Northern Dynasties Imperial Industry

"The Qi bandits have harmed our people and invaded our territory. Now that we have been defeated by the joint attack of the Wei army, how can we leave Huainan calmly!"

After waiting until nightfall, Hou Andu had already led his troops to the vicinity of the Qi army camp, and then he mobilized the soldiers and said: "The various hatreds in the past are still fresh in my memory. Now that the Qi bandits are in trouble, we should take revenge and kill all the Qi bandits in the camp to wipe out the previous shame!"

"Kill all the Qi bandits to wipe out the previous shame!"

After hearing this, the soldiers suddenly became murderous.

Although the strength of the Southern Chen was relatively weak among the Three Kingdoms, it did not mean that their army had no blood, especially the elite Chen army led by Hou Andu, which was honed in one battle after another. Under extremely unfavorable circumstances, they quelled the rebellion in the country and repelled the invading powerful enemies. They followed Emperor Chen Baxian all the way to establish the Southern Chen regime. Their combat effectiveness was certainly very impressive!

As for the Qi army, they were inferior. The mission was frustrating, and the previous communication with Southern Chen had made them relax their vigilance. They did not expect the Chen army to do such a thing.

Therefore, when Hou Andu led the army to rush out from the night, the Qi army soldiers in the camp were shocked and had no idea what was going on. In a hurry, they could not make any timely and effective responses.

"Don't panic, quickly gather at the central army!"

Feng Zihui, who had already undressed and fallen asleep in the tent, hurriedly put on his armor and went out after hearing the enemy attack. When he sent his soldiers to inform the camps, the camp had already been in chaos. The Qi army soldiers kept fleeing and fleeing under the fierce attack of the Chen army, and it was difficult to control them again.

"Don't stop, kill through the enemy camp!"

Hou Andu is one of the few brave generals in the Southern Dynasty. His reputation is well-deserved. Although he is now in a high position, he still leads the troops in battle. He bravely rushes through the Qi army camp. All the enemies who dare to intercept and resist in front of him are killed and defeated!

Soon, he led his troops to the central army tent in the Qi army camp. When he saw the ceremonial objects of the chief general displayed outside the tent, and the Qi army soldiers gathered in front of the tent to resist stubbornly, he immediately showed a satisfied smile on his face, pointed the sword in his hand forward, and shouted: "Whoever can capture and kill the chief general of the enemy army will be the first tonight!"

"Shameless thief, treacherous!"

At this time, Feng Zihui's face was already livid, pointing at Hou Andu in the opposite team and cursing.

Hou Andu was too lazy to respond. He swung his sword forward again and led the soldiers behind him to fight with the Qi army.

After a fierce battle, most of the Qi soldiers gathered here were killed and wounded. Since most of the soldiers gathered here were Feng Zihui's family soldiers, they fought hard to protect their lord and rarely fled and surrendered. In the end, most of them were slaughtered here. The scene was horrible for a while.

As all his troops were killed and wounded, Feng Zihui was captured on the spot by the Qi army. He introduced many of his trusted subordinates who were slaughtered by the Chen army. Feng Zihui was extremely angry at this time. When he was brought to Hou Andu, he still cursed.

"The enemy is really noisy. We have a blood feud. Killing the enemy is the righteousness!"

Hou Andu heard Feng Zihui's scolding and his face darkened. He immediately drew out his sword and killed Feng Zihui on the spot. Then he looked around the camp and ordered in a deep voice: "Continue to search the enemy camp. Anyone who dares to resist will be killed without mercy!"

After a battle, the Chen army killed and captured more than 3,000 Qi soldiers. Even their main general was captured and killed in the battle. The rest of the Qi army also fled. The number of cattle, horses, and carriages seized was also quite considerable. It can be said to be a brilliant victory.

After ending the attack on the Northern Qi army, Hou Andu did not intend to let go of Guangling City. He wanted to use a hearty killing to vent the depression accumulated by the unsuccessful progress of the war, and create another glorious military achievement.

After the battle, Hou Andu led his army back to the camp outside Guangling City overnight, and arranged for the captured personnel to send a message to the city in the voice of Feng Zihui, the Qi general he killed, informing the city that the supporting division would arrive soon and the defenders in the city could leave the city one after another to join.

Because this was originally a predetermined arrangement, Guangling garrison commander Lu Qian did not doubt it. After receiving the message, he began to arrange for evacuation and even sent people to the Chen army camp to notify them, hoping that the Chen army could make way for the division in the city to evacuate and avoid any unnecessary friction and misunderstanding.

The reason why Hou Andu's plan went so smoothly was not because of how clever his strategy was, but because his intentions were too sinister and he had no bottom line.

In addition, Northern Qi preconceived that it had proposed a plan that was beneficial to Southern Chen, and took the initiative to evacuate first and hand over Huainan to Southern Chen. All Southern Chen needed to worry about was the reaction of the Western Wei side. Only those with abnormal minds would continue to entangle with Northern Qi.

So under Hou Andu's unique thinking, the situation evolved into this. When the defenders in Guangling City began to evacuate the city, they were not greeted by the support divisions coming from Huaibei, but by the Southern Chen army who had been waiting for a long time with their swords sharpened.

Following Hou Andu's order, the soldiers of the Chen army rushed out in full force and rushed towards the Qi army leaving the city.

Under such circumstances, the battle was naturally not suspenseful. The Qi army in Guangling City had been trapped for a long time and was now preparing to evacuate. Their morale was extremely low, but they were suddenly besieged. Without the tall city as protection, the battle quickly turned into a one-sided massacre. The entire Guangling City was covered with corpses. The defender Lu Qian was also not spared and was directly killed by the Southern Chen army. In the end, there were only a few Qi soldiers who survived.

After the massacre outside the city ended, the soldiers of the various armies scrambled to swarm into the city again, ready to plunder in order to make up for the consumption of the siege for many days. And Hou Andu also won the flattery of the generals for planning and presiding over this battle.

In order to exclude Wu Mingche from the great achievement of recovering Guangling, Hou Andu did not send anyone to notify Wu Mingche to participate in this battle. When Wu Mingche learned of this situation and gathered the troops from the rear, the battle under Guangling City had ended and the troops were entering the city one after another.

Hou Andu saw Wu Mingche coming with his troops, and immediately led a team of soldiers to intercept Wu Mingche and his entourage on the road, not allowing his troops to approach Guangling City. This also made Wu Mingche confused. It was clearly agreed in Hongnong City that Guangling City would be handed over peacefully, so why did such a tragic battle suddenly break out?

Wu Mingche was not the only one who was confused. Chen Baxian in Jiankang City was also a little confused after receiving this battle report from Hou Andu. For a while, he was a little suspicious. Did he mean this when he said he was doing it conveniently?

After a little hesitation, he understood that Hou Andu was greedy for merit and distorted the so-called convenient action into self-willed. He did not follow his wishes to make an early handover with Northern Qi, but took advantage of the Qi people's unpreparedness to launch a sneak attack.

Chen Baxian was very angry about this, but he could not openly order Hou Andu to be held accountable, because the contacts with Northern Qi were all conducted in secret and few people knew about it. In the eyes of the masses, Hou Andu is a great hero who defeated the Qi army and recovered Guangling!

As for the content of the previous negotiations between Western Wei and Northern Qi, with the victory of the Chen army, it was naturally forgotten by the masses. After all, this way of solving the problem is more majestic and refreshing!

But Chen Baxian would not applaud like ordinary people. He knew that Hou Andu had made a big mess by doing this. Not to mention how the Northern Qi, which was deeply affected by it, would react, he acted on his own and ignored the arrangements of Western Wei. There was still a mess to clean up!

After thinking about it, Chen Baxian ordered the court officials to take the edict of award and Hou Andu's son to Guangling to announce the commendation, and summoned Hou Andu to the court to confer the title, and Zhou Wenyubei replaced Hou Andu to control the Northern Expedition Division. The most important thing is to recall Hou Andu, the unstable factor, to the court first. As for other things, they will deal with them after they happen.

Hou Andu had just triumphantly entered the court to receive his reward when an envoy from Liyang arrived in Jiankang at the same time, demanding a reasonable explanation from the Southern Chen court. They had clearly agreed to take over Huainan together, so why did Southern Chen suddenly attack Guangling?