The cultivation of the Dao Dan Realm can usually have a longevity of more than two hundred years, Zhang Xiong is only over eighty years old at this time, and in terms of his cultivation in the middle of the Dao Dan Realm, it can be said that he is in the prime of life. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

However, in a mansion where Chen Hai, Ge Xuanqiao, Miao Mingcheng, and Yue Yiran walked into Yuchicheng and was temporarily recruited by Zhang Xiong as a palace, the Zhang Xiong they saw was full of gray hair and aging.

You must know that in a few days, when Zhang Xiong was escorting outside Yuchi City, he was still standing on top of the gorgeous chariot with crow-colored hair and shawl, tall and majestic, wearing a fire cloud battle armor, like an immortal general descending into the world.

And in the council hall, whether it was the children of the Zhang family or the generals who had previously surrendered to Zhang Xiong from the northern and southern armies, their eyes were more suspicious, vigilant, frustrated, fearful and even curious, but they could not see anger, hatred or madness that was driven to a dead end.

When he walked into Yuchicheng, Yue Yiran still expected Zhang Xiong to be able to kill Chen Hai and Ge Xuanqiao in a hurry-in his opinion, this is the biggest role that Zhang Xiong can play in his desperation, but when he saw Zhang Xiong's aging appearance, he was disappointed, and he felt shocked, and he didn't understand why a generation of heroes suddenly became like this.

So many of their generals were ruthlessly killed on the battlefield by the elite army, with broken limbs and bones, and rivers of blood, why didn't they have anger and hatred in their hearts, why didn't they think about the ruthlessness of slashing Chen Hai and avenging the blood hatred for Paoze?

In public and private, Ge Xuanqiao wanted to end this war as soon as possible, but he also thought in his heart that Zhang Xiong might be unwilling and not so easy to succumb.

And when I walked into Yuchi City, I saw that although the city was also actively preparing for war, demolishing houses, strengthening barracks, building more parapets, and digging trenches in the city, there were also several counterweight catapults manufactured, it can be seen that the rebel generals have rich experience in the defense of the city, but the morale of the rebel generals is extremely depressed, and there is no life on their faces, Ge Xuanqiao is really right, now is indeed the best time for him and Chen Hai to enter the city to persuade surrender and show mercy, they entered Yuchi City, and what they faced was not hatred and crazy eyes.

Chen Hai stood in the dimly lit and oppressive hall, calmly facing the suspicious and vigilant scrutiny of Zhang Xiong and the rebel generals.

Considering that the defensive circle could not be supported for long, and Jade Chicheng did not have enough depth, the so-called Imperial Palace here would be within the throw range of the catapults outside the city, and they reinforced the inside of the hall with rows of logs to withstand the continuous bombardment of the catapults day and night, but this also made the originally not very spacious meeting hall even more cramped and dimly lit.

According to the Zhang family, which nurtured and bred children in Tianai Mountain, before Zhang Xiong, it was still a small tribe on the south bank of the Pinglu Sea.

Even after Zhang Xiong cultivated the Dao Dan, the rise of the Zhang clan was not rapid, and in the early years, Zhang Xiong was known as a martial idiot in Pinglu, focusing more on cultivation and ignoring the development of the clan.

It was the brutal and bloody Western Expedition that caused huge losses to the old clan of the Pinglu Oasis, and the Zhang clan was able to quickly fill the power gap left by the southern shore of the Pinglu Sea after the war, and rose to become a clan that respected Pinglu with the Ye clan, the Shi clan, and the Jing clan.

However, as far as Zhang Xiong himself is concerned, he does not have a particularly strong greed for power, after the Western Expedition, Zhang Xiong only briefly served as the left minister of the Western Qiang State, and spent most of his time in Tianai Mountain, but the clan brother Zhang Jun represented the Zhang clan and served as the deputy governor of the Southern Army for a long time, and held the military and political power.

The reason why Zhang Xiong was persuaded by the Demon God Temple and the Tibetan Qiang State to usurp the position of the lord of the Xiqiang State before Shi Wuying and Jing Yiyuan was not so much Zhang Xiong's personal ambition for power, but the more important and core factor was that Kong Peng's adultery with his daughter forced him to make such a choice.

Previously, the western foot of Tiele Ridge was defeated, and Zhang Xiong did not choose to break through under the support of a small number of guards at the last moment, but stayed to defend Yuchicheng with the rebel generals, which showed that he was indecisive and did not have the ruthless heart of the lord of the hegemon.

This is also the key reason why Ye Chentian, the old master of Xiqiang who is suspicious by nature, has always been unguarded against the Zhang family.

Zhang Xiong did not have the ambition to be the master, which was also the main reason why Chen Hai decided to enter Yuchicheng at this time and surrender.

This is also the most appropriate time to show mercy and have the elite army come forward to co-opt the remnants of the Zhang clan.

War is inherently bloody and cruel, but no one hates the bloodshed and cruelty inflicted by the elite on the battlefield.

And the battle of Yuchicheng will also replace the memory of the bloody western expedition more than 20 years ago by the clans and clans of the Pinglu Great Oasis to a certain extent, and the end of the war at this time will not only not deepen, but even greatly weaken the hatred of the tribes of the Pinglu Great Oasis towards Yanzhou.

If the brutal war continues, it is one thing to unreasonably weaken the potential of the Pinglu Oasis, and on the other hand, even if Ye Qinglin leads the subsequent war, as long as the Ye clan takes bloody revenge and purge against the clan clans that participated in the rebellion, and the generals find a vent outside of cruelty and mental tension and exhaustion, it will breed more problems outside the battlefield.

None of this is what Chen Hai wants to see.

This time, Chen Hai, Ge Xuanqiao, Miao Mingcheng, and Yue Yiran walked into Yuchicheng, and naturally he personally negotiated with Zhang Xiong directly about the conditions for persuasion.

Zhang Xiong punished the lord of the country and the young monarch for usurping the throne and rebelling, or imprisoned or killed more than 10,000 children of the Ye clan and his relatives, and it was impossible to tolerate them to continue to stay in the Pinglu Oasis without punishment, but whether it was imprisoning Zhang Xiong and others in Taiwei Mountain, banishing the children of the Zhang family to Montenegro, and asking Zhang Xiong to persuade Zhang Jun, Kong Peng and other rebel generals to give up resistance, these conditions were by no means harsh and cruel.

Chen Hai personally entered the city to persuade him to surrender, and the conditions for persuasion were endorsed by Taiweizong and the Demon God Temple, and Zhang Xiong and other rebel generals had no way to raise any questions, but they needed time to think about it, and they also needed to send people to Zangdanfeng to communicate with Zhang Jun, Kong Peng and other rebel generals......

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Chen Hai and Ge Xuanqiao returned to Ye Qinglin's camp safely, while Miao Mingcheng and Yue Yiran went to Zangdanfeng to persuade Zhang Jun and Kong Peng to surrender instead of Zhang Xiong.

Although Zhang Xiong has not yet surrendered directly, and the generals are still making every effort to prepare for the siege of the city, Chen Hai and Ge Xuanqiao can get out of the city safely, and everyone knows that Zhang Xiong has the heart to belong.

The mood of the generals of the Ye royal clan is quite complicated.

Not to mention Shi Wuying, Jing Yiyuan and others, even Zhao Jin, Zhou Yiming, Gu Yanxia, Yang Jinsheng and other clan leaders who joined the Ye clan in the later stage all hoped to end this rebellion in their hearts, and they also thanked Chen Hai for his mercy on the rebels.

Even if the generals of the remnants of the Ye clan were very dissatisfied in their hearts, they had no way to express it at this time, they were persuaded to take care of the overall situation, only Ye He and a few other young generals left the camp angrily.

It is a pity that Ye He left the camp angrily, as the most outstanding son of the younger generation of the Ye family, after this war, he has matured in all aspects, and has established his own prestige in the army.

Chen Hai knew that the matter of persuasion would cause dissatisfaction among many people in the Ye family, but if he wanted to absorb the remnants of the Zhang family, there would be no way to satisfy everyone, fortunately, the Taiwei Sect and the Demon God Temple did not want to see the Ye family dominate the Pinglu Great Oasis, and balance and mutual containment were the future situation of the Pinglu Great Oasis that the Taiwei Sect and the Demon God Temple were willing to see.

Two days later, Miao Mingcheng and Yue Yiran returned to Dazhai at the west entrance of Nanjian Gorge from Zangdanfeng.

Although Zhang Jun and Kong Peng were still able to gather forty or fifty thousand soldiers and horses west of Zangdan Peak, they also knew very well in their hearts that the general trend had gone.

Even if you don't consider the outlier of the elite army, many clans and clans in Pinglu have re-chosen to throw themselves into the arms of the Ye clan, the strength of the Ye royal army is growing every moment, and the war resources that can be mobilized are also constantly expanding, whether it is bright or dark, the Tibetan Qiang Kingdom and the Demon God Temple will not contribute to this hopeless war in a short period of time, and Zhang Jun and Kong Peng have no more choices at this time.

However, unlike Zhang Xiong, who was besieged in Yuchicheng, Zhang Jun and Kong Peng could still lead their troops to flee if they could not defeat them, and the conditions they put forward were for the elite army and the Ye clan to allow them to lead their troops and horses, as well as Zhang's descendants and relatives in Tianai Mountain, to move to the Tahe Oasis to end the rebellion that lasted for a year.

At this time, many of the rebels who were stationed with Zhang Jun to guard the Tibetan Danfeng and the cities of Tianai Mountain and Xiqiang Wangcheng were the generals of the Northern and Southern Army who were forced to surrender to the Zhang clan when Zhang Xiong rebelled.

Chen Hai and Ye Qinglin will not allow Zhang Jun to take this part of the people away, which will make it possible for Zhang Jun and Kong Peng to lead this part of the generals to counterattack Pinglu in the future.

Yue Yiran actually ran away with the disciples of the Demon God Temple, and after several negotiations, the final negotiated conditions were that Chen Hai and Ye Qinglin agreed that Zhang Jun and Kong Peng could lead their descendants to move west;

Even after the First Battle of Yuchicheng, the Elite Army and the Ye Clan's Royal Army had enough strength to sweep the entire Pinglu Oasis, but they still followed the pre-war agreement and allowed Changle City to maintain a relatively independent status like Lucheng.

Regarding the matter of the He family and the Demon God Temple occupying Changle City, the Taiwei Sect was quite dissatisfied, but Chen Hai and Dong Ning withstood the pressure and pushed back the dissatisfaction of the Taiwei Sect.

The elite army must maintain a relatively independent position, and cannot let the Ye clan lead the nose, let alone the Taiwei Sect lead the nose, the future pattern of the Pinglu Oasis is the elite army, and the right to speak and dominate must be grasped in hand.

Otherwise, the Elite Army would have completely become a vassal of the Taiwei Sect - although the Ye clan hated the Demon God Temple, they also knew that it would not be beneficial for the Ye clan to completely expel the forces of the Demon God Temple from the Pinglu Great Oasis, so they remained silent on this matter.