The day after the emperor discussed with Li Xu, he led the imperial guards to leave Chang'an and headed straight for Taiyuan.

Not long after that, Qi Shidao, who was far away in Shuofang, received two letters.

The first letter was a letter of help from Wang Fu and his son.

Wang Fu meant that Qi Shidao wanted to fulfill the alliance that the two men had set in Xiaji, and to help him when the Hedong Army was attacked by the Pinglu Army.

After receiving this letter, General Qi was silent for a long time and did not take any action.

Because at this time, without the orders of the court, he could not send troops to confront the Pinglu army head-on.

The Shuofang Army is different from the weak Hedong Army now.

Although the Shuofang Army was also severely damaged in the Fanyang Rebellion, only half of the soldiers were left, after the war, the Shuofang Army received full support from the court. Now the Shuofang Army has recovered its entire organization of a total of 100,000 people, and is among the best among the princes in the world in terms of strength.

Once the Shuofang Army and the Pinglu Army start war head-on, the result will be out of control.

More importantly, Qi Shidao did not want to go to war with Lin Zhao.

It’s not because of the so-called relationship between them, but because... he is really not sure that he can win Lin Zhao.

When we were in Chang'an three years ago, the Pinglu Army had not yet fully formed. If the Shuofang Army was in full state at that time, we might be able to control the Pinglu Army.

However, the Shuofang Army had been defeated by Kang Dongping to the point of being half-defunct.

Although the Shuofang Army has recovered, the combat effectiveness of the Pinglu Army has increased faster, and there are also various firearms. Even if they fight head-on, Qi Shidao is no longer sure.

However, after receiving the imperial edict from the court, General Qi immediately ordered 20,000 Shuofang Army without saying a word, and led his troops to attack Taiyuan without saying a word.

Lingzhou, where Chang'an and Shuofang Army are located, are not too close to Taiyuan, both are more than one thousand miles away. Chang'an is a little closer, about one thousand two hundred miles away, while Lingzhou from Taiyuan is 1,400 miles away.

Lin Zhao calculated these distances in advance.

Therefore, he once told Pei Jian that it would be best to take Taiyuan within half a month after the action.

Because, if Chang'an and Lingzhou were to send troops to Taiyuan, the marching time would be almost half a month.

But things were beyond Lin Zhao's expectations.

Neither the Chang'an Imperial Army nor the Shuofang Army of Qi Shidao went to Taiyuan to fight with Lin Zhao, so they were all light and simple. Qi Shidao's approach was more extreme. In order to reach Taiyuan as soon as possible, he directly allocated 5,000 cavalry, rode horses and left the infantry behind.

When cavalry is normally chasing horsepower, they can run about 200 miles a day. If they are willing to work hard, it will be no problem to walk 300 miles a day.

Therefore, on the fifth day after Qi Shidao received the news, they had already entered Taiyuan Prefecture.

At this time, King Li Xu of Song, who was also riding a horse and carrying cavalry, also rushed to Taiyuan Prefecture with his vanguard cavalry.

At this time, it was the eighth day after Pei Jian entered Taiyuan.

It was also the fifth day after their troops surrounded Taiyuan.

The combat effectiveness of the Taiyuan Hedong Army is far from comparable to that of the Ping Lu Army, but the Hedong Army just cannot defend and hold the city tightly. In the short while, Pei Jian really has no choice but to do anything to them.

After all, there are not many soldiers in Hedong in the city, and there are at least 30,000 people.

Although Pei Jian was anxious, he did not mess up the rules and still arranged the siege step by step.

What is more difficult is that in order to prevent the firearms of Pinglu Army, the major general of the Hedong Army, Wang Luo, ordered to use stones to block all the city gates in Taiyuan, resulting in gunpowder being unable to blow up the city gates for a while.

In response to this, Pei Jian could only throw gunpowder jars on the city wall with a catapult to consume the vitality of the Hedong Army.

On the afternoon of the eighth day, when Pei Jian was deploying a siege, a captain from the scout camp of the Pinglu Army came to the commander's tent, half-kneeled to Pei Jian, and lowered his head and said, "General, Chang'an Imperial Army and Shuofang Army have arrived in Taiyuan Prefecture and are heading straight to Taiyuan City."

"So fast?"

Pei Jian frowned: "It's impossible. Even if Chang'an arrives here, it will take more than a thousand miles. No matter what, they can't arrive in Taiyuan within four or five days..."

The scout captain bowed his head again: "Return to the general, these two groups of people are almost all cavalry, they came by riding horses... There are not many people, the Chang'an Imperial Army has only about 3,000 people, and the Shuofang Army has a maximum of only 5,000 people."

"Eight thousand cavalry..." Gu

Pei Jian in the tent narrowed his eyes and said coldly: "Chang'an City and Qi Shidao, in order to support such a rebel who kills the king, are really willing to leave the book and come to save Taiyuan in such a hurry."

"I want to take a look. Eight thousand cavalrymen can save Taiyuan!"

"Send the order!"

Pei Jian said in a deep voice.

The messenger in the commander's tent immediately bowed his head and bowed.

"Stop siege today, all soldiers return to the camp to rest and form a defensive array!"

Pei Jian’s idea is very simple.

Eight thousand cavalrymen could not collide with the Pinglu Army head-on, nor could they enter Taiyuan to help defend the city. At most, what these cavalry could do was to harass the flanks, so he ordered the soldiers to rest for a while and wait for their hard work.

When the right opportunity comes, the Pinglu army can eat the eight thousand cavalry in one bite!

Pei Jian was very strict in governing the army. After his general order was issued, all the soldiers of the Pinglu Army quickly retreated and retreated back to the camp.

Just as the Pinglu Army was shrinking, the major general Wang Luo, who had been personally commanding the city guarding the city on the city wall, breathed a sigh of relief and almost exhausted from the city wall.

The pressure he has been under so much these days.

First of all, the father died suddenly, and the enemy was in front of him. For the sake of the morale in the army, he could only keep silent, temporarily suppress this matter, and command the city with all his heart.

And in the past few days, Pei Jian's attack was like flowing water, making him breathless.

Finally, on the afternoon of the eighth day, Pei Jian's troops began to shrink.

While the Pinglu army stopped its attack, Wang Luo also received news that the Chang'an Imperial Army and the Shuofang Army were present.

The major general of the Hedong Army immediately relaxed.

With these two groups of troops present, at least the attacks of the Lu army will not be so unscrupulous.

So the major general immediately sent an envoy to contact the Shuofang Army and the Chang'an Imperial Army.

But unfortunately, none of the messengers he sent came back.

When the Major General was worried, time came on the morning of the ninth day.

In the Pinglu Army camp, Pei Jian, wearing iron armor, was using a telescope produced in Qingzhou to watch the situation in Taiyuan, the Chang'an Imperial Army, and the movements of the Shuofang Army.

I saw these two armies slowly heading towards Taiyuan City.

Pei Jian was a little surprised and even muttered in his heart.

"These two armies will not want to enter the city to help the Hedong army defend the city?"

General Pei muttered in a low voice: "If the cavalry is used like this, it would be too stupid..."

Just when Pei Jian was wondering, the Chang'an Imperial Army and the Shuofang Army launched an attack on Taiyuan City at the same time!

Pei Jian, holding a telescope, was stunned.

Immediately, the scout of Pinglu Army immediately reported.

"General, Chang'an's imperial guards, and Shuofang army seem to..."

The scout gritted his teeth and said, "It seems to be attacking Taiyuan!"

General Pei was stunned and quickly reacted.

He slapped his thighs suddenly, his tone of annoyance.

"broken…!"
Chapter completed!