Chapter 78 Raising wolves to retaliate is beyond regret

——Hou Jing attacked the Liang Dynasty In the midst of the defeat, Hou Jing was at a loss as to whether to advance or retreat. It is estimated that in a few more days, this lame buddy should hang himself from a tree with his belt.Heaven never perishes Cao.In the Liang Dynasty, Xiao Fan, the king of Poyang, was appointed as the governor of Nanyu Prefecture in the early days.In the Liang Dynasty, there was a local garrison school, Liu Shenmao, who had always had a bad relationship with Wei An, the governor of Jianzhou (acting governor). Hearing that Hou Jing had fled here, he greeted him with his hooves and palms up, and advised Hou Jing to take advantage of the time to occupy Shouyang. Today's Shouxian County, Anhui Province) thought it was a distant map.

Wei An didn't want to accept Hou Jing at first, so Liu Shenmao sent his old friend Xu Siyu to persuade and scare him, saying: "Hou Jing is a guest of the imperial court, if you don't accept him, this imperial Henan king was killed outside the city, you can't afford it." Let's go!" Wei An was frightened and rushed out of the city to meet Hou Jing. Hou Jing was straightforward, and when he entered the city, he sent his own people to guard the four gates, and took down Wei An.Hou Jing deceived the strong city of Shouyang without spending a single soldier. After Liang Ting received the news of Hou Jing's defeat, he didn't know his life and death at first, and "would feel worried".Prince Zhan Shi He Jingrong said to the prince alone: ​​"Hou Jingru's death is the blessing of the court. This kind of repeated chaos will eventually overthrow the country." Soon, Xu Jingrong said to the scholar Wu Zi: "Once upon a time, the ancestor of the Western Jin Dynasty, Shang Xuxuan, sent the Central Plains He was killed by Hu Jie. Now the crown prince likes to talk about Laozhuang and Zhuangzi, and the talk is chic, and the south of the Yangtze River may be disturbed by Ronghu again!"

Soon, Hou Jing sent people to report the failure, and hypocritically wanted to "demote himself as a knight", which was "not allowed by the imperial edict" of the Liang Dynasty.Hou Jing also sent people to ask for military supplies, and the court did not miss it.Emperor Wu of Liang also "pityed" Hou Jingxin's defeat, and couldn't bear to transfer him to be an official elsewhere, so he was granted the title of shepherd of Nanyu Prefecture, and changed the title of Poyang King Xiao Fan to the governor of Hezhou.Minister Xiao Jie and others remonstrated extremely, but Xiao Yan refused to listen.

Emperor Wu of Liang treated Hou Jing so "kindly", besides being old and fatuous and trusting his courtiers, he may also have his own reasons: Hou Jing, a defeated general, has few soldiers and a strange place, so it seems that he really can't cause any trouble.Moreover, Funa Hou Jing can also set a "model" for the northerners to surrender and strive for more surrenders.However, man is not as good as heaven is, Xiao Liang caused Xiao Qiang, domestic conflicts were fierce, Emperor Wu of Liang knew nothing about it, and then the dominoes fell, chain reactions, fifty years of prosperity in Jiangzuo, just like this, was destroyed in the hands of a cripple of the Jie tribe.

After the Eastern Wei Dynasty Gao Cheng regained the old land, he sent envoys many times, expressing his intention to restore the old "friendly" relationship with the Liang Dynasty. "The imperial court did not promise".Therefore, Gao Cheng found Xiao Yuanming, Xiao Yan's nephew, who had been eating and drinking well since the prisoners were taken care of, and said that if the two countries restore the old relationship, Xiao Yuanming and other captured people, as well as Hou Jing's family, will definitely be sent back to the Liang Dynasty.Of course Xiao Yuanming helped, and immediately wrote a letter to his uncle Liang Wudi, conveying Gao Cheng's intentions, and told him that he had been receiving preferential treatment in the Eastern Wei Dynasty.

Emperor Wu of Liang was convinced, and he burst into tears, and hurriedly recruited courtiers to discuss.The old man is really a woman's benevolence, such a nephew who is not up to date, lost more than one hundred thousand soldiers, and died with more than a crime, yet he still has the face to write letters.Zhu Yi and others expressed their desire to reconcile with the Eastern Wei Dynasty. Only Si Nongqing Fu Qi expressed his dissent: "Gao Cheng was victorious, so why ask for peace? This is obviously a divorce. If instead of making peace, Hou After Jing heard about it, he must have become suspicious, and he would definitely cause trouble." Emperor Liang Wu was eager to save his nephew, so of course he didn't listen to Fu Qi's words.

When Hou Jing was in Shouyang, he happened to intercept the envoys from the Liang Dynasty who returned to the Eastern Wei Dynasty, and learned all the truth.Hou Jing wrote to Emperor Wu of Liang, strongly opposed to making peace with the Eastern Wei Dynasty, and stated "sincerely and earnestly" that Gao Cheng's internal and external coercion, accidental victory, was not enough to make peace with him, "to hurt the hearts of all people".At the same time, Hou Jing wrote a letter to Zhu Yi, the favorite minister of Emperor Wu of Liang, and sent three hundred taels of gold as "filial piety".Zhu Yi "received gold but did not pass enlightenment".

Not long after, Gao Huan was buried, and Emperor Wu of Liang sent envoys to offer sacrifices.Hou Jing hurriedly played and said: "Your Majesty is now in peace with the Gao family, where will the envoys (referring to himself) be treated?" Emperor Wu of Liang replied perfunctorily, saying: "I am the Lord of Wancheng, how can I lose my trust in One thing!" Comforting Hou Jingyu thinking about it, he will definitely not plot and harm him. Hou Jingtian is a political animal by nature, so of course he won't be at ease.He forged a letter from the Eastern Wei Dynasty and sent someone to pretend to be an envoy of the Eastern Wei Dynasty, expressing that the Eastern Wei Dynasty agreed to exchange Xiao Yuanming for Hou Jing.Emperor Wu of Liang didn't know what it was, but was eager to save his nephew, so he decided to agree to the request.It was Fu Qi who came out of the squad again, admonishing: "Hou Jing returned to righteousness with poverty, and it is ominous to abandon him. Besides, how can he be a brave general who has fought a hundred battles?"

Zhu Yi and others echoed Emperor Wu of Liang: "Hou Jing is the defeated general, and he can be captured immediately by sending an envoy to announce the edict." Emperor Wu of Liang sent someone to write back to the "Eastern Wei Dynasty", saying that "King Zhenyang (Xiao Yuanming) arrives, and Hou Jingxi returns".Hou Jing got this letter from the fake Eastern Wei "envoys" he sent, and was very angry. He said to the left and right: "I knew that old man Xiao Yan was a black heart!" Gear up and prepare to rebel.He not only conscripted the townsmen under his command as soldiers, but also plundered the children of the common people everywhere, and distributed them to the strong men under his command as slaves and concubines.At the same time, Hou Jing kept asking the central government for military rations, military uniforms, and blacksmiths who forged weapons, "the court never refused."His subordinate officials fled back to Jiankang out of fear of misfortune, and reported the news that Hou Jing was preparing to rebel to Emperor Wu of Liang, but Liang Ting did not express or prepare anything.

Hou Jing, who had made an inch of progress, was even more greedy, and asked to marry the daughter of the king and the Xie family as his wife.Emperor Wu of Liang replied, tactfully rejecting Hou Jing's request, saying: "The king and Xie Gaomen are not the consort of the emperor. You can consider the daughters of Zhu Yi and Zhang Wan." Hou Jingde was resentful, and said loudly: "When I succeed, all the children of Wu Jing will be assigned to soldiers as servants!" Hou Jing is physically and mentally disabled, and he belongs to the kind of psychologically deformed and perverted person with a strong desire for revenge.Back then, when Murong Shaozong's army defeated Hou Jing and fled wildly halfway, a man laughed and sang in a small town: "He said the land was not flat, but I said the land has pits! There is a big lame donkey below, and the lights flicker as he walks away." !" Hou Jing, regardless of the pursuers, stormed the small town with his left and right, and only left after killing the people who made fun of him. His narrow-mindedness is evident.

Xiao Fan, the king of Poyang, challenged the imperial court to prove that Hou Jing wanted to rebel with conclusive evidence, and repeatedly appealed, but Zhu Yi pushed back all of them: "Why doesn't the king of Poyang allow the country to accommodate Hou Jing as a guest?" Afterwards, Zhu Yi suppressed the reports several times. Hou Jing also secretly sent people to rebel with Yang Yaren, the Liang general who was stationed in Huai, and Yang Yaren arrested his envoy and escorted him to Jiankang with a letter. "The envoy was ordered to go to Jiankang Prison, and Russia sent him away."It can be seen that Xiao Yan is extremely stupid, and I really don't know what he was thinking at that time. At this point, Hou Jing completely let go, and turned into a rascal, and played to Emperor Wu of Liang, asking Liang Ting to kill Yang Yaren.At the same time, he accused Liang Ting of making peace with the Eastern Wei Dynasty, which made him lose face, and threatened that if he did not give him a piece of land in Jiangxi to garrison troops, he would lead armored cavalry to attack Minyue, which would make the court look bad. After receiving such a rebellious book, Hou Jing was completely rebellious. According to reason, Emperor Wu of Liang should be "furious".It is estimated that the old man had read too many Buddhist scriptures, and instead made people feel sorry for Hou Jing: "A poor family invites five or ten guests, which can still make everyone happy. I only have one guest, and if there are complaints, it is also my loss. At the same time, a large mission was sent, full of brocade NFDAD money cloth, to comfort Hou Jing. Hou Jing has been looking for his internal counterpart in the Liang Dynasty after the rebellion. After looking around, he finally settled on Xiao Zhengde, the king of Linhe. Xiao Zhengde is the third son of Xiao Hong, the sixth younger brother of Xiao Yan.At first, Xiao Yan had no children, so he raised Xiao Zhengde as his own son.After Xiao Yan became emperor, Xiao Zhengde felt that he could be the crown prince.It didn't take long for Xiao Yan to give birth to his own son. He made Xiao Tong (Prince Zhaoming) the crown prince and made Xiao Zhengde the Marquis of Xifeng.Under Xiao Zhengde's resentment, he actually betrayed the country and voted for the Eastern Wei Dynasty in the sixth year of ordinary life.Because the Wei people treated him very poorly, the boy fled back to the Liang Dynasty the next year.For such a traitor, because he was his own nephew, Xiao Yan "forgave him with tears" and named him King Linhe.Even so, Xiao Zhengde still had unreasonable thoughts, "Nursing the dead in shade, storing rice and goods, fortunately the country has changed."After he received Hou Jing's letter, he was overjoyed when he heard that he wanted to establish himself as emperor. He immediately agreed and urged Hou Jing to send it quickly: "Now I am inside, and the public is outside. Why don't you worry about it! It's about time. It's about time." In September of the third year of Taiqing, Emperor Wu of Liang, Hou Jing officially rebelled in Shouyang.At that time, Zhu Yi and others "all used treachery, arrogance, arrogance, and greed to cover up the master and exercise power, which was a disease of the people of the time", so Hou Jing used the pretext of killing Zhu Yi and others to raise troops. Emperor Wu of Liang laughed when he heard Hou Jing raised his troops, and said, "What big deal can this lame man do? Let me beat him with a whip!" The governor of Nanyang, Xiao Fan, was the governor of the South Road; the governor of North Xuzhou, Xiao Zhengbiao, was the governor of the North Road; the governor of Sizhou, Liu Zhongli, was the governor of the West Road; Crusade against Hou Jing. Hearing that the army of the Liang Dynasty was frequently mobilized, Hou Jing asked Wang Wei for advice.Wang Wei said: "If the king of Shaoling gathers a large army to attack Shouyang, he will be trapped. It is better to abandon Huainan, decide to go east, and lead Qingqi to attack Jiankang. Besides, the world is not settled.” Hou Jing listened to the persuasion and left his brother-in-law Wang Xiangui to guard Shouyang. He pretended to go out to hunt in the city and lead the army out, "people don't realize it".Then, he attacked east and west, descending to Qiaocheng (now Chuxian County, Anhui) and down to Liyang (now Hexian County, Anhui).After Liyang Taishou Zhuang Tie surrendered, he offered a poisonous plan to Hou Jing: "The country has been in peace for a long time, and people don't practice war. I heard that the king raises troops, and the inside and outside are shocked. It is advisable to take advantage of this situation to drive Jiankang quickly. You can achieve great success without bloodshed." If the imperial court is well prepared, the inside and outside are peaceful, and thousands of soldiers are sent to quarry directly, even if the king has millions of fine armor, he will not be able to cross the river." Zhuang Tie is also a bastard, who has been eating Liang Lu for many years , Surrender is also surrendered, and even made this strategy of sealing the throat with a sword, killing the old master. Zhuang Tie's "worries", Yang Kan, the old general Yang Kan, the capital official of the Liang Dynasty, had been on guard for a long time. He suggested that Emperor Wu of Liang send two thousand troops to quarry urgently, and urged Xiao Lun, king of Shaoling, to attack Shouyang urgently, so that Hou Jing could not enter. Before, retreat to the lair".In this way, "the mob will naturally disintegrate." It was Zhu Yi who came out to resist this discussion: "Hou Jing must have no intention of crossing the river." Of course Emperor Wu listened to Zhu Yi's words. Yang Kan sighed: "Today we are defeated!" At such a crucial point, not only did they not send troops to rush to quarry, but the Liang Ting issued an edict to send Xiao Zhengde, the king of Linhe, as General Pingbei, to supervise all the military forces in the capital, and to guard Danyang County on the Yangtze River.Xiao Zhengde turned against him and prepared dozens of huge ships, in the name of crossing the reeds, to force Hou Jing's army to cross the river. Before Hou Jing crossed the river, he was afraid that there would be Liang soldiers for the quarrying. It happened that the Liang general who changed the defense for the quarrying was late, and the original guard Wang Zhi had led his troops away.Then he immediately crossed the Hengjiang River and occupied the quarrying.At this time, Hou Jing had only a few horses and 8,000 soldiers. When Jiankang heard that Hou Jing had crossed the river, he was terrified both inside and outside, and declared martial law.Prince Xiao Gang also put on military uniforms and personally commanded the military.The sad thing is that Liang Ting still ordered the traitor Xiao Zhengde to garrison Zhuquemen, and the two sons of Prince Xiao Gang were divided into several key gates in Jiankang. As for Hou Jing, things went well in Gushu and Cihu (Dangtu, Anhui). Soon, he went to Banqiao outside Jiankang City, and sent his staff officer Xu Siyu to see Emperor Wu of Liang. When Emperor Wu summoned him, Xu Siyu claimed that he had something important to report to the emperor, and asked to retreat.Gao Shanbao from Zhongshushe reminded loudly: "Xu Siyu comes from the bandit camp, and his love is unpredictable. How can we let him meet the emperor alone!" At this time, Zhu Yi still wanted to be a good old man, so he scolded Gao Shanbao and said, "How can someone like Xu Siyu be an assassin!" Xu Siyu didn't give Zhu Yi any face. He took out Hou Jing's memorandum and said loudly: "Hou Jing hates Zhu Yi and others to cover up the power of the lord, begging to bring armor into the court, the Qing emperor side!" Zhu Yi was ashamed and afraid. In Jiankang City, the chaos was abnormal. "Public and private chaos, no order."The sergeants were unrestrained, rushing into the arsenal to get their armor without any discipline. Fortunately, veteran Yang Kan, calm and composed, beheaded several people before stabilizing the situation.At that time, since the establishment of the Liang Dynasty, there had been no incidents in the territory for more than 40 years. "Gongqing was in power and the scholar-bureaucrats in Luli rarely had soldiers, and the thieves were in a hurry, and the public and private were horrified. The old generals were exhausted, and the young Xu Jin went out." Therefore, in the entire Jiankang City, only a veteran, Yang Kan, really knows how to deploy soldiers and fight. "The (sheep) speaks courageously and is very strong, and the prince is deeply committed to it." Yang Kan, whose name is Zu Xin, was born in Taishan (now Tai'an, Shandong). His grandfather and father had to serve in the Northern Wei Dynasty because the Lord General Xue An surrendered to Wei in the Liu Song Dynasty, but he often advised his children to return to Zhengshuo in the Southern Dynasty in private.When Yang Kan served as the prefect of Taishan in the Northern Wei Dynasty, he led his army to rebel against Wei and return to Liang, and fought hard with the pursuers of Gao Huan and others.As far as the border, there are still more than 10,000 people belonging to them.Because he knew that the families of the soldiers were in the north, Yang Kan shed tears and said goodbye to everyone, which can be described as affectionate. Hou Jing's army marched to the south of Zhuquezhen (Zhuquezhen is a famous large pontoon bridge on the Qinhuai River).Prince Xiao Gang guarded the Xuanyang Gate with Xiao Zhengde, and guarded the Zhuque Gate with Yu Xin, a scholar of the East Palace.Seeing Hou Jing's army approaching, Prince Xiao Gang ordered Yu Xin to demolish the pontoon bridge in order to slow down Hou Jing's attack from the front.Xiao Zhengde was afraid that Hou Jing's army would not be able to cross the river, so he tried to dissuade the prince, saying: "If the people see the pontoon bridge being demolished, they will run away in fright. It's better to wait for the enemy army to see what happens." . Hou Jing's army rushed to kill them, and Yu Xin hurriedly ordered his soldiers to dismantle the boats supporting the pontoon bridge.As soon as a supporting boat was destroyed, the sergeants saw Hou Jing's bandit army wearing iron masks attacking them all. The Liang soldiers who hadn't passed the battle line all retreated and hid behind the Suzaku Gate. At such a critical moment, the great talent Yu Xin still had leisure time to eat sugar cane in the barracks, and heard the noise outside, he never expected that the enemy would kill him suddenly.This justice gnawed at the sugarcane husk, and suddenly several arrows flew into the camp. "A flying arrow hit the gatepost, and (Yu) trusted the sugarcane, and it fell in response to the string."Talented Yu jumped up with a cry, abandoned the army and fled. Shen Zimu, Xiao Zhengde's best friend, was diligent, and immediately found a boat, tinkling and repairing it, and then firmly supported the Zhuque truss, leading Hou Jing's bandit army to rush across the river.Xiao Zhengde opened the Xuanyang Gate and led the crowd to welcome Hou Jing on the Zhanghou Bridge.When the two met, they had a tacit understanding, and immediately bowed to each other, and then immediately joined forces, and conquered the outer city of Jiankang in one fell swoop.Xifeng Gong Xiao Dachun, who was stationed in Stone City, abandoned the city and ran to Jingkou, and Xie Xi and Yuan Zhen, who were stationed in Baixia, also abandoned the city and fled. Hou Jing's soldiers surrounded the city of Tai, with black flags all over the place, attacking from all directions, shaking heaven and earth.The rebels threw more torches, trying to burn several city gates to attack.Yang Kan and others led the crowd to fight to the death. He personally stabbed the bandit soldiers out from the doorway, and put out the fire with a bucket of water, only then did Taicheng escape temporarily. Seeing that Taicheng could not be taken down for a while, Hou Jing sent soldiers to set fire to it, and all the buildings in the outer city such as Taifu Palace, Huang stable, Shilin Museum and Taifu Temple were burned down.At the same time, in order to "boost" morale, Hou Jing rewarded hundreds of female officials from the East Palace to the soldiers and let them take turns to rape for fun. After the rest, Sergeant Hou Jing used a wooden donkey cart to attack the city, and the defenders threw boulders at the top of the city to drive back the bandits.This plan failed, so Hou Jing made a wooden donkey with a pointed top, which was less stressed and could not be broken by stones.Yang Kan sent people to hold more pheasant tail torches, soak them in sesame oil, and throw them on the wooden donkey from the city. The bandit soldiers hidden in the wooden donkey were all burned to ashes.Hou Jing also built tall chariots to climb the city, each more than ten feet high, and sent soldiers to carry crossbow arrows on it, trying to shoot and kill the guards at the top of the city with their heights.After many battles, Yang Kan saw the tall chariots approaching the city, and said: "The chariots are high and the trenches are empty, and they will fall when they are close to the city. You can lie down and watch them." Sure enough, these chariots did not move far, and they all collapsed. Many bandit soldiers with bows and arrows fell to death. Knowing that Taicheng could not be captured for a while, Hou Jing built a long siege to cut off the traffic between Taicheng and the outside world. Zhu Yi and others saw Hou Jing's small setback, and he was so powerful that he wanted to send troops to attack.Yang Kan objected: "If there are few people sent out today, it will not be enough to defeat the enemy, and it will only frustrate one's spirit; if there are many people sent out, once they lose, the gates and bridges will be small, and it will inevitably lead to a large number of casualties when the troops retreat." The rest went out to fight.Sadly, before the confrontation, Liang Bing turned his head and ran away. The bridge was crowded and fell into the water, drowning seven or eight hundred people. Hou Jing knew that Yang Kan was an important general who commanded the defense of the city. He happened to catch his son Yang Dan, so he sent someone to take him to the bottom of the city and called Yang Kan to come to the city to see him.Yang Kan shouted at the top of the city: "I will pay my respects to the lord, and I still hate my inadequacy. I don't care about my son. I wish I could kill him early!" Yang Dan was engaged in "heart-to-heart warfare" under the city.Standing on the top of the city, Yang Kan looked at his son and said bitterly: "I thought you were dead long ago, why are you still alive!" After speaking, he drew his bow and shot him.The bandit soldiers were at a loss, and hurriedly retreated with the tied Yangdan.Hou Jing, the thief leader, also lamented that Yang Kan was loyal and did not kill the sheep boy. Zhuang Tie, a traitor from the Liang Dynasty who had previously proposed to persuade Hou Jing to "speed up the prosperity", saw that the situation was not good, and was afraid that Hou Jing would fail, so he lied about returning to Liyang to welcome his mother, and drove to Liyang with dozens of people around him to deceive Hou Jingliu Two local guards said that Hou Jing had been killed.This move is so effective that the two thieves will hastily abandon Liyang and go to Shouyang.Zhuang Tie didn't dare to guard when he entered the city, so he carried his mother to Xunyang.In troubled times, seeing that the situation is not good, these insidious villains immediately look for opportunities to save their lives, and on the contrary, they can always escape disasters and turn them into blessings. Hou Jingwei couldn't leave the city, and was anxious to find a cover for psychological support.Therefore, in December 548 AD, he pushed Xiao Zhengde to the throne of God and changed Yuan Zhengping.After Xiao Zhengde proclaimed himself emperor, he made his eldest son Xiao Jianli the crown prince, married his flowery daughter to Hou Jing as a concubine, and rewarded the bandit army with all the gold and silver treasures of the family.Although Xiao Jianli was honored as the "Emperor Prince", he died with a group of thieves while looting property by the floating bridge. Soon, Hou Jing attacked Dongfu, killed Liang Dynasty guard Dongpu Hou Xiaotui, beheaded more than 3,000 Liang Dynasty soldiers, and moved their corpses into piles, piled them outside Taicheng, and threatened the defenders: "If you don't surrender soon, you will be killed." That's right!" When Hou Jing first arrived in Jiankang, in order to buy people's hearts, he ordered strict orders and strictly prohibited soldiers from invading.After repeated attacks, Hou Jing was afraid that the soldiers would not want to fight and would be defeated for a while, so Hou Jing let the soldiers plunder the gold and silver children around the city.As the food was exhausted soon, the bandits and soldiers were robbing food everywhere, and the people around Jiankang had no food or clothing, and the tragedy of cannibalism occurred, and most of them died of starvation. In his impatience, Hou Jing set up earth mountains in the east and west of Taicheng City to drive out the scholars and people, regardless of high or low, to work hard with burdens of soil.In order to speed up the progress, the thieves and soldiers were driven down with swords and guns, and the old, weak and tired were all slashed, "killing to fill the mountains, crying and mourning". The guards and residents in the city also faced each other and built earth mountains. Except for the prince, the princes, officials and common people all carried earth and rocks and piled up mountains. The two sides fought day and night.It rained heavily, the earth and hills in the city collapsed, and the bandit army almost succeeded in attacking the city. Fortunately, Yang Kan led the army to throw a torch and cut off his way, and once again protected the city of Taitai. Hou Jing is indeed a quick-witted villain.He issued an order that all soldiers and civilians of the Liang Dynasty who surrendered as slaves will be exempted from being good citizens.Zhu Yi had a slave who ran away, Hou Jing immediately made him the third division of Yitong, and rewarded him with all Zhu Yi's family property in Jiankang.Riding on a good horse and dressed in brocade robes, this slave went to the city to preach and scolded Zhu Yi: "Old Zhu Yi, you have served the emperor for fifty years before you got the position of leader of the No. 1 middle school. Yitong!" The power of role models is infinite.Within three days, thousands of slaves escaped from Taicheng to seek refuge with Hou Jing. "(Hou) Jing all caressed generously to accompany the army, everyone was grateful, and died for him."Hit the master, divide the land, and suddenly turn over and become the master. How can you not die in allegiance to Hou Jing's new regime? At this time, Xiao Yi, the governor of Jingzhou in the Liang Dynasty and the seventh son of Emperor Wu of the Liang Dynasty, King Xiao Yi of Xiangdong, heard the news that Jiankangtai City was besieged. Order them to lead their troops to serve the king.At the same time, Duke Xiao Daxin of Dangyang, governor of Jiangzhou in Liang Dynasty, and Wang Xiaoke of Nanping, governor of Yingzhou, all sent troops to help. Knowing that the clan of the Liang Dynasty had sent troops here one after another, under the advice of Wang Wei and others, Hou Jing shot many "persuasion letters" into the city with arrows, many of which really revealed the "scars" of the reign of Emperor Wu of Liang : Since Liang was nearly a year old, he has used his power to exploit his power and stripped the people for his lust.If it is not the case, the public and others try to observe: today's national pool garden, prince's mansion, monks and nuns' temple pagoda...and the reigning officials, Ji Jiang's hundred families, thousands of servants, no farming or weaving, rich clothes and jade food.If you don't take away the people, where do you get them... Now the city is counting on the help from all directions, I (Hou Jing claims to be) watching the princes and generals, with the ambition of the whole body, who can try their best to die and compete with me for victory... For the Xiao family clan, I really don't know what kind of genetics caused so many fathers and sons to kill each other.Xiao Yan himself is not a violent father.His nephew Xiao Zhengde rebelled against Liang and fled to Wei. After returning, Xiao Yanwei just cried and reprimanded him.As for the sons, Xiao Lun is just ignorant and ignorant, and is not considered a bad person; Xiao Yi waits and sees success or failure, with ulterior motives; They are all "sit and watch", the only purpose is to wait for the enemy to kill their flesh and blood relatives, and then they will respect themselves.After searching all the descendants of the Xiao family, only Xiao Gang, the crown prince of Emperor Jian Wen, was a man of complete loyalty and filial piety, and he would never betray the king or his father until his death.Later generations analyzed the disease of "disloyalty and injustice" of Xiao Liang's family, and most of them believed that it was caused by Xiao Yan's negligence in teaching, the so-called "benevolence and betrayal".All the Pianpian children of the Xiao family, "all have a reputation for famous articles", and all of them have higher IQs than normal people, but because they "have learned readers, the obscene words of the palace style; and their research, the heresy of the Buddha".Therefore, the moral education of loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness is very deficient, which has caused the evil consequences of the rapid death of the family and the country. At this point, Hou Jing sent envoys to the Eastern Wei Dynasty again. He praised the Emperor of the Eastern Wei Dynasty and the Gao family in a nasty way, saying that he was fighting for the Eastern Wei Dynasty and wanted the Gao brothers to return to his family.Xiao Yan is easy to deceive, but all the sons of the Gao family are good people, and they don't even pay attention to books and newspapers. At this point, a very dramatic event happened. Chen Xin, the son of White Horse General Chen Qingzhi, was captured by Hou Jing and imprisoned in Fan Taobang's camp under Hou Jing.Chen Xin has a good eloquence, and impresses Fan Taobang with his loyalty, and persuades him to attack and kill Hou Jing's general Song Zixian and others, and go to the city to surrender to the Liang.Fan Tao sticks to his plan and secretly sends Chen Xin into the city overnight. Emperor Wu of Liang was overjoyed. He engraved a silver coupon to give Fan Taobang, and promised to make him the king of Henan.Zhu Yi and the others agreed (he has nothing to disagree with what the emperor said), but Prince Xiao Gang hesitated, fearing that Fan Taobang would be a fraudulent surrender. At the critical moment, Fan Taobang sent another person to say: "I will lead my relatives and 500 people to surrender immediately. When we arrive at the city, we will all take off our armor and beg the imperial court to open the city to accommodate us. After the relief, we will destroy Hou Jing." Hearing this, Prince Xiao Gang was even more skeptical and kept shaking his head because he was in a hurry.The old treacherous official Zhu Yi was really sober at this moment, and cried loudly, "The great event of Huangliang Sheji is gone!" Now or never.Someone under Fan Taobang informed Hou Jing, and Hou Jing immediately killed Fan Taobang.Chen Xin didn't know that Fan Tao was dead, and went out of the city to meet him, but was caught by Hou Jing and lost his life. Xiao Lun, the king of Shaoling who was originally ordered to attack Hou Jing, heard that Hou Jing had crossed the quarry and entered the city of Taitai.When Hou Jing heard the news, he hurriedly transferred his troops to Jiangcheng (now north of Jurong, Jiangsu Province) to meet him.Xiao Lun and others headed towards Zhongshan, avoided Hou Jingjun, and camped on Zhongshan.Hou Jing was terrified, and hurriedly gathered the treasures and beauties looted earlier in Stone City, ready to escape by boat at any time.In the first battle between the two sides, Hou Jing was defeated.However, Xiao Lun did not seize the opportunity and faced Hou Jing without attacking.Hou Jing pretended to retreat, Liang Chao Annan Hou Xiao Jun thought he had an opportunity, and hurriedly led the warriors to pursue, but Hou Jing suddenly stopped and counterattacked, Xiao Jun was defeated, and Zhao Bochao, the "general defeated general" of Liang Chao, turned his head and ran away without rescue.Hou Jing took advantage of the victory to pursue, the Liang army was defeated, and many clans and generals were captured. Xiao Lun only had less than a thousand soldiers left, and fled in a hurry. That night, Xiao Si, the eldest son of Poyang King Xiao Fan of the Liang Dynasty, and two other reinforcements arrived and camped in Caizhou.Upon seeing this, Hou Jing drove all the residents of Nan'an to Jiangbei, "burned their shops and houses, and swept away all the ground."A few days later, Xiao Yi, king of eastern Hunan, sent his son Xiao Fang to help, and ordered Jingling prefect Wang Sengbian to set off from Hanchuan with 10,000 boatmen, carrying grain to the east. The most unfortunate thing is that Yang Kan, who served as the real commander-in-chief of the city defense in the Liang Dynasty, died of illness in Taicheng due to overwork. He was only fifty-four years old when he died.Yang Kan is extremely brave. When he was young, he held a bow with more than ten stones. He was able to raise the big stones and strike each other, breaking them all to pieces.Such a military commander is actually good at rhythm, and made two songs "Plucking Lotus" and "Ouge", which are new and touching.However, General Yang is extravagant by nature. On the day of peace, every day, the house is full of guests, the wine bottles are not empty, the clothes are fine and the food is rich, and there are banquets every day.At the same time, Yang Kan was also "generous in nature and full of energy". His subordinates caught fire because of drunkenness and burned more than 70 of his treasures on large ships. Yang Kan heard about it and didn't care.The person who caused the trouble ran away in fear of trouble, but Yang Kanzhao didn't ask, and treated him as before.It's a pity that the handsome man died without his ambition being fulfilled. Liang Dynasty reinforcements from all over the country arrived one after another.Wei Can, governor of Hengzhou, led 5,000 elite soldiers, and together with Xiao Daxin, Duke of Dangyang, governor of Jiangzhou, rushed to Nanzhou; Li Xiaoqin, the fierce general, Chen Wenche, the prefect of Nanling, and Yang Yaren, the former governor of Sizhou, joined forces and stationed in Xinlin.Under Wei Can's suggestion, everyone promoted Liu Zhongli as the governor, and commanded the reinforcements from all walks of life. At the beginning of the third year of the Taiqing period of Emperor Wu of Liang, Liu Zhongli moved the base camp from Xinting to Daheng. Due to the heavy fog, Wei Can's army lost its way. As soon as it arrived at Qingtang, it was attacked by Hou Jing.At that time, Liu Zhongli was eating. Hearing the news, he put on chopsticks and put on his armor. He led more than a hundred soldiers to rescue his eldest cousin. More than a thousand people drowned.The most thrilling scene was that Liu Zhongli stabbed Hou Jing's neck a few inches away with the long scorpion in Liu Zhongli's hand. Zhi Boren rushed forward and slashed Liu Zhongli's shoulder with a knife.The horse started up, and General Liu fell into the mud.Hundreds of thieves and soldiers gathered around, all raising their baskets to stab them.It happened that Liang Jiang arrived, and Liu Zhongli was spared.Since then, both Hou Jing and Liu Zhongli were afraid of beating the wolf with a stick. Hou Jing never dared to go to the south bank, and Liu Zhongli never said anything about going to war.Especially Liu Zhongli, it seemed that the knife was not cut on his shoulder, but on his guts. Since then, the former general of Yingwei, who has been fighting all over the world, seems to have completely changed into a shy bastard. Xiao Lun, the king of Shaoling who was defeated, also collected his soldiers and returned at this time. He joined forces with Xiao Dalian, Xiao Zaicheng and other clans, stationed in the south of Dazheng, and still promoted Liu Zhongli as the governor. General Yang Kan had just died, and Zhu Yi, the head of civil servants, also died of fear at the age of sixty-seven.The old villain has been prosperous and rich for more than thirty years, but he is also good at ending up at home.Although everyone complained about Zhu Yi, Emperor Wu of Liang mourned very much, and gave him a gift from Shangshu Youpushe.Zhu Yi escaped the catastrophe alive, and all his descendants died tragically in the massacre of the city in the future. The soldiers and civilians of the Liang Dynasty in Taicheng had never known that several reinforcements from outside were regrouping, and only then did they learn the news, "the whole city clamored", cheering loudly.However, everyone was too happy. Xiao Si, the eldest son of Poyang King Xiao Fan, Yongan Hou Xiaoque and Zhuang Tie, the sons of Shaoling King Xiao Lun (this bastard first gave Hou Jing a bad idea, then ran away and returned to the government army), Yang Yaren, Li Qianshi, Fan Wenjiao, and Liu Zhongli's younger brother Liu Jingli all led their troops across the Huai River, stormed the front gate of Dongfu, and set fire to the fence erected by Hou Jing's bandit army. The bandit army retreated.Two brave generals, Li Qianshi and Fan Wenjiao, led 5,000 sharp soldiers to take advantage of the victory and advance alone, attacking in depth, invincible.But they overlooked one thing, Hou Jing (including almost all the generals of the Northern Dynasty), the best way to play is to defeat first and then win. Well, anyway, they took aim at the weakness of the Southern soldiers who "have the courage to take advantage of the victory and are timid to fight". The thief ambushed Song Zixian's soldiers and horses, and suddenly broke out halfway, defeating the Liang army. Fan Wenjiao died in battle. The official moved and escaped with his life, and the five thousand Liang soldiers were basically made dumplings by Hou Jing's bandit army. After this defeat, the reinforcements outside Jiankang City were separated from each other and scattered.Chaos World Venerable General.Liu Zhongli was just a governor of the state. After he was promoted to be the governor, he only fought a battle to save his cousin Wei Can when he first arrived, and almost stabbed Hou Jing to death.After being stabbed in the shoulder, the governor never fought a battle in person. He only knew that he drank wine and ate meat in the camp every day, and "looked arrogant and scorned the generals".Xiao Lun, the king of Shaoling, came to the door every day with a whip and reported on time, but General Liu was often delayed.As a result, the teeth of Xiao Lun, Xiao Dalian and others were itchy with hatred.At the same time, Lincheng Gong Xiao Dalian and Yongan Hou Xiao did not get along.The armies are suspicious of each other, and there is no fighting spirit.When these "official troops" first arrived in Jiankang, the common people helped the old and the young to welcome them. Unexpectedly, the younger soldiers had just crossed the Huai River, and they all plundered. ".Without the three major disciplines and eight points of attention, losing popular support will definitely end the game. The internal and external stalemate continued until March, and the soldiers and civilians in Taicheng became increasingly desperate.When the war first broke out, everyone was thinking about grain storage, and the rice stockpile amounted to more than 400,000 hu, which was ridiculous. They also "collected 50 trillion yuan of money and silk from various prefectures and gathered them in Deyang Hall", which is very important. Firewood, salt, etc., but nothing. After being trapped for a long time, the necessities were quickly depleted, and the people in Taicheng could only demolish all Shang Shusheng, and use precious beams to chop firewood for fire.All kinds of mats were removed, and hay was chopped up to feed the horses.The fodder ran out and the horses could only be fed with rice.The soldiers worked hard and had no food to eat. They could only cook armor, burn rat carcasses, and catch birds to fill their stomachs.After searching and searching, someone found a piece of dry moss on the flat ground behind the imperial dining room that tasted salty, so they dug up the root and broke it into small pieces to distribute to the soldiers as a substitute for salt.In the end, soldiers slaughtered horses among Taiwan provinces inside and outside the Forbidden Palace for food, mixed with dead human flesh, "whoever eats will get sick". The soldiers and civilians in Taicheng are like this, and Hou Jing's life is not easy.Not to mention that the army rations were exhausted, and they looted and looted everywhere, but nothing was found.At the same time, when he heard that King Qin of Jingzhou was about to arrive, Hou Jing was even more worried.Adviser Wang Wei gave him an idea: "There is rice in the east city, which can be supported for a year. Liang Jun blocked the road to get food. We can pretend to seek peace, take the opportunity to rest soldiers and horses, repair equipment, wait for the enemy to slack off, and attack suddenly." Hou Jing was in a dilemma, thinking that he had deceived Liang Tingjun and his ministers again and again, and now he was asking for peace, and the other party was not mentally retarded, so he would definitely not agree.But the matter has come to this point, a dead horse is a living horse doctor, so I have to try it anyway. When Hou Jingqiu and his envoys came to see him, the old man of Emperor Wu of Liang was furious: "It's better to die than make peace!" Prince Xiao Gang "pleased" and said: "Hou Jing has been besieged for a long time, and the reinforcements will fight each other instead of fighting. It is better to temporarily allow them to make peace, and it will be a later plan." Emperor Liang Wu thought for a long time, and after a long time, he sighed and said: "You can figure it out, don't make fun of it for thousands of years!" The prince Xiao Gang was also so hungry that he was desperate to die. Before Fan Taobang really surrendered, he firmly doubted and refused to accept it.Now that Hou Jing pretended to ask for peace, he agreed without hesitation.The fall of the Liang Dynasty made the brains of these high-IQ emperors and grandsons full of porridge. Unexpectedly by Hou Jing, Liang Ting not only agreed to sue for peace, but also ordered the prince's son Xiao Dakuan (look at the name, he is also a big money) to enter Hou Jingying's camp as a servant as a pledge. "Re-advance", and issued an edict to make Hou Jing, the murderer who besieged the city, the prime minister, the king of Henan, and "cut the four prefectures of Jiangxi to Hou Jing".In order to solemnize the matter, the two sides also set up an altar oath outside the Xihua Gate. After the peace talks were over, Hou Jing's army had no intention of withdrawing at all, the long siege remained the same, and the bandit soldiers took the time to rest their armor and staff and relax their muscles and bones.Liang Ting blamed Hou Jing for a while, saying that "the siege cannot be withdrawn without a boat", and then saying that "I am afraid that the southern army will chase after it", and sent back Xiao Daqian, demanding that the king of Xuancheng be replaced as a hostage to cover the bandit army. leave. At this time, Xiao Huili, the king of Nankang, Xiao Tui, the Marquis of Xiangtan, and Xiao Yu, the son of the Marquis of Xichang, came to help with an army of 30,000, and they were stationed in Mawangzhou.Hou Jing was afraid that the Liang army would attack suddenly from Baixia, so he wrote a letter to ask this Liang army to return to the south bank, "otherwise, I will hinder the minister from Jijiang".Fearing that they would be fooled, Prince Xiao Gang actually agreed and ordered Xiao Huili and others to move the army from Baixia to Jiangtanyuan. Hou Jing has been playing the game of "to tease you", and he is really addicted to it.He also sent someone to inform Prince Xiao Gang that his old nest in Shouyang had been occupied by the Eastern Wei Dynasty, and he asked Liang Ting to give him Qiaozhou and Guangling, and said that he would cross the river from Jingkou. "The prince will agree with you", so forthright that even Hou Jing felt embarrassed. In the end, there was really no reason not to withdraw. Hou Jing said: "Yong'an Hou Xiaoque and Zhige General Zhao Wei scolded me, saying, 'The Son of Heaven will make peace with you, and we will eventually destroy you', if The emperor recalled the two of them, and we immediately lead the army to rescue the siege." So far, people with a little bit of two brain cells will think that Hou Jing is messing around.Unexpectedly, such an absurd "request" was actually agreed by Liang Ting. Emperor Wu of Liang ordered Xiao Que and Zhao Wei to enter the city, and awarded Xiao Que the governor of Guangzhou and Zhao Wei the prefect of Xuyi.In order to ensure that Xiao Que would not "provoke" Hou Jing again, Emperor Wu of Liang sent Zhang Wan, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, out of the city to call Xiao Que into the camp in person. "(Xiao) is really tired of Qi Gu's resignation, if he does not enter, the superior (Emperor Wu) will not allow it." There is no way, Xiao Que let Zhao Wei enter the city first, and he wanted to take the opportunity to go south to Jingzhou to vote for Xiao Yi.Xiao Lun, king of Shaoling, had been at war with Hou Jing for a long time, but at this time he called his second son Xiao Que into his account and "crying and persuading" him to join the court.当时，催促萧确入朝的台使都在萧伦营帐内，萧确恳切地对来人说：“侯景讲和而不撤长围，其意自明。现召我入城，何益于事！”台使坚称：“敕旨如此，不能拒绝！”萧确仍旧摇头。 萧伦也怒，对身边的谯州刺史赵伯超说：“你替我杀了这小子，台使可持其首级复命！” 常逃将军赵伯超此时来了精神，抽出刀来冲萧确公子直比划。萧确怕激怒父王，更怕内斗伤和气，只能流泪入城。 可怜萧老爷子，堂堂五十年太平天子，台城之围，“上厨蔬茹皆绝”，邵陵王萧伦趁台使外出召萧确之机，为老头儿捎去几百个鸡蛋，“上（武帝）手自料简，歔欷哽咽”。此情此景，令人心酸。 可怜之人，必有可恨之处。正是梁武帝父子的柔仁“好心”，使得侯景能从容把东府粮米皆运入石头城。同时，闻知心怀鬼胎的湘东王萧绎又在西峡口屯兵不进，王伟便劝侯景立刻背盟进兵。萧正德想做“真皇帝”，也撺掇侯景：“大功垂就，岂可弃去！”侯景哈哈大笑，两人和他想得完全一样。 为了有理有利有节，侯景进攻前，王伟又为他写檄文，除述梁武帝“十失”，一一数罪，最后，又为梁武帝一生的统治“定性”： 陛下崇饰虚诞，恶闻实录，以妖怪为嘉祯，以天谴为无咎。敷衍六艺，排摈前儒，王莽之法也。以铁为货，轻重无常，公孙之制也（公孙述据蜀乱民）。烂羊镌印，朝章鄙杂，更始、赵伦之化也（东汉更始的滥授官职以及赵王司马伦的滥赏）……修建浮图，厚度糜费，使四民饥饿，笮融（汉献帝时佞佛事）、姚兴之代也……政以贿成，诸阉豪盛，众僧殷实……皇太子珠玉是好，酒色是耽……湘东（萧绎）群下贪纵；南康（萧会理）、定襄（萧祇）之属，皆如沐猴而冠耳。亲为孙侄，位则藩屏，臣（侯景自称）至百日，谁肯勤王！今日之举，复奚罪乎！ ... 洋洋长文，文采华章，把萧衍家事国政骂得一无是处，且字字中的，大致无虚。 梁武帝览文，“且惭且怒”。于是，梁廷在太极殿前又举行告天仪式，责侯景违盟，“举烽鼓噪”。此时还搞这一套，屁用不管。闭城时，台城中本有居民十多万，战士两万多，至此，“死者十八九，乘城者不满四千人，率略羸喘。横尸满路，不可瘗埋，烂汁满沟”。到了这些步，“而众心犹望外援”，仍抱最后一丝希望，幻想四周勤王军队可以进攻侯景。 其实，城内军民坚守如此，有必死之心。如果勤王诸部四处攻击，给侯景来个“反包围”，里应外合，贼军必败无疑。但是，“（大都督）柳仲礼唯聚妓妾，置酒作乐，诸将日往请战，仲礼不许”。 安南侯萧骏劝邵陵王萧伦：“城危如此，而都督不救，若万一不虞，殿下何颜自立于世？今宜分军为三道，出贼不意攻之，可以成功。”萧伦不从。这位爷是萧衍第六子，对父皇还算忠心耿耿，就是无勇断之谋。 柳仲礼之父柳津在朝内为官，登上城楼，大叫道：“汝君汝父临大难，你不能竭力，百世之后，谓汝为何物？”柳仲礼假装听不见。 萧老爷子找来气哼哼的柳老头，向其问计，柳津回言：“陛下有邵陵（萧伦），臣有仲礼，不忠不孝，怎可平贼？” 南康王萧会理与羊鸦仁、赵伯超进军于东府城北，相约夜间渡河突击侯景。不知何故，羊鸦仁一军至晓未至，侯景发觉梁军异动，主动派宋子仙出击。梁军刚立阵，赵伯超又依往常一样，未战先逃（寒山大败、玄武湖大败均因此人先遁而导致军溃），萧会理单军不支，大败，被杀及摔入河中淹死的梁军有五千多人。侯景命贼军把死亡梁军的脑袋全部割下，堆在城下以恐吓台城内守军。 三月中旬，侯景见时机成熟，便掘开玄武湖水灌城，又命军士百道攻城，昼夜不息。屯守太阳门的主将是邵陵王世子萧坚。此人不像其弟萧确那样英锐，“善草隶，性颇庸短”，是个书法爱好者，没什么统军管理能力。担任守门如此要务，这哥们天天赌博饮酒、玩乐一点儿也不耽误，“吏士有功，未尝申理，疫疠所加，亦不存恤”，士卒皆怨恨。关键时刻关键地点，萧坚的两个书吏夜间于城西北楼用绳子吊侯景贼兵入城，上城先把萧坚剁成数段。 正在城中的永安侯萧确眼见哥哥的脑袋被贼兵从城头上抛掷而下，一腔仇恨，引兵力斗。最终，寡不敌众，贼兵大开城门，越涌越多。萧确不敌，跑回内宫，直入爷爷萧衍寝宫，喘着气报告：“城已陷没”。 “上（武帝）安卧不动，曰'犹可一战乎？'（萧）确曰：'不可'。上叹曰：'自我得之，自我失之，亦复何恨！'” 萧衍最后两句话，多年来一直被认为是霉运帝王最终的潇洒雄豪之语，其实，自我得之失之，确实不必遗恨，但江东千万百姓的性命，皆随一家一姓的衰亡而遭屠灭，其恨不可谓不大。 萧衍还算镇定，对萧确说：“你快跑吧，告诉你父亲，勿以二宫为念（指自己和太子萧纲）。”萧确含泪而出。 很快，王伟奉侯景之命先至文德殿“奉谒”梁武帝，称侯景“领众入朝，惊动圣躬，今诣阙待罪”。 “侯景何在？可以召来一见。”萧衍帝王风度确实不减。 于是，侯景入见武帝于太极东堂，“以甲士五百人自卫”。侯景于殿下稽颡施礼，典仪官引其坐于三公官榻，距武帝御座很近。 梁武帝神色不变，问：“卿在军中日久，很辛苦吧！” “（侯）景不敢仰视，汗流满面”。毕竟这贼头是北魏边陲一偷鸡摸狗出身的镇兵，确实没见过真天子和大场面。 梁武帝又问侯景籍贯以及他家属何在，侯景皆因惶恐而不能回答。最后，梁武帝问：“你初渡长江时有多少人？” 侯景闻言，仰头自答：“千人。” “围台城时有多少人？”武帝问。 “十万。” “现在有多少人？” “率土之内，莫非己有！”至此，侯景忽然意识到自己才是建康的真正主人，高声悖辞，抗言梁武帝。 “上（武帝）俯首不言”。老爷子顿时气索，千愁万恨，涌上心头。 见完武帝，侯景又入见太子萧纲。“太子亦无惧容”。侯景亦下拜。太子和他谈话，这位大贼人仍然犯了自卑病，俯首吃吃，不能答言。 出得宫来，侯景对左右亲信埋怨自己不争气：“我常年跨马对阵，矢刃交下，意气安缓，从不惊恐。今见萧公（武帝），使人自怖，岂非真是天威难犯！我以后再也不见他了。” 于是，侯景派人撤尽武帝和太子的侍卫，纵兵大掠，把皇宫抢个精空。矫诏大赦，自封为大都督中外诸军、录尚书事。 布置完毕，侯景派太子之子石城公萧大款出城以武帝名义下诏遣散建康城外诸路援军。 柳仲礼召集诸位宗室、大将商议。邵陵王萧伦表示：“今日之事，由将军您作主。” 柳仲礼“孰视无睹”，死猪不怕开水烫，一点儿表示也没有。 裴之高、王僧辩进言：“将军拥众百万，致使宫阙沦没，正当悉力决战，何所多言！” “（柳）仲礼竟无一言”。 于是，诸军解散。萧伦、萧大连、萧方、萧嗣、萧侯退等宗室皆各领人还镇或奔亡，柳仲礼、羊鸦仁、王僧辩、赵伯超“并开营降，军士莫不叹愤”。 但按理讲，这些人是向梁武帝“开营降”，因为侯景还没有弑帝篡位。 为此，后来在北周为官的梁臣庾信十分激愤：“孙策以天下为三分，众才一旅；项羽用江东子弟，人惟八千。遂乃分裂山河，宰割天下。岂有百万义师，一朝卷甲，芟荑斩伐，如草木焉！……将非江表王气，终于三百年乎？……” 柳仲礼等人入台城，先拜侯景，才去见老皇帝。萧衍灰心，也不搭理这些人。柳津见到柳仲礼，恸哭大骂：“汝非吾子，何劳相见！” 侯景留柳仲礼之弟柳敬礼、羊鸦仁于内，遣柳仲礼归司州，王僧辩归竟陵（王僧辩未留亲属为人质，得以出建康，大概还是因为侯景认为他是“北人”的缘故。王僧辩的父亲王神念，是北魏降梁的鲜卑人，原姓乌丸，而侯景又是鲜卑化的羯人，说不定两人见面还整几句鲜卑语唠磕，故而能使王僧辩“潇洒”出建康。侯景没想到，日后让他灭亡的，主要是这个“北人”老乡。） 武帝父子都在自己手里，自然挟天子以令诸侯，侯景游刃有余，处理“得当”。同时，他又下令尽焚台城内尸体，许多人饥饿困病半死，侯景贼军也把他们活活扔入火中烧掉。 梁武帝此时作为皇宫内一个囚徒，心甚不平。临老临败，萧衍暴倔脾气忽然上来，多次拒绝在侯景对内外官员的任用书上用玺画押。侯景恼怒，逐渐断绝武帝的饮食。 公元549年阴历五月丙辰，老皇帝躺在净居殿，多病口苦，想喝口蜜水，无人答应。凄惶之下，连叫两声“嗬嗬”，崩殂，时年八十六。“嗬嗬”之声，后人有不少解释，有的讲是武帝作冲杀之声，有的讲是武帝作愤恨呐喊，有的讲是武帝临终冷笑，笔者觉得，老爷子临死两声叫唤没有多大意思，就是想吃口甜东西，不能满足，哀叹叫唤而已。后世史官，对梁武帝个人的品格秉性评价甚高： 高祖生知淳孝。年六岁，献皇太后崩，水浆不入口三日，哭泣哀苦，有过成人，内外亲党，咸加敬异。……加以文思钦明，能事毕究，少而笃学，洞达儒玄。虽万机多务，犹卷不辍手，燃烛侧光，常至戌夜。造《制旨孝经义》、《周易讲疏》及《六十四卦》、《二系》、《文言》、《序卦》等义，……凡二百余卷，并正先儒之迷，开古圣之旨。王侯朝臣皆奉表质疑，高祖皆为解释。修饰国学，增广生员，立五馆，置《五经》博士。……兼笃信正法，尤长释典，制《涅槃》、《大品》、《净名》、《三慧》诸经义记，复数百卷。听览余闲，即于重云殿及同泰寺讲说，名僧硕学，四部听众，常万余人。又造《通史》，躬制赞序，凡六百卷。天情睿敏，下笔成章，千赋百诗，直疏便就，皆文质彬彬，超迈今古。诏铭赞诔，箴颂笺奏，爰初在田，洎登宝历，凡诸文集，又百二十卷。六艺备闲，棋登逸品，阴阳纬侯，卜筮占决，并悉称善。又撰《金策》三十卷。草隶尺牍，骑射弓马，莫不奇妙。勤于政务，孜孜不怠。每至冬月，四更竟，即敕把烛看事，执笔触寒，手为皴裂。纠奸擿伏，洞尽物情，常哀矜涕泣，然后可奏。日止一食，膳无鲜腴，惟豆羹粝食而已。庶事繁拥，日傥移中，便嗽口以过。身衣布衣，木绵阜帐，一冠三载，一被二年。常克俭于身，凡皆此类。五十外便断房室。后宫职司，贵妃以下，六宫袆褕三翟之外，皆衣不曳地，傍无锦绮。不饮酒，不听音声，非宗庙祭祀、大会飨宴及诸法事，未尝作乐。性方正，虽居小殿暗室，恒理衣冠，小坐押要，盛夏暑月，未尝褰袒。不正容止，不与人相见，虽觌内竖小臣，亦如遇大宾也。历观古昔帝王人君，恭俭庄敬，艺能博学，罕或有焉。 但是，身为帝王，自己一个人做“苦行僧”是没有用的，统治集团整个都靡烂腐化，尤其是武帝中晚年，宠任奸人，佞佛劳民，赏罚无章，最终使亿民涂炭，社稷成灰，可悲可叹！ 对于统治王朝来讲，自魏晋之后，如果皇帝及士大夫崇信沉溺老庄、佛教、法家任何一教，对于其统治肯定会造成巨大的危害。“不相济则祸犹浅，而相沿则祸必烈”。如果文人士大夫成日清谈老庄，肯定日益消沉荡志；皇帝醉心于佞佛求福，会慢慢使社会财力消耗巨大；最后，下层小吏以残酷之法，行申韩刻剥之术，又一定会造成民匮兵疲。特别有意思的是，纵观石虎、姚兴、萧衍以来的中国历史，以佛、老妄诞虚理为“上层建筑”者，必会以申韩刻剥严刑为“基础建设”，不幸的是，梁武帝首当其冲，成了中国历史上正朔帝王亡于佛、老虚妄的第一个反面教材。 武帝死后近一个月，侯景才允许发丧。太子萧纲继“皇帝”位，是为梁朝简文帝。“侯景出屯朝堂，分兵守卫。” 先前密迎侯景的临贺王萧正德本来和侯景约定，台城攻破后他亲自率兵入宫杀掉叔叔萧衍和堂弟萧纲。现在，侯景食言，一入城就废自己为大司马；武帝死后，侯景又立萧纲为帝。气急败坏之下，他就派人送密信给鄱阳王萧范，让他带兵入城。信使出城不久，就被侯景军士捕得。至此，侯景才想起这个“废物”，立即派人用绳子勒死了这个吃里扒外的东西。 侯景爱惜勇将，入城之后，常让永安侯萧确跟从于自己左右四处巡逛。萧伦秘密使人招儿子趁机逃出建康，萧确回报说：“侯景轻佻，杀之一夫之力耳。我欲手刃此贼，未得其便，望父王勿以我为念。”数日后，侯景率众人去钟山游猎为乐，萧确引弓假装要射鸟，忽然掉转箭头对准侯大贼头。估计是国恨家仇一涌而上，美少年引弓用力过度，竟然拉断弓弦，矢落于地。侯景从人发觉，争前击杀，萧确功亏一篑。