In the eleventh year of Jianxing, at the end of June.

The dispute over the land of Longxi has come to an end. Chen An besieged Nan'an County, but encountered stubborn resistance from Zhao Zhengxi's general Liu Gong. Before he could capture Nan'an County, Chen An heard that Shi Wu had done his best and led his troops to kill his lair.

When Chen An heard the report, he was shocked. He has been in business for many years, whether it is food, ordnance, or dependents, they are all in Shangtai City. If there is a mistake, the consequences are unimaginable.

As a result, Chen An lost his most basic calmness and judgment as a general. He immediately withdrew from Nan'an County and ordered the army to immediately return to Shangtai.

Pressed and beaten by Chen An for many days, Liu Gong in Nan'an County saw Chen An's withdrawal at this time, and he also knew that General Shi Wu would rescue Nan'an, so he lost no time in ordering the soldiers and horses in the city, and then launched an attack on the retreating Chen An. Seeing that Chen An's troops were retreating from Nan'an in a disorderly manner, a group of more than 1,000 horsemen sent by Shi Wu to rescue Nan'an also cooperated with the defenders of Nan'an and launched an attack on Chen An's troops.

Due to the darkness of the night, Chen An's hasty withdrawal from Nan'an, and the poor organization and discipline of the Qiang people, Liu Gong attacked, and Chen An's troops were immediately defeated. In addition, the troops sent by Shi Wu launched a flank attack on the other side. Chen An's troops were then defeated, and the troops scattered and fled.

Liu Gong and Shiwu pursued Chen An's subordinates who fled all over the mountains. A few thousand people drove the scattered crowd of 100,000 like cattle and sheep. In the end, Liu Gong and Shi Wu cut down a total of 20,000 heads. Chen An was unable to restrain the scattered Qiang people, and Shangtai was also unable to rescue, so he led his only remaining 8,000 horsemen and fled to Luoyang County.

At the beginning of July, Liu Yao, who was far away in Chang'an, finally moved, Liu Zhao mobilized almost all the troops and materials that could be mobilized at present, gathered more than 200,000 troops, and rushed towards the remnants of Chen An in Longxi, and behind Chen An, the huge hidden danger that had been unwilling to surrender.

Chen An, who was besieged by Liu Gongshiwu, soon faced the problem of running out of food in Luoyang. Later, it was reported that Liu Yao of Chang'an led an army of 200,000 to Longxi. So Chen An, who was in Luoyang, couldn't sit still.

Chen An left his generals Yang Bozhi and Jiang Chong'er to defend the city. He led three thousand elite horsemen to open the gate of Luoyang City and break out. Chen An has been rampant in the Longxi territory for more than ten years, and the elite cavalry under his command is still quite strong. These three thousand elite horsemen broke through Liu Zhao's encirclement all the way and headed towards the mountains of Longxi.

Leaving people to defend the city and breaking through on his own is not that Chen An abandoned his subordinates, but that Chen Anxin knew that for Liu Zhao, his personal threat was worse than the rest. If Chen An succeeds in breaking through the siege and goes to the mountains and forests, in time, he can contact the Qiang people who are dissatisfied with the rule of the Huns, and continue to raise a large army to fight Liu Yao.

Therefore, rather than attacking Luoyang, Liu Yao hopes that Chen An himself will be killed. Once Chen An was captured or ambushed, the loose Qiang tribes in the Longxi region would no longer be able to confront him. At that time, Liu Zhao would be able to take the land of Longxi, which had long been outside his control, under his rule.

After unifying Longxi and Guanzhong, Liu Zhao's own living space can be enlarged. From then on, you can have more people and more acres. It has more abundant financial and material resources. And to the south, you can conquer the Baima people Yang is difficult to fight, and to the west, even if you can't annex Liangzhou in one bite, you can also rely on the big river to defend it. Going east, you can compete with Shile in the Central Plains and complete the hegemony of the Huns in the world!

If Chen An is not removed for a day, Longxi will be unstable for a day. The Xiongnu Liu Zhao could only continue to defend a corner of the pass, exhausted to deal with the threat from the west.

Therefore, Liu Yao's mood for getting rid of Chen An can be said to be extremely urgent. After hearing that Liu Gong had sent an envoy to report that Chen An had been besieged in Luoyang County, he sent his general Ping Xian to lead the elite cavalry first, demanding that Chen An be captured or killed. He must not be allowed to escape.

Soon after Pingxian arrived in Lüyang, he was still resting in the rear camp when he heard that an elite cavalry in the city had crossed the city and successfully broke through. Ping Xian immediately made a decision and determined that this person "must be Chen Anye." So he couldn't take a break, and hurriedly led his subordinates to ride on horses and pursue.

Chen An saw that someone was chasing from behind, so he held a snake spear and a long knife and personally returned to the palace. Chen An was very brave, and the approaching Hun cavalry was killed by him one after another. Seeing this, Ping Xian was in a hurry, and hurriedly slapped his horse forward and fought with Chen An. Ping Xian fought hard and even took Chen An's snake spear. Who knew that the sky was not beautiful, and suddenly it rained heavily, and Chen An took the opportunity to escape.

The next day, Ping An continued to search the mountain. Hu Yanqing, the general of the auxiliary army, was the nephew of Hu Yanqing who Chen An had killed before. Therefore, when searching the mountains, it was extremely hard. The emperor lived up to his wishes, and in the heavy rain, Hu Yanqing discovered the place where Chen An was hiding.

Chen An's troops, who were pursued by Ping Xian and fought fiercely yesterday, except for those who were scattered or fled, now there are only about hundreds of loyal guards with Chen An, and they are all extremely tired. It's too much to fight again. Hu Yanqing then led his subordinates to rush into the mountains and forests, and after an almost one-sided fight, Chen An was captured by Hu Yanqing.

Hu Yanqing was eager for revenge, and was worried that Liu Yao would open up to Chen An in order to appease the Qiang people in the Longxi region, so Chen An was executed. With the defeat of Chen An, the head fell to the ground. The turbulent situation in Longxi this year has finally come to an end at this time.

According to Yang Bozhi, who guarded Luoyang County, he killed Jiang Chong'er and surrendered the city. Song Pavilion in Shangtai also killed Chen An's Xiangguo Zhao Zhao and surrendered the city. At this point, the overall situation of Longxi has been decided, and Qinzhou has all fallen into the hands of Liu Yao.

Yang and Song are both wealthy families in Longxi. However, after the surrender, Liu Yao in Chang'an City forced more than 2,000 households from the two tribes to move to Chang'an, and sent out a large army to limit the Qiang tribes in the Longshang region, and each tribe had to send protons to Chang'an.

Liu Yao's move made the situation in Longxi, which had been turbulent since the fall of the Western Jin Dynasty, finally embark on the road of gradual stability.

In the winter of last year, Zhang Zhijun, the governor of the state, sent envoys to inspect the defense of Jincheng County and its vicinity, and saw that Han Pu had a good management of the army, and the defense was strict and impeccable. I moved a little bit of thinking to expand the territory. So Han Pu ordered Zhang Lang to stay in Jincheng, and he personally led more than 3,000 elites to attack Longxi, and the troops went straight to Gui'an, making a tentative attack.

Han Pu was ordered to arrive at Nan'an County, but saw that Liu Gong did not defend the low Nan'an city wall, but set up villages in many places outside the city, which were horns for each other. Han Pu sent a sentry cavalry to reconnoiter and learned that Liu Gong's troops in Nan'an were as strong as four or five thousand.

Seeing that the situation was impossible, Han Pu had no choice but to retreat and return. He also remembered Li Yanzhao's previous suggestion to move all the households in the Longxi area to Liangzhou. However, when Liu Gong saw Han Pu retreating, he led his troops out. The two sides engaged in several skirmishes, each with damage. Due to Liu Gong's pressing step by step, Han Pu had to give up his plan to forcibly evict the households, and the army tried this time, but only returned in vain.

The sortie was fruitless, and the action itself was a little hasty, and soon the report sent back by the scouts was drowned in a sea of military newspapers. However, at this time, Liu Yao, who had just cleaned up Chen An, remembered the unpleasantness of last year's winter.

Because at the beginning of this year, Zhang Zhijun saw the situation in Longxi that had not been turbulent for a long time, and there was an ambition to expand the territory in his heart. The troops from Xiping and Jinxing transferred the veteran Song Pei back, and sent the Ningqiang Protector Yin Jian to lead this southern route army and enter Sangbi. He also dispatched 8,000 elites from Han Pu stationed in Jincheng to enter Jicheng, facing Longxi and Nan'an across the river.

Liu Yao could not tolerate the Liangzhou forces extending to the border of Longxi. So Liu Zhao's army coerced the remnants of Chen An's victory, and swept towards the Longxi territory occupied by the two generals in Liangzhou.

Because Han Pu and Yin Jian, they took advantage of the main forces such as Shiwu and Liu Gong in the Longxi region to besiege Chen An, and entered Jicheng and Sangbi. Now, in addition to Di Dao, there are still a small number of Shiwu's subordinates stationed, and the Longxi territory is enough for the sentinels from Liangzhou to conduct more in-depth reconnaissance.

In mid-July, as the rebellion of Chen An fell silent, the sentinels sent by Liangzhou to Longxi became more and more frequent. The size of a team of 50 people was also reduced to 2 groups of more than 30 people. After another rotation, Song Qing crossed the river with more than 30 people and arrived near the left side of Jicheng for reconnaissance and surveillance.

Arrived in Jicheng, although it has been nearly two hundred miles deep. However, if you continue to go more than 150 miles to the east, you will find the mulberry wall occupied by Yinjian. Song Qing led the sentry riders to observe carefully, and the head of Jicheng City was still Han Pu's banner. After marching for half a day, they crossed Weishui, and then turned around and reconnoitred the two counties of Longxi and Nan'an. It is obvious that the garrison of the two counties is weak, and now it is like a great enemy, and the city gates are closed during the day.

Song Qing secretly wondered in his heart, but he didn't know why Han Pu didn't move now that the two counties were so empty.

After thinking about it carefully, Song Qing decided to fulfill his responsibilities as a sentry rider. He took out a pencil that was given to him by a hundred people not long ago, took out a piece of straw paper from his bosom, dismounted in the dense forest beside the road, put the straw paper on the saddle, and summarized the situation of Longxi and Nan'an counties that he had reconnoitred, and then called a horseman and ordered him to send the horse to Jicheng and hand it over to Han Sima.

After doing this, Song Qing got on the horse again and led his subordinates to continue eastward. Now Han and Yin seem to be alone, and they are both elites in the state. This kind of situation seems to be a castle in the air without a foundation, and its danger has been basically doomed from the beginning.

If Han and Yin know how to take advantage of the situation, they will actively continue to attack and advance, so that the enemy army will not be able to figure out the truth and reality, and then take advantage of it and return to the division. Or surrender to the land of Henan, and easily pull out the nail of Di Dao, which is undoubtedly a good strategy.

However, it is a pity that these two generals are cautious people. Holding a large number of elites, but guarding the lonely city. It's really hard to say what the situation will be in the future.

Thinking of this, Song Qing ordered the rest of his subordinates to get up and change horses, and continued to advance in the direction of Sangbi to reconnoitre. In line with the idea of completing the task as soon as possible, Song Qing urged his subordinates to travel all the way.

When it was dark and night, after Song Qing set up a guard, he ordered the cavalry to rest for three hours, and when the three hours were full, when the cavalry were woken up, it was still moonlight and starry, but they had been ordered by Song Qing to get on the horse again and continue to gallop towards the mulberry wall.

The sky is slightly bright, when the sun is rising, it is about the beginning of the hour, Song Qingbu has arrived at the west of Sangbi City ten miles after more than a day of marching. Song Qing personally climbed the heights and looked into the distance, but he saw an unforgettable scene when he exhausted his life.

More than 20 miles away in the distance, on the flat place of the mountain col east of the mulberry wall, a spectacular military line appeared. The dense flags set up in it cover the sky and the sun. This magnificent line of troops marched in unison and was advancing resolutely towards the city of Sanbi on their western side.

Due to the distance, Song Qing couldn't see it very clearly, but he was almost certain that it must be Liu Zhao's army that was surging from the west!

"All on board! Come and see closer! Song Qing didn't care much, as soon as he stepped onto the saddle and sat down, his right hand was already whipped on the horse's buttocks, and the horse immediately accelerated and galloped westward.

Song Qingxing was less than five miles to Sangbi City, and the slightly confused shouts of the Liangzhou army at the head of the city kept coming, still in his ears. As the distance narrowed, Song Qing finally saw the spectacular scene in front of him clearly.

Ten miles to the west, densely packed with human heads, neighing military horses, horses' hooves as the army marched, and dust raised by its pace...... Synthesizing a picture scroll shook Song Qing's senses, and also hit his nerves that felt crisis.