Li Bao hugged his fists and said: "The general is martial and brave, there are few opponents, I want to introduce the general to my king!" ”

Gao Jinzhi shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Since ancient times, loyal ministers have not been two masters, life and death are small, and fame is big, I don't want to be called a rebel after death, and ask the general to behead me and fulfill my loyalty!" ”

Li Bao thought for a while and said to Gao Jinzhi: "The matter is big, I can't be the master of General Gao's affairs, so let's ask the general to meet the king of my family!" Come on, loosen the ties to General Gao, and serve the food! ”

After the withdrawal of the Tan Daoji army, there were still 3,000 defenders left in Dongyang City, Zhao Junsheng led the army to arrive at the city of Dongyang City, and the defenders of Dongyang City knew that Tan Daoji had already retreated, and the defenders opened the city gate and surrendered on the same day, and Zhao Junsheng did not take Dongyang City with a bloody blade.

Subsequently, he sent troops to various parts of Qingzhou, and the cities in various places fell one after another, and in less than seven or eight days, the entire Qingzhou fell into the hands of the cadres.

During this period, Tan Daoji retreated south with 40,000 horses as fast as possible, abandoning almost all the baggage, in order to prevent being caught up by the cavalry of the Qianjun army.

However, Tan Daoji's army arrived near Kaiyang, deliberately bypassing Kaiyang and retreating southward, but was still attacked by Gao Xu's cavalry, Tan Daoji's army had no intention of fighting on the way to the south, but did not want to lose too much, so it could only fight and retreat, until it retreated to the south of the Huai River, and the cadre army stopped pursuing.

Xuanmo, the Taishou of Pengcheng in the Southern Dynasty, was fighting with the Yuanhe army at that time, and was shocked when he heard that Kaiyang City was broken and threatened Xuzhou, and led his troops to retreat south in panic overnight, but was chased and killed by the Yuanhe cavalry.

Wang Xuanmo's army suffered heavy losses, more than 10,000 troops, and when he fled back to Xuzhou with his troops, there were only 3,000 left, after resting in Pengcheng for a few days, he heard that the army of Tan Daoji was defeated and retreated south, and when the cadres were in hot pursuit, he knew that Xuzhou could not hold on, and it was better to preserve the strength, so he took all the soldiers and horses of Pengcheng more than 6,000 people to retreat to Zhongli County.

Wang Xuanmo's retreat brought great pressure to Liu Song Yanzhou Assassin Shi, Xu Yibao stationed in Hulu and Xuzhou Assassin Shi Zang Zhi stationed in Qian County, as well as Liu Jingyuan, Pang Faqi and Zeng Fangping stationed in Changshe, after all, these people not only had to guard against the pressure of Luoyang Town's generals and Jeju Yuanhe, but now the eastern flank was also under huge military pressure from the cadre army.

Gao Xu of Kaiyang City learned that Wang Xuanmo had withdrawn from Pengcheng to Zhongli, so he led his army into Pengcheng.

This made Xu Yibao angry and scolded Wang Xuanmo's eighteenth generation ancestors, Pengcheng is in the south of Hulu, Gao Xu occupies Pengcheng's back and can copy Xu Yibao at any time, where can Xu Yibao stay in Hulu, and there is pressure from Yuanhe's army in the north, he doesn't want to be dumpling, so he directly led the army to the southwest and retreated to Zang Zhi.

As soon as Xu Yibao arrived in Qian County, he quarreled with Zang Qian, after all, Zang Zhen is the history of Xuzhou Thorn, Wang Xuanmo is Pengcheng Taishou, under the jurisdiction of Zang Zhen, Zang Zhen is also a belly of fire, he was originally a relative, but after Liu Yilong's death, Liu Yikang ascended the throne, and his relative became his predecessor, the emperor was suspicious of him, Wang Xuanmo is a person who is good at drilling camps, and he has won Liu Yikang's trust, what can he do with Wang Xuanmo?

On the part of the Southern Dynasties, inside and outside the imperial court, and between the northern states, there was a chicken feather.

On the fifth day of the second month of 436 AD, Zhao Junsheng led his army to Pengcheng, which was already at the forefront of the Southern Dynasties.

However, Zhao Junsheng knew that there were no dangerous passes in the area of Pengcheng, and there were no large defenders and tall and strong city walls, so he ordered the siege camp to conquer the people and transport the siege equipment as quickly as possible.

At the same time, Zhao Junsheng sent troops to feign attacking the surrounding cities, some defenders were weak in strength, and the cities that were afraid of the cadres surrendered early, and some of the defenders were not firm in the will of the cities that were frightened by the generals of the cadres and surrendered, and only a very small number of individual cities insisted on not surrendering, and when the siege equipment of the siege camp of the cadres arrived, they immediately launched the siege, and the cities that held were also captured one by one.

It took less than half a month, and on February 20, 436 AD, the area north of the Huai River east of Zhongli County was captured by the cadre army.

Zhao Junsheng originally wanted to continue to wave his army to the west and take the Henan region north of the Huai River in the southern dynasty Liu Song, but because the rumors in the army have not been eliminated, the soldiers are homesick, and because the war has taken a long time, the soldiers are physically and mentally tired, Zhao Junsheng had to order the class teacher.

Pengcheng, Taishou Mansion.

The hall was full of people, and Zhao Junsheng said to the generals and officials accompanying the army: "I have good news for you, Jeju City has been captured by Yuanhe and Bai Jinguang!" ”

When the generals and officials heard the news, they all looked happy.

Zhao Junsheng continued: "This battle was originally just intended to reinforce Qizhou and rescue Sima Chuzhi, but now not only Qizhou has been saved, but also Qingzhou, Jeju, and Xuzhou have been captured! The war took a long time, the grain and other burdens were very costly, until now, the soldiers are also mentally and physically exhausted, this king decided to return to Youzhou, about the soldiers of the war merits of the reward, wait until the answer to Youzhou, this king will be rewarded again"

The generals and officials also felt that this battle had reached this level, and they all said: "The king is wise! ”

Zhao Junsheng's gaze swept over the generals, and finally landed on the face of a middle-aged general and shouted: "General Lu! ”

The middle-aged general stood up and hugged his fists and said, "The last general!" ”

This person's name is Lu Rail, is the son of Lu Zongzhi of Youzhou Thorn Shi of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, once served as the Taishou of Jingling, after the fall of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, he served the Later Qin, and the Later Qin was destroyed by Liu Song and then surrendered to the Northern Wei Dynasty, and later served as the Jingzhou Thorn History, Xiangyang Gong, and the Town Guard Changshe of the Northern Wei Dynasty.

Later, Liu Song carried out the Northern Expedition, the Changshe was broken, Lu Rail led the remnants to return to Hebei, was recalled to Pingcheng and idle, and has not been reused, and later Zhao Junsheng was named the King of Qian, Lu Rail took the whole family to Youzhou to defect, which was reused.

Zhao Junsheng said: "This king knows that you fought with Liu Song many times in the early years, and knows the military situation of Liu Song's army, so this king appointed you as the general of Xuzhou and the general of Zhenwu to guard Qicheng!" This king left you 12,000 soldiers and horses, which you will reorganize into three armies, and each army envoy will be recommended by you, and this king's class will be reported to the list before! ”

Lu Liang clenched his fists in a deep voice and agreed: "The minister obeys the order!" ”

On the morning of the next day, Lu Liang took two small soldiers to Taishou Mansion to hand in the list of three military divisions recommended, and Zhao Junsheng approved it after reading it, and sent someone to invite the three people recommended by Lu Liang to meet one by one.

Zhao Junsheng looked up and saw a half-grown man with a tender face standing behind Lu Liang, but this kid was tall and big, with a tiger head and a tiger brain, so he asked, "Who is this kid behind you?" ”

Lu Liang hurriedly said: "Back to the king, this is Lu Shuang, the eldest son of the minister!" Son, don't come forward to meet the king! ”

"Boy, meet the king!" Lu Shuang stepped forward and clenched his fists and said.

Zhao Junsheng smiled and waved his hand and said, "Don't scold the child if you have nothing to do, he didn't do anything wrong." Lu Shuang, this king looks at your strong body, how old is this year? How much food can I eat per meal? How much can you shoot? ”

Lu Shuang said: "The kid is sixteen years old this year, and he can eat five catties of meat or thirty steamed cakes and a bucket of wine for each meal, and he can open three stone bows and lift a thousand catties of tripods!" ”

Zhao Junsheng instructed the guards around him: "Go and call Wei Jing!" ”

"Yes, King!"

After a while, Wei Jing walked in to greet him: "Son to meet my father!" ”

"Good!" Zhao Junsheng nodded, and said to Lu Shuang: "Lu Shuang, this is the king's righteous son, called Wei Jing, who has studied martial arts with this king for a few years, he is fifteen years old this year, one year younger than you, this king wants the two of you to fight, one is to try your martial arts, and the other is to see how Wei Jing's martial arts have reached, if you win, this king will grant you an official position and wealth, I don't know what you want?" ”

Lu Shuang clenched his fists and agreed: "The king has a life, how dare the kid disobey, I don't know if the two of us are fighting on horseback or on foot, to what extent do we want to fight?" ”

"After all, this is not a battlefield fight, you can't fight with your life, the two of you have reached the point, since you are more martial arts, it is naturally a test riding battle!"

After Zhao Junsheng finished speaking, he got up and went to the school field, and everyone followed.

When they arrived at the school, someone had already prepared horses and harnesses, Lu Shuang and Wei Jing each picked a horse, put on the harness, took their weapons and turned over on the horses and hugged each other: "Please!" ”

"Kill—" The two of them each shouted loudly and slapped their horses and rushed towards each other.

"Dangdang" two people each attacked two moves staggered, and then hit the horse and turned around to continue to fight, and the school field sounded the sound of the two shouting and killing.

Zhao Junsheng asked Lu Liang while watching: "General Lu, do you think which of the two of them can win?" ”

Lu Liang said with a smile: "The last general has some experience in bows and arrows, martial arts are not what the last general is good at, and the last general can't see it!" ”

Zhao Junsheng pointed at Lu Liang and smiled, and said: "Your son has a high talent in martial arts, and this king's righteous son is not bad, but after all, the time for practicing martial arts is too short!" ”

Zhao Junsheng could see that Lu Shuang's martial arts would definitely become a general in the future after being tempered, so he arranged this competition and had the heart to give it a try.

These two boys have been fighting for more than half an hour, after all, their bodies have not fully grown, so their strength cannot last long, so they are a little exhausted after fighting for so long.

Zhao Junsheng shouted: "Okay, stop!" ”

The two stopped fighting, and they both felt pity for each other.

Zhao Junsheng said to the two: "Your martial arts have almost been learned, but they all still need to be sharpened, from today onwards, Lu Shuang and Wei Jing will be the personal guards beside the king!" ”

The two hurriedly agreed: "Yes!" ”

Zhao Junsheng asked Lu Rail: "General Lu, you have no opinion!" ”

Lu Liang hurriedly said: "This is the king who can afford to be a dog, and the last general can't ask for knowledge!" ”

"Well, that's it!"

On February 25, Zhao Junsheng led the army to return to Youzhou, all the way north through Xuzhou, Hulu, Jeju, and when he arrived at Yecheng in Xiangzhou, Yecheng happened to be broken by Zhang Xing, Du Gui also committed suicide after the city was broken, and Zhao Junsheng ordered him to be buried thickly.

was about to give the order to continue the class to the north, when news came from Youzhou that several families had joined forces to rebel, but Hua Mulan had already deployed to wipe them out.

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