The Western Army thundered out, and within a few days, it was Kehengnong, and Gao Huan, who was far away in Jinyang, was unaware, and Gao Aocao in Luozhou, who was close at hand, was also in the dark.

Soon when the news reached Luoyang, Gao Aocao was still sleeping early in the morning, and suddenly heard a noise outside, and when he got up to look, it turned out that Liu Gui, the lieutenant of the imperial history, sent someone to invite.

Liu Gui also recently arrived in Luoyang from Yecheng, and concurrently served as the left servant of the Western Dao Daxing Tai Shangshu, named Auxiliary Gao Aocao, but Gao Huan gave him the title of "Supervising the Army", so this matter in the Western Dao Army, Liu Gui's power is not under Gao Aocao.

Don't say that Gao Aocao and Liu Gui already have some old grudges, just with Gao Aocao's heart and arrogance, how can they allow any "prison military" to point fingers? So after he slandered Gao Huan a few words, he sprinkled all his anger on Liu Gui's head, and often quarreled with Liu Gui under the pretext of not leaving any face. Liu Gui was afraid of his fierceness, so he had to eat deflated in front of him, and he hated himself in his heart.

Today, Liu Gui learned the news of Hengnong's loss first, and was shocked, and no matter how reluctant he was in his heart, he had to discuss with Gao Aocao. He really didn't want to come to see Gao Aocao in person, so he immediately sent his henchmen as envoys to invite Gao Aocao to go to the military office to see him.

Gao Aocao taught people to wake up, and he was already unhappy, but when he heard that it was Liu Gui's person, he became more and more angry. So when he was about to come out, he scolded with one mouth: "Where did the rammer come from?" It's noisy, disturbing people's dreams, and I don't understand the slightest etiquette. Someone! Blasted me out! ”

This envoy was originally a younger brother of Liu Gui's wife's family, and he was used to relying on Liu Gui's power on weekdays, and this time he went to Luoyang with Liu Gui, and he belonged to the number one that he didn't count when he first arrived, and when he saw Gao Aocao scolding him, he actually snorted coldly and turned around and left, and threw down a sentence of diaphragm: "There is something important here, since the high envoy doesn't want to listen, then don't listen to it." If you delay a big event, you can't blame me. ”

Gao Aocao was furious and shouted: "Wu Na tamper! Am I here to come as much as you want, and leave as you want? With a wave of his hand, he summoned someone to fetch a wooden flail, and shackled the messenger alive, and locked him in the courtyard.

When did this messenger suffer such a great loss? It's a lord who wants to save face, so he blushed and said: "Although it's easy for me to be flailed, when you turn around and want to open a flail with me, hum, it's difficult." ”

"Is it difficult?" Gao Aocao laughed angrily: "It's not difficult for me to see a little." "A few steps over, and it was a blow to pull out the knife.

In the sound of "click", the messenger's head fell to the ground, and the wooden flail naturally fell, but there was really no need to open it again.

Soon Liu Gui learned of this, and he was angry, and he didn't want to wait for Gao Aocao in the military office anymore, so he brushed his sleeves and left. As a result, as soon as she got home, her wife came to cry, and asked Liu Gui to make her brother the decision. Liu Gui was upset, and he stood up several times and wanted to get up, but when he thought of Gao Aocao's fierce appearance, he couldn't help but shudder again, and after all, he still didn't dare to go to investigate, so he sat down in despair. . .

By the afternoon of the same day, the news that Hengnong had been seized by the western thieves had spread throughout Luoyang City, and Gao Aocao urgently ordered Luozhou civil and military forces to go to the military government to discuss matters. When Liu Gui rushed over angrily, he was accused by Gao Aocao of "neglecting the military situation" in front of everyone. Liu Gui was angry, and when he returned home after the discussion, he drew his sword with hatred and secretly swore that one day when he seized the opportunity, he would teach this thief not to die well!

After the military discussion, Gao Aocao issued an order on the west road and waved his army to the west. The 30,000 Luozhou Eastern Army set out from Luoyang and rushed straight to Hengnong.

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At the beginning of September, in Jinyang City, Gao Huan, who learned that Hengnong had lost, was already furious: "Black charcoal! How dare you deceive me? ”

In Gao Huan's heart, the western thief was about to run out of food, and it was no longer worth it. He was originally going to start an expedition to the west soon after to avenge Xiaoguan's revenge, but the western thief took the first step and grabbed Hengnong in his hand, wouldn't he teach him to thunder and rage?

In the past six months or so, Gao Huan has not been idle, and has been requisitioning money and grain from all over the country to Jinyang, just to prepare for the Western Expedition. Originally, the troops were to be sent in July and August, but because the peace with the Southern Liang had not been negotiated, and the northern worms did not know what was crazy, they went all the way south, and went deep into the Jin land to harass and plunder, and the soldiers almost arrived in Jinyang, and Gao Huan had no choice but to delay.

Gao Huan's face was as pale as iron, and the summons were endless, and for a while, the prime minister's mansion became extremely busy, and countless messengers came in and out, and military orders were issued one after another.

First of all, Shangshu's right servant shot, and Yang Su in the service was the main envoy, and then went to Jiankang, willing to cut the land for a hundred miles as sincerity, and immediately reached a peace agreement.

Immediately afterwards, Gao Huan personally led the elite of Jinyang's main force to the north to meet the creeping.

He also summoned soldiers and horses from Hebei, Youyan, Qingxu, and Yanyu to come to Jinyang. In addition to the Kaihe Luogao Ao Cao Department because of its frontal Guanzhong, the order to attack Hengnong Yuwentai, this time the Eastern Wei Dynasty seems to have exhausted the world's soldiers and horses! The anger in Gao Huan's heart, or the urgency of unifying the Northern Dynasty, can be seen.

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In mid-September, Gao Huan attacked the Rouran Iron Cavalry in Sandui (now Jingle County, Xinzhou City, Shanxi Province), and the Rouran people fled north in a hurry until they fled to the desert, and the situation in the north was peaceful.

On September 24, Gao Huan returned to Jinyang, and Yang Su was already waiting in the Prime Minister's Mansion, bringing a peace book with Nanliang.

From the end of September to the middle of leap September, soldiers and horses from all walks of life arrived in Jinyang one after another. There are Jizhou Duan Rong, Sizhou (i.e. Yecheng) Mo Duo Lou Yuanwen, Yuzhou Hou Jing, Yanzhou Peng Le, Xuzhou Hu Lujin, Jianzhou Murong Shaozong, etc., and Jinyang Gao Huan, such as Xue Guyan, He Lou Wulan, Poliu Han Chang and other departments, the total number of soldiers and horses reached 200,000.

It is said that the vastness is as vast as the abyssal sea, and the whole world is shaken!

Gao Huan looked at the eastern army company camp at the head of Jinyang City, and his mood was surging, and he couldn't help but let out a long roar: "This army should cross the big river west as soon as possible, and urge to break through Guanzhong in one fell swoop!" ”

Unexpectedly, as soon as the words fell, Duan Rong first spoke: "The westerners are about to run out of food, which is the end of the road, and therefore Yuwentai will brazenly go east out of Tongguan, and its capture of Hengnong County is actually the granary of Hengnong." I heard that Gao Ao Cao has arrived in Hengnong, although he and Yuwentai have won and lost each other, and they can't say that they have the upper hand, but the soldiers and horses of the West Road have cut off the grain road of the West Thief, and not a single corn or meal can enter Tongguan in the west. Why, then, did our army cross the great river to the west? It is better to go south from Fenglingdu and cut off the return road of Yuwentai. As long as Hengnong captures Yuwentai, there will be no food in Guanzhong, and there will be chaos when I hear the news, I expect that the ingots torch will be cornered, so they should go out of Tongguan and come to ask the king to surrender! ”

Gao Huan was originally in Xing, and suddenly asked someone to interrupt, and there was a little fire in his heart, but Duan Rong was his brother-in-law, so it was not good to scold him in person, so he pondered for a moment, shook his head and said, "It's not appropriate." The Yuwen black thief is not a fool, if he sees my army heading south, how can he be indifferent? It's a big deal to abandon Hengnong and retreat to Tongguan. At that time, my 200,000 people crowded on the Tongguan Plain and couldn't move, they couldn't advance, and they retreated and tossed in vain. ”

Duan Rong frowned and was silent.

At this time, Hou Jing took a step forward, hugged his fists and said, "King! This time, the 200,000 troops are here, and they have really exhausted the elite of our dynasty. If all of them go straight into the customs, in case the front army is a little disadvantageous, there are too many people, but it is difficult to rectify it. . . ”

Gao Huan glanced at Hou Jing, and snorted coldly: "You also said that 200,000 elites are here, how can you stop them if they want to starve all over the field in that pass?" ”

"Yuwentai, this Wuchuan thief has been running Kansai for a long time, so you still can't be careless." Hou Jing lowered his head slightly and said, "If the king insists on crossing the river and entering the pass... Anyway, there are many of our soldiers, so why not divide the troops into two places, one to the west and the other to the south? So... ”

Before he finished speaking, Gao Huan's face changed and shouted, "No!" The previous time, our army suffered the loss of the division of troops, and the so-called three roads went hand in hand, but the result was that the western thieves concentrated their forces and took all the way, so that our Xiaoguan was defeated, and Shi Ning's life was lost. The lessons of the past are not far away, how dare you forget? "Thinking about the defeat of the previous three-way advance, it is deeply engraved in Gao Huan's heart, as the so-called "once bitten by a snake, ten years afraid of the well rope" also.

Hou Jing was stunned for a while, knowing that most of them were saying that Gao Huan couldn't move, so he had to give up. The rest of the people are not as good as Duan Rong and Hou Jing, they were old brothers who came out of Huaishuo with Gao Huan, but when they saw Gao Huan's face as if they were already uncertain, they didn't dare to give any more advice.

"I've made up my mind!" At the head of Jinyang City, Gao Huan raised his hands and roared in the wind: "Raise the army now, use this western expedition to unify our dynasty!" ”