Looking at the army of Nanliang all over the city, fluttering with the military flag of Chen Zi, Hou Jingxin said: "This Chen Baxian also underestimates me Hou Jing too much, the emaciated camel is bigger than a horse, and you want to take advantage of my illness to kill me?" Hmph, if I don't let you know my methods today, you still think that there is no capable person in the world. So he stood on the tower and shouted below, "Who is there in the city that surrounds my city and invades my borders?" Hurry up and get your name on! ”

It didn't take long to see Chen Ba in the distance in the formation of the Southern Liang army riding a red horse slowly, three hundred meters below the city, Chen Ba first stood still, raised his hand at the city tower and said loudly: "General Chen Ba of Pingnan is here first, and the thieves in the city quickly open the door and surrender." Hou Jing laughed when he heard this, and said in his heart, you are in a hurry, I haven't recruited you yet, but you have intimidated me first!

Hou Jing Da Lama stood on the city gate tower and shouted loudly below: "Taifu Prime Minister Hou Jing, the great general of the universe, is here, who dares to be presumptuous under the city?" Chen Baxian pointed to Hou Jing on the city tower and scolded: "You are a thief, forcing the first emperor to hold the new monarch hostage, disloyal and unjust, harming the country and the people, and daring to call General Taifu?" What a shame! If I were to find a place for you to apologize. Hou Jing was also annoyed, just say why scold people if you say it, and immediately scolded: "Chen Baxian, you are embarrassed to say that me, your father was killed by Gao Huan's people, and he didn't even find a bone, you don't want to avenge him, but come here like a headless fly everywhere." You said that you are loyal and patriotic, so at this moment, you are going to assist the new monarch in Taicheng, how can you learn to grab land everywhere and fight the autumn wind like me? ”

Chen Baxian was so angry by his nonsense that he scolded Hou Jing at this time: "Well, you lame monkey full of nonsense, you don't have to mix right and wrong here, and I will use your head to commemorate the emperor today." After saying that, he turned his horse back to his side, Hou Jing was not angry when he heard this, and shouted to him lightly: "Princess Luyang is also here, you, the traitor who committed the following crimes, are not afraid of death, just come, let me Hou Jing teach you to be a man." ”

As a result, the drums of war in the city rumbled, and the artillery fire outside the city was overwhelming, and Hou Jing only had less than 4,000 people in his hands, half of whom were old, weak, sick and disabled, and could only help to defend and carry materials, and could not fight at all. Outside the city, Chen Baxian's troops were soldiers and had enough food to nourish their strength for a long time. He was still stimulated by Hou Jing, and he attacked head-on without any scruples.

Jiangzhou City is a port city adjacent to the Yangtze River located on the south bank of Taihu Lake, so the north and east of the city are swamps next to the water, and it is impossible to launch an offensive head-on, only the west and south of the city can be put up for positional warfare.

Hou Jing had already learned the essentials of siege and defense when he was under Er Zhurong in his early years to conquer the rebel border people of the six towns in the play, the building car was burned by Hou Jing with fire arrows, and the car was smashed by a cannon soldering iron and boulders before it reached the city gate, and the two sides flickered back and forth, but it was obvious that Chen Baxian's desperate attack had little effect, and he had to change his strategy and use the method of attacking the east and west, and mobilized most of the people to the south gate of the city to feint, but he was always staring at the movement in the west of the city.

Hou Jing didn't know his little tricks, let alone guarding the two gates, even if he let him attack all the four gates, Hou Jing, the old fox, still saw the tricks and defended the city impregnable. Chen Baxian's troops suffered heavy losses and had to leave the field early, so he ordered the whole army to retreat twenty miles and rest well. With 20,000 horses killed and wounded, and nearly 4,000 were wounded, Chen Baxian's troops retreated in despair.

Hou Jing stood on the tower of the city gate and got carried away and shouted at the Nanliang army under the city: "I said that you can't beat this city, why don't you go back quickly and think about how to beg me for mercy?" No one paid attention to him, he also felt very bored, and immediately walked down the city, at this time Song Zixian's troops had already taken the Taihu Lake waterway back from Taiyuan City, and came in from the port at the north gate, now Hou Jing was more confident, and he planned to go out of the city to pursue Chen Baxian.

"General, I'm afraid this is not appropriate, this Chen Baxian is also a famous general, even if he is temporarily evacuated, I thought he would also set up defensive troops in a specific place to prevent us from pursuing and sneak attacking, we didn't know his movements and attacked rashly, I was afraid that we would suffer a big loss." Song Zixian said to Hou Jing with concern, he felt that as long as he repelled Chen Baxian, it would be fine, because at this moment, he should still need to recuperate more than Hou Jing, after all, after losing the battle, manpower, material and morale were hit.

Hou Jing said proudly: "Hmph, a little Chen Baxian is actually arrogant in front of the old man, I will let him know today that he knows how high the sky is, how thick it is, otherwise he thinks that no one in the world can cure him." "After that, Song Zixian ordered all the men and horses to prepare to go out of the city to pursue, and let him stay in the city of Jiangzhou. Song Zixian had no choice but to follow the order, who made the family the master.

Chen Baxian retreated all the way south to the outside of Jianchang City, Jianchang City is backed by Xiushui, is a small city built by relying on Xiushui, Xiushui flows into Pengli Lake, and Pengli Lake is a water system with Taihu Lake slightly north, and the two are the same. Chen Baxian had arranged for 3,000 infantry to be stationed in the waters of Pengli Lake in advance, and as long as Hou Jing rushed to pursue him, this army would go straight into Hou Jing's retreat and form an encirclement.

Of course, Hou Jing is a northerner, and he is proficient in foot warfare, cavalry warfare, and city warfare, but when it comes to water warfare, or relying on rivers and mountains as barriers for ambushes, he is not so proficient, and he can't imagine that there are Chen Baxian's ambushes in this Pengli Lake. He and Song Zixian led 10,000 men to pursue in the south, and the combat effectiveness of this army was still very strong, although it may not be able to defeat Gao Huan's troops, but it was still slightly better than Chen Baxian's Southern Liang army.

Hou Jing followed him all the way like a hound, Chen Baxian had already formed a formation in the north of Jianchang City and was waiting for him, Hou Jing's troops were frightened by the formation in front of them as soon as they appeared, Chen Baxian's troops were neatly arrayed, swords and guns were flying, and it was indeed very scary to see that this formation was very imposing. However, Hou Jing had already boasted about Haikou in front of Song Zixian earlier, and if he confessed at this time, it would be a shame to lose people, so like driving a flock of sheep, let the troops start to attack the Southern Liang army.

Although Chen Baxian's troops suffered losses in the previous siege battle, they did not hurt their vitality after all, and at this moment they were slightly stabilized in the momentum of the formation in the north of the city, and when they saw Hou Jing's troops killing in a mess, he immediately raised his sword in the formation and shouted: "Soldiers, today is a good time for you to make meritorious contributions, and on the opposite side is Hou Jing, our great enemy of Nanliang, everyone is eager to move forward and kill the enemy, follow me!" He was the first to rush out of the formation, and the countless Southern Liang soldiers behind him also roared and rushed in.

Hou Jing's troops are wearing gray military uniforms, Chen Baxian's troops are jujube uniforms, I saw that the two colors were mixed together in an instant, it looked very good, I saw the people killed in the formation turning over the ghosts and crying wolves, but after all, Hou Jing's troops were obviously a little stronger, and the Southern Liang army that was fighting gradually Chen Baxian began to be unable to resist, and retreated to Jianchang City, Chen Baxian could not stop the rout and retreat of his own army, just when this thousand troops were launched, suddenly Hou Jing's army was in a commotion behind the formation, and the three thousand infantry who had been ambushed before were outflanked at this moment, Chen Baxian shouted loudly on the horse: "Give it to me, the enemy is surrounded by us, speed up and make meritorious contributions, and those who have won today will be rewarded." ”

The morale of the troops who had originally begun to retreat rose back and began to counterattack Hou Jing's troops, Song Zixian looked at the Nanliang ambush behind the formation, and said to Hou Jing: "General, let's withdraw, the heroes don't suffer the immediate losses, you go first, and I will break the back." Hou Jing is also a cheerful person, and immediately decided to retreat with the whole army, and Song Zixian was appointed as the general of the palace. So Song Zixian led more than 1,000 people in his headquarters to be responsible for the break, and Hou Jing commanded the remaining troops to flee north one by one, and the 3,000 Southern Liang infantry troops were completely unable to stop this group of escapees, plus Song Zixian led the team to attack them without his life, so this ambush army was almost wiped out.

Hou Jing retreated north with the remnants of more than 5,000 horses, it seemed that he was very embarrassed, running at the forefront of the troops, Ren Yue in Jiangzhou City saw a force coming towards him on the city tower, and thought it was Chen Baxian's people, so frightened that he hurriedly ordered people to prepare to attack with arrows, and Hou Jing, who took the lead, shouted while riding a horse: "Don't release arrows, I'm Hou Jing, don't release arrows!" Ren Yue saw clearly that the person who came was really Hou Jing, so he asked people to quickly put down the drawbridge and let Hou Jing and his troops enter the city.

Song Zixian's troops were almost wiped out, and only eighty horsemen fled back with him. This army is considered to be his family foundation, and now that Hou Jing has wiped out his old bottom in one battle, Song Zixian must be angry in his heart, and before he set off, he said not to pursue Chen Baxian easily, and sure enough, this guy also set up such a big ambush, almost putting everyone in.

Hou Jing also knew that Song Zixian had suffered a heavy loss this time, so he specially went to him to comfort him, and appointed him as the assassin of Jiangzhou, in charge of the affairs of Jiangzhou, Taiyuan, Gaotang, and Nanxincai, and sent people to send weapons and famous horses as compensation. Chen Baxian fought with Hou Jing this time and also understood the gap between himself and Hou Jing, he would definitely not be able to eliminate Hou Jing with his own strength in a short period of time, only to recuperate first and find someone to help him get Hou Jing together, this time he was also greatly injured, and nearly half of the 20,000 horses were defeated by Hou Jing in two battles.

So the two families were at peace for the time being.

Yuwentai and Xie Sichun made a final decision in the barracks: they claimed to be going south to support Xiao Duo, but in fact, the real purpose was to attack Liu Chuang, a horse thief force in southern Hanzhong, because after weighing it repeatedly, Su Sui's advice to Yuwentai was to take Hanzhong first, and then defeat Sichuan Shu, give priority to establishing an advantage, and wait for the opportunity to enter Nanliang from Guanzhong and Sichuan Shu. Although it is safe and safe to do this, it is easy to take advantage of the situation in the southern part of Hanzhong to enter northern Sichuan with the strength of Yuwentai, but this also reflects his lack of confidence from the side, Gao Huan's main force is limited to the southern Liang Jiangdong region, and at this time, Hebei and Henan are empty, as long as the gamblers who dare to let go will choose to sneak attack Gao Huan's back.

It's a pity that Yuwentai can't control and unify the understanding of these people because of the mutual involvement between the various clans in Guanzhong, and these clan lords are also afraid of fighting with Gao Huan again, they have suffered from the Eastern Wei Army over the years, and they really don't want to fight with Gao Huan, because they are not sure that they can conquer and occupy Luoyang, Henan, but like those "hillbillies" in their eyes in the southwest, they can be used to spread their anger and fight a dozen, even if they lose, it will not hurt their vitality, and it will not hurt the overall situation.

But Yuwentai didn't want to show his deeds too obviously, so he announced that they were going south to support Xiao Duo, and Xiao Duo was even more eager for Yuwentai's army to arrive as soon as possible because he completely turned his face with Gao Huan.

For Gao Huan's wolf ambitions, Xiao Duo had already seen through and was very angry at Wang Seng Bian's defection, he relied on Yuwentai to support him behind his back not only officially broke with Gao Huan, but also wrote a letter to scold Gao Huan, which made Gao Huan very depressed, so the shaving army, which had been stationed in Runan for almost a month, began to act.

This Liu Chuang is from the Qian nationality, and his natal name is Wu Nalu. In the early years, Liu Xiang was a sworn brother with the Huns Liangzhou Assassin History, and later Liu Xiang was defeated by the new warlords in Guanzhong and drove him out of Liangzhou, at this time Zhang Chao, the Taishou of the Southern Liang Hanzhong, took the opportunity to lure him, so Liu Xiang took 20,000 troops from Guanzhong to Nanliang, Xiao Yan also deliberately gave him the title of the governor of Dingdifficult, and upgraded the city county that originally belonged to Hanzhong to the county as Liu Xiang's station. (To be continued.) )