Outside Xiangyang City, Xiao Jing, the king of Liang, stood at the front with a solemn expression, while behind him and on both sides were full of Xiangyang civil and military subordinates, and everyone had tense faces, making the atmosphere extremely depressing.

A procession from the south slowly approached the north, and the sergeants marched in plain form, and the carriage in the center of the procession was loaded with the coffin of King Shaoling. In front of the carriage, Xu Heng, the former official of the King of Shaoling, was also dressed in plain linen, holding a hemp banner for summoning spirits, wearing his hair and feet, and singing the lyrics of conjuring spirits as he walked.

This scene is particularly sentimental and tearful, and the person who carries the flag to summon the spirit should be the relatives of the deceased's children and grandchildren. However, the third son of the king of Shaoling, the eldest son Xiao Jian died when the city of Jiankang Taicheng was broken by Hou Jing, the second son Xiao was indeed surrendered by Hou Jing because of his bravery, and he was killed by the thief when he wanted to shoot Hou Jing with a bow when he accompanied the hunt, and the third son Xiao Jian was not in the chaos in the battle of Qichang.

Up to now, Prince Shaoling has no rest, and his forces are gone, and his body is abandoned in the wilderness after being poisoned, and only one of the former officials collects his body and sends it to Xiangyang. Even if an ordinary person has children and heirs, he can also summon spirits with white flags. However, King Shaoling's soul is not only a hemp flag, but also a broken flag, which means that his person is extinct, and he himself is not good to die.

When the team that came to support the coffin appeared in the field of vision, Xiao Jing, the king of Liang, suddenly howled and cried, crying and wailing at the same time: "God, why are you alone with the Liang family!" The national thief has not been eliminated, the family thief has been born again, the king is ominous, and the relatives are in trouble......"

Hearing the king's sad cry, the people in Xiangyang also wept bitterly, and for a time the entire south of Xiangyang City sounded a mournful voice.

After welcoming the body of King Shaoling into Xiangyang, King Liang did not order an immediate burial, but temporarily placed his coffin in the Xishan Buddhist Temple in Xiangyang, and ordered the officials and people to go to pay respects.

The reason for this arrangement is of course not because King Liang has a particularly deep affection for Xiao Lun, his uncle, but because he wants to make the fact that King Xiangdong poisoned his brother public, so that the world will know the cruelty and viciousness of his seventh uncle.

After many days in a row, as the spring warmed, the coffin of King Shaoling could not hide the rotten stench of his body, and King Liang still did not make new instructions, so Cai Dabao, a close confidant in his house, could only enter the palace to ask for instructions.

"Qiguan killed his nephew the year before last and his brother this year, in order to monopolize power, he is already mad. After all, I can't stand up to him, and if I can't get rid of him, I will never be able to last long! ”

Hearing Cai Dabao's request, King Liang frowned and said hatefully: "Right now, his army is fighting with Hou Jing's army in Yingzhou, and he has no time to take care of anything else. If the danger from the east eases, he may turn against me. In order to save myself, I want to take advantage of this opportunity to raise troops to the south and capture Gangneung. The remains of the six senses can be used to swear and motivate morale. ”

Cai Dabao, as a confidant of King Liang, could naturally guess what he was thinking, and after hearing this, he said: "Today, Yongfu is protected by General Li of the Western Dynasty, and Xiangdong does not dare to commit a minor offense. And now the thieves of Jingguo are disturbing, Xiangdong is fighting, and the big festival is not lost, I suddenly attack it today, no matter what the evidence, after all, it is inevitable that the thief will be suspected of helping the thief! Besides, the corpse of King Shaoling is rotten, and if he walks with the army, it will be even more ominous! ”

Hearing Cai Dabao's opposition, King Liang sighed again and said, "I am also very suspicious of what Cai joined the army said. Although Li Boshan has a close personal relationship with me, he is still a general of the Western Dynasty after all, and he has his own plans for everything, and he will not take my interests as the standard. Take this time to send the six officials to Jiangling as an example, the intention is still to make my clan lose harmony. If Yongfu wants to last for a long time, then it must not blindly rely on external forces! The corpses of the six officials are gradually decomposing, I plan to bury Xishan for the time being, carve wood for the body, Sheng and the army, and wait until the capture of Jiangling, and then mourn for the grand ceremony! ”

Of the three questions raised by Cai Dabao, King Liang only answered two points. As for the suspicion of helping thieves at this time, he did not respond at all, it can be seen that the heart of attacking Jiangling is hot, and he just wants to preemptively put the king of Xiangdong to death, as for whether it will create an opportunity for Hou Jing's rebels to take advantage of, he completely ignores and doesn't care.

When Cai Dabao heard this, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart, but he still didn't want to sit back and watch the king insist on going his own way, so he opened his mouth and advised: "At present, the main force of Yingzhou's war with thieves is the Ningzhou foreign army under the command of Xu Wensheng, not the backbone of Jiangling. Wang Sengbi, Hu Sengyou and other veteran generals are still in the town, even if our army is dispatched, I am afraid it will be difficult to shake the defense of Jiangling City! What's more, such a big plan is not within the power of Yongfu alone, so it is better to tell the ...... of the north."

"No, absolutely not! As I said earlier, Li Boshan should not be fully trusted! I know that Cai is very courteous to join the army, but don't forget, Yongfu is where you work! This matter still needs to be planned, but it must not be told to Li Boshan. I only discuss with Cai Senjun today, if he knows, then I am afraid that I will not be able to work with the army anymore! ”

Without waiting for Cai Dabao to finish speaking, Liang Wang pulled down his face and resolutely objected to letting Li Tai know and participate in the matter.

In addition to wanting to strike first and solve the trouble, he also hoped to expand his power and reverse the situation as a puppet of the Western Wei Dynasty in one fell swoop.

If Li Tai in the north of the province knew that if he felt that this plan was feasible, he would only use his headquarters as the main force, and his Xiangyang army would only be an assistant, and he would not have any say in the final spoils of war.

Of course, it is more likely that it is better to directly stop King Liang from doing this, after all, Jiangling is the main force against Hou Jing's rebellious army at the moment, and having the army of the king of Xiangdong in front will also help Li Tai consolidate the land of Handong he occupies, and continue to expand to Jiangbei Huainai.

Not to mention that King Liang was thinking about how to clean up the King of Xiangdong here, when the body of King Shaoling was transported to Xiangyang, Li Tai also learned the news.

He couldn't help but sigh that this Xiao Laoqi really dared, and it seemed that he didn't respect everyone's IQ a little, if you really want to cover it up, you should cover it up. If you want to say that you didn't do it, it's not a moral problem of referring to a deer as a horse, it's a fucking IQ problem!

Xiao Laoqi's operation was also within his expectations, and it was nothing more than an operation to break through the bottom line again. Li Tai has no idea of making a big play for the time being, and his current strategy against Gangneung is still a spring breeze and a drizzle of infiltration rather than a big fanfare.

As for the corpse of King Shao Ling who came to Xiangyang, it is also a good opportunity for Xiao Jing, the king of Liang, if it can be operated well, it can also increase the popularity and appeal of King Liang. His father, Prince Zhaoming, was originally the preface of the Liang family, and his reputation was not bad, and now the family and country are in trouble, wind and rain, presumably there is no lack of Southern Liang Shiliu who doubles his nostalgia for Prince Zhaoming, so that he loves the house and Wu is close to King Liang.

So Li Tai also sent people to Xiangyang to offer condolences, and wrote some of his views in a letter. Soon after this incident, it was their turn to eat in the Western Wei Dynasty, and the emperor's ingot torch, which had been lingering on the sickbed and poor in health in recent years, finally died in March of Yangchun.

Although the emperor is only a puppet, the death of the emperor is also a national event.

However, at present, the Jiangling men and horses on the Yingzhou side and the Hou Jing rebellion army are in full swing, and the battlefield is only one step away from the Handong region.

Thinking that his cousin Cui Qian had followed him to Jingzhou and never went back, Li Tai instructed Cui Qian to return to the country for the funeral on behalf of the governor's mansion, and go home to see his family while having a feast.

In Yingzhou, after Xiao Yi, the king of Xiangdong, ordered Wang Shengbi to lead the army to drive away Xiao Lun, the king of Shaoling, he used his son Xiao Fangzhu as the assassin of Yingzhou to stay in the other realm. Soon after, Hou Jing sent his general Ren Yue to lead his army into Xiyang and Wuchang in Kouyingzhou.

At this time, Xu Wensheng, the assassin of Ningzhou in Southern Liang, gathered tens of thousands of horses and horses to go north to Jiangling to defect, and the king of Xiangdong took Xu Wensheng as the assassin of Qinzhou and went east to meet Ren Yue.

The two sides fought a big battle, Ren Yue was unfavorable and retreated to Xiyang, Hou Jing personally led troops to defend Jin Xi as a support, and as a result, there was a coup d'état by Xiao Huili, the king of Nankang, and others in the country, but they were pacified by Hou Jing's henchman Wang Wei.

In short, during this period, Hou Jing's internal instability and unfavorable expansion were unfavorable, and at the same time, Huainan's millions of stone grain and grass were burned, so he sent an envoy to Chubei and gave Li Tai such high conditions, hoping to get his help.

When the time came to this year, the king of Xiangdong sent troops to help, and Xu Wensheng and other armies conquered Wuchang and pushed forward one step further. Ren Yue was in a hurry to Jiankang because of his unfavorable engagement, and Hou Jing personally led the army westward to reinforce it. In fact, it was also because the grain and grass in Huainan were robbed, and the land of Sanwu was in deep trouble, and it was difficult to support Hou Jing's huge rebellious army around Jiankang, so he planned to go west to support the war.

After Hou Jing's army arrived in Xiyang, he set up a fortress along the river with the Jiangling people led by Xu Wensheng. Xu Wensheng led his troops to attack and won the first battle, forcing Hou Jing to retreat to the camp.

Because Xu Wensheng's army was strong, Hou Jing heard that the defense of Jiangxia City in the rear was empty, so he sent his generals Song Zixian and Ren Yue to lead hundreds of elite cavalry to detour Jiangbei to attack Jiangxia in the rear.

The Jiangxia guard general is the son of the king of Xiangdong and the assassin of Yingzhou, Xiao Fangzhu, who is only a fifteen-year-old boy, who does not know military affairs and frolicks and has fun in the mansion all day long. And Bao Quan, the general sent by the king of Xiangdong to assist his son, was only blindly flattering, relying on Xu Wensheng's army to be near without repairing the city defense. When Song Zixian and others attacked, they successfully captured Jiangxia City.

After Jiangxia City was broken, Xu Wensheng and other troops lost their roads and the armies were in chaos, and Hou Jing also took advantage of the situation to attack, defeated his army in one fell swoop, and directly occupied the entire territory of Yingzhou.

When the news of Yingzhou was breached, all parties reacted differently when they heard the news, and Xiao Jing, the king of Liang in Xiangyang, was overjoyed, and when the king of Xiangdong was anxious, even if he issued a document announcing the crimes of the king of Xiangdong who killed his relatives, he summoned all the troops to punish this thief!

(End of chapter)