After the sound of the cannon died down, he quietly showed his head and did not find danger before ascending the city gate. Ma Yuande took out his binoculars and saw that there were many casualties in Chen Ye's position.

was overjoyed, and said proudly: "Chen Ye is nothing more than that, I see that Xuancheng is fine." ”

Ma Yuande hurriedly came down from the city wall and sent a letter to Hangzhou, the content of which was: "In the first battle of Xuancheng, Chen Ye's offensive morale was foiled, Chen Ye's camp was shelled, 8,000 enemies were killed, and five enemy cannons were destroyed." ”

When this letter was sent, the entire city of Hangzhou was shocked, and they all began to admire their outstanding military exploits, whether to add an official to themselves, some gold and silver treasures last time, and reward a few beauties, thinking of this, Ma Yuande began to drool.

The prefect of Xuancheng saw that the soldiers on the city wall had no fight** and won the battle, just like the dead at home. Yes, the military merit report has nothing to do with the soldiers below, and it will not get any gains.

What are they fighting for?

After Chen Ye stopped the shelling, he began to study the plan against the enemy in the camp tent, and after discussing it for a long time, the political commissar was right.

At this time, attacking the heart is the most advantageous and the most effective, taking advantage of the dark, send some meticulous work in to instigate the rebellion against the soldiers. In this way, Xuancheng can easily break the city, and you can also rest a little inside to replenish the ammunition inside. After all, there was a lot of consumption yesterday, and in order to reduce his casualties, Chen Ye didn't count the number of shells at all, resulting in a large consumption of shells.

It will take a few days for the transportation of shells in Fengzhou City to be delivered, and this plan has been unanimously agreed by everyone, but in order to cooperate with the operation at night, Chen Ye also bombarded a city wall intentionally or unintentionally, and Chen Ye intentionally or unintentionally said to the other side, I am going to fight here.

Of course, the guards of Xuancheng hid far away, and their favorability towards Chen Ye's troops also increased a lot.

That night, several (shēn) shadows began to slowly infiltrate the Dao city walls, and began to spread some news everywhere, all of which were news of Chen Ye's troops. It is also said that Ma Yuande killed his soldiers under the city wall, and he lied about his war exploits (qíng), making Ma Yuande greedy for life and afraid of death, and he would abandon Xuancheng at any time.

At dawn the next day, a soldier was sleepy and couldn't stand it.

"I heard that the fire army on the other side never withheld military rations, and the army also divided the land when they joined the army, and they also had money and gifts for the festival (rì)." A soldier said.

The soldier who was already in a state of distress immediately came to his senses, wiped the saliva from his mouth and said, "My nose is not sharp, I smell the other side and eat (ròu) every day, and I have long been hungry." You don't know that the younger brother of my third aunt's cousin-in-law wrote back to his hometown, saying that the military status of Fengzhou City is very high, and as long as he joins the army, he will give him a house, marry a daughter-in-law, and give money for giving birth."

"It's a pity, why aren't we Chen Ye's army." The soldier said with emotion.

"What's so difficult about this, I heard that the city gate will be secretly opened today, let Chen Ye come in, and the name of the vote has been written." The more the soldiers talked, the more troublesome they became, and when they saw the prefect of Xuancheng coming, they quickly stood up and did not speak.

This kind of thing (qíng), the entire city wall is secretly talking about it, even these officers are talking about it, they really don't want to sell their lives to Southern Zhou, they deduct military salaries and food everywhere, and they can't save them when they die.

As he spoke, a man walked out, came to the military tent, and greeted him with hatred: "Generals." I am Chen Ye's fire army. ”

As soon as he said this, the soldiers on the side directly controlled him.

Instead, he laughed and said slowly: "When I finish speaking, it's not too late for adults to tie me up, and when I finish speaking, adults don't think it's okay, it's not too late to tie me up and hand me over."

Several generals discussed it and ordered someone to let it go to see if he had anything to say.

"I am Zhao Gang, the political commissar of Chen Ye's Third Army and Second Division, our prince is happy (ài) your handsome talents, you treat the officers and soldiers selflessly and fearlessly, our prince admires it very much, and specially wrote to you" After listening to it, I really didn't expect Chen Ye to send such a person over, the official position is so big, it seems that Chen Ye's sincerity is very strong.

Zhao Gang was still unmoved when he saw a few people, and slowly took out a token from his arms, and it could be seen that this was a prince's thing, and there was the word Ye on it.

Hurriedly invited Zhao Gang over, asked him to sit on a chair, and asked people to bring tea.

After several generals saw the contents of the letter, they still hesitated a little and asked: "Lord Wang, is it really as said in the letter, let us build a separate army, which can be stationed in the south, and the standard in the future will be only higher than that of the fire army?" To be honest, this condition (yòu) confusion (xìng) is very big, everyone has been doing it for so long, who is not to be able to be clothed and fed, and be happy.

"Isn't the purpose of my coming here to express the sincerity of our prince?" Zhao Gang said unhurriedly.

"A few of us are still discussing and discussing," the generals winked and decided to discuss.

Zhao Gang smiled and understood what they meant, so he patted his clothes and said, "Okay, generals, let's leave it at that, I'll go to other barracks to have a look!" ”

As soon as these words came out, several generals whispered again, and Zhao Gang just pretended to be up (shēn), but in fact he didn't take a single step.

"We decided to do it, dare to ask the commissar how we do it?" A few generals are afraid that the commissar is gone, and other military camps will take this credit, then this promise will be much lower. Even if he surrenders at that time, it doesn't matter in Chen Ye's heart.

Zhao Gang saw that his effect had hit, and he was very satisfied, and he hooked up with several generals to discuss when to open the city gate, how to answer Chen Ye, and so on.

At night, Chen Ye's troops quietly changed into black clothes, but fortunately, the clothes only needed to be dyed black, and they could sneak close to the city wall at night.

"Squeak squeak" The heavy city gate slowly opened.

Chen Ye's army quickly rushed into Xuancheng and, according to the previous plan, began to control everyone's garrison. Originally, some soldiers still wanted to resist, but Chen Ye came in and looked for death?

What did you die for?

No matter what, Xuancheng basically surrendered without firing a shot.

Even so, the fire army has encountered some obstacles, and there are some die-hard people, basically all of whom are members of the Cui family, and when they encounter the forces of resistance, they will all be killed.

For a while, there were sounds of killing in Xuancheng, and Ma Yuande heard the sound of fighting and quickly got up from the woman's belly.

"What's the situation, what's going on (qíng)" When Ma Yuande was still confused, a personal guard with hun (shēn) was bloody, and said breathlessly: "My lord, Xuancheng is broken, Chen Ye's army has controlled Xuancheng, and we won't have a chance if we don't leave."

When Ma Yuande heard this, he suddenly lost the six gods, and muttered in his mouth: "I want to run, run quickly!" ”

He ordered the men to take with them carts full of gold and silver treasures, and ordered them to hurry to protect themselves, and they went through the city gates. Xuancheng had six city gates, and Chen Ye only controlled five, which allowed Ma Yuande to escape.

Originally, these rebellious generals also wanted to arrest Ma Yuande's head and come over to reward him, but they also vented their grievances, but they didn't expect Ma Yuande to abandon his wife and run away.

When they arrived, Ma Yuande's wife and children were all left in the city, regardless of it, he was really a shameless villain.

However, they saw that Ma Yunde's wife and children were moved, and one general was ready to enjoy it, but was stopped by the other. He said: "Since we have surrendered, we should keep the rules of the fire army, and don't mess with ourselves at this time." When Chen Ye's reward comes, what do you want, don't miss the big thing. ”

The general nodded, and his brother persuaded himself, otherwise he didn't know that there would be other chaos, and now it was important to pursue Ma Yuande, so he quickly sent someone to chase him.

At this moment, Chen Ye was watching the prefect of Xuancheng holding a big knife, and everyone in the family after (shēn) was holding a knife, this kind of courage was moving, and he was such a backbone person.

Chen Ye couldn't bear to kill him.

"You surrender, I won't kill you, I won't move your family, if you still remember the people of Xuancheng, I can still appoint you as the prefect of Xuancheng, or even other places, you can pick whatever you want" Chen Ye gently persuaded him, in this era of war and chaos, such a backbone person made Chen Ye feel very admired.

After empathy, Chen Ye felt that even if he was himself, he might not be able to do this, such a person should not die, and should treat every person and every inch of land here.