At the end of the Sui Dynasty

Chapter 615 Attacking Lingqiu Again
Li Jing analyzed calmly: "Liu Wuzhou was attached to the Turks and successively captured Mayi County, Loufan County and Dingxiang County. He seemed to have a powerful army, but he was incomparable with Li Tang's forces occupying Guanzhong.

In addition, in order to curry favor with the Turks, Liu Wuzhou donated all the court ladies and gold and silver looted from Fenyang Palace to Shibi Khan, and also accepted the title of "Dingyang Khan" conferred by Shibi Khan, and the title of "Langtou Khan". Daqi, but from that moment on, Liu Wuzhou lost the possibility of setting the Central Plains. "

Gao Bufan nodded and said coldly: "Liu Wuzhou is short-sighted. In order to please the Turkic people, he has no bottom line and accepted the title of Dingyang Khan. In the eyes of the people all over the world, he is already a scum of the nation who lures wolves into the house." Yes. As the saying goes, those who win the hearts of the people win the world, and lose the hearts of the people, Liu Wuzhou has already lost the qualification to rule the Central Plains, at best he can only be a hero who dominates one side."

Li Jing smiled and said: "That's right, the situation determines success or failure. Liang Shidu and Guo Zihe also attached themselves to the Turks, surrendered to Shibi Khan, and were willing to serve as lackeys of the Yi people. Like Liu Wuzhou, they are all short-sighted people. It is not a problem, but Li Tang is the only one who has a large number of soldiers under his command, who will look down on the Central Plains. He will be the future enemy of the King of Qi, threatening and even stronger than Li Mi, who dominates the Central Plains."

Gao Bufan nodded in disbelief. After all, Li Tang was the real ruler of the country in history, and he was naturally the biggest threat. The real purpose of sending Li Jing to seize Yanmen County was to contain Li Tang. As for Liu Wuzhou and his ilk, I Not in sight yet.

At this time Li Jing continued: "Our Qi State occupies the two prefectures of Youying. Although the geographical advantages are not as good as Guanzhong, they are not far behind. Moreover, the second younger brother has a lot of talents and strong troops. Compared with Li Tang, he is only stronger than not weaker.

Li Yuan and his son will definitely regard our Qi State as the biggest competitor and be on guard everywhere.Now Li Tang is busy attacking Xue Ju and Li Gui in the Longxi area, and has no time to spare the time to conquer the east of the river. He only sent Li Yuanji and Pei Ji to guard Taiyuan. Threat to Taiyuan. "

Gao Bufan's heart moved: "That is to say, Li Tang's current energy is concentrated on pacifying Longxi, and he has no time to take care of Hedong, so he can only play tricks and send someone to assassinate you, second brother?"

Li Jing nodded and said, "It's very likely, and the dispatch of troops to Yanmen was kept secret beforehand. It can be seen that Li Tang must have placed a lot of eyes and ears in Qi State, so he detected our movements in advance."

Gao Bufan frowned and said in a cold voice: "This kind of tactic is too low-handed. If it was really done by the desperadoes under Li Shimin's command, then I think highly of him too."

"Although the method is not on the table, it works!" Li Jing said calmly.

Gao Bufan nodded and said, this really has to be guarded against. In the future, the generals under his command will have to strengthen their safety precautions. If they can come up with self-defense equipment such as bulletproof vests and muskets, they should be safe.

Seeing Gao Bufan's silence, Li Jing only thought that the other party was worried about his own safety. He felt warm and said with a smile: "Third brother, don't worry, I have already strengthened my precautions. It is impossible for the other party to succeed again."

"Well, the second brother should be more careful, the other party's evil intentions may be repeated." Gao Bufan solemnly said: "When Han Laoshi's injury is fully recovered, I will send him to protect the second brother."

Li Jing did not refuse, nodded his thanks, and said with a wry smile: "Actually, my injury is not that serious. The reason why I rushed to report back is just to confuse the public and mislead the other party's eyes and ears in our country. I was tricked."

Gao Bufan smiled and said: "It's okay, anyway, there is no fighting in the south for the time being, and the second brother is injured, so I have to come and take a look. By the way, since the second brother deliberately confuses the public, I think he will take action next time."

Li Jing felt warm in his heart, nodded and said: "I planned to wait three days later, but now that the third brother is here, let's move it to tonight, after all, the speed of soldiers is so precious!"

Gao Bufan cheered up and said, "Second Brother, is he going to continue to attack Lingqiu?"

Li Jing nodded and said: "Now that Liu Wuzhou is encircling Yanmen County, Chen Xiaoyi, the prefect of Yanmen, will probably be unable to hold on any longer. Now that Liu Wuzhou's main force is still being held back, this is a great opportunity for us to capture Lingqiu County."

Gao Bufan said with a smile: "It's indeed a good time. I think the second brother has figured out the deployment of troops in Lingqiu County, right?"

Li Jing smiled, took Gao Bufan to a sand table, pointed to the location of Lingqiu County, and introduced: "Look, third brother, this is where Lingqiu County is located, and it has been occupied by Liu Wuzhou's troops. There are 1000 people, but the last time I made a sneak attack and turned back halfway, I had already alarmed Liu Wuzhou's people, so it is estimated that the precautions have been strengthened, and many checkpoints have been added along the way."

After Gao Bufan listened to Li Jing's introduction, he already had a solid idea in his mind. This time when he attacked Yanmen County, Li Jing did not bring many soldiers and horses, two thousand cavalry and five thousand infantry, which added up to only 7000 people. It is Li Jing's style, soldiers are expensive and not expensive, so they move lightly and quickly, as fast as lightning.

Rapid raids by surprise soldiers are Li Jing's forte!
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It's night, the moon is dark and the wind is high, and the mountains without light pollution are so dark that you can't see your fingers.

Just as Li Jing expected, Liu Wuzhou has become vigilant since he turned back in the middle of the last raid. He not only increased the troops stationed in Lingqiu County from [-] to [-]. After clearing ten checkpoints, as long as there is any disturbance, the defenders in Lingqiu County will be aware of it and respond quickly.

Han Xiaoyun is lying on the back of a rock at the moment, bowed his waist, his shoulders are bent, his legs are slightly bent, his eyes are staring at a checkpoint not far away, like a cheetah preparing to attack, and there are six brothers around him Lying in ambush, everyone holds a dagger in their mouths, and they are all elite scouts in the army.

This time their task is to remove the ten checkpoints on the Lingqiu Ancient Road, and this checkpoint is the last one. However, this checkpoint is a bit special. At a distance of more than ten meters, the nearby weeds and trees have also been cleaned up, and there is no way to hide people. Standing on the top of the slope and looking down, you can see everything at a glance.

Because of this, when Han Xiaoyun and others lurked for a long time, they still couldn't find a chance to strike, and it was almost time for the agreed army to pass.Han Xiaoyun gritted her teeth, turned her head and gestured to the six brothers, then stood up and walked up the slope swaggeringly.

The six brothers immediately held the bows in their hands, and the arrows were strung, staring at the top of the slope worriedly and nervously.

There are ten people at the checkpoint on the top of the slope, and the leader is a team leader, but these guys are obviously lazy, and they didn't realize it until Han Xiaoyun walked halfway up the slope, and they shouted sharply: "Who is it, stop!"

Han Xiaoyun regretted it a bit. If he had known that these guys were so lax, he should have touched them and killed them just now.

"One of our own, Hei Ya!" Han Xiaoyun replied while continuing to go up the slope. The name Hei Ya was exactly a sentry he killed in one of the checkpoints ahead.

"Hei Ya, aren't you in the front, why are Wudeng running here in a hurry... Hey, no, your voice... Goo!"

Before the gang leader finished speaking, he covered his throat and made a grunting sound. It turned out that Han Xiaoyun suddenly threw a dagger from a few meters away, and hit the gang leader's throat with quick precision and ruthlessness.

It is said that although Han Xiaoyun missed the best time to practice the internal martial arts due to physical reasons, his body has been beaten up by his father to be quite strong. He is not bad at practicing horizontally. Nor would he be named captain of a scout squad.

Besides, the gang leader hadn't fallen to the ground after being stabbed in the throat, and his companions didn't know it. They were just curious why the boss suddenly made a strange grunt. Pulling out the dagger, he stabbed the two of them with a flash of cold light.

The shrill screams immediately resounded through the mountain, at this moment, the other seven guards came to their senses, drew their knives and rushed towards Han Xiaoyun.Han Xiaoyun had already grabbed a waist knife in his hand at this moment, he slid around and went straight to the two horses tied nearby, and cut off the reins with the knife in his hand.

The two horses were frightened and immediately ran away, and the seven sentry guards understood Han Xiaoyun's intentions, they couldn't help being startled and angry, they roared and surrounded them, swiping their knives and slashing.

Han Xiaoyun was outnumbered, and there were many dangers at the time. Fortunately, the six brothers had rushed up the slope at this time, and they worked together to kill the seven guards.

Han Xiaoyun was secretly heaving a sigh of relief when a horse neighed suddenly, and a black figure jumped on the horse's back and galloped away.Han Xiaoyun and the others secretly shouted that it was too bad, but they missed one. Once this person fled back to Lingqiu County and reported the letter, it would be a waste of time.

At this critical moment, there was a sudden crash, and the arrow went like a shooting star. In the darkness, a black shadow on the horse's back fell down from the horse.

Han Xiaoyun ran over and found a dead body by the side of the road. A sharp arrow pierced through the neck, leaving only a bloody hole, so dead that he couldn't die anymore.

Han Xiaoyun was both surprised and delighted, and looked up, but it was dark all around, and he didn't know who the arrow shooter was.

"Who shot the arrow?" Han Xiaoyun asked.

All the scout brothers gathered around, they all looked at each other in blank dismay, because none of them shot the arrow.

Han Xiaoyun frowned and said: "The other party is a friend rather than an enemy, let's not worry about it, Xiao Wu, tell General Li that the way is unimpeded, and the army can pass."

The scout named Xiao Wu immediately ran down the slope!
At this time, Gao Bufan was holding a horn bow, standing on a rock on the left side of the mountain, and the mountain wind made his gown rattle.

In fact, along the way, Gao Bufan has been secretly following Han Xiaoyun and others. He is quite satisfied with the overall performance of this kid. He is bold and careful, and he is a good material for a scout, but he still lacks experience.

(End of this chapter)