This winter of the fourth year of Wuding in the Eastern Wei Dynasty was destined to be unusual, first Gao Huan attacked the strategic Yubi City in order to open the way to the west, but he was repeatedly unable to attack under Wei Xiaokuan's active defense, and suffered heavy casualties, so angry that Gao Huan scolded the generals, but no matter what means he used, there was nothing he could do.

Outside Yubi City, in the main account of the Chinese army in the Eastern Wei military camp, Gao Huan stared coldly at the people who were kneeling under the seat, and saw a tall general, kneeling on his knees, his face was blue and purple, and he was in a mess, kneeling motionlessly.

"General Di, how do you think the prime minister should punish you?" The tone was calm, but chilling.

Hearing this, he was in a cold sweat, and kept kowtowing and begging for mercy: "The prime minister spares his life, it is the incompetence of his subordinates, and please ask the prime minister to follow you for the sake of the last general who will follow you for many years, and surround my life." ”

"Spare your life?" Gao Huan sneered, then slapped the table fiercely, and scolded: "You husband, do you know how much trouble you have made?" How many soldiers in Mound City have piled up with blood, but you can't stand it, you were actually beaten by Wei Xiaokuan, and now you tell Benxiang, without Mound City, how can my army condescend to threaten the enemy? ”

"The prime minister spared his life, but the last general was incompetent, but the soldiers mutinied, and the last general could not organize troops to resist even if he had the ability to reach the sky, and I hope that the prime minister will see it."

"Hey, you still have the face to say, I'm ashamed of you." Gao Huan was so angry by these words that he couldn't help but scold again: "You idiot, you actually deduct the soldiers' rations at this juncture, no wonder they will make a camp." ”

It turned out that in order to occupy the high place, Gao Huan ordered people to build three mounds under the jade city, and connected them into one, each siege will occupy the mound city, shoot arrows and throw stones into the city, so as to suppress the enemy army in the jade city, buy time for the siege soldiers under the city, and then be able to set up ladders to attack the city.

Gao Huan handed over the defense of these three Mound Cities to Di Di Fulian, and told him to be careful in everything, not to fall for the enemy's tricks. Wei Xiaokuan sent troops to attack several times without success, but was beaten back by the defenders, Gao Huan was also very pleased to see this, not only for him to remember his merits, but also rewarded him with a lot of money.

However, he never expected that Di Fulian not only governed the army harshly, but was also extremely greedy for money and stingy, and actually withheld the soldiers' military rations, and the original three meals a day were directly changed to two meals a day, and later it was too much to one meal a day. The soldiers really couldn't bear it, and went directly to the door to theorize, but they didn't expect to be surrounded by the guards sent by Di Di Fulian, and the rabbit was anxious and bitten, and finally this group of soldiers clashed with the guards in a rage, and the Western Wei defenders in the city saw this opportunity, took advantage of the chaos to go out of the city to capture three mound cities, and almost captured Di Di Fulian.

It's no wonder that Gao Huan is angry, how grim this form is now, according to the news sent back by the secret agent, Yuwentai has mobilized no less than 50,000 horses across the country, and is preparing with strong troops, and it is estimated that the troops will soon be under the conquered Fennan City.

If the main army of the other side does not gain time to conquer Yubi, then the 15,000 troops in front of the army will fall into passivity, and it is likely to be attacked by the Yubi defenders and Yuwentai's reinforcements in two ways, and the whole army may be annihilated, and it is estimated that his second son will also fall into it at that time, no wonder Gao Huan is so angry.

Although he is greedy for money and stingy, he has a good relationship with his colleagues, and he is an old brother who fought the world together, so of course many generals will not die without help.

I saw Hu Lujin get up and come out of the queue and said: "Prime Minister, Di Di Volian really deserves to die, but this is the time to employ people, plus he has done his work with dedication and diligence for so many years, and he has no merit and hard work, why not spare his life, let him supervise the siege team, and make meritorious atonements?" ”

As soon as these words came out, other generals spoke out to persuade them......

Seeing that the generals spoke for Di Fulian, and Gao Huan didn't plan to execute him, after all, he was his old brother who had followed him since the end of Wei, with a simple personality and dedication to doing things, but he was too greedy for money and stingy, which led to Mound City being captured by the Yubi defenders.

"Hmph, for the sake of the generals begging for mercy for you, I will spare your life for the time being, but the death penalty can be avoided, and the living crime cannot be escaped, so according to what General Hu Lu said, I ordered you to supervise the siege brigade, make good contributions, and at the same time deduct a year's military salary."

When he heard that his military salary would be deducted for a year, he couldn't help but weep and mourn, extremely reluctant, and silently resisted. Seeing this expression, the generals didn't know what he was thinking with that ghostly look, and they couldn't help but be happy at the moment, but because this was the main account of the army, they couldn't help but smile.

Gao Huan saw that Di Di Fulian didn't speak, and his heart was angry again, and he couldn't help shouting angrily: "What? Don't you want to? Is it because you want money and don't want your life?"

The generals were almost amused when they heard this, and they all blushed with laughter, with a look of laughter, and some young generals with poor concentration couldn't help laughing, but they quickly held back their smiles and quickly lowered their heads, they didn't want to be charged with a crime of disgrace in front of the army.

Han Liang was worried that Gao Huan would be so angry that he would take back his life, so he hurriedly reprimanded: "General Weidi, the Prime Minister spared your life, and allowed you to make meritorious atonements, and strive to capture Yubi City as soon as possible, what a great merit this is, when the time comes, the glory and wealth will not be a problem, why don't you hurry up and thank the Prime Minister." ”

Di Fulian's eyes lit up when he heard this, yes, as long as he captured Yubi City, then why worry about having no money, he was not so distressed at once, and couldn't help but kneel down and thank: "The last general doesn't dare, thank you Prime Minister for forgiving my life, the last general will definitely do his best to make meritorious service and atone for his sins." ”

Gao Huan waved his hand impatiently, "Okay, go down." ”

......

At this time, there had just been a winter rain in Fennan City, and the weather became even colder, and the road was wet, and if you were not careful, you would be soaked in the underground water, and it was easy to freeze your feet.

Despite this, the city can be seen patrolling at any time, heavily guarded, and still searching from house to house, as if looking for some suspicious person.

It turned out that since the last assassination failed, and an assassin leader escaped, Duan Shao was very angry when he heard about it, he didn't expect that there were still such a huge hostile force lurking in the city, and they actually infiltrated the city, there must still be a lot of fish that slipped through the net, in case Yuwentai's army came to the city, and there was a collusion inside and outside the city, it would be impossible to prevent it at that time. He simply sent some soldiers to patrol the whole city under martial law, and would rather kill by mistake than let go.

The most important thing is that the target of the assassin's assassination is Gao Yang, who is the second son of the prime minister, if Gao Yang has a mistake, how should he explain to the prime minister, and these days, Gao Yang has repeatedly offered advice, and humbly asked himself for advice on the art of war and strategy, which is very much in line with his own heart, he admires Gao Yang from the bottom of his heart.

Although the army entered the city, Duan Shao did not move to the mansion to live, but ate and lived in the barracks with the soldiers, and only threw Gao Yang out to deal with the landlord Haoqiang in the city, and he himself was too lazy to deal with these affairs.

Gao Yang was very troubled at this time, and he didn't ask anything from the captured assassins, Gao Yang knew that this group of people was indeed unaware, they were originally a group of local bandits, and suddenly one day a mysterious person came to the cottage, and even the big boss was respectful to him, calling him the lord, and their group of people followed the mysterious man and the big boss to assassinate Gao Yang.

When the interrogators asked about the two of them, the bandits told Gao Yang that the big boss had been impaled by Gao Yang during the battle, and that the mysterious man was the leader of the assassins who had escaped from the wounded, but he knew nothing about the mysterious man.

Gao Yang couldn't help but smile bitterly when he heard this, daring to kill the enemy and cut off the clues, in a state of distraction, he simply ordered to kill all the captured assassins and bandits, anyway, this group of people did all kinds of evil, and there were many murders in their hands, and doing this by himself could be regarded as eliminating harm for the people.