With a bang bang on the city, arrows rained down, Yan King Zhu Di dodged left and right, but the horse was hit by a few arrows, blood flowed for a long time, Yan King had to jump off the horse again, and stood with his back against the city wall. Zheng He picked up the Huangluo umbrella cover and waved it left and right to protect King Yan. The remaining four guards each held knives and guns and fought with Sheng Yong and others.

At the critical juncture, Zhang Yu ordered people to throw shields into the moat, which was full of silt, high and full of trenches, and the shields were spread on it, like a pontoon bridge, Zhu Di, the king of Yan, picked up a shield, protected his body, and then fled back to his own position with the layers of shields in the trench, Zheng He also followed, and the remaining four guards were not so lucky, and they were divided by the southern army.

After Zhu Di, the king of Yan, fled back to his own formation, he was furious, changed his horse again, came to the front of the formation, and pointed at the head of Jinan City and shouted: "You dare to tease this king, I will definitely kill you into the city, and I will kill you without leaving a chicken dog." ”

With that, he ordered his men to fire cannons at the head of the city.

The Yan army set up a trebuchet and fired stone projectiles and fireballs into the city, and the southern army in the city dodged in all directions, embarrassed, and when the king of Yan saw it, he laughed and said: "I finally got out of a bad breath today." ”

Suddenly seeing Tie Xuan appear at the head of the city, holding a god card in his arms, Zhu Di was puzzled and ordered someone to suspend the shelling.

I saw that Tie Xuan held the god card high above his head, and shouted to the city: "This is the god card of Emperor Taizu Gao, which has been enshrined in the Jinan Mansion Office. ”

The Yan army under the city was helpless, and ran to Zhu Di to ask for instructions on whether to continue to fire artillery, Zhu Di was angry, whipped the man fiercely, and scolded: "Do you want to make Lone a disloyal and unfilial person?" ”

The Yan Jun covered his face and hurriedly ran away.

Zhang Yu persuaded: "His Royal Highness King Yan, that Tie Xuan, Sheng Yong and others are very cunning, and His Royal Highness is above board, so naturally he can't be as knowledgeable as them." Now the Daqing River is very shallow, and it is difficult to flood Jinan, it is better to besiege this city for a long time, wait for its food to run out, and then attack the city. ”

Zhu Di nodded helplessly and said, "Now I have to do this." ”

Li Jinglong fled back to Beijing with thousands of remnants of the defeated generals, and Emperor Jianwen was shocked when he heard the news, and summoned him to the Qianqing Palace to inquire about it.

Li Jinglong cried and bowed to the ground and said: "Weichen is incompetent, he can't control his subordinates, and there is a defeat in Baigou River, please punish Your Majesty." ”

Emperor Jianwen said: "I have given you the book of axes and seals, and ordered you to act cheaply, who dares not to obey orders?" ”

Li Jinglong kowtowed again and said, "The minister doesn't dare to speak." ”

Emperor Jianwen said unhappily: "The 500,000 army has lost all of your hands, and now you have nothing to say." ”

Li Jinglong's face turned red, and he kowtowed again: "Your Majesty Mingjian, the battle of Baigou River, the minister is fighting closely with the Yan thief, seeing that he wants to gain the upper hand, the Yan thief raided the camp, Wuding Marquis Guo Ying was ordered to defend the camp, but he was afraid of the enemy like a tiger, abandoned the camp and fled, resulting in the collapse of the overall situation, the defeat of the army like a mountain, Weichen wanted to die and martyrdom, but the truth was not clear, Weichen did not see it, so he had to return to Beijing to resume his life and let His Majesty dispose of it. ”

Emperor Jianwen snorted and said, "Guo Ying is also a famous general in a hundred battles, how can he be so unbearable?" ”

Li Jinglong said with a crying voice: "Guo Ying relies on himself to be a relative of the emperor, and he has always been dissatisfied with his ministers. During the previous attack on Beiping, someone secretly reported that he had a private meeting with his granddaughter in Beiping City, so Beiping failed to take it, and it was because of this. ”

Emperor Jianwen sighed and said, "There is such a thing. That Guo Ying and Zhu Di are sons and daughters. ”

Li Jinglong said: "This matter is absolutely true. Weichen did not dare to deceive the emperor. ”

Emperor Jianwen looked at Li Jinglong, pointed at him and reprimanded: "Cao Guogong is really my court, which is exaggerated and useless. ”

After Li Jinglong heard this, his face was red, his ears were red, he was sweating, and he kowtowed again and again.

At this time, there was a cry outside the hall, and then there was the sound of the scolding of the golden gourd warrior, Emperor Jianwen ordered to bring the crying person into the palace, and went with the eunuch to pass the decree, and after a while, a person was brought to the palace wearing linen and filial piety.

Emperor Jianwen fixed his eyes and saw that the person who came was Huang Zicheng, the former Taichang Temple Qing. Although he has been dismissed now, Emperor Jianwen still often summons him to the palace to discuss national affairs, and he is favored as usual, I don't know why he is dressed like this today.

Huang Zicheng saw Emperor Jianwen, cried and worshipped on the ground, and said with tears: "Li Jinglong led an army of 500,000 troops out of Beiping, but he had two hearts and waited and watched, so that he lost his division and lost his land. Huang Zicheng doesn't know people and is unwise to seek the country, so he should be punished for the same crime. Therefore, I first mourned for 500,000 soldiers, and then I could die with peace of mind. ”

Emperor Jianwen hurriedly stepped down from the throne, helped him up and said: "Mr. Huang, please get up quickly, victory and defeat are a common thing in soldiers, and the defeat of Cao Guogong Baigou is not a crime of war, and he can't be blamed." ”

After that, he turned his head to Li Jinglong and said, "I haven't come to apologize to Mr. yet." ”

Li Jinglong hurriedly climbed a few steps, kowtowed to Huang Zicheng and said, "Jinglong is incompetent, he has failed to live up to Mr.'s recommendation, please punish Mr." ”

Huang Zicheng snorted, turned his head away, and stopped looking at him.

Emperor Jianwen waved his hand and said: "Cao Guogong will go back to the house and think about it behind closed doors, and there will be a chance to appoint him again in the future." ”

Li Jinglong hurriedly kowtowed and thanked him, and went down to the palace.

Emperor Jianwen took Huang Zicheng's hand and said: "Now that Jinan City is besieged by the Yan army, urgent documents are flying like snowflakes, and the court has no soldiers to send at the moment, what do you think, sir?" ”

Huang Zicheng lowered his head and thought for a while: "For today's plan, we can only use the strategy of delaying the army, Your Majesty must send someone to Yan Ying to negotiate peace with King Yan, pardon his crimes, and split the land and seal the domain." Then he ordered people to recruit troops in all directions, and after the army gathered, he would carry out a crusade. ”

Emperor Jianwen sighed and said, "It seems that this is the only way to go." ”

So Emperor Jianwen summoned Wang Desheng, the chief eunuch of the internal official and eunuch, and said to him: "Wang Daban, you are an old Taizu, and you are also very familiar with King Yan, I ordered you to go to Jinan to persuade King Yan to withdraw his troops, I forgive his crimes, cut off the three mansions of Beiping, Yongping, and Baoding with him, and swear an oath with him, and forever be a vassal auxiliary." ”

Wang Desheng hesitated: "The old slave is a eunuch, with no ink on his chest and a clumsy tongue, how can he persuade the king of Yan." ”

Huang Zicheng said on the side: "Wang Daban, you are not going to reason with King Yan, but to talk about family affection. You are there on behalf of Emperor Taizu Gao to bridge the feud between His Majesty and King Yan. ”

At the mention of Emperor Taizu Gao, Wang Desheng was in tears, so he had to kneel down and kowtow and say, "The old slave does his best." ”

More than ten days later, Wang Desheng came to the Yan army camp outside the city of Jinan, Yan Wang ordered the generals to line up neatly, personally out of the camp to meet, along the way to Wang Desheng showed Wang Desheng the Yan army strong horses, the military appearance of the sheng, and finally he held Wang Desheng's hand, side by side into the Chinese army tent, Wang Desheng was just about to bow down to the king of Yan, the king of Yan hurriedly hugged him, sighed: "Wang Daban, you are the old man before the emperor Taizu Gao, as soon as I saw you, I remembered my father, the past is vivid, you are highly respected, how can you bow down to me." ”

Wang Desheng also sighed: "The old slave has served by Emperor Taizu Gao for more than 30 years with a flick of his fingers, and you have all grown up and set up your own doors. ”

King Yan invited Wang Desheng to sit down and said bluntly to him: "The mountains and rivers are still the same, and things are not people." Wang Daban came to be a lobbyist for the young master? ”

Wang Desheng said with tears in his eyes: "No." The old slave didn't want to see the descendants of Taizu kill each other, so he gave up this old face to run for the two parties, hoping to calm things and calm the world, and it was not in vain that the old slave followed Taizu for a lifetime. ”

King Yan sneered: "Okay, just for the sake of Wang Daban's face, you might as well listen to how the young master plans." ”

Wang Desheng cleared his throat and said: "Before the old slave left, His Majesty said that if King Yan withdraws from the army, he can cut off the three mansions of Beiping, Yongping, and Baoding with him, forgive his crimes, and forever become a Ping Domain. ”

When King Yan heard this, he laughed and sonic shook the tent.

Wang Desheng didn't know why, he was very frightened, and asked: "His Royal Highness King Yan, where did the old slave say the wrong thing, please make it clear to King Yan." ”

King Yan waved his hand at him and said, "Wang Daban, you didn't say the wrong thing, it was the young master who made a mistake." ”

Wang Desheng sighed and said: "How do you say this, please make it clear to King Yan." ”

King Yan pointed to the generals in the tent and said, "Wang Daban, do you ask them if they agree?" ”

The generals said in unison: "I will never agree." ”

Wang Desheng was surprised: "Why is this? ”

Zhang Yu pressed the hilt of the sword with his hand, stepped forward and said, "Princess, do you really not know, or are you pretending to be confused?" ”

Wang Desheng's face changed and said: "The old slave is in the deep palace, and the affairs of the foreign dynasty are not very important, please ask this general for advice." ”

Zhang Yu snorted and said: "The three mansions of Beiping, Yongping, and Baoding are already in the hands of our army, and the imperial court will cede these three mansions to King Yan, wouldn't it be a favor to take the things in the hands of others and then do favors, how can we agree." ”

Wang Desheng bowed his hand to King Yan again and again: "His Royal Highness King Yan, the old slave really doesn't know about this matter, look at His Highness Haihan." ”

King Yan said: "It's not your fault, Wang Daban. It can be seen from this that the court's discussion of peace is not sincere, and it is just a measure to delay the army. When I take Jinan, I'll make a deal with them. ”

Wang Desheng hurriedly stood up, with tears in his eyes, and wanted to kneel down again.

King Yan held him up again and said, "I can't blame you for not making peace this trip." Since ancient times, monarchs have listened to slanderous rumors, separated flesh and blood, and rarely lost. I am the king of Yan, the first class of the Son of Heaven, and I am extremely rich, so why ask for it? However, the traitors intertwined, accumulated and destroyed the bones, added me to the great sin, and saw the slaughter with soldiers, and there was death and no life, so I had to raise an army and make it difficult, so that Si. The rule of the lord of the husband is not to forget the respect, not to relax his relatives, to be diligent in the distance and forget the small reasons, is to the harmony of the nine clans and the world is peaceful. Today, if you want to turn misfortune into blessing, the court must punish the traitor to thank the ancestors, go to the new policy to restore the constitution, release the kings to return to the old seal, and stop the soldiers of the world, so as not to be embarrassed. I hope that my companion will return to Beijing and tell the king from the bottom of his heart, and it will not be in vain for you to make this trip. ”

Wang Desheng nodded again and again, and King Yan left him in the camp, put on a feast, and gave him a pick-up, and the banquet only talked about the past, and no longer talked about the peace talks. Three days later, he personally sent him out of the camp ten miles away, and only then did he return to the camp after seeing that he had gone far.

The days flew by, the Yan army had besieged the city for more than three months, and it was the Mid-Autumn Festival in August, and Zhu Di, the king of Yan, received a letter from Beiping, which was written by the monk Daoyan, and the king of Yan read it and laughed.