Chapter 278: Turning the Tables

(No one has rewarded this month, is there a good student to tip a little, 100 yuan is not too much, 5 yuan is not too little.) It's been half a month, and I only have one meal money when I receive a reward, so I kneel and beg for a reward! )

Li Jing stood in the dawn of the sky, looking at the snow-white wild horse king that Zhao Jiang brought him, and after Li Jing tamed it, he directly named him the wild horse king. In addition to the 5,000 soldiers and horses drawn from the battalions in Shamen Town, there were also eight other troops in Dengzhou, totaling 5,000 men and horses. Flags fluttered on the pier, and all kinds of flags and symbols were flying.

Looking at the noisy and chaotic soldiers and horses who were boarding the ship, Li Jing had a headache.

Until now, he still can't believe that the hero Li Lingfu is actually dead.

Li Zijun, the tenth general of the Flying Eagle Battalion, galloped over, turned over and dismounted, and didn't have time to catch his breath, and immediately said loudly: "General, the news has arrived, Li Lingfu is indeed dead." ”

"What's going on?" There was a shock, and this time Li Jing's reaction was much better, but it still felt unreal.

Li Wei reported the results of the investigation in detail, and Li Jing could only sigh after hearing it. However, it was said that it was originally from after Li Jing and Li Lingfu agreed to raise troops, but at the beginning, Li Lingfu also controlled his anger and did not recklessly insist on sending troops alone. Instead, he immediately sent many envoys to the many Tang people in southern Liaoning who had a good relationship with him, and invited them to send troops with heavy courtesy. Each family received Li Lingfu's gift, and saw that Duli Town was defeated at the hands of Qingnipu and Shamen Town. At present, I heard Li Lingfu say that Li Jing was contacting all the units of the Pinglu Army in Ziqing Town and making an appointment to attack Duli Town together, and I couldn't help but be moved. Each family agreed to send troops. Even Li Lingfu successfully invited the three or two small tribes of the Khitan and Xi people to send troops together. And several Goguryeo nobles in eastern Liaodong agreed to participate in this hunt. The soldiers and horses of each family add up. There are more than 10,000 people.

Moreover, on the side of Beisha City, after receiving the truce letter sent by Li Lingfu, he quickly agreed and took the initiative to withdraw his troops.

Li Lingfu's preparations were progressing smoothly, and he was originally waiting for Li Jing's soldiers and horses to arrive and send troops together.

But at this moment, something happened that made this hero lose his mind.

Just two days ago, Wang Pu of Duli Town brought Li Lingfu's second daughter, who had only been in the house for seven days. First the four domestic slaves who led the horses took turns to spoil her all night, and then they threw her into the prostitute camp and ordered her to be served free of charge to the sergeants. In just one day, he was taken by more than 30 big men for a day, and he was ruined to death after the last day. After his death, Wang Pu refused to let go, so he stripped the corpse naked, pierced it from the bottom == body with a sharp wooden stake, and erected it on the dock in Duli Town, and displayed the corpse to the public! And he also carved the handwriting of Li Lingfu's daughter with a knife on the corpse.

The news reached Qingnipu. reported to Li Lingfu that he learned. Li Lingfu was furious, "Wang Pu is an old thief. It's too much to deceive me! "Smashed the old case with a sword on the spot. When the generals who led their troops heard this, they couldn't help but be filled with righteous indignation, and they all said that they should immediately kill Duli Town.

The old manager Li Meng Laocheng was serious and advised Li Lingfu to calm his anger for the time being, and he should contact Li Jing immediately, and when Li Jing led his troops, more than 50,000 troops of the alliance would jointly crusade against Duli Town, and the matter would be safe.

So Li Lingfu immediately sent someone to Wuhu Island to deliver the letter, and the people who received the letter were gathering in the Nutao Camp and Zhenhai Camp on Wuhu Island first, as well as Megan's people. Huang Huzi and others teamed up with Li Lingfu last time to annihilate the fleet of Duli Town, and later when Li Lingfu was in Shamen Town, several of them often drank together, so they had a good relationship. Listening to the messenger's explanation, Yellowbeard was also very upset, and immediately ignored Megan's persuasion, and led a thousand soldiers of the Nutao Battalion and two thousand old pirates straight to Qingnipu.

Megan sent an envoy to deliver the letter to Shamen Town, but the messenger only said that Li Lingfu urged the troops to be dispatched, and did not explain all kinds of misfortunes that Li Lingfu's daughter had suffered in Duli Town. This made Li Jing not pay too much attention to it at that time, but replied that he had contacted the various departments in Dengzhou, and would lead 10,000 soldiers and horses from each department to Qingnipu in the near future, so that Li Lingfu could wait for the time being. At the same time, he immediately sent a letter to Wang Pu of Duli Town, sternly warning Wang Pu of Duli Town, asking him to immediately pay compensation to Li Lingfu and make a profit, otherwise, he would unite all kinds of soldiers and horses to crusade against Duli Town together.

Li Jing's reply made Li Lingfu very dissatisfied, and he didn't want to wait for a moment. At this time, the Khitan and other coalition forces thought that their strength was enough to take Duli Town, so they didn't want to wait for Li Jing to lead his troops to come, so as not to take a lot of loot. One of the Khitan generals is the son of the patriarch of a small tribe, and their entire tribe is only 3,000 tents, one tent is a household, often five or six people, counting more than 10,000 people, but their warriors are only 500, and there are more than 1,000 men who can control the strings. This time, he directly brought 800 people, and the idea of going south to make a lot of money was hit.

"There are two terrible people in Duli Town, one is the combined fleet, but now the combined fleet has been destroyed by the city lord of Li. The second is its fortified fortress, but there is a good saying, there is no fortress in the world that cannot be attacked. No matter how strong a city is, it has weaknesses. Now I have a plan to break the city, and there is now a merchant group of my tribe in the city of Duli Town, about 200 people, and these are the warriors of my Thorn Division. I can now send someone to find them secretly and let them act as an internal agent for us. At that time, our army secretly sneaked to the city of Duli, and then they opened the city gate for us in the city, so that as soon as the city gate was opened, we entered it in one fell swoop, and the town of Duli would be broken. ”

Li Lingfu was overjoyed, and at this time someone reported that Li Jing was secretly exchanging letters with Duli Town. Coupled with Li Jing's previous reply that it would not arrive until three days later, he couldn't help but feel unhappy. Counting the current soldiers and horses, there are already nearly 40,000 people in the joint forces of various departments plus Qingnipu, plus the few people of Yellowbeard who led 3,000 sailors to come, and there were more than 40,000 soldiers and horses when they landed. There were only more than 10,000 soldiers in Duli Town, and there were only more than 20,000 people on the periphery, so Li Lingfu was immediately unwilling to wait for Li Jing, and stayed until the evening, leaving only 3,000 old and weak to stay at home, and the rest of the men and horses were divided into two routes. All the way, it was composed of the crane army and the Khitan, Xi, and Goguryeo nobles. The other route was led by the second and third sons, mainly with the fleet of Qingnipu and the fleet of Huangbeard coming to help, plus several other departments in southern Liaoning and the forces of the Tang people. 10,000 by water and 30,000 by land. Of these, 10,000 cavalrymen. 20,000 infantry. The flag died down and quietly went straight to Duli Town.

At the second watch of the night, the land and water went hand in hand, diving straight to the bottom of the town.

At the fourth watch, seeing that the sky was about to dawn, there was still no movement in the city, and Li Lingfu was a little anxious. Suddenly, seeing a few torches shaking at the head of the city, the young patriarch of the Khitan Department was overjoyed: "City Lord Li." My people have already got their hands on it, come on. ”

Li Lingfu was overjoyed and said: "Okay, first remember the first merit of the young patriarch of Da Ge, after the city is broken, I will thank you and kill it!" ”

The coalition army slaughtered under the city, and sure enough, the city gate had been opened, and there seemed to be a battle in the city gate, and the sound of gold and iron continued. And in the firelight, you can faintly see the rumbling footsteps coming from the city. There seemed to be more defenders coming.

Li Lingfu was unwilling to miss such an opportunity, and immediately shouted to charge. The first to rush in with the crane cavalry.

Things went even better than he expected, and when they stormed into the city, the city's garrison arrived. However, under the charge of Li Lingfu's cavalry and the cavalry of the Khitan, Xi and Goguryeo tribes, the other side was defeated and retreated. They took advantage of the situation to chase and kill, and completely captured the north gate of Duli Town.

Li Lingfu left the follow-up infantry to use this gate as a stronghold, he led the cavalry to charge the city, and sent people to attack the water gate, and let the soldiers and horses enter the city by water.

In a short time, the outer city of the small half of the town has been taken, and the water has been captured. Li Lingfu was overjoyed and transferred troops and horses to storm the inner city.

But at this time, suddenly thunder and thunder continued to sound all over the town, like nine days of thunder. The North Gate and the Water Gate, which were taken by the coalition soldiers, made violent noises and vibrations one after another, and then there was a sky-high fire. Immediately afterwards, the infantry general who stayed at the north gate sent a messenger to report that there was a sudden explosion near the north gate, and in the midst of the fire, the ground collapsed, the entire north gate collapsed, and the entire north gate was completely blocked by bricks and stones, and hundreds of soldiers were killed and injured.

As soon as the first messenger finished reporting, another messenger rode over, and in the houses and shops at the north gate of the big newspaper, countless soldiers and horses, strong bows and crossbows, and arrows rained down. The spear is like Lilin, the shield is like an iron wall, and the remaining infantry of the coalition army, who had just been attacked by the explosion and were in chaos, were suddenly attacked and had already dispersed.

At this time, there was also a messenger from the south water gate that the sailor's men and horses had just rushed into the city along the open water gate, and the water gate behind it exploded and collapsed, and now the entire back road has been blocked, and a large number of soldiers and horses also poured out there, ambushing the sailor's brothers with strong bows and crossbows, heavy crossbows and heavy artillery.

Li Lingfu's face turned gray in an instant, and he was in the middle of the plan.

He turned to look at Da Ge, but he saw that he didn't know when the road began, and Da Ge had already leaned his eight hundred horses towards him. According to the arrangement just now, he should have led people to the left to clear the remnants of Duli Town.

", you betrayed me!" Li Lingfu was furious.

Da Ge rode on his horse, raised his bow and shot at Li Lingfu, and snorted coldly: "I'm sorry, General Zhongmou, the city lord of Wang Pu is more generous than you, and he paid a lot of money of 200,000 yuan to ask me to help deal with you." And you, you are not as generous as the city lord. Whoever pays the highest price, I will contribute for whomever I want, and I can only blame you for being too stingy. ”

Everything is a trap set up, and when Li Lingfu came out to contact all parties and pull them into the alliance, Duli Town did not watch dryly. Wang Pu sent someone to find the greedy Khitan Thorn Jia tribe young patriarch Da Ge, and directly offered a high price of 200,000 yuan, asking him to pretend to join Li Lingfu's coalition army and find out the news for him. and find a way to let Li Lingfu jump into the trap they dug up earlier.

Da Ge led 800 Khitan cavalry to kill Li Lingfu directly, and the arrows rained down, which suddenly shot from behind, which caught Li Lingfu off guard, and countless people fell down with arrows. When the various departments that were attacking the city found out to come to help, Da Ge had already clung to Li Lingfu. At this moment, countless drumming sounds came, and in all directions, suddenly countless soldiers and horses were killed. Rushing left and right, like entering a no-man's land. At the head of the city, suddenly countless strong bows and crossbows were thrown to help.

Li Lingfu's retreat was blocked, and in front of him was a tall inner city wall, although there were 40,000 troops at one time, but they were divided in the streets and alleys of Duli Town. Duli Town was prepared, not only mobilized more than 10,000 soldiers and horses in the city, but also withdrew more than 10,000 soldiers and horses from outside into the city. He even summoned all the young men in the city and distributed weapons. In total, there are more than 20,000 soldiers and horses in Duli Town, and another 30,000 or 40,000 young people.

If it was a field battle, they would never be Li Lingfu's opponents, but right now, Li Lingfu was trapped in the city, and the soldiers of Duli Town occupied the favorable terrain such as rooftops and city walls. is constantly dividing and outflanking the coalition army, and what is even worse is that among the 40,000 horses of the coalition army, Da Ge is not the only one who has been bought a long time ago.

Several soldiers and horses of the Khitan and Xi tribes were almost all bought by Duli Town. These people came out in chaos, killing left and right, completely disrupting Qingnipu's troops.

Four pinched attacks, inside and outside, Li Lingfu was defeated, not long after the battle, surrounded by the Da Ge cavalry, the war horse fell to the ground with three arrows, Li Lingfu fell off the horse, as soon as he stood up, he had been pierced by Da Ge's arrow through the heart and fell to the ground again, and then the Khitan cavalry who arrived fired arrows together, shot Li Lingfu into a hedgehog, and the first hero, it ended gloomily.

In addition to the more than 2,000 soldiers who stayed on the ship at sea, nearly 40,000 people entered the city, and they were completely trapped in the city of Duli Town, and were divided and killed one after another. This battle was fought from before dawn until dusk the next day, when it was completely subsided. 40,000 people and horses, of which more than 2,000 soldiers left behind by warships fled, and 3,000 Khitan and Xi soldiers and horses that were actually secretly bought by Duli Town, and the rest of nearly 35,000 men and horses, only about 3,000 people killed a bloody road, covering Li Juyi and Li Juli brothers to break out of the encirclement and kill out of the city.

More than 10,000 remained, and as many as 20,000 were captured and surrendered. In this battle, not only did Qingnipu suffer huge losses, but also the Goguryeo nobles and the Tang people of southern Liaoning were severely damaged. The situation in southern Liaoning as a whole has changed again, and that's not all.

At the same time as the battle on the side of Duli Town, Beisha City, which was supposed to have withdrawn, suddenly reappeared, and they took advantage of the night to raid Qingni City, where only 3,000 old and weak people were left behind. Li Lingfu's eldest sons, Li Juren and Li Meng, resisted desperately, but the outer city still fell before dawn, and they had to retreat into the inner city to defend it. As soon as Li Juren sent dozens of dead soldiers to break through the siege and ask for help from his father on the other side of Duli Town and Li Jing from Shamen Town, he got the news that his father was killed in an ambush in Duli Town, and the coalition army was almost wiped out.

In the evening, Li Juyi and his brothers fled back to the vicinity of Qingnipu with thousands of remnants, but they were ambushed by Beisha City, lost nearly half of their men and horses, and were besieged in a small valley at the end.

Qingnicheng is in danger, and the more than 1,000 remnants of Li Juyi's brothers may not be able to support it at any time, and now they are all waiting for Li Jing's rescue. (To be continued......)