Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin returned to Chang'an to report to Li Yuan what they had seen and heard on this trip, Li Yuan immediately decided to ascend the throne and claim the emperor, he chose yellow as the emperor's clothing color, and since then the emperors of China have begun to wear yellow, happily finishing the lively enthronement ceremony. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Four days after Li Yuan announced his ascension to the throne, the news of Yang Guang's death came, and the soldiers who accompanied Yang Guang to Jiangdu could not stand Yang Guang's tyranny, and elected Yu Wenshu's son Yu Wenhua and became the leader, and slaughtered Yang Guang. After Yang Guang spent thirteen years to make the country a mess, the prize he got was a noose.

Qu Tutong of Hedong learned the news, not only did he not occupy the land as the king, but immediately left part of the army to the deputy county guard Yao Junsu to continue to defend Hedong City, and led the main army to Luoyang to support. Liu Wenjing, who had been waiting in Tongguan for a long time, ambushed halfway and captured Qu Tutong alive in one fell swoop, and Qu Tutong surrendered after being sent to Chang'an. Qu Tutong later performed well under Li Shimin and became one of the twenty-four ministers of the Lingyan Pavilion.

In the first battle fought by Li Yuan's army after the uprising, Li Yuan's army moved in front of Huoyi for more than a month, and it was impossible for Qu Tutong not to ask Song Laosheng's troops to make full preparations, Huoyi is a small city, if 30,000 horses and horses are arranged here, eating, drinking, and Lazar, together with logistics and supplies, can it be stuffed? Besides, it is impossible for Song Laosheng to go out of the city to fight when he is provoked by Li Shimin, and the road and the open space in front of Huoyi City can accommodate the number of both sides of the war? Song Laosheng was defeated and killed under the city, Li Yuanjun had no siege tools and equipment, only relied on bare hands to climb, and captured the city in one day, there was only one possibility, the soldiers defending the city were too scarce to defend the walls of various places.

The truth is that Qu Tutong only gave Song Laosheng 3,000 troops, Song Laosheng was brave and reckless, was lured by Li Shimin with a small number of troops, and took more than 1,000 people out of the city, but was surrounded by tens of thousands of people, and he had no choice but to run under the city wall and was hacked to death, and the remaining more than 1,000 people lost their leadership, and of course they couldn't hold the attack on all sides. Originally, as long as Song Laosheng concentrated on defense, 3,000 people could block Li Yuan's army for a few months, just like Hedong City only relied on the remnants of the army in the future, and Yao Junsu was not firmly defended.

At this time, the army of Emperor Xue Ju of Western Qin was advancing step by step, and Li Yuan ordered Li Shimin to be the marshal and lead the eight marching commanders to set off to defend against the enemy. Li Shimin was twenty-one years old at this time, he was still a young man, and he had not fought any decent battles, except for the Battle of Huoyi.

Like Yang Jian before, it was Changshi who sent the prince to take command, and it was Changshi who actually held the military power to command the army, and the long history of the Tang Army in this war was Liu Wenjing, since Jinyang sent troops, only Liu Wenjing fought a tough battle with Qu Tutong in Tongguan, and now Liu Wenjing can be said to be the only ace general of the Tang Army.

In this battle, Li Shimin contracted malaria and had no way to personally command the battle, and Li Shimin also warned Liu Wenjing not to start a war with Xue Ju until he recovered. The two armies are facing each other in the wilderness, and they are not defending the city on one side, how can they hold their troops still?

The Tang army was defeated under the command of Liu Wenjing, three of the eight marching commanders died, more than half of the soldiers were killed, Li Shimin was fine, and Liu Wenjing was expelled from the official position. Xue Ju continued to advance towards Chang'an, Li Yuan's luck was so good that he had nothing to say, Xue Ju then fell ill, the offensive stopped, and then he whined and lamented, Xue Renguo succeeded to the throne, and the garrison turned back to Gaojaw City and did not give up threatening Chang'an.

Xue Renguo defeated Li Shimin's uncle Dou Liang, Xue Renguo captured Tang general Liu Gan, Tang general Changda was captured, and then Xue Renguo directly faced Li Shimin. Li Shimin hid in the camp and did not fight with Xue Renguo for two months, fortunately he was a prince, and if others did not fight for two months, they would definitely be judged by military law, and the same example then happened to Li Jing.

Li Shimin said that he was waiting for Xue Renguo to finish eating, even if Li Shimin was born wise and knew the art of war, Xue Renguo ran out of food, and the general Hu Lang surrendered to the Tang army, Li Shimin felt that the fighter had arrived, and ordered Liang Shi, the head of the march, to go to the shallow water plain Chen soldiers as bait, and the shallow water plain was the place where Liu Wenjing's army was defeated.

Li Shimin's tactics appeared in all directions in the future, he led the cavalry of the pro-army battalion to rush into the enemy formation, and it was the Black Mountain Mulan who took the lead, the horse gun in the hands of the red whisk girl, when the invincible, the red whisk woman pierced the throat and the gap between the enemy's armor, only picked and did not cut, the blade passed a little red, and the fast horse passed by, and the enemy crackled down a row. The pro-soldier battalion opened a gap in the enemy formation, and the 2,000 cavalry following behind immediately expanded the victory, and Zong Luohu collapsed.

After the big victory, Li Shimin's uncle Dou Liang followed behind Li Shimin and scolded: "You kid actually took the lead in the charge, if there are three long and two short, your father won't slaughter me?"

Li Shimin turned around and made a grimace and ordered the whole army to pursue, Dou Liang grabbed Li Shimin's reins and tried hard to dissuade him, and tears fell. Li Shimin yelled at Dou Liang: "Don't miss the opportunity, uncle, don't say much, if you don't come quickly, I will kill you first." ”

Xue Renguo ran to the foot of Gaojaw City, lined up with his back to the city, Li Shimin's army arrived and camped next to Jingshui on the opposite side, and in the evening, Dou Liang led the Tang army to come and surrounded Gaojaw City. In the middle of the night, Xue Renguo's soldiers crawled out of the city and surrendered, and Xue Renguo, who had nothing to do the next day, abandoned his weapons and left the city, and the battle ended.

How could the Western Qin State, which had been suppressing the Tang army all along, perish in a blink of an eye? All the generals of the Tang army could not believe it, but the facts were in front of them, and the war could be fought like this? Their young master was really a man of God? Li Shimin knew that Xue Renguo's soldiers were all from Longwai, and they had always been brave and good at fighting, and if they attacked slowly, they would gather together and resist stubbornly, and if they attacked urgently, they would scatter and flee in all directions, so Xue Renguo retreated to Gaoqi City, and Li Shimin arrived later, and Xue Renguo had no time to gather the scattered army, so he could only be captured.

When Li Shimin's class returned to Chang'an, he was shocked to find that the person in charge of directing the food and pouring wine at the banquet was actually Li Mi, the overlord of the East.

Li Mi designed to assassinate his close revolutionary partner Zhai Rang and slaughter the Zhai clan, becoming a real de facto leader, but at the same time Li Mi also left an impression of ingratitude on his subordinates. After Yang Guang was killed, Yu Wenhua and his troops went west, Li Mi and Luoyang were frightened, so the two sides negotiated peace, Li Mi concentrated on dealing with Yu Wenhua and defeating Yu Wenhua.

Li Mi saw that Yu Culture and did nothing, and immediately turned back to fight Wang Shichong, at this time, the former Zhai Rang subordinates who lost their sense of security rebelled, and Li Mi was defeated, Li Mi cut Xu Shiji's neck when he killed Zhai Rang before, and now he didn't dare to defect, so he had to surrender to Li Yuan with Wang Bodang, so Li Shimin saw Li Mi in Chang'an.

From being elected by Zhai Rang as the leader of the alliance to arriving in Chang'an, Li Mi held power for less than a year and eight months. After dozens of hundreds of battles during the period, and finally ended in failure, Li Mi had 300,000 strong soldiers, fierce generals like clouds, enough food, and even a Wang Shichong could not win, which can only show that Li Miwen Taowu is not good, he is just a group of bandits and robbers who are relatively good, and then he is even more played by Li Yuan.

As soon as Li Yuan heard that Li Mi was willing to surrender, he immediately sent envoys to warmly welcome and entertain him warmly, and when Li Mi arrived in Chang'an, he pretended to be a good person and accepted him as intimately, but he asked the people below to stop supplying enough food.

Li Yuan ordered someone to ask Li Mi for a bribe on the grounds that he could recommend a good position, defrauding Li Mi of his savings, so that he had no ability to reward his subordinates, and finally sealed Li Mi an official position of Guangluqing, and let him humiliate him by serving food and wine among the ministers.

Wei Zheng was Li Mi's attaché, and he was so hungry that he had no meal, so he had to volunteer to persuade Xu Shiji, who was guarding Liyang, to return to the Tang Dynasty. Xu Shiji's political IQ is very high, and he said in the letter that he was Li Mi's subordinate and could not take the credit of his master, so he dedicated all the land, army, and people's roster to Li Mi, and Li Mi himself presented it to the emperor.

This trick is clever, Xu Shiji clearly shows that he is a minister, and he will never be the king of the land. However, Li Mi's head was full of paste, and he actually judged that Xu Shiji wanted to continue to support him as a leader, and immediately indicated to Li Yuan that he was willing to go to his old territory to recruit those old subordinates who had not yet surrendered to the Tang Dynasty, Li Yuan immediately allowed it, and also sent Wang Bodang to serve as Li Mi's deputy.

Li Mi happily set off and walked to Huazhou, where Li Yuan sent an envoy to tell Li Mi to leave half of the attaché and only take half of the people out of Tongguan. In fact, Li Yuan had already stretched out his claws, Li Mi didn't know it, and asked him to choose half of the people, just to know who Li Mi's henchmen were, and then Li Yuan immediately claimed that some of the people who were selected accused Li Mi of rebelling, Li Yuan called the envoy to tell Li Mi to move on, and Li Mi personally returned to Chang'an to explain.

Li Mi couldn't hold it back now, and there would definitely be no good fruit to eat when he went back to Chang'an, although many henchmen, including Wang Bodang, were opposed, Li Mi still decided to rebel. Li Yuan was waiting for Li Mi to act, and he cut off Li Mi's head.

Li Yuan murdered Li Mi because this guy was originally committed to rebellion, and he was always a scourge, and there was another person who liked to rebel, although this person was a great hero who helped Li Yuan plan to create the imperial cause from scratch, Li Yuan still kept going, and put him to death step by step. When Li Shimin destroyed the Western Qin State, Li Yuan knew that Liu Wenjing was no longer important, and this bold and scheming figure would not be able to get rid of it as soon as possible.

First of all, Li Yuan first restored Liu Wenjing's title, but arranged for him to serve in the same unit as Pei Lian, and then continued to reward Pei Lian, and ignored him Liu Wenjing, you must know that Pei Lin and Liu Wenjing were the sworn friends of the iron buddies, and the two were the earliest supporters of Li Yuan's uprising.

Liu Wenjing couldn't stand Pei Lone's high-ranking official Houlu having everything, but he Liu Wenjing couldn't compare to anything, so he sang against Pei Lone everywhere, Pei Lone was right, Liu Wenjing must be wrong, the two had a quarrel, and finally under Li Yuan's hint, Pei Lone bought Liu Wenjing's concubine and accused Liu Wenjing of rebellion, less than a year after Li Mi's death, Li Yuan killed Liu Wenjing, and all the family property was confiscated.

Li Jing is also the person Li Yuan has always wanted to get rid of, some time ago Xiao Mo was called the emperor in Jiangling, the western land bordered Xiazhou in the Tang Dynasty, the governor of Xiazhou was Li Yuan's old classmate Xu Shao, Xiao Milling's Liang Jun and Xu Shao often had military conflicts, Li Yuan designed Li Jing to help Xu Shao, and then secretly ordered Xu Shao to kill Li Jing under the pretext of committing a crime, fortunately Xu Shao thought that Li Jing was very talented, it was a pity to kill him, and he kept advising Li Yuan not to kill Li Jing.

Later, Kaishan barbarian attack on Kuizhou Li Xiaogong failed, Li Jing brought 800 soldiers from Xiazhou to support, Li Jing finally had the opportunity to show his military talent, he only relied on 800 men and horses not only to kill the barbarian chieftains, capture 5,000 barbarians, but also guide Li Xiaogong to recover Kaizhou, Tongzhou, which relieved Li Yuan's murderous intentions.