Chapter 26 Headache (Part 1) Please recommend votes

In the West Living Hall, Xu Shiji was watching the calligraphy and paintings on the wall with his hands behind his back. These were all works by the Pei family's children in a hundred years, with hundreds of works, most of which were excellent. Among them, Pei Zheng's calligraphy and paintings are even more outstanding, which made Xu Shiji praise him.-< Shuhai Pavilion >-Net.

The Xili Hall is a expensive guest room, and most people cannot stay here. It is because of Yang Yuanqing that the Pei family brought Xu Shiji here to rest. Xu Shiji didn't know what Yang Yuanqing brought him to the Pei family. Yang Yuanqing's visit to the Pei family was his private matter and should have nothing to do with him. This made Xu Shiji very confused, but he didn't ask too much and had to wait patiently.

At this time, hurried footsteps came from outside the door, and Yang Yuanqing walked in like a gust of wind.

"Let's go right now!"

Xu Shiji was startled, "What happened?"

"I just got the news of my personal soldiers. Li Shuliang's 20,000 troops were on his way to Zhengping County. We missed them in Jishan County the night before."

Xu Shiji was both surprised and happy. This time they went south to find Li Shuliang's army and sent more than a dozen scouts. There was no news, but they did not expect that they would get the news when they came to Wenxi County.

"Then let's go."

As soon as he said that, Xu Shiji felt something was wrong. Yang Yuanqing was about to leave after less than an hour after coming to Pei’s mansion?

"Do you want the Pei Mansion to say hello?"

"I told him that there is emergency military service, so it's okay for me to be here, but you..."

Yang Yuanqing apologized: "I wanted to bring you a good look at Pei Xue, but it was too late. I'm really sorry."

Xu Shiji felt an inexplicable emotion. It turned out that Yang Yuanqing wanted to bring him to visit Pei Xue. He cared about what he said on the way. Xu Shiji didn't like to show his emotions. He restrained his gratitude and smiled and said, "Next time! I hope that when I come again next time, Pei's mansion will treat me as a distinguished guest and no longer need the general manager to accompany me."

Yang Yuanqing understood what he meant, and nodded, staring at his expected gaze seriously, "It will definitely be!"

The two of them said goodbye to the Pei Mansion, turned over and ran away from the city with three hundred guards. When they walked away, Pei Ji slowly walked to the gate of Pei Mansion and looked at the team away. He knew very well what Yang Yuanqing was going to do. The timidity in his heart made him dare not step out of the gate of Pei Mansion.

The timidity in his heart was not only threatened by Yang Yuanqing, but also worried about the defeat of Li Shuliang's army. He did not want to take this responsibility.

At this time, his entourage leader ran up, "Pei Changshi, are we going back?"

Pei Ji shook his head, "The matter that the Lord Bus gave me has not been completed yet, so I won't go back for now."

He took out another note and handed it to the entourage leader, "You send someone to inform Marshal Li immediately, and say that Yang Yuanqing appeared in Wenxi County, and his army was likely nearby, so Marshal Li must not be careless."

"I understand, go immediately!"

The leader of the follower took the note and ran away. Pei Ji sighed softly. He had done his best. If Li Shuliang was still defeated, it had nothing to do with him, Pei Ji.

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The war horses were galloping and murderous intent. Ten thousand cavalry rushed through the field and into a shallow river, stirring up waves. Yang Yuanqing jumped on his horse and rose ashore. The red eagle flag was flying behind him. The busy farmers in the rice fields showed a look of horror in the eyes. The cavalry who had walked leisurely in the afternoon became murderous intent at this time, and many people screamed and fled to the distance.

The war horses galloped on the official road, rolling up yellow dust. In just half an hour, the cavalry rushed out of Wenxi County and rushed towards Zhengping County in the northwest. If everything went well, they would arrive in Zhengping County tonight. Yang Yuanqing must intercept Li Shuliang's army before he arrived in Zhengping County. If the enemy troops were allowed to settle in the county, they would lose this opportunity.

Now they still have hope, because it is almost dark, and if it weren't for the war period, the army would not march at night.

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Zhengping County, which is the capital of Jiangjun County, is a tall and sturdy city wall. The wall is circumference of 30 miles and has a population of more than 200,000. It is the third largest city in the southeast of the River after Hedong County and Shangdang County. It has 5,000 Tang troops stationed.

Li Shuliang's 20,000 troops were on the way to Zhengping County at this time, and it was twenty miles away from Zhengping County.

They crossed the Yellow River from Longmen two days ago. After two days of marching, they entered Jiangjun from Hedong County, set out from Jishan County at noon and headed for Zhengping County. They wanted to wait for Pei Ji to return in Zhengping County before continuing to march northward.

The commander Li Shuliang is about 40 years old this year. He is skilled in archery and horses. He has been familiar with military studies since he was a child. He can be said to be both civil and military. When Li Yuan raised an army in Taiyuan, he was recruiting troops in Changping County, so he directly raised an army in Changping County and responded. He was therefore named the Duke of Changping County.

Although Li Shuliang was both civil and military, he did not have much practical experience and had only participated in the counter-rebellion against Wu Duaner. His biggest characteristic is that he was cautious and meticulous. He would not do anything with risk. He also had strict defenses and considered it extremely thoughtful in all aspects. Li Yuan was attracted by his cautious and meticulous point and hoped that he could enter Taiyuan to take charge of defense and defend Taiyuan City.

The sky was getting darker, and the deputy general Liu Hongji rushed up and said, "Master General, you are still twenty miles away from Zhengping County. Do you want to march in one go?"

Li Shuliang looked at the terrain. The terrain was wide open. Two miles south of the south was Fen River, and more than ten miles ahead was a dark mountain range. He shook his head, "It is more dangerous to cross the mountain at night, so he should camp on the spot and go there after dawn."

Liu Hongji mainly considered that Zhengping County had better conditions and had been camping in the wild. He was a little bored. He wanted to persuade him again, but Li Shuliang's attitude was very firm.

"Since you have arrived in Hedong, you must defend against Yang Yuanqing's cavalry at any time. If you have suffered a great loss from Xue Ju, you should understand how fast the cavalry marched. There are mountains ahead and dense forests. Crossing the mountains at night is a taboo for soldiers. We should be extremely careful. Don't say anything more, pass on my orders and camp on the spot!"

Liu Hongji also considered Yang Yuanqing's Fengzhou cavalry, but he felt that the possibility was not high. The Fengzhou army mainly attacked Taiyuan or siege the city and attacked aid. Even if some troops headed south, it would not be possible so quickly. This is Jiang County, which is almost at the southernmost part of Hedong.

However, Li Shuliang is the head coach. Since the head coach has decided, Liu Hongji can no longer object. He immediately passed the order: "The head coach has orders, camp on the spot!"

"The head coach has an order, camp on the spot!"

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After a series of orders passed, the soldiers began to camp on the spot, set up a tent, surrounded the camp with more than 100,000 spears, and surrounded it with a large cart. Li Shuliang personally led his personal soldiers to check the defense, and he did not let go of every detail. If he followed his personality, he should have set up a camp gate, but unfortunately the camp gate was difficult to carry, so he had to give up.

"Build ten sentry towers, and the Fen River in the south should also set up sentry towers to prevent the enemy from coming from the water."

"The Grain Warehouse must be outside the range of the rocket!"

Li Shuliang was very careful and found five or six loopholes in a row and ordered the soldiers to rectify the problem. This time, the 20,000 troops he led were elite Tang army, three thousand cavalry, and seventeen thousand infantry. All soldiers were equipped with Mingguang armor, standard spears and horizontal swords. Each soldier had bows and arrows, and a round shield. Even war horses and Turkic horses were also the most excellent equipment of the Sui army. These 20,000 troops were almost all Guanlong Mansion soldiers, and they had strong combat power. Although Li Yuan could not send more troops, he could send the best army.

The team camped in an orderly manner and the night was getting deeper and deeper. At the beginning of the morning, a harsh alarm suddenly came from the wardrobe, "Dang! Dang! Dang!"

In the quiet night, the alarm was particularly clear and could be heard several miles away. Li Shuliang was awakened from his dream. He jumped up and shouted, "What happened?"

A soldier rushed over and said, "Reporting to the commander, a large group of cavalry appeared in front of him."

"How many cavalry are there, and do you have armor?"

"Reporting to the commander, I can't see clearly in the dark night, between about 8,000 and 10,000 people, full of armor."

Li Shuliang was shocked. This was not a bandit, but only Yang Yuanqing's Fengzhou cavalry. As expected, he expected that there were ambushes in front of him. He immediately ordered, "Order the soldiers to prepare for war and transfer five thousand crossbows to suppress the military camp!"

Teams of crossbowmen rushed to the east of the military camp, arched their bows and arrows, and were ready to fight. Liu Hongji was extremely nervous. The other side had nearly 10,000 cavalry, and they only had 20,000 troops, most of them were infantry. Nearly 20,000 infantry were fighting against 10,000 cavalry, which would be an extremely arduous battle.

However, Liu Hongji was also secretly glad that the cautiousness of the head coach Li Shuliang allowed them to avoid being attacked by the Fengzhou army and escaped a great disaster, which gave him some confidence. There were still 5,000 troops in Zhengping County. If they could come to support, this battle would not be defeated, not to mention defeating the other side.

Liu Hongji held a hard bow in his hand and urged his horse to run towards the gate of the camp.

Just hundreds of steps away from the Tang army camp, Yang Yuanqing led 10,000 Fengzhou Sui troops to line up. He led his army to run all the way and finally intercepted them before the other party entered Zhengping City. They were not in a hurry to launch an attack, and used the rest before dawn to restore the physical strength of the soldiers and war horses.

Yang Yuanqing looked at the enemy camp from afar. He observed the character of the enemy's chief general from some details. From the distribution of the opponent's sentry towers alone, he could infer that the opponent was an extremely cautious person. If it were him, he would build six sentry towers, one in each of the four corners and one in each of the front and rear camp gates, but the opponent built ten, and Li Shuliang wanted to eliminate all blind spots.

At this time, a scout was running to report: "Report to the general manager, we observe the enemy camp. The opponent's camp is impeccable, and the rockets cannot shoot their camp tents. The surrounding spears are covered with caltrops, and the grass is covered with caltrops, so we cannot get close to it."

Yang Yuanqing sneered, and indeed, as he expected, Li Shuliang was too cautious. "The water is clear and there is no fish, and the person is cautious and there is no wisdom." This is a famous saying, he wants to make Li Shuliang defeat him because of his caution.

"Tell me my order, and the army retreated twenty miles north!"

Ten thousand cavalry turned their horses and rushed to the north, and disappeared into the dark night for a moment.

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