The Jin army's defeat in Tongguan completely strengthened the determination of the old Shu Han people to rise up. Not long after the defeated army of the Jin army withdrew from Hangu Pass, the old Shu Han people headed by Zong Yu's son Zong Yuan and Zhuge Liang's nephew Zhuge Xian suddenly raised an army to fight against Jin in Hedong, opening the prelude to the counterattack of the old Shu Han people.

The Hedong Rebel Army led by Zong Yuan and Zhuge Xian was not large at the beginning. Because the Jin army had been guarding against the old Shu Han people, the Jin army was attacked by the Hedong Jin army not long after the uprising. Fortunately, the Han army was prepared. With just a command, the Han army general Yang Ji immediately brought 20,000 Han troops across the Yellow River to reinforce the old Shu Han people. Zong Yuan and Zhuge Xian also immediately took the Hedong Rebel Army to take the initiative to move closer to the Han army and meet with the Han army near Jie County.

After quickly reorganizing the army composed of old Shu Han people, Yang Ji immediately launched a counterattack against the Jin army in Hedong. Relying on the strong combat power of the Han army soldiers, he quickly defeated the Jin army led by Wang Rong, the prefect of Hedong of Jinting, and then counterattacked the city of Anyi, forcing the Jin court to mobilize the Jin army in the Central Plains and the Jin army in Bingzhou to rush to Anyi for reinforcements.

Then, because he had not had time to know that the Jin army in Liangzhou had collectively changed their flags and returned to Han, Yang Ji, who was too far away from Guanzhong, was forced to temporarily retreat to Puban for the sake of caution. However, before the Han army retreated to Puban, Zhao Quan had already led 20,000 Han troops across the Yellow River to reinforce, completely killing the Jin army off guard.

After the reinforcements, the Han army was greatly boosted and immediately launched a counterattack against the Jin army again. As a result, relying on the heroic battle of soldiers at all levels, the Han army successfully defeated the Jin army in Bingzhou and Zhongyuan, and then came to the city of Anyi again. Relying on the tactical tactic of tunnel blasting, he forced the subjugation of Wang Rong, the desperate prefect of Jinting Hedong, captured Anyi, and controlled most of Hedong County.

Unwilling to fail, Sima Yiqiang once planned to take advantage of the opportunity that Zhang Zhi did not visit Hedong in person to continue to increase his troops, and to do his best to protect this grain-producing land and the largest salt-producing land in the Central Plains. However, at this time, the news that the entire Liangzhou area changed its flag and returned to the Han Dynasty suddenly reached the Central Plains. Without the restraint of the Jin army in Liangzhou, the Han army general Cuan Gu also brought the Han army, which had been expanded to more than 40,000 people, to the east to Hanzhong for reinforcements, allowing Zhang Zhi to free up his hands to reinforce the Hedong battlefield.

Sima Yiqiang saw that it was not good, and knew that if he continued to tug-of-war, Zhang Zhi would definitely lead his army into Hedong in person. He had no choice but to decide to give priority to preserving the vitality and let the defeated Jin army retreat to Pingyang and Zhuoguan to defend. The Han army took the opportunity to conquer the city and plunder the land, completely suck the entire Hedong area, and then develop towards Pingyang in the north.

When the news came back to Luoyang, the Jin court was naturally filled with sorrow. However, no matter how much he cried and hated it, it was useless. At one time, the Han army, which was left with only a remote mountain city, had already grasped the land of the three states, and formed a powerful Qin force. The Jin army, which had been defeated for consecutive battles, was greatly damaged, and morale was low, and could no longer launch a strategic-level attack. Therefore, in desperation, Sima Yan could only adopt the suggestions put forward by Zhang Hua and others against his will, and Yi Off adopted a comprehensive defensive move for the defense, intending to consider regaining the lost land after resting and resting.

At this time, due to various objective reasons, the Han army, which developed too quickly, had to temporarily stop its crazy expansion and instead make every effort to rectify internal affairs and expand its army, as well as restore farming and develop industry and commerce. Fortunately, relying on the advantages of junk food, the Han army could safely and boldly adopt a policy of light taxes and low taxes to rest with the people, and quickly consolidate the control of the new land, gradually began to digest the huge manpower and material resources of the Yongliang two prefectures and Hedong areas, and economic operation and military work quickly got on track.

It is best to do agriculture, and there is no need to worry about military rations. Zhang Zhi only needs to transport some grain-growing oxen from Yizhou to help Yongliang resume farming. Although the Yongliang area in the past ten years of Yanxing is still in severe drought, because Zhang Zhi waved his hand to reduce Yongliang's grain tax for one year, the people of Yongliang still have confidence in their hearts. They quickly rush to plough and plant under the leadership of the Han army, and at the same time build water conservancy and restore farming as much as possible.

In terms of business, junk food is still the first step. Thanks to the extravagant trend of the Jin court, even though Sima Yan repeatedly issued an edict to eliminate commercial exchanges with the Han army-controlled areas, driven by the huge demand and huge profits of the Central Plains families, the merchants in the Central Plains still took the risk of beheading and kept smuggling various junk food to the Central Plains for huge profits. At the same time, they sent various sources of military and civilian resources to the Han army-controlled areas for junk food. New Han army money that could not be forged also took the opportunity to flow into the Central Plains region wildly, becoming the most creditworthy currency.

Of course, military industry is preferred. Under the organization and leadership of the Han army officials led by Li Yu, the Han army quickly established multiple arsenals in the Guanzhong area, and kept building various good weapons and artillery powder for the Han army day and night. The Han army was equipped with all the steel-filled weapons, and there was only a matter of time left.

In terms of personnel, of course, the people of Nanzhong turned over and sang. Almost all departments at all levels were led by the elderly brought out by Zhang Zhi from Nanzhong, supplemented by the officials of Yizhou who were overwhelmed by the Jingzhou sect during the Shu Han Dynasty. However, because Zhang Zhi himself did not have any regional prejudice, the talents from Yongzhou, Liangzhou and Central Plains were also valued, and most of them were poor scholars who had no hope of making a name for themselves in the Jin court. The personnel structure was actually far more reasonable than the Jin court where the aristocratic family was in power.

As for the most important junk food, it is true that the Guanzhong area, which replaced Chengdu as the military and political center of the Han army, does not produce high-end wood, but there are many antiques! It is so numerous that you can dig out bronzes of the Han Dynasty, Shang and Zhou dynasties by just finding a place. In addition, Zhang Zhi deliberately turned a blind eye to tomb robbery, so various expensive antiques from the previous dynasty still flowed into Zhang Zhi's pockets, including many priceless antiques.

With these antiques, Zhang Zhi's storage space is naturally filled with junk food comparable to astronomical numbers, and the available balance has become directly an astronomical number.

There were joy and sorrow. When the Han army's partial army successfully captured Pingyang County, bad news came from Yizhou. The elderly and sick Huo Yi finally could not resist the call of the emperor Liu and Zhuge Villageman. Even Zhang Zhi had no time to see him for the last time, so he closed his eyes on the sickbed forever. The only last words left by Huo Yi were to hope that Zhang Zhi would bow to Liu Chan for him after he was restored to Luoyang.

After offering sacrifices to Huo Yi, he wiped away the tears of sadness. Zhang Zhi first posthumously appointed Huo Yi as the general of the Han army's expedition, and ordered Chen Can to succeed as the governor of Yizhou to preside over the major events in Yizhou on behalf of Huo Yi. At the same time, he allowed Huo Biao to return to Chengdu to attend the funeral, and ordered Huo Yi to be buried next to Liu Huangshu's tomb.

At the end of the tenth year of Yanxing, Sun Hao of the Eastern Wu sent Yao Xin to the envoy of Hanzhong to invite the Han army to attack the Jin court. Zhang Zhi also said something to Yao Xin with great sincerity, "Shilarious Minister Yao, it's not that I rude to take the alliance, but that's the time for us to send troops to attack the Jin thieves is not ripe. I only succeeded in recruiting Liangzhou at the beginning of the year. I just took Hedong and Pingyang in the middle of the year. The army has not yet been established. The new recruits have not had time to conduct strict training. If they rashly send troops to the east, they are not sure to take down the Central Plains. So I think it's better to calm down and wait for a while, make full preparations, and then join forces to attack the Jin thieves."

"How long will the general plan to wait afterward?" Yao Xin asked.

"One to two years." Zhang Zhi replied with a relatively vague number and said, "Please rest assured that before deciding to send troops to the Central Plains, I will send an envoy to inform you half a year in advance, so that your country can be fully prepared, and then join forces to attack the Jin bandits."

Seeing that Zhang Zhi was sincere, Yao Xin did not force him and quickly said goodbye and returned to Dongwu to report his life. As a result, Sun Hao, who was irritated, was very unhappy when he heard this, and scolded Zhang Zhi for refusing to follow the alliance. Fortunately, Wan Yu and others tried their best to persuade him, "Your Majesty, what Zhang Zhi said is not unreasonable. He has a firm foothold in Guanzhong and the army is still expanding. It is indeed difficult to give a fatal blow to the Jin thief. The best way is to wait until he is ready and we will join forces to send troops, so that the Jin thief can hardly take care of the head and tail."

After saying a few words to Zhang Zhi, Wan Yu said again: "And it is also beneficial for us to not rush to send troops for the time being. At least we can give us time to stock up on more food and grass and mobilize more troops to go north to participate in the war. In this way, when we send troops to the north, we have more hope to defeat the Jin bandits and seize the land and city that our Eastern Wu deserves."

Sun Hao, who was furious, rarely heard one persuasion and said, "Well, then wait a little longer. Zhang Zhi'er said he would notify us half a year in advance. After we received his news, we simply mobilized the Jiaozhou army to go north to participate in the war, so that we could gain greater control."

In this way, under the leadership of Zhang Zhi and the forced force of the situation, the three parties of Han, Jin and Wu temporarily stopped fighting, and they all desperately recruited soldiers, hoarded food and grass, prepared for the war, and tried hard to accumulate strength to prepare for the next comprehensive decisive battle. On the surface, they seemed calm, but on the surface, there were actually turbulent waves below, which could turn into strong winds and huge waves at any time.

In April of the 11th year of Yanxing, the Han army successfully completed the expansion and reorganization of the army, expanding the total Han army in Yongzhou and Hedong to 180,000, of which more than 25,000 cavalrymen were more than 25,000, completely reversing the cavalry disadvantage in front of the Jin army.

In June, the Han army successfully completed a full replacement, and replaced the weapons of all the main troops into steel-filled weapons. All the armor was guaranteed to be equipped with double-layer armor. At the same time, some new gunpowder weapons were secretly developed.

In September, at the strong request of the Han army's civil and military, Zhang Zhi promoted his official position to General, recorded the Shangshu, the Sili School Captain, and the Great Commander of the East; Yan Yu was granted the Right General, Cuan Gu was granted the East General, Zhao Quan was granted the North General, Yang Ji was granted the General of Andong, and other Han army's civil and military personnel were rewarded.

In the first month of the 12th year of Yanxing, Zhang Zhi sent Mo Sheng to inform the Eastern Wu that he would send troops to the Eastern Wu in July this year. Sun Hao, who had been waiting for a long time, was overjoyed when he heard the news and immediately ordered the prepared Wu army in Jiaozhou to send troops north to join the war, preparing to send troops with the Han army in the same month, and attack Hefei and Xiangyang in two groups respectively.

The country is easy to change, but nature is difficult to change. With the mentality of not taking advantage of it, Sun Hao adopted Lu Kai's suggestion. While dispatching troops to prepare for the Northern Expedition, he sent secret envoys to Luoyang to secretly tell the Jin court the date of the Han army's dispatch, and pretended to release goodwill to the Jin court, trying to lure the Jin court to hoard the heavy troops on the Western Front to reduce his resistance to the Northern Expedition.

The Jin court also attached great importance to the important information leaked by the Eastern Wu on his own initiative, and immediately held a court meeting to discuss the matter. Zhang Hua also pointed out immediately: "Your Majesty, the Eastern Wu Rats deliberately told us this important news, which is clearly intended to tempt us to deploy heavy troops on the front line of Hangu Pass in advance so that they can take the opportunity to go north north. Therefore, we must not relax our vigilance against the Eastern Wu. We must leave sufficient troops on the front line of the Yangtze River to defend the Eastern Wu Rats."

Sima Yan nodded and asked again: "If the pseudo-Han thief army really advances eastward, how should we prevent it?"

"We can only guard Hangu Pass to the death." Zhang Hua said helplessly: "The pseudo-Han thief army has the advantage of not requiring food channels. If we place our main force on the front line of Hongnong, it is very likely that the pseudo-Han thief army will be bypassed by Hongnong and cut off the food channels. So there is no way. We can only be mentally prepared to strategically give up the four cities of Huxian, Hongnong, Shanxian and Xin'an."

"I have to do this." Sima Yan sighed and said, "I will inform Sima Yichang of the news, let him know the date of the pseudo-Han thief army, prepare in advance, and tell him clearly that we can not let go of Zhuhan's city along the way, but Hangu Pass must be kept! If Hangu Pass is lost again this time, even if he is my third uncle, he must come to see him!"

The ministers agreed, but Zhang Hua hesitated for a moment and said carefully: "Your Majesty, should Luoyang make some preparations in advance? I suggest that on the safe side, it is better for us to prepare for moving the capital to Yecheng in advance."

Before Zhang Hua could finish his words, the officials of Jinting whose family and property were in Luoyang immediately objected, and they all accused Zhang Hua of nonsense, fearing the enemy as if they were like tigers. Sima Yan, who was originally a little moved, shook his head when he saw the officials firmly opposing it, and said, "There is no need for this. I can trust my third uncle. He will definitely be able to defend Hangu Pass."

Before the matter was over, Sima Yan's decree was delivered to Sima Yichang. Sima Yichang just thought for a moment and immediately said, "Go to Linghu County, Hongnong, Shan County and Xin'an, and let all the garrisons there move the local people to settle in the Central Plains. Gu Han said we will definitely not be able to defend it. Instead of leaving these people to help the thieves, it is better to move them to the Central Plains first."

Forced migration of the people has always been a specialty of the Wei and Jin dynasties. Sima Yichang just gave an order, and the people in the four cities located in the Guhandao immediately began to move to the Central Plains under the threat of the Jin army. Of course, this situation was quickly reported to Zhang Zhi. Zhang Zhi was a little strange at first, not understanding why the Jin army suddenly made this move, but after careful calculation, Zhang Zhi quickly guessed the truth and said:

"Dongwu! It must be that the Eastern Wu dogs and thieves cannot change their shit. In order to lure the Jin thieves to gather heavy troops on the Eastern Front, they secretly told the Jin thieves that we sent troops to the Jin thieves. Therefore, the Jin thieves took the initiative and forced the relocation of the people in the siege hall."

"What should I do?" Yan Yu asked: "Do you take action in advance and grab the people back?"

"It's too late." Zhang Zhi said helplessly: "The garrison in Tongguan is not able to do this. When we send troops from Chang'an to Wuhan, the daylily will be cold."
Chapter completed!