Just after the New Year, the Luoyang court decided to "abolish the position of the former prince Jiqi" on the grounds that the crown prince Jiqi did not return to the court to preside over the court meeting, and Li Qi's fourth brother Li Jiliang, who was only seven years old, inherited the throne, ascended the throne and called the system, and changed the Yuan Tiancheng, but the country name still uses the title of the Tang Dynasty.

With the same country name, it is now divided into two courts, the north and the south.

In this regard, in addition to issuing a letter to the world, announcing that Li Siyuan was in trouble with the dynasty, vainly trying to blackmail the Son of Heaven to make the princes, and the heart of disobedience was clearly exposed, etc., after a period of commotion, there was no follow-up, and continued to take a defensive position, and did not take any military measures to "curry favor with thieves".

On the contrary, it was Li Siyuan who ordered his son-in-law to influence the military jiedu to make Shi Jingtang attack Tongguan from Shaanzhou, and the Yizi Protector Army Jiedu made Li Congke attack Fenshui Pass from the river, and the privy envoy An Chongrong led Huo Yanwei. Du Yanqiu and others attacked Heyang and Zezhou, and for a time the flames of war burned in the south of Jindi.

Xia Luqi, the envoy of Heyang Jiedu, abandoned Heyang and retreated to Zezhou in accordance with the strategy agreed with Li Qi in advance.

Although Li Siyuan has a large number of troops and a wide range of generals, he occupies an absolute advantage in terms of troops, but Li Qi's side occupies a dangerous place between Hedong and Guanzhong Guanchuan, and the situation is similar to that when Zhu Wen was proclaimed emperor, the situation between the two sides is deadlocked, and no one can help the other party for the time being.

Luoyang sent people to contact Ren Yuan of Jingzhao Mansion and Gao Yuntao of Yan Yan, those two were afraid of the death of their lips and teeth, and they wished that Li Qi was in front of them, so they naturally shirked in every possible way, and refused to send troops from the north to attack Zhang Jinda, who was loyal to Tongguan.

Li Siyuan is also helpless about this, and the whip is beyond the reach of the whip.

In the spring of the first year of the republic, the first month of the new year.

The winter snow in Jindi is just beginning to melt, and the sky is overcast.

He Fujin, the general under Li Qi, stood in the south of Lingshi County, in the middle of the Yangliang Sanguan Pass, looking at the mountain avenue winding from the valley in the south, with a solemn and quiet expression. Having already captured Fenshui Pass, Li Congke's Hezhong army rushed towards Guancheng.

The field at dusk was unusually desolate, with corpses everywhere in the river valley where the snow had not yet melted, the black smoke still rising from under the closed city, and the burning smell of human flesh and blood after burning, all enveloping the whole land in a sad atmosphere.

He Fujin is tall and big, from the age of sixteen he joined the Jin King Li Sizhao as a pro-army as a noble son of the Jin army, and followed Zhuangzong Li Cunqiao to fight in the south and the north over the years, which can be regarded as a great contribution to the destruction of Liang Liguo in the Later Tang Dynasty. Xingjiaomen change, he and Fu Yanqing also cried after the death of Zhuang Zongxue, and then defected to Li Qi, and they were also deeply trusted.

Because of this, Li Qi would also order him to lead the army to garrison Lingshiyang Liangguan, and use Li Congke's Hezhong Army to guard the Jinyang Gate.

Just after the New Year, Li Congke, the envoy of the Hezhong Festival, was ordered to join forces with Mao Zhang, the assassin of Jiangzhou, to command 30,000 troops and attack Jinyang.

The war that was expected dragged on for more than half a year before finally breaking out......

Yangliang South Pass, also known as Yindi Pass, is located in the south of Lingshi, is stuck in the middle of the Fen River formed by the Fen River between Luliang Mountain and Taiyue Mountain, the east is Huo Mountain, the west is the Fen River Valley, and the Guancheng is built on this key road crossing. At this time, the Fenshui has begun to thaw, the river surface is floating with ice floe, coupled with the gloomy weather, it shows a scene of slaughter.

Yangliangguan is a natural pass in the Fen River Valley, the mountains on both sides are steep, the two mountain ranges of Luliang and Taiyue that stretch for more than 1,000 meters above sea level, in the middle of the two mountain ranges, the Fen River washes out a narrow river valley, during which the traffic of cars and horses is unimpeded, it has always been the main passage of the Taiyuan Basin in the north of Jinbei in the river.

Such a dangerous location, Li Qi, who intends to stick to Jinyang, naturally attaches great importance to it, and since last summer, it has been re-strengthened and renovated, and the scale of the Guancheng has been expanded, especially the Yangliang Nanguan Guancheng that is facing the main road, all of which are built with bluestone, and even a few concrete forts have been built with newly burned cement. The city wall is more than five zhang high, and several concrete watchtowers with a height of more than two zhang have been added to the wall.

Standing on the city tower and looking at the majestic Guancheng, the so-called heroic spirit of being a husband and a wife will suddenly come out.

Tens of thousands of soldiers and horses have been rolling in from the south.

At this moment, He Fujin only had more than 3,000 soldiers and horses in his hands, so he could only give up the Fenshui Pass, which had not yet had time to be renovated, and urgently asked for help from Jinyang on the one hand, and strengthened the city defense on the other hand, preparing to rely on the pass to defend it.

Now Li Siyuan, the prison state, has a huge power, claiming to have the strongest army in the world, and has many generals under his command. And Li Qi, who succeeded as emperor, was in Pingyang at this time, and was in the weakest period of his life. The territory under his jurisdiction only took a few places north of Zelu and Jinyang Jiancheng, Xin, Daihe, Yunzhou, and Shanbei, relying on Jinyang's strong city defense and righteousness, and was still a banner of the Later Tang Empire.

At this time, the Hezhong army was surging, and the southern army commanded by Li Congke was completely going to crush the defending northern army in the city with a fierce offensive, and won the three passes of Yangliang in one fell swoop, leading to Jinyang. And He Fujin personally went to the head of the city, and the northern army organized a tight defense on the city wall.

The banners of both sides are Tang and the country is the same, but they are divided into two courts, north and south, which can be described as fighting in the same room.

It's just that after Li Qi became emperor, the banner of the Northern Dynasties in Jinyang only used red flags and no longer used other colors.

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After receiving the news of the Jinyang police report, Li Jiqi was preparing for spring plowing at Tangming Manor in Yangqu County.

After receiving an urgent report from Lingshi, he immediately ordered Yuan Ren and Kang Tai to lead a thousand cavalry troops to provide emergency support, and then put together more than 2,000 infantry troops to rush to Lingshi.

After Yuan Ren led the army to Yangliang Nanguan, several rounds of arrow rain went down, Li Congke and Mao Zhang knew that the reinforcements of the northern army had arrived after seeing the neat military appearance and black armor of the Jin army at the head of the city, so they ordered to temporarily stop the siege. Later, the southern army suffered huge losses in the tragic siege battle, and Li Congke quickly adjusted after the unsuccessful onslaught, and began to build an earthen wall in the south of Guancheng, preparing to build a sandwich city for a long-term confrontation.

At this time, on both sides of the Fenshui River, it is the spring cold and steep, and the residual ice on the shore of the Fenshui has not yet melted away.

Outside the city of Yangliang Nanguan, a large battalion that can accommodate tens of thousands of Liang troops stands at the intersection of the Fenhe Valley Avenue a few miles away, which can be regarded as a military reorganization.

Standing on the tall tower of Guancheng City, Li Qi, who arrived in a hurry, looked at the camp of the Southern Army with some strange eyes.

What's the deal, you didn't bring any siege equipment at all, what are you going to attack Jinyang?

Li Congke: Are you here to be funny?!

Although the more than 30,000 southern troops sound like a lot of people, they can't be used at all in this river valley, and the only place that can attack the city is the city tower and the hundreds of steps of city walls on both sides. This amount of troops wants to capture the defense of thousands of troops, and such a strong fortress is far from enough.

Yangliang Pass itself is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it is a nightmarish barrier for an army that does not have many siege equipment. The current southern army is experiencing the feelings of the grassland people when they faced the city of Jinyang, because they did not have many siege equipment. The corpses of the enemies on the head of the city have been thrown down, and the dead defenders have also been carried down and cremated. There was blood everywhere, so stained that it was no longer possible to see the original color of the green bricks.

The sky gradually darkened, and in the wilderness, a huge bonfire was lit in the camp of the Liang army. Li Qi stood at the head of the city, squinting at the firelight in the direction of the Southern Army, and didn't know what he was thinking. Fu Yanqing and He Fujin proposed to personally lead people to attack the enemy's camp at night and prevent the other party from building a walled city, but Li Qi vetoed it.

Li Qi didn't think that a sneak attack was a good idea, as long as it continued like this, the southern army would naturally retreat in a few days. It is impossible for them to delay too long in the Fen River Valley, otherwise they really don't plan to go back......