In April of the seventh year of Taiping, in the Lingbao City, located south of Wushan (now Sanmenxia City).

And just like a re-enactment of history, many years later, the former Northern Han king, King Shunyi of Zhang Dekun, had to start savoring the bitterness and suffering of being imminent in despair and demise like Zhang Enxian, the last powerful minister of the Northern Dynasty who died in despair while on the run.

In fact, since he removed the self-proclaimed king and joined the Western Army forces advancing east, he did not get the promise as expected. He was not able to get the promise in western Hebei, and the six prefectures in Huangshan, which were directly along the six prefectures in the west of Hebei. Instead, he was taken over the Huai Army vanguard who was about to rush and repelled the wounded soldiers and generals, and he began to show some bad signs;

Finally, the result of his mobilization of troops to attack Tongguan this time was that he had no other benefits or real benefits except for the empty title of the Eastern Marine Chief of the Xingning court established by the Xingning court and a little symbolic aid.

On the contrary, after the beginning of the next spring, the basic Panhe Dongdao, which he relied on to survive and gain a foothold, was subjected to a full attack from the Huai Army in Hebei, and the situation suddenly turned sharply and was irreversible;

It was not until this time that he was a little crazy and angry that as several key points of Hedong Channel in the Eight Passes of Taihang, he had already fallen into the enemy one after another as early as the early winter of last year, but because no one reported it in the local area or was concealing the corresponding news.

However, this result also made him feel helpless and sad. It was obvious that his time to take over Hedong was still short and his foundation was much shallow;

Therefore, while he used his strong skills and force to maintain a variety of thoughts and various other thoughts and can still be suppressed and maintain a situation of basic order smoothly; but once he led his army to leave, he lacked enough pressure suppression, and various problems and incidents began to gradually emerge as foreign enemies invaded.

As a result, after the beginning of spring, several troops that were ready to go, and the situation Hedong Road had to face began to ruin and then could no longer be dealt with. Before he could even try to remedy and save the first and second, he received a series of bad news and defeats.

First, the Xinzhou, Baoxing Army and Ninghua Army, which were the "Key of North Shanxi" and the north shield, were successively trapped because of the invading Huai Army of Jundu Xing and Feihu Xing. The soldiers who were responsible for fighting the front station were actually the Pinglu soldiers who surrendered Huai Town.

Then Guangyang City, the prefecture of Shouzhou (now Yangquan, Shanxi), which was the gateway to the eastern Jin Dynasty, was also broken by the Huai Army's partial division that attacked Niangzi Pass through Jingxing. As a result, the Huai Army's troops headed straight to Taiyuan - Mengxian and Shouyang on the edge of the Jinzhong Basin.

The nearest route to him was the Huai Army invaded the four prefectures of Shangdang Highlands from Baixing Valley Road in Xiangzhou, southern Hebei. It has conquered Luzhou and Zezhou in the southern part of Shangdang (Jincheng Basin) from the south from the north, and cut off the roads to Shanzhou in the south of Wangwu Mountain. Only Liaozhou and Qinzhou are located in the North Shangdang (Changzhi Basin). Some people are still continuing to resist.

However, he had no choice but to waste the people and make money and build a large-scale construction project. The mountain cities he carefully built and built had almost no use or obstacles in the face of the Huai Army's offensive, and had been successively trapped and broken.

According to the person who fled back, this time the Huai Army adopted a new type of firearm with extremely powerful sound, which was like thunder and opened the mountain and split the stones like powder. Whether it was a mountain or a stone village, it was only necessary to be in it, and the mountains quickly collapsed and the earth moved.

As for those powerful and powerful factions who are independent in the local area and only undertake limited money and grain military service, they are even more vulnerable in front of the front of the soldiers passing by the Huai Army; most of them can be described as a sign of collapse at one touch or collapsed like a mountain.

Of course, there are not a few remarkable strange manifestations.

For example, Wenjiabao, a big family in Kaiping, once attacked groups based on the dangerous mountain situation, killing hundreds of people from the Huai Army's baggage team. Then, the Huai Army led by local villagers led the local villagers to attack into the steep mountain fort, and densely projected with arsonous flammable objects. Thousands of men, women, young and old were burned together;

There was also the Bai family of Liaoshan County who had a strong family in the city, and the servants were young and strong, trying to sneak attack a part of the Huai Army that entered the city, but the result was that their family died and they were defeated;

There were also those who fled without fighting and occupied Huguan. The eight-siding alliance, which was waiting for the young and middle-aged tribes, was still lost by the landslide caused by the artillery firecrackers after failing to negotiate with the Huai army for several days. In the end, the heads of the people who were cut off were almost covered with the entire city wall.

However, these are all drops of money and are useless to the general trend. As for those Western soldiers who were sent to Hedong under the name of borrowing land to eat, they actually harass and demanding local areas, they cannot count on much.

You should know that the troops he brought from Taiyuan Prefecture were only 60,000, and when he attacked Baiyacheng, he had lost nearly 10,000. At the request of the Xingning court, he divided his troops south to assist in the war, stationed in Luonan and Lu family each south of the Dahe River;

However, even the two men went south had some problems after a whole winter; because Zhang Dekun found that as time went on, reports and communications from these two armies were becoming less and less, and in the end there was only a simple connection of routine matters.

This also means that his control and influence over the two Hedong corpses sent out were gradually weakening and reducing; however, with the huge gap in the internal strength of the Western Army being stronger than others, he was powerless to do anything, and he could not even prevent or act rashly.

Therefore, now there are only more than 30,000 soldiers around him. Even if the nearby Western Army sent to work together to garrison, or the nearby surveillance of the troops was only more than 50,000.

But once the supply of money and grain in the rear is cut off, it is hard to say how long it can continue to persist. You should know that under the circumstances, he had to bear the supply needs of these Western Army.

Not to mention that once the old nest that had just settled down for not many years - Taiyuan Prefecture was once trapped, whether it was the years of treasury collection that had become enemies, or the families who stayed behind were captured by the enemy, it would have a huge impact and influence on the morale and morale of his subordinates.

After all, except for the thousands of old subordinates who followed him to fall into Hedong, most of the soldiers under his command were local people from Hedong; and even the old brothers he brought were mostly settled in Hedong and settled down, and they had various bonds and ties with the local area.

Although he had sent many messengers to the south to ask for help and sent them to the Xining court with a lot of money, in fact, the hope he had not received was very high.

Because, since the Western Army headed south, the situation has gradually fallen into chaos and out of control; compared with the Guannei Road, which has become a piece of white land and is deserted, both Jiannan Road and Shannan Road are rare places with a large population and abundant land and resources.

As a result, after the division of troops successively led to the strategy, because of the battles between their respective territory and the locations along the way, the Western Army's troops from different backgrounds and regions had begun to show all kinds of dirty and boycotts and right and wrong.

Even the Grand Marshal's Mansion, who was responsible for the frontier and practical situation, was a little too busy to coordinate, let alone let these troops who had already moved south put aside their personal gains and losses and interests, and to save him, the newly invested peripheral force for the so-called overall situation.

It seems that he has no choice.
Chapter completed!