The Taiyuan Army was indeed strong enough. They fought evenly with the Liangzhou Army at the beginning and rescued Li Yuanji. However, as time went by, they eventually lost ground because they were leaderless and had low morale.

However, although their formation was dispersed three times, they also reorganized three times. With the cooperation of the spearmen and shield soldiers, they finally withstood the bloody charge of the Liangzhou cavalry.

Alleys, five-pronged attack, gradually injected into the battlefield, and finally stabilized the situation.

The two sides fell into a hard-fought battle.

The battle lasted from morning to noon. The Liangzhou Army had an absolute advantage. Yang Xuanting led a thousand cavalry and broke into the Taiyuan Army's center of nearly 3,000 people. They almost captured Li Xuancheng and Chen Ruoli alive.

Li Xuancheng was not Li Yuanji. He had never been on the battlefield. Li Yuanji had already passed out. When he saw Yang Xuanting coming to kill him, he was immediately frightened and abandoned Chen Ruoli to escape alone. Fortunately, the Chinese army soldiers protected Chen Ruoli and retreated all the way.

, otherwise, he will surely die in the rebel army.

Even so, Yang Xuanting chased them all the way, and three thousand defeated soldiers escaped desperately. When they returned to the camp, only thirty or forty people were left.

Yang Xuanting was not stupid. No matter how fierce he was, he would not dare to lead a thousand men to charge into the camp of the Taiyuan Legion of 50,000 people, so he approached the gate of the camp and immediately ordered a retreat.

"Lao Qi, do we want to rush into the city?"

When Pei Yuanqing saw that Yang Xuanting ignored them and chased the Li brothers, he thought he could take advantage of the situation, so he encouraged Qin Hu to attack the city.

Qin Hu quickly shook his head: "Retreat, I suspect Yang Xuanting has an ambush."

In fact, Qin Hu knew that Yang Xuanting did not have an ambush, but he would never attack the city unless it was absolutely necessary. Moreover, he had a deeper plan because he knew Yang Xuanting. Although he was stupid, he was not stupid and was very familiar with the art of war.

, the city must be heavily guarded.

Furthermore, he wanted to see what Li Yuanji would do next?

"Soldiers are crafty! What they are doing is deception. There is no need to fight forcefully. Let's go back and wait and see what happens."

Veteran generals such as Tuwanxu Yujuluo were loyal and patriotic, and they were all worried about Yang Shou's safety. Naturally, they hoped that Qin Hu would win the battle quickly, but after getting along with each other during this period, they also knew that Qin Hu was good at using troops to win by surprise. Now

He didn't know what General Qin was thinking, so he didn't express his opinion.

"I want to write a letter to Yang Xuanting." Qin Hu said when he returned to the commander's tent.

Tu Wanxu seemed to have guessed Qin Hu's intentions and asked tentatively: "The general wants to trick him into opening the city gate and letting us in, but no matter how stupid he is, he won't do that."

"I'm just trying to persuade you to surrender in the name of a relative."

All the generals smiled bitterly. Yang Xuanting had won many battles now. The situation of the Yang family was very good. He had no reason to surrender at all. If he didn't write this letter, it would be meaningless.

But Qin Hu insisted on writing, and no one stopped him.

At night, the arrows of the written letter were shot into the city. Qin Hu had been waiting for Yang Xuanting's reply, but what he was waiting for was the news that Yang Xuanting came out at night and attacked Li Yuanji.

Li Yuanji was defeated again. Even the camp was captured by the Liangzhou army, and countless soldiers and generals were lost.

"I have known Yang Xuanting since I was a child, and I know that although he is heartless, he has his own way of doing things in the military. He had already seen our army in the morning, so even though Li Yuanji was defeated, he did not pursue him all the time. He was simply afraid.

We took advantage of the situation to rob and attack the tower."

"So I wrote him a letter to persuade him to surrender, telling him that I was Qin Hu, and asking him to let the emperor go for the sake of his relatives. I also guaranteed that he would not lose his head and continue to be prosperous and wealthy."

"The Yang brothers have always looked down on me. He knew I was coming, and the letter I wrote was so stupid that he immediately let his guard down, so he came out in force to raid Li Yuanji's camp."

"I just want to tire him out, and then take the opportunity to capture Youzhou. Everyone immediately prepares the siege equipment. We will start the siege tomorrow."

"The general has a good plan." Everyone praised in unison.

Qin Hu originally planned to trick Yang Xuanting into pretending to be a pig and eating the tiger, and then attack the city, but it turned out that he missed one point, and that was Li Yuanji.

Li Yuanji's character is so competitive that he is even worse than Yang Xuanting.

Probably because he lost face after losing again and again in the past two days, no one expected that the next day, he would gather all his troops and appear at the gate of Youzhou City, posing as a decisive battle.

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"

"Dong dong dong!"

Youzhou City is an important border town, and the city defense system is naturally very complete. Not only are there several urns inside the city, but there is also a fifteen-meter-wide moat outside the city, and the solid city wall is ten meters high.

The moat is connected to the canal, and the water in the river is turbulent and bottomless.

In addition, in order to guard against the Mohe cavalry, many long and short trenches were dug outside the moat, and the trenches were filled with sharp bamboos.

In this way, the Mohe cavalry lost the advantage of quick reaction.

To attack such a city, it would take ten days and a half just to build a ladder truck with wheels, and it would also take a lot of human lives to fill in the trenches.

In this case, if Qin Hu was guarding the city, he would never pay attention to Li Yuanji.

Just challenge me, challenge me, I'll just treat you like a monkey, I won't come out anyway, you can do whatever you want, I'll drag you to death.

But Yang Xuanting didn't do that. As soon as he saw Li Yuanji coming to challenge him, he immediately became happy, ordered his troops and horses, lowered the drawbridge and rushed out.

At this time, the Taiyuan Army had already formed a formation in the open space 500 meters away from the moat. They still had more than 30,000 soldiers and horses. After the formation was formed, the ground covered a radius of 20 miles.

As for Yang Xuanting's army, they lined up in the city in advance, and then formed one square formation after another and poured into the battlefield below the city. Finally, they advanced uniformly with swords and spears raised.

This is a conventional defensive measure to prevent them from being suddenly attacked by the enemy before they have formed their formation.

Qin Hu originally judged that Li Yuanji was seriously injured and could not get up for ten days and a half, but he made a mistake again.

Li Yuanji is really fierce. He vomited so much blood the day before yesterday. Not only did he get up today, he was also able to hold an iron gun, sit on horseback, and lined up in front of the Chinese cavalry, as if he was preparing to be the first batch of cavalry to fight out.

"The Taiyuan Army is invincible!" Li Yuanji raised his arms and shouted amidst the sound of the horn to boost morale.

"The Taiyuan Army is invincible!"

"Capture the rebel Yang Xuanting alive!"

"Capture the rebel Yang Xuanting alive!"

The Taiyuan Legion is indeed a strong force, well-trained and united. The shouts, drums, and horns make their blood boil with excitement, and they are ready to give it a try at any time.


Chapter completed!