When the wheat harvest was nearing the end and summer planting began one after another, Li Qi, who was in Zhenzhou, got a news: Li Siyuan, the supervisor of the state, sent Duan Ning, the envoy of Xuanyi Jiedu in Weizhou, to lead an army of 40,000 to aid Huo Yanwei, and the southern army has now marched to the territory of Cizhou.

After hearing the news, Li Qi was very excited, and he had been waiting for the news since before the summer harvest.

Huo Yanwei built a military village according to Yaoshan and Ganyan Mountain, and in Li Qi's view, it was not very difficult to break.

This mound of more than 20 miles belongs to the remnants of Taihang Mountain extending in the plain area, and the highest point is only 100 meters, and the mountain is not precipitous. If Huo Yanwei retreats to Xingzhou and refuses to defend the city, Li Qi really has no good way to deal with him in a short time. After all, the Jinyang army is dominated by cavalry, and the number of infantry troops is not as large as Huo Yanwei.

However, now he is encamped on Yaoshan Mountain and Ganyan Mountain, relying on the fact that there is water passing through the two mountains, and there is no problem in taking water, thinking that he can hold it for a long time.

As everyone knows, Li Qi's favorite thing to do is to intercept the river and build dams, and he wants to build a few small reservoirs or reservoirs when he has nothing to do, and now building a dam can also block the enemy's water source. As long as the water source is cut off, Huo Yanwei's troops will definitely not last long.

Summer was the dry season, and the 6,000 garrisons transferred from Zhenzhou, together with the local youths recruited, only took more than half a month to build two dams in the mountain nest near the city. As a result, the water level in the river gradually declined, and after only more than ten days, it gradually dried up.

Huo Yanwei ordered people to dig wells in the river to get water, where could they supply tens of thousands of troops to drink, only three days later, the southern army could not hold on, and the people in the camp were fluctuating. Seeing this, Huo Yanwei knew that if he persisted, he was afraid that it would cause chaos immediately, so he led the whole army out of the camp to form a decisive battle with the Northern Army.

Seeing the enemy army coming out of the camp from afar, Li Qi ordered the whole army not to engage with it, and the cavalry only looked at the opponent from a distance to maintain pressure.

The southern army left the Yaoshan military village and marched along the river in the direction of Zhangshui, but it was also thirsty.

Seeing Zhangshui in sight, he heard the sound of war drums and the sound of horns. Yuan Xingqin, the general of the Northern Army, led 20,000 troops to Jinyang and Zhen, and set up a formation along the river to block the way, and Xia Luqi, Yuan Ren, and Zhang Siyun led cavalry troops to kill from all sides.

This battle can't be fought, the morale of the southern army is already low, and the cavalry of the northern army is rushing into battle, how can there be a love of war?!

Seeing that the southern army was in chaos, they scattered in a panic and fled, and Huo Yanwei was also coerced by the rout, so he had to abandon the army and flee.

The cavalry soldiers of the Northern Army will charge and chase while shouting: "The Son of Heaven is here, and he will not surrender yet!" No one who disarms will be killed! This further disintegrated the fighting spirit of the southern army, and the southern army lost its fighting spirit after hearing this, and threw away their weapons one after another, and sat on the ground with their heads in their hands.

Huo Yanwei, the commander of the Southern Army, led hundreds of pro-troops to flee in a hurry, but was unexpectedly stopped by the cavalry led by Xia Luqi.

But I heard Charucci shouting: "Isn't this an old acquaintance, let's stay and reminisce about the past!" "Be the first to shoot the horse and take Huo Yanwei directly. That Huo Yanwei was already panicked, and after only a few resistances, he was picked off his horse by Xia Luqi and captured alive by the Northern Army.

In the first battle of the Yanhe River, the Northern Army won a complete victory, annihilating more than 30,000 enemy troops, capturing more than 3,000 war horses, capturing more than 300 generals and colonels of the Southern Army, and the spoils of war were piled up.

The Northern Army took advantage of the victory and directly surrounded the Longgang City of Xingzhou.

Li Qi returned to the big tent of the Chinese army, and Huo Yanwei, the commander of the Southern Army, was escorted in.

Li Qi said angrily after seeing Huo Yanwei: "Ruben Liang is a general, the first emperor treats you well, and you still serve as the envoy of the festival, why did you betray the first emperor?!" ”

Huo Yanwei said: "The first emperor trusted the eunuch and killed Zhu Youqian, Guo Chongtao, etc., we were terrified, but we had no choice but to do it!" ”

Li Qi sneered: "Then is it also a last resort to kill King Cheng and Ya Wang'er?!" ”

Huo Yanwei said: "At that time, they were all envoys who listened to An Chong's teachings, and they had to do it. ”

Li Qi said: "Erben surrendered to the general, voted for the Tang Dynasty and rebelled against the master, and killed my uncle, but you can't be left." When I pacify the south, the whole clan will be punished! Then he ordered someone to push Huo Yanwei out and behead him.

Duan Ning led the southern army to Cizhou, but when he heard the news of the annihilation of Huo Yanwei's entire army, he was immediately frightened and did not dare to advance any further, and refused to defend the city in Cizhou.

Li Qi summoned the generals in the camp outside Longgang City in Xingzhou and said: "Our army attacked Huo Yanwei, and Wei Bojie made Fang Zhiwen not sit idly by, but because Wei Bo's army was unstable and could not be controlled. Now I personally lead a large army to attack Weizhou and promote its internal strife to survive! So he ordered Yuan Xingqin to lead the infantry army to continue the siege of Longgang City, and led the cavalry to attack Weizhou.

The northern army did not encounter resistance at all, and entered the territory of Weizhou, and some cavalry generals Fu Yanqing and An Xianqi captured Beizhou (Qinghe) from Jizhou and also came to Weizhou. The two armies met at Linqing and prepared to attack Weizhou.

Fang Zhiwen was originally a general of Luo Shaowei, and in his early years he was Wei Bo Military Academy, and then returned to Liang, and then returned to Zhuangzong, and was given the name Li Shaoying. After hearing the news that Li Qi led the army to come, he had long been panicked, and most of the Weizhou Ya soldiers under his command were originally from the original silver spear service army under Li Cunqing, and when they heard the news of the arrival of Li Qi's army, people's hearts were also fluctuating.

This Wei Bo tooth soldier was created by the Tianxiong Army after the Anshi Rebellion in the Tang Dynasty, and the Tang Dynasty domain town Tian Chenghei created, and it has a history of more than 100 years. In the meantime, the father died and the son replaced, the brother died and the brother inherited, the marriage between the families was connected, the intertwined knots did not know how many generations, arrogant, often killed the festival to make chaos, and set up a new town marshal, Wei Bo's last few festival envoys Shi Xiancheng, He Jintao, Han Yunzhong, Le Yanzhen, Luo Hongxin, all of them were supported by Wei Boyabing. Therefore, the proverb at that time called: "The Son of Heaven in Chang'an, the Ya Army of Wei." ”

It means that Wei Boya's soldiers have the same powers as the Son of Heaven, and they appoint their own envoys.

This Wei Boya army was slaughtered by Zhu Wen once, but he was not killed. After Li Cunmiao got Wei Bo, because the tooth army took the initiative to serve, he reorganized it into the silver spear service army, and even used it as his own pro-army. This silver spear army followed Zhuang Zong's southern expedition to the north and made great contributions to the Jin army's annihilation of Liang.

However, Zhuang Zong's death was also first caused by Wei Bo's mutiny. Later, before the change of Xingjiaomen, Zhuang Zong's personal expedition to Bianliang, when he walked to Xingyang, this silver spear Xiaojie army suddenly mutinied and collapsed by itself, resulting in Zhuangzong having to return to Luoyang, which was the "change of Xingjiaomen", which can be described as "success is also Xiao He, defeat is also Xiao He." ”

It was precisely because Wei Boya's soldiers were difficult to control and manage, that Zhao Zaili, who was elected by the rebels as the envoy of the Tianxiong Festival, repeatedly begged and begged after Li Siyuan was appointed as the prisoner of the country, asking to be transferred out of this place of right and wrong. In view of Zhao Zaili's "meritorious service", Li Siyuan used Fang Zhiwen to replace Zhao Zaihe as Wei Bojie's envoy.

This time, the southern army jointly attacked the town and Dinger Town, and Fang Zhiwen was ordered to lead Wei Bo's army to the battle. And after the order came down, Wei Bojun spread the word below: "The imperial court is preparing to transfer us apart, once we go out, it will be separated from flesh and blood, and everyone is simply worse than death!" So they colluded and refused to obey orders.

This caused Li Qi to attack Huo Yanwei, and Wei Bojun did not reinforce in time at all......