After the recruitment of soldiers and horses was completed, Han Jian finally led the troops on the way north. This time, Han Jian went on the expedition, but he was still not alone, and there was still Fa Yi among the female dependents around him. As the main person in charge of the dispatch of grain and grass for the Chinese army, Song Suqing will also go with him, but Song Suqing's tasks are similar to those that Lin Xiaoshu was responsible for before, they are all responsible for escorting and supervising the grain and grass, and they can't stay by Han Jianjian all the time.

On March 16, the soldiers and horses crossed the Yellow River, at this time the war in the north had begun for nearly 20 days, and there were reports of the movements of the Xianbei people everywhere in the north, and the direction of the main force of the Xianbei people's Chinese army was a mystery, because the scattered and disorderly attack methods of the Xianbei people also put great pressure on the defense of Lin Zhan's troops in the north. Lin Zhan came to report to Han Jian several times urgently, there are several defense lines in Beiguan that are quite weak, and the Xianbei people mainly attack with these weak defense lines, and in the past 20 days, there are several key passes in the northern border pass that have been breached, all of which are in the desperate resistance of the cavalry trained by Lin Zhan himself to turn the tide, and the Xianbei people have not taken advantage of the weakness.

At the same time, the Xianbei people's strategy in the old land of Xiliang has also reached a severe period, after the Xianbei people swept the city of the old land of Xiliang, the first time to choose soldiers and horses to press the pass, Han Cui's and Han Zhaoshi to the west capital and Chang'an as the key pass, ready to defend the city to deal with the Xianbei people to the end.

On March 17, the day after Han Jiansuo led 10,000 soldiers and horses to cross the Yellow River, he was harassed by a small group of Xianbei cavalry. The cavalry of the Xianbei people sent a small force of cavalry to harass the hinterland of the Central Plains from the very beginning, and when they learned that Han Jian was "personally driving", the Xianbei people began to attack Han Jian's Chinese soldiers and horses from the Yellow River generation. Coupled with the local people who had colluded with Lin Ke, Han Jian found that it was not easy to enter the army under Beiguan. It was also at this time that Han Jian chose to temporarily camp more than 400 miles south of Beichuan City, giving people the posture that he wanted to choose to enter Beichuan to rest.

On March 19, the day after Han Jian was stationed, Han Jian received more battle reports from everywhere. Luoyang City was calm in the two days after he left. However, there was a movement in the Southern Dynasty, and the empress Xiao Zhan of the Southern Dynasty chose to seize power from the authoritarian ministers under her in the way of establishing a prime minister after a period of silence. Judging from the information obtained by Han Jian, Xiao Zhan's two preferred candidates for prime minister are Sima Yi. A few days ago, Han Jian had just received a letter from Sima Yi, saying that he was going to Fujian and Zhejiang to deal with military affairs and would not help collect intelligence in Jinling for a while. Although Sima Yi didn't want to admit that he was a "fine worker", he was still collecting intelligence for Han Jian and the Eastern Prince's Mansion, intentionally or unintentionally. As long as he exchanged letters, Han Jian could learn too much about the south. Now Xiao Zhan is grateful for Sima Cheng's exploits in rescuing her back to Jinling, and also realizes that Sima Cheng is being abandoned by the system of Xiao Ling, the king of Hui, so he began to take the initiative to win over Sima Cheng to do things for her. It is equivalent to having the help of the Northern Korean forces behind him, and Xiao Zhan also took the initiative to pass on the news of the collection of Sima Yi to Han Jian through "inadvertently", which is also hinting that Han Jian has a tendency to show goodwill. At this point, even Han Jian admired Xiao Zhan a little bit, this woman, just ascended to the throne, and the wisdom she showed was impressive, not at all like a novice in the power field.

On March 20, Han Jian led his army to continue north. This time, Han Jian used two ways to divide the soldiers. The cavalry, as the main force of the assault and attack, was placed in the rear position by Han Jian. Han Jian personally led the main men of the infantry to approach Beichuan City. After the overthrow of the Beiwang Mansion, Han Jian, as the head of the Dongwang Mansion, only crossed the Yellow River north once, and this was the only time, and it was also a battle in which he exchanged defense areas with Lin Zhan and let Lin Zhan's elite soldiers sweep Tongguan. At that time, Han Jian did not inspect Beichuan City, a capital city that had stood in the north for a hundred years.

This time, the news that Han Jian was going to Beichuan came out, and the defenders in Beichuan City took the initiative to send people out of the city to greet him. It is also to clear the way for Han Jian to go north. When Xianbei's small group of harassing cavalry learned about it, they didn't dare to harass it easily.

By March 24, after nine days of dispatching troops, Han Jian finally arrived at the foot of Beichuan City. No one expected that Han Jian's road to the north would be so "embarrassing", and he drove the expedition in person. But it is like a group of remnants of the defeated army has no deterrent effect, even a small group of Xianbei cavalry and local rebel soldiers and horses dare to harass, but the soldiers and horses led by Han Jian have no way to deal with it, and to the vicinity of Beichuan City, it is necessary to rely on the assistance of the Beichuan defenders to reach Beichuan City smoothly.

Han Jian was stationed in Beichuan for a while and had no intention of continuing to go north, because at this time, the 50,000 soldiers and horses requisitioned from Jiangdu had already moved closer to Beichuan in two ways. Coupled with the 10,000 soldiers and horses of the Luoyang system originally led by Han Jian, once the two armies converge, Han Jian will have 60,000 soldiers and horses. Even the Xianbei people felt that it was probably because Han Jian thought that what he led was a group of "wine bags and rice bags" that could not be of great use, so Han Jian had to rely on the system of Jiangdu's soldiers and horses to continue his plan of imperial conquest. But the Xianbei people also felt that the 50,000 Jiangdu soldiers and horses newly dispatched did not seem to have much combat effectiveness, and this group of soldiers and horses participated in the battle with Luoyang, but that was two years ago, and these two years this group of soldiers were just ordinary civilians, and now even if they pick up weapons, it is impossible to compare with the 50,000 elite soldiers in the north led by Lin Zhan. Even Su Tingxia's more than 10,000 horses and horses had a combat strength above the 60,000 soldiers and horses led by Han Jian.

On 25 March, Han Jian hosted a banquet for local civil officials and gentry in Beichuan City, and more than 300 people attended the meeting that night, a large number of whom were the backbone of the Beiwangfu system. In the two years that Lin Zhan ruled the north with the army, these people were very suppressed, and many of them were even confiscated from their family property, and it was not until Lin Ke went north to coordinate the rebellion of local Bohai immigrants that the former industry of these people was restored. Lin Ke bought people's hearts in the north through his own way, which Han Jian did not want to see, the first thing Han Jian did when he went to the north was to declare that he was the lord of the north in this way, and what Lin Ke could promise to these people, he could give double.

After receiving Han Jian's banquet and face-to-face promises, the northern gentry all had a wait-and-see attitude towards the imperial court, and the northern gentry could see that the throne of Han Jian, the emperor, was very unstable. Han Jian drank "drunk" at the banquet, and even lost some temper after being drunk, which really made the northern gentry despise. That night, Han Jian lived in the largest mansion in the city, which was also in the former Beiwang Mansion, and there were rumors outside that Han Jian even "lingered" in the Beiwang Mansion, and the following officials sent a dancing girl to Han Jian, the emperor, that night. There were more than a dozen people as soon as it was delivered.

By the next day, Han Jian simply did not appear in the city again, and the northern gentry were still waiting for the symbolic "tribute" to the new emperor after the banquet, and no one thought that Han Jian's arrival would bring them any benefits. There were also civil officials who wanted to go in to pay homage to the new emperor and take the opportunity to flatter, but they were also told that Han Jian was a little too drunk last night and hadn't woken up yet. Others only regarded Han Jian as greedy and refused to come out of the Beiwang Mansion.

Until March 28. Han Jian was still nested in the Beiwang Mansion, as if he was missing, if it weren't for the fact that the people in the city knew very well that the more than 10,000 people and horses led by Han Jian had not been moved, and there were no soldiers and horses around Beichuan City, the doubts in his heart would be dispelled. However, Han Jian's "drunkenness" became more and more strange, if he deliberately concealed it and wanted to hide in the Beiwang Mansion was actually for another purpose, others would not be able to guess it at all. After all, the 50,000 soldiers and horses requisitioned by the Northern Wangfu from Jiangdu have not yet crossed the Yellow River, so at a time of national disaster. Han Jian led his troops to engage the Xianbei people head-on, even if he deliberately hid, or suddenly came out of nowhere, what impact would it have on the Xianbei cavalry outside Beiguan?

At the beginning, neither the generals of Beiguan nor the people in the Luoyang court cared about Han Jian's garrison in Beichuan. Even when he learned that Han Jian was drunk, he had been in the Beiwang Mansion all the time. Except for the generals and civil officials of the garrison of Beichuan City, they would go to ask a little, and others should not have happened to this at all. But after March. On the second day of the first month of April, the northern border pass was in an emergency again, and the Xianbei people led 3,000 horsemen from the left Khan to successfully knock the pass south, and set a fire in Pingnan, a grain and grass town under Lin Zhan's department, and the whole north fell to the point of imminent collapse. It turned out that Emperor Han Jian was also in the north, but he seemed to have disappeared in Beichuan City.

The north is in an emergency, and the most anxious thing is not the defenders of Beiguan, the Beiguan fortress is blooming at various points, and no one has the heart to ask more about where there are Xianbei people. At this time, the most anxious was the imperial court in Luoyang. Han Jian's newly established Wu Shogunate was in charge of the northern military, but after Han Jian left, all the military orders of the Wu Shogunate would not pass through the imperial court, but the ministers of the imperial court were very worried about the situation in Luoyang and their own safety. It's a pity that Yang Rui has abdicated the throne at this time, and Han Song, who was once at the helm of the Dongwang Mansion, can't ask about the military, Han Jian is even more unintentional in Beichuan City, no one is in charge of the official gentry in Luoyang, these official gentry can only go to Ning Yuan to talk about it, but Ning Yuan doesn't know Han Jian's plan at all. When the court ascended up and down, there seemed to be no one in charge, and some people even began to agitate for the restoration of Yang Rui to come out and regain the throne to stabilize Chaogang, but before anyone could pick up the trouble and make trouble, there was news in the southern city of Yuzhou that a large number of people from the East Wangfu were fighting with the soldiers and horses of Yuzhou.

The world was in an uproar.

The war in the north has reached a moment that is related to the life and death of the Central Plains, and it should be the time for the soldiers and civilians in the north to fight bloodily against the Xianbei barbarians, and all personal grievances should be slowly calculated after the war. But at this time, the imperial court ...... Or the East Palace, which actually started a frontal war with Yuzhou. At the beginning, some people speculated that Yuzhou might have taken the initiative to provoke trouble and try to fish in troubled waters when the imperial court had no time to draw troops and horses to Yuzhou, but when Han Jian's Chinese army flag appeared in Yuzhou, no one suspected that Han Jian personally went south to provoke the war. The rumors that Han Jian was sick in Beichuan were self-defeating, and Han Jian did not appear on the battlefield in Yuzhou in person.

The number of soldiers and horses recruited by Dongwangfu to attack Yuzhou is unknown, but the number of soldiers and horses in Yuzhou is more than 100,000, and the land of Yuzhou is the most difficult bone to gnaw in the north, and outsiders speculate that the soldiers and horses recruited by Han Jian to attack Yuzhou are also more than 100,000. At this time, the whereabouts of the 50,000 soldiers and horses that have been "on the road" have finally come to light, it turns out that Han Jian has not prepared to fight head-on with the Xianbei people since the beginning of the recruitment of this group of men and horses, Han Jian has been under the guise of the imperial driving and personal expedition from the beginning, in fact, he wants to pacify Yuzhou first. It is really unknown how Han Jian's self-confidence came from to dare to start a civil war with Yuzhou when the foreign invasion was unknown, just when the north was in chaos, the war in Yuzhou was surprisingly smooth, and although the people of Zhennan Hou Huang Shilang were brave, they could not withstand the great deterrence brought by Han Jian's personal expedition.

On the ninth day of the first month of April, less than ten days after the war began, cities in various parts of Yuzhou surrendered one after another. The men and horses of the East Prince's Mansion, Chen Bing arrived at the city of Yuzhou, and Huang Shilang left his remaining 30,000 horses in the city of Yuzhou, ready to make a final deal with the soldiers and horses personally recruited by Han Jian.

At this time, in the north, the movement of another group of people once again affected the hearts of the entire Central Plains. After the 3,000 soldiers and horses of the Xianbei Left Khan King burned Lin Zhan's grain and grass, they did not immediately retreat from two ways to attack Lin Zhan's defenders in Beiguan, but he took the advance regardless of the back road, and the direction of the army happened to be in the "Beichuan City" where Han Jian was missing. The world has already learned that Han Jian personally led the troops to fight Yuzhou, which also ignores the iron cavalry of the Xianbei people, and the iron cavalry of the Xianbei people is even more arrogant, how can they tolerate being so despised? They simply wanted to show their bravery to the new emperor of the Central Plains, and prepared to knock on Beichuan City with three thousand iron horses. In the eyes of outsiders, this is also difficult to climb to the sky, because everyone knows that the iron cavalry of the Xianbei Left Khan King is brave, but after all, they do not have the burden of attacking the city.

The Xianbei people have been fighting with the Central Plains all the year round, and it is impossible not to know that the Central Plains is relying on the high city and the deep river to block the Xianbei iron cavalry, but the Khan King of the Left still made such a bold plan to march into Beichuan. It is because the Xianbei people believe that now because Han Jian gave up the northern strategy and went to Yuzhou, he was determined to give up the north and was ready to row the Yellow River with the Xianbei people. At this time, the soldiers and horses in the north of the Yellow River have long lost the heart to fight, so under the collapse of the army's heart, where the Xianbei iron cavalry goes, is it not invincible, and the place where the victory of the first battle has passed, there is no city and no city? For this reason, the Xianbei people specially sent a letter to the defenders in Beichuan City in advance, promising them that as long as the city is opened, then everything will be "not to blame", and the officials and generals will continue to be used by the Xianbei people to pass through the place, and the Xianbei people will not commit any crimes against the soldiers and civilians in the city.

The Xianbei people felt that this battle was nine out of ten, as long as the soldiers and horses of the left Khan King arrived in Beichuan, the northern defense line would collapse in an instant, and no one could stop the Xianbei people from occupying the area north of the Yellow River. When the soldiers and horses of the king of the left Khan really arrived at the city of Beichuan, they saw that a white flag had been erected on the head of the city, and the city gate was opened, as expected by the Xianbei people.

Just in Xianbei, the three thousand iron rode across the moat of Beichuan City. The white flag on the tower of the city was suddenly withdrawn, but it was replaced by soldiers and horses ready to go. Han Jian, who thought that he was fighting with the soldiers and horses of Nanwangfu in Yuzhou, appeared in the city. (To be continued......)