Zhou Nan, Gao Yuan, Yang Keshi, Di Zhuang and others walked on the city wall, pointing out the more than 20,000 Pingzhou troops outside the city and the company camps around the city for more than ten miles from time to time.

"Da Lang, it seems that Zhang Jue can't make a plan, and he has another plan! didn't take advantage of the emptiness of Zunhua City's troops, and now he wants to trap us all here. Yang Keshi looked at the endless camps and troops outside the city, and said with emotion.

"Looking at it like this, I'm afraid there will be no less than 25,000 people! Zhang Jue wanted to trap us this time, but he made a lot of money, and this Zhang Jue is not small. Gao Yuan also felt that more than 20,000 horses and horses are indeed a large number for the small Pingzhou Road. It's like Yizhou and Zhuo Zhou came to support 20,000 horses. A prefecture and county has limited civil and financial resources, and there is also a limit to the army that can be raised.

"Outside the city of Zunhua, there are 25,000 men and horses, plus the 5,000 men under my command, exactly 30,000 people. This is already more than half of Zhang Jue's army of 50,000. Di Zhuang was familiar with the inside story and explained to Zhou Nan and others.

"Fifty thousand horses? Where are the other twenty thousand? Gao Yuan asked.

"Those 20,000 horses are scattered all over the place. The south and southwest of Pingzhou are connected with the Great Song Dynasty, and the area of Yuguan in the north is guarded against Jin soldiers, and there are some men and horses stationed in various states and counties, so that 20,000 horses are still a little less. Di Zhuang replied.

"Old man Zhang is going to settle the battle this time." Zhou Nan said with a smile, "We also have nearly 10,000 elite soldiers in the city, and Old Man Zhang doesn't know how long he can guard outside?" ”

"It won't take long, five or ten days will be enough." Gao Yuan said dejectedly.

As he was talking, Di Zhuang suddenly pointed to the east and said, "Look! The white-robed one in the middle is Zhang Jue's old horseman! ”

Zhou Nan and others hurriedly looked over, only to see that about 100 zhang away from the east of the city wall, a new high platform of three zhang to be built, two zhang square, used to look at the situation in Zunhua City. A group of generals stood on the platform, pointing towards the city, among them two unarmored scribes, one in a white robe and the other in a brown robe, standing in the middle of the group.

"Who's that brown robe?" Zhou Nan asked.

"That's Li Shi, the military advisor of Zhang Jue's old horseman, a native of Luanzhou. The old man was extremely ambitious, and recruited Li Shi to give advice, and after his men and horses grew, he decided to get rid of the Wansheng army first, and then take Yanjing City. Di Zhuang said hatefully.

"Then this Zhang Jue wants to dominate one side and be a soil emperor?"

Zhang Jue's old puppet wanted to, but Li Shi just wanted to welcome Tianzuo in the west and restore Daliao. Zhang Jue had no choice but to hang a portrait of Emperor Tianzuo in his bedroom, and said that he was going to raise troops to meet Tianzuo in order to deceive Li Shi. Di Zhuang said to Zhou Nan.

"Da Lang is now a genuine and justifiable Da Liao horse, why does Zhang Jue, the old man, still attack Da Lang's men and horses?" The High Court asked puzzled.

Di Zhuang said: "You don't know, this Zhang Jue Pifu is the most accustomed to rhetoric, he said to Li Shi that General Zhou is a Han, and his generals are even more generals in the Song army, not Khitans. He also said that Emperor Tianzuo was still there, and the concubine was a foreign surname, and said that the concubine and the princess did not go out to rescue the driver, which was to harbor evil intentions. In short, Li Shi listened to him. ”

"What about welcoming back Emperor Tianzuo?" Yang Keshi said disappreciatively, "Emperor Tianzuo is trustworthy and slanderous, reprimands loyalty, good wine and greed, what are you doing when you welcome such a misguided emperor?!" ”

Di Zhuang sighed and said: "There are many generals in the army who are reluctant to welcome back Tianzuo, but Zhang Juepifu is a deputy envoy appointed by the imperial court, and he is also a governor of the state, and he has great power. ”

"If you really think about the people under your rule, you should resist the Jin army, not fight infighting, accumulate strength, and once the soldiers are strong, you will drive the Jin soldiers out step by step, this is what a courtier should do. Like Zhang Jue, he is just using the guise of Emperor Tianzuo to realize his own ambitions. "In the evaluation of Zhang Jue in history, most of them believe that since he surrendered to the Jin State at the beginning, he later killed the envoys of the Jin State, took the Pingzhou under his control as a bargaining chip, and sold it to the Great Song Dynasty, so that the Great Song Dynasty and the Jin State had a dispute, so that the Jin State led his troops south on this ground. Of course, even without this Zhang Jue, Jin Guo would definitely find other excuses to attack the Great Song Dynasty, and Zhang Jue just let things happen a few years earlier.

"What General Zhou said is extremely true! If you want to fight, go and fight with the golden people, that is a hero! Zhou Nan's words made Di Zhuang agree greatly.

"General Di, you said that you want to submit to my Wansheng army, but are you sincere?" Zhou Nan asked suddenly.

Di Zhuang was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly said: "Of course, it is sincere and obedient." Zhang Jue's old puppet framed me like this, and was gracious to General Zhou, and did not kill me and my subordinates, and I Di Zhuang was willing to follow General Zhou in the future. ”

"That's good," Zhou Nan said, "I have something that no one else can do except General Di." I wonder if General Di is willing to do it? ”

Zhou Nan did not agree to Di Zhuang's surrender before, but now that he has something to do with Di Zhuang, he naturally agrees to accept Di Zhuang. Di Zhuang was overjoyed and immediately said, "The last general is willing!" ”

"General Di is willing to be a lobbyist, and secretly advise the commander of the four-way army outside the city that if he can surrender to my Wansheng army, he will still stay in his original position; If there is an enemy against the army of Wansheng, he will send troops to destroy him. Zhou Nan said lightly.

"Although the last general is willing to advise the generals of all walks of life for the general, the company camps outside the city respond to every call, and they are connected from end to end, if they go out of the city, they will inevitably be noticed by Zhang Juepifu. I'm afraid that the masters of all walks of life will not dare to agree. Di Zhuang said embarrassedly.

"This is easy to do, you only write the letter of persuasion by yourself, and I will order someone to bring the letter of surrender and send it to the battalions." Zhou Nan had already thought of this, and when he saw that Di Zhuang was embarrassed, he thought of a way for him and said.

"In that case, I will write it when I go back." Di Zhuang hurriedly agreed.

"There is one more thing, General Di, since you have returned to the Wansheng army, the soldiers under your command must select elite soldiers, organize them into an army, and put them into the Wansheng army. The rest of the people who were laid off, if they wished, could be organized into garrisons in the city, and the rest should return to their homes and fend for themselves, or farm, or work, as they pleased. General Di, you can continue to command these elite soldiers, or recover Pingzhou in the future, and any governor of the state will be chosen by General Di. What do you think? ”

Since he has surrendered to Zhou Nan, Di Zhuang naturally does not ask too much. And Zhou Nan also gave him two choices, one is to continue to stay in the army and follow Zhou Nan to fight, and the other is to be like Zhang Jue, to be a local governor, which is very good for a general like him.

"The last general is willing to follow General Zhou." Di Zhuang saluted Zhou Nan with a fist.

"You don't have to choose now, why don't you have to wait for me to recover Pingzhou before you can have a state or county to serve you." Zhou Nan said with a smile.