Xu Gong was escorted to Su Jun, but he refused to accept it, but instead made sarcastic remarks. Su Zigao was furious, and said left and right: "This thief is crazy, do you still have to be escorted to Luoyang?" ”

All the generals are cloudy: "It's okay to kill!" ”

So Su Jun ordered Xu Gong to be pushed down, beheaded by his head, and ordered Yuanmen.

- In fact, Xu Niche was much luckier than in the original history, and he was not put into his pocket by Shi Le, who was annoyed that he was rebellious, and threw it down from a hundred-foot building, and then made Wang Budu, the wife and children who were killed by Xu Niche, cut off the meat......

Although Xu Gong died, his long history Liu Xiao and Qin Gu, the general who guarded Puyang, led the remnants of the army to flee to Zhang Fu in Yiyan County. And Su Jun had Puyang, and the revival division was mighty and westward, approaching Yan County. Zhang Fu took advantage of the Jin army to come far away, the foothold was not stable, and took the initiative to go out of the city to meet the attack, and the "Donglai Battalion" defeated Ma Xiong and left, and the corpses reached more than 200.

Since leaving Mount Tai, the "Donglai Battalion" has been marching all the way, and has not encountered a strong enemy, and the generals have generally bred pride, and they have not taken into account that not only have they not been in contact with the elite of the army before, but also more than half of the vicious battles are mainly fought by the Shao army...... The defeat of Ma Xiong sounded the alarm for the big guys, and Su Jun took the opportunity to order the troops to retreat to the Wating area east of Yan County, set up a barracks, and not engage the enemy for the time being.

On the surface, it was to reorganize the troops and rest the fatigue of continuous battles and multi-day treks, but in fact, Su Jun was afraid that Shile would send a large army to reinforce Yan County and attack him. It is reported that the main force of the Qianjun army is still in Xingyang, and according to Su Zigao's judgment, he will not give up in Wenshijin, Jianjin and other places in Yan County. If he was in a hurry, causing Shile to lead the army back, wouldn't he be asking for hardship?

It is better to stabilize the situation in the newly restored counties and continue to expand the number of troops and horses, so as to cope with the major battles that may have to be faced.

It is said that Su Jun recruited rebels all the way, and when he crossed Puyang, the strength of the army had grown to nearly 30,000 people - on the one hand, the garrisons of various cities defeated by the Qian army in the past came to meet each other, and on the other hand, the "Donglai Battalion" also recruited new soldiers among the landless farmers without restraint - not to mention the further decline in the quality of soldiers, which naturally produced a huge gap in grain and materials.

The grain of the "Donglai Camp" originally mainly relied on Le'an County, while Qi State and Beihai, which also belonged to Qingzhou, were often perfunctory, and Jinan County claimed to only supply the "revenge army" of Tunzhalicheng. Previously, Su Jun went south to Mount Tai to "suppress bandits", using both soft and hard, and took out tens of thousands of grains from Yangjian's mouth for the use of the western expedition. Along the way, however, the treasury was half empty, and the wild people were hungry—all of them were taken captive by the soldiers—and now that there was not much food, but the army was swollen, how could there be no problems?

This is also one of the reasons why Su Jun stopped at Wating. On the one hand, he sent Jia Ning, who joined the army, to return to Qingzhou to ask Wang Gong and other guards for grain and grass, and on the other hand, he sent Guan Shang, Honghui and other generals to lead troops south to coerce Chenliu, Jiyin and other counties that had not suffered disasters to hand over their grain deposits. Shao Zhu made a suggestion: "Smell the thief's grain, from the west of Baigou to the west, gather in Fangtou, why not send troops to cross the river to the north to plunder it?" If we can capture Fangtou, not only will our army have food and food, but the thieves will not be able to fight in Xingyang for a long time. ”

However, Su Jun refused to agree. The main nearest ferry is still in the hands of Zhang Fu, if you force the crossing from Liyang and other places, one is the river is wide and the water is urgent, and the other is that Zhao has already laid down a lot of forts along the river, and the danger factor is quite high. Of course, the most important thing is that Su Jun doesn't want to face Shi Le's main force yet, and if he captures the fangtou, even if it is just a momentum, Shi Le will definitely kill him and fight for his life!

It's better to wait for the news from Xingyang, once Zu Ti has the upper hand, Shi Le's defeat and retreat can be expected, and he will cross the river to kill Fangtou again, then the first merit of defeating the enemy, even Zu Ti may not be able to grab it.

Shao Zhu's suggestions were not taken seriously, and the army did not continue to have food and straw - Su Jun had grain for the "Donglai Battalion" first, and for the Shao family's army, they often only sent some Chen Gu and barnyard chaff to make up the number - both up and down were bitter. Duan Wenyang couldn't help it, and rushed straight to Su Jun's camp and spoke bluntly, but was blasted out by Su Jun. So Shao, Duan, Liu and other generals gathered together to discuss, and Liu Yao said: "If you can cross the river and threaten Fangtou as General Shao's plan, the situation will change in an instant." However, Su Zigao seems to be brave and cowardly, and he doesn't dare to do it. We are really not under their jurisdiction, but we are only temporarily dependent, so why not do it ourselves? ”

Shao Zhu hesitated: "My family members and people are all in Le'an, how dare we act recklessly?" ”

Duan Wenyang said: "Disgusted with inferior people, since they are civilians, they must not be managed by Su Jun, I think Wang Taishou (Wang Gong) and Xie Xianling (Xie Pei) are all good people, and they have given up the good land to settle each family, how can there be any reason to be angry?" It's better to take advantage of Shi Le's emptiness in Xingyang, and we will cross the river to kill, so as not to suffer Su Jun's idleness - he often makes us attack first, but we suffer from it, how hateful! ”

Liu Yao glanced at Duan Wenyang, and said in his heart that it wasn't because you always hit the tricks...... It's just that the Duan family was an old friend, and they used to stick to it together, Shao Zhu and the others had already regarded Duan Wenyang as a family, so he was excited, and Shao Jiajun had to follow up with tears.

After listening to Duan Wenyang's words, Shao Xu still shook his head and said: "Now that our department is damaged, there are few replenishments, less than 2,000 people, and the grain and materials are not continued, how can we have the strength to go north alone?" "The generals have discussed for a long time, and the final conclusion is that staying under Su Jun's command is really angry, so it is better to stay away for the time being, so that we can reorganize and expand the army. So several people ran to plead with Su Jun repeatedly, and asked Han Huang and other generals to help intercede, before they were allowed to temporarily retreat east to Weicheng to rest their troops.

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Zhang Bin was in Youzhou, and after defeating the Murong clan, he believed that he would not encounter a strong enemy again in the short term, so he finally had some spare time to plan the general trend of the world.

Originally, Zhang Bin was skeptical about Zhang Jing's proposition, and when he heard that Zu Tishi was the general of the Chinese army, he couldn't help but sigh angrily: "My king is in danger!" ”

Youzhou and Xingyang were far apart after all, the transmission of information was very slow, and there was no need for Shi Le to report to Zhang Bin about the specific situation of the war, which caused the news he obtained to not only lag behind, but also ambiguous. He just knew that Zu was sick and actually recovered and led the Jin army, and clashed with the main force of the Zhao army in Xingyang.

"Sun Tzu's Art of War" cloud: "The husband is the victor without a fight, and he has to count a lot; The temple is not victorious without a fight, and it is considered to be less. More wins, less wins, and nothing counts? "Zhang Bin hates Zhang Jing because of this, how can you pin your hope of victory on the indefinite condition of Zu Li? Even if Zu Ti was not a fraudulent, he might have recovered suddenly; If Luoyang is not lucky, he may also quickly summon Pei Gai or other famous generals of the Guanzhong Army to command the battle, so take this as a gamble, what are the chances of winning?

Don't mention the Battle of Changping. With Zhao Kuo and Yi Lianpo, this is not the Qin people's luck, but after careful consideration, Ying Hou Fan Ju took advantage of the situation step by step, and only then did he pull the battle situation to his advantage. Unless Zhang Jing and Cheng Yao have used a clever counter-strategy, so that Zu Yi must go to the position and cannot take charge of the army, how can they derive the odds by relying on the uncertain and potentially changing prerequisites?

For Shi Le's big gamble, Zhang Bin originally thought that it was only five or five, but now he judged that the odds of winning had shrunk to three or four percent - most of them would end in a big defeat!

Zhang Mengsun didn't have the rampage of Shi Le in his bones, thinking that he planned to make Shi Le, who was displaced, enter Handan and Xiangguo, the situation seemed unfavorable, but in fact, there was a sixty percent chance of winning - after getting Pei Gai's support, I felt that it could be increased to seventy percent; And now Shile has the whole of Hebei, or even half of the state as a basis, the so-called "son of a daughter, can't sit down", in Zhang Bin's view, there is no more than seventy percent chance of victory, the battle is not worth fighting. It's a pity that he can understand Shi Le's character, but Zhang Jing's delusions are completely difficult to judge.

- Zhang Jing, Zhang Jing, in order to climb on the head of the old man, do you want to throw away the fortunes of the country?

Therefore, Zhang Bin must plan a countermeasure in advance for the situation after Shile's defeat. In his mind, it was better for Shi Le to be defeated early than late, because if he was defeated early, the material consumption was not very large, and he still had the strength to defend by the river, so as to prevent Zu Ti from taking advantage of the victory to pursue and drive straight in; And if it is defeated later, with hundreds of thousands of troops outside, it is likely to empty out the family's foundation, and I am afraid that when the time comes, there will be few soldiers and no food, and it will be difficult to hold even the defense. It's just that this is not something that Zhang Bin can decide, he can write a letter to persuade Shi Le to withdraw from the army, but it is estimated that it will not have much effect. Naturally, he couldn't advise Shi Le: It's better for you to lose quickly!

So after a while, he wrote letters to the guards in various places, asking them to set up grain and grass and preset defense lines at various key points in Hebei in advance, such as Chaoge, Santai, Neihuang, Handan and other places, in the hope that once there was a change, they could gradually weaken the sharpness of the Jin people's northward advance. He also wrote a letter to Xuan An, analyzing the situation, and asking Xuan An to prepare for the defeat of Shile and the forced abandonment of Leping and Shangdang, and to advance eastward with the still powerful Bingzhou army to help the army break off.

In addition, he collected supplies in Youzhou, trained soldiers and horses, and detained merchant ships in the coastal areas of Yan State for rapid reinforcements south in the future. Zhang Bin also sent people to the west through the Yuwen Department, bribed the Tuoba Hao chieftain, and instigated that Pei should have a vested Xinxing, and it was possible to go north to recover Yanmen and expel Tuoba with the intention of expelling Tuoba ......

He wrote to the Qi family and analyzed: "The great Sima Su of Jin is strong and ambitious, and if he wants to mix up for a day and recover the land of Jin, then I Zhao is here, Tuoba can benefit both, and if I Zhao dies, Tuoba will also be soldiered." Zun Xianshan has a blood alliance with Liu Yueshi, and he has no old favor with Pei Wenyu, how can the female envoy not be deeply concerned? ”

In the Murong Ministry, and even in Pingzhou, spread the words of Pei Cai's usurpation - but unfortunately he could only influence these forces near Youzhou.

The reason why he stayed away from the process and entrusted the guards from all over the country was because Zhang Bin knew Cheng Ziyuan's temperament very well, and that guy would never admit it even if he knew that he was wrong, so if I wrote to him, I would be abandoned. Of course, this move is easy to enlighten the taboo of the master, but the country is in danger, and Zhang Mengsun has no choice but to bite the bullet and not consider his own safety for the time being.

Sure enough, a guard general directly reported Zhang Bin's letter to Cheng Yao, and Cheng Yao couldn't help but grit his teeth and said: "The old thief is hateful, do you want to frustrate the morale and morale of our army?!" He added fuel to this situation and reported to Shi Le, who was on the front line, and said: "Taifu thinks that His Majesty is unwise, and even if he goes to Youzhou, it is often said that the king of heaven will be defeated if he does not need my words." Fu Mi sent letters to the ministers in various places, instigating them to divide their own territory, and even rob the grain from the south, and want to spoil His Majesty's affairs......"

This complaint was quite ruthless, saying that Zhang Bin asked the local generals to withhold the grain and grass that should have been sent to the front, which was naturally nonsense. But Cheng Yao knew that when the army was outside, the supply and transportation of grain and straw was the most important, and this lie would definitely deal a heavy blow to Zhang Bin; Besides, he was so busy planning military rations that he felt that it was difficult to lose for a long time, so he just took advantage of this opportunity to put all the responsibility on Zhang Bin's head!

Sure enough, when Shi Le saw this letter, he couldn't help but be furious: "How dare Zhang Bin do this? I don't need to do anything, is he so old and stupid?! He immediately ordered the secretary to draft an edict and sent it to Youzhou to question Zhang Bin.

At this time, he was still in the vicinity of Xingyang, and it was difficult for him to take a step forward, and his morale was becoming increasingly depressed. Shi Le did not move, nor did Zu Ti, but he used to use small troops to make harassing attacks; And if Shile makes any big moves, Zu Ti can expect the enemy plane to be the first to prevent it. The Jin people held on and repeatedly defeated the Qiang army, and the Qiang army was killed in battle and even lost hundreds of people - those soldiers and servants who were temporarily recruited from Hebei were away from home for a long time, and they all thought of returning, and there were often fugitives.

Zhang Jing put forward two countermeasures to this, one was to send a group of troops and horses to the south of Guancheng and attack Jingxian. If Jingxian can be taken, Xingyang can be surrounded from three directions, and the Yiluo Basin can be advanced between Yangcheng Mountain and Songshan Mountain. Shi Le tried once, but Zu Ti sent troops to rescue Jingxian, fought for a day, and forced the army to retreat.

If you go a little farther from Meishan in the east of Jingxian County, you can naturally go to Yangcheng Mountain and Songshan Mountain, but with Jingxian County blocking it, the grain route is not guaranteed at all.

Zhang Jing's second strategy is that now he can only break his wrist and summon the soldiers and horses of Hanoi to cross to the south for reinforcements. Although there was a risk that the Hanoi defense line would collapse, it would be a barely acceptable loss if they could defeat Zu Ti and break through into the Iro Basin with the advantage of numbers, especially if the Hanoi soldiers were still a fresh force.

Shi Le thought about it for a few days, but he had no choice but to make a decision from here, so he wrote to Hanoi, asking Wang Yang and other generals to leave only thousands of people in each city to guard, and the main force secretly returned to the east, and crossed to Henan near Huting.

It's just that tens of thousands of troops are moving in front of the enemy, and no matter how secretive it is, the probability of being discovered is quite high - especially if the other party has long been guarding against you. Before Zu Ti sent out the army, he immediately sent a letter to Li Ju, saying that if I can hold the main force of the thieves in Xingyang for a long time, Shi Le wants to enter the way, and he is unwilling to retreat, so he is likely to summon the troops of Hanoi to the south to help.

Therefore, Wang Yang and the others moved, and Li Ju immediately noticed it, and immediately sent people from Mengjin to the south, and the fast horse traveled a hundred miles in one day, and two days later, he entered Xingyang City and reported to his ancestors. Zu Shizhi couldn't help laughing and said: "The thief has been frustrated, only this strategy can be made, and in the next few days, there may be a bloody battle, I should guard Xingyang, so that the thief cannot enter an inch." His plan was to take the opportunity to order Li Ju to launch a rapid offensive in Hanoi, seize Zhou, Huai and other counties as soon as possible, and even break into Ji County to threaten the grain route of the Qian army.

It's just that Li Ju is in Hanoi, and he was originally evenly matched with Wang Yang and others, and Wang Yang and others will be closely defended even if they go south, in order to hold it for a long time. Li Ju won a certain victory, but it is really difficult to predict how much time it will take......

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