On August 29, Li Yuan led his army westward, and when he passed through Yang Guang's palace garden, he closed all of them and released the palace maids to return them to his relatives.

On the fourth day of the ninth month, Li Yuan arrived near Chang'an, and camped in the northwest of Chunming Gate (the middle gate of the three gates in the east of Chang'an), and all the troops gathered in Chang'an, with a total of more than 200,000 soldiers and horses, and the army was powerful and powerful.

Li Yuan ordered all troops to be stationed in the camp and not to disturb the people in the village, and then repeatedly sent envoys to the city to declare their respect for the Sui royal family to Wei Wensheng and others who were defending Chang'an, but Wei Wensheng and others did not reply.

On the 14th, Li Yuan ordered the troops to march and surrounded Chang'an, and the hearts of the people in Chang'an fluctuated, and the world paid attention to it.

Chang'an City is located in the south of Weishui, the north of Zhongnan Mountain, the capital of the Qin Dynasty Xianyang is located in the northwest of Chang'an City of Sui, Chang'an City since the establishment of the capital of the Han Dynasty, the past dynasties are also the capital of the place.

Because Chang'an is the capital of Guanzhong and the Xijing of the Sui Dynasty, it is a place related to the safety of the world.

In the second year of the opening of the emperor, Emperor Wen of Sui because the system of the old capital of the Han Dynasty was too narrow, the age was long, and the palace was decayed, so he sent people to build Daxing City in the southeast of the old capital thirteen miles, the south of the Meridian Valley, the north pillow Longshouyuan, the left Linba, Chan, the right to Fengshui and the capital.

There are three bridges on the Weishui in the north of Chang'an City, one is the Wei Bridge, fifty miles northeast of the city, the other is the Zhongwei Bridge, twenty-five miles north of the city, the third is the West Wei Bridge, fifty miles northwest of the city, these three bridges are all important places to guard Chang'an, but the defenders of Chang'an are not sent a single soldier, allowing the Li army to move smoothly in the middle of the period, it can be seen that the guard who presides over the overall situation of Chang'an is definitely not Wei Wensheng, who is good at war.

Li Yin, who had an old relationship with Wei Wensheng, originally planned to write a letter to Wei Wensheng to persuade him to surrender, but after seeing this situation, he had to break off this thought.

Just when the Li family began to prepare to attack Chang'an, Henan and Shandong were flooded and starved all over the wilderness. Yang Guang issued an edict to open the Liyang warehouse to help the hungry, but the officials did not provide relief on time, and tens of thousands of people died every day.

Xu Shiji said to Li Mi: "The chaos in the world was originally due to famine, but now if we get Liyang Cang again, the big thing will be successful." ”

Li Mi listened to Xu Shiji's advice, sent Xu Shiji to lead 5,000 men to cross the Yellow River from Yuanwu, and together with Yuan Baobao, Hao Xiaode, Li Wenxiang, Zhang Sheng, the Huanshui thief, and Zhao Junde, the Qinghe thief, attacked Liyangcang and guarded there.

Xu Shiji opened Liyang and let the people eat food, and within ten days he got more than 200,000 elite soldiers, and Wu'an, Yong'an, Yiyang, Yiyang, and Qijun all surrendered to Li Mi one after another.

Dou Jiande, Zhu Cang and others also sent envoys to attach themselves to Li Mi. Li sealed Zhu Cang as the governor of Yangzhou and Deng Gong, and was commensurate with the Dou Jiande brothers.

Taishan Taoist priest Xu Hongke presented a book to Li Mi and said: "A large number of people and horses have been gathered together for a long time, I am afraid that the food will be exhausted, and the division will be war-weary after a long time, so it will be difficult to win and succeed. ”

Li Mi thought that Xu Hongke's suggestion was very lucky, and wrote a letter to summon him, but did not take Xu Hongke's advice. The reason is still the same as Chai Xiaohe, who refused to persuade him to enter the customs, he could not take the risk of attacking other places when Luoyang had not yet been captured.

After the Taoist priest Xu Hongke learned of Li Mi's recovery, he did not go to Li Mi and left Mount Tai to travel.

After Li Mi learned that Xu Hongke couldn't come, he was very unhappy, and asked a person in the tent who was also wearing a Taoist robe: "Xuancheng, why did you say Xu Hongke abandoned me?" ”

This man in a Taoist robe, surnamed Wei Mingzheng Xuancheng, is a native of Julu, Hebei, lonely and poor when he was young, but he likes to read, has great ambitions, and is dissolute and does not operate a business to make a living. At the beginning, he was a Taoist priest, so he liked to wear Taoist clothes, and was later called by the treasure of Chengyuan in Wuyang County to take charge of books.

In August this year, Yuan Baobao surrendered to Li Mi and was sealed by Li as Shangzhu State and Wuyang Gong. Yuan Baobao then sent Wei Zheng to write a letter to Li Mi to thank him, and Li Mi liked Wei Zheng's words, so he summoned him to join the army for the Marshal's Mansion Literature and take charge of the bookkeeper's office.

After Wei Zheng heard Li Mi's inquiry at this time, he stood up and replied: "Xu Hongke should be because Duke Wei didn't listen to his advice, so he despised Duke Wei, so he didn't want to vote!" ”

After Li Mi heard this, he frowned greatly, and thought in his heart, this Wei Zheng has talent, but he speaks too straightly, which is really unpleasant.

Wei Zheng also seemed to know that Li Mi hated him, so he took the initiative to withdraw from Li Mi's camp, he shook his head, and sighed in his heart: "In the past, when Luoyang had no unscrupulous generals, Wei Gong was still unable to conquer Luoyang, and now Wang Shichong, who has a reputation for being good at fighting, leads the Jianghuai strong army to preside over the overall situation of Luoyang, and Wei Gong has no chance to capture Luoyang." ”

Wang Shichong rushed to Luoyang, the eastern capital, in July this year, and at that time Yang Guang seemed to be determined to destroy Li Mi, and almost transferred the current imperial court's capable troops to Luoyang, regardless of distance or near, and Wang Shichong was among them.

At the beginning, Wang Shichong was originally nominally under the command of Xue Shixiong, but Wang Shichong never expected that suddenly, joy descended from the sky, and the famous Xue Shixiong was defeated by Dou Jiande, and died of illness shortly after returning to the jurisdiction, so that Wang Shichong was able to take over Xue Shixiong's heavy responsibility and lead the Luoyang army.

"Could it be that God is helping me to achieve great things?" Wang Shichong will always be so imaginary in his heart for a while.

Since Wang Shichong came to Luoyang, he didn't plan to return to Jiangdu, his idea at this time was to eliminate Li Mi as soon as possible, and then dominate the Central Plains, and then fight for the world with Luoyang soldiers!

Because of Li Mi and Wang Shichong's respective ambitions and goals, the two are destined to be enemies of life and death, and the final outcome is either his death or my death.

On September 15, Wang Shichong led the army to cross Luoshui at night and set up camp in Heishi, and the next day, he divided his troops to guard the camp, and he led the elite soldiers to line up in Luobei, and the soldiers pointed directly at Luokoucang, the base camp of Li Mi's army.

When Li Mi heard the news, he led his troops across Luoshui to meet the battle.

Li Mi still thought that Wang Shichong was still as easy to deal with as Duan Da and others, the defender of the eastern capital, and as soon as the two armies fought, he ordered the army to attack on all fronts and attack Wang Shichong's army.

Among the large army led by Wang Shichong, there are 40,000 Wang Shichong's descendant troops, which are the Jianghuai strong troops who have followed him for many years, and when he saw that Li Mi had put all the troops into battle at the beginning, Wang Shichong sneered, let the Jianghuai strong troops hold back, and command the rest of the army to resist Li Mi's army.

The two sides fought for half an hour, Wang Shichong's camp gradually stopped, and there was a rout, and at this moment, Wang Shichong personally led 40,000 Jianghuai troops to Li Mizhong's army to kill.

Wang Shichong's 40,000 Jianghuai strong brigade can be regarded as one of the world's heroes, and a small number of troops in Li Mi's army can block it, but all those troops have been put into the battlefield, and they are fighting with the enemy army inseparably, and it is too late to be transferred.