The poem says:

One by one, they took advantage of the chaos to fight for territory.

Thousands of villages are barren and give birth to foxes and rabbits, and the surnames are bleak and hungry and cold.

Wealth is regarded as a dream of floating clouds, and the rise and fall of life and prosperity help the world.

The Taiping Khan Emperor Song is a song, and the Taiping Song is passed down all over the world.

As explained above, in February of the second year of Kaiping of the Taiping Khan Emperor Li Shijian, the marshal of the Northern Expedition Li Shijun led the troops to come, and the two brothers Li Shijian joined forces to discuss the attack on Huangzhou.

So the Taiping Khan Emperor Li Shijian left Xu Wenhu, Li Yunhang, Chen Zhiyuan, Zhu Wu and others to defend the important places in each state, and selected another 160,000 soldiers, and the Taiping army attacked Yang Qingcai in two ways:

One route was led by Khan Emperor Li Shijian with an army of 80,000 horses, with Yan Junping and Wen Ziming as military divisions, with iron spear Song Yi as the vanguard general, and leading Wei Xin, Ji Xiaohu, Yang Can, Yang Rong, Qin Yuan, Gao Yuan, Zhang Long, Chen Tong, Li Shilong, and Miao Hui generals, and the troops went out of Xixian County to attack from the southeast of Huangzhou.

On the other hand, Li Shijun led an army of 80,000 horses, with Tian Mengchang and Xu Xing as military divisions, and Ma Rong as the vanguard general, and Chang Sheng, Wan Qisong, Li Da, An Gongziming, Zhang Yao, Zhang Li, Wu Jun, Meng Ping, Xiang Tuo, and Zhang You, and attacked from the southeast of Hongzhou.

Here first, Li Shijian's army came to Huangzhou.

The army went out of the state border and first surrounded Jing County, a large county in the southeast of the main city of Huangzhou. Xin Shoucai, the defender of Jing County, led 3,000 defenders and surrendered without a fight.

When the news reached Yang Qingcai, Yang Qingcai was shocked and said to Fu Ziming: "Fu joined the army, over there the Taiping army Li Shijun 80,000 horses attacked Hongzhou, and here I entered the southeast of Huangzhou and Xin Shoucai surrendered without a fight, and our army lost the barrier, how can this be good?"

Fu Liming said: "Heavenly King, the minister has a saying, I don't know whether to say it or not. ”

Yang Qingcai said: "Fu joined the army, you and I have intersected with the monarch and the minister, not for a day or two." This king has always regarded you as his heart, and it doesn't hurt to join the army!"

Fu Liming said: "Heavenly King, in this world, everyone has a heroic will, but it is not possible without a heroic life; no one is willing to fail, but there are always people who fail. ”

Yang Qingcai sighed: "Fu joins the army, don't say it, what you want to say, this king has already understood." It's just that this king is really unwilling to fail. At present, our army still has a main force of 50,000 horses, plus newly recruited soldiers and garrison troops in various places, a total of 80,000 or 90,000 horses.

At the beginning, we were just hundreds of people who rose up to rebel, and it developed smoothly, relying on the help of joining the army, all the generals worked together, I Yang Qingcai took Huangzhou Hongzhou as the foundation, and laid the big and small Fengzhou, it is the situation is very good, I don't want Du Huaibiao's troops to go out of Qingliuguan, Li Shijian rises in Ping'an Prefecture - hey!

Now it has become like this, Du Huaibiao established the country and called the Khan Emperor, Li Shijian founded the country and called the Khan Emperor, and even Lu Jiugong Liu Xiaobang'er can establish a country on his own and call himself the Khan Emperor! What is my Yang Qingcai inferior to them? At least my Yang Qingcai will not be worse than Lu Jiugong Liu Xiaobang'er, right?"

Fu Liming listened and was speechless for a while. Yang Qingcai said again: "I, Yang Qingcai, am not willing to surrender, and I vow to fight to the death with Li Shijian!"

Fu Liming said: "The king of heaven wants to fight a decisive battle, and the minister swears to fight for the king to the end and shed the last drop of blood!"

Yang Qingcai said: "Fu joins the army, Li Shijian's army is coming, what should we do?"

Fu Liming said: "Heavenly King, you lead the troops to defend the main city of Benzhou, and then order a general and an army to hold the gray county fifty miles away, and the minister to lead an army to hold the Jufeng Ridge ten miles outside the city, so that our army is connected to resist the enemy, echo each other, and support each other." ”

Yang Qingcai heard this and sighed: "It's a good plan to join the army, but it's a pity that we have too few troops!"

Although Yang Qingcai lamented that the troops were small, he had to assign actions according to this strategy, after all, Fu Liming's strategy was good.

On April 15 of the second year of Kaiping, before the time, Song Yi, the vanguard general of Li Shijian's army, led the troops to the city of Huangzhou.

Song Yi was about to attack the city, and Fu Liming led 10,000 troops to rescue him, and the defenders of Gray County, Ma Han and Wang Ming, led 10,000 soldiers to arrive later, and Yang Qingcai in the city also personally led 10,000 soldiers out of the city.

Three pinch-attacked, Song Yi could not gain a foothold, led the defeated troops to retreat, at the beginning of Shen Shi, Song Yi's army was in danger, when Song Yi was anxious, Li Shijian led the army to arrive, and the two sides fought. At the end of the Shen period, it suddenly began to rain, so the two of them withdrew their troops.

Song Yi entered the camp of the Chinese army and pleaded guilty.

Yan Junping said: "General Song lost the battle and deserves to be punished, but the enemy is at present, let me lenient the loan and let him make meritorious contributions." ”

When Li Shijian heard this, he said: "It's okay! It's just that although the enemy has few soldiers, this battle has also shown us that when the two armies fight, more will be more victories, and less will be counted as fewer victories." At present, the enemy army is divided into three armies, echoing each other, forming a horn to deal with our army, and we have to think of a practical way. ”

Yan Junping and Wen Ziming both said: "After observing the battle, you must fully understand the enemy's situation before you can make a plan." ”

Li Shijian said: "Okay! Let's go watch the battle now!"

So Li Shijian left Song Yi and other generals to guard the camp, and he brought Yan Junping and Wen Ziming, two military divisions, and Miao Hui, led more than ten personal guards, all of whom rode silver horneed horses and went out of the camp to watch the battle.

At this time, it was the end of April 15 in the second year of Emperor Taiping Khan, and the beginning of the imperial period. The rain passed, the sky was blue, and the moon rose.

Li Shijian led everyone out of the camp to the west, wanting to go around Huangzhou City to observe. When he reached a small dirt mountain, Yan Junping pointed to the dirt slope and said:

"In this place, there are few trees, but you can send people to defend it, and set up a crossbow tower on the spot, which is convenient for defense, and you can peek into the reality of Huangzhou City, and you don't have to worry about fire attack. ”

Li Shijian ordered the guards to write down this. The crowd then rushed uphill, but saw that although the mountain was not high, it was also steep and steep.

There is a river like a belt in the north of the slope, which is flooded with moonlight, and flows into the moat of Huangzhou. There is a good field in Poxi, but it is a pity that it is abandoned. Po Nan looked from afar, although it was under the moon, but it could also be seen that it was Xiao Suo's village from a distance - it was the first shift at this time, and there was no star light in the village.

When everyone looked back, the rain washed the sky, and there was already a bright moon rising from the east mountain, reflecting the clear figures on the ground.

Li Shijian looked at this round of bright moon, spread his eyes around, looked at Huangzhou in the north and the deserted village in the south, sighed with emotion, and took the road:

The rain washes the sky blue, and the moon shines on half of the city. It is difficult to appreciate tonight, and the jade mirror is out of the dressing table. Looking at the Pingchuan fields in the west and the village in the south, it is only sad to see. The acres are barren, and the remnants of the courtyard are moss.

When should I re-teach the world to be peaceful? The head of the childish village is playing, the fishing smoke is free, and Li Shu is smiling; thousands of miles of rice are surging, and thousands of households are planting mulberry and hemp.

At that time, everyone praised this article.

Yan Junping heard this, and said with great emotion: "My lord Emperor Khan, you are the benevolent and virtuous king who cares about all the people in the world, and the people are blessed stars!"

Wen Ziming also said: "My lord Emperor Khan, his ministers must do their best to realize the will of the Emperor Khan as soon as possible and reopen peace, and do not hesitate to shed blood and sweat!"

Li Shijian said with a smile: "Two military advisors, I am also emotional. Let's go, let's continue to observe the terrain!"

So more than a dozen horsemen continued to move forward and circled around Huangzhou City. Turn to the northeast of the north gate of Huangzhou City, when the east gate is north, the moon is in the middle of the sky, a white as day, the city gate looks upstairs, although the defenders of Huangzhou City are far away, but clearly see that there are nearly 20 people outside the city walking around the city.

At that time, there were guards on the road of the city wall, shouting from afar: "Who are the people walking around outside the city?"

At this time, the moon was bright, and the night was quiet, and the sentry soldiers shouted in a loud voice, and everyone in the city, inside and outside the city was alarmed.

Outside the city, there were more than 10 people from Li Shijian, and when they heard the shouting, they all immediately said: "It's not good! It's been discovered by enemy soldiers! This place is still more than 20 miles away from our army's camp, let's leave quickly!"

So the horse's hoofs tightened, and the crowd hurried away.

In the city were the nearby defenders and the sentinels on the walls. When the guards on the city wall saw that the people outside the city heard the shouts, they rode away, and immediately shouted: "The enemy is secretly watching the city!

At that time, the nearby defenders were alarmed, and Yang Qingcai's generals Zhang Ba and Li Jiu led two hundred soldiers to patrol here at night, and after hearing the news, they hurriedly reported to the king of heaven Yang Qingcai, and at the same time, shouted and shouted, turned to the east gate, and opened the door to pursue.

When these eight Li and Jiu two people chased out of the east gate, they clearly saw nearly twenty horses galloping in front of them in the moonlight!

The two generals glanced at each other and said, "Chase!" and led 200 soldiers to chase after each other. However, the soldiers led by Zhang Ba and Li Jiu were originally infantry, where could they catch up?

The second general saw that the nearly twenty horsemen and horses in front of him were getting farther and farther away, and gradually they couldn't see clearly, so they led the troops back, and after turning back and walking a short distance, they saw Yang Qingcai personally leading the army to arrive.

Zhang Ba Li Jiu said: "Heavenly King, we led the infantry, but we couldn't catch up with the enemy who watched the city, and they ran away!"

Yang Qingcai said: "It doesn't matter, I guess it must be him Li Shijian who came to view the city at night, since he fled back in a panic, he must not expect us to steal his camp!

Zhang Ba and Li Jiu both said: "Heavenly King, robbing the camp is certainly a clever plan, but the moonlight is so bright tonight, just like daylight, will the enemy be prepared?"

Yang Qingcai said: "If you go to rob the camp and take it by surprise, they won't be prepared." ”

However, it was said that Li Shijian and the others galloped back to the camp, and Li Shijian said to Miao Hui: "Quickly invite Song Yi and Wei Xin's two generals to come!"

So Song Yi and Wei Xin will come. Li Shijian said: "General Song, I went to watch the battle with two military divisions tonight, but was unexpectedly discovered by Yang Qingcai's army, I estimate that the city of Huangzhou must be full of troops now, and Yang Qingcai will inevitably think that our army is defenseless and come to sneak attack."

Now that time is pressing, it is too late to ambush, each of you leads 3,000 troops, and quickly detours between Huangzhou City and our camp, if you see Yang Qingcai's army rushing over, do not be alarmed, only cover up behind him; if you see Yang Qingcai retreating and returning, you only need to beat drums and shout behind his army, and frighten him Yang Qingcai once returned. ”

Song Yi and Wei Xin led the troops, and Li Shijian said to Miao Hui: "Pass my order, let me personally guard the battalion with more than 1,000 men and horses with bows and arrows, and lie outside the camp gate, no one is allowed to speak without my order." ”

Li Shijian himself, but he immediately crossed the gun, independent of the moon, in front of the camp.

Yan Junping and Wen Ziming both persuaded: "My lord Emperor Khan, you are too dangerous like this, right?"

Li Shijian said: "It's okay, the bird with the bow can't hear the strings." Yang Qingcai's soldiers and horses have long been demoralized, and they are cold, and I can shock them without working the army. ”

Yan Junping and Wen Ziming listened to it, and they both said: "The Khan Emperor is reasonable, how about we transfer another 3,000 troops to protect the Khan?"

Li Shijian said: "No need, you just go back to the big tent to rest." ”

So they withdrew.

At this time, the moon is like water, and the line of sight is unobstructed.

Not long after, Yang Qingcai's army really arrived. Yang Qingcai's front army saw the door of the Taiping military camp open from a distance in the moonlight, and a general stood in front of the door, immediately shot horizontally, and immediately reported to Li Qingcai: "Heavenly King, the situation of the enemy camp is like this, so and ”

Yang Qingcai listened, ordered the three armies to pause, personally rode out of the ranks, and looked at it from a distance, guessing that he was Li Shijian.

Li Shijian had already recognized Yang Qingcai's umbrella cover in the moonlight. At this time, the two armies were at most two miles apart. Li Shijian shouted:

"Yang Qingcai, you expect that our army is unprepared, so you are going to come to rob the camp, don't you? Come on, come on, come on, I, Li Shijian, fight you alone, how about it?"

This voice came through the quiet night sky, and Yang Qingcai hated: "Sure enough, it's really Li Shijian! I don't want this kid to be on guard! Chuan Ben King's order, the archers pressed the formation, and the whole army retreated!"

Li Shijian could see clearly in the moonlight, the enemy was about to retreat, and he didn't chase after him, but just laughed: "Yang Qingcai, sneak attack and robbery camp night battle is my Li Shijian's favorite, how can you take advantage of me?"

Yang Qingcai listened from a distance, and said angrily: "Retreat, retreat!" When the army walked back more than ten miles away, the shouts of killing started behind him. But it was Song Yi and Wei Xin who rushed here and grabbed the tail of Yang Qingcai's army.

Song Yi and Wei Xin strictly obeyed Li Shijian's orders, and did not really pursue, but just bluffed, and sure enough, Yang Qingcai's rear army ran wildly, and they did not form a rank, and some trampled to death.

Yang Qingcai retreated to Huangzhou City, hated and annoyed, and sighed: "Li Shijian, hey! Li Shijian! That's it, Lao Tzu doesn't have to sneak attack and rob the camp in the future!"

Not to mention Yang Qingcai's hatred, but in Li Shijian's camp, after Yan Junping and Wen Ziming came back, the two got together and recorded the small words that Li Shijian had spoken on the soil slope, and the two of them discussed it.

Yan Junping said: "The poem of my lord Khan Emperor is really touching, it is better to use a strategy to subdue the hearts of the people in the world!"

Wen Ziming said: "How to use the plan?"

Yan Junping said: "Copy this poem and send people to other countries to post it secretly, so that they can all know the great benevolence and great virtue of our lord Khan, isn't it okay?"

Wen Ziming listened to it, said yes in a loud voice, and then suggested: "The words of my lord Khan, even in the territory of my Taiping Khanate, should be publicized with great fanfare, Brother Yan, what do you see?"

Yan Junping smiled: "That's right!"

At this time, Li Shijian had retired from Yang Qingcai's soldiers, and when he returned to the big tent of the Chinese army, he saw the two military divisions smiling and proud, so he smiled and said: "The two military divisions, what is the best strategy for attacking Huangzhou, so happy?"

Yan Junping and Wen Ziming smiled and said what they had just discussed. Li Shijian said: "This plan is very good, it is convenient to publicize the salvation concept of our Taiping Khanate and win the hearts of the people for our army."

However, last time my brother went to Dadu Mountain, and after he came back, Cuigu said that he was learning the piano, so it would be better to let Cuigu compose a tune and teach it in my Taiping Khan's country, which should be good, right?"

Yan Junping and Wen Ziming both said yes.

Li Shijian said: "Since the two military advisors have made up their minds, they can send people to implement it." ”

As soon as the words fell, there was a six-way report from President President Ma to Guo Renying: "Report to my lord Khan Emperor, then General Shi Qiangsheng has news!"