On the first day of the first month of the third year of the Taiqing Dynasty, the drums near Qingtang were thunderous, and a large number of rebel troops poured out of the camp and rushed towards the direction of Qingtang.

Qingtang is located between Stone City and Jiankang City, Wei Cang was ordered by the alliance leader Liu Zhongli to lead the army to camp here, but because of the fog last night, coupled with the intricacy of the river channel on the outskirts of Jiankang City, Wei Cang's troops were lost for a long time, and when they arrived in Qingtang, it was not far from dawn.

This is an important passage connecting Stone City, and the rebel army naturally also sent soldiers to guard here, and after Wei Cang ordered people to kill the guards, he immediately used various materials and components to defend the fortification.

However, due to the delay in the lost road, until dawn, the outer camp fence was not yet complete, and the reality of Wei Cang's battalion was also exposed to the eyes and ears of the enemy.

Originally, although the chaotic army knew that Qingtang was lost, but did not dare to move lightly because they did not know the reality of the enemy army, at this time Wei Cang's department was not the majority of the reinforcements, and even if the drum order to attack was sounded, Hou Jing personally led the elite men and horses to kill the camp that had not yet been repaired.

"Hurry up and get ready to fight!"

Although Wei Cang has been in charge of the guards for a long time and rarely leads troops to fight, after all, he is also from Jingzhao Wei and Wei Hu's grandsons.

At the same time, he commanded, "Quickly send an order to Liu Zhige, lead his boat division eastward, and attack the rebels behind!"

Water and land are the usual combat methods of the southerners, Wei Cang's headquarters only a few thousand, because of the fear of not being able to defend the Qingtang important place, Liu Zhongli sent the general Liu Shuyin to lead his subordinates to help in the war.

At this time, Liu Shuyin's naval army was still in the river, and the rebels on the opposite side were swarming, if they could help the water to the east and launch an offensive from the rear, it would inevitably make the rebels chaotic and difficult to take care of the whole thing.

Soon the elite of the rebel army led by Hou Jing attacked in front of the battalion, and the army lord Zheng Yizi, who was facing the battle in front of the battalion, led his troops to shoot the enemy with a bow and crossbow first, and took advantage of their heavy casualties and chaotic offensive to rush forward with a blade, filling the gap in the camp fence that had not yet closed with flesh and blood. The two sides fought fiercely, and soon the front of the camp was full of corpses, and although the rebels were outnumbered, they were also blocked outside the camp.

"Erlang and the others fought bravely to kill the enemy, and after breaking the thief, His Majesty celebrated!"

Wei Cang was dressed in fine armor and personally beat drums in the camp to cheer for the soldiers, and his battalion soldiers were also highly motivated, not afraid of the situation of being outnumbered.

However, the war lasted for a while, and Liu Shuyin's troops, who were supposed to be ordered to attack the rebels in the rear, did not move at all, which made more and more rebels gather near Qingtang, and gradually surrounded the place.

Just when Wei Cang's troops were fighting fiercely with the rebels, Liu Zhongli's men and horses had also moved from Xinting to Dazhuan, and Liu Zhongli was already quite tired after dispatching people and horses overnight.

When he was eating in the tent, he suddenly heard that the rebels were attacking Qingtang, Liu Zhongli suddenly changed color, threw himself into the banquet, got up and put on his armor, and shouted sharply: "Erlang and others will follow me to attack the rebels, and after killing Hou Jing, it is not too late to return to dinner!"

Soon, Liu Zhongli was lightly armoured, holding a horse lance, and led hundreds of elite horsemen to rush straight to the north of the big truss.

The southerners were not good at horse warfare, but they did not include Liu Zhongli. He was heroic since he was a child, and when he was young, he followed Xiao Gang, the crown prince who was then the king of Jin'an, to sit in Xiangyang. At that time, He Batsheng was invincible in the northern part of the Han Dynasty, but Liu Zhongli was the only one who could resist defeat.

Since then, Liu Zhongli's name has shocked Han Chu, and he has been in Handong and Huainan for a long time, and even Hou Jing's old town of Henan was resisted and difficult to enter, and it can be said that he is the leading general of Fang Bo in Nanliang!

The rebels had also set up a defensive line north of the big truss, but under the charge of Liu Zhongli and his men, they were as fragile as a paper lake, and they could not stop the iron hooves from running. After rushing through the big truss, Liu Zhongli directly led his troops to charge away to most of the rebels entrenched near Qingtang.

Although the rebels are strong, but a considerable part of them are only a rabble with low combat effectiveness, and they are not the enemies of Liu Zhongli's lance, so this elite cavalry is invincible under the leadership of Liu Zhongli, and it is in the ranks of the rebels.

"There's Hou Jingzhong's army

Where, follow me straight to the head of the thief!"

Before the official battle between the two sides, Liu Zhongli was also quite apprehensive, after all, Hou Jing drove all the way from Shouyang in Huainan to the siege of Taicheng by the Jiankang soldiers, but after the battle, he found that although there were many of his troops, they were miscellaneous, and their fighting spirit was not strong.

Of course, Hou Jing also noticed that this cavalry squad that had messed up his formation, it was far away before, and all the people and horses were completely unregulated by it, but now when they saw that the other party was actually killing him, the corners of his mouth suddenly sneered.

On the one hand, he ordered to maintain the offensive pressure on the camp and ensure that the men and horses in the camp could not leave the camp to attack, and at the same time, he slowly retreated surrounded by his own soldiers, and wanted to attract this group of men and horses to the core of the military formation and then gather the crowd to strangle them.

However, Hou Jing also underestimated Liu Zhongli's combat effectiveness, although the soldiers around him were also called elite, they were not the elite soldiers he led in Henan after all.

Liu Zhongli rushed into the battle, and the speed of the attack did not decrease much, seeing that the distance from Hou Jing was already less than a few feet, and the troops around Hou Jing were already in the danger of rout.

"The thief will leave to hurt my king!"

A loud shout came from the side, and Hou Jingbu swung Zhi Boren's sword straight at Liu Zhongli and slashed down.

Liu Zhongli received this knife, the horse was unstable, almost did not in the formation, the left near enemy soldiers have surrounded and killed here, fortunately the rear soldiers arrived in time, and successfully rescued Liu Zhongli under the leadership of the cavalry general Guo Shanshi.

At this time, Liu Zhongli was heavily injured and blood-stained armor, and his consciousness was already a little foggy, and it was difficult to lead the crowd to gallop to attack and kill, Guo Shanshi and the others had to fight and retreat, taking advantage of the fact that the surrounding enemy troops had not recovered from the panic and retreated to the camp.

After the defeat of Liu Zhongli's supporting army, there were no other disturbing factors on the battlefield, and Hou Jing was able to gather people to continue to attack the enemy camp in Qingtang.

At this time, the Qingtang camp had been surrounded by the chaotic regiments, and although the officers and men in the battalion sacrificed their lives to fight, they were already in decline. Instead of attacking the enemy, Liu Shuyin's boat division sailed in the direction of the river, apparently abandoning this force.

"Lord, the thief is fierce, let's retreat to the river for the time being......

Seeing that the momentum of the thief army was becoming more and more turbulent, Wei Cang's relatives and subordinates persuaded him to stay away for the time being.

However, Wei Cang's face was full of grief and indignation, and he drew his sword in his hand and shouted angrily: "The armies are seeking personal gain, there is no justice at all, and they can gather people to fight again by retreating to the river? My Wei clan is proud of the country, there are people who die in the country, and there are no thieves who steal life! Kill, kill the thief!"

Wei Cang refused to retreat, and even went straight to the rebels who had broken through the barracks, and when all his disciples saw this, they all followed. However, this stubborn lone army was destined to be just a mantis arm in the face of the swarming enemy army, and soon drowned in the chaotic army.

Liu Zhongli, who was rescued back to the camp, woke up after two days, and the first thing he did when he woke up was to ask how the Qingtang military camp was, and learned that his cousin Wei Cang and his relatives were all wiped out, and all the surrounding troops had nothing to rescue, Liu Zhongli was silent for a long time, and then sneered: "Brother Changqian, you died a well-deserved death, but you put me in the position of this destined sinner. Hmph, all armies have a reluctant heart, so why should I rush to die?"

At this time, someone reported that Xiao Lun, the king of Shaoling, who had fled before, once again led the crowd back to the south side of the big truss, and was asking to see him outside the camp, and also served Liu Zhongli as the leader of the coalition army.

"Nope!"

Liu Zhongli was in an even worse mood after hearing this, and waved his hand and said coldly.

Xiao Lun, the king of Shaoling, was the sixth son of Jinshang, and was ordered to be the governor of Hou Jing's army to quell Hou Jing's rebellion where Hou Jing raised his troops, and Liu Zhongli was also subject to his governor to encircle and annihilate Hou Jing in Huainan.

However, the king of Shaoling was slow to march and had a negative attitude, Hou Jing raised his troops for nearly two months, and the king of Shaoling did not gather any of the troops, and even Hou Jing had already crossed the river from quarrying, and the troops of the king of Shaoling could reach Zhongli.

After that, it took more than a month for King Shaoling to lead his troops back to defense and arrive in Jiankang, but the result was that he was defeated and fled in a battle with Hou Jing, abandoning the situation in Beijing and returning to Beijing to recuperate.

A month ago, when the armies gathered here, Wei Cang proposed that Liu Zhongli be the leader of the coalition army, and as a result, Xiyu Prefecture was assassinated

Pei Zhigao refused, and finally reached a consensus under Wei Cang's coercion. And Liu Zhongli was also burdened by this position, and moved to the front line of the battle with Wei Cang's division and the thief army, thinking that the generals should not lose their echoes, but they really couldn't trigger it, and sat back and watched the two departments fight to the death with Hou Jing's rebels, Wei Cang's army was almost wiped out, and Liu Zhongli's life was also in danger.

This battle completely made Liu Zhongli realize what the so-called coalition army really was, and also realized that he, the so-called alliance leader, actually had no energy to dispatch the armies, and was just a false name that was deeply burdened by it.

King Shaoling was already unruly, and he was disrespectful to the second palace, as the commander of King Zong's rebellion and rebellion, he dared to openly delay the military plane, but now he was willing to serve Liu Zhongli as the leader of the alliance and obey his orders, Liu Zhongli didn't have to think about it to know what idea King Shaoling had in his heart.

Now that the two palaces are trapped in the city, King Shao Ling is the oldest person in the sect, if the second palace is taken away by a wave, then who should preside over the situation next? Liu Zhongli, the so-called leader of the alliance, has become the default person of the masses.

After thinking clearly about his situation, Liu Zhongli felt sad and angry, and gradually had extreme thoughts. Since the masses all obeyed him, he ordered his generals to send a message to the armies, and extorted the army's goods in the name of preparing for war.

After the New Year, reinforcements from all sides still arrived one after another, but none of them dared to rush into battle, or there were people who entered the camp to ask for a meeting, and Liu Zhongli was too lazy to summon them.

It lasted until the middle of the month, and there were paper kites floating out of Taicheng with the Taichung edict written on them, which lifted the spirit of the armies outside Jiankang City, and they began to organize a new round of offensive.

The generals knocked on the camp to ask for battle, but Liu Zhongli only refused because his injuries had not healed, it was really difficult to meet the public's will, and he also knew that his brother Liu Jingli cooperated with him, but he was unwilling to undertake the military.

It was not until the end of the month that all parties reached a consensus to cross the Qinhuai River again, engage the rebels, and then capture the Dongfu city camp and garrison Qingxi. There are also Gaozhou assassin Shi Li Qianshi, Tianmen Taishou Fan Wenjiao lightly advanced the enemy, and escaped and died because of the defeat of Song Zixian by Hou Jingbu.

As a result, Liu Zhongli was even more convinced of his own judgment, if he rashly went to war, the front thieves would be surging, and the back road would be cut off by the masses, and he would be in a dilemma at that time, so it was better to preserve his strength.

When the time entered February, there was a sudden news in the city that the imperial court was going to negotiate peace with Hou Jing's rebels. When the generals heard the news, they were also quite shocked in their hearts, Hou Jing did evil to the point, and the second palace was disgraced, should they still tolerate and connive?

Of course, this is from their point of view, for Ninomiya, although there are many reinforcements outside the city, they all have a negative attitude, and although the soldiers in the city are still stubbornly resisting, the materials are already extremely expensive.

Before the closure of Taicheng, the family of the secretary of state sent slaves to compete for rice into the city, and collected more than 400,000 stones of rice and grain, and the treasury of the government amounted to 5 billion yuan.

However, in addition to money and food, other materials in Taichung are extremely scarce, fish, salt, firewood are all urgent, rice is used to feed horses, horses are killed and eaten meat, and the lack of condiments such as salt makes the city soldiers and people edema. Even the vegetables stored in the kitchen have been eaten, and the emperor believes that Buddhism is a vegetarian, so he only eats eggs to satisfy his hunger.

When the peace talks began and contact between Taicheng and the outside world was restored, they learned that the situation in Taicheng had become so dire that the generals were all embarrassed and did not dare to question the peace talks again.

When King Shaoling learned that His Majesty the Emperor was in such a difficult situation, he wept even more and ordered the envoy to offer hundreds of eggs. His Majesty the Emperor in Taicheng was personally cooking the eggs offered by his son, but he couldn't help but choke up with sadness and tears.

The reason why peace talks are being held in Taicheng is naturally because the situation is already critical. The rebels proposed peace talks because as the reinforcements attacked, the passage to Dongfu City was cut off, and the rebels' grain was stored in Dongfu City, and these grains and rice were to be transported back through the peace talks.

Liu Zhongli and the other generals naturally knew what Hou Jing's idea was, and even His Royal Highness the Crown Prince himself knew very well that Hou Jing was not credible, but he still only had an illusion to meet Hou Jing's many difficulties, and the generals naturally did not dare to disobey the second palace and attack the rebels, not to mention that they had no intention of fighting.

In order to use the negotiation and delay time, strive to bring rice grain to the city of Dongfu

Transported back, Hou Jing also told the city that Xiao Qu, the son of King Shaoling, was insulting and intending to sabotage the peace talks, hoping that the imperial court could summon several resolute clan relatives and generals into Taicheng.

Although King Shaoling himself delayed the fighter plane and passively quelled the rebellion, he did not dare to bear the notoriety of destroying the peace talks and persecuting the second palace, because his son refused to enter the city, and even ordered his son to be killed, forcing Xiao Cheng to enter the city with tears.

When all the grain in Dongfu City was shipped out and Hou Jing had enough food, he directly broke the contract and stopped the peace talks, and even wrote to the court to count the emperor's ten major sins.

Emperor Liang was furious when he watched the book, set up an altar outside the Taiji Hall to worship the heavens and the earth, and set up a beacon drum to order him to fight Hou Jing again. However, Taicheng is already old, weak, sick and disabled, and how can they have the strength to fight again, and all they can count on is reinforcements outside the city.

So the generals outside the city went to Liu Zhongli's camp to ask for battle, but Liu Zhongli just shouldn't do this. The father and son of the living treasure in the city have no bottom line in order to survive, and they know that Hou Jing's peace cannot be done, and the change of the order is already a loss of dignity.

The thief army is on the north bank of the Qinhuai River, and Liu Zhongli, the leader of the coalition army, has never been an official position clearly awarded by the imperial court's edict, if he does not allow it, the generals will not dare to fight? In the final analysis, it's just to let him bear this black cauldron.

If he orders to go to war, even if he rescues Ninomiya like this, he will have to bear the anger of Ninomiya, if he doesn't fight passively, why would Ninomiya have to endure humiliation and negotiate with the thief? If he can't rescue the second palace, he will also be guilty, and the two sides are in peace talks, all because he is greedy and risky, and then the second palace is not among the thieves!

But in the face of the generals' request for battle, and even his father Liu Jin, who was also trapped in Taicheng, climbed the tower and shouted for him to attack the rebels, although Liu Zhongli should not, he was also very anxious in his heart, and simply indulged in wine and did not ask about foreign affairs.

The armies outside the city were passive and just waited and watched, and Taicheng, which had been besieged for several months, was on the verge of collapse. The casualties of the soldiers in the city are not counted, but the clans are still not concerned about survival, such as Xiao Jian, the son of the king of Shaoling, who still drinks and gambles, and does not care about the scholars.

But the key reason why Taicheng can still be maintained is that Hou Jing's rebels are also passively slacking off. On the one hand, the siege lasted for several months, and it had to deal with reinforcements from outside the city, and the consumption of morale was also huge.

On the one hand, all the rebel soldiers knew that the materials in Taicheng were scarce, but they accumulated money, so they took advantage of the siege to oppress the magnates in the city, and exchanged salt seasonings and other survival materials for money and silk in the city. Sometimes a few taels of salt can be exchanged for hundreds of thousands of dollars, and this transaction can be described as amazingly profitable.

Hou Jing also hated his subordinates' passive but active collaborators in the enemy's business, and directly ordered the capture of dozens of collaborators and beheaded.

However, in this way, many soldiers who did not know about it all knew about it, and the crowd swarmed up the city during the siege the next day, but the result was only a small siege, only waiting for the remnants of the city to bring money and silk to trade. After all, most of the loot captured after entering the city belonged to the generals, and there was not much squeezed in the battle.

In the case of the two sides competing for the worse, this Taicheng offensive and defensive battle lasted for ten days, until mid-March, and finally the Xiao Liang clan was superior, and the Shaoling Wang Shizi Department directly introduced the rebel soldiers into the city because of the unbearable abuse, and finally ended this protracted Taicheng offensive and defensive battle.

The fashion of the green robe and white horse Shouyang is the late autumn season when the autumn is cold and the wind is cold, and when Taicheng is conquered, it is already the late spring season when the spring river is warm and thriving.

After entering Taicheng, Hou Jing immediately controlled all the key points in Taicheng, especially the need to protect the emperor and the crown prince. He knew that the two palaces were his real hole cards now, and Xiao Zhengde's guy was just a joke, so after seeing the two palaces, he immediately ordered the disbandment of the armies outside the city in the name of Emperor Liang.

Not surprisingly, the army gathered in Liu Zhongli's camp again, and Xiao Lun, the king of Shaoling, who had a deep friendship with Liu Zhongli and had not seen him for many days, took the lead in speaking: "The thief army entered the city, and the second palace fell.

After Liu Zhongli heard this, he just looked at King Shao Ling levelly, but he didn't say a word.

Pei Zhigao, who was already dissatisfied with Liu Zhongli, snorted coldly at this time: "The general, as the leader of the army alliance, has a million divisions in his hands, and the former is sitting and watching the palace fall, if he is not able to win the battle and be humiliated before the snow, what can he say!"

Soon after arriving in Jiankang from the upstream, Wang Seng of the Xiangdong royal department argued that he was also healthy

He said, "The second palace is obsessed, the world is sad, and today's affairs are only war!"

The generals expressed their positions, all of them were heartbroken and high-spirited, and they couldn't wait to kill the rebel soldiers in the city!

Liu Zhongli just listened to everyone's generous statements, and never said a word, but at the most passionate moment of the crowd, he untied his upper body robe to show everyone, and the newly healed scars on his shoulders that went deep into the shoulder blades were shocking, and then he raised the wine glass on the eucalyptus and poured the wine deeply in the direction of Qingtang.

Seeing this, the generals turned cold, and the veteran Pei Zhigao took the lead in standing up, snorted coldly, and walked away.

Seeing this, King Shaoling and other clans also hurried out, and after leaving Liu Zhongli's camp, they quickly left the surrounding area of Jiankang. Now that Hou Jing has entered the Second Palace, there is no doubt that these clans are the most dangerous, and leaving as soon as possible is the right plan for self-preservation.

Seeing this, Wang Shengbi and the other generals did not stay here, stood up and hugged their fists slightly at Liu Zhongli, and then returned to the camp.

The kings of the sects dispersed, and Liu Zhongli, who was still in the vicinity of Jiankang, and other generals opened their own camp gates, accepted Hou Jing's envoy and asked for surrender, and then entered the city under the guidance of the envoy to visit the monarch's father.

Since then, Hou Jing, a rebel general of the Eastern Wei Dynasty who fled south in a hurry with 800 remnants and raised 8,000 troops to cross the Yangtze River south in Shouyang, finally broke through Taicheng, entered the second palace of the ruling palace, and accepted the generals of Nanliang, officially grasping the supreme power of Nanliang.

In the fourth year of Zhengguang in the Northern Wei Dynasty, the people of Huaihuang town killed the town general Jing and raised troops for chaos, and soon after the people of Woye town broke the six Han Baling and also raised troops to make a rebellion, which opened the prelude to the Six Towns Mutiny.

In the first year of Yongxi of the Northern Wei Dynasty, Gao Huan, a citizen of Huaishuo Town, defeated the Erzhu clan and established Yuan Xiu as the emperor of the Yuan Wei clan, which was for Emperor Xiaowu, and the Gao clan was established since then.

In the third year of Yongxi of the Northern Wei Dynasty, Emperor Xiaowu Yuan Xiu led the people to hunt in the west after the failure to seize power with Gao Huan, and Yuwentai, a native of Wuchuan Town, welcomed Emperor Xiaowu into Guanxi, and since then established the Yuwen Clan's Hegemony. The Northern Wei Dynasty was also divided into the Eastern Wei Dynasty and the Western Wei Dynasty.

In the third year of the Taiqing Dynasty of the Southern Liang Dynasty, Hou Jing, a native of Huaishuo Town, led the army south, broke through the city of Jiankangtai, and took charge of the power of the Southern Liang.

Since then, the three kingdoms of the world have all been in the hands of the Beizhen warriors.