In fact, at this time, tens of thousands of Tang army reinforcements had gathered in Jiangzhou.

Li Shentong and Pei Lin came north by edict, and in February, they led more than 10,000 soldiers from the Guanxi Prefecture into the Hedong boundary.

Later, he summoned people and horses from all over the east of the river, transported grain, grass and ordnance, and spent a lot of time, and so on in March, Li Po led the army to capture Jiexiu, and tens of thousands of troops gathered in Jiangzhou and did not go north to aid Jiexiu.

There was no way, the dispatch of people and horses everywhere, and the requisition and distribution of labor, were not going well.

There are many reasons for this, one is that there are still some Sui ministers in Hedong who refuse to surrender to Tang, and some people even if they change their flags, they are just responding to the story, and they don't actually plan to contribute to Li Tang.

How to say it, it can only be said that Li Yuan's time in Taiyuan was still too short, and then he was eager to attack Chang'an in the south, leaving a lot of troubles in Jindi, in other words, although Jindi is where Li Yuan started, his foundation in Jindi is not so solid.

And Li Yuan is not a Jin person, he is an authentic Guanxi lord of the big valve, and Kansai is where his family's foundation lies.

Therefore, when spring is coming, it is very inappropriate to transfer government soldiers, and then to conscript labor, it also makes the people of Jindi, who are suffering from labor, ready to move again.

This is a practical difficulty, and the result is that there are more bandits everywhere, although there is no matter of killing officials and opening positions, but as long as the war continues, it is a matter of time before the Jin land becomes chaotic again.

Moreover, Li Shentong and Pei Lian came too hastily, and it does take a certain amount of time to gather soldiers, and the matter of reorganizing the army is not in a hurry.

The main reason for the delay in the mobilization of troops was the strategy of the two commanders.

After receiving Li Zhongwen's letter asking for help, the two immediately gathered their henchmen to discuss.

The conclusion is that most of the thieves are horsemen, coming and going like the wind, and if the army moves lightly, it is very easy for the thieves to ride on the march, of course, if they can seize the key points of the Bird Mouse Valley, it is another matter.

Seize the Bird Valley? It's late.

Several groups of scouts were dispatched, but only three returned, and the Valley of the Sparrow and Mouse had been taken over by the thieves.

At this time, Li Shentong and Pei Lin were completely relieved.

Needless to say, Pei Lin is not familiar with military affairs, and he can lead the troops as the deputy head of the Jinju Provincial March, most of which are negative moves.

Who is angry with, naturally it is Liu Wenjing.

Liu Wenjing's pride in talent is famous, and he has been dissatisfied for a long time when he has no merit to Pei Lin and can live above himself.

Therefore, Li Yuan's two former ministers of Jinyang have not stopped since they entered Chang'an.

Pei Lin said in front of Li Yuan that Liu Wenjing was unruly and unruly, and he was at odds with everyone in the army, even if it was the King of Qin, he had repeatedly spoken out against him, and he was afraid of disaster for a long time if he led the army.

Liu Wenjing is more direct, whether it is in front of Li Yuan, or in his own mansion, or in the army, he has never said good things about Pei Lone, and when he sees Pei Lone, he always uses Pei Lone's old title as Deputy Supervisor, and his contempt is overflowing.

When I returned to Beijing last winter, I quarreled with Pei Lin in front of Li Yuan.

Speaking of which, Liu Wenjing has a legacy of his subordinates since the war at the end of the Jin Dynasty, and directly said to Li Yuan in the quarrel that the ministers worked for the king's affairs, and their military achievements were unmatched, so why did they live under Pei Xuanzhen? How unfair is the Supreme......

This is similar to the general Shi Wansui roaring above the Golden Palace.

He didn't think that he had lost his words, and he confidently wanted Li Yuan to remove Pei Lian, and then promote himself to an official.

Later, when people hear it, they may be surprised, but at this time, it is the most typical symptom of people who are proud of their achievements.

Just like the close ministers of Emperor Wen of Sui, they patted the table with Emperor Wen of Sui and Yang Jian because of their merits, and there were not too many people who begged for officials in person.

This is undoubtedly a relatively crude and barbaric atmosphere, which is the result of Hu Feng's southward expansion.

By the time of Emperor Yang Guang of Sui, there was some restraint, because the world was unified, and most of the famous ministers and generals of the year had been cleaned up by Emperor Wen.

When I arrived at Li Yuan, it relapsed again, because the war season came again.

Li Yuan was naturally angry, but now when he was employing people, he did not attack Liu Wenjing, and he was relieved, but in fact, he had firmly remembered this matter.

Pei Lin deserved to be a civil servant, and immediately felt that Liu Wenjing's days were numbered.

But after he went back, he still couldn't sleep, he was angry, the so-called general and the prime minister, this statement has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and he Pei Lin has been the prime minister, but he has been repeatedly criticized in the matter of leading the troops, which really makes people can't swallow this breath.

So the result was clear, and soon Pei Lin wrote to Li Yuan, asking to lead the troops in front of the army.

As a friend, Li Yuan understands his hardships and takes great care of him.

Just after the fall of Jinyang, Li Yuan took Li Shentong as his general, and Pei Lin as his deputy, led his troops north to Jindi, and the goal was naturally to recover Jinyang.

These two are Li Yuan's most trusted people, Li Shentong is quite famous in the army, and Pei Lian, Li Zhongwen, Jiang Baoyi, Zhang Lun, etc.

The fall of Jinyang is a big deal, but compared to Xue Ju, as well as Liang Shidu and Xiao Miao, who occupied Kuizhou, although Li Po's threat of soldiers and horses is not small, it can only be said that it is far away......

In fact, at this time, Li Tang's strategic environment was already deteriorating.

Of course, the good news is not nothing, Li Shimin led Li Xiaogong and others into Shu, and broke tens of thousands of barbarian rebels in Chengdu, and captured a lot.

He also took advantage of the battle between Xiao Mill's army and Kaizhou Barbarian Zhaoze, and led a light cavalry raid on the baggage of the two armies, breaking the Zhaoze rebellion on the bank of the Han River, which also caused Xiao Mill's army to suffer heavy losses and retreated to Kuizhou in defeat.

In this battle, the situation in Shuzhong was slightly calm, Li Shimin did not dare to stay in Shuzhong for a long time, only let Li Xiaogong and others lead the army to surround Kuizhou, and refused to go on the river with warships and Xiao Milling Army, so he led the army back to Guanzhong.

The battle of Qin King Li Shimin's fame came a little later, but after all, it was also a battle that made him famous in Shuzhong.

Of course, no matter what other wars are, Pei Lin came to Jin to make military merits, don't look at him and Liu Wenjing are already fighting to the death, but to be honest, he is not a person who is unreasonable and difficult to get along with.

Especially Li Shentong is still the Li clan, so the two of them came to Jindi together, and everything is based on Li Shentong, if there is any obstacle, Pei Lin needs to come forward, and Pei Lin has nothing to say.

Ren is Li Shentong is narrow-minded, and he gets along with Pei Lin quite well, and gradually relies on his people, after all, Pei's family is not from a nameless background, and he is the leader among the big lords of Jindi.

Now that the Bird Mouse Valley is in the hands of the enemy, Pei Lin is indispensable, with Li Shentong leading the troops, he is very relieved to stop advancing and retreating.

As for Li Shentong, he has more calculations than Pei Lian.

The failure to seize the Bird Mouse Valley is a good thing in Li Shentong's opinion, which gives him a very good reason not to come to Jiangzhou.

And more than 30,000 Tang troops were stationed in Jiezhou, and he did not think that Jiezhou could be lost.

The thief army is based in the Valley of the Sparrow, and I am afraid that they will besiege the city and send reinforcements.

How can a mere strategy be seen in the eyes of his self-proclaimed famous general?

Now he stopped troops in Jiangzhou to deter, and there was Linfen in front of him, if the thief army was trapped under the city of Jiexiu, he would not be able to advance or retreat for a long time, and when the time came, he led his troops to quickly go north and capture the Bird Mouse Valley.

At that time, it will be better for the thief army to fight, and it will be annihilated in the Bird Mouse Valley, if it escapes against Jinyang...... It's never too late to make sense.

If the thief army comes out of the Bird and Mouse Valley, hehe, the camera will cut off its back road, converge with Li Zhongwen's department, and take advantage of the emptiness of Jinyang to seize it in one fell swoop, if so, who can compare with him Li Shentong?

Yes, Li Shentong rectified the people in Jiangzhou, and urged the Ministry of Industry Shangshu Dugu Huaien to transport grain and grass over, and he was not in a hurry to go north to rescue Jiezhou.

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Wen Xi, Pei's main residence.

Pei Lin sat opposite one person, the fragrance of tea was faint, and the room was safe.

Pei Lin sipped the fragrant tea, feeling quite impatient in his heart, he was used to seeing Zhu Zi in the whole dynasty, and when he returned to the Pei family's old mansion again, he always felt a little out of place.

It's true that this is the root of the Pei family, but without these thick branches of them, how would the family prosper?

In fact, what he is dissatisfied with is that he has become a prime minister, and when he returns to the main house, he has not been able to show his respect, and the quiet old mansion seems to isolate all the prosperity of the world.

Lang Lang's reading voice is the main voice in the old mansion, which is different from the Jinyang Wang's mansion, there is a strong fragrance of books here, less of the majesty and heaviness of the Wang family, but a little more warm and elegant.

Everything else must be wrapped in the smell of books here, dispelling all the glitz, and nothing can be revealed.

If Pei Lin was still the deputy supervisor of Jinyang Palace, he would like to go back to the old mansion to stay for a while, discuss articles with the children of the family, drink a few sips of wine, compose a few poems, or casually talk about foreign political affairs.

But now, he doesn't want to stay in the old mansion any longer, it's not that the old mansion has changed, but that time has passed, and he himself has changed.

The gray-haired old man on the opposite side is his cousin Pei Shiqing, the current owner of the Pei family.

Of course, this is not an ordinary person, he was Hongluqing during the Great Cause period, received Japanese envoys, and was ordered to go overseas by boat, which can be said to be the farthest among the Pei people.

At the end of the Sui war, Pei Shiqing returned to Wenxi, took over the position of Pei's lord, when Li Yuan led his troops south, he was named the Duke of Wenxi County, appointed the Jiangjun Taishou, and then called him into the court.

It is said that it is stained with Pei Lone's light, a little, but it is not complete, Pei's big valve is full of talents, and Pei's valve owner is naturally rising.

And Pei Shiqing doesn't attach much importance to power, and now he is just dedicated to benefiting the township and urging the children in his family to learn, and he doesn't care much about other things.

This is the second time Pei Lin has come to the door, it was for recruiting soldiers before, but now why?

Pei Shiqing frowned slightly, he didn't like the aura on this cousin, it reminded him of his cousin Pei Ju......

(Monthly pass, monthly pass, Acao begging for monthly pass) (To be continued.) )