Looking at the mighty thief army brigade that had entered the valley, Li Yuan couldn't hold back any longer, he saw that the Sui army had already rushed through the encirclement, and immediately shouted, "Kill!" ”

There was a rapid sound of bangs in the valley, and thousands of arrows were suddenly fired on both sides, and the dense arrows shot at the thief soldiers in the valley, and almost thousands of arrows were concentrated on Wuduan'er, and in an instant, Wuduan'er and his men and horses were shot like hedgehogs, and fell heavily to the ground.

The thieves and soldiers were frightened, desperately running to both sides, trampling on each other, crying and screaming through the valley, at this time, the horn suddenly sounded, 20,000 Li Yuan's troops killed the valley, Li Yuan shouted and ordered: "Those who surrender will not die!" ”

"Those who surrender will not be killed!" The Sui soldiers shouted.

The exits on both sides of the valley have been blocked by the Sui soldiers, Li Xuanba is in the east, Li Yuanji is in the west, each led 3,000 troops to block the channel for the thieves to escape, so that none of the thieves could escape, the thieves and soldiers in the valley heard the shouts of the Sui soldiers in despair, they saw a glimmer of hope, and immediately surrendered on their knees in pieces, and 8,000 of the 10,000 thieves surrendered to Li Yuan's army.

At this time, Li Shimin came to his father with a thief army general and said loudly: "Father, I have captured Zhao Ya, the deputy general of Wudu'er, and he is willing to earn the city for us!" ”

Li Yuan was overjoyed and hurriedly asked, "General Zhao is willing to serve me?" ”

Zhao Ya knelt down and saluted, "Serve Gong Li, and never give up your humble position!" ”

"Good!"

Li Yuan immediately decided: "Erlang, you can take him to the deception city, and I will follow behind." ”

Half an hour later, a thief army escorted hundreds of Sui troops wearing Mingguang armor to Jiexiu City, and Zhao Ya stepped forward and shouted: "Give me a quick opening of the city!" ”

A thief lieutenant looked at it and asked with a smile, "Why hasn't the king come back?" ”

"Why are you asking so much, the king has gone to pursue his armor, and I will bring some of the armor back first."

The thieves in the city all laughed. They all knew that the king was sick, and now there were three thousand pairs of bright light armor, how could the king let it go? The lieutenant did not have the slightest suspicion and shouted: "Kaejo! ”

The city gate creaked open, the drawbridge was slowly lowered, and Li Shimin in the team squeezed the horse lance. With the gates opened, he turned on his horse and ran first into the city, followed by soldiers who swarmed into the city.

The thief army in the city suddenly found that something was wrong and urgently ordered the city gate to be closed, but it was too late, and more than a thousand Sui soldiers entered the city. Li Yuan, who was hiding in the woods in the distance, shouted: "Take the city! ”

He led more than 10,000 Sui troops to kill the old nest of Wuwei'er, Jiexiu City, with the tide of the Sui army pouring into the city, Jiexiu City fell into the hands of the Sui army, tens of thousands of thief soldiers surrendered, and countless grain and grass materials also became the trophies of the Sui army.

Wuduan was killed, Jiexiu County was lost, and grain and grass fell into the hands of the Sui army, which undoubtedly caused the thief army to collapse quickly. Li Yuan immediately divided his troops into three routes and went to various cottages in the Bird Mouse Valley to crusade against the remnants of Wudu'er. Li Yuan used both soft and hard methods, invincible all the way, and in just a few days, all 50,000 thieves surrendered to Li Yuan.

In Taiyuan City, Huyalang hurriedly walked into the county office with Gao Junya. Before coming to the official house of Wang Wei of the county, Gao Junya was Li Yuan's deputy general, and this time Li Yuan crusaded against Wudu'er and did not take him there, but ordered Gao Junya to stay in Taiyuan.

But Gao Junya's other identity is to monitor Li Yuan's actions in the army. If Li Yuan has a different intention, he will report it directly to the Son of Heaven.

"Wang Juncheng, there is an urgent matter to discuss!" Walking to the front of the steps, Gao Junya couldn't help but shout.

Out of the official room came out of the official room, a tall and fat official, who was a head taller than Gao Junya, who was a general of Huya, he was the county Cheng Wang Wei, and Gao Junya, he was also an official sent by Yang Guang to secretly monitor Li Yuan, but Gao Junya was in charge of military surveillance, and he was in charge of government surveillance.

"General Gao, what's the urgency?"

"What else can I be anxious about, it's about that person"

Without waiting for Gao Jun to finish speaking, Wang Wei hurriedly waved his hand and interrupted Gao Junya's words, "This is not the place to talk, let's go back to the room and talk about it." ”

He let Gao Junya into the official room, looked to both sides again, and then closed the door.

As soon as Gao Junya sat down, she said impatiently: "I received a report from my henchmen from Jiexiu County that Li Yuan was defeated and surrendered more than 50,000 prisoners of war. ”

Wang Wei frowned, "This is not a problem!" Isn't it normal that he was ordered to suppress bandits? ”

"The problem is not here, but what happened yesterday, more than 50,000 prisoners of war should have all been sent back to the countryside to work as farmers, but Li Yuan selected 20,000 elites from them and incorporated them into his own army, and his army suddenly grew to 40,000 people."

Wang Wei also showed a look of shock on his face, if this is the case, Li Yuan's problem is big, how many troops can each commander in charge of the army outside can have, it is approved by the Ministry of War, and the Son of Heaven approves and agrees, no one is allowed to expand the scale without authorization, if the scale is expanded without authorization, it means that he has to raise his own food, that is, he supports the army and stands on his own, that is, he plots rebellion and rebellion, Li Yuan dares to expand the army without authorization?

"Is this news true?"

Gao Junya hurriedly said: "Of course it's true, it's my henchman who sent someone to deliver the letter overnight last night, it definitely can't be fake, Juncheng, what should we do?" Do you report directly to the Son of Heaven? ”

Gao Junya is a military general, his mind is slightly poor, and it is Wang Wei who decides to make suggestions, Wang Wei pondered for a moment and said: "This matter should be asked to Li Yuan first, see how he explains, in case he gets the secret decree of the Son of Heaven, we should not interfere, if it is really him who did it without permission, it is not too late for us to report to the imperial court, what does General Gao think?" ”

"Juncheng is reasonable, then I'll go to Jiexiu County to ask him, if he doesn't follow the order, I will immediately send someone to inform Juncheng."

"Good! That's it, I'll wait for news from the general. ”

Gao Junya led hundreds of soldiers all the way south, and met Li Yuan, who was returning from the main division at the junction of Taiyuan County and Xihe County, Gao Junya had already received the news first, Li Yuan ordered his nephew Li Xiaogong and Liu Hongji and Changsun Shunde to train 20,000 troops in Jiexiu County, and he himself led the original army back to Taiyuan.

At this time, Li Yuan also got the news, Gao Junya came, Li Yuan couldn't help but snort coldly in his heart, this person's arrival must be related to the 20,000 soldiers, he also had a statement in his heart, so he smiled and said: "Please General Gao come to see me!" ”

Not long after, Gao Junya was led in front of Li Yuan, and he stepped forward to clasp his fists and salute, "See Li Gong!" ”

"General Gao doesn't have to be polite."

Gao Junya turned over and got on the horse, walked side by side with Li Yuan, and said with a smile: "Congratulations to Gong Li for exterminating Wudu'er and making great contributions!" ”

Li Yuan smiled faintly, "It's just a group of rabble, and if you don't win, General Gao doesn't need to compliment me anymore." ”

"After all, it is an army of more than 50,000, twice the army of Li Gong, and it is not easy to win the battle."

As soon as Gao Junya changed the topic, she returned to business, "I heard that Duke Li did not disband all the soldiers, but left more than 20,000 people, why is this?" ”

Although Li Yuan had been prepared, he didn't expect Gao Junya to ask so directly, he scolded secretly in his heart, and still smiled and said: "Those 20,000 people are all natives of Xihe County, because the mountains and valleys of Xihe County are high, it is very easy to cause banditry, so I accepted the proposal of Wang Taishou of Xihe County, and left these 20,000 people as the militia group of Xihe County, once there are signs of banditry, they can directly extinguish it." ”

"I see, or is Li Gong thoughtful, but is 20,000 militias a little too much?"

"20,000 militia groups are indeed a little more, but we also have to think about the long-term, last year there was the Yanmen incident, who of us did not expect, but it can be seen that the Turks have begun to point to the Central Plains, once the Turkic army goes south, we and the state bear the brunt, as Taiyuan left behind and Hedong to arrest the envoy, I have a heavy responsibility on my shoulders, I have to take precautions, prepare more militia groups, once the Turkic army, will not be helpless, General Gao said is it?"

Li Yuan handled this matter very tactfully, first put the responsibility on the Taishou of Xihe County, and at the request of the Taishou of Xihe County, he left 20,000 people, followed by the militia group, and the informal army, you Gao Junya can't expand the army without authorization The big hat is on my head, and then in order to resist the possible invasion of the Turks, even the Son of Heaven almost fell into the hands of the Turks, you can't say that the Turks will definitely not come, so one link after another, making Gao Junya speechless.

"Li Gong is really smart, thinks long-term, and admires his humble duties! Admire! ”

Gao Junya laughed dryly, but was speechless, although so, he also confirmed from one side that Li Yuan was not under the secret order to expand the army, according to the agreement between him and Wang Wei in advance, Gao Junya sent someone to send a letter to Wang Wei overnight, and two days later, a messenger rushed to Jiangdu with Wang Wei's 800-mile urgent whistleblower letter. (To be continued.) )