Yu culture and more than 100,000 people, according to the six palaces, since the support of Emperor Yang. Every time he sits in the south of the tent, people who have white things, hey, hey, the lower teeth, Fang takes the opening and Tang Fengyi, Niu Fangyu, Xue Shiliang, Zhang Kai and other people participate in the decision.

If the historical brother is really so useless, it is impossible for the famous ministers and generals to become his prisoners obediently and be escorted to the north, and it is impossible to quell Sima Deji's rebellion, and the army can maintain a certain cohesion until the Tongshan War. In fact, in terms of commanding the army, Hua and his brother still learned some fur from his father Yu Wenshu, and while carrying a large number of grain, grass, military supplies and non-combatants, from Liyang Cang to Heyang Bridge, Hua and his brother's main force only walked for ten days.

Heyang Bridge has already been in the control of the forward Sima Dejun army, the main force of the Yuwen army easily crossed the Yellow River, temporarily set up camp at the foot of the mountain, the result is also a coincidence, the day of crossing the river is blowing strongly, the temperature drops suddenly, seeing that the first winter snow of the first year of Yining, the first year of Huangtai and the fourteenth year of the great cause is about to fall in Henan County, the main force of the Yuwen army who lacks winter clothes has to cut down a large number of trees to make fires for warmth, and spend the night in the field in the biting cold wind. - Pay attention to the lack of winter clothes, and recall the good idea that a certain traitor gave to his father-in-law, and his friends will surely find something.

The Yellow River is very easy to pass, and then of course the question of how to enter the army, originally out of military needs, Li Mijun previously rebuilt the fortress of Huiluocheng left in the Northern Wei Dynasty at the Pishan intersection of Heyang leading to the hinterland of Henan County, blocking the southward road of the main force of Hua and his brother, but seeing that the main force of Hua and his brother was killing Heyang, the defenders of Huiluo City had already abandoned the city and left, giving up this tactical place, and Hua and brother thought that it was easier to cross the mountain than to cross the Yellow River, and also wanted to fight the eastern capital and fight the eastern capital, and wanted to fight Luokoucang and Luokoucang, The tactical initiative is in hand.

Now Wang Shichong and Li Mi are desperately trying to curry favor with Hua and his brother, and they are all vying to instigate Hua and his brother to attack each other first, which makes Hua and his decision-making team very difficult, and their opinions cannot be unified.

Some of the generals led by Sima Dejiao felt that they should beat Li Mi first, the reason was that the eastern capital city was strong, and the frontal assault not only delayed the sun and moon, but also definitely caused a lot of casualties, it was better to go and beat Li Mi violently first, of course, it was best to force him to surrender, it didn't matter if Li Mi didn't surrender, Luokou Cangcheng was not as strong as the eastern capital, and the defenders had been killed by the Xiaoguo army before, and it was far easier to capture Luokou Cangcheng than to take the eastern capital, and after taking Luokou Cangcheng, Yuwen's army was completely established in Henan County, No more bothering about food.

Yuwen Zhiji, Tang Fengyi and Yuan Wuda and others felt that Wang Shichong should be beaten first, the reason is that Li Mi had promised to give up Jinyong City, Yu Wenhua and the army to fight Wang Shichong could immediately gain a foothold, and the outer city of the eastern capital was easy to break, and after taking the outer city, a large number of people could be obtained immediately, and at the same time, Yuwen Jun also held a large number of hostages in his hands, so that those civil and military officials brought from the eastern capital came forward to recruit the relatives of the children in the city, and it was not a big problem to take the inner city of the eastern capital, and then there was a solid foothold in the eastern capital Luoyang, To the west, you can block Chen Fuliang, and to the east, you can clean up Li Mi and take back Luokoucang.

The two opinions are reasonable, and they are indeed feasible, but this point makes the cowardly and lack of assertiveness Hua and brother very embarrassed, and he can't make up his mind for a long time, at this time, someone happened to enter the tent to report the completion of the camp, and opened the tent curtain to bring in a cold wind, blowing and the brother is mouth scolding, "Blind your mother's dog eyes? It's so cold and you lift the curtain so big? Quickly put down the curtain, increase the fire, and kill the prime minister! ”

The soldiers sang the promise, and hurriedly added firewood to the brazier, the firewood that had just been cut was not dry enough to smoke when it caught fire, and everyone in the tent coughed, and they also choked and the brother scolded again, and the brother also took the opportunity to cough and said: "Brother, let's go to the eastern capital first, we will have a house to live in when we get to Jinyong City, and the whole army can live in the city after taking the eastern capital, which is much better than spending the winter in the wild." ”

Hua and Brother Yi started in their hearts, and Feng Deyi, the soft bone appointed by Hua and his brother, also coughed and said: "Prime Minister, Zuo Servant Shot makes sense, it is necessary to fight the eastern capital Luoyang first, this winter is coming, our army is short of winter clothes, we should first take the eastern capital to supplement the winter clothes, otherwise, our soldiers will have a hard time in winter." ”

Feng Deyi's words reminded Sima Dehuan, so that Sima Dehuan, who advocated beating Li Mi first, immediately changed his mind, and immediately coughed and said: "Prime Minister, Feng Neishi's words reminded the last general, it is necessary to fight the Eastern Capital first, our detailed investigation to not long ago, Wang Shichong once took out 30,000 pieces of cloth and exchanged 20,000 stone grain with Li Mi, which shows that there is definitely no shortage of cloth and silk in the Eastern Capital, we are not short of food for the time being, but we are in urgent need of winter clothing, we should fight the Eastern Capital first, and solve the problem of winter clothing for the brothers first." ”

Sima Dejiao changed his words, and the generals of the Xiaoguo Army who had followed him before and advocated beating Li Mi first also echoed one after another, and as a result, Hua and his brother no longer hesitated, and immediately coughed and said: "Ahem, okay, then go to the house in Jinyong City first, fight the eastern capital, and grab clothes for the winter." Ahem, **** your mother, don't you move this ghost brazier out, you want to choke the prime minister to death, don't you?! ”

So, because of the cold winter that was destined to come, in the case that anyone could be beaten first, in order to solve the problem of winter clothes, Hua and Brother did not hesitate to take the main force to the eastern capital where the cloth and satin were piled up. Finding out this news, Li Mi, who was worried, of course smiled so much that his face bloomed black, but Wang Shichong was eager to catch Hua and his brother's sister who was in Daxing to personally rape and vent his anger, and he could only hurry up to prepare for the defense of the city, while sending someone to ask his son-in-law for help, while counting on Li Mijun to be able to hold the eastern capital Acropolis Jinyong City, and share some pressure for himself.

The wonderful performance of the defenders of Jinyong City almost did not make Wang Shi faint, the advance of the Yuwen Army led by Sima Dejiao was still five miles away from Jinyong City, and the defenders of the city with only more than 2,000 old and weak soldiers had already abandoned the city and fled, spreading their feet and going straight to Yanshi, and handed over the intact Jinyong City together with the huge number of siege weapons in the city to Sima Dejiao, when Wang Shichong heard the news and was shocked and hurriedly sent someone to rob the city, it was already too late, and the vanguard of the Yuwen Army who rode Chen Fuliang to grab the war horse in the Battle of Yanmen had already rushed into the city first, Shun Lì took over the acropolis of the Eastern Capital, which was very important in terms of tactical position, and successfully drove a big nail under Wang Shichong's nose, Wang Shichong wanted to cry without tears, but he was helpless.

Diametrically opposed to Wang Shichong, after finally having a city to settle in to avoid the winter, Hua Ji brother and his decision-making level were of course dazzled, not to mention the hostility of Li Mijun, who kept his promise, and immediately sent an envoy into Luoyang City, and issued an ultimatum to Wang Shichong and the Luoyang Sui army, asking Wang Shichong to surrender the city within one day! If not, with a finger of the elder brother's blade, the eastern capital city and Wang Shichong's army will all be turned into powder!

There was no choice, and after hesitating for a long time, Wang Shichong finally mustered up the courage and ordered the envoy of Huahe and his brother to be expelled from the city, determined to rely on the advantages of the city's defense to fight with Huahe's brother! Of course, Hua and his brother were furious when they heard the news, and they picked up the siege weapons that Li Mijun deliberately left for him, and led the well-equipped Xiaoguo army to the eastern capital to settle accounts with Wang Shichong, and the scarred eastern capital Luoyang also ushered in a fierce battle again.

In the cold wind, the war drums are like thunder, the Xiaoguo army armed to the teeth with strong strength, launched a wave after wave of fierce attacks on the main gate of the eastern capital, Li Mijun deliberately left a large number of flying ladders one after another on the city wall, the red-eyed Xiaoguo soldiers bit their weapons and climbed up crazily, the city car violently hit the city gate, the arrows in the sky are like locusts, the falling rocks are like rain, the sword and sword shadows are flying on the city wall, the flesh and blood are flying, the corpses of the soldiers of the two armies and the remains of siege weapons are floating all over the moat, and the battle is completely tragic and can not be described with pen and ink.

Despite the condescending city advantage, although Wang Shichong personally went to the city to supervise the battle, and although the defenders of the Eastern Capital who had gradually been trained fought tenaciously and resisted bravely, the army of Hua and his brother was too strong, the overall strength was strong, and the individual combat effectiveness was stronger, usually as long as there was a soldier of the Xiaoguo Army rushing to the city wall, Wang Shichong's army had to pay the lives of three or four soldiers to kill him or catch up with the city wall, so after more than two hours of fierce fighting, the crumbling Eastern Capital defenders finally showed defeat, More than a dozen soldiers of the Xiaoguo Army who successfully landed in the city successfully seized a city wall position, covering the follow-up companions to quickly and safely ascend the city.

"The city is ruined!"

When Brother Hua Ji, who personally commanded this battle, let out a smug howl, Wang Shichong, who had endured for a long time, finally dispatched his secret weapon, and ten pine cannons suddenly appeared behind the arrow stacks, concentrating their firepower to fire at the most dense place of the Yuwen Army soldiers, and the earth-shattering explosion sound suddenly echoed in the eastern capital.

Of course, the small stone bullets and iron horns fired by the pine cannon are far inferior to the solid cannonballs shot by the bronze cannon in terms of power, but this is enough, the fierce spraying of stone eggs and iron horns can also be fatal when they hit the vital point, and the roar of the artillery that is far more huge than the explosion of the gunpowder bottle caught the Yuwen army off guard, and then saw many soldiers suddenly fall to the ground and roll and scream, the Yuwen army was suddenly in chaos, and the morale was greatly reduced, and the death squad led by Wang Ren also took the opportunity to launch a counterattack, and killed the Yuwen army soldiers who had already landed in the city with red eyes, Re-plugged the gap in the city defense that almost killed Wang Shichong.

Wang Shichong also has some talent in the use of weapons, relying on the pine cannon to manufacture easy and low cost, Wang Shichong, who has created no less than 30 pine cannons, is very genius to come up with the tactic of taking turns shooting, the first ten pine cannons have just finished firing, and the last ten pine cannons are fired again, and they are still bombarding the dense area of the Yuwen Army, and the soldiers of the Xiaoguo Army who have never seen this weapon are so well-equipped, and how they can fight well, they are still in chaos in the face of such a sudden blow. Unbelievable exclamations continued, "What's that?" What kind of weapon is that? ”

"What's that?" Brother Hua also jumped up from the handsome chair, his eyes widened and he screamed, "Why is it so loud?" And breathing fire? Can you still kill my soldiers? ”

Sima Deji, Yu Wenzhi and the others all opened their mouths and didn't answer, and they didn't know how to answer, but Fan Wenchao quickly came back to his senses and exclaimed, "Is it artillery?" The artillery that Chen Yingliang used to kill Li Yuan's old thief? ”

When Yu Wenhua and Sima Dejiao and others were in Jiangdu, they had heard from Qian Xiangmin that Chen Fuliang had bombarded Li Yuan with artillery, and then saw the pine cannon roughly similar to Qian Xiangmin's description suddenly appeared, of course, he was panicked and scared in his heart, and nodded desperately in agreement with this analysis, and then saw that the offensive queue had been completely bombarded by Wang Shichong with pine trees, Hua and Brother were not polite, and immediately shouted: "Mingjin!" Mingjin! Collect the troops and return to Jinyong City! ”

Shouting, Hua and his brother were the first to rush down the Shuai platform to ride a war horse to escape, for fear that if he ran slowly, he would follow in Li Yuan's footsteps, and was killed by Wang Shichong's artillery three miles away, which led many generals of the Xiaoguo Army to flee for their lives, although Sima Dejiao and Fan Wenchao and others felt that it was a pity to give up the attack, but they saw that the front army was indeed in chaos, and the morale of the army was greatly affected, so they still had no choice but to collect the troops, and Sima Dejiao also took the initiative to provoke the important task of the palace.

In this way, when he was only one step away from taking the outer city of the Eastern Capital, the main force of Hua and his brother retreated, and Wang Shichong did not dare to take the opportunity to pursue. As a result, after withdrawing to Jin Yongcheng to carefully understand the situation, Sima Dejiao and Fan Wenchao and other wise generals quickly discovered that they were probably scared away by Wang Shichong, because those soldiers of the Xiaoguo Army who were covered by artillery said that they only heard a loud noise at that time, and when they saw their companions falling to the ground, they were frightened and confused, and they did not see a large number of tragic deaths of their companions, let alone the situation of being directly hit by artillery like Li Yuan.

Sima Dejiao and others, who probably had the bottom in their hearts, hurriedly reported the situation to Yu Wenhuahe, who was suspicious of this, so he listened to Yuwen Zhiji's Jianyi, and sent someone to call Ren Bi, who was stranded in the army, to understand the power of the Sui army's artillery during the Guanzhong War. But it's a pity that Ren Bi, who is not Li Yuan's absolute confidant, was not at the scene at the time, and he hadn't even seen what kind of misery Li Yuan had been beaten by artillery, and he didn't know anything about it, and then Yu Wenhua remembered Qian Xiangmin and He Er, who were also detained in his army, and quickly passed them to the front and asked them to explain the situation of the Sui army's artillery.

It's still a pity that Qian Xiangmin, whose bones are softer than Feng Deyi, has never even seen what Chen Fuliang's magic weapon at the bottom of the box looks like, and he can't answer at all, He Er, who specializes in doing dirty things for Chen Fuliang, has been in close contact with artillery, but He Er's loyalty index is much higher than that of Qian Xiangmin, and the excuse is that he has not seen it perfunctory.

The air in the headquarters left by Li Mi to Hua and his brother was extremely solemn, and every Yuwen military general frowned, full of fear and worry about unknown weapons. Coincidentally, at this time, Yu Shinan, who was ordered to go to Daxing to meet Chen Fuliang, returned to Yu Wenhua and the army, and felt that he had a lifelong friendship with Chen Fuliang, and his brother did not hesitate, and immediately ordered to be summoned, and before Ren Bi and Qian Xiangmin and others left, he asked Yu Shinan: "How is it?" What did Brother Ying Liang say? Did he accept the title given to him by Prime Minister Ben? ”

Yu Shinan smiled bitterly, and while introducing that Chen Fuliang didn't even bother to listen to Yang Hao's holy decree, he said to Yu Wenhua: "Chen Liushou doesn't want to reply to the prime minister, so he only asks the lower officials to bring a message to the prime minister, please wash your neck and wait for death, he has already concluded an alliance with Wang Shichong and Li Mi, and is ready to join forces to crusade against you." ”

With a bang, the case in front of Hua and his brother flew into the sky, and while Hua and his brother scolded Chen Fuliang, Yuwen Zhiji noticed a detail and hurriedly asked, "Yu Sheren, what did you just say?" Chen Yingliang has already signed an alliance with Wang Shichong and Li Mi? ”

"Shoot left, that's exactly what happened." Yu Shinan nodded and replied: "Chen Liushou personally told him that he had temporarily abandoned his previous grievances with Wang Shichong and Li Mi, and concluded an alliance to prepare to crusade against our army and avenge the emperor." ”

"How is that possible?" Fan Wen was taken aback and said: "Chen Yingliang and Wang Shichong are relatives of Weng's son-in-law, it is still possible for them to form an alliance, Li Mi and him Chen Yingliang are mortal enemies, how can they form an alliance?" ”

"It's just a bluff." Sima Dejiao said contemptuously: "If Li Mi Xiao'er really concluded an alliance with Chen Yingliang, he should have made a move a long time ago, how could he still give us Jinyong City?" ”

While Hua and his brother and the others nodded comfortingly, Yu Wenshihe, who rarely spoke, suddenly spoke and reminded: "We can't help but guard against it, why did Li Mi give up Jinyong City to us, we all know the reason, when we and Wang Shichong are both defeated, or when Chen Yingliang personally leads the main force out of the Kanto East, he is still very likely to stab us in the back." ”

Yuwen Zhiji, Feng Deyi, Fan Wenchao and others nodded one after another, but Sima Deji still felt incredulous and said, "This is ridiculous, right? Chen Yingliang and Li Mi have already formed a blood feud five years ago, they have been constantly fighting for more than five years, and the generals and soldiers who killed each other have not 100,000 but 80,000, and they have long been inseparable from each other, how can they form an alliance? ”

For the sake of their own interests, excellent politicians can shake hands and cooperate with their father-killing enemies without blinking an eyelid, this is a reason that martial artists such as Brother and Sima Dejiao do not understand, but politicians such as Yu Wenshi and, Feng Deyi and Zheng Shanguo who are proficient in thick black science do, so Yu Wenshi and Feng Deyi and others hurriedly said: "General Sima, don't underestimate Li Mi and Chen Yingliang, they are both scheming, extremely good at forbearance, for the common good, they definitely have the possibility of joining hands to form an alliance, so we must not underestimate Li Mi, We must prevent him from suddenly attacking us. ”

When Sima Dejiao was a little shaken, he still couldn't believe it, and when he was calculating, he suddenly caught a glimpse of Qian Xiangmin and He Er standing under the hall, and asked: "Qian Xiangmin, He Weikang, you two came out of Chen Yingliang's command, you say, is it possible for Chen Yingliang and Li Mi to form an alliance?" ”

Even the correct name was given by Chen Fuliang, He Er was silent, but Qian Xiangmin was a little eager to say something, and Hua and his brother shouted again: "Say it quickly, otherwise I will take your life!" Chen Yingliang's thief has already rejected the canonization of this prime minister, you are useless, if you don't explain honestly, I don't bother to keep you to waste food! ”

He Er was still silent, but unfortunately everyone knew Qian Xiangmin's guts, and he was scared casually by Brother Hua and softened his bones, and hurriedly said: "The prime minister forgives the sin, in the opinion of the following officials, not only is this possibility, but this possibility is also very big." ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone in the hall was shocked, and the blind cat was even more shocked when he touched the dead mouse's brother Huaji, and hurriedly asked, "Why?" Explain why! ”

"Because Chen Liushou has always said that he and Li Mi traitors are both confidants and enemies, if it weren't for their different positions, they would definitely be a pair of confidants and friends." Qian Xiangmin told the truth with a sad face, and said: "Chen Yingliang and Li Mi have always had a lot of unwritten tacit rules, they will never kill the envoys sent by each other, even if they have killed each other's envoys like a mountain and a river of blood, they have always treated each other's envoys well, and they have also taken care of each other as much as possible in other aspects. For example, the last time Chen Yingliang led his troops to fight Wagangzhai, Li Mi asked him to help save a person, and Chen Yingliang tried his best to save it, and he was saved. ”

Saying that, Qian Xiangmin gave a general introduction to Shan Yingying's brother and others back then, and said at the end: "Prime Minister Yuwen, many old Wagang thieves know about this matter, if you don't believe it, you can go and ask the families of those Wagang thieves, they must have many people know." ”

Brother Hua and many generals of the Yuwen Army were dumbfounded, and after finally coming back to their senses, the first thing Hua and Brother did was to order Brother Yuwen to interrogate Li Mijun's family and investigate whether there was such a thing. As a result, Yu Wenshi replied: "Brother, the younger brother thinks that there is no need to investigate, it is impossible for the money collector to tell us a lie, and there is no need to tell us a lie, this matter cannot be faked." ”

While everyone nodded, Brother Hua gritted his teeth again, and suddenly shouted: "Don't fight the Eastern Capital!" Go and clean up Li Mi's husband first, dare to hook up with Chen Yingliang behind the back of Prime Minister Ben, I want his life! ”