Turbulent Times Chapter 1536: Tang Wang Li Yuan

Cheng Yaojin killed the envoy of the Li family, and news of Xu Shiji's surrender to Wang Junlin spread to Chang'an.

This news certainly made Li Yuan and his son depressed and frustrated, but what troubled them most and had a headache right now was something else.

The army of horse thieves in Mayi County has been frequently dispatched recently to plunder the grain, grass, population and other resources of the Hedong and Chang'an border counties under the Li Yuan Group's rule, and sneak attack some army camps.

It is impossible for the Li Yuan Group to be indifferent, and immediately dispatched a large army to encircle and suppress the hateful horse thieves in Mayi County. It is futile, and there will be losses if you are not careful.

Li Yuan was furious and prepared to send more troops to encircle the horse thieves. Unexpectedly, Wu San, the leader of the warlord in Pingliang County, and Shangguan Hu, the leader of the warlord in Tianshui County, suddenly commanded 30,000 troops each to hunt on the border of Guanzhong.

Li Yuan was furious and sent people to negotiate. Wu San and Shangguan Hu drove out the envoys of the Li family with righteous words. Just kidding, we are hunting on our own territory, it's none of your business.

The Li family's army just spent more than half a year fighting Guanzhong, and the military and financial resources and money and food were extremely expensive. Although they would not regard Wu San, Shangguanhu, and Mayi County horse bandits as opponents of the same level, they did not dare to underestimate them. Wang Junlin of the Far Eastern Army was watching covetously, but Li Yuan didn't want to start a war with these three forces for a while.

Speaking of the Li Yuan Group's army attacking Guanzhong, most of the clansmen who secretly supported him were the nobles of Guanlong. All the counties and counties in Guanzhong were defeated, and the losses were not much.

But it will be different when they attack Chang'an City.

Under Wang Junlin's instructions two years ago, the Military Intelligence Office, Xiaoyu Theater, Martial Arts Guild, and Lanyiwei's forces worked together to make a unified plan. A lot of grenades and gunpowder packs were brought in, and it took Li's army more than three months to capture Chang'an City, which cost a total of 60,000 troops and cost countless money and food.

Fortunately, only the horse thieves in Mayi County looted and harassed everywhere, and the warlords in Tianshui County and Pingliang County only

It was military deterrence, and did not send troops directly, so that Guanzhong and Chang'an could be at peace, otherwise Li Yuan would be even more troubled.

However, there was one thing that made up for Li Yuan Group's losses in Guanzhong.

Under the vigorous operation of the intelligence organization controlled by Li Shimin, coupled with the efforts of various powerful families behind Li Yuan, these days, the army of the Sui Dynasty and the Forbidden Army of Xiaoguo who fled back from Luoyang and even Yangzhou, as well as the children of the nobles of Guanlong, have come one after another Arrive in Guanzhong.

Among them, there were more than 100 civil servants and generals who fled back, and more than 40,000 middle and lower-level officers and soldiers.

In addition, many aristocratic families moved from the Central Plains and Luoyang to Guanzhong, which gave great support to Li Yuan's financial resources, talents, money and grain.

Li Yuan was overjoyed, and gave important tasks to the civil and military officials from Luoyang and Yangzhou, conferring official positions one after another, and the ordinary soldiers were all recruited with generous military pay and land.

After the news came out, the families and nobles all over the world praised Li Yuan as a generous elder with the air of a son of heaven.

Under the positive atmosphere, the Guanlong nobles and powerful families fully supported Li Yuan. All the big families had money and strength to contribute. The Dugu family alone donated three million stones of food and one million silver to Li Yuan. Two, Li Yuan's treasury was abundant, and his soldiers and food were sufficient, and the escape of the 30,000 government troops and the Xiaoguo Forbidden Army enabled Li Yuan's military strength to be supplemented and strengthened.

In addition, Li Yuan recruited all the bandits, rebels, horse thieves and green forest heroes in Guanzhong, which not only made up for the original loss of troops, but also had as many as 250,000 troops in Guanzhong, among which the children of Guanlong It accounted for half of it, and with the tens of thousands of troops in Hedong, his army was close to 400,000, and his power was unprecedentedly strong.

According to the repeated requests and letters from the family members and civil and military officials under Li Yuan, Li Yuan pretended three times, declined three times, and was hypocritical three times. Two kings with different surnames.

Li Yuan formally changed his army to Tang King Army, referred to as Tang Army, and organized and intensively trained various troops under his command in Chang'an, which greatly improved the combat effectiveness of the troops and increased his family's control over the 400,000 troops.

Of course, this process has been accompanied by the process of sharing the cake with the various powerful families behind Li Yuan and the Li family

Cheng, some contradictions are inevitable, but under the attempted major event, all the powerful families are very restrained, and Li Yuan has always dealt with such matters with ease and experience, and generally reached a balance. There will be no major contradictions.

Aiming at the threat of warlords in Mayi County from horse thieves in Pingliang and Tianshui counties, Li Yuan ordered Liu Hongji to lead an army of 50,000 troops to build a city in Qianshuiyuan. Horse thief.

The second son Li Shimin was also appointed as the Marshal of the East Route Army, and Dou Kang was the Deputy Marshal. The two led an army of 80,000 to defend the Far East Army and Luo Yi from Youzhou might send troops to attack at any time.

He also appointed Li Shentong as the commander-in-chief of the West Route Army, Li Gui as the deputy general, and commanded 50,000 troops to defend against the two warlords Wu San of Jincheng County and Shangguanhu of Tianshui County.

There is also Li Xiaogong as the commander of the South Route Army, and as early as during the attack on Guanzhong, Li Xiaogong commanded 50,000 troops of the South Route Army, defeated the rebellious bandit Zhu Jie in Shangluo County, recovered Shangluo County, and invaded Hanzhong Bashu, and began to plan The land of Sichuan and Shu.

I have to say that Li Yuan's series of troop reorganization and readjustment of troop deployment is very sophisticated. Although it can't make the territory under his command impenetrable, at least he can initially defend against the enemy outside the territory.

Unfortunately, just as Li Yuan was deploying in all directions and playing triumphant songs, a piece of news that made him extremely panic came.

Mayi County officially declared to the people of the world that it had surrendered to King Qin An, and the 50,000 horse thieves also became the first battalion of the Far East Army, which was named Pegasus Camp by Wang Junlin.

If this is the case, although the Li Yuan Group is angry, it is not surprising, because they have long known that the horse thief in Mayi County is Wang Junlin's.

Unfortunately, news came that Wang Junlin had appeared in Mayi County, and Yuchi Jingde, a famous general of the Far East Army, commanded an army of 50,000 Tiger Battalions, and also appeared in Mayi County without anyone noticing.

Chang'an City, originally the imperial palace of the Sui Dynasty, in the Wude Hall, Li Yuan sat on the huge sand table made by the Far Eastern Army for almost three hours. The Far East Army formed an encirclement trend, and Li Yuan felt a little fear in his heart.

Although he is powerful at this time, he is already sitting in Guanzhong and planning the world, but what Wang Junlin has done these years is really too prominent and scary.