In terms of judging the situation through clues, Li Er, who is extremely talented, is not inferior to Chen Sangliang, who is undercover. As early as when Li Mi deliberately delayed whether to adopt Li Er's plan to cause trouble, Li Er had already noticed that the situation was not good and made a second-hand preparation in advance. As Li Er expected, Li Mi, who was short-sighted, rejected Li Mi's clever plan at the last moment, and expelled Zu Junyan, who Li Er had bought at a considerable price, from the shogunate, and cut off Li Er's largest source of intelligence in Li Mi's army.

Fortunately, Li Er had already made preparations before, and the capable envoy Ren Qin had already visited Yu Wen and the army early with Li Er's two plans. As long as Ren Qin could successfully get Yu Wen and the army, with the relationship between the old Li family and the third Yu Wen Shiji, he would have great hope to bring Yu Wen and the army back to the right path in a timely manner. Therefore, even though Li Er deliberately refused Li Er's "good intention" to the last moment, Li Er was still not anxious and was patient and just waiting for subsequent news. At the same time, he naturally had to pray quietly for God's blessing, so that Li Mi was defeated by the strong army and strong horses but lacked think tanks and excellent commander - this is also a common human nature.

Another thing that Li Er regrets is that Li Mi not only expelled Zu Junyan, the inside line of Li Erjun, but also strengthened the blockade of water and land roads, making it difficult for Li Er to contact Yu Wen Shi, Ren Jin and others, and greatly restricted the speed of Li Erjun's detailed work to send intelligence to southern Jinnan. Until August 25, Li Er had not received any news about the Battle of Tongshan, and he did not know that Yu Wen and the army had severely damaged Li Mijun with his secret help. They were anxious but had no choice.

There was no reply for a long time, and when he was a little nervous, an unexpected news suddenly came to Zhengping City, the main force of Li Er's army, where Li Er's army is located, and it was also directly sent to Li Er - the Liu Heita army of Daxing Sui army, who had been guarding Hedong, who had been working in Hedong, suddenly dispatched more than 10,000 troops and entered Wen County, southern Zhengping under the leadership of Liu Heita. Li Er was confused when he heard this and said to himself: "Liu Heita's head is flooded? For no reason, why did he suddenly think of killing Wenxi? If he wants to take Jiang County, his strength is insufficient?"

In confusion, Li Er hurriedly asked the messenger sent by Wenxi's general Duan Zhixuan: "Why did Liu Heita send troops? Did he find out the reason?"

"I found it." The messenger's answer made Li Er laugh and cry. "I heard that Liu Heita had a concubine who was a beloved by Wen Xiren, and the whole family was Wen Xi. When Liu Heita sent someone to pick up his concubine's family, he found that his beloved concubine's family had been killed. He heard that even the meat was eaten. Liu Heita suspected that General Duan Zhixuan was doing it. His beloved concubine cried and asked Liu Heita to avenge her family. Liu Heita decided to send troops to fight with General Duan."

Li Shentong, Tang Xian and others next to him laughed when they heard this. Li Er couldn't help laughing and said, "It's true? Can Liu Heita be so affectionate and righteous, and can send tens of thousands of troops to avenge his favorite concubine? Is Liu Heita not afraid that Chen Yingliang's traitor will know, and peel him off?"

"It's true." The messenger Wenxi replied truthfully: "The detailed work we sent to Hedong has confirmed this matter, and we also saw with our own eyes that Liu Heita went to war with filial piety. However, General Duan can assure you that he has never entrusted troops to cause trouble, and it is even more impossible to kill people and eat meat. General Duan suspected that this matter might be a good thing for the remaining soldiers who were disbanded by Meng Haigong."

Li Er smiled again and nodded and said, "When I go back and tell Duan Zhixuan, I believe he will not do this, and ask him to take the defensive stance to confront Liu Heita and keep in touch with me at any time. Wenxi is only more than fifty miles away from Zhengping. If necessary, I can send reinforcements to help him at any time."

The messenger Chang Nuo left, and Li Shentong, Tang Xian and others laughed. Li Shentong, who had suffered a great loss in Liu Heita's hands before, couldn't wait to instigate him: "Right Governor, Liu Heita is proud and arrogant after winning a few battles. He advances alone. This is a great opportunity for us to take revenge. In my opinion, we might as well take the opportunity to mobilize the main force to go south and fight with him in Wenxi to avenge our soldiers who died in Yuxiang!"

"No hurry, the distance is not far anyway, and I will talk about it when Liu Heita and Duan Zhixuan get in." Li Er shook his head and said with a thought: "I always think this matter is a bit strange. It's too ridiculous to send out tens of thousands of troops to start a war for a woman, right? Liu Heita's average man, shouldn't he want to play something?"

"What tricks can he do?" Tang Xian said disdainfully: "Although this is ridiculous, it is not surprising to the Qianshou, a traitor like Liu Heita. He won several battles with Chen Yingliang's appreciation and luck, and suddenly changed from a thief general to a local general with one hand alone. Liu Heita's husband did nothing to show off his arrogant life. Wouldn't it be like walking in a night of luxury?"

Although he knew that Tang Xian's words made sense, Li Er refused to draw a conclusion lightly and thought, "Let's wait and say more. Send more Hou to keep an eye on Liu Heita's army and report any abnormal movements immediately. Also, send more detailed works to the bank of the Yellow River to stare. When you find that there are troops crossing the river in Guanzhong, you will report immediately."

It’s not bad to say that Liu Heita seems to have really avenged his beloved woman. From the resident Puban to Wenxi, Liu Heita’s army only took more than three days. Then, while Liu Heita asked the rear army to rely on the river to establish camp ten miles south of Wenxi, he couldn’t wait to lead two thousand troops to the city of Wenxi to fight, cursing and condemning Duan Zhixuan’s crime of killing his concubine’s family and eating human flesh. Duan Zhixuan, who was even more unjust than Dou E, was furious and also led two thousand troops out of the city to curse Liu Heita, scolding Liu Heita for not distinguishing right from wrong, and for being wronged for no reason. Liu Heita became even more furious and immediately urged the army to step forward and fight Duan Zhixuan.

The result of the fight was that Li Erjun suffered a loss. Although Duan Zhixuan was also one of the twenty-four heroes of Lingyan Pavilion, the famous generals worshipped in Lingyan Pavilion, including the super fierce man Yuchi Jingde, would not suffer any loss as long as they were against Liu Heita! Therefore, Duan Zhixuan, who is famous for his bravery, soon discovered that Liu Heita, the nameless young general opposite him, was even more cruel and fierce than him. He killed more than a dozen Li Erjun soldiers in one breath, killing Li Erjun up and down to fear.

In the battle, the Sui soldiers brought by Liu Heita were encouraged, and they rushed to the top and chopped harder. Duan Zhixuan's army, as the main force of the Li Er Army, did not have many elite troops, and soon could not resist Liu Heita's army rushed forward and fled back to Wenxi City. Liu Heita led his army to chase the city, pointed at the city with a sword and greeted Duan Zhixuan's eighteen generation ancestors, and then retreated with his troops with his power.

Before the matter was over, Duan Zhixuan's scout soon discovered that after Liu Heita's army set up a camp, it actually cut down wood and built siege weapons, preparing to launch a frontal attack on Wenxi's small town! Duan Zhixuan, who had only more than 3,000 troops in his hand, was very timid and quickly sent someone north to Zhengping to report the battle situation to Li Er, asking Li Er to send troops south to help as soon as possible.

There was no need for Duan Zhixuan to report the battle situation. The distance was only fifty miles away. The scout of the main force of Li Er's army had already clearly explored Liu Heita's situation, but the more this happened, the more suspicious Li Er was, because Liu Heita did this, which was really unreasonable. Even if the enemy's main force was watching Dandan nearby, Liu Heita actually dared to build siege weapons to launch a frontal attack. This point is unreasonable. Li Er suspected that this was Liu Heita's plan to lure Duan Zhixuan, indicating that he was preparing to trouble Duan Zhixuan. In fact, he wanted to lure Li Er's main force away from the protection of Zhengpingjian City and go south to Wenxi battlefield to fall into a trap.

Fortunately, although Wen Xi was the base of the old Pei family, who had a deep relationship with Chen Sangliang, and his money and grain situation was sloppy, his strategic location was not even as good as Jiang County in the east, and it was not a pity to lose it. Therefore, in order to be cautious, Li Er flatly rejected the suggestion of Li Shentong, Zhu Can and others to take the opportunity to fight south, and chose to hold the troops and order Duan Zhixuan to continue to block the city and defend it. At the same time, Duan Zhixuan secretly allowed him to abandon the city and retreat when he could not stand it. At the same time, Li Er, who was cautious by nature, naturally had to strengthen his reconnaissance of the roads behind Liu Heita's army, looking for the Sui army ambush that was very likely.

What happened next made Li Er even more suspicious. After hurriedly creating some siege weapons, Liu Heita's army actually launched a frontal attack on Wenxi's small city. Forget it, it even organized the people to dig trenches and rammed earth into a wall to block Duan Zhixuan's escape route, making Li Er unable to help but doubt that Liu Heita's purpose of sending troops was true, and it really came to avenge his beloved concubine.

In addition, Liu Heita also sent a large number of cavalry to fight against the scouts, desperately capturing and killing the messenger between Li Er and Duan Zhixuan. The scope of activity was very large. He invaded the main defense area of ​​Li Er's army more than once. Li Er was still calm about this, but Zhu Can, Li Shentong and others could not bear it anymore. They took turns to lead the light cavalry to attack the scouts, hitting Liu Heita's arrogance head-on. They also had good luck to capture two prisoners of war and took them to Li Er for interrogation.

The result of interrogating the prisoners gradually shook Li Er. Although one prisoner was tortured and refused to confess, the other prisoner confessed truthfully, saying that Liu Heita really wanted to avenge his concubines and his family. Everyone in the Sui army knew about this. At the same time, Liu Heita also asked generals at all levels to appease the soldiers, saying that although Li Er's main force was only fifty miles away, Liu Heita could guarantee that the main force of Li Er's army would never dare to go south. He also said that after breaking Wenxi City, all the seized money and cloth belonged to the soldiers, and Liu Heita just paid for revenge.

"Did Liu Heita really come just for revenge?"

While Li Er was even more shaken, a fatal blow suddenly came. The scout sent to Liu Heita's rear to investigate and reported that the Sui army flags were indeed found in the mountains and forests behind Liu Heita, and the number was quite large. While Li Shentong and Zhu Can and others were shocked, Li Er was overjoyed and slapped the table and said, "You can go south! If it is empty, it is solid, it is empty. Liu Heita deliberately set up more flags in the rear, clearly in order to arrange the illusion of ambushing troops and intimidate our main force to not go south to rescue Wen Xi! Immediately send an order, the entire army will prepare immediately, and tomorrow will send troops south to fight against Liu Heita's men!"

Li Shentong, who had been shouting to seek revenge on Liu Heita before, was worried, and persuaded Li Er to use troops carefully and find out the true or false of the ambush behind Liu Heita. However, Li Er smiled and said, "Don't worry, we have already discovered how many soldiers and horses there are in Hedong. In the past few days, Cao Qing and Huo Shiju and other ordinary men have not moved. Even if Liu Heita secretly mobilizes troops to set up an ambush north, how many troops will he come to mobilize without disturbing us? Don't say that there will definitely be no ambush. Even if he really has an ambush, we don't need to be afraid!"

Seeing that Li Er was full of confidence, he knew that Li Er had always been as expected, and Li Shentong, Zhu Can and others no longer objected. The next day, after Tang Xian was left to guard Zhengping, Li Er led 25,000 main forces to come south to find Liu Heita to fight to the death. In order not to give Liu Heita a chance to escape, Li Er ordered the army to go south at a fast march speed, trying not to give Liu Heita time to respond. As a result, this move was indeed effective. After discovering that the main force of Li Er's army suddenly went out, Liu Heita, who was still attacking Wenxi City, was caught off guard. He could only withdraw his troops and withdraw his troops to the camp without any time to abandon the camp. Li Er immediately divided his troops to go south and blocked Liu Heita's way back.

After quickly organizing a sentry to reconnaise the situation in the south, Li Shentong, Zhu Can and others were soon admired by Li Er. In the mountains and forests behind Liu Heita, there were only a few old and weak soldiers from a school bluffing and capturing more than half of the old and weak soldiers who were rushing to escape, Li Erjun soon learned that Liu Heita did only send one school army to arrange fake ambush in the rear. At the same time, these old and weak soldiers also explained an important situation. Liu Heita only brought 15 days of food for this time, and the food and grass could not last long.

Without any scruples, Li Er immediately ordered Zhu Can to lead his army 7,000 to the south of Liu Heita's camp to establish a camp, blocking Liu Heita's road to return. Duan Zhixuan, who was pressed by Liu Heita's head and beaten for four days, immediately led his army out of the city. He ran to the gate of Liu Heita's camp to show off his power, greeting Liu Heita's female relatives and provoking Liu Heita to fight. He was beaten by Li Er. Liu Heita was caught off guard while closing the camp and guarding the battle. While sending several messengers to the rear for help.

Although the number of cavalry was small, the light cavalry brought out by Li Er successfully captured two Sui army messengers. They found Liu Heita's letter of request for help from Huo Shiju and Wang Xingben. The letter only asked King Huo and others to raise troops north to meet Liu Heita's breakthrough as soon as possible, and did not mention anything else. The generals of Li's two army were very happy to see Xin. Not only was they confident that they would defeat Liu Heita in this battle, but they also had the intention of surrounding and fighting aid, hoping to take this opportunity to severely damage the main force of the Sui army in Hedong, and then take over the long-coveted Hedong territory.

Although Li Er, who has always been lucky, was very confident that he had good luck again this time. When he met Liu Heita's head, he was alone and advanced alone, he still did not dare to take it lightly. He still sent scouts to go south to investigate the movements of the Sui army. As a result, Li Er was both happy and secretly suspicious. Of course, he did not find the big Sui army. He was suspicious that he had not received detailed information from Guanzhong for more than ten days, just as if the Sui army in Guanzhong had strictly blocked the road level.

Li Er's doubts soon had an answer. The third day of completely encircling Liu Heita was also the time when Liu Heita's food should have only five days left. A memorial sent to Hedong to find out the news returned to Li Er's army. In addition to reporting to Li Er's report that there was no abnormality in Hedong, it was also reported that the Sui army had indeed blocked the floating bridge ferry of the Yellow River, but the purpose was not to target Li Er's army. However, the Sui army in Hedong discovered that Xue Jujun's soldiers disguised as merchants and sneaked into Hedong to Yanchi Lake in Yuncheng to buy salt. They did this in order to cut off Xue Jujun's supply of salt. At the same time, Li Er's memorial also confirmed that the Sui army did check the salt caravan extremely strictly.

After understanding why he could not receive the Guanzhong line report, the next day, when Liu Heita's food was only four days left, even greater good news suddenly came. After a messenger sent by Ren Guan went through a lot of hardships to cross the Hanoi County controlled by Li Mijun, he finally brought Li Er the great news of Li Mijun's defeat. At the same time, when Ren Guan's messenger set off, Yu Wen and had already entered the Li Yang warehouse. Wang Bo was unable to resist the starving elite Xiaoguo who had already been hungry and had to abandon the warehouse and escape.

"Bless my father's heroic spirit."

After reassuring, Li Er sighed and sat back on the handsome chair with a relaxed smile. Then Li Er did not hesitate and immediately picked up his pen and wrote a letter to Yu Wen and his surrender, suggesting that Yu Wen and his circumvent Hulao Pass and the eastern capital Luoyang, and go straight to Hedong through Hanoi County. At the same time, Li Er also promised in the letter that he would provide Yu Wen and his army with military rations to attack Guanzhong and the ferry necessary to cross the Yellow River. Finally, Li Er prepared a generous gift for the Yu Wen brothers, and arranged reliable personnel to go east and contact the Yu Wen brothers immediately.

After putting down Yu Culture and this huge rock, Li Er calmed down and concentrated on cleaning up Liu Heita. Under the premise that he knew that Liu Heita was short of food and had no place to replenish supplies, Li Shentong, Duan Zhixuan and others urged Li Er to not fight, wait for Liu Heita to break through the grain before launching a pursuit, and won the greatest victory at the smallest price in the pursuit battle. However, Li Er, who was very independent, once again opposed the opposition and insisted on winning the victory that could be obtained, and did not want to delay the time to avoid the emergence of the holidays. He resolutely launched a frontal attack on Liu Heita's camp.

The cruel camp offensive and defensive battle was launched. Liu Heita's army, who was advancing alone, had no way to retreat, and could only defend the camp to the death. Li Shentong and Duan Zhixuan, who had been bullied by Liu Heita, had the backbone of Li Er, and they all went into battle personally and led the Sui army camp. Zhu Can, who had completely broken up with Chen Sangliang, led the suicide squad to fight in person in order to show his loyalty to the new master. The Sui army camp was not strong enough and fought extremely hard. He was killed by Li Er's army several times. In the end, he relied on the suicide squad formed by Liu Heita's personal soldiers to fight to the death, and then drove Li Er's army out.

The first day of the camp's offensive and defensive battle was that corpses were everywhere. The bodies of soldiers of the two armies were piled up on the edge of the camp, and blood flowed into the Jianshui behind the Liu Heita Army camp through the ditches, dyeing the Jianshui, which had a large amount of water, turned pink. However, the Li Erjun, as the attacking party, used the war properly, advanced and retreated in an orderly manner, and leaned closely on the supplies for Wenxi City to replenish the materials, and the casualties were actually smaller than that of Liu Heita Army. In this regard, Li Erjun certainly had a great increase in confidence, but Liu Heita Army's morale was frustrated, and the soldiers began to surrender.

That night, Liu Heita sent someone out of the camp to ask Li Er for surrender. While accepting Liu Heita's surrender, Li Er arranged for his cousin Li Shuliang to lead his army to rob the camp. The result of the robbery was that Li Er and Liu Heita cursed each other for being despicable and shameless, because Li Shuliang had only halfway through the sneak attack on Liu Heita, and they encountered the sneak attack team sent by Liu Heita. The two armies suddenly encountered a melee when they were most likely to relax before dawn. They fought in a melee, and they fought unbeaten and retreated.

It is rare to believe Liu Heita once - although he only believed it for less than five minutes, he was almost imprisoned by Liu Heita's plan to surrender. Of course, the Li Erjun was furious and launched an attack on Liu Heita's army the next morning. Liu Heita led his army to defend the camp again, and shouted the helpless slogan of the camp being there and the people being destroyed.

The battle situation was more intense than the first day. The troops of the Li Erjun who took turns to fight were like a tide, constantly attacking the weak battalion defense of Liu Heita's army. Liu Heita's army fought to the death, but the unsolid enough battalion defense fortifications did not bring much advantage to Liu Heita's army. The casualties were always roughly the same as the Li Erjun, the attacking party. The fence defense line that was repaired many times was constantly opened. It was impossible to fight the large and powerful Li Erjun with his flesh and blood, and was exhausted by Li Erjun to death.

After noon, Li Erjun opened the gap and entered the camp again, forcing Liu Heita to launch a reserve force to fight hard. However, at this moment, a man in civilian costume was brought to him by Li Erjun scout. While showing his identity certificate to Li Er, he proved that he was a sub-work that Li Er had sent to the south before, he told Li Er: "Report to the right governor, the villain is responsible for the sub-work that the sentry of Anyi. At noon yesterday, a Chen thief army arrived outside the city of Anyi to rest. The Chen thief army of Anyi provided them with drinking water and food. At the same time, the road was blocked and pedestrians were not allowed to pass. The villain was afraid of being blocked in Anyi, so he hurried back to report."

"The Chen bandit reinforcements arrived in Anyi yesterday?" Li Er was a little surprised and asked hurriedly: "How many troops are there? How many cavalry? Whose flag is it?"

"The number is about 15,000, and the cavalry accounts for about 10,000, and there are about 15,600 people." Xiao Zuo replied truthfully: "It is the banner of the thief general Fang Huang."

"The banner of Fang Huang?" Li Eryi was amused and nodded and said, "No, counting the time and distance. If Fang Huang marched all the way, he might have arrived in Anyi at noon yesterday. But it doesn't matter. Most of his troops are newly formed troops, so it's not to be afraid."

"Right Governor, if Fang Huang continues to march urgently, he may come here this evening." Zhu Can couldn't wait to ask for orders: "The last general dares to lead five thousand troops south and take the initiative to fight against the tired army of the thief Fang Huang."

"I heard that there are more than a thousand war horses, so I'm impatient?" Li Er saw through his subordinates' thoughts and said with a smile: "Don't worry, let's figure out their movements first. If Fang Huangbifu wants to pick up Liu Heita at night, he will definitely rest and wait in the distance south, and wait for our scout to find their movements..."

"Report—!" The sudden roar of scouts interrupted Li Er's confident arrangement, and several scouts were rushing to the same time. Before getting off the horse, they shouted loudly: "Report to the right governor, Chen thieves are here!"

"How is it possible?!" Li Er jumped up suddenly and shouted: "How could it be so fast? How many troops are there? Have you arrived there?"

"The right governor seems to have come behind us."

A personal soldier next to him pointed to the south timidly. Li Er turned his head quickly and saw dust and smoke rolling in the official road south. There were indeed a large number of cavalry approaching quickly. Li Er first rubbed his eyes in disbelief, and then quickly shouted: "Zhu Can, go back to your camp quickly, organize the army to intercept, and buy time for our main force!"

Zhu Can closed his mouth after only half of his words, because Zhu Can had seen that the dust was churning, and the Sui cavalry had gone directly around his camp and headed north towards the main force of Li Erjun! When he looked at the enemy situation carefully, the faces of Zhu Can, Li Er and others suddenly turned pale, because they clearly saw that everyone was wearing a cloak on the arrogant and domineering front. The color of the cloak was the same as their faces, and they were all white.
Chapter completed!