The covenant was completed, and the people in the city waited for the rebels to withdraw, however, after several days, not only did they not see any signs of the rebels withdrawing, but even the long siege surrounding Taicheng did not mean to be demolished.

What the people in the city didn't know was that Hou Jing's troops were hurrying up time to repair their armor and weapons in preparation for the next attack.

Waiting and waiting is really urgent, Xiao Gang sent people out of the city to urge, but Hou Jing had a reason, one would say "you can't cross the river immediately without a boat", one would say "I'm worried about the Liang army's sneak attack", and the other would say "Shicheng Gong is not enough, let him go back to change Xuancheng Gong to escort him so that he can withdraw his troops with confidence", anyway, under a big excuse, there was no action.

The crown prince Xiao Gang is also a smart person, he clearly knows that Hou Jing's statement is a pretext, but he still has a glimmer of hope in his heart, what can Hou Jing also do as a Situ of the Eastern Wei Dynasty and a person from Henan Daxingtai, how can he be untrustworthy in doing things? To believe that the king of Henan will definitely withdraw his troops, everyone can only continue to wait in pain.

At this time, Xiao Huili, the assassin of Nanyan Prefecture and the heir of Nankang, the former Qingji Erzhou Assassin Xiangtan Hou Xiao Hui, and the son of Xichang Hou Xiao Yu led 30,000 people, and the army was in Qiongzhou.

Hou Jing was worried that the northern army would cut off his waterway, so he asked the imperial court to order all the troops to be stationed on the south bank, and since the contract had been concluded, he had to show sincerity, so the emperor ordered the northern reinforcements to stay in the area of Jiangtanyuan.

Hou Jing had to make another inch, and said that Gao Cheng, the king of Eastern Wei Qi, had taken away Shouyang and Zhongli, and asked the imperial court to lend Guangling and Qiaozhou to him, and then return them after he recaptured Shouyang.

In the face of Hou Jing's unreasonable demands, the city compromised and agreed again, and many people in later generations accused Xiao Gang of being a capitulation faction, but in fact, they put themselves in his shoes. Even if you don't agree, what can you do, and you can't count on the abandoned reinforcements outside the city. There is no way to pin your hopes on Hou Jing.

Xiangdong Wang Xiao Yi garrisoned Wucheng in Yingzhou, and Xiangzhou Thorn Shi Hedong Wang Yudun's army was in Qingcao Lake. Xinzhou Assassin Guiyang Wang Xiao Yu stopped at the mouth of the West Gorge, claiming to be waiting for reinforcements from all over the world, and stayed for many days.

Wang Wei heard that the main force of Jingzhou was staying on the way, and knew that although there were many reinforcements in Jiankang, they were not subordinate to each other, and each had his own thoughts, and all the rice from Dongfu City had been transported into Stone City, and the purpose of the peace talks had been achieved, and it was time to make the final blow to Xiao Yan'er.

So Wang Wei instigated Hou Jing to betray the alliance, and Xiao Zhengde also helped by his side. Wang Wei wrote an essay on behalf of Hou Jing to crusade against Xiao Yan's ten major crimes, Wang Wei wrote a wonderful pen, and Xiao Yan was so angry that he almost fainted.

The thieves attacked the city again, and the city sent an alarm to reinforcements from outside the city.

Four months ago, Jiankang was still a big city full of flowers, and in just four months, there were 100,000 men and women in the city, and 20,000 warriors with armor. There were less than four thousand people left, and the roads were littered with corpses, and the ravines were full of rotting juice that stinked unpleasantly. Rao is like this, and the city is still looking forward to the rescue of the thieves outside the city.

However, Liu Zhongli, the governor of the city outside the city, still sang and danced every day, allowing the generals to ask for battle. Ignore them all.

Xiao Jun, Marquis of Nan'an, persuaded: The imperial city is in danger, and the governor doesn't care. If we can't keep it, how can we see the righteous people in the world?

What made Xiao Jun speechless was. The method of agitation does not work at all for people like Liu Zhongli, Liu Zhongli should still drink and drink, play with women and play with women, and still be drunk and dreaming of death.

Xiao Jun saw that the governor was already incorrigible, and knew that it was useless to persuade him, but the city was in danger, what should he do? After thinking about it, he went to find Xiao Lun, and asked Xiao Lun's soldiers to divide into three ways, advance in three ways, and the attackers were unprepared or could succeed in one blow. But Xiao Lun has the lesson of the last failure, where does he dare to advance lightly?

The old Liujin in the city couldn't see the action of the reinforcements for a long time, and he was really anxious, so he climbed the city tower regardless of his age and shouted: Zhongli my son, Er Jun's father is in trouble and does not save him, how will people look at you in a hundred years?

Liu Zhongli turned a deaf ear.

was so angry that Liu Jin ran to the palace and said to Xiao Yan: It's a big deal, you have a good son like Shao Ling, and I have a rebel like Zhongli, all of them are disloyal and unfilial, and the thieves can't be leveled.

There are also people in the reinforcements who really can't stand it, Nankang Wang Xiao Huili about Yang Yaren and Zhao Bochao to cross the river at night to attack, and discussed the three of them to march on time, but I don't know what the reason is, Xiao Huili and Yang Yaren gathered their forces to cross the river and found that Yang Yaren had not arrived, they waited, but waited until dawn Yang Yaren was still nowhere to be seen, at this time the thief scouts discovered their movements, Hou Jing sent Song Zixian to lead the army to fight, Zhao Bochao once again became a fleeing general, Xiao Huili, who was fighting alone, was also defeated and fled, and the Liang army was killed and drowned more than 5,000 people, Hou Jing cut off all the heads of 5,000 people and placed them outside Taicheng in turn, so as to deter the Liang army inside and outside the city.

No one outside the city dared to fight anymore, and Hou Jing was able to concentrate on attacking the city.

Hou Jing once again led the lake to irrigate the city, the thieves who surrounded Taicheng marched in all directions, day and night, the Liang army that had not been supplied had reached the limit of life, they no longer had the ability to continue to resist, Taicheng finally fell, Hou Jing occupied the palace, pretended to pass on the holy decree, and took himself as the prime minister and the governor of the capital, and held the military and political power.

Fearing that the plague would run rampant, Hou Jing immediately ordered the corpses to be disposed of everywhere in the city after entering the city.

After attacking Taicheng, Hou Jing did not wash the court in blood, and it seems that he did not have the intention of officially enthroned the lord he supported, the thing is very clear, although Hou Jing is not literate but belongs to a person with many eyes, he knows that Xiao Zhengde's prestige is not enough to convince the public, if he clicks to clean up the old emperor Xiao Yan, he will become a complete rebel and thief, and he can no longer use the emperor's signboard to deal with the princes of the world in the name of justice.

Hou Jing wants to personally direct a big drama to coerce the Son of Heaven to order the princes, and to perform this play well, Xiao Zhengde has to sacrifice, and now, Xiao Zhengde's use value has expired.

Therefore, Xiao Zhengde, who was full of hope, did not wait for the news that Hou Jing had officially ascended the throne, but waited for the order of demotion, which was given in the name of Emperor Wu of Liang.

Appointing Xiao Zhengde as the servant and the great Sima, Xiao Zhengde is considered a bamboo basket for nothing, not only the emperor lost it, but also threw a son in vain (the pseudo-prince Xiao Jianli ran out to rob and was hit by a stray arrow at night and died), contributed his daughter, and his own fate is full of unknowns in the future. Explained in the book. Xiao Zhengde was later killed by Hou Jing, which is called a typical agency, which is too clever and mistaken Qingqing's life.

Hou Jing took five hundred guards into the Taiji East Hall to see Xiao Yan. For this Buddhist emperor whose life was full of legends, Hou Jing was a little scared. This kind of fear is not the fear of licking blood on the head of the knife and endangering life, but a complex emotion of inferiority and pride, and a kind of fear that arises spontaneously when the humble see the noble.

Hou Jing felt like a rabbit in his heart, he knelt down in front of Emperor Wu of Liang's couch, not daring to raise his head.

The Hou Jing Rebellion was the first major tragedy in the history of the Southern Dynasties, and this seemingly accidental, but in fact inevitable historical tragedy, also finally ended the average situation of the confrontation between the north and the south since the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Since then. The demise of the Southern Dynasties has become an irreversible trend. Xiao Yan has won the world, lost the world, and dealt with it indifferently, which is also what a generation of heroes should do. The Jinling Spring Dream came to an end, which is really emotional.

Xiao Yan looked serene, and asked softly: "Who is Qing?" How dare you come here, is your wife still in the north?

Hou Jing was sweating profusely, and he couldn't say a word.

Seeing that the lord saw a tiger that had lost its teeth, he was still so afraid. Ren Yue's face couldn't hold back, and he couldn't help but reply on behalf of Hou Jing: The wife of Hou Jing was killed by the surname Gao, and only the single one returned to His Majesty.

Xiao Yan asked again: How many people were there when crossing the river?

Hou Jing finally returned to normalcy at this time, and he replied: "A thousand people."

How many people are besieging Taicheng?

Lakh.

What now?

All the people of the world are under my control.

Xiao Yan heard this. He sighed in his heart, lowered his head and said nothing.

Yes, a thousand people have ruined a seemingly powerful empire. Such an incredible thing actually happened, and it happened when Xiao Yan, the founding monarch, was still in power. Where is the general Xiao who once overthrew the Southern Qi Dynasty and fought on the battlefield?

Although Xiao Yan seized power in Southern Qi by revolutionary means, he was able to treat the clan of the previous dynasty well. And deeply learned the lessons of the previous dynasty's indiscriminate killing of the clan, even if the brothers and nephews committed the crime of great rebellion, they mainly criticized and educated, however, good ideas may not have good results, Xiao Yan raised a group of white-eyed wolves.

If others don't say it, let's talk about Xiao Zhengde, his father is not a good thing, he has repeatedly murdered Xiao Yan, and even colluded with Xiao Yan's daughter to usurp the throne, Xiao Yan didn't care. Xiao Zhengde because he did not become the prince, defected to the north of the Suo Lu Sect to the south of the dynasty to abolish the prince of the self-proclaimed self-esteem, because no one took him too seriously, he had no choice but to rebel against Wei and flee back to Jiangnan, for such a rebellious son, Xiao Yan still forgave him, and crowned him as the king, the result of repaying grievances with virtue was that Xiao Zhengde colluded with Hou Jing to rebel, and even agreed with Hou Jing that on the day of the breakthrough of Taicheng, neither of the two palaces (the emperor and the prince) would remain.

The emperor's pampering and connivance made these children of the Liang Dynasty clan become lawless evil stars one by one, they were insiders in the civil war and outsiders in the war, Xiao Yan tried in vain to rely on them to support a piece of the Liang Dynasty Empire, and finally ended up with the tragic ending of the country's ruin.

It's a pity that after 40 years of vegetarian worship of the Buddha, he lived to be eighty-six years old, but he still didn't see through the essence of politics, and mixed too many feelings in politics, which eventually harmed himself and ruined everyone.

In this way, the emperor and the crown prince were confined to the palace, and those who survived were reinstated as long as they were willing to obey.

Hou Jing asked Shicheng Gongxiao to carry a large amount of money to the reinforcement camp with a white tiger banner to announce the decree, and ordered the reinforcements to return to their respective posts.

Liu Zhongli finally couldn't sit idly by, withdraw his troops or continue to attack, involving the emperor and the crown prince in the city, he had to make a choice, in fact, people who understand should understand that the emperor is in the hands of Hou Jing, will the emperor's order be the emperor's original intention?

Liu Zhongli called a meeting of the commanders of the reinforcements to discuss the next move.

Everyone was silent one by one, and Xiao Lun, the king of Shaoling, saw that the atmosphere was a little dull, and said in his heart that today's situation was caused by you Liu Zhongli, you can clean up this mess by yourself, since it is your responsibility, it is naturally most appropriate for you to bear this infamy, so he said: Today's matter, only General Liu decides.

The ball was kicked to Liu Zhongli, and everyone looked at him, whether they were fighting or leaving, they all listened to you.

However, Liu Zhongli looked at everyone quietly and didn't say a word for a while.

Only Pei Zhigao and Wang Seng argued loudly: The general has millions of troops, but he can't save the palace from falling, and now is the time to fight to the death with all his might, so why say more.

Pei Zhigao must have regretted the decision he made at this moment, and blamed Wei Cang, if he led the reinforcements. It will never end up like this.

Liu Zhongli was still silent, and the generals had no choice but to withdraw. Each has its own plan.

Nanyanzhou Assassin Shi Lincheng Gong Xiao Dalian, Xiangdong Shizi Xiao Fang, etc., Poyang Shizi Xiao Si, Northern Yanzhou Thorn Shi Xiangtan Hou Xiao Hui, Wujun Taishou Yuan Junzheng, Jinling Taishou Lu Jing and others each led their headquarters to return to the town, and Shaoling King Xiao Lun fled to Huiji.

Xiangdong Wang Xiao Yi and others retreated.

Liu Zhongli and his younger brothers Liu Jingli, Yang Yaren, Wang Sengbi, and Zhao Bochao opened a camp to surrender thieves.

Liu Zhongli and others entered the city. Let's worship Hou Jing first and then go to see Emperor Wu of Liang, Emperor Wu of Liang didn't say a word, didn't even look at them, and everyone quit.

Liu Zhongli went to see his father again, and Liu Jin cried: You are not my son, don't work to see each other.

The big event has been decided, Hou Jing took the army as his own, left Liu Jingli and Yang Yaren behind, and let Liu Zhongli and Wang Seng go back to the town. Hou Jing was very relieved of Liu Zhongli. He took Liu Zhongli's hand and said: The major affairs of the world depend on the general, and I have entrusted Yingzhou and Brazil to the general.

As for Wang Seng's debate, Hou Jing had the intention of showing favor to Xiao Yi. He never expected that Wang Sengbi was his destined nemesis, Wang Sengbi left, but Wang Sengbi would definitely come back.

Hou Jing wanted to give Liu Zhongli a wine in Houzhu to see him off.

Liu Jingli didn't surrender sincerely, he whispered to Liu Zhongli: After Hou Jing came, Jingli took advantage of his unpreparedness to hug him, and his brother pulled out his saber and hacked him to death. Salute death without regrets. Liu Zhongli listened to what his younger brother said fiercely, and couldn't help but feel his blood surging and agreed. After three rounds of wine, salute and see that the fire is almost over. Looking at Liu Zhongli with his eyes, Liu Zhongli understood his brother's thoughts, but he saw that Hou Jing was heavily guarded. Knowing that even if he succeeds in one blow, it will be difficult to save his life. So he turned his head to the side and never looked at Liu Jingli again.

Liu Jingli couldn't assassinate, but he was resolute in his intention to get rid of Hou Jing. Later, he plotted with Xiao Huili, the king of Nankang, and was told by Xiao Zhengde's nephew Xiao Ben, the Marquis of Jian'an, and was finally killed.

If Liu Zhongli heard his brother's words, wouldn't he be ashamed to die! However, Liu Zhongli's face is thick enough, and it is estimated that he will not die.

Hou Jing knew that in order to truly seize power in the Liang Dynasty, it would not be enough to control the city of Taicheng alone, so he began to attack in the name of the emperor, attacking those local officials who were hostile to him, installing his own people, and expanding his actual control area.

Hou Jing ordered Dong Shaoxian to lead his troops to attack Guangling, and the king of Nankang, the assassin of Nanyan Prefecture, surrendered.

Guo Feng, the former assassin of Tongzhou, conspired to respond to Hou Jing with Huaiyin, and Xiao You, the assassin of Xiangxiang and Xiao Xiao, the assassin of Xiangtan, knew that they could not resist, so they abandoned the state and defected to the Western Wei Dynasty.

Hou Jing took Xiao Rongzhang as the assassin of Beiyanzhou, but was strongly opposed by the people of the state, Xiao Rongzhang could not enter the state city, Hou Jing sent Xiang Gong Qiu Ziying, and Yang Hai, the general of Zhige, to help, but unexpectedly, Yang Hai had long wanted to break away from Hou Jing, and now he seized the opportunity, Yang Hai beheaded Qiu Ziying and defected to the Western Wei Dynasty, and Huaiyin was included in the territory of the Western Wei Dynasty.

Hou Jing began to pass through the Sanwu region, and sent generals to conquer Wu County with Ziyue and Zhang Dahei. The Sanwu region was looted, and the clans became the targets of burning, killing and looting. Hou Jing's destruction of Jiangnan was unprecedented, and the slaughter of the city became a means for Hou Jing to establish his prestige, and the Jiangnan Shi clan was hit by the destruction of the Miè sex, and the so-called Wang Xie Tang Qianyan in the old days flew into the homes of ordinary people, and the Jiangnan Shi clan has been in a state of collapse since then.

In May 549 AD, the eighty-six-year-old Son of Buddhism, who was physically and mentally tortured, died, and Xiao Gang, the crown prince of Hou Jingying, ascended the throne and changed the Yuan Dabao, however, for this emperor who ascended the throne under the hijacking of Hou Jing, Xiao Yi, the most powerful of the kings, did not admit it, and continued to use Xiao Yan's Taiqing era name within the scope of his influence.

A month later, the war in Henan provoked by Hou Jing also ended, Gao Cheng, the king of Qi in the Eastern Wei Dynasty, captured Yingchuan, captured the defender Wang Sizheng, and the Western Wei forces withdrew from Henan. However, only two months later, Gao Cheng was assassinated, and Gao Cheng's younger brother Gao Yang appeared on the stage to inherit his father's and brother's succession, and a new page was opened in the Eastern Wei political arena.

The princes of the Liang State did not belong to each other, some of them took refuge in Hou Jing, some of them were mainly based on the clans of the town, and some simply supported the army independently, while the Liang Dynasty clan with heavy troops only cared about fighting each other for territory, no one remembered the emperor who suffered in Taicheng, and the Liang Dynasty became a typical multi-headed country, a plate of scattered sand.

The Western Wei and Eastern Wei took advantage of the fire to loot and repeatedly occupied the territory of the Liang Dynasty, and the Huainandi, Bashu, and Hanzhong of the Liang Dynasty were encroached on little by little.

Xiao Yan gained it by himself, lost it by himself, and saw Hou Jing's time, he still had the calmness and domineering of the forty-year Taiping Emperor. This temperament can't be learned, and Li Longji doesn't want to learn it. He only thought that he would never see his godson An Lushan again, and on the way to escape, he hung up Yang Ganniang, who An Lushan was thinking about in the twilight. Xiao Yan is a legend in the history of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, an absolute alternative emperor, and he didn't expect it to end up with this kind of life ending, but only in this way will history firmly remember the founding emperor who died of the country because of his "diligence" and "not greedy for women".

> Fen", "not greedy for women" but still ruined the country and the family, what kind of inspiration should history give us?

Gao Cheng, the prime minister of the Eastern Wei Dynasty, took over from his father a bad card from the entrepreneurial veterans, the ministers of the DPRK and the central government, and the strong enemies around him, but he relied on his father's connections and his own ability to finally play a supreme treasure.

In the Henan melee with Hou Jing, Western Wei, and Southern Liang, the Eastern Wei made the greatest profit, not only effectively controlling most of Henan, but also taking the opportunity of Hou Jing's troubles in the south of the Yangtze River to continuously advance the territory to the south.

Hou Jing took the main force to attack Jiankang when he left his younger brother Wang Guixian to stay, and was ordered to encircle Shouyang's four governors of Liang State all the way to Jiankang, and went to Jiankang on both roads, only Xiao Fan, the governor of Poyang, continued to implement Xiao Yan's strategy, and sent the generals Mei Bolong and Ren Zhong to copy Hou Jing's nest, which progressed very smoothly at first, and Shouyang Luocheng was quickly captured, but Wang Xiangui desperately defended the inner city, and the Liang army could not attack for a long time, at this time Jiankang's affairs became more and more urgent, Xiao Fan had to retreat, and let Ren Zhong and his son Xiao Si go to Jiankang to join in the fun. Hou Jing's attack on Taicheng was unfavorable, so Wang Xiangui gave Shouyang as a gift to the Eastern Wei Dynasty, and the Eastern Wei Metropolitan Governor Hu Luping was stationed in Shouyang.

Xiao Zhengde, the king of Linhe, colluded with Hou Jing to rebel, and his younger brother Xiao Zhengbiao, the governor of Northern Xuzhou, was worried that the surrounding states and counties would not be able to get along with him, so he simply sent his son into Ye as a hostage and submitted to the Eastern Wei Dynasty.

In this way, the three states of Huaibei of Liang were cut off from the south of the Yangtze River, and Taicheng also fell, so the two states of Qingji and Hebei were assassinated by Ming Shaoyao, the assassin of Eastern Xuzhou Zhanhaizhen, the assassin of Northern Qingzhou Wang Fengbo, and the general Yanghai of Huaiyin surrendered to the Eastern Wei Dynasty. (To be continued......)