Kaifeng City, Henan.

In the Zhao army camp, he came from Youjing and urgently submitted the documents to Li Chongjiu himself for reading.

Under the candlelight, all the generals were on both sides of the tent and looked at Li Chongjiu's expression.

But seeing Li Chongjiu looking at the letter, he suddenly slapped it on the table and said to his left and right: "Half a month ago, Tuli was defeated by Jie Li, and all 80,000 troops were destroyed. All the remaining 5,000 remaining soldiers fled to Songmo Protectorate's Mansion for asylum."

After hearing Li Chongjiu's words, all the generals were shocked. This Tuli was too useless. Jie Li defeated Tuli like this in the battle.

Zhang Xuansu asked anxiously: "If Tuli is defeated, there will probably be no one outside the border to control Jie Li. According to Weichen, once Tuli is defeated, my Songmo Protectorate will become an isolated army. If Jie Li pursues it, General Guo will be in trouble. It will be difficult for his 30,000 troops to escape unscathed."

Li Chongjiu said: "Guo Xiaoke is well-managed. When he heard that he was defeated suddenly, he would have a way to protect him. Even if he failed, he would not be defeated. What I am worried about now is not Guo Xiaoke, but Youjing and Huaihuang Town. If he was defeated suddenly, our army would be empty in the northern border. Jie Li would definitely seize this opportunity and take advantage of the situation to move south."

Li Chongjiu focused on operating the three towns of Huaihuang, Yuyi, and Songmo Protectorate, which Li Chongji, were able to support the external defense line of Youjing with a tripod. No matter which unit of the Turks, Khitans, Goguryeo, or Xi tribe attacked from any direction, they could not bypass this defense line.

His layout was to use the army as the city, focusing on the deployment of three towns, so that the Turkic army did not dare to easily bypass the two cities and attack Youjing directly. Therefore, Li Chongjiu did not deploy troops to the passes of various Great Wall on the basis of the Jin Shangsai siege repaired by the Northern Wei and Northern Qi. For Zhao, the role of the Great Wall was only a beacon tower, and there were no one on it except the stationed troops who called the police and looked at it.

The advantage of doing this is of course to save troops. The shortcomings are that there are no soldiers guarding the pass. Once the Turkic cavalry advances, they will soon invade the city of Youjing. Now Huaihuang. The troops in Yuyi Town are all taken to the south by Li Chongjiu to attack Li Tang, which leads Jie Li to be confident of bypassing the two towns and taking Youjing straight.

Therefore, Li Chongjiu found that Jie Li would definitely take this method, otherwise he would have been a reckless act of the Turkic Khan.

Yu Shinan said: "Your Majesty, Huaihuang Town and Youjing are all my great Zhao Jishi. You must not make any mistakes, otherwise the whole country will be shocked. Please withdraw your troops immediately, return to the army by boat, and rescue Youjing."

"Your Majesty should not be too hasty," said Ji Chuan, the lower leader, "Although Li Tang retreated, there are still more than 100,000 troops in Hedong, Henan, Sichuan and Shu confront our army. If they retreat, how can Li Tang attack again? Isn't our army trapped in two sides?"

Zhang Xuansu retorted: "In my opinion, Li Tang does not know that. First of all, it will be winter soon, which is not conducive to the use of troops. Secondly, Li Tang fights this summer, and his vitality has been greatly damaged, and his troops and food are exhausted, so he is absolutely unable to launch an offensive again. Moreover, our army has set up three major battles and combat is enough to deal with the small-scale offensive of the Tang army."

Li Chongjiu nodded and said to the other generals: "What do you have any opinions? You can also propose to discuss with me."

After hearing what Li Chongjiu said, the generals also spoke one after another. Most of the people's opinions were to withdraw troops to rescue Youjing and put forward various plans for retreat.

Li Chongjiu adopted everyone's opinions and said, "What you all love say is right. I decided to leave Wang Mahan's guard army as a mobile army to support Hedong. Outside the three routes of Henan and Jiangnan, I led the Wu Guard Army and the Ting Guard Army immediately returned to Youjing. In addition, the 50,000 grassland cavalry in Shaanxi also returned to Youjing to resist the Turks."

Li Chongjiu was as good as the stream of good deeds, and all the generals called Your Majesty wise.

"Then your majesty, will Kaifeng City continue to attack?"

Li Chongjiu said: "Kaifeng broke the city in an instant, and there was no reason to give up. Although I left, Shan Xiongxin could replace me as the leading general and continue to siege Kaifeng."

Shan Xiongxin made his debut by stepping: "The last general takes the order!"

"Your Majesty, please rest assured. The generals of the city have been shaken. The gentry in the city are very afraid. Our army in the city has made detailed rumors, saying that if they do not surrender, they will dig the Bian River and irrigate Kaifeng. According to the news, the city is full of shocks. Now the officials in the city are threatening the generals to surrender, and the soldiers are in panic. It will take only one or two days to break the city." Yu Shinandao.

Li Chongjiu nodded with satisfaction. Kaifeng City was flooded by Qin in history. Of course, when Li Zicheng attacked Kaifeng in another time and space, it also flooded. Therefore, although it was very convenient to establish Kaifeng, it was conducive to the exchange between the north and the south, building the capital here can be said to be a big trend in the house.

However, as the capital, its defense is far inferior to Chang'an, Jiankang and Youjing. However, Chang'an and Youjing also have shortcomings. Even the Han and Tang dynasties, which were close to the outside of the frontier and established their capital in Guanzhong, Chang'an was often approached by the Huns and Turks. The Ming Dynasty, which built its capital in Youjing, had the idea of ​​the emperor guarding the country's gates, and had experienced several dangerous situations when troops were at the city.

Therefore, it is not difficult for the Zhao army to capture such a place that is easy to attack and difficult to defend. However, Li Chongjiu still had to fight in person. It is because of the convenience of Kaifeng. Once Kaifeng is opened, Tongji Canal can be connected. In this way, once Jiangdu is connected with Luoyang, the rice and wealth of Jianghuai can be continuously supplied to Luoyang.

In this way, with Youjing in Luoyang and the support of Jianghuai, the later Li Tang delayed, there was no way to deal with Luoyang.

In fact, Kaifeng City, which had been besieged for three days, was the day after the military negotiations, that is, the day after Li Chongjiu decided to lead his troops north, and finally surrendered to the Zhao army, and the city gate finally opened slowly.

The chief of the city, Sima and dozens of county officials were all wearing white clothes and crawling on the city road.

Li Chongjiu and Shan Xiongxin stepped forward, and Kaifeng officials picked up the heads of the guard generals Cheng Jiahui and Wang Yaohan high and placed them on the plate. Li Chongjiu looked at the heads of the two, and they were all smeared with lime, and their faces all showed a look of unwillingness.

They never dreamed that the officials in Kaifeng set up a Hongmen Banquet to welcome the two of them into the trap last night. When they and their subordinates were drunk, they were plotted against by the officials of Kaifeng. The two and dozens of personal soldiers all made ghosts under the sword.

Li Chongjiu took over the seal and appeased the officials in Kaifeng. Now Kaifeng is in control, and officials in the counties and counties of Li Tang in Henan have also announced their surrender to Zhao. The beacon of rebellion has been lit everywhere in Henan, making Li Yuan's head full of tyrants.

Taking advantage of Li Yuan's time to take care of himself, Li Chongjiu did not rest after attacking Kaifeng. Instead, he led the Wu Guard Army and 20,000 soldiers of the Court Guard boarded the warship, set out from Kaifeng and entered the Yellow River along the Tongji Canal, and then headed north to Youjing through Liyang.
Chapter completed!