Wang Sengbi's rejection of the Northern Qi envoy's request to return Guangling not only made the Qi lord Gao Yang very angry, but even the generals under Wang Sengbi's command were puzzled.

"Now that Gangneung has fallen, the king has been robbed, and the country has been hit hard, we need to recruit the help of all parties in order to recover the decline. Although the Qi people are greedy and deceitful, they have been enemies with the Wei State for many generations, and it must be true that they will join me to resist Wei!"

After Wang Shengbi clearly rejected the request of the envoy of Qi, his brother Wang Seng, who had been staying in Jiankang to assist him in managing military and political affairs, said with a puzzled face: "Li Boshan's eloquence and talent are strategic, and my brother must know that in the heyday of Jiangling, he did not dare to speak wildly. Now that Gangneung has fallen, how can we rely on our downstream divisions and brigades to win?

Although Guangling is also an important town of Jiangfang, it is not a matter of life and death to me. It's better to give it up quickly and form a strong reinforcement, so that you can advance and retreat without losing your help!"

After hearing this, Wang Shengbi sighed, and only after a while did he speak: "Guangling City was lost and recovered, all of which were the work of Chen Situ. If I order to give up in order to please the Qi people, I'm afraid I will lose peace with Chen Situ. Besides, now that Guangling is not my division and brigade in the town, even if I want to give it up, Chen Situ refuses to agree, and it is inevitable that disputes will be lost inside and trust outside, and the situation will inevitably be even worse!"

After hearing this, Wang Seng paused and said, "Even if Chen Ba is greedy for the fortress and refuses to give up, once the Qi army comes south, how long can he hold it with his own men? At that time, not only will the city not be owned by me, but it will also lose its troops and generals, and it will be out of harmony with the Qi people, and there will be no way to bring in reinforcements to resist the Wei division! What we are talking about now is that we are brave enough to go to the national disaster, and the division and brigade are trapped in the rear, can Chen Baxian be ashamed?"

When Wang Seng Bi heard this, his expression was also a little unnatural, and after a while, he said, "The fall of Gangneung has become a fact, but the situation is not the worst yet. Even if Li Boshan is extraordinary, he may not be able to calm the conflict between Jiangling people in a short period of time. Moreover, Wang Linbing went to Xiangzhou and confronted each other across the rivers and lakes. In a short period of time, it is difficult for Wei Shi to go downstream.

The magnitude of this national disaster is far greater than the disaster of Hou Jing in the old years, and it is by no means possible to save the situation by a few battles in a hurry. Even if the Qi people formed an alliance with me, all they did was to drive me west to fight with the Wei State, and the Qi State would take the opportunity to map my Jiangnan City.

Li Boshan is a world-famous general, how can he break it rashly? Instead of rushing to war, it is better to consolidate the fundamental place south of the Yangtze River for the time being, and then think of a long-term counterbalance after the people and land are praised and the soldiers and food are full. Before King Jin An entered Jiankang, it was better to be still than to be still!"

Compared with the people who are eager to save the bad situation, today's Wang Seng Debate can be said to be the pillar of the entire Southern Liang, and he must think about the problem more comprehensively and carefully. It is true that the alliance with the Northern Qi can get a strong reinforcement in a short period of time, but is this strong reinforcement so reliable?

It must be known that not long ago, Li Boshan of the Western Wei Dynasty, who had always been kind-hearted, personally led his men and horses to Huainan, united with their Southern Liang armies to make a big fuss, and cooperated with Chen Ba to recapture Guangling first. But when he turned his head, he directly led the army to kill their capital Gangneung City and captured their king!

The alliance with the Northern Qi is just drinking the donkey to quench the thirst, and the toxicity is very violent, and the poison mixed with this poison is not wine or honey, but simply arsenic. According to the request made by the envoys of the Northern Qi, only if Guangling was returned to them, they would consider sending troops to unite. Even if Wang Seng agreed to it, it would have cost him so much to recover Guangling, and Chen Baxian, who was now under actual control, would never have agreed!

Now Chen Baxian is second only to Wang Shengbi in terms of power and prestige in the country. If you want to get the aid of Northern Qi, it means that you have to lose peace with Chen Ba first, which is equivalent to cutting off one of your arms first and then counting on others to rescue, but if there is any other strategy to think of, Wang Seng Debate will not choose this one!

Especially today, although Wang Shengbi nominally commands all the armies, the commanders and generals of the armies also have their own plans. They even sometimes disobey the orders of the Jiangling court, and now that the court has fallen, how many points will they obey the orders of the so-called Taiwei of Wang Sengbi?

In fact, at present, Wang Shengbi has lost part of the control of the situation, in the middle of the Huainan war, Hou Yao and Zhang Biao also led their troops to participate, as a result, Zhang Biao was captured by Duan Shao of the Northern Qi Dynasty, and Hou Yao was defeated.

At that time, in order to cover up his failure to capture Liyang, and he was afraid that His Majesty the Emperor of Jiangling would accuse them of attacking the generals downstream without authorization, so he ordered the generals to fight

Hou Yao, who lost the battle, was sent to Jiangling to be punished by the emperor to vent his anger.

As a result, when Hou Yao arrived in Jiangzhou, he asked someone to offer goods to bribe Xiao Fangzhi, the assassin of Jiangzhou and the king of Jin'an, so he stayed in Jiangzhou and did not continue to go west to Jiangling.

Soon after, Jiangling was attacked by the Western Wei army, and Jiangling's anxious envoys went down the river and rushed to Jiankang to report the news. Wang Seng Biao ordered Pei Zhiheng, Cheng Lingxi, and Chen Baxian's Du Shengming and Wu Mingche to lead the army west to rescue Jiangling.

However, the destruction of Jiangling City was too fast, and the reinforcements from the west had just arrived in Jiangzhou, and the news of the destruction of Jiangling City had already arrived, and the Jiangling monarchs and ministers were all captured by the Western Wei. As a result, Xiao Fangzhi, the king of Jin'an, who was sitting in Jiangzhou, became the only prince of Liang who had not yet been captured by the Western Wei army.

Jiangling has fallen, and important towns such as Yingzhou in the west are also in the hands of the Western Wei army, and the reinforcements from all roads are out of control, so they can only temporarily gather around Xiao Fangzhi, the king of Jin'an. And Hou Yao, who was sent for his sin before, was a blessing in disguise, and won the trust of Xiao Fangzhi, the king of Jin'an, by virtue of his previous friendship with the king of Jin'an, not only the previous crime was eliminated, but also temporarily appointed to control the Jiangzhou army.

Therefore, at present, the remnants of the Southern Liang forces are no longer a question of whether to immediately start a major war with the Western Wei Dynasty and recover Jiangling, but whether they will directly fall apart and fight separately! In addition to Jiankang, where Wang Shengbi was stationed, and Jingkou, where Chen Baxian was stationed, Jiangzhou, where Xiao Fangzhi, the king of Jin'an, was located, actually became a temporary center.

The problem that Wang Seng is facing at the moment is not whether to join forces to fight against Wei, but to welcome Xiao Fangzhi, the king of Jin'an, back to Jiankang as soon as possible, and not to let Emperor Xiao Yi, the only son who is still in the land of Southern Liang, fall into the control of others, otherwise he will be even more embarrassed as a lieutenant!

Therefore, during this period of time, Wang Seng repeatedly sent envoys to the west, and advised Xiao Fangzhi, the king of Jin'an in Jiangzhou, to go east quickly and come to Jiankang to preside over the big move, otherwise the last few spark embers of their Nanliang are estimated to be completely consumed in the internal fighting dispute!

Fortunately, Hou Yao was not arrogant enough to think that he could withstand the Western Wei army, and the situation created by Li Boshan was extremely oppressive to the Southern Liang, not to mention that Yingzhou, which was hundreds of miles west of Jiangzhou, had been taken by the Western Wei, and even the Jin Xihao and Qiang Lu brothers in the northeast of Jiangzhou had already taken refuge in the Western Wei Dynasty.

It can be said that the current form faced by Jiangzhou Xunyang City is no different from the situation faced by Jiangling City before, and it has been exposed under the noses of the Western Wei forces. Jiangling is still difficult to defend, and Xunyang City is also just a dish, just look at when the Western Wei Dynasty will be dish.

Forced by such a severe enemy situation, coupled with Wang Shengbi, Chen Baxian and other important ministers all persuaded the king of Jin'an to come to the east, so after the turn of the New Year, the generals temporarily stationed in Jiangzhou finally led their troops and Gong from Xiao Fangzhi, the king of Jin'an, to the east from Xunyang and returned to Jiankang.

Emperor Xiao Yi of Liang has always been wary of the generals under his command, and likes to appoint his son to serve as the assassin of Dazhou, no matter whether this son can actually manage state affairs or not, and because of this habit, he sent several sons, but fortunately, he has many sons and can be forbidden. However, facts have proved that this employment habit still has a certain positive significance, and it is good that it has not been served in one pot after leaving one.

Xiao Fangzhi, the king of Jin'an, was only thirteen years old, and when he came to Jiankang City by car from the crowd, and saw Wang Shengbi and others who were already waiting here, Xiao Fangzhi immediately grinned and cried, wiping his tears while pointing at Wang Sangbi and saying, "Why didn't the Taiwei save my father?"

After hearing this, Wang Sengbi's body trembled sharply, and after a while, the sweat on his forehead and the tears in his eyes rolled down together, and he grabbed the ground with his head and cried loudly: "Jiangling City broke suddenly, and the ministers learned that it was too late, Lu Fahe, Hu Shengyou and other generals were in vain to use the favor of the lord, and they couldn't buy time for the army of King Zhuqin...... This war is not a crime of war, and it is really not blessed by heaven......

After hearing this, all the generals also came forward to cry and echo, and for a while, the entire Jiankang City was filled with extremely sad crying.

Then the generals will arch from the king of Jin'an into the city of Jiankangtai, because the emperor and the crown prince are all taken away by the Western Wei Dynasty, so far the life and death are not known, then the king of Jin'an is temporarily the prison of the country, and the prince and the monk are the governors of the Chinese and foreign military, Situ Chen Ba first added the general of the west, Wang Lin of Xiangzhou Thorn Shi is the general of the chariot and cavalry, Hou Yao is the general of Zhenxi, and the history of Jiangzhou Thorn. The rest of the generals were each conferred, and they were regarded as the people who initially formed after the fall of Gangneung

A new order.

Aside from Xiao Bo, an old landowner who had long been entrenched in Guangzhou, and other local forces, the territory that this small court of the remnants of Liang could grasp at present was the area east of Wuchang and the south bank of the Yangtze River, south of Dongguan, Qinjun, Guangling and other towns in Jiangbei.

Among several forces, Wang Seng Debate is the main one, Wang Seng Debate is the younger brother Wang Seng Xuan as the Yuzhang Taishou, and the Jiangzhou Thorn Shi Hou Yao returned to Jiangzhou to sit in the town, with the younger brother Wang Seng Zhi as the Taishou of Wu County, with the Ziwang Award as the Taishou of Nanqiao County and guarding Dongguan, and his son-in-law Du Gong as Wu Xing Taishou, constituting its core control range. At the same time, Pei Zhiheng, Wei Zai, Xu Sihui, Cheng Lingxi and other generals also obeyed Wang Sheng's orders and were on all sides.

In addition to Wang Sengbi's group, the second most powerful is the Chen Baxian group, with Jingkou and Guangling as its activity centers, which can be regarded as sharing things with Wang Sengbi and cooperating with each other.

After that, Wang Lin's subordinates were entrenched in the south of Dongting Lake, compared with Wang Shengbi and Chen Baxian, Wang Lin's qualifications and prestige were slightly inferior, but they were the most active in counterattacking the Western Wei invasion, and this also made Wang Lin the first target to be hit after Jiangling.

(After reading it, remember to bookmark it for next time!)