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The year 396 was an eventful year for Koto.

In January, Emperor Xiaowu died, and the central power was attributed to Sima Daozi.

In March, Wang Gong issued an edict in Jingkou, forcing Sima Daozi to order the death of his henchman Wang Guobao.

Without waiting for Jiangdong to breathe a sigh of relief, in April, another big chaos broke out in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River.

And the culprit who set off the turmoil is none other than Nanjun Gonghuan Xuan.

After Wang Gong's rebellion was put down, Sima Daozi rewarded the 'meritorious ministers'.

Among them, Liu Gaozhi was appointed as the governor of Yanqing, Jiyou, Xu Yang, and Jinling, and became the leader of the Northern Prefecture.

However, Sima Daozi did not trust Liu Gaozhi, so he did not let the other party concurrently serve as Yan and Xu Erzhou like Wang Gong.

Based on this, Sima Daozi added the title of Sima of Huiji Wangfu, and the right general Xie Yan as General Wei, Yanzhou Assassin History, and Fake Festival, and was stationed in Jingkou with Liu Gaozhi.

At the suggestion of Sima Shangzhi, in order to win over Liu Yu, he reappointed Liu Yu as the assassin of Xuzhou, and replaced Liu Gaozhi and moved south to Huaiyin.

The purpose of letting Liu Yu move to Huaiyin is very obvious, and it is obvious that Sima Daozi wants to use Liu Yu to divide and win over the old generals of Beifu.

In this way, Liu Jiao was monitored by Xie Yan before, and then Liu Yu looked at him, and he was afraid that he would not dare to make trouble easily.

After arranging the feudal towns east of Jiankang, Sima Daozi began to set his sights on the three feudal clans of Jingzhou.

At present, Sima Daozi urgently needs to destroy the alliance of the three feudatories in Jingzhou in order to remove the threat from the upper reaches of the Yangtze River.

Because Huan Xuan always refused to go to Guangzhou to take up his post, Sima Daozi had to reappoint him as the assassin of Jiangzhou.

Soon, Yongzhou Assassin Shi Xihui was forced to return to the imperial court to serve as Shangshu under the joint opposition of the three feudatories of Jingzhou.

As soon as the history of Yongzhou was vacant, it immediately attracted the covetousness of Huan Xuan and Yang Yan.

Sima Yuan seemed to know about it, so he suggested to his father, King Huiji, to take the opportunity to disintegrate the alliance of the three feudatories in Jingzhou.

As a result, Sima Daozi issued an edict appointing Yang Yanqi as the governor of Liang, Yongqin, and the military of the three states of Liang and Qin, and the history of Yongzhou.

and entered Huan Chong's son Huan Xiu as the assassin of Jingzhou, but demoted Yin Zhongkan to the history of Guangzhou assassination.

Sima Yuanxian's suggestion quickly played an applied role.

After Yin Zhongkan received the edict, he couldn't help but be furious, so he urged Huan Xuan and Yang Yanqi to jointly threaten the imperial court again.

However, after receiving Yin Zhongkan's letter, Yang Yanqi and Huan Xuan did not move, and the two of them had their own plans.

For Huan Xuan, he was very satisfied with the change in the situation this time to force the imperial court to hand over the Jiangzhou Assassin History to himself.

Although Yang Yan has the background of Hongnong Yang, in the eyes of the Jin people, he is almost the same as Liu Gaozhi's identity, and they are both middle and lower class scholars.

Now that he can mix in the three states, it is also very good for him.

Besides, now that Wang Gong is dead, and Yin Zhongkan will not be able to fight, Liu Gaozhi has returned to the imperial court, and if he continues to fight, the outcome is unpredictable.

Anyway, the benefits are already in hand, so why take the risk of losing the door and gamble with all your might? It is safest to accept it when you see it.

Huan Xuan and Yang Yan were reluctant to move, and Yin Zhongkan alone could not succeed, so they had to give up.

However, in this way, the contradictions between the three feudatories in Jingzhou have been completely intensified, and the apparent peace has been maintained for the time being.

However, although the three of them had their own ghosts, they also had to temporarily form an alliance to fight against Sima Daozi together.

But after a series of great changes, the status and strength of the three have quietly changed.

Yin Zhongkan, the original titular boss, was forced to abdicate and jointly elected Huan Xuan as the new leader of the alliance with Yang Yanqi.

On the eve of the alliance, Yang Yanqi secretly suggested to Yin Zhongkan that he was going to kill Huan Xuan when he was in the blood alliance.

Although Yin Zhongkan was jealous of Huan Xuan, he was also not worried about Yang Xuan.

He was worried that once Yang Yanqi killed Huan Xuan, he would further harm him, so he strictly stopped the assassination.

And after Huan Xuan became the leader of the alliance, in order to appease Yin Zhongkan, he had to ask Huan Xiu to return the post of Jingzhou Assassin to the other party.

So, with a lot of effort, the three feudatories of Jingzhou finally reached a compromise again.

However, there is no impermeable wall in the world, and Huan Xuan soon learns of Yang Yanqi's plan to assassinate him.

Who is Huan Xuan? The pride of the sky, the son of a wealthy family, has always been the only one who bullies others.

Now that he is being calculated by Yang Yan, how can he not retaliate?

So, when the oath was still in his ears, Huan Xuan began to secretly plan to destroy Yang Yan.

As the assassin of Jiangzhou, Huan Xuan not only did not go to Yuzhang to take office, but moved the Jiangzhou governance office to Xiakou.

Xiakou, controlling the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, can defend Jiangling Yin Zhongkan to the west, and threaten Xiangyang Yang to the north.

And Huan Xuan quickly sat up, which also made Yin Zhongkan feel more and more uneasy, so he secretly contacted Yang Yanqi and wanted to attack Huan Xuan together.

However, Yin Zhongkan didn't know that at this time, Huan Xuan also felt that the opportunity to seize Jingzhou was ripe.

As a result, Huan Xuan announced to the outside world that he would make a northern expedition to Guanzhong and help Dadu Guard Shuo eliminate Hou Qin.

Before leading the army north, Huan Xuan sent a letter to Yin Zhongkan, in which he said that he wanted to take the opportunity to get rid of Yang Yanqi, and invited Yin Zhongkan to send troops together.

Huan Xuan did this because he wanted Yin Zhongkan to completely turn his face with Yang Yanqi; The second is to try to do a false way to destroy the enemy.

In fact, Huan Xuan's real purpose was neither the Northern Expedition to Guanzhong, nor the attack on Xiangyang Yang Yan, but Jiangling Yin Zhongkan.

In early April, before Yin Zhongkan could react, Huan Xuan had already sent his army west to attack Baling (present-day Yueyang) and took control of the military grain depot there.

At this time, Guo Quan, the new Liangzhou assassin, happened to go west and passed by Xiakou.

And Guo Quan is an old general of the Huan clan, who used to serve as the general of Jingling Taishou and Yingyang under Huan Chong, and later served as the assassin of Yizhou.

Huan Xuan then falsely claimed to the outside world in the name of Guo Quan that the imperial court had agreed to his northern expedition and sent Guo Quan as the forward to the north.

At the same time, he himself urged all the armies to march in unison and come straight to Gangneung.

As the saying goes: soldiers will block, and water will cover the earth.

In the face of Huan Xuan's fierce momentum, Yin Zhongkan also took a series of measures in an attempt to repel Huan Xuan's attack.

On the one hand, he ordered his cousin Yin Shu to lead 7,000 naval troops to garrison the mouth of the Xijiang River to resist Huan Xuan's army.

On the other hand, he immediately wrote a letter to Yang Ji in Xiangyang, asking Yang Ji to rush south for reinforcements.

Huan Xuan ordered Liangzhou to assassinate Shi Guo Quan, and Fu Hong, the auxiliary general and former prince of Qinyuan, led his army west and defeated Yin Shu in one fell swoop.

He then led a large army and stationed it in Baling.

After Yin Shu was defeated, Yin Zhongkan sent Yang Guang, the younger brother of Yang Yanqi, and his nephew Yin Daohu to lead the army to resist.

Huan Xuan defeated Yang Guang at Xiakou and Yin Daohu at Yangkou respectively, and took advantage of the victory to advance to Zero, which was only twenty miles away from Jiangling.

At this time, there was a shock in Jiangling City, and Yin Zhongkan hurriedly sent several troops to resist.

After receiving Yin Zhongkan's call for help, Yang immediately led 8,000 elite cavalry south from Xiangyang.

Worried that the situation was critical, Yin Zhong could not stop Huan Xuan, and the army of Yang Yan did not carry grain and grass to the south.

However, when Yang Yanqi galloped all the way and arrived in Jiangling, he found that the Baling grain depot had been taken away by Huan Xuan, and Jiangling had already run out of grain.

Seeing this scene, Yang Yanqi couldn't help but be furious, and scolded Yin Zhongkan: "You are really a waste, you are not enough to succeed and more than to lose!" ”

"If you are unfortunate enough to fail today, it will be your fault!"

After scolding Yin Zhongkan, Yang Yanqi immediately led the army out of Jiangling City, preparing to attack Huan Xuan.

Yang Yanqi led the men and horses of his headquarters to join forces with his brother Yang Guang, crossed the Yangtze River directly, and attacked the base camp of Huan Xuan.

Huan Xuan was afraid of the elite troops of the Yang Yan period and did not dare to engage in battle, so he retreated from Zero to Matou on the south bank of the Yangtze River.

The next day, Yang Yanqi led 10,000 elite troops including Yin Daohu to board a battleship and go into battle, intending to fight a decisive battle with Huan Xuan.

And Huan Xuan also placed the battleship on the Yangtze River, and then the two armies launched a fierce water battle.

After all, Yang Yanqi was born in the north, and although he was experienced in a hundred battles, he was not accustomed to water warfare.

Seeing that the water war could not be won for a while, he adopted the method of avoiding the real and attacking the virtual, and instead attacked Guo Quan's army.

However, just when Yang Yan was about to break Guo Quan, unexpectedly, Huan Xuan defeated the Jingzhou Navy Division first, and led the army to follow.

As a result, under the attack of Guo Quan and Huan Xuan, Yang Yanqi suffered a crushing defeat.

The 8,000 elite cavalry was also wiped out, and Yang Yan fled to Xiangyang alone.

After the Battle of Matou, the Jing and Yong coalition armies did not exist, and Yin Zhong saw this situation, so he had to abandon the city and flee north.

It is advisable to chase the poor bravely, and not to sell the name of the overlord!

Huan Xuan didn't give Yang Yanqi and Yin Zhongkan any more chances, and quickly sent troops to pursue the two.

On the way, the general Feng Gai caught up with Yang Yanqi and his brother Yang Guang and killed them on the spot.

Yin Zhongkan originally planned to flee north to Guanzhong, but unfortunately was caught up and captured by Feng Cai, and was forced to commit suicide by Huan Xuan.

After successfully killing Yang Yanqi and Yin Zhongkan, Huan Xuan was full of spirits.

He wrote to the imperial court, blaming Yin and Yang, and asked for Jingzhou.

Sima Daozi was forced by the other party's prestige, so he had to appoint Huan Xuandu to supervise the military of Jing Siyong, Qin, Liang, Yining, and Jiang, and also lead the Jiang and Jing two states.

Now Huan Xuanzhi is complacent, and he is no longer the Nanjun Gong who was suppressed and excluded back then.

He is full-fledged, proud, and ambitious, and even wakes up laughing when he dreams.

At present, he no longer regards the imperial court, and begins to do whatever he wants under his own rule, frequently promoting officials.

Regardless of the reaction of the imperial court, he first promoted his brother Huan Wei to the Yongzhou Assassin History, and then moved to the Jiangzhou Assassin History.

It didn't take long for him to adjust his henchman Diao Chang to become an auxiliary general, supervise the military of the eight counties, and guard Xiangyang.

And sent the generals Huangfu Fu, Feng and others to lead the troops to guard the mouth.

Huan Xuan's frequent transfer of troops and promotion of officials were all in order to consolidate the foundation of his rule in order to prepare for the overthrow of the imperial court in the future.