Guanzhong.

In Chang'an City, Li Yuan was completely removing Yang Guang's traces. Although he gave Yang Guang the posthumous title of Emperor Wu on the surface. However, since Li Yuan entered Guanzhong, he began to clear the traces of the emperor.

Daxing City was renamed Chang'an.

Daxing Palace was renamed Tai Chi Palace.

At the same time, the county system was abolished, the prefecture and county system was restored during the reign of Emperor Wen, and the road-level divisions established previously were abolished, and the positions of pacification envoys and military governors were abolished.

Li Yuan issued an order at the General's Mansion.

Everything was going well. Huayin County Magistrate Li Xiaochang surrendered and presented the Yongfeng Warehouse, one of the six major granaries. This made Li Yuan have a lot of food at once, greatly relieving the dilemma of the lack of food after the Xiaoguo Army returned to Beijing.

At the same time, Li Xiaochang also sent troops to Hexi and Hedong County, recruited many Sui army soldiers and bandit rebels. So Li Yuan appointed Li Xiaochang as Duke of Yi'an County and appointed him as the general manager of Huazhou.

Li Xiaogong, the nephew of Li Yuan clan, led his troops to raise an army in Fengyi to respond. Li Yuan was appointed as the chief supervisor of Tongzhou and Duke of Hedong County.

Li Shentong also led his troops to respond in the Qizhou area and was granted the title of Chief Supervisor of Qizhou and Duke of Hongnong County by him.

But bad news followed.

Chen Ling surrendered to the Jiangdu, Liyang, Pengcheng and other six counties, and surrendered to Luo Cheng, and was appointed as the Grand Marshal by Luo Cheng, and was in charge of the Pingzhang.

Huainan and Shandong are all owned by Luo Cheng, and the six counties in northern Hebei are also all under Luo Cheng's hands.

Li Mi and Dou Jiande did not have a life-and-death battle.

These are extremely bad news.

Especially Luo Cheng actually won more than ten counties without much effort in this battle, which made Li Yuan even more worried.

"Report!"

A worse news came.

"Xue Ju sent a large army to invade Jingzhou, and the main force has advanced towards Fenzhou Yilu."

When he heard that Xue Ju called him directly, Li Yuan hurriedly summoned Li Jiancheng, Li Shimin and Chai Shao.

“What is the specific situation?”

Li Yuan asked Li Shimin directly.

Li Shimin's face was solemn, "Father, Xue Ju came in a fierce manner. He was shaking his way through Longshan, then went east along the Jinghe River Valley, invaded Jingzhou, and the main force rushed straight to Yilu, Fenzhou. In the northeast and southwest wings, he also sent mobile cavalry to harass Ningzhou and Qizhou."

As for Longzhou, it has been completely captured.

"Does Xue Ju personally lead the troops? How many people?"

"It is known as the army of 200,000, and the commander is Xue Ju's prince Xue Rengao. This person is said to have the courage of thousands of men."

Li Yuan heard this, "200,000 is an imaginary number?"

"Real numbers." Li Shimin reported helplessly, "When Xue Rengao sent troops from Tianshui, he only had 100,000 troops, but after he arrived at Fufeng, he used a plan to annex the troops of the Kaiyuan thief Tang Bi, and suddenly increased 100,000 troops."

Tang Bi originally supported Li Hongzhi as the emperor, with more than 100,000 troops. Xue Ju sent an envoy to surrender Tang Bi and conferred him the title of King of Tang. Tang Bi happily accepted it. Then Xue Rengao invited Tang Bi to a banquet, and took advantage of his unpreparedness to kill Tang Bi, then attacked and defeated his army, and captured all his people.

Xue Rengao was also greatly shocked by the power of his troops.

Binzhou is only a few hundred miles away from Chang'an. Li Yuan did not expect the Xue family to come so quickly. He also planned to use Longyou Qiang and Tuyuhun to attack Xue Ju, but Xue Ju came first.

"Shimin, I ordered you to be the marshal of the marshal, commanding the right-right-right-second army, a total of 40,000 troops to go to Binzhou to resist Xue Rengao."

Li Yuan also asked Li Jiancheng to lead his army to Jingyang, north of the Weihe River in Chang'an, and asked Li Shentong to station in Qizhou. He also ordered martial law in Chang'an and strengthen defense.

The fourth day of July.

Li Shimin led 40,000 troops north along the Jing River and came to Yilu.

The march was in a hurry and suddenly became infected and fell ill, so he had to let the commander Liu Wenjing and Sima Chai Shao take over.

"Xue Rengao went deep alone. Although there were 200,000 people, there were 100,000 newly annexed thieves of Fuyu. There were too many soldiers and not many food, and the soldiers were tired from far away. Therefore, we should be careful not to face the challenge now. After my illness recovers, the enemy's sharpness will be over, and there will definitely be no more food and grass. If you fight again, you can lose in one battle."

Li Shimin was very cautious. No matter what, Xue Rengao had a population of 200,000, while he only had 40,000 troops. Moreover, many soldiers and horses came from Chang'an like him and fell ill by the heat.

But after Chai Shao and Liu Wenjing came out, they discussed.

"When I came, the Tang King told me that this battle must be decided quickly, otherwise the capital will be in turmoil and there will be chaos."

"But the marshal is now ill."

"It is not all bad things that the marshal fell ill. Xue Rengao, who heard that he was brave but not resourceful, deliberately released the news that the marshal fell ill. They will definitely despise us. Then we will defeat the enemy."

Liu Wenjing was a very good adviser, but she was obviously unprofessional in military affairs. Chai Shao was just a guard of the East Palace before, and had no experience in commanding and fighting.

As soon as the two discussed, they decided to start a war with Li Shimin on their backs.

They led their troops to array southwest of Qianshuiyuan outside Yilu City.

But unexpectedly, Xue Rengao was very cunning. He slowly set up his formation, but in fact he was bluffing, but he turned the main cavalry around the Tang army behind the attack.

Ninth day of the first lunar month.

The two armies fought against each other for several days, but they were just small-scale battles. On this day, Xue Rengao led the cavalry to detour from behind and launched a raid at dawn.

Tang army generals Murong Luohou, Li Anyuan and others were killed on the spot, and Chai Shao and Liu Wenjing, the two main generals, were also captured alive.

In addition, there are eight general managers who were captured.

Xue Rengao took advantage of the victory to march and easily conquer Yilu City.

After victory, Xue Rengao ordered the collection of Tang army corpses on the battlefield, with more than 10,000 pieces. He ordered the corpses to be placed on the shallow water, with layers of corpses spreading layer by layer, layer by layer, and finally building a huge Jingguan.

When Liu Wenjing and others were defeated, Li Shimin was already protected by his subordinates and fled all the way back to Chang'an City.

After Xue Rengao captured Yilu City, Binzhou, he opened the gate of Binzhou, so the army followed the trend and besieged Binzhou City, and at the same time sent troops to attack Ningzhou to the north.

Fortunately, Marshal Li Shimin ran away, but the governor of Ningzhou and Binzhou led the soldiers and civilians to defend the city. The weather was hot and the Qin army attacked several times but failed to capture it.

At this time, the letter from the rear said that Emperor Xue Ju was critically ill and asked Prince Xue Rengao to return to Beijing as soon as possible.

It turned out that Xue Ju heard in Qinzhou that the prince defeated the Tang army and was very happy, so he rushed from Qinzhou. As a result, he arrived at Zheji City in Qinzhou, but suddenly fell seriously ill and became very critical.

Originally, Xue Rengao was going to take advantage of the victory to attack Chang'an and simply ignore the two states of Binning. Unexpectedly, such an accident happened at this time, so he had to hurry to Zheji City.

As soon as Xue Rengao left, the Qin army's offensive stopped.

This gave Jijike's dangerous Ningbian two prefectures a chance to breathe. King Li Yuan of Tang also quickly drew troops to Li Shimin and sent him to atone for his merits and rescue the two prefectures and resist the attack of the Xue family.

August.

In Chang'an City, Li Yuan received two urgent reports, one from the east and the other from the west.

"Look at the information from the west first."

"Marson Shimin urgently reported that Xue Ju died of illness in Zheqian City, and the Crown Prince Xue Rengao succeeded to the throne and changed Zheqian City to the capital."

When Li Yuan heard that Xue Ju was dead, his expression improved a little. He was really worried that the news of Shimin's defeat was the next news.

"Where is the information from the east?"

Li Yuan hopes to hear another good news.

"The east side reported that Luo Cheng was appointed emperor by Zen in Fanyang Prefecture, and Fanyang Prefecture was Beijing and Liaodong City was Tokyo."

"Has Luo Cheng proclaimed himself emperor?"

Li Yuan was lost and was stunned.

Among all the heroes in the world, Li Yuan feared the most was Luo Cheng. He unexpectedly became emperor.

"Didn't it mean that the Goguryeo people are in trouble? How could Luo Cheng move the capital to become emperor at this time?"

"Return to the King of Tang, the rebellion of the Goguryeo people has been put down!"
Chapter completed!