Chapter 170: Li Yuan rebels

Li Jing visited Li Yuan and asked to go south to borrow troops from Hedong County, but he didn't expect Li Yuan to immediately order the city gate guards to not allow Li Jing to leave the city. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info Li Jing thought hard all night, so he returned to the inn at dawn to wake up the attachΓ©s and asked them to pack up their luggage and leave immediately to complete one thing.

A thin horse pulled a prisoner cart, the prisoner cart was carrying a prisoner, and drove to the city gate of Jinyang with a grunt, and the guards at the gate glanced at the official document in the hand of the escort officer, and when they saw the Great Seal Gate, they waved their hands to call them over, without the slightest desire to check the contents inside.

The prisoner car walked less than a few miles, and several men in strange costumes were waiting on the side of the road with more than a dozen horses, Li Jing got out of the prisoner car, took off his prison clothes, changed into the prepared clothes, patted the official seal in the pocket of his clothes and said with a smile: "It's so easy to come out, each of us has a horse, and Li Yuan can't catch up with us even if he is in a hurry for 800 miles." ”

Li Yuan found that Li Jing was gone, and said angrily: "This kid must have seen the clue to Yang Yingmi." ”

So the eight hundred miles of urgent pursuit rushed to the direction of Jiangdu, Li Jing, who arrived in Chang'an, immediately met Chang'an to stay in guard Wensheng, Li Jing reported that Li Yuan would come to attack Chang'an soon, asked Wei Wensheng to prepare early, Wei Wensheng scoffed: "Where is that guy Hedong Qu Tutong's opponent, besides, as soon as he moves, I will immediately send troops to fight him, Guanzhong is dangerous on all sides, how can he fly in? But you lost Ma Yi, do you know the guilt? Come on, drag it down and beat fifty military sticks." ”

Li Jing was full of enthusiasm to help guard Chang'an, but he didn't expect that his strategy didn't have a chance to say a word, and he was beaten in the ass, and after recovering from his injuries, he touched his nose and returned to Sanyuan's hometown to accompany his wife, Hongfu.

When Yang Guang set off from Luoyang to Jiangdu by dragon boat, he wrote a small poem to say goodbye to the palace maids in Luoyang: "I dream of Jiangdu, and the expedition to Liao is also accidental." ”

His addiction to being a general turned the strong and rich empire left to him by his father Yang Jian into a pot of paste, and it only took 12 years.

Starting from the most famous, after Li Mi, who rebelled with Yang Xuangan, escaped from prison, he went to Pingyuan County to seek refuge with Hao Xiaode, the leader of the people, Hao Xiaode was a pawn when Li Mi was a pawn, and even put food on the ground for him to eat, Li Mi couldn't stand Wang Bo who defected to Qi County again, Wang Bo didn't treat him as a thing, and he was the last to receive food, and Li Mi was so hungry that he ate tree bark.

As a last resort, Li Mi hid in the countryside of Huaiyang and taught the children in the countryside to read and write, but the local officials bullied the outsiders, and those who did not give bribes were illegal deserters, so Li Mi had no choice but to get out. knew the danger, but Li Mi couldn't survive anymore, so he went to find his brother-in-law Qiu Junming, the magistrate of Yongqiu County, Qiu Junming didn't dare to take him in, and introduced him to a chivalrous man Wang Xiucai, Wang Xiucai and Li Mi talked very happily, not only let Li Mi tolerate himself but also marry his daughter to Li Mi.

Not long after the small days, Qiu Junming's nephew Qiu Huaiyi was greedy for a reward, and actually went to Yang Advertising in person, Yang Guang gave Qiu Huaiyi an edict asking him to go to Liang County to guard Yang Wang, and lead troops to arrest Li Mi, Li Mi just went out and escaped by luck, but Qiu Junming and Wang Xiucai were killed.

Li Mi, who escaped alive, traveled among the nearby leaders of the mutiners, selling his great strategy of governing the country and leveling the world to Wang Dangren of Waihuang County, Wang Bodang of Jiyang County, Zhou Wenju of Weicheng, and Li Gongyi of Yongqiu County. Everyone thinks that Li Mi is absurd and exaggerated, Wang Bo thinks Li Mi is verbose, and wants to drive him away quickly, and says to Li Mi: "We haven't read, I can't understand what you say, Zhai Rang of Wagang used to be the law cao in the county, and he has read some books, you go and tell him to listen, maybe he can understand what you say." ”

So Wang Bodang took Li Mi to see Zhai Rang, Zhai Rang listened to Li Mi's tirade, was dumbfounded, and could only say modestly: "We are all robbers, just stealing our lives, and we are not capable of doing the big things you said." Well, give you a place, and you go to your own people and carry out your own plans. ”

Li Mi began to go around in the name of Zhai Rang to solicit stragglers and small groups of mutinants, and it didn't take long to gather four or five hundred people, which made Zhai Rang's eyes light up, and he would discuss with Li Mi if he had something.

Li Mi made up a nursery rhyme called Tao Li Zhang: "Tao Li Zi, the queen goes around Yangzhou and travels in the garden." Don't be too talkative, who can allow that. ”

Called a subordinate Li Xuanying, who had just escaped from Luoyang, to teach children to sing everywhere, Tao Li Zi is the meaning of the fugitive surnamed Li, the queen is the same as the emperor, and he can't come back if he stays in Yangzhou in the garden, and the last two sentences hide a secret word, which is intended to tell everyone that Li Mi will win the world.

At this time, Fang Yanzao, the captain of Song City, also fled because of his participation in Yang Xuangan's rebellion, and met Li Mi unexpectedly, and the two went to visit the mutineers in various places, so the number of people who joined Li Mi increased rapidly. Of course, Li Mi is still Zhai Rang's guest, so these people are all Zhai Rang's.

If you have the masses, you have to support them, how to raise them? At that time, the only way was to rob, and if you grabbed them, Li Mi would have money. Li Mi persuaded Zhai Rang's think tank magician Jia Xiong, and Li Mi persuaded Zhai Rang to attack Xingyang City, where there was an abundance of grain, so that he could supply his troops without robbing, and more people would come to take refuge.

Zhai Rang asked Jia Xiong if he could listen to Li Mi's words? Jia Xiong said: "Great luck and great fortune are unspeakably expensive. ”

So Zhai Rang sent troops to break through the Jindi Pass and conquer the counties under Xingyang County. Yang Qing, the prince of Xingyang County, was unable to crusade against Zhai Rang, and Yang Guang transferred Zhang Xutuo, a famous general who dealt with the people at that time, to be the commander of Xingyang to exterminate Zhai Rang. Zhai Rang had suffered Zhang Xutuo's loss before and wanted to retreat and dodge, Li Mi said to Zhai Rang: "Zhang Xutuo has courage and no strategy, I can capture him alive in one battle, although you are ready for battle, I promise to win a big victory for you." ”

Zhai Rang was skeptical, because Jia Xiong strongly supported it, so Zhai Rang gathered his army and prepared for battle. Li Mi led more than 1,000 people to ambush in the woods north of the Great Sea Temple, telling Zhai Rang to retreat in this direction when the attack was unfavorable, and when Zhang Xutuo's pursuers passed, Li Mi would come out and attack Zhang Xutuo's back, and Zhai Rang would return with the whole army. The battle went on as expected, Zhai Rang's subordinates besieged Zhang Xutuo and Xu Shiji, stabbed him to death, Zhang Xutuo died for a while, and Xingyang City was destroyed.

Zhai Rang asked Li Mi to set up a large camp independently, and returned to Wagang with the loot, but he regretted it not long after he left, and turned back to Li Mi. In this way, the host and guest were reversed, and Li Mi had already persuaded several cities to surrender and obtain a large amount of supplies in Zhai Rang's absence, and Li Mi seemed to be the leader of this mutant army.

Then there is Dou Jiande, the leader of the people, who followed Gao Shida to loot the north of the Yellow River and used a strategy to destroy Guo Xuan, the general guard of Zhuo County. Gao Shida was proud after defeating Guo Xuan, and then was immediately defeated and killed by Yang Yichen, the government army of the Sui Dynasty, Dou Jiande inherited Gao Shida, because other muteous leaders were fierce and cruel, only Dou Jiande was benevolent and generous, and many cities took the initiative to join Dou Jiande, and Dou Jiande soon became the strongest mutein group in Hebei, with more than 100,000 armed forces.

Yang Guang's military supplies and various utensils and equipment in Liaodong were all placed in Zhuo County, and there were many gold, silver and jewelry in the nearby Linshuo Palace, and there were tens of thousands of garrisons in peacetime, Zhuo County stayed behind Zhao Shizhu to send Hu Benlang to Luo Yi to crusade against Dou Jiande, but he did not expect Luo Yi to return to the army to control Zhao Shizhu and other government officials, and then send troops to occupy the area north of Dou Jiande's power, claiming to be the governor of Youzhou.

There are still many powerful mutans south of the Yangtze River, but it doesn't matter, because they didn't chase the Central Plains, Li Mi and Zhai Rang selected 7,000 elite people to sneak attack Luokoucang, a hundred miles east of Luoyang, and then opened a warehouse to release grain. The prefect of Luoyang thought that Li Mi and others were rice thieves, so he sent Hu Benlang to lead Liu Changgong to lead 25,000 infantry cavalry to crusade, and ordered Pei Renji, the ambassador of Henan, to lead his troops from Bishui County, and was scheduled to reach the south of Luokou Cang to make peace.

Because there is Li Mi's meticulous work in Luoyang, Li Mi's whole army has already been waiting in ambush there, Pei Renji has not yet arrived, Liu Changgong, who arrived first, was immediately defeated, only Liu Changgong escaped alone, half of the whole army was killed, half surrendered. Liu Changgong disappeared from the battlefield, and Pei Renji could not march alone, so he had to retreat.

Li Mijun's prestige was greatly enhanced, Zhai Rang elected Li Mi as the leader of the People's Army, the honorific title was Duke Wei, Li Mi set up a high altar to worship the heavens, and the year number was the first year of Duke Wei, and the marching marshal's mansion was set up, and a hundred officials were placed, Feng Zhai Rang was Situ, Shan Xiongxin was the general of Zuo Wuhou, Xu Shiji was the right general of Wuhou, and Fang Yanzao was the left long history. The other leaders of the mutant army were appointed as officials and knights according to their ranks.

So from the south of Dou Jiande to the north of the Yangtze River, all the leaders of the people responded to Li Mi, and Li Mi also conferred official titles one by one, because of the abundance of food, the people from all over the country went to defect, and the road was endless, like flowing water, and in a short time Li Mi had hundreds of thousands of troops. Li Mi hurriedly built Luokou City as the location of the marching marshal's mansion and prepared to attack Luoyang.

When Yang Xuan felt the incident, Li Mi came up with a strategy, the middle strategy was to let go of the cities along the way, and take Chang'an directly, and the next strategy was to attack Luoyang. Now that Li Mi has hundreds of thousands of troops at once, and there is endless food, Li Mi is reluctant to leave to take the risk of the unknown, and he forgets his strategy, and immediately follows in the footsteps of Yang Xuangan and begins to besiege Luoyang, which is in response to the idiom of the horse love stack bean.

Luoyang's Sui Dynasty army still had 200,000, until Yang Guang sent Jiangdu Tongshou Wang Shichong to lead 50,000 elite soldiers to help, Li Mi could not capture Luoyang, precious time passed, and good luck had to belong to the real heroes.

Li Yuan, who was in Jinyang City, used the excuse of guarding against Liu Wuzhou's incessant fierce troops, but he neither sent troops to fight Liu Wuzhou, nor did he send troops to support Luoyang, so what kind of calculation was he making? The tall and fat Li Yuan was kind and kind-eyed, but the city government was very happy and angry, and he secretly sent people to inform his sons who stayed in his hometown in Hedong and his daughters in Chang'an. Son-in-law, when it was May, except for the youngest son, who didn't keep up, the other sons came to him, and the daughter in Chang'an didn't let Xu Mei's lobbying become a people's army, and formed a force by herself.

Li Yuan took action, falsely accused Gao Junya and Wang Wei, the two deputy guards sent by Yang Guang to monitor him, and colluded with the Turks, beheaded the two and sacrificed the flag, issued a notice to the counties and counties to which they belonged, and openly rebelled. Xihe County refused to accept Li Yuan's order, Li Yuan sent his sons Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin to attack, the two surrendered Xihe County, it only took nine days to go back and forth, Li Yuan left his son Li Yuanji in Jinyang to take care of logistics and supplies, and the whole army set off to Chang'an.

Li Yuan's mother and Yang Guang's mother are sisters, Li Yuan and Yang Guang have been very friendly since childhood, and the betrayal of their relatives is the most serious. Li Yuan is not a heroic figure, the same is a cunning opportunist, he did not go far after sending troops, in front of Song Laosheng who was guarding Huoyi, at this time the summer rainstorm came, Li Yuan rained in the wilderness for a few days, just like Yang Han, who rebelled in the Yang Su era, wanted to retreat back to the base area, and did not listen to everyone's advice, and ordered the army to turn back. Fortunately, his son Li Shimin cried in front of Li Yuan's tent overnight, asking Li Yuan to hold on any longer, and Li Yuan finally accepted.

Song Laosheng is an incompetent person, he has 30,000 defenders, but Li Yuan's army only took one day to knock down Huoyi, Li Yuan arrived at Longmen, Xue Dading persuaded Li Yuan to cross the Yellow River directly from Longmen to attack Yongfeng Cang, control the grain, so that the heroes and heroes in Guanzhong will come to defect one after another.

Taking Yongfengcang and taking Chang'an directly is the route that must be taken, and the only obstacle is Qu Tutong in Hedong, and he will definitely come to copy Li Yuan's back road, how can he be deceived? There is also the Xiongguan of Tongguan in front, and the guard will be Liu Gang. Li Shimin said: "We waited so long to fight Song Laosheng, Qu Tutong did not react, saying that he was afraid of failure, first surrounded Hedong, scared him and then went to Yongfeng Cang, and then Qu Tutong came to his senses, Guanzhong is already in our hands, as for Tongguan is the key to blocking Qu Tutong, we must let the determined generals go." ”

Li Yuan's army surrounded Hedong City, and Qu Tutong landed in the city to garrison. Li Yuan set up more banner tents according to the plan, showing off his momentum, and Li Yuan crossed the Yellow River to capture Yongfengcang. Li Yuan urgently sent Liu Wenjing to attack Tongguan from behind, Qu Tutong found that he was deceived and hurriedly sent troops, Liu Wenjing's army Wang Changhuan had already beheaded Liu Gang to occupy Tongguan's Duwei Nancheng, Qu Tutong's army encountered Liu Wenjing's ambush, and could only defend Duwei Beicheng, Qu Tutong launched a second onslaught on Liu Wenjing, unable to break through, Tongguan stored grain in Nancheng, Qu Tutong carried too little food, and had to retreat to Hedong in a daze.

Li Yuan advanced to Chang'an, passing by Sanyuan, and did not forget to call someone to arrest Li Jing, Li Yuan was still angry with Li Jing. This time the red whisk girl was in a hurry, she put on armor, rode a horse, carried a bow and arrows, picked up a spear, no matter how important it was to save people, the red whisk girl was in a hurry and did not panic, she not only dressed up as a man, but also pasted a fake beard, the soldiers outside were chaotic, and women were not allowed to run around at will.