Chapter 190: Not inferior to men
"What did you say? Say it again?"

After learning that Sanlang had led his troops to Jieting, Yuwen She led his troops to retreat. Li Yuan hurriedly turned from Longxian to Longxi. Unexpectedly, as soon as the army arrived at Xiangwu, he heard his son-in-law Chai Rong, who came to greet him, tell him a surprising news.

"Father-in-law, Xiao Juan has surrendered the city, Erlang has taken Wuwei, and Liangzhou is in the hands of our army."

Li Yuan frowned, took the letter handed to him by his son-in-law, and read it carefully.

The content is roughly that after Li Er took over Wuwei, he asked Xiao Juan to come out and take charge of the situation as a junior, but in fact he just came out to be a puppet.

After all, Li Er himself was not qualified to be the governor of Liangzhou, so he brought Xiao Juan out to continue to act as a front.

Then he asked Xiao Juan to appoint him as the guard general and act as the governor of Liangzhou.

In this way, Li Er nominally had the authority to participate in and manage the military affairs of Liangzhou.

When the news reached Longxi, Chai Rong was really surprised. However, the letter had just arrived in Longxi Xiangwu, so before it could be sent out, Li Yuan led his troops to support.

This is equivalent to Zhuge Liang sending Ma Su to guard Jieting, hoping that he could hold out for a few more days and delay the enemy. But Ma Su went all the way to Guanzhong. What level is this?
God of War? God of War? That's outrageous.

Li Yuan knew that his second son was a good fighter, but he didn't expect him to be so good.

In addition to being a good fighter, he also had a very clever way of controlling Liangzhou. He did not directly replace Xiao Juan, but "held Xiao Gong hostage to control Liangzhou", which made the vassal states and the army of Liangzhou, as well as the court in Luoyang, speechless.

Li Er actually controlled tens of thousands of elite troops in Liang Province. Together with the nearly 100,000 troops under Li Yuan's command, such military strength was enough to compete for the world.

In addition, Hexi and Longyou are not only horse-producing areas, but also places where elite soldiers are born.

Yizhou is a land of abundance, with the benefits of salt and iron and rich products.

This means that we have everything in our hands now, and we can fight for the world by heading east.

This does not include Li Si, who is doing very well in Jianghuai.

Li Yuan was even thinking that if the fourth brother could make another effort and take down Jingzhou and Jiangdong, then we guys would control seven out of ten of the country.

I'm afraid this world will have to follow our Li family's surname.

However, Li Yuan only dared to think about this matter. After all, this matter was even more outrageous than Erlang taking over Liangzhou.

To survive between Jingzhou and Jiangdong, it was not bad to be able to hold on to the territory. After all, he knew that Lao Si was only capable of what he did, and he did not have Erlang's military strategy and courage.

But the advantage is that they are stable enough and should be able to hold on to their current territory.

Thinking of this, I really missed my sons. I haven't seen these three legitimate sons for at least a year.

However, what he missed most at the moment was Dalang. If Dalang was in charge of the rear in Shu, he would be able to rest assured.

He could then garrison in Longyou with peace of mind and be ready to send troops to Guanzhong at any time.

Now, having been away from Chengdu for several months, he has begun to worry about the safety of Yizhou behind him.

I was thinking about whether I should return to Hanzhong after taking care of Longyou, so that I could go back as soon as possible if anything happened in Chengdu.

As for Longyou, the son-in-law and Sanlang are there, and Erlang is in Liangzhou. Such an arrangement is enough to deal with most situations.

But for now, he still can't move. He has to see what Murong Abao's attitude is. The Yizhou army's trip is not in vain. It is necessary to station troops in Longyou. Li Si doesn't know that his father and his brothers have connected Shuzhong, Longyou and Hexi into one piece, and he doesn't know that his father's expectation for him is to take down the Eastern and Western Wei. However, he is still optimistic about the situation of the war in Longyou.

However, in mid-November, not long after the Western Wei army withdrew, news came from Shu that the barbarian king Chi Feiliao had colluded with the southern nobles Jumong and the Yue Junyi king Gao Qiang, and took advantage of the time when Yizhou Governor Li Yuan sent troops to Longyou to kill Jianning Prefect Xiang Yuantan and gather troops for rebellion.

The banner they raised was to respond to Cao Xuan, the Dragon and Phoenix Emperor of the Western Wei Dynasty.

In fact, these people were all ambitious people who also wanted to seek wealth and fame, but because of the lack of information, they did not know that Cao Xuan had already withdrawn his troops.

In fact, Li Yuanhui learned the news earlier than Li Yuan in Longyou, because it was much easier for the news to flow down the river than over the Qinling Mountains.

After Li Yuanhui learned about this, he immediately summoned Li Qinglian, who had lived in Shu since childhood, to come and discuss the matter.

The two studied the map for a long time, and finally came to the conclusion that there was no need to worry.

Although these rebels have gathered tens of thousands of people, they have no trust among each other, so they all have ulterior motives and cooperate for the sake of profit. Chengdu is a big city, Li Yuan will act cautiously and will definitely leave enough troops to defend it.

Even if these people really dared to send troops to Chengdu, it would be no problem for them to hold out until Li Yuan returned.

However, the changes in the situation in Shuzhong were still beyond everyone's expectations.

Although there are no adult males from the Li family left in Chengdu, who says that the women of the Li family are useless?

Madam Li, the only legitimate daughter of Li Yuan and Lady Dou and the wife of Chai Rong, immediately ordered the opening of the treasury upon hearing about the rebellion in southern Sichuan. She then appealed to the will of the people with emotion, reason and force, and recruited all the guards who had followed the officials and their families into Sichuan, forming a volunteer group of 3,000 men.

Then he immediately dispatched troops, and after ten days of continuous marching, he attacked Yue Junyi King Gao Qiang with lightning speed and captured him alive.

Gao Qiang did not expect that Chengdu would suddenly send troops, and he did not expect that the one who led the troops to march for ten days and hundreds of miles was a woman. He immediately prostrated himself and expressed his willingness to submit to the Li family.

After all, the women of the Li family are so brave, how can the men fight back? I have heard that Li Sanlang is the bravest among the three armies, and Mr. Li is a shrewd and calculating person.

The reason they dared to rebel was because these two were not here. Who would have thought that a woman would lead the troops, travel ten consecutive days on the mountain road, and brave the cold weather to send a divine army down to them?

What's there to be dissatisfied about?
Afterwards, Gao Qiang led two thousand troops as the front, and took Madam Li's three thousand volunteers as the vanguard, and they crossed mountains and rivers and directly killed their way to Jianning County.

The Meng family of Jianning County and the Li family of Nanzhong County were originally watching. When they saw the imperial army coming, they immediately sent troops to help. In less than five days, they broke through the city of Jianning County and captured the rebellious Zhu family leader Zhu Meng and the barbarian king Chi Feiliao.

Madam Li's subsequent handling of the matter made the southern nobles and the barbarians convinced.

Madam Li gathered the soldiers and civilians of Jianning, announced the crimes of the traitor Jumong, the barbarian king Chi Feiliao, and their cronies, and executed them according to the law by beheading them in public.

Then he pardoned the death penalty for the Zhu family and Chi Feiliao's son Chi Buhua. However, the death penalty could be pardoned, but the living crime could not be escaped. He ordered the two families to send 2,000 soldiers each to Hanzhong and take orders in front of the Grand Commander's Army.

Jumong's youngest son Ju Kang and Chi Buhua both knelt on the ground and kowtowed to thank the lady for not killing them.

King Gao Qiang of Yi and the two wealthy families of Li and Meng in the south were all impressed by Madam Li's decisiveness in killing and each sent their sons and troops to join her.

It took less than three months from setting out from Chengdu to quelling the rebellion.

From then on, Madam Li's reputation in southern China was second only to that of Zhuge Wuhou more than two hundred years ago.

(End of this chapter)