In the large camp outside Yunyang County, the black-armored cavalry was stationed, and it was a hot training scene at this time, Chu Mofeng stood in the center of the field, looking at the black-armored cavalry running in a circle in full armor around him, sometimes nodding and sometimes shaking his head.

After entering September, although the weather will be cooler at night, the heat is still unabated during the day, and a group of black-armored cavalry are running in circles on the field, and they are already sweating after a few laps. The legs also couldn't be lifted as if they were filled with lead, and when everyone was about to reduce their speed, they only heard Chu Mofeng shouting in the middle of the field: "Who told you to reduce your speed without my order? Everyone add five more laps." ”

When everyone heard this, they began to curse in their hearts, because of Chu Mofeng's strict training methods, he had countless more 'titles' in the mouths of the black-armored cavalry, such as cold-faced judges, black-hearted sect heads, etc., and even privately commented that the reason why Chu Mofeng trained the black-armored cavalry so harshly was because the second prince fell in love with Ling'er girl, so the two of them were not in harmony, which caused Chu Mofeng to train these people to death every day.

However, rumors are rumors, they will always be self-defeating, and Chu Mofeng didn't take these words seriously, and still went his own way every day according to his training plan.

Just when Chu Mofeng was training the black-armored cavalry in full swing, Li Jiancheng, Liu Wenjing and others, who were far away in Yongfengcang, ushered in the most tragic battle so far.

When Li Jiancheng crossed the Yellow River to the west, he immediately joined Liu Wenjing, Wang Changkai and others, and then led the army all the way to occupy Yongfeng Cang, which is located at the mouth of the Guangtong Canal on the south bank of Weishui in the northeast of Huayin County, and then put on a posture of guarding.

At this time, Qu Tutong in Hedong County, on the east bank of the Yellow River, received a report from Tanma, saying that Li Yuan and others had forcibly crossed the Yellow River west and rushed in the direction of Daxing.

Li Jiancheng and others, who received the news, hurriedly mobilized troops and horses and decided to block Qu Tutong's troops near Tongguan.

In the early morning of this day, strong winds began to blow from Yongfengcang, and Li Shimin left a part of his men and horses to guard Yongfengcang to prevent the Sui army from sneaking up on the west side of Yongfengcang, while he took Liu Wenjing, Wang Changkai and his soldiers and horses to the vicinity of Tongguan as soon as possible.

Everyone rushed all the way to the direction of Tongguan, but the raging wind slowed down the speed of the army's march, and there were falling leaves flying in the sky from time to time, Liu Wenjing rode on the horse, shielded the wind in front of him with his sleeves, glanced at the sky, and then turned his head to Li Jiancheng, who was walking side by side, and shouted loudly: "Eldest prince, the wind is too strong, and the last general may not have time to intercept and kill Qu Tutong's soldiers and horses." If he joins forces with Liu Gang, the general of Tongguan, it will be even more difficult for us to defend Tongguan at that time. ”

Li Jiancheng listened to Liu Wenjing's words, thought for a moment against the wind, and then called a herald and said loudly to him: "Go and tell General Wang Changkai and ask him to lead his men and horses to the southern city of Tongguan as soon as possible, and strive to take this place." ”

The herald received the order and turned around and ran towards the middle of the army, and after a while, a team was separated from Li Jiancheng's army and rushed in the direction of Tongguan.

With the continuous advancement of the army, the wind at this time gradually weakened the momentum, Li Shimin and Liu Wenjing saw this and hurriedly ordered the army to continue to move forward, and finally found the traces of Qu Tutong's army thirty miles away from Tongguan.

With an order, Li Jiancheng's troops quickly set up a defensive position, just waiting for Qu Tutong's army to arrive, and at this time, Qu Tutong, who was in a hurry, did not know the situation ahead at all, and ran towards Tongguan wholeheartedly.

After turning a corner, Qu Tutong was about to order the army behind him to follow quickly, only to hear the pro-soldiers beside him shout: "My lord, beware." As the words fell, Qu Tutong was thrown off the horse by his own soldiers.

Seeing this scene, Qu Tutong suddenly shouted, "Quickly support the shield formation, there is an enemy army ahead." After saying that, he got up from the ground and found a hidden corner to hide under the escort of the shield-raising soldiers.

After a rain of arrows, Qu Tutong's men and horses were caught off guard by being beaten, and hundreds of people were killed and wounded, those who were killed by an arrow were fine, and death was nothing more than an ornament on the battlefield, and those who were dying after being shot made an unusually painful wail from their mouths, which reached the ears of the rest of the soldiers without listening, as if a sharp claw was constantly scratching everyone's nerves.

When a soldier saw his comrade fall to the ground and tried to rush out and pull him back, who ran to the comrade and flew a sharp arrow from a distance, which pierced his kneecap, and the soldier was also hit by the arrow and fell to the ground, becoming a member of the army lying on the ground wailing.

Seeing this scene, Qu Tutong couldn't help but tear his eyes, and shouted loudly: "Don't go out, don't go out if you don't want to die." ”

As soon as the words fell, I heard a calm voice on the other side: "I wonder if the leader of the army on the opposite side is General Qu Tutong Qu?"

"The old woman is Qu Tutong, I don't know who is the general leading the army on the other side?" Qu Tutong hurriedly replied when he heard someone ask, thinking to himself which general under Li Yuan could actually calculate his own marching route.

"I am Li Jiancheng, the eldest son of the Duke of Tang, dare to ask General Qu, where is my younger brother Li Zhiyun now?

"That kid was escorted away by people from Chang'an not long after you fled back to Taiyuan, and the old man didn't know much about the specific life and death. When Li Zhiyun was mentioned, Qu Tutong thought of the child with a beautiful face, and he suddenly felt a little unbearable in his heart, most of the people who were taken away from Chang'an were dead, but the poor child was only fourteen years old.

Thinking of this, Qu Tutong shouted loudly: "Master Li, the old man advises you to put down the weapons in your hands, go back and persuade your father, give up the idea of rebellion at this time, and send a letter of resignation to your majesty to return to your hometown, maybe your majesty can spare him for his capital crimes for the sake of serving the country for many years, you are still young, you must not do anything to disobey the court." ”

Listening to Qu Tutong's words, Li Jiancheng smiled disdainfully and said: "General Qu, if you raise all the troops to resist the imperial court today, don't you really know what the reason is? Or are you always deceiving yourself?"

Although the two of them asked and answered, the movements in their hands did not stop for a moment, only to see Li Jiancheng make a gesture around Liu Wenjing's back, signaling Liu Wenjing to intercept Qu Tutong from the side, Liu Wenjing nodded after seeing Li Jiancheng's gesture, and then signaled some of the soldiers under his command to outflank Qu Tutong under his own leadership.

And Qu Tutong signaled his soldiers to do a good job of defense to avoid being attacked by Li Jiancheng's troops, and at the same time shouted loudly: "Master Li, didn't they rebel because they were bewitched by others to make such a rebellious move?"

"Hahahahaha, General Qu really likes to laugh and bewitch, are you all fools in the world? The imperial court has lost wars abroad for many years, and it is about to let the Turkic dogs hit the doorstep, but what about the internal? What else will it do except increase taxes and build a large number of civil projects?"

Speaking of this, Li Jiancheng stretched out his hand and motioned for the archers to start aiming at the approximate place where Qu Tutong was hiding, and there was a great intention that Qu Tutong would shoot him on the spot as soon as he showed his head. Then he said: "The people of the world have long been miserable, but what about Yang Guang? In addition to favoring traitorous ministers, framing Zhongliang, and wantonly building other courtyards, is this what an emperor should do?"

Hearing Li Jiancheng mention His Majesty today, Qu Tutong shouted: "Master Li, it is a capital crime to criticize Your Majesty without authorization, you say ..... this."

Before Qu Tutong could finish speaking, Li Jiancheng interrupted his words and said angrily: "I said General Qu, put away your foolish loyalty, he Yang Guang is your Majesty, but not my Majesty, from the moment my father decided to abolish the Honorable Virtuous and support the Acting King, he is no longer our Majesty, to be honest, how could the first emperor look away and make Yang Guang the crown prince? You look at the things he did after he succeeded to the throne, compared with the former crown prince Yang Yong, it is not half a star. ”

Hearing that Li Jiancheng mentioned the former prince Yang Yong, Qu Tutong also felt a trace of helplessness in his heart, yes, the original prince Yang Yong, although he was a little luxurious in personal use, but he appointed meritocracy, willing to listen to persuasion, and at the same time pay attention to public opinion, care about the people, but who knows about the royal affairs.

Thinking of this, Qu Tutong was about to speak, and Li Jiancheng's voice came from the front, "General Qu, there are some things I think you and your subordinates don't know yet, right?" In the Jinyang Palace under the jurisdiction of my father, many of the five-baht coins stored in the treasury and the ropes that string the money have been rotten, and the gold, silver and jade stored have long been covered with a thick layer of dust, as for those silk silks and satins, many of them have been eaten by mice, but even so, the drought in Guanzhong, the floods in the south of the Yangtze River, and the looting of the border areas by the Turks, your good emperor did not take out the slightest to help the people, but toured the south of the Yangtze River to build a palace, who do you say such an emperor can support him?"

Li Jiancheng's words immediately stunned Qu Tutong, and then looked at the eyes of the soldiers under his command, Qu Tutong read a trace of strangeness in the eyes of most of them.

At this moment, he suddenly heard a shout from the opposite side, and then saw the army under Li Jiancheng's command rushing over with swords and guns. Seeing this, Qu Tutong hurriedly shouted: "The enemy is coming, the whole army is on alert, ready to fight." Then he took out the long knife at his waist and rushed towards Li Jiancheng's army with his own soldiers.

Just when the two sides were about to fight, Wang Changkai under Li Jiancheng and some soldiers had already rushed to the southern city of Tongguan, and Liu Gang, who was guarding this place, learned that there were rebels coming to attack the city, and his heart was also helpless.

I thought that Qu Tutong from Hedong could lead the army to come first, so as to alleviate the weakness of his defense, but who knew that what he was waiting for was the rebel army that he didn't want to see, but Liu Gang knew in his heart that once Tongguan was lost, not only would the back road of Hedong be cut off, but the rebels would easily resolve the offensive from the east by relying on the Yellow River and Tongguan Xiongcheng.

Thinking of this, Liu Gang had to lead his subordinates out of the city to face the battle, as soon as the two sides fought, Liu Gang had a feeling of increased pressure, because most of the old foundations led by Wang Changkai were left over from the battle of Huoyi, these people experienced life and death, and knew how to save their lives on the battlefield while killing and injuring the enemy efficiently.

I saw that on the battlefield, Wang Changkai's side seemed to be messy, but in fact, several people formed a combat team, and then cooperated with the team next to him, advancing forward at a uniform speed. Seeing this, Liu Gang was shocked in his heart, and hurriedly resisted a U-turn and ran, at this time, Wang Changkai, who was leading the team to kill in front of the military formation, saw this, clamped his hip and got off the horse, and rushed towards the direction of Liu Gang's escape with the spear in his hand.

As soon as he saw his commander chasing the enemy, the soldiers under his command quickly divided into several squads, followed closely by Wang Changkai's side, cleared the obstacles along the way for him, and chased him to a trench, only to hear Wang Changkai shout: "Where is Liu Gang running? Suffer death!" and then threw the spear in his hand towards Liu Gang's heart.

Hearing someone shouting behind him, Liu Gang was suddenly frightened, raised the horsewhip in his hand and was about to urge the horse under his crotch to move forward, only to feel a chill in his heart, as if something had pierced in, thinking of this, he hurriedly lowered his head and looked at his chest, only to see a glowing spear tip coming out of his chest, and blood dripping from it.

Immediately, a pain spread along his chest to all corners of his body, and before he could recover his strength, he only felt a chill on the back of his neck, and the last picture in his eyes was that he suddenly flew high, and a spear was stuck in his back and falling from the horse, and then he lost consciousness in front of him.

Pulling out the spear behind Liu Gang and putting the sword in his hand back into the scabbard, Wang Chang Kaice immediately stepped forward to pick up Liu Gang's head, raised it high above his head and shouted to the field: "The enemy general Liu Gang will give the head, and you will surrender quickly." ”

Seeing this, the people who followed shouted one after another, and for a while, the sound spread throughout the battlefield, and the soldiers who went out with Liu Gang threw down their weapons and squatted on the ground with their heads in their hands.

Seeing this, Wang Changkai shouted: "Leave a part of the men and horses to receive the surrendered troops, and the rest of the people will follow me to occupy the southern city of Duwei as soon as possible." After speaking, he threw Liu Gang's head to the personal soldiers behind him, and took the lead towards Duwei Nancheng.

At this time, Qu Tutong, who was still fighting with Li Jiancheng's troops near Tongguan, did not know that Duwei Nancheng had been occupied by Wang Changkai, and the men and horses on both sides were stuck together on the battlefield, fighting non-stop. However, Li Jiancheng's side attacked with bows and arrows first, and some of Qu Tutong's men were cowardly, and the balance of victory gradually tilted towards Li Jiancheng's side at this moment.

As the defensive strength of Qu Tutong's headquarters became weaker and weaker, Li Jiancheng put the last team in his hand into the battlefield, and with the addition of this team, Qu Tutong's side on the battlefield suddenly felt the pressure doubled, and had no choice but to retreat while fighting, retreating in the direction of Duwei Nancheng.

Seeing this, Li Jiancheng was not in a hurry to catch up, and divided a group of people and horses to clean up the battlefield, and he and Liu Wenjing and the rest of the men and horses hung tightly behind Qu Tutong.

When he came to Duwei Nancheng, Qu Tutong ordered his subordinates to go to call the door, but who knew that it was ushered in but it was a rain of arrows, at this time Qu Tutong knew that Duwei Nancheng had been occupied by Li Jiancheng's department at this moment, and had no choice but to retreat to Duwei Beicheng with the remnants of men and horses, and Li Jiancheng and Liu Wenjing's troops also entered Duwei Nancheng. At this point, Li Yuan's strategic goal of guarding Tongguan was officially completed, Li Jiancheng left Wang Changkai and Liu Wenjing to guard here, and he led his headquarters to quickly return to Yongfengcang, waiting for good news from Li Shimin's direction.

Li Shimin, who was far away in Yunyang, didn't know that his eldest brother had choked the choke point from Luoyang to Chang'an, and at this moment he was standing on the playground, watching the black-armored cavalry under Chu Mofeng training his men.

On this day, Chu Mofeng had a whim, so Li Shimin found a few woodcutters from the city, went out of the city to cut some thick tree trunks and came back, and ordered the black-armored cavalry to carry the wood and start walking slowly according to the distribution method of several people.

The black-armored cavalry under the field was crying bitterly, and Chu Mofeng on the side kept shaking his head, Li Shimin walked up to Chu Mofeng and said, "Seeing that you have been shaking your head, are you still not satisfied?"

Chu Mofeng nodded and said: "In the next step, the longbowmen of the black-armored cavalry will be divided into crossbowmen, and in addition, you can see where you can make some sturdy maces, I will draw some pikemen to replace them with this kind of weapon, and the mace is the best weapon for rushing into battle." ”

Listening to Chu Mofeng's request, Li Shimin nodded, and hurriedly ordered the soldiers around him to go to the foundry to give the order. After the soldiers walked away, Li Shimin said slowly: "I don't know what happened to the eldest brother and my father, tomorrow we are ready to set off, and strive to reach the northwest of Daxing as soon as possible, how to complete the strategic deployment of my father." ”

"Cheng, I'll let them stop training and go back to rest in a while, so as not to delay the start of the army tomorrow. "I heard that I was going to leave tomorrow, and Chu Mofeng didn't dare to train too hard.

On the second day, Li Shimin's army slowly left Yunyang County and walked towards the next stop. The next stop is a very special place for Li Shimin, Wugong County, Li Shimin's birthplace. When the army came to Wugong County, Li Shimin looked at the slightly dilapidated city wall of the county, and said to Chu Mofeng with a smile: "This is the place where I was born, so try not to move if you can, after all, I still have feelings for this place." ”

Chu Mofeng nodded and said: "Then when you fight Chang'an, don't be merciful, there is still my family's former residence in the city, don't destroy it for me, if you destroy it, I won't have fun with you." ”

Li Shimin looked at Chu Mofeng with interest and said, "Your family's hometown?"

"Fart, don't tell me you don't know, I think after the first time we met, you have already found out what my identity is, since you and I don't want to break it, then don't say it. Seeing that Li Shimin was pretending to be confused, Chu Mofeng smiled disdainfully, urged him to step forward, and walked towards Wugong County.

Seeing this, Li Shimin was afraid that he would make a mistake, so he hurriedly chased after him, and the two just walked side by side, only to see the gate of Wugong County slowly open, and a few people dressed as officials came out of it, and shouted to Li Shimin: "Wugong County welcomes the second son." ”

Li Shimin laughed when he saw this, and then led Chu Mofeng to walk up, only to hear a person who looked like a county man said: "Since Wugong County is the birthplace of the second son, then it will definitely support the second son. I don't know how many days the second prince will rest in the city this time? Xia Guan ordered to go down and prepare grain and grass for the army. ”

"I'm going to start today, and there are still several counties along the way to fight, so it's too late to rest. Li Shimin waved his hand and said to the county: "Distribute the grain from the official warehouse in the city to the people, and then there will be grain from the direction of Taiyuan to replenish you." ”

Then Li Shimin and Chu Mofeng turned around and walked out of the city, came to the army and said loudly: "Today, we will not enter the city to repair, continue to march towards the next station, and we will rest after the end of the day." ”

The generals nodded yes when they heard this, and then the army rushed towards the direction of Xu, after the army arrived in Xugu County, after a little rest, they began to forcibly attack the city, as Li Shimin's headquarters was getting closer and closer to Daxing, the counties along the way had the intention of surrendering, and Xuwu County did not immediately open the city and surrender like Wugong County, but put on a long-term defensive posture, firmly nailed to the place.

After attacking twice in a row without effect, Li Shimin was not only a little discouraged, but Chu Mofeng beside him patted him on the shoulder when he saw this and said: "If you succeed in attacking the city every time, it is either that the defenders are too bad, or you are unlucky, but in my opinion, if you fail to attack the city, find out the reason, and then think about how to fight, don't be discouraged." ”

Hearing that his sworn brother comforted him, Li Shimin nodded, took out a water bladder and poured a sip of water and said, "Then let's lead the people and horses to try it again?"

Chu Mofeng shook his head and said, "I'll take someone to rush once, and you can see if there is any difference between it and your way." After speaking, he drew a long knife and shouted to the men and horses behind him: "The black-armored cavalry will charge with me and tear through the formation in front, the pikemen and sword and shield soldiers will follow closely to harvest, the archers will follow and pay attention to the counterattack on the city wall, and the siege vehicles will then charge the city gate, and the whole army will attack and prepare to charge." ”

As soon as the words fell, the horse under his crotch rushed forward, while Li Shimin was closely staring at Chu Mofeng's movements in the rear, and with Chu Mofeng's arrangement, the county town of Xu, which had failed to capture twice in a row, easily broke the city gate.

Seeing this, Li Shimin hurriedly led the army to kill it, at this time there was no resistance in the city, except for a few stubborn corpses on the street, there was no one at the moment, Li Shimin saw this and ordered the soldiers under his command to keep to themselves, and then walked towards the direction of the county government with Chu Mofeng.

When I came to the county government hall, I found that the officials in charge of the city had all run away before the arrival of Li Shimin's army, leaving only one catcher sitting in the county government hall at the moment, seeing Li Shimin and Chu Mofeng coming, this person put the saber in his hand on the table, and said to the two: "There are no officials in the city except for the people, if you want to kill people to vent your anger, then kill me, don't persecute the people in the city." ”

Seeing this, Chu Mofeng smiled and said: "Don't worry, our soldiers will not persecute the people in the city, I see that you are also a kind and righteous person, willing to sacrifice yourself to protect the people in the city, are you willing to be a county magistrate and truly protect the people?"

"You don't want to kill me, and you still want me to be an official?" the catcher looked at the two of them in surprise, as if he had heard something incredible. Seeing this, Li Shimin, who was on the side, nodded and said, "This strong man, please rest assured, we are absolutely the same." We're leaving tomorrow, and I'll leave it to you for now. ”

After speaking, the two turned around and left the county office, and walked on the street Chu Mofeng said with a smile: "Look, there are still people who really think about the people these days, so every time you enter a city, you must first collect talents." ”

Hearing this, Li Shimin smiled, and said to a personal soldier beside him: "Go and call Fang Xuanling, I want to ask him how many talents he has collected for me?"

After a while, a man in his thirties ran over sweating profusely, bowed to Li Shimin and Chu Mofeng and said, "Xuan Ling has seen the Governor of the Right Army, and I have seen Chu Shaoxia. ”

As soon as he saw Fang Xuanling coming, Li Shimin hurriedly turned over and dismounted to help him up, and then said to Chu Mofeng: "This is the Fang Xuanling I mentioned to you just now, he defected when he was in Xicheng, this person doesn't love gold and silver treasures, he only likes to recruit talents, so now some of the civil officials under my command are recruited by him." ”

Chu Mofeng saluted Fang Xuanling and said, "Mr. Fang's famous boy has already been like thunder, and when I saw it today, he was really a talent." ”

Fang Xuanling was about to reply, when he saw Li Shimin stretch out his hand and pat Chu Mofeng's hand and said, "I said you don't drag the bag here." Hurry up and make arrangements, let's leave tomorrow for the army, Xuanling and I will go to the county government and see you in the camp later. After speaking, he pulled Fang Xuanling and walked in the direction of the county office.

Chu Mofeng did not entangle when he saw this, he rode his horse in the direction of the camp, and on the second day, the army started again, and with Li Shimin moving forward with a great victory along the way, he was invincible all the way, and finally arrived at the northwest of Daxing City at the end of September, completing the encirclement plan set by Li Yuan.

Subsequently, Li Shimin wrote a letter to Li Yuan, informing him that he was going to Daxing for the last battle after the army......

As the saying goes, the encirclement is unbreakable, and look at Li Yuan's stay in Chang'an, Yang Yu's ascension to the throne and the emperor, I want to know what will happen next, and listen to the next decomposition......