"General, Li Shimin's army has come in." When Wei Lu led the army to the middle of the city, he saw the guard of the north gate looking panicked, and led dozens of soldiers to run over and said loudly.

"How could Li Shimin kill him?" Wei Lu couldn't help but say loudly: "I have placed 1,500 soldiers at the North Gate, just to guard against Li Shimin, how could it be broken by Li Shimin?" Wei Lu felt that his heart was about to explode in an instant, but he didn't expect his Xingyang to be broken by Li Shimin like this.

"The Zheng family, it's the Zheng family." The guard general said loudly: "Xingyang Zheng Jia Zheng Yan personally led the family to kill him, and there are many people in the army who are his internal responses, so he killed him, general, let's retreat early!" ”

"Kill!" As if in response to his words, a group of cavalry rushed out of the north gate, led by a man with a big sword in his hand, with a fierce appearance, it was Li Shimin's subordinate Hou Junji, and there were many soldiers and horses behind him.

"Let's go, let's go. This damn Zheng family, sooner or later, will destroy the Zheng family. Wei Lu roared loudly. He never thought that the Zheng family would not play with him at all, and even threw out one of his own sons, so that Wei Lu thought he had a plan, in fact, the Zheng family used their own family and the internal Ying hidden in the army to take advantage of Wei Lu's attention to the south gate, opened the north gate of Xingyang in one fell swoop, and let Li Shimin enter Xingyang City.

Outside the city, Yu Chi Gong was happy to fight, but Zheng Xianhuai was careless, his eyes rolled, suddenly, he found that the city gate behind him was open, and his face changed in fright, and he no longer cared about Yu Chi Gong, who was chasing and killing, and cheered loudly: "King Qin has occupied Xingyang, let's enter the city." As he spoke, he raised his horsewhip and rushed to the side, without greeting Wei Lu. The soldiers around him followed.

"What's going on?" Wei Chigong was also confused, looked at Wei Lu and the others who rushed out of the south gate, and hurriedly commanded his soldiers to defend again. stared at Wei Lu deadly.

"The last general, Wei Lu, paid a visit to General Wei Chi. Xingyang was lost. Wei Lu lowered his head and said. Most of the loss of Xingyang was Wei Lu's responsibility, if it weren't for the idea of using it to help him eradicate the enemies in the army, and even having a sense of waiting for the price to sell, Xingyang would have fallen into the hands of Li Xin long ago. Now that Xingyang has fallen into the hands of Li Shimin, Wei Lu has lost the capital to negotiate, and it is even more of a major matter for Li Xin. That's why Wei Lu is so cautious.

"Xingyang is lost?" Wei Chigong's eyes widened. The long lance in his hand pointed at Wei Lu and said, "How did Xingyang fall away, did Li Shimin's 100,000 army attack Xingyang?" How many troops do you have, more than 10,000 people! An hour can be resisted! Lost like that? Wei Chi Gong glanced at the city, and saw a young general looking at him with a smug face.

"General Wei Chi, I'm sorry, Xingyang fell into the hands of this king." Li Shimin looked at Wei Chigong very proudly, although it was not Li Xin in front of him, but he could also think of what Li Xin's mood was after learning the news, Xingyang, who was already in his hands. And so it fell into the hands of the enemy.

"Boy, don't be complacent, the prime minister's subordinates are defeated, but it's just while the prime minister is sleeping. I just grabbed a prey, I heard that you got married, haha, my prime minister's favorite is someone else's woman. When we capture Taiyuan, we will send your woman to the prime minister to warm the bed. Ha ha! Li Shimin, just wait! Walk. Yu Chigong laughed. Regardless of Li Shimin's bruised face, he snorted coldly at Wei Lu, turned around and led the army back to the camp.

In the camp, the atmosphere was extremely depressing, Wei Chigong, Cheng Yanjin, Guo Xiaoke, Zhang Zhenzhou and others were silent, Wei Lu knelt on the ground, his body trembled, and his forehead was full of cold sweat, he knew that he was playing Dafa this time, and he actually played on Li Xin's head and lost the important town of Xingyang, which will have an immeasurable impact on Li Xin's strategy.

"So the Zheng clan occupied the north gate of Xingyang in a joint effort with the outside world, and you fled in embarrassment?" Li Xin's face was gloomy, staring at this guy below viciously, he was really stupid to get home, even if Li Shimin captured the north gate, he could let people open the south gate and let Li Xin's people enter the city, wouldn't the thousands of people in his hands support it for an hour or two? At that time, he had already led the army into the city, even if he couldn't drive Li Shimin out of Xingyang, he wouldn't stand outside so passively and watch Li Shimin seize Xingyang.

"Back to the prime minister's words, that's exactly the case." Wei Lu lowered his head and said, he also secretly regretted at this time, he shouldn't have come out so simply, at least he should struggle, even if he let Li Shimin occupy Xingyang, he would have to lose his troops.

"Get up! It's no wonder that the general is talking about this matter, if it weren't for the Zheng family's internal and external cooperation, you wouldn't be so embarrassed. Li Xin sighed, if it were according to the rules of Guanzhong, a general like this, Li Xin would never use it, and if he committed such a thing, he should also be pulled out and whipped, but Wei Lu is different, next to Wei Lu, there are Guo Qing in Guanzhou and Wang Yaohan in Bianzhou, the two occupy two cities, if they move Wei Lu here, the two of them don't know what to think in their hearts! Dang Shen groaned for a while, and said: "Originally, you raised the city and surrendered, you could be a marquis, but now even if this king wants to make you a marquis, I'm afraid that the generals in the army will not agree, and temporarily crown you as Dongguan Bo, are you willing?" ”

"Subordinate Xie Prime Minister Longen." Wei Lu was extremely surprised in his heart after hearing this, he thought that after this big mistake, it would be good to get a general, but he didn't expect Li Xin to canonize him as an earl, although he lost a marquis, but in the end he lost Xingyang, and he was worthy of himself by sealing an earl. Quickly step aside.

"Prime Minister, since Xingyang has been lost, Li Shimin's next stop must be Bianzhou and Guanzhou, and his subordinates think that it is better to occupy the two places as soon as possible at this time." Zhang Zhenzhou hurriedly said.

"Yes! Xingyang has been lost, Li Shimin has a bridgehead in Henan, his army can continue to enter Henan, stationed in Xingyang, we have no use to stay here, but Bianzhou is very important, not ordinary people can defend. Li Xin glanced at everyone and said: "Add Zhang Zhenzhou as the Marquis of Huining, Wang Yaohan as the former Marquis of the Township, lead 20,000 troops, plus 10,000 people in Bianzhou, 30,000 people are stationed in Bianzhou, blocking Li Shimin's path to the east, General Zhang, can you be sure?" ”

"The last general will never live up to the prime minister's trust, and he will definitely block Li Shimin under the city of Bianzhou." Zhang Zhenzhou was excited, when he surrendered, he was a township marquis, and in a blink of an eye, he became a county marquis, Li Xin also let him sit on the side of the town, this kind of trust is not comparable to Wang Shichong, and he is even more loyal to Li Xin in his heart.

"Okay." Li Xin nodded and said: "Feng Guo Qing is the Marquis of Daye, Guo Xiaoke, leading 20,000 troops, plus 10,000 horses in Guanzhou, it is also 30,000 people, and I will defend Guanzhou alone." Resist Li Shimin's southward journey. ”

"The last general commands." Guo Xiaoke said loudly. Daye Marquis is also a township marquis, not as good as Guo Xiaoke's county marquis, in Guanzhou is naturally Guo Xiaoke's master, 30,000 troops, Guanzhou and Bianzhou are horns, just separated by a black magpie in the middle, looking at Xingyang to death. Only Wei Lu was very annoyed, his two brothers were made marquis, but he became an uncle, but he knew that Li Xin had clear rewards and punishments.

This time, Li Shimin won a small game. However, he got Xingyang, but he lost even more. Li Xin shook his head and said: "Although Xingyang is very good, and the Zheng family is helping, Wang Shichong is about to be defeated, and only Gu and Li Yuan will fight for the world in the future without Wang Shichong's ally." It's a pity that Li Shimin's overall view is still a little worse, and he now wants to compete with Gu for the Central Plains. That's where he failed. ”

"Why did the prime minister say this?" Zhang Zhenzhou asked curiously.

Li Shimin occupies Xingyang, which seems to be a nail on the land of Henan, but he doesn't know that in order to maintain this nail, at least 60,000 troops must be in Xingyang to maintain the safety of Xingyang. Li Zhao himself only has many soldiers and horses, 60,000 troops sit in Xingyang, Hebei will be empty, if you want to fill the emptiness of Hebei, you need to recruit soldiers, now the people of Hebei are angry, it is too late to appease, where can you recruit soldiers, one of them, the other is what is the use of Xingyang? Can you cut off the grain and grass of the canal? It's a pity that the grain road in Guanzhong can take the land route from Nanyang, and the role of Xingyang is much less; Third, for Guanzhong, what is more important is not the grain and grass, nor the city and population, but Hedong, Hedong is in my hands, Guanzhong is safe, Li Shimin does not attack Hedong, Hedong is in his hands, but he is concerned about a place like Xingyang, I have to say, Li Shimin is a little younger, I don't know the importance of things, if he occupies a good understanding, in order to protect Guanzhong, he will definitely maintain the majority of troops in Guanzhong, where is there still a chance to attack Henan, to harass Hebei. Li Shimin's overall view is still much worse. ”

"Prime Minister Shengming." The generals nodded again and again after hearing this, and they all agreed, especially Zhang Zhenzhou and Wei Lu listened very carefully.

Li Xin was very satisfied when he saw this, most of these words were true, but Li Xin said it at this time, mainly to calm people's hearts, after all, the loss of Xingyang Town still had some impact on Guanzhong, and Li Xin's words were to minimize this impact. Lest there be problems in Bianzhou and Guanzhou, it seems that it still has some effect, at least these generals have accepted their remarks. (To be continued......)