Li Shimin was shocked, and saluted to the eldest grandson Wujian and said, "Thank you for reminding your beloved wife." Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info no wonder the fifth brother excludes the will of the public and must appoint a woman as an official, in a certain aspect women really have a man who does not have an advantage; in the future, Guanyin will also supervise me well to prevent me from doing wrong things. ”

The eldest grandson Wujian smiled slightly and said, "Okay, I know; Go ahead! Hurry back and tell me about the new things I encountered in the fifth brother. ”

Li Shimin agreed, quickly walked out of the mansion, and went straight to the mansion of Pei Lian, the supervisor of Jinyang Palace. Pei Lin believed in Buddhism, and was meditating and resting after dinner, when he heard that the second son, Li Shimin, came to visit, and hurried out to greet him.

Although the relationship between Li Shimin and Pei Lin is not as close as that with Liu Wenjing, it is also quite good. He was welcomed into the living room by Pei Lian; Spread all his subordinates and told him about his plans.

Pei listened quietly without saying a word; After listening to Li Shimin's speech, he pondered for a long time before saying: "Tang Gong's character is weak, if you tell him directly; He would never agree. The old decay has a bad move, which may force Tang Gong to make up his mind. Second son, let's do this......"

Li Shimin was stunned when he heard Pei Lian's strategy, and he was speechless for a long time, and finally he gritted his teeth and said: "Just do what Uncle Pei said!" When are we going to do it? ”

"It's late today, it's not going to be easy; Tomorrow, in the name of the establishment of the second son, I will invite Tang Gong to have a drink, and then we will act at the opportunity. Li Shimin nodded thoughtfully.

"What's going on?" Li Yuan was drunk by Pei Lin and Li Shimin at night, and returned home in a daze, and then took advantage of the wine to fight with the beautiful concubines at home, which was very majestic.

As a result, when I woke up the next day, I found that I had stayed in Jinyang Palace overnight, and there were several beautiful palace maids lying on the bed. At that time, Tang Guogong was so frightened that his face turned white, and he put on his clothes and ran away; Then he called Li Shimin and Pei Lin over and scolded them.

Li Shimin took the opportunity to report the entire plan to Li Yuan; Pei Lin also said: "Arrange for the palace maid to serve, after the matter is exposed, you will be killed, I did this to persuade you to make up your mind to raise troops." ”

Li Yuanqi trembled and pointed at the two of them: "You, you; What a guts! Who gave you permission to do that? This is a rebellion! How can I face the emperor in the future! Someone, tie up this rebel for me, and I will personally send it to the government to ask for guilt. ”

Li Shimin saw that his father resolutely disagreed, and said that he would send him to report to the official and hurriedly said: "Father, now that the world is rebellious, how can you be alone?" Anyway, I have already informed the eldest brother, the third brother, and the elder sister, and the brother-in-law told them to come back quickly, you can't kill us all! ”

Li Yuan heard Li Shimin say this, he breathed a sigh of relief, sat there and sighed, and after a while Li Yuan said to Li Shimin: "I love you, how can I bear to denounce you!" Go down first! Let me think about the matter of raising troops again. ”

Li Shimin still wanted to persuade him, Pei Lin glanced at him, and the two of them agreed and retreated. "Uncle Pei, what should I do if my father is always so hesitant?" Pei Lin twisted his beard and smiled: "Second son, didn't Tang Gong refuse either?" We also need to prepare for the army, so you should first recruit troops in the name of exterminating bandits, and when the time comes, it will naturally come naturally. ”

Li Shimin couldn't help but nod and said, "Uncle Pei, I'll start arranging it." Pei Lin said: "Second son, don't make a big fuss, then Wang Wei and Gao Junya, the deputy guards of Taiyuan, were left by Yang Guang to monitor Tang Gong; Let them help Tang Gong make up his mind! ”

Li Shimin agreed, turned around and left, and then ordered the eldest grandson Shunde, Hou Junji, and Liu Hongji to start recruiting troops in Taiyuan. As soon as I heard that Li Yuan was staying behind to recruit troops, there was an endless stream of people from Taiyuan who came to join the army, and thousands of people were recruited in one day.

And at this time, Liu Wuzhou, who returned from Siming Mountain, received the support of the Turks, suddenly captured Li Yuan's Mayi, beheaded Wang Rengong, the Taishou of Mayi, and then he broke through Loufu County, entered and occupied Fenyang Palace, and colluded with the Turks to plot to go south to fight for the world.

Emperor Yang was furious when he heard the news and wanted to arrest Li Yuan and go to Jiangdu to punish him. In this critical situation, Li Shimin said to Li Yuan: "Father, the matter is urgent, you can do it; Don't delay any longer! ”

His surrounding henchmen Pei Lian, Xu Shixu, and Wu Shiwei also persuaded Li Yuan to raise troops, and Li Yuan finally made up his mind to oppose Sui.

Wang Wei and Gao Junya, deputy guards of Taiyuan, saw Li Yuan recruiting troops and horses, and suspected that Li Yuan was going to rebel, so they plotted to trick Li Yuan's father and son into praying for rain at the Jin Temple, wanting to get rid of the Li family and ask Emperor Yang of Sui for merit and reward.

Unexpectedly, this conspiracy was learned by Liu Shilong, the head of Jinyang Township, who was arranged by Li Shimin to monitor the two, and informed Li Yuan. Li Yuan and Li Shimin preemptively instructed Sima Liu Zhenghui of Kaiyang Mansion to accuse Wang Wei and Gao Junya of secretly colluding with the Turks and luring the Turks into the Central Plains of Kou, so as to imprison the two.

In the autumn of this year, it happened that tens of thousands of Turkic troops attacked Jinyang to fight the autumn wind, and Li Yuan immediately justifiably ordered the two to be pushed out and beheaded.

Li Yuan had just raised his troops, and Chai Shao, who was in Chang'an, discussed with his wife, and ran back to Taiyuan first. Chai Shao met Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji, who didn't know what was going on and wanted to fall into the grass in a panic, and persuaded them to return to Taiyuan.

When they returned home, they learned that their father had rebelled, and the brothers were very excited, and Li Yuan sent Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin to lead an army to attack and kill Chenggao Deru of Xihe County, who refused to die. At the same time, Li Yuan set up an empty city plan to scare off the Turkic army.

In July 617, Li Yuan made Li Jiancheng the Duke of Longxi, the governor of the left army; Li Shimin is the prince of Dunhuang County, and the governor of the right leading army; and agreed with his two sons that the first person to enter Chang'an would be the son. Then he named Li Yuanji as the prince of Guzang County and the general of Zhenbei, and Taiyuan stayed behind to guard the base camp.

Then Li Yuan led an army of 30,000 to take the oath, and in the document he released, he reprimanded Emperor Yang of Sui for listening to slander, killing Zhongliang, and recklessly using force, causing the people's resentment to boil; Then, in the name of "abolishing the faint and establishing the Ming, supporting the king, and restoring the Sui room", he officially raised troops and went straight to Guanzhong.

Li Yuanbing went to Jiahu Fort, more than 50 miles away from Huoyi. Acting King Yang Yu sent Huyalang to lead Song Laosheng with 20,000 elite soldiers to garrison Huoyi. On the morning of the third day of the eighth lunar month, Li Yuan led the army from the small road to the southeast to Huoyi, and heard that Song Laosheng was stationed in front, Li Yuan said to everyone with a look of embarrassment: "This Song Laosheng has a broad back and a round waist, is strong and burly, and holds a machete in his hand, which is said to have been instructed by celebrities; Every day must practice swordsmanship, this person is brave and invincible. ”

Li Shimin said with a smile: "Father, although this old Song student is brave, but he is short-tempered, we can lure him into battle, and he can be captured with one blow." ”

Li Yuan Congyanyan and Li Yuanba led hundreds of Xuanjia troops to ambush in the east of Huoyi City, and sent Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin to lead dozens of horsemen to the city to insult Song Laosheng.

Song Laosheng really led the army to battle, Li Shimin and others saw that his face was like a purple eggplant, black nostrils, big ears, a white beard floating on his chest, and he was close to the sixtieth birthday, but he did not look old; It is the old age that grows stronger.

Li Jiancheng blurted out: "What a general!" Li Shimin said with a smile: "Big brother, you see that these generals of the Sui Dynasty are all old and decrepit men who follow the emperor, but the younger generation is rarely competent, how can there be no reason to be invincible!" Let's see how the little brother captures him! As he spoke, he ordered Yin Kaishan and Ma Sanbao's people to lead the army to rush forward and fight.

Li Shimin and Xue Wanshu led their troops to gallop down, attacking Song Laosheng's army formation and attacking the back of Song Laosheng's army.

Li Shimin shouted while attacking: "Song Laosheng has been caught!" Suddenly, the Sui soldiers were in chaos and rushed to the city gate. However, the gate had been seized by Li Jiancheng's troops, and Song Laosheng was not allowed to enter, so he had to take people around the city, and met Li Yuan and others who were ambushed here.

Li Yuanba flew out three hammers and smashed Song Laosheng to death, and the Sui army of Huoyi saw that the main general was dead, so they all put down their weapons and surrendered. Li Yuan successfully captured Huoyi and opened the way into Guanzhong.

After Li Yuan's army captured Huoyi, he moved south along the Fenshui River, occupied Linfen and Kejiang County, and entered Longmen on the 15th. As soon as Song Laosheng died, the general in the pass was left in Chang'an, Qu Tutong; Yang Yu had no choice but to let Qu Tutong lead most of the reinforcements in Guanzhong to resist.

Qu Tutong led tens of thousands of troops to defend Hedong, preparing to prevent Li Yuan's army from entering the pass; Li Shimin recruited tens of thousands of troops from Sun Hua, the leader of the peasant army in Guanzhong, and Li Yuan's power suddenly skyrocketed. At this time, a great piece of good news suddenly came, Li Xiuning, who everyone thought was unlucky in Chang'an, suddenly returned.

Li Xiuning appeased Li Shentong, Pan Ren, Li Zhongwen, Xiang Shanzhi, Qiu Shili and other Guanzhong rebels in Chang'an, and captured Huxian, Zhouzhi, Wugong, and Shiping along the way, leading an army of 100,000 to meet him.

Li Yuan was overjoyed to send Chai Shao's handsome people to greet him, and named him the county lord of Pingyang, and Chai Shao listened to orders in Li Shimin's right army.

This suddenly made the strength of the right army significantly stronger than that of the left army, and Li Jiancheng's subordinates had quite a few complaints; Although Li Jiancheng did not say it explicitly, he also thought that his father was biased towards the second brother.

But at this time, Li Yuan suddenly ordered Li Shimin to besiege Qu Tutong here, and Li Jiancheng and himself led the army to bypass Hedong and take Guanzhong. Li Jiancheng suddenly realized, and hurriedly led the army and his father to bypass Hedong City and take Guanzhong.

After Qu Tutong learned that Li Yuan was going to attack Chang'an, he left Ying Yanglang to guard Yaojun Su in the east of the river, and led his troops from Wuguan out of Lantian to rescue Chang'an, and went to the vicinity of Tongguan, but was stopped by Li Shimin's Liu Wenjing Department and was not allowed to enter.

When Sui general Liu Gang guarded Tongguan, the tun army was captain Nancheng, Qu Tutong wanted to join forces with Liu Gang, Li Shimin planned to lure out Liu Gang, and then sent the general Wang Chang to lead his troops to attack and occupy the southern city of Duwei. Chai Shao immediately launched an attack to kill Liu Gang, and Qu Tutong was forced to retreat to Duwei Beicheng.

Qu Tutong held Tang Liu Wenjing here for more than a month, and was anxious to march, so he sent Sang Xianhe to attack Liu Wenjing's military camp at night. Sang Xianhe led the army to break through the second gate, but Liu Wenjing couldn't attack the first gate for a long time.