At this time, although Hedong County was not captured, the heroes of Guanzhong came to defect to Li Yuan, and there were thousands of them every day.

Li Yin and Li Shimin both persuaded Li Yuan to lead his troops to cross the river to the west and take Chang'an, but Li Yuan was still a little hesitant.

Pei Lin said: "Qu Tutong has a large number of troops, with a strong city, if we abandon him, if we attack Chang'an and cannot conquer it, we will encounter the pursuit of Hedong and suffer the enemy on our backs, which is a dangerous strategy." It is better to capture Hedong first, and then move westward. Chang'an relied on Qu Tutong as a backup, and if Qu Tutong was defeated, Chang'an would definitely be breached. ”

Li Yin immediately retorted: "Otherwise! The soldiers are fast, we take advantage of the military might of repeated victories, appease the obedient army, and march westward with great fanfare, and the people of Chang'an will be shocked and frightened by the wind, and they will not be able to strategize and be brave enough to break off, and it will be as easy as shaking the dead leaves on the tree.

If we are stranded and ourselves are trapped under the fortified city, they will have time to step up their defenses against us. And we waste time in vain, and when everyone is discouraged, we will go to great things. Besides, the generals who rose up in Guanzhong did not belong to their hearts, so they had to be appeased earlier. Qu Tutong is an enemy who can only defend himself, so there is nothing to worry about. ”

Many of Li Yin's words of persuasion to Li Yuan were deliberated by Song Zhengben and Li Jing with him, so they could only be targeted every time and hit the nail on the head.

After thinking about it for a while, Li Yuan adopted a middle way of approaching, leaving a part of the general's army to continue to surround Hedong County, while he himself led the army to cross the Yellow River west into Guanzhong.

On 12 July, Li Yuan commanded all the armies to cross the river and officially entered the Guanzhong area.

Li Yuan is the lord of the gate valve of the Li family in Longxi, and he was the Taishou of Honghua County in the ninth year of the Great Cause, and the thirteen counties on the right side of the Guandu, so he is quite famous in the land of Guanzhong, so he led the army to enter Guanzhong at this time, and all the counties and counties in Guanzhong have surrendered.

While Li Yuan and his son were attacking Guanzhong, the rebels in other places were also busy eliminating dissidents and grabbing territory.

After Dou Jiande established himself as the king of Changle in Leshou of Hejian County in the first month of this year, he began to divide his troops to capture the counties of Hebei, Xindu County, Pingyuan County, Zhao County, etc., all of which were owned by him, but Qinghe County was not occupied by Dou Jiande because of the warlike Yang Shanhui.

Yang Shanhui also often took the initiative to lead troops to fight with Dou Jiande's army, so if Dou Jiande wanted to dominate Hebei, he had to deal with Yang Shanhui.

In March of the thirteenth year of the Great Cause, Dou Jiande led an army of 120,000 to surround Qinghe City, and attacked Qinghe City more than once, Yang Shanhui only took 8,000 people, and stubbornly defended Qinghe City for a month and a half, but in the end, there were no reinforcements outside, no food inside, and Qinghe City was still broken by Dou Jiande.

On April 16, Dou Jiande surrounded the Taishou Mansion and wrote a letter to recruit Yang Shanhui, but the letter was just right, and before it could be sent out, the Taishou Mansion ignited a raging fire, and Yang Shanhui actually burned himself to death.

In July, Yang Guang sent Wang Shichong to lead the elite soldiers of Jiang and Huai, the general Wang Long led Huang Man of the Qiongdu Yi Department, Wei Ji, the ambassador of Hebei to arrest Taichang Shaoqing, and the ambassador Huyalang of Henan to arrest Wang Wei and others led their troops to the eastern capital to coordinate the crusade against Li Mi.

Yang Guang ordered Wang Shichong and other generals to be under the command of Xue Shixiong, and the thieves they encountered could be killed at will.

Xue Shixiong walked to Hejian County and garrisoned troops in Qilijing, looking at the situation, it seemed that he intended to destroy Dou Jiande's army along the way. Dou Jiande's men were frightened and retreated from the occupied cities and fled south, claiming that they would return to Douzigang and Gaojibo.

Because Xue Shixiong has been fighting everywhere since the time of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, he declared that although Yang Guang's first two expeditions to Goryeo ended in failure, Xue Shixiong had good military achievements, so Dou Jiande's generals were so afraid of Xue Shixiong.

Xue Shixiong saw that Dou Jiande's army was broken and fled from time to time, and he also knew that they were afraid of him, so he felt quite proud, so he no longer guarded against Dou Jiande's army.

Dou Jiande finally defeated Yang Shanhui not long ago and achieved his current power and prestige, so he was unwilling to sit idly by and plan to take the initiative to attack Xue Shixiong's army.

Dou Jiande's garrison was 140 miles away from Xue Shixiong's military camp, Jiande led 280 death squads first, ordered the rest of the people to set off one after another, and made an agreement with the soldiers: "Attack Xue Ying at night, and if the sky is already bright when you arrive, surrender." ”

Dou Jiande led the army to a place less than a mile away from Xue Ying, the sky was about to dawn, Dou Jiande was confused, and his heart seemed to be doomed to be defeated by Xue Shixiong, dominate Hebei, and chase the Central Plains after all

So Dou Jiande summoned the generals and planned to discuss the surrender with everyone.

But at this moment, the sky suddenly fell heavy fog, and people couldn't make out of each other, Dou Jiande said happily: "This is really God helping me!" So he led his army into Xue's camp and attacked them.

Due to the heavy fog, Xue Shixiong's army did not know what was going on, and panicked, resulting in chaos in the barracks, the soldiers trampled on each other, most of the dead and wounded, and the rest fled over the fence, Xue Shixiong could not stop it, and only fled back to Yuyang with dozens of cavalry on the left and right. After that, Xue Shixiong was ashamed and angry about this, and soon died of illness. Dou Jiande reoccupied Hejian County.

After this battle, Dou Jiande's reputation increased greatly, and there were no Sui Dynasty generals in Hebei who could resist Dou Jiande's attack on the city, and most of the places in Hebei were owned by Dou Jiande.

JAC.

Yang Guang sent Chen Ling, the general of the right imperial guard, to attack Du Fuwei, and Du Fuwei led his troops to resist the official army. Chen Ling learned that Du Fuwei's army was short of food, so he held the camp tightly, did not come out to fight, and planned to drag it until Du Fuwei's food was exhausted.

Du Fuwei had no countermeasures for a while, and his adopted son Wang Xiong offered advice: "Chen Ling is arrogant and irritable, if he is provoked, he can't help but go out of the camp to fight." ”

Du Fuwei adopted Wang Xiongdan's strategy and asked Chen Ling to give Chen Ling a set of women's clothes, and called Chen Ling "Chen Mada".

Chen Ling obviously did not have the patience of Sima Yi, and after being insulted by this, he was furious and led his army to fight, Du Fuwei led the army to attack hard, breaking the official army, and Chen Ling escaped alone.

Du Fuwei took advantage of the victory to break through Gaoyou, led his troops to occupy Liyang, proclaimed himself the governor, appointed Fu Gongyou as the long history, and assigned the generals to capture the counties of Jiangdu County.

Du Fuwei often selected 5,000 people who dared to die, calling them "recruitment", and he was extremely favored by this team and treated them well. Whenever there was a battle, he ordered the "upper recruit" to attack first, and after the battle, the soldiers were examined, and whoever was wounded on the back was put to death, believing that the wound on his back was due to retreat.