After the heavy rain, the weather turned clear, the warm sunshine could not distinguish between good and evil, and sprinkled in Luoyang and Kim Yong City without distinguishing between each other, Li Mi had a faint smile on his face, and he was in a good mood, he was indeed very happy, because Wang Bodang came with the news that Yang Qing led the county to surrender, which was much earlier than he expected.

Xingyang, without the Xingyang army, is like a lonely boat floating in the river, quietly waiting for his fate, Wang Bodang personally led 30,000 troops to Xingyang City, Yang Qing did not have any resistance, and surrendered the county.

The army under the city was ready to go, Li Mi stood on the city wall, the sky was clear at this time, he could vaguely see the gray tiles of the vermilion wall in the distance, and he could also imagine the golden splendor in the palace, so he did not hesitate to order: the army set off and attacked the eastern capital Luoyang.

Hundreds of ox carts followed closely behind the army, countless grain and grass baggage made the wheels leave deep marks on the ground, there were more than a dozen stone throwers and crash cars, and the 100,000 army was already huge, plus a greater number of servants, so that the soldiers standing on Luoyang City were frightened.

The Wagang army stopped about five miles away from the upper east gate, and then began to set up camp, dig trenches, erect fences, and build lookouts, completely ignoring the movement on the Luoyang side, and in the face of a hundred thousand troops, the king of Yue would not be stupid enough to send people out to die.

There are a total of seven gates in the east and south of Luoyang, each of which needs to be garrisoned to prevent the sneak attack of Wagang thieves, plus several rivers that lead directly to the inner city, there are only more than 10,000 soldiers who are really stationed at the upper east gate. But if the Wagang thieves really attacked, the soldiers of the other gates would be able to rush to this side quickly.

When night fell, the Wagang thieves lit a fire to cook, without the slightest appearance of attacking the city, and the soldiers defending the city did not dare to take it lightly, and lit torches to illuminate every inch of land under the city.

The assassination of Li Xuanba failed, and the king of Yue acted as if nothing had happened, and often summoned Li Xuanba into the palace to discuss countermeasures, which was related to the safety of the people of Luoyang, and Li Xuanba also temporarily forgot the grievances with the king of Yue, and sent Qin Qiong and Li Jing to lead the Xingyang army to guard Dingding and Changle respectively. He himself took Fang Xuanling, Luo Shixin and others to observe the every move of the Wagang thieves at the Upper East Gate.

"Seeing this picture, did Lord Zhongyongwei remember anything?" Under the city tower directly above the upper east gate, Yuan Wendu stroked his beard and said with a smile: "Back then, the adults rode alone, and the army of the frightened traitor Yang Xuangan did not dare to advance half a step, it was really unprecedented, and there will be no one in the future." ”

Li Mi stationed the army under the city, the purpose was to disturb the morale of the Luoyang soldiers, and Yuan Wendu mentioned the events of the year, naturally to boost morale.

"Although Xuanba can't remember what happened back then, it should have been a helpless move at that time, how can it be like today, there are tens of thousands of loyal and brave soldiers guarding the capital?" Li Xuanba smiled slightly and said, "Presumably, the enemy army is used to theft and is not stable in the city, so they will come here to set up camp. ”

Li Xuanba said something interesting, which caused the nearby generals to laugh involuntarily, Yuan Wen is old and serious, and his smile is more Sven, but he also feels a lot more relaxed, and secretly says that the current Li Xuanba is also a wonderful person.

The Wagang thieves had a good time outside the city, and the generals of the imperial court would not be stupid to stand on the city wall all night, Yuan Wendu sent people to take turns to monitor the movements of the Wagang thieves, and they took the lead in leaving, Li Xuanba and others followed, and the night fell silent.

On the second day, a rapid drum sounded, Li Xuanba thought that the Wagang thieves had begun to attack the city, and hurriedly rode to the upper east gate, and then dismounted and walked to the city wall, but saw Yuan Wendu, Liu Changgong and others already standing under the city tower.

"Ladies and gentlemen, what happened?" Li Xuanba walked up to everyone, arched his hand, and asked.

The drum sounded for half an hour before Li Xuanba hurriedly arrived, and Liu Changgong said with a gloomy face: "If the Wagang thieves really attack the city, doesn't Lord Zhongyongwei feel that he is late?" ”

"Xuanba knows it in his heart, and he doesn't bother adults." Liu Changgong's attitude made Li Xuanba very unhappy, and he said lightly: "The enemy army is five miles away, and there is a moat as a barrier, can you climb the city wall in such a short time?" ”

"Hmph, strong words." Liu Changgong snorted coldly, no longer paying attention to Li Xuanba, and looked at the city.

Seeing Li Xuanba and Liu Changgong going toe-to-toe, Yuan Wendu sighed lightly, shouted Li Xuanba to his side, pointed to the dozens of tile gang thieves on the other side of the moat, and explained briefly.

It turned out that the Wagang thieves sent people out early in the morning to call for battle, but the generals in Luoyang knew that there were fierce generals like Xu Shiji, Shan Xiongxin, and Cheng Yanjin among the Wagang thieves, and no one dared to go out of the city to fight. It's not that they're afraid of death, it's just that the generals fight alone, which affects the morale of the losing side very much, so even if someone asks for battle, Yuan Wendu will carefully consider one or two.

Li Xuanba stood on the city wall for a while, listened to the insults coming from the city, and said in his heart: This is a battle, it is clearly a scolding array!

Most of the generals of the Wagang thieves are thieves, and the arrangement of troops may not be as good as the generals of the imperial court, but when it comes to scolding, I am afraid that the imperial court will send ten people, and they will not be able to compare to the Wagang thieves. Therefore, the rise of the thieves under the city scolded him, and Yuan Wendu and the others did not scold back for a long time, so they could only look at each other angrily.

Li Xuanba listened for a while, and finally understood why Liu Changgong had a bad tone, because except for Yang Gao, the king of Yue, he was the worst person to be scolded. King Yue is far away in the palace city, so naturally he can't hear the abuse outside the city, Liu Changgong is different, although the thief will be separated by more than two hundred steps, but it is actually no different from pointing at his nose and scolding.

The thief general greeted Liu Changgong's family again, and mentioned that he was easily defeated by Li Mi in front of everyone, which made Liu Changgong's face extremely ugly, he clenched his fists, endured for a moment, and said: "Lord Yuan, the last general asks to go out of the city to fight!" ”

Of course, Yuan Wendu knew that Liu Changgong was just impulsive, he shook his head and did not agree.

The thief scolded for half an hour, no one in Luoyang City paid attention to him, laughed mockingly, turned the horse's head and returned to the camp, Yuan Wendu's breath was not finished, the abuse started again, and the Wagang thief was actually a different person.

It's none of his business, the people who scolded him were King Yue and Liu Changgong, and of course Li Xuanba would not ask for a fight. At first, he thought it was interesting, but after listening to it for two hours, he got bored. When he was in the fugue, he suddenly remembered something, so he turned his head and whispered something to Liang Xiao, and Liang Xiao's face instantly became colorful.

"It's urgent, hurry up." Seeing that Liang Xiao didn't move, Li Xuanba glared at him and commanded. Liang Xiao hesitated for a moment, trotted down the city wall, stepped on the war horse and galloped towards the inner city. Yuan Wendu and the others saw Li Xuanba's solemn face, thinking that he would take action, and began to speculate wildly.

It didn't take long for Liang Xiao to ride back to the city wall, and Li Xuanba hurriedly walked down, met Liang Xiao, and took a steaming roast leg of lamb from him.

Liu Changgong's anger was even worse, he couldn't wait to snatch the arrows of his entourage and shoot Li Xuanba directly, Yuan Wendu couldn't help frowning, he didn't understand how Li Xuanba still had the heart to eat.

When you are hungry, you have to eat, this is a matter of course in Li Xuanba's opinion, he is gnawing on the roast leg of lamb on one side, and the fingers of the other hand are tapping rhythmically on the thigh, if there are careful people who pay attention, they will find that the rhythm of Li Xuanba's finger movements is very synchronized with the abuse outside the city.

"What about the first warrior of the Great Sui back then, wasn't he also in Luoyang? How do you make a turtle with a shrunken head? After scolding the generals on the city wall, the Wagang thieves pointed the finger at Li Xuanba, laughed and said: "Is there no meat to eat in Luoyang, and you don't even have the strength to stand for a few hours?" ”

Scolding others, Li Xuanba felt that it didn't matter, and now he scolded himself, of course he couldn't bear it, I saw him holding a half-eaten leg of mutton, running up the city wall, and then lying on the battlement, holding the leg of mutton high, and shouting loudly: "This is not meat, is it Ling Zun's leg?" "The whole process was seamless and seamless in one go.