After Xinjiang received the news, the Jin State Office decided to send troops to eliminate the rebel forces and recapture Handan. Zhao Ying wants to take command of the crusading army (so that he can keep Handan under his control), but how can Zhongxingyin and Shijishu get his wish? Not only did the two oppose the granting of command to Zhao, but they also refused to provide troops (because the two were fighting against the surrounding Rongdi). Erqing exerted tremendous pressure on Zhizhen, who did not want to get involved in the disputes between the three major families at that time, especially did not want to offend his most hated fellow clan, the Zhongxing clan; He persuaded Zhao to abandon the request, and finally handed over the command to the Shangjun Sima Jiqin.

At that time, Zhong Xingyin served as a general and was the top boss of Ji Qin, so Zhao Ying naturally couldn't trust Ji Qin. He was afraid that Qin would lose all his family's wealth, so he sent only a very small army to join the Eastern Expeditionary Army. As a result, a strange sight emerged: almost none of the ministers who advocated and opposed the crusade sent troops to the war, and the army turned out to be composed of third-party forces that had nothing to do with the dispute. This phenomenon indicates that the crusade against Handan is bound to be a farce of chaos and abandonment.

After Qin led the army to the expedition, Zhong Xingyin and Shi Ji began to study how to get rid of Zhao Ying. This was supposed to be the top secret between the two families, but it was also leaked - of course, the leaker was also a high-ranking person.

A noble father may not be able to educate a good son - otherwise there would be no saying that "the gentleman will be beheaded by the fifth generation"; And the sons brought out by evil fathers are basically evil.

Shi Ji did not take his son Shi Gaoyi with him. It turned out that Shi Gaoyi, as the eldest son, was not favored, and he foresaw that his father would pass on the family business to his brother Shi Dongchen in the future, and Dongchen's hostility towards him was by no means less than that of his own towards Dongchen; Therefore, he thought that once Dongchen inherited the title, he would soon be dead somewhere. Therefore, Shi Gaoyi has been trying to redeem his disadvantage; In order to achieve his goal, he even did not hesitate to sacrifice his father and bring down his family.

Shi Ji didn't recognize Shi Gaoyi's sinister true face, otherwise Shi Ji Ji would not have dragged him into the conspiracy circle even if he killed him.

Shi Gaoyi pretended to devote himself to the conspiracy, won his father's trust, and participated in the whole process of formulating the plan. He wanted to report to Zhao Ying, but he didn't trust anyone; He had to disguise himself as a "fellow" and sneak in through the back door of Zhao Ying's house on a stormy night.

Shi Gaoyi told Zhao Ying that if he could support himself to become the patriarch of the Fan clan, he would hand over the entire plan of the Fan and Bank of China to attack the Zhao clan.

Although Zhao Ying hated the loser in front of him very much, he would never become a colleague with him in his heart; But at the current crisis of the great enemy, he had to agree. The two performed a simplified version of the ritual of bloodshed, and the collaboration was reached.

After Shi Gaoyi left, Zhao Ying summoned Dong Anyu and told him the enemy's attack plan.

Dong Anyu said: "The war is inevitable, do we have to strike first?" ”

Zhao Ying said: "No, after the Qi clan and the Yangyu clan were destroyed, the princes and doctors signed an agreement, which said: 'The first to provoke trouble will die.'" Therefore, you and I do not want to die, so we can only wait for the enemy to attack first. ”

Dong Anyu said: "Don't worry, master, all the responsibilities are borne by me." Rather than inflict losses on the family, it's better to die alone! When the time comes, the master will take me as the culprit! ”

Zhao Ying resolutely refused. But early the next morning, Dong Anyu actually sent a messenger to Jinyang to meet Yin Duo with Zhao Ying, asking him to gather the clan armor and transfer the army to Juancheng, thirty miles north of Xinjiang, to stand by. Zhao Ying secretly sent his family out of Xinjiang; He also instructed Han Buxin to be more careful, and told him that Shi Gaoyi had become a traitor to the Fan family.

At the beginning of autumn and July, the family forces of the Fan family and the Zhongxing clan also completed the assembly, which made Xinjiang full of storms and panic. Early one morning, the armed forces of the two major families suddenly launched an attack on the Zhao Mansion, and the armor soldiers poured in from all directions; Zhao Ying betrayed and abandoned his family and fled to the north, and the two armed forces pursued him closely. However, the reinforcements of the Zhao clan, who had been placed in Juan Cheng in advance, arrived in time to rescue the driver, and the two sides immediately started a big melee.

The armor of the two major families was more than enough to eliminate the Zhao clan's power in Xinjiang, but they were at a disadvantage in the face of the overwhelming Jinyang reinforcements. The Jinyang people routed the enemy with a single charge; Yin Duo wanted to take advantage of the victory to pursue, but Zhao Ying stopped him in time: "There is no point in killing more, it's better to go to Jinyang quickly." ”

Soon after Zhao Ying withdrew into Jinyang, the armies of the two major families surrounded the city. The commander-in-chief of the army was Zhong Xingyin's brother Zhong Xingwu, and the deputy general was Shi Dongchen, the second son of Shi Ji She.

Regarding this fire and action, Zhong Xingyin's explanation to Jin Dinggong was that "Zhao Ying, without trial, killed the doctor in the public office without trial, and committed treason." Jin Dinggong wished that all the villains would die in the civil strife, so he said a few perfunctory words and pushed the rest to Zhong Xingyin to do.

The two families then began to purge Zhao's henchmen, but most of them had already been informed and fled.

Jinyang is located in the southwest of present-day Taiyuan, east of the remaining veins of Luliang Mountain, and on the west bank of Gufenshui. This place was the capital of the ancient Tang Dynasty at the earliest, and the city was abandoned after the ancient Tang Kingdom moved south, and the place later became a place where Rong Di lived together. After the Jin Jinggong destroyed Chidi, the territory of the Jin State expanded greatly to the north, and the Jin Mourning Duke sealed Zhao Wu to the hometown of Jinyang to garrison the northern border of the country.

Since the powerful Rongdi forces were still entrenched around Jinyang, Zhao Wu built Jinyang into a military fortress; Zhao Cheng adhered to his father's strategy and continuously strengthened the process of militarization of urban management; By the time of Zhao Ying's reign, Zhao Ying had built the city into a large, impregnable, and armed fortress.

Zhong Xingwu saw the majestic city in front of him and the energetic and densely packed defenders on the city walls, and he suddenly felt depressed. He set up camp ten miles from the city walls, and then ordered the trees to be cut down, and siege engines and ladders longer than usual were made. But one night, Zhao's retainers Yu Wuxian and Yang Hu led an army out of the city. The Jinyang army not only destroyed a lot of equipment and high platforms under construction, but also attacked the enemy's front camp, killed and wounded many enemies, and burned the tents before retreating. The army of Zhongxingwu was so frightened that when the Jinyang army retreated, they did not even have the courage to chase after them.

Zhongxing Wu was so angry that he had to expand the width and depth of the trench in front of the camp, and thicken the barracks, but neither side would take the initiative to attack, so the stalemate fell.