On behalf of the Eastern Army camp in Twenty Miles Town, Qingpo Road, Yunzhou, Li Jing was drinking, Li Zhen, Guo Chengan, Zhang Hong, Du Zhongwu, and Lin Wu, Gao Shunli, Wang Pu, Li Juyi and other generals were accompanied.

Li Jing is in a good mood today, and it is rare to drink in the army, and the generals are a little strange, but Li Jing doesn't say it directly, they have to guess that there may be some happy event, and it may still be private.

Their guess was correct, Li Jing received a letter from Lin Wei early this morning. The letter was written by Zhang Yingying, who had returned to Cheonghae Town, Silla, and told him one thing, that he was a father. The child was born soon after he sent out the army, and on the sixth day of the ninth month, Zhang Yingying gave birth to a baby girl in Qinghai Town, Silla. At the moment, I haven't taken a big name, but I have only taken a small name called Qingnu. This child, Zhang Yingying has already explained, she will raise it by herself.

Although she is a girl, Li Jing is not too patriarchal. Besides, he Li Jing already has five wives and concubines and three lovers, and there is really no pressure to have children. And even if Zhang Yingying wants to raise a young slave, it is not a big deal, she is also her own daughter who raises it. It's just a pity that it is thousands of miles away from the ocean and cannot be seen for a while.

Calculating the time, Wang Haojun and Pei Chenxi and Pei Chenlan are pregnant in April, and Gui Niang and Wan'er are in May, and it is already November.

Coupled with the newly born green slave, Li Jing will become the father of six children in the blink of an eye. The excitement of becoming a first-time father made it difficult for Li Jing to calm down. However, it is not good to publicize Zhang Yingying's daughter too much. Li Jing had no choice but to pull a few generals to drink together.

Li Jing was drinking a few wines. While chatting a little. Wine is fruit wine. The degree is not high, plus some hazelnuts, raisins, etc., but it is also very leisurely. Although the soldiers and horses were stationed at the pass, Li Jing had no intention of attacking the city immediately. The soldiers in the battalion train for half a day, and half of the classes are also very leisurely.

As he was drinking, Li Cunxiao, who had become a guard of the inferior soldiers, reported at the door: "General Li of the Flying Eagle Battalion asks to see him." ”

"Ask him to come in." Li Jing nodded at Li Cunxiao, and he carefully observed Li Cunxiao. Seeing that he was a little calmer, and there was no resentment or dissatisfaction on his face, he was very satisfied, it seemed that being a small soldier was indeed of some help to Li Cunxiao.

Li Weida stepped inside, clenching his fists and luggage: "Report to Dutong, go out to scout the cavalry and catch a Hu man, claiming to be a secret envoy, and want to see Dutong." With that, he presented a letter that he had found.

Li Jing opened the letter and read it. I first looked at the end of the letter and there was no signature, but the consciousness of the letter was written very clearly. It was the generals in Guanzhong who wanted to reattach themselves to the imperial court, hoping that Li Jing could give a guarantee.

"Bring people in."

The man was soon brought up, a bearded man dressed in white with a distinctly Sogdian appearance.

"Who do you preach?" There was no signature on the letter, and Li Jing also understood that it was a means of self-protection to prevent the letter from being intercepted.

"Mi Haiwan, the chief of the Sage Tribe, and Shi Jingcun, the chief of the Anqing Tribe!"

Hearing that these two people had the intention to surrender, Li Jing couldn't help but be surprised. The Sage tribe and the Anqing tribe are both one of the three tribes of Shatuo. Although they are called the three parts of Shatuo, they are not actually Shatuo people. It's just that due to the growing strength of the Shatuo people in the north of the Daibei, the Shatuo army began to recruit some Hu people who lived in the Tang Dynasty in the north, and the three Shatuo tribes were formed after the end.

In fact, there are not many pure Shatuo people, sixty years ago, only 10,000 Shatuo people returned to the Tang Dynasty, and now, no matter how much they reproduce, there are not too many people. The current Shatuo people are actually a new mixed race of the mixed tribes of Daibei.

One of the three tribes of Shatuo, the Sage tribe and the Anqing tribe, were actually Sogdians who originally lived in the Western Regions. Later, many people moved inward and lived in the Hetao and Daibei areas. Sage and Anqing refer to the original residence of these two tribes. Sage Mansion is in the territory of Zhenwu Army, while Anqing Mansion is in the northern part of Yunshuo. At first, they were in the Hetao area, and later moved to Shizhou, Hedong, and later moved to Yunshuo. Because the place where Sage and Anqing were located was not only a pasture in Shanghaolu, but also an important passage for the grassland to enter the east of the river, the imperial court later stationed the Shatuo cavalry in this area.

Over time, the relationship between the three departments continued to strengthen, and because of several internal wars in the Tang Dynasty, the three departments have sent troops to participate in the war, and the three departments are controlled by the Zhu Xie clan, and when Li Guochang arrived, the three departments were directly called the three departments of Shatuo, and the relationship became closer, and they continued to intermarry and marry.

In the current situation, everyone can see that Li Guochang's father and son are going to be heeled this time, facing the Zhendong Army under the city, the soldiers and horses on the cowhide pass obviously have their own thoughts. The two divisions of Sage and Anqing, which have always been controlled by the Shatuo people, now want to jump away from Li Guochang's broken ship.

A total of 3,000 men and horses from Shuozhou and Shatuo rushed to Yunzhou from Shuozhou to reinforce, and each of the three divisions had 1,000 elite cavalry. These cavalry are not ordinary cavalry, but real battle-hardened cavalry, and they are also the foundation of their dominance in Daibei. Mi Haiwan and Shi Jingcun didn't want to see these soldiers in their hands being consumed here.

Especially when the Shan Yu Protectorate was breached by the imperial court's western camp, their thoughts became even stronger.

For their surrender, Guo Chengan was worried that it was the enemy's fraudulent surrender. Lin Wu also had this worry, after all, although they were not real Shatuo people, they had a relationship with Shatuo people for decades, so they had to guard against it.

In this regard, Li Jing was very calm. It's naturally better if they fall, but if they don't, Li Jing doesn't care too much.

"If the two governors are really willing to surrender, then the capital will naturally explain everything to the court afterwards. However, just talking can't show their sincerity, if they really want to do it anyway, then you go back to Yun and tell the two governors, as long as they are willing to take down the cowhide pass and sacrifice it to the capital, then everything is naturally easy to say. After saying this, Li Jing ignored him anymore and directly sent someone to send him away.

"The county prince doesn't seem to care too much about the situation in Cowhide Pass?" Li Zhen saw that Li Jing seemed to have a somewhat indifferent attitude, and hurriedly asked.

Li Jing chuckled: "The words are still those words, if this battle is just our family." Naturally, the sooner it ends, the better. But the situation is now. This battle is fought by seven families. If it is considered Tuoba Sigong, it is eight, and if Li Guochang's side is counted, it is nine chaotic battles. We have to get the rhythm right, it's not a good thing to play too fast and too hard. ”

Li Jing didn't say a word directly, that is, he was waiting for news from Taiyuan and Youzhou. On the Youzhou side, if Li Guochang is defeated as expected, then Li Keyong will no longer be able to stay in Taiyuan to confront. With this move, he has to trigger a change in the overall situation. It is very likely that there will be people in the five towns of Taiyuan who want to jump out of the headache and beat the water dogs, and want to take advantage of the merit.

At that time, there will definitely be a good look. Li Jing waited, he didn't want to fight too hard now, otherwise, Li Keyong would probably come straight to him desperately, and he would lose money at that time.

Now let's spend it first. Let Li Keyong not have to worry so much, so that he can fight with the soldiers and horses of the imperial court. As long as you wait for Li Guochang and Li Ke to use it. There are also soldiers and horses of the imperial court, and when both sides are defeated, Li Jing will really launch a thunderous blow. Only then can he get the first merit of this battle and bring out the power of the Zhendong Army. He has now taken Ulzhou, and the soldiers are in Yunzhou Cowhide Pass, and no one can say that he can't be spared.

Tianmen Pass in the north of Taiyuan.

The two mountains are like a door, in the county's dry side, so it is called the gate of heaven.

Tianmen Mountain is a hump in the territory of Taiyuan in the Qianli Luliang Mountains. Behind the hump is a large canyon. Two mountains and a valley, 30 miles deep. The peaks in the valley are long, the forms are different, some are abrupt and piercing, some are cut thousands of walls, and some are gentle as wings.

Since ancient times, it has been an important passage in the north of Taiyuan, and it is a place where soldiers must fight. Previously, Li Keyong and Cao Xiang, the former envoy of Hedong, fought fiercely here, Li Keyong was defeated first, and then introduced the Hedong army into the canyon, and finally broke through Hedongzhong, Cao Xiang's army was defeated back to Jinyang City, and immediately died at the hands of Li Keyong's assassins.

Li Keyong led 10,000 elite soldiers to garrison Tianmen Pass, but fell into a dilemma.

Since Zheng Congyan took over as the envoy, this civil official has led the soldiers and horses of the five towns under his command very well. The soldiers and horses of the five towns all retreated into Jinyang City, and the walls were clear. Outside the northern capital of Jinyang, countless ditches were dug, horse pits, and pointed piles were planted.

Around Jinyang City, there is not even a lot suitable for cavalry battles. And without the advantage of cavalry, Li Ke's crow army could not storm the northern capital of the Tang Dynasty like Jinyang.

But at this time, it is not possible to retreat like this, because he is stationed at Tianmen Pass, and the soldiers and horses of the five towns are forced not to dare to go out of the city. If he retreats, the soldiers of the five towns will definitely come out. It was a good thing for the other party to go out of the city, but Li Keyong had few soldiers after all, and he was afraid that the other party would divide his troops to attack the Zhenwu army, which was now extremely empty.

"Report, Madame has arrived!" A Sha Tuo soldier reported loudly.

Li Keyong was surprised, how did Liu run to the front line.

Nasha Tuobing looked at Li Keyong, and then whispered: "Ulzhou has been lost, and the Taixi Pass on the border of the Wei Dynasty has also been lost, in addition, the three major generals of Kexiuke and Zhang Kerou have died in battle!" ”

Rick turned his head sharply and stared at the soldier fiercely with his one-eyed, a wolf-like fierce gaze. "Say it again!"

The soldier was stared at by Li Keyong, only to feel his legs tremble, and he was strong enough to say it again.

With a roar, Li Ke directly strangled the soldier's neck, and the whole person was lifted. The soldier was choked by the neck, unable to even breathe, his face quickly turned red, then blue, and he was about to suffocate when he saw the boss with his eyes open.

At this time, a strong force tore Li Keyong's arm away, Li Keyong turned his head and raised his hand to fight, but saw a familiar face, it turned out to be his wife Liu, the hand raised to the air could not be beaten anymore, as soon as the hand was released, the soldier fell to the ground, coughing and crawling and crawling.

"Why are you here?" Li Keyong looked at his wife, who had lost a lot of weight due to tiredness due to days of traveling.

Liu's eyes were gloomy and said: "Li Jing led 20,000 Zhendong troops from Youzhou to Ulzhou, and I made the decision not to resist but led the army to retreat into Daizhou." Who knew that the Zhendong army was in hot pursuit, they first sent more than a dozen assassins to capture three Kexiu, and then they were surrounded and refused to surrender, and directly set fire to the jade. Then Li Jing's army arrived, and we could not resist it, and the brothers lost 3,000 in battle, and only 3,000 people were left in Ulju to flee. Fortunately, Li Jing did not pursue, when I passed through Daizhou, I gathered all the 3,000 soldiers and 5,000 young men who stayed in Daizhou, husband, it is not appropriate to stay for a long time at this time, we should withdraw to Shuozhou first. ”

Li Keyong didn't expect the situation to become like this, and his wife brought all the soldiers and horses over at this time, which was to concentrate the soldiers and horses to avoid being broken by the branch, which was done very right.

"But my father is still attacking Youzhou with his troops, and as soon as we retreat, my father will be surrounded by officials and soldiers."

"Report!" Another urgent report sounded outside the tent.

After the report was retained, the Tiande army sent Yu to lead 12,000 troops to attack the Zhenwu army with Tuyu Hun Helian Duo. The defenders of Huyanguan mutinied, they killed General Li Ting and surrendered to the Tang army. Subsequently, the Tang army entered the Zhenwu army from Huyanguan, and ran for 400 miles to attack the Shan Yu Duhu Mansion, which had been attacked and occupied a few days ago, and the Dashuai's family had no opponents. ”

When Li Keyong heard the news, he only felt a thunderbolt on a sunny day, almost knocking him down.

Ulzhou had just been lost, and Daizhou also took the initiative to give up, and at this time, even his father's base camp Shan Yu Duhu Mansion was gone. How can this be fought, Li Jing's 20,000 Zhendong troops in the east came in a murderous manner, and Yu Xuan's 12,000 people killed in the west.

"Husband, withdraw immediately, if we don't leave, we will be surrounded." Liu didn't expect that Tiandejun would also take an extremely powerful move. With this move, the back road of the Zhenwu Army was broken.

"How can I retreat alone at this time." Lick gritted his teeth, and his one-eyed gleam with a strange light. "Madam, let's lead our troops to meet our father and go to Guanzhong together."

Liu Shi trembled: "Are you crazy? There are countless soldiers and horses in Guanzhong, even if we bring all the soldiers and horses together, we can't save my father, but we have to take it ourselves. ”

"I'm not crazy, it's too late for us to retreat now, Li Jing and Yu Xuan will be waiting for us on our retreat. Right now, only the soldiers are in danger. Go to Youzhou first, make a move to march to Chang'an, and attract the imperial court soldiers and horses, the situation is good, maybe we can force the imperial court to negotiate peace. If it doesn't work, we will join our father and cross the Yin Mountain directly from the Tiande army into the grassland. ”

"Crazy!" Liu Shi held his forehead, and he didn't know how to describe it.

What Ke Fujun said is not unreasonable, even if he retreats into Yunshuo at this time, he will not be able to escape the encirclement, and Li Guochang will be encircled and suppressed as soon as possible.

"Okay, I'll go with you." Liu gritted his teeth and nodded.

"No!" Li Keyong shook his head and stretched out his hand to caress his wife's thin face, "You go back to Shuozhou immediately, I will let Si Yuan and Si Zhao go back with you, you recruit soldiers and horses there, recruit as many as you can, and then go directly to Tatar, they have a good relationship with us, you wait there for me and my father to come back." As long as the remaining soldiers and horses are there, we will be able to kill them back sooner or later. ”

Liu Shi groaned, and nodded after the most reluctance: "I listen to you, you must come back alive!" ”

"Definitely!" Li Ke nodded solemnly. (To be continued......)