He can regain Fenzhou.
Even though Liu Dazheng has repaired the city defense for more than a month, he still has a hundred thousand troops in his hands. But as long as he is given a strong force, he can break through Fenzhou City within three days, open up the situation for Taiyuan, and reverse the current extremely unfavorable situation.
If not, once Li Ye from Yizhou in the southeast and Liu Dazheng from Fenzhou in the southwest send troops to Taiyuan at the same time, and finally join forces under the city of Taiyuan, then Li Keyong will really lose all power, and there will be no way out, no turning back With no room left, he had no choice but to fight to the death.
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But by then, how much will the people and the army have left? The morale of the soldiers is low, and they have no fighting spirit. How can they face Li Ye's elite Pinglu army
Li Cunxiao thought he could regain Fenzhou, and he thought he could turn the tide of the war.
But he couldn't see Li Keyong.
Li Ke can't see him.
No matter how much he asked, the other party just disappeared.
So all this is false.
Li Cunxiao waited for a long time, until the officers and generals finished discussing with Li Keyong in the political affairs hall, until the officers and generals left one after another, and when the sun set and the moon rose, he had not yet been summoned by Li Keyong.
He had no choice but to choose to leave.
When he left the county mansion, the officials and generals he met along the way had a lot of different reactions from when he entered the mansion. When he came in before, although everyone doubted him and had a lot of dissatisfaction with him, they didn't show it too obviously, they just showed it with their eyes. And not everyone doubted him.
But when he waited for so long and was not summoned by Li Keyong, when he came out now, the situation was different. The officers and generals were no longer as scrupulous as before, sarcasm and laughter came out face to face, and some people didn't stop talking when he walked by, and the conversations were clear and pleasing to the ear.
"What kind of military general, a general who can't fight for Hedong, is not even as good as the most ordinary generals!"
"What are you talking about fighting hard for Hedong? He didn't rely on Li Ye to attack Hedong instead. He is already doing us a favor!"
"I used to think that there was a reason for the stalemate in the war in Yizhou, but now it seems that even the county king has not seen him, so there must be something wrong with him!"
"Of course the king of the county won't see him. I'm afraid he won't be able to help himself if he sees him? There's really no room for that..."
"It's because of him that Yizhou was lost! What room should we leave for this kind of person? Even if he doesn't go to prison, he should go to the government and lose his post, and give Hedong an explanation!"
Enduring these voices all the way, Li Cunxiao buried his head and walked out of the county palace quickly. The moment he went out, his face had already turned black, and the restrained anger and aggrieved made the muscles on his face twitch. The strength of a body's cultivation shows signs of breaking the embankment uncontrollably. The cultivation of a military general is swaying left and right like a mountain, and it is about to collapse.
After returning to the mansion, Li Cunxiao thanked the guests behind closed doors, and never stepped out of the gate again.
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After Li Ye listened to the report of Li Cunxiao's recent situation from Tsing Yi Yamen, there was no surprise on his face, but there was still a smile on the corner of his mouth. Li Keyong would suspect Li Cunxiao, which in Li Ye's view was inevitable, and the estrangement scheme he and Tsingyi Yamen implemented together was enough to make the two of them estrange.
Similarly, in the history of the earth, Li Cunxiao finally ended up decapitated because of the jealousy of other generals and the suspicion of being used by Li Ke.
Li Ye glanced at everyone in the hall.
Sitting on either side are two different factions.
On the left are the officers and generals of Pinglu, including Shangguan Qingcheng, Li Zhen, Zhao Polu, Song Jiao, etc., which are also the team he brought out from Prince An's Mansion, as well as Nangong No. 1 and Su Emei, who have developed to the present. .
The one on the right is the monster monks, the Holy Infant Son and the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox are on the list, and the fairyland monk brought by the Holy Infant is also there. It is the power of the Monster Race to help him. In terms of cultivation base and combat power, it is natural It completely crushes Pinglu's side.
In a word, Pinglu officials will be a secular force, whether they are governing the local area or fighting on the battlefield, they are the backbone. The so-called literati and warriors set the country are talking about them. The talented people here also include Cui Keli and others who sit in Pinglu temporarily in charge of political affairs and stabilize the rear for Li Ye.
The Yaozu monks are comprehension forces. Strictly speaking, their opponents are not secular enemies, but the sects of the Immortal Court, the Buddha Realm, and other gods. It's just that now is not a time of peace and order, but a situation of great chaos between heaven and earth, and the barrier between heaven and man is not so strict.
Coupled with the appearance of the Dao of Heaven this time, both Xianting and Foyu were forced to send a large number of monks from the Immortal Realm down to earth, which made the situation of the world war in front of them even more chaotic.
What Li Ye was thinking about was that both the Daoist Immortal Court and the Shimen Buddhist Realm had sent great monks to snatch the heavenly secret, so when would the gods from other religions appear.
Their strength is indeed not as good as Taoist Immortal Court and Shimen Buddhist Domain under normal circumstances, but there are no absolutes in the world, especially when the world is in great conflict, there are too many variables.
They also shined brilliantly, almost destroying both the Daoist and the Shimen.
If there is no such ability, the Tang Dynasty will not have troubles everywhere, dozens of states and counties in the four directions will be invaded, large areas will be plundered, millions of people will be plundered, and the Taoist fairy court will not be overwhelmed.
Of course, these things are not the most important things for Li Ye right now. What he has to do now is to capture Hedong, get rid of Li Keyong, the great prince who was destined to dominate the north, and then compete with Foyu and Xianting for the secret that will appear in Taiyuan.
Li Ye looked around the crowd, and said slowly: "The army is divided into east and west. After capturing Fenzhou and Yizhou successively, after a period of time of attacking from all directions, the enemies in the east of the two prefectures have been wiped out. Li Changshi You and your colleagues have succeeded in helping the people, and now the order in Fenzhou and Yizhou has stabilized. Now that the military and political affairs of the two places have been stabilized, the lonely king ordered: the two armies from the east and the west will go hand in hand and attack Taiyuan together!"
The Pinglu officer stood up together with the Yaozu monks, and clasped their fists in promise: "I will obey the military order!"
Looking at the excited faces of the crowd and feeling their fighting spirit from the bottom of their hearts, Li Ye was quite satisfied and nodded slightly.
General Pinglu needless to say, it is Li Ye who has spent many years of time and countless painstaking efforts to cultivate the direct lineage, even if Li Ye let them go up the mountain of swords and down into the sea of fire, they will carry out the military order without hesitation.
The monster monks also had no doubts about Li Ye's order. Even the rebellious and lawless Holy Infant King, from the beginning of the proud attitude of wanting to dominate the situation, gradually changed to fully admitting the status of his subordinates. Although it's not a matter of bowing to Li Ye, it's not a problem to ask him to obey.
This is the result of Li Ye's separation of Li Keyong and Li Cunxiao's success, forcing Li Cunxiao to leave Yizhou, making the army less powerful enemies, easily taking Yizhou City, and holding the general situation firmly in his hands.
However, Li Ye also knew that the Yaozu headed by Shengying only submitted to him temporarily and conditionally. Leaving aside anything else, if he suffers a major setback next, it is hard to predict what the other party's attitude will be. So he can't be careless.
Next, Li Ye led his army from Yizhou, and Liu Dazheng led his troops from Fenzhou. The two sides encircled Taiyuan City from east to west.
Li Ke used his troops to dispatch his generals, relying on the prefectures, counties, cities, passes, and main roads to set up a blockade line to intercept the two armies in an attempt to stabilize the situation and keep Li Ye and Liu Dazheng out of Taiyuan.
However, Li Ke's thoughts are destined to be just false.
In the next half a month of fighting, the two lines of officers and troops were invincible.
Li Keyong dispatched his confidant generals and the Taibao to do their best to fortify the checkpoints along the road. In front of the elite Pinglu army led by Liu Dazheng and Shangguan Qingcheng as the core combat force, there was no resistance at all. .
On several occasions when Li Ke used his military talents to mobilize elites to attack in almost impossible situations and gather in important places, he used his absolute superiority in battles against the government and army, but did not achieve the expected results.
The most fundamental problem is that the Hedong army can defeat the Zhaoyi army, the Henghai army, and the Tianping army, but as long as it encounters the Pinglu army, it cannot beat it at all. So even if they can defeat the former and obtain a lot of gains, they will often be defeated by the latter who arrives immediately before they can digest the results of the battle.
In particular, the two military generals Liu Dazheng and Shangguan Qingcheng are the forces that the Hedong Army cannot solve.
Several times the Hedong Army gathered a number of generals, and in the general battle under the situation of superior force, either Liu Dazheng and Shangguan Qingcheng succeeded in persevering until the reinforcements arrived, or they led their troops to rush to the rescue in time, and finally failed. .
The military talents of the two military generals are not bad.
The Hedong Army suffered heavy casualties one after another, and many soldiers surrendered and fled. In today's war, the officers and soldiers have an absolute advantage in both sides of the war.
Under such circumstances, after more than 20 days of fighting, the two groups of officers and troops finally joined forces under the city of Taiyuan.
There were more than 400,000 officers and soldiers who went to battle in Hedong. Apart from a small number of troops stationed in important places along the way, as well as the few casualties in previous wars, there were more than 350,000 soldiers who finally arrived at the city of Taiyuan.
Although the Hedong Army has 300,000 soldiers, its mobile force is far less than this number. After a series of consecutive defeats, although the casualties of soldiers have not reached 50,000, generally speaking, the battlefield will always be full of soldiers who surrendered and fled. Far more than death in battle, especially in the recent battle where Li Ke used to block the two lines of government troops. Seven out of ten times he was defeated and lost a large number of soldiers.
Now the Hedong Army in Taiyuan City is far less than 100,000.
After Li Ye ordered the officers and soldiers to surround Taiyuan City, he did not order the army to attack the city immediately. This is not because the city defenses of Taiyuan City were well built. The city walls were raised by several feet, there were many archery towers, and there were countless defensive equipment such as bed crossbows, stones and logs, and spikes.
He is waiting.
The person he was waiting for had not yet appeared.
If the opponent does not appear, he will not attack Taiyuan City.
Even if the secret may appear at any time, capturing the city is at least half sure that the secret will be obtained.