How powerful was Li Mi when he was in his prime?

In fact, many people in later generations have misunderstood, thinking that Li Mi was in the breakthrough of Xingluocang reached its peak, recruited 300,000 troops, occupied the entire territory of Henan to besiege the eastern capital Luoyang, in fact, the whole territory of Henan is just the territory occupied by the Wagang army controlled by Li Mi himself, as early as when Li Mi's power gradually increased, the heroes of the various righteous armies in the eastern part of the country had already taken refuge, and when Li Mi's momentum reached its peak, the large and small rebels in Guandong, Henan, Hebei and even Jianghuai and other places have taken refuge, these people include Meng Rang, Zhu Cang, Yang Shilin, Meng Haigong, Xu Yuanlang, Lu Zushang and other righteous armies, even Dou Jiande, occupied the entire territory of Hebei a few years later, and was able to compete with the Li family for a short time King Xia, but at that time, he also willingly surrendered to Li Mi and regarded Li Mi as the leader.

Therefore, although Li Mi directly controlled only Henan, his sphere of influence had already extended to the entire Kanto region, and the area alone even exceeded that of Li Tang, who had Guanzhong and Taiyuan. Although there are still a large number of Sui troops on this land, relying on the military town to resist stubbornly, but the righteous army led by Li Mi is firmly in the ascendancy, if Li Mi can calm down and take the Li Tang Dynasty to effectively integrate the manpower and material resources of the entire Kwantung region, instead of rushing to attack the fortified city of Luoyang, the eastern capital, then even if Wang Shichong's military ability is ten times stronger, there will be no chance to defeat Li Mi. And once Li Mi does this, even if he can't conquer Luoyang in the end, then it will be easy to divide the Kwantung and form a separatist dynasty like the Eastern Wei and Northern Qi in the past.

Unfortunately, there was no if, and Li Mi finally lost the entire war because of his arrogance, when his army was crushed and many generals rebelled. Li Mi, who couldn't even be trusted by his own people, of course, would not believe those nominally surrendered generals of the rebel army, so he finally made the decision to enter Guanzhong west and surrender to Li Yuan.

Because of Li Mi's leading defection, his original sphere of influence. And most of the forces that submitted to him also surrendered to the Tang Dynasty, and the Tang Dynasty got this large piece of land effortlessly, and was naturally ecstatic, so Li Yuan immediately sent the clan, and it was also his brother Li Shentong who led the troops to the town to guard, and Princess Xiuning went with the army, taking on the responsibility of appeasing the hearts of the local army and the people.

However, with Li Mi's surrender to the Tang Dynasty, the Zhulu Righteous Army, which had been gathered under Li Mi's command because of his great martial arts, immediately fell apart. Attack each other, among which Dou Jiande is the most powerful, Dou Jiande is benevolent, so he won the hearts of the people of Hebei, under his command such as Jing Ling, Su Lie, Liu Heimin and other top ministers and fierce generals in the Kanto region, and when he defeated Yu Wenhua's remnants of the defeated generals and mourned for Emperor Yang of Sui, the Sui army in Kwantung Hebei and other places surrendered to him one after another, so Dou Jiande's strength increased greatly. began to attack the area that originally belonged to Li Mi, but at this time had already surrendered to the Tang Dynasty.

Li Shentong, the king of Huainan, is known as the first person in the martial arts of the Li Tang royal family. But when the two armies face each other, the role of martial arts can really be ignored, and although Li Shentong has led the troops for a long time, his military level is really extremely mediocre, far from being comparable to the three people under Dou Jiande, since the two armies started the war. For several months, Li Shentong was defeated again and again, and the Tang army retreated in great strides, losing a large amount of territory, and finally in the Battle of Liyang. Li Shentong and Li Xiuning were defeated and captured together with Liyang guard general Xu Shiji, and thanks to Dou Jiande's mercy, Li Shentong and Princess Xiuning were released, but in Guandong, all the land obtained by Li Mi to Tang in the first year of Wude has been lost, and it is all obtained by Dou Jiande in Hebei.

"Uncle, you said that you lost such a large piece of land, how will Daddy condemn the two of us when you return to Chang'an!" On the way back, Li Xiuning once suddenly asked his uncle Li Shentong.

In this regard, Li Shentong's answer was: "This is a crime of non-war!" He said: "Dou Jiande has won the hearts of the people of Hebei, so he has the assistance of local wise and resourceful people, in contrast, my uncle's talent is only mediocre, so it is understandable to lose again and again!" Big brother naturally won't blame! Li Shentong tried his best to keep his tone calm, Li Yuan's personality was extremely protective, Li Shentong naturally knew that his brother would not condemn him, however, the loss of all the territory in the entire Kanto region was not a small loss, although he would not be guilty, however, Li Shentong himself felt that he had no face to return to Guanzhong.

"This defeat, in the next few years, we will not be able to easily stretch our hands into the Kanto, Dou Jiande's power has increased greatly, and it will be a very difficult opponent to deal with!" Li Xiuning said in a low voice: "Now in the entire Kanto, only Luo Yi from Youzhou in northern Hebei can pose a certain threat to Dou Jiande, but Dou Jiande has almost unified Hebei at this time, and Luo Yi should also be in a hurry!" Although this person is not really refuge in us, but with him nailed to Youzhou and looking at Dou Jiande, Dou Jiande will not easily free up his hands to plan the whole world, but unfortunately, now that we have lost all our territory, we can no longer give Luo Yi any assistance, Dou Jiande is powerful, I am afraid that Luo Yi will be difficult to support. ”

"Luo Yi is an extremely rare commander, and his martial arts are extremely high, the people of Youzhou where he is located are martial arts, the army is strong, and there are fierce generals like the Xue brothers under him, it is not easy for Dou Jiande to defeat him in the short term!"

"However, Youzhou is close to the northeast border, and beyond the border is the gathering place of Goguryeo, Mobei tribe, and Northeast savages, and the shape is extremely complex. Li Xiuning said: "And the news came from outside the gate that the people in the Northeast Savages now want to build a country under the leadership of their king, and they are very fierce, which is a blessing or a curse for Luo Yi." Speaking of this, Li Xiuning had already begun to shine: "I think I can go there to exert the greatest influence of our Datang, even if nothing can be changed, at least I can leave our name in the hearts of the local indigenous people...... This may be the only compensation I can do for this loss of troops and territory! Scold! Hehehe! This woman has been unable to let go of this failure.

As Li Yuan's daughter-in-law, Li Xiuning has a lot of autonomy in the army and is not under the jurisdiction of Li Shentong, so even if Li Shentong wants to use his majesty as an elder to stop his niece's thoughts, it will not work at all, but then again, in the process of Li Tang's establishment, the third princess often served as a diplomatic envoy to diplomacy, so this time when he went to Guanwai, as long as he was regarded as an envoy, Li Shentong didn't think there would be any problems, so he didn't stop it. Li Xiuning finally led a team of more than 100 people to return to Hebei along the same route in the name of envoys, and entered the obscurant land of Baishan and Heishui outside the Northeast Pass at the mouth of the Great Wall.

It was the last place she had ever reached in her life. After that, she never returned to the Central Plains alive......

"So, this is the last meeting between King Huainan and Xiuning?" Shi Qingyi tilted her head and looked at the eldest grandson Wuji, her brother, with a casual look, but those who were familiar with her knew that this was a disguise for her to deliberately hide her own inner feelings. "That's it, King Huainan has already carefully recalled all the words of the two of them several times, so there should be no omission!" The eldest grandson Wuji said, he peeked at Shi Qingyi, and saw that she looked quiet, so he pretended to be calm and said: "This time it is the fault of the people of the world, and you are involved again, but he has no choice, Liu Wenjing was unjustly killed not long ago, and now Princess Xiuning died outside the gate for no apparent reason, he is depressed in his heart, but there is no one to share it for him, so when Yuan Tiangang appeared and said that he could bring you back, he really had no reason to refuse!" You won't resent him! ”

Hearing this, Shi Qingyi lowered his head in thought, and then, in the pleading gaze of the eldest grandson Wuji, nodded.

The eldest grandson Wuji almost fainted, and then he heard Shi Qingyi's voice whispering: "Resentment! So this life is not over! The eldest grandson Wuji breathed a sigh of relief, and then he realized that his heart was beating badly, and it seemed that his sister had scared him a lot. (To be continued......)