On the afternoon of 29 October, Chen Miao led 170,000 rebels to Xiaohuang County and joined up with the 10,000 rebels led by Xiang Xuan.

At this time, under the interference of Xiang Xuan, the 60,000 Jin army led by Xue Ao, Zhao Yu, and Li Meng had not yet built a camp in the area of Xiaohuang County.

Both sides are at the same starting line, that is, there is no camp for each other.

In this case, after careful consideration, Chen Miao discussed with Cheng Zhou, the commander of Yuzhang's righteous division, and Wu Yi, the general of Jiangdong Yishi: "For today's plan, the only way to do this is to send the elite of our three armies to put pressure on Xue Ao's 60,000 Jin army, and the rest of the soldiers will immediately repair the camp, as long as we wait to build the camp before the Jin army, Xue Ao has to retreat even if he doesn't want to retreat!" ”

Cheng Zhou and Wu Yi nodded in agreement, and handed over the elite under their command to Chen Miao, who immediately formed 100,000 elites led by Xiang Xuan, Zhou Gong and others, and personally led this army to persecute the Jin army.

At this time, the 60,000 Jin troops led by Xue Ao, Zhao Yu, and Li Meng were stationed in the northwest corner of Xiaohuang County.

When they learned that the rebels had 100,000 troops to press the border, Xue Ao, Zhao Yu, and Li Meng were all surprised.

"Has Xianping fallen?" Li Meng said in surprise.

In this regard, Zhao Yu said calmly: "Yesterday, my 60,000 troops confronted nearly 100,000 rebels for nearly a day, and finally forced to retreat......

Hearing this, Xue Ao fell into silence for a long time, and then said in a deep voice: "Since we want to completely annihilate this rebel army, this is the price we must pay...... The rebels didn't have long to be proud, and when they led their army directly to the city of Liangcheng with a proud face, it was their time of death. ”

Zhao Yu didn't say anything more interestingly, after all, 'showing the enemy to be weak and luring the enemy deeper' was his suggestion to Xue Ao.

In other words, Xianping County lost its resistance and fell quickly, which has a certain degree of relationship with him.

And Li Meng saw that Zhao Yu didn't speak, and he didn't say anything.

Led by Xue Ao, Zhao Yu and Li Meng immediately gathered their troops and set up a formation in the northwest corner of Xiaohuang County to deal with the elite of the 100,000 rebels led by Chen Miaoqin.

At this time, yesterday's confrontation in Xianping County was staged again, but the difference was that this time the rebels completely took the lead.

Because according to the Taiyuan cavalry sent out by Xue Ao, when Chen Miao led 100,000 rebels to confront his 60,000 Jin army, there were still 80,000 rebels on the opposite side who were in full swing to repair the camp.

Rao is Chen Miao, who was also a little surprised after learning the news, and secretly praised Chen Miao's wit.

He chuckled and said to Xue Ao: "It seems that yesterday's confrontation made that Chen Miao taste the sweetness, so much so that he decided to repeat his old trick today and force our army to retreat to Liangcheng......"

Xue Ao nodded, and said with a subtle expression: "I thought he would divide his troops to attack Kaifeng, but I didn't expect to go straight to Xiaohuang County...... This Chen Miao is a person who understands the situation and knows how to advance and retreat. ”

"What then?" Li Meng interjected on the side.

"What else can I do?" Xue Ao laughed and said, "Lao Tzu has lost face once, and he is not afraid of losing it a second time." ”

The implication is that he is ready to be forced back by the rebels again.

Under the restraint and restraint of Xue Ao, Zhao Yu, and Li Meng, Chen Miao's pressure tactics were successful again.

The next day, when 80,000 rebel soldiers built a camp fence on the south side of the small county, Xue Ao gave the order to retreat in a timely manner.

The 60,000 Jin army seemed to retreat to Liangcheng in a gloomy manner.

Upon learning of this, the generals above and below the righteous division were greatly shocked: The Jin army is withdrawing?

In the face of the consternation of the generals, the general Zhou Gong said lightly: "Our 80,000 soldiers have built a camp fence in one day, and the camp is just around the corner...... In this case, why didn't the Jin army retreat? ”

The generals were stunned.

If you think about it carefully, his 180,000 righteous divisions can gradually build a camp in only three days, but the 60,000 Jin army can't build a camp in three days, and there is no camp that can shelter from the wind and snow, which will be directly related to the victory or defeat of the confrontation between the two sides, and if they retreat after three days, if they have a little brain, the Jin army should know to stop immediately and withdraw to Liangcheng.

Of course, having said that, Chen Miao was still a little incredulous, and immediately ordered left and right: "Send scouts to investigate again immediately, I want to know the whereabouts of that Jin army clearly!" ”

However, the scouts sent again came back to tell Chen Miao that the 60,000 Jin troops had indeed retreated to Daliang.

After repeatedly confirming this matter, Chen Miao breathed a sigh of relief.

On October 30, the weather finally caused the first snow of the year to fall in the sky.

The heavy snow fell for a day, changing the color of the entire land, and at the same time, blocking the road between Xiaohuang County and Liangcheng.

On the first day of November, on the third day after the 60,000 Jin troops retreated to Daliang, Chen Miao sent envoys to Xiaohuang County to persuade him to surrender.

Xiaohuang County is just a small county, similar to Kunyang in the past, where can it stop the rebels who are actually 180,000 and claimed to be 300,000?

What's more, the 60,000 Jin troops who had retreated to Xiaohuang County had also withdrawn to Daliang at this moment, giving up Xiaohuang County in disguise.

Under the coercion and temptation of the rebels, Xiaohuang County chose to open the city gate and surrender in desperation, except for a few resistances, the rebels took the city almost bloodlessly.

At this time, the rebels were only forty miles away from Liangcheng.

The next day, the second day of November, Chen Miao held another meeting in the military camp outside Xiaohuang County.

In the meeting, Chen Miao and others first discussed Xue Ao's rescue behavior.

I have to say that Xue Ao's support behavior this time, in the general opinion of the generals of the righteous division, the effect was very bad, which directly caused Xianping County and Xiaohuang County, which could have been held for a few days, to fall into despair because of the withdrawal of the 60,000 Jin troops, and then surrendered to his righteous division.

To put it mildly, it is worse than not leading the army to help.

But why did Xue Ao make such an unwise decision?

The righteous teacher could not come to a conclusion, and in the end it could only be attributed to Xue Ao's greed and recklessness.

"One of the five tigers of the dignified Chen Sect, then Xue Ao is actually a reckless man who doesn't know the form and doesn't know how to advance or retreat?"

Yuzhang Yishi Qu Shuai Cheng Zhou laughed out loud in surprise, and was extremely optimistic about his righteous teacher's attack on Liangcheng next.

In this regard, Chen Miao, Zhao Yin, Xiang Xuan, Zhou Gong and others all have certain doubts.

After all, it stands to reason that Chen Zhong, the Taishi of the Jin Kingdom who has won all battles, can't teach a reckless man even if he thinks about it.

Chen Miao could only think that Xue Ao should be too light on the enemy and underestimated him too much.

Where did he think that Xue Ao was not only not a reckless man, but even Zhao Yu was shocked by his appetite, trying to annihilate Chen Miao and others, a rebel army of 300,000 in one go, so he deliberately exposed his flaws to pride the heart of the rebel soldiers.

Facts have proved that although Zhao Yu's original plan to lure the enemy to Xue Ao was his own intention, it is undeniable that Xue Ao's two retreats in Xianping and Xiaohuang greatly boosted the morale of the righteous teachers, so that when Chen Miao proposed the strategy of 'sticking to Xiaohuang first and waiting for the next year', Cheng Zhou, the commander of Yuzhang's righteous teacher, proposed the strategy of 'taking advantage of the situation and attacking Liangcheng'.

Cheng Zhou pointed out in this meeting: "This time, Xue Ao made an extremely serious negligence and misestimated the belief and strength of my righteous teacher, which eventually led him to blindly send troops, and finally had to withdraw to Liangcheng, in vain. …… Although the Jin army did not suffer a loss in strength this time, but in Xianping, Xiaohuang successively defeated, will undoubtedly greatly damage the morale of the Jin army under his command, if at this time our righteous division waved the army to approach Liangcheng, you can take advantage of the decline in the morale of the Jin army, build a camp, and further exert pressure on Liangcheng; However, if we wait for the next year to act, from that month to February of the following year, the Jin army will have nearly three months to recover its morale, and in the meantime, our righteous division will need to pay a heavy price to build a camp in Liangcheng. ”

However, Cheng Zhou's words were opposed by Chen Miao, who shook his head and said, "This matter is too risky. …… It is an extremely difficult thing to build a camp on a snowy day, not to mention that there are 100,000 Jin troops in Liangcheng, if you blindly march into the army, I am afraid that our army will follow in the footsteps of Xue Ao in Xianping, and finally have to withdraw to Xiaohuang in embarrassment. …… Furthermore, what should I do if I open it? In order to prevent the Jin army from going around and cutting off the back road of our righteous division, we must take Kaifeng first, and then we can take an offensive against Daliang......"

"It can be both." Cheng Zhou insisted: "Xianping, Xiaohuang, including the Wei clan in the south, these counties have all been captured by my righteous division, Kaifeng is just a lonely city, just send an army, or persuade to surrender or attack, why delay the strategy of my nearly 200,000 troops for this?" …… Xue Ao was brave and unplanned, and rushed to the aid of Xianping in vain to damage the morale of the Jin army, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to enter Liangcheng, how can he miss it in vain? ”

Chen Miao had no choice but to let the generals vote, however, the generals who supported Cheng Zhou accounted for the majority, including Wu Yi, the general of Jiangdong Yishi, and even Xiang Xuan, Zhou Gong and others on his side - although Xiang Xuan, Zhou Gong and others did not openly support Cheng Zhou and oppose Chen Miao, but it can be seen from their looks that these generals also supported the trend to force Liangcheng and put pressure on Liangcheng.

Just like Cheng Zhou said, attacking Liangcheng can be attacked again in the next year, but taking advantage of Xue Ao's faint move this time, he first pressed the border to build a camp in Liangcheng to put pressure on Liangcheng, this is no problem, right?

Seeing that most of the generals supported Cheng Zhou, Chen Miao had no choice but to adopt Cheng Zhou's strategy in the end, although he instinctively felt that this matter was not appropriate.

On the fifth day of the first month of November, Chen Miao sent Zhou Gong and Zhu Yu to lead 10,000 troops each to attack Kaifeng, while he led the remaining 160,000 or so rebels to take advantage of the heavy snow to stop, stepping on the thick snow, forcing into Liangcheng, and camping in the east direction on the south side of Liangcheng, about 20 miles away from the city.

The movements of the rebels soon spread to Liangcheng and to the ears of Xue Ao, Zhao Yu, Li Meng and others.

Xue Ao laughed and said: "Lao Tzu's face is not lost in vain, this damn rebel army has finally taken the bait......"

Looking at Xue Ao's excited appearance, Zhao Yu couldn't help but become more and more worried, after all, as one of the parties who conspired with Xue Ao, he knew very well that the rebels had fallen into the trap set by Xue Ao.

In the following winter, the rebels will face one bad news after another: the grain route has been cut off, Kaifeng, Xiaohuang, and Xianping have gained and lost, and 300,000 righteous divisions are trapped in the hinterland of Liang County, unable to attack or retreat.

However, these are not the biggest troubles that the rebels will face.