End of May.

Luo Cheng drove the Northern Expedition in person, with the prince sitting in Luoyang to supervise the country, and with Wei King Luo Cunxiao as the commander of the Central Plains camp and the commander of the left capital of Shandong Province, commanding the soldiers and horses of the three roads of the Central Plains, sitting in the Licheng of Xinglong Mansion, with Cao Guogong Shan Xiongxin as the commander of the camp and the commander of the left governor of Henan Province, guarding Wuguan.

With Wu Guogong Du Fuwei as the marching army Sima and the commander of the left capital of Huainan Province, he guarded the Jiangdu.

The emperor led a large army north.

Early June.

Luo Cheng entered Taiyuan in Hedong and entered Jinyang Palace.

"Your Majesty, the envoy of the Turkic Jieli Khan asks to see you." The guards report.

Luo Cheng took off his cloak, picked up a towel and began to wipe his sweat, in the scorching summer, all the way north, the heat was terrible, many soldiers on the road suffered from heat stroke, and many soldiers vomited and leaked, and fell behind a lot.

"Jieli Xiao'er can't make up his mind for a long time, is this to ask me for mercy?" Luo Cheng said with a smile.

He hurried all the way, but fortunately, the situation was not bad.

The generals Qu Tutong, Qin Qiong and Wei Chigong were the forwards before, first gathered tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in Taiyuan, and then went out of the building to attack Yanmen.

Forced Liu Wuzhou to defend with all his might, the two sides braved the heat and fought for many days, each losing a lot of men and horses, although Qu Tutong failed to recover the three counties, but forced Liu Wuzhou to retreat to the north of Xinkou, giving up most of the Loufu County, but also dragging his main force.

And Zhao Gui attacked Shanggu Gao to open the road, and the successes were repeated.

Gao Kaidao suffered defeats again and again, even if Dou Jiande personally rescued him, he couldn't withstand it, so Gao Kaidao led the defeated soldiers to cross Taihang and go to Gao Tansheng. Gao Tansheng named Gao Kaidao as the king of Qi of his Mahayana Buddha Kingdom, and became a brother with him, conferring the title of marshal.

Zhao Gui recovered most of the upper valley, and Dou Jiande took the opportunity to seize several cities in the upper valley, but he still failed to prevent Zhao Gui from opening up the passage with Boling and Hengshan counties, as well as the first line of Taiyuan in Hedong.

Feng Xiaoci, who had suffered a bad loss under the thief army before, finally received the support of reinforcements sent by Zhao Gui.

Feng Xiaoci gritted his teeth, led the soldiers and horses to launch a counterattack, caught Song Jingang off guard, and finally lost his shame and captured several cities of Zhao County in one fell swoop.

Liu Wuzhou was very good to Song Jingang who came to vote, directly named him the king of Song, and married one of his sisters to him, and at the same time took out half of his family wealth to reward him.

It is said that after Feng Xiaoci heard that Song Jingang had escaped and became Liu Wuzhou's brother-in-law, he couldn't help but ask left and right, "How many sisters does Liu Wuzhou have?" ”

The two generals, Yuan Junzhang and Gao Manzheng, are his brothers-in-law, and now Song Jingang has also become his brother-in-law.

"Damn, after the attack on Mayi, then the whole army will send a sister Liu Wuzhou as a concubine!"

After defeating Song Jingang, Feng Xiaoci took advantage of the victory to march into Xiangguo, and Zhen Zhai'er couldn't withstand Feng Xiaoci's revenge and shameful battle like chicken blood, but the Xia army, which originally supported Zhen Zhai'er, was ordered by Dou Jiande to return to Fangji County and Pingyuan County to defend Luo Cunxiao.

So Zhen Zhai'er, who had no backer, was defeated repeatedly, and finally Xiangguo couldn't hold it at all, so he simply retreated to Dou Jiande's territory with thousands of remnants of the army and went directly to Dou Jiande.

This succession of good news made the emperor feel very good now, and he was not irritated by this hot weather.

"The generals under the command of the Turkic Great Khan have lost their minds and paid a visit to the Emperor of Qin!"

The Turkic envoys who came in were tall and burly, with haired hair, dressed in silk robes, with a large gold ring hanging from his ear, and even a large golden armband on each of his arms.

He stood in front of the emperor, only slightly bent over, and his tone was not respectful.

"You will send someone, but you will come from you?" Luo Cheng asked directly.

He was the leader of the Turkic Obsess, and he was young and strong, and he was also a close confidant of Jieli Khan. He didn't expect the emperor to say this, so he was stunned and said, "I, the Khan, with hundreds of thousands of iron horsemen, have besieged Luo Siye and Simo traitors to death, and their demise is only in the morning and night." ”

"There are also Dingyang Khan Li Yuan sent Chai Shao to command 100,000 troops, Pingyang Emperor Dou Jiande sent Liu Heimin to command 100,000 troops, and Liu Wuzhou, the southern Khan, to command 100,000 troops, all of them are in Daibei Gonghou My Turkic Great Khan went south, just waiting for a siege to destroy Luo Siye and Simo, and then the army will go south to Taiyuan, when the time comes, Taiyuan will be powdered, and you will also become a prisoner of my Turkic order."

"Hahaha."

Luo Cheng laughed a few times, how many big scenes he Luo Cheng has experienced, how can it be intimidating.

"Obsessive, I don't think you're stupid, why do you say some stupid nonsense? What Turkic iron horsemen are hundreds of thousands, only 200,000 when they came, and how many are there now? The weather south of Yinshan is hot, so it's not easy to stay in this season, right? You can still wear silk gauze clothes to cool off, but most of you Turkic herders are still wearing sheepskin robes, and at this time, you should not be able to sleep at night, right? ”

He rebuked loudly for his lack of thinking.

"Don't brag about what Ding Yang Khan is about the south of Yang Khan, these people are just thieves of the shameful Han family who defected to the Turks. Don't brag about anything, this one sent 100,000 troops, that one sent 100,000 troops, they are now too busy to take care of themselves, Gao Kaidao has been defeated by my Qin general Zhao Gui, and he lost Shanggu and fled to the north. ”

"Song Jingang and Zhen Zhai'er were also defeated, losing Zhao Jun and Xiangguo. And Dou Jiande in Hebei is not going any better, now the wars are burning in Hejian, Jijun, Pingyuan, and Bohai counties, and our Qin army is attacking everywhere, and he is tired of coping. ”

"Stubborn and lost his mental strength, when Shibi Khan led hundreds of thousands of horsemen to invade the south, as a result, it was not wiped out by me in Mayi, don't you know that Shibi Khan died under my horse?"

"And Jieli Khan Dubi, who is even more defeated by my subordinates, and now he dares to come south again? Since he dared to come and send someone's head, then I will fulfill him, last time I let him run, this time I just caught him all. ”

"Come on, first lock up this stubborn thinking power to me, and after capturing Jieli, we will behead the Taimiao together!"

I didn't expect Luo Cheng to lock him up.

"I am the envoy of Jieli Khan, and the two countries will not fight each other!"

"You fart messenger, tie it up and take it down."

"Minister Li Junxian greets Your Majesty."

Li Junxian, the commander of the pro-army, came with an edict.

"What is the situation at the front?" Luo Cheng asked. Although Li Junxian was in Taiyuan, and every day there was a steady stream of information that was summarized and analyzed and sent back to the rear, some situations were still not detailed enough.

"Your Majesty, the weather is hot, and the Turkic army is not tolerant of the heat, so the army besieging Dingxiang cannot attack the city, so it has to be stationed in the riverside valley outside Dingxiang City, although Dingxiang City is surrounded, but the situation is fine."

"Where's the heir?"

"General Siye was stationed in the north of the Turkic army, set up a company camp in Baidao, and held the Baidao Pass out of the fortress, where the terrain was dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack. Previously, Jieli sent troops to attack several times, but they all returned in vain, so they simply ignored General Siye, and just sent troops to besiege Dingxiang City, but the Turkic soldiers were unable to take it because they could not tolerate the heat and heat. ”

Luo Cheng listened and nodded again and again.

The northern nomadic tribes generally send troops to the south, and most of the seasons chosen are in the autumn, when the autumn is high and the horses are fat, and the Central Plains is just the harvest season, which is a good time for robbery.

The horses are thin in the spring and the cold in the north in the winter, which is not a good season for sending troops, and as for summer, it is not the season for sending troops to the south, because the weather is hot and it is difficult to march, and in the summer, the Central Plains is rainy, the roads are difficult to travel, and the river is surging, which is very unfavorable for the cavalry to march and fight.

But this time Jieli went south, but also saw Luo Cheng's victory in the Central Plains, and saw that he was about to sweep the world and unify the Central Plains, so he couldn't hold back and went south, thinking that with Li Yuan, Dou Jiande, Liu Wuzhou, and others surrendering, going south would be like a bamboo, and the disadvantage of the summer heat was not a problem.

Who would have thought that Luo Siye and Simo would be so tenacious.

Now Jieli saw that Luo Cheng drove the Northern Expedition in person, and the Qin army in Hebei fought back sharply, so he couldn't help but worry, so he wanted to send his stubborn power to scare Luo Cheng, so as to force Luo Cheng to ask for peace, who would have expected that since Luo Cheng came, he didn't plan to negotiate peace.