Li Yuan said excitedly: "Ning'er, hurry up and come to my father's side and tell me what's going on?" Li Yuan said as he ordered the soldiers to open the palace gate of Changchun Palace.

Li Xiuning said: "Daddy, who came with the child, there are also supernatural uncles and second brother-in-law!" ”

Li Xiuning said, turned around and beckoned to the army, and suddenly two men in armor came forward on horseback, they were Li Yuan's brother Li Shentong and the second daughter's husband Duan Lun, Li Yuan shouted a few times, and led everyone out of the palace gate to greet him.

The Li family has many houses and properties in Guanzhong, and Li Xiuning has lived in Guanzhong since nine years after the great cause, often traveling in the mountains and rivers, fighting swords, and his reputation has gradually spread all over Guanzhong.

After the news that Li Yuan raised troops from Taiyuan and then marched into Guanzhong, Li Xiuning scattered his family wealth and gathered his troops.

He Panren, a merchant of the Hu nationality in the Western Regions, entered Sizhuyuan as a thief, and there were 30,000 people, who hijacked the former Shangshu Youcheng Li Gang and appointed him as a long history, Li Xiuning sent the slave Ma Sanbao to persuade He Panren, He Panren knew Li Xiuning's reputation, and had always admired Li Xiuning very much, so he agreed to Ma Sanbao's persuasion and surrendered to Li Xiuning.

Li Xiuning and He Panren then joined forces to attack Shangyi County in Jingzhao County, and soon captured Shangyi County.

After that, Li Xiuning sent the house slave Ma Sanbao to persuade the Guanzhong group of thieves Li Zhongwen, Xiang Shanzhi, Qiu Shili and others, and they soon led the crowd to join Li Xiuning. Among them, Li Zhongwen is Li Mi's cousin, Qiu Shili is Qiu He's son, and he also has a younger brother named Qiu Xinggong.

Xijing stayed to guard Wen Sheng repeatedly sent troops to crusade against Li Xiuning, but were defeated by Li Xiuning's troops, Li Xiuning led the army to continue to attack the county seat west of Chang'an, Yunyang, Wugong, Shiping County, were conquered by her one by one, and finally there were more than 70,000 people, and its army was called the Women's Army, and Li Xiuning himself was even more powerful.

In fact, after Li Yuan crossed the Yellow River in the west, the reason why the defenders of Chang'an did not take any countermeasures at all was that there were women's troops operating near Chang'an.

Li Shentong is Li Yuan's cousin, has always lived in Chang'an, after Li Yuan Taiyuan raised troops, Li Shentong fled into the mountains of the county. After Li Yuan crossed the river and entered the Guanzhong, he and Shi Wanbao, the hero of Chang'an, and others raised troops to respond to Li Yuan, with more than 10,000 troops.

Li Shentong claimed to be the head of the Guanzhong Dao march, and appointed the former Dongcheng Governor Ling Hu Dedi, the youngest son of Ling Hu Xi, a famous minister of the Sui Dynasty, as the secretary.

Duan Lun of Zuo Qinwei is the son of Duan Wenzhen, the general of Zuo Hou Wei who died of illness in Liaodong that year, he married Li Yuan's second daughter as his wife, and after learning that Li Yuan came to Guanzhong, he also gathered in Lantian and got more than 10,000 people, and finally went to meet Li Xiuning with Li Xiuning, who was the most powerful, and came to Changchun Palace to meet Li Yuan together.

Li Yuan appointed Li Shentong as the Guanglu doctor, Li Shentong's son Li Daoyan as the court doctor, Duan Lun as the golden purple Guanglu doctor, Li Xiuning's subordinates He Panren, Li Zhongwen, Xiang Shanzhi and the group of thieves in Guanzhong all asked Li Yuan to surrender, and Li Yuan comforted them one by one.

Since He Panren, Li Zhongwen, Xiang Shanzhi and others had been active in Weibei before, Li Yuan asked them to go back to their respective territories under the command of Li Yin, the Duke of Lingwu, to assist Li Yin in attacking Weibei.

Of course, the reason why Li Yuan made this decision was not because he felt that Li Xiuning's troops were too heavy, so as to weaken her forces, which could be regarded as a balancing act, after all, Li Xiuning's troops had more than 70,000 people, which was close to Li Yuan's total strength at this time.

However, in order to reward Li Xiuning's merits, Li Yuan allowed her to open a government and set up a shogunate as a woman, and continue to command the rest of the women's soldiers and horses, and the honor guard was equal to Li Yin and Li Shimin.

Li Xiuning gladly accepted Li Yuan's arrangement, and took the initiative to allocate another 10,000 troops to Li Shimin, who had a slightly smaller force, and everyone in the army praised Li Xiuning as a woman who knew the general situation.

Li Yin and Li Shimin walked towards Li Xiuning together at this time, and Li Shimin praised with admiration: "Third sister, you are really amazing, you have added more than 70,000 troops to my Li family alone, and you have captured so many cities in Guanzhong!" ”

After Li Xiuning listened to Li Shimin's words, his expression was a little proud, "Your third sister and I haven't done anything in Guanzhong in the past few years, and it is not difficult to recruit tens of thousands of people in the name of my father!" ”

Li Shimin seemed to have a lot to say to Li Xiuning, but suddenly someone from Li Yuan's side came to find Li Shimin, saying that Li Yuan asked him to go over, and Li Shimin had to leave in a hurry.

After Li Shimin walked away, Li Yin and Li Xiuning's eyes finally looked at each other, and for a while, the two of them felt that the surrounding environment had become nothing, and only each other was left in their eyes.

I don't know how long it took, Li Yin said with a smile: "Third sister, I haven't seen you for a long time." ”

Li Xiuning showed a sweet smile: "I haven't seen you for a few years, I didn't expect you to have a beard on your face." ”

Li Yin said: "Yes, time flies so fast, in a blink of an eye, you and I are no longer young." After these words, Li Yin and Li Xiuning were silent for a while.

The two immediately found a place to sit down and talk, and told each other a lot of what they had seen and heard in the past two years, until the sun went down and the tired birds returned to the forest.

Although Li Yin still wanted to stay with Li Xiuning for a few more days, he couldn't help himself, and early the next morning, he set off for Weibei with his troops, and Li Xiuning also took the army to attack other places in Guanzhong on the same day.

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Shi Wei Wensheng, the secretary of the Criminal Department and Jingzhaonei, was already old and frail at this time, and when he heard that Li Yuan's army was marching to Chang'an, he was worried about becoming ill and no longer participated in political affairs. Only Zuo Yiwei's general Yin Shishi and Jingzhao County Cheng Gu Yi Zun held on to the city, but Yin Shi Shi and Gu Yi Zun were only dogs guarding the household, only knowing how to strictly guard Chang'an, and let all parts of Guanzhong take refuge in Li Yuan.

On the 21st, Li Yuan went to Pujin, and on the 22nd, Li Yuan crossed Weishui from Linjin, went to Yongfeng Cang to comfort the army, and opened a warehouse to help the hungry. On the 24th, Li Yuan entered Feng Yicheng, the county governor of Feng Yi County, and constantly promoted his benevolence and generosity to people, so as to dispel the suspicions of those who wanted to take refuge but had concerns.

On 26 July, Li Yin had marched to Jingyang County, northwest of Chang'an. Jingyang is very close to Chang'an, and naturally belongs to the hinterland of the 800-mile Qinchuan River, and there is a tributary of Weishui in the territory Jing River, and there are many fertile fields.

Since Li Yin set out to attack Weibei from Changchun Palace, everywhere he went, officials, people and bandits were attached to him, and Li Yin collected the heroes as his subordinates. When he was now stationed in Jingyang, he had more than 50,000 capable troops.

Among the many heroes who belong to Li Yin, the most famous should be Qiu Shili's younger brother Qiu Xinggong, he is not small in later generations, because of the merit of saving Li Shimin by riding alone, he was ordered to engrave Xinggong to draw arrows in Zhaoling, in order to show future generations, the famous relief, one of the six horses of Zhaoling, the image of the figure in front of the purple is Qiu Xinggong.