At this time, Yuan Hao and Chen Qingzhi took advantage of the time when the Shangdang Wang Yuan Tianmu and Gao Huan led the army to the east to fight against Xing Gao, and took advantage of the situation to go north and besiege Liang (Zhisuiyang). The army marched to Suiyang Nanyuan Hao and couldn't wait to go to the altar to worship the sky, enthroned as the emperor, the first year of the founding year of Xiaoji, and sealed General Chen Qingzhiwei, Xuzhou Assassin History, Wudu Gong and many official positions, and began to eyeing Luoyang. That Bai Cheng is even more every day to push Yuan Hao to attack Luoyang as soon as possible, what he wants is to seize Ying'e to take revenge on the dog hole and be allocated, he is ready to move for his years of humiliation and finally usher in the opportunity for revenge, thinking that after the capture of Luoyang, he will show off his might in front of Ying'e.

At this time, Qiu Daqian, the general of Suiyang, was the general of the Northern Wei Dynasty who broke his fortress with 2,000 men and horses when Chen Qingzhi debuted, although he had 70,000 heavy troops to guard Suiyang, but he no longer dared to despise Chen Qingzhi, and built nine company camps outside Suiyang City, in an attempt to block Chen Qingzhi's northward advance. But he didn't think of a capital city guarded by a nine-way company battalion, a battle of 7,000 against 70,000, and it took less than a day from start to finish. At about four o'clock in the afternoon, Chen Qingzhi conquered three of the nine company camps, and Qiu Daqian trembled and led the rest of the men and horses out of the city to surrender in a panic.

After the big victory, Yuan Hao pointed at Chen Qingzhi and smiled at Qiu Daqian without arrogance, "General Qiu, how does it feel to be defeated twice by people with less than ten times as many soldiers and horses as you in this company?" ”

Qiu Daqian hung his head helplessly, hugged his fist at Chen Qingyi and said, "General Chen is a member of the gods, the art of war is like a god, and the last general is willing to bow down." ”

Chen Qingzhi humbly and politely helped Qiu Daqian up, "The general's martial arts are world-famous, and Chen is a scholar, but I like to read a few more books on the art of war." When marching and fighting, a strong general can defeat one enemy with ten, just like your general of the Pillar State also wiped out Ge Rong's million soldiers and horses with 7,000 people? One blow can weaken the opponent's momentum, if General Qiu holds for a few more days, your reinforcements arrive, Chen is also helpless, but it is a surprise attack. If the general is willing to assist the King of Wei, when we enter Luoyang, Chen will definitely have a few drinks with General Qiu and learn from the general how to shoot arrows with a bow. ”

Qiu Daqian was convinced, and he didn't even dare to say it, Yuan Hao smiled, "I have two generals to assist, why worry that Luoyang is not broken, hahaha." Bai Cheng, go, call Yang Zhong's kid too, and set up a banquet for General Qiu. ”

After a while, Bai Quanling brought in a young general, only to see a man wearing a white robe, sword eyebrows, beautiful beard, sharp eyes, and low-hanging eyelashes to hide his thoughts, revealing a melancholy look. The burly and sturdy figure exudes the masculinity of a man, and he is polite when he salutes Yuan Hao, and he shows good cultivation. Qiu Daqian recognized that this was the son of Yang Zhen, the general of Jianyuan who died in the battle of Xian Yu Xiuli, and the little Yang Zhong who was taken captive to the Liang Dynasty at the age of eighteen, Qiu Daqian was overjoyed to see the son of the deceased, and grabbed Yang Zhong's hand and sighed, "Child, you are still alive, I thought you were long gone." ”

Yang Zhongben listened to Qiu Daqian the most is that he has been defeated repeatedly, and he has been defeated and promoted repeatedly, he is a reckless man who has no combat ability, he has no martial arts, and he has the courage to be ten with one, but he has no ability to lead troops to fight. When his father was alive, he sneered at this person and didn't look down on him, but now he has surrendered with a shy face after only half a day, and he is also a spineless person. It's just that because of Yuan Hao's presence, he could only say perfunctorily, "Thank you General Qiu for worrying about me, I have a cheap life, and God is afraid that I will make trouble for him, so he doesn't want to accept me yet." General Qiu led tens of thousands of soldiers and horses to surrender, and he really knew how to take advantage of the situation, but the Yulin Army of Yuan Huiye, the king of Jiyin, was on the way, and General Qiu felt that who had a better chance of winning? ”

Everyone present heard Yang Zhong's sarcastic remarks to Qiu Daqian, Yuan Hao didn't want Qiu Daqian to be too embarrassed, so he gave Bai Cheng a look, and Bai Cheng grinned and came to pull Yang Zhong into the table, "General Yang, General Qiu is your elder, you should toast a glass of water and wine." ”

Yang Zhong couldn't get used to Bai Quan's face the most, and jerked his hand, Bai Cheng was unstable on his feet, and his front fell to the ground, if the dog ate, Yang Zhong laughed, "Bai Gonggong, your drill through the dog hole is really different, this action of eating is so standard." After speaking, he said to Yuan Hao and Chen Qingzhi, "Your Majesty, General Chen, now that Yuan Huiye is assembled in Kaocheng, the minister asks for an order to visit Kaocheng at night and spy on his defenses." Today's wine will be kept for the minister for the time being, and then drunk after the minister lays down the test city. ”

Bai Quan's anger was hidden for a second, and when he raised his face and got up, he sneered, spit out the sand in his mouth, patted the ash on his clothes, and said to himself, "General Yang loves to laugh, the slave hasn't eaten this meal yet, how can he eat first." ”

Chen Qingzhi was also not used to looking down on Bai Cheng and looked down on Qiu Daqian, and when he heard Yang Zhong say this, he also found an excuse, "Your Majesty, General Yang is right, now is not the time to celebrate. Besides, General Qiu brought a large number of soldiers with him, and the ministers still had military affairs to be organized, so it was really not suitable for drinking today. ”

Yuan Hao only relied on Chen Qingzhi, and seeing that what he and Yang Zhong said was also very reasonable, it was inconvenient to say anything, so he withdrew from the banquet and said repeatedly, "General Chen is bothered, General Chen is hard." ”

Qiu Daqian stood there with a sneering face, and also looked for to assist Chen Qingzhi in reorganizing the army.

After seeing that everyone had dispersed, Yuan Hao spat on the ground, picked up the wine jug and raised his head to drink. Bai Quanquan persuaded in a panic, "Your Majesty, be careful of choking on the dragon body." ”

Yuan Hao really choked, coughed, smashed the wine jug on the ground in anger, pointed to the outside of the tent and said, "Do you treat me as Yuan Ziyou's child?" Think I'm just as mermaid as he is? Don't wait for me to enter Luoyang, at that time, I will even pull Xiao Yan's old boy off the horse. Bah. ”

Bai Cheng fell to his knees and shouted, "The emperor is shengming, long live the emperor, long live, long live." Then he smiled flatteringly, "Those ladies in the palace are also as beautiful as flowers, and they know the taste." ”

Yuan Hao is often in and out of the palace, the delicate concubines and palace maids have already made his cat-like heart itch for a long time, listening to Bai Cheng's mention, although his face is silent, his heart is yearning tight, and he patted Bai Quan's head hard, "You monkey cub, if you are a healthy man, you don't know how to be bad." ”

It is said that after Yang Zhong inspected the city defense, he came back and reported to Chen Qingzhi, Chen Qingzhi looked at the map and thought about it, "Yu (Yang Zhong's words), this battle Qiu Daqian's men and horses are camped here to defend the emperor, or you and I will lead our own soldiers to meet the battle." He Yuanhui thought that he relied on natural insurance, but he didn't know that this water could protect the city and conquer the city. ”

Yang Zhong understood, "General Chen wants to build a floating fortress to attack the city?" ”

Chen Qingzhi looked at Yang Zhong with appreciation, "Sure enough, the hero is a young man, I don't believe in that Qiu Daqian." I want you to see how I can fight to Luoyang with only these 7,000 men. The two looked at each other and smiled.

On April 20, Chen Qingzhi marched into Kaocheng, used floating fortresses to attack the city, conquered Kaocheng without much effort, and captured Yuan Huiye alive. In this battle, the Liang army captured a wealth of booty, and 7,800 chariots alone were captured. After conquering Kaocheng, the army continued to march westward, and along the way, the Wei defenders surrendered. On May 1, the defenders of the Northern Wei Dynasty Liang looked at the white robe and surrendered.

Er Zhurong and Yuan Tianmu had already defeated Xing Gao in Jinan at this time, Xing Gao surrendered, and was beheaded in Luoyang in April. After the situation in Hebei calmed down a little, Er Zhurong began to gather a large army to deal with Yuan Hao and Chen Qingzhi, and he chose to fight Chen Qingzhi under the city of Xingyang to prevent him from continuing to advance north. He sent Yang Yu to lead an army of 70,000 Yulin, and first blocked Chen Qingzhi in Xingyang. And Yuan Tianmu led the reinforcements to Xingyang day and night, preparing to form an encirclement. Another 10,000 horses led by Er Zhu Shilong entered the Tiger Prison Pass, intending to cut off Chen Qingzhi's retreat.

The 70,000 Yulin army stationed in Xingyang is not only well-equipped, but also the high and deep terrain of Xingyang City is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

And Yuan Tianmu brought the elite cavalry of the Northern Wei Dynasty who had been on the battlefield for a long time, and vowed to exterminate Chen Qingzhi under Xingyang City, when Chen Qingzhi was only a hundred miles away, he was ready to go straight to Chen Qingzhi's military camp from behind. The soldiers in the Liang army camp heard the report from the spies, and began to worry about the enemy on their backs, after all, this is to help people from other countries fight the country, and it is not too worthwhile to give their lives. When the army's heart was shaken, Chen Qingzhiguo was eloquent, ordered the soldiers and horses to rest for a while, rode on horseback, and said loudly, "The soldiers of Daliang, we have left our hometown, and only the army has broken into the Wei State. Why are we able to defeat tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands, of Wei with only 7,000 men and horses? It's because you have the courage to be brave and homesick, because we want to end this war quickly, return to our homeland, disarm and return to the fields, and serve our parents. Now Yuan Tianmu is behind us with 300,000 iron horsemen, fighting them head-on, and we will definitely die. Now we are suffering from the enemy, but we cannot surrender, let us try to ask us all the way to conquer cities and occupy the land of other countries. Along the way, countless Wei people were killed by us, and they had a deep hatred with us, and we surrendered, can we live? No, they won't let us go. Since they are all dead ends, it is better for us to fight, although we only have 7,000 people, and the other party has 300,000 people, but while Yuan Tianmu did not attack Xingyang, we still have a glimmer of life. If you want to go home alive, you should follow me Chen Qingzhi together, and you would rather be a horse leather shroud than a humiliated soldier. Do you dare to fight? ”

Listening to Chen Qingzhi's words, all the soldiers were emotional, geared up, and shouted "Dare!" Dare! Dare! ”

Chen Qingzhi saw that the morale was like a rainbow, it was the time of a drum, so he gave an order to launch a siege, seven thousand Liang soldiers were extremely brave, went forward one after another, and finally conquered Xingyang before Yuan Tianmu formed a siege, and the governor Yuan Gong, who defended the city, was captured alive when he fled. Yang Yu was tied up by Liang Jun on the gatehouse and sent to Yuan Hao, Yuan Hao began to persuade Yang Yu to surrender, he refused to surrender, he was angry, and asked, "I persuaded you to surrender to me that day, but you refused me with loyalty and filial piety, and today the city is broken, and you have surrendered again, are you afraid of death?" Now I have killed you, and you have lost me. ”

Yang Yu still had arrows stuck in his body, and replied, "The reason why I can't stand under the city tower is because I am worried about being killed by the rebels." It's not that I, Yang Yu, am afraid of death, but that my father at home is eighty years old and has no one to support, so I don't want him to be sick and have nothing to rely on, so I beg to spare my life and support my father for the rest of his life. After speaking, he bowed down with tears.

Yuan Hao was moved and ordered Yang Zhong to put him in prison temporarily.

Chen Qingzhi saw that Yuan Hao did not kill Yang Yu, and led more than 300 people to kneel and ask Yuan Hao to kill Yang Yu, "The minister and the emperor crossed the river for 3,000 miles, attacked more than 30 cities, and 7,000 children were not injured. Now that the battle of Xingyang has injured more than 500 brothers, if you don't kill Yang Yu, how can you comfort the spirits of these brothers in the sky. ”

Yuan Hao replied, "I once heard King Liang say that Yuan Ang did not surrender back then, and was praised by King Liang as a loyal festival. King Liang is still like this, shouldn't I learn from him, do I have to kill Yang Yu? Except for Yang Yu, the rest of the people are at the disposal of Aiqing. ”

Chen Qingzhi was speechless, so he angrily beheaded 37 of Yang Yu's subordinate commanders, all of whom ordered the Liang soldiers to take their hearts and drink wine to comfort the dead and wounded more than 500 soldiers.

After eating the heart of the commander of the Wei army, the morale of the soldiers was even greater. Chen Qingzhi made a surprise move and led 3,000 cavalry to counterattack Yuan Tianmu, who had just arrived in Xingyang. Yuan Tianmu was shocked, no matter what, he couldn't imagine that Chen Qingzhi would attack him with the Liang army, who had just finished the bitter battle and was still exhausted. Caught off guard for a moment, tens of thousands of Wei troops were defeated on all fronts, and Yuan Tianmu only took a few dozen horsemen to escape north. Chen Qingzhi's victory followed by the attack on the Tiger Prison Pass, the Tiger Prison Pass of Erzhu Shilong at this time heard that Xingyang City was broken, Yuan Tianmu 300,000 troops were also defeated, frightened early soul not to give up, as soon as Chen Qingzhi gathered to the pass, ready to attack, he did not hesitate to abandon the pass and fled, but his own brother Er Zhu Shicheng did not have time to escape, was caught by Chen Qingzhi divided by the punishment, cut off the meat piece by piece and fed to the dogs.

As soon as the tiger prison was broken, Luoyang was in danger, and Er Zhurong had never tasted such a big defeat, especially when Er Zhu Shicheng was fed to a dog by Ling Chi, which was even more humiliating. He angrily kicked Erzhu Shilong, who was kneeling and begging for mercy, and scolded the guts rats, "I gave you such an important city to guard, and you fled without a fight, and lost your brother's life, and you dare to run back?" Erzhu Shilong did not dare to say a word, but fortunately the generals interceded and were exempted from military law.

Yuan Kuan saw that Luoyang was in danger, and asked Er Zhurong to enter Luoyang to help Yuan Ziyou abandon the city and seek the future. Princess Beixiang cried every day and begged Er Zhurong to take Ying'e back, but Er Zhurong couldn't help it, and ordered Er Zhuzhao to enter Luoyang with Yuan Kuan and take Yuan Ziyou out of Beijing.

In May 529, under the escort of Yuan Kuan and Erzhu Zhao, Yuan Ziyou fled to Hanoi (now Qinyang, Henan) with his concubine, Ying'e and Qihua, and ordered the courtiers who stayed behind not to resist, and first welcomed Yuan Hao into Luoyang, so as to return to the court in the future. On May 25, Yuan Hao entered Luoyang to succeed to the throne and became emperor, and changed to Yuan Jianwu.