When Yang Wu occasionally felt cold and recuperated in his own military camp, Zhu Wen was also very sick in Weizhou City.

Unlike Yang Wu's condition, Zhu Wen's illness this time was mainly caused by the shame in his heart.

In November last year, Liu Shouguang, the lord of Yan, personally led an army of 20,000 to attack Wang Chuzhi, who knew that it was difficult to resist, and immediately asked Li Cunqing, the king of Jin, for help.

In the first month of this year, Zhou Dewei led 50,000 Jin troops from Daizhou to the east of Feihuling, and joined Wang Deming, the general of Wang Rong, the king of Zhao, and Cheng Yan, the general of Wang Chuzhi, the king of Beiping, in Yishui, and soon surrounded Zhuozhou.

And the Jin king Li Cunqiao led the army to go on the expedition.

Although Liu Shouguang had sufficient confidence when facing Wang Chuzhi, he did not take Wang Chuzhi in his eyes at all; However, when facing the veteran Zhou Dewei, it was naturally not so easy.

While he stopped his crusade against Wang Chuzhi and withdrew his troops to resist, he quickly sent people to ask Zhu Wen for help.

After all, Zhu Wen is old, and he has often been sick for more than a year.

He originally planned to send troops to rescue Yan Guo; Therefore, after seeing the envoy of Yan Guo for help, and his own condition also improved, Zhu Wen immediately decided to personally lead the troops to the battle.

This time, he did not plan to go directly to Youzhou to fight the Jin army, but decided to besiege Wei to rescue Zhao, and forced the Jin army to withdraw by attacking Wang Rong, the king of Zhao, and Wang Zhizhi, the king of Beiping.

For this operation, it can be said that he has been preparing since last year, and when he is dispatched now, he has concentrated most of the troops from all over the Central Plains, with a strength of as high as 150,000, known as 500,000 people.

However, just like last year's expedition, Zhu Wen's expedition did not go well at the beginning.

The first point is naturally Zhu Wen's more and more impatient temper, he will get angry at every turn, and once he gets angry, someone will often lose his life.

As a result, when Zhu Wen sent troops from Luoyang, most of the officials who were supposed to accompany him were afraid of Zhu Wen's brutality and did not dare to go with him.

After Zhu Wen learned about it, he was even more annoyed in his heart.

When the army marched to Baima, Zhu Wen held a banquet in his camp to entertain many officials accompanying the army; As a result, most of the officers who were supposed to be with the army did not arrive in time.

Zhu Wen had no choice but to send cavalry to urge, and the officers arrived; And the last to arrive is the left scattered cavalry attendant Sun Qiu, the right counselor Zhang Yan, the rear Langzhong Zhang Jun and others, but Zhu Wen was ordered to be killed.

Zhu Wen killed people so casually, although it made the generals more afraid of themselves, but "fearing power but not virtue", which was already difficult to last, did not achieve any other benefits except to make the officers and men in the army more panicked.

Soon after, the Liang army arrived in Beizhou and began to lay siege to the state of Zhao.

The first to be attacked was a small county town called Zaoqiang.

Although the county town is small, but it is extremely strong, the Zhao army concentrated thousands of elite soldiers to defend the city, and the Liang army general Yang Shihou led the army to besiege day and night, and there were tens of thousands of soldiers killed in the battle, but they were always helpless to be a little strong.

The reason why this is so is because after the battle of Gaoyi, Du Yanyin and the others heard the news of the defeat, and immediately slaughtered the people of the two prefectures of Shen and Hebei that they occupied, leaving only some women to be plundered as slaves.

As a result, this atrocity at the beginning aroused a strong resistance from the Zhao people, and now when facing the attack of the Liang army, the Zhao army fought bravely one by one and resolutely refused to surrender.

Later, when the arrows in the city were exhausted, and the food and grass were also insufficient, the defenders of the city planned to surrender when there were no reinforcements from outside.

As a result, there was a small soldier, whose family members died in the Jizhou massacre, and he had a deep blood feud with the Liang army.

While others advocated surrender, he came forward and said that he was willing to pretend to surrender to the enemy army, and then look for an opportunity to assassinate the enemy commander.

If they succeed in taking out the enemy's commander, they may have a chance to turn defeat into victory.

So although the chances were slim, the defenders finally planned to let the creep give it a try.

As a result, after this little soldier surrendered to Liang Jun, he took the initiative to propose that he had something important to meet the commander of Liang Jun.

What kind of person is Yang Shihou, the commander of the Liang army, how can he let a small soldier say that he will see him?

However, the deputy marshal Li Zhouyi came forward to meet this little soldier, hoping to get some useful information from him.

Although this little soldier has the determination to die, he is only a small soldier after all, and he is lacking in knowledge, experience and ability.

So after he saw Li Zhouyi, although he suddenly attacked and slammed Li Zhouyi's head with a flat pole he grabbed, he finally failed to kill Li Zhouyi, but gave his own life.

After Zhu Wen learned about this matter, he was even more annoyed.

Just a jujube is strong, and his army has failed to make a breakthrough in attacking the city for many days, so when facing those big cities with heavy guards, isn't it impossible to break through?

What's more, a small soldier dares to do this, if he doesn't teach these Zhao people a lesson, I'm afraid that such things will not be rare in the future.

"Slaughter the city! The city must be breached in the shortest possible time, and then all the defenders in the city must be slaughtered to have a deterrent effect! Zhu Wen's order quickly reached Yang Shihou.

For Zhu Wen, his character is inherently cruel and killing; Especially in the past few years, his personality has become more irritating, and once he is angry, he will always inevitably kill someone.

So it was normal for him to give the order to slaughter the city.

After all, Zaoqiang is only a county seat, and the arrows in the city are exhausted, and there is a shortage of food and grass, so it is naturally difficult to continue to persevere.

Within a few days, the Liang army broke through the city and slaughtered all the soldiers and civilians in the city.

After the news of Zaoqiang's massacre came, it did not make the Zhao people feel afraid, but inspired the Zhao people to further resist.

Whether the Liang army was on the march, or when they went out to inquire about the news, collect forage, etc., they would be attacked by the Zhao people.

This tactic, which seemed to be a guerrilla war in later generations, stirred up the Liang army's panic and fatigue to deal with it.

Of course, although the effect of "guerrilla warfare" was good, on the whole it could only be regarded as a small fight, and those unorganized raids caused a lot of trouble to the Liang army, but they could not change the situation of the Liang army's strength.

Whether it is the Jin State, or the Zhao State, or the Beiping State, its military strength is far inferior to the Liang State.

And this time to attack the Yan State, Zhou Dewei has already transferred most of the troops of the Three Kingdoms to Youzhou, and the remaining troops left in the Zhao State are only a small number of troops led by the famous general Fu Cunxian of the Jin State.

Fu Cunxian knew that his troops were insufficient, and if he wanted to engage the Liang army head-on, he would definitely not be able to achieve victory.

However, Fu Cunxian did not give up, he took advantage of the main force of the Liang army to attack Fuxian, and together with Shi Jianjiao and Li Siqiu, he led the army to help, and stationed troops at Xiabo Bridge, preparing to block the Liang army here.

He first went deep with 800 cavalry, captured some Liang soldiers who were collecting forage, and killed all these soldiers, leaving only a few, who were cut off and put back.

Fu Cunxian's purpose was to use the mouths of these people to tell the Liang army that the Jin king Li Cunxuan had personally led the army to arrive.

Then, Fu Cun ordered Shi Jianjiao and Li Siqiu to each lead 300 elite cavalry, put on the military uniforms and armor of the Liang army, waving the banner of the Liang army, and mixed with the Liang soldiers who went out to collect grain and grass to march towards the camp of the Liang army, and arrived at dusk.

At that time, Zhu Wen happened to lead the army to meet Yang Shihou in Beixian, the whole army had just stopped, and before they had time to build the wall, the soldiers were very tired after a day of marching, and everyone sat on the ground to rest without any defense.

Seeing such an opportunity, Shi Jianjiao and Li Siqiu naturally would not let go, and they immediately led the elite cavalry to gallop across the camp of the Liang army, shouting loudly, creating chaos, and stirring up the Liang army into chaos.

It was only after dark that the two men led the cavalry, taking the prisoners and the booty with them.

Liang Jun had no idea what was going on in the chaos, and the chaos in the camp was even more difficult to calm down after dark.

At this time, several Liang soldiers who had been captured by the Jin army and then cut off their arms and put them back brought the news that "the King of Jin has personally led the army to arrive".

Li Cunmiao, the king of Jin, can be said to be the most popular person in the world in recent years, and the elite of the Jin army under his command has defeated the Liang army one after another in the past few years, which makes the soldiers of the Liang army tremble when they hear his name.

And at this time, after hearing the news that the main force of the Jin army had arrived, and that it was Li Cunqiao who personally led the troops, Zhu Wen was panicked, and did not carefully distinguish the truth of the news at all, so he immediately ordered the camp to be burned and fled overnight.

However, the panicked army lost its way during the night, and walked more than 150 miles in twists and turns, and only reached Jizhou on the third day.

Along the way, after hearing the news of the defeat of the Liang army, the people of Zhao State picked up hoes and clubs to chase and kill the Liang army.

These people in Hebei were originally relatively martial, not to mention that there was a deep blood feud between Zhao and the Liang army, and the Liang army was originally just a little chaotic, but after this pursuit by the local people, it became a real rout.

When they finally arrived in Jizhou, the Liang army lost tens of thousands of soldiers, and there were countless military materials and equipment abandoned along the way.

If it was really the arrival of the main force of the Jin army this time, and it was really the Jin King Li Cunqiao who personally led the troops, then in the face of this fiasco, Zhu Wen would still be able to accept it; However, it wasn't until Zhu Wen sent someone to investigate that he learned that this was just fake news!

After learning that he was frightened by the false news that "the King of Jin personally led the troops to arrive", and even suffered such a big loss, Zhu Wen felt ashamed and indignant in his heart, and immediately fell ill.

Who is he Zhu Wen? That is a hero who has dominated the world for more than 30 years, and a series of feudal towns such as Qin Zongquan, Zhu Jin, Zhu Xuan, Shi Pu, etc., which were rampant at that time, were completely wiped out by him, and powerful feudal towns such as Li Maozhen and Liu Rengong were also subdued by him, and even Li Keyong was almost beaten away from the grassland by him at the beginning.

And now, just because of a fake news, just because of the news that Li Cunqiao, a hairy boy in his twenties, was about to arrive, he was so frightened that he fled all the way for a hundred and fifty miles.

Thinking of his lifelong fame, but in the end he was humiliated to such a point by Li Cunmiao, the shame and anger in his heart can be imagined.

As a result, he naturally became extremely ill, far more serious than the previous times, and he couldn't even sit in a sedan chair.

He stayed for more than ten days after returning to Bay before the broken army regrouped.

However, after such a fiasco, the morale of the whole army was low, and Zhu Wen himself had no fighting spirit.

If it weren't for the fact that his health was not yet good and he wanted to protect his face, I was afraid that Zhu Wen would have ordered the withdrawal of the army.