Han Zigao's real name is Barbarian, Huiji Mountain 'Yin' people (now Shaoxing, Zhejiang), whether it was in the Southern Dynasty or modern society at that time, his family background and occupation can be regarded as the grassroots at the bottom of the society, and his ancestors have been setting up stalls to make shoes for generations.

When he was a teenager, Han Zigao rose rapidly because he followed Chen Baxian's nephew Wu Xing (now Huzhou, Zhejiang) to guard Chen Qian, and was an excellent general in the early days of Southern Chen.

Probably because Han Zigao's appearance was too beautiful, many people at that time, including many literati in later generations, only paid attention to Han Zigao's appearance, and ignored his extraordinary skills and achievements, and passed down many wild biographies in later generations.

At first, Han Zigao was written as Chen Qian's male favorite, and by the time of the Ming Dynasty, Han Zigao had become the male queen of the literati Wang Shizhen, Wang Jide and others at that time. So as the son of a shoe stall shoemaker, how handsome is Han Zigao?

Feng Menglong, who wrote "Three Words" during the Ming Dynasty, wrote Han Zigao in his "Love History", and used allusions from the highest classic "Book of Songs", saying that he "has a 'glamorous' appearance, a delicate and white appearance, a mantine hair, and a natural moth eyebrows.

It seems that Han Zigao's appearance, skin, hair, and eyebrows are all first-class since Pangu opened the sky, and the point is that people are pure natural and have not had plastic surgery!

The most exaggerated is still to come, according to historical records, because at that time in Southern Liang was in the midst of Hou Jingzhi's 'chaos', and there were wars and 'chaos' everywhere in the south of the Yangtze River.

Han Zigao was still young, estimated to be more than eleven or twelve years old, and fled with his shoemaker father, and it was common for him to encounter 'chaotic' soldiers.

These 'chaotic' soldiers have already killed people with red eyes, and they will kill people when they see wealth, but several times when the 'chaotic' soldiers wielded their knives and 'chaotic' cut passers-by, the blade of the knife looked like it was about to cut Han Zigao's body.

That's when the 'rebels' suddenly realized that they were opposite a fairy-like beauty, and their reaction was similar to that of a serious car accident: cardiac arrest, dementia, stiff hands and feet, and amnesia - completely forgetting that their specialty was murder.

In the end, Han Zigao and his family were also protected from the danger zone by these 'chaotic' soldiers who had regained their senses, and what was even worse was that such a thing happened more than once, which shows how amazing Han Zigao's beauty is.

Later, Han Zigao, who was only 16 years old, wanted to take someone else's car on the way back to his hometown, and Chen Qian, who happened to go to Wuxing to take office, led the army to pass by. Han Zigao immediately agreed.

Since then, Chen Qian and Han Zigao have been inseparable, not only escorting Chen Qian with a knife, but also responsible for providing Chen Qian's meals every day. And Chen Qian even invited literati and military generals to teach Han Zigao the art of war and martial arts, and in less than five years of kung fu, Han Zigao was already both civil and military.

Once Chen Qian dreamed at night that she was riding a horse to climb the mountain, but because of the steep mountain road, the horse lost its hooves and almost rolled down the mountain, thanks to Han Zigao's support, it was successfully climbed to the mountain, and since then Chen Qian has trusted and relied on Han Zigao even more.

This time, Chen Qian had to lead the main force to defend Jiankang because Wang Lin led the army eastward, because the other generals of the Chen Dynasty either resisted Wang Lin east of Huangcheng or went with Chen Baxian to the northern expedition to Northern Qi, and Chen Qian had no other suitable generals in his hands to go south.

At the critical moment, Han Zigao took the initiative to stand up and ask for orders to lead the army south, although Chen Qian was a little reluctant to Han Zigao to leave him temporarily, but finally agreed to Han Zigao's request, and at the same time gave Han Zigao as many waterway soldiers and horses as possible.

In this way, when Han Zigao went south, in addition to the 8,000 infantry army that Chen Qian 'drawn' as much as possible, Chen Qian also sent part of the naval army that he had formed on time to Han Zigao led by Wu Xingtai, and finally sent the only more than 80 cavalry under his command to Han Zigao.

This time, Han Zigao was able to successfully capture the county city of Jian'an, in addition to the surname Lin in the city as the internal response, these dozens of cavalry also played a great role.

Originally, Wang Ze's plan was to join Han Zigao's naval army to destroy the Jian'an County naval army first, and then wave his army to capture the Jian'an County City, and it was not difficult to use gunpowder to blow up the city gate.

I didn't want to Jian'an County's surname Lin and many other local heroes couldn't stand the oppression of the Hou family for a long time, so they quietly sent someone to Jiankang to contact Chen Qian.

When receiving Lin's letter, Wang Ze's letter had not yet reached Chen Qian, and coupled with the pressure brought by Chen Baxian's Northern Expedition and Wang Lin's eastward advance, Chen Qian did not have the 'fine' strength to take care of the Haoqiang of Fujian and Zhejiang.

So Chen Qian ignored Lin Duran at that time, and when Wang Ze's letter was delivered to Jiankang, Chen Qian thought that Lin Duran was still waiting for her news.

At this time, the three parties were united, and then according to the plan of both parties, Wang Ze used the strategy of diverting the tiger from the mountain to lead away Hou Baoying's main force; Then the Lin family and several other powerful soldiers seized the north 'gate' to receive Han Zigao's army into the city, and everything planned was so perfect.

On the sea, Wang Ze didn't even let Han Zigao's sailors make a move, and they completely wiped out the Jian'an Navy, which shocked Chun Yukun and other officers and soldiers of the Southern Dynasty Sailors and many powerful fleets in Jian'an, and the idea of 'never being an enemy with this person' was marked in the hearts of these people.

Compared with Wang Ze's smoothness on the sea, Han Zigao almost went wrong here, not because of Han Zigao's problem, but because of the several strong companies that should be in the house.

After Hou Baoying led the army out of the city, Hou Wei led the remaining four or five thousand people to defend the county seat of Jian'an, because Hou Wei did not dare to slack off at all under the instructions of the old Hou, and issued martial law ordering the people in the city to go home and not to go out.

At this time, it was the season of tea picking, and the people were very busy and dissatisfied with the martial law issued by the Hou family, but they all dared to be angry and did not dare to speak, and the Lin family, who was ready to act as the internal response of the Chen army in the city, was already ready to seize the 'door'.

Since the Lin family came to Jian'an County in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, after hundreds of years of reproduction, they have already become a big family with thousands of people and tens of thousands of servants.

In addition, in the past hundred years, it has married several powerful families in the county, such as the Chen, Huang, and Gao families, and has long formed an inseparable interest group, and the power in Jian'an County is also quite large.

Although the Lin family's power in Jian'an County is not small, it is not as good as the Hou family who took advantage of Hou Jingzhi's 'chaos' to seize the power of Jian'an County.

In the past ten years, the Lin family, like other Jian'an County Haoqiang, has been bullied by the Hou family and several Haoqiang who are attached to the Hou family, and the family's land and forests have been continuously swallowed up and decreased year by year.

You must know that more than 80% of the mountainous land in Jian'an County is cultivated, and there is very little arable land, and these lands of the Lin family are all accumulated by the ancestors for hundreds of years.

Coupled with the influence of the ancients' heavy agricultural thoughts, land has always been regarded as the foundation, so the Hou family's seizure of the Lin family's land is simply the same as digging out the Lin family's lifeline.

Therefore, a few months ago, Lin Yutong, the patriarch of the Lin clan, sent his eldest son Lin Duran to Jiankang to ask the court to send troops, but there was no news in the following months, which made Lin Yutong very anxious.

I don't want to Just when Lin Yutong was anxious, Lin Duran sent a letter back, and learned that the imperial court had sent a general surnamed Han to personally lead the army to conquer the Hou clan of Jian'an, and the army was not far from Jian'an.

The patriarch of the Lin clan was overjoyed when he learned the news, and hurriedly and secretly contacted several in-laws who were 'friendly' with him and also had enmity with the Hou family.

Later, taking advantage of Wang Ze's big trouble in Jian'an County, Hou Wei asked all the powerful families to cooperate in defending the city, and gathered the soldiers of several families in a house near the north 'gate'.

At the appointed time, nearly 1,000 soldiers and young and strong children of several powerful families rushed to the north 'gate' one after another, and successfully seized the north 'gate'.

Who knew that Hou Wei felt that the north 'gate' should focus on the area to be defended, so he personally led a thousand county soldiers to take over the defense.

As soon as the Lin family captured the north 'gate' of Jian'an City, Hou Wei led the army to come, and Hou Wei saw that several powerful families led by the Lin family rebelled, and immediately led the army to kill them, and the two sides fought at the 'gate' of the city.

As the old saying goes, 'don't do porcelain work without diamonds', although the Lin family's soldiers eat well on weekdays, dress warmly, and have sufficient training, they are rookies who have never experienced the battlefield after all, and they will stop eating when they fight.

On the other hand, although the 1,000 infantry troops under Hou Wei were not as good as the regular armies of Northern Qi and Southern Chen, after all, with Hou Baoying's seizure of power in Jian'an County and the subsequent seven or eight years with other powerful and mountain bandits, they had fought many times, and had experienced a lot of battle formations.

If it weren't for the fact that these family soldiers were all the sons of the Lin family and other powerful families, they knew that even if they fled, they would inevitably cause trouble to their families, so although they were killed one after another, they still persevered and did not flee.

Just when Hou Wei was about to recapture the city gate, Han Zigao personally led the only eighty cavalry to rush into the city gate.

The Lin family's soldiers couldn't hold on, but when they saw that their own reinforcements had entered the city, and they were still cavalry, their morale suddenly rose, and they withstood the Hou family's attack.

Dozens of cavalry led by Han Zigao were used as arrows, and the soldiers of the Lin family and several other families were the follow-up forces, and they actually killed the Hou family's infantry in two.

However, the impact of the war horses of the Southern Dynasty is not as good as that of the war horses in the north after all, and after charging for so long, coupled with the distance from outside the city to the inside of the city, the physical strength of the war horses of Han Zigao and others is a little unable to keep up.

Seeing that Hou Wei organized his soldiers and horses to gather again, preparing to counterattack and recapture the city gate, Han Zigao felt nervous in his heart.

Fortunately, Han Zigao's infantry army, which had been ambushed outside the city in advance, also began to march into the city in a steady stream at this time, and Han Zigao relented in his heart.

Although he had also made some contributions to the two battles of Du Gong and Zhang Biao with Chen Qian before, he was just a dispensable little person at that time, and it was the first time to lead the army alone, but he couldn't go on a business trip.

If it weren't for these dozens of cavalry this time, I was afraid that if I didn't wait for myself to rush to the city gate, the Lin clan and other heroes in the city would be defeated, so that the plan would fail, and Han Zigao was a little happy when he thought of this.

It seems that the combat effectiveness of the defenders of Jian'an County is still 'very' strong, but fortunately, Hou Baoying's main force was led away from the county town by the Xiahou of the East China Sea, otherwise the Lin clan would not even be able to get close to the city 'gate'.

Listening to that Mr. Xiao said that although this Xiahou was only ten years old, he had been enlightened by an immortal who was the Antarctic Immortal Emperor when he was a child, so he was extremely intelligent, and he created a foundation in just a few years, thinking of this, Han Zigao was very curious about the legendary very young Xiahou.

At this time, Zhou Wenhua, the deputy general who led the infantry into the city, came to Han Zigao, Zhou Wenhua is the younger brother of Zhou Wenyu, the general of Southern Chen who has died in battle, although his record is mediocre, he has experienced a lot of battles and is good at defense, this time he was appointed by Chen Qian as Han Zigao's deputy.

However, Han Zigao has always been humble and has always respected such an old general, so the two get along very harmoniously.

In addition to the 2,000 soldiers who stayed outside the city as backup, the other 6,000 soldiers under the leadership of Han Zigao and Zhou Wenhua quickly defeated Hou Wei at the north 'gate', and then 'advanced' to Hou's mansion.

With local heroes such as the Lin family, the Huang family, the Chen family, and the Gao family leading the way, the Hou family was all arrested before they had time to escape.

After some inventory, it was found that except for the people who went out with Hou Baoying, and Hou An, who was captured by Wang Ze before, everyone else was here.

Because Han Zigao governed the army strictly and treated the soldiers without sparing money, the 8,000 soldiers under his command were willing to obey Han Zigao's military orders and did not dare to disobey them, which also led to the fact that there was not a single incident of robbery by the Chen army after the army entered the city.

Since ancient times, there has been a saying called "bandits are like combs, and soldiers are like washing", which means that the military discipline of the army in ancient times was not very good, and there were often cases of the army looting the people.

Originally, the people in the city had already been prepared to hide, but who knew that after the Chen army entered the city, the military discipline was strict, and the people in the city did not commit any crimes, so the powerful people in the city sent pigs and sheep to labor the army, and praised the teacher of benevolence and righteousness, the teacher of justice!

Because of the praise of the local people, Zhou Wenhua sent out a considerable number of soldiers to inspect the law and order, and bad things happened on the side. However, Han Zigao was in the warehouse operated by the Hou family for nearly ten years, happily spinning around while checking his harvest.

Hou Baoying has been running Jian'an for nearly ten years, and there is nothing in the treasury of the county town, but there are not too few good things in the Hou's 'private' treasury.

There are nearly 20,000 taels of gold alone, and with copper coins and silks, it is really a large amount of wealth! These belongings can be described as a life-saving water for Nan Chen, who has been financially strapped recently!

Just when Han Zigao was inspecting the warehouse, a soldier came to the warehouse and announced: "General Qiqi, a sea ship has come to the dock outside the city, and a scribe who claims to be Xiao Jing has come down and said that he wants to see the general!" ”

Han Zigao and Xiao Jing are also acquaintances, and when they heard that Xiao Jing appeared outside the city, they knew in their hearts that it must be that Xiahou who also successfully eliminated Hou Baoying and was about to come outside the city.