Traveling through the early Tang Dynasty starts with hanging

Chapter 1039 First Meeting

On the third day of April in the ninth year of Wude, Li Shan, who had been on her honeymoon, was preparing early in the morning. It seemed that she was going to enter Chang'an City. Cui Shiniang wanted to ask a few questions, but seeing her husband's face was very gloomy, she thought about it Still did not ask the exit.

In fact, in the past two or three days, Li Shan's face has not been very good-looking. Cui Shiniang vaguely guessed that it must have something to do with the day before yesterday when he and his family met Pei Shuying at Dongshan Temple.

"Are you all ready?"

Fan Shixi nodded, "They're all old people, Ah Hei doesn't know."

"Yeah." Li Shan ordered with a blank expression, "Zhuangzi...you and Uncle Qi are too much trouble."

"Don't worry, Ah Lang." Fan Shiyi said in a low voice: "There are faint clues, which seem to have something to do with Duke Rui."

Li Shan's expression moved slightly. Since returning to the Tang Dynasty, Junzhang of Ruiguo Gongyuan has been living in Sun Moon Lake. Although he didn't build a mansion and only had dozens of people around him, he was the only force in Zhuangzi that was not controlled by Li Shan. If Pei Shiju It was a wise move to choose Yuan Junzhang.

But Pei Shiju should know that the relationship between Yuan Junzhang and me is not so close. He brought him to Sun Moon Lake that day mainly to gather the defenders of Mayi. If Pei Shiju chooses Yuan Junzhang as a breakthrough, he should know that I will immediately Guessing this point... Li Shan hesitated, should he drive Yuan Junzhang away?

It's a good thing to drive away, but once you drive away, it means that there are no clues, and Yuan Junzhang's son worships him as his teacher after all... Although I haven't seen that guy for a long, long time, and Yuan Junzhang's His sister-in-law He Liu went to war with him last year and made a lot of military exploits, and he is still under Zhang Zhongjian's account now.

"Keep an eye on it, don't just stare at Yuan Junzhang."

"Yes."

At this time, a personal guard came quickly from outside, and said in a low voice: "I haven't entered the imperial city."

"That's the mansion." Li Shan chuckled, "Let's go."

Dozens of riders rode out of Sun Moon Lake and headed for Chang'an. Li Shan thought in his heart that Pei Xuanji's death may not be a bad thing. In the past, he could only entrust many things to Su Dingfang, Ling Jing, and Fan Shiyi and others who only knew a little bit about it. , but now the scope is much larger, and the guards all guessed that Pei Shiju probably had a grudge against A Lang because his only son died in Huating.

Before arriving at the city gate, Qi Laosan suddenly pointed to the west, "Ah Lang, it seems to be an urgent report."

Li Shan turned his head and saw a few knights galloping forward on their horses. From the looks of their attire, they looked like messengers with an urgent report to Beijing.
Zhou Zhoulang shouted loudly, "Apu, Apu!"

Hearing the call, the leading knight looked sideways, with joy on his face, and turned his horse's head to gallop. Seeing this scene, Li Shan knew in his heart that it should be the Lingzhou Army, otherwise Zhou Zhoulang would not have recognized him.

"Greetings to the King of Handan... to His Royal Highness the King of Wei!"

"Get up." Li Shan said with a smile, "How is the battle going?"

The knight excitedly reported loudly, "Your Highness, Helan has won a great victory!"

Li Shan frowned, and said with a smile, "You were originally Fan Shiyi's subordinate?"

"Yes." The knight said with a chuckle, "it should be Huaiyuan, but I'm used to looking at the map, and the generals in the army are called Helan."

During the two months or so in Baiquan County, one of the things Li Shan did the most was to draw a map. Through scouting and inquiries of local people, Li Shan meticulously drew a map that surpassed this era , The range is from the northern part of Jingzhou and Longzhou to Yuanzhou, Huizhou, and Lingzhou. Later, almost all senior generals and scouts had a copy of this map.

The word Helan was still blurted out by Huangfu Zhong that day, referring to the area north of Huaiyuan County in Lingzhou, outside the Great Wall, which is located at the foot of the mountain. People call it "Hola", and the transliteration is about "Helan".

At that time, Li Shan's first reaction was that it was a pity that it was the Tang Dynasty, otherwise he could "drive a long car and step through the gap in Helan Mountain" to pretend to be a big one, but then he guessed that it was probably Helan with Yue Fei's red middle finger.

The guards present all came back from Wonju with Li Shan, and asked about the war in a hurry. After Li Shan captured Xiaoguan on the 22th of the new year, Su Dingfang was ordered to succeed Lingzhou Road Marching Army on the [-]nd of the first lunar month. The general manager, although Jihu cavalry and Xue Wanche were successively sent to break through several towns and push northward, and Lu Jilan persuaded the Liang army in Huizhou to surrender, but generally speaking, there was no large-scale battle for nearly two months.

The situation remained stalemate until mid-March, about after Li Shan got married, Su Dingfang commanded the army to slowly move north, while the Liang divisions all led their troops back, and the two sides formed a stalemate inside and outside the Great Wall.

Six days ago, Su Dingfang sent Xue Wanche and Duan Zhixuan to lead the cavalry across the Anle River, and made a surprise attack from the west. In three battles a day, the Liang army was defeated again at the foot of Helan Mountain, more than five thousand people were beheaded, more than ten thousand prisoners were captured, and tens of thousands of horses were captured.

Li Shan recalled the map in his heart, "Where is Master Liang?"

"The Liang thief led the rest of his troops to flee eastward." The messenger hesitated for a moment before saying, "Duke Zhao ordered Li Keshi and Kan Ling, the right Qianniuwei generals, to pursue them."

Li Shan snorted, no matter in terms of fame, qualifications or title ability, Li Keshi could not be compared with Xue Wanche, Duan Zhixuan, Feng Li, Ma Sanbao and other generals, and Kan Ling was a foot general, not good at riding and fighting.

Su Dingfang did this on purpose, to give Dou Gui a chance first... The best result is that Dou Gui captures and kills Liang Shidu and captures Tongwan City. In this way, Su Dingfang may continue to sit in the Lingzhou Road Marching Chief this position.

This was the plan Li Shan made with Su Dingfang when he was in Xiaoguan, but now the situation is different. Li Yuan has probably decided to transfer Su Dingfang back to Beijing... Li Shan thought to himself, if Master Liang can escape this catastrophe, maybe Su Dingfang won't return to Beijing so soon?

"Let's report victory." Li Shan smiled and drove his horse into the city slowly, thinking repeatedly about the upcoming change in the court situation.

Li Shan began to doubt his own judgment... Before he judged that Li Jing and Li Shimin did not have a deep relationship. After all, Li Keshi stood in line with King Qin, so Li Jing did not need to make a choice. This is the natural arbitrariness of the family. determined by awareness.

But in history, Li Shimin immediately took control of the situation after the change of Xuanwu Gate... It can be seen from the Weishui alliance that Jieli Khan did not intend to fight, to a large extent because Li Jing in the rear was testing Cut off the retreat of the Turks.

The mutiny was launched in Chang'an, and Li Jing, the general who was in charge of Guanzhong at the time, did not show any rejection of Li Shimin. It was difficult for Li Shan to believe that there was really no connection between Li Jing and Li Shimin.

"Alang, we're here."

Li Shan reined in the reins, and his horse stopped obediently. Zhu Ba jumped off the horse and handed the name card to the overwhelmed porter, "His Royal Highness King Wei came to pay a visit to Prime Minister Pei."

(End of this chapter)