At the time of the third watch, Li Jiancheng, who was asleep, was woken up by the guards, "Your Highness, there is an urgent situation!" ”

Li Jiancheng sat up and asked with some sleepy eyes, "What's the matter?" ”

"General Wang asked to see him outside the tent, it seems that there is something abnormal in Lou Fuguan,"

"Ahh

Li Jiancheng suddenly came to his senses, he hurriedly put on his coat and walked out of the tent, and there was a general standing outside the tent, who was Li Jiancheng's fierce general Wang Junkuo. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

After Li Jiancheng took over the 50,000 Bingzhou army at the beginning of the year, he purged the army and reused all his old troops, so that Li Jiancheng was able to firmly control this army, which greatly enhanced the combat effectiveness and cohesion of the army, among which Wang Bodang, Wang Junkuo, Xie Yingdeng, Xue Wanjun, and Xue Wanche became the most famous five tiger generals under Li Jiancheng, and it was their courage and invincibility that enabled Li Jiancheng to completely annihilate Liu Wuzhou's 100,000 army with an army of 50,000 in Jingle County.

Wang Junkuo was named General Yunlu, he was responsible for attacking the left side of Lou Fu Pass, he saw Li Jiancheng come out, and hurriedly stepped forward and knelt down on one knee, "See Your Highness!" ”

"General Wang, what happened to Lou Fuguan?"

"Your Highness, Liu Wuzhou has sent someone."

"What?"

Li Jiancheng was taken aback, "Where are the people?" ”

Wang Junkuo turned his head and waved his hand, "Bring it up!" ”

Several soldiers escorted one of Liu Wuzhou's subordinates up, and the person who came knelt down and said, "Meet His Royal Highness the Prince!" ”

"Who are you?" Li Jiancheng glanced at him and asked.

"The villain is General Liu's personal soldier, surnamed Yang, this is General Liu's gold medal!"

The person who came presented Liu Wuzhou's gold medal, Li Jiancheng looked at the gold medal, and was even more puzzled in his heart, what does Liu Wuzhou mean by this?

He put down the gold medal and looked at the messenger, "Say it! What did Liu Wuzhou ask you to do? ”

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince Qiqi, the king of my family has retreated north, and there is no one in Lou Fu Pass now."

Li Jiancheng asked silently, "Why did you retreat north?" ”

"Your Royal Highness, Song Jingang betrayed the king of my family, swept away his belongings and fled, the army's spirit has been dispersed, and the king of my family has no choice but to abandon the pass and retreat north."

Li Jiancheng gave Wang Junkuo a look, Wang Junkuo understood, and immediately turned around and left, he wanted to lead the army to Lou Fuguan to take a look, did Liu Wuzhou leave?

"Keep talking!" Li Jiancheng stared at the person who reported the news sharply, there must be another reason for this.

The messenger said: "The king of my family asked me to tell His Highness that the Sui army has entered Yanmen Pass. ”

"Nonsense!" Li Jiancheng angrily reprimanded the letter soldier.

"The villain didn't talk nonsense, the Turkic army of Fu Qibo has been completely annihilated by the Sui army, and it is precisely because of the arrival of the Sui army that the king of my family abandoned the pass and retreated north."

At this time, the army commanders Shi Weizheng and Chai Shao also hurried over when they heard the news, "What happened to Your Highness?" Wei Zheng asked.

Li Jiancheng said slowly: "Liu Wuzhou sent someone to tell me that the Sui army has entered the Yanmen Pass. ”

"Ahh

Wei Zheng and Chai Shao let out an exclamation at the same time.

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In the big tent, Li Jiancheng stood in front of the map with his hands in his hand, staring at the map of Bingzhou for a long time, his face was very solemn, Wei Zheng and Chai Shao stood aside, they did not disturb Li Jiancheng's contemplation.

At this time, a guard reported outside the tent, "Your Highness, General Wang sent someone to report that there is indeed not a single soldier in Lou Fu Pass, and the Tang army has occupied Lou Fu Pass." ”

"I see!"

Li Jiancheng sighed lowly, turned around and asked, "Do you think the Sui army really entered the Yanmen Pass?" Or is it Liu Wuzhou's trick to lure troops? ”

Chai Shao said: "It's indeed possible to lure the troops, but I personally prefer the former, I think it should be the Sui army that has come in, which is in line with Zhang Xuan's consistent style, looking for the best time to cut in." ”

"What about Wei Changshi's opinion?" Li Jiancheng turned to Wei Zheng again.

Wei Zheng pondered for a moment and said: "Liu Wuzhou is at the end of his rope, his only hope is to rely on the Turkic army to turn defeat into victory, but so far, the Turkic army has not fought with us head-on, and has forced us to withdraw as a mediator several times, I think the Turks should use this method, not directly confront us, and there are not many Turkic troops in Fubeg, even if they fight us directly, they may not be our opponents, I think it is better to defend Lou Fu Pass than to use the trick of luring troops." ”

"Wei Changshi means that the Sui army is coming?"

Wei Zheng nodded, "I also think that the Sui army has entered Yanmen Pass to pick our fruits." ”

Chai Shao frowned, and asked suspiciously: "I'm very strange, why did Liu Wuzhou tell us, did he want us to fight with Sui Arms, and he would come to reap the benefits of the fisherman?" ”

"Maybe there is a possibility, there is a bigger crisis in this, have you two thought of it?" Li Jiancheng stared at the map road.

"Taiyuan!" Wei Zheng blurted out.

Li Jiancheng sneered, "This is Zhang Xuan's interlocking poisonous plan, if we don't know that the Sui army is coming, and lead the army into Mayi County, but the Sui army cuts off our back road and traps us in Mayi County, Wei Chigong of Shangdang County will attack Taiyuan in a big way, Zhang Xuan is really powerful!" ”

Chai Shao's face turned pale in shock, there were only 8,000 defenders in Taiyuan, among which there were many wounded soldiers, the Sui army attacked in a big way, how could Taiyuan hold it? Once Taiyuan is lost, I am afraid that the annexation of the state will be over.

"Your Highness, could it be that the Sui army has already launched an offensive?"

Li Jiancheng shook his head, "Probably not, now we can quickly withdraw to Taiyuan, the Sui army will not launch an offensive for the time being, and they will only send troops when our back road is cut off." ”

"Then what is Your Highness going to do? Will you give up Mayi County and Yanmen County to the Sui Army? Wei Zheng asked in a low voice.

Li Jiancheng's eyes burned with anger, how much national strength they had lost, how many soldiers had been killed, and they were about to achieve the final victory, but the fruits of victory were picked away by Zhang Xuan, so how could he not be angry, how could he be willing.

But Li Jiancheng is the prince of a country after all, he can't let his anger burn his reason, knowing that Taiyuan is dangerous, he still wants to go north, this is not what the superior should do, but if he gives up like this, how can he explain to his father?

At this time, Wei Zheng said: "Your Highness, we might as well divide our troops into two routes, one army will be stationed at Loufu Pass first, and confront the Sui army, and the other will immediately go south to support the defense of Taiyuan, what does Your Highness think?" ”

Li Jiancheng nodded, although it is not an ideal strategy, but it is also the only way that can be taken at present.

He immediately said to Chai Shao: "Si Changke can lead 30,000 troops to the south to support the defense of Taiyuan, and I will personally lead 30,000 troops to confront the Sui army at Loufu Pass, and they don't want to easily pick up the fruits of our victory." ”

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Liu Wuzhou fled north under the escort of hundreds of personal soldiers, and on the way they received news that the Sui army had occupied Shanyang County, and in panic, they had to bypass Shanyang County and speed north along the Mayi Road.

Liu Wuzhou's personal soldiers only left 500 people, all cavalry, very familiar with the road to the north, two days later, they gradually arrived at the Purple River, after the Purple River is the Turkic sphere of influence, this is also Liu Wuzhou and the Turks reached a consensus, the Turkic army will not easily go south to the Purple River, and Liu Wuzhou's army will not cross the Purple River one step, to some extent, the Purple River has become the border between the Turks and the Central Plains Dynasty.

After running wild for two days, there were only two short rests, both the soldiers and the war horses were exhausted, Liu Wuzhou ordered to rest, and the soldiers rolled down directly from the war horses, lying on the grass and couldn't move, and hundreds of war horses went to the river to drink water by themselves.

Liu Wuzhou was lying on the grass, his mind was blank, he didn't know what Lou Fu Pass had become now, whether the Sui and Tang armies had a war for Lou Fu Pass, it was best for them to lose both and give themselves a chance to fight again.

In fact, Liu Wuzhou didn't want to go to the Turks, he knew that once he went to the Turks, he would completely become a puppet of the Turks, even if the Turkic army came back in the future and put him back on the throne, he was just a puppet of the Turks, so what was the point?

But if he doesn't go to Turkic, he has nowhere to go, Liu Wuzhou couldn't help but sigh secretly, live one day at a time! Even if you can't be in power, it's not bad to spend the rest of your life in enjoyment.

At this moment, the terrifying shouts of his soldiers suddenly came from a distance: "Sui army! The Sui army is coming! ”

Liu Wuzhou sat up in fright, only to see countless Sui cavalry killed from the forest in the east, there were thousands of people, they suddenly accelerated, and swung their swords to kill this side!

All the soldiers who were sleeping on the grass were terrified, and they got up and ran to the warhorses by the river.

Several pro-soldiers pulled up Liu Wuzhou, "Run, big king!" ”

Liu Wuzhou's legs were weak, and he stumbled towards the river, and before they could run to the river, more than a thousand Sui crossbowmen suddenly appeared on the other side of the river, shooting arrows at the rushing soldiers together, and the dense arrows pounced on Liu Wuzhou's personal soldiers, and the personal soldiers couldn't dodge, and they fell to the ground one after another.

In order to lighten the weight of the war horses, they abandoned the heavy armor and weapons, each wearing only a waist knife, thin clothes could not resist the sharp arrows, hundreds of personal soldiers suffered heavy casualties, more than 300 people were shot dead on the spot, the rest of the soldiers abandoned the horses, shouted a shout, and fled to the west.

Liu Wuzhou couldn't run away, the two soldiers who helped him were unfortunately killed by arrows, Liu Wuzhou's shoulders and thighs were also hit by two arrows, bleeding profusely, unconscious, he was so anxious that he shouted: "Help me!" Help me! ”

At the moment of life and death, no one cares about him anymore, each soldier only runs for his own life, only to see that hundreds of cavalry have been killed in front of him, headed by the general silver helmet and silver armor and black robe, holding a sharp horse lance, it is the general Pei Xingyan, he killed more than a dozen soldiers in a row, instantly rushed to Liu Wuzhou, raised a lance to stab at him, Liu Wuzhou shouted in despair, "I am Liu Wuzhou!" ”

Pei Xingyan was stunned, stopped the horse lance in front of his throat, Liu Wuzhou saw a glimmer of life, and shouted: "I am Liu Wuzhou, I am willing to surrender to the King of Qi and spare my life!" ”

Pei Xingyan sneered, he still wanted to live, but the way of death was different, he waved his hand, "Bandage his wound and load him into the prisoner car!" ”

Several Sui soldiers ran forward, bandaged the wound on Liu Wuzhou's leg, stopped the bleeding for him, and then put him into a prisoner car, which Pei Xingyan had prepared in advance and was waiting for Liu Wuzhou to come.

(To be continued.) )