Gao Huan's army went south and caused a national shock, Yuwentai didn't know whether to send troops to attack Gao Huan's lair in Guanzhong, especially when Gao Aocao, the fierce general of the Eastern Wei Dynasty, was stationed in Yuzhou, he was very afraid of being dragged into the quagmire of protracted war, because the disaster in Guanzhong has not been delayed in recent years, one will be floods, one will be drought and flood, one will be locust plague, his troops have been sharply reduced from 200,000 horses in the earliest period to less than 100,000 now, and it is okay to defend against Gao Huan on the eastern front, if he takes the initiative to attack, he really has no bottom in his heart, Even Xie Sichun, who has always been high-profile, was silent after learning the news of Gao Huan's army going south this time, and Su Sui didn't have any good plans, after all, he was slightly inferior in military terms.

When the news of Gao Huan's big tiger going south came to Hou Jing's camp, it immediately caused an uproar, Hou Jing didn't expect that he who had been standing by and watching him would make such a big move this time, and it seemed inevitable to do his best to defeat Jiankang, and the worst thing was that there was still his wife Princess Luyang and their unborn child, which made Hou Jing very painful, and the war with Xiao Duo was almost over, and the destruction of Jiangling was just around the corner, but now Gao Huan's sideways foot caused Xiao Duo's troops to be demoralized. But he couldn't think of a good way to crack it for a while.

In the camp under Hou Jing's Jiangling City, Song Zixian, Guo Yuanjian and other core generals gathered together, waiting for Hou Jing's appearance to hold an emergency military intelligence meeting. Everyone talked about it, only Song Zixian and Guo Yuanjian did not speak, one closed his eyes and recuperated, and the other played with the jade wrench in his hand. When everyone was talking to each other, they saw Hou Jing walk in with a haggard expression, and it seemed that he hadn't slept well all night.

All the generals got up and saluted him, Hou Jing came to the main seat and beckoned to everyone very casually, everyone sat down, Hou Jing cleared his throat and said to them: "You must have learned the news that the Eastern Wei army went south to attack Jiankang, and you want to come to everyone's family in the city, and I want to call you here to discuss with you, whether we will return to Jiankang after defeating Jiangling and destroying Xiao Duo, or will we give up Jiangling and retreat to Jiankang overnight?" ”

When everyone heard this, they immediately began to whisper, and some people said that they were willing to give up Gangneung, because compared to Jiankang City, this small city of Gangneung was really insignificant. This is also said, after all, there is still the new emperor Xiao Gang in Jiankang City, if he is killed or captured, then Hou Jing will be completely isolated, and there will be no magistrate to carry out orders in the future.

This is Guo Yuanjian snorted coldly and laughed: "I didn't expect that you are all greedy for life and afraid of death, and you are ashamed to be with you." Hou Jing was also angry when he heard his words, and said in his heart: You are alone and have no worries, dare to say such light words, Lao Tzu still has a family in Jiankang. But he asked lightly: "General Guo has any good way to say it, there is no need to vent his anger in words." ”

Guo Yuanjian stood up and arched his hand at Hou Jing and said: "Prime Minister, we are all old men who have followed you all the way from the north to fight the world, and we have experienced wars, what kind of dangerous situation have we not encountered?" How could I hear that Gao Huan came with troops today, and he was scared, he had never seen the prime minister afraid of anyone, how could he still be afraid of a Gao Huan, I wanted to ...... back then" He still wanted to continue, Hou Jing had already raised his hand and interrupted him impatiently: "Okay, okay." At this time and at that time, the current situation is different from the past, this Xiao Duo is about to be destroyed by us, but Gao Huan's stirring, I think it will definitely not be able to take this Jiangling for a while and a half, in case Jiankang City is broken by then, the emperor is captured, you and my wife and children are all hostages, and we will not even have a way to retreat at that time. ”

Song Zixian, who had been silent, stood up and saluted Hou Jing when he heard this, and then said: "Prime Minister, when we abandoned our family and children to follow you, we felt that following you, we could do a career, although it was difficult, but we all persevered, not to mention how long Jiankang can last, that is, we finally forced Xiao Duo into a desperate situation, and we can successfully take Jiangling and even the entire Jingzhou immediately, but you have to give up everything you have done before at this time, so that we really give up all our previous efforts. The belly and back are enemy. ”

Seeing that no one spoke, Song Zixian continued to say emotionally: "As long as we hold on a little longer, once Xiao Duo's momentum is completely defeated by us, Jiangling will be self-defeating, and then we will rely on Jiangling as a base, and then contact Yuwentai to be each other's horns, even if Gao Huan wins Jiankang, what can we do, it's a big deal to share Nanliang with him equally, so that we can keep the hope of victory!" After saying these words, someone immediately raised his arms and shouted: "Attack Jiangling and kill Xiao Duo!" More and more generals stood up and shouted, and cheers and shouts resounded throughout the barracks.

Hou Jing was actually very reluctant to spend time here with Xiao Duo, because he was worried that Jiankang City would not be able to withstand the pressure of Gao Huan's army at all, but here Song Zixian and Guo Yuanjian stirred up the atmosphere again, and what Song Zixian said was not unreasonable, so far he had to inform Zhang Huaren and Ren Yue to take the new emperor Xiao Gang and the ministers, royal nobles and military generals to move westward together, and strive to settle them here after capturing Jiangling.

So Hou Jing got up and said: "Since everyone insists on capturing Jiangling City first and destroying Xiao Duo, then I don't know what to say, I just hope that the monarchs will move forward and take this city as soon as possible, in addition, what General Song said just now is also reasonable, we can't fight against Xiao Duo and Gao Huan alone." Since this is the case, I simply sent a messenger to contact Yuwentai in Guanzhong, hoping that he could help us in the work we worked together back then. Hou Jing sent people to summon Zhang Huaren and Ren Yue, and then they led the rest of the army and Emperor Xiao Gang's forbidden army to Jiangling to converge, and then found a confidant to go into the pass with a secret letter to find Yuwentai. Song Zixian and Guo Yuanjian prepared for the final battle against Jiangling.

After Xiao Duo of Jiangling learned the news that Gao Huan was going south to attack Jiankang, he was ecstatic and sent his own son Xiao Fangzhi to connect with Gao Aocao, telling Gao Huan as soon as he was willing to submit, and hoped that Gao Huan could borrow troops to help him annihilate Hou Jing.

Gao Aocao received Xiao Duo's letter of surrender, and sent Xiao Fangzhi to Zhongli Gao Huan's camp non-stop, he would definitely not be able to do such a big thing. Zhongli Wei army camp, Gao Huan was bored for the first time and felt that the expedition was a very boring thing, in the past, he led the army to fight all the bad battles, and every battle was very difficult, but this time, the smooth wind and water all the way to Jiankang, the capital of the Southern Liang Kingdom, was only a hundred miles away.

In the barracks, his Nanliang puppet emperor Xiao Daoquan and the two concubines fell in love with each other, these two so-called concubines were just two singers raised by Sun Teng's mansion, and they had long been famous, Sun Teng gave him these two singers were in line with Xiao Daoquan's mind, so these two singers traveled with the army all the way, although the scene was not good-looking, but Gao Huan still needed him at this time, so he turned a blind eye and pretended not to see, and the other generals in the barracks had long been disdainful of this second ancestor, and privately scolded him for being a dog raised by Gao Huan.

How does Xiao Daoquan not know what is thought of him, but now that he is the emperor of Nanliang, as long as he enters Jiankang, he can justifiably worship the temple of the Tong, and whoever dares to say that he is not the nine clans of the nine clans. At this time, as long as Gao Huan and Murong Heng did not speak, he could do whatever he wanted, eating and drinking in the barracks all day long, hugging the singer and concubine, completely ignoring that his people were in dire straits at this time.

Gao Huan was reviewing Murong Shaozong's frequent good news with Murong Heng, Yang Xiuzhi, Gao Longzhi and others in the battalion commander: they had basically cleared the enemy's defensive forces all the way to Donghaidao and taken over Qingzhou, Jizhou, Northern Yanzhou and other places in Liang State, and at this moment Murong Shaozong's main force of 50,000 horses had arrived in Gaoyou, Hailing and other places in Southern Yanzhou, which was really unstoppable like the autumn wind sweeping away the leaves.

Because after Xiao Yan's death, the northern region of Liang was in a state of contention between Hou Jing's rebels and the old conservative faction of Liang, so basically the Wei army pointed out that no matter which side was willing to surrender, Murong Shaozong took out military rations to provide frequent disaster relief, and gained a great reputation in the Jiangbei region. Even Gao Yue was a little jealous, and sent three secret letters to Gao Huan one after another, hoping to see the battle of besieging Jiankang and planning to make a contribution.

At this moment, Gao Huan brought Gao Yue's secret letter to Murong Heng, and the old master took the letter and coughed, looking a little serious. Gao Huan hurriedly found the accompanying doctor, since arriving in Jiangdong, this old master may not be accustomed to the soil or too old, he has never been able to adapt to the climate here, and accidentally contracted the wind cold in the cold winter.

After taking the Chinese medicine of the imperial doctor, Gao Huan smelled it, it really had a strong herbal taste, and then handed it to Murong Heng, who was lying on the bed, and said, "Old master, your medicine is ready, I personally brought it for you, are you moved?" You need to get better quickly, I have a lot of things to do here. Murong Heng opened his bloodshot eyes, feeling that his gasping was intense, only to hear him smile and say: "Don't worry, cough cough, my illness will not kill me for a while and a half, cough cough, I have to do a lot for the king, cough cough." ”

Gao Huan felt that he was really sick, so he quickly helped him up and comforted him in his chest: "Okay, okay, don't talk about it, drink this bowl of medicine first." The old master struggled to get up and took the bowl in his hand, and at this time Gao Longzhi and Yang Xiuzhi asked to see him outside the door. Gao Huan then got up and said to Murong Heng: "Old man, you take medicine well, I'll come when I go." Murong Heng waved his hand at him and told him to leave quickly.

When he came out of the door, Gao Huan asked, "What's the matter, what's the matter with me?" Gao Longzhi looked at Yang Xiuzhi and stopped, so Yang Xiuzhi spoke: "King, Xiao Duo's secret envoy has come to see you. "It's good that you can meet me for me, why do you have to report this matter to me?" Gao Huan was a little puzzled, how could this Yang Xiuzhi learn to ask for instructions, report three times and perfunctory three now, remember that he was not such a person before. In fact, Gao Huan can't blame people for this happy event, Yang Xiuzhi used to be in charge of a county, and no matter how big it is, it is a state, how many can there be. But now he is a scholar under Murong Heng, in charge of the affairs of the world, any word and action will affect the fate of many people, a casual word can change the direction of a country, and anyone will be Alexander, and they will have to ask for instructions and report.

Yang Xiuzhi was a little embarrassed when he heard Gao Huan's words, and Gao Longzhi said: "There is too much information brought by the secret envoy this time, and the two of us feel that we still have to ask the king for instructions, otherwise this burden is too big, and we really can't afford this responsibility." Gao Huan was even more puzzled and asked, "What can a local lord send an envoy to make the pillars of your two kingdoms embarrassed?" Bring him to show me! Yang Xiuzhi turned around and waved, only to see Gao Zhongming walking over with a young man.

When the young man saw Gao Huan, he knelt down and said, "Xiao Fangzhi, the son of the king of Xiangdong in Xialiang, will meet His Royal Highness King Qi, the prime minister of Wei." Gao Huan was a little surprised, this Xiao Duo actually sent his own son as a secret envoy, he was indeed sincere, turned around and led Xiao Fangzhi into a side hall, Gao Huan sat on the main seat, pointed to the guest seat and said very politely: "Sit down and talk, what is the urgency that your father sent you to me?" Xiao Fangzhi didn't sit down when he heard this, but knelt down at Gao Huan and cried: "Ask the king to call the shots for us, this Hou Jing defected back then, and my father has always been a scholar to my grandfather, persuading him not to accept this lame monkey, who knows that Zhu Yi, the villain, was bought by Hou Jing in advance, and he said good things for him, and finally my grandfather ended up with a tragic death. (To be continued.) )