Li Yuan found Li Gang and said to him: "Yuanji is young and not familiar with current affairs, so he sent Dou Dan and Yuwenxin to assist him. 23. There are tens of thousands of strong soldiers in Jinyang, enough to eat ten years of food, it is the foundation of the rise of the royal industry, but it was given up at once. I heard that Yu Wenxin first came up with this idea, and I must kill him! ”

Li Gang didn't seem to understand the deep meaning of Li Yuan's words, he said; "King Qi is young and arrogant and indulgent, Dou Dan has never admonished him, but covered it up for him, making the people angry, today's failure is Dou Dan's sin. Yuwen Xin advised, the king of Qi did not change, he played all the situation to the court, he is a loyal minister, how can he kill it? ”

After Li Yuan heard this, he was suddenly a little speechless, and let Li Gang retreat first.

The second said: "Fortunately, because of Aiqing, I was able to avoid indiscriminate punishment. Yuan Ji himself doesn't learn well, it's not something that Dou Dan and Yu Wenxin can forbid. ”

So Li Yin pardoned the sins of Lian Dou Dan, Yu Wenxin and others, and issued an edict to remove Li Yuanji from the post of governor of the state, but at this time, Jinyang was lost, and it was useless for Li Yuanji to hang the post of governor of the state, and this punishment alone was still a little lighter.

After Liu Wuzhou occupied Jinyang, his strength increased greatly, and then sent Song Jingang to continue to go south and attack Jinzhou, at that time, in order to enhance Pei Lian's strength, Li Yuan sent Liu Hongji, a good general of the right Xiaowei, to Jinzhou to reinforce Pei Lian, who knew that Pei Lian had just taken over the men and horses brought by Liu Hongji, so he let Liu Hongji stick to Jinzhou, and he continued to retreat south to Jiangzhou (the original Jiangjun) with a large group of men.

Pei Lian's virtue is really not much different from Li Yuanji.

Liu Hongji suffered from a small number of soldiers and could not resist Song Jingang's attack at all, so Jinzhou was quickly conquered by Song Jingang, and even Liu Hongji was almost captured, but fortunately he was good at disguising himself and was extremely familiar with the terrain of Hedong, so he was able to escape back to Chang'an.

Subsequently, Song Jingang took advantage of the situation to go south, captured Huzhou, entered Jiangzhou, and then sent troops to capture the Yellow River crossing Longmen, which was the important place when the Li family crossed the Yellow River west when they entered Guanzhong, and after Song Jingang captured this place, he said that Liu Wuzhou can now directly attack the important place in Guanzhong.

Song Jingang's army was so rapid, but Pei Lian, who was in charge of the situation here, did nothing, he was cowardly, and he did not have the talent of a general, but he kept sending envoys to urge the inhabitants of Yu and Tai to enter the castle and burn their savings.

This caused many people to be frightened and uneasy, and many of them were sad and complaining about it, and wanted to become robbers.

Xia County originally belonged to Hedong County (Hedong County is now changed to Puzhou), but now it is under the jurisdiction of Jiang County, which is located in the northeast of Anyi City.

When Li Yin pacified Hedong County, Hedong stayed behind Yao Junsu, and sent generals to garrison here, which shows the importance of this city.

At this time, there was an ordinary resident of Xia County named Lu Chongmao, who couldn't stand Pei Lian's decision-making, gathered hundreds of people, proclaimed himself the King of Wei, and then captured Xia County, and then sent people to contact Liu Wuzhou.

After Pei Lin learned the news, he was immediately angry, and secretly said that a small resident of Xia County could still turn against the sky, so he immediately waved tens of thousands of troops, left Zhengping, the Jiangzhou Governance Office, and came to Xia County.

After Lu Chongmao learned the news, he left the county seat of Xia County with more than 1,000 men and horses, and slowly retreated to the south.

In the south of Xia County, there is a place called Liugu, which is the place where Su Dingfang set up an ambush when Li Yin surrounded Xia County and fought Yaojun Su to reinforce the army.

Pei Lin was suddenly frightened, hurriedly reined in his horse and turned around, he couldn't care about anything else, he desperately ran with his horsewhip, and returned to Zhengping City with all the way losing his armor, and the troops who followed him were naturally defeated by Lu Chongmao.

After this, Lu Chongmao also asked someone to hold Pei Lian's helmet with a wooden stick, and slipped around Zhengping City.

After Li Yuan learned that Pei Lin was defeated by a resident of Xia County, he was completely dead to him, and issued three edicts in a row, asking Pei Lin to return to Chang'an immediately, and then ordered Li Xiaoji, the king of Yong'an, Dugu Huaien, Yu Yun, the governor of Shaanzhou, and Tang Jian, the servant of the internal history, to lead troops to crusade against Lu Chongmao.

When Jinyang fell into the hands of Liu Wuzhou, Liu Zhenghui, the commander of the guard, happened to be in Taiyuan, so he was captured by Liu Wuzhou, and just when the situation in the entire Hedong region had gradually become erosive, Liu Wuzhou's current strength was secretly introduced.

At this time, Liu Wuzhou's troops have increased sharply, as many as 100,000, and there are many cavalry, and there are Song Jingang, Wei Chigong and other generals who are good at battle formations, and the strength is not trivial, Liu Zhenghui believes that Liu Wuzhou's next goal is likely to cross the river to capture Guanzhong.

Liu Zhenghui sent out the meaning of this secret report, the purpose was to let Li Yuan and Chang'an officials know Liu Wuzhou and increase the importance of Liu Wuzhou, but after this secret report was transmitted back to Chang'an in the case of Hedong's successive loss of territory, Guanzhong was shocked, especially Liu Zhenghui's last sentence, which greatly caused panic among the officials and people in Guanzhong.

Li Yuanxia wrote in his own handwriting: "The thieves are so powerful that it is difficult to fight against them, so it is advisable to abandon the area east of the Yellow River and guard the place west of Tongguan." ”

Because he was afraid that Liu Wuzhou would come to tackle the key problems, Li Yuan's decision was promulgated and immediately won the support of many people, and at this moment, Li Yin bluntly objected: "Jinyang is the foundation of the royal industry, the foundation of the Tang Dynasty, the Hedong region is rich, and it is an important source of supply to Chang'an. I hope that my father will let me take my headquarters out of Tongguan, and I will definitely be able to eliminate Liu Wuzhou and recover the land of Fen and Jin! ”

At this time, Li Shimin, who resisted Wang Shichong in Xin'an, also asked to meet Liu Wuzhou, because at this time Wang Shichong's offensive had slowed down, and he was also able to draw his life to fight Liu Wuzhou.

However, as soon as Li Shimin's recital was sent to Chang'an, Wang Shichong suddenly strengthened the attack, and the situation between the two sides immediately became tense again......

Facing Li Yin and Li Shimin's recital, Li Yuan thought for a long time and finally made a wise decision.

On the first day of the seventh month, Li Yuan issued an edict to worship Li Yin, the king of Jin, as the general of the expedition to the north and the governor of the state, and requisitioned troops from Guanzhong to expand Li Yin's troops, so that he was fully responsible for dealing with Liu Wuzhou.