Chapter 161: The Beacon Flames Guanzhong Dading

The book continued from the above, saying that Li Yuan, Li Shimin and Chu Mofeng sat on the ground, put wine in a jade bowl, and after Li Shimin poured the wine, he was about to take the bowl to salute Li Yuan first, but Li Yuan took the bowl one step ahead of him, and said earnestly: "Erlang, my father knows that I sent you to Changchun Palace to guard at the beginning of last year, because my father acted a little abruptly for my father, I know that you are wronged in your heart, and I hope you don't get angry with your father." ”

"Father, why do you say this, what your sword is pointing to is always the direction of your son's progress, and the meaning of your son's existence is to open up territory for your father to complete reunification. Seeing this, Li Shimin held the bowl and said with a smile: "How can a son be angry with his father?"

Seeing this, Chu Mofeng on the side couldn't help but snicker, this father and son are really interesting, one is not smiling in the ordinary court, the other has a black mouth and a black face, you have to drink some wine to reveal your true feelings, it is also interesting to think about it, thinking of this Chu Mofeng couldn't help but laugh in a low voice.

Who knew that Li Yuan on the side suddenly turned his head to Chu Mofeng and said: "You kid is very good, it's not in vain that the old man valued you so much, although you are now the prince of Laoshizi is the old man's own seal, but you also shot it yourself, Erlang has you as a good brother by your side, the old man is deeply grateful." ”

I saw Chu Mofeng pursed his lips and said angrily: "I said old man, don't put gold on your face, if it wasn't for Brother Shimin's sincere invitation to me to go out of the mountain, it is estimated that I would have returned to Zhangye to live a small life by now." Speaking of this, Chu Mofeng suddenly said with a straight face: "But to be honest, you and Brother Shimin are indeed sincerely thinking about the people of the world, if it weren't for this, I wouldn't do my best to assist you." ”

I saw that after listening to Chu Mofeng's words, Li Yuan drank all the wine in the bowl, and shouted: "Okay, a good sentence for the sake of the people of the world, the old man swears that he must dominate the world in his lifetime and create a peaceful and prosperous world for the people of the world." ”

After that, Li Shimin hurriedly poured Li Yuan more wine, and the three of them sat on the ground like this, singing and laughing until late at night.

On the 29th, Li Yuan ended his trip to Pu Yuan and set off to return to Chang'an, before leaving, Li Yuan took Li Shimin and Chu Mofeng's hands and told them to be sure to quell the Guanzhong Rebellion this year to ensure that they could have more troops and energy to deal with Wang Shichong and Dou Jiande.

After Li Yuan left Pu Gan, Li Shimin and Chu Mofeng, who were concerned about the situation in Jiangzhou, immediately led the army to leave Pu Kang and headed in the direction of Baibi.

Five days later, the army arrived at Baibi City, at this time Yin Kaishan and others, who were responsible for staying behind, saw that it was Li Shimin and Chu Mofeng, so they opened the gate that had been closed for a long time, and let everyone enter the city.

On the second day, Li Shimin beat the drum and gathered the generals to be rewarded, and what was surprising was that all the soldiers in the entire Baibi camp were rewarded, which made everyone in charge of defending the city surprised, so the generals who couldn't bear it went to ask Chu Mofeng, and were told that the reward was given because of the merit in defending the city, which made everyone feel at ease.

After resting for a few days, Chu Mofeng once again sent a large number of scouts to spy on the news, while he soaked in the camp every day to strengthen the training of all the soldiers, and in this way, the time turned to February.

On Gengzi Day (the sixth day of the first month), Li Yuan went out of the palace again to visit Huayin, and made a short stay in Huayin, and Liu Wuzhou, who learned the news, was ready to move, so he sent troops to invade Luzhou in a big way, and captured the eldest son and Huguan County in an instant.

Guo Ziwu, the assassin of Luzhou, was unable to resist the offensive of Liu Wu and Zhou's army, and Li Yuan was furious when he heard this, so he sent his general, Wang Xingmin, a native of Hedong, to aid Guo Ziwu.

However, Wang Xingmin and Guo Ziwu were not in harmony, and before leaving, Li Yuan's suspicion was committed again, so he privately summoned Wang Xingmin to give him a confidential message, and gave him a secret decree saying that once he found that there were collaborators in Luzhou, he could cut them down first and then play.

After Wang Xingmin led the army to Luzhou, he was not in a hurry to investigate, but the flying pigeon sent a book to Baibi for instructions, and after Baibi received the flying pigeon message, he quickly replied to Wang Xingmin, only to see a few words printed on the note and said: "If there is a wind and grass, quickly cut it." ”

After getting the acquiescence of Baibi, Wang Xingmin began to investigate, who knew that before the investigation began, someone reported that Guo Ziwu was going to betray the Tang Dynasty, and Wang Xingmin, who got the news, quickly detained Guo Ziwu and beheaded him for public display. Later, after Wang Xingmin reported the matter to Baibi, he wrote to Li Yuan to report the matter.

However, coincidentally, on the 11th of Yisi, Liu Wuzhou sent troops to invade Luzhou again, but was quickly defeated by Wang Xingmin's clever plan, killing more than 800 enemy soldiers and capturing more than 1,000 prisoners. As soon as this news was transmitted back to the imperial court, it indirectly confirmed Guo Ziwu's rebellion against the Tang Dynasty.

After Li Yuan received the news, he was furious in the court, angrily reprimanding Guo Ziwu for his rebellious behavior, and then affirmed Wang Xingmin's behavior, and at the same time ordered Wang Xingmin to be rewarded.

Just when Li Yuan was furious in the court, Chu Mofeng sat in Li Shimin's study with a note and laughed, "What's so funny, you've been reading a broken note for a morning, I really don't know what you're laughing at?" Seeing that he couldn't stop laughing at the touch of the Buddha, Li Shimin couldn't help but be a little surprised, took a teacup and added some tea to Chu Mofeng, turned around and sat down at the desk again.

"There is something you may not know yet, Guo Ziwu has always been your eldest brother's person, this time let's let Wang Xingmin cut off one of your eldest brother's arms, it is estimated that he vomited blood in the capital, right?" I saw Chu Mofeng stop laughing and said with a solemn face.

Who knew that Li Shimin listened to Chu Mofeng's words, and did not show any joy, but said angrily: "I know what preparations you are making, but you can't just kill a general just because of this, right?"

Who knew that Chu Mofeng took out a booklet from his arms and threw it in front of Li Shimin, and said coldly: "Damn, if it weren't for the master, he is now the grandfather of the country, and the world knows that the flower on the other side is my person, I myself want to go to Luzhou to cut off the head of this guy, you can see for yourself, see what good things this guy has done." ”

Seeing Chu Mofeng suddenly go crazy, Li Shimin realized that something was wrong, and hurriedly picked up the booklet and browsed it carefully, it turned out that since Guo Ziwu arrived in Luzhou, he pretended to resist the garrison on the surface, but behind the scenes, he often passed through his wife and brother and Liu Wu Zhou Fangmei, and the counties under the jurisdiction of Luzhou were often plundered, and more than half of it was this person's 'credit'.

Originally, after Chu Mofeng's secret agent investigated the matter clearly, he reported it to Chu Mofeng as soon as possible, and Chu Mofeng originally wanted to send Liu Feiyan and them to Luzhou to hoe and rape, but because the imperial court never sent a suitable general to take over the garrison work in Luzhou, the matter was delayed again and again.

It happened that at the beginning of February, I learned that the imperial court intended to send Wang Xingmin to Luzhou, and it happened that Zhao Xin of the Tiance Army was a cousin of this person, and when he was in Chang'an before, Wang Xingmin also came to visit Chu Mofeng through Zhao Xin's door, so Chu Mofeng wrote a letter ordering Zhao Xin to return to Chang'an quickly and hand over the letter to Wang Xingmin.

After receiving the letter, Wang Xingmin did not rush to open it, but cautiously asked Zhao Xin about Chu Mofeng's intentions, Zhao Xin simply told him everything to act cheaply, and Wang Xingmin, who understood it in his heart, had a later move.

After receiving the report that Wang Xingmin defeated Liu Wuzhou's attack, Chu Mofeng wrote to Li Yuan in the name of the Ministry of War, imploring Wang Xingmin to be appointed as the garrison of Luzhou, responsible for the defense of Luzhou, and Li Yuan received Chu Mofeng's report, and readily agreed without saying a word, so Wang Xingmin was even more determined to join Li Shimin.

In view of the previous Xia County's Lu Chongmao gave the Tang Dynasty a little 'surprise', the Tang Dynasty, which has never suffered a loss, sent the general Sang Xianhe and others to attack Lu Chongmao in Xia County in Jiayin (20th), and learned that the Tang Dynasty sent troops to come, and Lu Chongmao, who had not yet recovered, couldn't help but grit his teeth with hatred for Liu Wuzhou, thinking why he wanted to attack Puzhou for those Xu treasures.

Thinking of this, Lu Chongmao went out of the city to meet the battle, but was killed by Sang Xianhe and others three in and three out, so that even Xia County was lost, and in the end, Song Jingang, who was far away in Huzhou, couldn't stand it, and sent Wei Chi Jingde to take a small road to lead troops to reinforce Lu Chongmao, and formed a confrontation with the Tang army on the outskirts of Xia County.

At this time, Li Yuan, who was sitting on the front line of Hedong, came up with an ingenious plan, he sent someone to secretly infiltrate the city of Xia County, announced the pardon of Lu Chongmao's crimes, appointed him as the assassin of Xiazhou, and ordered him to launch a surprise attack on Wei Chi Jingde.

Unexpectedly, things were being planned, but they were discovered by Wei Chi Jingde, who preemptively arrested Lu Chongmao and killed him, and completely controlled Xia County.

Sang Xianhe saw that the siege was hopeless, so he had to lead his troops to retreat. Soon Wei Chi Jingde also led the army to retreat, and LΓΌ Chongmao's remnants raised troops to occupy Xia County and continued to resist the Tang army.

At this time, a new force suddenly emerged in the Central Plains, which shocked all parties, and this person was the grandson of Yang Guang, the emperor of Sui Yang, and the widow of Yang Xuan, the king of Qi.

In March of the 14th year of the Great Cause (618), Yu Wenhua killed Emperor Yang of Sui in Jiangdu, and Yang Zhengdao's father, Yang Yong, the king of Qi, and his two elder brothers were killed together.

In the second year of Wude (619), Dou Jiande defeated Yu Wenhua, and Yang Zhengdao and his grandmother, Xiao Shi (Empress Xiao), the empress of Emperor Yang of Sui, fell into the hands of Dou Jiande. In April of the same year, Dou Jiande named Yang Zhengdao as the Duke of Yun.

However, in early February, in view of the fact that Liu Wuzhou, Song Jingang and Liang Shidu were still inactive, and the Turks intended to occupy the Central Plains, the Turkic Luo Khan sent an envoy to Dou Jiande to welcome Empress Xiao and Yang Zhengdao to the Turks, supported Yang Zhengdao as the king of Sui, and allocated all the officials and people of the Central Plains who remained in the Turkic territory to Yang Zhengdao to govern, and restored the "Great Sui" regime, known as the Later Sui in history.

Yang Zhengdao set up hundreds of officials, all of whom lived in Dingxiang County during the Sui Dynasty in accordance with the Sui Dynasty system, and had more than 10,000 subordinates.

Chu Mofeng, who heard the news, was not as indignant as Li Shimin, but shook his head disdainfully, and instead devoted his energy to pacifying the Guanzhong Rebellion.

On the second day of March (the second day of the first lunar month), news came from Haozhou that Liu Wuzhou sent his general Zhang Wansui to lead his troops into Haozhou, originally thinking of capturing Haozhou to give the Tang Dynasty a disadvantage, but he never wanted to be repelled by Li Zhongwen and killed and wounded thousands of prisoners.

On the 21st of Jiashen, Zhang Lun, the deputy governor of the Tang marching army, defeated Liu Wuzhou in Haozhou, capturing and beheading more than 1,000 people. Feeling that he had been passively defending the city all along, this greatly fueled Liu Wuzhou's arrogance, so Zhang Lun, the Duke of Xihe, and Li Zhongwen, the Duke of Zhenxiang, led troops to approach Shizhou, and Liu Jizhen was really timid and pretended to surrender.

On the 22nd of Yiyou, Tang appointed Liu Jizhen as the governor of Shizhou, gave him the surname Li, and named him the king of Pengshan County, and after Chu Mofeng learned the news, he informed Li Zhongwen in the form of a letter, and Li Jizhen was more wary of this at this time.

Liu Wuzhou, who failed one after another, became more and more courageous for some reason, and attacked Haozhou repeatedly like crazy, but was defeated by Li Zhongwen. Due to the successive battles caused Song Jingang's army to run out of food, Ding Weiri (14th), Song Jingang, who had exhausted the last trace of grain and grass, fled north, after learning the news, Li Shimin, the king of Qin, together with Chu Mofeng, the Duke of Qi, led his troops to pursue.

The two of them mainly attacked with cavalry, and finally caught up with Xunxiang in Luzhou, and defeated him after a burst of killing.

Seeing this, Chu Mofeng and Li Shimin hurriedly pursued the victory, and walked more than 200 miles in a day and night, during which they fought dozens of battles one after another.

When we pursued to Gaobi Ridge, the chief steward Liu Hongji (who escaped and ran back to Baibi) grabbed the reins of his horse and advised: "We have defeated the enemy, pursued and fled the enemy here, and the merit is enough, and we continue to go deeper, don't we cherish ourselves? Besides, the soldiers are hungry and tired, so they should stay and camp here, and wait until the soldiers and horses have all the food and grass, and then it is not too late to attack." ”

Who knew that Li Shimin said earnestly: "Song Jingang had no choice but to flee, and the army's morale was discouraged; it was difficult to make meritorious contributions, but it was easy to fail, opportunities were rare, and it was easy to lose, so we must take this opportunity to eliminate him." If we hold back and give him time to think about countermeasures and strengthen his defenses, we will not be able to defeat him easily. I have devoted all my allegiance to my country, how can I only care about my own body?"

Liu Hongji saw that he couldn't dissuade him, so he had to look at Chu Mofeng next to him, hoping that he could dissuade Li Shimin, who knew that Chu Mofeng said slowly: "Old Liu, it's not that I don't persuade His Royal Highness the King of Qin, I know that you are for the good of the army, but there is only one chance, if we don't take advantage of the situation to annihilate the Song King Kong Department in one fell swoop, once the war drags on to the end of the year, it will only be unfavorable to us." ”

Liu Hongji saw that his marshal also said the same, so he had to give up dissuasion and order to chase after the horses, and the soldiers did not dare to mention hunger again.

At noon on the 20th, they arrived at the southern end of the Bird Mouse Valley, and finally caught up with Song Jingang's main force. Song Jingang was in a hurry to be chased and killed, so he simply led the main force of 50,000 or 60,000 to stop, backed the mountain, and counterattacked the pursuers.

Song Jingang in the crowd was chased by Li Shimin behind him for several days, and he was also exhausted, seeing that Li Shimin only brought a little cavalry, he couldn't help but lick his lips with a cruel smile, and said to Wei Chi Jingde and Xunxiang: "Damn, I have been chased by this group of dogs for several days, today Lao Tzu is going to kill the dogs, and after a while, the two of you are responsible for attacking Li Shimin's team head-on, I want to outflank him from the flanks, let's kill him for a while." ”

Wei Chi Jingde and Xun Xiang listened to Song Jingang's words, first looked into the Tang army array, and saw that the front leader was not Li Shimin, the king of Qin, but a man wearing full body armor, and behind him were neatly four hundred black-armored cavalry.

Song Jingang had never fought with the Tiance Army before, and he didn't know the reason, so he couldn't help but be furious: "What Tiance Tianshu, you two just need to go into battle to kill the enemy, do you understand?"

The two of them couldn't help frowning when they heard this, and then took the order to go, and the Tang soldiers who were pursuing saw that the target in front of them had stopped and not left, and immediately rushed forward excitedly, only to see Chu Mofeng shouting: "Heaven kill, sky spear with me to rush into battle, sky shield cover, sky bow is responsible for intercepting in situ, be sure to kill with one hit." ”

As soon as the words fell, Chu Mofeng closed his face, picked up a spear on Desheng's hook, and rushed towards it, and it was Yu Chi Jingde and Xun Xiang who came to meet him.

I saw Chu Mofeng sneer, waved the spear in his hand, and used a simple version of the Luo family's marksmanship, first piercing the eyebrows of Xunxiang, and then taking advantage of Xunxiang's sword to block, he suddenly withdrew the gun backwards, and the tip of the gun in his hand was pulled horizontally, and Xunxiang was instantly pumped out of the horse.

As soon as Wei Chi Jingde saw his partner fall off the horse, he didn't care about investigating his situation, so he raised his spear and stabbed at Chu Mofeng, who was about to recruit him, who knew that Chu Mofeng did not play cards according to the routine, and the right hand holding the spear was gently loosened, allowing the spear to fall to the ground, and he took out the burning sky from behind, and gently put it in front of him.

At this time, it was Yu Chi Jingde's turn to accept the recruitment, Chu Mofeng smiled slightly when he saw this, and his right elbow slammed lightly against Yu Chi Jingde's right hand holding the spear, and Yu Chi Jingde only felt a pain coming down his wrist, and then his right hand was slightly loosened, and the spear of Zhangba came out of his hand in an instant.

And Chu Mofeng knew that there were two iron shovels behind this person, and before this person turned around to draw the shovel, the whole person lightly stirruped, and instantly left his mount, supported the horse's head with one hand, and kicked his feet at the faΓ§ade of Wei Chi Jingde.

Seeing Chu Mofeng's feet enlarged in his eyes, in desperation, Wei Chi Jingde had no choice but to put up his fists and block hard, only to feel a powerful force coming from his arm, Yu Chi Jingde flew off the horse with pain, and after rolling on the ground several times, he went with Xun Xiang, who had already fallen off the horse.

As soon as he saw that the enemy commander would be knocked away by the commander, all the soldiers were greatly boosted, and the spears, knives, and arrows were desperately beckoned to the enemy. Thousands of infantry were intercepted by the Tang cavalry and had to kneel down in rows as prisoners.

The cavalry of Wei Chi Jingde saw that they were alone, and hurriedly retreated backwards, and the Tang cavalry pursued the victory and chased them to the foot of the mountain in one go. The two sides fought until the evening, and as the follow-up more than 10,000 infantry arrived at the battlefield under the leadership of Changsun Shunde, Li Shimin immediately ordered Changsun Shunde to lead the infantry army to outflank the enemy from the west side, and the cavalry led by Zhai Changsun and Qin Wutong was covered. The arrival of this support army completely broke the will of Song Jingang's army. Before they could reach the west side and block the enemy's retreat, Song Jingang led his army to flee north from the west side.

Because the sky was getting dark at this time, the line of sight was affected, and there were mountains and forests everywhere, so Song Jingang led a small part of the men and horses to escape, Li Shimin did not order to chase after him, but ordered the soldiers to clean up the battlefield, and killed more than 10,000 enemy soldiers and captured nearly 20,000 people.

That night, in the camp in the west of the Bird Mouse Valley, Li Shimin and others had not eaten for two days, had not taken off their battle robes for three days, and there was only one sheep in the whole army, so they ordered to share this sheep with the soldiers.

I saw Li Shimin holding the sheep soup that could shine the shadow, and said to the soldiers present: "Everyone, this king knows that you are very tired and hard this time, and this king is the same, but there are still tens of thousands of enemy troops waiting for us to harvest, if we let them go, then all our previous attacks and battles all the way will be in vain, and the men in our customs are all people who can endure hardships, do you have the confidence to kill with this king and Qi Guogong tomorrow?"

Everyone present held the bowl of steaming mutton soup and raised their arms and shouted: "Yes." Yes, yes. Seeing this scene, Chu Mofeng suddenly hummed the battle song of the Tiance Army--- "Qin Feng No Clothes", and many people present although they didn't know the big characters, but they would hum this song, and as more and more people joined, the voices gradually converged into a dragon and rushed to the sky.

That night, everyone slept in their clothes, and everyone who had recovered a little in the early morning of the second day got up one after another, and continued to rush forward under the leadership of Chu Mofeng and Li Shimin.

Bingchen (23rd), Yu Yun, the governor of Tang Shaanzhou, escaped from Song Jingang and fled back to the Tang army, and informed Li Shimin and Chu Mofeng that the Song Jingang Department in Jiexiu City had already run out of ammunition and food, after learning the news, Li Shimin led his troops to Jiexiu, and learned that Li Shimin led his troops to come again, Song Jingang couldn't help but scold.

At this time, there were nearly 20,000 people under the command of Song Jingang, so they went out of the west gate and lined up the battle formation with their backs to the city wall, which was seven miles long from north to south. Li Shimin sent the chief manager Li Shi to fight, but he never wanted to fight against him, and he showed a slight retreat, and was counterattacked by Song Jingang.

Seeing this scene, Li Shimin led the elite cavalry to attack from behind Song Jingang, and after learning that he was surrounded by his back, Song Jingang hurriedly ordered Yu Chi Jingde and Xun Xiang to lead troops to resist, who knew that the fate of the two was not good and met the Tiance army led by Chu Mofeng again, after a rain of arrows, Wei Chi Jingde and Xun Xiang had already figured out Chu Mofeng's attack path, but in the face of the Tiance army armed to the teeth in front of them, the two could not resist even if they tried their best, so they fled back to the city in defeat, and the Tiance army killed a total of 3,000 people.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Song Jingang took advantage of the chaos to escape on horseback, and learned that Song Jingang had fled again, Li Shimin ordered Jiexiu City to be surrounded, and he and Chu Mofeng led the troops to chase them out for dozens of miles.

Seeing that the pursuit was fruitless, he found that he went to the fortress-like stockade, and he came forward to shout before he knew that he had come to Zhang Nanbao. And here is actually by the Haozhou marching chief Fan Botong, Zhang Dezheng occupied the fortress for self-defense, Li Shimin took off his helmet and signaled to the fort, the defenders in the fort cheered after seeing it, and shed tears of joy. The retinue told the defenders that the king of Qin had not eaten yet, and the defenders offered turbid wine and coarse rice.

Seeing this, Li Shimin hurriedly shared food with everyone, and then ordered General Fan and Zhang Er to send someone to inform Li Zhongwen of Xihe that he would lead the army to meet under Jiexiu City tomorrow.

On the second day, the army surrounded Jiexiu City, Li Shimin followed Chu Mofeng's suggestion to send people into the city to persuade him to surrender, Wei Chi Jingde and Xun Xiang learned that the Tang Dynasty came to persuade them to surrender, and after a little consideration, they gladly opened the door to welcome Li Shimin into the city, so far the last pass to Jinyang, the land of Longxing, has been opened.

At this time, Liu Wuzhou, who was in Jinyang, learned that Jiexiu had fallen, and quickly fled from Jinyang with his cronies and followers in horror, and ran in the direction of the Turks; Song Jingang, who returned to Jinyang, originally wanted to rely on the remnants of Jinyang to resist for a while, but at this time Song Jingang was already a betrayal of his relatives, and in desperation, Song Jingang had no choice but to follow Liu Wuzhou's footsteps towards the Turkic direction.

Li Shimin led his army to the city of Jinyang, and Yang Funian, the servant appointed by Liu Wuzhou, surrendered the city. The captured Tang Jian had already been escorted here, and he led the surrendered officials to seal all the treasury first and hand it over to Li Shimin to take over. On the day Li Shimin entered the city, he sent a fast horse to Chang'an to report the victory.

Early in the morning of April 29, Emperor Li Yuan received the news that the Tang army had recovered Jinyang, and was very happy, and held a grand banquet in the Taiji Hall to celebrate the recovery of Jinyang with hundreds of civil and military officials.

In Jinyang, Li Shimin took out a large amount of property from the treasury and rewarded the soldiers of the whole army. Who knew that a few days later, Luo Khan of the Turkic Department sent his younger brother Bu Lishe to lead 2,000 cavalry to Jinyang. According to the agreement signed between the Tang Dynasty and the Turks two months earlier, they shared the fruits of the war without participating in the war, and received a large amount of gold, silver, treasures, and silk rewards from Li Shimin. Soon, together with the envoys of the Tang Dynasty, they returned to the Turks with dozens of wagons loaded with goods for the Khan of Chuluo.

He was overjoyed to receive the gift, and in order to show that he had kept his promise, he placed Liu Wuzhou and Song Jingang, who had come to defect, under house arrest at the request of his allies. Soon, Song Jingang planned to flee to the upper valley, but was chased and beheaded by the Turks. The prefectures and counties under the rule of Liu Wuzhou surrendered to the Tang Dynasty one after another.

In mid-May, Li Shimin led the Tang army back to Chang'an. Li Zhongwen, who had made great achievements, was appointed by Li Yuan as the governor of Bingzhou, and he led his army to attack the rest of Liu Wuzhou's army, and quickly pacified more than 100 border castles. Later, Liu Wuzhou, who was under house arrest, secretly planned to escape back to Mayi, and after the matter was revealed, he was beheaded by the Turks.

In Xia County, Lu Chongmao's subordinates continued to hold on to the county seat and refused to submit to the Tang Dynasty. On May 20, Li Shimin, the king of Qin, who was on his way back to the court, led a large army from Jinzhou to the outskirts of Xia County, and conquered Xia County in one fell swoop. Under Li Shimin's orders, the Tang army beheaded all the soldiers and people in the city.

On May 29 of the third year of Wude, Li Shimin, the king of Qin, and Chu Mofeng, the prince of Qi, led an army to officially arrive in Chang'an......

As the saying goes, some people are happy and some people are worried, and watching Li Shimin's class return to the dynasty, Chu Mofeng secretly investigated the adultery, wanting to know what happened next, and listening to the next decomposition......