Capture the thief and capture the king first, Liu Heimin's attitude towards Xu Yuanlang is the same as Xu Yuanlang's treatment of Liu Shiche.

Xu Yuanlang must die!

Xu Yuanlang's death means the complete collapse of the Xu family's army, and it also means that Li Jing's siege of Lu County in March finally won a comprehensive harvest today.

In fact, the Yunzhong army did not encounter any decent resistance after entering the city, after all, the mental state of the Xu Jiajun was not much different from that of the Jiangdu army before Yang Guang was killed.

More soldiers are no longer thinking about glory, but just living.

Li Jing's army entered the city, as if it had come to give relief.

When Liu Heimin took Xu Yuanlang's head and escorted Xu Chang and hundreds of other soldiers into the city, Li Jingzheng was sitting in the council hall where Xu Yuanlang was two hours ago, commanding Zhao Hu, Su Lie, Wang Fubao, Fan Yuan, Xue Wanche, Zhang Junli and others to surrender in the city, and Cheng Yanjin and Pei Yuanqing had also come from Langya at the same time, cleaning up the chaotic army that rushed out of the city all the way, so as not to cause trouble to these people.

The battle of Lu County finally got a perfect end before the first snow.

Su You did not spend too much time as before to let Li Jing implement the national policy of Yun China in the newly acquired territory, but immediately gathered people in Sanshan to join Li Jing after receiving the flying pigeon message, planning to take advantage of this big victory to win the eastern capital in one fell swoop.

Five days later, Li Mi went to Jindi Pass with a fleet of 500 guns, nearly 10,000 auxiliaries, and a large number of supplies, where he would join Li Jing's army from the east and head straight to the eastern capital.

At the same time, the fleet led by Fu Ziheng had also passed the Qindao supply station and headed for the mouth of the Yangtze River.

At this moment, the Yunzhong Army is also fighting on two fronts, one target is the Eastern Capital, the other is Bashu, and the statement of increasing troops in Shanxi has also been put on the agenda.

In fact, the situation of Liu Wuzhou in Shanxi is still very good, not a small good, but a big good.

When Li Shimin and Li Jiancheng converged, the Tang army had been defeated again and again and retreated to Jiangxian.

There is only one Longmen County between Jiangxian County and the Yellow River, and the place in Liguanzhong is only one step away, so when Li Shimin took over the command from Li Jiancheng, he knew that this was a tough battle.

If he can't withstand Liu Wuzhou's offensive, Li Tang's foundation will be ruined!

After joining Li Shimin's new army, Li Tang's strength has reached 180,000, and the current mobile force of the Yang army is less than half of Li Tang's army; And because of the killing all the way, so far the vigor has been exhausted, and the Dingyang army was finally blocked by the determined Li Shimin in the last line of defense by the Yellow River.

Li Tang's army was stationed in Baibi and ordered a deep ditch to avoid a fight.

It was the middle of October, when the first snow of winter finally fell, and the north wind was stronger than ever.

After Liu Wuzhou attacked once, he could only build a camp and wait for the Song Jingang Department to come to converge, intending to stalemate with Li Tang's army in the heavy snow first, and wait for the spring to fight again.

The fact that the two armies are in a state of confrontation does not indicate the arrival of peace.

Between the camps of the two armies were filled with light cavalry scouts from both sides, and their encounters took place from time to time; The battle was fought between a few or dozens of people, but it was extremely fierce, and it was basically after one side was completely wiped out, and the battle came to an end.

As early as when the Dingyang army and Li Tangjun confronted each other in Taiyuan, the situation in the grassland also became confusing.

Since the death of Shibi Khan, the successor to the Turkic power was not the son of Shibi Khan, Ashinash, but his younger brother Ashina Lifu, who was known as Chuluo Khan.

After Chu Luo Khan inherited the throne, he immediately summoned the prince Ashinash Bobi to meet the royal court, although the latter was not very old, but there were indeed some capable people around him, so he could naturally see the original intention of Chu Luo Khan, and then refused to be recruited on the grounds of serious illness.

On this ground, the Khan gathered several tribes who supported him to kill Ashnashi Bobi, hoping to defeat him in one fell swoop; After quelling the civil strife, and then a large-scale southern invasion, anyway, the rear of the Yang army was empty, and the Turkic army could use Liu Wuzhou as a springboard to enter the Central Plains at any time.

Hearing that the Dingyang army was storming Taiyuan, Chuluo Khan swore to Li Yuan that he would reduce the reinforcements to Liu Wuzhou and attack the Dingyang army with Li Tang at the appropriate time.

At that time, Chu Luo Khan's thoughts were consistent with Li Yuan's thoughts, and Li Xuanba's army gave Dingyang the army a hard blow, but after Li Yuanji destroyed the Great Wall, it fully proved that the key to Shanxi was Jinyang City.

Chu Luo Khan naturally also hoped that the battle of Jinyang would last as long as possible, and after the defeat of the Yang army and Li Tang, it would be the best time for him to lead the Turkic army south, and it would not be difficult to occupy the entire Central Plains at that time.

Embarrassingly, however, Chuluo Khan suffered a major setback before his troops left the steppe.

Ashinash Bobi does seem to be weak, and there are not many steppe tribes supporting him, but the weapons and armor of those soldiers under his account are far better than those on the side of Luo Khan, and their combat effectiveness is also extremely strong.

Chu Luo Khan originally thought that he would be able to solve the Ashinash bowl before the first winter snow fell, and then enter the Central Plains to fight the autumn wind; Unexpectedly, as soon as the teams of the two sides came into contact, the side of Luo Khan suffered a big loss, and after losing the battle, he could only retreat gloomily.

There was no intervention of the Turkic army, but with the tens of thousands of soldiers reorganized by Li Xuanba, they did not exert their due combat effectiveness after the winter snow fell; In addition, Dingyang Jun spent a lot of effort to repair Yanmen and other counties, so Yanmen City, which Li Xuanba could easily take a month ago, could only look at the city and sigh at this time.

Without the worries of the north, Liu Wuzhou also confronted Li Tangjun wholeheartedly.

The 180,000 army and the 110,000 army fought for consumption, obviously Li Tang, the side with the stronger troops, suffered a loss, but Li Tang's rear was the land of Guanzhong, and there was Yongfeng Cang, what could Liu Wuzhou have?

At this time, Li Tang's strategic intention was already obvious, and the reason why they chose to confront the Dingyang army was nothing more than to rely on the home battle to consume the grain and grass of the guest army Liu Wuzhou!

The essence of war is to fight for resources. Li Jing can see through this, and so can Li Yuan.

The difference is that Li Jing, as a guest army, will fight Xu Yuanlang who is fighting at home, and Li Yuan will also fight Liu Wuzhou.

The battle line of the Dingyang army has been stretched too long, and wanting to replenish grain and grass from the rear is tantamount to a fool's dream, and Liu Wuzhou may never have thought of transferring grain and grass from Mayi, Taiyuan and other places, but used the most direct "war to feed the war".

After Liu Wuzhou occupied the new territory, he recruited troops and grain in the local area, and the local residents could not escape with Li Tang's army, or hid in the dock forts of large households; Dingyang Jun naturally became the Yunzhong Army that had just entered Leshou, and began to enter the situation of "fighting local tyrants and grabbing food".

Liu Wuzhou did not formulate any land strategy, but where the Dingyang army passed, the land policy was more thorough than that of the Yunzhong army, and those local big families were either defeated by the Dingyang army, or fled into the rear of Li Tang's defense line in advance.

Although Li Shimin did not have any pressure on the grain and grass issue, he also added fuel to Liu Wuzhou's behavior, and since he learned that Liu Wuzhou had begun to fight local tyrants, he also sent several teams to pretend to be the Yang army and began to attack from all sides......

On the ground in the east of the river, the grain grabbing team pretending to be the Dingyang army sent by the Dingyang army and Li Shimin caused a miasma, and both sides were robbing the population and food to the greatest extent, and the war zone was a hundred miles away from the adult hell.

Even so, there were only small-scale battles between the Dingyang army and Li Tangjun, but no one had the courage to initiate the real decisive battle.

A month passed quickly, and the season entered the middle of November.

When the second heavy snowfall fell, the Yellow River began to freeze.

Prior to this, Li Jing had already left Shandong and entered the hinterland of the Central Plains with the Yunzhong army that had won a great victory over Xu Yuanlang; It is worth mentioning that Li Jing's soldiers have increased by 20,000, all of whom are from Xu Yuanlang's soldiers.

After capturing Lu County, the number of soldiers reached more than 100,000 unprecedentedly, although he knew that the siege of the east needed manpower, but Li Jing, who knew the national policy of Yun China, still only dared to draw 20,000 people from these more than 100,000 people.

At this point, the army led by Li Jing had more than 80,000 people, and after joining up with Zhai Rang of Wagang and Li Mi, who led the fleet, the army directly led by Li Jing had reached 150,000 people.

Compared with the Wagang Army in its heyday, Li Jing's current 150,000 people are less than one-fifth of the original Wagang Army.

The problem is, the Wagang Army, which was known as one million at the beginning, was just a rabble, and there were tens of thousands of Wagang troops with real combat effectiveness?

Now the 150,000 troops led by Li Jing are all elite, including the most dazzling rebel forces at the beginning, including the Gao Kaidao Department, the Luo Yi Department, the Wei Daoer Department, the Dou Jiande Department, the Wang Bo Department, the Xu Yuanlang Department, and the Wagang Military Department......

These soldiers include almost all the rebel armies in Hebei, Shandong, and the Central Plains, but most of the generals in these armies are still from Dou Jiande's department and the Wagang army, which can also see the heritage of these two teams.

Zhai Rang and Li Mi sat together again, but they were no longer the big bosses and second masters of the year, but just the two generals under Li Jing.

The reason why Li Mi was sent here was that Li Jing could probably see Su You's thoughts.

Li Mi and Wang Shichong confronted each other for too long, and in the end it ended in Li Mi's defeat.

If Li Mi can't prove himself again and defeat Wang Shichong, then when Li Mi and Wang Shichong are talked about in the future, Li Mi will always be just a loser.

Li Mi probably also returned to the place of defeat that day because of this day, right? And Su You did not disappoint Li Mi, and immediately agreed to Li Mi's invitation to fight.

After converging the main force of the Wagang Army, Li Jing immediately gave the order to recover Xingyang, and the first step was obviously to break the stalemate in the Tiger Pass.

After recapturing Luocang from the Wagang army, Wang Shichong was able to solve the food problem in the eastern capital, which was also his greatest support for establishing Zheng State and ascending the throne as emperor.

After having food, Wang Shichong began to recruit troops and horses, and for a while, it was a rumor, and even Zu Junyan and Shan Xiongxin and others in the Wagang army took refuge in him, which also made Zheng Guo's troops exceed 100,000 in one fell swoop.

However, among the 100,000 troops, only 20,000 Huainan troops and 20,000 or 30,000 Xiaoguo troops can fight, and the remaining 50,000 or 60,000 people are also newcomers.

As for Zu Junyan's refuge, there is also a small episode, probably because he wrote a story for Li Midai to scold Yang Guang; Wang Shichong was very unimpressed by this, but he still took him in and treated him as a guest.