Chapter 62: The Stars Fall

Originally, Wang Yong and the little brothers around him came to see his army, and he also had the meaning of showing his strength to Wu Qiong.

Look at the military horses of our old Wang family, there are a lot of horses, and they are also the masters who have tens of thousands of soldiers, so they can rest assured that they will not suffer losses if they join forces with us.

As a result, Wu Qiong didn't turn around, but he fell in love with Wang Yong's own cavalry, and at that time he opened his mouth to buy 5,000 war horses to transport back to the Southern Dynasty.

Wang Yong has never been very good at talking to people about business, and he pushed his baby son Wang Ze out to be in charge, who let Wang Ze talk about business with Xiao Jing before.

Looking at the child who was less than ten years old in front of him, Wu Qionglei, who was ready to slaughter Wang Yong, a thick big brother, was not light.

Wang Ze quickly reached an agreement with Wu Qiong this time, considering that Chen Baxian's Northern Expedition helped him a lot, he did not slaughter Nan Chen fiercely.

In the end, Wang Ze agreed to take out 4,000 war horses to 'exchange' with Nan Chen, and as for other gunpowder 'powder' bombs and new sea ships, don't think about it, after all, it is the foundation of Shanzhai's own life.

In order to 'hand' over the war horse, Nan Chen needed to pay 100,000 stone of grain, and in addition, he had to give Wang Ze hundreds of 2,000 stone level sea ships.

100,000 stone of grain is actually nothing for the south, after the development of the entire Southern Dynasty for these years, the grain output in the south has always been very high.

In some places, because of the advanced farming technology, there is even fertile land with a yield of more than four stones of rice per mu after 'intensive' cultivation, and it is produced in two seasons every year.

The shipbuilding industry in the south is very developed, and hundreds of large ships are launched every year in the official shipyards alone.

Four thousand 'fine' war horses needed at least hundreds of thousands of stone grain to 'exchange' in the Southern Dynasty, but now they only paid 100,000 stone of grain and some sea ships to get it, which is really very cheap.

Wu Qiong made such a big deal, and her heart was almost bubbling, if she hadn't watched Wang Yong and others capture Jinan City, she would have been impatient to go back to the Southern Dynasty to report the good news to Chen Ba first.

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In the evening, Murong Shaozong, who had not recovered from his illness for a long time, ignored the opposition of his own soldiers and dragged his sick body to the city to observe the enemy's situation.

Looking at Wang Yong's army, which was stronger and stronger outside the city, Murong Shaozong's mood was extremely heavy.

After he tried his best to unite with the Futu Sect to attack the city, he thought that his previous premonition was wrong, and he was secretly a little lucky, but now it seems that the situation is not good.

Now he only has more than 20,000 infantry troops under his command, including a large number of wounded soldiers, and there is not a single cavalry.

Murong Shaozong did not plan to break through the siege, although now only a large number of 'elite' enemy troops were preparing to attack the city in the west of Jinan City, and only some young men and cavalry were patrolling on the other three sides.

However, to the south is the mountainous area, where it is inconvenient to march, to the north is Jishui, where the enemy naval army has just annihilated the Huai Surabaya Division, and to the east is a dead end in the enemy-occupied area.

Moreover, the remaining soldiers under his command are all state and county soldiers, and they are afraid that they will be caught up by the cavalry outside the city if they can't escape for dozens of miles.

The last way to survive was to flee westward, but after seeing the soldiers outside the city, Murong Shaozong's heart was even more cold.

There are at least 30,000 soldiers outside Xicheng, and most of them are 'elite' soldiers wearing various armors, and there are five or six thousand cavalry to cooperate, which is the 'elite' elite brought by Zheng Kui, Cao An and other infantry troops behind them.

In the end, Murong Shaozong could only mobilize the monks in the city and the people who did not leave the city to go to the city to assist in the defense, so that there were barely more than 20,000 people, hoping to hold out until Gao Yang sent a large army again.

Who knew that the enemy army outside the city did not attack the city overnight, but there were signs of digging tunnels, and Murong Shaozong was densely packed with listening urns along the city wall in the city, ready to cut off the enemy's tunnels at any time.

However, the tunnel dug by the enemy outside the city was never dug into the city wall, and Murong Shaozong was puzzled, so he had to arrange a large army near the tunnel dug by the enemy army to prepare in advance.

After waiting all night, I didn't see half of the enemy coming in through the tunnel, but by dawn the enemy troops outside the city were ready to attack the city, and all of them were in full armor.

Just when Murong Shaozong on the city wall was puzzled, he only heard 'boom', 'boom', a series of loud noises.

Murong Shaozong fell to the ground in an instant, only to feel that the eardrums in his two ears hurt, and he was buzzing with shock, his heartbeat accelerated instantly, and his eyes went black.

When I opened my eyes and stood up to look, I saw that a large section of the wall near the northwest corner was missing, and even the soldiers on the wall had disappeared with it.

Few of the soldiers who had been placed near the walls were standing there intact, and many of them were buried.

After the explosion, a large cloud of dust was filled, like a fog in winter, and Chu Honghang, who had been prepared outside the city for a long time, was the first to lead his troops into Jinan City.

The Qi soldiers in the city no longer had the courage to resist this time, except for a few who resisted, most of them knelt on the ground and begged for their lives.

Seeing that Jinan City was so miraculously breached, Murong Shaozong, who saw this scene in the city, shouted in despair: "The old man is ashamed of Your Majesty!" What is immortality? Before he could finish speaking, he jumped from the high city wall, and fell to his death.

The guards around Murong Shaozong didn't expect him to jump off the building, so they didn't have time to stop him, so they also jumped down one by one, and there were as many as thirty-six warriors who jumped off the building with Murong Shaozong.

The fall of a generation of famous generals also opened the reshuffle of the forces of the Three Kingdoms of the North and the South and the surrounding countries, and I don't know who is the master of the earth!

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The autumn mood in September in the land of Yanzhao is already extraordinarily strong, and the grass is firm after the beginning of autumn, and it is already the harvest season.

The people of Northern Qi who have worked hard for a year are ushering in a festive harvest year, but Yecheng, the capital of Daqi, is filled with a tense atmosphere.

Every day in the city, all kinds of people are killed, and even the children who are usually happy on the streets are gone, and the pedestrians on the streets are hurrying.

In the East Palace of the Imperial City, Gao Yang's crown prince Gao Yin didn't smile at all, because Emperor Gao Yang, who relied on him the most, fell ill.

Two months ago, since Yecheng received the military report that Qizhou had been captured, the Northern Qi court was quite quick to send Lou Errong, the nephew of the Empress Dowager Lou, to lead the Xianbei cavalry of the cavalry province to set off first, and then sent the veteran Murong Shaozong to lead the infantry army of the foreign army province to quell the rebellion.

However, not long after Murong Shaozong set off, he had not yet reached the territory of Qizhou, when the news came that Lou Errong attacked lightly, resulting in the annihilation of the cavalry and the defeat of Lou Errong.

Then he led 50,000 infantry troops and thousands of county cavalry, and controlled the veteran general Murong Shaozong of Qi, Ji, Qing, Yan, and Guangshu Prefectures, after the good news of the recovery of Jinan City, the bad news of his death came after only ten days.

This time, the anti-thieves have become the general trend, and even the entire land of Sanqi has been occupied, and Emperor Gaoyang has once again woken up from his drunken dream.

Just when Gao Yang remobilized his army and prepared to completely destroy this group of arrogant thieves, the news of the Southern Chen and Northern Expedition came again.

Chen Baxian ignored the forces of Wang Lin who threatened the nascent Nanchen regime upstream, and used his nephew Chen Qian to guard the government to guard against Wang Lin; Then he personally led an army of 70,000 to the north along the Zhongdushui (i.e., Hangou), and in the west, Chun Yuliang led an army of 30,000 to attack Lujiang and other places.

Due to the fact that a large number of the Northern Qi naval forces in the Huaisi area were 'pumped', and a large number of infantry troops were transferred north to Yanzhou, Xuzhou and other places to prepare to attack Qizhou and Jiaozhou, the number of troops in the Huainan prefectures and counties became smaller.

Chen Baxian's Northern Expedition lasted less than a month, and he successively went down to Hailing County, Guangling County, Jiangyang County, Qin County, and Liyang County, and the soldiers pointed directly at Shennong County and 'shooting' Yang County.

Reckless and heroic people from all over the country have raised troops, each called the general and the county guard, some want to meet the northern expedition of the Southern Dynasty army, and some want to establish themselves as the king to seek wealth and nobility, all kinds of "color" and "color" are not the same.

Just when the monarchs and ministers of the Northern Qi Dynasty were busy, the defenders in the west came with worse news, Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty sent the general Da Xi Chengxing to lead an army of 30,000 to attack Dongyongzhou, and the defenders could hardly defend it.

Immediately afterwards, there were Northern Zhou Lieutenant Chi Hui, Yu Wenxian and others were ordered to march eastward, claiming to be 100,000 troops to attack Luoyang, although the defenders relied on Luoyang City Gaocheng to temporarily hold Luoyang City, but if there was no large number of reinforcements as soon as possible, sooner or later it would be captured by the Northern Zhou.

Luoyang's status during this period was different from the Huainan Land under Chen Baxian's attack and the Sanqi Land that was captured by the anti-thieves, and Luoyang's status was far more than these places.

In the former Northern Wei Dynasty, Luoyang was the national capital at that time, and once it was captured by the Northern Zhou, it would greatly hit the confidence of the Northern Qi people.

More importantly, the terrain around Luoyang is dangerous, which is an important barrier for the Northern Qi to block the eastward advance of the Northern Zhou Dynasty.

There is no longer a little danger to the east of Luoyang to defend, and the entire rich Henan land will become a racecourse for the cavalry of the Northern Zhou Dynasty.

Gao Yang would rather lose the entire land of Huainan than the Luoyang region, after all, since ancient times, the north has been unified with the south.

The Northern Dynasty had an innate advantage over the Southern Dynasty, and it was possible to take back the land of Huainan if it was lost to the Southern Dynasty, and Luoyang could never be taken back if it was lost to the Northern Zhou.

Immediately, Gao Yang ordered Zhangwu County Wang Ku Digan to lead an army of 50,000, which was also claimed to be 100,000 to support the defenders of Luoyang, and it was necessary to keep Luoyang City and not lose it.

As for the anti-thieves in the land of Sanqi and the Southern Chen Northern Expedition to Gao Yang, they were put on the back of their minds for the time being, and only arranged for the prefectures and counties north of the great river to be strictly guarded to prevent the thief army from crossing the river.

In addition, the prefectures and counties of Yanzhou, West Yanzhou, Xuzhou, North Xuzhou, and South Qingzhou in the south of the river are also recruiting young and strong people, and they are preparing for counterattacks while preparing for attacks.

The army that had been mobilized to attack Wang Yong and others quickly marched towards Luoyang with King Ku Digan of Zhangwu County.

Wang Yong, Wang Ze and others didn't know that there was such a thing, and they were still in full swing preparing for defense, making weapons, and training the army.

After arranging these things under Gao Yang's instructions, Gao Yang's body had problems. From the sixth year of Tianbao, Gao Yang began to overhaul the palace, built a tower, and began an erosive life.

After several years of poverty and luxury, drinking and indulging in 'desire', Gao Yang's body was already much worse than before, and after some '', he fell ill just after arranging the important things of various ministries.