Zheng Quan stepped forward tremblingly, a crossbow arrow against his vest behind him, he dared to say half a word, and the powerful crossbow arrow would shoot through his heart.

At this time, the captain on duty above asked, "General Zheng, is Hu Ji here?" ”

"Be calm and don't tremble!" Jiang Min whispered behind him.

Zheng Quan tried his best to calm himself down, and he responded loudly: "Orchid has nothing to do with you, hurry up and open the city, don't ask any!" ”

The captain of the gate guard smelled the smell of fat powder blown by the wind, and he was also a little distracted, and hurriedly ordered the soldiers to open the city gate.

The city gate slowly opened, and the first thing to enter the city was the cart transporting the barrels, and one after another the cart drove into the city, and hundreds of soldiers on duty came.

Zhang Wutao boasted after drinking, and as a result, everyone in the barracks knew that hundreds of orchids would come over tonight, and even the soldiers were excited.

"It's coming! Here it comes! ”

The soldiers craned their necks and waited for the wine cart to enter, and the wagon carrying the orchid finally began to enter the city.

The soldiers were not so polite, and they rushed up, stretched out their hands to draw the curtain, and laughed unscrupulously, when one of the soldiers suddenly found the spear and shield hidden at the feet of the orchid, and exclaimed, "How can there be weapons?" ”

Jiang Min was not far away, he heard the exclamation of the soldiers, and knew that he had been discovered, and he immediately shouted: "Do it!" ”

The soldiers in the barrel were the first to strike, they got out of the barrel, drew their spears from under the cart, and quickly surrounded the defenders, while the 'orchids' also turned their faces, and they slew the enemy soldiers around the ox cart with their spears and shields.

The three hundred soldiers defending the city were caught off guard, and half of them were killed in the blink of an eye.

Zheng Quan took advantage of Jiang Min's distraction to command the battle, and fled, shouting as he ran: "Ring the alarm bell!" The Jin army is here! ”

Jiang Min was shocked and angry, raised his crossbow and shot it, and the crossbow arrow shot out like lightning, hitting Zheng Quan in the back of the neck, the tip of the arrow penetrated through his throat, Zheng Quan fell to the ground, and died after a moment of convulsion.

But Zheng Quan caused the consequences, and several enemy soldiers at the head of the city sounded the alarm, 'Dang! While! While! 'The hurried bells echoed over the city, and in the night they shrieked.

Xu Rui was in a hurry, led a hundred soldiers to rush to the city, and shot down the two soldiers who rang the bell........

But the bell on the head of the city alarmed the barracks, and the soldiers on duty in the barracks also rang the alarm bells, and the soldiers in the barracks woke up from their sleep.

At this time, Pei Xin led a large army into the city gate, and they did not stop and went directly to the military camp.

In front of the gate of the barracks, more than 100 soldiers were shooting arrows outward, and three thousand crossbowmen of the Jin army took the lead in killing, raising their crossbows to shoot at the gate of the barracks, and the arrows were like a storm, instantly sweeping away the soldiers in front of the barracks.

Dozens of soldiers rushed towards the giant tree with their arms in their arms, 'Boom! With a loud bang, the gate was slammed open, Pei Xin waved his spear, and led the army to kill it.........

Although the alarm bell notified the soldiers in the camp in advance, it is not wartime, the weapons are in the warehouse at night, the soldiers also take off their armor to sleep, and the 30,000 Jin troops arrived in time, many soldiers just rushed out of the barracks, all unarmed, many soldiers are still barefoot, and the armor is not put on well.

Faced with the 30,000 Jin soldiers who were slaughtered like wolves and tigers, the 20,000 Zhu Zhu soldiers had nowhere to escape, and they had only two choices, either to be slaughtered or to surrender on their knees.

Basically, there was no fierce fighting, and there was no fierce fighting, Zhu Zhu's army surrendered in batches, and the armory was completely occupied by the Jin army, and some patrol soldiers tried to resist, but they were also ruthlessly suppressed by the Jin army, and all were killed.

The day gradually brightened, Da Kun Pass also completely restored calm, the Jin army took over Kui Han, Pei Xin ordered the army to take the prisoners of war back to Guanzhong, he led 10,000 troops to rush to Mianchi County thirty miles away, Mianchi County had no soldiers stationed, immediately surrendered the city, the Jin army was like a bamboo, continued to march to the east at a rapid pace, and the soldiers came to Xin'an County that night.

Xin'an County is the west gate of Luoyang, and the loss of Xin'an County means that the Jin army will quickly drive straight into Luoyang City.

There were 5,000 defenders in Xin'an County, and when they heard that the Jin army was coming, the defenders immediately panicked, on the one hand, they closed the city gates, and on the other hand, they sent people to Luoyang urgently for help.

Xin'an County is only a few dozen miles away from Luoyang County, the news soon spread to Luoyang, for a time Luoyang was shaken, but also caused a panic in Luoyang City, a large number of dignitaries began to flee outside the city, the city was in chaos, the imperial court left the prince Zhu Sui issued more than a dozen gold medals, with a hundred thousand urgent speed to report to Zhu Zhu.

At the same time, he sent the right guard general Li Wanjin to lead an army of 30,000 to support Xin'an County, at this time, news also came from the south, the Jin army sent troops from Shouchun, captured Yuzhou and Yingzhou, although these two places are still a little far from Luoyang, but they are the Zhu Zhu Dynasty's grain production area, lose these two states, Zhu Zhu's army will have a problem with the military rations.

At this time, Zhu Zhu's army conquered Yanzhou's Zoucheng County at the cost of 13,000 casualties, and more than half of the 20,000 Qi troops defending the city were also killed, and finally 8,000 remnants of the army also surrendered to Zhu Zhu's besieging army.

The capture of Yanzhou made Zhu Jun rejoice, and he began to think about continuing to attack Licheng County and defeat Li Na in one fell swoop, but at this moment, Luoyang's 800 li express report arrived.

Liu Sigu hurriedly came to the lord's tent, but heard Zhu Zhu's angry scolding outside the tent door, "This is the chief general of Kui Han you recommended, and I lost my Hangu Pass and Kui Pass after only two months in office, you have ruined my big business, how do you explain it to me?" ”

A sense of comfort that had not been felt for a long time arose spontaneously from Liu Sigu's heart, how did he persuade him not to change the chief general of Kuihan? asked him to trust Zhang Guangsheng and not fall for the other party's countermeasures, but in the end he didn't listen to his own persuasion, killed Zhang Guangsheng, and reused Zhang Wutao, who was born a scoundrel, Zhang Wutao could keep Cuihan? It's just going to be thrown faster.

However, Liu Sigu was happy in his heart, but he also knew that the current situation was relatively tense, Cuihan was lost, the west gate of Luoyang was opened, and the situation in Luoyang was very bad.

Liu Sigu walked into the big tent and saw Liu Feng kneeling on the ground, looking depressed, and Zhu Zhu was pointing at him and scolding.

If it was someone else who was scolding, maybe Liu Sigu would beg for mercy, but since he was scolding Liu Feng, Liu Sigu stood aside and was happy to see it.

Zhu Jun obviously didn't plan to discuss the military situation with Liu Feng, and when he saw Liu Sigu coming in, he pointed at Liu Feng's nose and scolded: "Get out, get out of here!" ”

Liu Feng was so frightened that he crawled outside and ran past Liu Sigu, but he didn't dare to raise his head, and escaped from the big tent with a smoke.

Liu Sigu looked at him and ran away, then bowed down and said, "Your Majesty, please don't be impatient!" ”

Zhu Jun knew that he killed Zhang Guangsheng and fell for Guo Song's counter-plan, he just scolded Liu Feng angrily, but it was just a show to appease Liu Sigu.

Zhu Jun sighed, "I knew that Guo Song would stop me from exterminating Li Na, but I didn't expect that he would use this method to come to Xin'an City, military division, do I have to withdraw the army?" ”

Liu Sigu nodded, "Weichen's opinion is also to withdraw the army, Qizhou is estimated to be overcome, we can negotiate peace with Li Na, consolidate the Jezhou, Yunzhou, Yanzhou and Yizhou that have been occupied, and then use Mizhou as a bargain." ”

Zhu Jun hesitated for a moment and said, "But if I want to take Mizhou, we need a salt farm." ”

"Either we will return Jeju and Yunzhou to him, and we will give Yanzhou, Yizhou and Mizhou."

Zhu Jun pondered for a moment and said: "As long as Mizhou is taken, everything else is easy to discuss, I am afraid that Li Na will not believe in his words, and as soon as we withdraw our troops, he will counterattack." ”

"Then leave an army in Mizhou, Yanzhou, and Yizhou, and if there are troops, Li Na will not dare to act rashly."

Zhu Zhu nodded and asked, "Who does the military advisor think is more appropriate to let him negotiate?" ”

Liu Sigu thought for a while and said: "You can let Cui Du negotiate with Li Na, he and Li Na are world friends, and he is more suitable." ”

Cui Du is Zhu Zhu's Du Zhi Lang, and he is also a native of Qizhou, his father Cui Fan and Li Zheng have a deep friendship, and he once joined the army as Li Zhengji's secretary, Li Na asked Cui Du to go to him as an official many times, but Cui Du refused.

Zhu Jun thought about it, the officials around him were indeed only Cui Du who was the most suitable, and he immediately ordered: "Xuan Cui Shilang is here to see me!" ”

.........

During this time, Li Na was about to collapse, especially the news of the loss of Yanzhou made him extremely depressed, and he closed his door every day, looking for joy in the mansion, but fortunately, several of his generals were able to defeat Zhu Zhu's attacks again and again, so that Licheng County always stood majestically.

At noon on this day, Wang Chongxin, the minister of state, hurriedly came to the palace of the king of Qi, Wang Chongxin was a long history in the era of Li Zheng, assisted the Li father and son for 20 years, and was loyal to them.

Walking into the palace of King Qi, he faintly heard the sound of the pipa, as if there were women rapping, Li Na was extremely obsessed with joining the military drama, he raised more than a dozen servants, both men and women, and sometimes he himself also appeared on the stage in person, completely the same as Emperor Tang Ming.

Some time ago, the war was so fierce that Li Na could not be seen in the city, and he continued to indulge in the drama of joining the army.

Wang Chongxin shook his head, walked into the backyard, and a maid reported for him, and after a while, the maid came back and said: "The prince has summoned, please come with me!" ”

Wang Chongxin followed the maid to the Water Pavilion Pavilion, which is the place where the military drama is performed, surrounded by four Water Pavilion platforms in a hollow shape, a stage in the middle, musicians sitting around, the stage is a man and a woman Two actors, one joins the army, one is a falcon, rapping and singing, the language is funny and funny, that is, the originator of today's cross talk.

Li Na and dozens of his wives and concubines sat in the surrounding water pavilions to watch the play, and the maid led Wang Chongxin to Li Na's side, Li Nazheng could see the gods, and from time to time stroked his palms and laughed.

"Lord Wang! Rajah! ”

Wang Chongxin shouted a few times, and Li Na reacted, stopped laughing and asked, "What is the matter with the Minister of State looking for me?" ”

"Zhu Jun has sent a messenger!"

The news stunned Li Na, who waved his hand and shouted, "Pause!" ”

The military drama stopped for a while, and Li Na tilted his head and asked, "What did he send a messenger for?" ”

"Naturally, I'm here to negotiate!"

"If there is anything to negotiate, if you want to fight, I will accompany you to the end."

Wang Chongxin sighed and said: "Our army has suffered nearly half of the casualties, morale is low, the key is that the oil is used up, if Zhu Jun attacks again, we are afraid that we will not be able to hold it, he does not know, so it is best to negotiate peace, let him withdraw the army first, and then we will seize the opportunity to recover." ”

"How much land is he going to take from me?" Li Na is not stupid, he knows that Zhu Jun will never leave cleanly.

"I don't know it yet, I want to talk about peace."

"Who is the other side to negotiate?"

"It's Cui Du!"

"It turned out to be him!"

Li Na nodded slightly, although this Cui Du refused to be loyal to himself, he should not harm his own interests too much, and he immediately said to Wang Chongxin: "You go to contact, negotiate with the other party, and report the progress to me at any time!" ”