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Loufan, near Quancheng.

Liu Wuzhou fled here with thousands of defeated soldiers and generals, throwing his helmet and abandoning his armor, and was in a very embarrassing situation. Yesterday, he fled from Fenyang Palace in Loufan to the border of Mayi overnight, but was defeated. Only thousands of cavalry were left. He ran away for one day and fled back to Loufan again. It was already evening again. Under the dim twilight, Liu Wuzhou was shocked and frightened, hungry and thirsty.

"Open the city, open the city quickly. Your Majesty the Emperor is here, why don't you open the city quickly to greet him!" A general next to Liu Wuzhou and the cavalry came forward and came to Linquan Pass and shouted.

Looking at the sparse guards on Linquan Pass under the twilight, Liu Wuzhou couldn't help but feel sad. A year ago, he took advantage of the reunion to join Liang Shidu, Guo Zihe, Zhang Changxun and others in this city. At the banquet on the day of the alliance, he arranged for Song Jingang and Zhen Zhaier to lead the sword and axe driver to suddenly kill and kill Liang Shidu, Guo Zihe, Zhang Changxun and his subordinates. His daring to do this at that time was actually related to the situation he judged at that time.

Two years ago, Chen Kefu, who was the largest force in the world, suddenly contracted his power in an all-round way, and improved his progress and countered the strategic defensive situation. At the beginning, the heroes of all sides in the world were uneasy, and they all thought that Chen Kefu was planning some latest conspiracy. Even if he was not planning to capture all the heroes in the world, he was shrinking his troops, gathering his army, preparing to make a key assault and make breakthroughs.

At that time, Liu Wuzhou and other forces were very uneasy. Shen Luoyan, daughter of Shen Faxing, the King of Wu of Chen Dynasty in Jiangnan, had even begun to send envoys to all parties, preparing to join forces to fight against Chen Kefu together, destroy Bei Chen first, and then divide the world equally. At that time, the alliance had already begun to have a preliminary framework. The powerful forces of all parties, including Liu Wuzhou, had already reached Chen Kefu's strength. He was preparing to destroy Chen Kefu first and then compete for the world.

Just as all parties were preparing for the first alliance, Chen Kefu's side became in chaos. In August of the previous year, the beginning of autumn. First, news of famine broke out in most areas of Beichen, and then Beichen began large-scale immigration involving millions of people.

First there was famine, then there were large immigrants. Before the alliance could discuss plans to attack Beichen, turmoil began to occur within Beichen. Henan, Shandong, Hebei, and Huaibei, the two areas with the most severe famine, were originally the areas of Southern Chen. Most of the wealthy families were unwilling to immigrate. Under the instigation of other forces, spies, and a small number of powerful and wealthy families of aristocratic families, rebellions began to break out in many places.

For a time, it was like a spark of fire, and for a while, the smoke of the Northern Chen beacons rose everywhere.

Unexpectedly, Chen Kefu took the initiative to send envoys to all heroes at this time, expressing his willingness to live in peace with all parties. He also proposed to borrow grain from all parties. He even proposed to Nanchen to return the five counties south of the Yangtze River, including Jiujiang and other countries, in exchange for their food.

The situation was so sudden, which was a great thing for all parties. But in fact, it was not the case. When Shen Luoyan finally held the first alliance with the envoys sent by all parties in Hanzhong, Shen Luoyan proposed to take advantage of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to temporarily put aside their grievances and send troops to attack Beichen. The envoys from all parties nodded on the surface to agree to the proposal, and even publicly elected Shen Luoyan as the marshal of the Allied Army.

But when Shen Luoyan gathered 100,000 troops from the Southern Chen in September of the first year of Shenlong in the Northern Chen Dynasty, leading Du Fuwei, Fu Gongyou, Li Zitong and others to take the lead in starting a war in Northern Chen and send troops to recover the five counties including Jiujiang and other counties south of the Yangtze River, Yu Wenhua and Liu Wuzhou and other forces were all waiting and watching from the rear. None of them actually sent troops.

Liu Wuzhou's idea was very simple at that time. Before, the Northern Chen Dynasty was powerful and showed the intention and strength to annex each family in one fell swoop. Everyone had no way out and had to fight back. However, after the civil strife in the Northern Chen Dynasty, even after Shen Luoyan won the first victory, he changed his mind.

A lean camel is bigger than a horse, and a centipede worm dies without boundaries. After the urgent crisis, Liu Wuzhou began to have this intrigue character again. When the Northern Chen became weak, he hoped to see the Southern Chen and Northern Chen fight, then sit on the wall to watch the fight, and wait until the end to pick up the bargain.

Especially after Shen Luoyan won consecutive victories at the beginning, he had this idea. Let Chen Luoyan fight with Chen Kefu first. After Chen Kefu transferred all his troops to the south, he would send troops to capture Hedong Taiyuan and other counties. Even the powerful people had the same idea at that time. They all felt that civil strife in the Northern Chen and there was a great famine. This time, it would be difficult to win in the face of the fierce counterattack of Southern Chen. Even if they win, it would be a miserable victory.

With this idea, half a year passed from August of the first year of Shenlong to June of the second year of Shenlong. Although there were still rebellions in various parts of Beichen, most of them were just small rebellions. Most of the news received by the heroes were exaggerated by Beichen himself. In nearly a year, large immigrants from all over the country had basically been completed. Even in June, several provinces in the Central Plains of Beichen began to harvest summer grain.

In July, as the summer grain harvest in the Central Plains and Jiangnan provinces ended, the Beichen army, which had been at a disadvantage in the battle with Shen Luoyan, suddenly showed its power. In July, Yang Shanhui, the Marshal of Northern Chen, suddenly sent 100,000 troops, and severely injured Shen Luoyan and Du Fuwei and Li Zitong's army in Jiujiang, and annihilated more than 50,000 troops. Shen Luoyan, Du Fuwei, Li Zitong and others were forced to retreat eastward.

Yang Shanhui led his army to chase and attacked the counties in Jiangnan, and used the super transportation power of Zhang Zhongjian's naval fleet to start looting the granaries of various prefectures and counties in Nanchen along the way. In the end, Yang Shanhui's 50,000 troops and Zhang Zhongjian's 50,000 troops were behind Jiankang City, the capital of Nanchen. If it weren't for the critical moment, Chen Faxing personally led 100,000 troops from Jiangling to rescue him, I'm afraid that Jiankang City would have been captured by the Northern Chen army that time.

Although Nanchen rescued Jiankang City afterwards, the Northern Chen army also withdrew from Huainan before the Southern Chen army arrived, and most of the prefectures occupied by Jiangnan were recovered by Nanchen and only sent troops to defend the five counties of Jiujiang and other Jiangnan. However, after this battle, everyone suddenly realized that they had just been defeated by Chen Kefu's delaying strategy before.

Chen Kefu had deliberately shown weakness before, exaggerating the civil strife and food shortage in Beichen, and even turning troops into defense everywhere, giving all parties an illusion. Chen Kefu even lost many times in the battle with Shen Luoyan.

After the Northern Chen army severely damaged the Southern Chen army and stole most of the food in Southern Chen, the news of the rebellion in various parts of Northern Chen was quelled at this time. Faced with such a result, all parties regretted it and sighed and missed a good opportunity to attack Northern Chen. They knew that last year, the Northern Chen was indeed a relatively fragile year. Although it was not as fragile as it appeared, it was also the most fragile year in history. But they actually missed such an opportunity. In September, Liu Wuzhou was unwilling to give up and immediately led and integrated troops from Liang Shidu and other troops in Longshang, gathered 100,000 troops to attack Yanmen, and quickly attacked.

After successfully capturing the Yanmen dangerous pass, Liu Wuzhou was extremely confident. While leading his army south to attack Taiyuan, he ascended the throne at the Fenyang Palace, the old palace of the Sui Emperor, Loufan, and ascended the throne, and the country was named Han. After becoming emperor, Liu Wuzhou personally led his army to besiege Taiyuan, and sent Song Jingang out of Dingxiang to detour to attack the army Duxing, trying to capture Beijing.

As a result, the two places had been attacking for three months. At this time, the Northern Chen army suddenly used the internal forces arranged in Yanmen City to regain Yanmen Pass through the tunnel. For a time, Liu Wuzhou was in an unfavorable situation, and finally insisted on besieging Taiyuan and Beijing for more than a month, and had no choice but to retreat.

After the rest of the first half of this year, Liu Wuzhou also planned to regroup the troops and fight Wang Rengong. However, he did not expect that before his troops moved, Wang Rengong, who had been huddling in the city like a turtle for the past two years, took action first. He wanted to retreat to Mayi first, gather troops and then fight, but he did not expect to suffer such a big defeat in Sanggan River. The countless red-clothed cannons still make him feel that there is a buzzing sound in his ears.

"Squeak!"

The gate of Linquan City slowly opened, and the gate hole in the city in the twilight was like the hideous giant mouth of a monster, waiting for them to come to the door automatically.

Seeing the city gate open, thousands of hungry, thirsty and exhausted soldiers rushed towards Linquan City. Liu Wuzhou slowly advanced to the city under the arch of dozens of guards, but when he was about to reach the city gate, he finally saw the soldiers on the top of the city as if they were unfamiliar. Linquan City was just a small county town, with only a few soldiers and horses. Liu Wuzhou had just looked at it for a long time and saw all the strange faces, but Yang An, the guardian of Linquan City, never saw it.

Thinking of the ambush in the morning, Liu Wuzhoule ceased his horse and shouted to the top of the city: "Where is Yang An? Let him see me quickly?"

"General Yang led a team of men to patrol outside the city at dusk and had not returned yet. Please ask His Majesty to enter the city first. The younger one immediately sent someone to find him." A strange face in a lieutenant dress in the city said.

Liu Wuzhou felt alert and refused to move forward again. He said immediately: "Liu Zhao, lead 100 people to the city to inquire first."

"yes"

The captain Liu Zhao waved his hand and immediately brought a hundred cavalry into the city. After a long time, he still didn't see anyone coming back. His subordinates were impatient and wanted to enter the city. At this moment, they suddenly heard countless sounds of horse hooves and the ground was shaking slightly. Suddenly, a cavalry broke out from the city gate, coming towards them at a speed.

"No, Linquan has been captured by Chen's army, retreat quickly!" Liu Wuzhou shouted, turned his horse and left.

There was a sound of yelling behind him, and Wang Rengong took the lead and shouted immediately: "The one in the golden helmet and golden armor in front is Liu Wuzhou. He will give Liu Wuzhou a reward of 1,000 gold coins regardless of life or death, and will be promoted to the next level."

When Liu Wuzhou heard this sound immediately, he was shocked and shouted in his heart. Could it be that my life will be over today? He hurriedly took off his golden helmet and abandoned it, and then untied his golden armor on the horse, and ran wildly in his battle robe.
Chapter completed!