When Li Yuan personally led 10,000 Taiyuan troops north to the battlefield, the Turkic army had already begun a comprehensive rout, and Li Yuan, who was originally just going to do a perfunctory thing, immediately changed his original intention, and immediately ordered the army to launch a pursuit, and the Peng Sui army and the Baoguo army fought for the fruits of victory, reaped a lot of victories on the pursuit battlefield, and finally saved the face of Li Xiaogong's fiasco before.

Seeing Li Yuan so shamelessly coming to grab credit, of course Chen Yingliang wanted to eat Li Yuan raw, and he didn't even need to dip it in soy sauce! However, Chen Yingliang is also a calm person, like Li Yuan before, he was obviously already crazy with hatred in his heart, but in front of the public, Chen Yingliang did not dare to prevent Li Yuan from joining the battle to give political opponents a handle to grasp, so he could only watch Li Yuan's team desperately grab credit and grab the head, and compete for the spoils of the prisoners.

In view of the Taiyuan army's means of grabbing the cake were too despicable, only caring about snatching the existing fruits instead of making the cake bigger, the angry Qian Peng team only pursued seven or eight miles before stopping, turned around and grabbed the head of the corpse, competing for the weapons and armor abandoned by the Turks, and soon clashed and quarreled with the Taiyuan army, and what made the soldiers even more angry was that the Taiyuan Sui army was still shameless to the point of unimaginable- Secretly cut off the head of the fallen soldier of Qian Peng, and pretended to be the head of the Turkic soldier!

After discovering this, the conflict naturally expanded quickly, and the angry Qian Peng soldiers fought with the friendly army in Taiyuan, and once drew their swords against each other, and finally forced Chen Yingliang and Li Yuan to personally investigate and deal with the matter, but after four days of meeting, Chen Yingliang and Li Yuan, the two largest leaders of the Qinwang Army, finally met under such circumstances and said a few words.

The results of the investigation were that the stolen goods were both seized, and the heads of the two soldiers who were unfortunately killed by arrows in the pursuit battle were identified by the soldiers of Peng Peng on the spot, and the two Taiyuan soldiers who had stolen the heads of friendly troops were also found out, but the two Taiyuan soldiers relied on the fact that they did not belong to Chen Yingliang's subordinates, and resolutely denied that they were the soldiers of Chen Peng who were wrong, and they were not criminals who secretly cut off the heads of friendly troops. The appearance of the scoundrel made the soldiers of Qian Peng furious, and a large group of soldiers of Qian Peng directly pulled out their knives to fight with them, but fortunately Chen Yingliang was calmer and drank the soldiers under his command in time, and then asked Li Yuan with a blue face: "Ambassador Li, you say, what should I do?" ”

If it was replaced by another friendly team, Li Yuan, who was very strict in governing the army, would definitely immediately behead the two scoundrels on the spot and ask for the guilt, but in this matter, he happened to run into Chen Yingliang's team, and the enemy was already red when they met, and the new hatred and old hatred surged into his heart together, making Li Yuan raise his head and sneer and said: "Deputy Envoy Chen, this thing is very difficult to do, your soldiers insist that it was my soldiers who did it, but my soldiers have not seen it, the evidence is insufficient, and the old man is really embarrassed." ”

"Good." Chen Yingliang nodded, and said with a cruel smile: "I have heard for a long time that Ambassador Li has managed the army well, and I can see it today, and it really deserves its reputation, and the lower official can be regarded as an eye-opener today." ”

Li Yuan sneered, shy and ignored Chen Yingliang's sarcasm, Chen Yingliang didn't pay attention to him, just turned to the two Taiyuan scoundrels, and said with a sneer: "Count the two of you lucky today, someone protects your shortcomings, I can't do anything about you." But you should have heard of a saying, a gentleman takes revenge, ten years is not too late! You'd better burn incense and pray every day, and ask God to let you be protected for the rest of your life, and beg your family to be protected for the rest of your life! I will also remember you, and I will always offer incense and pray for both of you to be free from illness and disaster, and to live a long and blessed life! ”

The gap in identity is placed here, hearing Chen Yingliang's eerie and terrifying words, the two Taiyuan scoundrels are inevitably a little frightened, and secretly look at Li Yuan with a pale face, Li Yuan is furious, and shouted: "Deputy Envoy Chen, what do you mean by this?" Threatened? ”

"Ambassador Li, it seems that you are not only strict in governing the army, but also unique in terms of understanding." Chen Yingliang sneered and said: "So many people are listening here, what the lower official said is a threat?" In the above table to impeach the lower officials, we must first ask Ambassador Li to find out the witnesses! ”

After sneering, Chen Yingliang shouted: "Bring our fallen brothers with us, take the heads back and sew them up, so that they can be buried alive!" Besides, by the way, prepare me a pen and paper, and I will give it to the imperial court! ”

The angry Qian Peng soldiers suddenly agreed, put the corpses of the two companions on their backs, and strode away with Chen Yingliang in their arms, while Li Yuan's face was blue and black for a while, and he suddenly pointed at the two Taiyuan scoundrels and shouted: "From now on, you two are the old man's personal soldiers, and your family members will all move to live in my fiefdom Tang County, and I will provide for food and clothing!" Collect the troops and return to the camp, and the old man will also give the court a table! ”

The officers and soldiers of the Taiyuan Army only agreed, but a new sneering voice came from the side, "Ambassador Li, your Tang County had better build more houses, set such a precedent, and see how much you can protect in the future." ”

Li Yuan turned around angrily, but saw that it was Guo Feng who led a group of **** soldiers to sneer beside him, and when he saw Li Yuan glaring at him, none of the **** soldiers were afraid, they all sneered louder, and then followed closely under the banner of Jingzhong to serve the country, and quickly went to catch up with Chen Yingliang's team. Li Yuan was ashamed and angry, and he also faintly regretted it in his heart, knowing that he had set this precedent in anger, and the army would only be more difficult to lead in the future, and the military law would be even more difficult to be strict.

This little episode did not destroy the reunion of the **** soldiers and Chen Yingliang, as soon as he returned to the camp, the **** soldiers who were bloodstained all over his body did not even have time to erase the blood on his face, and he had already run to Chen Yingliang to salute and greet, Chen Yingliang was not polite, holding Guo Feng, Chen Ci and Zhao Yu and other old lackeys just yelled, desperately venting their thoughts and joy after a long absence, and at the same time, Chen Yingliang was extremely surprised to find that Pei Xingyan, who almost became his brother-in-law, was still in the **** team. He has also become one of the four major captains of the National Army.

took the time to ask about Pei Xingyan's situation, Chen Yingliang then knew that Pei Xingyan had been promoted in the battle of the three expeditions to Goguryeo, and another military captain who had previously served the country had unfortunately died in Goguryeo, and at the same time, nearly half of the team that reported **** was not the old man left by Chen Yingliang back then, and the old man who disappeared was either sacrificed or seriously injured and discharged, and the newcomers were all Huangfu Wuyi and Lonely Sheng personally selected and supplemented from the elite of the right military guard, and the combat effectiveness did not decrease but increased. The feelings for Chen Yingliang are also very strange, not only have they not weakened, but on the contrary, they are deeper - it is not too strange, without the foundation left by Chen Yingliang at the beginning, the treatment and equipment of the **** will not be so good that all the friendly troops will be red.

After feeling that things are right and wrong, Chen Yingliang quietly asked Pei Xingyan in a low voice: "Uncle Pei, and your sister, how are you doing now?" ”

"My father went north with him, and he is currently trapped in Yanmen City." Pei Xingyan replied in a low voice: "As for my sister, she hasn't married yet, and her temper is still the same as before, this time I didn't dare to tell her father that her father was also surrounded by the Turks, otherwise she would definitely follow." ”

"Why didn't you let her come along? It's cold at night in this area of Yanmen Pass! Chen Yingliang sighed in his heart, and then asked Guo Feng and the others: "By the way, who are you here with this time?" How many Qinwang troops came to the Eastern Capital? ”

"There are 15,000 troops from the eastern capital, we are the vanguard, and the commander is General Liu Changgong Liu, if nothing happens, General Liu will be able to rush to Xinkou tomorrow morning." Guo Feng replied truthfully: "Originally, General Huangfu wanted to come in person, but his health was not good, and I heard that the situation in Yanmen Pass was so urgent that his condition worsened, so I had no choice but to let General Liu bring us here." ”

"Liu Changgong?" Chen Yingliang is both happy and regretful, of course, he is happy that he can reunite with Liu Changgong, who is also a friend, after a long absence, and the regret is that Huangfu Wuyi could not come to Xinkou in person, otherwise, with his qualifications, prestige and official position, as long as he pushes him as the commander-in-chief of King Qin, he can easily overwhelm Li Yuan, and he does not have to be completely sure of pushing Yun Dingxing.

It's useless to regret, Chen Yingliang can only quickly gather the old and new lackeys to gather in one tent, let his current and past accomplices and lackeys know each other, ask them to be good friends, and work together to continue to help him to abuse, as a result, Guo Feng, Chen Ci and other old people who serve the country are also regarded as old friends with Cheng Yanjin, Kan Liang and others at first sight, and soon talk very happily, during which the Yin Shishi also couldn't wait to come to the camp to say hello to Chen Yingliang, a large group of new and old friends gathered in one tent, happy and happy.

There was nothing to say at night, the next morning, Liu Changgong really led the main force of the Eastern Capital Qinwang Army to arrive at the Xinkou battlefield, Li Yuan, who received the news, personally went out of the camp to greet him, and wanted to pull Liu Changgong to his command to listen to it, but unfortunately General Liu's head was a little like to enter the water from time to time, but he was very righteous to Chen Yingliang, Chen Yingliang sent a messenger to contact Liu Changgong, Liu Changgong immediately took the Eastern Capital army to the north, to Chen Yingliang's camp behind the camp, and did not pay much attention to Li Yuan, Li Yuan was so angry that his face was pale, But there is no way to take Liu Changgong, who belongs to the eastern capital of Luoyang.

In fact, except for the Qinwang army in Luoyang, the eastern capital, the small Qinwang army that has arrived in the past few days has all accepted the high-ranking and powerful Li Yuan's appeasement and stationed in the camp of the Taiyuan Sui army, plus the nearly 10,000 Shanxi troops who rushed to Xinkou Qinwang before must obey Li Yuan's command, Li Yuan's actual control of the army still reached 50,000, so although it is unattainable in terms of combat effectiveness, However, the team under Li Yuan's command still exceeded the total number of troops of the Sui army of Qian Peng and the Sui army of the Eastern Capital, and it was still the most popular candidate for the commander-in-chief of King Qin.

Compared with his long-cherished enemy Li Yuan, Chen Yingliang suffered not only in terms of age, qualifications, official position and family background, but also suffered very much in terms of intelligence, and Li Yuan deliberately blocked the information provided to Chen Yingliang by Shanxi, so Chen Yingliang did not know from the scout's investigation that the 30,000 troops of King Xingqin led by Yun Dingxing had also arrived in Xinkou. After hearing the report, Chen Yingliang did not dare to slack off, regardless of the fact that he was drinking and partying with Liu Changgong, he immediately pushed the table and got up, and wanted to go south to greet Yun Dingxing in person.

"Brother Yingliang, you're too boring, aren't you?" General Liu was a little unhappy, and complained to his face: "Brother, I'll come to Xinkou to learn from you, if you don't go to greet me, just send someone to call me over, why is Yun Dingxing's old shameless man here, and you have to go to greet him personally?" In your eyes, isn't my friendship with you as deep as my friendship with Yun Dingxing? ”

"Brother Liu, don't be careful." Chen Yingliang hurriedly explained, and said with a wry smile: "It is precisely because I am close to you and have a lifelong friendship, so I don't need to greet you in person, because I only know that as long as I send someone to say hello to you, you will definitely come to stand with me, and I will go to greet you and invite you, that is, I will be separated from you." It is also because I don't have a friendship like you with Yun Dingxing, so I have to go to greet him in person, otherwise, he will not come to the north to learn from us anyway. ”

"Count you kid who can talk." Liu Changgong smiled, immediately accepted the good brother's explanation, and then asked suspiciously: "However, Yun Dingxing's old immortality is not that important, right?" That old immortal can just climb fast on the back, and he is not much use on the battlefield, even if he is called, he will only hide behind your back and pick up the cheap, which is useless, right? ”

"Usually he is useless, but this time it is different, he is very useful, I will explain it to you carefully when I get on the way." Chen Yingliang shook his head and pleaded again: "Brother Liu, give me a face, how about going with me to greet Yun Dingxing?" You and I joined forces and invited him to the north to set up camp and join us. ”

Liu Changgong really had nothing to say to Chen Yingliang, listened to Chen Yingliang's pleading, got up and left the table without saying a word, and Chen Yingliang led an army to the south to meet Yun Dingxing's Daxing Qinwang army, and at the same time, Chen Yingliang told Liu Changgong that he was ready to push Yun Dingxing to the commander-in-chief of Qinwang, and begged Liu Changgong to join forces with himself to push Yun Dingxing, Liu Changgong was a person who knew Chen Yingliang and Li Yuan's grievances, and did not hesitate after listening to Chen Yingliang's request, and immediately agreed.

promised to return, but Liu Changgong still kindly reminded: "Brother Yingliang, don't blame my brother for speaking unlucky, this matter is a bit hanging, Yun Dingxing's official position and age are enough, but he has no decent record, and he is inferior to Li Yuan in terms of qualifications. ”

Chen Yingliang was silent, and only said after a while: "I do my best, if I really can't do it, I'll do it alone!" ”

Liu Changgong glanced at Chen Yingliang, sighed, and said a rare serious word, "It's a pity that Fan Liushou, Wei Liushou and General Huangfu are not here, if they are here, then they will be qualified by Li Yuan?" We brothers can also join forces and play you to death as an enemy! ”

Chen Yingliang smiled bitterly, and also sighed softly, he didn't dare to imagine what would happen to him if he couldn't stop Li Yuan from becoming the commander-in-chief of King Qin.

After Liu Changgong went south for a distance, Chen Yingliang suddenly found that the situation was a little bad, the Zuotunwei army that had just come from Daxing had already begun to set up camp, and was stationed on the west side of Li Yuan's camp, putting on a posture of fighting side by side with Li Yuan, and at the same time found the Zuotunwei army and asked, Chen Yingliang was surprised to learn that Yun Dingxing had been invited by Li Yuan to the camp of the Taiyuan Sui army for a banquet. Hearing this news, Chen Yingliang, who was in urgent need of Yun Dingxing, an ally of King Qin, inevitably changed slightly, and after thinking for a while, Chen Yingliang had no choice but to take Liu Changgong to Li Yuan's camp to ask for a meeting, preparing to meet Shangyun Dingxing first no matter what, and bring back the previous friendship first.

Yesterday there was a conflict with Li Yuan, Chen Yingliang of course will not have any good fruit to eat in front of the camp of the Taiyuan Sui army, and was sneered at by the Taiyuan Sui army soldiers guarding the door, and waited for a long time before waiting for Li Yuan's reply messenger, and then took a closer look at the people sent by Li Yuan, Chen Yingliang was also completely desperate - the person sent by Li Yuan to reply to Chen Yingliang was none other than Chai Shao, who almost became Chen Yingliang's brother-in-law!

I haven't seen him for two years, Chai Shao is obviously older, and people who are less than thirty years old, their sideburns have already faintly appeared white hair, but at this moment Chai Shao is very full of spirit, and his mood is obviously very good, and Chen Yingliang immediately saluted as soon as he met, and said respectfully: "Chai Shao, the last general of Zuotun Guard, has seen the twelve counties to arrest Deputy Envoy Chen, Deputy Envoy Jin An. ”

"Brother Sichang, please excuse me." Chen Yingliang reluctantly squeezed out some smiles, and said politely: "Long time no see, how is Brother Sichang lately?" ”

"The last general doesn't dare to be, please call the last general by his name." Chai Shao was very graceful and took the upper hand, and said with a smile: "Thanks to the blessing of the deputy envoy, the last general is finally not dead." ”

Chen Yingliang, who had made the Chai family a mess enough, was extremely embarrassed, but Liu Changgong next to him was not happy, and said angrily: "Less damn yin and yang, can you blame him for the matter between you and Brother Yingliang?" Hurry up and answer, can Ambassador Li see us? ”

"No." Chai Shao sang a promise, and then he arched his hand and said: "Deputy Envoy Chen, General Liu, Ambassador Li sent a message to the last general, saying that he is reminiscing with General Yun and can't find time to meet Vice Envoy Chen, so I also ask Deputy Envoy Chen to go back for the time being, and Ambassador Li will come to the door another day to apologize." As for General Liu, Ambassador Li would like to invite you in! ”

"Fuck your stinking fart!" Liu Changgong was even more furious, and directly scolded, "If you have time to see me, don't you have time to see Brother Yingliang?" What are you selling? When I went back to tell him Li Yuan, I said that I don't want to see him anymore, and don't look for me again in the future! ”

After all, Liu Changgong, who is really good to Chen Yingliang, pulled his brother and walked back and forth, but at this moment, a young man came out from behind the camp gate, clasped his fists and said loudly: "General Liu, please stay, listen to the words of the last general, in fact, not only my father wants to see you, but also Liu Jingye and General Liu also want to see you, please enter." ”

Liu Changgong's angry footsteps suddenly stopped, and Chen Yingliang also looked back, but saw that the young man who suddenly came out was none other than Li Er, who happened to be Li Er and Li Shimin, who even his beloved woman was robbed by himself. Seeing Chen Yingliang looking at him, Li Er smiled slightly, and hurriedly said: "The last general, Li Shimin, has seen Deputy Envoy Chen. ”

"General Li, it's been a long time." Chen Yingliang returned the salute casually, knowing in his heart that the situation was very wrong today.

Sure enough, Liu Changgong immediately came up and whispered in Chen Yingliang's ear: "Brother Yingliang, I'm sorry, my brother has to go in, Liu Jingye is the clan uncle, and the brother of our Feng Yi Liu clan patriarch, if I dare not go to see him, the old immortal in the clan will not be able to spare me." ”

Chen Yingliang had long known that Li Er would never mention this name for no reason, and he was not surprised when he heard Liu Changgong's words, so he just nodded and said, "It's okay, Brother Liu, go in, I'll watch over for you over there in your camp." ”

Liu Changgong nodded, patted Chen Yingliang on the shoulder, and said I will go in for you to inquire about the situation, and then followed Li Er and Chai Shao into the camp, Chen Yingliang helplessly watched his good brother Liu Changgong enter the camp, shook his head and sighed, Chen Yingliang inadvertently saw that Li Jing was also standing behind the fence of the camp gate, and was also looking at himself, when Chen Yingliang looked at Li Jing's expression carefully, he found that Li Jing actually smiled kindly at himself, his expression was very gentle, and he didn't know whether he was laughing at himself or comforting himself.

It was night, and Li Yuan didn't know what method he used, so he didn't let Liu Changgong return to the right Wuwei camp for a night - considering General Liu's personality, nine out of nine should be the set of fine wine and beautiful women. At the same time, Chen Yingliang sent the envoy to the Youtunwei camp to wait for Yun Dingxing, but there was no report that Yun Dingxing returned to the camp to rest, so that Chen Yingliang, who was anxious to understand the situation and meet with Yun Dingxing, waited all night. In the early morning of the next day, just as Chen Yingliang was napping in a daze, Li Yuan suddenly sent his henchman Gao Binlian from Taiyuan County to meet Chen Yingliang and invite Chen Yingliang to come over the camp to discuss military affairs.

"What military affairs are you discussing?" Chen Yingliang asked vigilantly.

"Returning to Deputy Envoy Chen, our Ambassador Li invited the commanders of the Qinwang army from all walks of life to gather to prepare for the commander-in-chief of the Qinwang army, that is, the commander of the Qinwang army." Gao Binlian replied very frankly: "The main generals of the Zhulu Qin King Army have already accepted the invitation, and only Deputy Chen is left to envoy you." ”