June of the second year of Qianning.

The Liang army quickly quelled the rebellion in the two towns of Tianping and Taining, and Zhu Wen ordered Ge to garrison the 10,000 troops in Yunzhou on Monday to train soldiers for the purpose of attacking Pinglu, and Wang Yanzhang 10,000 troops were stationed in the chest to deter Zi and Qingzhou.

At that time, Wang Shifan commanded 100,000 people, and attacked Linchest with 40,000 people, and was repeatedly defeated by Wang Yanzhang.

Wang Fan was afraid of the might of the Liang army and asked for help from the Tang Dynasty and Hedong.

But at this time, the territory of Hedong was also a withering, Zhaoyi was divided, Xingzhou fell into the hands of Wang Rong, Cizhou was captured by Wei Bo, and Zhaozhou was sandwiched between Wei Bo and Chengde, a lonely city, Zezhou was also in the hands of the Liang army, Qinzhou Thorn Shi Cai Xun surrendered to the city to Ding Hui, and the Yin Pass was guarded by Ding Hui and Zhang Cunjing's 30,000 heavy army.

If it weren't for the Qingkou War, Li Keyong would have been a mud bodhisattva.

The only thing that makes Li Keyong happy is that Luzhou, the gateway to Hedong, stands tenaciously upright.

After Zhu Wen retreated, Zhou Dewei took advantage of the situation to counterattack, broke through the Liang army's clamping city, and captured 10,000 young and strong people.

The significance of the Battle of Luzhou is no less than that of the Battle of Qingkou.

The Shatuo cavalry, which had dominated the world for 30 years, was defeated at the feet of Zhu Wen's Xuanwu army.

Li Ke licked his wounds in Daibei like a wounded old wolf.

With the decline of the Hedong army, Wei Bo's army and Chengde's army became even more fangs and claws.

On June 3, the Liang army took Li Luo into Weizhou, Luo Hongxin beheaded Li Luoluo, and Wei Bo completely fell to Bianzhou.

But the ups and downs in Hebei are far more than that, after Lu Longjiedu made Li Kuangchou defeated, he returned to the territory, and his momentum plummeted, and Liu Rengong, the general of Ulzhou, took advantage of the situation to rebel.

At that time, Li Congwei said when Li Kuangchou mutinied: If my brother loses his brother, he will not leave my house, so he will not hate it, but it is a pity that Kuangchou is short and cannot be conservative, and he will be able to get two years, fortunately.

Knowing his brother Mo Ru, it has only been two years, and Li Kuangchou was defeated under Liu Rengong's offensive.

Liu Rengong was originally a general of Lu Long, quite expected, the military wanted, Lu Long responded one after another, Li Kuangchou was defeated, fled to Cangzhou after the defeat, and was later defeated by Yichang Jiedu Lu Yanwei.

The whole territory of Lulong fell into the hands of Liu Rengong, and Liu Rengong wrote to the Tang Dynasty on the one hand, asking for the envoy of Lulong's festival.

On the one hand, Li Kuangchou's wife Zhang who did not escape was dedicated to Li Keyong, and the two families formed an alliance.

Wang Shifan and Liu Rengong's letters were sent to Li Ye at the same time.

Since the Anshi Rebellion, the three towns of Heshuo have become stomach ulcers that cannot be healed in the Tang Empire, torturing the once strong giants into sick men, and the entire history of the middle and late Tang Dynasty revolves around the three towns of Heshuo.

Although it is known as one dynasty, it is actually two countries, and the three towns of Heshuo have always played the game of the tooth generals to mutiny, and then ask the Tang court to canonize them.

Now that Lulongzhen has fallen into the hands of Liu Rengong, he wrote a letter to ask for sealing, which can be regarded as giving the court some face.

Han Shu looked at the above table and said: "In the past, Li Deyu once said that although Heshuo's army was strong, he could not stand on his own, and he had to use the authority of the court officials to secure the military situation. Now that Liu Rengong has asked for a seal, it is the time for the prestige of the Tang Dynasty to be revealed. “

Face is given to each other, and Li Hao can't help it if he doesn't agree, "What about Wang Shifan?" “

Wang Shifan backstabbed Zhu Wen, his courage was commendable, and it was a pity that he was swallowed by Zhu Wen like this.

Hanok said: "The whip of the imperial court is beyond the reach of the whip, Wang Shifan will be destroyed, if the imperial court expresses its position easily, I am afraid it will be humiliating, it is better to wait and see the changes." “

"No!" After reading the text, Li Juchuan retorted, "Although Zhu Wen has the defeat of Qingkou, he has not hurt the fundamentals, and he is still the strongest in the world, Wang Shifan asked for help from the imperial court, and the court ignored it, which hurt the loyalty of the distant people, and Wang Shifan commanded 100,000 people, there is still a fighting force, the court should strengthen his heart and make it fight with Zhu Wen to the end!" “

One Pinglu town has five states, and there are actually 100,000 troops.

Li Ye smiled bitterly in his heart, "How to strengthen his heart?" “

Li Juchuan said: "The previous time Yang Xingmi took Zhu Jin as the envoy of the probation army, and reached the heart of Zhu Wen, the imperial court can promote Wang Shifan and Yang Xingmi to form an alliance, and attack the north and south, although it cannot destroy Zhu Wen, but it can make him exhausted, at least for three years, there is no time to look west." “

Wang Shifan didn't have much presence in history, so Li Ye was not very familiar with him.

I only know that he rebelled against Zhu Wen from time to time.

But Zhu Jin became famous, and at the end of the Tang Dynasty, he was called "Sai Zhang Fei", bravely crowned the three armies, and Ma Su was invincible.

can fight with Zhu Wen for nine years, and he is definitely not a simple person.

Li Ye looked at the map, Zhu Wen's place of the four battles in Bianzhou, but now only Li Keyong and Yang Xingmi are doing it with him.

Therefore, Wang Shifan is more important.

"The solidarity is not enough, the imperial court still needs to attack Hezhong, and the best defense is to attack." Li Ye pointed to Hezhong Fudao.

Hanok, Zhao Chongning, and Li Juchuan were all dumbfounded.

The last time Yang Shihou proposed to enter Hezhong, he was denied by everyone, and Li Ye didn't take it seriously.

But now the situation is different.

The defeat of Qingkou, although Zhu Wen lost his troops and lost his generals, but the territory still expanded a lot, Shaanxi, Hezhong, Heyang, Taining, Tianping, and increased the five towns, if he didn't find something to do, let him calmly digest these territories, and then swallow Pinglu, who else in the world could stop his edge?

The river was sandwiched between the Tang Dynasty and the east of the river, and sending troops to the river was the greatest support for Wang Shifan.

At the same time, it also solved the decline of Li Keyong.

Xu Huaiyu's 20,000 troops were in Puzhou, and Wang Chongshi's and Liu Zhijun's 20,000 troops were in Shaanxi Pass, cutting off the connection between Guanzhong and Hezhong.

Being held against the door is always unpleasant.

Sending troops to the river is not to attack the city and plunder the land, but to harass and invade, try to make the momentum bigger, advance if it is advantageous, and retreat if it is not profitable, so that the Liang army in the river is tired and give Li Keyong, who is trapped in the east of the river, create opportunities.

Li Ye said what he thought, and Hanok and Zhao Chongning heard that it was not a war for the country, so they did not object.

At present, only Zhou Yunyi is qualified for this task in the Tang Army.

Li Ye also assigned him Meng Fang as a guide, and the terrain in the river was complex, which was suitable for guerrilla warfare.

The 3,000 cavalry of Zhou Yunyi's division were recalled to Chang'an, and they could only rely on themselves after that.

Li Ye always had some suspense in his heart, but Tang Jun hid under the wings of Guanzhong and would never grow.

As soon as he thought of this, Li Ye simply transferred out the 1,000 Wu Ben in the army and also sent troops.

The 4,000 Tang Army can directly launch a small campaign.

"The last general will live up to His Majesty's trust!" Zhou Yunyi, Meng Fangtong, Han Xun, Yeli Jingrong, and Zhe Hei bowed in front of Li Ye.

Li Ye led the guards to send them all the way to the Longmen ferry in Hancheng.

After Zhu Wen withdrew from the army, this place was remote, and the Liang army left a thousand people to defend, but the Tang army in Hancheng crossed the river from time to time to intercept and kill, and the Liang army could not stand, so it could only give up and change to scout patrol.

Most of the Tang army scouts also crossed the river from this place.

But today it is not a squad of scouts who will cross the river, but a brigade of cavalry.

The Tang scouts who had been ordered drove along the Yellow River to hunt down the Liang scouts.

At dusk, the Tang army began to cross the river.

"If the city can be taken, the Liang army can fight, just stir up the river." Looking at the columns of cavalry stepping on the pontoon bridge to cross the river, Li Ye finally told Zhou Yunyidao.