In the autumn and August, more than 300 families of Zhao Yushuai, a native of the county of the Auxiliary State and King Wuji, rebelled against Yan and returned to Zhao and the state to assassinate Shi Zhang Ping. Yan Wang Junmi, Guangning, Shanggu two county residents in Xu Wu, on behalf of the county residents in Fancheng.

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In autumn and August, Yiyang City, Luozhou (now west of Yiyang, Henan, north of the Luohe River, Luozhou was set up by Shihu in 345 A.D., with jurisdiction over Hongnong County), and the Zheng Department of Luozhou Assassin Shi of Northern Zhao suddenly received a secret report from a spy that an army came from the west, under the banner of the general of the former army of the Jin Dynasty and the assassin of Liangzhou, and was stationed in a spring dock fifty miles west of Yiyang.

Zheng didn't know how this Jin army could sneak over from Liangzhou, which was thousands of miles away, but he knew that this person must be not good, so he hurriedly reported to Luoyang while gathering soldiers and horses and closing the city gate.

The Zheng family now belongs to the people and horses of Zhang Yu, the assassin of Northern Zhao Yuzhou. When Ran Min killed Shi Jian and occupied Yecheng, Hebei was in turmoil, and Zhang Yu, the assassin of Northern Zhao Yuzhou, who was stationed in Xuchang (now east of Xuchang, Henan), immediately seized the opportunity and began to expand his power. He first sent people to occupy Chenliu County after taking advantage of Duan Gongdong to go to Guanggu, and then sent troops to collect Liang County (Zhi Suiyang, now Shangqiu, Henan) and Chen County (Zhi Chen County, now Huaiyang, Henan), plus the original Xiangcheng County (Zhi Xiangcheng, now Xiangcheng, Henan) and Yingchuan County, which immediately became a powerful faction in Henan.

Zhang Yu was not satisfied with this, and also sent the general Shangguan En to attack Luoyang, drove away the original Northern Zhao Sizhou Assassin Shi Yi, officially inserted his hand into Sizhou Henan County, and then continued to expand westward.

If it weren't for Zhao Fu, who was led by the Jin army in Yongzhou, he began to take a defensive position after occupying Hangu Pass and Hongnong City, and no longer marched eastward, otherwise the Zheng department would not have moved from Hongnong to Yiyang.

When Shangguan'en sent troops south, General Gao Chong of Pingnan and General Lu Hu couldn't help but persuade Zheng Department: "Now that our army is strong and Yuzhou is strong, it is better to temporarily attach it and then make plans." Zheng thought about it, and he didn't have the capital to confront Shangguan En, so he submitted a letter to Zhang Yu, willing to respect Zhang Yu as the Duke of Henan and attach it to Luozhou. Zhang Yu was happy, and immediately agreed to the attachment of the Zheng family, and asked him to continue to be stationed in Yiyang with the history of Luozhou.

When Zheng was busy in Yiyang, Gan Rui was studying the information of Yiyang City that the spies had returned, preparing to capture this important city in Luoyang in the north in one fell swoop.

When Gan Rui attacked Guanlong in Zenghua, he sent troops from Xicheng to occupy the entire Weixing County, and then waved his army north, captured Shangluo City (now Shang County, Shaanxi) and Lantian Pass, occupied Shangluo County, the southeast gate of Guanzhong, and sent troops to Wuguan. At the same time as rectifying Shangluo County and Weixing County, Gan Rui captured the northeast gate of Shangluo County in May this year - Lushi City, and Zhao Fu of Hangu Pass echoed from north to south across the Kunshan Mountain, which was regarded as completely sealing all the road checkpoints south of the river on the east side of Guanyou.

But Gan Rui was not satisfied, he left Zhang Qu to guard Shangluo, and then led the Sixiang infantry army to the north to make a tentative attack. It's not that Gan Rui is greedy for the great credit of recovering Heluo, he just wants to see how much Northern Zhao strength is in the sacred Heluo region in his mind, but curiosity can sometimes kill people.

On the second day, Gan Rui's whole army went straight to the city of Yiyang, lined up in the south of the city, and then sent the general Hou Ming to challenge.

I saw Hou Ming with more than 100 horsemen to the place where Yiyang City was an arrow, and then opened his throat and shouted: "I am Hou Ming, the general of the Jin Qianjun Army and the commander of the front carriage under the command of Lord Liangzhou Thorn Shi Gan." Now the king of Liangzhou was ordered to fight in the north, why should you and other lackeys resist stubbornly? Your masters are about to be killed to the point that they will be cut off, why are you still here to keep filial piety for them? ”

Hearing that the scolding was vicious, Zheng Xian, Gao Chong, Lu Hu and the others were all angry and green, but they didn't know how to answer for a while, and finally Lu Hu plucked up his strength and said: "The number of days has its own destiny, and it is not something that human beings can resist." Now that the Central Plains is in turmoil, we are just protecting the territory and the people. You wait for the declining villains in the south of the Yangtze River, take advantage of the fire to rob, lead the war to Luozhou, and disaster the people to the fire and water, and the heavens are intolerable. ”

Hearing this momentum and truth, Hou Ming didn't say much, and continued to shout: "If you want to continue to be martyred for Shihu, why don't you come out to fight, and die vigorously!" But if you shrink your head and brain like this, and become a lackey and become your virtue, even your master Shihu will be angry and alive and angry to death. ”

Hearing this, Gao Chong couldn't hold back any longer, and rushed out of the south gate with a thousand men and horses, ready to behead Hou Ming under the horse.

Seeing that the south gate of Yiyang was squeaked open, more than 1,000 people rushed out with spurs, Hou Ming and more than 100 horsemen behind him did not panic at all, but instigated the horse's head to run along Yiyang City. Gao Chong was so angry, just now this guy was still scolding others for being a turtle with a shrunken head, but now he ran fast before he could engage in battle, and immediately instigated his mount, and followed closely with more than 200 personal cavalry behind him, leaving more than 1,000 infantry troops far behind.

Turning back and seeing Gao Chong and the infantry behind him open a large distance, Hou Ming didn't say a word, his backhand was an arrow, and immediately shot the Gao Chong soldiers who rushed to the front off the horse, and then turned the horse's head and turned a big turn to the left, and more than 100 Jin cavalry also opened their bows while turning, and immediately shot over more than a dozen Gao Chong's personal soldiers.

Gao Chong and the others opened their bows and shot back, and turned behind them.

When Hou Ming led his subordinates to turn and run away from Yiyang City for a distance, he saw that Gao Chong and the others had slowed down, knowing that they were afraid of being ambushed. So Hou Ming whistled, took the lead in turning his mount, and rushed over with a roar in front of Gao Chong and the others, and the entourage next to him also turned their horses' heads and rushed straight over.

Gao Chong was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect that the Jin army in front of him, who was "as timid as a mouse", actually turned around and rushed over. I saw them running faster and faster, and calmly stretched out their bows and arrows, and there was a burst of sharp shots at their side, and the flying arrows flew past Gao Chong's ears, and suddenly disappeared behind them with a sharp whistle. Gao Chong and others were not to be outdone, and also opened their bows to shoot. The arrows whizzed through the air, flying towards their respective targets, and several men and horses on both sides fell in response.

Due to the high speed, the shooting was only a split second, and both sides only had time to shoot two or three arrows before they staggered.

Hou Ming quickly carried the horn bow, pulled out the saber with a bang, his eyes were clear, and as soon as he stretched out his hand, he handed the saber out, slashing through the neck of a Zhao cavalryman, and his body twisted flexibly, dodging the long knife beckoned by the Zhao cavalry next to him, and rushed straight into the formation of the Zhao army. At this time, behind him, a stream of blood rushed into the sky, and a round head was rushed into the air by this fountain-like blood, rolled twice, drew an arc and flew into the distance, and the unabated mount carried the headless Zhao cavalry to continue to rush into the Jin cavalry.

Hou Ming placed the saber horizontally, and his right hand flexibly grasped the position of the saber, so that it could slash more smoothly through the Zhao cavalry running on the right. The sharp saber glowed silver in the sunlight, marking a silver trail, and behind the silver trail there was a blood-colored wave, and the blood beads splashed everywhere in the sunlight like withered cherry blossoms.

When Hou Ming led his troops and the cavalry of the Zhao army staggered, there were hundreds of corpses left on the ground, including those of the Zhao army and the Jin army. Hou Ming took a cursory look at his subordinates, he lost more than 30 people, while the Zhao army lost more than 40 people, plus he was shot down just now, there were 70 or 80 Zhao cavalry lying on the ground.

Hou Ming didn't say anything, the saber in his right hand was raised, and then he rode his horse and rode towards the cavalry of the Zhao army, and the entourage around him didn't say a word, and then rushed over. Gao Chong and the other Zhao Jun had no choice but to instigate their mounts to meet them.

Staggered back and forth twice, there were less than twenty people left behind Hou Ming, and more than fifty people behind Gao Chong, but their morale had been suppressed by the Jin army, which was becoming more and more "crazy". Although the Jin army still had a disadvantage in numbers, they were killing more and more fiercely, almost red-eyed, even if they were wounded, they had to turn around and rush into the Zhao army together, gritting their teeth to kill one or two to be considered enough.

This kind of narrow battle between the two armies is courage, and in front of the Jin cavalry who are like mad tigers, the cavalry of the Zhao army slowly lost the last courage. Gao Chong ran away first, and when Hou Ming led the team to rush over again, he turned around and ran towards Yiyang, and the soldiers behind him immediately turned around and fled back.

Hou Ming followed closely behind, stretched his bow and arrows, and shot at the vests of the cavalry of the Zhao army was a rain of arrows. The cavalry of the Zhao army ran away and there were fewer and fewer people, and when they were about to reach the west gate, there were less than ten people left around Gao Chong. Gao Chong shouted, "Open the city gates!" "While slapping the horse and galloping.

But the city gate had not yet opened, Hou Ming had already caught up, and Gao Chong couldn't, so he had to turn his horse's head and run towards the south gate. Zhao Jun on the city tower was afraid of injuring his own people by mistake, so he had to watch Gao Chong, Hou Ming and others run south around the city wall one after another.

In the middle of the run, the noble mount may have kicked a sharp rock, and without the protection of the horseshoe, it suddenly injured its right front hoof. I only heard a neighing from Gao Chong's mount, and his front legs went limp, and then his whole body pounced forward, and the horse's head and neck followed by the horse's body were like a ball of dough, which quickly folded together and crashed into the ground. And Gao Chong was also thrown off by his mount and rolled to the ground. Before the pro-soldiers on both sides had time to rescue, Hou Ming rushed over with more than 20 Jin cavalry. Seeing this scene, the entourage immediately rushed forward to kill Gao Chong's personal soldiers, and Hou Mingce immediately went to slash Gao Chong's head with a knife, held it in his hand, and then turned his horse's head and rushed out, and the entourage left less than two or three Gao Chong's personal soldiers left, and rushed out with them.

By the time the Zhao army on the city tower reacted and started shooting arrows, Hou Ming had already rushed out of the land of arrows in one step, and was no longer threatened by the archers of the Zhao army in the city tower.

Hou Ming ostentatiously held the noble head in one hand, while riding a horse and running under Yiyang City, while the entourage behind him shouted in unison: "The head of the pseudo-Zhao Pingnan general Gao Chong is here!" ”

Hearing this, the Jin army, who had watched a good show in formation, couldn't help but slap their spears and swords on their shields, and shouted in unison: "Invincible!" Invincibility! Invincibility! The momentum was so strong that Zhao Jun in Yiyang was suddenly discouraged.

Zheng couldn't, so he had to order a strict defense and rely on the Yiyang city wall to fight to the death with the Jin army. But Gan Rui would not let his subordinates easily attack the tall Yiyang City, and he saw that the Zhao army in Yiyang City would no longer send people out to send them to death, so he ordered to retreat twenty miles and set up camp.

In the next three days, despite Gan Rui's provocations, Zhao Jun in Yiyang City couldn't live or die, and used the turtle shrinkage method. Gan Rui's dispatch of troops this time was just a temptation, so he was unwilling to send his troops to attack Yiyang without complete siege equipment.

At noon on the fourth day, after some provocation, Gan Rui returned to the camp in vain. After lunch, he had just summoned Li Tianzheng, Hou Ming and other subordinates to discuss how to use tactics to hook out the Zhao army in Yiyang City, when he suddenly heard a scout horse running over in a hurry and reported loudly: "There are reinforcements going south!" ”

Startled, Gan Rui hurriedly asked carefully, it turned out that the spies found a large army nearly 100 miles north of Yiyang City, about 25,000 foot cavalry, waving the "Fu" flag, was coming rapidly, and the most dangerous thing was that the cavalry of more than 5,000 people in less than 60 miles suddenly disappeared.

Gan Rui was stunned when he heard this, he didn't expect that Fu Jian had entered Luoyang Henan, and he still had such a strong army. But the immediate priority is the whereabouts of the 5,000 cavalry. Yiyang is east of Luoshui, and the five thousand cavalry can only come from the west, but what is their purpose? If you follow your own style of fighting, the best use of these 5,000 cavalry is to attack the 12,000 people who were frustrated and stationed under Yiyang City at night, or to attack grain and grass.

Grain and grass? Thinking of this, Gan Rui's face suddenly turned pale. Near dusk, finally a spy came to report, there were 5,000 cavalry attacked a spring dock, the two tun men and horses guarding the village were fighting bloodily, swearing to defend the grain and grass hoarded there, but the situation was extremely critical, the herald tearfully asked Gan Rui to send reinforcements to help a fish dock, too late I am afraid that the whole army will be wiped out.

Looking at the black smoke faintly rising in the remnant sun in the southwest distance, Gan Rui couldn't help gritting her teeth, standing there clenched her fists, and was speechless for a long time. Soon it was nightfall, and Gan Rui ordered the whole battalion to still light the lamps, and the tents were not removed, but the whole army quietly opened up at the end of the day, and suddenly went north and then west, and went straight to the pond.

Gan Rui's opponents this time are Fu Xiong and Yu Zun. At the end of June, Fu Xiong and Yu Zun led 30,000 horses from Mengjin to cross the river to the south, first in the north of Luoyang Mountain with Shangguan En, who rushed to block the news, defeated the Yuzhou army, and then surrounded Luoyang City. At the end of July, after receiving the battle report, Zhang Yu mobilized 20,000 soldiers and horses from Xuchang and waved his army north to rescue Luoyang, but was ambushed by Fu Xiong in Yangcheng and surrendered.

As soon as Fu Xiong recovered Zhang Yujin, according to Luoyang, he received an urgent report from the Zheng department, and immediately led 25,000 soldiers and horses out of Luoyang to the south to aid Yiyang. Halfway through the march, Fu Xiong received detailed information about the Ganrui army from Yiyang, and immediately sent Yuzun to attack a fish dock, and then ambushed the Ganrui reinforcements on the road.

But Yuzun waited all night and did not wait for Ganrui's reinforcements, knowing that it was not good, he immediately ordered before dawn to attack a fish dock with all his might, burn the grain and grass there, and send a large number of spies to the west and north to detect the movements of Ganrui's army. When he arrived, he received a report that he had found traces of the Ganrui army in the northwest direction, and was marching in the northwest direction with all his might, and the destination should be Hongnong County.

Yu Zun immediately ordered the whole army to pursue, and sent someone to send a letter to Fu Xiong, who had already arrived in Yiyang, asking him to lead the army to continue the pursuit, and strive to completely annihilate this Liangzhou army under Zeng Hua, and prepare to make a good start.

Yu Zun didn't expect that the Ganrui army's marching speed would be so fast, and he didn't expect that the real destination of the Ganrui army was Huangchi, although his troops had four legs, they still followed a big circle to catch up with the two-legged Ganrui army in Shenshi, and the Ganrui army at this time was only fifty miles away from Huangchi City.

However, to Yuzun's relief, Fu Xiong's army received an urgent report and was hurrying to arrive, and it should be able to arrive at the right time. Yu Zun assigned cavalry to stick to the Ganrui army, and tried to delay the Ganrui army as much as possible, so as not to let them enter Huangchi City before the arrival of Fu Xiong's army.