One after another, the fireships docked downstream on the west bank, and more than 300 men without armor jumped from the boats, all of them wearing coarse linen clothes, no different from the people, but all of them were strong and strong, and they looked like veterans of the army.

Walked from the quagmire to the front of the Tang army with difficulty, and took the lead in bowing: "Xiaomin Meng Fangtong, meet the general." “

Behind him, the strong men worshiped together in the mud.

"General Meng?" Tuoba Yungui was taken aback.

In the same army, there were several face-to-face photos, only to hear that he left his military post and went back to the river alone to rescue his family, and then there was no news, but he did not expect to appear again and turn the tide.

Meng Fangtong was born in Hezhong, sneaked back into the river, and heard that his family had been taken to Chang'an before he was relieved, but he was in an awkward situation at this time, and he had no face to return to the Praetorian Guard, and the Hezhong Army could not go back, so he could only wander in the Baishan area and occupy the mountain as the king.

Zhu Wen killed the Hezhong army, and the Hezhong army absconded one after another, so Meng Fangtong gathered many deserters.

Others don't know each other, but Zhou Yunyi and him are old acquaintances, the two are in the left army of the Praetorian Guard, and Meng Fang is also Zhou Yunyi's deputy general.

"General Meng has made this great achievement, and His Majesty will be rewarded." Zhou Yunyi said enthusiastically.

"I don't ask for a heavy reward, I just ask Your Majesty to open the net, so that the small people can return to the army and die without regrets." Meng Fang was in Baishan for many days, and saw with his own eyes the destruction of the land in the river by the Liang army, whether it was justice or personal vendetta, he wanted to return to the Tang army.

Zhou Yunyi said with a smile: "General Meng is too modest, if it weren't for the general's tricks, the Liang army would have captured Pujin Pass." “

"The rambling is endless, don't take the opportunity to rush over at this time and capture Zhu Quanzhong alive, when will you wait?" After a bloody battle, Xin Shilang's fighting spirit did not diminish at all.

Zhou Yunyi looked at the Liang army slowly retreating on the other bank, and was also a little unclear, "The Liang army retreated in an orderly manner, and it was difficult for our army to cross the river in a hurry, and there was no strength to fight again, Shiro must not be reckless, and our army went back to support Your Majesty." “

Xin Shilang glanced at Zhou Yunyi and did not collide.

In the camp west of Pujin Pass, fierce fighting continued.

Uncle Cong led the cavalry to rush to the banner of the Son of Heaven.

Seeing that he rushed to the front of the Chinese army's big tent, Gao Xingzhou led 8,000 foot soldiers to kill from the left flank.

Gao Xingzhou led the army to fight, always focusing on attack, not paying attention to the array, 8,000 people under the command of the head of each department, like a fishing net, directly attacked the cavalry of the Liang army.

The Liang army was caught off guard, and with only one contact, four or five hundred horsemen fell.

The spears in front of the big tent of the Chinese army are like a forest, erected on the wooden fence, the Tang army is in a tight array, and the Gao Xingzhou next to it is fierce, and Uncle Cong does not dare to rush hard, and turns to the right formation.

When the two armies fight, there are thousands of troops, and there is often only one opportunity, and if you miss it, you will never come back.

At this time, the front of the Tang army began to close, and the Dangxiang cavalry was locked out of the formation, and the infantry array was not defeated for such a long time, and the Dangxiang people did not dare to attack, cruising around the periphery, harassing with cavalry and shooting.

The Tang army, under the command of Li Xiaoqi, began to squeeze the activity space of the Liang cavalry inward.

The Liang army originally only had 8,000 cavalry, and the party was thin, and all the pressure was concentrated on the Liang army.

The speed of the cavalry was constantly slowed down, and Shi Shucong realized that something was wrong.

"General, our army should not fight for a long time, the Tang army is not attackable, the containment task has been completed, and the king should cross the river!" Zhang Guihou admonished.

Whether it is seniority, ability or force, Zhang Guihou is above his uncle.

However, the three Zhang brothers had strong power in the Liang army, and Zhu Wen divided them, with Zhang Guiba as the general, and suppressed Zhang Guihou and Zhang Guiben brothers.

Shi Shucong turned around and saw that the eight thousand cavalry who crossed the river were all wounded at this time, although the soldiers' fighting spirit was not reduced, but after such a long period of fierce fighting, the war horses had already shown fatigue, so they had to lead the cavalry to break through to the weakest north.

Zhang Guihou took the lead, and no one in the northern formation could stop him, and the gap was broken.

Gao Xingzhou's 8,000 foot soldiers couldn't catch up, and the original 3,000 cavalry were left in Yangzhou by him as a baby pimple to repair, and now they can only chase the enemy cavalry like thunder.

Li Ye's plan to shut down the door and fight the dog fell short.

This is the price of not having cavalry, come as you want, and leave as you want.

Even if the infantry array can hold off the cavalry, it is too difficult to keep them.

After the cavalry of the Liang army broke through, the party members also ran away.

The battlefield, which was extremely tragic just now, gradually calmed down, leaving behind a place of corpses, most of them were unarmed civilians, a small part of them were Tang Army, the Liang Army suffered few casualties, and the party members basically suffered no losses.

"Zhu Wen retired from the army?" Li Ye listened to Zhou Yunyi's report, which was a little incredible, and after thinking about it deeply, he guessed that it should be Li Keyong's hands.

The Liang army and the Jin army were enemies of life and death.

In Li Ye's imagination, the Liang army should be fighting to the death with the Jin army, until a year later, Li Keyong couldn't bear it, but I don't know why, Zhu Wen ran to attack Guanzhong.

However, Zhu Wen's retreat, Guanzhong will usher in a period of strategic development.

Maybe Zhu Wen will lead the army back in the future, but at that time, Guanzhong was not the current Guanzhong.

"This time to repel the Liang army, General Meng is the first to take the lead!" Meng Fangtong's return made Li Ye overjoyed, if he hadn't used fireboats to stop the Liang army from crossing the river, I am afraid that the Liang army would have stepped into the land of Guanzhong.

"Your Majesty." If Meng Fangtong was a little reluctant to join the Tang Army before, he is now completely convinced.

As he was talking, the scout rushed in from outside the tent, "Report to Your Majesty, General Yang Shihou has received good news that Hancheng has been taken,"

"Okay, General Yang deserves to be the general of our army!" Li Ye was overjoyed, taking Hancheng is equivalent to making up for the last short board in Guanzhong, attacking the three strategic places in Guanzhong from the eastern part of the country, all in his hands, and Guanzhong has the danger of mountains and rivers, and he has no worries from now on!

"Ahem—"

Xin Shilang coughed loudly, raised his chest high, and squinted at Li Ye.

"Tuoba Yungui fought on the river beach and defeated the Liang army, which is really my Tang Dynasty iron wall."

When Tuoba Yungui heard the emperor's praise, his face immediately flushed, "Your Majesty." “

"Ahem—"

Xin Shilang coughed louder, but Li Ye never looked at him, "Li Xiaoqi is not chaotic in the face of danger, he is a good command, and he is also a general!" “

Among the nine commanders, Li Xiaoqi is the most low-key and the most obedient to military orders, and this time he commanded the spear array to squeeze the cavalry of the Liang Army, which is also remarkable.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Li Xiaoqi was excited, this was the first time he was praised by the emperor.

Shinshiro coughed a few more times.

Coughing back and forth like this, it affected the atmosphere in the tent, Li Ye said: "If Shiro is not feeling well, go down and rest for a few days." “

Xin Shilang looked aggrieved, "Did Your Majesty miss someone?" “

Li Ye pretended not to understand, "Who?" “

Xin Shilang suddenly shouted aggrievedly: "Your Majesty is eccentric. “

The people in the tent burst out laughing.

Li Ye laughed twice, then stood up from the soft collapse, bowed his hand to Xin Shilang, and said, "If it weren't for Shiro, I could sit here?" “

Xin Shilang has all kinds of shortcomings, but he is the most loyal, above Tongguan, facing the hall, it is he who turns the tide, one person blocks dozens of people, and there is always his figure in the most dangerous places, saving Li Ye's life several times.

Xin Shilang's face was full of red light, he raised his head and laughed, extremely proud: "Haha, this is the duty of the last general, if it wasn't for Zhou Yunyi to stop him, the last general would have rushed across the river and captured Zhu Laosan alive!" “

Only Gao Xingzhou was sullen in the tent, and his uncle's breakthrough made him angry.

Because he was worried about the emperor's safety, he launched it in advance, so that Uncle Cong saw that something was wrong and ran away in advance.

"The merits of you and the soldiers, the military merits are being counted, but before that, there is another account to be calculated." Those people who were brutally killed in front of the battle made Li Ye unable to let go until now.

As an emperor, if you can't protect the land and the people, how can you recover the hearts of the people in Guanzhong?

"Now the three exits in Guanzhong are all blocked by our army, and Uncle Cong can't escape! Spread my will, Guanzhong Domain, but there are those who dare to take in Uncle Cong, and they are guilty of the same crime! Li Sixiao rebelled, attached himself to the Liang thief, acted for the tiger, and exempted him from his post office! “

It is said that the general ledger is calculated after the autumn, and now it is the autumn queen, and it is time to settle the account with Li Sixiao of the post office.

Besides, after this battle, although the Liang army was repulsed, the loss was extremely great, and the loss of grain and grass was extremely amazing.

The 600,000 stone grain harvested in the autumn has only been in a short period of one or two months, and people have eaten and chewed horses, and a quarter of it has already gone.

If he didn't go to the post office, Li Ye wouldn't be able to come up with something to reward his merits.

If there are too many bad checks, the emperor's credibility will decrease.

The soldiers cannot be allowed to play with their lives on the front line, and there will be no reward.

If you want the horses to run and don't give the horses grazing, the combat effectiveness of the army will plummet.

Moreover, after taking the post office, the fertile land of the entire Weibei will be connected into a line, and as long as the water conservancy is repaired, it will be ten thousand hectares of fertile land.

The generals' eyes burned.

"Tuoba Yungui, I will hand over Pujin Pass to you!"

"The last general commands!"

"Zhou Yunyi, your cavalry is chasing Shi Shucong, you don't need to fight him, drive him to the northwest." Li Ye wanted to use his uncle to test the reaction of the towns in the northwest, especially the attitude of Shuofang Han Zun towards the imperial court.

Of course, Shi Shucong could not enter Shuofang, but go north to Xia Suiding Difficult Army.

And Li Sigong is very likely to take in this Liang army to ride alone, which just gives Li Ye an excuse to crusade.

As for Shi Shucong, the executioner who killed Zhaozong, Li Ye no longer planned to give him a way to live.

"The other armies, follow me to Fangzhou to ask for the guilt!"

Fangzhou is the place of governance of the post town, because there is a horse fang in its territory, during the Wude period, in the name of Fangzhou, this place is not only an important place in the Han and Tang Dynasties, but also the place where the Chinese ancestors of the Yellow Emperor are buried, in ancient times, the Chinese ancestors rested and rejuvenated in this place.

The fall of such a place into the hands of foreigners is simply an insult to the Central Plains Empire.

The Tang army recuperated in Tongzhou for ten days, and Zhang Chengye brought the follow-up heavy grain and grass to the army.

The letter of plea from the post office and Xia Sui had already been delivered to Li Ye, and he didn't even look at it, and burned it in front of the messenger.

So many Tang people were killed in front of him, which had already touched Li Ye's scales.

After the five-day march, the army arrived at the city of Fangzhou in turn, in order to strengthen the momentum, Li Ye even pressed the auxiliary army, 40,000 auxiliary troops, 30,000 soldiers, plus the people, almost 100,000 soldiers came to the city.

The gate of Fangzhou is closed.

Li Ye rode around Fangzhou City with his personal guards, and saw that the defenders were wearing Tang Army armor.

However, the party members are similar in appearance to the Central Plains, and it is difficult to confirm whether they are Tang people for a while.

"Listen to the people in the city, Your Majesty's heavenly army has arrived, and you must be stubborn!" Hundreds of guards shouted at the city.

"The party members just don't shed tears if they don't see the coffin, Your Majesty waits, within half a day, the city will be broken!" Gao Xingzhou was eager to try.

Li Ye's edict has already denied the party's right to rule over the post office in a general sense.

It is inevitable that people's hearts will fluctuate.

In the first year of Wende, the post office festival made Dongfang Kui die of illness, Zhu Mei made chaos in Chang'an, Li Sixiao took advantage of the chaos to attack the post office, Xizong died, Zhaozong just succeeded to the throne, the court was too busy to take care of itself, so it could only pinch its nose and admit it.

It has only been six or seven years since the party members have been operating the post office, and the Tang people in the entire post office do not agree with the party members.

It is far from being comparable to Xiasui Town, which has been in business for more than 100 years.

When the defenders of the city saw the banner of the Son of Heaven, they cowered one by one, like mourning.

"Why should General Gao be in a hurry, the post office is my hometown of China, and it is a point to be able to retain a point of vitality." Li Ye also counted on relying on the treasury of Fangzhou to give benefits to the soldiers.

Hearing the emperor say this, Gao Xingzhou no longer insisted.

After a while, old men of about ten or sixty appeared at the head of the city, dressed in Tang clothes.

Li Ye thought it was Li Sixiao's strategist, but he didn't expect this person to cry directly to Li Ye, "The last general Li Sixiao visited Your Majesty, and the previous offense against Your Majesty was all done by the unfilial son Li Chengqi, and the last general didn't know about it, and I hope Your Majesty will see it!" “

The Tang army fought with the Liang army for more than ten days, and prepared in Tongzhou for ten days, for such a long time, I didn't see him come to ask for guilt, and now as soon as the army arrives, Li Sixiao shirks everything.

This is simply an insult to Li Ye's IQ.

Li Hao sneered in his heart, but he was not angry, his face was kind, "I see, I blame the general, the general quickly opens the city gate, and I apologize to the general." “

Of course, Li Sixiao would not be stupid enough to really open the city gate, cry at the head of the city, and then "oops", fainted, and was caught by the attendants beside him.

I don't get dizzy in the morning, I don't get dizzy in the evening, but I get dizzy at this time.

Sure enough, life is like a drama, and it all depends on acting skills.

Li Ye had this patient ink, but Xin Shilang beside him didn't, and shouted at the throat: "If you are dead, if you are dead, open the city gate quickly, if you don't fight, if you don't surrender, but what are you doing?" “