The target of Li Mi's bandit army was also fighting fiercely. When the envoy of the Dongdu was carrying Yang Tong's edict and horses arrived at Lin Customs Clearance, Pei Renji, who was eager to repay Li Mi's kindness, had already taken over the Lin Customs Clearance. The envoy of the Dongdu and the reinforcements led by Hanoi Prefect Meng Shanyi were one step late. Meng Shanyi had to lead the army to retreat to Xinxiang. Gongxian County to the north surrendered Pei Renji. Li Mi's bandit army successfully opened the door to the hinterland of Hanoi.

Then, Pei Renji was at the city of Xinxiang. The envoy of the Eastern Capital gritted the bullet and read Yang Tong's edict against Pei Renji in public on the city wall. Meng Shanyi also thought of being a living horse and sent someone to spread the rumors that Pei Renji was preparing to surrender and was preparing to let Li Mi die deliberately, but it turned out to be counterproductive. After learning the content of the rumors spread by the Sui army, Pei Renji, who was furious, immediately launched an attack on the city and almost broke the Xinxiang city in one battle. Fortunately, the Huang Taoshu army of the Eastern Capital reinforcements arrived in time and quickly entered the city to help Meng Shanyi defend the city. Only then could barely withstand Pei Renji's attack.

Knowing that Pei Renji's powerful yellow peach tree only dares to defend the city but not fight. Pei Renji, who is familiar with the internal situation of the Sui army, never took yellow peach tree seriously. However, just when Pei Renji organized his army to build siege weapons, Li Mi's special envoy Zu Junyan rushed to the Xinxiang battlefield and represented Li Mi to order Pei Renji to retreat to Linqing Pass. Pei Renji was angry when he heard the news and asked in person: "Don't Wei Gong believe me either? Does Wei Gong believe in those shameless rumors and think that I will deliberately let his soldiers die in vain? Give me another three days, and I can't defeat Xinxiang City within three days, so I will commit suicide to apologize to Wei Gong."

"Don't worry, General Pei, Mr. Wei believes in you, and knows that those shameless rumors are just the thief Chen Yingliang's plan to distract themselves." Zu Junyan explained: "Mr. Wei ordered you to retreat, not because he did not trust you, but for the overall strategic consideration. Li Yuan's army went south step by step, and Chen Yingliang's main force of the Eastern Capital was ready to send troops at any time. If you continue to attack fiercely at this time, it will only attract more enemies for us. But if we pretend to be trapped when we see it, we will withdraw and return to the Lin Customs clearance to defend. Chen Yingliang will definitely personally recommend the main force to fight Li Yuan. After the Eastern Capital is empty, we will send troops to attack the hinterland of Hanoi. Wouldn't it be much easier?"

"General Deben, the customs clearance is already in our hands, which is equivalent to opening the door to the hinterland of Hanoi. As long as Mr. Wei is willing, our main force can go west to capture the entire Hanoi territory at any time. However, the time is not ripe. We will give in temporarily and get a more favorable strategic situation in the future. Take a step back and broaden the sky. This is what we mean."

Thinking that Zu Junyan's words were reasonable, Pei Renji was no longer upset and immediately led his army to retreat to Linqing Pass. Before leaving, he deliberately burned down a large number of siege weapons that were about to be caused. Huang Taoshu, Meng Shanyi and others also said that the plan of disagreement was successful. After cheering for the enemy's retreat, they immediately sent a quick horse to report the good news to Chen Sangliang. Chen Sangliang, who was in the Eastern Capital City, was not only not happy when he heard the news, but instead smiled bitterly and cursed: "Li Mi traitor, he has a good plan." But no matter how he cursed, Chen Sangliang, who did not dare to move lightly, was still helpless. He could only watch Li Mi thieves occupy Linqing Pass, looking down at the hinterland of Hanoi, pretending to be an ostrich and ignored it.

Li Mi is still quite reserved. He knows how to restrain and choose the opportunity. Chen Sangliang doesn't have to worry for the time being, but the side of the jail is not allowed. Li Yuan's rebel army, who is shouldering heavy responsibilities, will never show any mercy. Even if he risks the entire army's annihilation, he will definitely attack fiercely. In addition, Chen Sangliang vaguely remembers that Duan Zhixuan is also one of the famous generals of the Lingyan Pavilion, so Chen Sangliang did not dare to have too much hope for his little cousin, and only hopes that he can defend the jail and prevent the rebels from entering Hanoi to Amitabha. However, Chen Sangliang seriously underestimated his little cousin, underestimated his ability, and even underestimated his confidence and ambition...

On the evening of August 27, although the night sky was clear and the stars were still dense, the waning moon was like a line, and the light was severely insufficient. It was the best time to kill the house and knock on the slaughter. Taking advantage of such a good weather, Li Yuan's rebels, who had already believed that Dugu Wu was about to surrender, sent troops in the second update. Duan Zhixuan personally led his deputy Tang Jian as the vanguard and touched the west gate of the Zhuguan overnight. Zhang Daoyuan stayed in the camp temporarily and organized the rear army to advance eastward at the third update.

Of course, we cannot expect the cannon fodder that is still holding a wooden fork in our hands. Therefore, although Duan Zhixuan and Tang Jian brought only 3,000 troops this time, they are the core army of the rebel division, and the number is half of the main combat soldiers of the rebel division. However, it is convenient to take elite troops. Not only are there few soldiers left behind at night, but the speed can also be guaranteed. Just half the third update, Tang Jian and Duan Zhixuan arrived at the suburbs of Zhengguan one after another, lurking outside the narrow and long intersection of Guan Road, waiting patiently for Dugu Wu to send a signal.

The moon was dark, frogs roared, the night wind was howling, mosquitoes were rampant, fleas and bedbugs crawled everywhere, waiting patiently for nearly half an hour in such a harsh environment. After the three thousand rebel soldiers had basically left cute kiss marks of mosquitoes, thick smoke and fire finally rose in the direction of the Guanguan, and shouting could be heard vaguely. Seeing that Dugu Wu was trustworthy and sent a signal, Duan Zhixuan and Tang Jian were both very happy. At that time, Tang Jian immediately led a thousand vanguards to rush into Guandao quickly, and Duan Zhixuan led two thousand troops outside the Guandao as agreed in advance, making preparations for the reception.

The noise in the city of Zhuguan was getting louder and louder, and there was a vague sound of swords and collisions. The forward led by Tang Jian also became more and more confident. When he rushed to the bottom of the city, he was extremely surprised to see that the city was already full of fire and shouting everywhere. Many Sui soldiers were fighting on the city of Guancheng. One of them was still shouting: "Come up quickly, our people were stopped from opening and closing the door, come and help."

"On the ladder", Tang Jian yelled without hesitation, and then said, "Send a signal and ask the army to come in quickly."

"Woo————”

The horn of contact that had been agreed in advance rang out, telling Duan Zhixuan outside the road that the gate was in chaos. When Duan Zhixuan heard the horn, he was eager to break through the gate and reverse the passive situation, and immediately shouted and ordered the army to rush into the narrow gate. At the same time, the rebel soldiers under Tang Jian quickly formed a ladder and forced the wall to climb the gate with their weapons. The Sui soldiers fighting with traitors on the wall were screaming in surprise, but they still stubbornly blocked the rebel soldiers who were climbing up, and cut down many rebel soldiers with both hands close to the rammed earth. The rebel soldiers with high morale persevered and continued to climb upwards one after another.

When Duan Zhixuan rushed to the bottom of the gate and crowded with Tang Jian's front army, the rebel soldiers finally found that something was wrong. The top of the gate wall sounded like a constant shout and killing, and swords and guns collided continuously, but none of the rebel soldiers who forced to climb up the gate wall were able to rush up the gate wall. They were all cut off their heads as soon as they touched the arrow pile, pierced through the face, screamed and fell down the gate wall. At the same time, the closing door was still motionless, without any sign of opening.

The sudden thunderous explosion sounded like a thunderous explosion, which told Tang Jian and Duan Zhixuan that all this was a despicable trap. As a gunpowder bottle fell into the rebels' crowd, the mountains on both sides of the Guandao were shouting and killing everywhere. Countless rolling stones fell from the woods rumbling down, hitting the heads of the rebels crowd crowded in the Guandao. The dying screams suddenly rang out in groups among the rebels. What followed was of course Duan Zhixuan and Tang Jian's screams like killing pigs, "If you fall into a trap, you should evacuate quickly and evacuate quickly and evacuate quickly."

Retreat? It is so easy to withdraw. While the rolling stones fell, the narrowest eight-meter-degree position of the passway, large bundles of firewood were rolled down, and countless lit torches were also lit. The firewood with sulfur poured over tung oil was burned when it encountered fire. It was almost ignited in the narrow passway. At the same time, arrows were scattered on the passway. The gray bottles of sheep-headed stones fell like hail. The rebels were attacked by the enemy, and they could only sacrifice their lives to escape to their future paths, and suddenly burst into flames. They pushed and trampled on each other on the narrow passway, and countless dead people were killed.

Tang Jian's army, who had rushed the fastest before "retreat" and of course fell to the end. Seeing his soldiers crowded on the road, Tang Jian was of course so anxious that he sweated in his forehead. He waved his knife and just urged the soldiers to escape quickly. However, at this moment, a big sin stone that was as big as a millstone suddenly fell from the sky, and it hit Tang Jian's sweaty head, which directly smashed Tang Jian's head into his neck, and then the man and horse were smashed into meat sauce, and he could not die again. He became the first general to die in battle since the Li Yuan rebels rose up.

Miserable crying sounds rose and fell in the Guandao. Duan Zhixuan's heart was like a knife, but he was helpless. He could only lead the defeated generals to move forward desperately, rushing through the Sui army fire, and even his clothes and eyebrows were burned. However, he rushed through the sea of ​​fire with black smoke. As soon as he left the valley entrance, another Sui army shouted and rushed to the northeast of Guyuan City. Duan Zhixuan did not dare to fight and led the defeated army to seize the road. At the third update of the day, the rear army sent by Zhang Daoyuan could explore the front army and rushed to respond.

Pei Xingfang made an arrangement too cautiously and missed a great opportunity. Considering that the elite soldiers of his army were too small and insufficient capital, the gates must not be lost. Therefore, Pei Xingfang arranged all one thousand elite soldiers in the gates and arranged only one thousand new soldiers to ambush out of the gates, so that they could kill them to intercept them after seeing the fire signal. As a result, Pei Xingfang was extremely regretful. Due to lack of combat effectiveness and experience, although the Sui army recruits had achieved some gains, they failed to block all the defeated rebels in the narrow gates - this is no wonder anyone. In order not to let the rebels notice the existence of the Sui army ambush, the Sui army ambush could only be ambushed in a relatively remote location, and it was difficult to block the exit of the gates in time and completely.

Although the troops were quickly sent to pursue the army, they were still one step too late, allowing Duan Zhixuan's defeated soldiers to join the army first. The new Sui army recruits who were pursuing the first were unable to defeat the large number of defeated rebels. They could only stop pursuing the pursuit quickly to avoid defeat. In the end, the Sui army only captured a portion of injured and fell to the ground in the final battle, and cut some rebel soldiers who were fighting stubbornly into meat fillings, which failed to further expand the results of the battle. Duan Zhixuan took the army back to Qiziling camp in a mess, and scolded the Sui army for being despicable.

The final result made Pei Xingfang very regretful. The three thousand elite rebels who were sneak attacking the pass. The Sui army beheaded and captured a total of only 1,600 prisoners were just over 1,600. They failed to achieve the purpose of completely annihilated the enemy. Duan Zhixuan, who personally led the army to attack, also successfully escaped and killed a Tang Jian. This result made Pei Xingfang regretted and regretted it. He couldn't help but shout: "It's a pity that I still lack experience. If I am more courageous, I will let the service army ambush outside the pass. Why should I be afraid of being seen through by the enemy and not dare to ambush the elite soldiers outside the pass?"

Pei Xingfang was a good man in the city of Zhuguan, but his opponent Duan Zhixuan screamed in the rebel camp. Hearing that Tang Jian died in battle, Duan Zhixuan even burst into tears, crying and wanted to commit suicide to apologize to Li Yuan. Zhang Daoyuan next to him quickly grabbed Duan Zhixuan and persuaded him, saying, "Military head, General Tang died for the general, that is his glory. As the commander of the entire army, you encounter a small blow by chance, how can you sacrifice your life to apologize? The most important thing at the moment is how to break through Zhuguan and avenge General Tang."

Even the historical books evaluated Duan Zhixuan as a rogue character and was stupid and actually committed suicide and apologized. After pretending to behave, he naturally gave up. When he discussed with Zhang Daoyuan how to avenge Tang Jian, he found that the current methods of his own army were pitifully few. There were basically three choices: one was to attack the front and take down the Zang Pass, the second was to attack the Zang Pass, and the third was to lure the Sui army out of the decisive battle outside the pass.

The first and second choice was quickly rejected. Now the reinforcements of the Dongdu have entered the Zang Pass, and it is almost impossible to break the Zang Pass head-on. The difficulty is not ordinary. The terrain of the Zang Pass is V-shaped, with the V-shaped tip facing the west (interested friends can adjust satellite photos to watch). The nearby highlands have long been arranged by the Sui army to guard the posts. The rebels want to attack from the north or south in the distance. Not only are the roads far away, but they have to cross large undeveloped mountainous areas. Even the elite soldiers will be almost exhausted after walking such a road. If they leak a little, they will definitely be the end of annihilation of the entire army.

There was only the third choice left. However, how to lure the Sui army out of the decisive battle made Duan Zhixuan and Zhang Daoyuan difficult, because they had discovered that the enemies they faced this time were not only very thick-skinned, but also extremely cunning. It was naturally difficult to get such an enemy to fall into a trap. So after discussing, Duan Zhixuan and Zhang Daoyuan were always big-eyed and small-eyed, and no one could come up with a reliable way to trick the enemy's main force out of the devil.

The luck of Li Yuan's rebels was indeed extraordinary. Just when Duan Zhixuan and Zhang Daoyuan were worried that they could not lure the enemy to fight, a big pie suddenly fell from the sky - Liu Changgong, the commander of the Sui army, actually sent an envoy to issue a letter of war and asked the Li Yuan's rebels to fight to the next day west of Zhiguan. Although Liu Changgong's tone was very arrogant and his words were very mean and vicious, Duan Zhixuan and Zhang Daoyuan were overjoyed after seeing the book and immediately agreed to the next day's decisive battle, and immediately began to arrange the next day's decisive battle.

The next morning, the rebels who were eager to fight came to the agreed battlefield early, and arranged troops to wait for the Sui army to leave the customs. However, from the morning of Si and the beginning of Wei, they waited in the wilderness for more than four hours under the sun, but they didn't even see the shadow of the Sui army. Duan Zhixuan and Zhang Daoyuan were confused. Yu Qian sent people outside the city of Zhuguan to check the situation and questioned Liu Changgong in person why he was breached? As a result, the answer given by the Sui army soldiers almost made Duan Zhixuan die-hard. The soldiers of the Sui army replied: "Our General Liu has newly gotten a beautiful lady named Li Yueru, who is sleeping with the women. I have no time today and want to fight to wait for tomorrow, the old place, it's still the second time."

Duan Zhixuan was almost angry at this answer, but his deputy Zhang Daoyuan was so angry that he was crazy about this answer on the spot. He was holding a knife and was about to go to find the Sui army. Duan Zhixuan quickly pulled him away and tried a lot to find out the reason. It turned out that Zhang Daoyuan's biological mother was just called Li Yueru. Duan Zhixuan was stunned and finally couldn't help but curse, "Damn, people in Taiyuan call me a scoundrel. Compared with Liu Changgong, a common man, I can definitely be regarded as a gentleman.

(Liu Changgong: I am also a gentleman, but I am not me who came up with this bad idea. It is not me who asked Zhang Daoyuan's name from the captive.)

The Sui army in the Eastern Capital, which was even more rogue, made a fierce move. The rebels, which had been sunbathed for more than four hours, could only return in disappointment. The generals were angry, the soldiers complained, and their morale fell down. But the matter was not over. Not long after the rebels retreated, some Sui cavalry came out of the pass and came out of the way, cursing and provoking behind their backs, and greeted Duan Zhixuan and Zhang Daoyuan's female relatives with names. When the rebels turned around in anger, the Sui cavalry immediately fled quickly. Before leaving, they kept roaring and provoking, and asked the rebels to come and fight again the next day.

When the Sui army light cavalry, who had successfully completed the mission, was running back to the gate of Zhuoguan, and was surrounded by rebels again. Unfortunately, these pursuers were still one step late and could not catch up. They watched the Sui army cavalry escape into the gate of the city, and were shot in chaos by a series of arrows. In the end, they could only curse and leave with hatred. Seeing the rebel soldiers with a blushing face and thick neck on the wall, Liu Changgong, Dugu Wudu and others laughed wildly, and then quickly asked Pei Xingfang: "Brother Xingfang, what should I do next? Will I be playing the thief army again tomorrow?"

"Duan Zhixuan will not be fooled again." Pei Xingfang shook his head and said in a deep voice: "But I can be sure that the thief army has been completely angered by us, and our opportunity to defeat the thief army has come."

"How to defeat the enemy?" Liu Changgong and others asked quickly.

"The Camp of Killing" Pei Xingfang replied firmly: "Today is twenty-nine, the moonlight must be dim. The main force of the thief army was deceived by us to the wilderness and exposed to the sun for more than two hours. The physical exhaustion was severe and the morale was low. This is a great opportunity for us to rob the camp of Killing the camp of the enemy."

"Brother Xingfang, although the camp is a good way to defeat the more with less, the bandit army may not be unprepared. I am afraid it will be difficult to succeed." Liu Heita reminded.

"I know the enemy will be prepared, so I plan to go in three steps." Pei Xingfang replied: "The first step is to send a fast-moving new recruit out of the pass and rob the camp, deliberately revealing traces to the enemy to discover it, and then pretending to be defeated. The enemy has been completely angered by us and is eager to fight, so he will definitely pursue it in full swing."

"Second step, Brother Liu, you will take our thousand elite troops out of the pass and ambush in the southeast direction in advance. After the enemy pursues and leaves the camp, you will lead the troops to kill the enemy's camp and burn the enemy's camp's food and grass."

"The third step." Pei Xingfang turned to Zhao Yu who was eager to try, and said with a smile: "Brother Zhao San, the thief army must be chasing us, and the elite troops must be the first. I will let the musket soldiers cover you first, use muskets to shake the enemy's courage, stop the enemy's charge momentum, and then it depends on you. At that time, you suddenly show off your white robe, catch the enemy off guard, and then we will fight back on the whole line and defeat the thief army."

Zhao Yu smiled, Liu Heita, Liu Changgong and others laughed, and they didn't say anything, but they all gave Pei Xingfang a thumbs up.

After careful preparation, it was the third update of the night. A team of Sui army recruits who were specially selected to run sneaked to Qiziling and pretended to sneak attack the rebel camp, but deliberately exposed traces to the enemy to find that the rebels, who were completely angry and eager to fight, went out to fight, but before they could get close, the Sui army turned around and fled. Duan Zhixuan and Zhang Daoyuan relied on their strong troops and knew that there was no ambush in front of them, so they activated 20,000 troops to launch a pursuit. Duan Zhixuan led the way again and led the elite troops to pursue them.

As soon as the fifth hour arrived, the main force of the rebels pursued the Sui army to the wilderness west of Zhuoguan. What made them ecstatic was that a large number of Sui soldiers were already standing outside the Guandaokou with torches. Duan Zhixuan, who was good at raids, was overjoyed and personally led his army to attack Liu Changgong's commander's flag. However, what made the bandits' army scattered was that the Sui infantry lined up in front of Liu Changgong's commander's flag suddenly used muskets that were only glimpsed in the Yanmen Battle. Duan Zhixuan led the cavalry off guard, and the war horses under his crotch raised their hooves and stopped when they saw the muskets, and chaos suddenly appeared.

The rebels were even more scattered, and the torches were shining. The white robe floated behind the Sui army's musket formation, and the famous white robe cavalry of the National Service Army suddenly appeared. The musket soldiers scattered left and right. The long-standing service army attacked the front army led by Duan Zhixuan with a tiger down the mountain. Duan Zhixuan, who had followed Li Erzhong across the Sui army in the Huoyi Battle, had a courage to face the enemy, but he still could not withstand the attack of the Iron Cavalry of the National Service Army who had been fighting for battle, and was killed and defeated and fled.

At the same time, Liu Heita, the general of the Sui army, who was ambushing the southwest, personally led the only 1,000 elite soldiers in Pei Xingfang's hand into the rebel camp. The rebels, who were already full of cannon fodder auxiliary soldiers, were defeated and fled one after another. Liu Heita's army killed people and set fires everywhere, igniting the rebel camp's grain and grass and vehicles.
Chapter completed!