First Minister of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 375
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After Li Shimin returned home, he was about to summon Li Jing, Li Jing came here, and thanked him face to face.

"There is no need for a pharmacist to be polite." Li Shimin laughed and said, "It is the Duke of Yan who recommended you this time. If the Duke of Yan did not strongly recommend you, the sage would not agree to use you."

Li Jing will know this news sooner or later, and there is no need for Li Shimin to keep it a secret.

Li Jing paused, and then sighed deeply: "Li Jing has no deep friendship with Mr. Gao and his son. First, he got the kindness of saving his life, and second, he got the kindness of recommendation. Such a kindness, I really don't know how to repay it."

"A pharmacist has made great achievements, and in the future he will become a minister. This is the best reward." Li Shimin patted Li Jing on the shoulder and said: "This proves that the Gao family and his son have a good understanding of people."

Li Jing cheered up and happily agreed.

Yingzhou, in the face of the strong attack of the Eastern Han Army, the Confucian general Ma Kuangwu could not defend, which made Liu Heitai extremely angry.

If you can't just stick to the city, it's useless to Liu Heitai no matter how good he is at fighting. During this period, Liu Heitai even charged in person, but he still returned without success.

After retreating to the high slope outside the city, seeing the sharp decline in the number of troops under his command, Liu Heitai's face was heavy, "No, we must not spend any energy here. If reinforcements from the Tang army arrive, we will suffer from the enemy."

"What does your Majesty mean?" Fan Yuan asked hesitantly, "Withdraw the troops?"

"No, the troops must not be withdrawn," Liu Heita shook his head, "Once the troops are withdrawn, morale will be lost."

Fan Yuan's head was full of black lines, and he rationally chose to shut up.

"Siege the city and fight for aid!"

With bright eyes, Liu Heikai ordered: "You lead the recruits to pretend to attack the city, and I personally lead the old soldiers to intercept the Tang army halfway."

Fan is willing to promise.

Sure enough, in the afternoon of that day, scouts came to report that the Tang army rushed to Beizhou to help.

Liu Heikai jumped on his horse, full of confidence, and said easily: "Beizhou is my hometown, how dare the villagers be against me", immediately took up his long knife and led his army to meet it.

Seeing this, the morale of the soldiers under his command was high.

The person who came was Xu Shanhu, the governor of Beizhou. After receiving the urgent call for help from Yingzhou, he personally led his troops to help.

Halfway through the journey, suddenly arrows shot indiscriminately, Xu Shanhu hurriedly dodged, "meeting the enemy".

"I am Liu Heita, king of the Eastern Han Dynasty, who dares to fight?" Liu Heita yelled loudly in Beizhou dialect.

There was a sudden commotion in the Tang army's formation, and they hesitated to move forward.

Liu Heita looked up to the sky and laughed loudly, "Kill".

Liu Heitai is known as the brave general, and he and Da Xia Wang Dou Jiande are both from Beizhou. The two have great influence in Beizhou. Seeing Liu Heitai's bravery, the Tang army was in chaos and retreated in a hurry.

Slashing with a long knife in his hand, blood and flesh flew all over the place. Liu Heitai raised the knife and shouted: "You are all from my hometown, why don't you join me in the hegemony and share the wealth and honor together."

When the Beizhou government soldiers heard the words, they had thrown away their helmets and armor, and they all asked to surrender.

Some people even fell to the ground and shouted: "King Xia and King Handong are heroes of our Beizhou, how can we be enemies with them."

Xu Shanhu was shocked, and hurriedly ran away.

"Your Majesty, the last general is going to chase and kill him", the general hit his horse and wanted to chase him.

Liu Heikai stretched out his hand to stop him, "Take Yingzhou first", and then quickly took it back to the army.

Sure enough, after hearing that Beizhou's reinforcements were in ambush, Ma Kuangwu in the city didn't think much about it, and went out to rescue him, but ended up fighting Fan Yuan outside the city.

At this time, Liu Heikai returned to the army to fight, the situation was one-sided, and the Tang army was defeated immediately.

"The one who killed you is Liu Heita, King of the East of Han Dynasty." Liu Heita, like descending from the sky, was brave and invincible with a long knife, and went straight to Ma Kuangwu.

How can a Confucian general be the opponent of the brave general? In just two rounds, blood donations gushed out and his head fell to the ground.

Ma Kuangwei, the governor of Yingzhou, died in battle.

"Fan Yuan, enter the city quickly, take over the city defense, and seal off the treasury and warehouse," Liu Heita ordered.

"The rest, follow me to kill them." Liu Heita led the remaining troops to Beizhou.

Xu Shanhu had just been defeated and was fleeing in embarrassment halfway. He was soon overtaken by hundreds of Turkic cavalry led by Liu Heita.

After a round of charge, the Tang army was defeated again, and Liu Heita beheaded Xu Shanhu.

Xu Shanhu, the governor of Beizhou, died in battle.

So far, since Liu Heita made a comeback, Li Daen, governor of Daizhou, Jiang Yu, governor of Dingzhou, Ma Kuangwu, governor of Yingzhou, and Xu Shanhu, governor of Beizhou, all died in battle.

Liu Heita is a veritable Tang general harvester.

As the news spread, Hebei shook, Chang'an shook, and the whole world shook.

Ma Junde, governor of East Yanzhou, Liu Junhui, governor of Guanzhou, and other Hebei prefectures turned against Tang one after another and attached themselves to Liu Heita.

In a short period of time, Liu Heita's territory expanded rapidly, and then captured Mingzhou, still in Mingzhou as the capital.

The name of the Eastern King of Han once again shocked Hebei.

When Li Shimin first conquered Liu Heita, he sent Qi Wang Li Yuanji with the army. After defeating Liu Heita, Li Shimin led his army to continue to pursue Lu Wang Xu Yuanlang, forcing Xu Yuanlang to retreat to Yanzhou.

I thought Xu Yuanlang's defeat was a foregone conclusion, and Li Shimin lacked interest, so he left Li Yuanji to continue to conquer Xu Yuanlang.

This can also be regarded as Li Shimin's care for his brother. After all, this is a meritorious service at his fingertips. After Li Shimin handed over Shandong to Li Yuanji, he returned to Chang'an.

Unexpectedly, Li Yuanji is such a useless guy, with all his strength, but no brains. Facing Xu Yuanlang, who has been beaten and disabled by Li Shimin, Li Yuanji attacked Xu Yuanlang several times, but all failed. Therefore, Li Yuanji was stranded in Shandong. .

After Li Daoxuan, the king of Huaiyang, went out to fight, Li Yuan thought of Li Sanhu, a good son in Shandong, and immediately ordered Li Yuanji to be the general manager of Bingzhou and the general of the left army. He sent troops from Shandong to crusade against Liu Heita.

After the great turmoil in Hebei and Jianghuai, it seemed that the Tang Dynasty was not blessed by God.

Turks from the north went south and invaded Kuang, Yuan, Shuo and other states. Li Yuan was frightened and sent Prince Li Jiancheng to Daizhou and King Qin Li Shimin to Bingzhou to resist the Turks.

The two brothers are both dragons and phoenixes, and immediately formed an army to fight after arriving at the border. Jieli Khan did not take advantage of it, so he had to retreat, and Datang took the opportunity to recover Mayi.

Tuyuhun in the southwest invaded Fangzhou, and Fang Dangshu, the governor of Fangzhou, abandoned the city and fled. After the victory, Tuyuhun attacked Tao and Minzhou. Li Yuan urgently dispatched his son-in-law, Qizhou governor Chai Shao, to meet him.

Chai Shao is also a good general, and he will repel Tuyuhun by tricking the enemy.

However, Tuyuhun was determined to attack Hezhou on the way to retreat. Fortunately, Lu Shiliang, the governor of Hezhou, was not mediocre, so he repelled Tuyuhun again.

The Liang division who ruled Shuofang all saw that the wars of the Tang Dynasty were everywhere, and wanted to join in, and sent Xin Liao'er to attack Linzhou.

Afterwards, Pang Xiaogong, the governor of Nanzhou, Ning Daoming, the governor of Nanyue, Feng Xuan, the commander of Gaozhou, Zhang Hu, Li Tong, Li Tong, Feng Shi, the governor of Gangzhou... all raised their troops against the Tang Dynasty.

For a time, there were wars everywhere in the Tang Dynasty, from southeast to northwest.

The flood of urgent reports made Li Yuan break out in cold sweat.

At the time of crisis, the left servant of the Shangshu shot Pei Ji, the servant Gao Junya, the right servant of the Shangshu shot Xiao Yu, and the Zhongshuling Chen Shuda and other important officials of the central center, who had been sleeping late at night, assisted Li Yuan in dispatching troops.

Chai Shao, the governor of Qizhou, Ping Shanzheng, the general of hussars, Duan Decao, the governor of Xiazhou, Ning Chun, the governor of Hezhou, and Liu Shirang, the governor of Guangzhou, were appointed to quell the rebellion, and the small-scale rebellions in various places were quickly quelled.

(End of this chapter)