Xie Ai sighed secretly, and said in his heart that he had made such a rash advance, and he had made himself a prisoner, and he was in a desperate state of thought, and he ran towards him and scolded: "Bah! Do you have someone to take care of you? ”

looked at it, it turned out to be Zhao Zhao. Seeing that he didn't run for his life, he came against a group of Jingzhou soldiers, and listened to his uncompromising words, not only Xie Ai was stunned, but even the Jingzhou soldiers who were escorted around him were a little inexplicable, so he stopped asking questions.www.biquge.info Zhao Zhao simply stretched out his whip, whipped Xie Ai, and said sharply: "This is just a pen catcher, what's the use of catching him, and ask him where his master Xie Ai is, hurry up and chase him!" ”

Xie Ai immediately understood, so he pretended to be extremely afraid and cowardly, and pointed at the northeast indiscriminately, saying that after Xie Ai abandoned all their small and small entourages, he had just fled over there, and it was only a matter of moments.

Seeing that Zhao Zhao was high-spirited, the big-headed soldiers didn't know what their identity was for a while, and they felt that they might be General Tao's senior staff, so they became a lot more respectful. Listening to his words again, I looked closely at Xie Ai, who was indeed wearing a Confucian shirt and no armor, and indeed did not look like a military general. And I heard that Xie Ai, the commander of the Qin army, fled not far from the front, so he was eager to make meritorious contributions, ignored Xie Ai, and rushed away in a swarm to the northeast. Zhao Zhao hurriedly dismounted, helped Xie Ai, who had broken his foot, onto the horse, and the two of them hurriedly fled to the west.

Zhao Zhao repeatedly apologized for his offense. And Xie Ai is extremely grateful to Zhao Zhao for saving his life, and praises him for his quick wit, how can he still blame? After the two fled to the Xincheng County Zhifang Mausoleum, they gathered the remnants and pacified the various departments, so that the army's heart was slightly settled. The Russian and Jingzhou army took advantage of the victory to attack, Xie Ai could not hold out, and transferred out the strong crossbow team in the defenders, and shot intensively, straight like a torrential rain, the Jingzhou army killed and wounded more than 2,000 people and could not succeed, Tao Kan ordered to retreat, and then snatched back Xinye from the hands of the Qin army.

Suffering this defeat, Xie Ai deeply blamed himself, so he wrote to Gao Yue and took the initiative to ask for guilt. Gao Yue did not hide his great achievements with his small mistakes, and replied to consol him, so that he could be self-vigilant and make meritorious contributions to redeem himself.

After Tao Kan entered Xiangyang, he immediately summoned the guard general Guan Hua and asked why he had not been ordered to attack Xinye for no reason. Of course, Guan Hua was aggrieved, and Liandao was never done by himself. As a result, the Jingzhou army began to thoroughly investigate which team attacked the Qin army's garrison without authorization, which caused an unnecessary war. After a strict investigation and careful investigation, there was no clue, and there was no suspicion in all departments. Tao Kan couldn't help but be suspicious, suspecting that it was a bitter trick directed and acted by Qin Jun, but he couldn't come up with evidence for a while.

It's a small matter, but where to go now, it's really a headache for Tao Kan. If you pursue the Qin army, everyone in the world will look at it, and they will only fight back when they were actively attacked by the Jingzhou army, Xie Ai is also retreating at present, and it is better to accept it when he sees it if he is reluctant to ask for the crime, after all, the reputation of the Qin army's strength is extraordinary; But if he turned around and went to fight Su Jun, not to mention the problem of morale or not morale, he asked Tao Kan to let Qin Jun lie behind him, and there was always a feeling of thorns in his back, and he was not at ease after all.

Sima Cheng, the pastor of Xiangzhou and the king of Qiaojun, remembered Xie Ai's selfless and full help, so he wrote a letter to Tao Kan and Xie Ai to mediate in the middle, so that the two of them could stop the army and rest. And in the letter with Tao Kan, Sima Cheng also faintly blamed Tao Kan for not taking the initiative to provoke, and that the Qin army was strong, and he was afraid of continuous retaliation in the future, which was asking for trouble. Tao Kan was depressed when he got the letter, but he also pushed the boat along the river, made it clear to Xie Ai that he had no intention of offending each other, and asked the Qin army not to invade the border again, so the two sides made a truce.

At this time, the situation of counterinsurgency in Jiangdong was not optimistic. After Su Jun's general Han Huang seized Wuhu, he resisted several offensives of Qinwang's army, and at the end of the year, he began to turn defense into attack. Su Jun recruited the Qingzhou refugees as strong men, sent them to the front line, and continuously distributed food and straw in Jiankang. With no worries, Han Huang began to advance by land and water, Wen Qiao lost the battle, and had no choice but to retreat, until Peng Ze, he barely stabilized his footing and confronted Han Huang temporarily. As a last resort, Wen Qiao sent urgent letters one after another, asking Tao Kan to come to help again, and Tao Kan raised 20,000 elite soldiers again and rushed to Pengze, trying to save the decline.

As soon as the new year passed, because Han Huang was always able to suppress the momentum of King Qin's army, Su Jun had no fear in Jiankang City, so he called himself the prime minister, Taifu, and King Wu, and began to put the young emperor and the royal family under house arrest. At the same time, Su Jun also sent an envoy to meet Gao Yue, and sent a letter to Xie Ai, asking Xie Ai to send the Liangzhou army to the fullest, cooperate with him to attack the front and back, and completely wipe out the Taowen coalition army as soon as possible. As long as the matter is successful, Su Jun expressed his willingness to reward Gao Yue with a lot of gold and silver and property, as well as a number of burdens of grain and grass, and even hinted that he would share the world equally with Gao Yue and be the emperor in the north and south.

At this time, Gao Yue already had mutual suspicion with the Eastern Jin Dynasty, so he acquiesced to Su Jun's envoy, and immediately ordered Xie Ai to attack Xiangyang and Jiangling, and officially moved Peng Jun to Liangzhou to strengthen the military thickness of Xie Ai. Xie Aiben also intended to retaliate, so after sufficient preparations, he commanded 30,000 elite soldiers, and with Peng Jun's 5,000-strong crossbow army as the auxiliary, he rushed straight from Fangling City to Xiangyang.

Guan Hua, the commander of the Jingzhou Army who stayed behind, went out of the city to meet the unfavorable battle, hurriedly retreated into the city and closed the door, and reported to Tao Kanfei as soon as possible. Tao Kanfang fought with Han Huang in Peng Ze, and heard that the Qin army was fighting behind his back again, of course he was angry and anxious, but this time he himself knew that he could only move forward with one intention and defeat Han Huang in order to gain life, and if he turned around and returned to the west, the army of King Qin would undoubtedly collapse, and the Qin army would not be able to defeat it quickly, and there would be no way to advance or retreat.

So Tao Kan repeatedly braved the arrows and stones, shouting and fighting, Wen Qiao also personally beat the drum to strengthen the momentum, Qin Wangjun under the strict supervision of the two commanders, it was considered to be ruthless, and showed an indomitable strength. In the autumn of this year, Han Huang finally couldn't hold on, lost several times in a row, and retreated all the way to Anhui City. Su Jun immediately led 20,000 elite soldiers from Taiwan to rescue Han Huang, and repelled the Qin Wang army.

The two sides come and go, disturb each other, and win and lose each other, but Xiangyang has been captured by the Qin army: in the early stage, Xie Ai waved his army to the east, and Xiangyang was of course under martial law. Wuhu is also a communication upstream and downstream traffic center, grab it into your hands, no matter who wants to go east and west, you must look at Wuhu's face, especially Tao Kan wants to go back to Jingzhou, it is even more difficult.

Xiangyang is a very standard place of four wars. Jianghan in the south, Hankou and Xinyang in the east, Central Plains and Luoyang in the north, and Chang'an and Hanzhong in the west. Heading south from Xiangyang, you can enter the vast Jianghan Plain all the way. Then to the west, you can hold Yichang, which is equivalent to locking the gate of the Three Gorges in Sichuan. To the east, you can take the Jianghan Plain, an important economic zone, into your hands. After the Han water from Hanzhong passed through Ankang, it flowed southeast here in Xiangyang. In ancient times, transportation was inconvenient, and there was such a river to follow, and its significance is self-evident. The Mongols of later generations broke Xiangyang and then followed the Han River into the Yangtze River and captured Ezhou, and the defense system of the Southern Song Dynasty collapsed immediately.

With the change of ownership of the fortress of Jingzhou, not only was the initiative immediately grasped by the Qin army, but even the war situation was reversed. Tao Kan was greatly alarmed when he heard the news, and instructed Wen Qiao to hold on for half a month, and he planned to personally lead more than 10,000 elite soldiers to stop Xie Ai head-on and relieve Wuhu of danger. And because the situation is unclear, he repeatedly asked Xiangyang Guard General Guan Hua to stick to the city and not act rashly. But Guan Hua was bent on attacking Xie Ai from behind, so that he could annihilate the Qin army as soon as possible. After thinking about it for a long time, thinking that the opportunity was rare, Guan Hua encouraged his subordinates on the grounds that he had become a great contributor to the construction of the flexible machine, and led the 8,000 Xiangyang defenders out of the city to the east quickly, following the trail of the main force of the Qin army.

Unexpectedly, Xie Ai used a strategy of truth and falsehood and truth in falsehood this time. His fundamental purpose is actually Xiangyang, but attacking Wuhu is an illusion that restricts everyone's attention. He did not hesitate to use himself as a bait to attract all the main forces of the Jingzhou army to the direction of Wuhu, and Yang Jiantou, who was assigned to the south, led 3,000 strong cavalry, and together with Liangzhou, who led 10,000 troops, to protect Peng Jun, and suddenly attacked Xiangyang from Shangyong County. Inside and outside Xiangyang, there are less than three or four thousand people left, where can they resist the sudden onslaught, although the city is high and wide, but it will be captured by the Qin army in a few days.

At that time, Tao Kan had not yet arrived at Wuhu City, Guan Hua was still on the way east, at first hearing the defeat report, it was like being beaten on the head, and he had to cheer up his spirits at the moment, and accelerated his speed to attack Xie Ai, but until the two parties met, he did not see the shadow of the Qin army, and he was stunned to send scouts to scatter and investigate, only to know that Xie Ai had suddenly turned back before the two armies were about to be encircled, and quickly returned to Xiangyang from the area of Shucheng in the northwest.

Tao Kan was extremely angry, and he hated Guan Hua for not obeying orders and acting rashly, which led to the originally unshakable strong fortress, which was equivalent to automatically abandoning Shoubai to the enemy in a blink of an eye, so he ignored the generals' pleas for pardon and ordered Guan Hua to be beheaded on the spot.

It's easy to kill people, but it's hard to solve them. At this time, Tao Kan was really a little dazed and at a loss: after Xie Ai got Xiangyang, he would immediately strengthen the city and wait for it, and arrange heavy troops to defend it layer by layer. If he led his army to the west to attack Xiangyang, it would not be effective in the short term. And after a little longer, Wen Qiao is difficult to support alone, and most of them will be completely defeated by Su Jun, when the general trend is gone, he will be a wanderer with no roots, if he is attacked by Xie Ai and Su Jun, he will definitely die; If he led the army to the east to Anhui City, continued to confront Su Jun, and put down the rebellion in one go, although it was a proper choice for now, he let the Qin army attack the city on his own territory and do whatever he wanted, and then wait until the rebellion was settled, and his family was afraid of being gone, Tao Kan could not calm the anxiety and anger in his heart. After hesitating for a long time, Tao Kan sighed, but still chose a sure choice, and after writing a sincere handwritten letter to Xie Ai, he forced himself to suppress his heart, led the army to turn around and go west, and joined forces to conquer Su Jun.