Traveling through the troubled times of Sui and Tang Dynasties

"General Luo, don't ask me anymore. Even if you ask me a hundred times, I still say the same thing. I really don't know that person. If it's really Yuwen Chengdu, can I not?" Li An patted Open your chest and swear.

Seeing that every time Luo Cheng asked himself and got a negative answer, he was in a daze. Although Li An couldn't bear it, he still turned a blind eye.

Ever since Li An said that someone opened the door to Tang Jun to save someone, Luo Cheng's heart has been hanging high. He is both eager and longing for that person to be Yuwen Chengdu, because apart from him, he really can't think of anyone who would silently guard the door. Be there for him, save him from danger.

Luo Cheng has been out of shape for the past two days, so that Dou Jiande's siege did not wake him up. Fortunately, last night Shan Xiongxin led dozens of his cronies and rushed to Hulao Pass overnight.At this moment, Shan Xiongxin and others are sitting in Hulao Pass for Luo Cheng, but all is well.

Li An sneaked a glance at his master's spineless face - at the moment he was staring at General Luo with a frown, and the emotions in his eyes were complicated and changeable, including worry and resentment. The former was for Luo Cheng, and the latter was for Luo Cheng. For Yuwen Chengdu.Li Anxin said, stop staring, if you stare any longer, you will reveal your secrets.

Fortunately, at this time there was a commotion at the door.

"Eight hundred miles urgent, I want to see His Royal Highness King Qi!"

"No, His Royal Highness King Qi and General Luo are discussing important matters in the camp, and no one is allowed to enter."

"It's urgent, please let the guard know."

"His Royal Highness King Qi ordered no one to disturb you."

The person at the door was helpless, and suddenly shouted: "His Royal Highness Qi Wang! His Royal Highness Qi Wang! Bingzhou is in danger!"

Hearing the commotion, Li Yuanji seemed unable to bear the oppressive atmosphere in the room, turned around and said to the door, "Let him in."

The soldiers at the door just waited to hear the summons, quickly pushed the door open and entered the room, did not take two steps, knelt on the ground and kowtowed, tears streaming down: "His Royal Highness Qi, the fall of Bingzhou is imminent, please go back quickly Well, if we delay any longer, I'm afraid that Chang'an City will be in danger."

"What?" Startled, Li Yuanji slapped the table and stood up, "Say it again!"

"Your Highness King Qi, not long after you led your troops to leave Bingzhou to support Hulao Pass, Liu Wuzhou heard the news from nowhere, knowing that Bingzhou City was already an empty city, and besieged Bingzhou City at night. The city is full of old, weak, sick and disabled , It was completely vulnerable, everyone tried their best, but they were finally exhausted, and Bingzhou City struggled to support for three days, which was the limit. Before the subordinates left Bingzhou City, Liu Wuzhou's troops were about to break through the city..." Send a letter The soldiers were crying, "I'm afraid they have already fallen. Your Highness King Qi, you should go back quickly. If you don't go back, Chang'an City will be in danger."

"Damn it, that bastard Liu Wuzhou, I've been waiting in Bingzhou City for so long, and he didn't move at all. As soon as I left, he came. This time, I beat him so hard that he couldn't even recognize his own parents." Li Yuanji was so angry that he was cursing, and suddenly thought of something, he asked eagerly, "Where's my elder brother? Didn't my elder brother let the emperor arrange to guard against Liu Wuzhou and the Turkic army?"

The soldier who sent the letter said: "Don't worry, His Royal Highness King Qi, His Royal Highness is fine. Liu Wuzhou's attack was a surprise attack, and there was no warning before. When His Royal Highness reacted, Liu Wuzhou had already bypassed His Highness's defense and drove straight into Bingzhou City. His Highness knew that Liu Wuzhou attacked Bingzhou City, and tried to stop it, but Liu Wuzhou colluded with the Turks and had a strong army, we were no match for him at all, and we retreated steadily."

After Li Yuanji learned that Li Jiancheng was fine, he felt a little more at ease, turned his head and said to Li An: "Hurry up and pack your things, and come to the school grounds to find me after a stick of incense."

"Hey, hey." I was really afraid that something would happen. Li An was completely lost at this time, and he had no idea. After listening to Li Yuanji's order, he came to his senses and hurried down to prepare.

"Let's go, let's go to the school grounds to enlist soldiers now, and hurry back to Bingzhou." Li Yuanji said to the soldiers who sent the letter. Just as he was about to step out of the threshold of the room, he suddenly thought of something and turned to Luo Chengdao, "I brought a total of 28 General Wan Bing, I originally wanted to settle Wang Shichong for you. But it seems that I have done something bad again, and you are probably thinking that Li Yuanji left his post without authorization, impulsive and reckless, and he is a guy who has more success than failure." Li Yuanji smiled wryly, It's rare to laugh at yourself.

Luo Cheng couldn't see Li Yuanji's self-pitying appearance, and said, "No, you also came here to defend Hulao Pass and repel Dou Jiande's army. I never thought of you that way."

Li Yuanji withdrew his wry smile, looked straight at Luo Cheng, with rare seriousness in his eyes, and said word by word: "I am not trying to defend the Hulao Pass, nor am I trying to repel Dou Jiande. Although that brat Li An talks a lot of nonsense, there is one sentence that is When it comes to the point - I am here for you. The life and death of others has nothing to do with me. To be precise, I don't care whether the Hulao Gate can be defended or not, whether the Wang and Dou armies can defeat Li Shimin."

Luo Cheng's heart skipped half a beat, it's not like he didn't feel it, when he was getting along with him, he had faintly noticed that Li Yuanji's attitude towards him was a bit ambiguous, that kind of feeling was too similar to that of Yuwen Chengdu back then, but in his heart he was always Denying, or avoiding this emotion.Sometimes he laughs at himself for thinking too much, Li Yuanji has many wives and concubines in his backyard, so it is impossible for him to treat him... He is different from Yu Wencheng.However, what do you want to do.

Li Yuanji turned a blind eye to Luo Cheng's stupefaction, and said again: "I will take half of the army away and leave you with 15 soldiers. I'm sorry, but this is the only way I can go. My father, the queen, and the queen are still in Chang'an City, and my elder brother is still desperately fighting stop."

After finishing speaking, without giving Luo Cheng a chance to speak, he turned around and left in a hurry.

After Li Yuanji left, Luo Yong and Yan Lang walked into the room, and saw their general standing there with their eyes open, thinking they were shocked by the fall of Bingzhou City, they comforted them: "General, His Royal Highness King Qi has already led The army has gone back, Chang'an City is fine, even if Bingzhou falls, it can still be taken back."

Yes, at this time, where is the time to worry about the love between children, there are still many things waiting for him to do.

Luo Cheng, who had figured it out, felt a lot more relaxed all of a sudden, and he was freed from being entangled in Yuwen Chengdu. It's not that he didn't want to, but he chose not to think about it for the time being.

"Let's go to the study now and study how to quickly get rid of Dou Jiande, so that we can support Li Yuanji as soon as possible. Liu Wuzhou's goal is definitely not just to merge the state, but his ultimate goal is to capture Chang'an City. In this case, his strength cannot be underestimated." , Li Yuanji allocated half of his troops to us, and Liu Wuzhou has Turkic help, Li Yuanji may not be able to please Liu Wuzhou."

"Okay, I'm going to ask General Shan to go to the study together." Luo Yong said.

But at this moment, in Dou Jiande's camp opposite, the generals also had different opinions.

After encountering Luo's army's repeated setbacks, the morale of Dou Jiande's army has been weakened.Ling Jing, headed by civil servants and counselors, suggested to Dou Jiande: "Didn't Li Yuanji come? That means that there is no general in Bingzhou City now. Our whole army should cross the Yellow River north and capture Huaizhou, and then lead the brigade to beat drums and raise flags to Bluffing to hide the purpose, crossing the Taihang Mountains, speeding up to Hukou, gradually disturbing Pujin, seizing the land in Hedong, and approaching his Chang'an City, this is the best strategy. In this way, Li Yuan is very likely to be frightened, and ordered people to hurry Withdrawing the troops from Luoyang will not only break the siege of Luoyang, but may also directly threaten Li Yuan."

At this time, Dou Jiande's army really didn't know that Liu Wuzhou had captured Bingzhou City, and Chang'an City was in danger.Otherwise, if Dou Jiande adopted Ling Jing's suggestion and implemented the strategy of besieging Wei and saving Zhao, not to mention Li Yuanji bringing back half of the army, even 28 troops. He joined forces with Liu Wuzhou and the Turks, Li Yuan would still be besieged in Chang'an There is no way to return to heaven in the city.It is certain that Dou Jiande will be profitable, but Wang Shichong in Luoyang City can't wait for Li Yuan to be captured.

After listening to Ling Jing's suggestion, Dou Jiande originally wanted to adopt it, but the bad thing was his group of military officials, especially Meng Haigong and others.

As early as when Wang Shichong sent people to persuade Dou Jiande to send troops to help, many generals in Dou Jiande's camp had already asked Wang Shichong to buy them with gold, silver and jewels to speak well of them, just to relieve the siege of Luoyang as soon as possible.

At this moment, when Wang Shichong's envoy heard Ling Jing's idea, he became anxious-oh, you said that you went to surround Chang'an City to save Luoyang. It's in critical condition right now, it's another matter if I can't wait for you to come back to save me.So, winking at the generals in Dou Jiande's camp who had taken advantage of it, Meng Haigong and others jumped out to talk.

The military generals headed by Meng Haigong sneered at Ling Jing: "You are a literati, what do you know about fighting and leading troops? It is just some small difficulties and obstacles. If we retreat now, the Tang army will definitely think that we are afraid of them. Don’t dare to deal with them head-on, thinking about our 30 army in Daxia, even if Li Yuanji brings reinforcements, so what, we are still afraid of them?”

As soon as Meng Haigong said this, he got the approval of a group of generals, and there were many voices. Dou Jiande was very happy to see the morale of the army so high, so he rejected Ling Jing and said: "This king appreciates your strategy very much, but you see, now The ministers are excited and have the same opinion, I'd better follow everyone's advice."

In the end, Dou Jiande gave up this opportunity that should have been able to win Chang'an City, but chose to continue to attack Hulao Pass to rescue Wang Shichong.This wrong decision also made him depressed and even lost his life.

These are not listed for the time being, and it is said that when Li Yuanji came, he traveled day and night and did not dare to delay. When he returned, he was even more anxious and sleepless.

Before arriving at the city of Bingzhou, when passing through Xia County, he heard the news that Zhang Da, the chariot and cavalry general of Bingzhou City, was captured and led Liu Wuzhou to capture Bingzhou.

Li Yuanji was anxious, but he couldn't help it.The main reason is that the Xia county lying in front of him made him very troubled.

Speaking of the guard of Xia County, in fact, he is not even the guard, but a villager named Lu Chongmao.This Lu Chongmao was originally a native of Xia County, and he had a certain foundation in Xia County. Compared with the later guards of the Tang Army, he knew Xia County better and was easier to be accepted by Xia County people.When Liu Wu started to fight on Monday, he raised the flag of rebellion, killed the general of the Tang army in Xia County, and responded positively to Liu Wuzhou, and the people supported him.

This Xia County is different from other places, it is really not easy to fight, the problem lies with Lu Chongmao.This person was a well-known good man in Xia County before the Tang army entered, and he was quite popular.After the Tang army captured Xia County, everyone thought that they would live a good life as Li Yuan promised, but they never thought that Li Yuanji was relying on the sky and the emperor's distance. Regardless of these things, not everyone in the Tang army's camp Hero, but the general who guards Xia County is that rat shit. He searched for the people's fat and anointment, and showed his abilities to the fullest, making the people of Xia County miserable.Therefore, when Liu Wuzhou attacked the Tang army, Lu Chongmao felt that his opportunity had come, so he raised the flag against Tang without hesitation, responded to Liu Wuzhou, and opened a warehouse to release grain that day, which can be described as the popular will.

Li Yuanji was blocked in Xia County, and it was difficult for him to advance half a step.On the other side, Li Shimin and Luo Cheng made some progress in besieging Luoyang City.

After Dou Jiande decided to face Luo Cheng's army directly, he did not delay, taking advantage of the army's will, arranged the positions of the generals, and planned to do a good job.

At the same time, Li Shimin also got the news. Hearing about Liu Wuzhou, he wanted to come to Hulao Pass to inquire about it. Once he entered Hulao Pass, he was surrounded by Dou Jiande and couldn't get out.

There is a fierce general named Wang Fubao in Dou Jiande's army, which has become a serious problem for Li Shimin, making him in a dilemma.This person has also been mentioned before, he is the general who was forced out by Luo Cheng's scheme of burning weeds.This person was kidnapped by Wuhuada and brought to Li Shimin. Li Shimin was thirsty for talents and hoped that he would submit to Li Tang, but he refused to do so. Li Shimin respected his integrity, so he did not kill him, but let him go. He fled back to Dou Jiande team.

What is Wang Fubao's method to deal with Luo Cheng and Li Shimin?It is also a stupid method, but it has been used the most since ancient times and is also the most effective.This method is what Li Shimin used to deal with Wang Shichong - cutting off food.I don't beat you, I don't make trouble with you, I just surround you tightly in the Hulao pass, and don't let you move, to see who can consume the other.

After these few days, Tang Jun outside the city was in a hurry, and the food and grass could not be delivered.Tang Jun in the city was also anxious, don't besiege Wang Shichong to death, he was besieged to death by Wang Fubao.

Therefore, Li Shimin's heart became ruthless, since I can't use you, no one else can use you either.So, overnight, a rumor spread among the Dou army, saying that the reason why the general Wang Fubao did not attack the Tang army was because he had already joined the Tang army. Otherwise, he was captured at the beginning, how could he return alive? Among the Dou army, that is a pawn that the Li family planted beside Dou Jiande, it will come in handy at the critical moment, no, isn't he delaying to attack at this moment, just to give Li Shimin a chance to breathe and come back.

One person said, Dou Jiande didn't believe it, two people said, Dou Jiande still didn't believe it, a small part said, Dou Jiande was skeptical, and when a group of people said that, Dou Jiande was convinced, no matter what Wang Fubao explained, he was pushed out to behead However, Meng Haigong, who was replaced by Wang Fubao, wanted to do meritorious service and killed Luo Cheng, who was at odds with him, so he rashly launched an attack that night.

When it comes to face-to-face hard fights, not to mention Meng Haigong, even three more Dou Jiande are not Li Shimin's opponents, not to mention that there are Luo Cheng and Shan Xiongxin in Li Shimin's team.

In the first battle, Yanyun Jingqi from the Luo family challenged, and Dou Jun's cavalry faced off. In less than a stick of incense, Dou Jiande's thousands of cavalry were routed and fled in all directions.At this time, Li Shimin sent his own elite infantry to pursue and fought fiercely four or five times, with the help of unstoppable cavalry behind him. Naturally, he went forward bravely, and finally defeated the army led by Meng Haigong.

Luo Cheng took the lead, armed with a silver gun, and was invincible wherever he went.When he met Dou Jiande head-on, the Luo family's marksmanship pierced back and forth. At this moment, the pampered Dou Jiande was no match for him. With a careless move, he stabbed him in the arm. Panicked, he galloped wildly.As soon as Dou Jiande escaped, General Xia immediately lost his backbone, and those who were not firm in their will threw down their weapons and surrendered one after another. As for Dou Jiande's cronies, seeing that the situation was over, they had no choice but to capture them without a fight.Dou Jiande fled all the way, and was finally caught by Shan Xiongxin who came to chase him near Niukouzhu.

Li Shimin looked at Dou Jiande, who was escorted by Shan Xiongxin, and said with itchy teeth: "Dou Jiande, Dou Jiande, I had no enmity with you at first, and my father also sent someone to Hebei to show his favor. Soldiers attack my Tang army."

Dou Jiande was captured at this moment, he laughed bitterly and said, "I have nothing to say about the winner and the loser."

"Put him down, take him back to Chang'an City in the future, and wait for the emperor to deal with him." Li Shimin turned to Shan Xiongxin again, and praised, "Our army has the help of General Shan, it is really like adding wings to a tiger."

Shan Xiongxin didn't buy it, he snorted coldly and said: "If it wasn't because you, Tang Jun, rescued my Shan family by mistake, Brother Luo Cheng saved me time and time again, I wouldn't work for you, don't forget, your father And the murderer who killed my brother."

Li Shimin smiled wryly and stopped talking.Luo Cheng couldn't be found in the crowd, so he asked, "Hey, has General Shan ever seen brother Luo Cheng?"

Shan Xiongxin replied: "Oh, I just saw that after I captured Dou Jiande, the overall situation has been settled, and Brother Luo Cheng entrusted me with the task of guarding Hulao Pass, and went with thousands of Luo family troops, as well as Luo Yong, Yanlang and others. Bingzhou supported the King of Qi. He also asked me to send you a message, saying that it is to let you deal with Wang Shichong with peace of mind, and he will definitely defend Chang'an City and the King of Tang, even if it takes his life, he will not hesitate."