On August 17 of the first year of Zhenlong, the imperial court crusaded against Luoyang's middle road army, that is, the ten towns of Guanzhong led by Yang Fugong plus the gold merchants of Guandong and the two towns of Shaanxi and Yu were completed in Tongguan and officially set out. This is still a combined force, including the 36 new Shence troops established by the Yang Fugong brothers, as well as soldiers and horses drawn from Jingnan, Dingnan, Baoda, Zhenwu, Jingyuan, Fengxiang, Zhenguo and other towns, a total of 300,000 horses, and the number of elite fighters has also reached 100,000. This bit of people, if it is placed in the heyday of the Tang Dynasty, the scale is not worth mentioning, at the time of the opening of the Yuan Dynasty, the major feudal towns, any feudal town, can pull out seventy or eighty thousand elite soldiers. But since the Yizong Dynasty, the Shence Army has been able to pull out thirty-six soldiers and horses at a time, which can be regarded as a grand expedition of the Central Forbidden Army. Especially after the Huangchao Rebellion, the original Shence Army system existed in name only.

Li Ye, the Son of Heaven, personally rushed from Chang'an to Tongguan Yang=, landed on the gate tower of Shangtongguan, and marched for the army. Yang Fugong, the commander of the middle route army, was even more ambitious, he asked Li Ye to retire from the eunuchs on the left and right, and then said to Li Ye in that habitual exaggerated tone: "The minister will go out today, first clear the external troubles for Your Majesty, and wait for the day of triumph, and then eradicate the internal worries for Your Majesty." ”

Yang Fugong's words are very interesting, Li Jing is an external trouble, who is an internal trouble? To put it simply, the Li family has been controlled by eunuchs for many years, and the biggest internal worry is the eunuch dictatorship. However, Yang Fugong will definitely not regard himself as an internal worry, the internal worry in his mouth is indeed a eunuch, but he specifically refers to Tian Lingzi in Chengdu. Although he spent a lot of money this time, he was forced by the offensive of the Qin Domain and took the initiative to unite Tian Lingzi, Zhu Wen and others. But in fact, for Tian Lingzi, who is also a eunuch. But he has always been unpleasant. Today, under the pressure of Li Jing, he temporarily made peace with Tian Lingzi, but in front of the emperor, he had already made his words clear, and waited for Li Jing to settle down. The first one is to take the old thief Tian to open the knife.

Li Ye didn't have much hope for the official army to go out this time, and even if he came to Tongguan, it was just Yang Fugong's request. Although he is young, he is not a playful monarch like his brother, but indeed a king who blindly wants to revive the Tang Dynasty, but unfortunately the Tang Dynasty is heavy and has no power to return to the sky. He saw it all. I've been thinking about the way back for a long time.

Since the Yizong Dynasty, the largest conquest battle of the imperial court has begun, and the scale of this dispatch is even higher than the strength of the original crusade against Huangchao. Even Tian Lingzi, who was far away in Xichuan, was able to temporarily give up his personal grievances with Yang Fugong and send troops to help.

However, although there were many soldiers and horses dispatched by the imperial court this time, although the scale was large, it was not until this time. They have not yet played the banner of crusading against Li Jing, and the reason they used to send troops is still Wang Chucun and Yang Shouliang who crusaded against the Luoyang rebellion. This kind of soldiers and horses have already been drawn. However, the fact that they did not dare to declare war has fully explained the hesitation of the command of this conquest.

Yang Fugong was hesitating and covering up, but Li Jing did not hesitate at all.

The five-way soldiers and horses of the imperial court were still clustered, and Li Jing had already taken the lead without any ambiguity. The first thing Li Jing dealt with was Zhaoyi Town. Among the scheduled four-way soldiers and horses, the Hebei direction was the first to move, divided the troops into several ways and attacked Xing Ci at the same time, and in just three days, they took the two states of Xingci and surrounded Xingzhou.

On the fifth day, Xi Zhongxin, the guard general guarding Tianjing Pass, an important pass in Zhaoyi, was rebelled and led his troops to surrender. The Tianjing Pass guards will surrender, making the most important Taihang Mountain barrier between Heyang and Zezhou a smooth road. Under the orders of Li Jingshuai, Li Cunxiao, Gao Siji, and Wang Yanzhang led 20,000 troops under the guidance of Xi Zhongxin and Guo Wei to cross the Taihang Mountain, pass through the Tianjing Pass, and raid Zezhou. Zezhou, which had just been returned by Heyang, fell into the hands of the Qin army again in the blink of an eye.

Zezhou, Luzhou is difficult to support alone.

The five states of Zhaoyi Town, three states were lost at once, leaving one Luzhou and one Xingzhou, separated by Taihang Mountain, one east and one west, but each was besieged by the Qin army.

Wang Chongrong, who was closest to Zhaoyi, received a letter for help, and felt that his lips were cold and his teeth were cold, and he was worried that Zhaoyi would be lost, and Hezhong would become a lone army, so he ordered people to continue to hold on to Hezhong, and sent people to Yang Fugong in Tongguan for help, and sent his brother Wang Chongying to lead troops to rescue Luzhou, in order to keep the flank safe.

Gao Siji and other soldiers entered the Luzhou fortress under the Huguan Pass, and they were not allowed to enter for a while. Zhaoyi General Xi Zhongxin invited himself to step forward: "A certain by Lieutenant Colonel Guo to the command of King Cheng Qin, did not make an inch of merit, today a certain is willing to lead a thousand brothers, take the trail to secretly bypass the Huguan, enter the heart of Luzhou, frustrate the momentum of the defenders, and raise the prestige of our army." ”

In the camp, the three Taibao were mainly Wang Yanzhang, the second Taibao, who heard that Xi Zhongxin knew the secret trail and was willing to lead the army there, nodded in his heart, turned his head to look at the other two brothers, Gao Siji and Li Cunxiao both nodded. The elite of the Qin army is not afraid of fighting a big battle, let alone a small-scale battle, and they have fought too much in this kind of battle where small troops sneak into the heart of the enemy. They all nodded at the moment, and then Guo Wei invited himself to fight with Xi Zhongxin.

"In this case, please ask General Xi and General Guo to select a thousand original Zhaoyi soldiers to fight, bypass Huguan, and attack Luzhou."

On that day, Xi Zhongxin and Guo Wei selected 1,000 elite veterans from Tianjingguan and Zezhou, and after dark, they bypassed Huguan by small road. The next day, Xi Zhongxin and Guo Wei suddenly led their troops outside Luzhou City.

They bluffed their banners and spread suspicions, causing panic among the city guards.

The defenders in the city saw that the Qin army was like a sea, the cavalry loomed in the forest, and the camp tents under the mountain were continuous, and they were all panicked, thinking that the pot was lost.

Huguan is an important pass in Zhaoyi, just like Tianjing Pass. And the more important thing about Huguan is that Huguan is the connecting channel between Luzhou and Xingzhou, and once Huguan is lost, then the passage through Huguan through Taihang into Yecheng, Hebei Province will be broken, Xingzhou has completely become an isolated city, and Luzhou has also become an isolated city. At this time, the Qin army dispatched from the direction of Taiyuan also continued to press, and in such a situation, the morale of the defenders in Luzhou City was low and the army was uneasy.

Xi Zhongxin sent his subordinates to sneak into the city to find out the news, he was originally a general of Zhaoyi, and he was also a general of Luzhou, and the general of Luzhou has always been a group of ruffians who are as domineering as Wei Boya's soldiers, and they are extremely xenophobic. At present, when he was in internal and external difficulties, Xi Zhongxin immediately felt the opportunity, and he said to Guo Wei: "The defenders of Luzhou are demoralized, and they all feel hopeless about the war. He spoke very respectfully to Guo Wei, and did not regard him as a subordinate at all, not to mention, Guo Wei was indeed no longer his subordinate now. This time, Guo Wei came out with him, obviously his deputy, but he knew that it was more of a prison army.

"How sure is the general?" Guo Wei asked.

"At least six points of certainty, if a certain person enters the city in person, then at least seven points of certainty, a certain plan to go in person, if it fails, then the soldiers and horses here will be handed over to Brother Guo."

There is a great risk in entering the city to persuade them to surrender, and it is difficult to ensure that those Luzhou tooth soldiers will not die and die and die together. However, looking at Xi Zhongxin's request, Guo Wei did not refuse, firstly, this is an opportunity for Xi Zhongxin to make meritorious contributions, and secondly, if he can really persuade the defenders of Luzhou to surrender, this is the most important thing.

That night, Xi Zhongxin first disguised himself as a messenger to the city to ask to enter the city, but was pulled into the city by the defenders who put down the basket.

After a night, just when Guo Wei was already anxious and thought that Xi Zhongxin had had an accident, he loudly reported outside that the gate of Luzhou had been opened, and a white flag had been raised in the city.

The defenders of Luzhou were all surprised when they saw that it was Xi Zhongxin who came to deliver the letter last night. After he explained his intentions, they discussed for a long time, and finally chose to surrender the city. However, after Wang Yanzhang and others surrendered and took over the city gate, the defenders of Luzhou found that Xi Zhongxin said yesterday that there were 50,000 Qin clan troops outside the city, and Huguan and Xingzhou had been breached, and the news of Meng Fang's war was just fooling people, and their faces were very exciting. But it's come to this point, and everyone hasn't made any extraneous branches. Luzhou has fallen into the Qin army, how can they have room to regret. Besides, if the Qin army has not defeated Xingzhou, it does not mean that it can really hold it.

As soon as the city of Luzhou fell, the defenders of the pass on the periphery of Luzhou also surrendered to the Qin army one after another, and the Qin army on the north road poured into Luzhou, and the meat of Luzhou was completely swallowed by the Qin army. At this time, the reinforcements led by Wang Chongying in Hezhong had just arrived at Wuling Mountain at the junction of Jinzhou and Luzhou in Hezhong. When he arrived at the border of Luzhou, there was already news that the Qin army's northern and southern route armies had joined Luzhou City, and Luzhou had gathered 30,000 Qin troops.

Wang Chongying had to stop advancing, temporarily stationed in Wuling Mountain, while sending people Pegasus to report back to Wang Chongrong, waiting for the next instructions.

When Wang Chongrong heard that Luzhou had been lost, he was terrified, and hurriedly asked Wang Chongying to be stationed on the front line of Wuling Mountain to defend against the Qin army. At the same time, he urgently sent messengers to Yang Fugong to urgently ask for help, asking them to cross the river quickly to help. After waiting for two days, Yang Fugong had just arrived in Shaanzhou, and the Qin army had already broken through Xingzhou.

The five states of Zhaoyi Town all fell into the hands of the Qin army.

After taking Zhaoyi, the Qin army did not stop the offensive, but instead intensified the offensive, attacking Jinzhou from Fen, Qin, Lu, and Ze at the same time.

Wang Chongying led his troops to meet the battle, and the two sides started a big battle on the Fenshui River in Jinzhou and Linfen.

After a fierce battle for a day and a night, Linfen was lost, Wang Chongying was defeated, and almost all the army was annihilated.

Taking advantage of the victory, the Qin army marched all the way to capture Jinju Quanju. Wang Chongrong gathered troops and horses to defend Jiangzhou, was defeated three times in one day, and was forced to retreat south. In the prefectures of Hezhong Town, only one Hezhong Mansion was lost at this time, and at this time, Yang Fugong's reinforcement vanguard finally crossed the Fengling Pass and arrived in the river.

Later, Yang Fugong led the 36 Dushence Army, as well as Zhenguo, Jingyuan, Jingnan, Dingnan and other large troops to finally reach the river. At one time, more than 200,000 officers and troops crossed the Yellow River, and the momentum was extremely great. The Qin army finally stopped its rapid offensive at this time, and after occupying Cizhou, Leizhou, Jinzhou, and Jiangzhou, the soldiers and horses stopped on the northern border of Hezhongfu, and the two armies marched down the camp thirty miles apart, looking at each other from a distance, but no one made the first move.

But everyone knows that a big war is imminent, and if you don't fight, it will be a shocking battle.