Li Xin stayed in Caozhou for another three days, and the three days were spent dealing with the ruins in Li Zhao's camp, burying the bodies of Li Zhao who died in battle, and sending a large army to exterminate the deserters around Caozhou, so that these people would not harass the people of Caozhou in the future.

However, Li Xiaogong also took the opportunity to lead the army to Ju County and joined forces with Li Shimin, making the soldiers and horses in Li Shimin's hands exceed 100,000 for the first time, but Li Shimin did not forcibly attack Ju County, because he knew that Li Xin would not let him attack Qin Qiong so easily.

Sure enough, on the third day, Li Xin led 40,000 troops and left Caozhou, aiming directly at Dongping, Yanzhou, Li Shimin asked Xu Shiji to lead 40,000 troops to monitor Qin Qiong, and he led 80,000 troops back to Dongping.

After Li Xin defeated Li Xiaogong, the momentum was shocked, and he had been across Shandong before, and no one in Shandong could resist it, and some cities opened their gates one after another and let Li Xin enter the city, but unlike Li Shimin, Li Xin was in order to completely recover Shandong this time, so every time he went to a place, he appeased the local gentry and people, and the speed of the march was much slower.

But Li Shimin was different, he led the army to kill the past and went directly to Dongping. Dongping is the capital of Yanzhou. In his opinion, don't look at Li Xin pacifying the local gentry in various places, but as long as he defeats Li Xin, everything in Shandong is still in his own hands, and he has to urge Li Yuan to send reinforcements. Otherwise, it would be difficult to block Li Xin's attack with the soldiers and horses in his hands.

Although Xu Shiji has some soldiers and horses in his hands, he may not be able to stop Qin Qiong, a madman, once the 100,000 army launches a crazy attack, Xu Shiji will definitely be defeated. His purpose in leaving Xu Shiji was not only to resist Qin Qiong, but more importantly, to slow down Qin Qiong's army, if he could control Qin Qiong in Ju County, it would be the best.

By the time Li Xin reached the Daqing River, it was already the Chinese New Year's Eve of the first year of Zhenguan, and Li Xin did not return to Chang'an, but gathered the three armies by the Daqing River. Celebrate the Spring Festival with the three armies. Chu Suiliang and Pei Renji, who were sitting in Chang'an, came to Daqing River together, visited Li Xin on behalf of Wude Hall and Wuying Palace, and reported to Li Xinyu about the opening of the branch in the second year of Zhenguan.

"Your Majesty, many ministers in the DPRK and China are looking forward to Your Majesty's return to Chang'an as soon as possible. After all, His Majesty is concerned about the safety of the world, and he is away all the year round, which is not good for the imperial court. Chu Suiliang put down the wine in the bowl and said.

"Why, when I was a general before, you didn't urge me like this." Li Xin said with a smile: "Now that you are the emperor, have you begun to restrict my freedom?" ”

"The ministers don't dare, but His Majesty has ascended the throne until now. The time to sit in Chang'an is very limited. It is inevitable that someone in the DPRK and China will be able to speak. Pei Renji hurriedly spoke and said with a smile: "Your Majesty doesn't know something, there is no Your Majesty in the DPRK, and the Minister of Chinese and Martial Arts of the DPRK will inevitably have some slackness in handling affairs, not to mention, Your Majesty's advisers are like rain, fierce generals are like clouds, and such things as conquering the world can be handed over to the generals under his command." Why bother to go out in person, what do you want us generals to do, the merits of the world have been given to Your Majesty, and the ministers want to be crowned officials but have no chance! ”

"General Pei is in a hurry." Li Xin looked around with a smile. said: "It's just that the world has not yet been decided, and the generals are worried that every battle can be fought in the future, which is not a good phenomenon." Although it was Chu Suiliang and Pei Renji who came this time, Li Xin still needed to talk to the two. Look for changes to the middle of the court.

"How is General Cheng Yanjin now? The wife of his family has been looking for ministers several times. Chu Suiliang suddenly smiled: "She said that if the man in her family can't do it, she will let her son go." ”

"This matter has spread all over the Jingshi, even if the minister is in Luoyang, he has heard about it." Pei Renji said with a smile: "The court is like a cloud. When is it the turn of the heirs of the Cheng family to go into battle to kill the enemy. ”

"Cheng Biting Jin?" Li Xin frowned, and said to Shen Qianqiu on the side: "Cheng Yanjin hasn't come to play for a long time, what's the matter?" Yimeng Mountain is so hard that you don't even have a piece of paper to say it? ”

"Your Majesty, it's been five days. General Cheng has not written a recital for His Majesty for five days. Shen Qianqiu hurriedly said: "Maybe the conditions in the mountains are difficult, and it should be snowing in the Yimeng Mountains at this time, probably because of this, there will be no concerts." ”

"Well, if that's the case, it can be explained." Li Xin nodded.

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that General Zhijie is not so simple." Chu Suiliang suddenly smiled and said: "General Zhijie is most afraid that His Majesty will be angry, especially now that he has made a mistake, I am afraid that even if it is not a chapter a day, it is definitely a letter every three days." There are no cantatas, and there are letters. At this time, there was no letter for five days, and the minister thought it was abnormal. ”

Li Xin's face moved when he heard this, and he said to Shen Qianqiu beside him: "Was this the case before? Are Cheng Jinlai's letters or recitals so frequent? ”

"What Chu Ge Lao said is even, almost all of them are a chapter or a letter every two or three days, and since Jin Yiwei found General Cheng, it has been presented to His Majesty through Jin Yiwei." Shen Qianqiu hurriedly said.

"What is this guy doing now? I don't even have a piece for me. Li Xin also hesitated for a while and said: "He should be fine in the mountains!" The snow is falling, and he has enough food and grass? ”

"I heard that Master Tanzong asked the Buddhist sects around Yimeng Mountain to buy a lot of grain and grass. Come to think of it, there's no problem. Shen Qianqiu hurriedly said.

"You say, what does Cheng Yanjin want to do?" Li Xin nodded, looked around and said, "Dengshan, what do you say?" ”

"Your Majesty, but you can't underestimate Zhijie, the minister guesses that he is doing a big thing." Chu Suiliang smiled and said to Pei Renji: "What does General Pei think? What do you think Zhijie wants to do? ”

"I don't know." Pei Renji was stunned for a moment, then shook his head and said: "The last general and General Zhijie have different ways of using troops, so the minister can't guess what General Zhijie will do next." ”

"If you can't guess, don't guess, hehe, tonight is Chinese New Year's Eve, don't say this, wait to see Cheng Zhijie when you look back, and then teach him a lesson." Li Xin picked up the wine glass in front of him and said.

There was a little sigh in his heart, Pei Renji not only didn't know what Cheng Yanjin was doing, but more importantly, the contradiction between the family and the emerging magnates, what kind of character Cheng Yanjin was, if it was in the Taiping period, he would just be a pig killer or a farmer with a little strength, but now he is the county prince, and after this battle, he may still be the prince of the country, the same as Pei Renji, these old families are naturally unwilling.

What is Cheng Biting Jin doing? I'm afraid no one knows what he's doing, and even if someone knows, they'll think Cheng Yanjin has gone crazy. It is already snowing heavily in the Yimeng Mountains, but there is a team walking in the Yimeng Mountains.

"General, a mile ahead of you is already out of the mountain." Cheng Yanjin was covered in snow-white, and when he was beside him, Qi Yanfei's face was pale, and his eyebrows were covered with goose feathers and snow.

"It's finally out of Yimeng Mountain." Cheng Yanjin looked behind him, the long line haunted the mountains, these soldiers were all snow-white, if it weren't for the black flags fluttering when the army walked, I'm afraid no one would have thought that at this time, there would be people in the Yimeng Mountains in the heavy snow.

"Back then, Your Majesty defeated Liang Shidu in the snowy night, and today we will also seize Linzi in the snowy night, and everything that stands in our way must be killed." Cheng Yanjin said to the generals: "We have been dormant in the mountains for this time, I'm afraid some people have thought that we are all dead, let the world see it today, I, Cheng Yanjin, are back now." ”

"Yes, we want to seize Linzi and avenge the tens of thousands of soldiers who died, Mr. Zhuge and the Qin Leopard brothers." Qi Yancheng said loudly.

"Revenge, revenge." The officers and men of the three armies shouted loudly and angrily.

"Out of the mountains." Cheng Yanjin waved his hand, and more than 10,000 soldiers followed the direction pointed by Cheng Yanjin and killed them outside the mountain. Fortunately, with the help of Sun Simiao and Tan Zong, they let people go up the mountain to hunt, take their fur to wrap themselves, and take the monkey wine in the mountains, which was used by the soldiers of the three armies for the march, which allowed more than 10,000 soldiers to go out of Yimeng Mountain. Of course, many people died along the way, after all, Yimeng Mountain in winter is not easy to walk.

"Down the mountain is Zichuan. At this time, Zichuan was probably still immersed in Chinese New Year's Eve, and he didn't know that we were killed. "Qin Hu has come out of the shadow of defeat, and he is now thinking of following Cheng Yanjin's back, breaking through Linzi, burning the grain and grass in it, and forcing Li Shimin to withdraw from the army.

"Then kill it." Cheng Yanjin didn't want to think about it and said: "At this time, it's just the time to attack." ”

"Yes." Qin Hu slapped the armor on his body fiercely and waved his hand behind him.

Zichuan City is indeed in the midst of excitement, when Cheng Biting Jin led the army to kill, the entire Zichuan was boiling, these defenders were caught off guard, where could they resist Cheng Biting Jin's tiger and wolf army.

More importantly, after Cheng Yanjin captured Zichuan, Cheng Yanjin only let people rest for an hour, and then killed Linzi City again. He knew that this time was definitely the best time to attack Linzi, and no one would have thought that on this cold day, Cheng Yanjin, the general of the defeated army, would be bold enough to attack Linzi, an important town in Shandong.

Although some people in Zichuan City wanted to spread the news to Linzi, it was unfortunately, it was dark, and in order to cut off the news of Zichuan City, Cheng Yanjin sent out more than 100 sentries among the generals to search within a radius of several miles of the army's advance.

Around Zichuan, whether they were real spies or not, they were all killed by Cheng Yanjin, but as for whether there was a mistake in killing, it was not Cheng Yanjin's consideration. On the third day of the Lunar New Year, Cheng Biting Jin finally killed Linzi City, Linzi shook, and Shandong shook. (To be continued.) )