With the help of the treasure of Chengyuan in Wuyang County, Xu Shiji effortlessly captured Liyangcang, and the officials guarding Liyangcang still had some ability to oppress the people, and when they encountered the army of Wagang thieves, they did not have the courage to resist at all, and basically fled with their families, even if there were a few generals who were still loyal to the imperial court, they would inevitably die under Xu Shiji's horse.

After seizing the Liyang warehouse, Xu Shiji ordered people to open the warehouse and release grain, and let the hungry people take it at will.

The people regard food as the sky, and the people have asked to join Wagang for food, but in more than ten days, 200,000 people have been obtained. Xu Shiji ordered some people to collect the corpses of people who died of starvation on the roadside and in the wilderness, and bury them nearby, while he himself personally led a large army and marched east along the Yellow River.

At this time, almost all the counties in Henan were captured by Wagang, and the counties on both sides of the Yellow River knew that they were powerless to resist the Wagang thieves, and knew that Luoyang would not send reinforcements, so they chose to surrender one after another. A natural and man-made disaster caused the imperial court to completely lose Wu'an, Yong'an, Qi, Yiyang and other counties. Since then, most of the land in Shandong has also been planted with the banner of Wagang.

In the battle of Luoyang, the Wagang thieves lost tens of thousands of troops, although they did not shake their roots, but also let their strength decline, now in just one month, Wagang not only recovered its vitality, its momentum is better than before, even the powerful Dou Jiande, Zhu Cang and others have sent envoys to express their attachment.

When the news came back to Luokou, Li Mi gathered the ministers and held a feast, and the audience was full of laughter.

Contrary to Luokou, the sky above the eastern capital seemed to be filled with a thick haze, and the courtiers were full of gloom, running around the palace and the mansion. The people also felt a deep fear and began to find ways to move into the inner city. In the face of life and death, how many people can face it calmly?

"Once the success is done, Li Mi didn't care about the lives of the people in order to strengthen Wagang, and he was really vicious." Zhongyong Fuzhong. Li Xuanba knelt at the head and said angrily: "If you can catch him in the future, you will definitely put him to death in Beishi!" ”

"Although Li Mi was a little cruel, he succeeded after all." Fang Xuanling didn't want to think about the origin of Li Xuanba's sentence 'One will succeed and ten thousand bones will wither', and sighed: "Now he has an army of 400,000, and the court has more than enough to protect itself." If you talk about crusade, I'm afraid it's a fool's dream. ”

Listening to the conversation between the two, Pei Yuanqing, who had a dusty face, said ashamedly: "It's all because Yuanqing is incompetent, he didn't take the lead in taking Liyang Cang, otherwise the people wouldn't have defected to the Wagang thieves." ”

"I can't blame you for this." Li Xuanba shook his head and said: "When the envoy fled back to the Eastern Capital, Xu Shiji was only afraid that he had already begun to attack Liyangcang, and Xuanba sent you forward, but it was just a fluke. ”

When King Yue learned that the envoy was blocked halfway, he summoned Yuan Wendu, Wang Shichong, Li Xuanba and others into the palace overnight. Discussing countermeasures, everyone felt that it was too late, and only Li Xuanba asked to send someone to chase the Wagang thieves. Yuan Wendu and several people persuaded each other with good words, but Li Xuanba had a resolute attitude and kept bowing down to ask for the edict, but King Yue was stubborn and finally agreed to Li Xuanba's request.

Li Xuanba did not waste time and arched his hand. ran out of Miyagi directly, got on the horse and went straight to the Xingyang military camp. Mobilize 3,000 cavalry, and order Qin Qiong, Luo Shixin, and Pei Yuanqing to lead 1,000 cavalry each, and rush to Liyangcang day and night, but unfortunately it was still a few days late.

"People do their best, wait for the destiny of heaven, and Childe has done what he can. Why bother? Wei Zheng thought of Li Xuanba's worried appearance in the past few days, and was very worried that he would be depressed, and comforted: "Moreover, the people affected by the disaster already have food and will no longer endure hunger. ”

"They are trading their lives for food. Should Xuanba feel lucky? Li Xuanba tilted his head and said boringly: "Li Mi has already made up his mind to capture Luoyang, one day, the imperial court will fight with the Wagang thieves, and then these people will also become traitors, and they will still die under the butcher's knife after all." ”

"In troubled times, this is the fate of the people." Fang Xuanling sighed with emotion and said, "The matter has come to this, what are His Royal Highness plans to do with King Yue, and what does the prince plan to do?" ”

"200,000 people is not a small number after all, even if Xu Shiji has a good command of the army, it is impossible to return to Luokou in a short time, so His Royal Highness King Yue plans to send troops to attack Li Mi before Xu Shiji returns." Li Xuanba replied: "Originally, I thought that the imperial court and Wagang would be able to get along, but now it seems that I can't hide. ”

As the saying goes, people are not as good as heaven, Li Xuanba vaguely remembered some history, he thought that temporarily repelling the Wagang thieves could allow the people to recuperate for a period of time, but he didn't expect a sudden natural disaster. In order to prevent further turmoil, he had to consider leading the Xingyang army to participate in the crusade against Li Mi.

"If you can defeat Li Mi and recapture Luokoucang, it can indeed hit the morale of the Wagang thieves." Fang Xuanling nodded and said: "Those 200,000 refugees will only temporarily defect to the Wagang thieves because they can't survive, as long as the main force of the Wagang thieves is eliminated, those people will be self-defeating." ”

"Yes, as long as you can occupy the Tiger Prison Pass, Luoyang will be too peaceful." Li Xuanba said very unconfidently: "Xuanba has offended General Wang and them, and the road ahead is confused!" ”

"The leader of the thief president is Jiangdu Tongshou Wang Shichong, and the contradiction between Gongzi and Wang Long and others should not affect the overall situation." Fang Xuanling smiled, and suddenly found that Li Xuanba's face was embarrassed, so he asked tentatively: "Childe shouldn't have offended him, right?" ”

"Probably not, right?" Li Xuanba thought about it and replied uncertainly. Fang Xuanling was speechless for a while, and Wei Zheng, Pei Yuanqing and others looked at Li Xuanba helplessly.

"Wang Tongshou is loyal to His Majesty and the imperial court, and I don't know how many traitors have been exterminated in the past few years, and he will never ignore the overall situation because of trivial matters." When everyone looked at each other, Qin Qiong opened his mouth and said: "The Xingyang Army is an army of its own, even if General Wang Long and others hate Lord Li, do they dare to retaliate on the battlefield?" ”

"In that case, we do have a bit of a villain's heart." Li Xuanba scratched his head in disdain, and then said: "No matter how King Yue arranges, let's prepare for the expedition first, General Pei, General Qin, General Luo, the three of you go all the way, go back to rest first, tomorrow at noon, Xuanba will go to the military camp to boost the morale of the soldiers." ”

"Yes." Pei Yuanqing, Qin Qiong, and Luo Shixin responded in unison, bowed, exited the main hall, and went back to their homes to rest.

"Mr. Wei, Xuanba will enter the palace to ask for the grain and grass of the Xingyang Army to be transported separately, His Royal Highness the King of Yue knows that I have a gap with General Wang Long and others, and he should not refuse, Li Gou is not here, the only people I can trust are you and Brother Yanfu, I hope you can take on the responsibility of transporting grain and grass." Li Xuanba got up, walked in front of Wei Zheng and said.

"Xuan Cheng will not disgrace his life." Wei Zheng stood up and bowed.

"Mr. Fang, your talent has never had a chance to be displayed, Xuanba wants to ask Mr. to follow General Li Jing and be responsible for arranging the troops, is Mr. willing?" Li Xuanba turned around and walked in front of Fang Xuanling and said softly.

"Xuan Ling will never live up to the trust of his son." Fang Xuanling was taken aback at first, but quickly reacted and replied confidently. (To be continued.) )