Yuan Tiangang strongly suggested that Chen Sangliang's attack on Longshan was located in the southwest suburbs of Taiyuan City. If you want to take Longshan, you must first take down the Fenshui Bridge located five miles south of Taiyuan City. This fixed wooden bridge is the only channel connecting the east and west banks of the Fenshui River. Its tactical status is very important. Therefore, no matter how tight the troops are, Li Jiancheng still divided thousands of troops to guard and protect the bridge. He also prepared a large amount of firewood, sulfur, tinder and other objects on the bridge, and was ready to burn the Fenshui Bridge when necessary to increase the difficulty of crossing the river by the main force of the Sui army.

Of course, the main force of the Sui army was not afraid of fighting a field battle with the Taiyuan army, but the main force of the Sui army would never want to see the Taiyuan army burn this important bridge, so how to seize the bridge while preserving the bridge became the top priority. Therefore, after discussion and careful consideration with everyone, Chen Sangliang decided to give up the frontal attack and adopt a surprise attack tactic to seize the bridge, and catch the defenders of Fenshui Bridge off guard and not give them the chance to set fire to the bridge.

It was also an opportunity. The main force of the Sui army had just moved to the camp, and the various battalions and fortifications had not been built yet. According to common sense, it was unlikely to launch an attack in a short period of time. This provided some cover for the Sui army's surprise attack. Therefore, Chen Sangliang was best at cheating and cheating, so he naturally had a place to use it.

So, Guo Ziwu, the general of the Taiyuan Army who was responsible for guarding the Fenshui Bridge, naturally encountered a strange thing. A messenger who claimed to be Chen Sangliang suddenly ran to the Fenshui Bridge and asked him to see him. On behalf of Chen Sangliang, Guo Ziwu led the Fenshui Bridge defenders to surrender, and promised that as long as Guo Ziwu offered his Fenshui Bridge, Chen Sangliang would give Guo Ziwu a sixth-rank official position, reward gold and jewelry, and also reward every soldier under Guo Ziwu with ten pieces of cloth. Each of the brigade commanders and above was rewarded with ten cents of money, and the bid was quite high.

Guo Ziwu was certainly very loyal and had good professional ethics when he was sent by Li Jiancheng to guard the bridge. He immediately flatly refused the Sui army envoy's bribery and surrender. However, because Li Jiancheng had an order not to hurt the envoy, Guo Ziwu did not make any embarrassment of the Sui army envoy and ordered the matter to be driven away. However, the somewhat stupid Sui army envoy refused to give up. While struggling to refuse Taiyuan soldiers to put him away from the Fenshui Bridge, he shouted: "General Guo, do you not believe in the sincerity of your Highness? We said that every brother under your command would give you ten pieces of cloth, and one piece would not be missing. If you don't believe it, I will bring ten thousand pieces of cloth when I go back and let you see our sincerity with your own eyes!"

After being pushed across the Fenshui Bridge and thrown away, the stupid Sui army envoy refused to give up. He shouted at Guo Ziwu and the Fenshui Bridge defenders: "General Guo, brothers from Taiyuan, wait, I will bring ten thousand pieces of cloth when I go back! I want you to see clearly whether our Tang King army keeps their word, and say nothing! "

Not to mention, the Sui army envoy was stupid and really kept his word. In the afternoon, he brought some civilians to Fenshui Bridge with fifty trucks loaded with cloth. Although the Taiyuan soldiers guarding the bridgehead refused to let him go to the bridge and even pulled a bow and arrow to prohibit the truck from getting close to the position, the silly messenger still shouted and asked Guo Ziwu to receive the reward from the King of Tang, and also asked the civilians to overturn a truck and sprinkle the cloth in the car all over the floor. The entangled Guo Ziwu had to cross the bridge and refused in person, asking him to leave immediately or shoot him to kill him. The silly messenger took another step forward and said, "Don't hit the smiley man, General Guo, the little messenger is here to give you a gift, I don't believe you will really shoot arrows."

Sneering, Guo Ziwu personally pulled the bow and arrow, and shot the silly messenger's hat away with one arrow, scaring the silly messenger to death, screaming and running. The civilians he brought also ran faster than the other, and even the fifty cars of cloth ran away without even taking away. His embarrassing appearance made the soldiers of the Taiyuan Army laugh out loud.

Cloth is a necessary material for life, and in this era it can be used directly as currency. The foolish envoy of the Sui army forgot the cloth cart and the soldiers of the Taiyuan army will naturally not forget it. Guo Ziwu did not forget it and ordered: "Pull all those cloths through the Fen River, two of each brother's sect, and all the rest will be handed over to the left governor."

Amid the cheers, Taiyuan soldiers rushed forward and pushed all fifty cloth chariots onto the Fenshui Bridge with all their hands and feet. Then, it was natural that when a cloth chariot passed by Guo Ziwu, the cloth on the car suddenly flew into the air on its own. Then two Sui soldiers with swords and shields jumped out, and without saying a word, they were slashed at Guo Ziwu. Guo Ziwu was caught off guard and had no time to react and was chopped over by swords and swords and shields. At the same time, the Sui soldiers jumped off like dumplings on the other cloth chariots, and quickly killed the Taiyuan soldiers guarding the bridgehead position. Then they rushed to the other side of the Fenshui River without hesitation. The foolish envoy of the Sui army who had run away to look around immediately sent a signal. The Sui army scout sentry who was patrolling around him immediately shouted and rushed towards the Fenshui Bridge.

Suddenly, the Taiyuan Army defenders on the west bank of the Fen River were also caught off guard. Eighty Sui warriors shouted that they had already rushed across the Fen River Bridge. The West Bank defenders released the first wave of bows and arrows indiscriminately, and almost did not receive much effect. Then when the eighty Sui warriors came to the front, the Taiyuan Army defenders would never have the chance to ignite the bridge and were forced to fall into close combat. Because of no command, they could not use their military strength to quickly kill all the shameless and despicable Sui soldiers. After a slight delay, the Sui army scout sentry, led by elite cavalry, had already rushed to the Fen River Bridge.

Seeing the Fenshui Bridge from a high place on the city wall, the defenders in Taiyuan City quickly sent troops out of the city to respond. However, the Taiyuan Army was moving fast, and the Sui Army, which was well prepared, moved faster. After receiving the signal, two thousand light cavalry immediately rushed out of the new camp of the Sui Army, and rushed south with a fast horse and whipped the south. Then a large group of infantry came out of the camp, and rushed towards the Fenshui Bridge. In addition, Chen Sangliang also carefully divided the army and headed straight for the east gate of the East City of Taiyuan to resist the troops that the Taiyuan Army might have sent out the city to block the self-army reinforcement of the Fenshui Bridge battlefield.

As the same goes, the Sui army was afraid that the Taiyuan army would burn the bridge and would never be afraid of fighting field battles with the Taiyuan army. Relying on the advantage of being prepared by intentional and unintentional, the Sui cavalry reinforcements, which were far away, arrived at the Fenshui Bridge battlefield first and entered the west coast position first, and the Taiyuan army would never have the opportunity to regain control of the Fenshui Bridge. Finally, when the furious Li Jiancheng personally led his army out of the city to respond, the Sui army's infantry brigade had already crossed the Fenshui Bridge, cooperated with the cavalry to seize the position and fight in a formation, and strived to catch Li Jiancheng's main force, and buy time for the reinforcements sent by Chen Sangliang next.

There is a huge gap in both military strength and combat effectiveness. Of course, the Taiyuan Army and the Sui Army were not happy for themselves in the battle. They fought fiercely until the sun set and did not regain the Fenshui Bridge. Seeing that more Sui reinforcements had arrived, Li Jiancheng sighed helplessly, and still gave the order to retreat helplessly, "Jingjin, it's useless to continue to fight, and the Fenshui Bridge can't be brought back. Brother Yingliang, your plan has really reached the point of being superb."

The Fenshui Bridge was stolen by Chen Sangliang's mutant Trojan scheme. Although the Taiyuan army's military loss was not large, the Taiyuan defenders suddenly became much more passive for the entire Taiyuan battlefield. Because with the solid and spacious Fenshui Bridge, the main force of the Sui army could be transferred back and forth on both sides of the Fenshui River at will, and threatened the east and west cities of Taiyuan. When the Sui army launched an attack, the Taiyuan army did not dare to use all its forces only for the East City. It must be prevented from being suddenly attacked by the Sui army, which actually weakened its own defense of the city itself. Therefore, after retreating to the city, Li Jiancheng's first thing was to draw a reserve team to enhance the defense of the West City. What he was afraid of was that his friends with many tricks highlighted the surprise troops and came to sneak attack the granary of the heavy land of the West City. The arsenal and Jinyang Palace were both in the West City, but there was absolutely no mistake.

However, this is not the most important thing. The Li brothers and Taiyuan Army who are familiar with the classics and history are more worried and afraid of the other thing, but the more they are afraid, the more useless it is. In the early morning of the next day, while strengthening the defense of the Fenshui Bridge, the main force of the Sui army sent about 2,000 troops westward to the mountain, climbed Longshan to station Jin Temple, and took control of the inlet of Zhiboqu. The Jin River could be cut off at any time and forced all the water into Zhiboqu and irrigated into Taiyuan City.

On the city wall, I saw the Sui army flags planted in Zhiboqu. I knew how threatening Zhiboqu was to Taiyuan City, and the Taiyuan army was of course worried. However, Li Jiancheng sighed to the sky and said, "Brother Yingliang, are you really cruel to flood Taiyuan? For the sake of a city and a victory in a battle, you will not hesitate to harm more than 100,000 innocent people in the city. Are you still the humble and polite brother Yingliang who was then a humble and polite, repaying his grievances with kindness?"

Yin Kaishan, Feng Li and other Li Jiancheng's confidants were silent. Li Yuanji and Li Er were expressionless and were also silent. Although the other Li clans did not speak, they all quietly went to see Li Shentong, who was in the upper city to check the enemy situation. Li Shentong knew the thoughts of a group of relatives, and hesitated for a while. Finally, he still spoke to Li Jiancheng: "My nephew Jiancheng, Chen Yingliang took the Fenshui Bridge before he had captured the city, and occupied the Zhibo Canal. The plan to divert water into the city was obvious. If this is true, I wonder how you plan to deal with it with it?"

"Of course we are trying our best to defend ourselves." Li Jiancheng said without thinking: "As long as we find that the enemy has begun to build a dam in the Jinshui River, we will immediately block the water mouth of Zhiboqu and block the Taiyuan gates, block the water walls and continue to fight against the enemy!"

"If Taiyuan City can't stop the flood and the flood enters the city, how should we deal with it?" Li Shentong asked.

"Clog the gap, stay at a high place, and continue to defend the city!" Li Jiancheng answered firmly, saying: "The city is there, the people are there! The city is dead!"

Hearing this, many people present changed their faces, and Li Shentong was slightly shocked. He never expected that Li Jiancheng's position would be so firm. He pursed his lips and said, "Nephew, you and Chen Yingliang are close friends, and they are brothers. Even when they are in the match, they must explain their funerals to each other and entrust their family. Since you have such a friendship with him, why don't you consider it... and consider the peace negotiation?"

Li Er couldn't help but his heart beat faster. With everyone, everyone focused their eyes on Li Jiancheng's face, but Li Jiancheng's answer made everyone stunned. Li Jiancheng actually asked Li Shentong with a strange expression: "Uncle, what do you mean? Let me ask me to ask Brother Yingliang to ask for peace? Have you forgotten that Brother Yingliang is my enemy to kill my father? You told me to forget the hatred of killing my father, and to ask for peace from the enemy to killing my father?"

"Then you still call him Brother Ying Liang?" Li Shentong asked in a daze.

"I call him Brother Ying Liang because he and I are close friends and admire his talent and knowledge." Li Jiancheng replied seriously: "But the revenge of killing his father is irreconcilable. As a son of man, my nephew must avenge his father."

Li Shentong was speechless, and finally confirmed Li Jiancheng, who looked gentle, was actually far more upright and stubborn than Li Er, who had a deep hatred with Chen Sangliang! Seeing Li Shentong's appearance, Li Jiancheng had long understood his intentions and said, "Uncle, if you want to persuade your nephew to ask for peace from Yingliang, please be exempted from speaking. Although your nephew is not talented, he is not a person who is afraid of death. If anyone dares to persuade your nephew to ask for peace, your nephew will never give up easily."

Li Shentong was even more speechless, but Li Jiancheng refused to give up and turned to Yin Kaishan again. Feng Li and Xie Shufang and other confidant generals in charge ordered: "From now on, strictly guard the two cities in the east and west. If someone goes out of the city to contact the enemy, no matter who it is, behead immediately! Behead first and then report, and there is no need to report to me!"

"No!" Feng Li, Xie Shufang and other confidants of Li Jiancheng clasped their fists together and sang their promises in unison. They were all firm and firm. Li Jiancheng nodded and arranged for personnel to closely monitor the movements of Zhiboqu. He then led a group of confidants from other surnames to go down the city, leaving a group of Li clans on the city to look sad and sigh.

Seeing Li Shentong being defeated and a group of relatives looking sad, Li Yuanji, who had been moved by Chen Sangliang's surrender, was secretly happy and hurried up to whisper to a group of uncles and cousins. After returning to the city, Li Er, who hugged Li Yuanji's thighs tightly, rarely did not follow him, and was too lazy to eavesdrop on the conversation between relatives. He just walked to the bush of arrows inside the city wall, and looked at Li Jiancheng and others who left behind in the city, thinking in his mind, "I really underestimate this man. I can still have such courage and determination. It seems that he would rather be surrounded by floods than surrender. What should I do? Should I change my position and work with him to defend Taiyuan, or just help the fourth brother's fool?"

"Should wait a little longer." Li Er quickly made up his mind and said to himself: "If the fourth brother and uncle want to do something, I will not stop him or join in. I guess they will not be able to fight against Li Jiancheng, who is a silly outside and inside. If there is hope for Taiyuan City to defend, I will help him guard it. If there is no hope, help the fourth brother and the others, and go to Chen Yingliang's traitor to wait for the opportunity to make a comeback, it may not be hopeless."

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At the same time, the news that the Sui army soldiers successfully seized Zhiboqu was reported to Chen Sangliang. Although the war was going well and gratifying, Chen Sangliang, who had been hesitating whether to drown Taiyuan, did not look much happy. He just nodded and ordered the troops stationed in Longshan to send food, grass and military supplies to the troops stationed in Longshan so that they could station for a long time. However, Yuan Tiangang was very happy and couldn't wait to say, "Your Highness, have you started to build a dam? Time is not waiting. The rainy season upstream of the Fen River is gradually beginning. The earlier the dam is built, the better it is for us."

When he said this, Yuan Tiangang's tone was not only quite excited, but also had a strange look on his face. Unfortunately, Chen Sangliang, who was worried, did not notice this. He just shook his head and said, "Don't worry, I'll just set the camp firmly first, and seize the time to build some necessary siege weapons. By the way, how many toads have been built? The moat in Taiyuan is wide and deep, so you have to build more precautions. If there are also siege ladders, you must prepare enough."

"Do you need it..." Yuan Tiangang changed his words and said with a smile: "Your Highness, please don't worry, these things cannot be mistaken. I guarantee that you can prepare enough for you to attack the city."

"That's good." Chen Sangliang nodded, turned to Li Jing and Qu Tutong and said: "Uncle, veteran General Qu Tu, the offensive plan for the military siege will be formulated. It will be prepared as soon as possible. If you have any necessary siege weapons, prepare them in advance."

Li Jing and Qu Tutong agreed together, and then Qu Tutong carefully added: "Your Highness, why should you give priority to destroying the city by force? Isn't the tactics proposed by Yuan Shangshu are quite convenient, and they can also prevent countless soldiers from sacrificing unnecessary..."

Qu Tutong's voice became smaller and smaller, because Chen Sangliang's face was getting darker and darker. It was not until Qu Tutong completely shut up that Chen Sangliang said lightly: "What should the people in Taiyuan City do? I can be cruel to this person if there are more than 100,000 innocent people?"

Qu Tutong was speechless, but Yuan Tiangang opened his mouth over there, as if he wanted to say something, but after the triangular eyes turned, Yuan Tiangang changed his mind and bowed to Chen Sangliang and said, "Your Highness is compassionate and sympathetic to the people, and the ministers admire him very much. Since your highness insists on refusing the city with floods, then the ministers will never force him. He has another plan, which may help you break the city."

"What other clever tricks do you have in Shangshu Yuan?" Chen Sang asked gracefully.

"Your Highness might as well visit the city of Taiyuan and let Li Jiancheng come out to answer you and personally surrender the enemy." Yuan Tiangang suggested: "In this way, it is best to convince Li Jiancheng to open the city and surrender. If you cannot, it can not only demonstrate your highness's benevolence and righteousness, but also take the opportunity to impress Li Jiancheng's other subordinates and observe the reactions of Li Jiancheng's subordinates so that your Highness can break the city with other tricks."

"Is that easy?" Chen Sangliang laughed in silence and said with a wry smile: "If Li Jiancheng could be surrendered, I would have contacted him long ago. He flooded me in Queshi Valley, and brought Dou Jiande and Liu Wuzhou into the battlefield. Is there a possibility of surrendering to me?"

Yuan Tiangang, who was full of bad water, heard the urgent and was about to persuade him again, but Chen Sangliang changed his mind and nodded and said, "But you can also try it. Anyway, Brother Jiancheng and I haven't seen each other for almost three years. It's better to meet him and reminisce about the past. Jingde, you can arrange it immediately, and we will go to Taiyuan City together later."

Yuchi Jingde held his fists and sang his promises, and made great strides to arrange a entourage for Chen Sangliang. However, Li Jing shouted: "General Yuchi, bring more troops and horses, it is best to bring the service army with him."

Yuchi Jingde turned around to look at Chen Sangliang, and he did not sing the promise again until Chen Sangliang nodded. Then Li Jing turned to Chen Sangliang again and said, "Nephew, put on soft armor and beware of Li Erlang's hidden arrows. He has the courage and shooting skills."

This is the first time Li Jing has used this title to Chen Sangliang since he proclaimed himself king. After hearing this, Chen Sangliang not only did not blame Li Jing for his disrespect, but on the contrary, there was a warm current in his heart, nodding and saying, "Don't worry, uncle, my nephew will be careful."
Chapter completed!