When he arrived in Jinzhou, before Pei Lian could catch his breath, Song Jingang arrived at the city. At the same time, Liu Wuzhou conquered the state from another way and forced Jinyang. Guarding Jinyang is none other than Li Yuanji, the fourth child.

This Li Yuanji is too far behind his second brother Li Shimin, and it is simply a world of difference. When Li Shimin fought, he always took the lead, riding his horse and raising his sword to rush to the front, often covered in blood, entering and leaving the enemy formation several times, and he was extremely brave. And Li Yuanji is a coward, in addition to drinking and hunting all day long, he rapes people's girls. And this kid has no humanity, and the nurse who raised him was also killed by him because she admonished him.

Li Si'er heard that Liu Wuzhou had attacked Jinyang, and summoned Sima Liu Dewei to discuss countermeasures, but Liu Dewei couldn't come up with a good idea, so he suggested that Li Si'er hold Jinyang. This Li Si'er rolled his eyes and said to Liu Dewei: "I think so too." In this way, you take the old, weak, sick and disabled to defend the city, and I will take the elite soldiers out to fight with them! ”

Li Si'er's words were extremely open, but what he did was extremely dirty. That night, he took his family and his family, escorted by elite soldiers, sneaked out of the city, quickly whipped up, and fled back to Chang'an.

Jinyang City did not make any resistance, and was taken by Liu Wuzhou.

Pei Lian's old guy was no slower than Li Si'er, and after a little resistance in Jinju, he ran away. Pei Lin retreated day after day, and soon Huzhou and Jiangzhou were lost one after another. Li Yuan's hard-working foundation Taiyuan for more than ten years, tens of thousands of elite soldiers, was destroyed in an instant.

Li Yuanji and Pei Lian, one is Li Yuan's son, and the other is his best friend, these two people were defeated and ran away, what else can Li Yuan say? It's all to blame for the non-people they trust. In desperation, Li Yuan could only decide to abandon Taiyuan, and instructed the generals in Guanzhong to block Liu Wuzhou, who was heading south, and prevent him from taking another step towards Chang'an.

Li Yuan's decision made Li Shimin, the first fierce man in the Tang Dynasty, very unhappy, and his father was too ambitious for others and destroyed his own prestige. He hurriedly found Li Yuan and said to him: "Give me 30,000 little brothers, and see how I cut Liu Wuzhou, a little deflated three!" ”

Li Yuan was still very confident in Li Shimin's ability, and when he saw that he took the initiative to ask Ying, he went to wipe Xiaosi's buttocks, hurriedly prepared all the people for him, and personally went to Changchun Palace to see Li Shimin off.

Li Shimin led his troops to cross the Yellow River from Longmen, garrisoned Baibi, and confronted Song Jingang, but the wall did not fight. As soon as they heard that Li Shimin was coming with troops, they all sent grain to the Tang army, and the food problem was solved, and Li Shimin could have fought a protracted war with Song Jingang, and he would also consume this little red guy to death.

Li Shimin's tactical characteristics are very intriguing. Attack, then quick victory. On the defensive, wait and see what happens, try to drag it out until the enemy is exhausted, and then crush the opponent in one go. In the confrontation with Song Jingang, Li Shimin gave full play to the essence of guerrilla tactics, adopted the fatigue tactic of the enemy advancing and retreating, and the enemy stationed in our position, and sent small combat units to frequently harass Song Jingang's military camp.

This tactic is very annoying, Song Jingang wants to fight a decisive battle with the Tang army, and as soon as he goes out, the Tang army runs away without a shadow. When he returned to the barracks and just wanted to eat and sleep, Tang Jun came out again and scolded Song Jingang's grandmother. When I went out again, there were no people again. If Song Jingang ignores Tang Jun, maybe Tang Jun will also set off rockets to burn him with some property. Song Jingang couldn't bear to be disturbed, provoked him, and led the crowd to attack Li Shimin's camp, but was stunned by Li Shimin's random arrows. Tang Jun was like a piece of skin plaster, sticking to Song Jingang's body, and he couldn't beat it, and he was still beaten with a stick, which made Song Jingang quite collapsed.

At this time, Li Shimin received a very unfavorable news for the Tang army, his uncle Li Xiaoji, the king of Yong'an, was captured by Chi Jingde, a general sent by Song Jingang, and the whole army was annihilated. Li Shimin was shocked, and hurriedly sent Qin Qiong and Yin Kaishan to attack Wei Chi Jingde.

At this time, Qin Qiong and Cheng Zhijie had already surrendered to Li Shimin. Qin Shubao and Cheng Zhijie were originally Li Mi's subordinates, and were later incorporated by Wang Shichong and both made generals. But the two hated Wang Shichong's trickery, Cheng Zhijie once said to Qin Shubao: "Wang Shichong is narrow-minded, and full of nonsense, always swearing, where is like a king, but like an old witch!" During a confrontation between the two armies, these two surrendered to the Tang army in front of the army and were assigned to Li Shimin's army, Li Shimin conscripted Liu Wuzhou, and Qin Qiong went out with the army.

Qin Qiong and Yin Kaishan chased after each other overnight, and when they arrived at the Meiliang River, they were halfway through the river when they were rushing to cross the river. In the soldiers, crossing the river more than halfway is the best opportunity to launch a surprise attack. The second general was not polite and went straight to work. Wei Chi Jingde's army, half in the water and half on the shore, was suddenly attacked and was in a hurry, unable to respond. Although Wei Chi Jingde is extremely brave, Qin Qiong and Qin Shubao are not dry meals. Yin Kaishan and Qin Qiong led the Tang army to slash east and west, stabbing in front and poking back, and killed Wei Chi Jingde and his gang to cry for their father and mother, and the wolf ran to the chest. Fortunately, Wei Chi Jingde ran fast enough, otherwise the current door god would only be able to hang Qin Qiong alone.

After a great victory, some people in the Tang Army were carried away by the victory, and they had to go out and fight to the death with Song Jingang. At this time, Li Shimin was still relatively calm, and analyzed the situation for his subordinates, "Song Xiaoqisan can't be taken lightly, he wants to fight quickly, we can't let him lead the nose, just spend it with Ya'er." When he has nothing to eat, he will naturally have to get out, and then we will rush up and kill him. ”

Li Shimin and Song Jingang were in Baibi, and it took several months to consume them. During this period, Liu Wuzhou successively attacked Luzhou and Haozhou, but was defeated by the Tang army, and the morale of the army changed from the beginning of the bullish coaxing to despondent. Song Jingang's army also lost its previous spirit, and because of the lack of food, it had to withdraw and return north.

Li Shimin waited for nearly half a year, just to wait for such a good time to beat the water dogs. As soon as Song Jingang retreated, Li Shimin immediately raised troops to chase after him, and the army wanted to stop for a meal along the way, but Li Shimin resolutely refused to allow it, and time was the guarantee of victory at this moment. The Tang army endured hunger and chased it all the way to a place called Bird Mouse Valley, and finally caught up with Song Jingang's main force. The Tang army rushed to Song Jingang's army like a hungry tiger pounced, and fought eight times a day, and Song Jingang was defeated in all eight battles and was completely defeated.

Song Jingang was beaten to the point of being frightened, anxious like a lost dog, panicked like a fish that had slipped through the net, and ran all the way back to Jiexiu City. At this time, Li Shimin had not disarmed for three days, had not eaten for two days, and there was only one sheep in the entire army.

Song Jingang was beaten to the ground, feeling very faceless, seeing that Li Shimin chased after him again, he was eager to save his reputation and led the soldiers to open the door to meet the battle. Song Jingang is a person who is not good at summarizing and learning, what means Li Shimin used to defeat himself, he can completely copy and copy, keep Jiexiu, and consume Li Shimin in turn. But he was carried away by anger and fought hard with Li Shimin. Song Jingang didn't think that he had just been defeated, and his morale was low, while Li Shi's militia was sharp, and the two armies were fighting, and the high and low were self-evident.

In the battle of Jiexiu City, Li Shimin still used the old method, divided his troops into two ways, and attacked Song Jingang's army before and after, this tactic was tried and tested repeatedly, it was very useful, and Song Jingang was defeated again. Song Jingang fled again, and Li Shimin pursued dozens of miles and killed more than 3,000 people before giving up.

Song Jingang ran away, but Wei Chi Jingde, who was defending the city for him, did not. Li Shimin is a person who loves talents, and Wei Chi Jingde's bravery makes him like it very much. When he returned to Jiexiu, he sent a message to Wei Chi Jingde, "Follow me to ensure your glory and wealth." ”

In this war, Wei Chi Jingde realized that Li Shimin was a yin master, although Song Jingang was also good to him, but now he didn't know where to go. So he chose to submit to Li Shimin and became a fierce general under Li Shimin's command, and in the later Xuanwumen Change, it was Wei Chi Jingde who made a death force and won the victory of the Xuanwumen Rebellion for Li Shimin.

After taking back Jiexiu, Li Shimin galloped non-stop and annexed the state, not wanting Liu Wuzhou to hear that Song Jingang had suffered a defeat, and had a premonition that Li Shimin would come to besiege him, and he had already fled to the Turks.

Song Jingang cleaned up the remnants and wanted to turn back and fight with Li Shimin again, but as soon as those subordinates heard Li Shimin's name, they were intimidated, and they didn't dare to go back again, so they dispersed on the spot. Song Jingang saw that everyone was no longer willing to work for themselves, so he could only run to the Turks like Liu Wuzhou and hide.

Both Liu Wuzhou and Song Jingang were eventually killed by the Turks.

Li Er went out and was all defeated. This sentence is definitely not blowing, the Taiyuan that Li Yuanji lost, under Li Shimin's hard fighting, was all returned to the territory of the Tang Dynasty. But at the same time, in the eastern part of the empire, Wang Shichong, who was entrenched in Luoyang, and Dou Jiande of Hebei, respectively, divided one side and formed a three-legged force with the Li Tang regime.

After defeating Liu Wuzhou, Li Tang's rear has no trouble, and there is no force that can set off a storm. Li Yuan could finally devote all his energy to dealing with the two hostile forces in the Central Plains. So who will be the leader of the expedition? The generals of the Tang Dynasty flashed in Li Yuan's mind one by one, and finally fixed on the second prince Li Shimin. This burden has to be shouldered by Li Shimin.

Li Shimin's life is at its peak at this moment. In the century war with Dou Jiande and Wang Shichong, he was not afraid of strong enemies, became a god in a war, and ushered in the most glorious moment of his life. This battle not only greatly promoted the historical process of the Li Tang Dynasty's unification of the world, but also laid a subtle and far-reaching foreshadowing for the bloody case in the ninth year of Wude.