Yang Kan despised and despised these people who were greedy for life and afraid of death, and had no courage to kill the enemy and the ambition to recover the country, he kept writing to Xiao Yan, hoping that he could support his Northern Expedition, which was very similar to Chen Xianda later, and the two later became friends. However, due to the obstruction of the prime minister and the imperial doctor, and Zhu Yihe, a member of the Zhongshu House, and his political enemy, he wore small shoes and put eye medicine on him several times.

Yang Kan was then transferred out of the Beijing Division, and went to Ganzhou, Jiangxi Province to serve as Taishou, in the past two years, due to the fire of Gao Huan and Yuwentai in the north, the situation was turbulent, so the argument of the main battle faction rose again, and county Sima like Chen Xianda was promoted to the general of an army, how could Yang Kan be buried (originally there was a shortage of talents in Nanliang), so he was soon transferred back to the imperial court to serve as an important position.

Xiao Daoquan's military garrison was completely for defensive purposes, but Yang Kan had already made up his mind from the beginning of his assistance to do something more earth-shattering than Chen Xianda, and he wanted to go deep into the enemy's hinterland to carry out a restoration movement, and strive to defeat Gao Huan and restore the glory of the former Han people.

Xiao Daoquan's army has a total of 38,000 people, the troops assigned to Yang Kan's command have 12,000 people, and the garrison of North Yanzhou has 5,000 people, a total of 17,000 men and horses have no problem to enter Xuzhou and South Xuzhou, Yang Kan said to Xiao Daoquan ambitiously: "Boss, I want to lead the army into the enemy country, if I succeed by luck, the credit is due to you, if I unfortunately fail, please shift all the responsibility to me." ”

Xiao Daoquan was originally reluctant to let him do this, because he was different from Yang Kan, he didn't want to cause trouble, he just wanted to spend his defensive time safely and return to Jiankang safely to enjoy peace, but he couldn't stand Yang Kan and Guo Feng's repeated remarks, and in the end, he just didn't know about it and let the two of them do it. Thinking that there are really too many powerful people like Xiao Daoquan who have neither the ability nor the ability to restrain their subordinates in Nanliang, it is a miracle that a country like this does not perish, how can they expect them to recover the Central Plains and expel the Tartars?

But Yang Kan doesn't care about these, at this moment his original purpose has been achieved, so he kept leading the army from South Xuzhou all the way north to Pengcheng, Xiao Daoquan got Yang Kan's good news for several days in a row, and he was also very happy, and he also felt that maybe this time Yang Kan could really capture the entire Xuzhou. Pushing the empire's territory to the north is a great achievement, and at the same time, he repaired the book to Xiao Yan and urged the follow-up supply of troops to supply good military rations.

The alarm of Xuzhou being invaded was sent to Gao Huan like snowflakes, Gao Huan was still thinking about the decisive battle with Yuwentai, and when he saw these things, he immediately decided to give Nanliang a devastating blow, otherwise Xiao Yan really thought that he was afraid of him, and always caused chaos for him at an inappropriate time, so he mobilized Gao Aocao's shaved army and Murong Shaozong's troops to go south together, and let the retired He Batsheng serve as the commander, striving to break through the Yangtze River moat, and the troops were in Jiankang, giving Xiao Yan a little color.

Yang Kan's troops were hit by Gao Yue and Li Erhu, but after the main forces of the two sides engaged, Yang Kang's Southern Liang army did not fall behind at all, and Li Erhu's troops were the first to be defeated, and Gao Yue led his headquarters to withdraw from the battlefield in an orderly manner, so that Pengcheng was completely surrounded, isolated and helpless waiting for Gao Aocao's army to come to the rescue.

Yang Kan kept letting Guo Feng divide his troops to attack the neighboring counties, and Xiao Daoquan also took advantage of the victory to move the base camp from Yangping, South Yanzhou to Huaiyang County, Xuzhou, the supply route was greatly shortened, and the army also surged from more than 30,000 people to nearly 80,000 people.

Seeing that Pengcheng was about to fall soon, Xiao Yan in order to prevent accidents, let Hou Jingbing send Zhong Li north to Wuyang, coordinate and echo Xiao Daoquan's troops, Hou Jing has learned that Gao Huan's main force is on the way to take the rescue, at this time sending troops is equivalent to suicide, but helpless Liang Ting's urgency, he can only raise troops to the north in vain, and on the way he also wrote a letter to Xiao Daoquan, telling him not to be careless about He Batsheng, this person is Gao Huan's number one general, although he has retreated to the second line, but the strength is undoubted. If Pengcheng is captured, it must not be pursued in the north, but only hold on and wait for backup, so that the attack can be completed.

Xiao Daoquan did not ignore Hou Jing's warning, but ignored it in the surprise of Yangkan's siege of Pengcheng, and at this time, the Eastern Wei army led by He Basheng had already surrounded it from the north and west in a pincer shape. Yang Kan was very excited when he was done, and said to Xiao Daoquan with great joy: "Please move to Pengcheng, I will lead the army to move left to attack Luoyang, and the general will ensure the safety of my grain road, and I will take Luoyang for you." ”

Xiao Daoquan knew what military intelligence, he only felt that he should take advantage of the victory to enter the palace, and completely regarded Hou Jing's warning as nonsense. So he marched north from Huaiyang to Pengcheng, and Yang Kan led his army to the west to attack Chenliu. It only took ten days for them to take down Pengcheng, and at this time, even Yang Kan himself felt that victory was in sight.

Murong Shaozong's 30,000 troops set out from Luoyang and took the lead in engaging Yangkan's forward troops, but the main forces of the two sides did not encounter, and Murong Shaozong let the army bypass Chen Liu and assemble near Chen County to the south of Chen Liu. He Basheng personally led an army of 50,000 plus Gao Aocao's 30,000 shaved head army from Yecheng, all the way south to Pengcheng, the purpose was very clear, cut off Yang Kan's rear retreat and grain route, and then wipe him out.

At this time, Yang Kan found that the situation was not right, and he could not warn Xiao Daoquan in time, let alone retreat from Chenliu, because Murong Shaozong behind him would definitely press up, so that he would immediately fall into the dilemma of being attacked by the enemy on his back. He couldn't retreat from Chen Liu, because Murong Shaozong behind him would definitely press up, so that he would immediately fall into the dilemma of being attacked by the enemy on his back.

That night, Xiao Daoquan was drunk in the camp in Pengcheng and couldn't wake up, and that night he was attacked by Gao Aocao's shaved head army, that Nanliang's army was originally victorious, and there was no combat effectiveness, and at this moment when he encountered a wolf-like tiger-like shaved army, it was like a large group of sheep surrounded by wolves in the three layers and three layers outside, and he could not escape the ending of being besieged and killed.

The general who guarded the Chinese army shook Xiao Daoquan awake, this is why he woke up and hurriedly put on the battle, but the troops have been disrupted, at this moment there are shaved heads everywhere in the pursuit of the Southern Liang army, Xiao Daoquan was about to escape, a large group of shaved head soldiers surrounded him, several guards around him were captured and killed, there was a small leader of the Eastern Wei army who saw that he was dressed extraordinarily and ordered to be captured alive to receive the reward, a few shaved head soldiers heard the words, you pulled me to pull Xiao Daoquan off the horse and tied up the five flowers and sent it to Gao Aocao.

The battle in Pengcheng ended after only two hours, and even Yang Kan could only sigh afterwards: "The Northern Captives are still slightly better than the remnants of my Central Plains." ”

At this time, Yang Kan's troops were already in danger of being surrounded, in order to prevent his troops from being completely annihilated, he decisively ordered to go south to serve Voryang and join Hou Jing there, but Hou Jing had already retreated from Voryang to the edge of the Huai River at this time, ready to cross the river and return to Zhong Departure on the south bank at any time.

Yang Kan had no choice but to sigh and lead the army south to break through, but Murong Shaozong was willing to let him go, and directly led the main force from Chen County to fight against him, both sides fought to the death, but after all, Murong Shaozong's troops had experienced a hundred battles, and there were many hard battles like this, and Yang Kan's troops were mainly recruited from the Jiangnan and Jiangxi regions, and they had no experience in big battles, let alone the impact of the cavalry, and finally the whole army collapsed after holding on for two hours, and Yang Kan was captured Guo Feng died in the chaos.

The news of Pengcheng's loss of Xiao Daoquan's capture was known to Zhu Yi for the first time, so this kid entered the palace overnight to report to Xiao Yan, poor Xiao Yan had already fallen asleep at this time, and was confused by Zhu Yi's urgent information, and got up to meet him, only to stop Zhu Yi said that Pengcheng was lost Xiao Daoquan was captured, and the teacup in his hand fell to the ground with a bang. I saw that Xiao Yan was trembling and his face was bloodless, and he didn't know what to say, but he raised his hand for a while and waved it, asking Zhu Yi to retreat for the time being. Zhu Yi originally wanted to take a good look at Yang Kan, but at this time, he couldn't say anything when he saw this, so he had to come out stupidly.

Now the 100,000 army was completely annihilated by the Eastern Wei Dynasty, the loss of grain and grass was innumerable, and the enemy invasion alarm was heard everywhere on the border of the Wei border, at this time the country was empty, and the troops from other towns who urgently dispatched to rescue the Beijing division were still on the way to come, and they could only rely on Hou Jing's 30,000 horses to resist for a while.

So Xiao Yan sent someone to send Hou Jing the Great Prime Minister Seal, asking him to lead the army to resist Murong Shaozong's troops. Hou Jing happily accepted and said to his subordinates with a smile: "This old man only remembered me Hou Jinglai at this time, but he was also sick and rushed to the doctor." So Le Shu's subordinates prepared to meet Murong Shaozong.

Murong Shaozong annihilated Yang Kan's troops, and he was also overjoyed, and he wanted to take advantage of the situation to go south to attack Nanliang, so he did not wait for He Basheng's military order, and led the army south first.

Hou Jing learned that Murong Shaozong was coming alone with an army, so he said at that time: "Although this Murong Shaozong is brave, he is not my Hou Jing's opponent, as long as He Batsheng does not come, who am I afraid of?" Wait and see how I capture this Murong Shaozong. ”

The fierce battle between the two sides in the south of Wuyang, Murong Shaozong's cavalry was the majority, and Hou Jing ordered the troops to be armed with short knives, rushing into the formation and only stabbing people's legs and cutting horses' feet, so Murong Shaozong's cavalry was almost in a one-to-one ratio and Hou Jing's infantry in exchange for battle. Even Murong Shaozong himself rode a horse into the battle and was cut off his horse's legs, and he fell off his horse and was almost captured, but fortunately, he was agile and fled back to his own phalanx. However, in this battle, he still had two generals captured, so he had to lead the army to hurriedly retreat to Chenliu.

At this time, Gao Aocao's troops had arrived, and when he heard that Murong Shaozong was defeated, he laughed at him a little, and Shaozong was angry and said: "I, Murong Shaozong, am also a person who has experienced a hundred battles, but I have never seen such a treacherous and cunning Hou Jing, if you are not convinced, just go and challenge it, I will see how you win or lose?" ”

Gao Aocao didn't say a word, only took the vanguard battalion of 8,000 men and horses to attack Hou Jing's army, but before he arrived in front of the battle, he was shot by a rain of arrows, and finally the cavalry galloped closer, but he was tripped and slathered from the horse one by one, and was pulled down alive from the horse's back, Gao Aocao was not convinced, and scolded Hou Jing on horseback for being treacherous and shameless, and drove the horse himself to kill it, but it was a burst of arrows like a storm, and Gao Aocao could only retreat to Chenliu with the remaining troops in the case of many dead soldiers.

Although Murong Shaozong didn't ridicule him sarcastically, he also asked solemnly: "What is happening now, you can't blame me for losing last time, right?" Gao Aocao was speechless and immediately apologized.

The next day, Hou Jing took the initiative to come to Chen Liucheng and invite Murong Shaozong to go out of the city and fight him. Murong Shaozong ignored it, and only ordered to defend the city in all places, prepare stone-throwing artillery, and wait for the arrival of He Basheng's army. Hou Jing couldn't get food and grass for two days under the city, and heard that He Batsheng would come to Chenliu in a few days, so he had to pull out the camp and prepare to go south to return to Xuyang.

This is Murong Shaozong and Gao Aocao who opened the door and went out of the city to invite Hou Jing's troops, wanting to drag him under the city and prevent him from evacuating. Hou Jing led the army to kill back, and the Eastern Wei army retreated to the city to defend it, so back and forth and tossed back and forth several times, and finally saw the banner in the east of the city erecting the word He Ba, all the way to the army rushed over, it was no one else, it was He Basheng's headquarters army, Hou Jing saw that he was so frightened that he turned his horse and left, and Murong Shaozong and Gao Ao Cao in the city behind him also killed out of the city to pursue.

Hou Jing fled all the way and was embarrassed, his soldiers also scattered and fled, there were only eight hundred horsemen left, behind Murong Shaozong and Gao Aocao were busy chasing and killing his remnants, He Batsheng pursued all the way, the two sides came to the north bank of the Huai River, seeing that Hou Jing must be captured this time, and immediately shouted: "The cunning rabbit is dead, the lackeys are cooking, why is He Bajingjun pushing people too hard, I, Hou Jing, was captured today, will there be your brave place in the future?" ”

He Batsheng was originally dismissed by Gao Huan, and this time he finally caught the opportunity of the Southern Liang cavalry to invade Xuzhou, so he had the opportunity to re-emerge from the mountain, and secretly said in his heart This is indeed the truth. So he watched Hou Jing cross the river and go. This was a mistake by He Batsheng, Hou Jing fled this time, but it caused civil strife in Liang, and the people were devastated. (To be continued.) )