Li Shimin objected, he believed that the original army was to take the world, we should go straight to Guanzhong, order the world, today we will meet a small enemy, we will return to the division, and the ministers and soldiers who follow us will leave us, not to mention that returning to Taiyuan is just to occupy a city, we will become thieves, and sooner or later we will be served by someone. Li Jiancheng expressed his agreement with this view. Li Yuan finally adopted Pei Lian's proposition, and after so much experience, he had already become old and serious. There is still a long way to go from Guanzhong, I don't know how many dangers there will be, and not far ahead is the annoying Song Laosheng. It's best to lay down Chang'an! The question is that it can't be beaten? If Chang'an can't be defeated, and Taiyuan is gone, then you really have to go up the mountain to fight guerrillas! Maybe Li Shimin was right, but Li Yuan didn't want to take this risk. So he ordered Li Jiancheng to lead his left army back to Taiyuan on the same day. Li Shimin was very surprised to learn that the left army had withdrawn to Taiyuan! He went to Li Yuan's tent overnight to convince Li Yuan. At this time, it was the middle of the night, and Li Yuan was asleep. The soldiers outside the tent did not let Li Shimin in. Li Shimin was very helpless, so he had to squat outside the tent and cry, and the more sad Li Shimin cried, the more sad he was, the louder he cried, and he couldn't wait to wake up the whole military camp and count the stars with him. Li Yuan was woken up alive: "Who is full of food and support?" The third watch didn't sleep in the middle of the night and came here to cry. "It's the second son!" "Oh, let him in!" "It's okay, why are you crying!" "Now we are raising up to save the people of Leba, and if we advance, we will fight, and if we retreat, they will leave us. In front are the fleeing soldiers, behind are the strong enemies, and it is a matter of minutes for us to be killed! That's why I'm crying so sadly. "Li Yuan is a scheming master, and he knows his current situation very well. It's just that he wants to stabilize the rear first and then consider marching, after all, there are still dozens of gasping breathers up and down the family, and the family is only pinched in his own hands. But tonight, Li Shimin's words made Li Yuan understand that there is no turning back when he embarks on this road, he can only move forward bravely, and if he does not succeed, he will become a benevolent, and there is no third way! Li Yuan agreed with Li Shimin Zhang. Ordered the army to march towards Huoyi. But Li Jiancheng's left army has already left, and now there is only Li Shimin's right army, and it is impossible for an army to defeat Huo Yicheng. So Li Shimin chased Li Jiancheng overnight and asked him to return to his division. Due to speeding, high night and wind, and unknown road conditions, Li Shimin had a traffic accident on the road and fell off his horse. There was no way, Li Shimin had to wipe his ass and get up, and the horse didn't know where to run at this time. Li Shimin walked all the way on two legs, and finally found Li Jiancheng and his left army Huoyi The battle did not seem to have a big deal to abandon Li Yuan, and on August 3, the rain finally stopped, and the grain and grass in the rear also arrived. Li Yuan's army entered the city of Huoyi. Li Yuan took the initiative to make an appointment, but Song Laosheng was not a fool. If you don't keep a good city, and you cut it in the barren mountains and mountains? I'm demented! Li Yuan saw that Song Laosheng refused to fight with him, and he couldn't help it. The city cannot be attacked, so just order the belongings. What if I'm done? Then wait! I don't believe you're going to stay in the city for the rest of your life. But Li Yuan couldn't wait, the 30,000 army was going to eat...... If you stay under Huoyi City for one more day, you have to waste a lot of food, and if Li Yuan wants to take Chang'an directly, he relies on the speed of soldiers, if the army of the Sui Dynasty rushes to Chang'an Qinwang, then Li Yuan's three divisions will not be beaten to death. What's more important is that many rebels in various places are not far away, such as Liang Shidu in Shuofang, Liu Wuzhou in Mayi, and Li Mi in Wagang, all of whom are not far from him. Among them, Li Mi is the most unkind, a few days ago, when Li Yuan was still hungry and drenched in the rain, Li Mi sent an envoy to send a letter asking Li Yuan to join. The so-called joining is ugly, and he wants Li Yuan to listen to him. Li Mi already had tens of thousands of troops at this time, and he was also the leading brother of the anti-army from all walks of life, and he was rich and wealthy. Li Yuan naturally didn't dare to disobey Li Mi, and said a lot of good things about Li Mi who had only stabilized at the time. Everyone is out to mix, why listen to you? Li Yuan thought hard and finally came up with a plan. He ordered Li Shimin to take a few people to the city of Huoyi, and pointed with a horsewhip. Song Laosheng was confused: What does this kid want to do? I saw a few people led by Li Shimin rolling up their sleeves, tightening their belts, holding the guys in their hands, and running under the city wall under the command of Li Shimin and running around the city. They're besieging the city! Song Laosheng was very angry, a twenty-year-old hairy boy dared to play an old man like this, it was tolerable, which was unbearable! Song Laosheng opened the east gate and the south gate and led the army to meet the battle! Finally fooled! Li Yuan and Li Jiancheng led the army to line up in the east of the city to face the main force of Song Laosheng, while Li Shimin and his brother-in-law Chai Shao lined up in the south of the city. Song Laosheng commanded the Sui army to charge Li Yuan and Li Jiancheng in the east of the city. Li Jiancheng accidentally fell from his horse at this time. Song Laosheng seized the opportunity and personally led the army to pounce on Li Yuan and Li Jiancheng. Li Yuan's army was defeated and retreated. At this time, Li Shimin in the south of the city led the army to maneuver to the rear of the Sui army in a roundabout way to complete the flanking attack on the Sui army. Seeing that the situation was not good, Song Laosheng prepared to withdraw his troops and return to the city. At this time, Li Yuan ordered someone to shout: "Catch Song Laosheng, catch Song Laosheng." The Sui army believed it to be true, and even more unwilling to fight, so they retreated to Huoyi City and closed the city gates. These boys can be regarded as picking up a life, but they pity Song Laosheng. When Song Laosheng ran under the city gate with a nose that was not a nose and a face that was not a face, he found that the city gate was closed. Now this is the end, there are walls in front and pursuers behind. Song Laosheng is also a talent, and he had an idea: "Quickly throw the rope down." "Oh! Isn't there still a rope? And then you! Song Laosheng grabbed the rope and climbed up! The strength of the milk is exhausted. Suddenly, I don't know who shot the black gun behind him, and Song Laosheng saw the king of Hades before he could react. The general who beheaded him was Liu Hongji, and we will mention him later. Song Lao died, and the Sui army in Huoyi City lost the leading brother, and it didn't take long to hold on, and the meaning surrendered. In August of the thirteenth year of Qu Tutong's great cause (616), when he learned that Li Yuan, who was left behind in Taiyuan, raised an army against the Sui and possibly aimed directly at Chang'an. Chang'an of the Sui Dynasty stayed behind and sent two generals to lead the army to try to prevent Li Yuan's army from entering the pass. One is Song Laosheng, and the other is Qu Tutong. Qu Tutong is a fierce man, not a small fierce, but a big fierce. At the end of the Sui Dynasty, in the era of rebellion, in October of the seventh year of the Great Cause (611), Wang Bo, a native of Zouping, Shandong, first raised the anti-Sui banner in Changbai Mountain (now Zhangqiu, Shandong). to the thirteenth year of the Great Cause (616). In the past six years, according to incomplete statistics, more than 120 peasant uprisings broke out, of which the vitality was stronger, and only the Wagang Army led by Zhai Rang and Li Mi survived the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, the Hebei Rebel Army led by Dou Jiande, Du Fuwei, and Fugong? led a few other Huainan rebel armies. The vast majority of peasant uprisings were suppressed by government forces or eaten by other rebel armies. At the end of the Sui Dynasty, one of the most violent suppression of the peasant uprising was Zhang Xutuo, and the other was Qu Tutong. These two people are like the firefighting captains of the Sui Dynasty, running wherever there is a flame of revolution. Of course, the peasant rebel armies were no match for these two brothers, and they were also first-class military generals who had received systematic military theory education and rich combat experience. But after all, these two generals have a limited level of education, and if they meet a high-IQ intellectual, they will not be able to fool them. Zhang Xutuo met Li Mi, but his head was gone. Qu Tutong met Li Yuan... Of course, Qu Tutong is not Zhang Xutuo, and Li Yuan is not Li Mi. In early September of the thirteenth year of the Great Cause (616), after Li Yuan overthrew Song Laosheng, he immediately led his army to besiege Hedong City (now Yongjixi, Shanxi). At this time, Qu Tutong had already led tens of thousands of troops into Hedong City, and strengthened and heightened the city wall and other fortifications and hoarded a large amount of food to prepare for long-term holding. However, Qu Tutong still ordered Huyalang to send Sang Xian and Wang Changhuan, who attacked Li Yuanjun's army at night, when Li Yuan's army had just arrived, and when his foothold was not stable, Wang Chang's army was quickly defeated and retreated, but fortunately Li Shimin arrived in time to defeat Sang Xianhe. Sang Xianhe fled back to Hedong City, and Qu Tutong knew that he was not the opponent of Li Yuanjun, who was in high morale, so he was even more determined to hold Hedong City for a long time. I have grain, not far away is Yongfeng Cang, and the city wall east of the river is strong. It's enough to withstand you for a year and a half. A year and a half? Don't be funny, you still have to go to Chang'an? Who wants to spend it here with you! Li Yuan saw that Qu Tutong was determined to spend the Spring Festival in Hedong, so he launched a general attack on Hedong City on September 10. After fighting for a long time, Li Yuanjun made no progress except for heavy casualties, and Hedong City was like an impregnable fortress in front of Li Yuanjun. Li Yuan realized that it would not work to go on like this, so he called a military meeting. I'd like to hear your opinions. Pei Lin advocated conquering Hedong first, and then entering Guanzhong to seize Chang'an, leaving Hedong behind the back is likely to be attacked by the enemy. Li Shimin, on the other hand, was-for-tat, believing that attacking Chang'an would be conducive to the speed of the soldiers, and it was not appropriate to station troops under the fortified city for a long time. Both opinions seemed to be very reasonable, and Li Yuan was once again faced with a choice. Li Yuan weighed the two opinions and decided to divide the troops into two ways. On September 12, Li Yuan left a part of his army to besiege Hedong City in order to contain Qu Tutong, and personally led the main force to cross the Yellow River from Liangshan and Longmen Mountain, and marched towards Guanzhong. Do you have to capture Hedong City when you enter Guanzhong? Qu Tutong, you just stay in Hedong City! Won't play with you anymore. Chang'an, right in front of you. Guanzhong was called "Eight Hundred Miles of Qinchuan" in ancient times, and the alluvial plain of the Wei River at the northern foot of the Qinling Mountains. There is Dasanguan in the north, Hangu Pass in the east, and Wuguan in the south. The morning moon breeze reminds you: After reading this chapter, you collect the site of Bokan Novel Network, this site is updated the fastest, and it is very convenient to continue reading. There is Xiao Pass in the north, so take the four passes, called "Guanzhong". The soil is fertile and the water is abundant, which is suitable for farming, so agriculture is developed and the population is dense. To the north is the Loess Plateau of northern Shaanxi, and to the west is mountainous, so the terrain is very suitable for horse and sheep herding. Thus ensuring the demand for war horses in the war. To the south are the Qinling Mountains and the Qinba Mountains. The passes of the Quartet, coupled with the two natural barriers of the Northern Shaanxi Plateau and the Qinling Mountains, make Guanzhong the first choice for soldiers and the political center of all dynasties. During the Warring States Period, the Qin State swept through the six eastern countries with a mere Guanzhong, and finally dominated the world in the Weijia Sea. Later, the Western Han Dynasty was based on Guanzhong, and competed with Xiang Yu, the invincible overlord of Western Chu, for the world, and finally forced Xiang Yu to kill himself in Wujiang. It can be said that whoever seizes Guanzhong has the capital to win the world. Li Yuan is a person who understands, and he naturally knows. Therefore, at the beginning of his army in Taiyuan, he established the strategic policy of "first the west and then the east". In fact, not only Li Yuan understood this truth at that time, but also many anti-kings, such as Li Mi, but Li Mi was fighting with Wang Shichong, who was guarding Luoyang, with more than 100,000 people. And Xue Ju, the overlord of Western Qin, who was not far from Guanzhong, also wanted to capture Guanzhong, but Li Yuan was still one step ahead. After Li Yuanjun crossed the Yellow River and entered the Guanzhong, officials from all over the Sui Dynasty were still very familiar with current affairs, and before the battle was fought, they hung white flags and surrendered. One of them is named Li Xiaochang, who is the commander of Huayin County, and also surrendered to Li Yuan. A small county order didn't seem to be of much use to Li Yuan. But there was a Yongfeng warehouse on his territory, and in that era when there were as many people as there was grain, the granary was too important for Li Yuan. On September 16, Li Yuan's army arrived at Chaoyi (now east of Dali County, Shaanxi). Compatriots living in Dali County, Shaanxi Province must know how far they are from Xi'an, and those who are not Dali County can take out a map and take a look. It's less than 150 kilometers, which is just over two hours' drive today. At this time, Chang'an is in front of you. Li Yuan seemed to be able to feel that the world's largest international metropolis at the time was beckoning to him. Chang'an was already in the bag, and now the most important thing was to defend against Sui reinforcements coming from the east. Therefore, Li Yuan ordered Li Jiancheng, Liu Wenjing and other armies to garrison Yongfengcang and hold Tongguan, and at the same time sent Li Shimin, Liu Hongji and other armies to attack Jingyang, Yunyang, and Wugong counties north of Weishui, and encircled Chang'an from the north. Qu Tutong was shocked when he learned that Li Yuan had crossed the Yellow River to the west! Because he couldn't believe that Li Yuan would march west before he captured Hedong City, and he was even more puzzled where Li Yuan's army crossed the river? What is the river crossed? Hedong City is the crossing of the Yellow River, and Qu Tutong has already confiscated the ships on both sides of the Yellow River when Li Yuan was still in Huoyi. Did they swim over at the risk of feeding the king? This is the reason why Qu Tutong held on to Hedong City and did not fight with Li Yuan, in his opinion, as long as he held Hedong City, he held Guanzhong, and he held Chang'an City. But he forgot that there could not be only one ferry on such a long Yellow River, and he could not collect so many boats. Don't say anything, chase it! If Chang'an is lost, Comrade Yang Guang will not scratch me alive! ,…,

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