What should we do now? These surrendered generals looked at each other. They didn’t have many soldiers and horses under them, and they didn’t have much fighting spirit. The reason why they dared to launch a riot with everyone just now was that they were not angry at the massacre of the people of Xingyang, and more importantly, they really thought that Mu Bugu’s army had been defeated.

Now, some smart people finally realized that from the beginning they received fake news, Mu Bugu did retreat, but even the retreating barbarians were still easy to wipe out their people. And the news about the destruction of the entire barbarian army could be well-known in such a short time, just like the real one, it was clearly designed by those who were interested in the beginning.

Some people looked at Qian Yue with resentment. There was no doubt that Qian Yue had been bribed and colluded by Ning Jiang, which was a strategy that had been designed long ago.

Aside Qian Yue, a slightly fat man narrowed his eyes as if smiling and said, "Generals, I am not talented, but I also know that it is a villain who is despised! Everyone was originally hostage by the Prefect Zhang and was forced to surrender to the enemy. Now that the troubles are correct, I think the court can understand it. If you surrender and rebel and rebel, don't talk about what the people in the world will think of you. Even those barbarians, will you really dare to use them again in the future? If they have to return to this city again, I am afraid that the first thing they do is to kill all the people in case such a thing happen again? Even if Zhang Taishou, if you invite him back, how will he treat you?"

Those people looked at each other and were silent. They were indeed fooled, but it was already true that they launched a riot. At this time, they were forced to a dead end. Moving forward is death, and retreating is death.

"What should we do?" one of them couldn't help asking.

The man narrowed his eyes and smiled, "Don't worry, everyone, I must have a way to protect everyone's safety, as long as you do what I said."

"Who are you?" the general asked again.

"The surname of Bi is Fu. He was originally a magistrate from Xuancheng, Xizhou. Meng Ning Hanlin refused to give up and hired him as a courtesy. He is currently working for Ning Hanlin. Everyone calls me... Fu Yuanwai!"

It was already evening when Mu Bugu led the barbarians to retreat to Xingyang City. Fang Zhen arrived at the city, and he raised his hand. Behind him, the barbarian cavalry stopped their horses.

In front of them, the city gate was still open, and the flag of the Great Zhou Dynasty, which had been removed, had been re-ploughed on the city wall. On the city wall, soldiers in a row of uniformly lined up holding longbows, all at the hands of them. A loud general shouted at the wall: "Wu, barbarians, you have fallen into the trap. Ning Hanlin has sent troops to capture the city. You can surrender quickly to avoid death." The soldiers on both sides shouted in unison.

Mu Bugu was furious. He originally wanted to go back to this city first and take some rest to see if there would be troops sent to the north, but he didn't expect that in a blink of an eye, Xingyang City had been taken away. A barbarian warrior next to him said hatefully: "General, let's just rush in and kill him?"

At this moment, someone came from behind and reported: "General, there is an enemy coming to us behind."

Mu Bugu's face changed again. Looking back at the back, many people were covered in dust and exhausted. Although the two thousand elite cavalry he personally led could still fight, he had lost more than two thousand people in this battle today. Except for these two thousand elite cavalry, the rest of them could no longer fight. If these two thousand elite cavalry were put into battle, the Chinese army in the city and the pursuers behind them would attack them on both sides, and their situation would be quite bad.

Finally, he gritted his teeth and said hatefully: "Let's go!" He led his troops around the city.

Looking at the barbarians walking around the city, the soldiers and generals on the wall were each wearing cold sweat, and they all breathed a sigh of relief. At this moment, the soldiers they were shaking flags and shouting on the city wall were already all the soldiers they could pull out, and they could barely see. The loud voice of the general shouting "Send troops to seize the city", Mu Bugu mistakenly thought that there were new soldiers and horses stationed in this city, and he did not dare to rush into the city to fight street battles when there were pursuers in the rear. In fact, as long as those barbarians dared to rush in, they were unable to resist.

They looked at Master Fu in admiration, and brought all the soldiers who could see to the city and waved flags and shouted, and the strategy of "showing the enemy to be strong" finally succeeded.

Not long after the barbarians left, Ningjiang Ning Hanlin arrived with 4,000 cavalrymen and took over the situation to take over Xingyang City. Even for him, this battle was not until this moment. If he wanted to defeat Mu Bugu, he had to obtain Xingyang City. Once Mu Bugu's iron cavalry returned to the city, it would become a confrontation between the two sides. He guarded Caishi Gorge, and Mu Bugu guarded Xingyang City. After experiencing this defeat, Mu Bugu would never attack Caishi Gorge again. In this case, as long as Mu Bugu sticks to Xingyang City and waits for the victory or defeat on the main battlefield, even he is at a loss.

If Mu Bugu's main force cannot be annihilated in advance and drive the barbarians out of Xingyangzhou, once the war on the other side is over, the barbarians will be able to continuously add troops here, and the upper reaches of the Huanghe River will easily control the entire banks of the Huanghe River, and the capital will be without any danger. At that time, even the Miao soldiers occupying Bashu will take the opportunity to advance eastward. With a large number of barbarian soldiers behind it, Sibidong will comfort the Si army alone and fight, and it will be difficult for the entire Central Plains to collapse directly.

In fact, at that moment, it was the most dangerous for Ningjiang. Although he successfully damaged the barbarians in Caishi Gorge, Mu Bugu’s two thousand iron cavalry did not enter the battle to attack Caishi Gorge. The best strategy is that Mu Bugu could directly enter Xingyang City, and Ningjiang was unable to attack the city at all. In the middle strategy, Mu Bugu could take the two thousand iron cavalry to kill, otherwise he could only force the war with Mu Bugu again. The best result was that he would sacrifice the four thousand cavalry in his hand to consume Mu Bugu’s two thousand iron cavalry. He would definitely be defeated. He only hoped that Mu Bugu could kill four thousand enemies and also lose seven or eight hundred.

Fortunately, Mu Bugu finally took the worst plan.

His secret layout in Xingyang City successfully scared away Zhang Lun, the prefect of Xingyang who surrendered to the enemy. Fu Yuanwai also successfully persuaded the surrendered generals and implemented the tactic of "showing the enemy to be strong". Mu Bugu did not know that this was the surrendered generals in Xingyang City who were deceived by wrong information. Seeing Xingyang City falling, he thought that there were really new surprise soldiers entering Xingyang City. When the attack on Caishi Gorge was severely damaged, Mu Bugu, who was afraid that he would be attacked on both sides, chose to avoid the battle and gave Xingyang City to him in vain. This... was the real destined defeat of Mu Bugu!

***

May is not the hottest month of the year, but it is the most vicious "evil moon". It is the mating period between snakes and various beasts, and it is also the most active and rampant time for these poisons to be the most active and rampant. They wander around and attack passers-by. The ancients believed that this was the time of the year when the evil spirit was the heaviest, and ghosts danced around and evil entered the bones.

For the people of the Great Zhou Dynasty, May this year was the beginning and continuation of the disaster. The barbarians invaded, and corpses were everywhere north of the Huanghe River, and there was a tragic situation everywhere. The Chinese soldiers were defeated one after another. This situation was not until late May that there was a trace of inspiring news.

Mu Bugu, a fierce general of the Chunxin division of the barbarian tribe, led tens of thousands of elite barbarian cavalry, attacked the city and drove south from Huozhou to cross the Huanghe River. Xingyang Prefecture surrendered without fighting. The barbarian divisions rushed forward and followed the two states to point directly to Haojing. At this critical moment, the new top scholar Lang Ningjiang gathered troops to block the enemy in Caishixia, repelled the barbarian soldiers twice, and captured Xingyang City with wisdom. The momentum was greatly boosted, and he responded to one call. Afterwards, Ning Hanlin continued to send small groups of cavalry and heroes from the martial arts who obeyed his orders to harass the retreating barbarian cavalry. They did not conflict head-on with the elite barbarians, but continued to use their intelligence advantages and terrain, either shooting arrows at high places or setting fire with fierce turbulent oil at night, which made the barbarian cavalry exhausted.

Mu Bugu wanted to take the barbarian cavalry and retreated from the bagpipe mouth to Huozhou. However, the barbarian soldiers who stayed at the bagpipe mouth were attacked by hundreds of martial arts people of unknown origin at night. A stone bridge that had been built for hundreds of years was destroyed overnight under an unknown explosion. In desperation, Mu Bugu had to lead his troops to the upper reaches of the Huanghe River, and was attacked by rockets from the enemy who had been ambushing a long time ago on Dichengshan, trapped in the crowd.

In the end, Ning Hanlin, who was waiting for the rabbit in the upper reaches of the Huang River, led 4,000 cavalry and 2,000 infantry. He first used the terrain and used the harsh turbulent oil chariot to disrupt the barbarian cavalry. Then, with the remaining literary spirit, he personally led the cavalry to raid and defeated the barbarian cavalry. Mu Bugu relied on his own might to seize Ning Hanlin, but was besieged by the generals under the suppression of literary spirit, and eventually died of gunfire. Ning Hanlin cut off his head, led his army north to recover Huozhou.

The destruction of tens of thousands of barbarian troops greatly boosted the morale of the Chinese side. However, immediately afterwards, the 600,000 troops blocking the enemy between Luzhou and Caizhou on the north bank of the Huanghe River were forced to give up the fortress and take the initiative to attack, and fought a major battle with the barbarian Xizhanlu and Mengyu troops on the plains. On the first day, the Chinese vanguard army was defeated. On the second day, the barbarian general Xie Zhanlu led the Agu soldiers and elite cavalry to directly attack the main formation of the Chinese army. The original formation was defeated and forced to retreat.

Immediately afterwards, facing the Chinese side's forces four times that of its own, Xie Zhanlu and Meng Yu attacked. In just a few days, the Chinese army was defeated, and the left guard general Qiu De was killed in battle. Under the drive of the barbarians, there were countless Chinese soldiers who jumped into the Huang River. The Huang River rolled, with corpses, and the capital was shaken.

At this time, Ningjiang took advantage of the great destruction of Mu Bugu, and further recruited officers and soldiers, reached 100,000, and then seized Shizhou and controlled the upper reaches of Huanghe River. Ganyushu wrote in the rear of the barbarians and successfully gathered 200,000 remaining troops from Yi, Xu and Ji Prefectures. He used Yizhou City and Jinbi in front of Jinbi to defend Yijiao, and strengthened the walls and cleared the fields, echoing Ningjiang. The barbarians who went south finally had to worry that their retreat would be cut off because the rear was not stable, so they slowly retreated north. Later, the "Tiger Lord" violently investigated Shen Ce Zongbei, who was under the seat, sent envoys to Haojing to negotiate with the Great Zhou court. The emperor and ministers of the Great Zhou Dynasty weighed the pros and cons, and were forced to agree to peace talks and ceded the four states of Yizhou, and cedeed to the four states of Yizhou. Ganyushu wrote in succession, saying that the Jinbi in front of Yizhou was a northern barrier. Since it had been recaptured, it would not be cedeed to the enemy in any case. In the end, it was unable to persuade the court that was determined to negotiate peace.

After the peace talks between the two sides, Xiazhan Lu, Meng Yu abducted a large number of people and materials from Cai and Lu, as well as the gold, silver and wealth donated by the Great Zhou court, slowly retreated. Ganyu Shu received the imperial decree. In desperation, the entire army withdrew from Yizhou. The first time the barbarians went south, the four states were ceded by the Chinese side, and the barbarians justified the possession of half of the land north of the Huanghe River...

***

In late June, high temperatures swept the capital, and the ground was as hot as steaming steamers.

Outside the capital, the people who escaped the Huanghe River were gathered in the war in the north. Although the war in the north was temporarily over, they were already homeless. Some people were dressed in porridge outside the city, dressed in tattered clothes and lined up, while supporting each other, slowly moved in to the porridge-double point that was so thin that it was almost impossible to see rice. From time to time, some people fell on the side of the road in this hot weather and could never wake up again. After a while, someone would come and drag the body to bury it silently.

A gorgeous carriage was parked in the crowd on the other side. The fat and fat merchant got out of the car, and a servant beside him shouted loudly. After a while, someone responded tremblingly, and then the merchant threw a bag of rice in front of a man beside the dead tree. The servants snatched the girl he was holding. The girl cried hoarsely. The man grabbed the rice bag in front of him with his trembling hands, crawled down, and then remained silent until the girl was taken away by the carriage and disappeared in front of him forever.

On both sides of the city gate, there were undoubtedly the most refugees gathered, but the soldiers guarding the city gate kept every refugee from entering. The people in the capital were still busy with their own lives, as if nothing had happened outside. By the Ranshui River, the house where the top scholar had been sold last year had already been rented to others at a high price.

In the lake, there are more young men and daughters who are visiting the lake than in previous years, and no one can tell the reason. The singers in the lake, except for the song "Red lotus fragrance and scented jade matte autumn", are mostly old lyrics of the top scholar last year. However, in May last year, after the top scholar left the capital, there was no new lyrics. Some people say that he was unintentional poetry because of the death of the eldest princess, and some people say that he was not doing his job and did something unorthodox.

In the Imperial College, a fire broke out last year and killed more than a dozen students in the Simen Pavilion. The ruins had been cleared and were being rebuilt. In the inner city, the large pit caused by the meteorite of Jinglongmen was still shocking, like a wound bitten by a beast, which could never heal.

In the palace, in a gorgeous palace, a beautiful girl rolled on the exquisite and cool white jade bed. On both sides of the bed, two palace maids were holding big and beautiful treasure fans to blow the wind on her. In such weather, even if she has always loved to play, she no longer wants to go out again.

"Red Butterfly!" A woman with thin but gorgeous clothes came to the front of the palace gate. The girl raised her head and called "Mother's Concubine" crisply. The woman came to the bedside and smiled and said, "Why don't you go for a walk?"

The girl rolled on the jade bed again, and through the contact between her delicate skin and the cold jade bed, she dissipated the excess heat in her body. She hummed twice: "It's so hot outside that I won't go out, don't try to trick me out."
Chapter completed!