On June 16, in the battle of Bagong Mountain, Xiao Yuanming, the actual commander of the Liang army, was captured, and there was no time to count the results, so he continued to collect the Northern Qi rout and the people, Duan Shao, Peng Le, Gao Aocao and others took the Liang army prisoners to Shouyang City, and ordered the knights to tie Xiao Yuanming to the horse and show the public around the three city walls.

Before the arrival of the Northern Qi army, Xiao Huili opened the city gate to accommodate many soldiers who fled back, but he also knew that when Gao Cheng's main force returned to Shouyang, he would definitely not be able to hold the city.

After all, no matter how much material there is, there must be enough soldiers to guard it, and how can these frightened soldiers and the people in the city bear the siege of Gao Cheng's hundreds of thousands of troops day and night.

On June 18, Xiao Huili left the general Zhao Bochao to defend the city, and he escaped from Shouyang by boat from the north water gate.

Xiao Huili never expected that as soon as he walked on the front foot, Zhao Bochao had the idea of dedicating the city on the back foot.

On the 19th, Zhao Bochao summoned all the generals, including Hu Guisun, the general who fled back from the foot of Bagong Mountain, and Zhao Bochao said to everyone worriedly:

"The Marquis of Zhenyang (Xiao Yuanming) defeated Bagong Mountain, the King of Nankang (Xiao Huili) abandoned the city and left, leaving us to stay in the dead place, now the army and the people are afraid, and the people's hearts are shaken, if Emperor Qi leads the people back to the west, what should we do?"

Hu Guisun did not understand his mind from Zhao Bochao's choice of words, after all, everyone respectfully called Emperor Qi, and those who were more thoughtful knew that the other party was actually ready to surrender, but unfortunately Hu Guisun was a rough man, he said bluntly:

"For the generals, they should serve the country with their own bodies."

Zhao Bochao looked around at the generals and saw that no one was attached to Hu Guisun, so he glanced at the guards, and the guards understood, and slashed Hu Guisun to the ground from behind.

At the moment of the great enemy, fighting in the same room, the generals in the hall were terrified, worried that Zhao Bochao would kill everyone without doing anything, and when he was about to draw his sword to face each other, he heard Zhao Bochao say:

"The Qi army is strong, the city can not be defended, if we abandon the city and leave, we will be punished, if we resist stubbornly, it will be difficult to save my life, I am willing to surrender according to the city, to protect the army and people in the city, the generals want to follow me to save the people of Shouyang, please take your left arm."

With that, he rolled up his sleeves and exposed his left arm.

All the generals in the hall claimed to be good, so they showed their left arms one after another, and the big guys all knew that Xiao Huili was able to abandon the city and flee because he was Xiao Yan's favorite grandson, and they didn't have the luck to reincarnate into the Xiao family.

Hu Guisun's body was carried out of the hall, dripping with blood, while the generals in the hall were already preparing to make contact with the Qi army.

The envoy of Shouyang came to the camp of the Qi army and said that as long as the wealth of the generals in the city could be preserved, everyone was willing to surrender the city.

But Gao Cheng didn't arrange anyone in charge in the army, after all, this was his main cavalry force, with 50,000 people, and Duan Shao, who could win his trust, did not have the qualifications to be the commander.

Gao Cheng would never have thought that he would be able to go so smoothly in advance, capturing the enemy commander in the first battle, Xiao Yuanming was captured by the Gao family in both time and space, and it was destined to be this catastrophe.

Some people in the camp advocated waiting for Gao Cheng to return before discussing the surrender with the Shouyang defenders, but Duan Shao thought that late would make a change, and took the Northern Wei Taizu Tuoba Jue's attack on Zhongshan as an example, thinking that Gao Cheng could no longer wait for Gao Cheng to return to the division, and strongly agreed to the envoy's request.

When Tuoba Jue attacked Zhongshan, the guard will abandon the city at night and flee, there is no owner in the city, Tuoba Jue took the opportunity to seize the east gate, and wanted to conquer Zhongshan, but the general Wang Jian in order to facilitate the plundering of property, Jianyi Tuoba Jue until dawn and then enter the city, so Tuoba Jue retreated.

But when he wanted to enter the city again on the second day, he found that the soldiers and civilians in the city supported Murong Lin, the king of Zhao, who had not had time to escape, and he held on behind closed doors.

At this critical moment, no one in the Northern Qi Dynasty dared to be Wang Jian, after all, with the close relationship between Tuoba and Wang Jian, he was so angry that he spit in his face afterwards, who knows if Shouyang really had an accident, King Xiao Gao would draw his sword and crack them.

Everyone decided to accept the surrender of the Shouyang defenders, but who came forward to accept the surrender was another problem, or that sentence, Gao Cheng did not arrange the main general, but appointed Duan Shao, Gao Aocao, and Peng Le as the governors of the capital, and commanded the governors to lead the main cavalry.

In the end, the three of them discussed, and they and the four of them, Hu Lujin, who had gathered the defeated soldiers and the people, surrendered together.

On June 20 of the first year of Zhaode, Zhao Bochao led the generals out of the city to surrender after the Qi army agreed to their conditions, and Hu Lujin, Duan Shao, Peng Le, and Gao Aocao were surrendered and occupied Shouyang.

Since May 23, Gao Cheng's army crossed Huaishui in the south, occupied Shouyang, an important town in Huainan on the 27th, captured Xiao Yuanming, Marquis of Zhenyang in Southern Liang, and killed more than 5,000 enemies, except for the 2,000 horsemen who fled to Jiangnan in Xiahou, the remaining more than 30,000 people almost all made surrenders, after all, most of the defeated soldiers fled to Shouyang City, and followed Zhao Bochao to surrender the city.

However, the losses of the Qi army in this battle were also not small, before the siege of Shouyang for five days, the state and county soldiers had nearly 10,000 casualties, and then as a bait, more than 2,000 people were lost.

As for the people, they were chased and killed by the Liang army, and in a hurry, there were tens of thousands of people who died by throwing themselves into the water, after all, the plan must always have a secret, Gao Cheng didn't even tell the state and county soldiers, how did the people know the inside story.

After the inventory of Hulujin, coupled with the previous filling of the moat, there were nearly 30,000 fewer people, and I don't know how many of them escaped back to Huaibei.

However, for the Northern Qi Dynasty, even if 30,000 people did not survive, occupying Shouyang at the cost of these people and 12,000 county soldiers and capturing 30,000 Liang troops was undoubtedly a big victory.

When Gao Cheng learned the specific news of the victory in Bagong Mountain, he had already learned that Shouyang was just around the corner, and was hesitating whether to continue to besiege Huaiyin or return to Shouyang, and when he learned that Zhao Bochao, the defender of Shouyang, asked to surrender, he had no doubt about the sincerity of the other party's dedication to the city, after all, this brother Tai could be known as a defeatist general in later generations.

Throughout his life, he has practiced a rule: the thieves are powerful, so it is better to return to the army.

Gao Cheng immediately ordered Hu Lu Jin to lead 28,000 soldiers from Zhou County to stay in Shouyang and guard the prisoners, and Duan Shao and others led the rest to bring Xiao Yuanming to Huaiyin.

At the same time, he ordered someone to open the treasury of Shouyang Mansion to appease the state and county soldiers who were used as bait and rewarded the cavalry soldiers who had made meritorious contributions.

Duan Shao and Gao Aocao were rewarded with 3,000 pieces of cloth, and Hu Lujin was also given 3,000 horses of cloth and silk for his meritorious work in luring the enemy.

As for the rest of the generals, according to the merits of the first battle of Bagong Mountain, they were given 1,000 to 2,500 horses of cloth.

All the horsemen who participated in the battle of Bagong Mountain had different rewards.

The edict was conveyed to Shouyang, and all the soldiers were jubilant.

According to the old habit of the Northern Wei Dynasty, they emptied the treasury on the day they entered Shouyang, but after the Gao family took power to issue military salaries, they often had to wait for the post-war reward according to merit, and they were not allowed to loot privately, which was the rule.