When my main formation and baggage vehicles and horses passed through the steep Taihang Mountains and rugged mountain gorges and appeared on the plains, we got the last city of resistance in the northern part of the Shangdang Platform, Bizhou, the capital of Bizhou. Yangcheng (now Tanghe, Shanxi) also announced the news of its fall. Since then, with the four prefectures of Shangdang on the inner line of Hedong, there are no dangers on the flanks of Hedong, and the access from Hedong to Guannai is also open to us, and it can be cut off at any time. Compared with the Guannai Road, which is known as the "Eight Hundred Miles of Qinchuan Fertile Land" and the "Emperor's Foundation", or the Henan Duji Road, which is the most important place in Zhongzhou, or the Hebei Road, which is half the richest in the Central Plains, it is historically known as "the mountains and rivers inside and outside". "The "Thousands of Miles Across" Hedong Road (most of today's Shanxi Province and northwest Hebei Province), in fact, most of the territory is surrounded by steep mountains; Therefore, Taiyuan Prefecture, Pu, Jin, Jiang, and Ci, Xi, Fen, Qin, Liao, Lan, Shi, Xin, Dai, Yun, Shuo, Wei, Ze, and Lu, a total of eighteen prefectures, with most of their cities and populations located along the winding mountains The trend of folds and rift rivers, and the separation of high and low levels, are concentrated in the Shangdang Platform in the east, and between several large basins from Taiyuan Prefecture in the northwest to Hezhong Prefecture in the southwest. As a result, once the dangerous mountains of Taihang, Taiyue, and Wangwu in the east were broken through, these large and small cities and the people under their control were distributed among the large and small mountain plains, basins, and river valleys. This is the basic result of the geographical trend blowing down one by one. Therefore, we only stayed and repaired in Changzhi, the capital of Luzhou, for two days; when my main formation once again sent troops northwest across the Taiyue Mountains in the hinterland of Hedong, and entered the hub of the Three Jins - the Jinzhong Plain where Fenzhou is located, the north The campaign in charge of conquering Taiyuan Prefecture has also come to an end. The commander of the Hedong Road Strike Force and the commander of the Sixth Army was able to coordinate various troops to attack first and then retreat to the encirclement to support and lure the enemy. Finally, at the foot of Taiyuan City, which had been besieged intermittently, he defeated the exhausted Hedong troops who had returned from reinforcements. Tens of thousands of troops; more than 10,000 of them were killed on the battlefield. The remaining troops, under the leadership of the former puppet Northern Han Dynasty Zhang Dekun, had already retreated along the upper reaches of the Fen River to the Linfen Basin in the south; then, they lost their fighting spirit. Taiyuan City, with its will to resist, fell bloodlessly from then on. After all, what could be more damaging to morale and destroy the will to resist than witnessing the defeat and annihilation of reinforcements and the main force in front of the defenders? At this time, an unknown number of reinforcements from the Western Army had just entered Hedong via Beiyanzhou on the Guannai Road, and began to encounter and engage with several groups of Pinglu and Hebei pioneers who were heading south separately to set up outposts and pursue the enemy first. . . . . . . . . . . . . At the same time, in the lower reaches of the Fen River, Xu Tianlang, the prince of Northern Liang, named Feng Nian, was also rapidly marching northward day and night. The smoke and dust from the march of the large group of dragoons covered the sky and gathered into a line that could not be seen from head to tail. There is a long queue at the edge. As an important first-class family among the northwest vassal towns and general families, his ancestors were vassals and generals of the Zhao family in Guazhou on the left side of Helan Mountain. Later, they were able to establish their own family in the north of Liangzhou and became a lineage of heroes and generals. He also maintains some kind of complex and difficult-to-discern origin and bond with his former benefactor and superior family, the Zhao family. Although he has been known as a playboy since he was a child, he actually has a lot of troubles in his chest and a good plan in his belly. Therefore, in the subsequent strife and struggle between the forces in the northwest, in order to protect himself and keep a low profile, he traveled away from home for a long time in the Central Plains in his early years. He even stayed anonymous in the streets of Luodu for a time, enjoying making friends with all kinds of religions. I experienced a different flavor and interest of life, and made several unforgettable confidante and sincere friends. It was not until later that great changes occurred in Luodu, and he had to escape from this land that had become a human realm and a dead place for Shura; he fled westward through Tongguan and finally returned home, taking over what his father had given him when he was seriously ill. He took on the important responsibility of the family, and obtained the help of his gradually estranged old owner Zhao through marriage, and revitalized the prestige of the Xu family in Northern Liang. However, what he cared about at the moment was another thing; because, in front of his family, Before the handsome soldiers arrived, the words passed down by the cheap brother-in-law who also served as brother-in-law seemed to still be fresh in his ears. ?According to what the other party meant, in fact, this situation may not be the result of the direct or indirect promotion and promotion of the Generalissimo's Mansion and the Xining Court, and even the result that they are quite happy to see. Just like Emperor Chengguang in history who took advantage of the opportunity to go west to create the next generation of foundations, many interesting stories have been repeated; now under the banner of the Western Army, although there are many numbers and military orders , but there are also differences between closeness, distance, and closeness; and those that are not the core and stance tendencies have problems.?Miscellaneous forces, peripheral forces, and even local forces that were coerced from the Xining court or surrendered later; will play the role of stepping stones and paving the way for the king's advance. Due to various deliberately created immediate interests and short-term powerful trends, a large number of tribesmen and children had to be detained in the south without return, leaving the extremely empty northwest hinterland and the inheritance passed down from generation to generation to the Zhao family. The Xining imperial court and its close powerful factions are dominated by Xining. Those close forces and people who were transferred back to the North in the name of preparing for the enemy are a particularly important part and back-up force. In this way, even if they regret and wake up and want to withdraw in time and return it, the territory they have occupied and the property are attracting the soldiers, as well as the entanglement between the Southern Army and the Huai Army in front of them, they will be riding a tiger with difficulty. ; Even if someone wants to retreat at all costs or change their ways, the cronies who have occupied the rear passages and strategic locations in the name of supervising the formation and severely punishing those who escape will become a crying and bitter thing that they have to swallow. nightmare. Then when the time is right, we can follow the story of Emperor Gaozu of the Tang Dynasty who rejected foreign enemies and accepted inner Zen, and completed the routine replacement of the Western Tang Dynasty's withdrawal from the short-term historical stage. This will be a new dynasty pattern that covers half of the world in the northwest, and the Xu family The lineage of the Northern Liang kings will become the first-class relatives and family members who will share weal and woe and inherit the throne for the new dynasty. As the head of the six founding kings, they will sit in the east of the river and manage the two rivers. Therefore, while trying our best to rescue Hedong Road, we must also pay attention to preserving our strength and calming local people's hearts. It is best to make early plans for long-term presence and operation in the future. However, what disappointed him next was that although there were many reports of battle results and information about confrontations with the enemy, in the end all they got were the flags of the Pinglu Army, the Hebei Army, or even the Liang Army in Henan. Not a single shadow of the Huai army was seen. To be honest, he was quite looking forward to a battle with the Huai Army, which was known to be "invincible" and "the best in field defense". It had also been famous for a long time. Then there was a piece of news that suddenly brought the dissatisfaction and resentment accumulated in his heart to the extreme. Because, just before their reinforcements arrived, the Hedong Army had already fought and retreated from Taiyuan City; and what was even worse was that just after his vanguard arrived at Linfen City, they discovered that the local Hedong County was leaderless, and It's like a piece of loose sand. Because long before they got the news that reinforcements were coming, Zhang Dekun, the king of Shunyi, the lord of Hedong, went out to patrol the terrain with a personal guard, and disappeared without a trace and never came back. Then the remaining troops were distraught and at a loss. By the time the Western Army arrived, they had already robbed the treasury and military supplies and dispersed. If they continued to stay in the local area, they would be in a state of panic. All day long. It wasn¡¯t until a few days later that someone in the mountainous area to the west got clearer news. The former leader of the Northern Han Dynasty and the leader of Hedong was a heroic figure. In the end, he chose to take care of his own safety and abandoned most of the army and people. He only brought with him his elite young confidants and a large number of the most valuable valuables. So he fled along the gorge between the Luliang Mountains in Shizhou (today's Linfen, Shanxi Province) in the east of the river and fled to Suizhou in the pass. And it wasn¡¯t until a few years later that someone heard news that he was suspected of being him again, but it was already in the territory of the Anxi Protectorate.