Tiance waved his army south, just like dropping a bombshell, which caused the whole of Hebei to be in turmoil.

In the past, for the people of Hebei, the Tiance Tang Army was like a legend - legends are always both brilliant and distant. Whether it is the victory or defeat in the Western Regions or the great victory in Mobei, it is a matter of thousands or even tens of thousands of miles away.

Although all the scholars speculated that Zhang Mai intended to be in the world, no one expected that Tang Qi would come to the door so soon!

The Tang army has conquered Dingzhou!

To the south of Dingzhou, it is Hengzhou and Zhaozhou, and further south, it is Xingzhou and Zhaozhou, and Zhaozhou is further south, but it is the heart of the whole Hebei - Yedu!

Don't look at the four states in the middle, but these four states are flat! There is neither a natural danger that can stop the horse's hooves, nor an army that can fight in the field!

And Yedu is to Hebei, just like Taiyuan is to Hedong and Xidu is to Guanzhong, if Yedu is captured by Tiance, then the entire Hebei is almost over!

If Hebei is finished, will Luoyang be far away?

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Riding six hundred miles in an expeditious way, breaking the silence of Luoyang's camouflage and tearing the last skin of Shi Jingjiao!

Since Du Chongwei's soldiers and horses went north, Sang Weihan has created public opinion in the government and the opposition, whitewashing the chaotic end times into a peaceful scene, yes, the clouds are going to return, the golden ou is about to be exhausted, and the Khitan has to spit out the territory that has been eaten, which is the expression of the country's prosperity!

But the people of Yunzhou drove the Jin army out of the city and slapped Sang Weihan hard!

Sang Weihan didn't have the courage to hide such a heavy military situation, and when he trembled and reported the matter, he received a real slap from Shi Jingjiao!

He is already in the Privy Mansion and is in the same position. was slapped in public by the monarch, how can this ruler continue? At that moment, in the eyes of the surrounding onlookers, Sang Weihan even had the heart to die!

But compared to now, the moment when Sang Weihan suddenly appeared was actually nothing!

See the battle report. His hands trembled, and he knew that if he entered the palace with this battle report, he would not be greeted by just a slap in the face, but a steel knife that cut off his head!

Shi Jingjiao will kill, Shi Jingjiao will definitely kill!

Wow, Sang Weihan bit his tongue. He spat out a mouthful of blood, which stained the battle report, and then his men fainted.

The subordinates panicked, and while sending Sang Weihan back to the house, he sent the blood-stained war report into the palace.

The subordinate officer who sent the war report was grabbed by Shi Jingjiao with a golden melon. Hit the brain burst on the spot and died!

Then, a wolf's howl came from the palace!

After reaching an agreement with the Khitan Yanyun, Shi Jingjiao, whose mental state gradually improved, suddenly lost control overnight! In the palace, people die almost every hour, and there is no court meeting, and Shi Jingjiao will not go to court. But the ministers he called in to discuss the military and political affairs trembled, and many of them even smelled when they came out - they were scared to pee! There are even more people who go in and don't come out!

Luoyang was almost in chaos in one day, and due to the martial law of the forbidden army, all the chaos was suppressed before it exploded. But the calm under the coercion is not really peaceful, it is under the surface of nothingness, but it exacerbates the panic of the people of the city!

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Luoyang is like this, and Youzhou, which is closer to the front line than Luoyang, was even more shocked!

If it is said that after the accident in Yunzhou, Youzhou, a city that no longer has many people, has become outward and inward. Then after the news of Dingzhou came, it became three shocks a day!

It is impossible to hide such big news! What's more, Zhang Mai will not let Du Chongwei have the time to hide it!

After Du Chongwei got the good news of Kuaima, the news spread throughout the army!

Then, deserters appeared in Youzhou that day!

After all. In the past month, many sergeants have heard from various gossip that Tiance has achieved a great victory in Beijing!

Almost no one doubted this rumor!

The first reason is because the Khitan has been repeatedly defeated by Tiance, and it is not surprising that it will be defeated again this time.

The second reason is because the Khitan withdrew from Youzhou and retreated too panickedly, so panicked that any veteran with a little frontier experience could see that something was wrong!

The third reason is because of Du Chongwei's reaction!

When Du Chongwei learned that the victory or defeat in Shangjing had been decided and Zhang Mai was about to march eastward, he immediately arranged troops and horses to garrison Juyongguan, Gubeiguan and Shimen Town with three heavy troops, which were located in the west, north and northeast directions of Youzhou, which were to block Zhang Mai's road into Youzhou!

And the point of strict defense is obviously the threat from the north!

What is the threat from the north? In the case of the Khitan retreating, it can obviously only be Tiance - the Tiance who defeated the Khitan in Shangjing!

Troops lacking victory incentives and value support, strict military discipline can only maintain superficial stability, but cannot suppress the inner panic!

Everyone was thinking in worry, wondering when Zhang Mai would go east, and when Yang Yi would go south - because most people didn't know that Yang Yi was injured!

But what I never expected was that Xue Fu did not move in Zhongjing Road, and Zhang Mai did not lead in Ding'an County, but it was a Gao Xingzhou as a surprise soldier who attacked Dingzhou!

On the day the news spread, the entire land of Youzhou was like a drop of water dripping into a hot oil pot, and it exploded in an instant!

Dingzhou is lost!

Dingzhou is lost!

To the west, it is the invincible Zhang Mai!

To the north, is the invincible Yang Yi!

And now the enemy has gone around to the south!

The people in Luoyang are afraid that the Tiance Tang Army will go south with a force of soldiers and horses, force Yedu, cross the Yellow River, and attack Luoyang!

On the other hand, Youzhou is afraid that the Tiance Tang Army will advance eastward with soldiers and horses and cut off their retreat!

To the west is the invincible Zhang Mai, and to the north is the terrifying Yang Yi, the two sides are already desperate, if the back road in the south is cut off again, what will they do? Jumping east into the sea?

At the moment of receiving the news, even Du Chongwei had the urge to run away, not to mention the soldiers below!

Seeing his changing look, Jing Yanguang and Fu Yanqing both knew that something was wrong!

They didn't know the reality inside the Tang Army, let alone Zhang Mai's lack of food. On the spot, I thought that Zhang Mai's main attack direction had changed!

"Dashuai!" Jing Yanguang blurted out: "We must quickly send troops south, before Tiance, to keep the peaceful warehouse!" ”

Pingyoucang is the main warehouse used by Shi Jingjiao to support the northward army, which made the sky angry and resentful. Most of the grain collected from Shandong and eastern Hebei was hoarded here, some of which was transported to Gongjicang, and after the handover of Youzhou, some of it was transported north, but most of it was still there. Even if there is a canal, after all, the transfer and preservation of grain is not a simple matter, and in the case of the unstable situation in Youzhou, Du Chongwei will not be stupid enough to transport all the grain and grass to the front line.

This warehouse is not only Du Chongwei's lifeblood, but also his retreat!

"Soldier now!" Du Chongwei regained the initial panic. Said to Jing Yanguang: "You immediately ride lightly and fly in, step the crossbow waterway to the south, and then enter Pingyoucang!" Be sure to keep it! ”

Not long after Jing Yanguang came out, a mutiny occurred in a military camp at the south gate, and deserters appeared in several strongholds stationed outside the city!

After receiving the news, Fu Yanqing went out of the city overnight and saw blood. Seeing that the fugitives were killed, the panic was suppressed with a wave of blood, so that there would be no wave of deserters, but the scattered deserters still existed.

It wasn't until the news that Jing Yanguang arrived in Pingyoucang from the south that Du Chongwei and Fu Yanqing breathed a long sigh of relief, and in the next few days, with the return of news from all sides, they finally understood the men and horses and layout of Tiance Tang Army's entry into Hebei.

"It turned out to be Gao Xingzhou!"

The White Horse Silver Spear Regiment died down during the surprise attack stage, but after capturing Dingzhou, it changed its posture and became aggressive, and all the elite soldiers changed into battle robes. Three thousand white-horse cavalry showed off their might in Dingzhou, intimidating far and near. The reason why the county order of Tang County was surrendered, and the reason why the seventeen chain dock forts on the border were surrendered were all related to the momentum deliberately created by Gao Xingzhou.

However, Du Chongwei was not worried when he heard this.

They already knew that as soon as Jing Yanguang took over the Ping Youcang, he immediately surrounded the warehouse. Drive away the people, dig ditches and walls, and wait.

Ping Youcang is on the edge of the canal, and if you keep this stronghold, you can meet the soldiers and horses of Youzhou to the north, and if the Youzhou troops are not in order, you can also flee south along the canal.

"If it weren't for Gao Xingzhou, Dingzhou wouldn't have fallen so lightly!" Fu Yanqing said.

The location of Dingzhou is in the dead end between the east and west armies, but it is also the only way for Gao Xingzhou to march at the beginning.

"But it's okay, this time it's Gao Xingzhou! If he has a ruthless spirit, after taking the Gongji Cang that day, he will send a light cavalry to the east, and a fire can burn the Pingyoucang clean! ”

Du Chongwei and Fu Yanqing both knew that Gao Xingzhou was cautious and missed the best opportunity for the second surprise attack, otherwise Ping Youcang would burn down, and the morale of the army on Youzhou's side would not know what would become!

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However, Du Chongwei and Fu Yanqing's happiness did not last long, because after the other two forces entered Dingzhou, the Tiance Tang army immediately divided into two routes, one was Gao Xingzhou's White Horse Silver Spear Regiment, which attacked Zhuzhou County in Hebei to the east, and the other was led by an unknown young general to force south towards the Yellow River! There is also a group of people and horses who sit in Dingzhou and respond to two roads of soldiers and horses.

When the news came out, the entire Hebei immediately caused a second big shock!

As long as you are not blind, anyone can see that the ultimate goal of the second road must be Luoyang!

Luoyang!

Everyone immediately remembered Zhang Mai's unliterary essay:

"Shi Jingjiao, you Shatuo child, you don't deserve to have this world!"

If it's empty words, anyone can scold a few times.

But with the current military situation, it is not an empty word, but a real intention!

"Sure enough, it's meant to be in Luoyang, and it's really meant to be in the world!"

Zhang Longxiang ...... This is about to win! ”

In the seventh year of Tiance, the autumn wind began in Dingzhou.

The white horse passed, Wangdu County fell, Beiping County fell, and the whole territory of Dingzhou was returned to Tiance. On another three days, Puyin County fell, Shenze County fell, Gucheng County ordered to escape, and Qizhou returned to Tiance. On the third day, Raoyang County, Boye County, Shulu County, Anping County, and most of Shenzhou were brought under the control of the White Horse Cavalry Regiment. Gao Xingzhou led his troops to the east, and the forward approached the canal and confronted Jing Yanguang, who was defending the fortification.

At the same time, Zhe Deyan led the army south, the defenders of Zhending fled, and a group of thieves from Taihang Mountain took the city and set up the banner of Tang characters. It is known as responding to Tiance. Zhede Ran's continued southward, and in the seven counties of Zhaozhou, there were four officials who fled when they heard the news, and Pingjian and Ning Jin, who were not on the traffic arteries, were closed, and Zhede Ran's didn't care about it. Continuing to march, the Baixiang County Commander ordered to defend the city, but only 500 soldiers were collected, and Zhede blocked the four gates with cavalry, and fired rockets and inscriptions inward, only one night passed. The defenders fled through the south gate.

Zhedelan continued southward, linking the three counties, and did not encounter fierce resistance until the city of Xingzhou.

At the same time, Jizhou, which is adjacent to Zhaozhou and Xingzhou, broke out in the Maitreya uprising, and the war quickly spread throughout Jizhou, after the rebel army was revealed. They all played the banner of responding to the Tiance Tang Army. And the slogan of their uprising, in addition to the teachings of Maitreya, is even more advanced:

"Shi Jingjiao, you don't deserve to own the world!"

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In just ten days, the five states fell, the officials and soldiers fled, and thieves were rampant. The beacon fire was everywhere, the people were terrified, and in the palace of Luoyang, a dark cloud was getting lower and lower!

Coming out of the palace, Feng Dao felt like he was almost in collapse.

Sang Weihan, who left the palace at the same time as him, was no better.

They had never seen Shi Jingjiao's face look hideous like this. Although he knew that Shi Jingzhen still needed him - but this need was based on reason, and if Shi Jingzhen was no longer rational, what would he do then? My own life is also worried!

"Feng Xiang," Sang Weihan took two steps faster, turned back to Feng Dao and said, "Your Majesty's meaning just now is already very clear. The men and horses that Tiance went south, whether they were virtual soldiers or real soldiers, must be blocked, and they are not allowed to cross the Yellow River with horses! Support the food and salary of Yedu. You've got to plan well! ”

"Yedu is the heart and brain of Hebei, and there is grain in stock, but not all of them are supplied to Pingyou," Feng Dao said: "However, even if I block Tiance, I am only afraid of ......"

"Afraid of what?"

"I'm afraid that the external troubles will not be settled, and the internal troubles will rise again!"

"What do you mean?"

"What I mean, Sang Xiang should also understand it." Feng Dao said: "My lord was deceived by the Khitan, and for the sake of Yanyun, he carried out a chicken-killing and egg-taking conquest, but he offended the people of Hebei and Shandong!" The Jizhou Rebellion is not accidental! Not only Jizhou, but also Pu, Cao, and Yun Prefectures have also changed recently! The Anozawa (Liangshanbo) giant thieves gathered, and the Deng and Lai pirates were rampant, and the prefectures and counties concealed this, but we still know something. These hidden worries are like dry firewood, as long as the spark will explode! That's what worries me the most. ”

"What are you talking about now!" The corners of Sang Weihan's mouth are trembling, in fact, he is not a person who completely ignores the people's livelihood, but in the current situation, what is the use of saying this? Some things are like drinking water to quench your thirst, although you know that it is poisonous, you still have to do it when it comes.

"The most important thing now is to attack and defend!" Sang Weihan said: "Whether Yedu can hold it is related to the Yellow River. Whether the Yellow River can be held is related to Zhongzhou! If Tiance's cavalry is allowed to enter Jinai, then ...... Then this world is in danger! ”

Is this world dangerous? So it's not dangerous now?

Feng Dao didn't break these words, it was useless to say these stimulating words now! Sang Weihan didn't talk nonsense with him anymore and rushed to the Privy Council, but Feng Dao went home. On the way home, two more riots were encountered.

Tiance's cavalry is still far away on the other side of the Yellow River, but Luoyang, the once great capital, has now become crumbling from the inside out.

Everyone can't find a sense of security in this city, from Shi Jingjiao to Feng Dao, from Feng Dao to Sang Weihan.

If the Tang army really hit Luoyang City, he shouldn't be able to do anything to himself, but can he survive that time?

Thinking about this, Feng Dao thought of Fan Qian.

This kid slipped away so fast!

If he stays until now, it is difficult to say whether he will be able to leave safely.

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Fan quality envoy to Luoyang, achieved the expected results, with the Tang and Jin Dynasty situation of the evil, Qinxi side center worried that he would be affected by this, so he was recalled in advance, all the way west, into Guanzhong, Youzhou incident has been eight hundred miles Qinchuan began to ferment, as early as the first half of the year, due to the influence of social changes in Qinxi, the grassroots level of Qindong has a tendency to keep up with Qinxi, many townships are chasing the popularity, under the leadership of the squires, imitating Qinxi to elect their own correction of the imperial history - of course, on the bright side can not be called the correction of the imperial history, The elected squires borrowed an ancient phrase and called themselves spokesmen, meaning that they were speaking for the people.

The newly elected spokespersons seem to have found the legal basis for gaining power and resisting the warriors from the "benevolent government" being implemented in Qin Xi. We are becoming more and more actively involved in various social affairs below the prefectural level.

In western Qin, the intervention of the imperial history in grassroots affairs and justice was constrained and guided by the upper-level civil official system of Tiance, so the upper and lower levels were integrated, and there was no business trip. Shi Jin's upper-level civil service system cannot be connected with this grassroots system of selecting and promoting talents. The superstructure and the grassroots system are at odds.

The Shi Jin regime, which relied on force to obtain the world, had a very incompetent administrative ability in the civil and official system, and if there were powerful political figures like Feng Dao to sort out, it could also maintain the basic smoothness of government affairs, and once Feng Dao and his ilk began to slack off, they could not prevent the erosion of the local power of local power. In the face of this change, if we follow the previous practice, it is very simple. Directly send a force down to suppress it to see which gentry still dare to mess around, but now under the huge threat of the Tiance Tang army, the Shi Jin regime did not dare to do so, for fear of arousing the unease in the rear of the Western Capital (Chang'an), which led the people's rebellion, and also for creating an excuse for the intervention of the Tiance Tang army. There are some places where the prefectural order is not very effective. Endorsements even have a tendency to set aside county orders.

In this situation, although the Tiance Tang army was blocked by Liu Zhiyuan and could not advance eastward, the Jin regime established by Shi Jingjiao had increasingly lost control over the government affairs of the Guanzhong region, and now the only thing that Luoyang could do to the government affairs of Guanzhong was to collect taxes and appoint officials, but there were many county orders that could not be issued by the yamen.

Liu Zhiyuan, who presided over the military and political power in Guanzhong, was unable to reverse this deteriorating political situation, and all he could do was to firmly control the military power in his own hands as much as possible. Located on the south bank of Weishui, the western capital of Jingzhao Mansion is becoming more and more a military city, Liu Zhiyuan can not trust the expatriate military state Jiedu, all the grain reserves are included in Jingzhao Mansion, and the elite soldiers will be arranged into a huge plain fortress with the western capital as the core, while blocking the possibility of Guo Wei's eastward advance, but step by step let the western capital lose its function as an economic center.

The trade between the people and the western Qin was still going on, but most of it passed through the northern shore of Weishui, because the western capital was too closely inspected on the southern bank. Liu Zhiyuan dispatched officials and generals to set up 14 checkpoints along the Weibei trade route to collect taxes. But up to the local heroes, to the merchants, down to the peddlers, none of them are optimistic about Shi Jin, and everyone seems to be waiting for the end of Shi Jin's rule in Guanzhong. It seems that the arrival of the Tiance era is only a matter of time - this is the general trend in people's hearts.

It stands to reason that Fan Zhen is an envoy, and his actions within the Jin State must be strictly restricted all the way, but in fact, as soon as he passes through the Tong Pass, he is free in action. The official who was ordered to monitor him was Feng Daomen's subordinates, so he was not too embarrassed, Fan Zhen asked to go to Weibei after passing the Tong Pass, and the accompanying officials agreed, along the way, Fan Zhen's agriculture in Qindong has suffered quite severe damage in the past two years, but commerce is a little more prosperous than before, once the Silk Road stretching from thousands of miles away is reopened, it will continue to derive huge benefits, and the officials and generals sent by Liu Zhiyuan to Weibei are always quickly captured by the sugar-coated shells of the rich and powerful, So much so that the officials and township spokespersons that Fan Zhen saw along the way were extremely flattering after knowing his identity, and they served it with good food and drink, more than their own Lao Tzu.

"The people's hearts are like this, the country is like this, if there is enough food and salary at this time, the annexation of Guanzhong is just around the corner!" Fan Zhen secretly thought in his heart - most of the civil officials don't like to fight, but at this moment, Qin Dong's shape is beneficial to this part, so that even Fan Zhen is moved.

Of course, this is only the case in Weibei, where Liu Zhiyuan's control is still extremely tight, and he implements a fully militarized management of the entire Western Capital area south of the Wei River, making it almost impossible for ordinary people to live a normal life here, but also making the management of the Western Capital pure and effective. Guo Wei tried to infiltrate by various means countless times but without success, and built a defense line composed of countless sentry posts and dozens of large and small fortresses along the Feng River, and if the Tang army wanted to enter the south of the Wei River and the east of the Feng River, the only way was to attack!

After passing Gaoling County, he received instructions from Zhang Mai to transfer him to Yunzhou. Fan Zhen did not rush to Qinzhou after receiving instructions, as soon as he crossed the border, he immediately turned to the northwest, Yang Xin and Zhi Congshi had already led three hundred horses each to wait for him there, as soon as Fan Zhen received it, Yang and Zhi escorted him to Yunzhou. Instead of taking the Xiabeiji – the Yellow River's waterway was good for transportation, but too slow – they took advantage of their light cavalry to cross the Taonan region, cross the Yellow River into the Elechuan, and then into northern Shanxi.

Along the way, Fan Zhen learned from the mouth of the summoner that the Wenchen military generals who were ordered to go to Yunzhou this time were not only him, but a whole team including officials, households, rites, criminals, workers, etc., plus Fan Zhen's words, it was enough to constitute a normal operation of the center.

After hearing this news, Fan Zhen knew that the shape of the Yunzhou side would definitely be heavy, so Zhang Mai would make a major adjustment to the original plan.

When the three of them entered Yunzhou City, Zhang Mai had already left the city and marched eastward, and Zhang Mai left two orders: the first was for Yang Xin to be obedient, so that the two of them could lead the soldiers and horses north out of the Great Wall and go to Mandarin Duck to take over the two cavalry; The second order was given to Fan Zhen, so that he could hand over to Cao Yuanzhong and take over government affairs - from the day Fan Zhen received the order, the government affairs of Tiance Datang were temporarily divided into two parts, Ganlong and Western Regions, and the government came out of Liangzhou, called the West Hub, from the east of Shuofang, including Eilechuan and Jinbei, including Monan and all the new territories in the east in the future, and all administrative powers were included in the new east hub of Yunzhou.

Fan Zhen knew that he would be of great use if he went north, but he didn't expect that the task would be so big! To establish an administrative center for such a large area, there are naturally a lot of things involved, but Zhang Mai gave him little time, and he asked that the shelves be erected within five days to cope with the changes in the future.

As for Cao Yuanzhong, he resigned from his administrative position, and the two were busy with the handover for five days, and finally everything was done, and Cao Yuanzhong and Fan Zhen took the ministers and rushed to the army to listen to the order.

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The two of them hurried to Ding'an County, where Zhang Mai was located, and only then did they enter the big tent, and when they heard Zhang Mai, they laughed and said: "Yuan Zhong! Yuan Zhong! Yes! Wen Su, you're here too! Haha, come on! Good news! Gao Xingzhou lived up to my expectations, the mutual aid warehouse has been obtained, and with the military grain officer, there are still 460,000 stones of grain in stock. ”

Cao Yuanzhong was in charge of the spy system within the scope of Dongshu, and he naturally knew better than others about the recent situation in Hebei, and as soon as he heard the news, he said with a smile on his face: "Congratulations to the marshal!" Congratulations Marshal! As soon as the mutual aid warehouse is obtained, Hebei will get half of it! ”

Fan Zhen also has a general understanding of the situation in Hebei in the past few days, and said: "The sergeant has a daily eclipse of three liters, mixed with a small amount of meat, and two liters is enough. 460,000 stone is enough for half a year's worth of 100,000 troops! ”

Zhang Mai smiled and said, "With food in hand, my heart is settled." With this grain alone, there is still no confidence in fighting a big war against the country, but a local war that can be resolved in a few months is enough. ”

Cao Yuanzhong said: "Gao Xingzhou, Zhe Deyan, Yang Guangyuan, the combat team plus the logistics guys, there are about 30,000 people. After they left the country, the pressure on the Yunzhou side was reduced a lot, but the marshal asked Xue Fuyun to send out more than 9,000 elite cavalry, and now he is in Baishuibo. ”

Zhang Mai said: "Whether it is a siege under the city, or a field battle between the two armies, when it comes to that part, it always kills 1,000 enemies and loses 800 yourself." Hebei is not Shangjing, and I don't want to make this land into erosion. ”

"Then the marshal is trying to ......"

Zhang Mai said: "Lead not, deterrence wins!" The so-called propagation of Confucian scholars is mostly exaggerated. But today, I think Hebei has this possibility, Yuan Zhong, Wen Su, what do you think? ”