In early spring, the smoke and rain are miserable, and the vast Hetao, the mountains are undulating, the winding Hetao, and the vast loess plateau are now covered with a green carpet. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The poplar trees that can be seen everywhere have sprouted, the weeping willows are rich, graceful and swaying, and the city is full of spring.

Jinyang City is the largest city in the northwest, guarding the fortress to the north, it is an important place to prevent the Turks in the north of Chang'an of the Great Sui Dynasty, it is rich and prosperous, many Hu people come here to do business, shops and restaurants, tea shops and green visits are prosperous, which benefits from the pacification of Hedong to make Li Yuan stationed.

In the month of the year ago, Li Yuan entered Jinyang City with tens of thousands of troops and elite generals, and became the supreme governor here.

However, even so, there were still many refugees who had fled from all over Taiyuan County on the streets, all of them gray-faced, ragged, hungry and weak.

Many refugees began to sell their children and daughters, so that they could at least survive by sending their children into slavery with large families, and would not starve to death on the streets, or die of cold and disease.

Some men from local households in Jinyang took the opportunity to go to the streets to buy back young women as concubines, and single people could take them home as daughters-in-law, and men who were in need could bring some food and bread with them, and they could also have a good time with the refugees under the street wall, and just give some food.

Li Jiancheng learned about the hardships of the refugees gathered in the city through the micro-service visit, and quickly reported to Li Yuan, and after the father and son discussed with some strategists, they decided to open a warehouse to release grain, relieve the people, resettle refugees, and buy people's hearts.

"Completed, you and Liu Hongji will do this matter, because of the sensitive identity of the father, it is not appropriate to come forward, in case the saint hears some news, thinking that I am collecting the hearts of the people and intending to rebel, then it will be a big matter."

Li Jiancheng knows his father's character, he is a little forward-looking, he is not decisive enough, he is always afraid of accidents, and he is suspicious of Yang Guang.

"Father, the world is in chaos at this time, the saint went to Jiangnan this time, he had the idea of avoiding risks, it is estimated that it will be difficult to return to the north, our emperor is far away, what happened to the people, it is a good time for my father to establish the image of a benevolent person."

Li Yuan shook his head and said: "Built, don't have such thoughts, if the people of the world say so, it's just that, he is young, hot-blooded, unstable, and courageous, but you are different, you have to be steady, you come forward, it is also on behalf of my Li family, as for the father, you must try to close the door and pretend to be unambitious, so as to avoid the ears and suspicions of the saint, but don't forget, the Li family should have the world's proverbs, such as a stalk in the throat, the saint has long held a grudge against Li Valve, and he can attack those who have real power in the Li family at any time." ”

Li Jiancheng nodded when he heard this, although he had some different opinions, but he still focused on his father's, after all, he felt that he was only twenty-five or sixteen years old, he had not held a major official position in the court, and he did not know enough about the depth and shallowness of the imperial court's career, and it was right to listen to husband and wife.

"Where did your second brother go, why did you rarely see him when you arrived in Jinyang?"

"This, the second brother said that Jinyang is the land of the tiger in the dragon pan, and there are many capable people here, so he decided to make some heroes for the Li family, and absorb them in the future for his father's use."

"Nonsense, this kid is messing around all day long, wooing heroes, what is he going to do, he wants to rebel?" Li Yuan snorted coldly, feeling a headache for this second son who didn't play cards according to common sense all day long, for fear that he didn't know the depth and made something happen, so that the family would be punished.

"Father, please rest assured, although the second brother is active, but he also knows what to say, what to say, what not to say, he knows better than anyone else, this kid, shrewd, he was good at chivalrous things, but in Luoyang, strictly controlled by his father, he didn't toss much, and now when he arrives in Jinyang, he has long been impatient, and he is handsome, and now, I don't know where to drink."

Li Yuan's face was gloomy, he was still worried that he didn't know the severity, after all, he was too young, if he said anything rebellious, it would be enough for his Li family to drink a pot, and now the Great Sui Qi was about to run out, but it still did not perish, as soon as the holy decree came, his official titles, military power, etc., would he still lose it, and only when he completely turned these armies into the Li family's own army, and replaced them with his own people, would he have the courage to think about other things.

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Luo Zhaoyun integrated the military horses at Linyu Pass, increased the number of cavalry, and gave 20,000 wheat iron staffs, of which 3,000 were elite horsemen, as the main force of the fight.

In the past few days, Mai Tiecane has been constantly practicing cavalry formations and strengthening the cooperation between the teams, and this kind of charge of tens of thousands of people at every turn, if the sand is scattered, then the team will soon be easy to mess up, and it will not be able to exert much combat power.

Therefore, the cavalry should also be in formation, maintain the formation of attacking the fortified when charging, and look for team members when fighting, three people are a small group, three groups are a fire team, led by the fire chief, this is the most basic combination of actions, three people cooperate, one front and two sides, take care of each other, and the lethality is stronger than fighting five people alone.

And Luo Zhaoyun is constantly looking for a decisive battle place on the map, which is suitable for the terrain and landform of his strategic thinking.

In the end, Luo Zhaoyun took a fancy to the outside of Linyu Pass, and there was a hilly place on the way to Yan County, called Hululing, which was open in front of it, bordering the plains, and the terrain behind it was relatively narrow, and the terrain around here was not high, all of them were small hills, and there were some forks, which were suitable for hiding soldiers in it.

A few days later, he received a piece of information that the grain and grass warehouse of the Gao clan had been set on fire, and those operatives had become dead soldiers, and after completing the mission, they could no longer escape, they were surrounded by heavy sieges, and they were killed by exhaustion, and they were regarded as meat paste by random knives.

"Come on, pass the order, and the whole army will go out tomorrow!" Luo Zhaoyun felt that the day had come to send troops.

The military order came out, and the next day the army lined up, and Mai Tiezhu only set off with more than 20,000 cavalry and 5,000 crossbow battalions, as the front army.

Luo Zhaoyun led a combination of seven or eight thousand cavalry, 20,000 infantry, five thousand archers, and crossbow fighters, followed closely behind, two miles apart, and set off slowly.

When the leaders of the Gao clan and the generals of the Khitan tribe learned that the Sui army had left the pass and was coming to pacify them, Gao Tansheng, who was suffering from a shortage of grain and grass, felt that this was the last chance, and as long as he defeated Luo Zhaoyun's soldiers and horses, he could recapture Linyu Pass and enter Beiping and Yuyang County, and the problems of grain and grass and military and civilian affairs would be solved.

Thirty or forty thousand cavalry went first, followed by twenty or thirty thousand infantry, almost all the troops were invested, although Gao Tansheng had heard of Luo Zhaoyun's prestige, but felt that twice the enemy's strength, and the support of the Khitan, Jin and other iron cavalry, should be able to defeat the Sui army.