Lanling.

"General, the Qin army has begun to attack the city!"

The subordinates cautiously entered the room to report, not daring to look at Liu Gaozhi's expression.

Liu Gaozhi frowned tightly, and his yin and yang face, which was already like a powerful ghost, looked even more hateful.

"Ugh." After a long time, Liu Gaozhicai sighed and said: "Now is the time when the country is in danger, and we should unite as one to have a chance to resist Qiang Qin." Who would have thought that at this critical juncture, there are still people in China who slander the Xie clan and disturb the hearts of our army, hateful, hateful! ”

This subordinate is also Liu Gaozhi's cronies, and at this moment he had the courage to answer: "The subordinates don't believe that the Xie family wants to rebel, and the marshal and the general are loyal to the Great Jin, and everyone knows it." But... It is a fact that His Majesty had an accident in Xie Mansion, His Majesty has not woken up yet, and Xie Mansion has not been able to come up with a reasonable explanation, and it is inevitable that rumors will spread. ”

Xie An has both civil and military positions, the civil official calls him the prime minister, and the military attache calls him the marshal, which is no problem, just like Wang Meng, who was both the prime minister and the general in Qin back then. Sima Yao's coma is not that Xie An can't explain it, but he doesn't dare to explain it. If he said that Sima Yao was stunned by Pei Shengqin's paper, then there was no basis for his words, he had to take out Sima Yao's faint text and let the world see it.

"Your Majesty is the Ninety-Five, with the world in mind, can a mere essay make Your Majesty stunned? What kind of text is so powerful, you should take it out and show it to the people of the whole country! ”

The problem is here, the article written by Pei Shengqin, Xie An did not dare to make it public! Because that article is not simply a satire and humiliation of Sima Yao, but points out the allusion of "the cow follows the horse", splashes dirty water on the entire Sima royal family, and shakes the legal basis of the rule of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. With such an article, it is too late for the Eastern Jin Dynasty to block the news, so where can it be announced? Don't let Xie An's suspicion of rebellion be washed away, and the people of the entire Eastern Jin Dynasty will also know about the "cow following the horse", so the gains will outweigh the losses.

Xie An can't explain now, he can't explain it, he is in a dilemma, so he has to let it go and let the rumors fly all over the sky. This is something that can't be helped, it is better to shake the reputation of a Xie family than to shake the reputation of the entire Great Jin Dynasty! It's not that Xie An is loyal and righteous and puts the country first, it's just that he is sober and knows the truth that there are no eggs under the nest.

Now the only way for the Chen Jun Xie clan is to wait for Sima Yao to wake up and clarify for the Xie clan, but I don't know when His Majesty the Emperor will wake up......

Liu Gaozhi, as a heavy general under Xie Xuan, is naturally a member of the Xie family, and Xie's helplessness is also Liu Xuanzhi's helplessness.

Liu Gaozhi said helplessly: "You just said... The Qin army attacked the city? ”

"Yes, the puppet king of Nan'an led the army to attack the west gate, the puppet princess Nan'an led the army to attack the east gate, and the little Pei thief led the army to attack the north gate, and General Liu Yu has dragged the sick body to command and defend the palace."

As the news of the attack on Huiji gradually spread, how much the Qin people admired the Pei family and his son, and how much the Jin people hated the Pei family and his son. Now the Jin Dynasty generally calls Pei Yuanluo the old Pei thief, and Pei Shengqin is called the little Pei thief. Because the little Pei thief is more hateful than the old Pei thief, sometimes it is directly called "Pei thief" to refer to the little Pei thief.

Liu Gaozhi smacked his mouth and sighed: "Surrounding the three queyi, Fu Deng is determined to attack Lanling!" ”

Under normal circumstances, a siege is to encircle the city on all sides to prevent the enemy from escaping. However, if they are determined to take the city, they usually adopt the tactic of "besieging three and one". The so-called siege of three queyi is to attack the city from three walls, leaving one side alone. In this way, when the defenders see that there is a loophole, they will have hope and luck in their hearts, and they will wonder if there is a chance to escape from the safe wall. In this way, the morale of the enemy army can be quietly reduced, and it may also prevent the enemy from using the desperate situation as an excuse to lure the soldiers into "fighting on their backs".

Liu Gao's heart moved, and he said: "Take Ben to find Liu Yu." ”

Liu Gaozhi saw Liu Yu on the tower of the east gate, Liu Yu was shrunk in armor, and even wore a mask on his face. Liu Gaozhi knew that he didn't want people to see his true face, and although Pei Shengqin's grenade did not kill Liu Yu, it successfully disfigured him. At this time, Liu Yu's appearance is probably similar to a certain handsome man in a certain Jianghu in Guoman in later generations.

Liu Gaozhi sighed: "Jinu, I wronged you that day. ”

What Liu Gaozhi said was that on the day Liu Yu fled back to Lanling, Liu Gaozhi beat him with a hundred military sticks. Liu Gaozhi actually likes this young man who dares to think and do, and even after listening to Liu Yu's report, Liu Gaozhi also thinks that if it is not an accident, Liu Yu's plan can be successful. However, none of this is a reason! Liu Yu was defeated, and if he folded 8,000 soldiers and horses, he had to be beaten with a military stick! If you don't beat Liu Yu, Liu Gaozhi won't be able to convince the public.

Fortunately, Liu Yu relied on his strong vitality like Xiaoqiang, and when he was seriously injured and tired, he survived another hundred sticks. After a few days of recuperation, he could barely continue to be a demon again.

"The last general is not aggrieved, and understands the general's distress." Liu Yu's muffled voice came from the mask.

Bypassing this topic, Liu Gaozhi looked down at the city, but saw the feather arrows flying, so frightened that he immediately squatted back to the city tower. A trembling voice asked, "Jinnu, how is the battle going?" ”

Liu Yu smiled bitterly when he heard this: "Our army is already weak, and there are rumors inside, and morale is low. There are last generals and generals at this east gate, and they can barely parry. But the west gate and the north gate did not know what was going on. ”

Liu Gaozhi's heart was half cold, he knew that Liu Yu, a young man, had always been more optimistic. He said that he could barely parry, which probably meant that he couldn't parry for long; He said that he didn't know the situation, which probably meant that it might have been breached.

Liu Gaozhi looked left and right, and occasionally a few Qin soldiers climbed into the city tower, although they were all successfully killed by the Jin army. But Liu Gaozhi found that often when a Qin soldier climbed up, several Jin soldiers had to go up together to fight in a group to get through. is also an elite, Liu Gaozhi can't figure out why the Beifu soldiers are so much worse than the Qin army, it is conceivable that if it were not for the city to hold on and replace it with a field battle, it is estimated that the Jin army would have been cold long ago.

Liu Gaozhi said angrily: "Even if the rumors will affect morale, our army will not be so unbearable!" ”

The small generals around Liu Gaozhi were trembling with fright and didn't dare to reply.

Liu Yu smiled bitterly: "General, don't forget, the Qin army is surrounded by three queyi, and many soldiers are probably thinking about finding an opportunity to escape through the south gate." If you are lucky, it is naturally difficult to die. ”

Liu Yu didn't say a word, and even he himself was now thinking about fleeing through the south gate. He joined the army because he wanted to make meritorious contributions, be promoted to official positions and make a fortune, not to sacrifice his life for the country.

Liu Gaozhi's expression was entangled and he was silent for a long time. After a long time, he tentatively asked, "Shall we sacrifice our lives for the country today?" ”

Everyone didn't speak, and put on a resentful expression.

Liu Gaozhi thought for a while, and then said: "Then let's keep a useful body and continue to serve the Great Jin Dynasty in the future?" ”

Everyone's eyes suddenly lit up, and they said in unison: "The general is wise!" ”

That night, Liu Jiaozhi took a remnant of the defeated army, left Lanling City from the south gate overnight, and then escaped from Donghai County as soon as possible.

On December 2, the 19th year of the founding of the Yuan Dynasty, the Longxi Army and the Tiance Army entered Lanling successively, and the Qin Army officially recovered the entire territory of Donghai County.