In fact, when Ding Yuan of Taiyuan learned that the Taishan army went south to the area of Yuanping, he already knew that Yuanping could not hold it.

Yuanping has neither a wealthy family nor armaments, how can it be stopped?

Therefore, Ding Yuan simply cleared the walls in the Yuanping area, burned all the houses and fields along the Hutuo River, and moved all the materials to the Yangqu area.

And this also inspired the rebellion of the local tyrants of Yuanping, for them, it was not the tiger wolf Taishan army mentioned above who plundered them, but the Han army itself.

Therefore, the original civilians changed, and their leader Yang Feng surrendered to the Taishan army in the north after breaking through the original peace.

However, at this time, Ding Yuan didn't pay much attention to this result, and he was now focusing on Yangqu, especially Yikou.

After Yangqu is the most elite basin area in Bingzhou, and eighty percent of the Dingkou and grain in Bingzhou come from here. Therefore, Ding Yuan attaches great importance to Yangqu's defense.

He handed over the newly trained 5,000 battalions to Guo Lin.

The reason why Guo Lin was chosen was not only because he was from the Yangqu Guo family, but also because he had a deep blood feud with the Taishan Army.

Guo Lin's brother is Guo Yun, who died on the battlefield of Yingyang, and was beheaded by Zhang Chong himself.

Therefore, choosing Guo Lin can not only get the help of the Guo clan of Yangqu Guan, but also do not have to worry that his person will not die.

In addition, Guo Lin's ability is also very outstanding.

In the old Bingzhou army, there is known as the five tiger generals, all of whom are veteran generals of the border army, and have made special contributions in the battle of Cuihan. Because this statement is in the army, the personnel of the five tiger generals of different battalion leaders are also different because of the main general. But no matter which version or who evaluates it, Lu Bu and Guo Lin are indispensable pillars.

Some people even called Guo Lin the chief general of the Bingzhou Army.

Some of these people include Ding Yuan.

In Ding Yuan's opinion, Guo Lin is undoubtedly much better than Lu Bu. He is not only from a proud family, but also loyal and honest.

This and Lu Bu's flamboyant and unrestrained appearance made Ding Yuan look more at ease and comfortable.

In fact, Ding Yuan is only from the bottom, and he was killed from the bottom with a knife and a shot, so it stands to reason that he should appreciate Lu Bu who is from a similar background to himself.

But the result is not, it is precisely because of the similar backgrounds of the two that Ding Yuan thinks that people like Lu Bu are morally despicable, eager for quick success, and far inferior to the children of a family who cherish feathers in terms of loyalty.

Ding Yuan is not so much a thorough view of Lu Bu as a thorough understanding of himself.

Compared with Lu Bu, Guo Lin has a particularly good relationship with his colleagues in private, and he often says:

"This world is becoming more and more difficult, if you want to give people a way to get by, you have to give a way to life, and you must not bully the weak and declare personal vendettas."

And Guo Lin said so and did it, so his prestige in the old Bingzhou Army was very high.

In addition, Guo Lin is not only kind-hearted, but also has a deep family education. The scriptures, the art of war, and the strategy of war are all familiar, and he even annotated "The Art of War".

One year, when the state army won a battle, Guo Lin entered Kyoto to report his success, and he was stunned by what the emperor Liu Hong said at the time.

Liu Hong once asked:

"When will it be destroyed?"

Guo Lin said something like this:

"Wen is not greedy for talent, and Wu is not afraid of death. If you can do these eight words, why can't the enemy be broken? ”

It is said that when Guo Lin returned to the border army, Liu Hong often sighed:

"If all the ministers in the world can be like Guo Qing, why should I be exhausted."

Not to mention, Guo Lin's personal morality is very good. He is never greedy for a penny, and he can share weal and woe in governing the army.

It is precisely because of this that when Ding Yuan was listed as the assassin of the state, he didn't bring anyone, but Guo Lin. He really regards Guo Lin as a pillar of the humerus.

So when he sent Guo Lin to the front line of Yangqu, it can be seen how much he attached importance to this war.

And in order to keep Yangqu, Ding Yuan also carefully reflected on why he always suffered defeats. He asked some veterans who had participated in the chaotic war in Hebei in the past, and concluded that the Taishan army always won the battle in three points.

One is well-armed, the second is concentric, and the third is good at fighting sports warfare.

His favorite general Guo Lin even used a phrase in "The Art of War" to describe the tactical style of the Taishan Army:

"The good attacker moves above the nine heavens; The good keeper hides under the nine earths. ”

For example, the battle of Yanmen Pass that just happened earlier, and the battle of Pingcheng in front. The Taishan army gave full play to his tactical style of maneuvering and interspersing and long-distance running.

On the bright side, there seemed to be only thousands of enemy troops outside Yanmen Pass, and Gai Xun at that time couldn't find the main force of the enemy army no matter how the sentry sentry was. It was also in this situation that he went out of the customs with the intention of annihilating the front of the enemy army first.

Who would have thought that in order to avoid the eyes and ears in the direction of Yanmen Pass, the Taishan army would go around a big circle directly?

And once the secret of the success of the Taishan Army was discovered, Ding Yuan was eager to take precautions.

Since your Taishan army is as fast as a rabbit, then I will not move like a mountain, after all, no matter where you go through, you will end up with the result of breaking through the pass city.

So why don't I just just guard the pass, no matter how you move, I don't ask for merit, but I want no fault, I will camp and fight a dumb battle, no?

In this way, Ding Yuan thought that he had found a way to resist the Taishan army, and decided to take advantage of the geopolitical situation of the state to resist along the Fenshui River.

And the first line of resistance he predetermined was Yikou.

After that, along the river communication line down from Yikou, Ding Yuan divided his troops to guard the walls along the way and control various dangerous roads.

However, Ding Yuan also understands that without help for a long time, no passes and barriers will be unable to endure the despair of people's hearts and collapse. Therefore, he formed the main force of the Bingzhou Legion under his command and the reinforcements of the Southern Xiongnu into a mobile corps.

Its overall tactical plan is to rely on the barriers on the Fenshui communication line to frustrate the edge of the Taishan army, and then use the mobile corps under its command as a hammer to hammer the Taishan army alive between these barriers.

It can be said that Ding Yuan's thinking is really good, and his war literacy also reflects that he is a qualified border army general.

No wonder when he saw off Guo Lin, he said proudly:

"Look at it, with my strategy, and the state is foolproof."

And Guo Lin also deeply agreed, crying in public:

"The lord has worked so hard for me and the people of the state, and Lin dares not to die."

After that, the two performed a show in front of a group of Taiyuan wealthy families. Their original intention was to show those Taiyuan wealthy clans their determination to defend Taiyuan.

That is, I don't know their determination, and the wealthy families in Taiyuan don't appreciate it.

The reason why this is so is also because Ding and Guo are leaving a way back for themselves.

What is their future path? That is, if the barrier war fails, then the last way is to defend Taiyuan, Taiyuan has three years of accumulation, the city is strong, as long as these wealthy families stand with him, Ding Yuan has the determination to defend him for three years.

When the time comes, will the Taishan Army really be able to survive for three years?

On the side of the road, Ding Yuan saw Guo Lin's army go away, and his heart was reluctant. Watching his humerus step onto the front line, Ding Yuan's heart was full of loneliness and uneasiness.

Lonely because he has to face those Taiyuan heroes alone, and uneasy because of confusion about the future.

Honestly, that's what people are. No matter how well he planned, Ding Yuan still hadn't really fought such a tactic in the end.

If you are inexperienced, you will naturally have no confidence in your heart. And if you have experience, but the end result is not successful, you are also not confident.

Why are people obsessed with past successes? It's because it's an illusion of security, and since I can succeed in the past, I can still do it now, and with this kind of self-confidence, there is really a possibility of success.

Now Ding Yuan is like this, he has no bottom in his heart.

Someone else tries a new one, and no matter how bad it is, the result will not be much worse, but he will lose his life.

At this time, after the humerus left, Ding Yuan desperately wanted someone who could give him psychological comfort, and he had a candidate in his heart, that is, Wang Yun, who had entered the camp by bicycle before.

No, you still have to write a letter to Lao Dong, since you don't give the soldiers and horses, and the fierce generals don't give it, he Wang Yun has to let it go, right?

As a result, a group of Taiyuan wealthy families saw that their assassin Shi Ding Yuan had just wept to bid farewell to the army, and in a blink of an eye, they saw him wipe his tears and return to the city without stopping.

For a time, there were many discussions among wealthy families such as the Linghu family, the Wen family, the Qixian Wang family, and the Jinyang Wang family.

The patriarchs of these big clans are naturally dignified and have to show the demeanor of the family in public. But some juniors don't have to be so scrupulous.

Among them, there was a very young Linghu clansman named Linghu Shao, and he couldn't help but ask a person from the Wang clan of Qi County named Wang Ling on the side:

"Wrap your head, do you say that our assassin history is scared and shocked, I think we Taiyuan can't be saved."

At this time, Wang Ling had not yet reached the crown, so he had not yet given the word, so people close to him called Wang Ling by his nickname.

The name of this head-wrapping was derived from Wang Ling's face when he was born, and he looked like he was wrapped around his head.

Hearing his friend say this frustrating words, Wang Ling couldn't help it:

"Okay, I don't know you yet? Don't you just want to get something out of my mouth? I won't hide it from you, but I'll tell you one thing, the people we went to Chang'an to lobby have returned. ”

At this time, Ling Hu Shao couldn't help it, and asked eagerly:

"How's it going, reinforcements are coming?"

Seeing Wang Ling nodding his head in self-esteem, Ling Hu Shao couldn't help but hammer his palm.

After suppressing his excitement a little, he couldn't help but be curious and asked:

"Although I know that your Wang clan has a wide relationship in Chang'an, I still want to ask you what means did you use to get Dong Taishi to agree to send troops?"

Seeing that Wang Ling was still self-conscious, but he didn't say a word, Ling Hu Shao said sourly:

"Yes, it should have cost a lot."

Wang Ling laughed inwardly, and then still didn't say anything.

This made the fox family one of the overlords of Taiyuan hundreds of years ago, but now it is such a vision and pattern.

Even Linghu Shao, who was the most prominent in the clan, thought that it was a lot of money, but in fact, they didn't know how an upper-class family like their Wang family operated.

In fact, this is also what Wang Ling heard, but it was his father Wang Hong who did this, so he was even more honored.

In the generation of the Wang family in Qi County, Wang Yun showed extraordinary ability to learn very early, so the family quickly tilted the upper resources to Wang Yun's head, and invited Guo Tai, a famous man in the county, to make a name for him very early, and won an evaluation of "Wang Zuozhicai".

Originally, it was just an ordinary exchange of resources.

But no one knew that Guo Tai later joined the party and became one of the eight gus. Naturally, Wang Yun, who benefited from Guo Tai's evaluation, had to join this group.

This is the unspoken rule among scholars.

But the Wang family was not very strong at that time, so in his early years, in order to win a position, Wang Yun became a leader of the group, and successively cleaned up many peripheral backbones of the eunuch group.

So Wang Yun suffered heavy revenge from the eunuchs, and in the end, if it wasn't for Yuan's family to save him, he would have died a long time ago.

It is precisely because the Yuan family is kind to Wang Yun that in the early days of the separation of the two capitals, he joined the Kwantung camp and became a rare Kwantung in the court.

At that time, Namashu was rightly attributed to Kansai.

But later, the Yuan family was purged by He Jin and the little emperor together, and Wang Yun was lucky, and he happened to be on the front line to raise the army. After learning about the Kyoto Blood Palace, he did not hesitate to ride a jujube red horse west to Hangu Pass.

But at the beginning, Wang Yun was not trusted by Liu Hong, although Liu Hong felt that this person was a talent and did a good job when he was in Runan. But after all, from the chaotic party, loyalty should be greatly discounted.

And what about Wang Yun? This person is very good at seizing opportunities, he did one thing, and he won Liu Hong's appreciation at once.

It turned out that when Wang Yun was on the front line, he heard that Ding Yuan's Bingzhou Army was stranded in Hedong, and then he never participated in the battle of Cuihan in front.

In this way, he realized that there was a problem here, after all, since Liu Hong had withdrawn the Bingzhou Legion from the border, he would not use it, let alone hand it over to Dong Zhuo, who was riding the wall.

Therefore, Wang Yun and Liu Hong took the initiative to ask Ying, saying that they had a good relationship with Ding Yuan, and he could persuade Ding Yuan to go south.

Liu Hong has nothing to do, and if he becomes a good soldier, he will have an additional warlike state legion, and if he is wrong, he will lose an uneasy second-hand minister, and he will not lose.

So, Wang Yun rode over the Puban like this, holding the Son of Heaven Festival, and directly entered the camp of Bingzhou.

In the communication with Ding Yuan, he realized that this was the lack of information.

On Liu Hong's side, he saw that the Bingzhou Legion stopped leaving after it arrived in Hedong, and he thought that these border warriors were the same as Dong Zhuo, and they began to snake and rat at both ends.

And Ding Yuan stayed in Hedong because Dong Zhuo dared to say that the Son of Heaven left Ding Yuan in Hedong to be controlled by him, so he stayed.

In fact, the problem lies on Liu Hong's side, in fact, as long as he finds someone to give an order, all suspicions will be self-defeating. But the Qing monarch side of the Henan family and the embarrassment behind him made Liu Hong doubt everything, and even doubt his imperial power.

The rest of the matter went very smoothly, with the new edict, Ding Yuan took the border army and went south to participate in the war. And Dong Zhuo did not intercept them.

As for Dong Zhuo's pretense later, Liu Hong didn't see it, he didn't want to force Dong Zhuo to oppose him.

With this merit, Wang Yun quickly gained a firm foothold in Chang'an, and successively gathered a group of doctors in Beijing who were from the state.

This time, when the Taishan army went south to the area of Yanmen Pass, the wealthy families of the Taiyuan Wang clan were actually more sensitive than Ding Yuan.

The wealthy families who use Yanmen Pass for smuggling all the year round know very well that the Yanmen Pass at this time is a sieve. I don't know how many logging trails there are in the Heng Mountain, and those Hengshan people are not loyal people, whoever gives some money can lead the way.

In the past, Xianbei people could enter the customs several times, and there was no reason why the Taishan Army couldn't do it.

Therefore, these land snakes have no illusions about the loss of Yanmen Pass, and they are all trying to think of the remedy later. No one stupidly took the initiative to say to Ding Yuan, after all, the defense loopholes in Yanmen Pass were made by these wealthy families.

They will not expose the family's property under the surface of the water to Ding Yuan.

After all, the Taishan army is a tiger, and Na Ding Yuan is also a wolf, and no one is better than the other.

At this time, they set their eyes on Dong Zhuo, and they understood that if anyone could still touch the Taishan Army, it would be Dong Zhuo, the former Bingzhou Assassin.

So how to persuade Dong Zhuo to send troops?

They decided to let the Wang family come forward. And the Wang family chose Wang Yun's brother Wang Hong,

If Wang Yun represents the face of the Wang family, then Wang Hong is the lizi. The face must be clean, so some things need Wang Hong to come forward.

Entrusted by the wealthy family in Taiyuan, Wang Hong immediately rushed south to Chang'an before Ding Yuan's book was sent.

After arriving in Chang'an, Wang Hong did not go to Wang Yun or Dong Zhuo, but gathered with his fellow villagers in Chang'an.

These people are very familiar with Wang Hong, so they know everything about the political trend of the Kansai court. When Wang Hong determined from these people that Dong Zhuo was now the ruler of Kansai, he began to act.

He went to find someone first, and that was Li Ru.

Li Ru was Dong Zhuo's staff member of the history of the state assassination before, and the two were very familiar with each other. No one knows what Wang Hong and Li Ru talked about, but the left and right are just some things about the exchange of interests.

But it's certainly not as simple as sending money as Hu Shao thought.

Later, Li Ru thought about it, and only told Wang Hong that he would only tell him about it, and don't go to anyone else, and what did he do, Wang Hong didn't ask. Even he won't admit to having such a thing later.

He clearly told Wang Hong that if he couldn't do it, others wouldn't want to do it.

Regardless of whether this is a threat or a reality, Wang Hong only needs to be sure that Li Ru wants to do this.

So, after getting the promise, Wang Hong did not go home, but lived in his friend's mansion.

Time passed little by little, and Ding Yuan's letters for help came one after another, but there was still no sign of moving troops in Kansai.

Wang Hong is not in a hurry, he doesn't go anywhere else, just waits.

Finally, one day, 50,000 horses drove out of Chang'an and marched towards the east in a steady stream.

Wang Hongyan smiled, and the matter was done.

All of the above are what Wang Hong said to his two sons, thinking that he would teach by word and deed.

And the young Wang Ling can't distinguish between the real and the fake, thinking that Dr. Qing should be like this, chic and elegant, and clear.

So when he behaves like this to his friend, he imitates his father.

Linghu Shao didn't know that his friend was thinking so much, he just wanted to go back and tell his father quickly.

Soon, it was rumored in the circle of the Taiyuan heroes that Dong Taishi had sent an army of 50,000 to save Taiyuan.

Ben's tense nerves were also relieved.

At this time, Ding Yuan was still writing his letter asking for help, but he didn't know that the Taiyuan morale was scattered at this time.

It was against this background that the first battle to defend Taiyuan began.