Ren Ermaru Sima Huan Wen Qian first month 20 oath to go out, 50,000 boat division under the Guang version: Han from the Yangtze River into Fanliang Lake now Gaoyou Lake, the river to the Powutang now Hongze Lake, the fourth day of February arrived in Huaiyin, Tian Luo, Cai Guang, Wei Qian, these Beifu generals have each led the headquarters of more than 50,000 soldiers in Huaiyin to assemble on standby, Xu, Chong Erzhou Thorn Shidu, secretly for the award of the king's affairs, the superintendent of the Department of 5,000 foot cavalry with the war, so, the Jin army foot cavalry 120,000, water and land together, through the Hongru River, sprinkled water, retrograde to Xuzhou Zhangcheng, this time is February 15.

In Pengcheng, Huan Wen received an urgent military situation from Yingchuan Taishou Gaomu, and said that Murong Chui had returned. Huan Wen was overjoyed, and urgently summoned Zu Chong, Du Dark, Crazy Xi, Chen Caozhi, Crazy Shixiu, Huan Shiqian, Xie Xuan, and Zhu Xu into the military tent to discuss the matter, showing Gao Rou and urgent, and said: "Murong is coming back, and Yan is losing an arm." Help me this time, this Northern Expedition. If you can't make a great contribution, I vow not to return it! "Huan Wen is doing his best this time. is expected to win, and now it has the news that Murong Trai has returned. It is a great spiritual boost, and it is to say that if you don't make great achievements, you will not return.

Chen Caozhi, Xie Xuan, and Zhu Xu congratulated each other, and said that the army was a great man. Then the enemy chieftain came to vote, and the prestige of this madman was also caused.

Crazy Wen Dayue, looked at Chen Caozhi, and said: "This Chen Cao's strange plot is also, I thought that Murong Chui would flee north to Dragon City, but I didn't think that he couldn't cross the river, only to run south, haha, I will be kind to this person." Conquering the Yan people, this person is of great use

Crazy Wen looked around at the eight people and said: "Murong Chui ran to Yingchuan, Yan army Murong De and Murong Zhu led an army of 20,000 to besiege Yingchuan, Taishou Gaorou was in a hurry, I will personally lead the army to Ying" to save it, Sizhou Assassin Shi Huanxi led the Beifu army to the Yellow River according to the original marching route"

Crazy Wen's plan was that he and his five brothers, Huan Chong, Xu, and Chong, were all sorry to lead 50,000 people to Chenliu and Runan through Bianshui. Rendezvous with Yuan Zhen's troops to attack Xuchang and Ruyang, slightly take the land of Huaibei and Henan, and besiege Yingchuan Murong De and Murong Zhu heard that the Jin army was on a large northern expedition, and they would relieve the siege of Yingchuan, stick to their respective cities, and wait for reinforcements from Hebei; The 60,000 elites of the Beifu Army passed through Jinxiang and Juye, entered the Yellow River from Qingshui, and approached the Yandu Handcheng

The plan has been decided, Crazy Wen, Wild Chong, and Du secretly lead the army to the west, with Jianwei General Tan Xuan as the vanguard, leading 5,000 soldiers to go first, Zhu Xu of the Jingzhou Army led 3,000 sailors along the Bianshui River, and Xie Xuan led 5,000 Jingzhou Sailors to obey the orders of the Beifu Army

February 27. Crazy Xi led the army of 60,000 to leave Pengcheng, through Zhaoyang Lake to Jinxiang, this march route can be described as the right time and place, if it was the drought last year, the waterway to Juye will be cut off, even if it is the dry period of summer and autumn, the shallow water can not sail, and now it is the spring warm in February, the mountain stream and stream converge after the heavy snow melted at the end of last year, the spring water soup soup, the boat is convenient, do not worry about the luck, although it is all the way to the north, but because it is from spring to summer. The climate is getting warmer, and the long-distance march is not bitter, if it is the northern expedition in summer, the northern soil is cold early, and the Jin army has few fur browns. If you can't succeed in the first battle, you will easily be dragged down by the cold

Crazy Xi and Xie Xuan went to Jinxiang by boat, and Chen Caozhi and Huan Shixiu led 40,000 steps to ride out of Xuzhou. With Duan Si and Ran Sheng's 3,000 heavy cavalry as the vanguard, attacking Pei County, this will be the first battle of the Northern Expedition.

The defender of Pei County was Murong Zhong, the general of Yan Dongning, with 3,000 cavalry and sufficient grain and grass

On the first day of the first month of March, Chen Caozhi's poisonous army approached Pei County, and the soldiers were stationed at the foot of the mountain, and the scouts came to report that Murong Zhong moved all the households around the city into the city, intending to hold on, Chen Caozhi and Crazy Shixiu rode horses to inspect the city of Pei County. Seeing that its city wall is not very tall and strong, after returning to the military tent, he summoned Duan Si, Ran Sheng, Tian Luo, Cai Guang generals, and decided to storm Pei County, and at night the first sergeant shot hundreds of persuasion posts into the city with a range of 200 steps of big yellow crossbow, instigating the Han people in the city to rebel, and declared that Murong Chui of Yan State had surrendered, to shake the military heart of the Xianbei defenders, and the next morning, the east, south, and north three gates attacked together. Flying bridges, ladders, nest cars, and stone-throwing carts swarmed up, relying on more for victory, Murong Zhong saw that the Jin army was strong, and there were also signs of commotion in the big Han people in the city, knowing that Pei County was difficult to defend, he made a decision immediately, and decided to break through and retreat to Huangxu, Junyi and Murong Zhu, at this time, three of the four gates of Pei County were attacked, and the net of the West Gate was opened, although Murong Zhu knew that there must be ambushes in the West Gate. But there is only a head-to-head rush to the west. Met with the three thousand heavy cavalry led by Duan Si and Ran Sheng in the area of the Xishui Pavilion, Murong Zhong looked at the armor and cavalry that shone in the sunlight, and was greatly surprised, this kind of heavy cavalry with armor on both men and horses was unique to his Xianbei army, when did the Jin people have such an army!

Before Murong Zhong could recover from the shock, the heavy cavalry with strong armor and shining armor a few miles away began to charge, and the iron hooves were galloping, coming extremely fast, like a steel wall and a metal frenzy, and everywhere he passed, there was a great earthquake, like the Thor chariot coming from the sky

Murong Zhong's men were 1,000 light cavalry and 2,000 foot soldiers, and he knew very well in his heart that in the open area of the plains, in the face of such heavy cavalry, the light cavalry foot soldiers who had no danger could not resist the charge of the heavy cavalry at all. Unexpectedly, there was another mule in front of me. Banner hunting, but it is the department of Tian Luo, the general of Jin Longmule

Murong Zhong suffered from the enemy on his back, and a thousand light cavalry were killed by the three thousand heavy cavalry led by Duan Si and Ran Sheng in a charge, and then the heavy cavalry withdrew from the battlefield, and Tian Luo's foot soldiers came to clean up the mess, Murong Zhong was captured alive, and nearly half of the three thousand foot cavalry were killed and wounded, and the seriously injured were immediately ordered to be executed by Tian Lianluo, and the rest were all prisoners.

It only took three days for Jin and others to attack Pei County's Xiaobei Expedition, and the first battle was successful.

The news of Murong Chui's defection reached Handcheng, and the Yan government and the opposition were shocked, and on the same day, the news of the Northern Expedition of Sima of Jin Dynasty was rushed to Handcheng for 600 miles, and the Yan lord Murong Shui urgently summoned Taifu Murong Ping and Da Sima Murong Jian to discuss countermeasures, and Murong Ping was angry because the recent Hanzhong stroke review was not conducive to him. Hatred said: "Your Majesty, Murong Chui's wolf ambition has been exposed, how could he be forced by his ministers, he had already conspired with Huan Wen, otherwise, why would Huan Wen soldier Jiang Zuo." Murong Chui led the crowd to defect, if it weren't for the alertness of the ministers, Chen Bing Hebei would be on guard. Murong Chui will raise troops and kill them into Hancheng! Sixteen-year-old Yan Lord Murong Jian shook his head and asked, "At this time, internal and external troubles are coming, and the Jin army is pressing. What are the countermeasures of Taifu and Da Sima?

The Great Sima Murong is only Murong commenting on the horse, and Murong commented: "Your Majesty does not need to worry. My Dayan land spans thousands of miles, with a million, how can it be compared to the ugly and poor Wu Man in Jiangdong Prefecture, and the wild Wen led the crowd to come from afar, "I can't fight for a long time, my Dayan traitor has been revealed, the government and the opposition are solemn, and the monarch and the ministers are single-minded." Wait for my elite iron cavalry to defeat Huan Wen's tired soldiers, and then take advantage of the victory to pursue, and level Jiangdong in one fell swoop, and see what face the traitor Murong Trai has to see Your Majesty."

Murong Barrier immediately followed Murong Comment's proposal to follow the following king Murong Li to conquer the Metropolitan Governor, led 20,000 horses to cross the river, on February 23 to Junyi, and Murong Zhu's army converged, Murong Li rested in Junyi for two days, led the army into Tunhuangxu, on the second day of the first month of March, got the front sentry, and the Jin army was divided into two roads in Huaiyin. One route is led by Huan Wen and is coming to Runan and Yingchuan, and the other road is led by Huan Xi and Chen Cao, and is entering Pei County, which is in danger

Murong Zhu asked for orders to lead the people to save Murong Zhong in Pei County, and asked for the governor Murong Li not to allow it, he had found out that there were more than 50,000 people in each of the Jin army, and he and Murong Zhu only had more than 30,000 people, Pei County was far away, and it was too late to save it, so it was better to stick to Junyi and Huangxu, and report to Handdu urgently. Request for additional troops

Zhao Hong, the general of Yan Zhennan, was originally the protector of Yang in southern Jin, and later rebelled and returned to Yan State, and was dissatisfied because of the cold reception. The year before last, Chen Caozhi returned to Jiangdong from Handcheng. Zhao Hong once hinted to Chen Caozhi that he intended to return to Jiangdong, and Chen Caozhi said to Zhao Hong at that time that if Zhao Hong thinks of his homeland, he has his own way to serve the country, and the period is next year

Zhao Hong speculated that the Jin army would go on a northeastern expedition in the next time, and if he could turn against him, then he would be more glorious when he returned. But in the second year, the Jin army did not have any signs of the Northern Expedition, and did not think that as soon as the New Year passed, more than 100,000 people of the Northern Expedition army of the wild Wen came by land and water, obviously planning for a long time, and the Yan State because of Murong Ke's death of illness and Murong Chui's defection, there was already a sign of the waning West Mountain, so Zhao Hong learned that Huan Xi and Chen Caozhi's Beifu army was coming, and he was secretly happy in his heart, and asked Zuo Zhonglang to ask Murong Zhu for his life, and he was willing to lead the three thousand soldiers to help the king Murong Li to guard the Yellow Ruins and block the Jin army

On March 18, the three thousand heavy cavalry led by Duan Si and Dan Sheng, the forward of the Beifu soldiers, arrived in Qixian County in advance, the small city of Qixian County, the defenders were defeated in a battle, but one of the captured sergeants said that he was ordered by Zhao Hong, the general of Yan Zhennan, and wanted to see Chen Caozhi, saying that there was an urgent military report, Ran Sheng went to the north with his brother the year before last, but he parted ways with Shen Chiqian and went to Luoyang on the return trip, so he did not see Zhao Hong in Junyi, and then he heard this sergeant say that he wanted to see his brother Chen Caozhi. asked what was the matter, and the sergeant only said that General Zhao was Chen Sima's old man, and he had a major event to report, but he refused to tell Ran Shengming, so Ran Sheng sent someone to send the sergeant to Chen Cao's place

Chen Caozhi was overjoyed when he learned that Zhao Hong had sent someone, so he went to see Huan Xi and presented Zhao Hong's secret letter. Zu Xi said: "Zhao Hong is capricious. At this time, if you want to be an internal response, is there a deception?

Chen Caozhi patiently explained that when he met Zhao Hong in Junyi the year before last, Zhao Hong had the intention of repenting and reforming. At this time, the Northern Expedition arrived. Zhao Hong has the intention of sincerity, there will be no hypocrisy, and the battle will be decided, and he will take Huangxu and Junyi. Don't wait for the Hebei Yan army to come to help, it will be difficult to attack at that time.

Huan Shixiu and Xie Xuan both agreed with Chen Caozhi's judgment, and Zhao Hong helped Murong to guard the Yellow Ruins. When the Beifu soldiers arrived at the Yellow Ruins City, Zhao Hong led his troops to rebel, and it was easy to take the Yellow Ruins City, and the soldiers were bloodless. It can greatly reduce the casualties of our sergeants.

Before Huan Xi set out on the expedition, he had been strictly instructed by his father Huan Wen. It is necessary to accept the opinions of Chen Caozhi and others, and not to be arbitrary, so although Huan Xi was unconvinced, Zhishi Xiu, Xie Xuan and others all said so. He also followed Chen Caozhi's strategy, and personally led 30,000 elite soldiers to Huangxu to defeat Murong Li before the Yan reinforcements arrived.

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