Xinjiang is Tian Ben's hometown, although his township neighbors have long been assigned to the Zhao family in the great division after the Liuqing Rebellion and moved to Taiyuan, but people are not things, every trail here, wine shops, and the shadow of the city wall that can be seen from afar make Tian Ben feel very familiar. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

"I'm back......" Even if he is nervous, he will be more timid in his hometown.

Shangqing told him that wealth and nobility do not return to their hometowns, such as brocade clothes walking at night, but it is a pity that Tian Ben glanced at the people beside him, the hundreds of Xinjiang Jin people who were selected as subordinates by Zhao Wuxian fifteen years ago, how many people are still alive now?

At least there wasn't one around him.

Not to mention that, let's say that the veteran soldiers who set out from Taoqiu more than ten years ago and attacked Zhenyi together are not many of his original subordinates left in the army......

Even in the battle of the snow field, the more than 1,000 "warriors" who followed Zhao Wuxian and chased Qi Hou's chariot slowly withered, and the retired and promoted were not heard from six or seven times out of ten.

The iron-beaten general, the flowing soldier, more than ten years have passed in a blink of an eye, Tian Ben is no longer the reckless pawn of the year, he has become a general who commands thousands of people, and in addition to bravery, he has also learned a certain amount of wisdom.

This is the feat of this snowy night surprise attack on Xinjiang, courage and wisdom are indispensable.

At this time, the snow was getting heavier and heavier, and the Zhao pawns who had been trekking all day were very tired, so Tian Ben asked them to occupy a small village outside Jiangcheng as a place to rest.

A rough count of the number of people found that they had fallen behind along the way, and dozens of people had lost their traces in the snowy night, Tian Ben could only wish them a great life, and then let the living people eat dry food and tidy up the halters and reins of the war horses.

After a short rest, Tian Ben set off with everyone again, when the wind and snow were strong, the flags were blown up, the sky was dark, no one in the city wanted to take the lead, and no one found this sneak attacker.

On the fourth watch, Zhao Jun cautiously approached the city wall under the cover of the sound of falling snow.

The earthy yellow wall stands at the end of the road, stretching on both sides, and there is no end in sight. Tian Ben is too familiar with this, once upon a time, this is the center of Zhuxia, countless princes and envoys come to worship the overlord Jin Marquis every New Year's Festival, hundreds of thousands of people, endlessly, he also had an impression of this when he was young. The city is prosperous, the mansions of the nobles are one after another, when their cars travel, the flags flutter high in the wind, the city is full of Li Shu rubbing shoulders, the monarch has a call, and more than 10,000 people can draw their swords in response.

But now, it has become an empty ruined capital.

After Zhao Wuxian played a three-point office, two-thirds of the population in the city has been moved, and the remaining people are running a much worse business, the market is empty, and the bustling grain and pottery industries are no longer prosperous.

And Wei's guards were also very slack, dozing off in twos and threes at the head of the city.

Tian Ben visually inspected it, the city wall of Jiangdu is four to five zhang high, if it is attacked head-on, if there is no ladder and other equipment, I am afraid that it will be difficult to enter. But the advantage is that the number of guards in Xinjiang is not inversely proportional to its size, and the circumference of the long outer city can reach twelve miles away, but only a few hundred people can be arranged to defend, so there are loopholes everywhere, how to defend it.

Therefore, Tian Ben plans to let the elite troops go in first through some means......

The cold froze all things in the heavens and the earth hard, and the walls were no exception, and they were busy for a long time before digging a pit on the wall with a sapper shovel, and the selected dead soldiers stepped on the scum, threw the iron hook made of thick hemp rope up, and dragged it slowly to move towards the city.

"The first to ascend, his lord will be promoted to one level, and he will be given a ring with a knife, and he will be given a golden silk field house!"

Tian Ben promised to give everyone who climbed up a new weapon, and when he said these words, his breath was frosted in the cold air, it was too cold, and he really couldn't stay here for a long time.

When the dead soldiers jumped into the city, the Wei soldiers guarding the city gate did not expect an enemy attack at all, and they were suddenly covered in their mouths and cut their throats while they were sleeping.

Soon, the city was swept away by dozens of dead soldiers, even if they paid a lot of price, with dozens of casualties. But Tian Ben told them not to kill the people who beat the watch, and let them fight along the city wall as usual, so that the Wei army in the city was paralyzed.

On the other side, after a fierce battle, the dead soldiers smoothly opened the city gate and let the Zhao army enter the city, and when they got inside, they did the same, and the city did not even notice the invasion of foreign enemies.

It wasn't until Tian Ben led everyone to rush all the way to the mansion of Sima in Jiangdi that a sharp-eyed Wei pawn finally noticed that something was wrong and hurriedly informed the Wei guards of Xinjiang.

"Sima, the big thing is not good, there is an enemy attacking!"

The weather was cold, Wei's Xin Jiang Sima lazily lay on the couch and didn't want to get up, seeing that his subordinates were very eager to see him, he got up angrily, and after listening to his subordinates tell what happened, he said angrily: "It's not an enemy attack, it must be the rebels in Jiangdi who are making trouble again, and when the morning dawns, I see that Naigong came to clean them up, disturbing my dream." ”

The rebellion of the salt workers in Anyi even affected Xinjiang, the population of Xinjiang was withered, the business was not good, and they found that they could not afford to buy rice and grain for a year, and their families were starving, so these craftsmen and merchants began to organize the market and loot, similar things, this Sima is commonplace, and this time it must be their ghost.

At the end he added: "With such a heavy snowfall, how can any army dare to walk in the snow at night? ”

As the saying goes, "those who travel 50 miles and seek profit are half of the army, and those who travel 100 miles and seek profit are pouted by the general". Even the most powerful Wei warrior within the Wei clan could only barely do this, let alone start fighting directly after the trek.

It wasn't until the arrows outside entered the mansion that the new Sima realized that he was wrong.

He got up in a panic, only to hear a burst of shouting and heralding outside the courtyard: "Grab ...... with your hands tied" and then it seemed to be the response of thousands of soldiers. Only then did he become frightened, and took all his cronies and soldiers to climb the courtyard wall to resist.

By the time the sky was bright, the news of someone attacking the city spread all over Xinjiang, but who it was, how many came, the whole city fell into chaos, because the Wei Sima was trapped, there was no way to give orders, Wei soldiers were stationed in the four corners, and they couldn't rush to support, so they could only fight separately, and the Zhao army that was looking for them fought indiscriminately. If it had been while Wei Mando was still around, Wei should have been able to organize an effective resistance. But now Wei Ju suddenly announced in Hexi that he wanted to break away from Jin and enter Qin, Wei Xu thought it was a chaotic life, and personally ran to question in person, the turmoil in the upper echelons of the Wei clan affected the hearts of the people and the army, and the people were panicked, and they thought that it was the Zhao army to attack.

On the other side, Tian Ben, who had successfully entered the city, ordered the soldiers to continue to attack the courtyard wall, smashing the outer gate, thus occupying the initiative. Wei's Sima still wanted to resist stubbornly with the courtyard wall, but Tian Ben set fire to the south gate of the courtyard wall. Xinjiang was not the territory of the Wei family, the first few years were not bad, but this year's drought and locust plague are really enough of the suffering of Wei's rule, I heard that Zhao Qing sent people to help the disaster relief in the upper reaches of the Fenshui, and they were overjoyed, all carrying weapons to help the Zhao army encircle the Wei family, and when the sky was bright, the Zhao soldiers shot arrows into the inner courtyard, dense like hedgehog hair.

By the time the sun had fully risen, the inner courtyard had finally been breached, and Wei Sima had no choice but to beg for surrender.

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"Xinjiang returns to Zhao, Tian Ben has made a great contribution this time!"

Xinjiang's change of hands, for Zhao Wuxian, is both reasonable and unexpected. When he got a letter from Tian Ben asking for guilt and going to attack Xinjiang, he also sweated deeply for him, scolded him, and sent someone to order Tian Benxiu to venture again.

According to the idea of Wu Xi, when the ice and snow in Fenshui melt next year, and the ship can be sailed, the army will be transported south by boat, and Xinjiang will be uprooted steadily and steadily, and the eye of the east of the river will be captured.

Who expected that Tian Ben had the courage and insight to complete the impossible task, although he marched in the snow, he lost nearly 100 people along the way, and successively uprooted the old Jiang and Xinjiang, and lost hundreds of them, and the battle loss was nearly one-third, which is already an astonishing number, and Zhao Wuxian has a large number of orphans and widows to be compensated.

However, if you think about it ruthlessly, control Xinjiang in advance and avoid erosion in Hedong, it is definitely worth paying some price.

Xinjiang was once the center of Hedong and the heart of the Jin Kingdom, and after it was captured, in addition to strategically tearing open the mouth of Anyi and Quwo and preventing the Qin army from gaining a foothold in Hedong, it could also occupy the name of righteousness.

However, in the face of Wei's rebellion, he also had to have a countermeasure in terms of cutting and fighting.

After Zhao Wuxian arranged the reward for the soldiers of the first battle of the city capture on the snowy night, he called his new pedestrian, Chu Long.

As Zigong's successor, although Chu Long was young, he was also very good at eloquent speech, and he was in charge of communication with Yue Guo for Zhao Wuxian before, and sent back a lot of useful information.

This time, Zhao Wuxian decided to send him to the Han clan.

"Tell the head of the Han family again, the Wei family rebelled against the Jin, Zhao Han should join hands to kill it, and after defeating the Wei family, Yanchi Anyi, the land of Yiluo, can be owned by the Han family."

This is the cake that Zhao Wuxian drew for Han Hu, he has already received the news that this time Qin, Qi, Zheng, and Wei have organized another anti-Zhao alliance, wanting to take advantage of the great drought and locust plague in Jizhou this year to contain the Zhao family.

Interestingly, because the four sides are geographically east-west horizontal, it is called "even horizontal".

They can unite and collude, how can Zhao Wuxian have no allies? In China, the first one must hold the Han family, otherwise Han Wei will rebel together, and Zhao Wuxian will have to worry about it for a while.

Let Chu Long run errands at home, as for foreign affairs, he plans to let Zigong, who is far away in Cao State, complete it, and when the time comes, he doesn't know who surrounds whom!

As for the name of the new alliance......

Zhao Wuxian showed a hint of an interesting smile: "Opposite to Lian Heng, it's called 'Hezhong'!" ”

PS: I'm going to get a paper lately, and that's the only chapter for tonight

(To be continued.) )