Yizhou is the gateway to the west of the Jianghan Plain, and its seat is called Yiling.

Unlike Uncle Liu Huang, who went east and waded through mountains and rivers to participate in Lu Xun's bonfire event, from Jiangling to Yiling can be called a flat river.

Therefore, Yiling is to defend Bashu, with its guard Jingxiang direction, it is not necessary, can not play a big purpose.

Gao Cheng sent Hou Yuan to lead 3,000 cavalry to attack Yiling, which was to believe that with Hou Yuan's resourcefulness, he should be able to make a difference.

His representative work is to break through the tens of thousands of rebels in the Han Mansion who occupied Jixian County, and to capture Liu Lingzhu with more than 1,000 horses.

If Hou Yuan can live up to his high expectations and take advantage of the fact that the attention of the world is in Jiangling, it will naturally be a happy event to attack Yiling with strange troops.

If you can't take it, there is no loss, it's a big deal to go down to Jiangling first, and then wave your troops to the west, the road along the way is very good, there is no supply pressure, and the land north of the Jiangbei River in Yizhou is not difficult to take.

After Hou Yuan got the order, he divided five hundred cavalry soldiers and replaced them with the armor of the Liang army, and previously captured Jingling, Changning, and Hou Jing attacked the city along the way.

He also found someone who was willing to cooperate with the soldiers, promised to benefit, climbed the mountain and came to the city of Yiling, falsely claiming that it was a rout, and could not enter Jiangling, so he came to Yizhou.

Yizhou Assassin Shi saw their disgraced appearance, not like a fake, so he opened the city gate, trying to contain the rout, strengthen the city defense, Hou Yuan immediately led 500 people to seize the door, and the 2,500 cavalry who were in ambush poured into the city, attacked and occupied Yiling City in one fell swoop, blocking the road of Shu from Jiangbei to the east.

When Gao Cheng heard the news, he did not hide the joy in his heart, and immediately sent it from the follow-up, and rushed to the 50,000 state soldiers under the general city, and divided 5,000 people, led by Xue Guyan, handed over to Hou Yuan, and garrisoned Yizhou.

After recalling Hou Yuan, Gao Cheng praised him and ordered the scribes to write down his merits and reward him after the war.

Hou Yuan was still tireless, and asked for orders to cross the river to Jingnan with 3,000 cavalry, and if there was an opportunity, he would attack the city, and if there was no opportunity, he would plunder, but he was blocked by Gao Cheng.

Gao Cheng understood that Hou Yuan was also anxious to fight for a prince.

Hou Yuan as early as the reign of the Erzhu family, was awarded by Yuan Ye as the founding prince of Yuyang County, because it was attached to the Gao clan after the battle of Guang'a, he could not be regarded as the capital of Yuancong, now it is almost 20 years, he is over fifty years old, or a Yuyang County duke, so he is not in a hurry.

Gao Cheng comforted Hou Yuan, and summoned Hou Jing together, telling the two that they only needed to break through Jiangling, and they would be awarded the title of prince after returning to the dynasty.

The two immediately asked for a battle to attack the city, but they still didn't get Gao Cheng's permission, and he still had to wait for news from Murong Shaozong and Hu Luguang.

At this time, Murong Shaozong besieged Anlu City for a long time, but he never broke the city.

An Lu may be unfamiliar, but when it comes to Jiangxia, you can have the impression that Anlu is the county governor of Jiangxia County, an important town in Jingxiang at the end of the Han Dynasty.

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On the eighth day of the seventh month of the second year of Zhaode (549), just as Murong Shaozong was preparing to oversee the siege of the city as usual, he heard that Liu Zhongli led an army of 30,000 to help.

Murong Shaozong had attacked the city all the way before, not only the loss of soldiers, but also the division of troops to stay, now there are still 30,000 people under his command, there are less than 20,000 troops left, the soldiers are exhausted, it is already the end of the strong crossbow, how can he resist Liu Zhongli's 30,000 elite soldiers.

According to normal logic, the army should be led back at this time, but Murong Shaozong ordered the troops to leave the camp at night and enter the camp during the day, creating the illusion of the support of the army, in order to scare Liu Zhongli away.

But Liu Zhongli has also read history books, and Dong Zhuo's strategy of doubting soldiers happens to be understandable, Liu Zhongli smiled confidently at his generals:

"Murong Shaozong has no plan, if he wants to follow Dong Zhongying's plan, the generals will see how I break the enemy."

It's no wonder that Liu Zhongli underestimated the enemy, today's Murong Shaozong is not the famous general who quelled Hou Jing's rebellion, defeated 100,000 elites of Southern Liang in the Battle of Hanshan, and exalted the world's prestige.

Although since following Gao Cheng, he has made many achievements, but he has not really been able to get the record, and his reputation is far less than Duan Shao, Duan Shao still has the battle of Xuzhou to capture Yang Yaren, and defeated Xiao Yuanming with Peng Le and others in Bagong Mountain.

On the other hand, Liu Zhongli, who was not beaten, was a nobody, so how could he take Murong Shaozong too seriously.

If it was Gao Cheng or Duan Shao who led the army, he might be careful, as for Murong Shaozong, I heard that Hou Jing had learned the art of war from him, but it didn't take long, but Murong Shaozong wanted to ask Hou Jing for advice, and he didn't think he was a person with great ability.

Liu Zhongli felt that he was too punctual in his tenure as Jingling, and it was not that he had not fought with Hou Jing, although he was defending the city, but it also ended with Hou Jing withdrawing from the siege, and even Hou Jing was not his opponent, let alone Murong Shaozong.

Moreover, Murong Shaozong was so suspicious, which made Liu Zhongli convinced that he had no backup, and he had a plan in his heart, and he thought that he had seen through Murong Shaozong's strategy, so Liu Zhongli led the army to Murong Shaozong's camp.

Murong Shaozong was really bluffing, and from a long distance, Liu Zhongli could clearly see the tired look on the face of the Qi sergeant.

Before the two armies could make contact, the Qi army broke and fled in the northwest direction, and Liu Zhongli shouted loudly when he saw this:

"The enemy has been defeated, and the generals will rush to kill with me, and those who get the head of Murong Shaozong will be rewarded!"

Murong Shaozong fled in panic, the Liang army was behind him, chasing after him, Liu Zhongli came back to his senses: Something is wrong, how can this battle become more and more like the battle of Bagong Mountain.

As the so-called moves are no longer novel, as long as they work, Liu Zhongli thought that he saw through Murong Shaozong was bluffing, and in the face of the temptation of the whole annihilation of the Northern Qi Division, he was hot-headed, but he was still fooled.

Throughout the ages, the strategy of luring the enemy has been effective repeatedly, but the problem is that the main general is hot-headed and does not react for a while.

Liu Zhongli was about to restrain his subordinates, but when he heard a sharp blow, the fool also knew that he had been ambushed, and in an instant, Hu Luguang led 30,000 cavalry to kill.

However, Liu Zhongli's command is an elite division in the end, unlike the Liang army in Bagong Mountain, which will be chaotic when it encounters an ambush.

30,000 Liang soldiers each formed a formation to resist the Northern Qi cavalry, Hu Luguang fired several arrows in a row, the arrows were killed, and when he was close, he abandoned the horse bow, turned to the lance, and rushed to the Liang army first.

Hu Luguang glanced at Liu Zhongli, who was wearing bright armor in the crowd and trying his best to command the battle, he and Gao Jishi glanced at each other, and the tacit understanding that the two had accumulated in the past nineteen years Needless to say, they turned their horses together and killed Liu Zhongli.

Liu Zhongli was fearless and raised his lance to face the battle, if he had the slightest lack of confidence in himself, he would never encounter this ambush.

The Gao Ji-style lance swept over and was opened by Liu Zhongli, while on the other side, Hu Luguang stabbed Liu Zhongli's chest with a lance, but fortunately, Liang Jun's cavalry struck Guo Shanshi's spear at Hu Lvguang's lance, causing it to deviate from the direction, only stabbing Liu Zhongli's right shoulder.

Rao is like this, Liu Zhongli is also afraid, and under the pain, even the horse lance almost didn't hold it steady.