Yuwen's eyes were erratic at this time, and he pinched the corner of the letter in his left hand and kept thinking.

Not long after the news of Tuoba Yuan's beheading reached Xiangyang, Xiao Liang's distress letter also came unexpectedly.

Yuwen, the general of the Western Qin, was already a bit difficult to ride a tiger at this time, if he sent troops to rescue Xiao Liang, he was worried that the Qi army of Yiyang would attack Xiangyang, and if he did not send troops, Jiangling would be lost.

Thinking of Xiao Liang's waste snack, Yuwenzhi also felt a little angry, Yuwenzhi threw the letter aside, shook the fist in his hand fiercely, and finally could only sigh and decided to give up Xiao Liang.

At this time, there was a sudden sound of hurried footsteps outside the door, and Yuwen followed the prestige, only to see Yuwen and hurriedly walked in, still holding a secret letter in his hand.

Yu Wenji handed the secret letter to Yu Wenzhi and said, "Your Majesty has an order to let my brother return to Chang'an." ”

When Yuwenzhi heard this, he just glanced at Yuwenji, and then calmly picked up the letter and began to read it.

It turned out that a few days ago, Li Sizheng, the guard of the Tiger Prison, chased Chen Hu and beat him, so that Chen Hu did not dare to camp outside the Tiger Prison Pass, and he did not dare to attack the Tiger Prison during the day, so he kept pretending.

But Fu Yuan on the other end was in a hurry, and the offensive was becoming more and more violent, but without Chen Hu's containment on the other side, Li Sizheng could arrange more people to resist Fu Yuan, although Fu Yuan was also a famous general, but attacking such a narrow pass was naturally not advisable, and Fu Yuan, who was familiar with military affairs, immediately sensed that Chen Hu on the other side was not attacking with all his heart.

So Fu Yuan sent people to take the mountain road to bypass the tiger prison, urging Chen Hu to quickly send troops to attack together, Chen Hu has been killed, where dare to camp, Fu Yuan's envoy was angry, and threatened to stab the matter in front of Yuan Shan.

Chen Hu had no choice but to send troops to attack the Tiger Prison Pass under the supervision of Fu Yuan's envoy, Li Sizheng saw that Chen Hu's soft persimmon came again, so he took a risk and put most of the troops on the west side of the Tiger Prison, and then took advantage of Chen Hu's repair halfway to kill out of the pass.

Chen Hu didn't expect that Li Sizheng would dare to go out of the pass to meet the battle in broad daylight, and in a panic, he was beheaded by Li Sizheng under his horse, and the defenders of the Tiger Prison pursued for twenty miles before returning to the Tiger Prison.

The soldiers and horses of the Western Qin Dynasty killed in this battle lost their armor and abandoned their armor, the dead were more than 10,000, the main general died, Fu Yuan's messenger escaped by chance, and fled to Chang'an in a hurry to report to Yuan Shan.

Fu Yuan's army on the other side, which was in a hurry, saw that Li Sizheng suddenly took out Chen Hu's handsome flag, and at the same time, Chen Hu's head was also hung high above the handsome flag, and suddenly the army had no fighting spirit.

Duan Yue took the opportunity to attack and kill again, repelling Fu Yuan's army, and Fu Yuan had to temporarily retreat to Hongnong.

At the court meeting, Yuan Shan was already almost crazy, and shouted hysterically: "You are all the pillars of the country, and now there is only a tiger prison, and the army of 200,000 cannot be broken, but the main general is dead!" Now, if he can't get through the Tiger Prison and join Fu Yuan, Fu Yuan will either die outside the Tiger Prison or surrender to Min Guan! ”

All the ministers under the court were submissive, looking at each other, but no one dared to speak out.

Yuan Shan walked down the dragon steps, patrolled back and forth in front of everyone, and saw that the civil official group had an ugly face, and the military general group lowered their heads.

The Western Qin generals are not without capable people, but they all know that this job is not a good errand, if it is done badly, it will not be the head to move.

At this time, Sikong Cui Jin said: "Your Majesty, the Tiger Prison is easy to defend and difficult to attack, in the past, the only way to break the Tiger Prison was to cut off its grain and grass, and wait for the enemy to collapse, but Hu Hua transported all the grain from Hongnongcang to the Tiger Prison, which is enough for the Tiger Prison to hold on for a year, not to mention that Li Sizheng is a famous guard, and his general Duan Yue is even more than 10,000 enemies. It is not advisable to storm it,"

"I want methods, not nonsense!" Yuan Shan heard Cui Jin talk eloquently, and his heart was very angry, how could he not know the truth.

"Your Majesty, now the only way to transfer back to General Yuwenzhi, and at the same time to use Xiangfan and Nanqi as bargaining chips, and return the two places to Southern Qi, Southern Qi has been ready to move recently, and the Guangling army has first returned to conquer Zhongli Huaiyin and recovered the land of Southern Yuzhou. At present, it is entrenched in the Huai River, and if it is allowed to attack Pengcheng, General Fu will lose ground in advance and retreat, and only then will great trouble come. Cui Jin didn't sell it at this time, and honestly said his thoughts.

But this remark made Yuan Shan feel inexplicably upset, he worked hard for several years, and only beat the Southern Dynasty for half a day, and now if he directly gave up the land of Xiangfan, Xiao Liang will inevitably be defeated, and then the strength of the Southern Qi will be restored, and he will not be a worker for Wei Ranbai.

Cui Jin is good at observing words and feelings, and when he saw Yuan Shan's face, he knew that he was unwilling in his heart, so he didn't say more.

At this time, the hussar general Ke Zhu Tianguang stood up and said: "Your Majesty, the last general feels that what Sikong said is not unreasonable, and now our mortal enemy is Yuan Frame and not Xiao Ju. Blindly putting one's mind on the land south of the Yangtze River, but not wanting to eradicate Minguan, is a big taboo. Both our dynasty and the Kwantung region claim to be the orthodox Great Qin, if they can't exterminate the Min Guan, how can they stand on their own feet in the north? In the land south of the Yangtze River, when I unify the north, what are we afraid of? ”

But Zhu Tianguang, Xianbei people, in the past, followed the Northern Yan Fuqu clan to start, by the ancestors on the shade, so when Yuan Zhi was in power, he was ranked in the tiger Ben Zhonglang general, Yuan Shan succeeded to the throne in order to win over the Xianbei forces, so he rewarded the Xianbei people.

Yuan Shan also felt that what Zhu Tianguang said made sense, but he was still a little unbearable to let him give up Xiangyang Fancheng, which he had so hard to get.

Cui Jin saw that Yuan Shan was shaken, and there was a big celebrity but Zhu Tianguang supported his opinion, and immediately said: "Your Majesty, Min Guan's wolf ambition has been deployed in the Kanto region for a long time, and now General Fu Yuan has finally broken the situation, our dynasty must let Nanqi withdraw its troops, otherwise if Wei Ran captures the land of Lianghuai again, Min Guan will definitely recapture the land of Henan." According to the household register, the Kanto region has a population of more than 1,500,000 people, while the Kannai region has a population of only more than 6 million, and we have become the weakest country. ”

Rao is Yuan Shan is so stubborn that he can't sit still at the moment.

In ancient times, the population base determined the strength of the country, so Yuan Shan immediately issued an order at this time: "Spread the decree to Yuwenzhi, order him to move all the population of Xiangfan to Wancheng, and at the same time send people to negotiate peace with Nanqi, as for Xiao Liang, let him fend for himself." ”

Therefore, after Yuwen saw the secret letter and the edict, he was also shocked.

Sima Linhai also rushed over at this time, and after listening to Yu Wenzhi's narration, he slapped the table and scolded: "This Cui Jin is really a straw bag, Min Guan is not a good type, and Wei Ran is not a naïve child." Southern Qi and Eastern Qin are driven by interests, and if we want to negotiate peace with Southern Qi now, wouldn't it give Southern Qi the best opportunity to repeatedly jump sideways. In the future, Wei Ran will definitely come to blackmail me and wait! ”

Although Yuwen Zhi was angry when he heard this, he couldn't do anything: "Your Majesty's holy decree has been issued, let's start to gradually relocate the people of Xiangfan, there are still more than 400,000 people here, and it will take time to migrate." ”

Yuwenzhi then ordered his brother Yuwenhe to go to Yingzhou to inform Cui He of the intention of the two sides to strike the army.

Wei Ran had finished resting in Yiyang at this moment, and ordered Zhang Da to lead 30,000 troops to attack the Hanging Fortress City to warn Western Qin.

He led his troops down the river, preparing to land at Hushu and attack Hefei from the front.

Before leaving, Wei Ran repeatedly warned Zhang Da: "The Hanging Gourd City is a strong city, there is no need to force it, and if the situation is not good, retreat to Yiyang immediately." ”

Zhang Da took the order and left, but was hurt by Wei Ran.

After Tuoba Wei was let go, he did not return to Chang'an, but came to the Hanging Gourd City, and through Tuoba Yuan's token, he successfully met the Song King Yuanbao who guarded the Hanging Gourd, Song Wang Yuanbao is the nephew of Yuan Shan, although he is young but quite courageous.

Hearing the news that Tuoba Yuan was dead, Yuan Baozhi said lightly: "Tuoba Gongzi is bold by nature, the northerners only talk about bravery, not strategy, and they will undoubtedly lose when they encounter Wei Ran, this matter has long been expected, but Yuwen Zhi, knowing that Wei Ran is extremely cunning, how can he still use troops like this." ”

One sentence pushed the Yuwen family away from the opposition of the Tuoba family, and Tuoba Wei could only claim that it was, and then Tuoba Wei said to Yuan Bao: "King Song, now there will be a strategy at the end, which may make King Song make a great contribution." ”

When Yuan Bao heard this, he was immediately overjoyed, but then he regained his composure and said to Tuoba Wei: "If the general has any good plan, just come here." ”

The last general accidentally learned that Wei Ran planned to attack the two Huai from three sides, one of which was to set out from Guangling and attack the land of Yuzhou in the former Southern Dynasty, and then hoard troops on the Huai River to deter Pengcheng. Second, land and water landed from Jiangbei to attack Hefei, and the third was to send troops from Yiyang to attack the hanging gourd and choke the grain road, so that the army could not take care of it. ”

Tuoba Wei's words made Yuan Bao also frightened, but he couldn't help but wonder: "How can the general know about such a secret march?" ”

Tuoba Wei said: "When I was imprisoned in the army, I heard that two generals were drunk. At first, I was worried that it was Wei Ran's plan, but then I thought that the route of the march was not a shady thing. The general set up an ambush on the road, if the Southern Qi army did not arrive, the general only lost time, if the Southern Qi army arrived, wouldn't the general be a great achievement, in the past, Wei Ran's fierce general Zhang Gui was defeated and hanging, today's general let yesterday reappear, isn't it a beautiful thing. ”

Yuan Bao was really enthusiastic, and immediately ordered to go to the mountain pass to set up an ambush.

Wei Ran thought that after letting Tuoba Wei go, Tuoba Wei would definitely go to Chang'an to complain, so as to make Yuan Shan suspicious of Yu Wenzhi, but he didn't expect that although Tuoba Wei was a house slave, he was not very human, otherwise he would not have been arranged by Tuoba Jun to Tuoba Yuan.

Zhang Da marched out of Yiyang at this time, and Yiyang was mostly a mountain road leading to the hanging gourd, so the march was quite slow.

In addition, as Wei Ran said before, it was not easy to transport grain and grass here, so Zhang Da did not dare to march in a hurry, so he could only receive grain and grass while marching.

Wang Xian, the general of Yiyang, also knew about this situation, so he sent elite soldiers to escort grain and grass, instead of using ordinary militia.

Zhang Da marched while sending spies to explore the way. However, due to the long march, Zhang Da had the illusion that the defenders of the hanging gourd might not be defenseless, so he gradually relaxed his vigilance.

When Zhang Dabing arrived at Xieyang Valley, he felt that something was wrong. It was silent and seemed to be uninhabited, but his keen sense of smell still made Zhang Da feel dangerous.

Just when Zhang Da was about to send someone up the mountain to explore, a sudden rain of arrows came out of the mountain.

For a while, Zhang Da's army suffered heavy losses, and under the chaos of the army, even Zhang Da was hit by a boulder and the horse was thrown off the horse.

Zhang Da stood up from the ground with difficulty, and then shouted: "Don't mess up, form a good formation." Orderly retreat. ”

At this time, the Southern Qi grain transport army, which was dozens of miles away in the rear, also felt the feeling of moving, so they immediately judged that there was an ambush ahead, so they hurriedly dropped the grain and grass and quickly went to respond.

But after a few miles of rapid marching, Wang Xian's men fell into despair, and the road ahead was blocked by huge rocks and logs, and the leading generals did not dare to act rashly for a while, but only caused a small group of men and horses to try to remove the obstacles in the road.

At this time, Zhang Da's army formation was quite strange, the front army was quite neat, and the rear army had been defeated and began to flee back frantically.

However, the routers who returned along the same route saw that the road was blocked, and some of them began to force their way up the mountain to escape, but most of them had to flee forward.

Zhang Da had just prepared the military formation at this time, ready to meet the Yuan Bao in front of him, but suddenly there was a frightened shout from the rear, and suddenly the front army that Zhang Da had managed to organize was also dispersed by the rout.

Zhang Da was suddenly angry, and Yuan Bao seized the opportunity and ordered the army to start attacking Zhang Da.

At this time, the ambush soldiers on the mountain also attacked, chasing the soldiers on three sides, and then there were their own routs, and the battle was only a moment, and Zhang Da's troops were completely dispersed.

The 30,000 Southern Qi army was like a headless fly, and when Zhang Da saw this, he was even more heartbroken, and he had no intention of fighting.

Seeing that Zhang Da was also planning to escape, Yuan Bao didn't give Zhang Da a chance at all, and led his soldiers to take Zhang Da directly, Zhang Da had no choice but to turn around and resist.

As the soldiers around him fell one by one, Zhang Da was completely surrounded by Yuanbao.

Yuan Bao pointed a gun at Zhang Da: "The general trend has gone, and you don't surrender quickly." ”

Zhang Da saw that there was no one available around him, but he was unwilling to surrender, so he just ripped off his helmet and threw it on the ground, then clenched the spear in his hand and rushed towards Yuan Bao.

Without any suspense, Zhang Da was shot by random arrows before he could reach Yuan Bao, and died at the age of thirty-three Chinese New Year's Eve.

Wang Xianjun in the rear could only listen to the screams and begs for mercy of the troops in front behind the barricades, but to no avail.

After a long time, when the road was cleared, only the severed limbs and wreckage were left in front of the Southern Qi army.

Seeing the corpses of the Nanqi soldiers, the remaining soldiers couldn't help but cry.

Later, everyone found a headless corpse, but it could be identified from the armor and tokens on the body, and this person should be Zhang Da.

Therefore, everyone had no choice but to collect Zhang Da's body, discard the grain and grass, and quickly rushed back to Yiyang to recover his life.

The 30,000 Southern Qi army was annihilated, and none of them returned, and this battle also made the name of Yuanbao completely start in Western Qin.

After the king of Yiyang seemed to know the situation, he was stunned at first, and then had to hold back his tears, and quickly went along the river to inform Wei Ran: "Quickly inform the king of Qin that General Zhang's thief army was ambushed, and the whole army was wiped out, and he had been martyred." ”