Wuchen, Liu's re-edict took the jackal as the Taibao, supervised the Chinese and foreign armies, and recorded the Shangshu, such as the story of Huo Guang. Xu Tong sighed: "The chaos will be done, and I have nothing to predict." "Death on the medicine. Ji Si, the tiger pawn, the crown prince ascended the throne, and respected Liu as the queen mother. Liu's dynasty weighed the system, with Zhang Jackal as the prime minister; The jackal is not accepted, please take Pengcheng Wang Zun and Yiyang Wang Jian as the left and right prime ministers, in order to comfort their hearts, and the Liu family will follow it.

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Seeing Yang Su leading the cavalry rushing over, Gan Rui immediately sent a message to Xu Dang: "It's time to fight back!" ”

Xu Dang, who received the order, immediately held the Mo knife in his hand and led the three hundred impatient Mo knife men to rush into the battlefield.

Three hundred Mo swordsmen crossed their comrades in a group and appeared in front of Sergeant Zhao, and before they could react, they saw the Moswordsmen holding the Changmo knife in their hands and waving it towards the Sergeant Zhao on the opposite side. In the sun, many Zhao army sergeants will always remember that moment, a layer of knife waves flashed in front of the Jin army at that time, and then the comrades in front were all broken by the split, and the blood of the stumps suddenly flew in front of their eyes.

At that moment, it seemed to be forever frozen in the minds of those surviving Zhao soldiers, and the comrades who were fierce and fierce just now were so fragile, and at that moment they were like waves crashing on the reef, fragmented and destroyed. In the incomparably strong smell of blood, a person walked out of the pool of blood coldly, he and the long-handled Mo knife in his hand seemed to have fused into one, and the fierce killing aura not only flowed on his body but also flashed on the blood-dripping Mo knife.

Three hundred Mo swordsmen walked in a group, like a wall, all the Zhao troops standing in front were like dead leaves and broken waves, no matter how fierce the Zhao army was, there was no way in front of this nearly three-meter-long big knife, and every move of the Mo knife killed several people, and there was no one in front of them, and many Zhao troops who desperately resisted were cut in two before they could get close.

Seeing the Mo swordsman participating in the battle, the morale of the Jin army in Liangzhou was even more boosted, and they all shouted for victory, waving their swords and marching in groups. At this time, the Zhao army was also mustering up the last courage, while gathering spearmen and shield hands to desperately "delay" the pace of the Mo knife hand, and where there was no Mo knife hand, they tried to launch a desperate counterattack to save the dangerous battle situation. The two sides immediately fought fiercely again, and the tragedy was even worse than before. The Zhao army and the Jin army were both red-eyed, and while they were desperate to win back a game, they vowed to kill the enemy army to the death. As a result, on the entire frontal front, except for the protruding part of the Mo Dao Hand, the rest of the place began to become a staggered strangulation situation.

Seeing this scene, Gan Rui didn't dare to hesitate in the slightest, gritted his teeth and ordered: "Blow the trumpet and move the flag!" ”

Dozens of long brass trumpets sounded a poignant and long sound, and the flag-bearers of each team raised their flags, walked ten steps forward, and then inserted them. The Jin army of Liangzhou heard the trombone, and also saw the respective team flags behind them move forward ten steps, knowing that it was a general attack.

Blowing the trumpet and moving the flag is a kind of general attack unique to Liangzhou, as long as the trumpet is sounded, the flag-bearers of each team and each battalion move in ten steps, and the sergeant in front advances ten steps, and the standard-bearer will move the flag forward by ten steps. One retreats over the flag and kills the whole sentry, one sentry retreats to kill the whole outpost, one team retreats and kills the whole team, there is no retreat, either the enemy army is defeated, or the whole army is destroyed.

The Jin army, which has no way to retreat, is desperate to move forward, and to kill the enemy is to fight for his life, but there is also a guarantee and compensation, if he takes a step back, not only is it difficult to protect his life under the strict military law, but even his family will be affected. At this time, the sergeants of the Liangzhou Jin Army were more fierce than just now, they almost gritted their teeth and rushed forward, even if they were stabbed a few times, they were not afraid at all, and they were still fighting with the Zhao army, even if they died, they had to find a piece of meat for the Zhao army.

All the Zhao Jun who fought against him felt like they had become the father-killing enemy of the opposite Jin army, and all the Jin soldiers all gritted their teeth and pounced, slashing with knives, kicking with their feet, pinching with their hands, and biting with their teeth, looking like they were going to devour Zhao Jun alive. Zhao Jun had never seen such a desperate army, and when he saw the Jin army's fearless and desperate posture, his heart suddenly became empty, and at this time, a huge voice suddenly sounded on the side of the battlefield: "Yao Guo has run!" ”

Zhao Jun, who was standing on the side and had a scheming heart, took the time to look up, and found that there was a long dragon of yellow dust on the right flank of the battlefield, rolling towards his Chinese army, and in the middle he saw a flag in a trance, not the flag of Yao Guo or whose own? It turned out that more than 1,000 cavalry of Yao State were occupied by Yang Su's 3,000 cavalry, and then rushed back and forth to chase and kill, and they couldn't parry, knowing that they might not be able to go back if they continued to entangle, so without saying a word, they turned around and returned to the Chinese army camp.

And the cavalry of the Zhao army, which was still struggling in the rain of iron thistles and iron arrows, was in a dilemma, continue to advance, the corpses on the ground in front told them that the front was very dangerous, and no one should approach, and the rear army had retreated, which meant that there was no reinforcement to respond. So he only turned his head and cautiously struggled to retreat in the rain of iron thistles and iron arrows, but was assaulted by the Yang Su cavalry who came back, and finally ran back to the Chinese army camp behind Yao Guo miserably.

The first to retreat the infantry was the right wing sergeant of the Zhao army close to the cavalry battlefield, they were the first to know that the cavalry had been defeated and had fled back to the Chinese army, plus the desperate Liangzhou Jin army in front of them was a little frustrated, so they simply turned around and left, and went back first.

The rout swept the entire Zhao army battle line like an avalanche, Yao Jizi had no way to suppress it, and countless rout troops rushed back from his side like a retreat, and they couldn't stop it. In the end, Yao Jizi had no choice but to sigh and retreat to the Chinese army camp with the rout.

Since the Jin army itself suffered a lot of losses, and everyone was exhausted, Gan Rui did not dare to take advantage of the victory to pursue.

In this battle, the 5,000 infantry of the Zhao army suffered nearly 4,000 casualties, and less than 1,000 cavalry fled back. Combined with yesterday's losses, the 10,000 Yao Guobu almost suffered more than 6,000 casualties, and they were basically disabled.

The Jin army in Yixian County suffered nearly 3,000 infantry casualties and more than 1,000 cavalry casualties, which was considered to have the upper hand.

When Yao Guo returned to the camp, he saw his subordinates fleeing back with their armor thrown off their armor, and wanted to lose his temper, but he thought that it seemed that he had run first, and the fire couldn't come out, so he just sat there sulking.

At this time, Yao Jizi, who was counting outside, ran into the big tent and said, "My lord, someone from the Jin army is coming." ”

Yao Guo was taken aback, and hurriedly asked, "How many people?" ”

"Dozens of horsemen, and a big flag, are coming straight for my camp."

"Check it out!"

Yao Guo and Yao Jizi came to the gate of the camp and saw Xu Dang coming to a stone's throw away from the Zhao army camp surrounded by dozens of horsemen.

"I'm Xu Dang, the general of the Great Jin Dynasty!" Xu Dang shouted. I saw the solemn aura on his face, the black armor on his body was dark in some places, and shiny in some places, it seemed that he didn't have time to wash the blood stains on his body.

Xu Dang's words were for the illiterate, otherwise just by the whirring banner of "Great Jin Wulie General Xu" behind him, everyone who is literate knows who he is.

"I'm here to invite you to battle in front of your barracks today. Do you dare to fight tomorrow? Xu Dang continued to yell.

Yao Guo suddenly felt a rush of blood to his brain, and immediately wanted to fight, but looking at his subordinates behind him, all of them were beaten into rats, how could they fight? So I had to hold back my anger and anger and stand there silent.

Seeing that no one answered Zhao Jun, Xu Dang nodded, and dozens of horsemen beside him shouted in unison: "Lackey, do you dare to fight?" He shouted three times in a row, and the sound resounded throughout the Zhao army camp. But at this time, the camp of the Zhao army was as quiet as death, even the horses and mounts in the camp did not dare to make a sound, for fear that if they made a sound, they would be able to respond to the battle.

Seeing that there was still no answer, Xu Dang spat fiercely, turned the horse's head, and rode away, followed closely by Daqi and dozens of horsemen. In the eyes of thousands of Zhao Jun, Xu Dang and the big banner slowly walked into the golden light of the setting sun.

Yao Guo listened to Xu Dang's insults and provocations, and then looked at his disabled subordinates, the more he thought about it, the more angry he became, and suddenly his throat was sweet, and a mouthful of blood suddenly spurted out, all of which were spit on the withering and fluttering banner of the Zhao Army in front of him.

That night, Yao Guobu withdrew his troops overnight and withdrew to Wugong County, sixty miles away.

A few days later, Yao finally waited for Ma Qiu, who led his army to reinforce him. Seeing his old boss and old comrades-in-arms, Yao Guo, who had been holding back for a long time, finally couldn't hold back, and cried in the big tent, crying and saying with grief: "My six thousand children, my six thousand children!" It's all folded in Yixian. ”

Seeing that Yao Guo, who had always been unruly, was so sad and sad, Ma Qiu couldn't help but be stunned, and hurriedly asked Yao Jizi next to him about the situation. When he heard that more than 10,000 Yao Guobu, who had always been brave and good at fighting, was actually killed by 6,000 by more than 10,000 Jin troops and was crippled alive, only panic was left on his face.

At this time, Gan Rui of Yixian County received Zeng Huaxin's order: "Shihu is dead, quickly retreat to Hanzhong!" ”

Gan Rui saw that all the people and grain and grass materials had been sent back to Hanzhong, so he ordered to abandon Yixian, which was already an empty city, and crossed Beiyuan and Majie, and slowly returned to Hanzhong through the sloping valley. Seven days later, Gan Rui and others returned to Nanzheng.

Gan Rui and others went out to fight in Guanzhong, and Zeng Hua was not idle in Nanzheng.

The first is to recruit troops, and he first turned more than 10,000 Zhichong government soldiers into official van troops. Most of these Zhichong soldiers are veterans of Liangzhou, since Zeng Hua began to sit in Liangzhou, he became a Zhichong soldiers, several years of training, and also really fought with the rebellious Haoqiang family and Yizhou rebels, and he was already a qualified soldier in two years. Zeng Hua mixed these Zhechong government soldiers with the old box soldiers, and expanded the sedan people.

This was still not enough, Zeng Hua supplemented the "regularized" Zhichong Fu soldiers from the militia, and at the same time directly recruited the Xiang army, focusing on the displaced people in the counties of Yizhou and the neighboring Jingxiang counties. Although Huan Wen was suspicious and wary of Zeng Hua, he was still very supportive of his preparations for the Northern Expedition. After all, the current Eastern Jin Dynasty all regard the Northern Zhao Dynasty as a mortal enemy, although the strength is not enough, but the Northern Expedition at the first opportunity, which has become the practice of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and many powerful ministers also expanded their prestige and power through the Northern Expedition.

Zeng Hua's preparation for the Northern Expedition with such fanfare was in line with the hearts of many people who knew that Shi Hu was seriously ill. Huan Wen of Jiangling, while slowly mobilizing men and horses to the north, adopted an attitude of tacit approval and covert support for Zeng Hua's dispatch of people to "set up recruitment points" among the displaced people in Jingxiang counties. Zeng Hua recruited 4,000 qualified soldiers in less than two months starting from March with generous conditions, and then moved back to Shangyong and Hanzhong with more than 10,000 of their families. Not only that, many businessmen sent by Zeng Hua were carrying the signboard of "General Zhenbei Procurement" to purchase grain, linen, cotton, and other materials in Jing, Hunan, Jiangsu, Guangzhou, Henan, Yang, and other prefectures, which greatly stimulated the economy and prices of various places.

And Chu Li of Zhenjingkou (now Zhenjiang, Jiangsu), like Huan Wen, regarded Zeng Hua of Liangzhou as a partial division to help the great cause of the Northern Expedition. However, Chu Li is more confident than Huan Wen, because he is the general of the imperial court and the main force of the Northern Expedition. Moreover, the main purpose of the Northern Expedition of the Jin Kingdom was to recover the capital of Heluo, relatively speaking, starting from Jingzhou and Yangzhou was much closer than starting from Liangzhou and going around Guanzhong in a big circle.

Therefore, Chu Li also acquiesced to Zeng Hua's sending merchants to purchase food and materials, and the envoys from Liangzhou always taking the opportunity of "passing by" to recruit soldiers among the displaced people in Yuzhou and Yangzhou.

Soon, 4,000 soldiers from Jingxiang and 2,000 soldiers from Yu and Yang arrived in Hanzhong in May, and a large amount of supplies also flowed from water and land to Hanzhong and Shangyong in Liangzhou.

In this way, Zeng Hua had 16,000 more men and horses in his hands, and they were organized into five compartments, which were stationed in Hanzhong, Wudu, and Hanzhong, and were training desperately. The four-compartment men and horses originally stationed in Yizhou were also transferred back to Hanzhong after the Zhechong Prefecture soldiers in each county were gradually improved. Now there is basically no major turmoil in Yizhou, because on the one hand, it has been chaos for two years, and the people are looking forward to tranquility and do not want any more turmoil; On the other hand, Yizhou's "turbulent factor" - the powerful families everywhere have been cleaned up. Therefore, after the smooth implementation of the uniform field system in various places, the biggest threat in Yizhou became a small number of Shanqiang who "refused to obey the king", but they were all located in remote areas and had a small number of people, and the newly formed Zhichong Prefecture soldiers were enough to deal with them temporarily.

In mid-May, not counting the Ganrui Sanfang Infantry Army and the Yixiang Cavalry Army who went to Guanzhong to help the wind, Wudu, Hanzhong, and Shangyong concentrated 12 van infantry troops, 36,000 people, and only one carriage infantry army was left in Chengdu. Coupled with the 10,000 Qiang cavalry stationed in Chuyang and the 30,000 Qiang cavalry in the Hetao area, the infantry cavalry in Zeng Hua's hands has exceeded more than 80,000, which is something that none of the bigwigs in the court and China expected.

"The mountain rain is coming, the wind is full of buildings! Not only us, but also Jiangling and Jingkou are all sharpening their knives, waiting for Shi Hu to die. It seems that the once domineering Northern Zhao Xionghu will become a sheep as long as Shi Hu dies. Zeng Huaxian sighed.

"It's a pity for these people, do you think the Northern Expedition is really so easy? But those who can follow the will of heaven and seize the opportunity to help all the people in the midst of fire and water are all people with great ambitions and extraordinary wisdom. Look at those people, either they are talented and ambitious but have different intentions, tired of the people's efforts to do their own thing; Otherwise, if the picture is false and famous, such a person with high ambition and sparse talent is more harmful, his wealth is exhausted, his wisdom and courage are declining, and he puts his soldiers and horses in danger, I am afraid that it will be difficult to achieve a great plan to destroy Hu, and it will be more worrying about the court. Che Yin then shook his head there and sighed.

Zeng Hua listened to Che Yin's words, and muttered to himself in his heart, this old car is still as poisonous as ever, and Huan Wen and Chu Li's abacus and ability have been explained by Che Yin. Didn't he have a good relationship with Huan Wen before? Now it's the target of his attacks. However, his disagreement does not seem to be smaller than that of Huan Wen, I wonder if this Che Yin is pointing at the bald head and scolding the monk?

But Zhen Pu didn't have so many calculations in his heart, his ******** was to plan how Zeng Hua could cut the biggest piece of cake in this "Collective Northern Expedition", at least cut Guanzhong.

"In March, the lord not only ordered to recruit more than 10,000 soldiers from the cavalry of the school captain's department to gather Hetao, but also ordered Jiang Nan, the captain of the white horse, to protect the general's position, move to Hetao and Yao Jin to converge, command 30,000 Qiang cavalry, and be ready to enter the counties of Longxi at any time." Zheng Pu only thought about himself. He straightened out Zeng Hua's steps again, hoping to find some mistakes so that they could be made up as soon as possible.

"The lord then ordered Ye Lixun, the captain of Hequ, to supervise the military of the two captains of Hequ and Baima, mobilize 5,000 cavalrymen, and go west to conquer Sun Boqiang, Ma'er Dangqiang, Bowoqiang and Shannan Qiang, and completely unify the Xiqiang region. He also ordered the Qinghai Captain Xian Lingbo to be the overseer, and supervised the military affairs of the two captains of Qinghai and Hetao to defend against the sneak attack and intrusion of Liangzhou. Jiang Nan, Ye Lixun, and Xian Lingbo were the first Qiang people to follow adults, and their loyalty was not questioned, and their talents were worthy of great responsibilities. Xu Zhi is the father-in-law of the adult, and he only has the least powerful Bai Lan Lieutenant Department, so he is not to be afraid. The Xiqiang has completed the implementation of the household system, and the leaders of each Guishun have been resettled in Qinzhou and Yizhou, and the Qiang people of all households have also started to live with peace of mind, and there should be no changes and major turmoil. Di Pu was very familiar with the situation in the Xiqiang region, and after listening to his analysis, Zeng Hua and Che Yin both nodded in agreement.

"In this way, adults don't have to worry too much about Xiqiang, but focus on Guanzhong." After Ji Pu finished speaking, Che Yin said.

"Yes!" Zheng Pu replied very simply.

"Su Chang, then how do I attack this level?" Zeng Hua humbly asked. Mao Muzhi and the others have already returned to their respective posts and are ready to enter Guanzhong, so only Che Yin and Di Puren are left by Zeng Hua's side.

"Lord Gan first came out of Guanzhong to test the strength of Guanzhong, but regardless of whether Guanzhong is strong or not, we must consider several issues. As mentioned in the last military meeting, it is not difficult for our Liangzhou army to take Chang'an with all its might, the key is how to resist reinforcements from the east and west! Therefore, once we want to go all out to win the Guanzhong, we must solve the problems of the East and the West. "It seems that Di Pu has been thinking about the Jingluo Guan for a long time.

"The counties of Longxi, Tianshui, and Luoyang in the west are actually easy to solve. According to the news reported back by Lord Gan, the border garrison army in the counties of Longxi has been out of food for a long time, and I am afraid that the morale of the army has long been weakened and the morale has long been low, so it should not be difficult to attack. At that time, as long as Master Mao first marched out of Qishan from Wudu and went straight into the two counties of Tianshui and Luoyang, and Jiang Xiaowei led 30,000 Qiang cavalry from Hetao to Longxi and Nanping Counties, and the east and west converged, then the four counties of Tianshui, Luoyang, Longxi and Nanping could only be determined. After capturing the four counties, we can slow down our troops and horses and run the four counties of Longxi with all our might, but only send Qiang cavalry to invade the three counties of Anding, Fufeng, and Shiping in the east. Zheng Pu's eyes sparkled and he said.

"Shi Hu is dying, and his crown prince Shi Shi is young. The kings are all eyeing each other, and sooner or later there will be chaos. And Chang'an's Shibao Feng Leping King led the center. Once the Kanto region fights for the throne, do you think he will be tempted by the throne of Yecheng? ”

Hearing this, Zeng Hua and Che Yin couldn't help laughing. Judging from Shi Bao's consistent performance, if Kanto doesn't fight fiercely, maybe Shi Bao doesn't have the guts, but if Kanto fights in a mess, it is estimated that he will have this guts.

Zeng Hua said with a smile: "What Su Chang means is that once Shi Bao dares to leave Chang'an and go to Kanto to compete for the position, it will be an opportunity for us to send troops." ”

"Yes, as long as Shi Bao dares to send troops to Kanto, it means that Kanto is already out of control, so we don't have to worry that Kanto has strong reinforcements to support Guanzhong, after all, in terms of news, we are still not as good as Shi Bao Lingtong." Zheng Pu replied, "At that time, Lord Mao will lead his army straight out of the Meridian Valley and attack Chang'an with all his might, while Lord Mao and Captain Jiang can sweep in from the west until Chang'an meets Lord Yu." ”

"Okay, that's it. Qinzhou already has four boxes of soldiers and horses, and sent an order to Wusheng, telling him to concentrate all the soldiers and horses in Wudu, anyway, Wudu and Yinping counties have been stabilized, and the soldiers of Zhichong Mansion have also been formed. I will transfer the infantry army to him, let him lead the economic and strategic affairs of the Longxi counties with the authority of the general of the left army, and Jiang Nan and Yao Jin will lead the Qiang cavalry to assist him. After listening to Di Pu's words, Zeng Hua's heart had already decided, and when Mao Muzhi left, he also suggested that he should take the four counties of Longxi first and then take Chang'an while the chaos was taking place. Since it has been decided, it is necessary to start deploying, "Hanzhong left the Sanchuan infantry, and the rest of the soldiers and horses gradually concentrated on the front line of Xicheng and Ankang in Shangyong County." ”

At this time, an entourage walked quickly and said, "Tell Lord Assassin Shi, there are several people from the Reconnaissance Department looking for Lord Shi, saying that there is an emergency military situation in the north. ”

"Quick!"

Zheng Pu took the cloth silk handed over by the scout of the cavalry, unfolded it, couldn't help but light up his eyes, and then said while presenting it to Zeng Hua: "Shi Hu is dead!" ”

Zeng Hua was overjoyed and surprised, and saw that the cloth silk read: "April Jisi, Tiger Pawn, the crown prince is on the throne, Liu is the queen mother, Pengcheng Wang Zun, Yiyang Wang Jian is the prime minister." ”

Zeng Hua handed the cloth silk to Che Yin, walked quickly to the map, looked at the map of Guanzhong and the Central Plains, and couldn't help but stay there.