In the land of Xuzhou, after the Chu army rectified some internal situations, it also began to mobilize the domestic army on a large scale, shouting that it would fight to the death with the Zhao army. As for the envoys of the Zhao army in Xuzhou, they were also forcefully driven out of Xuzhou by the Chu army.

And Li Hao, the prince of the Chu army, quietly followed the envoy of the Zhao army to Youzhou City.

Seeing that the Zhao army and the Chu army began to have a big war, the other princes couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. Especially the King of Hanzhong and the King of Luoyang, they both suddenly felt relaxed.

"The Chu army has understood what the king means, it seems that this Chu king Li Chi is not stupid, and it is not a lie to surrender to us." Hearing the news from Xuzhou, Situ Liang said with a smile.

Zhao Xun naturally understands that this person who can become a prince of one party, which one is stupid? Even if he can't guess the meaning himself, there must be someone under his command who can see it. And this Li Chi is not a stupid person, but a big light bulb, which lights up at one point, and naturally understands what he means.

"King, according to the intelligence, the son of the king of Chu also came with the envoy, how to arrange it?"

Zhao Xun said with a smile: "Since Li Chi is a smart person and very cooperative, then we can't be too mean." According to the intelligence of the Shadow Division, Li Hao, the prince of the Chu Army, still has a hand in leading the army, especially in logistics, and his ability is extraordinary. In this way, arrange him to be on the side of the state and act with the army of this operation. ”

Zhao Xun knew Li Chi's purpose of sending his son to Youzhou City, and Li Chi was showing his sincerity to himself. Zhao Xun is naturally not afraid of what chaos Chu Jun and Li Chi can make, since he has the ability, he naturally dares to use it.

The commerce of Zhao was the most prosperous among the princes of the world, and the merchants of Zhao were all over the states of the world. Although the southern princes understood that many of these merchants who traveled from south to north were the meticulous works of the Zhao State. However, they also had to keep these merchants active in their own territory.

Regardless of which side the princes were, merchants were indispensable. Not only did this provide a large amount of taxes, but also help the princes become stronger. Even ordinary people also need merchants to transport goods from all over the world to various places. In addition, the merchants of Zhao came and went, which would also drive the merchants under the rule of the princes to make a fortune and make money. Therefore, don't say that the princes need these merchants, that is, they don't need them, and the magnates and big clans under the rule of the princes can't let the princes block the merchants who come and go.

However, most of the merchants are for the purpose of making money, and even if Zhao Guo needs to work carefully, he will not let these merchants do it. At most, it is only through these merchants that they mix up the fine work. In addition, it is just through these caravans that some information or materials are transported to the designated location. Therefore, the southern princes did not deliberately embarrass these merchants. They all know very well that once these merchants are gone, the losses will be incalculable for them.

Hanoi Province, the place where Yongzhou and Bingzhou meet. To the north is the Shangdang Mansion of Bingzhou, and to the southeast, to the south of Jizhou. In the eastern part of Hanoi Province, there is a dangerous pass in the Tiger Pass, which serves as a key point of defense in the eastern part of Luoyang. One-third of Hanoi Province east of Tiger Pass was occupied by the princes' armies when the princes were fighting against the Yong army in the past, and now they also fell into the hands of the Zhao army.

In the northerner part of the central part of Hanoi Province, it is Kei Pass, which is the northern defense line of Luoyang. To the north of Keiguan, it is the land of the annexation of states. After the Zhao army occupied the land of Bingzhou, the former Yongwang Situ Lei took Keiguan as the center, built more than 30 cities around it, and laid down heavy defenses on the boundary between Bingzhou and Hanoi Province. As these cities are all small cities, many of them are even just forts, but they also keep the Zhao army out.

With the death of Situ Lei, the Yong army was divided, but the defense of Hanoi Province did not weaken. However, these Zhao troops did not invade, which also increased the number of caravans. Basically, the defenders of these border places still like these caravans coming and going. At the very least, their income has increased considerably. And the caravans rarely caused them trouble.

Although King Zhao returned victoriously from the land of the Western Regions this time, although the land of Yongzhou suddenly felt the coming storm, the number of merchants coming and going in the land of Hanoi Province did not decrease. Although the checkpoints of Kei Pass and other cities were more tightly defended, the caravans coming and going were not affected.

Among them, it is mainly related to the current situation in Luoyang. The king of Luoyang and the king of Hanzhong waved their army south to conquer Jingzhou, and the money, grain and grass materials needed were not a few. This is not easy for the king of Luoyang, who only occupies half of the land of Yongzhou. Therefore, they needed these merchants to come and go in order to collect customs clearance taxes, and they also needed these merchants to transport some of the materials of the Zhao State here to fill the needs of Dongyongzhou.

With the Zhao army wanting to start a war with the Chu army in April, the defense of Hanoi Province suddenly relaxed again. If the Zhao State and the Chu army want to fight, it means that Dongyongzhou is still safe now. And the officials of Hanoi Province and the guards in various places did not know that Zhao Jun was now fighting their idea.

The ninth and tenth towns of the Zhao Guozhen Army were stationed in Bingzhou, and these two towns were considered to be the relatively late establishment of the Zhao Army's Zhen Army. However, they have also been formed and trained for more than two years in the land of the state. After the Yanzhou Army was merged into the Zhao Army, the people of these two towns could be regarded as completely equipped with personnel. And this operation against Dongyongzhou is the soldiers of these two towns. In the eyes of Luo Jun, the Zhao Army of the two towns in Bingzhou is still the appearance of the former recruits. At this moment, they didn't know that Zhao Jun had already set his eyes on here.

"Li Hao, are you the prince of Chu Jun?" Zhao Lin, the general of the Nine Towns Town Army, spoke in a steady voice.

"General Huiyu, his subordinates are no longer the princes of the Chu army, only Li Hao, the captain of Zhao Junyunche." As he spoke, Li Hao also looked at the four small red sword symbols on his sleeves.

Zhao Lin nodded and said: "Very good, in the Zhao Jun system, no matter what your identity was before, now, you are just an ordinary member of the Zhao Army." According to the intelligence that came with you, you are good at leading and good at logistics. So, do you want to be in charge of the logistics of the first capital of my ninth town, or are you going to lead the captain of the first battalion of the first capital? ”

"The subordinates originally led the army to fight, even if it was an ordinary soldier." Li Hao has only joined Zhao Jun's army for half a month, but he is already full of curiosity and envy about Zhao Jun's various abilities and armor and equipment. Let him be in charge of logistics, he is really a little reluctant.

Zhao Lin said with a smile: "It's okay, then from now on, you will be the captain of the first battalion of the first capital." In addition to you, there are three lieutenants in the first battalion, and you now go and get acquainted with your men, and in half a month, you have a mission. ”

Watching Li Hao leave, Zhao Lin said to Zhao Xiong, the general of the Tenth Town Town Army beside him: "Second brother, you say, what did the eldest brother do when he let this prince come here?" ”

Zhao Xiong glanced at Zhao Lin and said in a deep voice: "You don't think that the eldest brother wants to let this Li Hao die on the battlefield, right?" You're mistaken. Now that Chu Jun has promised to surrender, the eldest brother will naturally not do this. Let him come, in addition to this person's ability, but also let this prince of the Chu army understand that the strength of my Zhao army is far from being comparable to their Chu army. ”

"Oh, I understand, to completely deter the heirs of this Chu army, let them dispel the thoughts they shouldn't have from the bottom of their hearts."

"Well, by the way, all the caravans we need are found?"

"All right, I also made a series of preparations for the soldiers. Those officials from all over Hanoi Province who have been co-opted by us, when will they be allowed to contribute? ”

Zhao Xiong said coldly: "Let's talk about it after we break the city, although they are beginning to favor us, and they have the intention of falling to us." However, the message must not be leaked until there is no action. ”

"In this operation, as soon as the Kei Pass is broken, one part of your Ninth Town will attack south in the north of Ha Dong Mansion, and part of it will attack west from Hanoi Mansion, and you will want to take Ha Dong Mansion in the shortest possible time. The fourth and fifth towns of the Praetorian Guard then took advantage of the situation and attacked Luoyang and even the entire territory of Dongyongzhou. And my tenth town, I went straight to the Eastern Tiger Prison. It is necessary to open up Yongzhou with Jizhou and Yanzhou in the east. ”

In June, the weather is getting hotter. The Zhao army and the Chu army were still preparing for a big war, one side wanted to crusade against the belligerent and unrighteous Chu army, and the other side wanted to resist to the death, which suddenly attracted the eyes of the southern princes. The Qi army and the Shu army were still fighting on a small scale in the land of Jiangzhou, while the king of Hanzhong and the king of Luoyang were still carefully managing the land of Jingzhou, which had just arrived.

At the beginning of June, there were suddenly many caravans in Keiguan and other places. All of a sudden, dozens of surrounding cities such as Jiguan, which had been reduced by the pressure of the Zhao army, became lively in an instant.

Along with the caravan, there were also many caravan guards and dart guards. There are many bandits between Hanoi Province and Bing State, especially in Hanoi Province, so it is normal for caravans from the south to the north to bring escorts. Most of these bandits who are active in Hanoi Province, Hedong Province and even the entire territory of Dong Yongzhou are some people who have no land and cannot live because of the excessive taxes paid by the Luo army and the years of war, and they live in the mountains.

This is true not only in the territory of the Luo army in Dongyongzhou, but also in the territory of other princes in the south. It was the Zhao army that took all over the place, and there were also many bandits in the territory. It's just that in the territory under the jurisdiction of the Zhao army, such mountain bandits have already been wiped out by the local government soldiers and county soldiers of the Zhao army in cooperation with the soldiers stationed in the locality.

These caravans were naturally deliberately done by Zhao Jun. After the destination was directed to Luoyang, Dongyongzhou, the annexation of the state and the territory of Zhao to the east began to restrict the passage of caravans. Therefore, after a lapse of two months, the caravan gradually increased, and at this moment, it reached the highest. The guards in the caravan and the guards of the dart bureau were naturally dressed up as Sergeant Zhao.

If the Zhao army wants to act, it will naturally enter the territory of Dongyongzhou in the shortest possible time, and before the reinforcements of the Luo army come from Jingzhou and Chang'an, they will gain a firm foothold in Dongyongzhou, creating an established fact.

However, the anomalies of these caravans were still seen by some people. The city stationed in Keiguan, which was also the main attack site of the Zhao army, naturally gathered the most caravans. Although these caravans did not arrive all at once, they arrived in a mixture of various caravans. However, it was still noticed by some generals.

There was a captain in Keiguan who saw that there was a problem in these caravans, and the guards of Keiguan reported it first. However, the general of the Keki Pass received a lot of benefits from the caravan, but he did not pay attention to the words of the generals under his command, and did not investigate this.

On June 10, the caravans that stopped with Keiguan, the caravans of Zhouxian, Wenxian, Heyang, Yewang, and Boxian started at the same time, and at night, the city gates were opened, and the Zhao army, which was hidden in various places outside the city, was put into the city in the name of the caravan guard. And the generals and civil officials in the city were all invited to the banquet by the caravan.

Overnight, more than ten cities in five counties were lost, and the Zhao army tore a big hole in the northern defense line of Hanoi Province in an instant. 50,000 soldiers of Dazhao Zhen broke in.

The first battalion of the first battalion and the other three battalions of soldiers who raided Jiguan were raided, the first battalion of soldiers mixed into the city through various methods such as caravans, and the remaining three battalions of soldiers took advantage of the opening of the city gate to take the most dangerous checkpoint in the north of Dongyongzhou. And Zhao Jun also paid more than half of the casualties here.

"Release the carrier pigeons, and immediately notify the follow-up army. Blockade the whole city and purge the remnant. After entering the city, Li Hao hurriedly issued several military orders. This battle made Li Hao feel happy, and the courage of Sergeant Zhao also deeply stimulated him. In his opinion, this Keiguan, which has 5,000 people stationed and occupies the natural danger, cannot be taken without tens of thousands of people. Even if a thousand people were arranged in the city to do the internal response, it would be almost impossible. However, it was done by Zhao Jun.

The 1,000 people who should be in the country are almost all wiped out. You must know that there are 5,000 defenders in the city and more than 10,000 young and strong auxiliary soldiers. Even if the main general was lured to the banquet and was later killed, it would take a quarter of an hour for the Zhao army to reach the city gate. After all, in order not to be discovered by the Luo army, these raiding soldiers did not have war horses.

However, the more than 1,000 soldiers in Neiying were stunned to withstand the Luo soldiers who came like a tide. Although the defenders have lost their main generals, the low-level officers are still complete.

This battle alone made Li Hao understand the contrast between the strength and weakness of the Zhao army and the Chu army. He believed that even if the 5,000 Chu army fought head-on, it would be difficult to defeat the 1,000 Zhao army. These Zhao Jun are simply not afraid of death.

The defense line was broken, and the 50,000-strong army suddenly split its way like a flood that burst the embankment, rushing in all directions. The front was defeated, and the rear was not clear at all. And those soldiers who fled in rout did not run as fast as the cavalry of the Zhao army. As a result, all parts of Hanoi Province were broken by the Zhao army. In many places, when they saw Zhao Jun, they directly bowed their heads. Among them, the most important reason is that the area where the city was raided and broken by the Zhao army just gathered the vast majority of the Luo army's forces in Hanoi.

The Luo army was on the northern front, and the main army was basically stationed in Hanoi and Ha Dong provinces. As soon as Hanoi Province is broken, Ha Dong Province in the west will not be able to play its due role. Because, the Zhao army had already entered from its flank, cut in from its waist, cut off the back road of the army on the front line of Hedong Prefecture, attacked from its back, and echoed the Zhao army in the north.

At this time, officials from all over Hanoi Province, who had a lot of relations with the Zhao army, chose to surrender one after another when the Zhao army's army was approaching. Many local officials, under the persuasion and coercion of some Zhao merchants, had no choice but to surrender the city.

In just eight days, Hanoi Province, which was the northern defense line of the Luo army, the north gate of Luoyang was taken by the Zhao army. And at this moment, Luoyang City has just gotten the news.

At the same time, the Fourth and Fifth Towns of the Eighth Army of the Janissaries, which were originally stationed in the northern part of Bingzhou and went to the Western Regions under the banner, immediately moved south from the central part of Bingzhou, rushed to the land of Hanoi and Hedong, and began to rush towards Luoyang.

The defender of Hedong Mansion is the Zhenbei general of the Luo army, and he is also the general who has been canonized by the Great Yan Emperor among the princes. Of course, now, only among the Luo army will recognize the edict of Emperor Dayan.

The general of Luojun Zhenbei in Hedong Mansion was Yang Luo, who was not only a subordinate of Situ Hao, the king of Luoyang, but also a member of the old forces of Dayan in Luoyang City. Under Situ Hao, the forces of the old dynasty occupied a large proportion. Not only the civilian system, but also the military generals began to receive their influence.

Situ Hao naturally understands the importance of military power, but he can't help but rely on these old ministers of Dayan now. Therefore, the main general of this Hedong Mansion became Yang Luo. Of course, many of the generals under his command are Situ Hao's cronies. And arranging Yang Luo here, in addition to appeasing the forces of the old dynasty, did not want him to go south to Jingzhou and expand his influence in Jingzhou. Now, Situ Hao is also beginning to gradually understand the adverse effects of these old ministers of Dayan on himself.

Situ Hao's arrangement is naturally not wrong, but this has also led to Yang Luo's control over his subordinates. After all, if you take Situ Hao's cronies, you don't want this Yang Luo to really control the 30,000 army of Hedong Mansion. Therefore, this also brought great benefits to Zhao Jun's actions.

The northern defense line of the Luo army has a total of 50,000 or 60,000 soldiers. However, in Hanoi Funai, more than 15,000 Luo troops were defeated, killed, or surrendered overnight. The defenders of Hedong Mansion suddenly became a lone army, and the back road was cut off, and the enemy was attacked on their backs.

In this case, the generals were helpless and let Yang Luo make a decision, after all, Yang Luo was the grand Sima of the Hedong Mansion marching army and the deputy general of the northern defense line. Nominally, the defenders of Ha Dong and Hanoi were one, and Yang Luo was the deputy marshal. But in fact, Yang Luo is simply an empty shelf. Now that the generals are asking questions, how can Yang Luo, who is full of resentment, care?

Besides, Yang Luo has long been in the eyes of Zhao Jun, and Zhao Jun has also been in contact with him before. Of course, it was not in the name of Zhao Jun, but in the name of merchants and local clans, who had a lot of exchanges with him, and he had already known his dissatisfaction with the generals of Hedong Mansion.

It was precisely because they understood the complex relationship between the Hedong Mansions that Zhao Xun and the others decided not to take this place as the first target, but to completely rein in them. In addition to the fact that this is not the best place to attack and cannot enter Luoyang as soon as possible, Zhao Jun does not want to lose more manpower here. Therefore, to unite and occupy a dangerous position, Hanoi, which is closest to Luoyang, has become the primary goal.