Outside Guangling City, night has fallen. But after more than an hour of silence, the drums of war began to sound again.

Although the soldiers of the Liang army fought fiercely, after a short rest, they attacked Guangling City again. Although the Qi soldiers in the city were in a difficult mood, they could only passively face the battle.

Soon, the scouts who stayed here also quickly reported the news of the Liang army's night attack on Guangling City to Duan Shao, who had withdrawn to a dock wall more than 20 miles away from here.

Duan Shao was silent for a long time after learning the news, frequently looking at the exhausted subordinates, and finally gave up the idea of returning to Guangling City overnight.

Although he is skillful in strategy, but also powerful and difficult to reach, these horses and horses with his rush to fight thousands of miles away, today under the city of Guangling a hard battle, in addition to seeing the tenacity of the Liang army, their own losses are also extremely serious.

At present, we can only hope that the defenders in Guangling City can continue to maintain a stable performance, as they have held in the previous months, and can hold Guangling City without loss. After the rest of the army was completed, he led his troops back to the city in order to defeat the enemy from inside and outside.

There is no shortage of dramatic moments in war, with brilliant tactics and exciting reversals, but the vast majority of cases are battles of will, and victory and defeat are often the only ones that can be won or lost. If you can endure it, victory is in sight, and if you can't survive, you will be defeated.

After months of offensive and defensive battles, the soldiers on both sides have reached their limits. Especially the Southern Liang army, after a fierce battle during the day, the rest of the more than an hour before and after dinner was not enough to recover physical strength, and at this time it was forcibly driven to attack the city, so it was inevitable that it was a little slack, and the fighting spirit was not strong.

Even if Chen Baxian personally supervised the battle under the city, most of the soldiers were only bluffing, shouting and shouting on the earthen beam cloud ladder connecting the city wall with the earth mountain, unwilling to move forward bravely.

The defenders in the city were excited to see the arrival of reinforcements during the day, and even if they failed to break through the siege, the flame of hope was rekindled in their hearts, hoping that the reinforcements would be able to defeat the enemy outside the city and relieve the siege of Guangling City for several months.

But in the evening, the reinforcements were leading themselves back, much to the disappointment of the defenders of the city. Although before the reinforcements withdrew, they also passed some news to the city through the flag signal outside Changwei, telling them that there were still reinforcements arriving in the future, and they would definitely be able to solve the danger of Guangling.

But the pale sound of the banner and drum was obviously not more convincing than the actual action, especially when the corpses of the Qi soldiers and horses were placed under the city gates and illuminated by the Liang army's bonfires, which also made the defenders' expectations for reinforcements plummet.

Despite this, these defenders of the city still fought bravely and with great difficulty to resist the night attack of the Liang army. But when they realized that the Liang army was just bluffing and the real attack was not violent, the defenders were also happy to be perfunctory, and the importance of this siege was greatly reduced, and even some of the overseers and commanders withdrew from the city.

But it's not that everyone on both sides of the offense and defense is making a show, and there are still people who take every siege battle seriously. When the generals of Tushan retreated after a long battle without success, another new army climbed Tushan and attacked the city wall.

Among them, a young general led dozens of brave soldiers, wielding a big lance with both hands, and he killed all the way to the city.

At first, the two warring sides did not pay attention to this, one was that it was dark at night, and some details on the battlefield were difficult to notice in time, and the other was that the two sides had been fighting for a long time, and it was not the first time that the Liang army attacked the city wall, but without exception, they were repulsed by the defenders soon after.

But after the young general led the crowd to the city, it was a little different from the usual situation, his people were extremely brave, and the big lance in his hand flew up and down, and there was no enemy in front of him, and he unconsciously killed a distance of more than ten zhang along the city wall.

So the warring parties also noticed this abnormality, and Chen Baxian immediately became more excited after noticing, even if he drew his knife in his hand, he ordered all the soldiers to attack the city wall along the space that the young general killed, and at the same time pointed to the young general who was still fighting bravely at the head of the city and asked: "Who is this general?" It's so brave! ”

Next to him, Hou Andu was also looking up at the battle situation in the city, and after hearing this, he said proudly: "This disciple's name is Xiao Maha, he is a subordinate of the last general, and he has always been known for his bravery, and he is a rare warrior!" ”

"This apprentice deserves a reward, and there will be a reward after this battle!"

After Chen Ba heard the words, he said loudly again, Guangling City has not been able to be attacked for a long time, as if it has become a heart disease in his heart, but now he doesn't want to be broken by a small general, he is pleasantly surprised in his heart.

As more and more Liang soldiers slaughtered the city, the defenders who were still resisting at the head of the city suddenly began to retreat. Under the pressure of the soldiers of the Liang army, they still fought and retreated, and finally abandoned Luocheng on the periphery and retreated to the inner Jincheng to continue to defend the position.

The reason why it was so difficult for the Liang army to attack Guangling was because Guangling City had already undergone a relatively thorough purge before. Soon after Hou Jing's rebellion was pacified, Chen Ba first moved to Jingkou and launched a strategy against Guangling.

At that time, there were people in the city who refused to submit to the rule of the Northern Qi Dynasty to gather people to rise up, preparing to take Guangling City with internal and external cooperation. However, due to the urgency of the Southern Liang court to negotiate peace with the Northern Qi, Chen Baxian could only lead his troops back. As for the troublemakers in the city, they were naturally retaliated against and purged by the Northern Qi.

Therefore, this time it was so difficult for Chen Ba to attack Guangling first, even if the city had been besieged for several months, but the soldiers and people in the city did not have the intention of raising things to vote, what they were afraid of was that the Liang army would suddenly withdraw and return to the south, and they would be exposed to the butcher's knife of the Qi people again.

Although the process was extremely difficult, this time the capture of Guangling Luocheng was already a huge breakthrough, Chen Baxian and all the soldiers were also overjoyed, and immediately entered the city from all sides overnight, while continuing to clean up the recalcitrant people in Luocheng, while deploying a siege attack against Jincheng.

At dawn, Duan Shao once again led a small number of troops back to Guangling City, and found that the Southern Liang army had entered Guangling City, and after a long sigh, he had no choice but to retreat. Previously, the Liang army was stationed outside the city and could not break through its formation, but now that the other party has entered Xiongcheng, it will be more difficult to attack and plunder.

Although he was still quite unwilling in his heart, Duan Shao could only accept this result temporarily. Even if he wants to recapture Guangling City, it is not up to the thousands of elite cavalry under his command to do it, and he still needs to return to Huaibei as soon as possible in order to save some of the situation, and stabilize the moment for the time being before asking for help from the country.

With Duan Shao's withdrawal, the entire Huainan region and the Northern Qi side no longer had considerable military strength, and some of the remaining men and horses could only stick to their own cities in order not to lose, and expected the country to send reinforcements quickly.

The Southern Liang army that had taken advantage of Guangling Luocheng was highly moraled, and continued to launch fierce attacks on the defenders of Jincheng who were still resisting, and finally a few days later, Jincheng was also conquered, and the entire Guangling City returned to the hands of Nanliang again, or it was under the control of Chen Baxian.

In Guangling City, the victorious Southern Liang soldiers were smiling, cheering to celebrate this brilliant victory, and Chen Baxian was also so happy that he couldn't close his mouth, and sighed again and again: "Guangling has been gained, although the Jiangfang has not yet been recovered, but it is finally a big breakthrough, and the towns in Jiangbei will be able to recover one after another in the coming day, and you are all the heroes of the Jiangnan soldiers!" ”

Compared with the simple joy of the soldiers, Chen Baxian secretly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, because just before Duan Shao's reinforcements arrived, he had already received an order from Jiangling, telling him to quickly withdraw his troops to cross the river and return to Jingkou. But he disobeyed the order and directly concealed the matter.

If the battle is ultimately fruitless, he will inevitably suffer accountability and punishment from the Gangneung court. But now that he has finally recovered Guangling, it can be said that Yu Guo has made great contributions, even if it goes against the will of His Majesty the Emperor, the emperor should no longer be openly held accountable.

After taking Guangling, Chen Baxian also secretly exhaled and raised his eyebrows in his heart, and in the banquet with the generals to celebrate the merits, he couldn't help but sigh and said: "In the past, the northern country was in turmoil, and my country was unique in the world. A brigade can go straight to Luoyang, and the emperor of Wei also needs to respect my monarch.

However, a great chaos cut off our country's fortunes, and the rich land in the south of the Yangtze River was almost a hell for adults, and the territory of Jiangbei was stolen by two thieves. The young disciples of the north dared to roar in the tent, forcing me to kill the generals, not hating the rampant enemy, hating my country for not prospering, but so that I can repeat the situation in Jiangdong in my lifetime, then I was born as a human being and live up to this life! ”

As he spoke, he took the wine on the table and drank it down, and the rest of the generals were also very sad when they heard this, and they each drank the liquor angrily and beat their chests as an oath.

However, the celebratory mood did not last long, and the news that Hefei had been conquered by Li Boshan came immediately, and the time was calculated to be earlier than their capture of Guangling.

Their conquest of Guangling was foreshadowed by a long attack in the previous months, while the Western Wei men and horses did not enter Huainan until mid-May, which means that Li Boshan turned to the north after arriving in Hefei, and defeated tens of thousands of Northern Qi men and horses in a battle, and then turned around and went straight to Hefei.

After such a comparison, the joy of conquering Guangling in their original hearts was suddenly halved. But their happiness is only reduced, and others are angry and sorry for it, and so on, and there is no happiness at all.