Gao Huan saw that he was crying sadly, and his head hurt, so he asked Gao Longzhi to help him up and let him sit and talk well, Xiao Fangzhi continued to cry: "This Hou Jing has invaded Taicheng, even if the people of our Liang Kingdom have suffered, the military disaster and natural disasters have completely failed to survive, my father took out food to help the victims, but was robbed by Song Zixian and Guo Yuanjian for no reason, so my father sent General Wang Seng Bian to find Hou Jing to ask for food and grass, but he was humiliated, so he had to start a war with him. Hou Jing was originally very cunning, my father was not his opponent, so he had to defend in Jiangling, and now the arrival of the Prime Minister's army is a good time to help us rescue the people of Jiangdong, and I ask the Prime Minister to have mercy on us and avenge us. With that, he got up and knelt on the ground and kowtowed a few more times to Gao Huan.

Gao Huan is the most unbearable person to see others begging for himself like this, if you are angry and want to fight and kill, he won't even blink an eye, and he will do it with you when he lifts the knife, but if you are looking for death and crying and wiping tears like a girl, he really has no tricks. There are also such people in real life, who are always unable to refuse other people's various requests, even if they are reluctant in their hearts, but they just can't say a word.

Gao Huan asked Gao Longzhi to help him up and comforted: "This time I led the army south to exterminate Hou Jing, a rebellious minister and thief, not to mention how much disaster he brought to the people of Jiangdong, just talk about my friendship with your grandfather, and I will also avenge him and clean up the door." But ......" Xiao Fangzhi raised his head and looked at Gao Huan and said: "If the Prime Minister has something to say, I can directly follow the next one, before I came, my father specially instructed me that as long as it is within our ability, I will do my best to cooperate with the Prime Minister." ”

So the two of them began to bargain very openly, and finally Gao Huan clapped his hands and said: "Okay, I'll finally say a fixed price, half of everyone's family." As he spoke, he looked at Xiao Fangzhi, only to see Xiao Fangzhi bow his head and ponder, and after a while, he raised his head and said as if he had made a lot of determination: "Okay, then half of the family!" But how to divide it? Hou Jing looked at Yang Xiuzhi, Yang Xiuzhi quickly got up and said: "Don't worry about this, we can discuss this matter in Jiankang after we can solve Hou Jing first." Xiao Fangzhi nodded and said, "It's okay, then I'll report this good news to my father first." ”

Why does Xiao Fangzhi have the right to give half of the land of Liang to Gao Huan? The reason is very simple, before leaving, Xiao Duo had clearly told him his bottom limit, and he didn't hide it like he asked Xiao Yu to ask Yuwentai before, because although the situation was critical at that time, it was not to the point of threatening his life, and he always wanted to bargain with Yuwentai. But now it's different, Hou Jing's troops may attack him at any time and kill him, Gao Huan is the thigh he is most likely to hold, and he is also the most likely to destroy Hou Jing's strength, Xiao Duo has already rushed to the hospital in a hurry, and he does not hesitate to drink to quench his thirst in exchange for Gao Huan's help.

People are like this, after falling into despair, they often make some decisions that are difficult for ordinary people to understand, Xiao Duo thinks that it doesn't matter if he cedes half of the land of Liang, and the land of Liang that he originally controlled has not reached half, at least the Qianzhong region and the Sichuan-Shu region do not belong to him, Jiaozhou and Guangzhou are also subordinate to the central government, and now if they are divided into two, he will still earn it. Of course, in order to avoid being scolded by future generations, he also had to pretend that he was forced into a desperate situation by Hou Jing (in fact, he was forced into a desperate situation by Hou Jing) and had no choice but to cooperate with Gao Huan, not to mention that Gao Huan still had Xiao Daoquan, the puppet emperor, as a signboard.

Now things are clearer, Gao Huan has sent someone to send a letter to Xiao Gang in Jiankang City, asking him to abdicate and surrender in Kaicheng, which can save him from death, and issued an announcement that all kinds of forces in Jiangdong will come to Dao Zhongli to welcome and surrender to the new emperor Xiao Daoquan within the time limit, and several famous families in Jiangdong have begun to surge in private.

Zhang Huaren and Ren Yue responded to Hou Jing's call and began to prepare in a hurry, planning to take Princess Luyang and Jianwen Emperor Xiao Gang secretly before Gao Huan's army was surrounded, and as for the ministers, the other princes and nobles could go with them later.

Xiao Gang, the Jianwen Emperor in Jiankang City, didn't want to be this puppet emperor under Hou Jing for a long time, Hou Jing was his brother-in-law and his enemy, everything Hou Jing did made the country on the verge of extinction, he really couldn't raise his interest to love him, plus he had no real power, everything was done according to the requirements of Zhang Huaren and Ren Yue, these two people were Hou Jing's agents in Taicheng. Therefore, the hatred of the country and the family made Xiao Gang completely unable to forgive Hou Jing, and he rarely went to see her together with Princess Luyang who was in Taicheng.

Knowing that Hou Jing planned to take him away, he tried every means to stay, and even went on a hunger strike to protest, but Zhang Huaren didn't care about him, put all the emperor's jade seals and tiger talismans into the carriage and wrapped Xiao Gang up, and escorted him away directly with Princess Luyang, and all this was done under the premise of hiding from the ministers and other nobles.

The entire Taicheng was already empty, and Ren Yue sent someone to load it and send it away, intending to send it to Hou Jing's forward camp. However, this group of people dragged their families with the old and the young, and there were so many carriages and belongings to follow, and the mighty ones were easily exposed, plus there were many of them, and they couldn't go fast at all, so they stopped and stopped for three days before they went west along the Yangtze River to Fanchang in South Yuzhou.

Gao Huan's scouts had already found out the whereabouts of this group of people and horses, and went back to report it. Gao Huan was overjoyed and told Murong Heng the good news, planning to personally lead the team to intercept this group of fat sheep, Murong Heng is getting more and more sick now, and he can't even say a complete sentence clearly, and finally pointed to Gao Huan's heart, and patted his chest again, meaning that what Gao Huan thinks is the same as what he thinks. Gao Huan let him recuperate in Zhongli City, and he didn't plan to take him around again.

Gao Huan asked Yang Xiuzhi and Gao Longzhi to guard the camp, and he took Gao Zhongming and three thousand ironclad cavalry all the way south to announce the traces of Xiao Gang and Princess Luyang, but in half a day, he caught up with them in a place called Maoshan in Fanchang, Zhang Huaren asked Ren Yue to take the emperor and princess to go first, and he led his troops as the palace army to resist and delay Gao Huan, who knew that these three thousand ironclad troops were the elite of Gao Huan's elite, Zhang Huaren's troops and people were not of the same magnitude at all, plus the weapons and equipment were backward, Gao Huan's ironclad army clashed back and forth two or three times, and Zhang Huaren's troops surrendered to the death, and he himself was arrested and looked at his head and took it to Gao Huan to ask for a reward.

Ren Yue saw that Zhang Huaren was dead, and his heart was empty, so he only brought three or five relatives to pick up the princess from the carriage and galloped on horseback, even Xiao Gang didn't want him, and those one-carriage and carriage of property were even more forgotten, and it was important to flee for his life at the moment. After Gao Huan received Xiao Gang, he didn't say anything special, just said hello lightly, and asked people to send his carriage and those belongings to Zhongli Gao Huan's camp.

When Yang Kan invaded the north before, Hou Jing's rebellion gave Gao Huan a headache, and he couldn't think of a good way to kill him, and later Hou Jing defected to Xiao Yan in Southern Liang, to be honest, he was relieved from his heart, and felt very grateful to Xiao Yan for taking over this hot potato and rat. But with Hou Jing's understanding of his domestic situation and military deployment, he always had no way to rest assured, and even thought of sending Qingluo to assassinate him, but after thinking about it several times, he was not sure, for fear that it would be self-defeating.

Until the news of Xiao Yan's death came, he felt that it was time to solve the historical legacy of Hou Jing, who knew that Murong Heng told him that Hou Jing was just the beginning of his future creation and hegemony, and from here on, Gao Huan suddenly felt that maybe he really had to change the direction of history after crossing over, and he couldn't wait for death every day.

After receiving Xiao Fangzhi's letter, Xiao Duo learned that Gao Huan was willing to help him defeat Hou Jing, and he was overjoyed, and repeatedly stated at military meetings and public occasions: As long as everyone persists, Hou Jing's demise is just around the corner, and the army of the Eastern Wei Dynasty is ready to go south to contain Hou Jing. Xiao Duojun, who was originally demoralized, was encouraged by him, and driven by Wang Seng Bian's impeccable defense, his morale was so high that he repelled Hou Jing's attacks several times in succession.

Maybe it's because the attack has not had any effect in the past few days, Song Zixian and Guo Yuanjian feel shameless, especially Guo Yuanjian, who always treats his subordinates fiercely on the front line, and pushes them to the front line to die, ancient city warfare is originally easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the cost of taking down a city may be several times or even dozens of times that of the defender, not to mention that there is also Wang Seng Bian who is known for his defense in this city.

Why don't Song Zixian and Guo Yuanjian understand such a truth? But he had already boasted about Haikou in front of Hou Jing before, and provoked an atmosphere in front of the generals of the whole army, and now he will not let him go if he admits Hou Jing. Song Zixian found Guo Yuanjian and the two to discuss how to break the enemy in the military tent, Song Zixian said helplessly: "This Wang Seng Bian is worthy of being an expert in defending the city, and his front layout is completely impeccable, I am really a little worried that if this continues, not only will the loss of our army be huge, but the morale blow will be even more terrible." ”

Guo Yuanjian crossed his waist with one hand and held the knife with the other, and said with a mouth full of wine: "What are you afraid of?" Can a mere Wang monk Bian stop me Guo Yuanjian? Sometime will personally put on the battle, you just need to supervise the battle in the back, and see how a certain person takes off the head of the old thief Wang Seng Bian and takes down this Jiangling waterway! Song Zixian hurriedly persuaded: "Brother Guo must not be in harmony, you and I are both generals of the first army and we can't risk the arrows lightly, in case there are three long and two short, I can't explain to the prime minister." ”

Guo Yuanjian ignored him at all, and waved his hand directly: "General Song doesn't need to say much, you see that I have done this miraculous feat today, and then I will go to the prime minister to ask for a reward, and let the prime minister know the true ability of so-and-so." After that, he turned around and went out, and when he walked to the door of the tent, Guo Yuanjian said in a low voice: "General Song, if you really lose this battle, you should apologize to the prime minister with death, please be sure to tell you on your behalf when the time comes." Song Zixian was stunned, he didn't expect Guo Yuanjian to say this, looking at his disappearing back, Song Zixian had an ominous feeling in his heart.

In fact, there are many people who have an ominous feeling like him, from Hou Jing himself, down to ordinary soldiers, Jiangling has been unable to attack for a long time, and his own side has suffered heavy casualties, and the rear is surrounded by Gao Huan's Wei army, everyone's morale is low, and the deserters are increasing day by day, and the scale is fleeing, the 200,000 people brought by Hou Jing to besiege Jiangling, and now there are less than 100,000 people left except for the dead and wounded, including more than 20,000 deserters, which is simply unimaginable in Hou Jing's troops in the past.

Wang Seng Bian was checking documents in the camp behind the embankment of the upstream waterway at this time, when suddenly a junior general ran in and reported: "General, Hou Jing's rebels have attacked again. Wang Seng Bian snorted coldly in his heart to find death, and then said lightly: "I know, you can report me again if the situation is urgent." He thought to himself that this Hou Jing's troops were just as vain as before, killing and wounding his own men, and it was impossible to break through his tight defenses. But the young general stood at the door and did not leave, and continued: "General, the rebels' attack this time is different, they have broken through two fences and are advancing to the central area, General Li of the forward battalion asked me to report to the general. ”

Before he could finish speaking, Wang Seng Bian had already put on his helmet, picked up his sword and walked towards him, saying as he walked: "Damn, why didn't you report earlier?" Take me to see it! The young general was stunned for a moment, so he hurriedly followed his pace and said in the back: "Yes, general, please come with me." The two of them came to the watchtower of the forward camp one after the other, but they didn't see General Li's figure, Wang Seng Bian secretly said bad in his heart, and asked the sergeants loudly: "Where did General Li go?" (To be continued.) )