control the heavens

Chapter 171
After the election of the emperor in Luoyang, Li Shimin returned to Chang'an, was appointed commander in chief again, and led an army of [-] to pacify the Western Qin Dynasty. In just one month, Li Shimin destroyed the Western Qin Dynasty, Xue Ju died in battle, Xue Rengao was captured, and Li Shimin's prestige in the army increased greatly.

Li Shimin had just returned to the court with his class teacher, and was appointed by Li Yuan as a general. He commanded [-] Tang troops to conquer Luoyang.

The Tang army was powerful, and the Youzhou army echoed in the north. More than 50 counties and counties in Henan surrendered one after another. Soon Li Shimin advanced all the way and came to the outside of Luoyang.

It is a great irony that Wang Shichong gathered an army of 20 in Luoyang, but was surrounded by Li Shimin's [-] army.

However, Luoyang City is one of the largest cities in the world. After Yang Guang rebuilt Luoyang City, the tall city walls made Luoyang City not so easy to fight.

Nearly [-] Tang troops surrounded Luoyang with water, but Wang Shichong was very experienced in defense, and even counterattacked, but could not climb the city wall for half a step.

More than ten days later, many generals of the Tang army saw that Luoyang City was hard to conquer.Morale is gradually declining, and I have the intention of retreating. Anyway, this time the Eastern Expedition to Luoyang was a complete victory, and it will not be a serious problem to return to Chang'an to recuperate and go out again.

However, Li Shimin insisted on his own opinion this time, saying that Luoyang would never return to the army until it was broken.

But when morale was low, Cihang Jingzhai gave Li Shimin a gift. Shi Feixuan went to Hulao Pass alone, and persuaded the guards of Hulao Pass to surrender. The north and south directions were completely surrounded.

Li Shimin was overjoyed, and many generals of the Tang army also cheered up. If the Hulao Pass is as important to Luoyang as Tongguan is to Chang'an, the Tang army can completely cut off Wang Shichong's retreat by capturing Hulao Pass. To die in battle, there is no other way.

Unconsciously, Li Shimin led [-] basalt cavalry to check the terrain, but Wang Shichong seized the opportunity, and the [-] troops left Luoyang, killing Li Shimin and fleeing in embarrassment. Fortunately, there were [-] stick monks sent by Shaolin Temple to guard him, and forced a bloody road Otherwise, Li Shimin would have to confess to being in Luoyang.

When Li Shimin returned to the barracks, Qu Tutong persuaded with worry hidden on his face, "King Qin, our army has been attacking Luoyang for a long time.

Li Shimin said: "Wang Shichong only has one lonely city left. He led a large army into battle a few days ago, and was defeated by our army. It can wipe out Jinghu Lake."

Now the Song Clan occupies all the territory south of the Yangtze River, and they are eyeing it. If the Li Clan doesn't speed up, they might fall behind the Song Clan.

But several other generals still objected, Li Shimin looked firm, and said sharply: "This king has made a decision, you should stop persuading, Yu Chi respectfully obeys the order, if someone persuades to retreat, it will shake the morale of our army, and kill without mercy!"

Li Shimin also thought of the death of more than two thousand Xuanwu iron cavalry today, and he had an idea in his heart.

Half a month later, according to Li Shimin's plan, Wang Shichong underestimated Li Shimin, thinking that Li Shimin's ability was nothing more than that, and led an army of [-] out of the city to fight against Li Shimin, but was defeated and cut off his back. , but found that Luoyang had already changed its flag and was occupied by Tang Jun.

It was Li Shimin who ordered the monks of Jingnian Temple in Luoyang to take advantage of Wang Shichong's departure from Luoyang, open the city gate, and capture Luoyang.

Seeing that the soldiers were exhausted, Li Shimin had no choice but to suspend the use of troops and lead his troops back to the court, where he was grandly welcomed by the soldiers and people of Chang'an.Also because of his great achievements, Li Shimin was awarded the title of Tiance Admiral, led Situ, Shandong Daoxingtai Shangshu Ling, and was on the throne of the prince, and the number of food towns increased to [-]. Compete.

Not long after, Li Yuan issued an edict to grant Tiance Mansion the right to set up its own officials. Therefore, Li Shimin opened a literature hall and recruited scholars from all over the world to come in for consultation and consultants.

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"Huh? The evil king actually made up for the shortcomings and stepped into the grand master!" Tang Han felt a strange fluctuation, which was unique to the undead seal, and he had a kind of understanding in his heart. He has become a great master.

Tang Han felt strange, so he followed the wave to a hundred miles away, and saw the 'evil king' Shi Zhixuan who was resting with his eyes closed.

"It turned out that Shi Zhixuan had abolished his own martial arts, experienced great ups and downs, understood the mysteries of life and death, and was full of energy!" Tang Han was deeply moved. He did not expect that Shi Zhixuan, who had not seen Shi Zhixuan for more than a year, was the Emperor Xuan of Luoyang , and didn't see Shi Zhixuan getting involved, he thought Shi Zhixuan was plotting something, but he didn't expect it to be like this.

Self-defeating martial arts is easy to say, but martial arts are practiced by oneself so hard, so it is said that if you abolish it, you can just abolish it. Shi Zhixuan can break through and then stand up. His perseverance and courage are really admirable.

"Congratulations to the evil king, break through and stand up!" Tang Han said with a smile seeing that Shi Zhixuan's aura had completely subsided.

"Alas, after decades of ups and downs, I just found myself today." Shi Zhixuan sighed: "I haven't seen Qingxuan for many years, it's time to visit her."

Stepping into the Grand Master, Shi Zhixuan's mind was complete, he did whatever he thought, nodded towards Tang Han, and left with a shake of his figure.

"Hey, it's extremely hard to practice, and there is no room for mistakes. Back then, he was amazingly talented, and everyone was optimistic that he would become a great master. I didn't expect that after following the Tao of Cihang Jingzhai, he has only reached the peak today." Zhu Yuyan's figure Appearing suddenly, he said quietly.

"Time is fate, and each individual has his or her own destiny, so you can't force it!" Tang Han said with a faint smile.

"Yi'er, how do you plan to arrange it?" Zhu Yuyan looked at Tang Han.

"On the road of martial arts, the master leads the door, and the practice is up to the individual." Tang Han said indifferently: "Yi'er has already started to practice the "Longevity Secret". If he strives for it by himself, he may become an immortal golden fairy! If it cannot be broken, then it is difficult to escape the cycle of life and death!"

Great master, the life expectancy is greatly increased and you can live to be [-] years old!And once one breaks through the realm of a great master and breaks through the void to go to the upper realm, the aura of heaven and earth will definitely become more intense, and it stands to reason that the lifespan will be extended if the cultivation base breaks through.

The "Longevity Jue" was left by Guang Chengzi, who can continue to cultivate to the realm of the golden fairy. He has practiced the five elements of gold, wood, water, fire, earth, and the two qi of yin and yang. It is difficult to practice the "Secret of Longevity", even Tang Han can't help but practice.

"Although the "Tianmo Strategy" is not as good as "The Secret of Longevity", it is also extraordinary, and you have to practice hard." Tang Han looked at Zhu Yuyan and said, "I don't know if there is a chance to see it in the Temple of War God in this life, otherwise I'm afraid it will be missed. "God of War Illustrated Book"!"

"Are you going to shatter the void?" Zhu Yuyan frowned slightly. With Tang Han's intensive research on "Tianmo Strategy", her cultivation base has become more and more advanced. Now, even if she is also a great master, Zhu Yuyan can't see through Tang Han more and more .

"I'm afraid that in a few years, this world will not be able to accommodate me anymore!" Tang Han sighed, this world cannot bear the Yuanshen state, otherwise it will collapse.

Zhu Yuyan couldn't help but fell silent when she heard the words.

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"Brother, King Qin is becoming more and more powerful. If things go on like this, he will definitely take away your crown prince." Qi Wang Li Yuanji said dissatisfiedly at the prince's mansion in Chang'an City.

Because Li Jiancheng, as the prince, guarded Chang'an all the year round and helped Li Yuan handle the government affairs, while Li Yuanji was still young when he first arrived in Chang'an, and he had been with Li Jiancheng for a long time, and had the best relationship with Li Jiancheng.

"Shiro!" Li Jiancheng shouted in a deep voice, "I don't want to hear you talk about this a second time."

Li Yuanji tilted his head angrily, and said angrily: "King Qin, King Qin, everything belongs to King Qin. The emperor father and queen mother are really biased. This time, King Qin led the army to go south. Isn't this a credit to him?"

"He is now the king of Qin and the general of Tiance's mansion. If he does more meritorious service, won't he be crowned prince?" Li Yuanji said.

It turned out that it was just before the early dynasty, Li Yuan decided to attack again, to fight in front of the Song Clan, to expand the territory, and the commander-in-chief was still Qin Wang Li Shimin.

Li Yuanji originally volunteered to become the commander-in-chief, but was rejected by Li Yuan because Li Yuanji was young and had no experience in leading troops to fight.

Li Jiancheng couldn't help being silent when he heard this.

In the imperial court, Li Jiancheng naturally had a lot of people, and there were people from Li Jiancheng in the three provinces and six ministries, but in the army, Li Jiancheng seemed weak.

On the contrary, under King Qin's command are fierce generals like clouds, such as Yu Chigong, such as Hou Junji. . . . . .

Moreover, Li Jiancheng felt more and more Li Yuan's dissatisfaction with himself as the prince, which made Li Jiancheng quite distressed.

Li Shimin seemed a little high-spirited, and commanded an army of [-] to leave Chang'an and go south, attacking the city and conquering territory along the way, but within half a year, he confronted the Song Clan across the river, and Li Shimin's prestige was even greater.

However, the Song Clan had internal strife, but the people of the Song Clan couldn't get used to Kou Zhong's arrogance and crowded out Kou Zhong everywhere. In a rage, Kou Zhong directly occupied dozens of counties with 50 young commanders , Reblock the Song Clan back to Lingnan.

Even if the 'Heavenly Sword' Song Que went out in person, but under the joint efforts of Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling, he still returned without success.

That Kou Zhong was also a ruthless person, under Li Xiuning's persuasion, he led the young generals to surrender to Li Shimin, and then took Li Xiuning and Song Yuzhi away to the rivers and lakes, free and easy.

Song Que saw that the general situation was over, and Tang Han and Zhu Yuyan came to Lingnan in person. After sighing, he accepted the canonization of Datang and withdrew from the struggle for hegemony.

The Domineering Fort was not so lucky. One hundred thousand Tang troops entered Sichuan, and the Tang Han directly destroyed the Dolorous Fort, killing seven masters and thousands of first-class masters in the rivers and lakes. Bashu was brought under the rule of Tang Dynasty.

The world that had been chaotic for several years has finally returned to unity.

(End of this chapter)