Chapter Seventy-Nine: The Decisive Battle Under the Fortified City III
Since Huoyi has been captured by Li Yuan's rebel army, from now on, the entire Guanzhong land gate will be wide open, and it will no longer be able to stop Li Yuan's attack. The counties of Guanzhong surrendered, and the rebels from all walks of life also took refuge in Li Yuan's account, and Li Yuan's troops also expanded rapidly, and the shape was very good. The only obstacle came from Qu Tutong, the supreme military commander in Guanzhong at this time, who was still leading the last remaining elite troops in the entire Guanzhong, holding the city from the Hedong-Tongguan line, and strictly threatening the flanks of Li Yuan's troops.
In Li Yuan's military meeting, Li Yuan's troops were divided into two different voices, one was headed by Li Shimin and Liu Wenjing, advocating that the elite soldiers should go straight to Chang'an, and the other was Pei Lin and Li Jiancheng, who meant to capture Qu Tutong first, and then attack Chang'an, both of which were very reasonable, the former advocated the speed of the soldiers, while the latter was worried that the speed would not be reached, and finally fell into the dangerous situation of being attacked by the enemy. Li Yuan is also thinking carefully about which of the two is better. However, although both methods have their own strengths, they also have a lot of flaws, and the opportunities and risks are equal, so that Li Yuan can't make a decision for a while.
At this very moment when the military conference was thus at an impasse. A herald rushed straight into the tent and brought the news: the messenger of the third lady had now arrived at the army and was waiting outside the tent. The third lady is Li Xiuning.
When Li Yuan and Li Shimin had already decided to raise troops in Jinyang, because of the long distance and the fact that they were likely to be pursued by local officials on the road, except for a few people such as Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji, who fled to Taiyuan, most of the old and weak women and children were secretly hidden to avoid the subsequent pursuit of the officials of the Sui Dynasty. Li Xiuning is the same, however, she didn't just hide and do nothing, this three ladies, disguised as a man, returned to the Li family's hometown Wugong County, scattered all the wealth to recruit righteous soldiers, and used Ma Sanbao as a lobbyist to persuade several rebel armies entrenched in the mountains and forests around them to invest in their own hands, in a short period of time, they gathered a tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, not only firmly controlled the land of martial arts, but also defeated the Sui Dynasty army that came to encircle and suppress, and now I heard that my father's soldiers and horses have broken through Huoyi, He immediately sent his own messenger to contact his father.
The messenger is also Ma Sanbao, although he is a servant of the Chai Shao family, Li Yuan's father and son did not treat him as an outsider, but Ma Sanbao, who rushed into the camp at this time, was muddy like a fleeing refugee, but he didn't care about the embarrassment of his clothes, but he had a grief-stricken expression, and when he saw Li Yuan's father and son, he immediately cried: "Master, eldest son, second master, after Qu Tutong occupied Hedong, the Li family had already hidden in advance, but because their whereabouts were not secret enough, Little Prince Zhiyun has been caught by the official army! "Li Zhiyun, the youngest son born to Li Yuan and Yuwen, is now only a teenager.
Li Yuan was taken aback, but forced his composure: "Although Qu Tutong was my enemy at this time, he applauded me earlier, and his grievances are clear, I believe that Zhiyun will not be tortured." Who knew that when Ma Sanbao heard this, he immediately cried: "Master, Qu Tutong only asks about military affairs, but the person who searched for the Li family is the Yin World Master, and the young master Zhiyun has been executed a few days after he was arrested!" Suddenly, the faces of everyone in the entire camp changed dramatically.
Ma Sanbao's words continued: "Moreover, not only the young master Zhiyun, but also the Yin Shishi sent people to search for the location of the ancestral tomb of the grandfather of the country, and gave the order to abandon the ancestral tomb and abandon the corpse in the wild. The ancestral temple was also burned down by his people! "China is a country that pays attention to filial piety, and digging people's ancestral graves and burning people's ancestral temples is to make the ancestors of the Li family all become lonely ghosts. Li Yuan angrily overturned the desk in front of him, and in the tent, all the generals cursed loudly, eager to cut off the head of the Yin World Master immediately.
Li Shimin immediately asked his father for his life: "Father, give me a soldier and horse, the child is willing to be the leader, and he will immediately march to Chang'an, and he will definitely dedicate the head of the Yin World Master in front of his father." Li Jiancheng also immediately asked for orders and led an elite army to capture Chang'an as soon as possible and shatter the Yin Shishi into thousands of pieces.
Pei Lin didn't move, he still adhered to his conservative set, but there is no doubt that because of the rapid expansion of the army at this time, it is completely okay to leave a soldier and horse to block Qu Tutong, and the rest of the soldiers and horses can quickly march towards Chang'an, and at the same time continue to recruit rebels from all walks of life, expand their strength, and when they reach Chang'an City, maybe their strength will be on a higher level, and at that time, even if the troops blocking Qu Tutong's department cannot be mobilized, they will have a certain degree of confidence to take Chang'an City.
As a result, Li Yuan quickly made a subsequent military plan: stay in Pei Lone, Liu Wenjing and a group of generals here, blocking Qu Tutong's route to reinforce Chang'an, while Li Yuan personally led the army, making Li Shimin the front, Li Jiancheng led another partial division as the flank, and went south on three roads, swooping towards Chang'an.
Having said that, who is this Yin Shi Master, and why did he dig up the ancestral grave of the Li family and do such a hated thing, is it just because he is a loyal courtier of the Great Sui royal family? Of course, no.
As mentioned earlier, Li Shimin had a ridiculous time after his wedding, that is, at that time, he fell in love with a woman surnamed Yin, and after he made a lifelong vow, he almost threw away his little life, and it was also because of that experience close to death that Li Shimin ended the idea of living in pleasure, and it was from then on that he began to devote his energy to learning the knowledge of military warfare. Show promise.
And what about the girl surnamed Yin, she is a member of the Yin Sect, and she is a personal disciple of the Yin Queen, but she lost herself to Li Shimin, and she can't poison Li Shimin, after she goes back, it must be impossible to be a personal disciple of the Yin Queen, and then if there is no accident, she should only be able to worship the elder who has been taking care of her as a teacher, and from then on withdraw from the core of the Yin Sect and become an inconsequential peripheral person.
And it is precisely this incident that hated the Yin Shi Shi gritted his teeth, the Yin Shi was originally a peripheral elder of the Yin Shi faction, and the girl was the niece of the Yin Shi Shi, but the cause of death of the parents was unknown, and later because of the high quality of the paper and worshiped under the door of the Yin Queen, the Yin Shi Shi simply accepted this niece as a daughter in order to please the Yin Queen, and fantasized that he could rely on this daughter to be promoted step by step within the Yin Sect and enter the top level of decision-making, but he never thought that his niece was an infatuated person, It was easy to shatter his dream of going further, and for this reason, the Yin Shishi could be said to hate Li Shimin to the core, and even resented the entire Li family.
It's a pity, although the hatred is deep, the Yin Shishi has no strength to retaliate against the Li family's valve, on the relatives, Li Yuan is Yang Guang's cousin, on the position, Li Yuan is the garrison of Taiyuan, one side of the feudal officials, and then on personal force, although the Yin Shishi is the peripheral elder of the Yin Sect, but is mainly responsible for monitoring the movements of the imperial court, martial arts is not his strength. Therefore, although he hated Li Valve to the core, the Yin World Master did not have any means to retaliate. However, what the Yin Shishi himself didn't expect was that the opportunity would suddenly fall from the sky. Li Yuan actually reversed, and the Yin Shishi was suddenly overjoyed: Now His Majesty is far away in Jiangdu, and Chang'an is nominally guarded by Yang Yu, the grandson of Emperor Yang, the king of Yue, but the king of Yue is young, so many things have to rely on Yin Shishi and other civil and military generals, and Yin Shishi has also been able to announce personal vendetta and dig up the ancestral tomb and ancestral temple of Li Yuan's family.
At first, the Yin Shi did not regard Li Yuan's rebellion as a thing, for this "candy man", the Yin Shi Shi did not look up to it, for Li Yuan's temperament, there were almost no Wenchen generals in the Great Sui Dynasty who did not know, although the talent is still there, but he is indecisive and short-sighted, and he is a good hand at guarding the house, and he is far from being qualified to compete for the world. The Yin Master never thought that Li Yuan was just like this, but people would give birth, and several children were demonic beings, so from the very beginning, the changes in things subverted the imagination of the Yin World Master.
Huo Yi was conquered to make the Yin Shishi surprised, he only began to face up to this army that he did not initially put in his eyes, Huo Yi was defeated, then Guanzhong was in no danger to defend, the Yin Shishi urgently ordered the cities in Guanzhong to be strictly forbidden, and waited for Li Yuan's army.
But then again, even if the Huoyi barrier is broken, what can it do, although the troops in Guanzhong are empty, but it is not for Li Yuan to pinch and flatten, after all, fighting is not just about the number of people who compete. The confidence in the heart of the Yin Shishi came from a young man in front of him, although this person was dressed in civilian cloth, but his appearance was extraordinary, next to him was a woman in red, extremely beautiful, at this time was looking at the young man with affection, it was a pair of beautiful people.
The young man is the nephew of Han Baohu, who is unknown at this time, but in the future, he will threaten the generation of Tang Dynasty military god Li Jing, and the red cloth is the red whisk girl.