Without the first strategist Zhang Bin, can the Shi Zhao Group still beat the powerful Liu Yao?

Hard!

In the art of war, it is said: know yourself and know your opponent, and you will not be defeated in a hundred battles. Liu Yao knew Shi Le very well, and during the days when Liu Yuan and Liu Cong were working, Liu Yao and Shi Le had been serving rice in the same pot. Once, Liu Yao specifically counted the number of fleas on Shi Le's body. "Shile, I recognize you when you turn to ashes." Liu Yao said.

Under such friendship, there is no politeness, no courtesy, not even diplomatic rhetoric.

Let's get straight to the fight!

In 324, Shi Sheng, the assassin of Later Zhao Sizhou, attacked and killed Yin Ping, the former Zhao Henan Taishou Yin Ping in Xin'an (Xin'an County, Henan), broke more than ten fortresses, plundered 5,000 households and returned.

From then on, the war between the former Zhao and the later Zhao officially began. "The two Zhao framed a gap, the Japanese attacked and plundered, and between Hedong and Hongnong, the people were not able to make a living."

Each side has stabilized the rear, expanded its territory, developed its economy, and strengthened its strength, and no matter whether it is fully prepared or not, once one side takes the lead, the struggle for life and death has already begun.

In May 325, Later Zhao Shisheng sent troops to Luoyang and invaded the area south of the Yellow River. At that time, the south of the Yellow River was the territory of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and the Eastern Jin Dynasty Sizhou Assassin Shi Li Ju and Yingchuan Taishou Guo Mo were defeated many times. In desperation, he asked his neighbor Qianzhao for help.

Former Zhao Liu Yao sent Liu Yue, the king of Zhongshan, and Hu Yanmo, the general of Zhendong, to lead the army to support. Liu Yue conquered Meng Jinshu and Shi Liangshu, won more than 5,000 heads, and marched to Wai Shi to be born in Kim Yong Shu.

Later, Zhao Zhongshan Gong Shi Hu led an army to support Shi Sheng, and fought with Liu Yue west of Luoshui, Liu Yue was defeated, was shot by a stray arrow, and retreated to Shiliang.

Shihu is surrounded by stone beams on all sides, so that it is isolated from inside and outside. Later, Shi Hu killed Hu Yanmo.

So far, Liu Yao's rescue operation has completely failed.

The Eastern Jin Dynasty army can be ignored, but the besieged Liu Yue is to be saved, Liu Yao personally led the army to the rescue, the former Zhao Qianjun general Liu Hei attacked Shi Hu's general Shi Cong, and defeated Shi Cong's army.

Liu Yao sent troops to Jingu, and the army was in turmoil at night for no reason, and the soldiers fled and scattered. So the army retreated to Tunmichi, and the army was again in chaos and scattered at night. This was the "bombing of the camp", and after two successive bombing of the camp, Liu Yao was unable to fight again, so he withdrew his troops back to Chang'an.

When the two armies face off against each other, the soldiers' spirits are highly stressed, and if they remain in such a state for a long time, they will reach the limit of their psychological endurance and then collapse. In the extreme silence of the night, perhaps because a sudden dream word or scream from a soldier would cause chaos in the entire barracks, and the soldiers would attack each other with weapons in their hands as if they were crazy, until they died of exhaustion. Of course, at that time, there were many people who conceived ghosts, and the various contradictions accumulated in the ordinary world would be vented to the greatest extent at this time, with revenge and revenge. The officers generally did not dare to stop them, and the only way was for the GIs to cut each other until the last man fell. This is a terrible incident that directly affects the morale and fighting spirit of the entire army. Liu Yao had no other way but to retreat.

And because of Liu Yao's retreat, Liu Yue, who was surrounded on all sides, no longer had any life.

In June 325, Shi Hu captured Shiliang, captured Liu Yue and more than 80 of his generals, and more than 3,000 soldiers of the Di and Qiang tribes, all of whom were escorted to Xiangguo, and killed 9,000 Liu Yue's soldiers. He then attacked Wang Teng, a rebel general of Later Zhao stationed in Bingzhou, captured and killed Wang Teng, and killed more than 7,000 of his soldiers.

This Shi Hu is the Shi Hu who was found by Liu Kun and returned to Shi Le. When Shile was alive, he was a war sword, attacking cities and plundering land, invincible. After Shile's death, the war knife became a butcher's knife, killing his enemies, killing his own people, and killing all those he wanted to kill on a whim.

Liu Yao returned to Chang'an and did not enter the city immediately, as the emperor of Former Zhao, he was responsible for this defeat. It is true that the defeat before the battle was induced by accidental factors, but the responsibility of the chief general cannot be shirked, and if "the top and bottom can be made to have the same desire, and the three armies are of the same heart," where will there be any "bombing camps." Liu Yao personally wore linen and filial piety on the outskirts of Chang'an to pay tribute to the fallen soldiers, and only entered the city seven days later. And because of the anger of the disease, it took a long time to recover.

This was the first large-scale confrontation between the two Zhaos, which ended in Liu Yao's fiasco. Since then, Si, Henan, Xu, Yan and other prefectures have all been owned by Hou Zhao. After this battle, Hou Zhao's strength became even stronger.

After that, it was the decisive battle in 328, and all the preparations of Liu Yao and Shi Le were for this decisive battle, to destroy each other, and to become the unique "Zhao" himself.

Liu Yao's opponent is still Shi Hu, after more than two years of hard work, Liu Yao finally lost his shame, the battle of Gaohou, Shi Hu was defeated, Chen corpse more than 200 miles, all the way south to Chaoge. Liu Yao took advantage of the victory to enter the army, hit the stone and was born in Jin Yong, and decided to irrigate the city.

This is Liu Yao's great victory, the two generals of the Houzhao Front Army were defeated one after another, and the military prestige was greatly boosted, as if the defeat of Houzhao was just around the corner.

Shi Le also felt the coming crisis, the most powerful general Shi Hu was beaten by Liu Yao and fled, and no one under Shi Le's tent could match Liu Yao.

So, go out for yourself! The grievances of the old opponents, with the ability of the little young melons, really can't intervene.

Liu Yao didn't expect Shi Le to come in person, and when he was still immersed in the joy of the victory over Shi Hu, Shi Le's various armies had already completed the assembly and drove to Luoshui, only one step away from Liu Yao under Luoyang City.

In the panic, Liu Yao behaved inappropriately, and his military deployment was full of loopholes. Schler, on the other hand, showed all his military capabilities accumulated in actual combat over the years.

This was the first face-to-face confrontation between Shi Le and Liu Yao, perhaps, Liu Yao did not realize that the first face-to-face encounter between him and Shi Le after becoming enemies was a life-and-death battle between the two of them, he was very careless, but Shi Le was very careful. Because he wants to completely destroy his most powerful enemy in this battle and fulfill his grand desire to unify the Central Plains; Because, if he is also defeated, the Hou Zhao that he built up single-handedly will also cease to exist.

The process of the decisive battle was like a hunt, Shi Le took advantage of Liu Yao's panic to divide his troops and attack Liu Yao, Shi Hu and Shi Kan each led an army to attack the left and right, and Shi Le led the Chinese army to attack head-on.

The Former Zhao army was defeated, more than 50,000 people were killed, and Liu Yao also fell off his horse and was captured by Liu Kan during the retreat.

Shile is a Qian, a people who have been slaves of the Huns for generations, but under the leadership of Shile, they finally defeated the original master, washed off the brand of slaves on their bodies with war knives, and became masters, and were masters on the land of the Central Plains.

Since then, the glory of the Huns has dimmed, and gradually disappeared in the long river of history, without a trace.

The captured Liu Yao was still very backbone, and Shi Le had Liu Yao write a letter to his son Liu Xi ordering him to surrender. Liu Yao wrote in the letter: "With the minister Kuang Wei Sheji, don't take my mind for granted. Compared with the Cixi in later generations who "measured China's material resources and formed a friendship with neighbors", Liu Yao's backbone is more than praiseworthy.

However, Shi Le quickly killed Liu Yao, destroyed the former Zhao, and annihilated the last light of the Xiongnu Liu clan.

At this point, Shile completed the first unification of the Central Plains, which should be a good thing for the people in the north who had been suffering from war for a long time at that time. At least, while Shiler was alive, it was.

In September 330, Shile became emperor with the year name Jianping.