Chen Guohuan was preparing to attack Fan Yang, but he didn't expect to be caught off guard by Hou Zhao. It turned out that after Guo Mo fled www.biquge.info the reinforcements sent by Zhao Guo also arrived, and the reinforcements were led by Shi Yu, with nearly 10,000 soldiers.

Guo Jing was extremely cunning, he said to Shi Yu: "The naval army of the Southern Dynasty is very powerful, we might as well hold our troops in Xinye first, and then attack Xiangyang after Tao Kan's Jingzhou troops are withdrawn." ”

More than ten days later, the scouts reported that the Xiangyang Navy Division went south, and Shi Yu was overjoyed, and led 10,000 people to secretly cross the Han River and rush to Xiangyang City.

Huan Xuan found that the northern army was coming again, and on the one hand, he hurriedly closed the city gate and the infant city to defend himself, and on the other hand, he sent an urgent request for help to Yu Liang, the general of Anxi. Shi Yu ordered the northern army to storm three sides, and the battle broke out again under this small Xiangyang city.

As the subordinate of the ancestor, the Huan clan of the state of Qian was in the front line of resistance to the enemy in Huaibei for many years, with rich combat experience, coupled with Huan Xuan's firm will to defend the city, and the northern army fought for life and death for ten days, but the northern army could not break through the city.

Shi Yu couldn't break through the city for ten consecutive days, the grain and grass were exhausted, and he was anxious, so he personally thundered and drummed to help, and the northern army made the final blow to Xiangyang City. At this time, Guo Jing also arrived with a thousand people and joined the charging team.

Huan Wen was commanding the battle on the tower of the West Gate, when a soldier from the North Gate came with news that the North Gate had been breached and was in danger. Huan Wen was shocked when he heard this, and immediately ordered his deputy general Huan Ming to gather five hundred warriors, bring bows and arrows and run to the north gate with Huan Wen. Huan Ming said in surprise: "Our army is responsible for the defense of the West Gate, if you take half of the people and the West Gate is breached, we can't afford to pay the responsibility." ”

Huan Wen said calmly: "The north gate has been punched out, and the enemy must attack this point frantically, in order to break the surface." I suspect that the enemy's troops attacking the West Gate and the East Gate will also be transferred to the North Gate in large numbers, and the pressure on our West Gate will soon be greatly reduced, but it is the defense of the North Gate that determines the life and death of today. ”

Without waiting for Huan Ming to finish speaking, Huan Wen ran towards the north gate with five hundred archers.

After a few days, Huan Xuan's children suffered many casualties, and now they are worried when they see the enemy attacking the city more fiercely. Huan Jing ran to Huan Xuan and said: "In the past few days, no less than ten young and handsome men of our Huan clan have been sacrificed, and our army has made the greatest efforts to implore the general to lead his troops to withdraw from Xiangyang. ”

Huan Xuan was very hesitant and said: "The state of Qian is defeated, and we will retreat to Jiangxia; Xiangyang is defeated again, where do we retreat? If we are defeated, we will be beaten back to our original form if we retreat south. ”

At this moment, the sergeant came to report that the north gate had been breached, and the situation was precarious. Huan Xuan was shocked when he heard this, the north gate was the closest to Hanshui, if the enemy broke through the north gate, he would even lose the possibility of escaping along the water, and if he withdrew on land, he would definitely not be able to escape the clutches of the cavalry of the Northern Dynasty.

All the generals knew that the north gate had fallen, and even the back road would be blocked, so they all hurriedly drove to the north gate with Huan Xuan.

Huan Xuan climbed the north wall, and saw that the Zhao army under the city flowed to the north gate, where the city wall had collapsed, and the Zhao army's attack on the other two gates also gathered here.

As soon as Huan Xuan arrived, the general defending the city came forward to report: "Fortunately, Huan Wen, who defended the west gate, led 500 people to plug the gap, otherwise the city would have been broken now." ”

Huan Xuan said: "I have brought all the reserve troops, but I can order Huan Wen to return to the west gate to defend." So saying, he went up to the tower and threw arrows down to the city himself.

The two armies fought fiercely at the north gate, fighting from morning to dusk, seeing that the city of Xiangyang was in danger. Zhao Jiangshi was ecstatic and personally beat the drum again. At this time, the Malay newspaper reported that hundreds of military ships were sailing on the river. Guo Jing ran to a high place and shook his head to look, but when he saw the words "Mao" hanging on the flagpole of the giant ship led by the auxiliary country, he couldn't help but gasp, urged Ma to see Shi Yu, and said: "Mao Bao personally arrives, he will definitely bring the main force of the enemy's naval division, and we should withdraw from the battlefield quickly." ”

Although Shi Yu had never fought in the south, he looked at the wide Han River, and he was also afraid in his heart, and now that the grain and grass were gone, he was rushed by the enemy's sailors to seal the river, and the consequences were unimaginable. Think about it again: Anyway, this Xiangyang City that he Guo Jing lost has nothing to do with me, so I quickly ordered to collect the troops and take a boat north with Guo Jing first.

The Jin water division went up the river, driving slowly, and when it came to the city of Xiangyang, most of the northern army had withdrawn, and the few northern troops who did not cross the river ran west along the river.

Huan Xuan hurriedly went out of the city and boarded the flagship to meet Mao Bao.

At this time, the most prestigious general of the Eastern Jin Dynasty was Tao Kan, and the second was the auxiliary general Mao Bao. In the pacification of the Su Jun Rebellion, the allies were led by Tao Kan, Wen Qiao as the former commander, and Mao Bao as the vanguard. Mao Bao and Wang Shouqi are both literate and martial, and they are Wen Qiao's right-hand men. Yu Liang was the general of Zhenxi, so he put Mao Bao under the account. The Mao family started from Mao Bao, the fourth generation was an important general of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and Mao Bao was also respected by later generations as the ancestor of the Mao family in Jiangnan.

Huan Xuan came to the boat and led the children of the Huan family to pay a big salute to see Mao Bao. Ashamedly said: "Four years ago, I was surrounded by enemy troops, that is, the general saved the Huan clan from fire and water, I didn't expect to receive the general's rebirth grace today, this great grace I will remember in my heart." ”

Mao Bao hurriedly stepped forward to help Huan Xuan and said: "Don't dare, don't dare, it was the general who ordered me to come to the rescue of the general quickly, my sailor didn't send a knife or an arrow, how dare I be greedy." ”

When Huan Xuan encountered difficulties, he first went to Yu Liang, which made Yu Liang very pleased, and he was very willing to take Huan Xuan for his own use, so he sent his subordinate 'pillar' Mao Bao to rescue Xiangyang in person.

Blocking this round of counterattack in Beiting, the Chen Guohuan clan can be regarded as gaining a firm foothold in Xiangyang. Finally, a stage for independent development was played.

No warlord wants to watch the development of the small warlords under his command, originally in Jiangxia, not on the front line, Huan Xuan is very tightly controlled by Jiangzhou. Although Xiangyang is still under the leadership of Tao Kan, Xiangyang does not belong to Jingzhou. The main thing is that Xiangyang is on the front line of the fight against Beiting, as long as Huan Xuan withstands the military pressure of Beiting, the constraints of the superior of the Qian Guohuan clan will be greatly reduced, and he can develop independently.

In the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the imperial court was very resistant to the displaced people, in their opinion, the Western Jin Dynasty was not destroyed in the rebellion of the Eight Kings, nor was it destroyed in the hands of the Xiongnu Liu Yuan, Liu Cong and his sons, but in the hands of the displaced people Shile and Wang Mi's rebel army. The peasant uprising was magnificent, and the counties and towns they ate and conquered were in shambles, the city walls were destroyed, the warriors were killed, the people fled, and the fields were destroyed, so that more people became homeless. Therefore, the Eastern Jin Dynasty strictly forbade the displaced people to cross the river and left them in the north of the river. Jiangbei is also the front line of confrontation between the north and the south, and the generals often recruit displaced people to enrich their arms. In the past, Zu Ti and Xi Jian in Jiangbei were all made bigger in this way.

When Huan Xuanzhen guarded the country, he was subordinate to Zu Li, and he had a deep experience in recruiting displaced people. He issued an order: those who bring 100 people to join the army can be small governors, and those who lead 500 people to join the army can be generals, and soon in a short period of time, the displaced people from Liangzhou gathered in Xiangyang, and a year later, even in the Fancheng area facing the confrontation in the north, there were also displaced people who secretly crossed the river to vote.

After these exile leaders became generals, the power of life and death was in the hands of the leaders of the scholars, and their promotion and honor were even more in the hands of the leaders of the scholars. Therefore, these people have almost become the generals of the scholar clan, and they only have the scholar clan in their eyes, and there is no court.