As early as March, because Xu Sihui, who surrendered to the Northern Qi Dynasty, reported that Chen Ba of Southern Liang was busy pacifying the civil strife, Gao Yang, the lord of Qi, decided to continue to send troops to Jiangdong, with the minister Zhao Yanshen as the southeast platform, and opened the palace Murong Yan, Liangzhou Assassin Zhang Paul, and the generals Xiao Liang and Dongfang Lao, the capital governor of Pengcheng who had previously joined Pengcheng, led the army to the south again.

Since the goal of the Northern Qi Dynasty was to cross the river and directly attack Jiankang, water warfare equipment such as boats and boats were also the focus of the tactical use of this campaign. However, because Yiyang in the upper reaches of Huaishui and Hefei, an important north-south transportation artery, were occupied by the Western Wei Dynasty, it was also difficult for the Northern Qi army to take the route of Weishui and Chaohu Lake to enter the Yangtze River, and could only choose the Huainan East Road, which was still under the control of the Northern Qi.

In the east of Huainan and the territory of Northern Qi, there is also a waterway that connects the Yangtze River and Huaishui. Zhongdushui is Hangou, which is connected to the Yangtze River from the Jiangdu under Guangling County, and then connects with Huaishui in the north through Sheyang Lake. In the Battle of Hanshan launched by Emperor Wu of Liang taking advantage of Hou Jing's betrayal of the Eastern Wei Dynasty, the Southern Liang army followed this route to Pengcheng.

However, the combat march on the waterway is not the field that the Northern Qi is good at after all, coupled with the war in Huainan for many years, so that the Zhongdu water is also quite congested, and the navigation conditions are not good.

At this time, although the land of Sanwu in Nanliang had basically been pacified, Xiao Bo in Guangzhou still refused to obey orders, and even sent troops to cross the Dayu Mountains several times to march north, wanting to contact a group of Nanchuan heroes to fight against Chen Baxian.

In the old years, Chen Baxian rose in Lingnan due to the pacification of the Jiaozhou rebellion, and was appointed by Emperor Wu of Liang as the governor of Xijiang and the high-ranking Taishou of Guangzhou. Soon after, the Hou Jing Rebellion broke out in the Southern Liang Rebellion, and the then Guangzhou Assassin Shi Yuan Jingzhong intended to raise troops to correspond to Hou Jing and plot against Chen Baxian, but was led by Chen Baxian to lead the army to kill him.

After defeating Yuan Jingzhong, Chen Baxian invited Xiao Bo, a member of the Southern Liang clan who was then the assassin of Dingzhou and was in charge of Yulin, Guangxi, to Guangzhou, while he himself planned to unite the people and horses to enter the Qin Wang Dingchao. Although Xiao Bo was invited to Guangzhou by Chen Baxian, he didn't want Chen Baxian to lure the Lingnan people north, and tried to obstruct them, but Chen Baxian broke through to the north.

From this level of origin, Xiao Bo can also be called Chen Baxian's old boss. Chen Baxian has become a powerful minister in charge of Southern Liang through a series of events such as King Qin's rebellion and the attack on Wang Shengbi, while Xiao Bo is still entrenched in Lingnan, so he is not very willing to obey Chen Baxian's orders.

If it was just Xiao Bo's group of men and horses making trouble, Chen Baxian didn't pay much attention to it, but now Xiao Bo tried to lead the army into the Nanchuan area of Lingbei, intending to unite with the local Nanchuan heroes, which undoubtedly doubled his threat.

Now in the Jiangzhou territory, in addition to those local Nanchuan heroes, there is also the existence of Wang Lin. Wang Lin is cunning and ferocious, and it is also a hidden danger that cannot be ignored. If he unites with Xiao Bo, it will definitely become a big disaster in the southwest.

The world is really wonderful, of course, Wang Lin was appointed by Emperor Xiao Yi of Liang as the assassin of Guangzhou, the original intention was to replace Xiao Bo who seized Lingnan, and Xiao Bo was once forced by Wang Lin like a lost dog, or relied on the battle of Jiangling to breathe a sigh of relief. Now the original enemies have the possibility of uniting because of Chen Baxian's existence, which shows that the situation in Nanliang is now complicated.

In order to prevent the two sides from converging and suppressing the space for the opposition forces, Chen Baxian took Zhou Wenyu, the assassin of Southern Yuzhou, as the commander of the army shortly after quelling the Sanwu rebellion, and led a group of men and horses west into Nanchuan.

At the same time, he sent envoys to persuade Hou Yao, the former Jiangzhou assassin who was expelled by Nanchuan tyrants and Wang Lin, to be reappointed as the Wuzhou assassin and make him guard Poyang County.

However, Zhou Wenyu's division traveled out and had not yet made contributions, and the rebel general Xu Sihui, who was entrenched in Qin County, led his army to cross the river and attack the quarry. At the same time, the Northern Qi army on the Liyang side also crossed the river to attack Guyi, and occupied Liangshan, a key place in the river defense near Guyi, officially opening the prelude to the Northern Qi army's crossing of the river.

Now Chen Baxian's available troops are insufficient, coupled with the loss of Guangling and the situation of the Northern Qi army gathering in Guangling, which makes him quite overstretched in terms of arranging defense.

For the loss of quarrying and other places, Chen Baxian also had no good plan to do

In response, he could only order Zhou Wenyu of Xuancheng to lead the army back to defend as soon as possible, and he still needed to lead the main force to garrison Jiankang. Because the Qi army in Guangling downstream also took advantage of the situation to march and launched an attack across the river, the troops were directed at Jiankang City.

The Northern Qi invested more than 100,000 troops this time, and launched an attack from Liyang, Qinjun, Guangling and other places. Although the Qi army was not good at water warfare, it used tactics such as marching on all roads and raiding key points of the river defense to disperse the interception force of the Liang army as much as possible and shorten the time for the troops to stay in the river.

Therefore, not long after the Qi army launched the offensive, the river defense strongholds along the river were broken one after another, and the entire river defense front was cut through and destroyed. The Qi army ranger scouts even reached the south of Jiankang City in a very short time, and even approached the Qinhuai River for a time.

Although it was only a small group of rangers, it also caused a great shock and frightening to the people of Jiankang City, who had just settled down. These soldiers who had been devastated by the war were like frightened birds, so they fled out of the city with their families and mouths.

The mass exodus of the soldiers and the people exacerbated the atmosphere of panic, and many of the defending soldiers were also worried, and some generals even advised Chen Ba to give up Jiankang for the time being, avoid the enemy's edge, and wait until the time is right to launch a counterattack.

Under the premise that Chen Baxian once had the feat of going against the current and attacking and killing Wang Shengbi, such a proposal does not seem so absurd, of course, the most important thing is that it reflects that the soldiers really do not have the confidence to win the battle.

Facing a group of worried soldiers, Chen Baxian just smiled and said: "Although the Qi army seems to be powerful, but it has the agility of the vital soldier who has lost the use of soldiers, the division and brigade have patrolled for many days, and repeatedly missed the fighter, and now it has entered the rainy season, and the rain is continuous, and the soldiers are even more difficult to use.

The great river is dangerous, the Jiangdong Emperor's house, and the Jiankang City is pillowing the river and embracing the mountains, how can a mad thief be a light picture? The northerners are long in dry walking, and the water is my homeland. Today I sit on the river, although the thief is surging, I can hit it halfway. Enjoy this location, how can you say goodbye!

Moreover, thieves are rampant and make enemies in all directions, and Li Boshan of Wei also sees him as an old enemy who must be punished, in order to sanction the thieves, he sent an envoy to pass me, and wants to fight with me up and down and break the thieves! You and other soldiers don't need to be afraid, but it is not difficult to break the thief by listening to the punishment!"

Hearing that Chen Baxian was so confident, although the generals were still not too optimistic, their minds finally calmed down a little, and they were no longer as panicked and afraid of the enemy as before.

But although these ordinary generals were comforted, Chen Baxian's real henchmen, such as Hou Andu, knew very well that the situation was not as simple as Chen Baxian portrayed.

In particular, the content of the alliance with the Western Wei Dynasty was just a message transmitted by the Western Wei side. Whether the other side will cooperate with the dispatch of troops, how many troops, and when they will send troops are all unknown. And even if the Western Wei Dynasty sent troops and successfully helped Southern Liang relieve the crisis, it was just a dangerous plan to drive the tiger and devour the wolf, and the slightest carelessness could be even more dangerous.

At least according to the current situation, the fact that the Northern Qi army was able to easily break through the key points along the Hengjiang River was also due to the fact that the Western Wei Dynasty's forces in Huainan did not play an effective containment effect. Therefore, even if the Western Wei Dynasty made a promise, its credibility would be marked with a big question mark.

The current development of the situation did not allow the people of Southern Liang to carefully assess what role and value the Western Wei could play in this battle, because as the men and horses of all roads fought to cross the river, they soon launched an attack on Jiankang.

First of all, the Qi army that crossed the river from Guabu in Qin County directly arrived in the west of Jiankang City, and first launched a fierce attack on Stone City, but under the stubborn resistance of the defenders, they had to retreat to Xiye City. Although it was not as much of a threat to Jiankang's defense as Stone Town, it finally captured a stronghold on the outskirts of Jiankang City.

Although the Qi army successively took Quarry, Guyi and other places, because the troops invested in this direction were not too much, coupled with Zhou Wenyu's timely resistance, the enemy army on this side did not take the opportunity to expand the results, and the defensive pressure from the southwest of Jiankang was relatively small.

Therefore, Chen Baxian was able to focus on the northern area of Jiankang City, in addition to the heavy garrison of Stone City and Taicheng, the Zhidu, Shogunate Mountain, Zhongshan and Zhoushan Mountain, which are near the river, also set up garrisons to block the Northern Qi army from the south from the river.

However, due to the loss of the initial Jiangfang front, although the soldiers fought bravely in the next steps, the Qi army was still a bee

hugged ashore and closed up step by step. Chen Baxian's so-called situation of blocking the river and defending the river and attacking halfway did not appear at all, but was attacked and killed by the Qi army that swarmed to the shore, so that he had to increase the remaining troops in Shicheng and Taicheng to the front line in order to stabilize the battle line.

Just when the two sides were in a bitter battle, fortunately, the rainy season did not lose the schedule, and the heavy rain poured for several days, causing the river to rise sharply, and the soldiers of the Qi army who landed on the shore were stationed in the low-lying places along the river, and the camp was completely flooded by the river and rain, and the situation suddenly became difficult.

And just when the situation seemed to be improving, suddenly a Qi army under the leadership of its general Murong Yan, braved the heavy rain to bypass the Zhou Wenyu defense line, and passed through Fangshan through the east bank of the Qinhuai River to kill the Jiankang Dongfu City, and even the forward knocked directly on the Taicheng, which suddenly made the capital shake, and even the Liang Emperor Xiao Fangzhi was rushed out of the city by the guards, boating in the river to avoid the war.

Fortunately, the communication between the two divisions of the enemy army was not smooth, so Chen Ba first seized the opportunity to lead the army to kill back, and the enemy army retreated in a bloody battle. However, the defensive line south of Jiankang was also broken through, and Zhou Wenyu had to lead his troops to retreat to the southern section of Dahuan, and the two enemy forces of Guyu and Quarry were also able to close to the south bank of the Qinhuai River.

Just when the defenders of Jiankang City were in a terrible situation of fighting on two fronts and suffering from the enemy on their backs, the Western Wei Dynasty, which had been silent, finally took action.

Dou Luning, the governor of Yingzhou, sent troops from Jiangxia, led 20,000 horses and horses along the river by land and water, and joined Wang Jie, Lu Xida and other soldiers, and met with Hefei Quanjing Xuanhui at the mouth of the Xu, and then attacked Liyang by land and water, and conquered Liyang, an important town in the north of the Yangtze River, with lightning speed, and captured Sima Gong and nearly 10,000 defenders of the Northern Qi Xingtai.

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