"General Duan led his troops to break through Xiao Pass, and he should be credited with the first credit."

In Xiaoguan City, the flames of war have not yet been extinguished, and the heir industry vigorously commended Duan Zhixuan, and asked Duan Zhixuan to personally record the Qin army who was the first to enter the city, and recorded the most courageous twenty people in this battle as the merit of jumping, and then recorded the merit of fifty people as the pioneer.

"This king will ask His Majesty the Emperor for meritorious service, those who ascend first please be crowned the founding marquis, those who jump are please be crowned three levels, and those who are pioneers are invited to add two levels of officials."

For Gu An, the Tang general who led his troops to seize the gate and surrender, Luo Siye also said that he would ask the emperor to make him the founding uncle.

However, for other Tang soldiers and generals, Heiye was very unkind.

He ordered the treasury in the city to be opened, and the money, grain, silk cloth and cloth were given to the soldiers, and the grain in the pass was seized for military use.

He had no intention of staying at Xiaoguan at all, and directly ordered Hou Junji to lead the Hexi Army cluster as the front army and advance towards Anding County (Tangjing Prefecture).

After breaking through the gateway of Xiaoguan, the road is obviously wider and the march is more convenient along the Jinghe River valley ahead.

This route is also the route that has always been used outside the gate to attack Guanzhong, and the last time Xue Ju's father and son attacked Tang, it was also this route. It's just that last time they were blocked in Changwu, the governor of Suizhou, and finally the army was defeated and the country was destroyed.

But this time, there was no Tang Army general in front, let alone heavy troops to intercept it.

Hou Jun gathered the troops as the vanguard, and the light cavalry advanced all the way, as if entering a no-man's land, no one dared to intercept it at all. Hou Junji didn't bother to step on the county ponds of Li Tangzhou along the way, and drove in.

Those states and counties didn't have time to be happy, because behind them was Hou Junji's brigade. These are not like light cavalry, mainly infantry, and the task is to occupy the states and counties along the way.

In the face of the mighty Hexi army, Pingliang County surrendered without a fight, and then Baiquan and Pingliang were all surrendered by local clans, and Li Tang's state and county officials abandoned the city and fled one step earlier.

Mid-October.

The cities of Yinpancheng, Houting, Anding, Hugu, Liangyuan, and Chaona in Anding County surrendered one after another.

The defender of the city that was once the capital of the Xue family's father and son was the Li Tang clan, the king of Li County swore to defend the city to the death, and as a result, he gathered thousands of people, but he only held on for two hours, and then the city was broken.

After the city was broken, the Tang army was slaughtered, and the feudal army directly plundered the whole city.

After this battle, the four counties of Pingliang, Anding, Beidi, and Honghua were sent by Heiye to attack in multiple ways, and they went down with one drum.

Early November.

Hou Junji led 20,000 light cavalry forwards, and he had already drunk the horse Weishui Hebei.

On the south bank of the Wei River, in the Taiji Palace of Chang'an City.

Mother-in-law's face Li Yuan's face wrinkled even more.

The Qin army came so fast that it was almost unimaginable.

From the fall of Xiaoguan, to the loss of the four counties in western Beijing, and then to the arrival of Luo Siye's soldiers on the banks of the Wei River, it took less than a month before and after.

Li Yuan paced hard in the hall.

"It's really a bit of a slip of the tongue."

Pei Lin and Liu Wenjing, the two prime ministers, both lowered their heads, and they were powerless in the face of the current situation. At the beginning, they also persuaded the emperor not to kill the son of Siye, but the emperor killed Luo Siye's son, and wanted to threaten him not to attack Xiao Guan.

What is even more unexpected is that Luo Siye, who did not show any threat in the first attack on Xiao Pass, can pull up hundreds of thousands of horses in Sandao in a short period of time, and he is still so fierce.

"Your Majesty, I heard that Luo Cheng had sent someone to send Shimin and Chai Shao and Shuliang back, just arrived in Hedong County, and I heard that my Tang Dynasty killed the son of Heiye, and the envoy of the Qin army detained Shimin and sent them to Luoyang instead."

Li Yuan also knew that he had messed up, but this was not the time to regret it.

He asked Pei Lian.

"Can we still defeat Luo Siye?"

Pei Lin replied helplessly, "Your Majesty, Chang'an City now only has 20,000 guards from the Yuan Congyi Army, in addition to 20,000 in Sanguan, 20,000 in Lantian Pass, 30,000 in Tongguan, and 10,000 in Tongzhou, although there are still 100,000 soldiers in total, you have to deal with the Qin army everywhere." Moreover, the Qin army has now cut off the passage with Qizhou, and Li Shentong's Qizhou scattered 20,000 soldiers and horses, which can no longer be transferred. ”

Li Yuan let out a long sigh.

Jingxi, Qizhou, Sanguan.

In the Sui period, this place was called Fufeng County, and Sanguan was an important gateway to Guanzhong in the Qinling Mountains, and this passage was called Chencang Road in ancient times, because it was Chencang City in Fuyu County, Guanzhong.

On the other side of this passage is Hechi County in Hanzhong.

At present, Hechi County was captured by the Qin general Huang Junhan, including Hanzhong County, which was controlled by Huang Junhan, who was the head of the Hanzhong Dao camp granted by the emperor.

"Is the news true?"

Huang Junhan, the Duke of Yu, frowned and asked.

The soldiers under his command responded, "It has been confirmed again and again, and there will be no fakes." ”

Huang Junhan looked down at the map and exclaimed, "Half a year ago, the King of Jin was still in Dingxiang, but after that, he not only destroyed Chai Shao's 100,000 Northern Expeditionary Tang Army, but also captured the entire Hetao, and united with the attached Hexi Li Rail to collect Longyou. Unexpectedly, this eastward march of troops has already hit Chang'an City in an instant. ”

"It's incredible."

Several generals praised in unison.

"General Dugu, what do you think of the reality in Guanzhong now?" Huang Junhan asked about Dugu Huaien, the former governor of Tang Liangzhou, who was Dugu Xin's grandson, and Yang Jian and Li Xin were both his uncles, so Yang Guang and Li Yuan were his aunt's cousins. Originally, for him, Tang replaced Sui, it was just a transfer of the crown from the head of one aunt and cousin to the head of another.

No matter how he changes, he is a relative of the emperor, Li Yuan is still good to him, in the Sui Dynasty he was a county commander, but Li Yuan promoted him beyond the ranks, first the Chang'an order, and then the Ministry of Works, and then the governor of Liangzhou.

However, although the name of Lonely Wynn is Wynn, he is not a person of Wynn.

Seeing that the Tang Dynasty was no longer good, he simply turned his back on the Tang Dynasty and surrendered to Qin.

"Under the festival, now Guanzhong is empty, Li Yuanxu has his appearance, although it is claimed that there are still one or two hundred thousand soldiers in Guanzhong, but most of them are new soldiers, vulnerable to a blow, just look at the general Siye in a month, from Xiaoguan all the way to the north bank of Weishui, you know, the humble general persuaded Jiexia to take the opportunity to break up the pass, but also waved into Chang'an."

Huang Junhan smiled.

"The King of Jin has already come to Chang'an City, so we can't just sit back and watch here. General Dugu said well, we also have to take action to attack Sanguan, even if we can't capture it, it doesn't matter, at least we can't let Li Shentong of Sanguan take those 20,000 people back to Chang'an. ”

"Pass my general order and attack Sanguan!"

Li Shentong, the king of Huai'an County, who was sitting in Chencang, received an urgent edict from the emperor's cousin, asking him to lead his troops back to Chang'an to save the king.

Just after discussing with the generals how to lead the troops back to help, it turned out that the general of Sanguan Town sent someone to report urgently, Huang Junhan suddenly tackled the storm, the offensive was fierce, and asked the king of the county to send reinforcements.

Li Shentong was stunned all of a sudden.

The emperor of Chang'an waited for him to lead his troops to rescue King Jiaqin, but now Sanguan was in danger of being attacked again.

"Hey, let's send reinforcements first!" Li Shentong had to stomp his feet.