Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 552
another year later
Summer of the seventh year of Yan State 340 (557)
Stone city
Chen Baxian and Wang Sengbian's troops joined forces here and agreed to march eastward together to eradicate Hou Jing.

Both of them are now Xiao Yi's generals, they have eradicated many competitors for Xiao Yi, wiped out all kinds of rebels, and now the army is heading east, heading straight for Jiankang.

For more than a year, while the Xiaoliang clan was fighting among themselves, Hou Jing adopted various methods to destroy the Liang clan forces in the Xuzhou area, annihilated the Liang army that had attacked near Jiankang, and counterattacked westward. He reached Xiakou, but was defeated by the coalition forces of Chen Baxian, Mrs. Xian, and Wang Sengbian in Xiakou, so he retreated to Jiankang, killed the puppet emperor Xiao Gang, proclaimed himself emperor, and the country was named "Han".

Hou Jing is too familiar with this plot. When he was in Yan State last time, he took advantage of the infighting between the various forces in Yan State to occupy Liaodong. But when the internal fighting in Yan State ended, he was immediately strengthened by Yan State The counterattack force defeated.

"The law of war says, don't chase after the poor, our army should rest for a while, and recover Jiankang after a while." Wang Seng argued for stability, thinking that the army was exhausted from repeated battles and needed to rest.

"The art of war is the art of war, and practice is practice! Now that Hou Jing is defeated and the rebels are distracted, they attack just when they are panicked, and they can be killed in one blow. If Hou Jing is given a chance to breathe, it will be very difficult to regain Jiankang. It’s much higher now.” Compared with the words in the military manual, Chen Baxian believes more in the combat experience he has sorted out in practice, that is, it is better to use the remaining bravery to chase the poor, and don’t want to learn from the overlord.

The art of war says that poor bandits should not chase after me, but I, Chen Baxian, will chase after poor bandits!
In fact, whether the poor bandits want to chase them depends on the actual situation, the commander's combat style, and even the current international situation.

If you want to be safe, you should naturally not pursue them. What if you are caught in an ambush that lures the enemy into a deep ambush when you are chasing the poor bandits, and you are counter-killed?
If speed and efficiency are sought, it is natural to pursue, lest the poor have a respite and then regroup.

If there is no interference from other national forces, it is naturally better to seek stability, to fight steadily, and not to chase after the poor.

But if there are many foreign forces intervening, the poor will still have to chase, otherwise, once foreign forces intervene, it will be very troublesome later.

As far as the current situation is concerned, it is natural that the poor want to chase, because Yu Wentai, Gao Yang, and Yan Xu all want to intervene in the civil strife in the Southern Dynasty. There are too many foreign forces interfering in Liang's internal affairs, so the civil war must be resolved quickly. Procrastinating, procrastinating and procrastinating, things will become more and more troublesome.

If you only read military books, fight in complete accordance with the law of war, never look at the actual situation, and do not know how to analyze specific issues, the final result is likely to be repeated battles and repeated defeats.

Because the book of war is dead, people are alive, and the enemy is not man-machine, so they will not act honestly according to the description in the book of war.

In the end, Wang Sengbian agreed to continue eastward and did not let the soldiers rest in Shicheng.

another month later

The army of Chen Baxian, Wang Sengbian, and Sengbian arrived in Stone City. They divided their forces. Part of the main force attracted Hou Jing's main force, and the other part of the elite detour force without night blindness sneaked across the Qinhuai River in the dark and attacked Hou Jing's rear, causing Hou Jing to attack. Jing's army was flanked by front and back, and Hou Jing's army, which was already low in morale, collapsed soon.

After the defeat, Hou Jing fled Jiankang City with a lot of valuable gold and silver and more than 100 elite cavalry guards, and fled to the south.

Chen Baxian was recruiting Hou Jing's rebels outside the city, incorporating them into his own team to expand his strength, while Wang Sengbian entered Jiankang City first with his own trilogy.

Previously, due to Wang Sengbian's forced march, he did not give the soldiers a rest in Shicheng, which had aroused dissatisfaction among the soldiers, so in order to prevent mutiny, in order to increase the loyalty of the soldiers.

After entering Jiankang City, Wang Sengbian ordered: "Jiankang City does not seal swords for three days, robs casually, rapes casually, and slaughters casually. This is the reward for the soldiers who have worked so hard for so many days!"

"Long live!"

"Long live!"

"Long live!"

Wang Sengbian's soldiers were very happy and rushed into various houses to rob.

On the first day, they were merciful and only robbed property and raped women.

The next day, the robbery could no longer satisfy them, so they began to kill for fun, killing the woman who had raped her to pieces.

On the third day, they regarded murder as a game, burned houses wantonly in the city, and took the fear of the people in Jiankang City as their source of happiness.

Chen Baxian's soldiers were also very jealous. They saw friendly troops burning, killing and looting in the city, but they were not allowed to do so, so they complained and dissatisfied with Chen Baxian.

"They are comfortable in the city, but we are still living in tents outside the city, alas..."

"They are all fighting for the Daliang court. Why are Marshal Wang's soldiers so happy, but our Marshal Chen's soldiers are so miserable haha?"

"Marshal Wang is the one who truly loves soldiers like a son. On the other hand, Marshal Chen, alas... can't be described in words!"

As the soldiers complained one after another, Chen Baxian had no choice but to spend money to buy many military prostitutes from Wang Sengbian, and used these military prostitutes to vent his dissatisfaction with his soldiers, so as to prevent them from mutiny.

Most of the military prostitutes Wang Sengbian had were women from ordinary families in the city, who were forcibly captured by Wang Sengbian and taken to the military camp as military prostitutes.

There are even more than 100 military prostitutes who are pregnant and breastfeeding young women, and they have to be forced to serve these officers and soldiers loyal to the Daliang court.

When Wang Sengbian and Chen Baxian recovered Jiankang City and planned to continue to sweep the entire Jiangzuo, Hou Jing was defeated by the local Liang Guo defenders on the way.

The Liang Guo defenders here are very good at adapting to the wind. When Hou Jing rebelled, they surrendered to Hou Jing at the speed of light and took the lead for Hou Jing. Now they heard that Hou Jing was defeated. .

Whoever wins, who will they help!
Hou Jing was ambushed by "friendly troops" and was defeated miserably. He fled toward the seaside in embarrassment with three followers.

When they got to the seaside, they ran into the fleet of Yan State who was transshipping the population, and were arrested by Yan State soldiers on the spot.

"I'm just a businessman who came here to do business. I don't have any other intentions." Hou Jing wiped a handful of mud on his face, trying to conceal his identity.

However, an officer of Yan State recognized him and exclaimed, "It's Hou Jing!"

Afterwards, Hou Jing was forcibly washed clean, and escorted by soldiers of Yan State to Yan Xu.

"General Hou, long time no see!"

On the surface, Yan Xu was indifferent, but actually he was very happy. After all, he captured Hou Jing, the traitor who harmed the country of Yan.

Although he is the eldest son of Yan Junji, he is not sure to become the next generation of Yan Jun.

In the last reform of the parliamentary system, it was clearly stipulated that each generation of Yanjun not only needs to be appointed by the previous generation of Yanjun, but also needs to be approved by at least half of the nobles in the noble council. Otherwise, the previous generation of Yanjun can only re-designate an heir.

Now Yan Ji is still healthy, so he has no idea of ​​appointing Yan Jun's successor for the time being. When the appointment is made in the future, Yan Xu's capture of Hou Jing alive will become an important bonus item.

"You are?" Hou Jing didn't know Yan Xu, after all, Yan Xu was only a ten-year-old kid when Hou Jing served Yan Guo.

"It's normal that you don't know me. We met at that time, in Yandu, but I was only ten years old at that time." Yan Xu lifted Hou Jing's chin with his sword, and carefully looked at the scourge of Yan, Qi, and Liang. In this country, two thousand elite cavalry men from Yuwentai were killed.

This Hou Jing is indeed legendary. He rebelled against Wei State in Wei State, rebelled against Yan State in Yan State, rebelled against Qi State in Qi State, and rebelled against Liang State in Liang State. Offending the entire map with his own power, only Hou Jing can do it.

"I am willing to serve the Yan Kingdom and make up for my mistakes. Please give me Hou Jing a chance." Hou Jing begged humbly.

"Even if I am willing to give you this opportunity, the nobles of the Yan Kingdom will not give you this opportunity. Go to the underworld and ask the ancestor (Yan Lian) for your sins!" Yan Xu said slowly, not bothering to listen to Hou Jing With the sound of cursing, someone stuffed a stinky rag into Hou Jing's mouth, and planned to send Hou Jing back to Xin Yandu to behead him.

(End of this chapter)