In the previous several confrontations, Li Mi had been hanging Wang Shichong, but in the Battle of Yaoshan Mountain, Li Mi was defeated, and the defeat was very bad, which directly led to the collapse of the Wagang army, Li Mi defected to Li Yuan, and then was killed by design, and the soul of a generation of tyrants returned to the Western Heavens.
The reason why he lost to Wang Shichong was due to many reasons, one of the most important reasons was that before the Battle of Yaoshan Mountain, Li Migang and Yu Wenhua and Huo fought, both sides suffered great losses, and the Wagang army had not yet had time to rest, and Wang Shichong took the initiative to attack.
This battle between Li Mi and Yu Wenhua was the Battle of Tongshan, which can be said to be the most important battle that affected the pattern of division at the end of the Sui Dynasty. At the beginning, the Sui Emperor brought more than 100,000 Janissaries to Jiangdu, known as the Xiaoguo Army. Later, there were uprisings in various places, and the Xiaoguo army also rebelled, Yu Wenhua and led the Xiaoguo army to kill Yang Guang, the Xiaoguo army was a crack soldier from the Guanzhong region, after killing Yang Guang, they were ready to return to Luoyang, but the eastern return had to pass through Li Mi's territory. Whether it is Yu Wenhua and Li Mi, at this time, they are not willing to be tough, Yu Wenhua and the Xiaoguo army are short of food and grass, and they are afraid of the Wagang Army, while Li Mi is afraid that once they face Shangyu Culture and, Luoyang behind them will be inserted and suffer from the enemy.
At this time, when the eastern capital Luoyang heard the news of Yu Wenhua and Donggui's return, it was like facing a great enemy, and the top level of Luoyang held an emergency meeting, and Yuan Wendu and others suggested that emperor Yang Tong (after Yang Guang was killed, his grandson Yang Tong succeeded to the throne in Luoyang) to recruit Li Mi and use Li Mi to oppose Yu Wenhua. Luoyang and Li Mi hit it off, and Li Mi could finally deal with Yu Wenhua with confidence. Li Mi's original idea was to wait for Yu Culture and completely cut off grain to come to a pot end, so he and Yu Culture and correspondence, expressed peace, and promised to provide some grain, Yu Culture and believed that it was true, and then Xiao Guojun opened his stomach to eat, seeing that what Li Mi wanted was coming, someone revealed Li Mi's plan to Yu Culture and.
Yu Wenhua and anger burned, the two armies fought, the most powerful anti-Sui Wagang army and the original Sui elite troop Xiao Guo army confronted each other, fighting a fight between you and me, this battle was fought for a whole day, the blood flowed into a river, Li Mi was also shot down, and finally Qin Qiong rescued Li Mi, continued to fight against the Xiao Guo army, and finally defeated the Xiao Guo army, Yu Culture and withdrawal, this battle is actually not a win for both sides, the Old Book of Tang contains:
Li Mi broke down and returned, and his strong soldiers were killed in battle, and the soldiers were tired.
Although Li Mi had received some of the generals in the Xiaoguo Army, compared with the losses of the Wagang Army, it was negligible. However, a bigger blow awaited Li Mi, who was supposed to enter Luoyang as an official and then seek Luoyang, but the sky of Luoyang changed, Wang Shichong killed Yuan Wendu and others, took control of Luoyang, Li Mi could not enter Luoyang, and Wang Shichong wanted to break it in one fell swoop when the Wagang army was tired.
At first, Li Mi did not take much precautions against Wang Shichong, after all, Wang Shichong had always been Li Mi's men who had lost battles, but this time Wang Shichong was prepared, Wang Shichong constantly instilled in his subordinates that Li Mi would not let them go, and told his subordinates that he had a strange dream, in which Zhou Gong and he said something, so he sent people to build a shrine by the Luoshui River, find a wizard, the wizard told everyone that Zhou Shichong wanted Wang Shichong to attack Li Mi, and the battle would be victorious, if he did not attack, then there would be a plague here. Soldiers will all die from the plague. Most of Wang Shichong's subordinates were Chu people, and they ate this set very much, and when they heard it, they all said that they were fighting, and their morale was very high.
Then, would wang Shichong lead the morale-boosting soldiers to be able to defeat the exhausted Wagang army led by Li Mi? Not necessarily, as the saying goes, "a skinny camel is bigger than a horse", but there is another problem in the Wagang army that lays a hidden danger for Li Mi's failure, that is, the division within the Wagang army. In that year, after Li Mi followed Yang Xuangan's defeat against Sui, he defected to WagangZhai and relied on his own wisdom and courage to make the Wagang army quickly become stronger, and the leader of the Wagang army, Qu Rang, admired Li Mi very much, and once wanted Li Mi to be the leader of the Wagang army, but was stopped, so Li Mi killed Zhai Rang to seize power, which split the originally united Wagang army. During the Battle of Yaoshan, someone secretly colluded with Wang Shichong to betray Li Mi, and Shan Xiongxin, who was close to Zhai Rang, had always been dissatisfied with Li Mi.
At the Battle of Yaoshan, Li Mi was defeated by Wang Shichong, the Wagang army collapsed, Li Mi led 20,000 people to defect to Li Yuan, and Qin Shubao, Cheng Yaojin, Luo Shixin, and Shan Xiongxin became Wang Shichong's guests. Soon, Li Mi was killed against Tang, and Qin Shubao, Cheng Yaojin, and others left Wang Shichong and defected to Li Yuan. In the final analysis, the biggest beneficiary of the Battle of Tongshan and the Battle of Yaoshan was Li Yuan.