Chapter 167 [The Coming Catastrophe]

The strongholds outside Taicheng were occupied by thieves except for Dongfu City, Hou Jing occupied the bus house, Xiao Zhengde was stationed in the Zuowei Mansion, Hou Jing's general Song Zixian occupied the East Palace, Fan Taobang occupied the Tongtai Temple, Hou Jing distributed hundreds of singers in the East Palace to the soldiers to enjoy, Hou Jing since his debut, broke Ge Rong, defeated He Basheng, became famous in Heshuo, and the soldiers were willing to use their lives, the secret is to share the blessings with everyone, and give up the money and things of beautiful women.

After Hou Jing occupied the East Palace, because the East Palace was close to the imperial city, Hou Jing asked people to climb the wall of the East Palace to shoot arrows in the imperial city, and at night, Hou Jing set up a banquet in the East Palace to reward the soldiers, and the prince Xiao Gang recruited people to burn down all the East Palace halls.

Hou Jing was annoyed, you burn me, and a fire burned down the stables, Shilin Pavilion, Taifu Temple, etc. in the west of the city.

Then, Hou Jing made hundreds of wooden donkeys to attack the city, but the bows and arrows could not resist it, and the sheep ordered large stones to be thrown down from the city, and the wooden donkeys were smashed. Hou Jing made a pointed wooden donkey again, and it was useless to throw the stone on it. However, this did not bother Yang Kan, so he had people make a pheasant tail torch, install an arrowhead, pour wax paste, and throw it on the wooden donkey, which caught fire and burned it in a while.

Hou Jing made a car to climb the city again, more than ten zhang high, people can shoot arrows condescendingly in the city, Liang Jun saw this behemoth approaching the city wall step by step, panicked, Yang Kan sneered: It's okay, the car is too high and unstable, the moat is loose, we just look at the excitement.

Sure enough, the building car toppled before it reached the bottom of the city.

Yang Kan is so powerful, Hou Jing secretly admired in his heart.

Seeing that the soldiers were killed and wounded, and the city was difficult to attack, Hou Jing moved his brain. Since we can't attack it, we won't attack it.

The thieves built a long fence along the city. Cut off the connection between inside and outside the city, and adopt the tactics of encircling but not fighting. and the people of the city will be trapped to death.

At the same time, he continued to launch a psychological war, telling me that my old marquis in the city was not a rebel, I came to the side of the Qing monarch, as long as the emperor killed Zhu Yi, Lu Yan and other traitorous ministers, he must withdraw the siege and apologize.

The city shot a-for-tat reward: Hou Jing was awarded the position of Hou Jing, and another reward of 100 million yuan and 10,000 horses of cloth and silk.

Since each one doesn't give in, let's consume it, and see who consumes whom? Hou Jing was not in a hurry to attack the city, and Yang Kan was patient and waited for the changes, and the two sides were in a stalemate.

Hold on for a long time. Those in the city who were looking forward to ending the battle as soon as possible were anxious, they saw that the momentum of the rebel attack was weakening, and thought that Hou Jingfeng's head had passed, and Zhu Yi, Zhang Juan and other ministers discussed to take the initiative to attack, but they knew that Yang Kan would definitely not agree, so they went to instigate the old emperor to give an order.

After the test some time ago, Xiao Yan is now convinced of Yang Kan, so he didn't listen to the nonsense of these ministers, and asked people to call Yang Kan over for advice.

Emperor Wu of Liang finally did the right thing.

Yang Kan heard that everyone was going to take the initiative. was taken aback, and quickly stopped: Don't take the initiative to go out. The thieves did not attack the city for many days, so they only besieged it, and the purpose was to lure the people in the city out of the city. If we attack at this time, we will suffer if there are fewer people who go out. There are too many people to go out, and once they lose, the gate pass is small, and they can't come back.

However, although Emperor Wu felt that what Yang Kan said was reasonable, he couldn't resist Zhu Yi and Zhang Xuan's requests again and again. In the end, it was decided to send a thousand elite soldiers to test it.

Smell a long sigh. This poem comes from a poem by Li Shangyin;

The Liang army opened the city and rushed towards the thief army, and Hou Jing was in a tight position. However, unexpectedly, the Liang army, who shouted and screamed to the sky, was frightened before rushing to the front of the enemy formation. I don't know who took the lead in turning around, anyway, it was like someone gave an order and suddenly started to run back, how did Hou Jing let go of the opportunity, and immediately ordered the pursuit, Liang Jun was even more panicked, the road into the city was too narrow, everyone ran in, and countless people fell into the water and drowned under the crowd, and more than half of the team out of the city were killed or injured.

The facts taught Zhu Yi and others a lesson, and Emperor Wu of Liang was remorseful.

Yang Kan's eldest son Yang Kan was arrested, Hou Jing wanted to take advantage of it, and ordered someone to escort Yang Kan to the city to coerce Yang Kan to surrender, Yang Kan said righteously: Yang Kan is sacrificing the whole clan to serve the country, and he is not enough to hate, and where do you care about a son, you should kill him early.

Seeing that Yang Kan was so ruthless, Hou Jing had no tricks, but he was not willing to kill Yang Kan.

A few days later, Hou Jing had another plan, and asked the soldiers to hold the sheep in front of him as a shield, preparing to attack the city again, Yang Kan saw his son, and said sharply: I thought you were dead, you are still alive, I Yang Kan is loyal to the country, I have already put life and death aside, and I can't take care of you. After speaking, he took a bow and an arrow to shoot the sheep with his own hands.

Loyalty!

The thieves were shocked by Yang Kan's righteousness, and hurriedly ran away with the sheep yoke.

Hou Jing sent Yi and Fu Shizhe to the city to persuade him to surrender, but who expected Fu Shizhe to be a die-hard fan of Yang Kan.

Fu Shizhe asked to talk to Yang Kan, and Yang Kan stood at the head of the city in armor.

Fu Shizhe said: King Hou came from afar to greet the Son of Heaven, why don't you let him enter the city? Shang Shu is a minister of state, and he should report to the imperial court as soon as possible.

Yang Kan responded: General Hou fled to our country, and the imperial court entrusted him with an important town, how could he ever treat him badly? Now he suddenly called the army to drive the rabble to the royal city, captured the horses and drank the Huai, and gathered the emperor's family, is this what a courtier should do? I am highly favored by the country, and I should swing a long lance to sweep away the great rebellion, how can I listen to your nonsense and open the door to thieves. Sue the prince of Sù, put away this set, and plan for yourself in advance.

Fu Shizhe saw that he couldn't fool Yang Kan, so he cleverly said: The prince is full of affairs, but he is not known to the court, so he has to meet the king and sweep away the traitors. Because King Hou is a general of the army, he brought armored soldiers to the court, how can it be a rebellion?

Yang Kan said: The Holy Lord has been in the court for 50 years, he is smart and wise, and he is shining for thousands of years, how can there be any traitors in the court? The prince is just looking for an excuse for himself to raise troops, and the king of Hou himself killed the city with a giant sword, which is this?

Yang Kan is both civil and military, proficient in music and rhythm, and has created two songs, "Picking Lotus" and "Song of the Lotus", which are sung by the people of the time. This reply was not leaky, Fu Shizhe was speechless, and he couldn't help but be convinced by Yang Kan.

Before leaving, Fu Shizhe suddenly made a bold request, telling Yang Kan that he had admired Yang Kan for a long time when he was in the Northland, and hoped that Yang Kan would see the truth when he went to the battle armor.

Most of the armor worn by the sheep covered most of his face.

Yang Kan didn't say much, took off his armor and stood awe-inspiring. Fu Shizhe stared at it for a long time and sighed.

Fighting and deception didn't work, and Hou Jing was completely out of line. In order to motivate the soldiers, he decided not to be a hypocrite anymore.

On the first day of November in 548 A.D. Hou Jingli Xiao Zhengde was the emperor, and he was the general of Xiangguo and Tianzhu, and turned the side action of the Qing monarch into a war between the two countries.

In order to secure the throne, Xiao Zhengde let go, he took out all the treasures in the family to fund military expenses, and married his daughter to Hou Jing and made Hou Jing a concubine.

Then, a new round of battle began.

Hou Jing divided 2,000 troops to attack Dongfu City, and Hou Xiaotui of Nanpu resisted desperately. Hold on for three days, Hou Jing was anxious, personally led troops to reinforce, and used a hundred-foot-high building car, arrows and rolling wood and stones fell like raindrops, the battlements were shot down one by one, the fourth day of the first month, the city of Dongfu was broken, Hou Jingyi and Lu Hui led thousands of warriors with long knives to kill all the civil and military in the city. More than 3,000 dead people were piled up in Madame Du's house for the people in the city to see: this is how the resistance ended.

Hou Jing drove the people outside the city to the east and west of Taicheng, and condescendingly fired arrows into the city. The Liang army erected a four-zhang high wooden tower on the mountain, and recruited 2,000 soldiers wearing heavy armor to occupy the earth hill to resist the thieves.

Pity. God forbid, it actually rained heavily at a critical time. The earth and mountains in the city collapsed, and Hou Jing took the opportunity to send people to the city with a cage. The bloody battle of the Liang army still did not stop Hou Jing's offensive, Yang Kan ordered people to light more torches and throw them at the thieves, and blocked the attack of the thieves with a wall of fire, taking this opportunity to organize the officers and soldiers to build a wall again to block the thieves from the wall.

Hou Jing was desperate, he originally planned to fight quickly, but he didn't expect that he couldn't attack for a long time, and the people's hearts slowly dispersed, according to this situation, once the reinforcements of King Qin from all over the country arrived, it was necessary for the troops to disperse, thinking of this, Hou Jing broke out in a cold sweat on his back.

In order to stabilize the morale of the army, Hou Jing canceled the original order not to infringe on the people in order to buy people's hearts, and gave everyone freedom, robbed if they wanted, and did whatever they wanted.

Hou Jing also recruited northerners as slaves, and as long as they joined the army, they immediately regained their freedom and rewarded them with property. Tempted by this, even Zhu Yi's house slaves jumped out of the city wall to take refuge, Hou Jing was overjoyed, the traitor's house slaves were too bad to oppose the water politics, and the propaganda must keep up, so Hou Jing immediately took it as a ritual and asked him to go to the city to continue to surrender.

This guy who has just completed the transformation from slave to general rode a tall horse, wore a noble brocade robe and shouted around the city under Taicheng: Everyone, Zhu Yi has been an official for fifty years before he has mixed up with the leader, and I am a lowly slave who has just followed the Hou Wang and has achieved Yitong.

Encouraged and bewitched, the slaves of the wealthy families in the city fled one after another, and the Hou Jing rebels added vitality.

There was a lot of frustration in the city, but there was good news, and reinforcements from all over the country had arrived.

The collapse of the dynasty is a great tragedy in history, which makes people sigh. Liang's death was actually due to Emperor Wu, which was also admitted by Xiao Yan himself. The similarity between Xiao Yan and Li Longji is at least ninety percent, the two are too similar, they are simply the past life and the next body. Both died a year early, and both will leave a good name in history. Just because he died a year late, his fame fell short, and finally led to the famous two historical tragedies. The big tree is written very tragically, in line with the temperament of the historical environment at that time, supportive.

Xiao Yan's tragic color is too heavy, eighty-six and forty-eight would have been commendable, how many emperors can live to be eighty-six years old? How many emperors can be the Prince of Peace for forty-eight years? once led the wolf into the house, and made a tragic fate of death and national annihilation. Originally, I didn't want to involve the affairs of the Liang Dynasty, but without Hou Jing Chaoliang, there would be no Western Wei Dynasty's Tutu, Shu and Han, and the right to explain the background.

The first to appear in Jiankang was the Shaoling King Xiao Lun's department, Xiao Lun led Xifeng Gong Xiao Dachun, Xingan Gong Xiao Dacheng, Yong'an Hou Xiao Qu, Nan'an Township Hou Xiao Jun, the former Qiaozhou Thorn Shi Zhao Bochao, Wuzhou Thorn Shi Xiao Rongzhang, infantry captain Yin Sihe and other horse infantry 30,000 Tun Army Zhongshan.

It turned out that when Hou Jing first showed his back, Xiao Lunbai conquest of the Governor of Dadu led the people to crusade, however, when the rebel army arrived in Zhongli, Hou Jing had already pointed to Jiankang from Jingkou to the quarry. Xiao Lun immediately led the army to Beijing day and night, but God did not bless, and when crossing the river, he encountered a strong wind, and many men and horses fell into the water and died, and the team lost 12/12.

Zhao Bochao, the assassin of Nanqiaozhou, persuaded Xiao Lun to march from the trail to avoid a head-on conflict with the rebels, which could have a surprise effect. Xiao Lun believed it. So Zhao Bochao led his troops to Zhongshan, and Xiao Lun led the army to follow.

Zhao Bochao is a famous runaway general. Not long ago, when Murong Shaozong of the Eastern Wei Dynasty and Xiao Yuanming, Marquis of Liang Zhenyang, were in Hanshan, Zhao Bochao refused to send troops to rescue him. fled back to Nanqiao with his son and concubine.

Zhao Bochao makes us believe that people will change.

The news of the sudden appearance of a large number of Liang troops nearby reached the city, Hou Jing was frightened, and hurriedly divided his troops into 10,000 people to meet the battle, and sent three people one after another, all of which were defeated by Xiao Lun, and the rebels lost thousands of people.

The enemy was very strong, and Hou Jing was a little scared, so he asked his men to prepare ships and plan to cross the Yangtze River from Shicheng north to Jiangbei. However, Ren Yue's words dispelled Hou Jing's idea of escaping: If you go to the countryside for thousands of miles, where can you escape? If you can't win the battle, the monarch and the minister will die together, and in order to survive, I can't do it.

Ren Yue was originally a general of the Western Wei Dynasty, and later followed Hou Jing Nandu to become Hou Jing's right-hand man. I have to say that what Ren Yue said is true, Hou Jing and the others were originally lost dogs, and they were driven from the north to the south by Murong Shaozong. If you can't gain a foothold in the south of the Yangtze River, the world is so big, there really is no place for Hou Jing to stand.

Smart people are sometimes confused, and they will wake up as soon as they are reminded by someone who understands.

Hou Jing knew that what Ren Yue said was true. Only then did he make up his mind to fight to the end, and the soldiers would come to block the water and cover the earth, what were they afraid of. So Song Zixian stayed behind. Hou Jingqin led his soldiers to line up in the north of Zhoushan, and Xiao Lun also lined up with him. Neither side dared to initiate an attack.

Seeing that the sunset was getting late, Hou Jing sent someone to meet Xiao Lun for a decisive battle tomorrow. Xiao Lun agreed.

Hou Jing began to retreat, at this time, Nan'an Hou Xiao Jun led his troops just over, he saw Hou Jing retreating, thinking that they were going to escape, he didn't care about greeting Xiao Lun and led dozens of horsemen to chase and kill, Hou Jing hurriedly returned to the army to meet the battle, Xiao Jun was not the opponent and retreated.

Zhao Bochao marched in the north of Xuanwu Lake, encountered Xiao Junjun's army on the way back, Zhao Bochao continued to lead the army regardless of it, no one in the two armies gave way, staggered with each other, and it was chaotic, Hou Jing covered the army and killed, the Liang army was defeated, beheaded hundreds, and captured more than 1,000 people.

Xiao Lun packed up the remnants of the defeated army and retreated to Tianbao Temple, Hou Jing did not spare the arson of the temple, Xiao Lun had to continue to flee to Zhu Fang, the soldiers walked on the ice and snow, many people fell into the water, Xiao Lun wolf bèi fled back to Beijing.

Xiao Dachun, Duke of Xifeng, Xiao Lun, Sima Zhuang, Qiu Huida, General Hu Ziyue, and Huo Jun, Guangling Ling, were taken prisoner.

Hou Jing escorted the captives to Taicheng, and told him that the reinforcements in the city had been repulsed, and King Shaoling had died in the chaos. The defenders of Taicheng, who were looking forward to reinforcements like the stars and the moon, were depressed, but what no one expected was that Huo Jun, who was in captivity, suddenly shouted: King Shaoling has only suffered a small defeat, and the whole army has returned to Jingkou, as long as the city sticks to patience, the reinforcements will arrive soon.

The thief soldier was annoyed and angry, and slammed Huo Jun's back with the back of the knife to shut him up, Huo Jun was not afraid, and still spoke loudly, Xiao Zhengde raised the knife and killed him.

Although Huo Jun died, the news that he desperately spread encouraged Liang Jun.

However, on the seventh day of December, something unfortunate happened.

At the critical moment when the war was tight, the general of the military division Yang Kan fell down because of overwork, and he was fifty-four years old.

If the sky is forgotten, no one can stop it!

Yang Kan left, and the burden of defending the capital fell on Wei Dian and Liu Jin, but Wei Dian took on the title of a famous general, and Liu Jin was old and lacked energy, so he had no choice, and he had to catch the ducks on the shelves.

The Southern Liang is no longer a country, and the strong neighbors in the north have a chance, if it is not for Chen Ba's rise first, the Southern Dynasty will be completely finished.

The death of the Liang Dynasty was Xiao Yan's self-seeking demise, and no one else is to blame. What a good situation it was, the second Wei fought to the death, and Liang was outside it and enough to count the second Wei, but he was messed up by Xiao Yan, an old fool.

The Hou Jing Rebellion marked the complete demise of the Southern Dynasty, while the Chen Dynasty only delayed the fall of the Southern Dynasty, and it was only the difference between earlier and later.

But when the Han Yang Jian abolished the Northern Zhou Dynasty and restored the orthodox Chinese civilization that had been destroyed by the Great Cheng of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, he discovered the greatness of Chen Baxian! Among the national heroes, this Emperor Chen Wu is indispensable.

Among the four southern dynasties, the establishment of the Chen Dynasty was the most difficult to survive, the complete collapse of the Liang Dynasty, the Northern Qi Dynasty moved south, and Jinling was in danger. If it weren't for Chen Baxian who stepped forward at the critical moment when the building was about to collapse, it would be difficult for the Han civilization in Jiangdong to be preserved.

Hou Jing continued to attack the city, and all the flying buildings, crashes, boarding cars, trench cars, step cars, and trains were used. The train burned down the building in the southeast corner of the city, and Wu Jing, the Liang Caiguan, renovated a building in the city, so the fire in the southeast building was extinguished, and Hou Jing found that there was a new building in the city.

When the fire burned, Hou Jing also ordered people to dig tunnels under the fire, and when the city wall was about to collapse, the city found out, and Wu Jing built a new meniscus in the city.

Hou Jing began to pile up dirt mountains outside the city again, and the earth mountains approached the city wall step by step.

Liu Jin had people dig tunnels from the city to the outside of the city to destroy the outer dirt mountain, and threw torches to burn the wooden buildings on the earth mountain, and the outer mountain finally collapsed, crushing many rebel soldiers to death.

Hou Jing made a toad cart to transport earth and rocks to fill the trenches, and threw flying stones in the city to destroy the toad cart.

Wei Dian and Liu Jin continued Yang Kan's defensive strategy, and Hou Jing did not take much advantage.

However, at the critical moment of life and death, there were traitors in the Liang army, first the prince Xiao Gang sent Xima Yuan Meng Gong to lead thousands of arrogant horses to attack the thieves, but Meng Gong led his cronies to run out of the city and surrendered, and then, the general Song Wei also slipped out of the city and took refuge in Hou Jing.

Surrender is not terrible, what is terrible is that Song Wei is aware of the weaknesses of Taicheng as a material official, and he brought Hou Jing a big gift: water to attack Taicheng. So the rebels led Xuanwu Lake to flood the city, and the city was in a vast ocean, and Taicheng was already in danger. (To be continued......)