On April 23, 612, the weather became hot and humid. On the way from Hedong Loufu County to Taiyuan, the center of Hedong, flags fluttered and dusty. The long procession is slowly advancing from north to south, which is a coalition of local heroes in Hedong and Longshang to crusade against the Hebei Army. At the order of Liu Wuzhou, the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces at this time, the peasants of Mayi, Dingxiang, and Loufu in Hedong, as well as Yulin, Wuyuan, Lingwu, Shuofang, Yanchuan, Diaoyin, Lishi, Yan'an, and other counties in Longshang, were dizzy and gathered from their busy fields, leaving their hoeing rakes, and the conscription officer issued them weapons and informed: "There are countless grains, gold and silver piled up in Taiyuan, Shangdang and other places in Hedong. ”

"Oh!" There was a sparse response from the soldiers, and more soldiers were at a loss with their weapons, and their poor minds could not figure out what the Taiyuan Shangdang had to do with the fact that they were suddenly called out of their homes. Many people thought of the siege of Yanmen that had just ended, the uncles and uncles who died under the city of Yanmen and the city of Mayi, and thought that they might never see their yellow-faced mother-in-law, the son who was too late to marry his daughter-in-law, and the old house that was about to collapse, so his expression was gloomy.

In a completely different mood from the soldiers, Liu Wuzhou, the commander-in-chief of the coalition army, was in a good mood, he rode his horse and whipped beside the troops, and from time to time looked back at the mighty army, full of ambition. He still remembered that in the war when the Turks went south to besiege Yanmen, their army successively washed more than a dozen cities in Dingxiang, Yanmen, and Mayi counties, and thousands of people were cut off their heads. At that time he hid in the city of Mayi. Every day it is prayed that these Turks do not find themselves. When he plundered the city in the future, he was amazed by the mountains of loot piled up by the Turks.

After the end of the siege of Yanmen. The imperial power of the Great Sui finally fell. The former little captain of Yanmen has finally become a hero. Seize the horse, occupy Dingxiang, enter Yanmen, and surround Taiyuan. When the cities planted his banners, the excitement in his heart could not be expressed in words. It's a pity. It didn't take long for his dream of being an earth emperor to discover a fact. He is only a local tyrant, and he is far from Chen Pojun in Hebei, and he can't even compare with a general sent by Chen Pojun to Hedong. This feeling of loss, not to mention how painful it is.

What made him even more painful. He soon found out. Marshal Wang Rengong, who was sent to Hedong by Chen Pojun, was simply a bastard. Every time, he turned around the regiments that he and Liang Shidu had been deceived by others, and deceived them into storming Taiyuan and other big cities held by the Li family with soldiers and horses. Whenever they suffered heavy losses, Wang Rengong was leisurely drinking tea and watching the excitement.

In the end, they suddenly found out that Li Yuan had taken refuge in Chen Pojun. The entire Li family in Hedong took refuge in the Hebei Army, and the cities of Taiyuan and Shangdang had long been controlled by the Hebei Army. But the damned Wang Rengong kept telling them to fight Taiyuan. At this time, everyone understood Wang Rengong's sinister intentions.

A few days ago, Chen Pojun gave another order. Let them gather a large army and go to Hebei to fight Wei Dao'er. In the face of this order, Liu Wuzhou, Liang Shidu and others were angry, Chen Pojun completely regarded them as thugs who didn't want money, and sent them to fight everywhere, but they didn't give any benefits, but continued to consume their already small number of soldiers and horses.

Fortunately, when Liu Wuzhou was disheartened, Song Jingang and Zhen Zhai'er, who were known as fierce generals in Hedong and Hebei, suddenly came to take refuge in him. …,

Liu Wuzhou couldn't help but thank God from the bottom of his heart... I really treat me well!

There was another important reason that prompted him to accept Song Jingang's persuasion and openly unite with Liang Shidu and others to resist Chen Pojun, Song Jingang said that he could help him seize the world and help him become emperor. At first, Liu Wuzhou didn't think about becoming an emperor, but now, under the persuasion of Song Jingang, he was moved! Chen Pojun should be the king, why can't he be it. Dou Jiande, the farmer, deserves the Son of Heaven, why can't he. In the troubled times, he also wants to be the son of heaven.

"Dashuai!" A herald hurriedly rode his horse from the front, and the horses had already run to the point of foaming at the mouth, and the infantry in front of the team consciously made a way for the signal soldier to rush to Liu Wuzhou unhindered.

"What's the matter?"

"Report to the marshal, Marshal Song sent me to report ......"

Liu Wuzhou nodded with satisfaction: "Can Taiyuan City be broken?" ”

"Handsome! Before Marshal Song arrived, a troop of soldiers and horses suddenly appeared in Taiyuan City. How these people came to be is unknown. However, there were 20,000 men in this group, and all of them were under the banner of the Hebei Army. At present, they have entered Taiyuan City, and Marshal Song sent a small emergency to come back to report that he was short of soldiers and horses, and he needed to quickly lead troops forward for reinforcements. ”

"What! Hebei's reinforcements arrived in Taiyuan so soon?! Liu Wuzhou was shocked inexplicably-

North of Luoyang, at the foot of Bishan Mountain, Kim Yong City.

This was once the acropolis of the eastern capital, and later the royal city of Li Mi of the Wei State, and a strong soldier of the Hebei Army had just dropped the banner of the Jianghuai Army above the city. Not long ago, the Jianghuai army crossed the Yellow River and attacked from Heyang, and took the opportunity to occupy the city after Wang Dangren, the general of Li Mi, transferred all the troops in the city to the Luokou battlefield. But now, it has been replaced with a big banner with a Chinese character.

After the 5,000 Jianghuai troops in the city refused to allow the Hebei army to enter the city, Chen Pojun gave an order and breached Kim Yong Cheng in less than two hours.

After the end of the war, Feng Wan rode a silver horse through the field and corpses, Zhang Chuchen and Zhai Wushuang also led a team of female soldiers to join her, and the three women walked through the battlefield, laughing from time to time.

The land outside the city was torn apart by the iron hooves of the Hebei cavalry, and some of the crops in the land were trampled into the soil, and the broken spears and arrows stuck in the ground were watered with blood, as if they had become a new terrible crop. She rode across the battlefield, dying horses looking up and neighing at her, and the wounded moaning and praying. A large number of "battlefield sweepers" armed with heavy axes to free the wounded shuttled through the process, harvesting countless human heads from the dead and the dying man. Behind them were a group of weaker men, who would carry some of the lightly wounded from under the axes of the battlefield sweepers and take them to makeshift medical camps.

Farther afield, a group of men dressed as ordinary people, plucked arrows from corpses and loaded them into baskets for reuse. And pick up those broken spear tips, spearheads, broken swords and other broken weapons one by one, so that they can be re-refined into weapons.

The city burst into flames, wisps of black smoke billowing up into the blue sky. Beneath the crumbling walls of dry earth, Hebei cavalry warriors galloped back and forth, waving their long whips to drive the survivors away from the smoking ruins. Many of them were the families of the civil and military courtiers and generals of the Wei State, and even if these women and children were defeated and enslaved, they still had a kind of angry self-esteem when they walked; Now enslaved, they seem to be brave enough to accept their fate. The ordinary people in the city are different. Feng Wan walked through them, deeply pitying them, she knew what it was like to be afraid. Many mothers were expressionless and lifeless, staggering as they pulled their sobbing children. There are only a few men among them, and most of them are crippled, cowards and old people from their grandparents' generation. …,

Zhai Wushuang on the side looked at these people, many of whom she knew. Many of them used to be part of the Wagang Army, but that was a long time ago. Wagang was long gone, she looked at them expressionlessly, with pity in her heart, but she didn't intend to save them.

When she heard in Hebei that her father died under Li Mi's knife and died in the internal strife of Wagang, which she single-handedly created, she had completely severed relations with these people in Wagang in her heart. If it was in the past, Zhai Wushuang might have begged the army to let them go because he was once a person from Wagang. But now, in her heart, she has regarded these people as helpers and killers to kill her father.

She saw a boy galloping toward the moat, a horse in armor of the Eastern Capital Army blocking his way and forcing him to turn, while the rest of the men surrounded him in the middle, whipping him in the face and driving him to flee in all directions. Another warrior rode up behind him and whipped his hips until blood stained his thighs. Another whipped him to the ankle, causing him to fall to the ground. In the end, the boy could only crawl, and when they got bored, they shot an arrow through his back.

Chen Pojun greeted them outside the crumbling city gates, wearing a crimson burqa over his armor. His burqa was spotless, not stained with a trace of blood from the battle.

He jumped forward and removed his helmet. "When I heard that you were coming, the king was taken aback."

"Your Highness isn't hurt, is he?" Zhang Chuchen jumped down neatly from the horse, she was also wearing a set of crimson light leather armor at this time, which looked very compatible with Chen Pojun. The edge of the red leather armor is also inlaid with hollow gold wire, and the leather armor that cinchs the waist is more and more lined with her good figure. In Chen Pojun's eyes, that set of leather armor is more ornamental than practical.

"Chen Lei didn't even allow me to get close to the battlefield, how could I be injured." Chen Kefu replied with some complaints, "I originally wanted to play in person, but from beginning to end, this king only did one to watch the excitement." ”

Zhang Chuchen stepped forward and charmingly helped Chen Kefu gently pat the dust on his robe, his good-looking eyes secretly sent a wave to him, and said in a soft voice, "Your Highness is now the king's honor, how can you easily get into danger." It's good to leave the matter of charging into battle to the soldiers under your command, and if Your Highness is still not at ease, you can also hand it over to the concubines. The concubine's swordsmanship is extraordinary! As he spoke, he chuckled and pulled out the beautiful short sword at his waist, and began to dance on the spot.