At the end of a battle, the Western Wei army under the command of Li Bi of the Pillar State was in front of the Tongguan Pass, and finally repelled the enemy after a fierce battle, and achieved a long-lost victory, but the entire Tongguan was still filled with a gloomy and gloomy atmosphere.

Even those soldiers who had just returned to the city victoriously had little joy on their faces, but their expressions were solemn, either sad or indignant, which made the atmosphere in the city extremely depressing.

This situation is also normal, since the defeat of the Bishan army, the situation in the Western Wei has taken a sharp turn, defeat after defeat, from Bishan to Yiyang, and then Hongnong, and now has been defeated to Tongguan.

In addition to the rout of the front, something that hit morale even more was the large number of casualties. In the previous battle of Hongnong, nearly 30,000 soldiers had been gathered in Hongnong City, but only a few thousand people were able to leave the battlefield and escape into Tongguan.

Even if it weren't for Yang Yan, who was sitting in Jianzhou, who led his troops south in time to respond, and ambushed and repelled the enemy general Hu Luguang who was still chasing and killing on the way, it might be difficult for these thousands of defeated soldiers to escape back to Tongguan.

Thinking about the beginning of the previous Eastern Crusade, more than 100,000 troops can be described as strong and morale, but now it is only a little more than a month before the defeat returns, hundreds of thousands of troops are gone, and the total number of defeated troops in Tongguan is only more than 20,000, and even their overlord Yuwentai has died in the journey.

Although the battle of Bishan in the old year was also defeated and lost, at least the main generals were still relatively smoothly evacuated from the front line, and Wang Sizheng, who was ordered to be in danger, also successfully blocked the pursuing troops east of Hongnong.

Aside from the loss of these lost divisions and lands, the most fatal thing for the Western Wei army was the death of Yuwentai, the leader of the overlord, which made the remaining forces fall into a kind of leaderless chaos.

Because Li Bi returned to Tongguan one step earlier, and the establishment of his troops was the most intact, there were basically no major personnel losses from the expedition to the withdrawal, and he also incorporated a part of the defeated soldiers of Da Xiwu and Wang Xiong in the southern city of Heyang.

When the enemy continued to attack Tongguan, Li Bi led his troops to take the initiative to meet the battle in front of the pass, thwarting the enemy's attack this time, which was a little face-saving. However, when he returned to Guancheng, he did not have a crowd to welcome and congratulate Xinsheng, but wanted to immediately resolve internal disputes and contradictions.

"Hurry up and see you! The dog thief boasts of his bravery every day, but when he fights fiercely with the enemy, he flees first, abandoning my division and brigade to the thief, causing my son to suffer heavy casualties!"

In front of the Guancheng City Lord's Mansion, Li Yuan was dressed in a blood-stained robe, standing in front of the mansion with a saber in his hand, constantly shouting and scolding at the gate of the mansion where the guards were stationed on the opposite side, and all the guards around him were all injured and looked miserable.

On the long street in front of the mansion, there were also many governors standing here watching, and they kept talking to each other, whispering, and gradually sketched the outline of a matter, and understood why Li Yuan was so angry to block the door of the mansion to accuse Wei Chigang.

It turned out that the two stayed behind in Hongnong, Li Yuan was responsible for defending the city and the defense of the east, and Wei Chigang was responsible for the defense of the west and supervising the battle in the rear. As a result, Li Yuanzheng led his troops to fight with the enemy, but Wei Chigang directly led his troops to flee to Tongguan, which immediately caused the Hongnong Front to collapse, and even Li Yuan was directly besieged by the thief army.

Li Yuan was in a very indignant mood at the moment, of course Wei Chigang didn't dare to come out, but it was also bad to be blocked by his people and shouting and insulting. In particular, everyone knows that Li Yuan is Otsuka's confidant general, and now that Otsuka Zaifang has suffered misfortune, his henchmen and relatives will turn against him, which will undoubtedly make people's hearts even more disheartened.

Yuwen Hu also stubbornly went out of the house to persuade him, but he didn't have much face in front of Li Yuan, who was angry, and Li Yuan still stubbornly insisted that Wei Chi Gang come out to see him quickly.

After Li Bi returned to the city, he knew about it, and he hurriedly entered here before he had time to disarm, first appeased Li Yuan, and then entered the mansion to personally lure Wei Chi Gang out, and asked Wei Chi Gang to bow to Li Yuan and ask for forgiveness, which can be regarded as eliminating this dispute.

Next, under the call of Li Bi, the generals gathered in the Fuzhong Hall to discuss what to do next.

"At the moment, the thief army is defeated

retreated, but still entrenched in Hongnong City, it may continue to attack at any time, and the current situation is already extremely critical. Only by working together will you be able to get through this difficult time. If you still have other plans and can't work together to meet the enemy, the country will be ruined and you will be a thief and a slave, and it is not a danger!"

Feeling the current situation of people's discouragement, Li Bi took the lead in speaking with a straight face.

After hearing this, all the generals nodded yes one after another, including Li Yuan, who couldn't help but attack Wei Chigang before, and they all said that they would not disturb things with personal anger. They also knew in their hearts that if they continued to complain and fight with each other like this, the situation would only become more critical.

After saying this, Li Bi sat back at the table and didn't say anything more. Although he was already the most prestigious person among the people present, and he had just repelled the enemy's attack, he was only a partial division commander in this campaign, and he didn't even know much about why the main army had been defeated all the way to this point, so it was useless to take responsibility.

Yuwen Hu had been bowing his head and pondering, but seeing that Li Bi was no longer speaking and everyone was turning their eyes to him, he could only stubbornly open his mouth and say, "The Lord is on the journey, and the injury is devastating. At present, Tongguan is also being spread by the war, and it is really not suitable to put the coffin on the front line for a long time.

Da Situ is the elder of the country, proficient in military affairs, deeply pushed by both inside and outside, and before facing the thief army and defeated, he is the best candidate to be ordered in danger, and should be in charge of Tongguan military affairs to resist the thief army. I ask you to first support the coffin and return to the country and bury the lord, and then tell the court to do the best in Guanxi Ding Zhuang as a soldier to help the Tongguan war......

The successive defeats of the army also greatly reduced the authority of Yuwen Hu, the person who was temporarily in charge of military affairs, and now there are not many people left, and they may not obey his orders. Now, on the occasion of Li Bi's new victory, he handed over this burden and mess to Li Bi, and he left the front line in the name of helping the coffin return to China, although he returned to Tongzhou to clean up the internal situation. This is undoubtedly the best choice for Yuwen Hu at the moment.

However, although Yuwen Hu is shrewd, the others are not stupid, especially Li Bi, who was named by him to be a dumper, and immediately frowned when he heard this.

"Although Tongguan is on the front line, it is still as solid as a rock. If Tongguan is dangerous, Guanzhong is also dangerous! There is no difference between Otsuka Zai's spirit in Tongguan or in Chang'an. Moreover, the failure of this expedition also caused many Kansai Erlang to donate his life to state affairs, and all of them became ghosts, and one spirit returned alone, and his father asked, how could the Duke of Zhongshan answer?"

Li Bi didn't say anything, but his brother Li Yan looked at Yuwen Hu unceremoniously and said.

After Yuwen Hu heard this, he was speechless for a while, and at this moment Li Bi spoke again: "A certain horse has been half a life, why is he afraid of fighting? Otsuka treats me as a national soldier, and I will not hesitate to die in the country to repay him! If Tongguan is complete, Guanxi is safe, the former division and brigade have been defeated repeatedly, and it can be seen that it is better to flee than to fight. The Duke of Zhongshan is the will of Otsuka Zai, and it is natural for him to be in charge of the military.

As he spoke, Li Bi stood up and said to Yuwen Huzuo. And the rest of the people were already dissatisfied with Yuwen Hu in their hearts, but when they saw Li Bi making this statement, they all got up and still served Yuwen Hu as the leader of the city.

After Yuwen Hu saw this, he could only accept the recommendation of the masses, and did not dare to say anything to withdraw first, as for Dugu Xin and Zhao Gui and others who had escaped from the battle before, he could only appoint his henchmen to report to the Zhongwai Mansion in Tongzhou, hoping that the people left behind by the Sino and Foreign Mansions would be alert. At least if he can't stop the thief army here, it will be difficult to leave the front line of Tongguan in a short time.

Although Li Bi tried his best to appoint Yuwen Hu to take charge of military affairs, in view of Yuwen Hu's previous performance, he did not dare to really entrust all military affairs, and he still patrolled and arranged various defenses of Guancheng with Da Xiwu and others, and did not dare to be careless.

Probably because the fortune fell to the bottom and began to be extremely Tailai, when Tongguan was still seriously arranging defenses, the scouts in front of the pass reported that the enemy troops stationed in Hongnong seemed to be withdrawing. After further inquiring, they learned the good news, that is, Li Boshan, the king of Taiyuan, had led a large army into Heluo to fight, forcing the enemy to withdraw and return to defense.

When the news came back to Tongguan, the officers and soldiers in Guancheng couldn't help but breathe a long sigh of relief, and even the sergeants cried with joy directly: "The king of Taiyuan is here, everyone is saved!"

Rao is Yuwen has a lot of success for Li Tai in his heart

See, but after learning that he really led the army to Heluo, he couldn't help but sigh with a complicated mood for a while: "Li Boshan is really a righteous person, and he really lived up to Uncle A's deathbed trust!" It's a pity, it's a pity, if Yiyang hadn't been evacuated at that time, the situation might not have been able to turn defeat into victory at this time!"

The arrival of the Taiyuan Wangshi Brigade injected a shot of strength into the entire Tongguan garrison, and the next move of the enemy army on the Hongnong side to destroy the city also proved that Li Boshan's army had just arrived in Heluo and had to retreat in a hurry.

With the withdrawal of the enemy, the crisis in Tongguan has been lifted, and the generals such as Han Xiong and other generals in western Henan who retreated to Tongguan with the army expressed their hope that they could lead their men and horses back to the southern area of western Henan to cooperate with the king of Taiyuan to fight against the enemy.

Yuwen Hu did not stop this, although he was still not worried about Li Boshan's forces entering Guanzhong, but it was obvious that the most critical issue at the moment was to defeat the enemy first, and he also hoped to use this to convey a friendly signal to Li Boshan, so as to fight for a greater space for negotiation in the future.

However, just when Yuwen Hu was still fantasizing that everything was going to be stable and good, what happened in the Zhongfu of Tongzhou in the rear gave him a heavy blow to the head!