When Li Ye said this, his tone was very firm, he smiled and continued: "Although the Tsing Yi Yamen lost some manpower in Taiyuan City, it was only a small part, and it was the inevitable price to pay for the big operation. ”

Li Ke used his subordinates to assassinate the yamen, and with only the officials and ordinary officials, he did not have the ability to uproot the Taiyuan Tsing Yi Yamen. I think you must say next that the Tsing Yi Yamen has completed its concealment in Taiyuan City, and even if Li Keyong's people dig three feet into the ground, they will not be able to distinguish them from ordinary people. ”

Listening to Li Ye's words, Song Jiao glanced at him helplessly.

Li Ye continued: "As for the wells in Taiyuan City, there are no rumors that Li Cunxiao is going to defect now, and it doesn't matter. Rumors don't mean they have to exist forever, they just have existed. It has successfully caused instability among all parties in Taiyuan, and Li Keyong's prestige has also dropped a lot. The most important thing is that Li Keyong has become suspicious of Li Cunxiao. ”

Every time Song Jiao saw Li Ye Zhizhu in her hand, she couldn't help but retort: "How can you be sure that Li Keyong no longer trusts Li Cunxiao?"

The smile on Li Ye's face looked a little playful, he picked up the jade slip in his hand, and said teasingly: "I just received the news that Li Keyong has ordered Li Cunxiao to return to Taiyuan City in the name of the upcoming counterattack on Fenzhou, and prepare to lead the troops to the battle. At the same time, he ordered Li Siben to replace Li Cunxiao to preside over the Yizhou war, and also sent Li Sien to help. ”

Song Jiao opened her red sexy cherry mouth, and finally didn't say anything.

Li Ye got out of the big tent, came to the outside of Yizhou City, and looked at the city. Zhao Poyu quickly ran over, looking excited, and reported to him about the important matter: "One hundred and ninety people came over last night, and so far, nearly a thousand soldiers have taken refuge from Yizhou!"

Compared with 70,000 people, 1,000 people seem to be nothing to mention, but in fact, as far as the matter of surrendering to the enemy is concerned, this is already an extremely terrifying number, and any more is enough to cause chaos in the whole army.

Li Keyong finally decided to transfer Li Cunxiao back, which was a very important reason, and it became the last weight for Li Keyong to no longer trust Li Cunxiao.

Of course, the reason why those soldiers escaped from the battle was not entirely because of Li Ye's letter of persuasion, a group of demon monks who were good at demagogic people's hearts, which played a role that could not be ignored.

Zhao Poyu said hesitantly: "Li Ke thinks that by replacing Li Sienlai, he will be able to prevent the Yizhou soldiers from defecting to us?

Li Ye smiled: "Who said it wasn't?"

He came to the front of the city and stood in the air, and said loudly to the Yizhou City Tower: "King Gu heard that General Li is about to return to Taiyuan. can no longer see the general every day, the lonely king is very reluctant, and he has come to see him off. ”

In front of the city tower, Li Cunxiao stared at Li Ye with a gloomy face, looking at him, he couldn't wait to eat Li Ye in one bite.

When Li Ye came out to call him for a meeting before, he said a few more words because he admired the prestige of King An, but he was caught and caused the current turmoil, so that he was forced to leave Yizhou. Now that he is about to leave, Li Ye still doesn't stop, and he has to repeat his old tricks, how can Li Cunxiao not be angry?

Li Cunxiao even saved his fists this time, and said in a deep voice: "If you don't send King An off, the next time you meet on the battlefield, you will have to share life and death with King An!"

Li Ye laughed, "General Li is so weak and narrow, so he will be repaid, just like a woman in the market, it is really insulting to the general's prestige!"

Li Cunxiao was so angry that one Buddha went out of his body and two Buddhas ascended to heaven, but fighting with words was not his forte, so he could only snort coldly.

Li Ye smiled, recovered his positive color, and said solemnly: "The lonely king came to inform the general that the lonely king did not change his original intention to the general, and hoped that the general would wake up as soon as possible and abandon the darkness and turn to the light." The promise made before the lone king will not change a word, and it will never change. Now that Li Keyong has transferred you from Yizhou, it is clear that he is suspicious of you, the general is not trusted, and what is the fate in the future, there must be no need to say more about the lonely king. ”

Li Cunxiao's face kept changing, and his face turned white, it was not that he was hesitating in his heart, but that he was so angry that he couldn't control it.

Li Ye no longer teased him, and said goodbye: "The general wants to leave, the Lone King will not stop him, and the Zhaoyi Army in the northwest will get out of the way and talk about the Lone King's affection for the general." The king of Forgiveness cannot be sent far away. ”

Li Cunxiao climbed the women's wall and was about to jump out and fight hard with Li Ye, but he was stopped by the people around him, he struggled and roared, accusing Li Ye of being despicable and shameless.

It is conceivable that Li Cunxiao was released all the way back to Taiyuan, what would Li Keyong think of him. Although the Zhaoyi Army, which captured the three counties in the west, northwest, and north, and controlled the passage, could not stop him Li Cunxiao, the nature of not being able to stop it and simply letting him go was completely different.

Li Ye returned to the camp and immediately convened a military meeting to arrange the next action.

The military discussion quickly came to an end, and the army decided to fill in the ditch outside the city to trap the enemy, which means that the day the ditch was filled was the time when the army attacked the city.

For several days, the officers and soldiers were busy outside the city, and most of the soldiers in Yizhou were nervous when they saw this scene. Li Cunxiao is gone, and the official army is ready to start storming the city, and they are very worried about their next fate.

Li Sien and Li Siben don't think so, as generals who succeeded Li Cunxiao, they need to prove that they are no worse than Li Cunxiao. They are also Hedong Taibao, they also believe that their strength will not be much worse than Li Cunxiao, this battle may be a tough battle, but under normal circumstances, it is not difficult for 70,000 people to defend the city.

On the other hand, after Li Cunxiao returned to Taiyuan City, he has been idle at home, and Li Ke's so-called counterattack on Fenzhou is naturally just an excuse to recruit him back. When he returned, Li Keyong did not greet him, and after he returned, Li Keyong did not summon him.

In the eyes of many people, although Li Cunxiao is very strong, it is not without him, Hedong will not be able to do things. There are so many generals in Hedong, and none of them are easy to match, and Li Keyong personally controls the overall situation, could it be that without one Li Cunxiao, Hedong will not be able to operate? That is too ridiculous.

After that, Li Keyong mobilized a part of the reinforcements to support Yizhou, at least to capture the three counties that isolated the two places, and contain Li Ye's forces. But Li Keyong can't do too much, because once too many troops are divided, Liu Dazheng on the Fenzhou side, with more than 100,000 troops, can also attack Taiyuan City at any time.

As for the counterattack on Fenzhou - if the battle situation in Yizhou is stable, and more than 200,000 officers and troops cannot capture Yizhou City, but will be dragged there, then Li Keyong can indeed mobilize troops to counterattack Fenzhou and open up the situation.

But right now, Li Keyong obviously doesn't dare to act rashly. If Fenzhou has not been captured, Yizhou will be broken through first, and then the official army will be able to reach Taiyuan directly and copy his lair.

Outside the city of Yizhou, the officers and troops who had filled in the vertical and horizontal ravines began to attack the city on this day.

Li Sien and Li Siben, who were neatly dressed, stood side by side in front of the city tower, looking at the ironclad soldiers who were swept by the tide outside the city, and their expressions were very uneasy.

The unrest is not because of fear, but because of excitement, because the fighting spirit is boiling. As Hedong Taibao, both of them are veteran generals on the battlefield, and they have experienced the tempering of various wars, and the scene in front of them is a good time for them to make contributions and become famous in the world.

Li Siben, who replaced Li Cunxiao and became the main general of the city guard, stared at the outside of the city and licked his lips, looking very urgent: "It is said that the Pinglu army is elite, I want to see who is more capable of fighting than my Li Siben's descendants!"

Li Sien laughed: "If the Pinglu army is really that elite, there is no need to besiege the city for so long without attacking." ”

Li Siben pulled out his horizontal knife and shouted: "A good man has made meritorious contributions at this time, and his fame is won immediately! Those who bravely kill the enemy will be rewarded, and those who retreat timidly will be killed!"

At this moment, Li Siben and Li Sien are high-spirited and urgently need to show their talents. But soon, they were not so optimistic, because as soon as the big war began, the gap became apparent.

The Pinglu Army has absolutely sophisticated armor and weapons, and with Li Ye's current powerful position in the Tang Dynasty, as Li Ye's descendant troops, the armament level of the Pinglu Army is certainly not comparable to that of ordinary feudal towns.

In addition, Li Ye's training is not expensive, unlike Hedong's large-scale recruitment, he did not expand his army after the Huangchao Rebellion, which made the Pinglu army's armament level and the proportion of monks rank first in the world.

Not to mention that after Li Ye incorporated the Holy Son's troops, the overall combat power of the army was improved.

In the face of such a Pinglu army, Li Siben and Li Sien soon discovered that the elite Shatuo soldiers, who they had relied on as victory weapons on the battlefield and were almost invincible, had also become weak soldiers with empty courage and obvious lack of combat strength at this moment.

They were pressed and beaten by the Pinglu army in front of them, and they couldn't breathe at all, let alone counterattack. The number of casualties increased rapidly, and the position soon became unstable, and it was forced to retreat step by step.

Under the pressure of the battle situation, just after noon, Li Siben and Li Sien had to go into battle in person, and took their elite soldiers to the defense lines that were about to be broken through and the city walls that were about to be taken away to fight the fires.

However, their efforts were doomed to be in vain, the pressure on the defensive line was not a single point, but the entire defensive line, and even if they could run again, they could only end up exhausted.

By the time it was approaching, under the leadership of the Pinglu army, the official army had already attacked the city wall on all sides and gained a firm foothold. Everywhere there was a surging wave of officers and soldiers, and the Hedong Army, which was already not high in morale, was being driven down from a section of the city.

"Give me all back! Defend the city, no one is allowed to retreat!" Li Siben, who was stained with blood-stained armor, stopped a group of retreating armor soldiers and yelled loudly.

The crowd paused for a moment, but soon, more retreating generals rushed over and pushed the crowd forward. Behind them was the Pinglu army armor who was in pursuit. There was an uproar, and the crowd scattered and fled.

Li Siben was furious, and a sword qi slashed and killed one or twenty people, which shocked the people in front of him. He rushed forward with his own soldiers, and did not want to stop the Pinglu army, and at the same time shouted that he had killed the enemy and made meritorious contributions, and no one was allowed to retreat.

At dusk, Li Siben died in the city, and then Li Sien led his troops to flee, and at night, the official army captured Yizhou City.