The generals saw that there was an outsider here, and then took a closer look, isn't this Li Shimin? They were all a little surprised, silently waiting for Xu Shiji to explain.

Xu Shiji coughed lightly and said: "Everyone, this one doesn't need me to introduce, everyone should know him, it is His Royal Highness the King of Qin of the Tang Dynasty." And I also tell you that I have decided to surrender to the King of Qin, so let's talk about where you are going to go! ”

The generals were stunned, and no one dared to speak first; Guo Xiaoge said: "General Xu treats us well; And the King of Wei is no longer the original King of Wei, he blindly listens to the words of villains such as Li Yuanzhen; Sooner or later they will perish. We are willing to follow General Xu to the Tang Dynasty. ”

As soon as everyone saw Guo Xiaoge taking the lead, they all expressed their willingness to surrender to Tang; So Li Shi's militia captured the land of Liyang without blood.

Li Shimin received Xu Shiji's allegiance; arranged for him to return to Wagang to contact the generals; He personally commanded the army to rescue Li Jiancheng.

Li Shimin went straight to Jinshan to rescue Li Jiancheng as soon as he went straight to Shandong. Wang Wendu and Li Shimin were not opponents in the battle for two days, and led the troops to retreat. Li Shimin came to Juye City and shouted loudly; Li Jiancheng heard the news and greeted Li Yuanji together.

Li Jiancheng felt a little emotional in his heart when he saw Li Shimin, since his father sent him, it is estimated that he will be the end of this time.

Sure enough, after entering the hall, Li Shimin took out Li Yuan's holy decree, took the head of the march, and ordered Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji to go back to confess.

Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji were disgraced, but they were defeated, and they had no way to resist, so they had to receive the order to thank them, and then present the Great Seal of the Governor.

Li Shimin took over the Great Seal and wanted to drink with the two brothers to catch up; Li Yuanji snorted coldly and said, "Hugh wants to be cheap and good, I won't let you see our embarrassment!" Big brother, let's go, this time we will win back after we lose. ”

Li Jiancheng sighed and said, "Yuanji, they are all his own brothers; Why bother with this. Li Yuanji was furious: "Big brother, if you want to go, you will go, if you don't go, I will leave by myself." ”

Li Jiancheng had no choice but to say goodbye to Li Shimin and lead his guards back to Chang'an in a hurry.

Li Shimin gained military power and arranged for people to be stationed in Juye, while he personally led the army to Jinshan, and then turned south and went straight to Caozhou.

Li Mi finally breathed a sigh of relief when he heard that Li Shimin had relieved the siege of Juye; In addition, the reinforcements had arrived, so they began to continue the siege of Dingtao.

Wang Bodang was in Dongming County, and the 30,000-strong army was blocked by this small county town that had no danger to defend for more than a month; The liver and gallbladder of the long qi are all cracked; This time, Li Mi sent him another 10,000 reinforcements, which he regarded as a disgrace.

Wang Bodang attacked Dongming County for more than a month, and has lost more than 10,000 horses, and this time he attacked Dongming day and night.

Wang Hu had already received Cheng Zhijie's retreat order; But he still turned a deaf ear and insisted on coexisting and dying with Dongming County. After Cheng Zhijie got the news, he was furious, and he couldn't care about it, so he personally brought people to help.

As a result, they had just reached the halfway point when they heard that the city of Dongming was broken, and the guard general Wang Hu and his soldiers were all killed.

Cheng Zhijie closed his eyes suddenly, and two lines of tears rolled down; Wang Hu is his brother-in-law and a playmate who grew up with him; Wang Hu's death filled his heart with grief.

"Let's go back! I will settle this account with Li Mi and Uncle Wang! Cheng Zhijie knew that it was too late to act, and led the army back again.

The Caozhou guard general is Li Mi's descendant Zheng Ying, who is stationed in Caozhou with 10,000 horses to protect the safety of Li Mi's back road.

Zheng Ying is annoyed now, since Li Mi was blocked in Dingtao, the harassment of the Great Demon Kingdom has not stopped. These armies were hundreds less and more than thousands; Every day, several teams of men and horses run to the city to show off their might.

Zheng Ying also thought about going out to conquest, but she almost won Caozhou by someone; Since then, Zheng Ying, who has pursued a cautious and no big mistake, will never attack again, allowing the enemy to run rampant here.

Zheng Ying was resting in the county office with her ears closed, when she suddenly heard someone report that an army had come to the outside of the city to call the door. Zheng Ying was taken aback, and hurriedly led the troops to the door to watch.

The army outside the door was under the banner of the Tang Dynasty, and Zheng Ying poked his head out to look out; I heard the herald below shouting loudly: "The defenders in the city listen, our Royal Highness the King of Qin is here, hurry out to greet you!" ”

Zheng Ying saw Li Shimin in Wagang Mountain, although I don't know why he didn't go to Dingtao, but came to Caozhou instead, but below is the real His Royal Highness the King of Qin.

"Kaesong!" Zheng Ying did not hesitate and ordered his soldiers to open the city gate; Li Shimin waved his hand, and the army slowly entered Caozhou.

Zheng Ying was already waiting in line at the gate of the city, and when he saw Li Shimin entering the city, he hurriedly led his generals to greet him.

Li Shimin rode in front of Zheng Ying on a horse, and he didn't even get off the horse; He pointed proudly with a horsewhip: "That is Zheng Ying?" ”

Zheng Ying was stunned, what does this mean? You are the king of Qin, so you can command so arrogantly? You must know that I am a courtier of Great Wei, not your Li Shimin's subordinate.

So Zheng Ying bowed slightly and said: "A certain is the Great Wei State, Zheng Ying, the counselor of the King of Wei." Li Shimin glanced at him: "So you are the left-behind guard of Caozhou City." ”

"Exactly, the King of Wei asked me to guard Caozhou, and the last general did not dare to ignore it, and finally did not lose Caozhou, nor was he copied by others."

"Good! Since I am here, I am responsible for all the affairs of Caozhou; Please Counselor Zheng hand over the defense! ”

"What? Li Shimin! What do you mean? Who gave you the right to receive Caozhou? Does King Wei know? I'm going to the King of Wei to sue you! ”

Li Shimin laughed: "Okay! But I have to grieve you for a few days; When we finish this battle, we will let you go to see the King of Wei. Lock them all up. ”

As soon as Li Shimin gave an order, the Tang army rushed up at once; Then all the generals of Wagang were arrested. Zheng Ying knew at this time that things were not good, he just wanted to resist, but he was arrested by Tang Jun and then imprisoned in the county government.

As soon as Li Shimin finished dealing with Zheng Ying, he heard the soldiers come to report that "there is an army transporting grain outside the gate, saying that it is given to Tao to send grain, and asking for Kaecheng to pass." “

Li Shimin laughed and said, "Okay! It's a double happiness; Just got Caozhou; Someone brought food; Let's arrange to accept it! ”

Li Mi waited for reinforcements to begin to launch a fierce attack on Dingtao, and the generals Shan Xiongxin and Wang Junke took the lead and led the army to storm Dingtao.

After Duan Zhixuan's confidence was restored, the conductor was even more handy; Whether it was a strong attack or a outwitting attempt, it was easily defused by him. Shan Xiongxin and Wang Jun had no chance to be suppressed by him, so they had to leave the corpses all over the ground and retreat.

Li Mi is almost white-headed now, and he can't even take down a small Dingtao, can Jeju and Qizhou, which are taller in the back, still be able to take it?

"King Wei, there has been no food delivered for several days in a row; There is not much food and grass in our camp; Do you want to send someone to the back to take a look? ”

"What?" A layer of beads suddenly appeared on Li Mi's head; He turned his head to stare at the quartermaster, and said word by word: "Say, how many days has it been?" ”

The quartermaster was stared at and broke out in a cold sweat and said, "It's, it's been nine, nine days." Li Miteng stood up, kicked him to the ground and shouted, "Why didn't you say it earlier?" ”

The quartermaster thought to himself, "This kind of thing used to happen a lot, huh?" I have never seen the King of Wei make such a big fire; Why are you so cautious now? ”

Looking at the quartermaster's stupid appearance, Li Mi scolded in his heart: "Get out!" Get out. The quartermaster didn't say a word and hurried out.

He couldn't make up his mind for a while whether to fight or retreat, so he asked Zhang Liang, the counselor, to come over to discuss. Li Mi said again and again about the situation reported by the quartermaster: "Zhang Qing, according to your intelligence, Li Shimin has long had something to do with the Great Demon Kingdom; If Li Tang's main generals are still Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji, I should continue to besiege Dingtao; But Li Shimin, I can't believe him.

However, if you withdraw from the army like this, Dingtao is already in danger and is within reach; I was unwilling in my heart; What can you teach me? ”

Zhang Liang said with a smile: "King Wei, this is a mystery of the authorities, I think Li Tang must be sitting on the mountain to watch the tiger fight, and there is not much chance of joining forces with the Great Demon Kingdom now." I don't think they want the Great Demon Kingdom to be dominant, and the bloody case in Liuxian caused by Li Yuanji will estranged them.

Moreover, it is clear whether they joined forces with the King of Wei to send a person to Caozhou to take a look; As long as Cao Zhou was still in his hands, the King of Wei had nothing to fear.

Besides, as long as we get Dingtao, even if Li Tang and the Great Demon Kingdom join forces, we can turn to the east and retreat safely from Dongming, which is occupied by General Wang Bodang. ”

Li Mishen thought so and sent Xizuo to inquire about the situation in Caozhou; Rectify your team and prepare to storm Dingtao again.

Duan Zhixuan lit the information in his hand on a candle, watched it turn into curling black smoke, and asked his subordinates, "Are you ready?" ”

"Returning to the handsome, everything is ready!"

Duan Zhixuan nodded and said, "Okay!" Let's go up to the city tower and meet King Wei for a while. ”

Li Mi personally led the siege the next day; The Great Demon Kingdom was still heavily defended at first; However, with the passage of time, they were slowly overwhelmed, and they were attacked by Shan Xiongxin first.

One of the protruding places is a vulnerability. Li Mi looked at the sword in his hand and pointed at it, and personally led the team to attack; The morale of the Wagang army was greatly shaken, and Hula rushed to the city tower at once.

Duan Zhixuan commanded the army to retreat while fighting, and finally escaped from the north gate in the evening, completely losing Dingtao to the Wagang army.

Li Mi entered Dingtao in high spirits, and he ordered Wang Junke to lead an army of 10,000 to chase and kill, and set up a banquet in the city to ask for merit for everyone.

Wang Junke got the general's order to lead the army to chase after Duan Zhixuan, and he chased the army of the Great Demon Kingdom all the way into the imitation mountain.

Duan Zhixuan saw that Wang Junke's troops were all entering the mountain, and suddenly restrained the war horse, and the army of the Great Demon Kingdom changed the appearance of fleeing in a hurry just now; Soon the formation was formed.