Under the guidance of Teng County Magistrate Tao Guang's brother-in-law, Lu Mingyue's team really came to Teng County. The future supreme emperor Lu Mingyue is indeed very organizational. The 120,000 thief troops from all over North China are in strict order, with clear flags, and their troops are divided into multiple routes and head south. The black thief soldiers are like black rivers after black, flowing slowly along the official road, flooding fields, grasslands, and forests. The scene is spectacular and the momentum is extremely grand.

By the way, Lu Mingyue, who was the best team to boost the momentum in the late Sui Dynasty, is only the beginning. His team size in history reached an astonishing 400,000 people at its peak.

Lu Mingyue was also a very careful person. Although he knew that there was no section suitable for ambush on the way to Teng County, in order to be cautious, Lu Mingyue sent a large number of scouts to clear the way, reconnaissance the movements ahead, and scattered the scouts directly under the city of Teng County. As a result, the scouts' reward made Lu Mingyue very proud. After learning about his army's southward journey, the village brave team along the way fled, not to mention that they had closed the city gate early, and the whole city was martial law, and did not dare to dispatch one army and one soldier to intercept. At the same time, many Pengcheng refugees went north to voluntarily begging to join Lu Mingyue's team, providing Lu Mingyue with a lot of valuable official army intelligence.

Information collected through various channels showed that the number of defenders in Teng County had not changed at all. It was still a regular army that had just over a thousand guarded the city, supplemented by some local township warriors to help defend the city. At the same time, it had not yet been discovered that Chen Yingliang's main force of Pengcheng headed north. Seeing that the opportunity was rare, Lu Mingyue ordered the army to speed up the southward. It took only more than three days to rush from Rencheng to Teng County and set up a siege. The defenders of Teng County did not dare to leave the city, but just guarded the city behind closed doors and relied on the solid city to compete with Lu Mingyue's bandit army.

On the night he arrived in Teng County, Lu Mingyue was looking forward to the contact signal for the opening of the city. However, one night passed, there were torches in the four gates of Teng County, and there were no three red lanterns that were agreed to appear, which made Lu Mingyue wait all night. When he found Tao Guang's brother-in-law to ask the reason, his brother-in-law replied that the Teng County garrison was controlled by the deputy commander of Pengcheng Qiu Sheng. Even as the county magistrate, Tao Guang had to wait until the opportunity appeared. Lu Mingyue felt that the words were reasonable, and heard that the guards said that his brother-in-law had never tried to escape. Lu Mingyue was even more relieved and ordered the entire army to build a fence to surround the city while patiently waiting for Tao Guang to open the city to surrender.

It is easy to wait patiently, but it is not a joke to actually wait. If Lu Mingyue's 120,000 army is in accordance with the food standards of the regular army, it will cost 240,000 kilograms of grain a day. Even if the internal levels of Lu Mingyue's thief army are huge, most of the auxiliary soldiers can only drink some wild vegetable porridge with a little bit of food to satisfy their hunger every day, and they still have to eat at least 60,000 kilograms of grain a day. So after waiting for another night, there was no contact signal, Lu Mingyue gradually became anxious and had to call Tao Guang's brother-in-law to ask.

Tao Guang's brother-in-law used the reasons before to make excuses again. Lu Mingyue waited patiently for two days and two more days. As a result, three red lanterns not only did not appear at the head of Teng County, but instead received news that Chen Yingliang personally led 10,000 officials to rescue Teng County - fortunately, they did not come quickly. As a result, this time, Lu Mingyue no longer believed Tao Guang's brother-in-law's slut, and slapped the table and shouted: "If you can't see your brother-in-law again tonight, you will be dead tomorrow."

Tao Guang's brother-in-law was not panicked, but said again, "Master, why not do this? You send an envoy to the city to recruit surrenders. Take the opportunity to see my brother-in-law and remind him to do it quickly?"

Thinking that Tao Guang's brother-in-law's advice was good, Lu Mingyue did not hesitate and immediately sent an envoy to the city with his surrender letter. He used the excuse to persuade the defenders in the city to surrender, and took the opportunity to warn Tao Guang to take action quickly, otherwise his brother-in-law would be dead. As a result, after the envoy entered the city, Tao Guang, who had already agreed with his brother-in-law, also understood that Lu Mingyue had no patience to wait any longer, so he immediately asked the defender Qiu Sheng to act according to the plan, chopped off the head of the messenger Lu Mingyue, and took down the head of a death row prisoner, and hung the head of the messenger Lu Mingyue on the city wall together with the head of the messenger Lu Mingyue, so that the defender claimed that it was his head.

Tao Guang's trick was very effective. His fake head was hung on the city wall. The defenders claimed that it was Lu Mingyue's envoy who accidentally leaked the news that Tao Guang was a traitor. Then they decisively cut off Tao Guang's head to prevent it. At the same time, they cursed Lu Mingyue's ancestors for the eighteen generations. Although Lu Mingyue was furious, he did not cut Tao Guang's brother-in-law into pieces and executed Lingchi. On the contrary, he comforted Tao Guang's brother-in-law who was crying loudly and agreed to avenge Tao Guang's crying brother-in-law. Then he ordered the siege of the city with great angrily angrily, determined to take advantage of Chen Yingliang's opportunity to slowly head north and use force to capture the grain land of the Sui army in Pengcheng by force.

With a strong city back, the city has sufficient food and supplies and the city guards. Of course, Tao Guang and Qiu Sheng did not need to be afraid of Lu Mingyue's 120,000 troops. In the case of serious shortage of siege weapons, although Lu Mingyue's bandit army launched large-scale siege three times, they were easily repelled by the Teng County defenders. The Sui army in Pengcheng left to Chen Yingliang was just exhausted and could not be fought. On the contrary, the combat experience was even above Chen Yingliang's direct subordinate Qiao County Sui army. It was naturally very easy to fight the battle to defend the city with all advantages.

After three large-scale sieges, the thief army, which had suffered a lot of casualties, not only did not take any advantage, but on the contrary, the main force of the Sui army, who only walked forty miles a day to preserve their physical strength, was only one day away from Teng County. Lu Mingyue was forced to helplessly and had to divide the army into two teams, leaving one army to continue to surround Teng County to fight back. The main force turned around to deal with the reinforcements of Teng County and fought a decisive battle with the main force of the Sui army led by Chen Yingliang in the southern suburbs of Teng County.

A day later, the main force of the Sui army led by Chen Yingliang arrived at the battlefield and set up a camp ten miles away from the thief army camp. He quickly built a fence with the wood he brought with him, and immediately began to dig trenches, preparing to set up a camp first, and then fight with Lu Mingyue. Lu Mingyue followed the advice of the thief general Su Chang and bullied Chen Yingliang to establish a camp without steadily. He immediately sent Su Chang to lead a army to attack the Sui army camp, delaying the progress of the Sui army's establishment of the camp to create favorable fighter opportunities.

Lu Mingyue's punch hit the iron plate. Chen Yingliang brought not only the elite Qiao County soldiers who came out of their way, but also the 5,000 troops left by Dong Chun, with all the combat powers. Su Chang's army did not even touch the edge of the Sui army camp, and was immediately hit by Sui army general Kan Jiao. He was killed and injured by the Modao team under Kan Jiao. Then Cheng Yaojin led the cavalry to detour to attack the flank of Su Chang's bandit army. Su Chang's bandit army quickly collapsed completely, leaving more than 400 corpses to flee back to the camp and reported to Lu Mingyue. Lu Mingyue was shocked when he heard the news, and then he put away his underestimation and began to pay attention to Chen Yingliang's opponent.

The first battle was won, and the Sui army was of course very motivated. After withdrawing the troops and returning to the camp, Kan and Cheng Yaojin and the generals celebrated the victory in the newly established central army tent, and couldn't wait to ask Chen Yingliang: "Deputy envoy, can you arrange a trick to defeat the enemy now? Our army has just won the battle and is in a strong morale, which is a good opportunity to defeat the enemy."

"What does it mean?" Chen Yingliang was a little confused when asked, and asked back: "Who said I want to use a trick to defeat the enemy?"

"Didn't you use a trick to defeat the enemy?" Yuan Lizhen, the general of Pengcheng left by Dong Chun, was most surprised and said hurriedly: "Deputy envoy, although the time for the last general to wait for you is short, I have heard that you must first use a trick in every battle. If you don't make the enemy angry, you will never take action. You are a famous wise general in the Sui court. Why is this time..."

"In the past, we used tricks because we were too weak and we were forced to win by surprise." Chen Yingliang smiled and said, "But this time it's different. Although our troops are less than one-tenth of the thief army, our combat power is far better than the other side. Even if we fight head-on, we will not lose the disadvantage. Therefore, I do not plan to use tricks to defeat the enemy in this battle, but only intend to fight Lu Mingyue's rioters to the death."

"A decisive battle to the death?" Ma Sanbao and Kan Xue and other old lackeys looked at each other. Yuan Tiangang and Wei Zheng, who were familiar with Chen Yingliang's temperament, also had big eyes and small eyes. They all thought that this was still a shameless Chen Sangliang? When the two armies were fighting, they did not use conspiracy to deceive the kidnapping, but just wanted to fight to the death to the death to the death to the death to the death. In amazement, Yuan Tiangang asked Yu Qian: "Deputy envoy, aren't you joking? Isn't this like your usual person?"

Chen Yingliang laughed out loud and said, "Of course it's not a joke. I can also tell you openly that I have an ambush in this battle. I arranged a thousand troops to disguise themselves as refugees and broke them into pieces. I advanced to Teng County to help defend the city. If you have the chance, you stabbed the thieves in the back. But that army is basically for prevention and cannot achieve the effect of surprise victory. If we want to win, we can only defeat the enemy head-on."

After saying a smile, he looked at the lackey in the tent with confusion. Chen Yingliang put away his smile and said seriously: "Everyone, I know you are very confused. I have considered using a plan to defeat the enemy before, but after thinking about it carefully, I still gave up this plan. Because since ancient times, the right way of military strategists is to win head-on. A surprise victory is only forced to make a bad move when the strength is not good or when the conditions do not allow it. Using a plan to defeat the enemy and win dangerously will only form laziness. Once the plan fails, it will be a disaster that will soon be devastating. Therefore, we must make some changes this time."

"This is also an opportunity to train troops that can be encountered or not." Chen Yingliang said calmly again: "This time, we brought a month of food and grass, which is enough to confront the enemy head-on. In terms of time, we don't have to rush to end the battle. The area of ​​Teng County is open, and there is no natural danger of mountains, rivers and natural dangers to hide soldiers. We cannot be surprised, and the enemy cannot use plans. We can only fight head-on and win head-on."

After talking nonstop, Chen Yingliang looked around the generals under the tent who had already heard it, smiled and asked, "Why? I don't have the confidence to defeat the enemy from the front? Although there are many enemies opposite us, they are all mobs. Are you even so scared of a group of mobs?"

"Of course not afraid, we just think this time was too unexpected." Ma Sanbao and other shrewd people answered quickly, and then the other Sui army generals also answered the same, saying that they were not afraid of the enemy on the other side, but were just unexpected that Chen Yingliang's use of troops this time was a stranger - he didn't want to cheat him.

"So, do you have confidence in defeating the enemy head-on?" Chen Yingliang asked again.

"There are" the generals of the Sui army answered neatly.

"Very good." Chen Yingliang nodded with satisfaction, and then said again: "School Kan, Cheng Yaojin, the victory of the first battle today is the contribution of your two teams. Last year, the rioters of the Huaishui battlefield were broken, and the rioters in Pengcheng, Xiapi and Donghai were later killed. It was also the most contributions of your teams. I think you are qualified to add one piece of equipment. I will send someone to you later. Each of your soldiers will be equipped with one piece of equipment."

"What?" Cheng Yaojin asked overjoyed: "Is it a gunpowder bottle?"

"No," Chen Yingliang shook his head and said firmly, "It's a white robe. I think your team is qualified to equip the white robe cloak that I rely on for fame."

"Thank you Deputy Envoy" Kan and Cheng Yaojin were overjoyed and quickly clasped their fists to thank him. The other Sui generals were envious. Before, many Sui generals from Qiao County and Pengcheng had made such a request in front of Chen Yingliang, asking their team to wear the white cloak that Chen Yingliang relied on to become famous. Chen Yingliang, who had dug the first pot of gold with these white cloaks, refused every time, and refused to explain the reason. Now Chen Yingliang took the initiative to put on a white robe for Cheng Yaojin and Kan's team. Of course, the Sui generals knew the significance.

After looking at the Sui army generals with envy, Chen Yingliang said lightly: "Everyone, I am very envious, right? If you envy, just work hard. Is your team worthy of fighting under my little Chen Qingzhi? This battle is your best opportunity, don't let me down."

"Never let the deputy envoy be disappointed," the Sui army generals bowed their hands to answer neatly.

"Very good." Chen Yingliang nodded again, stood up again, shouted: "I will order the entire army to inform them that from today and from now on, the soldiers in white robes in our army will receive one liter of food for each meal, and the monthly military salary and rice will be doubled. Then prepare a spiritual card for the fallen soldiers for me. I will burn incense and pray in front of the spirit card, and ask their spirits in heaven to watch our soldiers in white robes with their own eyes."

The shamelessly winning people's hearts and encouraging morale performance began again. In the sunset, the soldiers of the Sui army lined up to watch the big show. Chen Yingliang personally burned incense and prayed before receiving the spirit of the soldiers. He said that after nearly two years, his own team finally had a well-established team that was qualified to wear the white robe that served the country's army relied on to be famous all over the world, and asked the soldiers of the country's army to bless these juniors to be able to defeat everything and be invincible. Then, in the neat and loud song of the army "Loyalty for the Country", the four regiments of cavalry under Cheng Yaojin and the five regiments of heavy infantry under Kan took over the white cloak, and many people were so excited that they burst into tears.

Chen Yingliang personally put on white robes for Cheng Yaojin and Kan, and solemnly shook their hands. Cheng Yaojin and Kan were all with tears in their eyes and begged to be the vanguard on the battlefield of the decisive battle and take the lead in attacking the enemy formation. Chen Yingliang agreed with a smile. The Sui army soldiers who were already wearing white robes were cheering and their morale was high. The remaining Sui army soldiers were extremely envious and fantasized that they could wear such a mighty white robe and receive special treatment beyond others.

The next day, the bandit army came to fight outside the camp again. Chen Yingliang, who was not stable in establishing the camp, was too lazy to pay attention to it and ordered the soldiers to treat the matter with arrows. Lu Mingyue's bandit army was weak in attacking and did not dare to force the attack. He just relied on the large number of soldiers and challenged outside the camp, cursing casually, trying to anger Chen Yingliang in the wild. Unfortunately, he met Chen Yingliang, who was extremely shameless. This move was useless and retreated angrily until the afternoon.

After three days, just as Lu Mingyue, who had a huge amount of food and grass expenses, was considering whether to attack Chen Yingliang's camp, Chen Yingliang, who had established the camp, sent a letter of war to invite Lu Mingyue to fight in front of the thief's camp the next day. His tone was very arrogant and he underestimated Lu Mingyue. Lu Mingyue's book was of course furious, and he immediately wrote a letter of agreement to agree to the battle and sent someone to send back to Chen Yingliang's camp. After the envoy left, Lu Mingxing quickly said to Lu Mingyue: "Brother, Chen Yingliang's little thief is famously cunning and cunning. His troops are less than 10% of ours, but he still dares to send a letter to a letter to a fight. We have to guard against him to highlight the surprise troops and attack us."

"The terrain of the outstanding surprise soldiers coming from this area? Do you still have to be afraid of him?" Lu Mingyue asked contemptuously.

"Night attacks, you need to beware of him attacking at night." Lu Mingxing replied: "I heard that when he first fought with Du Fuwei, he won the night attack. The Tian brothers and Zhang Qian from Qiao County were also defeated by him at night. This shows that Chen Yingliang's traitors are very good at night battles, so we must be careful."

Lu Mingyue nodded, recognized Lu Mingxing's judgment, and immediately ordered the army to strengthen its vigilance at night and arrange an elite soldier to guard the camp at night to guard against Chen Yingliang's sneak attack at night.

It was not until the morning of the next day that the Lu brothers realized that they were worried for nothing, and they made the entire army beware of the whole night, but they did not see a Sui army soldier from the military camp to make trouble all night. Just as the Lu brothers were surprised why Chen Yingliang, who was famous for his love of cheating, was so loyal and honest, and even more shocking news suddenly came - the scout report, Chen Yingliang really led 8,000 troops out of the camp and headed north to the thief camp.

Holding a 120,000 army, Lu Mingyue certainly didn't have to be afraid of Chen Yingliang's mere 8,000 army. After hearing the news, he was even more overjoyed. He quickly ordered 50,000 troops to line up in front of the battalion to fight against Chen Yingliang head-on. The big and small thieves under Lu Mingyue were all happy. He quickly organized troops to attack, preparing to take advantage of the large number of soldiers and people to drop their hands in the field. Chen Yingliang, a famous executioner who was covered with blood from the soldiers of the uprising army in one fell swoop.

In a moment, the 50,000 thieves were led by Lu Mingyue, and quickly laid a huge formation in front of the camp. At the same time, the Sui army, singing "Loyalty for the Country", also appeared in the vision of the rioters' army, and arranged a crane wing formation that facilitates mobile combat. As the Sui army formation slowly unfolded, the little thief head Huo Xiaohan, who was trusted by the Lu brothers, suddenly widened his eyes and screamed with a big change: "Why are the white-robed soldiers in the East Capital of the White-robed soldiers in the East Capital of the White-robed soldiers in the East Capital of the White-robed soldiers?"

"Huo Xiaohan, what is a white-robed soldier? I scared you like this?" asked several thieves who were uneducated and uninformed next to me.

"You have never heard of the white-robed soldiers of Dongdu that Chen Sangliang formed when he started his business?" Huo Xiaohan asked in surprise.

Several thieves who were uneducated and uninformed shook their heads, and Huo Xiaohan then said: "These white-robed soldiers are all madmen. They are famous on the battlefield. They are best at defeating the more with fewer people. When King Lu and I fought with them once next to Tongjiqu, they only had 400 madmen, but they were stunned to kill more than half of our more than 3,000 troops."

"You brag? Can you be so powerful?" A thief head was skeptical.

"If you believe it or not, you can do it." Huo Xiaohan answered angrily, then turned to the Lu brothers and reminded him: "King Lu, the second king, be careful, these white-robed soldiers are not easy to deal with."

Hearing Huo Xiaohan's words that definitely shake the morale of the army, the Lu brothers not only did not get angry and curse, but also looked extremely serious. Then Lu Mingyue took the initiative to say: "Send the order, be careful to respond, concentrate on bows and crossbows, and specially entertain these white-robed soldiers."

"King Lu, have you encountered these white-robed soldiers?" Huo Xiaohan asked in surprise.

Lu Mingyue nodded with a gloomy face and said coldly: "When the tyrant personally fought against Goguryeo for the third time last year, we met two regiments of these white-robed soldiers in Zhuo County. Seeing that they were very well equipped and there were no other official troops around, I relied on the number of people to fight with them once, and wanted to grab their equipment and war horses."

"What's the result?" Huo Xiaohan asked again quickly.
Chapter completed!