There is a Runan City in the north of Jiangxia, which is the seat of the Runan County of Overseas Chinese in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and now the Runan City is under the rule of Anzhou of the Western Wei Dynasty.

A few days ago, Li Yunxin, the assassin of Yingzhou in the Western Wei Dynasty, led his troops to defeat the troops of Xiao Lun, the king of Shaoling, and stayed to watch the battle in Yingzhou.

However, because Li Tai did not agree to Hou Jing's wooing, Li Yunxin's troops were expelled by Hou Jing's general, Ren Yue, and Hou Jing's army marched westward, and Qichang was too close to the war zone, so Li Yunxin withdrew to Anzhou and stationed in Runan City.

Runan City is only more than 20 miles away from Jiangxia, so when Jiangxia was attacked and the Western army was defeated, Li Yunxin in Runan City also learned the news as soon as possible.

On the one hand, Li Yunxin arranged for personnel to quickly transmit the news to the rear, and at the same time, he also sent people to Anzhou to ask for reinforcements. Although it is said that their Jingzhou Governor's Mansion is not openly hostile to Hou Jing's rebellious army, but now Hou Jing's 100,000 troops are here, and after crushing the Jiangling army that blocked them in one fell swoop, no one can say what they will do next.

Runan City is too close to Jiangxia, and it is very likely that it will be affected by the pond fish. There were more than 2,000 defenders in this city, but because the old city lord Li Su and Shaoling King Xiao Lun secretly colluded and were disposed of, the remaining soldiers were also transferred back to Anzhou, so only more than 3,000 people in Li Yunxin's headquarters were available.

Of course, Li Yunxin wanted to get out of the way and protect himself at the beginning, after all, the strength is here, and he can't wave it if he wants to.

However, it soon became clear that the development of the situation was not under his control, because Runan City was too close to Jiangxia, so many Jiangling defeated soldiers rushed to escape the pursuit, and soon more than 2,000 defeated soldiers gathered under the city to shout for help.

At the same time, the pursuers in the rear were also brought here, and seeing that there was still a city that had not been conquered, even if the battle formation was reorganized, it was a posture to capture this city in one go.

"These thieves are really rampant, I didn't want to fight with them, but I even dared to take the initiative to provoke them!"

Li Yunxin knew that there was no reason to talk about these rebels, they only knew how to kill the light and the bright light, so they didn't care whether the other side was friend or foe. Besides, no matter how you calculate it, the Jingzhou Governor's Office is not friendly with them, at most it is just well water and no river water, but now that the torrent collides, there is no difference between well water and river water.

In order to avoid being surrounded by these rebels, Li Yunxin immediately summoned hundreds of elites in the city to put on armor and mount their horses, and even personally led his men and horses to kill the enemy soldiers who had not yet completed the formation.

Although these rebels numbered in the thousands, they were exhausted from chasing and routing from the battlefield dozens of miles away. Originally, he wanted to take advantage of the momentum of a great victory to surround the city first, and then recruit reinforcements from the rear to come here, and then the ants would join the siege of the city.

But they didn't expect that the city in front of them didn't belong to the Jiangling Military Mansion at all, and they didn't know that the defenders in the city were completely unaffected by the defeated army, and they still had the courage to go out of the city to kill them, and they were immediately scattered by Li Yunxin's troops.

After breaking up this chaotic army, Li Yunxin did not take advantage of the situation to continue the pursuit, but led his troops back to the city. Until the general has no further instructions, his duty is to defend the city.

When Li Yunxin withdrew his troops and returned to the city, the defeated troops who had gathered in front of the city before cheered one after another, and rushed to the battlefield just now, picking up the armor and staff left here by Hou Jing's chaotic army.

After regaining their arms, they did not take advantage of the situation to leave, but returned to the city and gathered in front of it, using it as a temporary habitat. And with these people as an example, the follow-up soldiers continued to flee here, and after a whole day, thousands of Jiangling defeated soldiers gathered in front of this Runan City.

When Li Yunxin saw this scene, he also had a headache for a while. Looking at this posture, when the main force of Hou Jing's chaotic army approached here, even if he said that this place was not controlled by the Jiangling Military Government, he was afraid that the other party might not believe it.

However, with so many Jiangling soldiers gathered here, if it is slightly reorganized, it is also a considerable combat effectiveness, even if Hou Jing's rebels attack again, they can intercept it for a while.

After a little muttering, Li Yunxin did not order the expulsion of these defeated Gangneung soldiers gathered outside the city, and ordered people to throw some grain and felt tents and other things for them at the head of the city, so that they could be fed for a while and stationed outside the city.

In the evening, Ma Bofu of Anzhou led a thousand state soldiers to rush to support the defense of Runan City, which made Li Yunxin breathe a little relieved, and then sent a message to ask a few generals to enter the city to discuss the follow-up and temporarily draw up an agreement for coordinated defense.

In the city of Yingzhou, Hou Jing's generals Song Zixian and Ren Yue also learned that a large number of Jiangling troops had gathered outside the city of Runan, not far to the north. Naturally, they didn't fight like ordinary soldiers, knowing that Runan City was the territory of Li Boshan in the north, and if they attacked rashly, they were afraid that they would provoke a strong enemy, so they hurriedly sent someone to ask Hou Jing, who was now in Wuchang.

"The defeated army is not brave enough, and Li Boshan made people detain the defeated soldiers in the realm, and it must not be to help Jiangling. Yingzhou is conquered, the next step is to capture Baling, after a little Jiangling, Jiangbei is not too late to play a role! ”

Hou Jing defeated Xu Wensheng's army that was blocking here in one go, and went one step closer to Jiangling, an important town in the middle reaches, and was complacent in his heart.

Because of the deliberate neglect of Hou Jing's rebellious army, Runan City also became the closest and safest enemy to the Yingzhou battlefield, so the number of Jiangling defeated troops who defected to it in the next two days also surged. Although there were some who took a short break and then left, in between the comings and goings, the number of soldiers who stayed outside Runan City once reached more than 7,000.

Most of these people and horses belonged to Xu Wensheng's subordinates, because they came from Ningzhou to participate in the war, they were not familiar with the geography here, and they did not know where to flee after the defeat of the army.

Xu Wensheng, who quickly retreated upstream, also learned that there were still so many people gathered outside Runan City, so naturally he couldn't give up. Moreover, the army was defeated, and he was also worried that he would be punished by the king of Xiangdong if he returned, so he stopped halfway and returned, wanting to lure back this army that had survived unexpectedly.

However, before Xu Wensheng arrived, there was another person eyeing this group, that is, Xiao Yuanzheng, the Marquis of Jiang'an in Southern Liang.

Xiao Yuanzheng is the second son of Xiao Ji, the king of Wuling, who is sitting in Shuzhong, and serves as the Taishou of Xiyang and is controlled by the king of Xiangdong.

The king of Xiangdong was already full of suspicion of his relatives, and this nephew was naturally no exception. And Xiao Yuanzheng did not live up to his seventh uncle's suspicion, although he served as the Taishou of Xiyang, but in the process of the battle in Yingzhou, he never appeared on the frontal battlefield of the battle with the chaotic army, but wandered away from the battlefield, relying on his father's name to recruit his subordinates, and the number of people under his command has reached 10,000.

This time the Yingzhou army was defeated, Xiao Yuanzheng was preserved because he had been fishing outside the battlefield, and had retreated to the vicinity of Chuyang, and when he learned that nearly 10,000 horses had gathered near Runan City in the Western Wei Dynasty, he was moved, and even sent a messenger to Runan City, ordering Li Yunxin to return these horses.

Li Yunxin was originally passively accepting these personnel, but he was reprimanded by Xiao Yuanzheng's envoy, and he was angry in his heart, and asked the generals outside the city again, but these people didn't know anything about Jiang Anhou Xiao Yuanzheng at all. Naturally, Li Yunxin would not be polite, and even beat the messenger and then expelled him from the city.

Xiao Yuanzheng's temperament was already a bit arrogant, but now he is strong and strong, and even the uncle of the king of Xiangdong has to treat him politely, but the messenger sent was beaten and humiliated, and he was not angry in his heart.

When he learned that the main force of Hou Jing's army had been killed from the south bank of the Great River to Baling, Xiao Yuanzheng waved his army back without any scruples, and was bound to annex the nearly 10,000 horses under Runan City, and by the way, punish the defenders of Runan City.

When his soldiers arrived near Runan City, Xu Wensheng also led dozens of followers to come from the back under the guidance of the guide, and after his subordinates introduced Xu Wensheng into the army to inform him of his intentions, Xiao Yuanzheng was furious after hearing this: "The old thief ruled Ningzhou before, and it was already under the jurisdiction of Yifu, and he gathered people from Yizhou to go to Jingfu instead of listening to Yifu, and he was already a disloyal man!" Now that the army has been defeated and humiliated the country, An dares to make a private song for the people and horses here! ”

Xu Wensheng's predecessor was the Ningzhou Thorn History, which theoretically belonged to the Yizhou Thorn Shi Xiao Ji Governor. But the king of Wuling is deep in Shuzhong, and if he doesn't take the thief, Xu Wensheng wants to go to the country, of course, he has to go to Jingfu.

He argued again on this ground, saying that he was by no means underestimating and betraying King Wuling, but Xiao Yuanzheng did not listen to his explanation, and directly ordered him to be detained in the army, and then continued to lead the men and horses to approach Runan City.

Li Yunxin didn't expect this Xiao family master to be so urinating, he had just been beaten away by Hou Jing and still had the courage to lead the army to besiege Runan City, so he ordered to strengthen the city defenses, and at the same time sent someone to inform Anzhou of the news.

Not long after Xiao Yuanzheng's army arrived in Runan City, Li Tai, who had received news from the north, also led 5,000 elite horsemen to the south and encountered his army outside the city. As soon as the two sides met, they fought even to the death.

(End of chapter)