"Your Majesty, the left and right Shence troops have taken Taiyuan City, and Hedong general Zhou Dewei and others led nearly 20,000 Hedong soldiers who are willing to submit to the imperial court."

Liu Kui came to Li Ye with a horse, followed by several generals, it seems that he should be the general of Hedong, but he doesn't know which one is Zhou Dewei.

"Li Kening, what about Li Keyong's family?" Li Ye said with concern.

"Your Majesty, please condemn you. In the chaos last night, Kang Junli took Li Keyong's family to flee north from the north gate of Taiyuan to the north, and Li Kening was nowhere to be seen, so he should have escaped from Taiyuan City.

They should not have fled far, and without His Majesty's will, the minister did not order the pursuit. ”

Li Ye pondered for a while, then ordered, "Li Maozhen obeys the order!" ”

"The minister is here!"

"I order you to take all the cavalry of the Left and Right Shence Army to pursue Li Kening, Kang Junli and others who fled north.

Remember, if you encounter an army commanded by Li Cunzhang and Li Siyuan, you can fight, and if you can't, don't rush. ”

Seeing that Li Ye finally handed over a good errand to him, Li Maozhen was immediately overjoyed, it seemed that he had captured Li Ke alive before and used it to win glory for him and the entire Zuo Shence army, otherwise this errand would not have been his turn.

"Please rest assured that Your Majesty will not live up to Your Majesty's trust!"

"Go ahead!"

It's not that Li Ye doesn't want to catch up with Li Kening and the others at once, but these people all fled on horseback, and only cavalry can catch up.

But there were not many cavalry from the hands of the forbidden army, the Zuo Tiance army had lost 2,000 in Pingyao before, and the cavalry of the Right Shence army was also the main force against the Shatuo cavalry.

Just like the 10,000 cavalry of the Right Shence Army, there are only 6,000 left, plus the cavalry of the Left Shence Army, it is worth 10,000 people. And Zuo Tiance's army only had 5,000 cavalry left.

Under such circumstances, Li Ye naturally did not plan to fight hard with the Shatuo cavalry in the hands of Li Cunzhang and Li Siyuan, lest the only cavalry be exhausted.

Capturing Li Keyong alive and taking Taiyuan, this crusade can be regarded as a successful completion.

After Li Maozhen led the troops to pursue, Li Ye asked Mi Haijin, the leader of the Sage Tribe, Shi Jianjiao, the leader of the Anqing Tribe, and Zhou Dewei to come forward to meet him.

Strictly speaking, at this time, there was no such thing as the leaders of the Sage Department and the Anqing Department, because Li Keyong did not allow the three Shatuo tribes to go their separate ways.

But Mi Haijin is the younger brother of the previous governor of the Sagar Prefecture (that is, the head of the Sagar Ministry) Mi Haiwan, after Mi Haiwan's death, although he did not succeed to the post of Sagar Governor, but he has a high influence among those old people of the Sagar Ministry, and he is not nominally the governor, but in fact he is still the decision-maker of the Sagar Ministry.

And Shi Jianjiao is the son of Shi Jingsi, the previous governor of Jiufu (that is, the governor of Anqing), but he is young, only 13 years old.

Shi Jingsi died to protect Li Keyong, so the latter took better care of his son Shi Jianjiao and commanded thousands of Zhaode troops, which were basically composed of warriors from the Anqing Department.

Although Shi Jianjiao is young, relying on his father's reasons, those veterans of the Anqing Department are also more loyal to Shi Jingsi. This time, the Anqing Ministry defected to the imperial court, in fact, it was promoted by those veterans.

Shi Jianjiao originally objected, but the wood was already in the boat, so he acquiesced in this matter.

Seeing the young Shi Jianjiao, Li Ye was also thinking about how to place the other party.

In order to prevent the Sage Ministry and the Anqing Department from rebelling again, Li Ye would definitely not let the two tribes continue to stay in Hedong, what if the two tribes colluded with the remnants of Shatuo?

"Your Majesty, the minister has a way!"

Li Yingxu saw Li Ye's embarrassment, so he whispered in his ear.

"Your Majesty, the eldest princess of Suining is not married yet, although she is three years older than this Shi Jianjiao, it is not a big problem.

The young lord of the Anqing Department married the princess, which was naturally a great gift, and then His Majesty took this opportunity to move the clansmen of the two tribes to Longyou, and placed the upper-level generals of these two tribes in Chang'an, and they did not dare to object.

In this way, Your Majesty does not have to worry about them colluding with the remnants of the Shatuo Division, and without two, there will be only one of the three Shatuo Divisions left, and they have a great hatred with Helian Duo, the leader of Tuyuhun, even if they escape this catastrophe, they will not be able to threaten Hedong in a short time. ”

The two eldest princesses who are not married are only Princess Renshou and Princess Suining, but Princess Renshou has already made a marriage contract and will get married after the year.

However, the eldest princess of Suining has not yet found a suitable candidate for the horse.

It's not that there really isn't, but Li Ye doesn't want to marry the two sisters just by finding someone. Those candidates will ask Li Zhen to send Jinyiwei to check what he did before, plus he can't be too old, so it's relatively slow.

The Shi Jianjiao in front of him is not bad, but the specifics depend on his conduct.

If he could, even if he was three years younger than the eldest princess of Suining, it would not be a problem; But if not, it is okay to find a princess from the clan to marry him, which can be regarded as the other party's high climbing.

So Li Ye mentioned it, of course, he didn't explicitly say that he wanted to marry the eldest princess of Suining to him, but he planned to find a woman in the clan as his wife.

Li Ye said this, Shi Jianjiao didn't dare to refute it at all, and those people in the Anqing Department also felt that it was acceptable, and they could also take the opportunity to deepen the relationship with the imperial court. As for Mi Haijin of the Sage Department, he does not have a son of appropriate age, but has a daughter of appropriate age.

However, Li Ye didn't say anything about the relocation of the two departments, at least after the situation in Hedong stabilized a little, lest the two departments not accept it.

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Yangqu County, north of Taiyuan Prefecture.

Although Li Kening wanted to seize Li Keyong's vacated position, after escaping from Taiyuan, the 3,000 cavalry that followed him finally joined forces with Kang Junli, who covered Liu and others to escape from Taiyuan City.

At this time, it is useless to say that those are useless, or find a way to escape.

Originally, both of them brought a lot of infantry, but in order to speed up, they directly abandoned the infantry and moved forward with cavalry lightly.

They all hoped that after Li Cunzhang, Li Siyuan and others got the news, they could quickly send a large army to respond, otherwise they would be caught up by the court's pursuers, and they would be finished.

However, just as they were about to leave Yangqu, Liu expressed his opposition.

It turned out that when they broke through last night, Cao and Li Qionghua were separated from them, and in a panic, Liu could only take Li Cunmiao, Chen and Li Cunmei to flee north.

The Cao family and the others also had one or two hundred royal palace soldiers around them, but they didn't wait until now for the Cao family and his party.

"Sister-in-law, you can't hesitate any longer at this time. They all know that we are going to Shuozhou, and I believe that they will come back to join us later, if we drag it any longer, it will be too late to be caught up by the court's pursuers. Li Kening said.

Kang Junli also nodded and said, "What I said after staying is that I will leave someone to gather the escaped soldiers in Yangqu to block the pursuers of the imperial court in Yangqu, and wait for the second lady by the way." ”

After all, the Liu family is a woman, and her husband is in trouble, where can she fight for the two, only Li Cunmiao and others, who are helpless to cry, continue to go north with Li Kening and Kang Junli and others.

Less than an hour after they left Yangqu, Li Maozhen led the army to Yangqu County.

After paying some price, Li Maozhen led the army to break through Yangqu, but it wasted several hours, and Li Kening and others left.

Thinking of this, Li Maozhen was so angry that he cut down several Shatuo troops one after another.

Further north is Xinzhou, maybe it is possible to encounter Li Cunzhang's army.

Although his 10,000 cavalry is also elite, if he faces the same number of Shatuo cavalry, he is not necessarily an opponent.

Whether to risk chasing or returning in vain, Li Maozhen is also hesitating.

Just when he hesitated, his lucky general Zhao Yuanzhang brought good news.

"General, we seem to have captured Li Keyong's concubine Cao and his eldest daughter."