The night faded away, and the sky revealed a hint of pink fish belly white, and dawn was approaching.

Zhong Xingyin, the general of the Jin State who was supposed to lie down on the couch and sleep peacefully, fled in a hurry in the morning dew.

The majestic Dacheng Chaoge was behind him, and the walls were getting farther and farther away, far away from Zhongxingyin, and the victory that Fan and Zhongxing had longed for a few months ago.

Zhong Xingyin took over the huge Zhongxing clan after his father's death, and the Fan family tied for the first and second strongest Jinqing, the Fan family has strong financial resources, and the Zhongxing clan is stronger than the military battle, Dongyang is the invincible opponent of the northern princes, which is the capital he is proud of, and it also makes the greed and selfishness in the character of Zhong Xingyin more and more obvious.

Handan Wu's death, although outsiders generally think that Zhao is very suspicious, but in fact, it was actually Zhong Xingyin and Fan Ying who poisoned their in-laws ruthlessly.

The Handan clan has plans to return to the Zhao clan, which makes Erqing very angry, because Handan several counties are just sandwiched between Hanoi and Dongyang, if Handan takes refuge in Fan and Bank of China, then the entire east of Taihang can be connected; If Handan votes for Zhao, Fan and Bank of China will be separated from it, which is absolutely intolerable.

Therefore, Fan Ying made a move in Chaoge, and then Zhong Xingyin also bribed Handan Wu's cronies and took the opportunity to poison and kill him, so as to separate the Zhao family and Handan, triggering this war.

In Zhong Xingyin's view, with the strength of the three families, the 40,000 or 50,000 troops recruited were enough to wipe out the Zhao and Han clans' projectile land on the edge of the river.

However, they guessed the beginning, but they didn't guess the process and the end: Zhao Wuxian sent reinforcements from the east at an unexpected speed, and defeated Handan and the Fan clan before the Zhongxing soldiers moved south, and the battle was fought to this extent. The previous advantage is gone, and half of the great battle between Fan and the Communist Party depends on luck. Half of it depends on strategic deployment. As a result, Zhao was even better and won a big victory.

Now. Zhongxingyin didn't even hold the song, and the city was broken within a month, and the process was even more incredible......

The mountain and tsunami of the Zhao army breaking the city are getting bigger and bigger, but the resistance of the guards is slowly becoming smaller, I think the inner city has been breached, Zhongxingyin fled in a hurry, and even the treasury of food, weapons, and equipment piled up in Chaoge City did not have time to burn down.

He sat on the chariot and looked back at Chaoge, and there were tears in both old eyes.

"It's embarrassing......"

……

Back in the day. Zhong Xingyin can play Zhao Ying in the palm of his hand, more than ten years ago in the Casting Ding incident, Zhong Xingyin and Fan Ying one performed in front of the stage, the other planned behind the scenes, Zhao Yang also passively joined their camp, so that the ruling Wei Shu was helpless, and the first written law of the Jin State was born.

Eight years ago, at the Zhaoling meeting, Zhong Xingyin failed to ask Cai Hou for a bribe, so he in turn suggested that Fan Ying should not crusade against Chu for him. In the end, the most ambitious alliance activity since the Spring and Autumn Period ended in disgrace, but it was Wu who seized the opportunity to rise.

In short, Zhong Xingyin has played an extremely key role in the internal and external affairs of Jin Province over the past two decades. It is not an exaggeration to say that he controls the overall situation of the country.

"But why did I end up like this?" He turned his head and asked Jia Zhu, who was following him south and divining every time there was a war.

Jia Zhu hugged the tortoise shell and yarrow tightly. Silent and silent.

Zhongxing Yin said angrily: "If you serve as the blessing of my family, it must be that the sacrifice of Jin Xian is not fat enough." Either that, or I was disrespectful when fasting, which caused my fate of fleeing today! ”

Jia Zhu replied: "In the past, our ancestor Muzi (Bank of China Wu) only had ten pickup cars and did not worry about it. I only worry about my own lack of morality. And what about the sovereign? There are hundreds of cars, not worried about their own meagre morality, only worried about the lack of vehicles. The more beautiful your own boat and chariot are, the heavier the burden on the people, and the people will naturally complain and curse. Even if I pray for the Nakayuki clan for thousands of generations, the oppressed people of Dongyang will curse the rout of the Nakayo clan. How can my prayer alone be better than ten thousand curses? It's normal for the Lord to fall to this point......"

Zhong Xingyin's face turned pale for a while, but he still insisted: "My defeat is purely a crime of war, and it is ......."

He looked at the Qishui soup four or five miles ahead, rolling from west to east, and there was a glimmer of hope in his eyes.

"Although I have lost 10,000 Dongyang disciples, as long as I can cross Qishui, Handan, Bairen, and Gufei can still recruit more than 10,000 soldiers!"

That's right, as long as you can survive Kisui!

Qishui is a tributary of the Great River, originating in the deep mountains of Taihang, flowing southeast, just north of Chaoge, which is both a barrier and an obstacle.

The poem, "Qi water soup soup, gradually car drapery", in the shallow water period, Qi water is shallow and soothing.

But now is the period of abundant water, the water in front of Qi is rolling, the waves are splashing, and the water vapor is also felt in the distance of several miles, "Qi has a shore, Xi has Pan", the shore is green bamboo and reeds, all kinds of wild flowers are dotted, and there are frightened birds flying out from time to time.

At this time, the night is coming to an end, the sun is about to rise, and Zhong Xingyin, who ran to the shore, also saw the situation in the distance.

There were about two or three thousand people who were deploying two or three miles from the shore, and the Bank of China could clearly see that this force was the Zhao army......

And behind them, there were also clouds of smoke and dust, and the cavalry who had driven Zhongxingyin all the way from Gongcheng to Chaoge before also chased after them.

"God will kill me!" Zhong Xingyin struck the car rail in annoyance, and then became ferocious, drew his long sword, pointed at the Zhao soldiers in front of him and said loudly: "Dongyang Jinjun, rush over with me, swim across the river, there must be someone from the Handan clan on the other side of the river to answer!" As long as you cross the river, you don't know if you will come back! ”

The soldiers of the Zhongxing clan were demoralized and moved very slowly, so the first to move was the person on the opposite side, and Liu Xiajiao had been ordered to stay by the river for this month, keeping an eye on the movements in the city at any time, so he happened to be caught.

He secretly thought that he had been defeated by Zhong Xingyin once in Jianjin, and this time he could find the field. With the urging of the willow foot army flag and drums, 1,000 people on the right wing of the Zhao army first went out to invite the battle, and the soldiers shouted. Almost at the same moment, a thousand men on the left flank also attacked, and they hit the position where Xingyin was, only to see the flags fluttering, the war drums thundering, the rivers, the fields, the rising sun, and the earth, thousands of people fighting together.

The battle site was not far from the shore, and the ground was soft and full of potholes, which was not conducive to cavalry onslaught. Therefore, the chasing cavalry did not get involved in the battle group for the time being, but only shot arrows from the side, ready to stop the remnants of the enemy from escaping at any time.

This time, Liu Xia waited for work, and the remnants of the Zhongxing clan were shocked and tired after the city was broken, and they had little combat effectiveness at all, and they were quickly crushed.

Not far in front is Qishui, and behind is the cavalry eyeing the tiger, this defeat, the middle march soldiers retreat but there is no retreat, except for the death battle, there is only one way to surrender.

In the past, there were not only menacing heads that were thrown into the city with stone projectiles, but also some letters of pardon written on linen.

"Those who resist are killed, and those who surrender are spared!"

Zhong Xingyin's elite has been wiped out in several battles, and the people who follow him are not perfect, and they have no loyalty to serve him to the death, and they only have one in ten thousand hope to break through the city with him, and they want to cross the water and return to their hometown. Now that the road ahead has been cut off, and there are pursuers on the back road, they are completely passive, and naturally lose the courage to resist.

For a while, a series of routs began around Zhong Xingyin, and with a bang, one person put down his weapon, and a hundred people did the same, they knelt on the ground and surrendered, and the military officials were powerless and unwilling to stop it.

Compared with the attack and defense of Chaoge just passed, this battle by the river was easily won. They fought at the dawn of the day, and won the battle before the sun had fully risen.

Zhong Xingyin just watched the entourage around him fall apart, and saw that he had lost everything, and in despair, he raised the poison bottle that he carried at any time on his waist and drank it all!

……

In Chaoge City, while letting Yu Xi go after Zhong Xingyin, Zhao Wuxian asked the body of the loyal soldier Zhang Liushuo to be properly collected and prepared to bury him. Subsequently, he personally led his officials to take over the map of the court and the household register in the official office, which was the basis for his future rule in this place.

Judging from the map, Chaoge City is a rectangular structure, and after entering, Zhao Wuxian found that the layout inside is very neat: from the east city gate to the west city gate, from the south city gate to the north city gate, there is a wide street, forming a cross, intersecting in the center of the city, these two streets are the main roads in the city.

In addition to these two main roads, there are several branch roads on both sides of the north and south streets, dividing the entire city into more than a dozen areas of equal size. These areas have the palace and temple of the Fan family, the official offices of the retainers, some are cities, some are handicraft areas, most of them are the residences of the Chinese people, although they are only the main towns of the Fan family, in fact, they are larger than Qufu, and the population is more, and it is simply the capital of a medium-sized state.

Although many places were forcibly demolished in the process of attacking and defending the city, and some unused fortifications were being built everywhere, it did not affect the integrity of the song. Although the trebuchet was terrifying, it didn't kill many people, and there was no shortage of food in the city, so the main casualties occurred in yesterday's battle to break the city, roughly calculated, the Zhao army was killed and wounded about 2,000, and the city was killed and wounded about 4,000.

Compared with the other siege battles of fighting for the city and killing people, these losses are extremely small, and the vitality of this 10,000-household city has been preserved to a large extent.

After the death and injury of both sides of the palace and school, Zhao Wuxian did not stop and inspected the Chaoge Mansion.

Walking into the treasury, Zhao Wuxian first gasped.

It is divided into granaries, armor warehouses, arsenals, etc., first of all, the granaries, as soon as I entered, I saw that the old corn was piled up like golden hills, and I took the slip handed by the warehouse official who knelt on the ground, Zhao Wuxian glanced at it, and was spoiled by the numbers on it.

"The Fan family has prepared for this war, and has actually saved a full 1.1 million stone of grain, enough for 60,000 people to eat for a year......

The soldiers took food as the sky, and the tens of thousands of people under Zhao Wuxian were also waiting to be fed, and the previous grain was provided by the Han clan in addition to being collected from the conquered land. In the past few months, the speeding cars have been pulling the corn, the grain trucks have been endless, and there are quite some difficulties in turnover, and these grains have relieved their urgent needs at once, which is really a great joy to be happy about.

But what was even more surprising was still to come, he went to the next place with a happy mood, looking at the bamboo slips presented by the arsenal officials, and was a little stunned.

"More than 12,400 weapons in total?"

He was a little surprised and asked the little commander who was in charge of the arsenal for the Fan clan, "Are you sure you're not mistaken?" This is a weapon that can arm an entire army! ”

PS: It's just one hundredth of the data of the arsenal of Donghai County in the Han Dynasty, and the second chapter is ...... at night

(To be continued.) )