In April of the seventh year of Taiping, in the territory of Shaanzhou (now Sanmenxia City) south of Weishan Mountain, in Lingbao City. And just like some kind of history repeating itself, many years later, the former Northern Han Dynasty leader and Shunyi King Zhang Dekun had to be like Zhang Enxian, the last powerful minister of the Northern Dynasty who died at his hands during his escape. I began to taste the bitter consequences and suffering of being trapped in a desperate situation and facing imminent death. In fact, since he removed his self-proclaimed king title and surrendered to the Western forces advancing eastward, he has not been able to obtain the promised seven neighboring states in western Hebei and six states along the Yellow River in Henan. Instead, he has been occupied first. The vanguard of the Huai army at the key point was driven back with the loss of troops, and it had already begun to show some bad signs; In the end, the result of his mobilization of troops south to attack Tongguan, except for an eastern march organized by the Xingning court Apart from the empty title of Governor and a little symbolic support, there are no other benefits or real benefits. On the contrary, after the spring of the next year, he encountered a full-scale attack from the Huai army forces in Hebei on the Hedong Road, which he relied on for survival and foothold, and the situation suddenly took a turn for the worse and was irreversible; and until this time, he I was a little crazy and angry when I discovered that several key points and strongholds of the Hedong tunnel in the Eighth Route of Taihang had fallen into the hands of the enemy as early as the early winter of last year. news. However, this result also made him a little helpless and sad. Obviously, his time in the land of Hedong was still short and his foundation was much shallower; therefore, under his strong tactics and force, various kinds of With his thoughts and thoughts, he could still suppress it and maintain a basically smooth situation; but once he led his army to leave and lacked sufficient suppression force, various problems and incidents began to gradually emerge with the invasion of foreign enemies. . As a result, after the beginning of spring, several fronts of the Huai army were ready to attack again, and the situation faced by Hedong Road began to deteriorate and was no longer manageable. And before he even had time to try to make amends, he received a series of bad news and defeats. First, Xinzhou and the two towns of Baoxing Army and Ninghua Army, which served as the "key to northern Shanxi" and the northern screen, fell one after another due to the invasion of the Huai Army by Junduxing and Feihuxing. However, the brave warriors responsible for attacking the front line were actually the same ones. He surrendered to the Pinglu soldiers in Huai Town. Then Guangyang City, the state capital of Mengzhou (now Yangquan, Shanxi Province) at the gateway to the east of Shanxi, was also defeated by the Huai Army's partial division that invaded Niangziguan via Jingxing. From then on, the Huai Army's troops approached Taiyuan - Meng on the edge of the Jinzhong Basin. County and Shouyang, and the closest road to him is from the Baixing Valley Road in Xiangzhou in southern Hebei. The Huai army that invaded the four states of Shangdang Highland has now conquered southern Shangdang (Jincheng Basin) from south to north. Luzhou and Zezhou have cut off the roads leading to all parts of Shaanzhou in the south of Wangwu Mountain; only the Beishangdang (Changzhi Basin) where Liaozhou and Qinzhou are located, there are still people who continue to resist. However, the mountain fortresses and fortifications he had carefully built and built without hesitation on the people and money, and the military service, had little use or hindrance in the face of the Huai army's offensive, and had been sunk and breached one after another. According to people who escaped, the Huai army used a new type of extremely powerful firearm this time. It sounded like thunder and split mountains and rocks in the shape of powder. Whether it was a mountain fortress or a stone village, as long as it was caught, it would be It quickly fell apart due to the shaking of mountains and earthquakes. As for those powerful and powerful factions that are entrenched in the local area and are only responsible for limited military service, they are even more vulnerable to the front of the Huai army; they can be described as collapse at a touch or collapse like a mountain. Most of their performance. Of course, there are also a few notable exceptions. For example, Wenjiabao, who has a surname in Kaiping, once attacked in groups based on the dangerous mountainous terrain, killing hundreds of people in the Huai Army's baggage rear team, and was then killed by the local villagers. The Huai army led by the people invaded the steep mountain fortress and intensively set fire to flammable objects. Thousands of men, women, old and children were burned together; and the Bai family, a wealthy family in Liaoshan County, went out in the name of treason. In the middle of the city, Qu and his slaves were young and strong, and they tried to sneak attack a part of the Huai army that entered the city. The result was that their whole family was killed and their heirs were extinct; there were also eight young and strong men who were waiting for them when the defenders fled without fighting and occupied Huguan. After several days of resolute resistance against the Huai army's failed negotiations, the people named Alliance were still destroyed by landslides caused by the Huai army's artillery bombardment. In the end, their severed heads were almost covered with the entire city wall. However, these are just a drop in the bucket and will not help the general trend. As for the unbearable Western troops who were stationed in the territory of Hedong in the name of borrowing land for food and actually harassed and expropriated the place, we can't expect much. You need to know the troops and horses he brought from Taiyuan Prefecture.??There were only 60,000 troops, and nearly 10,000 were lost when attacking Bai Ya City. At the request of the Xingning court, they divided their forces and went south to assist in the battle. They stationed a part of Luonan and Lu clan south of the river; The two troops who went south also encountered some kind of problem after a whole winter; because Zhang Dekun found that as time went by, the reports and communications from the two armies became less and less, and in the end only What remains is a simple connection of some sort of routine. This also means that his control and influence on the two Hedong troops sent out are gradually being weakened and reduced; however, due to the huge disparity in power within the Western Army, he is unable to do anything. Something that cannot even be taken precautions against or act rashly. Therefore, the number of soldiers available to him now is only more than 30,000. Even if the nearby Western Army was sent to assist in the garrison, or the soldiers and horses nearby to monitor, the number was only over 50,000. But once the supply of money and food to the rear is cut off, it is completely difficult to say how long it can continue to persist. You must know that under the pressure of the situation, he had to bear the supply needs of these Western forces. Not to mention that once Taiyuan Mansion, the old nest that had just settled down a few years ago, fell, whether it was those years of collection in the treasury that became the enemy's possession, or the family members who stayed behind were captured by the enemy, what would happen to his men? It has a huge impact and impact on the military morale and morale. After all, in addition to the thousands of old subordinates who followed him into Hedong on Qingqi, most of the soldiers under his command were local people in Hedong; and even these old brothers he brought with him mostly married wives and had children in Hedong. He settled down and had various ties and involvements with the local area. Although he has sent many messengers to the south asking for help and sent generous sums of money to the Xining court, in fact the hope he reported was not very high. Because, since the Western Army went south, the situation has gradually fallen into chaos and out of control; compared with the desolate Guannai Road, which was reduced to a white land and completely depopulated, both Jiannan Road and Shannan Road are rare and densely populated. And the land is rich in products. As a result, after each army divided its forces one after another, due to the competition for their respective territories and the victories along the way, the Western Army combined forces with different backgrounds and regions, and began to show various conflicts, boycotts, and disputes. Even the Generalissimo's Mansion, which is responsible for the actual frontier affairs, is a little overwhelmed with running and coordinating, let alone letting these troops who have gone south put aside their personal gains and losses and interests and think about the so-called overall situation. It¡¯s time to rescue this newly attached peripheral force. It seemed like he had no choice. It was night, and as the secret order from the army spread, hundreds of people suddenly fell to the ground.