Reborn in the late Northern Wei Dynasty

Chapter 469
Gao Cheng seldom uses tactics in military affairs, he always likes to bully others with his power, and his father Gao Huan's rich family business also gave Gao Cheng this capital.

Outside of Gaoyao City, Chen Ba first faced the current situation, which can be said to be exhausted. If he wants to keep this hard-won foundation, he has only two choices.

One is to besiege Gaoyao City and break through the city before the Northern Qi Fourth Route reinforcements arrive, and the key is not to get rid of Gaocheng.

But Gao Cheng's [-] riders are not waiting for nothing, and Chen Baxian is not sure that he can keep him.

The second is to change direction and deal with the three armies of Gao Jishi, Wu Mingche, and Duan Shao one by one.

However, the messengers from Panyu City reported that the three groups of troops were attacking the city along the way, and it seemed that they were not in a hurry to rescue Gao Yao.

Besides, most of Chen Baxian's men were infantry, if he was tired of traveling, he was in danger of being attacked by cavalry led by Gao Cheng at any time.

After much deliberation and divination, Chen Baxian finally made a plan with his confidant, and decided to lure Gao Cheng to attack, in order to survive.

On February 556th of the ninth year of Zhaode ([-]), Chen Ba first withdrew from Gaoyao City and led his army to the north, marching rapidly all the way, as if to intercept Gao Jishi.

"You mean Chen Jun marched hundreds of miles in a day?"

Gao Cheng thought he had heard it wrong, so he asked Hu Lvqiang for proof, full of doubts.

Hu Luqiang raised his head and said:
"According to the report from the sentry cavalry, Chen Jun traveled hundreds of miles a day before going down to the stronghold."

Hearing this, Gao Cheng stroked his short beard under his chin and fell silent.

He didn't know who gave Chen Baxian the courage to march quickly under the nose of his [-] fine riders.

Gao Cheng valued Yu Wentai, but he would not underestimate Chen Baxian. With Chen Baxian's wisdom, no matter how eager he was, he would not make such a move. Moreover, Gao Jishi was not besieging Panyu City.

Putting himself in Chen Baxian's perspective, Gao Cheng finally understood his intentions.

Undoubtedly, Chen Baxian, who was mainly pawns, did not have the mobility to continuously attack the three-way Qi army. The key to this battle lay with himself, and Chen Baxian's move was just to lure the snake out of the hole.

Having figured all this out, Gao Cheng immediately changed his tactics, led five thousand horsemen and retreated, and joined Hu Luguang to ensure safety.

The remaining [-] cavalry were divided into five divisions, led by Hu Lv Qiangju, Wei Xiaokuan, Hu Lvxian, Dugu Yongye, and Liu Feng. They used the strategy of exhausting the enemy and harassed Chen Bing along the way. During the break, he approached his camp in turn, disordered his position, but did not fight with him, so that after the long journey during the day, Chen Jun had to be on guard against the Qi army's attack on the camp at night.

After Gao Cheng hesitated among the five generals, he finally used Wei Xiaokuan to restrain the generals so that the five cavalry would not fight independently.

The reason why Wei Xiaokuan was made handsome was not entirely because of his status as the head of the country, but mainly because of his reputation in later generations.

Gao Cheng carefully told the five generals, especially Wei Xiaokuan, that no matter how big a flaw Chen Ba reveals first, he should not attack the camp, and only need to concentrate on disturbing the enemy.

Wei Xiaokuan and other five people took orders one after another, and led the army out of the city and headed north.

And Gao Cheng also led [-] cavalry to retreat to Gaoliang, and Xian Ying led the Fan soldiers to garrison Gaoyao City, keeping this bridgehead that threatened Panyu.

Chen Baxian marched in a hurry for three consecutive days, and finally on the fourth day, the spies reported back and learned that a large number of Northern Qi cavalry appeared behind him.

Originally thought it was Gao Cheng's trick, he really led the attack and set up an ambush in the camp that night. In the afternoon, there was a great momentum outside the camp. Chen Baxian and his soldiers cheered up and waited for the Qi army to enter the urn.

But he never thought that he could only hear the sound but not see the movement. The Northern Qi cavalrymen were clamoring outside the camp, beating gongs and drums, but they kept their distance and refused to rush into Chen Jun's camp.

"Could it be that the people of Qi saw through my ambush?"

General Hou An was puzzled.

Chen Baxian frowned. What he was worried about was not that the Qi army saw through the ambush set up tonight, but that they didn't want to attack the camp at all.

Sure enough, this kind of noise lasted until dawn with the five Qi armies taking turns in battle.

The generals of the Chen army, who had been in high spirits all night, complained endlessly. They also went out to expel these Qi troops, but they could not run with two legs. As long as the generals of the Chen army returned to the camp, the Qi army would make a comeback.

And we can't just send a small group of soldiers to watch at night and let the rest of the soldiers rest. If the Qi army really comes to attack, how can a small number of soldiers resist it.

Chen Baxian had no choice but to divide the soldiers under his command into several divisions, which took turns to be on duty at night.

That day, Chen Jun only walked for more than [-] miles, and then he set up camp to rest. The soldiers were really exhausted.

At night, the Northern Qi cavalry came to harass the camp again. Chen Ba first set up an ambush outside the camp, but he still failed to catch them.

The generals of the Chen army were overwhelmed by the disturbance, and the soldiers complained to the generals, who begged Chen Ba to change his course first. If this continues, let alone attacking the Qi army in three routes, if they don't change directions, they still don't know if they can return to Panyu City.

The Qi army on the opposite side is so slippery, and he lacks cavalry under his command. Chen Baxian really has nothing to do with these northern cavalry who come and go like the wind. After receiving information from the direction of Gaoyao, he learned that Gao Cheng led thousands of cavalry to retreat. After Gaoliang, Chen Baxian finally gave up the idea of ​​luring the enemy, and sent his troops to the southeast, intending to return to Panyu.

Wei Xiaokuan followed carefully along the way, constantly harassing the soldiers of Chen Jun. Of course, this was also a test for the cavalry of the Northern Qi Dynasty, but as the initiator of this harassment war, it was better than Chen Jun's mental state.

On February 28, Chen Jun finally returned to Panyu after a nightmarish long-distance march. Chen Baxian devoted himself to increasing the defense of Panyu, trying to last until summer, and forced the Qi army to retreat due to the hot weather.

After all, among the Qi army, most of them are from the north, and they are not tolerant of the scorching heat.

On the second day of March, Gao Jishi and Wu Mingche arrived in Gaoyao City one after another, and after Gao Cheng learned that Chen Baxian had transferred to Guangzhou, he also rushed to Gaoyao with Hu Luguang who joined him.

On the sixth day of March, apart from Duan Shao's troops who had gone south from Fujian, all the Qi troops from the southern expedition, including Wei Xiaokuan, who had harassed Chen Baxian before, and other five cavalry soldiers, all joined forces in Gaoyao City.

There were 18 soldiers gathered around Gao Cheng, including 22 cavalry soldiers, [-] soldiers from Gaoji Shi's department, [-] soldiers from Huluguang department, [-] soldiers from Wu Mingche's department, and [-] Tibetan soldiers under Xian Ying's command. Ride [-].

And the state and county soldiers who originally followed the people from all walks of life to the south were also assigned to various places to garrison the occupied areas.

The next day, Gao Cheng personally led 22 soldiers out of Gaoyao, towards Panyu.

On March 5th, Gao Cheng and Duan Shao's 23 troops joined forces at the foot of the city of Panyu. Panyu, the capital of the Southern Chen Kingdom, was heavily besieged. Except for the Fan soldiers, the [-] cavalrymen outside the city of Panyu were almost half of the number of soldiers in the Northern Qi Dynasty. .

Gao Cheng assembled so many troops, naturally he wanted to storm Panyu. At this time, he no longer cared about the difference between soldiers and soldiers from states and counties. March had already passed, and there was no time for him to build earth hills and dig tunnels.

(End of this chapter)