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Li Jingye gathered all the civil and military forces under his command to discuss the specific route of the march.

At this time, I only heard a soldier named Xue Zhongzhang say: "Jinling has a royal spirit, and I think that we should attack Jinling first, and after we can capture Jinling, gather the royal spirit, so that our army can get lucky, and then it is not too late to attack Luoyang." ”

But I heard the military advisor Wei Siwen say loudly: "No, the governor of the capital, my subordinates heard that Shandong Haojie because of the **** of the Wu family, all cut their wrists and sighed, and there was a sense of injustice in their hearts. Instead of taking advantage of this excellent situation to build up a great achievement and support His Majesty, our army retreated and built a nest in an attempt to protect itself. ”

After Wei Siwen said this, Luo Bingwang, Wang Bo, Zhang Cambodia and others also nodded and said: "Dadu Governor, we are entrusted by His Majesty to lead the troops to raise things, the main purpose is to cooperate with the Luoyang operation, if you lead the troops to attack Jinling, you will be misunderstood by the people of the world What is the plan, please think twice." ”

In fact, after listening to Xue Zhongzhang's words, Li Jingye's heart moved, because the other party's meaning was obvious, that is, to let him take the opportunity to stand on his own, but he suddenly thought that before leaving, the new emperor Li Xian had already explained, in fact, Li Xian had already made careful arrangements, not to mention that many of his troops were Li Xian's old troops, and if he wanted to attack Jinling with his own will, he would definitely have no good fruit to eat, and even worry about his life, and even if he could really unify his opinion and lead the army to attack Jinling, After Li Xian put down the rebellion and became the emperor in the future, what he had to face was Li Xian's raging anger, and in the face of Li Xian, he had no chance of winning at all.

"Even if it's for the sake of my own future, I can't do such a stupid thing, hehe, let me fight against Li Xian, am I tired of living?" Li Jingye thought silently for a moment, and made a decision in an instant, beheaded Xue Zhongzhang, and immediately led the army to Luoyang.

After Li Jingye made this decision, it immediately aroused a heartfelt support, and all the people were in high morale and marched towards the north.

The army went all the way north, even the battles were victorious, all the counties along the road surrendered, only more than ten days, the army has grown to about 150,000, at this time Li Jingye's army has come to the vicinity of Shouchun.

And Li Xiaoyi's army also came to Shouchun a few days ago, and was stationed there.

At the beginning, Li Xiaoyi did not put Li Jingye and others in his eyes at all, and sent his subordinate general Lei Renzhi to face the battle, but Lei Renzhi was ambushed by the Tang army and lost tens of thousands of people.

Later, Wei Yuanzhong, the palace attendant, persuaded Li Xiaoyi and said: "The world is safe, and I will do it here." The Quartet has been peaceful for a long time, and suddenly heard that the thief betrayed, and they were all looking forward to waiting for the king to sweep away the rebellion, and cut off the head of the thief. ”

Li Xiaoyi was shocked into a cold sweat when he heard this, he was originally born in the clan, and now he has not taken refuge in Li Xian, although he is reused by the Empress Wu, he is still suspicious in his heart, if the army does not stop at this time, it will definitely cause further suspicion of the Empress Wu, and at that time, he will definitely not see the Empress Wu, I am afraid that death is not far away.

Therefore, Li Xiaoyi hurriedly saluted Wei Yuanzhong and said: "The last general thanks Wei Yushi, Wei Gong's words are as straight as the clouds see the sun, which makes people suddenly, and the last general will lead his troops to fight and exterminate the stubborn." ”

After finishing speaking, Li Xiaoyi immediately ordered the deputy general Ma Jingchen to lead an army of 50,000 to go out of the city to fight, but he didn't see a trace of coldness flashing in Wei Yuanzhong's eyes.

Li Xiaoyi originally saw Ma Jingchen's self-confidence, thinking that this battle would definitely achieve a big victory, but he did not expect that Ma Jingchen's army was ambushed by the Tang army, and soon fell into a critical situation, just two days, lost more than 10,000 people, and now can only support it, Ma Jingchen sent people to break through the siege, returned to the city to ask Li Xiaoyi for help, and asked Li Xiaoyi to immediately lead troops to support, otherwise his army would be wiped out.

Li Xiaoyi was shocked when he heard the news, and wanted to ignore it, but saw Wei Yuanzhong persuade him again, if he gave up the 50,000 army directly, he was afraid that it would chill the hearts of the soldiers, and no one would work hard for the royal family, Li Xiaoyi knew that this was reasonable, so he had to select 100,000 elites from the city, led by himself, and went to rescue Ma Jingchen.

However, when Li Xiaoyi's army arrived, he was immediately ambushed by the Tang army, and it was only then that he knew that Ma Jingchen had already surrendered to Li Jingye, and only after knowing it did he understand better that this Ma Jingchen was originally Li Xian's subordinate and had been a personal soldier in Li Xian's army.

And at this time, Li Xiaoyi naturally didn't know all this, and the so-called help Yunyun now was actually just a trap.

Li Xiaoyi's army was caught off guard, suffered from the onslaught of the Tang army, and lost 30,000 or 40,000 people, these 30,000 or 40,000 people naturally did not all die in battle, but more than half of them surrendered to the righteous army, Li Xiaoyi, who suffered heavy losses, had no choice but to lead the return to Shouchun City, but when his army came to the city and asked the army to open the door, he suddenly saw Wei Yuanzhong drop a head on the city, and shouted: "We have surrendered to the righteous army, Li Xiaoyi, you are a member of the Tang clan, Could it be that he watched the emperor being at the mercy of the villain and was indifferent? If you wake up, join the righteous army, and make it difficult for the emperor to be appeased, you will definitely go down in history in the future. ”

Li Xiaoyi saw that the master of the head was his deputy general Li Zhishi, and he was immediately furious, pointing at Wei Yuanzhong and shouting: "Wei Yuanzhong, you and other villains, dare to reverse black and white, pointing to the deer as a horse, it is really hateful, I lost so much trust in you that day, but I didn't expect you to be a rebel of the court, don't talk nonsense, today's matter, there is just death, I, Li Xiaoyi, would rather die than surrender." ”

At this moment, only the rumbling sound of horses' hooves in the rear could be heard, Li Xiaoyi couldn't help but be shocked, and hurriedly waved his army to retreat, and finally crossed the Huaishui easily, and the army under his command ran nearly fifty percent, and at this time, counting the soldiers, there were only more than 20,000 people left in the 300,000 army.

Li Xiaoyi saw that he was unable to recover the decline, so he had to sigh, lead the army to retreat, cross the Huaishui, and stick to Xia Cai on the north bank of the Huaishui, and at the same time wrote to the Empress Wu to ask for reinforcements. (To be continued.) )