On May 29, Liu Wuzhou captured Pingyao (now Jinxian County, which originally belonged to Xihe County, which was now changed to Fenzhou. ）

At the beginning of June, Liu Wuzhou appointed Song Jingang as the Grand Xingtai of the Southwest Province, and asked him to lead 30,000 soldiers and horses to continue the siege of Jinyang, while Liu Wuzhou himself advanced to Jiezhou (Zhijiexiu County, located in the southern part of Pingyao County).

Liu Wuzhou had already installed an internal response in Jiexiu, and when the army was surrounded, he organized the monks to hang the Buddha flag under the city wall and pulled Liu Wuzhou's soldiers into the city, so Liu Wuzhou easily captured Jiezhou.

When the news of Liu Wuzhou's successive sieges of the city reached Chang'an, Li Yuan finally couldn't sit still, and the Manchu civil and military forces in Chang'an finally realized Liu Wuzhou's greatness and knew that he was indeed not comparable to the people of Liang Shidu.

At the same time, Wang Shichong also divided hundreds of thousands of troops and attacked Yizhou, West Jeju and other places in the Tang Dynasty, which was menacing. On the Liang side, after repeatedly attacking Lingzhou to no avail, he changed his target and joined forces with the Turks to invade Yanzhou with thousands of cavalry.

On the Jianghan side, Emperor Xiao Mo of Liang also sent his general Yang Daosheng to attack Xiazhou in the Tang Dynasty at this time.

Therefore, at this time, Datang is already facing the attack of the Quartet at the same time, and the situation can be described as very bad, and Datang is actually facing the second major crisis since the founding of the country.

On the eighth day of the first month of June, the Turkic envoys came to Chang'an to report the obituary of Shibi Khan, Li Yuan held a mourning ceremony in Changle Gate (the east gate of the three gates in the south of the palace), and did not go to the court for three days, ordered hundreds of officials to go to the envoy's residence to mourn, and sent Zheng Deting, a person from the Inner Shishe, to the condolence office Luo Khan, and gave 30,000 pieces of funeral rites.

Li Yuan hoped to ease relations with the Turks and prevent the Turks from taking advantage of the fire to rob and aggravate the predicament faced by the Tang Dynasty.

On the ninth day of the first month, Li Yuan summoned some of the princes and ministers to discuss matters in the Wude Palace, and Li Yin was naturally among them.

The matter discussed was nothing more than how to deal with the situation at this time, Li Yuan adopted the method of first making it easy and then making it difficult, so that everyone could discuss how to deal with Xiao Mo and Liang Shidu first, and then discuss Liu Wuzhou and Wang Shichong.

Xiao Mill's attack on Xiazhou is nothing more than to plot against the Bashu region of the Tang Dynasty, and the land of Bashu was soothed by Li Xiaogong, the king of Zhaojun, and it is most suitable to send him to preside over the overall situation.

However, everyone knows that the reason why Li Xiaogong was able to successfully surrender the land of Bashu was because the Taishou, county commanders and leaders of various ethnic groups in those places had sent people to Chang'an in advance to discuss, and Li Xiaogong's personal military ability could not be determined, so he still needed to send him a person with military talent.

"Gyeongju Governor Li Jing can be the deputy general." Li Yin said at this time.

Li Jing was worshiped as the governor of Gyeongju because of various merits in the founding of the country, guarding the northern region of Guanzhong, he was relatively withdrawn in temperament, although he came out of Li Yin's account, but after guarding Gyeongju, he rarely interacted with people, and almost did not communicate with Li Yin, just like a lonely minister.

With Li Jing's talent, it is really a waste to guard the land of a state, so Li Yin will strongly recommend it to Li Yuan at this time, not to mention that in history, Li Jing also teamed up with Li Xiaogong to deal with Xiao Miao.

Since Li Jing pacified Lishi County with a few thousand soldiers and horses, his military talent has been known, so at this time, after a little consideration, Li Yuan agreed to Li Yin's proposal.

As for Liang Shidu, Li Yuan looked at Li Yin, Li Yin is now controlling the soldiers and horses in Guanbei, and he should solve this trouble for Datang.

In Li Yin's opinion, Liang Shidu was no longer worthy of him to go out in person, so he proposed to let Duan Decao, the head of the march, deal with it, Duan Decao was the son of Duan Xiaoxian, and he had a reputation for being good at fighting, and Li Yuan also agreed.

After discussing Xiao Mo and Liang Shidu, it was time for Liu Wuzhou and Wang Shichong, and Li Yin and Li Shimin both took the initiative to ask Ying to go to war with Liu Wuzhou, subdue the lost land, and rescue Jinyang.

Although Wang Shichong is powerful, but the Tang Dynasty has long been prepared for it, and has built many fortifications on the border between the two sides, if he wants to resist, it should not be difficult, in contrast, the current Liu Wuzhou is much more difficult to deal with, Li Yin and Li Shimin are both arrogant, and they both choose the most difficult person to fight.

However, at this moment, Pei Lin smiled and said, "Little Liu Wuzhou, how can you use the King of Jin and the King of Qin to go out in person?" Let the old man lead the troops to go, and he will definitely be able to capture him alive and bring it to Chang'an to dedicate it to His Majesty! ”

After Li Yin and Li Shimin heard this, they were stunned for a while, Pei Lin also knows how to lead soldiers? Where did he get the confidence to capture Liu Wuzhou alive!

Pei Lin immediately patted his chest and promised Li Yuan that he would let him lead his troops to meet Liu Wuzhou. In Li Yinding, in Hexi, after Li Shimin killed Zhu Wei, Pei Lin thought about leading troops to increase his military merits.

In Pei Lian's view, Liu Wuzhou is undoubtedly a very suitable candidate, he is not as Li Yin and Li Shimin think, how difficult Liu Wuzhou is to deal with, he thinks that with his familiarity with the Hedong region, and then bring 50,000 or 60,000 elite soldiers of the Tang Dynasty, he will be able to easily deal with Liu Wuzhou.

Li Yuan was suspicious of this, but his relationship with Pei Lin was extraordinary after all, and seeing that Pei Lin was so eager, it was not easy to refuse, so Li Yuan immediately appointed Pei Lin as the head of the Jinzhou Road march, listened to his cheap actions, and went to crusade against Liu Wuzhou with an army of 50,000.

Li Yin and Li Shimin were both a little dumbfounded by Li Yuan's decision, but they couldn't say anything more, so they could only accept it silently.

Subsequently, Li Yuan appointed Li Shimin as the general of the East Quest, and went to Xin'an to deal with Wang Shichong, and said to Li Yin, who was very war-minded: "The emperor and I will coordinate all parties in Chang'an together!" ”

Li Yin sang the promise, and then withdrew from the Wude Hall with the others.

Pei Lin looked at Li Yin with a smug face at this time, and laughed a few times, "King Jin, I used to know about your good news in Chang'an, but now you have to listen to my great victory in Chang'an." ”

Li Yin said expressionlessly: "I just hope you don't lose too badly." When he had said this, he went out of the palace. Pei Lin snorted with an ugly face, and also left the palace, taking the tiger talisman and ordering troops.

After Li Yin returned to the Jin Palace, he discussed things with Fang Xuanling and Song Zhengben in the study, and Fang Xuanling said with a worried face: "Your Majesty seems to be determined not to give His Highness the opportunity to make meritorious contributions, this is very difficult." ”

Song Zhengben shook his head, "Pei Lin has no choice but to lead the army, and he will soon be defeated, but can Your Majesty not rely on King Jin?" I'm afraid that His Majesty will still be like this in the future, and until the last moment, King Jin will not be used.

Fang Xuanling said: "In the past, the countermeasure we discussed was to guard the outside, make courtiers inside, enhance prestige, and observe the situation. I didn't have this opportunity before, but now if King Jin has another chance to go to Hedong......"

Li Yin stood up, looked out the window and said, "You guys are ready to think about it now!" Song Zhengben and Fang Xuanling were immediately ordered to leave.