In the north of March, the spring is cold, the wind is cold, and the fields are still snow-capped. As long as a few dots www.biquge.info of green pop up inadvertently, it makes people realize that the cold winter has passed.

As the weather gradually warmed, the situation in the north showed no signs of easing, but became more and more solemn. Everyone in the world was watching the imminent war in the north, and even Wang Dunqingjun's side was a little less concerned because of this.

Shi Le and Wei Shuo, two strong men in the north, are about to fight for hegemony in the north. At first, neither side made a rash move, and it seemed that they were waiting for the other party to show their flaws.

In the first year of Yongchang, at the beginning of March, Liaodong, which had been quiet for two years, once again became noisy due to the war.

In the fierce and majestic wind, hundreds of thousands of Liaodong troops came out of Youzhou under the personal command of Wei Shuo, opening the prelude to the southern expedition.

Subsequently, the Liaodong army of Youzhou divided the road, and rushed to several counties such as Bohai, Zhangwu, and Hejian, in a vain attempt to swallow the entire northeast of Jizhou in one bite.

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Compared with the calm situation in the north before the storm, the situation in Jiangzuo is gradually showing an avalanche. Since Xi Jian, Sima Cheng, Tao Kan, Dai Yuan, Liu Kui, Su Jun, Zu Yue and other generals announced the mobilization of troops to the king of Qin, Wang Dun could no longer maintain his composure.

Whichever one these people face alone, Wang Dun is confident that he will win it, but now he is attacking the crowd, even if he is as strong as Wang Dun, he has a little headache. And the most jealous person of Wang Dun among all is Tao Kan, the assassin of Guangzhou, if it were not for him, he would not have kicked Tao Kan to the remote Guangzhou to assassinate the history.

In Wang Dun's eyes, although Tao Kan, a 'savage' from a 'barbarian' generation, has good ability, he lacks ambition, and he naively wants to be a hero of the Kuang Fu Jin family, which is simply pedantic.

But in any case, Wang Dun is still quite jealous of Tao Kan's military talent. Originally, Wang Dun thought that Tao Kan would do nothing when he arrived in Guangzhou, where birds don't, but he didn't think that this Tao Kan, who had been suppressed by him at will, had now become a problem in his heart.

However, Tao Kan was afraid of offending the Langya Wang family in the end, so although he publicly expressed his support for the Son of Heaven, he did not personally lead troops to serve the king on the grounds of internal instability in Jiaoguang and Guangzhou, which can be regarded as a 'good fate' for escaping Wang Dun's revenge in the future.

The army of King Qin gathered from all directions, these people together had nearly 100,000, although it was not comparable to the hundreds of thousands of troops controlled by Wang Dun, but at least it was enough to compete with him in numbers.

In the face of the crisis, Wang Dun, who was forced to be helpless, made a decisive decision, determined to risk being surrounded by everyone, and immediately ordered the army to go straight down the river, and soon arrived at Wuhu to the west of Jianye, and after Wuhu was the famous Jianye.

Jianye, Jingxiang in the west, Sanwu in the east, and Lianghuai in the north, the geographical location is very important. It itself is "based on the big river in the front, bordering the heavy mountains in the south, relying on the high and deep, and the situation is unique".

Zhuge Liang once said: "Jinling, Zhongshan Longpan, stone tiger, the emperor's house." ”

Sima Rui founded the country, then thought that the capital, more than 20 miles around the city, east of Zhongshan, south of Qinhuai, west of the river, north of Houhu (now Xuanwu Lake), in the natural barrier.

In the southwest of Jianye, there are Xinting, Xinlin, Niutou Mountain, Banqiao, Sanshan and Bailuzhou in the river, and then upstream is Guyu (now Dangtu), and there is a famous quarrying rock nearby.

And Gu Yu relied on the quarrying and Dongliang Mountain to prevent the enemy of Jingxiang upstream.

Across the river is the Hengjiang ferry, where the river is narrow, which is an ideal choice for the northern forces to cross the river. Jiangdong has an important town of Liyang in Jiangbei to defend.

Wang Dun, who came from the upstream, if he wanted to capture Jianye, the first thing he needed to solve was to shield the military town west of Jianye-Stone City.

Stone Town takes the natural cliff on the west slope of Qingliang Mountain as the city base, with a circumference of seven miles and one hundred steps, two gates in the south, and one door in the east and west. Warehouses were set up in the city to store military rations and weapons. Its northern edge is a large river, south to the Qinhuai River estuary, surrounded by mountains and buildings, easy to defend and difficult to attack.

The guard general Zhou Za is the third son of the famous general Zhou of the Western Jin Dynasty, the Zhou family is a wealthy family of Eastern Wu, and Zhou Za was ordered to supervise the military of Shicheng as the right general, shouldering the important task of guarding the security of the west side of the capital.

But don't look at Zhou Za's important position, in fact, there are many contradictions between the Zhou family and the Sima royal family.

After the fall of Eastern Wu that year, Zhou was born as a general of Eastern Wu and was upright by nature, so he offended many Western Jin magnates, so that he was finally killed by Sima Tong, the king of Liang, on the battlefield of counterinsurgency.

After Zhou's execution, the Zhou family was taken over by Zhou Zha's brother Zhou Xi, who was quite a father.

During the Yongjia period, when Sima Rui first entered Jiangdong, he met Shi Bing, Chen Min, and Qian Xuan, who successively launched rebellions and established a separatist regime.

Zhou Xi entangled the landlord armies in Jiangnan, cooperated with the imperial army, and quelled the rebellion three times, known as "Sanding Jiangnan" in history, and helped Sima Rui, who had just entered Jiangdong, stabilize the regime.

It can be said that Sima Rui's success in Jiangdong was inseparable from the support of the Jiangzuo family represented by the Zhou family. It is said that the Zhou family is well-deserved, and it is the Jiangdong family that first supported Sima Rui, and should become the trusted and reused person of the Son of Heaven.

But it's a pity that Sima Rui trusts the Northland family headed by the Langya Wang family, and he is naturally a little suspicious of the Zhou family from the Jiangdong family, and then under the influence of the Northland family, he gradually alienated the Zhou family, which eventually led to Zhou Xi's death in anger.

It can be said that the two generations of heads of the Zhou family died because of the Sima family, so it is not an exaggeration to say that the Zhou family and the Sima royal family have a common hatred.

This is also the reason why Sima Rui was extremely nervous when he learned that Zhou Za wanted to vote for Wang Dun, even if there was no conclusive evidence, the Son of Heaven did not dare to take it lightly, it was really a deep enmity between the Zhou family and the Sima royal family.

Since the Zhou family is so untrustworthy, why did the Son of Heaven still let Zhou Za garrison Stone City? That's a last resort!

The Zhou family is a wealthy family in Jiangdong and has a lot of influence in Jiangdong, unless Sima Rui wants to turn his face with the Jiangdong family, otherwise the Zhou family will inevitably be reused.

Therefore, in the case of Wang Dun's aggressiveness, Sima Rui knew that Zhou Za was not credible, but he still didn't dare to attack him easily, what he was afraid of was that the Jiangzuo family would vote for Wang Dun.

However, Sima Rui was not without a backhand, after Wang Dun raised his troops, he immediately ordered Dai Yuan and Liu Kui to lead the troops into the Weijing Division.

Sima Rui named Dai Yuan as a hussar general, and together with Guo Yi, the general of the right guard, built fortifications on both sides of the royal road of the Zhuque Bridge, relying on the Qinhuai River to protect the south gate of Jianye.

After Liu Kui led the army back to Beijing, the whole person was high-spirited, talking and laughing freely, which stabilized the hearts of Jianye people at once.

Then Sima Rui issued an edict and appointed Wang Dao as the forward governor, and ordered Diao Xie to supervise the six armies with Shangshu, and added Zhou Yi as the left servant of Shangshu and Wang Di as the right servant of Shangshu.

At this point, Sima Rui's deployment was finally completed before Wang Dun arrived in Jianye.

Among them, Dai Yuan led the troops to guard the Jianye Zhuque Bridge and was responsible for the frontal defense of Jianye City; Liu Kui rushed to Jincheng to meet the enemy; The right general Zhou Za was stationed at the west gate of Jianye, Stone City, to guard the west of Jianye; The prince's right guard led Zhou Zhen (Zhou Za's nephew) to Sanwu to pacify Shen Chong.

In March of the first year of Yongchang, Wang Dun's troops arrived near Jianye, and the duel between the two sides was about to begin.

Facing Jian Ye, who was waiting for the battle, Qian Feng suggested: "Liu Kui is a confidant of the Son of Heaven, and he will definitely resist desperately when he encounters our army, and his men are many brave men, so it is not easy to defeat him quickly." ”

"The lord might as well attack Stone City first, Zhou Za is usually mean to his subordinates, and most of his subordinates are unwilling to die for him. And the Zhou family has a conflict with the Sima royal family, and Zhou Zha will definitely not fight to the death at the critical moment. If our army goes to attack him, it will definitely be able to capture it in one fell swoop. Once Zhou Za is defeated, Liu Kui, who has advanced in Jincheng, will be useless and will definitely collapse on his own. ”

Wang Dun adopted Qian Feng's suggestion and appointed Du Hong, Deng Yue and other generals to lead the leading troops to attack Stone Town.

It stands to reason that Stone Town is very dangerous, and as long as Zhou Zha is careful, it will not be so easy to attack.

But as Qian Feng said, Zhou Za had no intention of giving Sima his life at all.

In the face of the menacing Wang Dun rebels, Zhou Za actually opened the city gate and surrendered to Wang Dun, and in this way, the western gateway of Jianye, Stone City, was successfully occupied by Wang Dun's subordinates.

Wang Dunjun took Stone City, the hole in the west was opened, and Jianye was no longer in danger to defend.

At this point, everyone knows that it is only a matter of time before Jianye falls.

After learning the news that Zhou Zha had dedicated Stone City, Sima Rui, the Son of Heaven, was angry and afraid, and his already bad body deteriorated again after this toss. (To be continued.) )