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Yang Qing led his troops to attack the Wagang people. He was successful in the battle and was very happy. However, he thought that in a flash, he would kill the city. Yang Qingyi still didn't believe it, and pinched his thigh hard, thinking that it was a dream.

But the pain in his legs made him realize that this was not a dream, it was a cruel reality!

But Yang Qing was still confused when Li Mi took the city. Of course, he knew Li Mi. In fact, there were few people in the court who didn't know Li Mi. This boy had always been rebellious. He was first a personal guard around the emperor, but was dismissed by the emperor. Later, he rebelled with Yang Xuangan to make a counselor around Yang Xuangan. He heard that he had made three strategies, including Yang Guang's retreat to conquer Liaodong, Guanzhong, and Dongdu. Yang Guang was sweating all over when he heard the best strategy, Zhongcai, and Zhongcai, saying that if Yang Xuangan really believed what Li Mi said, the Sui Dynasty would be in danger. From then on, the Sui Dynasty officials did not know Li Mi. After Yang Guang returned to the Eastern Capital, he ordered the Guard Mansion to capture Yang Xuangan. Li Mi was the most important. Yang Xuangan was killed by his brothers and offered his head to the Eastern Capital, but Li Mi was missing and he was extremely cunning.

Yang Qing also had the idea of ​​capturing Li Mi, but he never dreamed that when the two met again, Li Mi came to the wall, but he stood under the wall and looked up at him.

"Where is Yuan Shanxing, let him get out to see me." Yang Qing shouted loudly under the city. He suddenly realized a lot of things. Li Mi was absolutely unable to get Jindi Pass alone, and there must be someone to respond. The people who have the ability to control the city gate tower were Yuan Shanxing and Fang Xianbo. No wonder Yuan Shanxing tried his best to persuade him to leave the city. It must be because he had the opposite intention. He did not listen to Fang Xianbo's words, which eventually led to a big mistake now.

Yang Qing's eyes widened wide. However, he felt regret in his heart and thought that he would not listen to the words of his loyal ministers. In the end, Fang Xianbo was loyal and was afraid that he had been plotted against by Yuan Shanxing at this moment.

With a whistle, a round thing fell down and hit the ground, with a loud bang and dust splashed everywhere.

Yang Qing stepped back a few steps, looked down and saw that his eyes turned black. The thing was bleeding from his head. Although it was thrown into blood, he could vaguely tell the appearance of Yuan Shanxing.

What died was Yuan Shan Deed?

"Mr. Yang asked Yuan Shanxing to get out and see you. I have done it for you. I don't know what else to give?" Li Mi was not anxious.

Yang Qing said in a trembling voice: "Is it because Uncle Xian rebelled against me? Li Mi, please let Uncle Fang come out and meet me."

I thought Li Mi would throw her head out, but she didn't expect Fang Xianbo to slowly appear on the wall and bowed to the city gate tower: "Mr. Yang, I wonder what instructions do you have to give me if you want to be humble? "

Yang Qing was angry and cursed: "Bo Fang Xianbo, I treat you very well, but you are the ones who are against me?"

Fang Xianbo was still respectful, "Mr. Yang treats me well, but now the tyrant monarch is injustice and makes people live in trouble. Lord Yang may want to sacrifice his life with the tyrant monarch, but the generals do not want to. Thinking that Mr. Pushan responds to the words of Taolizi is the true destiny of the world. Everyone returns to his heart, but the generals are just to follow the public's wishes. Lord Yang, as the saying goes, those who know the current affairs are heroes. Mr. Pushan has always loved talents. If Mr. Yang abandons the darkness and turns to the light, Mr. Pushan will definitely not blame him and will also entrust important tasks. What should he do? Please think twice."

"I think of your ancestors for 18 generations." Yang Qing cursed. He had no choice but to lead the cavalry out, and faced the high walls, "Fang Xianbo, you are so rebellious and committing rebellion. It is a death sentence for the family to be destroyed. If you wake up and capture the rebel Li Mi, I will remember your great achievements. All the things that happened were written off, if not, if not..."

He even said two things, but he couldn't think of how to punish Fang Xianbo. If they had turned against each other, what else would be wrong?

Li Mi laughed, "I heard that Mr. Yang said that he thought about his ancestors from eighteen generations, but I remembered an old thing, that is, Mr. Yang's ancestor seemed to be Guo?"

When he said this, he just smiled, and others didn't understand it, but Yang Qing was shocked and secretly shouted "Oh no, how did Li Mi know that he was afraid of death?

If this matter is spread, regardless of whether Jinti Pass is taken back or not, Yang Qing knows that with Yang Guang's suspicion, he may not be sure when he will cut off his head.

Seeing that Li Mi stopped talking, Yang Qing pointed a spear in his hand and shouted loudly: "Li Mi, don't be proud. You got Jindi Pass today. I'm afraid you can't hold on for a few days and let's go."

He left Jindi Pass and headed towards Xingyang County with thousands of soldiers. The city was high and thick, and it was not possible for Yang Qing to attack the ground at this moment. Besides, everyone sent troops, just thinking about turning back to the city to rest. Now they were hungry and exhausted. Now they could still save their lives when they retreated. If it were any longer, the scattered Wagang crowd rushed forward, and with the soldiers in the city working together, they might not be able to be wiped out. After Yang Qing understood this,

He immediately led his troops to withdraw, hoping to gather troops in Xingyang counties and regain the troops and regain the power and make up for the mistakes. Although bandits have been rampant in history, fortresses like Li Mi have never been long, because the court has always attached great importance to this and will attack with large troops. After all, bandits are bandits, and even if they occupy them, they are just plundering and dare not last long. This is also the reason why Yang Qing decided to withdraw. But when Yang Qing thought of Li Mi saying that his original surname was Guo, he was anxious and anxious.

When he saw Yang Qing leaving in the city, even though Fang Xuanzao was very calm and happy, Li Mi still looked calm and looked at Fang Xianbo with a smile and said, "Xian Bo has made great contributions to the people of the world. Li Mi thanked Xianbo for the people of the world."

Li Mi bowed long, and Fang Xianbo hurriedly returned the greeting: "Pushan Gong is so important, and Xianbo only does some duty. Pushan Gong responds to the words of Taolizi, and then enters the world and treats people with kindness. Xianbo admires him and has long been willing to submit. S Xuanzao comes to persuade him, which is exactly what I want!"

All three of them laughed, and Li Mi smiled and said, "Jindi Pass was settled. Please work hard on this matter of pacifying the soldiers in the city."

"The responsibility is unshirkable."

Fang Xianbo finished speaking, a group of people were already in a mess in the distance, and they were confused. Shan Xiongxin rushed to the front and shouted to the wall: "Honor Pushan, have you ever succeeded?"

Li Mi asked the city to open the city and put down the suspension bridge. He asked Shan Xiongxin and others to enter the city. He walked down the city gate tower quickly and held Shan Xiongxin's hand and said: "Xiongxin is worthy of being the number one brave general in Wagang. He is brave and wise, and this time he lured the enemy to win a complete victory, and he made a great contribution."

Shan Xiongxin grinned, "I am familiar with the way to lose and win. It is the first time in my life. I finally saw the methods of Pushan Gong, and Xiongxin was convinced."

Li Mi took Jindi Pass with ease. Because he knew the enemy very well, he heard Shan Xiongxin praise him, but he did not take credit. He said softly: "I would like to restrain Xiongxin. We only take care of the government's supplies, grain, and we can open warehouses and release grain. As for the people, do not harass them."

The bandits brought by Shan Xiongxin entered Jindi Pass, and their eyes were lit up, so they were about to rob. Shan Xiongxin nodded, "Yes, this is what you do to do big things. You only know how to plunder, but it's just a bandit."

Under Fang Xianbo's leadership, Shan Xiongxin took his men to the government office to get food and wealth. After a long time, Zhai Rang brought a group of Wagang people to incline.

Wang Dangren, Wang Ruxin, Zhai Hong, Jia Xiong and his group were all ready to go, but Zhai Hong shouted: "Brothers, go. Go grab money, grab food, and grab women!"

Li Mi's eyes were even more ridiculous, but Wang Dangren grabbed Zhai Hong, "Zhai Erzhuan, now the people in the city are unstable and suitable for comfort. It is not advisable to rob them on a large scale. Besides, the money and food in the city's government offices are enough for us to use..."

"Are you the head of the family or me the head of the family?" Zhai Hong said dissatisfied.

Wang Dangren coughed, and Zhai Rang shouted in a deep voice: "Brother, wait first, this city is always built by Pushan Gong..."

"If Xiong Xin didn't lead the troops, would he fart?" Zhai Hong glanced at Li Mi sideways.

Li Mi was not annoyed either, but just laughed, but Wang Bodang clenched his fists and wanted to step forward, but was pulled by Fang Xuanzao.

Zhai Rang pulled an old face and scolded, "Brother. If you say that, then you can go out immediately."

Although Zhai Hong was the eldest brother, he was still a little afraid of Zhai Rang after all. He muttered, but he didn't dare to say anything else. Zhai Rang then said: "Pushan Gong, you used a trick to attack this city, and I would like to ask you to distribute money and goods."

Li Mi sighed softly, "Master, don't worry about allocating money. Have you ever thought that although Zhang Xutuo was in Huainan area to suppress bandits, how can he not come back to rescue him when Jindi Pass fell? Even if Zhang Xutuo did not turn around, Yang Qing lost Jindi Pass, most of them were eager to retake him. At this moment, most of them summoned Xingyang County to attack..."

Zhai Rang changed color a little and said, "What should I do?"

Zhai Hong said, "This is not simple. After robbing the property of Jindi Pass, everyone took it back to Wagang, and then hid it."

Although he said something rude and timid, Wang Ruxin, Zhai Mohou and others nodded. Zhai Rang was also intent, but he still asked Li Mi for advice, "Pu Shangong is also willing to make an announcement, I am determined to respond."

Li Mi looked at Zhai Rang with a smile, "Master of the village, if you follow my wishes, you will definitely not retreat again. Now we have the supplies, food and food in Jindi Pass. As long as we open the warehouse and release grain, we can summon tens of thousands of people. At that time, we will select elite soldiers, use the Great Sui territory to arm our arms, and go straight through the Tongji Canal to seize the counties of Xingyang County. At that time, Yang Qing, as the prefect of Xingyang, was exhausted, how could he have troops to attack Jindi Pass? Xingyang County has more storage. If Xingyang County takes Xingyang again, the world can be defeated."

"But you forget something." Zhai Hong said lukewarmly: "Let's talk about whether we can conquer Xingyang and whether we can defeat Yang Qing. Just say that if Zhang Xutuo knew that we were attacking Xingyang, the troops would definitely come back to attack us. Li Mi, even if you have a clever plan, this war will probably depend on us. Who can stop Zhang Xutuo?"

Everyone was panicked. Although what Zhai Hong said was unpleasant, who knew that this was the truth. Zhang Xutuo fought south and north for a long time and had never been defeated. He had already left a shadow in everyone's hearts. Not to mention fighting, as long as he heard Zhang Xutuo attacking, he would have fled in panic.

Li Mi smiled and said, "Zhang Xutuo is also a human being. He is not a god. If he is a human being, he will have weaknesses. The leader of the village, I attack Xingyang, although attacking instead of defense, but I also know that Zhang Xutuo must come. If you believe in me, success or failure will be here. If you follow my plan, Wagang will definitely be remembered for thousands of years. I have a plan to deal with Zhang Xutuo. If you don't believe it, I will not stop it. I just have the opportunity to lose it. I will never come again. If you lose this opportunity, Wagang is afraid..."

He wanted to speak but stopped. Zhai Ranghuan looked at everyone, either excited, cowardly, disdainful, or hesitant, and finally made up his mind and shouted: "Anyway, his mother's life is also picked up. As Pushan Gong said, we will sacrifice our best!"

Countless bandits surrounded Xiangyang City everywhere, and Xiangyang City has become an isolated city!

The bright river surface, the green mountains and the open plains are filled with whereabouts of bandits. Although there is no structure, it is also heartbreaking to be dense like ant.

Xiangyang City is located on the southern bank of the central Han River. It is backed by the water and is easy to defend but difficult to attack. Most bandits are concentrated on the plains of the mountain to attack and fight to the death, one after another.

Under the sunshine, the flag is clear and the armor is shining, but everyone's heart is covered with dark clouds.

On the city tower, the soldiers of the Great Sui Dynasty stared at the bandits attacking from the city gate with a serious expression, and felt panic in their hearts. Although bandits in the Sui Dynasty have been everywhere in recent years, they have been making small fuss. It is nothing more than bandits plundering surrounding counties and counties, and the officers and soldiers attacked them in a hurry. In essence, the bandits before this were not in terms of strength or purpose. Just like today, bandits attacked Xiangyang City with heavy troops, which was unprecedented.

The more bandits were suppressing more and more. Yang Guang's squandering in recent years has made more loyal ministers and righteous men look forward to squandering everything. From the moment he went to Jiangnan, many people were already desperate.

Now that the queen is wandering around Yangzhou, the words in the garden are not only widely circulated in the eastern capital. But in Huainan, Xiangyang, and Central Plains, few people know that Yang Guang went to Jiangnan to return to Yang for Chen Xuanhua. Even those who know about it think this is nothing more than nonsense. Who believes that the dead will be resurrected?

Since Yang Guang came to Yangzhou, everyone believed that Yang Guang had given up on the country and wanted to retreat to Jiangnan to protect himself. Since the country was unowned, of course anyone could make the decision!

All the accumulation of dissatisfaction broke out at that moment, and Xu Shiji was not the only one who valued the geography of Xiangyang City. They may not be as clear as Xu Shiji. They may not have considered fighting for dominance in the world at all, or they may have just wanted to plunder wealth. They have to spend one day, but they already have the courage to target important towns in the Sui Dynasty.

Zhu Can, the King of Louluo, is one of them.

Zhu Can had led his troops to attack Xiangyang City for three days. During these three days, countless bandits were killed or injured, but they were still like moths to the flames, which made the Sui soldiers more and more frightened.

Zhu Can gathered people to raise an uprising in Huainan County, and the momentum was huge, but like a flash in the pan, he was defeated by Zhang Xutuo with one blow. He knew that he was not as good as Zhang Xutuo, so he simply developed along the Huai River upstream, intending to be as far away as possible from Zhang Xutuo. Zhu Can led his troops to burn, kill and plunder along the way, and did everything he could. He quickly aimed at Xiangyang. The land here is fertile, with abundant food and clothing, and the city is high and solid. If he could conquer, it would be a mountain of gold.

This place is too far away from Zhang Xutuo, and Zhang Xutuo has been fighting bandits near Henan, so he doesn't care about this place.

King Luoluo ordered to conquer Xiangyang and slaughter the city for three days. Those who enter the city first can plunder the jewelry and women of Xiangyang City at will!

Under heavy rewards, there must be brave men. All the bandits obey orders, and they will continue to attack like moths.

The moat had been filled with corpses long ago. Even under the city of Xiangyang, the corpses were piled up very high. Some people simply stepped on the corpses, carried ladders, or climbed with homemade ropes. They were shot down by arrows from the city and quickly joined the ranks of those corpses. The moat was filled with blood from the purple ground, and under the sunlight, it was filled with disgusting smell.

The weather was hot, the corpses quickly rotted, mosquitoes, ants, flies buzzed, and a strange smell and color rose under the entire Xiangyang city.

Even the thieves who were sieging the city were still reflected in the sad red.

The soldiers on the top of the city watched the bandits under the city rushing towards them like wild animals, and their archery was a little soft, but they heard the bandits' slogans. After three days of massacre, they could only resist. In the distance, bandits kept advancing towards Xiangyang City, wearing tattered clothes and bare hands, but they also came to climb up the city wall with all their might.

Suddenly, the sound of drums sounded loudly at the top of the city gate tower was filled with soldiers, and countless boiling oil fell down. The bandits under the wall could not hide and screamed in pain. However, the soldiers on the top of the city burned torches and threw them down, and the wall turned into a sea of ​​fire in an instant.

The bandits temporarily stopped their attacks and retreated one after another. They only saw the bandits in the sea of ​​fire screaming and screaming with smoke and screaming hard. After walking a few steps, they fell to the ground dejectedly, and gradually became burned to charcoal.

The oil was stirring up. No matter how alive and dead people were touched, thick smoke would roll in an instant. The flames were scorching, and a stream of black smoke evaporated upwards. It soared straight into the sky, covering the scorching sun.

Both sides of the battle were silent for a moment. No matter how fierce the siege was, they could not pounce on the fire. Both sides stared at the phantoms in the flames and listened to the screams from hell, but there was no mercy in their eyes, because they all knew that the next person who was wailing like this was probably himself, on the battlefield. There was no mercy at all.

The flags were waving in the open plains. One man had his eyebrows and beard as thick as his beard, and his mouth was so big that he could break to the back of his head. He was sitting on the high platform far away, watching his subordinates attacking Xiangyang City with interest, with a cruel smile on his lips. Several bandits stepped forward and whispered something. The man was overjoyed. With a wave of his hand, the bandits had already taken a group of crying women and women toward Xiangyang City.

Some women and children saw the fire in front of them and knew the bandits' intentions. They retreated in horror, but were killed by the bandits escorted behind them with guns in a flash.

On the distant mountain, Zhou Muru asked resentfully, and Xiao Buyi leaned on the mountainside and looked at him. His eyes also showed helplessness.

"Boss Xiao, this Zhu Can is simply not a human being, we must not let it go!" Zhou Muru said again.

Xiao Buyi still refused to answer, but just looked at Xu Shiji beside him.

"Boss Xiao, you're saying something." Zhou Muru pushed Xiao Buyi and said angrily.

Xiao Buyi finally said, "I have heard of the world's knowledge. I have already said that this war will be the world's command."

Zhou Muru looked at Xu Shiji and frowned and said, "Xu Shiji. You call yourself a talented person. You come here for a day and see these old, young, women and children die. Do you just watch it? To be honest, I am extremely disappointed with you!"

Xu Shiji did not look back. He just looked ahead and pursed his lips tightly. At this time, the flames under Xiangyang City gradually faded. The bandits drove the old, young, women and children to the city, and the defenders above the city stopped firing arrows. After all, the soldiers guarding the city here are also children of the surrounding counties and counties. These women and children were all arrested from the surrounding areas, and there were probably their relatives inside.

A soldier suddenly shouted, "Mom, is it you..."

An old woman in the city trembled constantly, "Baby..."

The defenders on the city suddenly rushed down the city gate and shouted, "They can't kill my mother. You guys quickly open the city gate and let my mother come in, ah..."

The shrill shouts came to an abrupt end, no more soldiers' shouts, and no heart-wrenching thoughts. A low voice came from the city gate tower, "Those who are in chaos in the morale of the army will be killed without mercy!"

Everyone knows that the soldiers in the area have been beheaded by the county magistrate Dou Yi who guards Xiangyang City.

The old woman cried, "My son..."
To be continued...