Hanshui is roughly divided into three sections, the first section from the Hanzhong Basin to the east, the north side is the Qinling Mountains, the south side is the Daba Mountains, the place that passes is the Hanshui Valley, such as the two counties of Shangyong and Xincheng offered by Fumeng are in the east of the Hanshui Valley, along the Hanshui Valley to the west, through Weixing County, you can go directly to Hanzhong.

The second section of the Hanshui Valley is southward, showing a north-south trend, located between the Jingshan Mountains and the Dahongshan Mountains, Xiangyang County of the Northern Qi, and the two counties of Changning (30 miles northwest of Jingmen, Hubei) and Jingling (Zhongxiang, Hubei) are all in this section of the Hanshui.

The third section resumes its east-west direction again and flows into the Yangtze River.

Dahong Mountain Range is the green forest mountain range of the Han Dynasty, although it is north-south, but it is also the border of Qiliang, on the west side of the mountain range, there are Jingling County and Changning County as the gateway of Jingxiang in the south of Liang.

On the east side of the mountain range, it forms a corridor with the jujube between the Tongbai Mountain Range, which is owned by the South Liang and guards the Jianghan Plain.

The Tongbai Mountains and the northwest to southeast Dabie Mountain Range form a line, and constitute another Qiliang border, and the easternmost part of the Qiliang border is bounded by the Yangtze River, Jiangbei is the land of Huainan, all belong to the Northern Qi.

On May 20 of the second year of Zhaode (549), Gao Cheng issued a document criticizing Xiao Yixuan, raising troops to ask for guilt on the grounds that he had attempted assassination and did not dare to confront him face to face.

With Hou Jing, the assassin of Jingzhou, and his 20,000 troops as the vanguard, along the Jingxiang corridor, that is, the passage between the west of the Han River and Jingshan, it drove directly to Changning County (Jingmen, Hubei) in the south of Liang.

It was divided into 5,000 cavalry, 10,000 soldiers, and 15,000 state and county soldiers, with Murong Shaozong as the governor of the capital, and controlled Gao Jishi, Yuan Jing'an, Wei Xingqing and other generals.

He also summoned the 20,000 sailors who were on standby in Yuzhou to move westward and move to Hanshui to respond to it.

Gao Cheng himself led the main force to sit in Xiangyang and wait and see the battle.

On May 24, Hou Jing's army rushed to the outside of Changning City.

The name Changning may be unfamiliar to many people, in the late Han Dynasty, this place was also known as Dangyang, in the deduction, Zhao Yun rode alone to save Adou, Zhang Fei drank Cao Mengde, all happened in this vicinity.

At this time, the Changning City Guard will be Du Wei, the second of the Du family's eight horses, and his younger brother Du You'an.

Hou Jing sent his subordinate general Ren to lead 3,000 troops to the city to call for battle, and the Du brothers learned the news early that Gao Cheng's army was far away in Xiangyang, and this time it was only Hou Jing's troops who served as the vanguard.

Over the years, the town guard Changning has also dealt with Hou Jing, an old neighbor, although in the past, he was mostly expelled by the Jingling Taishou Wang monk east of Hanshui, but the Du family brothers did not dislike him.

Du You'an asked his brother for his life, led his troops out of the city to fight with Ren Yue, Du Wei knew that his younger brother was brave and brave, no less than the one-eyed Du Wei, so he also ordered 3,000 defenders for Du You'an, and he led the remaining 2,000 soldiers to respond.

The gate of Changning City slowly opened, and Du Youan led the army to kill, and rushed straight to Ren Yue in the first place.

Ren Yue's trip had two purposes, one was that if the Liang army did not fight, it would hit the morale of the defenders of Changning.

Second, if the Liang army went into battle, they would pretend to be defeated and retreat, and lead it to the place where Hou Jing's ambush was.

At this moment, I saw Du Youan raising a lance to kill, but he couldn't turn around and leave, otherwise he would be shouting under the city for a long time, and people would run away as soon as they came, and the acting would be too fake. ….

Ren Yue patted the horse to fight, but the skills were not as good as others, and then fell behind in the contest with Du Youan, fortunately his subordinate Zhao Jialou desperately rescued him, and he escaped with his life, but the fake defeat also became a real defeat, the Qi army retreated in a panic, and Zhao Jialou was beheaded by Du Youan.

Du You'an won the head of Zhao Jialou, but he no longer pursued deeply, but led the crowd back to the city, Changning City, and the Liang army was jubilant.

Hou Jing couldn't help but be disappointed when he saw that Ren Yue came back with a disgraced face, but there were no chasing soldiers behind him, and then he learned that he couldn't lure the enemy, but instead folded hundreds of people and two generals, although he didn't scold Ren Yue, but he was a little angry in his heart, and he couldn't help but regret it: he should have let Song Zixian fight.

After all, it was the front line that suffered a defeat, and Hou Jing didn't dare to hide it, after all, they all had to pay out bereavement pensions after the war, so he sent someone to Xiangyang to deliver a letter.

Gao Cheng, who was sitting in Xiangyang, heard the news of Changning, and although he was angry that Hou Jing was frustrated, he also got a plan.

At the same time, Murong Shaozong, who had taught Hou Jing's soldiers and horses, also led troops to Jingling

, obeyed Gao Cheng's order, set up camp outside the city, and ordered the soldiers to build siege equipment.

Since it was a trip in the name of patrolling, it was naturally impossible to carry siege equipment, and what was stored in Xiangyang City, Hou Jingzi wanted to use it, so Murong Shaozong had to make it temporarily.

On the second day of the sixth month of the second year of Zhaode (549), Murong Shaozong suddenly led the army to retreat thirty miles, neither attacking the city nor retreating, as if he was fighting a sit-down war with the defenders of Jingling.

This abnormal situation attracted Xiao Yi's attention, and at the same time, rumors began to spread in Jiangling City, that is, the Northern Qi secretly sent envoys into Jingling City, trying to say that the king and monks would argue, and Murong Shaozong would lead the army to retreat in sincerity.

Wang Seng has followed Xiao Yi for decades, but because of his identity as a foreign race in the north, although he has been reused, he has never been able to get Xiao Yi's full trust.

The reason why Gao Cheng came up with this divisive plan was because he thought of an incident that had happened between their lords and ministers in another time and space.

Xiao Yi once sent Wang Seng Bian to force Xiangzhou, but Wang Seng Bian's troops had not yet assembled, so they failed to set off in time, but Xiao Yi was suspicious.

When Wang Seng Bi asked Xiao Yi for an extension, he was cut by Xiao Yi with a knife and handed him over to the court lieutenant for punishment, but because of the defeat at the front, Wang Seng Bi had to be used again to attack Changsha.

Decades of friendship between the lord and the minister, just because he failed to send troops in time, he had to draw his sword to face each other, and the suspicion was so heavy, now that the Northern Qi army is pressing, Xiao Yi and Wang Seng Debate are separated from each other, supplemented by rumors, plus Wang Seng argues the identity of the north and returning to a different race, how can Xiao Yi sit still.

Sure enough, Xiao Yi ordered Du Wei to take over Wang Seng and defend the Jingling Tomb and recall him.

When Wang Seng heard the news, he was full of resentment, he really hadn't had any contact with the Qi people.

Of course, Gao Cheng didn't think about really contacting Wang Sengbian, this guy was suspicious, he was stabbed by Xiao Yi, and he worked hard for him, he was a die-hard loyalist, which is a character who can say surrender.

Although Wang Seng was not resentful and suspicious, he also obediently handed over the military power, and only returned to Jiangling with his two sons Wang Yi and Wang Xu, who were guarding the city.

As soon as Du Wei took office, Murong Shaozong immediately sent Yuan Jing'an to lead 3,000 county soldiers as the vanguard, and set up camp five miles north of Jingling City, making a gesture of besieging the city. ….

The former Wang Seng debated and the Qi army sit-in, tainted by rumors, and was recalled to Jiangling, Du Wei himself is accustomed to rushing into battle, and he has long had the intention to fight with the Qi army, at this moment seeing that the main force of Murong Shaozong has not arrived, the vanguard under his command and divided the troops to inspect, seeing that the fighter plane is rare, leaving more than 3,000 people to defend the city, he led his 170 death squads and 2,000 defenders out of the north gate to attack the Northern Qi camping soldiers.

It was also a strategy to lure the enemy, unlike Hou Jing who set up an ambush and waited for the defenders of Changning to enter the urn, Murong Shaozong's ambush soldiers took the initiative to attack.

Du Wei only killed the site of the Northern Qi camp, but he heard the shouts of killing, but he did not come towards him, only to see that the two thousand county soldiers who had patrolled the city before all gathered at the north gate, blocking their way back to the city, and in addition, there were Murong Shaozong ambushes who suddenly appeared in front of the east, south and west gates, and there were soldiers behind him to raise their shields to prevent the arrows on the city.

And Gao Ji led 5,000 cavalry to the battlefield and killed Du Wei.

Only then did Du Wei realize that Murong Shao's sect sent troops to camp just to lure him out of the city, and the ambush soldiers were also used to cut off his way back, so that the five thousand cavalry of the Gao Ji style could settle the battle outside the city.

This time, he was just going out of the city to attack the encamped troops, and he was ready to retreat to the city after a successful blow, so he naturally went into battle lightly, and it was impossible to carry equipment such as rejecting horses and other equipment to guard against cavalry.

More than 2,000 lightly armed infantry and 5,000 cavalry encountered in the field, and even most of them were long and short weapons, few bows and arrows, and they would not bring the archers when they attacked out of the city.

Gao Jishi also found that there were no archers in Du Wei's army, so he did not rush to kill, but kept his distance from him, and led 5,000 cavalry to kill the enemy with bows.

Du Wei knew that this battle would undoubtedly be lost, don't look at Gao Ji's Youzai Youzai flying kites, and he was not close, because he was still two or three miles away from Jingling City.

If he didn't care about waving his army backwards and tried to break through the obstacles of the Qi army in front of the city gate, Gao Jishi would inevitably attack from behind, and it was estimated that before he could reach the city gate, his troops would have been killed

Scattered, four legs just run faster than two legs.

Du Wei is also a character who can afford to put it down, seeing that the four gates are blocked, he can't enter the city.

And the soldiers under his command were used as arrow targets, but they could not be countered, and now the morale of the army has long been chaotic, and he rushed to lead dozens of horsemen to abandon the army before the Gaoji-style encirclement.

Du Wei thinks that he has seven brothers, all of whom are relied on by Xiao Yi, although he lost Jingling, it is impossible for Xiao Yi to kill him for this, especially when the Northern Qi army is pressing.

The remaining Liang troops abandoned their armor and surrendered, Gao Jishi led more than 1,000 horsemen to continue to pursue Du Wei, and the rest of the knights were left to guard and take prisoners.

The Liang army defending the city saw that the army outside the city was rout, the main general fled, and there was no longer the will to fight, Murong Shaozong had not yet ordered the siege of the city, and the deputy general in the city opened the door to surrender, and the door to the east bank of the Han River was opened.

After Murong Shaozong entered the city, soon after, Gao Ji Shi returned to Jingling unhappily, it turned out that Du Wei was originally going to flee south back to Jiangling, it can be seen that Gao Ji Shi was chasing after him, and he could only escape east into the vast mountains, Gao Ji Shi was not familiar with geography, so he did not continue to chase.

On the day of the capture of Jingling, a battle also took place in Changning on the other side of the Han River.

Hou Jing sent Song Zixian to lead 3,000 soldiers and horses to the city to call for battle, Du You'an had previously defeated Ren Yue, and his arrogance grew, and Changning had a wide field of vision outside the city, and there were no ambushes nearby, so he made up his mind not to chase deeply, so he led his troops out of the city again to fight with Song Zixian. ….

However, this time he arrived in a hurry, and was shot in the face by a dark arrow and fell off the horse.

Not far from Song Zixian, a long-faced man dressed as an ordinary horseman put away his bow and arrows.

Seeing this, Song Zixian shouted loudly:

"The thief will be dead, and all the armies will rush with me to kill him, and he will be crowned with his wife and son, just today!"

The Qi army was excited, and followed Song Zixian to kill the Liang army, and the Liang army saw that the main general was falling and did not know whether he was alive or dead, and he was in chaos for a while, and fled in all directions.

Du Youan died in the chaos, and I don't know whether he was killed by an arrow or trampled to death.

Song Zixian cut Du Youan's head and handed it to the long-faced man who shot the arrow before, don't look at this person dressed as a horseman, but Song Zixian's expression was full of respect, and he only listened to him compliment:

"I have heard for a long time that General Hulu once had the name of the Governor of the Fallen Wither, and when I see it today, I am worthy of the title of Divine Marksman."

It turned out that this person was Gao Cheng's confidant Hu Luguang, and Gao Cheng's plan because of Hou Jing's defeat was to send Hu Luguang to pretend to be a horseman, and when Du You'an went out of the city to fight, he would shoot him with a hidden arrow.

The key to this strategy lies in two points, one is Hu Luguang's archery technique, which Gao Cheng has never doubted, even the big withering in the sky can shoot down, not to mention Du You'an, who is rushing to kill and his attention is attracted by Song Zixian.

The second is whether Du Youan will go out of the city, with the defeat of his predecessor's contract, Gao Cheng believes that Du Youan will still go out of the city with the mentality of taking advantage of the advantage.

Hu Luguang took Du You'an's head, looked at it a few times, and then threw it to Song Zixiandao:

"The Governor of Song sent people to show the people under the city with this head, and the heart of the chaotic defenders is."

After that, he turned his horse and left, and on the way he met Hou Jing, who led the troops to besiege Changning, and the two exchanged a few words, and Hou Jing sent a message to Gao Cheng that he would definitely take Changning City within three days.

Hu Luguang nodded, and hit the horse and headed towards Xiangyang.

Hou Jing's boast of taking the city on three days was not without loss, there were originally 5,000 defenders in Changning City, Du Youan led 3,000 people out of the city to fight, the troops were all killed and scattered, and fled in all directions, only a few people returned to the city.

Half of the defenders in the city were reduced, the defense was already insufficient, and Du Youan was killed, and the people's hearts were bound to be shaken.

Under the siege of Hou Jing's 20,000 troops, how could he hold out for three days.

Sure enough, on the second day of the siege, Du Wei was killed by his generals, and he wanted to die with the Qi people because of the revenge of killing his brother, but the rest of the people were secretly plotting to change the banner, and no one was willing to be buried with him for Du You'an.

On the second day of the fall of Jingling, Changning City also fell into the hands of the Northern Qi Dynasty, and the eight horses of the Du family had lost two of them.

Gao Cheng, who was in the rear, learned about the front-line troops

Within two days, he went down to Jingling and Changning, opened the road to Jiangling, was overjoyed, and immediately ordered his former cronies to lead 20,000 soldiers to stay in Xiangyang, and he led the rest of the men and horses and the accompanying Gao Yang and Gao Yan to the south and marched towards Changning.

When he arrived at Changban Slope, King Xiao Gao also deliberately dismounted and roared twice, and the generals asked the reason, but Gao Cheng smiled and did not answer.

On June 18 of the second year of Zhaode (549), Gao Cheng held a celebration wine in Changning City, and even Murong Shaozong, Gao Jishi and other generals also crossed the Han River to have a banquet, leaving Yuan Jing'an to guard the tomb.

Gao Cheng summoned the military clerks to record the merits of the generals and reward them after the war.

Different from the scene of celebration in Changning City, Jiangling City was gloomy and miserable, Xiao Yi realized that he had fallen into Gao Cheng's divisive scheme, and hurriedly pleaded guilty to Wang Seng, and used it again to assist him in defending Jiangling.

Of course, it was not without good news, the imperial court sent the general Liu Zhongli to lead 30,000 elite soldiers to help.

It's not that Xiao Yan is unwilling to send more troops, but in the land of Huainan, Duan Shao, Di Gan, and Gao Yue are mobilizing troops, and their movements are unknown, and he is worried that Gao Cheng is pretending to be in Jingxiang, but in fact he wants to cross the river to attack Jiankang, which is the difficulty of no strategic depth, and the national capital Jiankang is only separated by a river from the Northern Qi Dynasty.

How could I be a Cao thief