-----Hou Jing Rebellion (II)
Xiao Yan After establishing the Southern Liang Dynasty at the age of thirty-eight, he was considered a rare emperor throughout history. He is versatile in civil and military affairs, and is proficient in all aspects of piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. He does not pay attention to food and clothing, and is very diligent in government affairs. After several years of governance, the political situation of Liang in the Southern Dynasty was stable, and at first there were several battles with the Northern Wei Dynasty at that time. Later, the Northern Wei Dynasty split, and the north fought fiercely every day, but the south was quiet. Xiao Yan was free every day and suddenly saw through the world and became a monk. Fortunately, I came back after three days to become the emperor. After returning, he strictly required himself according to the standards of a monk, and did not eat meat or fish without getting close to women. The most bizarre thing is that we ask the whole country to follow our example and let everyone pay for the money to build Buddhist temples. Two years later, I saw that the effect was not very good, so I went to the temple and took off my emperor's outfit and changed into a monk's robe and became a monk. The ministers were forced to donate 100 million yuan to the temple to redeem him. After more than ten years, Gao Huan and Yuwen Tai in the north were both red-eyed, and Xiao Yan in the south repeated the same trick and became a monk for the third time. This time, the ministers spent 200 million to redeem him. A year later, he became a monk again. This time the ministers persisted for thirty-seven days and used 100 million to redeem him. At this time, "there are 420 temples in the Southern Dynasties, and so many towers in the mist and rain."
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Hou Jing was defeated by Murong Shaozong in Wuyang (now Mengcheng, Anhui), and led 800 studs and cavalry to flee like a stray dog. Hou Jing rode on the horse, looking at the eight hundred steps behind him, sighing repeatedly, not knowing where to go. Just as he was sad, Liu Shenmao, the Liang general of the Southern Dynasty, came to tell him: "Shouchun is not very far from here. Jianzhou is Wei An. I have always been in conflict with him. Why don't I lead you there? I will capture him while he welcomes you and occupy Shouchun." Hou Jing was overjoyed. After entering the city in Shouchun, he captured Wei An and according to his temperament, he was about to start killing him. Thinking about the fact that he had just entered the Southern Dynasty Liang, he could not kill Liang generals like this, so he let him go. Then he wrote a letter to the Southern Dynasty Xiao Yan, telling him that he had no choice but to enter Shouchun if he was defeated, requested a demotion and provided military supplies.
At this time, Xiao Yan had received a letter from Xiao Yuanming and learned that Gao Cheng was willing to rebuild and restore friendly relations. Xiao Yan was crying while watching, and decided to agree and send the envoy to Yecheng.
When Hou Jing learned about it, he hurriedly wrote to him, "Now Your Majesty will reconcile with Gao, where will the envoys stay?" He begged Xiao Yan not to agree to reconcile with Gao Cheng. Xiao Yan ignored this. Hou Jing didn't get a reply after a long time, and he felt that something was wrong. He forged a letter, which said that after the peace talks, he used the captured Xiao Yuanming to exchange Hou Jing and try what Xiao Yan was planning.
After Xiao Yan received this forged letter, he summoned his ministers to discuss it. Everyone thinks this is good, but some people are worried that Hou Jing will not commit it. Immediately, someone retorted: "Hou Jing is just a defeated general. It is enough to capture him and send an envoy!" Xiao Yan felt that he was right, so he replied: "Xiao Yuanming arrived in the morning and sent Hou Jing to the evening."
Hou Jing was furious with Xiao Yan's reply and cursed: "I knew that these southerners were indifferent!" He began his plan with a grim smile.
He began to force recruit soldiers in Shouchun City and withhold the commercial tax and land rent collected. The eight hundred soldiers who followed him to escape were arranged as the leader of the newly recruited soldiers, and the daughters of the people in the city were forcibly arrested and assigned to them as their wives. He also asked Xiao Yan for clothes for the soldiers and generals. He thought the weapons issued by the court were not good enough and asked to rebuild them. Xiao Yan was unaware of it and satisfied Hou Jing one by one.
Hou Jing asked his family to marry the daughter of the King of the Jiangnan gentry and the Xie family because his family was killed by Gao Cheng. Xiao Yan replied: "Wang and Xie are great clans of the high sect. Your identity cannot match it. If you want, you can find one from Zhu and Zhang's family."
This completely angered Hou Jing: "What identity! You are also a great surname! I will definitely give you the daughters of the southerners to your slaves!"
Hou Jing wrote another letter to Xiao Yan: "Your Majesty, how can you believe the cunning Gao Cheng? It's really funny that he can believe his words. I am forty-six years old this year, and I have never heard of the evil ministers in our Jiangdong.But as soon as I entered the court, I attracted countless slander, and I must tear the mouths of these nonsense. Please ask Your Majesty to draw a piece of land in the west of the Yangtze River to my jurisdiction. If it doesn’t work, I will face the Yangtze River and march towards Fujian and Yue. At that time, not only will the court be lost, but the ministers probably won’t even have time to eat. "Xiao Yan looked at it but said with a smile: "A poor family can still satisfy the guests. I am just one guest, and I can still make him feel dissatisfied like this. It seems that I am a fault. "
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In August 548 AD, Hou Jing decided to raise an army to rebel against the Southern Liang Dynasty. Using the excuse of the court killing Zhu Yi and Xu Lin, he said that there were treacherous officials in the court to disrupt the government and asked to report to allow them to lead troops into the court. Then he raised his army from Shouchun, claiming to go out for hunting, and raided Qiaozhou (Anhui Chuxian ), captured Xiao Tai, Fengcheng Hou, alive, and killed the Yangtze River, preparing to cross the river. After Xiao Yan learned about it, he smiled and said, "Can you still succeed? I beat him with a half-piece stick to drive the horse! "I ordered that if the person who killed Hou Jing, no matter who was, he would be awarded the governor of 2,000 households and one state. The governor of Poyang, Xiaoqian, the governor of the southern road, the governor of the northern road, the governor of Xuzhou, Xiao Zhengbiao, the governor of the northern road, the governor of Sizhou, Liu Zhongli, the governor of the western road, and the governor of the Tongzhi Sanqi, Pei Zhi, the governor of the high-ranking host of the east road, crossed the river from Liyang, and the king of Shaoling, Xiao Lun, commanded the army to jointly attack He Houjing.
Houjing successively captured Qiaozhou (Chu County, Anhui) and Liyang (now He County), and the troops approached the Yangtze River. A manifesto was issued to the Liang Dynasty in the Southern Dynasty, accusing the Liang court of "cutting off Qi people to supply desires... Today, the national pool garden, the house of the princes and princes, the temple pagoda of monks and nuns, and the reigning commoners, the wife of Ji, hundreds of households, thousands of servants, they did not farm or weave, and they would not take away the people. How could they get it? ". Immediately, I received responses from places north of Gunzhou and other places, and the number of people who were forced to recruit in Shouchun had reached 8,000.
Before preparing to cross the river, Hou Jing had found an insider. This person was Xiao Yan's nephew Xiao Zhengde . Before Xiao Yan gave birth to a son, Xiao Zhengde adopted Xiao Zhengde as his adopted son. Later, Xiao Yan became emperor, and Xiao Zhengde hoped to become the crown prince. But after Xiao Yan's son Xiao Tong was born, he ordered Xiao Zhengde to return to his sect. Xiao Zhengde was very dissatisfied, fearing that the world would not be in chaos, and waiting for an opportunity to make a mistake.
Hou Jing wrote to him saying, "The emperor is old now, a little confused, and trusts treacherous ministers. I don't think it's long before he perishes. King Linhe, you are the person who deserves the emperor, but you have been deposed. Everyone in the world is heartbroken, and people like me who are loyal to the country and the people are also very indignant! Now all the heroes in the world belong to you, please do not go against the will of the people in the world! Although I, Hou Jing, cannot do my best, I still have to make a try. Please promise me to help you save the people of the world! "This is great, Xiao Zhengde and Hou Jing hit it off.
After Hou Jing arrived at the Yangtze River, Xiao Zhengde, who was responsible for the defense of the capital Jiankang , sent ten ships, saying that he wanted to transport reeds and cross the Yangtze River.
After Hou Jing crossed the river, he led 8,000 troops to Jiankang. The peace in the south of the Yangtze River has been too long, and it has been many years since the war has begun It's been fire. Hou Jing's disaster finally crossed the Yangtze River and began to ravage the land of Jiangnan.
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When Hou Jing crossed the Yangtze River, he immediately caused a shock in Jiankang City , and everyone was frightened and panicked.
Hou Jing's 8,000 troops were all wearing iron masks and just arrived in Zhu Quehang (now Huaiqiao , , Qinhuai District, Nanjing, was the largest floating bridge at that time), the guards of the bridge opposite were demolishing the bridge. When they saw Hou Jing coming, they were all so scared that they would not demolish it and fled one after another.
Xiao Zhengde led his troops to Zhuquehang and Hou Jing to meet, and sent people to the palace to report, saying that he wanted to lead troops into the court and eliminate the slandered ministers around the king. In fact, the purpose was to investigate the situation in the downtown. Xiao Yan was at this time I didn't believe that Hou Jing was really going to rebel, and I didn't take Hou Jing seriously, so I sent someone to meet Hou Jing, which meant to tent on Hou Jing's words. What did I want to do?
Who knew that when I met two times, Hou Jing opened his mouth and said that I was here to be the emperor, so I directly detained the person. At this time, the Crown Prince Xiao Gang sent three thousand elite soldiers to fight Hou Jing. He did not fight either, and turned around and fled.
At this time, more than 300,000 troops of kings from all over the country were rushing to Jiankang. Hou Jing laughed and thought, "Although there are many foreign aids, they are all eccentric, and they have no general system, and they are even more jealous. They are not scrupulous, or they are suspicious and wait and see, or they flee when they hear the news... The King of Liang, Hou and General, dare not defeat the enemy, and die with all their might, and fight for the victory or defeat with themselves."
Hou Jing led his troops to Jiankang overthrow the north of Zhoushan, and fought against the 30,000 troops led by King Xiao Lun of Shaoling. Xiao Lun actually shrank, Hou Jing pretended to retreat, and the side troops of Annan Hou Xiao Jun hurriedly led the troops to pursue him. What's ridiculous is that Hou Jing suddenly stopped turning around and led his troops to counterattack. The troops saw Hou Jing's banner from afar and fled without fighting. Xiao Lun ran the fastest. Hou Jing packed up the discarded baggage and reorganized the team along the way, and encountered almost no resistance. He conquered Dongfu City and Shitou City in succession, and stationed troops on the edge of , Taicheng , where Xiao Yan's palace was located.
Looking at the imperial city, Hou Jing ordered a siege on all sides. The palace gate was burned, and the Crown Prince Xiao Gang directed the city to dig holes up the gate tower and pour water down the city tower to put out the fire. Seeing Hou Jing's soldiers climbing the walls of the East Palace outside the city, shooting arrows into the city. At night, people were sent to sneak out of the city and set fire to the East Palace, which contained hundreds of cabinets of books and essays, so that there was no place to climb the siege.
At night, the fire in the East Palace Palace illuminated the sky above Jiankang City. Hou Jing was furious and burned me too, and ordered the stables, Shilin Pavilion, and Taifu Temple in the west of the city to ignite. The entire Jiankang City was as bright as daylight, and the fires were swelling around the imperial city, and the north bank of the Yangtze River could be seen clearly.
Just as dawn Hou Jing directed the soldiers to push hundreds of wooden donkeys to attack the city again, and stones were thrown off the city wall and smashed the wooden donkeys. Hou Jing ordered people to build hundreds of pointed wooden donkeys that looked like small coffins, and the stones were thrown down and could not be smashed. Before Hou Jing could laugh, a cluster of pheasant-tail torches were thrown down from the top of the city, and the wooden donkeys were burned away again.
When Hou Jing saw it, it was quite difficult to deal with. Then look at the soldiers who were killed or injured. The attack was ordered to be stopped, and a long dike began to be built outside the city wall, cutting off the internal and external contacts of the imperial city. It was November 548 at this time. Hou Jing thought about it and supported Xiao Zhengde as the emperor and served as the prime minister himself. Xiao Zhengde finally became the emperor and was very happy to marry his daughter to Hou Jing. Hou Jing was also very happy and patted his chest and said to Xiao Zhengde, "I'm experienced many battles, you can wait and see my methods."
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4Hou Jing ordered the construction of the building car with an iron hook installed on it. I felt that the imperial city was strong and difficult to break, so I turned around and attacked Dongfu City first. The cart was shooting with arrows, stretching out the iron hook and hooking the battlements, and leading the army to attack Dongfu City. After entering the city, he ordered all civil and military officials to take off their clothes and come out one after another through the city gate. The bare-body civil and military officials lined up and came out to chop one by one. Hou Jing sat there and watched the three thousand officials beheaded one by one.
After watching it, Hou Jing ordered the creation of land and mountains in the east and west of Taicheng. The work outside the city was full of energy, and Xiao Gang also piled up the dirt mountain in the corresponding position in the city, and personally raised his hand to participate.
At this time, Hou Jing had eaten up all the food in Changping warehouse and began to rob soldiers. These soldiers, regardless of their wealth, robbed them at will. When they encounter resistance, they are killed directly, and the bodies pile up on the streets and block the roads. All the daughters, wives and concubines of wealthy families were arrested and entered the military camp and became comfort girls. All the men were taken to be migrant workers and lay down the Tushan Mountain, no matter whether you are a wealthy family or a commoner. And he started eating people, and the children were basically eaten.
recruited people who were originally from northerners who were lowly identities as servants and were rewarded. He also asked to go to the city to shout and lure the low-ranking slaves in the city and the slaves in the city to run out. These people acted as supervisors to supervise the creation of land and orchids. Where did the wealthy and wealthy gentry do such heavy work in the past? Either they wanted to argue with Hou Jing how important their identity is, or they pretended to be sick or they were really physically weak. Hou Jing ordered the weak to be killed on the spot and filled it into the earthen mountain. The supervisors punched and kicked every day and night, served sticks, and those who talked too much about their hands and feet, and those who pretended to be sick would cut off their hearts and dig up their abdomen.
Killing is like crying, everyone is afraid of the cruelty of Jie Hu, and the fear of Hou Jing's name is beyond words. The people did not dare to hide, and they came out to obey the orders. They collected tens of thousands in just ten days.
At that time, Hou Jing also wanted to surrender. Hou Jing discovered it and threw it into the military pot and cooked it. He screamed repeatedly. No one dared to be irresistible.
Hou Jing caused various siege equipment, surrounding the palace city, flying buildings, rushing cars, climbing cars, hook cars, stair cars and trains, all of which were several feet high, and began to attack. Xiao Gang in the city ordered people to set fire with a pheasant tail torch, burning all these equipment again. At this time, the earthen mountains inside and outside the imperial city had been built and were very close to each other. Both of them climbed the Tushan Mountain to fight at close range, shouting and killing were constantly day and night. The city began to dig tunnels again, and the Hou Jing outside the city was piled up to dig the underside of the mountain, causing the earth and mountains outside the city to collapse and countless casualties.
Hou Jing led his troops to reach 100,000, and it was obvious that the siege was not good. First, people were sent to set fire to the people and temples along the Xuanwu Lake and rush to ashes, and dig a canal to divert Xuanwu Lake to irrigate Taicheng.
At this time, Hou Jing had been conquering the city for more than 120 days.
The city was also full of ammunition and food, so it had to "smoked rats catch birds and eat", "the dead were corpses all over the road", and only two or three thousand weak soldiers were left to defend.
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