Chapter 307: Yan Jin negotiates peace
"Brothers, go up!" Xue Tong and Gao Jinzhi roared and rushed in first.
"Surrender and don't kill, surrender and don't kill!" Amid the tsunami-like shouts of the mountains, the Hexi army rushed into the city one after another.
The main force of the army, which was originally stealthy and sneaking, immediately accelerated towards Jinyang City as soon as it heard the sound of bull horns.
At this time, the defenders in the city were completely stunned, and they could not block the impact of the Hexi army at all, and they scattered into the city one after another.
There are also some Xianbei people who are unwilling to retreat and try to block the way of the Hexi army.
How could the two generals Gao Jinzhi and Xue Tong be extremely brave, dancing the horizontal knife in their hands into a ball of white light, and attacking together, killing the enemy army and retreating.
At the same time, Wang Zhenwei also led a large group of men and horses into the city, constantly commanding the soldiers and horses to raid the city.
When Murong You was still fantasizing about having goods to take, the sudden shouting of killing outside the city made him realize that the situation was not good.
He was about to tell the guards to go out to check on the situation, when suddenly a bloodied general burst in.
The general, panting and sweating profusely, fell to his knees with a thud and howled.
"General, something is wrong!"
"The Hexi army suddenly launched a sneak attack on our army, and the brothers were caught off guard, and now they are being killed by the Hexi people and retreating."
"What?" Murong You suddenly felt that the sky was spinning, and his head buzzed as if it had exploded.
"Hexi is a friendly country of Xiyan, how could it attack our army for no reason? Could it be that the Houyan people are pretending? ”
Murong You couldn't believe that the Hexi Army would attack Xiyan for a while, but the impression he left on him last time was so good that he even regarded Wang Zhenwei as a close friend.
"Hey, my lord!"
"We're all fooled, why are the Houyan people pretending?! It's obviously the Hexi Army. ”
"How can this be, how can this be ......"
After Murong You learned that it was really the Hexi Army who turned against him, his face suddenly turned pale, and his sweat was like rain.
After the Battle of Taibi, Xiyan, which was originally weak, became weaker and weaker, and could not stop the wolf-like Hexi Army no matter what.
"General, you better hurry up and escape, if you don't leave, it's too late."
At that moment, a group of henchmen hugged Murong You out of the mansion, and were about to take advantage of the chaos to escape, but unexpectedly bumped into Wang Zhenwei head-on.
As soon as he saw the 'culprit', Murong Youden became excited, and he pointed at the other party and scolded.
"Wang Zhenxi, I didn't expect you to be an ungrateful person!"
"Tell me, why did you attack Jinyang City for no reason."
In the face of Murong You's accusations, Wang Zhen was evil, and his expression was very indifferent.
"The Tao is different, and they don't conspire with each other!"
"Most of my family protects the Yan and Huang nobles, and it is our responsibility to recover the rivers and mountains."
"If you wait for Hu Lu to steal from China for a hundred years, you should also pay the price for your previous sins."
"If you know each other, you should surrender obediently, otherwise when the army comes, you will be crushed into powder."
"Phew! Hexi also wants to unify the world?! ”
"My lord Yan Wang still has 100,000 male soldiers, and he will definitely tell you to wait for you to go around if you can't eat."
"In that case, then don't be ruthless!"
Murong You was just an inconspicuous little wave, and under the fierce offensive of the Hexi Army, the entire Jinyang garrison quickly collapsed.
In less than a quarter of an hour, the Hexi army took control of the entire city, killing more than 1,000 people under Murong You, and the rest were all captured.
After the war, Wang Zhenwei blocked the news and reported to Wei Shuo.
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Since Murong Chui's southern expedition, it can be described as a mixed blessing.
Although some land was successfully captured in the early stage, since Liu Yu went north, the Houyan army suffered setbacks one after another, and the war dragged on all of a sudden.
At present, although Hou Yan still has the upper hand, if it has not been able to completely defeat the Jin army, it must be Hou Yan who cannot be consumed in the end.
Just as Murong Chui was about to defeat Liu Yu in one go, he heard a news that shocked the whole army.
The Northern Wei Tuoba Jue took advantage of the southern expedition of Houyan and united Hexi and Xiyan to send troops together to conquer Houyan.
What frightened him even more was that the Hexi Army fought in Changshan and shocked Hebei.
At the same time, the Wei army was deeply encouraged and launched a strong onslaught on Youzhou.
Fortunately, the Wei army was good at field warfare, but not good at siege, and the defenders of Jicheng relied on the protection of the city wall and tried their best to resist.
The two sides fought from morning to dusk, and the Yan army killed and wounded thousands of Wei troops, and the Wei army was able to stop the offensive.
At this time, Murong Chui was so anxious that he no longer wanted to spend time with the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
He immediately sent an envoy to sue for peace with the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and expressed his willingness to return the occupied counties such as Langya County, Donghai Kingdom, and Dongguan County.
Judging from the conditions of Houyan's reconciliation, Murong Chui really wanted to cease war with the Eastern Jin Dynasty, which also showed that he was very anxious at this time.
However, in Liu Yu's view, Hou Yan ran to the Eastern Jin Dynasty to loot for no reason, and now that there is trouble in the rear, he remembered to want peace, how can there be such a cheap thing in the world?
If he had according to his original intentions, he would not agree to reconcile with Murong Chui.
On the contrary, he should take advantage of the fact that Hou Yan is too busy to take care of himself, mobilize heavy troops to go north with all his might, and strive to recover the lost territory.
It's a pity that Liu Yuguan has a humble position and can't influence the court's decision-making at all.
As a result, as soon as the envoy of Houyan arrived in Jiankang, whether it was Sima Yao, the son of heaven, or Sima Daozi, the king of Xiang, they all agreed to the other party's proposal.
Sima Daozi agreed to negotiate peace, on the one hand, he didn't want Liu Yu to make any more contributions, and on the other hand, he was greedy for Houyan's bribes.
This time, in order to get Sima Daozi to agree to the peace talks, Yan sent a large amount of treasure to the Huiji Palace.
The reason why Sima Yao, the Son of Heaven, agreed to negotiate peace, on the one hand, although Hou Yan occupied Yanqing and did not return it, he also returned the land occupied by Xu Yu to the Eastern Jin Dynasty, so that he had steps to go down.
On the other hand, Sima Yao was also afraid of Murong Chui's fame, and he lacked confidence in continuing to fight, so he had to accept it as soon as he saw it.
As a result, the originally contradictory wine bag and rice bag brothers rarely reached a consensus this time.
When the others saw that the Son of Heaven and the Prime Minister had agreed to the peace talks, they naturally did not dare to disagree, and soon the imperial court's agreement to the armistice and peace was sent to Pengcheng.
"Damn! Why did the imperial court agree to negotiate peace? ”
"Now is a good opportunity to go north to regain lost territory, once I miss it now, I don't know when it will appear again in the future, and I will regret it for the rest of my life."
"General, as the saying goes: if the general is not affected by the order of the monarch outside, let's just go north directly."
As soon as the front-line generals heard that the imperial court was discussing peace, they resolutely expressed their disagreement.
Not only that, but everyone even encouraged Liu Yu to send troops north regardless of the holy decree.
"Bastard! As an official of the imperial court, how can you regard the king's life as child's play? ”
Liu Yu sternly refused the general's request for his life, and reprimanded everyone fiercely.
Although emotionally general, he was unwilling to make peace with Hou Yan over this.
After all, it was the best time to hit Murong Trai hard, and he very much wanted to step on Murong Trai's corpse to become famous all over the world.
But when he calmed down and thought about it, Murong Chui had encountered a crisis in the rear, and the Houyan army was unable to capture Pengcheng for a long time.
However, the main force of Houyan did not suffer much loss, on the contrary, it still had the absolute upper hand.
If he really chooses to go north desperately, once he encounters Houyan Tieqi in the wild, I am afraid that the whole army will be in danger of annihilation.
At this time, Suo Chengming also stood up to appease the generals and said: "Everyone, it is not a bad thing for us to make peace with Hou Yan. ”
"On the whole, our army is far inferior to Murong Chui's strong troops."
"Now I can hold Pengcheng, relying on the proper command of the lord and the courage to fight; Second, the city of Lai Peng City is tall, easy to defend and difficult to attack. ”
"And our army lacks cavalry, and it is simply impossible to defeat the Houyan army in the field."
"Besides, if we are in a hurry to fight hard with Murong Chui, we are just making wedding dresses for 'others'."
"Rather than this, it is better to let Murong Chui go north for the time being, and we will take this opportunity to put things in order, and when the time is ripe in the future, we will send troops to the north."
When Suo Chengming mentioned 'others', he glanced at Liu Yu without a trace.
Everyone present thought that others were referring to the Wei King Tuoba Jue who was waving his troops to attack Youzhou, but they didn't know that Suo Chengming and Liu Yu were most worried about Wei Shuo.
Through talking to Suo Chengming, Liu Yu has gained insight into Wei Shuo's ambition to dominate the world, and at the same time sees him as his biggest opponent.
Originally, Wei Shuo was already a lot ahead of him, and while Liu Yu was catching up, it would be good if he could slow down Wei Shuo's pace.
A few days later, the Houyan army began to retreat slowly, and in order to prevent Liu Yu's sneak attack, Murong Chui personally led the troops to break the rear.
When the Xianbei people withdrew, half of Xuzhou became a mess.
Although Murong Chui promised to return Langya and other counties to the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the Xianbei people had already snatched all the people and materials.
After Liu Yu learned about it, he secretly swore in his heart that sooner or later he would lead his troops north to conquer Zhuhu and avenge the people.