Datong is the first important town on the defense line of Jinzhou and Suzhou in the Northern Wei Dynasty, and it is far less close to the north than Shuoxue Pass from the map. There are a total of 16 counties under Datong, among which Changping Town is adjacent to the Northern Wei Dynasty, surrounded by Canglongling, there are also many herdsmen who come here to exchange goods during the slack time, most of them are born poor, but the family can still afford to raise some cattle and sheep, and in the wintering season, they bring the thick wool blankets woven into the grassland, the wolf skins and roe deer on the grassland, and go to Changping County in exchange for the food for wintering, and they come and go for many years.

The people of Changping County have become accustomed to dealing with the people of the Northern Wei Dynasty, because even though the border between the Eastern Qin and the Northern Wei Dynasty was restless, Changping County had not had a dispute for at least 30 years, because no one would have thought that those guests who were smiling and coming every winter would suddenly make a killing move.

The county order of Changping County is the first emperor of the Xiucai Tang Di, tried repeatedly, then asked someone to find an official position, he did things safely, did not seek merit but sought no fault, but really saw the smoke burning, this old man who was more than 100 and a half years old chose to resist the enemy at the first time!

But Xiancheng is a member of the Xiahou clan, and in this era when the clan is far greater than the law, he chose to stand on the same line as his family.

The moment he received Liu Feng's message, Xiahou Mao made a decisive decision, he ordered someone to pack up his luggage, gold and silver, and left Datong at night, giving up the clan land that he had been operating for decades, and even thought about offering the city to the Northern Wei Dynasty to win credit, but his wife Ning committed suicide that night.

This woman from an ordinary background can't even read words, and she doesn't understand the etiquette of loyalty and filial piety, but she knows that her husband's behavior has plunged the entire Jinju into turmoil, and she doesn't know how many people have died because of it, and the guilt in her heart makes it difficult for her to face her husband again, let alone live in the world.

Xiahou Mao is not a soft-hearted person, but she committed suicide as a wife who has accompanied him through ups and downs for 20 years, and even mentioned that she did nothing but be the same as all women at this time, husband and child, but it was this woman he decided to join hands with the old woman to leave him because of his ambition, and since then he has been involved in business forever and has never seen each other again.

Xiahou Mao couldn't tell what kind of feelings he felt in his heart, but he finally gave up and directly informed the Northern Wei Dynasty of the Datong defense, and just hurriedly took people away.

After the Northern Wei Dynasty occupied Changping County, they did not choose to slaughter, they expelled the people in the county and ordered the army to move to Suzhou with the other party's family, and took over Changping County is part of the garrison in the hands of the prince Tuoba Ao, the number is about 3,000 people, they are active on the border of Suzhou all year round, but have to admit that Changping Town, which is surrounded by mountains, has a more suitable climate, at least the winter of Changping Town is extraordinarily warm, they have been stationed in Changping Town for almost a month, but here is a warm winter sun all day long, not to mention snowflakes, even rain is extremely rare。

These gentlemen, who were accustomed to the cold of winter, involuntarily stopped, this was almost the most leisurely and peaceful day they had spent in so many years.

When Ji Rin arrived in Changping County with his cavalry, it was the dawn of dawn, the morning sun rose from the east, and the bluestone city wall was bathed in sunlight, revealing a bit of peace.

"Siege!" Ji Rin raised his whip and pointed.

Although Changping County is in the border fortress, but the city is not tall, but more than a zhang, with Ji Rin's order, all the soldiers dismounted, walked forward quickly, and set up a human ladder on the city tower, while another group of soldiers stood not far away and aimed at the city tower for cover.

The Northern Wei Dynasty was on par with the Eastern Qin, but they lived on the pasture all the year round, they were indeed not very good at defending the city, and the Northern Wei Dynasty trusted their own soldiers very much, they did not think that anyone could break through the prince's defense line and turn around to deal with Changping County, you must know that even the Datong guards were unable to them, so they could only defend the city behind closed doors and did not dare to take the initiative to attack. It was the generals who led the army who happened to go out with their men and horses to sweep the surrounding villages in the past few days, and it happened that they were not in Changping Town, and only more than 500 people were left to defend the city.

Ji Rin's timing was too coincidental, and these young people who were still asleep could not arouse their armor, so they lost their lives in their sleep.

After capturing Changping Town, Ji Rin did not let everyone rest, but ordered people to hide all the flags, and the soldiers were divided into five classes according to the heads of each sect, guarding the city shops, resting in turns, if there were Northern Wei soldiers and horses coming, they were all put into the city, and then closed the city gate, and shot arrows.

Sure enough, they waited for about an hour, and then they watched a large group of people come from a distance, and when they got closer, they saw that the flags were not neat, the clothes and armor were incomplete, and all of them were wounded.

But it turned out that Zhang Lang waited for Ji Rin's orders, and he was like beating chicken blood, and took the soldiers and horses to kill, and the Northern Wei cavalry originally taught Ji Shan's strategy in the past few days to quarrel unsteadily, and finally the two sides fought for a night, and they had a day to spare, but they didn't expect that the soldiers and horses of the Eastern Qin Dynasty didn't even need to rest, and they hurriedly saw the battle, and many soldiers didn't even wear all the armor.

But the Northern Wei sergeant was brave in the end, reaching out and holding the saber and slashing towards the horse's front legs, the forbidden army had those little inexperience, so they were cut off the horse's legs and rushed down from the horse's back and fell to the ground, and had to fall into hand-to-hand combat with the other party.

Zhang Lang initially remembered Ji Rin's orders, but when he was red-eyed, he was also slashed on his body, where do he remember a lot, only at the gate of the Northern Wei military camp, he fought with the other party.

Wang Xiang had already led the soldiers and horses to meet the other party along the mark left by his brother, and their group first lay in ambush quietly in the dark, and seeing the battle in front of them, Wang Xiu immediately took the opportunity to lead people out of the bushes, and the group went straight to the warehouse where the grain was stored.

In winter, the weather was dry, and the grain and grass of the Northern Wei Dynasty were mostly piled up grains, and at this time the north wind rose, and the god of fire took advantage of the wind to become more and more wanton.

Tuoba Ao was resting in the tent.

As soon as he was born, he was made the crown prince, and Emperor Lie was also attentive to him, and Queen Dugu, the eldest daughter of the Dugu clan who was born in the Northern Wei Dynasty, was not a mediocre person. Tuoba is proud of his natural intelligence, and when he becomes an adult, he is also rich and majestic, and his martial arts are beyond ordinary people, and a number of extraordinary brothers are all overshadowed by him, although he is not as close as he was when he was a child in recent years, but he obviously gave birth to a seven-trick exquisite heart, and the emperor relied more and more on him to adjudicate major affairs in the court.

But people have a weakness after all, since the death of Queen Dugu, Tuoba Ao will be the only brother of the same mother as particularly important, this time the Northern Wei Dynasty sent troops, he could have sat in the center, but when it comes to the cooperation between the Tuoba clan and the Yuwen family, the two sides naturally want to conclude a marriage, and the Eastern Qin family is quite important to the division of the concubine, Emperor Lie's meaning is to marry the four ladies of the Yuwen family by Tuoba Jing, which can be regarded as the sincerity of both parties.

Emperor Lie had a very close relationship with Queen Dugu in his early years, and Queen Dugu gave birth to Tuoba Jing soon after she died of weakness after childbirth.

Emperor Lie was already in his early forties when he had Tuoba Jing, and he spoiled this young son who had no mother since he was born.

And he is ordinary in civil and military affairs, he is born to recognize beauty and ugliness, and the people who serve around him must be outstanding in appearance, and over time he has a reputation for being greedy and lustful, and he especially likes to write books, and even writes some stories of the wind and moon, and the ministers of the court and the central government are mostly for him.

But in Tuoba Ao's eyes, none of this younger brother is bad, but his temperament is a little simple, and there are no ordinary people in a woman from a family, so he is worried that this Yuwen Siniang is also a son with many hearts, and he can't rest assured if he doesn't personally deal with Lang Jun of the Yuwen family.

In the past few days, I have become more and more aware of the prestige of the Jinzhou army, and it is really the henchman of the Northern Wei Dynasty who entered the Central Plains.

After thinking about it for a while, he didn't even take off his armor, so he wrote a letter to his brother under the lamp, only worried that he had been deceived again in Shangjing.

When he heard the commotion outside, and someone was attacking the camp, he took down the red tassel gun hanging aside, and killed him out of the tent.

Before he reached the door of the tent, a general was covered in blood and cried: "Please also ask Your Highness to get on the horse quickly! The reinforcements of the Eastern Qin Dynasty have arrived, and now the drums are beating loudly on all sides, and I don't know how many people there are on the enemy!"

Seeing that Tuoba was not leaving, several generals rushed up to lift his hands and feet, and forced him onto the horse, and the group of thousands of people escorted him and fled to Changping Town.

When the general left the camp gate, he killed a group of soldiers head-on, and Lang Jun, who was the leader, shouted: "I am Zhu Yuan!

"What Zhu Yuan! I've never heard of it! I also ask the general to go first!" The partial general who reported the news first led a group of men and horses to catch up, and Tuoba Ao gritted his teeth when he saw this, and sure enough, he fled with the rest of the soldiers and horses first.

After traveling only a few dozen miles to the west, he could hear the noise of soldiers and horses behind him, and Tuoba Ao's heart jumped, is it difficult to escape today?

"Your Highness, it looks like a soldier in our army. The other general next to him looked back, leaned over to him and whispered.

"At this time, it is better to get rid of it, and it is not advisable to wait. "Tuoba Ao's heart turns back and forth," even if there are ambushes in front, but there are many chasing soldiers behind them, if they wait on the spot, and wait for the formation of a joint encirclement before and after, they are afraid that they will not escape a death, now if we are fast horses, if we are soldiers and horses behind us, we can naturally catch up; ”

He must have made up his mind, and everyone quickly mounted the horses and whipped around him and walked forward, so the soldiers fled in chaos for a while, and his eyes gradually opened up, and his heart was relieved, and he ordered everyone to slow down and wait for the remnants of the army behind him to follow.

At this time, the morning light was slight, the bright moon fell in the west, Tuoba Ao couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, at this time the army was sleepy, he ordered the garrison to rest for half an hour, and the Lang Jun, who had fought all night, had a dry mouth, but they still took the water from the sheepskin pocket first and gave it to Tuoba Ao to drink first.

Tuoba Ao counted the water he drank, and when he saw that there was not much water left, he only drank a little to moisten his lips and tongue, and the rest of his subordinates were divided. Everyone thanked him for his kindness, and when they saw that they had fallen to such a point, Tuoba Ao was still calm in his heart, and he was not angry and corrupted, and he couldn't help but admire.

Just when everyone was relaxing, a group of Biao troops swooped down from the hill, and Lang Jun at the head pulled his bow and arrows, and the arrows with fire broke through the air, and they were in the middle of the military flag!