Send troops to grab water"

As a result, a cruel battle for drinking water began. After nightfall, the rebels took advantage of the cover of darkness to send two thousand troops to raid the Sui army's fence defense line. They carried wooden barrels and prepared to grab water. Unexpectedly, the Sui army had already prepared, and also used the

Under the cover of night and setting up a secret sentry near Cangcheng for surveillance, the rebels were able to

As soon as they started to leave the city, the Sui army's secret sentry sent the news back to the fence defenders. The prepared Sui army soldiers used simple fortifications to fight hard. Cheng Yaojin, who was stationed in the northwest of Cangcheng, also led his troops to help.

Under the attack, the rebels were defeated and fled back to the city without even grabbing half a bucket of water.

The death knell of the Yongfengcang rebels seemed to have sounded. On the morning of the next day on the 27th, when the Sui army was desperately strengthening the fortifications to intercept the water source, He Panren and Li Gang also sent fast horses to deliver news, saying that they had burned them as agreed.

The rebel army is on its way back to the east to surrender. Please tell me.

Sangliang sent people to Xinfeng to confirm the situation of burning food. Chen Sangliang was even more happy. While treating the envoys favorably, he said that he believed that He Panren had burned food without confirmation. In fact, he secretly sent people to Xinfeng to confirm the matter.

, fully demonstrating his hypocritical character of saying one thing and doing another.

In addition, Chen Sangliang, who was good at offensive tactics, wrote a letter about the news of He Panren burning grain, and sent people to shoot arrows into the Yongfeng warehouse to undermine the enemy's morale. Li Jiancheng, Li Xiuning, Wang Changxie and other rebels

General Zhong was shocked when he saw the letter, but he was well aware of Chen Sangliang's treacherous character. He was only suspicious of the letter and did not accept the suggestion of some subordinates to abandon their warehouses and flee to preserve their strength. He also arranged to send troops to grab water again.

plan.

On the night of the 27th, the rebels sent 5,000 troops down the mountain to grab water. The Sui army fought hard. Chen Sangliang heard that the rebels were strong. In addition to sending troops from the main camp to reinforce the Duanshui battlefield, he also arranged for an army to feint to attack Luokou Cangcheng.

Encircling Wei and rescuing Zhao, Li Jiancheng was forced not to increase troops and cut off the battlefield. Li Jiancheng was afraid of the dangers in Cangcheng.

As expected, he didn't dare to make a mistake. He just sat back and watched the water-grabbing army led by Wang Changxie fighting the Sui army at the foot of the mountain. He was anxious and helpless. As a result, the rebel soldiers who fought with their lives even managed to get back a few pieces of water.

Ten buckets of muddy water mixed with sand, but it cost thousands of casualties.

At noon on the 28th, He Panren's army, which had been marching lightly all the way, successfully returned to the Tongguan battlefield and surrendered to Chen Sangliang. Chen Sangliang was overjoyed when he heard the news, and went out to greet him personally. He personally lifted up He Panren and Li Gang, who were kneeling in surrender, and spoke kindly to them.

He was comforted and praised, given a heavy reward on the spot, and He Panren was recruited on the spot and surrendered to the army.

He Panren took the initiative to come to Yongfengcang City and cursed, telling the rebels personally that he had burned food and surrendered, and persuaded his old troops in the city to surrender in Kaicheng. Li Jiancheng, Wang Changxie and others were furious and ordered the troops to fire arrows to drive away He Panren.

At the same time, I had to think of abandoning my position and running away.

The situation was excellent, and the odds of victory seemed to be certain. Under the excitement, all the civil and military officers of the Sui army were inevitably a little carried away. They all suggested that they should firmly implement the siege and reinforcement tactics, cut off the rebels' water sources with all their strength, and force the rebels to abandon the city and flee.

Defeat the enemy in the field, or force the main force of the rebels to return to Yongfengcang to wait for a while

Guanzhong will be decided in a battle. In the face of this overwhelming voice, although Chen Sangliang still maintained a certain calmness, he also felt that doing this was indeed far better than running to Daxing City to fight hard, so he smiled and said: "Since you all

They all think we should besiege the city to bring reinforcements, so let’s besiege it and see how long the old thieves Li Jiancheng and Li Yuan can hold it.”

The arrogant soldiers will be defeated. Fortunately, Chen Sangliang has a reliable cousin Li Jing beside him. Seeing the relaxed smile of his cousin, Li Jing not only did not relax, but also thought about it in his heart, secretly thinking: "The tactics of siege and reinforcements are of course

It is safe

Correct, it can reduce the consumption of attacking fortresses, but will the rebel army in Yongfengcang really give up Yongfengcang, the lifeline of Guanzhong because of the water shortage? Li Yuan leads the main force of the rebel army to return to reinforcements, can we really wait and work to ensure the chance of victory? I'm afraid, not necessarily
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