"Two generals, as far as you know, the Zhu clansmen are mainly concentrated in Jianye or Wu County?" Fa Zheng did not answer Liu Cong directly, but glanced at Liu Cong with a slight apology, and then asked Jiang Qin and Xu Sheng.

"Jianye is the majority, and in recent years, Ding Xingwang, a member of the Zhu family, has moved to Jianye one after another, because they have heard that they are going to move the capital to Jianye!" Xu Sheng replied in the affirmative. This is information that Jiang Qin did not have, because when Jiang Qin returned to Liu Cong, Zhang Hong was still in Xuchang, and did not propose to Sun Quan to move the capital, saying that Jianye had the spirit of a king.

"Lord, then Zhu Li is credible!" Fa Zheng saw that Jiang Qin wanted to speak and stopped, presumably because he had been away from Jiangdong for a long time, and he didn't know much about the changes of several wealthy families in Jiangdong. But Xu Sheng is very sure! If most of the Zhu clan migrated to Jianye, then the longer Liu Cong besieged Jianye, the greater the loss to the Zhu clan. Zhu Li also knew very well that one Zhu Zhi was not enough to resist Liu Cong's Eastern Expeditionary Army, so it was better to return to Shun as soon as possible to reduce the losses of the people in the city, and also to exchange for the peace of the Zhu family.

"Let Huang Quan come over." Hearing Fa Zheng's analysis, Liu Cong motioned to several generals to go down to rest first, leaving only Fa Zheng in the tent, and at the same time asked Liao Hua to call Huang Quan. Although what Xu Sheng said was credible, Liu Cong still had to confirm with Jinyiwei. After all, the possibility of surrender and deception at this critical moment is also very high!

After a while, Huang Quan came in, and the information collected from Jinyiwei showed that at least most of Zhu Zhi's family had indeed migrated to Jianye and had purchased a large amount of land and houses. This can also explain why Zhu Zhi is so nervous about Jianye's gains and losses!

"Strategist, do you accept Zhu Li's surrender?" Even if it is credible, it is another thing to accept it or not, now that the army is surrounded by Jianye, its own advantages are obvious, maybe there is no need to take risks?

"Lord, the war in Hanzhong is not optimistic, although the two generals Wei Yan and Zhang Ren are loyal and brave, but in the end, Cao Cao's personal expedition, even if he can resist it for a while, if Cao Cao decides to continue to mobilize troops and horses from the Central Plains and Hebei, ......"

"So you're still inclined to a quick fight?"

"Yes!"

"But what if it's a fraud?"

"The lord already has the answer in his heart, why bother to be right?" Fa Zheng smiled at Liu Cong and looked at Huang Quan again. This young lord and this commander of the brocade guard are actually radicals, otherwise they would not have been reused so quickly and become the real number one strategist.

"What if you don't make a decision? Huang Quan, go contact Zhu Xin, and ask him to persuade Zhu Zhi as much as possible, if not, at least shake the other generals around him, so that Zhu Li can have the opportunity to open the door and dedicate the city. Liao Hua, go and bring Zhu Xu in! Seeing that the law is like this, Liu Cong is not good at selling Guanzi again.

Fa Zheng was still very surprised when he heard it, could it be that the lord had already buried a nail beside Zhu Zhi? This brocade guard is really omnipotent. But think about it, being able to successfully do big things in Xuchang twice, assassinate Jia Xu, and kidnap Han Tianzi and Xun Yu, Jinyiwei is by no means in vain. And Liu Cong actually aimed at Jiangdong at the earliest, and even hesitated whether to take Jiangdong or Yizhou.

Now the only one in Jiangdong who can stop Liu Cong's march is Jianye Zhu Zhi, maybe Lu Su and Lu Meng and others will go to Wu County to build a defensive line, but if Liu Cong can successfully conquer Jianye, Wu County will also face an oppressive attack. Therefore, Liu Cong does not plan to hide his strength anymore, and everyone, including Jin Yiwei, must take action!

When Zhu Xu was called in again, he was a little more relaxed than just now, but he still stood honestly and didn't dare to take half a step.

"Your general has an explanation, how can you contact him later?"

"This is not true, but the general was ordered to guard the west gate of Jianye, and it was changed every day. As long as the prime minister agrees to my general's conditions, the general will send someone to contact the prime minister. ”

"Well, Benxiang has words first, if Zhu Zhi or others noticed it before the city broke and attacked your general and the Zhu clan, don't blame Benxiang in the future."

"That's nature, that's nature!" Zhu Xu listened to Liu Cong's words, and his heart hung again, is it worth it for the general to choose like this? If the old general Zhu Zhi was noticed, or let Lu Su, Lu Meng, and even Sun Quan and others know that it was Zhu Li who opened the door and dedicated the city, would the Zhu clan people who were stranded in Wu County still be alive?

"Well, then you go back and tell your general first. The prime minister agreed to his terms, but he was on duty here in the hope that he would inform his people to protect themselves. Especially the clansmen who are far away in Wu County! ”

"Thank you Prime Minister for the reminder!" Zhu Xu was stunned for a moment, and then understood what Liu Cong said, and secretly exclaimed in his heart, this Han prime minister from Jingzhou seemed to be very familiar with the distribution of his family.

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"For the sake of today's plan, the general should order the defenders of Wu County to fully support Jianye as soon as possible! Otherwise, once Lu Su and the others returned to Wu County, I am afraid that they will have to stick to Wu County, and it will be impossible for the general to mobilize reinforcements from Wu County at that time. If Jianye loses, I am afraid that the Zhu family will be damaged! Or perhaps consider an alliance with Cao Cao in the north. You can deceive people into contacting Zhang Liao with Hefei overnight......" In Zhu Zhi's meeting room, Zhu Xin hesitated, and finally opened his mouth to speak.

Of course, he knew that this alliance was fake, and surrender was real. Only by ceding some counties in Jiangbei to Cao Cao could Zhang Liao send troops and reinforcements. Previously, Sun Quan didn't know how many envoys he had sent, Hefei and Xuchang had sent people, but now most of Jiangdong has been occupied by Liu Cong, and Zhang Liao in the north has not made any moves. Zhu Xin persuaded Zhu Zhi like this, just as a strategist to provide him with a reference, that's all!

Sure enough, Zhu Zhi, who had a calm expression, slammed the table and snorted coldly: "Hugh wants to mention this Zhang Liao to me!" I'm in this situation now, and so is he! My Zhu clan is loyal to the lord, and I, Zhu Zhi, will never betray the lord and Jiangdong for my own selfishness! ”

Seeing the general's anger, Zhu Xin didn't dare to say more. Thinking of what he had just said, Zhu Zhi waved his hand a little irritably: "That's it." Stand down and let me think about it again. Zhu Xin retired and went into the huge room. Only Zhu Zhi was left alone in the hall to close his eyes and recuperate.

A moment later, a teacup fell to the ground, and it came from inside the hall. In the next few days, the war continued, and every day, the siege and defense of the city were tireless, and the two sides fought to the death.

The method adopted by Zhu Zhi is very simple and cruel, that is, with one-third of the regular soldiers, he drives the new soldiers and the wealthy families in the county to defend the city, and those who dare to retreat are killed! By the time these 10,000 soldiers were almost fought, it had been half a month since Liu Cong attacked Jianye City. Guan Yu and Xu Ming have both been in place in the south of Jianye City, forming a siege of Jianye.

The banner at the head of the city was shattered, and it was black and black, in the drumbeat of more and more urgent. Rushing upward, rushing into the city wall for a moment, with a "boom", the battle broke out again.

"Put!" A call from above. A rain of arrows fell, and there were stones of different sizes, smashing down in the crowd, splashing blood-colored waves. But more crowds, in the sound of drums, go forward and follow the impact. Today's attack and defense on both sides seemed to be nothing special, and it seemed to the people and defenders of the city to be just a very ordinary day.

The people of Jianye City, driven by the soldiers, gradually became accustomed to using spears to stab the enemy troops who were attached to the city. Even so, the crisis continued to spread due to the loss of backbones. With a bang, another stone shattered and exploded, beating several defenders into a blur, and almost at the same time, the enemy soldiers on the ladder had already climbed to the city wall in several places.

"Kill!" Zhu Li stared at a dark red vision, puffed up his remaining breath, and led his own soldiers to pounce on him personally. The two teams of people collided fiercely, and suddenly set off blood flowers, at this juncture of fighting, stabbing and stabbing at all costs, even if they had armor, they were still stabbed by knives from time to time, splashing blood.

Zhu Li has always had courage, even at this time, he was still unstoppable, everywhere he went, the sword flashed, and he immediately swept down a piece, and finally kicked an enemy soldier out of the city, screaming and smashing into a meatloaf. At this moment, the enemy retreated like a tide again.

The pressure in front of Zhu Li's eyes was empty, Zhu Li gasped for breath, looked around, and saw that he had lost half of his 1,500 people, and the original pro-military camp, hundreds of people, now only 30 people remained, all of them were scarred and self-supporting.

The smoke billowed and the sound of killing gradually stopped, and I saw the corpses of the enemy piled up at the foot of the small slope, and the flowing blood collected into a stream, spreading into the distance. Zhu Zhi's performance undoubtedly satisfied Zhu Zhi and the soldiers in the city. But Zhu Li was very painful in his heart, although Zhu Xu had already returned, and he had brought Liu Cong's verbal promise. But it is impossible to transfer the Zhu clan under Zhu Zhi's supervision in a short period of time, and the current Jianye City has long been closed! What Zhu Li can do is to perform hard for a few days to buy time for the clansmen in Wu County to escape.

He didn't want the clansmen who stayed in Wu County to be used as hostages by Lu Su to threaten Zhu Zhi in the future. But if you don't fight seriously, it will be easy to be suspected by Zhu Zhi, and it will be difficult to ride a tiger if you fight to the death and are afraid of offending Liu Cong on the other side.

Suddenly, a point ahead, a group of soldiers in leather armor, they were quite intact, and they were holding one person. But it was Zhu Zhi, his face was solemn, he looked around, and saw his nephew covered in blood, wheezing, holding a knife and resting for a while, surrounded by corpses.

He asked, "How's it going?" ”

Zhu Li opened his throat, but he couldn't make a sound, at this time, someone handed over the water bladder and drank a few big sips before he relieved his breath: "Uncle, it doesn't matter, you can still hold on, but there are not many people left." ”

Fifteen hundred people, now only five or six hundred are still on the wall, all of them lying on the wall tiredly, and even the general cannot move them.

Zhu Zhisao looked at it and didn't say anything, and had to face up to the question raised by the mastermind Zhu Xin before.

At this moment, a man in front of the battle rode a horse, raised his flag and swaggered, apparently a messenger. Zhu Zhi had a calm face, and asked the person to be hoisted up with a hanging basket, and after a while, a letter arrived in his hand.

"Send these things, and someone will drag the messenger down and show them to the public!" After reading the letter, Zhu Zhi's anger burned even more vigorously than the last time: "Liu Cong'er, even if this city is in vain, don't think I will give it to you!" ”

He tore the letter in his hand viciously, and the voice of the messenger was heard in his ears.

"General, this time Liu Cong will attack Jianye City at any cost, but I am afraid that if I defend it for another ten days, I will not be able to defend it. At that time, there is no possibility of turning over. General, at this point, you have to make a choice to save yourself. Even if it's not for yourself, you have to think about the people in the city and the hundreds of people in the Zhu family! Zhu Xin, who rushed over, persuaded again when Zhu Zhi returned to the hall.