The fox minister in the late Tang Dynasty

Chapter 285 Difficulties
The black smoke slanted towards the sky like a dragon, half of the city tower was burning, and amidst the shouts of people, arrows flew up and down the city like locusts in disorder, and the soldiers who were hit by the arrows fell down the city wall with screams of "Ah--". The dark crowd receded, and the falling figure still fell heavily to the ground.

Soon, the waiting Shatuo infantry and Fanhan soldiers climbed up the ladder one by one through the large shield, and stretched left and right along the wall. There were dense figures like ants, arrows, knives, and guns fell, and some The Liang Bing who was holding the guarding city fought together and fell down.

The Jin soldiers standing on the city wall hugged and pushed forward hysterically, protecting the comrades on the ladder behind them and following up, some of them rushed in with their own generals, faintly overwhelming Liang Jun in momentum.

Noisy voices came from afar, and under the banner with the word "Jin" fluttering, Li Keyong, wearing a bright armor and a red cloak, stared at the city wall to attack and defend, and gave orders from time to time to send generals and people to fill in the gaps in the offensive. Liang Jun, who was defending the city, had a moment to breathe.

Today, he is no longer the leader of Shatuo who was defeated by Yao'erling when he rebelled back then. During the time when the Tatars were avoiding disaster, he re-examined and read the military books of the Central Plains, and made a lot of progress, especially the battle in Youzhou. His military skills have been tempered, and now, attacking Zezhou is in his pocket.

After a fierce battle for an hour, Shi Jingsi and Li Sizhao's offensives became fierce. Once Zezhou was captured, he knew that the Central Plains was in front of him.

As for Tang Ting, whom his father never forgets, he is just like his father, but an old man.

"Before I heard that Liang general Fan Jushi went out to fight Cunxiao in the field, I found it ridiculous when I thought about it." Li Keyong retracted his thoughts, and smiled to mention the past to Li Siyuan, Li Cunshen and other adopted sons and generals next to him, "It is such courage It's commendable, but it's a pity that you don't have a lot of brains, if you defend the city with the generals of this city and want to conquer Zezhou, it won't be possible to fully accomplish it in one month."

"Hehe, it's not a proper name. Then Zhu Wen's subordinates are just a group of wine bags and rice bags?" Li Siyuan laughed, then his expression calmed down, and he continued to speak in Turkic: "Father, although General Liang I don't know how to be wise, but it's better to be cautious, then Zhu Wen was able to conquer the Central Plains from under the hands of the yellow thief, how could he be an incompetent person."

"Siyuan said, what about Zhu Wen's reinforcements?"

Li Ke waved his hand boldly, and was about to speak, when he looked away suddenly. A fast horse galloped over the front and galloped towards this side. When the King Jin frowned, the scout turned over and jumped on the horse, clasped his fists with his hands Kneeling down: "Report to the King of Jin, and found that Liang Jun soldiers and horses are approaching twenty miles to the west."

After letting the scouts go down, another fast horse came from the rear, Li Siyuan hastily stepped up to meet him, raised his whip: "What's the matter!"

That Lingqi hurriedly dismounted.

"A Liang army cavalry detours to the north, trying to attack my rear!"

"Father." Li Siyuan and Li Cunshen looked back at King Jin on horseback.

Li Ke narrowed his eyes and stretched out his hand to hold the horse's mane for a while, but he didn't show any surprise, just chuckled twice.

"If I attack the city and they don't come to rescue me, I'll be suspicious. Now that I'm in shape, I don't have to worry about being a father. Now that I'm here, let's fight together."

As if he was prepared in his heart, he tapped his wrist armor, closed his eyes and made up his mind, and summoned the cavalry commander to quietly convey the order.

In the field of vision covered by the stretch of green field, the 1000 army formation mixed with horses and horses is rushing to the Zezhou battlefield. The scouts and patrolling horses over there directly rushed over. The defeated soldiers were chased and fled backwards, and soon gathered the rest of the defeated troops to meet them again, and were defeated again, leaving more than [-] corpses and wounded soldiers to continue fleeing eastward.

"Why are there only a small group of soldiers?"

Sitting in the middle army, Yang Shihou frowned when he got the good news, and immediately ordered the mopping-up front army to stop. However, it was half an hour after the news reached the front, and the 5000 people who pursued the Jin army team were ambushed by Li Cunshen Fortunately, the wilderness was wide and could be withdrawn in time, but it also cost more than 2000 casualties.

Yang Shihou didn't get angry when he got the news. He had never fought against the Jin army before, and the two sides had only small-scale friction in the past, and they didn't need generals like them. This battle now is a kind of accumulation, which makes him re-examine his opponent.

"The current situation has both advantages and disadvantages for us. The siege of the city is extremely exhausting. Li Keyong will spend all he has on this trip to the south. Zezhou is bound to win. If the siege is weakened, the soldiers in the city will be able to breathe and cooperate with us inside and outside. Keep an eye on Zezhou regardless of division." Yang Shihou touched the tip of his floating beard and said softly.

Soon, the lost team was reorganized, merged with other formations, and advanced Zezhou mightily with a positive attitude.

More than [-] people were abruptly pushed to [-].

Looking into the eyes, the banners spread everywhere, as if there was no end.The Jin army who wanted to set up an ambush saw the Liang army maintaining a large-scale march, so they had to withdraw their previous ambush and return to the Zezhou main formation.

The third day of August.

As if there was a tacit understanding between the two sides, Li Keyong withdrew his siege troops and kept more than [-] men on the city defenses. He led [-] troops to fight Yang Shihou on the plain west of Zezhou. The infantry of the two armies began to make tentative contact, and after advancing the front line, they stalemate. The sky was dim, and the Qingqi on both sides remained motionless.

As night fell, Yang Shihou launched a night attack. Two thousand armored heavy steps were the vanguard, and seven thousand light steps were the rear. After breaking through the first defense of the opponent's camp, they were counterattacked by the ambush soldiers set up by Li Keyong. The two sides fought outside from the camp , In the wilderness at night, the flames and the screams of people continued until the sky gradually turned dark, and then they all went back.

On the way, Wang Yanzhang was ambushed by Li Siyuan's soldiers and horses, and then started chasing and killing. At the second quarter of Mao, when the sun rose above the clouds, Li Siyuan was attacked from the side by the reinforcement Liu Wei, and Wang Yanzhang turned back and fought back frantically. , beheaded 2000 people, and reduced [-] people.

Soon, 2000 people came to the battlefield, and in front of the Shatuo soldiers, their heads were beheaded one by one, and they were piled up into a Jingguan.

At this moment, the armies on both sides also ignited their anger, and the two-day back-and-forth offensive and defensive battle turned into a tug-of-war, just to let out a sigh of relief.

To the north of Zezhou, a seemingly forgotten cavalry stopped thirty miles south of Luzhou and stopped moving.

The pergola set up in the forest, Geng Qing looked at the delivered information and suddenly laughed.

"It's going to be bad for Li Keyong."

"Huh? The two sides fought regardless of the outcome. How do you know the decline of the Jin army?" Jiuyu shook his fan and took a look.

On the side, Geng Qing handed him the information.

"Master Yang is a bit powerful in using troops. He did it on purpose. He transferred Li Keyong's anger to him bit by bit. This way, Kang Huaizhen in Zezhou would have time to recover. However, he wanted to break through the gate. It’s a bit difficult for Yu Bingma. After all, Cunxiao is also wandering nearby, so this Black Crow Army is another preparation made by Li Keyong, to surprise Master Yang with a fatal blow.”

In fact, he detoured to the north, and he came here under the command of Yang Shihou, intending to go around and attack the rear of the Jin army, but when he arrived, he didn't make a move, and Geng Qing was also a little hesitant. He seemed to break free when he was transferred here, but he was actually isolated by the battlefield. To the north, once they evacuate, they will be discovered by Yang Shihou.

Sure enough, the little abacus I had dragged before still couldn't escape the other party's eyes.

"To fight or not to fight is the question."

at the same time.

There were also people who lost their temper because of the stalemate in the war. Li Keyong kicked down the case table, his eyes were bloodshot, and Li Siyuan, Li Sizhao, and Li Cunshen beside him didn't dare to ask him, so they could only stand there and look at him.

"Call Li Cunxiao here. I need to ask him something for my father."

Li Keyong turned his head, his gaze was like a fierce tiger devouring people.

(End of this chapter)