Chapter 3: Out of control

Xiao Yan keenly observed the hidden dangers of the power of the local kings of Southern Liang in the later period of his reign, so he had to ensure his authority to suppress it. However, Hou Jing, who was preparing to kill him, also observed.

In 548, while preparing for war, Hou Jing was also building a united front for rebellion. Who are the allies? It is Xiao Yan's sons and nephews.

Uniting Xiao Yan's sons and nephews to make Lao Xiao's rebellion, there must be big bargaining chips. What is the big stakes for the princes? Naturally, it is the throne. Hou Jing knew that Xiao Yan was too old and had not had a few days to live, and the temptation of the throne would make the kings of the Liang Dynasty clan unite with him.

Hou Jing first contacted the former crown prince of Southern Liang, Xiao Zhengde, who had been demoted to the king of Linhe. It is ridiculous for Xiao Yan to abolish the status of the prince of your eldest son, start an incident with me, and support you as the emperor after the matter is completed.

Then, Hou Jing sent an impassioned document everywhere, directly denouncing the cruel exploitation of the people by the nobles and officials of the Liang Dynasty, and calling on everyone to rise up to fight the local tyrants and make a revolution. The text is inflammatory.

The kings of the Liang Dynasty, Xiao Yan's sons and nephews saw that Xiao Yan was old and mediocre, and they all had their own expectations for the throne. Therefore, Hou Jing's southward movement just provided these Xiao children with an opportunity to take advantage of King Qin's efforts and observe the changes.

In August 548, Hou Jing officially raised troops against Liang in Shouyang on the grounds that the Qing monarch was on the side of the Qing monarch, that is, to eradicate the traitorous ministers among the leading leaders Zhu Yi, Shaofu Qing Xu Ju, and the prince's right guard led Lu Xian.

When Xiao Yan learned the news of Hou Jing's rebellion, he smiled heroically: You might as well do it. Just fold a bamboo whip and whip him.

Hou Jing rebelled to the death, isn't this exactly what I want? Xiao Yan is very confident, and he has no sense of crisis, in his mind, Hou Jing's subordinates only have those hundreds of remnants of the defeated generals, and there is nothing to fear.

Xiao Yan was confident and sent his son Xiao Lun, the king of Shaoling, to march to Shouyang to quell the rebellion.

Come to Shouyang to quell the rebellion? Hou Jing secretly sneered, and after discussing with the strategist Wang Wei, he had an idea.

In September 548, Hou Jing suddenly announced that he was going out of the city to hunt and led his army out of Shouyang City. Seven days later, a surprise attack captured Qiaozhou, and 17 days later, Liyang was captured.

Liyang, is today's Anhui and County, when the Jianghuai water and land rush, the left side of the Yangtze River, the right control of Zhaoguan, since ancient times is the place where soldiers must fight.

There are two ferries in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River in ancient times: one ferry is Guazhou, "Jingkou Guazhou is a water, Zhongshan is only separated by a few heavy mountains, the spring breeze is on the south bank of the Green River, when will the bright moon shine on me", Wang Anshi's "Docking Guazhou" describes Jingkou and Guazhou, which are two famous ancient ferries across the Yangtze River. Jingkou is the city of Zhenjiang on the south bank of the Yangtze River today, and Guazhou is on the north bank of the Yangtze River in the south of Yangzhou City.

Another ferry port is the ancient ferry of the Hengjiang River, the quarrying channel between Liyang and the opposite river. "Tianmen interrupts the opening of the Chu River, and the blue water flows east to this time", and the flow direction of the Yangtze River is changed from west to east here, so it is called Hengjiang.

Since ancient times, the soldiers of the north and the south have been in trouble, and Liyang will bear the brunt. Hou Jing gave up Shouyang and captured Liyang, what was his intention?

The intention is very vicious, this is to dig out Xiao Yan's black tiger and take Jiankang, the capital of Southern Liang, 500 miles away!

Liyang was lost, Xiao Yan began to panic a little, looking around, there was only one famous general worth entrusting.

Yang Kan, a famous general of Southern Liang, a duguan Shangshu, a marquis of Gaochang County, and a refugee from the north, Xiao Yan took him extremely seriously.

Yang Kan was ordered and quickly gave a counterinsurgency countermeasure: pinch the head and remove the tail.

That is, if you send troops to guard the quarrying, you will not be able to cross the river if you hold the quarry. Then, he sent Xiao Lun to capture Hou Jing's base camp Shouyang. In this way, Hou Jing was in a dilemma, and the rabble of his subordinates naturally collapsed.

This is a foolproof strategy, however, if you are not afraid of a god-like opponent, you are afraid of a pig-like teammate.

Xiao Yan's most trusted minister, Zhu Yi, believed that the Yangtze River was a natural danger, and Hou Jing would not cross the river. Xiao Yan was superstitious about the natural dangers of the Yangtze River, ordered to hold the Yangtze River, and gave up the best opportunity to take the initiative to attack Hou Jing's base camp.

Objectively speaking, Xiao Yan's strategy of defending the Yangtze River alone is a little conservative, but it is not bad if it is really done. However, the commander-in-chief of the river defense he chose was very problematic.

Xiao Zhengde. This commander-in-chief of river defense has been secretly promised by Hou Jing to be the successor of the emperor, can you give you, the old emperor, a river defense? Not only did they not take precautions, but they also mobilized dozens of large ships for Hou Jing's army to cross the river.

At that time, the guard of quarrying in Nanliang was Wang Qian, and there was a person, but he concluded that Wang Zheng could not keep quarrying, and asked to replace him.

Chen Xin is not very famous in history, but his father is very famous, his father's name is Chen Qingzhi. Chen Xin, the fifth son of Chen Qingzhi, is a tiger son and is quite good at strategy.

Xiao Yan understood Chen Xin's strength and agreed that he would change the defense of the king. However, when Chen Xin went to the quarry to exchange guards with Wang Qian, he found that there was no defender.

It turned out that Wang Zhen withdrew from the quarrying before Chen Xin came to change his guard. Afraid of the enemy? Or is it an untrusted vent of anger? I don't know, anyway, he clocked out early and left.

There was a vacuum in the defense of such an important place, how could Hou Jing miss the opportunity and immediately lead more than 8,000 people to cross the river, taking the boat provided by Xiao Zhengde.

Although Chen Xin was the door tiger, he was even more depressed than Wei Di, the door dog, and he was caught off guard and captured. Thinking of the scene when he was beaten by Chen Qingzhi, Hou Jing suddenly hated and murdered, and Chen Xin was killed.

The quarrying was captured, and Jiankang had no danger to defend.

As soon as Hou Jing crossed the river, the advance army attacked Gu Xiao, captured Huainan Taishou Wencheng Hou Xiaoning in a battle, and then waved his army to Jiankang.

Since the surrender of Sun Hao of Eastern Wu, there have been no sword soldiers in the Jiangnan area for many years, and the rebels suddenly appeared, causing a panic. The people fled into Jiankang City, and the panicked soldiers rushed into the weapons depot to grab weapons and armor, and the city was in chaos for a while.

In the face of such an out-of-control crisis, how did Xiao Yan, the head of the Southern Liang Empire, choose? He chose to escape, hurriedly handed over military power and political affairs to the crown prince Xiao Gang, hid to eat fast, and knocked wooden fish.

Fortunately, there is still a famous general in Jiankang City, who can support the crisis alone.

Yang Kan was born in Gaomen Taishan Goat. The origin of the Taishan goat clan can be traced back to the sheep tongue clan of the Spring and Autumn Jin Kingdom, and migrated to Mount Tai at the end of the Qin Dynasty. When Emperor Taiwu of the Northern Wei Dynasty Tuoba Tao went on a southern expedition, Yang Kan's grandfather, Yang Guizhi, who was the city commander at the time, was forced to defect to the Northern Wei Dynasty with the famous general Xue Andu (Xue Rengui's former ancestor).

Yang Kan's father was also an official of the Northern Wei Dynasty, but he always taught his son that the Southern Dynasty was orthodox. Therefore, although Yang Kan was an official in the Northern Wei Dynasty, he still returned to Southern Liang without hesitation in 528.

The stars of the north and south dynasties are shining, and among the fierce generals, Gao Ao Cao, who is unparalleled in horses, is the number one, and Yang Kan is the other number.

Yang Kan's arm strength is amazing, and the bow used reaches more than ten stones. There were several stone figures on the bridge, eight feet long, and ten feet long, that is, five feet, and Yang Kan grabbed them and hit each other, and all of them were shattered.

There are many people with great strength, it is not surprising, it is rare that Yang Kan's body is flexible, the balance is amazing, he once walked on the wall of Yanzhou Yao Temple, up to four zhang high, seven steps across, and his agility is not inferior to the Chen Shixing of Wudang today.

In terms of weapons, Yang Kanshan made a two-edged spear two feet and four feet long, dancing like a hot wheel, invincible.

If Yang Kan is only strong and agile, it is just a martial artist similar to the Yingbu Infant Bush in the early Han Dynasty or the Northern Wei Dynasty Xiao General Yang Dayan, and the fact is that Yang Kan is familiar with the "Zuo's Spring and Autumn Period" and Sun Wu's Art of War, which can be called a complete weapon of civil and military affairs, and has the style of Yue Wumu in later generations.

Yang Kan, who was 52 years old at the time, calmly observed the chaos in Jiankang City, and immediately made a decision, killed several soldiers in a row to stabilize the morale of the army, and arranged the refugees one by one.

Jiankang is a little fixed.

Although there are famous generals who press the formation, it is difficult to prevent thieves. In Jiankang City, no one knew that Xiao Zhengde was Hou Jing's undercover agent.

Xiao Zhengde, responsible for defending the main gate of Jiankang Xuanyang Gate. Two days after the quarrying was lost, Hou Jing led his army to Jiankang, and Xiao Zhengde opened the Xuanyang Gate to welcome Hou Jing's army into the city.

In Jiankang City, the generals have their own ghosts. Prince Xiao Gang ordered Yu Xin to lead the palace Chinese military officials and set up camp in the north of Suzakuhang (located in the Qinhuai scenery belt of the Confucius Temple). As a result, Hou Jing hadn't come yet, and Yu Xinka got off work without calling and ran away.

Yu Xin? Yes, it is Du Fu's so-called "fresh Yu Kaifu, Junyi Bao joins the army" Yu Kaifu, the leader of the Southern Liang literary circle, then Jiankang Ling, the mayor of Nanjing. Everyone in the world knows that Wang Bo, one of the four masters of the early Tang Dynasty, is famous all over the world for the famous sentence "Luoxia and the lonely bird fly together, and the autumn water is longer and the sky is the same color", don't you know that this sentence was plagiarized by Wang Bo.

Whose copy was it? It is the one who copied the letter of Yu. "Falling flowers and Zhigai fly together, and the willows are the same color as the spring flag" - "March 3rd Hualin Garden Horse Shooting Fu". The essence is plagiarism, but it is called borrowing from Wang Bo here, and it can leave a name for eternity if it is borrowed well, even more than the original.

The article is well written, it can really be exchanged for money, Yu Xin is not only famous, but also worth a lot of money, in addition to salary income, writing epitaphs for nobles is also a big source of income. When the literati have money, they want to do some flowers, Yu Xin is bisexual, and he has supported the Nanliang clan and Xiao Shao when he was a teenager.

Writing articles is first-class, generating income is first-class, and running away is also first-class. Yu Xin fled to Jiangling from Jiankang, passing through Jiangxia, Xiao Shao was able to serve as the assassin of Yingzhou because of his attachment to Xiao Yi, the king of Xiangdong, and Yu Xin wanted to see this old lover.

During the banquet, Xiao Shao sat under the green oil curtain, and Yu Xin sat on the partial position. Xiao Shao and the other guests pushed the cups and changed the lamps, talked and laughed, and put Yu Xin aside. Yu Dacaizi suddenly became jealous, ran to Xiao Shao in front of him with drunkenness, kicked over the food, trampled on it, and then stared at Xiao Shao's face: You are different now than before (the official described it very differently today). Xiao Shao's face suddenly turned the color of pork liver.

There were many ancient literati and generals who were bisexual, Yu Xin, Fu Jian, and Zheng Banqiao, one of the eight eccentrics of Yangzhou, were all used to seeing each other.

Mayor Yu Xin took the lead in running, and the rest of the guards Wang Zhen, Xiao Dachun, Xie Xi, etc., did not run slowly at all. Hou Jingbing went down to Dongfu City and Stone City without blood, and entered the siege of Taicheng.

During the period of the Six Dynasties, Jiankang City had a total of three city walls, from the outside to the inside: Waiguo, the capital and the palace city, and Taicheng was the location of the central government and the imperial palace of the Southern Dynasties, and the old site was in the south of Jiming Mountain in Nanjing City. Outside the city are the residences of the princes and nobles, and the residential areas and commercial areas of the common people are on both sides of the Qinhuai River outside the capital.

The river rain and the river grass are all together, and the six dynasties are like dreams and birds crying in the air.

The most ruthless is Taicheng willow, still smoke cage ten miles embankment.

This poem "Taicheng" is a poem by the Tang Dynasty poet Wei Zhuang to pay tribute to the monuments of the Six Dynasties. In the early Sui Dynasty, Taicheng was "cultivated and cultivated" by Emperor Wen of Sui, and in the Tang Dynasty, it was already "ten thousand households and thousands of doors into weeds" (Liu Yuxi's "Taicheng").

Poetry has always only sought romance, but often avoided the bloody reality. Today's reality is that Hou Jing's tiger and wolf army is approaching, and the Jiangnan soldiers have not fought for many years, and in the face of the beast-like siege, they are all fighting in two groups, and they almost want to go first.

One day, Yang Kan called a meeting of the officers, saying that he had received a letter from people from outside the city who had shot in with arrows, informing him that the reinforcements of Xiao Lun, the king of Shaoling (sent by Xiao Yan to attack Shouyang), would arrive soon.

The morale of the army has settled down a little.

Yang Kan breathed a sigh of relief, and secretly smiled bitterly: Where are the reinforcements, the letters are all written by me.

Dongye Gate was the first target of Hou Jing's attack. The people of the Qiang tribe piled up firewood at the entrance of the city gate and set fire to the city gate. Yang Kan went to the city gate, led the crowd to hold water in large wooden barrels, and poured water to extinguish the fire.

The rebels were working as firefighters and had no time to take care of each other, so they took advantage of the situation to attack the city. Yang Kan dropped the barrel, pulled out his twenty-stone strong bow, and shot it with arrows and arrows, and everyone was pierced through the chest and back.

Looking at the corpses of the enemy soldiers who were nailed to the ground by arrows, the defenders were heartbroken and rose up to repel the attack.

The rebels attacked for the second time, this time, with a long-handled battle axe, frantically slashing at Dongye Gate.

Seeing that the door was about to be split, the rebels were about to rush in, when suddenly, they heard the sound of a clangling door in the city, and soon, a hole was cut.

The rebels were surprised when a horse suddenly protruded from the hole and stabbed in all directions, and several rebels were stabbed to death in an instant.

The rebels stepped forward and tried to catch the horse, but the operators of the horse in the city were so powerful that not only did they not catch it, but several people were stabbed down.

The one who operated the horse in the city was Yang Kan himself.

It's a fucking beast! The rebels were terrified and had to retreat first.

Prince Xiao Gang, it is not good to command the war, but he has money. When he saw that Yang Kan was guarding the Dongye Gate, he was overjoyed, and crowned Yang Kan as a servant, rewarded him with 5,000 taels of gold, 10,000 taels of silver, and rewarded the soldiers with 10,000 horses of silk. Yang Kan, without taking a penny, gave all the prince's rewards to his subordinates.

Soon, Hou Jing brought all the traditional siege equipment such as flying towers and crashes, and tested them one by one, all of which were resolved by Yang Kan one by one. If the traditional one doesn't work, I'll make an innovation. Hou Jing created a peculiar siege tool.

Wooden donkey. The wooden donkey is actually a moving shield. First, make a six-legged wooden frame about one zhang long, cover the wooden frame with cowhide, hide six soldiers under the cowhide, and the soldiers move the wooden frame while using the cowhide to shield the rain of arrows flying from the city. Wait for the move under the city wall, and then dig to destroy the city wall.

For a while, the donkeys were raging, and the donkeys were fighting. Hou Jing was secretly proud. Suddenly, countless boulders fell from the sky, and the wooden donkeys were smashed to pieces, and some were even smashed, and the donkeys were also killed and injured.

It turned out that Yang Kan saw that the bow and crossbow could not destroy the wooden donkey, so he ordered the soldiers to serve with stones.

Don't talk about martial arts and use stones, right? Then I'll redesign the design. Hou Jing changed the wooden donkey to a pointed one, and the stones were thrown inaccurately and could not be broken.

The herd of spire-topped wooden donkeys soon approached the city walls, and the Qiang soldiers were already desperately digging into the walls, like a frenzied herd of marmots.

At the head of the city, there was a sudden silence.

The city wall was about to be pierced, and Hou Jing's army of tigers and wolves had already begun to look forward to the beautiful scenery of slaughtering sheep, slaughtering people, raping and plundering.

Suddenly, the city lit up. Then, countless torches with clusters of arrows were thrown down, and the clusters of arrows were inserted into the top of the cowhide of the wooden donkey, and countless wooden donkeys also lit up, and in an instant they became fire donkeys.

It turned out that Yang Kan had ordered the soldiers to put torches just now. Greasing oil and wax on the torches, inserting arrowheads, lighting them and throwing them down, as long as one of them can be inserted into the wooden donkey, it will work.

The gates of the city on the ground could not be entered, and the walls could not be pierced, so I went into the air.

Hou Jingling soldiers built a car more than ten zhang high to climb the city, if this kind of car was transported to the edge of the city, the soldiers on the upper floor could be condescending and shoot down into the city.

The air force was coming, and there were no anti-aircraft missiles, and the defenders in the city were a little panicked. Yang Kan's face did not change, and he quietly watched Hou Jing's soldiers push the tower towards the edge of the city.

As they approached the edge of the city, the behemoths toppled over one by one like dominoes. One by one, the buildings collapsed, the buildings were brittle, and the scene of large-scale safety accidents was properly placed.

It is more than ten zhang high, and once the car rolls over, it is very difficult to stand up and walk again.

Yang Kan smiled while pointing to the bottom of the city: I have long found that this kind of car is not only heavy, but also high, and the center of gravity is unstable. The trenches on the edge of Taicheng are not filled firmly, and the potholes are full of potholes, so it is strange if the car does not overturn.

It turns out that poor road conditions are also useful. The new invention will be invalid without the other party having to fight back, Hou Jing is like thunder, his face is like a red coat, and his teeth are dumbfounded. If the building car is unstable, I will be stable again.

Soon, two earthen hills appeared on the east and west sides of Taicheng, and the rebels still wanted to use air strikes to condescendingly shoot at the defenders in Taicheng.

When the rebels rushed up to the dirt mountain, the earth mountain collapsed with a bang.

It turned out that Yang Kan ordered the soldiers to dig tunnels under the city overnight, leading to the bottom of the earth mountain, hollowing out the foundation of the earth mountain, and countless rebel soldiers fell from the sky with screams, and came to a loess bath.

Taicheng could not be attacked for a long time, and countless troops were lost, Hou Jing changed his tactics of strong attack and adopted a long-term siege strategy. During the siege, Hou Jing had an unexpected gain.

He captured Yang Kan's son.

Hou Jing escorted Yang Kan's son to the city and shouted to the city: If you don't surrender, you will kill your son.

The old sheep poked his head out of the city wall and smiled: kill him! After saying that, disappear.

A few days later, Hou Jing brought the little sheep again, and Yang Kan pointed at Hou Jing and scolded: You are a beard, a bad seed, I thought he was dead, why is he still there!

After saying that, he snatched the soldier's strong bow, mounted the arrow, and aimed it at his son to form a full moon, and was about to fire.

It turned out to be a dumbfounder! Hou Jing hurriedly ordered someone to bring Yang Kan's son back.

"The way to conquer the country is to attack the heart and attack the city below." In November 548, Hou Jing began to shift from attacking the city to attacking the heart. first set up Xiao Zhengde as the emperor, and then appointed himself as the prime minister, showing the orthodox status. Then, it was announced that the house slaves of the high-ranking officials of Southern Liang would be liberated, and all those who came to surrender would be liberated as free men.

A semi-literate Kahu, for a time there was Abraham. Lincoln's demeanor.

The house slave of Zhu Yi, the powerful minister of Southern Liang, was named the third division of Yitong, and then, Hou Jing asked him to scold the exploiter Zhu Yi under the city: You have been an official for more than 30 years before you became a leader in the middle. As soon as I followed Prime Minister Hou, I became the third division of Yitong, you stupid fork!

The reputation is valuable, the identity is more valuable, if it is for the sake of preparation, you can run the road. When you come to Hou Jing's side, you can not only transfer the establishment, but also promote your position, such a good thing is rare in a hundred years. Hula, more than 1,000 slaves in the city soon escaped, just like the generals of the Iraqi Republican Guard who got green cards in the US-Iraq war.

The situation is becoming more and more severe for the military and civilians in the city.

Fortunately, at the beginning of 549, the first support army of Nanliang outside Taicheng finally arrived.

The reinforcements led by Xiao Lun made a few big circles, and when crossing the river, they encountered wind and waves, and after losing one or two percent of their soldiers and horses, they arrived at the foot of Taicheng.

However, unexpectedly, the first reinforcement to come was the Xiaojia brand tofu army, which exchanged fire with Hou Jing's tiger and wolf army, and lost most of it, leaving only more than 1,000 people. Xiao Lun fled in a hurry.

The reinforcements were routed, and the situation was made worse.

The pillars in Taicheng, a generation of famous generals Yang Kan, suddenly passed away. Yang Kan, the devil muscle man of Nanliang, is only 53 years old. Being strong does not mean that you have a good physique.

Fortunately, the traitor Zhu Yi, who has become the target of public criticism, died soon after, at the age of 66, Yang Kan died tired of the country, and Zhu Yi died for fear of being liquidated, but the latter lived more than ten years longer than the former.

As soon as Yang Kan died, Hou Jing took the opportunity to storm the city and lead the water of Xuanwu Lake to irrigate the city.

In an offensive and defensive battle, the two sides exhausted the five elements of the world - gold (blade), wood (arrows, building cars), water, fire (torches), and earth (earth mountain), which can be called a classic.

Taicheng is about to be flooded, and when life and death are at stake, where are the soldiers and horses of the King of Qin from all walks of life in Southern Liang?

It's sad. The kings of the Xiao family, Xiao Yi, the king of Xiangdong, Xiao Yu, the king of Hedong, Xiao Jing, the king of Yueyang, etc., wished that Hou Jing would kill the Xiao family of Guang Jiankang, so they could take the opportunity to divide the territory and sit big. Therefore, the armies of all walks of life are still waiting and seeing. What's more, Xiao Ji, the king of Wuling stationed in Yizhou, was ready to send troops, and his brother Xiao Yi was afraid that his younger brother would take the opportunity to seize the throne, so he wrote a letter to dissuade him.

As mentioned earlier, the strongest local warlords in the Southern Dynasties were often the Jingzhou Assassins. Where is the history of Jingzhou in the Liang Dynasty?

At this time, the Jingzhou assassin of the Liang Dynasty was Xiao Yi, the king of Xiangdong, the seventh son of Xiao Yan, and he waited for Xiao Lun to be beaten away outside Taicheng before he sent his son Xiao Fang to lead the army to set off.

Fortunately, there are still loyal people in the army of Qinwang from all walks of life. The son of the famous general Wei Rui, Hengzhou Assassin Shi Wei Cang, after learning the news of Hou Jing's rebellion, immediately led 5,000 people from his headquarters to march to Jiankang.

Liu Zhongli, the assassin of Sizhou in the Liang Dynasty and the fierce general, was Wei Cang's cousin, and he also led more than 10,000 men and horses to Jiankang.

On the night of the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve in 549, Wei Can, Liu Zhongli, Yang Yaren and other Qin Wang troops rushed to Jiankang, with a total of more than 100,000 people, stationed at the Qinhuai River, and jointly promoted Liu Zhongli as the commander of the Qin Wang army.

On the first day of the first lunar month in 549, a heavy fog fell from the sky, and Wei Cang's army got lost in the Qingtang area on the outskirts of Jiankang, Hou Jing took the opportunity to raid, and Wei Cang, his son Wei Ni, his three younger brothers Wei Zhu, Wei Gong, Wei Gou and his younger brother Wei Ang were all killed in battle (a minute of silence for Wei Rui).

The fierce general Liu Zhongli was eating, and when he heard that Wei Cangjun was in trouble, he threw down the dishes and chopsticks and led the army to the rescue, broke Hou Jingjun, beheaded hundreds, and Hou Jingjun drowned more than 1,000 people in the Qinhuai River.

At the critical moment, Yoo Joong-li's impulse for personal heroism lost its results.

He rushed to the enemy camp single-handedly and almost stabbed Hou Jing, but he was suddenly attacked by Hou Jing's guards, and was slashed heavily in the shoulder, which hit him hard, and almost died, and he couldn't fight again. Zeng Tian, the "flying general" who broke into the Qing camp and hung up with the Taiping army in later generations, raised a road.

At this time, the reinforcements outside Jiankang City also included Xiao Lun's remnants, the Jingzhou army brought by Xiao Fang and the general Wang Seng Zhi's army. Although the Qin Wangjun was numerous, there was no unified command, and Hou Jingjun was frightened and did not dare to take the initiative to attack. The morale of individual units was weakened and military discipline was corrupted, which greatly disappointed the people of Jiankang.

Taicheng was besieged for many days, the grain and grass were exhausted, the city was full of hunger, the epidemic was epidemic, and later, only two or three thousand weak soldiers were left to defend it.

Hou Jingjun's situation is not much better, the grain and grass are gradually running out, and the siege of the city is not down and the other party's reinforcements are coming, which is a taboo in siege warfare.

Hou Jing was a little panicked. Strategist Wang Wei suggested: Pretend to sue for peace, rest the soldiers and horses, escort grain and grass, and then make plans. Hou Jing followed.

In the face of Hou Jing's request for peace, a fool could see that it was a delaying tactic, but Xiao Yan, not listening to the dissuasion of his ministers, made a truce with Hou Jing in February 549, and ceded the four states of Southern Henan, Western Henan, Hezhou, and Guangzhou to Hou Jing.

This is not the end, Xiao Yan ordered all the reinforcements to go back. At that time, Xiao Yan was 85 years old, and he may really be a senile dementia patient.

This is simply a long drought and a rainy day, and the opponent is an old acquaintance. Hou Jing used more than ten days of work to rest the army and send troops to grab military rations everywhere, and soon the military rations were sufficient. Cang Liao did not know the etiquette, Hou Jingjun had a full stomach, finished the military rations, immediately destroyed the alliance, and re-attacked Taicheng.

In March 549, Taicheng fell, and both Xiao Yan and the crown prince Xiao Gang were captured. Xiao Gang's 14-year-old daughter, Princess Liyang, has also become the plaything and sex slave of 46-year-old Hou Jing.

Xiao Yan and Hou Jing met, the story of the farmer and the snake had been staged, and the two had a conversation.

Xiao Yan: How many people did you cross the river?

Hou Jing: More than 1,000 people.

Xiao Yan: How many people were there during the siege of Taicheng?

Hou Jing: 100,000 people.

Xiao Yan: What about now?

Hou Jing: Within the four seas, everything is mine!

After capturing Jiankang City, Hou Jing carried out a frenzied massacre.

The focus of the revenge was on the Wang and Xie families. Hou Jing, who had been despised by the two high-ranking families of Wang and Xie, carried out large-scale massacres and humiliation of the two families. The entire people of Jiankang City were also slaughtered five or six out of ten.

Facing the 85-year-old Xiao Yan, Hou Jing was really too lazy to use the knife, so he just put him under house arrest and didn't give him food.

On the 2nd day of May 549, Xiao Yan was skinny, bird-faced, and his dying wish was to eat honey. Honey? Let's go to the west and eat. In the end, Xiao Yan left two last words of "Hehe" and embarked on the road to the west.

"Four hundred and eighty temples in the Southern Dynasties, how many buildings are in the smoke and rain."

Is it useful to believe in Buddhism? Why was it starved to death?

Useless? Why did you live to be 85 years old?

There have been 83 dynasties and 559 emperors in Chinese history, and the average life expectancy of these emperors was only 39.2 years, 11 were over 70 years old, and only 30 were 60 years old and above.

Xiao Yan's lifespan was the third or second of all the emperors of China. In front of him, only Zhao Tuo (103 years old, doubtful) and Qianlong (88 years old), the martial emperor of South Vietnam, and Qianlong (88 years old) of the Qing Dynasty.

On May 26, Hou Jingli's crown prince Xiao Gang became emperor, that is, Emperor Jianwen of Liang. Rebel ally Xiao Zhengde? A big fool was directly executed by Hou Jing.

Hou Jing was the governor of the capital, the secretary of the book, and the prime minister, and held the power of the Liang court.

The revolution has not yet succeeded, and Hou Jing still has to work harder. After controlling the central government, the place was not yet pacified, and Hou Jing began to send troops to attack the counties of eastern Zhejiang.

In December 549, Hou Jingjun captured Huiji, which owned the land of Sanwu, and openly advocated encouraging generals to burn, kill, rob, plunder, rape, and slaughter the city ----.

is so indulgent, one is to encircle the buddies who make a revolution together, and the other is to kill people.

In 550, Hou Jing proclaimed himself Xiangguo, King of Han, General of the Universe (domineering side exposure), and Governor of Liuhe Zhujun.