First Minister of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 213 Yuchi's Return
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Hearing Gao Chong's words, Qin Qiong also cheered up, "Don't worry, you can't let the thief get away no matter what this time."

The two immediately divided up their troops, one in front and the other in ambush at both ends of the Meiliang River, waiting for the fish to enter the net.

The sky was already bright, Gao Chong gnawed on the cold mustache, and waited quietly for the scouts to report. Not long after, the scouts came to report: the enemy had arrived at Meiliang River.

Gao Chong put half a piece of Hubing into his arms, picked up the horse, and got on the horse.

After Yuchi Jingde led the troops to come down the slope, Gao Chongfang first shot an arrow straight at Yuchi Jingde. Yuchi Jingde reacted quickly. He picked up the first heavy horse and was shocked with his kick. He exclaimed: "Arrange to meet the enemy!" ".

"The Heavenly Soldiers of the Tang Dynasty have arrived, kill them, brothers," Gao Chong shouted, holding his horse aloft.

He rushed down first, followed by hundreds of cavalry and two thousand infantry behind him. The infantry lined up to block, while Gao Chong led only a few hundred cavalry to cruise around and shoot.

Xia County soldiers are not the northern soldiers that Yuchi Jingde previously commanded. The county soldiers are county soldiers after all, and their overall quality must not be as good as the Northern Frontier Army. It is okay to guard the city and patrol on weekdays, but at this time, it is very difficult to lay down in the wild. Fast mess, totally out of line.

Seeing this, Gao Chong immediately raised his spear and shouted: "Brothers cut through", and immediately stopped cruising on both sides, and directly led hundreds of cavalry into the enemy's formation.

At this time, Qin Qiong was also leading the rear army to encircle, and the soldiers of Xia County could be said to be defeated at the first touch. They were not strong in combat power, and they were even more uneasy about evacuating Xia County.

Seeing this, Yuchi Jingde cursed, Dang even wanted to turn around and run away, but Gao Chong had already stared at him, and immediately shouted: "Don't leave Yuchi Jingde".

When Qin Qiong heard this, he didn't say anything, and ignored those Xia County soldiers. He rushed into the formation alone, and went straight to kill Yuchi Jingde.

"The heavenly soldiers of the Tang Dynasty have arrived, surrender to avoid death."Gao Chong shouted first, and then the Tang army surrounded and killed them all, shouting in unison.

Wherever Xiaxian soldiers dared to resist after hearing the words, they all abandoned their troops and surrendered.

At this time, Yuchi Jingde had been entangled by Qin Qiong, unable to escape, so Gao Chong led the cavalry to surround him, "Archers prepare".

The cavalry quickly drew their bows and arrows, Qin Qiong took the opportunity to withdraw from the battle circle, and Yuchi Jingde fell into a tight siege.

"I have heard about General Yuchi's name for a long time. I am very lucky to see General Yuchi today." Gao Chong also admired this future door god very much. He could only see Yuchi Jingde's tall stature, resolute face, and piercing tiger eyes. When trapped in a tight siege, he immediately crossed his sword and looked directly at Gao Chong.

"Gao Chong?" Yuchi Jingde raised his brows upon hearing this, "A certain family has heard of your reputation, the Battle of the Black River Valley was really powerful, I never thought of being a white-faced gentleman."

"General Yuchi is absurdly praised", Gao Chong laughed loudly when he heard the words, "General Yuchi was ambushed by me twice, and now the situation is exhausted, how about returning to the Tang Dynasty? According to General Yuchi's talents, he will definitely not lose the position of prince."

Yuchi Jingde shook his head and smiled when he heard the words, "Li Tang's defeat is imminent, how can a certain family surrender."

"Why did you say that?" Gao Chong asked directly with some doubts.

Yuchi Jingde paused, thought for a while and said directly: "You don't want to hide it from me, a certain family knows that when your food and grass are not in good supply, as long as you cut off your food supply, you will only die overnight."

Gao Chong had a strange expression on his face when he heard that, he looked at Qin Qiong, and couldn't help laughing: "The general wants to cooperate with the outside world and attack Yongfeng warehouse?"

"You..." Yuchi Jingde's face suddenly changed. He was really shocked. The attack on Yongfeng warehouse was the suggestion that Dugu Huai'en gave him when he captured Dugu Huai'en alive. Together with Puzhou Wang Xingben, they attacked Yongfeng warehouse. , when Li Tang's food and grass can be cut off.

Although Wang Xingben of Puzhou was defeated and died, Yuchi Jingde believed that Dugu Huai'en had a high position in Li Tang, so there must be other ways. What surprised Yuchi Jingde the most was that he didn't know what Gao Chong knew , or indiscriminately.But soon Gao Chong gave the answer.

"It turns out that General Yuchi is pinning his hopes on Dugu Huai'en", Gao Chong shook his head and said with a smile: "I guess at this time, Dugu Huai'en should be decapitated."

Yuchi Jingde shook his body, Dugu Huai'en had already been exposed, and then Gao Chong said: "General Yuchi just mentioned the problem of our army's food and grass, let me ask you, now Puzhou Wang Xingben has been defeated, and Lu Chongmao of Xia County can be destroyed with a snap of his fingers. In the past few days, Luzhou and Haozhou have already won.

Do you know Huang Ziying? Just yesterday, Zhang Dezheng, the chief of the army, defeated Zhang Nanbao and killed Huang Ziying. What does this mean?I believe General Yuchi knows better than me."

"You mean what you say?" Yuchi Jingde was greatly shocked.

Huang Ziying was the grain transport officer of Song King Song Jingang, and Zhang Nanbao was the place where Song Wang stored grain. The grain and grass allocated by Liu Wuzhou came from the east bank of Fen River, and Zhang Nanbao was the first stop.

"At this moment, is it necessary for me to make up a lie?" Gao Chong shrugged his shoulders and smiled, "The matter has come to this, will General Yuchi still work for Liu Wuzhou?"

Gao Chong's sincerity could be heard, but there was a trace of firmness in his words, Yuchi Jingde asked in doubt: "If a certain person doesn't surrender, what should you do?"

Gao Chong slowly restrained his smile when he heard the words, "The general is superb in martial arts and understands military strategy. If he doesn't surrender, there is absolutely no possibility of letting the tiger go back to the mountain."

At this time, Gao Chong's heart has sunk to the bottom. He changed history and set up an ambush to capture Yuchi Jingde alive in advance. Once Yuchi Jingde insisted on not surrendering, there was nothing he could do.

Seeing this, Yuchi Jingde sighed, "Twice in the ambush, a certain family was convinced", and then he threw down the horse, turned over and dismounted, "Yuchi Rong is willing to surrender".

Gao Chong was startled when he heard that, then got off his horse and helped him up, "The general is a wise move to abandon the dark and turn to the bright. After 20 years, the general will be an extremely personable minister and his name will move the world. He should not regret what he did today."

Being so close and feeling the sincerity in Gao Chong's words, Yuchi Jingde was even more moved, and said bluntly: "It's lucky for Gou to survive the defeated general."

Yuchi Jingde has always been known in the world, but his real name was Yuchi Rong, Gao Chong was very puzzled, where did the name Yuchi Gong come from, Gao Chong's doubts were soon answered.

Gao Chong immediately returned to Xia County with Yuchi Jingde, and the city head was replaced with a Tang character banner. Then Gao Chong sent two groups of messengers to Baibi and Changchun Palace to report the victory, and asked Li Shimin to issue a military order, and asked Li Yuan to send officials to take over Xia County.

Three days later, the imperial decree from the Changchun Palace resolved Gao Chong's doubts. Li Yuan felt that Yuchi respected virtue and understood current affairs and returned to surrender. Thinking of his fortitude and obedient nature, he named Yuchi Gong and named him the commander of Youyifu.

After Li Shimin sent people to take over Xia County, Gao Chong led Yu Chigong and Qin Qiong back to Baibi Camp. At this time, Li Shimin was in high spirits.

Li Shimin led the main force to garrison Baibi, facing Huizhou far away, restraining Song Jingang's main force.

However, Gao Chong led Qin Qiong to conquer Puzhou and Xia County in Yuzhou, Wang Xingmin and Li Zhongwen repelled Liu Wuzhou's divisions in Luzhou and Haozhou respectively, Zhang Dezheng killed Huang Ziying, captured Zhang Nanbao, and cut off the attack on the Fenshui side of Song Jingang in Huizhou. The food road, the offensive and defensive momentum changed instantly.

(End of this chapter)