The Eastern Route Army, one of the two strange soldiers of the Sui army, under the leadership of He Ruobi, the governor of Wuzhou, crossed the river and captured the important town of Nanxuzhou along the river in one fell swoop, and then launched an attack on Jiankang, the capital of Emperor Chen in the south.

He Ruobi ordered his sergeants to widely distribute the Sui Gaozu Yang Jian's edict to the people of Nanchen along the way, seeking the understanding and support of the people of Nanchen for the Sui Dynasty's military attack on Chen, and at the same time strictly enforcing military discipline, strictly restricting the sergeants not to infringe on the people, and severely punishing several Sui soldiers who blackmailed the people, so they received extensive support and response from the people of Nanchen, and arrived at the Jiangshan line in the eastern suburbs of Jiankang without much trouble along the way.

At the foot of Jiang Mountain, He Ruobi received a report that Nan Chen had mobilized about 100,000 soldiers and horses to gather at the western foot of Jiang Mountain, and set up a formation, preparing to fight with the Sui army.

He Ruobi could not bring more than 8,000 soldiers and horses under his command at this time, and when he heard that the enemy's 100,000 soldiers and horses were coming to engage in battle, he couldn't help but be taken aback in his heart.

A scout who inquired about the enemy accompanied He Ruobi to climb a hillside, pointed to the other side of the mountain, and explained to He Ruobi in detail the garrison of the soldiers and horses facing the battle in Nanchen.

"General, please see: at the foot of the mountain, the southernmost Baitugang area is stationed 20,000 soldiers and horses led by Lu Guangda, the leader of Southern Chen, to the north, 10,000 soldiers and horses led by Zhennan General Pan Yi, 20,000 soldiers and horses led by Zhongwu General Kong Fan, and 50,000 soldiers and horses led by Xiao Mahaqin, the commander of the entire army of Southern Chen, led by the Chinese army of 50,000 soldiers and horses stationed in the northernmost part."

When He Ruobi looked in the direction of the scout's finger, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but smile, and without saying a word, he led the generals under his command down the mountain and returned to the Chinese army's big tent to discuss the strategy of retreating from the enemy.

Unexpectedly, as soon as He Ruobi led the generals under his command to return to the big tent of the Chinese army and sit down, he saw a sergeant come to report with a panicked expression: "General, the Southern Chen Lu Guangda Department has come to attack the camp, and the forward has rushed to my right military camp. ”

Hearing this news, the chief general of the right army of the Sui army, the general of the general Yuanming, hurriedly stood up and asked He Ruobi to give an order: "General, please allow the general to return to the camp immediately and lead the army to meet the battle." ”

He Ruobi heard the report of the soldiers on the mountain that only the Nanchen men and horses led by Lu Guangda in Baitugang alone reached 20,000 people, which was more than twice the number of all the soldiers and horses of the whole army.

Lu Guangda was one of the four famous generals of the Southern Chen Xuan Emperor, and the soldiers and horses led by him were superior in numbers, so he did not wait for the Sui army to set up camp at the foot of the mountain, that is, he personally led 5,000 elite soldiers to charge down from the dense forest on the mountain, and launched a fierce attack on the right side of the Sui army, intending to catch He Ruobi by surprise and give the Sui army crossing the river a dismount, and at the same time, he also wanted to clear the suspicion of his son Lu Shizhen's surrender to the Sui army in the south Chen Chen after Chen Shubao.

By the time He Ruobi and Yuan Ming heard the news, they urgently summoned three soldiers and horses from the Chinese army's big tent to rush to meet the right army to meet the enemy, but it was already a little too late.

The right battalion of the Sui army has been broken through by Lu Guangda himself, and thousands of southern Chen sergeants were awarded the edict of commendation by Chen Shubao before the war: those who kill a Sui army sergeant, reward a silk horse, and promote the encouragement of the first level, everyone is brave, all of them compete for the first, like a group of hungry wolves, they wave their swords and rush into the Sui army camp, and they will cut down when they meet people, and they will kill them when they raise their swords, and more than 200 Sui soldiers will fall under their swords in less than a quarter of an hour.

However, after the first round of charges, no matter how Lu Guangda shouted and commanded, the soldiers under his command were only busy burying their heads and snatching the heads of the Sui soldiers from each other, so that they could go back to ask for merit and reward, and most of them refused to continue to attack the Sui army camp.

At this time, it happened that He Ruobi and Yuan Ming led reinforcements to arrive, and the two armies engaged, and a fierce battle started at the foot of the mountain on the west side of Jiangshan.

After nearly two hours of bloody fighting, the Sui army finally repelled the attack of the Nanchen army and drove the 5,000 Nanchen elite soldiers led by Lu Guangda back to the eastern side of Jiangshan Mountain.

He Ruobi immediately ordered to check the casualties of the Sui army after the battle, and as a result, a total of 273 Sui troops died on the battlefield after this battle, which was also the heaviest casualty battle for the Sui army since crossing the river yesterday.

In order to prevent the enemy from taking advantage of its superior forces and making a comeback, He Ruobi immediately summoned all the generals and urgently agreed to use the enemy army to set up a long snake formation on the east side of Jiangshan Mountain, and it was difficult for all people and horses to take care of the flaws.

At dusk that day, 8,000 soldiers of the Sui army, under the cover of night, unexpectedly launched an attack on the Nanchen army at the foot of the mountain on the eastern side of Jiangshan.

Kong Fan never dreamed that the place where his army was stationed was closest to Xiao Maha's army, but he was the first to be attacked by the enemy's fierce attack, and he didn't have time to lead the army to get closer to Xiao Maha all the way in a hurry, but instead led his troops and horses to the south and went to Lu Guangda's headquarters.

As the commander of the whole army of Nan Chen, Xiao Maha was drinking alone in the tent because he found that his wife Gu Zi'er and the emperor had an adulterous affair, and he was drinking alone in the tent. Poor generation of famous generals became prisoners of the Sui army in such a daze.

The main general was captured, and the soldiers and horses of Nanchen lost their unified command and dispatch, and the soldiers and horses of Kong Fan, who was the first to be broken through by the Sui army, fled like headless flies, which caused chaos in the camps of Nanchen, so He Ruobi led 8,000 Sui troops, and it took only one night to defeat 100,000 soldiers and horses of Nanchen, and the soldiers were directly guided to Emperor Chen's capital Jiankang.

At the same time, Yang Guang, the commander of the Eastern Route Army of the Sui Dynasty, also led an army of 50,000 to cross the river from Taoye, and then ordered Du Yan, the commander of the march, to lead an army of 20,000 to Xinlin to meet Han Baohu and attack Jiankang from the southwest.

Since the Yongjia Rebellion more than 200 years ago, Jiankang, the imperial capital of the Southern Dynasty, which had never been captured by the soldiers and horses of the Northern Dynasty, was in a precarious situation at this time, and was facing the fate of being attacked by the two armies of the Sui Dynasty at any time.

Chen Shubao, the queen of Nanchen who was trapped in Taicheng, was in the critical juncture of the city's destruction and the destruction of the country, but instead aroused a trace of blood in his heart, not only refused to listen to the advice of Jiang Zong, Shi Wenqing and his close ministers to ask him to give up Jiankang and leave Beijing to save his life, but also issued an edict, urgently ordering the monks, nuns, and Taoist priests in the Buddhist temples and Taoist temples in Gyeonggi to be conscripted into service, and urgently recruited tens of thousands of rabble, in a vain attempt to defend the city to the death, and start a desperate contest with the Sui army.