Just when Sang Xianhe personally commanded his men and horses to kill Liu Wenjing, in order to give the final blow to Liu Wenjing, who was at the end of the road, suddenly the sound of thousands of horses galloping came from the rear, and then Sang Xianhe saw a heroic general in black armor, with a large group of cavalry rushing towards his department, Sang Xianhe was suddenly shocked.

This general in black armor is Li Yin. He had already arrived less than ten miles away from Yongfengcang with an army of 50,000 on this day, but because the sky had darkened, it was inconvenient to continue the march, so he camped on the spot, planning to go to Yongfengcang to meet Liu Wenjing early the next morning.

But who knew that in the middle of the moon, I suddenly saw a bright fire in the direction of Yongfengcang, and because of the wide field of vision, even if it was ten miles away, it could be seen.

Li Yin knew that things were not good, so he immediately gathered his seven thousand cavalry and galloped to the aid of Yongfengcang.

Liu Wenjing also saw that the army that came to help was Li Yin's department, and he was immediately shaken in spirit, and he and Duan Zhixuan commanded the army to cooperate with Li Yin to attack Sang Xian and the army in front and back.

Under the surprise attack of Li Yin's cavalry, Sang Xian's army had already suffered a sharp drop in morale and scattered formations, so Liu Wenjing's army's counteroffensive was immediately unable to fight again, and the army surrendered one after another, and those who fled fled.

After the battle, Sang Xianhe fled back to Qu Tutong with only a few dozen men and horses, and Qu Tutong lost his troops and was in an even more embarrassing situation.

After Sang Xianhe was defeated and retreated, Liu Wenjing first asked his subordinates to collect the prisoners, and then warmly greeted Li Yin with Duan Zhixuan.

Li Yin and Liu Wenjing are old friends, so they are not very polite, and after sitting down, they began to discuss the current situation and Qu Tutong, Hedong County and other matters.

"How does Duke Jin plan to deal with Qu Tutong?" If you want to determine Hedong County, you must first decide to eliminate Qu Tutong, who occupies Tongguan, Liu Wenjing has been confronted with it for a long time, and knows that this person is difficult, so he first asked Li Yin so.

Li Yin smiled confidently: "I have already made a plan for this, the morale of the Qu Tu Tong army is low at this time, and it is in a dilemma, I believe that there are not a few people in its army who want to surrender to our army, as long as the people in it are contacted, the Qu Tu Tong army will definitely be able to win without a fight!" ”

Going to the army to fight and plotting, and surrendering the soldiers without a fight is the most clever means of war, under the guidance of Song Zhengben and Fang Xuanling, Li Yin has gradually tasted the three flavors.

Just when Li Yin was going to let Fu Ying go to Tongguan to find out the situation and find someone who was interested in taking refuge in him, someone on the Tongguan side took the initiative to send him a letter to surrender, and the first person to send him a letter to surrender to Cheng was the deputy general Sang Xianhe, who was defeated by him not long ago.

Qu Tutong felt that the situation was not in his favor, and often touched his neck and said to the people around him: "I should take a knife for the country to repay the country's kindness!" He often comforted and encouraged the soldiers, and there was no one who did not cry bitterly, and the generals were also very moved by this.

But helplessly, the relatives of the generals are all in Guanzhong, and Qu Tutong obviously can't take them to reunite with their families, so although he was moved, he didn't write much about Li Yin's integrity.

On this day, Sang Xianhe and the generals of Tongguan suddenly persuaded Qu Tutong to surrender to Li Yin, and several generals looked very unkind, as if Qu Tutong did not agree, they would kill people.

Qu Tutong cried: "I have served two lords, the emperor has taken very good care of me, and he betrayed me in times of difficulty with the court's money, I can't do such a thing!" ”

After Sang Xianhe and the other generals listened, they were silent, and someone said at this time: "Since Qu wants to be a loyal minister, why don't you go to Luoyang?" Forgive me for not being able to follow you. ”

Qu Tutong had no choice but to leave Sang Xian and the town to guard Tongguan, lead the army to the east, and prepare to run to Luoyang. As soon as Qu Tutong left, Sang Xianhe surrendered Tongguan to Li Yin, and Li Yin led the army into Tongguan without blood.

Subsequently, Li Yin sent Duan Zhixuan to take Qu Tutong's son Qu Tushou, who had just surrendered, and Sang Xianhe and others, to lead light cavalry and Sang Xianhe to chase Qu Tutong and catch up with him in Chousang County.

Qu Tutong set up a position to defend himself, and sent Qu Tutong's son Qu Tushou to persuade him, Qu Tutong scolded: "What is this thief doing? In the past, you and I were father and son, but now you and I are enemies! ”

He ordered the people around him to shoot Qu Tushou with bows and arrows. Sang Xianhe said to Qu Tutong's subordinates: "Now that the capital has fallen, you are all from Guanzhong, where are you going?" ”

After hearing this, the soldiers around Qu Tutong threw away the weapons in their hands and surrendered, Qu Tutong knew that he could not escape, so he dismounted and knelt down to the southeast again and again and cried: "Your Majesty, the ministers have bent to this point, and they dare not lose the country!" ”

The soldiers then captured Qu Tutong, and Li Yin escorted him to Chang'an, where Li Yuan appointed Qu Tutong as the secretary of the military department, gave him the title of Duke of Jiang Guo, and concurrently served as the marshal of the Qin Duke Li Shimin, but still sent him to Li Yin's account to help Li Yin pacify Hedong.

Li Yin sent Qu Tutong to the county governor of Hedong County to recruit Yao Junsu, who saw Qu Tutong and sighed and was overwhelmed.

Qu Tutong also wet his clothes with tears. He said to Yao Junsu: "Our army has failed, and where Tang Wang Yiqi pointed, he has responded to everything, things have reached such a point, it is better for you to surrender as soon as possible." ”

Yao Jun said: "As the minister of state, the lord entrusted you with the important task of defending Guanzhong, and entrusted the society to you on behalf of the king, why did you turn your back on the country and surrender?" He also acted as a lobbyist for the national thief! The horse on which you ride is the reward of the king, and what face do you have to ride on it? ”

Qutu channel: "Alas! Junsu, I came here after trying my best to exhaust myself. Yao Junsu said: "I haven't exhausted my strength yet, where can I use your mouth!" Qu Tutong retreated in shame.

Li Yin did not blame Qu Tutong for returning in vain, he also knew that Yao Junsu was not a person who could easily persuade him to surrender, and sending Qu Tutong was just a little bit of a human being.

In the original history, Li Tang decided on this Hedong County, but it took more than three years to completely settle down, Yao Junsu has been holding on to the city during that period, and finally there is no food, and it has reached the point of "cannibalism", and he still refuses to surrender, which shows how firm his will to defend the city is.

At the beginning of November, Li Yin and Liu Wenjing combined 90,000 troops and stationed them outside the city of Anyi, and then left 40,000 troops to capture other counties and cities in Hedong County to cut off the wings of Anyi.

Yao Junsu concentrated his troops in Anyi and Xia County in the northeast of Anyi, of which Anyi had 20,000 soldiers and Xia County had more than 8,000 soldiers, and the two cities watched each other to resist Li Yin's army.

Li Yin was naturally unwilling to spend more than three years to pacify this Hedong County, so he summoned the generals to discuss the strategy of breaking the city.

The generals enthusiastically offered suggestions, digging tunnels, and finding any way to find the inside, but Li Yin felt that it was not very reliable. Shi Zaiyao Junsu "is strict, good at resisting the public, and dare not rebel." "It shouldn't work to find the inside and the outside to cooperate.