Henan, Jinyong City.

Kim Yong Castle was built during the reign of Emperor Ming of the Three Kingdoms, and the emperor and queen who were deposed during the Wei and Jin dynasties were all placed here. The city is small and solid, and it is important to defend the important place in order to attack the old place. In the early years of the Northern Wei Dynasty, it was one of the "Four Towns of Henan". After the city of Luoyang moved west, Kim was in the east of Luoyang.

Since Li Mi defeated Wang Shichong in Luoshui, the Wei army marched into Jinyong City, which was only a few dozen miles away from the eastern capital Luoyang. As a result, the shouts and war drums of more than 300,000 Wei troops every day can be clearly transmitted into the eastern capital, and the people in the eastern capital are panicked.

At this time, it was almost late at night, and the marshal's mansion in Jinyong City was still brightly lit, with three steps and one post, five steps and one sentry, and the Wei army patrols coming and going could be seen everywhere.

Six-year-old Li Mi, who is Chinese New Year's Eve today, has a Chinese face, with a sharp and square forehead, revealing that his shrewd pupils are black and white.

Li Mi was born in a top family in Guanlong, and his great-grandfather was one of the Eight Pillars of the Western Wei Dynasty, Situ, Taishi, and Li Bi, the Duke of Wei, who could be said to be behind the high gate. His grandfather, Li Yao, was the Taibao and Xing Guogong of the Northern Zhou Dynasty. His father, Li Kuan, was a famous general of the Sui Dynasty, and he was appointed as the Duke of Pushan County.

In the emperor's reign, Li Mi attacked his father, the duke of Pushan County, and immediately distributed family property, relieved relatives and friends, adopted guests, courteously treated talents, and never spared his own assets. Later, he folded the soldier to read, especially the military book, and could often recite it.

Li Mi is very studious, and has studied under Dr. Bao Kai of Taixue, Dr. Xu Wenyuan of Guozi, etc., and Wang Shichong is the same brother. Once, Li Mi was sitting on an ox cart while reading on the road, and was bumped into by Yang Su, so he was appreciated by him, so that his son Yang Xuangan tried his best to marry Li Mi as a brother with a different surname.

At the beginning of the great cause, he relied on his father's shadow to serve as the governor of the Zuo Qinwei Mansion and the Donggong Qianniu. However, because Emperor Yang of Sui did not like him, he was driven out of the system, so that Li Mi lost the opportunity to be promoted from within the system. As a result, Li Mi had to go home to continue studying, and thus buried his dissatisfaction with Da Sui.

Later, when Yang Xuangan was in the second expedition of Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty to Goguryeo, he raised troops against the Sui in Liyang, the transit station of grain and ordnance, and Li Mi immediately went to defect, and offered three strategies: the upper strategy was to attack Zhuo County, hold Linyu Pass, cut off the retreat of the Eastern Expeditionary Army, and disperse the hundreds of thousands of Sui troops outside the pass; The middle strategy is to directly capture Chang'an, occupy Guanzhong, get the support of the family, and take the old road of the Eastern and Western Wei Dynasty; The next strategy was to approach the eastern capital and attack Luoyang, the capital of the Great Sui.

Originally, the best strategy was a strange strategy, as long as the troops were raised quickly and the sneak attack was successful, there was no need to attack fortified cities such as Luoyang and Daxing, which could directly lead to the collapse of the Great Sui Field War Army, and collect a large number of surrendered troops and generals, and even the head of Emperor Yang of Sui.

But Yang Xuangan used the next policy, because he thought that Li Mi's next policy was the best policy, and he thought that if he broke through Luoyang and could control the families of hundreds of officials, this was the safest way to take the world.

Luoyang, the eastern capital, is a newly built fortified city built by Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, known as the first fortified city of the Great Sui, and there are big killing weapons such as eight-bow crossbows and cannon flying stones, as well as the old and strong butcher Fan Zigai, Yang Xuangan's plan will not succeed after all.

After Yang Xuangan's defeat and death, Li Mi was captured, but he used money to bribe the guards and allow them to eat and drink every night and enjoy the last of their lives, so Li Mi took the opportunity to gouge through the wall with his accomplices and escaped.

After escaping, Li Mi first threw himself into the plains bandit Hao Xiaode, but Hao Xiaode didn't take Li Mi seriously, so Li Mi left.

On the way to escape, there was nothing to eat, so he peeled wood to eat, and there was no money to spend, so Li Mi assumed the name Liu Zhiyuan and went to take the students to support themselves.

This period of time was the most impoverished moment in Li Mi's life, and it made him write a five-word poem "Huaiyang Feelings" that directly expressed his heart:

The golden wind swings in the early festival, and the jade dew withers the late forest. On this night, the poor Tushi, Yu Tao was sad. The wild flat is full of reeds, and the village is barren and deep. Listen to a lot of feelings, and lean on alone. What to do, nostalgic for the past. Qin customs are still unsettled, what will the Han Dao do? Fan Hao is a disciple of the market, and Xiao He is a pen officer. Once the fortune will be passed down through the ages. Sending a message to the world, it is really shameful to be born in vain!

Later, he was denounced, Huaiyang County Shou Zhao Tuo went to arrest him, Li Minai escaped, and went to his brother-in-law, Yongqiu Lingqiu Junming's house, looking for the local hero Wang Jicai's family, Wang Daxia respected Li Mi and took his wife.

Soon, Li Mi's whereabouts were reported by Qiu Junming's subordinate Qiu Huaiyi, resulting in Qiu Junming, Wang Daxia, and Li Mi's wife and children being executed together, and only Li Mi survived.

At this time, not far from Yongqiu, there was a place called Wagang, and the big boss at that time was called Zhai Rang, and Shan Xiongxin, Xu Shiji and others were fellow villagers, and they developed by plundering the Tongji Canal. Subsequently, Li Mi left for Wagangzhai and defected to Zhai Rang.

Li Mi not only gave advice to Zhai Rang and persuaded many small village owners to come to defect, but also designed to trap and kill Zhang Xutuo, a famous general of the Sui army and the guard of Xingyang, so that the Wagang army became famous!

Subsequently, Li Mixing's troops broke through Xingluocang, recruited troops with scattered grain, built the Pushan public camp, and obtained his own descendants. Li Mizhi's army was extremely strict, and although the order was issued in the summer, the soldiers felt like frost. However, every time Li Mi won a battle, he distributed the spoils of war to his subordinates, and the soldiers were willing to serve him.

Later, Li Mi repeatedly defeated Liu Changgong, the Sui general of the "Transport Captain", updated the equipment of a wave of troops, and then broke through the first granary of the Great Sui - Huiluocang, and won millions of people, and selected 8,000 of them, called the Inner Horse Army, Ziyun "These 8,000 people can be a million." ”

At the same time, locally, such as Shi Chai Xiaohe, the magistrate of Gong County, Henan, Shi Zhengyi, the imperial servant, Pei Renji, the ambassador of Henan Province, the treasure of Chengyuan of Wuyang County, Zhao Tuo, the governor of Huaiyang County, and Zhou Faming, the governor of Huangzhou, surrendered one after another, resulting in the land of Henan except for a corner of the eastern capital, only Yang Qing, the Taishou of Xingyang, and Yang Wang, the county guard of Liangjun, are still holding the city, and the rest of the land has been owned by Li Mi.

The rebels from all over the country, such as: Waihuang Wang Dangren, Jiyang Wang Bodang, Weicheng Zhou Wenju, Yongqiu Li Gongyi, Changbai Mountain Meng Rang, Liyang Li Wenxiang, Huanshui Zhang Sheng, Qinghe Zhao Junde, Pingyuan Hao Xiaode, Qi County Xu Yuanlang, Rencheng County Xu Shiren, Qiaojun Heishe, Baishe, Jibei Zhang Qingte, Shangluo Zhou Bitao, Hu Donkey Thief, etc., responded one after another, making the power of the Wagang Army stronger and stronger.

Later, it was the tug-of-war between Li Mi and Wang Shichong, two brothers in the same sect, the two sides fought back and forth, back and forth, Wang Shichong killed Li Mi's Chai Xiaohe, Li Mi also beheaded Wang Shichong's general Fei Qingnu, the two sides fought hundreds of times, and there was still no winner or loser. Until the eighteenth year of the Great Cause, in March, Li Mi broke Wang Shichong in Luoshui and stationed in Jinyong City, so far, Li Mi's power has reached its peak!

Before this, Li Mi and Zhai Rang began to be suspicious and suspicious of each other because of various reasons such as their status, power, money and interests. In the end, Li Mi was anti-guest-oriented, invited the Wagang family to sit at the banquet, asked Zhai Rang to try the bow, and took the opportunity to ambush the troops, and killed Zhai Rang and his relatives, as well as his cronies Wang Ruxin on the spot, the general Xu Shiji was seriously injured, and Shan Xiongxin and Bing Yuanzhen were forced to kneel and surrender!

Fang Yanzao once said that Shan Xiongxin and Bing Yuanzhen were really easy to go, and persuaded Li Mi to kill the two. But Li Mi loved his talents, and Haosheng appeased the two, with Shan Xiongxin as the commander of the Waima Army, and Bing Yuanzhen as the defender of Luocang City.