Seeing Liu Guoneng's questioning sounds sternly, the guard looked panicked and said anxiously: "General, there are more than 10,000 Hao Yaoqi's soldiers outside the city of Yancheng, and they are rushing to help from Kaifeng. Now they have arrived in Xuzhou, and they will probably arrive in Yancheng soon. Alas, I didn't expect that the artillery fire of your army is so powerful that our army will find it difficult to defend for a day. If Hao Yaoqi's soldiers arrived earlier..."

"It's enough, there's no need to say more." Liu Guoneng waved his hand and interrupted his long-winded words, and ordered people to take the guard with a depressed expression to the front.

At this time, Cao Bianjiao, the mayor of the seventh town of the Tang army, rode his horse to Liu Guoneng, and whispered to him: "Master Liu, if Hao Yaoqi really led his troops to come, then our army would just give him a plan, and set up a trap pocket under the Yancheng City and wait for him to drill. As long as the reinforcements from Hao Yaoqi's unit could be eliminated, the entire central Henan would be determined in one go."

Cao Bianjiao's words made Liu Guoneng nodded repeatedly.

Now that Hao Yaoqi is still in Xuzhou, he would never have thought that Yancheng would be captured by the Tang army so soon. They would have thought that even if Yancheng was besieged by the Tang army, it would have to be dragged for a while before he began to attack the city. Therefore, Hao Yaoqi urgently sent reinforcements to the rescue of Yancheng, which is a very normal and necessary action.

If Hao Yaoqi's reinforcements can be completely eliminated from Yancheng City, it will undoubtedly greatly reduce the pressure for himself in the subsequent battle to conquer the entire central Henan.

What is more likely is that as the Chongcheng Yancheng was quickly conquered, Hao Yaoqi's army was quickly destroyed, and the other prefectures and towns in central Henan were afraid that they would be frightened and it was possible to make a declaration in the future.

Thinking of this, Liu Guoneng had made up his mind. He immediately had a plan and called the guard general who had just taken him down, and asked with a smile: "By the way, since you surrender to our army, it is also a small achievement. I will write it down. In the future, the rewards of merit will not be missing. By the way, what is your name? I forgot to ask for it in advance."

The guard general heard that he seemed to win over, and he was overjoyed and replied anxiously: "Wang Guangen, whose courtesy name is Shouyu, is from Anding. During the Chongzhen period, I and my younger brother Wang Guangtai were engaged in the matter, and I also got the nickname Huaguansuo, which was a bit famous. In the late Chongzhen period, I and my younger brother were both surrendered to an official army by Lord Gao Doushu and stationed in Shanxi. Later, Li Zicheng attacked Shanxi, and my brother died in battle, and his troops even fled. I had no choice but to surrender him, and then he worked under Li Guo. At the end of last year, he arranged to guard Yancheng..."

Seeing that Wang Guangen had not finished speaking, Liu Guo would have to interrupt him again: "Okay, don't mention everything in the past. Let me ask you, from now on, will you be willing to serve my army loyally?"

When Wang Guangen heard that Liu Guoneng wanted to give his defeated general like himself a chance to serve the Tang army, he was overjoyed and immediately pointed his head like a chicken pecking rice: "It is a great honor to serve your army with humble functions. But the general has any arrangements, but please give instructed that he will go through fire and water for your army, and he will not refuse!"

Liu Guoneng smiled and said in a deep voice: "Then listen, I will have a task to you, that is, send our battalion commander of the BnBed into the Cang of our army to go with you to lure Hao Yaoqi's reinforcements to the city of Yancheng. After the enemy reinforcements arrived at the city, our army would cooperate inside and outside, fight out together, and eliminate all Hao Yaoqi's reinforcements. Do you understand?"

Wang Guangen raised his chest and folded his belly, and immediately replied loudly: "I understand, it depends on the general's arrangement!"

Next, under the arrangement of Liu Guoneng, the soldiers of the army urgently cleaned the battlefield, and then acted with the surrendered soldiers in the city, and first urgently repaired the nearly ruined eastern city wall.

After completing these tasks, Liu Guoneng arranged for the battalion commander of the Bundeswehr to lead hundreds of cavalry, wearing the armor of the defenders, wearing the flag of the defenders, and taking Wang Guangen and several of his guards, and left Yancheng and heading to Xuzhou City in the north, preparing to welcome the enemy reinforcements of Hao Yaoqi who were about to enter the aid from here.

They rushed overnight and finally arrived outside Xuzhou City at dawn.

Soon, Zu Dabi sent an envoy to the city to report the news to Hao Yaoqi.

"Not good, General Hao! Tang army, Tang army is coming to Yancheng!" Soon, his personal soldiers rushed into the tent and reported to Hao Yaoqi who had just gotten up.

"Oh? They came so quickly?"

Hao Yaoqi, with his eyes fixed on his face, looked surprised: "We rushed all the way, and after a little rest in Xuzhou, the Tang army arrived? Where are they? Then, what is the situation in Yancheng now?"

"Report to General, the Tang army is powerful and has a large number of troops. Our army's Xiangcheng, Shangshui and other counties have abandoned the guards. All of its troops have retreated to Yancheng. The Yancheng garrison Wang Guangenye has sent a mail cavalry to ask the general to go for emergency rescue."

Hearing these words from the personal soldiers, Hao Yaoqi's face turned pale and cold sweat oozed out of his forehead.

The Tang army has taken over Xiangcheng and Shangshui. If Yancheng is lost, the entire central Henan department will be completely open and there will be no danger to defend. The Tang army will sweep across the entire central Henan, and the reinforcements will be completely transformed into a turtle.

"Have the whistle cavalry reported how many soldiers and horses the Tang army has in total?" Hao Yaoqi asked urgently.

"General Liu, according to the whistle cavalry, the Tang army had about 60,000 to 70,000 people."

After hearing the butler reported this number, Hao Yaoqi frowned, but his heart was nervously thinking.

If the Tang army had more than 60,000 troops and 70,000 troops, then it would be difficult for them to attack Yancheng, which had nearly 10,000 defenders in a hasty manner.

If his 10,000 troops could go to rescue in time, he would greatly strengthen the city's garrison and make the Tang army unable to attack. Moreover, even if the elite Tang army was not enough to drive the Tang army away, he would be enough to compete with the Tang army and hold on. In the end, the Tang army's veterans were exhausted, so he had no choice but to withdraw.

Thinking of this, Hao Yaoqi did not hesitate anymore and immediately ordered: "Since this is the case, the situation in Yancheng is urgent, so the entire army is ready and go to rescue immediately."

"Get orders!"

Soon, Hao Yaoqi wore a hang-up body, lit up a military force, and rushed to Yancheng.

In order to ensure speed, when they arrived at Yancheng before the Tang army besieged the city, Hao Yaoqi's 30,000 troops did not carry heavy weapons, and the entire army was light armored and equipped with simple clothes, moving forward quickly.

The army had just passed through Xuzhou and reached the Dayin River when it happened to meet Wang Guangen and Zu Dabi and others to the shore.

Hao Yaoqi was surprised to see that it was Wang Guangen who came to greet him in person.

He rushed forward and asked anxiously: "Wang Guangen, as the lord of the city guard, how can you abandon the city without authorization? Do you want to escape with these hundreds of cavalry alone?"

Wang Guangen squeezed a stiff smile on his face, and he sighed: "General, I am worried that your reinforcements will be in trouble when they are not there, and I am really anxious. Then I personally led the cavalry to Xuzhou and prepared to explain the situation to you personally. I hope that the reinforcements can arrive as soon as possible before the Tang army besieged the city. I really didn't expect that General, you will work hard and personally lead the troops to rescue them. I am so grateful."

Wang Guangen said this, Zu Dabi, the battalion commander of the Bing Battalion of the Sixth Town of Tang Army, who had been escorting him, laughed secretly, but he forced himself to hold it back.

Hao Yaoqi glanced at him coldly and replied: "Yancheng is a central government, and the terrain is very important. If there is any mistake, wouldn't it be a big deal? Therefore, after receiving the report, I would never wait any longer and personally lead the troops to rescue Yancheng to relieve the danger."

Wang Guangen nodded repeatedly and said anxiously: "Since that's the case, then I'm leading the way, so please ask the general and I to rush to Yancheng immediately."

Hao Yaoqi did not doubt it and immediately led the ten thousand soldiers and horses, led by Wang Guangen, rushed towards Yancheng.

Ten thousand soldiers rushed to the front and finally arrived outside Yancheng City when it was almost dusk.

Looking at the blurry city in the distance, looking at the Shunjun military flag that was still flying high above, Hao Yaoqi ran out of sweat and soreness, and finally let out a long sigh.

Okay, finally arrived smoothly. It seems that the Tang army had not yet arrived at Yancheng to siege the city after capturing Xiangcheng and Shangshui. Now they can be safely deployed.

At this time, Wang Guangen came over and said with a respectful look: "General Hao, let us enter the city first and open the city gate for the general. After we welcome the general into the city, we can settle the soldiers of the entire army well."

Hao Yaoqi had no doubts about Wang Guangen's words. He nodded and signaled Wang Guangen and others to leave first. Then he took ten thousand soldiers and horses carelessly and came directly outside Yancheng City.

After arriving at the city, Hao Yaoqi was waiting impatiently for Wang Guangen to come out of the city to greet him again. At this moment, he suddenly heard a loud noise from the city. He looked up and saw that everything that appeared in front of him almost couldn't believe his eyes.

He was shocked to see that the Shun Army flag on the top of the city was quickly replaced by the Li army flag with red background and black letters, as well as many Tang army flags with forest tigers embroidered on them.

At this moment, Hao Yaoqi's brain was almost short-circuited.

However, he quickly understood what was going on.

Damn it, it turns out that Wang Guangen had already surrendered to the city, but he still used the trick to make money by making a fool of himself. This extremely despicable guy!

He then looked around almost instinctively and saw a scene that surprised him even more.

He could see that in the shadows of the trees outside the city at the end of his gaze, there were flags and flags of light reflected by swords, guns and armor.

Hao Yaoqi's heart instantly sank to the bottom of the ice lake.

It's hateful! I'm dedicated to helping, but I never expected that Wang Guangen's army had already surrendered to the city. Now I have carefully weaved the traps, and I'm waiting for myself to step into it in an unknown way, so I can catch them all in one go.

Thinking of this, Hao Yaoqi's inner anger was beyond replenishment.

"Wang Guangen! You ungrateful dog bastard! What benefits did Tang Jun give you? You have made you so ungrateful and betrayed by the Lord. Now you are still here to make money for me!"

Hao Yaoqi was trembling all over and shouted loudly at the top of the city wall.

After Hao Yaoqi finished scolding, Wang Guangen and Tang Army chief Liu Guoneng flashed from the top of the East Gate.

"Hao Yaoqi, what's your name? Open your dog's eyes and see clearly. Next to me is General Liu Guoneng, the sixth mayor of the Tang army. If you know the current situation, you will immediately dismount and surrender, and you will be spared from death. Otherwise, our army will attack quickly and eliminate all the stubborn people like you and others under this Yancheng County!" Wang Guangen cursed with his hips, full of foxes and tiger power.

As soon as he finished speaking, Liu Guoneng next to him also spoke, "Hao Yaoqi, now your troops have fallen into the siege of our army. If you still know the current affairs and surrender as soon as possible, you will save your life. Our army will definitely give preferential treatment to you when you surrender. Not only can you save your life, but your family members can also be safeguarded. If you resist stubbornly, you will be killed and killed, and your army will also suffer a bloody disaster. Where can you go? I hope you can think twice and stop it."

Hao Yaoqi couldn't listen to Liu Guoneng's words at all.

He only saw Wang Guangen's successful behavior of Liu Guoneng was so angry that his eyes turned red. Without thinking too much, he immediately replied sternly: "Wang Guangen! You, the slave who is carrying the master, are you embarrassed to say such words! Humph, do you think our army will just wait for death obediently? Tell you, I will lead the troops back immediately, but you are waiting for me!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Liu Guoneng smiled coldly. He didn't say much, raised his right hand high, signaled to the command soldiers beside him, and immediately issued a flag and order.

The continuous sound of horns sounded almost at this time.

The four gates of Yancheng County were opened, and a large number of Tang soldiers with majestic armor poured out of the city gate like a surging tide.

At the same time, the Tang army troops hiding in the woods outside the city had already rushed out from the left and right sides.

There were thousands of Tang cavalry roaring out of the woods, and the horse's hooves were shaking and smoke rolling, and they went straight to the place behind Hao Yaoqi, completely cutting off their retreat.

At this point, in a short period of time, Hao Yaoqi's 30,000 light troops were surrounded by the Tang army and trapped in an inescapable pocket formation, shaped like a turtle in a jar.

Seeing that he was in a desperate situation of being surrounded by enemies in a blink of an eye, Hao Yaoqi was anxious and angry. He immediately ordered the entire army to complete the army and break through the siege.

A fierce battle broke out instantly.

Just as the enemy was in a mess, the Tang army infantry surrounding them from three sides were quickly approaching them with neat and orderly military formations.

The Tang army battle formations surrounded by three sides were almost all formed into a long snake formation with a width of almost the same as those of the bandits. Thousands of shield soldiers lined up in a row, and the two rows of sharp and sharp shields were like a temporary steel wall.

Behind the shield soldiers, there were dense spearmen. On the steel wall built by the shield soldiers, there was a 4-meter steel spear with a flashing cold light above each shield, like a poisonous dragon ready to go, aiming viciously at the prey that was getting closer and closer to him on the opposite side.

The Tang army's spearmen have three levels, which can ensure that there are enough troops to fill the losses. The entire formation is very strict and full of murderous aura.
Chapter completed!