Baling, the capital of Bazhou Prefecture of Chenguo, has been filled with most of the moats, many broken city walls, countless severely damaged siege ladders, blood-stained tops, and corpses all show the intensity of the battle.

The Zhou army besieged Baling, and the defenders relied on the city to defend strongly. Chen's army from other counties also tried their best to move closer to Baling. The offense and defense of both sides continued for nearly a month before deciding the victory.

The Zhou army had entered the city, and soldiers were maintaining order everywhere in the city. Although the personnel losses were a little heavy, the Zhou army did not retaliate after entering the city, but only detained the surrendered soldiers separately. The civil and military officials of Chen State in the city were taken care of.

The state yamen and the marshal Yu Wenming of the Jiangnan West Road were summoning the generals to discuss matters. After the difficult bone of Baling was chewed off, the remaining piece of fat meat in Xiangzhou was the one left.

There is only one Baling County in Bazhou, while there are ten counties including Changsha County, Xiangdong County, Hengyang County, Shaoling County, Yueyang County, which have abundant resources and are rich in grain, bamboo, wood, oil, honey and dried vegetables. Every year, these outputs are transported to Jiankang in the downstream.

Like Jiangzhou, Xiangzhou has a huge naval shipyard and a steady stream of wood that can be used to build large warships such as golden wings. It is an important shipbuilding base for naval armies in the Southern Dynasty.

During the Lu Xun Rebellion during the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Lu Xun, who was dormant in Lingnan, went north from Guangzhou and entered Xiangzhou and Jiangzhou in two groups. He used the shipyards of the two states to build a large number of warships in a short period of time, defeated the Jin navy one after another, and then went down the river to Jiankang, and almost changed the day.

Nowadays, as long as the Zhou army takes over Xiangzhou, it can solve the problem of food and grass on the spot, without spending a lot of manpower and material resources to transport food and grass from Jiangbei. With Xiangzhou as a base, the attack on Guizhou on the southwest side will be much more convenient.

"Everyone, the battle report I just received, the King of Xiyang has captured the entire territory of Jiangzhou, Ancheng County is in the hands of the official army, the Ancheng trail has been cut off, and there are no reinforcements in Xiangzhou!"

As soon as Yu Wenming finished speaking, the generals present were stunned at first, and then showed joy: In this way, Xiangzhou will be attacked from both sides and the morale of the army will be unstable, and the battle will be better.

"Marson, I don't know if the marching of Lingnan Road has invaded Xiangzhou?"

"At the end of the strong crossbow, the power cannot penetrate Lu silk. The Lingnan Road march took only one month to occupy the entire Jiangzhou territory. At this time, we need to defend ourselves to prevent the sediment from rising. Therefore, our army will have to solve the problem in Xiangzhou!"

Speaking of this, Yu Wenming asked back: "Did you hope that the credit you are about to get was snatched by the Lingnan Road march?"

"Of course not!"

"That's good! Xiangzhou is like taking a vein from our army. There are ten counties, two fewer than Jiangzhou. Do you have the confidence to take it down within one month?"

"Yes!" the generals answered in unison.

Of course they were confident that the troops marching in Jiangnan West Road were more than those on Lingnan Road. Now the other party only took more than a month to capture the entire Jiangzhou territory. People fought for a breath, and the generals present were not willing to be outdone.

Suddenly a general stepped forward, saluted and said loudly: "Marson, the last general is willing to make an order to be a vanguard of the army, and lead the army to take Linxiang City!"

Yu Wenming looked closely and found that it was He Ruobi, the marching chief general. Seeing that other chief generals came forward to ask for battle, he asked, "General He Ruo, the matter of issuing military orders is small, and the situation of the war is big..."

"There is still a separation between Baling and Linxiang. Now the Chen army in Yueyang is still fighting stubbornly. What is General He Ruo's confidence that he can take Linxiang directly?"

"Marson! The last year, the general fought hard with Xiankao in Xiangzhou for a year. The mountains, rivers, lakes and roads have been remembered in his heart. He is willing to issue a military order to defeat Linxiang every day!"

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In the outer camp of Baling City, more than ten cavalry galloped over to the camp. He Ruohuaikuo, who had been waiting for a long time, saw the person coming clearly and went forward: "Father!"

He Ruobi pulled the reins and rode his horse to stop in front of his son, "Hurry up, go back to the camp immediately and prepare, and leave early tomorrow morning!"

"Is our army a vanguard?"

"Yes! The goal is Linxiang!"

He Ruohuaikuo clenched his fist with his right hand, waved his excitement, turned around and ran to the military camp. He Ruobi looked at his son's back, and his eyes suddenly flashed, and time flew.

This year, he is forty-four years old and his son He Ruohuaigu is seventeen years old.

That year, his father He Ruodun was forty-four years old and he was seventeen years old.

They were also in the Baxiang area, with corpses everywhere, blood stained with red battle flags. He Ruo and his son led the way and rushed towards the Chen army that was tidely like a tide.

In the second year of Wucheng in the Zhou Dynasty and the first year of Tianjia in the Chen State, Zhou general He Ruodun led his troops across the river and conquered Chen State Ba and Xiang states, directly threatening the survival of Chen State. Chen's army launched a large-scale counterattack, defeated Zhou State's naval army, and blocked He Ruodun from Ba and Xiang, south of the Yangtze River.

The retreat was cut off and there were no reinforcements. He Ruodun was alone and was trapped in the heart of the enemy country.

After dozens of battles, the Zhou army was besieged by the Chen army in Xiangzhou Prefecture and ruled by Linxiang. The people in the city were eager to the Chen State, but the people outside the city even enthusiastically sent rice, chickens and ducks to the official army (Chen army).

There will be no reinforcements, no support from the people, and there will be no hope of returning to their hometown. There will be more and more Chen troops outside the city, while there will be less and less food in the city, and morale will collapse.

The young He Ruobi was also in the army at that time. He knew what despair was, but his father He Ruodun let everyone see hope.

If there was not enough food, he piled up a mound and sprinkled a thin layer of food. He deliberately let Chen Jun see it carefully, so that the other party would think that he had sufficient food to maintain Linxiang for a long time.

When the people outside the city rewarded the army, He Ruodun sent soldiers to pretend to be the people, approached the Chen army in the name of sending rice and then suddenly attacked. After a while, the Chen army shot arrows when they saw people approaching. From then on, no one dared to come and send rice again.

Some soldiers rode horses and surrendered, so He Ruodun sent someone to surrender and took the opportunity to sneak attack the Chen army. After several troubles, the Chen army no longer dared to accept the surrender of Zhou army.

Without a retreat, the Zhou army soldiers had the courage to fight back. After various strategies were implemented, He Ruodun successfully made the Chen army generals mistakenly think that they could defend for a long time, and attacked the Chen army's food route from time to time, bringing back precious food to the Zhou army.

He Ruodun spent a year with Chen Jun and the lonely army, and the other party could hardly hold on. In desperation, the commander of Chen Jun made a gentleman appointment with He Ruodun to send Zhou Jun out of the country.

The Zhou army soldiers who survived the disaster returned safely to the Zhou Kingdom in Jiangbei, but the ruling King Yuwen Hu of Jin removed He Ruodun from office on the grounds of "defeating and losing ground, and suffering heavy casualties."

He Ruodun was dissatisfied: If the navy had not been defeated and the rear was cut off, Ba, Xiang would have been taken away by Chen State. I led the soldiers to fight hard for a year, but did not surrender but returned to the country safely. Not to mention the credit, but also to work hard...

The King of Jin is unfair!

The complaints reached Yuwen Hu's ears, and He Ruodun was forced to commit suicide because of his words.

Before He Ruodun died, he used an awl to thrust He Ruobi's tongue and bleed, warning his son to be careful of his words from now on. He Ruobi kept it in mind, and Linxiang, Xiangzhou, which his father never forgets, was also in mind.

The past is like smoke. After nearly thirty years, He Ruobi set foot on the Jiangnan Ba ​​again, Hunan, and became the vanguard of the army as he wished. He looked up at the sky in the south, as if he wanted to see the city that his father could not forget through the mountains.
Chapter completed!