Taiyuan City is located on the shore of Fenshui, between the two mountains of Taihang Mountain and Luliang Mountain, it is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it is a place where soldiers must fight. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info guard general Wan Cavalry Chang Yuan Hao is known as the first warrior of the Huns, brave and good at fighting, there are 20,000 defenders in the city. Helian Yinshan used Yuan Hao to defend Taiyuan, because Taiyuan is an important city in the north and south, and it can be attacked and defended. As long as Yuan Hao doesn't rush into battle, it is not so easy to capture Taiyuan City.

Xuan's 750,000 troops came to the city, but Yuan Hao really closed his door and simply turned a deaf ear to the scolding under the city. And as long as the Xuanqi army dares to get too close, it will inevitably be greeted by a dense rain of arrows. The Huns, who have always been good at riding and shooting, will have a slight upper hand if they really shoot against the army of the Celestial Empire.

After Xuanqi and the Taihang heroes discussed, they all thought that it would be quite difficult to capture Taiyuan head-on, unless the army continued to attack the city with the lives of its soldiers regardless of casualties. And Taiyuan City had been closed with the four gates long before Xuan Qi arrived, and even the water gate had been tightly closed, and there were only dozens of heroes who could blend into Taiyuan City, which could not play a big role at all. If they want to seize the city gate, these dozens of people are afraid that they will be killed by random arrows before they can rush to the city gate.

In the end, Xuan Qi decided to let the soldiers collect the ships first, and made it look like they were going to storm the water gate, and try to attract the defenders in the city to the direction of the water gate. At the same time, Xuan Qi ordered 30,000 Taihang Mountain heroes, together with Fan Qi's 50,000 army, to take Yangqu County in the starry night, and force Taiyuan, so that the Taiyuan defenders could not take care of each other, and try to disperse the forces of the Taiyuan defenders.

At the same time, the happy book in Lu'an also sent good news. Li Xing's army was divided into two routes, one was to take Chuzhou, turn to the west, and begin to attack Luzhou; the other was to start from the waterway, go north on the Yangtze River, and force Luzhou through Chaohu troops; Xuanqi's army left in Lu'an also went to the city of Luzhou and encircled Luzhou with Li Xing's army. Dai Jin, the marshal of the Bohai State, simply abandoned Luzhou and led his troops to retreat to the north of the Huai River.

After seizing Luzhou, Li Xing's army began to advance eastward in an all-round way, taking Yangzi and Yangzhou in succession. Li Ding, King of Yue, Li Han, King of Wu, Li Gan, King of Qi, and Li Cheng, King of Fujian, each led their troops to cross the Yangtze River in the north. After converging with the army of Li Xing and the army of Li Min, King of Hong, it has taken Haining, Hai'an, Rugao and Jinghai in succession. Silla Marshal Park had no choice but to go north along the canal and retreat to the Huaiyin and Yancheng areas.

Li Chun, King of Yu, Li Su, King of Han, Li Qing, King of Xiang, and Li Gan, King of Shu, had already recovered most of the lost territories in Hubei and Henan abandoned by Helian Yinshan, and formed a defensive line along the Luoyang and Kaifeng areas south of the Yellow River. Helian Yinshan took the initiative to abandon the Central Plains, leaving only 50,000 troops to garrison along Ruizhou and Xinxiang to block the northward movement of the Celestial Empire army.

And what made Xuan Qi most angry was that Li Chengye, the prince of Cheng, asked his son Li Yuan to lead an army of 300,000, including 200,000 cavalry, which had already set off from the capital. Li Yuan's army crossed the Yellow River in the east and went north to Linfen, and the 100,000-strong army crossed the Taiyue Mountains, and actually joined the Xiongnu army of Helian Yinshan at a hundred miles south of Shangdang. The remaining 200,000 troops went north along the Fen River, intending to surround the Xuanqi army under the city of Taiyuan.

In the previous rebellion of the kings, Xuan Qishang didn't bother to pay attention to it. Because of the rivalry between the kings, at most a large number of people moved to escape the war, and the army crossed the border, and there was no slaughter of the people. And Li Chengye ordered the opening of the Yanmen Pass, allowing the Xiongnu army to go south, causing great damage to the Central Plains, which can be described as a thousand miles of red land. With this move, Li Chengye has become a sinner of the nation and the country through the ages.

And Li Chengye didn't even care about the last trace of shame, but instead united the Hun army, intending to besiege Xuanqi's army, which made Xuanqi angry. Xuan Qi knew that as soon as Li Yuan's army arrived, his chances of capturing Taiyuan would be even slimmer, let alone a decisive battle with Helian Yinshan in Shanxi.

Xuan Qi immediately ordered Gao Yao's 50,000 troops to immediately withdraw from the party and enter Taihang Mountain. At the same time, Li Xing also gave up the siege of Taiyuan and ordered Fan Quan's army to retreat to Wutai Mountain. Xuan Qi's 150,000 troops simply dispersed into the Taihang Mountains, Luliang Mountains, and Taiyue Mountains. In the case that the troops were completely at a disadvantage, Xuan Qi ordered the whole army to change its tactics and began to attack and harass Helian Yinshan and Li Yuan's army.

After arranging everything, Xuan Qi led an army of 100,000 alone, crossed Luliang Mountain, and began to attack Shizhou. At the same time, Xuanqi ordered the army of Li Chun, the king of Yu, to begin to enter Tongguan, and Li Gan, the king of Shu, went out of Longnan and entered Qinzhou.

The Xuanqi army surrounded Shizhou, but instead of attacking the city, he rode his horse to the front of the city gate, and asked the defenders of Shizhou to invite the garrison general to come and meet him. The general of the Shizhou garrison was the original chief instructor of the Zhenbei Army, Xi Liang Honglie, who had actually been hiding in the city gate tower for a long time, and did not dare to come out to face his former commander Xuan Qi.

Xuan Qi stood alone under the city, and he hadn't seen Liang Honglie for a long time, and immediately guessed that Liang Honglie was very likely to be on the city wall, but he didn't have the face to see him. Xuanqi was no longer polite at the moment, and began to scold, starting from Liang Honglie's ancestors and ancestors, and scolding until Liang Honglie was willing to be Li Chengye's eagle dog, betraying the nation and the country, being with the Hun jackals, and harming the nation and the people, he was simply a sinner through the ages, and he was heinous.

A large part of the defenders in the city were originally the soldiers of the Zhenbei Army who were guarding the northern frontier, and they were all scolded by Xuan Qi so much that they all hung their heads and did not say a word. Liang Honglie was in the city gate tower, and his face was flushed when he heard it, although he has not really done anything insulting to the nation and the country so far, but Li Chengye sent troops to surround Xuanqi's army, and he has become a national sinner, since he is under Li Chengye's command, what Xuanqi said is irrefutable.

Liang Honglie sighed, and finally made up his mind, and ordered the defenders to open the city gate, while he took off his coat and walked out of the city gate alone, imitating the guilt of Jing Jing. Xuan Qi looked at Liang Honglie who was kneeling in front of the horse, but he didn't speak, just got off the horse and helped Liang Honglie up, and personally took off the thorn strip on Liang Honglie's back. Liang Honglie's back has been cut by thorns and countless wounds, which shows his sincerity.

Xuan Qi scolded a city, which suddenly made the morale of the army even higher. In order to show his sincerity, Liang Honglie expressed his willingness to follow the Xuanqi army to the south, firstly, to help persuade some of Li Chengye's guards, and secondly, to contribute to the great cause of recovery.

After leaving 10,000 defenders to garrison Shizhou, Xuanqi took 100,000 troops and 20,000 soldiers from Shizhou to the south along Luliang Mountain. After that, the road was quite smooth, most of the guards were persuaded by Xuanqi and Liang Honglie to surrender, until the Xuanqi army crossed the Yellow River west and took Yan'an, the number of Xuanqi's army has increased to 160,000.