Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 783

Guanzhong.

In the city of Chang'an, Li Yuan was removing all traces of Yang Guang, even though he gave Yang Guang the posthumous title of Emperor Wu on the surface.But since Li Yuan entered Guanzhong, he began to remove traces of the emperor.

Daxing City was renamed Chang'an.

Daxing Palace was renamed Taiji Palace.

At the same time, the system of prefectures and counties was dismissed, and the system of prefectures and counties in Emperor Wen's time was restored, and the previously established road-level divisions were abolished, and the posts of appeasement envoys and Jiedu envoys were dismissed.

Li Yuan issued orders in the General's Mansion.

Everything was going well. Li Xiaochang, the county magistrate of Huayin, joined him and donated Yongfeng Granary, one of the six granaries, which enabled Li Yuan to have a lot of grain at once, which greatly relieved the plight of the Xiaoguo army who was short of grain after returning to Beijing.

At the same time, Li Xiaochang also sent troops into the two counties of Hedong in Hexi, and recruited many Sui army soldiers and bandit rebels. Therefore, Li Yuan named Li Xiaochang the Duke of Yi'an County and appointed him as the governor of Huazhou.

Li Xiaogong, the nephew of Li Yuan's family, led his troops to respond in Feng Yi, and Li Yuan appointed him the governor of the same state and the Duke of Hedong County.

And Li Shentong also led his troops to respond in the area of ​​Qizhou, and he was awarded the governor of Qizhou and the Duke of Hongnong County by him.

But the bad news followed.

Chen Leng surrendered to Luo Cheng with Jiangdu, Liyang, Pengcheng and other six counties, and was worshiped by Luo Cheng as Taiwei and Tongping Zhangshi.

Huainan and Shandong are all owned by Luo Cheng, and the six counties in northern Hebei are all owned by Luo Cheng.

But Li Mi and Dou Jiande did not fight to the death.

These are very bad news.

In particular, Luo Cheng won more than ten counties without much effort in this battle, which made Li Yuan even more worried.

"Report!"

A piece of worse news flew in.

"Xue Ju sent a large army to invade Jingzhou, and the main force has already moved towards Yilu, Fenzhou."

Hearing that Xue Ju had called directly, Li Yuan hurriedly summoned Li Jiancheng, Li Shimin, Chai Shao and others.

"What is the specific situation?"

Li Yuan asked Li Shimin directly.

Li Shimin's face was solemn, "Father, Xue Ju came in a menacing manner. He passed through Longshan Mountain from the Great Earthquake Pass, then came east along the Jinghe River Valley, invaded Jingzhou, and the main force went straight to Yilu, Fenzhou. Send mobile cavalry to attack Ningzhou and Qizhou."

As for Longzhou, it has been completely captured.

"Is Xue Ju in charge of soldiers and horses? How many troops?"

"It is said that there is an army of 20, and the leader of the army is Xue Rengao, the prince of Xue Ju.

Li Yuan listened, "20 is an imaginary number, right?"

"A real number." Li Shimin reported helplessly, "When Xue Rengao sent troops from Tianshui, there were only [-] troops, but when he arrived in Fufeng, he used tricks to annex Tang Bi's troops from Kaiyuan thief, and the number suddenly increased by [-]."

This Tang Bi originally supported Li Hongzhi as the emperor, and he had 10,000+ people.Xue Ju sent envoys to recruit Tang Bi and made him king of Tang, Tang Bi readily accepted, then Xue Rengao invited Tang Bi to a banquet, took advantage of Tang Bi's unpreparedness, killed Tang Bi, and then attacked and defeated his army, taking all of them.

Xue Rengao was also greatly shocked by this.

Binzhou is only a few hundred miles away from Chang'an, and Li Yuan didn't expect Xue's family to come so quickly. He planned to use Longyou Qiang, Tuyuhun and Li Gui to fight Xue Ju, but Xue Ju came first.

"Shimin, I order you to be the marshal of the marching army, and lead the two armies on the right and the second, with a total of 4 horses, and go to Binzhou to resist Xue Rengao."

Li Yuan also asked Li Jiancheng to lead the army to garrison Jingyang in Chang'an, Weihebei, and Li Shentong to garrison Qizhou, and ordered Chang'an to be under martial law to strengthen its defenses.

Fourth day of July.

Li Shimin commanded [-] troops to go up along the Jingbei River and came to Yilu.

Marching in a hurry, he suddenly contracted malaria and fell ill, so he had to let the marching commander Shi Liu Wenjing and Sima Chaishao replace the commander.

"Xue Rengao went deep alone. Although there are 20 people, there are [-] newly annexed Fuyu rebels among them. There are many soldiers but not much food. The soldiers are tired from far away, so we should be careful not to fight now. After I recover from illness, then At this time, the enemy's sharpness and vigor have passed, and there must be no more food and grass, and if they go out to fight again, they can be defeated in one battle."

Li Shimin is very cautious. In any case, Xue Rengao has 20 people, while he has only 4 horses.Moreover, like him, many soldiers and horses came from Chang'an and fell ill due to the heat.

But after Chai Shao and Liu Wenjing came out, they discussed.

"The king of Tang told me when he came here that this battle must be resolved quickly, otherwise the capital will be in turmoil and chaos will occur again."

"But the marshal is now ill."

"The Marshal's illness is not always a bad thing. Xue Rengao, I heard that he is brave but not resourceful. If we deliberately release the news of the Marshal's illness, they will definitely despise us, and we will just lose the enemy at that time."

Liu Wenjing is a great adviser, but he is obviously not professional in military affairs. Chai Shao was only a guard of the Eastern Palace before, let alone has little experience in commanding battles.

As soon as the two discussed it, they decided to go to war behind Li Shimin's back.

They led the army to line up in the southwest of Qianshuiyuan outside Yilu City.

Unexpectedly, Xue Rengao was very cunning. He slowly set up his formation, but in fact it was a bluff, but he detoured the main cavalry to the back of the Tang army to cover up the attack.

ninth grade.

The two armies fought against each other for several days, and it was only a small-scale battle. On this day, Xue Rengao led the cavalry to attack from behind, and launched a surprise attack at dawn.

Generals Murong Luohou and Li Anyuan of the Tang army were killed on the spot, and the two main generals, Chai Shao and Liu Wenjing, were also captured alive.

In addition, the eight general managers were captured.

Xue Rengao took advantage of the victory and marched, easily conquering Yilu City.

After the victory, Xue Rengao ordered the collection of more than 1 Tang army corpses on the battlefield.He ordered these corpses to be placed on the shallow water plain, and a layer of corpses was covered with a layer of soil, layer upon layer, and finally a huge Jingguan was built.

When Liu Wenjing and others were defeated, Li Shimin had already escaped under the protection of his guards, and fled all the way back to Chang'an City.

After Xue Rengao broke through Yilu City in Binzhou, he opened the gate of Binzhou, so the army followed the trend, surrounded the city of Binzhou, and at the same time sent troops to attack Ningzhou in the north.

Fortunately, Marshal Li Shimin ran away, but the governors of Ningzhou and Binzhou led the army and the people to defend the city. The weather was hot, and the Qin army failed to capture it after several attacks.

At this time, a letter came from the rear, saying that the emperor Xue Ju was critically ill, and asked the prince Xue Rengao to return to Beijing immediately.

It turned out that Xue Ju was very happy to hear that the prince had defeated the Tang army in Qinzhou, so he rushed from Qinzhou, but when he arrived at Zheqi City in Qinzhou, he suddenly became seriously ill and became very critical.

Originally, Xue Rengao was planning to take advantage of the victory and go straight to Chang'an, and simply ignored the two prefectures of Binning and Ningxia, but unexpectedly such an accident happened at this time, so he had to rush to Zhegao city.

As soon as Xue Rengao left, Qin Jun's offensive stopped.

This gave the two states of Ningbin, who were in danger, a chance to breathe. Tang Wang Li Yuan also quickly dispatched troops to Li Shimin, and sent him to rescue the two states and resist the Xue family's attack.

August.

In Chang'an City, Li Yuan received two urgent reports, one from the east and one from the west.

"Listen to the information from the west first."

"Marshal Shimin urgently reported that Xue Ju died of illness in Zheqian City. Prince Xue Rengao succeeded the emperor and changed Zheqian City as his capital."

Hearing that Xue Ju had died, Li Yuan's complexion improved a bit, and he was really worried that it was the news of Shimin's defeat again.

"What about the information on the east side?"

Li Yuan hoped to hear another good news.

"Dongmian urgent report, Luo Cheng received Zen in Fanyang mansion and proclaimed himself emperor, taking Fanyang mansion as Beijing and Liaodong city as Tokyo."

"Luo Cheng proclaimed himself emperor?"

Li Yuan felt lost, and was in a daze.

Of all the heroes in the world, what Li Yuan fears the most is this Luo Cheng, he never thought that he would become emperor.

"Didn't it mean that the people of Goguryeo were making trouble? How could Luo Cheng move his capital and proclaim himself emperor at this time?"

"Back to King Tang, the Goguryeo rebellion has been put down!"

Li Yuan's complexion changed drastically, the Goguryeo rebellion was quelled, Luo Cheng was proclaimed emperor by Zen again, and Fanyang was also established as the capital. Is this the real struggle for hegemony in the Central Plains?
(End of this chapter)