It is said that after Li Xuanqing and the personal guard battalion disappeared from Tongguan, they began to march towards Taiyuan Mansion along the secret passage opened up by Xuanyingwei.

Taiyuan Mansion is the center of Li Keyong's rule, and it is also the base camp of the Shatuo people after they moved south, and the population in the city is basically dominated by the Shatuo people, and the Han people were forcibly driven to the surrounding towns in the early years, so it is much more difficult for Xuan Yingwei to arrange the shadows in the city of Taiyuan Mansion, but fortunately, after the Shatuo people entered the city, their lives were corrupted quickly, and a lot of chores needed to be done, so a part of the Han people lived at the bottom.

After Li Xuanqing's departure, Hu Xiaosi also set out from Fengzhou and joined the large army east of Cizhou. Since the Guards Battalion was advancing in batches, Li Xuanqing only had less than 2,000 guards and 500 Flying Eagle Brigade around him.

"Lord, you are too bold, only so many people are breaking into the thieves' den, what if this is discovered?" Hu Xiaosi asked in a rare seriousness: "You follow me on the road ahead, let's walk along the Fen River and the Wei River, and pass through the mountains on the east side of the river, so that you can directly avoid the military towns along the way and directly reach the city of Taiyuan." ”

Li Xuanqing nodded and said, "No problem, you inform the other troops that if they don't find the way, they will follow the path you said, and we will meet in Taiyuan City." ”

After several people discussed the marching route, Hu Xiaosi led Xuan Yingwei's people in front to lead the way. The road he chose was naturally secluded and uninhabited, but it was rugged and difficult to walk, and there were no roads at all in many places, and the personal guard battalion was still a full cavalry unit, and this time it was secluded, but the speed slowed down. Hu Xiaosi said with a smile as he walked: "Lord, this road is still the one that Xuan Yingwei demarcated when he was from Hedong to the private entrance, and then it was not used, now let's go first." ”

Before Li Xuanqing could speak, Su Xiaohu next to him carefully led his war horse across a mountain stream, and said with a wry smile: "Boss, I thought that you were here and we could have a free time in the Bingzhou area, but I didn't expect to take this ghost road, most of the day has passed, and we have walked through a few ravines." If you continue like this, when will you be able to get to Taiyuan? ”

Before he finished speaking, Hu Xiaosi said dissatisfiedly: "Stupid, you have been wandering in Bingzhou for a few months, don't you know if we are going in a straight line like this?" It's the closest road, and it's autumn and winter, so it's safe and fast, you know? ”

"Okay, don't make any noise, just go as Xiaosi said, there is no road in this world, and when there are more people, it becomes a road." Li Xuanqing stopped the two from pinching each other, casually said the famous aphorisms of later generations, and said with a smile: "According to our progress, we should be able to walk out of the river valley and enter the plain area in five days." Little four, you have planted people in the Fenhe Plain. ”

Hu Xiaosi walked to the side of the creek and took a sip of water casually, smashed his mouth and said: "Don't worry, my lord, Taiyuan Mansion is in the northeast section of the Fen River, and we should be Fenzhou after we get out of the river valley, Fenzhou is located in the southwest of Taiyuan Mansion, and it is also the last barrier of Taiyuan Mansion, I think we can try to take Fenzhou directly, and then rely on the advantage of cavalry, we can reach Taiyuan City in one day." In this way, the momentum is very loud. ”

Li Xuanqing took the map and compared it with Hu Xiaosi's words, nodded and said with a smile: "If you want to take Fenzhou, it's not a big problem if you have the intention to take it down, Taiyuan Mansion didn't think that it could be defeated, but if we take Fenzhou, we can also get a resting place, and wait quietly for Li Cunjin to return to the army to fight us." ”

"I heard that Fenzhou's Fenjiu is very famous, let's try it when the time comes, and then take some out to sell." Hu Xiaosi's throat aroused the greed of these guys, and his pace was faster unconsciously.

When Li Xuanqing's side was secretly advancing, Chen Fan of the northern line had already contacted An Xiuxiu, and asked him to make the necessary preparations, so that the contact between all parties was completed at this moment. After An Xiuxiu got the news, he also seized the time to arrange, and even secretly deployed defenses in the Daizhou generation, prohibiting Li Cunjin's men and horses from entering Daizhou on the grounds that the chaotic party in Daizhou had not been cleared, forcing a detour to Daizhou to Yunzhou for the generation. He also sent someone to contact Gao Siji and asked him to return to Daizhou from the Shandong front line when necessary, and work with him on the plan arranged by the Tiance Army.

For An Xiuxiu, in addition to avenging Li Cunxiao, it is more of a life-saving move to cooperate with the Tiance Army, and he and Gao Siji have too much of Li Cunxiao's imprint, since Li Cunxiao has been executed, then the ending for himself and Gao Siji will not be too good. The two of them were originally generals who relied on Li Cunxiao's personal charm and martial arts to subdue him, and they didn't have much loyalty to Li Keyong, and their loyalty to Li Keyong was more because Li Cunxiao was loyal to Li Keyong.

Therefore, after arranging these, An Xiuxiu also secretly contacted those rebel armies outside the city, and this rebel army controlled by Xuan Yingwei was connected to An Xiuxiu, which meant that the arrangement of the Tiance Army in the Daizhou generation was truly combined.

At this time, Li Xuanqing from the outside world has no way to understand them one by one for the time being, but if all the arrangements before he left are completed, it means that this battle has entered a decisive game. So after five or six days of hard travel in the valley and mountain roads, the group finally saw the dawn. According to the Xuanyingwei guide, after crossing the mountains in front of him, he had already entered the Fenhe Plain.

Li Xuanqing arranged for people to rest here for a night, and sent people to ask the follow-up people to speed up and come to converge. Early the next morning, the whole army began to march towards Fenzhou City in disguise. Since no one could have imagined that these people would be able to break through all the way to the hinterland of Bingzhou along the river valley mountain road, the Jin army guards in Fenzhou had no defense at all, and after the Flying Eagle Brigade entered the city, a killing began.

Because the attack on Fenzhou was only a temporary idea, and there were not many people in the guard battalion that followed this road, so after entering Fenzhou City, Li Xuanqing directly ordered that all the Jin soldiers who resisted were directly killed on the spot, and at the same time let the follow-up men and horses cooperate with Xuanyingwei to block the four gates, strictly prohibit the news from spreading, and turned Fenzhou City into a stuffy gourd, and it took a whole day for the personal guard battalion of more than 10,000 people to clean up the remnants of the Jin army in the city and completely take over the city defense. In order to hide people's eyes, the banner of Fenzhou has not changed, and the banner of the Jin army is still hung.

After doing all this, Xuan Yingwei began to urgently contact the local branch personnel, and separately notified the other pro-guard battalions, and after leaving a small number of people to prevent the Han people in Fenzhou from assisting in the defense, Li Xuanqing and Hu Xiaosi led the main force to start galloping out of the city along the road leading to Taiyuan Mansion. This time, there is no longer a need to hide people's eyes and ears, and the banner is directly displayed, and there are follow-up guards from other paths on the road to converge, from Fenzhou to Taiyuan Mansion in just one day, the men and horses of the guard battalion have basically been assembled.

"Lord, why don't you let me and Feixue take command, showing off my strength is my forte, and it just so happens that I am also addicted to leading soldiers." Seeing the city wall of Taiyuan City in the distance, Hu Xiaosi smiled on the horse.

Li Xuanqing glanced at him and said with a smile: "If you want to go, you can go, but don't play really, we don't have the capital to capture Taiyuan City, and that doesn't meet our purpose." ”

"Don't worry, my lord, I'm just leading my troops to pass outside the city and confuse them." Hu Xiaosi laughed and rode his horse to chase Li Feixue, who was in the front army.

"Xiaohu, let the Flying Eagle Brigade gather, let's go into Taiyuan City separately for a walk." Li Xuanqing saw that the large army had already stepped forward, and pulled out the Chengying Sword on his body and Su Xiaohu said with a smile.

The favorite thing of the Flying Eagle Brigade is this kind of tightrope-like work, so after hearing this, one by one suddenly came to their senses, and they were divided into more than a dozen squads and disappeared into various corners. Su Xiaohu followed Li Xuanqing with a team of more than a dozen people.

"Let's go, let's see how much progress you have made in your martial arts lately." Li Xuanqing let the jade lion stay outside the city, and with one foot, he hurriedly skimmed towards Taiyuan City in front of everyone.

At this time, the action of the guard camp has also begun, Hu Xiaosi, this guy has a bad stomach, and along the way, the guard camp tied countless branches to the tail of the horse, and under the gallop of the horse, the dust was flying, and a force of thousands of troops and horses was formed to gallop towards Taiyuan City.

This scene of a large army moving instantly made the defenders of the city gate notice something unusual, and the Shatuo people knew nothing more about cavalry charges. At that moment, the city gate was hurriedly closed, and all the remaining troops climbed the city wall and waited.

"It seems that the quality of these Shatuo people is not bad. It reacted so quickly. Hu Xiaosi smiled at Li Feixue beside him: "Have the other two roads already started?" ”

"Don't worry, this time it will definitely scare them to death. Shall we make a show and attack the city? It's also a little more realistic. Li Feixue asked, for Hu Xiaosi, the intelligence leader, Li Feixue obediently gave him the command, who let this guy have a bad idea.

"It's getting dark today, so let's do it tomorrow. Let's set up camp on the spot after a round of horses, make the camp bigger, and erect flags so that the other party can see clearly, and don't really intercept them if they want to go out of the city to ventilate and report the news, the meaning will be observed. The lord has already done it with the Flying Eagle Brigade, you look at it, Taiyuan City will definitely be a mess tonight. ”

While Hu Xiaosi and Li Feixue were talking, Li Xuanqing had already gone directly to the city wall, and directly used his light skills to sweep towards the city tower in full view of everyone, not caring at all about the arrows shot from above.

"The lord is too bold, so he just went up directly?" A soldier of the Flying Eagle Brigade beside Su Xiaohu was sighing and was slapped with a melon seed, Su Xiaohu hurriedly said: "Hurry up and grab the rope thrown down by the lord, and the others will cover us to go up as soon as possible, nonsense." ”

These dozen or so people climbed up directly, and when they arrived at the city tower, they saw the corpses of the Shatuo people lying on it, and no one could approach within a distance of ten zhang around. Li Xuanqing saw that Su Xiaohu and the others had already come up, and one greeted a few people, and a harrier turned over and disappeared from the sight of others.

This chaotic change stunned the Jin soldiers in Taiyuan City, and after a period of chaos, they found that the army outside the city camped on the spot and did not attack. After arranging the defense of the city, the lord of the city sent troops to search the whole city to search for those strange people just now, and rode to the surrounding armies to report the enemy's situation, and even a team of men and horses went directly in the direction of the river.

Li Xuanqing hid on the city tower and smiled slightly after seeing the reaction of the Jin army, and then disappeared.

It's just that this night was really the same as Hu Xiaosi said, after the Flying Eagle Brigade entered the city and dispersed, it began to continuously attack various facilities in the city, either setting fire to the grain depot or attacking Li Keyong's Jin Palace, and some directly led the team to attack the camp of the garrison in the city, so that the defenders in the city could not sleep at night, like headless flies. Even Su Xiaohu led people into the mansion of the chief general, killed the guards cleanly, and a deputy general who came to report the military situation was beheaded.

This unscrupulous approach also made the main general creepy and at the same time firmly determined that the other party really wanted to attack Taiyuan City. So he sent messengers for help again overnight to other places, and at the same time gathered the whole city to defend the palace and the city walls.

Early the next morning, the guard battalion began to attack the city, and the small explosives bags carried by the army were made by these guys, arrows flew, simple ladders were not erected, and even some soldiers had climbed the city wall at one point, but in the end they retreated inexplicably.

And Hu Xiaosi had a lot of ghost ideas in the siege process, so the soldiers picked a lot of herbs, and after they were prepared, they lit it and threw it on the city wall with the catapult, and suddenly the smoke was billowing out, making these soldiers defending the city miserable, and the worst thing was that these smoke were poisonous, and those soldiers who were in the smoke fell down inexplicably while walking. This caught the Shatuo people off guard, and they couldn't organize effective defenses at all.

"Your idea is too vicious." Li Feixue saw Hu Xiaosi commanding the catapult to smash the feces into the city, and immediately shuddered, and mourned for those Jin soldiers.

In this way, like a monkey, the guard battalion actually attacked the city for three days in a row, during which Hu Xiaosi used all means, what kind of siege weapons were used, although Taiyuan City did not take down, but in the face of this strange attack method the city defense was in danger, and the lord of Taiyuan City had no choice but to send messengers out of the city again to ask for help. And the Flying Eagle Brigade in the city is like a duck that scatters joy, one will set fire to the east, and the other will kill people in the west, so that the Shatuo people in Taiyuan City have no way to concentrate on resisting the enemy.

"My lord, there is a messenger from outside the city who has returned to the city." Li Xuanqing was hiding in a restaurant, and at this time he heard Su Xiaohu's report.

"Looks like it's almost time. Tell us to go down and get out of town right away. Li Xuanqing nodded and smiled.