The sky was on fire, and the ground was yellow, and I knew that it was July, and it was autumn again.

Henan Road, Qingzhou, Yidu City, there is a person wearing armor and riding a horse, it is Cao Quanxi, the assassin of Zizhou. Cao Quanhui came here day and night, in order to meet Song Wei, who had been promoted to "Zhudao Xing Camp to Recruit Grass Thieves". He hurried all the way to the place where the envoy was recruited, and then dismounted.

One of the men in the line was sitting in front of the desk, his eyes closed. This man did not wear armor, only wore a thin shirt, about fifty or sixty years old, born with a leopard head and beard, dragon eyebrows and tiger eyes, it was Song Wei, the envoy of Pinglu Jiedu.

Cao Quanyang saw that Song Wei was sitting in it leisurely, and said hurriedly: "Duke Song, Wang Xianzhi has been besieging Yizhou City for several months, and the city is only broken in an instant, why don't you send troops to rescue you?"

Song Wei was not in a hurry, and said with a smile: "It's Cao Tingshi who is here, you and I haven't seen you for many days, so you can sit down and talk." ”

Cao Quanxi's whole mind was in Yizhou City, where did he still have the heart to chat with him, and said: "If Wang Xianzhi takes Yizhou, he will go straight to Song Gong's house!"

Song Wei said: "The grass army is just a group of thieves, who don't know the current affairs and don't understand military affairs, if it weren't for the fact that the imperial court didn't have time to do this, where could they become the climate? Then there is Yishui, a natural moat outside the city of Yizhou, how can Wang Xianzhi easily succeed? Not to mention that the old man has already made a clever plan, and this time the king thief is bound to lose." ”

Seeing that Song Wei was so calm, Cao Quanyang hesitated: "Even so, there are enough 100,000 besieged people!"

Song Wei looked proud and sneered: "They are all rabble, even if there are millions, what is there to fear? My Pinglu army has experienced a hundred battles, and killing them is like cutting grass and cutting wheat." ”

Cao Quanyan said again: "But Huangchao is in Yanzhou City, and he now has tens of thousands of elite soldiers under his hands. ”

Song Wei seemed to have expected Cao Quanyang to ask this question, and immediately stroked his hair and chuckled: "The old man also has a plan to retreat from the yellow thief reinforcements, but Cao Tingshi still needs to do it himself." ”

Seeing this, Cao Quanyan said respectfully: "Duke Song just commands." ”

Song Wei said: "Do you know that Cui Xiang sent someone here half a year ago?"

Cao Quanyang said, "That woman?"

Song Wei said: "Yes, who are you saying she is here? She is Huang Chao's biological daughter, with her as a hostage, Huang Chao'an dares not to retreat?"

Cao Quanyang's brows furrowed when he heard this, and he shook his head and said: "That Huang Chao is a rare hero in a hundred years, not only has great ambitions, but also is extremely fierce, it is said that he dares to dig the graves of the dead to get rich, eat the flesh of the living to satisfy hunger, and may not be reluctant to have a daughter." ”

Song Wei still smiled: "Although Huang Chao is ruthless, the old man expects that he will not dare to leave Yanzhou City without permission, and the first general who will go to the aid of Wang Xianzhi must be Qiu Ji." This Qiu Jiben is a person in the rivers and lakes, he is the most moral, and he has a love for Huang Zhen, so he will not dare to venture forward. ”

Cao Quanyan hesitated: "What if Huang Chao personally led the army to support?"

Song Wei laughed loudly: "The old man will send troops to Yanzhou City, see if he dares to move!"

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Since Song Wei was ordered to fight against thieves, although the Pinglu army has not been mobilized, the Xuanwu army, the Zhongwu army, and the Tianping army have been frequently mobilized. The people of these towns were forced to Puzhou, Yunzhou and other places, and the grass army was unwilling to confront them head-on, so they simply avoided the real and withdrew from Puzhou, Yunzhou and other places. Puzhou, Yunzhou and other places that were originally occupied by the grass army also returned to the hands of the imperial court again.

Although the grass army lost several states, its troops did not lose a single bit, so it was able to dominate more than ten states. Wang Xianzhi was still not satisfied, he thought that if he didn't get out of the East China Sea, he would not be out of the cage of the official army, and he would inevitably take Yizhou when he went to the East China Sea. This Yizhou has been around for several months, and to this day, it is still impossible to go down.

Song Wei was not idle, and since March, he has begun to pressure the grass army to prevent it from entering and leaving. Now Wang Xianzhi's 100,000 army was trapped in the quagmire of Yizhou, which made Song Wei feel that the time had come, and he began to plan and prepare to attack the grass army. Song Wei first ordered Huainan Jiedu to make Liu Ye guard against the southern states and cut off the grass army's southward route; he also ordered the Xuanwu army to make Wang Duo and the loyal army Jiedu to make Cui An sneak into Caozhou to threaten the grass army's lair; as for the Pinglu army and the Tianping army, they sent troops to Yanzhou.

Huang Chao is in Yanzhou at the moment, and those who remain in Caozhou are Liu Yanzhang and Bi Shiduo, who are the commanders of the grass army, and Shang Junchang is in the Xiapi area of Sizhou, containing the official army in Sizhou for Wang Xianzhi.

Huang Chao saw that Huainan Jiedu had made Liu Ye unusual, and deployed all his troops at the important passes in Huainan, cutting off all land and water routes, and he sighed unconsciously: "I didn't enter the south of the Yangtze River before, but now it's difficult! Song Weitun soldiers in Qingzhou, how can Yizhou be easy to take?"

It turned out that the grass army had been marching in the direction before, and Huang Chao and Wang Xianzhi began to have disagreements. Wang Xianzhi naturally wanted to fight on the coast of the East China Sea to be his "Duke of Qi Huan", but Huang Chao wanted to wave Li Tang's weak troops to Jiangnan.

"Report!" a shout interrupted Huang Chao's musings.

I saw a soldier of the grass army come in and said, "Report to General Huang, General Wang of Yizhou has sent someone!"

After hearing this, Huang Chao hurriedly summoned the soldiers who delivered the message from Nayi Prefecture into the hall and asked, "What did General Wang ask you to bring?"

The soldier said: "General Huang, General Wang has found out that Song Wei of Qingzhou has sent troops, and asked General Huang to send troops to support Yizhou City." ”

Huang Chao listened to it and said, "If you go back, you will say that the reinforcements will arrive soon." ”

"Report! Bianzhou Xuanwu Army sent troops to Caozhou!"

Huang Chaogang was about to send people to support Yizhou, and when he heard about this military situation, he held his thoughts and said: "Liu and Bi will definitely be able to resist Wang Duo's offensive, so don't worry about it. ”

"Report! Xuzhou Loyal Army sent troops to Caozhou!"

"What!" Huang Chao was shocked and suddenly got up.

You must know that Caozhou is the foundation of the grass army, and the family members of the leader of the grass army are in Jiyin City, Caozhou. The loyal army, also known as "Jing Yong", is a first-class "sharp soldier in the world", and is also an unfailing division in a hundred battles. If the Zhongwu Army and the Xuanwu Army join forces to besiege Caozhou, Caozhou will be in danger!

Huang Chao hurriedly sent an order: "Order Chenzhou Chai Piao Shuai to return to the division and block the Xuanwu army outside Caozhou; order Xuzhou Cai Piao Shuai to continue to intrude on Xuzhou, so that the loyal army will not dare to go out; Order Songzhou Li Piao Shuai to divide half of his troops to aid Caozhou City." ”

Huang Chao sent out three orders in a row, and only then did he take a breath. It's just because Wang Xianzhi is far away in Yizhou, and Shang Junchang is in Sizhou, so the safety of Caozhou is on him Huangchao alone.

After Huang Chao finished giving the order, another soldier came in: "Report! The Pinglu army has left Qingzhou and is coming in the direction of Yanzhou, and has arrived in Laiwu!"

Huang Chao heard this and said suspiciously: "Laiwu, Song Wei didn't go to solve the danger in Yizhou, why did he come to fight me in Yanzhou?"

The generals in the hall looked at each other, and suddenly a person came out of the queue and said: "There must be something strange about this matter, and the last general is willing to go to Laiwu to find out!"

This person does not wear armor, does not carry a blade, has thick eyebrows and tiger eyes, and a wide eagle nose, and is the chief helmsman of the Zhutang Society, Qiu Ji.

Qiu Jiyi went for three days before he came back and said to Huang Chao: "The Pinglu army is indeed coming to Yanzhou, and now it has stationed troops in Culai Mountain. ”

Huang Chao felt a little relieved and asked, "Song Wei can be in Culai Mountain?"

Qiu Ji replied: "I haven't seen Song Wei and his people, but there are flags on the mountain to cover the sun, and there is a big tent to recruit envoys, so Song Wei must be inside." The strange thing is that the stoves along the road of the Pinglu Army are less than once at a time, there are 50,000 in the Wolf and Tiger Valley, but when they arrive at Culai Mountain, there are only 10,000 left!"

After hearing this, Huang Chao pondered for a while, and said with a smile: "This is a plan to 'increase troops and reduce the stove'!" Song Wei knew that the old man would send someone to check the reality and reality, so he reduced the focus in the open, so that I thought that he had divided the army and went to Yizhou, but in fact, he increased his troops in the shadows, wanting to attack Yanzhou City by surprise. ”

Qiu Ji said suspiciously: "Now that Yizhou is in danger, why doesn't Song Wei go to Yizhou and fight Yanzhou instead?"

Huang Kuo shouted on the side: "I know this, this is the ancients' plan to 'encircle Wei and save Zhao'!"

Qiu Ji said: "If you say, 'encircle Wei to save Zhao', but we have 50,000 elites here, even if 100,000 officers and troops come, it will be difficult to conquer, and Yizhou is in danger of exhaustion, if General Wang first defeated Yizhou, and then approached Qingzhou, Song Wei would be homeless!"

Huang Chao was hesitating when he suddenly reported that Song Wei had a letter.

Huang Chao opened the letter and read it, only to see that the letter read: "General Huang Chao saw the words like a meeting." I have heard for a long time that General Huang is ambitious, old and strong, has the poetry of chanting yellow flowers, and has the collection of white snow Yaxing, and the court did not accept it in the past, but it is really my Tang Dynasty is not blessed. Now Song waved his army to come, it was not his wish, General Huang raised the army for more than a year, and made his wife a guest in Qingzhou for half a year, and returned it today, and hoped to welcome him in Kaicheng. ”

Huang Chao saw it, tore the letter to shreds, and said angrily: "Song Wei Pifu!"

This letter is really vicious, and every word is heart-wrenching: Song Wei first insinuated that Huang Chao did not dare to raise troops when he was young, and only when he was old did he take advantage of Wang Xianzhi's momentum to rebel; and laughed at Huang Chao for only writing poems and selling salt, no wonder the court did not accept it; and finally scolded Huang Chao for daring to rebel but not daring to save his daughter, and now Song Wei kindly sent his daughter back, hoping that you Huang Chao will open the city and surrender. Huang Chao saw such words, how could he not be angry?

When Huang Chao was angry, he suddenly reported that Zhu Wen had come to see him. The person who came was a tiger with a bear's waist and a long sword in fine armor, it was Zhu Wen.

Huang Chao restrained his anger and asked, "What is the movement of the Yunzhou Tianping Army?"

Zhu Wen said: "The Tianping Army is coming to Yanzhou with great fanfare!"

Huang Chao said: "I see, Song Wei and Xue Chong, the two old thieves, want to swallow the old man!"

Huang Kuo said: "The Tianping Army is just a remnant of the defeated army, how dare it make a comeback?"

The reason why Huang Kui said this is because the Tianping Army counterattacked Yunzhou before, Wang Xianzhi avoided the real and abandoned Yunzhou, and after several tosses, he rushed thousands of miles to attack Yizhou. The Tianping Army won Yunzhou and took advantage of the situation to rescue Yizhou, but unexpectedly caused a rebellion on the road and returned in embarrassment, so it was called "the remnants of the defeated general".

Huang Chao said: "Now that Song Wei has used all his troops here, I just need to hold on for a long time, and when General Wang breaks through Yizhou City, Song Wei will retreat, and then we will take advantage of the situation to chase after us, and we will win a complete victory." ”

Zhu Wen pondered a few times, and finally said: "General Huang, the last general thinks that Song Wei will not attack Yanzhou City. ”

Huang Chao's anger subsided again, and he laughed and said, "Oh, I don't know what General Zhu thinks?"

Zhu Wen's face did not change, and he said loudly: "The art of war is impermanent, the virtual is real, the real is virtual, the virtual is virtual, and the real is real." The last general thought that Song Wei was using the reality of reducing the stove to show the emptiness of increasing troops, and also to cover up the reality of his division of troops with the emptiness of increasing troops, which is called 'real and real'. ”

Zhu Wen has been in the grass army for a year, less rustic, a little more capable, because he has the "dream fairy" sent the military book, day and night study, quite a bit of experience in the use of soldiers. Now that he saw that Song Wei did not save Yizhou, he had this to say.

Huang Chao listened to Zhu Wen's words, like a thunderbolt, the knot in his heart suddenly opened, and shouted: "It's a disaster!

Qiu Ji was the first to come out: "The last will be!"

Huang Chao ordered: "Qiu Ji, order you to lead 10,000 light horsemen to gallop to Yizhou in the starry night, there must be no mistake!"

Although Qiu Ji also figured out Song Wei's plan at this moment, he was concerned about Huang Zhen's safety and asked, "What about Miss Huang?"

Huang Chao said angrily: "I am a big plan for the grass army, and I will not hesitate to die, so why not spare a daughter!"

Qiu Ji was about to say more, but Huang Chao interrupted: "If you don't want to, I'll let Zhu Wen go." ”

Zhu Wen heard this, but his heart tightened, he thought that if Huang Zhen's life and death were in vain, he would definitely not be able to face Wei Qimu in the future, and if he missed the military plane because of Huang Zhen, it would be a violation of military law, and he naturally did not want to do such a dilemma.

Qiu Ji rushed to say: "I heard that Chu Jiangkai has gone to Taihu Lake, so it is safer to go to the last general." ”

Huang Chao then ordered: "Zhu Wen, order you to lead 20,000 cavalry to Culai Mountain and eat Song Wei's army to lure the enemy!"