Hou Jing, mentioned earlier, is now going to fill the pit.

Hou Jing, whose surname is Hou Gu, is a native of Shuozhou (now Shuozhou City, Shanxi), and a member of the Xianbei ethnic group.

In the last years of the Northern Wei Dynasty, the Six Towns Uprising broke out, and the Hu tribes of the border towns rebelled against the rule of the Northern Wei Dynasty. At first, he took refuge in Er Zhurong, followed the uprising of Ping Gerong, and worshiped the history of Dingzhou. Later, he returned to Gao Huan, the powerful minister of the Eastern Wei Dynasty, worshiped the secretary of the ministry, and moved to Henan Yin. In the first year of the Taiqing Dynasty (547), he led his troops to surrender to the Liang Dynasty, worshiped the history of Yuzhou Thorn, and garrisoned Shouyang.

Such a person, it doesn't seem to be a big deal, how can he become arrogant after running to the south? It can't be a person who is also a southern orange and a northern orange.

Of course, people can't fight in the south and in the north, Hou Jing is a fierce general, good at riding and shooting, and has a strategy, Er Zhurong and Ge Rong started a big battle in Fukou, and Hou Jing captured Ge Rong.

After defecting to Gao Huan, he was reused by Gao Huan, and was named Situ, and the history of Dingzhou Assassin, with 100,000 soldiers, and ruled the Henan region.

Although Gao Huan gave Hou Jing a high-ranking official, he knew that Hou Jing was a person, just because Yu Wentai was there, and Hou Jing was indeed a talent, so Gao Huan did not limit Hou Jing's power.

When Gao Huan died and Gao Cheng succeeded to the throne, Hou Jing thought that the people who pressed him were gone, and he rebelled against Yuzhou.

Gao Cheng sent Murong Shaozong to clean up Hou Jing, and he instigated Hou Jing at once.

Hou Jing saw that he couldn't stay any longer, he didn't have a place to stay here, and he took his generals and defected to Xiao Yan.

In the last years of the Northern Wei Dynasty, when disputes broke out, whether it was a general or a royal clan, there were many people who defected to Xiao Yan, such as the aforementioned Yuan Hao and Yang Kan, Xiao Yan did not refuse to come, no matter what kind of cow ghost and snake god he was, as long as you came, I would accept it.

These defectors, Xiao Yan also used them to come to the Northern Expedition, such as the Yuan Hao mentioned earlier, although Xiao Yan only gave Chen Qingzhi 7,000 people, but Chen Qingzhi took advantage of the emptiness of Luoyang's defense to help Yuan Hao capture Luoyang.

Therefore, Hou Jing led his generals to defect to Xiao Yan, how could Xiao Yan be unreasonable? I'm afraid that such a strong general is here, clapping his hands and laughing.

Just before this, Xiao Yan dreamed that the Central Plains was pacified, and now Hou Jing's surrender table was sent to Jiankang, Xiao Yan was overjoyed, and after the death of Chen Qingzhi, the Liang Dynasty has been lacking good generals, so he accepted Hou Jing's defection despite some opposition from the court.

Although he was attached to the Southern Liang, Hou Jing still had contact with the Western Wei Dynasty, and part of the Yuzhou under his rule was given to the Southern Liang as his own name, and the other part was given to the Western Wei, which was regarded as leaving a way back for himself.

Southern Liang sent soldiers and horses to meet Hou Jing, and similarly, Western Wei also sent men and horses to occupy the land offered by Hou Jing.

It's just that they have also worked together under Er Zhurong, and Yuwentai also knows Hou Jing a little bit, and is very wary of Hou Jing, so this "back road" is not a back road, and he will never defect to the Western Wei Dynasty unless it is absolutely necessary.

However, this back road, before it was used, was broken.

Yuwentai sent Jingzhou to assassinate Wang Sizheng and led his troops to receive the land offered by Hou Jing, and then sent Li Bi and Zhao Gui to aid Wang Sizheng.

Because the Eastern Wei Dynasty received Hou Jing's rebellion and wanted to pacify the war, he sent Wei Fabao and Helan Yuande to help Hou Jing, but Yuwentai did not trust Hou Jing and wanted to summon Hou Jing to Chang'an and cut his military power, but Hou Jing refused.

Such an ambitious person, if he didn't pull out his teeth, Yuwentai didn't worry about staying by his side, so Yuwentai severed his relationship with Hou Jing and recalled all the troops that supported Hou Jing, but still let Wang Sizheng guard the newly acquired land of Yingchuan, and if he had already eaten it in his stomach, he didn't want Yuwentai to vomit it again.

At this point, Hou Jing no longer contacted the Western Wei Dynasty and completely took refuge in the Southern Liang.

Hou Jingzhi is in Yuzhou, why is it Yuzhou, in addition to Gao Huan when he is here, this is Hou Jing's jurisdiction, the bear believes that this is a triangle, sandwiched between the Western Wei Dynasty, the Northern Qi Dynasty, and the Southern Liang, if you can gain a firm foothold here, then it is the three parties that are attracted by the three parties, and it cannot be destroyed by one party alone, even if the two parties are united, Hou Jing can also cooperate with a third party to fight them, in short, back to Yuzhou, Hou Jing can be his own little emperor with peace of mind, just like the Tiefu Department during the Five Hu and Sixteen Kingdoms period, It is also an object that many parties want to woo.

After Hou Jing arrived, Xiao Yan immediately organized the Northern Expedition with Hou Jing as the leader, but, unfortunately, Xiao Yan chose Xiao Yuanming as the main general.

As I have said many times before, the royal clan of the Xiao family is not good at fighting on the march, and Xiao Yuanming is the same, he lacks strategy, has no binding force on his generals, and is still stubborn and self-serving.

The generals wanted to talk to him about the next battle, but he said impatiently:

"Is it still necessary to discuss such a great person? I know how to deal with the opportunity, don't look for me to beep all day long, annoying! ”

The discipline of the Liang army was corrupt, and they rushed to rob the people wherever they went along the way, Xiao Yuanming was powerless to stop this, so he could only do it directly under Xiao Yuanming's forbidden army, and did not participate in the ranks of robbing the people.

I can't understand Xiao Yan's employment again, is it really like the comments of later generations, I don't know how to use people? I don't think this is "I don't understand" anymore, it's completely indiscriminate use of people; Or is it really to suppress military generals? But you can't ignore the battle situation, alas, I can't figure it out, and the more I think about it, the more confused I become.

Yang Kan, who defected to Xiao Yan from the Wei State, was also arranged in the Northern Expeditionary Army this time, and let Yang Kan be the supervisor of Hanshan Weir, which was under Xiao Yuanming.

Yang Kan proposed to Xiao Yuanming to attack Pengcheng with water, but Xiao Yuanming did not accept, and later, the Northern Qi reinforcements arrived, and Yang Kan said to Xiao Yuanming, saying that they came from afar, and should take advantage of their fatigue to attack, after dawn the next day, Yang Kan was still persuading Xiao Yuanming, but Xiao Yuanming still did not accept.

Seeing this, Yang Kan had to take his own soldiers and stay on the weir honestly.

Murong Shaozong arrived with reinforcements from the Northern Qi Dynasty and surrounded Xiao Yuanming, Xiao Yuanming ordered the generals to save him, but no one listened to the order, only Hu Guisun said to Zhao Bochao:

"Why shouldn't you fight?"

Although Zhao Bochao was speechless to Hu Guisun's questioning, Zhao Bochao still insisted on not going out to fight, Xiao Yuanming is like this, obviously has no prestige, and he can't command all the armies, how can such an army fight against Murong Shaozong's 100,000 army, isn't it a grasshopper shaking a tree?

Hu Guisun went out by himself and fell into a bitter battle, while Zhao Bochao rode a good horse, took his beloved concubine, and smeared the soles of his feet with oil! His son Zhao Wei couldn't get used to it, and was ready to join the war, but was called back by Zhao Bochao and flashed together.

It was already a hard battle with Murong Shaozong, but Xiao Yuanming was drunk, let alone commanding the army, and even walking became a problem, and he was captured by Murong Shaozong together with Hu Guisun and others.

Another one was captured because of wine, Liu Yao, the last emperor of the former Zhao during the Five Hu and Sixteen Kingdoms period, was drunk and was killed by Shi Le, the founder of the Later Zhao, when he was fleeing for his life, and the former Zhao perished, although Xiao Yuanming was not the emperor, although he was captured and did not destroy the country, but, because of him, Murong Shaozong entered the siege of Tongzhou (now Si County, Anhui).

After Xiao Yuanming was captured, Northern Qi remembered that he did not invade and called him "King of Righteousness", this title, I don't know if Xiao Yuanming felt ironic, but because of his inaction, he picked up a life, which is really a fate.

When the Liang army saw death and did not save it, not only to Xiao Yuanming, when Taicheng was surrounded by the Northern Qi army, although the reinforcements of the Liang army had been assembled from all sides, no one wanted to save them, they were all busy disturbing the people, scrambling and plundering, this Liang army really came to fight? Are you sure you didn't come to be a bandit under the banner of a "regular army"?

Dog Bear believes that this situation of the Liang army is because Xiao Yan uses people improperly, and chooses mediocre talents who can't fight to command the battle, either fleeing from the battle, or getting drunk and stubborn, how can such a general serve the public? The soldiers are also human beings, and they also have their own judgments, of course, they will follow the generals they recognize, so it caused the situation of the Liang army to be scattered, and also laid the groundwork for the chaos that followed.

Here, I would like to introduce a person closely related to Hou Jing - Wang Wei.

Wang Wei, Chen Liuren, is Hou Jing's main assistant, initially, Wang Wei was the Northern Wei Dynasty's Xingtailang, after Hou Jing rebelled against Liang, he attached to Hou Jing, since then, Hou Jing every step, can see Wang Wei's traces of advice.

Wang Wei is indeed a powerful strategist and an ambitious person, he took a fancy to Hou Jing, and tried his best to assist Hou Jing and push Hou Jing to the supreme position, but unfortunately, history did not give Hou Jing a chance to sit on the throne, and Wang Wei was punished for this.

Ahem, it's far away, brothers, don't go, let's eat barbecue, drink wine, and continue to chat.

Wang Wei proposed to Hou Jing:

"We have to choose one person among the children of the Zhuyuan clan, establish him as the lord of Wei, and then assist in the Northern Expedition."

So I found Yuanzhen.

Yuanzhen's grandfather is the son of Emperor Xianwen Tuoba Hong, the younger brother of Emperor Xiaowen Yuanhong, Xianyang Wang Yuanxi, Yuanzhen's father Yuanshu, when Er Zhurong launched the "Heyin Change", defected to Nanliang Xiaoyan, Yuanzhen's identity is also very weighty.

Hou Jing recruited Yuan Zhen and sent him back to the north with the gift of the Son of Heaven.

As a result, Murong Shaozong came again.

This Murong Shaozong is Hou Jing's nemesis, why is this so?

Hou Jing and Murong Shaozong can be regarded as colleagues back then, Hou Jing often asks Murong Shaozong for advice on the art of war, it can be said that Hou Jing's arrangement of troops is from Murong Shao's religion, therefore, Murong Shaozong knows Hou Jing's troop transportation well, Hou Jing was defeated by Murong Shaozong, and when he saw Murong Shaozong, Hou Jing changed from a tiger to a cat.

As soon as Yuanzhen was established, before he could make any move, he was blocked by Murong Shaozong, and Hou Jing retreated to Wuyang (a county under the jurisdiction of Bozhou City, Anhui Province, located in the north of Anhui Province), and the two armies confronted each other in the north of Wuyang.

After a long time, Hou Jingjun's food was insufficient, and Hou Jing wanted to continue to retreat, but his soldiers all followed him from the north, so they were unwilling to cross south.

Hou Jing is a person who controls the army strictly, and the treasures obtained from the looting are all distributed to the soldiers, so the soldiers can be used by him, but Hou Jing's temperament is cruel and cruel.