"General Zhou, our King of Wei said it himself, he's sorry for you! When he was in Pengcheng, he shouldn't have listened to the villain's instigation, expelled you from the camp, and caused you to be wronged! But King Wei really didn't mean to treat you like this! Afterwards, he also regretted it very much, and sighed more than once in our Wei soldiers, saying that he only had two regrets in his life, one was that he failed to save our Wei king from Linji, and the other was that he misunderstood you! He also said that if you are still under his account, why should our Wei army look at the faces of the other five countries outside the Guanwai? ”

"General Zhou, our King Wei knows that you hate him! But after all, Wei is your mother country, and it is you who was personally appointed by the first king of Wei, and you are the guest and host of our current King of Wei, and after getting along for such a long time, even stones can be heated, not to mention your famous tolerant and generous General Zhou? Please also be sure to help us King Wei through this difficulty! ”

"No, no, the general misunderstood, our King Wei is not begging you to withdraw from the army! Now General Zhou, you are already a courtier of the King of Han, the King of Han ordered you to send troops to attack Hedong, if you withdraw without authorization, it will be a disobedience to the order, how dare our King Wei force the general to do this disloyal and unrighteous thing? As long as the King of Han promises to spare our King of Wei from death and not kill any of the Wei soldiers and officials who surrendered at will, our King Wei will immediately open the gate of Anyi City and lead the whole city to surrender to you! ”

"Please general, you must believe in the sincerity of our King of Wei, this time the King of Han took the initiative to form an alliance, originally our King of Wei was already tempted to agree, that is, General Bai Zhi and General Feng Jing, I have to persuade our King of Wei to reject the kindness of the King of Han, our King of Wei was confused for a while, and listened to their nonsense, so that the current consequences have occurred, and our King of Wei regretted it, so he decided to atone for his crimes, and planned to lead the army and people of Anyi to surrender the city, but he was worried that the King of Han would not be compatible, so he could only ask General Zhou for your help."

Kneeling in front of Uncle Zhou, the envoy of Wei sent by Wei Bao looked sad, while constantly bowing, his mouth was as sweet as honey, constantly explaining the various misunderstandings between Wei Bao and the Han army and Uncle Zhou, and also constantly mentioning the love between Uncle Zhou and Wei's mother country, crying and begging Uncle Zhou to accept Wei Bao's conditional surrender for the sake of his past feelings.

Uncle Zhou is a cold-faced and warm-hearted person, on the surface taciturn, it seems that the EQ of his opponent surnamed Han is lower, but in fact he is quite affectionate and righteous, seeing the Wei envoy crying pitifully, and thinking of his own love with the mother country of Wei, his expression seems to be unmoved, but his heart has long been soft, and he has been letting the Wei envoy cry and beg in front of him, or after the Wei envoy basically finished speaking, Uncle Zhou opened his mouth without any expression, and said: "The King of Wei is too worried, our King Han is magnanimous, Even the son of the third emperor of the tyrannical Qin can tolerate it, let alone the king of Wei? When I went back and told the King of Wei, I said that Uncle Zhou could swear by the Yellow River, and as long as he opened the city and surrendered, I could use my life to guarantee that he would not be harmed in any way. ”

"General Zhou, of course King Wei and the envoy can trust you." The envoy of Wei sobbed and said: "But the matter is too big, it is better to ask the general to ask the king of Han for a pardon decree on behalf of our king of Wei, so that our king of Wei can really rest assured, and please ask the general to be considerate of the distress of our king of Wei, after all, this is closely related to the life of our king of Wei's whole family." ”

After that, the envoy of Wei hurriedly said: "By the way, I almost forgot to report to General Zhou, general, didn't you personally act as a matchmaker for your niece Bo Zhanzhi Bo girl, and marry Bo girl to the King of Han as a concubine?" Now Miss Bo and her mother Wei Yuan are in Anyi City, as long as you agree to help, the general, our King Wei will immediately send Miss Bo and her mother out of the city to the general, so as to prove the sincerity of our King Wei's request. ”

Before the envoy of Wei finished speaking, Ling Yi and the old man of the young marshal army next to him had already quietly upturned the corners of their mouths, and they all snickered in their hearts: "Pretending to be true, it is really a dog that can bite people and does not bark, no wonder it is so trusted by our Han King, it turns out that you have already dedicated your beautiful niece to our Han King." ”

Uncle Zhou really pretended to be very similar, and asked with a surprised face: "I personally acted as a matchmaker and promised Wei Yuan's daughter to the King of Han?" When did this happen? How did I not know it myself? ”

"General, you don't know?" It was the envoy of the Wei State who was surprised and said in surprise: "This is what Wei Yuan, the daughter of the Wei clan, and her daughter said in person?" ”

Uncle Zhou was silent again, and thought about it expressionlessly for a long time, and then said: "There is really no such thing, but Wei Yuan and I are indeed old friends, and I have always regarded Miss Bo as my own niece, if they are willing to go to Guanzhong with me, King Wei can also promise to let them go out of the city to meet me, of course, it is the best, and I will definitely repay King Wei's great kindness." ”

"So, General Zhou, you agreed?" The envoy of Wei asked in surprise.

"I will send a messenger back to Xianyang, report the request of the King of Wei to the King of Han, and ask the King of Han to accept the request of the King of Wei." Uncle Zhou replied to the question, and said: "But I have one condition, within today, I must send Wei Yuan's mother and daughter out of the city and hand them over to me, and don't talk nonsense, I want to sacrifice my niece to the King of Han, I won't do anything like that." ”

"Piff, greedy for glory and wealth, offering beautiful women to invite pets, and also want to pretend to be a moral gentleman."

The envoy of Wei was slandered in his heart, but he quickly agreed, saying that he would report to Wei Bao truthfully after he returned. Uncle Zhou was still the same expressionless dead face, he just ordered the assistant to write for Jia, make a book for himself on the spot, wrote a letter to Xiang Kang to explain the situation, asked Xiang Kang to accept Wei Bao's conditional surrender, and by the way, interceded for Wei Bao with his own reputation, and then signed and sealed in front of the envoy of Wei State, and sent a fast horse to send it. The envoy of Wei was overjoyed when he saw it, and hurriedly thanked Uncle Zhou again and again, and left happily.

It was still after the Wei envoy said goodbye and left, and the young marshals and old men such as Worm Da and Ling Yi congratulated Uncle Zhou with a wicked smile on their faces, and said, "Congratulations to the general, you will be reunited with your niece soon." ”

"Don't laugh so treacherously." Uncle Zhou also showed a little smile and said with a smile: "Don't think I don't know what you're thinking in your stomach, I don't need to say anything now, let's wait for Wei Yuan and Miss Bo to come back, and then you ask them face to face, is my Uncle Zhou that kind of person." ”

"General, listen to your tone, is there really no such thing?" Worm Da heard Uncle Zhou's voice, and asked suspiciously, "If there is really no such thing, why do you want Wei Bao to hand over your niece?" ”

"You'll understand when the time comes." Uncle Zhou replied casually, and then ordered: "Let the rear camp hurry up and make siege weapons, if Wei Bao refuses to hand over people, we have to use force to take Anyi, don't waste time because of one of his promises." ”

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Let's take a look at the situation on the Wei side, after returning to Anyi City with Uncle Zhou's reply, the envoy of Wei immediately explained the specific details to Wei Bao, and learned that Uncle Zhou was fooled, and sent someone back to Xianyang in front of the envoy to intercede with Xiang Kang, Wei Bao's brother Wei You was overjoyed, and immediately said to Wei Bao: "King, without further ado, in order to completely stabilize Uncle Zhou's traitor, we must immediately send Wei Yuan's mother and daughter out of the city to him, so that we can buy enough time for us to wait for the arrival of reinforcements." ”

At this point, Wei Bao, who was still coveting his beauty, suddenly felt a little reluctant, and said hesitantly: "Isn't it a pity to hand it over like this?" Only by holding the hostages in our hands can we use them to force Uncle Zhou's traitor to withdraw from the army at a critical moment. ”

"King, only by satisfying the requirements of Uncle Zhou's traitor can we continue to stabilize him." Wei You reminded: "If you refuse to hand over the hostages, Uncle Zhou's traitor will definitely understand that he has fallen for us, and when the time comes, how can he send troops to attack the city, how can he give up the attack for the sake of the two women?" The only role of these two women at present is to temporarily stabilize Uncle Zhou's traitor for us, and I hope that the king must be cautious about this. ”

Wei Bao is not lustful enough to care about life and death, considering the importance of holding on and waiting for help, the poor three thousand defenders in Anyi City, and Uncle Zhou will never care about the life or death of the two women once he makes up his mind to attack the city, Wei Bao thought about it, and still said very helplessly: "Let people go, first stabilize the traitor for the time being." ”

In this way, after being imprisoned for two days, Wei Yuan and Bo Zhanzhi's mother and daughter were finally sent out of the city by Wei Bao by car, and directly to the Han army camped in the southwestern suburbs of Anyi. The result was also natural, just after sending away the Wei envoy who returned Wei Yuan's mother and daughter, Uncle Zhou immediately complained to Wei Yuan: "Wei Yuan, aren't you ruining my innocent reputation?" When will I be a matchmaker for my niece Bo and marry her to the king of Han? ”

"Are you still forced by Wei Bao?" Wei Yuan has never been afraid of the good-tempered Uncle Zhou, and said with a smile: "When that puppet saw the little girl's daughter, he stared at the end with a pair of thief eyes and didn't let go at all, for the sake of her daughter's innocence, what else can the little girl do except borrow the tiger skin fox fake tiger power of you and the king of Han?" If she hadn't followed the little girl's instructions and invited you and King Han to scare Wei Bao's husband in time, she would have been insulted by Wei Bao's husband. ”

"Then you don't think about my reputation?" Uncle Zhou said angrily: "This matter spreads out, so that everyone in the world thinks that my Uncle Zhou is the one who exchanges his niece for glory and wealth, what face do I have to see the world?" ”

Wei Yuan immediately cried, and said with a handful of snot and tears: "General Zhou, the little girl also knows that she is sorry for you, but I can't help it, even if her father died early, I and her mother depend on each other, how can I bear to push her into the fire pit?" She is also your niece, can you bear to watch her being ruined by Wei Bao's puppet and ruining her innocence and her life? Woo woo woo ....... ”

"Okay, stop crying." Uncle Zhou interrupted helplessly: "I don't mind the head office, right?" Take my niece down to rest, I still have military affairs to do. ”

"No way!" Wei Yuan's crying stopped abruptly, and she jumped up and down: "General Zhou, you are the great benefactor of the little girl and Zhanzhi, how can we bear to let you bear the injustice for us?" Otherwise, we will simply make the mistake wrong, and ask the general to be a matchmaker, and dedicate her to the King of Han as a concubine, anyway, this girl will never forget the King of Han, which can be regarded as a mutual love, you help her and the King of Han achieve good things, so that the world will not say anything about you. ”

"Mother, there are so many people, how can you ......?"

Bo Zhanzhi complained with shame on his face, and the people next to him, Ling Da, Ling Yi, Li Bi and others couldn't help laughing, but Uncle Zhou was completely helpless, and couldn't help but say: "Wei Yuan, when I return to Xianyang, I will introduce Mr. Uncle Sun to you, I bet that the two of you will definitely be able to talk about it." ”

Worm Da and the others finally burst into laughter, but Wei Yuan's eyes lit up, and she hurriedly said: "The general doesn't say it, the little girl almost forgot about Mr. Uncle Sun, there is no need to introduce it, the little girl also knows Mr. Uncle Sun, if the general is really unwilling to be a matchmaker for Zhan Zhi, it doesn't matter, when you get to Xianyang, I will let Zhan Zhi worship Mr. Uncle Sun as her father-in-law, and ask Mr. Uncle Sun to help with this." ”

Worm Da and the others laughed even more, and Uncle Zhou was also angry and laughed, waving his hand again and again: "Okay, whatever you want, in short, Wei Yuan, you should quickly take Bo niece down to rest, I really have very important military affairs to do immediately." ”

To put it mildly, after finally sending away Wei Yuan, who was the same as Mr. Shusun, Uncle Zhou first cleared his throat, and suddenly ordered the generals of the Han army present: "The generals listened to the order, and immediately began to prepare torches, dry food and other things for night battles. ”

The generals were stunned, and then Li Bi asked in surprise: "General, didn't you send someone to intercede with our Han King on behalf of Wei Bao?" Wei Bao also fulfilled his promise and sent your old friend and niece out of the city to us, why did you send troops to attack the city? ”

"I'm planning to paralyze Wei Bao and the defenders of Anyi." Uncle Zhou sneered and said: "Wei Bao used a delaying tactic, pretending to want to ask for a pardon from our Han King and then surrender, let me wait for the Han King's reply, so as to delay time, waiting for Zhang Han and Sima Wei's reinforcements, such a carving insect trick, you also want to hide it from me?" I pretended to be fooled, and deliberately forced him to return my old friend and niece within today, the purpose was to make Wei Bao think that I had been tricked, and then suddenly send troops to attack Anyi, just so that I could kill him by surprise. ”

The generals of the Han army suddenly realized, and hurriedly complimented Uncle Zhou together, Li Bi rubbed his hands together and said: "Great, with the general's strategy, it is difficult for us not to wipe out the thief army of Wei this time, and by tomorrow morning, Wei will definitely cease to exist." ”

Li Bi's words had the opposite effect, when he thought that he was going to destroy the mother country with his own hands, or use the despicable means of deception and sneak attack to destroy the mother country, Uncle Zhou, who had already led the Han army soldiers to kill countless Wei soldiers when he was stacking the platform, couldn't help but feel melancholy, but out of duty, Uncle Zhou could only wave his hand and ordered: "Go and prepare, gather in the Chinese army's big tent at the beginning of the correction, and then I will arrange specific night attack tactics." ”

With the veteran of the young marshal army who is good at stealing chickens and dogs as the backbone, the recruits of the Han army under the command of Uncle Zhou of course quickly prepared for the night attack, and at the beginning of the shift, the generals of the Han army also gathered in the commander's tent according to the instructions to accept Uncle Zhou's tactical arrangements. But after the generals of the Han army arrived, Uncle Zhou was very worried and didn't speak for a long time.

After waiting for a while, seeing that Uncle Zhou was still sitting silently, Worm Da and the other generals were surprised in their hearts, so they asked one after another: "General Zhou, what's wrong?" It's not too early, why don't you arrange specific siege tactics for us? ”

Uncle Zhou didn't answer, and after a while, Uncle Zhou asked rhetorically: "Generals, do you think I've gone too far?" As an old minister of the Wei State, not only did I kill countless soldiers of the mother country on the battlefield, but also used despicable tricks to deceive the mother country, and took the opportunity to launch a sneak attack to break the city, is it too ruthless and vicious? ”

The generals of the Han army looked at each other, and then Worm Dacai said: "General, we also know that you feel uncomfortable, but there is no way, Ci is not in charge of the army, on the battlefield of the two armies, if we show mercy to the enemy's subordinates, it will only be self-inflicted." ”

Uncle Zhou was silent again, his lips trembled several times, and he wanted to give an order to launch a night attack according to the original plan, but he never gave up his heart. After hesitating for a long time, Uncle Zhou also said to himself: "In fact, we still have a way, we can force Wei Bao to surrender directly, if we succeed, we can not only take Anyi without a single soldier, but also help the King of Han to win the hearts of the people in Wei, so that we can quickly gain a foothold in Hedong." ”

"General, do you have a way to force Wei Bao to surrender directly?" Ling Yi asked curiously, "Then why don't you give it a try?" ”

"There is no absolute certainty." Uncle Zhou replied: "If we fail, we can only launch a frontal attack, and even if there is still hope to take Anyi City, we will definitely have to pay more price." ”

It was the turn of the generals of the Han army to hesitate, and after a long time, Li Bi suddenly said: "General Zhou, if you don't give it a try, the big deal is to miss the opportunity to sneak attack, and the frontal attack is enough, when the time comes, please let the last general serve as the siege vanguard, if the last general can't rush to the wall of Anyi for you, I am willing to lead the army!" ”

Knowing Uncle Zhou's contradictory mood, after gritting his teeth, the old man of the young marshal army also said: "General Zhou, since there is hope to persuade him to surrender, then just give it a try, Wei is your mother country, you remember the old feelings, and give your home country soldiers one last chance to live, it is also affectionate and righteous, even if the King of Han knows, he will definitely not blame you." ”

Uncle Zhou was indeed soft-hearted and was persuaded by his subordinates to waver even more, but considering his responsibilities, as well as Xiang Kang's trust in him and the grace of knowing him, Uncle Zhou was ruthless and determined to abolish the public for personal reasons.

"General Zhou, the lower officials think that you should give your home country one last chance."

The person who said this was Shao Ping, a civilian assistant official who was also an official of the Qin Dynasty who was appointed by the Han army after surrendering, and said: "Xiaguan is definitely not deliberately pleasing you, Xiaguan is also thinking about the great cause of the Han King." Wei is your mother country, Hedong Anyi is the old land of Wei, you break the city with tricks, even if you succeed, the people of Wei will not be convinced, in addition to despising you behind your back, you will not willingly submit to the king of Han. Only by taking care of the old feelings and giving the soldiers of your mother country one last chance, so that after taking Anyi and Hedong, the old people of Wei will willingly accept the order of the Han king, so that the old land of Wei will be incorporated into the territory of our Han State in a real sense. ”

After that, Shao Ping added: "Also, Xia Guan is foolish, if King Han is here now, he will definitely agree to you give the mother country one last chance." After all, our Han King is a wise and merciful lord, not a cruel and ruthless dumb king like Hu Hai, and he will never like a completely ruthless and unrighteous person. ”

Uncle Zhou was completely shaken, and Ling Yi, the old man of the young marshal army over there, also jumped out and said: "General Zhou, don't hesitate, give your home country a chance, anyway, our army has a lot of recruits, and if we attack and steal the city at night, the loss may not be smaller than the frontal attack." Since the gap is not big, why should we care if it is a sneak attack or a frontal attack? One last time, we've got your back. ”

In order to understand Uncle Zhou, the rest of the Han army generals also echoed one after another, all thinking that they could give the Wei army one last chance, and Uncle Zhou finally made up his mind, got up and hugged his fists to the Han army and said: "Thank you generals, please allow me to thank you as a Wei person, for the innocent Wei soldiers and people, and thank you for giving them the last chance to live." Please rest assured, if the King of Han is to blame in the future, I will bear all the responsibility alone, and you will definitely not be implicated. ”

The generals of the Han army hurriedly humbled me, and Shao Ping also hurriedly asked: "General, do you want to write for you and write a letter to Wei Bao to persuade you to surrender?" ”

"No need." Uncle Zhou shook his head and said in a deep voice: "Just bring Bai Zhi and let him bring a message to Wei Bao for me, if Wei Bao can't even listen to my heartfelt words, I don't have any burden, just wave the army to attack the city!" ”

Not to mention, Uncle Zhou's message to Bai Zhi to bring to Wei Bao was really powerful, after listening to the content of Uncle Zhou's message, Bai Zhi trembled, and couldn't help but say: "General Zhou, can you change someone to bring the letter?" After hearing you say this, the sin general really doesn't have the courage to go back to Anyi City and wait for death. ”

"No, only if you go, King Wei can understand my kindness and sincerity to him." Uncle Zhou categorically refused, and said: "Don't worry, as long as you can bring my message, even if Wei Bao refuses to listen to my good words and persuasion, when Anyi City is broken in the future, you can also go out of the city to join me, and I will definitely not treat you badly." ”