Song Zixian then persuaded: "Since Taifu doesn't have this idea at the moment, it is the speculation of the ministers, in this case, the only way to support the crown prince Xiao Gang is to support." "Hou Jing originally wanted to be the emperor himself, and Song Zixian was very happy as soon as they said it, but the position of emperor is not for you to take over, at least you have to learn from the ancients Wang Mang, Cao Pi, and Sima Zhao to be humble a few times. Where did you think that when Song Zixian and the others heard that he was unwilling to be the emperor, they immediately turned their heads to support Xiao Gang, Hou Jing was so angry in his heart, he was put on his own side, and he was angry to death by these stupid subordinates.

But now the cards he can play are very limited, Xiao Gang is indeed the best candidate, he is justifiably qualified to become the new monarch without giving others the handle to blame, if Hou Jing himself insists on being the emperor, then he will have to risk the disapproval of the world, and along the way, the swords, mountains, fires, and corpses are everywhere. Thinking that his flesh and blood were still in Princess Luyang's belly, he could only calm down and endure for a while.

So he personally went to the East Palace to release Xiao Gang, and then told him about Xiao Zhengde's murder of Xiao Yan, Xiao Gang has been under house arrest since the fall of Taicheng in the East Palace, his hatred for Hou Jing is increasing day by day, and he looks forward to the thunder of God to kill Hou Jing every day, and later his sister Princess Luyang married made him feel faceless, if it weren't for Xiao Yan still alive, he didn't want him to send a white-haired person to a black-haired person, Xiao Gang really seemed to die and die for the country, this time he was very suspicious that Hou Jing did it, but there was no evidence.

Hou Jing really carried the black pot for Xiao Zhengde, the entire Jiangdong people thought that he planned all this with his own hands, only his henchmen and relatives such as Princess Luyang knew that he was innocent, but some things are getting darker and darker, you can't explain it, all the bitterness Hou Jing can only swallow in his stomach, he has already scolded Xiao Zhengde's ancestors for eighteen generations, and his wife and children have been beheaded and the family wealth is used to fill the army, which can be regarded as a means of venting for Hou Jing.

It is a well-known fact that Xiao Gang has no good impression of Hou Jing, but the situation is urgent, and Hou Jing has no choice but to hurriedly support him to ascend the throne, and he also pretended to pass on the holy decree to promote himself from the Taifu to the position of the prince of the country. All the clothing and utensils honor guards are all in accordance with the emperor's system, and the government is opened to preside over the government, and there is a difference between him and Xiao Gang.

In the face of Hou Jing's bold and reckless move, Xiao Gang dared not speak out, and after ascending the throne, he began to look for people among the courtiers who could be entrusted with important affairs, he didn't want to be regarded as a puppet of power all his life, and he also had to find a way to find an opportunity to kill Hou Jing and bring back a city. However, many courtiers were from Hou Jing's faction, and Xiao Gang himself did not even have the right to appoint and dismiss officials, so he really had no ability to recruit loyal ministers, so he sighed all day long.

Hou Jing didn't send someone to closely monitor Xiao Gang's every move, he already knew that the new emperor hated him to the core, both of them were acting, and they were both perfunctory to each other. Just when the two were competing with each other's acting skills, a major event happened, Chen Baxian of Quzhou in the south had already led his army to Huiji and came straight to Jiangdong.

Because Song Zixian and Guo Yuanjian met Wang Seng Bian's army in the west, Hou Jing could only personally go out to meet Chen Baxian, and then left Zhang Huaren and Ren Yue to guard the capital, Hou Jing led 100,000 horses to coerce the new emperor Xiao Gang to drive the expedition in person, and this group of men and horses set off from Jiankang all the way through Danyang and Xuancheng to Huiji City.

Chen Ba first gathered a total of 30,000 people, completely unable to resist Hou Jing's army, so he could only give up the siege, planning to retreat south to Dongyang County, where was Hou Jing willing to give him a chance to escape, all the way to follow the pursuit, Chen Ba first fled in embarrassment, continued to retreat from Dongyang to the west of the river, 30,000 horses were pursued by Hou Jing's troops when they arrived in Nanchang with less than 5,000 people. Chen Baxian could only hold on to the city, and did not dare to come out to meet it.

Hou Jing sent people to surround Nanchang on all sides, seeing that Chen Baxian died in Huangquan, this is Song Zixian and sent someone to send an urgent report, Wang Seng Bian has crossed his own defense line in two ways, and went around to the Lujiang River behind him and Yuzhou Liang County (Yuzhou in the Southern Liang Kingdom, not Yuzhou in Gao Huan) to attack their grain road, seeing that Song Zixian and Guo Yuanjian were about to be unable to withstand it, Hou Jing was shocked, if Jiankang lost his five ways to retreat, he would really become a lost dog at that time, and besides, Princess Luyang was still in Taicheng, Hou Jing was desperate to keep Jiankang. He immediately ordered the whole army to retreat and give up the attack on Nanchang.

Chen Ba received a report from the soldiers as soon as he was born, saying that all the rebels outside the city had withdrawn, and he personally climbed the city gate tower to take a look, only to see that Hou Jing's army was still all over the mountains yesterday, and at this time the camp was empty, leaving only the flags and tents everywhere, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief, this Jiangbei Central Plains people are fierce in the war, and he is also a good hand among the generals of the Southern Liang, but he can't resist Hou Jing's attack at all, and he is afraid to think about it.

Here is a supplement to Xiao Duo's actions during the period from Hou Jing's wedding to Xiao Zhengde's murder. As early as when Hou Jing rebelled and besieged Taicheng, there were two people in the Xiao royal family who were the most powerful emperors, one was Xiao Duo, the king of Xiangdong, whose base was in Weixing County in the Jingxiang region and controlled several states and counties up and down the Han River with this radiation, with an army of nearly 100,000 people.

The other is Xiao Lun, the king of Shaoling who developed strength in the Yangtze River area of northern Hunan Province, this Xiao Lunlun's talent is not as high as Xiao Duo, and his strength is not as strong as Xiao Duo, but because he is Xiao Duo's elder brother, he was elected by the wealthy families as the leader of the anti-Hou Jing Alliance, for which Xiao Duo has always been resentful and has always wanted to find an opportunity to kill him.

The emperor lives up to the "person with a heart", this Xiao Lun still gave Xiao Duo a chance to crusade against him, the reason is that Xiao Lun behaves perversely, behaves differently from ordinary people, and has tyrannical tendencies. At a party, Xiao Lun actually raped his subordinates' wives and daughters, which made an irreparable rift within the alliance, Xiao Duo took the opportunity to issue a conquest document, and asked Wang Seng Bian to personally lead the team south to exterminate Xiao Lun, although public opinion and the situation are developing in the direction of Xiao Duo, but Wang Seng Bian actually did not obey his order, on the grounds that the army had not been assembled and wanted to postpone the day of sending troops, which made Xiao Duo very angry and dismissed him and put him in prison.

Later, the troops who went south to conquer Xiao Lun could not conquer Changsha for a long time, so Xiao Duo had no choice but to release Wang Seng Bian again, and re-appoint him as the governor of the conquest, and personally went to attack Changsha, with the arrival of Wang Seng Bian, Changsha was soon captured, and Xiao Lun's head was also sent to Xiao Duo, and now except for Xiao Ji, the king of Wuling (Xiao Duo's younger brother), who was entrenched in Yizhou due to the blockage of the road, there was no one in the entire Liang Empire who could compete with him for the throne, so he let Wang Seng Bian lead the army to attack Hou Jing.

So later Xiao Duo was spurned by the world after being called the emperor for this reason, Hou Jing and Xiao Zhengde disturbed Jiangdong in the early stage, he had the strength and time to stop this vicious incident, but he harbored evil intentions and coveted the throne, sat on the mountain and watched the tiger fight so that Hou Jing could break through Taicheng, and he took the time to eliminate the dissident forces, so as to make a move at the last moment, which is worthy of being thoughtful and insidious.

The reason why Xiao Duo is so insidious and cunning is not unrelated to his personal character, he has been disabled since childhood, he is blind in one eye, and he often suspects that others make fun of him. However, he was gifted and intelligent, and he was famous for his articles when he was a teenager, and this person was also very filial, and he served his mother Nguyen very dutily. But he is also very dark in his heart, marrying a wife Xu (the in the allusion) is jealous, and gives him a green hat, and often uses half makeup to satirize and ridicule his one-eyed dragon facts. This is Xiao Duo's unrelieved pain in his life, and even Xiao Duo became the emperor, and the Xu family was later given death, not only did he not let her be buried in the imperial tomb, but also returned the body to the Xu family, showing her as a wife. and wrote a famous glamorous poem: Qiu Sifu, to describe the obscene behavior of.

But at this moment, the war between him and Hou Jing is an inevitable problem of historical trend, Xiao Duo has been carried by the rolling wheels of history and gradually moved towards the ending and end he deserves.

Wang Seng Bian's bravery is as famous as Chen Baxian in Nanliang, but compared to Chen Baxian's bold advance, Wang Seng Bian is more peaceful and good at keeping steady, which may also be related to Wang Seng Bian's age, Chen Baxian is still a stunned young man after all, and Wang Seng Bian is already an elder of the same age as Chen Xianda. But when facing a strong opponent like Hou Jing, he may often need more momentum and bravery, and the restrained style of play may be led by Hou Jing by the nose and finally defeated.

Wang Seng Bian's roundabout tactics were very useful to Song Zixian and Guo Yuanjian, but when he learned that Hou Jing's army was coming north to support, not only did he not choose to defend solidly and continue to harass, but retreated to Cai County, New Taipei, which gave Hou Jing a chance to reorganize and deploy.

Hou Jing and Song Zixian and other troops were in Ruyin County, and arranged for Guo Yuanjian to lead 15,000 men and horses into Meng County as a precursor, Xiao Duo repeatedly ordered Wang Seng Bian to take the initiative to attack, and defeated Guo Yuanjian first, but Wang Seng Bian was afraid of being attacked by Hou Jing for fear of being attacked by Hou Jing, and never dared to take the initiative to attack.

The two armies first fought a battle in the border city south of Beixincai, Wang Seng Bian was defeated and could not form an army, and he almost fell into Hou Jing's ambush, but fortunately Xiao Duo sent the leading general Yuwenji to lead an army of 20,000 to support, so he was escorted and sent into the city of Beixincai County. After this battle, Wang Seng Bian felt more and more that if he confronted Hou Jing head-on, he had no chance of winning, and only by using the favorable terrain to defend and block layer by layer, attack and disrupt the east and west, and let Chen Baxian keep involved on the southern front, so that it was possible to defeat the powerful Hou Jing.

So Wang Seng Bian took it upon himself to discard all the grain and grass in Cai County, New Bei, and led his troops to retreat to the Jiangling area in the west while Hou Jing's army had not yet been encircled.

In Jiangling City, Xiao Duo's military meeting was in full swing, and the generals were talking about it, Xiao Duo looked at them like headless flies, and felt very helpless, thinking that everything he had worked hard to manage would really be wiped out by Hou Jing's arrival? He was unwilling, and he had to struggle for a while. At this time, his staff whispered to him: "King, now that the situation is in crisis, there is no one in Daliang who can stop Hou Jing's rebels, and we can only use external forces to restrain him." ”

Xiao Duo turned his head to look at him and asked, "Are you asking me to ask Gao Huan?" The staff said: "Gao Huan is too far away from Jiangling, I'm afraid I can't count on it." Xiao Duo nodded and said, "It seems that the only way to do this is to send someone to Guanzhong to find Yuwentai." So he raised his head again and looked at the crowd, trying to find a reliable and trustworthy person among them who dared to take on this important task, but unfortunately after searching for a long time, he found that there was no reliable messenger, which made him feel like ashes.

At this time, his nephew Xiao Yu got up and said, "King, everyone, I have a plan I want to tell you about it. Xiao Duo nodded to him and said, Xiao Yu said: "The current situation is that our army can no longer compete with the rebels head-on, and defense is the best policy, but blind defense cannot break the rebels' offensive, so I think it is imperative to seek help from external forces to resist Hou Jing's aggression." ”

When Xiao Duo heard this, he felt that he had a heart with him, so he asked, "Then in your opinion, who should we turn to for help?" Xiao Yu thought for a while and said, "I think Yuwentai in Guanzhong can be considered." Xiao Duo patted his thigh and said happily: "You and I have thought together, but who is willing to send Western Wei to complete this big thing?" After that, his eyes stared at Xiao Yu in a daze, and the meaning was clear, if it didn't work, you would go up. Xiao Yu saw the opportunity to stand up and said loudly: "The little nephew is willing to go to Guanzhong to persuade Yu Wentai and teach him to help our army." ”

Xiao Duo laughed and said: "Okay, good, very good, then this matter will be entrusted to you, as long as this matter is done well, I will be rewarded when I come back." Xiao Yu hurriedly leaned over and said, "Uncle doesn't have to, this is what the little nephew should do." (To be continued.) )