Traveling through the early Tang Dynasty starts with hanging

Chapter 78
The turbulent river turned to the northeast, with a huge momentum and a rough beauty rarely seen in later generations. Li Shan, who was visiting the Yellow River for the first time, was a little shocked.

The Yellow River in this era is not as frightening to the rulers as it was thousands of years later. Around this river, there will be countless exciting and sighing legends in the past, present and future.

Just like Guo Pu is now, this man who has always been calm and composed is pointing to the southwest direction, "Over there is the tiger prison."

Zhou Zhao on the side asked curiously: "Last year in the Hulao battle, were you also there, Lao Guo?"

"Of course!" Guo Pu said emotionally, "King Qin only led three thousand cavalry to Hulao to meet Dou Jiande, while His Highness only led Yu Chigong and four personal guards away from the battle for tens of miles to do provocative things."

Li Shan snorted. If I remember correctly, in the Luoyang battle before that, Li Shimin was surrounded twice. If it wasn't for Yu Chigong and Qiu Xinggong, he would have died long ago!
"Your Highness shouted, the King of Qin is here, the Xia army is terrified, and pursues them with thousands of horses." Guo Pu said enthusiastically: "After staying with Yuchi Gong, Your Highness bowed his bow and shot arrows, and immediately killed dozens of pursuers. Xia Jun was panicked. Don't dare to chase anymore."

"Courage is unparalleled." Zhou Zhao turned his head and glanced at Li Shan. The two had discussed Li Shimin's behavior before, and there were praises and criticisms. He remembered Li Shan's evaluation was that he was really deadly!
"After a stalemate, His Royal Highness lured Dou Jiande to send troops, and personally led the Xuanjia army to break through the formation. Among them, King Huaiyang was seventeen years old. He charged into the formation and went back and forth three times. He wore long arrows like a hedgehog."

"It was also King Huaiyang who raised the banner behind the formation, causing Xia's army to completely collapse."

Li Shan could understand this sentence, it was talking about Li Daoxuan's status and ability under Li Shimin's command, even though he was only 19 years old this year, he was a veteran who had participated in the Luoyang and Hulao battles.

Li Daoxuan, king of Huainan, will be Li Shan's biggest reliance on this trip.

Zhou Zhao sighed suddenly: "It's a strange thing that God favors it so much!"

Since Yi Guan went south, regardless of the north and the south, many powerful officials have usurped the throne, such as Song, Qi, Liang and Chen in the south, and Qi, Zhou and Sui in the north.

So at the beginning of Li Tang Dynasty, Li Yuan deliberately led the army with his clan members, but who would have imagined that there were so many outstanding people in this clan.

Li Shimin and Li Xiaogong are all famous generals, Li Jiancheng also performed well in several battles in Guanzhong, Li Shentong, Li Shenfu, and Li Daoxuan are not mediocre.

It is indeed God's favor.

Seeing a ship approaching from afar, slowly leaning against the shore, several scholars led by Gao Guanbo appeared on the deck, Guo Pu set up an awning and took a look, "It's Mr. Han who is in charge of Tiance Mansion, Jiang Guogong hasn't arrived yet, oh Oh, and Bachelor Yu."

King Qi and his party led troops into Eastern Shaanxi Road and had been stationed in Wuling for three days, but the officials from Daxingtai of Eastern Shaanxi Road did not come until this time... Obviously they were angry.

This is of course, in the eyes of everyone, King Qi is here to grab credit, and maybe he wants to reach out to Shandong Dao... For this reason, Jiang Guogong Qu Tutong, who is in charge of Shandong Dao with his right servant, did not show up.

Turning his head to look at the pier, Li Shan curled his lips, but King Qi didn't come out to greet him, only Li Sixing and Li Ganyou came forward, is he playing a prank?

After all, he is only 20 years old.

In fact, Li Yuanji and Qu Tutong still had friendship. Last year, Li Shimin led an army to stop Dou Jiande, and it was Li Yuanji and Qu Tutong who besieged Luoyang.

"Let's not join in the excitement." Li Shan chuckled, deliberately diverted the topic, and pointed to the faint building on the other side, "Where is that?"

"That's Heyin." Zhou Zhao said in a deep voice: "Heyin changed drastically back then. Er Zhurong killed the Empress Dowager and Young Emperor, and slaughtered more than two thousand princes and officials. Although it has been nearly a hundred years, it is still unforgettable. Er Zhurong's name is in Henan and Shandong It can stop children crying at night."

"Many people are angry to this day." Guo Pu nodded and said, "Scholar Li Xuandao, the master of Qin Wangfu, is the younger brother of Li's Gu Zangfang in Longxi. .”

Although Zhou Zhao is a child of a poor family, he is no stranger to allusions and characters, and he tells them like a few treasures. Guo Pu, as the leader of the Li family in Longxi, is even more familiar, and Li Shan listens with great interest.

At this time, dozens of boats appeared on the river and went down the river.

"It should be grain and grass transported to Hebei Road." Guo Pu said in a low voice: "At the end of March, King Qin was recalled to Beijing. "

It has been three days since I came here, and Li Shan has already looked at the map nearby, and also asked the local officials, "Going down the river, should I go to Liyang?"

Zhou Zhao nodded, "Emperor Yang moved his capital to Luoyang and set up granaries in the surrounding areas. There are two largest and closest ones. One is the Luokou warehouse in Gong County, and the other is the Liyang warehouse in Weizhou."

"Remember that Liyang is at the junction of Weizhou and Huazhou?" Li Shan unfolded the map and looked carefully, "It also happens to be the junction of Hebei Road and Shandong Road."

"That's right, if it wasn't for the Liyang Cang, it would be difficult for Wagang to gain momentum." Zhou Zhao said with a smile.

Wagangzhai is located in Huazhou, and it first gained momentum by relying on Liyang Cang, and then Li Mi joined to capture Luokou Cang.

Wagangzhai had a great influence in the early Tang Dynasty, not because Li Mi was so good, but because Li Mi trained countless great generals.

The most well-known ones are of course Qin Qiong, Cheng Zhijie, and Li Shiji, but in fact the list is very long... Liu Heita, who is now causing trouble in Hebei, was originally a member of Wagangzhai.

Zhou Zhao and Guo Pu on the side talked about Luo Shixin who died in the battle in Hebei at the beginning of the year. He was also a former general of Wagang Village. Li Shan stared at the map in his hand and his eyes fell on a place name.

White horse.

A hundred years ago, in Heyin on the opposite bank, Er Zhurong killed more than [-] officials, causing the once-prominent Northern Wei Dynasty to collapse.

200 years later, a massacre of equal scale took place in Baima, not far from Heyin, which not only dismembered the empire, but also made the aristocratic family aristocrats a thing of the past.

Li Shan thought in his heart, but in the early Tang Dynasty, although the aristocratic family was not in full swing, it was definitely not in the sunset. If you want to have a plan, you still cannot do without the circle of aristocrats.

In the final analysis, Li Shanneng has a little influence from a rural man to now, mainly due to his connection with the Li family in Longxi.

The vitality of this behemoth of the aristocratic family is too strong, and it can only end with the bottom-up killing... Li Shan does not want to challenge the rules of history, but only hopes to take advantage of the inevitability of history.

After chatting for a while, thinking that the inside should be almost over, Li Shancai returned to Wuling, but as soon as he entered the county, he immediately felt the tense atmosphere.

The noise in the county government compound was extremely chaotic, and Li Shan went to the outside to listen for a long time before he could figure it out. Facing Li Yuanji's scolding, an official with white hair raised his head high and spoke fiercely, accusing Qi Wang flinched.

"It's Zuo Cheng, Minister of Daxingtai of Eastern Shaanxi Province and Minister of the Ministry of Officials, and the Tiance Mansion is in charge of Han Liang."

Li Shan turned his head to see Rong Jiusi who was coming, and smiled, "What happened?"

There was no smile on Rong Jiusi's face, and he said in a low voice with a sullen face: "Just now came the battle report from Hebei, Liu Heitai broke through Dingzhou, and led his troops southward, with a sharp edge."

Li Shan was taken aback. Liu Heitai raised his troops in July, but he has been tossing around in Dingzhou and Yizhou all the time, and there has been no major disturbance. This is why most courtiers think that Liu Heitai is vulnerable and there is no need Qin Wang, Qi Wang is enough to calm down the reason.

Unexpectedly, when Li Yuanji led his troops to attack the pass, Liu Heita broke through Dingzhou.

(End of this chapter)