In the evening, when Chen Sangliang, who was exhausted, returned to Yuci with the National Army, Yuci City had already fallen into the claws of the Sui army. Liu Jizhen, the guard general of Yuci, who was impulsive in the city, was killed by Ding Yang Army and his general Li Zhongwen before the Sui army entered the city. Fortunately, he trapped Liu Wuzhou in the city and forced Ding Yang Army to break into the gate. The Sui army also took the opportunity to follow him into the city. Therefore, Liu Jizhen was still the first contribution to Chen Sangliang's ability to take the rapid Yuci City. In addition, it was quite good for the Liu family. Liu Jizhen's brother Liu Liuer, lucky enough to save his life and persisted in the Sui army's entry. The Liu family would not fall to the tragic level of no one who could come to Chen Sangliang to seek credit and reward after making great contributions.

At this point, the battle between the Sui army and the Dingyang army finally came to an end. After three large-scale fierce battles were launched in less than a day, the main force of the Sui army led by Chen Sangliang finally completely defeated the Dingyang army, captured Liu Wuzhou, who claimed to be the Emperor of Dingyang and his general Zhang Wansui, seized all the food, grass, supplies and war horses of the Dingyang army, beheaded and captured more than 21,000 prisoners, and basically all the capital of the Dingyang small court's establishment and protection of the family in one day. Although Song Jingang and Xunxiang, the general of the Dingyang army fled to Mayi with some of the remaining defeated generals, they were also grasshoppers in the autumn. They only took a few days to jump for the rest of their strength to protect themselves, not to mention threatening and interfering with the war between the main force of the Sui army's attack on Taiyuan again.

Of course, the main force of the Sui army was elite and good at fighting. They also suffered considerable losses in such a fierce battle of high intensity and high density. Xiong Wei, the general of Qi County, unfortunately died in this battle. The soldiers were killed and injured by nearly 4,000 soldiers. However, Chen Sangliang no longer cared about pretending to pay homage to the fallen soldiers and bribed the hearts of the people. After returning to Yuci City, he saw that the situation in the city had stabilized. Yuchi Jingde and Kan Ling and other generals had led their troops to firmly guard the key points in the city. Chen Sangliang's first thing was to ask for sleep, and he didn't even care about washing the dust on his face. He lay on his gums and didn't know the situation. He snored loudly and fell asleep immediately.

After a good night's sleep, it was not until the next day that the unhygienic Chen Sangliang lazily got up and washed and changed clothes, and handled various aftermath affairs. However, at this moment, an unexpected envoy suddenly came to Chen Sangliang's front of Chen Sangliang, Luo Yi, a warlord of Zhuo County, sent his general Xue Wanshu to search the Taihang Mountain Trail to ask for a visit. Not only did Chen Sangliang bring good news that Luo Yi agreed to surrender to the Yining court, but also brought Chen Sangliang a great news that Luo Yi had sent troops to Hengshan to stop Dou Jiande from reinforcement of the Li brothers. Chen Sangliang was of course overjoyed and immediately ordered the summoning.

Xue Wanshu is the eldest son of Xue Shixiong, the general of the former right guard. He once met Chen Sangliang in the late stage of the Yanmen War. He had a good impression of each other. Of course, he was extremely happy to meet his old friends again. Unfortunately, Xue Wanshu not only kept praising Chen Sangliang's various great achievements like last time, but also bowed to Chen Sangliang as his minister and claimed to be a subordinate. Fortunately, Chen Sangliang was still quite face, so he left the seat and helped Xue Wanshu, and gave him a seat and reward. He also granted Xue Wanshu a fifth-rank general, and was awarded the title of Duke of Wuqiang County, and was actually granted a fief of hundreds of households. Xue Wanshu was also very happy and quickly kowtowed to Chen Sangliang again and thanked him.

After the process of being about to go, after the guests and guests and hosts took their seats, Chen Sangliang naturally asked why Luo Yi suddenly realized how to accept his surrender, and took the initiative to send troops to restrain Dou Jiande for him. Xue Wanshu replied truthfully: "Report to His Highness, King Yan had the intention to surrender, but he was in the gap between the Li family and Dou Jiande of Taiyuan at that time. He changed his flag too early and would inevitably attract two powerful enemies to siege him. He was reluctant to make up his mind. This time, he heard that you personally led the royal army to the north to Taiyuan, and then attacked the city of Taiyuan with a strong momentum. His Highness, King Yan, had no worries anymore, so..."

"Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop." Chen Sangliang quickly stopped Xue Wanshu from talking endlessly and said with a smile: "Brother Wanshu, I am the King of Tang in the court and you are a minister, so I should say some tactful words. But now we are not in the court, but in private, we are talking, so there is no need to waste our saliva and say those scenes. To be honest, how did King Yan make up his mind? This is very important to me, and it is equally important to King Yan."

"Your Highness was just talking directly with five years ago." Xue Wanshu smiled and then said, "Since your Highness doesn't want to listen to polite words, then the ministers will tell the truth. The King of Yan heard that you were speeding for two hundred miles in a day to surrender Wang Fubao, so he made up his mind to surrender. The King of Yan said that you can be so conscious and love talents. Then he will definitely not suffer any grievances when he comes to your command, let alone worry about the fact that the birds are hidden, and the rabbits are dead and the dogs are cooked."

Speaking of this, Xue Wanshu quickly said: "As for sending troops to Hengshan to restrain Dou Jiande, it is the suggestion of the third brother of the last general Xue Wanjun. The third brother of the last general believes that if you personally lead the main force to attack Taiyuan in the north, you will definitely not want the war to be postponed for a long time. The Li brothers rely on Dou Jiande as aid, and will definitely defend Taiyuan City with all their might to wait for reinforcements. Therefore, instead of directly sending troops to Taiyuan to participate in the siege, our army would rather send troops to restrain Dou Jiande's reinforcements, so that His Highness would have no worries and directly hit the morale of the Li brothers, so that the Taiyuan bandit army would know that there was no rescue and the morale of the army was disintegrated. The King of Yan also listened to the advice of the third brother of the last general, and then sent the third brother of the last general, and the fourth brother led an army of 8,000 to attack Hengshan County to prevent Dou Jiande from reinforcement of Taiyuan."

"Okay, okay, okay." Chen Sangliang was so happy that he couldn't even speak. He patted his thigh and kept applauding, saying happily: "In the future, I must thank brother Wan Jun. His plan to surround Wei and save Zhao has indeed helped me a lot. The Zhuo County army attacked Hengshan County and cut off Dou Jiande's path to advance was indeed a hundred times better than sending troops directly to Taiyuan to help me attack the city. A clever plan! Brother Wan Jun is really a general. I not only want to thank him heavily, but also will promote him heavily!"

When he was overjoyed, Chen Sangliang simply smiled at Xue Wanshu and said, "Wan Shu, are you willing to work hard for me and lead two thousand troops eastward to capture the two cities of Shouyang and Shi Ai east of Yuci, and seize Jingxing Pass and open up direct contact with your two younger brothers?"

"Your Highness, how dare you not obey?" Xue Wanshu quickly bowed and said in embarrassment: "But Mo Jiang came here this time, with only two followers, and no army is available?"

"It's okay, I'll give it to you." Chen Sangliang smiled and said, "I'll give you eight hundred elite soldiers and one thousand two new affiliated troops. Let you seize these two cities and one pass for me."

As soon as he surrendered, Chen Sangliang granted military power and was able to stand alone. Xue Wanshu was of course extremely excited and immediately knelt down and sweared to be loyal to Chen Sangliang for life. The sky collapsed and the earth broke, the sea was destroyed and the rocks were destroyed, and he would never betray him. Chen Sangliang smiled and helped him up again, comforting him with kind words, but muttered in his heart: "I don't know what kind of brothers of the Xue family are? I'm not generous to you, how can I pull your third and fourth brothers from Luo Yi? Xue Wanjun and Xue Wanche are both super strong generals with a hundred loyalty! And Xue Rengui in the future seems to have something to do with you. If you don't win you over, how can I catch your Xue family all in one place?"

After becoming king, Chen Sangliang was incredibly lucky. He had just sent Xue Wanshu down to rest and have a banquet and prepare for a war. When Liu Liuer, the younger brother of the Yuci guard Liu Jizhen, came to pay a visit to Chen Sangliang, he reported a major good news to Chen Sangliang, which was the case that Li Jiancheng secretly hoarded a large amount of food and grass in Yuci City for Dou Jiande's reinforcements. Chen Sangliang was happy again when he heard the news. He highly rewarded Liu Liuer and posthumously named Liu Jizhen a county duke, which greatly alleviated the urgent need for the difficulty of transferring food and grass.

With a smile on his face, Chen Sangliang did not forget the situation of the Taiyuan battlefield in the west. Fortunately, the road was not far away, and Li Jing also reported to Chen Sangliang at any time. So Chen Sangliang had just asked, and his confidential secretary Sun Fugama immediately reported to Chen Sangliang: "Your Highness, everything goes well in Taiyuan. After we explored our army to ambush Liu Wuzhou, although Li Jiancheng once sent a group of troops to share the pressure for Liu Wuzhou, the veteran general Qu Tu fought and retreated. Li Jiancheng had no choice. At the fourth update of the eve, the veteran general Qu Tu took advantage of the situation to chase and captured more than 1,800 Taiyuan bandits, and seized a lot of military supplies."

"And." Sun Fujia added with a smile: "Shu Yuan also reported to Your Highness that he found that the wind direction had changed on the night before. Within ten days, the Fen River flow would inevitably begin to increase. So Shangshu asked, should our main force transfer the camp? Chongsheng Temple (later known as Tongping Temple, Pingjincheng, and now Jinyuan Town) in the northeast corner of Taiyuan is a good choice."

Although he has been escaping this problem, the war has reached this point, and Chen Sangliang must face this cruel choice. Should he be responsible for the lives of his soldiers? Or for the lives of innocent people in Taiyuan City?

So after hesitating for a long time, Chen Sangliang still said nothing and made no statement. Sun Fujia, who had been following Chen Sangliang for nearly two years, observed the words and expressions. Seeing Chen Sangliang's hesitation, he said carefully: "Your Highness, the student knows that you can't bear it, but we have no choice. Taiyuan City is high and deep, the city walls are solid, and the city is full of food and grass. If the defenders refuse to surrender, we don't know how much troops and money will be spent to break through the city. If the relocation lasts for a long time, not only the people of Taiyuan will suffer, but the people of the whole world will suffer."

Chen Sangliang still didn't say anything. After a lot of time, Chen Sangliang said slowly: "Reply to Li Shangshu, agreeing to move the camp to Chongsheng Temple, and tell him by the way that I will go back to the teacher the day after tomorrow."

"No." Sun Fujia quickly hugged his fists and sang No. He thought to himself that His Highness the King of Tang finally figured it out, so he quickly picked up a pen to write a reply to Chen Sangliang for Li Jing. Chen Sangliang signed and used a seal on the letter, and asked Sun Fujia to send a quick horse back to the main camp. He also asked Sun Fujia to send someone to escort Zhu Can. Sun Fujia, who was already extremely familiar with Chen Sangliang's bad character, was shocked when he heard this, and said, "Your Highness, do you want Zhu Can to pretend to escape back to Taiyuan City and act as an inner supporter for our army? Zhu Can is a capricious man and forgets his righteousness when he sees profit and is unreliable at all?"

"It's not just a fickle thing? I forget the righteousness when I see profit?" Chen Sangliang sneered, "What kind of use is to describe him? It's all insulting these words, so you have to ask Yuchi Jingde to take Zhu Can in person. I have to be careful that this beast will jump over the wall, which is not good for me."

Sun Fujia was stunned again after hearing this, and hurriedly asked, "Your Highness, since you know Zhu Can's nature very well, why do you still want to see him? Isn't it over with just one knife?"

"Because I want to use his sinister and evil spirit to deal with a more sinister and cruel enemy for me." Chen Sangliang replied lightly, waved his hand and said, "Don't ask more questions, go and pass the order."

Only then did Sun Fujia take the order and leave. Chen Sangliang, who had always been lazy, rarely picked up his pen himself. He wrote a few lines of words on an official defense document, signed the signature and used a seal again. Then, not much time later, Yuchi Jingde and Sun Fujia brought Zhu Can to Chen Sangliang. In addition, what made Chen Sangliang laugh and cry was that he seemed to be scared by his previous words. Yuchi Jingde and Sun Fujia not only tied Zhu Can to the top, but also brought in ten swords and axemen, surrounded Zhu Can in a round shape and were ready to chop people at any time.

Of course, Zhu Can is also a character who can bend and stretch. Faced with this serious distrust of himself, Zhu Can still dare not feel dissatisfied with his expression. He still knelt on his knees obediently and said respectfully: "The criminal Zhu Can, please pay attention to His Highness, Your Highness, Your Highness..."

"Stop!" Chen Sangliang interrupted angrily and roared: "Sinner? When did you have a minister like you under my command? I have fought for eight years and commanded more than one million soldiers. Among the million soldiers, you were a scum, which almost caused thousands of soldiers to die in vain! In the end, I helped the evildoer Li to abuse him and killed hundreds of thousands of soldiers under my command with his own hands! I am ashamed of using you and have never appointed you any position. What qualifications do you have to call yourself a criminal minister in front of me?!"

It is rare to see Chen Sangliang, who is gentle, get so angry. Yuchi Jingde didn't even blink his eyelids. He grabbed Zhu Can's neck with his left hand and lifted him up. He punched Zhu Can's face directly, and immediately hit Zhu Can's face with a blow, with blood foam flying in his mouth, and several teeth falling off. Zhu Can secretly hated him, but he didn't dare to resist and could not resist. He could only beg for mercy with blood spraying, "Your Highness, your Highness, your Highness, your Highness, your Highness, your sinner knows that he deserves to die, and the sinner deserves to die. Please give up the sinner for the sake of the use of the sinner."

He stopped Yuchi Jingde and continued to beat Zhu Can. Chen Sangliang said to Zhu Can again: "Yes, you said this well. You are still useful to me. I can also consider spareing your life, but it depends on whether you are obedient next."

"Sinners are obedient, sinners must be obedient." Zhu Can quickly nodded and asked carefully: "Your Highness, do you want the Sinners to pretend to escape back to Taiyuan..."

"Why are you all smarter than the other one? Can you guess what my king's plan?" Chen Sangliang smiled and said with a smile: "Yes, I want you to pretend to escape back to Taiyuan and return to Li Erlang to serve him."

When Zhu Can heard the cry, he quickly cried and said with a sad face: "Your Highness, it's not that the sinner is unwilling to serve you, but that you know that Li Erlang is extraordinary and cunning. When the sinner returns, he will definitely suspect the sinner and will not trust the sinner immediately. Moreover, the city of Taiyuan is well-defended and difficult to enter and exit. Even if the sinner finds any military aircraft, he will not be able to send it out of the city?"

"Your Highness, if you don't believe in sinners, then let the sinners be the vanguard of the city." Zhu Can also ventured out and volunteered: "When you attack Taiyuan City, the sinner asked to join the suicide squad, ants attached to the siege to attack the city. Either the sinner would bring back ten thieves' heads to atone for his sins, or the sinner would die in the battle to atone for his sins by death."

"I don't want you to attack the city, nor do I want you to be an insider to spy on military aircraft for me." As he said slowly, Chen Sangliang walked to Zhu Can with the official defense written by himself, and lit the official defense towards Zhu Can, and said, "I only want you to bring it to Li Erlang."

After carefully looking at the official document in Chen Sangliang's hand, Zhu Can was stunned on the spot and almost suspected that his eyes were broken by Yuchi Jingde and read it wrong. Yuchi Jingde and Sun Fujia, who were holding Zhu Can, also widened their eyes at the same time, shouting in surprise: "Your Highness, are you kidding?"

The official defense content signed by Chen Sangliang and sealed by himself is very simple. The full text is as follows: Li Shimin was named Duke of Wei, General of the Right Cavalry Guard, and the Grand Duke of Gold and Zi Guanglu, and rewarded 1,000 taels of gold and silver each, and granted a certificate of exemption from death. In addition to rebellion, he will be exempted from death for life!

Unbelievable efforts blinked a few times and repeatedly confirmed that he had read it correctly. Zhu Can asked in surprise: "Your Highness, do you want the sinner to surrender Li Erlang for you? Haven't you always hated that traitor to the bone? Why did you think of surrendering him? Give him such great grace?"

"I have always liked to repay grievances with kindness. As long as I surrender, I have no habit of killing." Chen Sangliang smiled and said, "I don't like Li Erlang very much, but there is a big thing right away, and I will use his power again, so as long as he is willing to do something for me, I can give him these graces."

"Your Highness, what do you want Li Erlang to do for you?" Zhu Can asked timidly.

"Let him persuade Li Jiancheng to surrender. If it succeeds, I will give him this grace." Chen Sangliang said coldly: "If Li Jiancheng refuses to surrender, Li Erlang takes action to kill Li Jiancheng and leads the defenders and clans to surrender. I will also give him this grace! The Li clan, I will never kill him!"

Zhu Can opened his mouth and thought for a while, Zhu Can asked timidly: "Your Highness, what if Li Erlang chooses to refuse to surrender again?"

"Then you find an opportunity to kill Li Erlang for me." Chen Sangliang said bluntly: "After you return to the city, you can tell Li Erlang directly that you were captured by me, and then say that you pretend to surrender and I will be deceived to return to the city, and you are forced to bring him a letter and message. If he agrees to surrender, you will help him. If he refuses, you will find an opportunity to kill him and come to see me with his head. Whether you can help me persuade Li Erlang to surrender or help me obtain Li Erlang's head, I will pardon your previous sins and give you a fifth-rank official position, a thousand acres of fertile land, gold and silver in the house, and a title."

After only less than three seconds of consideration, Zhu Can agreed to Chen Sangliang's request because at least he could escape immediately to save his life. Chen Sangliang was not very relieved about Zhu Can, so he arranged for someone to secretly escort Zhu Can back to Taiyuan and hand it over to Li Jing. He also asked Li Jing to send someone to monitor Zhu Can with his letter into the city. In front of Zhu Can, he also explained to his subordinates that if Zhu Can found out that he had any evil actions, he could be executed immediately! Then Chen Sangliang put the official defense into an envelope and sealed it with fire lacquer and handed it to Zhu Can.

Zhu Can was taken away, and Yuchi Jingde and Sun Fujia were also confused and asked together: "Your Highness, are you really planning to surrender Li Erlang? You have always hated him to the core, why are you still thinking about surrendering him? Also, our army has reported on the detailed report that Li Erlang is weak in the Taiyuan thief army and cannot beat Li Jiancheng at all. It is useless to recruit him to surrender?"

"Don't underestimate Li Erlang. He has no military power, but after all, he has a certain voice and influence in the Taiyuan thief army." Chen Sangliang said calmly: "There is also the Li clan. The Li brothers fought for power in Daxing before, and the Li clan stood on Li Er's side. Later, Li Er was driven back to Taiyuan by us and the Li clan was weak. The Li clan was retaliated by Li Jiancheng. The Thirteenth General Manager of the Taiyuan thief army was only Li Shentong, the surname was Li. Now that the situation has come to this point, these Li clan members are likely to stand on Li Er's side."

"Then your highness, why don't you directly surrender Li Jiancheng?" Yuchi Jingde asked in confusion: "Your Highness, you have always had a good relationship with Li Jiancheng. During the Tongguan War, you even entrust your family to each other before the war. You should have a lot of hope when you personally surrender him?"

Chen Sangliang smiled, laughing bitterly, and said, "If Li Jiancheng could easily surrender, he would not have thought of attacking our army in the water of Queshigu, nor would he have pulled Dou Jiande and Liu Wuzhou into the battlefield and retreated to Taiyuan City to struggle dyingly. Flooding Taiyuan may lead to breaking the city, but it may not force him to surrender."

Yuchi Jingde shut up, and then Sun Fujia reminded carefully: "Your Highness, if Li Erlang really accepts your surrender, and really persuades Li Jiancheng to surrender or kill Li Jiancheng to surrender, what should he do? His ambition and scheming are very dangerous?"

"For the sake of the tens of thousands of innocent Taiyuan people, I am willing to take the risk of keeping Li Erlang by my side!" This is Chen Sangliang's beautiful answer.
Chapter completed!