Jia Ke led his men and horses to the city of Thang Long Mansion and set up camp ten miles away from Thang Long Mansion.

Early the next morning, Jia Ke gathered the generals with drums as usual, and then led the generals out of the camp and came to the city wall of Thang Long Mansion.

Jia Ke sat on his horse and looked at the city tower, only to see that the city tower was densely packed with soldiers, it seemed that Ruan Zhengyu had taken advantage of his time to gather the northern forces of Annan, and he was ready.

Jia Ke immediately ordered his own soldiers to shout to the city tower, letting the other party go out of the city to face the battle.

Ruan Zhengyu also came to the city early, and now when he saw the other party begging for the enemy, he couldn't help but show a contemptuous smile, Now go out and fight a positional battle with you, then I'm not stupid?

Since Ruan Zhengyu saw through Jia Ke's plan, he immediately ordered the generals beside him: "No one is allowed to fight without the order of this king, and if there is disobedience, there will be no forgiveness." ”

In fact, there is no need for Ruan Zhengyu's orders, these generals under him are already frightened, and now when they hear his order, they naturally doze off and send a pillow, so they say "yes" together.

Jia Ke shouted and cursed under the city all day, and he didn't see Ruan Zhengyu in the city come out, so he knew that he would never go out of the city to fight a decisive battle, and it seemed that this siege battle was inevitable.

Jia Ke returned to the big tent and gathered all the civil and military forces to discuss the signal of tomorrow's siege, so that they could express their opinions.

Sun Yan went south with Jia Ke this time to give advice to Jia Ke, in fact, he knew in his heart that Jia Ke didn't trust him, so he worked hard during this time, and now he listened to Jia Ke's inquiry and came out immediately.

"Lord Qiqi, although the people of Annam refuse to fight, it is easy to break it."

Jia Ke was interested after hearing this, he had already watched the city defense of Dragon City just now, the city here is high and thick, and it is not so easy to attack the city.

"Master Sun has any clever plans, hurry up and tell them."

Sun Yan touched his beard reservedly, and then said: "I have already seen the terrain near Thang Long Mansion just now, and it is undeniable that Thang Long Mansion is indeed the capital city run by Annam for several generations, and it is indeed behind the high walls of the city, if it is attacked, I am afraid that it will suffer heavy losses." ”

Jia Ke nodded after listening, this is exactly what he is worried about, Annan has been learning from the Central Plains, so the construction method of the city of Annan is basically the same as that of the Central Plains, especially the capital of Annan, which is naturally full of Annan's national strength, and its scale is not different from those provincial cities in the Central Plains.

Sun Yan saw Jia Ke pondering, and a smile appeared on his face, You, the lord, still can't do without me.

"The lord doesn't have to worry, although the capital of Annan is huge, it has a fatal flaw."

Jia Ke's eyes lit up when he heard this.

"Lord, have you noticed that the vicinity of Thang Long City is a yard of Pingchuan, and the rivers are not dense, as long as our army surrounds Thang Long Mansion, Ruan Zhengyu has stored grain in Thang Long Mansion for several years, there is no water source, and he is also a rootless tree."

Jia Ke shook his head when he heard this and said, "Lord Sun, this is a bad thing, the Thang Long Mansion has always been densely covered with wells, and I'm afraid there will be no shortage of water." ”

Sun Yan retorted confidently: "Lord, although there are wells in Thang Long Mansion, but the population in Thang Long Mansion is dense, plus now that hundreds of thousands of troops are gathered, the water source is not enough, and they don't have anything to start a fire, do they want to eat raw?" ”

As soon as Jia Ke heard this, his mind flashed to the terrain near Thang Long Mansion, which is located in the plain, and the surrounding land is very fertile, which can be said to be the main grain producing area of Annam.

However, there is a downside that Annam National's representative has cut down almost all the nearby forests in order to clear the land to increase his income.

In order to get timber in the current country of Annam, it has to go to distant mountainous areas, which has also given rise to a profession in Annam, which specializes in going to distant mountainous areas to cut firewood and then send it to Thang Long Province at a high price.

Jia Ke has now understood Sun Yan's strategy, this is to reduce ten meetings with one force, I don't care what you do, I will besiege the city first, you just have food and water, and it is in vain to cook without firewood, if you can't hold on to surrender, then it will be better, if you are ready, then it is not too late for me to attack the city.

Jia Ke thought about it and could only do so, so he ordered the men and horses to surround the Thang Long Mansion.

Nguyen Thanh Ngoc received a report the next day, saying that the communication between Thang Long Province and the outside world had been completely cut off.

Ruan Zhengyu hurriedly went to the city to watch, only to see that Thang Long Mansion had been surrounded by hundreds of thousands of horses, and there was no channel for external communication.

Ruan Zhengyu only felt a little regretful now, he knew that the Thang Long Mansion couldn't hold it, so it was better to take the people to the south directly, but now it's too late to say this. Now the only way is to see who can hold on.

So in the following month, although Jia Ke besieged Thang Long Mansion, he did not attack the city, but Jia Ke did not either, so he sent men and horses to sweep around Thang Long Mansion.

Occupy all the prefectures and counties near Thang Long Province, and then send out the Annam people who surrendered themselves to take charge of local affairs.

In less than ten days, all the towns of Annam near Thang Long Province were occupied by Jia Ke, and now Thang Long Province has become an isolated island.

Speaking of the city of Thang Long Mansion, Thang Long Mansion did not feel the pressure at the beginning.

Ruan Zhengyu and the others were unconsciously relieved when they saw that Jia Ke did not immediately attack the city, because they knew that their soldiers were really not the opponents of the Central Plains.

As a result, within a few days, there was a problem in Thang Long Mansion, it turned out that this time Ruan Zhengyu was very concerned about the defense of Thang Long Mansion, whether it was water or food, he was very well prepared, just wanted to fight a protracted battle with Jia Ke.

But Ruan Zhengyu was careless, this person thought of everything, but he didn't think that he still had to use firewood for cooking.

As a result, at the beginning of Thang Long Province, there was still some firewood that could be used to make a fire for cooking, and by the time it was a month's worth of food, all the firewood and grass in the city had been burned.

Now in Thang Long Mansion, but it is a little embarrassing, there is food and water sources, but it is not cooked, and the people can't eat raw rice.

As a result, the people in Thang Long Province had to join forces to demolish the houses and remove the beams of the houses for daily cooking.

As a result, many people in Thang Long Mansion felt that they couldn't survive, and those nobles in the city didn't have these troubles of the common people, but they were suffocated in the city for a long time, and their lives were in danger at any time, so that these pampered nobles couldn't stand it anymore.

Ruan Zhengyu also felt the pressure from all directions, and what else could he say now, so Ruan Zhengyu gritted his teeth and stomped his feet, directly demolished his palace, and then sent these woods everywhere so that the people could start a fire and cook.

But in Thang Long Mansion, in addition to hundreds of thousands of people, there are also three or four hundred thousand troops, and his little bit of wood is a drop in the bucket.

In the end, Ruan Zhengyu really had no choice, and directly led the soldiers to tear down the mansions of all the nobles in the court, which made the Shenglong Mansion barely maintain.

But as soon as Ruan Zhengyu did this, the people who immediately made trouble lost their hearts, and the northern nobles who were originally loyal to him were also dissatisfied with him.

After all, no one wanted to have a good home, so they were directly demolished, and after the demolition, the wood was not left by itself, and all of them were sent to the barracks and people's homes, and their nobles were not as good as those people.

Among them, the southern faction led by Du Lin naturally complained even more, they were originally reluctant to surrender to Ruan Zhengyu, but now that such a thing has happened, it is natural that they are even more separated from Ruan Zhengyu.

These southern factions have long been at odds with the northern faction represented by Ruan Zhengyu, and this time Jia Ke invaded the south, these southern factions behaved even more unscrupulously.

Ruan Zhengyu naturally sensed that there was something wrong with these southern nobles, but he thought that he had consumed more than 100,000 horses on the man's side, and now there were only 20,000 or 30,000 southern soldiers in Shengshenglong Mansion, which was simply a firefly compared to his hundreds of thousands of northern soldiers.

And Ruan Zhengyu thought that these people in the south would come to him at most to make trouble, and he didn't expect that they would make any other trouble, but it backfired, and those people in the south thought longer than him.

Now Du Lin, the leader of the south, summoned the leaders of the southern faction in the capital to the palace for a secret meeting.

"The old man has something to say to you here."

Wang Jie, a lecturer at the Hanlin Academy of Annan, said after hearing this: "The boss is the leader of our south, and if you have anything to say, we will naturally have no disrespect." ”

As soon as Wang Jie finished speaking, the other people also said together, "Lord Wang's words are exactly what we are thinking, and the boss can just tell me if he has something to say." ”

Du Lin touched his beard backwards, and then said: "Since everyone thinks so highly of the old man, then the old man is disrespectful. ”

After saying this, Du Lin stood up and walked a few steps up the lobby, as if he was a little undecided, but finally gritted his teeth and turned to these people in the lobby and said, "What do you think of the situation in Annan today?" ”

Several officials below looked at each other, and then they all looked at each other.

Du Lin didn't expect them to answer, "Ruan Zhengyu has no way, he has repeatedly violated the Celestial Empire, attracted the army of the Celestial Empire to conquer, and now half of the country has fallen, if the Thang Long Mansion is broken again, I am afraid that the fortune of the country will come here." ”

The others nodded silently after listening to Du Lin's words, and they also saw the danger of the current situation.

Seeing that others agreed with his opinion, Du Lin struck while the iron was hot and said: "In my opinion, our king wants to fight to the death with the Central Plains Dynasty in Thang Long City, and if he is defeated, he will retreat to our south and then entangle with the Central Plains." ”

After Durin said this, the people below immediately blew up the pot.

"How can this be? We are honestly farming in the south, and who are we provoking anyone, why should we lead these proud soldiers and fierce generals from the Central Plains to us to fight. ”

"Yes, the north is now in misery, do you still want us to be like them in the south? I don't think the king treats us southerners as human beings at all. ”

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