After learning that Li Yin led his troops to attack his old nest Shuofang County, Liang Shi hurriedly withdrew his troops from Lingzhou and returned to Shuofang County in a hurry, but at this time, Li Yin had already evacuated Shuofang County and captured more than 20,000 people.

The population under the jurisdiction of Liang Shidu is not large, and he has lost more than 20,000 people in vain, which will have a great impact on the negative aspects of taxation and manpower in the rule, so Liang Shi knew about this situation, and he was immediately angry and couldn't breathe for a long time.

Li Yin later adopted Fang Xuanling's strategy and sent an envoy to Yulin County to get in touch with Guo Zihe and persuade him to surrender to the Tang Dynasty.

Yulin County is in the north of Shuofang County, the place where Liang Shidu is the belly of the power, Liang Shidu and Guo Zihe after the uprising, the Turks, mutual marriage, mutual non-aggression, if Guo Zi and the Tang Dynasty, it is the enemy of Liang Shidu.

Since Fang Xuanling made such a suggestion, he was naturally confident that Guo Zihe would agree to surrender, because the Yulin land is narrow and has few people, the north is the grassland, the south is Shuofang County, the east is the Yellow River, and the west is the desert Gobi, and the development space is limited.

Therefore, Guo Zihe must be whoever is strong.

Fang Xuanling did not expect badly, after Li Yin's envoy arrived in Yulin County, he was warmly received by Guo Zihe, after the envoy expressed his intentions, Guo Zihe did not say a word, and returned the children of Liang Shidu to Shuofang, cut off contact with Liang Shidu, and then sent his own brother Guo Zizheng and the envoy to the south to meet Li Yin.

When Guo Zihe had just finished meeting Li Yin, Li Yin received an urgent edict from Chang'an, so he set up soldiers to defend the border, and then immediately returned to the court, and Guo Zihe also entered Chang'an to surrender to Li Yuan.

On July 20, Li Yin returned to Xinfeng County, let the army be stationed here, and then rode straight into Chang'an with Fang Xuanling and others.

Gao Kai was defeated, and the main responsibility was naturally Li Shimin as the coach, but Li Yuan was unwilling to punish Li Shimin too much, so as not to have no one to balance Li Yin.

So, Li Yuan sent a letter to Yin Kaishan, Wang Junkuo and others, asking them to be wronged, taking the blame for the crime first, and promising that they would be rehired after a while.

In this regard, Yin Kaishan and others agreed, but Wang Junkuo did not agree, and in a fit of anger, he took thousands of people out of Wuguan to join Li Mi, and Li Yuan was helpless about it.

After that, Li Yuan said to the outside world that Gao Yuan's defeat had little to do with Li Shimin, because Li Shimin happened to have malaria at that time and needed to recuperate for some time, so he entrusted the military to Yin Kaishan and others. When this king is cured, he will be defeated! ”

However, Yin Kaishan and others insisted on not listening to Li Shimin's advice, and wanted to show force to deter the enemy, so they led their troops out of the city, resulting in a crushing defeat......

In the end, Yin Kaishan and many other generals who fought with Li Shimin this time were all dismissed from their official positions by Li Yuan. However, compared with the original history, the characters in it are missing Liu Wenjing and Liu Hongji, both of whom were asked to leave by Li Yin and did not participate in the Battle of Gaoqi.

In order to recover the decline and crisis caused by Gao Yuan's defeat, Li Yuan sent an envoy to Liangzhou while ordering Li Yin to return to Chang'an, promising Li Liang that he could conspire with him Longyou, and called Li Liang his younger brother.

Li Liang was very happy, he called himself the queen of Da Liang, and he also claimed that his ancestor was the descendant of Li Hui, the founder of Xiliang during the Sixteen Kingdoms period, but many people know that Li Yuan's branch is authentic, and it can be examined, Li Liang This is obviously far-fetched.

But now that Li Yuan calls Li Liang his younger brother, it is naturally after recognizing him as Li Wei.

So Li Liang immediately sent his brother Li Mao into Chang'an to pay tribute, Li Yuan took Li Mao as the general, worshiped Li Liang as the governor of Liangzhou, and sealed the king of Liang, which finally stabilized Li Liang and slightly reduced the pressure on Chang'an.

After Li Yin returned to Chang'an, he took Guo Zizheng to meet Li Yuan, Li Yuan was overjoyed, worshiped Guo Zihe as the governor of Lingzhou, and publicized this matter, because Guo Zihe was a prince who depended on the Turks, so he said that the Turks would go south to help Li Tang fight against Xue Ju.

Xue Ju's army originally came to attack the city of Chang'an, and after learning the news, he had some scruples, so he stopped his troops and watched, which made the high-ranking officials and people of the Tang Dynasty breathe a sigh of relief.

On the third day after Li Yin arrived in Chang'an, Li Yuan held a great court meeting again to discuss with the hundred officials how to deal with Xue Ju.

Li Shimin went out to ask for battle, and asked Li Yuan to give him a chance to be ashamed, for this reason, he was willing to make a military order, and if he didn't succeed, he would become a benevolent!

Li Shimin has his own honor and pride, he will never accept Gao Kai's defeat, and he will definitely wash away this shame for himself.

In the original history, Li Yuan finally gave Li Shimin a chance to be ashamed, and let him lead his troops to meet Western Qin again, and Li Shimin finally proved himself, destroyed Western Qin in one fell swoop, and captured the extremely important land of Longyou for the Tang Dynasty.

However, at this time, Li Yuan showed a hesitant expression in the face of Li Shimin's invitation, and he finally looked at Li Yin beside Li Shimin.

Li Shimin seemed to see Li Yuan's meaning, and immediately said to Li Yin: "Second brother, you have to let me do it this time!" ”

Li Yin smiled: "I don't fight with you, but in the end, I have to let my father call the shots!" ”

Li Shimin then looked at Li Yuan with an eager expression, Li Yuan still couldn't make a decision, and looked at Pei Lin and the others, "What do you think?" ”

All the high-ranking officials and ministers in the court were silent for a while after listening to Li Yuan's inquiry.

In the end, Pei Lin came out and said: "Back to Your Majesty, in the opinion of Yichen, this time let King Jin lead his troops to resist Xue Ju!" ”

Li Yin and Pei Lin have always been two people who don't deal with each other, and everyone, including Li Yuan and Li Shimin, didn't expect that he would recommend Li Yin to take command at this time.

Pei Lian's recommendation of Li Yin to take command is nothing more than a consideration of his own interests.

With the current strength and situation of the Tang Dynasty, it can no longer be defeated, if it is defeated again this time, the hearts of the people will be scattered, and then Chang'an will only be afraid that it will be owned by Xue Ju, after all, although the city wall of Chang'an is solid, but the city gate can be opened from the inside.

And Pei Lin is already a very popular minister in the Tang Dynasty at this time, and he is extremely honored, if he surrenders to Xue Ju, he may be spared death, but it will definitely be difficult to protect his current power and status.

Therefore, out of consideration of his own interests, Pei Lin was reluctant to let Li Yuan take the risk of letting Li Shimin take command again, and instead chose to lead the army to fight since he was sixteen years old, and he was invincible and undefeated King Li Yin of Jin.