Li Xinchen didn't plan to persuade Song Ping to surrender anymore, he already knew about Song Ping's situation, but he was just a scholar whose family and relatives were in the hands of the imperial court, Li Xinchen didn't expect Song Ping to surrender himself easily, even if he surrendered, because he had a handle left in the hands of the Northern Zhou court, so Li Xinchen couldn't ensure that this guy was not a false snake with himself.

It's better not to keep such a variable by your side.

Although Li Xinchen is still quite short of talents, it has not yet reached the point where he doesn't care about any talents. What he needs is a talent who can help him support a piece of the world, or a talent who can be a pillar in the face of the turmoil, and people like Song Ping are not suitable for this troubled world.

Li Xinchen believes that whether it is Dai Cai, Tang Zhengliang, or Cao Zhong and Cheng Feng, they should be above Song Ping.

So he needs Song Ping, he just needs Song Ping to be this "chicken" who kills chickens and makes an example of monkeys.

Since it is to kill chickens and make an example of monkeys, then of course this Song Ping is used to kill.

As for when to kill, of course, Li Xinchen decides.

"Shizhong, the north side of the city is over, and none of them have run away." Pei Zilie, who turned around and went out before, walked back at this time and smiled slightly, "Cao Zhong and Cheng Feng did a good job, and now it is estimated that those mountain cities have been in chaos." ”

Li Xinchen narrowed his eyes and said in a deep voice: "With thousands of soldiers to surround and intercept more than 100 remnants in the area, it is reasonable to succeed in the first battle, there is nothing to boast about." The rest is the most important thing in this battle of Hezhou. ”

"Do you have to wait?" Pei Zilie frowned and asked.

It is not unreasonable for Pei Zilie to suddenly ask this, from the day Xiao Shilian became a family to start fighting until now, so many soldiers have not taken a breather, attacking Jinyun Mountain and storming Hezhou City, every time it is a big battle pressed by the whole army, although it is a battle, but in fact, what is really exhausting is the long journey during this period, the long-distance rush of hundreds of miles of roads is enough to exhaust a person who is not strong, even if it is a soldier who has experienced a hundred battles, it is already a little unbearable for so many days.

Standing on the city tower at this time, you can clearly see the Nan Chen soldiers lying horizontally and vertically on the streets of the city, obviously these soldiers are also exhausted.

So in Pei Zilie's opinion, it is still necessary to stop and repair for two days. After all, these soldiers are not real iron men, and they can run and fight all the way without eating or drinking.

What's more, according to the plan discussed by Li Xinchen and Xu Deyan before, the most important thing next is not to fight, but to force the defenders in the mountain city to surrender through blockade and deterrence. Especially now that Song Ping has made the most wrong decision, he did not disperse the main force to various mountain cities, but concentrated in Dianjiang County, and now he has been successfully wiped out by Li Xinchen.

As a result, the number of defenders in the mountain cities will definitely not be large, so there will naturally be more opportunities for Li Xinchen to attack his heart. So it makes sense to stop and rest now.

Hearing what Pei Zilie said, Li Xinchen was silent for a long time, but just shook his head: "Dashi, I want to take a breath······ too"

Pei Zilie was stunned for a moment, and Li Xinchen walked slowly along the city wall: "Dashi, we may be able to rest, but sometimes it is precisely this rest that will delay a lot······ I don't know how the enemy on the other side of Shu County will react now, after all, Luzhou and Hezhou are also the first barrier for them, if they know that the mountain cities are still under control, will they really be killed······"

After a pause, Li Xinchen tilted his head slightly: "The truth of cold lips and teeth is very simple." ”

Pei Zilie's pupils contracted slightly, and his face became solemn.

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"Lips and teeth are cold, lips and teeth are cold!" Zheng Kaiyuan, the governor of Hezhou in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, stood on the head of Diaoyu City and paced back and forth.

Diaoyu City is located in the west of Dianjiang County, guarding the choke point from Hezhou to Rongshan, Kaizhou and other places. And if you want to get south of Ba County from Hezhou, Diaoyu Mountain is also a good road.

Of course, the Diaoyu City of this era is far from being as famous as the later generations, and it is not so majestic, it is said that the Diaoyu City is actually a soil fence built on the mountainside, if the Mongolian Khan Meng Ge sees such a dilapidated Diaoyu City, I am afraid that the face will smile and bloom.

It's just that compared with the rest of the mountain cities in Hezhou, Diaoyu City is still the strongest one, and it is the core of the entire Hezhou mountain city system, but although this mountain city defense system is arched in an arc to guard the north defense line of Hezhou, it is actually not stable.

In fact, Diaoyu City is just a lonely city after all, and if he really wants Zheng Kaiyuan to contact the other mountain cities that are still diving on the other side, he doesn't have the ability to do this, because since this morning, Nan Chen's sentry has blocked all the roads down the mountain.

Now Zheng Kaiyuan stood at the head of the city, and could only see red flags fluttering on a few hillsides not far away, indicating that the Nan Chen army was gathering. And he had no idea how many enemies there were, and whether they were just trying to trap the city to death or were preparing to storm it.

Zheng Kaiyuan didn't want to figure out what was going on outside, but unfortunately there were only seven or eight hundred people in total under his command, and it was more than enough to guard Diaoyu City, but it was not so easy to kill it.

Zheng Kaiyuan has sent scouts since he got up early in the morning, and he has sent twenty or thirty people so far, but only one came back in the end, and there were arrows stuck in his back, apparently he came back from the encirclement of Nanchen's sentry cavalry.

As a result, the sentry cavalry did not figure out how many enemy troops were near Diaoyu City, but he did figure out that the main force of Nan Chen's army should be attacking Hezhou City now.

Hearing the news, Zheng Kaiyuan felt a blackness in front of him, and the subsequent death of the scout obviously caused fear to spread throughout Diaoyu City quickly.

Although Diaoyu Castle is the strongest of the mountain castles, it is located in the southwest of Dianjiang County, and once Dianjiang County is taken, the roads in the rest of the directions will be cut off, except for the support from the direction of Kaizhou.

And everyone knows that the city of Dianjiang County is not easy to defend.

After knowing the news, Zheng Kaiyuan could only paced back and forth in the city helplessly and anxiously. There is only Song Ping, a scholar in Dianjiang County, and most of the remaining generals have no experience in killing enemies on the battlefield, Zheng Kaiyuan really doesn't dare to expect them to hold Dianjiang County for long.

If Dianjiang County falls and the main force of the Northern Zhou army led by Song Ping disappears, then the morale of the defenders in Diaoyu City will undoubtedly fall to the bottom!

At that time, even if Diaoyu City is strong, Zheng Kaiyuan will have nothing to do, after all, there are too few soldiers and horses under his command.

Thinking of this, Zheng Kaiyuan could only sigh deeply.

The taste of dead lips and cold teeth is not pleasant, but it is impossible for him to take these brothers to support Dianjiang County, what is the difference between that and death?