Reborn in the late Northern Wei Dynasty

Chapter 465 Xiaohe Ancient Road
The Northern Qi Dynasty attacked Chen in the third route. The first route was Duan Shao, the general manager of Wuzhou, as the marshal of the march, and Yuan Jing'an, Chilieping, Bu Dahansa, etc. as the commanders of the army. They went from Xinluo County (Fujian Changting) to Lingnan Township (Meizhou, Guangdong).

The second route is Wu Mingche, the general manager of Jiangzhou, who is the marshal of the march, and Wang Lin, Pi Jinghe, Qi Lianmeng, etc. are the commanders of the army. It starts from Nan'an County (Nan'an, Jiangxi), passes through Dayu Mountain, one of the five mountains, and goes to Luling County (Guangdong) in the south of the Lingnan Mountains. Nanxiong).

The third route is Gao Jishi, the general manager of Hengzhou, who is the marshal of the march, and Wei Xingqing, Li Bi, Bao Xian, etc. are the commanders of the army. They go south from Linwu (Linwu, Hunan), cross Jiuyi Mountain and Qitianling, and head towards Shixing. County (Lianzhou, Guangdong).

This battle was far more difficult than before. Nanchen deployed heavy troops along the three passages, and Northern Qi's long pre-war preparations gave them plenty of time to repair the fortifications.

At the foot of Qitian Ridge, an offensive had just ended, and black smoke was still rising from the burnt fortifications. He was seriously injured and had no time to retreat. General Nan Chen, who was lying on the ground mourning, was killed by the soldiers of Northern Qi numbly.

But in order to take down the cottage in front of him, Gao Jishi's army undoubtedly paid more casualties.

It was mid-winter, and there was no hindrance from the miasma, but the tenacious resistance of the Nanchen army still made the progress of the Southern Expedition slow.

Not only Gao Jishi's road, but Duan Shao and Wu Mingche were not much better. Facing Chen Ba, they first fortified their strongholds, fought dumbly, defended according to danger, and handed over the retreat to Tianshi's strategy. Fortress, many soldiers will be injured.

There was an endless stream of convoys transporting wounded soldiers to the rear, and even Gao Cheng, who had moved to Jiangling City, frowned at the number of casualties.

Fortunately, Yuwentai finally chose to return to Chuzhou, so that Northern Qi would not have the opportunity to open the door of Shu, otherwise the Pingchen war would be even more difficult to fight.

Due to the difficult and dangerous roads, the three-way army is mostly infantry and has few knights. Compared with the southern regime, the most prominent cavalry advantage of the Northern Dynasty is difficult to play, which is also a major reason for the difficulty of the war.

The battle on the front line was tough, and it was even more important to provide logistics. For this reason, Gao Cheng killed more than ten officials in a row who were greedy for military resources.

At the end of November, the three armies were still fighting hard among the Nanling Mountains, and Gao Cheng finally couldn't bear to end by himself.

On the third day of December in the eighth year of Zhaode (555), Gao Cheng led [-] cavalry soldiers and the Jianghan prefecture soldiers mobilized before, and entered Guangxi by taking the Xiaohe ancient road.

Xiaohe Ancient Road connects Yongyang County (Dao County, Hunan Province) of Hengzhou in the Northern Qi Dynasty and Jingzhou County (Hezhou, Guangxi) in the south of the Lingnan Mountains. It was built under the supervision of Qin Wei and Tu Sui, and more than 40 people were mobilized in Hunan, Guangxi, and Guangdong. Disease, hunger, industrial injury, killing and other things, there are more than 20 dead bodies on the ancient road.

The only dangerous point on the ancient road is Guiling. Once they pass through Guiling, the northern soldiers will have no obstacles.

The reason why he gave up this route before was because he was worried about being attacked by Yuwentai and Chen Baxian. Now that Yuwentai returned to help, Gao Cheng was able to go south via Xiaohe Ancient Road.

Chen Ba first used Lingnan to fight against the Northern Qi Dynasty. Both financial and military strength seemed to be stretched. It was difficult for him to build strong fortifications like the other three roads in every southward passage.

Before that, Yu Wentai's garrison in Yunnan and Guizhou also allowed him to relax his defenses against the western region.

Under Gao Cheng's day and night supervision, the soldiers of Jianghan Prefecture killed more than [-] people and finally pulled out the Guiling stronghold.

Seeing the corpses all over the place, and the Guiling stronghold that has been captured so hard, the soldiers under his command raised their hands in celebration. Even Gao Cheng couldn't help but smile, and he secretly recited the great man's poem in his heart:
'. Wuling meanders Teng fine waves, Wumeng majestic walking Niwan. .I like the snow thousands of miles in the Minshan Mountains. '

After crossing the most dangerous pass on the Xiaohe Ancient Road, Gao Qingchu has no obstacles ahead.

From Guiling to Yongyang, the road is flat and suitable for long-distance raids. There is a record in "Ling Wai Dai Answer" written by Zhou Qufei in the Southern Song Dynasty: "There is flat land between Quan and Guangxi. At the beginning, there was no such thing as a mountain. It is the way that Qin and Han used the teacher Nanyue. '

Gu Zuyu, a geographer in the Qing Dynasty, also recorded in the "Minutes of Reading Fangyu": After crossing Guiling, the northern soldiers marched from Daozhou to Fuchuan and the prefecture of Linhe, and the barriers of Western Guangdong were completely broken.

King Xiaogao immediately dispatched some state and county soldiers to guard Guiling to ensure the retreat. He led [-] cavalry to carry sufficient rations and went straight to Yongyang County (Guilin Quanzhou, Guangxi) with one man and three horses. The rest of the state and county soldiers followed closely. is behind.

On December 27th, [-] cavalry from the Northern Qi Dynasty rushed for a long-distance attack, with little resistance from the counties and counties along the way, and finally arrived at the city of Yongyang.

The governor of Yongyang stood on the top of the city and looked at the dark northern cavalry, terrified.

He grew up in Lingnan since he was a child, and he has never seen the scene of thousands of horses galloping. Under fear, Yongyang City is small and difficult to defend, and the Qi army has such a formation, so he took the initiative to open the city and ask for surrender.

After learning that it was the Northern Qi emperor who came in person, he was even more fortunate. Who knows how many troops are still behind.

Gao Cheng naturally comforted him a lot, and continued to entrust him with the post of Yongyang County Guard, but it was in name only, and Gao Cheng did not dare to hand over all the rears to the descendants.

Before deciding to send troops in person, Gao Cheng had dispatched troops and generals in the country, ordered Huainan soldiers to move to Jianghan, and recruited [-] prefectures and counties to Henan, with Murong Shaozong as the governor, stationed in Xiangzhou.

Just waiting for the handover of defense with Murong Shaozong, Hu Luguang will lead the original Xiangzhou army to the south to threaten Chuzhou, and the task of holding Yu Wentai back will be handed over to Murong Shaozong.

There is no need to question Murong Shaozong's loyalty. After all, he is an old subordinate of Gao Cheng for 24 years. He was a former general of the Gyeonggi Army. It is a cousin relationship with Erzhu.

After Gao Cheng's soldiers captured Yongyang without bloodshed, they didn't stop there.

He knows that now is a race against time, and the war must be over by the summer.

So instead of waiting for Hu Luguang to go south, he only made some adjustments in Yongyang, and handed over the defense of Yongyang County to the infantry of the prefecture and county who arrived later. After replenishing food and grass, he led [-] riders out of the city on Yuanri and went straight to the east of Lingnan.

At the same time, the offensive of the three armies in the east did not stagnate. On the contrary, in order to hold back Chen Baxian's main force, Duan Shao, Wu Mingche, Gao Jishi and others even went to the front to supervise the battle. Under the rapid offensive of the Qi army, even if Chen Baxian knew Gao Cheng entered the customs via the Xiaohe ancient road, but he could only mobilize part of his troops to help, and at the same time sent an envoy to Yuwentai in Shu to ask for help.

But Yuwentai also had a hard time. At first, Shedigan in the north was just pretending to show off, but after Gao Cheng left the field in person, in order not to let Yuwentai threaten his back road, he also started a bloody battle on the Shu Road.

And Chuzhou in the east is even more restless. After Murong Shaozong arrived, he ordered Xue Guyan to harass him day and night, and he couldn't get away.

(End of this chapter)