A few days later, the Chang'an court issued an edict to add General Pei Gaiwei - General Wei does not need to add the word "big", which is a heavy number - ordered to serve in the middle; Feng Yi and Beidi counties in Yongzhou were Shuozhou, and Pei should be ordered to go to recover and assassinate his state and supervise his army. And as recommended by Pei Gai, Ren Taokan was the county guard of Feng Yi, Pei Wei was the county guard of Beidi, and Bian Yan was the assassin of Xuzhou, and Xun Song was summoned to Beijing to participate in political affairs.

Bai Zu Ti is the history of Sizhou Thorn and the right servant, and the envoy is the military governor of the three states of Si, Yan and Henan, and Li Ju is the Yin of Henan and Wei should be the Taishou of Xingyang. The rest of the meritorious generals, each with a reward, in the Xuzhou army - Liu Yetang is the general of the left guard, Zhen Sui is the general of the right guard, Beigong Chun is the general of the cavalry, Gao Le is the captain of the infantry, and Lu Yan is the captain of Changshui; forgive the sins of the king's tribute, and order him to be the head of Chongquan; Make Lu Zhi's father the Huayin Order, and Xu Yu as the Yang Chief.

Among them, the important town of Huayin was handed over to Lu Zhifu, which was not on the small list that Pei Gai had originally drafted, but the product of a temporary compromise. Pei Gai wanted to take Hongnong County at first, so that he could collude with Zu Li in Fengyi and Beidi Second County across Weishui, but Suo Qi insisted on not allowing it, and still wanted Liang Su to continue to do it in the position of Hongnong County, and after repeated negotiations, he finally only gave up Huayin County.

At this time, Tao Kan and others led the rear army to arrive at the Doutian Wall, Suo Qi was like a great enemy, falsely claiming that someone wanted to cause chaos, strengthened the defense of Chang'an City, and ordered a curfew. Pei should scoff at this - if I really want to attack Chang'an, the small city may be difficult to take, and the outer city is not just a play, and it is useless for you to fortify it. After he entered the court, he immediately went out of the city to meet Tao Kan, and told Lu Zhifu thousands of times and thousands of instructions, saying that I will hand over the grain transport to you, and I must guard it for me.

Although Lu Zhi's father is good-looking, he is not liked by Pei Gai - although he does not judge people by his appearance, but everyone likes beauties, and he doesn't like to deal with ugly monsters, and Lu Zhi's father has not made any great achievements since he returned to Xuzhou - but Pei Wei has made many suggestions to Pei Cai, saying that this talent can be of great use, so Pei Caicai has obtained the position of Huayin Order for Lu Zhi's father. The key is that Pei Gai has too few talents, especially administrative officials, Pei Wei still has to stay by his side to prepare for the staff officer, Wang Gong can't be reassuring after all, so he has to believe in Lu Zhifu for the time being.

Pei should follow his promise and let the soldiers spend the New Year in Chang'an—in fact, outside Chang'an—and then set out for the camp and set off north, along Weishui in the north of Bacheng, and Yinban and Xinfeng in the east. He originally wanted to invite Lu Yun from Wannian County to come over to see what kind of temperament this person was and whether he could be entrapped, but Lu Zhongke politely declined Pei Gai's invitation under the pretext of illness.

Lu Yun is the governor of the capital, in fact, this title is the same as Sima Rui's "governor of the Chinese and foreign military", which is fundamentally repeated, but Sima Rui can't control Kansai, and Lu Yun can't manage Kanto, so he can be at peace for the time being. But theoretically, the soldiers and horses of the states and counties west of Huayin have to listen to Koi Yun, but before that, he couldn't manage Suoqi in Chang'an, and he couldn't manage Sima Bao in Qinzhou, so he was already very depressed...... Naturally, I was not upset.

In fact, for Pei should enter the customs, the court naturally had to inform Lu Yun, and Lu Yun wrote to Suo and Liang for this reason, suggesting that Pei should be allowed to serve in a higher position or even higher, and stay in the court as an auxiliary government, and at least half of the Xuzhou soldiers and horses brought by Pei should be transferred to my command...... Of course, neither Suo Qi nor Pei Gai could agree to this, and Koji Zhongke was just wishful thinking.

So he didn't want to see Pei Gai, especially now that the two of them are the same product, although Lu Yun seems to be slightly half a head taller, but he can't stand Pei Gai's portal dignitary, so what kind of attitude should he take to meet him? Forget it, if you don't see each other, both sides perform their own duties, and it's best not to get along.

Pei should be stationed in Xinfeng County for three days, and he was not allowed to meet with Lu Yun, so he continued to set off, crossed the Weishui, and pointed to Xiaqi. Xiatai County is already under the jurisdiction of Feng Yi County, but it is still in the hands of the Jin Dynasty, as for the counties of Lian Spoon and Chongquan further north, and even Feng Yi County Zhi Dali, they have long been reduced to Hu hands.

Pei Gai, Pei Wei and other staff officers carefully studied the hydrological conditions of the West River and realized that if Hu Jun crossed the river and came back, there were three places where the army could be allowed to cross, from south to north: Pujindu near Puban (in Sizhou), Xiayangdu near Xiayang and Fenyin (in Sizhou), and Caisangjin near Hukoushan (in Sizhou).

Of course, there must be a ferry further north, but from the north of Liangshan to the Luchuan where Liu Hu was entrenched, during which the Xihe and Shangjun of the Han Dynasty belonged to it, and now it has long been occupied by Qianghu, the cities and hills, the fields are barren, and there are only scattered pastures scattered everywhere, and the army passes, and the supply is difficult - after all, the Hu and Han dynasties are not rich, and the grain is also stretched, and it is impossible to give a sufficient amount to prepare for the cost of such a long-distance transshipment.

Therefore, Pei Gai's forward strategy was to take Dali first, then seize Heyang and Xiayang, blockade Pujin and Xiayang Erdu, and then set up a fortress at the dangerous point of Liangshan in the north to prevent the Hu army from crossing the river from Caisangjin or somewhere further north from coming all the way south. As for the counties on the western side, and even the northern counties, it is enough to send another battalion to receive them when they have time.

At the beginning, the military operation was very smooth, although Liu Yao left his troops to garrison the counties, but after all, the gains were not long, and the grassroots organization could not be established, resulting in a very weak defense - especially when he withdrew in a hurry, it was even more difficult to stop Pei Gai from leading the army to attack. For the city, Pei Gai mainly focuses on attacking the heart, as long as he is willing to surrender, he can ignore the previous crimes of Hu; For the countryside, they slaughtered all the way and destroyed all the dock forts.

As the saying goes, "the royal power does not go to the countryside", it is easy to control the cities and towns in these years, but it is quite difficult to firmly control the townships and villages, and Pei Gai does not have so many manpower to call. Once the Hu army is killed, those Wubao armed forces towards Qin and Duchu will be quite a tricky variable for Pei Gai. Therefore, if the forts are willing to disarm and destroy the fortifications, they will do so; After a little resistance, Pei Gai didn't bother to persuade him to surrender, and directly set up artillery carts and ladders to conquer it, and then killed his head for the crime of attaching Hu, and destroyed the dock fort, confiscated food and property, and the people in the fort, regardless of men, women, old and young, were all official slaves and sent to Weibei to go to Tuntian.

After seizing Zhucheng, he ordered Lu He to lead the "Wulin Left Battalion" to Liangshan to choose a place to settle down, and ordered Gao Le to lead the "Wulin Middle Battalion" to settle in Xiayang, and Lu Yan to lead the "Pengshan Middle Battalion" to settle in Haoyang. Tao Kan was ordered to consolidate the defense of Dali, and Wang Ze and Xie Feng led the second battalion of "Robbery Fire" to attack the western counties and Beidi County.

Everything is properly arranged, it is only February of the fourth year of Jianxing, and it is estimated that Chang'an's edict to worship Bian Yan and Xuzhou Assassin History, summoning Xun Song to Chang'an, and the messenger who welcomed his wife Xun's entry into the customs have not yet arrived in Huaiyin - leaving a battalion to guard the strategic point of Chenggao and Gong County, and ordering Liu Yetang to lead the rest of the troops to enter the customs to come to the meeting, but it has not yet arrived; Guo Mo, who went to Suiyang to kidnap Sima Pei, was even nowhere to be seen - Pei should go to the territory of Xiatai County in Weibei with Pei Wei in a down-to-earth manner to organize Mintun - it is almost time for spring sowing. However, he had just arrived in Xiatai, and he was not warm at the table, and suddenly got a report, saying that he had robbed a group of merchants in Pujindu, and according to his situation, the chaos had been calmed down, and the army was about to attack Guanzhong again!

Pei Gai was shocked on the spot, the speed was so fast, it was really unexpected to me. Hurriedly asked: "Liu Cang wins, or Liu Yao wins?" The reply was: "The two thieves have not seen a ...... battle"

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Pei Gai originally thought that this "Qingjun side", which had not appeared in history, and the Hu and Han infighting would last for at least half a year, which was enough for him to recover and consolidate the defense of Shuozhou, and the Hu people suffered a certain loss of strength because of this - whether it would be a big loss, in fact, he did not dare to repay the extravagant hope - maybe it would be later than the autumn when the horse was fat, and he would go south again.

The main thing Pei Gai understands is the history of later generations, not the real people of the world, history is created by people, often a thought, although it may not reverse the trend of history, but can speed up or slow down the flow of the long river of history. So he misexpected three people:

One is Liu Yi, this is a waste, Pei Gai naturally knew about it, but he was forced to the bottom of a desperate situation and was able to rebound, which Pei Gai did not expect before, and at the same time, the waste personality did not rebound, and he didn't think of it...... Liu Yi was in Huayin before, wrote a letter to contact Liu Yao, although he got a satisfactory answer, he was still suspicious, for fear that Liu Yao would send him to the Weibei camp, and then tie him to Pingyang, so the envoys repeatedly went back and forth between the north and south of Weishui, Liu Yao did not make more requests at all, but Liu Yao took the initiative to gradually increase the promise, and finally promised Liu Yao that:

To the west of the Yellow River, Liu Yao belonged to him, who was named the king of Qin, worshiped Xiangguo and Da Danyu, and supervised the Chinese and foreign military, and the military and government were entrusted to him...... If Liu Dan hadn't stopped him, it is estimated that he would have to add nine tin.

The time was delayed, and on the other hand, Liu Cang had not yet received the news of Liu Yao's mobilization, so he hurried back to Pingyang, but when he arrived at the place, he inquired about Liu Yao and Liu Yi......

Liu Cangxin said that he had known that I would stay in Yanshi for a few more days to help my brother Liu Fu frustrate the momentum of the Jin army first, and he didn't know if Liu Fu could hold Yanshi - in fact, Liu Fu should almost hang up at this time, but the news has not yet been delivered.

Pei Gai's second mistake is that Liu Yao is not ambitious. Don't look at the original history, he finally won the throne, but that was because Liu Cang and Jin Zhun killed Liu Yuan's descendants one after another, and Liu Cang was able to slaughter all the collateral lines to inherit the unification - this person has not had the intention of arbitrarily powering or even usurping the throne so far. The reason why he helped Liu Yi was purely because Liu Yi was a serious imperial brother, in fact, his qualifications for succession were higher than Liu Cong's, and Jin Zhun, Wang Shen and other traitorous ministers were angry and resentful, Liu Yao and Liu Cang were not in harmony, so they agreed to the matter of "Qingjun's side".

However, Liu Yao knew that the soldiers were fast, and once Liu Cang led the troops back to Pingyang in time, his hope was not great. Liu Yi always procrastinates, and the more the other party makes a wish, the more Liu Yao feels that this matter is unreliable...... That imperial brother is naturally even more unreliable. Therefore, the army crossed the Yellow River and settled in Hedong County, and Liu Cang sent people to negotiate with Liu Yao, and Liu Yao naturally changed his course.

The third mistaken recognition is that Liu Cang's decision to kill is really the style of his father's ancestors. After he returned to Pingyang, he didn't blink, and immediately killed Liu Yi's subordinate officials, detained his family, and also sent someone to take custody of Liu Yao's mother Hu, his wife Bu and his second sons Liu Jian and Liu Yin, and then sent an envoy to negotiate with Liu Yao, asking Liu Yao to hand over Liu Yi, and the concession he made was - King Yong, who promised you before, did not attach any conditions, and gave it to you directly!

Liu Yao will naturally put forward his own requirements, which can be summarized into four points: first, pardon Liu Yi and not abolish his status as the crown prince; Second, if the party forgives Fan Long, the former lieutenant of the party and Liu Yi, and Wang Yan, the doctor of Jin Ziguanglu, they can be dismissed from office and must not be injured; third, ordered Liu Dan and Chen Yuanda to stay in Liu Yao's army to participate in the shogunate; Fourth, kill Jin Zhun and Wang Shen, Xuan Huai and other lieutenant officials to thank the world.

Liu Cang directly sent Shangshu Ling Wang Jian over, and said to Liu Yao: "The emperor's younger brother is rebellious, and he can't stay in the storage position; Jin Zhun is an important minister of the country, and his daughter serves the Son of Heaven, and she must not be harmed. The rest are obedient. ”

The two began to bargain over this, and discussed secretly all night, and the final result was:

Liu Yi was demoted as the king of the north, Fan Long and Wang Yan were dismissed as commoners, and they were taken back to Pingyang, and Liu Cang promised not to hurt the lives of the three people; demoted Liu Dan and Chen Yuanda to official positions, and made Liu Yao, the king of Yong, military; After killing Wang Shen, Xuanhuai and other eunuchs, Jin Zhun no longer served as a scholar and became an auxiliary general.

Immediately, Liu Cang led his troops straight into the harem, and pulled Wang Shen and Xuanhuai out in front of his father Liu Cong, and cut off their heads one by one. Liu Cong was furious and scolded: "They serve me diligently, every day, and they are not guilty, even if they are guilty, they are all done by your foreign ministers—why do they kill without permission?" Liu Cang arched his hand and said: "I don't want to kill them, it's really what Liu Yao wants." Unless His Majesty personally mentions the Sixth Division and conquests Liu Yao, the only way to take their heads is to retreat from the army! Liu Cong sighed, and said helplessly: "Even so, Jin Zhun can't be killed." "Liu Cang said Dad, don't worry, not only will you not kill, but when Liu Yao withdraws, I will find an opportunity to transfer Jin Zhun back to the center.

Immediately, Liu Cang carried two heads of the eunuch temple and ran to Linfen to meet Liu Yao in person, and the two sides made a bloody alliance. Only then did Liu Yao send out Liu Yi, Fan Long and others. Liu Yi cried and wiped away tears and complained to Liu Dan: "Uncle hurt me." Liu Dan hung his head in shame and couldn't answer. However, Chen Yuanda said a fair word: "Those who harm His Highness, His Highness himself, is not Duke Liu." Although Liu Gong's plot disrupted the state politics and made Yuan Da dare not hear about it, if His Royal Highness made a decisive decision and did not delay it, why would it be so? ”

Liu Cang escorted the three of them back to Pingyang, and as soon as they arrived at the place, they imprisoned Liu Yi and put Fan Long and Wang Yan in prison - I really didn't kill them, anyway, there are many opportunities, when Liu Yongming you go a little farther, I will find an excuse to get rid of it, but it's just a gesture.

As for Liu Yao, he took the opportunity to ask Liu Cang for more grain and materials, and then immediately turned around and wanted to cross the Yellow River again and attack Chang'an - Yongzhou was promised by Liu Cang, and I had to take it down quickly. Who wanted to advance to Fenyin, but found that there was already a Jin division banner on the other side of the river, hurriedly listened to the truth, and returned to report to Liu Yao. Liu Yao couldn't help but be taken aback: "The Jin people are so bold, I just retreated, did I dare to come and take Feng Yi?!" "Just ask whose man it is, Ko Yun?

When he was rewarded, saying that Chang'an had sent Pei Gai to lead troops to recover Feng Yi and the two counties of Beidi, Liu Yao couldn't help but groan. Changshi Cao Sui asked him: "Pei Gai is a scholar, only because Xu Fang is remote and Wang Shi is not in time, so he can survive so far." Now he is leading the army to come, if he follows the ancestors, he can still fight, but he is alone in the west of the river, what is there to be afraid of? Why is the king so embarrassed? ”

Liu Yao smiled: "Am I not a scholar?" ”