The dark clouds and the moon are dark, and the night is as dark as ink.

In the middle of the night, Guo Chongtao led the army to the east gate of Youzhou, stopped the soldiers and horses, and sent people to the city to watch. Not long after, the scout reported that he had already contacted the close, and the other party was playing the signal agreed before. Guo Chongtao was overjoyed, and immediately waved his army to advance until the east gate.

Sure enough, three lanterns were raised, and there were several generals standing under the lanterns, but the person at the head was Wang Sitong, the envoy of the silver gourd capital.

"Let Liu Rengong lead his headquarters to enter the customs first." Li Cunxin rode his horse and whispered behind Guo Chongtao, although he came up with the plan to cooperate with the outside world, but tonight things went smoothly beyond his expectations, and Li Cunxin, who has always been cunning, couldn't help but feel a little nervous, and was a little vigilant in his heart. Guo Chongtao nodded when he heard this, and sent someone to give Liu Rengong an order, asking him to lead 3,000 soldiers and horses from his headquarters to enter the city first, and let Li Cunxin lead 2,000 soldiers to the palace, just in case.

The east gate slowly opened, the drawbridge was lowered, and Wang Sitong and Li Chengyue asked the generals to go out of the city to greet them. Although Liu Rengong had Guo Chongtao sent him to explore the way, at this time, when he saw that the generals of the original Lu Long had arrived, he no longer doubted each other. In addition to being excited, he hurriedly led the army into the customs.

The cavalry of the three thousand Dingba capital entered the city smoothly, and there was no accident.

Guo Chongtao waited outside for about a quarter of an hour, and when he saw that Liu Rengong had already ascended to the top of the city and signaled, he was relieved and ordered the whole army to enter the city.

As soon as he entered the city, Liu Rengong led Wang Si and other generals to greet him. Wang Sitong said: "Report to General Guo, Li Congwei and his Yiwu generals are stationed in the inner city of Yacheng, and now I am afraid that they are still in a dream, and the last general is willing to drive the general forward and lead his troops to attack Yacheng." Take the head of Lee Converse and present it to the general. ”

"Good. If you take the head of Li Congwei. The general will personally show the great king your merits. Guo Chongtao said with a smile.

Wang Sitong and the generals said some flattering words, and then retreated to lead his troops to attack the inner city. As soon as the general of Zhulu Dragon left, there were suddenly silences in the dark night, and there were several loud noises, and then shouts of killing broke out.

Guo Chongtao was shocked, this would never be a move that Wang Si could make when he attacked Li Congwei. And listening to this voice, the shouts of killing seemed to be sounding from all directions.

"Oh no, we've been tricked." Guo Chongtao's face changed, and he remembered Wang Sitong's words and expressions just now. I suddenly understood. They were tricked, and the damned generals of Lu Long did not surrender at all, but designed to lure them into the city, and now the shouts of killing must be ambushes.

"Quick, get out of town." Li Cunxin, who had just entered the city, shouted.

"No!" Guo Chongtao shook his head with a dark face. Although he had fallen for Li Congwei's tricks, Guo Chongtao did not know at this time that Youzhou City was actually under the control of the Qin army, let alone that Li Jing was in control of the city at this time. Among the information he knew about Lu Dao, there were only 20,000 righteous troops of Li Congwei and Lu Longjun in Youzhou City. 20,000 men, twice as many troops and horses he commanded. But Guo Chongtao is not afraid, Li Congwei is just an unknown junior. How could he put it in his eyes.

On the contrary, he not only did not panic. Instead, I think it's a great opportunity. If they hadn't tried to lure them into the city to ambush, they wouldn't have had a chance to enter Youzhou City for a while. Now that he has come, he will not leave easily. If you miss such an opportunity, it will be difficult to meet it again.

"Let's kill directly to Yacheng, capture the thief and capture the king, and go straight to the thief's den!" Guo Chongtao shouted coldly.

As soon as these words came out, the generals Li Cunxin and Liu Rengong, who were originally a little panicked, also stabilized their minds at this time, and after thinking about it, this is indeed the case. If you want to retreat at this time, you will definitely run headlong into the enemy's ambush circle. And if you attack Yacheng in the opposite direction, you will be taken by surprise, and you may be able to capture Youzhou in one fell swoop. Thinking of this, all the generals turned their worries into joy and rejoiced.

"Kill!"

Guo Chongtao shouted, and Liu Rengong and Li Cunxin also led their headquarters to continue to rush forward and kill, directly attacking Yacheng.

On the gate tower of Yacheng in Youzhou, Li Jing and Gongsun Lan were looking out from the railing, shrouded in a little firelight.

"San Lang, you guessed right, after the Shatuo army was ambushed, not only did it not turn around and kill outside the city, but went straight to Yacheng." Gongsun Lan watched a fire dragon meander and couldn't help but admire.

The summer night is breezy and if there is no earth-shattering shouting, it may be a beautiful summer night.

Li Jing looked at the Shatuojun who broke into the net he had laid and couldn't help but chuckle.

Guo Chongtao is a tiger general, in history, he is not only a general under Li Keyong's account, but also the pillar of the later Tang Dynasty. However, although Guo Chongtao is a fledgling and has emerged and performed extraordinary, he is still very young after all. Compared with Li Jing, the information he controls is limited, and he is young and vigorous, so he can't help but be conceited.

In this way, tonight's defeat has long been doomed.

Guo Chongtao was still excited at this time, ready to enter the inner city as soon as possible.

Nearly 10,000 Shatuo troops completely ignored the end of the road, and just blindly rushed towards Yacheng. Along the way, the soldiers and horses in the city seemed to be unstoppable, and they ran one after another. Guo Chongtao soon led his troops to the Yacheng Gate.

The gate of Yacheng was closed, and Guo Chongtao ordered the demolition of the houses to take wood and knock on the door.

Suddenly, there was a sound of war drums beating in the city, and then suddenly there was a fire in the city, and countless defenders poured out of the city, all with bows and crossbows, and at the sound of an order, arrows rained down and stone bullets fell like hailstones.

In the blink of an eye, a large number of Shatuo soldiers fell, Guo Chongtao and the others were taken aback, they didn't expect that there was such an elite soldier on Yacheng. At this time, Li Congwei led more than 10,000 men and horses of the Yiwu Army to lead troops to kill, and killed the generals from the left.

Liu Rengong led the headquarters to the capital of the capital to meet the battle, and Li Congwei faced Liu Rengong. In the past, Liu Rengong and Li Quanzhong, the father of Li Congwei, were both Li Maoxun's subordinates, colleagues and friends, and the two families were friends. At this time, they were red-eyed and tearing each other apart. Li Congwei also didn't care that Liu Rengong used to be his uncle, and Liu Shouwen and Liu Shouguang didn't seem to have called Li Congwei's brother at all. The soldiers and horses of the two soldiers fought and tore apart on the long street.

The two armies fought hard, and after a short time, Wang Sitong, Li Chengyue and other generals of the original Lulong Army also led 10,000 troops to arrive. Guo Chongtao personally faced the battle, and Lu Longjun fell behind.

"San Lang, the Yiwu Army and the Lu Long Army seem to be defeated by the Shatuo Army, and it seems that the two generals Liu and Li are ordered to fight?" Gongsun Lan saw that the battle below was fierce, but there were nearly 20,000 people in the two armies of Lu Long and Yiwu, and the enemy could not resist Shatuo 10,000 people, so he couldn't help but be a little worried.

Li Jing watched the scuffle on the long street under the city, twenty or thirty thousand horses, enveloping half of the city into the battlefield, and tearing up and killing everywhere. The Shatuo soldiers were born after death, and the battle was extremely fierce and crazy at this time. On the contrary, the two armies of the Yiwu Army and the Lu Long Army did not do their best to preserve their strength, but they were pressed and beaten.

He naturally knew the mentality of the warring parties at this time, but Li Jing did not plan to send his own soldiers and horses immediately. At present, it can be said that there are two camps in Youzhou City, and there are people from all directions. Sha Tuobing is on one side, and Li Jing and Li Congwei are on the side of the coalition army. But Li Jing's side can be divided into two parts, Li Jing and Li Congwei, plus the original Lu Long Army that was swallowed into the Yiwu Army, and now there is a plan to separate the Yiwu Army, so it can be said that Li Jing's side is actually a tripartite alliance.

Each family has its own small abacus, but Li Jing only has more than 10,000 soldiers and horses in the city at this time, and his strength is not the strongest. Therefore, what he needs is to control the situation, let Yiwu and Lu Long fight with Shatuo's soldiers, and the Qin army is a reserve, maintaining deterrence at all times and acting as a supervisor.

"It's not the time yet, let them fight again."

Lu Longjun wanted to break away from the Yiwu Army and switch to Li Jing, which he knew the truth. And now that the defeat of this Shatuo army has been decided, Li Jing also intends to collect this army and horses. But even if Lu Longjun and Guo Chongtao's subordinates are absorbed, it is not unconditional, that is, they must be weakened first, and they cannot be too strong. Now, without Li Jing's move, let them fight by themselves first, this is the last choice, why should he be in a hurry to end the battle.

Gongsun Lan personally went to convey Li Jing's meaning to Liu Xun and Li Cunxiao, and the two honestly suppressed their desire to fight and waited for the order.

Guo Chongtao fought very fiercely at the beginning, and Li Congwei and Wang Sitong had some unsupportable frames. But soon, he felt that things were a little weird. Because as time slowly passed, the defenders of Youzhou not only did not collapse, but became more and more tenacious. Where did he know that Li Congwei and Wang Sitong didn't do their best, and they just wanted to wait for Li Jing to dispatch the department to attack. But they waited and waited, but they didn't see the Qin army send troops, and at this time, they couldn't guess Li Jing's thoughts.

But even if Li Jing's thoughts were clear, not only did they not dare to continue to slack off, but they had to do their best. After all, if they continue to fight like this, Li Jing is likely to really dare to let them live or die, then they may really be defeated. At that time, they either died at the hands of the Shatuo people, or were swallowed by Li Jing in one fell swoop after the war. Now, in any way, in order to protect themselves, they have to show their housekeeping skills and win this battle.

As soon as the Yiwu Army and the Lu Long Army fought hard, the battle situation fell into a stalemate.

The Shatuo army fell one by one, and the Yiwu army and Lu Longjun also continued to fall, but Li Congwei and Wang Sitong did not dare to stop. They know the current situation better than Guo Chongtao, there are 10,000 of the most elite Qin cavalry in Youzhou City, and not far from the periphery of Youzhou, there are more Qin troops rushing over.

The melee between the three armies is approaching dawn.

Just when Li Congwei and Lu Long's generals were dripping blood in their hearts, the sound of war drums finally sounded again on Yacheng, and the gate of Yacheng, which had been closed all night, suddenly opened, and a cavalry army galloped out of the city, killing like a tiger descending from the mountain.

Guo Chongtao, who was leading the army to beat Lu Longjun, suddenly heard the report: "Oh no, the general is not good, the Qin army has killed him!" ”

"Li Jing's banner, Li Jing is in Youzhou City, and he is in Yacheng!"

"This is Li Jing's trick, it is Li Jing who ambushes us, not Li Congwei!"

"General, the military capital is urgent, the Qin army attacked the military capital at night, and the military capital has been lost.

"We're broken!"

"We are surrounded!" (To be continued......)