In the direction of Linhai County, Zhang Guiqin led an army of 30,000 troops from Huiji County to Linhai.

Since Zhou Xun had already led his troops to Minzhou, under the response of the old Chen Qing Dynasty, Zhang Guili should join forces to conquer Linhai.

Subsequently, Chen Qing wantonly searched for and replenished the scholars who were connected with Zhou Xun in the county, and originally wanted to be escorted to Jiankang for disposal.

However, Zhang Gui beheaded these scholars directly in the camp, totaling more than 2,000 people.

This move also aroused Chen Qing's dissatisfaction, Chen Qing was also a member of the Shi clan, but Zhang Gui's iron-blooded treatment of the Shi clan couldn't help but make him feel a chill down his spine.

"Why is Lord Chen doing this, without the resistance of the Shi clan, wouldn't Lord Chen be able to better manage Linhai Yongjia?" While comforting Chen Qing, Zhang Gui led the army to continue southward to prepare to attack Yongjia.

However, it is obvious that Zhang Gui is no longer needed, Zang Hong conquered Yongjia County in only half a day, and when Zhang Gui led the army to Yongjia, he found that Yongjia had been recovered.

It was a familiar feeling again, Zhang Gui led people to rush into the manors of various families, and then searched carefully, and all those who exchanged letters with Zhou Xun were executed.

This move even Zang Hong was blindsided, although Zang Hong was the assassin of Minzhou, but he did not have a title.

Although Zhang Gui's official position is not as good as Zang Hong, but with the blessing of the title, Zang Hong can't stop Zhang Gui's behavior.

Now Zhedong has been pacified in less than half a month, but Zang Hong and Zhang Gui really don't know what to do when they get together.

At present, Yuzhang County is still confronting, and Zhou Xun's department is all the way to the south, Zang Hong does not know his true intentions, so he does not dare to act rashly.

However, Zhang Gui said: "Now that the armies of the two sides are combined with 50,000 here, if you attack Luling from Minzhou Xiaolu, what does the general think?" ”

Zang Hong's eyes then lit up, Minzhou does have a road that leads to Luling. Xiao Shi also knew this, but the reason why he didn't take precautions was because he knew that Zhou Xun was containing Zang Hong, and Zang Hong's own troops were limited, so he didn't dare to move lightly.

Now that Zhou Xun backstabbed Xiao Zhi and was on the way to Panyu, Minzhou was actually no longer in the way, so Zhang Gui and Zang Hong decided to lead the army to attack Luling.

In Gaoyao City, Wei Ran also had a general understanding of the situation in Jiaozhou after meeting Gaoyao merchants. After Xiao Che and Xiao Zhi conspired, the exploitation of Jiaozhou was even worse, and the Xian clan of the slang clan resisted Xiao Che fiercely, but because of the inconvenient transportation, the mainland did not know the details.

A greater part of the reason why Xiao Che wanted to conspire with Xiao Zhi to rebel was that he wanted to return to the prosperous land of the Southern Dynasty, where there were both internal strife and external troubles in Jiaozhou, and his life was not nourishing at all.

Just when Wei Ran was thinking about how to deal with Jiaozhou, Zhang Da suddenly rushed over and shouted: "Duke Qin, the last general has received the news that the traitor Zhou Xun conquered Panyu yesterday and occupied Xiao Shi's lair. ”

This news actually made Wei Ran slightly stunned, and Zhou Xun actually backstabbed Xiao Shi, which Wei Ran never expected.

"Isn't Zhou Xun attacking Minzhou? How could Panyu be conquered suddenly? ”

Zhang Da couldn't say it for a while, and after sorting out his emotions for a while, he said, "The last general heard that Zhou Xun had attacked Fuzhou for a long time, and Xiao Zhi did not support Zhou Xun, Zhou Xun chose to attack Panyu in a fit of anger, and the Panyu guard knew that the two were allies, so he did not take precautions." ”

Zhang Da's words made Wei Ran suddenly enlightened, so that the original plan would have to be changed.

Wei Ran pondered for a long time, and then said, "Immediately send troops to Qingyuan County." ”

Zhang Da was puzzled, and Wei Ran explained: "Now that Zhou Xun has captured Panyu, it is imperative to win people's hearts. Now, if we take the opportunity to send troops to Panyu, we will definitely make Zhou Xunxiao's men and horses the same enemy and make me an enemy. ”

Wei Ran then walked a few steps and said: "If the troops are sent to Qingyuan, then Shaozhou will be conquered." In this way, not only Xiao Zhi could not advance or retreat, but even Zhou Xun had nowhere to go, so he could only wait for death in Panyu City. ”

Wei Ran then ignored his illness and personally led 30,000 troops to Qingyuan.

Outside Yuzhang City, Xiao Zhi couldn't drag it out any longer, so Du Wenyu led the army to fight with Yuan Huzhi in the city.

The two sides fought in the plains, and Du Wenyu led the elite to break through Yuan Huzhi's first line of defense and rush to Xiao Ju's army.

Yuan Huzhi and his son Yuan Python were also scattered in the chaos, Xiao Ju sat in the Chinese army, saw his formation retreat, and urgently ordered Hengxuan to lead 10,000 troops to reinforcements.

After Heng Xuan led the army into the battlefield, Yuan Huzhi's pressure was greatly reduced. Then began to organize a counterattack offensive.

Seeing this, Xiao Che ordered the general Zhou Chong to lead 5,000 cavalry and enter the Xiao Ju array from both sides.

With the addition of the cavalry of the new forces, Xiao Ju's army was soon stopped by the cavalry and divided into two ends, and the front and rear armies lost contact.

Xiao Ju was shocked, but fortunately, the general Liu Hu controlled the situation of the Chinese army at this time, and the Chinese army in front of Xiao Ju did not collapse.

Liu Hu gathered 5,000 men and horses, and reflexively rushed towards Zhou Chong.

Xiao Ju persuaded Xiao Ju to avoid the edge for the time being.

Xiao Ju hesitated, and Cui He said at this time: "Now that the army is fighting to the death, Your Majesty must not retreat lightly. This is a thief army trapped in the beast fighting, and if Your Majesty retreats today, the morale will plummet. ”

The surrounding ministers of the scholar clan drank one after another: "What do you mean, Your Majesty is now in danger, and there is a loss of appearance?" ”

"Our army is far superior to the rebels, and His Majesty is driving the expedition in person, the morale is high, the thief army is trapped in the beast fight, so the morale is high, and the morale will fall if the attack cannot be achieved for a long time, although the current army formation of our army is retreating, but the formation is not completely scattered, and the two generals Liu Yuan will organize the formation, and the thief army will be defeated." Cui He said angrily.

Xiao Ju stood on top of the imperial sword, looking at the military formation not far away, and sure enough, as Cui Huan said, although it was a little scattered, it was still able to maintain a complete formation, and Liu Hu had already filled the gap at this time.

Xiao Ju breathed a sigh of relief, and then walked to the high platform war drum and personally beat the drums for the soldiers.

Encouraged by the sound of drums, the morale of the Southern Qi army was high and gradually stabilized the battle situation.

Du Wenyu had already entered the Chinese army at this time, and he was about to tear apart the formation and go straight to Xiao Ju, but Liu Hu blocked his way.

Liu Hu didn't talk nonsense, he raised a knife and slashed, and Du Wenyu also waved a knife to greet him.

His subordinates also fought together, and in a moment, the battlefield was divided into three parts.

Yuan Python, the son of Yuan Huzhi, fell off the horse by the spear, everyone thought that Yuan Python was dead, the news reached Yuan Huzhi's ears, Yuan Huzhi was grief-stricken, and the killing intent was even worse, carrying five hundred personal guards, and went directly to the direction of Yuan Python to kill the general.

At this time, Yuan Python had already stood up from the ground, grabbed a horse, and got up to fight again with a spear in hand, and was wounded in many places, bleeding nonstop, but still did not retreat.

The morale of the Southern Qi soldiers was greatly boosted, and the rebels' northern army formation gradually could not support it, Yuan Huzhi led five hundred guards to kill at this time, and the rebels thought that the south had been defeated, and the northern army was directly defeated, and Yuan Python took the opportunity to cover up.

Seeing that his son was safe and sound, Yuan Huzhi breathed a sigh of relief, and then turned around and re-attacked the rebels' southern military formation.

Du Wenyu had already repelled Liu Hu at this time, and Liu Hu had multiple gunshot wounds on his body and was forced to withdraw from the battlefield.

Du Wenyu had already led dozens of people to rush out of the camp at this moment and went straight to Xiao Ju.

Seeing Xiao Ju above the Imperial Palace, the desire in Du Wenyu's heart finally overcame reason, and he didn't care about the surrounding guards at all, and only wanted Xiao Ju's head.

Xiao Ju couldn't help but be shocked when he saw someone with a gun not far away, and said, "Who is this person?" ”

"Your Majesty, it should be the first fierce general under Xiao Zhi's account, Du Wenyu."

"Your Majesty, hurry up and abandon the royal sword, and retreat on horseback, the thief will be killed soon." The ministers of the left and right were already frightened at this time.

Cui He took a step forward at this time and said, "Your Majesty, don't panic, the thief general has been out of touch with the soldiers, and there are only four or five guards around him, how can he get close to His Majesty." ”

Then Cui He held a longbow, held his breath and concentrated, and then shot an arrow, this arrow is this kind of Du Wenyu war horse.

Du Wenyu's war horse was directly pierced through the head by a long arrow, Du Wenyu's horse stumbled, and fell ten meters away from Xiao Ju, Xiao Ju's side of the Royal Forest Army took this opportunity to rush up, Du Wenyu had no war horse at the moment, so he had to fight with a knife.

However, Xiao Ju's personal guards around the Imperial Forest were personally trained by Wei Ran, everyone was carrying shields and spears, and after a short time, they surrounded Du Wenyu in the center and set up a shield, Du Wenyu was trapped in the shield array, no matter how he slashed and killed, he couldn't break through the formation.

"Catch it alive." At this time, Cui He shouted.

Then the spear stabbed out from behind the shield, and Du Wenyu was able to dodge. But spears came one after another from all sides.

Du Wenyu smiled bitterly: "It's just ten meters away." O God! It's just ten meters away. ”

Then closed his eyes and waited for death, but the spear did not pierce into Du Wenyu's body, and Du Wenyu was put in the spear array, and then everyone worked backwards together, Du Wenyu was directly overturned to the ground, was dropped his weapon, and tied to Xiao Ju.

Xiao Ju glanced at Du Wenyu, and then waved his hand, causing Du Wenyu to be escorted down.

At this time, Yuan Huzhi had also defeated the rebels' southern formation, and Zhou Chong fled directly into the wilderness.

Yuan Python and Yuan Huzhi turned around and attacked the remnants of Xiao Zhi together with the Chinese army in front of Xiao Ju, and the remnants of Xiao Zhi could no longer find the main general at this time, so they lost their fighting spirit and laid down their weapons and chose to surrender.

Zhou Chong fled back to the city in embarrassment, and Xiao Shi saw that Du Wenyu had not returned, so he hurriedly asked, "Where is General Du?"

"I don't know."

Xiao Shi saw that there was no movement on the battlefield, and he couldn't help but sigh: "General Du seems to have been martyred. ”

But then Xiao Shi said dejectedly: "Today can be described as a fiasco, what should we do now?" ”

"Your Majesty, you can still gather your troops and horses to fight again. I look at the army of Xiao Torch, and there are very few people who can fight. It's just that it has an advantage in numbers, and it is no longer Wei Ran's bravery. Now that Xiao Ju's elite is in eastern Zhejiang, this is the last chance. Zhou Chong hurriedly said.

"No matter how bad it is, we can retreat to Guangzhou, hold on to Shaozhou, and then connect to Jiaozhou. Divide one side. ”

After listening to Zhou Chong's words, Xiao Zhi was also silent for a long time, and he was too naïve to think about it against the entire imperial court with a state and several counties.

Fan Hong said at this time: "The king's morale is the most important thing now. The top priority is to boost morale. ”

"How?"

"The king ascended the throne as emperor on the same day, rewarded the three armies, and added officials to the knighthood. Only in this way can everyone fight to the death. Fan Hong said suddenly.

In fact, Fan Hong's words are not unreasonable, now Luling County, Yuzhang County and some of the attached scholars in Xiangzhou have no official positions, Xiao Shi ascended the throne and became the emperor, he can be rewarded wantonly, or he can fight hard.

After Xiao Zhi carefully analyzed, he said: "Just follow Fan Aiqing's words." ”

The next day, Xiao Shi ascended the throne in Yuzhang and became emperor, changed the name of the country to Yue, appointed Zhou Chong as the Great Sima, Fan Hong as the Dazai, and the rest of the scholars were all rewarded, and at the same time the amnesty was granted to the world, and the civil and military officials in the Xiao Ju array were also divided into official positions.

After Xiao Ju heard the news, he couldn't cry or laugh, especially when he heard that he was named the king of Linhai by Xiao Shi, Xiao Ju could only be surprised.

At this time, there was also good news in Jiankang Taicheng.

Queen Yang is pregnant, this news reached the ears of Xiao Ju on the front line, Xiao Ju's spirit couldn't help but cheer up, whether it is a man or a woman, the queen is pregnant, it is always a happy event in the world.

Cui He then took advantage of this opportunity to announce an amnesty for the world, and at the same time pardoned Yuzhang, Luling County was coerced for the crime of rebellion against the Shi clan.

This made many people in Xiao Shi's camp waver, and every day someone secretly went out of the city to surrender to Xiao Ju.

Xiao Zhi's heart was scattered, and there were only less than 40,000 soldiers and horses in his hands.

After occupying Yuzhang for more than ten days, Xiao Zhi also felt that the general trend had gone, and Xiao Ju's army was not in a hurry to attack the city at all, but what made Xiao Zhi even more frightened was that the grain and grass had not yet been delivered, and the messenger sent out had not returned.

This gave Xiao Zhi a very bad premonition.

Just when Xiao Zhi was panting, a shocking news reached Xiao Zhi's ears that Luling County had been broken by the Southern Qi army, and the connection with Guangzhou had been cut off, and Zhang Gui had sent troops to attack Xiangzhou.