Just when the imperial court was still hesitating about the choice of the main general, Cheng Xisi led tens of thousands of troops and arrived at the city of Qizhou.

Cheng Xisi is in his early forties, a little obese, a pair of small eyes squinted, it became a gap, as if there were no eyes, and the appearance was a little funny, but if you judge people by their appearance, then you are very wrong, and you will pay a heavy price for it, in fact, under the honest and funny appearance, there is a murderous and bloody heart.

"Great Marshal, I am willing to lead the army to attack the city."

One of the generals stepped forward and shouted for battle.

"I'm willing to fight, too."

"I'd too..."

Seven or eight generals stood up one after another, shouting for battle, and their fighting spirit was high.

Cheng Xisi squinted and scanned everyone, and finally landed on a middle-aged man in the rear, this person was named Hou Pinru, who was a training envoy of the Shouzhou regiment, and after being defeated and captured, he surrendered to Cheng Xisi.

"Hou Pinru, why don't you speak?"

Hou Pinru was slightly stunned, then quickly stood up, arched his hand and said: "The last general is also willing to fight, please give me this opportunity." ”

"Good."

Cheng Xisi nodded, and said in a deep voice: "It's still the old rule, two hours, take the city, the men, women and children in the city, the gold and silver treasures, all the return to you, if you can't take the city, the lord will be beheaded immediately." ”

"The last general commands."

Hou Pinru shouted the order, and in the envious eyes of many people, he turned around and strode away, and began to gather his troops and horses to prepare for the siege.

Before attacking the city, he would give the generals a time limit, and if he couldn't take the city within the specified time, the main general would be beheaded immediately, and the deputy general would replace him and continue to attack the city until all the battles were killed, and there was no retreat at all.

There are things in the army that Mingjin collects troops, but there is no such thing in Cheng Xihe's army, in his eyes, there is only attack, no retreat, when attacking the city, those who retreat up to ten steps will be beheaded.

Under such a cruel situation, the generals under Cheng Xihei still asked for battle, and their emotions were high, what is the reason?

The reason is very simple, although Cheng Xisi is cruel to the army, the reward is also very generous, for example, his order to Hou Pinru is very simple, give you two hours, take the city, everything in this city, people and things, all are yours, if you can't take it, then you will die.

Heaven and hell, just these two choices.

After a while, Hou Pinru gathered 5,000 soldiers and horses from his headquarters, led by example, rushed to the front, and began to rush towards Qizhou City, which was a mile away.

Cheng Xisi squinted and looked quietly ahead.

"Big brother, Qizhou is rich, you have given such a big benefit to Hou Pinru, many old people in the army, I'm afraid there will be some dissatisfaction with this!"

Cost Yuan whispered beside him.

Cost Yuan is not only Cheng Xihe's deputy general, but also his fellow brother, this kind of words with some doubts, others would never dare to say, but Cost Yuan dared to say.

Cheng Xisi glanced at Yuan Yuan and said coldly, "What do you know?" Although Hou Pinru surrendered to me, but his heart must still be towards the court, today, I let him lead the fight against Qizhou, if he can't take the city, I just took the opportunity to slaughter him, collect his army, if he takes the city, there is no military discipline constraints, his troops will definitely slaughter the city, there is this stain, the court will not forgive, so, he Hou Pinru can only follow me with all his heart. ”

After listening to this, Fei Yuan immediately understood the truth, and said convincingly: "Big brother Shengming, little brother doesn't dare to have any more questions. ”

Cheng Xisi patted Yuan Yuan's shoulder, and said with a smile: "Don't be greedy, just one Qizhou is nothing, when I take Jinyang, what you want, the eldest brother will give you something." ”

Cost Yuan said happily: "Thank you, big brother." ”

Cheng Xisi didn't say anything more, and looked at the battlefield ahead.

Cheng Xisi's current army, in fact, is more than 30,000, he took Shouzhou and Yingzhou in a row, recruited Shouzhou regiment training envoy Hou Pinru and his subordinates, and forcibly pulled the young and strong into the army in two places, in just two days, Cheng Xisi hit the city of Qizhou, and the army in his hands was close to 50,000 people.

Heaven and hell, naturally no one wants to choose the latter.

He is not afraid of death, and he also wants to be a loyal minister, but he doesn't want the whole family to die together, and he doesn't want to give birth to the people of Shouzhou who raised him.

Cheng Xi even broke Shouzhou and Yingzhou, seven counties in the two states, and Shoukang City was the only city that was not slaughtered.

There are not many defenders in Qizhou, just two thousand people, the city is not high, but in the face of the siege of five thousand people, how to say that it can hold on to one or two, there are less than two hours before dark, Qizhou defense makes Hong Xi very confident that the two thousand soldiers in his hands, there is definitely no problem to hold on until dark, the vision is unclear after dark, and it is the best choice to break through and flee at this time.

But Hong Xi didn't expect one thing, that is, he overestimated himself and underestimated the other party.

Hou Pinru gathered an army, before attacking the city, he said a word, two hours, can't capture the city, I should die, don't want me to die, then let's play together.

Everyone followed Hou Pinru to the death and attacked the city fiercely, and it could already be seen that Hou Pinru's prestige and reputation in the army were good or bad.

The war came fiercely and ended quickly, when Hou Pinru took Hong Xi's head back to the Chinese army to hand over the order, Cheng Xisi said with appreciation: "Half an hour, take a city, General Hou is really a fierce general." ”

After the city was breached, Cheng Xisi and others did not enter the city immediately, but still waited in place, which is also the old rule, he gave Hou Pinru two hours to attack the city, and after the city was taken, he would also be given two hours to burn and kill, and the others could only wait.

"Dashuai, this person said that there is important information."

At this moment, an officer pulled an ordinary-looking man in his thirties to the front.

Cheng Xisi looked at him, and the man arched his hand and said, "Yunzhou Jiedu has gathered 13,000 soldiers and horses from his headquarters, and he will come to raid tonight. ”

Cheng Xisi asked, "Who asked you to report the letter to me?" ”

The man said lightly: "I just report the news, and I don't know anything else." ”

Cheng Xisi smiled, didn't ask any more, and waved his hand: "Give him a hundred taels of silver and let him leave." ”

"Thank you, I don't lack this bit of silver, farewell."

The man looked ordinary, but his bearing was extraordinary, he bowed his hand, turned around and strode away.

"Dashuai, why don't you let him go?"

Someone asked puzzled.

"I have the bearing to become an heir, and I can't even tolerate an ordinary person."

Cheng Xisi said lightly, then looked at Qizhou City in the distance, squinted, and sneered.