Chapter 894 Mingche comes to vote
Wang Yan lost his troops and was unable 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 before, Li Zhen had followed to help capture Guangling, so he was relatively familiar with Chen Baxian's generals. Now that King Taiyuan was more powerful, these Nanliang generals were more and more polite to him, and they were 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 everything in the past few days, and it took a while before he had time to meet Li Zhen.
Because most of the changes in the situation in recent days were not as expected, Chen Baxian was in a bad mood, so when he saw Li Zhen, he did not make any polite greetings, but said directly: "Captain Li is here with the Wang family. If it is for If he wants to reverse the established situation in our country, you will be disappointed! Wang Sengbian takes advantage of his own power and harbors evil intentions, intending to go against the sentiments of the people and reverse the national affairs, so he is 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 a mere outsider here, and 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 The old colleagues also want to help. The father and brother are both dead, and the body is hard to find, which makes people even more sad.
Now that Chen Situ is in power, he must also uphold justice and lenient heart. No matter how heinous the crimes of the old Wang Taiwei were, he has already used his own body and his disciples to apologize to the world. I implore Chen Situ to be considerate of human relations and return the bodies of Taiwei Wang and his sons so that this filial son and wise brother can use up his manpower. "
Seeing Mr. Chen Ba's harsh tone, Li Zhen stopped talking nonsense and directly stated his purpose. He never commented on 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.
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 appreciate each other's friendship 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, I also admire him very much for his decision to rule Jiangling and his rule of benevolence. The former King of Taiyuan bravely refused the orders of his superiors and became an autocratic power in Jianghan. Now I want to save the country and prosper, and some things are the same. I have to do it. Things are divided into two categories, and the intentions are the same. If anyone thinks he is grand and blocks my efforts, he will only use the sword and 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 those who went north due to the chaos. I hope the King of Taiyuan can feel the sorrow of his relatives. If you are in a good mood, you can 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 in Wuxing is getting stronger and stronger, and Zhou Wenyu's campaign to attack Wei Zai in Yixing County is not going well. Chen Baxian has recently been planning to personally lead an army to the east to sweep away Sanwu, so Jiankang is also here. Hope the situation can stabilize 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 fully resolve the problems faced by all parties. . If the internal disturbances 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. In particular, his blood-related nephews and many of the Southern Liang dynasties are still in the hands of the Western Wei Dynasty. Although it is not appropriate for Chen Baxian to publicly negotiate peace with the Shannan Daotai government at the moment, he does not want to make the relationship between them too bad, otherwise his nephews and nephews may be even worse. No return date.
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 Wang family generals, Chen Baxian also generously allowed Li Zhen to lead him away. .
It's not that he doesn't understand the principle of eradicating the roots, and he deliberately leaves the hidden danger of great hatred for himself, it's just because he really can't take care of both. Moreover, even Wang Sengbian was dealt with by him at that time. As long as he can successfully deal with the current troubles and remain strong, he doesn't worry about how much harm these remnants of the Wang family can do to him.
Of course, the main reason 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 Sengbian'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 Northern Qi and attracted the Qi people to come south. The Northern Qi army may arrive in Jiangbei at any time. By then, their team will not be enough to give people 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 could only suspend their offensive against Jiankang, and the whole army turned around and headed upstream. Wang Fan also changed out of Mo Su and put on normal mourning clothes. He knelt in front of his father's coffin and cried endlessly. The hemp flags on the ships that were blowing fiercely in the wind only made the sadness even more sad.
On their way back west, soldiers and civilians from Nanliang kept rushing to the riverside, crying and begging to be taken with them. Whether it was out of memory of Wang Sengbian or pessimism about the future of Nanliang, They would rather leave their hometown than stay in Jiangdong.
When Li Zhen and his party arrived at Dongguan, there were tens of thousands of Nanliang soldiers and civilians who returned with them. Hefei has no shortage of experience in recruiting and resettling refugees, and it has properly resettled these soldiers and civilians within its territory before the severe winter snowstorm arrives.
At the same time, instructions from the Xiangyang Mansion also arrived in Hefei, ordering the Hezhou General Manager to stick to Hefei and not easily send troops to intervene in the civil strife in Nanliang.
Not long after the order arrived, Northern Qi's advance troops also arrived at Zhongli, and a group of mounted scouts arrived at the gates of Hefei City. They conducted a series of spies around Hefei before leaving again. Obviously, if the Northern Qi scouts detect that Hefei's defenses are empty, then a large army will arrive next.
Duan Shao of the Northern Qi Dynasty led the vanguard Ma Nanlai, and his army was 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 from Zhongli headed straight towards Guangling.
Guangling was captured by Chen Baxian under Duan Shao's nose before, which has always made Duan Shao ashamed. Now, even if personal honor and disgrace are not considered, when the Western Wei armies in Hefei hold a conservative attitude and stick to the city, recapturing Guangling, an important town in the north of the Yangtze River, is 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 defenders were reduced to seventy-eight out of ten, 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 panicked. Wu Mingche and others called Jingkou for help one after another, but there was no sign of reinforcements. When seeing the Qi army getting closer and closer to the city, Wu Mingche couldn't help but feel sad and angry: "Chen Situ said that he must be loyal, righteous and benevolent, but it turned out that he was just a power-hungry man who treated me as a beast in Jiangbei. Feed, throw it away if you don’t use it!”
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 pressing this matter in his heart. 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. It also made Wu Mingche and other people in Jiangbei feel a sense of sadness and indignation at being abandoned.
Knowing that the city was getting weaker, Wu Mingche took action and personally led his troops out of the city to fight. Although he won the initial battle and forced the enemy back slightly, as Duan Shao personally led the 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.
In despair and desperation, 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 the State of Wei! Hefei has a long-standing reputation, and it has a long-standing reputation for me, the Huainan folks. If you have enough money, go and seek shelter, there is still a chance of survival!"