Chapter eight hundred and sixty-four good birds choose wood and perch
Yang Yi had no chance to resist, so he had no choice but to be captured. He was tied up with a group of people suspected of being Youzhou spies, and was escorted to Wuxiang County by the soldiers.
He thought that he would eat jail food in the county for a few days and then consider an escape strategy after entering the prison. However, he did not expect that these people were very simple and rude. They escorted them directly to the open space and then called a team of executioners to chop them off one by one.
brain.
Everyone else was beheaded honestly. When it was Yang Yi's turn, he was frightened and unwilling to shout loudly: "I didn't expect that I, Yang Yi, who wanted to save myself, ended up in such a situation. Now the world is in chaos.
Are you going to kill the hero by mistake like this?"
Perhaps this sentence is very similar to what some people said. A school captain who was in charge of the execution at the scene suddenly raised his hand and shouted to the executioner to stop: "Wait a minute!"
The captain paced over with his hands behind his back, and said to him with a sneer: "Nowadays, the world is indeed full of chaos and strife, but not everyone can compare himself to a hero. How can you be so virtuous and capable, and dare to show yourself like this? Is it possible?
In a desperate struggle to please others?"
Although Yang Yi's shoulders were tied, he still raised his neck proudly and said: "I am the guest of the crown prince and the leader of the march under Shi Chaoyi's command in the East Palace of Emperor Yan. I saw that most of the Yan army were arrogant and rabble-rous and could not take on the great task of pacifying the world.
I came here to surrender to the imperial army. But I didn’t expect that the north and the south are all the same. It seems that the real hope of the world is still in the Tang Dynasty, still in Jiangdong."
After hearing what Yang Yi said was not only passionate but also well-founded, the captain retorted loudly: "What you said is wrong. We, King Yong, have always been thirsty for talents. The Second Young Master Chong
General Leopard has always respected talents. If you have real talent and learning, I can recommend you to the general now."
Yang Yi still didn't believe it, how could a small captain get in front of Li Chongbao?
But the captain kept his promise and personally took him into Li Chongbao's residence at the county government office. At this time, Li Chongbao was lying on the couch taking a nap, and no one else could come forward to disturb him, so the two had to wait patiently.
After waiting for a while, Li Chongbao woke up and turned around, and saw two people standing on the ground, one of whom had a look of dissatisfaction on his face. He rubbed his forehead and asked the captain: "Who is next to you, and why?"
Stand in my tent."
The captain hurriedly stepped forward and explained: "My lord, this is Mr. Bo Yangyi, a guest and leader of the march under Shi Chaoyi of the Yan Army. Because he abandoned Yan to join the general, I brought him here to see you."
Li Chongbao patted his forehead and said, "You kid, what crime do you deserve! Why didn't you wake me up just now and let Mr. Yang wait in the tent for such a long time?"
Yang Yi knew that Li Chongbao said this intentionally, but he also felt very happy. He immediately stepped forward, bowed and crossed his hands and said, "Yang Yi meets General Li."
Li Chongbao didn't have time to change his clothes and put on his outer robe, so he immediately said to the guards outside the door: "Come here, order my cook to make some food to go with the wine. I want to have a drink with Mr. Yang."
Yang Yi knew very well that he could not pretend to be polite when dealing with these warriors, so he crossed his hands openly and said: "Thank you General Li for your hospitality. Yang Yi is pleased to accept your order."
The captain felt that he was standing here out of place and said to Li Chongbao: "General, please allow me to retire."
Li Chongbao raised his head and took half a mouthful of wine before raising his hand to stop him and saying, "Wait a minute, you have a good drinker, so you can stay and drink with Mr. Yang."
When the captain heard this, he was overjoyed and yelled out quickly. He hurriedly went outside the tent to serve wine, meat and tables, and personally served General Li and Yang Yi to drink.
After downing two bowls of wine, Li Chongbao took the initiative to talk to Yang Yi to close the relationship: "I think Mr. has a good appearance and a great bearing. Could it be that he is after the Hongnong Yang family?"
"It is indeed the Yang family of Hongnong, and I and the late Concubine Yang have not yet left the fifth service.
"So that's it," Li Chongbao didn't want to go into details about Yang Yi, who was a Hongnong Yang family but was associated with the rebels. Since the Yang family was exterminated in Maweiyi, the local officials of the Yang family have also been dismissed one after another. This Yang Yi should also be
one of them.
He smiled and said: "Right now, my father is trying to put down the rebellion and restore peace to the Tang Dynasty. He needs people like Mr. Yang to come up with suggestions. Is it possible that Mr. Yang has come to join me this time and has some good advice to teach me?"
Yang Yi lowered his head and drank a bowl of sweet wine, which left a sour taste in his mouth: "I do have a plan to give to the general to help him defeat the Yan army. When I was working under Shi Chaoyi's account, I saw him
The Khitan and Luo tribes under his command are not subordinate to each other. These barbarians outside the Great Wall are arrogant and arrogant, and even Shi Chaoyi cannot control them. This is the fatal weakness of the Yan army and the magic weapon for our army to win."
"The Khitan leader Bi Chige and the Tongluo leader Gao Zhi each led the elite Yiluohe and Tongluo cavalry. They were obviously helping, but in fact they were robbing, relying on their power to bully the weak, and were arrogant. They not only wanted to capture Taiyuan, but also wanted to uproot it.
The party stationed above the general must attack Wuxiang County first. However, Wuxiang County is not as flat as the Jinzhong Plain. There are ravines in the county. Once the enemy enters the county, as long as they set up ambushes along the way, there will be no need to worry.
Yiluohe is still the Tongluo cavalry. As long as one of them passes here first, the general will quickly cut off the pass to consolidate the defense, making it impossible for the two armies to save each other. He will first concentrate his troops to eat some of them, and then take advantage of the victory to attack the rest of the army. Both armies will
If we can defeat him, wouldn't it be easy for the general to save Taiyuan?"
After hearing this, Li Chongbao immediately stood up with the wine cup in hand, came to Yang Yi, held it in both hands and said respectfully: "Mr. Yang, please have a full drink, and we will work together to defeat the enemy."
"General please."
Li Chongbao immediately summoned the generals into the tent, held a wine cup and toasted each of them with a bowl of wine. After drinking, they arranged their tasks in turn.
"Xue Jian, Zhao Yuanwei, you two lead 10,000 people to lie in ambush near Nanfeng Valley. After the enemy's main forward force has passed, quickly cut off the passage and strengthen the fortifications while blocking the follow-up troops."
He then said to Cen Shen and Yang Yi: "Master Cen, Mr. Yang, you two will accompany me to set up ambushes on the hills on both sides of Jiulong Mountain. Help me set up a tactical formation and annihilate all the enemies in one fell swoop."
"Here!" Everyone crossed their hands in unison.
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The Yan army rested in Qixian County for less than two days before they began to attack Wuxiang. Bi Chengge and Gao Zhi had been arguing over who should serve as the front army, and finally the two reached an agreement. Bi Chenge would lead the two troops first.
Wan Yiluohe was the vanguard. After Wuxiang County was captured, Yiluohe looted and waited in the city. Then the Tongluo cavalry led by Gao Zhi alternately became the vanguard and attacked Xiangcheng, the fifth city of Shangdang. Two families were killed.
Rob a county, and then both sides will advance together to attack Luzhou City. Who can advance to the city and rob will depend on the ability of each family.
They made such a long-term arrangement because they must have firmly believed that they could successfully capture Shangdang. Prince Yan Shi Chaoyi also believed in this. Even if he had doubts, he had no way to control it now. Since they broke away from the main besieging force and attacked from Qingxu
There was a gap of three or four days between starting from Taigu and Qixian and then preparing to attack Wuxiang. He could have used these three or four days to report the movements of their army to the commander-in-chief Tian Chengsi.
As a veteran of the Yan army, Tian Chengsi's voice and prestige were far superior to that of the prince. He could not dissuade the two Hu leaders from stopping and staying on their own. Tian Chengsi might be able to do it. Perhaps it was for this reason that he
, afraid of hurting his poor face, so he was so indifferent.
Bi Chengge hoarded the looted property and food in Taigu County, leaving only a small number of troops to guard it, and personally led 19,000 people to attack Wuxiang. They passed through the Wujia Pass at the foot of the Taihang Mountains and encountered no resistance along the way.
, then became more and more rampant, burning and killing villages along the way.
The scouts sent by Li Chongbao kept retreating and reported the whereabouts of their army intermittently to the general on Jiulong Mountain.
At the end of the afternoon, the last cavalry team of Yiluohe, which passed through Nanfeng Pass, followed the main force. They were only nine miles away from the Tongluo cavalry in the rear, but these nine miles gave the Tang army an opportunity to take advantage of it.
Two generals, Xue Jian and Zhao Yuanwei, suddenly rushed out from both ends of the pass, completely blocking the retreat of Yiluohe and the advance path of the Tongluo cavalry. They formed an array to block the attack and built fortifications at both ends of the pass.
The Yiluohe rear army who had safely passed through learned that their retreat had been cut off, and quickly sent someone to report to their superiors. Bi Chengge did not take it seriously. Their cavalry was flexible and their supplies relied entirely on nomadism and robbery, euphemistically known as "Yiluohe".
Fighting to support war has never been like the Han people who relied on supply lines to fight. Besides, there are Tongluo cavalry led by Gao Zhi behind them. They will definitely try their best to rush in. The Hexi Army at the pass will be treated as a side dish to them.
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Shi Chaoyi followed the Tongluo cavalry in the rear army. He was shocked when he learned that the two armies were cut off by Li Chongbao at the pass. He had a vague feeling that Yang Yi's prediction would come true.
Yang Yi doesn't know where he went. If he were here, he might be able to come up with a remedy.