Hope is always born in disappointment, just when Taicheng has reached the limit and can't hold on, another reinforcement arrives, and the leader of the army will be the famous general of the Southern Dynasty, Sizhou Thorn Shi Liu Zhongli.

Sizhou Thorn Shi Liu Zhongli, Hengzhou Thorn Shi Wei Cang, Nanling Taishou Chen Wenche, Xuanmeng General Li Xiaoqin, Poyang Prince Xiao Si, Xiyu Prefecture Thorn Shi Pei Zhi High Council Army Jiankang outside the city. Liu Zhongli is the son of Liu Jin, and Wei Cang is Wei Di's subordinate.

These groups are not affiliated with each other.

It turned out that after the news of the siege of Taicheng spread, Xiao Yan's sons, grandchildren and nephews who were out of the town were usually full of contradictions, but the enemy still sent reinforcements.

Xiao Yan's nephew, Xiao Fan, the king of Poyang, sent his son Xiao Si, the assassin Shi Pei Zhigao of Western Yuzhou, and Zhao Feng, the Taishou of Jian'an, each with their headquarters to help.

When Hou Jingchu rebelled against the Eastern Wei Dynasty, the Liang Dynasty launched a large-scale northern expedition, and the marshal in Xiao Yan's heart was Xiao Fan, but Zhu Yi thought that Xiao Fan was a hero but a brutal person, and Jiang You was anti-angry, so it was not appropriate to hand over the soldiers and horses to Xiao Fan. The implication is that Xiao Fan will make chaos if he has soldiers and horses, Xiao Yan had to use Xiao Huili, who Zhu Yi was satisfied with, because Xiao Huili was weak and had no strategy, and when he went out to fight, he covered his sedan chair with a layer of raw cowhide, which provoked Xiao Yan to change the Northern Expedition of Zhenyang Marquis Xiao Yuan in the Ming Dynasty, and Xiao Fan was the general of the expedition to the north, and the governor of Hanbei was the military and concurrently served as the assassin of Southern Yuzhou. After Hou Jing occupied Shouyang, Xiao Fan changed to Hezhou Thorn History and guarded Hefei. Xiao Fan had already discovered Hou Jing's problem, but all the reports were suppressed by Zhu Yi, and now that Taicheng was in crisis, he sent reinforcements from Jiangxi.

Xiao Fan took Pei Zhigao as the right reinforcement of the Jiangjiang Army, and the three of them were stationed in Zhanggongzhou, waiting to receive reinforcements from the upper ranks.

The main military regions of the upper class were Xiao Ji, the eighth son of Xiao Yan in Shudi, King of Wuling, and Xiao Yi, the seventh son of Xiao Yan in Jingzhou, and Xiao Yi, the king of Xiangdong.

Xiao Yi moved to supervise Xiangzhou Thorn Shi Hedong Wang Yu, Yongzhou Thorn Shi Yueyang Wang Xiao Jing, Jiangzhou Thorn Shi Dangyang Gong Xiao Daxin, Yingzhou Thorn Shi Nanping Wang Xiao Ke and others sent troops to help. Xiao Yi also has a position of envoy, governor of Jing, Yong, Xiang, Si, Ying, Ning, Liang, Southern Qin, Northern Qin and Kyushu military generals, and Zhenxi general. Therefore, he has the power to mobilize the troops and horses of the states.

Jingzhou, where Xiao Yi is located, is the most powerful state among the states, and he sent Sima Wu Ye and Tianmen Taishou Fan Wenjiao to send troops from Jiangling. The prince Xiao Fang and others will ride 10,000 horses from the public security, and the king of Lingling Taishou will lead 10,000 boats to carry grain from Hanchuan to the east.

Sizhou Assassin Shi Liu Zhongli was originally the governor of the Western Province who crusaded against Hou Jing. At this time, troops were also brought in.

Hengzhou Thorn Shi Wei Cang has just been conscripted into the court as a free cavalry permanent attendant, after hearing the Hou Jing chaos, immediately summoned 5,000 soldiers and horses from Luling Beidao and went straight to Jiankang, to Yuzhang, Jiangzhou Thorn Shi Dangyang Gong Xiao Daxin sent people to contact the joint dispatch of troops, Wei Cang Pegasus went to see Daxin, persuaded Daxin not to leave the town in a hurry for the time being, because Jiangzhou is located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, the status is important. It is advisable to bluff and move to the town of Huangcheng and wait to meet the armies of the upper stream and go east.

Xiao Daxin then ordered the soldier Liu Xin to bring 2,000 people to help with Wei Cang.

Wei Cang arrived in Nanzhou, at this time his brother Liu Zhongli's foot cavalry arrived in Hengjiang, Wei Cang sent food and ordnance to Liu Zhongli, and took out his own gold silk to reward the soldiers, in order to encourage everyone to rescue.

Pei Zhigao sent more than 200 large ships to meet everyone.

None of these people had the confidence that they could confront Hou Jing alone, so they needed everyone to work together to deal with the rebels. It's not good for the dragons to have no leader, so many people and horses will only be a rabble without unified command, so everyone discussed making an alliance leader.

Among the generals, Liu Zhongli is the most famous. is known as a famous general in the world, Liu Zhongli himself is like a proud little rooster, he sees himself as a hero of the world, and pride also needs capital. Liu Zhongli does have proud capital, when the famous Northern Wei Dynasty general He Ba won the three jings, and the Liang army was defeated and retreated. In the end, it was Liu Zhongli who stopped He Batsheng's offensive. At that time, Emperor Wu of Liang missed Liu Zhongli. The front line is inseparable from it, and the emperor has no choice but to let the painter draw an image and put it beside him.

Wei Cangti yì elected Liu Zhongli as the leader of the alliance. However, Pei Zhigao didn't say a word. Because Pei Zhigao is famous, no one in the generals of the lower armies dares to speak, and a few days have passed, and the commander has not yet been elected.

Saving soldiers is like fighting fire, Wei Wei is really anxious, he said angrily to everyone: Now we are going to the country together, the purpose is to get rid of the thief. I recommended Liu Sizhou because he had lived in the frontier for a long time, and Hou Jing was very jealous of him, besides, Sizhou soldiers and horses were elite, who of us could compare? If you talk about seniority, Liu Zhongli is under the old man, take a step back and talk about age, he is younger than me, and the reason why I recommended him is for the sake of Jiangshan Sheji. Today's situation depends on the unity of the soldiers, if the hearts of the people are not aligned, the big thing will go. Pei Gongnai was a veteran of the dynasty, and he would never obstruct the thief's plan because of personal grievances. Wei Wei is willing to mediate for everyone.

Wei Wei took a small boat to Pei Zhigao's camp and reproached Pei Zhigao: Now that the second palace is in danger, the courtiers should work together to fight the thief, how can they contradict themselves. If Yuzhou has to do things on its own, I'm not welcome.

When Pei Zhigao heard this, tears fell: I am highly favored by the country, and I should take the lead, but I hate myself for being old and decrepit, and I can't serve the country, and I hope that Liu Zhijun can calm down the rebels, I think everyone has discussed it, and I don't need to say anything about it. If you doubt my intentions, I will tell you.

Wei Wei smiled and said: I understand Pei Gong's intentions.

At this point, the armies recognized Liu Zhongli's status as the leader of the alliance, and the armies marched towards Jiankang.

Arrived at Xinting, the soldiers and horses of Yang Xiong, the son of Yang Baihua in Xuancheng, also arrived, and the reinforcements totaled more than 100,000, everyone camped along the Qinhuai River, and Hou Jing also confronted each other in the tree fence around Zhongxing Temple on the north bank.

Liu Zhongli camped in Zhuque Hangnan, Pei Zhigao garrisoned Nanyuan, Chen Wenche and Li Xiaoqin camped in Danyang County, and Xiao Si built a camp in Xiaohangnan.

That night, Liu Zhongli went to Wei Ji's camp and asked Wei Ji to set up camp in Qingtang overnight. Qingtang was blocked in the middle of Stone City, Wei Wei thought that Hou Jing would definitely come to fight, and the camp gate could not stand up at all in one night, and how could he compete with Hou Jing with his thousands of people.

Only then did Liu Zhongli tell his plan: Qingtang was approaching the Qinhuai River, and he planned to stop the grain ship here, and the relationship between military and grain was heavy, and it was not safe to hand it over to others, so he could not take on this role unless he was a brother.

Brother Wei doesn't have to worry about the lack of soldiers, I will send someone to help, and the camp fence will be erected before dawn. Then Suo Lu will have nothing to do.

Seeing Liu Zhongli say this, Wei Cang had no reason not to agree. Immediately led the troops to push forward with all their might, and rushed to Qingtang to build a fence.

Liu Zhongli sent Liu Shuyin, the general of the Zhige, to help.

Liu Shuyin advanced by land and water, but due to the heavy fog, he could not identify the direction. actually took a fork in the road, and it was already midnight when he met Wei Wei, and the time was getting more and more urgent. The armies fought hard to fortify the fence.

However, by daybreak, Wei Ji's camp was still not completed.

The thief scouts reported that reinforcements had set up camp in Qingtang, Hou Jing climbed the gate tower of Chanling Temple to observe the movements of the Liang army, and saw that the camp gate of the Liang army had not yet been closed, Hou Jing knew that if the camp gate was completed, it would be difficult to attack again. The fighter plane was slightly inferior, and Hou Jing immediately led a large army to cross the river to attack.

When the news of Suolu's killing reached Qingtang, Wang Changmao, the deputy general of the Liang army, persuaded Wei Cang to defend against the fence, but Wei Cang had Liu Shuyin's help and hardened his confidence, thinking that he could fight with Hou Jing.

Wei Cang ordered the general Zheng Yi to meet the enemy head-on, and Liu Shuyin bypassed the waterway to attack from behind, flanking the thieves in front and back.

However, what Wei Cang didn't expect, and what Liu Zhongli didn't expect, was that Liu Shuyin was a big soft egg.

Confronted with a formidable foe. He lingered, Zheng Yi met the enemy alone and was defeated by Hou Jing, Hou Jing took advantage of the victory to pursue, and killed until Wei Cang's unfinished camp gate. Wei Cang led his soldiers to fight to the death.

When the news of Hou Jing's attack on Qingtang reached Liu Zhongli's camp, Liu Zhongli was eating, and the military situation was urgent. He threw away his chopsticks, and rode away before he had time to put on his armor. More than 70 riders on the left and right followed closely.

It's still late, waiting for Liu Zhongli to arrive. Wei Cang had already died in battle, Liu Zhongli led his cavalry to gallop back and forth, spears flying in his hands, hundreds of rebels were killed on the spot, and no less than 1,000 people died when they threw themselves into the water.

Liu Zhongli straddled the horse and raised the spear to take Hou Jing directly, Hou Jing's kung fu was not at the same level as Liu Zhongli, seeing that Hou Jing was about to become a ghost under the spear, Zhi Boren, the general of the nearest thief army, saw that Hou Jing was in danger and could not be rescued, so he simply came to the net to die, and regardless of whether Hou Jing could be stabbed to death, he just waved the long knife from behind and slashed at Liu Zhongli's back, Liu Zhongli couldn't dodge, the back shoulder was slashed, the spear was deflected, and Hou Jing flashed aside.

The house leak happened to be rainy, and under the serious injury, Liu Zhongli's war horse was stuck in the mud and could not move, and all the thieves raised their spears and stabbed them together.

Liu Zhongli closed his eyes and said in his heart: I, Liu Zhongli, am famous, and I can't imagine that I will die here.

At the critical moment, the Liang army cavalry general Guo Shan rushed over to rescue Liu Zhongli, and the thief army left the frightened Liu Dadu Governor and retreated.

This battle had a heavy impact on both Hou and Liu, and Hou Jing no longer dared to cross the river to fight, but Liu Zhongli was short of breath from then on, and he didn't dare to take the initiative to attack, and the two actually sympathized with each other.

Xiao Lun, the king of Shaoling, packed up the scattered soldiers and joined the Dongyang Assassin Shi Lincheng Gong Xiao Dalian, Xingan Gong Xiao Dacheng and others from the east to the east, and camped in Hangnan, they saw that the army was mainly based on Liu Zhongli, and also announced that they were under Liu Zhongli's dispatch.

thought that there was such a famous general commander who could raise his eyebrows and be ashamed, however, Xiao Lun was wrong.

The reinforcements were prosperous, however, what made Xiao Lun angry was that Liu Zhongli did not convene the generals at all, and only drank and had fun in the camp every day, and never mentioned the attack again.

King Shaoling personally came to ask for a meeting, but he didn't see him for a long time outside the gate, which made Xiao Lun very angry, and hated Liu Zhongli in his heart.

For Liu Zhongli's qualitative changes, it often feels unbelievable, a once powerful general, because of the defeat in the first battle, he completely changed his personality, and finally even ignored his old father's call for help in the city, which seemed very unreasonable. I have repeatedly read this record in the "History of the South", and it seems that if I understand that if a person's temperament changes dramatically, it must be something that has happened.

In the battle of Qingtang between the two of them before and after Liu Zhongli, when Liu Zhongli was stabbed in the back and his horse fell into the mud, Hou Jing's rebels swarmed and stabbed him with knives and guns, and the cavalry general Guo Shan rushed over to save him in the history books. This record is rather suspicious, unless Guo Shan is Superman.

If the situation at that time was like this: Liu Zhongli was injured in the shoulder, and his horse fell into the mud, and when the rebels swarmed up and stabbed dozens of spears at Liu Zhongli, Hou Jing next to him suddenly moved with pity and yelled: Don't hurt Governor Liu. When the rebels heard this, they withdrew their swords and spears, and Guo Shan rushed over to rescue Liu Zhongli. Before leaving, Liu Zhongli glanced at Hou Jing, shame and gratitude intertwined.

Liu Zhongli, who picked up a life, was short of breath from then on, and refused to fight Hou Jing again, and even Hou Jing threw a jade ring to him across the city wall as a souvenir.

A qiē seems to have been given a reasonable explanation.

Jingzhou rescuers Xiao Fang and others, Wang Shengbian, Wu Ye, Tianmen Taishou Fan Wenjiao, Gaozhou Thorn Shi Li Qianshi, and Qianzhou Thorn Shi Yang Yaren each led people to arrive.

Since Liu Zhongli refused to command, some of the reinforcements decided to take the initiative.

Xiao Si, the son of the king of Poyang, Xiao Qu, the Hou of Yong'an, Yang Yaren, Li Qianshi, and Fan Wenjiao, led the crowd to Huai, and broke through the front gate of the thief's Dongfu City in one fell swoop. Then set up camp in the east of Qingxi Shuidong. Unfortunately, the good times were short-lived. Li Qianshi and Fan Wenjiao led 5,000 sharp soldiers to drive straight into the invincible and arrived at the east of Hushou Bridge. was ambushed by Hou Jing's general Song Zixian, Fan Wenjiao was killed in battle, and Li Qianshi fled back on his own.

From then on, no one dared to act alone.

Although there are many reinforcements, they have their own ghosts, Shaoling Wang Xiao Lun and Liu Zhongli have a deep bitter hatred, Lincheng Gong Xiao Dalian and Yong'an Hou Xiao are indeed incompatible, there are many internal contradictions, Liang Jun military discipline is poor, burning, killing and looting is no different from thieves, in the eyes of the people of Jiankang, whether it is a suo or an official army and bandits, they are all average. Therefore, Liang Jun did not have the support of the people of Jiankang.

Taicheng has been besieged for more than three months, when Hou Jing attacked, everyone knew that the city needed food, so the city stored 400,000 hui rice, and transported 50 trillion yuan of money and silk from the treasury of each yamen into Deyang Hall, but everyone forgot two things in a hurry: firewood and fish and salt.

You can't eat raw rice, so you have no choice but to dismantle Shangshu Province and use wood as wood to cook rice, and remove the straw mats to feed the horses. When the grass was eaten, the horses had to be fed. The soldiers could not eat meat, so they boiled cowhide armor, caught mice, and caught birds to eat. The taste without salt is unpleasant, and Ouchi Imperial Kitchen still has some dry moss, which tastes sour and salty. The fighters also rushed to eat.

Later, the soldiers killed horses in the palace hall, and the meat was less than enough to divide the people. Some people mixed some human flesh with horse meat, and those who had been dead for many days had begun to spoil. So people who eat human flesh often get sick.

The armies of all walks of life were more than a month old and could not break the siege, and there was a shortage of food and water in the city. This is not the worst, because the dead cannot be dealt with in time, they quickly deteriorate and stink, there are rotten things everywhere, there is a stench in the air, the plague broke out, more and more people died of illness in the city, and Taicheng became more and more like a hell on earth.

Life in the city is difficult, the rebels outside the city are not having a good time, the people nearby have long been looted, and there is still a year's worth of food in the city of Dongfu, but the reinforcements cut off the road and are in a hurry.

Hou Jing has reached the end of the crossbow, if the reinforcements work together and cooperate with the defenders in the city, a catastrophe in Jiangnan may be avoided.

However, the current situation is that the defenders in the city are having a hard time, the reinforcements cannot advance or retreat, and the rebels who are besieging the city are not having a good time, and the three sides are in a stalemate.

Hou Jing felt that he was about to collapse, when he crossed the river, he only had 8,000 men under his command, and now the team surrounding Taicheng has reached as many as 100,000, which makes him both happy and annoyed, the problem of feeding more than 100,000 people is a big deal, and everyone can't go hungry and desperate.

The Jingzhou soldiers, who were strong in soldiers and horses, were approaching from the east of the waterway under the personal leadership of Xiao Yi, and Hou Jing was quite afraid of this.

Strategist Wang Wei offered a plan to delay the army: "Taicheng will not be able to take it for a while and a half, and our army is facing a shortage of food, so it is better to pretend to sue for peace, and send people to Dongfu City to transport the stored grain and rice to Stone City through the peace talks. With the food, the soldiers also took the opportunity to rest and recuperate, and stepped up the repair of siege equipment, and when the defenders of the city were slackened, we could succeed in one blow. Isn't the covenant just a piece of paper, the city is broken, who would think of breaking the covenant. ”

& Count, good plan. Hou Jing nodded repeatedly.

So Ren Yue and Yu Ziyue were ordered to go to the city to report to the city, indicating Hou Jing's intention to seek peace.

The civil and military officials in the city led by the crown prince Xiao Gang responded positively, they were too tired, too eager to get a little respite, and now the thieves took the initiative to sue for peace, which was exactly what everyone could not ask for, and they seemed to see a glimmer of hope.

The same traitor talks about peace, where is the face of the court?

Only Xiao Yan maintained a clear understanding of this, but although the old emperor was unhappy, he couldn't resist the prince and the ministers, so he had to let Xiao Gang have full authority to handle the peace talks.

Both sides seem to have shown sincerity, and the negotiations went very smoothly, but the key is that the Liang court did not have high requirements: as long as Hou Jing was willing to withdraw his troops, everything else was easy to say.

In order to make the fake look like the real thing, Hou Jing kept bargaining, and finally the two sides took a step back from each other, and the contract was finally negotiated!

The two sides agreed that after Hou Jing withdrew his troops, the imperial court ceded the land of the four states on the right side of the river to Hou Jing, and Hou Jing could continue to be his king of Henan. In order to ensure the performance of the contract, the two sides exchanged hostages, Prince Xiao Gang's eldest son, Xuancheng Wang Xiao Daqi, went out of the city as a hostage, and Hou Jingyi entered the city with Yu Ziyue and Zuo Cheng Wang Wei as hostages.

The results of the negotiations were handed over to the Chinese and martial arts ministers of the city for discussion, and everyone agreed that Xiao Daqi was a concubine, the future prince, and it was not suitable to be a hostage, and he sent Shicheng Gong Xiao out of the city with a large amount of money.

The negotiations have yielded a successful conclusion, and since the peace talks have been successful, the parties have ceased fighting. The will came out of the city, and the soldiers and horses from all walks of life suspended the attack, with Hou Jing as the prime minister, and the military governors of the four states of Jiangxi, Yuzhou Mu and Henan Wang.

The two sides set up an altar outside the Xihua Gate to swear an oath, and the Liang Dynasty servants shot Wang Ke, Shangjia Hou Xiao Shao, and Xiao Jin, the official Lang, and Yu Ziyue, Ren Yue, and Wang Wei formed an alliance with the altar. Hou Jing went out of the gate, and the left guard general Liu Jin went out of the Xihua Gate, and the two were allied against each other by blood, how long can such an alliance full of distrust last?

How long can such a covenant of mutual distrust last? (To be continued......)