In mid-July 530, Erzhu Rong led Erzhu Zhao, Yuan Tianmu, Gao Huan, He Basheng and others to gather an army of 300,000 and go straight to Hanoi. Before sending troops, Er Zhurong had already obtained a secret report from Luoyang, since the day Yuan Hao entered Luoyang, he thought that he was the king of heaven's will, and he first named his wife Li Yuanjiang as the queen after three days of stability, and let Bai Cheng help him collect thousands of beauties from the people to fill the harem. The degree of obscenity is comparable to that of the merchants, he sleeps with ten beautiful women every day, lying on top of the women, and there are dozens of women in thin clothes and light shirts dancing in the palace for entertainment. Second, in the previous dynasty, he appointed his former guests and doormen, who not only interfered in state affairs, but also became a habit of accumulating wealth every day. The 7,000 people led by Chen Qingzhi were even more unscrupulous in the township, committing adultery and plundering all kinds of evil, which had already caused public resentment to boil.

In view of this situation, in order to let Yuan Hao lose the support of the surrounding places in Luoyang, Gao Huan volunteered to find a person named Yang Tanhua from Hengnong, who can speak well and likes to compile books the most. So he ordered him to wander the streets and alleys, and set up cases and tell stories in the most lively wine shops in various places. The story is that when the yen entered Luoyang, the wind swept in an instant, it was dark and dark, and no one could be seen on the other side, and the horse was so shocked that he retreated again and again, Yuan Hao sat in the car and was staggered, and finally Yang Yu was wrapped around his neck in front of the horse, and he desperately grabbed the horse bridle and dragged the horse in, and after a loyal minister who threw his head and shed blood for the Wei State for generations, he was driven as a horse, so he asserted that Yuan Hao was only temporarily the emperor, and he could not pass sixty days. For a while, folk rumors abounded, and people were angry.

At this time, Yuan Zhaoye, the counselor, mended the knife and said, "I think that the first emperor Liu Xuan went west from Luoyang, and as soon as he set off, the horses were frightened and scattered, and the three horses crashed into the iron pillars of the North Palace and died, so Liu Xuan did not become the emperor in the end." The lesson from the past, now even the signs are the same, this Yuan Hao is too enjoyable, and it can't be long. ”

Although he did not attack, there was already a lot of discussion in the Wei State, and in the end, Er Zhurong relied on his prestige and strength, and many local forces that had previously surrendered to Yuan Hao saw the direction of the wind again, and turned their heads and worshiped Er Zhurong again.

Seeing that the form was greatly unfavorable to Yuan Hao, Chen Qingzhi led Yang Zhong and his invincible 7,000 white-robed army decided to take the initiative to attack, they crossed the Yellow River to garrison Zhonglang City, and formed a confrontation with Er Zhurong's 300,000 troops in Zhonglang City. These two are generals who have created miracles with fewer victories, not to mention that Er Zhurong has won hundreds of thousands of Ge Rong with 7,000, this Chen Qingzhi has led 7,000 white-robed troops into the Wei realm, from Gongxian to Luoyang, fought 47 times before and after, attacked 32 cities, broke 70,000 defenders in Suiyang, annihilated 20,000 defenders in Kaocheng, attacked Xingyang defended by 70,000 imperial forest troops, and defeated more than 200,000 reinforcements led by Yuan Tianmu, broke Xingyang, captured the city, and broke through Erzhu Shilong's 20,000 defenders in Tiger Pass, and killed Erzhu Shicheng, In fact, he was the only person who captured the enemy's capital after Sun Wu of the Spring and Autumn Period and drove straight in.

Although the elite division of Wei led by Er Zhurong this time was against only 7,000 people, he did not dare to despise Chen Qingzhi and came to camp thirty miles outside Zhonglang City. Chen Qingzhi took the initiative to attack, shouting constantly above the city gate, Er Zhurong was extremely angry, Pel Zhu Zhao and Gao Huan attacked for three days, and fought eleven fierce battles but did not get the slightest bargain, the Wei army suffered heavy losses, not to mention the recovery of Luoyang, even the Yellow River could not take half a step. During the truce, Chen Qingzhi asked the Wei civilians in Zhonglang City to go out of the city to pile up the corpses of the Wei army, and Gao Huan took the soldiers to collect the bones and bury them in a large pit. The stench caused countless crows and vultures to hover over the pit, and the piercing screams were terrifying to listen to. Fortunately, it is close to the end of July, the rainy season is coming, and the heavy rain for days washes away the blood of the fallen soldiers of the Wei State outside Zhonglang City, and the blood and water flow into a scarlet trickle, stretching for more than ten miles, and the air is filled with a wet fishy smell, and the smell is still disgusting. Chen Qingzhi drank and played music above the city gate, unscrupulously showing off his victory, Er Zhurong under the city gate even though he was thunderous, but he was helpless, he had never tasted such a defeat, watching the soldiers gradually fear the mood of war, he also began to be discouraged, the fatigue of the battle, the shortage of food and grass, so that he decided to withdraw the troops.

The news of Er Zhurong's determination to withdraw his troops reached Yuan Ziyou, who had reached Hanoi, how could Yuan Ziyou let go of the last hope of recovering Luoyang, if he retreated in this battle, it would only fuel Chen Qingzhi's arrogance, and the Southern Liang would definitely send troops to the north, at that time he would have no way to retreat, and the Wei State would die. At this time, Xi Yi recommended a person to Yuan Ziyou, this person is Liu Lingzhu, a soothsayer who Er Zhurong followed when he was in Xiurong, he is very good at divination and observing the heavens, and Zhu Rong believes everything he says, and also sends him to take charge of Youzhou. But Liu Lingzhu was very wealthy, so Yuan Ziyou sent Zhang Haosong to quietly send him a thousand taels of gold, and promised to add an official to the knighthood after the matter was completed.

Liu Lingzhu held Huang Chengcheng's gold, and after listening to Zhang Haosong's great truth, he felt that this was a good thing for the country and the people, so he happily accepted the reward, and said to Zhang Haosong with a smile, "I am tired of Gonggong Zhang to report on his behalf, and Liu Lingzhu will definitely live up to the emperor's grace." Saying goodbye to Zhang Haosong, he hurried to Zhonglang City overnight.

Before entering the camp, Liu Lingzhu shouted all the way in ecstasy, "The great victory of the great general of the Zhu country, the great victory of the general of the Zhu country." ”

Er Zhurong, who was discussing with the generals about the withdrawal of the army in the tent, heard Liu Lingzhu's voice and hesitated, "Do you hear that is Liu Lingzhu's voice, what is he shouting, Da Cheng?" ”

The generals nodded one after another, "Yes, General." ”

"You go and bring him in." Er Zhurong pointed to the outside of the tent and said to Er Zhuzhao, "This old boy has bad legs and feet, you go and take a look." ”

Liu Lingzhu stumbled all the way and almost fell, but was helped by Er Zhuzhao, who was ordered to come out to greet him. Because Erzhurong believed in him very much, so Erzhuzhao also respected him and him, and when he saw that he was running too slowly, he carried him to Erzhurong.

Er Zhurong didn't ask, this Liu Lingzhu was full of joy, saying that he watched the sky at night, and there were stars in Luoyang that contradicted the Beidou for more than a month, indicating that Yuan Hao's throne was unorthodox, and he would not be blessed by God, and if he did not return to the mandate of heaven, he would not be on the throne soon. While speaking, he quietly observed Er Zhurong's expression, noticed that Er Zhurong's eyes had changed, and knew that it was no longer eight or nine, so he deliberately pinched his fingers, shook his head, and divined a hexagram in front of Er Zhurong on the spot. "It is good for sending troops. Er Zhurong was overjoyed when he looked at the hexagram, leaned over and squatted in front of Liu Lingzhu to look at the hexagram carefully, touched the tiger's whiskers and began to move.

Liu Lingzhu knelt on his knees and looked up to the sky with his hands, tears of joy, "Your Majesty asserts that the king of Taiyuan can pacify Henan within ten days, and this battle will be won, and the king of Taiyuan should listen to the mandate of heaven, and the opportunity must not be lost." ”

This set of rhetoric really moved Er Zhurong, who believed in the destiny of heaven, and he summoned all the generals that night to discuss the situation, solicit public opinions, and adjust strategies. The result of this discussion was that Er Zhurong decided to avoid Chen Qingzhi's edge, leaving only Gao Huan with more than 1,000 men and horses to deal with him and contain Chen Qingzhi from leaving the city, and he himself led 200,000 horses to bypass Zhonglang City and cross the Yellow River to Luoyang. When the people of the ferry heard that they were attacking Yuanhao, they really had a boat out of the boat, and they made a strong contribution to the requisition of timber from Er Zhurong, and responded positively, and made tens of thousands of rafts in less than three days. Er Zhurong ordered Er Zhu Zhao and He Batsheng to arrange the rafts along the river bank and make a posture to cross the river for hundreds of miles along the Yellow River.

Although these rafts were far apart from each other, the continuous momentum made Yuan Hao at a loss, he simply did not have enough military strength to defend the whole line, and finally misjudged the place to defend. Seeing that Luoyang was difficult to defend, Yuan Hao was so frightened that he hurriedly left the beautiful concubine of the palace, and only took Li Yuanjiang and Bai Cheng and more than 100 horsemen under his own account to Heliang, ready to resist stubbornly. Unexpectedly, Zhu Zhao and He Basheng crossed the Yellow River from Kip Shi night to the west of Mazhu, and attacked the troops of Yuan Hao's son Yuan Guanshou with lightning speed, and captured Yuan Guanshou, who killed Yuan Guanshou in the market on the same day and hung his head on the city wall.

On August 12, Yuan Ziyou stayed in Hualin Garden, and on the same day, he gave amnesty to the world at the Great Xia Gate. The edict appointed Zhu Zhao, the envoy, the general of the chariot and cavalry, the governor, and the founding prince of Yingchuan County, as the general of the chariot and cavalry, and the three divisions of Yitong. The rest of the northern sergeants who followed Erzhurong and the civil and military officials who accompanied Yuan Ziyou on patrol, as well as those who rebelled in Mazhu, were promoted to five ranks; officials in charge of affairs north of the Yellow River will be promoted by two ranks; The officials who revolted south of the Yellow River and who greeted the emperor's chariot, along with those who followed him halfway, were also promoted by two ranks.

As soon as this edict came out, but there was no reward for Er Zhurong, Er Zhu Shilong broke into Hualin Garden with the battle report, and threatened Yuan Zi Youdao with his might, "Now the general of Zhuguo is on the front line to recover Luoyang for the emperor, if the emperor gives a reward at this time, then the general will also be comforted when he responds to the enemy." ”

"Now that the king of Taiyuan is under one person and above ten thousand, I am afraid that the reward will be awarded to me this dragon chair." Yuan Ziyou had a smile on his face after hearing this, but his eyes showed a cold light.

Er Zhu Shilong looked at Yuan Ziyou's eyes, and said step by step, "General Zhuguo is not interested in your dragon chair, otherwise it will not be the emperor's turn." Now although the general of the Zhu State does not have the slightest heart of disobedience, but the emperor also wants to give comfort to the loyal ministers and good generals, the minister discussed with the ministers yesterday to the general of the Zhu State to draw up a new title, the Tianzhu General, meaning the optimus pillar of the Great Wei, the emperor and the emperor can play the next fold, just stamp a seal. ”

Yuanzi took the recital presented by Zhang Haosong slowly and methodically, put it aside casually, didn't look at it, and said to Zhang Haosong, "Little Songzi, you go to the decree to canonize Er Zhurong as the general of Tianzhu, increase the feathers and propaganda in the front and rear. After speaking, Yuan Ziyou looked at Erzhu Shilong and said, "How about hard work Aiqing personally go to issue the decree?" ”

Erzhu Shilong was taken aback when he saw that Yuan Ziyou agreed so happily, but the color of ecstasy was overflowing, and he quickly sent the holy decree to Erzhurong's tent overnight. When Er Zhurong saw that Yuan Ziyou was so obedient, he lowered his guard a little, rectified the army, and even fixed the six cities in one go.

Yuan Hao heard this bad news and had no intention of fighting, thinking of escaping back to Liang to seek refuge, he ran away from Xiangyuan Pass overnight, arrived at Linying, but because the news leaked, he was identified and reported to the local government, and finally was beheaded by the county soldier Jiang Feng in the encirclement and suppression of the government on August 15, and the head was passed on to Luoyang. That Bai Cheng escaped by drilling the dog hole again, but poor Li Yuanjiang was relegated to slavery after being captured, and finally died of humiliation and hitting the wall, which can be regarded as completely innocent. Yuan Hao's 65-day regime fell, and the previously occupied cities returned to Wei rule. From Er Zhurong's change of strategy to the recovery of Luoyang, it really took only ten days, Liu Lingzhu was even more respected by Er Zhurong, entered the Duke of Yan County, and gave his father Monk An as the assassin of Youzhou.

After the soldiers under Yuan Yanming, the king of Anfeng who was attached to Yuan Hao, learned the news of Yuan Hao's killing, who was willing to continue to work hard, and fled for their lives, some went home to farm, some fell into the grass, and some were absorbed by other local forces. Yuan Yanming could only flee back to Liang with his wife and children, leaving Chen Qingzhi in Zhonglang City alone, Chen Qingzhi saw that the situation was irreparable, and the people of Wei hated him to the bone, and if he was captured, he would definitely die. He didn't dare to fight, so he gathered the remaining infantry and cavalry, totaling several thousand, and fled east in a group to return to Liang. Seeing this situation, Yang Zhong was bent on staying in Wei State, and did not want to return to Liang State to send people under the fence. When Er Zhurong personally led his troops to pursue Chen Qingzhi, he deliberately applied to stay behind and surrendered to Er Zhurong.

Although Chen Qingzhi fled all the way, Er Zhurong did not dare to attack head-on, Chen Qingzhi seemed to lead Er Zhurong forward, until he came to the bank of the Songgao River. Perhaps it was the jealousy of the gods, Chen Qingzhi's troops were invincible and invincible in the northern expedition of Wei, but they would eventually come to an end here. In August, the rain increased, and the heavy rain caused the river to swell, and Chen Qingzhi's troops were completely scattered under the onslaught of the pursuing soldiers and the heavy flood. Chen Qingzhi jumped into the river alone and saved his life with his excellent water skills. He shaved his hair and beard all the way, stole a robe from the temple drying rack, disguised himself as a monk, abandoned the main road, and escaped from Ruyin by picking up inaccessible paths, and finally met a local named Cheng Daoyong in Yuzhou to help. When Xiao Yan of the Liang Dynasty heard the report of the officers and soldiers, he deliberately went to the city gate to greet him, and saw that the robe on his beloved general was torn, and his face was covered with dust, but he was unharmed.

Xiao Yan sighed: "This is not a general, and it is not a wealthy family, looking at the wind and clouds, so far." You can think deeply about the strategy, and the good will end. Open the Zhu door and treat guests, and promote the reputation of bamboo silk, isn't it a big husband! He greatly praised his achievements, and immediately awarded him the right guard general, the marquis of Yongxing County, and the fifteen hundred households. Chen Qingzhi's 7,000 white-robed army entered the Wei Dynasty, although it was finally defeated by natural disasters, but Chen Qingzhi was passed on by the people as the god of war, in December of the same year, Emperor Wu of Liang appointed Chen Qingzhi as the ruler of the festival, the governor of the Huai Zhu military, the general of Fenwu, and the assassin of Northern Yanzhou.