As expected, the news that the Northern Zhou Dynasty sent envoys to sue for peace spread far and wide, and then there were various rumors, some said that the Zhou lord was willing to be a minister, and some said that the Zhou lord cut the land in order to protect himself, the latter had the most voices, whether this matter was true or not, Yuwen Yong sent a messenger to ask for a meeting is always true, right?

Moreover, the State of Qi was already uneasy and kind-hearted from the beginning, and when the Northern Qi escorted the Zhou envoys with great fanfare, they had no intention of hiding from the sentinels of the Zhou army. As soon as the news came out, most people basically believed that it was true, and even the will to resist with the surrounding counties was much weaker.

Within one day, four cities surrendered one after another, and Old Murong and Duan Shao took this opportunity to gather troops and horses and attack Tongguan fiercely.

Yuwen Yong was shocked when he heard the news halfway, and he didn't wait for Yang Jian to take Huazhou first, and ordered the general Dou Yi to rescue urgently, and make every effort to resist the Northern Qi army, leaving only a few soldiers and horses in Chang'an, and at the same time ordering Da Xi Changru to go north and immediately break the Qi army Gao Yanzong.

Duan Shao expected in advance that the Huazhou area would be repeatedly contested, so he emptied all the grain, grass and equipment of Hongnong, cutting off the possibility of Hongnong receiving help from Guanzhong. Since the split of the Eastern and Western Wei Dynasty, the largest war began to explode here!

Huazhou is on the north bank of Luoshui, south of Shayuan, is a major town in the east of Guanzhong Defense, sitting firmly in Huazhou, you can occupy Luoshui Yaojin, so that the Northern Zhou Dynasty loses this natural line of defense, in addition, you can also shelter Huayin and Fenglingdu behind you.

The Qi army started a city in the east of Tongguan, and the materials and weapons were transported from the pontoon bridge of Fenglingdu, once it was taken by the Zhou army, the consequences were unimaginable.

Duan Shao was old and strong, although he had not been on the battlefield for a long time, but his military sense was still keen, and he explained to the emperor that he was willing to personally sit in Hongnong to buy enough time for the decisive battle between Northern Qi and Northern Zhou.

Gao Wei agreed, and Duan Shao immediately transferred his son Duan Decao and Liu Fang, who was then General Fenwei, to go north to Huazhou, and except for one Dugu Yongye, the rest were young and strong in the army.

Needless to say, Duan Decao is a martial arts family, and his roots are red. Liu Fang's father is the famous general Liu Feng, because of the defeat of the family to Gao Huan, many military exploits, and later with Murong Shaozong was defeated by Wang Sizheng and died, after his death gave the great Sima, Shang Shuling, relying on the shadow of his father's ancestors, although he failed to inherit a title, but also a smooth road.

Liu Fang's military order was strict and clean, the army was neat, and those who violated the military order would be beheaded; At the same time, he was kind and loving to the soldiers, and he personally comforted and cared for the soldiers when they were sick, and the soldiers were willing to serve them. Because of his strategic courage, he was quickly pulled out by Jane and held important positions.

At this time, Dugu Yongye is struggling to support it in Huazhou, Dugu Yongye runs Luoyang all the year round, and has a lot of experience in defending the city, and the city defense of Huazhou is very stable, Duan Shao's messenger has repeatedly explained to him that he must stick to this city, and must not give any salted fish in the Northern Zhou Dynasty a chance to turn over.

Dugu Yongye vaguely expected what a difficult situation he would face next, but he also gritted his teeth and promised not to let Zhou Jun step under his nose. Yang Jian, Zhao Zhongqing and others led the army to appear under the city of Huazhou unexpectedly, but they saw that the gate of Huazhou was closed and they could not attack it urgently, so they shouted under the city: "The soldiers of the Great Zhou Dynasty are here, why don't Yongye surrender early?" ”

Dugu Yongye did not show weakness, and said sarcastically: "I also advise you in the same way, Huayin still has tens of thousands of male soldiers waiting for me, if you don't want to die, surrender as soon as possible!" ”

Yang Jian ordered the siege of the city, but the Qi army had already prepared, and the Zhou army in front of them failed to prepare in a hurry, and was defeated and retreated by the Qi army in several rounds of shooting.

Zhao Zhongqing saw that Dugu Yongye had no fear and didn't want to waste his energy in Huazhou, so he persuaded Yang Jian to order the army to turn southeast along Luoshui and garrison Xu Yuan.

First, to contain Duan Shao, who is sitting in Huayin, and second, to isolate Huazhou, become a nail buried in the hinterland of the Qi army, and disgust Duan Shao.

Duan Shao just smiled lightly when he heard the news, praised the terrible afterlife, and then there was no follow-up, and the generals under his command asked for battle, Duan Shao just didn't allow it:

"I look at the appearance of the Zhou army, Yang Jian, Zhao Zhongqing is probably not easy to follow, they are currently high morale, very united, stationed in Xu Yuan if it is not able to defend will be difficult to deal with, if the victory is not much meaning, if he calculates, defeated, Hongnong may not be able to keep, I will not do such a thing, I must find a perfect strategy.

"Zhou Zhuyu Wenyong is now desperate, hanging the division to cross the river, as long as we still hold the rear, we still have the geographical advantage, and Zhou Guo's preparation this time is not sufficient, Zhou Zhuyu Wenyong is roughly acceptable, but the plan is superficial, easy to be impulsive, this time to cross the river and fight, it is completely in the mind, it is a good opportunity for our army to defeat Zhou in one fell swoop!

"On the other hand, our army, although the number of soldiers is not as large as the Zhou army, but the concentration of troops, if we can contain the Zhou army with Huazhou, concentrate on protecting Huayin and Fenglingdu, we can protect the rear of the army, as soon as the battle situation changes, we can go out of Luoshui, lock the retreat of the Zhou army, and annihilate all the main forces of the Zhou State in front and back, just in an invincible position."

Everyone was impressed by Duan Shao's old scheming, and then let Dou Yi, Yu Zhongwen go south, and let Yang Jian and Zhao Zhongqing provoke the war letter, Duan Shao just ignored it, and the battalions of the Qi army were as stable as old dogs, but the Zhou army couldn't bear it.

Zhao Zhongqing was keenly aware of the sinister part of Duan Shao's layout, but he couldn't crack it for a while, so he stated the danger of this battle, and roughly pointed out the plan of the Qi people, hoping that the emperor would not be too aggressive, and first rest assured that he would sweep Hongnong and other places first.

But Yu Wenyong was skeptical, the forward troops of the Zhou army had just won a few big victories, Dou Yi, Yu Zhongwen, Hou Mo Chen Qiong and others tended to chase the troops, and they were invincible all the way, and easily captured a large area of Qi army camp on the Fengyi Plain, it was reported: "Our army is like a rainbow, and the Qi army dare not resist, so they all abandon the camp and leave." ”

Compared with the previous one-sided and embarrassing battle situation, it undoubtedly gave Yuwen Yong a shot in the arm, and the morale of the Zhou army was unprecedentedly high, even Yu Wenyong once thought that the Qi army was nothing more than that, as long as he kept going south for a moment, he would be able to capture Gao Wei alive.

Although reason defeated delusion in the end, he still felt that there was a great chance of winning this battle, and he was not so afraid of what would happen to the Qi army, so although Zhao Zhongqing and Yang Jian analyzed it reasonably, Yuwen Yong did not pay much attention to it, but just ordered them to step up to defeat the Qi army, and the large army was still going east all the time!

At the beginning of November, Hou Mo Chen Qiong met with Qi general Yang Su twenty miles north of the city, "big break", and two days, Qi general Murong Sanzang and Da Xi Zhen fought in the south of the forbidden ditch, Murong Sanzang was defeated, abandoned the city and left, and the Zhou army recovered three piers occupied by the Qi army in one fell swoop!

This successive victories stimulated the blood of the Zhou army up and down, and the Qi army could only retreat step by step under the pressure of the Zhou army, although no one doubted that the trip was too smooth, didn't the Qi army have a warrior army? Isn't there a Xianbei Baibao? Isn't there an iron harrier? Just can't help fighting?

However, this voice was quickly refuted by the generals of the Zhou army in the good situation, and it was worthless and gradually disappeared.

However, Yu Wenyong, who was originally overjoyed, gradually came back to his senses, although at this time the Zhou army won a big victory all the way, and was about to relieve the siege of Tongguan, and only waited for the state and county soldiers to arrive, they could launch a general attack, but he always felt that there was something wrong......

At this time, the big tent of the Chinese army of the Qi army, the generals are repeatedly deducing on the sand table, the red flag is the Qi army, the black flag is the Zhou army, with the retreat of the Qi army step by step, the Zhou army is advancing step by step, the battle line of the black flag has been stretched too long, and the original strict deployment has gradually become sparse, and the loopholes have begun to appear one by one......

The red flag has been quietly woven into a big pocket, using Tongguan as bait, gradually narrowing the scope of engagement, gathering strength little by little, slowly, little by little, growing into a storm that is enough to tear everything apart!

PS: I took the exam today and yesterday.,There won't be a second chapter today.,Tomorrow there's a big chapter of five or six thousand words.,I'm sorry for the slow update.。