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Chapter 70 Soldiers approaching the city

He can recover Fenzhou.

Even though Liu Dazheng had repaired the city defense for more than a month, he still held a 100,000 army in his hand. But as long as he was given a strong team, he could break through Fenzhou City within three days, open up the situation for Taiyuan, and reverse the current extremely unfavorable situation.

If this is not the case, once Li Ye goes from Yizhou in the southeast and Liu Dazheng from Fenzhou in the southwest, he sends troops to Taiyuan at the same time and finally meets at the city of Taiyuan, then Li Keyong will really lose all the situation, no way out, no room for maneuver, and he can only choose to fight to the death.

But at that time, how much morale is left for the people and the army? The morale of the soldiers is sluggish and has no fighting spirit. How can they face Li Ye's elite Pinglu army with strong momentum?

Li Cunxiao believed that he could recover Fenzhou, and he believed that he could turn the situation around.

But he couldn't see Li Keyong.

Li Keyong didn't see him.

No matter how he requested, the other party just disappeared.

So all this is false.

Li Cunxiao waited for a long time, and waited until the officials and generals finished their discussions with Li Keyong in the Political Affairs Hall, and when the officials and generals left one after another, when the sun set and the moon rose, he had not received Li Keyong's summons.

He had no choice but to choose to leave.

When he left the Prince's Mansion, the reactions of the officials and generals he met along the way were quite different from those when he entered the mansion. When he came in before, although everyone suspected him and had many dissatisfaction with him, they did not show it very clearly, but just showed it with their eyes. And not everyone suspected him.

But when he waited for so long, he had not received Li Keyong's summons. When he came out, the situation was different. The officials and generals no longer had any scruples as before, and the sarcasm and ridicule were heard in person. Some people did not stop talking as he walked by, and the conversation was clear and clear.

"What kind of military general, a general who cannot fight for Hedong, is even worse than the most ordinary general and officer!"

"Why did he say that he fought hard for Hedong? He did not surrender to Li Ye and attacked Hedong instead. It was worthy of us!"

"I used to think that the war in Yizhou was stalemate, but now it seems that even the prince did not see him, so he must have a problem!"

"Of course the prince won't see him. I'm afraid he will be unable to help but take action when he sees him, right? That's really no room for anything..."

"It was because of him that he lost Yizhou! What room should I leave for such a person? Even if I don't go to prison, I should be demoted and give Hedong an explanation!"

Having endured these sounds all the way, Li Cunxiao hid his head and walked out of the Prince's Mansion. The moment he went out, his face turned black, and his forbearing anger and aggrievance made his face twitch. His cultivation power showed signs of uncontrollable damage. The cultivation of the military general was shaking left and right like a mountain, and he was about to collapse.

After returning to the mansion, Li Cunxiao closed the door and never stepped out of the door again.

......

After hearing the Qingyi Yamen’s report on Li Cunxiao’s recent situation, Li Ye had no surprise on his face, but there was still a smile on his lips. Li Keyong would suspect Li Cunxiao, which seemed inevitable in Li Ye’s opinion. The discord plan he and the Qingyi Yamen jointly implemented was enough to make the two lose peace.

Similarly, in the history of the earth, Li Cunxiao ended up being in a different position because of the jealousy of other generals and the suspicion of Li Keyong.

Li Ye glanced at everyone in the hall.

There are two different factions sitting on both sides.

On the left are the generals of Pinglu, including Shangguan Qingcheng, Li Zhen, Zhao Polu, Song Jiao and others. They were also the team he brought out from Prince An’s Mansion, as well as Nangong No. 1 and Su Emei, who have developed to this day and are full of talents.

On the right are the monks of the demon clan, the Holy Infant Saint Son and the Nine-tailed Demon Fox are all here, and the great monks of the Immortal Realm brought by the Holy Infant are also among them. That is the power of the demon clan to help him. In terms of cultivation and combat power, it will naturally completely crush Lu's side.

In a nutshell, Pinglu officials are secular forces, and they are the backbone of whether they govern the local area or fight on the battlefield. The so-called literary men and martial artists who stabilize the country are talking about them. The capable people and patriots here also include Cui Keli, who temporarily governed political affairs in Pinglu and stabilized Li Ye's rear.

The monks of the demon clan are cultivators. Strictly speaking, their opponents are not worldly enemies, but fairy courts, Buddha domains and gods outside the domain. However, now is not a time of orderly peace, but a situation of great struggle between heaven and earth, and the barriers between heaven and earth are not so strict.

In addition, this time the heavenly way appeared, forcing the Immortal Court and the Buddha Domain to send a large number of Immortal Realm monks to the earth, which made the situation of great disputes in the world even more chaotic.

What Li Ye was thinking about was that the Taoist Immortal Court and the Buddhist Domain of the Shimen sent great monks to seize the secrets of heaven, so when would the gods of the sects outside the domain appear?

Their power is indeed not as good as the Taoist Immortal Court and the Buddhist Domain of the Shimen, but there is no absolute in the world, especially when the world is in great struggle, there are too many variables.

They also shine, almost destroying both the Taoist sect and the Shi sect.

Without this ability, the Tang Dynasty would not have had border troubles, dozens of prefectures and counties in all directions were occupied, large areas of territory were plundered, and hundreds of thousands of people were captured, and the Taoist immortal court would not be too short of dealing with it.

Of course, these things are not the most important things for Li Ye at the moment. What he wants to do now is to capture Hedong, get rid of Li Keyong, the great prince who was originally destined to dominate the north, and then rob the Buddhist realm of the immortals that would appear in Taiyuan with the Buddha Domain.

Li Ye looked around everyone and said slowly: "The army was divided into two groups, east and west, and after capturing Fenzhou and Yizhou, after all, the attacks on all sides of the country, the enemy in Hedong around the two states had been cleaned up. Li Changshi and his colleagues had achieved success in fostering the people. Now the order of Fenzhou and Yizhou has been stabilized. Since the military and political affairs of both places have been stabilized, the Order of the Guwang Order: the army from east and west advances together to attack Taiyuan!"

The General Pinglu and the monks of the Demon Clan stood up together, clasped their fists and promised: "Abide by the military order!"

Looking at the excited faces of everyone and feeling the fighting spirit from the bottom of their hearts, Li Ye was quite satisfied and nodded slightly.

There is no need to say anything about the General of Pinglu. It was the direct force that Li Ye spent many years and countless efforts to cultivate. Even if Li Ye asked them to go to the mountains of swords and the sea of ​​fire, they would implement military orders without hesitation.

The monks of the demon clan had no doubt about Li Ye's orders. Even the rebellious and lawless Holy Infant King changed from his proud attitude to dominate the situation at the beginning to fully recognize his subordinate status now. Although it is not a question of bowing to Li Ye, there is no problem asking him to follow his advice.

This is the effect that Li Ye has separated from Li Keyong and Li Cunxiao is successful, forcing Li Cunxiao to leave Yizhou, so that the army will lose strong enemies, easily take down Yizhou City, and hold the general trend tightly in his hand, which is a natural result.

However, Li Ye also knew that the demon clan headed by the Holy Infant was only temporary and qualified to submit to him. Let’s not talk about anything else. If he suffers major setbacks in the future, it will be difficult to predict what the other party’s attitude will be. So he cannot be careless either.

Next, Li Ye led his army to set out from Yizhou, and Liu Dazheng led his troops to set out from Fenzhou, and the two sides fought on both sides to encircle Taiyuan City.

Li Keyong dispatched troops and generals, relying on the advantages of prefectures, counties, passes and important roads, and set up blockade lines to intercept the two armies, trying to stabilize the situation, and refused Li Ye and Liu Dazheng outside the Taiyuan Gate.

However, Li Keyong's ideas were destined to be just false.

During the battle in the next half month, the two official troops were in a state of unstoppable power.

Li Keyong sent his confidant generals and Taibao to achieve elite combat power. The levels that were set up along the road had no resistance in front of the official army with the elite Pinglu Army led by Liu Dazheng and Shangguan Qingcheng as the core combat power.

Several times, Li Keyong used his military talents to mobilize elite troops to attack in an almost impossible situation and gathered in important places. He used his absolute superior force to fight against the official army without the expected results.

The most fundamental problem is that the Hedong Army can defeat the Zhaoyi Army, Henghai Army, and Tianping Army, but as long as they encounter the Pinglu Army, they will not be able to defeat them at all. So even if they can defeat the former and make a lot of achievements, they will often be defeated by the latter who will arrive immediately without time to digest the results.

Especially the two military generals, Liu Dazheng and Shangguan Qingcheng, are combat powers that the Hedong Army cannot solve.

Several times the Hedong Army gathered many generals. In the situation where the troops were dominant, either Liu Dazheng and Shangguan Qingcheng successfully persisted until the reinforcements arrived, or they were led by the two of them to provide timely assistance, and eventually failed.

The military talents of the two military generals are not bad.

The Hedong Army suffered heavy casualties and many soldiers surrendered and fled. Today, the official army has an absolute advantage in both sides of the war.

Under such circumstances, after more than 20 days of fighting, the two official troops finally joined forces at the city of Taiyuan.

There were more than 400,000 government troops who fought in Hedong. In addition to a small number of troops stationed in key areas along the way and few soldiers who suffered casualties in previous wars, more than 350,000 people finally arrived at the city of Taiyuan.

Although the Hedong Army has 300,000, its mobile troops are far less than this. After losing streak, although the soldiers were killed or injured by 50,000, generally speaking, there are always soldiers who surrendered and fled on the battlefield, which is much more than the ones who died in battle. Especially recently, Li Keyong intercepted the two official troops. When he was defeated, he lost a large number of soldiers.

Now the Hedong Army in Taiyuan City is far less than 100,000.

After Li Ye ordered the official army to surround Taiyuan City, he did not order the army to attack the city immediately. This is not because the Taiyuan City City Defense was built very well. The city walls were raised several feet high, with numerous arrow towers, bed crossbows, rock-beating wood, wolf-tooth slap and other various types of city guarding equipment.

He is waiting.

The people he was waiting for had not yet appeared.

If the other party does not appear, he will not attack Taiyuan City.

Even if the heavenly secret may appear at any time, you will be at least half of the time to capture the city.
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