It was a battle, and Tong Guanjun was defeated and lost.

Of the 200,000 men and horses who crossed the river, almost 50,000 were trampled to death by each other, a small number were killed in battle, a large number were squeezed or voluntarily jumped into the Yellow River and drowned, and another 150,000 or so men and horses surrendered to Dong Huang's army.

Tong Guan and Zhuangshi Dao packed up the remnants of their troops and horses and defended on the south bank of the Yellow River, but the morale of the army was close to zero.

Soon after, worse news came, Gao Lian, a cousin of Gao Yu of the East Route Army, was killed, and the thief general Zhao Yun gathered an army of 100,000 to capture Puzhou, and he could go west to the Daimyo Mansion at any time.

Tong Guan's department was in a dilemma for a while, and finally could only choose to retreat to the Changyuan area for defense, and was soon removed from his post by Zhao Ji.

Concerning his own net worth and life, Zhao Ji finally became anxious, and he ordered the seed master Dao to take over the defense of the first line of Yucheng, Changyuan, and Dongming, and summoned local troops to Qinwang.

The eyebrows were burned, and Zhao Ji obviously couldn't take care of the problem of losing face.

Because of the Song army's initiative to retreat, the Fazheng Department successfully crossed the river from Liyang and besieged Huazhou.

In the meantime, the Song army also wanted to attack it with a half-crossing, but Fa Zheng first let the navy cover, and after fighting a victory on the river, he crossed the river cautiously, and the Song army could not find a chance to sneak attack at all, but because he was afraid of being stuck by the main force of Dong Huang's army, he could not get out, so he took the initiative to retreat.

At about the same time, after successive victories, Zhao Yun's troops also moved in the direction of Nanhua and Dingtao, defeated the Guangji army, and made a posture of attacking Kaifeng with the main force of the Fazheng Department on two roads.

Kaifeng City was shocked three times a day, and Zhao Ji even came up with the idea of letting his son succeed to the throne and defend the city, and go to the south to avoid trouble.

However, before he dared to say this idea, he was snuffed out by the Manchu civil and military.

The Manchu Dynasty's civil and military forces were people who understood, and soon saw through the disadvantages of Dong Huang's army not having a solid foundation and going deep alone, and proposed that the forbidden army stick to the key nodes near Bianjing to confront Dong Huang's army, and then ordered Liu Fa and other northwest elites to mobilize troops to divide their troops into two routes, all the way out of Jingcheng to cut off the back road of Dong Huang's army, and all the way to Bianjing Qinwang; Ordered the southern Qinwang troops to assemble at Yingtianfu and continue to attack the Jingdong East Road.

Because the younger brother of the seed master Dao fought well in the offensive and defensive battles in Huazhou, the Fa Zheng army did not dare to go south for a while because he could not capture Huazhou, and Zhao Ji, who was bold, adopted this strategy at first.

But soon, Zhao Ji's strategy changed. The reason is very simple, Jingcheng and Taiyuan have been lost one after another.

Liu Guangshi sent Wang Yuan, Han Shizhong and other young generals to attack Zhaozhou, and the two were forced to go with hatred due to military law and the idea of making meritorious contributions, but they met the main force of Huang Zhong's department on the way.

——After Huang Zhong captured Jizhou, he led his army south under the order of Dong Huang, first cooperated with Xu Huang to defeat the panicked Baosai army, and then Huang Zhong's troops attacked Jingcheng, and Xu Huang's troops went south to support Fazheng.

In the battle, Wang Yuan and Han Shizhong showed the rare tenacity of the Song army, especially Han Shizhong's martial arts reached the point where Huang Zhong was happy, so Huang Zhong moved his muscles and bones a little and captured the young Wang Yuan and Han Shizhong alive.

The second general was quite backbone, and he swore not to surrender, Huang Zhong found it interesting, so he released them and the captured soldiers.

After they returned to Jingcheng, Huang Zhong led his troops to Jingcheng in the second half of the night, and asked the soldiers to ask Wang Yuan and Han Shizhong loudly why they did not send Liu Yanqing's head as agreed, and ordered the soldiers to storm Jingcheng.

The already panicked Jingcheng was in chaos, the generals were suspicious of each other, and the soldiers had no heart to fight, Liu Yanqing was even more afraid of the enemy like a tiger, and took the lead in escaping, and Jingcheng fell into the hands of Dong Huangjun.

Huang Zhong led his troops to chase all the way, and the unlucky Wang Yuan and Han Shizhong were captured again.

They were almost killed by Liu Yanqing because of Huang Zhong's counter-plots, but this time they were very happy and chose to surrender directly.

At this time, they, especially Han Shizhong, were originally young and vigorous, and they were swallowed and suppressed by their superiors many times, and they were very dissatisfied with the rotten Song army and the imperial court, and the generals who captured them many times were also Han, and they were also the subordinates of His Royal Highness the King of Qi who recovered the sixteen states of Yanyun, and the two of them thought that they were already interested in the Great Song Dynasty and Liu Yanqing, so this surrender had no psychological burden.

Those who surrendered with them were more than 3,000 elite soldiers of the Song army who were forced to carry out the mission of nine deaths and one life before to sneak attack Dong Huang's army.

With these generals who were familiar with the situation of the Song army and Hedong Road, Huang Zhong drove all the way in.

Before arriving in Taiyuan City, Han Shizhong offered a plan, and he led the Song army to surrender troops and pretend to be defeated soldiers to deceive the city.

Huang Zhong's eldest son, Huang Xu, immediately said: "Father, Han Shizhong, a newcomer, is not credible, he must want to run away and not come back, and he will tell Song Jun the truth of our army, Han Shizhong should be punished!" ”

Huang Zhong was immediately furious, scolded Huang Xu, patted his chest and said that Han Liangchen was not that kind of person, and Lao Tzu could trust Han Liangchen.

When Han Shizhong said that he would lead Dong Huangjun to disguise himself as the Song army to deceive the city, Huang Zhong even refused: Lao Tzu not only trusts you, but also trusts your vision!

Han Shizhong, who had made great contributions but was hit hard because of Tong Guan's distrust, was moved to tears by Huang Zhong's trust, and only selected more than 200 people to go to the city.

The Taiyuan guards are also very trusting, although they know Han Shizhong, they still let people confirm it in every way, and they will never open the city gate, only Han Shizhong will be allowed to enter the city first.

Han Shizhong was not afraid, generously dropped the long weapon, only carried the waist knife, and sat in the basket into the city.

After entering the city, Han Shizhong suddenly attacked, put the knife on Zhizhou's neck and scolded angrily: "Lao Tzu took his brothers to fight hard in front, but as a result, you people who are greedy for life and afraid of death don't even let your brothers enter the city to eat hot food!" Believe it or not, Lao Tzu immediately slaughtered this bastard! ”

"Han Powu, you're crazy!"

The other generals couldn't help but scold Han Shizhong's nickname, and they cursed Han Shizhong in their hearts: It doesn't matter if you bastard, you bastard, if Lord Zhizhou has three longs and two shorts, the future of our people will be ruined.

Han Shizhong said with a smile: "Put our brothers in, prepare wine and food and three hundred war horses for us, we will leave when we are full, and I will also release Lord Zhizhou at that time, after all, you have to rely on you to defend Taiyuan City!" Dong Huangjun is not easy to get along with. ”

The more Han Shizhong said this, the more the civil and military forces on the city tower didn't think that Han Shizhong was here to steal the city, they only felt that he was a military ruffian, and he was not optimistic that everyone would be able to defend Taiyuan City, so he wanted to take this opportunity to blackmail the war horse and escape.

[When you all come up, let your guard down, and see how we concoct you!] 】

Both the Zhizhou and the civil and military officials hated Han Shizhong.

However, what they didn't expect was that these military ruffians who they regarded as greedy for life and afraid of death and just wanted to escape, after they all went to the city tower, the first thing they did was to cut down the surrounding soldiers and round up the main civil and military officials in Taiyuan.

"Dog thief!"

The prefect, who had just wanted to settle accounts with the snake after the autumn, was so angry that he took the initiative to bump into Han Shizhong's knife and wiped his neck.

In the Song Dynasty, there were more than 100 years of monks, and there was still no shortage of people who were willing to die.

It's just that since ancient times, it has been difficult to die the only one, seeing Zhizhou's neck spurting blood, not losing his breath for a long time, and struggling on the ground, but other officials have no courage to die after all.

(End of chapter)