After the Li Yuan family broke up and officially pulled the flag to rebel, the Li Yuan family was very lucky. Before the main force of Li Yuan's rebels had time to go south, the Sui army in Daxing attacked north. The whole July was rainy and unfavorable to attack, resulting in the 60,000 Sui army being in a hurry outside the small fortress of Jiahu Fort, which was difficult to advance, and also consumed countless physical and food. When the Sui army in Daxing retreated to Huoyi and Li Yuan's rebels were at the city, the Sui army had not had time to improve the defense of Huoyi, which had been evacuated for a long time. On the first day of August, the rain suddenly stopped, the weather cleared, and the sky was clear for several days.

When encountering such a rare good thing, Li Yuan certainly could not let God down on him. On the second day of August, the entire army was ordered to expose weapons, armor, clothes and equipment. On the third day of August, he immediately set up an attack on the city, and adopted Li Er's plan to lure the enemy. He sent Li Jiancheng and Li Er brothers to lead hundreds of cavalry as vanguards, leading the main force of the infantry and then went on. Then, after Li Jiancheng and Li Er brothers arrived at the city of Huoyi, they could not even greet Pang Yu in various vulgar languages, Huo Shiju and other 18 generations of ancestors of Sui generals. During this period, Li Er naturally had to mention the embarrassment of Pang Yu being captured by Yang Xuangan, and asked Pang Yu to invite Chen Sangliang to save him quickly.

Pang Yu, who was angry, was indeed trapped. After being angry, he gritted his teeth and personally led 30,000 Sui troops out of the city from the north gate of the East Gate to fight. During the time he left the city, the rebel infantry brigade led by Li Yuan also arrived at the battlefield. The two armies faced against the wilderness. Pang Yu divided the army into two, lined up in the east and north of the city respectively, and was struck by each other. Li Yuan also divided the army into two, personally led the army to fight Pang Yu at the north gate, and ordered Li Er and Duan Zhixuan to lead the army to fight the Sui army in the east gate.

The formation was just settled, and Pang Yu, who had suffered a great loss in Queshi Valley, could not suppress his anger and launched an attack first. Li Yuan deceiving defeat and retreated, luring Pang Yu's army to give up the strong formation and launch a pursuit. Pang Yu was once again trapped. During the pursuit, the formation was loose and a flaw was revealed in the rear. Li Er and Duan Zhixuan, who were standing in the east of the city, took the opportunity to lead the cavalry to launch an attack and rushed behind Pang Yu. Li Yuan also took the opportunity to turn around and fight. During the fierce battle, Li Er, who had excellent martial arts skills, killed dozens of enemies, and both swords cut out the gap. He was unstoppable and completely suffocated the courage of the Sui army. Seeing that the battlefield was in chaos, Li Yuan ordered the entire army to shout slogans, claiming that his own army had captured Pang Yu alive.

It is a very simple plot to attack the mind. Although Pang Yu's flag was not falling and it was still flying high on the battlefield, the Daxing Sui army, which was not strong in morale, fell into a trap. In the panic that the commander was captured, many Sui soldiers dispersed and left, affecting the fighting spirit of their companions. Snowballs caused a large number of soldiers to fall into panic. The rebels with a rainbow of morale took the opportunity to rush and attack. The Sui army was defeated and fled. Pang Yu's efforts were ineffective. Seeing a large number of rebels rushing towards him, they quickly slammed the horse and fled to the north gate with their personal soldiers. Li Yuan and his son chased with all their might, saying that they would not miss this opportunity to break the enemy.

The huge number of defeated Sui army defeated the rebels for free, suppressed the suspension bridge and could not rise, blocked the city gate and could not close it. Huoyi City, which had been hiding for a long time, was not like Hulao Pass. There was a yaksha hanging above the city gate to block the crowd at a critical moment. Huo Shiju shouted and ordered the gate to close the door quickly, but the city gate soldiers could not stop the crowd. Under the push, the Sui army's city gate officials were extremely unlucky to be washed down by the crowd and were trampled to death by his own defeated soldiers. The soldiers were timid and dared not stop them. The Li Yuan rebels behind took the opportunity to follow him, first cut off the suspension bridge noose, and then followed the defeated Sui army into the city and occupied the important land of the city gate.

There was no more suspense. Although Pang Yu, the chief general of the Sui army, escaped into the city by luck, the low-spirited soldiers of the Sui army could not stop Li Yuan's rebels. They picked up the big pie from the sky to compete for the first place. They fought bravely and the Sui army in the city that was in a hurry to fight could not resist. Huo Shiju organized street fighting several times to intercept the army and tried to regain the city gate, but they were all defeated by the unstoppable rebels. Finally, as more and more rebel soldiers attacked the city, the area occupied in the city became larger and larger. Pang Yu and Huo Shiju had no choice but to hurriedly lead the remaining defeated generals and abandon the city and fled. The rebels took the opportunity to seize Huoyi, and at the same time divided their troops to chase the defeated Sui army, desperately weakening the combat power of the Sui army. However, Pang Yu and Huo Shiju had a chance to breathe.

After the victory, Li Yuan's rebels were of course full of joy. After Li Yuan ordered the same rewards as the soldiers, the cheers suddenly increased several times. The rebel auxiliary soldiers, who were the most numerous but the few rewards, were all happy and glad that they followed the right person and felt that it was worth it to work for the old Li family. What was icing on the cake was that at this moment, the news happened that Zhang Lun's troops in the rebel army quickly captured Lishi County and captured and killed the Lishi Prefect Yang Zichong who refused to surrender. The cheers in the rebel army reached the peak. The slogans of the arm-raising slogans of capturing Daxing and supporting the King of Dai resounded throughout the army and the city, and the army was extremely excited.

Seeing such a warm scene, Li Jiancheng, Li Er brothers and the senior generals of Li Yuan's army were of course happy. They all said that morale was available. The self-army captured Huoyi City in another battle, which was enough to prove that the newly formed army of the self-army was powerful, no less than any heroic army in the world, and it was easy to defeat Daxing. However, while being excited and confident, fine people such as Li Jiancheng, Li Er and Liu Wenjing found that Li Yuan, as the commander of the entire army, did not have much joy on his face. He occasionally had some inconsistent words in his words, as if he was worried.

Realizing this, Li Jiancheng asked Li Yuan carefully about the reason. Li Yuan hesitated for a while before saying, "There is no need to hide it anymore. Let me tell you directly. In fact, I had already received the news more than ten days ago that Chen Yingliang had recaptured Hulao Pass and beat Li Mi and Zhai Rang away."

"Chen Yingliang has taken back Hulao Pass? He beat Li Mi and Zhai Rang away?" All the rebel generals screamed in shock. Li Jiancheng and Li Er's faces changed. Yun Dingxing, who was also present, also had a flash of light in his eyes, but he did not say anything. The most intense reaction was Chai Shao, who had been named Li Yuan's right leader's chief of rebellion, and his hands were clenched so hard that his knuckles were white.

Li Yuan nodded, with a bitter smile and said, "At that time, we had just entered the Queshi Valley to prepare to fight with the official army. I was afraid that it would affect the morale and damage the morale, so I concealed this news. Zhai Rang Li Mi was attacked by Chen Yingliang and Wang Shichong from the front and back. When he fought with Chen Yingliang in Shili Fort, Chen Yingliang was defeated by Chen Yingliang with less victory and more. The losses were very heavy. He was also stuck in the food route by Wang Shichong. In order to preserve his strength, Zhai Rang Li Mi had to abandon the passive pass and leave. Chen Yingliang regained control of Hulao Pass and completely reversed the passive beating situation in the Dongdu battlefield."

The rebel generals stopped saying a word, and Li Yuan sighed softly and said, "Although I am unwilling to admit it, the fact is the fact. Chen Yingliang, a young man, is indeed difficult to deal with on the battlefield. Zhai Rang Li Mi joined more than 150,000 troops, of which there are quite a lot of elite troops in a hundred battles. The overall strength is actually greater than our army, and there are also the strong passes of Hulao Pass to defend. He is still beaten by this young man and forced to abandon the pass and escape. This young man's strength on the battlefield is once again beyond my imagination.

"If this is the case, we want to enter Guanzhong, and Chen Yingliang will appear on the road again." Pei Ji said, holding his beard and saying, "No matter what the situation is next, as long as our righteous army breaks through the Yellow River and sets in Guanzhong, Daxing will definitely ask for help from the East Capital. Chen Yingliang has withdrawn from the battlefield of Hulaoguan and has a deep hatred with the General (Li Yuan). Ninety-nine percent will personally bring troops to fight us. This ordinary man is cautious in fighting, has a good military force and is scheming, and has countless powerful generals and soldiers under his command. He will definitely become our biggest enemy to take Daxing."

Except for a few generals who were yelling and ignoring that Chen Sangliang would come, most of the rebel generals did not say a word. They had been cannon fodder for Chen Sangliang on the battlefield of Yanmen, had seen Chen Sangliang's military use with his own eyes, and knew that Chen Sangliang was powerful, and they were also afraid of fighting head-on with Chen Sangliang - this was also the reason why Li Yuan had deliberately concealed that Chen Sangliang had recovered Hulao Pass before.

Seeing that many generals looked worried, Li Yuan was afraid of affecting morale, so he hurriedly said, "There is no need to worry too much. As for the news I received, the elite Dongdu soldiers also suffered a lot in the battlefield of Hulao Pass this time. Nearly half of the elite soldiers were lost, and most of the remaining soldiers were injured. The army was extremely tired and had completely damaged its vitality. The self-proclaimed Duke of Wei, Li Mi, also sent me a secret letter to me, introducing the battle situation of Hulao Pass to me, confirming that the Dongdu official army suffered heavy losses in Hulao Pass this time, and it is difficult to launch a large-scale war in a short period of time."

"Father, Li Mi wrote to you? What else did you say?" Li Er asked quickly.

"I also said a lot. In fact, if I had not had this letter from Li Mi, I might have to reconsider my plan to enter Daxing." Li Yuan replied casually: "In addition to introducing me to the situation of the war in Hulao Pass, Li Mi also pointed out the characteristics of Chen Yingliang's young man's military use, and urged me to lead the army directly to Hanoi, join forces with him to take Luoyang, and promised to use the grain from Li Yang Cang so that our army would not have to worry about food and grass."

"I think beautifully." Li Er said contemptuously: "Go to Hanoi to take Luoyang together? If you want us to charge him and consume Dongdu's strength, it is clear that we don't care about the grain in Liyang Cang, and the Yongfeng Cang in Guanzhong is much more grain than Liyang Cang."

For some reason, Li Yuan suddenly glared at Li Er. Li Er knew that he had made up his words and quickly shut up. Li Yuan then said: "Anyway, you can rest assured that Chen Yingliang is really difficult to deal with, but his main army has been severely damaged and it is difficult to fight again in a short period of time. No matter how many new recruits and auxiliary soldiers are, we are not afraid of it. We just need to worry about going south and how to defeat the enemy until we encounter Chen Yingliang. Our rebel army is in accordance with the heavens and Yingren. With the care of the gods, Chen Yingliang assists the evil and is accomplice for the tiger. The heavens are angry and the people are resentful, and they will definitely not be our opponent."

The rebel generals agreed, and it was already dark and the army was exhausted from fighting. Li Yuan said nothing more and ordered the generals to disperse and rest, leaving only Li Jiancheng, Li Er and Chai Shao. As soon as the civil and military officials left, Li Yuan immediately pointed at Li Er and shouted: "Before entering Guanzhong, we are not allowed to mention a word about Yongfeng Cang. Our army is newly built. People are not stable. We must prevent the news from leaking and exposing the secrets of heaven."

Li Er sang honestly and admitted that he had just said something wrong. Li Yuan snorted again and then asked: "Where is Li Xiaochang, is there any news?"

"Yes." Li Er replied in a low voice: "Li Xiaochang was ordered to test the general Liu Gang of Tongguan for us. He found that although Liu Gang was mediocre and incompetent, greedy and lustful, he was loyal to the tyrant. Li Xiaochang mentioned your name in front of Liu Gang. Liu Gang was very hostile to your father. The county magistrate Li was afraid of being exposed, so he did not dare to try to bribe the contact. However, Li Xiaochang had already drawn the city defense arrangement in Tongguan. Together with the list of lieutenant-level generals of the Tongguan garrison, Li Xiaochang had already sent us.

"That's good." Li Yuan nodded and said, "I'll send Li Xiaochang a secret letter, telling him not to act rashly anymore. If you don't have to contact us in a hurry, don't contact us, so as not to expose the Yongfeng Cang relationship in his hand. He must not make any mistakes in the fate of the entire army after we enter the pass."

Li Er agreed, and then asked: "Father, what should I do with Tongguan? Chen Yingliang has withdrawn from Hulao Pass. If we cannot seize Tongguan before he reinforces Guanzhong and let his Dongdu reinforcements enter Tongguan, the initiative in the Guanzhong battlefield will be in his hands."

"Let's talk about it then. Fortunately, Liu Gang is just an incompetent person. His soldiers have never been on the battlefield. It is not difficult to deal with. If it really doesn't work, you can attack hard." Li Yuan snorted coldly and said, "I have already considered how to deal with this little thief. After arriving in Jiang County, I plan to distribute a side army to attack Hanoi and threaten Luoyang, restrain Chen Yingliang's little thief's troops, and buy us time."

"Father-in-law, let me go," Chai Shao said impatiently: "Please let your son-in-law attack Hanoi and restrain Chen Yingliang's little thief."

"You?" Li Yuan glanced at his son-in-law and refused, "Forget it, just your anxious temper. Don't be able to threaten the hinterland of Hanoi before you even approach the gate of Chen Yingliang, you were killed and wiped out by the little thief Chen Yingliang."

Chai Shao insisted, but Li Yuan still refused. He also decided on the spot that Duan Zhixuan, who was both brave and capable, would take on the job. Chai Shao had no choice but to retreat. Li Er suggested: "Father, since Li Mi intends to deceive you to go to the Hanoi Alliance, why not let us use the trick? Just say that Duan Zhixuan is just a pioneer and ask him to send troops to attack Linqing Pass and enter Hanoi, and join us in the Hanoi County Governor's county, and more effectively restrain the Dongdu Army and Chen Yingliang."

"Will that old fox Li Mi be fooled?" Li Yuan asked with a smile.

"As Li Mi's treacherous, we did not confirm that our main force was entering Hanoi east, so of course we would not easily dispatch the main force." Li Er said: "But the child believes that although Li Mi will not send the main force, he will definitely send troops, because he also wants to lure us into Hanoi east and attack Lin Customs clearance as agreed. This is undoubtedly the best way to lure us into East and share the pressure for him."

Li Yuan nodded, immediately agreed to accept Li Er's suggestion, and immediately discussed the specific details with his son. Li Jiancheng, another son present, never spoke, and turned his eyes to the direction of Dongdu, murmured in his heart, "Brother, I really didn't expect that our next meeting will probably be on the battlefield of life and death. When it comes to that time, how should we compare with each other?"

It was also coincidental that on the same day that Li Yuan's rebels captured Huoyi City, Chen Sangliang rarely put down his busy official duties and used the excuse of practicing firearms to lead his confidant soldiers to the north to the Mang Mountain, known as the navel of China. In the depths of the Mang Mountain surrounded by mountains, a basin closely guarded by Chen Sangliang's direct army, there were twelve brand new bronze smoothbore cannons waiting for Chen Sangliang.

With the guidance of Chen Sangliang, a time traveler, Yuan Tiangang, who was responsible for casting cannons, certainly avoided many detours, and directly casted into a thin front and thick back, reducing the risk of explosion. He also prepared a cotton-wool-wool-studded cannon rod to scrub the remaining Mars of the cannon barrel, and also installed a ruler for estimating range. At the same time, Yuan Tiangang's mathematical and astronomical expertise also ensured that these bronze cannons had a very high standard accuracy, and directly skipped the link that the shells had to be used for special cannons in the development of ancient artillery, so that the shells could be basically universal, reduced the operation difficulty, increased the air density, and then increased the range and power.

At the request of Chen Yingliang, Yuan Tiangang directed the gunners he personally trained to make each bronze cannon test fire. The result of the test fire made Chen Sangliang very satisfied. Three of the twelve cannons accurately hit targets two miles away, and the rest were not much different. From Yuan Tiangang, these cannons could hit more than 900 steps at the farthest distance, with a range far exceeding the eight-line crossbow invented by Cui Hongdan. The loading and firing speed was more than ten times better, and the power was far superior. However, Yuan Tiangang regretted that the eight-pound shell was slightly smaller in size, and it would be useless if it failed to hit the target. The cannon body was too heavy, making it inconvenient to carry on mountain roads and small roads.

"It's powerful, but it's not reflected yet." Chen Sangliang said with a smile: "This is a mountainous area. It's raining a while ago and the land is too soft. When this shell hits hard and solid ground, it's even more powerful when it jumps up. The highest record for using this cannon on Europa is to kill thirty-two people in one shot."

Yuan Tiangang expressed his disbelief. Chen Sangliang smiled and did not explain, but said: "As for the problem of excessive gun body, we can also solve it through other methods. Once we solve the problem that the iron cannon is prone to explode, we can cast iron-core wooden shell cannons, and the gun body will be much lighter."

"Leave the way, will the servant continue to organize craftsmen to solve the problem of iron cannons?" Yuan Tiangang asked quickly.

Chen Sangliang shook his head and said, "It's too late, let's pause. Let's talk about it later. Remember, we must keep the soldiers strictly confidential and not let the noise leak out. In addition, we will destroy all our casting mud molds, keep only the drawing specifications, and all the craftsmen involved in the casting will be registered and booked. I will take them away when I go to the future.

"Why?" Yuan Tiangang said in confusion: "The craftsmen who participated in the casting of cannons had no idea what they made, molds, mud patterns and shells, and they were all made by different craftsmen. Except for the left-behind and the lower-ranking officials, no one knew the entire link. There was no need to keep it so confidential, right? Besides, if you take them to the battle, you can't build cannons in the camp?"

"Be careful, beware, beware of people making imitations at any cost, and find all the craftsmen who know all the links." Chen Sangliang answered casually, and said, "As for why they have to be taken away when they go to war in the future, you will understand in the future."

Yuan Tiangang agreed in a daze. Chen Sangliang ordered the troops to split the bronze cannons and transport them back to the army for close care. Then he led everyone back to Luoyang. As soon as he entered the city, Changsun Wuji, who was in charge of confidential affairs for Chen Sangliang, hurriedly came up and said to Chen Sangliang: "Brother, my sister has already arrived in Hongnong with your two sons. When I saw my uncle, I heard from the person who reported that my uncle's condition was already very good and could walk down the ground, but I just asked my sister and the others to live in Hongnong for a longer time."

Chen Sangliang nodded and said, "Live more for a while. It's not far away anyway, and you can come back at any time. By the way, how about my cousin? Have you been successfully appointed?"

"I've arrived, I've taken office." Changsun Wuji nodded and said in confusion: "Brother, even if Uncle Li is guilty of abstention from office, it's a cause. Why did you ask His Highness, King Yue to demote him to three levels and send him to that remote village to be the county magistrate? Is it too wrong for him?"
Chapter completed!