From Gao Huan's siege to the reluctant withdrawal of the army, 50 days before and after, as many as 150,000 troops were dispatched, one of the two sides attacked and the other defended, staging the most classic offensive and defensive battle in history.

Yuwentai took Wei Xiaokuan as the honor, sent Sun Shaoyuan, the chief of Shangshu, as the ambassador, and Wang Yue as the deputy envoy of Daxingtai, to express his condolences to Wei Xiaokuan and the Yubi guards, and at the same time to calibrate the honor.

Wei Xiaokuan was promoted to the general of the hussars, the opening of the palace with the three divisions, and the prince of Jianzhong.

However, Wei Xiaokuan still has a trump card, and Gao Huan's tragedy is not over.

After forcing Gao Huan away, Wei Xiaokuan did not stop there, he used his spy network to spread rumors everywhere in the Eastern Wei Dynasty-controlled zhì area that Gao Huan had returned to heaven and died in the Yubi Dinggong crossbow, which was so specific that people had to believe, who is Gao Huan? The actual control of the Eastern Wei Dynasty, the backbone of the 20 million people of the Eastern Wei Dynasty, this is not the collapse of the sky, and the people of the Eastern Wei Dynasty are panicked.

When the rumors reached Jinyang, Gao Huan was very uneasy, and in order to eliminate these bad effects, he had to endure the pain and come out to show up, and met with the main governors of the Eastern Wei Dynasty in the military camp.

After the meeting, Gao Huan invited everyone to a banquet, and while the wine was happy, Hu Lujin sang a tribal ballad "Eilechuan", and everyone sang in harmony, and the whole military camp was shrouded in a tragic and desolate atmosphere.

& Song of Sadness Elechuan, when Shenwu was already sad. (Wang Yun's "Jade Wall Nostalgia" in the Yuan Dynasty, Shenwu was the nickname of Gao Huan after the founding of the Northern Qi Dynasty)

In the first month of 547 AD, Gao Huan returned to heaven, and before leaving, he explained the aftermath to his son Gao Cheng, saying that the only regret in his life was that he did not listen to Chen Yuankang's words and extinguished the black otter in one go, and at the same time let his son embankment Hou Jing, but for Hou Jing. Gao Huan also left an emergency plan for Gao Cheng, it turned out that he had suppressed Murong Shaozong for so many years for his own death. can let Gao Cheng use him to fight against Hou Jing and look at the world. The only person who can control Hou Jing is Murong Shaozong, except for Gao Huan himself.

Gao Huan's death broke the balance of the power structure of the Eastern Wei Dynasty, and whether Gao Cheng, who was in his early twenties, could hold down those entrepreneurial veterans, this is a question mark.

In order to stabilize the situation, Gao Cheng did not mourn.

The military generals of the Eastern Wei Dynasty hesitated.

Qinghe Cui Ning has a big mouth, can the yellow-mouthed child take on a big responsibility? Cui Ning was the elder of the Shandong clan who followed Gao Huanxin and Du Jianyi, and most of the abolition of Emperor Min came from his idea, and his views represented the doubts of high-ranking civil officials in the Eastern Wei Dynasty.

Hou Jing of Daxingtai, Henan Province said to Sima Ziru openly and honestly a long time ago: King Gao, let's be convinced. As for Xianbei Xiaoer, hum.

Therefore, what Gao Huan threw to Gao Cheng was not the country, it was the stove, and Gao Cheng could be roasted to death if he was not careful.

And in Guanzhong, Yuwentai's mood is also very bad, it turns out that his most confidant and most powerful assistant Su Sui has passed away, Su Hui has been conscientious and conscientious since Kunming Lake followed Yuwentai. Helping Yuwentai formulate rules and regulations, and implement the law of enriching the country and strengthening the people, the Western Wei Dynasty has today's situation, and Su Lingqiu can be said to be the first.

Just when Yuwentai came out of the shadow of the defeat of Bishan. When he was full of ambition and ready to do a big job, Su Sui suffered from Yan Zòng's lung disease due to overwork, and his soul returned to heaven early.

The day of mourning. Yuwentai led the group of princes to send out of Huazhou Guomen on foot, and sacrificed wine: Shangshu has done things in his life. What my wife and brother don't know, I know. You know my heart. I understand what you mean, and I was about to calm the world together, but unfortunately I left behind, but I can't help it!

Speaking of sadness, I couldn't help crying, and I didn't feel that the wine glass fell to the ground.

Su Xuan is frugal and simple by nature, does not govern industry, has no money to spare, and often takes the world as his own responsibility. When Yuwentai travels, he often stamps the blank official document with a big seal and leaves it to Su Sui, and he can deal with it randomly, as long as he comes back and tells Sù Yuwentai.

Without Su Xuan's staff, Yuwentai would have to face the changes brought about by Gao Huan's death alone.

Of course, what he hopes most is that after Gao Huan's death, Gao Cheng, the Huangkou child, can't suppress the situation, and the Eastern Wei Dynasty falls into chaos.

How does the situation evolve next?

Hou Jing came to descend

Gao Cheng himself has a high level of sinicization, and he is also smart, and he has followed Gao Huan in politics for more than ten years, so he has a high level of political literacy and struggle experience.

As early as when he entered Beijing to assist the government, he placed his cronie Cui Jishu next to Emperor Xiaojing to monitor the emperor's every move, and the emperor arranged everything by Cui Jishu, and Yuan Shanjian jokingly called Cui Jishu his wet nurse.

Although Gao Huan is dead, the news has been blocked, he wants to calm people's hearts, and he also wants to solve Hou Jing's heart disease.

Gao Cheng once tried to trick Hou Jing into returning to Beijing but was recognized by Hou Jing, Hou Jing had a premonition that something must have happened to Gao Huan, and he couldn't sit still, so he secretly made preparations, and once the court released the news of Gao Huan's death, he would have a showdown with Gao Cheng.

After waiting for a while, there was still no news of Gao Huan, but the forces supporting Gao Cheng in the army and the DPRK were getting stronger and stronger, and he finally couldn't help it anymore and decided to annex Kansai with the thirteen states of Henan.

However, since Gao Huan dared to let Hou Jing control Henan, he had actually laid a number of chess pieces a long time ago, Hou Jing was loyal to the Gao family, everyone was his loyal subordinates, if Hou Jing had different aspirations, they were the force to contain Hou Jing.

A person who shouldn't have stood up actually stood up to support Hou Jing, he is Sima Ziru's nephew Sima Shiyun, the assassin of Yingzhou, and he has also become the only Henan assassin who took the initiative to follow Hou Jing.

Hou Jing also kidnapped Yuzhou, Xiangzhou, and Guangzhou by means of abduction, and set up his headquarters in Yingzhou, he knew that Xing Zi, the assassin of Xiyanzhou, was Gao Huan's person, and he would definitely not rebel with him, so he wanted to take Xiyan.

Two hundred soldiers loyal to Hou Jing hid their weapons and entered the city of West Yanzhou at dusk.

However, Xing Zicai, the assassin of Western Yanzhou, was among the three great talents of the Great Wei Dynasty, and he was very vigilant, and he felt that it was abnormal when there were so many strange faces suddenly in the city, and when he caught it and asked, he knew that Hou Jing had rebelled, and he immediately sent a message to the eastern states to tell everyone that Hou Jing had rebelled, and the states strengthened their vigilance not to be deceived.

Hou Jing, who was nominally the head of the military and political affairs of the thirteen states of Henan, but could only control the land of the four states, was depressed, looking at the enemies around him like tigers and wolves, he had always been known for his scheming, and he knew that he was not enough independent capital, and he had to rely on external forces to go down with Xianbei Xiaoer. According to the established plan, surrender to Yuwentai, maybe Yuwentai can send him reinforcements. With someone in hand, Henan is naturally no problem.

Thereupon. Hou Jing sent people to Chang'an to report the victory, and the Western Wei court was naturally overjoyed, and Hou Jing's political influence was much higher than that of Gao Zhongmi, so Yuwentai did not hesitate to pay attention to the official hat, and let the Wei Emperor Yuan Bao Torch seal Hou Jing as the Taifu, Henan Daoxingtai, and Shanggu County Gong, and soon increased the rank of general.

The officials have added a lot, Hou Jing is not satisfied, he is in the Eastern Wei Dynasty as Situ ** Henan, and now what he lacks is not an official hat but a grain and grass man. Obviously, the Western Wei side did not mean this.

You can't put all your eggs in the same basket, Hou Jing knows this, he doesn't want to hang himself from a tree.

So, Hou Jing sent people to the south of the Yangtze River to see Emperor Xiao Yan of Liang and said that he would be attached to the thirteen states of Henan, and Xiao Yan did not know how much control Hou Jing had over the thirteen states of Henan, but obviously this was a heavy opportunity to raise troops in the Northern Expedition, and Xiao Yan, the son of Buddhism, fainted with joy. With Hou Jing as the general, the king of Henan, the governor of the north and south of the river, and the great line.

Xiao Yan is much more generous than Yuwentai, since Hou Jing is his own person, he really didn't take Hou Jing as an outsider, and immediately after sealing the official, he sent 30,000 generals such as Sizhou Assassin Shi Yang Yaren to Yuzhou Prefecture City to respond to Hou Jing.

Yecheng also reacted quickly.

Sikong Han Rail was ordered to lead the army to attack. Hou Jing has never looked at Han Liang with a straight eye, this guy is just a guy who likes to gnaw sheep intestines. Of course. Hou Jing has always been confident that his stomach is twisted and twisted, and the Eastern Wei Governor has no one except Murong Shaozong in his eyes. Including Gao Aocao and Peng Le, these well-known fierce generals.

Even so, in the face of the menacing Xianbei Iron Rider. Hou Jing had to look at the soldiers and horses in his hands, it was difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice, no matter how good our strategy was, someone had to implement it.

The Southern Dynasty was far away, and the distant water could not quench the thirst of the near, Hou Jing decided to ask Yuwentai for help first, and at the same time sent someone to tell the Liang Dynasty about his distress in order to seek the understanding of the Liang Dynasty.

Hou Jing knew very well that in dealing with old rivers and lakes like Yuwentai, empty promises did not work, the former surrendered to Henan by himself, and the Western Wei side was reluctant to get substantive things such as grain and grass, soldiers and horses.

Hou Jing has a way, he is reluctant to let the child catch the wolf, and he has to get some blood! So he promised Yuwentai that as long as the Western Army was willing to come to the rescue, he was willing to cede the four cities of East Jingzhou, North Yanzhou, Luyang, and Changshe.

This means that the Western Wei Dynasty can effectively control the land of the four cities and bypass Hou Jing's direct jurisdiction, which is not a small temptation.

The ball was kicked to Chang'an again.

Yuwentai and the Eastern Wei Dynasty were really scared, and the defeat of Bishan caused by Gao Zhongmi's surrender was not far away, so Rao was a big pie in front of him, and he still had to carefully consider whether the pie was poisonous or whether it was a bait.

The ingot torch convened the ministers to discuss it.

Unexpectedly, this time, the views of the civil and military ministers of the Western Wei Dynasty were surprisingly unanimous, and they all agreed with the views of the scheming Shangshu Zuo Servant Yu Jin.

Yu Jin thinks that Hou Jing is too treacherous, and it is no problem to deal with such a person, and it is no problem to make a wish, but the first cannot pay money, and the second cannot send troops.

Otherwise, it would be too cost-effective to lose the wife and the soldiers.

According to Yu Jin's construction, it is equivalent to giving up Hou Jing, because the reason why Hou Jing returned to obedience in the final analysis is still to rely on the Western Wei to fight against the Eastern Wei, if his strength is big enough, he will directly cut off Henan and claim the king.

Since Hou Jing can't be satisfied, this matter will be put aside and delayed.

Seeing that Chang'an's attitude was unclear, Hou Jing had not yet reacted, and Wang Sizheng, who was far away in Jingzhou, was anxious.

Wang Sizheng has been in office in Jingzhou for more than three years, and has established a high reputation here. When he first came, the moat of Luyang City was in disrepair, and he asked his subordinates to supervise Lin Xiaohuan to supervise the craftsmen to repair, but he didn't expect to dig out thirty catties of gold, Lin Xiaohuan knew that Wang Tingshi was an honest official, his family was poor, and gold was a godsend, not public money, so he secretly sent it to his home at night, and asked Wang Sizheng to subsidize his family, and Wang Sizheng accepted it.

What Lin Xiaohuan didn't expect was that as soon as it was dawn the next day, Wang Sizheng summoned officials at all levels in Jingzhou to the Assassin's Mansion to discuss matters, and told everyone to repair the moat yesterday, dig a ditch and dig up gold, there is so much gold, we as courtiers can't swallow it privately, or hand it over to the imperial court to decide.

Thirty catties of gold were sealed and sent to Chang'an, Yuwentai was very moved, and ordered the relevant parties to reward Wang Sizheng with a one-time reward of 200,000 yuan.

Wang Sizheng is a public and selfless person, so Jingzhou Shishu admires him very much. Under his rule, Jingzhou's various undertakings are thriving.

With him in Luyang, Hou Jing has been confronted with him for many years. Of course, although Wang Sizheng defended the city, he was more than capable of defending the city. Unable to break through Hou Jing's defense.

Now, the opponent suddenly turned.

This is a great opportunity given by God to the imperial court to recover Henan, the opportunity must not be lost and will not come again, the minister of Chang'an does not understand the situation in Henan and sits and says, they are delaying the fighter! Wang Sizheng could not ask Chang'an for consent, and immediately led more than 10,000 Jingzhou soldiers to leave Luyang and march towards Yangzhai in Yingzhou.

In fact, if you ask for instructions, the probability of being rejected is 100%, and Wang Sizheng decided to cut it first and then make it a fait accompli. I am dedicated to the country, as long as Henan is returned to the country, even if the court asks for guilt, I am willing!

According to the system of the imperial court, it is a serious crime for local officials to send troops without the unification of the imperial court. However, Yuwentai doesn't seem to blame, from the bottom of his heart, Yuwentai is a hundred willing to send troops to Henan, the temptation is too great, but the concerns of the group of princes can't be ignored, so he has been letting this matter drag on without making a final decision.

Right now. Now that Wang Sizheng has acted, Yuwentai has an excuse to send troops, let's not watch Wang Sizheng fight alone.

Yuwentai sent Taiwei Li Bi, Kaifu Yi and Zhao Gui to lead 10,000 troops to Yingchuan to assist Wang Sizheng, and Wang Sizheng's actions became legitimate.

The Eastern Wei general Han Liang saw that the two armies of the Western Wei Dynasty were coming. Immediately withdrew from the siege and went north, Hou Jing got a respite.

Yingchuan was saved, in order to express his gratitude to the generals of the Western Wei Dynasty for their help. Hou Jing invited Li Bi and Zhao Gui to the city of Changshe to talk about it, and everyone used to be colleagues in the past. It is also appropriate to meet and reminisce, but the same old Jianghu Zhao Gui doubts Hou Jing's motives. Just find an excuse to refuse.

In fact, Hou Jing was really fighting Zhao Gui's idea of soldiers.

Zhao Gui is not good at stubble, aren't Yu Jin and other ordinary ministers worried about Hou Jing's troubles? If Hou Jing was invited to the army, a few samurai would clean up Hou Jing and see how he made trouble.

When Zhao Gui communicated this idea to Li Bi, Li Bi resolutely opposed it, why? Henan still has to rely on Hou Jing to maintain, after all, people have been mixed in the local area for so many years, and the masses have a deep foundation, if Hou Jing suddenly hangs up, not only is it morally unjustifiable, but on the contrary, it has invisibly helped the Eastern Wei Dynasty to remove a major hidden danger.

We receive Chang'an's salary but help Yecheng work, and we won't do such a thing!

Zhao Gui listened to what Li Bi said reasonably, so he dispelled the idea of plotting against Hou Jing.

At this time, the reinforcements sent by the Liang Dynasty Yang Yaren's soldiers and horses arrived in Rushui, and then there was the garrison of the Western Wei army, and did not receive orders from Chang'an, Zhao Gui and Li Bi did not want to conflict with the Liang army, no matter what, although everyone was their main >

At present, there is a common purpose to aid Hou Jing, and there is a common enemy that is the Eastern Wei Dynasty.

Since there was no obligation to start a war with the Liang Dynasty, in order to avoid friction with friendly forces, Zhao Gui and Li Bi took the initiative to withdraw their troops and retreat.

As soon as Li Bi and Zhao Gui left, Wang Sizheng arrived in Yingchuan, Hou Jing welcomed him into the Changshe, Wang Sizheng was not polite, and directly took over the defense of Yingchuan, and put Hou Jing in the position of the flesh of the sword, Hou Jing saw Wang Sizheng in his heart, Wang Sizheng did everything above board, and did it so that you can't find fault with it, but people are obviously setting themselves up, Hou Jing was scared, and didn't want to play with Wang Sizheng, so he left Yingchuan and returned to Hanging Gu with his own troops under the pretext of expanding his territory.

The more Hou Jing thought about it, the more wrong it became, Li Bi and Zhao Gui stretched out their heads and left, and Wang Sizheng was not easy to provoke, so he sent people to Chang'an to meet Yuwentai and ask for reinforcements.

Zhao Gui, Li Bi, Wang Sizheng and others can't be commanded, please send some obedient people, okay?

Yuwentai really lowered the level of reinforcements, and ordered Wei Fabao, the defense lord of the same track, and Helan Yuande, the governor of the same track, to go.

Seeing that Yuwentai completely believed in Hou Jing, he sent people one by one, and Wang Yue was anxious: what is the relationship between Hou Jing and Gao Huan, he was together when he didn't have a career, and later he was divided into monarchs and ministers, and he became a general, a heavy Taiwan secretary, a high and powerful position, and Gao Huan treated him well, but Gao Huan rebelled immediately after he died, which shows that what he wants is even bigger, I am afraid that he will not be able to condescend to others, he can betray Gao, and where will he be loyal to the court, and now send troops to him, I am afraid that he will be laughed at by the people of the world in the future.

Why didn't you say it earlier? The order has been given.

The sheep is lost, so hurry up and make up for it.

Yuwentai listened to Wang Yue's reasonableness, and he couldn't regret it, so he immediately sent someone to recover Wei Fabao, and at the same time sent someone to summon Hou Jing to Chang'an.

Brothers, they should go to the imperial court to be responsible for the overall work.

Deceive people, the ghost believes it, turn the tiger away from the mountain.

Smart people are all aware of the accounts, otherwise they don't know if they are confused and do ghosts.

Hou Jing knew that the showdown time with Yuwentai was approaching, and he wanted to make as much money as possible while maintaining a superficial harmony now, so he began to play the idea of Wei Fabao and Helan Yuande again.

Can Vefabao be fooled?

Hou Jingnan rebelled

Hou Jing soon became familiar with Wei Fabao, Helan Yuande and other Western Wei generals, he often took three or two people to the Western Wei camp to visit the door, showing that he was so open-minded, this trick really confused many people, many generals really regarded him as their own, and the relationship became more and more intimate, among which the Western Wei general Ren Yue and Hou Jing got closer and closer, and the more contact with Hou Jing, the more he admired Hou Jing, and unconsciously became a die-hard fan of Hou Jing.

At the critical moment, there are still people who stay sober, and Wei Fabao's defense minister Shi Peikuan is an understanding person.

Pei Kuan followed Duguxin to run Luoyang back then, and was almost implicated in the Wei Zicang case.

At that time, Wei Zican, the assassin of Fenzhou, surrendered after being besieged by the Eastern Wei army, so angry that Yuwentai arrested all his brothers in Guanzhong for questioning, and Wei Shuang, the nephew of Wei Zican, who lived in Luoyang, defected to Pei Kuan, and Pei Kuan hid him.

Later, the Western Wei Dynasty was amnesty, and there was news that Wei Shuang was also among the exonerations, so Wei Shuang showed up, but he didn't expect Yuwentai to let him go, so his comeback turned into a self-throwing net, and he was mentioned in the interrogation room for the first trial, and the harboring prisoner Pei Kuan was brought out. (To be continued......)