Wang Yan lost his troops and failed to land, but for Li Zhen it was a very simple matter. Of course, they have different meanings and there is no analogy between them.
He first sent an envoy to swim ashore to express his request. After obtaining permission, he took a dozen followers to the shore in a light boat. Liang Jun guard Hou Andu was waiting here personally and sent Li Zhen all the way to Stone City.
When Chen Baxian cooperated with the Jingzhou Military Government, Li Zhen had followed him to help capture Guangling, so he was familiar with Chen Baxian's generals. Now that the King of Taiyuan is more powerful, these Nanliang generals are becoming more polite to him.
He was not rude just because he came with Wang Fan.
However, when Li Zhen casually asked about the current situation in Jiankang and the Sanwu Land, Hou Andu ignored him and did not want to talk to him about these things. After sending him to Stone City, he turned around and returned.
The front line of river defense outside the city.
Chen Baxian now replaced Wang Sengbian and temporarily used Stone City as his headquarters. He had been busy with many things in the past few days, and it took a long time before he had time to meet Li Zhen.
Because most of the changes in the situation in recent days have not been as expected, Chen Baxian was also in a bad mood. Therefore, when he saw Li Zhen, he did not make any polite greetings, but said directly: "Captain Li is here with Wang's son. If it is for
He opened his eyes and wanted to reverse the established situation in our country, then you will be disappointed! Wang Sengbian took advantage of his power and harbored evil intentions, intending to go against the sentiments of the people and reverse the national affairs, so he was executed. This matter is the final decision of the government and the opposition. Anyone who is complicit will be punished in the same way.
He is also an enemy of our country!"
"The power struggle in your country is right and wrong. I am just an outsider here, so I dare not make any comments. However, Wang Lang is an old friend of the king of my family. Now I am asking for help because my family has become poor. Everyone has compassion. That's why a certain person
Colleagues in the past also wanted to help. The death of father and brother was a great tragedy, and the difficulty of finding the bodies inevitably made people even more sad.
Now that Chen Situ is in power, he must have a fair and lenient heart. No matter how heinous the crimes of the old Wang Taiwei were, he has already committed himself and his disciples to apologize to the world. I sincerely ask Chen Situ to be considerate of human relations and return Wang Taiwei and his disciples to him.
Corpses, so that this filial son and brother can use up his manpower."
Seeing Mr. Chen Ba's harsh tone, Li Zhen stopped talking nonsense and directly stated the purpose of his visit. He never mentioned the rights and wrongs of the power struggle in Nanliang, but only asked for the bodies of Wang Sengbian and his son from a human perspective.
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After Chen Baxian heard this, he also fell silent. After a while, he said in a deep voice: "Is there any order from the King of Taiyuan of your residence?"
After hearing this, Li Zhen shook his head and said that he came with Wang Yan just to express his friendship with each other and to help Wang Yan recover the remains of his relatives from a personal standpoint.
"Although the King of Taiyuan and I have a deep hatred for the enemy country, we also admire him very much. The former King of Taiyuan bravely refused the orders of his superiors and became an autocratic force in Jianghan. Now I want to save the country and prosper, and some things are the same.
I have to divide things into two categories, and my intentions are the same. If anyone thinks he is great and blocks my efforts, I will only use the sword and the arrow, and there will be no timidity!"
Chen Ba thought for a while and then said in a deep voice: "I can return the bodies of the Wang family and his son. But please also report it to the King of Taiyuan. The former was homesick for the people who went north due to the chaos. I hope the King of Taiyuan can feel the sorrow of his relatives.
I am in a good mood to be able to send all the unfavorable travelers back to their hometowns as soon as possible, and don’t take pleasure in destroying human relationships.”
Although Chen Baxian did not take Wang Fan and Li Zhen's thousands of coalition troops seriously, this was not the only difficulty he faced at the moment. Du Gong of Wuxing became more and more powerful, and went to attack Yi
The war between Zhou Wenyu and Wei Zai in Xingjun is not going well either. Chen Baxian has recently been planning to personally lead his army to the east to sweep away the Three Wus, so Jiankang also hopes that the situation can be stabilized as soon as possible.
Although Wang Yan's team is not powerful and cannot substantially shake up Jiankang's defense, its constant fighting always prevents Jiankang's situation from being stabilized and Chen Baxian is unable to do his best to solve the problems of all parties.
.If the internal disturbance cannot be resolved before other more powerful forces take action, it will only make the situation more dangerous and bad.
There was no use for him to keep the bodies of Wang Sengbian and his son, and Li Zhen used favor as an excuse, which made it difficult for him to refuse. Especially his blood relatives and nephews and many Nanliang people were still in the hands of the Western Wei Dynasty, although Chen Baxian was currently in the hands of the Western Wei Dynasty.
It is not appropriate to openly negotiate peace with the Shannan Daotai government, but we also do not want to make the relationship between them too bad, because then his family and nephew may not be able to return.
Therefore, in addition to the corpses of Wang Sengbian and his son, Wang Sengbian's younger brother Wang Sengzhi, who had just been captured south of Jingkou, and some of the Wang family generals, Chen Baxian also graciously allowed Li Zhen to lead him away.
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It’s not that he doesn’t understand the principle of eradicating the weeds and deliberately leaving hidden dangers for himself, it’s just because he can’t take care of both. And even Wang Sengbian was solved by him when he was there. As long as he can successfully solve the current troubles
And he has always remained strong, and he is not worried about how much harm these remnants of the Wang family can do to him.
Of course, the main reason why Chen Baxian did this was to give face to the Shannan Daotai government, so that Li Tai could feel that there was room for discussion and cooperation between the two parties, and they did not necessarily have to fight to the end, thus leaving room for subsequent negotiations. After all, he
There is also a root in the opponent's hand!
When Li Zhen returned to Zhang Gongzhou with the bodies of Wang Sengbian and his son, as well as Wang Sengzhi and others, Wang Huan and his soldiers could not help but burst into tears, and the whole army mourned Wang Sengbian and his son.
When Wang Yan's mood calmed down a little, Li Zhen proposed to escort the coffins of Wang Sengbian and his son back to Hefei for the time being. There was little point in staying here any longer. Moreover, Xu Sihui, an old general, surrendered to the Northern Qi Dynasty and attracted the Qi people to come south.
The Northern Qi army may arrive in Jiangbei at any time, and by then their team will not be enough to fill people's teeth.
Although Wang Fan was filled with hatred, he also understood that Li Zhen's proposal was the most practical. What's more, if Li Zhen hadn't come forward, he wouldn't even be able to see the bones of his father and brother, let alone take revenge.
So they had no choice but to suspend their offensive against Jiankang, and the whole army turned around and headed upriver. Wang Fan also replaced Mo Su and put on normal mourning clothes, knelt in front of his father's coffin and cried endlessly.
The strong hemp flags add to the sadness.
On their way back to the west, Nanliang soldiers and civilians constantly rushed to the riverside and begged to take them with them. Whether it was out of memory for Wang Sengbian or pessimism about the future of Nanliang,
They would rather leave their homes than stay in Jiangdong.
When Li Zhen and his party arrived at Dongguan, there were tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians from Nanliang who returned with them. Hefei had no shortage of experience in recruiting and resettling refugees, and it properly resettled these soldiers and civilians before the cold winter snowstorm arrived.
within the territory.
At the same time, orders from the Xiangyang Mansion also arrived in Hefei, ordering the Hezhou Governor's Mansion to stick to Hefei and not easily send troops to intervene in the civil strife in Nanliang.
Not long after the order came, the troops from the Northern Qi Dynasty also arrived at Zhongli, and a group of mounted scouts arrived at the gate of Hefei City. They conducted a series of spies around Hefei before leaving again. Obviously, if the Northern Qi scouts investigate
If Hefei's defenses are found to be empty, the next step will be the arrival of a large army.
Duan Shao of the Northern Qi Dynasty led the vanguard Ma Nanlai, and his army briefly stationed in Zhongli for two days. After understanding the current situation in Huainan, Duan Shao did not choose to go directly to Qin County to cross the river with the cooperation of the surrendered general Xu Sihui, but instead went from
Zhongli went straight to Guangling.
Previously, Guangling was captured by Chen Baxian under Duan Shao's nose, which has always made Duan Shao ashamed. Now, even if it is not about personal honor and disgrace, the Western Wei army in Hefei has a conservative attitude and defends the city, and recaptures Guangling.
This important town in Jiangbei is also of great significance for the next step of continuing to interfere in the situation in Nanliang.
At this time, although the city defense of Guangling City was still there, the defenders had become very weak. Xu Du, the general who had been left behind before, was ordered to lead the Guangling troops south to reinforce Jingkou because Jingkou was attacked. As a result, the city's defenders were reduced to seventy-eight, with only Wu Mingche and other locals.
The powerful men who lived in Jiangbei and who had not anticipated Chen Ba's advance to Jiankang to seize power all garrisoned the city.
With the arrival of the Northern Qi army, the soldiers and civilians in the city were also in panic. Wu Mingche and others went to Jingkou for help, but there was no trace of reinforcements. When he saw the Qi army getting closer and closer to the city, Wu Mingche couldn't help but feel sad and angry: "Chen Chen
Situ Yan must be loyal, righteous, and benevolent, but it turns out that he is just a power-hungry person who treats me, a young man from Jiangbei, as a livestock, to be fed when we use it, and to be discarded when not used!"
When the Northern Qi Dynasty attacked Qin County, Wu Mingche begged to lead his troops to rescue the village, but was rejected by Chen Baxian.
He kept thinking about this matter. Although he did not dare to express his dissatisfaction clearly, he felt that the reason why Wang Sengbian was forced to welcome Xiao Yuanming in Northern Qi was more or less related to Chen Baxian's attitude of sitting on the mountain and watching the fight between tigers.
Now Chen Baxian used this as an excuse to rebel against Wang Sengbian. As he took over the power of Jiankang, he immediately abandoned the city of Guangling that he cherished so much before. This also made Wu Mingche and other people in Jiangbei feel a sense of sadness and anger at being abandoned.
Knowing that the city was getting increasingly weak, Wu Mingche took action and personally led his troops out of the city to fight. Although he won the initial battle and pushed the enemy back slightly, when Duan Shao personally led his elite troops to besiege Wu Mingche, he was unable to fight anymore.
They could fight and retreat, but they had no choice but to flee to the west.
When Wu Mingche was defeated and fled to Qinjun Township, before he could enter the city, he saw the flag of the Northern Qi hanging on top of the city. He couldn't help but feel sad and angry.
With no choice but to go out of his way, Wu Mingche looked at the few hundred village disciples left around him, and could only sigh: "Go to Hefei, join the family of the King of Taiyuan of Wei State! Hefei has a long-standing reputation, and it has a long-standing reputation for me, the Huainan folks.
There is plenty of money left. Go and seek shelter, there is still a chance of survival!"