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Tang Wude 3rd year, August 18.

At the invitation of Yu Culture, Li Chongjiu announced that he would send troops to attack Liu Heimin.

Li Chongjiu and Xue Wan were both the chief and deputy generals of the Western Route Army, and ordered the two to lead 10,000 government troops from Taiyuan County.

Then Guo Xiaoke, Tudi Ji was the chief and deputy general of the East Route Army, led 10,000 soldiers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, and 5,000 Han troops attacked Bohai County and sent troops to break the right flank of the Xia Army.

Xu Shiji was the vanguard and the general of the Middle Route Army, leading 10,000 government troops and 10,000 township troops from Boling County to attack Gaoyang City in Hejian County.

The three-way army marched first as the first wave of men and horses, and Li Chongjiu led 30,000 elite Zhao troops, as well as 50,000 grassland horsemen of Yinghe and Etuo to advance in turn. More than 100,000 troops from east to west, from north to south, in turn, the entire land of Hebei, is a banner covering the sun, gongs and drums noisy scene.

Since Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty invaded Liaodong, I don't know how long there has been no such war in Hebei.

Near Gaoyang City in Hejian County, on the road where the loess is rammed, war horses gallop.

The stagecoach used by the Xia army as a messenger gasped, and immediately the messenger constantly whipped the horses in an attempt to make the horses run faster.

The horses were foaming at the mouth, and they were exhausted, and it could be seen from this that the letters sent by the messenger had reached the point of urgency.

When they came to a hill, the horseman pulled his horse abruptly, but from the woods beside the hill there was the sound of a string of crossbows, and the messenger and his horse were knocked to the ground by arrows flying out of the woods. The messenger was pierced through the right chest by an arrow, and fell to the ground, his mouth convulsing with blood.

Several men strode out of the woods with crossbows on their backs, and one of them, the messenger was clearly dead from the bullet. Immediately pulled out the dagger and inserted it into the other party.

Immediately the letterhead behind the messenger. It fell into the hands of these burly men. This person took out the letter in the letter box and looked at it, and said with a sneer: "Gao Yaxian wants to ask for help from Zhaozhou, but it's a pity that it's too late." ”

After saying that, several people immediately disposed of the corpses of the messenger and the stagecoach, and the blood was buried in sand, and it looked as if nothing had been born on the dirt road.

The head of Gaoyang City.

Gao Yaxian asked Su Dingfang, "Has the messenger who asked for help from Zhaozhou already gone?" ”

"Yes, it's already gone to the third wave, and it's all going on different paths."

Gao Yaxian nodded and said, "Very good." ”

After speaking, Gao Yaxian looked at the city. Zhao Jun's flying banner, the big flag has a Xu character written on it.

Gao Yaxian knew that the other party was Xu Shiji, the general of the Zhao army who gave the Xia army a fatal blow in the Battle of Yishui.

Su Dingfang stretched out his tongue and licked his lips, and said, "Li Chongjiu's main army is estimated to have just left Youjing. Xu Shiji is only 20,000 horses, and the child wants to go down to fight and frustrate the spirit of the Xu army. ”

Gao Yaxian glanced at Su Dingfang. affirmed his words: "Yes, Xu Shiji is a famous general, so it is expected that our army will be trapped in the lonely city because of his fear. Defending the city is the most taboo city, you go down to kill for a while, and frustrate the spirit of the Zhao army. It's also good. ”

"Order!"

Su Dingfang laughed, and immediately led three hundred henchmen and cavalry to the urn city and waited patiently.

Suddenly, as soon as the gate of the urn city opened, Su Dingfang led three hundred horsemen to kill. War horses gallop. A gong sounded from the Zhao military camp. Several groups of light horsemen who were in charge of the guard were all retreating to the guards who were repairing the barracks.

Su Dingfang brandished an iron gun. The cavalry under his command raised their bows and arrows together and shot a rain of arrows towards the Zhao army camp.

Sergeant Zhao ran to avoid each other, there was a bit of chaos in the camp, and when the crossbowmen counterattacked, Su Dingfang had already led the light cavalry to escape.

On the hill next to Gaoyang City, the handsome flag of Xu Zi fluttered impressively.

Xu Shiji looked at the city silently, and suddenly asked left and right: "Who is this enemy general?" ”

All the generals didn't know, but seeing this light cavalry, rushing left and right outside their camp, the cavalry on guard of the Zhao army wanted to expel it, but they were always avoided by it, or they were defeated by counterattacks.

Xu Shiji said: "Beat the drum and order the soldiers to retreat to the Zuohou camp." ”

When the generals on the left and right heard this, they were in an uproar and said: "As soon as our army arrived, we retreated, isn't it to show weakness to the enemy. ”

Xu Shiji glanced sideways and said, "Do as I say!" ”

The generals did not dare to disobey, and immediately said: "No." ”

Soon Su Dingfang returned to the city victoriously, and the city walls on the city, as well as the Xia soldiers and soldiers in the sheep and horse walls outside the city, all cheered and celebrated, raising their spears and Su Dingfang saluted.

Su Dingfang came to the head of the city and hugged his fist to Gao Yaxian and said, "Father, the child didn't disgrace you!" ”

Gao Yaxian nodded, and said indifferently: "I also ambushed two thousand men and horses in Dongcheng just now, if Xu Shiji guards the camp and does not retreat, I will order an attack to rob the camp, but I didn't expect him to abandon the camp, and his use of troops is really incomprehensible." ”

Su Ding dialect said: "No matter what, we still won the battle first. ”

Gao Yaxian said: "Let's wait and see, Gaoyang is the northern gateway of my Xia Kingdom, as long as we hold on to the city for half a month, why can Li Chongjiu go south hundreds of miles to take Zhou." ”

Wei County, Lin Shu Mountain, Tang Army Camp.

Shandong Provincial pacification ambassador Li Shentong, deputy envoy Cui Mingan, and two Li Yuan personally sent reinforcement generals, Li Tang Sect Li Daozong, Li Shenfu, and Xiangzhou Assassin Wang Deren were dining together. Because Li Shentong likes brocade food, even from the army, he brought his cooks in Chang'an to cook with the army and cook his favorite tastes.

So the five of them enjoyed a rather sumptuous lunch.

But then a military report ruined Li Shentong's mood for the meal.

Chi Gong, the general of the Zhao army, and Xue Wanjun led 10,000 troops from Jingcheng, crossed the Taihang Mountain, and appeared in Hengshan County. But if it was Wei Chigong, Xue Wanjun would have attacked the Xia army, they just stopped by on the way to send troops, broke the drum city of Li Tang Zhao County, and wiped out all the 2,000 men and horses of the Tang army stationed in the drum city.

This is tantamount to stepping on Li Shentong's little remaining face in Hebei.

"It's too presumptuous, Li Chongjiu doesn't take me Li Shentong in his eyes at all, isn't he afraid of fighting on two fronts?" Li Shentong was suddenly furious.

What kind of behavior is this, Li Chongjiu dispatched a large army to attack Liu Heimin, and when the Xia army was pouring the country into a decisive battle, he was not afraid to make a feud with Li Tang, and captured Li Tang's important town along the way. The Shandong Tang Army led by Li Shentong has almost become a soft persimmon, and everyone can come up and pinch it.

"It's really too presumptuous," Li Shenfu, the younger brother of Li Shentong, said for his brother, "Big brother, Li Chongjiu is iron-hearted, and we Li Tang have made a bad relationship, rather than this, it is better for us not to attack Yu Wenhua, so we simply set up troops to go north to fight side by side with Liu Heimin." ”

When Li Shentong heard this, he hesitated, and asked rhetorically: "Where is Li Chongjiu's grassland fan?" ”

Cui Min said dryly: "It must be the follow-up, Li Chongjiu this time even Wei Chi Gong and Xue Wanjun, who were guarding Taiyuan, have been dispatched, and their determination is not small, I think that with the addition of the grassland fancai, there will be more than 100,000 people in the south of the Zhao army." ”

"More than 100,000 people," said Wang Deren, the assassin of Xiangzhou, when he heard this, "I heard that Li Chongjiu fought a war last time on the steppe to suppress the rebellious tribes, even at the expense of offending the Turks. At present, the heroes of the world dare to turn their faces against the Turks, and Li Chongjiu is the only one. ”

Seeing Wang Deren showing a timid look, Li Shentong's face showed disdain, in his eyes Wang Deren was a speculator, this person killed Li Mi's ambassador Fang Yanzao to patrol Hebei, and hated Li Mi, so he surrendered to Tang together with Yuan Zigan, the general guard of Wu'an County. After Liu Heimin broke through Zhaozhou, Yuan Zigan surrendered, Wang Deren swayed a little again, if it wasn't for Li Tang's army coming this time, this person would have already surrendered Liu Heimin.

Wang Deren said: "If Li Chongjiu has more than 100,000 troops behind, I am afraid that with our Li Tang troops in Hanoi, there is no way to deal with it, and we need to ask Chang'an for reinforcements." ”

"Daozong, what do you think?" Li Shentong opened his mouth and asked Li Daozong, who had not spoken.

Li Daozong is very young, and he is a rising star in the clan that Li Yuan also relies on very much. Li Zongdao has always been calm and sophisticated, and said: "Li Chongjiu came out of the country this time, although there are many people and horses, but if he wants to fight Hebei and break Liu Heimin, I don't think it is so fast." ”

"How?" Li Shen informed himself that this nephew had always been not easy to say, and his words would be true, since he said so, he must be sure.

Li Daozong said: "First, Liu Heimin is a famous general in Hebei, and tens of thousands of elite soldiers are stationed in Zhouzhou, and it is not easy for Li Chongjiu to defeat him. Second, Li Chongjiu wants to go south to break through the state, then he can't get around Gaoyang City, the gateway of Hebei, Gaoyang City is in the hands of the Xia army for a day, Li Chongjiu is like a fish in the throat, and the garrison of Gaoyang City is Gao Yaxian, Su Dingfang's 10,000 horses. As long as Gao Yaxian does not surrender, it is not easy for Li Chongjiu to capture Gaoyang City suddenly, you must know that in the last battle of Yishui, more than a dozen armies of the Xia army were defeated, and Li Chongjiu intended to take advantage of the situation to sweep Hebei, but Liu Heimin was stationed under Gaoyang City for half a month, and finally Li Chongjiu had to retreat from the army. ”

Hearing Li Daozong say this, everyone was stunned.

Li Shentong stroked his palms and laughed, and said: "That's right, no matter whether Gaoyang City is breached or not, Gaoyang Jiancheng is enough to wear down the spirit of the Zhao army, and Liu Heimin can calmly go north from Zhaozhou to relieve the siege of Xindu, or defeat Li Chongjiu's army on the East Road of Bohai County, then the strategy of dividing and attacking together advocated by Zhao Jun is just a joke." ”

Li Daozong said: "In terms of power, Liu Heimin is enough to fight with Li Chongjiu, but I am not worried about anything else, what I am worried about is that how much can the generals of the Xia army in each city be countered by Li Chongjiu?" ”

While the generals were discussing, suddenly a messenger entered and walked inside, and said to Li Shentong: "Hebei urgent report, Liu Heimin has sent troops!" ”

Everyone didn't expect Li Daozong's words to rise together, Li Shentong threw his cloak back, kicked the table and asked, "How many troops are sent?" Where do you head? ”

"Liu Heimin led 20,000 elite troops to Xindu."

The generals walked to the map together.

Li Shentong said with a smile: "It is said that Li Chongjiu can fight well, but I think it is nothing more than that, Gaoyang City will Xu Shiji, Li Chongjiu's main force is blocked under the city, so Wei Chigong's army on the West Road has become a lone army all the way, what is the joint attack, in the end, it can only give Liu Heimin a chance to break through." ”