Seeing this, the forbidden army under the mountain was suddenly speechless, and the body that was already buried at the bottom fell down a little, almost digging a hole and going down.

Zheng Rong was extremely happy here, and said loudly to the marksman: "Good archery!" Loneliness is rewarded! He shouted again at the bottom of the mountain, "Qian Qing! You must have seen Lonely's ability! If you don't come to your senses, your fate will be the same! ”

After Zheng Rong finished speaking, he didn't wait for Qian Qing to reply, turned around and went up the mountain again surrounded by countless guards and honor guards.

Qian Qing, who originally wanted to capture Zheng Rong, the leader of the Youyan Army, in one fell swoop, but now he was surrounded by opponents. Even if the other side did not immediately launch an attack under such advantageous conditions, the military rations and water they carried were very scarce, and they could only hold out for two or three days. He also knew very well the strength of Youyan's army, and if he reluctantly urged the army to break through, he would inevitably bring about his own destruction.

Therefore, Qian Qing had no choice but to pin his hope of survival on the reinforcements, only hoping that the reinforcements could come quickly, and he would fight with him inside and out, and he did not expect to be able to defeat the Youyan army, as long as he could save himself from the encirclement, it would be a great luck. As for how Emperor Zheng Yao sent him to this defeat, it is really a very unimportant matter.

Zheng Rong was also waiting for the arrival of imperial reinforcements, so he clearly saw the herald cavalry sent by Qian Qing on the mountain, but strictly ordered his subordinates not to pursue and let them leave to report the news.

After receiving the order of the commander Qian Qing, he immediately ordered all the men and horses, and dragged mud and water all the way to Funiu Mountain. Not long after the imperial reinforcements left, they encountered the resistance of Youyan's army.

It's not surprising that you're going to help your allies, and the enemy will stop you.

However, the Youyan army envoy was a plan to encircle the point and send reinforcements, on the one hand, the elite cavalry led by Qian Qingqin was disabled and trampled under his feet, and on the other hand, he was ready to attack at any time with his free hands. Therefore, Zheng Rong only left a small force on the mountain to monitor Qian Qing's every move, but secretly he had already withdrawn the army, and he was about to eat the imperial court officers and soldiers who hurried to rescue the commander when he opened his mouth.

However, the reinforcements who arrived in a hurry did not see through Zheng Rong's method, and they had just broken through the obstacles in front of them with full morale, but they were attacked at the same time behind them and on their flanks. The Youyan interception troops, which had been slightly loosened in front, also came back to their senses, reorganized themselves and turned defense into attack, and launched an attack on the official army.

So after such a big battle, most of the imperial reinforcements had been lost, and the plan to rescue the commander of course failed, so he had to find a vacancy to break through, and since then he has held the fortress and never dared to leave easily.

The news of the rescue failure soon reached the ears of Qian Qing, who was surrounded by heavy surrounders.

This is not the negligence of the Youyan Army's defense, but Zheng Rong's intention to demolish Qian Qing's morale and deliberately put the soldiers who reported the news from the imperial court in.

After Qian Qing learned the news, he was disheartened, and the only remaining hope was lost. So that night, he took advantage of the night to select more than 200 people who could still fight, had a full meal, and did not break through the roads at both ends of the canyon, but climbed over the high mountains on both sides, wanting to break out of the encirclement by surprise.

Zheng Rong originally wanted to besiege Qian Qing for a few more days, so that he could use him as bait to eliminate a few more imperial reinforcements who rushed to the rescue. But he didn't expect that Qian Qing's backwater battle would actually achieve miraculous results, and he really escaped from the encirclement that had gradually become weak, and fled all the way to the west.

After Zheng Rong learned the news, he was furious, and after punishing the general in charge, he waved his army to follow and pursue. However, it was thousands of times more difficult to command two hundred elite soldiers and organize an army of a hundred times that number, and Youyan's army hurried behind Qian Qing, but he still fled back to Tongguan.

Tongguan is the barrier of the capital Luoyang, not fully prepared, even the army as strong as Youyan did not dare to attack easily, Zheng Rong had to look at Guan Xing and sigh, and then the squad returned to the camp.

However, after this war, more than 100,000 elite forbidden troops of the imperial court were trapped in Henan, east of Tongguan. Of course, Emperor Zheng Yao was unwilling to give up this only force that could be relied on, but he could no longer send generals to dispatch them in a unified manner.

So Zheng Yao was furious, and personally drafted a holy decree to correct Qian Qing, who was hiding in Tongguan in shock. Poor Qian Qing didn't want to lead troops on the front line, and finally escaped back to from the heavy encirclement of Youyan's army, and after all, it was inevitable that people's heads would fall to the ground.

Among the four generals before and after the forbidden army, the most talented Dai Luanxiang was inexplicably robbed by the "bandits on the Stone Forest Mountain" on the way back to Beijing, and his whereabouts are unknown; Qian Qing, whose talent was second only to him, was defeated and killed; The right general Sun Hu has always been sick, and since this year, he has contracted an eye disease and is overwhelmed; Only the later general Bai Wenbo remained, who became the only choice for Emperor Zheng Yao at the moment.

The latter generals had the smallest military power among the four generals of the forbidden army, and they were often used to accommodate those veterans who had outstanding military achievements but were old and old. This is also the case with Bai Wenbo, he is already in his late teens this year, and it has been eight or nine years since he was disarmed and returned to the field, and it is really that the imperial court has reached a situation where he is invincible, otherwise he will not be invited out of the mountain if he says anything.

However, although Bai Wenbo is old, his mind is still clear, and before he set out for the expedition, he had to have a face-to-face interview with Emperor Zheng Yao.

Zheng Yao was pinning all his hopes for pacifying the Youyan rebels on this veteran general who could be his grandfather, and when he heard this old general's request, he hurriedly ordered the eunuchs in the palace to set up a banquet, so he chose to personally feast Bai Wenbo in the imperial garden.

Since the founding of the Han Dynasty, there has always been a tradition of emphasizing literature over military force, and the status of military generals has never been high. Even a veteran like Bai Wenbo, who has made outstanding achievements, has never eaten with the emperor except for the usual Luming banquet when he was the champion of Zhongwu fifty years ago. Moreover, it was the emperor who gave a banquet alone, and this favor was probably unique since the founding of the Han Dynasty, and Bai Wenbo couldn't help but be sincerely moved.

So Bai Wenbo showed his loyalty in front of Emperor Zheng Yao, and would rather give up this old bone than to ensure the stability of the Han Dynasty.

Zheng Yao was also moved, so he asked: When the old general went out on the expedition, what other requirements did he have, although he put it forward in person.

Bai Wenbo met the emperor, what he wanted to talk about was this matter, and when he heard the emperor ask like this, he pushed the boat down the river and put forward four requirements: first, the current Youyan army is strong in combat and has strong morale, so it can only defend first and then attack, and cannot take the enemy lightly; Second, the land of Henan has actually fallen, and the division of troops to guard it is just a waste of military strength, and it is necessary to immediately withdraw all the forbidden troops that refuse to accept all the dangerous places in Henan to Tongguan to recuperate and recuperate, so as to fight again; The third is to mobilize the elite troops of the whole country, on the one hand, to stabilize the Lingnan King Zhenggui and not let him rebel again, on the other hand, to launch an attack from Shandong Province to Henan to contain the Youyan forces; Fourth, the important matters and powers are unified, not only the Tongguan Forbidden Army and the Shandong Qinwang Army must be under the control of Bai Wenbo, but also the eunuchs of the supervising army must be withdrawn, and they must not be hindered.

Zheng Yao listened to the request of the veteran Bai Wenbo, chewed and considered it word by word, and finally agreed to it all in person, especially the withdrawal of the eunuchs from the prison army, which reflected Emperor Zheng Yao's trust in Bai Wenbo.

Bai Wenbo didn't expect the emperor to agree to everything, and he was already overjoyed to be able to promise so much, so he hurriedly kowtowed and thanked him, and after eating the imperial meal with trepidation, he ordered all the people in his headquarters that day and went west to Tongguan.

As soon as Bai Wenbo arrived at Tongguan, according to his own plan, he sent countless herald light cavalry to order the officers and soldiers who were still in Henan, ordering them to withdraw to Tongguan immediately, and there should be no mistake.

The officers and men from all over the country did not want to stay in Henan for a long time, and now they received orders from above, packed up their camp tents, abandoned the heavy baggage that was inconvenient to carry, and retreated in the direction of Tongguan as soon as the smoke slipped.

Zheng Rong, the king of Youyan, knew that Emperor Zheng Rong had sent Bai Wenbo to replace Qian Qing's military justice department, but he did not expect that this old general would act so vigorously. When he found that the officers and soldiers who were waiting to be broken by him had been ordered to withdraw to Tongguan, he hurriedly organized men and horses to chase and intercept them, but only stopped a very small part.

As a result, only 20,000 of the 100,000 forbidden troops who remained in Henan Province were captured and eliminated by the Youyan army, and the other more than 100,000 people all returned to through Tongguan. As a result, although the vitality of the imperial court was greatly damaged, it still had the strength to fight, and the victory or defeat was still between the two and the middle.

After this toss, it is late autumn, and the cold wind blowing from the northern grasslands is better than one day. Even the Youyan army, which has been sticking to the bitter cold land of Saibei for a long time, has changed into winter clothes and pants to resist the cold.

Zheng Rong knew that although his momentum was extremely strong, after all, he was fighting against the entire Han Dynasty in a corner. As long as the imperial court survives this winter, and in the spring of next year, the ice and snow of the Yellow River will melt, and then the troops of Shanxi and Bashu will be able to gather the troops of Shanxi and Bashu to cross the Yellow River from the north; concentrate the troops of the southern provinces in the south and go north through the boundary of Shandong Province; The forbidden army in the pass has also been repaired, and then it can also start from Tongguan and attack itself from west to east; Zheng Gui, the king of Lingnan, who is still watching at the moment, will also turn to the imperial court at any time to crusade against his second brother, who has always had a grudge - at that time, the Youyan army will immediately be attacked on three sides and be in danger.

Therefore, Zheng Rong followed Zhong Likuang's strategy, leaving less than 20,000 horses, led by Wei Hu, a general who was good at defense, and constantly monitored the movements of Shandong's official army. The remaining more than 100,000 Youyan elite soldiers, all gathered under Tongguan, had to find a way to break through Tongguan and enter the capital Luoyang.

However, the first problem in front of them was how to pass through Tongguan, which was known as the gateway to the capital division.

Since the Han Emperor Taizu Zheng Bangxian successfully attacked the Dasan Pass and won the world by luck, he has been extremely careful about the construction of passes in various places. Just pacified the world, took advantage of the recovery of the national strength of the Han Dynasty, simply knocked down several old passes of the former dynasty that were ravaged in the war, and selected dangerous places to build a few new Xiongguan, and finally formed - Shanhaiguan, Tongguan, Dasanguan, Jiayuguan, Niangzi Pass, Hushu Pass, Yanmen Pass, Jieshou Pass, Jianmen Pass (different from real history and geography, I adapted it) - and other nine passes in the world, which is where the joints of the Han River and Mountains are located.

Therefore, this Tongguan is very heavily built, and now there are heavy troops to guard, if there is no several times the troops, all preparations, then rashly attack Tongguan, it is undoubtedly to hit the stone with eggs, self-destruction.

Zheng Rong is a person who knows the soldiers, and he has passed through this Tongguan many times, of course he knows how powerful this place is. So before he Chen Bingtong passed, he sent skilled craftsmen to make a large number of siege equipment, ready to wait for the opportunity to move, and capture this choke point in one fell swoop.

At the same time, he also made preparations with both hands, prepared a large number of ships, and once the battle was unfavorable, he immediately abandoned Henan and retreated to Youyan for a long-term battle.