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Chapter 198 Trap
Huairong County.Inside the county government office in the city, Sanskrit sounds trembled, and more than a dozen monks faced the wall, chanting continuously.

"Your Majesty, the Champion, the Champion is not willing to negotiate peace. He said that the couch will not allow others to sleep soundly. He wants us to surrender today, or we will meet each other with swords."

The sound of chanting stopped, and a monk stood up from the middle, clasped his hands together and said: "Amitabha! It is a sin to kill people recklessly."

A monk turned around and said: "I was a monk. I couldn't bear to see the people suffer from subordinate officials, so I killed officials and rebelled. This Li Chongjiu, a general of the Sui Dynasty, colluded with the Hu people and led the foreign army into the bandits. I will defend this holy land of Jialan together with the people of the Buddhist kingdom, pass on my decree, and form an array outside the city to fight against the bandits."

"Khan, the enemy army is out of the city, and they are ready to fight!"

Li Chongjiu heard the report from Ertuo and saw that the east and west gates of the opponent were indeed wide open, and soldiers rushed out of the gates one by one to set up a formation.Under the city wall, the armor is like silver, and the streamer is flickering, reflecting the sunlight shining brightly.It turned out to be a torrent of iron armor.

Seeing this scene, Li Chongjiu's subordinates were all dumbfounded. "There are more than two-thirds of the opponent's armored soldiers! Rare, rare!"

"Of course, Gao Tansheng's men and horses are mostly officers and soldiers from the original Huairong County. After the county magistrate, General Ying Yanglang was killed, they all demoted Gao Tansheng. Therefore, all the people who fought were the original Tai Sui soldiers. Regular frontier troops."

"I'm afraid the frontier army of the Great Sui Dynasty didn't have so many iron armors!" Yinghofer showed a bit of envy, his eyes were glued to the iron armor, as if he saw some stunning beauty.

"Not only the enemy's iron armor, but also the ballista on the top of the city!" After seeing the power of the ballista in Yuyi Town, Er Tuo was very worried about this sharp weapon.

All of a sudden, the Dharma snails sounded on the opposite side, and 33 monks and soldiers in cassocks held iron pestles at the central gate, and surrounded a Dharma driver, but a monk in his 30s was wearing a red robe on top of the Dharma driver. There is no doubt that there is no doubt about the saint.As soon as this person came out, the surrounding soldiers all called Amitabha Buddha, and there were twenty or eight young girls beside Fajia, dressed in fresh clothes and scattered fragrant flowers all over the sky.

At this moment, Gao Tan Shengxiong was sitting on the driver's seat arrogantly, pointed at the other party with his whisk in his hand, and said: "How about it, do you see that our army's formation is frightening?"

This scene couldn't help but make the barbarian army leaders present and the building owners laugh out loud. Inhofer said directly: "I've never heard of such a fight."

"Khan, how about this Gao Tan Sheng?" Er Tuo spoke and asked.

"A monk has never led soldiers." Li Chongjiu said bluntly.

"That's good, the iron armor and ballista are all ours." Erowtuo clapped his palms and laughed.And Yinghe Fu has secretly ordered to go on, not to behead in the battle for a while, and to take the credit for grabbing the iron armor.

"Khan, alert!"

Li Chongjiu took the letter and read it again, suddenly his face changed, he raised his head and glanced at the city, and said decisively: "Retreat immediately!"

Etuo, Yinghefu was looking like he was about to grab the iron armor. Seeing Li Chongjiu ordered the troops to retreat, they all complained: "Khan, why don't you fight? Aren't you preventing us from getting rich? Let us grab the iron armor first." .”

"Don't talk too much, retreat!" Li Chongjiu repeated, and the two had no choice but to accept the order.

Watching Li Chongjiu and his cavalry retreat into the deep mountains in the north, when there was no one left, cheers erupted from the city, and Gao Tansheng frightened the enemy away without firing an arrow. The city received cheers from all directions.Countless believers worshiped him for a while. "I really obey the destiny, and the enemy will be wiped out in the air between talking and laughing." Gao Tansheng's monk clothes are bathed in the evening wind, hunting and moving, with a feeling of being out of the dust. The scene of countless believers is all worship from the heart .

Just less than [-] miles away from Huairong County, in a canyon, countless armored soldiers are dormant, and powerful horses can be found everywhere, and on the two flags of the Chinese army lying on the ground, there is a Sui character written on each of them. And a word Xue.As we all know, this is the banner of Xue Shixiong, the general of Zuo Yuwei.

The [-] Sui army in this valley belongs to the left guard army.At this moment, Xue Shixiong, the general of Zuo Yuwei, was staring into the distance, and his four sons Xue Wanshu, Xue Wanshu, Xue Wanjun, and Xue Wanche were lined up in iron armor. Brave general.The bright red cloak was shaking slowly, and the veteran Xue Shixiong was stroking his beard slowly. After surviving from a near death in Liaodong, he has become more cautious in everything.
During the one-month rebellion in Huairong County, he deliberately did not send troops to quell the rebellion, and watched with cold eyes from the sidelines. When Li Chongjiu and Gao Kaidao led the army to come at the same time, he secretly gathered [-] elite soldiers from Ji County to ambush near the canyon.Its purpose is to take advantage of several waves of people to fight each other, and when they compete for Huairong County, he will come with a praying mantis to catch cicadas and orioles.

"Li Chongjiu actually retreated. Could it be that he noticed our army's whereabouts? It really fell short." Xue Shixiong said in a deep voice.

Xue Wanche said, "Father commander, since Li Chongjiu has retreated, should we attack the city and eliminate the rebellion?"

Xue Shixiong wiped his chin, waved his hands and said, "Don't worry, even though Li Chongjiu is gone, isn't there another traitor, Gao Kaidao? This person has ulterior motives, and he will definitely fight with Gao Tansheng. We will kill them directly." Just tidy it up in one place, lest the old man run around everywhere to put down the rebellion."

Hearing what Xue Shixiong said, all the generals smiled. The eldest son Xue Wan said: "Yes, Ji County is an important place in Liaodong. If the Holy Majesty hadn't ordered us not to leave it lightly, we would have already dealt with those rebels together with General Yang. .Where is it now, we can only send troops to crusade after Gao Tansheng's rebellion and let Gao Kaidao fall into the trap, so it is not counted as leaving the country."

Another son, Xue Wanjun, said: "Father, this troubled time is the time when our warriors are taking military achievements. We have [-] soldiers, but we can only sit and watch the anti-people riots around us, but sit in one place. My son envies Guo Guo. Tong Shou, he must have wiped out Dou Jiande and took his head by now."

Xue Shixiong shook his head and said: "If we want to fight, there will be a chance soon. According to my information, Li Mi won 20 troops after he won Liyang Cang. Now since he didn't go south to attack the Eastern Capital, he didn't enter the East River and cross the river to take Xijing. They came all the way north to Youyan, intending to annex the whole of Hebei. Right now Yang Yichen is too busy to take care of himself, and I think we will soon send our Left Guards to go south to quell the chaos."

After Xue Shixiong said this, a trace of worry appeared on his face.After all, compared with the situation in Hebei and the whole world, the situation in Zhuo County is too small.Now Yuyang has Gao Kaidao, Liucheng has Luo Yi, Shanggu, Yuyi has Li Chongjiu, Yanmen has Song Jingang, Hengjun has Wang Xuba, Zhuojun is surrounded by enemies, but he can only sit in Zhuojun, otherwise If his army moves, Ji County will be empty, and the countless hoards of money, food, and military battles for the conquest of Liaodong will be cheaper for the rebels.

After retreating from Huairong County, Li Chongjiu was now covered in cold sweat. If he hadn't sent scouts to report back earlier, he almost fell into Xue Shixiong's trap just now.

Huairong County is nothing, and three thousand bandits are nothing, even if they are wearing iron armor and have strong crossbows, but Xue Shixiong's [-] elite soldiers are deadly.These officers and soldiers are all the elite of the Sui Dynasty who conquered Liaodong three times, and they are stationed in Zhuojun.If Li Chongjiu suddenly attacked Huairong County just now, when the fierce battle was in full swing, Xue Shixiong commanded [-] people to attack from the flank suddenly, then no matter whether it was Li Chongjiu or Gao Tansheng, Xue Shixiong would only clean it up together and take advantage of the fisherman .In Huairong County, a small town, I thought it would be a short-term escape, but I didn't expect that it was a trap set by the other party long ago. This can be said to have escaped from danger.

As for Ertuo and Yinghefu, they were all in a cold sweat when they heard what Li Chongjiu said afterwards. They had all heard of Xue Shixiong's reputation. heard his name.Now that they heard that Xue Shixiong was on the sidelines trying to ambush them, they all secretly expressed their gratitude.But thanks to the fact that Li Chongjiu's subordinates are all cavalry, once the scouting cavalry is sent out, the enemy's situation within thirty miles will be clear. .

Now that Xue Shixiong is a fierce tiger sitting in the town, Huairong County doesn't want to fight at all. Everyone is bowing their heads. They thought that with ten thousand cavalry on the whistling grassland, they would be invincible in the Central Plains, but now that they meet Xue Shixiong, they still want to save their lives. is.

"We can't go to Huai Rong, so let's take a detour to Shanggu." Li Chongjiu said loudly.

"But this way of retreat has been cut off." Erniang Sun said.

"No, the big deal is that we still have Yanmen to go back to Huaihuang Town, but it's just a little bit of a detour." Li Chongjiu said so, since the army went out, there is no reason to return empty-handed.The appearance of Xue Shixiong did not make him think of Huairong County, so he would lead the [-] cavalry to destroy Song Jingang in Shanggu, and annex the entire county of Shanggu.

Hearing that there was a war to be fought, Yinghefu and the others regained their strength.

That night, because he learned of Xue Shixiong's [-] army, Li Chongjiu led [-] cavalry to drive in the dark, taking a remote path from Huairong County.Along the way, the cavalry traveled lightly, and all unnecessary luggage was lost. Everyone kept their heads buried on the road, fearing that Xue Shixiong's army would suddenly appear and kill them.

Even Li Chongjiu, Er Tuo, and Ying Hefu, the chief generals of their line, were also worried. All the way, there was a sense of wind and cranes, and the grass and trees were all soldiers. The whole army only knew how to run like hell.This kind of embarrassment is also the first time Li Chongjiu has encountered it since he started his army.

Ten thousand cavalry ran desperately for a day and a night before they arrived at the boundary of Feihu County in Shanggu.It wasn't until the three armies saw the head of Feihu County that everyone breathed a sigh of relief from Xue Shixiong's tremendous pressure, and congratulated each other for saving their lives.

(End of this chapter)