Linfen County, which is close to Fenshui. A few days ago, a team of 20,000 officers and soldiers was accommodated, and the general who led the team was named Jin Xuan.

It should have been an extremely honorable thing to be able to lead an army of more than 10,000 people to stay abroad, but for Jin Xuan, he was not happy at all. Jin Xuan knew very well in his heart that if it weren't for the defeat of Zhang Fei, a famous general who was originally stationed in Yang County, by the Fenshui River, he would not have been able to bear the heavy responsibility of garrisoning Hedong.

The current court is very clear that whoever is sent to garrison Hedong County is actually equivalent to pushing this person into the fire pit in disguise, because only one hill away from Hedong County is the largest county in the Jin Kingdom, Shangdang, where the main general of the Crouching Tiger Army, Li Jinwu, is in a bad mood one day, it is very likely that he will bring a team of men and horses to break into Hedong and clean up the 20,000 horses of the imperial court.

After the mutual "courtesy" of the bigwigs in the DPRK and China, everyone unanimously agreed to let Jin Xuan serve as the chief general stationed in Hedong, so the unlucky Jin Xuan had to greet the female dependents of the ministers in his heart, and then went to Linfen in Hedong County to take office. Originally, the imperial court wanted him to lead a team to Yang County, but Jin Xuan refused to live or die, so he had to give up.

Jin Xuan, Ziyuan Machine, Jingzhao people. He was originally a descendant of Jin Riyan, a famous minister of the Western Han Dynasty, and once served as the Huangmen Shilang and Hanyang Taishou, and successively served as an official and a Zhonglang general. This person's ability and talent can only be described by the word "ordinary", so after he came to Linfen this time, he made up his mind to stick to Linfen.

If the army of the Jin State really came to attack Linfen, Jin Xuan would hurry to Luoyang for help, if the court sat idly by, then he would not care so much, open the city gate and surrender directly. Anyway, I want Jin Xuan to be a substitute for the dead ghost, and I don't even have a door!

Sometimes people should be unlucky, and then they are really unlucky. What Jin Xuan was afraid of, he just came. Not long ago, there was really a force from the direction of Yong'an along Fenshui, although the number was only 5,000 people, but the young general who led the team was unusually violent, and he suffered several times for Jin Xuan in succession.

The young general in Jin Xuan's eyes is naturally Zhao Gang, the commander of the Crouching Tiger Cavalry Division who led the team into Hedong in the starry night.

How did Zhao Gang make Jin Xuan suffer? To deal with this "golden turtle" who was cowering in Linfen City and refused to fight, he used many tactics, such as creating something out of nothing, capturing thieves and capturing the king, and regarded the 20,000 Northern Army garrisoned in Linfen as a "guinea pig" to practice his hands, and really tossed Jin Xuan half to death, and finally became a caged bird and a prisoner.

At the beginning, Zhao Gang rushed to Linfen City with only 500 cavalry to scold the formation, and Jin Xuan at the head of the city saw that there was a bargain, so he sent 2,000 cavalry to rush out to arrest Zhao Gang. Zhao Gang pretended to be invincible, and fled in a hurry with his troops, and the defenders who chased out of the city were afraid that Zhao Gang's plan to divert the tiger from the mountain, so they only chased a short distance and turned around and returned to the city.

One day later, Zhao Gang came again with a thousand cavalry to scold the battle, and Jin Xuan at the head of the city was very annoyed, so he sent three thousand cavalry to rush out to arrest Zhao Gang. Zhao Gang then pretended to be invincible again, ran away with his troops, and chased the defenders out of the city this time with the courage to chase forward for a longer distance, and then he was still worried that he would fall into the ambush plan, so he stopped in moderation and returned to the city.

On the third day, Zhao Gang came back with 2,000 cavalry to curse the battle, and the annoyed Jin Xuan sent the only 5,000 cavalry in Linfen City to rush out to arrest Zhao Gang. Zhao Gang still pretended to be invincible, and fled upstream along the Fenshui with 5,000 cavalry of the Northern Army, and the defenders who chased out of the city chased some distance more than the last time.

This time, without waiting for the 5,000 pursuers to turn back, Zhao Gang's 3,000 cavalry ambushed on the side of the Fen River cut off their rear road. With the equal strength of the two sides, the 5,000 light cavalry from the Flying Tiger Army faced the 5,000 cavalry of the Northern Army, and there was no suspense about the result. After being killed and disabled by the Flying Tiger Army and nearly 2,000 people, the cavalry of the Northern Army completely collapsed, and the remaining 3,000 men and horses surrendered voluntarily and became prisoners of the cavalry division.

After handing over the weapons and ordnance of the surrendered Northern Army soldiers, Zhao Gang ordered the poor Northern Army soldiers to take off all the military uniforms they were wearing, leaving only a pair of pants to squat on the edge of the Fen River to blow the wind. Fortunately, it is now the summer season, and it is not only impossible to move after picking off clothes, but also relatively cool, otherwise the soldiers who surrendered in the Northern Army would have been offended.

Zhao Gang left 1,000 cavalry to guard the surrendered troops, and then quickly returned to Linfen with 4,000 men and horses. On the way, Zhao Gang divided the 4,000 people into two groups, of which the 2,000 people in front were wearing bloodstained Northern Army soldiers' uniforms and fled in panic on the war horses of Northern Army soldiers, while the back were 2,000 Crouching Tiger Cavalry struggling to pursue.

The soldiers defending the city saw the brothers desperately fleeing in front, and saw that they would be chased by the Crouching Tiger cavalry behind it in a short time, so they hurriedly opened the city gate and let the cavalry of the Northern Army enter the city to hide.

After Zhao Gang entered the city in the team, he led people to rush to the outside of the mansion where Jin Xuan was located, killed hundreds of guards in three times and five by two, and then rushed into the mansion to arrest Jin Xuan, who was still unaware.

At this time, Jin Xuan didn't need to send a distress letter to Luoyang, he expressed his willingness to surrender on the spot, and persuaded the remaining 15,000 soldiers of the Northern Army in the city to surrender together.

When Zhao Gang heard this, he was overjoyed, and he thought that he would have to persuade him for a long time, and even use some shady means to subdue Jin Xuan, but now it seems that he has overestimated the ethics and morality of the new leader of the "Hedong Garrison Command".

Cleanly and neatly packed up the 20,000 Hedong defenders, Zhao Gang imprisoned more than 17,000 troops in Linfen City, leaving 2,000 soldiers to garrison, and then he himself took 3,000 cavalry to start making trouble in Hedong and Hanoi two counties.

In order to expand the deterrent force and influence, Zhao Gang divided his 3,000 cavalry into three teams, one team went to Yanchi, Hedong to show off his might, and the other team went to Dayang County, which is across the river from Hongnong County, to make trouble.

Zhao Gang's purpose in doing this was to create large-scale chaos, so that Luoyang thought that the Jin army had approached the Yellow River, and to create greater political public opinion for the next step of the Hu people's siege of Chang'an.

Now that Huangfu Song's Northern Expeditionary Army has been abolished, Luoyang is facing a direct threat from the Jin army on the north bank of the Yellow River, and the Hu cavalry has also broken into the Guanzhong area, and the defenders in the Luoyang area will be anxious about the next step, and there is no time to look west. At that time, the "Jin Daily" will publish a few more editorials, causing the people of the world to question the imperial court, and the bigwigs above the court can think of an idea, except to seek peace with the Jin State or move the capital, I am afraid that there is no other way.

In this way, some of Zhao Xing's long-planned ideas can be put on the table in a grand manner, and Liu Bei, Zhuge Liang and others cannot agree.