Pei Tu asked people to guard the prisoners, and then after discussing with Wei Wu, he decided to let Wei Wu take the Tianxiong army and half of his own troops and horses to Ochre Qi to prepare for Wei Ran's siege.

Since Wei Ran defeated Hengheng in the battle with a centrifugal meter a few days ago, the two sides began to start a tug-of-war on the periphery of ochre.

They tested each other, but Wei Ran's department was gradually unable to support it.

After Hengheng captured Wei Ran's previous camp, the captured grain and grass were enough to support it for a while.

And the soldiers of Wei Ran's two battalions now only have one camp to store grain, and the river road is blocked by Hengheng, so it is impossible to transport grain in.

Wei Ran analyzed the current situation, and now he was injured and couldn't break through on horseback, so Wei Ran said ashamedly: "I didn't expect that I dragged Brother Cui down today." ”

Cui Huan didn't answer Wei Ran's words, but said: "Now the only way to gather troops is to fight to the death with Hengheng." Or you can send someone out of the camp at night, contact General Pei Tu in Quewei, and ask him to withdraw his troops to ochre, and then the two sides should join forces to repel Hengheng in one fell swoop, and then the army retreated to the east and west Liangshan to garrison. ”

This Liangshan is not the well-known Water Margin Liangshan, but in Anhui Province, Xiliang Mountain is located 36 kilometers south of Hexian County, this mountain overlooks the river, and Wuhu City Dongliang Mountain Jiajiang confrontation. Like a heavenly portal, it is now called Tianmen Mountain.

Wei Ran was a little calculating in his heart, now the army's combat strength is about 30,000 people, if you want Pei Tu to transfer back, the inside and outside can indeed break through successfully, but since then Wei Ran's previous strategic goal has been lost, defending the east and west Liangshan, there is also a drawback, that is, if Hengxuan is uniting with Northern Qin, then the troops north of the Yangtze River will be extremely dangerous.

Therefore, Wei Ran has been eating and eating without agreeing, in the past, when he led the army to attack Jiankang, Xiao Luan colluded with Northern Qin, and did not dare to defend Liangshan, and now the troops of Northern Qin and Huainan are jointly attacking Southern Yuzhou with Hengxuan, how can he be so gullible.

However, for the sake of insurance, Wei Ran still asked people to contact Pei Tu first, wanting to check the situation of Pei Tu now.

Hengheng was very tightly surrounded before, so Wei Ran didn't have a good chance to break through, and now Hengheng's encirclement is looser than before, and there is a high probability that Wei Ran wants to relax his vigilance and break through, and then Hengheng then covers up.

But this is also easy for Wei Ran to release spies, so after discussing with Cui He, Wei Ran let people break through and go to Magpie Tail.

"Now the grain and grass can last for three days, if the battle in Peitu is unfavorable, we have to force a breakthrough." Wei Ran said with emotion: "Your Majesty will definitely send troops to save us, but now the situation in Jiankang is not optimistic, and the Jiankang defenders must not be taken lightly, otherwise the Northern Qin will attack, and Jiankang will be powerless to resist." ”

But for Wei Ran's opinion, Cui Huan had a different opinion: "King Qin's words are wrong, Your Majesty will definitely send someone to rescue, but for some reason, the reinforcements should have arrived long ago." But there is no one to lead the troops, and it is very likely that the generals deliberately delayed the advance, after all, the Manchu Dynasty is an adult opponent, not a teammate. ”

Listening to Cui Huan's ridiculous words, Wei Ran could only smile helplessly. In fact, what Cui Huan said is not unreasonable, he has made too many enemies in the court, and when he is in trouble, most of the ministers in the court are standing on the opposite side of him, and it is naturally difficult for him to exert his fists and feet.

"After this is over, it seems that we still have to clear a wave of courts." Wei Ran said coldly at this time.

Just when Wei Ran was thinking about how to break through, another big battle broke out in the direction of Qianxi.

Xiao Gui, the king of Chu, gathered tens of thousands of troops and horses, and when Xiao Yun was arrested and the Qi army was lax, he suddenly crossed the river and launched an attack on the Qi army.

At this time, Wei Wu had not yet returned, Xiao Yi was still in the camp tent and catching up with Xiao Yun, and under surprise, Xiao Yi defeated the Qi army stationed on the east bank.

Xiao Yi's remnants of the Xiangzhou army had no choice but to retreat all the way, but fortunately, Xiao Yi's troops fought bravely, although Xiao Gui landed on the shore and successfully set up a village by the river, but the Xiangzhou army did not retreat to Qianxi Dazhai, but gained a firm foothold at a distance of five miles from Xiao Gui.

When Xiao Yi learned the news and tied Xiao Yun to the front of the battle, Xiao Gui's army was greatly moved, the offensive was sharply reduced, and it was impossible to pursue the victory, and the two sides confronted each other five miles apart on the east bank.

But what no one noticed was that Wang Xian on the Yiyang side, after the news that Xiao Yun had crossed the river and was captured reached his ears, he decisively sent troops to take over the previous defense line and control the main road between Jiangzhou and Qianxi.

Such a military action made Xiao Gui's confidence skyrocket, and Xiao Yi was worried at the moment.

Wang Xian has about 50,000 people on his body, and all of them are the elite of the frontier, and this combat power cannot be underestimated.

Now that Xiao Gui has successfully landed and set up camp, as long as Wang Xian also lands, then there will naturally be enough superior forces to defeat the defenders of Qianxi.

So Xiao Gui immediately sent a letter to Wang Xian, asking him to prepare for support, cooperate with the battle, defeat Xiao Yi in one fell swoop, and rescue Xiao Yun.

But Wang Xian, who received the letter, was very entangled at the moment.

In the tent, Wang Xian held the letter, looked at the staff and said, "What is it now? At the beginning, the King of Qin ordered me to pretend to be with Xiao Yin all the way, waiting for an opportunity to backstab Xiao Yin, and my husband asked me to take the opportunity to enter the riverside, which did not make Xiao Yin suspicious, because Xiao Yun was arrested, and this place always needs someone to guard. But now Xiao Gui has ordered me to cross the river to fight, if I cross the river to cooperate with Xiao Gui, Xiao Yi will collapse, and my wife will be in trouble. If I cross the river and backstab Xiao Hui at this time, even though I can win a big victory, it will ruin King Qin's plan. ”

The staff in front of Wang Xian was Du Fusang, a famous man in Yiyang.

Of course, Du Fusang knew Wang Xian's situation and knew his worries, but Du Fusang was not anxious, but just said: "Why should the general worry, our army has been standing still before, because we want to guard against Northern Qin, and now we can reply to Xiao Gui, just say that Northern Qin is about to move recently, so our army should not move lightly." Before Yuan Yi led the army out of Yongzhou, Xiangfan was already empty, and if our army was scattered, it would be completely lost north of the Yangtze River. ”

Wang Xian's face was overjoyed, and then he replied to Xiao Gui with this.

After Xiao Gui saw the return of the book, he scolded angrily: "Wang Xian, he just wants to preserve his strength." ”

But what Xiao Gui didn't know was that Xiao Liang, the king of Han who was sitting in Jiangling at the moment, received a fact that made him collapse.

Chengdu fell, and Sima Linhai surrendered.

When Xiao Liang heard the news, he immediately fell to the ground in shock, and was even speechless for a short time.

The generals on the left and right were shocked when they saw this, and they were about to pick up the letter and read it.

Xiao Liang was suddenly anxious and wanted to stop it, but he found that he was weak, obviously stimulated.

After the generals read the letter, they were all immediately cold, and everyone looked at Xiao Liang.

After a long time, Xiao Liang stabilized his mind and said to the generals: "This news must be blocked and not let the soldiers know." ”

Although everyone agreed, their hearts were full of thoughts.

After a long silence in the house, someone finally spoke: "King, not only are the wives and children of the soldiers in Xichuan, but our family, including the king, has not been picked up in Chengdu. ”

Xiao Liang also regretted it very much at this time, he did not choose to bring the families of the main generals to Jiangling after he sat in Jiangling, just hoping to use this as a handle to restrain these generals and prevent them from defecting.

As for his own family, he thought that if the war was unfavorable, he would flee back to Chengdu, whether it was to negotiate conditions with Xiao Ju or with Northern Qin, there was always a way out, but now the retreat route has been cut off by Northern Qin.

Xiao Liang could only forcibly cheer up and said: "Everyone, I originally wanted to leave Chengdu as our retreat, but I didn't expect Sima Linhai, a remnant of the previous dynasty, to be a thief, and take advantage of our unpreparedness to surrender to Northern Qin to enjoy wealth, which is also unexpected by this king." ”

After speaking, Xiao Liang said: "For today's plan, the only way to do this is to block the news, not to mess up the morale of the army, and when we achieve a great cause, you can enjoy the glory and wealth, and there will be countless beautiful treasures at that time." At this time, if we retreat to Chengdu, Yuwen will reach 100,000 troops, and we will not be able to conquer it. ”

After listening to Xiao Liang's words, the generals thought about it one after another, and they all felt that it was reasonable, so everyone in the mansion could only swear that they could not leak this matter.

But Xiao Liang made a lot of calculations, but he didn't calculate that Yuan Shan had already announced this matter to the world, claiming that Northern Qin had recovered Xichuan, and since then there was only Shu Land, and there was no distinction between East and West Sichuan.

Wang Xian of Yiyang refused to send troops, and Xiao Gui had no choice but to go to Jiangzhou to inform Xiao Yin.

After Hengzhi got the news, he sent someone to bring a letter to Xiao Gui, saying that what Wang Xian said was not unreasonable, now Yuan Yi is trapped in Quewei, there are not many people in Xiangfan, if Wang Xian is moving, the Northern Qin is really powerless to resist. But in order to cooperate with Xiao Gui, he has ordered Hengxuan, who has just returned from Magpie Tail, to lead 20,000 troops to help again.

Xiao Gui, who received the reinforcement information, was greatly confident, so he led the army to storm Xiao Yi's camp, intending to force Xiao Yi to the main village of the Qi army in Qianxi and open up enough space for Hengxuan to land.

Seeing this, Yuan Shu hurriedly ordered 10,000 imperial forest troops in the village to support Xiao Yi, and suddenly the morale of Xiao Yi's army was high, and after a day of fighting, Xiao Gui failed to conquer Xiao Yi's camp, so he had to quit and return.

But no one noticed that Wang Xian continued to move westward for several miles at this time, and just set up his camp in Yongzhou and Yiyang, the center of the Jiangzhou region.

This position is extremely exquisite, and it can support Xiangfan and Yiyang at any time, and at the same time, it can also cross the river to attack Jiangzhou at any time in weak places.

Hengzhi did not find any flaws, but took advantage of Yuan Yi's failure to return, and crowned Wang Xiandu as the governor of Yongyi and the two states, and acquiesced in Wang Xian's behavior.

Pei Tu had already led the army to the vicinity of Ochre at this moment, but when he saw that Hengheng's army and horses were intact, he did not dare to rashly launch an attack.

The method that Pei Tu was thinking of at the moment was to get in touch with Wei Ran in the camp, and the two sides were flanking Hengheng back and forth.

Hengheng is indeed everyone's anxiety at this moment, the news of him and Magpie Tail has been completely interrupted, if Magpie Tail is lost, Pei suddenly turns around, and his 40,000 people will completely become a lone army and an outcast.

After thinking about it for a long time, Pei Tu remembered a bag that Wei Wu gave him before leaving, so he hurriedly opened it.

After reading the tips, Pei Tu was overjoyed. Then he summoned the general Zhao Zeng and said: "If you surrender, do you want to make meritorious service?" ”

Where did Zhao Zeng dare not go to the camp, so he said: "General, please command." ”

"Did Hengheng ever recognize you?" Pei Tu asked.

"There have been several faces, but whether you remember the last general, the last general can't be guaranteed." Zhao Zeng replied truthfully.

What Zhao Zeng said is indeed true, after all, he is a general under Yuan Yi's account, and Hengheng is one level higher than Yuan Yi, although Zhao Zeng also participated in the discussion of military aircraft before, but who will have nothing to remember a partial general.

After hearing this, Pei Tu also believed to Zhao Zeng for seven or eight points, and then said: "I ordered five thousand sergeants, dressed in the armor of the Yongzhou army, you enter the Hengheng camp in the name of the Yongzhou army, if Hengheng trusts you and lets you enter the city of ochre, you will set fire to the city tonight, and I will lead the army to respond." We should unite inside and outside to break through the ochre. ”

After Zhao Zeng listened, he shook his head and said, "If Hengheng doesn't trust the last general and lets me camp outside, what should I do?" ”

"Then you pretend to agree to camp, but on the grounds that you don't bring military rations, let Hengheng prepare to eat, and then you lead your troops to pretend to find favorable terrain to camp, and now the king of Qin is in the mountains to the south, I will attack from the north, and you find an angle to attack directly. At that time, you and I will attack from both sides, and the king of Qin is the god of war, and when he sees this situation, he will inevitably attack from the mountain. Attack from three sides, Hengheng will be defeated, you remember, try to choose as much as possible to attack in the direction close to Ochre, so that Hengheng can not return to the city! ”