Huang Chao really couldn't figure out where this Tang army came from.

In line with the principle of encircling three and missing one, the three city gates west of Chang'an were indeed not guarded by heavy troops.

But he was also afraid that the Tang army would come out of these three gates and run out to attack him.

Therefore, there were still 30,000 troops guarding the gates outside the three city gates, and it was impossible for him not to know if there was a disturbance.

Looking at the burning grain and grass camp in front of him, the tooth soldiers put out the fire under the command of the tooth generals, and the flames reflected in their eyes seemed to be about to erupt.

The other side is so quick to retaliate!

Yesterday only burned the other party's grain, and today it was copied by others.

"King Huang, fortunately, General Shang blocked this Tang army for a period of time when it was coming, and warned in time, causing the other party to set fire to it in a very hasty manner, only a small half of the grain and grass were burned, saving a little use, and it could probably last for seven days. But General Shang was taken captive by the other party, and his life and death are unpredictable..."

Meng Kai was also puzzled, but he still comforted him.

Huang Chao's face was hideous, and almost every word was squeezed out of between his teeth.

"Li Jie's splashing army? According to the observation of Brother Shang's guards, the black-armored general with the mask was extremely similar to him, could it be that the man in the city had sent false news to someone? ”

Meng Kai shook his head,

"If what that person did before was known by the Tang Court, it would be the unforgivable crime of the Nine Clans, and he would have advanced and retreated with us, there could be no fraud, but Li Jie might have deceived the eyes and ears in the city."

"Regardless of whether this black-armored general is really the Shouwang or not, he ordered to go, close all the gates of Chang'an, and stop them outside the city with all his might, whether he lives or dies, and the reward is 100,000 yuan.

Speaking of this, he pondered for a moment, and hurriedly added: "If this person is forced to be willing to release General Shang, he can be let live, and the reward you wait for will be the same!" ”

Hearing this, Meng Kai couldn't help but nod.

Although Huang Chao is conceited, he also knows how to win people's hearts.

Shang Rang has a very high prestige in the army, if he doesn't care whether he lives or dies and forces the other party to kill people and vent his hatred, he is afraid that the grain and grass will be burned, and in the case of the unstable morale of the army, everyone will leave a thorn in their hearts.

At the same time, in Meng Kai's view, the grain and grass for more than ten days are not enough to equate Shang Rang's life.

Pi Rixiu immediately continued: "King Huang is benevolent, and at this time, he must protect the life of General Shang." Moreover, the escape route of these 3,000 people has been calculated by the Meng military division, and this person will not be able to escape! ”

Huang Chao snorted coldly,

"Liu Yunzhang, who sent a message to Luoyang, will not transport the grain and grass within seven days, and his whole family will be buried together!"

……

Li Jie has been running.

Zhang Guiba led the five thousand elite horsemen of the headquarters to be tightly attached to the back of his ass, and shouted wah-wah.

"The turtle grandson in front, how can you put cold arrows to resist Lao Tzu? Can you dare to fight a certain battle? ”

He shouted this sentence countless times, but he didn't hear it in front of him, and he ran to the southeast, but he was running in the direction of Shangzhou.

He sneered.

Meng Kai and Meng's military division was clever, and under the attack of 100,000 troops from three routes, including himself, the only position where he had no time to tighten the encirclement was here.

And this seemingly only way to survive is still a dead end!

The front is the boundary of Shangzhou, and after Shangzhou, there is Wuguan.

Wuguan has long been captured by Ge Congzhou's army, and when this Tang army fled to the pass, it was their burial place!

While he was chasing, when he was thinking, he saw the other party galloping into a mountain pass and really heading towards Shangzhou.

"That black-armored boy, let's discuss, as long as you let General Shang go, you can be let go!"

Shang Rang's arrest was also a big surprise for Zhang Guiba.

Back then, they had fought against each other, and Shang Rang was not only infinitely powerful, but also powerful and amazing, and he couldn't even support it for three rounds, so he was convinced by the other three and respected as the first thief army.

In his cognition, Li Jie, the Shouwang who only relied on his divine power, was not Shang Rang's opponent at all, and he might not even be able to go through a round, otherwise he would not dare to call for battle with confidence.

But this is not the reason why he is convinced of Shang Rang, in the final analysis, it is Shang Rang's ability to command troops and strategy.

Since Shang Rang was worshiped by Huang Chao as a military division in Guangzhou, the rebel army then invinciblely penetrated dozens of military towns in the north and south of the Tang Dynasty, all of which were plotted by this person.

In other words, Shang Rang is too important to Huang Chao, no wonder Huang Chao resolutely chose to let this person go in this situation to keep Shang Rang.

When Li Jie heard this, he turned around and struck again, which frightened Zhang Guiba and shrank his neck.

It's a pity that the accuracy of this arrow was too poor, and it was nailed directly in front of his horse, which startled the war horse man to stand up.

"Zhang Heitan, let's get it, and do you think so-and-so will really drill into this set pocket? The master never fights uncertain battles!"

At this time, he happened to run into a narrow mountain stream pass and gestured to Song Wentong.

Song Wentong picked up the horn hanging from his waist and blew it.

Zhang Guiba saw hundreds of people pouring out of the mountainsides on both sides of the pass, and the leader looked like an old man in his fifties, dressed as a scribe.

The old man raised his sword,

"God bless Datang, we will win, we will win!"

The sound of one after another echoed in the mountain stream.

"There is still an ambush!"

He was startled and immediately stopped.

After these Tang soldiers wearing the uniforms of the Shence Army shouted, large and small stones and wooden stakes fell like rain!

In an instant, a man-high obstacle was piled up in the narrow pass, separating his men and horses from the mountain stream.

And Li Jie's 3,000 men and horses were not idle, raising the bow through this barricade composed of stones and trees was a round of back shooting, and Zhang Guiba had to retreat nearly a hundred steps and run out of range.

He wanted to shoot at the same time.

It's a pity that after a day of siege, everyone's arrows have long been emptied, and in order to pursue Li Jie, there is no time to replenish, and all the empty bags are hanging behind the horse's buttocks.

Could it be that people just let people run away with Shang Rang?

Zhang Guiba looked at the barricade and was depressed.

Seeing that the main general was uneasy, one of his subordinates comforted: "Don't be discouraged, although this is the main way to enter Shangzhou, but the last general knows a shortcut, as long as you notify several other people to intercept it, you can intercept it in front of the city before he enters Shangzhou..."

"Haha, Shouwang Turtle grandson, this is the heavens that want to kill you!"

He has met Li Jie the most times and communicated the most frequently, although the language is very uncivilized, others may not recognize it, but for him, Li Jie can recognize him even if he turns into ashes.

Li Jie saw that Zhang Guiba left about 2,000 people to guard the pass, but he turned around and left with another 3,000 people, and waved his hand,

The 3,000 miscellaneous troops dismounted one after another, and carried out a number of large trees that had already been cut down from the nearby forest, and strengthened the barricade again.

After everything was completed, there was no hurry to leave, and the hundreds of people on the mountain who were responsible for answering them also came down.

The old man was carrying a blanket on his back, and he walked step by step with the "literati shake", and walked in front of Li Jie and saluted.

"Your Highness, the old man saw it clearly on the top of the mountain, and the chasing soldiers came in three ways, with the same intention as previously estimated, that is, to force us to the Wuguan Pass, and then flank with Ge Congzhou before and after."

Li Jie wiped his sweat, "Young Eunuch Meng, I really don't understand why Your Majesty asked you to come with you, this is a march to fight, what if there is a mistake?" ”

Meng Zhaotu frowned and shook his head,

Mencius said: ..."

He didn't even have time to say the beginning, Li Jie turned his head and ran away from his horse.

"All of them, get on the horse, go into the mountains!"

Shangzhou City is surrounded by mountains and is full of dense forests and dangerous ditches, but beyond the main road, there are more than a dozen paths leading to Lantian and Tongguan respectively.

When Huang Chao and Meng Kai arrived nearby, they swept the map and immediately blocked all the exits of these paths with heavy soldiers, forcing Li Jie to enter Shangzhou City and flee to the direction of Wuguan.

Zhang Guiba was in a hurry to make meritorious contributions, and even Shangzhou didn't want Li Jie to enter, so he rushed to the city of Shangzhou as soon as possible, waiting for this group of miscellaneous troops to throw themselves into the net.

But he couldn't see anyone when he waited left and right, so he rode his horse in a circle.

"Report!"

A scout in charge of the scout galloped in.

"How's it going, where have they been?"

That pass is only a dozen miles away from Shangzhou, and it is the ancient Qin post road, which was built by Qin Shi Huang to be extremely strong and durable, and it is still in use until nine hundred years later.

"Report, the Tang army is moving slowly all the way, and it doesn't seem to be in a hurry to come."

"This?"

Zhang Guiba stroked his beard and felt inexplicable.

"Are they going to live in the mountains? Aren't you afraid that Lao Tzu will roast them into game with a big fire? ”

Now it's 39, the weather is dry, and the trees are very easy to ignite, so fools will hide in the small mountains.

"Explore, now that this area has been blocked by the army, Lao Tzu doesn't believe that he really dares to hide in the mountains, so he is not afraid of starvation?"

With a wave of his impatience, he retreated, took the Hu Cong handed over the Hu Biscuit and began to nibble.

On a pine tree in the distance, a masked man saw this, blinked, and quietly left.

......

The mountains near Shangzhou are called Wufeng Mountain, which is derived from five of the relatively tall stone mountains.

In a small valley far from the ancient road, Li Jie sat on the ground, also holding a hu cake in his hand and nibbling.

In addition to Song Wentong and Meng Zhaotu, the young eunuch of Zongzheng Temple, Gao Silun was leaning on a tree and silently fiddling with Shang Rang's Fang Tian painting halberd.

Beside him, Shang Rang, who had come to his senses, looked calm, even though his divine power was amazing, he still couldn't break free from seven or eight tendons full of toughness.

Li Jie pointed to the map of Guannai spread on the ground while eating,

"Everything is roughly the same as yesterday's analysis, Huang Chao has blocked the ten city gates on all sides of Chang'an, and under its heavy troops, even if Han Menglu Jiping has the heart to go out of the city to respond, it is extremely difficult."

Shang Rang heard this and sneered,

"Just to burn this grain and grass? Don't you know that we are different from Chang'an, you are surrounded by heavy surrounds, and you eat less than one grain of grain, but the Yellow King can continuously transport grain and grass from dry roads through Luoyang and other places, which is reckless! ”

Li Jie was not angry when he heard his ridicule,

"What's ridiculous, the purpose is the same, it's just to mess with each other's military hearts, but your methods are more ruthless!"

As soon as Huang Chao heard this, he finally said the doubt in his heart.

"A person who believes in assassination will not lie, and you are indeed going to be hit by the poisonous shuttle, the power of the shuttle has been seen with his own eyes, and the iron armor half an inch thick can easily penetrate it, King Shou, even if you wear dark armor in your clothes..."

When Li Jie heard this, he stood up with a smile,

"Come on, remove your armor!"

This black armor is about fifty pounds, which is made by Li Yi using the stainless steel in his private warehouse, and at the same time painting black paint all over his body according to Li Jie's requirements, but he doesn't seem to look bloated and bulky on his body.

The two guards untied his armor with all hands and feet, and Li Jie's purple python robe was exposed in front of Shang Rang.

Shang Rang's eyes narrowed slightly, but he sighed in his heart,

"Backed by the imperial power, these Li children have been born dozens of steps higher than the people, and have become the heavenly nobles that everyone respects, but even if we spend our entire lives, we may not even be able to mix with the last low-ranking officials with rank..."

Li Jieke knew that Shang Rang was resenting the royal gate valve in his heart, so he walked up to him and said with a smile:

"You're right, the penetrating power of the shuttle is really amazing, the white arms on the palace have been shattered, I'm afraid that the left arm is scrapped, and it is infected with poison, and people haven't woken up yet."

Speaking of this, he was depressed, he never expected that the highly toxic "Western Regions Grass Aconite", which had been written bad by film and television dramas before, almost experienced it himself.

Seeing that Bai Heng's original white turned blue and purple, and the blood was all black, he had the urge to think about making ricin poison.

Grass Aconitum is too famous, so the Taiyi Bureau really has medicinal materials to cure this poison, and Bai Heng can be regarded as picking up a life.

Can castor poison...

The middle one is killed immediately, and you don't even have a chance to take medicine!

While thinking, he tore off the python robe, revealing the close-fitting gold silk soft armor, and the front and back of the soft armor were actually inlaid with thick heart guards.

Shang Rang opened his mouth, this soft armor is more than twenty catties, plus the outer layer of armor, it almost reaches the weight of eighty catties, even he can't move freely under this kind of weight.

But this Shouwang seems to be an exception.

He smiled bitterly,

"His Royal Highness King Shou is still sparing his life!"

Li Jie squatted in front of him with a grin,

"There's no way, this king's martial arts are commonplace, I'm afraid of meeting a master like General Shang, anyway, this little weight is nothing to us, so naturally how thick can we wear!"

After speaking, he also picked up the silk cloth armor that was more than ten layers thick under the soft armor, this thing has a strong effect on defending against arrows, and it is winter, and he does not dislike the heat.

Shang Rang was dumbfounded, directly subverting Li Jie's impression of being brave and invincible in his heart.

Until this time, as soon as he thought about it, he had already thought through the planning of this attack on the camp, and secretly sighed that there were not all wine bags and rice bags in the Tang Court.

This routine almost copied his previous strategy, which was also a strategy of arrogance.

In order to burn the granary in the city, Huang Chao assassinated Li Jie and Li Yi by the way, and sacrificed 3,000 diggers and 5,000 people of the general Yelu Hongfang.

The other party also used the granary to be burned, and released the assassination of King Shou with great fanfare to paralyze them.

Huang Chao really hit the plan, and happily took away the 50,000 elites who were supposed to be guarding the Chinese army and ran to the front of the battle as cheerleaders, causing the Chinese army's defense to be empty, and Li Jie only used 3,000 people to chisel through it, burning most of the grain and grass, and he actually became the head of this operation...

"It's a good calculation, it's just that Shang is a little unclear, how did you escape the eyes of the defenders outside the city gate? Unless they're all asleep! ”

Li Jie didn't say anything, took out a piece of Hu Biscuit and handed it to Shang Rang's mouth, and intimately let him drink two sips of water.

"Who said that you have to go through the gate when you go out of the city, and this king can't go over the wall?"

Shang Rang almost choked to death by this sentence, and his mind turned and said: "Rolling wooden car!" ”

Li Jie clapped his hands and applauded,

"It's comfortable to talk to smart people!"

It was easy for a man to slip down a rope down the wall, but not a horse.

If you want to put 3,000 war horses under the wall silently in a short time, you can't rely on manpower alone.

That can only be done with the kind of rolling wood cart that specializes in dealing with ladders.

The principle of this thing is similar to the crane of later generations, and in order to defend the city, the Tang army made hundreds of them to stand on the four city walls, which were used to put war horses down conveniently and quickly.

Shang Rang nodded, looking at the three thousand miscellaneous army behind Li Jie with a smile,

"It's a pity for these three thousand elites! Now that all the main roads out of the Wufeng Mountain are blocked, it is even more difficult for His Highness to return to the city than to ascend to the sky! ”

Li Jie turned around and put on his armor with the help of his guards, and tilted his head with the same expression,

"Who said that this king is going back to Chang'an?"