Since receiving the support of Wei Shuo last year, this year Zu Ti has been stationed in Huaiyin to actively build weapons, train soldiers, and strive to send troops to the Northern Expedition to recover the Central Plains as soon as possible.

After a year of preparation, Zu Ti has long been no longer the embarrassment when he first took over the history of Xuzhou, and now he is full of food and food, full of ambition, just waiting for the order of King Langya to wave the Northern Expedition and drive Wang Sang and Zhao Gu out of Xuzhou.

Since July, Zu Ti has been actively dispatching troops and applying to King Langya for an order to send troops, and at this time, a sudden situation has blocked Zu Ti's plan to recover the lost territory in northern Xuzhou.

"Brother, Yuzhou Zhang Ping and Fan Ya are reversed! Zhang Ping not only betrayed the imperial court, but also openly raised the banner to proclaim himself the assassin of Yuzhou, which was a naked provocation to the imperial court! King Langya ordered us to immediately send troops to quell the rebellion, and temporarily shelved the plan to recover Xuzhou! ”

After listening to his brother Zu Cai's introduction, the Zu Yi brothers were silent. Zu should look at Zu Ti who frowned and wanted to stop talking, he knew very well how much effort his brother had put in to recover Xuzhou in the past year, and his brother stood in front of the map of Xuzhou for countless days and nights and couldn't sleep at night.

Now it is hard to see the hope of recovering Xuzhou, but it is abandoned halfway due to the rebellion of Zhang Ping in Yuzhou. Don't talk about Zu Ti, even Zu should have been unwilling to hear about this incident. He was really afraid that his brother would ignore the orders of King Langya and insist on recovering Xuzhou.

However, Zu Tai underestimated Zu Ti's mind, and it was a pity that he couldn't recover Xuzhou as planned, but Zu Ti would not ignore King Langya's order for this little thing. Besides, whether it is to quell the rebellion in Yuzhou or the Northern Expedition to Xuzhou, isn't it all to eliminate the enemies of the imperial court? In Zu Ti's view, there is no difference between the two, and as for the plan to recover Xuzhou, it is not a big deal to be shelved for the time being.

"Pass my general's order: the army will immediately march west to Yuzhou!"

"Brother?!" Zugai was pleasantly surprised!

"Brother!?" Zu Yue was puzzled!

"Don't say it again, the army has suspended its plan to recover Xuzhou, and immediately set out to the west to conquer Yuzhou from now on!" Zu Ti is the final word!

Although Zu Ti made the decision to conquer Yuzhou in the west, Zu Ti did not completely give up the opportunity to recover Xuzhou. What Zu Ti thought was that if he could take Zhang Ping without bloodshed, he would have the time and opportunity to return to Xuzhou. Therefore, when Zu Tiqin led a large army through Suiling to advance to Peiguo in the west, he also sent his own army Yin Yi as an envoy to persuade Zhang Ping and Fan Ya.

However, Zu Yi obviously underestimated the ambitions of the local powerful factions Zhang Ping and Fan Ya, and Yin Yi not only failed to persuade Zhang Ping and the others to change their ways and return to the imperial court, but also lost their lives for this. Yin Yi's death completely angered Zu Ti, and also made Zhang Ping and Fan Ya lose all their way out.

I have to say that the timing of Zu Ti's choice to send troops was just right, and at this time, the major forces in the north had no time to pay attention to the chaotic Central Plains. Shile's center of gravity is in Hebei; Liu Yao will focus on Guanzhong's future strategy; Xianbei people, like Wang Jun, aimed at Jizhou, Hebei, which is rich in natural products; Qingzhou Cao Wei, who only has a chance to take the Central Plains, is a person with no ambitions, who has a great opportunity but only cares about the construction of Guanggu City in Qingzhou.

It is precisely the above-mentioned major powerful factions that have no intention of getting involved in the Central Plains, the land of the four wars, so that the Central Plains is currently only controlled by many small powerful factions who speculate between the Xiongnu Han State and the Jin Empire.

The major groups in the north and south of the great river are only trying their best to infiltrate their forces here, but none of them are willing to put their strategic focus here. It was in this context that Zu Ti broke into the Central Plains with more than 10,000 troops unimpeded, and the first enemy in front of him was Zhang Ping and Fan Ya, who had just killed Yin Yi.

At this time, with the help of Wei Shuo, after a year of recuperation, it is far from being comparable to the 'Zu Ti' in history who only has a weak brigade of 2,000 remnants! With the current strength of Zu Ti, not to mention sweeping the Central Plains, but it is not a problem to deal with a small rebel general, it will never be like fighting for a year in history to solve Zhang Ping.

Historically, Zu Ti's military strength was very weak, and later defeated Zhang Ping and Fan Ya, which took him more than a year, and it was a trick (bribing people to assassinate Zhang Ping), political (asking the central government to support him), military (fighting a war for more than a year), diplomacy (sending people to lobby Fan Ya) and other means were all used.

Today's Zu Ti didn't bother to use tricks at all, he put his troops in front of Zhang Ping and Fan Ya openly, and then pointed to Zhang Ping and Fan Ya on the wall of the city of Qian County and shouted: "Rebel general Zhang Ping, listen: you disobey the king, set up your own name, and killed the messenger I sent, and committed a heinous crime!" Entrusted by the imperial court, he came to quell the rebellion! Wang'er and the others surrendered early, and when the army broke through the city, they would take their lives to sacrifice the spirit of Yin joining the army in the sky! ”

After Zu Ti led the army into the Central Plains, the major powerful factions that divided the Central Plains in order to show favor to the king of Langya, they sent soldiers to attack Zhang Ping with Zu Ti, and when the army arrived in Qian County, Zu Ti had gathered nearly 20,000 horses.

Looking at the black pressure outside the city, the neatly arranged Jin army, Zhang Ping and Fan Ya standing on the city wall were full of remorse. knew that Zu Ti was so strong, he shouldn't have killed Yin Yi with one sword, not only completely cut off the road to peace talks with Zu Ti, but also put himself to death.

Soon the tragic siege battle began, and the rebels Zhang Ping and Fan Ya knew that once the city was broken, there was no reason to be spared, so they tried every means to defend the city, but for a while, the ancestors outside the city had no way to take them.

However, Zu Ti's strength was far superior to Zhang Ping's after all, and as time went by, the Jin army gradually took the initiative, and the rebels gradually showed defeat. Seeing that the city was about to break, Zhang Ping and Fan Ya were anxious to break out in a cold sweat, but they couldn't do anything in the face of the general trend, so they could only watch the Jin army occupy the city little by little......

After paying nearly 2,000 casualties, Zu Ti finally took Qian County and captured Zhang Ping and Fan Ya under his horse! However, Zu Ti did not kill the two of them privately, but ordered someone to escort them to Jiangdong and hand them over to King Langya for disposal!

Successfully eliminated Zhang Ping and Fan Ya, so that Zu Ti's reputation in the Central Plains was shocked, and heroes from all over the country sent envoys to make friends with him, and some rebellious separatist forces had to temporarily press their ambitions. Looking at the heroes from all walks of life in the Central Plains who came to lose sincerity in front of him, Zu Tizhi was complacent, and the westward expedition to Yuzhou was a complete success.

It not only exterminated Zhang Ping and Fan Ya, who were self-reliant, but also forced heroes from all over the Central Plains to abandon Shile and choose to rely on the imperial court again, and then recovered the vast areas of the Central Plains that were lost due to Shile's southward movement last year.

However, not all the separatist forces had good intentions about Zu Ti's meddling in the affairs of the Central Plains, such as Li Ju, the Taishou of Xingyang, Guo Mo, the powerful Guo Mo, and Chen Chuan, the leader of the beggar army, who were entrenched in the Luoyang area, all of whom had the strength to fight against Zu Ti, and looked at Zu Ti with a vigilant gaze.

Among them, in order to prevent Zu Ti from going north to enter his territory, Chen Chuan also specially sent a force to assist Zu Ti in attacking Zhang Ping and Fan Ya. It's just that what Chen Chuan didn't expect was that Li Tou, the subordinate he sent to Zu Ti's side, was actually bought by Zu Ti's little favor and small favor.

Chen Chuan saw that he was kind enough to help Zu Ti, but Zu Ti took this opportunity to buy his subordinates, and his subordinates also dared to accept Zu Ti's bribe, he was very angry at Zu Ti's behavior of sticking his hand into his sphere of influence, and as a result, he killed Li Tou in a fit of anger.

After killing Li Tou, Chen Chuan and Zu Ti fell out! The two no longer have the friendly relationship they had before, and they began to fight each other! Although Chen Chuan inherited the foundation of his brother Chen Wu, to be honest, Chen Chuan was much worse than Chen Wu.

In desperation, Chen Chuan fled to the northeast, and later he simply surrendered to Shile. As soon as he received Chen Chuan's surrender, Shi Le immediately sent Shi Hu south to aid Chen Chuan. In the face of the menacing Shi Hu, Zu Ti knew that he was invincible, so he had to retreat again and again, and even lost the territory of the Qian Kingdom that he had recovered before.

However, after all, Shile's strategic focus is in Hebei, and now he is about to fight Wang Jun, so it is impossible for him to let the army stay in the Central Plains for a long time. Therefore, after Shi Hu's victory, Shi Le ordered him to move Chen Chuan's troops to the north. After Shi Hu's army withdrew, Zu Ti once again occupied the former territory of Chen Chuan and Zhang Ping.