Before dawn on the second day, Wang Ze ordered all the departments to cook, distribute all the grain in the camp, and even slaughtered hundreds of wounded horses to replenish the strength of the soldiers.

When it was dim and dim, I heard a sudden shout of killing on Jishui, and then the fire burned, and the flames lit up a large area of the sky.

The southern sailors who rushed over from the Xuzhou and Huaisi areas with great hardship never knew that water warfare could be done without contact, and the guys who didn't know where they came from were unruly and didn't fight with you at all.

The naval army under the command of Sun Xing and Qu Liulang vigorously 'fired' rockets onto the ships of the Qi army's naval division, resulting in the fact that although the opponent had hundreds of ships, they were not able to do it.

The battle started on the water here, and Wang Ze on the mountain over there had already reorganized his soldiers and horses, and made a posture of preparing to attack the Qi army under the mountain, except for thousands of soldiers who stayed in the camp, and the other tens of thousands of infantry troops all came out of the camp.

Nearby, Ge Wei led thousands of cavalry as a corner, and they also appeared to cooperate with the infantry attack.

The more than 20,000 Qi troops under the mountain had already been awakened by the movement on Jishui, and saw that the army on the mountain had already put on an offensive posture, so they hurriedly left the camp and lined up in front of the mountain.

Wang Ze led the army to storm the middle of the Qi army, Ge Wei led the cavalry to attack the right flank of the Qi army, and when the two sides started fighting, tens of thousands of cavalry troops rushed out from the rear to storm the left rear of the Qi army.

It turned out that Wang Yong took advantage of the march last night, and the horse's hooves were wrapped with sackcloth, and quietly led tens of thousands of cavalry to ambush nearby.

The main general of the Qi army besieging Wang Ze under the mountain was not Murong Shaozong, but Gao Qian, the son of Gao Yue.

Immediately snatched the responsibility of exterminating the remnants of the rebels outside the city, and at that time, Murong Shaozong was slightly ill because of the continuous '' work, so he stayed in the city to recuperate.

Murong Shaozong felt that although he did not lead the team to exterminate the thief army, but with the cooperation of the veterans of the town army, Gao Qian, as long as he surrounded it for more than ten days, the thief army on the mountain would inevitably be wiped out because of the lack of food.

Who knew that only five days later, Wang Ze's reinforcements arrived, and Gao Qian was attacked by Wang Yong, Wang Ze, and Ge Wei on three sides, and was forced to resist the attack of 40,000 or 50,000 people with 20,000.

Originally, if it was only the 15,000 town troops of the Qi army here, the Qi army might have maintained its formation and slowly retreated into the city of Jinan.

However, the town army lost a lot of losses when attacking, so Gao Qian transferred more than 10,000 state and county soldiers, and now these state and county soldiers will rush the town army's formation to 'chaos', and Gao Qian took the lead and fled to the city without his life.

There were still six or seven thousand cavalry under Wang Ze's command, plus the tens of thousands of cavalry led by Wang Yong, adding up to nearly 20,000 cavalry, how could Gao Qian and these Northern Qi troops escape.

Relying on his horse to dive high, it was easy to escape outside the city 'gate', but when there were still hundreds of meters away from the city 'gate', the pursuers behind 'shot' with crossbow arrows from a distance, and Gao Qian was immediately 'shot' into a hedgehog.

When Murong Shaozong, who was recuperating in the city, saw that Gao Qian's body was only a headless body, he immediately spurted out a mouthful of blood and fell ill again!

Gao Qian, the grandson of Gao Yue, the patriarch of the central government, is now folded outside the city of Jinan, and more importantly, he has lost more than 20,000 troops, and the rest of the city are some state and county soldiers and more than 10,000 monk soldiers.

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Wang Ze rode on a horse and looked at the Jinan city wall in front of him, and his heart was really full of emotion, before he was defending the city Murong Shaozong attacked, and within a few days, he was driven out of Jinan City by the monks and soldiers in the city and the Qi army, but now it is his turn to besiege Murong Shaozong.

"Today, we have annihilated more than 20,000 infantry troops outside the city, and the Qi army and sailors are gone, and there are only 20,000 Murong Shaozong in the city, even if it is forced from the people in the city, it is only 10,000 people," Wang Yong on the side pointed to the city with a horsewhip and said with a smile to the generals around him.

Just when everyone was talking and laughing, Qu Liulang from Jishui came to Wang Ze's side, and he said to Wang Ze with a smile: "Xiao Langjun, look who is coming!"

Wang Zezheng looked at Xiao Jing who was following Qu Liulang, and he was overjoyed: "It turned out that Mr. Xiao is back, I don't know if this trip will be smooth?" It seems that Xiao Jing is in a good mood, and everything should be going well.

Sure enough, Xiao Jing said next: "Xiao Langjun, don't worry, everything is going well, I will first get acquainted with Chen Qian's favorite minister Han Zigao on your orders that day." Then I met with Chen Qian, because I was also an old acquaintance, and his uncle Chen Baxian and I were also considered to be the former ministers of Emperor Yuan, and soon Chen Baxian also met with me! ”

It turned out that after Wang Ze knew that the cottage was attacked, he also sent Xiao Jing to envoy Nan Chen while transferring troops, and went to see Chen Baxian through the relationship between Han Zigao and Chen Qian, preparing to join Nan Chen to attack Northern Qi.

At the beginning, Chen Baxian was still very disdainful of Wang Ze's strength, thinking that a group of bandits wanted to make a big deal, although he saw Xiao Jing, but it was also in the spirit of curiosity, and there was also the intention of appeasing the Xiao clan.

Later, Chen Ba first received the news that Wang Ze first robbed the plain and then Keqi Prefecture, and later came the news that Wang Yong led the army to the land of Sanqi, and annihilated Lou Errong's more than 6,000 'elite' sharp horsemen, which had become a general trend in the north.

At this time, Chen Baxian couldn't sit still, he had also attacked Guangling and other places before without success, this time it seemed that Wang Yong and others should be a good help, so he hurriedly summoned Xiao Jing to discuss the matter of a joint crusade against the Qi State.

At this time, although Nan Chen had already been established, the territory that Chen Ba first controlled in his hands was a land of thousands of miles centered on Jiankang.

In the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, Wang Lin, the assassin of Xiangzhou, who was one of the three generals of Emperor Liang Yuan and Chen Baxian, was promoted as the leader of the alliance by the town of Shangzhou in the upper reaches of Liang after the fall of Jiangling, and was a vassal to the Northern Qi, Western Wei (Northern Zhou) and their vassal Xiao Jing, the king of Liang.

When Chen Ba first killed Wang Seng and defended Emperor Jing of Liang and Xiao Fangzhi, Wang Lin refused to accept the appointment of 'Shizhong' and Sikong, and gathered troops to prepare to attack Jiankang.

On the eve of Chen Baxian's proclamation as emperor last year, he sent Hou Andu, Zhou Wenyu and others to lead troops along the west of the Great River to attack Wang Lin's forces on a large scale.

In the same month that Chen Ba first became emperor, Hou Andu and other soldiers were defeated and captured, although Hou Andu later waited for the opportunity to flee back to Jiankang, but Wang Lin took the opportunity to enter Yingcheng (now Wuhan City, Hubei), and had 100,000 'elite' soldiers under his command.

In the first month of this year, Wang Lin went down the river to occupy Huangcheng (Jiujiang, Jiangxi), and welcomed Xiaozhuang, the king of Yongjia of the Liang clan who was first sent to the Northern Qi Dynasty as a hostage, to Yingcheng, and was regarded as Emperor Liang and fought against Chen Baxian. At the same time, in all parts of the south of the Yangtze River under the rule of Nan Chen, there were still large and small local wealthy clan separatist forces.

Since the 'chaos' of Yongjia in the Western Jin Dynasty, a large number of northern scholars crossed to the south, and after the entire Eastern Jin Dynasty and the Song, Qi, and Liang dynasties, the southern dynasties in the Jiangnan, Fujian, Zhejiang mountains, Hunan and Jiangxi river basins, and even the Lingnan region have had relatively great social and economic development.

With the development of the hinterland of the south of the Yangtze River, many local wealthy families with 'private' armed families have emerged, and Chen Ba first started to build Chen, which is the result of the support of some wealthy families in Lingnan and Jiangzhou.

Since the Eastern Jin Dynasty, these new wealthy clans have been in control of the government and excluded the Han people, and it is difficult for them to enter the high-level politics, but they have expanded their political and economic power in the local area, which has formed an unstable factor in the Liang Dynasty.

In Hou Jing's 'chaos', the wealthy families in various places took the opportunity to raise troops to protect themselves. The history says: the disaster at the end of the Liang Dynasty, the competition of the heroes, the length of the county's rock 'cave', the pride of the village Tunwu wall, the plundering of capital to become strong, and the insult of the tomb is great.

After Emperor Liang Yuan became emperor in Jiangling, he had to admit the existing facts and appoint the leaders of the wealthy clans in various places as the assassins and county guards.

After Chen Ba first took control of Jiankang, he had no choice but to follow this method and give the local tycoons the political right to control the local regime.

After the establishment of the Chen Dynasty, although the wealthy families in various places accepted the official positions of the Chen Dynasty, they supported the army and respected themselves, and some also secretly contacted Wang Lin, including Xiong Tanlang of Yuzhang (now Nanchang City, Jiangxi), Zhou Di of Linchuan (southwest of Nancheng, Jiangxi), Liuyi of Dongyang (now Jinhua, Zhejiang) and Hou Baoying of Jin'an (now Fuzhou City, Fujian).

Chen Baxian replaced Xiao Liang to establish the Chen Dynasty, although he contributed to the preservation of the southern Han civilization, and even the Xiao Liang clan believed that the situation was irreparable, but there were still a large number of scholars who did not support Chen Baxian's replacement of Xiao Liang.

Chen Baxian had attacked Guangling and Lujiang twice before, but after all, because of the lack of national strength, he finally retreated to the south of the Yangtze River.

If the land of Huainan can be recaptured this time, then the Chen Dynasty will have the support of the vast number of people in Jiangnan and gradually strengthen its control over the southern region.

Chen Baxian planned in his heart that even if he couldn't completely recapture Huainan, he could win the support of a large number of scholars if he could capture several counties in Jiangbei.

Especially when I heard that Wang Ze and others have almost all the land of Sanqi, then either the combat effectiveness of Northern Qi has weakened, or the strength of Wang Ze and others is really powerful, of course, it is possible to have both. Either of the two is worth joining forces to deal with the Northern Qi together.

After Chen Ba first negotiated with Xiao Jing, he decided to use his nephew Chen Qian to guard the government to prevent Wang Lin from taking advantage of the situation to advance eastward, and he personally led an army of 100,000 to the north.

After Xiao Jing confirmed the news of Chen Baxian's Northern Expedition, he proudly led a large number of shipwrights and other craftsmen from Chen Baxian, a total of 1,000 people, and returned home on more than 20 warships presented by Chen Baxian.

However, those craftsmen rushed to Jeju Island with Du Shengzheng on a warship, but Xiao Jing sailed directly to Changdao in a boat with Chen Baxian's envoy.

When Xiao Jing arrived at Changdao, Sun Xing was preparing to support Wang Ze, so Xiao Jing came to Qizhou with Sun Xing's fleet with the envoys of the Southern Dynasty.

Hearing Xiao Jing's words, Wang Ze, Wang Yong and the generals were all happy in their hearts, now that he is no longer fighting independently, Xiao Jing actually brought a powerful ally to himself, and it is really possible to do a great career if he doesn't get it right.

This will also make Wang Ze quite sober, he woke everyone up: "I said everyone, Emperor Chen of the Southern Dynasty is willing to form an alliance with us because of our strength, and it is important to hurry up and capture Jinan City now." Otherwise, in a few days, maybe another army of Qi will come over. ”

After listening to Wang Ze's words, Wang Yong and the others were embarrassed to listen to them one by one, Wang Yong shouted: "All departments will surround Jinan City and attack the city tomorrow!" ”

"Hey, Lang Jun, Xiao Lang Jun!" Xiao Jing hurriedly followed Wang Yong and Wang Ze, and said, "The envoy of Nanchen from Langjun's family is still on the boat, do you want to go and see it?" ”

Only then did Wang Yong react, he was so happy that he had forgotten the envoy of Nan Chen, and immediately rushed to the Jishui Wharf in the north of the city with a large group of generals.