Song Zixian's men and horses all retreated to Hengyang City, he didn't need to go out of the city for a decisive battle, the grain and grass in the city were scavenged by him from Yueyang, Changsha and nearby counties, enough for his more than 10,000 people to spend half a year in the city. He didn't believe that Xiao Duo would dare to spend a year and a half with him. The army is empty at home and abroad, and if Gao Huan or Western Wei take the opportunity to sneak attack at this time, Xiao Duo's own head will not be guaranteed.

But Xiao Yu and Zhang Huaren outside the city didn't think so, Chen Ba first gave them a military order, and within half a month, they must break through Hengyang City, otherwise military law will be engaged. This is completely a personal vendetta in the communiqué, and it is estimated that it will be difficult for even Chen Baxian to do it in half a month. But Xiao Yu was difficult to ride a tiger, so he had to come to attack the city.

Their several attempts were easily resolved by Song Zixian, and Song Zixian also scolded Zhang Huaren for his treachery on the city tower. Zhang Huaren was furious when he heard this, and scolded Song Zixian for betraying the lord and killing the king, so Song Zixian hit back and he also participated in the murder of Hou Jing.

It seems that the frontal hard attack will not work, and it is necessary to find a way from other places, Xiao Yu found that this Hunan water flows through the east side of Hengyang City, where the water potential is relatively turbulent, and the moat outside the city is also relatively wide, so he discussed with Zhang Huaren whether he could flood Hengyang with water to break it. Zhang Huaren also had no combat skills, and felt that this trick was feasible, so the two of them were afraid of gathering, and immediately mobilized manpower to start building a dam and cofferdam outside the city, intending to bring in Xiangshui to encircle the city.

Song Zixian looked carefully at the city tower, and didn't care about them, and after a few days, seeing that the dam was about to be built, he sent thousands of people to take advantage of the night to come out and destroy the embankment, Xiao Yu and Zhang Huaren's efforts for several days were all in vain, so angry that Zhang Huaren jumped to his feet and scolded the street, it seems that the water attack has been seen through, and only another way is being figured out. At this time, Chen Baxian's army had already moved from Changsha to the town.

Xiao Duo wrote many times to urge their progress, but Chen Ba couldn't wait any longer, so he had to come to support with his own army. Someone came up with a trick with him, so he asked Ren Yue and Zhang Huaren to stand on the earthen dam and shouted to the defenders in the city: "Song Zixian is treacherous, betrays the lord and kills the king, you will definitely die if you follow him." As long as you go out of the city and surrender, you will be given preferential treatment, those who want officials will be given money, those who do not want to be soldiers can go home, and the Liang army will give preferential treatment to prisoners. If you surrender after the city is broken, you will not be spared. “

This trick really worked, originally Song Zixian's people were a group of rabble, following him was nothing more than afraid of him, nothing more than wanting to eat, no one wanted to die, everyone was afraid of death, now look at Ren Yue and Zhang Huaren who have surrendered to the past, as well as more than 10,000 people under Zhang Huaren, all of them are safe and sound, and they are good to eat and drink, those wall grasses are naturally moved, and there are as many as 3,000 deserters who escaped from the city that night.

Song Zixian didn't expect Chen Ba to play psychological warfare with him first, seeing that the defenders in the city were running more and more, and the rest of the people were also making their own calculations. He wanted to rely on killing people to establish his authority, so he grabbed a dozen deserters and formed on the spot. But instead of stopping the deserters, more people left him. At this time, Chen Ba first sent someone to shout: "As long as any of you catches Song Zixian, seal the marquis of ten thousand households, and cut off the head of the person to reward a thousand taels of gold." "Now the people in the city are even more panicked.

Song Zixian took hundreds of guards with him wherever he went, and he felt more and more at this moment that all these people under his command wanted his head to ask for merit and reward. At this moment, only seven or eight days have passed, and there are less than 2,000 soldiers left in the city, and most of them are old, weak, sick and disabled, and the manpower to defend the city is obviously insufficient. Song Zixian felt that he could no longer stay in Hengyang City and wait for death, so he decided to go to Wu Jing, the king of southern Fujian.

Song Zixian took advantage of the night to bring gold and silver, and his henchmen fled on horseback from the north gate with fifty or sixty people, and he planned to take a detour to Ancheng County, and then go south to Xingguo in Jiangxi to enter the southern Fujian region. The soldiers defending the city saw that the main generals had fled, so they opened the city gate to welcome Chen Baxian's army. Regarding Song Zixian's lonely escape, he sent Xiao Yu to chase him.

Xiao Yu was worried because he didn't take Hengyang, and felt that this time it was Chen Ba who gave himself a chance to make meritorious service and atone for his crimes, so he immediately ordered all the people to follow Song Zixian's footsteps.

Song Zixian and others traveled day and night, so they quickly reached the city of Xingguo, but the southern Fujian army defending the city did not let him enter the city at all, it turned out that Wu Jing had ordered the cities around the city to strictly guard the city gates, and Song Zixian and others were not allowed to enter the city, so he had no choice but to send someone to negotiate with Wu Jing, saying that he still had the strength to help him dominate the Central Plains, just like when he assisted Hou Jing.

Wu Jing crossed Wuyi Mountain to see Song Zixian, and on the spot, he sent someone to arrest him and his henchmen, Wu Jing said to Song Zixian: "I don't want to offend Xiao Duo because of you, I don't want to be involved in the war in the Central Plains, and most importantly, I don't want to be killed by you like Hou Jing." "Song Zixian is afraid that at this moment, he regrets very much that he forced Hou Jing to death. His head was quickly sent to Xiao Yu.

At this time, the remnants of Hou Jing were completely solved, so Chen Baxian led the army to retreat to Xiangyang, Jingzhou after leaving the troops to defend the city. He wanted to talk to Xiao Duo about the cause of his father's death.

Wu Jing, originally a native of the Central Plains, was a smuggler selling salt when he was a teenager earlier, and was later caught by the government and sentenced him to Yazhou, he could not escape from Yazhou and fled back to Lingnan, and then buried himself incognito in Lianghua and Haifeng to help people, and lived a very hard life.

Maybe this person's early business experience made him very pleasing to people, and he did dare to fight and kill, so he was quite proud in the Chaoyang military camp, and a new round of Yue riots broke out in southern Fujian, and Han people in many places fled to Jiaozhou. Chaoyang Taishou was ordered to take the initiative to attack southern Fujian.

In this way, Wu Jing followed the army into the southern Fujian territory, after which the rebellion of the Yue people against oppressive rule was ruthlessly and brutally suppressed. Wu Jing was promoted to general because of his military merits, and was also appointed as the Sima of the Yi'an Army, leading his troops to garrison here. Later, the Hou Jing Rebellion broke out in the Central Plains Dynasty, and the towns in various places became independent, and Wu Jing felt that his opportunity had come, so he closed the country and controlled Chaoyang County, which was the same as Jiaozhou in the south, and further encroached on the counties east of Wuyi Mountain.

Soon he had a large territory, tens of thousands of troops, he abandoned the title given to him by the Liang Dynasty before, he felt that he was not worthy of his identity, so he proclaimed himself the king of Han Wu in southern Fujian, and sent people to cross Wuyi Mountain to capture some counties in Jiangxi. This is, of course, in the vacuum of rights left after Chen Ba left first. The so-called king in troubled times, Wu Jing, a person in the first half of his life, is a good interpretation of the perfect survival of an opportunist.

But after all, southern Fujian is sparsely populated, and he knows very well in his heart that he does not have the strength to compete for the throne with those powerful forces in the Central Plains, and he has fought several times in Fujian on the side of Wuyi Mountain, so he simply locked them up and became his own tyrant emperor with peace of mind, as long as the Central Plains people do not kill him, he can live a luxurious life of wine pond and meat forest.

But now the situation in the world has changed, first of all, the Shiyan of Jiaozhou is staring at him all the time, and he has repeatedly ordered him to go to Jiaozhou to resume his life. Of course he didn't go, Shi Yan was a fart in his eyes. The Qian clan in northern Fujian and the Wang clan in central Fujian have been at war, and they have sent people to contact him several times to ask him to sneak attack the Wang clan from behind, but Wu Jing knew the allusion of his lips and teeth, and he didn't pay attention to him at all.

Xiao Duo sent someone to seal him as the platform of southern Fujian, the premise was to hand over the southern Fujian region, Wu Jingju had not done enough for his own soil emperor, and he didn't want to have anything to do with this Xiao Duo, so he took the title and ignored him. Xiao Daoquan also sent people, but he came to make him accept the jurisdiction of the central government, and he was even more reluctant to submit to the central government.

But people can't be enemies with everyone, although southern Fujian is located in the remote Wuyi Mountain area, but it is still coveted by many people, no matter how small the mosquito is, it is meat, he Wu Jing does not have strong strength, so he can only find a thigh to hold. At this time, he heard that Gao Huan had come to Taicheng, so he planned to send an envoy to meet him, and by the way, he would probe Gao Huan's tone, and if there was anything unfavorable, he would surrender immediately.

Sure enough, because the Wang clan in Fujian did not obey the mediation of the central government, he started a war with the Qian clan in northern Fujian without authorization, and Gao Huan had ordered Gao Yue's 20,000 troops to go south on the same day, sweep away central Fujian and surrender southern Fujian by the way. As soon as Wu Jing heard that he knew that his free life was not long, he arranged for a dozen large ships that could accommodate thousands of people that had been built in the coastal areas long ago, and planned to cross the sea to Yizhou (now Taiwan Island) to continue his dream of being an emperor with gold and silver, beautiful concubines, beautiful wives, and henchmen.

Wu Jing sent people to ask for surrender, and they began to prepare for the escape, and the beauties under his command were forced to get on the boat, and went to Yizhou Wu Jing planned to take everyone with him, but many people were reluctant, and some people began to run away before they got on the boat. Wu Jing was very angry, so he ordered that as long as he escaped, he would catch all of them, cut off his legs, and throw them in the city to die.

Gao Yue's army arrived in Jian'an County in central Fujian and received an envoy sent by Wu Jing to ask for surrender, he would be happy to meet him in front of the generals of the whole army, the envoy said very respectfully that Wu Jing planned to withdraw to Yizhou, Gao Yue was a little dumbfounded, so he said to the envoy: "Go back and tell Wu Jing that as long as we serve the Central Plains as Zhengshuo, he can continue to be his soil emperor in southern Fujian." This news is undoubtedly the greatest forgiveness for Wu Jing.

It's a pity that when the envoy returned to Yi'an County in southern Fujian, Wu Jing had already boarded the ship to Yizhou, which was called a missed opportunity, obviously a lucky person but lost the opportunity because of excessive caution and caution. The southern Fujian region was then directly taken over by Gao Yue. The fate of the Wang clan was miserable, although they knew that they were very different from Gao Yue's army, and there was also the Qian clan's robbery, but the Wang clan still decided to smash Gao Yue's Central Plains army head-on.

The decisive battle between the two sides was fought in the Jin'an area in Fujian, because the Wang army had few people, could only defend the city and could not fight in the field, but unfortunately the city of Jin'an was slightly different from the city of the Central Plains, the city wall was low and thin, and the powerful Eastern Wei siege troops were really child's play, and even two days did not hold down, Jin'an changed hands, and the whole Fujian became Gao Huan's palm.

The Wang clan was almost all wiped out, only one child who was still in swaddling clothes was escorted to the ship by the clansmen and sent to Yizhou for refuge, the demise of the Wang clan and Wu Jing's surrender put a lot of pressure on Shiyan in Jiaozhou, he was worried that Gao Yue would continue to go south, and the wind swept into the Lingnan region like a leaf, but Gao Yue did not have such an appetite, and Gao Huan did not want to fight with the remote Lingnan for the time being.

At the celebration banquet, everyone was eating and drinking happily, and Gao Yue said to Qian Miao very proudly: "How about it, father-in-law, I easily won Jin'an and Yi'an, which you haven't been able to fight for decades, this is called the strength of Central Plains Zhengshuo." "It's true that it's good to enjoy the shade with your back against the big tree, and Gao Yue can say whatever you want now with the strength of Gao Huan's big tree. Even if Qian Miao was unhappy in his heart, he had to smile on his face, and besides, Gao Yue was now his son-in-law, as an old father-in-law, he pinned the fate of the Qian family in northern Fujian on this "half son".

Qian Miao nodded and smiled: "The virtuous son-in-law is worthy of being the first fierce general under the Prime Minister, and it is really the person that our Qian family has to entrust." Gao Yue is estimated to be drunk, and it is very refreshing to listen to the old man patting his ass, so he wants to tell him everything in his heart. In fact, this is not to blame Gao Yue, the person who is a son-in-law in the world does not want his father-in-law's family to look up to himself, not to mention that Gao Yue himself is also in a famous family and thinks very highly of himself. (To be continued.) )