Chapter Ninety-Six: Pei Ju Escapes

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Li Shimin took the initiative to admit his guilt, and took the guilt, and brought 50,000 elite soldiers, and came towards Chang'an City.

And such an opportunity will naturally not be let go of the prince's party, and a large number of Li Yuan's ill-intentioned recitals are presented on Li Yuan's desk every day, and Li Yuan's heart is actually very worried, and he is also afraid that Li Shimin really intends to rebel, so he immediately dispatched troops near Gyeonggi to Beijing to defend to ensure that Chang'an is safe.

Li Shimin had a large number of people at the beginning, but it didn't take long for their scale and momentum to be much smaller, and most of the soldiers and horses they brought were left far away from Chang'an, which made Li Yuan's heart finally breathe a sigh of relief, Li Shimin didn't mean to commit a crime after all, but he did too much in this matter, which made Li Yuan's heart very unhappy, thinking that he wanted to keep him to fight on the battlefield before, but now I am afraid that I can't continue to indulge him like this, otherwise once the wings of the Qin Wangfu are gradually full, Then it is difficult to say whose world is the world of Datang.

Here, Li Shimin sent troops to defeat Wang Shichong, and then the news of being punished by Li Yuan quickly reached Li Mi's ears, and in his opinion, this was simply an excellent opportunity given to him by God.

Tongguan is the most important checkpoint between Luoyang and Chang'an, originally he thought that since Li Shimin has a handsome and heavy troops to live in Tongguan, it must be difficult to capture Guancheng for a while and a half, and instead of wasting manpower and material resources on the attack, it is better to rebuild the city on the official road near Luoyang, he took Tongguan, not to send troops to attack Li Tang, Li Tang is strong, plus the support of the nobles of Guanlong, it is obviously irrational to fight with them to fight hard, he doesn't do such a thing, the current position of Luoyang is not very good, It must be based on defense, so it is valuable to take Tongguan, but it cannot be costly.

Li Shimin returned to Chang'an with an army of 50,000, this news is very tempting for Li Mi, Li Shimin's talent in using troops he admires very much, so he is also very cautious, when Li Shimin garrisoned Tongguan, he didn't think about leading the army to attack at all, but now that Li Shimin has left, the defenders of Tongguan will be a lot weaker, and at this time take the opportunity to attack, it may not be impossible!

Li Mi immediately entered the palace to report to Yang Tong, the king of Yue, who is now his superior, although he was also named the king of Wei, but the king of Yue is the main thing in Luoyang City, so the etiquette that should be talked about cannot be left behind.

Yang Tong naturally has no opinion on this, Li Mi is willing to lead the army to regain the lost territory, which is naturally very good, but he is worried about the safety of Luoyang City, so Li Mi took Wang Bodang and others to lead an army of 200,000 to the west, he left Pei Renji and Shan Xiongxin to defend Luoyang, Pei Renji is cautious, and he is also good at using troops, Shan Xiongxin is his person, staying can not only protect Luoyang, but also monitor the actions of King Yue.

Liu Wenjing did not expect badly, Li Mi did send troops, and at the same time, in Jiangdu City, Yu Wenhua and after buying Yang Guang's forbidden army with a lot of money, his son Yuwen Chengdu took away, and then led troops into the palace, forcing Yang Guang to abdicate and make way for Xian, Yang Guang naturally refused to abdicate, but he had no choice, Yu Wenhua and ordered the soldiers to capture Yang Guang's henchmen and many harem personnel, and killed them one by one in front of him, even his grandson Yang Yan did not let go, and finally killed Yang Guang.

After Yu Wenhua killed Yang Guang, he planned to launch his father Yuwen Shu as the emperor, but Yu Wenshu remembered that he was too old, and he had served the emperors of the two dynasties, and belonged to the old ministers of the Great Sui, and killing the monarch was already a great infamy, and he didn't want to bear another infamy, so he simply handed over his army to his ruthless son, and handed over his throne to him.

Yuwen Chengdu won the trust of Yang Guang in the past, after he returned to Jiangdu, he heard that Yang Guang had been killed by his father, and it was difficult to accept it for a while, so he had the idea of going, and left Jiangdu by boat with a family, drifting down the Yangtze River, and it is said that he settled on an island overseas, and some merchants also encountered it on the way to sea.

Yu Wenhua and ambition are complacent, taking over the Sui Dynasty's power in the Jiangnan area, he is different from Yang Guang, he has no feelings for Jiangdu, and from the geographical point of view, the location of Jiangdu is not very good, it is still too close to the north, Yu Wenhua wants a safer place, he intends to use Jiangnan as a basis, to establish an empire across the south, and the sphere of influence should reach the level of Sun Quan of Eastern Wu when he was in power.

Yu Wenhua and the capital were established in Qiantang City in Huiji County, which was later known as Hangzhou and Lin'an, the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty during the Song Dynasty.

Yu Wenhua and prepared to divide the river and rule, to establish a country like Nan Chen, and the dynasty north of the Yangtze River to divide the world, this is a little different from Liu Wenjing's idea, so after receiving the news that Li Mi sent troops to attack Tongguan and the defense of Luoyang City was empty, Yu Wenhua did not have any expression about this, he formed a strong naval army in Jiangning, preparing to control the channel of the Yangtze River, blocking the road for strong enemies in the north to cross the river, on the other hand, all kinds of materials in the Jiangdu City were packed into ships and transported to Qiantang by water.

Yang Guang's general, Lai Hu'er, escaped the Jiangdu Incident, and after learning of Yu Wenhua and the murder of the king, he also expressed his loyalty to the Yue King of Luoyang, saying that he would be loyal to the Yue King.

However, there were not many troops under Lai Hu'er, and Chen Ling, who led the army to resist Xiao Milling in the Western Liang Dynasty, did not make a clear statement after learning of the Jiangdu Incident.

Li Mi's army has just come to Tongguan and is attacking Tongguan City, the news in Luoyang City has already come, Pei Renji after learning that Yang Guang was hanged by Yu Wenhua and hanged, supported Yang Tong, the king of Yue, to call the emperor, and then canonized Li Mi as the king of Wei, and gave him an order to let him lead the army to rush back to Luoyang immediately, not to continue to attack Tongguan.

So when Li Shimin led the army back, Li Mi's Wei army had slowly retreated, and he did not lead his troops to pursue, because there was no longer a need, the Sui army advanced and retreated in an orderly manner, the defense was tight, and blind pursuit was useless.

Liu Wenjing's serial plan only succeeded half, and the remaining half did not succeed, which made Li Shimin very passive, although he delayed outside Chang'an for a few days and did not enter Beijing, after getting the news that the Sui army soldiers were pressing, Li Yuan really immediately ordered him to lead the army back to help, but this time their plan also greatly damaged his image in Li Yuan's eyes, and the relationship between their father and son deteriorated even more.

The general trend of the world has changed so fast, it really makes Liu Zhi a little dumbfounded, but Dou Jiande of Hebei secretly formed an alliance with Du Fuwei of Jianghuai when Li Mi entered Luoyang, the most powerful Wagang army has surrendered to the imperial court at this time, and the world of the Great Sui has completely collapsed, and there are two first-class forces in the world, one is Li Tang who occupies Chang'an, and the other is the remnant Sui who owns Luoyang, and the rest, whether it is Xiao Milling in the land of Xishu, or Yu Wenhua who occupies most of the south of the Yangtze River. And he Dou Jiande is slightly weaker than these two forces in terms of strength, and Jianghuai's Du Fuwei was already at the end of his rope after the last failure, if it weren't for everyone's attention not being on him, he would have been destroyed by now, so at best he can only be regarded as a third-rate force, but it is much better to have one more friend than one more enemy, even if it is a third-rate force, Dou Jiande is willing to make friends, so he now faces the threat of Li Mi and Li Tang, and has to tighten the army, He can't continue to expand outward, he can't go to the land of Jianghuai, make friends with a Du Fuwei, and wait until the future, if something happens, he can help each other and contain the remnants of Luoyang.

At the same time, after planning for a long time, Pei Ju's army quietly withdrew to the north, the north is the direction of the Turks, so the Tang army did not arrange troops on this side, Pei Ju and his party withdrew to the north, which is tantamount to seeking a dead end and going to a desperate situation.

But the Tang army is still a little careless, Pei Ju's plan is very detailed, he is very good at the time of withdrawal, he has been to the Turks many times, so he knows the specific schedule of the opening of spring and nomadism in the north, so he chose to lead the army away when the Turks at the foot of Yin Mountain have just left and will not return, so that although the Turkic army is in front of him, it will not cross Yin Mountain again to attack him, because after a whole winter of attrition, The cattle and sheep raised by the grassland herdsmen have lost a lot of fat at this time, and a lot of cattle and sheep have been consumed in the whole winter, if you continue to fight at this time, you will miss the most important breeding time for cattle and sheep, the grassland people live on these cattle and sheep, the more they are eaten at this time, then the greater their losses this year, so they will not fight at this time.

And ordinary people don't know about this at all, but Pei Ju knows very well, he has begun to hoard grain in the winter of last year, and even bought a large number of cattle and sheep from the Turks as food, saving other grains that are easy to store and transport, for which he also did not hesitate to sell a part of the iron tools in exchange for a sufficient number of cattle and sheep, which ended up with the biggest problem, that is, the dilemma of grain.

The speed of the Sui army was very fast, they traveled more than 200 miles to the north in a day, and in three days they had completely jumped out of the encirclement of the Tang army, although the mountainous terrain of Guanzhong was a barrier for the Tang army, but it was also an invisible obstacle for them, blocking the possibility of their first pursuit.

And after the cavalry of the Tang army was dispatched, they encountered an ambush by Li Jing's cavalry, and as a result, they suffered heavy casualties, not only completely lost the target, but also greatly dampened their morale, so that the Tang army was deeply afraid and no longer dared to pursue easily, as a result, the Sui army gradually drifted away and gradually disappeared into the vast grassland.

Pei Ju's escape made Li Yuan very depressed, he originally wanted to recruit Pei Ju, especially after the Sui Dynasty in Jiangdu completely collapsed, Pei Ju was actually already a masterless minister, and he really wanted him to be loyal to the little emperor in Luoyang? That doesn't seem likely, he should understand the current general trend of the world, so Li Yuan expects him to make a wise decision, but who would have thought that he would run away, and he ran under the noses of tens of thousands of Tang troops, as for where he ran, Li Yuan actually didn't care much, the northwest was actually his territory, Pei Ju had no roots and no foundation, where could he go?

Although he failed to get Pei Ju and lost a great opportunity to get the support of the Hedong family, with the withdrawal of Pei Ju's Sui army, the situation in Guanzhong was completely stabilized, and there was nothing in Guanzhong that could threaten his Li Tang's dominance.

Pei Ju successfully escaped, which made Yang Tong and Pei Renji and others in Luoyang City happy and worried, they were happy that this Sui army was loyal to the Great Sui, it was Pei Renji's old man, and it was the army of Pei Ju, the important minister of the Great Sui, among them, there were seventy or eighty thousand elite soldiers of the Great Sui, and they successfully escaped from the encirclement of the Tang army, which meant that the Great Sui reduced some of the strength losses, but at the same time, because this army did not know where to go, and the direction of escape was also deep in the steppe of the Turks, so everyone was very worried, One is worried about their safety, although the Turks have been defeated in the previous invasion, but they are all soldiers, armed quickly, the various tribes on the steppe are scattered, their 100,000 army marches, the whereabouts will definitely be detected, and they are isolated, the terrain is not familiar, if they are attacked by the Turks, then the situation is not good.

There are also some people who are worried, worried that Pei Ju is going to surrender to the Turks with this army.

Although the credibility of this statement is low, it is a view that is supported by some people, so it cannot be denied until further information is provided.

The Turks had declined to the extreme during the time of Emperor Wen of Sui, but after nearly twenty years of recuperation, their strength quickly recovered, and eventually raised tigers for trouble, becoming a great northern threat to the Great Sui, but their production technology is still very backward, they must live by water, and their weapons and equipment are also very backward, stirrups and saddles are not complete, armored bows and crossbows are very scarce, so the combat power is limited, but if a strong Sui army surrenders to them, then the situation is very different! (To be continued.) )