In mid-September, the Xiliang army pretended to be a 100,000 army with 20,000 virtual troops, and feinted to attack Fengxiang County, but in fact, the Xiliang army divided the troops into two ways to the east, one route was led by the general Sheng Guangping 30,000 elite soldiers, from Xiaoguan to the south to attack Guanzhong, after three days and three nights of bloody battles, the Xiliang army took Liupanguan, entered the Danzheng Gorge, and the soldiers came to Pingliang County.

On the other hand, Zhang Chongjun personally led 80,000 cavalry, crossed the Yellow River from Huining County, and attacked Lingwu County all the way north, and Li Lingfeng, the governor of Lingwu who had just been named the king of Lingwu County by Empress Dowager Shen, led an army of 100,000 to meet the Xiliang army.

To the east of Feng'an County, a tragic battle unfolded on the Loess Plateau, the Xiliang cavalry crushed the two wings of the Lingwu Army in one fell swoop with a thunderous momentum, and 80,000 cavalry launched a fierce attack on the Lingwu Army from three directions at the same time.

The war drums rumbled, the shouting and killing shook the sky, the dust on the Loess Plateau covered the sky, the Jin Ge Iron Horse, in the era of cold weapons, the cavalry had strong combat effectiveness, and the Xiliang cavalry fought with the Qiang people for a long time, forming their brave, strong, and fearless style of death.

And the Lingwu army is not all cavalry, the cavalry only accounts for thirty percent, they have not had a war for nearly fifty years, just an hour later, the Lingwu army is disadvantaged.

Li Lingfeng, the head of Lingwu, was already red-eyed, he commanded the battle hoarsely, the two wings were defeated and his formation was chaotic, and the dust covered his vision, making his battle flag command useless, and a group of Xiliang cavalry with a thousand people in a group, interspersed and divided in the Lingwu army, completely disrupting the Lingwu army's position, and then gathering and annihilating it.

A soldier rushed over and shouted, "King Jun, the rear army can't resist anymore, General Ma asks for support!" ”

Li Lingfeng was in a hurry, if the rear army was defeated, it would mean that their back road to Lingwu City would be cut off, he shouted in a hoarse voice, "Order Liu Zitong to lead the headquarters to support the rear army!" ”

A messenger rushed away, and came back in a moment to report, "King of the county, Liu Zitong's troops have been surrounded by the enemy's main force, General Liu has been killed, and his troops are less than a thousand!" ”

"What!"

Li Lingfeng was stunned, Liu Zitong's five thousand cavalry were his most elite troops, and they were the most well-equipped, if even they were annihilated, it would mean that the defeat was decided.

Li Lingfeng couldn't help but feel remorseful, for most of the year, he refused Uncle Shen's solicitation again and again, and did not express his stance on the letters sent by King Qi and King Liang, and has been wandering between several major forces, so that he has always become the object of several major forces, and can obtain the greatest benefits, but just a month ago, he finally couldn't resist the temptation of the King of Lingwu County promised by the Empress Dowager Shen, and took refuge in the Empress Dowager Shen, and in less than a month, he was attacked by the Western Liang Army.

Li Lingfeng was full of regret for standing on the wrong side for his vanity, but it was useless, seeing that the rout of the army was imminent, he had to give an order, "The whole army retreats to Lingwu City!" ”

When fighting with the enemy's cavalry, the whole army retreated, which means defeat, and it is fortunate that half of the army can be withdrawn, and it is even more dangerous that the whole army will be wiped out, it may be a great surname, but there is no way, but if the rear army is defeated, there is no chance of retreating, and the whole army will be annihilated, Li Lingfeng knows this very well, if he retreats, he still has a chance to live.

When the order was issued, his personal troops began to retreat, Li Lingfeng did not dare to withdraw the army, which would cause chaos in the whole army, and the armies retreated first, and in the end, even he himself could not retreat, only his own 3,000 personal guards retreated first, and then led other troops to retreat.

Li Lingfeng's attempt to retreat was discovered by several scouts of the Xiliang Army at the same time, and they quickly reported it to the commander Zhang Chongjun.

Zhang Chongjun also endured this battle for a long time, he knew that with the strength of the Liang army in the west, it was not impossible to capture Guanzhong at this time, but he also understood that if he attacked Guanzhong too early, it would disrupt the overall deployment of Huangfu Wujin, and it would not be good for Huangfu Wujin politically, Huangfu Wujin was the grandson of Emperor Jin'an after all, and it had been forty years apart.

It is precisely for this reason that after the demise of Huangfu Heng, Huangfu Wujin was not in a hurry to ascend the throne and succeed to the throne, but to serve as the regent of the prison state, Zhang Chongjun had to admit that although Huangfu Wujin was young, he was quite mature and old in politics, not in a hurry at all, step by step, this is right, the world can not be beaten down in one step, sometimes leaving a little tail, but it is a smart move, especially when the Shen family has signs of usurpation, don't worry.

Zhang Chongjun understood Huangfu Wujin's strategy, and he acted completely in accordance with Huangfu Wujin's deployment.

"Great Marshal, Li Lingfeng's pro-soldier team has withdrawn backwards!"

A scout's report interrupted his train of thought, and he immediately asked, "Did Shuai Qi move along?" ”

"Shuai Qi is not, he is still in place."

Zhang Chongjun immediately understood that this was Li Lingfeng going to retreat first, and he immediately ordered, "Order Li Yizhi to lead the headquarters to intercept Li Lingfeng's personal army, if Li Lingfeng escapes, let him bring someone to see me!" ”

He immediately ordered, "Order the Han Righteous Army to insert between Li Lingfeng's personal army and Shuai Qi, not allow Li Lingfeng to withdraw to the Chinese army, and then order Yang Shuang to pick 3,000 broken formation troops, kill me in the center of the enemy army, and cut off Shuai Qi!" ”

Three orders with a specific surname were issued, Zhang Ye deputy governor Li Yizhi led 5,000 troops to attack Li Lingfeng's personal soldiers, cutting off Li Lingfeng's way to retreat north, and at the same time another 3,000 cavalry inserted behind Li Lingfeng's personal soldiers, cutting off his way back to the Chinese army, 3,000 broken formation troops under the leadership of Yang Shuang, the fierce general of Xiliang, was like thunder, killing a bloody road, straight to Shuai Qi, Shuai Qi should be with the commander, but at this time Li Lingfeng had left, Shuai Qi was hollow around, no soldiers were stationed, when the Xiliang army broke through the periphery, it was no longer blocked, rushed to Shuai Qi.

As the four-zhang tall handsome flag fell with a bang, the Xiliang cavalry shouted: "Li Lingfeng has died!" Li Lingfeng is dead! ”

The news of the fall of the handsome flag and the death of the commander became the last straw that overwhelmed Luo Luo, the Lingwu army collapsed on the whole line, the soldiers or scattered and fled, and surrendered on their knees, the Xiliang cavalry pressed on a large scale, covered up the fleeing soldiers, disarmed and surrendered, Li Lingfeng finally committed suicide by drawing his sword in despair, Feng'an battle, 100,000 Lingwu troops were annihilated, and the Xiliang army captured Lingwu City.

Zhang Chongjun immediately divided his troops into two routes, one was led by the general Li Yizhi with 20,000 cavalry to the east to take Yanchuan County, Shuofang County and Diaoyin County to open the road to the Yellow River, and the other was led by his second son Zhang Yanjun to attack Honghua County and Shangjun to the southwest, and the troops pressed Guanzhong.

At this time, Empress Shen had already transferred 150,000 Guannei troops and Guannei Generalissimo Luo Zhiyu to Fengxiang for defense, Guannei was empty, Li Yizhi and Zhang Yanjun's two armies were all the way like a bamboo, September 25, Zhang Yanjun's cavalry captured Luojiao County, Shangjun, the situation in Guannei deteriorated, and Guanzhong was shaken.

．．．．．．． Since the outbreak of the Wenxinshe incident, Pan Renyi, the head of the household department, was dismissed for the crime of disrespect, and Zhang Qian, the former head of the Ministry of Rites who was loyal to the Empress Dowager Shen, took over the post of the head of the household department, so that the household that had been firmly controlled by Uncle Shen was broken by the Empress Dowager Shen, and the financial power fell into the hands of the Empress Dowager Shen.

Empress Dowager Shen's severe crackdown on Wenxin Society can be described as killing two birds with one stone, not only suppressing the noise of implementing the political hall system, but also taking away the power of the household department, greatly weakening the power of Shen Guo's uncle, not only that, but the Empress Dowager Shen also appointed Shen Yuan, who had just been released from Chuzhou, as the imperial historian and the secretary of Dali Temple, and controlled the supervision and prison power of officials.

A series of blows also caused the relationship between Uncle Shen and Empress Dowager Shen to deteriorate sharply, and Uncle Shen was angry and stayed at home for a month without asking about political affairs.

In the afternoon, Uncle Shen Guo fished in the back garden as usual, he wore a hat, wearing a robe, sitting in the Hanjiang Pavilion in his back garden, the lake in the back garden of Uncle Shen Guo covers an area of eight acres, sparkling, he loves carp, so he raised thousands of various precious carp in the lake, sometimes bored, he will come to the lake to fish for pleasure.

At this time, it was early winter, the cold tide was coming, and the wind on the lake was very strong, blowing the flag outside the Hanjiang Pavilion to hunt, but Uncle Shen was really like a cold-river fisherman, not moving, in fact, this is a portrayal of his scheming at this time, so as to respond to all changes.

Uncle Shen has been recuperating at home for 20 days, but he knows the situation outside well, the queen mother's attempt to unite Qizhou, the strategy of jointly attacking the Chu army has basically failed, this is the queen mother a little taken for granted, she thought that the king of Qi would definitely unite with her, but the king of Qi also has his own plans, capture Luojing, the marriage between the Yong and Qi armies is over, there is no common goal, the two armies began to sleep in the same bed, the king of Qi is already waiting for the Yongzhou army to withdraw to Guanzhong, and then he monopolizes Luojing.

And just as his uncle Shen Guo expected, the Xiliang Army will always be a knife on the back of Yongzhou, Huangfu Wujin through this knife, can play Yongzhou in the palm of his hand at any time, the Queen Mother is a woman after all, she doesn't know the sharpness of the Xiliang Army, Huangfu Wujin in order to master this knife, he did not hesitate to detour to the grassland, and sent Zhang Chongjun five million taels of silver, the Queen Mother does not have this kind of vision and courage, does not listen to her own words, self-righteous woman, now she should know that the consequences are serious.

"Father!" The voice of his son Shen Qiwu came from behind him.

Uncle Shen Guo glanced back at his son, and saw that he seemed to have something to say to himself, so he patted the small stool next to him and smiled: "Sit down!" ”

Uncle Shen Guo was quite sorry for his son, it was easy to go to Jiangning High School to be an official, but he encountered a mutiny by Huangfu Wujin, and was imprisoned for several months, although he did not suffer from torture and abuse, but his mood was very low, fortunately, Huangfu Wujin released him back, which also made Uncle Shen Guo breathe a long sigh of relief, his son went out for a walk in the past two days, and just came back, looking at his complexion, it should be good.

Shen Qiwu sat down, he hesitated, he didn't know what to say, Uncle Shen glanced at him and smiled: "What's the matter?" Having fun? ”

"Father, this morning, I went to see my aunt, and she summoned me to meet me."

The aunt that Shen Qiwu said was the Empress Dowager Shen, and Uncle Shen's body stiffened suddenly, and after a while, he asked lightly: "Didn't you go out to play?" ”

"The child went to Lantian, and when he came back, he happened to meet the eunuch on the way, saying that the queen mother's aunt wanted to see me, so I went."

Uncle Shen Guo saw that his son's eyes flickered a little, and he couldn't help sneering in his heart, he happened to meet on the road, how could there be such a coincidence in the world? He didn't say anything, and still said unhurriedly: "Then what is the Queen Mother looking for you to do?" ”

"My aunt said that she wanted me to be a squire in the military department."

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(To be continued)