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Huai'an King Li Shentong led the Guannei soldiers to Jizhou, and after meeting with Luo Yijun, he requisitioned Xing, Wei, Heng, Zhao and other states to recruit troops, the military strength reached more than 50,000 people, and Liu Heimin fought in the south of Raoyang City, the battle array was more than ten miles long, and the momentum was like a rainbow.

Liu Heimin's men were very few, and they only lined up in a single line along the river embankment to resist the Tang army.

When it was windy and rainy, Li Shentong ordered to attack by the wind, and the people took advantage of the wind to attack very quickly, and the direct attack almost collapsed Liu Heimin's army.

But after a while, the wind suddenly reversed, and it was so strong that Li Shentong's army couldn't open their eyes, and a burst of people turned on their backs, and the formation became chaotic.

Seeing this, Liu Heimin was immediately overjoyed and shouted loudly: "The destiny of heaven is mine!" Then he personally led the charge, killing Li Shentong's army and losing two-thirds of the soldiers and horses.

At this time, Luo Yi led his troops to attack Gao Yaxian's troops in the west, and chased them out for several miles after defeating them, and after learning that Li Shentong's army was defeated, he retreated to Gaocheng, and Liu Heimin then won a big victory, and continued to march to Gaocheng to attack Luo Yi,

Luo Yi saw that although the number of Liu Heimin's army was small, but everyone did not hesitate to kill them, and the attack was extremely crazy, he couldn't help but be frightened, and the other generals except for the Xue brothers were the same, and they all persuaded Luo Yi to withdraw from Gaocheng, return to Youzhou, and look for fighters in the future.

After thinking about it, Luo Yi agreed to the generals' request, but when retreating, the rear army was attacked by Liu Heimin and led the troops, scattered and fled, and Xue Wanjun and Xue Wanche brothers were captured by Liu Heimin.

The other generals had been repeatedly defeated by the Xue brothers before, and they held a grudge, so they persuaded Liu Heimin to cut the Xue brothers to death, but Liu Heimin did not agree and cut their brothers' hair as slaves.

Liu Heimin felt that this would be more intimidating to the enemy, but that night, the brothers Xue Wanjun and Xue Wanche suddenly attacked, killed the guards, and fled back to Luo Yi's army, so Luo Yi led his troops back to Youzhou.

Although he escaped the Xue brothers, it was a little regrettable, but after this battle, Liu Heimin became famous, and the army was greatly invigorated, and no one in Hebei could stop his edge for a while.

On the sixth day of the seventh month, Liu Heimin captured Yingzhou and killed Tang Yingzhou's assassin Shi Lu Shirui. The common people of Guanzhou caught the assassin Shi Lei Debei and surrendered Liu Heimin with the city.

Zhao Yuankai, the assassin of Maozhou in the Tang Dynasty, had a stern and impatient temperament, and the people under his jurisdiction endured him for a long time, when the news of Liu Heimin's defeat of Li Shentong's 50,000 army came, Dong Dengming, the people of Maozhou, and others planned a riot and killed Zhao Yuankai, who responded to Liu Heimin, and other states in Hebei also had many such things.

On July 15, Liu Heimin captured Dingzhou and captured Li Xuantong, the governor of Tang.

Some of Li Xuantong's former subordinates gave him wine and meat, and Li Xuantong said: "You pity me for being imprisoned, but fortunately I am enlightened and comforted with wine and meat, and I want to get drunk for you." ”

The wine was drunk, and Li Xuantong said to the guard: "I hope to dance the sword, and I hope to lend me the sword." ”

The guard gave him the knife, and Li Xuantong sighed after the dance: "As a big husband, I am favored by the country, and I can't keep the territory I guard, so what face do I have to live in the world!" ”

After Li Xuantong finished speaking, he faced the direction of Chang'an, raised a knife to commit suicide, and died by disembowelment.

On July 29, Liu Heimin captured Jizhou and killed Jizhou assassin Shi Lingyue.

After Liu Heimin defeated Li Shentong, the king of Huai'an, he sent letters to Zhao and Wei, and Dou Jiande's old subordinates raised troops to kill Tang Dynasty officials in response to Liu Heimin.

At this point, Liu Heimin's army was already very strong, with a total of nearly 100,000 soldiers and horses, and all the states of Hebei had rushed to Chang'an and asked for support from the army.

Li Yin and Li Shimin both took the initiative to ask Li Yuan for help, but Li Yuan finally rejected both of them, and instead sent Li Xiaochang, the general of Youtun Wei and the king of Yi'an, to lead troops to crusade against Liu Heimin.

Li Yin's military merits are outstanding, after Feng Tiance is a general, he can no longer be rewarded, Li Yuan will not let him take command again, Li Shimin's military exploits are only second only to Li Yin, Li Yuan is also reluctant to send them to the expedition, Li Shentong and Li Xuantong were originally picked out by Li Yuan to share Li Yin and Li Shimin's military exploits, but unfortunately Li Shentong has been repeatedly defeated and is unable to take on the task, and Li Xuantong has committed suicide, in desperation, Li Yuan entrusted the important task to Li Xiaochang, the king of Nghe An.

However, after Li Xiaochang led the troops out of Tongguan, he was afraid of the battle, and the march did not exceed 50 miles in a day, allowing the letters of help from various states and counties in Hebei to come out one after another, but did not make any response.

On August 24, the local heroes of the state rebelled in the city in response to Liu Heimin, and Liu Heimin paid tribute to Heaven and Dou Jiande in the southeast of the state city and then entered the state city. Ten days later, Liu Heimin led his troops to capture Xiangzhou, captured Tang Xiangzhou's assassin Fang Huang, and Zhang Shigui, the general of the Right Military Guard, broke through and fled.

On September 13, Liu Heimin led tens of thousands of soldiers and horses into Zongcheng, Li Shiji, the governor of Lizhou, was stationed in Zongcheng at this time, Zongcheng is not a strong city, but the geographical location is very important, it is an important place to hold Yongji Canal, Li Shiji led the troops to this original intention, is to block Liu Heimin to continue to advance south.

However, Li Shiji did not have many soldiers, and when Liu Heimin attacked other places in Hebei, he sent several letters asking for help to Li Xiaochang, but until Liu Heimin approached Zongcheng, Li Xiaochang did not come.

Li Shiji realized that his current strength was not Liu Heimin's opponent, so he ordered to abandon Zongcheng and flee, intending to retreat to defend the state, but was pursued by Liu Heimin in victory, defeated his army, killed 5,000 soldiers, and Li Shiji escaped alone.

Liu Heimin then continued to attack Li, Wei and other prefectures to the south, so far, Liu Heimin since May gathered 100 people to raise troops, it took less than half a year to restore all the old places before Dou Jiande.

Liu Heimin sent envoys to the north to unite with the Turks, and Jieli Khan sent Tong Jin Song Zhena to lead the Turkic cavalry to fight with Liu Heimin. Qin Wutong, the general of Tang Youwuwei, Chen Junbin, the governor of the state, and Cheng Mingzhen, the commander of Yongning County, and other officials were so powerful that they were invincible, and they all fled back to Chang'an from Hebei.

In October, Liu Heimin proclaimed himself the king of Handong, changed the name of the year to Tianzao, and the capital was still located in the original capital of Dou Jiande.

Liu Heimin appointed Fan Yuan as the left servant of Shangshu, Dong Kangmai as the secretary of the military department, Gao Yaxian as the right leader, Wang Cong as the Zhongshu Ling, Liu Bin as the Zhongshu Shilang, and other civil and military officials in the Dou Jiande period, as long as they came to vote, they all resumed their original positions.

Liu Heimin's laws and regulations and administration, all imitated Dou Jiande's previous implementation, and he fought bravely and resolutely, but his performance on the battlefield surpassed Dou Jiande a lot, and many soldiers in the Tang Dynasty were afraid of three points as soon as they heard Liu Heimin's name.