"So that's it, no wonder!" Li Yuan suddenly realized. At the beginning, he had doubted Chen Ying's identity. When the imperial examination system was not fully promoted, the channels for dissemination of knowledge were very limited.

Especially the skills of managing military, training and using military forces are all secrets that are not passed down by each school. Chen Ying is just a mosquito boy. How could he know the skills of training military affairs? How could he have such profound military skills? Everything can be explained now.

Chen Ying was the descendant of Hou Mo Chen, so everything could be explained. As one of the eight pillar states of the Western Wei Dynasty, Hou Mo Chen Chen's family was from Hou Mo Chen's fifth-generation ancestor Hou Mo Chen Chong. Since the Hou Mo Chen Chong's family, Hou Mo Chen Chong's family has served as the leader of the tribe for generations. The grandfather Hou Mo Chen Yun (Hou Mo Chen Yun in "The Northern History") guarded Wuchuan as a good family and settled his family in Wuchuan. His father Hou Mo Chenxing was appointed as the general of the palace and the Yulin Supervisor.

Hou Mo Chen family began to make a fortune during the Hou Mo Chen Chong era. When Hou Mo Chen Chong was fifteen years old, he followed He Bayue and Erzhu Rong to conquer Ge Rong. After Yuan Tianmu pacified Xing Gao, he followed He Bayue to defeat Yuan Hao and Chishui Shu. Later, he defeated Wanqi Chou Nu and was appointed as General Anbei, Taizhong Dafu, and Governor of Linjing County for his merits.

In fact, when Hou Mo Chen Chong was fifteen years old, he had already become a high-ranking official at the level of the nine ministers in the Qin and Han dynasties. According to the "Book of Zhou", the Northern Zhou Dynasty had six officials, including the Central Master, the rank of the five destinies, and was like the Nine Ministers and the Shangshu and other officials after the Qin and Han dynasties. From this point of view, Chen Ying was still not as good as his grandfather Hou Mo Chen Chong.

Chen Ying's military strategy should be a family tradition. If Chen Ying was a poor commoner, Li Yuan was in the mood to marry him, even his own cousin would not do it. However, Chen Ying was the grandson of Hou Mo Chen Chong, then there would be no problem at all. With the current status of the Mohou Chen family, it is still the best wealthy family in Lingnan.

Marriage with Hou Mo Chen family not only allowed the Tang Dynasty to be a good general, but also gave the Tang Dynasty a foreseeable dawn to govern Lingnan. At this time, Hou Mo Chen Chong's second son was the former General of Sui, the general manager of Guizhou, and the military affairs of the seventeen prefectures, and was granted the title of Duke of Shengping County.

Thinking of this, Li Yuan said: "Pei Jian, who is the person in charge of Hou Mo Chen in Chang'an now?"

Pei Ji said: "It is the second son of Hou Mo Chenying, and the Duke of Shengping County, the meeting of Hou Mo Chenqian."

Li Yuan thought for a while and said, "Chen Ying is now in charge of the general manager of Lingzhou. If the promotion of his official position is not necessarily a good thing for him. The former Sui Dynasty issued an order to deprive his father Hou Mo Chenrui of his official title. I respect his merits and posthumously awarded him as the Minister of the Pulver Kingdom and the Duke of Qinghe County!"

"Great good!" Pei Ji said; "Your Majesty, that marriage matter!"

"Leave it to you!"

"I obey the order!"

...

At Yanmen Pass, the night has gradually shrouded. The summer during the day has faded a little.

In the camp of Emperor Tianxing Liu Wuzhou, Liu Wuzhou held a bowl of sour plum soup and quietly looked at Tang Bowl in a daze. "Junzhang, I am still worried. Chen Ying'er divided his troops into 20,000 troops. If he attacked Loufanguan, he might not be able to hold on. If Loufan is in trouble, Taiyuan City will be safe!"

Fan Junzhang hesitated and said, "Your Majesty means to lead your army to support Loufanguan?"

Liu Wuzhou wanted to nod, but suddenly a trace of inspiration flashed in his head. Liu Wuzhou suddenly said: "I almost missed the big thing!"

Fan Junzhang said, "Your Majesty means..."

Liu Wuzhou said: "What if Chen Ying divided the troops was false, his real purpose was not Loufan Pass, but Yanmen Pass?"

"This..." Fan Junzhang said indecisively: "This is not impossible. Chen Ying's children's troops are mostly cavalry, which is convenient for mobility. Even if the mountain road is more than 300 miles, it will not be a day or a half. If you see Lou Fan's insufficient defense, you will definitely attack Lou Fan. If Lou Fan cannot break through, he will turn to attack Yanmen Pass!"

While he was talking, an officer rushed in with a rash loss of clothes and was rushing in. While he was rolling and crawling, he knelt down in front of Liu Wuzhou and screamed repeatedly: "Your Majesty... Your Majesty is not good... Then... the Chen surnamed... is attacking the city?"

Fan Junzhang seemed to have heard a big joke and laughed: "Yanmen Pass is more than ten miles in a radius, and there is no inch of wood. What kind of attack is Chen Ying'er?"

Liu Wuzhou said: "You can tell if you take any attack!"

Fan Junzhang nodded and said, "That's right!"

Although Liu Wuzhou was just a grass-headed king, his pomp was quite good. He also had the emperor's ceremonial guards, a large group of eunuchs and palace maids, carrying incense burners and slamming fans, walked up to Yanmen Pass City with obstacles.

When he arrived at Guancheng, Liu Wuzhou was also shocked.

I saw that the Tang army densely arranged more than 30,000 troops under the city. Although these Tang soldiers did not act as siege at this time, there were a lot of people.

"It's true that Chen Ying'er is playing tricks!" Liu Wuzhou suddenly felt relieved in his heart: "Fortunately, I have seen through his tricks in advance, otherwise I would have to suffer a big loss!"

"What's wrong, something's wrong!" Fan Junzhang pointed at the Tang army generals who were crowded with people and squinted, saying: "These Tang soldiers seem to be not the original Tang army!"

Liu Wuzhou looked carefully and found that it was indeed the case.

Although Da Yi was still a Da Yi of the Tang Dynasty, less than one-third of the so-called Tang army soldiers were wearing Tang army armor, and most of them were wearing ordinary people's clothes. Although the Tang army's armor was not necessarily 100% like the Right Guard, these Tang army soldiers did not even have the military uniforms of the Tang army. As for the weapons in their hands, there were even a variety of weapons.

Liu Wuzhou said: "Where did Chen Yinger come from these soldiers?"

Fan Junzhang was also confused.

In fact, if Liu Wuzhou knew the origin of Chen Ying's soldiers, he might have vomited blood in anger.

Chen Ying actually felt that it was strange. When he conquered Shuozhou, he obtained only three or four thousand surviving people in the three counties of Shuozhou. More than 80% of these people were old, weak, sick and disabled.

However, with Chen Yingguang's entire territory of Shuozhou, soldiers approached the Yanmen Pass. At this time, a large number of people suddenly emerged. At first, there were only hundreds or thousands of people. However, in just one day, there were more than 70,000 people gathered under the "Tang" banner of Chen Ying, of which nearly 20,000 were Ding Zhuang.

These 20,000 young and strong families are basically composed of the six major families in Shuozhou or their vassal families. Shuozhou is the first to be the Zhao family, followed by the Xu family, Guo, Dong, Ren and Feng family.

Zhao Boying, the Zhao family, led seven sons, a total of more than 8,000 young and strong, and directly surrendered to Chen Ying. Xu Caifu, the Xu family, led three sons, a total of more than 6,000 young and strong, and others such as Guo Rui led more than 1,800 people to surrender to Chen Ying.
Chapter completed!