When Cai Xianjiu died, Li Gou also followed Li Xuanba at that time, busy with Cai Xianjiu's funeral, Li Xuanba and Li Gou On the way back to the house, he told Li Gou the story of the Yang family general, and then asked Li Gou to find Fang Xuanling and transfer Cai Xianjiu's grandson back to Jiangdu. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

It stands to reason that Cai Saijiu died of illness, and his two grandsons should rush back to Jiangdu to pay respects, but before Cai Saijiu died, he instructed the people in the house not to let his grandson know about his death, so as not to distract them on the battlefield. Such an old man, how could Li Xuanba bear to let his grandson die on the battlefield?

Hearing Li Xuanba's order, Li Gou nodded calmly, as if he had already guessed that Li Xuanba would have such an order.

Li Xuanba returned to King Zhou's mansion and immediately entered the study, hoping that the secret letters on the desk could dilute the sadness in his heart.

Li Mian has already reorganized the army and can go out to attack Lin Shihong at any time; Some of the students of Guozijian have arrived in Jiangling, Wei Zheng is arranging for them to govern the hometown of Daliang, Yuwen Chengdu will also be unwilling to surrender to the imperial court, and all the recalcitrant people in the corner will be exterminated, as long as the imperial court sends an edict, he can withdraw and leave, lead the army to assist Li Jing, and enter Yuzhang County.

On Li Jing's side, after more than a month of "scorching" siege, he has successfully conquered Yuhang County, so far, Shen Faxing only has Wu County left. Wu County is the foundation of Shen Faxing, the city is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and Shen Faxing has gathered most of his troops in Wu County, intending to defend it.

The defeat of Shen Faxing was a foregone conclusion, Yang Tong ordered Li Jing to lead the army to besiege the city, and the grain in Wu County was enough to eat for three and five years, and Shen Faxing was not worried about the supply of grain and grass.

Zhang Xutuo, Dou Jiande and Xu Shiji's progress was also very smooth, after all, the imperial court soldiers were well-equipped, and those Wagang troops were just some poor people who had to pick up the spear in order to survive, and they had no power to resist in the face of the regular army of the imperial court.

"The prestige of the imperial court, coupled with the reputation of Brother Sutuo, there will be no problem in calming the thieves in the land of Qilu." After reading the letter, Li Xuanba took a long breath and said to himself.

Knowing so much good news, Li Xuanba's face was still full of sadness, he smiled self-deprecatingly, and said in his heart that these things should go smoothly, how could he let himself forget the sadness in his heart?

Li Xuanba stayed in the study until he was close to his son, and it was not until Yang Ling knocked on the door that he cleaned up his mood and accompanied Yang Ling back to the bedroom. Shizuka is still guarding filial piety in Cai's mansion, and the people in the mansion have basically been sent out, and now only Yang Ling can calm Li Xuanba down.

It was precisely because of this that Yang Ling knew that she couldn't go to make Li Xuanba even more upset, she just quietly stayed by Li Xuanba's side, never mentioning the siege of Luoyang, and did not ask Li Xuanba to help Yang Gao.

Perhaps because Li Xuanba was too quiet, the entire Zhou Palace's mansion became lifeless, and even when Li Gou was happy to have a noble son, the mansion did not celebrate much, until Li Xuanba heard the news, ran to scold Li Gou, and when the child was full moon, he gathered the people in the mansion together and held a banquet to celebrate.

Cai Xianjiu and Chen Ling are old, Li Xuanba naturally does not feel that life is fleeting because of their death, he just feels a little guilty in his heart. Because he knew very well that neither Cai Xianjiu nor Chen Ling could completely let go of the young emperor in Luoyang City, and Li Xuanba, on the contrary, did not think of going to Luoyang at all.

Judging from the intelligence collected by the hidden guards, Yang Gao is indeed very talented in addition to being too suspicious, and if he is given a few more years, it is very likely that the Northern Sui will be restored to life, and he can even be on an equal footing with the Tang Dynasty.

It's a pity that Yang Gao is too sharp, and the faster the Northern Sui develops, the more it will make the Tang Dynasty nervous, so Li Yuan would rather not attack Taiyuan, which fell into the hands of Liu Wuzhou, but also take Luoyang City before the Northern Sui regains its vitality.

Li Yuan is no longer the loyal Tang Guogong he used to be, just as Li Xuanba is no longer a young man who wants peace in the world, he will feel guilty because of Cai Xijiu and Chen Ling's thoughts, but he will not change his plan, so after he was sad for a while, he cheered up again, laughed and ran to scold Li Gou, so as to vent the turbidity in his heart.

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In May, Zhang Xutuo sent someone to send back the good news, the imperial army has captured Langya, Qian, Pengcheng, Gaomi and other counties, Xu Shiji's speed is not slow, Jibei, Lu, Dongping counties have all become the territory of the Southern Sui, and Dou Jiande sent Wang Fubao, crossed the Yellow River, and successively won Qi, Beihai and other counties, and now the three-way army is rushing to Donglai County, and it will be taken in a few days!

It is of great significance to recover the land of Qilu, because this can not only connect Hebei and expand the territory of Southern Sui, but at the same time, the imperial court can also control the waters of the lower reaches of the Yellow River, which is more conducive to the development and growth of the imperial court's naval army, and if the Tang Dynasty is in trouble one day in the future, then controlling the Yellow River valley will allow the warships of Southern Sui to insert into the hinterland of the Tang Dynasty like spears!

Although Li Xuanba did not want to start a war with the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty was prosperous and had every chance to achieve the unification of the world, and it was impossible to surrender to the Northern Sui like Du Fuwei and others.

The Northern Sui is now stronger than the Tang Dynasty, and it is impossible to claim to the Tang Dynasty, unless Li Yuan abolishes Li Jiancheng's position as the crown prince and establishes Li Xuanba as the crown prince! It's just a pity that this can't happen.

Even if Li Yuan is really willing to do this, not to mention that Li Jiancheng does not agree, and no matter how Li Shimin will object, no one in the Manchu Dynasty of the Tang Dynasty will agree at all. After all, Li Xuanba is close to the Great Sui royal family, who knows if he will become the emperor and can't help Yang Ling's pillow to settle accounts?

In other words, the Southern Sui and the Tang Dynasty will eventually move troops, but now they are busy attacking cities and plundering land, and they are just in peace for the time being.

Not long after receiving the good news, a rush came from the north, Li Xuanba thought it was the news that the imperial court had captured Donglai, but he didn't expect it to be the news that Dongjun and Jiyin County had been lost one after another!

The Tang Dynasty and the Northern Sui Dynasty fought, Xu Shiji led the army to cooperate with Zhang Xutuo, and jointly pacified the rebels in the land of Qilu, leaving very few troops in Dongjun and other places, and could not resist the sudden attack of the Tang Dynasty, only a few days, the Tang army attacked Dongping County, fortunately Zhang Xutuo and Wang Fubao gave up attacking Donglai County, and rushed to Dongping County to help defend the city, which stopped the footsteps of the Tang army!

In terms of military strength alone, the armies of Zhang Xutuo, Wang Fubao and Xu Shiji are fully capable of repelling the Tang army, but the land of Qilu has just been pacified, and all counties need to assign soldiers to defend the city, and they have not received an edict from the imperial court, Zhang Xutuo did not dare to decide to use troops against the Tang Dynasty privately, after all, the Tang Dynasty waved the banner of westward marching to exterminate the traitor Xu Shiji!

A wave of anger rose from Li Xuanba's heart, and he crumpled the letter into a ball and slammed it to the ground, his gaze becoming extremely cold.

Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin both knew about Xu Shiji's surrender to Southern Sui, but they still chose to take action against Xu Shiji, how could Li Xuanba bear their behavior? Although I don't know who led the troops to attack Dongjun, the commanders and deputy commanders of the Tang Dynasty's Western Expedition were Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin, respectively, and they must be inseparable! (To be continued.) )