When my main formation, baggage chariots and horses, through the steep Taihang Mountains and rugged mountain gorges, appeared on the flat land, I got the news that the last resisting city in the northern part of the Shangdang Plateau, the capital of Mizhou, Miyang City (now Tanghe, Shanxi), also announced the fall of the city.

Since then, the four states of Shangdang on the inner line of Hedong have been down, and there is no danger in the flank of Hedong, and the passage from Hedong to Guannai has also opened the door to us, and it can be cut off at any time.

Compared with the Guannei Road, which is known as the "800 miles of Qinchuan fertile soil" and "imperial foundation", or the Dugi Province of Henan, which is the first victory in Zhongzhou, or the Hebei Province that is rich in half of the Central Plains, the Hedong Road (most of today's Shanxi Province and the northwest of Hebei Province), which is known as "the mountains and rivers in the table" and "thousands of miles longitudinal and horizontal", in fact, most of the realms are steep places with mountains and mountains;

Therefore, the vast majority of the cities and populations of Taiyuan Prefecture and Pu, Jin, Jiang, Ci, Xi, Fen, Qin, Liao, Lan, Shi, Xin, Dai, Yun, Shuo, Wei, Ze, and Lu, a total of 18 prefectures under the jurisdiction of Hedong, were divided along the winding mountain folds and rift valley rivers, and after the high and low differences were divided, they were concentrated in several large basins, including the Shangdang Plateau in the east, and Taiyuan in the northwest to Hezhongfu in the southwest.

As a result, once the mountains of Taihang, Taiyue, and Wangwu in the east were broken through, these large and small mountain plains, basins, and river valleys, and many large and small cities and people under their lords were the basic result of being drummed down one by one along the geographical trend.

Therefore, it was only stopped and repaired for two days in Changzhi, the capital of Luzhou; When my own army once again sent troops northwest to cross the Taiyue Mountains in the hinterland of Hedong, and entered the Jinzhong Plain, where Fenzhou is located, the hub of the Three Jin Dynasty, the battle of Taiyuan Mansion in the north has also entered the end.

Under the tactics of attacking the army on the Hedong Road and the command of the Sixth Army, and integrating the men and horses of all walks of life to attack first and then retreat, to send reinforcements and lure the enemy; In the end, under the intermittent siege of Taiyuan, tens of thousands of Hedong troops were defeated and returned to the aid of the exhausted army;

Among them, more than 10,000 people were killed in battle, and the remnants of the department, under the leadership of the former puppet Northern Han State advocate Dekun, had already competed to retreat along the upper reaches of the Fen River to the Linfen Basin in the south;

Then, Taiyuan City, which lost its fighting spirit and will to resist, has since fallen bloodlessly. After all, what could be more demoralizing and the will to resist than witnessing reinforcements and main forces being crushed and annihilated in front of the defenders.

At this time, an unknown number of reinforcements from the Western Army had just entered the land east of Hedong through the northern Yanzhou of Guannei Province, and began to encounter and engage with several Pinglu and Hebei pioneers who were going south to fight outposts and pursue the enemy first.

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At the same time, the downstream of Fenshui,

Xu Tianwolf, the son of the king of Beiliang, the word Feng Nian, was also in the day and night of the rapid northward journey, and the smoke and dust from the march of the dragoon army gathered into a long dragon that could not be seen from the beginning to the end.

As a first-class family in the northwest feudal town and Jiangmen family, his ancestors were vassals and generals of the Zhao clan of Guazhou on the left side of Helan Mountain, and later were able to establish their own gateway north of Liangzhou and become a heroic and Jiangmen lineage, thus maintaining a complex and indistinguishable relationship and bond with the former benefactor and the Zhao family;

Although he has been known for his gentlemanly image since he was a child, he actually has a furrow in his chest and a good plan in his belly. Therefore, in the later dumping and struggle of the local forces in the northwest, he was not only for self-preservation but also to maintain his obscurity, and in his early years, he traveled away from home for a long time in the Central Plains, and even stayed incognito in the market of Luodu for a time, and took pleasure in making friends with all kinds of three religions and nine streams, and he experienced a different flavor and interest in life, and also met several unforgettable confidants and friends who took care of each other.

It wasn't until later that Luodu underwent a great change, and he had to escape from this dead land, which had been reduced to a human realm and a Shura field; fled all the way west through Tongguan and finally returned home, took over the family responsibility handed over by his father who was seriously ill, and obtained the assistance of the gradually alienated old lord Zhao by marriage, and re-revitalized the prestige of the Beiliang Xu clan.

However, he was concerned with something else at the moment; Because, before he personally commanded the soldiers and horses, the cheap brother-in-law who was also his brother-in-law seemed to be still vividly heard.

According to the meaning of the other party's words, in fact, this situation is not the result of the generalissimo's palace and the Xining imperial court, which were directly or indirectly promoted and promoted, and even quite happy to see it.

Just like the Chengguang Tianzi in history who took advantage of the West to create the next generation's foundation, a lot of interesting stories have been repeated;

Nowadays, under the banner of the Western Army, although there are many numbers and military orders, there are also differences between relatives and distant ones; and those miscellaneous and peripheral forces that are not problematic in their core and positional tendencies, and even local forces that were forced to coerce the Xining court or subjugated later; It will play the role of a stepping stone and a forerunner for the king's precursor and paving the way forward.

Under the various deliberately created immediate interests and short-term trends, a large number of subordinates and children were stranded in the south and could not be returned, and the extremely empty northwest hinterland and the inheritance passed down from generation to generation were left to the Xining court dominated by the Zhao family and its close powerful faction. And those close forces and men who were transferred back to the north in the name of preparing for the enemy in the early stage are a particularly important link and backhand.

In this way, even if they regret and wake up, and want to withdraw and return in time, under the attraction of the territory and goods they have occupied to the soldiers, as well as the staggered entanglement of the Southern Army and the Huai Army in person, it is also difficult to ride a tiger; Even if someone wants to retreat or change course desperately, the cronies who have already occupied the rear passage and the place of victory in the name of supervising the formation and severely punishing the escape from the battle will become a cry and nightmare that they have to swallow.

Then, when the time is ripe, you can follow the story of Tang Gaozu who rejected foreign enemies and accepted internal Zen, and complete the routine replacement of the Western Tang Dynasty's withdrawal from the short-lived historical stage.

The vein of the Beiliang King of the Xu family will become the first-rate relatives and family members of the family who share weal and woe and hereditary repudiation after the new dynasty is established, and sit in the east of the river as the head of the six founding kings and pass through the two rivers.

Therefore, while trying our best to rescue Hedongdao, we should also pay attention to preserving our strength and winning over the hearts of the local people. It is necessary to plan for the long-term stay and operation in the future.

However, what made him very disappointed was that although there were many results and information about the confrontation with the enemy, in the end, all the banners of the Pinglu army or the Hebei army, or even the Henan Liang army were obtained, and none of the Zheng'er Bajing Huai army was seen. To tell the truth, he is also famous for the Huai Army, which is known as "invincible" and "good at defending the first place in field battles", and he has been looking forward to the jade contest for a long time.

Then there was a piece of news that made the dissatisfaction and resentment that had accumulated in his heart suddenly pile up to the extreme.

Because, just before their reinforcements arrived, the Hedong Army had already retreated from the defeat under the city of Taiyuan; Then, even worse, after his vanguard arrived in Linfen City, he found that the local Hedong County was already leaderless, and it was scattered like a plate of sand.

Because long before they got the news that reinforcements were coming, Zhang Dekun, the king of Shunyi, who was the lord of Hedong, took a personal guard to go out to inspect the terrain, and he disappeared and never returned. Then the rest of the troops were disorganized and at a loss, and by the time the Western Army arrived, they had already robbed the treasury and military funds and dispersed, and it could be said that they would not survive to stay in the local area, and they could not live in panic all day.

It wasn't until a few days later that someone got more definite information from the mountains to the west. In the end, this former lord of the Northern Han Dynasty and the lord of Hedong chose to take care of his own safety, and left most of the army and the people behind, only with the elite cronies of the children, with a large number of the most valuable soft and soft, and fled to the direction of Suizhou in the Guannai along the gorge between the Luliang Mountains in Shizhou (now Linfen, Shanxi) in the east and west of the river.

And it wasn't until a few years later, when someone heard the news that it was suspected to be him, it was already in the territory of the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate.

(End of chapter)