As long as he holds the Wugao Pass, Dou Jiande will not be able to attack at all, if he dares to attack, it is exactly what he wants, and this is a good time to kill two grams with one stone.

For this reason, Li Shimin not only did not mean to avoid the edge for the time being, but issued a strict order that anyone in the army who dared to withdraw troops and shake the morale of the army would be dealt with in accordance with military law, and at the same time wrote to the imperial court and informed Gaozu of the pros and cons of his analysis.

After Gaozu got the report, adhering to the trust in the military talent of his second son, he groaned slightly, and finally dispelled the idea of asking King Qin to withdraw his troops, and fully supported the Luoyang War.

After receiving the news that Dou Jiande's army was approaching Wujiao Pass, he ordered Li Yuanji and Lu Junge to guard Luoyang, and he went straight to Wujiao Pass with thousands of elite soldiers.

Wang Shichong in Luoyang City watched Li Shimin lead the troops away, knowing that the reinforcements had arrived, but he couldn't go out of the city to greet him, he was angry and angry, and of course, there was still an inexplicable expectation.

expects Dou Jiande to be as powerful as the rumors, it is best to kill Li Shimin in one fell swoop, as long as Li Shimin is dead, Li Tang will no longer be able to pose a threat to him.

Li Shimin naturally didn't have time to care about Wang Shichong's thoughts, and the day after he arrived at the Tiger Prison Pass, he took a thousand cavalry to investigate the military situation of Dou Jiande's camp, and the two army camps were only more than 20 miles apart.

Li Shimin scattered the 1,000 people, ambushed them in batches along the road, and the ambush soldiers were in charge of Li Shiji, Qin Shubao and Cheng Zhijie, and he took Captain Chi Jingde and other horsemen to go straight to Dou Jiande's camp.

There were still three or four miles away from Dou Jiande's camp, and they ran into the other party's patrol post, and the other party thought that the person who came was the scout of the Tang army, and was about to start, Li Shimin's voice had already sounded one step ahead: "The king of Qin is visiting." ”

As the words fell, an arrow shot the sentry leader, and the other patrolmen reacted very quickly, and immediately blew the sentry flag, which immediately alarmed Dou Jiande's camp, and the other party sent thousands of cavalry to chase and kill.

Several of the horsemen who came out with Li Shimin were shocked, Li Shimin ordered the other senders to go first, and he and Wei Chi Jingde acted as targets to attract enemy soldiers, and fled while fighting, and when the enemy chased closer, they struggled to escape.

When the enemy is far away and ready to give up, they will take the initiative to provoke, which will provoke the other general's anger and chase after them regardless of it.

Unconsciously, these people were introduced into the pre-set ambush circle by Li Shimin, Li Shiji and Cheng Zijie and others led the troops to kill, and the enemy army was defeated, nearly 5,000 men and horses suffered more than half of the casualties, and the rest of the men and horses fled in a hurry like lost dogs.

Seeing this, Li Shimin sighed and sighed regretfully, and only said that it was not easy to set up an ambush on the road, and hiding 1,000 soldiers and horses was the limit, otherwise the enemy's 5,000 soldiers and horses would have been eaten up today.

"Lord Wang, your move today is too risky...... Li Shiji and Cheng Zijie looked at Li Shimin with some disapproval, as the commander of the Eastern Expedition, he often takes the lead and runs to the front line, if there is a good ......

"Haha, is there a war, where is there no danger, in terms of military strength, I, Li Tang, am not much stronger than Wang Shichong and Dou Jiande, and now they are both in one place and dealing with me together, if I act forward, this battle will not be able to be fought." Li Shimin smiled disappreciatively.

He is bold, adventurous, and often takes risks in wars, taking the lead and rushing to the front line, which is not only related to his temperament, but also related to the current environment.

Not long after the founding of the People's Republic of China, Li Tang's comprehensive strength was not much stronger than that of the surrounding powerful anti-kings, and only by truthfully understanding the facts of each battlefield could he, the prince who led the troops, make the quickest and wisest response.

Don't talk about Li Shimin's thoughts, but talk about Dou Jiande, he boasts that he is good at fighting, and since he erected the anti-flag, he has rarely tasted defeat, and he has not taken Li Shimin, a young boy in his early twenties, in his eyes.

As a result, as soon as the two sides fought, the other party gave him a hard slap in the face, and he couldn't help but be shocked and angry for a while, and Dou Jiande, who was angry, immediately ordered the army to launch a full-scale attack on Wujiao Pass.

But the Wugao Pass was guarded by natural danger, and the general guarding the pass was an immortal general like Li Shimin, and the two sides clashed several times, Dou Jiande not only did not get any bargains, but caused a lot of casualties.

In addition, when he was attacking Wujiao Pass with all his might, the King of Qin sent Wang Junkuo to lead more than 1,000 lightly armed cavalry to Dou Jiande's back to attack his grain transportation team, capture the general Zhang Qingte, and intercept his military rations, which made him even more frustrated.

Dou Jiande suffered many defeats, and the people of the troops were panicked, from the generals to the soldiers.

At the time of the dilemma, Ling Jing, a strategist under Dou Jiande, admonished: "My lord, why don't we attack Huaizhou and Heyang, and make a big fanfare to attack Fenzhou and Jinzhou, forcing Li Shimin to retreat?" ”

Dou Jiande heard the reason and was about to act according to the plan, but when Wang Shichong sent a messenger over, the messenger was a person who surprised him very much, this person turned out to be the eldest grandson of Princess Changsun Anye.

The eldest grandson Anye is not a person who does not learn and has no skills, after the end of the Sui Dynasty and Wang Shichong ruled Luoyang, he somehow got Wang Shichong's blue eyes, and he was a general by his side, not only that, but also learned a good skill of bribing people with a clever tongue.

After he came to Dou Jiande's military camp, he bribed the generals around Dou Jiande with a large amount of gold and silver, and described various benefits of Luoyang with them, hoping that they would persuade Dou Jiande not to leave.

These generals under Dou Jiande's command were suffocated in the martial prison, and they already had the intention of retreating, but now they were encouraged by him and suddenly moved.

After all, Luoyang is the eastern capital, the owner here is prosperous, it is the former capital, the terrain is easy to defend and difficult to attack, as long as it occupies here, the Great Xia Kingdom will have a real place to rely on in the future.

Out of such thoughts, everyone said bad things about Ling Jing in Dou Jiande's ear, thinking that he was a scholar, he could only talk on paper, and he would not fight at all, and his strategy did not conform to the actual interests of the Xia army, so Dou Jiande should not listen to his instigation.

Dou Jiande wavered for a while, but finally listened to the advice of the generals under his command, did not listen to Ling Jing, and chose to continue to stay in the martial prison and stalemate with Li Shimin.

After Li Shimin learned the news, he was angry and funny, he never thought that his wife's half-brother, the eldest grandson Anye, would become a person next to Wang Shichong, and he had learned such a skill.

But fortunately, thanks to his provocation, if he hadn't stabilized these generals under Dou Jiande, he really let them cross the Yellow River and go north to attack Jinzhou Taiyuan, he would have been really passive.

A few days later, Li Shimin received a report that Dou Jiande wanted to attack the military prison when he wanted to approach the Tang army to herd horses.

As a result, as soon as he came in, he found that there were Tang troops on all sides, Dou Jiandeton knew the plan, but at this time there was no way to retreat, so he could only fight hard, Tang and Xia troops fought from morning to noon, Xia army was hungry and retreated, and Tang army was waiting for work at ease, and the merits were judged.