The reason why the Bird Mouse Valley and Jiahu Fort appear so dangerous is that it is formed by the confrontation between Huoshan (Taiyue Mountain) and Luliang Mountain on the east and west sides of Fenshui, and Huoyi is at the southern entrance of this narrow pass, if Li Jun does not pull it out, it will not be able to continue to march at all, so the battle of Huoyi has to be fought.

Li Yuan was afraid that Song Laosheng would stick to Huoyi without fighting, which would make the war protracted, so he did not easily order an attack on Huoyi City, and after letting the army settle down in the camp, he summoned the generals to discuss the attack on Huoyi.

Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin seemed to have a plan, and were about to speak, but Li Yin preemptively said, "Song Laosheng has courage and no strategy, we use light horses to provoke him, it stands to reason that he will not not fight, if he can't hold on, we will frame him for having two hearts for us, he is afraid of being reported by the people who are left and right, how dare he not fight?" ”

After Li Yuan heard this, he clapped his hands and praised: "What Wu'er said makes sense, when Song Laosheng failed to meet our army in Jiahubao, I knew that he was incompetent. ”

Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin felt a little depressed about this, because Li Yin's words were exactly what the two of them had just said.

Li Yuan immediately dispatched troops and ordered Li Yin to lead the 5,000 elite cavalry of his headquarters to wait for the fighters a few miles east of Huoyi City, and then sent Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin to lead dozens of cavalry to the city, raising whips and waving flags as if they were going to surround the city, and insulting Song Laosheng.

Song Laosheng really couldn't stand such an insult, and immediately became furious, and personally led 30,000 people to separate ways from the east gate and the south gate to fight. Li Yuan sent Yin Kaishan to immediately gather the rear army, and after the rear army came, Li Yuan and Li Jiancheng lined up in the east of the city, and Li Shimin lined up in the south of the city.

Li Yuan and Li Jiancheng's troops took the lead in fighting with Song Laosheng's men and horses, and Li Shimin's troops also fought with the enemy army in the south of the city.

For a time, the battlefield shouted and killed all day long, flesh and blood flew everywhere, and the battle of Huoyi, which decided the fate of the Li family, officially began.

After the Li family's army fought with Song Laosheng's army for a while, the Li family's army was slightly inferior to the elite brought by Song Laoshen from Guanzhong after all, so it gradually became a little weak.

After Pei Lin saw this, his face was frightened, and he trembled to Li Yuan: "Big ...... General, our men and horses don't seem to be able to withstand it, or ...... Or ......"

Pei Lin originally wanted to persuade Li Yuan to retreat, but Liu Wenjing on the side glared at him, Pei Lin felt a chill in his heart, and was forced to go back when he said the words on his lips.

Li Yuan shouted loudly: "Please all the armies must resist again, my son Li Yin will definitely be able to help us reverse the occupation in the end!" ”

Li Yuan's biggest reliance on this battle was naturally the five thousand cavalry led by Li Yin himself. Just when the battle between the two sides entered the most stalemate, suddenly the roaring sound of horses' hooves sounded, and Li Yin finally lived up to expectations, leading his troops to gallop down from Nanyuan, attacking Song Laosheng's army formation, and attacking the back of Song Laosheng's army.

Li Yin slashed and slashed, killing dozens of people with his own hands, both knives were cut off, and the splashed blood stained his sleeves, Li Yin shook off the blood on his sleeves and fought again.

The Li family's army, which had already shown some signs of collapse, was invigorated again after seeing this situation, and Li Yuan also took advantage of the fact that the ranks of Song Laoshen's army were a little chaotic by Li Yin's cavalry, and sent people to shout around: "The Li army has captured Song Laosheng!" ”

Song Laosheng's army then began to revolve, Li Yuan was in good spirits for a while, commanded the army to cover the past, Song Laosheng's army morale plummeted, and finally couldn't resist, so he was defeated.

Li Yuan commanded the army to quickly reach the city gate, intercept Song Laosheng, and prevent the rout army from entering the city, Song Laosheng had nowhere to escape in the chaos, so he had to dismount and jump into the trench, wanting to hide in it for a while and then make plans, but was recognized by Liu Hongji who was passing by at a glance.

In this battle, the corpses of the Sui army were scattered for several miles.

At this time, it was already dark, but Li Yuan immediately ordered the army to take advantage of the victory to pursue, and immediately ascended the city to attack Huoyi, there was no siege equipment at that time, as long as the simple ladder, the soldiers went to the city shirtless, because the main general Song Laosheng was dead, the morale in Huoyi was low, and there was no intention to resist at all, so the Li army quickly captured Huoyi, the battle of Huoyi, and finally ended with the victory of the Li army.

The Battle of Huoyi was undoubtedly a crucial battle, after this battle, Huoyi, which was extremely dangerous on the way for the imperial court to prevent the Li family's army from entering the customs, was captured by the Li family, and the gate to enter the customs was opened by the Li army again.

In the battle of Huoyi, the Li army also suffered a certain degree of attrition, so Li Yuan ordered the army to temporarily rest in Huoyi.

While recuperating, Li Yuan also began to reward the meritorious soldiers who captured Huoyi, and some military officials believed that those who were recruited as slaves could not be evaluated in the same way as their beloved.

Li Yuan said: "Between the arrows and stones, there is no distinction between high and low, when discussing honors, what is the difference? Whether the background is high or low, it should also be rewarded according to merit. ”

After such a reward was issued, Li Jun's morale immediately soared.

On the eighth day of the sixth month, Li Yuan met with the officials of Huoyi, gave them a reward, just like Xihe County, and selected strong men from Huoyi to join the army. Sergeants whose ancestral homes are in Guanzhong want to return to their hometowns are awarded the five-rank loose officers and let them go back.

Someone persuaded Li Yuan that there were too many officials, and Li Yuan said: "The Sui clan is stingy with the reward of the honor, so it loses the hearts of the people. How can I emulate them? Besides, using official positions to gather people is better than soldiers! ”

After everyone heard Li Yuan say this, they all felt that it made sense, so they stopped persuading each other.

Just when the Li family captured Huoyi, Xue Ju, who occupied the Longyou region, was also preparing to personally lead a large army to capture Chang'an. However, before Xue Ju's army was assembled, news came that the Hexi area behind him had all been occupied by a man named Li Liang.

Li Rail is a well-known prestige in the Hexi region, resourceful, eloquent, and wealthy, fond of chivalrous deeds, so praised by the township, and now is the Sima of Yingyang Mansion in Wuwei County.

When Xue Ju was in rebellion in Jincheng, Li Liang and Cao Zhen, Guan Jin, Liang Shuo, An Ren and others from the same county discussed: "After Xue Ju becomes powerful, he will definitely come to invade the Hexi region, the county officials are mediocre and cowardly, and they can't resist Xue Ju depending on the situation, but how can we let ourselves and our wives and children be prisoners without resistance?" It is better for everyone to work together to resist Xue Ju and wait for the situation to change. ”

Everyone agrees that this is a good idea. I wanted to nominate a person as the leader, but everyone pushed each other and refused to come out as the leader.

Cao Zhen said: "I have heard for a long time that the Li family should be the Son of Heaven, and today Sima Li Liang also participated in this plan, isn't this the destiny of heaven?" ”

So everyone bowed down to Li Rail together, worshiping him as the master, and after Li Rail resigned a few times, he also accepted everyone's bowing.

It can be seen that once a certain diagram becomes popular, it does have an extraordinary invisible power, because of the diagram of "Li should be the Son of Heaven", at this time, the surname Li is the most common among the rebel leaders in the world.