Although Liu Renye is a general, he lacks political vision.

In his opinion, it is completely possible to fight with Eastern Qin, and it is a big deal to mobilize people and horses from Huaibei to fight again.

This is very different from Wei Ran's idea, in Wei Ran's opinion, it is not difficult to swallow the city land, but how to digest the city land after swallowing the city land is a big problem.

The land of Huainan and Huaibei itself belonged to the Southern Dynasty, and was later seized by the Northern Dynasty, and the local people more or less also had some southern feelings in it, so it was not so troublesome to digest.

But now in the land of Henan, Wei Ran had to send many soldiers to garrison, because these cities have not been ruled by the Southern Dynasty for a long time, and have been ruled by the Northern Qin for decades, and they are already complete Qin people.

After years of experience, Wei Ran has long been regarded as a young man who is not the strong-blooded young man, but now he is more like a military strategist and politician. As can be seen from the situation in which he has led troops in the last two years, he has rarely exposed himself to danger.

In fact, Zhang Gui's death was a blow to Wei Ran, but it would not let him fall into madness, war is always dead, not to mention that Zhang Gui, a martial artist who is not good at strategy, will inevitably have a time when the horse will stumble.

Liu Renye woke up Wei Ran with a word at this time; "King Qin is very different from before, in the past, King Qin didn't think so much about doing things, so he was invincible, but now he has a lot of calculations, but he is timid."

Wei Ran was empowered at this time, that is, he was not doing things as recklessly as before, so that he could be caught by his intentions and drugged in a targeted manner.

Wei Ran suddenly became excited, and couldn't help but stand up, his left hand was a fist, his right hand was a palm, he kept rubbing, and said in his mouth: "That's right, Renye's words made this king wake up like a dream." ”

Since the defenders of Luoyang City did not come out, then the Qi army could go to the direction of Tongguan along the waterway, and since the strategic purpose was to weaken the strength of Eastern Qin, then simply unite with Yuwenzhi to help him capture Tongguan.

Then Wei Ran ordered Liu Renye to guard Yangcheng, and at the same time closely monitor the movement in the direction of Luoyang, if the defenders of Luoyang went out of the city to rescue, they would immediately wave their troops to attack Luoyang.

Wei Ran took Duan Weiyang as the vanguard, led an army of 30,000 by water, and prepared to land near Tongguan.

The Western Qin general Yuwen integrated the Western Qin soldiers outside Tongguan at this time, and gathered more than 20,000 people in a few days, and now he can't return to the pass, Yuwenzhi thought twice and decided to detour south of Tongguan and withdraw the troops from Qinling back to Chang'an to make a decision.

But at this time, Wei Ran's messenger found Yuwenzhi's camp, and an important reason for Yuwenzhi's retreat was that there was a shortage of food and grass, and the supply lines were all cut off, and staying outside the pass was tantamount to waiting for death.

Yu Wenzhi was also surprised when he saw Wei Ran's messenger.

Wei Ran's personal guard said to Yu Wenzhi at this time: "My prince originally planned to besiege Luoyang to attract Fuqu to come back for reinforcements, but there were quite a lot of defenders in Luoyang, and even the Qingzhou soldiers were left in Luoyang, so my prince guessed that there would not be many enemies in Tongguan, and my prince had already led the army to come along the waterway, and the two armies camped along the river, and the supplies could be transported from the waterway." ”

Yuwen was incredulous at this time, and repeatedly confirmed: "Wei Ran wants the two countries to join forces to attack Fuqu Admittedly? ”

It's no wonder that Yu Wenzhi couldn't believe that Western Qin and Southern Qi could directly join forces for the common good, but this also made Yu Wenzhi even more worried: "This frustration is admittedly so troublesome? Unexpectedly attracted so much attention from King Qin? ”

Regarding this matter, the guards shirked and didn't know, but just said to Yuwenzhi: "The prince will arrive in a few days, and General Yuwen will support it for a day or two for the time being." ”

After sending Wei Ran's personal guards away, Yuwen was not happy in the camp at this time.

His own grain and grass have bottomed out, and the remaining grain was originally intended to be used on the way back to the army, if he waited for Wei Ran here, if Wei Ran reversed, he was afraid that his troops would not return to Chang'an, and they would starve to death.

Especially although he retreated from the south of Tongguan, he had actually fallen into the land of Southern Qi, because many counties around Hanging Gourd City had fallen into the hands of Southern Qi, and if Wei Ran attacked from behind, he would be in danger.

The more Yuwenzhi thought about it, the more frightened he became, and immediately planned to order the camp to retreat, but after thinking about it, if he didn't fight hard, the Western Qin would be destroyed by the Eastern Dynasty sooner or later, so Yuwenzhi decided to take a gamble, not only did he not retreat, but he would take the initiative to attack Tongguan tomorrow to test it.

It is said that after Yuwenzhi withdrew from Puzhou, Dugu Ao retreated to Puzhou, Hu Lu Mingyue, Fu Yuan, and Mo Duolou Invincible led the army to besiege Dugu Ao.

At this time, the morale of the Western Qin army plummeted, it was difficult to resist, Dugu was arrogant, and he had no way to send people to cross the river to Sima Linhai for help, Sima Linhai was also shrewd, and after driving away the Eastern Qin army on the west bank of the Yellow River, he made people set up camp opposite Puzhou, and the army was divided into the camp and Tiandu, so as to prevent the Eastern Qin from crossing the river again.

Just happened to meet Dugu Ao's personal guards with a person with better water ability to swim across the Yellow River for help, Sima Linhai learned of the situation, immediately gathered the civilian boats along the Yellow River, and agreed to let Dugu Ao cross the river at a good time.

Dugu Ao took advantage of the night, and after sacrificing most of the trilogy, he finally returned to Guannei, but there are now only more than 1,000 soldiers left in Puzhou, and Yuwenzhi's whereabouts are unknown.

Dugu Ao didn't know about Tongguan yet, and he was going to return to Tongguan to reorganize the army to respond, but Sima Linhai said at this time: "No need, Tongguan has been taken by Eastern Qin." ”

It turned out that after Sima Linhai took Tiandu, he led the army to enter Tongguan, but Tongguan was silent at that time, and Sima Linhai noticed that something was wrong, so he did not dare to enter lightly.

At this time, the defeated army of Tongguan also escaped, and Sima Linhai was informed of the truth, and Sima Linhai only knew at this time that Fuqu Cheng led thousands of people to take Tongguan.

But at this time, Sima Linhai didn't know how many people there were in Tongguan, and the news was cut off later, and no one knew whether there were reinforcements entering the city at all.

Dugu sat arrogantly and lonely on the edge of the Yellow River, looked at the east bank, and sighed leisurely.

But at this moment, he suddenly found that someone crossed the river again, Dugu Ao immediately became vigilant, hid in the dark, and when the person swam ashore, Dugu Ao flashed out, and the person who came was naked, and he couldn't tell which person it was for a while.

The naked man's name is Wang Xi, who is Yuwenzhi's personal guard, and on the orders of Yuwenzhi, he crossed the river from a weak place and wanted to get in touch with the west bank.

Wang Xi naturally recognized Dugu Ao, and immediately said: "General Dugu, be merciful, I am under the command of General Yuwen, Wang Xi!" ”

Dugu Ao saw that the person who came had no weapons, so he let down his guard and let Wang Xi follow him back to the camp.

Someone in the battalion recognized Wang Xi, and Wang Xi cleared his suspicion, and then Dugu Ao took him to Sima Linhai's camp.

Sima Linhai looked at the swarthy man in front of him and asked, "Where is General Yuwen now?" ”

Wang Xi took a sip of wine to warm his body, and then replied: "General Yuwen is now camping outside the pass, and originally wanted to make a detour back to Chang'an from the south, but now the situation has changed, so he sent me to risk crossing the Yellow River to find reinforcements. ”

Under the puzzled gaze of the two, Wang Xi explained: "There is news from Southern Qi that he will attack Eastern Qin with General Yuwen. ”

Sima Linhai said disdainfully: "Are you going to use us to gain territory for yourself again?" ”

Wang Xi explained: "This time is different, Wei Ran came in person and said that he would join forces to help us attack Tongguan. ”

Dugu Ao and Sima Linhai were shocked, the matter of joining forces was really incredible.

Wang Xi then said: "General Yuwen said, if Tongguan is allowed to be occupied by Eastern Qin, then within three years, our dynasty will be destroyed, and now if you want to turn the tables against the wind, the only way to join forces with Nanqi is to join forces, Wei Ran has already marched from the waterway, and let Wang Xian send troops to support from the direction of Hanging Gourd, and leave people in Yangcheng to monitor Luoyang, General Yuwen ordered General Dugu and General Sima to reorganize the troops and horses on the west bank, and then took advantage of the night to send hundreds of people to cross the Yellow River and ambush near Puzhou. Take Puzhou, in addition to reorganizing most of the men, and prepare to attack Tongguan from the west. ”

Dugu said arrogantly: "Wei Ran has such a good heart? Give money to soldiers or fight in person? ”

Wang Xi seemed to have expected Dugu Ao to ask this, and said at the moment: "This point, General Yuwen has also explained, he said that although Wei Ran is a jackal, tiger and leopard, but not a god, if it is a complete north, plus the outstanding ability of the frustration canal is admitted, it is also a great threat to the Southern Qi, Wei Ran helps us is also to help themselves, he must want to take this opportunity to kill Fuqu Ran." ”

It is true that he was in Tongguan, but he also felt quite a pity, that day he deliberately let go of the West Gate and let the Western Qin soldiers escape, just for fear that someone would escape outside the pass, but he didn't expect that there were loyal people, and he didn't run away from the pass, and actually ran outside the pass to inform Yuwenzhi.

It is true that after 5,000 people broke through Tongguan, more than 10,000 people were mobilized to enter Tongguan, and there was enough food in Tongguan, more than 10,000 people were enough to hold on, plus Puzhou and he supported each other, only after the Luoyang soldiers entered Hongnong, the entire Tongguan defense line was established.

With this line of defense, he completely began to encroach on Xiqin's plan, which was originally just a war to recapture Puzhou, but he took back Tongguan by mistake.

Recently, he got the news that Luoyang had repelled the Southern Qi army, which made Fuqu admittedly relieved, after all, the emperor and Min Shiyuan were both in Luoyang City, and if Southern Qi gained an advantage, he would not be able to rescue him.

Thinking of this, Fu Qu couldn't help laughing: "Wei Ran is not the same as in the past, he no longer has the courage of the past, from a brave general of the three armies to a butcher of intrigue. ”

Frustration Qu can be said to be in one sentence, and he saw through Wei Ran's current face at once, and also explained the reason for Wei Ran's failure.

On the second day, when Fuqu was thinking about how to march westward in the pass, there was a sudden uproar outside the pass, and Yuwenzhi actually took the military horse and began to attack Tongguan.

Fuqu admittedly looked at the soldiers and horses of the Western Qin outside the pass, all the soldiers were sallow, and at first glance, there was a lack of food and grass, Fuqu admittedly couldn't help but be stunned: "Is this Yuwen crazy?" How do you do that? ”

With this bit of men and horses, even elite soldiers will never be able to capture Tongguan, not to mention that they are all remnants now.

Yu Wenzhi also knows this very well, but he is determined to attack once today despite everyone's opposition, which also has another deep meaning.

The Western Qin soldiers had the strength to attack this Tong Pass, and the Eastern Qin soldiers easily resisted the attack of the Western Qin soldiers.

After all, the Western Qin soldiers, who were sleepy and lacking horses, even had the strength to build a ladder.

The confrontation between the two sides can not be the same with a fierce battle, there is a sense of the old man's play, at this time there is also a noise in the pass, Sima Linhai led the army to attack Tongguan, the Qin soldiers in the pass can be described as strong and strong, fortunately, the frustration canal is admittedly prepared, more than 10,000 people guard Xiqiang, Tongguan is not in vain, although Sima Linhai led the army to attack, but it is also difficult to continue, after half a day of fierce battle, the Western Qin army dropped more than 2,000 corpses, and retreated.

Frustrated Qu admittedly knew it in his heart at this time, and said to the left and right: "It must be Yuwenzhi and Sima Linhai who got in touch, intending to attack left and right, so they led the army to come, if they come to attack again tomorrow, leave the soldiers to guard Tongguan, and make a fierce general kill from the east side, the soldiers outside the West Qin Pass are already sleepy and tired, and today they have no combat power, and tomorrow they may be able to capture Yuwenzhi in a battle, even if they can't capture Yuwenzhi, they can also use the heads of the West Qin soldiers to intimidate the Qin soldiers in the pass." ”

Yuwen Zhi returned to the camp, and at this time Wei Ran had also led his troops to the vicinity of Tongguan, but did not land, but landed on the south side, and then transported the grain from the waterway to the camp in Xiqin

Yuwen didn't see Wei Ran, but when he saw the grain being transported by Western Qin, he also knew that Wei Ran was not talking about it, so he immediately said to the grain transport officer: "Where is King Qin?" Can we meet up? I have a plan, but I can quickly break through the Tong Pass and kill the frustrated canal. ”

The grain transport officer said to Yuwenzhi: "My King of Qin said, the two of you, if General Yuwen believes in the people of our King Qin, you can go to the camp of King Qin with me." If you don't want to, you don't have to force it, and you can exchange letters between the two sides. ”

Yuwen Zhi also smiled coldly at this, but now that the combat power of Southern Qi is higher than that of Western Qin, since Yuwen Zhi has a request for others, he must not be coy, and he will follow the ship of the grain transport officer to the camp of Southern Qi at the moment.

Left and right stopped him and said: "The general is the pillar of the country, if there is fraud, the general is not dangerous." ”

How could Yu Wenzhi not know the truth, but at this time there was no other way, he persuaded left and right: "How can I not know your advice?" But now that people are swordsmen, I am fish and meat, and for me to go to the rivers and mountains, what does it matter if I am in danger? ”

After saying this, Yuwen got on the ship of the grain transport officer without looking back, and he didn't even bring a personal guard, so bold, even the soldiers of Nanqi couldn't help but admire.

Yu Wenzhi stood on the bow of the ship, looking into the distance, and he knew in his heart that a meeting that would determine the fortunes of the Western Qin State was coming.