Stabilized the Xiongnu soldiers and horses, and the state army continued to retreat to Taiyuan, and the Mengxian army, which received the retreat order, also began to retreat south into Taiyuan. When the coalition army heard the news, the army's heart was greatly lifted, but before that, the Guanzhong army had begun the final layout in order to successfully take the imperial court. The first one withdrawn from Jizhou joined forces with the two and seven places stationed in Taiyuan as early as the beginning, and with the full support of Song Dian, they controlled the inner palace of Jinyang Palace.

At the beginning of February, the Bingzhou army retreated to the Jinshui River and the retreating troops from Mengxian County, and joined forces to set up a tight defensive line in Taiyuan City. In order to ensure absolute control, at the suggestion of Chen Gong, Taiyuan City began to search and arrest again and again, all officials and relatives who may have contact with the coalition army in the background were all imprisoned by Lu Bu for collaborating with the enemy.

Looking at the fewer and fewer courtiers in the hall, Liu Xie, who was sitting on the dragon seat, was not annoyed with a smile on his face, anyway, these officials didn't have much real heart for him. And for the sudden extra personnel in the inner palace, Liu Xie's face is no different, now that Lu Bu is about to be defeated, if there is no change in the inner palace, let alone him, I'm afraid Lu Bu himself won't believe it.

In mid-February, the coalition forces finally approached Taiyuan, and a total of 230,000 soldiers and horses from the three sides were around Taiyuan. At this point, the people in Taiyuan City were panicked, and for fear of delaying spring ploughing, the people began to flee on a large scale. Guanzhong, who received the news in advance, due to the sparse population of the newly established Wuhai County, Xun You proposed to accept the people to increase the population of the north. So Guan Zhongjun, under the attention of Yuan, Cao and Liu, blatantly mobilized nine people to help the people move away from Taiyuan.

Fortunately, Lu Bu was unable to catch the movements of the nine places because of the lack of manpower due to the unauthorized killing of officials, so Chen Gong could only suggest that Lu Bu block the gates of the four cities of Taiyuan, and prohibit anyone from leaving the city except for military aircraft. But in this way, the people who had delayed the spring ploughing directly rioted, and under the instigation of well-intentioned people, the city of Taiyuan was full of smoke, and the government offices and county offices were attacked one after another.

"What about General Song? Now the people in the city have gone crazy, plus those rebels hidden in the city, if they are united, maybe they haven't waited for the other party's army to attack the city, this Taiyuan city has been broken by the people! Holding the reports sent by various government offices, Hao Yin walked up to Song Xian with an ugly face, and continued: "If the lord's side doesn't give a solution, you and I may have to fold in this Taiyuan City, and now there can be many people loyal to us who have been assassinated by the enemy's spies. ”

Hearing this, Song Xian snorted coldly, he knew very well what Hao Yin was thinking, judging from the current situation, the people who stayed in Taiyuan with the state army had already had a different heart, so he pretended to be helpless and replied, "Hehe.... You ask me, I ask who goes? I still wonder what to do! Just the day before yesterday, I caught two assassins from Jizhou in my mansion, if it weren't for the alertness of the guards in the mansion, I'm afraid my head would have been placed in front of Yuan Shao. ”

After a pause, Song Xian took the report from Hao Yin's hand, threw it aside, and continued to smile, "I have reported this matter to the lord outside the city, if General Hao has any other ideas, it is better for you to go to Jinshui in person, presumably the lord is very happy to solve the doubts of the general." However, before that, I hope that General Hao will temporarily focus on the overall situation and help me stabilize the situation in the city first, saying that since the day of the assassination, my personal guards have caught many spies lurking in the city. ”

Feeling that Song Xian had something to say, Hao Yin frowned, but there was one thing Song Xian said right, if the overall situation in the city was not stable, he would go to Lu Bu to complain, I was afraid that he would be used by the other party to sacrifice the flag when he got there. After pondering for a while, Hao Yin nodded slowly, and then said in a deep voice, "In this case, the general will also hand over the extra guards in his hands to General Song, and strive to stabilize the rear before the two sides go to war, but this general wants to ask General Song, if the city becomes more and more chaotic, what should we do?" The lord's brigade is stationed outside the city, once the enemy in the city unites with the rioting people, do you think we can stop the other party? ”

In the face of Hao Yin's inquiry, Song Xian clasped his hands in front of his chest and explained meaningfully, "Don't worry, for the enemy in the city, the lord has his own thoughts, the Gongtai military division will rush back to Taiyuan City tomorrow, and if General Hao is still not at ease at that time, I believe that the military division will also personally solve General Hao's doubts!" And what are you really worried about, in fact, you and I know it, I advise General Hao, some things are done now and in the future are two concepts, don't think that the other party will really accept you! ”

Seeing that Song Xian had impatiently pointed out the little Jiujiu in his heart, Hao Yin's face suddenly showed embarrassment. Then the meaning of anger appeared, he didn't believe that Song Xian didn't go to the next family, as far as he knew, now the officials and generals in Taiyuan City basically have a master in secret. Then he hugged his fists and sneered: "Zhenbei Hou has a good saying, fifty steps and a hundred steps of laughter." People are watching the sky, I don't have a plaque here for you General Song! Leave! ”

Hao Yin left here with residual anger, Song Xian looked at his back, sneering constantly, Hao Yin guessed something right, he Song Xian did have a family, but this family was neither Cao Cao nor Guanzhong, but Liu Bei, who was pinned on Yuan Shaojun. The sunset of the imperial court has become a foregone conclusion, but the world has been loyal to the Han family for 400 years, thinking that Wang Mang usurped power at the beginning, the world was full of flames, and in the end it was the children of the Han family who turned the tide, but unfortunately whether Liu Biao of Jingzhou or Liu Zhang of Yizhou was not the kind of male lord who dared to fight for his life, they were all partial people, so he was convinced that only people like Liu Bei who dared to take risks could sit in that position.

On the second day, Chen Gong really returned to Taiyuan City with the trap camp as Song Xian said. Knowing that the trapped camp returned, the city of Taiyuan suddenly became much quieter, and many coalition spies hid all of them, for fear of being caught by the other party, after all, compared with the defenders in the city, the combat power of the trapped camp is not comparable to them. Unexpectedly, on the same day, Chen Gong relied on the information provided by Song Xian to wipe out all the spies in Jizhou.

At this point, Jizhou has lost hope for the internal scramble in Taiyuan. And Bai Yu and the others thought that Chen Gong would stop there, but they didn't expect that the other party had just taken down the Jizhou secret agent, and then Skynet was also hit, if Qu A didn't react fast enough, I'm afraid that the seven places would also follow in the footsteps of one place. In desperation, Skynet had no choice but to withdraw all the horses from the camp and disguise them as strong men captured by the Bingzhou army. As the saying goes, the more dangerous the place, the safer, and Skynet's move really avoided Chen Gong's sight.

After avoiding Chen Gong's pursuit, Qu A held the mind of the dead Taoist friends and the poor Dao, afraid that the other party would continue to track them down, so he managed to expose the spies from Qingzhou and Yanzhou. At this moment, Taiyuan City is lively, Skynet's ability is the first spy in the world, with them providing clues, Qingzhou and Yanzhou will get good. For three days in a row, there were frequent bloody cases in the city, and several ministers' mansions became slaughterhouses, and blood was left all over Jinyang Street.

The spies in the city suffered too heavy losses, and the princes outside the city were not happy, and without the help of these people, how could they reap the greatest benefits after the war. In desperation, Yuan Shao, Cao Cao and others had no choice but to send troops to attack the camp of the state army. The two sides launched an earth-shattering battle on the banks of the Jinshui River, because the camps of the Bingzhou army were all arranged by Chen Gong, and the Guanzhong army was the same as the camp in the Western Regions, so the coalition forces could not affect it for a while.

Because the coalition army was crossing the river to fight, even if the surface of the Jinshui River was frozen, but considering that tens of thousands of people stepped on it at the same time, the river surface could not support it at all, so Cao Cao and others had to call off the army and return to the camp, discuss crossing the river and camping, and stationed in front of Taiyuan City. However, in order to prevent this, Chen Gong had already made all preparations, and when the coalition army crossed tens of thousands of people, dozens of catapults suddenly drove out of the camp of the state army and smashed them towards the river, and the 30,000 soldiers and horses who had just crossed the river became a lone army in an instant.

With this, Yuan Shao and others understood why Lu Bu chose to camp on the bank of the Jinshui River, the coalition army could not attack on a large scale, and the crossing of the river would be pinned down by the other party, looking at the 30,000 soldiers and horses who had just crossed the Jinshui and fled under the strangulation of the Bingzhou army. Cao Cao slammed the horsewhip in his hand to the ground, and said gloomily, "Chen Gongtai is worthy of being the chief strategist under Lu Bu's account, and this stretch alone can contain our army on the south bank of Jinshui, I knew that I shouldn't have let him go in the first place." ”

Yuan Shao took a deep breath when he heard this, he didn't expect that Chen Gong's strategy could reach this level, with a small Jin Shui, he could stubbornly support the coalition army on the south bank, if they waited for Jin Shui to be civilized, wouldn't they have been able to touch the Taiyuan City Wall? In desperation, the two decided to write a letter, and after the Jinshui River froze again, the Guanzhong army came forward to contain the soldiers and horses, and they crossed the river close to Taiyuan.

Receiving Yuan Cao's distress letter, Long Jun was also very surprised, and Long Jun also heard a little about the battle of crossing the river that day, but he felt that if he only relied on this kind of refueling tactics to cross the river, Yuan Cao's coalition army would not want to cross the Jinshui in his life. However, now that the situation in the city is complicated, the Guanzhong army has to respond to Qu A and others stealing out the emperor at any time, so how can they have the heart to take care of the so-called battle situation. So Long Jun made it clear in his reply that the Guanzhong army was now being pinned down by the troops and horses led by Zhang Liao, and he couldn't spare his hands to support the coalition army, and at the same time proposed that if he wanted to cross the Jinshui, he might as well try it from the direction of Jiaoyang City.

Who knew that at this moment, the Bingzhou army suddenly launched an attack on the Guanzhong army, and 50,000 horses overwhelmingly rushed to the Guanzhong army camp. Long Jun scolded at this, he didn't expect the impact of Yuan Cao's failure to cross the river to implicate them so quickly, so Long Jun immediately led the army to retreat while ordering someone to send a secret letter. As long as Guanzhong successfully receives the Son of Heaven, he can't fight to the death with the state army.

The Guanzhong army retreated thirty miles and withdrew to Longshan near Taiyuan. Seeing this, Lu Bu gave up the pursuit of the Guanzhong army, and then led the troops back to the camp. For a while, the morale of the state army was greatly boosted, and taking this opportunity, Chen Gong asked Liu Xie to draft an edict, pass it on to the world, and reprimand Long Jun and others for committing disorderly behavior.