The messenger sent by Shi Le was called Cheng Yao, his sister was Shi Le's wife, and had just given birth to Shi Le's eldest son, Shi Hong, Shi Le was overjoyed, and Shi Hong was immediately named the son, and Cheng Yao was also valued. Shi Le told Cheng Yao that as long as he did his errand well this time, he would be named the right long history, second only to Zhang Bin, so Cheng Yao came to Pingyang confidently. Originally, he thought that this time Shi Le killed Wang Jun should be a great achievement, so he thought that Shi Le gave himself a good errand, but after coming for more than ten days, he hadn't even seen Liu Cong, the emperor of the Xiongnu Han Kingdom, he was also a smart man, and finally knew that something was wrong, no wonder Shi Le told himself many times before he came.

Although Liu Cong began to be poor and extravagant, but he was not stupid, in fact, before Cheng Yao came, he received the news that Shi Le had captured Youzhou, that day Liu Cong was furious, killed dozens of palace maids with a rod, and then found three unlucky Han families by the way to exterminate the family.

Liu Cong understands Shi Le in the same way that Shi Le understands Liu Cong. In Shi Le's eyes, Liu Cong is a fierce tiger that refuses to come out of the gentle township, even if he doesn't show his fangs, Shi Le doesn't dare to provoke. And in Liu Cong's eyes, Shi Le is a giant python that eats like crazy, he is devouring all this crazily, and when the giant python grows up, he will eat himself, and now that Shi Le has annexed Youzhou, he is finally about to grow up. To tell the truth, Liu Cong didn't expect that the Youzhou giant would be so easily wiped out by Shi Le, the Huns were very afraid of Wang Jun, Wang Jun crisscrossed the northern frontier, and once beat the Huns to the point that he couldn't raise his head, Liu Cong's father Liu Yuan didn't dare to go to Youzhou to find himself uncomfortable. But it was such a person who was actually cleaned up by Shile.

Liu Cong urgently summoned the crown prince Liu Ji and the great Sikong Jin Zhun, the Dazai Liu Jing, the great Sima Liu Ji, the Taishi Liu Yi, the Taifu Zhu Ji and the Taibao Hu Yanyan and others.

However, because Shi Le gave these people a large amount of gold and silver treasures every year, he opposed Liu Cong's desire to deal with Shi Le, so Liu Cong was not sure, so he did not summon Shi Le's envoy Cheng Yao.

Cheng Yao brought a large amount of gold and silver treasures with him, and after he noticed that something was wrong, he gave gifts and bribed Liu Cong's most trusted prince Liu Ji, the great Sikong Jin Zhun and the Zhongchang attendants Shen, Xuanhuai, Yu Rong and others, under their persuasion, Liu Cong thought that Shi Le was still loyal to him, so he summoned Cheng Yao.

Cheng Yao received a summons at the Pingyang Imperial Palace, and after he entered the main hall, he knelt down and crawled forward on his knees in front of Liu Cong, who saw that Shi Le's envoy was so respectful to him, and he eliminated the last bit of hesitation. At least Shile was still very afraid of himself now. Of course, Liu Cong is not confused, how could he not know the danger of Shi Le, he also knows that the people around him have received bribes, so they will help Shi Le say good things, but what he is most concerned about is to realize his father's wish, capture Chang'an and destroy the Jin Dynasty, in his opinion, as long as he destroys the Jin family, whether it is Shi Le or Liu Kun and others, they will surrender to him, and it has become an obsession for so many years. Once he makes a move against Shile, he will face attacks from all sides, and when the time comes, not to mention the capture of Chang'an, even the Han Kingdom will not be allowed to perish.

In addition, Liu Cong is very satisfied with his current life, this is the life of a person. Let Liu Cong lose his life of drunken gold fans, this is the most unbearable thing for Liu Cong, so he favored the eunuchs Wang Shen, Xuanhuai, and Yu Rong, because they could make themselves happy, and even the suicides of several important ministers left by his father did not wake him up. Dazai Liu Yi, Imperial Historian Chen Yuanda, Jin Ziguanglu Doctor Liu Yan, and Liu Cong's son, the general Liu Fu, all went on to advise Liu Cong not to favor eunuchs. Liu Cong was angry and destroyed Liu Yi's admonition with his own hands, and Liu Yi died of resentment; Chen Yuanda was also disappointed in Liu Cong when he saw Liu Yi's death, and committed suicide in anger; his son Liu Fu also advised him many times, but Liu Cong scolded Liu Fu for often crying in front of him, which made Liu Fu sick and died soon after.

Liu Cong, the tiger that made Shi Le in awe, had completely decayed, except for the obsession of exterminating Chang'an, nothing could arouse his interest, his mind was focused on the towering thousands of beauties, and the others were even monstrous.

Shi Le's official position is already very high, but money can make the ghost grind, under the ears of Liu Cong's favored ministers, Shi Le was named the governor of the capital, the governor of the military of eastern Shaanxi, the general of the hussars, Dongdan Yu, and added twelve counties.

And for another request put forward by Shi Le, Liu Cong agreed without hesitation, this request is to attack and merge the state, Shi Le proposed to drag the Xianbei people and give Liu Cong a chance, which is in line with Liu Cong's wishes.

Liu Kun and Liu Cong are old rivals, Liu Kun has made trouble for Liu Cong, and has repeatedly sabotaged Liu Cong's plan to capture Chang'an, even if there is no request from Shi Le, Liu Cong will not let go of the annexation, but every time the opportunity is ruined by the rescue of the Xianbei people, this time Shi Le can take the initiative to help, in Liu Cong's opinion, it is an excellent opportunity.

However, Shi Le's real purpose is not Liu Kun at all, but the iron-blooded army, Shangdang County is the only place to attack and merge the state, so Liu Cong must capture Shangdang County, as long as the two sides go to war, then no matter whether they win or lose, Shi Le's goal has been achieved. If Liu Cong wins, then Chu Yun's strength will be greatly reduced, and he may not even be destroyed. And if Chu Yun wins, Liu Cong will definitely not give up. Besides, regardless of winning or losing, Chu Yun could only retreat in Shangdang County, completely losing room for development. Of course, this was also caused by the slow flow of information in ancient times, and Shi Le didn't know that Chu Yun had already occupied Xihe County, and the tentacles of his influence had already extended out. However, Zhang Bin's plan to drive away the wolf is indeed ruthless, and this is only the first step of Zhang Bin's plan, but his plan succeeded.

Liu Yao was commanding a large army to conquer Chang'an, but although the war potential of the Huns began to decline, it was still very strong, so Liu Cong had no pressure at all to fight on two fronts.

After Cheng Yao returned to Xiangguo City, he immediately found Shi Le to report, he had no respect for the pale and fat emperor Liu Cong, when he told Shi Le in detail what Liu Cong had done, Shi Le said with a complicated face: "Liu Cong is a sleeping tiger." ”

Regardless of Shi Le's mood, he was appointed by Shi Le as the right envoy and became an important minister under Shi Le.

Although Chu Yun didn't know that Shi Le wanted to pass through Liu Cong, he also started to prepare early, and Xihe County was divided into three pieces by the Yellow River and its tributary, the Zhongyang River (a small tributary, I didn't find out what it was called, because it flows through Zhongyang County, so it was named Zhongyang River).

The territory of Xihe County west of the Yellow River and the Shangjun next to Xihe County were occupied by Xiliang and Hu people, and the territory south of Zhongyang River, Chu Yun did not consider it at all, except for Zhongyang City as an outpost base that was focused on by Chu Yun, and the rest of the places Chu Yun moved to the west of the Wenyang River. Although the Zhongyang River is only a small tributary of the Yellow River, the amount of water is still very abundant, and Chu Yun is ready to rely on the Wenyang River to build a defensive line, and build sentry posts in several key places, these sentry posts can release wolf smoke and allow Lishi City to quickly defend itself. Moreover, these sentry posts are built in the style of Wu Fort, which can be inhabited by residents, and are only residences in peacetime, and once it is time of war, they can not only release wolf smoke, but also small fortresses, which can be defended. A bunker was inhabited by fifty soldiers and hundreds of peasants, who farmed in their spare time and were warriors in wartime, and had enough food and weapons in it to be difficult for the average small group of enemies to nibble on unless they were large and carrying siege equipment.

Chu Yun is ready to build a defense system in the south of Xihe County with Lishi City as the core, Lin County and Zhongyang County as the support, and Wu Fort all over the Zhongyang River as the support, Chu Yun is ready to complete the construction within a year, and when the time comes, Chu Yun will be ready to send troops to the county, but he needs an opportunity.

Chu Yun was so confident in making a big move, because the Huns went to Chang'an to entangle again, Liu Cong sent the general Liu Yao to contract the traitor Zhao Ran, who failed to attack Chang'an last year, and Yin Kai, who failed to attack Pingjingu, to lead tens of thousands of troops to attack Chang'an.

In fact, after the defeat of the Huns last year, Liu Cong originally wanted to postpone the offensive and solve Liu Kun first, but the news of the attack of the three-way army of the imperial court was leaked to the Huns, and Liu Cong was furious, so there was this attack. As for the leaker, it is interesting to think about it, in March, Zhao Han was ready to use the army Chang'an, that is, when Chu Yun attacked Yizhou, so early on the Huns knew about the plan of the imperial court. Such a confidential matter was able to let the Huns know in a short time, and their hearts can be learned.

After Chu Yun heard it from the Supervision Division, he guessed that it should be the King of Langya in the south, except for him, no one wanted the imperial court to fall so much, even the people of Xiliang didn't want to, because the lips were cold and Chang'an was breached, so the next target would be you.

In June, Liu Yao's army reached the front, Liu Yao led the main force to be stationed in Wei, and Zhao Ran was stationed in Xinfeng. Wei General Solin led his troops to intercept it, and although Chang'an had tens of thousands of troops, the veterans were basically lost in the Huns' repeated battles. Therefore, don't look at Sorin, who has brought tens of thousands of troops, but in fact, he doesn't have much combat effectiveness.

The traitor Zhao Ran despised Solin very much, and he was a judge, so he was eager to make meritorious contributions, so he prepared to lead his hundreds of cavalry out to attack Sorin.

His elder Shi Lu Hui disagreed, and he persuaded Zhao Ran: "The monarchs and ministers of the Jin Dynasty all know that their own disparity in strength is not the opponent of our Great Han Kingdom, so they will definitely fight with us, and the general must not be taken lightly." ”

But his words did not get Zhao Ran's approval: "Sima Mo (King of Nanyang of Jin, Taiwei, Governor of Dadu, was ordered to guard Guanzhong back then, Zhao Ran was originally his subordinate, and later defeated, after surrendering to the Xiongnu, he was killed by Zhao Ranjin) is so powerful, I defeated him like a devastating one." Can you still stain my horse's hooves and blades, this boy?" the arrogant Zhao Ran led several hundred light cavalry to meet Suo's army one morning, and before leaving, he didn't even let his cavalry eat, he said to his subordinates: "Eat after you catch Suo."

However, the arrogant Zhao Ran ushered in the first blow, Zhao Ran and Suo Lin fought in the west of Xinfeng City, and Zhao Ran was defeated. The remorseful subordinate said: "I didn't listen to Lu Hui's words and failed, what face did I have to meet him!" So he ordered Lu Hui to be killed.

This scene is exactly the same as Yuan Shao's killing of Tian Feng, the interesting thing is that Yuan Shao was defeated by Guandu, and Zhao Ran later got the same fate, sometimes history is so many coincidences.

Within a few months, Zhao Ran and Suo Lin fought fiercely several times without taking advantage, which greatly reduced the morale of the Hun army, and Zhao Ran was also reprimanded by Liu Yao. The imperial court was overjoyed and appointed Solin as the general of the hussars, the left servant of Shangshu, and the record of Shangshu, and acted in accordance with the book.

However, several defeats did not make the Huns die, Liu Yao, Zhao Ran and Yin Kai discussed, decided to directly concentrate all the troops to Chang'an, and the general Chang'an government of Lu Yun personally led tens of thousands of troops to meet the battle, the two sides encountered in Feng Yi, and the war was about to break out.

Shile sent the general Kong Chang to lead 20,000 troops to camp in Zhongshan County, pretending to attack Liu Kun, and the preaching is known to the world, Liu Cong was overjoyed after getting the news, so he crowned the great Sikong Hu Yanyan as the general of the army, and personally led the forbidden army of 20,000, infantry 30,000, and auxiliary soldiers to attack and annex the state.

This Huyanyan is also a ruthless man, once led an army of 27,000 to attack Luoyang, killed more than 30,000 people in the Jin Dynasty in 12 battles and 12 victories, completely disabled the defenders of Luoyang, and then joined Liu Yao and Wang Mi to kill Luoyang, this person can be said to be the first hero of the destruction of the court of Emperor Huai of Jin. However, he is old and rarely leads troops in recent years, and this time Liu Cong sent this person, which can be said to have saved the determination to destroy Liu Kun.

However, Liu Cong also knew that Shangdang County was a difficult bone to gnaw, so he ordered the general Linghu Mud, that is, the harmful Jinyang fell, killed Liu Kun's parents Linghu Mud, and commanded 15,000 troops to attack Tianjing Pass, these troops are all descended troops of all ethnic groups, the combat effectiveness is very poor, and it is also a waste of food, Tianjing Pass is easy to defend and difficult to attack, Liu Cong is ready to kill two birds with one stone, which not only restrains the energy of Shangdang County, but also consumes these wastes by the way.

In addition, Liu Cong sent the imperial brother Liu Yi to command 30,000 infantry, 5,000 cavalry, and 10,000 auxiliary soldiers to attack Pingjingu, this imperial brother Liu Yi is the son of Liu Cong's father Liu Yuan, Liu Cong's younger brother, he is Liu Yuan's queen Queen Shan's sister-in-law, Liu Yuan passed the throne to Liu He, Liu Cong led people to rebel, after the victory, Liu Cong wanted Liu Yi to be the emperor, of course, he was just a hypocrisy. But Liu Yi is not a fool, of course he strongly opposed, so Liu Cong was overjoyed, named him the emperor's younger brother, and told him to pass on the throne to him in the future, Liu Cong has been good to him over the years, Liu Yi also knows that his identity is very embarrassing, so he is cautious, this time Liu Cong didn't know what to think, and actually sent him as the commander of the first army.

And Huyanyan's 80,000 army, Liu Cong asked him to bypass Pingjin Valley from Xihe County, and suddenly appeared in Taiyuan County, the other two roads are contained, only this road is the main force, but what Liu Cong doesn't know is that Xihe County has now become Chu Yun's territory, and his main army ran headlong into the iron-blooded army that had not yet been properly arranged, and the conspiracy of Shi Le and Zhang Bin was coincidentally realized.

However, this strategic deployment of the Huns, the Supervision Department was unaware of it, not that the Supervision Department did not do its best, but that the Huns were different from Shile's forces, Liu Cong reused all the Huns, and Liu Cong implemented the division of Hu and Han, it was difficult for the Han people to penetrate into the Huns, and the Han people were not reused, so such a big thing, the Supervision Department had nothing to gain.

After so many years of development, the Xiongnu population has exceeded two million people, and they are the same as the Eight Banners system of the Qing Dynasty, all of which are supported by the state, so the Huns can easily make up more than 500,000 Xiongnu troops, and at that time they occupied most of the territory in Guanzhong, and the Han and the various Hus can also make up hundreds of thousands of troops, so they gritted their teeth and can use more than one million troops, which is why Shile did not dare to betray easily.

Therefore, in the autumn of 314 AD, the Xiongnu Han State once again showed its strong strength to the world, and the Xiongnu Han State mobilized troops on the fourth line and sent out an army of more than 200,000. Prepare to wipe out the two most powerful and stubborn Han forces entrenched in the north in one fell swoop.

Just when the Huns sent out their troops, Chu Yun was inspecting Zhongyang County, the southernmost county seat of Xihe County and the first line of defense against the Huns. Zhongyang County is located at the western foot of the middle section of the Luliang Mountains, which is probably the western part of Shanxi in later generations. After Fang Ai occupied Zhongyang City last year, he began to rebuild the city wall, and now the city wall is about six meters high, and the thickness has reached one zhang, which is very strong. However, because of the ravages of the Huns for many years, there are not many Han people in Zhongyang County, only a few thousand, but there are a lot of Hu people in it, there are more than 10,000 Hu people of all kinds, and the most Huns in the past were killed by Fang Ai.

Chu Yun ordered the 10th Infantry Brigade to be stationed here, the 10th Infantry Brigade was a newly built infantry brigade with average combat effectiveness, and the brigade commander was a Han lieutenant named Ma Hui who Chu Yun captured from Hanoi County, and he was also the highest-ranking one among the descendants. He was born in a poor family, was framed by his boss back then, and like Zhao Ran, he took refuge in the Huns in a fit of anger, but his mother took her daughter-in-law to commit suicide Mingzhi, Ma Hui was extremely remorseful, and he was drunk all day long, until the appearance of the Iron Army. Ma Hui remorsefully took refuge in the Iron Army, actively trained and transformed, and soon showed his ability, after a year of investigation, the lack of generals of the Iron Blood Army appointed him as the acting brigade commander of the 10th Infantry Brigade, this time with Chu Yun to Zhongyang County.

Zhongyang County originally had 2,000 county soldiers, plus the regular army of 5,000 infantry and 10 brigades, and the strength reached 7,000 people.

After everyone heard this, they changed color, Ma Hui immediately asked Chu Yun to leave first, Chu Yun didn't bring many cavalry this time, just Mao Qing with hundreds of iron-blooded horses, once surrounded by nearly 100,000 troops, Chu Yun was more than lucky, but Chu Yun couldn't leave.

Although I don't know why Chu Yun didn't receive the news from the Supervision Department this time, since the Huns sent so many troops, they definitely didn't come out to play, whether it was preparing to deal with the iron-blooded army occupying Xihe County, or preparing to take a detour to deal with Liu Kun, Chu Yun couldn't allow it. Especially in the defense of Xihe County, only Zhongyang City and Lishi City are relatively complete, if Zhongyang City is breached, it will be enough to choke from Shicheng, and Xihe County, which has just stepped on the right track, will definitely become a ruin, which Chu Yun can't accept.

Chu Yun personally took people out to investigate the enemy's situation, and the mighty Hun army made Chu Yun's scalp numb, and he resisted the urge to leave and returned to Zhongyang City.

"Mao Qing, you personally led people to Lishi City, and ordered Zhang Tong to command the iron-blooded cavalry, the first cavalry brigade, the third cavalry brigade, and the sixth cavalry brigade to rescue Zhongyang City, and asked him to quickly send someone to inform the eldest son city Mo Han to guard Shangdang County tightly, and not allow the mobilization of a soldier to support Xihe County, you repeat it to me. Chu Yun looked at Mao Qing who was kneeling in front of him.

"Governor, please, you can go first. Mao Qing said with tears in his eyes.

"Repeat the command. Chu Yun said sharply.

Mao Qing gritted his teeth tightly, and after a long time, he lowered his head and said: "Order Zhang Tong to command the iron-blooded cavalry, the first cavalry brigade, the third cavalry brigade, and the sixth cavalry brigade to rescue Zhongyang City, and let him quickly send someone to inform the eldest son city Mo Han to guard Shangdang County tightly, and not allow the mobilization of a single soldier to support Xihe County." Tears flowed down her cheeks.

"There you go. Chu Yun strode out, he was going to take over the defense of Zhongyang City, Mao Qing wiped a handful of tears, and then quickly took a dozen people out of the city, after Mao Qing left, the four gates away from Shicheng were blocked, and Chu Yun was determined to break the boat.

Hu Yanyan came to Zhongyang County, and found that Zhongyang County had changed its flag to become the territory of the Jin people, he was furious, and immediately sent a large army to surround Zhongyang City, what he didn't know was that he actually beat Liu Cong to surround the leader of the iron-blooded army of Shangdang County, if he knew that he would definitely drink three cups, you must know that Liu Yao, the general who was most valued by Liu Cong, hated the iron-blooded army that defeated him, and a big war was about to break out.