Northern Dynasties

Chapter 590 Wuji world
In the third year of the Taiqing period, on the first day of the first lunar month, there was thunderous drumming near the Qingtang, and a large number of rebel troops poured out of the camp and rushed towards the Qingtang.

Qingtang is located between Stone City and Jiankang City. Wei Can led his army to camp and garrison here under the order of the leader Liu Zhongli. However, due to the heavy fog and misty last night, and the complicated rivers, canals and roads in the suburbs of Jiankang City, Wei Can's troops lost their way for a long time. , when they arrived at Qingtang, it was already not far from dawn.

This place is an important passage connecting Stone City, and the rebel army naturally stationed soldiers here on guard. After Wei Can ordered people to kill and route the defenders, he immediately used various materials he brought to construct the camp for defense.

However, due to the time lost on the lost road, until dawn, the outer barracks were still not complete, and the reality of Wei Can's battalion was exposed to the eyes and ears of the enemy.

Originally, although the rebel army knew that Qingtang had fallen, they did not dare to move lightly because they did not know the real situation of the enemy. At this time, Wei Can's troops were not the majority of the reinforcements. The elite troops rushed straight to the unrepaired camp.

"Quickly line up, ready to fight!"

Although Wei Can has been in charge of the guard for a long time and seldom leads the army in battle, after all, he is also a descendant of Jingzhao Wei and Wei Hu.

At the same time, he ordered his staff: "Quickly send an order to Liu Zhige to lead the boat to the east and attack the rebels later!"

Consolidation of water and land is the usual combat method used by the southerners. Wei Can's headquarters has only a few thousand troops. Fearing that he will not be able to defend the important area of ​​Qingtang, Liu Zhongli sent Zhige General Liu Shuyin to lead his troops to follow in the battle.

At this time, Liu Shuyin's navy was still moored in the river, and the opposite rebels were swarming in. If they could go to the east and launch an offensive from the rear, it would definitely make the rebels mess up and it would be difficult to take care of both the head and the tail.

Soon the elite rebel army led by Hou Jing attacked the front of the camp. Zheng Yi, the leader of the army who was facing the battle in front of the camp, led his troops to shoot at the enemy with bows and crossbows. Taking advantage of the heavy casualties and chaotic offensive, he rushed forward , filling the gap in the camp fence that has not yet been closed with flesh and blood.The two sides fought hand to hand, fighting fiercely, and soon the front of the camp was filled with corpses, and although the rebel army had a large number of people, they were firmly blocked outside the camp.

"Erlang and others bravely killed the enemy, and after defeating the thief, let's go down to celebrate!"

Wearing fine armor, Wei Can personally beat drums to cheer for the soldiers in the camp, and the soldiers in the camp also had high fighting spirit and were not afraid of the situation of being outnumbered.

However, the war lasted for a while, and Liu Shuyin's department, who was supposed to be ordered to attack the rebel army later, did not move at all. This caused more and more rebels to gather near Qingtang, and gradually surrounded the place.

At the time when Wei Can's troops were fighting fiercely with the rebels, Liu Zhongli's troops had also moved from Xinting to Daheng, dispatching troops overnight, Liu Zhongli was already quite tired.

While eating in the tent, he suddenly heard that the rebels were attacking the Qingtang. Liu Zhongli suddenly changed his face, threw the chopsticks into the table, stood up and put on his armor, and shouted sharply: "Er Lang, wait for me to attack the rebels. After killing Hou Jing in the battle, return home." It's not too late for dinner!"

Soon Liu Zhongli was dressed in light armor and armed with a lance, and led hundreds of elite cavalry to charge towards the north of the big truss.

Southerners are not good at horse fighting, but Liu Zhongli is not included.He was a hero since he was a child, and when he was young, he followed Xiao Gang, the prince who was named King Jin'an at that time, and sat in Xiangyang.At that time, He Basheng was invincible in the north of Han Dynasty, but Liu Zhongli was the only one who could resist defeat.

From then on, Liu Zhongli became famous in Han Mian, and lived in Handong and Huainan for a long time. Even Hou Jing's old town in Henan Province, when he wanted to get involved in his town, was resisted and made no progress. It can be said that he is the leading uncle in Nanliang. general!

The rebel army also set up a defense line to the north of Daheng, but under the charge of Liu Zhongli and his troops, it was as fragile as paper, and could not stop the iron hoofs from running at all.After rushing through the big beam, Liu Zhongli directly led his troops to charge and kill most of the rebels entrenched near the Qingtang.

Although the rebel army is strong, a considerable part of them are just mobs with low combat effectiveness, and they are not the next enemy of Liu Zhongli. Therefore, under the leadership of Liu Zhongli, this fine cavalry is invincible, and they charge across the rebel army. As more and more rebels were stirred up, the elite of Hou Jingzhong's army, who still maintained order, stood out in the army formation.

"That's where Hou Jingzhong's army is, follow me and take the leader of the bandit!"

Before the formal battle between the two sides, Liu Zhongli was also quite apprehensive. After all, Hou Jing drove all the way from Shouyang, Huainan to Jiankang to encircle Taicheng. When he got angry, his fighting spirit was even higher, and he wanted to finish his work in one battle. He waved his horse and went straight to Hou Jingzhong's army.

Of course, Hou Jing also noticed that this cavalry squad that had messed up its ranks was far away before, and the people from all walks of life were completely unaffected by it, but now they saw the other party and came straight to kill him. , a sneer appeared at the corner of his mouth.

While ordering to maintain the offensive pressure on the camp here, to ensure that the troops in the camp cannot leave the camp to attack, he retreated slowly surrounded by his own soldiers, trying to attract this group of troops to the core of the army formation and then gather the generals. strangle.

But Hou Jing also underestimated Liu Zhongli's combat effectiveness. Although the soldiers around him were called elites, they were not the elite town soldiers he led in Henan after all.

Liu Zhongli rushed into the battle here, the speed of attacking and killing did not slow down much, seeing that the distance from Hou Jing was already less than a few feet away, and the people around Hou Jing also seemed to be defeated.

"The thief will hurt my king!"

A shout came from the side, and Hou Jingbu swung Zhi Boren's saber straight at Liu Zhongli and cut it down.

After Liu Zhongli received this knife, his horse was unstable and almost lost in the formation. Enemy soldiers from the left and near came to surround him one after another. Fortunately, the soldiers from the rear arrived in time and successfully rescued Liu Zhongli under the leadership of cavalry general Guo Shanshi.

At this time, Liu Zhongli was badly wounded, his armor was stained with blood, his consciousness was somewhat blurred, and it was difficult for him to gallop and attack. Guo Shanshi and others had no choice but to fight and retreat, and retreated to the camp while the surrounding enemy troops had not recovered from the panic. .

After killing Liu Zhongli's supporting army, there were no other disturbing factors on the battlefield, and Hou Jing was able to gather a crowd to continue attacking the Qingtang enemy camp.

At this time, the Qingtang camp was surrounded by rebels. Although the soldiers in the camp gave up their lives to fight, they were already in decline.Instead of attacking the enemy, Liu Shuyin's boat division sailed towards the river, apparently abandoning this unit.

"My lord, the bandits are fierce, retreat to the river for now..."

Seeing that the thieves were getting more and more aggressive, all the relatives and subordinates around Wei Can advised him to stay out of the way for now.

However, Wei Can's face was full of grief and indignation, and he drew his sword in his hand and shouted angrily: "The army is seeking personal gain and has no justice. If you retreat to the middle of the river, you can gather together to fight again? My Wei family, we share the same glory with the country, and there are soldiers who die in the country." , there are no thieves who steal life! Kill, kill thieves!"

Wei Can refused to retreat, and even went straight to kill the rebels who had already broken through the barracks. Seeing this, all his disciples followed.However, facing the swarming enemy troops, this stubborn lone army was doomed to be nothing more than a car with its arms, and was soon submerged in the chaotic army.

Liu Zhongli, who was rescued back to the camp, woke up after two days. The first thing he did when he woke up was to ask how the Qingtang barracks was doing. Liu Zhongli was silent for a while, and then sneered: "Brother Changqian, you deserved to die, but you put me in the position of the destined sinner. Hmph, all the soldiers have the desire to live with each other, why should I rush to die?"

At this time, someone came to report that Xiao Lun, the king of Shaoling who had fled before, led the crowd back to the south of Dazheng again, and was seeking an audience outside the camp, and also regarded Liu Zhongli as the leader of the coalition.

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Liu Zhongli's mood became even worse after hearing the words, and he waved his hands and said in a cold voice.

Xiao Lun, the king of Shaoling, is the sixth son. He was ordered to put down Hou Jing's rebellion in the place where Hou Jing raised his troops. Liu Zhongli was originally ordered by him to encircle and wipe out Hou Jing in Huainan.

However, King Shaoling marched slowly and had a negative attitude. Hou Jing raised his troops and lingered in place for nearly two months. King Shaoling did not move to gather his troops at all. Only then can the department reach Zhongli.

After that, it took more than a month for King Shaoling to return to the defense and arrive at Jiankang. As a result, he was defeated in the battle with Hou Jing and fled. He ignored the situation in Beijing and returned to Jingkou to recuperate.

When all the armies gathered here a month ago, Wei Can proposed Liu Zhongli as the leader of the coalition, but Pei Zhigao, the governor of Western Yuzhou, refused, and finally reached a consensus under Wei Can's coercion.And Liu Zhongli was also burdened by this position, and Wei Can moved to the forefront of the battle with the bandit army. He thought that the generals would not fail to respond, but they actually did not lead, and sat and watched the two divisions fight the Hou Jing rebels to the death. , Wei Can was almost wiped out, and Liu Zhongli was also dying.

This battle completely made Liu Zhongli realize what the so-called coalition forces were like, and also realized that his so-called leader had no power to dispatch the armies at all, and was just a vain name that was deeply burdened by it.

King Shaoling is already rebellious and disrespectful to the Second Palace. As the commander of the Zongwang Peaceful Rebellion, he dared to openly delay the military plan, but now he is willing to accept Liu Zhongli as the leader of the alliance and obey his orders. Liu Zhongli knows King Shaoling without thinking about it. What idea do you have in mind.

Now that the Second Palace is trapped in the city, King Shaoling is the oldest person in the clan. If the Second Palace is taken away by a wave, who will take charge of the situation next?Liu Zhongli, the so-called leader, has become the default culprit of the masses.

After thinking about his situation clearly, Liu Zhongli was filled with grief and indignation, and gradually developed extreme thoughts.Since the masses all regard him as the master, then he ordered the generals to inform the armies to take money from the armies in the name of preparing for the war. Heart.

After the new year, reinforcements from all sides still arrived one after another, but none of them dared to go out to fight rashly, or Liu Zhongli was too lazy to summon anyone who entered the camp to see him.

It lasted until the middle of the month, when a paper kite floated out of Taicheng City, with the Taichung Edict written on it, which lifted the spirits of the troops outside Jiankang City, and began to organize a new round of offensive.

All the generals came to the camp one after another to ask for battle, but Liu Zhongli refused because his injuries were not healed.

It was not until the end of the month that all parties reached a consensus to cross the Qinhuai River again, and after fighting the rebels, they captured the camp gate of Dongfu City and stationed troops in Qingxi.Li Qianshi, governor of Gaozhou, and Fan Wenjiao, prefect of Tianmen, rushed forward underestimated the enemy, and were defeated by Hou Jing's general Song Zixian. They fled and died.

As a result, Liu Zhongli was more convinced of his own judgment. If he went into battle rashly, there would be thieves in front of him, and the back road would be cut off by the masses. At that time, he would be in a dilemma.

Time entered February, but there was a sudden news that the imperial court was about to negotiate peace with Hou Jing's rebels in the city.The generals were quite shocked when they heard the news, Hou Jing has done so much evil, and the second palace has been disgraced, do you still want to be pampered?

Of course, this is from their point of view. As far as the second palace is concerned, although there are many reinforcements outside the city, they all have a negative attitude. Although the soldiers in the city are still stubbornly resisting, the supplies are extremely scarce.

Before the closure of Taicheng, the servants of Gongqing's family competed to carry rice into the city, harvested more than 50 shi of rice grain, and the treasury money and silk amounted to [-] billion. After entering the city, under the command and arrangement of Yang Kan Negative soil orogeny can be described as the essence of deep integration, high wall building, and wide accumulation of grain.

But apart from money and food, other supplies in Taichung were extremely scarce. Fish, salt and firewood were all in short supply. Horses were fed with rice, horses were killed for meat, and the lack of condiments such as salt caused edema and disease among the city's citizens.Even the vegetables stored in the kitchen have been eaten up, and the emperor believes in Buddhism and is a vegetarian, so he only eats eggs to satisfy his hunger.

When the peace talks started and the contact between Taicheng and the outside world was restored, all the generals felt sad when they learned that the situation in Taicheng was so difficult, and they dared not question the peace talks any more.

When King Shaoling learned that His Majesty was in such a difficult situation, he burst into tears and ordered the envoys to offer hundreds of eggs.His Majesty the Emperor of Taicheng, while cooking the eggs presented by his son, couldn't help but choked with grief and burst into tears.

The reason for peace talks in Taicheng is naturally because the situation is already critical.The reason why the rebels proposed peace talks was because the reinforcements attacked and cut off the passage to Dongfu City, and the rebels' supplies were stored in Dongfu City, and the grain and rice were to be transported back through the peace talks.

Liu Zhongli and other generals naturally knew what Hou Jing was up to, and even His Royal Highness knew that Hou Jing was not trustworthy, but they still only had an illusion to satisfy Hou Jing's many difficulties, and the generals naturally did not dare to disobey Against the second palace and good at attacking the rebels, not to mention that they have no intention of fighting.

In order to procrastinate through talks and try to transport the rice and grain back to Dongfu City, Hou Jing also told the middle of the city that Xiao Que, the son of King Shaoling, insulted and intended to sabotage the peace talks. Called into Taicheng.

Although King Shaoling himself missed the opportunity of the war and was passive in suppressing the rebellion, he did not dare to bear the notoriety of destroying the peace talks and persecuting the Second Palace. Because his son refused to enter Taicheng, he even ordered his son to be killed, forcing Xiao Que Tears into the city.

When all the food in Dongfu City was shipped out and Hou Jing had enough food, he directly broke the contract and stopped the peace talks, and even wrote to the court to enumerate the emperor's top ten crimes.

Emperor Liang was furious when he read the book. He set up an altar outside the Taiji Hall to offer sacrifices to heaven and earth, and set up beacon fires and drums to order him to fight Hou Jing again.However, Taicheng is already old, weak, sick and disabled, and has no strength to fight again. All they can count on is reinforcements outside the city.

So all the generals outside the city went to Liu Zhongli's camp to ask for battle, but Liu Zhongli just didn't respond.The father and son in the city had no bottom line in order to survive. For Hou Jing's peace, they knew that there was nothing to do, and it was a loss of dignity to change the order from day to day.

The bandit army is on the north bank of the Qinhuai River, and Liu Zhongli, the leader of the coalition army, has never been an official position clearly conferred by the imperial edict. If he refuses, the generals will not dare to fight?In the final analysis, it is nothing more than to let him take the blame.

If he ordered to fight, even if he rescued Nigong in this way, he would have to endure the wrath of Nigong. If he hadn't been passive in fighting, why would Ergong have to bear the burden of humiliation and negotiate peace with the thief?If he can't save Er Gong, he will also be guilty of a serious crime. The two sides were talking about peace, but it was all because he was greedy for meritorious deeds and implicated Er Gong in the thief!
But facing the generals calling for battle, and even his father Liu Jin, who was also trapped in Taicheng, went up the tower and called him to attack the rebels.

The armies outside the city were passive and idle, just waiting and watching, and Taicheng, which had been besieged for several months, was on the verge of collapse.The lives and injuries of the scholars and civilians in the city do not count, but the clans still do not care about survival. For example, Xiao Jian, the son of Prince Shaoling, still drinks and gambles, and does not care about the scholars.

But the key reason why Taicheng can still be maintained is that Hou Jing's rebels are also passively idling.On the one hand, the siege of the city lasted for several months, and it had to deal with the reinforcements outside the city, which consumed a lot of manpower.

On the one hand, all the rebel soldiers knew that there was a shortage of supplies in Taicheng, but they accumulated money and silk, so they took advantage of the siege to squeeze the rich and powerful in the city, and exchanged salt, seasoning and other living materials for money and silk in the city.Sometimes a few taels of salt can be exchanged for tens of thousands of dollars, which can be described as amazingly profitable.

Hou Jing also deeply hated his subordinates for being passive in fighting but actively collaborating with the enemy. He directly ordered dozens of collaborating soldiers to be arrested, and their heads were used as a commandment to the army.

However, in this way, many soldiers who didn't know about it at first knew all about it. When the city was attacked the next day, the crowd swarmed up, but the result was only a small siege, waiting for the remnants of the city to bring money and silk to trade.After all, most of the spoils seized after entering the city belonged to the generals, and it was unknown how much was squeezed out during the battle.

In the situation where the two sides competed badly, the Taicheng offensive and defensive battle lasted for another ten days until the middle of March. In the end, the Xiaoliang clan was the better one, and Prince Shaoling's sons and daughters would be defeated because of their unbearable power. The abuse directly led the rebel soldiers into the city, and finally ended the protracted offensive and defensive battle of Taicheng.

The fashion of Qingpao and white horse Shouyang comes in late autumn when it is cold and windy. By the time Taicheng is conquered, it will be the late spring when the spring river is warm and thriving.

After entering Taicheng, Hou Jing immediately ordered his staff to control the key points in Taicheng, especially the emperor and prince.He knew that the two palaces were his real trump card now, and Xiao Zhengde was just a joke, so after seeing the two palaces, he immediately ordered the troops outside the city to disband in the name of Emperor Liang.

Unsurprisingly, all the troops gathered in Liu Zhongli's camp again. Xiao Lun, the king of Shaoling who had a deep feud with Liu Zhongli and had not seen him for many days, was the first to speak: "The bandit army has entered the city, and the second palace has fallen. Waiting for the general."

After Liu Zhongli heard the words, he just looked at King Shao Ling, but he didn't say a word.

Pei Zhigao, who was already dissatisfied with Liu Zhongli, snorted coldly at this moment: "As the leader of the army, the general has millions of soldiers in his hands. The former sits and watches the palace fall. If he is not able to fight decisively and be humiliated now, it will be even worse." What do you say!"

After arriving in Jiankang from the upper reaches, Wang Sengbian, a general of the king's department in eastern Hunan, also said generously after hearing the words: "The second palace is held, and the world is in sorrow. The only thing today is to fight!"

All the generals expressed their opinions, all of them were heartbroken and high-spirited, wishing to kill the rebel soldiers in the city!

Liu Zhongli just listened to everyone's impassioned speeches, and never said a word. Only at the most passionate moment, he unbuttoned his upper body robe to show everyone. The newly healed scars on his shoulders that penetrated into the shoulder blades were shocking. In the direction of Qingtang, I bowed deeply and sprinkled wine.

Seeing this, all the generals turned cold, the veteran Pei Zhigao stood up first, snorted coldly, and walked away immediately.

King Shaoling and other clans also rushed out after seeing this, and after leaving Liu Zhongli's camp, they each led their troops to leave the surrounding area of ​​Jiankang quickly.Now that Hou Jing has entered the second palace, there is no doubt that their clans are the most dangerous, and leaving as soon as possible is the best way to protect themselves.

Seeing this, Wang Sengbian and other generals did not stay here anymore, they stood up and clasped fists to Liu Zhongli, and then they all went back to the camp.

The kings and emperors dispersed separately, and Liu Zhongli and other generals who remained in the vicinity of Jiankang opened their camp gates, accepted Hou Jing's envoys, and submitted a petition to surrender.

Since then, Hou Jing, a rebel general of the Eastern Wei Dynasty who fled south in a hurry with [-] remnants and [-] troops in Shouyang, finally survived the siege of Jiankangtai City for more than four months. Breaking through Taicheng, entering the second palace, and accepting and surrendering all the generals of Nanliang, formally took control of the highest power in Nanliang.

In the fourth year of Zhengguang in the Northern Wei Dynasty, the people of Huaihuang Town killed Yujing and raised troops to cause chaos. Not long after, the people of Woye Town broke the Six Han Baling and raised troops to make chaos.

In the first year of Yongxi in the Northern Wei Dynasty, Gao Huan, a townsman in Huaishuo, defeated Erzhu's overlord's mansion and supported the Yuan Wei clan Yuanxiu as Emperor Xiaowu. Since then, Gao's overlord's mansion has been established.

In the third year of Yongxi in the Northern Wei Dynasty, Emperor Xiaowu Yuanxiu led his people to hunt west after he failed to seize power with Gao Huan. Yu Wentai, a native of Wuchuan Town, welcomed Emperor Xiaowu into Kansai, and established Yuwen's hegemony since then.And the Northern Wei Dynasty split into Eastern Wei and Western Wei.

In the third year of the Taiqing period in Nanliang, Hou Jing, a native of Huaishuo town, led his army southward, broke through Jiankangtai City, and took power in Nanliang.

Since then, the three kingdoms of the world have been controlled by the warriors of Beizhen.

　I didn't really want to write about the Battle of Taicheng head-on, it's too bad.But after all, it is a very important event, and some book friends don't know much about the process.If you just ignore it and don't write it, it will be a bit difficult to connect the plot later.When it comes to Nanliang, it's Calvin, because the operations of the Xiao family's idiots really challenge the imagination.Anyway, it is finished, today is a big chapter of [-] words. . .

　　
　
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