subvert the late Tang Dynasty

Once Zhang Lin died, Huang Chao had no opponents in the south of the Yangtze River. Seeing Zhang Lin's death in other towns, how could they dare to fight again?In the face of successive defeats, self-protection is a problem.

Seeing Zhang Lin's death in battle, Liang Yan led his army to avenge him, but was attacked by the ambush soldiers that Zhu Wen had ambushed in advance, and Liang Yan was shot in the body and died.

Huang Chao took the opportunity to move his army to the north. Wherever the army passed, the officials fled one after another. The defenders fled and surrendered. To 15.

At the end of June, they captured Xuanzhou (now Xuancheng City, Anhui Province) and Wuzhou (Wuhu City), the important towns on the south bank of the Yangtze River.

At the beginning of July, I arrived at Caishiji on the bank of the Yangtze River.

Huang Chao said: "Who is guarding Caishiji?"

Zhu Wen said with a bit of embarrassment: "It is said that...it is Brother Bi Shiduo."

There was also a trace of imperceptible embarrassment on Huang Chao's face, and then he smiled and said: "So it's my brother, it's easy to handle, hehe..."

Although everyone listened to Huang Chao's words with ease, everyone knew that he was also worried. Although Bi Shiduo was from the north, he grew up in the south of the Yangtze River and was good at water warfare.Although Bi Shiduo is Huang Chao's former subordinate, now that he has taken refuge in the imperial court, each is his master, and when they meet on the battlefield, swords and swords will inevitably be faced.

Those who have a good relationship with Bi Shiduo can't help but feel emotional, but the matter has come to this point, a war is still inevitable.

Zhu Wen asked tentatively: "Master, do you want me to send someone to visit the enemy camp at night to find out what Big Brother Bi thinks?"

Huang Chao sighed and said, "No need, you don't understand Bi Shiduo's character. He is calm and resolute, and he is rarely moved by external forces in his life, but once he decides something, there is little room for change. Sigh... …I thought he was bound to die at the beginning, but who would have expected him to surrender to Gao Pian! Since he surrendered to Gao Pian, there must be some unavoidable reasons for him.”

Zhu Wen wondered: "Since the master also knows that he has unavoidable difficulties, why don't you let me investigate, so that Brother Bi can have a chance to reform himself!"

Huang Chao shook his head and said, "But Bi Shiduo has a bit of a stubborn temper. Since he has taken refuge in Gao Pian now, he must be ashamed to return to the rebel army. Even if he dies, he will not come back!"

Zhu Wen felt sad. When he ambushed Gao Pian in the Yangtze River, Zhu Wen and Bi Shiduo had dealt with each other.Knowing that Bi Shiduo is not good at words, but he has a sense of arrogance, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

But the Yangtze River still has to be crossed, and the battle still has to be fought. The Yangtze River War will not be given up because of Bi Shiduo alone.

Most of Huang Chao's generals are from the north, who are not good at water warfare, but some of the southerners are mostly new recruits. Without training, how can they fight such a large-scale war?

On July [-], the first year of Guangming, Huang Chao's army approached Caishiji, an important port on the south bank of the Yangtze River, and confronted Bi Shiduo, who was guarding Caishiji, on the riverside.

Huang Chao said loudly: "Brother Bi, are you safe?"

Bi Shiduo replied: "Thanks to Huang Wang's concern, brother is deeply honored, brother is not blessed, can not always be with Huang Wang, I feel deeply sorry. Now each is the master, I hope Huang Wang will not worry about the brotherhood in the past, just let go One fight, brother, I can die in Huang Wang's hands, and I will die without regret!"

Huang Chao sighed: "Brother Bi, don't say such things. As long as Brother Bi is willing to change his mind, we are still good brothers."

A look of excitement flashed across Bi Shiduo's face, but it was gone in a blink of an eye, and then he said sadly: "People say that the water is hard to recover, brother, since I have taken this road, even if I am broken into pieces, I must persist in walking."

Huang Chao said helplessly: "In this case, the elder brother will be offended!"

Bi Shiduo also said sadly: "Please, King Huang!"

These two people don't seem to be at war, they are simply brothers reminiscing about the old days!Everyone thought to themselves.But before they could react, Huang Chao gave an order: "Ge Congzhou, Hu Zhen listen!"

Ge Congzhou and Hu Zhen got off their horses, bowed and said, "This subordinate is here!"

Huang Chao said: "You two lead the troops to attack from the front. Without my order, you are not allowed to retreat. Anyone who retreats will be killed without mercy!"

Ge Congzhou and Hu Zhen bowed to accept the order: "Your subordinate obeys!"

Huang Chao also ordered Zhu Wenwen and Zhang Yan to outflank the two flanks, Shang Rang and Meng Kai to sweep the formation behind, and to support whichever group of troops could not hold on.

Ge Congzhou and Hu Zhen led the horse cavalry, followed closely by the infantry, and quickly approached the enemy camp. The sharp sound of horseshoes resounded like thunder, and the loud shouts of killing went straight to the sky.

When the distance between the two sides reached the range of the bow and crossbow, the cavalry on both sides took out the bow or crossbow in their hands, and rushed towards the enemy while rushing.From time to time, someone on both sides fell off the horse with an arrow. In this case, falling off the horse means death, and the other soldiers behind him don't care whether there is anyone on the ground. It may not be possible to do it.If you are not careful, you will be trampled into meat paste by other people's war horses. The galloping two sides only had time to release two rounds of bows and arrows, and the distance between the two sides was extremely close. The spear or saber on the other side charged towards the enemy's formation by virtue of the inertia of the horse's forward charge.

At this moment, there was only one thought in their minds, and that was one word - "kill"!Either they killed others, or they were killed by others. They had no hatred, but they were brought together by fate, and they had to fight and fight between life and death.

In such a blink of an eye, the fresh lives fell into the dust one by one, and passed away forever.It will never be possible to come back to life.

Maybe this is their fate.

Ge Congzhou took advantage of the inertia of the horse's forward charge, raised the long knife on the back in his hand, raised the knife with his hand, and chopped off the head of a general in the enemy's formation. Blood gushed out wildly, and even the chopped off The head also flew far away because of the inertia of the war horse.Ge Congzhou brandished his sword like a tiger entering a flock of sheep, causing bloody storms where the long sword passed.

Hu Zhen's long spear is connected, as agile as a poisonous snake spitting out letters. Every spear hits the enemy's vital point. Every time he stabs out, an enemy screams and falls off the horse.Hu Zhen also threw out his sleeve arrows from time to time, killing enemy generals at a distance.

For a while, the screams, the shouts, the neighing of war horses, and the sound of gold and iron mingled together into an extremely chaotic symphony, which made people feel sore teeth unconsciously after listening to it.

Bi Shiduo was commanding the battle from afar. Seeing Ge Congzhou and Hu Zhen's bravery, there was a faint urge to try in his heart. He really wanted to compete with them in the end. He was confident that he would not lose to them. .

Suddenly, Bi Shiduo saw the dust on the two wings. It turned out that Zhu Wenwen and Zhang Yan's troops came from the two wings. Bi Shiduo knew that if they formed an encirclement trend, his own troops would become entrapped, and only those who surrendered or were surrounded destiny.

Bi Shiduo didn't want his troops to be dumped, so he made a quick decision and left 2000 people in the rear. The brigade retreated to the second line of defense, where there were trenches, arrow stacks, giant bed crossbows, and several large catapults. car.Should be able to last for a while.

When Bi Shiduo withdrew to the second line of defense with a large group of troops, the 2000 troops he sent as the rear were almost wiped out by the rebels.

There are several wide and deep trenches beyond the second line of defense. The horses cannot charge, and the cavalry loses its due role.Since this kind of highly mobile cavalry cannot be used, under the bombardment of the enemy's crossbow arrows, bed crossbows, catapults and other equipment, if infantry charges alone, they will definitely suffer heavy casualties.

Huang Chao had no choice but to call Jin to withdraw his troops, thinking of a good strategy to deal with Bi Shiduo.

But behind the enemy is the vast river, and it is clear that they want to fight with their backs. Apart from attacking hard, I really don't know what else to do.

The generals look at me and I look at you, but they don't know what else to do.

Zhu Wen said: "Master, I have a method that I don't know if it will work."

Huang Chao said, "Say it."

Zhu Wen said: "The enemy relies on nothing more than ditches, arrow stacks and catapults. As long as the enemy's arrow stacks and catapults are destroyed, even if there are trenches, we can advance calmly with infantry."

Huang Chao wondered: "But the key is how to destroy the enemy's catapult?"

Zhu Wen said: "Tonight, my disciple led hundreds of troops to attack the camp and destroyed the enemy's arrow stacks and catapults incomparably."

Before Huang Chao could speak, Huang Ying who was next to him interjected, "No! This is too dangerous. Since those combat equipment are the enemy's reliance, Bi Shiduo will definitely monitor them closely and send a large number of people to guard them. What's the matter?"

Zhu Wen glanced at Huang Ying gratefully, then thought for a while and said, "Otherwise, we will take advantage of the dark to attack, risking casualties, and take down Caishiji. Once Gao Pian's large reinforcements arrive, we will attack again There is no chance."

Huang Chao sighed: "It seems that's the only way."

Zhu Wen opened his mouth, as if hesitating to speak, but he didn't say anything after all.

Huang Chao saw Zhu Wen's expression in his eyes, and knew that he had something to say, but he didn't know how to say it.Huang Chao said: "Third brother, what are you talking about, you might as well just say it straight, so as not to feel uncomfortable in your heart."

Zhu Wen said with some embarrassment: "No...it's nothing!"

Huang Yingjiao said angrily: "My father told you to say it, just say it, look at your potential! Mother-in-law is like a bitch!"

Zhu Wen coughed dryly and said: "I want to say, once we break through Caishiji, I hope Master can let Big Brother Bi survive and give him another chance, after all, he is an old brother for many years.

Huang Chao took a deep look at Zhu Wen, as if to see clearly what Zhu Wen was thinking.After a long time, Huang Chao sighed and said: "It's up to you, but you must take care of yourself. If something happens to you, and Yinger asks me for someone, I can't find him another lover, haha... "