King Huai'an's Northwest Field Army did not accept the prince's order to withdraw to the northwest, on the contrary, they continued to increase their troops in the cities around Ning'an City and Luochuan, and they had the posture of "not accepting the orders of the emperor outside".

It is also said that King Huai'an has been stationed in the northwest for more than 30 years, and the greatest pleasure is to compete with the Beidi people, if he can obediently listen to the words of the imperial court and withdraw the army, it would be strange, not to mention, it was not the emperor who issued the order, but the prince who had "coerced the Son of Heaven to order the princes". King Huai'an hasn't put the crown prince in his eyes yet.

As a rising star in the army, Rong Zhe has to say that his methods are indeed unique. Although he has not yet seen any new tricks in his conquest, it is more than enough to garrison the city. Listening to the spies, Rong Zhe is researching some new weapons. Hey, after suffering such a big loss, Yin Persistent Evil doesn't dare to fight Ning Ancheng's idea now.

Since there is no way out of retreat, why not move forward? Zhou Xuan has taken control of the situation, and the situation seems to be very good. If he can do a small favor in the process of Zhou Xuan's succession, then Beidi will get more benefits. Yin and evil are thinking in their hearts.

The first thing to solve is naturally the nail of Huanglongcheng.

Now only Zhou Jue is in charge of Huanglong City.

Yin and evil don't know Zhou Jue, but he is a gentleman in the capital of the Zhou Dynasty. Although he had fifty or sixty thousand cavalry brought over by the sixteen states of Yanyun in his hands, the most important thing in the war was the generals. There is a saying that "if a soldier instigates one, he will instigate a nest".

Yin Zhiyi first sent the general Dol Guomu to lead his troops to break through the siege, and fought fiercely with the Yan army for a whole hour, almost all the army was wiped out, and Dol Guomu was seriously injured. Then he sent the Dutong Alliance to break through again, still suffering heavy losses.

At this moment, Yin and Evil discovered that the little-known Zhou Jue did seem to have some ability.

But just when he was in a dilemma, his soldiers conveyed a message to him, which made him excited again.

It turned out that when the New Year was approaching, the soldiers of the Great Zhou Dynasty who fought with the army had a feeling of homesickness, thinking that when their parents, wives and children were reunited, they were regarded as rebels and fought with a group of Beidi barbarians. This mood is getting higher and higher, adding a bit of bleakness to the desolate town.

Zhou Jue didn't have any real solution, after all, his situation was more worthy of sympathy. He was a dignified prince, and he should have warmed wine in the gentle village of the palace to ward off the cold, but now he didn't even want much hot water. His brothers are fighting each other, and his father is not known to be alive or dead. How can he live on such a cold day?

So Zhou Jue ordered to buy wine and meat from the surrounding towns. At first, the soldiers pretended to hide their identities, and it didn't take long to stop worrying. Many soldiers wore the armor of the Yan army and swaggered to the nearby towns to buy wine and food, and occasionally bought some New Year's ornaments and other things, as if they had a good New Year.

Beidi spies secretly looked under the Yellow Dragon City, and could often see the soldiers on the city wall holding roast lamb legs in their hands and feasting, and the oil residue on their faces could make people clearly feel the aroma of meat.

This lasted for nearly ten days, but the Beidi people were greedy. The soldiers of the Great Zhou Dynasty are people, and the soldiers of Beidi are also people! Now there is a shortage of food in Luochuan City, even if you count all the food looted here and there, it will not last for the New Year.

The people of Beidi are all cursing Zhou Jue angrily, this gentleman, who enjoys all the blessings in the barracks, and also cooperates to bully people!

However, Yin Evil did not get angry because of this, on the contrary, he was very happy. He believes that Zhou Jue is young after all, and he can't stand the hard work of the barracks, even if he has a little ability to lead soldiers, it is just like a gust of wind, and he can't last long. Now that the Great Zhou army is undisciplined, it is a good time to attack.

Yin and evil are waiting for a great opportunity.

The opportunity was not long in coming.

Beidi spies reported that many soldiers came out of Huanglong City today, batch after batch, all with empty grain trucks, thinking that they came to buy grain. Just now, there was a team of grain and grass from Da Zhou escorting grain and grass back to the city, passing through the Luochuan Shoal, looking at the mighty and mighty, about 3,000 people. The grain cart escorted by these people was bulging, and in addition to grain and grass, pork and beef were also faintly seen.

The case was taken by the evil man: copy the guy!

Yin Zhixiao made a simple deployment, he divided his soldiers and horses into three teams: a team of 70,000, responsible for robbing the grain and grass in the Luochuan Shoal, a team of 30,000, to attack Huanglong City, which has become an empty city, must capture Zhou Jue alive, and the remaining 30,000 soldiers guard Luochuan and prepare reinforcements.

Yin stubborn and evil laughed secretly, Zhou Yu and his Yan army were known as invincible, I don't know how he would feel in a few days when he knew that his 50,000 army had been buried in the hands of his own brother.

Zhou Yu, who was about to arrive at Chang'an City, was actually not in a bad mood, although he had just learned that Zhao Jun was already close at hand.

The Zhao army was stationed in Weinan, across the river from the Yan army.

The commander of the Zhao army is called Guan Lei.

Although Guan Lei's name is very imposing, this person is actually very thin. People in their thirties, who have been training in the military camp for five or six years, are still white and pure, and when they speak, they like to squint their eyes, as if they are trying to grasp the deep meaning of each other's every word.

He was not from a military background, but a scholar. He was a former Tanhualang, originally stayed in the Yushitai, with a bright future, but unfortunately once when he went to the court, he "untimely" impeached the military department and had no officials to protect him, and the military department set up a set for him, so that he could "work hard" and went to the Zhao army camp to be a small staff.

In less than a year, they solved the remaining problems such as the consumption of military salaries, military style and discipline, and the system of changing defenses and transfers, so they were unanimously praised by the whole military camp, so they were promoted by Ye Song, the former commander of the Zhao Army, and rose step by step until the position of the military division.

At the end of the summer of the previous year, Beidi invaded on a large scale, and the length of the battle line was unprecedented, reaching west to Kangcheng, the base camp of the Northwest Field Army, and eastward to Haocheng, the northeastern border city. Zhou Yu was commanding the Yan army to resist Beidi in a small town called Heng County, but he was too late to rescue and was forced to ask the Zhao army for help.

The whole campaign lasted for two months, during which Zhou Yu ran around and didn't have time to meet with his brother troops, but his attention to Zhao Jun did not stop for a moment, especially the large-scale military advisor.

There is a small river outside the city, but it is not really famous, not only because it is not wide enough, but also because it is so sparsely populated that there is not even a person to name it.

The Northern Di general Dolbulle led an army of 30,000 troops stationed in the upper reaches of the river, surrounded by mountains and rivers, easy to defend and difficult to attack.

At that time, after many encounters between the enemy and our armies, there were victories and defeats against each other, and it happened that it rained for four or five consecutive days, and the soldiers on both sides were very tired, so they had to temporarily rest their troops and wait for the rain to stop fighting again.

It's a pity that Dolbuller is still too honest, he really stopped the army, but Zhao Jun has some "small actions".

Zhou Yu heard that the rain that year was really heavy.

Ye Song, who was the commander of the Zhao army at the time, listened to the advice of the military advisor Guan Lei, sent 3,000 soldiers, and piled up a large number of rocks in the lower reaches of the river at night, causing the water level of the river to rise sharply due to the heavy rain for a long time.

Dorbulle's garrison was backed by a mountain and the water was not easy to pour, and it was spectacular to watch tens of thousands of soldiers drowned alive like landlubbers, and their corpses floated and covered the river tightly.

Since then, this river, which flooded 30,000 Beidi troops, has been called the "Dumpling River", because all those who have experienced this battle say that those floating corpses are like dumplings turned over in a pot.

After that, the Zhao army struck while the iron was hot and successively exterminated several Beidi forces that harassed the northeastern border cities, providing strong support for the Yan army. Guan Lei's fame has risen.

Just a month ago, Ye Songding's mother was worried about her resignation, and when she left, she submitted a table to the court, asking for the power of commanding the army to be handed over to Guan Lei, and as a result, Guan Lei sat on the top spot of Zhao Jun.

In general, Zhou Yu has no friendship with Guan Lei, but he does have some admiration for this person, and he can be called a god friend for a long time. When I met on the battlefield today, there was an indescribable surprise.

The deputy commander of the Zhao army was Chai Guangyun.

If you want to say that in the year of walking around with Ji Ying, the one of the generals you have seen can make Zhou Yu remember it vividly, then you have to talk about Chai Guangyun, who has only one side.