The situation of the Li brothers on the battlefield of Huoyi is actually more miserable than Ren Jin introduced Wang Fu. The reason is that after several attacks, the Taiyuan Army not only failed to take Huoyi City, but on the contrary, the Huoyi Sui Army was killed and injured by the Huoyi Sui Army, who was defending the city. More than 3,000 people were killed and injured, but even the Huoyi city wall was unable to rush up several times.

Just like what Ren Guan introduced to Wang Fubao, the Li brothers had indeed seen that Liu Heita's tactical purpose was to pull the Taiyuan army into a war of attrition. The Li brothers did make a mistake of underestimating the enemy. They felt that the main force of the Sui army could not reach the Linfen battlefield for reinforcements in a short period of time. The Sui army in Hedong was far less effective than the main force of Daxing under Chen Sangliang's command. At the same time, they suffered a lot of casualties in the Queshigu battlefield. Their own army had a great grasp of Huoyi, and they were also greedy for Huoyi's strategic position and the mountains of food and grass military supplies accumulated in Linfen City. Therefore, the Li brothers decided to take the initiative first and bring troops south to fight Huoyi.

The tenacious resistance of Huoyi Sui army completely shattered the dream of the Li brothers. The Li brothers who had defeated Liu Heita several times before also realized that it was not without reason that the mortal enemy Chen Sangliang trusted and used Liu Heita so much. Liu Heita, who commanded the Hedong side division, was indeed not as powerful as the Taiyuan Army, which was powerful in military strength, but his cohesion and tenacity greatly exceeded the expectations of the Li brothers. At the same time, Liu Heita's excellent tactical command ability also made the Li brothers extremely depressed, "This man was really just a little commander of the thief army before? When he fought yesterday, he was three points better than those famous generals who had experienced many battles?"

Continuing to attack with force was not sure and destined to be more severe. The retreat was too unwilling to accept the impact on the morale of the army, and it may also lead to the withdrawal of Dou Jiande's army, who finally pulled into the battlefield in Linfen, withdrew the troops. The Li brothers gradually found that they were like an unlucky guy riding on the back of a tiger. However, at this time, after Dou Jiande's assistant minister of the Ministry of Rites, Master Xu, received a lot of benefits from the Li brothers, suddenly provided the Li brothers with an important information worth a thousand gold. Liu Heita, who made the Li brothers miserable, actually Dou Jiande was a young friend! He had also received a lot of favors from Dou Jiande!

If the Li brothers didn't know how to use such a good relationship, they would have to change their names to Li Dasha and Li Ersha. So as soon as they received a joint report from Ren Guan and Yin Kaishan, Li Jiancheng immediately slapped the table and said happily: "Okay! God is really helping our army! Without further ado, we will condemn the envoy to pay homage to King Changle again and ask him to surrender Liu Heita with letters!"

"Brother, wait!" Li Er quickly stopped him and bowed to Li Jiancheng and said, "Brother, according to my opinion, you cannot and do not have to ask Dou Jiande for help directly. First, the road is long and time-consuming. Second, since Dou Jiande has such a friendship with Liu Heita, he must have the idea of ​​policing Liu Heita himself, and may not help us. Third, Liu Heita has received great favor from Chen Yingliang. Even if Dou Jiande personally comes forward to surrender, Liu Heita may not accept it."

"Of course I know these." Li Jiancheng smiled and said, "I just wanted a letter of surrender from Dou Jiande, and then handed them to Liu Heita in public, so that Huoyi's thieves' army could suspicion from each other, and also took the opportunity to make Chen Yingliang suspicious of Liu Heita and create opportunities for our army to capture Huoyi."

Li Er shook his head and said, "Dou Jiande personally came forward to surrender Liu Heita, so that the Huoyi bandit army can know the relationship between Liu Heita and Dou Jiande, which can indeed make the Huoyi bandit army suspicious of each other, but the strength is far from enough, and it is not enough to make the Huoyi bandit army rebellious without fighting and kill each other. I have a plan. If it can be successful, even if the Huoyi bandit army cannot kill each other, it will definitely make the Huoyi bandit army suspicious and rebellious without fighting."

When Li Jiancheng heard this, he was overjoyed and asked Li Er where the plan came from. Li Er smiled and replied: "At present, among the generals of the bandit army in Huoyi City, Wang Xingben has the most qualifications and the highest prestige. He is neither Chen Yingliang's direct subordinate nor Liu Heita's confidant general. He is the surrendered general Liu Heita, even if he doesn't say anything, he will definitely be very dissatisfied in his heart. He is our most ideal object of separation."

"Since that's the case, why don't we fake a letter written by Liu Heita to Dou Jiande, saying that he had received Dou Jiande's handwritten letter of surrender, and was very moved. It was just that because Dou Jiande was far away in Linming and was unwilling to surrender to us, so we invited Dou Jiande to lead the troops to Huoyi. At that time, Liu Heita will not only open the city to surrender to Dou Jiande, but will also offer his six counties under Hedong under Dou Jiande's army. Then, we just need to try to get Wang Xingben to get this letter..."

"My brother is indeed a clever plan! How can we get Wang Xingben to get this letter?" Li Jiancheng asked again happily. Li Er smiled and whispered to Li Jiancheng that he had come up with in a short time. Li Jiancheng was extremely satisfied and immediately followed the plan. Li Er also used the official documents and letters written by Liu Heita who had obtained through various channels before, picked up the pen, and forged a letter written by Liu Heita who had almost no flaws...

So, one night later, when Wang Xingben, the general of the Sui army, was patrolling the city defense on the city wall, an unexpected incident happened naturally. Under the moonlight, a man dressed in a commoner was chased and chopped by the Taiyuan Army patrol and fled to the city. He shouted loudly that he was the messenger sent by Liu Heita from the city to contact the outside world. During his journey south, he was accidentally discovered by the enemy and had to escape back. He asked the Sui army on the city to put down the hanging basket to save him. Wang Xingben believed it and immediately ordered the soldiers to put down the hanging basket.

At this time, a new accident occurred. The Taiyuan Army patrol team, who was chasing the messenger, suddenly shot arrows at once. They were powerful feather arrows shot from strong bows and crossbows. They shot the unlucky messenger to death. Then, Taiyuan Army soldiers shouted to come forward to grab the corpse and search for the letter. Wang Xingben immediately ordered the arrows to shoot the Taiyuan Army patrol team away.

——There is another detail that must be mentioned during this period. The unlucky messenger turned around after being caught in the arrow, and murmured with an incredible look on his face, "Why do you really shoot arrows?" Then several more feather arrows flew over, causing the messenger who stood in the bright moonlight as required to expose his body to shut his mouth forever.

After talking about the details, he returned to the main topic. After shooting away the Taiyuan Army patrol team with random arrows, Wang Xingben, who saw the messenger falling to the ground, immediately ordered the soldiers to go down to the city to save people. As a result, the person was already dead. When he carefully searched the body, the soldiers of the Sui army actually found a bloody letter sealed by a firearm on the body. Finally, he looked carefully at the cover of the letter with the light of the torch. Wang Xingben's face changed again. On the cover of the letter, the words "Dou Jiande, the King of Changle, were clearly written, and the signature was the words "Liu Heita, a young friend!

Then, of course, it was Liu Heita's turn to open his mouth and couldn't explain it clearly. Facing Wang Xingben with a suspicious face, Liang Naizhu and Wu Cong and other Sui army civil and military officials, as well as Cao Qing, who was at a loss, Liu Heita, who was under the melon field, had to make up his mind for half a stick of incense before he made up his mind, handed the seal back to Wang Xingben and others, and said, "You can open it yourself, it's not bad. I admit that Dou Jiande and I are young friends. When I was a teenager, my family was poor and I often had to be helped by him, and my friendship with him was extraordinary. But we have lost contact for a long time, and this letter was not written by me."

He looked at Liu Heita very vigilantly. Wang Xingben then opened the letter. Liang Naizhu, Wu Cong and others hurriedly came up to read together. However, after seeing the content of the letter, Wang Xingben, Liang Naizhu and others quickly turned pale as paper. Cao Qing, who was promoted from the stroke by Liu Heita, trembled all over and murmured, "How is this possible? How is it possible? It's impossible!"

"Can I let me see it?"

Liu Heita asked, Wang Xingben and others hesitated for a moment, then submitted the letter to Liu Heita again, and then immediately stepped down to be careful. At the same time, Wang Xingben and Liang Naizhu carefully supported the handle of the knife on their waist intentionally or unintentionally. Liu Heita noticed these small movements but didn't care, but just spread out the letter and looked carefully. However, Wang Xingben and others were like him, probably after reading the letter that was exactly the same as his handwriting, Liu Heita's face became very pale, and he was trembling for a long time and couldn't say a word.

The sound of the nervous breathing of Wang Xingben and others was so quiet that even the sound of Wang Xingben and others could be clearly heard. In the eyes of the public, Liu Heita closed his eyes first and thought for a long time. Then Liu Heita opened his eyes suddenly and shouted: "The personal soldiers obey the order!"

"promise!"

Liu Heita's personal soldiers in the hall sang their promises in unison, subconsciously holding the handle of the knife together. Wang Xingben and others were so nervous that they drew their swords immediately. Who would have thought that Liu Heita shouted again: "You will disband immediately and move to the outside camp! In the future, follow the command of General Wang Xingben. Before our army's main force arrives in Huoyi to rescue the siege, you are not allowed to meet with me again!"

Everyone in the hall was shocked, and Liu Heita's personal soldiers thought they had heard it wrong. When they quickly asked Liu Heita for verification, Liu Heita shouted: "Didn't hear it clearly? Leave the lobby immediately and move to the outside camp. In the future, they will only accept General Wang's command order! This is the commander's military order, and it will be implemented immediately!"

Seeing that Liu Heita's tone was stern, the soldiers sang their promises and said goodbye to leave the lobby. After all the soldiers were exposed, Liu Heita turned to Wang Xingben and said, "General Wang, now I have no personal soldiers available. Please give me half of your personal soldiers so that they can be used for command. Also, General Liang, Magistrate of Wu County, each of you lends me ten personal soldiers to choose those you can trust."

"Big..., Grand Marshal." Wang Xingben came to his senses for a while and said in a squint: "My general didn't say anything about you, why are you doing this?"

"I must avoid suspicion!" Liu Heita answered decisively, and bowed to everyone and said, "Everyone, I don't blame you. The enemy's plan of disagreement is indeed vicious, and I imitate my notes vividly, almost no difference. If I were you, I would have suspicion. I want to break the enemy's plan of disagreement, this is the only way."

Wang Xingben and others' expressions slowed down and they quickly returned the salute to Liu Heita. However, Liu Heita said: "Donalds, the purpose of the enemy's use of this trick is nothing more than to want our army to suspect each other, cause chaos within, create fighter opportunities for them to break through Huoyi, which also proves that our strategy of sticking to Huoyi City is correct, which has caused great pain to the Taiyuan thief army and has to use such despicable tricks. Since the enemy is uncomfortable, we will make them difficult to bear it! As long as we continue to stick to Huoyi to the end, it will not only make the Taiyuan thief army use a lot of military and material resources in vain, but also completely shatter their tactical plan to defend the enemy from outside! When His Highness the King of Tang personally led the main force to the north, we can easily destroy the Taiyuan thief army ten times! hundred times!"

"What the commander said is very true. We will continue to stick to Huoyi and make it difficult for the Taiyuan bandit army to suffer from it!" Wang Xingben and others bowed and agreed.

"Very good." Liu Heita nodded with satisfaction and said calmly: "Don't worry, Your Highness, Your Highness, treat me with kindness again. Even if I am broken into pieces, I will never do anything to be sorry to him. You also worry, Linfen counties have fallen one after another, and our soldiers have suffered huge casualties in the battlefield of Queshi Valley. These are my own responsibility. If Your Highness, if I ask for guilt in the future, I will bear it alone, and it has nothing to do with you!"

After saying that, Liu Heita returned the letter to Wang Xingben and others, and ordered them to report the matter to Chen Sangliang by themselves. However, despite the persuasion of Cao Qing and others, they insisted on replacing all their personal soldiers with their confidant guards. In order to ensure the safety of the city, Wang Xingben and others did not insist on being humble. After saying guilt to Liu Heita, they sent their confidant subordinates to serve as personal soldiers for Liu Heita. At the same time, Wang Xingben and others jointly submitted a letter to send the memorial together with the forged letter to Daxing and report to Chen Sangliang without mentioning it.

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The Li brothers were waiting for the chaos within Huoyi and the Sui army, the news that Wang Fubao, the general of Dou Jiande's army, who was very similar to Liu Heita, was also conveyed through a fast horse. Master Xu, who had countless benefits to the Taiyuan army, was fed up with the report to Dou Jiande. What was even more unlucky about Wang Fubao was that on this day, Dou Jiande's confidant, left servant Qi Shanxing happened to send a report on the same day, saying that he failed to attack Shangdang County and suffered a lot of losses. Dou Jiande was in a very bad mood at first, and when he heard that Wang Fubao dared to resist his order, Dou Jiande immediately sent a squall.

"Wang Fubao is a man! What a courage! I ordered you to attack Linfen, but you dare not execute the orders. I dare to say that you are commanding troops outside. My orders cannot restrain you! Are you a man tired of living? You are tired of living?!"

Seeing Dou Jiande slamming the table and smashing the bench, he was seriously dissatisfied with the reason why Wang Fubao was too popular. He echoed Wang Fubao's anti-order behavior. Some people couldn't wait to express their concern, worried that Wang Fubao wanted to rebel and rebel, and reminded Dou Jiande to be wary of it. Fortunately, there was a Song Zhengben under Dou Jiande who was not cut off his head and said in a timely manner: "King, General Wang has always been loyal to you. He refused to attack Linfen, and must have his own difficulties. The king should not believe it. It is best to send someone to ask General Wang about the reason, and then make a decision."

After listening to Song Zhengben's advice, Dou Jiande, who still trusts Song Zhengben, was inevitably a little shaken. However, it was a pity that at the critical moment, Dou Jiande's brother-in-law Cao Dan jumped out and advised Dou Jiande: "King, Wang Fubao has made small achievements in his own way. He has always been arrogant and arrogant. Now he is alone and has no one to restrain himself. He openly resists your order and order. His unjust intention is already obvious. The ministers believe that it is best to summon Wang Fubao back to Linming and seize his military power immediately and send another general to take over the army, so that he can prevent it."

"No!" Song Zhengben was shocked and opposed it tightly: "King, you must not do this! Not to mention changing commanders at the last stage is a taboo in military strategists. Wang Fubao has defeated the Chen thief army twice before. If he is replaced by him, the morale of the army will definitely be dissatisfied. It will not only hurt morale heavily, but also give the Chen thief army the opportunity to take the opportunity to counterattack!"

Changing the commander in the last battle is indeed a taboo in military strategists. Dou Jiande, who knew this, suddenly hesitated. Seeing that the matter was going to be yellow, Brother Cao turned his eyes and had an idea, and hurriedly said, "King, why not do this? Anyway, Qi Pushe and others have opened the road from Linming to Linfen. Our army has already seized a lot of money and food in Linfen, and the food and grass are worry-free. It is better to let the general lead the army to reinforce the battlefield in Linfen, assist the friendly forces in Taiyuan to seize the capital of Linfen County and the Chen thieves in the northern expedition, and also command and monitor Wang Fubao for the king. If he really has a strange intention, the general can also stay there!"

"No!" Song Zhengben jumped three feet high again and said repeatedly: "My king, you can't increase troops in Linfen anymore. The main force of Chen thieves is about to advance to Taiyuan. If our army goes to Linfen again, it will only give Chen Yingliang the opportunity to take the opportunity to severely damage our army! Ten thousand troops are the limit, so even if the battle situation in Linfen is not good, our army can retreat much easier."

Although Song Zhengben's dissuasion was a loyal advice, Ling Jing, another loyal minister under Dou Jiande, saw another point and made a speech: "King, General Cao's suggestion is feasible. Our army formed an alliance with the Taiyuan army to fight against the Chen thieves. They have already formed a mortal hatred with the Chen thieves and have also worked together with the Taiyuan army. If the king does not provide strong support to the Li family in Taiyuan, the Taiyuan army will be destroyed by the Chen thieves! Once the Li family is destroyed, our army will face the threat of the main force of the Chen thieves alone and be isolated without help. It is better to take this opportunity to increase troops in Linfen, and more effectively restrain the flanks of the Chen thieves and join forces with the Taiyuan army to defeat the main force of the Chen thieves."

After saying that, Ling Jing quickly added: "Besides, Yueyang City is under the control of our army. Our army can rely on this city to attack the flanks of Chen thieves and harass his food route. When retreating, you can calmly withdraw to Shangdang, take the initiative to grasp everything, and appropriately increase your troops will be no big problem. If there is a real opportunity to defeat the enemy in the future, the king can also take the opportunity to lead the army to the west, first defeat the main force of Chen thieves, then take the lead to the emperor's hegemony!"

"Ling Qing's words are just right!" Dou Jiande was overjoyed and immediately made a decision: "Okay! Just do it! Cao Dan, you immediately lead 10,000 troops to Linfen, and command Wang Fubao and Taiyuan friendly troops to join forces to capture Linfen!"

Cao Dan was overjoyed and quickly sang a promise to accept the order. Then he asked carefully: "Will the last general lead his army to Linfen immediately confiscate Wang Fubao's military power?"

Dou Jiande hesitated for a moment before saying, "There is no need to rush to confiscate all his military power. Wang Fubao is still capable in war. He must make good use of his strengths. Among the 10,000 troops sent to him by the left and right, there are less than 3,000 people who are his subordinates, and he can't make many tricks. In this way, after you arrive in Linfen, you will first recall the other troops under his command and listen to them, and then drive his headquarters to attack Linfen for the vanguards to fight against Chen Zhe army."
Chapter completed!