Praise said:

Zeng Dao was a strong archer, and he was also a master of poetry and swordwork.

Gongkai Ma County decides the winner, and the arrow shoots Chang Xin Ding to win or lose.

The six armies were about to compete in front of them, and the first general in the city was surprised.

On this day, Dalin Prefecture was pacified, and the triumphant song sang in unison.

It is said that Li Shijian discussed with the strategists to divide the army, and according to Xu Wenhu's suggestion, the Taiping Khanate army and horses were divided into three armies: left, middle and right:

The Left Army, that is, was formed mainly by the original Northern Expeditionary Army, with 100,000 horses led by Marshal Li Shijun of the Northern Expedition, with Ma Rong as the vanguard general of the Canyin Hammer, Changsheng as the deputy vanguard, Tian Mengchang and Xu Xing as the military division, and 24 generals including Li Da, Zhang Yao, Zhang Li, Wu Jun, Meng Ping, Xiang Tuo, and Ji Xiaohu.

The Chinese army, that is, led by Li Shijian to attack Huangzhou, was mainly formed, led by the Taiping Khan Emperor Li Shijian personally led 100,000 horses, with Song Yi as the vanguard, Wan Qisong as the deputy vanguard, Yan Junping, Wen Ziming as the military division, and Wei Xin, Yang Can, Yang Rong, Qin Yuan, Gao Yuan, Li Shilong, Miao Hui and other 24 generals.

The right army, that is, was formed mainly by the original Western Expeditionary Army, with 100,000 troops led by Marshal Lin Heng of the Western Expedition, with Zhang Meng as the vanguard, An Gongziming as the deputy vanguard, Liu Wuming and Fu Liming as the military division, and Yang Jin, Ruan Ting, Wang Han, Ma Ming, Zhang Long, Chen Tong, Land Rover, Lu Ba and other 24 generals.

Li Shijian also ordered Li Shijun and Xu Wenhu to lead the training camp and the regent of the era when necessary; Guo Renying and Yang Qingcai were also in charge of the military intelligence of the whole army, leading the scout troops, and acting with the various armies.

The division of the army was established, and the Taiping army followed the policy of succession and wanted to attack Zhongzhou Huangfu Junyou.

This time, it was the Chinese army and the right army that went out, and the left army defended the homeland and recuperated its strength.

Before the army set out, Xu Wenhu proposed that the Qingliu Pass was an important pass for the westward advance, and if the Qingliu Pass was not taken, it would be useless for the troops to leave Huangzhou! However, this pass should not be stormed, but should only be outwitted.

Originally, Chungju was surrounded by passes: to the east was Tiennin Pass and Cheongnyu Pass. The water of the clear stream river, out of the clear stream into Xiaolong Lake, is located in Xiaohu Prefecture.

To the south, there is the Dalong River, which flows into Dalong Lake, where it is located in Dahu Prefecture. The water surface of Dalong Lake is open, and the prefectures of Dahu Prefecture, Qingzhou, Ping'an Prefecture, Anshun Prefecture and Huangzhou either take the waterway to enter Tiantong Mansion through Nansai Pass, or take Qingliu Pass and Tianning Pass to enter Tianning Mansion.

To the west, the west of Tiantongfu, the junction of Jingzhou, Kinmen Prefecture and Tiantongfu is the west of Tiantongfu.

To the north, there are Xiaolong Lake and Longxu Pass.

If you understand the four passes of Zhongzhou, you can know that the Taiping army attacked Huangfu Junyou, which was really unfavorable and difficult. At the beginning, Li Wenshan warned his disciple Li Shijian and asked him to take the Eastern Eight Prefectures first, and then attack Zhongzhou, which was also taken into account in this regard.

Now Xu Wenhu said that he wanted to outwit Qingliuguan, and everyone asked how to outwit it? Xu Wenhu said something:

If our army attacks Dalinzhou in Zhongzhou, then, in terms of posture, it is our side that surrounds Pinglin Prefecture from both sides, which will inevitably lead Du Huaibiao's eyes to look at this side, and our side should temporarily form an alliance with Du Beibiao and propose to use the Qingliu Pass; this can make him rest assured that he wants to fight with Zhonger, after all, his two families have already become fire and water.

It turned out that Xu Wenhu's plan was borrowed from the meaning of the way. It's just that Xu Wenhu didn't elaborate, but after the meeting, he read it separately and explained it in detail.

So Li Shijian sent two envoys, all the way to the Nanping Khanate and all the way to the Dadu Khanate.

In June, the envoys returned, and they all fulfilled their mission. Du Huaibiao agreed to form an alliance, and the reason why the Nanping Khanate did not move was also clarified, because the dervishes demanded that the attack be stopped. It's just not known why the dervish asked to stop the attack.

Xu Wenhu said: "Emperor Khan's junior brother, the dervishes, the teacher has always admired his ability and praised him for his courage and resourcefulness.

The Nanping army turned defeat into victory in the Bering Prefecture Tieche Prefecture and forced Dong Shan to death with a surprise battle, which was his stroke of genius. Later, he attacked Jinshan Prefecture, and it is said that this person also had a clever plan to capture the city, and one person made a contribution and easily took it.

Now that he suddenly asked the Nanping army to stop attacking, we have to find out the deep reason for this!"

Li Shijian said: "Yes, senior brother, I have already sent someone else to find out the truth." ”

Xu Wenhu said again: "Senior Brother of the Khan, I hope that the Emperor Khan's junior brother will take the plan I said to seize the Liuguan that day!"

Li Shijian nodded yes.

On June 26, the second year of the Taiping Khan, the Taiping Khan Emperor left Li Shijun and Xu Wenhu as the chief regent, and Li Yunhang, Chen Zhiyuan, Zhu Wu, Zhang Yousan and others assisted Zhenguo and defended the important places in various states and counties.

The south road is, the right army Lin Heng is the commander, and the north road is, the Chinese army Li Shijian personally commands.

The Taiping Khanate came to attack the Datong Khanate of Huangfu Junyou, and there were already probes to report the news. When the emperor heard that the Taiping Khanate was attacking from two directions, he was anxious and hurriedly asked the military advisor Chai Junmou to discuss.

How did this Chai Junmou become the advisor of Huangfu Junyou?

——It turned out that the four gentlemen of civil and military affairs under Tang Zirong, Bu Junrui and Xin Junji did all the way, and Ha Junbao and Zhong Junli did all the way, and the two often secretly competed for favor; Chai Junmou lobbied all parties and pulled Du Huaibiao of the Eastern Court to form an alliance for Tang Zirong.

The four gentlemen of civil and military affairs actually joined forces to "unite with the outside world" and jointly deal with Chai Junmou. The four of them said in front of Tang Zirong every day that Chai Junmou conspired with the second prince and wanted to help the second prince become the crown prince of the Great Western Khan.

Although Tang Zirong gave Chai Junmou preferential treatment, this strategist violated the royal taboo by participating in the competition for the position of the crown prince of the Khan.

Chai Junmou was trapped by his four gentlemen, and when he found out, the limelight was no longer good, so Chai Junmou fled from the Great Western Kingdom with hatred and vowed to take revenge.

It was just the case that the Great Western Kingdom attacked the Datong Khanate of Huangfu Junyou, so Chai Junmou defected and wanted to take revenge by the hand of Huangfu Junyou.

Chai Junmou originally had a good understanding of the situation in the Great Western Kingdom, and this person was indeed a wide range of strategies, so for a while, he actually assisted Huangfu Junyou and the Great Western Kingdom in the border area of Jingzhou, Kinmen Prefecture and Tiantong Mansion, and the two sides were inseparable.

At this time, the Xisai Pass of Tiantong Mansion, Huangfu Junyou asked Chai Junmou worriedly: "Chai Junshi, that Taiping Khanate, the troops sent two routes, all the way to attack my Dalin Prefecture, all the way out of Dahu Prefecture, there is a joint attack on our army with the Great West Kingdom, what should I do alone?"

Chai Jun said: "My lord Emperor Khan doesn't need to worry. If the Taiping Army's North Road army conquers Dalin Prefecture, it will inevitably form a two-sided encirclement of Du Huaibiao's Pinglin Prefecture. The minister Du Huaibiao must not be happy to see this.

Our lord Emperor Khan used to be a minister in the same palace with him Du Huaibiao. If our lord Emperor Khan can send someone to form an alliance with Du Huaibiao, then Du Huaibiao will inevitably agree and will definitely take action against the Taiping army.

Li Shijian of the Taiping Army is not impossible to calculate. His soldiers on this road must capture Dalin Prefecture before they can attack Tianning Mansion, and they will inevitably have to go through Qingliu Pass and Tianning Pass. Qingliu Pass is currently guarded by Du Huaibiao's general Lu Yan. Our army only needs to strengthen the defense of Tianning Pass.

As for the Taiping Army on the southern side, we can focus on defending the passes of Nansai Pass and Dalong Lake. ”

Huangfu Junyou was overjoyed when he heard this, and asked again: "Master Chai Junshi, how does Li Shijian calculate this way?"

Chai Junmou said: "Li Shijian's people will either take the Qingliu Pass to borrow the road, or take the Dalonghu waterway. However, they did not have a naval army, nor were they good at water warfare, and the ministers expected that he would ally with Du Huaibiao and take advantage of the Qingliu Pass.

The minister said before that Du Huaibiao would not sit idly by and watch the Taiping army form a posture of encircling Pinglin Prefecture on both sides. Then, as long as our lord Khan and Du Huaibiao form an alliance, we can encourage Du Huaibiao to let Na Lu Yan cut off Li Shijian's retreat after Li Shijian borrowed the way;

At the same time, if our army holds on to Tianning Pass without fighting, then Li Shijian cannot fight in front of him or retreat in the back, and he will inevitably be defeated between the two passes.

Li Shijian is defeated, so what kind of climate can the Taiping Khanate become?"

Huangfu Junyou listened to it and exclaimed: "Gu Chu heard that he was attacking the Taiping Khanate, and he was sad for a while.

So Emperor Fu Junyou immediately sent an envoy to form an alliance with the Dadu Khanate. According to Chai Junmou's idea, Huangfu Junyou wrote a handwritten letter to deal with Li Shijian alone, which is beneficial to the two families.

However, he said that Du Huaibiao had received the words of the envoy of the emperor's handsome friend, and when he read the letter, he said: "Tell you the emperor that my country is willing to form an alliance with the Datong Khanate. However, this matter must be kept strictly secret, and the Taiping Khanate must never be made aware of it!"

The messenger retreated.

After that, Du Huaibiao told Lu Yandao: "It doesn't take much time for Li Shijian to conquer Dalin Prefecture. He has already proposed that the next step is to attack Tianning Mansion through my Qingliu Pass.

Lending the way to Li Shijian to him is the righteousness of our country and his ally of the Taiping Khanate, but if Li Shijian can't take down the Tianning Pass for a while, then, the Taiping soldier Ma Ping is between my Qingliu Pass and the Tianning Pass, as long as our army cuts off the back road of the Taiping Army, Li Shijian will inevitably be defeated and captured, I hope General Lu will pay attention to this point, and he doesn't mind the destruction of the Taiping Khanate!"

Lu Yan got the secret order and felt that it was right for him: What allies are not allies? All countries are fighting each other, destroying strong enemies, and strengthening themselves, this is the right way to do it.

Lu Yan was guarding the Qingliu Pass and secretly preparing.

Besides, Li Shijian's army came to seize Dalin Prefecture first.

There are several counties under the jurisdiction of Dalin Prefecture, including Xincheng County, Angelica County, Shexian County, Changma County, Changxin County, Mianxian County, Ma County, and Jin County.

There were 40,000 defenders in nine places. Yu Wensheng, the general of Benzhou, had already heard of Li Shijian's name, and heard that Li Shijian led 100,000 horses to attack Dalin Prefecture, and concentrated the defenders of nearby counties to Benzhou, leaving only a few men and horses to guard a few important places, namely Ma County and Changxin County.

The defenders of Ma County have 5,000 men and horses, and so is Changxin County. These two county towns are high and the pond is wide and deep. The guards were assigned by Yu Wensheng: the guards of Ma County, Lu Li, and the guards of Changxin County, Ma Lajiang.

Li Shijian's army arrived in Ma County first. I saw that the city gate was hoisted high, and the defenders were already on guard. Li Shijian came to view the city, and he didn't want the guard general Lu Li to stand high on the watchtower of the city gate, pointing at the enemy army in front of him and below, and scolded:

"Li Shijian, you are just an eighteen or nineteen-year-old Huangkou child, a lowly mountain man - you must know that the son of a mountain man will always be a mountain man, and the son of a lowly person will always be a lowly seed!

You also dare to be arrogant and claim to be the Emperor of the Khan! My Datong Khanate has always had no enmity with you, but you are arrogant and want to take away my Ma County!

- Soldiers, scold with Lao Tzu: The mountain people are cheap, arrogant, and they should be killed if they offend my Ma County!"

So all the soldiers in the city scolded: The mountain people are cheap, arrogant, and they should be killed if they offend my Ma County!

It seems that this Lu Li still has a hand in scolding, at that time, Li Shijian was so angry that his face was red, he took off the carved bow, put on the feather arrow, looked at Lu Li, and shot an arrow with a "whoosh"!

Lu Li in the city, scolded with the soldiers, Lu Li was also secretly proud, he was really a bit of a scolding genius - I don't want Li Shijian's arrow to be fast, accurate and ruthless!

Lu Li hurriedly dodged, but the arrow had already arrived and hit his right eye! Lu Li screamed "Ahh The defenders of Maxian County saw that the Lord would be shot down with an arrow, and those small soldiers panicked, so the army was disheartened.

Seeing this, Li Shijian gave an order, and an army of 100,000 rushed up, climbing the city wall on all sides, and in a short time, they were killed in the city - in less than a meal, the army captured Maxian.

Li Shijian immediately led his troops forward and attacked Changxin County. This Changxin County guard general, Ma Lajiang, has already heard about the report of the defeated army in Ma County in front of him. Mala said: "How accurate is this person's archery skills, he can shoot people from the female wall!"

So Mala came up with a plan, ordered a soldier to pretend to be himself, and lured Li Shijian to answer, but he was hidden behind the female wall and wanted to shoot Li Shijian with a secret arrow.

As for Li Shijian, after defeating Ma County, he was also pondering in his heart: If he hid on the side and secretly released an arrow, it is estimated that the guard of Changxin County should be like the guard of Ma County, whining and mourning, then our army's attack on the city will be much smoother.

When Li Shijian's army came to Changxin County, he heard a general shouting from the watchtower at the gate of Changxin County: "Where is the Taiping Khan? Come out and talk to me!"

Li Shijian didn't pay attention to it at all, but immediately took an arrow and opened a bow under the flag, looking at the general, and shot him down with just one arrow!

On the tower of the city gate, the army exclaimed, and the Mala general was also shocked: It turns out that the Taiping Khan Emperor is really a hero and invincible!

So Changxin County surrendered without a fight.

The defeated army fled from Changxin County and reported to Yu Wensheng, the defender of Dalin Prefecture. Yu Wensheng was shocked: "Why did you lose two county seats so quickly? You must know that Nama County and Changxin County are important barriers in my Dalin Prefecture!"

The defeated soldiers said that this is like this, and this is so, so that Li Shijian is invincible! Yu Wensheng heard this, and was speechless for a while, thinking about countermeasures.

Within half a day, the Taiping army came to the city of Dalinzhou. The vanguard general Song Yiyao raised his might and shouted to the state city:

"The defenders of the city have listened, my lord Khan Emperor has two arrows to determine two counties, Nama County and Changxin County have been taken, you surrender quickly, and you will kill less lives!"

Yu Wensheng in the city shouted: "Where is the Taiping Khan?

When Song Yi looked at the city, he saw that on the watchtower, he held a shield in his hand, covering himself tightly, and shouted to himself, and the voice came from behind the shield.

- It turned out that this Yuwen was afraid that he would be killed by Li Shijian with an arrow secretly.

Li Shijian also saw it clearly, so he rode out and shouted: "Li Shijian is here!"

Yu Wensheng said: "I want to compete with you for arrows, if you can win, I will surrender!"

Li Shijian smiled secretly, but shouted to the city: "How can you compare?"

Yu Wensheng said: "The two of us shoot at each other, I will shoot the arrow first, if you can win, I will naturally be convinced!"

As soon as these words came out, the Taiping troops under the city shouted and scolded one after another: Shameless scoundrel!

It turned out that this Yu Wensheng's archery technique was also okay, and he thought in his heart, if I shoot first, I am afraid that I will be able to hurt him Li Shijian and make a great contribution. If you can't shoot him, you will decide according to the situation. However, when I proposed this method of fighting, he might not dare to agree.

Yu Wensheng only said that Li Shijian, as the emperor of a country, would definitely not agree, but Li Shijian laughed and promised it.

Yu Wensheng said again: "You can't hurt people with secret arrows!"

Li Shijian smiled: "Don't worry—you can start!"

Yu Wensheng said: "Then I'll start!" Before the words fell, Yu Wensheng shot out an arrow, only to hear a "whoosh" sound, the arrow was like a meteor, shooting towards Li Shijian!

Li Shijian looked at it and said in his heart: Good guy, no wonder you want to compare arrows with me like this, it turns out that he is good at archery, and he wants to strike first and take advantage of me!

Li Shijian had already opened his bow and fired arrows, and when he saw the opponent's arrow, he immediately let go of his hand, and it was also an arrow, and it was shot out with a "whoosh".

This arrow, facing the opponent's arrow, collided in mid-air in front of Li Shijian, and after the arrow collided, the remaining momentum was still flying towards the city!

Yu Wensheng never expected the opponent's arrow, although he was able to knock down his own arrow, he still shot at himself, and couldn't help but shout "Ouch!" and fell to the ground at that time!