Yang Chong immediately ordered to appoint Yao Junsu as the general of the Marquis of Zuoyu, Wu Duan'er as the general of the Marquis of Youyu, Wang Hua as the general of the left prison gate, and Lu Zushang as the general of the right prison gate, and ordered Wang Hua and Lu Zushang to serve in Luoyang. Everyone understood that Yang Chong was paving the way for a war with Li Tang, Wang Hua and Lu Zushang both expressed their gratitude, but refused to go to the post; Du Fuwei sent troops from Huiji, and Li Jing sent troops from Wu County to start the crusade.

Wang Hua personally led his troops to resist Du Fuwei in Shezhou, Wang Xiongdan sent elite troops to ambush between the valleys, and he led thousands of weak soldiers to attack Wang Hua, and retreated to the base camp after a short battle. Wang Hua didn't know what to attack, the soldiers resisted desperately, to prevent Wang Hua from attacking the camp, Wang Hua couldn't attack for a long time, and at this time the Jianghuai elite soldiers who were ambushed in the valley had already occupied the entrance of the cave, Wang Hua was in a dilemma, and had to surrender in embarrassment, Du Fuwei captured Shezhou, Xuanzhou, and Hangzhou.

Fu Gongqi returned to Danyang, served as the commander of Li Jing's former army, repelled the thieves Feng Huiliang and Chen Zhengtong, and occupied Raozhou; Wang Hua agreed to go to Luoyang to take office, and ordered Muzhou and Wuzhou to surrender. Wang Hua arrived in Luoyang to serve as the general of the left prison gate and the prince of Rao Guogong, and the left and right prison gates were in charge of the palace access control, but they did not control the government soldiers, and there were prison generals below to do specific things, and the so-called prison gate generals were in vain; But Wang Hua understands that the defeat and surrender of the army are completely different from the beginning of taking office.

Lu Zushang of Yiyang County announced his submission to Li Yuan and appointed Li Tang Guangzhou Assassin Shi and Yiyang County Duke; Li Jing ordered Danyang County to guard Kan Ling out of Hefei, Bozhou Assassin Shi Ding Shu to go out of Huainan, Weizhou Assassin Shi Shi Derui to go to Xinyang, Huyalang to send Dong Jun out of Nanyang, and the four-way army besieged Lu Zushang. Lu Zushang successively repelled Ding Shuze and Shi Derui, and the tired soldiers were defeated by Kan Ling, and lost all the mall, Jinzhai and other places; The Tang army reinforced in two directions, Zhou Faming and Li Shuliang were blocked in Tong'an and Nanyang respectively, and after Lu Zushang lost Huangchuan, in order to avoid his hometown falling into war, he took the initiative to abandon Guangxian and led more than 1,000 soldiers to flee into Dabie Mountain.

Yang Chong ordered the front-line soldiers to be commended, agreed with the suggestions of Li Jing and Du Fuwei, and ordered Fu Gongyou to be the county guard of Danyang, Dong Jun to be the county guard of Yiyang, Shi Derui to be reappointed to Huainan County, Wang Xiongdan to be reappointed as Xuancheng County guard, and Kan Ling to be reappointed as Lujiang County guard. Li Jing moved the battalion to Chaohu, with Chen Ling and Kan Ling as the governors of the left and right of the navy, and trained the 40,000 sailors gathered from various counties; The defense of the south bank of the Yangtze River was all handled by Wang Xiongdan.

The situation in the south immediately became tense, and Li Yuan took Li Xiaogong as the head of the naval division and mobilized 70,000 troops to sit in Yuzhang; The crown prince Li Jiancheng is also the assassin of Jingzhou, commanding an army of 100,000 and responsible for the front-line defense of Xiangyang. After the reinforcements arrived, Li Jiancheng and Qin Qiong quickly went north, fought a victorious battle, and occupied Dengzhou; This is Qin Qiong's idea, the Hexi army regards the people and food as the focus of survival, and chooses to send troops after the autumn harvest, it is when the Hexi army is busy, and the fly in the ointment is that the guard general Huyalang will Qian Jie fled with the army.

Li Jiancheng rejected Li Yuan's request to continue to go north, the 100,000 army looks vigorous, but in fact, most of them are new soldiers, and the weapons are not complete, even in the face of Yang Gongqing's 30,000 Hexi Army's main force, whether they can win or not is in two words, otherwise they will not be killed out of the encirclement by Chen Zhiluo. In case on the way north, Yang Chong smashed tens of thousands of cavalry to kill him, and attacked Yang Gongqing back and forth, and the 100,000 army was afraid that it would be more than lucky.

In the face of Li Tang's scorching pressure, the normal transfer of the Hexi Army was still necessary, and this time it was Jiang Duo's Zuo Yiwei who rotated to fight, Yang Chong took Jiang Duo and Yang Gongqing as the main and deputy generals, and Wang Ji went to Nanyang as the military division. On the seventh day of martial law in Chang'an City, Zuo Yiwei's army drove out of Chang'an and went all the way to the south, but turned westward at the fork in the road, turned into the mountainous area of Xugu County, and entered Luogu Road; Jiang Duo only announced at this time that the army was going to attack Hanzhong through a total of 400 miles of Luogushui and Fushui River valleys.

Luogu Road has been broken for a hundred years, because the mountain collapsed, and the market on the way has become deserted and inhabited, only during the period when hunters and medicine pickers come and go. Chen Zhiluo and Zen Master, Feng Qicheng with 3,000 Lingnan soldiers and wingmen who are accustomed to walking in the mountains have already explored the way in front, and the two desperate roads have been blown out of the passage with explosives, and many places have used cement and trestle to get out, and the 25,000 horse infantry army of Zuo Yiwei led by Jiang Duo stumbled in this way, rested for a day in a small basin halfway, and walked 400 miles in 12 days, and appeared in front of the pass of Xingshi County.

According to the usual practice, the five hundred defenders defending the city were still ready to do a big job at Chengguan, but Zuo Yiwei released twenty airships, and the explosion of the thunder quickly left the city tower undefended, and Chen Zhiluo led people to attack the city tower. The exit of the Meridian Valley is not far from Xingshi County, Jiang Duo did not rush to attack the city and seize the land, in addition to ordering Yuwen Chengdu to take the two counties of Xingshi and Jinjin, he led the main force to quickly eliminate the four thousand defenders and open up the Meridian Road.

Qinling six roads, meridian is king, from Guanzhong through Qinling to the southwest there are mainly six avenues, all in the Qinling Mountains and deep valleys, the meridian road in the meridian valley starts from Duling, is a steep fortress that has been planned many times but has never succeeded. Duan Lun arranged heavy troops to defend the front line of Dongjiaoling Pass and Tielu Town, but unfortunately he was stabbed in the back by Jiang Duo, and everything came to naught; The five thousand suspicious soldiers led by Zhuge Quan's faction Dong Axing were taken out of the Meridian Valley in this way.

Duan Lun, the governor of Li Tang Yizhou, commanded 30,000 Tang troops to meet the battle, but he still failed to block the bombardment of airships and heavenly thunder, and was defeated by Jiang Duo, losing more than 10,000 soldiers; The Hexi Army successively captured the entire territory of Hanchuan County, including Shiquan, Nanzheng, Hanyin, Ankang, Xixiang and Yangyuan Military Town. Duan Lun retreated to Yangchuan County, while mobilizing reinforcements from Yuzhong, Jiange, and Shunzheng County, and on the other hand, he quickly sent a message to Li Yuanji in Chengdu, asking for reinforcements.

When Li Tang's chief general Longyou Dao appeased the ambassador Guo Xingfang, when he received Duan Lun's letter, Xue Ju's rebel generals Zhong Juqiu and Chipai Qiang had already gone south from Di Dao and were attacking Gansong County together. Guo Xingfang asked Wei Qingjian, the general of the fat cavalry, to allocate materials and the army to prepare reinforcements for Hanzhong, and he led 10,000 troops to Gansong County; Zhong Juqiu's coalition army, numbering about 8,000 men, fought the Tang army for three hours before fleeing to the north.

Guo Xingfang wanted to give these Qiang people a little color, and ordered a pursuit of fifty miles, obtaining more than 2,000 war horses, cattle and sheep, and a lot of supplies; The Tang army drove the cattle and sheep, and returned to the city victoriously, and the formation was chaotic along the way, and when Guo Xingfang found that the scouts on the northwest road did not return on time, the arrows on the side of the road rained down, and more than 10,000 Hexi troops suddenly killed. The Tang army was caught off guard, Guo Xingfang organized two counterattacks, all of which were defeated by the other party, but fortunately, the defenders of Gansong County came out and saved Guo Xingfang out.

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