Miaotanling locked the throat in a battle, the dragon claw rock suspended cable trestle bridge three destroyed and three built, Guanyinjian's step formation was as solid as a rock, unbreakable, not only choked the throat of the enemy soldiers in Xiangyang who fled westward, but actually made the enemy's naval rebel general Yang Xiong in Xiangyang suffer a big blow, and severely damaged the morale of the Yan enemy on the north and south banks.

When Ge Cunxiong led the main force of the water battalion had just arrived at the front line of Shicheng, the Huaidong Navy Hu Zhen'er's unit that had advanced north to the front line of Longzui Mountain had less than 5,000 soldiers and less than 100 warships, but on 2 November it was ordered to march north decisively.

On the afternoon of the 3rd, Hu Yu'er's troops arrived at the Great Bend of Hanshui on the outskirts of Lumen Mountain in Xiangyang, forcibly broke through the blockade of the rebel general Yang Xiong's troops on the west side of the Evil Ghost Corner, and then took advantage of the night to storm the enemy's Hutou Mountain Fortress in the northwest of Xiangyang City; In the early morning of the 4th, he captured Hutoushan Island, which is located in the northwest of Xiangyang and south of the Han River, except for a small number of enemy ships who fled west through the crossbow array of Longclaw Rock, the rebel general Yang Xiong's naval army was almost completely annihilated, and fought hard for several days, destroying more than 3,000 enemies, and the rebel general Yang Xiong was also forced to abandon the ship and flee into Xiangyang City.

After the water camp warships tore through the blockade of the Yan enemy's naval army and controlled the Han River west of Xiangyang, the fate of the enemy of Xiangyang becoming a turtle in the urn was destined to be irrewritten.

To the south of Xiangyang, Zhang Gou led his troops to regain Jingmen, and the troops went to Nanzhang and Zhongyi; To the west of Xiangyang, 20,000 soldiers and horses under Chen Yan and Huang Zuyu crossed the Han River and firmly blocked the passage for the enemy of Xiangyang to flee westward; The section of the Hanshui River below Miaotanling, by November 4, was also completely under the control of the Huaidong Water Camp.

Although the enemy army in Xiangyang still had more than 60,000 remnants of Zhou Fan, Pu Jieshi, Tong Ruilin, Han Li, and Yang Xiong, their escape routes in the southeast and northwest were completely blocked, and Xiangyang's grain reserves had been exhausted, and mules and horses had to be slaughtered to maintain it.

Seeing that there was no possibility of accepting the westward escape of Xiangyang's soldiers and horses, and that even if the Huaidong Naval Army marched westward against the current and entered the river section of the Gucheng and Zanyang lines, and even the soldiers and horses west of Gucheng and Gucheng did not have time to completely withdraw to the north bank, Ye Ji Luorong had to flee from Gucheng to Zanyang on 4 November, while Tian Chang had to lead his nearly 10,000 soldiers and horses west of Shilongling to abandon Gucheng and flee westward, attack from the eastern foot of Xianmuro Mountain, and flee to the Fulong Mountains on the south bank of Xunguan to find a way to cross the Han River and flee north.

Although there are many remnants of the enemy in Xiangyang, the Huaidong army wants to pinch the two key passes such as Miaotanling and Jingmen, so that it can make it a trapped beast in a cage and cannot escape.

However, due to the danger of the water rapids in the upper reaches of the Han River, especially the flowing water west of the Danjiang Estuary, sandwiched between the Bashan and Qinling Mountains, which is more dangerous than the waterway between the Miaotan Ridge and the Huanglong Beach, it is not conducive to the Huaidong Water Battalion warships entering to pursue the enemy, and the enemy who fled from the west of Gucheng could not pursue for a while. Lin Jian only ordered Hu Xian'er to lead the naval army west to recover Gucheng and capture the Danjiang Estuary, and temporarily ignored the enemy soldiers who fled west into Fulong Mountain and Yunguan, and at the same time on the 4th, Lin Jian ordered Zhang Gou, Chen Yan, and Huang Zuyu's two town divisions to suspend the pace of advancing to Xiangyang, and each hold its own place, in order to prepare for the enemy of Xiangyang to break through; Four days later, Lin Jian shifted the focus of the battle from the south bank to the north bank, and ordered the Ao Canghai faction in Shiqiaoling to send Liu Zhenzhi's troops to decisively cut into Dengzhou and Xinye, so that Zhang Jiheng and Yu Wencheng surrounded Xinye's enemy rebel general Tu'an's department......

At that time, Yanhu still had nearly 90,000 soldiers and horses on the north bank, but they were scattered in Baiyangguan, Zanyang, Dengzhou, Yunguan and other places, and Baiyangguan, Zanyang, and Yunguan were close to Hanshui and Danjiang, and they were eager to shrink to Xichuan and Wuguan in the northwest to avoid entanglement of the Huaidong naval army against the current, and there was no time for Xinye's soldiers and horses.

Huaidong only used Zhang Gou, Chen Yan, Huang Zuyu and his 30,000 soldiers and horses to trap the enemy in Xiangyang on the south bank, except for Zhao Hu to lead the forbidden camp infantry army to support the south bank at Huanglongtan, the other soldiers and horses began to shift their center of gravity to the north on November 3, and by the 5th, more than 70,000 heavy troops were assembled in the north and east of Shiqiaoling.

Before the siege of the city, the rebel general Tu'an abandoned Xinye and fled north on the 5th, Sun Zhuang and Zhou Pu each led a cavalry battalion to attack, pursued and slaughtered Tu'an's headquarters in the ditch forest in the north of Xinye, and killed Tu'an's headquarters from behind on the 5th; And when Gao Yi, the rebel general of Dengzhou, was attacked by Liu Zhen's troops, he did not have the courage to receive aid from Tu'an, and abandoned Dengzhou and fled to Xichuan in the northwest.

Because from Dengzhou to the northwest to Xichuan, in the southern foot of Funiu Mountain, the terrain is steep, and further west is Wuguan, one of the nine stops in the Central Plains. After Chen Zhihu converged with Gao Yi's troops, there were still 40,000 heavy troops in Xichuan, guarding according to the Wuguan, and the soldiers were still hideous.

On November 6, Ge Cunxiong led his naval army to land at Zhongyi and regain Zhongyi southeast of Xiangyang; At the same time, Zhao Hu led his troops westward from Huanglongtan and, with the cooperation of the naval army, recovered Zanyang.

On the 7th, more than 2,000 remnants of the enemy entrenched in Wadian Village on the east bank of the river saw that there was no hope of breaking through the siege and fleeing north under the encirclement of tens of thousands of Huaidong elites.

After clearing the remnants of the enemy on the eastern flank of Dandong, Lin Jian made Ao Canghai gather more than 70,000 cavalry from Liu Zhenzhi, Zhang Jiheng, Yu Wencheng, Sun Zhuang, Zhou Pu and other troops in Dengzhou on the 8th, and entered Xichuan on the 9th.

Chen Zhihu abandoned Xichuan and fled to Wuguan on the 9th, and joined Ye Jiluorong.

Ao Canghai made Zhang Jiheng enter to guard Xichuan, plugging the gap to the west of Yanbing and Wuguan, so that Yu Wencheng led his troops north to recover Nanyang, Tanghe, Miyang, Fangcheng and other places, Ao Canghai and Sun Zhuang responded in the middle of Dengzhou to defend the northern line-

At the same time, Lin Jian transferred Liu Zhenzhi, Zhou Pu and other troops to withdraw from the northern line to Fancheng, and after a brief rest, together with the Tang Fuguan troops who had advanced westward from Suizhou, crossed the Han River from Miaotanling and Zhongyi respectively on the 15th, approached Xiangyang from both wings, and encircled the enemy in Xiangyang.

On the 15th, Zhang Gou was ordered to lead his troops north from Jingmen to recover Nanzhangcheng southwest of Xiangyang.

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In the middle of November, Yanjing snowed heavily for several days, and the land was thousands of miles, all covered in silver.

The letter rider who galloped into the palace from the Wuyang Gate stepped on the snow particles, and the princes and ministers guarding the palace all looked at each other, hoping that this time the news from the southwest would make people remove the boulder in their hearts.

The news of the successive defeats of the soldiers and horses on the Western Front in Jingxiang also came from the harem, listening to the letter and ride straight into the palace, the harem concubines, palace maids, and chamberlains also stretched their necks, hoping that good news could come back from the south.

200,000 elites, plus the attached luxury and Luo families, a full 400,000 soldiers and horses, who thought that the world was in the hands of Beiyan, where would they have thought that in just a few days, there would be such earth-shaking changes?

Yongning Palace is the dormitory of the Jade Concubine, His Royal Highness has a hearth, and the fire will start after winter, and people will not feel the biting cold in the palace, but in the past ten days, Yanjing City has been shrouded in a strange cold and biting atmosphere, suppressing people breathlessly, how can Yongning Palace be alone?

"Your hard-working brother, over the years, has fought for Dayan's rivers and mountains in the north and south, and the sweat and blood shed are no less than anyone else, but in this way, life and death in Fancheng are unknown, and Prince Mu does not say that he will send troops to save ......" Ye He's eldest wife, Jade Concubine and Azig's mother, Ye He, sat in front of the soft couch in Yongning Palace at this time and complained to her daughter Jade Concubine.

Concubine Yu is also heartbroken that her brother's life and death are unknown, but now it is far from a matter of personal safety, how can she bother King Khan for private matters?

In addition, the development of Jingxiang's situation makes people feel like they are thundering, and it is as fast as a mountain torrent, which makes Beiyan embarrassed and abandons his armor!

Huaidong's ambush in Chaishan only showed its hideous face on the 21st, and on the 21st and 22nd, the 100,000 soldiers and horses in eastern Hubei were defeated by the Huaidong army, and there was no power to fight back; By early November, the latest battle report came back from Jingxiang, and the entire soldiers and horses on the east bank of the Han River had been completely wiped out by the Huaidong army.

At this time, Beiyan had no soldiers and horses to adjust in Hezhong Mansion, and no soldiers and horses to adjust in Guanzhong; Although there are more than 100,000 soldiers and horses in Shandong recently, even when Huaidong attacked Shouzhou and copied Dong Yuan's nest, there were no less than 80,000 elite soldiers and horses deployed in the southeast of Shandong and in Xusi.

It is a matter of the survival of the country and the death of the family, but the mother still thought that Prince Mu had a gap with the Yehe tribe before she sat back and watched her younger brother's soldiers fall into the hands of Huaidong, Concubine Yu was anxious and painful, but she had to be patient to comfort her mother, and said: "Now the Jingxiang soldiers are in chaos, there are routs everywhere, and the road is blocked by the Huaidong Army, and the younger brother has the courage of a thousand people, and there is no way to kill out of the siege of the Huaidong Army for a while, and there is no need to worry too much." Maybe he is hiding in the mountains somewhere, and when the situation eases, my brother will be able to return to Yanjing to reunite with his mother......"

Listening to the letter riding straight into the palace, Concubine Yu couldn't help but straighten her waist and look in the direction of the Wuyang Gate, just across the palace walls and palaces, where can you see the situation of the letter riding into the palace, her delicate and bright face also looks haggard, but her eyes are still clear, so that her face eclipses the seemingly beautiful palace maids around her.

"It should be from Jingxiang's war report, daughter, you either go to Chongwen Hall to investigate, maybe there will be news of your brother." Ye Heshi said.

"Mother, what are you talking about, something happened to my younger brother, and Yu'er was also in pain, but the princes and princes were all discussing with King Khan in Chongwen Palace, why couldn't Yu'er ask King Khan to come over uneasily?" Concubine Yu couldn't help but complain.

Ye He was speechless.

After a while, a waiter in the Yellow Gate came in a panic, walked to the Jade Concubine and knelt down and said: "Jingxiang has a battle report delivered, the emperor is him, the emperor is ......."

"Your Majesty, what's wrong with him?" The princess was palpitating and chilling, knowing that King Khan was not in good health, and she was afraid that there would be bad news in the southwest, so that King Khan's body would not be able to withstand the blow.

"The emperor read the war report, coughed up a big bowl of blood, covered his heart and said that it hurt, and then fainted in pain!" The Huangmen attendant spoke in one breath, and he was so anxious that he was sweating, "The emperor is the pillar of Dayan, Concubine Yu, go over and take a look......"

Concubine Yu knew that there must be bad news coming from the southwest, so she didn't care about changing her clothes and shoes, taking her clothes, wearing silk shoes, small jackets, and carrying her skirt, so she rushed to Chongwen Palace......

Coughing up blood again - after vomiting blood four times in a row in half a month, how can the Khan King's body bones hold up?

Concubine Yu trotted into the Chongwen Palace, Zhang Xie and other princes and ministers were still there, with a sad face, presumably the battle report from the southwest was even more frustrating.

Concubine Yu didn't have time to think about the war in the southwest, she was only worried about the body of the King of Khan, and bowed to the princes and ministers, so she walked to the inner hall, and before entering the inner hall, she heard Ye Ji Baishi's voice coming from the inside: "King Bo was afraid of the enemy like a tiger, and abandoned Zhou Fan, Pujieshi, and Tong Ruilin to 70,000 elites in Xiangyang without saving, and fled north alone across the Han River and Cang. At this time, it is worthy of saying that the Huaidong armies are difficult to defeat, and he wants Dayan to abandon Nanyang and Henan, retreat to Guanzhong, negotiate peace with the Southern Dynasty, and secretly ally Liangchuan and Huaixi, which is really just to cover up the responsibility of his Jingxiang rout. The father did not send an envoy to his post as a punishment, so how could the generals and soldiers of Dayan be convinced? ”

When Concubine Yu heard this, her heart was also shocked, a few days ago, there was news that the soldiers and horses on the east bank of the Han River had been annihilated, why couldn't the 70,000 elites in Xiangyang be saved?

Doesn't this battle mean that the Western Front is going to be completely demobilized?

The princess asked the palace attendant next to her, "What happened to the emperor?" "All the people who wanted to disagree in the inner sanctum knew that she had come.

Ye Zier woke up, sat at the head of the bed in a white fox robe, did not give the emperor's eldest son Bai Shan face because the jade concubine walked in, and said seriously: "If it is impossible to do something, your uncle will not easily give up the soldiers and horses of Xiangyang." If you bend your arms again and give up the soldiers and horses of Xiangyang, your king will not feel good in his heart, but it is better than the annihilation of the soldiers and horses on the Western Front. Moreover, the battle of Jingxiang is not your uncle's arbitrary behavior, and I and the princes and ministers have not seen through Huaidong's strategy to lure troops, in exchange for you and me to lead the troops, we may not be able to do better than your uncle-the juncture of Dayan's survival, if you still think about the old grievances and can't work together to tide over the difficulties, there will be no place for my Dayan to stand in this Central Plains, you must understand in your heart! ”

Ye Zier just woke up coughing up blood, when he was angry and coughed desperately, so that Concubine Yu listened to her heart and quickly sat down, soothed his back, and asked him to take a breath.

"......" Ye Ji Baishan glanced at Concubine Yu and didn't say anything, but looking at his face, he obviously didn't persuade his father, shut up and didn't speak, just didn't want his father Ye Zier to be angry on the spot.

Seeing the expression of his son Baishi, Ye Zier was anxious, angry, and helpless, and said: "Your uncle is fighting all over the world, and no knowledge is below you. I'm afraid that I don't have two days to live, and if you can't go to the difficulties together, it is better to give up the Central Plains as soon as possible, retreat to Liaodong, and take advantage of the fact that there are still hundreds of thousands of elites to retreat early to guard Wulun Mountain, so that I can worry about it after I die! ”

Concubine Yu was shocked again, could it be that the situation was so bad that even the Yellow River could not be defended? Thinking about the fact that King Khan deliberately arranged the aftermath, it made her worry even more.