Luoyang.

West Garden.

Wang Shichong harassed all the soldiers and horses, gathered 60,000 people and began to storm Luoyang, trying to recover Luoyang City in one fell swoop. The battle lasted from morning to night, and it was fought for a whole day.

Facing Pei Xingyan guarding the city in the city, Wang Shichong, who was known as King Zheng who knew how to fight, didn't even touch the walls of Luoyang City.

Pei Xingyan relied on Luoyang City and led his troops to fight Wang Shichong in Xiyuan, and Wang Shichong had no temper.

Zheng Jun had just defeated Li Mi, and his morale was high, but who expected that Qin Jun would steal his home, and he thought that he was protected by Duke Zhou, but he was completely deflated at once.

Almost all the families of the generals and soldiers of the Zheng Army are in Luoyang City, and now the wives and children of the families are in the hands of the Qin army, where do they still have any military morale.

Besides, defeating Li Mi, they themselves suffered a lot of casualties, and they were already exhausted from galloping back and forth.

At dusk, Pei Renji and Wei Wensheng actually led 10,000 horses from Yanshi and stationed outside the south gate of Luoyang City, flanking Wang Shichong.

Early the next morning, Lai Cheng and Bing Yuanzhen led another 10,000 people from the direction of Luokou.

What's even worse is that the confrontation lasted until the afternoon.

Wang Bodang in Jinyong City, on the mountain north of Luoyang, after receiving Li Mi's letter, chose to obey the teacher's order, he ordered Kaicheng to surrender to Laicheng, and handed over more than 20,000 Wei troops and Jinyongcheng under his command to Laicheng, he took a team of personal soldiers to Fanyang to defect to the teacher Li Mi.

At this time, the Qin army's power in Luoyang increased greatly.

Zhang Zhongjian guarded Luoyang City with the Red Gun Society and other Henan rebels.

Pei Xingyan led thousands of elite Qin troops and 20,000 righteous troops to camp in Xiyuan Yicheng in the west of Luoyang City.

Pei Renji and Wei Wensheng, two veterans, led more than 10,000 men and horses to camp in the south of Luoyang City.

And then Cheng and Bing Yuanzhen led 10,000 people to the north of Luoyang, and after receiving 20,000 horses from Wang Bodang, they were stationed in Jinyong City.

Luoyang City was guarded by the Qin army like an iron bucket.

Wang Shichong's 60,000 horses didn't even have a numerical advantage at this time.

The Qin army was not in a hurry to attack him, but only guarded Luoyang.

Wang Shichong knew what they were waiting for, they were waiting for Luo Cunxiao.

Luo Cheng's brother, Luo Cunxiao, the envoy of Shandong Jiedu, led a large army to Luoyang.

"King Zheng, Luo Cunxiao has passed the Tiger Prison Pass, and the forward 10,000 elite horsemen are less than a hundred miles away."

Hearing the news, Wang Shichong couldn't help but report it.

Luo Cunxiao came too quickly.

Yesterday, he stormed one day, and he didn't even touch Luoyang City, and today the Qin army has several reinforcements, and it is even more impossible for him to capture Luoyang.

"Withdraw!"

"King Zheng, where are you going?"

"Retreat west!"

Wang Shichong could only grit his teeth and say, although even his eldest son and wife and concubine fell into the hands of the Qin army, Wang Shichong was not unwilling to surrender.

There are still 60,000 horses in his hand, he still wants to fight again, he is not Li Mi, and he will surrender to Qin as soon as he is defeated.

If he was Li Mi, he would not have insisted on it for a few years until now.

Wang Shichong hurriedly withdrew his troops to the west, the west had been captured by Li Mi before, fortunately at this time Li Mi surrendered to Qin, and the Wei generals in the western counties were also panicked.

And no one came out of the city to intercept them.

It has been withdrawn to the westernmost Shaanxi County of Henan Province, to the north is the east of the Yellow River, and to the west is the Guanzhong separated by Tongguan.

"Take Shaanxi County first!"

Wang Shichong looked at the city of Shaanxi, which was garrisoned by only a thousand people, and ordered the siege of the city.

The guard general of Shaanxi County was only a general under Li Mi, who used to be a bandit who occupied the mountain as the king, and then led his troops to vote for Li Mi.

Now seeing Wang Shichong's tens of thousands of troops attacking, he couldn't figure out what the situation was, so he simply opened the city and surrendered.

After occupying Shaanxi County, Wang Shichong thought about it, but he was still unwilling.

So Wang Shichong hurriedly wrote a letter, but asked Li Yuan of Chang'an in Guanzhong for help.

He had no choice but to write to Li Yuan, saying that he was willing to serve the Son of Heaven of Chang'an as orthodox.

said a lot of flattering words to Li Yuan, saying nothing more than if Luo Cunxiao took the opportunity to occupy Luoyang and then sweep Henan, then the next one would be Guanzhong.

So now when he hurriedly sends troops to grab Henan and Luoyang, he Wang Shichong is willing to be the vanguard.

Stationed at Tongguan was Li Yuan's clan cousin Li Shentong, who was named Zheng Guogong and guarded Tongguan.

After receiving Wang Shichong's letter, he did not dare to delay and hurriedly sent a fast horse to Chang'an.

Changan.

After receiving Wang Shichong's letter, Tang King Li Yuan couldn't help but be shocked.

He didn't expect that the situation in the Central Plains would change so quickly and so greatly. Li Mi and Wang Shichong, the sworn enemies, fought hard for three years, and no one could help anyone.

But now Li Mi has actually descended to Qin?

Wang Shichong also lost Luoyang to vote.

Li Yuan hurriedly summoned a group of henchmen.

"I didn't expect Luo Cheng's means to be so good, and he actually let him quietly seize Xingyang and steal Luoyang."

"Prime Minister, since Wang Shichong has lost Luoyang to vote, then we will accept it, not only to accept it, but also to send troops out of the customs to capture Luoyang, Henan."

Everyone understands the truth of cold lips and teeth.

"But now the main force of our army is in Pizhou." Li Yuan said worriedly.

"Your Majesty, Zhao Guogong has been confronting Xue Rengao in Pizhou for more than a month, and now Xue Rengao's 200,000 army is approaching food and grass, and it is not far from collapse. I can no longer pose any threat to Chang'an, I thought that I could draw the troops of Qizhou to the east, merge the troops of the two states of Hua, and go out of Tongguan. ”

Prime Minister's Mansion Governor Shi Pei said.

"In case Pei Rengao doesn't collapse and Erlang can't resist it, then Jingxi will have no troops to stop the soldiers and horses of Western Qin, and Chang'an will be in danger at that time." Li Yuan said worriedly.

In any case, it is always a fact that Xue Rengao gathered 200,000 troops in Jingzhou, and Jingzhou is only 300 miles away from Chang'an.

"Your Majesty, there is Zhao Guogong in Pizhou, and there are 60,000 troops in Pizhou, and he will definitely be able to protect the western part of Beijing, and he will never let the Western Qin army go any further. Now the key is still the land of Kanto, if Luo Chengcheng occupies Luoyang like this and takes Henan, then the imperial court is in danger. ”

Everyone persuaded Li Yuan to send troops to rescue Wang Shichong.

I thought about it for a long time.

Li Yuan asked the eldest son to build.

"Da Lang, what do you think?"

"Father, my son thinks that he should be saved, not only will he be saved, but he will also have to fight for Henan with all his might. Now Luo Cheng's Shandong and Fan Yang are still separated by Dou Jiande, and his Shandong troops are not strong, if he is allowed to destroy Dou Jiande and go south to join Shandong, then he will be able to compete with him if he moves westward, and he must seize the opportunity. ”

Li Jiancheng's words made Li Yuan make up his mind.

"Okay, then I will build it as the Shangshu Order of Taixing, the Great Xing of Eastern Shaanxi Province, and the Marshal of the Eastern Expedition. Li Shentong was awarded the title of secretary of the military department of Daxing Taiwan in eastern Shaanxi Province, and concurrently served as the chief of the marching army. Wang Shichong was awarded the title of deputy marshal of the Eastern Expedition and worshiped the king of Henan County. ”

"Then with the order of the imperial court, Zhao Yang Yichen Xiao Yu led the army south, jointly attacked the puppet Qin army, and recovered Henan and Luoyang."