The Northern Qi in the ninth year of Tianbao became unstable, first the Pingyuan County Guard was killed, and nearly 1,000 cavalry in the city of Zhuan, who went to pursue, were killed, and then the Qizhou thieves captured Jinan City, and the life and death of Gao Jishi, the assassin and the governor of the capital, was unknown.

In addition, earlier, the Taishou of Qi County wrote to ask the troops to extinguish the Changguang anti-thieves, and the tens of thousands of people in Duan Yining's department who went to attack the anti-thieves in Changguang County were even more unheard.

The civil officials in Yecheng, the capital of the Great Qi State, received this series of bad news, and at first they did not dare to tell Emperor Gaoyang, who was drunk and dreamed of death all day long.

But with more and more incidents, it was finally impossible to hold it back, not only because Gao Jishi has always been Gao Yang's favorite minister, but also because Qizhou is the financial powerhouse of Northern Qi, and the annual tax revenue of Qizhou accounts for a considerable part of the tax of Northern Qi.

In case the rebels in Qizhou become the general trend, then they can erode the land of several states, and if they don't 'get it' good, the Southern Chen, the Northern Zhou, and the Turks will take advantage of the fire to rob, and even the Khitan and Goguryeo in the northeast may be able to catch a handful.

Since there is a 'chaos', it is necessary to send a large army to quell the rebellion as soon as possible, and the Northern Qi Dynasty and the Central Committee of the Northern Qi Dynasty on who to send to lead the army to Qizhou to quell the rebellion, and the fight is indispensable, if it is not for Yang Su and his gang of civil officials, then they will simply fight with He Balen and a group of Xianbei nobles.

It is said that the military of the Northern Qi Dynasty has always been in charge of the Xianbei aristocracy, but due to the power of Gao Yang to attack the Xianbei aristocracy in the past few years, coupled with the gradual entry of Han military generals into the upper echelons of the army, the military status of the Xianbei aristocracy has been greatly challenged.

The military center of the Northern Qi Dynasty is in Jinyang, that is, in the Fenhe River basin west of the Taihang Mountain, and Yecheng, which is located east of the Taihang Mountain as the national capital, is separated by a Taihang Mountain, and it is more inconvenient to 'cross' the road.

In the Eastern Wei Dynasty and the Northern Qi Dynasty, Jinyang was used as a companion capital, and Gao Huan, Gao Cheng and Gao Yang and others were constantly coming and going between Yecheng and Jinyang.

Fortunately, Gao Yang has been staying in Yecheng for the past few years because of his lack of pleasure, and after knowing the situation, he immediately returned to his previous appearance of being wise and martial.

Because of the sharp contradiction between the Xianbei nobles and the high-ranking officials of the Han nationality, and Gao Yang was not at ease to let any one lead tens of thousands of troops, the leading generals still needed to be considered.

After some bargaining between the DPRK and China, it was decided that Lou Errong, the nephew of the Empress Dowager Lou, would lead 6,000 Xianbei 'elite' cavalry first, of which 1,000 were the Praetorian Cavalry personally selected by Gao Yang, known as "Baibao Xianbei"!

These cavalrymen were all 'elite' in the Qi army, and the formation was tight when marching, so the scouts under Wang Ze's command judged according to the cavalry queue of the cottage, and the result was wrong.

After two days of noisy courtiers, Gao Yang decided that Murong Shaozong, the general of the Xianbei tribe, would still lead an infantry army of 50,000 to quell the rebellion, and the state and county soldiers of the surrounding states and counties of Qizhou were under his jurisdiction, but Gao Yang also appointed his own clan uncle Gao Qian, the son of Gao Guiyan, as an assistant to accompany Murong Shaozong to quell the rebellion.

Murong Shaozong was the general of the Northern Qi who defeated the Liang Division of the Northern Expedition when Hou Jing betrayed the Northern Qi, and since he was promoted and humbled by Gao Cheng and Gao Yang, he showed strong military talent, and Gao Yang was very relieved to use Murong Shaozong.

Due to the fact that at this time, the previously defeated Turks around the Northern Qi united with the Northern Zhou, which posed a great military threat to the Northern Qi; Although Chen Baxian of the Southern Dynasty only controlled the thousands of miles of land around Nanjing, Jiankang from the Yangtze River to this time, he also attacked Guangling, Lujiang and other places twice.

Because there were too many border troubles and it was difficult to 'draw' troops, in the end, it was difficult to 'draw' 30,000 state soldiers from Hebei prefectures, plus 20,000 'elite' veterans who had fought many 'engagements' with the Northern Zhou Turks to form the follow-up army of 50,000.

According to Gao Yang's meaning, Lou Errong led the 6,000 'elite' cavalry to rush to Qizhou as soon as possible, but not to 'engage' the anti-thieves head-on, but to surround the anti-thieves army in the city.

Then use the advantage of cavalry to blockade each city, so that the scope of anti-thief and 'chaos' can not be expanded, and it is also convenient for the subsequent infantry encirclement and suppression.

You must know that the south of Jinan City is next to the Taishan Mountains, as long as the situation is not good, the thieves in the city may quickly escape there, and in the future, if the Northern Qi Dynasty wants to completely encircle and eliminate these thieves, it will be a big trouble.

But Lou Errong, as a Xianbei wealthy family, and even more so the nephew of the Empress Dowager Lou, how could he give others a front stand and honestly carry out orders.

Since ancient times, most of the anti-thief rebellions have been won by crowd tactics, and the wars between the officials and the army and the displaced people have been won by one blow to ten or even one to a hundred, so even if Lou Errong already knows that the number of anti-thieves in Qizhou has been tens of thousands, he still doesn't care about it.

The 6,000 Xianbei cavalry under the command of Lou Errong are all 'elite' veterans who have fought many battles, and there are 1,000 "Baibao Xianbei" who are brave and invincible, and have won many battles with Gao Yang.

Some of these Xianbei cavalry veterans followed Gao Huan to defeat Ge Rong, who had hundreds of thousands of soldiers, when Gao Huan was still subordinate to Er Zhurong.

Lou Errong's army arrived five miles away from Jinan City at the same time, and saw that there was a depression outside the city, and the city 'gate' was wide open but there was not a single soldier in the city.

Seeing the situation in front of him, Lou Errong pointed at the city 'gate' in front of him with a horsewhip in his hand and laughed: "When the Southern Dynasties all said that the Three Kingdoms, Zhuge Kongming, the prime minister of Shu, had always been resourceful, and he was once surrounded by Sima Yi's soldiers of Wei State, and he did not 'mess' and used an empty city plan to scare off Sima 100,000 soldiers!" ”

Seeing that the left and right were respectful, Lou Errong continued: "You don't know that this empty city plan is a rumor, if this is the case, the 100,000 troops under Sima only need to send thousands of soldiers and horses to capture Kong Ming, where is the use of the whole army to retreat." Now the thieves in this city have resorted to such empty plans, thinking that we are a three-year-old child? ”

The generals on the left and right also laughed when they heard Lou Errong's words, and one of the partial generals hugged his fists and said: "Governor, let me rush forward, and I will definitely take Jinan City in one battle!" ”

After listening to the general's words, Lou Errong waved his hand and said with a smile: "Why do you need to be like this, the generals will lead the army to attack the city with me, and 'Baibao Xianbei' is in the rear sweep formation just in case!" ”

Although Lou Errong was born in the second generation of officials, he has also experienced a lot of battles, so that 1,000 cavalry entered the city first, and 4,000 cavalry in the middle rushed in.

But he didn't know that the times were changing, and the way of fighting was also changing, the first batch of thousands of cavalry rushed into the city safe and sound, and Lou Errong followed and prepared to rush into the city, but an accident happened when he was dozens of feet away from the city gate.

The continuous explosions of "boom" resounded for more than ten miles, and Lou Errong was broken down into dozens of pieces in the first place, and the cavalry behind him suffered heavy casualties.

The cavalry who had rushed into the city was overjoyed when they first saw that there were no ambushes in the 'gate' of the city, but they rushed less than a hundred zhang to find that there was a retaining wall more than one zhang high in front of them.

The wall is built of masonry from various parts of the city, and you don't need to try it to know that it is very strong, at least your own war horse can't break it.

At this time, there was an explosion outside the city gate, and he immediately knew that the situation was not good, and hurriedly turned his horse's head and prepared to escape from the city.

Just as they turned their horses' heads, thousands of soldiers armed with bows and arrows appeared on the walls of the streets on both sides of the street, and they 'shot' at the Xianbei cavalry huddled in the street.

Some cavalry fled towards the city gate, while the Xianbei cavalry in front could not escape because they were blocked behind, and some of them threw their weapons like enemy soldiers on the wall of the workshop in a hurry, and some were ready to grab the wall to seize the commanding heights.

However, during this period, the walls of the houses divided into workshops were about two feet, and although they could be climbed on horses, they could not be climbed under the eyelids of thousands of crossbowmen.

The leader of the Baibao Xianbei cavalry, who was in charge of the rear sweeping formation, was very dissatisfied with Lou Errong's arrangement of his own sweeping formation at first, but when the explosion sounded, he was stunned all of a sudden.

The 4,000 Xianbei cavalry outside the city 'gate' were killed one after another, countless people fell off their horses and were trampled to death, and thousands of frightened war horses neighed and 'chaos'.

"Retreat quickly for a sneak attack!" Bai Bao Xianbei is worthy of being an 'elite' soldier in a hundred battles, and the leader was only stunned for a moment before quickly making the first choice.

The explosion at this time indicates that there must be an enemy in the city, and cavalry will definitely be sent to attack, and if you rush over to save people, you will lose your own life.

Now keep a distance from the 'chaotic' cavalry and keep your formation to guard against possible sneak attacks, so that you and the injured robes outside the city can win a chance to live.

As expected, at the same time as the Baibao Xianbei cavalry pulled away, thousands of cavalry rushed out from a few miles away, raising smoke and dust in the sky.

The leader of the Baibao Xianbei cavalry grabbed the weapon in his hand, which was a fine oil horse lance, and shouted: "How can the dog man cast a trick of witchcraft, how can he make me and others afraid, and let me wait to kill the enemy formation and kill the thief!" ”

"Honorable brother's command!" Thousands of Baibaoxian cavalry were all dressed in armor, and most of them were 'fine' armor with iron armor inlaid on leather armor, all holding horse lances.

During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, due to the long-term cavalry war between a small number of nomads occupying the northern Central Plains, the horse lance, as a pinnacle weapon developed in horse combat, was only used by 'elite' cavalry and military generals.

It can be said that the period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties was a pinnacle of Chinese cavalry warfare, when there were heavy armor armored cavalry and a large number of super generals who were good at using horse lances.

This 'Bai Bao Xianbei' is all cavalry who are good at using horse lances, in addition to this, there are more than 100 armored cavalry, if it weren't for Lou Errong to ensure the speed of the cavalry, there would be more than 100 armored cavalry.

The battle-hardened Baibao Xianbei cavalry was in a neat formation even if it charged, although there were only a thousand cavalry, it had an irresistible momentum.

Looking at the Wang Ze cavalry that rushed over, it was a mess, except for the five thousand cavalry led by Ge Wei, they could barely maintain the formation.

Yang Fei, the hero of Qi County, led more than 800 cavalry under his command to quickly surpass Ge Wei's front army, and Yang Fei laughed and said when he crossed the military formation: "Commander Ge, I'll go and grab a little military merit first!" ”

Yang Fei probably felt that the three or four thousand Xianbei cavalry had been 'disorganized' by the explosion, and now he hurriedly rushed to the front to kill some wounded soldiers, which could be regarded as a great merit, as for the remaining more than 1,000 cavalry, he had long been out of his mind.

But the strength of the Xianbei cavalry has not been experienced, and when Yang Fei wanted to sweep through the army formation of Baibao Xianbei to kill the wounded Xianbei soldiers at the entrance of the city's 'gate', more than 200 cavalry rushed out of the Baibao Xianbei cavalry to kill Yang Fei.

The two armies galloped towards each other, and Yang Fei was shocked and hurriedly followed the iron spear in his hand to rush to the Xianbei cavalry who came in front of him, but when he saw that the Xianbei cavalry only divided two hundred people to meet him, his heart was a little contemptuous.

However, the ordinary cavalry of Baibao Xianbei was at least a hundred generals in other troops, and Yang Fei only saw that it was a Xianbei cavalry captain who greeted him, ready to kill him with one shot.

Who knew that Captain Xianbei of the wrong horse swept directly with a lance, and when Yang Fei resisted, he only felt that his hands were numb, and the tiger's mouth was cracked, and he could no longer hold the iron gun in his hand.

The captain didn't care about him anymore, and the Xianbei cavalry behind him came up and killed Yang Fei to the ground with only one shot, and as the horses ran past, there was only a pool of blood and 'flesh' on the ground.

Wang Ze, who was watching the battle at the head of the city, began to see that the Xianbei cavalry was almost wiped out by the explosives, and when Ge Wei led thousands of cavalry to rush out, Wang Ze thought that the war was about to end.

As a result, at this time, under the charge of the last remaining more than 1,000 Xianbei cavalry, they actually killed the cavalry under their command one after another, and even Yang Fei, the eldest of the Yang brothers in Qizhou for many years, was killed by the Xianbei cavalry.

Finally, when he saw hundreds of horsemen, Wang Ze's face changed, and he shouted: "Quickly open the city 'gate' and go to meet me!" ”