The words say:

What kind of life is in a hurry, far beyond Xiao Pass? Seeing the blood floating one after another, the silver clothes are stained; the purple lightning is wielded, the golden whip is dancing, the pride is soaring, the ground is magnificent, and the day is full of fighting. Who is he, who dares to be sharp and good at blocking Longquan?

Heroes move forward bravely, and they can retreat thousands of troops if they are idle. When the ugly category is deleted, the world is calmed. Tranquility, rebuild the paradise. The yellow hair hangs down, the sister-in-law picks the mulberry, the dog barks and the chicken cries all the fairies. At that time, I looked at Yi Fangyan to the breeze and the moon.

Gossip has passed, and the book is back to business:

In the last book, it was mentioned that Li Shijun besieged Luhe County, but Tang Xiaofei's army confronted Xu Xing and Ma Rong's men and horses in Chenguan County, and by November 2, Lu Yan led 60,000 horses in Long County to arrive.

On 3 November, the armies of Xu Xing, Ma Rong, and Lü Yan surrounded Tang Xiaofei with a total of 90,000 men and horses and 50,000 troops in Chenguan County, and Li Shijun and Tian Mengchang surrounded Tang Zirong with 100,000 men and horses in Luhe County.

Li Shijun, Tian Mengchang, Xu Xing, and Lü Yan agreed to attack Luhe County on the night of November 6, and then move troops to attack Chenguan County after they succeeded.

On the night of November 6, Xu Wenhu secretly opened the city gate and led 10,000 soldiers to respond internally, and Li Shijun's army rushed in, and the outcome of the war was naturally without suspense.

Although Tang Zirong also had 100,000 soldiers, but morale was low, and 10,000 of them followed Xu Wenhu against the water, so the Taiping army quickly took the city, and when it was dawn, the army besieged Tang Zirong in the county government.

Tang Zirong refused to surrender and set fire to his "palace", that is, the former county yazhong in Luhe County, and died of self-immolation.

So Tang Xiaofei was in Chenguan County, and he lost his ground, and in Chenguan County, there was a cow fee for the Taiping Army to make internal responses, such as Xu Wenhu's practice.

Therefore, Chenguan County was also broken by the Taiping army without any suspense.

After the fall of Tang Zirong, the crown prince of Onishi Khan led the remnants to flee to Ansha Prefecture to succeed him.

Therefore, Li Shijun led the left army of 150,000 men and horses to attack from the east to the north, to pacify Shimen Prefecture and Yumen Prefecture; Lin Heng led the right army to attack from the west, to leave Tiancang Prefecture, and pacify Xining Prefecture, Xisha Prefecture, and Ansha Prefecture.

At this time, the western eight states were looking at the wind. As a result, Li Shijun's troops were in Yumen Prefecture, and Lin Hui's army was in Xisha Prefecture, and they attacked separately to take Ansha Prefecture and completely eliminate the remnants of the Great West Khanate.

This time is the spring and March of the fourth year of the Taiping Khan Emperor's Kaiping.

- Not to mention that Li Shijun and Lin Heng's left and right armies attacked together, to completely eliminate the remnants of the Great West Khanate, and then talk about the affairs in the Imperial City of Xijing of the Taiping Khanate.

It was at this time that in the Tiantong Mansion of the Taiping Khanate, in the Imperial City of Xijing, there were Yang Du and Zhu Gan who came to vote.

Li Shijian personally met the second general at the palace of the Khan Emperor. The two of them, in the "Three Guns, Six Hammers and Four Knives", ranked eighth and ninth, and Li Shijian naturally attached great importance to it.

Li Shijian said: "The two of you came to vote, it is the blessing of my Taiping Khanate!" So Li Shijian awarded the two of them the position of partial general.

Yang Du and Zhu Gan both said: "My lord Khan, Weichen is late to join the army, thanks to the official position granted by my lord Khan, so that I have the opportunity to serve the country." ”

Li Shijian said: "At present, our army is sweeping the western eight states, and it is just around the corner. However, in the north of my Taiping Khanate, there is still a Dadu Khanate Du Huaibiao who has not been attached, and I intend to drive a personal expedition to destroy the enemy in one fell swoop, and then share the peace with the ministers. You two just happened to go into the war with the army and make great achievements!"

The ministers of the palace and the military all shouted long live.

After calling long live, Yan Junping said: "My lord Emperor Khan, this time to send troops, it is advisable to first fight the four counties occupied by Du Huaibiao in Linzhou, Xiaohuzhou and Jingzhou. ”

Wen Ziming came out again and said: "My lord Emperor Khan, our army will go north out of Chungju, and after recapturing Pinglin Prefecture and Xiaohu Prefecture under the original jurisdiction of Chungju, it is advisable to attack Beiyuan Prefecture first and threaten Beining Prefecture, Dingbian Prefecture, and Anyuan Prefecture. Our lord Emperor Khan can send another group of men and horses to attack the big and small Fengzhou. ”

Li Shijian nodded in agreement.

——On the fifth day of April in the fourth summer of the Taiping Khan Emperor's Kaiping, the second day of the traditional Four Joys Festival of the first heaven world, the Taiping Khan Emperor drove the imperial expedition.

On the same day, Li Shijian set out as a whole army, with Yang Du and Zhu Gan as the main and deputy vanguards, Yan Junping and Wen Ziming as military advisors, and led 36 generals including Wan Qisong, Wei Xin, Qin Yuan, Gao Yuan, Yang Can, Yang Rong, Li Shilong, and Miao Hui, and 200,000 troops, out of Tiantongfu, to attack Du Huaibiao.

On the day of the army, Li Shijian thought of his experience in the past few months, because of his marriage to Murong Chan, he didn't dare to communicate with Cuigu, and he didn't know how long he could hide from her Cuigu, after all, the three-year appointment period had passed, and he had not completely calmed the world, and he had not seen Cuigu go down the mountain.

So, Li Shijian sighed in his heart, so he put pen to paper, and his words were "Qinyuan Spring" at the beginning of this chapter.

After Li Shijian finished writing, he sealed it at that time, and ordered the envoy to send it to Dadu Mountain, and asked the envoy to hand it over to Cuigu himself.

After the envoy went, Li Shijian led the troops to set off. At this time, the vanguard and the front army had already walked dozens of miles out of the capital.

However, it is said that Jingzhou was occupied by Du Huaibiao's several counties, as well as Pinglin Prefecture and Xiaohu Prefecture, which were originally under the jurisdiction of Zhongzhou, and I don't know what happened, I did not see Du Huaibiao's army make a strong resistance, on the contrary, they were all large armies everywhere, and many cities were surrendered without a fight.

Li Shijianren was very happy to hear the results of the battle reported by the former army, but he was also puzzled by the fact that the defenders in these places and counties did not exceed 3,000 people:

Li Shijian pressed down the doubts in his heart, and ordered the vanguard Yang Du and the military advisor Wen Ziming to lead 50,000 horses, and sent ten generals to accompany them on the expedition to attack Fengzhou, and he and his military advisor Yan Junping led an army of 150,000 to attack Beiyuan Prefecture.

The front of Li Shijian's army is Zhao County, the county seat of Beiyuan Prefecture. The defenders of Zhao County only had 4,000 people in total. In the face of an army of 150,000, it is naturally too few troops.

But the guard general of Zhao County is Xiang Yuji, an important general of Du Huaibiao. Xiang Yuji, who was once the nineteenth in the national martial arts examination of the Datong Khanate thirty years ago, can also be said to be a veteran.

At that time, Li Shijian's army besieged the city, Xiang Yu Ji looked at the tower at the city gate, pointed at Li Shijian and reprimanded: "My Dadu Khanate and your Taiping Khanate have been allied before, and now you are actually undeclared war, taking the land of my Dadu Khanate! At present, our country is resisting foreign enemies and protecting the same clan, and the princes have all sacrificed their lives on the battlefield, but you, Li Shijian, have come to take advantage of the danger of our country, think that you are also the dignified Taiping Khan, but I didn't expect you to be so shameless!"

Li Shijian laughed: "The words of the old general are bad! I Taiping Khanate, I want to open peace for the world, at present, the remnants of Daxi are only surviving in Xisha Prefecture, and our left and right armies have a total of 300,000 horses and horses, and they will attack together, and the remnants of the Tang clan will be destroyed, and that is just around the corner."

And you are an ally of the Great Khanate, and you are really the enemy of my Taiping Khanate. At the beginning of the Qingliu Pass, your Khan Emperor Du Huaibiao personally designed to cut off my back road and trap me Li Shijian between the two passes, wanting to put me to death and then hurry up! Is this also what the allies should do?

Now that my Taiping Khanate is about to dominate the world, you don't want to think about it, at this time, if you don't come to join the imperial court, how can I not beg for it?

It's to you, the old general, who doesn't know the current affairs, stubbornly resists, hugs Du Huaibiao's thighs, and doesn't know that death is imminent! Come on, come on, you come down to the city, and I, Li Shijian, will compete with you!"

Xiang Yuji listened, and thought in his heart: This Li Shijian is brave, I can't fight with him alone. It's just that his army of 150,000 has arrived, and our army has 4,000 people defending the city, and the difference in strength is too great.

So he said to Yu Ji: "Li Shijian, it's useless to say those words. You want to go head-to-head with me, I'm sorry, the old man doesn't have time! If you want to attack the city, please do it!"

After that, Xiang Yu Ji went down to the enemy tower and led the troops to defend the city.

As soon as Li Shijian saw Xiang Yu Ji like this, he immediately commanded the siege.

There are eight counties in Beiyuan Prefecture, including Zhao County, Tong County, Ping County, Bai County, and Beiyuan County, which is not easy to attack, and Li Shijian commanded the army to attack the city, which was also a battle to test the enemy.

I never thought that the Taiping army's siege of the city had just begun, and when I saw the east gate of Zhao County open, the Taiping army's men and horses attacking the east gate naturally seized the opportunity, rushed in, and killed the city!

Why was the east gate of Zhao County opened? It turned out to be a resident of the city, and when he heard that the Taiping army was attacking Zhao County, someone spontaneously helped the Taiping army!

There is a big surname Li in the eastern district of the city, and he said, "We have the same surname as the Taiping Khan, and the Taiping army is coming, and we are all expected to live a peaceful life!"

So this big surname Li, the organization of his own surname, and many residents spontaneously participated, all came to the east city gate, presumably to help guard the city gate, but in fact, they came to fight with the defenders for the city gate.

The defenders of the city gate only said that the people spontaneously came to help defend the city, but after these people came, they cut and killed the defenders indiscriminately, and the defenders were caught off guard, but they were killed and fled in a panic.

So the Taiping army successfully entered the city, and Xiang Yu Jicha heard that the Taiping army was put into the east gate, and he knew that he could not hold the city at that time, but he couldn't kill the city, so he had to kill himself and sacrifice a white-haired head.

Li Shijian garrisoned Zhao County that night and discussed with Yan Junping: "Zhao County can be taken so smoothly, let me see the true strength of the people!"

Yan Junping said: "Yes! This is really unimaginable!"

Before Yan Junping could finish his sentence, there was a report that the messenger who had gone to Dadu Mountain had returned.

When Li Shijian heard this, he was in good spirits and said with a smile: "Order the messenger to come in!"

Yan Junping laughed and said nothing.

When the envoy entered the main hall of the county government, Li Shijian asked, "When you came back, what did Aunt Cui say, and where is the reply?"

The messenger said: "My lord Emperor Khan, my subordinates are here, I don't see Cuigu on the mountain in Dadu, only that Shi Qiangsheng is there with two children and a few scholars." Even Master Li doesn't know where to go!"

When Li Shijian heard this, he was anxious: "Why aren't they there? Where can they go? Didn't you ask Brother Shi Qiangsheng?"

The messenger said: "Lord Shi didn't want to see his subordinates, so he directly ordered the scribes to drive the subordinates out of the true Confucian residence. ”

When Li Shijian heard this, he was taken aback, and he was puzzled: "Why? How can this be the case?"

The envoy said: "My lord Khan, the reason for this, the subordinates do not know. ”

When Li Shijian heard this, he was secretly anxious, and he just wished that he could go to Dadu Mountain at this time and ask Shi Qiangsheng for an understanding.

However, as a member of the three armies, how can they mess around?

Yan Junping comforted: "My lord Emperor Khan, Master Li has recently cultivated the "Fish Viewing Sutra", and so is Aunt Cui, maybe, they have all traveled, or retreated?"

Li Shijian said: "Well, what you said is reasonable, but how can I have a bad feeling?"

Yan Junping said: "My lord is the Emperor Khan, and you are relieved, if you are relieved, there will be no bad feelings." ”

Li Shijian said: "I hope it is as the military advisor said." ”

So the two continued to discuss the military situation.

Subsequently, the Taiping army went smoothly, and the northern wonju was quickly pacified. Li Shijian's army is heading towards Beining Prefecture, which is now Du Huaibiao's lair.

Li Shijian's army was about to attack Bac Ninh, but an envoy from Du Huaibiao of the Dadu Khanate came to ask for an audience.

Li Shijian said: "Let the messenger in!"

When the envoy entered the big tent, he first knelt down and prostrate, and called him "my lord the Khan."

Li Shijian said: "You are the envoy of the enemy country, but you don't have to kneel down to see me, and I am not the emperor of your country." Why, are you here to ask for surrender?"

Unexpectedly, without thinking, the envoy really said: "My lord Khan is wise, and the ministers have come to ask for surrender. ”

When Li Shijian heard this, he secretly wondered in his heart: What's the matter? Du Huaibiao has always been an old traitor, but this time he said that he was going to surrender, could it be that he wanted to play some kind of delaying tactics?

So Li Shijian asked, "Why do you ask for surrender?"

The messenger said: "Lord Du is on the front line of Dingbian Prefecture, and he has been defeated again and again, and his son Du Long and Du Hu ......."

Li Shijian said: "Wait, which Lord Du?"

The messenger said: "Master Du, it is Du Huaibiao." Now Lord Du has canceled the title of the Khanate, and is willing to return to the Taiping Khanate, not asking for high-ranking officials, but only asking for the mercy of our lord Emperor Khan, who can allow him to live in his hometown. ”

Li Shijian and Yan Junping were very shocked when they heard this, and they expected that there must be a major change. Li Shijian and his ministers glanced at each other, and they had the same thoughts, and they actually asked at the same time, "What happened to you over there?"

The envoy cried: "My lord Khan, the red-haired soldiers are very powerful, and the Dongting soldiers are now only a few men, and they are defending the front line! When the subordinates came, the popular khanate had been destroyed, and the golden gun Ning Cheng rebelled against our army and resisted the red-haired soldiers together. Everywhere the red-haired soldiers were, they slaughtered all of my Datong people, saying that it was good to leave empty land for them to use as pasture!"

When Li Shijian and Yan Junping heard this, they were both shocked and stood up: "How can the red-haired soldiers be so powerful, so cruel?"

The messenger cried: "My lord Emperor Khan, the ancestor of the little minister is the Yutian Prefecture clan, and my Mu family, except for my branch, the rest of the people who remained in their hometown have been killed to the point that there is no one left!

At that moment, two more messengers arrived.

One is sent by Wen Ziming, the defenders of the cities of Dafengzhou, are all looking at the wind and surrendering, to the later, Xiaofengzhou, our army has not arrived, the enemy city has been replaced with the banner of our Taiping Army, I heard that this is Du Huaibiao's order - there must be a major change in this, please check the Emperor Khan.

In the other place, Du Huaibiao still sent him, saying that he was willing to surrender, and had ordered the whole army to hang the banner of the Taiping Army, asking the Khan to send troops to rescue the front line of Dingbian Prefecture.

Li Shijian and Yan Junping both asked this messenger again, but this messenger was Lai Xing, the former Zhong clan's adviser. When Lai Xing saw this, he said:

"My lord Khan, although the Datong Khanate has been scattered and become history, but the unity of Datong has been more than a thousand years, and all ethnic groups in the territory have long been integrated into one race, and people outside the country call us the Datong nation.

Now, the public Khan Emperor Zhongyi has been killed by the red-haired soldiers, and Du Huaibiao's two sons, Dulong Duhu, who have always thought they were glorious, were also killed in battle against the red-haired soldiers. The original popular khanate and the Dadu Khanate no longer exist.

And none of the two countries can resist the general of the Red Hair Army, Hu Lagos, even the Golden Gun Ning Cheng and Du Huaibiao can't stop it, and wherever the Red Hair Army goes, our Datong people are slaughtered!

General Du Huaibiao and General Ning Cheng looked forward to the hearts of our lord and the Emperor Khan, like a baby looking forward to his parents, and a great drought looking forward to Ganlin.

I hope that our lord Emperor Khan will have mercy on the innocent people of the Datong tribe and send rescue troops to support the front line! At present, on the front line, if we Datong people lose a city, we will be slaughtered in a city!"

When Li Shijian heard this, he said: "Okay! Lone will grant you what you want! General Du Huaibiao committed crimes in the past, so he redeemed them with the merit of resisting foreign races, and General Ning Cheng and other front-line generals did the same!"

So Lai Xing was grateful, thanked him and left.