On the same day that the Luoyang Fifth School Battalion was in turmoil, Shi Le finally ordered the troops to withdraw under the repeated persuasion of the generals.

At that time, he supported Kong Chang, who was kneeling in front of him, with a sad look in his eyes, and said slowly: "I have cultivated a small crop in this state and state, and then I was in turmoil, and was sold as a herdsman, and Fu and Qing and other eighteen horsemen crisscrossed between Zhao and Wei, but I had to raise troops, and I dared to plot the world-I am fifteen or sixteen years old so far. Think of Han Gaozu, Ben Pei Shangxiao, Han Guangwu, Chen Liuxiucai, Han Guangwen, Hu Bu Guishuai...... The ancient emperors were born from the most humble and inferior people.

"To be able to go to the south as a slave, God treats me well, but unfortunately I can't grasp the opportunity, and I want to take risks by chance, and even that. However, the wealth has been extreme, and the strong enemies in his life, such as Wang Mi, Gou Xi, Wang Jun, etc., were also killed by me, what are the regrets? I wanted to kill myself, and when I didn't lose to Xiang Yu in Wujiang, I might be able to make future generations of people who read history cry, but He Qing and so on......

"Qing and other eighteen horsemen, since Sui I, there have been injuries from time to time, and in a few years, they have lost Jibao, Liu Ying, Liu Zheng, Liu Bao, Zhang Yanfu, Zhang Yue, Peacock, Zhao Lu...... Huyanmo was also caught in a thief, so Yu Weiqing and so on. How can I bear to wait for Xinqing to die with me because of my fault? For today's plan, there is only Congqing's words, temporarily withdraw the army, strictly defend Hebei, maybe Qing and others still have the hope of reaching the end of their lives...... If Qing and the others die, I can only go from Qing and others, just a few countries, how can I do it?! ”

But Shi Le also knew that it was not so easy to retreat in front of the enemy, so he ordered not to withdraw the banner in the camp in order to confuse the Jin people, and led the army to sneak out, retreat to Aocang, and escape along the Hebei from Aocang. He ordered to leave the defenders of the three cities of Li, Long, and Guan, led by Guo Heiluo, as the first line of defense to block the Jin division; ordered the peach leopard to garrison the city as the second line of defense to block the Jin division; The rest of the people retreated.

The planned army was divided into three parts, one from Huting to the north, two from Tongguan to the north, and three from the direction of Jianjin and Wenshijin to the north - this is because the army of more than 100,000 people, even if there are enough ships, if they cross through one place, it is impossible to cross the Yellow River in just a few days, once they are chased by the Jin people and blocked on the riverbank, they will definitely suffer a fiasco.

As for Zu Ti when he learned the news of Li Ju's recovery of Zhou County, it was a day later than Shile - after all, Aocang, Huting and other places were all in the hands of Zhao Jun, and Xingyang was also surrounded on three sides, and it was not easy for Li Ju's messenger to break through the blockade and enter Xingyang City smoothly. Fortunately, Li Shihui is really the head snake in the middle reaches of the Yellow River, and he has been dealing with Hu Jun for a long time in Hanoi, Xingyang and other places in the past.

If all the messengers to the south fail and are forced to cross from Henan to Xingyang via Chenggao, it is estimated that they will not be in a hurry at all.

Zu Ti got the retribution, he couldn't help but be overjoyed, and hurriedly climbed to the top of the city in person, looked at the camp of the Karma army, and after leaving the city, he summoned the generals and said: "The war situation in Hanoi is very good, and the thieves retreat because of this, this is a good time for me to turn defense into attack!" ”

Xu Liu questioned: "If the thief retreats, Chenggao will definitely get the message first, and he should light a fire and report it to me." But now there is no beacon ......"

Zu Ti smiled and said: "Shi Le knows the soldiers, how can there be a reason to retreat in front of the enemy without concealing it?" Under the pass, it will inevitably be false to confuse the king. Even if we did not come to attack the city in the past, when all the people gathered, there would be murderous spirit in the air, turning into clouds, and condensing would not disperse; Now although the flag is raised, the clear sky is not the same, and this will retreat! ”

In fact, the theory of killing Qi and turning clouds into clouds, out of the yin and yang of the soldiers, Zu Shizhi himself is not very credible, and he will definitely not be able to see it. But the old man, as soon as he saw the enemy camp, he instinctively made a judgment, purely intuitive, and couldn't explain it to the generals, so he had to move out the cliché-

"At this time, if you go out of the city and chase after you, you will be able to defeat the thief, if you delay it and make it easy to escape, then you will regret it!"

So he immediately assigned the generals and ordered Zhang Ping to recover Aocang, and then chase along the east of the river; Fan Ya went to besiege the cities of Li and Long, and after the army was combined, he tried to go forward; At the same time, Feng Tie was sent to lead the cavalry to break through between the two cities of Long and Guan, and go straight to Yangwu, on the one hand, to intercept the soldiers, and on the other hand, to inform Zu Ji in Yangwu City that a full-scale counteroffensive could be launched.

With the sound of "clicking", the eastern, northern, and southern gates of Xingyang slowly opened, and the Jin army swarmed out. Fan Ya, who went out of the eastern city, first fought with the city, and then smashed the fortress, and as expected, the seats were all empty camps. Fan Ya was overjoyed, and immediately shouted: "The advance and retreat of the thief are all in the calculation of the grandfather." If he retreats now, he will have no will to fight, and I will chase after him, and we can win a big victory - breaking the thief's meritorious service, only today! ”

The Jin army has been forced to fight by the Zhao army in the past half a month, although because of the proper drawing of the ancestors, there is no major damage, the soldiers are inevitably depressed in their hearts, and suddenly turn from defense to attack, and the evil spirit in the chest can be vomited, and the natural people are like fierce tigers and horses, all of them are in high spirits, and their morale is high. In contrast, Guo Heiluo's subordinates were left to defend the cities of Li and Long, and they were naturally a head shorter in terms of momentum. Therefore, Fan Ya went forward and divided his troops to besiege the cities, but the Zhao army could only hold on and did not dare to go out of the city to fight.

Zu Ti, Feng Tie and others thus successfully broke through the defense line of the Qianjun army and killed in the direction of Juan County and Yangwu.

Besides, Zhang Ping successfully recovered Aocang, did not dare to rest, chased all the way east along the south bank of the Yellow River, and arrived at Huting at dusk that day. A part of the Zhao army rushed to the ferry in Huting, because he didn't expect the Jin people to come so quickly, and there were still a few before he got off the boat, but he was charged by the Jin army in a round, and the troops were completely dispersed, and there were no less than thousands of corpses thrown into the river.

The next day, Zu Ti and Zhang Ping joined forces under the city of Juanxian. The peach leopard closed the four gates and desperately guarded it, so that the first round of the Jin army's offensive failed to work. Seeing that there was no Shile Daxu in the city, Zu Ti left Zhang Pingji to conquer Juan County, and led six or seven thousand elite people from the north of Juan County to the east, chasing along the river.

The Jin army traveled 150 miles in two days, and when they arrived on the other side of Tongguan, they met the second group of troops from the north. Originally, Shi Le's plan to retreat was quite cautious, but after all, he retreated in a hurry, and the staff team around him was not as good as the Guan Central Department, which was used to analyzing data and making plans, which led to a miscalculation and complete passivity - to paraphrase the words of later generations, the margin for error in this plan was too low.

After all, the ships prepared by the army were far from enough to transport more than 100,000 horses and corresponding supplies across the Yellow River in one or two days, so the first part of the plan was to cross the north at Huting first, and then the ships were lowered down the river, and then the second batch of soldiers and horses was received at Tongguan...... However, the Jin people reacted too quickly, and Zhang Ping not only defeated the small half of the soldiers waiting to be crossed at Huting, but also captured many boats and boats by the way, which made the crossing in the direction of Tongguan less efficient and slower.

When Zu Ti arrived, there were still tens of thousands of soldiers waiting to be crossed on the riverbank. He knew that he was tired from afar, and there were less than 10,000 soldiers, and if he rushed straight to the array, he might not have a chance of winning, so he just lined up the phalanx, held the flag high, and the sound of drums and horns shook the earth and slowly pressed straight to the past. The Zhao army tried to assault, but was repelled by the Jin soldiers, so their morale plummeted, and they rushed to the crossing, and those who fell into the water and died were not counted. Seeing this scene, Zu Ti ordered Wang An to raise the banner - he controlled the reins with one hand, and the other arm was still hung on his chest with a bandage, and he really couldn't raise it - the whole army covered the past.

The army was routed and fled all over the mountains, and Zhao General Lu Ming resisted desperately, but was finally pierced by random arrows and died.

Although the army was defeated and Lu Ming's head was captured, Zu Ti was not very happy, and he encouraged the soldiers: "I don't see Shile Daxu before the battle, and I expect him to go east to Yanxian, in a vain attempt to escape to the north of Jianjin or Wenshijin." Even if you kill a hundred Lu Ming, it is better to kill one Shile - but if you have the head of Shile, the world can be determined! Qing and the others still have more courage to give, do you want to continue westward with me?! ”

Up and down the Jin army, all of them raised their arms and shouted, swearing to follow to the death.

Of course, Zu Ti also knows the truth of "a hundred miles and those who seek profit will be generals", after all, people's energy is sometimes poor, if they continue to rush forward regardless of the fatigue of the soldiers, once Shi Le's life will be cut off, it will inevitably suffer a big setback. Besides, even if Shi Le escaped, he would have to rest and sleep at night, and he didn't need to be in a hurry.

So he ordered to set up camp and rest, so that tomorrow the fourth watch would make food, and the fifth watch would set off to continue the pursuit.

However, the camp had just been set up, and Zu Ti himself was still inspecting everywhere, and he didn't have time to rest, when suddenly a fast horse came from Luoyang to deliver urgent news. Zu Ti didn't care at first, and said in his heart that there were scattered scattered soldiers climbing the mountain or jumping into Yiluo through the South Road, so the scribes in the court were scared and wanted me to divide the troops to exterminate them? Our side is in a big hole, what can happen to Luoyang at this time.

But when he opened the official document to take a closer look, he couldn't help but be surprised, and his face instantly became gloomy.

What is written on the official document? It turned out to be a notification to Zu Li, saying that the imperial court was in danger because of Chenggao Pass, so he sent a letter to summon Zu Jian to return to Luo to help guard, who wanted the former army to be returned, Pei Pi first used the unified military order as an excuse to lead the right guard to seize the five school camps. Mingda guarded the five school camps, refused to give in without orders, Pei Pinai broke into the door blatantly, and the two sides clashed. In the midst of the conflict, I don't know where a few stray arrows flew from, but by coincidence, Pei Pi was in the middle of it, and he was actually shot dead on the spot!

When Zu Ti saw this, he couldn't help but scold: "Xun Daoxuan is ridiculous, how can you make the lieutenant general the fifth school camp?" And even if he is a lieutenant general, if Pei Pi wants to take it, he will do it with him, why argue! ”

It is impossible to say that Zu Ti is only focused on military affairs and completely ignores the political situation. After all, when the two of them slept together outside Jiankang City, and when they talked at night, they couldn't hear anything good about the Sima family from Pei Gai's mouth.

It's understandable. The authority of the Sima family has indeed fallen to the bottom because of the mourning in the past ten years, including Zu Li, many scholars still support Sima Ye, most of them out of a kind of thinking inertia, if you really ask yourself, Zu Shizhi himself does not dare to say how loyal he can be. Second, the Pei family is a Tsinghua dignitary, and the bull ears of several ruling families, the Jin Dynasty was originally a regime similar to the joint government of the scholar clan, so it is not surprising that the Pei family is dissatisfied with Sima, and even has the delusion of replacing him.

In particular, Pei Gai's father Pei was killed by the surname Sima (Sima Lun, the king of Zhao), if he does not complain about Sima, he will not only be foolish and loyal, but also filial piety, and he resents Sima, but it is reasonable.

Zu Ti's friendship with Pei Gai is very deep, and only because of his profoundness, in some aspects, he knows Pei Gai better than Pei Wei and others - that kid is not willing to condescend to others!

So a lot of things, in fact, Zu Shizhi knows it in his heart, but he doesn't want to think deeply, he always feels that with Pei Cai's usual temperament, anything can be put on the side of Pinghu to destroy the karma before making plans. It's just that in recent years, because of illness, he has almost no work on the Eastern Front, but Pei Gai not only took Hedong and Jinyang, but also took Taiyuan not long ago...... Zu Qi thought to himself, if the two families were in discord or even split at this bone, he might not be able to beat the Chinese army - besides, Shi Le was still behind him!

As the leader of a military and political group, Zu Ti naturally understands that the position of the head must conform to the wishes of most of the people in the group in order to sit firmly. Then Pei should want to take Jin Zuo, Xun is not worried, the only stumbling block in front of him is undoubtedly himself.

In Xingyang, Zu Ti was often awakened by nightmares in the dead of night. What he saw in his dream was what he was most worried about, Pei Gai took the opportunity to wave his army into Luo, kill the minister, coerce Sima Ye into the Zen position, and then cut off his own grain transportation...... As a result, the Chinese army completely collapsed under the attack of Pei and Shi, and Zu Ti himself became a prisoner......

The dream naturally magnified the worries in my heart, and after waking up, I thought carefully, Pei should not be so cruel and ruthless, right? Even if he wields his master, as long as his half-brother doesn't confront him in front of him, his life should be saved. As for cutting off the food supply of his own army, wouldn't that be cheaper for Shile? Pei should have always hated Shi Le and Zhao to the bone, so he shouldn't be bitter and hateful about it.

That's why he summoned Pei Pi into Luo, also to release a friendly message to Pei Gai - we are friends but not enemies, I will give Luoyang City to your brother, you will allow me to finish this battle, can we discuss it after anything? As for Pei Pi possibly taking the opportunity to seize the power of the guard, Zu Ti was mentally prepared for it, and he didn't intend to stop him - he was the general of the right guard, and in the absence of the leading general and the general of the left army, it was reasonable to be the guard.

Anyway, during the time I was in the Imperial Palace, if Pei Gai wanted to return to Luo and usurp power, then no one could stop him, instead of Pei Wenyu personally killing the army, it was better for Pei Shenggong to enter the city in advance, maybe the resistance suffered would be lighter, and it would not be a river of blood. If there is really any big trouble in Luoyang City, then unless you take the initiative to surrender, the hostile situation will definitely not be avoided.

It is precisely because he has seen the situation clearly enough that Zu Ti is not like the Xun clan and plans to hard-top. And Xun Di made the lieutenant general of the fifth school, in Zu Shizhi's opinion, it didn't play a role at all, and he laughed in vain - this is not the Later Han Dynasty, Pei Pi, as a scholar, if he didn't dare to enter because of the eunuch's obstruction, then where would he put his face?

But I didn't expect that Mingda really ate the bear's heart and leopard gall, not only dared to stop Pei Pi, but also shot the other party to death with an arrow! This is a catastrophe that can poke a big hole in the sky!