Meiyang's war is much more fierce than martial arts.

Li Wei's army is not just defending the city, there are garrisons in the more important villages near Meiyang, maybe not much, but they will lead the villagers to kill the scouts sent by Chen Mo, Tai Shici as Chen Mo's vanguard officer, after crossing the river into the territory of Meiyang, there are no large-scale wars, but small-scale battles occur almost all the time.

Of the scouts sent by Tai Shi Ci, less than one in ten came back alive, and the information they brought back was naturally limited.

"Then the army will kill it directly, so if Li Dao goes out of the city to fight, wouldn't it be right?" Zheng Tu felt a little aggrieved, and after the army crossed the river, he seemed to be blind.

Tai Shi Ci looked at Xu Shu beside him, but saw Xu Shu slowly shook his head and said: "General don't worry, Li Wei's style of play seems arrogant, but in fact, what he wants is the strength of the countryside in the Meiyang area. ”

"All soldiers?" Tai Shi Ci was surprised, when Zang Hong was in Donglai, it seems that he also used this hand, and Chen Mo also used it, but it was more of an auxiliary or bluff, like this, directly fighting with the people of the countryside as the main force, Zang Hong and Chen Mo were useless, after all, ordinary villagers did not have much combat power, if this method was really used, how many casualties would it take?

"Perhaps." Xu Shu nodded and said, the disgusting thing about this method is that even if they finally capture Meiyang, I'm afraid there will only be one ruin left in this Meiyang, Chen Mo occupies Guanzhong, in addition to the land, the more important thing is the population, and it is definitely not Chen Mo's wish to defeat these populations.

"Yuan Zhi, is there a way to crack it?" As a pioneer general, Tai Shici naturally couldn't stop here, and looked at Xu Shu and asked.

Xu Shu nodded: "In the Meiyang area, there is no danger to set up an ambush, Li Dao's move is just a dying struggle, but now Li Dao is forcibly recruiting the people, building a dock fort, blocking the surrounding area, if our army waves the army straight in, it is inevitable that it will be attacked on all sides, according to the foolish opinion, now the layout of the lord is not complete, but there is no need to rush to attack the city, the general can lead the army to attack the dock fort, step by step, just wait for the lord to complete the layout, this Meiyang will also become a lonely city! ”

Tai Shi Ci nodded when he heard this, looked at the generals under his tent and said, "Wang Biao, Zheng Tu!" ”

"The last general!" Wang Biao and Zheng Tu stood out and bowed.

"You two and I each lead a battalion of soldiers and horses to attack Li Dao and set up a dock fort, remember, after breaking through the dock fort, the main thing is to pacify, to win the hearts of the people, not to make more killings." Tai Shi Ci said solemnly.

The atmosphere of the Xiliang Army has made the people of Guanzhong extremely distrustful of the government office, and Chen Mo is now in addition to expelling and eliminating the Xiliang Army, the most important thing is to subdue the people, so in this battle, the most important thing is not to slaughter the city at every turn.

"Whoa!" Wang Biao and Zheng Tu took the order and turned to leave.

Tai Shici looked at Xu Shu again and said, "Then ask Yuan Zhi to sit in the rear for me, allocate grain and grass, and ensure that my rear is unobstructed." ”

"Whoa!" Xu Shu smiled and agreed.

This time, Chen Mo gave Tai Shi Ci's vanguard army of 10,000 people, full of five battalions, Tai Shi Ci and Wang Biao, Zheng Tu each led a battalion to fight, Xu Shu led the remaining two battalions to be responsible for the rear, in terms of troops, Tai Shi Ci's side was even above Li Dao, Chen Mo led the army to fight in the three counties of the governor in the rear, and supported the soldiers and horses at any time.

Tai Shici's step-by-step combat method did indeed dismantle Li Dao's strategy of all the people being soldiers.

The people are the people, not to the weapons can be called soldiers, but this way of forcing the people to fight, caused the resistance of the people in the towns and towns, when the Tai Shi Ci three people led the troops to attack the dock fort, often stationed here as soon as the Xiliang army died, they would surrender immediately, and even many took advantage of the chaos to kill the Xiliang army to surrender, Li Wei's method not only failed to block Tai Shi Ci for too long, but accompanied nearly a thousand soldiers, and where the Tai Shi Ci army passed, it was almost a scene of welcome by the people later, The hard-working dock fort has also become a stronghold for Tai Shici to besiege Meiyang, and even the grain route has been blocked.

At the end of July, Duan Xuan, Li Meng and others still did not come to help, although Guo Yan's side has not yet been affected by the war, but Bao Geng occupies Chencang, Zhao Cen and Zhang Xiu's cavalry hovers on the side, although there is grain and grass in Yi County, but it is completely blocked, Qi County, Maoling, Pingling three counties directly surrender to Chen Mo, and the rest of the counties have also become a wait-and-see attitude.

At the beginning of August, Tai Shi Ci completely cut off the contact between Meiyang and Yixian, Meiyang ran out of grain and grass, on the third day of August, Li Dao and his son were cut off by the generals at night, and sent to surrender outside the city.

Meiyang and martial arts were broken one after another, Tai Shici and Wuyi waved their troops to besiege Yixian, Zhao Cen and Zhang Xiu led the cavalry to patrol the rear, although Yixian was strong, but it had become a lonely city, Guo Yan was helpless and sent people to see Chen Mo.

"Surrender?" Chen Mo looked at the surrender table sent by Guo Yan, shook his head, looked at Liang Xing and said: "General Liang, today, Guo Yan has become trapped in a lonely city, and surrendering at this time actually means little to me. ”

When Liang Xing heard this, he hurriedly bowed down and said: "What Marquis Changling said is extremely true, and General Guo is indeed sincere. ”

"This is a helpless vote, I don't see any sincerity!" Chen Mo closed the bamboo slip and said: "Not to mention that Guo Yan's title is obtained by coercing the Son of Heaven, the Han Dynasty has always had rules, not meritorious, Guo Yan did make military exploits in his early years, but his merits are not enough to rank among the county marquis, not to mention, since Guo Yan and Li Wei occupied Chang'an, the arson army has been bandits, plundering the people and causing the people in Guanzhong to live in poverty, and the crimes they have committed are difficult to write, and now they are poor and surrendered, but they still want to retain their county marquis title, why?" ”

"This ......" Liang Xing was not good at words, but at this moment, he was speechless for a while by Chen Mo who counted Guo Yan's sins one by one, and a lot of sweat oozed from his forehead.

"Ran......" Chen Mo looked at Liang Xing's appearance, and said in a soothing tone: "Guo Yan is the first evil, and his crime is unforgivable, but when the battle is here, I don't want to kill again, except for Guo Yan, the rest of the soldiers in the city can be exempted, like General Liang, if you want, you can also use your talents." ”

Liang Xing is stupid, but he is not a fool, when it comes to this, he still doesn't understand what Chen Mo means, Guo Yan must die, but these people under Guo Yan can live, and even continue to be generals.

"The last general understands!" Liang Xing bowed to Chen Mo.

"It's good to understand." Chen Mo looked at the outside of the tent and said, "It's not early, so there will be no generals left today." ”

"Whoa! The end will be retired! Liang Xing bowed down and agreed, said goodbye and left.

"Lord, then Guo Yan is willing to surrender, why don't you accept it?" After Liang Xing left, Zhang Ji looked at Chen Mo with some doubts, there were also many Xiliang generals under Chen Mo, such as Zhang Ji's uncle and nephew, Zhao Cen, Yang Ding, and Duan Xuan sent the letter of surrender the day before yesterday, Chen Mo also accepted it, why did he refuse to accept Guo Yan?

"The sins committed by the Xiliang Army need to be borne by people, and Li Dao is counted as one, but it is not enough." Chen Mo knelt behind the handsome case, shook his head and said: "Count it up, now that Guanzhong has been beaten like this, Li Dao and Guo Yan are unforgivable, and they hijacked the Son of Heaven and killed celebrities and ministers without permission, and I don't know how many people want to kill him." ”

Of course, it's not just these reasons, Guo Yan asked to keep the title, that is, he was on the same level as Chen Mo, and if he really accepted it, how to settle it? But after all, he surrendered on his own initiative, Chen Mo couldn't kill him himself, otherwise, who else would be willing to surrender to Chen Mo in the future? Therefore, Guo Yan must die, but he must not die in the hands of Chen Mo.

Zhang Ji and the other Xiliang generals were silent when they heard this, they didn't expect that there were so many, and at the same time, they were secretly glad that there were Li Dao and Guo Yan, the two largest Xiliang warlords, to stand up for them, otherwise if they had held heavy power like Li Dao and Guo Yan at the beginning, now I am afraid that they would not even have a chance to surrender.

On the other side, after Liang Xing returned to the city, he was summoned by Guo Yan and asked, "What did Chen Mo say?" ”

Liang Xing hesitated a little and said, "General, General Chen said ......"

"Say what?" Guo Yan frowned and shouted.

"It is said that the general is not sincere." Liang Xing's mind turned sharply, and he bowed down and said, "General Chen feels that the general's title is the same as his, and he must still have the heart to recover." ”

"Too much deception!" Guo Yan slapped the table case and said angrily, he only retains the county marquis title, but also for future generations to have a background, and he doesn't even keep an official position, is this not sincere?

At that moment, Guo Yan said angrily: "Order the three armies, and prepare to fight to the death with that Chen Mo tomorrow!" ”

"Whoa!" Liang Xing's eyes flickered, he bowed his head and agreed, and turned to leave.

Guo Yan was especially angry, and passed several military orders one after another, preparing to fight Chen Mo tomorrow, let Chen Mo see his ability, and then discuss the surrender.

On the other side, after Liang Xing left Guo's mansion, he quickly found several generals in the city, these people are Guo Yan's henchmen, holding heavy troops, but although they are confidants, but judging from the current situation, those who are willing to advance and retreat with Guo Yan may not all be there, after all, Liang Xing is also Guo Yan's henchmen, and he is also a general.

"Brother Liang, today you go to Chen Mo's army, what does Chen Mo say?" A general looked at Liang Xingdao.

"Not really." Liang Xing looked at everyone with a heavy face: "General Chen said that the general is guilty of a deep crime and cannot be pardoned. ”

"There are still more than 10,000 elites in this city, could it be that he really wants this Yixian County to bleed?"

"That's not either." Liang Xing looked at the crowd: "There are some things that I didn't dare to say to the general. ”

"What?" The generals hurriedly asked.

"We can all be pardoned, and we can even continue to be generals, but only the two generals Li Guo are guilty of great sins, and they are unforgivable for colliding with the Son of Heaven and killing ministers without permission." Liang Xing said in a low voice.

"This ......" The generals were silent when they heard this, the meaning of these words could not be clearer, Guo Yan must die, but they may not.

"What does Brother Liang mean?" One person looked at Liang Xingdao.

Liang Xing hesitated for a moment, then gritted his teeth and said: "We have been following the general for many years, and we have been born and died for him, now it is not that we are disloyal, but the general's strength is exhausted, but I still have a wife and children and a small family, and I can't die with the general, we have been fighting for the general for half our lives, but now it is time for the general to repay us, what do you think?" ”

When the generals heard this, they fell into Chen Mo, and after a long time, Liang Xing saw that everyone didn't speak, and frowned: "The general has already ordered that he will fight to the death with General Chen tomorrow, and all the soldiers and horses outside the city will gather, no less than 100,000 people, do you really want to die with the general!?" ”

After the generals hesitated for a moment, one of them said to Liang Xing: "What is the general going to do?" ”

The others heard this, but they didn't say much, and continued to listen.

Liang Xing heard this, finally breathed a sigh of relief, and after discussing with everyone at the moment, he took advantage of the night to transfer the soldiers and horses of Guo's mansion, and a group of people broke into Guo's mansion with his own guards, Guo Bian was still asleep, and was awakened by the noisy crying and shouting in the mansion, and hurriedly wanted to get up, but saw that Liang Xing had kicked open the door with several generals and came in.

"What do you want!?" When Guo Yan saw everyone, he frowned and shouted.

"General, offended, I don't want to accompany the general to death, and ask the general to fulfill it!" Liang Xing saw Guo Yan, a little weak, but the matter has come to this, how can there be room for change, gritted his teeth and waved his sword and rushed forward, in Guo Yan's angry gaze, a sword pierced Liang Xing's chest and abdomen.

"You ......" Guo Yan's eyes widened, and he grabbed the sword that pierced his chest and abdomen with both hands, and wanted to say something, but the others also pounced on him and slashed at Guo Yan......