As early as the first time Li Dao and Guo Yan started the war, Liu He got the news, and at this time he proposed to send troops immediately, but was dissuaded by Xun You and Guo Jia. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

"Now the two thieves have just started fighting, and their strength has not been consumed much, if we are on the battlefield now, they will definitely reconcile immediately and join forces against us, so we still need to wait a little longer, at least not too late until the situation is roughly finalized. We believe that in a few days, there will be new changes in Chang'an. ”

Since it was the two top strategists under his command who suggested at the same time, Liu He naturally had to accept it with an open mind, so he stopped the march, but eagerly waited for news from Chang'an.

A few days later, Liu He heard that Li Dao and Guo Yan had kidnapped the Son of Heaven and Baiguan respectively, and that they were inseparable from each other in Chang'an, and felt that the time should come, so he summoned Guo Jia, Xun You and other strategists overnight and told them about the situation.

After patiently listening to Liu He's news, these strategists immediately proposed to Liu He that the time was ripe to send troops, and they should send troops immediately.

Liu He couldn't wait any longer, and immediately ordered the army to be dispatched.

In fact, these days Liu He's army has already been waiting for the day, ready to set off at any time, after receiving Liu He's order, Li Tong and Wei Yan led 10,000 cavalry immediately set off, only a day and a night of rapid march to Bashang, after arriving is a non-stop attack.

At that time, the guard of Ba Shang was Li Xian, Li Xian's nephew, and this Li Xian was also a tiger general of the Xiliang Army, but he didn't realize that Liu He's movements would be so fast, so when Li Tong and Wei Yan's army came to the city, he was still having fun in the mansion, and the city gate also allowed the people to enter and exit as usual, and it was not closed at all.

In this case, Wei Yan rode under the drawbridge first, slashed the rope of the drawbridge with his sword, and then led his own soldiers into the city gate, killed the guards guarding the city gate, and led the army into the city.

It was not until this time that the defenders in the city reacted, but because Liu He's army had entered the city, these defenders had no heart to resist at all, and they scattered and fled, and the 10,000 army fled nearly seventy percent in just half an hour, and the rest were some sergeants who had no time to escape, and most of them chose to surrender in the face of the menacing Liu He army, but the defender Li Xian was shot by Wei Yan who rushed forward in the process of escaping.

This siege battle lasted only one hour before it ended, the enemy's main general Li Xian was killed, more than 1,000 people were captured, and the rest were either killed or fled.

And in this process, Wei Yan, who had been mediocre before, actually played a very key role, which couldn't help but make everyone look at Wei Yan with admiration, and even Li Tong's gaze at Wei Yan was full of appreciation.

"Hehe, Wen Chang's performance in this siege battle is so good, it's really admirable, when the lord arrives, you just wait to be rewarded."

Li Tong's eyes were full of smiles, but there was no trace of jealousy, in fact, he also had the ability to perform like this, but as the chief general in the army, Li Tong always liked to give others the opportunity to perform, so he only routinely led the army to fight, and there was no too outstanding performance.

But who can know that being able to give the soldiers under his command a chance to perform, select talents for the country, and reconcile the generals, so that the army does not have infighting, this is the real means, and the significance is even far greater than the meritorious service itself.

After that, Li Tong arranged for Wei Yan to guard the city, but he temporarily became the chief executive of Bashang, issued proclamations to reassure the people, adjusted various policies to appease the people, and quickly settled down the county after a short period of turmoil.

A few days later, Liu He led the army to Ba Shang, and after seeing the battle report sent by Li Tong, he praised all the soldiers who bravely participated in the exhibition, especially Wei Yan, who performed well, and ordered Wei Yan to be rewarded with thousands of gold, silk horses, and the soldiers of the three armies were rewarded in order to stimulate morale.

In addition, Liu He personally went to Baling to worship Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty, saying that as a descendant of the Han family, he would definitely sweep away the traitors and stabilize the world, and personally read out the sacrificial text written by Wang Cang.

Due to the launch of Wang Cang's "literary" skills, the morale of the officers and men of the whole army was stimulated, and the morale of the soldiers of Xiliang who heard the news dropped a lot.

Next, Liu He began to closely deploy to defend against Li Dao and Guo Yan's next counterattack, ordered Yu Ban to be the main general, led 10,000 soldiers, and hired 10,000 troops, with Liu Ye as the military advisor, jointly guarding the royal ba, and he personally went out to lead Li Tong, Wei Yan, Chen Zhi, Zhou Cang, four generals, Xun You, Guo Jia two strategists, commanded 30,000 troops to immediately raise troops, quietly lurking outside Chang'an City, and waited until Li Dao Guo Yan led the army out of the city, then took advantage of the emptiness of Chang'an, and broke through the city.

Of course, in order to ensure the smooth of this trip, Liu He also sent people to secretly contact those internal and external responses in the city, and when the time came, the internal and external should be combined to break the city in one fell swoop.

For Liu He's secret operation, Li Dao and Guo Yan naturally didn't know, but Liu He's army and soldiers quickly heard the news from the surrendered troops, this news came, Li Dao and Guo Yan were shocked, they knew that with the current situation, if the two sides did not unite, what awaited them was only destruction.

So Li Dao first sent an envoy to meet Guo Yan and said the intention of the two sides to unite.

Guo Yan naturally agreed happily, but after all, the two sides already distrusted each other, in order to be able to win each other's trust, so Guo Yan proposed that the two sides exchange sons with each other as hostages, and Li Wei agreed.

But ironically, the two soon regretted that Li Wei's wife loved her son very much and was unwilling to exchange, and Guo Yan's wife was also reluctant to give up her son, and finally the two decided to exchange their daughters as hostages, and the two were finally reconciled in this case.

After the two reconciled, the first thing was to send troops to deal with Liu He, but after all, the two had scruples in their hearts, and neither of them was at ease to let the other party stay in Chang'an, and finally the two decided to lead the army at the same time, so the two led an army of 50,000 people, set off from Chang'an, attacked Bashang, and left Yang Feng to assist Li Wei's nephew Li Li, nephew Hu Feng and others to lead an army of 30,000 to guard Chang'an.

"Wen Ze, Zhong Ye, Zi Yang, the defense of Ba Shang will be handed over to you, I hope you will live up to your trust and complete this glorious and arduous task!" Looking at the army of Li Wei Guo Yan who left Chang'an not far away, Liu He said silently.