After Natanhun handed over the troops to Nakan for punishment, he had already left the army, and he carried the return documents issued by Natan for him in his pocket, and the road was unimpeded.

When it was still ten miles away from Dadu, he led Hu Cong to live in an inn.

The inn business is very deserted, and there is only one table of guests in the house, giving people the feeling that this inn has been abandoned for a long time.

But Natanhun didn't ask the bartender questions, he asked for a few dishes casually, and ate with a big mouthful.

After eating, he said to the servant beside him: "From today on, I will no longer be Natanhun, but Liu Xu, a Han Chinese, if you are willing to follow me, you will stay and be a housekeeper, if you are not willing to follow, you can go home." ”

Natanhun was in his fifties, not very old, but he looked old, with a bare head, awkward pigtails, and a sparse goatee.

The big face and triangular eyes give people a sense of treachery.

Everyone didn't speak, and Natanhun continued: "Your name is estimated to have been registered in the list of martyrs at this time, if you don't want to follow me, you can go to find your own household registration, and change your name and surname from now on." ”

Originally, the ten servants around him, as soon as they heard this, eight of them objected.

Natanhun did not keep them, but only told them to take off their sabers, and from then on they should not know each other.

The eight men looked at each other, left their knives, and left.

But they didn't go far, and they were killed at the door of the inn by the killer who had already arranged for Natanhun.

There were still two servants left, and they stood up nervously, looking dazed.

Natanhun waved his hand and said, "You two choose to stay at the most critical moment, you are loyal to me, and I will treat you well." ”

"General Xie!" The two servants fell to their knees at the same time.

Natan Hun said: "Remember, my name will be Liu Xu in the future." It's Han Chinese, and my hair was cut because of the invasion of the male Jia. Do you remember? ”

"Remember! Checkmate. ”

"No, don't call the general anymore, call me lord, master Liu, my name is Liu Xu!"

——

The male Jia Wang Wanyan Qiankun was resting in the harem, and the continuous war reports came, but they were all blocked out by the eunuchs.

The eunuch signaled to the military officials to put the good news in the middle, and if the news of the defeat was less than a thousand people, do not report it to the king of Nanjia.

The minister of military aircraft knew that the old eunuch was the henchman of King Jia, and he did not dare to anger the king, so he acted according to the plan, and as a result, hundreds of people died in the siege battle that occurred in Gonggao, and King Jia did not know.

Wanyan Qiankun is a king with great ambitions, but he lacks wisdom.

Prime Minister Wen was his wise man when he was alive, and he knew that he was not as wise as the prime minister, but he didn't listen to the prime minister in everything and did a lot of stupid things.

But even so, as long as the old prime minister is there, the Nanjia dynasty is basically stable.

After occupying the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, the male King Jia became even more ambitious, and even lost his hometown in Liaodong, he didn't feel very distressed.

At that time, he was still in a blood alliance with Xiao Tianyou, the king of the right law, and worshiped for peace, but now, Xiao Tianyou has passed away, and the pillar of his heart suddenly collapsed.

Now facing the encirclement and suppression of the 200,000-strong Liang army, his 150,000 cavalry is fighting less and less, while the Liang army is constantly pouring in new soldiers.

On the battlefield now, his soldiers are less than 80,000, while the Liang army is still around 130,000.

Since the day the spider web array set up by the fifth prince burst, Wanyan Qiankun's sleep has not been very good.

When the first line of defense was completely lost, he could barely sleep at night.

Now he can't advance, he can't retreat, he even considered talking to Huo Zizhen, the commander of the Northern Expeditionary Army of Daliang, can you just do it, don't fight, Xiangzhou will return to you, with Zhaozhou, Jizhou, and Cangzhou as the national boundary, we will count it as a tie, and from then on we will conclude a peace treaty and repair it from generation to generation.

But his thoughts soon disappeared.

Because the love general Nalan was picked to death by Tang Xiao, who suddenly appeared, there was one less general in the five major battles in Hebei, and there was no room for maneuver at the negotiation table.

"Brother Wang, don't panic, the fifth brother still has a way." Wanyan Dashi swears authentically.

Wan Yan Qiankun just woke up, and he still felt a little drowsy, so he rubbed his forehead and said, "What else can you do?" Listen to me, it's better to retreat to the sixteen states of Yanyun on all fronts. With the two Great Walls in the north and south as barriers, the Liang army will definitely not be able to kill them. ”

Wanyan Dashi smiled bitterly: "Brother Wang, it is impossible for your idea to come true. ”

"Why?" Wan Yan Qiankun wondered.

Wanyan Dashi said: "In the past, there was Liaodong as the rear, and at that time we could garrison the sixteen states of Yanyun, and there was still a steady stream of cattle and sheep being sent, but now that our rear is gone, what is the use of guarding the sixteen states?" The soldiers are constantly consumed, and the grain, cattle and sheep are only a little bit, even if the big beams don't beat us, we won't be able to hold out for three and a half years. ”

The male Jia Wang sighed, "Hey, sit and eat the mountain, sit and eat the mountain." If the old prime minister is still there, this king doesn't have to worry about it. It's a pity that he didn't leave at the right time. ”

Wanyan Qiankun fell into memories and sighed for a long time before asking, "Just now you said that you have a way, let's hear it." ”

Wanyan Dashi said: "There is a battle between the gate lords in the Liang Dynasty, so we might as well take advantage of this and treat the Liang army differently." ”

"Oh, go on." Wanyan Qiankun said.

Wanyan Dashi said: "I have found out all the arrangements of the enemy army, and now the lone army of the Shence Army is left in Hengzhou, which has played a great role in the control of our army."

Now I want to change my strategy, no longer take Huo Zizhen as the main target, but instead fight the Shence Army, completely eliminate Wang Caotian, Zhen Badao, and Fang Tianhua in Hengzhou, and then send Yan Zhan Shiya deep behind the enemy to kill Shi Jinchong's department.

In addition, between Texas and Cangzhou, there is a temporary fourth recruit division, which I think is insignificant, but it can be ignored. ”

Hearing this, Wan Yan Qiankun nodded and said, "Maybe this is really a way."

If we only attack the Shence Army and end up seriously injuring them, they will definitely complain about the lack of support from the other gate lords, and then there will be conflicts between them.

As long as this contradiction is intensified, it will certainly be of great benefit to us. ”

——

Liang Shengde three years, June twenty-five.

The enemy army retracted the defensive line, concentrated a part of it in Dingzhou, and launched a fierce counterattack on Hengzhou, and Wang Caotian's department, Zhen Badao's department, and Fang Tianhua's department suffered heavy losses.

The enemy continued to pursue, and had already chased to the mountains, Fang Tianhua was seriously injured and unconscious, and Wang Caotian and Zhen Badao were also completely disabled, and the two withdrew from the Hebei battlefield with a total of less than a hundred remnants.

At the same time, the enemy general Yan Zhan Shiya gave up the confrontation with Xiao Han, led his troops to quickly raid Yuzhou, and attacked Shi Jinchong's department.

Because the use of troops this time was completely unexpected by the Liang army, Shi Jinchong suffered heavy losses, and he led the team to resist stubbornly, and finally stained the battlefield with blood, fell unconscious, and was taken away by the enemy.