After the new pavilion was surrounded, the siege was immediately carried out.

This time, Han Ming didn't use any tricks, not that he disdained it, but that he couldn't use it.

First of all, this is within the territory of the country, and there is no need for any discord or attack.

Secondly, Xinting is a resource city, and all the minerals buried in the ground are extremely difficult to dig through, and the tunnel cannot be used.

If all tricks can't be used, then it's just hard to gnaw.

The mountain-breaking cannon was directly erected and bombarded at the south gate of Xinting.

On the first day of the siege, the south gate was held with difficulty under Han Ming's fierce attack.

In fact, if it wasn't necessary, Han Ming really didn't want to attack the city by this means, not to mention the big losses, and it was easy to cause accidents.

But it can't be helped, sometimes, not every war can be solved by tricks.

On the second day, when the mountain cannon was lucky enough to break through the city gate, 1,000 forwards led by Madness personally broke through the south gate.

As soon as the south gate was broken, the trend of disintegration had been completed, and the new pavilion changed hands in an instant.

The new pavilion was taken down, and it also announced the failure of the second line of defense set up by Gao Min.

Next, as long as the last line of defense, Qinzhou County, Tianfu is taken, it can be declared successful.

However, after taking Xinting, Han Ming did not immediately send troops, but stopped at Xinting for a while.

On the one hand, the soldiers had just gone through a fierce siege battle and needed to rest, and on the other hand, Han Ming also had to consolidate his achievements and stabilize the rear.

If he hurriedly sent troops as soon as he took Xinting, which led to instability in the rear and the rise of the people's uprising, it would cause him to ignore each other, which was a taboo for soldiers.

Therefore, he wants to take advantage of this time to stabilize the results that have been achieved.

First of all, the three cities of Wuba, Lingli and Pingwu, the reason why Gao Min set these three cities as the first line of defense is because of the mutual communication between these three cities and frequent exchanges.

After Han Ming took the three cities, in order to prevent changes in the rear, he isolated the three cities and did not allow the people to interact with each other, for fear that the spies in the city would collude with each other.

Now that he is stationed in Xinting, he just has the energy to concentrate on dealing with this group of spies mixed with the common people.

And this matter, Han Ming left it to Yang Xu to deal with.

Before this, Yang Xu had never had the opportunity to go to the battlefield in person, because the positioning given to him by Han Ming was to guard, clean, and secret sentry, and the battlefield was not suitable for Yang Xu.

And this attack on Liguo is just right for Yang Xu's secret guard to show his strength.

In order to support Yang Xu's counter-espionage activities in the territory of Liguo, Han Ming specially gave Yang Xu a great power, that is, he was allowed to expand the number of secret guards at will, or simply set up a separate subordinate organization of the secret guards, which was personally commanded by Yang Xu.

This is equivalent to telling Yang Xu that as long as you can stabilize the Liguo City that the Chu army has subdued, even if you build an underground army, Han Ming will not care about him.

This is not an ordinary trust, it is enough to see that Yang Xu's status here in Han Ming is no less than that of Han Yu.

And Yang Xu was also very grateful to Han Ming for giving him this opportunity, he thought that he would be useless when he went to the battlefield, and he couldn't scout the Quartet for the Chu army like Han Yu did, and probe left and right.

Unexpectedly, this time Han Ming actually gave him such a big power, which immediately flattered him.

"Please rest assured that your subordinates will do their best to complete the tasks assigned to your subordinates. Yang Xu's voice trembled a little.

"Hmm. Han Ming nodded.

"I want you to remember that stability is the premise, and all the work you have done is to maintain stability in the areas occupied by the Chu State. On the basis of stability, we should do a good job of reassuring the people. When the time comes, I will arrange for the generals stationed to listen to your command, and if there is something that instigates the people, let the army suppress it on the one hand, and let you pacify it on the other, and take a two-pronged approach to make them happy and submit. Han Ming gave Yang Xu detailed instructions.

"The subordinates will live up to the trust of the adults. Yang Xu knelt down on one knee and replied solemnly.

At the end, Han Ming said, "If there is anything unclear or undecided, you can send someone to ask me at any time." ”

"No!"

With a promise, Han Ming heard Yang Xu's determination and expressed confidence in him.

As soon as the task of maintaining stability in the rear was arranged, bad news came from the other two counties.

Liu Han and Zhao Ming attacked Leping County, attacking the city all the way, and singing triumphantly.

When Han Ming attacked the first line of defense of Qinzhou County, the two of them had already taken the county seat of Leping County, and they saw that the entire Leping County was about to be taken.

That's where the problem comes in.

The speed of their siege was too fast, and the city was taken, but the eyeliner of the army in the city was not taken down, and the people had not yet returned, and the people were moved.

Zhao Ming only left a small number of troops to maintain order, at first it was okay, these spies were quite restrained, and later those who rebelled against the Chu army were carefully planned, and they rose up one after another.

The turmoil sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, and the entire Leping County was blooming everywhere, and there were people who rebelled against the Chu army everywhere, which made Liu Han and others busy for a while.

When the Li army, which was about to withdraw from Leping County, saw this situation, they immediately organized the army to push back and besiege the Chu army in the county seat of Leping County.

Leping is in a hurry.

On the other side, Liu Zhixian and Chen Feng also attacked Shanxi.

Shanxi County is too big, and the two agreed to divide the troops and march, and finally join forces to advance to Jincheng.

It's just that they underestimated the ability of Shanxi County to defend Lu Ya, and Shanxi County had a total of 25,000 standing garrisons.

Liu Zhixian had just conquered the first city in Shanxi County, and Lu Ya didn't know where to get an army of 30,000 and came straight to him.

After careful consideration, he decided to abandon the city and join forces with Chen Feng to discuss the strategy of breaking the enemy.

It just so happened that at this time, Chen Feng was advancing all the way, and he was about to hit Jincheng, but he suddenly received a request from Liu Zhixian to join forces.

Chen Feng was dissatisfied and did not respond immediately.

"This Liu Zhixian, his ability is not good, and he still wants to join forces with me? It is obvious that he sees that I am about to take Jincheng and wants to share the credit with me. Chen Feng said angrily.

When his generals saw it, they hurriedly agreed: "Yes, my subordinates also think that this Liu Zhixian has no ability, if it weren't for Han Ming's favor, what qualifications would he have to accompany you with the general." It must have been seeing that the general was about to fight to Jincheng, his eyes were red, and he came to share the general's credit. ”

"Yes, the last general thinks so, too. ”

"Yes, that's right......"

"This Liu Zhixian is too hateful......"

Several generals in the camp blamed one after another.

After hearing these words, Chen Feng was even more convinced that Liu Zhixian's purpose in proposing the joint army this time was to grab merit.

After thinking for a while, Chen Feng ordered: "Don't worry about them, let's speed up the siege of the city, and be sure to take Jincheng before Liu Zhixian arrives." ”

"Ordered. The crowd replied in unison.

Next, Chen Feng not only did not stop, but accelerated his march.

In order to gain time, he ordered to drop the baggage, let the army travel lightly, and took the trail, striving to reach Jincheng as soon as possible.

On the one hand, you can get rid of Liu Zhixian, and on the other hand, you can also catch Jincheng off guard.

The idea is good, but just implementing it, it is inevitable to be a little naïve.

Lu Ya didn't know how to get the news, so he laid an ambush on the maple forest path to Jincheng.

Chen Feng didn't expect that there would be an ambush on the Maple Forest Trail at all, and a full 20,000 people were blocked in the trail after stepping into the Maple Forest Trail, unable to advance or retreat.

Previously, in order to speed up the march, the square shield against stray arrows was also thrown away by Chen Feng, so that the 20,000 people were helpless in the face of the arrows coming from the sky, and finally they could only use the bodies of the dead soldiers to resist.

And Chen Feng himself was also killed by random arrows in the ambush, and the rest of the colonels were slaughtered in the later strangulation.

In the end, only more than 300 people escaped from the maple forest trail, and the Li army won a great victory in this battle, and their morale was greatly boosted.

Chen Feng was destroyed, Liu Zhixian became dangerous, and there were 30,000 troops led by Lu Ya, and it was not clear how many troops were waiting for him in front.

Able to wipe out Chen Feng's 20,000 troops almost completely, Liu Zhixian believes that the number of troops in the direction of Jincheng will definitely not be small. Although Liu Zhixian didn't know where so many troops came from Shanxi County, the most important thing at the moment was to garrison and wait for rescue.

After stationing his army on a nearby hill, he immediately sent a messenger to Han Ming for help.

At this time, the entire three counties were embattled.