Shi Wenyi was in a hurry, and hurriedly arranged for the crossbowmen to release the arrows, wanting to shoot Jiang Huanchu on the spot.

Whoosh, a series of crossbow arrows shot out towards Jiang Huan Chu.

Jiang Huan Chu was shocked into a cold sweat, seeing that the situation was not good, he hurriedly jumped off the ladder, his feet touched the ground, and snatched a shield from the sergeant behind him, and climbed the ladder again.

This time, all the bows and crossbows shot by the Chu army were blocked by Jiang Huan Chu with a shield, and even the several huge stones smashed from the city were pushed away by Jiang Huan Chu one by one.

After a while, Jiang Huanchu climbed to the top of the cloud ladder again, and several Chu generals who tried to surround Jiang Huanchu when they saw that the situation was not good, and Jiang Huanchu was also killed by him one by one.

Jiang Huan Chu took the opportunity to jump on the head of the city, and then stood on the edge of the ladder, holding a shield in his left hand and a knife in his right hand, and the Qi soldiers behind him also climbed up along the ladder one by one.

Shi Wenyi saw that there were more and more Qi troops on the top of the city, and knew that the general trend had gone, and Changli City could not hold it, so he hurriedly arranged for his henchmen around him to send his mother to Shouchun City to support the elderly, and he stayed with Changli City to live and die together.

Jiang Huanchu was able to stand on the top of the city so smoothly, mainly because the defenders were insufficient, otherwise no matter how high Jiang Huanchu's martial arts were, it would be impossible for him to block hundreds of soldiers with his strength.

Shi Wenyi arranged his mother, and then organized the remaining Chu soldiers to prepare for a street battle with Jiang Huan Chu.

Jiang Huan Chu had no choice but to take the Qi army to fight. All of a sudden, the streets of the city were filled with the sound of killing, and the cries of the people were heard endlessly, and in addition to the sergeants on both sides, many innocent people were also killed in the chaos.

Jiang Huan Chu couldn't bear it in his heart, looked at Shi Wenyi on the opposite side and shouted: "Shi Wenyi, you have been an official in Changli City for many years, and the local people also regard you as your parents, now that you are gone, do you still want to resist?" Can you bear to watch the people suffer? ”

When Shi Wenyi heard the cries of the people, how could he not feel it in his heart, but he was only because he received the great favor of His Majesty, so he thought about martyrdom with death, and he couldn't take care of the people for a while.

Now hearing Jiang Huan Chu say this, he couldn't help but sigh, turned around in the direction of Shouchun City, bowed three times and said: "Your Majesty, the criminal minister Shi Wenyi has a negative grace, lost Changli City, and now he can only apologize for his sin with death. ”

Then he said to Jiang Huan Chu: "Fourth prince, after I die, I hope you can treat the people of Changli City well." ”

After speaking, he took out a dagger from his sleeve and stabbed it towards his heart, and with a poof, he died on the spot.

If Jiang Huanchu wants to intercept at this time, he can do it with his martial arts. But Shi Wenyi is too strong, save his life, he will not surrender to the Qi State, even if he is let go, he will still have to face today's situation in the future, it is better to let him commit suicide and save trouble.

Shi Wenyi was dead, and there was no point in resisting the remaining Chu troops, so they laid down their arms and surrendered.

Fortunately, there are not many Chu troops left, and there are less than 3,000 people in total, otherwise Jiang Huan Chu will also have to worry about how to settle them.

After cleaning up the battlefield, Jiang Huanchu appeared on the one hand to calm the people, and on the other hand, he reported to Tian Wuji on the battle situation on his side. Then he began to arrange fortifications again, waiting for reinforcements from the Chu State to come and attack the city.

Under Nanyang City, Tian Wuji was also overjoyed to learn that Jiang Huan Chu had taken Changli City so quickly. The current situation is that Qi and Chu each have a lonely city, and the status of the isolated city is not low, one is the general of Chu, and the other is the four princes of Qi.

Xiang Tong is facing the 100,000 army of the Qi State, and Jiang Huan Chu will also face tens of thousands of reinforcements from the Chu State, although the army has not yet appeared, but the strength will definitely not be less than 50,000. As long as any of them did not defend the city, there was only one way to die if the retreat was cut off.

On the surface, Xiang Tong is a generation of famous generals, and he has an army of 100,000 in his hands, no matter how you look at it, he can hold for a while longer than Jiang Huanchu, a junior who led the troops to fight for the first time and only had 50,000 troops in his hands.

But there is also a fatal problem here, originally Changli and Nanyang were the border cities of Qi and Chu, and the grain reserves were sufficient, and after Jiang Huan Chu occupied Changli, the grain in Changli City was enough for his 50,000 troops to support him for a year.

But Nanyang is different, originally Nanyang's grain was enough for Xiang Tong's 100,000 army to support a year, but Nanyang City was not defeated by the Chu army, but by Ning Buun of the Yan State. Ning Buqu looted the money and grain in the city before handing over Nanyang City to Xiang Tong, and Changli of Chu State had not been lost at that time, although Xiang Tong knew that there was not much grain in the city, he was not too worried.

And now that the back road has been cut off, the grain stored in the city can't last for a month, and Xiang Tong can only ask Shouchun for help.

Since Xiang Tong occupied Nanyang City, Xiong Huan has not received a piece of good news, bad news has come one after another, first the Song army attacked Jizhou County, Yongzhou, Chenzhou, Shaozhou have been lost, and then even the capital Jizhou City has been lost, the general Gao Kegong was also captured, and even the great Sima Gaoyi sent to the rescue suffered two defeats in a row.

This is not counting, it didn't stop for two days, and the news that Changli City was also lost, and Wenyi, who was too punctual and was martyred, was even more sad that even the retreat of the great general Xiang Tong was cut off. If Xiang Tong makes a mistake, and then compensates for the 100,000 troops accompanying him, even a big country like Chu State will be crushed all at once.

Xiong Huan discussed with the ministers for a day, and finally decided to authorize Xiang Tong to negotiate with Tian Wuji and try to solve the current dilemma in a peaceful way.

Xiong Huan knows the situation in Nanyang City, and the food can only last for a month, which means that if he chooses to go to war, he must take Changli City within a month, but Chu State now has 200,000 troops on two battlefields, even if it is the fastest speed, it will take 20 days to transfer another army, and who dares to say that the remaining ten days will definitely be able to take Changli City, which is guarded by 50,000 Qi troops?

What's more, once the war starts, in addition to the Nanyang battlefield, there are Deng Yuanjue's 70,000 troops on the Jizhou battlefield, and Xiang Tong is not there, who will be his opponent in the Chu State?

The news of the loss of Changli City also spread to Yuezhou, and when he heard that his political opponent's back road was cut off, it was very likely that he would die in Nanyang, and now Gao Yi couldn't get excited, and he was still worried about whether he could return to Shouchun alive, and whether he would also be cut off by Deng Yuanjue.

It is precisely because of this fear that Gao Yi once again chose to stay in the city and not to rescue, and the other four cities in Jizhou County were also taken by Shi Luosheng one by one, so far the nine cities of Jizhou County, except for Yuezhou, where Gao Yi was stationed, have all fallen into the hands of Deng Yuanjue.

It has been less than a month since Deng Yuanjue sent his troops, and almost all the counties of Jizhou County have been included in the territory of the Great Song Dynasty, how can such a feat not make Xiao Daocheng excited.

In order to reward Deng Yuanjue, Xiao Daocheng also deliberately asked the crown prince Xiao Yan and the prince Yuan Chengce to go to Jizhou City with 20,000 troops and a large number of supplies to reward the army.

The two arrived at Jizhou City, and after some greetings, Yuan Chengce spoke: "General, Your Majesty asked us to come this time in addition to the army, and also wanted me to tell the general that after taking Yuezhou, the general does not need to rush back for the time being, first garrison in Jizhou City, and see if there is a chance to take Ezhou County again." ”