The fire in the military camp was extinguished, Taiyuan City gradually restored calm, because Li Yuanji fled, the deputy Xiahou Duan was killed in the chaos, tens of thousands of troops in Taiyuan City had no way to retreat, they surrendered to the Fengzhou Army, the Fengzhou Army quickly controlled the official offices, warehouses and other important facilities of Taiyuan City, so far, the northern capital Taiyuan was finally captured by Yang Yuanqing. o.

Surrounded by thousands of cavalry, Yang Yuanqing, the governor of Fengzhou, rode into Taiyuan City, and inside the city gate, Taishou Wang Xu led dozens of civil and military officials to bow down and salute together, "See Chief Yang!" ”，

Yang Yuanqing nodded, "I am under the order of the acting king, to conquer the traitor Li Yuan, and now to conquer Taiyuan, it is only the first step in the southern expedition to Li Yuan, I hope that the ministers can focus on the Great Sui Sheji, assist the acting king, and revitalize my Great Sui country." ”

Wang Xu said loudly: "We are willing to obey the orders of General Manager Yang, assist the king, and revitalize the Great Sui Dynasty!" ”

This is, Pei Shiqing stepped forward and introduced Yang Yuanqing: "Manager Yang, this is the prince of Taiyuan County, the head of the Taiyuan Wang family. ”

Of course Yang Yuanqing knew Wang Xu, the uncle of his wife Pei Minqiu, who had met when he and Pei Minqiu got married and returned to the door, but since Pei Shiqing introduced him in this way, he told him that Wang Xu could be trusted, and he also played a role in taking Taiyuan City this time.

Although the Fengzhou army conquered Taiyuan, it does not mean that he can completely occupy Taiyuan County, after all, this is Li Yuan's lair, Li Yuan has many years of experience here, and then he will face Li Shimin's counterattack, he needs these officials to appease the people for himself, solicit the counties of Taiyuan County to surrender, and stabilize the situation.

Yang Yuanqing smiled slightly: "Please rest assured that the Fengzhou army is strictly disciplined, and there is no crime in the autumn, please Wang Taishou and all the envoys to appease the people, I hope the situation in Taiyuan City can be calmed down quickly." ”

Yang Yuanqing's implication is to tell everyone that everyone's official positions remain unchanged, and everyone is happy, in fact, Li Yuan also raised troops in the name of the Sui Dynasty, and Yang Yuanqing is also in the name of the Sui Dynasty, for them. As long as Liu Wuzhou didn't capture Taiyuan, everything would be normal.

All the officials stepped forward to salute one after another, and then dispersed, Wang Xu and Pei Shiqing also knew that Yang Yuanqing had to deal with military affairs, so they also temporarily left.

Yang Yuanqing asked Qin Qiong at this time, "What important prisoners of war can you catch?" Did Lee Won-gil catch it? ”

Without waiting for Qin Qiong to speak, Luo Shixin next to him stepped forward and knelt down on one knee to plead guilty, "Report to the manager." Li Yuanji escaped from Nancheng. He led his army to intercept him, but he could not distinguish the enemy in the dark, but he escaped in the melee. The lowly has come to ask for sin! ”

Luo Shixin led 5,000 cavalry to ambush three miles away from Nancheng, just to intercept the fleeing enemy, although he stopped Li Yuanji. But in the end, Li Yuanji ran away, which made Luo Shixin very frustrated, and a big credit slipped through his fingers.

Yang Yuanqing didn't blame him, he himself knew very well that the night was dark tonight, and no one could be seen dozens of steps away, this kind of interception was actually a matter of luck, good luck, just to stop Li Yuanji. Otherwise, Li Yuanji had the intention to dodge, and Luo Shixin would not be able to catch him at all.

"Get up! This time it's God who helped him, not your fault. ”

"Mr. Xie!"

Luo Shixin stood up, and at this time Qin Qiong reported again: "Back to the general manager, let's not talk about the generals who surrendered for the time being, there are three high-ranking officials who have been captured. One is Liu Zhenghui, the Shaoqing of Weiwei Temple, who came to Taiyuan to supervise the production of defensive weapons, and the other is Sima Liu Dewei, and the other is the long history Dou Dan, who was arrested by Taiyuan Haoqiang Xue Shen. Several of their brothers organized hundreds of people in the city to respond, burning the barracks and releasing war horses. They did it. ”

Yang Yuanqing was a little interested in this Xue brother, so he smiled and said, "Bring them to see me." ”

After a while, a soldier brought the three Xue brothers up, and the eldest brother Xue Shen stepped forward and saluted: "Xiaomin Xue Shen and his younger brothers Xue Jing and Xue Rail are in charge of Yang. ”

Yang Yuanqing saw that the three of them were all powerful and burly, and couldn't help but like it a little, so he asked, "Are you a famous Xue family in Hedong?" ”

Xue Shen smiled bitterly, "We can only be regarded as distant relatives of the famous Xue family, our father is just a blacksmith and comes from a poor background, which disappoints the chief manager." ”

"I am not disappointed, I don't ask about my background in our army, I only look at the merits, this time you responded in the city and helped me take Taiyuan, you are a meritorious person, I want to reward you, you can appoint one of your three brothers as a captain, you can discuss it yourself!"

Xue Shen was overjoyed, being promoted to the rank of lieutenant, that was what they dreamed of, and he said without hesitation: "The third brother Xue Liang once went to Liaodong, but let him be a general." ”

"Good!"

Yang Yuanqing looked at the third Xue track with an encouraging gaze: "I will make you a lieutenant and join the Taiyuan County Army, I hope to hear the news of your meritorious service soon." ”

Xue Liang served as a brigade commander in the ninth year of the Great Cause's expedition to Liao, and later fled back, he stepped forward and knelt down on one knee, "The last general is willing to serve General Manager Yang!" ”

Yang Yuanqing turned around and instructed Li Jing to take Xue Liang down, and said to Xue Shen: "You are all local snakes, pay attention to the situation in Taiyuan for me, if someone spreads rumors, or has suspicious deeds, and investigates the intelligence in our army, you can report it immediately, and I will remember your merits." ”

Xue Shen bowed and saluted, "It is a deep honor for Xiaomin to serve Chief Yang. ”

Yang Yuanqing arranged the surrendered generals and captured officials one by one, and then came to Taiyuan to stay in the governor's mansion, which was also Li Yuan's original official residence, the soldiers had thoroughly searched, and found a lot of women from good families who were forcibly occupied by Li Yuanji from the back house, Yang Yuanqing ordered them to be let go, and the gold and silver treasures found were rewarded to the meritorious soldiers.

At this time, it was already four o'clock in the night, most of the soldiers had already rested, and Yang Yuanqing couldn't sleep, not because of the joy of occupying Taiyuan City, but because the occupation of Taiyuan City was just a halfway station in the Hedong Campaign, he was about to face Li Yuan's unwilling counterattack, he had too many things to consider, and he must immediately deploy troops to prepare to meet Li Shimin's counterattack.

The official room was brightly lit, and there was a huge and detailed map of Hedong on the wall, with lines drawn by red pens on it, Yang Yuanqing speculated that this should have been drawn by Li Yuan, and it is conceivable that Li Yuan had held an oil lamp in front of this map and carefully considered the plan to seize Hedong and march into Guanzhong.

At this time, there was another master in front of the map, who was also looking at the map and considering the plan to seize Hedong.

"Li Sima, do you think Li Shimin will go north to fight for Taiyuan, or will he give up Taiyuan and make every effort to consolidate the southeast of the river?"

Behind him sat Li Jing, he was also pondering, he didn't understand Yang Yuanqing's strategic plan now, because before he set out to conquer Hedong, he said very clearly, take Taiyuan County and then go east to Youzhou, but now it seems that he seems to want to take the whole territory of Hedong.

This point is very important, it is related to the whole overall situation, and if he does not understand this, he will not be able to answer Yang Yuanqing's question.

Li Jing pondered for a while, trying to find a more euphemistic expression, and he said slowly: "Has the manager's plan to enter Youzhou changed?" ”

Yang Yuanqing was stunned, he immediately understood what Li Jing meant, and smiled apologetically: "It's my fault for not fully communicating with everyone." ”

He took out a letter and handed it to Li Jing, "This is the letter I just received from Du Changshi yesterday afternoon, take a look!" Du Changshi's suggestion. ”

Li Jing took the letter and read it hurriedly, he was also secretly surprised, Li Jiancheng led the army to occupy the counties in Guannei, and even Yan'an County, the six counties in Guanbei, was also occupied by Li Jiancheng's army, but he did not continue to go north, but turned around and went to Honghua County, in the letter, Du Ruhui put forward a proposal to exchange Guannai for Hedong.

The Fengzhou army only kept the two counties of Lingwu and Wuyuan, and the rest was ceded to Li Yuan in exchange for the entire territory of Hedong, Li Jing's brows immediately furrowed: "But in such an exchange, what about the fire oil wells in Yanchuan County and Iron Mine and Yan'an County?" Those are extremely important military resources. ”

Yang Yuanqing said with a smile: "This letter is written to me, in fact, Du Ruhui only wrote half of it, before my Eastern Crusade, Du Changshi and I talked about this matter in detail, what he means is that after Hedong changes the Guannei, we can stabilize the situation in Hedong, we can go all out to attack Youzhou, and Li Yuan can also concentrate on dealing with Xue Ju and Li Rail, and after seizing Youzhou, Li Yuan will not be willing to give up Hedong at that time, he will fight again, and we can recapture Yanchuan County and Yan'an County, so that we can exchange time for territory." ”

Li Jing pondered for a long time and said: "Although the strategy is good, there are many details that need to be considered, for example, Li Yuan has pacified Xue Ju and Li Rail, and we are trapped in Youzhou, Li Yuan will definitely take the opportunity to attack Hedong in a big way, the six counties in Guannei are lost, and Hedong is also facing a crisis, so what should we do?" ”

Yang Yuanqing took a few steps behind his back, in fact, Li Jing's worries were not unreasonable, the situation in Hebei was much more complicated than in Hedong, even if he defeated Luo Yi, there was a more powerful Dou Jiande, as well as Gao Kaidao and Wei Dao'er, if he didn't consider entering in a big way, it was likely to attract the joint attack of all the powerful forces in Hebei, and it was not impossible to be trapped in it.

"On the Hebei side, I have considered uniting with Dou Jiande to deal with Luo Yi together, but I haven't considered it yet."

Li Jing smiled and said, "Dou Jiande is also trying to take Youzhou!" How will the spoils be divided? I think I can unite with Luo Yi to deal with Dou Jiande, and finally occupy the magpie's nest and drive Luo Yi out of Youzhou, but Luo Yi may not be willing to lure the wolf into the room! ”

Both of them laughed, in fact, in the final analysis, the key for them is to find a foothold in Hebei first, gain a firm foothold, and then play the Romance of the Three Kingdoms with Hebei Zhuqiang.

Li Yuanqing drew a circle in Shanggu County with a pen, this is Wei Dao'er's territory, and he looked at Li Jing meaningfully.

Li Jing nodded silently, he understood what Yang Yuanqing meant, and he could consider it.

This is, he turned his mind back to Hedong again, and said with a smile: "Besides, the deal that Du Changshi suggested just now, Guannei for Hedong, this transaction Li Yuan suffered too much loss, I think he will definitely not be willing to lose Hedong, nor willing to exchange, he will definitely order Li Shimin to keep Hedong." ”

Yang Yuanqing laughed, "I don't sleep now, and I will continue to discuss with you how to deal with Li Shimin, just because I know that Li Yuan will never be willing to fight a few battles." ”

Yang Yuanqing turned the topic back to the first question just now, "That's why I asked you, do you think Li Shimin will go north to fight for Taiyuan, or give up Taiyuan and go all out to consolidate the southern part of Hedong Road?" ”

"I don't think Li Shimin will go north to fight for Taiyuan again, and he will definitely concentrate his forces to defend the southern counties of Hedong Province." Li Jing's tone was unusually affirmative

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