Sure enough, as Zhao Huan expected, after knowing Yao Duanlongkou's victory, Zhang Jun was resentful, and as soon as Yichuan fought, he felt that his subordinates had won a lot of money, and he didn't feel good in his heart. However, let him take more than 20,000 of his subordinates and desperately rush to the city of Chang'an to fight head-on with tens of thousands of elite Jin Guotie horses, but he didn't have the guts.

So despite the jealousy in his heart, Zhang Jun still subordinates and slowly advanced. Yao Duan and the others took the initiative to invite the enemy army, and they couldn't meet him for a while, but they just gave him an excuse to march slowly.

As for serving the country loyally, he asked himself that he didn't want to be a traitor, but he didn't want to give up his life in vain. Anyway, according to what he thought, the emperor was probably already in the wind, and fled to Sichuan, there was no danger, and Chang'an City was originally Jingzhao Mansion, the name is magnificent, in fact, the scale of the city is very small, not to mention compared with Tokyo Kaifeng, even the ordinary inland capital city is far inferior, but it is an imperial city in the Tang Dynasty. In this case, it must not be able to hold on, the Jin soldiers got the city, and they must go to chase the fleeing emperor, his subordinates are all infantry, and they can't arrive in a hurry, and they may also be ambushed when they arrive, so it's better to go slowly, go to Chang'an to clean up the mess, and then act according to the situation, or go to the Sichuan to rescue, and act with other soldiers and horses, or Tongguan is lost, when the Song soldiers are defeated, they have to rely on his 30,000 elite soldiers to resist, and at that time, his position as the head of Zhang will definitely rise, and he will be able to hold the festival and seal the duke, just around the corner.

With such a thought, Zhang Jun's department slowly returned from Duyan Road, and from the time he got the news, he walked straight for five or six days before he got out of the Langyan boundary, a few days away from Chang'an. But when he heard of the great victory in Chang'an, the emperor not only did not flee, but wore armor and went to the city in person, and used Yu Yunwen, a young genius, to rush across the unprepared Jin soldiers with cavalry, not only defending the city. He also broke the enemy under the city.

In this way, Zhang Jun raised his spirit, while urging his subordinates to rush to Chang'an desperately, and on the other hand, he passed on Yao Duan and ordered him to catch up quickly.

Unexpectedly, Yao Duan and Zhang Xian did not obey orders, and after hearing about the great victory in Chang'an and the defeat of the enemy soldiers, the two of them were in the army and knew that there were too few troops stationed in Chang'an. The cavalry was not at all on a scale, even if the enemy was defeated. did not hurt the muscles and bones, so he temporarily changed the route, did not go to Chang'an, but turned to Delongkou.

More than 2,000 cavalry cooperated with infantry crossbowmen, and the enemy's ground cavalry lost a lot of horses. More than 10,000 people who were temporarily gathered, belonging to 50,000 households, were chaotic, not subordinate to each other, and the battle under the city was very deep with each other, and the Han army fled the earliest, and the strength was the least lost. And Han Chang was unwilling to contribute sincerely because of the fact that he was leaving to deal with himself, and several 10,000 households asked Huang Xin to bind the team and protect the fleeing soldiers along the way. Han Chang ignored all of them, just thinking about escaping back as soon as possible and saying goodbye when he saw Zong Bi.

In this way, the newly defeated generals of the army deviated from morality, and weakened the combat power, and when more than 10,000 elite Song troops came out in front of him, he was the most stupid general of the Jin State, and he also knew that this battle would be defeated first if he didn't fight.

It's just that the other party chokes his throat, and he has to fight if he doesn't fight. At that moment, more than 10,000 cavalry huraled forward, thinking of disrupting the opponent's infantry formation and killing a bloody road. Who would have thought that this Song army was extremely strong, not only built a defensive line to defend, but the cavalry rushed up first, headed by a black-faced man, the iron whip in his hand flew, a whip down, the head of a golden soldier was smashed and fell off the horse, and the rest of the cavalry followed, like a sharp iron spear, straight into the Jin soldier array, left and right, the Jin cavalry suddenly took the name of the elite, but it was suffering from the chaos, and there was no general command, although the number was several times that of the other party, but it seemed that it had been with fewer enemies and more, Only rely on the individual combat strength of the cavalry to deal with the opponent.

When the enemy caught up with the infantry formation, the spear and big knife beckoned together, and the Jin soldiers were immediately defeated, and fled along the river in a panic, and even Saba's back was hit by an arrow.

When these cavalry fled, to reluctantly cross the river elsewhere, the foot soldiers who followed were not so lucky, Yao Duan's troops must win every battle, morale was extremely high, blocking the fleeing Jin soldiers, killing and slashing, even the battle and victory, poor that Jin soldiers fled in a hurry, there are many people who do not even have weapons in their hands, how to fight with the wolf-like Song army with high morale, scattered and fled at the moment, and was personally led by Yao Duan to lead the cavalry back and forth to kill, ambush the corpse for dozens of miles, beheaded more than 10,000, it is really a fiasco that the Jin State has never had since the founding of the country.

This big victory was much more difficult than defeating tens of thousands of miscellaneous soldiers in Wang Bolongdi in Yichuan, and it made Zhang Jun's eyes red and resentful. He knew that Yao Duan had sent someone to Chang'an to deliver the letter, and he couldn't hide it, so he hurriedly repaired the book and played it, in addition to excusing himself for being too late to rescue Chang'an, he also faintly said that Yao Duan and others acted as if they were in command.

Anyway, as the main general, he has made such a great achievement, so naturally he must not be credited.

After receiving a reply from Chang'an, although he did not praise him as he wished, he did not reprimand him for his slow action, and at the same time, the emperor and the privy council ordered him to go to Hedong to cooperate with Yao Duan, pursue the remnants of the enemy, and attack Taiyuan. Zhang Jun thought about it carefully, the main forces of the Jin State gathered in the Tongguan area, the Hedong garrison defeated Yichuan first, defeated Chang'an City twice, defeated Longkou Ferry three times, and the entire territory of Hedong

There was no fishing, and when he arrived in Hedong, the first contribution to recovering Taiyuan was not allowed to be obtained by others.

So he ordered Yao Duan and others to attack along the Fen River to attack Pingyang and other places, but he crossed directly from Longkou, but he also fought a few battles with all his strength, and the garrison of the east of the Jin Hedong that was finally gathered was defeated for thousands of miles. However, after half a month's effort, even under Yi, Fen, Ci, Shi, and Lushuzhou, the soldiers were straight to Taiyuan.

At the same time, the battle of Yao Duan and others was not smooth, the enemy's main force of nearly 20,000 remnants was almost all gathered near Pingyang, although there were successive defeats, in the end it was the elite of the Jin State, and the number was superior, and the two sides fought a few battles, although the Jin soldiers still suffered losses, the position was stable, and they were not defeated again.

When Zhang Jun heard the letter, he urged his subordinates to attack fiercely, and it was necessary to attack Taiyuan first and win the first credit.

This day to attack the Pingjin, Taiyuan is already a stone's throw away, the city stops Zhang Zhongfu, Zhang Zhongyan brothers, with thousands of Han soldiers stationed, although Taiyuan is high and dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, the two Zhang brothers are the Song Dynasty generals, their father is defending Taiyuan when he died in battle, Zhang Jun knows that the other party may not be sincere surrender, but it is to see that the Jin people are difficult to control, the Song Dynasty has the image of the country, this is regardless of the father's enemy surrender, so he is not in a hurry to attack again, just send a detailed work, secretly into Taiyuan, hold their own letters, persuade the two brothers to surrender, If the two brothers surrendered, they would no longer have to bother to attack the city, and Taiyuan would be at their fingertips.

With this thought, coupled with continuous warfare, the troops are also very poor, Zhang Jun ordered the army to rest in Pingjin, and in the evening, he got Yao Duan's military report, more than 5,000 defenders of Chang'an, under the leadership of Kang Chengi to support Yao Duan, the combined army of 15,000 people, the Jin soldiers have been unable to support, Yao Duan and Zhang Jun discussed, if Taiyuan is not easy to capture, it is better for the two of them to join forces together, defeat and surround this part of the Jin soldiers, then not only can get Hedong, but also can send a large number of Jin soldiers to the living force, than a simple siege of the city, more cost-effective.

"Idiot, just stop me from making meritorious contributions!"

In front of the messenger, Zhang Jun did not say anything, only deduced that the army was tired and needed to rest for a few days. When the messenger went out, his face changed color and he threw Yao Duan's paperwork to the ground.

There were originally a lot of literati staff around him, after the emperor reformed the military system, it was inconvenient to retain, so he had to order a few attentive to transfer to the military, still waiting in the tent, and the rest had to be dismissed.

Zhang Jun was still crooked on the couch, listening to everyone with his eyes closed, and hearing them scolding was unbearable, but he only felt shameless in his heart, so he tilted his head and waved his hand, and said with a smile: "It's okay, people are of the same mind, no wonder he is." ”

Although Zhang Jun has won many battles, he doesn't know what to do in his heart, he is just depressed. At this time, I saw Yao Duan's paperwork, and I knew the end. He already knew in his heart that this general under his command would never be able to live under him again after several battles. And the orders of the emperor and the cardinal government also treated Yao Duan and Zhang Jun the same, and in terms of war arrangements, sometimes Yao Duan was the main one, although his soldiers and horses surpassed Yao Duan, they were actually the opponent's deputies.

At this time, it is late autumn, seeing that the winter solstice is not far away, Hedong is Shanxi in the future, the weather is cold very early, ten days ago, Daizhou and other places have drifted through light snow, near Taiyuan Mansion, it is already the trees withering, the cold air hits people, it is already extremely cold weather.

In Zhang Jun's tent, put a few copper basins, put charcoal, the flames spewed, the heat dispersed, although the cold wind outside the cowhide tent beats, the big tent blows the ground crackling, but the tent is warm like spring, not feeling the chill at all.

Zhang Jun is in the prime of life, but he is very happy, in addition to the brazier, he ordered someone to place a fox skin on his sleeping couch, lying on it soft and warm, the gold cup in his hand does not stop, after a while, he is already slightly drunk.

He put aside Yao Duan's matter, asked some military affairs in his battalion, saw a few generals, and saw that it was getting late, so he was about to rest, but suddenly remembered something, so he asked a staff officer surnamed Luo: "How is the situation over there in Tongguan?" Wanyan Zongbi is not useless, this time the war is under his overall responsibility, Chang'an is defeated, Hedong is defeated again, and he has nothing at all? ”

The staff officer replied with a smile: "That Zong Bi also has no way, the news of the defeat of Chang'an passed over, Zong Bi jumped like thunder, and immediately ordered people to beat a few times, but Tongguan Valley Road is thousands of miles, we have many volleys along the way, the Jin soldiers are not good at attacking the city, morale is depressed, at this time, I heard that the strange soldiers failed, and the morale of the army was even more sluggish. In addition, the weather is gradually getting colder, the enemy is hundreds of thousands, people eat horses and chew is even more unbearable, I heard that the upper echelons of the Jin country are also noisy, Zong Han wants to withdraw the army, Zong Fu and others said to fight again, Zong Bi heard that the war in Hedong broke out again, and it was even more chaotic, Tongguan not only was not dangerous, but I was afraid that the Jin people would be a little careless, and they would have to lose again. ”

"Hmm." Zhang Jun snorted from his nose, not as happy as the staff officer imagined, but only agreed, indicating that he knew.