On the morning of the fifth day of the first month of the third year,

The snowflakes that had drifted all night finally stopped at the beginning of the morning, and the gatekeeper of Qinren Fang urged a servant to speed up the snow on the ground.

Prime Minister Li Shi is used to going to bed late and getting up late, getting up late, too late to eat breakfast, so when he goes out, he still holds a piece of baked cake in his hand, eating while walking, Li Shi has always flaunted honesty, as the prime minister never sits in a sedan chair, in and out of the horse is riding, and is always single, not even an old slave by his side,

The gatekeeper saw Li Shi riding over from a distance, so he drove the snow-sweeping servant to the side of the road, bowed his head one by one, bowed his head, and then stood on the side of the road with his waist bowed, making his debut for Li Shi, Li Shi didn't look at him, so he went straight out of the door, just walked ten zhang away, and a person suddenly came out from behind the big tree on the side of the road, and shot an arrow at Li Shi's face.

Li Shi practiced kung fu when he was young, and when he saw that the situation was not good, he leaned over and lay on the horse's back, and he could avoid the arrow, and the assassin saw that he missed a blow, so he drew the bow and shot again, this time Li Shi was not so lucky, the arrow hit his left arm, Li Shi fell off the horse with a wail under severe pain, and the assassin saw that he had succeeded, lost his bow and drew his knife and stepped forward to kill Li Shi,

Li Shi lay motionless on the ground, luring the assassin to approach, and suddenly turned over and pulled out the arrow on his left arm and stabbed at the assassin, the assassin dodged in shock, and pushed Li Shi to the ground with only one palm.

At this moment of crisis, Li Shi's old horse suddenly neighed and let out a long roar, raised its hind legs and kicked at the assassin, the assassin was not careful, was kicked by it, and immediately turned over and fell to the ground.

The horse knelt on the ground, let Li Shi climb on his back, then stood up, ran towards the mansion, when passing by the fangmen, suddenly heard a loud roar, a knife-wielding masked murderer jumped down from the beam of the fangmen, raised his knife and slashed down, if he was hit, Li Shi could not help but be in a different place, this horse was afraid that he would also be cut into two parts,

In a flash of lightning, the horse leaped forward and avoided the fatal sword, but the fluttering tail was cut off by the blade.

Several servants and slaves of the Li Shi family rushed to reinforcements with sticks, and with the help of the gatekeeper and a servant, the assassin fled in a hurry when he saw that the situation was not good.

When the prime minister of the dynasty was assassinated in the street, this was not the first time in the Tang Dynasty, and Wu Yuanheng, the prime minister of Xianzong, was assassinated on the street by the assassins sent by Li Shidao, the envoy of Pinglu Jiedu, on the third day of the sixth month of the tenth year of Yuanhe.

Wu Yuanheng was the prime minister who advocated cutting the feudal domain by force at that time, and he was killed because he touched the interests of the feudal town, why Li Shi was assassinated, he knew it in his heart,

A day ago, Hedong Liuxiang heard that the Shatuo Department led thousands of troops to besiege the Langu Valley and plunder the people, and the local defenders could not prohibit it, when Li Ang presided over the court discussion, Prime Minister Li Guyan advocated the transfer of the Taiyuan garrison to send troops to recruit and suppress, but Li Shi said that the Hedong Army was mainly infantry, and it was good at attacking the city, defending the city, and fighting in the mountains, but in the battle with the Shatuo people, who were mainly cavalry, they often fell behind,

The neighboring Zhenwu army has repeatedly won in previous wars with Shatuo and the Turks, and the festival has made Liu Wei have a very set of how to arrest the thieves, Li Shi advocated mobilizing the Zhenwu army to go south to exterminate the Shatuo bandits, and the prime minister Zheng Qin and Chen Yixing seconded the matter.

Although Li Guyan fell behind, he still struggled, and the court discussion was delayed, and after a long time, Li Guyan did not come up in one breath and fainted, Li Ang had to let him save people first, and the matter was postponed for discussion.

Li Ang heard that Li Shi was assassinated on the street, and was shocked and angry, and immediately sent thirty Golden Dragon Armor guards to Qinren to protect Li Shi, and on the other hand, he ordered Jingzhaofu, Shence Army, Jin Wuwei and other internal and external soldiers and civilians to arrest the assassins, and the people of Chang'an City were panicked for a while.

On the second day of Li Shi's assassination, Emperor Wenzong Li Ang ascended the Zichen Palace to look at the court, there were only nine people in the huge hall, Li Ang sighed silently, helpless, Prime Minister Li Guyan said: "The military situation in Hedong is urgent, please make a decision as soon as possible." ”

On the same day, Li Shi recuperated from his injuries and did not come to the court, Zheng Qin asked for leave and did not come, although Chen Yi and the pedestrian came, he kept bowing his head and was silent, Li Ang looked at him several times, Chen Yixing did not say a word, and a few people among the courtiers seconded Li Guyan's words, Li Ang had no choice but to order Dong Bacheng, the former commander of the Hedong army, to send troops to recruit the Langu thieves,

When Li Shi was assassinated, Yang Hao had already led the army to the northwest of Langu County sixty-five miles, the day before Ma Yue led his two Shatuo battalions had captured the county seat of Langu, Liu Wei led the main force of the Zhenwu army to the west and east of Shuozhou, blocking the possibility of Shuozhou reinforcements to rescue Langu, and the Guiyi Army and the leopard battalion of Le Guya went deep into the Hehe River and deployed defenses along the river to prevent Dong Bacheng from jumping over the wall and fleeing westward, on the other hand, it was also responsible for blocking the possibility of Linzhou sending troops to interfere in Hedong.

When Dong Bacheng got the holy decree and the military department's order, it was already the tenth day of the first month, before that, Li Ang was invited by Li Guyan, the edict of salt and iron transport, Yang Sifu, the head of the household department, Li Jue, the household department, and the same Ping Zhangshi, Yang Hao and Liu Wei both understood in their hearts that this was the comprehensive victory of Concubine Yang's party against ***, Li Guyan, Yang Sifu, and Li Jue were all members of Concubine Yang's party, and Yang Sifu was Concubine Yang's nephew.

Li Shi, who sympathized with the crown prince, was already disheartened by this fright, he had submitted his resignation to the emperor under the pretext of being ill, and Zheng Qin and Chen Yixing were also frightened out of their bodies, leaving only a shell in the court.

These are not the most important things, what Yang Hao is most unwilling to see is that Concubine Yang's party and Qiu Shiliang's pace in this matter are surprisingly consistent, which is likely to mean that the two forces have merged together, the young prince has been haunted by the nectar change in the ninth year of Yamato, and is very disgusted by Qiu Shiliang's indiscriminate killing of important ministers of the court, which can be seen from his risk to rescue Li Xiaoben's two daughters Li Yunlai and Li Jasmine,

Qiu Shiliang was worried that after Li Yong inherited the unification, he would overturn the case for the political enemies who were beaten by himself in the "Manna Change", and then liquidate it to himself, so he has spared no effort to use various means to suppress the prince's party, and Qiu Shiliang is also well aware of the ambitions of King An Li Rong, and he was originally quite wary of the alliance between King An and Concubine Yang, but now it seems that he has decided to merge with them.

Yang Hao felt an invisible pressure, this feeling was something he had never felt before, and it was also the first time he had encountered it since he became the sword of the Baoli Society, what is the height of the cold, is this it,

On the seventeenth day of the first month, Li Ang rejected Li Shi's resignation and made him serve as the envoy of Jingnan Jiedu, Li Shi's departure drew an end to this battle, the battle of Chang'an came to an end, but the wrestling in Hedong had just begun.

Dong Bacheng's Hedong front army from Taiyuan, Yangqu, Xinzhou three head to go, Li Yufang's troops out of Xinzhou, rushed to the west to conquer the iron bell battalion defense of Jingle County, the iron bell battalion commander Wang Qun was hit by two arrows, retreated to the Lan Valley and has been unconscious,

On the eighteenth, Li Yufang's troops came to the city of Langu, Ma Yue strictly defended according to Yang Hao's orders, Li Yufang led his troops to attack the city for a day and a night, and then besieged the city.

Dong Bacheng led the main force of the Hedong Front Army to the west along the Fen River at this moment, and arrived in Lanzhou on the afternoon of the 18th.

In the early morning of the 19th, Dong Bacheng led the main force of foot cavalry out of the city for a decisive battle, the two sides set up a position on the Heiyang slope in the north of the city, Wu Chizan has been in Hedong for many years, and has long been aware of the tactics of the Hedong Army, since the surrender of Yang Hao, he is familiar with the tactics of the Xining Army to fight fast and slow, originally knew that he knew that the other was very beneficial to Wu Chizan, but perhaps because he was afraid of Dong Bacheng's reputation, Wu Chizan made mistakes in command again and again,

He fought a positional offensive battle with three battalions of a brigade of less than 4,000 men and Dong Bacheng's main force of 20,000 people, and the Xining army lost nearly one-fifth of the battle from the morning to noon.

The positional battle was defeated again and again, but in the sports war, Wu Chizan won again and again, and he even took advantage of a mistake by Dong Bacheng to surround Dong Bacheng's Chinese military camp, but unfortunately the strength was not good and finally failed to expand the results.

The battle of Heiyangpo made Dong Bacheng have a new understanding of the Xining army, he changed his strategy, and did not rush north to recover Langu, but stationed in Lanzhou to wait and see the changes in the situation.

On the twentieth day of the first month, Yang Hao led the fire battalion, the Flying Tiger battalion, the Xiaoqi battalion, and the Weiyuan battalion to relieve the siege of Langu, Li Yufang used the terrain and fortifications to resist, and blocked Yang Hao at a distance of thirty miles from Langu City, and on the same day, Liu Wei began to sweep the periphery of Shuozhou, Liankemayi, Shanyang and other counties, the northeast of the river was shaken, and the left army of Hedong went out of Tanglin to the north to rescue, passing through Ningwu and encountered Yu Chongchong interception, fierce fighting for half a day, 3,000 people were captured,

On the same day, the four battalions of the Hedong Hou Army stationed in Fenzhou were ordered to go north, and when they passed through Wenshui County, they overheard the movement of the Wucao Department of Suizhou to Shizhou, and the four battalions were stationed in Wenshui to protect the safety of Taiyuan City.

On the morning of the 22nd, Cheng Keling led the Flying Tiger Battalion to conquer Huning, the northwest fortress of Langu, Li Yufang had to relieve the siege and go south, Wu Chizan intercepted Li Yufang's department in several bends, and fought fiercely for half a day, Li Yufang broke the siege and went south, Wu Chizan won a lot, and on the same day, Yang Hao and Ma Yue trained troops to besiege Lanzhou.

On the night of the 22nd, Yu Chong broke through Ningwu and Tanglin, the forward tiger camp approached Xinzhou, and the Weiyuan battalion of Gu Duoli bypassed Xinzhou and went straight to Yangqu, and Taiyuan City shook.

From the evening of the 21st to the evening of the 23rd, after three days of fierce fighting, Liu Wei conquered Shuozhou, and 20,000 defenders of Shuozhou surrendered, including Xiong Wuguo's six-battalion longbow formation, and the northeast of the river fell into the hands of Liu Wei.

Yang Hao had seen the power of the Hedong longbow array when he was in the Tiande Army, and after the Shuozhou city was broken, Yang Hao wrote a letter to Liu Wei to transfer Xiong Wuguo's six-battalion longbow formation to the Lanzhou front, Liu Wei had also heard of the strength of the longbow array, and he didn't want to give up the longbow array, but he couldn't stand Yang Hao repeatedly sent people to urge, so he had to agree to let go.