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About half an hour later, Yu Ming came and walked in front of Wang Shichong's Zheng Wang's mansion, but saw only a listless guard guarding the door. For this lord of Luoyang, it is indeed a little shabby. It seems that Wang Shichong is already doing the work of dismissing his subordinates.

Yu Ming stepped forward at this time and said to the guard at the door: "I am Yu Ming, I am here to bid farewell to King Zheng and return to Beiping, I don't know if King Zheng is here?" ”

When the guard heard that it was King Zhou coming, he said respectfully: "King Zheng is in the mansion, the villain will go to report, and ask King Zhou to wait for a while!" ”

Immediately, he opened the door and hurried in to report.

After a while, the guard came out and saluted Yu Ming and said, "King Zheng is in the study, and he is very happy to hear that King Zhou is coming. Please also invite King Zhou to come with the villain ......"

With that, the guard led the way, and Yuming followed him through the heavy courtyard, and finally came to the elegant and chic rooms.

"King Zheng, King Zhou is here!" The guards reported.

At this moment, the door "creaked" open. I saw Wang Shichong walking out anxiously, and then sighed at Yu Ming: "King Zhou, you are here!" ”

"King Zheng, I'm here to bid you farewell and prepare to go back to Beiping!" Yu Ming first explained his intention, and then asked with some surprise, "Why did King Zheng sigh?" ”

Wang Shichong smiled bitterly at this time: "King Zhou doesn't seem to know yet, even if you want to leave now, I'm afraid you won't be able to go." ”

After Yu Ming heard this, he immediately pressed the handle of the knife with his left hand, and he subconsciously thought that Wang Shichong was going to attack him.

When Wang Shichong saw Yu Ming's movements, he knew that he had misunderstood. So he hurriedly explained: "King Zhou, if Wang wanted to attack you, he would have acted as early as when you entered the city, why wait until now? ”

Yu Ming glanced at Wang Shichong's expression, only to see that his face was bitter, and it really didn't look like he was trying to assassinate himself. So Fang's expression eased slightly: "That being the case, then why did you just say that I couldn't leave?" ”

Wang Shichong sighed and said: "I just received a report from the scouts that Li Yuan's army has surrounded Luoyang City, and anyone who goes out of the city will be killed with random arrows. Li Rail led several cavalry to break through, but he was all shot by the Tang army, and Li Rail was also captured. ”

"What?" Yu Ming was really taken aback at this time. Before, the red whisk girl reported that Li Yuan had done something to Xiao Miao. Now that he has received the news that Li Yuan is besieging Luoyang City, the lord of the Tang Dynasty has inevitably acted a little faster.

"How many people are there in Li Yuan? I just received a report that Li Yuan sent troops to attack Xiao Miao's garrison outside the city, how could he still have the strength to attack Luoyang? Yu Ming asked with some surprise.

"Li Yuan had already sent a large army to come, numbering no less than 50,000, but it was scattered into several units, some pretending to be merchants and guards, and some pretending to be homeless people and bandits, and they had been lurking in the villages and towns near Luoyang City early. Now that the Luoyang Conference had ended, the princes had left one after another, and they began to attack. It seems that they want to wipe out the other princes! Wang Shichong said worriedly.

Yu Ming gasped, if that was the case, then his retreat plan would have to be changed. If you ignore Luoyang City like this, forcibly break through and run away, and let Luoyang City fall into the hands of Li Yuan, I am afraid that the situation in the world will immediately become unfavorable to you.

Moreover, for the other princes, he can't completely ignore them, otherwise Li Liang, Liang Shidu, Xiao Mo and others will be killed or captured by Li Yuan. Their territory would soon fall into Li Yuan's hands. At that time, Li Yuan's strength and territory will far surpass his own, and the luck of the world may not be on his side.

"King Zhou, now that the Luoyang Conference has ended, I, King Zheng, can be regarded as stepping down. I will put all the power in the army in the city into your hands, where to go, but listen to the orders of the king of Zhou! Wang Shichong said with a sincere face.

At this time, he took out a pair of tiger talismans from his arms and said, "This is the tiger talisman that mobilizes the troops in Luoyang City." At present, there are more than 10,000 soldiers and horses in the city, all of whom are subordinates who have followed me for many years. I'll also write a warrant for my son Xuan Ying and Xuan Shu to accompany you to receive the troops. ”

Yu Ming took the tiger talisman and couldn't help but be stunned in his heart.

He did have plans to take over Luoyang City, but not now, but after arriving at the Tiger Pass, he sent the defenders of the Tiger Pass to replace the city guards under Wang Shichong in Luoyang City.

But now, Wang Shichong is like a hot hand, and immediately handed over the power of Luoyang City to him. It really felt a little sudden.

"Brother Wang, you are really good at picking the opportunity, seeing that Li Yuan's army is pressing the border and attacking the city, you will immediately withdraw, you are really worthy of me......" Yu Ming smiled bitterly.

"There's no way around it...... Anyway, sooner or later, Luoyang City will give it to you! Now it's a little bit earlier! Wang Shichong breathed a long sigh of relief and said.

"Alright! However, I also want to ask Brother Wang to officially retire after this Luoyang crisis has passed! After all, you are most familiar with the situation in Luoyang City! Yu Ming Zhengse said: "In addition, I also want to ask you to help me call all the generals above the general to the council hall!" Now we must meet immediately to discuss how to deal with the situation at hand! ”

“…… All right! I'll make do with it for a few more days! Wang Shichong hesitated for a moment, and then Fang agreed.

"I'll send someone to inform the generals to come to the council hall for a meeting!" With that, he walked out the door.

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An hour later, in the council hall of King Zheng's mansion in Luoyang City, Yu Ming, Wang Shichong, Sun Simiao, Shu Meng, Red Sleeves, Zhang Zhongjian, Wang Xuanying, Wang Xuanshu and other people and the generals of the Zheng army in the city all gathered together to discuss how to deal with Li Yuan's siege of Luoyang.

Before the meeting, Wang Shichong had already told all the generals in the city that Yu Ming was completely responsible for commanding the operation, and he officially retreated to the second line. This made Duan Da, Yuan Du, Lu Chu and others, who were originally his old subordinates, a little sad. Although they have been retaining, Wang Shichong has already made up his mind. said that he would no longer be nostalgic for the position of the DPRK and China,

However, although Wang Shichong can be regarded as stepping down. His sons Wang Xuanying and Wang Xuanshu were reused by Yuming and were appointed as his left and right lieutenants. Assist him in managing the ten thousand defenders of the city.

Before that, because Duan Da, the general stationed on the acropolis outside the city, was defeated by Li Shimin's army and had to flee back to the city, it also let everyone present know the latest situation outside the city. The most surprising thing is that Du Fuwei and Li Yuan actually formed an alliance.

According to the regulations of Wang Shichong and Sun Simiao before the Luoyang Conference, the princes who came to participate in the conference could only bring a maximum of 10,000 troops to escort them. Therefore, the four princes such as Li Yuan, Xiao Miao, Yuming and Du Fuwei all led 10,000 elite soldiers to Luoyang. Minor princes such as Li Liang, Liang Shidu, Shen Faxing, and Lin Shihong only brought more than 1,000 soldiers to the conference.

Fearing that the entry of so many princes' armies into the city would lead to chaos and distraction. Wang Shichong only agreed that the princes should lead fifty personal soldiers into the city with them. In addition, a thousand soldiers could be sent into the Acropolis to participate in the battle when Luoyang City was held on the second day of the conference.

Therefore, until the end of the Luoyang Conference, almost all the princes' armies camped outside the city and waited, waiting for their lords to leave the city, and then return together.

However, what everyone never expected was that just after the Luoyang Conference ended, Li Yuan, Li Shimin, Li Yuanji, Du Fuwei, Du Yu and others left the Eastern Capital in a hurry. Then, while the other princes had not yet left and joined up with their own armies, they launched a surprise attack on the Liang and Zhou armies.

Attacking the Liang army were the 10,000 Xuanjia elite cavalry brought by Li Yuan, who were the most elite troops in the Tang army. Although they were not equipped with Damascus black steel swords like the Zhou army's Yulinwei, they were also unmatched by ordinary armies.

Xiao Miao's Liang army fought in the Jingxiang area all the year round, and was very good at water warfare, but its performance on land was only average, and it was even more powerless to resist cavalry attacks. In addition, when the Tang army attacked, Xiao Mo and Xiao Yan's father were not in the camp, and they stayed in Luoyang City and did not come out. Although the general Shi Hong who stayed in the camp resisted desperately, he was still invincible and was in a situation of struggling to support.

Although Xiao Mo and Xiao Yan's father later returned to their military camp before Li Yuan blocked Luoyang, they had already missed the opportunity to save the situation at this time, and they were no longer able to return to the sky.

In the end, under Li Shimin's all-out attack, the Liang army finally collapsed and was defeated. Xiao Mo and Xiao Yan only escaped on horseback.

At the same time, Li Yuan ordered Li Yuanji to lead the 50,000 Tang troops who secretly crossed the border from the direction of Tongguan to block the four gates of Luoyang City, and not let a single soldier go out of the city. Li Liang, Shen Faxing, Lin Shihong, Liang Shidu, Li Tong and others were all intercepted and sniped. According to captured Tang soldiers, except for Liang Shidu, who escaped disguised as Turks, the remaining four princes were killed.

Hearing this, Yu Ming frowned and said, "General Duan, where is my master Li Jing?" Didn't he send troops to rescue Xiao Miao? ”

Because he clearly remembered that he had specially instructed his sister, Hongfu, to go back to the barracks to inform Master Li Jing and send troops to rescue Liang Jun.

If Li Jing led this 10,000 elite Zhou army to fight in concert with the Liang army, Xiao Mo would never be defeated. Even if their opponent is Li Shimin.

Duan Da was stunned for a moment after hearing this, and then Fang Shen said, "Your master has also been attacked. Attacking him was Du Fuwei's army, and Du Yu led the 10,000 guards to launch an attack on your master. Although they were unable to break through the Zhou army's military camp, they also succeeded in pinning down your master, leaving him powerless to rescue Xiao Miao. ”

"It seems that Du Fuwei and Li Yuan must have formed an alliance! Otherwise, how could there be such a coincidence! Li Yuan attacked Xiao Miao's guards, and he attacked King Zhou's guards. The timing was so accurate...... And the two of them were also the first to leave Yixianzhai! Most of the time it's just to prepare for the attack! Zhang Zhongjian also suddenly realized.

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