Gao Cheng rarely has a trick in using soldiers, he always likes to bully others, and the rich family business created by his father Gao Huan also gave Gao Cheng this capital.

Outside Gaoyao City, Chen Ba faced the current situation first, which can be described as anxious, and he only had two choices if he wanted to keep this hard-won foundation.

One is to besiege Gaoyao City, and break through the city before the arrival of reinforcements from the Northern Qi Fourth Road, and the key is not to escape Gaocheng.

But Gao Cheng's 30,000 horsemen are not idle, and Chen Baxian is not sure that he can leave him.

The second is to turn the direction and solve the three armies of Gao Jishi, Wu Mingche, and Duan Shao one by one.

But the messenger in Panyu City came to report that these three people and horses attacked the city along the way, and they didn't seem to be in a hurry to rescue Gaoyao.

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Moreover, most of Chen Baxian's men were foot soldiers, and if they were tired of hurrying, they would be in danger of being attacked by Gao Cheng's cavalry at any time.

After thinking about it and divining it again, Chen Baxian finally made up his mind with his henchmen and decided to lead Gao Cheng to attack and survive in death.

On February 17 of the ninth year of Zhaode (556), Chen Ba first withdrew from the siege of Gaoyao City, led the army to the north, and marched all the way, as if to intercept Gaoji.

"You mean that Chen's army marched a hundred miles in one day?"

Gao Cheng thought that he had heard it wrong, and asked Hu Luqiang for confirmation with doubts.

Hu Luqiang nodded and said:

"According to the report of the sentry cavalry, Chen Jun traveled 100 miles a day before leaving the village."

When Gao Cheng heard this, he touched his short beard under his chin and was silent.

He didn't know who gave Chen Baxian the courage to march quickly under the nose of his 30,000 elite horsemen.

Gao Cheng attaches great importance to Yuwentai, but he will not underestimate Chen Baxian, with Chen Baxian's wisdom, even if he is eager, he will not make such a move, and Gao Jishi is not besieging Panyu City.

Placing himself in Chen Baxian's perspective, Gao Cheng figured out his intentions.

There is no doubt that Chen Baxian, who is mainly a foot soldier, did not have the mobility to attack the three-way Qi army in a row, and the key to this battle lies in himself, and Chen Baxian's move is just to lure the snake out of the hole.

After thinking about all this, Gao Cheng immediately changed his tactics, and led 5,000 horsemen to retreat and join Hu Luguang to ensure safety.

The remaining 25,000 cavalry were divided into five parts, which were commanded by Hu Lu Qiangju, Wei Xiaokuan, Hu Lu Xian, Dugu Yongye, and Liu Feng, and adopted the strategy of exhausting the enemy, harassing Chen soldiers along the way.

After Gao Cheng hesitated among the five generals, he finally restrained the generals with Wei Xiaokuan, so as not to fight the five cavalry separately.

The reason why Wei Xiaokuan is handsome is not all because of his status as the national ruler, but mainly because of his fame in later generations.

Gao Cheng carefully told the five generals, especially Wei Xiaokuan, that even if Chen Ba showed no matter how big a flaw was first, he should not attack the camp, just focus on disturbing the enemy.

Wei Xiaokuan and the other five people received orders one after another and led the army out of the city to the north.

And Gao Cheng also led 5,000 cavalry to retreat to Gaoliang, and Xian Ying led the troops to garrison Gaoyao City, keeping this bridgehead that threatened Panyu.

Chen Baxian marched rapidly for three days, and finally reported by the spies on the fourth day, learning that a large number of Northern Qi cavalry had appeared behind him.

Originally, I thought it was Gao Cheng's plan, and he really led the army to attack, and set up an ambush in the camp that night, but in the afternoon, sure enough, there was a lot of noise outside the camp, and Chen Baxian and his soldiers all cheered up, waiting for the Qi army to enter the urn.

But he never thought that he could hear the sound, but he couldn't see the movement, and the Northern Qi cavalry were noisy outside the camp, beating gongs and drums, but they always kept a distance and refused to rush into the Chen army camp.

"Didn't the Qi people see through our ambush soldiers?"

General Hou An was puzzled.

Chen Baxian frowned, what he was worried about was not that the Qi army had seen through the ambush tonight, but that they didn't want to attack the camp at all.

Sure enough, such a noise lasted until dawn under the rotation of the five Qi armies.

The soldiers of the Chen army, who had been in high tension all night, complained bitterly, and they also went out of the camp to expel these Qi troops, but two legs could not outrun four legs, as long as the Chen soldiers returned to the camp, the Qi army would make a comeback.

And you can't just send a small group of sergeants to be on duty at night, so that the rest of the soldiers can rest, if the Qi army really comes to attack, how can a small number of sergeants resist it.

Chen Baxian had to divide his soldiers into several units and take turns to be on duty at night.

Chen Jun only walked more than 30 miles that day, and then camped to rest, and the soldiers were really tired.

At night, the Northern Qi cavalry came to harass outside the camp again, Chen Baxian set up an ambush outside the camp in advance, but still did not catch them, when the ambush sergeant returned to the camp, the Qi army brought gongs and drums to the Chen army soldiers to raise the spirit.

The soldiers of the Chen army were unbearable, and the soldiers complained to the generals, and the generals begged Chen Ba to change their ways first, and go on like this, not to mention attacking the three-way Qi army, and then not turning the direction, I don't know if I can return to Panyu City.

The opposite Qi army was so slippery, and he lacked cavalry under his command, Chen Baxian really had no way to take these northern cavalry who came and went like the wind, and after getting the information sent from the direction of Gaoyao, he learned that Gao Cheng led thousands of cavalry to retreat to Gaoliang, Chen Baxian finally gave up the idea of luring the enemy, waved his army to the southeast, and wanted to retreat to Panyu.

Wei Xiaokuan followed carefully along the way, constantly harassing the soldiers of the Chen army, of course, this was also a test for the Northern Qi cavalry, but as the initiator of this harassment war, it was better than Chen Jun's mental condition anyway.

On February 28, after a nightmarish long march, Chen's army finally returned to Panyu, so Chen Baxian concentrated on increasing the Panyu garrison, trying to support it until the beginning of summer, and forced the Qi army to retreat with the hot climate.

After all, most of the Qi army are northerners who are not tolerant of the heat.

On the second day of the first month of March, Gao Jishi and Wu Mingche arrived at Gaoyao City successively, and Gao Cheng also rushed to Gaoyao with Hu Luguang, who had joined him, after learning the information that Chen Ba had first transferred to Guangzhou.

On the sixth day of the first month of March, except for Duan Shao's troops who went south from Fujian, all the Qi troops of the southern expedition, including Wei Xiaokuan, who had previously attacked and harassed Chen Baxian, and other five-way cavalry, all met in Gaoyao City.

Gao Cheng gathered 180,000 soldiers around him, including 30,000 cavalry, 50,000 soldiers from Gao Ji's Division, 50,000 soldiers from Hu Luguang's Division, 50,000 soldiers from Wu Mingche's Division, and 40,000 soldiers under Xian Ying's command, totaling 220,000 cavalry.

And the state and county soldiers who originally followed all walks of life to the south were also assigned to various places to garrison the occupied areas.

The next day, Gao Cheng personally led 220,000 soldiers out of Gaoyao and tended to Panyu.

On March 14, Gao Cheng and Duan Shao's 50,000 troops met under Panyu City, and Panyu City, the capital of Southern Chen, was besieged.

Gao Cheng gathered so many troops, naturally he wanted to attack Panyu, at this time, he couldn't care about the difference between soldiers and state and county soldiers, March had passed, and there was no time for him to build dirt mountains and dig tunnels.