On the second day, Zhang Shumo drafted a new law, and recruited Cai Zhi and Niu Wen to Xiu Wuzhi, and asked them to be responsible for informing the people inside and outside the city and assisting in the recruitment of troops.

After learning the news, the people took a wait-and-see attitude, but fortunately, the arrival of the Yiyang Army injected confidence into the people, coupled with the propaganda of Cai Zhi and Niu Wen and others, many people who were eager to try stood up. Immediately afterwards, the people who were on the fence also stood up, and there was finally a long queue at the conscription office.

Contrary to the thriving scene on Xiu Wuzhi's side, the Jingguo military camp was heavy.

Ji Wen didn't expect that a small Qinghua City would not be able to be captured for a long time, and the morale of the army was greatly frustrated. And the soldiers were exhausted by the long fighting, and the whole barracks was a listless scene.

Xiu Wuzhi's defeat became the last straw that crushed Ji Wen, and the news of Geng Li's defeat and capture reached the Jingguo military camp, and the soldiers had no intention of fighting, and Ji Wen finally ordered the withdrawal of troops.

In this way, the battle for Thanh Hoa City, which lasted for half a month, came to an end with Ji Wen's withdrawal.

After returning to Xu Liangcheng, the more Ji Wen thought about it, the more he couldn't swallow this breath. Originally, the four cities of Xu Liang County had all been occupied by themselves, why was there only one city of Xu Liang left in the blink of an eye? The army obviously hasn't changed, but the people in command are less Zhou Gang, why can't he win the battle? Is it that he is so incompetent?

The more he thought about it, the more angry Ji Wen became, and smashed it in the house, and kept shouting: "No! It's not that the king is incompetent! It's the incompetence of these shitbags! The soldiers can't defeat the enemy, Yang Xue's bad idea, this king will settle accounts with them! ”

Ji Wen kicked open the door, and the soldiers guarding outside hurriedly stepped forward to ask when they saw this, but Ji Wen suddenly raised his sword and stabbed the sword directly into a person's chest.

"What is the use of keeping you shit? This king will send you to the king of Hades! ”

The other guard was dumbfounded, and quickly knelt on the ground: "The prince spares his life, the little one knows that he is wrong!" ”

Ji Wen didn't hesitate at all, and another sword killed the guard. Hao Yang heard the movement, and without saying a word, he rushed over with someone, and was a little overwhelmed when he saw the scene in front of him, so he quickly knelt down on one knee: "Lord Wang, don't be angry for this group of people." ”

Who knew that Ji Wen glared at Hao Yang fiercely: "Angry? If it weren't for the incompetence of your waste, why would this king be so angry, and what is the use of me keeping you! ”

After speaking, Ji Wen slashed towards everyone. Everyone didn't dare to fight back, and they dodged one after another, and Hao Yang immediately said to his subordinates: "Quick, go and invite the two generals Ma Hua and Shao Qin to come over." ”

By the time Ma Hua and Shao Qin arrived, Ji Wen was already panting and sitting on the steps to rest. Seeing this, the two hurriedly knelt down and pleaded guilty: "The subordinates are incompetent, and please ask the prince to forgive the sin!" ”

Ji Wen gasped: "You also know that you are incompetent?" This king's face has been disgraced to you! You say, "Now?" ”

Ma Hua thought for a while and said, "Please allow the last general to lead 30,000 soldiers and horses to recapture Xiuwuzhi to extinguish the enemy's arrogance!" ”

When Ji Wen heard this, he immediately came to his senses: "Okay, you will lead 30,000 soldiers and horses to attack Xiuwuzhi now, and if you can't win, don't come back!" ”

Ma Hua frowned after hearing this, he really had nothing to do, and now he had to take his life.

Who knew that at this time, Yang Xue came over: "Lord Wang, slow down, don't be confused by these stupid people." Now the morale of the soldiers is low, there is not much food and grass in the city, and if you rashly attack, it is likely to end in failure, just a waste of the prince's troops and grain and grass. ”

After speaking, Yang Xue knelt aside respectfully. In fact, when Hao Yang sent someone to invite Yang Xue, Yang Xue didn't want to touch Ji Wen's brow. It's just that when Yang Xue was violated last time, Hao Yang helped Yang Xue, and Yang Xue didn't want to owe him favors, so she came over hard.

Ma Hua was also relieved when he heard Yang Xue's words, although Yang Xue was scolding herself, she could be regarded as giving herself a step down.

Ji Wen was also angry when he saw Yang Xue, and pointed at her and scolded: "You still have the face to come, if it weren't for your bad idea, this king would attack Qinghua City?" ”

Yang Xue hurriedly said: "Lord Wang, the strategy of attacking Qinghua City is not wrong, but these fools can't be defeated, and the concubines can't help it!" ”

Ji Wen sneered when he heard this: "Then what are you doing to stop Ma Hua from attacking Xiu Wuzhi?" Do you still want me to send troops to attack Thanh Hoa City? ”

Yang Xue sighed: "Now I am afraid that our strength alone can no longer threaten Qinghua City, and Mengzhou and Xiuwuzhi have been lost, and the three cities will surround Xu Liangcheng." No matter which side we attack, as long as the other two sides send troops to support, we have no choice. So the only way to do this is to ask for help! ”

"Asking for help?" Ji Wen's face showed a hint of anger again: "Do you want everyone in Jingguo to know that this king has 150,000 horses but can't even beat a northwest fight in Huaiguo?" ”

"The concubine has no such intention, and the concubine is completely for the sake of the prince! Now we don't have an advantage in manpower, food and grass, and if there are no new recruits to join, the morale of the soldiers will be greatly damaged! ”

After hearing this, Ji Wen suddenly laughed, but his face showed sadness when he smiled: "When we attacked the northwest, how high was the morale of our army, what went wrong that caused our army to fall to the current situation?" ”

Everyone fell silent when they heard Ji Wen's rhetorical question, but Yang Xue said with a cold face: "The biggest problem in our army is that Zhang Shumo burned our army's grain and grass at the cost of a city, and also robbed Zhou Gang!" ”

Hearing Yang Xue's words, everyone fell into deep thought. It was the last time he attacked Xiuwuzhi, Zhang Shumo disregarded the safety of the city and let people sneak attack Jingguo's camp and burn a large amount of grain and grass, which laid the root of the shortage of grain and grass.

Later, Zhang Shumo used Zhou Gang as a hostage and asked Jingguo for 50,000 stone grain and grass, which directly made the situation of grain and grass in the army worse, and Ji Wen ordered someone to escort grain and grass from Jingguo.

Then because the Jingguo army was pinned down by Zhang Shumo and the Yiyang army in Mengzhou City and Xiuwuzhi, which led to the grain road garrison between Qinghua City and Dieling Pass, it was exploited by Jiudu Village, which led to a series of consequences.

Although some of what happened during this period was an accident, some were coincidences, and some were Ji Wen's decision-making mistakes, the key turning point was still on Zhang Shumo!

Ji Wen clenched his sword and slashed down at a tree branch: "Zhang Shumo! I'm going to tear you to pieces!" Someone came, immediately wrote a letter to inform the king of the information in the northwest, and specially explained that the national teacher died in the hands of Zhang Shumo! ”

Yang Xue on the side was worried: I don't know if I was right or wrong to do this, but in order to take revenge on Ji Wen, what if the northwest fell!