The sky is dyed golden.

Li Jing rested his hands on the sturdy female wall of the ship, staring at the gradually diffusing light. The dawn overshadowed the rivers and fields, and the world turned from pitch black to cyan at his feet, then to verdy green, then to the green of the wilderness, and then to the yellow-white of the wildflowers. The rushing water came from the Yellow River, all the way to the southeast, and the flow never returned. Looking at the waves of the river constantly lapping against the side of the boat, Li Jing could vaguely feel the mist splashing on his face.

On the Huainan battlefield at this time, Zhao Li lived up to his expectations, and with a small number of troops, he successfully blocked Gao Yu's footsteps, so that his heavy troops were trapped under the fortified city, and it was difficult to advance an inch. The south was stable for a while, and Li Jing finally rested his troops and horses in Xiapi and officially launched the battle to capture Xuzhou.

After consulting with Li Zhen and other strategists and generals, Li Jing decided to divide his troops into three ways.

Lin Wei led 10,000 partial divisions out of Xiapi and attacked Xuzhou along Surabaya as the right army. The task given to Lin Wei by Li Jing was not to take the initiative to attack Xuzhou, but only to guard the troops of Xuzhou so that they could not go south. Once the Xuzhou soldiers wanted to go south, they immediately entangled them.

Then Li Jing personally led 20,000 horses as the Chinese army, and marched west along Suishui from Suzhou, and went directly to attack the Suzhou Zhisu Bridge. With Zeng Yuanyu as the left route army, he led 10,000 horses and horses from Linhuai, Sizhou, and went north along the canal to sweep the outer cities of Suzhou.

The troops and horses of the three routes were sent out together, but the overall tactics were to attack Suzhou in the south first, and then Xuzhou.

Suzhou is smaller than Xuzhou, originally separated from Xuzhou, Maozhou, and Sizhou, and Suzhou is better to fight than Xuzhou. But the status of Suzhou is also very important, with Xuzhou to the north, Haozhou to the south, and Sizhou to the east. To the west are Haozhou and Yingzhou. The Qin army took Suzhou first. Then it is more beneficial for Haozhou, which is stable in Huainan.

Take Suzhou. Then Xuzhou will be surrounded by the Qin army on three sides.

At the end of May, Lin Wei led 10,000 horses into Xuzhou and forced Xuzhou's assassin Shi Huocun's soldiers and horses into the city.

At the beginning of June, Li Jing personally led 20,000 horses to the city of Suzhou Yinqiao, cutting off the connection between Zhang Guiba, the assassin of Suzhou, and the outer cities. Seeing that Li Jing was menacing, Zhang Guiba, the assassin of Suzhou, had to retreat to the city and send people to Luoyang for help. At the same time, he sent people to ask for help from Ge Congzhou and Zhang Guihou of Ying and Hao. Send people to Bianzhou Zhu Wen to send troops to Cao Song to contain and share the pressure of the Qin army. At the same time, he urgently sent someone to Huainan and sent a letter to Gao Biao, asking him to send troops to Li Jing's rear to divide the Qin army.

Li Jing also knew that Huang Chao had just captured Xusu Erzhou, and he would not lose it again. Huang Chao will definitely send troops to help, in order to avoid long nights and dreams, Li Jing only gathered 40,000 soldiers and horses in such a short period of time this time, and killed them, but also to avoid Huang Chao's follow-up troops rushing to reinforcements. Therefore. Li Jing gave a death order, asking all troops to capture Suzhou as quickly as possible.

Month. Zeng Yuanyu took advantage of Li Jing's siege of Suzhou City, led the army to quickly sweep the periphery of Suzhou, and before Ge Congzhou and others arrived, he took the first step to capture the cities of Fuli and Qixian on the periphery of Suzhou.

On June 10, Li Jing and Zeng Yuanyu besieged Suzhou, and the puppet Qi general, Suzhou assassin Zhang Guiba led the army to defend it. After a bloody battle between the two sides, Li Jing dispatched heavy crossbows and catapults, and even flying thunder cannons, although they caused many casualties to Zhang Guiba's troops, but still failed to break through the city.

Zhang Guiba, the general of Huangchao's department, is best at crowd tactics. He sent all the young and strong people in Suzhou City to the head of the city, and although there were many casualties in the first day of the battle, most of the dead were ordinary people, and the casualties of his soldiers and horses were not large.

Li Jing led the generals to watch the battle, he stood under the handsome flag, held a clairvoyant mirror to look at the city, and saw a general on the city gate tower with a big waist and a round waist, a full face and beard, a fierce look, no need to ask, this person is Zhang Guiba among the generals under Huang Chao, and the Haozhou Thorn Shi Ge Congzhou, Xuzhou Thorn Shi Huo Cun is a righteous brother, in addition to the Yingzhou Thorn Shi Zhang Guihou, and Zhang Guimu in Luoyang City, are his cousins.

Next to him, there were several generals, one of whom was very young, handsome and extraordinary, and incompatible with Zhang Guiba and others.

Li Jing pointed to the head of the city and asked the generals, "Who is this?" ”

On the side, the fifth concubine of Lang Zhong of the Military Intelligence Bureau replied: "This person's name is Zhang Yun, a wealthy family in Haizhou, and his family is very rich. He was one of the two generals under the Pu tent when he was in the original probation army, and he was originally the assassin of Suzhou. Because Shi Pu surrendered to Huangchao, he was also subsumed under Zhang Guiba. ”

Hearing that this person was originally a general of the probation army, Li Jing nodded. Seeing that the sky was about to darken, and there was not much progress in tearing up the day, Li Jing ordered the troops to be withdrawn.

The Qin army collected its troops and returned to the camp, and Li Jing discussed with the generals: "According to today's siege method, it is not allowed to go down until March or May, and if you kill 10,000 enemies, you will lose 3,000 yourself." Guan Jian is, we don't have so much time to fight like this, Ge Congzhou and Zhang Guihou will definitely send troops to help, and the battle of Xusu must be resolved quickly! Guys, do you have any ideas? ”

Liu Xun, the envoy of Shengjie's army, suggested: "The terrain of a certain Guansuzhou is low and gentle, the west of the city is slightly higher than the east of the city, and the Bianshui Canal flows around the south of the city. If we use the method of breaking the mountain and yang on that day to cut off the flowing water in the east of the city and build a dam, then we can quickly turn Suzhou City into a big lake. Suzhou City is a city wall made of rammed earth, which will not last long. Besides, we have a naval division to help in the war, once Suzhou is flooded, we can send a naval division to transport troops with warships to attack the city, and then what defense will Zhang Guiba use? ”

Li Jing asked people to take the sand table, and after carefully watching the terrain of Suzhou, he was also very happy. The conventional style of play, Zhang Guiba is not easy to deal with, and if you want to eat him, you have to knock off a few teeth. But if you attack with water, it's different.

Jing Xiang, the envoy of the General Staff Academy, said on the side: "Zhang Guiba is a grass thief, and today we have been waiting for a day to attack the city, so we must be careful that this thief comes out of the city in the middle of the night." ”

Li Zhen said: "Today, the grass thieves did not get a good deal, and the general thieves will not dare to come." But Zhang Guiba is a general among the grass thieves, and he must be prevented from attacking me. ”

Li Jing nodded and sent someone to watch out.

In the city of Suzhou, Zhang Guiba and others are also deliberating. Today's big battle, although the city was not defended, but when the Qin army attacked the city, many heavy crossbow guns and firearms were used, which still made the Qi army suffer great losses, if it were not for Zhang Guiba today to arrange a large number of young and strong people to defend the city, the Qi army would have lost more than 1,000 soldiers and horses. However, Rao is like this, there are thousands of casualties in one day, and today's style of play, after half a month, Zhang Guiba will have to beat all the soldiers.

Zhang Guiba asked Zhang Yun: "What good strategy can General Zhang have to break the enemy?" ”

Zhang Yun was born in a wealthy family, and Zhang Guiba's family can be described as two types of people, but now he is in Cao Ying, but he is also helpless. After pondering for a moment, he said: "Li Jing personally led the army to attack, although the city was not broken today, but he also killed and injured a large number of soldiers of our army. I watched the Qin army go down ten miles outside the city, but I didn't take our army in my eyes. The Qin army is light on the enemy, and it will be unprepared tonight, so that the king can lead troops to attack at night, and if the enemy camp is broken, the siege of Suzhou can be solved, which is the best policy. ”

Zhang Yun was still the second policy, but when Zhang Guiba heard this policy, he was immediately very happy, and he didn't listen to it anymore, so he immediately followed this policy, personally led his subordinates and generals, and took Zhang Yun with him, chose 10,000 horses, and went out of the city in the middle of the night.

In the middle of the night, Zhang Guiba led the army to the north camp of the Qin army and broke in from all sides. The defenders could not be stopped, and they were defeated with one blow, and they scattered in all directions, and the Qi army captured the northern camp. Just as he was happy, Zhang Yun rode his horse and hurried over, "General, things are strange, the Qi army camp was so easily broken by me, and there was fraud in it." ”

After being reminded by Zhang Yun, Zhang Guiba also immediately woke up, who is Li Jing? The world's famous commander of the army, how could his camp be so vulnerable, think about it carefully, it seems that there are not many people in the Qin army camp at all, and the other party seems to have expected them to come, as soon as he attacked in, the other party ran away, it seemed to be scattered, but in fact, it seemed that they had been prepared, and they didn't kill a few people at all.

At this moment, the drums on all sides were suddenly heard, and the Shengjie army made Liu Xun lead the army to kill.

Zhang Guiba personally led his troops to meet the battle, and the two armies collided together and killed a mess.

After another copy, there was another drum sound in the west, and a sergeant reported to Zhang Guiba, and Li Jing personally led his soldiers and horses to surround him. Zhang Guiba already understood at this time that as Zhang Yun said, Li Jingzhi was ambushed. At the moment, he didn't dare to fight, and led the army to abandon the camp and break through.

Behind them, Liu Xun and Li Jing led the army to chase and kill.

Zhang Guiba and Zhang Yun couldn't stop the enemy and fled north. Just ran out of the distance, suddenly out of the darkness another group of people, on the left there is the main iron gun general Wang Yanzhang, the main iron gun of the Feather Cavalry Army, and on the right there is the main tiger general Li Cunxiao of the Black Flag Army. Zhang Guiba and Zhang Yun desperately broke through, but they couldn't stop the Qin army's male soldiers from colliding and trampling.

Zhang Guiba had no choice but to lead the army to flee to the west, and suddenly heard the sound of killing and was shocked, and another army arrived. Zeng Yuanyu, the governor of the Hou army, and the Hu Ben army advocated Chengzong, and Liu Shouqian, the commander of the Longxiang army, blocked the way.

Zhang Guiba charged fiercely, and the three generals Zeng Yuanyu led all the infantry troops, although they were not as fierce as the cavalry, but with a whistle, the arrows were about to shoot like a shower, and the Qi army that rushed in front immediately fell. Zhang Guiba couldn't break through, and he had no way out.

There was despair in his heart, and he stood up with an iron gun and danced left and right, shouting: "Who will save me!" ”

Among the horse army behind him, a general rushed to it, it was Zhang Yun, holding up the horse lance, shouting: "The general will go first!" ”

It was a prancing horse, and the vertical horse jumped into the front military formation, stabbing left and right, killing several people in a row, and the military formation was broken, killing a gap. Zhang Yun took advantage of the situation to rush in and open a bloody road, but for a while the Qin army could not resist and could not surround it. By the time Zeng Yuanyu and Zhang Chengzong and Liu Shouqian arrived, Zhang Yun had already led Zhang Guiba out of the encirclement.

Liu Shouqian rushed over with a horse and shouted: "The grass thief is leaving!" ”

Zhang Guiba was frightened, but it was his brother Zhang Guimu who led 3,000 soldiers and horses from Suzhou City to respond. With this new force, Zhang Guiba also turned his head to fight, finally stopped the rout, fought for a while, collected part of the defeated army, and withdrew into the city.

By the time of dawn, Zhang Guiba counted the soldiers, and 10,000 horses went out of the city last night, and less than 5,000 returned to the city at the end, losing half of them. When I was angry, I almost vomited blood, and I couldn't help but be angry when I remembered that this strategy was offered by Zhang Yun. Originally, Zhang Yun saved Zhang Guiba's life last night, but he was not only not rewarded, but was also reprimanded by Zhang Guiba and demoted to his military position. The probationary military power in the original hands was all confiscated.

Zhang Guiba was worried about the new defeat, and the former probationary army general in the city secretly defected to the enemy, so he ordered to seize the military power of the original probationary army general and demote him to an idle position. For a time, the original probationary generals were all angry in their hearts, but they didn't dare to speak out of anger.

Since then, Zhang Guiba has been idle in all the doors, no matter how Li Jing challenges, but he can't stick to it. (To be continued......)