After Gaozu killed Dou Jiande, he immediately sent an edict to Dou Jiande's old department, asking them to surrender as soon as possible.

Fan Yuan, Dong Kangmai, Cao Zhan, Gao Yaxian, Wang Xiaohu and others of Dou Jiubu were angry that Dou Jiande was killed, and when they saw that after Wang Shichong surrendered, the generals could not be preserved, and they were very angry with Li Tang's style of acting, and they were willing to obey the edict.

The people who sent Li Yuan to issue the edict in the past were directly slaughtered by them, and then they erected an anti-flag in Hebei to openly oppose Li Tang.

They first went to Dou Jiande's old general Liu Ya and asked him to come out and lead the rest of Dou Jiande to continue to fight against Li Tang, Liu Ya was more afraid of things and refused to come out to fight again, Fan and others angrily reprimanded Liu Ya for being unjust, killed him, and soon found Liu Heimin.

Liu Heimin is brave and good at fighting, he is not a person who is willing to be mediocre, when he followed Dou Jiande, he can be called the first brave general under his account, plus he has a deep relationship with Dou Jiande, after listening to the intentions of Fan, Dong and others, he immediately agreed to go out of the mountain without saying a word.

Liu Heimin was already very prestigious in the Dou Department, and now he stood up and waved his arms, many of Dou Jiande's old departments immediately heard the news, and Liu Heimin took the first group of people to return, and broke through the county seat of Zhangnan with the power of wind and thunder.

The people on both sides of Hebei heard that Li Tang killed Dou Jiande, the king of Xia, and their hearts were sad and angry.

Taking advantage of this popular support, after Liu Heimin took the county seat of Zhangnan, he immediately launched an attack on Bei and Wei.

In late August, Liu Heimin set up an altar in Zhangnan, Beizhou, wept tears to commemorate Dou Jiande, proclaimed himself a general, and officially raised a large anti-flag in Zhangnan to declare war on Li Tang.

At the beginning of September, Liu Heimin captured Liting, the general Wang Xingmin of the Tunwei was killed, and Dou Jiande turned his old officials one after another, killed the officials of the Tang Dynasty, and responded to the uprising.

In mid-September, Cui Yuanxun, a native of Shenzhou, killed his assassin Shi Peixi and rebelled against Liu Heimin. At the end of September, Xu Yuanlang, the governor of Tang Yanzhou, also responded with troops.

At the beginning of October, Liu Heimin captured Yingzhou, captured Lu Shirui, and captured Guanzhou.

Liu Heimin's speed of action was too fast, and by the time Gaozu received the report at the end of August, half of the territory on both sides of Hebei had been snatched by him, and Gaozu and the courtiers were furious. Thinking of King Qin's fierce opposition in the main hall before, everyone only felt that this face was beaten and painful.

Especially Pei Lian, on several occasions, he found that Gao Zu's eyes were very unkind to staring at him, and he couldn't help beating the drum in his heart, for fear that Gao Zu would take him out and kill him in anger.

Fortunately, his worries didn't happen, Gao Zu didn't know what his heart was, and he didn't mean to correct him to come out as a scapegoat, Li Yuan didn't deal with Pei Lian, but at this time, let him send King Qin out to quell the rebellion, and he couldn't open his mouth.

For this reason, Gaozu sent out Li Shentong, the king of Huai'an, for the first time, and at the same time ordered Luo Yi, the governor of Youzhou, to assist Li Shentong, so that the two of them could join forces to quell the rebellion.

After coming to Dingzhou, Li Shentong did not go to Liu Heimin for the first time to fight, he first ordered Li Xuantong, the governor of Dingzhou, and Qin Wutong, the general under his command, to lead the troops to attack, and at the same time ordered Luo Yi, the governor of Youzhou, to let him attack from the rear, preparing to form a front and rear attack on Liu Heimin.

At the same time, in order to ensure the eventuality, Tang Gaozu Li Yuan also issued an edict to the commanders of Xing, Wei, Heng, Zhao and other prefectures, asking them to cooperate with Li Tongshen and Luo Yi to fight Liu Heimin in Chengyang.

Although Li Yuan's idea is good, but the executor Li Shentong's tactics are not in place, he relies on the strength of the crowd to pull the battle line out of more than ten miles, Liu Heimin at this time There are not many soldiers and horses under his command, and he can't afford to spend a long time with Li Shentong.

To this end, Liu Heimin gathered his troops and horses in one place, and launched a fierce attack on Li Shentong's Chinese army camp with his most elite troops, and the battle was unfolding when the wind and snow were blowing, and the wind was on Li Shentong's side.

In this way, Liu Heimin tended to be in the right place at the right time, and only used less than one-fifth of the Tang army's soldiers and horses to defeat Li Shentong in one fell swoop.

When he was about to take advantage of the victory to pursue and expand the results of the battle, he learned that the main force led by Li Shentong had been defeated, so he immediately stopped the pursuit and retreated to Baogao County.

After Liu Heimin defeated Li Shentong, he immediately turned his head to deal with him, although Luo Yi was also good at fighting, but as soon as he and Liu Heimin got started, the gap was immediately revealed, he was quickly defeated and fled, so far, led by Li Shentong and Luo Yi, the battle to suppress Liu Heimin was completely defeated.

After Liu Heimin defeated Li Shentong and Luo Yi, the next troops were like a bamboo, capturing Dingzhou in mid-November, and killing Li Xuantong, the governor of Dingzhou, on November 27, Zhou Wenju, a native of Qizhou, killed his assassin Wang Xiaoju and surrendered to Liu Heimin.

On the third day of December, Liu Heimin captured Jizhou, killed the governor of Jizhou, on December 12, Liu Heimin defeated Li Shiji, the general of Zuo Wuhou in Songzhou, and captured Xue Wanjun and Xue Wanche brothers, and the army was prosperous.

It was only at this time that Gaozu Li Yuan's heart was truly repentant, and Pei Lin was even more frightened, for fear that Gaozu would pull him out and slaughter him in anger to eliminate the anger in King Qin's heart, and the crown prince Li Jiancheng also became extremely silent.

The eyes of the ministers subconsciously fell on King Qin, with King Qin's ability, if he came out, he must be able to calm Liu Heimin, right? But everyone quickly remembered the scene a few months ago, when King Qin was fighting with Pei Lin in the court.

At that time, it seemed that most of the people echoed Pei Lian, and now let everyone recommend King Qin to go on the expedition, it seems that he can't open his mouth, and as soon as he thinks about it, everyone looks at Pei Lin more and more unkindly.

If it weren't for the fact that this guy who knew the most about Gaozu's mind blindly fanned the flames, how could the big guy be blinded by him and blindly support him? How could things get into such an uncontrollable situation.

Pei Lin became more and more frightened, but Gaozu's favor to Pei Lin was indeed extraordinary, and at this moment, he still didn't have the slightest intention of pushing Pei Lin out, but just moved his gaze to his second son Li Shimin without saying a word.

Li Shimin didn't seem to notice his father's gaze, since Liu Heimin's anti-flag erection in Hebei was reported back to Chang'an, he never said a word about this matter from beginning to end, and Gaozu was quite ashamed to see that his second son was so faceless.