On the occasion of rebirth Zhou Sui

Chapter 611: Capture of Jiangling
The next day, Cui Che led his army to the west gate of Jiangling North City early in the morning and sent his cavalry to call the gate, hoping that Zhang Heng and Murong Sanzang would keep their promise and hand over the city to him.

It was Dong Jingzhen who escorted Xiao Mian to appease Cui Che's mood. When Xiao Mian mentioned that Zhang Heng and Murong Sanzang hoped that Cui Che could rescue their family members from Jiankang first.

Cui Che was furious about this. He sent Changsun Wuji, with Xiao Xian leading the way, and went into the city to accuse Zhang Heng and others face to face of being too late.

Zhang Heng was secretly happy when he saw that it was Changsun Wuji who was coming.

Changsun Wuji's mother, Mrs. Gao, was Cui Che's favorite concubine, and Changsun Wuji was always taken by his side and raised carefully by him.

These are all things that everyone knows. If Cui Che didn't believe in their sincerity and believed that Jiangling was not in danger, how could he send Changsun Wuji here.

As everyone knows, Cui Che is also sure that Zhang Heng wants to continue delaying it, and it is impossible to hurt Changsun Wuji.

Zhang Heng and Murong Sanzang both raised their difficulties to Changsun Wuji, and they were different from Yu Juluo.

Yuguluo was in his prime, and now he had a son and a daughter in the north.

And both of them are getting old, especially Murong Sanzang, who is already 67 years old.

Once the family members in Jiankang are implicated, even if Cui Che bestows wealth and honor, he still has to find an heir to take advantage of outsiders.

Changsun Wuji was speechless and had to admit that what the two said was indeed reasonable.

But it can be imagined how difficult it is to collect all their family members.

After leaving the city to report to Cui Che, Cui Che thought for a moment and ordered Changsun Wuji to go back and send a message. He only rescued one of his descendants for Zhang Heng and Murong Sanzang so that they could inherit the title in the future.

Compared with rescuing two large families, it is obviously much easier to save only two people alone.

Zhang Heng and Murong Sanzang were just trying to delay time. As long as Cui Che sent people to rescue, it would take a long time to come and go, not to mention finding out the environment and arranging the rescue.

Therefore, the two of them readily agreed, and Changsun Wuji went out of the city to inform him, and Cui Che immediately led his troops to retreat.

It seemed that everything was calm again, but there was an undercurrent that went unnoticed by Zhang Heng and others.

That night, the Yan army came out of the camp under false pretenses and hid outside the small north gate of Jiangling City.

There is still a long distance between Yangshui and Jiangling on the north side, which is enough for Yan Jun to hide his figure in the night.

At this time, it was the soldiers of Baling Mansion who were guarding the small north gate.

Dong Jingzhen, Lei Shimeng and others waited anxiously on the tower for time to pass.

When Chou was approaching, Cui Che summoned Liu Heitai and ordered:
"General Liu led his troops to take over Xiaobeimen and its urn city, and the other defenders must not be disturbed.

"If there is no ambush in the city, raise a fire on the tower as a signal."

Liu Heitao took the order and ordered his five thousand infantry to quietly come to the moat.

At this time, Dong Jingzhen and Lei Shi opened the city gate, lowered the suspension bridge on the moat, and saw Liu Heitai leading his troops.

The two of them were overjoyed and hurriedly led the way for Liu Heitai to hand over the city defense with him.

But Liu Heitai realized that there was no ambush in the city, and that the soldiers of Baling County had really turned against him en masse, and he couldn't help but look at Dong Jingzhen.

He had previously thought that Dong Jingzhen's claim to be quite prestigious among the soldiers of Baling Mansion was just a boast.

Now that he had successfully taken over the city gate and urn, Liu Heita personally walked up to the city tower and raised a fire as a signal.

Cui Che held up his telescope and kept looking in the direction of the small north gate. At this moment, he saw someone raising a fire as a signal. He finally lowered his guard and ordered Yu Juluo to lead the cavalry as the vanguard and rush into the city, while he commanded the infantry and followed closely. thereafter.

During this period, the Yan army no longer hid their traces, and for a while they shouted for killing, and the sound of horse hooves pierced the silent night.

Zhang Heng woke up from his deep sleep. Wearing single clothes and barefoot, he pushed open the door and shouted:

"What the hell happened!"

The attendant looked panicked and replied:

"It's the shouts coming from the small north gate. Maybe the Yan army is attacking the city at night."

Zhang Heng felt bad because he had laid out Jiangling city defense and the small north gate was guarded by Baling soldiers. Now the Yan army was attacking the small north gate. Before that, Baling captain Dong Jingzhen had been to the Yan army camp.

There are so many coincidences in this world. It was clearly Dong Jingzhen who surrendered to the enemy. While everyone was sleeping, he secretly opened the city gate and let the Yan army in.

Zhang Heng was also a veteran of the battlefield. At this time, he was not at a loss. Instead, he ordered his personal followers to go to Nancheng, ask for help from Murong Sanzang, and drive the Yan army out of the city with him.

His followers hurriedly went to find Murong Sanzang, while Zhang Heng summoned the garrison in the city to intercept the Yan army.

Yu Juluo led his cavalry and poured into the North City of Jiangling from the small north gate. They ignored the rest of the North City, but headed straight for the South City under the guidance of Dong Jingzhen and others.

As for the North City, there are infantry led by Cui Che to attack the dangerous passes.

Zhang Heng led his troops to intercept the Yan army's cavalry on the main road, and the two sides fought fiercely.

Even though the battle took place on the main road of Jiangling City, it was still too narrow for the cavalry to charge.

For a while, the battle situation fell into a stalemate.

It was not until Murong Sanzang led most of the Nancheng garrison to come to support that the situation reversed, and the Yan army's cavalry was forced to retreat continuously.

Even though Jiangling has two cities, the north and the south, it is obvious that Zhang Heng and Murong Sanzang are not willing to give up the north city easily. After all, letting the Yan army occupy the north city will undoubtedly be a huge blow to the morale of the defenders.However, Zhang Heng and Murong Sanzang didn't know that all this was just Cui Che's arrangement. While they drove the Yan army's cavalry all the way, they never realized that the distance between themselves and Nancheng was getting farther and farther.

Until the Yan army's cavalry were forced back to the Wengcheng area of ​​Xiaobeimen, Zhang Heng and Murong Sanzang were still pressing forward step by step.

They knew that as long as they recaptured the small north gate and drove the Yan army's cavalry out of the city, the Yan army's infantry remaining in the city would become turtles in the urn.

But what the two of them didn't know was that after Murong Sanzang transferred most of the southern city's defenders to the northern city, the defense of Jiangling's southern city was unprecedentedly empty.

Xiao Mian, who had been unable to find a trace before, finally appeared. He led the private soldiers of the nobles to seize the city after Murong Sanzang left.

Since the North City was an old city and was obviously much shabby compared to the Nancheng, most of the Jiangling nobles moved to the Nancheng.

There were not many defenders left by Murong Sanzang, and many of the officers were children of local nobles, so how could they resist desperately.

Xiao Mian easily captured Nancheng, and immediately ordered everyone to lower the north gate of Nancheng and guard the place strictly to prevent Murong Sanzang from returning to Nancheng.

When Zhang Heng and Murong Sanzang learned that there was a rebellion in Nancheng, they finally realized that they had fallen into Cui Che's trap, and it would be difficult to escape.

The situation has reversed. Previously, the Sui army was chasing the Yan army, but now the Yan army is clinging to the Sui army.

After Cui Che learned that Xiao Mian had captured Nancheng, he immediately ordered the entire army to gather to surround Zhang Heng and Murong Sanzang.

In the end, Zhang Heng and Murong Sanzang were heavily besieged by the Yan army on their way to Nancheng.

There were only a few hundred soldiers gathered around the two men. The rest either died in battle or surrendered, and some took advantage of the chaos to escape.

Cui Che sent someone to persuade him to surrender, but they refused.

They are already in their twilight years and have only a few years left to live.

For Zhang Heng and Murong Sanzang, rather than grovel and save their lives, it is better to fight and die, win the name of loyalty, and save their families.

When he was about to die, Zhang Heng cursed Cui Che.

The generals of the Yan army were all angry, but Cui Che looked calm and just ordered the archers to fire a volley, turning Zhang Heng, Murong Sanzang and others into hedgehogs.

After the death of the two, sporadic resistance in various parts of Beicheng were also suppressed by the Yan army.

Cui Che was able to occupy Jiangling North City,

After the battle in Beicheng ended, Xiao Xian ordered people to come and offer Nancheng to Cui Che.

Cui Che sent Xu Shiji to lead his troops to receive them.

Soon, Xu Shiji's personal guards came to report back and control the dangerous places in Nancheng. The private soldiers and domestic slaves of the gentry were also disbanded one after another.

Cui Che was overjoyed and immediately issued an order to confer Xiao Xian and Dong Jingzhen with the title of County Marquis and worship them as governors.

Both men would go north to govern a small state after the war.

One of them is a child of the Xiao family, and the other has deep prestige in the Baling Army. They are both ambitious people. Cui Che will not leave them in the south.

The other Baling soldiers and the aristocratic families who participated in the capture of the city also received rewards.

Cui Che would not forget the soldiers of the Yan army who followed him in the southern expedition. He opened the Jiangling treasury.

Since Zhang Heng and others were ready to defend the city, a large amount of supplies were stored in the treasury.

Cui Che rewarded the three armies heavily, and everyone was happy.

The next day, the frightened people of Jiangling took to the streets and alleys. Yan army officers and soldiers patrolled the roads everywhere. They posted notices to calm the people and forced businesses to open as usual.

However, no offense was committed against the common people, and the Yan army's military discipline in the civil war was still guaranteed.

The lives of the people in Jiangling continued as usual and were not affected by the change of ownership of the city.

Only the Yan-character flags were fluttering in the wind on various towers, announcing that this famous city in Jingzhou had welcomed its new owner.

After Cui Che captured Jiangling, he did not stop there.

With no time to rest, Cui Che summoned Xu Shiji and ordered him to be the marching commander of Jingnan Road. He commanded [-] cavalry and [-] infantry to attack the two counties of Baling and Changsha in the northern part of Jingnan.

Although Cui Che only gave Xu Shiji [-] infantry and cavalry, there were not many defenders left in Baling and Changsha counties after Murong Sanzang led his troops north.

There were also soldiers from Jingnan, including soldiers from Baling Mansion, who followed Xu Shiji southward. Cui Che believed that with Xu Shiji's ability, it would be easy to take over the land of the two counties.

At the same time, Cui Che left Liu Heita to lead [-] infantry troops and [-] naval troops to guard Jiangling. He kept in touch with Dou Jiande's [-] infantry cavalry in Ziling to jointly defend against the enemies of Handong and Jiujiang and prevent them from crossing the river to steal the city. .

Cui Che himself led the remaining 6 cavalry, [-] infantry, and [-] naval troops, totaling [-] horses, advancing both by land and water, and headed west toward Badong County.

After learning that Jiangling had fallen and Zhang Heng and Murong Sanzang were killed in battle, no one in the entire Jianghan Plain dared to resist the Yan army and surrendered to Cui Che.

The Yan army marched westward, taking over cities along the way and approaching Badong County.

At this time, in addition to Badong soldiers, there were Yuwenshi and the [-] Xiangyang navy under his command, guarding Badong County.

(End of this chapter)