The Tang State was preparing for war on its side, and the countries of the Central Plains were not idle.

In the year 3064 (367) of the Kaiyuan Dynasty, Murong Ke died of illness as everyone speculated. Unfortunately, another pillar of the Yang Crane also died of illness in the same year, and the Yan Kingdom fell into a brief period of chaos.

This is a good opportunity to attack the Yan Kingdom, Huan Wen immediately played and wanted to take the opportunity to send troops, and then the court blocked him back with a word:

Not long ago, the imperial court asked you to attack the Tang Kingdom, and you said that the veteran soldiers of the division could not move within two years of fatigue, so why did you have to go on the Northern Expedition in less than a year? Is it that General Huan is afraid of the Tang Kingdom, or is it deliberately deceiving the imperial court?

Huan Wen was so angry that he almost vomited blood, but he couldn't regret what he said in public, so he could only give up this opportunity.

The Jin State does not move, but there are people who want to move, and that is the Qin State.

Since Fu Jian ascended the throne, he has been recuperating and accumulating national strength, and at this time, his strength has recovered, and he is ready to take this opportunity to conquer the Yan Kingdom.

At least you have to gnaw a few pieces of fat from Yan Guo.

However, before he could send troops to the country, he was in chaos first, and it was not others who rebelled but the clan surnamed Fu: Fu Liu, Fu Shuang, Fu Wu, and Fu Di.

Speaking of which, this rebellion was caused by Fu Jian's too much kindness to women, just look at the identities and experiences of these four people.

Fu Jian is the emperor who killed Fu Sheng, Fu Xuan, Fu Liu, and Fu Wu are all Fu Sheng's younger brothers, you killed someone else's brother and took the throne, do you still expect others to give you your life?

And Fu Shuang's identity is even more worth mentioning, he is Fu Jian's half-brother and half-mother.

What's even more speechless is that these people are not the first time to rebel, Fu Jian attaches too much importance to feelings and repeated pardons, as if it never happened.

He hoped to move everyone with his broad mind, but in the end, he only touched himself.

This problem continued throughout Fu Jian's life, and he was not only unprincipled and tolerant of his own people, even his enemies and his generals.

Rebellion, huh? It's okay, I'll forgive you. Is it an enemy who would rather die than surrender? I appreciate you, forgive and reuse.

In the end, this problem pushed him hard at a critical moment, making him completely fall into the abyss and become the 'idiom' emperor ridiculed by everyone.

Let's say that in front of him, the four clans rebelled, how could he still have the strength to attack the Yan State, so he could only lead the troops to quell the rebellion.

Taking advantage of this gap, Yan Guo completed the alternation of power.

Emperor Murong Wei was young and had to find a minister to come out to assist him, although Murong Ke strongly recommended Murong Chui.

However, the Empress Dowager Kezuhun hated Murong Trai very much, and also framed and killed his first wife, how could he let him rule.

Under the influence of his parents, the young emperor Murong Wei also disliked Murong Chui very much and didn't want him to take the throne.

After a power struggle, the most incompetent Murong Ping became the auxiliary minister.

This Murong Ping showed the world how wonderful he was within a few days of taking office.

The four Fu clansmen of the Qin State rebelled, but none of them were opponents of the pair of Fu Jian and Wang Meng, and three of them were quickly put down.

In 3065 (368), Fu Xuan, who knew that nothing could be done, was ready to take Luozhou to Yanguo.

Good guy, Luozhou is the gateway to the Qin State, and if the Yan State gets here, it can directly threaten Guanzhong.

After the news came out, Fu Jian was frightened, and personally led his troops to Huayin, that is, Tongguan, to arrange a defensive line.

Then something happened that made the world jaw-dropping, and Murong Ping, who had just taken power, refused.

The reason is also very strange, it is good for countries to maintain the status quo and not cause trouble.

Fu Jian did not hesitate to hear the news, and quickly led his troops to quell the rebellion and stabilize the situation again.

But at this time, the Yan State had also completed the change of power and stabilized the situation, and the Qin State had lost the opportunity to crusade.

In the end, the three kingdoms of Qin, Yan, and Jin actually got together again, which disappointed the monarchs and ministers of the Tang State, who had been staring at the situation in the Central Plains.

I thought they could fight, so they could take advantage of the chaos to send troops, but they were happy in vain.

But things obviously won't go so smoothly, the variables still come from Murong Ping, and it's not an exaggeration to describe him in one sentence: real brain-dead people will always refresh human cognition.

A man named Yue Wan said that since the death of the king of Taiyuan, the Xianbei aristocracy has lost its restraint and become increasingly corrupt.

They also imitated the scholars of the Jin kingdom and moved the people to their fiefdoms and hid them. It won't be long before the country has no one to use, and no taxes can be collected.

Murong Wei didn't look at his young age but was not confused, so he promoted Yue Juan and put him in charge of investigating and dealing with this matter.

Yue Wan is also very capable, and within a few months, she snatched back 200,000 people from the nobles.

Fortunately, he became a thorn in the side of the Xianbei nobles, and he died violently not long after, and the cause of death became a mystery.

But all kinds of signs show that it is inseparable from Murong Ping.

Murong Ping did this, not to mention the people below, the Xianbei nobles lost their restraint and quickly became corrupt, and Yan Guo's family foundation was gradually hollowed out.

In less than two years, Murong Ping and Ke Zuhun almost lost the family wealth left by Murong Jun and Murong Ke, and Yan Guo was only an empty shell.

In 3066 (369), the two-year period had arrived, and Huan Wen, who had long been insane, completely ignored the dissuasion of the imperial court and decided to wave his army to the Northern Expedition.

However, during these two years, he was not idle, not only forming an army in Jingzhou to accumulate grain and grass, but also letting his younger brother Huan Chong go to be the assassin of Jiangzhou and form an army in Jiangzhou.

Before sending troops, he and Xi Chao calculated a handful of Xuzhou Thorn Shi Xi Su, transferred Xi Su to Huiji County, and led Xu Yan Erzhou Assassin Shi and annexed the Xuzhou Army.

Yuzhou Assassin Xie Yi is his old subordinate, and now many of the Xie family's children are serving under him, including Xie Xuan.

In this case, Xie Yi had no choice but to support his Northern Expedition.

It can be said that Huan Wen's Northern Expedition gathered troops from Shudi, Jingzhou, Xuzhou, Jiangzhou, and Yuzhou, which is almost equivalent to more than half of the elite of the Jin Kingdom.

It's barely a battle for the country.

When the news broke, the world was shaken, and countries reacted quickly.

On the side of Yan Kingdom, Murong Wei and Murong Ping were frightened, and hurriedly fled back to the old capital Dragon City, and a large number of Xianbei nobles also fled.

But there are also some people who decide to fight to the death, and the representative figure is Murong Chui.

At this time, Murong Ping and Ke Zuhun were not in the mood to engage in infighting, so they entrusted him with carte blanche to resist Huan Wen.

While Murong Chui was arranging the defense line, he sent people to the Qin State to ask for help.

You know the truth of cold lips and teeth, right? And I don't want you to help in vain, and after repelling Huan Wen, we ceded Xuchang and other places to you.

What kind of people are Fu Jian and Wang Meng, how could they not understand this truth, so they decided to send troops to fight against Huan Wen.

But Huan Wen, who had been holding back for two years, was far more ferocious than they imagined, first attacking Hulu and capturing the general Murong Zhong alive, and then entering Jinxiang.

However, God seems to be joking with Huan Wen, and the successive droughts have caused the river to dry up, making it impassable for the water army.

The only advantage of the Jin army, which lacks horses, is the water army, what if the river can't go? Is it a retreat?

Huan Wen naturally didn't want to retreat like this, the drought was right? Is there a lack of water? I dug a river to bring water from the Yellow River.

So the requisitioned people re-excavated a new 300-mile-long river channel on the basis of the old river.

However, time has passed, and by the time the river is dug and the Jinxiang is laid, the weather has turned cooler, and it is about to enter the autumn and winter, and the dry period of the Yellow River is coming.

The water shortage of the Yellow River has little impact on the Yellow River and its main tributaries, but the impact on the artificial channels that depend on the existence of the Yellow River is fatal.

Don't forget that Huan Wen had just dug an artificial river for three hundred miles in front of him, and if there was no water, their sailors would be trapped here.

Now he is faced with two choices, either bypass Fangtou and attack Yecheng, the capital of Yan State, to fight quickly, or stick to the river on the spot and wait for next year's flood season to fight again.

In the original history, Huan Wen chose the third way, attacking Fangtou, and then ended up with a bad ending.

However, compared to the original history, the current situation faced by Huan Wen is much better.

Originally, in history, he sent Yuan Zhen, the assassin of Yuzhou, to attack Shimen, trying to open up the Cao transportation channel, but unfortunately failed, resulting in the military rations in the rear could not be transported to the battlefield in time.

In the end, due to strategic miscalculation and lack of food, the battle of Fangtou was lost, and the reputation of the first generation was ruined.

But in this life, Xie Yi did not die, and the strength of the Yuzhou army was much stronger than in the original history, and Shimen was successfully defeated.

With Caoyun, there is no need to worry about food.

But what hasn't changed is that Huan Wen, like in the original history, chose to have a decisive battle with Murong Chui in Fangtou.

And Murong Trai also knew that he couldn't win Huan Wen on his own, so he couldn't delay it, and wanted to wait for the reinforcements from the Qin State to arrive before starting a decisive battle.

A three-kingdom war is about to begin.

Just when the eyes of the people in the world were attracted by the fangtou, a lurking tiger quietly revealed its sharp claws.

The Tang State sent troops.