Above the Jinling court, half of the people who participated in the impeachment of Li Xiaofei lost their division and lost their land, and half of the people who participated in the impeachment of Chen Hongyi who were afraid of the enemy, and the two groups of people were excited, as if they wanted to force Liu Xuan to immediately issue an edict to execute these two people. Liu Xuan also sat on the throne and watched their respective performances.

Xie Rui thought in his heart that this was actually a good time to solve the threat, so he sang a counterpoint to everyone: "The minister thinks that the defeat of Xiangguo is not the crime of Li Xiaofei alone, and the hussar general Chen Hongyi is now facing a three-way enemy attack, and he can't attack easily." For today's plan, the only way to do this is to quickly order the general Wang Xian to go out of Bashu, reinforce Guanzhong, and let him control the soldiers and horses of Guanzhong and Hebei to resist the enemy together, so is the best policy! “

It is indeed a foolproof strategy, Xiao Shan and others suddenly understood that they let Wang Xian control Chen Hongyi, firstly, to consume Wang Xian and Chen Hongyi's army in the north, and secondly, to let Wang Xian and Chen Hongyi restrain each other. In this way, other families can sit back and relax, Liu Xuan also understands what Xie Rui means, but now that the enemy is current, he really needs Wang Xian's reinforcements, so he issued an edict to Wang Xian to go out of Bashu to rescue Guanzhong and control the soldiers and horses of Guanzhong and Hebei.

The Thousand Feather Army of the Black Flag Khanate is dominated by Ju Wuzhi, and Fan Zhi and Hong Cheng are the deputy generals. After the Qianyu army conquered Xiangguo, they first looted the big families, and then moved the people to Mobei. Pharmacist Zhu secretly sent people to give gifts to these three people, but only Ju Wuzhi accepted it, but Fan Zhi and Hong Cheng refused. This Fan Zhi and Hong Cheng are neither greedy for money nor lust, they are extremely strict with the soldiers of the headquarters but they are not stingy with rewards, and they all think about how to break the city and kill the enemy and kill the generals, and the soldiers of Qianyu all admire these two deputy generals. Although the main general Ju Wuzhi is resourceful, he is greedy for money and lustful, and when compared with these two, he was compared.

Fan Zhi and Hongcheng advocated going west to besiege Yecheng with the Green Banner Khanate, but Ju Wuzhi felt that the strategy suggested to him by Zhu Yaoshi to subdue Hebei was useful, so he stayed in Xiangguo and only cared about plundering the surrounding counties. Fan Zhi and Hong Cheng had no choice but to send someone to bring a secret letter to report back to Hu Gao.

On the other hand, Pharmacist Zhu continued to give gifts to the Black Flag Khanate, while restraining his subordinates not to compete with the Thousand Feather Army for cities and booty, showing a submissive and obedient attitude. Secretly, Pharmacist Zhu sent someone to send a secret letter to Chen Hongyi, telling Chen Hongyi of the truth of the Thousand Feather Army.

After Chen Hongyi received the secret letter from Liu Jian and Zhu Yaoshi, he immediately summoned Chen Kuan and others to discuss the strategy of breaking the enemy. After listening to Chen Hongyi's story, many people thought that the defeated army in Hebei exaggerated the enemy's combat strength, and only Chen Kuan thought that the enemy's combat strength might have improved: "No matter how bad the soldiers and horses in Hebei are, they will not lose all the cities in a month, and Lu Sheng's 5,000 cavalry is about the same as our most elite cavalry, and the whole army will be wiped out in one hour, and even Li Xiaofei can only flee with his soldiers and horses, indicating that there is indeed a strong enemy army that we have not encountered." We are not to be underestimated! ”

Chen Kuan's analysis silenced everyone, and Chen Hongyi continued: "It's not impossible, if the Central Plains people implement the training method of "Wei Wushu" in Mobei, they can train an elite army of several thousand people. I also wanted to train a thousand-strong team with combat strength up to "Wei Wushu", but I didn't want the court to suspect that I had different intentions, so I gave up. I didn't expect that there was such a strong enemy now, and it was too late to practice now. This group of enemies is proficient in climbing walls and riding and shooting, and we can't fight as usual with the city. Let's discuss how to defend this Yecheng."

Some of the people said that the moat should be widened, and some said that thorns were wrapped around the city wall, but after talking for a long time, there was no real effective way.

Chen Hongyi rubbed his hands: "That's it, we can only retreat to the edge of the big river and use our navy and the big river to block them on the north bank." How to deal with the enemy's new army, we will each figure out how to do it"

Chen Hongyi led 30,000 people back to Luoyang, and Yecheng was immediately lost. But Yecheng did not fall into the hands of the Black Flag Khanate, but was preempted by the Green Flag Khanate. By the time the Thousand Feathers approached the city, the banner of the Green Flag Khanate had been planted on the city. Ju Wuzhi had to lead the army back to Xiangguo, Fan Zhihongcheng and the two complained, and the three of them had a big quarrel.

Wang Xian finally rushed to Chang'an with 30,000 foot soldiers on the twenty-eighth day of the second month of Yanchang. The snow was falling, Chang'an City was snow-white, Chen Hongyi and the generals also rushed over to meet Wang Xian, according to Wang Xian's previous order, Li Xiaofei and Murong Ling also rushed to Chang'an.

Wang Xian glanced at Chen Hongyi and the generals, and was quite proud: "It seems that the old man still has to come out to save this crisis, they all say that the Chen family army is invincible in the world, why can he only rely on the danger of the river to resist the enemy this time?" “

Chen Hongyi bent down and arched his hand: "General, there is no such thing as invincible in the world in this world, this time there was a thief Kou Zhu Yaoshi entangled in the rebellion against the people, and then there were two khanates in Mobei attacking, and they were attacked on three sides, so they had to retreat to the big river and wait for the arrival of the general's reinforcements."

Wang Xian laughed: "Hongyi, I think it is an enemy on all sides, and Jinling also has an enemy, impeachment is hindered everywhere, and you can't deal with it even if you are both civil and military." Of course, this time I will come to work together with you to exterminate all the enemy and anti-people. You still have to support Ben Shuai a lot! “

Chen Hongyi nodded: "Hongyi should obey the general's orders, our Liang State can no longer withstand internal strife, and I hope that the general will also be more tolerant of the generals below."

Wang Xian's eyes fell on Li Xiaofei: "It is said that this young man who was crowned Taifu not long ago escaped from the encirclement of the enemy, I think this person can help me guard Chang'an, and the young Taishi, with him guarding Ben Shuai's side, Ben Shuai can command and dispatch all kinds of troops and horses to destroy the enemy army with peace of mind."

When everyone heard this, this was clearly to separate the people around the prince, and the next step was to install their own people to the prince's side, and Wang Xian really didn't change his will.

Li Xiaofei and Murong Ling also had to express their compliance with Wang Xian's arrangement, and Wang Xian smiled with satisfaction: "I hope that the two of you will help each other, the prince, in order to prevent the enemy from sending assassins to attack, this commander sent Zhenxi General Wang Dao to guard"

It was inconvenient for everyone to deal with Wang Xian at this time, so they didn't object, after all, the prince still had the princess Xiao Qian by his side. There is Xiao Qian, and there is the Xiao family to check and balance Wang Xian, so Chen Hongyi is not particularly worried.

Chen Hongyi looked up at Wang Xian: "General, I have reported the details of the enemy army to the general by letter before, I don't know how the general will dispatch the enemy?" “

Wang Xian had no idea at all, after all, the Chen family army couldn't withstand it, but he still laughed: "We have more than 60,000 people in one place, and then recruit soldiers and horses to levy and send people, and hold Chang'an and Luoyang separately, and it is not too late to go north to recover the lost land after the beginning of spring."

As soon as Chen Hongyi heard it, he knew that Wang Xian was talking empty words, so he was not polite: "If the enemy army takes advantage of the freezing of the river and kills the generals in the first month, what is good?" “

Wang Xian was stunned for a moment and then asked: "Hongyi asked like this, it must be a countermeasure, and Ben Shuai also wants to hear your high opinion."

Chen Hongyi smiled bitterly: "I thought that now we should send 3,000 people as spies to deliver news about the enemy army day and night, and only by first grasping the enemy's movements can we deal with it in time." “

Wang Xian applauded: "Yes, it coincides with what Ben Shuai thought, then send 3,000 people to various places to find out the news."

Everyone agreed, Chen Hongyi returned to Luoyang with his subordinates, and Li Xiaofei stayed in Chang'an with Murong Ling.

Li Xiaofei had seen the strength of the Qianyu Army, so he sincerely reported the situation of the Qianyu Army to Wang Xian again, but Wang Xian ridiculed Li Xiaofei for escaping from the battle, and sent Li Xiaofei out to lead people to strengthen the city wall.

Li Xiaofei knew that this city wall could not stop the Thousand Feather Army, but he had to take people to strengthen and repair it.

It was cold, and most of the clothes of the people who repaired the city wall were torn, Li Xiaofei couldn't bear it, so he bought clothes and quilts for these people to keep out the cold.

Several elderly people were grateful for Li Xiaofei's kindness, so they quietly pulled Li Xiaofei aside: "Lord Li, I heard that the army of Mobei is coming over again, you are a good person, there is a secret passage in this Chang'an City, we pointed it out to you today, once the city is broken, Lord Li can escape a way out."

Li Xiaofei was a little unconvinced, the man took out a stone slab from under an old tree, Li Xiaofei stepped forward to take a look, and sure enough, there was a secret passage, and before Li Xiaofei could continue to speak. The people put the stone slab back in its original place: "Lord Li, this secret passage can only escape, if Lord Li wants to use it to defend the city, he can't use it!" “

Li Xiaofei's mind was guessed by them, so he saluted and thanked him and walked away.

The most Wang Xian did every day in Chang'an was to collect money and appoint officials, and when all the places in Hebei had fallen, he sold the official positions in these prefectures and counties. Assassin Shi 100,000 yuan, county guard 50,000 yuan, county official 10,000 yuan, and sold 8 million yuan.

The Liang army sent spies to Hebei, and the two khanates also sent fine works to Luoyang, Chang'an. After making a detailed return, the two khanates couldn't help but admire Wang Xianlai, and after fighting for a few months, the harvest was not as good as Wang Xian's coming to Chang'an for a few days, so they also carved official seals and sold officials.

This time, Pharmacist Zhu suffered a loss, most of Youzhou was originally appointed by Pharmacist Zhu, and the Black Flag Khanate sold these official positions again. Those who had attained the official position were escorted to take office by the troops of the Black Flag Khanate, and drove out Zhu Yaoshi's men.

Pharmacist Zhu was not ambiguous, he did the same, and even sold the official positions in Huainan of Liang Guo at a clear price, but he was the weakest, and the people who came to buy him were suspicious. Pharmacist Zhu decided to cross the river, and when he told his cronies that he was going to cross the river, everyone was stunned.

The people who were placed in Zhu Yaoshi's army were happy, originally to prevent Zhu Yaoshi from becoming bigger in Youzhou and Jizhou and threatening the Black Flag Khanate, but now Zhu Yaoshi himself took the initiative to cross the river to attack south, so they supported Zhu Yaoshi one after another.

Zhu Yaoshi pushed the boat down the river, summoned the generals and officials, and said that those who were willing to stay and belong to the Black Flag Khanate could stay in the north, and were willing to follow him to cross the river. As a result, Pharmacist Zhu's team immediately shrank, leaving only more than 6,000 old tribes and untouchables to follow.

The spies who reported to Wang Xian told Wang Xian that the commander of the Qianyu army was greedy for money and lustful, and Wang Xian felt that he could be lured by profit, and negotiated with Ju Wuzhi and retired from the army, so he arranged for soldiers and horses from all walks of life to loot money and ransom the cities of Hebei.

Chen Hongyi refused to carry it out and wrote a letter to reject Wang Xian. Wang Xian was greatly annoyed, but he had no choice but to scold.

In order to deal with the Thousand Feather Army, Chen Hongyi summoned craftsmen to make bed crossbows in Luoyang, and offered a reward for those who could make repeaters.

Ju Wuzhi got a lot of money, so he was a little satisfied, and often talked about returning to the grassland, Fan Zhihongcheng and the two came to dissuade him, and Ju Wuzhi sent the two to Liyang to receive more than 30,000 people left by Zhu Yaoshi.

On the side of the Green Banner Khanate, the deputy Khan Zadar and the left commander Ahe led the troops to occupy Yecheng, and after seeing the power of the Thousand Feather Army, they couldn't help but worry. After the two khanates defeated the Liang army, there would be a battle between the two sides, and if they faced an enemy like the Thousand Feather Army, the Green Flag Khanate would have no chance of winning. After the spies of the Green Banner Khanate reported the news of the discord between the commander and deputy general of the Thousand Feather Army to Zadar, Zadar immediately wrote a letter to Fan Zhihongcheng, in which he praised the two of them vigorously, and the Green Flag Khanate waited for the two of them with the official position of the prime minister.

Ah He was puzzled: "How could these two people come to take refuge because of your letter, isn't it in vain?" “

Zadar smiled sinisterly: "These two letters, I just need to see them." It's best that the two of them never see it! “