Reborn in the late Northern Wei Dynasty

Everyone has selfishness, and it is impossible to expect a feudal army to complete the tasks assigned by the organization just for the sake of faith, regardless of life and death, like a revolutionary team.

In the Nanliang army, even Xia Houyu, who was eager to be his father and to avenge himself, also clearly opposed Yang Yaren's disregard of the rear and went deep into the enemy's territory, and his reaction was even the most intense.

The reason for this situation is that the [-] elite soldiers under their command are the private soldiers of their Xiahou family. It was their father Xiahou Kui who worked hard for more than ten years, seeking money everywhere to support the army. The foundation of Nanliang Chaotang's foothold.

If he went to the north for the sake of rejuvenating the king's business, then he would admit it, but if it was just to relieve the Western Wei Dynasty, Xia Houzhen would not lose this army no matter what.

Xiao Yan believed that the split between the Yuan and Wei dynasties was in the best interest of Nanliang, but the frontline generals thought otherwise.

As the saying goes: Northerners are good at horses, while southerners are good at boats.

Even if the northern land is unified and the Gao clan comes to attack, there is no need to be afraid in the land densely covered with water.

How capable is Tuoba Tao, drinking horses in the Yangtze River, but he still can't cross the river.

The reason for such differences lies in their different identities.

From Xiao Yan's point of view, as the son of heaven, once the north fell into a stalemate and had no time to look south, the court could save a lot of war expenses, so he naturally tried his best to promote such a stalemate.

After all, Bodhisattva Xiao never thought about the Northern Expedition to win the Central Plains.

As for the generals, the country is peaceful and there is no war on the front line, so it is difficult for them to stand out.

Gao Cheng, who entered the customs to fight, was also worried that this kind of thinking would arise among the generals of the Eastern Wei Dynasty, so he had been advocating to them that after the unification of the two Weis, he won a founding father when he "raised a million troops to the West Lake and immediately went to the first peak of Wushan". Even the prince of the county king.

Seeing the anger of the crowd, Yang Yaren almost didn't want to go deep alone, so he had no choice but to give up this idea.

Just when he was hesitating about how to take the next step, there was news from Nanliang's secret agents in the Eastern Wei Dynasty that Duan Shao led 5000 troops to rescue Xuzhou.

Yang Yaren heard the words, pondered for a long time, and finally made a decision:

"Gaoyue's strong walls and clear fields, if you want to tire us out, if we attack again now, we will fall into the trap. However, we must make a big show of momentum, let the secret workers outside the city think that Xuzhou is in danger, and Duan Shao will definitely give first aid. We can attack halfway, if Duan Shaoruo If it is defeated, the captives parade around the city under its banner, and there are no reinforcements outside. There will be chaos in Pengcheng, and there should be an opportunity to take advantage of it.

"Even if Pengcheng can hold on, seeing Duan Shao's defeat, the army's morale is shaken, and they dare not go out to fight in the field. I can bypass Pengcheng and go north. The Pengcheng defenders will let me come and go freely."

Yang Yaren's strategy of going out to fight for aid has been unanimously supported by the generals, after all, he has no better way.

According to the spies, Duan Shao only has [-] soldiers, and the remaining [-] are state and county soldiers. You know what the state and county soldiers are capable of.

So in the next period of time, the [-] state and county soldiers in Nanliang attacked the city in a very scary manner.

Because of the Nanliang sentry cavalry patrolling everywhere, Xizuo of the Eastern Wei Dynasty didn't dare to get too close, thinking that Pengcheng had been struggling to support him.

But the 5000 private soldiers of the Xiahou family and the [-] elites of Yang Yaren who knew the real elites, a total of [-] people, were always waiting for the news of Duan Shao to come again.

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Gao Yue and his soldiers were most touched by the perfunctory performance of the Nanliang army during the construction, but they were helplessly surrounded by all sides and it was difficult to pass on the news.

It's not that Gao Yue has never thought of going out to fight in the city, but his subordinates are all state and county soldiers, and it's okay to let them guard the city.

But Gao Yue didn't think of a way, he arranged for some cavalry to take risks to break through at night and send news to Duan Shao, hoping that the other party would not fall for Yang Yaren's scheme.

However, they were hunted and killed one by one by the Nanliang sentry cavalry. At this point, we can only believe that Gao Huan did not misunderstand the person.

Gao Yue's worries were obviously overstated. As the future leader of the Northern Qi Dynasty, Duan Shao didn't rely entirely on nepotism.

In fact, when Duan Shao, who was about to enter Xuzhou, received the news that Yang Yaren had stormed Pengcheng, he had already noticed something strange.

As one of Gao Cheng's confidants, Duan Shao often heard his cousin mention that Xiao Yan missed the opportunity of the Yuan Wei civil strife three times, which also solidified his impression of Xiao Yan's lack of progress.

And Xiao Yan's desire to maintain the division of the north is well known.

Duan Shao had a clear judgment on the purpose of Nanliang's sending troops at this time, and he firmly believed that with the infiltration between Liang and Wei over the years, he was not a day and night man, with such a big fanfare, it is impossible for Yang Yaren not to receive news.

Since they knew that they were going south to rescue and still spared no effort to attack the city, could it be that their purpose of going north was just to take the opportunity to seize Xuzhou, and they stopped there.

Otherwise, how dare they continue to attack regardless of casualties when the reinforcements are about to arrive.

It's impossible to plan to capture Pengcheng before he arrives, and then take the exhausted people to hold on to the city.

Duan Shao pondered for a while, and soon guessed Yang Yaren's intention to fight for aid.

This is also the reason why Gao Cheng is unwilling to use tricks against wise men. Of course, if the opponent underestimates the enemy, he might as well give it a try.

After all, people have their moments of slack, such as Gao Huan when he is full of ambition, and Chen Qingzhi facing Gao Cheng who led the army to the battlefield at the age of 13.

Yang Yaren didn't know much about Duan Shao, so he set up a plan to encircle and help. After thinking about it, Duan Shao also came up with a countermeasure.

He coerced peasants from the villages along the way at night and asked them to pretend to be sergeants, mix with weak soldiers in the army, and be led by a lieutenant general.

On the other hand, he led the strong and strong men from the old army and state and county soldiers to hide behind the bait day and night.

Duan Shao is not recruiting these peasants in vain, he promises to these people that he will give some compensation, and with Duan Shao’s stingy character, don’t expect him to pay for it himself, he still has to find Gao Cheng and ask him to recruit them by force. Nearly [-] peasants were subsidized by husbands, such as tax exemption for one year and rent reduction for some acres of land.

The farmers were generally cooperative. After all, Duan Shao also said that if they really encountered an enemy, they could flee on their own.

Duan Shao obviously planned to take advantage of Liang Jun's pursuit of these deserters, to fight out from behind and defeat the opponent in one fell swoop.

He also made second-hand preparations for this. In the Battle of Xiangyang, Gao Cheng's Gyeonggi Army first went to the battlefield. When they saw the supplies left by Chen Qingzhi, they scrambled to snatch them first, and completely lost their organizational system. The brothers fought desperately to buy time for Gao Cheng to gather his soldiers and re-form the formation. They were afraid that King Gao would overturn in the first battle when he was just a fledgling.

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At that time, Shi Shao was also present, not only the state and county soldiers, but even the Xianbei soldiers under his command were coerced into robbing supplies and did not obey orders at all.

Now the Gao family has invested heavily in the soldiers, has emphasized battlefield discipline several times, and established the principle of uniform distribution of spoils after the war, so that the chaos of the past will no longer happen.

But Nanliang is different. For example, the [-] elites of the Xiahou Clan are their own private soldiers.

Today's Nanliang military discipline is not much better than that of the Gyeonggi Army in Xiangyang.

Duan Shao handed over a large amount of supplies to the bait led by the deputy general to escort them. No matter whether Liang Jun was chasing the captives or snatching the supplies, he would definitely mess up his establishment.

On October 540th in the ninth year of Taichang (27), the army of the Eastern Wei Dynasty, who had rested in Yubi for a short period of time, finally broke out and went south. Because Luoshui was frozen, men and horses could easily cross the river.

At this time, Duan Shao also entered the territory of Xuzhou, and under Pengcheng City, Yang Yaren's commander-in-chief flag was still flying in the wind, but he, Xia Houzhen and the elite of 5000 people under his command had already disappeared.

Pengcheng was besieged for a while, and Gao Yue could not get any news from the outside world in the city. He guessed that Yang Yaren might be playing an empty city plan, and his handsome face was just a deception.

But Gao Yue can't gamble, these state and county soldiers under his command can only be used to defend the city, if he guesses wrong and leave the city at this time, the consequences will be disastrous.

At the same time, Lou Zhao, who was sitting in Huatai, responded to Yaoxiong's request for help and led [-] soldiers to Yuzhou.

In order to get the Gao family to return to aid, Nanliang did not just send Yang Yaren along the way.

Yang Yaren chose to use troops in Xuzhou, so Xiao Yan sent Yang Kan and others to attack Yuzhou with [-] troops.

Yang Kan and Yang Yaren have the same surname and are from Taishan County, but they are not brothers. Yang Kan comes from Liangfu County (Xintai, Shandong) in Taishan County, while Yang Yaren comes from Juping County (Taian, Shandong)
But both of them were generals from the Northern Wei Dynasty who went to Xiaoliang in the south, and Yang Yaren led the people back to Liang in the ordinary years of Nanliang (520-527).

In the first year of Wutai (528), Yang Kan, who was granted the title of General Zhengdong, Dongdao Xingtai, Taishou of Mount Tai, and Juping Marquis because of his military achievements, was determined to surrender to Nanliang after witnessing the chaos of the Northern Wei Dynasty. Kan led [-] elite soldiers to besiege his cousin, who was then governor of Yanzhou Yangdun.

After Yuan Ziyou, Emperor Xiaozhuang of the Northern Wei Dynasty learned about it, he sent an envoy to add Yang Kan as Hushi General, Situ, and Taishan County Duke, and promised him that he would be the governor of Yanzhou forever, so that Yang Kan could change his mind.

Yang Kan beheaded the envoy to show his intentions, but Yang Yaren sent by Nanliang to meet him was still on the way, and the army of the Northern Wei Dynasty who came to conquer the rebellion had arrived ahead of schedule.

Er Zhurong's son and daughter-in-law Yu Hui served as the head coach, dispatched more than [-] troops, and ordered Gao Huan and Er Zhuyang, who were still generals under Er Zhu's command at that time, to lead the reinforcements.

Yang Kan was heavily besieged and fought hard for several days. His troops suffered heavy casualties. Even the arrows had been exhausted, but Yang Yaren's reinforcements had not been seen for a long time.

After finally getting out of trouble, there are only more than [-] soldiers and [-] horses left around.

In November, when he was about to cross the river, the soldiers sang sadly day and night because of the difficulty of leaving their homeland, so Yang Kanfang sent the soldiers back to the Northern Wei Dynasty and crossed the river with only their family books to defect to Nanliang.

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In 529, Yang Kan finally arrived in Jiankang after traveling thousands of miles, and was warmly received by Xiao Yan. He was appointed as an envoy, a regular servant of Sanqiu, the governor of Xiaqiu's conquest of various military forces, general of Anbei, and governor of Xuzhou.

Elder brother Yang Mo, younger brothers Yang Chen, Yang Qi, and Yang Yuan were also appointed as governors. There are five governors in one discipline, which shows the grace.

In the 11 years since Yang Kan defected to Nanliang, he participated in the small-scale Northern Expedition several times. At the same time, he participated in the quelling of civil strife and made military achievements. Chance.

Because Yaoxiong defeated Chen Qingzhi repeatedly, Xiao Yan was very afraid of him. Before leaving, he was still tirelessly explaining that Yang Kan must be careful, and there is no need to rush for success, care about the gains and losses of the city, and just disperse the reinforcements from the rear of the Eastern Wei Dynasty. He never thought about making a breakthrough in the front line of Yuzhou.

After all, it is the shadow of a person and the name of a tree.

Yang Kan kept Xiao Yan's warning in mind. His situation in Nanliang was very delicate. The northerners treated him like a southerner, and the southerners treated him like someone else.

Like a person who drinks water, he knows whether he is warm or not, but Yang Kan does not regret going south.

The Gao family in the north, no matter how nice Gao Cheng's words are, it can't change the fact that Gao's current Xianbei attributes are greater than Han attributes. From Yang Kan's point of view, as a Han, he is also a person for those Xianbei in the Six Towns. Outsiders, rather than working for the Xianbei people, it is better to stay in the Jiangnan Han area.

What's more, Xiao Yan's love and kind treatment also made him have no regrets in defecting to this lord.

Yang Kan understands that Xiao Yan's importance is the basis for him to gain a foothold in the south as a dead man from the North, so even if he is not convinced by Yaoxiong's great reputation in his heart, he thinks that including Chen Qingzhi, it is just a fluke to take advantage of the civil strife in the Northern Wei Dynasty. Misnamed.

But he still resisted the urge to compete with Yaoxiong, and faithfully fulfilled Xiao Yan's entrustment.

Yang Kan attacked the city all the way, but he still refused to knock on Xuanhu City, an important town in Yuzhou where Guan Yaoxiong personally sits.

Because of being too cautious, Yaoxiong did not find a suitable fighter to go out of the city to fight with him, so he had to wait patiently for help, planning to join forces with Lou Zhao and keep Yang Kan in Yuzhou.

When Lou Zhao arrived in Yuzhou, Yang Kan changed his strategy. When Lou Zhao advanced, he retreated. When Lou Zhao retreated, he advanced. Jingzhou.

Jingzhou, guarded by Hou Jing, also had a Northern Expeditionary Army, that is, the Jiangling soldiers led by Chen Qingzhi in the past.

Chen Qingzhi has been in charge of this army for more than ten years, and it is precisely because of his high morale that after Chen Qingzhi's death, Jiangling soldiers also wavered and lost their spirits.

Even though this large army was not a big threat, Zhang Liang moved [-] salt soldiers from Luoyang to Luyang, Guangzhou according to the plan, ready to support Hou Jing in times of crisis.

Counting carefully, the real threat is indeed only the East Army led by Yang Yaren. After all, among the three generals on the southern front, Gao Yue is slightly inferior in terms of talent and military strength.

Of course, it also depends on who you are comparing with. Hou Jing and Yaoxiong are not just cats or dogs. Comparing them doesn't mean that Gao Yue's level is low.

It's just that everyone in Nanliang didn't expect that Duan Shao who came to rescue Xuzhou would be the most dazzling existence among the generals on the Henan front.

Yang Yaren searched for a long time, but picked a strongest opponent for himself.

But at this time, he was lying in ambush on Duan Shao's only way to rescue Pengcheng. Looking at the dust rising in the distance, he was secretly excited. He never expected that he might have been tricked by Duan Shao and set up a trap instead. waiting for him.

Reborn in the late Northern Wei Dynasty