When the eastern capital heard that Yu Culture was coming westward, he was shocked and panicked. A minister named Gai Cong asked to join forces with Li Mi to resist Yu Wenhua.

Yuan Wendu said to Lu Chu and the others: "Now that Yu Wenhua and the revenge of the killer have not been avenged, and the strength is not enough to take revenge, if Li Mi's sins are forgiven and let him attack Yu Wenhua, the two thieves fight each other, we can slowly take advantage of their defeat, Yu Wenhua and defeated, and Li Mi's troops are also tired; His soldiers covet the rewards of our officials, and they are prone to discord, and even Li Mi can be captured alive. ”

Lu Chu and the others thought that what they said was right, so they appointed Gai Cong as a regular attendant of the Tongzhi Scattered Cavalry, and carried an edict to give to Li Mi.

Yu Wenhua and at this time left the baggage in the slipway, appointed Wang Liang as the secretary of the criminal department, sent him to guard the baggage, and led the army north to Liyang, his army went all the way north, and the food he carried was almost consumed, so he wanted to capture the Liyang warehouse occupied by Li Mi.

At this time, it was Li Mi who defended Liyang, it was really Li Yin's brother Xu Shiji, since the great change in Wagangzhai, Xu Shiji was unwilling to let his brothers increase casualties, so he surrendered Li Mi, Li Mi said that although he was reused, he was unwilling to keep Xu Shiji by his side, so he sent him to defend Liyang.

In the face of Yu Wenhua's attack, Xu Shiji, in view of the courage of his army and the fact that there were more than 100,000 people, could not resist hard, so he led his army to the west, ceding most of Liyang's area, and only guarding the Cangcheng of Liyangcang.

Yu Wenhua crossed the Yellow River, occupied Liyang, and then divided his troops to surround Xu Shiji, who calmly defended while sending people to Li Mi for help.

Li Mi led 20,000 cavalry, stationed in Qingqi, echoed with Xu Shiji with beacon fire, dug deep ditches to build high city walls, and did not fight with Yu culture. Whenever Yu Wenhua attacked Cangcheng City, Li Mi led troops to contain his rear.

Li Mi reprimanded Yu Wenhua through Qi Shui and said: "Your family was originally just a slave of the Huns, and the father, brother and son were all blessed by the Sui Dynasty, and they were rich for several generations, and there was no second family in the Manchu Dynasty." The Lord has lost his virtue, and you can't persuade him with death, but instead plot to rebel and kill the king, and you still want to spy on and usurp the world?

You don't follow the loyalty of Zhuge Liang's son Zhuge Zhanshu who died and died, but you follow the example of Huo Guang's son Huo Yu to rebel, which is not tolerated by heaven and earth, if you hurry up and submit to me, you can also protect your heirs, otherwise you can only perish! ”

Yu Wenhua was silent, bowed his head for a long time, glared and said loudly: "Fight with you, just start fighting, you don't need to say so many words in the book!" ”

Yu Wenhua and large-scale repair of siege equipment, forced Cangcheng, Xu Shiji dug a deep ditch outside the city to hold on, Yu Wenhua and was blocked by the moat, and could not reach the city to attack the city for a while.

That night, Xu Shiji dug a tunnel in a deep ditch and sent troops to attack Yu Wenhua and, the defenseless Yu Wenhua and the army were in chaos, so they were defeated by Xu Shiji, Xu Shiji burned all the siege equipment of Yu Wenhua and returned to Liyang Cangcheng.

After this defeat, Yu Wenhua and the army's morale were greatly reduced, and they were unable to launch another offensive in a short period of time.

At that time, Li Mi and the eastern capital had been holding each other for a long time, and the east had to resist Yu Wenhua, and he was often afraid that the eastern capital would attack from his rear, and in this case, he saw Gai Cong who came to persuade him to surrender, Li Mi was very happy, so he immediately asked to surrender to the emperor, and asked him to crusade against and eliminate Yu Wenhua and atone for his crimes.

For this reason, Li Mi also sent Yu Wenhua and his fellow party Xiongwulang General Hongjian captured by him, and sent Li Jian, who joined the army in the Marshal's Mansion, and Xu Shiyu and others from Shangkai Mansion to meet in the Eastern Capital.

Yang Tong, the lord of Huangtai, ordered to kill Yu Hongjian outside the Zuoye Gate according to the method of killing Hu Sizheng. Yuan Wendu and others thought that Li Mi had surrendered sincerely, and tried their best to decorate the hotel in Xuanren Gate East.

The emperor introduced Li Jian and others, appointed Li Jian as Si Nongqing, and Xu Shi was known as the right man of Shangshu, and sent the guide to return them to the hotel with arranging and advocating music, and the eunuchs who gave them beautiful jade and silk and fine wine and food were endless.

He worshiped Li Mi as the Tai Lieutenant, Shang Shuling, the Marshal of the Daxingtai Marching Army of the Southeast Road, and the Duke of Wei, and ordered him to pacify Yu Wenhua first, and then enter the dynasty to assist in political affairs. Xu Shiji is the right military general. He also issued an edict praising Li Mi's loyalty, saying: "The army's operational strategy is in charge of the dispatch of Li Mi, the Duke of Wei. ”

Li Mi and Dongdu, a moment ago, were still enemies of life and death, fighting each other, but at this moment, they are like newlyweds, like glue and paint, and the relationship changes so quickly that people can't help but be a little dazzled.

Yuan Wendu was deeply pleased with the reconciliation with Li Mi, thinking that the world could be calmed, and set up wine and music at the Upper East Gate, from Duan Da to below, they all got up to drink and dance with the dancing girls.

Only Wang Shichong was angry, and he said to Cui Changwen, the living attendant: "The official of the imperial court actually gave it to a robber, what do you want to do!" ”

The reason why Wang Shichong is valued by the Eastern Capital is nothing more than because he can resist Li Mi, but at this time, Li Mi and the Eastern Capital have fallen into a honeymoon period, so his status in the Eastern Capital has greatly declined, so he is so angry at this time.

And Yuan Wendu and others also suspected that Wang Shichong wanted to respond to Yu Wenhe with the eastern capital, so there was a rift between them, but they were reconciled with each other on the outside and pretended to be friendly.

On July 20, Yang Tong, the lord of the Imperial Tai, sent Zhang Quan, the secretary of Dali, and Cui Shanfu, the secretary of Hongluqing, to give Li Mi a letter: "Regardless of what happened before today, as for the future, we must treat each other sincerely." The major events in the world still need to be rescued and assisted by Your Excellency, and the power of the expedition is also entrusted to Your Excellency. ”

After Zhang Quan waited for Qing Qi, Li Mi bowed to the north and received the edict.

Since there were no worries from the direction of the eastern capital in the west, Li Mi sent all his elite forces to the east to attack Yu Wenhua.

Li Mi learned that Huaji's military rations were about to run out, so he pretended to make peace with Yu Wenhua; Yu Wenhua was very happy, and no longer restricted the soldiers from eating food, hoping that Li Mi could send him some food, which was exactly what Li Mi wanted.

But it didn't take long for Li Mi's subordinates to break the law, fled to Yu Wenhua, and told all Li Mi's plans, Yu Wenhua was very angry, and at this time his military rations ran out again.

In order not to sit still, on July 30, on this day, Li Yin in Guanzhong was holding a big wedding, and Yu Wenhua forcibly crossed the Yongji Canal and fought with Li Mi at the foot of Tongshan Mountain.

The two sides fought from seven or eight o'clock in the morning to six or seven o'clock in the evening, and at first they fought without a win, but in the end, the balance of victory slowly tilted towards Li Mi's army, but at the critical juncture of the war, Li Mi was shot by a stray arrow, fell off his horse and fainted, and ran away with him, and the pursuers were about to arrive, fortunately, Qin Qiong arrived in time to escort Li Mi to escape.

After that, Qin Shubao regrouped his forces to fight against Yu Wenhua, and Yu Wenhua and then retreated.

In this battle, Li Mi and Yu Wenhua were both casualties, although they did not distinguish between victory and defeat, but they were unwilling to fight again, Li Mi turned to defense, and Yu Wenhua led his troops into Ji County to ask for military rations.