The Summoning of the Troubled Times at the End of the Sui Dynasty

Chapter 180 There was a fire in the rear, the plan started

The war was still going on, although the resistance of the Sui army was beyond Xiao Liangjun's imagination.

But it was also due to the continuous victories of Xiao Liang's army in the past few days.

For a while, the two armies were also in a state of anxiety.

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In Fangling County, on a remote path, a team is galloping forward.

Looking slowly, I saw that the general in front of the team was Su Lie Su Dingfang.

As Su Lie tried his best to order the troops to gallop down, the Yanmen soldiers galloped at double speed and accelerated rapidly.

In just a few days, the Yanmen army arrived at a river bank.

Su Lie's eyes were fixed on the surroundings of the river, and it took him a while to realize that there was a piece of reed in the shadow of the river.

In an instant, Su Lie thought of the words Gao Qi had reminded him before leaving.

"Everything is hidden in the reed."

Without thinking too much, Su Lie clapped his horse and pointed at the reeds with his sword, and said loudly, "Quickly bounce the reeds away."

Hearing the order, the soldiers of the whole army did not dare to be negligent, and immediately obeyed the military order.

Under the command of the generals, the covered reeds were swung one after another.

For a moment, the scene in front of him horrified many soldiers present.

Because it turned out to be a warship hidden under the reeds.

And there are quite a few categories, including mongoose and fighting ships.

However, the main one is still the mongoose.

At this time, the biggest question is that Gao Qi led the army from the north, why are there so many warships?
In fact, all of this is Jia Xu's scheme.

From the beginning, the real purpose of Jia Xu's proposal was to annihilate the [-] rebels in Jingxiang.

Jia Xu's first plan was to use the mobility of the cavalry to cut off the connection between Xiao Yue's vanguard army and the main force.

Thus defeated in one fell swoop, cut off the rebel army!
After the first step of the plan is completed, the most critical second step of the plan is ushered in.

The second step of the plan is divided into three aspects. The first is to relocate the people in the counties and implement the strategic plan of strengthening the walls and clearing the wilderness.

So that Xiao Liangjun could not get the slightest material supplement.

The second is to let Xue Rengui lead the army to withdraw gradually and lure the enemy deep.

And the third is also the most critical link. If this link cannot be completed perfectly, then the plan to wipe out Xiao Liang's army will definitely become empty talk.

And what is the third step?In fact, it is the battleship in front of Su Lie's army.

It should be noted that although Fangling County is located in the west of Xiangyang.

But the most important point is that Fangling County and Xiangyang County face each other across the Xiangjiang River.

Therefore, Jia Xu's plan was to suddenly cross the river from Fangling County with a light army.

As a result, they raided Xiangyang with lightning speed.

At this time, because Xiao Liang's army had been lured into the enemy, the whole army went north.

As a result, the city of Xiangyang was extremely empty. At this time, as long as the Yanmen Army operated properly, it would not be a problem to capture Xiangyang.

In the meantime, they used the shadows to spread rumors in Jiangling City, in order to arouse the people in the whole city to rebel against Gong Yuan's position as the chief general.

This is actually mainly because Xue Rengui mentioned in the battle report that the rebel general Gong Yuan is a man who is capable of fighting and has rich combat experience, and I am afraid he will be aware of it at a critical moment.

It was because of this piece of information that Jia Xu concocted a poisonous plan that forced Xiao Mian to change his generals.

This plan is not innocuous, Jia Xu not only has a sharp eye, but also fully estimates the psychological reaction that Xiao Mian will have.

Moreover, even if Gong Yuan attacked the defense line of the Yanmen Army with all his strength and suffered heavy losses, the people in Jiangling would rally and oppose it.

It has to be said that Jia Xu's ability to estimate people's hearts has reached its peak!

As for where the Yanmen Army prepared so many warships, it was all thanks to Xinye County Magistrate Zhang Xun.

After hearing Jia Xu persuade Gao Qi to build warships, Zhang Xun immediately handed over all the warships he had hidden for a long time to Gao Qi.

It turns out that since Zhang Xun took office as magistrate of Xinye County, on the one hand, he has built new water conservancy projects and developed people's livelihood.

On the other hand, Zhang Xun also gathered the manpower and material resources of the entire county to build warships in case of emergency.

Therefore, Gao Qi was able to collect so many warships in such a short period of time.

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As the warships were fully prepared, Su Lie also ordered the entire army to start crossing the river in batches.

The whole army galloped towards Xiangyang City on the other side at full speed!

Xiangyang City

I saw a solitary scholar in green shirt shaking his head and sighing bitterly on the city wall.

"Hey! Now since the general was dismissed and escorted back to Jiangling."

"Xiao Ling, the chief general in the army, began to vigorously suppress dissidents and cultivate cronies."

"Now I am also sent to the rear to escort food and grass?"

This scholar in green shirt is exactly the scholar named Cui.

Seeing what happened in the army today, the literati surnamed Cui couldn't help but sigh bitterly.

For a long time, the scholar surnamed Cui slowly looked at the incomparably wide Xiangjiang River.

"Huh? Why is the river so calm? Could something have happened?"

For a moment, the scholar surnamed Cui looked at Jiang Zhongzhong, and couldn't help feeling a bad premonition in his heart.

But I can't tell what's wrong, but the uneasiness in my heart is getting stronger and stronger.

Now the situation can be said to affect the whole body!

Since the main general Xiao Ling had already led the main force of the army straight to the north, there were only a few thousand old and weak soldiers in Xiangyang City.

If the Sui army suddenly attacked Xiangyang City at this time, the situation would be out of control!
However, the literati surnamed Cui did not expect that the Sui army could make a surprise attack from other than going south from Xinye to Xiangyang.

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All of a sudden, the sound of slaughter in Xinye City was heard everywhere, and countless rebels rushed up from their chrysalis, attacking Xinye City directly.

In an instant, Gao Qi stood proudly on the city wall, defending the city in an orderly manner.

Zhang Xun, who is good at defending the city, stood beside Gao Qi and explained to Gao Qi how to defend the city.

Although Gao Qi has experienced no less than dozens of battles in the past few years, it can be said that he has made great military exploits and outstanding achievements.

But Gao Qiju led his army to take the initiative to attack, and seldom defended the city.

Therefore, in terms of experience in defending the city, Gao Qi is far inferior to Zhang Xun, the number one city defender in the Tang Dynasty.

That's why Gao Qi took Zhang Xun by his side and asked him about precautions for defending the city.

After all, there is a good saying in the Analects of Confucius: "Threesomes, there must be my teacher!"

For a while, because of Gao Qi's orderly command and order to defend the city, and Zhang Xun's assistance from the side.

Xinye City was as stable as Mount Tai for a while.

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In the center of Xiangjiang, a fleet is getting closer and closer to Xiangyang City.

But at this time, the defense forces in Xiangyang City did not notice anything unusual.

"General, the rebels' defense force is lax, and our army has not been spotted."

On a battleship, the first scout to investigate reported to General Su Lie.

"Oh?"

Hearing this, the general Su Lie couldn't help being interested, and said thoughtfully.

"Since the rebels are unaware of our army, it will be easy to handle."

Suddenly, Su Lie had an idea and thought of a strategy to break Xiangyang.

"Xu Zhi, you will lead the boat to Xiangyang..."

(End of this chapter)