As soon as the Jin army moved, the Longxi army reacted immediately. Han Yong ordered Zhou Panlong to chase after him with the rank of death, and he led a large army and began to attack Dingxi City with all his might. Seeing Hu Song's sudden withdrawal of his troops, Pu Hong in Dingxi City was angry and anxious, and he didn't know what to do. His brother Pu Tu also intended to fight back desperately, with hundreds of people who dared to die, suddenly went out of the city to attack, but was killed by Lei Qizhi and retreated, Pu Tu was injured by Lei Qizhi, and had to retreat back, helpless to defend the city.

Before he could breathe down, Yao Yizhong led the crowd to return quickly, and with the joint efforts of the Longxi army to launch a counteroffensive, Dingxi City was broken. The casualties in this battle were not counted, and more than 3,000 soldiers were surrendered, Pu Hong's vitality was greatly injured, and he led the remnants to desperately break through the siege and flee back to Luoyang, and since then the southern safety has been recovered.

After attacking Shangtai for several days, it was really difficult to succeed, and when he heard that Hu Song led his troops to gallop back to help, Gao Yue immediately made a decision, evacuated from Shangtai City, and returned to Xinxing first. Sima Bao didn't know where it came from or where it went, but when he saw the rapid withdrawal of the Longxi army, he felt that the boulder in his heart that had been hanging for many days had landed safely. Not long after the Longxi army left, Hu Song led the army, sweating and coming, and finally breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that Shangtai was in danger and the situation had been solved.

However, when Sima Bao heard that the wounded and captured soldiers of the Longxi Army confessed, Gao Yue came in person this time, and he screamed, but then he heard that there were not tens of thousands of people attacking, but at most only 5,000 men and horses, and it was a tentative attack, so he stomped his feet again and again with regret, and said that he had a false alarm, and he knew that this was the case, so he should take the initiative to go out of the city to meet and capture Gao Yue. Then he complained about Hu Song in public, saying that he shouldn't be so rigid, and he replied immediately after hearing the edict, and he didn't even understand the reason that the general would not be subject to the king's life. Hu Song was so angry that he almost trembled, but in the end he didn't even defend half a word, he felt that his heart had really begun to grow cold.

When he received the report from Nan'anjie here, Gao Yue had just returned to Xinxing, and he was overjoyed. and immediately instructed Han Yong not to be busy with the class for the time being, and to stay for a period of time to help Yao Yizhong in case of accidents, and even start looking for opportunities to plot against Yang. Yao Yizhong was grateful, cut his cheeks in public, bled into the cup and drank it all, bowed to Longxi again and again, and swore to Han Yong, the governor of Gaodu is gracious and virtuous, and the people of Nan'an Qiang will never forget, and from now on he is willing to attach to Jiwei and be loyal to the suzerain.

So for nearly half a year, several parties in Qinzhou fought in a scuffle, one side was headed by Gao Yue, Yao Yizhong and Yang Mao's search department helped; On the other side, Sima Bao's Shangqi Jin army was the mainstay, and Pu Hong and Chen An occasionally jumped out to take advantage of the fire to rob. By the beginning of the fourth year of Jianxing, Gao Yue had already controlled or dominated the four counties of Longxi, Yinping, Wudu, and Nan'an in the six counties of Qinzhou, and captured most of the territory of Luoyang County, suppressing Puhong in the narrow southeast area of Luoyang. And Sima Bao, the king of Nanyang, who once dominated Qinzhou Xuanhe for a while, is now very poor, and his sphere of influence is only Tianshui County, not including the emerging city that has long been occupied by the Longxi army, and Longcheng, which has been divided by Chen An, the situation has long been different from what it used to be.

On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, before the Yuan Festival, the old acquaintance Zhongguan Tang was tired, and suddenly came to Xiangwu uninvited, which made Gao Yue a little surprised. Tang Ti smiled, and when he met, he said goodbye in a row, and bluntly sent the latest holy decree: because in view of the current actual situation in Qinzhou, in addition to all the previous titles, the emperor officially crowned Gao Yue as the assassin of Qinzhou, and entered the right Guanglu doctor, and entered the Duke of Longxi County, and opened the mansion.

Among them, the emperor also took special care and gave Gao Yue's wife Yao's title of "County Lady" to show his honor. It must be known that since the Zhou Dynasty and below, the wives of princes can be called Mrs., which is an extremely common title in modern society, but in ancient times, it was a very serious and solemn title, not everyone's spouse can be called Mrs., at least on formal occasions, it cannot be called. Gao Yue's heart was quite warm for the emperor's carefulness, and he kowtowed and thanked him.

After transcribing the emperor's decree and passing it on to the country and abroad, the military officials came to pay homage to the new assassin. Although Gao Yue has long been publicly recommended and called himself the assassin, this time it was personally recognized by the Son of Heaven, which means that Gao Yue's official identity has been publicly certified since then, which is of great significance.

And Gao Yue got the county duke and opened the mansion, which is simply extraordinary: during the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, the duke of the county, under normal circumstances, was the highest title of the meritorious hero with a different surname (except for the ministers before the usurpation of the Chan Dynasty). In the Jin system, those who are in charge of the military with the rank of general can open the government and set up their own subordinates. Judging from the appearance of the official lord alone, Gao Yue is already the best among the foreign ministers, and he can almost be compared with the two giants of the central government, Lu Yun and Suo Qi.

Immediately, amid the countless voices of worship and congratulations, Gao Yue rewarded his subordinates. Han Yong was already the post of General Long Xiang, and ordered Yang Ke to be the governor of Qin, and the general of the army division; He was promoted to become a partial general, Lei Qizhi was the general of Yamen, and Zhou Panlong, Peng Jun, Gu Siduo, Wu Xia, and Yang Jiantou were all Zhonglang generals, and they could each lead an army of 3,000 people. He also promoted more than a dozen young cadres such as Qiu Yang, who had recently emerged, to become school captains. In addition, Cao Momiao, Wang Kai and others, who were promoted or suspended as state officials on the spot, and a large number of soldiers and soldiers who had performed particularly well in repeated battles were also rewarded for their merits, and there is no need to repeat them one by one.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I have come all the way, and to this day, I can have such a status, which is really inseparable from everyone's concerted praise. I don't have anything else, as long as everyone is still in the same boat with me from now on, I will always remember your merits, and I will never fail for no reason, and this heart can be learned from God. ”

Within a few days, Yang Maosou and Yao Yizhong's congratulatory watches also came one after another. Yang Maosou's envoy was his nephew Yang Wanfu, who respectfully met Gao Yue and presented Yang Maosou's letter. Seeing that it was him, Gao Yue was also very happy, and gave him a warm welcome, and even called Yang Jiantou to make his two brothers drink and talk happily. But then Yao Yizhong's envoy heard that it was a young man, and Gao Yue was a little surprised, so he summoned him to the palace to meet him.

In the midst of the shouting of the guards, there was a young man dressed in Qiang costumes, who walked in with his head bowed all the way, and then solemnly bowed down in the hall, lit up a somewhat crisp voice, and said loudly: "Envoy of Nan'an, meet the noble governor of Gaodu, and offer the most sincere congratulations and deference of my tribe." ”

When the young man spoke, he raised his head slightly, looked at Gao Yue, and found that the eyes of everyone in the hall were focused on him, and he hurriedly lowered his head, but he still respectfully finished the congratulatory speech, and presented Yao Yizhong's handwritten congratulatory sheet.

Gao Yueben secretly wondered that Yao Yizhong was also a little interesting, why he sent a doll to serve as the envoy, but after thinking about it, he still smiled and thanked him humbly. Gao Yue saw that the young man was a little nervous, so he asked him to stand up first and wait, and unfolded Yao Yizhong's congratulatory watch.

In addition to repeatedly expressing his gratitude and firm support, Yao Yizhong also stated in the letter that the young man sent to serve as the envoy this time was his most valued fifth son, Yao Xiang, and hoped to keep him by Gao Yue's side and be taught day and night. Although it was said very tactfully, everyone who understood knew that this was Yao Yizhong's first condition for sending protons when he asked Gao Yue for help.

For accepting protons, Gao Yue is actually dispensable in his heart. He felt that those who were truly obedient did not need to mortgage any hostages, and those with ill intentions, even if they sent hostages, they would not be reliable in the end. But from an official point of view, in order to make Yao Yizhong more at ease, he also acquiesced to this condition, but after reading Yao Yizhong's letter, Gao Yue was still taken aback.

Yao Xiang, who was also a generation of heroes in the late Jin Dynasty, wrote his own legend on the chaotic historical stage. History records that he is strong and mighty, good at winning people's hearts, and is deeply loved by the people of the tribe and the jurisdiction. After the death of his father Yao Yizhong, he inherited the position of the leader of the Qiang people, and led his troops to fight in the world, but he had great ambitions and wanted to plot against the right, and then create a great cause. But due to various special reasons, and it was really bad luck, in the end Yao Xiang was defeated by the Pu family, who occupied Guanzhong one step ahead of him, and he was also killed by Fu Jian, who was only twenty-seven years old when he died, leaving an extremely sad figure.

Many years later, countless old people still miss Yao Xiang deeply. His younger brother, Yao Chang, the founder of the Later Qin Dynasty who dominated northern China, once lamented that although he was already an emperor, he was inferior to his deceased brother in at least four points: he was eight feet five inches long, his arms hung above his knees, and he was feared by people; When the crowd of 100,000 competes with the world, looking forward to the army, there is no horizontal formation in front of them, and the two are also; Wen ancient and modern knowledge, talk about Taoism, control heroes, collect differences, three also; Dong led the public, risky, up and down, and people did their best, and the four also.

The so-called heaven does not help me, it is not a crime of war. Yao Xiang is also a typical character who does not judge heroes by success or failure. In the troubled times, he used his unique charm to exude a short but dazzling brilliance.

Gao Yue knew that Fang Xuanling, a famous minister in the Tang Dynasty, was also very sure of Yao Xiang, praising him for his heroic and martial arts, studious and knowledgeable, elegant and good at talking, and known as Yingji in Southern Xia, he was a figure who could compare with Sun Ce. At the moment, Gao Yue was still too surprised and curious, and he couldn't associate the majestic name and surname in the history books with the living teenager in the hall for a while.