The Celestial Empire, which had been calm for two years, finally began to fall into a boundless conquest. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 Except for some smaller vassal kings, that is, the battle between the combined forces of Li Chengye, the prince of Cheng, Li Gan, the king of Shu, and Li Chun, the king of Yu.

Li Chengye, who occupied Shaanxi, Gansu, and Jin, had an army of 500,000; Li Gan, the king of Shu who occupied Sichuan, Shu, Yunnan, and Guizhou, received 400,000 officers and men from the Beijing camp and supported 700,000 troops; and Li Chun, the king of Yu, had more than 800,000 troops.

Li Qianbing divided into two routes, all the way to the north, approaching Qinzhou. On the other hand, 200,000 troops marched out of Sichuan along the Yangtze River and approached Yiling, while Li Chun's coalition army took Ruizhou as a base and began to let the army gradually cross the Yellow River and occupy the area north of the Yellow River.

By the beginning of May, Li Gan, the king of Shu, had already captured the city of Qinzhou and returned to the north, intending to capture Jingzhou and completely cut off the connection between the capital and Gansu. The coalition army of Li Chun, the king of Yu, was ambushed and attacked by Li Chengye's army in Zezhou, with 80,000 casualties and had to retreat to the south bank of the Yellow River, and only 200,000 troops remained on the north bank of Ruizhou.

The battle situation in Yiling was the most tragic, the two sides fought for each other, and launched a mountain battle, and countless soldiers were buried in the mountains and mountains. Li Su, the king of the Han Dynasty, knew the importance of Yiling, as long as Yiling was lost, the Sichuan army could go down the river, and then he could go straight to Jingzhou, and then all the way to Pingchuan and enter Jiangcheng. Li Su, who did not dare to slack off, had to personally lead the army to defend Yiling.

And at this moment, Xuan Qi is in the Qinling Mountains. According to the news from Xuanmen, the Qingxu Daoist of Shangqing Palace was critically ill, and Xuanqi hurried over, wanting to see this year-old friend who had been kind to him. Heading west from Quanzhou, Xuanqi originally wanted to enter the Guanzhong Plain directly from Luoyang, but because the two sides were fighting, he was not allowed to pass through at all, so he had to make a detour to Qinling.

And along the way, there are civilians fleeing the scourge of war. Since entering Hubei, all I see is a barren and fertile field overgrown with weeds. Especially in the area close to the three-way battle, it is even more empty, and there is often no one for dozens of miles.

When Xuanqi arrived at the Shangqing Palace, the Qingxu Daoist was already terminally ill and was in a coma most of the time. And the youngest disciple of Qingxu who stayed in the capital was a long man and served by the master's side every day. When Qingxu saw Xuanqi coming, he suddenly felt a lot more energetic, but the illness made Qingxu unable to speak. Looking at Qingxu in front of him looking at him expectantly, Xuan Qi couldn't help choking, and he also saw that Qingxu wanted to entrust the Shangqing Palace to himself, so he immediately agreed.

Three days later, in front of dozens of Shangqing Palace disciples, Qingxu passed away after passing on the position of the head of the sect to Yiyan, and the disciples of Shangqing Palace were in mourning.

At this time, Li Min, the king of Hong, led an army of 100,000 to attack Shangzhou at night and took Shangzhou in one fell swoop. In this way, the combined forces of Li Chun, the king of Yu, can follow the Qinling Mountain Road, go west to the capital, and go north to Huashan to go straight to Tongguan. Tongguan is dangerous, but it is garrisoned by Li Chengye's love Meng Wenjin with 150,000 troops, and the coalition army of Li Chun, the king of Yu, is very reluctant to attack Tongguan, but it was heavily damaged by Li Chengye's army in Zezhou, so he had to take the danger and seize Shangzhou, hoping to bypass Tongguan and take Guanzhong directly.

Sure enough, upon hearing the news of the loss of Shangzhou, the capital began to fall into chaos. It's just that these ordinary people, to the west, there is the army of the king of Shu blocking the road, to the east is the Li Chun coalition army and the Bohai and Silla coalition forces blocking the road, and to the north to the Xiongnu, it is the most unfeasible thing, so they have to go south into the Qinling Mountains, in the deep mountains and old forests to avoid the war.

Countless people in the capital poured out of the capital and entered the reckless mountains, until Li Chengye ordered the city gate to be closed, and the people in the capital were only five or six out of ten. For a while, all industries in the huge capital were depressed, and occasionally I saw a pedestrian on the street, and they were all in a hurry.

And the only one that still shows some popularity is the grain store in the capital. The war has doubled the price of grain, and there are still long queues in some surplus grain stores. The entire capital fell into a panic, which made Li Chengye very troubled.

In order to strictly prevent the attack of Li Chun's coalition army and Li Gan, the king of Shu, Li Chengye simply transferred half of his troops from the defenders of Yanmen Pass to rush to the aid of the capital, and a major battle has begun.

In mid-May, Li Gan, the king of Shu, had already captured Jingzhou, completely cut off the connection between the capital and Gansu, and began to march eastward to force the capital. The army of Li Min, the king of Hong, was not in a hurry to attack the capital, but led his troops to detour through Huashan, and surrounded Tongguan with Li Chun's army.

On 21 May, Meng Wenjin, the general of Tongguan, announced the surrender of Li Chun's allied forces; on 23 May, Li Gan, the king of Shu, took Fengxiang; on 25 May, Li Chun's allied forces surrounded Huazhou and marched to the east of the capital.

On 29 May, Li Chengye made a desperate gamble and led the officers and men of the Beijing camp to surround Li Chun's regiment with the defenders of Yanmen Pass, who came to help. The two sides fought a great battle under the city of Huazhou. The battle lasted for a day and a night, and Li Chun's allied army was forced to withdraw from Huazhou and retreat straight to Tongguan, which stopped the pursuit of Li Chengye's army.

At the same time, Li Gan, the king of Shu, personally led an army of 200,000 and had reached twenty miles west of the capital. Li Chengye, who heard the news, led the army overnight and rushed back to the capital. When Li Chun's coalition army, which had just retreated into Tongguan, heard the news, he did his best to leave Tongguan and chase after Li Chengye's army.

Li Chengye, who felt that the capital was very likely to be lost, panicked, and ordered Li Yuan to open the Yanmen Pass overnight. The 200,000 Xiongnu army marched into Yanmen Pass. Li Yuan took the rest of the Yanmen Pass defenders and galloped south to help the capital.

At the same time, the combined forces of Bohai and Silla in Hebei bypassed Xiangzhou and approached the north bank of the Yellow River, and Li Han, the king of Wu, had no choice but to lead his army along the south bank of the Yellow River and wait for the battle; under the fierce attack of the rebels in the northwest, the defenders of Jiayuguan, who had long been unwilling to fight, simply abandoned the pass and withdrew eastward under the leadership of Xiong Hanqing. Xiong Hanqing traveled all the way east, and the army did not defend the city until it retreated into Liangzhou, and no longer retreated.

Li Chengye relied on the high walls of the capital to simply retreat all the troops into the capital and hold out. As a result, the combined army of Li Chun, the king of Yu, and the army of Li Gan, the king of Shu, could not capture the capital for a while, so they had to surround one side and set up camp.

At this time, the Xiongnu army, as soon as it entered the Yanmen Pass, was like a bamboo, and captured Daizhou in two days, and it was already along the western foot of Taihang Mountain to the south, forcing Xinzhou. Fan Qi, the general of the Xinzhou garrison, saw that Li Yuan's army was gone, and knew that no matter what, Xinzhou, which only had 20,000 defenders, would definitely not be able to hold it. In a fit of anger, Fan Qi, who was unwilling to surrender to the Xiongnu and became a national sinner, simply gave up Xinzhou, took 30,000 troops and all the grain and grass, entered Wutai Mountain in the east, occupied Wutai County, and defended the danger.

The Xiongnu army effortlessly captured Xinzhou, and then went all the way south, seized Yangqu County, and threatened Taiyuan City.