Before Tao Kan left Luoyang, he analyzed with Pei Gai, saying that even if we recover Taiyuan, Xihe and other counties, we no longer need Tuoba Xianbei as foreign aid, and we don't have enough strength to fight with them for the time being, so it's better to detain them for a while.

You must know that among the Xianbei tribes, Tuoba is the most powerful, its land is connected to Daijun in the east, Yanran in the west, and the desert in the north, and hundreds of thousands of people who control the strings, although they have suffered setbacks before, and there has been a coup d'état internally, resulting in a decline in strength, and it is still a great enemy of the country, and it can be completely wiped out without World War I or II. Not to mention that You, Hebei, Shudi, and Jiangnan have not yet been pacified, even if the country is unified, after years of turmoil and war, it is also extremely dilapidated, and I am afraid that it will not be able to recover without five or ten years.

If the world is undecided, and then send troops to sweep the north, it will cause hardship to the court and Li Shu will be miserable, which is not the best policy. Therefore, the ministers went here, but they chased the Tuoba clan to the north of Xinxing, so that they did not dare to peep into the realm for a few years, not only could not go deeper, but also prevented the generals from being proud of the victory, ignoring the overall situation, and even killed Pingcheng in one go.

Pei Gai thought it was true when he heard this, so he personally gave the festival and made Tao Kan go north to supervise the army.

Tao Shixing's analysis and judgment of the overall situation is still quite sophisticated, but he did not expect that the development of the current situation is not the same as it expected, and history is often influenced by a series of accidental factors.

Let's talk about the battle under the city of Jiuyuan, Tuoba took the lead and fled, and he planned to rush to Pingcheng to see the Qi family and He, and the wicked sued first. I ran halfway, and after a little respite, I inquired, and the lords of the tribes were able to restrain the people again, and then fought in Jinchang City, and then tried to fight with the Chinese army. Tuoba is stupid now, and his heart says that if only I escape back, wouldn't it be too obvious? Who wouldn't have guessed that I cut the flag, I set the fire, and I fanned the mess.

He thought about it for a long time, and finally put his heart sideways, not doing anything, and not stopping, only by muddying the water a little more, can I hope to get out!

So he rushed into Pingcheng, on the one hand, he ordered his subordinates to spread rumors in the city, and on the other hand, he personally came to see the Qi family and He, falsely claiming that the city of Jiuyuan was defeated, the stars were scattered, and the Chinese army of 100,000 people was about to attack the southern capital. The Qi clan was shocked when they heard the news, and it happened that the news of the defeat on the front line had also arrived, but it was not long after the defeat, and the lords of the various departments had not yet had the time to carefully investigate the losses and study the causes of the defeat, so the rumors were vague and did not tell Tuoba Tou's troubles. As a result, the Qi clan was convinced of what Tuoba Tou said, and immediately protected He, and wanted to abandon the city and flee to the northern capital of Shengle.

After all, the Qi family has no ambition and no courage, just like an eagle protecting their two sons, and when they heard of the defeat, their first reaction was "You can't live in danger"! As for He, he is young and mediocre, and he is submissive to the old lady every day, and what the natural mother says is what it is.

Tuoba Tou took the opportunity to stand up and show his loyalty, and said: "There are a lot of Huakou cavalry, all of them are Liangzhou horses, if you are reluctant to chase far away, I am afraid that Mo Dun and Shan Yu will be in danger." The villain is willing to stay and protect Nandu, even if he is willing to give up his life, he must block the Chinese, and prevent him from chasing Mo Dun and Shan Yu! ”

The Qi clan replied to his words, and handed over the heavy responsibility of staying in the southern capital to Tuoba Tou. Who would have thought that not long after the mother and son left, Tuoba Tou would exhaust the soldiers and horses in the city, collect all the treasury, and force all the people to go to the road, and he ran in the northwest direction.

He even ordered someone to open two holes in the city wall, and deliberately gave it to the Chinese that I don't want to defend this city, and none of you want to defend it!

Prior to this, he secretly sent people back to the steppe and summoned his troops to move west. As for himself, he ran to the vicinity of Helan Mountain in one breath, found Helan Haze's head, cried in front of him, and said: "I wanted to secretly maintain Shi Yiqian, and in the future, I would like to take revenge first, who wants to be secret, and the Qi clan will find out, so I sent troops to our department to take away Shi Yiqian, and throw the infant child alive!" The Qi clan is so brutal, and there are many dissatisfaction in various departments, so I am looking for an opportunity to flee and come to rely on my lord.

"Adults are the first to be the first to be the wife and brother, and the first to be the first to take revenge. I would like to serve your lord as the lord and liaise with all the ministries to fight against the Qi clan. My nephew is a big official in China, and I can ask the lord of China through him to return the Huai Huai, and crown him as the new Shan Yu and the acting king. The Chinese lord did not know the truth before, and wanted to congratulate him, but he did not accept it, and the Chinese lord was furious. Now, if you ask Huai Huai to be the acting king and swear to serve Huashuo, you will gladly agree......"

He was so clever that he really said that he had moved Helan Haze, so he contacted more than a dozen departments nearby, cut off his own position, and no longer respected Sheng Le's order. When Tuoba Xianbei's main force was defeated near Jinchang again, he retreated north to defend Pingcheng, but only saw a dilapidated empty city...... They were forced to disperse back to the grasslands, running out of supplies and livestock on the way, and starving to death. Tuoba suffered a great loss in strength, and the adults of the various departments complained about the Qi clan and He, who were the first to flee. The Qi clan was busy rectifying the interior, and for the time being, they couldn't go west to punish Helan and Tuobatou.

The Tuoba dependent tribes, and even some of the core tribes, in the midst of internal turmoil, also turned to Helan, or at least secretly communicated with Tuoba Tou...... Tuoba Xianbei is divided into two parts, but it is a later story, so I will not mention it for the time being.

Besides, on the battlefield of Hebei, Zu Ti planned to defeat the division and capture Jinfengtai, and An, Wang Yang and others retreated to Tongque and Bingjing Ertai, and immediately heard that Zhang Taifu had collapsed with all his strength and his life was in danger, so he hurriedly went to visit.

I saw Zhang Bin lying on the seat, his face like gold paper, and his breath was dying. The generals couldn't help but weep, beat their chests and said: "Taifu is the pillar of the country and the king of heaven, if you abandon me and go now, is it that the sky is going to kill me Zhao Hu?!" ”

Zhang Bin struggled to order someone to help himself up slightly, bowed his hand to the generals, and said: "I can't help myself, although I want to serve the king of heaven and revive the country, why don't I live with ...... Zhao Zhi's safety can only depend on the generals......"

Wang Yang asked: "From the point of view of the ether fu, what will I do in the future?" Do you want to hold on, or do you want to retreat? In fact, he has already bred the intention of retreating, because after this defeat, morale has fallen to the bottom, and there is very little food and materials, and this battle really can't be fought anymore. But even if you give up the three retreats and shrink the defensive line, what can you do? Is there any hope of turning the tide of defeat, or at least delaying it a little longer? I'm out of tricks, I don't know what kind of tricks the Taifu might come up with before he died?

Zhang Bin sighed: "In the past, I used to fight with a sword to tell the king of heaven, that is, because I didn't believe in the mandate of heaven, I thought that if I had the help of the male lord, the mountains could be moved, the rivers could be exhausted, and the days could be changed...... However, when Pei Wenyue was there, he once spoke to me, saying that only by winning the hearts of the people can we win the world, only by protecting the people can we win the hearts of the people, and only by using China's politics can we protect the people...... At the time, I laughed at him for his corrupt words, but now it seems to be the most serious......

"How can Zu Shizhi defeat me? It is not his soldiers, generals, or his wisdom, but Pei Wen's appointment to govern in Guanzhong, stabilize the party, and support him. Now the enemy is far away, but I am close to Xiangguo, then the enemy's food consumption is twice as much as mine, if Zhao is also rich, why is it defeated? However, the operation of Hebei, a little accumulation, the battle of Xingyang, the waves were exhausted...... That is, there is no such battle, but Pei Wenyue governs and Zu Shizhi uses troops, and there is no major negligence, then Zhao will not be able to defeat Huaye!

"Now I have all the food, but the enemy is not lacking, even if I have the wisdom of Sun and Wu, and the courage of the king and the faith, it is difficult to spread. Xi Peiwen has a saying, Yun 'It is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice', and I believe it. For today's plan, the only way to do this is to temporarily retreat, return to the king of heaven, gather all the grain and materials in Xiangguo, dismiss the redundancy, and leave the elite alone to resist the Huakou. If you can keep Xiangguo for a long time, or there is a turnaround, otherwise, ......"

Speaking of this, he suddenly shouted: "I knew today, in the past, I would rather be grateful to Pei Wenyue, so that the Heavenly King could be assisted, or persuade the Heavenly King to kill the tiger for one day, and it will be a disaster for several lifetimes!" Then he vomited blood, fell backwards, and stopped looking.

An and the others were all mourned, and at the same time, they all lost an inch, and after a brief discussion, they immediately ordered the whole army to withdraw overnight and flee to Xiangguo. Since Zu Ti entered Jinfengtai and was close to the Qianjun army, he expected that the enemy army would almost lose the will to fight, so even at night, he sent a secret sentry to watch its movements at any time. Hearing that the army wanted to retreat, Zu Ti Nai sent troops to chase after him overnight, and then broke the enemy on the Zhangshui.

After Guo Tai asked for a break, he fought fiercely with the Chinese army according to the pontoon bridge, and finally fell into the water and drowned. An, Wang Yang and others fled in disarray, and nearly half of the Zhao soldiers did not cross the river, except for a very small number of brave fighters who died, most of them were forced to abandon their weapons and surrender.

Compared with Tianming, counting the results of the battle, there were only 1,000 Zhao soldiers killed, and there were more than 10,000 prisoners. Fan Ya and the others came to ask Zu Ti, what should they do with those captives? Although he pretended to have plenty of food, he also made people shout: "Can you starve, if you abandon your weapons and come to vote, our army will be able to provide enough!" "But in fact, we will only have enough to eat, and the March period is approaching, and it is difficult to say how long the imperial court can supply it. In that case, why waste food by keeping these captives? It's better to kill them all.

Zu Ti was still hesitant, and Changshi waved his hand and said, "No." Our army is now in Guanzhong...... The military law of the Son of Heaven is not to kill prisoners......"

Fan Ya retorted: "I also ask Sima to explain the military law, but if Yun is not necessary, he must not kill prisoners wantonly, and he must not kill ...... Yun Yun" Although Pei Gai is based on the humanitarian concept of later generations, he is not in favor of killing prisoners and surrendering, but it also has to be analyzed on a case-by-case basis, if the general's law is too rigid, it will inevitably tie the hands and feet of the front-line generals, so he left a little buffer room and said that he himself has killed prisoners, although the number is not much. Therefore, Fan Ya said, I didn't propose to kill the prisoners to vent my personal anger, I really can't afford to supply them, so if you don't kill the prisoners, can you conjure up food out of thin air?

The marshal has ordered Feng Tie to lead the cavalry across Zhangshui to chase after the defeated enemy, and we will not stop at Santai, after a little rest, we should continue to go north and refer to Xiangguo. This battle is not over yet, so how can there be no advance planning for grain and materials?

Zhang Chang said: "That is, there is no military discipline, it is ominous to kill prisoners in ancient times, Bai died because of it, and the overlord was defeated because of it, do you want to make the marshal infamous because of it?" And in the past, Xiang Yu was captured, so that the people of Sanqin were evil and surrendered to Han, as the king said, the war has not ended, if the prisoner is killed, it will lead to a crippled enemy to the death......"

The two sides theorized endlessly, and finally Zu Ti decided: "Prisoners must not be killed, nor can they be killed." "It was ordered that the captured military officials above the squadron leader, Hu and Qian, be selected and executed on the spot, and the rest of the people were escorted to the south and handed over to the imperial court for disposal and let the imperial court help raise them.

So he killed more than 2,000 prisoners on the shore, and threw his corpses into the water, and the water became red because of it.

If you want to say that the military officials are easy to find, even if there is no rank identification of the Chinese army, in fact, most of the ancestral soldiers have not changed their clothes, and they have not looked at their clothes and equipment, and they can also be identified by the soldiers; So except for a very small number of people who were generous and could hide it from the soldiers, most of them were picked out by the way.

The Hu people are not easy to distinguish. Most of the Tuge, Xiongnu or Zahu in the Zhao army were thrown from the Hu and Han dynasties, and Liu Yuan's family was originally very Chinese, and his subordinates lived in the Central Plains for a long time, not only could they speak Jin (now called Chinese), but also many of them even changed their clothes and hairstyles. Only those who do not change the old customs, such as those who still have hair that is still distributed, braided, or haired, will be pulled out and beheaded.

Of course, it cannot be ruled out that there are a small number of Chinese who deliberately imitated the ruling nation during the Hu and Han dynasties, so their unjust death is also self-inflicted and has nothing to do with others.

Only the Qiang people can't escape, although the Qiang people are often more Chinese than the Hu people in terms of customs, just like Shile is from farming, after all, his appearance is different. The Qianren were originally a white race in Central Asia, and were captured from the Western Regions by the Xiongnu in their ancestors, and followed the Southern Xiongnu into the annex, Hebei and other states, with a deep nose and high eyes, and curly hair. As a result, all the captives were slaughtered, and a very small number of other white races (such as the pawns of some tribes in Xianbei) were also slaughtered, and it is no wonder that the Chinese soldiers were killed, because there was no way to distinguish them.

Besides, Feng Tie led the cavalry to chase after An and couldn't wait, and took advantage of the victory to capture Linshui County. Immediately, Zu Ti ordered Fan Ya to go west and Wei Ce to the east, divided the counties, and led 30,000 main forces to continue north, easily conquering Handan City, and then reaching Xiangguo. Shi Leqin led a large army out of the city and engaged the Chinese army, Zu Ti was slightly frustrated, and retreated ten miles to the camp.

Zhang Bin sent a message to An and others before his death, asking to shrink the troops, gather grain and grass, and stick to Xiangguo, but the remaining materials in the country are quite limited, so at the same time it is recommended to dismiss the redundancy, leaving only about 10,000 elite people to defend the city. However, although Shi Le injured Zhang Bin's death and wanted to accept his plan, the policy of scattered soldiers could not be implemented at all.

Because Shi Zhao's soldiers are mostly led by generals, at this critical moment of life and death, everyone is thinking that if I have one more soldier, I will have one more chance of winning and one more way to live. As for whether there is enough food to eat...... But if we don't leave our soldiers, our army will naturally be full. For this reason, Shile repeatedly gave orders, and the generals either advised or prevaricated, but no one would obediently obey. Shi Le had no choice but to order Cheng Yao to collect the remnants of grain and straw in Youzhou and Hebei on the one hand, and gather in Xiangguo, and on the other hand, he personally led the whole army, including officials, private slaves and maids, with a total of 30,000 people, and went out of the city to fight with the Chinese army.

The battle of the trapped beast was difficult to achieve, and Zu Ti retreated slightly for this. However, when he rested for a few days and entered the city of Xiangguo again, Shile gathered his people to fight again, but there were less than 20,000 soldiers and horses left......

Although they won a small victory the day before yesterday, many people who were forced to join the army took the opportunity to escape, and even several generals above the fourth rank were left behind.

Zu Ti broke the Zhao army, forced Shi Le back into the city, and then besieged the Xiangguo group. But he deliberately left the west gate unsealed, allowing the scattered soldiers and the people to flee from here, of course, and set up an ambush ten miles away to prevent Shile and other Kuiqu from taking the opportunity to mix out of the city. In order to be perfect, it was ordered that all those who were dressed should be arrested, and all those with deep noses and high eyes should be killed.