On a hot summer day, the Yellow River roared, the wind was whistling, Xu Shiji stood on the south bank, and in the telescope, he had already seen the cavalry of the Tang Army on the north bank shuttling on the river bank, and in the empty fields, the banner of the Tang Army was fluttering. The sweat had already soaked Xu Shiji's clothes, but the officers and men of the Hexi Army, who were also hot and dry, were still standing on the shore, with obvious unwillingness; Most of these are veterans who have followed Xu Shiji since Wagang, except for Li Mi's defeat in Luoyang, they have not suffered such defeats.

Li Wenxiang said unconvinced: "If it weren't for the order of Yue Guogong to transfer the people, we would not have lost so quickly." ”

Xu Shiji put down the binoculars and said: "If you lose your land, you will lose your land." If people lose land, people and land will survive. Li Shimin has three times more troops than us, so what about fighting for an extra month? Now it depends on whether Li Shimin can gnaw Yang Yanshi's stone, as long as Yang Yanshi can bite the Tang army, the final victory will be ours. Don't get tangled, get the people to safety quickly, so that we can concentrate on fighting. ”

After Xu Shiji had moved all the ships to the south bank of the Yellow River, he issued an order to summon the 5,000 Zuo Imperial Guards who had escorted the people back to Henan County to return to the camp, and Liu Ya's more than 4,000 people and 5,000 people of the Yellow River Navy were still helping the people near the river bank to leave, and it would take about two days, and it was estimated that after three days, the men and horses would be able to arrive, and then they could prepare to rely on the convenience of the naval army to wait for the opportunity to fight again according to the progress of the war in Heyang.

The Tang army even Keweizhou, Liyang, Huazhou and other places, the army approached Hanoi County, and the cities of Qizhou, Jeju and Yanzhou in Shandong responded one after another, and for a time north of the Yellow River, the banner of the Tang army was checked. When the news reached Chang'an, it was said that Yuan Wei's pen fell to the ground, how many people were panicked, and how many people laughed in their hearts; The Yang Tong brothers and Li Tang seemed to have started to move. After the political affairs hall discussed, Yang Chong only sent Kou Jiuhui to labor the army with money and money, and gave Xu Shiji an order to fight again with the whole division.

Kou Jiuhui's convoy had not yet left Beijing, and Yang Chong now ordered a banquet to be held in the main hall, in addition to the court kabuki of the music fang, but also the families of the captured concubines Li Yuan and Li Jiancheng and others to perform songs and dances; Anyone can see that Yang Chong is venting a bad breath in his heart. The situation is stronger than people, and most of the captured concubines agreed, including Li Shimin's wife, Guanyin; Guanyin wanted to seek death at first, but the eldest grandson Wunai came forward and said for a long time, using Li Shimin's son as a threat, so that her sister Guanyin nodded and agreed.

Abnormality is a demon, Yang Chong has gone from being bad at singing and dancing to today's exaggerated feast, which is very much Cao Cao's heroic meaning back then, and it is clearly pretending to be relaxed and hiding people's eyes; At the beginning of the feast, due to the urgency of the military situation, Yang Chong did not come, only Yuan Wei, Du Yan and others attended, and the Chang'an magnates watched the performance of Guanyin and others, talking about Yang Chong's helplessness, and their hearts were as happy as eating ice on dog days.

A small rumor circulated at the banquet that Yang Chong allowed Li Xiuning to attend the Duan family's family banquet, and he was afraid that he would have to negotiate with Li Tang; This is the favorite situation of the elites, and only peace talks can make profits without bloodshed. Yang Chong deliberately slapped Li Yuan's father and son in the face, and he may not have the idea of forcing the opponent to bow his head.

Li Xiujing wrote a letter to Duan Lun on the condition that Li Xiuning go to a family banquet with Gongsun Huilan as an accompaniment, and Duan's mansion was very busy, and the sisters hugged and cried. Speaking of the news that Li Shimin hit the Yellow River, Li Xiuning's face did not show the joy of everyone's hope, but a faint layer of sadness, and said thoughtfully: "No wonder Yang Chong held a banquet in the palace today, and promised me to come to the banquet. ”

Li Xiujing asked curiously, "Isn't Yang Chong ready to negotiate peace?" ”

Li Xiuning shook his head and said, "Yang Chong is not ready to go to Luoyang, which shows that he is full of confidence in Xu Shiji. Heyang Cang transferred Yang Yanshi's Hubu battalion, plus Song Jingang's first guard army horses, Xu Shiji's 50,000 army on the south bank of the Yellow River, and Shimin's 100,000 army could not have an absolute advantage. In this case, the people of the world had to attack Heyangcang and consume their troops. ”

Gongsun Huilan agreed: "I heard that when Xu Shiji retreated, the grain in Liyang Cang had been almost consumed, and Xu Shiji arranged for the people to retreat into Hanoi County, and Liyang and Huazhou were equivalent to strong walls and clear fields. The reason why Shimin went south was to hope to solve the food crisis, and Heyang was the place where Xu Shiji chose to fight a decisive battle. ”

Zheng Yuanshou arrived in a hurry, Li Tang's old ministers could still be officials in Chang'an, as one of the nine Qings, Zheng Yuanshou came at night It was even more unusual, Li Xiujing hurriedly invited. Zheng Yuanshou hurriedly came in, and when he met, he said: "A new battle report was read out at the banquet just now, the Tang army supporting Shandong was defeated by Luo Shixin, 20,000 allied troops were killed in six or seven, Yu Yun was killed, Li Yiman, Li Junqiu and his son were captured and were shown to the public in front of the battle, and the Hexi army began to attack Pingling. ”

Li Xiuning was agitated, and said in a lost voice: "Pingling and the Hexi Army do not have a border, Luo Shixin suddenly killed under Pingling City, Fan Yuan, Meng Qigui, Jiang Shanhe and they must have had an accident." Yang Chong is so poisonous, he released the news of the banquet in the hall in advance, just to provoke the second brother and let the second brother enter the trap they designed. ”

During the Three Kingdoms, Wei and Shu confronted each other, and the Shu army hoped for a quick victory, so Zhuge Liang, the prime minister of Shu, gave Sima Yi, the chief general of the Wei army, a woman's clothes, wanting to provoke Sima Yi to fight angrily. Sima Yi put his clothes aside, chatted with the Shu envoy calmly, and learned that Zhuge Liang "eats three or four liters of rice, and more than twenty fines are self-reflective", and immediately concluded: "There are few things to eat, and Zhuge Kongming can last a long time!" ”

But Li Shimin is not a cunning and wolf-like person like Sima Yi, even if he is an invincible general on the battlefield, he is still young in many aspects, especially good-looking; Yang Chong's hand can be said to be hitting Li Shimin's soft underbelly, and he also told his generals that he, Yang Chong, would never negotiate with Li Tang, and only the two sides would fight to the end. Zheng Yuanshou and the others immediately figured it out, what Yang Chong did in Chang'an was an illusion, and when the knife was revealed, it was endless killing intent.

Gongsun Huilan comforted: "Luo Shixin is from Qi County, maybe he secretly passed through the county." ”

Gongsun Huilan said that she didn't believe it, even if Luo Shixin had this idea, Li Jing and Qu Tutong would not agree, and what could be proved could only be the battle situation behind. The battle reports came day after day, and Gongsun Huilan could only accompany Li Xiujing to drink tea in the room depressedly.

Li Yiman's nephew Li Wuyi guarded Pingling for four days, and was blown up by the Hexi army, Luo Shixin and Wang Bo killed into the city, all the resisters were killed, and the Li family was destroyed. Jiang Shanhe, who occupied Yunzhou, ambushed and killed the fierce general Meng Qigui of Caozhou who echoed Li Shimin, and after Meng Yi received a letter from his father Meng Hai, he offered Caozhou City to surrender to Wang Yaohan, the general of Zuo Xiaowei, and took refuge in Chang'an.

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