Tan Daoji's Southern Dynasty generals who fled back from Linyi City learned about the strength of the Qian's siege battle, and knew that the ordinary city could not withstand the attack of the Qian's army at all, so he simply ordered the Southern Dynasty troops in all prefectures and counties of Qizhou to withdraw to Qingzhou.

Gao Xu was ordered to lead the army to attack the counties and counties of Qizhou occupied by the Southern Korean Army, and captured the first county on the first day, and there was basically no battle after that, the cities occupied by the Southern Korean Army were all empty, and the defenders withdrew, Gao Xu led the troops to receive it directly, and it took only five days to receive the entire Qizhou.

At this time, Zhang Xing and Cao Jiao were attacking Du Gui in Xiangzhou from the north and south, Du Gui wanted to lead the army north to meet Zhang Xing, but Cao Jiao killed from the south, and broke through two cities in three consecutive days, and the speed made Du Gui tremble.

Du Gui had to send 3,000 infantry to Quliang County for reinforcements, and ordered the defenders to hold Quliang City, while he himself personally led 20,000 troops to the southeast to meet Cao Jiao's troops.

At this time, Quliang City is the county of Guangping County, as a county government, the city wall of Quliang City is still tall and strong, and Zhang Xing was in a hurry after receiving Zhao Junsheng's order, and did not prepare a large number of heavy siege equipment in advance, so from the beginning of the troops, it only broke through Nanhe and the surrounding counties under the initial surprise, and hit Quliang City because there were no large siege equipment was blocked.

Du Gui believed that Quliang City could not be breached by Zhang Xing in a day or two, and that he had enough time to defeat Cao Jiao's troops, and then return to the north to meet Zhang Xing.

The population of the Northern Wei Dynasty itself has been sharply reduced because of the endless conquest of more than 100 years before, since the beginning of the previous few years, Zhao Junsheng recruited displaced people and common people to reclaim the famine in Youzhou, because of a large number of measures to benefit the people, many people in various states and counties in Hebei have been attracted to the past, resulting in the population of Xiangzhou has also decreased a lot.

In order to feed so many soldiers and horses, he could only increase the collection of poor people, making the people miserable, making his reputation in Xiangzhou extremely bad, and the people hated him.

Du Gui took 20,000 soldiers and horses to the Cao Jiao Department in the north, thinking that it was just an easy thing to defeat the Cao Jiao Department with 20,000 troops, but he knew that he hit the iron plate this time, and when he was fighting, he was careless and the dispatch was not timely, and Cao Jiao seized the opportunity to attack the weak left flank with superior forces.

The left flank of Du Gui's army could not resist, and the generals were defeated one after another, Cao Jiao of course would not let go of such a good opportunity, taking advantage of the victory to pursue, and after breaking Du Gui's left flank in one go, Du Gui's central army and right wing were also affected, and the morale plummeted, and the soldiers had no will to fight, and they turned around and fled.

Cao Jiao took advantage of the situation to lead the troops to cover the killing, Du Gui's soldiers and horses suffered heavy casualties, he took the remnants of the defeated army and fled back to Yecheng with more than 5,000 people in embarrassment, Cao Jiao was cleaning the battlefield, captured the heavy soldiers, bows and crossbows and arrows were innumerable, he collected the surrendered troops and prisoners and continued to wave the army north to kill the city of Yecheng.

Zhang Xing, who got the news, immediately publicized the news, so that the officials, soldiers, and civilians in Quliang City knew about it.

When the defenders of the Quliang Army heard the news, their morale plummeted, and their hearts were weakened a lot, and the generals suggested that the defenders surrender to the cadres, but the defenders were Du Gui's henchmen, how could they surrender the cadres? After killing a group of generals and colonels who surrendered, others did not dare to mention the surrender again.

But the people had long hated Du Gui to death, and they persuaded the soldiers guarding the city gate to unite with them to quietly open the city gate in the middle of the night and let the cadres enter the city.

Quliang City was broken, Zhang Xing led his troops to kill the diehard defenders and their henchmen, reorganized the surrendered and captured Xiangzhou army, and then took the army and the reorganized surrendered prisoners to kill Yecheng together.

Yecheng is the state city, once as the capital of Cao Wei and the Jin Dynasty, the city wall is tall and strong, the city defense facilities are complete, Du Gui fled back to Yecheng with 5,000 men and horses, and ordered all the soldiers and horses of the surrounding counties to be transferred to Yecheng, plus the 3,000 people left behind in Yecheng, a total of more than 10,000 defenders.

Cao Jiao and Zhang Xing respectively led the army to meet under the city of Yecheng, plus the reorganization and surrender of troops and prisoners, the total strength reached 43,000 people, these soldiers and horses surrounded Yecheng, and the city was impassable.

The next day, Cao Jiao and Zhang Xing waved troops to attack the city, Du Gui was not good at defending the city, but he and his father Du Chao had already secretly communicated with the Southern Dynasty, and the Southern Dynasty sent a general to help him defend the city.

In the absence of heavy siege equipment, no matter how Cao Jiao and Zhang Xing attacked, Yecheng was always as stable as Mount Tai, these two men commanded the soldiers and horses to attack for five or six days and could not break through Yecheng, so they could only order a retreat of 20 miles, so that the soldiers and generals could rest for a period of time, and the situation inside and outside Yecheng was stalemate.

When Yecheng was surrounded by Zhang Xing and Cao Jiao, the Jeju army in Jeju City was also blocked in the city by Bai Jinguang with 3,000 men.

Du Chao was very depressed, this Bai Jinguang was a young descendant, with only 3,000 people under his command, and he blocked more than 10,000 people in the city and did not dare to go out of the city.

After several times in a row, Du Chao was a little scared of Bai Jinguang, a young general, and more than 10,000 people did not dare to go out of the city to fight, so they could only retreat in the city to defend.

Du Chao actually doesn't have much ability in military affairs, the reason why he made his career in the first place is entirely because he is the uncle of Emperor Taiwu Tuoba Tao, if it weren't for Tuoba Tao's support, he would still be just a small Xiangzhou don't drive.

Du Chao has never fought any battles at all, where does he have experience in fighting, after the only two leading generals under his command were killed by Bai Jinguang, he no longer had any useful generals, and more than 10,000 soldiers and horses were blocked in the city by Bai Jinguang's 3,000 men and horses, not to mention how aggrieved they were.

At the end of 435 AD, Zhao Junsheng, Hua Mulan and his son Zhao Dong's family of three spent the New Year outside for the first time, and at the same time, nearly 100,000 cadres and soldiers were still spending the New Year outside.

The reunion dinner was eaten at noon, with a family of three and a few accompanying maids and personal guards.

At noon, they had a New Year's dinner, and in the afternoon, a family of three built snowmen, had snowball fights, and roasted around the fire in the courtyard of their residence in Qizhou City.

In the evening, the family of three took the maids and soldiers out of the city to the barracks to have a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner with tens of thousands of soldiers to celebrate the New Year.

Sima Chuzhi, as the general of Qizhou, was appointed by Zhao Junsheng as the general of Zhendong, he wanted to bring some materials to the field to comfort the cadres and soldiers, but Qizhou City has been fighting for most of the year, the city is about to be scrapped, the defenders and people in the city are hungry every day, where does he have spare materials to comfort the cadres and soldiers.

Although after the withdrawal of the Southern Korean army, Qizhou quickly returned to calm, and the people also went out of the city to find food and work in order to survive, but the New Year's rations were still provided by the government.

Although he couldn't take out the materials to comfort the cadres and soldiers, Sima Chuzhi still had to take the civil and military officials out of the city to the barracks to meet Zhao Junsheng and Hua Mulan, at least this was a gesture.

Sima Chuzhi and the accompanying officials and generals not only did not bring anything, but also mixed a Chinese New Year's Eve meal with Zhao Junsheng, and the wine and meat were enough.

Chinese New Year's Eve is a rare festival, Zhao Junsheng allowed the soldiers to drink a bowl of wine each, and countless fires were lit in the open space outside the camp, and the soldiers gathered around the fire to drink and eat meat and chat.

Sima Chuzhi and the others stayed in the barracks outside the city for less than an hour before leaving and returning to the city.

Before leaving, Zhao Junsheng sent him outside the camp gate.

"General, now that the counties and counties of Qizhou have been recovered by our army, you, as the assassin of Qizhou, the government affairs of the Assassin Mansion and the following counties must be restored, and after the Spring Festival, the people should be organized to resume production as soon as possible, especially the construction of water conservancy facilities, canal dredging, land ploughing, and the preparation of improved seeds, etc., which must be gradually put in place!"

The recovery of all counties and counties in Qizhou was done by Gao Xu with his troops, and the new officials were also temporarily appointed by Gao Xu, and Gao Xu was Zhao Junsheng's confidant, and the appointment of those officials was not what Zhao Junsheng meant?

Sima Chuzhi knew this, he basically couldn't interfere in the government affairs of the counties below, if he wanted to issue any decree, if the Taishou and county orders of the counties below did not obey, wouldn't he have no prestige in this assassin's history? He wouldn't do this kind of ugly thing for himself.

Since he couldn't manage it anymore, Sima Chuzhi decided to simply throw away the government affairs, and he said to Zhao Junsheng: "I heard that all states, counties, and counties under the rule of the king have implemented the separation of military and political affairs, and if there is an exception here in Qizhou, it is not good to say it." At this time, the minister also thought about it for a few days, and decided to hand over the affairs of government affairs and governance, only in charge of military affairs, and the minister was a lot easier, and he could also focus on military affairs. ”

Zhao Junsheng turned his head to look at Sima Chuzhi and asked, "Did the general hear any gossip?" ”

Sima Chuzhi hurriedly clenched his fists: "No, no, your majesty really thinks so, and you have already had this plan, the minister focuses on military affairs, which is good for the soldiers of Qizhou!" ”

Zhao Junsheng thought about it for a while, but agreed: "Since the general has already planned this, it is okay, this king will send another person to be the assassin of Qizhou." The general took the general of Zhendong as the general of Qizhou, and said that he was still a high position and a low position, so let's do it, this king ordered the generals to supervise Qi and Qingzhu military, and the soldiers and horses of Qizhou were reorganized into two armies, namely the Taishan Army and the Wenshui Army, the military envoys of these two armies, and the general had the right to recommend! ”

With this kind of treatment, Sima Chuzhi already felt very high, he hugged his fists and said, "Thank you, King!" ”

Zhao Junsheng waved his hand and retreated, and said to Sima Chuzhi: "This king plans to wave his troops eastward and attack Qingzhou after the fifth day of the first lunar month, I don't know what the general thinks?" ”

Sima Chuzhi thought for a while and said: "The northerners are hardy, the southerners are not cold-resistant, now although it is said that spring has begun, but it is still early for the spring to bloom, his subordinates think that the king can take advantage of this cold season to attack, Tan Daoji will not dare to fight with the general in the field, he will definitely send heavy troops to garrison the main cities, the king can send troops to recover the county seats, and then concentrate his forces to attack the county and state cities." This warlord is ordered to go to battle with the army, please allow the king! ”

Zhao Junsheng said: "Your mood is understood by this king, it's just that the Qizhou army has suffered heavy losses in defending the city for more than half a year, and the soldiers are tired and need time to recuperate, so they will stay and replenish their troops while cultivating, and then make plans after completing the reorganization drill, how about it?" ”

"This ······"

Zhao Junsheng smiled and said: "If you really want to make some effort, so be it, just order Wang Huilong to bring 3,000 people with the army, how about it!" ”

Sima Chuzhi agreed: "Yes!" ”