wang Zhixing has one more word of wisdom in his name, and he is also known for his cunning when he fights, not only cunning, but also brave. Before the war, the official army strictly controlled the border between the two towns, and although Yutai was close to Xuzhou, it was more troublesome to pass information back and forth, often making a detour to Daze in the east, where it is called Weishan Lake today. In addition, the officers and soldiers had long been ready to stop, and as soon as the edict was issued, they immediately marched into the army. However, Ziqing, including the towns in Hebei, obtained the documents a few days later than the towns in the southwest, and the temporary rearrangement still could not keep up with the changes. The scout only reported that tens of thousands of officers and soldiers went straight to Jinxiang, an important town in the southwest, under the banner of Wang Zhixing, and only more than 1,000 officers and soldiers were on guard at the border. Yutai is close to Xuzhou, and when Li Shidao decided to fight a battle a few months ago, he was ready to bear the brunt of the battle, with 5,000 soldiers and horses stationed in the city and more than 3,000 soldiers on the periphery. Several nearby soldiers and horses were also assigned to Wang Xing. Now Wang Zhixing, the general of the Wuning Army, led a group of soldiers and horses to Jinxiang for the front army, thinking that the commander Li Yu on the opposite side was good at surprise soldiers, Wang Xing could only pray that Wang Ji, who had just arrived in Jinxiang, could hold up the three-plate axe.

For tactical reasons, the transmission of the text was extremely secret this time, although it was sent to every military state, but Li Yu remembered the example of the Egyptian army winning a surprise victory in the Fourth Middle East War. At that time, the armies of the Arab countries were repeatedly defeated against Israel, and the countries made a deliberate decision to launch a fourth war in the Middle East, but all preparations for the war were carried out under the appearance of calm. When a certain holiday came, all the officers of the Egyptian military got the holiday normally, and each of them also received an envelope from the military department, which contained a mysterious gift, and the military department required all officers to open it only at a certain time, and when the time came, the officers who were still in the process of transportation opened the envelope and looked at it, and immediately were dumbfounded. The gift in the envelope was an order for all officers to return to their units at once. The officers had to return to their troops in detail, and when they returned, they received orders to cross the Suez Canal and attack the Israeli-occupied Sinai Peninsula. At this time, Israel's intelligence services had already determined that the Egyptian officers had begun to go on vacation, and the Israeli army was extremely relaxed, but they were beaten to the ground by the Egyptian army. The Egyptian army blew a vicious breath and recaptured the Sinai Peninsula. Inspired by this plan to conceal the world, Li Yu ordered to add a seal to the edict and the inscription, indicating the word top secret, stipulating that a certain place can only be opened at a certain time, in short, it must be two or three days longer than Ziqing, and as for the chief official, of course, he knew it earlier than others. Because although Ziqing's intelligence network in Chang'an and Luoyang has been cleaned, it is not certain that the transmission of information about these people is faster than that of the post station. In order to preemptively strike, unexpectedly, this is the only way.

Sure enough, not only did Li Shidao, who had just sent the envoy to the table, not expect that the document would be issued suddenly, but the vast majority of middle and low-level officials in Henan Province also did not expect it, and they thought that at least they would have to wait until Li Shidao's envoy entered the court before the imperial court would send troops. As for Ziqing, it was the first day of October when the text arrived, and the opening date marked on it was the third day of October, which was the date when the camp determined to start the attack. Of course, Li Shidao was not honest enough to open this seemingly high-level official document according to the requirements of the imperial court, and after tearing the seal, Li Shidao became angry, hurriedly convened a meeting of nearby senior generals, and hurriedly arranged the defense task according to the plan. Wang Ji, who was responsible for guarding against Li Yu, had just arrived at a gallop day and night, and he received the news that the official army had come over on the road, and he didn't even breathe, Wang Zhixing's army was already all over the mountains and fields in front of him, and it was too late to quickly deploy the defense, where did he know that Li Yu did not play his cards according to the rules and sent two forwards? As for Yutai, not to mention, Wang Xing, who was originally scared, put his heart back from his throat.

Just when Wang Xing was worried about Jinxiang and desperately collecting soldiers, Hou Weiqing had already gone around the back of his ass and was about to kick it hard. After two days of busy work, Wang Xing finally gathered 10,000 soldiers and horses, and the other departments were coming in a steady stream, so Wang Xing took a breath. The news from Jinxiang also came, after Wang Zhixing entered Yutai, he won three battles and three victories, pulled out three barriers on the periphery of Jinxiang, and the Ziqing army lost more than 2,000 people and 4,000 horses and cattle. When Wang Xing was considering whether to reinforce Jinxiang, Wang Ji sent an order to Wang Xing, asking him to reinforce Jinxiang at any time, attack Xuzhou, and guard against the surprise attack of the official army on Yutai.

Wang Ji's order implied his concern, Yutai was the flank of Jinxiang, and could directly threaten Xuzhou, if Yutai was lost, the officials and troops could encircle Jinxiang on all sides. Now the official army did not attack Yutai, but appeared first in Jinxiang, which is contrary to common sense. What's more, up to now, only Wang Zhixing's banner has appeared under the city of Jinxiang, where has Li Yu's army gone?

The answer was revealed in the afternoon of the next day. At the time of Shen, the Jinxiang Army, which was waiting for the arrival of reinforcements from Jiaxiang and Rencheng, found the banner of the Ziqing Army in the northeast. The soldiers who were panicked and worried because they were pulled up a barrier by Wang Zhixing in the morning suddenly became excited, and when Wang Ji quickly climbed the city tower, the excitement had turned into frustration, and Wang Ji saw that the reinforcements were coming, but they were defeated by the remnants. Open the city gate will be chased out of breath more than 1,000 defeated soldiers into the city, only to know that the morning from Jiaxiang out of the reinforcements and Rencheng reinforcements after the rendezvous, outside the hometown of Jinxiang by the official army general Li Dingjin ambush, Li Dingjin brave, waving the lance on the horse to kill seven generals, 8,000 reinforcements suddenly collapsed, even the military flag was taken by Li Dingjin, only part of the escape back to Jiaxiang, part of the escape to Jinxiang, the rest of the estimate is not left. I'm afraid that the hometown of Jinxiang will not be able to be saved.

Wang Ji had a bad premonition in his heart at that time, and sure enough, immediately after, more defeated soldiers rushed back to Jinxiang, and in one day, the three barriers of Jinxiang Mountain, Yangshan, and Jinshan Ancient City in the north of Jinxiang were pulled up by the officials and soldiers at the same time, and they all got up early in the morning and found that the outside of the barrier was full of officers and soldiers, and even the people who reported the news were taken down before they had time to send it out. Yushan, which is five miles west of the county seat, was also suddenly attacked by the official army in the afternoon. All kinds of situations show that it is pressing towards Jinxiang from the south, west and north. At the time of the unitary period, after the reinforcements at the west gate of the gold township were surrounded and annihilated by the officers and cavalry who suddenly appeared at the city gate, thick smoke came out of the Yushan fortress to mark the fall. Li Yu's handsome banner and the banner of the 56th Army led by Li Yu entered Wang Ji's eyes.

Eight defeats in a row in two days, with the loss of more than 8,000 troops, and this is still without seeing a large army. Wang Ji is going crazy, from the two days of battle, Wang Ji finally understood, first, the sudden launch of the official army has occupied the opportunity of this battle; Second, the officers and troops attacked at the same time in all directions, indicating that the officers and troops were strong and numerous, and they were all elite, and it was likely that the main force was exhausted; Third, the officers and soldiers are sudden, hidden, and act cleanly, and from a tactical point of view, they are not Li Yu's opponents, and fourth, the best way now is to shrink their forces and contend with Li Yu by virtue of the strong city. But now the troops outside the city have been almost reimbursed, and it is too late to shrink the troops, and stick to the strong city, the city is strong enough, the problem is that he can't hold Jinxiang with the 7,000 soldiers in his hand.

Li Yu admired Wang Ji very much, and in this case, he still did not mobilize Yutai's soldiers and horses. So in order to express his admiration for Wang Ji, when a new day came, he divided thousands of troops from the 40,000 officers and troops, pulled out a barrier on the road to Yutai, and defeated the reinforcements from Rencheng again. Within three days, the officers and troops won eleven battles in a row, and the defenders of Jinxiang were terrified. But Wang Ji didn't gain nothing, at least he knew, and the banner of Hou Weiqing's 52nd Army also appeared.

Since the snowy night attacked Caizhou, everyone in the world knows that Li Yu is a surprise soldier. Now, the banners of generals such as Li Yu, Wang Zhixing, Li Dingjin, and Hou Weiqing appear around Jinxiang, what does it mean? It shows that the soldiers and horses of the four armies assembled by the Wuning Army have been dispatched, or most of them have been dispatched, Li Yu has played a trick of the real and the virtual, and this time the object of Li Yu's surprise army is the Jinxiang guarded by his Wang Ji, otherwise why would he go out of the elite as soon as he came up and pull out the barriers? Knowing that Wang Jihou had fallen for Li Yu's strategy, he was terrified, and mobilized soldiers overnight to requisition the people to strengthen the city defense.

The next day (another second day!) When Li Yu lined up the trebuchets, goose carts, and other siege equipment that had just arrived from Wuning under the city, a beacon fire was lit on the tower of Jinxiang. To the east, fifteen and thirty miles away from the county seat of Jinxiang, there are two barriers that control the avenue leading to Yutai.

Li Yu stroked his hands under the city and smiled:

"Wang Jipifu, Zhongwu is scheming! Yutai has entered the pocket of our army! ”

Wang Ji sneered in the city:

"Li Yu'er, he must have thought that President Ben (which sounds scary) will recruit the defenders of Yutai to come to his rescue, so he will set up an ambush halfway to break our Yutai army. He thought he was going to surprise him, but wouldn't he? ”

Sure enough, the officers and troops besieged but did not attack, and only the educated soldiers began to read out the text with loudspeakers in their hands, launching a psychological war. It seems that those siege equipment that came all the way from Xuzhou were just to come out to bask in the sun and listen to the preaching of indoctrination and joining the army. Faintly, behind the large array of officials and troops, there was a group of soldiers and horses heading to the east, and all the generals in the city admired Wang Ji. Wang Ji pointed to this army and said:

"This must have been sent by Li Yu'er to intercept my Yutai soldiers and horses head-on, he thought that he would only stop it head-on, and then ambush the soldiers on both sides, our army would be defeated, but unexpectedly, this time he must be in the air, and let him know the means of the general, the might of our army!"

After the return of groups of scouting horses one after another, Wang Xing was finally convinced that there were no officers and troops ahead. So the west gate of Yutai was opened, and an army of about 3,000 people drove out of Yutai and went west to reinforce Jinxiang. When the general was leaving, Wang Xing admonished him:

"Remember, when you get to the barrier, stay there, don't take a single step forward. As long as the boundary gate is guarded, Jinxiang and Yutai can echo each other, and when the Yunzhou army arrives, they will defeat Li Yu in one fell swoop. This is also an order from President Wang. ”

The boundary fence is a fence between Yutai and Jinxiang, more than forty miles away from the county seat of Jinxiang, and the feeling is really not to reinforce Jinxiang, it seems that Wang Ji really intends to let the official army pounce. After the reinforcements set off, Yutai's exploration horses continued to gallop in and out. Half an hour later, the south gate of Yutai opened, and a team of troops without any flags drove out of the south gate, and went straight for a small half pillar of incense before it was opened. Just when the people outside the city thought that the city gate was going to be closed, another team of soldiers and horses drove out of the city, this time it took half an hour to open, and finally an army was opened from the south gate of Yutai, and the south gate was closed. I really can't see how such a small city can accommodate so many troops.

"Straight lady thief, good calculation, the front army, the middle army and the rear army add up to 12,000 people, he wants to empty Xuzhou!"

"Let's go back and report to the general."

Far from the dirt slope by the roadside, the two heads quietly hidden.

Twenty miles away from the south of Yutai City, where several rivers intersect, wrap a large piece of land in the middle, surrounded by hills, not far from the east is the quiet Weishan Lake, standing on the top of the slope, it seems that you can still see the vast smoke waves, and the fishermen who fish on the Weishan Lake, it is really a refreshing place. After a few bird calls, a few people came out of the valley and brought them in.

Hou Weiqing was sitting on a sunny slope, basking in the sun comfortably. If it weren't for the war, he really didn't know that Yutai, a small place, had such a good place with mountains and rivers. On the hay under his feet, there were already several pheasants, hares, and the like, as well as a large wild boar.

"It would be better to catch some more fish."

Just thinking about it, a few people came out of the bottom of the slope, and saw Hou Weiqing kneeling down and said:

"General Qiyu, an hour ago, about 12,000 soldiers and horses were sent out from Yutai, and they were heading south without any banners. There were about 5,000 cavalry inside, and the rest were all infantry. Now it is estimated that the striker has arrived in the south. ”

Hou Weiqing said:

"Sure enough, as the commander expected, he wanted to take advantage of our army to attack Xuzhou. Grandson, the master let you have no return! ”

Then he summoned several officers and ordered:

"Wood, let the soldiers get up, and loosen their bones. You go and inform General Li (Li Zhongyi) that the turtle grandson is about to hit the net, and let him prepare to stop it. You go and tell Li Junenvoy (Li You) that he can play on the fishing platform. You go to the other side of the river and call up General Hu and General Dou's men. You go to Fengxian and pass on General Ben's order to let General Zhu Tai send troops. ”

General Hu and General Dou are the generals of the Wuning Army and the Guards Army, General Dou is the top student Dou Yi in the first phase of martial arts, he was still a senior member of the army when he crusaded against Huaixi, and after Huaixi was pacified, the prince and Li Guangyan mentioned him when they were talking about their merits, and now they have brought a brigade of soldiers and horses. The two were ordered to lead their troops and horses to belong to the 52nd Army and listen to the command of Hou Weiqing. can let the emperor's personal army cooperate with him to fight, which makes the 52nd Army feel very proud, and he is afraid that this battle will not be fought well, lose his face, and be even more despised.

After a while, the soldiers and horses hidden in the hilly land where the rivers crossed stood up one after another, and there were 10,000 people. The Eijo Knife is like a long, narrow mirror, reflecting the sun's rays in all directions. Seeing that the soldiers and horses on the other side of the river had also gathered, the army of 10,000 people on both sides of the river was silent and did not make a sound at all, which made Hou Weiqing feel a kind of bullish emotion spreading in his chest. When the rear of the enemy army had already passed the southern distance, according to the plan, the soldiers and horses on the opposite bank set off first. Originally, Hou Weiqing planned to let the two brigades on the opposite side be used as reserves, but they were all strong troops, and they didn't want to steal the limelight from the 52nd Army, so they resolutely refused to let it. As soon as Hou Weiqing wanted to intercept the 52nd Army, the benefits really couldn't be fully occupied by himself, so he agreed to let the Dou Brigade of the Guards Army and the Hu Brigade of the 56th Army attack first.

When Dou Brigade and Hu Brigade were out of sight, Hou Weiqing reprimanded his two travelers. Hou Weiqing's first sentence was:

"Rabbit cubs, put away your knives first, and shake my head so dizzy!"

The soldiers laughed lowly, startling a group of birds.

"Expose the target, bad military discipline!"

Hou Weiqing's first thought was this, and he immediately thought that the enemy army was still on the side of the official road ten miles away from here, so he put his mind at ease, and then said:

"I won't talk about the previous things, everyone has been here since anyway, from His Majesty the Emperor",

Hou Weiqing arched his hand and continued,

"From His Majesty the Emperor to Li Shuai, we have never been regarded as outsiders. Look at the knife in our hands, the Yongzhen knife in Yishui, look at the clothes we wear, the armor we wear, there is no difference from other armies. We are now real officers and soldiers. ”

As he spoke, Hou Weiqing raised his voice and said:

"To tell you the truth, there are 12,000 people from the thief army this time, and we seem to have more soldiers and horses than the other party, but 5,000 soldiers have been taken to the fishing platform by Li Jun's envoy. We're about the same number of thieves now. Tell the brothers that the defenders left in Yutai City are afraid that they are not much less than the people brought by Li June, but Li Junean insists on refusing to bring more people, so that everyone knows what. Everyone is a man with two eggs in the crotch, what to do I Hou Weiqing will not say, not to say for the emperor, for Li Dashuai, that is, for our 12,500 brothers in the 52nd Army and more than 7,000 brothers in other armies, when the Pingzi Qing Monument is erected, it will not be carved into a thief, we will also fight! ”

Five thousand pairs of eyes stared at Hou Weiqing, without a sound, but Hou Weiqing was very satisfied, Hou Weiqing read two words from the eyes of the soldiers:

"Fight."

In fact, Hou Weiqing knew that a group of 8,000 soldiers and horses was coming from Jinxiang under the personal command of Li Yu, and a group of 3,000 soldiers and horses would arrive from Fengxian under the leadership of Zhu Tai and enter the battle at the last moment. Hou Weiqing also knew that the weather was very good today, there would be no accidents, and the 52nd Army, which had saved the idea of fighting, would have many more casualties than expected, but Hou Weiqing did not regret his decision.

Only iron and blood can cleanse the shame of the officers and men of the 52nd Army, and only after a bloody battle will the 52nd Army be truly accepted and become a real officer and army.

As an organized army, they are burdened with great trust and pressure. This opportunity, Hou Weiqing and the 52nd Army have been waiting for a long time. Thank you Li Dashuai for giving us this opportunity.

A quiet and swift march began. Hou Weiqing's soldiers picked up the hares and pheasants on the slope and dragged the wild boars. Hou Weiqing instructed:

"Talk to Gao Senjun and go and release all the people who have been detained in the past two days. Each person is given a consistent amount of money. ”

We are now officers and soldiers.

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