On May 20, the Tang army left the Bird Mouse Valley and entered Jiezhou, which was the boundary of the former Xihe County.

At this time, the mood of the two commanders of the Tang Army, Li Shentong and Pei Lian, is not very easy to say.

The joy of the first battle is naturally indispensable, but the emperor's edict has also arrived.

Good news and bad news followed.

Li Mi, who has been dominant in Henan for many years, betrayed his relatives and was defeated.

Wang Shichong, who has now ascended to the position of prime minister, finally consumed this great enemy alive.

At this time, Wang Shichong looked extremely terrifying, and many Li Mi generals joined one after another, which not only made Wang Shichong's troops soar several times, but also expanded his territory rapidly.

It only took more than a month to reach the southwest of Shandong in the east, the west to the west of Henan, the north to the banks of the Yellow River, and the north of the two Huai, all of which were based on Wang Shichong.

There is no doubt that this is the most proud period of time since Wang Shichong raised his troops, under the momentum of the surge, he was originally shrunk in Luoyang City, and gradually became lighter than the world's heroes.

He was almost repeating the story of Li Yuan's southward trip to Chang'an, and in just a short period of time, he almost had the power to coerce the Son of Heaven to order the princes.

Of course, Wang Shichong, who was in ecstasy, would never let go of Li Mi, a mortal enemy.

He personally led his troops to pursue and intercept Li Miwei in the western part of Henan, and vowed to take Li Mi's head before he could take a break.

Li Mi's ability to lead the troops is not comparable to Wang Shichong, leading his troops to resist step by step, and still fighting with blood for several battles, before he gradually exhausted his strength, and quickly fled west under the rout.

At this time, Li Mi's embarrassment needless to say, the so-called heroic end is nothing more than that.

The self-proclaimed Duke of Wei and the indomitable Cao Mengde are no different from each other, and it is difficult to have a chance to turn over once defeated, and because he saw the emptiness in the south of the Jin Dynasty, he wanted to cross the river to the north, but was blocked by Li Jiancheng's troops.

Even if Tang Jun didn't want to fight this water dog at this time, it wouldn't be able to do it, and letting Li Mi enter Hedong would be the same as a joke.

Li Mi was under the enemy on his abdomen and back, and without any accidents, he finally bent his knees and surrendered to Tang.

Li Mi, the Duke of Wei, who had been shaking the world for a long time, was kicked out of the ranks of the world, and Li Tang took advantage of the situation to occupy some counties in western Henan, and Wang Shichong was far away.

Wang Shichong was unwilling, but he still saluted first and then soldiers, and passed a letter to ask the Tang army to hand over Li Mi and others, so that the territory could be demarcated and ruled.

Li Jiancheng naturally did not allow it.

After a few battles between the two armies, Wang Shichong hated to lead his troops back east.

There is no way, the sequelae caused by the rapid expansion are very serious, and Li Mi's many generals need to be carefully screened, and the big quagmire in the eastern capital is expected to shake a few times after losing Li Mi, a foreign enemy.

What Wang Shichong is most afraid of at this time is actually that Li Mi will merge with Emperor Huangtai and make some kind of ghost things such as clothes and edicts.

Therefore, he had no intention of fighting with the Tang Army at this time, and after leading the troops back to the Eastern Capital, he had to face a lot of things, and it was conceivable that he would not compete with foreign enemies in a short period of time.

And the Tang army also had a hard time, once Wang Shichong seized Henan, it was almost as expected at the beginning, and the threat to Li Tang immediately increased.

At such a time when the Jindi army went north to fight with Li Po in Jinyang, Li Jiancheng would not take advantage of Wang Shichong's unstable foothold to attack Wang Shichong in the east.

This is actually a very good fighter, but unfortunately, Li Jiancheng can only watch the opportunity slip away in front of him.

This can actually only be regarded as mixed news for Li Shentong and Pei Lian.

Bad news is really bad news, Li Xiaogong lost Chengdu, and this Li clan relative without Li Jing's assistance is really not worthy of the name.

Xiao Milling Naval Army cut off on the river, blocked Li Xiaogong's army in Kuizhou, and then united with the Southern Barbarian Zhuzhai to capture Chengdu, under the First War, forced Li Xiaogong to retreat to the Sword Gate, almost lost half of Shu to Xiao Mill.

Shuzhong shook, Guanzhong shook.

Li Yuan was shocked and wanted to increase his troops in Shuzhong, but he was persuaded by Tang Jian, Qu Tutong and others, what was lacking in Shu was not soldiers, but generals who could fight well.

Li Xiaogong has a good reputation, but he really can't see much talent in leading troops, these clansmen of the Li family are probably like this, how wasteful they are, but to say that there are many talents, it is pure nonsense.

After that, it was Yin Kaishan, the servant of the ministry, who went to Shu to aid Li Xiaogong, which was not counted, Li Yuan's old mistake was committed again, and then he ordered his son-in-law Chai Shao to go to Shuzhong with Yin Kaishan.

Then the good news came, Xue Ju died of illness, and his son Xue Rengao succeeded to the throne, and the war in the northwest seemed to have taken a turn for the better.

The good news is not very certain, but the bad news is quite true, Guo Zihe, the governor of Lingzhou who descended to the Tang Dynasty, was killed by Liang Shidu, and the situation in the northwest of Li Tang was further deteriorating.

The Turks came to the aid of Xue Rengao, so that Li Shimin and others could only choose to hold on and find another fighter.

Li Mi and Xue Ju died and fell, for Li Tang, the pros and cons are now difficult to say clearly, Li Mi has fallen, and Wang Shichong has become a big trouble for Li Tang.

Xue Ju died, but he did not fall apart, and received more assistance from the Turkic Khanate, and the threat to the northwest of Li Tang did not decrease but increased.

The edict, like the Di Bao, presented all the wars around Li Tang in front of Li Shentong and Pei Lian, without a word of urging, but the text was full of words, as if shouting for the two of them to end the war in Hedong as soon as possible and return south.

After receiving the edict, Li Shentong and Pei Lin were not in a good mood.

In fact, they had just written their own reports on the victory, and they were hit on the head at best.

The generals are afraid that the commander will be anxious and urge themselves to fight, and the commander is afraid that the monarch will be anxious and urge himself to enter the army.

There are simply too many examples of defeats that have resulted in defeat.

Not to mention Li Shentong, even a literati like Pei Lian, after receiving the edict, he felt his shoulders sink, and the idea of a quick battle was skipped in his mind, let alone Li Shentong.

They were well aware of what the king's words meant to the soldiers in front of them, and it would affect their judgment of the war, and even the progress of the war.

If you are in a hurry to fight, you are facing the northern border army of Jin with elite cavalry, and that kind of helpless feeling, even if you are not in that position, you can actually experience one or two.

In Li Shentong's plan, by the end of this year's winter, the army should be able to take Jiezhou and advance to Jinyang.

If you want to capture Jinyang, the chances are not big.

This depends on whether in the previous battles, whether you can find the opportunity to inflict heavy damage on the enemy army and make the enemy's hearts upset, then you can take advantage of the situation to appease the surrendered people, and there will be a chance to break through Jinyang Jiancheng.

And this is just the best battle situation, the biggest possibility is to defeat Li Po's army, so that it will flee back to Jinyang in embarrassment, then the war will definitely drag on until next year.

Attack Yuci first, then besiege Jinyang, and then divide the troops into four to replace the three counties of the state.

This will undoubtedly take more time, and any mistakes may occur in the meantime, and the time may have to be delayed.

And this edict ...... But he had to find the enemy army for a decisive battle, and it was best to encircle and annihilate the enemy army north of Jinyang, which was an invisibly heavy burden for more than 100,000 Tang troops.

Because the Tang army lost the opportunity to choose, once there was an opportunity for a decisive battle, the Tang army must move forward......

This is not a good thing for Li Shentong, the commander of the Tang Army.

He couldn't let the enemy retreat back to Jinyang, which obviously required more planning.

The Tang army entered Jiexiu, Jiexiu was already an empty city, and Li Shentong, who should have been happy, was half cold at this time.

The army took advantage of the momentum, and in the first battle, it took the key point of the Bird Mouse Valley, marched again, and recaptured Jiexiu, the morale of the army was high, and the enemy was afraid of the tail, which was in response to Li Shentong's speculation, that Li Po had been taken by the momentum of the Tang army, and had the heart to retreat.

Of course, this is a good thing, because the enemy has the advantage of cavalry, and under the weakness and timidity, the parallel cavalry army, which poses the greatest threat to the Tang army, is losing its due might.

Li Shentong had never led a large group of cavalry to fight, but he knew that the cavalry should be terrible to charge into battle, and what was even more terrifying was that the cavalry came and went like the wind, harassing and sneaking back and forth, which would make the army at a loss.

And with the pace of the Tang army's advance, the cavalry's room to use its means will gradually be suppressed, to a certain point that if the two armies engage, they only need to face the frontal charge of the cavalry.

But now, facing the Jiexiu Empty City, Li Shentong's face sank like water, and he was not happy at all.

The enemy army did not have any intention of fighting a decisive battle, if Li Dingan led the army back to Jinyang, more than 100,000 Tang troops would not be able to advance or retreat, and Li Shentong would never have dreamed that he would fall into such an embarrassing situation.

As long as Li Po led the army back to Jinyang safely, it would be considered a victory without a fight? Why don't we have such luck?

In fact, just one edict had almost completely changed the operational intentions of the commanders of the large armies at the front.

Li Shentong's strategy of holding on to the dangerous points and slowly advancing his troops to fight a decisive battle with the enemy and not giving the enemy an opportunity to take advantage of it finally took a fundamental change at this time.

Sitting in the former Jiexiu Governor's Mansion, Li Shentong issued an order to set up camp around Jiexiu, and then invited the generals to discuss again.

In fact, it is almost the same whether it is discussed or not, first of all, it is necessary to send out the time to find out the enemy's movements again.

Jiexiu went down without a fight, and it was also unexpected by the generals of the Tang Army, and after the battle of Bird Mouse Valley, the enemy army gave up Jiexiu and retreated.

The Tang army was actually very excited at this time, and the enemy army retreated without a fight, obviously fearful.

Under the heart of losing the war, it is a matter of course that such an army will be defeated in a battle, and the sound of begging for war in Li Shentong's ears has increased suddenly.

At this time, no one wants to let another descendant take the credit that belongs to them.

(Monthly pass, monthly pass, is this war too much written, and the description of the war itself is not enough?) Ah Cao is a little worried that it is not exciting enough...... (To be continued.) )