The distance from Nanyang County to Wuguan is about 150 miles, and if you march in a hurry, you can indeed arrive in one day, but the Dengzhou army carried 300 siege ladders, which required nearly 100 large carts to carry them, and they temporarily requisitioned a batch of ox carts, and the speed could not be fast.

The section from Nanyang to Neixiang County belongs to the Nanyang Basin, the terrain is low and flat, and there are endless wheat fields everywhere, which is a famous agricultural area in the Central Plains.

After arriving in Neixiang County, it enters a hilly area, with many valleys, and small plains and small basins are distributed between the valleys.

They marched for a whole day, and at noon, the army entered the Red Eyebrow Valley, with high mountains and dense forests on both sides, and the valley was about a mile wide.

The procession set out in the evening, and walked all night and all morning, and the soldiers were so tired that their legs seemed to be filled with lead, and it was difficult to walk.

The army of 10,000 stretched for a long time, at least three miles, in the middle was an ox cart, creaking and quacking and walking, on both sides of the official road were lush woods, it was winter, there was no green in the woods, it looked gloomy, and the crows were constantly circling above the trees, making a piercing rattle.

At this moment, countless rockets suddenly shot out of the woods on the left, shooting at the Dengzhou army, the soldiers were so frightened that they dodged everywhere, the rockets fell to the ground, and the ground quickly burned, and it turned out that there was a section of the ground poured fire oil.

The soldiers shouted and shouted, and suddenly, a series of explosions suddenly occurred on the ground, one iron fire thunder after another exploded, and ten iron fire mines exploded in the crowd one after another, the explosion was earth-shattering, black smoke was filled, a large number of soldiers were blown up to a blur of flesh and blood, and the explosion that had never been experienced made them cry out in fear, and the ranks were in chaos, followed by a flurry of arrows from the woods, and thousands of arrows were fired intensively at the enemy troops on the official road.

The ambush and explosion caused 10,000 soldiers to fall into a panic, and the soldiers instinctively chose to flee and fled in all directions.

'Woo-'

The long horn sounded, and 8,000 cavalry came out from both sides of the woods and rushed straight to the enemy in the rout.

The young general was Yang Xuanying, with a swing of the spear, the plum blossom bright silver spear stabbed at Cheng Jun like a torrential rain, Cheng Jun was in a hurry, raising his knife to resist, but Yang Xuanying's gun speed was too fast, and he stabbed Cheng Jun with two shots in a row, Cheng Jun screamed in pain, and suddenly his neck was cold, and the third shot stabbed into his neck.

Cheng Jun's big knife fell to the ground, turned over and fell off the horse, and before the soldiers came to rescue, Yang Xuanying made up another shot, which pierced Cheng Jun's chest fiercely, and Cheng Jun was killed immediately.

At this time, Yao Jin ordered: "Surrender without killing!" ”

The cavalry of the Jin army shouted one after another: "Surrender and don't kill!" Surrender or kill! ”

The main general was killed, the soldiers had no fighting spirit, and they all knelt on the ground and surrendered, and a very small number of soldiers who refused to surrender and tried to break through were surrounded by cavalry and all of them were killed in just a moment.

This time, the Jin army took full advantage of the panic caused by the explosion to the enemy army, and completely annihilated this army in only a quarter of an hour, capturing more than 7,000 enemy soldiers and killing and shooting 2,000 dead.

Yao Jin then ordered Yang Xuanwu to lead 2,000 cavalry to support Wuguan, and he led 6,000 cavalry to escort prisoners of war to Nanyang County.

Yao Jin's army not only occupied Wuguan, but also took control of Dengzhou, completely cutting off the southward route from Guanzhong.......

In Taiyuan City, Zhu Jun's envoy Zhang Yan had been left out in the cold for three days, and although Pan Liao was ordered to receive them and arrange a place for them to stay, he just did not negotiate with them.

This morning, Zhang Yan got up early and was sitting in the house reading a book boringly, when suddenly an entourage came and said, "Shangshu, Pan Changshi has sent someone." ”

Zhang Yan hurriedly put down the book and said, "Please!" ”

An official walked into the courtyard quickly, bowed and said, "Pan Changshi asked Zhang Shangshu to go to the Prime Minister's Mansion of Jinyang Palace to discuss!" ”

Zhang Yan was suddenly surprised and delighted, and asked anxiously, "Now?" ”

The official nodded, "Exactly!" ”

"Good! I changed my clothes and set off. ”

Zhang Yan hurriedly changed his clothes, brought his paperwork, and went to Jinyang Palace with his officials.

An official waited in front of Jinyang Palace and led Zhang Yan and his party into the Prime Minister's Mansion.

The Prime Minister's Mansion is the government affairs center of the Jin Palace, including Pan Liao, Zhang Qianyi, Cao Wannian and other high-ranking officials are concentrated in the Prime Minister's Mansion, and the decrees issued to the states and counties are issued from here.

Zhang Yan and his entourage were led to the meeting hall, where Pan Liao and Zhang Qianyi were already waiting, and there were more than a dozen officials sitting behind them.

Seeing Zhang Yan come in, Pan Liao greeted him with a smile, "His Royal Highness the King of Jin has been busy in the past two days, and he can't take care of the negotiations, so he snubbed Zhang Shangshu, I'm very sorry!" ”

"Nope! No! I can understand that the day after tomorrow is the New Year, and it must be very busy. ”

"Zhang Shangshu, please take a seat!"

Pan Liao politely asked Zhang Yan to sit down, next to him was the deputy envoy Li Lun, the official appointed Taichang Shaoqing, this time Yang Kui did not come.

Zhang Yan sat down and presented Zhu Jun's handwritten letter to Pan Liao, "This is our handwritten letter from the Son of Heaven to His Royal Highness the King of Jin, I came this time to negotiate with the King of Jin on behalf of the Qin Dynasty, we have decided to move the capital to Luoyang, but your army occupies Yuzhou and cut off our road to the east. ”

Pan Liao smiled slightly: "It's rare for Zhang Shangshu to be so frank, then I will also be honest, His Royal Highness the King of Jin does not want to fight with your country for the time being, you want to move the capital to Luoyang, we have no objection, we can let you go by the road, but our concession is conditional, and only when our conditions are met, we can only give way, otherwise we can only close Guanzhong." ”

Zhang Yan nodded, and sure enough, as expected by Liu Junshi, the other party was indeed conditional.

"Say it! What are the specific conditions, we are willing to listen. ”

Pan Liao took out a document and said lightly: "The conditions are actually very simple, there are only a few, first, Zhu Jun himself and his wife and concubines can go, but the palace maids and eunuchs can't go; Second, Zhu Zhu's army and military families can leave; Third, civil and military officials and their families can leave; Fourth, supplies and grain and grass can be gone; Fifth, it is forbidden to destroy palaces or cities, to plunder the people, or to rob tombs; Sixth, it is not allowed to plunder the property of Guanzhong and Chang'an, and the people of Guanzhong and Chang'an are not allowed to move away, and there is another one that must leave the wealth of buying the road and hand over the jewels and jade in the palace and the Zuozang Treasury. ”

After speaking, Pan Liao put the list of conditions on the table and pushed it to Zhang Yan.

Zhang Yan was stunned, he carefully read the documents, and said for a while: "First of all, we don't plan to give Guanzhong and Chang'an to you, the wealth of the palace and the Zuozang Treasury is owned by the Son of Heaven, it is impossible to stay, and if you stay, it will be stolen, and secondly, the 120,000 rich families in Guanzhong have voluntarily followed us to Luoyang, you must not stop it, and there is no problem with the other five." ”

Pan Liao sneered and said: "There is nothing to discuss, if Zhang Shangshu can't be the master, you can ask Chang'an." ”

"I'm afraid the Son of Heaven is not in Chang'an now, he went to the Central Plains to inspect."

Pan Liao shook his head, "I can assure you that your lord must be in Chang'an now!" ”

.........

Pan Liao hurriedly came to Guo Song's official room, Wen Miao invited him into the room, only to see Guo Song standing in front of the map with his hands in his hands, Pan Liao hurriedly stepped forward to salute.

"See Your Highness!"

"Chang'an gave him the inventory?" Guo Song looked back and asked with a smile.

"Give it to him, he can agree to a few others, but he insists on moving away some of the people in Guanzhong, and he also thinks that there is no reason to dedicate the items of the Zuozang and Neiku to His Highness."

"And then?"

"Then he asked him to confirm with Zhu Zhu, he said that Zhu Zhu was not in Chang'an, and he felt that this was his confidence, he felt that Zhu Zhu had gone to Luoyang, and there was no need to bow down to us again, I told him that Zhu Zhu must be in Chang'an, and he went with doubts."

Guo Song nodded, "He will recognize the reality, and frankly, my conditions are not excessive." ”

Pan Liao hesitated and said, "I still don't understand my humble position, why do I ..... Why do you want to let Zhu Jun go to Luoyang and annihilate him in Guanzhong, won't all the land in the Central Plains belong to us? ”

"I'm afraid this is not just Changshi's personal doubts!" Guo Song smiled again.

"Yes, most officials don't understand."

Guo Song groaned and said: "This matter is really difficult to explain, if I want to destroy Zhu Zhu, I will wait for his eastern tour team to enter Shangzhou, and then seize Wuguan, and then send a large army to the north to seal the road back to Guanzhong, and seal Zhu Zhu's hundreds of thousands of troops in Shangluo Road, one hundred, but I still want to keep him." ”

Guo Song glanced at Pan Liao, and saw that his eyes were even more puzzled, so he smiled and said: "Changshi can explain to the officials below, just say that we can't fight Zhu Zhu in Guanzhong, that will ruin Guanzhong and Chang'an, after all, Zhu Zhu still has 100,000 troops in Guanzhong, let's put him in the Central Plains, let him and Li Na, Tian Yue and others kill each other, both lose, isn't it?" ”

After a pause, Guo Song said lightly: "Of course, Changshi should know the truth." ”

Speaking of this, Guo Song looked at Pan Liao and said: "Zhu Zhu is a big tumor of the Tang Dynasty, the longer he reigns, the lighter the status of the Tang Dynasty will be in people's hearts, and over time, the hearts of the people of the world will slowly feel that it is the same with or without the Tang Dynasty." ”

Pan Liao suddenly realized, he had to admire His Royal Highness King Jin for being more scheming, he lowered his head and thought about it: "Wouldn't it be better to simply let Zhu Jun stay in Guanzhong?" ”

Guo Song shook his head, "Zhu Zhu's tax exemption in Guanzhong is just to collect the hearts of the people, release water to raise fish, not really love the people, he has not much food in Guangtongcang, and then he will inevitably collect heavy taxes on Guanzhong, desperately scrape the people, he moved away 120,000 rich households just to slaughter the pigs that have been fattened over the years, so I want to drive him out of Guanzhong as soon as possible while the people have not yet begun to miss the Tang Dynasty." ”

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[Writing about the underground explosion today, Lao Gao suddenly remembered that in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Zhuge Liang burned the rattan armor army, saying that the Chinese medicine lines on the ground were all on the ground, and the iron cannon flew on the spot, and couldn't help but be confused, what was the iron cannon in the Three Kingdoms era? 】