"Posthumously seal Zhai Rang as the king of Wei, posthumously seal Zhai Hong as the Duke of Qi, and posthumously seal Zhai Mohou as the Duke of Lu County."

"Feng Xu Shiyun is the general of the right military guard, the prince of Weinan County; Feng Shan Xiongxin is the general of Zuo Wuhou, the prince of Jiyin County; Feng Bing Yuanzhen is the servant of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Marquis of Zhen Cheng; Feng Jiaxiong is the squire of the Criminal Department, the Marquis of Lingchang; Feng Pei Renji is the general of Zuo Xiaowei and the prince of Xiangcheng County; Feng Pei Xingyan is the general of Zuo Xiaowei, the prince of Yangcheng County; Feng Wang Bodang is the right Xiaowei general, the prince of Jiyang County; Feng Hao Xiaode as ....... ”

"The thief Li Mi is ungrateful and unrighteous, perverse, greedy and cruel, and the anger of heaven and man ....... Those who get the head of Li Mi will be forgiven for their previous sins, rewarded with 1,000 taels of gold, 100 pearls, 10 pairs of jade walls, 100 slaves and maids, and the title of the duke. ”

Reading the article on the thief issued by Hua and his brother pretending to be the pseudo-emperor Yang Hao, Li Mi was so angry that he was even trembling, although he decided to refuse to pay tribute to Hua and his brother at the same time, Li Mi was already mentally prepared to turn his face against Hua and his brother, but Li Mi never thought that Hua and his brother would do it so quickly, and he would do things so desperately!

Li Mi is not afraid of Hua and Brother coming to fight head-on, nor is he afraid of Hua and Brother stabbing in the back, but Hua and Brother stabbed Li Mi's eggs this time! Chasely crowned Zhai Rang as the prince of Wei, posthumously named Zhai Hong and Zhai Mo Marquis Guogong and County Duke, and gave Zhai Rang's old ministry and several important subordinates of Li Mi a bunch of official titles, Hua and his brother did this clearly to sow discord and arouse Zhai Rang's old department's hatred for Li Mi, and also clearly wanted Li Mi's life, leaving no room for going back to mediation! Li Mi can allow Brother Hua and Brother to show off his might in front of him, or he can temporarily whisper to Brother Hua and Brother for his own benefit, but Li Mi will never tolerate Brother Hua and Brother stabbing him in the balls and poking the most painful scar in his heart!

Uncle can bear it, aunt can't bear it anymore, Hua Ji's brother's big slap has already slapped on the little black face, Li Mi can't bear it no matter what! Therefore, Li Mi immediately summoned the important civil and military officers under his command, and showed in public the list of Hua and his brother who would be known to them sooner or later, and then explained again that he slaughtered Zhai Rang's family because he was completely out of necessity, and even more for the sake of opposing the great cause of Sui and overthrowing the tyranny of Emperor Yang of Sui, he had no selfish intentions! He also took out a knife and put it in front of him, inviting his subordinates who felt guilty to come forward and count their sins, and then hacked themselves to death with a knife!

Of course, no one has counted Li Mi's sins, and no one has come up to hack Li Mi to death, some just dance the loyal word dance, scolding Yu Culture and beasts are not as good, human face and beast heart, 100 steps and 50 steps of laughter - it is indeed a hundred steps to laugh at 50 steps, in order to show his loyalty, Pei Renji, a professional household of the pit father, also pulled his son to immediately lead the cavalry to find Hua and his brother desperately!

After thanking Pei Renji and his son for their loyalty, Li Mi delivered another impassioned speech, and then announced in public that he would restart the war with Hua and his brother, and he would never make peace in the end! The generals of Li Mijun, who had already been frightened by Hua and his brother in the Battle of Tongshan, agreed loudly, and swore that they would fight with Hua and his brother, and that he would never withdraw his troops if he did not destroy Hua and his brother, but he was a little trembling in his heart, but when Li Mi officially announced that he had secretly concluded an alliance with Chen Fuliang and was ready to join forces to extinguish Hua and his brother, the venue suddenly boiled again, and many generals directly exclaimed, "We have secretly formed an alliance with Chen Yingliang and the traitor?" When did we not hear about it before? ”

"Long before Yu Wenhua and the rebel soldiers entered Hanoi, I secretly concluded an alliance with Chen Yingliang." Li Mi showed the covenant signed by him and Chen Fuliang, and explained: "It's just that Chen Yingliang hasn't had time to send the main force west, in order to cover him to give Yu Wenhua and the traitor a fatal blow from behind, and avoid leaking the news in advance, so I haven't announced it for the time being." ”

A strong ally suddenly appeared, of course the generals of Li Mijun were overjoyed, but some people expressed concern about this, at least Pei Renji reminded: "Duke Wei, Chen Yingliang is a thief and treacherous, although he has made an alliance with us, but he must also prevent him from being uneasy and kind, saying that he is an alliance, but in his heart he actually wants to push us to the front and fight hard with Yu Wenhua and the traitor, he hides in the rear and reaps the benefits." ”

"Do you still need to sue me for this?" Li Mi snorted coldly in his heart, but in order to cheer up the generals, Li Mi said loudly: "No!" First, although Chen Yingliang is a thief and cunning, he has always had a good reputation, and he never breaks his promises! Second, Chen Yingliang's thief is relying on the repeated support of the tyrant Yang Guang to get to where he is today, Yang Guang is as kind to him as a mountain, if he does not send troops to avenge Yang Guang, he will not be able to explain to the people of the world! So don't worry, Chen Yingliang's traitors will definitely send troops, and they will definitely send troops as much as possible, as long as we resist for a while, Chen Yingliang's reinforcements will arrive! ”

All the generals nodded one after another, somewhat regaining some confidence, and Li Mi also immediately dispatched troops, deployed the defense plan of Luokou Cangcheng on the spot, and arranged responsible generals and garrison troops for each defense area, and then let the generals disperse to prepare for battle. As a result, it was only after everyone left that Li Mi's two most confidant subordinates, Fang Xuanzao and Wang Bodang, warned, "Duke Wei, Luokou Cangcheng is far less solid than the eastern capital, and if Yu Wenhua attacks with all his might at any cost, we are only afraid that there will still be danger, and we must prepare early." ”

"What else can I prepare?" Li Mi's black face finally showed some sadness, and he said gloomily: "Luokoucang is already our last foothold, where else can we go?" Retreat to the Tiger Prison Pass and go to the Central Plains, which has been scorched to continue to be a rogue? ”

"If Luokoucang really can't hold it, we can retreat to the Tiger Prison Pass and continue to hold on." Fang Xuanzao said: "The Guancheng of Tiger Prison Pass is far stronger than Luokoucang, and the terrain is dangerous, so it can be held for a long time. We retreated there to watch the fire on the other side, and sat back to watch Yu Wenhua and the thieves such as Chen Yingliang merge, and we could win the chance to make a comeback in the future. ”

"If the grain from Luokoucang can be moved into the Tiger Prison, I will definitely do it." Li Mi replied sullenly: "Without food, we will have no chance to make a comeback, so until the last moment, we must not give up Luokoucang lightly." ”

After shaking his head and sighing, Li Mi thought about it again and said: "Xuanzao, you go and organize manpower, transfer all the women and children of important generals to the Tiger Prison Pass City, and hand them over to General Yang Jishan for strict protection, remember to make it clear to them, this is for their good, the big war together, the inside and outside of Luokou Cang will inevitably be in flames, and only the Tiger Prison Pass City is the safest." ”

After Fang Xuanzao agreed, Li Mi turned to Wang Xuance, who was silently guarding the side, and instructed him: "Xuance, prepare paper, pen, ink and inkstone for me, I will write a letter to Chen Yingliang and the traitor, and ask him to send troops to join forces with our army." ”

"Teacher, artillery, remember to ask Chen Yingliang for artillery." Wang Bodang reminded: "Since Chen Yingliang gave the artillery to Wang Shichong and signed an alliance with us, he should also give us some artillery to help us break the enemy." ”

"Give it a try. Maybe a little hopeful. Li Mi replied with a wry smile.

At the same time, after Yuan Wuda and Xu Hongren, the generals of the Eastern Capital City, led an army to defend Jinyong City, they couldn't wait to turn the spearhead with the main force and kill Li Mi's old nest Luokou Cangcheng directly. In this regard, Sima Dejiao and Zhao Xingshu and other generals complained a lot, and they all felt that a second battlefield should not be opened, and they should concentrate on leveling Wang Shichong first, and then attack Li Mi. As a result, Brother Hua and Brother blocked their mouths with only one sentence, "Which of you can make a military order and take the inner and outer cities of the Eastern Capital within a limited time, I will immediately turn around and continue to fight Wang Shichong!" ”

Wang Shichong's tenacity has made the generals of the Yuwen army suffer enough, considering that the eastern capital is indeed difficult to break through quickly, and also considering that after taking Luokoucang, you can not worry about military food for several years, the generals of the Yuwen army still nodded and agreed to the military order of Hua and his brother, and followed him to lead the army to the east. - In this way, Wang Shichong, who was hiding in the Eastern Capital, naturally had a smile on his face.

Hua and his brother and his group soon found that Luokoucang City was actually far from as big as they imagined, before Wang Shichong and Li Mi fought a large number of fortifications, both armies built a large number of fortifications east of Luokoucang, surrounded Luokoucang in a semicircle, the most important of which was the Black Stone Fort, and it happened to be stuck on the road between the eastern capital and Luokoucang, Yan zhòng threatened the back road of the grain road of Huahe and his brother to enter Luokoucang, and now Li Mijun has done his best to build these fortresses, and Hua and his brother want to take Luokoucang, You have to pull out the nails first.

It doesn't matter, after the defeat of Tongshan, Li Mi's army is now seriously injured, and there are still more than 100,000 or 200,000 troops on the surface, but in fact, most of them are vulnerable cannon fodder soldiers, typical rabble, leaving the protection of the fortifications, Xiaoguo elite soldiers can kill thirty of them in one piece, so Hua and Brother, who thought that these fortress fortifications were in the way, were not polite, and immediately divided their troops to attack and pull out these annoying nails.

Most of the fortifications were easily taken by Hua and his brother's subordinates, and the cannon fodder of Li Mijun's cannon fodder in the fort who held farm tools as weapons almost did not cause any casualties to the Xiaoguo army, except for the Black Stone Fort, Li Mijun's brave general Sun Changle led 1,500 elite soldiers to fight to the death, relying on the solid fort walls and dangerous terrain after repeated reinforcements, he repelled the attacks of the Yuwen army three times in a row, and also caused a lot of casualties to the Yuwen army. Hua and his brother were furious when they heard the report, and while threatening to slaughter the defenders in the fort after breaking the city, they went to the fort to supervise the battle.

It doesn't have much effect to supervise the battle under the fort in person, the black stone fort is built on the high ground, there are cliffs that cannot be attacked on three sides, only the gentle slope in the south can be passed, the Xiaoguo army can neither be deployed here, nor can it give full play to the advantages of the strong generals, the Yuwen army launched an attack four times in one day, all of them were killed and retreated by the defenders led by Sun Changle, and the fierce general of the Xiaoguo army, Yin Zhengqing, was extremely unlucky in the battle to be shot in the face of the arrow, and was not saved and died that night. Hua Ji, who suffered a big loss, was even more furious, and while rearranging the attack, he simply ordered that the Li Mijun fortress that would be broken in the future would be executed regardless of whether the Li Mijun defenders in the fortress surrendered or not!

The remaining unbroken Li Mijun fortress defenders were of course unlucky, and Li Mi was happy with Hua and his brother's order. The result was not as expected by Li Mi, after getting the news of Hua and his brother's crazy slaughter of the fort, the defenders of the Black Stone Fort, who were already very tenacious, suddenly became more tenacious, and the defenders in the fort would rather roll down the fort wall with the Yuwen soldiers in their arms, and refused to put down their weapons and surrender to Hua and his brother, 70,000 Yuwen troops launched 13 attacks in three days, and Leng failed to take the small black stone fort the size of sesame mung beans, but also paid no less than 500 casualties.

Considering the important location of the Black Stone Fort, which can always threaten the grain route of Hua and his brother, Li Mi did not sit idly by and watch Sun Changle's army fight alone, that night, Li Mi sent Pei Xingyan to lead three hundred cavalry to attack quietly under the cover of night, and suddenly attacked Hua and his brother's camp, the arrogant and light enemy Yuwen army was caught off guard, and the cavalry led by Pei Xingyan successfully broke into the camp, killing everywhere and setting fire to create a huge chaos, and then Pei Xingyan rushed back to Luokou Cangcheng with the cavalry before the huge number of Yuwen army cavalry assembled to counterattack.

Li Mi regretted this result, and repeatedly said that he had known that Hua and his brother were so light and neglected to take precautions, so he should have sent all the cavalry to rob the camp, but he missed such a great opportunity to hit Hua and his brother in vain. Pei Xingyan's brother was so frightened that he peed his crotch when he robbed the camp, but he was so angry that he not only buried alive more than a dozen Pei Xingyan's subordinates who were accidentally captured, but also executed more than a dozen self-military captains who were unable to prevent the enemy's night attacks. Then Hua and his brother still didn't listen to the repeated persuasion of his subordinates, threw down the Black Stone Fort and ignored it, and directly took the main force to Luokou Cangxia to find Li Mi to settle accounts.

From a geographical point of view, Luokou Cangcheng, which covers an area of more than 40 miles, is naturally far easier to fight than the Black Stone Fort, which is surrounded by cliffs on three sides, but from a tactical point of view, Hua and Brother are no different from going crazy, there are Black Stone Fort defenders behind him, threatening his grain road at any time, the front is the main force of Li Mi's army, and on the side is the same strong Luokou Cang Acropolis Yanyue City, and there is also the Tiger Prison Pass defenders led by Yang Jishan thirty miles to the east, and it is also possible to launch a surprise attack at any time, and Hua and Brother are attacked on all sides. Every move is under Li Mijun's prying eyes, and if you are negligent, you may be blackly knifed by Li Mijun, and you dare not close your eyes when you sleep at night.

But it doesn't matter, our Yuwen Dacheng is not different, how many elite and strong soldiers are armed to the teeth, as long as Mi Gong's army dares to leave the protection of the turtle shell, the slap of Brother Hua and his subordinates can make them look for teeth all over the ground! At the same time, Mi Gong also made a fool, seeing that Hua and his brother had just arrived at the camp and was not stable, he sent the love general Zheng Detao to lead an army of 1,000 out of the city to rob the camp at night, and also arranged for follow-up troops to respond, counting on Zheng Detao to immediately send troops to strengthen the attack when he succeeded in robbing the camp, and expand the results of the battle as much as possible.

Mi Gong paid a heavy price for his surprise attack, although the intelligence value of Prime Minister Yuwen Dacheng has not yet reached the point where he can accurately predict Mi Gong's tactics, and he did not arrange an ambush in the camp in advance, but a group of Xiaoguo fierce generals under the command of Hua and his brother are not vegetarians, Zheng Detao's army has just approached the camp, and it has been discovered by the secret sentinel of Yuwen Army, Chen Zhiluo, the general of the Xiaoguo Army on duty at night, immediately led the army to meet the battle, only one charge, Zheng Detao's sneak attack army was scattered, and everyone scrambled to be the first in the battle. All of them fought bravely, and killed Zheng Detao's army on their backs, and the corpses were all over the field, and Zheng Detao was captured alive in the chaos.

At the same time, Sima Dejiao and Fan Wenchao and other generals also organized the army to launch a counterattack while the whole battalion was on alert, and once again the receiving army sent by Mi Gong was full of teeth, and directly pursued and killed under the gate of Luokou Cang, if it wasn't for Mi Gong's quick opportunity, regardless of the fact that the defeated soldiers had not all entered the city, they had already quickly closed the city gate, and Sima Deji's army was only a little bit close to taking advantage of the situation to enter the city! But even so, of the 3,000 troops sent by Mi Gong successively, less than 900 people were able to return to the city alive, and most of the rest were killed to the bones, and only a few lucky ones fled into the southern mountains under the cover of night.

Inadvertently fought such a victory, Hua and his brother were inevitably even more proud, while ordering Zheng Detao to be escorted to Luokoucang City, in front of Li Mijun, he was divided into five horses alive, intimidating and coercing the subordinates of Mi Gong to surrender to Kaicheng, while wantonly destroying the environment of Henan County, cutting down trees to build siege equipment, and threatening to take Luokoucang in one fell swoop.

Zheng Detao's fiasco also reminded Mi Gong once again, letting him know that on the frontal battlefield, the poorly equipped rebel soldiers under his command could never be the opponent of the Xiaoguo Army armed to the teeth, forcing Mi Gong to give up the unrealistic illusion of quickly defeating Hua Ji's brother, and instead racked his brains to calculate how to defeat the enemy. At this time, Wang Xuance, who rarely speaks in ordinary times, suddenly proposed a proposal to Li Mi, and said: "Duke Wei, the thief army is powerful, and our army is difficult to defeat head-on, but the thief army is arrogant and underestimates the enemy, and the two-front battle is difficult to take care of, in this case, why don't we send someone to ask Wang Shichong for help, and ask him to send troops to attack Yu Wenhua and the back to share the pressure for us?" ”

"Do you think I haven't thought about it?" Li Mi replied with a wry smile: "Long before Yu Wenhua and the dog thieves crossed the Yellow River south, Wang Shichong had asked us for help several times, asking to join forces to resist Yu Wenhua, but I refused, and now we are in a critical situation and go to him again, what else can we get except to take the humiliation?" ”

"Duke Wei rest assured, Wang Shichong is not an ordinary person, he can see clearly and know which is more important." Wang Xuance said: "If our army is defeated by Yu Wenhua, even if Luokoucang is taken by Yu Wenhua, Yuwen rebels are equivalent to laying a solid foundation next to the Eastern Capital, and Wang Shichong will never have a good life at that time, and he will not fail to see this." ”

Speaking of which, Wang Shichong added: "Besides, Wang Shichong has been trying to recapture Luokoucang and completely solve his food problem, Luokoucang is in our hands, he may still have a little hope, but if Luokoucang is taken by Yu Wenhua, with Wang Shichong's strength, it can only be more difficult to take back Luokoucang than to ascend to the sky." Wang Shichong should also understand this truth. ”

Thinking and nodding, Li Mi said: "You're right, Wang Shichong and I will indeed have a showdown sooner or later, but with his ingenuity, in the face of a common powerful enemy, he will not be unable to see the priorities, I will immediately write to Wang Shichong and ask him to send troops to help me." ”

After adopting Wang Xuance's Jianyi, Li Mi naturally had to praise his young confidential secretary, Wang Xuance thanked him modestly, and then said: "Wei Gong, the student also thinks that Nayu culture and horsemen have no talent and no virtue, except for the illustrious family, his subordinates must be dissatisfied with him, and there must be a lot of internal contradictions, in this case, Wei Gong, why don't you try to separate the enemy generals, as long as they have internal contradictions together, it is not much easier to break the enemy?" ”

Glancing at Wang Xuance in surprise, Li Mihei showed a smile on his face and said, "I can't see that you can still have such a vision at your young age, it's a good idea, I should try it with all my might." ”

After the praise, Li Mi thought about it for a lot of time, and then came up with a way, sending someone to order Pei Xingyan and Shan Xiongxin, two fierce generals, to ask them to properly arrange the sentry cavalry to attack, and try their best to catch a few tongues for themselves and come back to ask for a confession. After the herald promised to leave, Li Micai sighed again: "Speaking of this divisive plan, Ben Gong admits that it is still Chen Yingliang's traitor, if he is here, I am afraid that Yu Wenhua and Pifu's internal chaos has long been stirred up by him, maybe Yu Wenhua and Pifu's heads may have been taken down by the generals, and Ben Gong is indeed too far behind him in this regard." ”

After sighing, Li Mi couldn't help but turn his gaze to the direction of Guanzhong in the west, and snorted coldly: "Traitor, when you find out that Bengong, Wang Shichong, Yu Wenhua and the three armies are fighting so hotly, your mouth should be crooked, right?" If you want to laugh, laugh as much as you want, hurry up and send troops to help, don't let Bengong and Wang Shichong wait for you for too long. ”

"Indeed, Chen Liu, come on." Wang Xuance also said in his heart: "Don't always use secret letters to contact me, I've been waiting for you for too long." ”