In the fourth year of Li Tang Wude, the flames of war in the Central Plains are still continuing, and they are not slightly worse than the previous year, but the eyes of the princes of the world have returned to Henan again after Li Mi's defeat.

Because it is located in the hinterland of the Central Plains, the boundaries of the princes are gradually becoming clear, and the complexity of both military and political points of view exceeds that of previous wars.

It's just that the course of the war was still beyond all expectations......

Wang Shiwei, the king of Chu, led an army of 50,000 people to pass through Hongnong, and plundered the counties and counties to force Tongguan.

Wang Shiwei's forward army walked very fast, and at this time it was more than 40 miles away from Wang Shichong's army, which was undoubtedly a more dangerous distance for the Henan army, which had no cavalry.

In other words, when Wang Shiwei's troops are attacked, it will be impossible to get effective support from the Chinese army in a short period of time.

Of course, this is not something that can be described by taking the enemy lightly, but the generals under Wang Shiwei can't stop at all.

They roamed the mountains like locusts, leaving nothing behind, and even Shan Xiongxin's subordinates set fire to the county town when they passed by Hongnong.

When Wang Shiwei heard the news, he was simply angry, the brutal behavior was actually nothing in his eyes, and he did nothing less to kill people and set fires, the eastern capital of Luoyang is called a bandit's nest, do you think it's a joke? If the people who occupy high positions there are not bloody hands, you are embarrassed to go out and meet people.

But as the vanguard of the army, the rest is forgotten, but someone set fire to Hongnong, such a stupid act naturally cannot be easily forgiven, even if there is Shan Xiongxin, the general of Zuotunwei, who personally interceded, Wang Shiwei still cut off the heads of a few big men to shock the army.

Shan Xiongxin was very unhappy, and quarreled with Wang Shiwei, before he hated to go back, and never wanted to meet Wang Shiwei again, or Wang Shiwei sent someone to urge him again and again before he invited Shan Xiongxin back.

There is no way, the Wagang bandits are powerful, most of the forward department is the old Wagang department, and the combat effectiveness is also considered an elite division in Wang Shichong's army, if it is not so, Shan Xiongxin will not be allowed to be Wang Shiwei's deputy.

In Wang Shichong's view, this is a relatively stable arrangement, Shan Xiongxin is Zhai Rang's old department, Zhai Rang voted for Li Mi after his death, and has always been at odds with the Wagang generals under Li Mi.

After serving Wang Shichong, this person made a lot of contributions to the differentiation, exclusion, and reduction of Li Mi's old military power, and after Li Mi's death, Shan Xiongxin rabbit died and the fox was sad to restrain a lot, but there were still rumors in private that this person set up a banquet at home, and he was very happy to tell his henchmen that Li Mi deserved it, and he hated to kill him with his own hands to avenge the king.

The king in his mouth is naturally not Wang Shichong, he must have already entered the underworld and is waiting for Zhai Rang to converge with the old departments.

Regardless of whether the rumors are true or not, anyway, Wang Shichong feels that this person is very affectionate and worthy of being encircled, but in fact, what he thinks is definitely not something like affection, because these are all burdens for Wang Shichong, who has always liked to go back on his word and turn his face ruthlessly.

What he looks at is actually Shan Xiongxin's prestige and qualifications in the Wagang Army, and Wang Shichong's methods to win people over are actually just a few things.

First of all, the non-stop hospitality of good wine and good food, Corporal Lixian's appearance was enough, and then he married his daughter Yu Xiongxin, and added him to the rank of knight, so Shan Xiongxin became the highest official and the most powerful one among the old people in Wagang.

As a result, this underworld leader of Dongjun became prosperous in Luoyang City, and more and more people were killed, which made the Dongdu Gate Valve look like a vicious dog, and gradually made Cheng Zhijie, Qin Qiong and others, who were also in the old department of Wagang, very disgusted.

Now, even emperors like Wang Shiwei, the king of Chu, can't hold him anymore, and the whole rhythm is about to go to the sky.

And Shan Xiongxin's subordinates plundered in Hongnong, and it was not for nothing that they set fire to kill, when Li Mi was powerful, Shan Xiongxin and others were sent to the west to attack the city and conquer the land, and they fought with Zhang Shigui in the Hongnong territory.

At that time, Zhang Shigui had already voted for Li Yuan, and Liu Wenjing, who was backed by Tongguan, no one could help it, and Shan Xiongxin's brother Shan Da was killed in the battle with Zhang Shigui (Shan Da's death is another theory in the romance, and what else is Erxianzhuang and the like, it seems to be apocryphal, so there is no need to study it carefully), plus Li Yuan once killed Shan Yu......

Well, old hatred plus new hatred...... In fact, there is no need for Wang Shiwei to supervise anything, and there is no need to worry about Shan Xiongxin not contributing to the process of attacking Tongguan.

Therefore, when it comes to the forward part of the army, Wang Shiwei is almost just a decoration, and it is Shan Xiongxin who really leads the troops, and they are walking so fast, and they have nothing to do with Shan Xiongxin.

There is still a shortage of food, and Shan Xiongxin's subordinates are still adhering to the consistent style, and they want to rob their homes wherever they go, so the forward army is a little unable to contain it.

In fact, they gained very little, Hongnong County actually fell into the desert early on, and Li Tang didn't need to work hard, when Zhang Shigui led the army to return to Tongguan, most of the people in the county moved west, and some people who loved the countryside were left either starved to death or fled here.

The army stopped in Hongnong County for a while, because Shan Xiongxin took people out to find Zhang Shigui's ancestral grave, and then came back dejectedly, but he definitely didn't find it.

But when Wang Shiwei and Shan Xiongxin were casually marching and making awkward noise, the army had already advanced to less than forty miles away from Tongguan, and at such a dangerous distance, the forward army was filled with laxity, which was a difficult thing to imagine.

The war then told them that it was time to pay the price.

The heavy east gate of Tongguan slowly opened in a squeaky sound, and groups of cavalrymen with helmets and armor marched out one after another, lined up in a row on the east side of Tongguan, and the battle flags flew fiercely above their heads.

Zhang Shigui led the army out of the customs.

Three thousand horsemen, one is not more and one is not less, the moment he received the military order, even Zhang Shigui himself was a little surprised, ah, Li Dalang did not open his mind?

But then the deployment of the Tongguan defenders made Zhang Shigui understand that he was thinking too much.

These 3,000 centaurs are not the vanguard of the army, they are just a knife that slashes at the enemy, which looks quite sharp, but in fact it is just the effect of a false shot.

Follow-up military orders came one after another, and Zhang Shigui's nose was almost crooked.

First of all, he sent two lieutenant generals, one was Lu Chengye, the younger brother of Lu Chengda, and the other was even more strange, Ashina Danai, the remnant of the Western Turks.

Lu Chengye's arrival at this time shows Li Jiancheng's extreme distrust of him, let's not talk about him first, Ashina Danai will be interesting.

When this person came to Sui in the seventh year of the Great Cause, he was still a child, and later settled in Lou Fu with his clansmen.

When it grew up a little, it coincided with the Turkic Shibi Khan leading the army south, Shi Danai had a very hard time at that time, and he didn't want to live under the authority of his cousin Ashina Rongzhen, so he gritted his teeth and took a few clansmen to join the army to help Yanmen with Lou Fu Taishou Yin Shishi.

In fact, at that time, the siege of Yanmen had been lifted, he just went to Yanmen with the army and walked around, and the Yin Shishi immediately stepped down and returned to the Eastern Capital with Yang Guang, and his subordinates quickly dispersed.

Ashina Danai then voted for Li Yuan, who was belated, and went to Taiyuan together, going farther and farther, his horizons were getting wider and wider, and he didn't want to go back to Lou to bother herding sheep, if he wasn't too young, he didn't have any decent official position, otherwise, he would have thought about bringing all the clansmen to live in the state.

And when he goes, it is Tiannan and Haibei.

With Li Yuan went south to Chang'an, he made a lot of military achievements, and then followed Li Shimin, the king of Qin, to Shu to attack Xiao Milling, and then went to the northwest to fight with Xue Ju, all the way down, and unconsciously became a confidant of the Qin Palace.

He was reckless by nature and was driven to the edge of the Yellow River by Li Yuanji, he didn't care very much, there was King Qin here, and there were comrades who fought together in the battle array, he was actually quite happy.

The only thing that made him uncomfortable was that Li Ding'an actually married his cousin, and when he heard the news, he thought that the woman actually got married? Li Dingan is amazing, aren't you afraid of being eaten alive?

Ashina Danai is actually not stupid, he knows that it is not easy to use knives and guns with relatives, and his surname is very conspicuous, and it is easy to be accidentally injured by someone on the edge of the Yellow River.

So he took the initiative to ask King Qin for the position of escorting grain and grass, and met Zhang Shigui a few times, so he was also stained with Zhang Shigui's mildew.

The king of Qin returned to Beijing and took away his henchmen and others, Ashina Danai was too young, and he was a Turkic, so he didn't help much after returning to Beijing, so he was naturally not among them.

Ashina Danai then came to Li Jiancheng's command, he is different from Zhang Shigui, and Zhang Shigui is not conspicuous, after arriving in Tongguan, because he is a Turkic, his family background is also quite "prominent", and he once went south with Li Yuan, and met many generals under Li Jiancheng, and he was much more comfortable than Zhang Shigui.

However, there is one thing he has in common with Zhang Shigui, that is, Ashina Danai doesn't pay much attention to factions or anything, under the command of King Qin, he will contribute to the King of Qin, and when he arrives at the prince's account, he will fight for the prince, he is a son of the Western Turkic royal family, sooner or later one day he will go back to the west and get all the accounts back, as for who is the emperor, it has nothing to do with him.

He will appear in front of Zhang Shigui because he is the most brave and good at fighting among the generals of the Ma Army under Li Jiancheng now, and with him, Zhang Shigui will not be able to act recklessly.

There were not many horses in Tongguan, and Li Jiancheng was also afraid that Zhang Shigui would lose 3,000 men and horses to him, so he sent these two people to be his deputy.

When he came out of Tongguan, the flames on Zhang Shigui's head were actually about to burn himself, you said that you, Li Dalang, as the crown prince, were concerned about such "trivial matters", and it would be okay to change someone to lead the troops, why did he have to go around Zhang Shigui? Did you want these two to take the opportunity to kill him?

Li Jiancheng thought that the arrangement was proper, but what he didn't think was that he forced Zhang Shigui to be in a hurry, and Ashina Danai was far less "restrained" than he imagined when he reached the battle array.

So the bloodshed happened that everyone didn't expect......