More than ten days after Shi Le's return to Xuchang, news came from all sides one after another: news one: Wang Mi returned from Nandao to the east, temporarily garrisoned in Liang Guoxiang County, and controlled the key pass; News 2, the Han lord Liu Cong took the capture of Luoyang, worshiped Wang Mi as a general, and crowned the Duke of Qi - I don't know if he still confiscated Liu Yao's impeachment, or if he received it but simply didn't see it.

In fact, the first news was not what Zhang Bin expected, but when he heard the second news, he couldn't help but gasp, and said to Shi Le: "Unfortunately, Pei Lang was ...... to be right."

Shile frowned and asked him, "Hasn't the Lord received the music of King Shi'an yet?" Why didn't you offend Wang Mi, but instead give him an official and a knight? ”

Zhang Bin smiled bitterly: "If you don't receive the performance from King Shi'an, how can you know that Wang Mi left Luoyang and led his troops to return east?" I don't know how to crown him as the king of Qi when he returns to the east? This is clearly a tacit acquiescence that he went to take the land of Qing and Xu. Although Luoyang has fallen, Henan has become a scorched earth, and the Jin army is still resisting stubbornly. I'm afraid that overnight, it will cause trouble! ”

Shi Le was angry and didn't fight in one place, and shot a few cases on the spot, saying grass, I am working hard to fight, you are fighting in the nest, how can the country continue like this, how can it be good?! "Emperor Shi Xian is still here, King Shi'an, Wang Mi and others will not dare to act like this!" Zhang Binxin said that the country can't be better, so you have a chance...... After a pause, he asked Shi Le: "Since Wang Mi is still far away, can we leave Luoyang and take Yangxia and Mengcheng in the east?" ”

Shi Le pulled the map and looked at it a few times, and then calculated for a long time, and sighed: "Xiangguan is not very far...... "From Xuchang to Yangxia is about two hundred miles, Yangxia to Mengcheng is nearly three hundred miles, but from Xuchang to Xiangguan is also three hundred miles...... Xiangguan is far away from Mengcheng, but it is closer to Yangxia than Xuchang.

Zhang Bin hurriedly said: "Don't miss the opportunity, the time is not coming." Now Wang Mi is temporarily stationed in Xiangguan, I don't know when he will leave for Qing and Xu, if he doesn't leave, will I die in Xuchang? Between Henan, Yan and Henan, it is often burned by soldiers, the fields are barren, and there is no grain, if it is delayed for a long time, I am afraid that the veterans of the division will be tired...... "The food you snatched from the Jin army, and what you asked Liu Yao for, it will be enough for a few more months, we can't stay here all the time without moving the nest, sooner or later we will starve to death!" "It's better to try to attack Yangxia, if the city is difficult to get down, or Wang Mi has signs of going north, it will not be difficult to retreat back to Xuchang. If you can successfully conquer Yangxia and get its grain stock, you can continue to move east to Mengcheng. Xiangguan is quite far away from Mengcheng, and he is not afraid of Wang Mi's constraints. ”

Shi Le immediately summoned his cronies and subordinates to come to discuss, Diao Ying advocated that it was better to be safe, and he would observe for a while before speaking, but Xuan An, Kong Chang and others strongly advocated sending troops immediately to attack Yangxia - one is that they are military generals, they are not afraid of losing the battle, but they are worried that there is no battle, and they are naturally happy when they hear the war; Second, all the generals had enmity with Gou Xi and Wang Zan, and they hated to capture these two people immediately and sacrifice them to Yuanmen.

Because Pei Gai has no job yet, he did not participate in this small meeting, but he heard that the Shile audience will be inspired, and immediately made a decision - go, let's beat Wang Zan and go!

Moreover, Zhang Bin originally suggested that if it was difficult to take Yangxia, he could return to Xuchang again, but in order to declare his determination, Shi Le simply emptied all the soldiers and horses in Xuchang, Yingyin and other cities, and the whole army went to the road and crossed to the east of Weishui. Pei Gai followed in the queue of the "Gentleman's Camp", he asked Zhi Quliu for a good horse, and stepped forward, followed by four carts - three of them were loaded with those slips, and one carriage was filled with Pei Shi, Yun'er, and the old servant couple, which was driven by the young male servant Pei Ren.

As for the other young manservant, Pei Xiong, he could only follow on foot.

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More than 200 miles, only three days away—and that includes the time to wade through the Weishui and the Langdang Canal near Yangxia. Shi Le left the rear army near the Langdang Canal, and Xu Guang coordinated the affairs and sent Lu Ming to lead the army to supervise him, who was also one of the "Eighteen Cavalry" in his initial army.

Pei should have settled Pei's family, took the initiative to run to see Lu Ming, and asked: "Please send a message to Zhang Mengsun, I want to watch the battle, I don't know if it can be?" Soon after Lu Ming broke the news, Zhang Bin took the initiative to ride a horse to see Pei Gai and asked him: "Didn't Pei Lang say that he didn't want to fight the Jin army?" Why do you want to watch the battle in front of the battle again? ”

Pei Gai said expressionlessly: "I have only seen the lord destroy the Jin division in Ningping City, but it is not called a battle, it is just a slaughter." In the future, since you are traveling with the army, even if you are not familiar with military affairs, you should understand it to some extent, so as not to be at a loss in case of emergency. I didn't go to fight in front of the battle, I just watched the siege from afar, and I didn't break my promise. ”

Zhang Bin smiled, thinking that Pei Gai had completely attributed himself to Shi Le and was willing to plan for Shi Le, but he couldn't find a suitable step yet. Then he asked: "The sword has no eyes in front of the formation, isn't Pei Lang afraid?" As soon as the words came out, he knew that he had asked the wrong question, Pei should dare to attack Shi Le alone, could he have the word "afraid" in his dictionary? Sure enough, Pei should pout: "It's just a distant view." If there is really a stray arrow, this is fate-God wants me to die here, and I will not complain about Zhang Jun. ”

Zhang Bin said that since this is the case, then okay, you come with me. The two rode their horses out of the camp, traveled about ten miles east, and arrived at the foot of Yangxia City, where the flags were waved, the swords and guns were dazzling, and they were surrounded by a tiger striped daqi on the mountain - Shile stood proudly under the daqi.

Zhang Bin urged the horse to get close to Shile and reported loudly: "Pei Lang is here." Pei was about to dismount, but was stopped by Shi Le's whip: "Pei Lang can come to my side and watch the battle immediately - only by standing tall can you see further." ”

At this time, Shi Le's words were still very gentle, but his face no longer appeared in the face of Pei Cai's deliberately disguised kind smile, his face sank like water, and his face was full of evil, Pei Caicai looked at his eyes, and he couldn't help but have his heart beating wildly - is this the true appearance of Shi Shilong, the master of a generation of Hu people and the future Emperor of Later Zhao Ming? !

He secretly took a long breath, pretended to watch Yangxia City, and quickly turned his head away. This is a thousand-year-old city, it is said that Taikang once set the capital here after the summer, so it is called "Yangxia", it is located in the hinterland of Zhongzhou, when Yan and Yu are to rush, it is the place where the soldiers have always been fighting. The north of this city? Water, the west and south sides are hilly, low mons, the east is a horse flat river, the city wall is a fortress, it looks quite majestic.

Zhang Bin said: "Exploring the Malay report, Wang Zan has only been in the summer for two months, and the city wall has been basically repaired, but the number of defenders is quite limited - there are only more than 2,000 victorious soldiers, and the people who can drive them to the city to help defend are less than 10,000. Pei asked: "'Ten will surround it, and five will attack it' - now our army is ten times larger than it, is it possible to successfully overcome it?" ”

Shi Lelu turned his head to the side and said to Pei Gai: "I have sent an envoy to summon Wang Zan in, and if he does not obey, I will order the army to besiege him on three sides." Pei Lang thinks that Wang Zan is willing to surrender? ”

Pei Gai shook his head and said: "Wang Zhengchang and Gou Dao will have a good relationship, and they will definitely look forward to Dao's future reinforcements, and they will not surrender." However, if the lord can break through the city wall, he will have to lower his ears. Zhang Bin asked: "How to break the city, Pei Lang has a plan?" Pei Gai rolled his eyes: "Why does Zhang Jun ask Yu Blind!" ”

Zhang Bin smiled and didn't ask any more questions. He had several long talks with Pei Gai, and found that the young man's judgment of the situation was often in line with his own secretly, and even some opinions were still above him, and he had faintly regarded Pei Gai as a person who could conspire with him - if it weren't for this, it would not be that many of Pei Cai's little tricks could hide from his scheming Zhang Mengsun. But thinking about it at the moment, judging the situation is one thing, and plotting on the battlefield is another, Pei Gai has never led troops or fought a battle after all, so I asked him how to attack the city, isn't it nonsense? If Pei Gai can really plot on the spot and trap Jiancheng, then he is not Zhuge Liang - this is still heard from the mouth of Zhi Qu Liu - he is simply the reincarnation of Lu Wang! If you really want to have such a natural saint who can do not learn, do you have to kneel down and kowtow immediately and worship him as a teacher? There is no reason!

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The letter of persuasion seems to have been drafted in advance by Xu Guang and Xu Jiwu, and it is said that this writer is the leader of the "gentleman's battalion", which is of course the first person in the Shile army. Although Pei should be much stronger than Xu Guang in terms of background, in theory, the learning resources are far surpassing, but after all, it is one thing to read a lot of books, and it is another thing to write a thousand words, and writing articles is to pay attention to spirituality.

In other words, if the world is peaceful, he will be "free of disasters and no difficulties to the minister" for the rest of his life...... No, he is already a minister - to be an incompetent minister and a shameless bureaucrat for a lifetime, he will definitely not leave a single word worthy of being sung by future generations.

Pull back and say that Shi Le sent a Han general, who is said to have had several encounters with Wang Zan, and entered the city with this letter to persuade him to surrender, but Wang Zan didn't talk to him much at all, and he didn't look at the letter when he took it, and broke it directly on his knee, and then ordered this person to be driven out of the city with a stick to show his will not surrender. When the Han returned to report it, Shile tilted his head and asked, "What is the situation in the city?" ”

The general replied: "The people all have food, the soldiers have little sharpness, the supplies are piled up at will, and the orders are quite chaotic - except that the walls of the city have been repaired and seem to be very strong. ”

Shi Le smiled and turned his head to look at Pei Gai: "What Pei Lang said is not bad, Wang Zhengchang is just a scholar. Then he straightened his head, facing the direction of Chaoyang Xia City, and slowly raised his right fist.

Behind Shi Le, Daxu immediately raised upward, and when the surrounding sergeants saw it, they all shouted loudly, and for a while, the sound shook the four fields, which frightened Pei Gai slightly, and even the mount under his crotch began to step on his hooves and be restless. However, he is a "good horse" who asks for help, both the foot strength and the load force are only in the middle of the stream, and the only benefit is the word "tame", so it is estimated that he is not excited, but like himself, he was shocked......

Pei Gai turned his face to the side, and found that Shi Le's figure seemed to be taller in an instant, and reflected the scorching sun at noon, and there seemed to be light dancing around his body. He couldn't help but have an old saying coming out of his heart - "The husband should be like this!" ”

His eyes moved down slightly, and he saw the long knife on Shi Le's waist...... Pei Gaixin said that if I have a knife in my hand, it will be a stone's throw away, as the so-called "two corpses, bleeding five steps, the world is vegetarian"! But looking at the iron armor on Shi Le's body, the armor pieces were stacked on top of each other, shining brightly, and he couldn't help but immediately dispel this nonsense idea. Unless you give me a five-four ...... No, AK, otherwise the odds of success are always zero......

Shi Le gave an order, and the troops marched forward and began to attack the defense of Yangxia City. Zhang Bin and Pei Gai stood side by side, and whispered to him from time to time to introduce the battle situation and battle situation. According to Zhang Bin, Shi Le ordered the Xiongxiong to set up a formation in the west of the city, a strong array in the south of the city, and a peach leopard in the east of the city, besieging on three sides.

The mountain where Shile was located was located in the south of the city, so Pei Gai could only roughly observe the battle situation in the south of the city from a distance. I saw one phalanx of infantry marching slowly and with high morale under the command of various banners, and when they reached a certain distance, arrows began to shoot down at the head of the city, so the banners were moved, the drums were beaten, and the foot soldiers were divided into two: one part began to increase its speed, and marched with full speed, and then faster and faster, until it ran wildly; The other part of the group, which was less in number, immediately stood in place, drew their bows and arrows, and began to shoot at each other with the city.

Pei Gaiyi frowned: "Look at the color of the flag, it's all Han...... The Chinese soldiers, the Hu people are brave, why not drive them to attack the city? "The siege of the city is not only all Han soldiers, but also many are not regular soldiers but auxiliaries, it is estimated that even the armor on the body is not complete, what about the Hu people, where did they go? Is this a deliberate attempt to take the Han people to fill in their lives first?