Autumn of the 12th year of Daye.

Li Mi accepted the imperial edict from the Emperor of Jiangdu in Jinyong City outside Luoyang City, and transformed from the King of Wei of Qi to the Grand Tutor Shangshu Ling Duke of Wei of the Great Sui Dynasty.

Many people don’t understand from King Wei to Duke Wei.

"Teacher, we have been rebelling against the Sui Dynasty for many years, why are we now recruited by the Yang family? Luoyang City can be captured soon?" Wang Bodang asked Li Mi in confusion.

Li Mi is trying on the purple robe and jade belt given to him by the Emperor of Jiangdu.

"My intention to fight against Sui has never changed."

"Can?"

"Bodang, this is just a temporary change."

Facing his proud student, Li Mi did not hide his thoughts.

Of course, Li Mi did not think about accepting the amnesty, nor did she want to be a minister of the Sui Dynasty, but the current situation in the Central Plains was somewhat beyond Li Mi's surprise.

In other words, he has been in a stalemate of unsuccessful advance and retreat after being under Luoyang City for a long time.

Although Wang Shichong could not defeat him, he relied on the strength of Luoyang City and defended himself to the death.

Although he has many soldiers and horses under his command, he can only bluff. In fact, there are not many soldiers and horses who can really attack the toughest, and he has been stepping up training, but a strong army cannot be trained in a short period of time.

"Now there is Dou Jiande in Hebei, Luo Gui in Shandong, Meng Rang in Huaixi, Chen Ling in Huainan, Lai Hu'er, Yang Yichen in Hebei, Wang Shichong in Luoyang, Wei Wensheng in Guanzhong, you see, we are now enemies on all sides."

Luoyang is a key point, but the problem is that it cannot be obtained at this point now.

So Li Mi was trapped here.

How powerful did his troops encircle Luoyang?

At that time, Dou Jiande was still a salt thief in Douzigang.

Meng Rang just wanted to go to Huaixi to be a mountain king.

But now, he is still under Luoyang City and even lost most of Shandong.

But Dou Jiande owned the land of nine counties in Hebei and became the emperor of the Xia Dynasty.

Even Meng Rang, this idiot, owned the ten counties in Shannan, Huaixi, and became the emperor.

How could Li Mi be willing?

Now we have to break the deadlock, but at this time, Meng Rang not only did not think about helping him, but instead wanted to swallow his troops.

Therefore, for Li Mi, Meng Rang is already an enemy, not a friend.

He has no ally now, and this is a very dangerous situation.

Under such circumstances, the emperor wanted to invite him to fight Luo Gui from Shandong, but Li Mi naturally wanted it.

At least, he will temporarily accept the recruitment, so Wang Shichong from Luoyang, Chen Ling from Pengcheng from Penghu'er, and Xiaoguo army from Huainan will not come to attack him for the time being.

"Then the teacher really wants to fight Shandong? This is just a trick of the dog emperor. I want us to fight with the two tigers!"

"How could I not know, but the deadlock must be broken, otherwise we will be finished if we continue."

When Yang Xuangan raised an army, Li Mi once offered Yang Xuangan the best strategy to attack Zhuo County, block Linyu Pass, and attacked Guanzhong's capital. The worst strategy was to attack Luoyang.

But now Li Mi has fought under Luoyang City for more than half a year.

It’s not that he doesn’t want to go to Daxing City, Xijing, but that he has no choice.

No choice.

He can still go to Daxing at this time, but what should he do along the way?

How to break through Tongguan?

Even Luoyang City can’t be defeated, can Daxing City be captured?

Now under Luoyang City, at least there is still a grain from Xingluo Cang supporting him.

If he abandoned Luoyang and went to Guanzhong, his army would not only have food and grass, but also, most of the people who depended on him would not go to Guanzhong with him, because many of the troops and soldiers were from the Central Plains, and they were more interested in fighting Luoyang and were not interested in going to Guanzhong.

Guanzhong is a good place, capable of attacking and defending.

But he was already here in Luoyang and could not leave all this and go to Xijing. If he left, what's the use of going?

"What if the Sui army attacks Shandong and starts from behind?"

"So I didn't say that I would attack Shandong now. I have sent people to Lujiang, Huaixi to welcome Meng Rang, saying that Luoyang City is about to be captured and welcome him into Luoyang City."

Now Wang Bodang doesn't understand even more.

"Meng Rang is determined to seize the teacher's troops, why should he welcome him to Luoyang?"

Li Mi just smiled.

"Because this is the key to breaking the deadlock!"

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Huaixi.

Lujiang County, Hefei City.

After receiving Li Mi's letter, Meng Rang, the emperor of Qi, was a little moved.

Although Hefei is a big city in Huaixi, it is still too biased. Taking this as the capital, there are neither decent palaces nor eunuchs and palace maids.

Luoyang City is different.

Luoyang is the capital, a new capital that has only been built for ten years. Everything is brand new and majestic.

Meng Rang once went to Luoyang to do business and saw the prosperous and prosperous traditions of the Eastern Capital.

I have also watched the Ziwei Palace City in Luoyang from afar. What a wonderful thing it would be if I could enter Luoyang City, Luoyang is the capital of Qi, and Ziwei Palace is its own imperial palace.

Not to mention, Luoyang City is large and full of wealth, and there will be many concubines and beauties in the palace.

"It just so happens that Li Mi has never taken me seriously and has repeatedly disobeyed my will. This time I went over and took down Li Mi and really got the eight counties in Henan. In this way, my Great Qi will have eighteen counties and the richest Central Plains. Who else will be my enemy in the world at that time?"

After hearing this, the prime ministers and generals of the pseudo-Qi Dynasty all said that the emperor had a good plan. They also envied the prosperity and prosperity of Luoyang City and wanted to go to Luoyang.

At this moment, Meng Rang decided to lead his troops north to Luoyang.

Early winter of the twelve year of Daye.

The emperor of Qi, Meng Rang, led an army of 200,000 to Luoyang. He went north along the Fei River, and was magnificent and majestic along the way.

After crossing the Huai River, he entered Li Mi's jurisdiction. Li Mi had already ordered the troops of various counties to welcome the emperor of Qi to the north and provide whatever he wanted.

Such a respectful attitude made Meng Rang and others feel extremely comfortable, and they didn't take Li Mi seriously.

In this way, we went north, passed Ruyin, Huaiyang, and passed Yingchuan to Xingyang.

Under Hulao Pass.

Li Mi personally led his troops from outside Luoyang City to the pass to welcome the sage. This respect for going out to welcome Baili made Meng Rang even more satisfied.

"I have already set up a banquet inside the pass to welcome Your Majesty and all the officials. Please!"

Meng Rang nodded with a smile and praised Li Mi.

"Please, King Wei!"

When Li Mi turned around and took the lead in guiding, Meng Rang said to his left and right, "When you capture Luoyang, it will be the day to take Li Mi."

Hulao Pass City.

The banquet held by Li Mi was very sumptuous.

At the banquet, Li Mi raised her glasses toast and said many congratulations to Meng Rang, making Meng Rang consider whether to keep Li Mi’s life after conquering Luoyang, and leave him a false title like the Grand Tutor for him to raise him in Luoyang?

"Your Majesty, are you satisfied with the wine and food today?"

After drinking for three rounds, Li Mi asked.

Meng Rang nodded with satisfaction, "Satisfied, satisfied!"

"Just be satisfied, so your Majesty will not have any regrets on the way to the underworld." After saying that, Li Mi dropped the cup in his hand to the ground.

As the cup landed, a team of swords and axes suddenly surged from behind the hall.
Chapter completed!