Three days later, Gao Yue rushed to the camp of Dong Jin, the envoy of the eastern province of Shannan.

Dong Jin led an army of 20,000 this time, starting from Nanyang, to join the conquest of Huaixi, but in the battle of Xiaoluhe, he took the lead in retreating and fleeing, losing his troops and losing his generals, and then he didn't even dare to defend Ruzhou, because 3,000 Huaixi soldiers captured Xiangcheng, just opposite him, so frightened that Dong Jin retreated directly to Luyang Pass, ready to return to the town at any time.

If Ruzhou is not defended, then the imperial capital Luoyang will be in danger.

In Luyang Pass, Dong Jin's camp, Gao Yue led dozens of accompanying Sanya military officials and armor soldiers, and walked in proudly.

The festival made Dong Jin's heart weak, and he hurriedly retreated to the side, while the other generals of Shannan Dongdao all got up and bowed, and after singing, they all bowed their heads, where is there still the spirit of the past.

Gao Yue stood in the center, immediately lowered his face, pressed the whip on the opposite bookcase, and asked in a low and clear voice: "Who escaped first in the battle of Xiaoluhe?" ”

Dong Jin was so frightened that his face turned pale.

The generals looked at their noses, noses, mouths, mouths, feet, and feet, without making a sound, like mud puppets.

"Since no one is willing to take responsibility, then ask the prison guard." After finishing speaking, Gao Yue whipped the tip and pointed directly at Xue Shangyan, the military envoy of Shannan Dongdao.

Xue Shangyan was dumbfounded by the question, and then he could only explain with a smile on his face that it was the Xuanwu army on the other wing that retreated privately first, which led to Cai Kou's cover-up attack.

"I didn't ask Xuanwujun, Xuanwujun will immediately go to find Xuanwujun's guilt, and now I'm asking about the team of Shannan Dongdao, what's going on." Gao Yue's tone was very cold.

Xue Shangyan bared his teeth and scratched his ears and cheeks.

"As a prison envoy, my duty is to monitor the punishment and reward and detect the mistakes, but now if you ask the question and ask the blind, then you will behead Xue Shangyan!" Gao Yue asked, and then the Li Xian and Li Yu brothers beside him immediately drew their swords and came out.

Xue Shangyan has always been a powerful eunuch in the palace, and now he is in charge of the Xiangyang army, and the wingmen and generals are all attached to him, but now he is reprimanded by Gao Yue, and he actually wants to be beheaded on the spot, so frightened that he suddenly lost his prestige, so he stepped forward and shouted: "Ji Gong forgives the first to escape, it is the ten generals Yang Shangqing and the drum horn general Fang Ningzhi who escaped first!" ”

Suddenly there was an uproar in the tent, Yang Shangqing and Fang Ningzhi immediately knelt down, hugged Xue Shangyan's thigh, and even begged for escape.

"Behead Yang Shangqing, Fang Ningzhi." Gao Yue had no room for manoeuvre.

"Not guilty." The two of them shouted and defended endlessly.

"The two armies confronted each other, escaped in private, shook the morale of the army, destroyed the soldiers, and said that they were not guilty?"

"The defeat of Xiaoluhe is our sin, so whose sin is it that we lost Chang'an and moved Fengtian in the first place?"

"Yongnu, I don't know how to die yet!" Gao Yue was furious, and soon the two generals were pushed out in full view of everyone, and their bloody heads were sacrificed.

The generals of Shannan Dongdao were all tied, and the two forces were fighting, and they were suddenly lost.

"In the battle of Xiaoluhe, who is the queen of the palace, and the last to go?" Gao Yue then asked.

At this time, Xue Shangyan didn't have any extra movements, and said simply: "Lang Zhong of the driving department of the inspection school and Sima Yu Di of the marching army have special merits." ”

At this time, Yu Di turned out and saluted Gao Yue.

"Could it be that the former Chang'an ordered Yu Yunyuan?" Gao Yue asked.

At this time, Yu Di said yes.

Yu Di, the seventh grandson of Yu Jin, the Taishi of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, started with the shadow of the door, and is now serving as a Sima official in the Dong Jin shogunate.

In the previous battle of Xiaoluhe, he was the only one who led hundreds of soldiers, and he was not chaotic in the face of defeat, and slowly protected Dong Jin to retreat safely.

Gao Yue said to Dong Jin: "Shannan Dongdao, Guanxiang, Deng, Tang, Sui, Ying, Fu, Jun, and Fang Bazhou. Dong Xianggong is not proficient in military affairs, but he is also adjacent to Huaixi Cai Kou in the east, and the war situation is urgent, so he might as well separate Tang, Deng, and Suizhou, and take Yu Yunyuan as the envoy of Tang and Deng, and take charge of most of the soldiers and horses; Dong Xianggong succeeded as the envoy of Shannan Dongdao, and paid taxes to the five states of Xiang, Ying, Fu, Jun, and Fang, and supplied the military horses to Huaixi. ”

In this regard, Dong Jin did not dare to have any rebuttal.

The role of the former Zhongshu Shilang and the eight states of the eastern province of Shannan was completely like a subordinate who was going away in front of Gao Yue.

Subsequently, the soldiers and horses of the entire Shannan East Road, as promised by Gao Yue in advance, no longer stayed in Ruzhou, but returned directly to the town from Luyang Pass, Dong Jin and Yu Di also followed the same "sub-town" - soon, the emperor of the Daming Palace approved Gao Yue's arrangement in the form of a formal edict, 20,000 soldiers and horses of Shannan Dongdao, divided into 15,000 to Yu Di, stationed in Deng, Tang, and Suizhou; After that, Dong Jin was only in charge of the people's livelihood affairs in the other five states, and was responsible for supplying grain, grass, and money and silk to Yu Yi according to the amount.

Immediately, the officers and troops of the Tang Dynasty really divided their own areas to hold on, and Gao Yue personally sat in Yangzhai and issued a "watch and mutual aid order", requiring that if any army was attacked, other armies should be rescued.

Huaixi Yong's generals Wu Shaoyang, Dong Chongzhen, Zhang Jiayu, and Xue Yi really attacked in a big way, attacking Changshe City, which was defended by the loyal military army, Quhuan desperately defended it, and repeatedly thwarted Huaixi's offensive.

Yan Zichu, who learned that Changshe City was in danger, hurriedly sent seven hundred cavalry to help.

Liu Chang on the Western Front led 3,000 Shenwei troops, including 500 cavalry and 300 Shenlei Thunderbolts, by surprise, attacked Xiangcheng directly, captured Liang Jun, the Huaixi general, and beheaded more than 300 pieces, and then besieged Xiangcheng on a large scale.

Dong Chongzhi, who was attacking Changshe, heard the news and hurriedly led more than 1,000 of the most elite mule troops to save Xiangcheng in turn.

Liu Chang let three hundred firecrackers ambush behind the dry embankment in the northeast of Xiangcheng, and when Dong Chongzhi's mule army was outdated, he fired a fierce salvo sideways fire - Dong Chongzhen's uncle's mule army soldiers and horses made Dong Xianchang drink bullets and die, and the Huaixi mule soldiers were immediately shot dead more than 100 people, and fled in a big rout - Liu Chang made 500 cavalry pursue more than 30 miles, and killed more than 200 Cai Kou, for a time shocked the enemy, Wu Shaoyang was frightened and inexplicable, and hurriedly gave up the attack on Changshe, burned the camp that stretched for more than ten miles, and fled to Yuncheng.

Yu Di also seized the opportunity and led 5,000 elites out of Tangzhou to storm Wenchengzha in Huaixi.

Suddenly, Huaixi's advantage was lost, and Wu Shaocheng was very passive, so he sent an envoy to Yang Zhai to ask Gao Yue for mercy.

At this moment, Yang Yuanqing had already invested in Gao Yue's account, crying and persuading Gao Yue not to forgive Wu Shaocheng and Wu Shaoyang.

So Gao Yue expelled the Huaixi envoys back, did not accept the conditional submission of the Wu brothers, and supplied the front-line armies, urging them to train soldiers and prepare for a counterattack on Yuncheng.

"If Yuncheng is lost, the Caizhou gateway will be opened!" Wu Shaocheng also went crazy, like a red-eyed gambler, and began to concentrate all the elites in Yuncheng, wanting to resist stubbornly.

"Let the Herald Division send a letter to Li Wanrong of the Xuanwu Army, instructing him to order 10,000 elite soldiers within five days to rush to the Wei clan to accept the dispatch of this way." Gao Yue was not in a hurry to attack Huaixi, but wanted to take advantage of Liu Chang's victory in Xiangcheng to take the volatile Biansong again.

When the secret letter arrived in the Bianzhou Military City, Li Wanrong came to the military supervision courtyard again, beat his chest to Ju Wenzhen, shed tears, and scolded Huaixi wolf-hearted, he had long suspected that they were the murderers of Zhao Zhonglang, and admitted to Ju Wenzhen that Wu Shaocheng had also sent secret envoys to instigate him before, but he was extremely loyal.

Soon, the heads of several beheaded Huaixi envoys were sent to Ju Wenzhen.

"Wu Shaocheng also said that if he is humble, he will cede Chenzhou to the Xuanwu Army, which is just a joke, not to mention Chenzhou, that is, Zheng Slip Xu Ying, even if he is from the east, he will never rebel against the court."