In the following days, the faces of the generals of the Qin Wangfu, who were about to become the masters of the new Tang Dynasty, bloomed like flowers. Li Shimin was far calmer than his subordinates, he did not forget that Yu Shejiao in the northwest direction was surrounding Wucheng, and after some thought, he ordered Li Shiyun and Li Yi to lead their troops to attack in the northwest direction. Li Shimin's intention was twofold, one was to really relieve the siege of Wucheng, and the other was to try the attitude of the two military forces within the Tang Dynasty that he was most at ease with the changes in Xuanwumen.

These two military forces are Li Jing and Li Shiyun and others, their army belongs to the elite of the Tang Army, although they have maintained neutrality in the battle between the East Palace and the Qin Palace, but, fundamentally, they were promoted by Li Yuan, plus Li Shimin had tried the two before the coup, and the two did not support him, Li Shimin was very worried that they would be afraid of themselves because of this, and then collude with Li Yuan's forces to deal with themselves. Transferring Li Shiqian to the west can separate the two Lis, and at the same time test Li Jing's attitude towards the coup, which is a good plan to kill two birds with one stone.

As for Li Yi, it made Li Shimin even more jealous, this fierce general who was in the position of the general of the right guard, was the most capable of fighting among the generals in command of the army that Li Jiancheng collected after possessing the military talisman. His real surname is Luo, and he was given the surname Li by Li Yuan because of his bravery, and he is the most powerful one in the East Palace. Li Yi commanded 80,000 troops to garrison Jingzhou at this time, guarding the north gate of Chang'an, after the change of Xuanwu Gate, although he was still standing still for a while, but Li Shimin knew the relationship between this person and Li Jiancheng, and he was afraid that it would be a matter of time before he rebelled. Li Shimin ordered him to go west with Li Shixian, also to see his reaction and prove his judgment.

Li Shiyun did not hesitate after receiving the order, led the army to the west, trekked all the way, and soon approached Wucheng. Soon, the news came that Yu She's retreat and the siege of Wucheng were lifted, and Li Shimin ordered Li Shiyun to be honored. But Li Yi did not obey the edict, he was still stationed in Jingzhou, secretly rectifying the soldiers and horses, Li Shimin knew that he was preparing to rebel.

In August, Li Yuan officially announced that he was located in Li Shimin.

Before the new emperor ascended the throne, it was naturally indispensable to redistribute the fruits of politics. Pei Lian, Chen Shuda, Xiao Yu, Feng Deyi, Yu Wenshi and other old ministers of Li Yuan temporarily kept their positions. The old generals of the Qin Wangfu who followed Li Shimin's uprising were promoted one after another, Fang Xuanling was appointed as the Zhongshu Ling, Gao Shilian was appointed as the servant, Du Ruhui was appointed as the secretary of the military department, and the eldest grandson Wuji, who made the first contribution to the Xuanwu Sect, became the secretary of the ministry. In the new harem, the eldest grandson princess was canonized as the queen, and Li Shimin's favorite Ji Yuping was named the concubine.

August Jiazi is an auspicious day of the zodiac, and the enthronement ceremony of the new emperor is held in the Hall of Virtue. The year was 626 A.D., Li Shimin did not immediately change the yuan, and the era name of Wude was extended to the end of the year. Not long after the enthronement ceremony, a bad news came, Li Yi rebelled in Jingzhou, and Chang'an City suddenly panicked.

Li Shimin himself was not too nervous, and Li Shixian's ability to go west under the edict showed that Li Jing had an approving attitude towards the coup, and his heart was already half relieved. Although Li Yi's men and horses were numerous, he was not very worried, because the tens of thousands of elites in the Qin Wangfu had returned to the division, and he immediately decided to divide most of the troops and go north under the leadership of Wei Chi Jingde and others, leaving only more than 20,000 people to guard Gyeonggi with the original Praetorian Guards in Chang'an City; At the same time, Li Jing of Lingzhou was ordered to go west and join forces with Wei Chi Jingde to attack Li Yi, and Li Jing also accepted this order and soon attacked, which made Li Shimin even more relieved.

Just as Li Shimin was concentrating on dealing with Li Yi, a wolf smoke quietly rose in the wasteland northwest of Jingzhou.

These days, Li Yi in Jingzhou City is indulging in the joy of victory in the first battle. After the rebellion, his original plan was to blitz Chang'an, and as soon as the team set off, Li Shimin's tens of thousands of elite soldiers went north, and Li Jing also pounced from the east. Seeing that Li Shimin sent a lot of soldiers and horses, Li Yi decided to retreat to Jingzhou to defend it, and soon, a messenger took Li Shimin's handwritten letter to appease him, and Li Yi didn't care about it at all. Then the Tang army approached the city wall, and as soon as the two sides fought, Li Yi actually fought a big victory, the Tang army left down two or three thousand corpses, and was covered by Li Yi's men and horses for thirty miles. It turned out that the vanguard of the Tang army was not the elite soldiers of the Qin Palace, but the more than 10,000 soldiers led by Cheng Zhijie, and those soldiers were newly recruited to prepare to rush to the aid of Wucheng, how could they be able to defeat the elite Li Yi who had been in battle for a long time? After this battle, Li Yi's confidence suddenly increased, and he told several of his henchmen that Li Shimin had not been in charge of the army for many years, and the people of the Qin Wangfu were not as good as before, so there was no need to be afraid. Just as he was happy, the news suddenly came that Huating was attacked and occupied by Hu Cai.

In the final analysis, the war is about money and grain, and without the grain and grass in Huating, these 70,000 or 80,000 people will not be able to last long with the grain stored in Jingzhou City. Li Yiru was struck by lightning, and sighed in the tent all afternoon. In the middle of the trouble, there was a commotion outside the camp gate, a small colonel came in to report that there were more than a dozen Tang army rangers hiding on the top of the mountain in Nanguan to peep, and were discovered by the soldiers in the sentry tower, and the general Lu Ji personally led a hundred personal soldiers out of the city to arrest him, and in an instant he was shot by the other party with a boxwood bow, and Lu Ji himself was also captured by an arrow. This surprised Li Yi a little, and he galloped out of the city with a fine horse and came to a small hill where the battle took place.

The sun was about to set, the ground was in shambles, the corpses of a dozen soldiers were upside down, most of them were hit by a long arrow, and under the afterglow of the setting sun, the four fields were vast, only a few partridges were calling. Li Yi's eyes roamed the battlefield, a small colonel dismounted and pulled out an arrow and handed it to Li Yi, Li Yi looked at it, and his eyes fell on the corpse of a soldier, which had a long lance with a broken wooden handle.

Li Yi stepped forward and circled around the corpse, he looked at the valley in the distance and said to himself, "Ben Shuai smells him." General Yang Qi asked, "Who?" Li Yi spit out three words in his mouth: "Li Shimin." ”

At night, next to a bonfire in front of a tent in the Tang army camp, more than a dozen soldiers were huddled together to roast the fire. An old soldier holding a spear said: "I have eaten military rations for twenty years, I have never seen any formation, the heroes of the Great Sui General Wagangzhai have all been taught, but this Lu Ji, hey, it's really not a person, that's a god, I saw it with my own eyes in Nanguan that day, he is two feet tall, his eyes are like copper bells, and he holds a wind and fire sword in his hand. The soldiers were shocked and let out a sigh of surprise. A younger soldier said: "He is right, I heard that Li Yi is even more powerful than Lu Ji!" Anyway, I won't go to Jingzhou City. I don't even know how I died. ”

At this time, a voice came from around the campfire: "Is Lu Ji as evil as you say?" The veteran glanced at the man, and saw that it was a man of about thirty years old, leading a horse, wearing an old battle armor, and was followed by a dozen or so horsemen. The veteran asked, "Brother, where are you from?" "Chang'an, we're from Chang'an." The man replied aloud.

The veteran said: "No wonder you don't believe it, after a few days of tasting other people's knives and arrows, you will know that Lu Ji is powerful." ”

The man said loudly: "How many days will it take?" He stretched out his hand and dragged a large man from a horse beside him, pointed at him with his whip, and said, "Tell the brethren who you are?" Dahan bowed his head and said, "I, I'm Lu Ji." Everyone was stunned, and the veteran stepped forward and lit a torch to see: "It's really Lu Ji!" I'll beat you up for a shit, how many of our brothers have you killed? As he spoke, he rushed forward and grabbed Lu Ji and beat him, and all the soldiers also rushed up.

A soldier walked up to the man and said, "Brother, you have spoken out for those brothers who died in Nanguan, we have to spread it to you, dare to ask the honorable name?" The man smiled and spit out three words: "Li Shimin." All the soldiers were stunned, stopped beating Lu Ji, and looked at the man in a daze. The veteran blinked his eyes and looked at Li Shimin, and fell to his knees: "That's right, it's really the emperor, these little dog eyes really grow on the donkey's belly!" Everyone knelt down together: "Your Majesty! Li Shimin helped the veteran up: "Those who don't know are not exaggerated, get up quickly, the wind is strong and the weather is cold, aren't you afraid of the cold?" All of them are roasted by me. The veteran said: "At this time, the little ones are not afraid of anything, are they still afraid of the cold?" Li Shimin looked at the soldiers: "Then if I let you go back to Jingzhou City tomorrow, you won't be afraid?" Everyone said in unison: "Don't be afraid!" ”

At this time, Li Jing and Wei Chi Jingde had already greeted them. Li Jing was still a little worried about not supporting Li Shimin in the Xuanwumen Change, and when he saw Li Shimin, he took a big step and bowed: "Minister Li Jing knocks to welcome the emperor!" Li Shimin hurriedly stepped forward to help him up, and said, "Brother Jing, please get up!" In front of everyone, he said the word "Brother Jing" very seriously, so that everyone could hear it clearly, Li Jing couldn't help but be stunned: "Your Majesty, how can a minister be worthy of this title?" Li Shimin said: "You are twenty-six years old, don't you still deserve this word?" Let's talk! After speaking, he took Li Jing's hand and walked towards the tent, Li Jing's heart was hot, and he followed.

After entering the big tent, Li Shimin told the generals about what he saw in front of the enemy's formation, and he pointed out that the defense of Jingzhou was very strong, and if he fought hard, he was afraid that he would not be able to attack it in a few months, so he could only fight skillfully. As for how to fight skillfully, he proposed to send an elite army to bypass from the north to attack Li Yi's granary Huating, so that the Yan Liao army would be chaotic without a fight. The generals said yes one after another, everyone was preparing to discuss the plan to attack Huating, someone hurriedly entered the account and sent a letter, Li Shimin opened it and read it, and couldn't help but be surprised, the letter was actually a letter written by Li Yi asking for peace. Li Shimin said while thinking: "It's strange, I once sent someone to appease him, but Li Yi rejected it. He had just won such a victory in Nanguan, and he was in full swing, why did he come to the door and ask for caressing? ”

Everyone was also very surprised, and when they were discussing, a general came in and told Li Shimin that the captured Lu Ji had just confessed an important situation: Ash Nasimo, the general under Jieli, suddenly took Huating, robbed Li Yi of all the grain and retreated north. Wei Chi Jingde slapped his thigh when he heard this: "I said that he was so hard before, why did he suddenly soften, I see!" This is really God bless the Tang Dynasty, the emperor, you order, the dog's day is out of food, and the army will inevitably be in turmoil, let's immediately besiege him, and it won't take a few days to clean up these rabbit cubs. The atmosphere in the tent was also warm, and everyone talked about it, saying that God helped the Tang Dynasty, and the end of Li Yi had arrived. Li Shimin didn't say anything, slowly walked towards the map, Li Jing hurriedly moved a candle over, held the candlestick, and stood carefully beside Li Shimin. Looking at it, Li Shimin closed his eyes and pondered for a moment, opened his eyes suddenly, turned his face and said something that surprised everyone: "Send someone to Jingzhou and agree to Li Yi's conditions!" ”