The scout rushed to report that the gate of Puban City was wide open, and Pei Xingyan led two thousand troops to attack quietly.

Li Shimin was overjoyed when he heard the news and laughed a few times, "As soon as Pei Xingyan left the city, my plan was already seven points long."

Chai Shao and other generals were also very happy and sighed in their hearts that whenever they were at the critical moment, God seemed to be on their side. It was like this in Shenwu City, Yanmen, and Taiyuan, and now it is still like this when he was in Puban. This made Chai Shao and others even more believe in the prophecy that Li was about to rise, thinking that this was the destiny of heaven and that the king would not die.

"Are the soldiers ready?"

"Report to the general, the troops are ready according to the sect."

"The Xuanjia Army's heavy infantry, and the Xuanjia Army's heavy cavalry are all ready?"

"One thousand Xuan Armored Cavalry and two thousand Xuan Armored Heavy Infantry are all ready and ambushed on both sides. As long as the general gives the order, the two armies can complete the armor in just half a moment."

"Are the siege and the catapult car ready?"

"The five thousand suicide siege teams have all been in place, and all the ladders and catapults in the army have begun to be prepared with the suicide siege. As long as the general orders, they can immediately launch the siege."

Li Shimin smiled. Now, he was more confident in taking Puban City.

"It is said that the Pei brothers are good at planning and brave, and the two brothers guard the same city and complement each other. But today, although they performed well before, Pei Xingyan actually wanted to attack our army at this time, but this is just like this. The two heroes of the Pei family are just like this. Let's continue to pass the order and start!"

"Yes!" The messenger looked at the faint smile on Li Shimin's face, and felt inexplicably relaxed. "Our army will win!"

The cold night is silent, dark and without moon.

Pei Xingyan ignored the orders of his elder brother and quietly left the city with half of the soldiers and horses and sprinted straight out of the city and rushed to Li Shimin's camp. In a battle today, five thousand defenders suffered nearly a thousand casualties. Although they received at least more than three times the casualties of the Tang army, the Tang army had 20,000 troops, which was five times theirs.

As long as Li Shimin is cruel and continues to attack like this, within three days, he will probably have no troops to fight in Puban City. How will he protect Puban? Pei Xingyan has always believed in one sentence. That is, the best defense is offense.

Using attack instead of defense, as long as you defeat Li Shimin's troops first, Puban City will be worry-free.

The two thousand Jianghan troops were all light cavalry. They quietly rushed outside the Tang army camp five miles away from the city under the cover of night.

In addition to the armor, Pei Xingyan was wearing a black dress at night. He stood on a high slope and carefully observed the situation of the Tang camp. The Tang camp did not know their arrival at all. More than 10,000 Tang troops were scattered on the unswept snow for several miles. Some were cooking, some were bandaging and treating the wounded soldiers, and some were chatting in groups. Some simply fell on the ground and lie down in their clothes. They seized time to rest.

In addition to the occasional patrol teams of cavalry, the entire camp not only had no fences, but also had no defensive facilities such as dewholes, enemy platforms, and divine dou.

Pei Xingyan looked excited. As expected, the Tang army really thought they dared not leave the city, and they didn't even have defense. At the moment, their confidence increased greatly. After a while, they had found Li Shimin's central army camp. Looking at the flying flag of the Li family, dozens of tents, and the only guards that could be seen by Shangyu, he was even more sure that it was Li Shimin's camp.

"Action! Rush!"

Pei Xingyan jumped onto his horse and held a spear, and pointed his long spear at Li Shimin's tent.

Two thousand light cavalry of Jianghan, like arrows leaving the strings, galloping in an instant.

The rumbling and merging Jianghan Light Cavalry was like a sharp blade, heading straight towards the center of the messy Tang camp. Along the way, countless panic Tang soldiers fled around, but none of them dared to go forward to fight.

Without encountering any resistance, the cavalry quickly rushed to the center of the Tang army camp. As long as they advance more than 300 steps, they could immediately level Li Shimin's central army camp tent, cut off Li Shimin's general flag, and cut off Li Shimin's head.

Three hundred steps.

Two hundred steps.

One hundred steps.

As they got closer, Pei Xingyan gradually felt uneasy.

It was so quiet that except for the Tang army that they fled around at the beginning, they did not encounter a half-resisting Tang army along the way. Even the closer they were to the Li-character flag, the fewer Tang army there were here. By the time he arrived at the central army, he could not see a single Tang army, and even the hundred Tang army in front of the central army tent ran away without a trace.

Pei Xingyan gradually changed color. After a long battle, he immediately understood that he had been fooled.

Dang Dang Dang

There were bursts of chuckling sounds, and suddenly there were large footsteps around. Pei Xingyan turned his head and looked around and saw that suddenly countless torches lit up around the Tang camp, including people and horses galloping. They were surrounded by the Tang army.

Pei Xingyan shook the reins and roared, "Retreat south and retreat back to the city."

Flashes of bowstrings sounded, and a large rain of arrows suddenly came. Dozens of cavalry were hit and screamed and fell off their horses, and were trampled into meat paste by the war horses behind.

Flashes of iron hoofs came from afar, and when a general raised his horse's spear and rushed towards Pei Xingyan.

"It's not that easy for a child from the Pei family to leave, so leave the head!"

The war horses passed by, Pei Xingyan blocked the opponent's attack with a spear, saw the opponent's face clearly, and shouted, "The defeated generals under his command, dare to fight!"

Chai Shao led a light cavalry to entangle Pei Xingyan's men and horses, and there were countless Tang troops surrounded him on all sides. Gradually, Pei Xingyan's two thousand cavalry continued to fall down. Although he rushed left and right, he could no longer break out of the Tang army's siege.

Looking at the array of spears and iron shields surrounding them from all sides, Pei Xingyan felt a sense of despair.

In Puban City, Pei Xingjian's face turned pale and sighed.

A scout arrived hurriedly, "General, it's not good. The second general was caught in the Tang army's tricks and was surrounded by heavy siege."

Pei Xingjian smiled bitterly and fell to the ground. Li Shimin was indeed fierce and cunning, and there was no loophole. When Xingyan was going to fight Tangying, he was not moved. When he thought that his second brother was surrounded, he couldn't help but frown.

Another rush of footsteps came outside, and a soldier covered in mud ran in, "General, the letter from His Majesty and Pei Shuai has arrived."

"Take it over quickly."

Pei Xingjian quickly opened the letter. After a long time, his heart became heavier. In the letter, his father had already informed him of the latest battle situation of the Fenhe River. Li Yuan had defeated Wang Shichong's troops in Jiangjun and opened up the grain channel again. Moreover, the Tang army had begun to fight with them, and the first battle between Jianghan army had achieved a great victory. At present, Li Yuan had formed a large grain cart formation and stood up for several days. But the court had found a way to deal with Li Yuan. In less than a few days, he could completely defeat Li Yuan's army.

Although my father and His Majesty's army can defeat Li Yuan's army in a short period of time, it also means that in a short period of time, I will not be able to get their reinforcements. Moreover, even if I come to the rescue, I am afraid that the distance will not quench my intimate thirst.

There were originally five thousand soldiers and horses in Puban City, but in the first battle, nearly a thousand casualties were killed and killed. There were four thousand soldiers and horses left, but Xing Yan did not obey his orders and took two thousand out of the city privately. Now he was besieged outside the city, only two thousand soldiers and horses remained in the city. If Xing Yan's two thousand soldiers and horses could not come back, then the two thousand people in the city now could not stop Li Shimin's troops from siegeing the city.

What's more, his younger brother is outside the city, so how could he not save him when he dies?

If you can't stand it. If you don't save me when you die, what you can get in the end is just one or two more days.

"Forget it. Forget it."

Pei Xingjian stood up long, "Person Liu, immediately upload the general's order, so the troops gathered immediately and we abandoned the city and left."

"General, stick to Puban, but Your Majesty's will. How can we take the initiative to abandon the city and leave?" Liu Zhengwei was shocked.

Pei Xingjian sighed, "Xing Yan was surrounded, and there were only two thousand soldiers and horses left in our city. If you insist on sticking, you can't defend for one or two days. It's better to go out of the city to rescue Xing Yan. Your Majesty's army will defeat Li Yuan in a few days. Then we will come back and take back Puban City. If you keep the green mountains there, are you still afraid of no firewood?"

Captain Liu looked extremely ugly. After hesitating for a while, he said, "The last general is to get the order."

At this moment, Pei Xingjian gathered all the soldiers and horses in Guanzhong in Puban, and took the initiative to burn all the food, grass and equipment in Guanzhong with fire. He led his troops to open the city of Guanzhong and headed straight to Tang camp.

In the dark night, the fire lit up in the warehouse in Puban City illuminated most of the night sky, and the fire that soared into the sky could be seen dozens of miles away.

In the Tang camp, Li Shimin sent people to surround Pei Xingyan, but was not in a hurry to attack. He also knew that if he was really in a hurry, two thousand Jianghan cavalry fought to trap beasts, and a fight of fish to death would also bring them great casualties. Moreover, he surrounded Pei Xingyan without rushing to annihilate him, and another more important purpose was to lead Pei Xingjian out of the city.

His real purpose was to seize Puban City, rather than fight against the Pei brothers. It would be of no benefit to him if he really fought all his troops.

"General, look!" A guard suddenly pointed at Pubancheng, which had burned half of the sky red.

When Li Shimin heard this, his face changed drastically.

"This, is Puban City on fire?" The guard said in shock.

"No, this must be Pei Xingjian burning the city." Li Shimin said gritting his teeth.

"Reported that the Puban city gate was wide open, Pei Xingjian led more than 2,000 troops out of the city gate and rushed straight to our army."

First there was a fire in Puban, and then Pei Xingjian led two thousand people out of the city. Is Pei Xingjian really going to abandon the city? Li Shimin frowned, turned around for a few circles, and shouted loudly, "Immediately send orders to the siege suicide squads that have been prepared, so that they can immediately rush to seize Puban Pass and put out the fire in the city. Go quickly."

The commander was ordered to go away quickly, Li Shimin gritted his teeth and said hatefully, "Pei Xingjian, since you dare to burn my Puban City, then I will let your brothers come and go today. I will pass on my order to let Xuanjia Heavy Cavalry, Xuanjia Heavy Infantry put Pei Xingjian in first, and then immediately surrounded him. Today, no one of the Pei brothers left alive."

Pei Xingjian killed more than 2,000 people, but did not rush towards Pei Xingyan's troops directly. Instead, he kept circling around the Tang army outside.

In despair, Pei Xingyan's army suddenly discovered that his elder brother was leading his troops to rescue him. He was very excited. More than a thousand cavalry in the formation shouted and burst into a huge survival opportunity. At that moment, more than a thousand cavalrymen were like a sharp arrow, constantly galloping towards the besieged Tang army, and planned to meet with Pei Xingjian outside.

One man works hard, ten men are unstoppable.

Pei Xingjian even abandoned Puban City in order to save Pei Xingyan, and at this time he tried his best to attack the Tang army with two troops, one inside and the other outside. Although Li Shimin had more than 16,000 soldiers, he had already sent 5,000 troops to Puban. Another thousand heavy cavalry and two thousand heavy infantry were still in armor. At this time, the Tang army in the formation was only more than 7,000. Facing the four thousand Jianghan cavalry with desperate hearts, they also blocked left and right for a while, and could hardly besieged.

The general under Li Shimin, Shi Wanbao, personally led 5,000 troops to attack Puban City. They were originally planning to send troops to rescue Pei Xingyan after luring the city, and immediately rushed to attack Puban. However, they did not expect that Pei Xingjian would abandon the city and rescue Pei Xingyan.

Looking at the fire in the city, Shi Wanbao threw down all kinds of siege equipment prepared and rushed to Puban City with five thousand men.

The army rushed all the way and rushed to Puban City, but saw that Puban City was extremely quiet. The east gate that could not be captured for a long time during the day was now open. There were no ghosts above the high city.

Shi Wanbao couldn't suppress the excitement in his heart, and his voice trembled and waved his hand to the city gate, shouting, "Enter the city quickly and extinguish the fires everywhere!"

The Tang soldiers took steady steps and stepped on the suspension bridge across the moat, passed through the city gate hole, and entered Puban City.

Shi Wanbao was in a state of great enthusiasm as he watched teams of soldiers enter the city.

Just as he was about to rush forward and rushed into the city, he heard a sudden loud noise, and then several screams rang out. The suspension bridge in front of the city gate was suddenly slowly pulled up. Then countless huge rocks on the top of the city fell, and the East City Gate was instantly blocked by huge rocks.

Then I could only hear countless sounds of bowstrings in the city, followed by screams after screams.

After a long time, the city became quiet again, so quiet that it made people feel sad.

Shi Wanbao stood blankly in front of the moat outside the city, looking at the raised suspension bridge and the city gate blocked by huge rocks in disbelief.

In just a moment, nearly half of his five thousand soldiers and horses were gone. All the soldiers and horses that entered the city were now silent. And this city that had just swallowed more than two thousand people was extremely quiet at this time.

In addition to the suspension bridge being lifted, the city gate was blocked by huge rocks, as if it had returned to the state they had just arrived.

ps: It has been so hot these days that Muzi is not in good condition. So recently I have returned to the 30,000-word update every day, so I cannot add updates. I hope I will update them after it rains and the weather gets cooler... Please vote, and it is also necessary to recommend Muzi... (To be continued)
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