General Huangfu Ju led 10,000 troops to garrison in Caohan County on the west side of Jincheng County, the biggest threat after Xue Ju raised his troops, Xue Ju selected 2,000 elite soldiers to attack Huangfu Juan, and killed Huangfu Ju in one fell swoop, and no one in Longyou could resist Xue Ju.

Zhong Lishu, the chief of the Qiang people in Minshan, led 20,000 people to join Xue Ju, and Xue Ju's army was greatly boosted. He renamed Xue Renguo as the king of Qi and led the title of marshal of the Eastern March; Xue Renyue was the king of Jin and concurrently served as the assassin of Hezhou; The thief Shuai Zongluo was the king of Xing and served as Xue Renguo's deputy general.

After that, Xue Ju divided his troops to attack the land and captured the two counties of Xiping and Douhe. Soon, the land of Longxi was occupied by Xue Ju, he had 130,000 troops, and the soldiers were strong, and he wanted to enter Chang'an, and achieve the foundation of immortality.

Coveting Guanzhong, in addition to Li Yuan, Xue Ju and others, there is also Li Mi, who is the strongest in the rebel army at this time.

Now, if you catch a random passer-by and ask him who is the person who is most likely to seize the Sui Dynasty, then that passerby's answer is eight times out of ten. Jiuhui is Li Mi.

Li Mi's current limelight is indeed not comparable to others, just recently, Pei Renji, who connected Ren Zhang Xutuo to become the ambassador of Henan Province, also led the people of his headquarters to surrender Li Mi in the Tiger Prison.

Pei Renji used to reward all the military funds captured by the thief army every time he defeated the thief army, but Xiao Huaijing, the imperial historian of the prison army, opposed this, and the soldiers resented Xiao Huaijing.

Xiao Huaijing repeatedly searched for Pei Renji's negligence to impeach him, when Li Mi attacked the battle of Luokou Cangcheng, Pei Renji missed the schedule, he heard that Liu Changgong and others were defeated, and he was afraid of Li Mi and did not dare to advance, so he stationed troops in the Valley of Hundred Flowers to strengthen the camp to defend himself, but he was afraid of being punished by the imperial court.

Li Mi knew that Pei Renji was in a dilemma, so he sent someone to persuade him to surrender and tempted him with huge profits. The former Qi County Yingyanglang put Jia Wuben's son Jia Yanfu in Pei's army, he persuaded Pei Renji to surrender Li Mi, Pei Renji said: "What about Xiao Yushi? ”

Jia Yunfu said: "Xiao Jun is like a chicken perched on a branch, if he doesn't know how to improvise, it's up to you to make a knife." ”

Pei Renji took Jia Yanfu's suggestion and sent him to ask Li Mi for surrender. Li Mi was overjoyed, appointed Jia Yanfu as the commander of the marshal's mansion to join the army, and also kept a record of the affairs of the office, sent him back to Pei Renji, and brought Pei Renji a letter, comforting him and accepting his subordination, after which Pei Renji returned to the tiger prison where he was still garrisoned.

Xiao Huaijing secretly reported the incident, and when Pei Renji found out, he killed Xiao Huaijing and led his men to surrender to Li Mi in the Tiger Prison City.

Li Feng Pei Renji is the Shangzhu State and the Duke of Hedong; Pei Renji's son Pei Xingyan was brave and good at fighting, and Li Mi also named him Shangzhu Guo and Jiangjun Gong.

At this time, Qin Shubao and Cheng Yanjin, who were captured in the battle of Dahai Temple, also took refuge in Li Mi, Li Mi knew that the two were brave, so they were both used as hussars, but Luo Shixin could not let go of Li Mi's killing of Zhang Xutuo, so when Pei Renji surrendered to Li Mi, he rode away alone and disappeared.

Li Mi also selected 8,000 brave people in the army, and subordinated to four hussars to defend themselves, called the internal army, Li Mi often said to the people: "These 8,000 people are enough to be a million!" ”

On April 17, Yang Guang ordered the prison general Pang Yu and Hu Benlang general Huo Shiju to lead the troops in the Guannei to rescue the eastern capital.

Chai Xiaohe persuaded Li Midao: "The mountains and rivers of Qin are dangerous, and Qin and Han relied on it to establish the cause of the emperor. Now it is better to send Zhai Situ to guard Luokou, Pei Zhuguo to guard Luo, you personally select the elite to attack Chang'an to the west, the Beijing division is captured, the foundation is consolidated, and the army is stronger. Then wave the army to the east to pacify the Dinghe and Luo areas, spread the text, and the world will be pacified.

Now that the Sui royal family has lost its foundation, the world's heroes are competing for deer, if you don't enter the customs earlier, there must be someone who will do it before us, and at that time, it will be too late to regret! ”

Li Mi said: "This is indeed the best policy, and I have been thinking about it for a long time." But the faint king of the Sui Dynasty is still there, there are still many soldiers and horses following him, and my subordinates are all people east of Tongguan, seeing that Luoyang has not been captured, who is willing to march west with me? The generals are all reckless thieves, and if they stay here without me to lead them, they will compete with each other, and then the great cause will be over. ”

When Yang Xuangan rebelled, Li Mi offered Yang Xuangan three strategies, the middle and lower strategies, and the middle strategy was to drive the light army directly to Guanzhong, so Li Mi naturally knew the importance of Guanzhong.

However, there are some things that only the person who has become the decision-maker will know the difficulties. Yang Xuangan chose Li Mi's three strategies back then, and then besieged the Eastern Capital, and now Li Mi himself has made the same choice as Yang Xuangan back then, which is really full of drama.

If Li Mi was still the one who had nothing, he would definitely choose the elite to attack Chang'an westward if he had the opportunity, but at this time, he was the Duke of Wei and had hundreds of thousands of troops.

Therefore, if Li Mi wants to enter the Guanzhong, he must first capture the eastern capital Luoyang, and if Luoyang is not captured, everything is impossible.

After hearing that Li Mi had rejected his suggestion, Chai Xiaohe felt a little disappointed, so he had to retreat and say, "Since the army cannot advance westward, I request to sneak into the gap between the officers and the army, so as to take the opportunity to attack." Li Mi agreed.

Chai Xiaohe then took dozens of cavalry to Shaanxi County, and more than 10,000 thieves in the mountains attached to him.

For the attack on Luoyang, Li Mi has already made a plan, Luoyang has millions of people, and the food required every day is an astronomical amount, if Luoyang's grain is cut off, Luoyang will not be attacked.

As long as the source of food in Luoyang, one is Luokoucang, which has now been occupied by Li Mi, and the other is Huiluocang, which is still under the control of Luoyang, and is the last lifeline of Luoyang.

On 19 April, Li Mi sent Pei Renji and Meng Rang to lead more than 20,000 men to attack and capture Dongcang, which was back to Luocang, burned the Tianjin Bridge, and looted the troops on a large scale.

The eastern capital sent troops to attack, Pei Renji and others were defeated and fled, and Li Mi personally led his troops to be stationed in Huiluocang.

At that time, there were still more than 200,000 troops in the eastern capital, and the soldiers were unarmoured day and night, knocking on the bangzi to patrol the city. Li Mi attacked Yanshi and Kim Yong near Luoyang, but failed to conquer them. On the 24th, Li Mi returned to Luokou.

At this time, Li Mi's army was very strong, and often attacked the eastern capital Xiyuan to engage the Sui soldiers. However, at this time, in order to capture Huiluocang, Li Mi was accidentally shot in the shoulder by a stray arrow, so he was disgusted and lay in the camp to recuperate.

Luoyang can't accept to go back to Luocang and throw it away, if they don't return to Luocang, they all have to starve to death.

On the 28th, Yang Tong, the king of Yue, sent Duan Da and Pang Yu and others to send troops by night to line up in the northwest of Huiluocang.

Li Mi had to give up returning to Luokou and rushed to Luokou, Chai Xiaohe, who was planning for Li Mi to enter the customs, had already received 10,000 people, but after hearing the news of Li Mi's defeat and retreat, they broke up, Chai Xiaohe had to ride back to Li Mi's army, and Li Mi's entry into the customs became far away, and it was precisely because of this that the Li family in Taiyuan had an opportunity.