Chapter 691 Li Yuan died suddenly

In the Land Temple, Chen Kefu received three emergency military messages in a row.

In the early morning of the second day of April, with the help of Zhang Zhongjian's fierce attack launched by Luokou, Chen Kefu took 15,000 Hebei troops in hundreds of small boats and took advantage of the darkness to sneak across the Luokou section of the Yellow River in batches and headed eastward.

Before dawn, he finally arrived at the mouth of the Sishui River. Then Chen Kefu took his entire army to abandon his boat and landed along the Sishui River, and stopped moving forward ten miles upstream. Before dawn, he brought his troops into the Xiguan Land Temple, which was less than five miles away from Hulao Pass.

Five miles away, there were only 10,000 defenders left in Hulao Pass. This was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and a big flaw revealed by Li Mi.

Hulao Pass has many names, but it is said that the name of Hulao is because King Mu of Zhou once presented the fierce tiger prison to which the princes presented it, so it was named Hulao. Hulao Pass is connected to Songyue in the south and the Yellow River in the north, with mountains and ridges intertwined, making it a natural danger. It is a great opportunity for a man to be at the pass and ten thousand men to open up, and it is a place that military strategists in history have fought for.

For Li Mi, this is an important gateway to the east of Luoyang. For Chen Kefu, this is also an important gateway for him to enter the Central Plains from Hebei. If such a strong pass is only attacked in a regular manner, he will have to use his lives to pile up.

Now, Li Mi is a little unreasonable when she is ambushed Chen Kefu's plan. Even a powerful pass like Hulao has only 10,000 left in the defenders. If she encounters such a good opportunity, if she doesn't take it, it will be that Tianyu won't take it, and she will be blamed.

As long as the Hulao was taken down, Chen Kefu's forward in Ji County, Hebei would have only one Jindi Pass left in front of him. The most critical Hulao, how could he defend the Jindi Pass, which was blocked from front and back. After the Jindi Pass and Hulao were all down, Chen Kefu could go directly to Ji County from Hebei south, and then directly pass through the Jindi and Hulao two passes, and directly point to the core of Li Mi Luoyang.

Now, Hulao Pass is five miles away, and Chen Kefu is still unable to feel excited. Most of the soldiers who marched all night are still sleeping, preparing for the battle at night. Chen Kefu lives in the Land Temple in Xiguan without any sleepiness.

The Battle of Hulao is a crucial move. If you take down Hulao, Chen Kefu may turn this original encounter and ambush into a decisive battle with Li Mi. Although Li Mi has many soldiers, they are scattered everywhere. If he can directly attack his base camp and have a beheading battle before he assembles all his troops. Then, once Li Mi's central army is defeated, the Wei State will be defeated.

In history, Li Mi and Wang Shichong had a great battle. Because of the failure of the decisive battle, they did not care about the other cities and territory of the Wei Kingdom at all, and went straight to Li Yuan in a panic.

While Chen Kefu was tossing and turning, the liaison officer of the Special Service Department who accompanied the army sent three urgent reports.

Three urgent reports came from Guanzhong, Hedong, and Luokou, which was close to you, and there was a lot of worry and joy in the letter.

He now occupied Liaodong, sat in Hebei, supported Shandong, took charge of Huaibei, planned to plan for the Central Plains, and planned to Hedong. He was elite soldiers and powerful generals, and he was already the leader of the world in terms of territory and strength.

However, when Chen Kefu was advancing in the northeast corner, the others did not stagnate. Guanzhong sent an urgent report, the originally calm Guanzhong and Hexi area have finally broken the final balance of power. Now there are wars everywhere, fighting in a row.

When Yu Culture and thoroughly grasped the power of Guanzhong, Guo Zihe, Zhang Changxun and Liang Shidu from Longshang were actively developing towards the Guanzhong Plain while developing towards Hedong. The Yuwen family fought and stopped with these three powerful men, which was originally considered to be a balance on the surface, but there was no big battle.

However, before the New Year, the melee of the powerful people in Longxi finally decided the victory. After Li Gui in Wuwei raised his army, he proclaimed himself the King of Daliang, Hexi, and captured cities and land everywhere. Xue Ju, who was raised in Jincheng, also called him the King of King of Xiqin. Xue Ju defeated the largest group of forces around him, and had a military title of 300,000 troops and attacked Li Gui. As a result, Li Gui sent troops to block Yu Changsong, wiped out Xue Ju's troops, and took advantage of the victory to pursue him. He successively conquered Zhangye, Dunhuang, Xiping, and Kuanghan and other places. All the five counties in Hexi were returned to the Daliang regime. Li Gui took advantage of the situation to become emperor, named Emperor of Daliang, and appointed his son Boyu as the crown prince.

Xue Ju, who was defeated by Li Gui, had to move the capital to Qinzhou, imitate Li Gui, and also promoted to the emperor, claiming to be Emperor Qin. Xue Ju, who was attacked by Li Gui in the west, turned around to attack eastward in order to avoid Li Gui's edge. He soon reached the Fufeng area, only 310 miles away from Chang'an City, and a fast horse could arrive in one day. Xue Ju conquered various nearby forces, and the troops reached 300,000 again.

Yu Wenji, which occupied Chang'an in Guanzhong, directly faced Xue Ju's army of 300,000. However, Yu Wenji and his main force were still led by his adopted son Yu Wen Chengdu. In the area of ​​Boban City in Hedong, they confronted Yang Ming's army. The two sides fought for half a year and had a victory or defeat. Yang Ming could not defeat Puyang, and Yu Wen Chengdu could not defeat Yang Ming and captured the counties in the east and south of the Hebei region.

In Chang'an's empty Yu Wen and fear, he became crazy. On the ninth day of the third month, he directly abolished the puppet emperor Yang You, changed the country's name to Xu, and established himself as the emperor of Xu, and granted the eldest son Yuwen Chengji as the crown prince, the second son Yuwen Chengzhi as the king of Qin, and adopted son Yuwen Chengdu as the king of Jin, and he also made a large number of children of the Yuwen family and the Guanlong nobles. In one day, he was named 38 kings.

However, at the critical moment when Xue Ju was about to attack Chang'an, because he was dissatisfied with the practice of Xue Ju's father and son surrendering first, then killing the leaders of various forces, forcibly combining their troops, Tang Bi's remnants surrendered to Liu Shirang, the marching chief guard who was guarding Fufeng, and thus pieced together an army of 20,000 people to fight against Xue Ju's son Xue Rengao. After Li Gui of Hexi swept Hexi, he also sent someone to Chang'an to demand a joint attack with Yu Wen and Xue Ju.

Li Gui followed the strategy of his ministers to fight far and near, and in the seal, he called Yu Wen and his companion, indicating that Liang and the brothers of the two countries were the same. Yu Wen, who was already desperate, was very happy to get this help. He immediately sent his people to marry Li Gui's daughter as the concubine of the crown prince Yu Wen Chengqi, and the two countries resisted Xue Ju. In a hurry, he pieced together a unit of 100,000 people in Chang'an, from Yu Wen and his younger brother Yu Wen Zhi and he was promoted to deputy commander, and led his troops to fight Xue Ju.

After reading this military situation, Chen Kefu's mood was also very complicated.

The successive proclaims of Li Gui, Xue Ju, Yu Wenhua and the three of them have shown that the Sui Dynasty has truly perished. The battle for hegemony in the chaotic times at the end of the Sui Dynasty has entered a new era. Various anti-kings have even no need for the puppet emperors they used to hold the storefront, and they all jumped to the front desk.

There is no one in the world who gives up, only fight. Everyone understands this truth. Chen Kefu is expanding his territory, while other forces are also desperately expanding the map. Chen Kefu unified Liaodong and occupied Hebei, and has already fought a King of Hebei.

At present, Li Gui, Xue Ju, Yu Culture and the three families are competing for hegemony in Hexi and Guanzhong, with a total number of soldiers and horses as many as one million. With such a powerful force, Xue Ju will definitely become the first one to fall, and then there will be a showdown between Li Gui, Yu Culture and this pair of sworn brothers who may not even meet. No matter who wins the victory in the end, Hexi and Guanzhong will be united, and the winner will also become the real king of the Northwest.

In Guanzhong and Hexi, the situation in Hexi has developed rapidly, even exceeding Chen Kefu's expectations. This made him worried. No matter who became the king of the Northwest, their next target would inevitably be Hedong.

The news of coming from Hedong was that Li Mi sent an envoy to Taiyuan and Shangdang City as he requested, and brought Li Yuan and his orders. The Li family defenders who received the orders of Li Yuan have now secretly contacted Wang Rengong from Hedong. However, on the surface, they were fighting with Liu Wuzhou, Liang Shidu, Guo Zihe and other powerful forces who were sieging the city. They suffered heavy casualties every day. The Li family was eager to see Chen Kefu be able to enter Hedong as soon as possible and collect Taiyuan and Shangdang City.

After reading this information, Chen Kefu finally smiled happily. He didn't waste so much effort to rescue Li Yuan and his son from the deep mountains and forests. Now it is finally the season for harvest. Although Li Yuan ran out, he could not have imagined that the envoys he sent had already completed the mission outstandingly. Now the remnants of the Li family in Hedong are fighting with Liu Wuzhou and others desperately. The forces of the Li family and local forces such as Liu Wuzhou are consumed rapidly every day. On Chen Kefu's side, Wang Rengong had already received orders and was just a spectator. And secretly, since last year, Hebei has been sending small troops to infiltrate all over Hedong. When the time comes, all the forces who are now dancing happily will know who is the real winner and who is the master of Hedong.

In the game of fighting for the world, Hedong has always wanted to take it early, but although he is strong, he is always driven by this changing situation. Now he is very satisfied with the ability to use these ambitious local tyrants to disrupt the game of Hedong.

The third military information came from Luokou, which was only dozens of miles west. It was written by Zhang Zhongjian, who was in charge of Luokou, which shows the importance of intelligence.

As expected, Zhang Zhongjian's letter was very direct, without the silence of greetings. The first sentence at the beginning surprised Chen Kefu inexplicably.

"Li Yuan died in Li Mi's military camp on the third day of the April 2018!"

There was no sign of Li Yuan's death. When he was discussing with Li Mi and others, he suddenly fell to the ground and died. He died very quickly, and there was no sign of warning. Even after his death, Li Mi called all the doctors and did not find out how Li Yuan died. There was no sign of poisoning, no serious serious attacks on heart and lungs, and he died suddenly.
Chapter completed!