Review
In 547, Hou Jing went from occupying Henan and other places to being beaten by the Eastern Wei general Murong Shaozong and fleeing. He came to a small town in Woyang, where he stood still and wanted to rest for a while before making plans.
At this time, the number of soldiers and horses under Hou Jing's hands was no more than 40,000, and there was a shortage of grain and grass, so what should be done next, Hou Jing was not clear in his heart. Fortunately, he had many years of experience in the battlefield, forcing himself to calm down and analyze the favorable situation.
At the same time, Murong Shaozong was also sending people to hunt down hou jing.
Defeated Murong Shaozong
Hou Jing learned a lot of martial arts from Murong Shaozong, but he thought that he was already greener than blue. He knew that Eastern Wei's cavalry was very powerful, and if he wanted to deal with Murong Shaozong's troops, it was best to use horse-cutting techniques.
As the name suggests, horse-cutting is to cut off the legs of an opponent's war horse on the battlefield. This is very demanding for both courage and skill, but it can be more with less.
After many days of practice, Hou Jing's men successfully used this move to force Murong Shaozong's troops to retreat. Murong Shaozong quickly fled for hundreds of miles, but was caught off guard by Hou Jing.
This failure of Murong Shaozong dimmed his title of "Hou Jing Nemesis".
Murong Shaozong's men were not convinced and asked to go to war, but Murong Shaozong had his own ideas. He thought that Hou Jing's morale had now increased greatly, and he had already killed the red eye, so it was better to wait for a while, waiting for Jing's troops to be tired and then turn defeat into victory.
One of his generals, Huo Luguang, did not obey Murong Shaozong's orders and wanted to go to Hou Jing for a while. Sure enough, he was defeated by Hou Jing in the whirlpool, and Hou Jing was even more proud of this time.
Murong Shaozong observed that Hou Jing's troops did not have much supply, and if they used the method of only encircling and not fighting, they could make Hou Jing's troops panic. Since this was the case, Murong Shaozong decided not to move his troops, to wait for the day when Hou Jingfang was in chaos, and he could win with one move.
Hou Jing also knew that he did not have much grain and grass left, and he hoped to be able to fight a quick decision, so he kept shouting and scolding Murong Shaozong's family relatives over and over again, wanting to use the radical method to make the other side quickly meet the battle. Unexpectedly, Murong Shaozong's mentality was very stable, and he had never been on the waiting scene.
Defect to Xiao Yan
In the end, he couldn't hold on, and Hou Jing no longer thought about the winning streak, and fled with his men in a hurry.
However, in the process of escaping, many of his subordinates felt that the prospects were not good and left the waiting scene. In the end, hou Jing's side was only a few hundred people left, and there was already decay. At this time, Murong Shao sent a large army to the south, and he wanted to take advantage of this time to completely eliminate Hou Jing.
Hou Jing wanted to find a patron, but Yuwen Tai could not accept him, and Gao Cheng was even more impossible to cooperate with him, and at this time Xiao Yan sent him a signal of goodwill.
Hou Jing found a good way out, and did not forget to alienate Murong Shaozong. He said a word to Murong Shaozong: The cunning rabbit dies, and the lackey cooks.
Murong Shaozong immediately understood that Gao Huan had not reused himself for more than ten years, and now he had a chance to capture Hou Jing, and once Hou Jing was immediately eliminated, then Murong Shaozong would lose his role and would be exiled.
Thinking of this, Murong Shaozong also intended to let Hou Jing have a way to live. Hou Jing used this mentality to preserve the last bit of strength and defected to Xiao Yan.
Xiao Yan wanted to accept Hou Jing because he was interested in Hou Jing's talent, but many of his subordinates held opposing views, believing that Hou Jing lacked loyalty, had great talent, and could not be reused if his quality was not good.
However, Xiao Yan was repeatedly defeated and needed military talents too much, otherwise the Southern Dynasty would be very dangerous. Only Chen Qing was one of the Yuan fierce generals, which was simply not enough. At this time, receiving Hou Jing is also for the sake of the overall situation, and at the same time, Xiao Yan is also telling the people of the world that even Hou Jing, who has made mistakes, Xiao Yan can accept it, then the world's capable people can come and defect.
Hou Jing betrayed
However, Xiao Yan still underestimated Hou Jing as a person. Hou Jing arrived in the Southern Dynasty and soon found an opportunity to seize the military power of Shouyang, revealing his wolf nature. Xiao Yan didn't think so, and then Hou Jing was about to rebel.
When the others informed Xiao Yan of this news, he still did not believe it, believing that Hou Jing did not have the capital to rebel, after all, Hou Jing did not have many soldiers and horses in his hands now. It wasn't until Hou Jing really rebelled that Xiao Yan had to face it.
This is not to mention, Hou Jing also made Xiao Yan's nephew Xiao Zhengde a traitor to the inside and outside. As a result, Hou Jing led a large army into the city and supported Xiao Yan's nephew Xiao Zhengde as emperor.
At this time, there were many Xiao Yan's troops outside the city, and they wanted to attack the city, but they had different opinions and infighting. Before the siege of the city, a fight broke out inside.
After Xiao Yan's father and son were arrested by the rebels, these troops outside the city also scattered and fled. At this time, everyone found that 140,000 people had unloaded their armor, and none of them were men. It seems that the decline of the Southern Dynasty is already inevitable.
Xiao Yan credulously trusted Hou Jing, and finally ended up being starved to death by Hou Jing. And this turned out to be Hou Jing's "open side". He thought that if he killed Xiao Yan directly, it seemed that his reputation would be bad, so he let Xiao Yan starve to death.
epilogue
Xiao Yan's ending was extremely tragic, as a hero who stood tall in the sky, the ending was actually killed by someone like Hou Jing. But he was not innocent, because every step was caused by Xiao Yan himself.
He credulously believed Hou Jing, disregarding the fact that Hou Jing had been disloyal and unjust before, and wanted to put Hou Jing by his side for cultivation. Many loyalists had already told Xiao Yan that Marquis Jing was unusual. However, Xiao Yan ignored the evidence and obeyed Hou Jingyan. He hoped to use this trick to envelop the waiting scene, but he did not expect to lift a stone and drop it on his own feet.
In terms of military ability, Hou Jing did have superior skills, and was able to win more with less, and came up with the trick of slashing equestrianism, defeating Murong Shaozong's troops, which saved his last strength and defected to the Southern Dynasty.
However, this man was fierce and fierce, and soon rebelled, and he did not have the slightest pity for Xiao Yan, who was kind to himself, which was beyond the comprehension of ordinary people.