After Yang Guang was killed, Empress Xiao took her surviving young grandson Yang Zhengdao to the north.

Dou Jiande had great respect for Empress Xiao and welcomed her to his own territory.

Later, Yu Wenhua approached, Dou Jiande beheaded him, and his head was transmitted to the Turkic Shibi Khan.

Soon after Shibi died, his younger brother Luo Khan succeeded to the throne and sent an envoy to welcome Empress Xiao and Yang Zhengdao, but Dou Jiande did not dare to disobey.

Chuluo Khan established Yang Zhengdao as the king of Sui, and the people of the Great Sui who were in exile in Turkism all worshiped him.

Yang Zhengdao became a puppet regime of the Turks, contending with the Central Plains, and finally had to rely on Li Jing to wipe it down.

That's a later story, and that's at the time.

Dou Jiande defeated Yu Wenhua and, obtained the Yang Sui royal treasures brought by Yuwen from Jiangdu, and the old Sui ministers who went north with Yuwen to assist, and his strength was no longer something that Li Shentong could contend with.

On the other hand, Liang Shidu and Liu Wuzhou united with the Turks and attacked Li Tang from three directions.

But Shibi Khan died suddenly, and the Turks hurriedly withdrew their troops.

Chu Luo Khan, who inherited the throne, was originally going to continue the offensive, but Li Yuan once again humbly and generously made Chu Luo change his mind.

However, Liang Shidu and Liu Wuzhou have already sent troops.

The Liang division marched from Lingwudao, and Li Yuan sent Duan Decao, the governor of Yanzhou, to supervise the troops and stop him.

Liu Wuzhou marched from Mayi Road and went south to annex the state.

At this time, he had Song Jingang led the general Chi Jingde to seek the Xiang Xiang to attach, and quickly captured Yuci and Pingyao, and pointed directly at Taiyuan.

Li Tang's Taiyuan coach is Li Yuanji, which is not enough to fight against Liu Wuzhou.

Li Yuan hurriedly sent reinforcements, but was attacked by surprise and the whole army was annihilated.

At this time, Pei Lin invited himself to go out, and Li Yuan was overjoyed, and took him as the head of the march of Jinzhou Road, and went out to ask Liu Wuzhou...

However, Pharmacist Li's large narrative did not answer Chuchen's question.

Yiren blinked his eyes and asked again, "Pei Lian?" What is his ability to command the army? Why is it that after receiving the holy edict, he is still in Beijing? What's going on? ”

Pharmacist Li saw that in the clear and transparent eyes of his beloved wife, the stars were reflected in the sky, shining in the moonlight.

And he himself could not answer the question of the Yiren.

At this time, he could only shake his head helplessly and continue to describe the situation.

During this period, Li Tang not only fell into great difficulties in Hedong, but also Shandong and Henan were also full of smoke, and they also suffered successive defeats.

Chen Zheng, the deputy envoy of Shandong Province, was killed by his subordinates, causing Li Shentong and Li Shiji to be isolated and isolated.

Before that, Wang Shichong was actually quite weak.

Although he was lucky to defeat Li Mi and captured Pei Renji and many other Wagang generals, after the Luoyang Mutiny, there was a serious internal rupture.

He knew that he could not sit still, so he sent troops to attack Guzhou.

At this time, Li Shimin had already left the town of Changchun Palace, and in March of the second year of Wude, Wang Shichong's generals on the front line of Guzhou, including Qin Shubao and Cheng Zhijie, collectively surrendered to Tang.

At this time, if Li Shimin attacked, Wang Shiyan was powerless to resist.

But that didn't happen.

Why?

The stars in the eyes of Izumi had turned into ten thousand doubts, but she didn't ask again.

She knew very well that if her husband could say it, he would have said it a long time ago.

In April of the second year of Wude, Wang Shichong deposed Yang Dong and established himself as Emperor Dazheng.

Pei Renji and his son Pei Xingyan contacted dozens of people in an attempt to kill Wang Shichong and restore Yang Dong.

The situation leaked, and all were killed.

In order to prevent anyone from trying to reinstate again, Wang Shichong put Yang Dong away.

Before Yang Tong drank the donkey, he let out the sad voice of the emperor that has been passed down through the ages: "From now on, I wish to give birth to the emperor's noble family." ”

At that time, Pei Renji still had family members away.

After his death, he had a posthumous son, Pei Xingjian, and later became an outstanding Confucian general under Li Jing.

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From Shennongjia to the east, the areas of Xiangfan, Nanyang, and Zhengzhou were once Zhu Cang's sphere of influence.

Among the soldiers and horses from all walks of life during the Sui and Tang dynasties, the most notorious person was none other than Zhu Cang.

This man was a cannibal, destroying walls and plundering wealth everywhere, causing untold suffering to the people.

Ma Yuangui and Lu Zizang of the Sui Chamber defeated Zhu Cang, but unfortunately Ma Yuangui did not listen to Lu Zizang's advice and did not take advantage of the victory to pursue, but let Zhu Cang have a chance to breathe.

In the leap February of the second year of Wude, Li Xiaogongfu went to Shannan and sent people to say that Zhu Cang would be surrendered.

At that time, many of Zhu Cang's generals betrayed, and their subordinates responded one after another and besieged them together.

Zhu Cang was defeated and surrendered to Li Xiaogong.

At this time, Ma Yuangui had entered Li Tang, and he had a lesson from the past, and persuaded Li Xiaogong not to indulge Zhu Cang.

It's a pity that Li Xiaogong didn't listen to it, and presented a good news to Li Yuan.

In April of this year, Li Yuan sent Duan Qu to comfort Zhu Cang.

Duan is indeed addicted to drinking, and he does not choose words after drinking, and he has a quarrel with Zhu Cang.

Zhu Cang actually killed Duan Qu and dozens of his entourage and cooked them, and then defected to Wang Shichong.

Pharmacist Li and Li Xiaogong originally had a consensus on Huairou Zhao'an, but for Zhu Cang's character, is it appropriate to still adopt Huairou policies? Pharmacist Li also hesitated.

However, at that time, Zhu Cang was close to the east of the Shennongjia Mountains, and Li Xiaogong recruited him, so that Li Yaoshi could concentrate on dealing with the barbarians.

However, before he arrived in Jinzhou, he got the news that Zhu Cang had killed Duan Qu and defected to Wang Shichong.

So while he recruited Shennongjia, he still had to deal with Wang Shichong after all.

After Pharmacist Li pacified several tribes on the northern edge of Shennongjia, Li Ying repeatedly thanked them and ceremoniously sent them off from Jinzhou.

Pharmacist Li and the dust rate were the same as 800 yuan, and began to go deep into the mountains and go southeast.

The responsibility of communication had been given to Hebi before, and at this time he was gradually approaching Wang Shichong's sphere of influence, and it was necessary to detect movements at any time.

Along the way, Zhang Baoxiang performed extraordinarily several times, and Pharmacist Li entrusted him with the task of investigation.

Xue Guwu is still a young man, and he is very envious when he sees Pharmacist Li dancing with the white ape, intimidating the monkeys.

Later, I don't know what kind of tricks he used, but he and the little monkey gradually became familiar and fought with each other.

At this time, walking into the deep mountains, Pharmacist Li saw Xue Guwu and a group of monkeys from time to time, climbing vines on the edge of branches, jumping and playing, so that Zhang Baoxiang and others were angry, jokingly calling him "monkey", and he didn't think he was angry.

However, after entering the mountain, the barbarians he encountered were no longer friendly, and he quickly encountered Deng Shiluo, who had repeatedly clashed with the officers and soldiers of Jinzhou.

He has Han blood, is proficient in Chinese, and has been in contact with Xiao Mill for a long time, so he does not return to the mentality of the original people, but has greater ambitions.

The barbarian tribes that Pharmacist Li had encountered before were only a few hundred people per clan, and at most a thousand.

And this Deng Shiluo, supported by the armed forces of Xiao Milling, has annexed many tribes, and his subordinates have reached tens of thousands!

Pharmacist Li knew very well that in the face of Tang Shilok, Huai Rou's strategy could not continue to work.

On the other hand, after Wang Shichong became emperor in April of the second year of Wude, he took charge of Xiangfan with his nephew Wang Honglie.

Zhang Baoxiang learned that Wang Honglie had sent troops to approach Shennongjia in order to guard against Pharmacist Li.

So at this time, close to the eastern edge of Shennongjia, Li Yaoshi was in the northwest, Deng Shiluo was in the southwest, and Wang Honglie was in the east, and the three forces were in full force.