Chronicles of the Two Jin Dynasties and The Southern and Northern Dynasties - (84) Hou Jing (4)
In the third year of the Taiqing Dynasty (549), in the city of Jiankang, which was already surrounded by Hou Jingjun, a sixty-seven-year-old man finally died. For his death, the people of Mancheng basically have only one attitude - they died too late!
This guy who almost disgusted everyone from below the crown prince was Zhu Yi, the One who "selflessly" (it is not accurate to say so, because Hou Jing had given him three hundred and two gold) to help Hou Jing become bigger and stronger step by step, but was proposed by Hou Jing to qing jun's side.
It can be said that Jiankang was made into this ghostly appearance now, and Zhu Yi could not escape the blame. And his kick before the destruction of Jiankang City made him escape the reckoning of the great chaos in the future, which really made people hate it.
And at the last moment of his life, he also faithfully defended Hou Jing's interests:
After Hou Jingjun drove to the vicinity of the capital, he sent people to the city to ask for labor troops. With the support of Zhu Yi, Xiao Yan sent emissaries to Hou Jing's army to "reward" the rebels who had come to take their own lives.
The emissary came to Hou Jing, politely asked, "What is the name of the great king's visit, and what is his intention?" ”
Hou Jing didn't think about it, and spat out four words in one mouth: "I want to be emperor!" ”
When Hou Jing said this, there were few people around him, and it was estimated that Xiao Zhengde was not there, otherwise the former crown prince who was dreaming of Tianzi was estimated to be able to go back. After saying this, Hou Jing also felt that he had lost his word, so he detained the emissary and began to attack Jiankang.
At this time, how many people were under Hou Jing's command was unknown; but this force had been hard under Jiankang City and the Liang army inside and outside for more than half a year. By the time he entered the city, he already claimed to have 100,000 elite soldiers.
The reason why this army, which went from a defeated general to eight hundred scattered soldiers and brave soldiers to eight thousand "warriors" crossing the river, and finally developed into 100,000 horses, grew so fast is because of the Liang Dynasty.
When Hou Jing first started the army, he basically arrested Zhuang Ding to join the army. However, his strong ding did not run away, but gathered more and more, more and more refined. The reason for this is because Hou Jingshi.
I have to admit that Hou Jing is a very real person, at least in terms of his opponents. When Shouyang started, he rewarded the ministry with real gold and white eyes, and also solved the marriage problem for them; after hitting the capital, he even called on slaves inside and outside the city to join the army under the banner of "liberating slaves".
There was a small squatter in Zhu Yi's mansion, and he took advantage of the chaos to come out of the city and came to Hou Jingjun. Hou Jing immediately fulfilled his promise, made him Yi Tongsansi, who was higher than his master in the city, and promised that all of Zhu Yi's family property would be his after the city was destroyed. The proud guy shouted at the head of the city: "Zhu Yi! You've worked all your life, and you're as big as I just became an official when I surrendered to the Prince of Hou! ”
What is more ironic is that Zhu Yi only posthumously awarded a Shangshu Right Servant To his death, compared to the Super Pin Yi Tong Sansi, it is indeed inferior.
Of course, Hou Jing can no longer absorb the poor people to join the army, and then be willing to give benefits, and the quality of soldiers is also a problem. At that time, although the Liang army had been in peace for a long time, it was at least more than the peasants. Outside Houjing, there were many princes and grandsons who led their headquarters to qin wang, and inside the city, there were also tens of thousands of Taiwanese troops (Janissaries) guarding the Beijing division. Driven by profit alone, the rebels could not defeat so many regular troops.
It's just a myriad of examples that tell us that in terms of human resources, 1+1 is rarely equal to 2, and in most cases it is less than 2. The densely packed Qin Wangjun outside Jiankang City is the best footnote to this principle.
When Hou Jing launched an onslaught on the city, the Qin King's army basically only did two things: they were fighting each other, and no one would go.
The commanders of the various troops who came to qin wang included both the prince and the emperor's grandson, as well as the imperial nephew and other clans. However, these princes and marquises did not listen to anyone, and basically fought for themselves. Most of Xiao Yan's sons and grandsons basically came into contact with the rebels and then surrendered, strategically permeated with the word "simple".
At this time, Xiao Yan's descendants were more complicated in their hearts: they were waiting for the old man and prince in the city to die, and then took the opportunity to sit on the dragon chair.
After Xiao Tong's death, Xiao Gang was made crown prince. The prince was not only a mess in political ability, but also much inferior to his eldest brother in poetry and song: Xiao Tong himself had concocted a "Selected Works of Zhaoming", while Xiao Tong could only write palace poems that were ridiculed by later generations as "obscene songs".
With such an unconvincing prince present, it is no wonder that his brothers and nephews are pregnant with ghost babies. However, when the Qinwang army composed of clans collapsed without a fight, the Qinwang army, which was made the governor of the capital by the general Liu Zhongli for the second time, made a big joke.
Liu Zhongli was also a fierce general at first, and was very brave in the battle with Hou Jing, and almost captured Hou Jing on the spot. However, due to a shoulder injury while standing with Hou Jing, the great general actually instigated it, and could not avoid the battle until Jiankang fell.
From the perspective of modern psychology, Liu Zhongli probably suffered from post-traumatic stress syndrome, which is understandable. But for His father, Yanagizu, who struggled to defend the city, he didn't know what "PTSD" was, and he was left with only a long sigh.
When the old emperor trembled and walked up to the head of the city and looked at the devastated Jiankang City, he asked Liu jin, who also had white hair, "What good strategy does the general have to break the enemy?" ”
Liu Jin said indignantly, "Your Majesty, you have the Shaoling King (no more than 1.0 to avoid the battle), I have Liu Zhongli, disloyalty and filial piety, and how to break the thief!" ”
By the time the turn of the year, the war had reached the extreme point of both sides—both inside and outside the city had run out of food; the city had eaten everything that could be eaten, basically to the point of cannibalism. The Qin Wang army, which was surrounding Hou Jingjun, remained stationary.
At this time, from upstream, there was still a steady stream of Qin Wang's army pulling out. However, when they drove to the vicinity of Jiankang, they did not move and continued to watch.
Hou Jing, who was already hungry and could not stand it, began to negotiate peace with the city, and the crown prince who presided over the government immediately agreed and agreed to all of Hou Jing's overlord requests. Zhu Yi, who had been absurd all his life and was already dying, supported the sick body to persuade the prince not to agree, because Hou Jing must have other intentions. The reason is very simple, as long as Jiankang is captured, everything is Hou Jing's, why should he sign an alliance with you under the city?
However, Xiao Gang, who had always looked at Zhu Yi unfavorably, did not pay any attention to his suggestion, and then he received the news that the Eastern Mansion on the edge of Jiankang had fallen and that the grain reserves inside had been obtained by Hou Jing.
At this point, the victory or defeat of the war can be imagined.
In March of the third year of the Taiqing Dynasty, Xiao Jian, the son of The Prince of Shaoling, surrendered Kaicheng, and the rebels who had besieged the city for more than half a year finally rushed into the city, which had been the capital of the Southern Dynasty for more than two hundred years.
Inadvertently, Hou Jing had already set a record—he was the first Hu man to come to the city of Nanjing as a conqueror.
The old emperor who learned that the city gate had fallen was so hungry that he could not get up, and the palace people only listened to him muttering to himself:
Self-gain, self-loss, and hate!
This sentence and the previous sentence "My country is like a golden urn, there is no injury or deficiency" together, which is the best photo that reflects the face of the feudal ruler.
Then, after conquering Jiankang, what would the sentient beings of the Liang Dynasty behave? Where will Xiao Zhengde, who was to be made emperor by Hou Jing and indeed the Son of Heaven, go?
We'll talk about it next time.