Cheng Yun did not lead the Xiyuan Northern Army under his command to attack Huaili as soon as Ma Teng left, in case Ma Teng had any crooked ideas, and then came back to fight himself with a backhand, it might be too great a loss to bear.

Time dragged on and on, it dragged on to the third year of Guangxi's Layue, the weather was cold, Zhu fully shrank to Huaili, and did not fight with Cheng Yun at all, although Huaili was very close to stability, but it was not completely next to each other, and there was a large piece of land in the middle that belonged to Si Lizhou, Zhu directly abandoned it and stationed in the lonely city, anyway, the surplus grain and armament in Huaili were enough to support the expenses of 20,000 soldiers under Zhu for a year.

Cheng Yun was very desperate about the lack of cotton in this era, the winter battle was a great test of the soldiers' physical fitness, and the demand for armaments was too harsh, if it wasn't for the fear of letting the tiger return to the mountain, Cheng Yun would simply withdraw the army.

Before the freeze, Jia Xu mentioned a plan, saying that the water of the big river was poured into Huaili, so as to break the city, which was denied by Cheng Yun, the big river is now the Yellow River, if this thing flows steadily, you don't care about him, you still want to provoke and dig people's embankments? Don't say that the people in the city can't live when the city is broken, just say that you dug this time, what should you do next time people break the embankment by themselves!

However, Jia Xu also expected that Cheng Yun would not agree to this plan, but only reminded him that if he hesitated, when the weather was cold and the ground froze, the water would freeze, but he would not be able to attack the city.

This sentence woke up Cheng Yun, and Cheng Yun smiled, "Yes, when the water freezes, I'm afraid it won't be easy to use water to attack the city, and the use of water will have to be changed at that time!" ”

Li Ru and the others didn't know what he was selling, but seeing that he was full of interest, he didn't plan to disturb him, and let him go, Cheng Yun was very happy about this, and ordered his subordinates to dig the earth.

Digging in the ground?

Cheng Yu couldn't cry or laugh, what are you doing digging in the soil? But he still faithfully carried out his orders, excavated in the vast territory around the battlefield, and even not only let the soldiers dig the soil, but also mobilized the people of Chang'an to help dig the soil, and finally saved a lot of floating soil before the weather froze.

Zhu didn't know what he was doing, but he knew that he would not be able to do whatever he loved, so he decisively sent troops to harass him, but he was ambushed by Cheng Yunjun, who was waiting for an opportunity, and retreated back to the city, no longer bothering Cheng Yun, in exchange for Cheng Yun's more unscrupulous digging operations, until the beginning of the month.

Regarding Cheng Yun's "not doing business" in the past few months, Xun You has a lot of complaints about this, but since Cheng Yun sells Guanzi, he can only watch and cannot play any substantive role.

But that night, Cheng Yun suddenly summoned the army of generals under his command, and the whole army attacked, more than 30,000 people in the Northern Army were responsible for digging the river to get water and transporting water, and 20,000 people in the West Garden were responsible for laying the soil.

This idea is really a bit fanciful, Cheng Yu and the others were stunned, before they thought that Cheng Yun was planning to dig into Huaili City and attack the city with tunnels.

Seeing that he was so fanatically obsessed with paving the road, Xun You and the others couldn't bear to tear down the platform, let him go, and in one night, the slope was paved to a stone's throw from Huaili City.

No, Cheng Yun also saw that his idea was good, but it was a little difficult to implement, and when the pawnshop was a stone's throw away from Huaili, the defenders in Huaili were not stupid, they released arrows

Disturb your own side, your own side can't continue to pave the road easily!

After thinking about it, Cheng Yun thought of a good way, the reason why he didn't let the soldiers attack the city directly with the crossbowmen was because the Huaili Zhu army was condescending to shoot arrows, which would make his side suffer heavy losses, but now, using the new crossbowmen of the Northern Army to suppress on the soil slope, and the others continued to pave the road, which is much smaller than the loss of the ladder!

As soon as they said it, the crossbowmen of the Captain Department of the Northern Army, who were in charge of transporting water, received a new task, and they went to the forefront of Po and began to suppress the Zhu army's defending troops with firepower.

Zhu was also desperate, so he could only frantically order his subordinates to shoot back, but the energy of the archers was much worse than that of the crossbowmen, but in less than an hour, Zhu Jun's archers couldn't pull their bows with their arms, and Cheng Yunjun's crossbowmen were still loading, shooting out the crossbow arrows in their hands, which dealt a great blow to Zhu Jun's mentality.

Finally, with the unremitting efforts of Cheng Yunjun, it took a night to make the ice road made of floating soil and water to extend to the outside of the Huaili city wall, and it was higher than the Huaili city wall.

Finally, the frozen earth road was paved to the city wall of Huaili, and the defenders of Huaili had given up resistance, which was no longer something that could be resisted by manpower, and in order to survive, a large number of soldiers chose to surrender to save their lives.

Zhu didn't try to break through from the west gate, but the west gate was also dug one after another trenches, and the soil taken was piled up at the east gate.

I can't run, what should I do?

If he were to be Ma Teng, he might choose to surrender, but Zhu wouldn't, only to die in battle!

So Zhu organized his own soldiers of less than 20,000 to enter the streets and alleys of Huaili again to engage in street fighting, which was a decision that was unsuccessful and only benevolent.

But Hu Wuban and Zhang Meng didn't say anything, just firmly followed Zhu to ambush on the street, revealing a hint of death in their eyes, and the hero was in the twilight.

In fact, Cheng Yun had already arranged Duan Xuan Yang Ding and their subordinates at the west gate of Huaili, ready to intercept and prevent Zhu from escaping, but he didn't expect Zhu to have no intention of running, and couldn't help but praise them for their courage, but Cheng Yun, who occupied the general trend, was not worried that Zhu had the ability to fight back, and decisively let the soldiers of Xiyuan and the Northern Army rush directly into Huaili City from the frozen soil road to fight for a decisive battle.

After getting off the city wall, the battle was immediately triggered, and the generals and captains of the Zhu army were all determined to die and were extremely brave, and for a time they blocked the 50,000 people on Cheng Yun's side with less than 20,000 people, Cheng Yun shook his head and sighed, this is a respect for the strong man.

However, the good times did not last long, and the generals and captains who took the lead were soon overwhelmed by the army, and without these officers who resisted to the death, the soldiers of the Zhu army slowly gave up resistance and laid down their arms and surrendered, and the general trend of the Zhu army was gone.

Cheng Yun was lucky to meet Zhu and saw Zhu's last face, Zhu also went into battle in person, killing until he was covered in blood, only Zhang Meng and a few people gathered around, and Hu Wuban was long gone.

Seeing Cheng Yun and others riding over, Zhu was still struggling and rushing

Xiang Cheng Yun was beaten back by the soldiers of the Northern Army, with a few more wounds on his body, and he leaned against the wall panting.

"Zhu Gongwei, I have always disliked you." Cheng Yun saw that Zhu had lost the ability to resist, and thought that he could listen to himself, so he stood up, "Since the Yellow Turban Rebellion, when you received the grace of Your Majesty and became a Zhonglang general, I knew that you were unwilling to be subordinate, so I would rather send Zhang to help General Huangfu Song than let him help you." ”

"I just hate that when I didn't have enough troops in my hands, I couldn't see your face clearly, and let you survive, I knew that today, I should have gotten rid of you and Bi Lan during the rebellion of the Ten Standing Servants!"

"It's too late." Cheng Yun spread his hands, "It was too late at that time." Whether it's Xiyuan or Zhijinwu, at that time I can already control more troops than you, even if you join forces with Zhang Rang, at most you can only escape, and you have no chance to get rid of me. ”

Seeing that Zhu wanted to say that he joined forces with Lu Bu back then, Cheng Yun interrupted him, "Zhu Gongwei, I am still very optimistic about your ability, but I don't comment on your character." In my eyes, you are not even as good as Dong Zhongying. ”

"Since you have also contributed to the Great Han, I will give you the opportunity to kill yourself." Cheng Yun stared at Zhu and saw a trace of tragedy from his eyesight, "Don't think about rushing over and giving me a sword, if you don't have a chance, kill yourself, or die from random arrows, you choose." ”

Zhu closed his eyes and sighed, "You said so much, I just want to ask one question, I hope you will let me know the real answer for my dying sake." ”

Cheng Yun was silent, looking at Zhu, Zhu didn't back down, he wanted to ask such a question, but in the end, Cheng Yun nodded, "Yes, let you be an understanding ghost." ”

"Will you stand on your own behalf of Han in the future?"

Cheng Yun was unequivocal about this question, and shook his head directly, "This is what I don't understand, why do people like Wang Zishi always come to me for trouble, I don't have any idea of being self-reliant on behalf of the Han Dynasty, but there are many people loyal to the Han family who come to me for trouble, why is this?" You Zhu Gongwei can barely be regarded as one of them, you told me before you died, what is this reason for? ”

Zhu laughed so much that tears came out, and he couldn't stand steadily, leaning against the wall, "Why?" Why, you ask? What am I standing here for? For the sake of fame! You don't look like a loyal minister, you do what a loyal minister should do, it's all a cover-up, it's all a cover-up! Get rid of you, and the big man will really stand up! We all want that fame! ”

"No, what you want is not this fame, but to replace me." Cheng Yun finally determined that these people were really as he thought, they were really to replace him, not at all because they were finally Han or what, loyalty? Maybe they have long forgotten what loyalty is.

"Do you have any last words?" Cheng Yun no longer wanted to talk to him, and Zhu also realized his doomsday, and smiled, "Last words? The last words are, I really hope to have a good time with you again! ”

After that, he drew his sword and killed himself, unequivocally, Cheng Yun sighed, looked at Zhang Meng, Zhang Meng sighed secretly, the way of heaven is good reincarnation, who will be spared by the sky, abandon the gun and tie his hands, and let it fall.

Zhu died, Zhang Meng tied his hands, Zhu's army fell apart in an instant, there was no resistance in Huaili, Huaili, pacified.