The Sui army was well prepared for this battle, they advanced by land and water, Chen Ling personally led an army of 20,000 to attack Anyang, Anyang County is the northern gateway of Xiangyang, named Fancheng in the Three Kingdoms period, and Xiangyang City is only separated by a Han River. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The defenders of Fancheng were not numerous, and Xiao Mo did not intend to hold on to Fancheng, and compared to Xiangyang, Fancheng, despite its important location, was far less defensively defended than Xiangyang.

It only took one day for the Sui army to take Fancheng, and at the head of Xiangyang City, after seeing the Sui army's terrifying siege ability and a wide variety of siege equipment, the soldiers of the Liang army were a little panicked!

At this time, the Han River, is the Han River in later generations, the Han River in the later generations after artificial diversion, so in the Wuhan section of the Yangtze River estuary does not appear to be very wide, only about two hundred meters, the dry period is not even a hundred meters, many people think that the Han River is not worthy of the name, in fact, the widest place of the Han River is in the Xiangyang section, the width of the river is more than 1,500 meters even in the dry season, and at this time after occupying Anyang County, the Sui army will rely on this, from the warship displayed in the north of Xiangyang, Using the trebuchet on the battlefield to continuously shoot fireballs into the city, the Sui army's trebuchet technology is very mature, and it has undergone some changes on the basis of the Han Dynasty trebuchet, especially the extension of the power arm, which greatly improves its range and carrying capacity.

But there are also trebuchets in Xiangyang City, so the two sides come and go, and the fight is very lively.

On land, the Sui army's offensive encountered very great difficulties, because their attack surface was only one, so the defenders almost did their best, all stationed on the west city wall, making it difficult for the Sui army to break through several times on the city, although the Liang army was not as good as the Sui army, but their numbers were more, plus it was defense, so the disadvantage was also compensated.

The Sui army attacked for three days in a row, paying a total of more than 8,000 people, but still failed to take the outer city of Xiangyang City, the ladders and tower carts they brought were almost all destroyed at this time, the morale of the Sui army was low, and the Western Liang army from Jiangling City down the river had approached Jiangxia, which greatly increased their logistical pressure, and in desperation, Chen Ling could only give up Anyang and lead his troops back to help relieve the siege of Jiangxia.

Although the Liang army repelled the Sui army, they paid more casualties than the attacking Sui army, with more than 10,000 killed and wounded, and the city of Xiangyang was also severely damaged.

Therefore, Xiao Mo did not dare to imagine that if the Sui army increased its troops to the west, then he would be able to hold Xiangyang and Jianghan at that time, so he expressed his approval of Du Fuwei's proposal at the first time, and planned to send troops to enter Jianghuai by land and participate in the formation of a coalition army.

At this time, there were six large forces in the world, one was Li Tang who occupied Chang'an in the west, the other was the Great Sui who had suffered a great loss in strength, and Dou Jiande who occupied most of Hebei, and then Li Mi who occupied Henan and Shandong, Du Fuwei who was entrenched in the Jianghuai area to the south, and Xiao Milling who occupied Bashu and half of Jianghan to the west.

Among them, Emperor Yang of Sui led his army to flee to Yangzhou, which was the most beneficial to the two forces of Li Tang and Li Mi, good and bad for Dou Jiande, and more harmful than good for Du Fuwei and Xiao Mi.

As soon as the Sui army left, the defense of Luoyang City will inevitably be empty, looking at this action of Emperor Yang of Sui, he brought many daily necessities with the general ministers of the court and even himself, which is clearly a plan to move the capital, so whether it is Li Tang or Li Mi, they are all salivating over Luoyang City, just waiting for the Sui army to leave the city, they are ready to raise troops to attack Luoyang.

Since it was a military operation, they naturally didn't want to divide their troops to form any coalition army, if the coalition army really drove the Sui army back to Luoyang, wouldn't it cause additional difficulties for them to fight for Luoyang?

Therefore, Li Mi reacted coldly to this, and symbolically sent a force of 5,000 people to go, and Li Tang was an aristocratic force, not a peasant uprising, so they were not interested in participating in such an alliance, and it was better to find a way to fight for the Hexi Corridor if they had such time!

As for Dou Jiande, he was fighting to the death with Luo Yi in Youzhou at this time, and he had no time to take care of other things, and Emperor Yang of Sui toured the east, the advantage for him was that as soon as the imperial army left, he would no longer send troops to attack his Hebei, and the disadvantage was that he set up a strong enemy, that is, Luo Yi.

At this time, Luo Yi was also in charge of Youzhou and Yingzhou, and his soldiers were full of food and strength.

Hebei is the hardest hit area of this natural disaster, so there are a lot of refugees who need to be resettled, and Hebei does not have a huge granary like Xingluocang captured by Li Mi, but because of the previous Eastern Crusade, the Sui army requisitioned a lot of grain from all over the country to Youzhou, these grains are mainly concentrated in Zhuo County, and at this time these places are in the hands of Luo Yi, there are no less than 100 large and small warehouses, which not only have grain, but also countless other materials, including weapons, armor, temperament and military uniforms and other materials, There are even a variety of siege and defense equipment.

After Luo Yi occupied Youzhou, he immediately opened a warehouse to release grain and buy the hearts of the people, this trick really worked, the people of Youzhou and Yingzhou can be said to praise him and love him, which made Luo Yi's power increase rapidly, and there were more and more troops, Dou Jiande has been thinking about these materials in Zhuo County, seeing Luo Yi's development and growth, don't be very worried, worried that the longer the time drags on, the more difficult it will be for Luo Yi to deal with, so he hurriedly attacked Luo Yi's Sui army, trying to force him to withdraw from Youzhou and flee to the Central Plains, After all, after Yuwenshu and Qu Tutong both withdrew from Hedong, Luo Yi actually became a lone army in Youzhou, and at this time, Laihu'er was also transferred to Tongji Canal by Emperor Yang to reorganize the naval army and escort himself, so even the only escape route by sea was gone.

But at this time, if Emperor Yang of Sui withdrew, then Luo Yi's retreat would be completely cut off, which would further strengthen his idea of stationing in Zhuojun and make Dou Jiande's plan come to naught.

After weighing the pros and cons, Dou Jiande did not send a single soldier, but wanted to launch all his strength to defeat Luo Yi, the last remnant of the Sui army, and thus occupy the entire Hebei.

Although Du Fuwei's initiative did not get the support of many people, but it still surprised Emperor Yang, thinking that the chaotic army might intercept him halfway, he then dispatched Pei Renji and his Pei Yuanqing to lead the troops to escort, the reason why he chose Pei Yuanqing is because in the previous Langya list, he ranked third among the heroes in the world, and it is said that the martial arts are still above Yuwen Chengdu, so with him Yang Guang will feel more secure!