As Guo Song inferred, the news of Tian Yue's killing also reached Luoyang on the second day of the first lunar month, and this news was not surprising to Zhu Jun at all, he had previously ordered the generals who were lurking in Xiangzhou to lead his subordinates to infiltrate Yuancheng disguised as a people's husband, and then appeared in the name of Li Bao, just to take the blame for Tian Xu.

It's just that Zhu Jun didn't expect that Tian Xu would really succeed, this news made him overjoyed, and he immediately ordered the military advisor Liu Sigu to come to see him.

Not long after, Liu Sigu rushed to the Qilin Palace, which was Zhu Zhu's inner study, and he would usually meet the minister here during rest time or holidays.

Generally, there is no official position of military advisor in the imperial court, so Liu Sigu was named the crown prince Shaobao, Jixian Hall scholar, and other staff and military advisors were also awarded bachelors.

"Your Majesty is in a hurry to summon Weichen, but for Tian Yue's death?" Liu Sigu was in charge of intelligence, and he knew the news of Tian Xu's seizure of the throne one step ahead of Zhu Jun.

"That's right, so I want to discuss with the military advisor, how should we deal with it?"

In fact, how to deal with it, they have long had a secret agreement with Tian Xu, he supports Tian Xu to succeed the King of Wei and Wei Bojiedu, and in return Tian Xu will give up Huaizhou to Zhu Jun.

To this end, they agreed on a detailed response plan, and now that Tian Yue is dead, then just follow the response plan, why do you have to ask yourself how to deal with it?

Liu Sigu immediately realized that Zhu Jun was probably thinking about it.

"What about Your Majesty's intentions?" Liu Sigu asked.

Zhu Jun groaned and said: "The south of Hebei is a rich land! With a large population and fertile land, how can such a good place be controlled by an immoral and incompetent person like Tian Xu? I thought that Guo Song also thought the same, now that the winter is freezing, it is conducive to us crossing the river, and our 200,000 troops might as well go north directly and sweep away the Wei State, do the military advisors think it is feasible? ”

Sure enough, he guessed correctly, Liu Sigu sighed in his heart, Guo Song had already regarded Wei as a thing in his palm, how could he let them get involved?

But if things are not done, they will retreat, and Zhu Jun will never accept it.

Liu Sigu knew that Zhu Jun had actually made a decision, and he just wanted to support him.

He thought for a while and said, "Your Majesty might as well send an envoy to see Tian Xu and ask him to fulfill his agreement and let Huaizhou out, if the humble post is correct, he will definitely not agree." ”

"Why?" Zhu Jun interrupted him puzzled and asked.

"If he dares to agree, then he will not be able to clear the crime of killing Tian Yue, doesn't it prove that he colluded with us to kill Tian Yue? He was determined that he would not agree. ”

"And then?"

"Your Majesty, as long as we publicly announce that Tian Yue's death has nothing to do with us, it is Tian Xu's dead soldier who killed his brother and seized the throne, then the Wei army will inevitably split, and our army will be like a bamboo in the north, and attack Yuancheng in one fell swoop, then at least we will occupy Weizhou, plus Bozhou, Weizhou and Huaizhou, we will take at least four states."

"What about Xiangzhou? We have been operating in Xiangzhou for so many years, is it all in vain? Zhu Jun said with some dissatisfaction.

"Xiangzhou is really not sure, look at luck! If you're lucky, you might be able to capture Sangju. ”

Zhu Jun nodded, "Okay! According to the words of the military advisor, we salute first and then soldiers! ”

.........

Tian Xu revealed his true form soon after coming to power, he first sent Tian Yue's wife and three sons to the governor of Dizhou, but secretly sent someone to kill them on the way to prevent future troubles.

At the same time, he purged Tian Yue's henchmen in the army, more than 20 generals were dismissed or secretly executed, Tian Xu quickly took control of the military power, and he immediately set up a Wei Feng battalion of 5,000 people based on his own 500 dead soldiers, specially monitoring the officials and people of Wei, and once there were people who criticized him, he would immediately arrest them.

Under the high-pressure rule, Tian Xu ascended the throne as the king of Wei on the tenth day of the first lunar month, and moved into the palace of the king of Wei openly.

At this time, the envoy sent by Zhu Jun, Han Song, the young secretary of Honglu Temple, arrived in Yuancheng.

Tian Xu was still a little nervous about the arrival of Zhu Jun's envoy, he knew very well why the other party came, after all, he had a written agreement with Zhu Zhu, promising that after Zhu Zhu helped him seize the throne, he would cede Huaizhou to Zhu Zhu.

On the one hand, Tian Xu was afraid that his collusion with Zhu Zhu would be exposed, and the rumors in the market that he killed Tian Yue would be confirmed, which would greatly affect his reputation, on the other hand, Tian Xu did not plan to assign Huaizhou to Zhu Zhu, he thought that Zhu Zhu did not contribute much to his seizure of the throne, although there was a Li Bao to take the blame, but he immediately found dozens of people to pretend to be Li Bao can also fool the past.

Zhu Jun didn't contribute at all, but he wanted to get a piece of the pie, how could Tian Xu agree?

Tian Xu did not meet Han Song, but asked the military advisor Xu Shi to meet him.

Before noon, Xu Shi came back, and Tian Xu hurriedly greeted him, "Military advisor, what did the other party say?" ”

Xu Shi shook his head, "Your Highness, the other party's attitude is very tough, asking us to hand over Huaizhou to them within three days, otherwise it will ......"

"Otherwise what?" Tian Xu's face was extremely ugly, and he had already guessed what Xu Shi was going to say.

"His Highness should know what he means, which is to make public the agreement we signed with Zhu Jun."

Tian Xu snorted heavily, he was really unwilling in his heart, but the other party pinched his handle, he took a few steps back and forth with his hand, and said to Xu Shize: "Three days is too short, you tell Han Song, at least three months later, give Huaizhou to them, and they are not allowed to station troops on the south bank of the Yellow River, once I find out that they have an attempt to attack north, then all agreements will be null and void." ”

Tian Xu's wishful thinking is that he can fulfill the agreement, but at least he has to wait for him to sit on the throne, and in addition, after three months, the Yellow River should also be thawed, and it is not so convenient for Zhu Zhu's army to go north.

Xu Shi knew that Tian Xu wanted to break the contract, but Zhu Zhu was so easy to fool, and he didn't know that war would break out, but Tian Xu hoped to use war to consolidate his military power.

Xu Shi was helpless and had to go in a hurry.

.........

Xiangzhou Fuyang River, which is the boundary river between Xiangzhou and Zhaozhou, and also the dividing line between Wei and Jin, this morning, the cavalry of 3,000 people arrived at the Fuyang River Bridge,

This army was the 3,000 scout army led by Zhang Yun, who entered Xiangzhou under the pretext of suppressing bandits on the orders of the king of Jin.

Zhang Yun looked at the sentry post on the Fuyang River of Wei from afar, and could faintly see the military camp in the distance, he turned around and asked General Zhou Feidao: "How many garrisons are there on the other side?" ”

Zhou Fei has officially joined the Jin army and was named a general by Guo Song, and this time he went to Xiangzhou as Zhang Yun's deputy general.

Zhou Fei nodded and said: "First of all, there must be a garrison on the other side, otherwise a large number of people in Xiangzhou will come to Zhaozhou to buy salt and rice, but there will not be too many garrisons, only about two or three thousand." ”

"How do you know?" Zhang Yun asked with a smile.

"Because it is not us that Xiangzhou wants to defend, but Li Bao of Chiyan Village, the distribution of troops in all Xiangzhou is characterized by the fact that there are garrisons in each county, but there are not many garrisons, about a thousand people, so I infer that the troops on the border line will not be too much."

Zhang Yun smiled slightly: "Then let's see if your inference is correct?" ”

He immediately ordered: "Go to the north outpost and bring two soldiers over!" ”

Several cavalry galloped away, and to the north of the bridge was the patrol post of the Jin army, which also had a thousand soldiers on the north bank, and in a short time, two Jin army sentries were led over.

The two knelt down on one knee and saluted: "See General Zhang!"

"Let me ask you, how many guards are there on the south bank?" Zhang Yun asked.

"General Qiyu, originally there were 3,000 people, but a few days ago he said that he was going to organize an army to suppress bandits, and 2,000 people were transferred, and there are still about 1,000 people, all of whom are old and weak troops."

Zhang Yun secretly gave Zhou Fei a thumbs up, and his inference was very accurate, and he asked again: "What does it mean to dispatch and suppress bandits?" ”

"We don't know the specifics, but if you want to ask our leader, he is in the barracks."

"Where is the barracks?"

The sentry pointed to the west, "The general will be able to see it twenty miles west along the path." ”

"Thank you!"

Zhang Yun turned his horse's head and shouted, "Follow me!" ”

He led 3,000 cavalry to the west.

Running only half an hour, there is a military camp in front, the military camp is not big, covers an area of about 200 acres, surrounded by the camp fence, inside is 300 sheepskin tents, this kind of sheepskin tent is the treasure of the grassland people, warm in winter and cool in summer, very comfortable, the whole camp has a garrison of 1,000 people.

The three thousand cavalry rushed to the front of the camp in an instant, and the sentry had already seen it and ran to report it, and in a short time, the main general ran out.

He clasped his fists and saluted: "Li Wenliang, the general in Xialang, who is here?" ”

A soldier shouted: "The leader of my family is the chief general of the scout army, hussar general Zhang Yun!" ”

Li Wenliang was taken aback, and hurriedly knelt down on one knee, "I don't know what to do, please forgive the general for the crime of neglect!" ”

At present, among the 300,000 troops of the Jin Kingdom, the highest military position is the general of Tiance appointed by the King of Jin, followed by the general, and there are only three generals, Yao Jin, the general of the Xiaocai Guard, Li Bing, the general of the Flying Cavalry Guard, and Ma Weijiang, the general of Anxi Wei.

Below the general is the general, and the general is divided into three ranks, namely General Wei, General Che Cavalry and General Hussar, at present there are only four Hussar Generals, Liang Wu, Zhang Yun, Luo Daxiao, and Kang Bao.

Therefore, when the Lang general Li Wenliang heard that it was the hussar general Zhang Yun, he was deeply in awe and saluted.

Zhang Yun smiled slightly: "No need to be polite, let's just rest a little, feed the war horses, and leave immediately." ”

"There is food and forage in the barracks, please go to the camp with your humble post to rest!"

Zhang Yun nodded and shouted, "Get off the horse and enter the camp!" ”

The horsemen dismounted one after another, leading the horses to the camp.