For Yu Wenhua and the army, although the invasion of Hanoi was the result of Li Erjun's envoy fanning the flames, it was also a helpless choice, to be precise, it was a very helpless and the most correct choice.

The reason is, of course, Wang Shichong and Li Mi, the two roadblocks, although Li Mijun after the defeat of Tongshan is no longer the opponent of Yu Wenhua and the army on the frontal battlefield, but the Tiger Prison Pass is still in the hands of Li Mijun, as long as Li Mijun guards the Tiger Prison Pass, with the backing of Jiancheng Xiongguan and Luokoucang grain, even if he can't stop Yu Wenhua and the army in the end, he can also make Yu Wenhua and collapse a tooth. Wang Shichong is the same reason here, Wang Shichong's army who sticks to the eastern capital can also make Yu Wenhua and the army pay a heavy price in the battle, and consume a large number of Yu Wenhua and a large number of living forces.

Of course, if Yu Wenhua, Li Mi and Wang Shichong can sit down and talk about it, Li Mi is not without the possibility of borrowing the road to Yu Wenhua and westward, and Wang Shichong can also let Yu Wenhua bypass the eastern capital and go west, which is a win-win situation for the three families, and the only unlucky one will only be Chen Fuliang, who occupies Yu Wenhua and his hometown. But the problem is that Li Mi has to guard against Yu Wenhua and suddenly turn his face when he borrows the Dao Tiger Prison, Yu Wenhua also has to prevent Li Mi from suddenly taking revenge on Tong Mountain, and once Yu Wenhua and the westward expansion are blocked, the treacherous Wang Shichong will definitely not be polite to Yu Wenhua's retreat, so even Yu Wenhua and such a straw bag know that it is most beneficial to shake hands with Li Mi and Wang Shichong, but they dare not take this big risk.

Two reasons also determine that Yu Wenhua and it is impossible to be cramped in Liyang Cang, the first is of course that most of the grain in Liyang Cang has been tossed by Li Mi, Yu Wenhua and the army have taken Liyang Cang, and the grain in the warehouse is already less than 30%, at most it is only enough for more than 100,000 people and horses of Yu Wenhua and the army to toss for half a year; The second is that Yu Wenhua and the Xiaoguo soldiers under his command are like arrows, and they are all looking forward to returning to their hometown in Guanzhong and reuniting with their families who have not seen each other for more than two years - in order to go home, the Xiaoguo soldiers have already killed Emperor Yang of Sui, and they will never mind killing Yu Wenhua again.

So there is no way, although I know that the road from Hanoi to Hedong via Jiangjun is rugged and difficult to walk, and it is difficult to guarantee the supply of grain and grass, but in order to appease the soldiers under his command, and also because Yu Wenhua and his brothers are also very homesick, after getting Li Er's response and the promise of providing grain and grass, Yu Wenhua still sent Sima Dejiao to lead the army of 10,000 people as the vanguard to march westward, attack the east gate of Hanoi Linqingguan, and send a letter to force Zheng Qianxiang, the governor of Hanoi appointed by Li Mi, to surrender, preparing to take Hanoi first to open up direct contact with Li Er, Then decide how to march into the army.

Thanks to the blessing of historical changes, Sima Dejiao was not killed by Yu Wenhua in the south of the Yellow River, and the great victory of the Tongshan War also resolved many Sima Dejiao's dissatisfaction with Yu Wenhua, so in the war against Hanoi County, Sima Dejiao, who was very set in terms of fighting, still spent a lot of effort to fight, and as a result, this also suffered Zheng Qianxiang and the Hanoi thieves under his command, even if they couldn't defend the Linqing Pass, they still couldn't resist the Xiaoguo elite soldiers armed to the teeth. In less than a day, Linqingguan was broken by the Xiaoguo army that was full of food and drink and killed, Zheng Qianxiang paid a heavy price and still couldn't stop Sima Dejiao, had to lead the remaining remnants of the defeated army to abandon the pass and flee, and hurriedly fled back to Hanoi County to defend the closed door, the Gongcheng, Xinxiang and other counties around Linqingguan were terrified, and they all opened the city to surrender to Sima Dejiao, Yu Wenhua and the army successfully entered the hinterland of Hanoi, condescendingly looking down on the eastern capital Luoyang, and also saw the dawn of opening up direct contact with Li Er.

The good news was transmitted back to Liyangcang, and Yu Wenhua and Daxi, who were sleeping with Emperor Yang of Sui and Concubine Yang in his arms, and then inevitably felt a little fluttering, feeling that his army was strong and invincible in the world, and no matter that force was not his opponent - in fact, it was true, and if he didn't play tricks, he wouldn't be able to beat Yu Wenhua even if he was a good army. However, at this time, the bad news suddenly came, Chen Fuliang had already killed the main force of Li Erjun with the momentum of the autumn wind sweeping the leaves, recovered the counties of Jinnan, and immediately increased troops in Jiangxian County, choking the only way for Yu Wenhua and the army to cross the Zhongtiao Mountains and enter Hedong in the west.

The conscientious envoy of Li Erjun, Ren Bi, is still desperately persuading Yu Wenhua and attacking Hedong, wanting to use Yu Wenhua and this knife to avenge his master Li Er, but unfortunately this time even Yu Wenshi, who has a deep relationship with the old Li family, refused to listen to him, not only did not help Ren Peikeng his brother, but also saw the Yu Wenshi who dominated the world and also strongly persuaded Yu Wenhua to change his strategy, first take the eastern capital and Luokoucang, gain a foothold and completely solve the problem of grain and grass, and then try to take Guanzhong in the west, and then sweep the world.

In fact, the shape shì is still quite beneficial to Yu Wenhua and the army, although it is possible that the three sluts Chen Fuliang, Wang Shichong and Li Mi may join forces to clean up Yu Wenhua, but the three sluts are full of contradictions with each other, and the conflict of interests is absolutely impossible to resolve, and it is actually easy to divide them. At the same time, in the case of temporary worry-free food and grass, Yu Wenhua and Junda, who have successfully entered the hinterland of Hanoi, can go south from Heyang, bypass the Tiger Prison Pass and directly take Li Mi from the back and back, during which as long as the strategy is used properly, it is very easy to completely isolate Li Mijun, who has a grudge with Chen Fuliang and Wang Shichong, and then rely on the strong military strength of Yu Wenhua and the army, and then it is easier to pinch Li Mi, who has been seriously injured, than to pinch an ant to death.

In view of this situation, Yu Wenshi and Feng Deyi, who pulled the bones softer than familiar noodles, designed a set of advance plans for Yu Wenhua, and built a set of army plans, Jian yì divided the army into two, one to guard Liyang Cang and was responsible for protecting the Hanoi grain road, and the main force was to cross the Yellow River to the south by means of Heyang, and in the name of Yang Hao, the emperor of Tianshou, Wang Shichong and Chen Fuliang were respectively crowned kings to appease, in exchange for them not to help Li Mi, and then use a small number of soldiers and horses to guard against the Western Front, the main force stormed Luokoucang to take food first, and then attacked the Tiger Pass, and could force land Li Mi for his own use, of course, it is the best, If you can't force Li Mi to land, you can also force him to give up the tiger prison and flee to the east, and then after Yu Wenhua and the army turn around, it will be much easier to deal with Wang Shichong and Chen Fuliang.

Yu Wenhua was very tempted by the third brother and Feng Deyi's proposal, and nodded in agreement to consider adopting this strategy, but in terms of how to appease and buy Chen Fuliang and Wang Shichong, the two traitors, Yu Wenhua did not listen to Yu Wenshi and Feng Deyi's idea to make his own decisions, and only promised to give Chen Fuliang a Tang King title and Wang Shichong a Zheng Wang title, and was not willing to take out a lot of gold and jewelry to buy Chen Fuliang and Wang Shichong's important civil and military generals, and only took a little symbolic gift. Then he sent an envoy to take the holy decree of Emperor Yang Hao of Tianshou and went on the road. - This is naturally Yu Wenhua's head into the water, if he is willing to spend a lot of money to buy, he may not be sure of buying the civil and military under Chen Fuliang, but there is great hope for buying the insatiable Lao Wang's family.

However, Yu Wenhua also did something that was barely a miracle, that is, he sealed Li with the title of King of Wei, sent people to the Tiger Prison Pass to recruit Li Mi again, and tried to recruit the three sluts in the troubled times at the same time, and also pondered that even if he could only pull one slut to his side, he could also get a huge boost and reduce the huge pressure. Although Yu Wenshi and Feng Deyi and others felt that there was definitely no such hope, they considered that doing so could show a little bit of the benevolence of the army, so they did not object, and let Yu Wenhua and toss blindly.

Yu Wenhua and the soft bone Feng Deyi's ability to schem is limited after all, and he doesn't know that Yu Wenhua's blind toss is actually crooked, and it just happened to hit the most critical place, in fact, Chen Fuliang and Wang Shichong are afraid that Li Mi will turn to the side of Yu Wenhuahe, and Li Mi himself, if he is forced by the form, he will never mind temporarily bowing to Yu Wenhua and bowing his knees, and at the same time, in Li Mi's heart, a more ambitious plan is still brewing............

If it weren't for Wang Shichong listening to Chen Fuliang's advice and preemptively sending someone to contact Li Mi first, maybe Li Mi would have gone directly to hug Yu Wenhua's thighs. After Wang Xuanshu returned to the Eastern Capital with the pine cannon drawings and Chen Fuliang's Jianyi, the overjoyed Wang Shichong laughed wildly for ten minutes, and said hundreds of words about a good son-in-law, and then Wang Shichong didn't even blink an eyelid, and immediately ordered the imitation of the pine cannon, and at the same time immediately sent an envoy out of the city to contact Li Mijun, asking for the exchange of food with Li Mijun with the mountains of silk and cloth piled up in the eastern capital.

As Chen Fuliang expected, the midwinter is approaching, and Li Mijun, who has no source of cloth, is worried about wintering winter clothes, so although Li Mi doesn't want to have anything to do with Wang Shichong, let alone let Wang Shichong alleviate the pain of food shortage, he can't stand the repeated persuasion and pleading of all the civil and military forces under his command, and at the same time, in order to leave a way back to prevent accidents, Li Mi still reluctantly accepted Wang Shichong's request, and exchanged 20,000 stone grain from Wang Shichong to 30,000 pieces of cloth.

With the first time, of course, there is a second time, and after finally reopening the direct contact with Li Mi, Wang Shichong, who urgently needs to let Li Mi be a cannon fodder shield, fights the snake with the stick, and immediately sends people to the Tiger Prison Pass, while quietly bribing Li Mi's cronies, while persuading Li Mi to form an alliance with him and join forces to deal with the powerful enemy Yu Wenhua. - This is Li Mi's huge advantage in politics, Li Mi only played the banner of overthrowing tyranny, did not support the emperor, nor did he commit the crime of killing the monarch, and no one who allied with him did not have to worry about injustice and infamy.

Li Mi was noncommittal to Wang Shichong's request for an alliance, neither refused nor agreed, and sent Wang Shichong's envoy away after only saying that he needed to consider it. However, as soon as Wang Shichong's envoy left, Yu Wenhua's envoy came on the back foot, under the banner of Tianshou Emperor Yang Hao, not only pardoned Li Mi's previous crimes, but also sealed Li with a false title of King of Wei, and symbolically rewarded a fiefdom and a few jewels.

Sitting and listening to the Yang Hao holy decree read by Yu Wenhua and the envoy, Li Mi was silent, Pei Renji and Shan Xiongxin next to him misunderstood Li Mi's meaning, and suffered a big loss from Yu Wenhua in the Tongshan War, and he had already held back the fire in his belly, and immediately stood up and scolded, and the obedient Shan Xiongxin also pulled out a knife to cut Yu Wenhua and the messenger. In view of the fact that Li Mi had already done the beautiful thing of sending Yu Hongjian to the Eastern Capital to be executed, the envoy of Yuwenjun was suddenly frightened and his feet weakened, and he fell to his knees with a plop, and kept kowtowing and begging for mercy.

Fortunately, Li Mi was very surprised to drink Shan Xiongxin, and even more unexpectedly picked up the Yuwen Army envoy's kind words to comfort, and then said: "Please ask your envoy to return to the Prime Minister of Yuwen, just say that the sinner Li Mi heard the decree and wept, but the generals under his command were not convinced, and the sinner has accepted the official canonization of the Eastern Capital Imperial Court, this matter can not be discussed, and please ask the Prime Minister Yuwen to understand the sinner's suffering, if there is a chance in the future, Li Mi will bow down in front of the Prime Minister and ask for guilt." ”

Li Mi's answer stunned everyone present, and also stunned Yu Wenhua and the messenger sent, and hurriedly asked Li Mi what surrender conditions he wanted, but Li Mi stopped talking, just politely asked the messenger to go back to pass the word, and also gave a thank you gift, and arranged for his own soldiers to escort Yu Wenhua and the envoy out of the Yellow River. As a result, Yu Wenhua and the envoy had just left, Pei Renji, Shan Xiongxin and others immediately opened their mouths to ask why Li Mi treated Yu Wenhua and the envoy so well, and there was still a plan to accept Yu Wenhua and surrender in his words?

"Surrender to Yu Culture and the Thief Army? Do you think I'm going to do it? Li Mi replied with a sneer: "Yu Wenhua and the traitors killed the monarch and harmed the lord, heaven and earth do not tolerate it, and they killed tens of thousands of my soldiers in Tongshan, seized my Liyang Cang, and kidnapped my military women and children's families. ”

"Then Duke Wei, why are you still showing such weakness to Yu Wenhua and the envoy?" Pei Renji and the others hurriedly asked.

"Forced to do so." Li Mi said in a calm tone: "If I don't deal with Yu Wenhua and the Void and the Snake, then his next step is either to directly fight the Tiger Prison Pass, or to go south through Heyang, and make a detour to fight Luokou Cangcheng, and our army has already suffered a great injury after the Battle of Tongshan, how can we resist his elite Guanzhong?" ”

"Duke Wei may wish to consider forming a temporary alliance with Wang Shichong to join forces to conquer Yu Wenhua and." Shan Xiongxin said very carefully: "Wang Shichong has already sent an envoy to ask for an alliance before, and Duke Wei, you have surrendered to the Eastern Capital Imperial Court in honor, and it is easy to join forces with Wang Shichong, also known as the right word. ”

"I'm stupid to form an alliance with Wang Shichong." Li Mi said unceremoniously: "Tiger Prison Pass and Heyang Bridge are under the control of our army, if I conclude an alliance with Wang Shichong, Wang Shichong will definitely ask me to stick to Tiger Prison Pass and Heyang Bridge, when the time comes, wouldn't it be our army and Yu Wenhua and fight hard, he Wang Shichong will hide behind his back and pick up the cheap?" ”

Shan Xiongxin and the others nodded silently, and then Yuwen Wen next to him asked again: "Duke Wei, then what should we do next?" ”

"Continue to talk to Yu Wenhua and make a false peace, do not agree or refuse to his solicitation and surrender, hold him first, and let him feel that our army may be used by him." Li Mi said without thinking: "At the same time, he ordered Zheng Qianxiang to retreat to the Heyang Bridge, and led Yu Wenhua's partial division south to force the eastern capital. ”

"And then?" Yu Wenwen hurriedly asked.

"Then it's just a matter of seeing the opportunity." Li Mi replied helplessly: "Although Yu Wenhua and himself are stupid and incompetent, the soldiers and horses under his command are too strong, and they are not his opponents at all. Luring Yu Wenhua and crossing the Yellow River from Heyang to the south is risky for our army, but it is better than being attacked by Yu Wenhua and the front of the Tiger Prison, so that Wang Shichong can take the opportunity to send troops to seize Luokoucang and cut off the lifeblood of our army. ”

Everyone nodded silently, and after discussing some official duties, the generals said goodbye and left, and Li Mi also led Wang Xuance and Cai Jiande, the two civil and military cronies, out of the door, to the city wall to blow the wind and relax, the result was that Wang Xuance and Cai Jiande and others were quite strange that Li Mi, who was used to thinking in a walk, actually boarded the west gate of the Tiger Prison Pass, looking at the direction of the west in a daze. After a long time, Li Mi also said to himself, "Thief Chen, what am I going to do before you are willing to send troops to the Eastern Capital?" ”

"Duke Wei, what do you mean by that?" Wang Xuance was naturally extremely concerned about Chen Fuliang's affairs, and immediately asked curiously: "Listening to your tone, it seems that I really hope that Chen Yingliang and traitors will send troops to the Eastern Capital?" ”

"Of course." Li Mi said absentmindedly: "Yu Wenhua's military strength is too strong, whether it is our army or Wang Shichong, it is not his opponent, even if we can break him together, it is still Chen Yingliang who will benefit in the end." As far as our army is concerned, the most favorable situation is to lure Chen Yingliang's traitor soldiers into the Eastern Capital, join forces with Wang Shichong and Yu Wenhua and fight a defeat for both sides, and then we will reap the benefits. ”

After that, Li Mi said to himself: "If there is any way to pull Chen Yingliang's traitors into the battlefield of the Eastern Capital, as long as Chen Yingliang's traitors and Yu Wenhua are involved, our army can discuss even if it is to deceive Yu Wenhua and provide him with food and grass help, just wait for them to lose both, we can take the opportunity to reap the benefits." It's a pity that this traitor is too treacherous, and it is even more difficult to get him to send troops than to ascend to the sky. ”

At this time, there happened to be a group of Li Mijun soldiers coming from west to east, but Li Mi, Wang Xuance and others didn't pay attention to it, thinking together, Wang Xuance also said cautiously: "Duke Wei, since you think that it is more beneficial for our army to pull the Daxing army into the Guanzhong battlefield, then why don't we try to send an envoy to the west, ask for an alliance with Chen Yingliang's traitors, and invite him to send troops to attack Yu Wenhua?" ”

"Chen Yingliang will only agree if he is stupid." Li Mi sneered and said: "As long as he guards Tongguan Cuihan Dao, he can sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, and laugh at us and Yu Wenhua to fight to the death, he will take the initiative to send troops to fight Yu Wenhua if he is stupid." ”

Things don't seem to be absolute, and at this time, a herald suddenly rushed to the wall in a hurry, and said to Li Miji: "Duke Wei, Chen Yingliang, the puppet prime minister of Daxing, sent a messenger to visit, asking for an alliance with our army to crusade against Yu Wenhua!" ”

"What? What the? Li Mi almost thought that his ears had heard it wrong, and hurriedly said: "You repeat, what did Chen Yingliang send someone to do?" ”

The herald once again repeated Chen Fuliang's request for an alliance, and Li Mi, Wang Xuance and the others were stunned together, and some smiles quickly appeared on their black faces, and said: "If you want to sleep, a pillow will be sent, I can't imagine that there is such a good thing in the world." Although this traitor must be uneasy, it doesn't matter, it can just test the purpose of this traitor. ”

Chen Fuliang sent a very orthodox messenger this time, and also sent a very orthodox letter, and he also told Li Mi a great truth such as the righteousness of the monarch and the minister, claiming that he was determined to avenge Emperor Yang of Sui, invited Li Mi to help, and promised that after breaking the enemy, he would definitely play Emperor Ming Yining, give King Li Feng a knighthood, and forgive the previous sins. Li Mi, who had been deceived by Chen Fuliang's letter for an unknown number of times, was puzzled, but he did not hesitate, and quickly nodded and said: "Very good, please ask your envoy to repay the prime minister, and say that Li Mi promised to form an alliance with him and join hands to crusade against Yu Wenhua and the traitor!" ”

After the envoy who was courteously received by Li Mi returned to Liyangcang, Yu Wenhua and his brothers, Feng Deyi and others were surprised by Li Mi's weakness, and they also quickly came to the conclusion that Li Mi had been shaken after the defeat of Tongshan, and as long as Li Mi was given some more pressure, it was very likely to force Li Mi to lead the army to surrender!

Putting pressure on Li Mi is to directly send troops to threaten, and someone sends a pillow when he also wants to sleep, and within a few days, Sima Dejiao sent a fast horse to send news, saying that Li Mi's army in Hanoi has retreated to Heyang City, Sima Dejiao feels that this is a good opportunity to seize the Heyang Bridge and open up the road to Luoyang in the south.

"Enter! Of course, we have to march into the army! Yu Wenhua said viciously: "Let Sima Dejiao go all out to march into the army, strive to take the Heyang Bridge, and open up the road to Luoyang in the south!" I immediately personally led the main force to force Li Mi to surrender and take the Eastern Capital! ”