While Liaodong was busy signing a trade agreement with Rome, the situation in Yanxu and Xuzhou changed again.

After Xu Gong rebelled against Shile, he called himself the assassin of Yanzhou, and then led his troops to the west to attack the northern kingdom of Jibei, and at the same time, because of the villain's selfish temperament, he actually sent men and horses to the southeast to plunder Dongguan County, Xuzhou.

The situation in Xu Yan has changed, which makes Jiang Zuo realize that the opportunity to meddle in Xuzhou has come. Immediately, the king recommended the Taishan man Yang Jian to serve as the governor of the conquest of Langya, and the reason for his recommendation was that Yang Jian was born in the Taishan Gaomen family, and Xu Gong was a fellow villager, and he must be able to deal with it.

It's a pity that King Langya is not a fool, he knows that Yang Jian is Wang Dun's uncle, so he can see it clearly, and it must be Wang Dun's idea to recommend Yang Jian, but he just said it through Wang Dao's mouth.

With the success of the Zu brothers' northern expedition to Xuzhou, not only did King Langya feel the threat from Xuzhou, but even Wang Dun was no exception. Although the interests of King Langya and Wang Dun are the same in terms of balancing and balancing Zu Li, there are huge differences between the two in controlling Xuzhou.

King Langya would rather maintain the status quo than let Wang Dun take control of Xuzhou again, so he did not hesitate to reject Wang Dao's suggestion.

"King Qiqi, Lord Yang is not a general, and he is overwhelmed by the heavy responsibility, please choose a good talent to go to Xuzhou again."

Just as King Langya and Wang Dao were arguing about the candidates for the expedition, they saw the auxiliary general Xi Jian stand up to support King Langya. Xi Jian was born in the Wang clan of Shandong, and once worked as a homeless marshal, only because of his noble family, outstanding temperament, and crossing the river alone, he became one of the few homeless marshals who were deeply trusted by King Langya at that time.

After Xi Jian crossed the river, he took refuge in King Langya and was sent to Hefei to serve as one of the pawns to balance Wang Dun. This time, the king of Langya summoned him to Jianye, which was intended to appoint Xi Jian as the assassin of Yanzhou and let him supervise the military of Yanzhou.

"General Xi's words are wrong! The children of the Taishan Goat Clan, the Sheep Lord, have produced a military wizard like Juping Hou Yanghu in his family, if the military family is educated, which family dares to say that it surpasses the Yang Clan? ”

Although he knew that what Xi Jian said was the truth, Director Wang still insisted on going his own way and insisted on letting Yang Jian go to the Yanxu front. Director Wang's stubbornness greatly surprised everyone's expectations, and even King Langya was shocked, he had never seen Director Wang so tough.

In fact, if you think about it carefully, it is not difficult to understand that since Wang Dun sat in Wuchang and mastered most of the military power in Jiangdong, King Langya gradually alienated the two Wang brothers. In this case, Director Wang naturally had to give priority to the interests of the Wang family, and let Yang Jian lead the troops outside in order to consolidate the power of the Wang family.

Only when the stakes are at stake can we really see who is the real speaker of Jiangdong!

For example, at the moment, under the strong insistence of Director Wang, even if King Langya repeatedly objected, Yang Jian was still in charge of the expedition in the end.

In the fifth year of Jianxing, in October, the king of Langya appointed Yang Jian as the general of the conquest and the governor of the conquest in the name of the prime minister of Zuo, and personally led Sima of Xuzhou to concurrently serve as Cai Bao, the Taishou Cai Bao of Linhuai, the Shi Sujun of Suiling, and the general Hou Li of Wuwei to crusade against Taishan Taishou Xu Niche.

Jiang Zuo's sudden Northern Expedition disrupted the entire Yanxu situation, not only caused the Zujia army led by Zu Li to be vigilant, but even Xiangguo Shile also looked at the Jiangdong Army slowly going north with a vigilant eye.

It's a pity that the outside world overestimated Yang Jian's ability, and since he led his army to the front line, he didn't dare to engage the Xu Gong Department who invaded Xuzhou. Only Xuzhou Sima and Linhuai Taishou Cai Bao led the army to win a small victory over Xu Niche in Tanqiu. Then Cai Bao asked Yang Jian to attack, but Yang Jian was timid and afraid of things, but he resolutely disagreed.

After the defeat of Tanqiu, Xu Gong saw that the Jin Dynasty no longer accepted him, so he had no choice but to re-raise the anti-Jin banner and send envoys to Xiangguo to present to Shi Lejin to defeat the Jiangdong coalition army and seize Xuzhou.

And Shi Le couldn't believe what the villain Xu Gong said at all, and immediately said that he could not send a large army to support Xiangguo on the grounds that he was facing a threat from Liaodong, and only sent Wang Budu to lead 300 cavalry to test first, and sent Zhang Jing to lead the cavalry as backup.

However, contrary to the expectations of all parties, after Wang Budu arrived at Xu Niche, he was domineering and did not take Xu Ni in his eyes, and also raped Xu Niche's wife.

Wang Budu's rampant domineering made Xu Gong angry.

At this time, Zhang Jing's troops happened to drive near Taishan County. In order to avoid possible disasters, coupled with his hatred for Wang Budu, he took the opportunity to send troops to kill Wang Budu and three hundred cavalrymen, and asked King Langya to surrender to the Great Jin again.

So far, Xu Gong has defected several times between the Jin Chamber and Hu Lu in just a few months, and his repeated villain behavior has attracted the attention of all parties.

It can be said that at this point, Xu Gong has completely lost the basic trust of the outside world. Therefore, when King Langya received his surrender again, not only did he not have any joy, but he was extremely annoyed, hated him for being capricious, and refused to accept it, and at the same time ordered Yang Jian, Cai Bao and others to attack immediately.

At the same time, Shi Le, who was in Xiangguo, learned that Xu Gong had killed Wang Fudu, and was furious, and immediately ordered Zhang Jing to temporarily lead his troops to be stationed in the dangerous area, hold on to help, and then ordered Shi Hu to lead an army of 40,000 to crusade against Xu Gong.

Seeing that Xu Niche would be destroyed by Shi Le, and Jiangzuo's Northern Expedition would achieve nothing, Cai Bao suggested that Yang Jian immediately launch an attack and take Taishan County before Shi Hu.

However, Yang Jian was afraid of the enemy like a tiger and did not dare to lead his troops north, and Cai Bao, who had the heart to contribute, could only stop his northward march because of his lonely army.

When the news of Yang Jian's fear of the enemy reached Jianye, King Langya was furious, and a good opportunity to meddle in Xuzhou was wasted by Yang Jian, which was really unbearable!

Fortunately, Diao Xie was not carried away by anger, and he persuaded King Langya, who had lost his mind: "Great King, the Northern Expedition has lost the opportunity to quickly occupy Mount Tai. At present, the weather is cold and freezing, so it is better to temporarily build deep ditches and high bases, and wait until the beginning of spring next year to march again. ”

At this time, Sima Rui was already extremely angry with Yang Jian, and he didn't listen to Diao Xie's advice at all, and insisted on ordering Yang Jian and others to attack.

"If you don't fight and retreat first, your morale will be greatly lost, and the outside world will look down on me Jiangdong, so you must not take a step back at this time."

When the edict of King Langya to attack reached Xiapi, Yang Jian, relying on the support of Wang Dun behind him, refused to carry out Sima Rui's edict.

Yang Jian's move completely angered King Langya, and with Diao Xie's letter, he dismissed Yang Jian's official position, and demoted Cai Bao to the general of Zhichong, as a pioneer to see the after-effects.

Yang Jian committed such a great sin that in the end he was only removed from his official position and received no other punishment. It's not that King Langya doesn't want to punish Yang Jian heavily, but considering that Yang Jian is from a high family and has in-laws with the Wang family and the royal family, he can only be exempted from the death penalty and dismissed from his post in a hasty manner.

In addition, Director Wang also wrote a request for self-depreciation because of his poor recommendation.

Sima Rui knew the severity of the punishment, and punishing Yang Jian had dealt a heavy blow to the Wang family, and he immediately dismissed Wang Dao Suo.

In the face of the 40,000-strong army of Shi Hu who acted quickly, Xu Gong knew that if he resisted stubbornly, he could only hit the stone with an egg. In addition, King Langya did not accept his surrender, and in the end, in order to survive, Xu Gong ruthlessly sent his wife and children to Xiangguo as hostages and surrendered to Shile again.

By the time Jiang Zuo had ended the internal strife and was preparing to attack Taishan County again, his opponent had changed from Xu Gong to Shi Hu. Cai Bao knew that he was invincible, and King Langya did not want Zu Ti to help, so in order to avoid unnecessary casualties, he led his troops to retreat to Xiapi overnight.

But on the way to retreat, he was attacked by Xu Gong again, and lost a large amount of grain, grass and ordnance.

No one expected that this time the king of Langya was full of ambition to intervene in Xuzhou on the occasion of the expedition to Mount Tai, but he was busy for nearly two months, not only did not eliminate Xu Niche, but lost his troops and returned defeated.

When the news of the rout and flight of the army reached Jianye, King Langya felt disgraced and was so angry that he jumped like thunder.

This time, the ancestral army that can fight well was deliberately excluded, in addition to showing the determination of Jiangzuo's northern expedition to the old capital and recovering the lost territory to the outside world, he wanted to let the descendants make some contributions and take the opportunity to plant chess pieces in the north of Xuzhou.

But who knew that there was a sheep jian who was afraid of the enemy like a tiger, and then the army didn't even see the enemy, so they were frightened by Shi Hu and fled south, which made Jiang Zuo lose face.

Cai Bao's defeat gave Wang another chance, and Wang Dun immediately wrote to King Langya to appoint Wang Shudu to supervise the Qing and Xu Zhu military.

King Langya was unwilling to allow the Wang family to meddle in Xuzhou, so he had to sprinkle his anger on Cai Bao. (To be continued.) )