Regarding the Tang Army's comprehensive westward withdrawal, Yang Yuanqing always led 20,000 cavalry to follow and monitor. The 20,000 Sui Army cavalry were like a pack of wolves following their prey, waiting for the opportunity to strike. However, the 80,000 Tang Army also realized that the Sui Army was following them.
, they adopted a group march, deploying heavy troops front and rear, with baggage in the middle, and slowly withdrew their troops to the northwest without giving the Sui army any chance.
At noon that day, in a pine forest in the south of Hongnong County, 20,000 Sui army cavalry gathered in the forest to rest. Yang Yuanqing sat on a big rock and listened to Luo Shixin's report. Luo Shixin and Cheng Yaojin led more than a thousand people from
Yingchuan County rushed to Hongnong County.
Although they participated in the encirclement and suppression of the Tang army in Xiangyang under Li Jing, they initially received the order to attack Hulao Pass alone. In terms of the Sui army's institutional process, he had to come back to hand over the order.
They handed over the order to Hulao Pass, but Yang Yuanqing was more interested in the battle between Luo Shixin and Li Xuanba. He also knew the ranking of the top ten warriors in the world. He had been interested in this ranking since he was a child, although it was not the top 18 in the world.
A good man, but the ten mighty generals are not much different. However, Yuwen Chengdu and Xue Ju are dead, so now there are actually only eight mighty generals.
"I heard that Li Xuanba is extremely powerful. A pair of sledgehammers is as brave as any man's. He has never had a general with three hammers under his command. Is he really that powerful?"
Luo Shixin rushed here overnight to report to Yang Yuanqing the gains and losses of Hulao Pass and some details of the battle of Yingchuan County. Unexpectedly, Yang Yuanqing did not seem interested in these, but was instead interested in his battle with Li Xuanba.
Luo Shi smiled bitterly with confidence and said: "Reporting to the manager, Li Xuanba is indeed very powerful. Although he was defeated last time because his horse failed, but in a real fight, I thought I could not beat him in five rounds.
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"Then if I fight him, how many rounds do you think I can beat him?" Yang Yuanqing asked with a smile.
Luo Shixin sighed. "The general manager is in charge of the soldiers of the Sui Dynasty and dominates the world. How can he be compared to a reckless man like Li Xuanba? If the general manager compares himself with him, isn't he humiliating himself?"
Yang Yuanqing chuckled, "It's okay. Let's talk casually, just as a joke."
Next to him, Cheng Yaojin grinned and said: "Then how can Lei Gong'er be the manager's opponent? The manager's Sky-breaking Technique can end his life within three moves. How can the ranking of the Tang people count?"
"Not really!"
Luo Shixin was a serious person. He pondered for a moment and said: "Li Xuanba is not only powerful with the hammer, but also has amazing tricks and finesse in the details. I shook out seven spear heads, and he was able to accurately determine the real spear head."
He is by no means a brave man. If the steward fights him, I estimate that I can support him for ten rounds. But if the steward uses arrows, it’s hard to say."
Next to him, Yang Wei bit his lip and asked: "General Luo, I heard that you got a sledgehammer from Li Xuanba. Are you still there?"
Yang Wei is also a hammer wielder. He has longed for Li Xuanba's martial arts, but he is somewhat unconvinced. Luo Shixin nodded, turned around and ordered a soldier, "Bring that hammer!"
After a moment, two soldiers came over carrying a big thunder hammer and placed it in front of everyone. Yang Wei stepped forward and looked at the hammer carefully. He suddenly took a breath of air. It was two times bigger than his hammer.
There are more circles, and his pair of hammers add up to only eighty kilograms, but this hammer weighs one hundred and twenty kilograms.
Yang Wei struggled with his arms and slowly raised the hammer. Although he could lift the sledgehammer, it was absolutely impossible for him to swing the sledgehammer. He had to shake his head and put the sledgehammer down, sighing, "It's worthy of the hammer."
He is the most powerful general in the world, but I am far behind."
Yang Yuanqing knew that Yang Wei was strong because he was tall and fat. Strength was born, not acquired. Yang Wei had no breakthrough in martial arts at all. If he had a breakthrough, his use of strength would be different. Yang Yuanqing was also quite fond of this skill.
Interested, he stepped forward, held the handle of the hammer with his right hand, shook it slightly, and felt confident. After a slight struggle with one arm, he lifted the sledgehammer easily, and performed two hammering moves with one arm.
He suddenly hit a small tree next to him, and there was a "click!" sound, and the small tree was broken into two pieces.
"Good hammering skills!"
Cheng Yaojin applauded loudly from the side, and Yang Wei's eyes widened. Only then did he realize that his martial arts skills were not even remotely different from those of Yang Yuanqing. Even Luo Shixin was surprised. He had tried this Big Sleep weapon more than once.
He could also lift it, but he thought he couldn't do it if Yang Yuanqing was asked to lift it with such ease and ease. Could it be that his martial arts were so different from his senior brother's?
Yang Yuanqing placed the sledgehammer in front of Luo Shixin. Seeing his surprised look, he smiled and said, "Why, didn't you expect that?"
Luo Shixin shook his head, "It's unbelievable. I can't do it at all."
Yang Yuanqing laughed, "That's why Master said that your understanding of power is not as good as mine. In fact, it's just as difficult for me to swing this sledgehammer, but I follow the strength of the hammer itself to swing it, but I don't let it.
Out of control, my strength is not to swing this sledgehammer, but to control its trend and let it hit according to my command. The key is to grasp this 'degree', so that I can move a thousand pounds.
Do you understand?"
Luo Shixin and Yang Yuanqing's martial arts came from the same lineage. With Yang Yuanqing's guidance, he finally realized it and suddenly felt a sense of enlightenment. He already knew how to use power.
Seeing his surprised expression, Yang Yuanqing knew that he had understood it, but it was just an understanding. If you want to completely control the power, you still need to put in a lot of hard work and practice.
Yang Yuanqing patted him on the shoulder and said: "Actually, you are not weaker than Li Xuanba. He just maximized a person's potential. As long as you can master the power of this hammer, you can defeat him on the battlefield."
At that time, the most powerful general in the world was you, Luo Shixin, not Li Xuanba."
Luo Shi's confidence surged and he slowly shook his head, "If I can defeat him, I will only be second in the world."
Yang Yuanqing smiled slightly, "Okay, let's not talk about this. Let's talk about how to deal with Li Yuanji."...
Li Yuanji's 30,000 new troops were stationed to the west of Shaanxi County. When they were first dispatched, they were commanded by Li Jiancheng's confidant general Chang He, the chief general of Linjin Pass. However, at the military conference that decided to withdraw the troops, Li Jiancheng took on the responsibility for his father Li Yuan.
Responsibility for strategic decision-making errors.
In return, Li Yuan agreed to Li Jiancheng's second request and appointed Li Yuanji as the commander-in-chief of the reinforcements on the west route. He led 30,000 new troops to send troops to Shaanxi County to contain the Sui army from the north route.
Although Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin were at odds, strategically, he still carried out the order of his father Li Yuan and ordered General Chang He to advance the garrison area a hundred miles eastward from Enxiang County to the Hangu Pass area of Shaanxi County.
In this way, Li Shimin's 80,000 troops were in the west and Chang He's 30,000 troops were in the north, forming a strategic horn and posing a direct threat to the Sui army. Yang Yuanqing was suppressed in Yiyang County and unable to launch an offensive against the Tang army.
However, with the arrival of Qi King Li Yuanji, the Tang army stationed in Shaanxi County also began to slowly withdraw westward. Li Yuanji did not reach a tacit understanding with Li Shimin, and they each carried out the imperial court's order to withdraw troops.
Li Yuanji even had no intention of cooperating with Li Shimin in fighting the Sui army. He firmly opposed sending troops to support Li Shimin, and only agreed to lend him the new army under pressure from his brother.
If Li Jiancheng was hypocritically polite when meeting Li Shimin out of a sense of face and status, then Li Yuanji treated Li Shimin coldly and coldly.
Li Yuanji has been a withdrawn person since he was a child, with a cruel personality. He likes to do things on his own and does not listen to others' advice. However, since experiencing the Tongguan incident, Li Yuanji has also kept a low profile and learned to be silent and tolerant.
But this does not mean that he has become rational and mature since then. On the contrary, his heart has become colder and crueler.
As he showed it, he became more vicious and cruel.
He is as low-key and silent as a snake, rarely speaking. No one knows what he is thinking, and even his most trusted soldiers cannot figure out his thoughts. He spends every day in fear, and every night when he goes to bed, he feels happy and happy again.
Lived for a day.
Li Yuanji's army also carried a large amount of baggage and marched slowly. When it got dark, the team arrived at Chousang Town.
Li Yuanji immediately ordered the army to be stationed on the spot. His soldiers understood in their hearts that King Qi had his own deep meaning in stationing the camp in the town. Without any instructions, more than twenty soldiers immediately left the camp and went to the town to find mature people.
Beautiful woman.
Li Yuanji's mother, Queen Dou, didn't like him very much since he was a child, and left him to be raised by wet nurses. It was this innate psychological defect that made him especially fond of mature young women. This was a kind of maternal love in his heart.
eager.
Perhaps due to the excessive secretion of hormones in his body, Li Yuanji was very lustful for women. He had his first woman at the age of twelve, and then he got out of control, always like a beast in heat.
His lustful behavior made his father Li Yuan a little displeased with him. Although Li Yuan was also extremely lustful, he hoped that his sons could behave themselves well.
Under the persuasion of his elder brother Li Jiancheng, Li Yuanji was relatively tolerant in Chang'an and tried not to expose his bad deeds. However, as he left Chang'an, especially during the war, his deep desire for women was revealed unabashedly.
Chousang Town is a big town with about 300 households. There are also several big families in the town. One of the families named Wu is a famous family in Chousang Town. The head of the family, Wu Zhenqing, was once the Minister of Rites in the Northern Zhou Dynasty. His family is extremely wealthy and has several mansions.
Ten acres, living with five sons.
During this period, there were frequent military exchanges west of Luoyang, and Wu Zhenqing was used to it. He didn't care about the military exchanges and still lived his life peacefully.
But Lin wanted to be calm but the wind did not stop. At night, a great shame and humiliation befell the Wu family. Dozens of soldiers of Qi King Li Yuanji rushed into the Wu house.