"This ...... This, who did this! ”

King Fan Xiong's face was gloomy, staring at the corpses outside the city, and he made his own inquiry.

But at this time, no one could answer his words.

Only the crown prince Fan Yi, who was standing behind him, had a gloomy face. After King Fan Xiong asked, he slowly said a sentence.

"Father, it should be a good thing done by those people of the Great Han!"

"How can this be justified, it is too much to deceive people!"

When Fan Xiong heard his son's words, he immediately thought of what his son said before, saying that there was a Han army and horses that were rapidly approaching the Linyi Kingdom, and recovering all the Han territories they had fought before, and now that the target was Linyi Kingdom, it was possible to hit the territory of the Linyi Kingdom at any time.

Fan Xiong was still thinking about how to face these big Han officers and soldiers just now, and now he is even more helpless after encountering this incident.

"Father, then Liu Zheng is giving us a horse, when we attacked the Han Dynasty before, we also adopted the means of slaughtering all the soldiers defending the city, and now he has returned this method to us, just to provoke us, father, you must not be fooled, as long as we stick to Xianglin City, then Liu Zheng will not be able to break our city with thousands of soldiers and horses!"

Fan Yi originally just wanted to justify his mistakes, not his own reasons, and by the way, he suggested to Fan Xiong not to take the initiative, but to stick to it instead.

But after Fan Xiong heard these words, he immediately became angry, raised his hand and slapped Fan Yi's face.

There was a snap, crisp and loud.

Fan Xiong's slap hit Fan Yi's face, which instantly made Fan Yi's face stunned and stunned in place.

"Father?"

Fan Yi didn't know why his father would suddenly beat him at this time.

"Rebel, I asked you to lead the army to the battle, I want to capture the territory of Rinan County and collect the people of Ninan County for the use of my Linyi country, the purpose is to kill those people, who made you do the slaughter of the city?"

was slapped by his father, Fan Yi covered his face, although he was ashamed, but when he saw Fan Xiong's angry expression, he didn't dare to refute.

"Father! No...... Didn't you ask me to lead my soldiers and horses to occupy the territory of the Han Dynasty? Those county officials did not surrender at all, and I did such things to show off the strength of my army! ”

Fan Yi didn't argue, he just wanted to explain, but he still didn't get Fan Xiong's forgiveness.

"Lao Tzu asked you to occupy the territory of the Great Han Kingdom, but he didn't let you slaughter the people! You conquer the territory of the Han Dynasty, if the officials and troops of the Han Dynasty come to quell the rebellion, it is a big deal to return the territory to them, and finally lose some money, and the two sides still have room for negotiation, but now you have provoked the other party and made a massacre of the city, and it will be difficult to negotiate peace! ”

"I ......"

Fan Yi wanted to say something more, but seeing his father's angry expression, Fan Yi also knew that even if he said more, it would be useless, so he simply stopped talking.

Fan Yi stopped talking, but the generals in charge of the city's defense soon began to continue to ask King Fan Xiong.

"Your Majesty, it's useless to scold the prince now, let's think about how to solve this matter, the enemy army placed the corpses of our army outside Xianglin City, the purpose is actually very simple, it is to give us a dismount, in my opinion, it won't be long before the soldiers and horses of the Han Dynasty will be directed at Xianglin City, we should take precautions as soon as possible!"

Fan Xiong heard the description of the generals under his command, and the expression on his face became more and more ugly, and after pondering for a while, he immediately spoke, and ordered several generals around him.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I'm afraid that this time those Han officers and troops are menacing, and they won't stop easily, we should make defensive preparations as soon as possible, I have sent people and horses to the major counties in the south to send troops and horses to defend Xianglin City, and we can gather nearly 10,000 soldiers and horses in less than a day, plus Xianglin City, there are already 10,000 defenders, and we can gather 20,000 troops."

"Of course, if we can avoid fighting, we should try to focus on peace talks, and it is best to return to a state of harmony, if it really doesn't work, then we can only fight, but listening to what the prince said, these Han officers and soldiers are not the same as ordinary county soldiers, this time I am afraid that the challenge we have to face is very huge, you had better be mentally prepared!"

In his heart, Fan Xiong just wanted to take advantage of the fire to rob, and forcibly occupy the southernmost county of Ninan County in Jiaozhou while Zhu Fu was fighting with outsiders, and he was unwilling to fight head-on with the soldiers and horses of the Han Dynasty from beginning to end.

After all, although it has been decades since the establishment of their Lin Yi State, the development of decades is impossible to compete with a 400-year-old Han Dynasty.

Not to mention the entire Han Dynasty, even if it is a small Jiaozhou, it is not something that the people of their Linyi Kingdom can beat, it is precisely for this reason that Fan Xiong just wants to take the opportunity to occupy the territory, and once there is a battle, he will choose to retreat and retain his strength.

But he didn't count his son even if he did everything, and he would do a stupid slaughter of the city, which made no room for peace talks between the two sides, and put him in a dilemma now, on the one hand, he was thinking about his own soldiers and horses. If you fight with the men and horses of the Han court, you may not be able to win, and on the other hand, you are worried that the other party may not accept it.

And judging from these things done by the other side, it is extremely likely that the other side will refuse to negotiate peace.

The two days passed quickly.

There has been no movement outside Xianglin City, Fan Xiong thought that those soldiers and horses of the Han Dynasty would soon arrive in Xianglin City, and the target Lin Cheng launched an attack, but he waited for two days and did not wait.

Just when he thought that something had taken a turn for the better. Thousands of soldiers and horses of the Han Dynasty officers and soldiers hurriedly appeared outside the city of Xianglin City.

As soon as he came, he surrounded the gate of Xianglin City.

More than 9,000 troops, in turn, arranged in an orderly formation, the battle flags fluttered, the roar was like thunder, and they were approaching Xianglin City in a uniform manner.

In fact, in the past two days, Liu Zheng's soldiers and horses were not hiding in Lurong County to rest, but to prepare for the attack on Xianglin City on the way to the city in advance, and the 9,000 army was constantly making siege equipment.

His soldiers and horses gathered from the vicinity of Jiuzhen County and Jiaozhi County, because they were in a hurry, they did not carry any siege equipment, and they had already reflected the trouble of not having siege equipment when they attacked Lurong County, and the loss of siege must have increased, and now in order to attack Xianglin City, it is natural to be fully prepared.

This is mainly because Xianglincheng is not an ordinary county seat, and he is now the capital of Linyi State. Whether it is the height of the city defense or the city wall, it is much higher than other small counties in Rinan County, and it is not so easy for Liu Zheng's 9,000 army to conquer Xianglin City, so it must be well prepared to have hope.