Pei Qing didn't expect that there were still people under Yuan Shu's command who had prepared in advance, and his heart suddenly tightened, although he was not worried about Yuan Shu's strength, but once the other party was prepared, he would also lose his people, wouldn't he? The soldiers under his command are all elites, and even if they die, they are distressed.

But now that he has come here, Pei Qing will naturally not give up, he also knows that although Yuan Shu sent out an army of 80,000, the strength in the territory is not much, but he did not take it lightly, the reason why he led an army of 30,000 to come is that he has estimated the situation of someone to defend.

Therefore, Pei Qing did not hesitate at all, and directly led the army to launch a fierce attack, and there were 30,000 people without any reservations, all of whom were engaged in the siege battle.

In fact, some people questioned it before the attack, so it was suggested that Pei Qing must deploy a good defense in order to prevent Yuan Shu from attacking him from behind when reinforcements arrived.

However, Pei Qing smiled and said: "I dare to guarantee that Yuan Shu will not send any reinforcements here, with Yuan Shu's selfish nature, since he knows that this place is difficult to save, he will definitely order all the troops under his command to defend Shouchun, how can he ignore Shouchun's safety and send troops to reinforce here?" ”

Therefore, in this battle, Pei Qing's 30,000 army launched an unprecedented fierce attack on Yinling City, and the fierce generals under Pei Qing's command all took the lead and bravely climbed first, and the soldiers were naturally enthusiastic to attack the city under this inspiration.

On the other hand, Yan Xiang was leading the crowd to defend to the death, he personally stood at the head of the city to supervise the battle, no matter who took a step back, he was unforgiving, relying on his prestige and strict military law, the soldiers could only fight hard.

However, one is that the number of the other side is too much, and the other is that the other party's generals are too brave, and most of their own side are newly recruited soldiers, not to mention that they have never participated in a life and death battle in a war, and they are afraid when they see bloodshed, even if some soldiers have the courage of flesh and blood, because these soldiers are far from experienced when they first enter the battlefield, this fatal flaw causes them to not even do the most basic dodge, and they are easily killed by the enemy's feather arrows as soon as they appear.

This battle lasted for nearly an hour, and finally Yinling City was breached, and Yan Xiang's 10,000 army killed more than 4,000 people, and all the rest chose to surrender, and even one who escaped failed to do it.

Yan Xiang stood at the head of the city like a lookout stone, and did not take a step back from beginning to end, but this could not rewrite the situation of this battle, when he saw the enemy soldiers coming like a tide, and even from the beginning of the battle, Yan Xiang knew that he would definitely not be able to hold it today, but he did not regret it at all, and let the soldiers under Pei Qing's command capture him alive, and then pushed him in front of Pei Qing.

After seeing Yan Xiang, Pei Qing patted the case and shouted: "Bold Yan Xiang, you, as the court official of my Han Dynasty, actually worked for the traitor Yuan Shu and resisted the heavenly soldiers, are you guilty?" ”

But seeing Yan Xiang said proudly: "Yuan Shu is known as the emperor, although he is against the sky, but you are not a loyal and upright minister, do you dare to guarantee that after you have worked hard to lay down such a large territory, you are willing to hand over all the power in your hands to the Son of Heaven?" The reason why you respect the Son of Heaven and marry the princess is just for your own selfish interests, from this point of view, what is the difference between you and Yuan Shu? I, Yan Xiang, am in troubled times, this is my sorrow, but I can still have my own integrity, since I have been loyal to my lord before, this time I naturally regard death as home, and kill if I want to, but if you want me to surrender, it is absolutely impossible. ”

Pei Qing didn't expect that the other party would directly block all the back roads at once, in fact, he still admired these loyal ministers and righteous men very much, such as Yuan Shao's fierce generals and strategists Fu Zhi, who have been imprisoned in Chang'an, these have been months past, these two people have not surrendered, and even Fu Zhu has attempted to escape several times, almost no one can stand it in this situation, and he has already killed people, but Pei Qing has had the example of Pang De before, and he is also lucky with them, and he doesn't care about these, Instead, he just told the guards to be strict and continue to entertain them with delicious food and drink.

Pei Qing actually admired Yan Xiang very much, because this was almost the only strategist that Yuan Shu could handle, but it was a pity that Yuan Shu couldn't reuse a person like this, and sent him to Yinling to make a small county order, but even so, Yan Xiang didn't complain, but desperately fortified in Yinling, although the result was still useless, but it also successfully blocked his own footsteps for a day.

However, Pei Qing should still be persuaded, he first ordered someone to escort Yan Xiang down, and then entered the camp where Yan Xiang was imprisoned, and said to him: "I admit that I have worked hard to conquer such a territory, and I am not willing to give it to anyone easily, including today, your prediction is right, you and I both know that now the Han family has long existed in name only, and today's son has been discredited, even if I am willing to hand over all the power of the military commander, it will be difficult for the Son of Heaven to keep this power, but it will make the world fall into disarray again, So I am not only for the power in my hands, but for the peace of the whole world, for the interests of the people, the people of the world are eager to end this troubled world, live a peaceful and stable life, they don't care who is the emperor, all they care about is which emperor can bring them a peaceful and stable life, which emperor can make them warm and well-fed, this is what Mencius said, the people are precious, the community is secondary, the monarch is light, but what about Yuan Shu? Tell me, when did he give the people such a life after being an official for so many years? Especially after he claimed to be the emperor, in order to talk about pomp, build palaces, draft among the people, and make various offerings, not to mention spending hundreds of millions, how much burden did he put on the people? He is now living a life of spending a lot of time, but how did this come about? Stripping the marrow of the world, separating the children of the world, and taking it for granted to serve the lust of one person, it is said that this is the flower of my industry, but it is the great harm of the world, and such a virtuous king! ”

"This ......" Yan Xiang was speechless when he heard this, although he didn't want to admit it, but he did admit that after Yuan Shu became the emperor, he was unscrupulous, knocking on the bones and sucking the marrow, making the lives of the people even more miserable, even he himself brought endless disasters to the people because of the matter of guarding the emperor.

"Am I holding on to something wrong? But as a vassal, isn't loyalty the greatest virtue? Am I wrong to stick to the most basic morality? Yan Xiang ignored Pei Qing and thought silently.

At this time, he saw Pei Qing continued: "It is precisely because the people are noble and the monarch is light, so when making a choice, you should first choose to be loyal to the people, not to be loyal to the tyrant, King Wu of Zhou as a courtier and cut down the people, no one will say that he is disloyal, Emperor Guangwu as a courtier and crusade against Wang Mang, no one said disloyal, Yi Yin Huoguang as a courtier abolished the Son of Heaven, and no one said that they were disloyal, so of course loyalty, but we have to look at who is loyal, when loyalty to the people and loyalty to the monarch conflict, it is natural to choose the former, Doesn't the gentleman think so? ”