After Ju Liao surrendered, he and Tai Shichang jointly guarded Le'an City, and Zhao Yi's army was already on the way to Runan City. The following teams of soldiers and horses also arrived.

"Lord, the walls of Runan are high and thick, if you want to forcibly capture it, you will be in great trouble, and you must lure the enemy out of the city." Zhong Ai said as he rode his horse.

"Do you have any good plans?" Zhao Yi asked.

"Not yet, but Runan is a lonely city after all, if it can surround the entire city and run off food. It's not hard to take the city. Zhong Ai shook his head and said, it will be very difficult to face a city with high walls and thick walls, but this city has become a lonely city, isolated and helpless, and the easiest way is to run out of food.

"Alright, according to what you say, let's surround the city first, and then we'll talk about the rest there." Zhao Yi has always disliked thinking about these things the most, and the way is to think about it by the military advisor, and he is mainly responsible for killing the enemy on the battlefield.

More than 10,000 horses of the three lieutenant generals arrived at Runan City the next day to merge with Zhao Yi's team and encircle the entire Runan City, and besieged the city every day under Zhong Ai's instructions, but the garrison was extremely loose.

"My lord, the minister suddenly had a plan to deceive the defenders in Runan City. All the grain and grass supplies of our army are stored in the spring grain granary, and we can send people to put on the clothes of the enemy army as the defeated army. Let them into the city. Then let those defeated soldiers tell Zhao Gui that our grain and grass supply is in the spring valley, and trick Zhao Gui into going out of the city to attack our grain and grass. Then, we set up an ambush at the grain and grass. Zhong Ai continued.

"Not only that, but our soldiers and horses can also be divided into two parts, one part of the soldiers and horses, going to ambush Zhao Gui's team, and the other part of the soldiers and horses. Storm Runan, you will definitely be able to take Runan City. Incorporate Runan and Le An into our sphere of influence. It can also form a confrontation with the Taiping army. In this way, the invasion of Qingzhou can come to an end, and the rest of the things depend on who can win the Beiban or the Taiping army. ”

Zhao Yi slapped the table and said with a smile: "The best result is that they both lose, and we can take advantage of the fisherman's profits, and we can take advantage of this to win the entire Qingzhou and the three northern states."

Zhao Yi then hesitated: "Is Zhao Gui so stupid? Will this happen? ”

"He will definitely send troops, even if he doesn't come, I'm afraid it won't be long before there will be a situation of Yizi eating in Runan City, in the past, the grain and grass supply in Runan City was shared by each drama except for the taxes that should be collected in the city, and now all the counties are occupied, there is no food in his city, and there are tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in his city." Zhong Ai affirmed.

"That's right, just the daily supply of food and grass for tens of thousands of soldiers and horses is enough for him to have a headache, so when will we send people into the city." Zhao Yi asked.

"Don't worry, I'm starving him for a while, and every day we have to send people outside the city to see the soldiers guarding the city on the city tower, and when those soldiers can't stand steadily, we can send people into the city."

After more than half a month of siege, there are now people starving to death in the city, and the soldiers guarding the city on the city tower have changed batch after batch, just so that Zhao Yi can not see that there is no food and grass in the city, and there has been a situation in the army where horses are killed to replenish military food.

In the middle of the night, the defenders on the castle tower suddenly heard several shouts.

"Kaesong, we are General Ju Liao's team, the army was ambushed and killed, and we finally escaped."

"What kind of credentials?" The defenders shouted.

"There's no evidence, it's just that when we fled, we found out where their food and grass were."

As soon as they heard the grain and grass, the city suddenly exploded, and many people shouted to open the city gate and let them in, and the people below only heard the sound of the boom on the city tower. In a few moments the gates of the city opened, and several soldiers led them to the barracks.

"Do you know where the enemy's food and grass are?" Said one of the generals in the army.

"If you go back to the adult, the little one passed by that place when he fled back, and confirmed that it was indeed the enemy's granary, which was twenty miles east of the city, called Spring Valley Road." One of them replied.

"Okay, a few of you will follow me to meet the lord and tell him everything you know word for word, and see what the lord decides."

After going to see Zhao Gui, the man told Zhao Gui everything, Zhao Gui immediately drew his sword, killed the rebels, and said: "This must be a trap set by the enemy, how can you be so stupid, the enemy just uses a little skill, you will be fooled, these people will not come back sooner or later, but they will come back when there is a shortage of food in our city, and bring back the news that they have found the location of the enemy's granary."

"This ...... What the lord said is that the villain is stupid, please punish the lord. The man suddenly realized, and then realized that he had almost been fooled, "But there is really no food and grass in the city, and most of the horses in the army have been killed, and if we continue like this, we will all starve to death before the enemy army attacks the city." ”

"In this way, tomorrow night, you personally lead dozens of light horsemen, go to the place they said to have a look, if what they say is true, immediately send someone back to merge, I will personally lead the army to support, if it is an ambush, you have few people, you can also come back." Zhao Gui pondered for a moment

"The last general will take the order, and he will live up to the trust of the lord."

The next day, there were all kinds of gossips in the city, saying that Zhao Gui was cowardly and did not dare to go out of the city to find food, and would rather starve his subordinates to death, and some said that if he couldn't hold on at that time, he could open the city and surrender, all of them were relatives of the Zhao family, and Zhao Yi would definitely let him go.

Zhao Gui was so angry that he summoned the deputy general Tian Chang and ordered him to lead 5,000 men and horses to grab grain tonight.

"My lord, if this trip goes wrong and encounters any danger, even if I have ten heads, it will not be enough to cut off. But don't pay attention to these rumors, when I get food and grass tonight, these rumors will definitely be self-defeating, the lord just needs to sit here in peace, and I can solve the lord's problems. Just ask the lord to wait for my good news. "Tian Chang persuaded again and again, but Zhao Gui didn't force it, just said that Tian Chang was loyal, and when the general triumphed, I would reward you heavily, let you be a pioneer general, and all the soldiers would be used by you!"

"The last general will thank the lord." has usually followed Zhao Gui for many years, so he naturally knows Zhao Hui's temperament. Until Zhao Gui said such a thing, he was just angry for a while. I had to pretend to persuade Zhao Gui to give Zhao Gui a step. Otherwise, in the end, it was himself who was unlucky, over the years, this is not the first time this kind of thing has happened, if it weren't for Zhao Gui's kindness to him, he would have already left him, where would he stay here to suffer this kind of anger.

That night, taking advantage of Zhao Yi's soldiers and horses, the garrison was empty. Tian Chang and dozens of sergeants. From the castle tower, he lowered the rope and went out of the city. Go to the Spring Ancient Road. After the group went to Chungu Road, they found that it was really the granary of Zhao Yi's army, and they were overjoyed, and immediately sent someone back to report to Zhao Gui, and they were staring here, and by the way, they checked the nearby guards.

After Zhao Gui heard the news, he didn't stay, and led the five thousand soldiers and horses in the city to Chungu Road. Just after Zhao Gui happily killed hundreds of guards of the ancient road and dragged all the grain and grass onto the horse.

Tian Chang smelled a trace of peculiar smell, and looked for the peculiar smell that emanated from the grain and grass anyway, and opened the bag, and the rice inside was scattered on the ground.

"Not good, it's a**! Evacuate quickly! Tian Chang shouted heartbreakingly.

However, it was too late, countless rockets were shot around, and Tian Changhu shouted beside Zhao Gui: "Protect the lord!" Protect the Lord! ”

Then, in order to carry the grain, all the cavalry was brought, and the grain was all on the horse, and this time it became a target, and Tian Chang was hit by dozens of arrows on the spot, fell in a pool of blood, and shot a round of bows and arrows.

Thousands of enemy troops came out of the dense forest, led by a general named Pang Hui, who was one of the three major generals under Zhao Yi, making his two-handed halberds brave and invincible, as if entering a no-man's land.

The fire spread, and only the sword light and sword shadow were seen in the firelight, and it was only when the battlefield was cleaned that Zhao Gui's body was found, with five or six arrows in his body. After all, he was a member of the royal family, and Pang Hui ordered someone to take him back and hand him over to Zhao Yi for disposal.