Li Xin was young and immature, with too little experience, and was easily deceived by Hou Mo Chen Chong into having a correspondence with his brother Li Yanbo in private.

But fortunately, Hou Mo and Chen Chong didn't seem to be about to denounce, so they settled down.

The window paper has been pierced, and the two will no longer be sloppy, and agree to pass on news to each other from now on, form a secret alliance, and in the future, the northern Qi will attack Shu and welcome the lord together.

Now there are strong enemies outside, and there are kings and ministers fighting each other inside, and there is a proper sign of the country's demise, and the people who find another way out are not only Li Xin and Hou Mo Chen Chong.

The Northern Qi and Southern Zhou Dynasty are said to be the Huaishuo Group and the Wuchuan Group, but the Northern Qi Dynasty also has no shortage of Wuchuan people, such as Hu Lu Qiangju, He Bayun Zhuzi, etc.

At that time, Gao Huan forced He Batyun to die, but he properly placed his sons and sent them to Luoyang to study with his sons.

That's right, after so many years of hostility, Huaishuo Xianbei and Wuchuan Xianbei have formed a little hatred, but this is not an inseparable mortal enemy, especially Gao Cheng is known for his broad-mindedness.

Thirty years earlier, the big guys were still in Hebei to revolt and rebel against the rule of the Northern Wei Dynasty.

Gao Huan also said to Xianbei of the six towns under his command when he was in Xindu Jianyi:

'You and I are both strangers, and we are the same family. ’

And Gao Huan's first western expedition was defeated, and Yuwentai was released to the Eastern Wei Dynasty to surrender, but he was also unwilling to slaughter the township party.

Now everyone sees that the broken ship of Nanzhou is about to go silent, and they are looking for a way to retreat, and they are not afraid that Gao Cheng will not accept them.

Countless letters were sent to Hanzhong and Xiangyang, and were sent to Luoyang by Wei Xiaokuan and Li Yuan to present to Gao Cheng.

Gao Cheng looked at the familiar names one by one, and finally understood that maybe this war did not need to launch a war against the country.

At the moment, the hearts of the people in the Southern Zhou are scattered, like a broken house, and it only needs to be kicked hard, and it will collapse with a bang.

So Gao Cheng decisively adjusted his strategy and ordered Duan Shao, the governor of Jingzhou, to move to Hanzhong, as the governor of Liangzhou, and to supervise the military forces of Liang, Yong, and Qin, with Di Gan and Wu Mingche as their deputies.

He also took Hu Luguang as the governor of Jingzhou, supervised the military affairs of Jing, Ying, Heng and Hunan Prefectures, and took Gao Jishi and Hou Jing as his deputies.

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Instead of waiting for the autumn harvest next year to launch the Great War, it was after the autumn harvest of the tenth year of Zhaode (557).

Gao Cheng planned to take Duan Shao as the marshal of the march in the north, and levy a total of 100,000 soldiers from the three states of Liang, Yong, and Qin, and a total of 100,000 soldiers from the prefectures of Liang, Yong, and Qin, and with Hu Luguang as the marshal of the march in the south, and another 100,000 soldiers from the four prefectures of Jing, Ying, Heng, and Hunan Prefectures, with a total of 200,000 troops, and attack Zhou on two routes.

These 200,000 troops are not comparable to the previous battle to destroy Chen, which is an elite army composed entirely of soldiers.

Considering that the attack on Shu may inevitably be attacked, Gao Cheng mixed a large number of state and county soldiers.

An army composed mostly of state and county soldiers, even if the number reaches 200,000, is indeed not a great war for Northern Qi.

The military potential of the seven states of Liang, Yong, Qin, Jing, Ying, Heng, and Hunan was not even fully mobilized, especially the two states of Yong and Qin, which still retained a considerable army in Gao Cheng's plan to defend against Tuyuhun and Turkic.

Tuyuhun hasn't done much over the years, but Gao Cheng is not sure that they will continue to be well-behaved, and he must be on guard, lest they take advantage of the emptiness of Guanlong and go east to plunder.

At this time, there was still a distance before the autumn harvest, Wei Xiaokuan and Li Yuan stepped up their contact with the internal Ying, while Gao Jishi, Feng Zihua and others were also seizing the time to make pre-war preparations.

At the same time, the infighting among the monarchs and ministers of the Southern Zhou Dynasty did not stop because the sixteen-year-old Yuwenjue was deposed and killed.

Yuwen Yu, who inherited the throne, is the eldest son of Yu Wentai, and now he is twenty-four years old, he is not a dumb person, and he also knows that the current situation should be together, but the existence of Yuwen Hu makes him feel like a thorn in his back.

Especially after witnessing the third brother Yuwenjue being killed by him, he was even more reluctant to be a puppet.

Referring to Gao Cheng's past behavior, he may still be able to survive if he falls into his hands, after all, Gao Cheng is not embarrassed by Yuan Shanjian, Xiao Gang, Xiao Lun and others, and even let go of Chen Baxian's family.

But he was willing to be a puppet for his cousin Yuwen Hu, but he was afraid that sooner or later he would kill him.

Perhaps he would rather give it to a foreign enemy than the psychological influence of a thief, after all, a foreign enemy might be able to save his life.

Yu Wenyu did not care about the situation at all, and fought with Yuwen for power in the DPRK.

Previously, Yuwen escorted the abolition of the establishment and killed Yuwen Jue, which had already caused a lot of dissatisfaction, this time he didn't dare to follow the cat and the tiger, if he really deposed two monarchs in a row, maybe there would be some chaos.

But Yuwenhu is also unwilling to hand over his authority, if he is really willing to give up, how can he go against Yuwentai's dying words.

Since he has done the thing of killing the lord, he is even more worried that Yuwen Yuyu will settle accounts after the autumn and avenge his brother.

Yuwen Yu and Yuwen defended state affairs in vain, and the infighting was endless, which also made most of the Southern Zhou Wenwu lose their last bit of heart.

On September 12 of the tenth year of Zhaode (557), just after the autumn harvest, Gao Cheng immediately promulgated the text of cutting down Zhou, and issued an edict to cut down Zhou, with Duan Shao and Hu Luguang each leading 100,000 troops, and cutting Zhou in two ways.

He ordered the two to recruit the people on their own, and sent the tax grain from the three prefectures of Liang, Yong, and Qin to Hanzhong, and the tax grain from the four prefectures of Jing, Ying, Heng, and Hunan to Yiling to supply military supplies.

The text was sent to Shu, and before the Northern Qi army arrived, the Southern Zhou was already in rebellion.

The first to raise the banner of rebellion was Mo Chen Chong, the Duke of Liang, who commanded one of the six armies, Mo Chen, and Li Xun, the Duke of Tang who commanded one of the six armies, rebelled according to Chuzhou and opened the passage of the Northern Qi from Yiling to Shu.

Hu Luguang, the marshal of the southern march, immediately sent the general Xue Guyan as the vanguard to Chuzhou, and at the same time sent the canonization edict that Gao Cheng had already prepared for Hou Mo, Chen Chong, and Li Xun.

Gao Cheng worshiped Hou Mo Chen Chong as the assassin of Yizhou, named the Duke of Xingyang County, and worshiped Li Xun as the assassin of Chuzhou, and also awarded the title of Duke of the county, as the Duke of Longxi County.

Of course, this is only a temporary appointment, for thousands of miles of horse bones, and after the war, Gao Cheng naturally wants to recruit Hou Mo, Chen Chong, Li Xun and other people into the court.

Since he surrendered to Qi and received the official title, he had to contribute to it, and after the army under Hu Luguang was assembled one after another and stationed in Chuzhou, Hou Mo Chen Chong and Li Yu each led their troops as the vanguard and advanced to the west.

Compared with Hu Luguang, who had Hou Mo Chen Chong and Li Xun Tou Cheng and went smoothly, Duan Shao, the marshal of the northern march, was much more difficult.

The road to Shu is difficult and dangerous, although there are occasional generals who surrender to Chengcheng, but there are also stubborn people who stick to the danger.

Seeing the invasion of the Qi army and the frequent rebellions in the territory, Yuwen Hu immediately recruited Wei Chi Hui, He Lanxiang and others to discuss, and finally decided that He Lanxiang would strictly guard the northern pass, and then Wei Chi Hui would lead the army to the east to meet Hou Mo Chen Chong and Li Xin, and first defeat the enemy from the east.