As mentioned above, Xiao Xuan was relieved to hear that Hou Jing's main forces were besieging Baling. Oh, if Hou Jing land and water go straight to Jiangling, that is the best strategy, according to Shou Jiangxia is the middle strategy, besieging Baling belongs to the next strategy! Baling, although the city is small, but the terrain is dangerous, it is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and Hou Jing wants to take the strategy, which is to kill himself. Subsequently, Xiao Xuan sent the veteran general Hu Shengyou to command the water army down the river to support Wang Shengjie. Before leaving, he took care of Hou Jing as a northern general, and the land battle was afraid that you were not his opponent, and the northerners were not used to water warfare, so they should avoid real attacks and do not fight with Hou Jing on land, and should find opportunities to fight with him. Hu Monkyou was halfway through the journey, and was encountering the rebels who were the commander of the covenant, and Hu Monkyou did not wait for the exchange, so he hurriedly retreated. Ren Yue thought that he was timid, and led his army to catch up, Hu Shengyou retreated to Chisha Lake, and a great battle to determine survival was about to begin.
At that time, Chisha Lake was connected to Dongting Lake and the Yangtze River, and the lake was vast and endless, and Hu Shengyou and his water division encountered a fleet of ships leading an army to reinforce their own Shinshu Thorn Shi Lufa River, and the two joined forces. Lu Fahe is a high-ranking person in the world, and generally if he wants to say that he is a high-ranking person, he will have a different experience from ordinary people. Lu Fahe, of course, is also very legendary. However, his history is rarely recorded. We only know that before he was born, he lived in seclusion in a small island called Bailizhou in the Yangtze River, and no one ever knew where he came from, let alone who his parents were and where he studied. It is said that he is not only proficient in various spells, not only can predict the auspicious, but also can treat people with medical skills, and any incurable diseases can be cured with only three pieces of medicine, so he is very famous in the local area and has many fans.
It is said that when Hou Jing had just defected to the Liang Dynasty, Lu Fahe said to his disciples, "After you grasp the training now, you are ready to fight Hou Jing with me." His men and disciples did not understand this, Hou Jing had no way to abandon the dark and cast light to serve our country, so why should he fight him? Lu Fahe replied that it was precisely because he had come to defect to Liang Chao that he was going to fight him. The followers and disciples were all confused and could not understand what he meant. When Hou Jing besieged Taicheng, the people at the bottom said that the teacher was a true god, and that Hou Jing had already calculated that Hou Jing was going to rebel, so let's prepare to fight Hou Jing early, and now we can finally go to fight Hou Jing! However, Lu Fahe's answer was more unexpected than most people and more intriguing. He said, "You are waiting here, don't worry, when the fruit is ripe, it will fall on its own!" ”。 Three years have passed in a flash. It was not until Hou Jing led the army to besiege Baling, that is, when Xiao Yi was most embarrassed and most urgently needed and short of manpower, Lu Fahe finally took action, he immediately gathered 800 disciples out of the mountain, volunteered to go to hou Jing, and this was really a snowfall for Xiao Jing, who was in desperate need of good generals, so Xiao Yi immediately appointed him as the assassin of Xinzhou to lead the Xinzhou soldiers and horses to the front line of Baling to fight with Hu Shengyou, and when the two roads converged, the resourceful lufa and suggested the use of fire attack. At this time, the northwest wind is strong, the Liang army is just located in the northwest of the upper wind mouth to launch a fire attack, the fire quickly spread to the rebel camp with the help of the wind, the rebel warships dodged and did not rush to fire, the scene was a chaos, the Liang army took advantage of the situation to cover up the past, and finally the rebel army was the whole army destroyed the main general Ren Yue did not know whereabouts, this guy is dead or fled, familiar with the terrain of the land and the opening, eh, in the past dry water season, there was once a stupa here, why not go there to see if there is a thief head, the subordinates will be suspicious to rush there, Sure enough, in the distance, I saw Ren Yue soaking in the water, holding the spire tightly with his hands. With his head up and his mouth open, he gasped hard there. The number one general of Hou Jing's rebel army, Ren Yue, was captured, and after being captured, Ren Yue was bent on seeking death, while Lu Fahe was a sincere and seductive enlightenment: "You are related to the King of Xiangdong, and you will not die." Later, Xiao Xuan not only pardoned the appointment contract, but also gave it a heavy use!
On the other side of Baling, Hou Jing had been besieging for more than a month, but there was still no progress, and Baling City was still firmly in the hands of Wang Shengjie. What was even more unfavorable for Hou Jing was that due to the mid-summer season and the epidemic of disease, Hou Jing's troops were more than half dead and wounded, and the grain and grass had been cut off, and morale was still low. At this time, after the news of ren's defeat came, Hou Jing was shocked and decided to withdraw his troops overnight. He asked the general Song Ziqian to lead an army of 20,000 to stay in Yingzhou, while he himself led the remnants of his army back to Jiankang. Hou Jing suffered one of his worst defeats in three years. Xiao Xuan sent Wang Shengquan to pursue the victory, and the Liang army was full of momentum, and soon captured Yingzhou, and Song Zixian was defeated and killed.
For Hou Jing, his own troops were defeated, and the most important thing was that the two most important ones, Ren Yue and Song Zixian, were one of the two loyal generals who fell and died, which made Hou Jing feel disheartened and feel that he was powerless, and he originally planned to wait until the world was swept away before he became emperor, but now he changed his mind, no matter how much, first pass the emperor's addiction. The strategist Wang Wei proposed to abolish the establishment first in order to establish authority. Depose Emperor Jianwen. Wang Wei suggested that Xiao Dong, the Prince of Yuzhang, be made emperor. His reasons were very strong, Xiao Dong was the eldest son of Xiao Huan, the eldest son of Emperor Wu of Liang's concubine Xiao Tong. There is no better candidate than it. Hou Jing immediately agreed. In August 551, Emperor Xiao Gang of Jianwen was deposed, and Xiao Dong, the King of Yuzhang, took the throne and changed his era name to Tianzheng. Hou Jing married Xiao Gang's daughter Princess Liyang as his wife, according to this generation Xiao Gang was his father-in-law, Xiao Gang's son was also his brother-in-law, but Hou Jing, a thief who had always been six relatives who did not recognize that turning his face was faster than turning over a book, he went on a killing spree, killing all of Xiao Gang's sons in Jiankang, including the crown prince Xiao Daqi, and Xiao Gang himself was naturally doomed, Emperor Jianwen died, what would happen to Xiao Dong, who succeeded him? We'll talk about it in the next issue!
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