The Sui army of the Second Route, led by the commander He Ruobi, set out from Nanyang County and arrived outside Chuzhou in a few days. Xu Zhe, the defender of Chuzhou, had received news of the Sui army's attack a few days earlier, and on the one hand, he had sent more men to defend and prepare rolling wood and stones. On the other hand, people were sent to Jiankang for help, but the song zhang who asked for help was detained by Jiang Zong.
Lord Chen Hou did not know that the front line was tight, and Jiang Zong wrote back to Xu Zhe, believing that Chuzhou had the natural barrier of the Yangtze River, and the city of Chuzhou was thick with thick walls, and there were 20,000 troops guarding it. He also reprimanded Xu Zhe and shouted for the generals at every turn, which really disturbed the hearts of the army and made Xu Zhe guard the city of Chuzhou. Seeing that Xu Zhe,who was ineffective in asking for help, was also a first two big, suddenly soldiers came to report that the Sui army had set up camp outside the city.
Xu Zhe took a few generals to the city tower, only to see that the 200,000 Sui troops were densely packed, which was the left floor and the right floor. He Ruobi sent Han Huhu to lead 5,000 soldiers to scold Guan for battle, but Xu Zhe did not dare to fight. Just ordering the good soldiers to hold the city, Han Huhu led the people to scold for a few days, and Xu Zhe just didn't come out. Seeing that the battle was unsuccessful, Han Huhu had no choice but to order his soldiers to set up a ladder and use a strong crossbow to suppress the front and begin to attack the city of Chuzhou.
The soldiers of Chuzhou City were fully prepared, and after several days of continuous strong attacks, the Sui army suffered countless casualties, but still failed to capture Chuzhou City. The 200,000-strong army was blocked by Chuzhou City, and He Ruobi summoned the generals to discuss the strategy of breaking the city. The city of Chuzhou is solid, the battle is unsuccessful, and there is no hope of a strong attack. Moreover, the remaining two armies were invincible all the way, waiting for He Ruobi's troops to go to the quarry to join forces to attack Jiankang.
When the generals were arguing endlessly, a sixteen or seventeen-year-old young general beside Han Huhu said that since he was not capable of fighting, he could only outwit him. As soon as these words came out, they attracted the attention of He Ruobi, who knew the young general who said this. He is the nephew of Han Baohu, surnamed Li Mingjing, a medicine man, and a native of Sanyuan.
Li Jing was clever and clever from an early age, and he was brilliant and loved the art of war, which made his uncle Han Huhu love him unusually. Often teaching Li Jing the art of war, this time in the Great War of Cutting Chen, Han Huhu thought that this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and deliberately took Li Jing with him. First, we can make meritorious achievements, and second, only after truly going through the baptism of war, we will not talk about it on paper.
He Ruobi laughed loudly, not knowing what good strategy the xian nephew had to break the enemy. Only to see Li Jing unhurriedly said, the art of war is cloudy, the attack is the top, and the siege of the city is the bottom. We have besieged the city of Chuzhou for so long, and there is no trace of enemy reinforcements, and the soldiers of Chuzhou must be fighting alone. Nan Chen's traitors were in charge, so that the people complained continuously. Why doesn't our army send people every day to take turns outside Chuzhou City to shout that Lord Chen has no way, so that the people will suffer. You are here to defend the city, but your wives and children are living in the depths of the waters.
Now that our Sui army of 200,000 troops has already surrounded the city of Chuzhou, it is sooner or later that the city will be destroyed. Since Lord Chen knows that you are here to defend the city and will not send reinforcements, is such a monarch worth your life? After Li Jing finished speaking, he wrote it out on the paper with a pen, asked the soldier to copy it according to his original words, and then shot the letter into the city with a bow and arrow. After he listened, He Ruobi bowed his head and pondered that at present, only the plan of breaking the morale of the enemy army and shaking the hearts of the army was feasible.
He Ruobi immediately ordered the soldiers to carry out the order according to Li Jing's method. The generals of the Chen Army in Chuzhou City all received letters of persuasion from the Sui army shooting into the city. The Letters of the Sui Army can be described as words and words, and the soldiers began to talk among themselves. There was a general named Wang Bin, who was once the deputy general of Ding Yanping, the general of Guangling Water and Drought. Only because he was dissatisfied with the imperial court's removal of Ding Yanping, he appointed Jiang Chao as the chief soldier. After saying a few angry words, he was beaten by Jiang Chao with forty military sticks, and he was demoted to chuzhou as a small general.
Wang Bin's behavior of bullying the Heavenly Son and deceiving the people by Jiang Zong had long been angry in his stomach. Now the letters of the Sui army have even hit the morale of the officers and men defending the city. Wang Bin simply found a few partial generals to discuss, the Sui army is besieging the city, I have no reinforcements, and the grain and grass will be exhausted before long. It is better that we surrender to the Sui army, so as to save the lives of the soldiers of the army. If they did not surrender, when the Sui army broke through the city, it would definitely choose to slaughter the city.
Several people have already had this intention in their hearts, but they lack a leader. Another general, Li You, said that Xu Zhe was a confidant of Jiang Zong, and he would certainly not surrender. Wang Bin said, then we will use his head plus Chuzhou City to dedicate to the Sui army. The four of them hit it off and went to Xu Zhe's residence. Xu Zhe saw several partial generals coming together, and thought that he had a strategy to break the enemy. Then he asked, "The generals have a strategy to break the enemy." Wang Bin replied, "I have already discussed the strategy of retreating from the enemy, and now I have come to borrow something from the general."
When Xu Zhe heard that he had a strategy to break the enemy, he immediately said excitedly, General Wang wanted to borrow something from ben Shuai. Wang Bin made a look, and the three generals pulled out their swords and rushed up to stab Xu Zhe to the ground. Wang Bin drew out his knife and said to the dying Xu Zhe, we will borrow the general's necklace to use the head, and after saying that, we cut off Xu Zhe's head with a knife.
The four of them took Xu Zhe's head and said to the soldiers in the city, Lord Chen has no way, and the four of us now want to join the Sui army. Are there any brothers who are willing to surrender with us? As soon as the words fell, they received a response from all the officers and men of the city. The four men immediately sent emissaries to the Sui camp to signal kaesong's surrender, and He Ruobi immediately led a large army into the city. When he came to the city gate, he saw Wang Bin and the others kneeling there and asking for a surrender, and He Ruobi saw the situation and immediately dismounted and lifted up several generals.
After the Sui army entered the city, He Ruobi immediately posted a list of articles to appease the people. Let the people do business, plant crops, and he Ruobi strictly ordered the Sui army generals not to invade the people in the city. Seeing that the Sui army had strict military discipline, the people of Chuzhou were also at peace of mind. After He Ruobi took the city of Chuzhou, he recommended to Yang Guang, the king of Jin, that Wang Bin and Li You continue to defend the city. After receiving Yang Guang's reply, He Ruobi led a large army down the river and went straight to Wuhu to meet Yang Guang.
Moreover, it is said that Yang Guang led the Sui Army's marine division down the river, and along the way, the Southern Dynasty army saw the Sui Army's warships covering the sky and the sun, and they were frightened and unincorporated, and they chose to surrender. The Sui army came straight to Wuhu, and Yang Guang received a successful report from Gao Ying for attacking Guangling City. On the one hand, he urged He Ruobi to quickly attack the city, and on the other hand, he prepared to attack Wuhu on a large scale.
Shi Wenqing, the commander-in-chief of the town guarding Wuhu, heard that the Sui army was crossing the river and immediately mobilized the water army to organize warships to meet the Sui army. One of Yang Guang's army was sima named Li Yuan, and Li Yuan's mother was the fourth sister of the Dugu Empress. Therefore, this Li Yuan was Yang Guang's cousin, and Li Yuan's grandfather Li Hu was one of the Eight Pillar States of Northern Zhou. Li Hu was posthumously honored as the Duke of Tang by the Yuwen family for his merits, and when it was passed on to Li Yuan, Li Yuan could only do a thousand cattle preparation official position next to the Sui lord Yang Jian.
The Li family was one of the nobles of Guan Long, and because they were the nephews of the Dugu Empress, they were loved by the Sui lord Yang Jian and the Dugu Empress. The strength behind Li Yuan is not only the Li family, Li Yuan's wife Dou, Dou's mother's family is from the Dou family in Henan, and his father is Dou Yi, the Duke of Shenwu County, Northern Zhou. Lady Dou's mother was Princess Xiangyang, Yuwen Tai's daughter, so Dou was Yuwen Tai's granddaughter.
With the huge background of guanlong group, Li Yuan himself is even more powerful. With a Fang Tian painting sword in his hand, there are few opponents, and the arrow method is even more hundred steps through Yang. Dou Yi once set up the ring to recruit relatives for his daughter, and Dou painted a peacock on the screen. Asking for someone who could shoot the peacock's eyes, she chose to be her husband, and Li Yuan fired two arrows in a row, both of which hit the peacock's left and right eyes. The origin of the "Selection of the QuePing" comes from the Old Book of Tang, The Biography of Empress Gao Zudou.
Yang Jian asked Li Yuan to follow Yang Guang to chen ligong, but Yang Guang did not like Li Yuan. Yang Guang had the intention of seizing the position of the Eastern Palace, but Li Yuan was a loyal fan of The Crown Prince Yang Yong. It is said that Shi Wenqing commanded the Wuhu Water Army to engage the Sui Army on the ShuaiTai and ordered soldiers on both sides of the strait to suppress the position with bows and arrows. The sky was full of arrows and rain, and the Sui soldiers had to use rattan shields for defense.
When the Sui army's large ship was three hundred steps away from Shi Wenqing's Shuaitai, Yang Guang stood on the boat and said to Li Yuan behind him, he heard that General Li was superb in arrow techniques and took a hundred steps through Yang. Pointing to the Ling Qi soldier on the podium, he said, Can General Lee shoot him. If this flag soldier is shot and the enemy loses its command, it will be chaotic and can also deter the enemy army. Such a long distance, this is obviously a problem for Li Yuan, li Yuan is also a master of art boldness. He said to Yang Guang, how difficult it is, take off the treasure carving bow, Zhang bow and arrow, three hundred steps away from an arrow shot through the enemy's head.
Yang Guang originally saw that Li Yuan agreed, and secretly thought in his heart, if you can't shoot, I will have an excuse to punish your sins. Now seeing that Li Yuan really shot the enemy army, the generals on the ship applauded one after another, and Yang Guang couldn't help but praise. Yang Guang thought to himself, Li Yuan has such ability, I have to think of a way to win him over to support me. This matter had to be discussed with Princess Xiao of Jin and Duan Cheng, a disciple of the Jin Dynasty after he returned to the dynasty.
Li Yuan shot an arrow from a distance of three hundred steps and killed the LingQi soldiers on the Shuaitai, which startled Shi Wenqing, who was sitting in the center of the Shuaitai. When he got up, he retreated to the back, worried that the second arrow of the Sui army would shoot at him, and Shi Wenqing really had pain in his heart and couldn't say it. He accompanied Lord Chen well, and blamed the servant Yuan Xian. Shi Wenqing thought to himself, Wuhu seemed to be unable to hold on, called a few henchmen around, escorted himself quietly out of the Front Line of Wuhu, and fled to Jiankang.
Losing the command of the Ling Qibing, chen jun's attack was instantly disrupted by the Sui army. Li Yuan's arrow did shock the enemy army, and just as Chen Jun was preparing to organize a new battle, he found that the commander had fled. Deputy Marshal Shen Keqing listened to the report from the sergeant below that a Sui army had landed in the south, and saw that the marshal banner was He Ruobi's army.
Shen Keqing thought to himself, coach Shi Wenqing has escaped, and I am still staying to wait for death. He also ran away with a few henchmen, and the Chen Dynasty water army, which did not have a commander, was defeated. Yang Guang took the opportunity to attack Wuhu, and after entering the city, Yang Guang immediately came out of the list of Anmin. And let the army rest in Wuhu for three days, and then attack the quarry in a big way.
The keeper of the quarry is named Yang Huilang, who is also a traitorous villain and a confidant of the traitor Kong Fan. On weekdays, there is Kong Fan in the background to support him, and he scolds the generals in the army if they want to fight. Only the kung fu of sneaking horses, no ability, heard the Sui army attacked Wuhu to garrison the quarry rocks coming. Frightened, the six gods had no master, so they had to send people to Jiankang City for help.
The defenders of the quarry heard that the Sui army was attacking in a big way, and they knew that this point of strength would definitely not be able to hold. The generals already hated Yang Huilang to the bone, so they rushed into the Shuai Mansion and kidnapped Yang Huilang and surrendered to the Sui army. Yang Guang heard that Chen Jun, who was stationed at the quarry, had kidnapped the commander of shouguan to surrender, and ordered the Sui army not to harass the people in the city after entering the city. Such an important strategic place was taken by Yang Guangbing without bloodshed, and the Sui army had already crossed the Yangtze River in an all-round way.
The quarry is the gateway to Jiankang City, and if the quarry is lost, Jiankang City will have no danger to defend. Seeing that the Sui army soldiers were approaching the city, how should Lord Chen Hou deal with it, and we will talk about it in the next issue.