"Bai Qiuren, the eldest son of the Cangzhou Bai family, he also has a younger brother named Bai Qiuyi." Li Ze handed the letter in his hand to Cao Xin and said, "His father, Bai Mingli, is a well-known figure in Cangzhou."

"What is this Bai Mingli's official position in Cangzhou? How come I haven't heard of it? Cao Xin finished reading Bai Mingli's letter at a glance and asked suspiciously.

Li Ze laughed: "Do you want to talk about official positions?" The biggest position Bai Mingli has ever held is the first Hu Cao of Cangzhou."

"An officer?" Cao Xin was taken aback: "How capable can a mere official be?" What are our internal abilities? ”

Li Ze glanced at Cao Xin with some teasing: "Cao Gong, you are from a Jinshi, and your starting point is extremely high, but you don't know about these doorways below. I only want to ask you one thing, who did the thing when you were the assassin of Yizhou? ”

"I have a long history below, don't drive!"

"Can they do something specific for you?" Li Ze asked rhetorically.

Cao Xin was stunned and closed his mouth, as if he had thought of something.

"It is the officials who really do the work. The Bai family has never been a famous official in Cangzhou, but their ancestors have been officials in Cangzhou for generations, and when Zhu Shou was not in charge of Cangzhou, his family was like this. It's been more than ten years, and his family is still like this." LI Zedao.

"In this way, this Bai Mingli really has a little way, not to mention anything else, just this ability to accurately see the world and bet on it should not be underestimated." Cao Xindao." How did this Bai family get on the line with Gongzi? ”

"It's not that he hooked up with us, it's that we begged him in the first place." Li Ze said with a smile: "At the beginning, our Yixingtang wanted to do business in Cangzhou, but it was difficult to move an inch at first, and we almost lost everything, those who were officials, took the money and didn't do anything, or couldn't do anything good, but this Bai Mingli, after taking our twenty percent of the dry shares in Cangzhou Yixingtang, Yixingtang immediately got up smoothly in Cangzhou. Not only in Cangxian County, but also in the counties below, it is also a smooth journey."

"So that's it?" Cao Xin suddenly realized.

"The Bai family is not obvious, but in Cangzhou, it is entrenched at the bottom, the relationship is complicated, and the roots are deep, which is unbelievable. has been operating for several generations, if you really talk about the deep foundation of this person in Cangzhou, I am afraid that Zhu Shou can't compare it! Li Ze said with a smile.

"So, there's a door." Cao Xin pondered: "But little boy, this Bai Mingli is an extremely greasy character at first glance, although he has a reason to defect to us, but such a person can't be trusted. Could it be that this person colluded with Zhu Shou to deceive us? ”

Li Ze said with a smile: "Gong Cao, our Yixingtang has also been operating in Cangzhou for many years, do you think that I only operate the Bai family's line?" The Bai family will indeed be of the greatest help to us this time, but whether they are sincere or not, I will also verify it from other channels. This Bai Mingli is a personal elf, and he understands this truth when he thinks about it, so he sent his eldest son, and the scene last night was probably dead. From this point of view, Bai Mingli is really ruthless."

"If he really helps us easily take Cangxian, this will be another great achievement, and meritorious service should be rewarded, but this person is entrenched in Cangzhou, isn't it a good thing for us to run Cangzhou in the future?" Cao Xin said: "Cangzhou's location is important, and we must focus on management, if he is sent at that time, it will inevitably make people say that Gongzi, you cross the river and tear down the bridge, and draw ladders on the wall!" ”

Li Ze looked at Cao Xin and said playfully: "Cao Gong, didn't you just say that you are paid for your merits?" Of course, I have to thank him heavily for such a great achievement. His eldest son is an officer, so naturally he wants to be my righteous servant, and he has never been a serious official in his life, so this time I will give him a real high-ranking official."

Cao Xin's eyes lit up: "Of course it's not in Cangzhou. As long as he himself leaves Cangzhou, he will no longer be able to set off any storms, and when he comes back from being a senior official in other places, Cangzhou will have already changed. With Yang Kai's ruthlessness, presumably the Yixing Society would have bloomed everywhere at that time! ”

Li Ze laughed and said: "When Bai Gongrong returns to his hometown to retire, who will say that I, Li Ze, treat heroes poorly?" ”

Cao Xin gave a thumbs up, "The little boy is smart."

"Three days later, in the early hours of the morning, the Bai family will meet us at the West City Gate to enter Cangxian. In the next three days, I will also verify the authenticity of this matter, and in these three days, Cao Gong, how to fight or how to fight!"

"The mountain is still strong?"

"Of course, you have to give up, there is no special reason to give up halfway, isn't Zhu Shou suspicious?"

The two earthen mountains were finally completed at dark this day, and they were a few feet higher than the city wall a hundred paces away, and the Yizhou soldiers immediately set up rows of ballistae on them and arranged archers.

The next day, Cao Xin began to attack step by step again. This time, however, with the heavy artillery of the counterweight trebuchet and the cover of countless ballistas and archers, the Yizhou soldiers attacked the city wall for the first time. After half a day of fierce fighting, the Yizhou soldiers retreated again.

The result of this day's attack was that Zhu Shou had to mobilize more elite troops from the other city gates to the north gate. Since the Yizhou soldiers have spent a lot of energy, manpower, and material resources to build these two dirt mountains, coupled with the powerful counterweight trebuchet, the focus of the Yizhou soldiers' attack is self-evident.

The walls of the northern city have suffered serious damage, the battlements have long been completely flattened, the cracks in the walls are shocking, I don't know when they will collapse, inside, the horizontal navy has built up layers of sacks as temporary city walls. During the day, the ballistae of both sides fired at each other, because of the height problem, the Henghai suffered a big loss, after the armistice, the Henghai built a higher arrow tower with wood behind the city, even at the risk of being smashed by the counterweight trebuchet, they also had to make a strong counterattack to the Yizhou army ballista on the dirt mountain.

These dense ballistae and archers suppressed the city's head far more than the counterweight trebuchet's strike.

The trebuchet will only attack before the Yizhou soldiers attack, once the Yizhou rear rushes under the city wall, these terrifying things will stop attacking, otherwise these hundreds of pounds of big things will suddenly lose their heads and hit their own heads, which is not fun. But those ballistas, bows and arrows, can be fired until the moment the Yizhou soldiers reach the top of the city.

The next day, the arrangement of the Henghai people finally played a role, these simple arrow towers that appeared overnight, caused great casualties to the Yizhou soldiers on the earth mountain, although they were destroyed by the trebuchets outside the city one by one in a very short time, but the attack of the Yizhou soldiers also ended in nothing.

Of course, this is also related to the fact that Cao Xin did not really intend to launch a life-and-death battle with the Heng Navy, otherwise, this loss would be completely bearable for him. However, since there was an easier way, he also borrowed the slope to get off the donkey, and for a whole day, the Yizhou soldiers did not seem to recover from this blow, and they were busy rearranging the ballistas on the dirt hill and building a female wall to cover the setting on the dirt hill.

Day 3, early in the morning.

In the large camp in the direction of Xicheng, the elite of Yizhou completed the final assembly. In the past three days, Cao Xin and Li Ze have been like ants moving, transferring all the elite forces of the Chinese army battalion to the west battalion, Chengde wolf cavalry, Modao team, and Li Ze's personal guard battalion are all concentrated here. And in the Chinese army camp, which still seems to be full, a large number of government soldiers have been filled.

It's not easy to get these transfers done right under the nose of the enemy.

Min Rou's Chengde wolf rode the first out of the camp.

The war horse got on the horse's chew, wrapped its hooves with a soft cloth, and quietly approached the west gate a few hundred paces away. Min Rou raised her eyes to look at the stars in the sky, lowered her head, and saw a little red light appear above the city, slowly drawing circles in the night, and almost at the same time, the high suspension bridge was slowly lowered.

Min Rou didn't hesitate any longer, lifted the reins of the horse, and galloped forward.

The war horse was like the wind, crossing the drawbridge, and the city gate had just opened a gap for a horse to pass through, and Min Rou had already passed through the door. Behind him, a hundred Chengde wolf riders were already following closely like a line.

Min Roule stopped his horses, and when he raised his eyes, he saw that on both sides of the West City Gate, two rows of horizontal navy with white cloth tied around their necks were so conspicuous, and in the wall, there were about dozens of corpses of horizontal navy, apparently, these people were killed by the people with white cloth strips.

Min Rou started the war horse again, but this time she had no scruples.

Behind him, more than a thousand rangers led by Li De followed and rushed in.

Behind them, Shi Zhuang and Shen Congxing's department also rushed in from the west gate.

When the infantry attacked, all the hiding was no longer necessary.

When Henghai Jiedu made Zhu Shou get the news, the entire Xicheng had basically fallen into the hands of the Yizhou Army, and the main force of the Yizhou Army was launching wave after wave of attacks from Xicheng to Dongcheng.

And a few days ago, the field battle failed, and now it has lost the cover of the city wall, and the fighting spirit of the Heng Navy collapsed in an instant after seeing the Yizhou army break into the city.

As Li Ze expected, the Bai clan played a huge role in it, not only did they open the gates of Xicheng, but after the city was broken, under the instigation of the Bai clan, more and more Henghai soldiers tied a white cloth around their necks, and as soon as their bodies turned, they became the pioneers of the Yizhou army attacking Dongcheng.

Fortunately, white cloth is the easiest thing to find, otherwise so many Henghai soldiers would have turned against the water and changed to other colors of cloth, and it would have been really difficult to get together so much for a while.

After half a day of fierce fighting in the city, Zhu Shou fled from Dongcheng with hundreds of armor soldiers, while Chengde wolf riders chased after him under the leadership of Min Rou.

Zhu Shou's fate was already doomed when he fled. The only one who came back was definitely his head.