The torches were bright around Fanshi City, and pine trees were lit everywhere on the hillside where Li Chongjiu was located.

The forehead, wearing iron armor, galloped over, with three heads hanging on the horse's head. When he saw Li Chongjiu, he said in a striking manner, saying, "Khan, Liu Wuzhou's army of more than 10,000 has been chased by more than 20,000 cavalry for dozens of miles, and he has been defeated!"

Etuo just finished speaking, Ying Hefu also led the army back. He immediately came to the mountain and saw Li Chongjiu and said angrily: "Khan, I have something important to report to you alone!"

Li Chongjiu said, "There are all confidants here, just say it straight!"

Ying Hefu's chest was undulating, and after drinking a bag of skin, he said: "The cavalry Khan, General Yuchi Lang, was led by his army to pursue Liu Wuzhou's army headquarters. When he was about to take Liu Wuzhou's head, he was intercepted by Song Jingang. General Yuchi Lang ordered his subordinates not to pursue him, but he fled to Yanmen City by Liu Wuzhou."

When the generals on both sides heard this, their faces changed slightly. Many of them knew the reason for their love. Song Jingang was the former master of Yuchi Gong, and was released by Yuchi Gong, which was obviously abolishing the public because of personal decree.

Not long after, all the vanguards returned. Below the hillside, there were piles of captured horses, equipment, money and grain, and the escorted Liu army captives passed by the bottom of the mountain one by one.

"General Yuchi Lang, what explanation do you have for letting Liu Wuzhou go?" Wang Mahan asked Yuchi Gong, who had returned to the army at the latest.

Yuchi Gong clasped his fists and said to Li Chongjiu: "The last general has no selfishness. Song Jingang originally led his army to remove grain from Fanshi County. The last general saw that his army was rigorous, but the last general pursued his troops for more than fifty miles, exhausted, so he did not pursue him without authorization."

"Who doesn't know that General Yuchi Lang is more brave than others? If he says he retreats because Song Jingang came to remove the food, I don't believe it!" Ying Hefu shouted loudly.

When Yuchi Gong heard Ying Hefu question him, his face darkened and shouted: "If you want to believe someone, you won't even bother with you if you don't believe me!"

Ying Hefu was also furious and wanted to draw his sword, but the left and right generals stopped him and said, "I have something to say, but I have a lot of arguments!"

"Enough!" Li Chongjiu threw the horse whip to the ground, and all the generals stepped forward to apologize.

Li Chongjiu said, "Whether General Yuchi Lang has committed dereliction of duty, you must not make arbitrary judgments before proof of the truth. Now who can tell me what their respective achievements have been made?"

When the generals heard this, they immediately pressed on whether Yuchi Gong would release Liu Wuzhou privately. All parties reported that in the next battle in Fanshi County, although Liu Wuzhou fled into Yanmen City, he was still not defeated. He had more than 10,000 troops beheaded more than 300 levels, but more than 6,000 prisoners were captured, including many generals, and Liu Wuzhou's army lost at least half of its military strength.

In addition, Liu Wuzhou was defeated on Monday, and Yan Yelei, the general of the foreign army commander, led his army to Wutai County. When the defenders in the city heard about Liu Wuzhou's defeat, they didn't know how many people were in the dark, so they also surrendered. Yan Yelei took over the city of more than 5,000 soldiers and civilians in Wutai County without any effort. Li Chongjiu was very happy and when he was discussing his merits, Yan Yeyi was the first to make a contribution.

After a night of pursuit, it was now bright.

Liu Wu and Zhou army retreated under the Fanshi County. Li Chongjiu led his generals to a thousand steps away from the east gate of Fanshi County. The 30,000 troops also set up formations under the city. At this time, half a gate was opened and several horses rode out. Li Chongjiu saw the leader, wearing white clothes and cloth robe, and rode his horse to Li Chongjiu. It was Chen Xiaoyi, the county magistrate of Yanmen County. Later, the military general was originally the Hu Ben Lang General Wang Zhibian.

In the past, when Chen Xiaoyi was in Yanmen County, Wang Zhibian was Li Chongjiu's superior. Li Chongjiu stepped forward and said, "Mr. Chen, General Wang Lang, hasn't seen him for a long time."

Seeing that Li Chongjiu had no self-control, Wang Zhibing nodded slightly and was about to speak. Chen Xiaoyi waved his sleeves and shouted loudly: "Li Chongjiu led his army to the city. Is it necessary to attack the city?"

"Bold, you can call my prefect's name at will!" Wang Mahan said first.

Chen Xiaoyi snorted coldly and said, "What kind of prefect is just a self-proclaimed person. In my eyes, Liu Wuzhou is just a traitor."

Wang Mahan said furiously: "Your county town is about to be destroyed when you are in a prosperous era. If the prefect had not come to help, the city would have been broken. The city was short of food in the city, and the prefect ordered people to send food to relieve the hunger of the people. Now you are fine, turn your back on others, pick up the bowl and eat meat, put down the chopsticks to curse my mother. I have never seen such a shameless loyal minister in the court."

Chen Xiaoyi could not refute for a moment. Li Chongjiu said immediately: "It doesn't matter what you think of me, County Prince Chen, I admit that I am a traitor. But Fanshi County was surrounded and you sent someone to ask for help, but the court sent one army and one soldier to help? Now I'm helping the city, but you say I'm not. What's the reason?"

Chen Xiaoyi sneered and said, "If you weren't greedy for a city in Fanshi County, why should you come to rescue me? Now that you are strong and strong, you want to enter this city, I have nothing to say. Then step on my body! People are here, and if you want to kill, I will kill you. I will keep my pride for the court and die without regrets!"

As soon as Chen Xiaoyi said this, everyone looked at each other. It was nothing to kill Chen Xiaoyi, but he was charged with the crime of treason. In this way, Li Chongjiu and Liu Wu and Zhou were not the same. However, many people didn't care. Anyway, when they reached Li Chongjiu's step, they were separatist and independent, and separatist and independent rebellion were only one step away. Anyway, they couldn't laugh at a hundred steps even if they were fifty steps.

Seeing the generals' expressions, Li Chongjiu wanted to kill Chen Xiaoyi into the city. However, Wen Yanbo shook his head slightly at Li Chongjiu. Li Chongjiu asked, "What do you mean by Sima Wen?"

Wen Yanbo whispered: "Prefect Chen Xiaoyi can defeat Liu Wuzhou's army for half a year with an isolated city, which is enough for him to be deeply loved by the people in the city. Even if he kills him, it will show that I am unrighteous and will fulfill his name of loyalty and righteousness."

Yingyang Lang General Zhao Quanting said disrespectfully: "Wen Sima's words are wrong. In the chaotic world, what does the word "loyalty and righteousness mean?"

Wen Yanbo shook his head and said, "In the chaotic times, people are deviating from each other. Some people trampled on the word "loyalty and righteousness", but some people follow the way of loyalty and righteousness. It is not the best example in front of you. There are probably many people like Chen Xiaoyi in the world."

Li Chongjiu nodded and immediately rode his horse forward and said, "Mr. Chen admired the ambition of the court for his death, so I will not enter this city."

Chen Xiaoyi said in surprise: "Li Chongjiu, are you really willing to enter the city?"

Li Chongjiu smiled and said, "This city is still governed by the governor of County Chen and General Wang Lang. However, I, Mr. Li, still have to hold the flag of the Great Sui Dynasty, but I need to be stationed with 500 generals. This is the minimum requirement. If not, my subordinates will not agree. What about County Chen?"

Wang Zhibing said, "Okay, half of the city's siege has killed or injured more than half of the city's garrisons and insufficient garrisons. These five hundred soldiers can be garrisoned to prevent Liu Wuzhou."

After hearing Wang Zhibing say this, Chen Xiaoyi glared at the other party, looked at Li Chongjiu, and shook his sleeves and said, "It's already like this, what's the point? In short, I swear to defend this city for the court."

After saying that, Chen Xiaoyi covered his sleeves and cried.

Seeing that Chen Xiaoyi agreed to his conditions, Li Chongjiu nodded. Li Yuan was about to rebel, and the Sui Dynasty was less than a year old. He didn't have to worry about how long could Chen Xiaoyi be loyal to the court. In history books, Chen Xiaoyi's city was broken and killed by his subordinates. Now he saved his life and saved the city, but he did not receive a word of thanks.

However, this time, the troops were sent, and they had gained a lot. They had won Wutai and two counties in Fanshi. In this way, three counties in Yanmen were in their own hands and successfully curbed Liu Wu and Zhou's advance in the east, which was a killing of two birds with one stone. So Li Chongjiu strengthened Wutai and Lingqiu County defenders, and increased Gao Chu as the general of Huya Lang, responsible for the garrison of Yanmen County. Gao Chu led 1,000 county soldiers and 1,000 newly recruited new troops to the two counties. At the same time, the 500 troops of Lingqiu County were also commanded by Gao Chu.

Then Li Chongjiu led his army back to Huaihuang Town and disbanded his foreign troops. At the same time, Li Chongjiu knew that the battle with Liu Wuzhou in Yanmen would definitely be known to the Turks. At present, the Turks were busy fighting for the position of Khan and had no time to pay attention to him. Once the position of Khan was decided, then as the largest force on the grassland to not surrender to the Turks, Li Chongjiu would inevitably be attacked by the Turks. Li Chongjiu must face the attack of the Turks with 400,000 cavalry now, even though the power has been several times stronger than two years ago, it is still not possible to compete for the time being.

Since the front is inconsistent, we must find allies. Li Chongjiu remembered that in history, Li Tang was able to defeat the Turks. One reason was that the heavy snow on the grassland was that it had not been seen in thousands of years, and most of the Turkish cattle and sheep were frozen to death. The other was that they united the Xueyantuo tribe, the Uighur tribe in the northern desert, and the Tuli Khan inside the Eastern Turks to oppose Jie Li.

In Turkic word, Tuli means east. The so-called Tuli Khan is the little khan responsible for the Eastern tribe. There were several Tuli Khans in the Turkic tribes in history, but the Li Tang instigated the rebellion was the son of Shibi Khan now, named Asunash Bob.

The inheritance of the Turkic Khan can be achieved by both brothers and brothers, as well as father and sons. Now that he is seriously ill, Ashinash Bouro is still too young, so he has no qualifications to compete with his uncles for the Turkic Khan. When he grows up, his uncle also has his own son, so Ashinash Bouro can only be a little khan and loses the qualifications of the big khan. How can he not be resentful?

As for the Xueyantuo tribe and the Uighur tribe, they are both located in the northern part of the Mohe. Among them, the leader of the Xueyantuo tribe, Yi Nan, had 70,000 tents, which can be called the powerful tribe in the northern part of the Mohe. Although the number of the Uighur tribe is a little smaller, it is extremely brave and good at fighting. In the first year of Zhenguan in history, the Uighur tribe and the Turks fought against the Malishan Mountain, and the Uighur tribe defeated the Turks with a population of 3,000.

At present, the Turks moved the Khanate from Yudujin Mountain in the northern part of the Moon to the Tieshan Mountains in the Yinshan Mountains in the southern part of the Moon. In this way, the Turks' rule in the northern part of the Moon has dropped significantly. This is a great opportunity for these two departments to rise.
Chapter completed!