Songyang City in the northwest of Xuchang is just above the key points of Xuchang to Luoyang and Ruzhou to Luoyang; After February, Dong Yuan transferred Xiao Kui'an's troops to guard him, but unexpectedly, his move to overthrow Lin blocked the road for him to flee west to Chen Zhihu.

Seeing that Liu Tingzhou brought wine to reward, Xiao Kuian's crown was straightened after the big tent chief case, looking at the blue wine in the wine glass on the case, his heart was full of desolation, he didn't expect it to come to this point, Liu Tingzhou actually wanted to trick himself into drinking this cup of poisonous wine, so that the Songyang army would be defeated and not stop them from fleeing west......

Xiao Kui was as cold as snow, knelt down in front of the case, and sobbed: "Gong Liu treats me like a mountain, this wine Kui'an shouldn't have refused, but Songyang's generals and tens of thousands of families are tied to their lives, and Kui'an doesn't dare to drink this wine......"

Yuan Jinsheng came to Songyang Town with Liu Tingzhou to enjoy the wine, and was shocked when he saw Xiao Kuian's mouthful of the mystery in the wine: Xiao Kuian's knew that there was poisonous wine in the cup? !

Yuan Jinsheng pressed the saber on his waist in his hand, how could he help Xiao Kuian's Songyang generals with armor on his side glaring at him? It seemed that as soon as he drew his knife, more than a dozen people would cut him to pieces, Yuan Jinsheng looked at Liu Tingzhou in despair and frustration, only looking at Liu Tingzhou and being able to deter the scene.

gave Xiao Kuian's mouthful, Liu Tingzhou was ashamed and ashamed, but his shame did not suppress his last ruthlessness, he stared at the wine in front of the case for a long time, and suddenly laughed loudly, and said: "You also know that I treat you like a mountain, and you also know that you shouldn't refuse this wine, why do you doubt me because of this wine?" Suddenly, he took the tin pot in the corner of the case, poured it into his stomach at the spout, threw the tin pot with only the residual liquid into the tent, and said to Yuan Jinsheng and the two attendants who came with him, "Let's go!" There seemed to be an irresolvable grief and indignation in his heart, and he seemed to leave with disappointment in Xiao Kuian.

Xiao Kuian watched Liu Tingzhou leave the big tent like this, and looked at the wine in front of the case in a daze, and was confused for a while: Could it be that he misunderstood Liu Tingzhou? Hesitantly, he picked up the wine glass and put it in front of his nose to smell the wine.

"General Xiao, don't drink this wine lightly!" Chen Xiaoyan only thought that Xiao Kuian wanted to drink, so he hurriedly walked from behind the screen to stop him, and said to the general next to him, "Go to the camp and catch a live dog......

After a while, Hu Wei caught a black dog.

Chen Xiaoyan opened the dog's mouth and poured the clear blue wine from the wine glass.

The black dog seemed to be frightened, let go of his hand and ran away from the tent, as if he was fine-Xiao Kuian only misunderstood Liu Tingzhou, stood up and went to chase Liu Tingzhou and others who left angrily, and as soon as he walked to the big tent, he saw the black dog who had just poured wine twitching in the open space in front of the tent, foaming at the mouth.

Xiao Kuian stood there stunned, only to know that this was really poisonous wine, but he didn't think that Liu Tingzhou would not hesitate to drink most of the pot of poisonous wine in the end, and he also wanted to trick himself into drinking this cup of poisonous wine......

The general next to him asked, "Lord Liu, they have just left the camp, did they send someone to chase them?" ”

"Forget it," Xiao Kuian shook his head weakly, he had no intention of sending someone to chase Yuan Jinsheng and the others who fled from Manan, thinking that Liu Tingzhou was afraid that he would die of poison at this time, and asked all the generals to return to the account with him, sat down behind the long case with only an empty wine glass, looked at the generals standing in the tent, and asked, "The destruction of the Yanyu Dengzhou Naval Division, I think all the generals know, where is the Songyang Army going, what are your plans in your heart?" ”

All the generals looked at Chen Xiaoyan - Chen Xiaoyan was Gao Zongting's scholar, but the scholar back then was also a person who had passed the age at this time. After the Qingzhou War, Chen Xiaoyan walked most frequently on behalf of Huaidong and the Huaixi Army, and the generals of the Songyang Army, who escaped from the Huaixi Army, were no strangers to Chen Xiaoyan - but they didn't expect that the commander would hide Chen Xiaoyan in the barracks and have been hiding it from them until now.

People with a little discernment understand that Chen Xiaoyan should have come on behalf of Huaidong - the news of the destruction of the Northern Yan Dengzhou Navy Division and the complete collapse of the Suohai defense line in just three or five days came, and the generals of the Songyang Army were also like a slap in the face.

Not everyone has the mind of being loyal to the monarch and supporting the emperor, and not everyone has the ambition of sealing the king and sealing the heirs, it can be said that the vast majority of people do not have these two thoughts, but sometimes the situation is unreasonable - in the past, all kinds of open and secret battles, it can also be said to be factional disputes, the battle of Jingxiang, Dong Yuan's judgment was wrong, and Chen Zhihu galloped from the mountain to help Nanyang, that is, through the Zhengyang defense area. At that time, Xiao Kui'an only had 10,000 soldiers and horses guarding Zhengyang, and he would definitely not be able to stop Chen Zhihu from crossing the border, even if they had no intention of conniving Chen Zhihu to cross the border, but this bad account and this pile of could not be erased on their heads......

The vast majority of people have no choice but to follow the crowd.

Even if Dong Yuan openly fell into the forest, many generals of the Songyang Army were reluctant to do so, and they could only watch themselves being dragged onto the warship, could they say the word "no" under Dong Yuan's nose, and could they expect the Huaidong Army to open up when they came in the future? Of course, there are also some people who may have the luxury of hoping to really fight against Huaidong and get the wealth of a marquis - this kind of thinking itself is intricate and complicated, and the generals of the Songyang army can only follow it deeper and deeper, unable to extricate themselves.

Therefore, he was shocked to hear that the entire army of the Northern Yan Dengzhou Naval Division was destroyed and the sea defense line was destroyed like a tower of sand, and the generals of the Songyang Army who dragged the Xuchang warship were also terrified, and they were desperate to see that there was still a way out ahead.

However, Chen Xiaoyan, on behalf of Huaidong, had long been hidden in the camp for Xiao Kui - this was undoubtedly a great light for the generals of the Songyang Army in a desperate situation.

Chen Xiaoyan naturally will not come to Songyang for no reason, Chen Xiaoyan came to Songyang alone, which means that Huaidong still has the mind to recruit an Songyang army, and there is still room to sit down and talk......

Xiao Kuian looked at the expressions of the generals of the tent army, and sighed in his heart: knowing that this is also the desire of the people and the general trend is difficult to change, according to the long case, he said slowly: "Lord Chen is no stranger to you, he came to Songyang under the secret order of the privy envoy and the privy deputy envoy Lord Yue, and my Songyang generals, all the staff were incorporated into the Changhuai Army, and they were ranked as the third town division. Although I have the trust of the Privy Envoy and the Privy Deputy Envoy Yue, I have been appointed as the ...... of the division of the third town of the Changhuai Army."

Speaking of this, the generals of Songyang showed their liking, not only were they not guilty, but they could also get the same treatment as the two town armies of Voryang and Zhengyang, which was undoubtedly the result that everyone did not dare to hope for before, and before Xiao Kuian finished speaking, their eyes when they looked at Chen Xiaoyan began to be full of cordiality and enthusiasm.

Xiao Kuian's words were still unbroken, and he continued: "Since the Battle of Jingxiang, the Songyang generals have no merit in all battles, all of them are my Xiao Kuian's incompetence in leading the troops and the lack of way to govern the army, and I dare not confer the position of a military general, so I ask Lord Chen to temporarily govern the Songyang generals on behalf of Xiao, and ask the privy envoy to choose another merit in the future......"

Chen Xiaoyan was also slightly surprised, he didn't expect Xiao Kui's peace of mind to be so cold, but if there was no Xiao Kui'an's help, how could he lead the Songyang Army to block Dong Yuan's way to flee west?

"General Xiao, the privy envoy has a lot of trust in you, and knows that you are dedicated to the country and the people; Liu Tingzhou drank poisonous wine by himself, but he really wanted to earn you; If he dies of poison, he really deserves it......" Chen Xiaoyan advised.

"Liu Tingzhou harbors evil intentions, and he is innocent of death." The generals of Songyang also persuaded that even though many of them were promoted by Liu Tingzhou to become military generals, Liu Tingzhou still wanted to drag them into the bottomless quagmire at this time, and he also became hateful, and it was absolutely a pity that Liu Tingzhou drank most of the pot of poisonous wine in the tent just now.

"Lord Chen, you don't have to persuade me," Liu Tingzhou did not hesitate to claim to be poisonous wine, and he also wanted to deceive himself into dying, which had already made Xiao Kuian's heart cold, but he really had no intention of being a general again, and he also understood Chen Xiaoyan's thoughts, so he just said, "If Dong Yuan escapes to the west, Xiao does not dare to get out of the matter, and the Songyang generals will inevitably only look forward to Lord Chen, and there will be no slight disobedience to the order......" raised his eyes and looked at the generals in the tent and asked, "If Dong Yuan escapes to the west and surrenders, it will also be an opportunity for you to redeem your merits; Are you willing to be temporarily under the control of Lord Chen, serve the country, and fight bravely to kill the enemy? ”

The generals hesitated for a long time, knowing that although Xiao Kuian'an wanted to take all the blame on himself, they wanted to accept it for the Huaidong army, and wanted to finally get a bad ending, intercepting Dong Yuan's westward escape, it was indeed a rare opportunity, seeing that Xiao Kuian's mind had been decided, he did not dare to persuade Xiao Kuian'an to stay as a general, for fear that Huaidong would suspect that they still wanted to hold the mountain and stand on their own, so they all knelt down together in front of the tent, swore allegiance to Chen Xiaoyan, who represented the Huaidong army, and said: "I am willing to follow Lord Chen's military orders, serve the country, and bravely kill the enemy......

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Yuan Jinsheng took the body of Liu Tingzhou, who died of poison, and fled back to Xuchang in a panic.

Looking at Liu Tingzhou's corpse that died of poison, and the Songyang Army then sent troops to occupy several key points in the north and south of Songshan to contact Hezhong Prefecture, Dong Yuan, Yuan Guizheng, Ren Jiwei and others were desperate.

Although the Songyang military horses are sandwiched between Xuchang and Hezhong Mansion, but the Xuchang soldiers and horses and the soldiers and horses in the river, at this time, affected by the battle in Dengzhou, the army's heart is shaken, even if there are more soldiers and horses, where is there a little morale to attack the camp to attack Songyang?

In particular, the Songyang Army took the initiative to send troops to blockade the Jinqu Fortress in the north and south of Songshan, which shows that the Songyang Army is no longer simply unwilling to flee west with them, and it shows that the Songyang Army wants to block them from fleeing west in exchange for Huaidong's forgiveness - maybe Huaidong has already sent someone to secretly contact Xiao Kuian.

Xiao Kuian was born in hard labor, and being able to sit in the position of the chief general of a town is related to Liu Tingzhou's appreciation and promotion, but he also needs to be able to have enough ability and intelligence to become a ......

"I can only go to Funiu Mountain!" Yuan Guizheng said.

Lying between Shaanxi and Henan, there are many lofty mountains and mountains, Funiu Mountain is only the first pass, although there are also firewood beasts in the mountains, but how can tens of thousands of troops and considerable scale of family members and baggage vehicles ride through?

Moreover, as soon as Xuchang moves, the defense troops on the front line of the Beiru River and Yingshui will be defeated if they are slightly impacted by the Changhuai Army and the Changshan Army, and the Changhuai Army and the Changshan Army will be able to drive straight into Xuchang and attack Xuchang directly, leaving them with only two or three days to flee from Funiu Mountain, and how many people can flee into Funiu Mountain in two or three days, five thousand, three thousand, two thousand or less? I'm afraid that even the generals can't bring it all.