The book continues from the above, saying that the New Year is approaching, Xin'an ushered in the person Li Shimin and Chu Mofeng did not want to see the --- Li Yuanji, the king of Qi, for no other reason, because of this, Li Jiancheng and his gang had already been judged to be Li Jiancheng's gang, for Li Yuanji's arrival, Li Shimin and Chu Mofeng had to strengthen their vigilance.

On the other hand, on the official road from Chang'an to Xin'an, due to the pressure of the Tang army, the pedestrians passing on the official road are not as dense as before, but as the New Year is approaching, you can still meet some passers-by on the road such as returning to their hometowns or convoys returning to the city.

The carriage drove slowly on the wide official road, and Gu Zhen'er, who was accompanying her, said to Liu Feiyan with a smile on her face: "I said cousin, how about this time, that big elm pimple will definitely praise me when he goes back, right?"

"Yes, definitely, maybe I will promise you if I am happy!" Liu Feiyan smiled when he heard this, and urged the horse to walk forward with his own thoughts.

And Xiao Ruolan and the others who accompanied them on the side saw Gu Zhen'er deflated, and immediately laughed, Qu Tushou and Qu Tuquan, who were in charge of driving the carriage, couldn't help but be surprised when they saw this, although the flowers on the other side under the command of the Duke of Qi were all women, but the means were really clever, and I really didn't know where to recruit such a group of people.

When the carriage passed by a tea stall, perhaps because of the bumpy ride in the carriage, or because the water and rice had not entered after a night of escape, Qin Huaiyu in the car said to Jia Shi in a milky voice: "Mother, the child is hungry." ”

Seeing this, Jia Shi lifted the curtain a little embarrassed and said, "Miss Liu, can you stop in front of the tea stall for a while, and I'll buy some food for Yu'er." ”

Smelling the fragrance of tea wafting from the tea stall, Liu Feiyan suddenly felt a little hungry, and then nodded and drank in a low voice: "Let's rest at the tea stall for a while, and then set off as soon as possible." ”

Everyone nodded, and slowly parked the carriage next to the tea stall, and when Dr. Tea saw that a guest was coming, he happily greeted him, and said with a smile: "What do the guest officers need?"

"Two pots of tea, and then the food will be served on the hour, faster, and we have to hurry. Liu Feiyan reached out and took out a bunch of money from the money bag on his waist and threw it on the table.

Seeing this, Dr. Tea picked up the hanging money, hurriedly turned around and prepared to go, and after a while, a few snacks with two pots of tea were placed on the table. Seeing this, Liu Feiyan hurriedly picked up a piece of pastry and handed it to Qin Huaiyu, and said with a smile: "Little guy hurry up and eat, first make a simple pad, and after you arrive in Xin'an, my sister will take you to all kinds of delicious food, okay?"

Qin Huaiyu nodded, and as Jia and the others hurriedly sat down, touched the pastries on the table and ate them.

In Luoyang City, after learning the news that Qu Tutong and Qin Qiong's family members were rescued, Wang Shichong suddenly became angry and ordered a strict investigation of the entry and exit of various city gates in Luoyang. He also notified the officials in the city to cooperate with some soldiers to search and arrest Luoyang.

In Yanqing Fang, in the courtyard where the hostages were held, Wang Ren looked at the corpses with a grim face, and there was a disgusting smell of blood in the air, which couldn't help but make everyone present feel like they wanted to vomit.

Walking to a corpse, Wang Ren fiercely pulled out the crossbow arrow inserted in the neck of the corpse, and carefully observed the sun, only to see the tail of the crossbow arrow engraved with the word 'Tang', and immediately understood that the hostage should have been rescued by the people from the Tang Dynasty, and then closed his eyes, and began to simulate the whole process of rescue in his mind.

After a while, Wang Ren opened his eyes, turned around and walked out of the house, and ran towards the Luoshui River, and a group of entourages behind him hurriedly followed him when they saw this, and walked to the Luoshui River, Wang Ren shouted to the people behind him: "Hurry up and find a small boat to come." ”

Seeing this, the entourage was afraid that his movements would slow down and attract Wang Renze's beating and scolding, so he hurriedly looked for it along the river, and after a while, he saw an entourage rowing a small boat in front of Wang Renze.

The boat went to the fence at the base of the city wall, looking at the fence that had long been destroyed, Wang Ren suddenly laughed, the entourage in charge of rowing did not know where to go, and was about to ask, only to hear Wang Ren say coldly: "Let's go back, send out fifty cavalry, go out from Hui'an Gate and quickly go west, and pursue along the official road leading to Chang'an, they have women and children, they can't ride horses and can only take carriages, they shouldn't have gone far." ”

Hearing this, the entourage hurriedly sent Wang Renze back into the distance, and then hurriedly left to pursue, and the people who were still resting at the tea stall at this time did not know that Luoyang had already sent people to pursue.

Seeing that everyone had almost eaten, Liu Feiyan quickly beckoned everyone to set off, and no one spoke along the way, but just hurried up.

At the beginning of the Shen Dynasty, Li Shimin and Chu Mofeng gathered Qu Tutong, Shi Danai, Luo Cheng, Qin Qiong and Cheng Yanjin together and set up a banquet in the big tent.

Except for Li Shimin and Chu Mofeng, all of them were the deceased of Jiajialou back then, and some of them had not seen each other for a long time after many years.

I saw Li Shimin holding a wine glass and said to everyone: "Everyone, it will be the New Year in a few days, this year is the same as last year, and I will spend it outside again, this king knows that you have been fighting with the army all the year round, and you have not been at home for a long time, and the relatives at home are also looking forward to it, and everyone's homesick mood can be understood by this king, so this king hereby guarantees that Wang Shichong in Luoyang will be quickly solved after the New Year, so that everyone can go back to have a reunion year." As soon as the words fell, he picked up the wine glass and drank it all, and everyone present drank a glass with him.

Just when Li Shimin mentioned the words 'hometown' and 'relatives', Chu Mofeng, who had been observing, found that Qin Qiong and Qu Tutong had a trace of unnatural looks on their faces, although it was only for a short moment, they were still captured by Chu Mofeng.

Seeing this scene, Chu Mofeng stood up and said to the two: "Old General Qu, General Qin, the New Year is approaching, and my father is going to give you two a big gift, and I hope you don't dislike it." ”

The two of them hurriedly raised their heads when they heard this, they didn't know the meaning of Chu Mofeng's words, they just looked at him with surprise on their faces, and Cheng Yanjin on the side hurriedly said when he saw this: "Grandpa Guo is so partial, the New Year's gift is only given to Second Brother Qin, and Lao Cheng has no share." ”

Seeing this, Chu Mofeng smiled at Cheng Yanjin, and was about to speak, but the curtain of the big tent was lifted, and he saw Zhao Xin of the Tiance Army's Heavenly Killing Camp walking in covered in blood, and clasped his fists at Chu Mofeng and said: "His Royal Highness the King of Qin, Grandpa Guo, the subordinates led the team back to the camp and rescued a group of people, and the girl led by the leader has the waist card of the Grandpa Guo in his hand, please go down with your subordinates to take a look." ”

As soon as he heard that there was a waist card, Chu Mofeng was shocked and hurriedly asked, "Are these people okay?"

I saw Zhao Xin shook his head and said: "It's okay, these people were being chased by Zheng Guo's soldiers at that time, and after a rain of arrows, their subordinates shot and killed more than a dozen on the opposite side, and the rest fled one after another." ”

At this time, after listening to Zhao Xin's words, Chu Mofeng suddenly breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Old General Qu and General Qin will go together, the big gift that the national lord said is outside the door." ”

Hearing this, the two hurriedly followed Li Shimin and Chu Mofeng to the outside of the big tent, only to see two men, a woman and a child slowly walking down from a carriage, the two men walked quickly in front of Qu Tutong, knelt down and shouted: "Father, the unfilial son has worried you." ”

At this time, Qu Tutong saw clearly through the light that the two were the two sons who originally fell into the hands of Wang Shichong, and then the old man said with tears in his eyes: "You two boys are really fateful, and you actually ran out, it's really good." ”

And Chu Mofeng walked up to Qin Qiong and said to him with a smile: "General Qin, this lady and son are in front of you, why don't you come forward to recognize each other, could it be that your General Qin is ready to abandon his wife and son to find a new love?"

Qin Qiong on the side hadn't reacted yet, but saw the child jumping up and running in front of Qin Qiong, shouting excitedly: "Dad, I'm Yu'er, don't you recognize Yu'er?" and Qin Qiong's wife Jia Shi also walked over slowly.

Hearing his son's call, Qin Qiong came back to his senses, and took a closer look at the person in front of him, wasn't it his wife and children who had been thinking about him for a long time? At this moment, Qin Qiong realized that all this was from Chu Mofeng's handwriting, and he was about to kneel down in front of Chu Mofeng at the moment, but before he could kneel, he was helped up by Chu Mofeng, who was quick to move.

I saw Chu Mofeng smile and said: "General Qin, don't kneel, if you kneel, Old General Qu will kneel down again, I can't afford it, don't mind the trivial things, I promised to rescue the two of you's family members, Chu Mofeng will never break his word." ”

Hearing this, the two hurriedly made a big salute to Chu Mofeng, Chu Mofeng waved his hand when he saw this, signaling the two to take their families to settle down, and he walked quickly to Liu Feiyan and the others, seeing Chu Mofeng coming over, Liu Feiyan and the others took off their masks, clasped their fists at Chu Mofeng and said: "Qi Yu Yasha, fortunately, the task is complete!"

Seeing this, Chu Mofeng nodded, and asked softly: "You are not injured, right?" After the matter is reported, let's go down and rest first, I will ask someone to prepare hot water for the meal, and wash up after the meal to get rid of the dust." ”

Liu Feiyan shook his head, returned the waist card to Chu Mofeng, and then led Gu Zhen'er and the others to leave here.

Seeing this, Li Shimin on the side hurriedly beckoned the rest of the people to return to the big tent to drink, and Qu Tutong and Qin Qiong, who came later, also quickly joined the battle group, and for a while, the big tent staggered and pushed the cups to change the lamp.

Time came in a blink of an eye to the fourth year of Wude (621 AD), on the first day of Jiashen (26th), Du Fuwei sent the generals Chen Zhengtong and Xu Shaozong to lead 2,000 elite soldiers to join forces with Li Shimin, the king of Qin, to attack Wang Shichong, and the army took Liang County under the rule of Wang Shichong as the target of the attack, and conquered Liang County in less than one day under repeated strong attacks.

On the first day of February (the first day of the second lunar month), Li Shimin and Chu Mofeng secretly discussed important matters in the camp, and there were quarrels in the camp that day, and then Chu Mofeng ordered all the Tiance troops to be returned to Li Shimin's command, and the four battalions of Tianzhi, Tiangun, Tiandun, and Tiangong were handed over to Qin Shubao, Cheng Zhijie, Wei Chi Jingde, and Zhai Changsun respectively, and all the soldiers under the command of the four were handed over to Chu Mofeng.

On the fourth day of the second month of February, Li Shimin received news that in order to solve the food crisis in Luoyang, Wang Shichong's crown prince Wang Xuanying personally led about 3,000 soldiers to prepare to go to the tiger prison to mobilize grain and grass to rescue Luoyang.

After confirming that the news was correct, Li Shimin quickly summoned Chu Mofeng, and after the two discussed, Li Shimin, the king of Qin, ordered to send the general Li Junxian to lead more than 5,000 people to set up an ambush on Wang Xuanying's way back to the city.

Wang Xuanying, who thought that the secrecy measures for this trip had been done seamlessly, was worried about the situation in Luoyang, and did not send scouts along the way to investigate first, but hurriedly led the grain transport team to hurry up.

The army marched to the place where there were still twenty miles according to Luoyang City, Wang Xuanying saw that the soldiers were gradually showing fatigue, and had no choice but to order to rest on the spot and then continue to hurry, after getting the order to rest, the soldiers of the grain transport team immediately threw away the weapons in their hands, and sat down at random to find a place, and Wang Xuanying accompanied by his own soldiers, walked to a relatively flat stone and sat down, and then the soldiers hurriedly sent hot soup for him to enjoy.

After a few mouthfuls of hot soup, the cold on his body was gradually dispelled, Wang Xuanying looked at the soldiers sitting on the ground, and couldn't help but feel a little lonely, once upon a time, Zheng Guoguo was strong, and as a prince, he was like the stars holding the moon, who knew that after the Tang Dynasty solved Xue Rengao and Liu Wuzhou, he immediately turned the gun and attacked Zheng Guo.

Thinking of this, Wang Xuanying secretly scolded himself, it was all this damn Tang Dynasty, it was all this damn King Qin, and when he was cursing, he heard a long whistle suddenly from the woods on both sides of the road, which suddenly frightened Wang Xuanying and hurriedly got up and called the soldiers to be on guard.

Before an effective defensive formation was organized, I saw a group of Datang soldiers in the woods rushing over with knives and guns, and the knife in hand fell like chopping melons and vegetables, setting off a bloody rain and bloody wind, and the pro-soldiers beside him saw this for fear that Wang Xuanying would make a mistake, so he hurriedly helped him onto the horse, and ran in the direction of Luoyang under the cover of several pro-soldiers, and after there was no living enemy on the field, Li Junxian, who led the troops, put away the spear that was still dripping blood, and shouted to everyone present: " Quickly clear the battlefield, take down a few trees as obstacles, and quickly evacuate with food. ”

After Wang Xuanying fled back to Luoyang in a hurry, Wang Shi, who learned of this, was angry and ordered Wang Xuanying to lead the army to recover the grain and grass again, and when Wang Xuanying led the troops to the accident site, he only saw the corpses of those who had lost their armor and weapons, as well as the trees that were used as obstacles.

At this time, Wang Shichong was still looking forward to the arrival of Dou Jiande's reinforcements, but his corporal was already tired of war, and on the other hand, Li Shimin and Chu Mofeng discussed that the camp should continue to move forward, so as to give Wang Shichong appropriate pressure.

On the seventh day of the first month, Li Shimin sent Yu Wenshi and Hui Dynasty to play, requesting to march to encircle the eastern capital Luoyang.

Li Yuan also knew at this time that the war had entered a critical moment, so he said to Yu Wenshi: "Go back and tell your Royal Highness the King of Qin that this attack on Luoyang will not be withdrawn until you win a complete victory." At the time of the capture of the Eastern Capital, the Sui Dynasty's royal family's chariots and honor guards, books and equipment, except for what everyone needed, were entrusted to you to collect, and other beautiful jade cloth and silk were used to distribute to the soldiers. ”

After getting Li Yuan's approval, Li Shimin and Chu Mofeng began to discuss the matter of moving to Qingcheng Palace, but at this time, someone came to report that Dou Jiande's envoy Li Junwei had come to Xin'an.

Li Shimin and Chu Mofeng, who learned the news, temporarily shelved the plan to move the division and began to discuss countermeasures, Li Junwei's arrival showed that the previous plan still worked, and Wang Shichong couldn't hold on for long, but now there are new variables suddenly appeared, it seems that Dou Jiande's Xia army will soon join the Tang Zheng War, and the eastern capital must be surrounded immediately, and Dou Jiande's Xia army must not be allowed to meet Wang Shichong's Zheng army.

Thinking of this, Li Shimin and Chu Mofeng unanimously decided to immediately move to Qingcheng Palace to complete the siege of Luoyang, the eastern capital. Immediately, the two detained Dou Jiande's envoy Li Junwei in the barracks and did not answer Dou Jiande's letter, so that at least Dou Jiande could be delayed for a while.

On the 13th of Xinchou Day (13th), Li Shimin transferred the military camp to Qingcheng Palace, and before the walls were repaired, Wang Shichong led 20,000 soldiers and horses out from Fang Zhumen, relying on the walls and ditches of the old horse workshop, close to the water to resist the Tang army.

Since they had just arrived, all preparations had not been made, and in the face of the murderous Zheng soldiers, the army could not help but be a little panicked.

Seeing this, Li Shimin asked the elite cavalry to line up in the Beibi Mountain, and he climbed the tomb of Emperor Xuanwu of the Northern Wei Dynasty to observe the Zheng army, and then said to the people around him with a smile: "The situation of the thief is embarrassing, and he wants to get away with it, and he will defeat him today, and he will never dare to fight again in the future!"

Seeing this, Chu Mofeng, who was in charge of the dispatch in the bureau, hurriedly ordered Qu Tutong to lead 5,000 infantry across the valley to attack Wang Shichong, and warned Qu Tutong: "As soon as the army encounters, fireworks will be set off immediately. And Qu Tutong, who was grateful to Chu Mofeng for rescuing his family, kept Chu Mofeng's words firmly in his heart, and then took the order away.

I saw Qu Tutong leading 5,000 infantry to attack Wang Shichong's army, and soon the two sides collided together, and after Qu Tutong killed a Zheng soldier with a knife, he remembered Chu Mofeng's words and immediately shouted loudly: "Set off fireworks, set off fireworks quickly." ”

Immediately, a soldier took out the thing that ignited the fire, lit the fireworks, and the billowing smoke could be seen clearly from several miles away, Li Shimin, who was lying in ambush on the side, saw that the smoke had risen, waved his hand and took the lead, led the cavalry to the south, and fought hard with Qu Tutong's combined forces.

On the battlefield, Li Shimin's brain was hot, and he wanted to personally reconnoiter the enemy's situation so that he could know the distribution of Wang Shichong's army array, so he led dozens of elite cavalry to rush into the enemy formation, and rushed all the way to the back of the enemy formation, which was unstoppable, killing and wounding many enemies.

However, due to the limitation of the causeway, Li Shimin and the cavalry were separated, only the general Qiu Xinggong always followed Li Shimin, and suddenly several Zheng Guo cavalry chased up in the distance, holding bows and arrows and kept shooting at Li Shimin's side.

Seeing this, Qiu Xinggong, who was accompanying him, immediately shouted and turned his horse's head back to rescue, and drew his bow and arrow to shoot at the chasing Zheng Bing while riding his horse.

Qiu Xinggong turned over and dismounted and helped Li Shimin to the horse, holding the reins and brandishing a long knife while walking and killing, and after a while, he rushed out of Wang Shichong's army and was able to return to the army.

Wang Shichong, who had already killed the red eye, also led his subordinates to fight to the death, and the army was regrouped after several times and three times, and a big battle was killed from the beginning of the morning to the beginning of the year, and Wang Shichong, who had suffered heavy losses, retreated in a hurry.

Seeing this, Chu Mofeng was afraid of missing the opportunity, so he immediately waved his army to pursue until the city, captured and annihilated 7,000 people, and the army immediately approached the city of Luoyang.

On the day of Renyin, (14th), Wang Huaiwen, the scout of the former Tang army who was captured earlier, took advantage of Wang Shichong's formation in the right gate of Linluoshui, and was ready to fight against the Tang army when he was caught off guard, he raised a spear to assassinate Wang Shichong, but Wang Shichong was extremely cunning, wearing armor in his clothes, and the spear was broken and failed to pierce in, and the people around him were stunned when they saw this, and then Wang Huaiwen fled to the Tang army on horseback, and was caught up and shot by the pursuing soldiers at the mouth of the book, and Wang Shichong immediately led his troops back to the city after being frightened.

On the 22nd of Gengxu (22nd), Wang Shichong ruled that Wang Tai of Heyang gave up Heyang and fled, and his generals Zhao and others surrendered to Tang with Heyang City.

And Wang Shichong's other generals Shan Xiongxin, Pei Xiaoda and Wang Junkuo held each other in Luokou, Qin King Li Shimin led 5,000 cavalry to aid Wang Junkuo, and learned that Li Shimin personally led the army to come, Shan Xiongxin and others fled when they heard the wind, and Wang Junkuo then went to pursue with the momentum and defeated Shan Xiongxin and others.

On the day of Yimao (27th), Lu Shanzong, the assassin of Huaizhou under the rule of Wang Shichong, surrendered to the Tang Dynasty with Huaizhou City.

On the Wuwu day (30th), Shen Yue, a soldier of Zhengzhou under Wang Shichong, sent people to Li Shi, the general of Tang Zuowuhou, to ask for surrender. Chu Mofeng, who learned the news, quickly instructed Wang Junkuo, the general of the Left Guard, to lead his troops to attack the Tiger Prison overnight, and informed Shen Yue to act as an internal response.

At this point, Chu Mofeng has also completely completed the siege of Luoyang according to the requirements, and Luoyang, the once majestic eastern capital, is now standing there lonely like an old man who has betrayed his relatives in his last years.

However, although the tiger is still old and heroic, Luoyang, as the capital of Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, has invested enough money in the defensive force, and after Wang Shichong occupied, he was afraid that one day the soldiers would come to the city, so the defense facilities on the city wall were transformed.

The cannon can shoot fifty pounds of stones, throw two hundred paces away, there are eight bows of crossbows, the shaft of the arrow is like a spoke, the arrow is like an axe, it can shoot five hundred steps away, and the bricks, wood and mud on the city wall are readily available, and there are countless poles and poles, which also gives Wang Shichong a little sense of security.

Li Shimin led a large army to attack the city on all sides, day and night, failed to conquer it for more than ten days, the Tang army suffered heavy losses, and the corpses under the city were everywhere for a time.

In the face of such a ferocious offensive of the Tang Dynasty, the people in the city gradually began to waver, and thirteen people wanted to respond to the Tang Dynasty with the city, but they were killed before they could launch it.

At this time, the officers and men of the whole army were exhausted and wanted to return to Guanzhong, and the general manager Liu Hongji and others asked the class teacher to return to the court, and Li Shimin, who got the news, said earnestly: "Now that we have come in a big way, we should do it once and for all." The states east of Luoyang have been subdued, but Luoyang is only a lonely city, and its momentum can no longer last, and success is imminent, how can they give up and return to the dynasty?"

Then he ordered the whole army: "Luoyang will not be broken, and will never return to the army, and anyone who dares to mention the class teacher will be beheaded." ”

Everyone had no choice but to turn to Chu Mofeng to ask, looking at the generals in front of them, Chu Mofeng said slowly: "Since we entered Xin'an, we have finally come to the last step after so many tribulations, and if we give up now, at least the hearts of our own people will be uneasy, and I hope that you will muster up your strength and capture Luoyang in one fell swoop." Seeing that Chu Mofeng was not in favor of withdrawing troops, everyone didn't dare to mention the matter of the division again.

I don't know how this matter spread to Chang'an, Li Yuan also sent a secret edict to let Li Shimin return to the army, and Li Shimin, who received the secret edict, explained that Luoyang must be conquered, and sent a staff officer to return to the court to face the situation in front of Chen's army.

Feng De, who returned to Beijing to face the saint, said to Li Yuan: "Although Wang Shichong has obtained many places, they are only subordinates with a slight connection, and the actual order can only govern the city of Luoyang, he has exhausted his wisdom, and the day of Kecheng is in the near future." If he returns to the division now, his forces will be reinvigorated, and with the alliance of various places, it will be difficult to destroy him in the future!"

So Gaozu listened to Li Shimin's advice, and Li Shimin wrote a letter to Wang Shichong, knowing that he would be harmful, but Wang Shichong did not reply, and at this time, Dou Jiande's army to assist Zheng Guo had already killed in the direction of Luoyang......

As the saying goes, the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment, and watch Dou Jiande swing his army westward into the captive, and then watch Wang Shichong break his family and fall into prison, I want to know what will happen next, and listen to the next decomposition......