Xu Shiji, under the guidance of Yang Yuanqing's personal soldiers, once again walked into Yang Yuanqing's big tent, he was a little nervous in his heart, he didn't know if his counter-plan had any effect, this was also the first time he offered Yang Yuanqing's plan, if he failed, it would affect his future. (I want to.)

Inside the big tent, Yang Yuanqing stood in front of the sand table intently, not noticing Xu Shiji's arrival.

"See the Chief!" Xu Shiji stepped forward and saluted.

"What strategy does General Xu think I can use to take Taiyuan?" Yang Yuanqing glanced at him and asked with a smile.

Xu Shiji was slightly stunned, he didn't expect Yang Yuanqing to ask him about Taiyuan, he pondered for a moment: "It's not very easy to take Taiyuan, Li Yuan's Hedong army will definitely come to support, Taiyuan City itself has 50,000 troops, if the Hedong army comes to support again, we don't have an advantage in terms of troops, and Taiyuan City is tall and strong, if Li Yuan's army can't hold it, we have nothing to do, I hope the general manager has the psychological preparation to fight a long-term war."

Yang Yuanqing nodded, Xu Shiji did not cater to himself, and it was rare to be able to insist on his own opinions, so Yang Yuanqing no longer mentioned the matter of Taiyuan, put down the wooden pole and said with a smile: "General Xu, please sit down!"

The two sat down, and Xu Shiji asked cautiously: "Chief, I don't know what happened to Liu and Song?"

Yang Yuanqing smiled and said, "General Xu is still very concerned about whether the anti-intermediation plan can succeed!"

Xu Shiji's face showed a hint of embarrassment, and he scratched his head a little embarrassedly, "It's a lie to say that I don't care, I tossed and turned all night last night, and I didn't fall asleep until the second half of the night." ”

Yang Yuanqing sighed and said: "Although I don't know the specific thoughts of Liu and Song for the time being, I can see a little clue from some details, yesterday Liu Wuzhou sent people to Song Jingang's army to take away most of the grain and grass, but Song Jingang's army did not help Liu Wuzhou transport grain, but retreated twenty miles, which is a bit strange, why didn't he send his own army to help transport grain?"

"This should be Song Jingang afraid that Liu Wuzhou will swallow his army, maybe Song Jingang has realized something?"

"I also think so, Liu Wuzhou's food can support at least half a month. He didn't have to be so anxious to get the food back. So we can preliminarily judge that there is a knot between the two of them. ”

Xu Shiji was slightly stunned, "Does the chief know about Liu Wuzhou's grain and grass?"

Yang Yuanqing showed a sly smile in his eyes, "I know, I'm afraid it's better than Liu Wuzhou himself." ”

In the evening, several war horses galloped into Yulin City, galloping towards Liu Wuzhou's palace, and several cavalrymen turned over and dismounted in front of the palace, ran up the steps and shouted: "We want to see Your Majesty." There's an urgent report!"

In the room, Liu Wuzhou was angrily walking back and forth, he sent someone to invite Song Jingang to discuss the military situation today, and wanted to take the opportunity to kill Song Jingang, but Song Jingang couldn't come because of his illness, obviously seeing through his intentions, which made Liu Wuzhou very annoyed.

"I gave him half of the property and married my sister to him. I didn't expect this person to be wolf-hearted. Seeing that my situation was unfavorable, he secretly colluded with Yang Yuanqing, and I lured the wolf into the room, which was really blind. ”

On the side, Liu Wuzhou's staff member Zhang Rude cautiously persuaded him: "Your Majesty, the matter is not so serious, after all, the King of Song still gave the grain to the main camp, and he did not attack His Majesty from behind. The minister suspected that this was Yang Yuanqing's counter-plan, deliberately provoking the relationship between His Majesty and the King of Song, and if His Majesty killed the King of Song at this time, he would be in the enemy's plan. ”

Liu Wuzhou gasped, he suddenly woke up a little, could this be the case? Yang Yuanqing's countermeasure?

Liu Wuzhou took a few steps with his hands behind his back and shook his head again. "Even if it is Yang Yuanqing's counter-plan, then he has to make it clear to me, show me Yang Yuanqing's letter, and eliminate the misunderstanding, but he didn't come to explain, which shows that he has a ghost in his heart, even if Yang Yuanqing doesn't use the counter-plan, he will betray me, Wang Bashu was killed by him at the beginning, and he has a precedent for betrayal."

At this moment, there was a rush from outside, "Your Majesty, the capital is in a hurry!"

"What's wrong?" Liu Wuzhou strode out of the door and asked.

A messenger ran forward and knelt down, and said sadly: "Your Majesty, Liu Zimiao has surrendered to the Fengzhou army, and the capital has been occupied by the Fengzhou army!"

Liu Wuzhou only felt that his eyes were dark, and the colic in his heart made him unbearable, he screamed and fainted, and everyone suddenly panicked, rushing up and shouting: "Your Majesty! Your Majesty!"

After a while, Liu Wuzhou opened his eyes slightly and sighed, "I guessed that the Sui army would attack Shanyang County, but what can I guess?" God is going to kill me!"

Zhang Rude hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, the top priority is to block the news, and not let the soldiers know, once the news spreads, it will really be the general trend."

"Sir, what should I do?" Liu Wuzhou's heart was in chaos.

Zhang Rude sighed, "So far, there is only a decisive battle with Yang Yuanqing." ”

Liu Wu gritted his teeth on Monday, "If he refuses to fight, I will go directly to Fengzhou!"

He sat up and ordered: "Pass my orders, and those who dare to leak the news will be punished immediately!"

Liu Wuzhou was suspicious of Song Jingang, and sent people to move most of the grain and grass from the Song Jingang camp back to Yulin City, at this time the grain and grass in the warehouse city of Yulin City were piled up, and all kinds of war drums, flags, arrows and other military materials were piled up in the warehouse, which was most of Liu Wuzhou's savings, and it was the grain he snatched from Taiyuan County and Lishi County, a total of 80,000 stone military grain and 200,000 quintals of hay, and he also had more than 500,000 cattle and sheep raised in Shanyang County without brought.

In order to ensure the safety of the warehouse, Liu Wuzhou sent 8,000 heavy soldiers to guard the cangcheng, and closed the water gate in the cangcheng, and 1,000 people were divided into ten teams to patrol back and forth in the cangcheng, and no one was allowed to light torches to prevent fire.

At the end of the watch, the soldiers were asleep, several groups of soldiers in the warehouse city were patrolling back and forth, and there were hundreds of soldiers on the high walls and guard towers who were vigilantly sentry, not daring to be careless, there were twenty soldiers standing in front of each warehouse gate, and the huge iron chain locked the warehouse gate, and there were three big locks, and the key was in the hands of three people, and it was heavily guarded, and it did not leak.

But there was an abnormality in the No. 1 warehouse, the Fengzhou army left 5,000 stone of grain in this warehouse, Liu Wuzhou was puzzled, and finally could only think that the Fengzhou army was too hasty to transport it away when it withdrew.

The anomaly occurred in the middle of these five thousand stone grains, and between the two piles of grain, a floor suddenly moved. Move out of the way slowly. A hole in the ground three feet long and two feet wide was revealed, and a human head poked out of the hole, looked around for a moment, and jumped out lightly.

Immediately after that, dozens of people came out of the second and third caves, and they moved barrels of fire oil out, and this tunnel led straight to the outside of the city, which was a repetition of the old trick of burning the Turkic army in Dali City, although Liu Wuzhou's army was very careful, and also sent people to check the floor of the warehouse. But it was impossible for them to move the 5,000 stone of grain away in order to inspect the ground, and the tunnel was located in the middle of the grain, and was blocked by grain piles on all sides.

The soldiers of the Sui army moved very quickly, they set up ladders to climb the grain pile, sprinkled barrels of fire oil on the grain, sprinkled them on the walls, and placed a large number of cloths soaked in fire oil on all sides of the warehouse, and they moved in the warehouse. And the defenders outside did not notice it at all. Half an hour later, hundreds of barrels of fire oil were scattered all over the warehouse.

The soldiers began to retreat quickly, and the last soldier struck the fire sickle, 'Click!' With a bang, a flame appeared in his hand, and he lit a ball of oilcloth and threw it out, and the oilcloth ignited the fire oil on the grain, and the blue flame began to spread rapidly.

The soldiers covered the iron floor. Dozens of people quickly drilled through the hundred-zhang long tunnel, and the exit of the tunnel was in a forest outside the city, and at this time, a thousand-stone ship was moored on the edge of the Yellow River three miles away.

The fire burned more and more fiercely, the smoke billowed out, and the soldiers outside also noticed, 'Dang! While! When!' Piercing alarm bells were ringing. The 8,000 defenders were in disarray, some of them ran to report to Liu Wuzhou, and the rest of the soldiers ran to the canal to get water to extinguish the fire, but unfortunately, the gate was locked with iron chains and three large locks, and one of the keys was in Liu Wuzhou's hand, so they could not enter, so they could only splash water on the outer wall, but it did not have the slightest effect.

The fire borrowed the wind, burned through the roof of the warehouse, the flame rose more than ten zhang high, the Fengzhou army designed carefully, they put the grain in the warehouse in the southeast corner, the huge tongue of fire by the southeast wind, devoured in the northwest direction, and ignited the second warehouse only one zhang apart, not long after, the third warehouse was also lit, the fire was too fierce, the soldiers who fought the fire began to run out in terror.

Liu Wuzhou looked at the sky-high fire above Cangcheng, and was so anxious that he stomped his feet and shouted: "Fight the fire!" All the troops are going to put out the fire and get me food!"

"Your Majesty, the fire is too big for the brothers to enter!"

Liu Wuzhou sat on the ground in despair, wanting to cry without tears, he knew that this was really over, and he couldn't even get tomorrow's food.

The sky-high fire woke up the 100,000 garrisons outside the city, and the soldiers gathered outside the camp tents, looking at the fire in the city and talking about it, at this time, the news that Shanyang County had been broken by the Sui army spread rapidly among the army, and some people shouted, "The military rations are gone, and the home is gone, everyone doesn't run now, when will you wait?"

"The 300,000 troops of Fengzhou have been killed!"

The spies in the Fengzhou army mixed with the army were spreading all kinds of news everywhere, fear spread among the army, the morale of the army was seriously shaken, and the morale was depressed to the extreme, the army stationed outside the city was not Liu Wuzhou's core army in the first place, most of them were captured people, they were unwilling to sell their lives, and now there is no food, and the army's morale began to collapse.

First of all, the peripheral soldiers fled, like an avalanche, one soldier fled, it would bring ten people, ten soldiers fled will lead a hundred, more and more soldiers dropped their weapons and fled, thousands, tens of thousands, tens of thousands, the officers couldn't stop shouting, one officer killed two people in a row to warn, but he was swarmed by the angry soldiers and hacked him to death.

A massive rout has finally broken out!

And at this moment, Yang Yuanqing's 30,000 elite cavalry had already appeared five miles away, looking at the skyrocketing fire, Yang Yuanqing gave an order, "Block the city gate, and the army in the city is not allowed to escape!"

The 30,000 cavalry was launched, overwhelmingly rushing towards Yulin City, like rolling muffled thunder in the night sky.

The day gradually dawned, a group of Liu Wuzhou soldiers came out of the city to surrender, more than a dozen generals and Liu Wuzhou's courtiers knelt in front of Yang Yuanqing, and the head of the general Pan Lun raised Liu Wuzhou's head high, "Liu Wuzhou is tyrannical and unjust, cruel to the people of Mayi, we can't bear it, today cut off other people's heads and dedicate them to the governor, willing to serve the governor!"

Yang Yuanqing smiled and comforted them, "I know that you are all loyal and righteous people, and Liu Wuzhou is also forced to do so, the reason why I don't attack is that I don't want Mayi County to become a thousand miles of red fields, most of you are Mayi and Yanmen heroes, I hope you can settle the people for me, and I will never treat you badly." ”

Everyone was overjoyed and shouted loudly together: "I am willing to take charge of the people!"

At this time, a messenger rushed to report, "Chief Qiqi, Song Jingang's army has withdrawn south, and he left a letter for the chief." ”

The soldier presented a letter, Yang Yuanqing opened the letter, and there was only one sentence in the letter, 'I am willing to go to the south of Taiyuan to contain the army going north for the governor.' ’

Yang Yuanqing smiled slightly, Song Jingang really knew the current affairs, he took Liu Wuzhou's head and handed it to the captain next to him, "Pack it in a brocade box and send someone to Jiangdu to offer it to the saint!"