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At the beginning of summer, Li Po, the commander-in-chief of Daizhou's march, who had just arrived at Yanmen, ordered the commander-in-chief Luo Shixin on the left, Wang Zhibian on the right, and Liu Jingsheng, the lieutenant of Yanmen County, to lead their troops and march south to Fenyang.
After the three counties of Daizhou were occupied by Li Po, Xihe County almost became the gateway to the north of Jinyang.
But Taiyuan is divided into two parts, the north and the south. The gateway to the north can only be Yanmen. Fenyang, a place with no danger to defend and only an isolated city, is really difficult to take on such an important task. Even the topography of Fenyang Palace is better than it.
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There are two thousand troops garrisoning Fenyang, and another thousand troops garrisoning Fenyang Palace.
Because Li Po gradually became more powerful, Li Yuanji was not unprepared and sent another thousand troops to Fenyang to garrison.
But no matter how he maneuvers, he can't change the situation that Li's layout focuses on the hinterland of Kansai.
At this time, the situation in Jin was actually very serious for the Li family.
After years of war, food shortages are very common in Jin. If Li Yuan can manage for another year or two, the situation in Jin will be much better.
Unfortunately, history has no room for the existence of Ci'er this time. In fact, regardless of being forced or driven by ambition, Li Yuan led the Jin army southward anyway.
Most of the elite soldiers and generals who dared not lead him were even less capable of recruiting and good at fighting. Almost all of them followed Li Yuan south to Chang'an.
Nowadays, there are not many defenders in Jinyang, and it is very difficult to recruit troops. The constraints on food are even worse than when Li Yuan was there.
It’s not like Li Yuanji didn’t think of a solution.
His efforts in Jinyang had already reached Li Po's ears before Luo Shixin and others led the army to Fenyang City.
What Li Yuanji did sounded like he was joking, but Li Po couldn't laugh at all.
In fact, Li Yuanji didn't have many choices, and he tended to be proud and impatient. So the joke started.
He established a large business in Jinyang.
The goal was quite clear. The big family he was targeting was the Wang family of Jinyang. Perhaps in Li Yuanji's view, this was the only family in Jinyang that could be his rival and could do it himself.
What went smoothly was that the Jinyang Wang family had been at odds with the Li family for a long time. As the person in charge of the Li family in Jinyang, he naturally had to fight with the Jinyang King.
Li Yuan had done it before, using both soft and hard tactics, which caused the Jinyang Wang family to suffer considerable losses.
But Li Yuan is cunning and cunning, and if you suffer his losses, there won't be many real opportunities for you to fight back.
Where did teenage Li Yuanji come from?
So, the series of methods seemed like a joke.
It is said that he stayed in front of his mansion in Jinyang and enjoyed shooting at passers-by.
In fact, he just shot off the hats of the Wang clan members with a casual arrow, making them run away in fear.
There are also rumors that he occupied people's houses in Jinyang and raped people's daughters. In fact, he raided the houses of several Wang clan members and obtained some food for military needs. He also took a few concubines for himself.
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Furthermore, there are rumors that he likes hunting. Whenever he travels, he will be followed by large groups of people, trampling farmland, injuring passers-by, and robbing property.
This is almost a rumor. It is true that Li Yuanji likes shooting and hunting. This is the hobby of the people in Kansai. With his status as King of Qi, there will definitely be no shortage of followers.
As for trampling farmland, injuring passers-by, and expropriating a lot of property, these were his actions in the Wang family's wings around Jinyang.
In today's Jinyang, the reputation of King Qi Li Yuanji is so bad that even Li Yuan would probably be shocked if he heard about it, and would also wonder in his heart, is this still the son he gave birth to?
King Jinyang’s thousand-year-old clan, this kind of clan is no joke.
Li Yuan resorted to chaos, that is, he beat Mr. Wang, causing his face to be bruised and swollen. He did not shake his foundation and did not dare to push too far.
But Li Yuanji's piecemeal approach not only did not damage the Wang family's foundation, but also forced the Wang family into panic.
Each and every one of them was clearly hostile and left no room. It was more like a slap in the face of the Wang family, making this well-dressed family almost intolerable.
At this time, the officials who Li Yuan stayed in Jinyang to assist Li Yuan had already sensed the danger, so they wrote to Chang'an, saying that the King of Qi was misbehaving and might damage the Li family's foundation.
At this time, the person who was most wronged was not Wang, but Dou Dan who was accompanying Li Yuanji.
He and Li Yuanji were indeed on good terms, but he only accompanied Li Yuanji on hunting trips a few times, so those guys, whether out of jealousy or selfishness, put their hat on Dou Dan's head.
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Generally speaking, people who play with the prince, or the emperor's favored ministers, almost always have this result.
Emperors and princes naturally don't make many mistakes. The faults all lie with the people around them.
Generally speaking, the place where Li started his career was not stable.
The possibility of beating a big family like the Wang family in Jinyang to death with a stick is very slim. Unless the Turks arrive and deal a ruthless blow, otherwise, if they want to uproot their foundation, besides hurting others and themselves, they will not do anything.
There is a second possibility.
What Li Yuanji did was like a naughty boy kicking a century-old tree. He even kicked down some dead branches and leaves, but his legs were also sore from the shock.
The rumors that spread all over Jinyang City are proof of this. There are all kinds of rumors, but none of them say good things about King Qi.
And at this time of surging undercurrents, Li Yuanji still came to tease Li Po. It can only be said that he was young and energetic and did not know what danger was.
Of course, there are many reasons for this.
As soon as Li Yuan proclaimed himself emperor, Li Yuanji suddenly became a prince, but he was still unable to adapt to this role. He suddenly became more conceited and arrogant, and no one took him seriously.
Secondly, it was Li Po who had always been estranged from the Li family, which gave His Highness the King of Qi the illusion that this person should naturally become a Tang minister, and that he should be able to handle it well under his own rule.
Thirdly, he is indeed looking at the food in Daizhou and is greedy. There are thousands of millets in Zhuo County. If he can get it, won't it solve his urgent need?
So, there was smoke coming out of my house and it was starting to catch on fire, but I was still thinking about borrowing some water from my neighbor to quench my thirst first.
As soon as Dou Jing arrived at Yanmen, rumors about the King of Qi in Jinyang City magically came to Li Po's ears.
But Li Po really couldn't laugh because the rumors were so vicious.
Almost as soon as Luo Shixin and others left with their troops, Wang Qing came over and whispered in his ear for a while, then awkwardly sat aside to drink water, and carefully looked at Li Po from time to time. He seemed to be
I am afraid that if this person is angry, I will suffer some disaster.
Li Po just listened to those rumors about Qi King Li Yuanji as if they were jokes. But when he said the last sentence, Li Po's pupils shrank immediately. At this moment, he really couldn't laugh anymore, as if
There was a fire burning in his eyes, and it was getting stronger and stronger.
Wang Qing's original words are, "It is rumored that when the King of Qi was having a banquet with his confidants, he told his confidants in public that Li Po's wife, Li, was extremely beautiful and would definitely be accepted in the future..."
Did Li Yuanji say this? It is really difficult to verify.
But this is the power of some rumors. You know that they are probably false, but you just can't help but care. In many cases, you are even willing to believe that it is true.
Of course, Li Po didn't care if it was true or not, but this rumor hit him in a vulnerable place, making him very upset.
In fact, it was not until a long time later that he found out that Li Yuanji had indeed talked about him and Li Bi during the banquet.
It's just not as disgusting as the rumors say. It was Dou Dan who praised Li Bi a few times, and Li Yuanji also echoed, "The Sanniang of the Li family has a long history with my family. I don't know whether it is true or not after hearing your praise.
I want to meet you."
At that time, the two people's tone was just like saying a flower stuck in cow dung. As for other thoughts, Dou Dan definitely didn't have any other thoughts. Most of them were just talking. As for Li Yuanji, I didn't know.
Anyway, let alone these days, since ancient times, or even in the next thousand years, once the men in the family become prisoners, the fate of the women in the family will be extremely miserable.
For creatures like princes and grandsons, they are all experts at killing husbands and taking away wives, so there is no need to be too surprised.
So there are rumors that are both true and false. Of course, even if there are no rumors, some can probably be created.
And the reason why the rumors reached Li Po's ears so quickly was probably not that simple.
Among Dou Jing's entourage, someone was making trouble.
Both Li Po and Wang Qing can clearly understand this.
Li Po was annoyed, but he didn't let Wang Qing find the guy who spread the rumors and cut him into pieces. He just ordered Wang Qing to send more people and not let the people Dou Jing brought have any contact with outsiders.
Li Po is not very broad-minded, so he has kept this account firmly in mind. Now he has many things waiting for him to do, and he can't take care of it, so he can only put it aside reluctantly.
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There is not much to say about the Battle of Fenyang City.
Luo Shixin and others repeated their old tricks, pretending to be Dou Jing and his party entered the gate of Fenyang City, and easily invaded Fenyang City.
They fought fiercely with the Fenyang defenders in the city for more than an hour, using heavy cavalry to break through the defenders' formations one after another, besieging them on all sides, and completely annihilating the Fenyang defenders.
The returning army attacked Fenyang Palace again. Wang Zhibian killed Hu Benlang general Liu Shuyu, and Luo Shixin killed Fenyang Palace eunuch Li Cong and destroyed Fenyang Palace.
These two battles seemed easy, but the cohesion of the emerging Tang Dynasty was gradually revealed. After the two battles, the winner was the elite Shanxi border army.
However, they did not reproduce the previous scene of overwhelmingly defeating the enemy. They encountered very fierce resistance.
After that, Li Po ordered Liu Jingsheng to garrison Fenyang and leave another battalion in Fenyang Palace. The first battle of the year ended with this.
While he was preparing for the sequelae of this battle, that is, the attack from the Jinyang direction, he began to do his own thing. The envoy from Jinyang, Dou Jing and his party almost put him under house arrest in Yanmen.
(Monthly tickets have been blocked one after another. This is a good thing, but why is Beixiong Tieba still there? It’s not well-known? So it slipped through the net?)
This chapter has been completed!