The east wind rose lightly, and the withered yellow and new green reeds swayed undulatingly. Daluze has been a place of beautiful mountains and rivers since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and the monarch of Zhao during the Warring States Period once had another palace here. Yuanxiang, which is about ten miles west of Daluze, was originally a small place with a little-known name, and because of the annual war and disaster, it has long been ten rooms and nine empty. Recently, it was surrounded by soldiers and horses on the inner and outer three floors.

The ironclad sergeant roared, the war drums rumbled through the sky, and the low wall of Yuanxiang seemed to tremble. But no matter how majestic these soldiers and horses were, they only surrounded them, refusing to break the city easily, as if the low broken wall was an impassable high wall.

At the same time, there are constantly people shouting out to the encirclement:

"Listen to the people inside, if you come out and surrender early, you will not only get preferential treatment from His Royal Highness the Prince, but those who are officials will also be promoted to three levels, and those who are soldiers will be directly rewarded with New Year's Officials. If you refuse to come out, when the city is broken, the last person to be caught will not only be killed by swords, but also annihilated by the three tribes......"

When a group of people were tired of shouting, another group of people immediately made up for it, so that from sunrise to sunset, there was no momentum of the besieging soldiers and horses attacking again.

However, this sound of Chinese still played a role after all, and at first, only a few people secretly ran out to surrender. Even if you jump directly from the low earthen wall, you won't be injured. As more and more people escaped, by sunset thousands had already walked out of the low earthen city.

The one who led his troops to surround this low earthen city was Shi Chaoyi, the prince of the Great Yan Dynasty, and it was Shi Siming, the emperor of the Great Yan Dynasty, who was besieged in the city layer by layer.

"My father unfairly favors Chaoqing, if my father is willing to say a word, I won't do the position of the crown prince, what if he directly lets him Chaoqing? But my father listened to the slander and insisted on putting me to death, and now the soldiers are fighting each other, and they are really forced to meet each other!

Shi Chaoyi's face still had a few teardrops that seemed to be sad, but his voice was already so cold that he shivered, and the low roars revealed the coldness and smugness of everything under control all the time.

Those officials, generals and ordinary soldiers who had just "abandoned the darkness and turned to the light" praised the prince for his wisdom. Suddenly, the crown prince of the "Great Yan Dynasty" seemed to have become a quasi-emperor who was about to ascend the throne.

To tell the truth, just three days ago, Shi Chaoyi was still afraid of death, and even had the idea of pleading guilty in front of Shi Siming. However, when he learned that Shi Siming only took more than 1,000 people to hunt near Daluze, he was born from the side of his guts, and resolutely took up the soldiers and horses of Ye and Ming, intending to strike first, and kill his father like An Qingxu and establish himself as the emperor.

Shi Siming was a hero, but he didn't expect to fall under his own son. And this heel fall is a big heel between life and death. In a hurry, Shi Siming fled with his official entourage into the low Tucheng of Yuan Township for refuge, and was thus surrounded by tens of thousands of pursuers in the Tucheng.

At this time, Shi Siming's subordinate guards were still in Zhaozhou, a hundred miles north of Yuan Township.

For Shi Siming, this is really called heaven and earth, seeing that the low Tucheng in Yuanxiang cannot stop the strong attack of tens of thousands of troops, but at the moment of life and death, the soldiers and horses besieging the city are all stuck, but they are constantly persuaded to surrender and surrender.

The reason for this is also that there is a local celebrity named Ding Xiaoli in Yecheng who defected to Shi Chaoyi. Shi Chaoyi originally planned to take advantage of the situation to capture the town of Yuanxiang in one fell swoop and kill his father in the chaos, but it was this Ding Xiaoli who stopped him at a critical moment.

Ding Xiaoli is well-versed in the past and the present, and his words are conclusive, saying that since ancient times, none of the emperors who killed their fathers will have a good end, and they will not only be scolded by the world, but also bear the guilt and anger of God.

Shi Chaoyi really had the intention of being a great monarch like the Qin Emperor and Han Dynasty, so he asked Ding Xiaoli for advice on how to treat his father in order to have the best of both worlds. He never wanted to let Shi Siming go, but he was a little hesitant, An Qingxu was unanimously opposed and betrayed by the government and the opposition because of his father's murder and king's murder. He didn't want to follow in An Qingxu's footsteps. Ding Xiaoli looked at the rippling blue waves of Daluze and talked about a tragedy that happened here thousands of years ago. A monarch named Zhao Yong was trapped alive in the palace by his own son's Zuochen, who was the famous King Zhao Wuling in history.

Ding Xiaoli pointed to an earthen wall on the west side of Dalu Ze, where was the former Zhao Guobei Palace, the Dune Palace. Now that Shi Siming is trapped in the Yuan Township of the hometown of the Sand Dune Palace, isn't this the will of heaven? Shi Chaoyi is a person who does not learn and has no skills, and he does not know who King Zhao Wuling is, but he is convinced of this kind of prophecy.

Facing the lake breeze on Daluze, Ding Xiaoli told the life of King Zhao Wuling first bright and then dark. The smart and cunning Shi Siming immediately found a way to deal with his father, and he couldn't stop laughing in the face of Da Lu Ze.

"It's God, it's this thief who wants to kill you, Father, don't blame me under Jiuquan!"

As a result, Shi Chaoyi surrounded the town of Yuanxiang on the one hand, and persuaded the officials and generals around Shi Siming to surrender. On the other hand, he sent his cronies, pretending to be Shi Siming's envoys, to transfer the Praetorian Guards stationed in Zhaozhou to Raoyang in the east. It is reported that the Tang Dynasty was making waves in the east, just in time for them to touch the mold.

Under such a series of arrangements, Shi Chaoyi could finally wait for Shi Siming to die in Yuanxiang City with peace of mind.

It's only been a few days, and the officials and entourage who remain in the rural city of Yuanxiang are less than one. In addition to a few loyal eunuchs and more than a dozen retinues, the side of the "Great Yan Emperor" Shi Siming has long been tragically betrayed.

Shi Siming, who was at the peak of his life, would have thought that he would have a day when everyone would betray his relatives, and the person who closed him up was his own son.

Shi Siming, who had been hungry for three days and three nights, only felt lightheaded, and his eyes were full of stars, and he held on to a small tree to stabilize his burly body. Shi Siming, who is in the prime of life, can eat five catties of mutton and drink two catties of wine for one meal. Now I am dizzy with hunger, and I want to peel off all the bark and eat it.

"Your Majesty, it's windy outside, so let's go to the house and rest, so as not to catch a cold......"

It was the eunuch Zhang Gou'er who persuaded Shi Siming, who had been by his side for more than ten years. When he was alive, the high-ranking and powerful generals in the border towns liked to raise eunuchs as slaves, so this Zhang Gou'er had followed Shi Siming since he was ten years old, and it was not an exaggeration to say that he was a slave born to the family, and his loyalty to him was still far higher than that of those generals.

"Call them all in, everyone can get together, and someone can talk to each other. ”

However, Zhang Gou'er's expression was speechless and stopped, opened his mouth, and finally didn't speak. Although Shi Siming was already dizzy from hunger, how could he not see that Zhang Gou'er's expression was different?

"Say, is there anything else to hide from me?"

was so frightened by this sudden shout that Zhang Gou'er was so frightened that his knees weakened and he knelt on the ground.

"Your Majesty is angry, the slave and maid don't dare, don't dare......"

Zhang Gou'er kowtowed like garlic, and actually cried and begged for mercy, Shi Siming saw him crying miserably, and thought of his current situation, he couldn't help but feel gloomy in his heart, his anger gradually subsided, and he reached out to help him up.

"You might as well say it bluntly, did those bastards also turn their backs and vote for that disobedient son?"

Zhang Gou'er didn't dare to speak, only wiped his tears and nodded, which was regarded as affirming Shi Siming's guess.

"Kill, kill, I should have killed these wolf-hearted, two-faced bastards a long time ago......"

Shi Siming scolded and stomped his feet to vent, and now he can only stomp his feet to vent. The population of this rural city has long been scattered, and some homeless beggars have gathered to occupy the houses in the city, but when they saw the soldiers fighting one after another, they also ran away.

It was precisely because of the concentration of the homeless beggars that there was hardly a single food to eat in the entire Yuanxiang Township. In addition, it is now the turn of spring and summer, and even wanting to dig some wild vegetables in the ground is a fool's dream.

Moreover, because Shi Siming was hunting on light horses, he barely carried much food with him, and he usually shared the food on the spot after hunting wild beasts. Now he is suddenly trapped in the rural city of Yuanxiang, except for one or two wells to draw water to drink, it only takes one day to consume all the food.

After that, it took another three or two days, the war horses were all killed, eaten up, and a large number of entourages secretly fled and left Yuanxiang. The low earth city can't trap people, so you just have to jump down while people are not paying attention, and then throw off your legs and run for your life, as long as you escape a stone's throw away, it will be safe.

At the beginning, Shi Siming also strictly guarded against those who tried to betray him, and those who found defectors were all shot, and those who were captured were tortured to death with the most cruel punishment.

But over time, this cruel precaution did not work, and hundreds of people successfully betrayed and fled every day. In the end, Shi Siming was completely desperate, and on the third night when the food was eaten up, the only person left by his side was a mutilated eunuch. Those generals and old brothers who lived and died together easily betrayed him.

Shi Siming was tired of scolding, and after a few lines of exertion, he rolled out of his eye sockets, and then he looked at Zhang Gou'er, who was almost shrunk into a ball.

"Why aren't you leaving?"

"Slave maid, slave maid will die by Your Majesty's side, slave maid will never betray Your Majesty......"

Zhang Gou'er's voice was like a mosquito, which made Shi Siming somewhat comforted, but then he sighed gloomily:

"You, you can also go, you have been with me for more than ten years, I can't bear to see you starve to death in vain ......"

"Your Majesty?"

Zhang Gou'er raised his head in disbelief, but what he saw was Shi Siming's red eyes.

"Let's go, don't go yet!"