At this time, the woman who spoke to Li Shentong was Li Yuan's sister Princess Tong'an, who was originally married to Wang Yu from the Taiyuan royal family of the Gaomen clan, but this Wang Yu had passed away last year.

Princess Tong'an and Wang Yu have a son and a daughter, the daughter is still Yang Guang's concubine, when Li Yuan was the Taishou of Honghua County, when the Thirteen Counties of the Right Quarter were closed, there were many misdeeds, Yang Guang knew that he would be Luoyang, Li Yuan said that he would not return from illness, Yang Guang also asked Princess Tong'an's daughter Li Yuan's illness, whether she died or not.

In history, this princess Tong'an also said a family affair for Gaozong Li Zhi, and let a daughter of the Taiyuan Wang clan marry Li Zhi, who was the queen, but in the end she was killed by the first empress of the ages.

After her husband died, Princess Tong'an left the Taiyuan royal family, saying that she was going to Chang'an, but for some reason after hearing that Li Shentong pacified Shandong, she changed her plan and finally arrived here.

After Li Shentong listened to Princess Tong'an's proposal at this time, he immediately hesitated, he was not entangled in whether to stick to Liyang Cangcheng in the end, Zhaozhou, Xingzhou, Zhaozhou, Xiangzhou, the four states were all lost by him, and he would not care about the safety of Liyang.

What Li Shentong is entangled with is that since he pacified Shandong, he has not achieved any results, so he returned to Chang'an in a gloomy manner, and his face was too dull.

However, after thinking about it for a long time, Li Shentong still felt that his life was important, how could his life be important because of face?

So, Li Shentong agreed to Princess Tong'an's proposal and immediately sent people to prepare ships outside Cangcheng, however, his abnormal behavior was learned by Dou Jiande's detective, and Pegasus reported to Dou Jiande.

Dou Jiande shook his head and said to the generals on the left and right: "I heard that Li Yin, the king of Jin and Li Shimin, the king of Qin, are all outstanding people in the world, and I thought that this Huai'an King Li Shentong would not be much worse, but who knew that he was an incompetent person who was greedy for life and afraid of death, which is really regrettable!" ”

Speaking of Li Yin, Dou Jiande still had palpitations, he was almost captured alive by Li Yin back then.

Liu Heimin smiled at this time: "Isn't it because of an incompetent person like Li Shentong that we are allowed to conquer cities one after another?" ”

At the same time, Liu Heimin also thought in his heart, whether it was Li Yin or Li Shimin, he would have to meet with him sooner or later for a while to see who was the number one soldier in the world.

On the night of the ninth day of the eighth month, Li Shentong opened the gate of Liyang Cangcheng, first moved boxes of belongings out of the city, and prepared to board a ship to leave this place and return to Chang'an to live a peaceful life.

But as soon as the thing was moved halfway, all of a sudden, the fire was bright, and countless people and horses were killed, and before Li Shentong and the others could react, the city gate had been snatched away by the enemy......

Li Shiji was taking off his armor and was about to fall asleep when he suddenly heard a shout around him, and knew that something was wrong, so he hurriedly put on his armor again and gathered his soldiers and horses.

However, at this time, Dou Jiande's army had entered the city in a big way and began to capture various key roads, Li Shiji saw that the general trend had gone, so he had to take hundreds of cavalry out of Liyang, escaped the Yellow River, and Liyang was captured by Dou Jiande.

During the battle, Dou Jiande captured Li Shentong, Princess Tong'an, Li Shiji's father Li Gai, and Wei Zheng, who had not yet returned to Chang'an.

A few days later, because his father was captured, Li Shiji returned to Liyang and surrendered to Dou Jiande, and other cities in Weizhou also surrendered to Dou Jiande after learning the news of the fall of Liyang.

So far, the area north of the Yellow River and east of Taihang Mountain, except for the land controlled by Hengzhou and Luo Yi, and the place controlled by Gao Kaidao, which has not been captured by Dou Jiande, the rest of the places have all been owned by Dou Jiande.

Dou Jiande is a generous person, and he did not embarrass the captured Li Shiji, Wei Zheng and others, he appointed Wei Zheng as the living housekeeper, appointed Li Shiji as the general of Zuo Xiaowei, and let him continue to guard Liyang, of course, Dou Jiande still has the means of prevention, he took Li Shiji's father Li Gai with him as a hostage, so although Li Shiji had the heart to return to Tang, he did not dare to abandon his father and leave alone.

In view of Dou Jiande's momentum, a slave of Wang Rail, who had previously surrendered to Huazhou (formerly Dongjun), who had surrendered to the Tang Dynasty, drunk Wang Rail, killed him, and then carried Wang Rail's head to Dou Jiande to surrender, wanting to take credit.

But Dou Jiande said: "It is a great rebellion for a slave to kill his master, how can the lonely king be accepted by him?" He then ordered the slave to be beheaded and sent back to Huazhou.

The people of Huazhou were deeply moved and asked for surrender on the same day, and after that, the nearby states and counties, as well as Xu Yuanlang and others, who occupied several states, all looked forward to the wind. Xu Yuanlang originally asked Li Yuan to surrender to the Tang Dynasty at the beginning of this year, and was also named the governor of Yanzhou by Li Yuan, the Duke of Jue Lu, but now when he saw that the situation was not right, he immediately changed the lintel.

On the occasion of the determination of the throne of the world, there are still many princes like Xu Yuanlang who occupy several states and vacillate between several big forces.

On August 24, Dou Jiande returned to Zhaozhou, built Wanchun Palace, and moved the capital of Xia to Zhou, Dou Jiande also placed Li Shentong, the king of Huai'an, in Xiabo, and treated him with the etiquette of a guest, but Li Shentong was always afraid that Dou Jiande would kill him one day, so he was always anxious.

Li Yuan was greatly shocked when he learned that the five prefectures of Hebei had been captured by Dou Jiande and that Li Shentong, Princess Tong'an, Li Shiji and others had been captured, and hurriedly sent someone to envoy Dou Jiande with gifts, asking him not to embarrass Li Shentong and others, and ordered Li Shimin in Xin'an to find a way to rescue those who were captured.

But because there is Wang Shichong in the middle, and Hanoi County is occupied by Li Mi, Li Shimin is also beyond the reach of the whip and has nothing to do.

On August 26, Chen Zheng, the governor of Tang Liangzhou and the deputy envoy of Shandong Province to pacify, was killed by his subordinates, and his subordinates took his head to Wang Shichong.

It is undeniable that although there is the strong support of Li Yin and Li Shimin, the current Datang is really at its weakest time, and many people have no bottom in their hearts whether they can support the past.

In Chang'an, Li Yuan, in order to strengthen the mobilization ability of the military and cope with the high-intensity conquest, divided the Guannai into 12 provinces, based on the Juntian system and the government military system, and set up the 12 armies in the Guannai, and the provinces in the Guannai were subordinate to the 12th Army, and the 12 armies were all named after Tianxing and were commanded by the Cheqi Prefecture. There is one general and one deputy general in each army, and a person with a reputation is selected to fill the post to supervise farming and war readiness.

The 12 provinces and the 12 armies are: the Banner Army of Wannian Road, the Drum Banner Army of Chang'an Road, the Xuan Ge Army of Fuping Road, the Jingyue Army of Fengquan Road, the Yulin Army of Tongzhou Road, the Cavalry Army of Huazhou Road, the Zhiwei Army of Ningzhou Road, the Pingdao Army of Qizhou Road, the Zhaoyao Army of Bin (Bin) State Road, the Yuanyou Army of Linzhou Road, the Tianji Army of Jingzhou Road, and the Tianjie Army of Yizhou Road.